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  1. Indeed. I have been called stupid, an idiot, a fool, a gullible dupe, a (insert ableist slur), accused of being a CIA agent, a Communist, a fascist, and buying the views to this video (they're all organic). Sometimes they try to hit my other videos saying, "Don't listen to this guy, he has no credibility, he thinks Oswald acted alone!" 🤣🤣🤣
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  2. What a horribly sad story. My condolences to you and your family. I wish more people understood the damage that these MLMs do to so many people. Thanks so much for sharing and I hope your story can help others avoid what your family went through.
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  3. Your story and your mother's are unfortunately far too common. Bill Britt is largely responsible for spreading the Amway cult to India. I wish more people understood how destructive this "motivational" stuff is. Good luck.
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  4. Very true. Also, complex political conspiracies are much more common in European history, whereas the "lone whackadoo with a gun" is a uniquely American phenomenon.
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  5. I have a Ph.D. in history so I can legitimately be called "Dr. Munger," and while I am a history teacher, I'm not a "professor" in the way most people mean it (on faculty at a higher education institution). So I do not call myself "Professor."
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  6. We could put that on a T-shirt! How about "Mungarians"? But I admit if "Mungeroos" stuck I would not be upset about it in the least!
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  7. I was in 9th grade in 1986. 😜 But thanks!
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  8. It's funny you mention that, this same issue troubled me enough for me to look into it as I was editing this video, since I show a photo of the selfsame gun he used which is clearly a semi-automatic and not a revolver. (Many artistic depictions of the assassination, including one shown in this video, depict a revolver). But apparently it really was a semiautomatic, an FN Model 1910, which was originally designed for use by the Serbian Army. That explains why this kind of gun was procured for the assassins, as they would have been easy to come by for people with connections to the Black Hand, itself a group within the Serbian Army. I think Princip just misspoke and used "revolver" as a catch all.
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  9. This is really interesting! Thank you so much!
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  10. Thanks Mr. Beat! You were great as Coolidge and you even sound a bit like him!
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  11. People get drawn in by the cult. Prosperity, get rich quick, become "successful" whatever that means, and the hucksters prey on their victims' aspirations and insecurities. That's awful that you and your sister were Amway orphans. What a terrible thing to do to young children.
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  13. If I made a 100-hour video about the entire history of the 20th century, I'd be real tired! 🤣
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  14. That is an excellent observation!
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  17. Thanks, and I agree completely.
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  18. Thank you so much! I hope to provide lots more history that I hope you will find helpful and interesting.
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  20. Thank you SO much! I consider this very high praise, because I greatly admire your "Six Degrees of Helter Skelter" documentary.
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  21. The Dornans and Network 21 did come up in my research, but I didn't focus on it because it was founded in 1989, after the period I'm concerned with. I mentioned Network 21 briefly in the "side video" to this one: https://youtu.be/9_DJxgKeqdk
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  22. Wow, great story!
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  23. Absolutely right!
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  25. Fascinating! This is consistent with what I've read from those who knew him personally. His most passionate defenders never knew him, which is telling.
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  26. This is my favorite kind of comment to receive! Several people have similar stories, commutes, long work schedules etc. I'm so glad to be helping people in your kind of situation. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  28. You're the first to notice!
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  30. This is very high praise! Thank you! 🙏
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  31. Thank you! I'm also frustrated about that. I try to give my students a grounding in it because I know they won't get it anywhere else.
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  32. Thanks so much! Grading is tedious, I've been there!
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  33. As it happens, I have a video in the pipeline that involves the Manson murders. I'm working on Persian Gulf War right now, and that one will be after that. It's not going to be as comprehensive as this (JFK) series but hopefully you enjoy it!
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  34. There are. I teach history at a middle school. You can occasionally find some of my students in the comments.
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  35. Thanks Rob! And thank you so much for your help. The footage you got was great.
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  36. @bufordhighwater9872 No, they weren't capable at all. Look how badly they bungled Iraq! And Katrina...and the financial crash...and everything else they touched.
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  37. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  39. LOL, I've worked on almost nothing else for the past 3 weeks!
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  40. I would like to have a word with your history teacher.
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  41. Wow, I'm glad you're enjoying this so much! Thanks!
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  42. You're welcome, thank you!
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  44. I address the "mysterious deaths" nonsense in Part 2 of the video and I focus on Dorothy Kilgalen specifically. Nothing "mysterious" about it at all. In fact the whole "mysterious deaths" thing, which apparently comes from a single unreliable source, is probably the silliest conspiracy theory in the whole JFK pantheon, with the possible exception of the "secret service agent accidentally killed him" thing.
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  45. He'll be waiting a long time! 😂
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  46. I've been working pretty hard the last month, it's true! I was pretty drained at the end of yesterday when I got these uploaded.
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  47. Thanks for your thoughts, and thanks for being respectful. Many fans of the show who comment here are not as respectful as you've been. What we're dealing with here in the case of the History Channel show is a deception by subtle misleading and inviting the gullible audience to jump to conclusions. The show's veracity as a historical source is fatally tainted by the fact that none of its supposed discoveries are backed by any reputable documentary evidence. What about that "Roman sword" they found that proved to be a toy souvenir manufactured in the 1970s? The producers of the show were not very transparent about this, and there's a reason: being honest about it would have undermined their audience's faith in the central premise of the series, which is to keep you watching in the hopes that they'll unearth treasure there. They won't. Still, of all the things you point out, the only one that's factually inaccurate is your claim that the "flood tunnels" have been found. They haven't been. What was found were the remains of access tunnels built by the 1862/63 treasure hunt expedition who tried to come at the "treasure" site from below. Their workbook, documenting exactly where and how they built the lumber and stone-lined channels, is documented and was catalogued by historians in 2014 (a fact I would imagine the History Channel show would rather not have its viewers know). The 1862-built tunnels were found previously on the 1897 excavation. The fact that they aren't the "flood tunnels" famed in the legend is self-evident from the fact that the "treasure" pit was not discovered immediately afterwards, which it would have been if they were part of a treasure operation. Nevertheless, all the other supposed discoveries made by the show producers don't support the treasure hypothesis. They are, in fact, artifacts of previous treasure digs. Every time someone digs a 200-foot shaft on the island, fails to find treasure, goes bankrupt and gives up, they fill the holes they dug back in with the junk and detritus they originally dug out. What this means is that debris from previous treasure hunts has been continuously and repeatedly buried, re-exhumed, re-buried, dug up again, and churned multiple times over the last 150 years. Everything you mentioned--a stone pathway, lumber and boulders, iron ox shoes, barrel staves, tools, a pine kiln, waterproofing materials, a man-made swamp--every single thing is entirely consistent with what you would expect from previous large-scale treasure digs. None are consistent with an operation existing prior to the first treasure hunt. Furthermore, contrary to all the treasure stories, the island has been continuously inhabited (by Native Americans, among others) for hundreds of years. Thus the discovery of human remains going back centuries is, again, exactly as consistent with an island that never had a "treasure" operation on it, as it is with one that did--a real-world example of which, I might add, is virtually unknown in documentary history anyway. Why, if the Borehole 10X video was supposedly conclusive, did it wind up "in a large archive in the guy's house"? You would think if it's the slam-dunk proof that he claimed it was, decades before the Lagina brothers ever heard of the place, he would have been shouting it from the rooftops. This is a telltale sign of fraud. If by the "history of the place" you mean the history of previous treasure hunts, you're entirely correct--that's the history that they're exhuming, at great profit to themselves and the History Channel's advertisers. I'm not sure what other "history" remains there to be uncovered. There is no evidence of anything other than a scam, and a series of treasure hunts by gullible investors beginning in the early 19th century. None of the methods that historians use to verify and document the past, or to build plausible hypotheses about what happened in the past, are being used by the producers of this show. In fact, the show is an example of not to do history, and how pseudohistorical narratives can be used to manipulate the conclusions that people jump to, largely for the commercial gain of their advertisers (and the Lagina brothers themselves, who I am told have gotten rich renting the heavy excavating equipment that they own back to the producers of the show). If you really step back and think about what you've been shown, I think you'll conclude that it doesn't add up to even a shadow of what its purveyors so fondly suggest might be the case. Thanks again for your comment.
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  48. That'll be $5, please. 😂
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  49. You do important work, thank you!
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  50. Thank you! With a project so long an in depth I invariably made a few mistakes. I appreciate the attention to detail.
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  51. Wow, haha! What a compliment! Thanks!
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  52. I do not know of any books specifically about this, but I'm sure they're out there. Here's what I suggest. Go to jstor.org. Sign up for a free account there. You don't need to be an academic or affiliated with a university. You can read 100 free articles a month. Once you have an account, do a search for ((Beatles) AND ("Soviet Union")) in the advanced search term bar. I just did that search and brought up over 2000 results. Obviously there's a lot written on this and I'm sure you will find some very interesting stuff among those articles. Good luck!
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  53. "You're lying," or their favorite, "You're a CIA agent," or "You're the deep state" or "you're stupid," or... (500 other canned and brainless responses).
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  54. Nixon: "Bob, could you speak into the flower pot please?"
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  55. People complain often enough about seeing my face, no way I'm going to take my clothes off!
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  56. Thanks! Exactly what I set out to do.
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  57. Thank you for noticing this! Most people think I just missed it, but the convincing evidence hit the press just after I finished the video.
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  58. It's kind of amazing the number of people who, when confronted with evidence that five of his followers committed suicide for him, will hand-wave that away, blame the victims, or engage in some weird fantasy about them having "crossed over to another plane of existence."
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  59. Thank you. A different long form video of mine (not this one) just went viral this week, so maybe they are finally catching on!
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  60. Thank you! 🙏
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  61. Thanks!
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  62. That sounds more like a Mel Gibson picture. 😂
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  63. You could read "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright which is an excellent source.
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  64. Wow, thank you! 🙏
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  65. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  66. I looked for some video footage that was taken on board that I could use, didn't find any. What was the incident involving South Korea? Thanks for chiming in!
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  67. Really fascinating perspective! Thanks!
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  68. Joe, thanks so much my friend! Thanks for your contribution.
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  69. I agree with you completely. Many people cannot accept the historical fact of this event. History is sometimes disappointing.
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  70. Thanks so much!
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  71. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed my interview on Roberta's show. In my view, the "coaching" industry is an outgrowth of the speaking industry, which arose in the 1980s/early 90s with people like Jack Canfield. Not MLM specifically, but a lot of glurge (think Chicken Soup for the Soul). This industry was quickly overrun by Amway and Amway-adjacent hucksters--Zig Ziglar and other inspirational speakers, whose books filter into the tools cult, were prominent in this industry. "Coaching" is kind of an offshoot of that. It's natural that MLM would seek to exploit it.
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  72. I do work so hard on these...thanks so much!
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  73. But did you subscribe? You might miss some more of my opinionated commentary! 😂
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  74. Which image?
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  75. His work is phenomenal and this video could not have been made without it.
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  76. I used to be a lawyer.
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  77. Keep in mind two things about the bullet (it wasn't "magic"). It was in very poor condition when recovered, despite the unfortunate and misleading choice of photo the Warren Commission used of it. The steel from the interior of the bullet was squeezing out of the jacket. You couldn't even get it that way by hitting the bullet with a hammer. Second, that bullet, Oswalds's second shot, struck soft tissue first. The first thing the third shot hit was Kennedy's skull. That's probably why it fragmented when the other didn't.
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  78. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  79. John, thanks for the great question. Actually the "oak platforms" are not an undisputed fact--nothing said to have occurred pre-1849 can be documented in the historical record. However, it is true that individual oak trunks and branches are sometimes found, quite deep down, in excavations on Oak Island. The reason for this is that due to the geology of the island, deep sinkholes often form and can (and have been observed to) swallow entire oak trees. This is why, in the real history of the island, an incident that occurred in 1878 when a sinkhole opened up right under a person plowing their field is important. If there were digs pre-1849 that found wood underground, this is where it came from. It was easy enough, as the treasure legend was fabricated, to take a statement like "we found oak timbers every 10 feet" to "we found a PLATFORM MADE OF oak timbers every 10 feet..." and such. I probably should have addressed this in the videos!
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  80. Yes, I mention that toward the end of the video, in Chapter 12. 😉
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  81. Thanks for your kind words! I have a lot of British friends and many of them have similar stories and deep bitterness over the Thatcher years. American media was generally very kind to her at the time, but the deeper you dig the more ugly her legacy becomes. She was utterly without empathy, and that's the worst thing for a national leader to be missing.
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  82. Who's "we"?
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  83. Isn't she fascinating? I love her story. I wish I'd had time to do more on her.
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  84. It'd have to be marked adults-only as a result of all the cursing I did at the camera.
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  85. Thanks! Glad someone appreciates what I'm trying to do here. :)
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  86. You're right, these theories are deeply racist. In fact, the editor of Erich von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods?" books which popularized the theory was literally a Nazi. He wrote propaganda books for Goebbels before he discovered ancient aliens nonsense.
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  87. No, the Mary Celeste was not lost in "exactly that area." Mary Celeste was discovered floating derelict at 38° 20' N, 17° 15' W. That is over 2600 miles away from the farthest easternmost point that is said to be the Bermuda Triangle (Bermuda is located at 32° 20' N, 64 °43' W. It's not even close).
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  88. RFK Jr. is totally unreliable. None of his claims are worthy of any serious consideration. He's a kook, a crackpot and a conspiracy theorist.
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  89. You want to buy some? 🤣
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  90. I have been asked this question before, and while I don't know the answer in this specific case, people are very often identified by DNA even if their deaths occurred long before the technology was developed. If for example someone kept a lock of her hair as a child in a photo album or something, that can be used. Or a close male relative can be the DNA donor and provide a match with near certainty. The Golden State Killer/Original Night Stalker was identified in this way in 2018. It doesn't even have to be a close relative; the fact that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings's children was determined with near certainty from DNA more than 150 years after his death by testing relatives of his male descendants.
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  91. I couldn't resist!
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  92. Thank you! It may be starting to happen...my video on Iran-Contra suddenly got a lot of views this week, so perhaps the channel is finally going somewhere.
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  93. That's a really good question! I don't know that he had any specific destination in mind, or, if he did, that he had any realistic hope of reaching it. As the police were closing in on him, his actions became more and more impulsive and irrational. I mean, why duck into the Texas Theater (without buying a ticket, which was how he was caught), which had no obvious way out? My best guess is that he expected to be killed or captured almost immediately after the assassination--which is why he gave all but $13 of his money to his wife that morning. He went to the rooming house to get the revolver because it was all he had left to defend himself, but knew he couldn't stay there because the police would eventually track him there. He may have thought that, now that he'd killed the President, there was a 1-in-1000 chance that if he could get away in the near term, Cuba or the USSR might give him asylum, if he could get somewhere where he could get access to Cuban or Soviet officials. Just speculation, but he could have been trying eventually to hop a bus across the border into Mexico and return to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City where he'd attempted unsuccessfully to get entry papers for Cuba back in September. But the hardest thing would have been to get out of Dallas itself in the immediate aftermath of the assassination.
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  94. The reason they would invest in this project is because it's profitable. My understanding is that the Lagina brothers own a heavy construction business and they lease the equipment to the show, paid for by History Channel. Thus, they actually have an incentive not to find anything--actually finding a treasure, which they clearly know does not exist, would mean the end of the expedition. The longer they keep digging without finding anything, and the longer the show stays on the air, the more money they make. It's a scam from start to finish.
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  95. Oh I dunno, maybe the fact that the Dallas police arrested him and charged him with the assassination of the president had something to do with it? People tend to notice things like that especially when they receive wall-to-wall media coverage.
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  96. You clearly didn't watch part 2 of the series where I address that issue. Contrary to popular belief there are no sealed or unclassified files.
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  97. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  98. Actually, Castaneda seems to have met Patricia Partin at UCLA in about 1977 when her then-husband was temporarily a member of his inner circle.
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  99. Long rumored but not proven, at least the 1980 negotiations. These allegations have been investigated several times and the evidence is a bit sketchy.
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  100. Thanks. I see where you're coming from, but I think grift and shady practices are too deeply embedded in Amway's DNA for it ever to be an ethical business. I know that individuals have good intentions, but Amway as a whole is a huge net negative in the world.
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  101. Thanks!
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  102. "Doesn't even have any footnotes." You missed the dozens of citations that popped up on the screen every few minutes, eh? Not watching very closely I see. That's not a good look.
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  103. Yeah, there's lots more particularly to the Contras/Nicaragua story that I could have said, but the thing was just so long and complex as it was that I had to choose a lot of things to leave out.
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  104. I have no plans to quit! 😏 thanks!
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  105. Thanks!
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  106. Some channels use AI for script writing which seems irresponsible to me. I want people to know mine is not one of those.
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  107. Oh yeah, a lot of the tinfoil hatters believe that one. But not a single one of them even knows what Bush was really doing at that point in his life, which shows how little they even care about real facts.
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  108. However much I may disagree with a president's politics or priorities, it doesn't mean I would cheer at the prospect of him being killed by an assassin. That's taking politics too far, I think.
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  109. I realize the class won't appeal to everybody, but thanks!
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  110. I don't care for him, and in any event I don't debate conspiracy theorists, as a rule. They are generally not capable of debate anyway since they don't believe in facts.
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  111. You seem to forget that indigenous peoples have inhabited all parts of the Americas continuously since the end of the Ice Age, and also that there were European settlements in North America, albeit not permanent ones, considerably earlier than Jamestown. The island was not uninhabited; it's been continuously inhabited for centuries, so it's no surprise that a piece of a human bone might be found there, especially one dating from post-Columbian contact. And even if it's not an indigenous person (how can they tell?) you're wrong about Jamestown. It was not the first British settlement in America; it was the first settlement that was continuously inhabited. Numerous other settlements, by Britons, French and Spanish, were established in many parts of maritime North America; those proto-colonies, dating back to the 1500s, all failed for one reason or another. They also traded (and intermixed genetically) frequently with Native populations, so the ethnicity of any human remains you might find there will definitely be diverse. If you think about it logically, these discoveries, even assuming they're genuine (i.e., that a gonzo reality TV show that exists solely to entertain its viewers, not for historical scholarship), are entirely consistent with the hypothesis that nothing particularly special went on at Oak Island--which, given the logical problems with believing in a treasure operation, is the overwhelming front-runner among explanations of the island's history. In short, I continue to remain unimpressed.
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  112. Thanks so much!
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  113. Yes, very good points.
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  114. Whoops, you're right! I should have said CVS, not CVN. I think I said it wrong in the video but I'll change in the description. Thanks for the correction.
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  115. Thank you for noticing the music! My friend George did a great job didn't he? He wrote it specially for this video.
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  116. Thank you so much! I'm happy to have 30K subscribers, it's much better than I had 6 weeks ago. My goal is to teach people history that they might not have sought out before. Comments like yours make me hopeful that I'm doing that. 😉
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  117. I wonder if the families of the five women who died for this abusive cult leader would agree that he gave the world such a profoundly beautiful and important gift. 🤔
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  118. No. Actually the analytics are quite clear that the long form videos always perform better, and people watch them for longer, than shorter ones.
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  119. I wonder if the families of the five women who apparently died for this abusive grifter would agree that he was such a "magnificent cart." 🤔
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  120. That it led to the likely suicides of five women makes his philosophy seem a little less fun to me.
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  121. What do you say to the thousands of people whose mental health has been negatively affected by the behavioral-altering and cultic indoctrination of these tapes? The families ruined? The people pushed into bankruptcy by this scam?
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  122. Bunch of crank nonsense. Woo shit. Velikovsky is, and always was, a total joke.
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  123. Oh yeah, that's some slam dunk proof right there. 😂😂😂
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  124. Thank you so much!
