Q&A: Favorite War Movies, Book Recommendations, My Rebel Flag Flip-Flops Story
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Answering viewer questions three beers in. In this video I talk about why I wear a remembrance poppy, my family history, Netflix's The King, my favorite Civil War movies, what I've been reading over the last few months, how life experience changed my perception of American history, why historical inaccuracy in movies is fine (guys, it's fine), and how modern-day politics skews how people think about historical events.
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"There have been some fantastic Hitlers" is never a sentence I thought I would hear.
My favorite Hitler joke: When will Hitler finally get credit for being the man that killed Hitler?
@@tjbarke6086 I love saying this to people: We should build a statue of the guy who killed Hitler. Just wait until they figure it out lol
Noah Taylor really was incredible in Preacher. Also Johnny Royale was my favorite character in Powers.
Reminds me of that Norm McDonald joke about Hitler's dog where he ends with shouting "Hitler's my favorite!"
@@AxeMan808 j m.
Goddammit, he puts my question in the thumbnail but then doesn’t answer it
He then hearts the comment and doesn’t reapond
"Hes probably my favourite hitler"
mine was mel brooks ....
Lol
@@gehtdichnixan3200 AND NOW HITLER
ON ICE
I wish I knew what happened to Ron Maxwell's brain between Gettysburg and God's and Generals.
Took one semester in Alabama and was never the same again...
Gettysburg is the best
Gettysburg was successful at subtly introducing Lost Cause mythology to the Gettysburg battle...
...so encouraged, Maxwell went and made Gods and Generals full Lost Cause hog...
@@dclark142002 What is Lost Cause about Gettysburg, i thought it was fairly netural.
@@Chris-qo4rt, the whole Longstreet storyline 'going to the right' is based on Lost Cause mythology. That idea doesnt appear until memoirs written in the 1880s, and doesnt make any sense when you assess the context of the battle and campaign.
Also, watch the speech about the soldiers about to participate in Picket's Charge...complete mythology to lionize the common soldiers motivations.
Note in the camp scenes the deliberate need to have slavery be only one of many reasons to fight...rather than being a primary one.
Its not as bad as Gods and Generals...but it is there, and obvious once you see it.
"My mom’s people are mostly Serbian"... Well i didn't see that coming at all. There is something that may actually interest you very much, if you don’t already know, immigrants from Austrian Empire, Croats and Serbs, that settled in and around New Orleans (!) actually fought for Confederacy. Their units were Cognevich’s Company 4th Regiment European Brigade, Slavonian Rifles 1st Co. E. Cazadores Esp, Slavonian Rifles 2nd Co. Cazadores Esp, Slavonian Rifles Co. Inf. Battalion Louisiana Legion, Austrian Guards 4th Regiment European Brigade and Louisiana Militia Volunteers. I can imagine things going the other way if these men, many of which didn’t even speak English at this point, decided to settle somewhere else, like NY. Most of them probably didn’t uphold any “values“of their new country (some on the other hand might have seen prospect in it), but found employment in what they did best - shooting. Many of them were experienced border guards on the „Military frontier“established between Austrian and Ottoman empires, skirmishers and irregulars, hence they were organized into rifle companies. I actually hope this interests you, since you have a chance to look into it further. Your Civil War / Slavery stuff is very informative and interesting (and tragic), and your new Nazi crackpot archaeology video is pure gold. Greetings from your mom's (mostly) "old country“, keep up the excellent work!
Interesting stuff. I also like learning about the irish that fought for the union. It's even more interesting to learn about relations between the european powers and the confederacy/union.
I know my grandmother's grandfather was in the united states around the time (I think just after the civil war though) and had many stories that he brought back to the Balkans of American culture at the time.
@@ihatepartisans.7198 Both the Union and the Conferacy had Irish Brigades.
@@ulyssees30y The Irish in NYC killed more Black folk in the race/draft riots than the Confederacy ever did.
@@RicTic66 Are you insane? Even a cursory search shows the number of people killed during the riots at roughly 120, with most of those being Irish rioters. The number of blacks actually killed was 10-15. There were more blacks killed on single plantations in the confederacy than that. Now, roughly 3000 blacks were left homeless in the aftermath and many businesses were destroyed so I am not trying to exonerate anyone, but what you stated is patently false.
This was a pretty good Q&A video. I give it 4 out of 5 burps.
