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  1. I sailed in Bermuda twice. I expected sailors to talk about it. They can be pretty superstitious. No one mentioned the Triangle even once.
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  2. The Shah was thought of as a friend of the US not just Jimmy Carter. Carter just happened to be US president at the time of the revolution. There weren’t any factions in the US government that were anti Shah
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  3. What a story. I was unaware of at least half, probably more. You speak clearly and at an appropriate pace. Vid deserves more than 121 likes over the course of 4 months.
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  4. The Bolt Thrower t-shirt is perfect for a video about the IV Crusade.
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  5. I was in the US Navy during all of this. I remember reading about it. This was very interesting to me at the time since I was deployed to the Persian Gulf. My ship had been involved in bombing Beirut and was Dodging Iranian mines and Iraqi Exocets. I remember not caring if North sold weapons to Iran if the Hostages had really been released. As for the Contras, I had been donating to anti-communist causes that included them as well as Renamo in Mozambique. Now looking back I am bewildered by the Non-Threat that the Communists really were. Sad but young people have the energy to fix things but not the wisdom. Old people have the wisdom but not the energy. I know that it is more complicated but that is how I feel.
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  6. The issue with the "no blood for oil" protests is that it ignores the fact that the Kuwaitis were bleeding regardless of US involvement. What they were really saying is "No American blood for oil".
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  7. I'm kinda proud of my job... i maintain a sewer system in one of Europe Capital City like 3 million citizens don't know what exactly we do... It's sometime gross sometimes weird (when you pump out 3 tons [like 6000 pounds] of strawberries out of sewer system) and sometimes you can find valuable thinks in sewer sludge. It's just cool to know that thanks to my and my colleagues that many peoples (for decades) just can wake up in middle of night go to toilet and just flush it down the sewer hassle free. Thanks Sean, for video!
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  8. I definitely believe in the Bermuda triangle. That patch of ocean certainly exists, and it'd be very strange if it did not.
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  9. The fact you were able to make this entire 3 hour video plus another hour video the same day that might as well be part of it, IN ONE MONTH, WHILE TEACHING MIDDLESCHOOLERS AT THE SAME TIME blows my fucking mind. There are other history channels that do deep dives live this, and it can take them up to A YEAR to finish something of this scale. I feel like a spoiled chile
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  10. His administration had a black cloud from day one. His vice president, William King, was inaugurated in Cuba where he was trying to recuperate from tuberculosis but died just 45 days after Pierce became president.
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  11. I am literally contributing to the history of urban poop as you speak!
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  12. "Horace Greeley IS, at the time of the making of this video, still dead" had me cracking up. Thank you for another wonderful history lesson. I love context and you do a superb job of providing it.
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  13. Came here from Kennedy/Iran Contra and I've loved it! As someone who is also currently working on a 3 hour long historical video, likely much less well researched than yours, I can definitely feel the pain lol Keep up the good work!
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  14. 🦀🦀🦀 KISSINGER IS DEAD 🦀🦀🦀
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  15. Thanks Sean! We're happy to be supporting your work. For anyone interested in staying informed, check out the link above.
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  16. "Sorry, babe. Sean Munger dropped a deep dive tonight."
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  17. You’ve quickly become my new favorite channel. It’s become a little joke to me how every time you recommend to watch your videos by coming back and using the chapter feature, and while I appreciate your excellent and practical partitioning, I always end up watching the videos all the way through
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  18. My dad was in the 82nd Airborne Division and he served in the Gulf War so I remember A LOT even though I was only six years old at the time. It's so strange because there was over 600k US troops deployed which dwarfs even our invasion of Iraq in 2003. I was living on Ft. Bragg at the time, and you could hear the artillery at all hours because they were training like crazy right before they deployed.
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  19. Commenting before my comment gets flooded by all the coming praise for what I do not doubt will be another great video. I am junior undergraduate for history and Political science; and your videos are honestly an inspiration to me. Never have I seen a series that makes Presidential/electoral history simultaneously engaging while also being academically weighted. Cheers to all you do, Prof. Munger; cannot wait to finish this video in due time
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  20. Man oh man, I wish I would’ve had you as my history teacher in college. This video is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to make and publish it!
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  21. Bold of you to assume that my history teacher uttered even a single word about the election of 1876. Your video is the first I'm hearing about any of that.
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  22. Oh hell yeah new Sean munger video
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  23. Oliver Stone and Ridley Scott should be ashamed for their ludicrous ‘historical’ movies. And everyone who makes historical movies without any regard for the truth. Movies have consequences.