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  125. The official Sean Munger History Video drinking game calls for a sip on every "suffice it to say," a shot for "long story short," and chug your entire beverage for "remember that, it becomes important later."
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  126. I'm getting the reputation of being "Professor Buzzkill!" 😂
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  127. Very well stated. Thank you!
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  128. Thank you!
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  129. Why is Amy Wallace's book "fiction" and incapable of telling us what went on in Castaneda's cult? Castaneda was an abusive and manipulative con artist and his books are fairly egregious examples of cultural appropriation. Hand-waving away what went on and pretending "none of us know" is both factually false, and, I think, does a great disservice to the understanding of what Castaneda did to his followers. Considering five of them apparently died for him, I'm reluctant to give him the benefit of any doubts, quite frankly.
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  130. I'm not sure it would have been different if Gore was in. The agencies weren't sharing information and couldn't put the pieces together. They didn't start acting that way when Bush came into office. And Gore, like Bush, would have still been only 9 months into his administration. Not much time to change institutional processes.
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  131. Not true at all. PNAC was a think tank, not a publication; the document they're famous for did not say anything even close to what you claim it did; and it was largely a lobbying wish list for defense spending in the next budget. There's a chapter on this subject in my class, in fact.
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  132. Thanks so much!
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  133. Yes, I believe I many curious things, like facts, evidence and logic, and I'm stubbornly unpersuaded by such convincing things as lies, innuendos and the feverish rantings of conspiracy theorists. I know I'm very odd, aren't I! 🤣
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  134. No, I think it's very clear that she had no knowledge. Walker, who committed the murders alone, would take care to make sure she had no direct knowledge that could incriminate him. Even if she had suspicions, she would--and did--keep them to herself. Legally she could not be prosecuted for aiding/abetting unless the prosecution could prove that she knew about it. Considering there is no evidence that she did, a DA would not bring that charge without knowing that he could prosecute it to conviction. It's telling that she never admitted even to her own lawyer (who was bound by attorney-client privilege) that she thought Walker did it. Obstruction of justice would not apply unless the defendant knows a crime has been committed--which she stringently denied--and knowingly took part in concealing it.
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  135. I can't even pretend to understand what this is supposed to mean. 😂
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  136. Thanks! It's amazing the degree to which belief in a JFK conspiracy is essentially religious and not rational. Most conspiracy theorists won't even entertain the possibility that it could be anything other than their shibboleths tell them it is. And it definitely is a racket, selling gullible people on books and documentaries that lie to them. Quite sad.
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  137. Thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words and I'm glad there are people who appreciate what I'm trying to do here.
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  138. You're welcome, glad you got something out of it!
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  139. Imagine what I would have said if that film had been directed by Woody Allen! 😂
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  140. Hair, fingernails or residue on clothing left behind, or even a relative. Do you know how DNA tests work?
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  141. Not that it matters to the subject of the video, but I would not have mentioned that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a "false flag" because it wasn't. There were actually two reported attacks that occurred on the USS Maddox in August 1964. One of them was misinterpreted by U.S. Navy personnel and mistakenly reported to the Pentagon as an attack, but the other did, in fact, occur and there is no question that a North Vietnamese torpedo boat fired on the Maddox. In fact, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, in 1998, interviewed the North Vietnamese commander who conducted this attack. The incident was used as political cover by Johnson to escalate the war, but the historical evidence is very clear that it was not a "false flag" in any way.
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  142. How about restating your question, but in English this time? 😂
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  143. Thanks!
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  144. Thanks, glad you're enjoying the channel! No, I don't think there's anything to the idea that QAnon is some kind of deep cover deception. Especially if it came from Alex Jones, who himself is a highly committed QAnon cult believer and also a very dangerous man in his own right.
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  145. Thanks! Yes, it's amazing how much disinformation is out there and how easy it is to assume that it's fact.
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  146. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  147. Great book, it was a major source for this video.
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  148. Bugliosi was one of my personal heroes. I always admired his cool logic, his passion and commitment to justice, and his acumen as a writer. He was also an excellent historian and he wrote the best-ever book on the JFK assassination. I wrote an obituary for him on my blog when he died in 2015. He will be greatly missed. https://seanmunger.com/2015/06/09/a-fine-mind-has-left-us-remembering-vincent-bugliosi-lawyer-historian-and-logician/
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  149. I would love to join Nebula. Maybe with 100K subscribers I can finally get their attention!
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  150. I have to limit at least the first batch of students to 50 so I won't be overwhelmed by questions, etc. and can still respond. There's already been tremendous interest in the course. I will probably offer it again at some point.
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  151. Unfortunately true.
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  152. You need to listen more closely. The Bermuda Triangle is a myth. Flight 19 and the ships and planes lost in the area are undoubtedly real, but they aren't a result of the Bermuda Triangle. Do you see the distinction?
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  153. Given the volume of comments and emails I receive from fans of the show who are furious that I dare to question it, unfortunately a lot of people obviously swallow it uncritically. The irony is these videos aren't even intended to debunk the show, which I've never even seen. The legend has existed long before the show came along, and that's what I'm much more familiar with. I really don't care about the show, but everyone else seems to.
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  154. No, thank you. There is nothing to "clean up."
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  155. I used to be a believer in JFK conspiracies. When I noticed that one prominent conspiracy documentary was saying something on the soundtrack that was flatly contradicted by what was onscreen, I grew suspicious. Investigating the real facts and sources for myself led to the collapse of the whole belief system. Glad you found your way out of it!
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  156. Thanks! Yes, it's amazing that so many people still don't know the facts.
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  157. Thanks!
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  158. So many people have internalized the conspiracy nonsense, and it's so ubiquitous in our popular culture, that many people think you are by definition insane or deluded if you even dare to question that there was a conspiracy. I think you're right about the lack of closure, but even if Oswald had survived and been convicted there would still be people out there claiming he was railroaded.
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  159. While I'm sure there are people who attempt it and get away with it, I read there are actually serious problems trying to claim Amway expenses as a tax deduction including and especially cult tools. Because over 99% of distributors lose money year after year, the IRS sometimes takes the position that distributors do not have a reasonable expectation of profit, and thus any deductions are technically "hobby losses," which are limited. Also, because the tapes and such aren't really training materials on how to sell Amway products but are more in the nature of general motivation, they don't really fit well into a category of a business expense.
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  160. That's the whole appeal of conspiracy right there: secret knowledge that people find empowering. It's an incredibly strong drug.
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  161. Major connections. Watch my video on the Amway tools cult.
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  162. That's a great question. It is my understanding that Castaneda's property went back into the for-profit enterprise that continued to run the Tensegrity workshops long after his death. I suspect it was substantial, given the value of the L.A. compound in which he was living at the time of his death.
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  163. Thanks, good idea!
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  164. Nonsense, it's not nuts at all. How would people know about it if I don't promote it?
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  165. Thanks. It has been my experience that the vast majority of conspiracy believers will never accept or even entertain any true facts that conflict with their beliefs, which for them is like religion. Once in a great while someone breaks out of it, but for most of them, they cannot and will never accept the truth. The conspiracies they believe in are articles of faith for them.
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  166. Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed and learned something!
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  167. The Highway of Death incident is highly controversial. I don't really have the time to rehash the arguments here, but extensive investigation was done--and largely ignored--on this incident in 1991 and 1992. Various reports and documents have been compiled on it. Here is one, with a section that provides considerable evidence that there were, in fact, civilian casualties, and the targeting of the highway violated existing U.S. law and policy. https://web.archive.org/web/20130215074409/http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-index.htm
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  168. Sorry, Zach, I am not impressed. This is another species of the argument, "There's treasure because the TV said so!" I suggest you read this article from Rational Wiki which explains why the random junk that was found is not, in fact, evidence of what believers want to think it is: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Oak_Island_money_pit#What_was_actually_found Any claim presented by the television show is suspect. Consider this: if there was evidence that there was NOT treasure there, do you trust the makers of the show to present it to their audience honestly? I have no intention of watching the show; if its findings are valid they will be independently assessed and proven valid by legitimate scholars, and it is at that point that, if the findings can rebut the logical conclusion that nothing's buried there, they should be assessed as such. Until that happens, it's a bunch of spurious claims by a gonzo reality show on a television network that has proven itself to have little interest in historical fact.
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  169. The 1950s red scare stuff was already well past its sell-by date when Reagan tried to reheat it in the 80s. It now (post-1991) seems pretty clear that Communism was not the existential threat that many Americans perceived it as during the Cold War. Reagan, as did Nixon, McCarthy and Truman before him, had significant political incentives to play up Communist expansion as a live threat. Thus I think his attitude toward Communism had at least as much to do with domestic politics as it did with anything that was really happening behind closed doors in Moscow or Havana.
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  170. No. Landis's claims are hardly worthy of belief. This clown waits 60 years--right when there will be a groundswell of new media about the assassination to profit from--to decide to tell anybody about it? Really? Not the most reliable of witnesses. 😂
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  171. He was indeed! Several commenters have mentioned that.
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  172. I wish people would not choose to believe or disbelieve historical facts based on their entertainment value.
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  173. Where exactly did I claim it was a myth?
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  174. It's a Hero something or other. Hero 777? Sounds like a plane. I've had my head in planes for weeks.
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  175. It's my understanding that Thornley knew Oswald in the 1950s when they were in the Marines together. How could he have known who Oswald was talking to in 1963? Doesn't seem like a reliable source for this claim; in any event it's irrelevant if they knew each other, because Shaw had no involvement in the assassination.
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  176. It is. From 1996!
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  177. At least they didn't name you Doctor.
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  178. That's a good idea!
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  179. Hello!
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  180. I am seriously considering exactly that.
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  181. According to Amy Wallace's book "Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life With Carlos Castaneda," the women often had an intense rivalry with one another for his attention or affections. They did, however, achieve some form of solidarity at the end as they realized he was dying.
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  182. Thank you so much! It's great to know I'm helping you and other hardworking people. My gratitude. 🙏
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  183. I do not debate conspiracy theorists.
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  184. Thanks! I wouldn't call anyone else on YouTube lazy, as getting a viable channel going is a huge amount of work. I don't have any secret, really. I just plan out what I want to do, research it, and make it as good as I can, and I work diligently at a video until it's done. Maybe someday I'll do a video about my process.
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  185. Sounds like you didn't watch the video. What does it matter? Because MLM is a grift and a scam, by definition. IBOs are customers, not business owners. No one is getting 24% back (except the kingpins), because everyone is losing money--the system is designed to fail. The products are overpriced ripoffs. And you've clearly been indoctrinated into a cult. You are not a business owner; Amway can terminate you at any time. Go back and actually watch this time and you may learn something.
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  186. He didn't know! 😉 He got lucky. One of the most momentous coincidences in history.
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  187. Thanks! I really do use Ground News and I think it's great. I couldn't advertise something I don't believe in.
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  188. It's actually not a shadow ban, it just didn't get pushed out into the subscription feed...which I am trying to fix! But thanks!
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  189. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  190. Unfortunately, on any internet-based platform where there's generally no gatekeeping of false information, conspiracy theories usually far outnumber the communication of true facts and supported assertions. Conspiracy theorists are proselytizers who feel the need to spread their evangel everywhere. It's much rarer for people who understand the true nature of the events to feel compelled to try to convince others. In that sense I'm kind of an outlier.
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  191. Perhaps, but I don't think the absence of that notation tells us anything. The log as recovered contained only coordinate and weather notations, with no narrative entries on any aspect of the voyage.
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  192. None of that means that he assassinated Oswald as part of a conspiracy. In fact, as I point out, it is impossible that his murder of Oswald could have been prearranged given what Ruby was doing in the minutes before it.
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  193. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  194. No, they haven't. What they found were the remains of tunnels dug by treasure hunters on the 1862/63 expedition, who tried to get at the "treasure" by boring up from below. The records of the digging of these tunnels in 1863 are proven by primary source evidence, here: http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/DavidSmith_Transcript.shtml. Incidentally these same tunnel entrances were initially discovered in 1897 by a later expedition. Somehow I doubt the TV show would be very eager to admit this.
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  195. Because he had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and was considered a Communist subversive.
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  196. Let me ask you this. The first known treasure dig on this island for which we have definite proof occurred in 1861. That was 158 years ago. Since then the entire island has been dug up and dragged with a fine-toothed comb. No evidence of treasure has ever been found. At what point does it become reasonable to conclude there's no treasure there? Does it make any sense, after 158 years and countless treasure searches, some of which have dug down as deep as 200 feet, to claim "the jury is still out" after all of that, especially considering the total lack of documentary evidence that there was ever anything there? How many more treasure hunts that fail to produce anything are necessary before we can close the book on Oak Island? I'm not sure I understand what sort of standard you want to hold me to.
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  197. The research Bugliosi did in "Reclaiming History" is exhaustive and complete. Every time I've checked a cite of his, it turned out to be absolutely accurate. His logic, which is the basis of the story, is impeccable. I found "Chaos" to be not nearly as well sourced and jumped to a lot of conclusions. Also, it was written by a journalist. Bugliosi did cut corners as a prosecutor, but as a historian, which is where I encounter him, he's excellent.
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  198. Quite impressive, as I'd imagine that only happens once in 1000 years! 😂
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  199. I disagree with pretty much every single thing in this comment, but it's kind of tangential to the main point of the video which it seems you enjoyed--so thanks!
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  200. Again, I disagree with almost everything you've said (with the exception of the obvious fact that Haig was dismissed after the assassination attempt). Reagan did have a list of names; he supplied them to HUAC as an informer within the Screen Actors Guild. But again, all of this is off topic from the video.
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  201. Bizarre. I hope you got paid extra!
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  202. Thanks so much!
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  203. Actually most of those books are stacked there because they need to find new homes...I gave away the bookshelves to a friend but I've been slow on actually moving out the books themselves.
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  204. No, actually it wouldn't. In 1897, more than 120 years ago, a digging expedition claimed to have "found the flood tunnels." What they found were the remnants of tunnels dug by the 1862-63 recovery effort, which had hoped to reach the (nonexistent) treasure site by tunneling at it from below. Every few decades another deluded treasure hunter will discover a remnant of this expedition and trumpet to the world that they are JUST...THIS...CLOSE! to finding the "treasure." And every single time they end up with bupkus. Explain to me, using documentary historical evidence and primary sources, why this claim will be any different than those made for the past 120 years?
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  205. Thanks, but no. I have no obligation, moral or otherwise, to allow the comments section to become a platform for abuse, toxicity or misinformation. Conspiracy theorists have every other corner of the internet to stink up with their noxious nonsense, they don't need this one too.
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  206. That's what I like to hear! Thanks!
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  207. Indeed it was! Great idea.
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  208. Thanks! I do not believe the recent claims of the secret service agent. But even if they're true, it doesn't indicate a conspiracy. Glad you got out of the tinfoil hat camp. Few make it out.
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  209. Thanks Matt! Appreciate it!
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  210. Haha, classic! Translation: "The problem with debunkers is they spoil all our fun. WAAAAAH! MOMMY!" 😂
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  211. Great series, love it. I believe it was based on some of the same source material that I used to write the script for this video.
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  212. You're probably right! Thank you.
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  213. Yes, exactly right. Utermann (von Däniken's editor and collaborator) worked for Goebbels writing propaganda tracts during World War II. The ideas that eventually got packaged into "Chariots of the Gods" were popular on the German far-right during the 1920s. I didn't really have time to go through the whole provenance in this short video, but it's clear that the ideas are tied to Nazi-era race theory.
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  214. It is indeed. Best book ever written on the assassination.
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  215. This is a high compliment! 🙏 Thank you!
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  216. True, so far as I know. My comment about "party switch denial" is meant to thwart the kind of ahistorical stuff you hear from Praeger U. and MAGA type conservatives vomiting up talking points. What you're describing is entirely different than that.
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  217. Thanks! I will endeavor to continue not talking like a maniac. 😏
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  218. Oh, the nutters try to spam their fake factoids and talking points here too, quite often. But I warned them in the video itself that comments will be strictly moderated. They have plenty more places around the internet to stink up with their nonsense, they don't need this one too.
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  219. Thanks so much! This is a valuable endorsement. Love your museum.
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  220. That will be news to the Republican National Convention, which nominated him on May 18, 1860! 😂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Republican_National_Convention
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  221. Patricia Partin is dead. Her bones were found in the desert. What happened to her? Missed her "assemblage point," did she? Oops. Guess she didn't believe hard enough in the teachings of the leader.
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  222. It's not. In fact, he probably didn't even know. My guess is that he was hoping to get out of the city and then decide on a plan from there, but he didn't really expect to get very far.
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  223. In my view, RFK Jr. is not a reliable source on anything, given the bizarre and demonstrably false conspiracy beliefs that he has espoused for years. Considering he was 9 when his uncle was assassinated, I don't see how he could possibly know anything useful. I'm not very interested in his views, to be honest.
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  224. Take the class! 😏
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  225. Yes! Next one will be on the collapse of the European monarchies (and China's) during the World War I era. You heard it here first. 😏
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  226. Even if true, I don't think it's very remarkable. If you dug that deep pretty much anywhere that has been continuously inhabited for hundreds of years, you will find human remains. This happens routinely, for example, in New York and other big cities, so often it rarely makes the news. Contrary to what the legend holds, Oak Island has been inhabited for centuries. Native Americans lived all over this area for thousands of years. European visitation of the area began in the 1600s and permanent homes of European-stock inhabitants were first established there no later than 1750. It would be a wonder if you dug that deep and didn't find bones.
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  227. I couldn't disagree more. The idea that Israel would try to assassinate the leader of their no. 1 ally, chief military supplier and the reason for their continued existence is the stuff of fantasy. It just doesn't make sense. Oswald acted alone, in any event.
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  228. I know, amazing, right?
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  229. I have not seen the show. From what others have told me, the "discoveries" supposedly made are mostly junk. A Templar cross, please...there have been some random bits of metal, British coins, planks and nails found, all of which you would expect to find on any island in maritime Canada. I find the hope that fervent true-believers in the show pin on these discoveries to be bizarre. I thought it was supposed to be the Ark of the Covenant and the lost plays of Shakespeare down there? Fabulous treasure worth forty billion jillion dollars? So the gasping and fawning to the effect of, "WOW! It's a piece of rusty metal that we can pretend has something to do with the Knights Templar!" seems indicative of cognitive dissonance more than anything else.
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  230. Thanks so much!
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  231. Given the chaos of the Reagan administration, he probably was.
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  232. I didn't read it, but I heard it was good.
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  233. They do not. It's nonsense.
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  234. Sorry to be a bit spicy, but if you think a nearly three-hour video is "just an outline," you clearly have no conception of the amount of work that goes into a project like this. You come here and sit in my chair and build a video like this. I'm sure your 5 subscribers will enjoy it.
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  235. There is a theory, apparently taken seriously within the conspiracy community, that the assassination was actually a suicide and JFK hired Oswald to kill him. That this idea has cachet in some quarters shows you just how far gone these people are.
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  236. Because we're awesome! 🤘
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  237. I said 7th graders, not 7 year olds. 😜
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  238. It is a myth that there are significant files still withheld. I dealt with this in part 2 of the video. Conspiracy theorists continue to claim this as if it's true, but it's not. It's a nothingburger.
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  239. Actually, they are not tax deductible. Though undoubtedly many Amway cultists get away with trying to deduct them if they're not audited, the IRS often limits expenditures like this as "hobby losses" (IRC § 183) because MLMs are such a sure money-loser that they've ruled in some cases that MLM activity does not count as a business with a reasonable expectation of profit, and therefore a hobby. They're not that positive either, as a perusal of the toxicity of Dexter Yager makes clear.
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  240. They got a sample of her DNA and tested the human remains against it, and it matched.