Boup bop bop bap bop
**slam**
10:33 "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom." - The German Guns, Pt. S. Baldrick.
What a great poem
Genius
"-I could go on all night sir!
-Not with a bayonet through your neck you couldn't!"
@@DarthYoshi401 german gun poetry .....
@@lavrentivs9891 british officer talking to a deserter cirka 1916
“Hitler got most of ‘em.” As a descendant of Croats myself, that hurts. Glad you’re around though!
I mean... Nationalist Croats (Ustaše) worked with the Nazis to run concentration camps, kill Serbs, hunt partisans, and fight alongside Hitler's army. There's a reason they too fled to South America after the war. I only bring this up because I think a descendant of Serbs has a bit more of a reason to decry Hitler's war of aggression more than a Croat.
@@witchdoctor180 The Ustase were hardly popular. The only reason the Nazis put them in power was because they were fellow fascists and more popular Croatian nationalists wouldn’t collaborate.
Croatians who were opposed to the Nazis were targeted by the Ustase, and many Croats fought for the partisans. Discounting anti-nazi Croats because of the Ustase would be like discounting anti-Nazi Serbs because of Milan Nedic and the Chetnik collaboration later in the war.
@@wingedhussar8552 Yea, they also put them in power to make a cointry less stable and weak so the Germans could rule it better.
Yeah as a Croat that does hurt
"Sandals In The Bin" is a great name for a book on revising Civil War opinions, if ever there was one. Provided Elton John doesn't sue.
In my opinion, one of the best war movies is “All Quiet in the Western Front” from 1930. For a film closing in on being 100 years old, it’s a great watch. For the anything on the American Civil War, the Ken Burns documentary is unparalleled.
“Audie Murphy, a veteran.” You could say that. Most decorated soldier of WWII.
If anyone ever had the right to say "I´m kind of a big deal" and be absolutely, 100% correct....Murphy would be the one.
My Grandpa served with Audie Murphy in Africa and Italy and from what I can gather everyone thought he was a coward "always sick in the back" is what he would say. But some time after my Grandpa caught a piece of a mortar shell in Italy something must have snapped in Audie and he became a machine.
@@badgerwijohnson4081 He was always a bit sickly and I am not surprised he had trouble physically in the field. During basic training his superiors wanted to shift him over to being a cook or a truck driver or something because of how small and weak he was, he would pass out during PT etc. but what he absolutely had was no quit and no fear.
Murphy wasn't a superman - far from it. Just a very, very determined young man. He was more like Steve Rogers pre-transformation than Captain America.
@@Darwinist That's the impression I always got through reading. My grandpa would never say anything directly bad about him but he he wouldn't say anything good about him either. He was interviewed once for a PBS special about 20 years ago and the reporter kept pressing him about the heroics of Audie and my grandpa just kept saying things like " yep he was in my unit." And "well I did see him a lot because he was sick." Audie caught Malaria right after they landed and from what I gather from Grandpa a lot of the front line guys resented him for being sick while they were fighting. Of course that all changed later in Europe but my grandpa was back in the states as a drill instructor at that time because of his injuries.
Most decorated US soldier of WW2, not confirmed as the most decorated soldier of WW2 entirely.
The colours on the poppy actually have a meaning - the red signifies the blood of those who died, the black is for the mourning of those that didn't come home and the green signifies the hope that the grass and crops growing after the war brings.
Also when the ww1 ceasefire came into effect, the only plant which started growing along the trenches were poppies.
I've seen this posted by the liverpool echo but i've never seen a source or it mentioned on the RBL site, do you know where this came from?
@@TheNotSoFakeNews that isn't true. the armistice was in November. Poppies are harvested/die by august they start growing in spring.
@@tylernilson7021 So you're saying...
That the poppies were the only plants growing in th wastelands after the November ceasefire...
Considering spring is after November...
Smh.
@@11Survivor no, I was saying there wasn't anything left
I love how his dog is always there and I never realize until he stands up
Blueberry, a long-running french comic drawn by legendary artist Moebius, stars a southerner who switched side because he hated slavery.
They made a movie. It sucked.
The comics are amazing though
The visual novel tho. Oh man. That shit does not even exist.
McRae's poem "In Flanders Fields," resulted int he poppy being associated with all the dead in WWI for the British and to some extent the Americans.
In Flanders Fields by John McRae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Of course, it wsa written by a Canadian. It is read every Remembrance Day (nov. 11) Poppies are also worn here.