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  24. This presentation grabbed my attention especially because of the time frame. In the summer of 1982, I was invited to a meeting at the home of a good friend of mine. It was being held a couple or so days before the start of a sports tournament in our small town, an event my friend and I were both heavily involved in. I didn't press my friend on the details, but I assumed it was somehow related to the logistics of the tournament. A very well spoken man had driven, with his wife, some 80 or so miles in their brand new Rolls Royce to "draw the circles" and make the pitch for "the business." I was intrigued and eventually even hosted the same man to draw the circles for prospects in my own burgeoning "circle." I do remember a certain pressure to get the tapes and books. Since I was an undergraduate student in another state during the fall and spring, I was able to stave off the pressure by reiterating my status as a full-time college student. But like I'm sure a lot of others in Amway it soon became more work than I could manage. Even the 6-8 hours a week the circle-drawers talked about was too much for me in a small private college environment where I could not have followed through without jeopardizing my focus as a student. The money I spent getting into Amway wasn't a total waste, however. I did use the powder detergent to do my laundry. I wrote it off my naivete, and, as a result of my brief Amway experience, I have sense been able to recognize similar pyramid schemes and steer clear of them.
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  25. Glad to see your channel blowing up. Some of the best content on this platform. o7
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  26. Ponzinomics is a great book. Glad you referenced it. I try to stay dispassionate but I hate MLM’s. They are such a pernicious evil. I hate lies and the false hope it provides. I have seen so many taken in. Thanks for the video.
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  27. I found you through your Iran Contra video. I’d heard of it and had a very loose grasp of what happened. Now I understand. Great videos. Well researched, entertaining, and calming too. I’d be interested in hearing you talk about the Manson murders, or the book Chaos by Tom O’Neill. Or even have a conversation with him.
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  28. Thank you for making this. I had been watching the Mark Gruber videos and was fairly convinced that it was a CIA hit. This series has brought me back to reality.
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  29. As a European born in the 2000s, I have never heard much about the Gulf War from either the media or people who lived during the time due to the subsequent 2003 Iraq War far overshadowing it in terms of public discourse. I am an aspiring foreign relations student and the in depth look into both the domestic as well as international situation of all the nations entangled in this conflict helps paint a more enlightening picture of the whole affair, and provides extremely valuable for the past, present and future of everyone involved. Your channel is a true hidden gem and you provide a true treasure cove of masterfully explained historical topics. Bit of a sidenote, but I'd love to see deconstruction like this done about the US/NATO intervention in the Yugoslav wars, as that is another 90s era conflict which has largely faded from the public consciousness outside of Eastern Europe. It had extreme effects on the overall politics and stability of European continent with many of it's effects being felt even now, as well as being an important talking point in the later years of the Clinton administration.
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  30. Even modern plumbing wouldn’t stand a chance versus 6 plates of oysters 😅😂
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  31. As an environmental economist major, I for one would absolutely love more environmental history videos. Phenomenal content as always
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  32. The Bermuda Triangle is only as mysterious as any busy intersection on the road: it is where the traffic is, so that is where the accidents are. Anyone who thinks it so mysterious has never been to the deep waters where waves can be just ripples followed by monster waves in just a half hour, or you can have sunny weather one moment and a downpour the next. If it was a reality, insurance companies would throw exorbitant premiums on ships sailing that area so they would still anywhere else. Good job laying out the facts.
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  33. It's so good to have access to content made by someone with actual knowledge on a subject, rather than some guy reading a wiki page trying anything to get likes. Thank you for this. It was very educational and entertaining. (If I'm watching a 3 hour video, I must be entertained.)
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  34. 14:49 i think you could argue that the US by taking a fairly hands off approach and letting ISI run the show (and they backed the most extreme elements) created a place where Bin Laden could hide out and where his/similar idealogies could flourish . Of course this has had more blow back for Pakistan than anyone else .
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  35. I live in the next town over from where Grant grew up. The story behind his name is simple: everyone called him Ulysses, and Thomas Hamer, the congressman who lived in their town (and an interesting man in his own right), was asked by Grant’s father to nominate Grant for the spot at West Point. Jesse Grant had a falling out with Hamer years prior over politics, though the falling out was due more on Jesses’s own volition (read Thomas Hamer’s eulogy; he wasn’t a petty man). Hamer obliged Jesse. He filled out the application, but since everyone called the younger Grant by Ulysses, rather than Hiram, Hamer assumed it was his first name. It was common during this time for children to take their mother’s maiden name as their middle, so Hamer assumed it was Ulysses S. Grant. There was a guy awhile back ago that was going to release a biography on Hamer, but he went silent and nothing ever came out. I really wonder what caused it not to come out. Definitely a man of conviction which deserves to reach an audience.
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  36. Very well composed and narrated Sean. Thanks for posting. Just one point, at 53:38 you say that the C2766 Carcano rifle was discovered in the sniper's nest on the 6th floor, but it was in fact discovered on the 6th floor near the north west corner by the stairway, diagonally opposite the sniper's nest (page 79 of Warren Report).