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  241. Yup. I mention burek later in the video!
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  242. By popular demand I've abolished the bike horn sound from all future videos.
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  243. His name is Robert Groden. He may speak and write well but he has serious credibility problems (as was demonstrated when he popped up in the O.J. Simpson trial with false claims about photos being altered, a claim he has also made in the Kennedy case). Like most conspiracy theorists he has his own set of mostly fake facts. I don't generally debate with conspiracy theorists because, what's the point? Their beliefs are almost never rooted in facts or evidence, but rather belief and innuendo. I don't really have anything to gain by debating people on this kind of thing. But as for Groden himself, take what he says with a large helping of salt (which is exactly what conspiracy theorists would tell you about my stuff).
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  244. It is, yes! Eagle eyed viewers can spot my various metal shirts. There are three different ones in this video.
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  245. No, I don't think that's correct. Buck and Stephanie lived separately (he had a camp on the island, she lived on the boat), the island was full of chattering birds, the place was weird and non-linear and it's said there were weird tricks with sound that occurred--it was a very unusual place. Easy to see how he did it without her knowledge or participation.
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  246. Yes, conspiracy theorists become very attached to their ideas and it often becomes part of their identity. Most of them simply can't handle the idea that what they believe in might be wrong. But to me, the evidence is paramount.
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  247. Thanks so much!
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  248. I agree with this analysis.
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  249. Yes...after this video was made.
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  250. The motorcade route was not changed the day-of the assassination. There are literally thousands of false claims about the event, like that one. My purpose in addressing the "top three" was to tick off the most prevalent. The myth about the route being changed is not one of the most prevalent.
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  251. You need not worry about my credibility, I have it quite well in hand, thank you. I'd say about 80% (or more) of the criticism directed at me and my work is, in one way or another, objection to my disbelief of particular conspiracy theories. You can't do public-facing history without being shocked by the degree to which conspiracy thinking has essentially poisoned the public's understanding of the past. This is why I think it's important to address. If I wanted to talk solely to academics, why would I need a YouTube channel? I'd just spend my career writing letters to the editors of academic journals. 😜
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  252. Thanks for the comment. In the 4th video in this series, I explain why I use the word "scam" and why I think that, originally back in the 1850s, it probably was a deliberate con--even if the original con men are long dead and there's no one actively "at the controls," so to speak, today. I'd be interested in your thoughts after watching video 4.
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  253. I am distantly related to the famous Mungers (Charlie of finance, George football coach) but not very closely. I'm much happier as a historian and teacher than I ever was as a lawyer.
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  254. Actually, they haven't. What they found were remnants of tunnels dug by the 1862/63 expedition, whose construction was documented (but frequently ignored by treasure believers). No flood tunnels have been found.
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  255. There are much more grounds to support the authenticity of this document than to doubt it. Just think about this logically: why would someone need to falsify evidence that tends to show there was NOT a treasure operation? As we've seen, there are plenty of examples of the opposite, people ginning up fake artifacts to bait would-be investors into financing treasure digs from which the organizers can profit. But as no treasure has been found (and none ever will be), what profit would there be in faking a document that supports the conclusion to which the totality of the evidence already points?
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  256. No. How could they have known what he was going to do? Oswald only came up with the idea of the assassination a few days before he did it, and even then he didn't decide to do it until the day or two days before. No one could have known what he was planning. More proof that he did not conspire with anyone.
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  257. Unfortunately Caro's published work on LBJ does not yet extend up to the period of the Gulf of Tonkin. He's working on the volume(s) about his presidency but they have not been published yet.
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  258. Isn't it? Why is there any basis to believe there was ever treasure there, in the total absence of evidence that there ever was? If there was documentary evidence of something unusual having happened on this island, that would be a different story--we'd be in a situation where evidence is contradictory and we'd have to tread carefully to reach a conclusion. This is not that situation. There is ZERO evidence that treasure was ever buried here. The whole thing is a confidence scam. But few people realize that, mainly because a fact-free TV show tells them what they want to hear and reinforces what they want to believe. Overcoming the awesome power of wishful thinking is a tall order. It takes four videos to address all the crap points that believers in the treasure make. It's a very interesting study on how history can be distorted. I find the whole thing very fascinating, why so many people believe something that so clearly is not true, and is so contrary to even the most basic tenets of logic and reason. This kind of thing has always baffled me.
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  259. Thanks so much! It's good to hear.
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  260. This has not been proven, and in fact several investigations going back to 1991 have found no hard evidence of it; nevertheless I'm aware that many people believe this happened, and some new allegations regarding "October Surprise" just surfaced recently.
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  261. It's extremely well made, no question about that. I think much of its resonance at the time came from the fact that many people were finally questioning the assumptions about the war on drugs for the first time. Now, nearly 25 years later, most of America has realized the WOD is insane. It seems kind of like an argument whose time has passed. Just my thoughts.
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  262. It's coming! 😏
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  263. Which one or two people? And why is there no evidence of who they are or why they did so? And if these others existed, why did Oswald not implicate them when he was in custody? The whole thing is much more logical, and consistent with the evidence, if it is Oswald's sole project.
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  264. Thank you, this is very high praise!
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  265. I did that, actually! Search for a two-part video series on this channel called "Palmyra Curse."
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  266. Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it! Yes, this story would be quite an exciting movie.
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  267. No.
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  268. Unfortunately the conspiracy theorists have turned Oswald into a hero, insisting against literally all the evidence that he did nothing wrong, was a fine upstanding citizen and absolutely innocent of any crime. It boggles the mind.
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  269. Thanks so much!
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  270. "Beach clothes"? You gotta be kidding me. 😂 Do you think I should have rented a tuxedo instead?
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  271. No. More people will watch until the end of a single long video than will watch subsequent shorter videos in a sequence. I have the data to prove it.
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  272. He didn't change all his clothes, basically he put on a jacket. He was still wearing the same shirt. I should have been more precise on that.
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  273. Conspiracy nuts generally know nothing about how the CIA works or even what its mission is. Everything they think they know about it comes from movies and TV.
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  274. You mean, "We must destroy this village in order to save it"?
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  275. If I ever do merch for this channel I will offer a T-shirt with this slogan on it.
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  276. The name of the town was Appomattox Court House. The surrender was signed in a private home.
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  277. The way I understand it, the degree was awarded without any substantial vetting. If they had followed procedure, his academic advisor should have made sure all his documentation, including field notes, was in place before submitting the dissertation to the department head. His committee should also have questioned the background of his research at the defense. For whatever reason that was not done.
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  278. He may be a charming old man, but it doesn't change the fact that his ideas are deeply racist and have done a great deal of violence to the public's understanding of history.
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  279. I sometimes wonder that myself!
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  280. I'm actually working on a video about Watergate.
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  281. I'm sometimes asked about this. Generally I do not debate conspiracy theorists. That's for two reasons. First, I have nothing in particular to gain from it and it's not a good use of my time. Conspiracy theorists tend to be proselytizers--they want to "convert" people to their beliefs. Though it might seem at first like that's what I'm trying to do with my videos, it really isn't. I want the facts to be out there, but I'm not trying to "convert" people to my way of thinking in the way that most conspiracy theorists do. Second, conspiracy theorists don't really debate. The vast majority of what they believe to be true is actually false, so a debate with a conspiracy theorist almost always devolves into an "Is not!' "Is too!" type of argument. As they are usually unable to distinguish falsehoods from real facts, the other thing conspiracy theorists tend to do is what is called the Gish Gallop: they flood the conversation with so many false statements and fake talking points that there's no possible way the person on the other side could weed through them all, and they claim any unrefuted talking point as a "win." Alex Jones is famous for doing this. Sorry to disappoint, but I won't be engaging in any debates, though I understand why people might want to see that.
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  282. No, the video is correct. Lenin did attend St. Petersburg State University and passed final exams on the law faculty there (same discipline as Putin) in 1891.
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  283. That would actually be a pretty short video. Braveheart is virtually total fiction!
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  284. Exactly right. It's why the conspiracy nuts hate this video so much, no more circus!
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  285. The Grahams and Stearns/Walker were the only people on the island on August 30, 1974, the day of the murders. Although several people came and went during that summer, on that particular day, it is verified that they were the only persons in residence. Buck Walker, who acted alone in the murder of Mac and Muff Graham, in fact waited to make his move until everyone else was gone, because he had control of Stephanie Stearns's perceptions but could not count on controlling anyone else's.
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  286. Well, this is an oddly specific request. 😂 Nah, I decline.
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  287. I think the answer is in chapter 10 and DeVos's trial testimony in 1988. They gave up because the tools kingpins were too powerful and the Amway manufacturing corporation owed too much of its revenue stream to their downlines. As with many corporations, they decided that the money was more important to them than doing the right (or legal) thing.
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  288. Possibly, but antisemitism was deeply entrenched in Russian government and society going back centuries. It was sort of the default setting.
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  289. It will "age" quite well, actually. The documents (I'm surprised they found any more to release at all after the last round in 1992) cannot and will not show that there is a conspiracy, though the tinfoil hatters have deluded themselves that they already have. Exactly the same thing will happen as did back in 1992: no evidence of a conspiracy, and the buffs will somehow convince themselves that there is still JUST ONE MORE document, still hidden away someplace, that proves it was a conspiracy, if we could only get THAT one! Goalposts always move with this sort of thing.
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  290. I'll see your revisionist 'historian' and raise you an 'annoying negative commenter.' 😂
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  291. The process of conversion was not immediate or complete, and many people continued to believe in the old gods well into the Christian era.
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  292. It sounds like you were in at the same time and place as my father.
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  293. On my website. These were intended as a preview of the full course.
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  294. Go to www.gardenofmemory.net!
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  295. It's detritus from past digs. Every "treasure" expedition for about the last 150 years, when they give up empty-handed, typically dumps or bulldozes the infrastructure they brought and built (cranes, derricks, shoring etc.) into the holes they've left.
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  296. The first shot was the hardest one because from Oswald's point of view the limo was moving the most relative to him. He also missed his first (and only) shot while he was trying to murder General Walker in April 1963.
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  297. I hope to. I wrote the script for the "gap" episode between Licence to Kill and GoldenEye, but haven't filmed it yet.
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  298. Sounds like I need to check it out! Thanks!
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  299. Wow, that's a great story! Thank you so much for sharing it.
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  300. Hard disagree. They are very closely related. E.g., Link Wray.
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  301. The conspiracy crowd isn't very big on logical thinking, and they'll fall for anything silly so long as they don't have to deal with actual facts!
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  302. I guess I'll take that as a compliment? :D
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  303. The show is not a reliable source. We have no idea what's going on behind the scenes; there's no transparency; there's no attempt to do professional history. And it's on the same network that gave us "Ancient Aliens" and other clear and deliberate falsifications of the truth, which demonstrates that the gate-keeping function on the History Channel is badly broken. If legitimate finds have been made during the Lagina brothers' excavations--and I frankly doubt there have been--examination of those finds will work its way into legitimate historical scholarship. Until then, why waste my time watching what's essentially a game show? Especially six seasons of it, rehashing the same innuendos with no resolution? Life is too short.
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  304. "A History of Urban Feces"? Who the hell would click that as a video title? 😂😂😂
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  305. An interesting idea, but the Zapruder film is not nearly sophisticated enough for such an analysis. It is 8mm with a tiny frame that contains considerably fewer grains of silver than larger films, and it was made to move through a handheld camera at 18 fps. I don't think you would have a fraction of the speed and picture clarity needed to show this kind of thing.
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  306. Good eye! I'm a 12 time Wacken veteran. 🤘
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  307. People have been telling me that for the last 20 years! 😜
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  308. Samuel Ball's "fortune" is a tall tale with no documentary support; not even worth mentioning. Restall turned up nothing of value. If you're interested in the FDR hunt, I suggest you read the account of the chief engineer on that expedition, H.L. Bowdoin, whose experience on the dig convinced him there was no treasure there and never was; he wrote an article about it Collier's magazine, Sept. 1911, digitized here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015016754973 (story begins on page 71). And the 19th century treasure hunters did keep detailed notes. In fact here is a transcription of the notes of the 1862/63 expedition where you can see how detailed they got: http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/DavidSmith_Transcript.shtml
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  309. Thanks! I actually disagree that most conspiracy theorists accept Oswald's involvement. A surprising number of them protest that he was completely innocent, pure as the driven snow and never fired a shot. They get there likely because they want desperately for his "I'm a patsy" statement to be as literally true as possible.
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  310. Both completely false, which you would know if you'd actually watched my video on it. Thanks for playing, though. Goodbye!
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  311. No. The depth and context I go into in these stories is one of the things people say they like the most about my channel. This story needs very deep treatment.
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  312. Thanks so much!
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  313. Thanks! I think I did reach the historical reality though, because the evidence makes abundantly clear that Oswald acted alone.
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  314. Great observations!
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  315. It's an Itoya Xenon pen. Due to arthritis I have to have pens that are thicker than usual and they make the best ones.
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  316. Thank you! Glad you found this informational and enjoyable. I didn't know that about the international student scam, but it doesn't surprise me. Later in his career Britt turned his attention to Asia and was unfortunately very successful in spreading the cult there.
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  317. Amazing, isn't it?
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  318. That sounds awesome!
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  319. Required reading? That's horrifying. Castaneda's con was incredibly pervasive, it seems.
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  320. The Lagina brothers own a heavy equipment company and they charge the History Channel to "charter" it for the show. This is their incentive to keep digging and never find anything of substance.
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  321. It is 50+ video chapters that you can go through at your leisure, no time limit, suggested but not required readings, no homework.
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  322. I see two logical flaws in your analysis. The first is that you elevate possibility to the same level as plausibility. Whether or not it is possible that Captain Kidd or someone else buried treasure here and then was somehow, by some bizarre and convoluted chain of events, prevented from returning for it, is beside the point. The question is not whether such a thing could have happened, but whether the evidence indicates that it did happen in this particular case. This conflation of "could happen" with "did happen" is the same faulty reasoning used, among others, by conspiracy theorists. The second logical flaw is that you seem to presume that the "Curse of Oak Island" TV show is a reliable source that has anything worthwhile to contribute to the subject. Personally I remain unconvinced of this, because no one has ever explained to me why the TV show's assertions should be given any weight at all. This show appears on the same network that told us "ancient aliens" were a thing. To any legitimate historian, that's an insurmountable credibility problem. If any of the show's assertions do prove to be real, they will work their way into legitimate scholarship. If then, and only then, do they deserve to be taken seriously. Until that time, the "Curse of Oak Island" might as well be a Saturday morning cartoon. No real historians credit it; it makes no genuine contribution to the body of scholarship, such as it is, about Oak Island. It's a game show. Its viewers are unwilling contestants in a contest based entirely on deception. I can't fathom why most people don't understand this.
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  323. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  324. Welcome to the infamous clown horn debate, which has been raging in the comments to my videos for over a year now.
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  325. That seems clear. He wasn't really much good as a career criminal. I don't think any criminal organization, from the Mafia to a biker gang, would ever have employed him. He wasn't reliable.
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  326. I've stopped using that sound effect in all videos from this point onward. Several people commented on it.
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  327. It is bullshit, yes. I addressed the Jim Garrison investigation (the basis of Stone's JFK film) in part 2 of my video, at this portion: https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE?t=2619
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  328. This has always been the only treasure that's there!
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  329. Yes, and yes
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  330. I am, yes. Thanks.
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  331. These are pretty weak and insignificant allegations, so they were not worth spending any time on. Even if they were true, what do they prove? Nothing. H.W. Bush wasn't even in politics yet in 1963, he was a private businessman in Texas. If Dulles resented something Kennedy did, that's about the least surprising thing that could ever be revealed. Simply not relevant to the facts of the assassination.
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  332. I do, and here's why. First, the logic Bugliosi employs, particularly regarding pieces of evidence, is unassailable. Most of his main points are corroborated by the analysis of Gerald Posner in his very good book "Case Closed" which also makes the case for Oswald's sole guilt. Second, in researching this series, I did a lot of checking of Bugliosi's statements against primary sources. Every one of the claims he made was exactly where his citations said they were, and they said what he claimed they said. This is a hallmark of a careful historian. When I looked up other writers' claims, their "failure rate" on citations--either the citations being wrong, or them mischaracterizing what the sources said--was far higher than Bugliosi's.
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  333. Thanks, glad you got something out of the video!
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  334. How exactly would you suggest I do it differently?
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  335. It's a great book, yes!
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  336. But you can't change them, and the purpose of this video is not to do so. I learned long ago that arguing with a conspiracy theorist is the most foolish of fool's errands. A conspiracy theorist's mind cannot, and never will, be changed by facts, logic or evidence. This video is not for them, but rather, for people who actually do care about those things.
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  337. Actually, it is! 😏
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  338. I thought I made it perfectly clear that he did have considerable skills. See chapter 11, "Putin's Rolodex," or Chapter 15, "Endgame For Power."
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  339. A big bowl brimming with knowledge 😂
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  340. I thought I said Harriet Beecher Stowe's future husband. C'mon, man! 😂
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  341. Wow! That's amazing when someone has a personal/family connection to something I presented. Fascinating, and thank you so much for sharing this.
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  342. Perhaps, but even if not, I'm glad I made it!
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  343. Agreed!
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  344. It's my job. I'm a historian!
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  345. Good question, but the answer is actually simpler than that: there was a tree in the way that blocked his shot on the other side of the Depository.
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  346. I heard they're rebuilding it, but not in exactly the way it was configured before.
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  347. Not as of yet. I started this series back, 4 years ago, when my channel was extremely tiny and I had about 12 viewers. I had plans to do a long series on the Revolution, but after a few videos got essentially zero response I moved on to other topics. Now that I have some more visibility, I may reboot the series as a course on my website.
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  348. Thanks so much! It's great to be helping and inspiring people.
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  349. That's a great question. I'm not sure anyone knows; I never came across information on this in anything I read. Presumably they would have been used in tank battles against Iraqi forces. Ironic, considering the Reagan administration was also giving significant aid to Iraq in the same period.
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  350. Thanks! In my opinion, the most fun ones are Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Gladiator, and The Meaning of the Titanic.
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  351. Thanks. These questions are exhaustively answered in Vincent Bugliosi's book "Reclaiming History," which contains the most detailed and well-documented biography of Lee Harvey Oswald ever compiled. I highly recommend reading the book, and that specific section, which goes into great detail on his defection to the Soviet Union in 1959. Why has it been said that he was affiliated with a government agency? Because conspiracy theorists desperately want to claim that Oswald was some sort of agent (usually CIA), despite the fact that there's not a shred of evidence he ever was, and considerable evidence to the contrary. No agency of the U.S. government could ever have trusted him to do anything.
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  352. Because Oswald's second shot struck soft tissue first, whereas the third shot struck Kennedy's skull head-on. It makes a huge difference.
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  353. I saw it. Frankly part of me wishes I hadn't, it was such a God awful boring mess of a movie. On the other hand it's perversely enjoyable, like watching an Ed Wood picture.
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  354. Not long enough! There was a lot of stuff I left out.
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  355. Then why is there such overwhelming, incontrovertible and compelling evidence that he did, and that he did it alone?
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  356. I disagree. The only right those states were interested in was the "right" to own slaves. The text of their secession ordinances makes that abundantly clear. They were pro-slavery states, expressly and explicitly fighting for slavery.
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  357. YouTube's auto-checks are taking a long time because this video is so long. Will be made public as soon as they finish.
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  358. Some channels that purport to do history rely on AI for "research" and writing, and therefore get it wrong. I want to make clear that I'm not among them.