I always found that last bit annoying, it's actually not an anti-war poem at all if you include that bit.
@@lorddashdonalddappington2653 I never thought of the Poem as anti war. Now the poem "The Green Fields of France," made into a popular folk song is.
@@gerardtrigo380 Another one I like is Dulce et Decorum Est.
But to be honest I simply can't respect too greatly a poem that encouraged even greater numbers of men to throw their lives away for the nationalistic ambitions of statesmen in a war like the first world war. It is a tragic poem, befitting of the tradgedy of the deaths in the first world war, but it undercuts that severely by ignoring the most tragic part; that these men died for no good reason or great cause.
@@lorddashdonalddappington2653 Encouraged the deaths? Are you mad dulce et is the greatest anti war poem ever.
The Poppy flourished on the old battle fields and among the trenches of the Western Front, mainly due to the lime soil and the nitrates from all the explosives. And were immortalised in the famous poem 'In Flanders Fields.' They grew in their 10s of millions and if Americans had been fighting for more than 6months, they too would have seen their significance. As The British, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans and Gurkas do. The selling of poppies was initially to give disabled WWI veterans work and to provide funds to help them. It was only later that they came to symbolise all war dead and injured and to this day, the Poppy is still sold to help those injured in conflicts.
your girl reads a couple of hours everyday while you my friend drink beer and talk to us dopes on the internet. A noble cause indeed sire
04:00: "Yeah, he's probably my favorite Hitler, although there have been some great Hitlers."
That's the kind of line one can hear only on Atun-Shei Films :-)
Anyways, love what you do, keep up the good work!
I found this channel yesterday because of the confederate monument videos and now I'm here for all of the history and couch Q&As with a cute dog. I find your content incredibly informative and enlightening. Thank you for all the hard work. And get back to reading!!
Company H poem you read might have inspired Baldrick's poem in Blackadder goes Forth.
Thank you so much for answering my question and also for the added Hitler performance rating. On that subject, I’m excited to see Taika Waititi in Jojo Rabbit.
As for the King, I agree. I feel like they were trying to make the story more historically accurate in an attempt to improve upon Shakespeare? A concept which is pretty laughable in hindsight. For most of the movie, I was waiting for there to be some sort of point. Like, it’s not completely historically accurate so therefore not like “The Truth behind the plays” and obviously not the plays themselves. But then the movie didn’t say anything distinct on its own. The closest thing I could think of was: “Young man spends too much effort searching for a trustworthy male figure only to learn he can only trust women.” Overall, unless you wanna see Timothée Chalamet’s jawline or RPat, just watch Branagh or better yet the Hollow Crown.
Thanks again!
Glad to see that you also like The Red Badge of Courage. While Audie Murphy plays the lead, Bill Mauldin plays his buddy. Mauldin was a WW 2 cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, who created the iconic characters Willie and Joe.
Have you read: "The Arsenal of Democracy"? It added a bit of perspective to the Ford's Nazi ties as well as the struggle to bring America up to Germany's level of military might. "The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War". I enjoyed it.
Ooh, that sounds cool.
I find it funny that corporations like ford and coca cola co. at the end of the war had money checks cut for profits... during the war in germany. I wonder what the tax cost on that was?
@@dragonsword7370 A similarly messy occurrence happened after WWI when the German steel manufacturer, Krupp of Essen, sued Great Britain for patent infringement. It seems that Great Britain had used a Krupp designed fuse for all of their artillery shells. Krupp took Great Britain to court, won the case and Great Britain ended up having to pay Krupp several million pounds in royalties. I bet the courts were filled with that sort of stuff after each of the world wars.
Hitler cribbed some of Mein Kampf from Henry Ford's writings.
Your new demographic: old Norwegians
dette er sant
Men er jeg ikke gammel lol
@@lefselover ikke jeg heller!
There are a few of us.
Until s/he lifted their head during the "burp cut" at 18:38, I thought your dog was a weird fuzzy pillow!
I watch your videos for your political opinions...
But in all seriousness keep up the great work. I demand more VVitchfinder General!
He fhall returne to ye Pulpit in Good Tyme!
In ye fhire in which I reside?
@@TheExiledTyrant Aye, villain!
I used to get irritated by historical inaccuracies in war movies, but at the same time I have to admit that when I was younger, it was some of the more schlocky war movies that got me interested in finding the real history behind the events... so yeah, anything that reels someone into learning more can't be bad. Now I just roll with it, but appreciate the times when real effort is made.