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  37. I love the way you present history - first as a cohesive story and then as a nuanced, profound look on the broad context. That's how it should be done and thought. Thanks, and keep it up! Greetings from Bulgaria!
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  38. I remember in the mid 80s my dad buying a 3 column (spread out) water filter for $300 1980s dollars from a guy in his church. As I was not a fan of the tap water, he (the seller) filtered a glass and had me taste it. Beaming with pride, he hands me the glass, I take a sip, and reply that it's still bitter. The glass was taken from me as everyone in the room agreed that I must have drank it wrong (reminder: he bought it from a guy at church).
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  39. The eternal question: Can one separate the art from the artist? Carlos Castaneda was a captivating and gifted writer. Unfortunately, later on he became an abusive cult leader and egomaniac. On which basis do we judge him — by his art, or his personal life? I read his books as a teenager and young adult. I was hooked by his first three books which caught my imagination — so much so, that I once had a powerful acid trip that was inspired subconsciously by his writings. By the fourth book, however, I realized Castaneda was a huckster. Fraud or not, he was a fine storyteller. There was even a little wisdom in his books, sprinkled among the bullshit. Fertilizer does help the flowers grow, after all. It's a shame he didn't heed his own writings and grow wise as he aged. He did the opposite; he became a monster. At least he left three wonderful books for the world to read. Thanks for this wonderful video, and your two subsequent ones on this topic. I am currently reading "Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Amy Wallace. I highly recommend it.
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  40. In 1990 I worked at the plant in the UK that produced these motivational tapes for the UK Amway (soap) market. We had to listen to the beginning & end of each batch to make sure they'd been made correctly. Then one day we listened to the whole lot. Crazy stuff, Rich De Vos was a good speaker, and then there was Jay Van Andel... very "American Dream", but clearly very effective, and a cute creation myth. Wow do they prey on the weak, and make poor people feel ashamed, so weird. I can still remember a lot of the content.
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  41. I could only dream that an individual like Sean Munger would come along and provide a deep dive such as this on one of my favorite Presidents to study. Due to the severe lack of analysis and reporting on many mid to late 19th century presidents, I would love to see Mr. Munger take on the mantle as the one who shall fill that void.
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  42. Hands down, this is the best conspiracy theory buster I've seen. This is a must see. Sharing it everywhere.
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  43. My uncle who was a part of the force deployed for the liberation of Kuwait, he was shocked at the brutality and carnage he found as the road leading into Kuwait was lined with Kuwaiti citizens hanging from poles, and as the Iraqi army was fleeing the city with vehicles filled with Gold, Electronics, stacks of cash, were carpet bombed from above with no way to escape the US Aircraft sent to mow down the fleeing Larsenists. He said seeing the level of burning bodies and the smell forever changed him. His PTSD was off the charts, and he was a Gunnery Sargent and one of the toughest guys I ever knew. When he cane back he really struggled and never really recovered. God protect our veterans and current military and give them peace.
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  44. Sean you've been cranking out these long videos so regularly and yet the quality never falters. Your research is always so thorough and your storytelling of these events always so concise. You are a true beacon of history and historians, and I am so delighted to see how quickly your channel is growing! Entirely and enthusiastically deserved.
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  45. This story needs to be told. I remember Amway sweeping through--or rather past--my family in the 70's. Thank you. Then again in the 90's when I was living in Japan--we had two friends visit and spend the night. It seemed so nice that they would come all that way to see us. They sprang the Amway on Day 2 of their visit. I walked in on a video being shown to my then-wife. It triggered all of my pent-up anger from evangelical upbringing and I went ballistic. Kicking them out of the house right that moment. It was a blind rage. Years later, we've made amends, but it stands out as a reminder of how powerful this crap can be. MLM invades family relationships and friendships like a parasitic virus.
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  46. I’m convinced this guy’s a robot. There’s just no way he just keeps churning out quality this quickly!
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  47. Indiana Jones teaches at a fictional university, called Marshall College, which is named after producer Frank Marshall.
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  48. Although rare, there were at least 5 law schools in the US in 1825: William & Mary (1779), Litchfield (independent, 1784) Transylvania University in Kentucky (1799), Harvard (1817). Yale's would open in 1826.
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  49. Thank you for so thoroughly eviscerating the Nostradamus BS! Well done!!
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  50. Dr. Munger, I am a huge fan of your channel and would love to see a video breaking down The Troubles. I feel like that's a historical topic that is often overlooked. Loved this video sir, I appreciate what you do for us all here. P.S - Had to laugh earlier, my girlfriend logged into Youtube on our living room T.V and saw this video had dropped. She yelled across the house "Babe, your man crush dropped a new video!". I'd be lying if I said I didn't know exactly who she was talking about. XD
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