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  359. I agree, and I wish more people agreed with you! Unfortunately there are a lot of commenters who descend on every video to nit-pick my pronunciation of everything. I call them the Pronunciation Police. And they don't limit themselves to non-English pronunciations either. One time somebody tried to claim that I mispronounce the word "the"! I mean, who even posts something like that??!?
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  360. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  361. None of the five empires profiled here (Austria-Hungary, Russia, China, Ottoman Empire, Germany) participated extensively in the Atlantic slave trade. The British, French and Spanish empires are not the subject of this video.
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  362. He needed her to get off Palmyra. She knew how to sail a boat. He didn't, really, or at least she was much better at it than he was. Plus, she was useful to him as a witness for the story he wanted to tell the authorities, namely, that the Grahams "went fishing" and never returned.
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  363. Something went wrong with notifications on this one and I can't figure out how to fix it.
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  364. There is no evidence of a "group of disaffected American communists" involved in the assassination. You can't just pick somebody out of a hat with no evidence and try to pin such a thing on them. But you're absolutely right, the "badge man" photo is one of the biggest chunks of nonsense floating in the soup of nonsense served up by conspiracy theorists.
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  365. Not at all. Over the course of making this video I began to suspect that I'd really like him if I had met him in person. He was enormously charming and charismatic. It doesn't change the magnitude of his crimes, and I don't believe he was a good person overall, but in terms of likability he was off the charts.
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  366. I don't know those videos, but if they push a conspiracy narrative, my suspicion is that they are not not engaging with the facts and reliable sources to the degree that they should be. Look at Chapter 34 in segment 2 of my video for some pointers on how to deal with these sorts of assertions.
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  367. I have no control over the ads that appear in this video. In fact, there is a bizarre and well-documented phenomenon of MLMs buying ads specifically to run on anti-MLM content, which I find utterly fascinating.
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  368. A few have asked. It's a prop I use in a game I play with my 7th grade classes when we cover the Visigoth sack of Rome in 410 CE. In the game they have to make some hard decisions which involve a gamble on how many troops the Visigoths have. The tin contains little plastic Risk army tokens, the number of which is revealed at a key moment in the game. Every year it's a different number, and sometimes they win, sometimes they lose!
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  369. Well I'm glad you found it so entertaining. I guarantee you the vast numbers of people who have been driven into bankruptcy and had their lives ruined by this sick, predatory and unethical corporation don't find their experiences entertaining at all.
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  370. You're welcome! Glad you appreciated them. The true facts of the past are always worth preserving.
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  371. A liar and a fraud. A convicted felon. There was not a single shred of evidence to support his ludicrous story, which he made up out of whole cloth for publicity. Not even worth taking seriously.
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  372. For one thing, it's a lot faster! 😂
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  373. That's atrocious, but I have no control over the ads that run. I'm told Amway has advertised on my tools cult video which is positively Kafkaesque.
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  374. Yup. Designed as such from the beginning.
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  375. That book is a bunch of nonsense, and is largely responsible for spreading garbage pseudohistorical myths about these subjects into the popular consciousness. I wish it never existed.
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  376. Yes, and yes.
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  377. Thanks, glad you liked this one! I have not studied the RFK assassination extensively. However, one thing I do know is that RFK Jr. is not a good source on anything and has made many unsupportable claims about a great many things.
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  378. Thank you! That sounds really interesting.
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  379. I agree but it apparently triggers some people. I once got a comment screeching that "You pass off your own experiences as history!!!! How dare you!!!!!" Yeah, I don't get it either.
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  380. I do doubt their existence, and here's why. The "oak platforms" are not a documented fact--nothing said to have occurred pre-1849 can be documented at all in the historical record, and physical remains of the "platforms" have never been found. It's simply part of the origin story, just like the initial discovery by kids, which we know is false. However, it is true that individual oak trunks and branches are sometimes found, quite deep down, in excavations on Oak Island. The reason for this is that due to the geology of the island, deep sinkholes often form and can swallow entire oak trees. This is why, in the real history of the island, an incident that occurred in 1878 when a sinkhole opened up right under a person plowing their field (and an oak tree they were near to) is important. If there were digs pre-1849 that found wood underground, this is where it must have come from. It was easy enough, as the treasure legend was fabricated, to take a statement like "we found oak timbers every 10 feet" to "we found a PLATFORM MADE OF oak timbers every 10 feet..." and such. So, no evidence for the existence of "platforms."
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  381. I used to do a podcast, "Green Screen," which focused on environmental issues in popular movies. We did an episode on WFRR. In fact, some of the research I originally did for that episode wound up in this video. You can find it here: https://greenscreenpod.com/2021/09/01/episode-41-who-framed-roger-rabbit/
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  382. He could not have gotten the gun out of the TSBD as you suggest. He barely had time to escape as it was. If he had fled with the gun it would have been obvious to everyone who saw him that he was the assassin. Recall he didn't even have a car, he had to flee the scene on a bus. How could he have gotten on a Dallas city bus, a block from the assassination scene, carrying a rifle or even a rifle-shaped package, without immediately indicating to everyone that he'd done it? His escape, such as it was, was not planned very well anyway. That he left the gun behind is not only totally consistent with the fact that he'd done it, it was the only possible thing he could have done.
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  383. Yes, he's been mistaken for decades now...whether innocently or deliberately, I can't offer an opinion. But he's clearly wrong.
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  384. Its roaring success in preventing the fall of France to the Germans would seem to speak for itself, wouldn't it! 😜
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  385. There are a number of reasons for this. First, the island has been continuously inhabited by native peoples for thousands of years (the Eurocentric belief that the island was "uninhabited" before 1795 is obviously nonsense). Second, whenever a treasure company pulled up stakes and left after another failed attempt, they would bulldoze all of the debris from the dig to fill in the holes they had dug, some going down more than 200 feet. Most of this was done since 1900. So, it's obvious there are modern structures buried deep down. Third, no other maritime island has been as extensively excavated and churned up as this one has. We have no way of knowing if the finding of human remains that deep is indeed "normal," which I suspect it is given the island's long history of human habitation. Yes, something big happened: a bunch of failed treasure hunts, in the 19th and 20th centuries. But before that, it was just an ordinary island.
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  386. Actually I've never seen the show. These videos are based on books and research about the Oak Island legend before the show began. To my knowledge, the History Channel series has not contributed anything of value to the phenomenon and is mostly a publicity stunt.
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  387. I can categorically state that Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with that one, considering he was dead.
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  388. No, I don't think they do, because we can't prove they ever existed. Mention of them appears only in the unreliable folklore stories of the early (1795-1804) treasure hunts, which we can't even prove happened, much less what they found (if anything). No physical evidence of the platforms has ever been found. What we do know is that when people have dug down on the island, they have often found individual timbers (not engineered platforms) embedded in the earth. As the geologic history of the island shows a long history of natural sinkholes, including one in 1878 that swallowed a whole tree, it's clear that this is how the timbers got there. I don't think there ever were "oak platforms."
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  389. Keep watching this channel in the next two weeks, you'll see 😏
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  390. It was published in the newspaper.
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  391. I disagree very strongly. In fact, one of the reasons why the tools cult is not well understood is because few people take the time to explain it, and its history and origins, in the depth it deserves.
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  392. Thanks so much for noticing! Yes, I work very hard at them. I do earn a little money from them here and there.
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  393. I haven't done a video on it, but it's a good idea. It was created because of the framers surrender on the slavery issue at the constitutional convention.
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  394. That's really fascinating and totally fits what happened on Jan. 6.
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  395. My apologies for not making the video the way you would have made it if you were me. 😜
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  396. I haven't done one yet, but thanks for the suggestion. It's an interesting topic and would make a good video.
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  397. I think the Warren Commission did a good job, generally. I don't even know how it could be possible for an investigation to "unintentionally" get it right? What does that even mean? 10 months is not a "rush to judgment" at all, considering the Dallas police reached exactly the same conclusion in a matter of hours after the assassination. As to whether the timing of Oswald's repatriation is "suspicious," again I have no idea what that even means. It assumes that we know what the "usual" time it takes to repatriate an American who defected to the USSR and then came back, which is a highly unusual occurrence. Considering how rare that was in the early 1960s, any guess on how long it "should have" taken the State Department to repatriate him is nothing more than conjecture. So no, I don't find these questions very probative of anything, since I don't even really understand what they mean or how we can trust the assumptions they seem to be based on.
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  398. I think I did mix up the acronyms on occasion. I'm aware they're separate entities.
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  399. I have no idea why he did that. It makes no sense to me, but then again I'm not a criminal psychopath with a death wish.
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  400. Wow. Tragic story. So sorry you had to go through that.
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  401. I work for R.E.S.P.E.C.T. and our goal is to take the planet for our idol Comrade Aretha. Sock it to me!
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  402. Thanks so much! It's pretty rare that I can pull anyone out of a conspiracy mindset but very gratifying when I can do it. BTW, in real life Lyndon Johnson had two beagles he named Her and Him. Not quite the same as a daschund, but a bit similar!
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  403. I hope you recover soon!
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  404. Thank you! Someone said it finally.
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  405. Happy birthday!
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  406. I am incredibly frustrated. All of this history must be seen in the open. All this talk of what AI can do, but it's obvious it cannot understand context or intention.
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  407. Thanks!
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  408. Thank you so much!
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  409. They're a scourge. I get so many emails from people outraged that I don't believe in their ludicrous paranoid fantasies.
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  410. Thanks so much! These videos are an incredible amount of work and it's nice when someone appreciates that.
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  411. It was a pistol, in fact an FN Model 1910. I too was troubled by Princip referring to it in his testimony as a "revolver," and also artistic depictions showing it as a revolver, so I looked into it. However, they have the actual gun in the Museum of Military History in Vienna and it is clearly a semiautomatic pistol. The FN Model 1910 was issued to the Serbian army, so it makes sense that these were the kinds of weapons supplied to the assassination gang by contacts who were involved with the Serbian Army. I don't know why Princip referred to it as a "revolver." It could be a mistranslation in the document, or, not being a military guy himself, he might have used that word to refer to all handguns. Another commenter who noticed this same issue suggested he might have used the word in the same way that some people used to call all video game consoles "Nintendos" even if they were a different type.
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  412. Thanks so much!
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  413. Actually it did. It is as 100% true today as it was on November 22, 1963, and the facts prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  414. Yes, I know Jeremy. I presented a paper at a conference he organized.
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  415. Inconsequential, because David Ferrie was proven to have had absolutely nothing to do with the assassination. Kennedy was then a junior senator! Making anything out of this is utter nonsense.
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  416. It was a little earlier but yes, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in October 1984.
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  417. If you're referring to the HSCA, I explained that its conclusion initially was that Oswald acted alone and the entire report supported that, until the faulty acoustic claims came along. They changed the conclusion hastily at the last minute, but the acoustic claims were subsequently disproven. The rest of the HSCA report was not refuted and is in fact extremely thorough. So it's still a reliable document if you ignore the acoustics issue...which the members of the HSCA themselves concluded only after the board had been disbanded.
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  418. You'll like my upcoming one on Die Another Day, which is all about 9/11, Bush and Blair.
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  419. No, that's not accurate, it was the Chevy Corvair. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed:_The_Designed-In_Dangers_of_the_American_Automobile The Pinto wasn't even produced until 1971, six years after Nader published the book.
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  420. Trump was misinformed, as usual. There are no sealed documents. No, there was no "MK Ultra Doctor" involved with Jack Ruby. No such thing happened. So I don't cover it. There are many wild and silly assertions made about the assassination, so I can't cover them all. Just watch part 2 and you'll see what I cover.
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  421. Oh, that definitely happened!
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  422. Welcome aboard!
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  423. Absolutely true. You'd be surprised, though, how many believers in the conspiracy pretend as if the very idea that Oswald did it is so out of bounds and preposterous that they literally laugh at it, to the point where some people have accused these videos of being parodies. I think that's performative--trying to maintain the "groupthink" that a conspiracy is the only reasonable conclusion, and signal to the world that they're in that camp.
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  424. They tested it.
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  425. At least they have some shame.
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  426. The Ottoman Empire absolutely is included. I just didn't put one of the sultans on the thumbnail (it was getting crowded, and the available pictures are grainy and not very eye-catching).
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  427. He was generally a good guy, with a few quite serious faults, but what's interesting is that I don't think there's ever been another president with a personality quite like his so in many ways he's one of a kind. I don't think he could make it in politics today.
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  428. Nope! 😂
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  429. It's not an error, they were--but the parties changed their positions significantly in the 20th century, specifically after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was championed by a Democratic President (Lyndon Johnson). The old guard pro-segregation Democrats, who had dominated the party since the 1870s, either became Republicans, particularly after 1968 (see Nixon's "Southern Strategy"), or abandoned their former pro-segregation views (see Robert Byrd and George Wallace). Complicated topic.
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  430. No. Byzantium had no loans from Venice in 1204. Even if they did, how could it possibly have justified what they did? It was a robbery, pure and simple.
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  431. Much appreciated!
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  432. I wondered why I've been wearing this radiation suit around for the last 24 years! 😂
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  433. Connally was not the target.
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  434. I agree!
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  435. Ohhhhhh no, there is a huge difference between a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory. Don't let the semantics fool you.
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  436. Nope. He lived in WV, but was born in Cincinnati.
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  437. No. 77!
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  438. But Ghorbanifar seemed so legit! 😂 How could you not trust such a nice man?
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  439. I don't agree at all, but I understand where you're coming from.
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  440. Thanks so much! 🙏 It's hard to keep on sometimes but I'm doing the best I can!
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  441. No plans to do so. The documents will not show that there was a conspiracy, though the nutters will somehow convince themselves that they do. It's a nothingburger, not worth spending time on.
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  442. I'm afraid it's far from being that simple. I dislike these reductive versions of history because they necessarily omit the context that makes it meaningful.
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  443. Sorry to disappoint you.
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  444. Easy answer: because Clinton believed the alternative to Yeltsin was a Communist (Zhuganov).
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  445. I agree.
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  446. Thank you! I wish that Reiner podcast didn't exist, it's poisoning yet another group of minds with conspiracy nonsense.
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  447. Actually, this is what they found (transcript of the original source). Built entirely by treasure hunters: http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/DavidSmith_Transcript.shtml
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  448. How dare you apply logic and critical thinking to the Kennedy assassination! The nutters will be very angry with you. 😂
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  449. Absolutely false. These are the usual garbage talking points disseminated by MLM cult members, and they were as false 40 years ago as they are today. - "Amway follows rules by the FTC." No, they don't. They violate these rules every single day; the FTC won't enforce their own rules. What percentage of Amway's sales are to parties outside the distribution structure? 10%? Less? - "Dexter Yager died as making the most money in Network Marketing." No, he didn't. He made his money in the tools cult, not from distributorships or selling Amway products. He sold tapes and seminars and rally tickets, and made his money that way, not by selling Amway. - "You can't say people are not successful." Yes, I can, because they aren't. Over 99% of people who join Amway make no money at it. And the less than 1% who do aren't making money from distributorships or selling Amway products. A tiny elite at the very top makes money by selling tapes, seminars and rally tickets to members of the cult. That is neither the success that Amway promises, nor the success that the diamond kingpins themselves falsely lead their downlines to believe will be theirs. They are not successful. Stop scamming people. Get out of Amway and MLM. They don't enhance people's lives, they destroy them.
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  450. 2003 was my favorite Wacken!
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  451. A great band!
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  452. I think you misunderstood me. Von Daniken is a fellow traveler; it was his editor and co-author, Wilhelm Utermann, who was the literal member of the Nazi Party that I was referring to.
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  453. Color me "not impressed."
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  454. Thank you! It's getting some traction.
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  455. There is no evidence to support the contention that the anti-Vietnam War movement was substantially backed by foreign interests. Nixon was wrong about that.
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  456. I think Amway realized that trying to do business with them was like trying to do business with the Mafia. They couldn't trust the tools kingpins and they knew it. They wimped out and decided to cut their potential losses. Turns out that being in business with criminals in an essentially criminal enterprise is generally bad for business!
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  457. Historian Gary Nash did some work on this (his excellent 1991 book "Race and Revolution" compiles some of it). It's a hypothesis, but arguable: GA and SC were the real holdouts but their threats not to join the union may have been mostly bluster. If they'd been challenged more strongly with abolition at the outset, fear may have pushed them into line with the rest of the states and they'd have reluctantly gone along with it.
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  458. The evidence indicates that it was.
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  459. I Kant make up my mind! 😂
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  460. My understanding is that the fire control system, at least as it applied to the hold area, was deliberately switched off because the captain believed it was transmitting bad odors into the passenger areas. Yes, this was a disaster in which fire hoses disintegrated, but not the only such instance. That also happened in the General Slocum disaster of June 1904. I also believe similar conditions were encountered in the Yarmouth Castle disaster of November 1965. It's depressing that this happened over and over again.
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  461. I am learning this from many commenters like you. Fortunately, my next video in the works now is going to be the longest yet!
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  462. Thank you so much!
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  463. No. It's conclusively proven to have been a fake made in the 13th or 14th century. The proof is here: https://escholarship.org/content/qt6x77r7m1/qt6x77r7m1.pdf?t=nus03r
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  464. I researched this. He had a semi auto. The word "revolver" in his testimony may be a mistranslation, or he may have erroneously referred to his gun as a revolver. The photo of his gun is correct so far as I know.
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  465. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  466. Sean Munger noted the error and issued a correction in the video description. -12:19 pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time on Friday, 18 August 2023 😜
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  467. Jeez, you mean the show is STILL in the air? 🤣 I thought it was canceled years ago!
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  468. I believe I mentioned her in my chapter on "clown witnesses." If not, I should have. Totally unreliable, story fabricated.
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  469. Spoken like a true graduate student!
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  470. Yes, he knew someone had taken a shot at him when it happened but the identity of Oswald as the perpetrator wasn't known until later.
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  471. History Channel is dreadful and I hate what they have done to the public's view of what they think history is.
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  472. Thank you, I hope you're right!
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  473. I have no control over that, but maybe watch a few minutes of it...it might not be as bad as you think! 😏
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  474. Because in 1204 there was a lot more to steal. Constantinople was mostly poor by 1453, largely as a result of this.
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  475. Thanks so much! I'm proud of this one.
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  476. Thanks! To be honest I probably shouldn't have said that in this video. I was thinking of mindless MAGA drones who try to misuse historical facts to support a purely modern partisan argument. I did not mean it as "no one is allowed to disagree with me on anything," as some have taken it. I do moderate comments generally on any video that's likely to generate political commentary (which is most of them). My baseline analysis in looking at a comment is, "Does this person care about historical facts?" I'll probably not give this kind of warning in future videos just because it sends the wrong signal. But I do treat this channel as I do my classroom:: good faith questions and discussion welcome, trolling and disruption not tolerated. I'm new at YouTube popularity, so I'm still learning!
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  477. I love cat videos! ❤️
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  478. Well, you can lead a horse to water but can't make them drink.
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  479. The tinfoil hatters do show up on occasion but it's clear virtually none of them have actually watched the videos, or at least not more than a few minutes at the beginning. They usually screech that I'm being paid by the CIA or the "deep state" or I'm delusional. They have nothing productive to say so I usually just leave their little turds in the moderation queue. 😜
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  480. I believe it was!
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  481. You didn't watch the video close enough did you? I made a statement about it at the beginning of chapter 2.
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  482. Yes, the nutters certainly have a fixation with that, don't they.
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  483. No, I said that Oswald acted alone because that is what happened, and the historical evidence clearly indicates that beyond all doubt. I made a series of videos about if on this channel.
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  484. This has been debated frequently in the comments and among historians. We can't know for sure, but Oswald's thinking about the assassination, and whether he truly did or did not sincerely try to get away with what he'd done, seems to have been complicated and self-contradictory. In the final analysis he didn't try very hard to assert his innocence and seems to have accepted that he would be punished for it. His statement "I'm just a patsy" is not only NOT evidence that he didn't do it, in fact it cuts in the opposite direction. I discuss that issue specifically in Part 2 of the video.