"I may like For a Few Dollars More just a bit more"
MY BROTHER!
Fist full is also a stonking movie
Fistful is my favorite
You mentioned liking Sean Harris in villainous roles. Well have you ever seen See No Evil? Sean Harris plays Ian Brady, the most infamous serial killer in modern British history and he crushes the role as both charismatic and scary as hell, with a Scottish accent to boot!
10:20 it’s baldricks war poem
Fun fact Audie Murphy is the Most decorated soldier in US history
Rightly so. What kind of man has the courage to jump onto a burning Sherman and use the turret mounted MG to beat off an enemy attack?
Also in the cast was Bill Mauldin
If you ever go to Arlington Cemetery, his grave is not far from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. If I remember correctly, it was near the memorials for the astronauts from Columbia and Challenger
And that's saying nothing about his various costumes
And spent a good part of his life after the war suffering with Alcoholism.
Just an FYI the Crusades did not happen out of a vacuum. Your theory that they were simply aggressive christian "invasions" is yet another tired, lame and factually incorrect semi intellectual attempt by a "historian" to essentially showcase all actions by Europeans as aggressive, greedy etc, while everyone else in the world was a defenseless victim. The objective truth is a far cry from that. Islam was aggressively expanding since the 7th century in the Middle East and at that point had conquered much of Spain as well as a failed attempt at invading France. For someone who loves to highlight "context" that certainly appeared to be missing from your flippant assessment of the crusades.
Way to put words in my mouth dude. I am aware of the Muslim conquest of Spain, and the Turkish conquests in Anatolia. But Urban II was capitalizing on a crisis for political gain when he called the First Crusade. There is no universe where you can truthfully call it a "defensive" war
@@AtunSheiFilms I would fully disagree with that if considering the full context of Christian-Muslim wars ranging from the 7th century to 1683. It was not until the Battle of Vienna that military expansion of Islam was stopped into Europe.
Tom Skonieczka ...and if you were living in 1095, you wouldn't have the benefit of hindsight like we do and could not categorize the better part of a millennium into a period of "Muslim expansion." It's also ahistorical to categorize ALL Muslim nations in the Middle Ages as a single entity. The people the Crusaders attacked in Jerusalem in 1099 were Egyptian, who were at war with the Turks that Emperor Alexius had originally implored Pope Urban to help him fight.
@@AtunSheiFilms it is a fair observation that to put categorize all nations by one characteristic may be unfair to SOME minorities. However one fact cannot be disputed Islam grew extremely fast from a small faith based in Saudi Arabia to soon cover the Middle East, Egypt, Libya, Algeria and the Iberian region. It did not spread so quickly through evangelism like Christianity but through conquest, fire and sword. The Crusades were a direct response to Islam's militant repeated invasions of Europe and attacks on Christian territories. (that btw does not excuse the bloodshed)simply a newer religion was trying to expand at the expense of the older one.
@@tomskonieczka2385 At best you can call the First Crusade an indirect response to Muslim expansion (Jerusalem had been out of Christian hands for centuries by 1095). The only thing it was a direct response to was Alexius's letter to Pope Urban asking for military aid against the Turks. Urban was a shrewd guy, said to himself, "I can use this opportunity to stop Catholic infighting and increase the power of the Church," and called for the First Crusade, which ended up being nothing but a headache for Alexius and the Byzantines, who were the ones under the most direct threat from Muslim expansion in the 11th century.
Robert Carlyle is always the most intense anything. If you haven't seen it already check out the 90's UK detective drama 'Cracker' where he plays a serial killer who was traumatised by the Hillsborough Disaster, you'll love it. Also love the shield with Robert The Bruce's heraldry on it!
I love Gettysburg. It is a solid details and solid acting movie.
I'm a Conservative but I actually agree with you historical revisionism on the right is a problem and sadly it's not going to change for some time at least
Historical revisionism from both sides is unfortunate, it's really dependant on your perspective though.
If you can get hold of it, the BBC did the full series of History plays from Richard II for the Shakespeare 400th anniversary. The series was called the Hollow Crown.
My favorite Civil War movie is The Colt, a 2005 hallmark movie. Has a great story that shows common soldiers on both sides. The battle scenes are small, but it doesn’t need huge battles. Very well done for a TV movie.
How would you rate the portrayal of the Civil War in the movie "Cold Mountain"? I can't speak for its authenticity but I really like that movie and how it portrayed the brutality, chaos, and social disintegration of the war without any romantization.
Thanks! I have enjoyed you sense of humor in making these informative videos fun.
Wow, thank you so much!
Poppies are also widely worn across Canada in November as well, mostly from the 1st until the 11th.
Commonwealth innit
I really aprecciate that you shared your youth lost cause youth story. For me as a nonamerican outsider, it really helped to put things into perspective. Thanks.
I’m from California currently looking into my family tree and I won’t be surprised if it turns out that I had a ancestor on my father’s side who supported the South due to my grandparents being from southern states and being a little racist. However I may be pleasantly surprised if it turns out that said ancestor was a Southern Unionist.
If the former turns out to be true then I just rationalize that they were manipulated by confederate propaganda via paranoia and ignorance. I’ll just see them as mind numbingly ignorant. My view of them as individuals will depend on how they lived their lives after the war.
You’ve peeked my interest in the TRUE history of the war. Could you maybe do a video about:
-Southern Unionists.
- deserters on both sides?
- Where there any defectors to the North?
-ptsd and depression among Civil War vets?
-Pro US guerrillas? (other than the ones in Kansas)
-Union and Confederate uniforms of the Civil War aside from the common blue and grey?
-immigrants and foreign volunteers in the Civil war?
-why the hell did anti slavery countries England and France provide aide to the Confederates!?!
-Native American Tribes during the civil war?
-Civil War veterans’ reaction to the Violence of the KKK?
-The famous all black Union regiments.
-Union flags other than the Stars and Stripes?
-Confederate flags other than Stars and Bars and Battle Flag.
-What’s your opinion on the Civil war elements of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
What’s your opinion on Harry Turtledove’s Alternate History novels regarding the Civil War?
What’s your opinion on the video game War of rights?
RamboArminius one topic you pointed out "Native American tribes and the civil war" is definitely one I'd love to see someone tackle, especially considering the Cherokee formed at least one cavalry regiment to fight in the Confederate Army
I too think it is funny, for the right (including neoconfeds and neocons) would not benefit from the truths of history and violence being known, fact to be trusted and taught. I for one would be interested in a video on your political perspectives sometime. What a sad and appalling thing it is to look at the domestic instances of mass violence in the past decade, just to look at one specific time period. It is well and consoling to know someone is working on historical establishment that in ways helps disempower a lot of the culture that has led to so much of it.
Guarantee if he said anything vaugely conservative you would unsubscribe in the second, which is why he avoids politics (probably)
@@aridicaexmontaudon1296 not subbed, salty reach is a lie
The American Legion used to give out fake red poppies in November when I was a kid. They had a metal wire in the stem that was like a twisty tie so you could fasten it to things.
Around here, it was in May around Memorial Day Weekend. Give a donation and drop it on your car's dashboard.
Oh, you need to check out Preacher, man. I think you'll dig the whole Saint of Killers deal.
What about Cold Mountain? Battle of the crater was sick!! I mean that in it demonstrated the appalling brutality of the war.
Thank you for the book rundown, I always spend some time perusing your book shelves as you speak cos I'ma nosy bibliophile. You like a bit of fantasy so if you don't mind I would like to recommend you a good read. The Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. A big magical read of lost children; strange creatures, evil Kings and wizards. Definitely not GoT but the product of one of America's finest writers imo. Btw, I see a copy of The Wolfen on your shelf. Damn I loved that tale. Short but very sweet. As always I appreciate your shows. Entertaining; erudite and honest. Whats not to like eh?
For a Civil War Movie, I highly recommend the Martin Scorsese classic "Gangs of New York" (2002). Though it does center around fictional characters that represent actual gangs living in 1800s New York City, with real historical figures being supporting characters, the movie still gets a lot right about the time period, such as the underlying political and social tensions that finally came to the open with the Great Draft Riot of 1863.