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  485. Wow, I sure agree with that! Someone needs to write a biography of Ghorbanifar.
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  486. The mafia was absolutely not behind the assassination. Some yahoo in prison was not behind the assassination. For the reasons I've laid out pretty exhaustively here, it is clear that only one person was behind the assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, who acted alone. All the evidence indicates that. Case closed.
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  487. Of course she was asked that question. I can't even fathom why anyone would claim otherwise, but it goes to show you how brazen conspiracy theorists are in trying to obscure the truth.
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  488. Not all lies, but about 60 to 70%, the August 2 attack did happen. But yes, a terrible waste of human life. Such bad decisions.
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  489. Everybody's a critic! 😂
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  490. Hope you find something you like! Try my analysis of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it's fun.
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  491. Conspiracy theorists don't like to talk about the Walker attempt, and many deny that it happened, because it conflicts with their preferred narrative that Oswald was innocent of everything.
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  492. More than 10,000! I was amazed and not expecting it at all, TBH.
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  493. Actually the slogan was, "He Kept Us Out of War," not "He WILL Keep Us Out of War." It was phrased very carefully in the past tense so Wilson could disavow that it was a promise.
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  494. I'll fix that today, thank you.
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  495. Thanks so much!
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  496. Thanks!
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  497. I did mention it, it's in Chapter 5.
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  498. It's not, actually. The narratives about Nazis looking for religious artifacts (which the Holy Grail, being a literary creation, is not) are pseudohistorical and not accurate.
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  499. I couldn't cover everything. The video is only 3 hours out of a story that should rightfully take 12 hours to tell, so by definition I left 3/4 of it on the cutting room floor.
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  500. The 2012 nonsense was not Biblical, it was a deliberate misinterpretation of the Mayan Long Count calendar.
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  501. It's the tools cult that has no official name and is not incorporated. It's a separate business from Amway. You seem to have missed that fundamental point.
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  502. It's called "On the Way to the West" by Atlantis Music & Sound. I figured if we're in the 1870s we need to hear banjos! The guy I usually use to compose music for my videos, George Kay, is on tour this month so he wasn't available. I get music, and some stock footage, through Storyblocks which is a great service.
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  503. I just did a search and discovered you are the 74th person to have made this exact same joke in the comments. 😂 I didn't realize I had so many Sopranos fans among my viewership.
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  504. It did, quite easily. No question about it.
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  505. I think they are toxic, brain-corroding nonsense.
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  506. No. 84!
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  507. I did see this, and thank you!
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  508. Correct. The second attack did not happen. The first one unquestionably did. This is not comparable to the Gleiwitz attack in any significant way.
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  509. Thanks so much!
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  510. Thanks so much! It's a very odd book, not for everyone, but I hope you find something good in it.
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  511. Sam Houston was dead by 1872. But even as a corpse he probably would have been a better candidate than Greeley.
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  512. I love the music. It was written for me by a good friend of mine, albeit for a different project. I also use clips from it in my Manson Geography video.
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  513. Hmm, I don't know...what is the harm of being ripped off by a racketeering cult that uses mind control techniques and defrauds its own believers? And why do over 99% of people who join Amway lose money? What's the harm in losing money? You tell me.
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  514. He does, all the time. He is Mr. Beat, who has a history channel with many more subscribers than I do: https://www.youtube.com/@iammrbeat
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  515. That film is science fiction and has nothing to do with history.
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  516. Funny you mention this. My next video is going to be on the Persian Gulf War and I'll be covering much of this material.
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  517. I do! "The viewers are my children...I am their father...it takes an emperor to rule an empire!"
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  518. I did two podcasts, "Second Decade" and "Green Screen," but neither have had new episodes in more than a year. You can still find them on iTunes and the major podcatchers, I think.
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  519. I think part of it had to do with timing. The war intervened shortly after Mauretania launched, and by the time they could get back to planning the economics had changed yet again.
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  520. Thanks so much! I'm curious, did you get a notification for this video?
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  521. You're probably right. I'm still learning how to do this. I will get better at it!
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  522. You're right, it's probably way too low. I've heard estimates of 60K.
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  523. It wouldn't be fair to take advantage of the mentally infirm like that.
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  524. Your point being...?
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  525. He was a USMA (West Point) graduate, class of 1846. Later (1851) he was an instructor at VMI.
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  526. You should see the ones I don't let out of moderation!
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  527. ☝️ This!!!! Very much true.
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  528. Unfortunately, the vast majority of conspiracy theories are antisemitic on some level.
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  529. I do videos on all sorts of topics, western history and not. Check out my recent one on the Fourth Crusade, for example.
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  530. A couple of people have brought this up and I still don't have a clue why it matters. Oswald's political thinking was so shallow and rudimentary that he didn't have any deep understanding of the philosophy he thought he was following, much less the theoretical nuances between Marxism and whatever he thought "Communism" was (or was not). Besides, he was a consummate liar; I don't see why anyone should take his word as gospel on this point. He identified as a Communist and wanted to be a hero in the Communist world. It's as plain as that.
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  531. Yes, this is very true. A conspiracy theorist hates nothing so much as self-reflection.
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  532. This is a question that can't be answered adequately in the YouTube comments section. Basically, Hitler drew upon the very long history of European antisemitism going back to the Middle Ages and even beyond. He was also deeply influenced by a conspiracy theory in post-World War I Germany called "the stab in the back," and he learned to deploy antisemitism in politics from Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna in the early 20th century. If you want a deeper answer than this, you can email me at sean@seanmunger.com and I'd be happy to discuss it more fully.
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  533. Thank you, I will avoid that in the future.
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  534. My reaction too when I first saw it! 😂
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  535. I love Mr. Beat! He commented on this video a while back. I would not be doing what I'm doing if he hadn't come first. 🙏 Mr. Betts and Hip Hughes, too!
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  536. I treat my YouTube channel like a classroom. If a commenter is disruptive, abusive, or clearly not interested in real facts, it's not welcome in the classroom. The problem with conspiracy theorists in particular is that they're usually fixated on some pet theory they heard out of context from a particular source (in JFK lore, Mark Lane, David Lifton or Oliver Stone are the common favorites) and disabusing them of their pet favorites is often a project that takes a lot more time and effort than I care to give in the limited space of a YouTube comment. I get dozens, sometimes over 100 comments a day across my channel nowadays. I respond to about 3 a day, if that. The others are usually highly repetitive, rehashing points made a thousand times previously. There's a certain time economy involved here, especially since I spend most of my YouTube time working on new videos rather than relitigating old ones. So the reality of comment discourse is considerably more nuanced than what may appear at first glance. 😏
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  537. What good would gloves have done him? He bought the rifle which was easily traced to him and which people knew he had--he gave away photos of himself holding it to George DeMohrenschildt. He worked on the 6th floor, where everyone could see the shots had come from. He was not accounted for among the TSBD's employees as the police rounded them up. He had moments to escape, so he wouldn't have burned time trying to paw around on the floor for the shell casings. None of that makes any sense. But also, the larger question of why he didn't try harder to get away with it is a valid one--on some level he did want the world to understand that he had killed the President. And there's also an argument that he was an idiot. For example, only months earlier he was hatching a plot to hijack a commercial airliner to take him to Cuba, with his very pregnant wife as the gunman tasked with subduing an entire cabin of passengers with a .38 revolver. So, it's clear he didn't think very hard about these sorts of questions.
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  538. Actually I think you're wrong about that, it is possible to match bullets to specific guns, and was done in this case.
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  539. Actually, contrary to popular belief (and false assertions by conspiracy theorists), there are no significant documents pertaining to the JFK case that remain unreleased. I cover that issue in Part 2 of this series.
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  540. Thank you so much! One correction at 1:35:25, Grant did not pardon the 14 other women who were arrested trying to vote. He pardoned the election inspectors who were prosecuted for allowing Anthony to register and vote. It was local authorities who chose not to prosecute the other women.
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  541. I remember you! Wow, small world. Well, hope you enjoy the videos on this channel. That class was part of my journey here!
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  542. Starship? "We Built This City"? 😜
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  543. I disagree, actually. The products sold by MLM scams are largely irrelevant, since revenue is generated not by selling a product to a customer (which requires a product be good, or at least competitive against other similar products), but by participants themselves buying from themselves and each other. Some Amway-branded products are pretty good. Others are total garbage. It doesn't matter either way.
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  544. I address Dorothy Kilgallen in the second part of the video, in the chapter about "mysterious deaths" here: https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE?t=3182 I begin talking about Kilgallen at about 54 minutes 44 seconds in. It is very clear that Kilgallen knew nothing substantive about the assassination and that her death was not "mysterious" at all.
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  545. It does go very deeply into that.
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  546. Well, this video is about the fall of monarchies, isn't it? 😜
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  547. You obviously didn't have Prof. Griffin for property law. 😂😂
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  548. Thanks so much. There are a lot of people who don't appreciate what I'm trying to do, but it's good to hear that some do!
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  549. Wow. The Pronunciation Police is turning into the Pronunciation Gestapo. Am I going to have to go on the lam to get away from you guys? 😂 Give it a rest why don't you.
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  550. So far as I was able to determine, yes.
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  551. Thanks so much!
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  552. Thanks!
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  553. Thanks, I'm trying to bring my game up!
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  554. He was in jail, he was taken into custody immediately upon his capture at the Texas Theater.
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  555. Thank you! I'm still kind of deciding where to go with this channel...I have thoughts but keep changing my mind, LOL.
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  556. Uh, no...when I say Germany I mean Germany, and when I say Austria I mean Austria. What's hard about this?
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  557. https://seanmunger.com/opt-in-page-origins-of-911
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  558. They were allowed when I was there in 2019. Maybe it's a conspiracy! 🤣
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  559. Absolutely!
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  560. It was not just McNamara's say-so. The North Vietnamese admitted, from the very beginning, that the August 2 attack occurred. Võ Nguyên Giáp, the military hero of North Vietnam, freely admitted to McNamara in their 1995 meeting that it occurred; only the August 4 attack was in dispute. There is a lengthy analysis here: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/skunks-bogies-silent-hounds-flying-fish.html
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  561. That's one of the best ever books about the assassination. Highly recommended. The conspiracy theorists won't touch it with a ten-foot pole and would prefer it did not exist.
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  562. I went to W:O:A 12 times between 2000 and 2014. If you look closely in the background, beneath the Royal typewriter (the one on the shelf above my left shoulder), you'll see my VIP/press pass from Wacken 2011.
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  563. Not accurate at all. He fled the School Book Depository after shooting JFK, took a bus across town, murdered Officer Tippit, and ran into the theater when police closed in on him. Not at all "deciding to take the day off," that's ludicrous.
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  564. Everybody's a critic! 😂
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  565. Thanks so much! Yes, they are a lot of work.
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  566. Thanks!
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  567. If by friends you mean "ad revenue," you might be on to something. 😜
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  568. No AI. I think I know the image you're reacting to, it threw me too. Real painting from the 1830s. What Jackson is wearing is a set of bifocals that had differing lenses that folded back against the frame and could be swung into place when needed. I was so fascinated by the image, and so unusual for a painting of Jackson, that I just had to use it.
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  569. A prediction has to make sense in order for it to be evaluated as a prophecy, right? You have to understand what's being predicted. This is why I said he didn't predict anything, he just spouted meaningless gibberish.
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  570. Thanks, I hope this is what you were looking for!
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  571. It was a semiautomatic pistol and the photo is accurate. There have been several debates in the comments to this video as to why Princip said "revolver," including the possibility either of mistranslation or that word choices in different European languages may translate to "revolver" in English when the actual word is not intended to specify the exact type of gun. But the photo is accurate, that is the gun he used.
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  572. The term "cottage" was defined by rich people, usually to describe vacation houses that were clearly mansions by most people's conception.
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  573. Thanks so much for signing up!
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  574. It is a replica Viking sword based on an original that I think dates from the early 11th century. The blade isn't sharpened.
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  575. Agreed completely. Even O.J. Simpson, a double murderer, couldn't resist writing a tell all book explaining how he killed his wife and her friend.
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  576. I have not, and I have no plans to hear it. Life is too short to waste it by listening to Hollywood celebs spout conspiracy nonsense.
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  577. My apologies for not having been born in Poland. I'll see what I can do to correct that before making my next video. 😜
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  578. Thanks!
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  579. Watch my video on the Amway tools cult. I go into great depth on the connection between MLM pyramid scams and the political/religious right.
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  580. Unfortunately it's because most people won't look at the facts, or don't believe they are facts. Conspiracy theories satisfy an instinctive need for "secret knowledge" that people find empowering.
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  581. Chapter 9: The Convention.
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  582. Correct; I believe I misspoke a few times in the video. NSC and NSA are not interchangeable.
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  583. Thanks! I don't think so. Their main purpose was to oppose Grant and push civil service reform, a position that became increasingly mainstream in the majority of the Republican party. In any event they wouldn't have risked splitting the party in 1876.
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  584. I would, and so would most historians, and Spaniards in general for that matter. He was very clearly a fascist.
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  585. It's a monetization thing. YT won't run ads on videos with certain kinds of imagery, and they have an automatic/computerized filter to find the imagery. History YouTubers sometimes have problems with it especially when doing subjects related to the Civil War or Nazi Germany and World War II, because Confederate flags and swastikas, in any context, tend to trigger the filter. The appeals process is a nightmare so it's easier just to blur it or take it out.
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  586. Most modern presidents have a replica Oval Office at their presidential library. For instance there's one at Clinton's and Bush II's. I doubt Trump will build a library as he barely knows how to read, and because Obama is building one and he'll want to do the opposite of him out of spite.
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  587. It's filled with little plastic army tokens from the Risk board game. I use it as a prop in a game we play in the 7th grade class I teach when we get to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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  588. It's Google Earth Studio, a tool designed specifically for video makers.
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  589. No. 80, and second one today!
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  590. There are over 200 period photographs, maps and other images in this video including all the major personalities discussed. These images took hundreds of hours to compile. How could you possibly have missed them?
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  591. Not really, I just chose my name as my handle. I suppose I could change it, but I get enough angry messages telling me my doctorate is worthless and the whole education system must be corrupt because a guy with a Ph.D. doesn't believe in JFK assassination conspiracy theories, why sign up for more. 😂
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  592. Franklin child abuse ring was debunked literally decades ago, when it first appeared in 1989.
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  593. It's not something that's all contained on a neat little web page so if that's what you're looking for you're SOL. A grand jury was empaneled in 1990 and ruled that the allegations were a hoax; the chief source of the allegations was later convicted of perjury. New York Times reported here: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/27/us/omaha-tales-of-sexual-abuse-ruled-false.html
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  594. Highly unlikely, as pirates could not command the manpower or resources needed to build the kind of infrastructure that believers in "treasure" insist was constructed there. In any event there's no historical evidence to support this theory.
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  595. A number of historians such as Angus Konstam, Frank Sherry etc. have exhaustively researched the history of piracy and they have not found any evidence to substantiate the "tropes" we see in pirate stories (like large-scale buried treasure operations). Piracy never worked that way in real life. If anything of any substance was ever buried on this island, pirates are among the least likely candidates to have done it. The historical record just doesn't support the inferences you're making.
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  596. My apologies for not being a native-born Polish speaker. I'll try my hardest to become fluent in Polish before I make my next video.
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  597. That would be interesting!
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  598. Take the class and find out.
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  599. The explanation is quite simple. Kennedy was wearing a back brace that aligned his torso in an unusual way.
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  600. They don't like me too much, I'm afraid! 😂
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  601. Nonsense! 😂 That's a very silly conspiracy theory that ignores literally all of the evidence about this event.
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  602. Sorry, whatever critique you may be trying to make here is mangled and frankly incomprehensible to me. I stand by everything in this video. We're done here.
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  603. Because depriving Iraq of that sliver of coastal land would weaken them economically to a huge degree, considering it was Iraq's only possible outlet to get its main export, petroleum, to market.
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  604. For my next video I'll be sure to write the script in pure Shakepearean verse. Will that be satisfactory? 😂
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  605. "Hark, what aid through yonder window breaks? It is Lend-Lease, and Roosevelt is the sun!"
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  606. Only very distantly.
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  607. Hard, hard, HARD disagree on all points (except New York riots).
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  608. Thank you so much for your kind words! 🙏
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  609. Elmer Gantry is a great film, and while watching it (recently) I recognized many of the tactics of MLM fraudsters.
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  610. Brig Hart didn't come on the scene until the 1990s. This story ends in 1988. And he didn't "bring them down" at all, it's more like he managed to break into the circle of kingpins who had tried to exclude him. Anyway, not the story I was seeking to tell here.
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  611. Yup. Got to get deep into the weeds to tell these kinds of stories fully.
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  612. Thank you! High praise from someone with intimate knowledge of the area.
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  613. It's "Democratic" party, not "Democrat party." Get the name right, if nothing else.
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  614. Not at all. Though it is true I'm generally more of a dog person. (I'm subscribed to Girl With The Dogs).
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  615. Nearer My God to Thee.
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  616. No. If I responded to every sensationalist bit of conspiracy delusion out there, I'd do nothing else with my life, and life is too short.
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  617. Sorry to disappoint, Indian history is not my strong suit.
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  618. Nonsense. Not even worth the time to address.
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  619. You're probably right that I should have dealt with it more. I've gotten more complaints from conspiracy theorists on the Secret Service nonsense than any other single theory. It's just hard for me to take such a dumb theory seriously enough even to debunk it. This theory is pretty much the last refuge of people who realize deep down that all the evidence points to Oswald alone, but they can't quite break up with some form of conspiracy theory so they sell themselves on this one. Anyway, the video is done and I have no plans to revisit the subject, so, inadequate though my treatment of it probably is, it's what I got.
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  620. There was a discussion about this farther down in the comments. Near as we can tell, the term "revolver" seems to have been used in Bosnia as referring to any kind of gun. Or it could have been a translation issue.
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  621. I think it's part of our modern political problems, but not the main or only cause. Populism and anti-immigrant bigotry have had a long tradition in our history. Trump is a symptom of our dysfunction, but not an architect of it.
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  622. Ugh, no. He'd never ask, as I'm much too rational for him, and even if he did I'd never accept. As a rule I do not debate conspiracy theorists.
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  623. I did. It's in part 2 of the video, go to 43:39 of that one (https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE). He did not create the conspiracy theory. In fact, as you'll see, he did considerable damage to the whole conspiracy movement and was completely discredited--even by fellow conspiracy theorists--until the publication of his ridiculous book.
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  624. There are no sealed files. I covered this issue in part 2 of the video series.
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  625. Bugliosi did some shady things and I think the allegations are well founded...with respect to the Manson case. Do I think his credibility is damaged enough to cast doubt on the ultimate conclusion in the JFK case? No, and the reason I say so is because the evidence he presents (which can be and has been independently verified), and the logic and reasoning he engages in, remains sound. I'm actually doing a video on Manson, coming soon, and am not using Bugliosi as a significant source due to the questions raised about his impact on that case. (I'm not using O'Neil as a significant source either, for the record).
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  626. Thank you! I appreciate that
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  627. I write a lot on those typewriters. The newer one is a 1948 Remington Rand Deluxe Model 5, the other is a Royal from 1935. I like them because the lack of easy features like backspace, cut-and-paste, auto-correct, or the other things you can do on a computer means that you have to think more clearly about what you're going to put on the page. Hence, the material I write on a typewriter is generally better than what I write on a computer.
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  628. I think there are a lot of similarities, actually.
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  629. Awesome!