The movie has at least one glaring error: the gang The Plug Uglies were not in New York. That gang was in Baltimore. There are no primary sources that place the gang in NY. See this discussion on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APlug_Uglies
16:40 I do agree that history has been more aligned with a "liberal" narrative... but i wouldnt call it a "left-wing" one
the left-wing narrative of viewing everything about "who benefitted" as if everything is about class or race is as you said "la la land"
as is the right-wing narrative of only pointing out the good and ignoring the bad , making the founders into saints that can do no wrong and they also were Evangelical Christians and not the Deists that most of them actually were , and they all agreed on everything and their adversaries are all bad, and then America did nothing bad after that , and in all the wars After that , America were the good guys , and everyone else was just bad for going against America... I guess Mexico was evil for not wanting all their land taken away...
also both the leftist and rightist viewpoints make everything about America when... hello , Europe is actually a thing... and no , it not just here to look bad just to make America look good by comparison for the rightists
and no ,not all european nations are just evil colonial empires whose whole existence revolved around settler colonialism like some American leftists portray Europe...
(Eastern Europe is a thing... I hope someone notices us one day... )
Dammit! You keep waving that cold brew around and my throat is now parched. Unfortunately, I have no beer in the house (except for some of that seltzer crap my wife bought) and so I have chosen a single-malt scotch to satiate my thirst and shall be completely worthless tomorrow. I don't have to drive to an office thanks to Covid19, so I will let it work off early and turn up the heat late. 😲
This dude's southern accent cracks me up every time!! lol
He doesn't have the New Orleans accent my father referred to as "Southern-Brooklyn."
I recommend John Adam's by David McCullough. He is one of my favorite storytelling historians.
In American Graffiti when the characters are walking thru a car junk yard the movie which is set in 1962 there is clearly visible a 1964 vehicle.
Steven crowder has entered the chat
I scrolled down to this comment the moment he said "Steven Crowder" that's some crazy timing
In my opinion, left-leaning politics has veered much farther from its original trajectory than right-leaning. I grew up in the 70's and 80's when you could hang out with hippies, tell dirty jokes, give a good-natured ribbing, and if anyone did get mad then you just apologized, cooled off, and then just filed that episode into memory so you hopefully wouldn't repeat it. The right-wingers back then were always preachy and prudish. They'd tell their kids not to hang out with "troublemakers" who were obviously all doing drugs and sacrificing children to Satan while listening to Ozzy Osbourne records playing backwards. I did offensive shit just to piss off and disgust those constantly haranguing anyone who didn't have that stodgy, sour frown on their face.
The left and right have flipped, but the SJWs are far worse than the scowling church moms. If I walked by the house of a church mom wearing a Motley Crüe T-shirt, singing Shout at the Devil, and making a highly-offensive Gene Simmons cunnilingus tongue gesture at her, the worst that would happen would be her grabbing her kids and running inside. Her Izod and Dockers wearing husband might come out and spout something off, but I'd just laugh at him and ask when's tee-time. Today, just wearing a red cap or flying a US flag might get you beaten half-to-death by a bunch of skinny black-clad pussies who think they're all the next rendition of Che and Fidel but have probably never slept less than a foot off the floor or went more than 10 hours without a snack.
There are still some snooty religious right-wingers, but I think I could probably wear a red cap and even tell a dirty joke without risking hospitalization around them. Hippies aren't hip any more. They're now like the church moms.
@Lex Bright Raven Reality is warped. We live in a non-Euclidian universe and every mass distorts its surrounding space.
You should read The Sunflower a collection of responses to a letter from a holocaust survivor. It’s a real book that makes you think “Would you forgive someone who’s tried to destroy your people?”
Don't let Mistborn put you off of Brandon Sanderson. It's good, but nowhere near as good as his flagship series, The Stormlight Archive which starts with Way of Kings. Vastly superior to Song of Ice and Fire in both mine and my wife's opinions.
"Crusades were a defensive war". I laughed so hard when you said that.
Defensive war from the islamic pov.
Not a defensive war but definitely a counter-invasion.
Should have been Defensive for eastern Rome, but the Catholics got carried away
400 years after the fact may be a little too long.
Imagine spain going to war with portugal over the treaty of tordesillas
You gonna draw those pistols or sit there and whistle Dixie?
“I’ve been drugglin- juggling”
Could you talk more about your thoughts on why the crusades are not a defencive war?
Definitely check out the movie Conspiracy (2001) when you do your vid on Hitler's American Model. Some of the people in that book (Wilhelm Stuckart for example) are figures in that movie.
Love that movie!
HerrToad that was painfully captivating movie to watch.
We have similar stories then. I’m a former Lost causer too until your “Checkmate Licolnites” videos tuneed my world view around
Could you talk about trench warfare in the civil war I think it’s mostly unknown that trench warfare had such a role late in the war like in Petersburg
Wondering if you have any opinion concerning Harry Turtledove. Any thoughts on alternate history and relative projections for that matter?