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  630. I discuss it briefly at the end of my Persian Gulf War video.
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  631. Thanks so much! There's a lot here, hope you enjoy.
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  632. Yes, I reference that in this video. It's a great story, but it did not happen in real life.
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  633. I think they did find that one the greatest encroachment on their sovereignty. It was also pretty impractical. While the Serbians tried their hardest to avoid a war, they may also have felt that blindly accepting all the demands would anger their own people and erode their power.
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  634. Thanks my friend!
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  635. Thanks so much! They do take a long time and a lot of work. But I'm still going.
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  636. Not true. None of the five families profiled in this video--Romanovs, Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs, Aisin-Gioros or Osmanlis--are among the wealthiest or most powerful today. And none of these families were prominent before the Osmanlis arose in the 14th century. So it's clearly not accurate to say they've been controlling the world for thousands of years. Just not true.
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  637. It's possible, but I very much doubt it (at least the aspect that they could be alive living under assumed names). There were four of them besides Partin, and more than 25 years later chances are high that if they were all alive at least one of them would have snapped out of the spell in all that time and come forward. Unfortunately I think they all probably suffered the same fate as Partin.
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  638. Thanks so much! Glad you're enjoying these. What I meant with my "party switch" comments is considerably less expansive than it seems the way many people have interpreted my intent. You're absolutely correct that the Democratic Party is, historically, the party of slavery and white supremacy. I also never said, or intended to assert, that individual politicians switched parties; you correctly point out that very few did. What I was referring to is that it is incorrect, and a form of historical denialism, to assert that today's 21st century Democratic Party has not changed since the 1860s-1870s and still retains exactly the same positions regarding race relations today as it did then. This is, bizarre as it sounds, a talking point on the far right and I've encountered various disingenuous people who claim this is true. With regard to post-1968 Republicans, the very existence of Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" proves that a shift in party ideology was cemented about that time. It has nothing to do with individual politicians changing their party affiliations, though a lot of people have assumed, erroneously, that's what I meant. In retrospect I probably shouldn't have said it at all in this video and just quietly handled the trollish comments in the moderation queue, which is what I've always done generally without complaint (except for the trolls themselves, of course).
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  639. 91 was evidently a record high temperature at that time. It was reported in the New York Times and I even showed the article on screen. You can look it up yourself; go to timesmachine.nytimes.com and look on the front page for August 2, 1939. I don't make this stuff up.
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  640. I have read much less about that case than this one. While I'm not as well versed enough in it to be sure of a conclusion, it seems like conspiracy is far more likely in that case than it is in JFK's.
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  641. No. 81!
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  642. Thank you so much!
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  643. Thanks! Music credits are listed at the end of the video.
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  644. LGBTQ communities have existed since the beginning of time. There definitely was an LGBTQ community in 1967, and long before.
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  645. I disagree. You have only to look at what happened to Twitter/X to see what happens when content moderation goes away. The worst and least valuable voices take over and drown out the rest. Conspiracy theorists have the whole rest of the internet to stink up with their ridiculous crap. They don't need to do it here. I'm not infringing anyone's free speech because I'm not the state. They have plenty of other places to speak. I'm not obligated to give anyone a platform here.
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  646. Why waste time on it? It's irrelevant, since Ferrie had nothing to do with the assassination. I couldn't cover every silly allegation.
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  647. Yes, I noted the CVN/CVS mistake in the description. Thanks.
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  648. Makes the "Oswald never fired a shot" people look pretty pathetic, doesn't it?
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  649. They are bifocals. In the early 19th century bifocals weren't always done with split lenses like they do now. In some cases a second set of lenses would be put on the frame of glasses, which could be swung into place when needed.
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  650. As I demonstrate in the video, not only was 5.6 seconds ample time for Oswald to fire three shots, he didn't need that much time. Nevertheless the film does not in fact establish that as the time frame. In reality Oswald probably had about 8 seconds, possibly even more.
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  651. I generally find it convincing. I wish it had come out in time for me to include it in this video, which was complete in early February before this new evidence (or at least the reporting on it) came to light.
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  652. Could be! Though finding hard evidence to support it is virtually impossible.
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  653. I'm an old metalhead going way back. That would be an interesting video!
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  654. This makes a lot of sense. I need to get that book!
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  655. Thanks! Some people have disputed that pronunciation, but I know it's correct as it was told to me by someone from there, a local.
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  656. Those claims were never credible to begin with, so there is nothing to debunk, really. There was no bullet hole in the windshield.
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  657. What other conclusion could I possibly come to, given the overwhelming evidence of Oswald's sole guilt, and the flimsiness of the "evidence" (usually fake, distorted or irrelevant) of some sort of conspiracy? Nevertheless, glad you're enjoying the videos.
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  658. If you disappeared and had insurance on your life I guarantee someone would try to claim it eventually.
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  659. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  660. Absolutely not. The definition of an unreliable source. I wouldn't trust Oliver North if he told me there are cowboys in Texas! 😂
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  661. You can contact me at sean@seanmunger.com. I don't know if finishing someone else's autobiography really falls in the realm of what I do, but I might be able to give you some pointers on where you could donate it so it would be archived and of possible use to historians.
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  662. Awesome! If you send me a picture of the finished retaining wall, I'll feature it in a post.
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  663. He was one of the tools kingpins, but did not really become prominent in his own right until 1989 (after the events discussed here).
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  664. This is the kind of comment I love to see. Thank you so much!
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  665. Thanks so much! A new video is coming soon.
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  666. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  667. Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the kind of comment I love! Thank you so much for sharing your memories.
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  668. He did not predict any of that, actually.
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  669. Watch my main video on the Persian Gulf War for discussion of the issue in detail. Glaspie did not give a "green light" (or even an "amber" one) to invasion. Period.
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  670. Thanks so much, glad you're getting a boost!
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  671. I don't think you'll be disappointed! 🤣
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  672. True. Lee in fact met Fleming on several occasions.
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  673. Color me unimpressed. The Secret Service shooting theory is the brainchild of Howard Donahue, an armchair researcher who became obsessed with finding an assassin, any assassin, other than Oswald. When he (Donahue) contacted George Hickey to get his comment on this theory, Hickey found it so ridiculous and so unworthy of taking seriously that he refused to cooperate. If this is what had happened, wouldn't Hickey himself have confirmed it? Furthermore, Hickey testified, for years, on multiple occasions, that he did not fire the AR-15, and no one else in the Secret Service detail saw or heard him do so. As for the dent on the shell found in the TSBD, there was testimony at the HSCA that it obviously occurred when the shell was ejected from the gun--after Oswald fired the round. Furthermore, for this cockamamie theory to work, Donahue/Menninger have to play the greatest hits of the conspiracy nuts about the autopsy being botched, Warren Commission corrupt, etc., for which we know there is zero evidence, and he also relies on Jean Hill, a clown witness who made up her story years after the assassination. This is a nonsense theory. Really. It is. I won't spend any more time on it.
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  674. Many Amway people have been caught in that kind of thing. It's another layer of victimization.
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  675. "Kid"? 😂 I guess I should be flattered that you think I look so young.
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  676. Thanks for the sub!
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  677. Thanks! George Kay is the artist who did the music for this video (which also appears in my Amway Tools Cult video). He wrote these tracks specifically for me, so they probably aren't available, but he is on Spotify and some other stuff he's written is there. The title of his latest album is Submarine Solemnity.
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  678. I love it.
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  679. Door Dash? 😂
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  680. Unfortunately no. The genealogy websites (Ancestry dot com, etc.) or the family history library in Salt Lake City often have passenger ship records, but because Ancona did not dock in the United States and its passengers did not enter the country, they may not have it for that voyage. It might be worth a look there or an email to the family history library to check and see but I wouldn't hold your breath. It's also possible that the State Department has a record, though I doubt it is digitized. Again, perhaps worth a browse on the NARA website or an email to an archivist there.
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  681. I believe there were 10 hostages in captivity at the time the deals began in summer 1985; not all were Americans. The number kept fluctuating because they would abduct people and sometimes release them for reasons unrelated to the deals. I explained what eventually happened to the hostages in the second to last chapter of the video. None are being held today.
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  682. Oh, there definitely is. I have another video on my channel (two, actually) explaining how we know that Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK. When they see that, Amway cultists have been known to go ballistic and cite it as a reason why anything I say about multilevel marketing must be wrong, because I don't believe in conspiracy theories and that absolutely disqualifies me to say anything about anything. There are other examples too, but it's clear that MLM cults prey heavily on people inclined toward conspiratorial thinking.
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  683. I do. I got roped into going to a CutCo interview in 1991.
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  684. Data's creator was Dr. Noonian Soong, not Jung. 😉
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  685. Did you ever see Philadelphia in the mid-1980s? Urgh. Talk about hell.
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  686. Untrue.
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  687. They bought political protection through campaign contributions, that's why.
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  688. That's actually not true (I covered it in the Fall of Monarchies video). The car did have a reverse gear, it just took a long time to engage it during which time the car was stationary.
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  689. Thank you so much! Yes, I teach middle schoolers...history is alive somewhere in this country! 😉
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  690. You didn't address a single point in my reply, which doesn't surprise me, as MLM salespeople are masters of diversion and obfuscation. - Does Amway follow FTC rules? (They do not). - How did Dexter Yager make his money? (From the tools cult, not from selling distributorships). - How many people in MLMs lose money? (99%) - From where do the 1% of those who do make money in Amway make it? (From the tools cult). Also, your reply clearly indicates that you did not watch my video (or at least not to the end), because I clearly explain why the government allows MLMs to exist and thrive: because government officials are largely financed by these companies through campaign donations and political influence.
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  691. Still didn't answer the questions. Amway violates the FTC rules constantly (especially the 10%) rule. How many people in Amway lose money? From where do the 1% of those who make money in Amway make it? Did Dexter Yager earn his money from the sale of Amway products and distributor bonuses, or from selling books and tapes to distributors? This is your last chance to answer. If your next reply doesn't answer these questions specifically, and if you try to dodge them again, it will be deleted. For others reading this: if you see no more replies below this one it's because Mr. Entrepreneur was unable to address the points fairly and honestly.
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  692. Thanks! More to come!
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  693. I wouldn't say I have any special rules in handling books. Some of mine are pretty worn! Actually I'm trying to reduce my book collection, a lot of it has been superseded by other stuff. I just try to be as gentle with them as I can while still putting them to hard use.
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  694. I was born in Los Angeles. 😉
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  695. Commercial real estate.
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  696. It varies depending on the subject but not quite that long! Usually I pick topics that I've studied and read about before. I first recall reading about Iran-Contra in the 90s and early 2000s so I had a basic understanding. From the time of starting to write a video to uploading it, it's often about a month or so. I think this one took about 6 weeks.
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  697. Number 97
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  698. No. But years ago, when I was doing research at the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center (which is named for him), the security guards there assumed that I was!
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  699. The very last one, Constantine XI.
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  700. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  701. That occurred after this video was made.
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  702. Agreed! In the 90s (and I suspect well before) Amway counseled its distributors to target people in public places who had small kids, with the line, "Wow, what a cute baby!" Can't imagine anything more creepy.
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  703. I don't. As you can tell from the length of this video, brevity is not my strong suit. 😂
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  704. I teach 7th graders, I know how it works. 😂
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  705. You're right, brain fart on my part. Matt Barlow was the singer wasn't he?
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  706. That is a fascinating observation!
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  707. Sounds like that could be the origin of the Mardi Gras King Cake tradition.
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  708. Thanks for sharing your story! I have heard many like this. The pictures of boats and Cadillacs taped to refrigerators is a bizarre detail in so many Amway stories.
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  709. You're welcome!
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  710. I've already gotten it...and people wonder why the comments are moderated! 🤣
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  711. "No one has explained": false. In fact I explained that exact issue in another comment. It has been explained many, many, many times. "Pure coincidence": that was explained, by me, in this video. Seems like you didn't watch it all?
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  712. Realistically, probably not. I'd love to if I had the time but it's very labor-intensive.
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  713. Very well, in fact.
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  714. It wasn't. 😜
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  715. I'd love to do it, but probably won't because I would essentially be working for free. There's no way I could ever get a video like that monetized, given all the problems I had with this one.
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  716. I haven't heard it, and have no plans to do so. Aside from the Loomis claim which is singularly unimpressive (and likely fake anyway), from what I understand it's just a boring rehash of stale conspiracy claims that were debunked long ago. Another Hollywood director, like Oliver Stone, trying to cash in on conspiracy theories, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary no less.
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  717. Check out my video on Franklin Pierce!
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  718. Not my choice. YouTube's rules.
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  719. The lessors of the WTC site took a huge insurance loss. So much for that theory!
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  720. Well, I'm a historian. I do videos about the past, not current events. So I'm not making videos about today, am I? 😜
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  721. I think it's quite fair, actually. Republican politicians knew Amway was a scam from the word go, and a fair number of them knew about the tools scam long before the Hart case. Stephen Whitfield wrote his exposé of it in 1985.
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  722. Who's Derek? 😂
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  723. In addition to "remember that, it becomes important later," I think it would be "suffice it to say," and some viewers would probably argue that "mishigas" is a trigger. I should put them on T-shirts.
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  724. That was not true in 1872.
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  725. I have a policy never to debate conspiracy theorists. 🤣
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  726. Columbo is awesome! I'd start at the very beginning, the pilot film (I think it's called "A Prescription For Murder"), or the first regular episode from 1971, which was directed by Steven Spielberg.
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  727. It's a replica Viking sword. I've had it for over 20 years and I don't even recall where I got it, except I noticed once in an album insert that a black metal musician (the guy from Samael, perhaps?) was posing with the exact same model.
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  728. No, I think that's totally separate.
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  729. Stick with me, I hope you'll find more that you like!
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  730. Thanks!
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  731. Dealt with in Part 2. Nothing at all "mysterious" about her death, and she clearly knew nothing substantive about the assassination anyway.
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  732. I even did a side video to this one in which I discussed the sources I used (and didn't use).
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  733. I love Mr. Beat! This channel probably wouldn't exist without him having come first. Mr. Betts and Hip Hughes, too.
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  734. I am not. It was considered part of the HPM back in the 1970s, but no one really thinks of it like that now.
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  735. No, it's always just been under my own name.
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  736. I always try to live dangerously. 😜
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  737. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  738. It is!
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  739. I've got a list of sources I used for this video in the description. I believe the books can be found online to borrow for free (with an account) at archive.org.
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  740. Thanks!
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  741. I love dog videos! I watch Girl With The Dogs nearly every day. By now though there are tropes I have to do in every video. I have to say "mishigas" at least once, use the clown horn sound effect, and tell the detractors to go watch cat videos. It's kind of set now!
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  742. It's about time LOL! I've been at this for five years now.
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  743. Sorry, I can't answer that...I am not that well versed in art history.
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  744. The video you'll want to see is titled "The July Crisis," and if all goes well it will be out at the end of this week!
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  745. Both the April Glapsie matter and the Highway of Death incident are covered here. Guess you went out for popcorn at those moments, or were you just not watching very closely?
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  746. Some YouTubers (myself included) often automatically hold comments that include links. I wouldn't take it personally, and thank you for trying to boost me!
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  747. Thanks so much! Indeed in the second to last chapter of the upcoming Fall of Monarchies video I'll show Terezin briefly (the outside, anyway). Princip had a hard life in prison.
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  748. You're correct about the petrol companies, but they were founded by Westerners specifically to exploit resources they did not own. Good idea on the Korean War!
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  749. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  750. You're welcome!
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  751. It probably should be called the Arab Gulf, but if I made a video called the "Arab Gulf War Explained," not many people would get it.
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  752. These two, more than a month.
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  753. No. The Google Earth locations are an important part of the story and a key way that I teach, so I will continue using them. But thanks for reaching out.
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  754. Luxury condos that have evidently been frozen in a half-finished state of construction for several years, interrupted (I believe) by the pandemic. I tried to research it but didn't find anything definitive.
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  755. I have no idea, but given how wrong the show has been in the past, such as the "Roman sword" they found that turned out to be a toy manufactured in the 1970s, I have very little confidence in any discoveries they claim to have made. But even if genuine, the bone discoveries require no fanciful theories about treasure digs to explain given the great genetic diversity found in remains of early modern humans all over the world.
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  756. Very little has been held back, as I explained in this video. The idea that significant information is being hidden by the federal government is false. But, even if it wasn't, conspiracy theorists would still point to this as "evidence" of a cover-up. There's simply no satisfying them.
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  757. I'm honored to be the one YouTuber you broke your rule for! 🙏 Thank you so much!
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  758. Every other decade or so there's another flap about "JFK documents." The last one was in 1992. Frankly I'm surprised that the National Archives have found anything additional to release--I thought the last round pretty much cleaned out everything they had. But I guarantee that, whatever these documents are, they will not show a conspiracy, nor anything close. My guess is they're boring reports of FBI surveillance on Oswald after he defected to the USSR and came back, or they are pieces of mundane business that happen to mention Oswald's name. The opinion of somebody on the task force won't change anything about them. But conspiracy nutters are so infected with wishful thinking that they believe the documents (which have not even been released yet) have somehow ALREADY proven "a conspiracy!" So they'll shout from the rooftops that this is the final proof, when in fact it's nothing of the kind. I'm frankly tired of the nutters bothering me about it, because it's a nothingburger, just like the 1992 document release was.
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  759. The Ollie cut? Ugh, so cringe! 😂
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  760. I would. The American Revolution really was like a civil war in many respects. Alan Taylor wrote a great book about the War of 1812 which took that tack. A very insightful way to see it
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  761. It is. Great book.
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  762. I can't answer that, because Tartaria did not exist.
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  763. And I started doing it before hbomberguy made it popular!
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  764. Wait til I do my video on the start of World War I. That will take at least 10 minutes to explain how complicated that one is! 😂
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  765. Thanks so much!
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  766. This one took about five weeks.
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  767. Perhaps. Perhaps not. That is one interpretation, I suppose.
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  768. The soap is fine. The cult and the scam are not.
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  769. I think there are some (a few) legitimate people in it who are honest and mean well. But it's an extremely easy industry for a charlatan or a huckster to make a quick buck, so they tend to gravitate there.
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  770. I don't see it as censorship. It's annoying, but I understand it.
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  771. Thanks!
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  772. Thanks! I've got two more to do before I get to The Living Daylights, which is also one of my favorites of the series and also very underrated. I'm looking forward to doing that one, and also License to Kill.
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  773. Thank you so much! Glad you like the thoughtful approach. I love exploring subjects like this
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  774. That's not a "fact" but a rumor (possibly an embellishment by Walker) and there is no evidence that it happened. In any event, even if it did, it does not undermine the logical case for Ms. Stearns's innocence.
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  775. I suppose it could have happened that way; I'm somewhat reluctant to believe the idle jail cell boasting of a convicted double murderer who lied about everything else in his life. Nevertheless, even if it did happen that way, as I said it doesn't implicate Stearns at all. There was a great deal of discussion at the trial about where she was at the time Walker was murdering the Grahams. If I recall correctly she was aboard the Iola, packing and preparing for their trip to Fanning Island (and baking bread, I believe). Keep in mind the Iola and the Sea Wind were not moored near each other and there was no line-of-sight distance between them. Sound did not carry on Palmyra due to topography, atmospheric effects and constant chatter from tens of thousands of birds, so she wouldn't have heard gunshots, screams or other disturbances. She only occasionally heard the sound of the outboard motor on Walker's Zodiac. So I attach very little importance to the "walk the plank" story insofar as it implicates Ms. Stearn's possible participation; in any event it remains illogical that she would have participated in the murders, given the factors I set out.
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  776. No. 85!
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  777. If "flew off the cliff and moved on" is a euphemism for "committed suicide because of the influence of their leader," then maybe.