Can you do a vid of all your favorite books? And/Or a vid about the best books for learning more about the civil war? Been especially wanting to dive in way more to some history reading after subscribing to your channel. Thanks for all the great content!
Can’t miss the bright green Confederates in the Attic.
Super hard-core
1632 (Ring if Fire). I liked the first few books; enjoyed a story with good Germans. :)
I Effing loved "Downfall", too. It was possibly the best Hitler movie do date. Not only does Bruno Ganz act the crap out of that movie, but in the end, you actually feel sorry for everyone, even though they're douchebag Nazis -- Not sorry they lost the war or that Hitler kills himself, more sorry that everyone had to endure every disappointing and sad thing that goes on in the course of the film. You sort of feel just like they did -- exhausted from Hitler's emotional roller coaster rides, and those of his closest officers and companions.
Somehow, i feel that the end of Trump will be pretty much like that...
Except probably not falling to the massive onslaught of an angry Red Army. Under the other main bad guy of the 20th century. Filled with trauma, revenge, lust, and vodka. I don't think we'll have to worry about that.
Throughout the whole video. I was worried that you were going to accidentally sit on your dog!
Growing up in the 60's and 70's all the things I read or saw on the Civil War pretty much came out of the "lost cause" narrative. Then I read Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy and learned about really cool guys in Blue like Joshua Chamberlain, The Irish Brigade, John Gibbon, and his Black Hats and Dan "The Man" Sickles. But then there was this politically incorrect guy from the NH White Mountains, Edward Cross who despite being the most critical guy on the planet created the 5th NHVI who could a complete a-hole yet I discovered much later, write home and ask people back home to get his men blankets and food and in turn made the unit one of the greatest on the union side of the war. Now, I found my heroes.
No matter how I may disagree with you, I'm always going to share your love of Robert Carlyle acting.
I squealed like a schoolgirl when I saw you with the 1632 book. That series is fantastic.
Well it STARTS off good and then he let amateurs begin publishing hard back fan fiction. The one with a Harley on the cover was SO BAD, talk talk talk gossip gossip about talking talking about gossiping HARLEY RIDDEN LIKE AN OFF ROAD DIRT BIKE gossspopppoisos it was AWFUL.
I could not believe that terrible drek got published. Yes I did skip a lot of GOSSIP.
On the history discussion the old saying 'Reality has a Liberal bias' springs to mind. Never liked that one myself as we on the Left have had some bad ideas. However, 'HISTORY has a Liberal bias' is far more accurate to my mind. Every major social advance worth anything has been Left Wing after all. Like having benefits and a minimum wage and safety standards? Thank a Leftist, lol.
One of the best war films of all time and often forgotten: Is Paris Burning.
"at this point in the sidegeist/Zeitgeist"
that the first time that I as a German have heard this german word as an english word...nice.
nice answers
It's spelled zeitgeist in English too (though you of course need to observe the different capitalization rules).
@@snbeast9545 Thanks :)
10:00 what are you doing to the spine of that book you madman
Props for the beer choice! Soft Parade is one of my favorite summertime beers. Cheers from Michigan!
'Into The West', 'To Hell & Back', 'Shenandoah', 'The Quick & The Dead', 'The Rare Breed', 'McClintock', 'Dances With Wolves', etc, etc, etc>I got a list! lol
I'm soon to be 67 grew up on westerns & war movie's & especially sci-fi, 'Creature From The Black Lagoon' on through today etc.
the poppy is also used as a symbol in Canada to commemorate not just WWI but also all the soldiers that did and didn't come home in any war that Canada has fought in
Dean Winchester: I killed Hitler. I think I deserve some pie.
Well it depends which crusades, if you're talking about the second crusades then it was totally defensive, the crusaders where defending their stolen lands duuuuu.
Charles Dion He kind of skips over the entire Arab Conquests part. Also, the Ottomans continuing the theme...weird for someone with any Balkan heritage.
Another very good Civil War movie often overlooked: Ang Lee's RIDE WITH THE DEVIL (1999), which focuses on the grim partisan war on the Missouri-Kansas border.
His favorite movie is definitely God's and Generals.
List my favourite Hitlers. What a question....
Yea I watch these videos for the homosexual tension
"Though I *may* like *For a Few Dollars More Better*."