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  778. You may be right...it could have happened in the 80s.
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  779. No. 93!
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  780. I can state categorically that I've never attacked any of my students with a baseball bat, even a mini one! 😂 Welcome and I hope you find something interesting and educational here.
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  781. Yes, that's a fascinating story. I mention it in the Fall of the Monarchies video.
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  782. I should give a prize to the 1000th commenter who posts this joke. I think we're up to about 200 by now 🤣
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  783. I should offer a door prize to the 1,000th commenter who makes this exact same joke.
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  784. It's a condo development whose construction was halted by the pandemic and evidently not finished, at least at the time the Google images were made.
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  785. Sounds yummy, but also like a lot of Greece. I'm watching my cholesterol.
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  786. Mr. Beat (that's Beat, not Beast) has an excellent history channel that I highly recommend. He tends to do a lot on American history and presidents. Check him out, he's great!
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  787. I don't make the rules, and they're wildly inconsistent (a shot of a KKK march did make it into the final cut), but they were going to demonetize it. I can't spend this much time on a video without getting paid, so there you go.
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  788. I'm not going to be able to make it, but I'm glad to hear there's some good environmental history going on there!
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  789. It's called "Domine" by Adrián Berenguer.
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  790. I think you're asking about what's usually referred to as the "oak platforms" said to have been found in the original pit. Actually the "oak platforms" are not an undisputed fact--nothing said to have occurred pre-1849 can be documented in the historical record. However, it is true that individual oak trunks and branches are sometimes found, quite deep down, in excavations on Oak Island. The reason for this is that due to the geology of the island, deep sinkholes often form and can (and have been observed to) swallow entire oak trees. This is why, in the real history of the island, an incident that occurred in 1878 when a sinkhole opened up right under a person plowing their field is important. If there were digs pre-1849 that found wood underground, this is where it came from. It was easy enough, as the treasure legend was fabricated, to take a statement like "we found oak timbers every 10 feet" to "we found a PLATFORM MADE OF oak timbers every 10 feet..." and such. I probably should have addressed this in the videos!
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  791. Yes! It could easily have been three...I left a lot of material out.
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  792. Actually that's not accurate. Bush was Director of Central Intelligence only for about a year, from January 1976 to January 1977.
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  793. I addressed this extensively in chapter 3, did you not see that part?
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  794. Why should we not "humanize" politicians? Because they're politicians? Garfield was a human being and quite an interesting one. Flawed, of course. The subtext of this comment makes me highly uncomfortable.
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  795. Whataboutism.
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  796. Joe, thank you so much! Now that you're closer to the coast, maybe we can collaborate on another video sometime soon? You are mostly land-based and I'm more drawn to the sea, but those two meet in southern California. :)
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  797. I had to remove the references to his overdose (and the drug that caused it) to avoid demonetization. It's restored in the members section version.
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  798. Thanks!
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  799. Hmm, that's troubling. It should have appeared in the subscriptions feed, I made sure that setting was enabled after a problem I had with the 1924 election video not going to subscriptions.
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  800. I said it was one of the most destructive. It gets tricky when you start comparing body counts, but it's safe to say it's in the top tier.
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  801. I should do one on Garfield just to balance things out!
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  802. No. Absolutely not. I will never use AI in the research process. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, absolutely categorically never. Computers cannot distinguish good sources from bad ones. Only humans can do that. AI is incapable of doing historical analysis.
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  803. That was in 1791, more than a century before this video picks up.
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  804. Something you need to take up with the cartographers, because that's what it says on the map. 😜
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  805. Thanks, that's what I like to hear!
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  806. If you're looking for that, I think you're on a unicorn hunt, quite frankly. All history is inherently political and has been since the time of Thucydides. People only get angry when history doesn't validate their political beliefs--then they blame the historians and accuse them of "bias," which absolves the accuser of engaging with what they're saying. Thank you for your comment, but obviously I disagree.
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  807. Thank you so much! This is why I work so hard.
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  808. From a company called EBS - Hard to Find Office Supplies. They have a storefront on Amazon.
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  809. No, she was not.
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  810. There is no evidence of that. What "outside forces"? I don't even know what that means.
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  811. 9/11 is tricky. I would love to do it, but YouTube has curious and unclear rules on whether, and what kind of, material on 9/11 can be monetized. I have had some videos with mere mention of 9/11 demonetized (in the Bond in Context series, for example) while some others sail through with no problem. Without understanding more about what their specific red lines are, I'm reluctant to embark on all the work required for a super deep dive unless I'm more certain about what they'll allow. It might be something better suited to my personal website.
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  812. Thanks! The problem with the History Channel show is that none of its so-called "discoveries" have been verified by independent historians, and some have been completely refuted--such as the "Roman sword" that was, despite assertions made on-screen, proven to be a souvenir toy manufactured in the 1970s. If and when anything the show purports to have "discovered" is vetted and verified by reputable scholarship, they will be incorporated into the historical record and evaluated on that basis. To date, none have been, which leaves me skeptical that the show is even worth the time of any real historian. Until those discoveries are independently validated, the show is basically worthless as a source because nothing it asserts can be verified. I don't know of any historian worth their salt who takes the TV show seriously. You're wrong, unfortunately, in your assertion that the "flood tunnels" have been discovered. What has been discovered are tunnel works made by previous treasure hunting expeditions, as documented by the 1862/63 excavation workbook, transcribed in 2014 (before the show began production), which documents the building of these tunnels. Again, the series is not presenting honestly the vetted historical record; for that reason anything it purports to show, if it is genuine, must be independently validated by outside sources before being taken seriously.
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  813. Thanks! I love Mr. Beat and he's one of my inspirations!
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  814. Conversed with a lot of CIA agents, have you? 😂
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  815. No reputable historians take David Barton seriously at all. He is a joke. I'm also a former lawyer, as it happens.
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  816. Not entirely accurate.
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  817. Welcome aboard!
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  818. One of the major sources for this class.
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  819. Aside from distantly (all Mungers in America come from the same 17th century ancestor), I don't think I'm related to him. Is he also a historian?
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  820. No. Poindexter was head of the Information Awareness Office of DARPA from January 2002 to August 2003. He was never its director at any time. Those are separate offices. And DARPA answers to the Department of Defense and ultimately to Congress, which has deliberately defunded some DARPA projects on occasion, such as the Policy Analysis Market project. So it's not correct to state that it "answers to no one."
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  821. G section....checking radiation shields 😏
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  822. That theory is utterly bonkers and no one takes it seriously. Even the diehard conspiracy nuts laughed at Bonar Meninger's book when it came out in 1992. It absolutely could not have happened. I addressed it in part 2 of my series on the Kennedy assassination, here: https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE
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  823. Donald Regan (not Reagan) was originally the Secretary of the Treasury, but in January 1985 he became White House Chief of Staff, replacing James Baker (who took Regan's old job as Secretary of the Treasury).
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  824. I noticed that too. While I was making this video I listened to the motorcycle tape closely to see what I could make out, but as I recall (I did this more than a year ago) it's kind of hard to make out what they're actually saying.
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  825. Yes, it's in part 2. This is the stupidest theory in the history of JFK conspiracy theories. I feel myself losing brain cells every time it comes up, which is disturbingly often. 🙄
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  826. Yes, I made that abundantly clear in this video.
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  827. It's explained in depth in the main video.
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  828. I mentioned that in the video, did you miss it?
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  829. A design based on that, yes!
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  830. AAAAAAHHHH, the French! 😂
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  831. Ugh, I don't want that job. The last history professor who became President (Wilson) wound up having a stroke and unable to get out of bed. No thanks!
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  832. Of these options, I'll take "carry on." 😉 History is inherently political, and it's impossible to do it without a perceived "bias."
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  833. I was quite taken in by the film myself when it first came out. Fortunately I eventually got to the real facts.
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  834. It's nonsense. Neither Johnson nor Bush were involved and there's never been a shred of evidence that they were. Where'd it come from? Out of the rear ends of conspiracy theorists. Not even worth taking seriously.
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  835. It's called Goudy Bookletter 1911, and it's an old font (from 1911, obviously) that is seldom used today. I love it.
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  836. It's actually getting more views than usual. Go figure!
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  837. Thanks! I'm incredibly tired after all this work 😂
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  838. Some people who have seen my videos have called for me to be fired as a teacher based on things I've said in them. So yes, "too woke" for the troglodytes. 😂
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  839. I was going to include it and can't even recall why I decided to cut it out of the script. In retrospect I think I should have kept it.
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  840. Well, there's a guy named Spiridon, so there's that.
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  841. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  842. Thanks so much!
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  843. No. Totally different situations.
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  844. No. Not what happened. There were two reported attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, one Aug. 2, the other Aug. 4, 1964. The one on August 2 absolutely happened. In fact, in 1998 Robert McNamara personally interviewed the North Vietnamese commander who ordered the attack and gave him shell fragments recovered off the deck of the ship that night. The second purported attack was a misperception, but not a fabrication. The administration did spin the attacks politically, but they were not ginned up out of whole cloth. It is not comparable to the Gleiwitz attack.
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  845. I'm not surprised! 😂
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  846. That is fascinating. So it would be pronounced "Ohsrow"?
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  847. The Kuwaiti government is not the sole source of what we know about why the invasion occurred.
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  848. That seems to have been part of the motivation, but perhaps not all of it.
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  849. I wouldn't say it gives me more credibility, but students probably pay attention a bit more than they might otherwise. At least they know their teacher knows what he's doing!
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  850. Well, that's a new one! 😂
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  851. Not true. I rather like Dr. Who, I praised Day of the Triffids and I enjoyed Hitchhiker's Guide. I admit I haven't seen Blakes 7.
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  852. The clip I showed is from that specific production.
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  853. I'm not sure it is, but I found it interesting nonetheless.
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  854. 2,530, if I added them up correctly.
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  855. I don't, actually. I tried pretty hard to research it but couldn't bring up anything beyond the bare facts. There is an IMDB entry on it here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405352/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cred_t_69
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  856. I don't know the answer to that, I'm going to have to research it.
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  857. Nonsense. This has been disproven again and again. This is highly deceptive and disingenuous.
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  858. Love it. A great book.
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  859. Not the story I wanted to tell, and it would have bogged down the narrative.
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  860. There will be a couple more videos in this series about the class, so you'll have some warning! Best thing is to get on the mailing list so I can contact everyone when registration opens.
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  861. Not every one, but many of them.
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  862. I hope someone can find a picture of him!
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  863. I did not know that, thank you. I'll watch out for that in the future.
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  864. Yes, the acronyms are easy to confuse.
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  865. Frankly, yes. He knew the major powers would utterly annihilate him if he attacked US forces or a US ally with WMD. There is some evidence Cheney wanted to use nukes if that happened.
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  866. Thanks! But who's Lexi?
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  867. Not a word of it. All written and performed by me.
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  868. It's on the list! My video making has been very much delayed by the epidemic (I'm working on a volunteer relief effort) and my Vietnam War class. Thanks for your very kind comments.
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  869. Thanks so much!
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  870. Good catch. One seat in North Carolina was vacant during the 1872-73 cycle because their legislature was deadlocked at the time and failed to agree on a candidate.
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  871. I've been so amazingly busy lately that I simply haven't had time to build an unredacted version and post it somewhere else. I may do that, possibly on my website, but it's down the list of priorities right now.
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  872. That's really interesting, thank you!
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  873. Only very distantly. I don't know him or his family.
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  874. This is my channel, and I'm allowed to do whatever I want! ;-)
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  875. Hmm, I didn't even think about that! Good catch.
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  876. Sources are listed at the end of the video and also in the description. If I recall correctly the bit on the Sea Girt speech came from Murray's "103rd Ballot."
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  877. I wish I knew, but I don't. It seems like something that should have been put on video.
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  878. Wow, that's the most passionate rant I've ever heard about such a trivial issue! 😂 Think about your blood pressure bro, this can't be healthy.
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  879. Agreed.
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  880. Thanks so much!
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  881. I believe it did, yes!
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  882. That would be a lot of fun!
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  883. I love Behind the Bastards.
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  884. Thanks so much!
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  885. "This is Willard White speaking!"
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  886. That was in the 2003 war. This is about the 1990-91 conflict.
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  887. I didn't, actually. The music for this, and several other of my videos, was composed by George Kay, a musician friend of mine in Germany.
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  888. Yes, Roots from 1996.
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  889. Thanks!
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  890. Yes, sadly the conspiracy nutters have mostly monopolized the conversation about these topics. But there are still some of us who believe in facts, evidence and logic.
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  891. Me too, he's awesome.
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  892. You're welcome. I agree completely. I get a lot of comments, which I generally don't approve, complaining about how "stupid" I am for not believing in a conspiracy. One person even suggested I must have been dropped on my head as a baby! 🤣 People like that cannot be reasoned with and refuse even to accept that the facts might be different than they've always supposed. It's hard for the truth to break through sometimes.
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  893. Oh, plenty of tinfoil hatters think I do work for the CIA. Because of course the CIA has a bunch of money to spend to pay people to post videos on YouTube. 😂
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  894. Agreed!
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  895. Thanks so much! I have gotten requests for a video about Europe between the world wars and I am considering it. It's a great suggestion.
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  896. This is fascinating, thank you very much! One of the best comments I've received.
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  897. It's a laborious process. The main hunting grounds are Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress, PICRYL and Archive dot org. It's a learning curve to learn how to search these effectively. I also have a research assistant who helps me with this part of the process, as you see in this video.
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  898. Most ancient aliens nutters don't even know what Hagia Sofia is. They've never heard of it. 😂
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  899. Thanks! Great music!
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  900. Fake. Didn't happen.
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  901. I wish it had been a better movie. Fantastic subject matter and incredible potential, but it was so emotionally manipulative in a very ham-handed way that I found it cringe-inducing. Part of it, honestly, was Spielberg's direction. He evidently told Christian Bale to "stare wide-eyed with your mouth agape at every single thing you see! Come on! MOAR wonder! MOAR! MOAR!!!!!!!" Or perhaps Bale was just a crappy actor, but hey, he was what, 12. I'd love to see the film remade by a different director. That said, there are some good things in it.
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  902. Hint: it's Russian and rhymes with "Rootin"!
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  903. Jung doesn't have much credibility as a psychologist or academic anymore, but I admit I find his philosophical ideas fascinating.
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  904. I would say it's supported. In this very video you see Haldeman and Nixon discussing the possibility of blackmailing LBJ (what they hoped to gain from it is unsaid), and the illegality of the wiretaps was definitely an issue.
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  905. Probably.
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  906. Yes, but Courtroom No. 1 is where the Ripper trial occurred.
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  907. What I was referring to was that the outrage over Lennon's (I think it was Lennon?) statement that they were "more popular than Jesus" was ludicrous, not the fact that they were. Various fundie types hyped the statement as if it was the end of western civilization.
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  908. Patience, young grasshopper. I address this issue in the Part 2 video. It's in chapter 31.
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  909. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  910. I meant "large" in terms of population, not land area.
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  911. I disagree, I search pretty hard for the interstitial music and in this case I think it complements the material perfectly. Evokes both "Dune" and "Gladiator" which is appropriate for a medieval-themed subject. But, whatever.
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  912. There is very little information that's still redacted in any extant documents. The idea that the government has thousands of pages of incriminating documents they're holding back is a myth, as I explain in this video. It's a nothingburger. Glad you enjoyed them!
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  913. It's not "my view," it's historical fact. Human activity has warmed the world's climate considerably. That is not a political opinion or a prediction. It is scientific and historical fact, proven beyond all shadow of doubt. Period.
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  914. Did not mean to do that. Yours was in the comment queue right above a profanity laden all caps rant shrieking about how I'm a CIA shill (which happens dozens of times a day) and my thumb slipped on the button. 🤣
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  915. Thanks so much!
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  916. Thanks, love these!
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  917. Many people have suggested this topic, thanks!
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  918. Basically, yeah!
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  919. Thank you for the suggestion, but no. The very long deep dive format is my forte on this channel and one of the main reasons people watch. Cutting videos down to 10 to 15 minutes would obviate what most returning viewers like about my channel.
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  920. Please tell me it's not pronounced "Feefa," which sounds like the name for a spoiled Yorkshire terrier. 😂
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  921. I'm also talking about the Rhineland. The Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, a near-contemporary source, is fairly explicit about the massacres conducted by Godfrey in the Rhine area.
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  922. Wow, cool! Which class were you in?
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  923. No. He was trained in sambo.
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  924. Too late! 😂
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  925. A couple of reasons why I do it all at once. The recording set-up is such a hassle, and disrupts the normal functioning of my office, so much that to stop and start multiple times over a long period would be awkward and time-consuming. Also, if the raw video of all the chapters exist as a mass, I can more easily choose the ones to start editing and at least get the editing process doing as quickly as possible. Also, I just like to get it over with so I don't have to worry about it any more.
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  926. I have contacted Ground News. We will make sure your discount is applied. So sorry to hear that but we'll get it straightened out.
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  927. 🤣🤣🤣 What utter nonsense! Federal Reserve? Vietnam? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 What kind of mushrooms are you on? Your tinfoil hat is on a little too tight, methinks. But thanks for a good laugh to start the day.
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  928. I did not cover that, because those were principally CIA-run operations and the focus of this story, Iran-Contra, was mostly done by the NSA. CIA drugs is a whole different animal and more of a tangent than a central thread. In a video that was nearly two hours long as it was, I had to be judicious about what to include.
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  929. Was this the son who is now on the Board of Trustees of Liberty University?
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  930. Delete your account. 🤣
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  931. It's licensed through Storyblocks! 😀
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  932. Only a small number of the tapes were subpoenaed. I believe the investigators identified relevant conversations from what witnesses told them and then asked the White House for tapes pertaining to that conversation. I don't know if it was done in chronological order, I suspect not. Today, most if not all of Nixon's tapes have now been made public through the Nixon Presidential Library.
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  933. Thanks!
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  934. Thanks!
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  935. No, not what I was referring to at all. There has never been a confirmed case of needles found in Halloween candy.
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  936. I admire your ability to speed up time and watch an entire 2 1/2 hour video in the 17 minutes since it was posted! 😂
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  937. Unfortunately I never finished it. :(
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  938. Actually if you look closely you'll see the theater ads do not list him as a cast member. He's on the marquee because he was invited to appear with Garland in person at the New York premiere at that theater. The suggestion of a romance between the two stars was thought to be an audience draw so MGM often arranged for them to appear together.
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  939. "Emerald Haze" by George Kay. He wrote it for me.
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  940. It's not, so far as I know. He's a friend of mine and wrote it originally for a podcast I was doing about 5 years ago (which is no longer online). With his permission I repurposed it for this video series.
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  941. I apologize for making a business decision you disagree with. How do you price the online courses you spend months making?
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  942. No need to worry there, I have no interest in alternate history (at least as a main topic). And thank you!
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  943. Not dissing them at all. I'm just acutely aware that no one on YouTube can really compete with cute animals. I'm a dog person and all it takes is a snoot and some puppy dog eyes in a thumbnail and I'm there!
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  944. Thanks! Please leave a review on Amazon!
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  945. It is!
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  946. Why would it be odd? Bin Laden was often in the news from the mid-90s on, particularly after the East Africa bombings of 1998. In 2000 he was identified as being behind the USS Cole attack. Definitely newsworthy at the time.
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  947. Well, as bodice ripping goes it was slightly more tasteful than Beulah Land or The Wicked Lady, I'll grant you that. 😂
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  948. Thanks so much!
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  949. Have you seen William McKinley at age 22? It's on his Wikipedia article! Scorching!
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  950. That's a really great point!
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  951. Manson.
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  952. Have you actually read those documents? They don't say what Oliver Stone told you they said. But glad you enjoyed the video.