...I thought I was alone for so long...
Patrician taste, my friends, patrician taste. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is excellent, but for a few dollars more had that darker, more melancholic tone which makes it more adult and subtle somehow.
@@davidesguario2151 for a few dollars more is also tighter
@@wierdalien1 True. With the Good the Bad and the Ugly Leone had an exponentially larger budget at his disposal compared to the two previous movies, which led him, among other things, to slightly overdo in terms of length. To be nitpicky, the first act drags a little (however, once Tuco and the Blond find about about the treasure it gets one of the best paces in the history of cinema).
@@wierdalien1 Also I love Gian Maria Volonté and his portrayal of Indio is one of the best villain performances of all time to me.
Wasn't the Red Badge of Courage a Wishbone episode?
Thanks for tackling my question! As someone who had a brief stint as a history teacher, I can't help but be aware of how someone's view of history changes as they change as a person.
I wonder if you've seen sarcasmitron's history videos responding on topics like the Crusades and Slave Trade as well as more recent stuff like Venezuela's oil boom and bust, Dinesh D'Souza's rewriting of political history, etc
It probably was. Loved that show when I was a wee bairn.
Never heard of sarcasmitron, but I'll check em out.
thumbs down for d'souza
thumbs up for Atun!!
Three Arrows did a rebuttal to Crowder's Crusades video also. ua-cam.com/video/ejdlkfXwPQc/v-deo.html.
Shaun also did a video responding to Stefan Molyneux's video on the fall of Rome. ua-cam.com/video/BHW3Y_p2llo/v-deo.html
Have you ever read Dee Brown's 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee'?
Yes we read at school. We had a very radical English Literature teacher who used to expose to Irish and Âmerican writers as well as the Brits
We also wear the poppy here in Canada
Atun Shei had a very similar political progression to me, except I was just very very far right, in a more northern way. For instance, I thought that the union was ultimately just but also that it was over states rights for a long time. I’m now reformed in a sense, and I feel it gives me a much stronger set of beliefs and understanding of problems
You weren't wrong, it was about states rights...to own slaves.
How come he isn't over 50K subs yet?
Wut?
I was a little let down when "Sir Somebody" didn't speak with a lisp on Game of Thrones. "THILENTH KINGTHLAYER!" Of course, he still has Jaime's hand cut off. The show wasn't funny enough, so the tragedies were never shocking and saddening like they are in the books.
What is the sticker on your computer?
Thoughts on 1917? Also might I recommend two fantasy series, The Dark Glory War trilogy and The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Don't forget to have some fun too.
Henry IV part 1. We need a film about Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower) who the English thought was a wizard as he made it rain when the English came into Wales. Note to the English: It does not take a wizard to make it rain in Wales. I can speak Welsh and have been asked twice to write lines for two teachers producing the play. Shakespeare simply says "they speak Welsh". Glyndwr's daughter would have spoken fluent English.
In England there’s been this successful children’s show “Horrible Histories” for many years. Tries to make history fun for kids, was this inspiration for a similar adult version for some of your vids such as checkmate Lincolnites? Also I bet you love Stanley Kubricks Dr Strangelove lol. I wonder what you think of the movie Hostiles as a modern western. I’d love to know. I love your work, although I disagree with some of your views. I bet you were the best tour guide Gettysburg ever had. I can’t work out which I like best. Johnny Reb.vs normal you in union uniform. Nazi room mate or the Q and A sessions which I’ve really enjoyed today. Excellent channel and food for thought. I think you are a fantastic tongue in cheek actor. Well done brother, even though I disagree with some of your views I would not contest them. It’s all fantastic stuff, keep it going
Read Co Aytch years ago, great read. This was probably the first literate war in which most combatants could actually read and write.
Confederates In The Attic
The Outlaw Josey Wales "Mistuh Chain Blue Lightnin' hisseff" is my favorite Eastwood (and YES Unforgiven is next, though I actually slide off to Joe Kidd for #3), as well as favorite Civil War movie. And I include Avengers Civil War.
EDIT: David Drake & Eric Flint "The General" (Raj Whitehall) series, David Drake & S.M. Stirling "Belisarius" series (both very similar, just settings and opposing sides). S.M. Stirling Domination Of The Draka series and War Against Darkness series. (Also if you want to move far far east, David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series).
What's your opinion of Ken Burns' The Civil War?