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  953. Blind Guardian.
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  954. I'm really thinking about it!
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  955. Actually, that's not true, it's a bit more nuanced. Under the law, vicarious guilt for a crime--being an abettor or accessory--attaches only when a person knows that what she's doing is in furtherance of a crime. Driving the getaway car for a bank robber is itself a crime because you know you're facilitating the crime of bank robbery. What Stephanie Stearns was guilty of was abetting boat theft and Walker's flight from prosecution--if she genuinely did not know Walker had murdered them, she can't be guilty vicariously. Under the law, the state could not prosecute her for murder unless they can prove (and it's the prosecution's burden to prove, not hers to disprove) that what she knew was going on was Buck Walker's murder of the Grahams. She insisted she did not know; she continued to believe they died in an accident. Under the circumstances that belief was probably not reasonable, but because it was a criminal case, where mens rea (actual state of mind of the defendant) is an element of the crime, the state could not convict her on a "Well, you should have known what was going on" standard. If I was on that jury I would have voted to acquit, even if I felt, as in fact I do, that her belief that the Grahams died in a boat accident was not reasonable. She deluded herself, and she abetted many of Walker's crimes, but murder was not one of them--at least, she didn't abet that crime knowingly, which was what the law says you had to prove to convict her. This is why, as a legal matter, her ducking the police at Ala Wai Harbor is not prima facie evidence of her guilt, at least guilt of murder.
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  956. Isn't that the whole point of this video? 😂
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  957. Good observations, but I think the argument is less persuasive for World War II. That war was won largely on the battlefield, and both Germany and Japan were defeated largely by conquest. Germany in World War I was not, and agreed to the Armistice based predominantly on the judgment that they had no hope of defeating the hundreds of thousands of American troops then arriving in France. This is why I said it was a numbers game.
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  958. I have no control over the ads.
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  959. Thanks...I guess? 😂
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  960. Funny, I did exactly that at 1:48:12. Weren't you listening?
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  961. It is as long as I'm here!
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  962. I never asserted that only people on the right believe JFK conspiracies. What I said was that the Grassy Knoll in particular was a pilgrimage site for QAnon, which it was when this video was made more than a year ago.
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  963. Wow, I thought I talked fast in real life! 😂 Thanks so much.
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  964. I would love to get on Nebula!
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  965. Ugh. Cataloguing their long record of deception and incompetence would take a year of 12-hour episodes to cover fully. I'd never do anything else for the rest of my career.
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  966. Thank you! And thanks very much to your friend who recommended me.
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  967. This is not accurate. Cheney did not work for the CIA. At the time of Iran-Contra he was a member of the House of Representatives.
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  968. It's Mr. Beat, fellow history YouTuber.
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  969. They find them incomprehensible and baffling, preferring wild paranoid fantasies to provable facts.
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  970. Hey, don't insult my costumer! He may not be the best but at least he's cheap. His name is Jeff Lebowski! 😂
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  971. Thanks so much my friend!
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  972. Why exactly is that clear? What did I get wrong? Please be specific.
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  973. Thanks so much!
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  974. They're easy to mix up! I'm pretty sure Iraq is majority Shi'a though. I'll look it up to re-verify though. Thanks!
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  975. You seem to have misunderstood the point of the video which is to profile the monarchies that fell between 1905 and 1922. France abolished their monarch in 1789. Britain never did, and in any event they're in a different category because their monarchy was a figurehead that didn't hold real political power at the time of the World War I era.
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  976. No, it was apparently lodged somewhere in Gov. Connally's clothes and worked its way out as they were treating him on the gurney. A recent (2023) claim by a former Secret Service agent that he found the bullet in the car and placed it on the gurney has been much publicized but is almost certainly false.
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  977. No, it was from Iraq (the USS Stark incident).
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  978. I couldn't disagree more! 😂
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  979. No. 83!
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  980. It may well have been!
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  981. History is inherently political by definition and has been since the time of Herodotus. Show me a historian who thinks he has no bias and I'll show you someone who is deluding themselves. But, thanks for the compliments within your comment.
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  982. I couldn't disagree more with your critique, but thanks for your thoughts.
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  983. Thanks for your observations. In history, we are trained how to distinguish reliable sources from simply crediting assertions. I understand the epistemological argument in favor of conspiracy (which often manifests itself as "How do we know a fact is true?"), but the idea, as sound as it seems at first glance, doesn't hold up in the real world, because not all assertions are created equal. Both as a historian and as a lawyer I learned how to distinguish supported assertions from unsupported ones. It's part of the historical and analytical process. We can't navigate the world solely on what we personally see and experience firsthand. Ironically they even refer to this conundrum in Oliver Stone's "JFK" film, where a character says mockingly, "How do you know who your daddy is? Because your mama told you so." Hope this illuminates a bit of where I'm coming from.
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  984. As long as I'm here we do!
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  985. No AI images in this video.
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  986. Thanks!
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  987. I know, rite? Some of these nuts think the Mafia did it too. The Mafia is even more dysfunctional than the government. But as they say, it's easy to believe in conspiracies when you don't know how anything works!
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  988. Sorry, what does this have to do with the Titanic?
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  989. Thank you so much!
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  990. While this video was in production! 😮 I did not know that.
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  991. Thank you! 🙏
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  992. Oops, good catch! I do misspeak on occasion...
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  993. TKE? The fraternity? I was never in one.
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  994. All of these are great ideas. It's super expensive to save old ships, so I hope someone with deep pockets steps up to do it!
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  995. Bin Laden ran several business interests in Sudan. He was running Al-Qaeda at that point and financing various terrorist operations, some of which killed Muslims. His outspoken criticism of the Saudi royal family is most of what got him in hot water with them.
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  996. It was not a conspiracy, if that's what you're suggesting. The war was caused by Saddam Hussein and his need for revenue.
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  997. Pronunciation Police are on duty again I see! 😂
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  998. You seem to have misunderstood what I meant by that.
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  999. He was born with a cleft lip/palate, I discuss that in Chapter 3.
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  1000. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1001. No. 87!
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  1002. One of the videos that's coming up next on my channel will try to explain exactly that.
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  1003. What does Lenny Bruce have to do with the USS Vincennes?
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  1004. It's been a while since I read about it, but I think it had to do with the defense measures he took (or lack thereof).
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  1005. No. 86!
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  1006. His story was discredited years ago. Nothing to it.
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  1007. According to some sources it was indeed formed in 1949 as Ja-Ri Corporation, but then reorganized and renamed Amway in 1959. It is unclear to me whether Amway was actually a brand new corporation or a new form of an old one.
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  1008. That's very interesting!
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  1009. I agree!
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  1010. Good suggestion!
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  1011. Thanks so much!
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  1012. Have not seen it. But supposedly finding "codes" in Shakespeare is utter nonsense, as is the ludicrous idea that Bacon wrote his plays. Total garbage from start to finish, and this Norwegian isn't the first nut to think of it.
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  1013. Forgive me for running afoul of some undisclosed standard for quantifying historical atrocities. People who like to argue about the Crusades seem to like to play that game, but it's sort of like that game in the movie "WarGames," where the only winning move is not to play.
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  1014. Thanks! 😃
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  1015. Thanks!
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  1016. Thanks! As a rule I try not to debate conspiracy theorists, so I won't be talking to Oliver Stone any time soon. He's a nut.
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  1017. I retired the clown horn a couple of videos back, but there was a groundswell of people asking for me to put it back so I did. Sorry, you're stuck with it. 😀
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  1018. No, Carter was there. In fact there's a shot of him attending Reagan's inauguration in my Iran-Contra video.
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  1019. Untrue. Iraq is 61-64% Shi'a, and that's if you include the Kurds who are mostly Sunni.
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  1020. You totally missed the point I was making with that statement, but whatever.
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  1021. I can't respond to them all, or very many of them really, but thank you! Keep watching!
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  1022. Actually, that's a great idea!
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  1023. It is a permutation of the conspiracy theory, but in reality has nothing to support it. The quotes are cherry-picked and the interpretation ascribed to them by conspiracy nuts is not backed up by evidence. As usual.
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  1024. I believe it was! Thanks!
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  1025. If you really want one, contact me at sean@seanmunger.com and I'll see what I can do.
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  1026. Perhaps, but I doubt my back can handle it.
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  1027. Well, there was that one time that he helped start a world war that destroyed his country...😜
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  1028. Understandable. But it is absolutely true that Oswald acted alone, and the more familiar you become with the details and logic of the case, the clearer it becomes that he was not acting in tandem with anyone.
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  1029. I've never seen "Fahrenheit 911" and thus could not have used it as a source. I detest Michael Moore. Funny how people ascribe motives, actions and influences to me that have no relation to reality. It's okay though, people see what they want to see I guess.
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  1030. Thank you! Someone understands my pain. 😂
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  1031. Alec Guinness was also in the film "Damn the Defiant," another great Napoleonic navy movie.
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  1032. It was a much harder shot. There was a tree in the way and the relative motion of the motorcade to Oswald's POV was much faster. After the turn, the limo was essentially a stationary target. It was moving, but its motion was more of a lateral motion rather than side-to-side, giving Oswald a chance to aim accurately in a much shorter time than he would have been able to do if he tried it earlier.
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  1033. Yes, I know, after my 5th arrest this week by the ever-vigilant Pronunciation Police. 😜
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  1034. Great video! Thanks so much for mentioning me and my work. I appreciate it!
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  1035. Absolutely agreed.
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  1036. I did, but I was dissatisfied with the platform and eventually closed it down. I may reopen it someday.
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  1037. I understand where you're coming from. However it has taken months of work to develop the class and there are significant costs involved in building it. Because I couldn't monetize it here on YouTube, I have to do what makes economic sense, while realizing that it does price some people out.
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  1038. I disagree, but there are many interpretations.
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  1039. What about him? Why is he especially relevant to the story of the foundation of the tools cult in the 1960s?
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  1040. Not true, actually. It's one of the myths my class will discuss and dispel.
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  1041. Thanks so much!
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  1042. The money wasn't really the point, except for Ghorbanifar and the arms dealers. The real currency that was being traded in was political influence--with Reagan, with the Iranians and other players.
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  1043. Awesome! Thank you!
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  1044. The dye gag, which was first done in 1899, proves that the island is cris-crossed by natural subterranean channels, not flood tunnels. That was also the result of the first geological survey of the island, conducted in 1867, which reached the conclusion that there was no infrastructure there and never had been. I'm not sure how the planting of certain trees or an "Heirloom" hypothesis can overcome the total lack of physical or documentary evidence that there was something buried there.
    2
  1045. Better than a cigar!
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  1046. Only after this video was made.
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  1047. You must not read very much environmental history! 😜
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  1048. It is a hotel actually, I went back to check. Though it is part of a broader complex owned/operated by GM.
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  1049. Wow. That's a bit of a stretch, don't ya think? 🤣🤣
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  1050. Then what the heck was it that hit him in the nuts??!? 😂
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  1051. "The Looming Tower" is an amazing book. I love it and rely on it heavily. I also recommend "Masterminds of Terror" by Fouda & Fielding. It's self-serving in the sense that it reports the words of Al-Qaeda terrorists unfiltered, but if you want to be a fly on the wall watching how the attacks were planned and carried out, few other sources can compare to it.
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  1052. 9/11 truthers are nuts.
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  1053. Much appreciated!
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  1054. Thank you! I'm glad too...the algorithm finally noticed me!
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  1055. No. Gore never said that. Nevertheless, he is not a scientist and his opinions are of relatively little importance in the subject of global warming.
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  1056. This is the single funniest comment I've ever received on my channel! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1057. Yeah right, I'm sure the CIA has a budget set aside to pay people to post on YouTube. 😂😂😂
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  1058. Yes, shortly after this video was made, in fact.
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  1059. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1060. Thank you for not criticizing the way I pronounced it.
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  1061. Pretty sure it was Liddy.
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  1062. Probably neither. It's focused on the past, not the future.
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  1063. Sorry, I don't even know what that is.
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  1064. There's a whole playlist of these videos actually, look for "Historical Movie Analysis." 😏
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  1065. I don't believe there's a tools cult quite like this one in Herbalife, but they do use many of the same tactics in selling, recruiting and deception.
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  1066. I have not done one on that topic, and while it deserves some really good in-depth treatment here on YT, I've got a lot of things in the pipeline ahead of that in terms of what I'd like to do. It's on sort of an extended list of ideas that I may get to.
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  1067. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1068. It is, yes!
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  1069. It was a gift and the person who gave it to me found that volume, and only that one, in a thrift shop.
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  1070. Thank you so much, I have also reported that account and hidden their comments. I appreciate you chiming in about it.
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  1071. I had it commissioned specifically for this video. It was written by my friend George Kay, a musician from Germany. I think he did a great job!
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  1072. They didn't fall, because they did not wield much political power as the others did. This video is about the monarchies that collapsed, not the ones that remain.
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  1073. I'm not a boomer 😂
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  1074. I'll stop saying it when people stop believing in it ..
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  1075. Thanks so much!
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  1076. Thanks so much!
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  1077. No. 89!
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  1078. Yes, though I think it was more Watergate and the Church Commission. Certainly without the latter, no one would have known about the various abusive intelligence programs, or at least they wouldn't have had a lot of recognition among the general public.
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  1079. Sorry about that, I'm eliminating it from future videos. You aren't the only one to speak up about it. As for the rules, come to think of it there was a page missing from my copy of the YouTube Cardinal Rules Manual when I started this channel! 😀
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  1080. The same could be said of Bernie Madoff! What could possibly go wrong? 😂
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  1081. Indirectly, perhaps. The Iran-Contra scandal was just one of the ways in which the U.S. was becoming more deeply involved in the war, others include the Navy operations to escort Kuwaiti tankers during the "Tanker War." Iran knew it could expect no more covert help from the U.S. after the scandal broke and it was obvious the U.S. would not let Iraq really be defeated, so it might have motivated some within the Iranian government to find a way to end it. That's just a supposition, I didn't find this addressed directly in any of the sources I used.
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  1082. Yes, many have said they do.
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  1083. Alcohol poisoning! 😂
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  1084. Thank you, that sounds very interesting!
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  1085. Don't read that, read Sally Bedell Smith's biography instead. It's much better and more reliable.
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  1086. Yes, the Pronunciation Police have already apprehended me numerous times over this. 😂
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  1087. Thanks! I've had it for years.
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  1088. The Pronunciation Police are back! 😂
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  1089. It was in his book, but he didn't identify which person actually said it.
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  1090. Thanks. I disagree on the length. It's only when they're long that I can cover all the context and detail I'd like to. Of all my videos, the most successful ones, and the ones people like the most, are the longest ones. Fall of the Monarchies, for example, is 3 hours.
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  1091. Yup, had it a long time, since 1996.
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  1092. Thanks so much!
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  1093. Hard disagree. History is not neutral, it's intensely political and has been since the time of Thucydides. People only demand "neutrality" in history when they find it doesn't support their conceptions. It is impossible for any historian to be "neutral," and it's an unattainable goal. I have learned that from long experience in the field.
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  1094. You're the 98th person to make this joke!
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  1095. You're welcome, thank you for watching! So many new viewers like you, I'm glad to teach and entertain.
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  1096. Thanks!
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  1097. This is the same channel that told us "ancient aliens" were a thing, so I don't have a lot of faith in the veracity of any claims made on the show.
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  1098. They're infuriating. It's why I try not to "debate" them, as they are incapable of debate.
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  1099. That's really interesting!
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  1100. There was a section in my original script that I cut out that was about exactly that.
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  1101. That was a different incident.
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  1102. Thanks! Spread the word!
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  1103. Thanks so much!
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  1104. Fascinating. Thank you!
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  1105. I don't believe Landis's claims are true, but even if they are, as you point out, it doesn't mean very much. It can't change the mountains of evidence indicating Oswald's sole guilt.
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  1106. All the music credits are at the end of the video.
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  1107. If you're watching this in Russia, I fear for your safety!
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  1108. I almost included that bit about the poker winnings. Nixon claims in his autobio that the story is exaggerated. Unreliable narrator, but I couldn't find a good source that refuted him so I decided it wasn't worth putting in. It's an interesting story for sure.
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  1109. Thanks!
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  1110. I do not.
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  1111. Wealthy descendants, perhaps in a few cases. But "controlling the world"? Nonsense. The Osmanlis, for example, were stripped of their property by the Turkish state and banished from the country. This "ancient elite bloodlines" crap works well in fiction but does not have any historical basis.
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  1112. A major source for this video.
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  1113. American analysts had no idea that Iraq was going to invade and take over Kuwait. They thought it was saber rattling in a relatively minor border dispute. I don't think there was a broader purpose here other than to keep Iraq as a semi-friendly firewall against Iran. As I said, Saddam could have made no strategic decision based on his conversation with Glaspie. She made that point over and over again from the word go, and it's plainly the truth because there's no evidence to refute it.
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  1114. I disagree. Bryan was, I believe, questioned on this at the Scopes trial and Darrow got him to admit he believed the Earth was 6000 years old.
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  1115. You're right, I should have included that. My list of stuff to cover was so long it got lost in the shuffle!
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  1116. Thanks so much!
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  1117. I'm glad to be your "quirked up white boi!" 😂
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  1118. I wish I knew what advice to give but there's no "one size fits all" solution for this sort of thing. All I can say is, be there for your parents especially if (and when) they come to realize they've been scammed. It may take a long time, but chances are good they'll realize it eventually.
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  1119. Thank God!
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  1120. Operators are still standing by, 35 years later!
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  1121. That is incredibly distressing.
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  1122. Thank you so much!
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  1123. I mention EST in this video, yes.
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  1124. Or the Benny Hill Show! 😂
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  1125. Thank you so much!
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  1126. Yes. The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History by Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne. It consists mostly of original documents, so you can read the key pieces of evidence for yourself.
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  1127. Very few witnesses said they saw or heard that. (And in any event witnessed by literally thousands of people, you will never have 100% agreement on what was seen or heard). Conspiracy theorists have focused on the very few outliers and ignored the vast majority who heard shots from the book depository. Which is what they do.
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  1128. That's not what I was trying to communicate at all, but given how many people misinterpreted what I said, I can't blame you for mistaking my intent. In retrospect I shouldn't have mentioned it. Thanks!
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  1129. I had a very similar experience.
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  1130. Yup, pretty much.
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  1131. Yup, that's pretty much it.
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  1132. Maternal grandparents? Your mother's parents? Also my name is not Münger (with a umlaut). It's not German.
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  1133. In her case there is no evidence that she actually did the research she claimed to have done, and considerable evidence that she plagiarized her work--which was common in the milieu of Castaneda's group of grifters and con artists.
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  1134. I did cover Futility/Wreck of the Titan.
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  1135. There were no "mysterious deaths." It's nonsense.
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  1136. I wish the Pronunciation Police didn't have such an aggressive quota to meet every month 😂
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  1137. It was in March...mere weeks after my video went live. Since then I've received endless comments from people angry that I couldn't predict the future. 🤣
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  1138. That's not what I do! 😂
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  1139. Wrong. It is not. The "official story" (I don't like that term, it's mostly used by tinfoil hatters) is that the August 4 attack occurred.
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  1140. Thanks so much! Yes, there are a lot of people who are outraged and offended that a person could disbelieve the conspiracy nonsense that's so prevalent. And it is very much like a religion. When someone challenges their religion, they react like true believers to a heretic or an apostate. Sad to see, really. Yes, Case Closed is excellent, I used it and cited in in a couple of places here.
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  1141. Thanks so much!
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  1142. It's easy to armchair-quarterback what running a course like this is like, but in reality it's a pretty complex undertaking. I appreciate where you're coming from and wish I could price it lower so it could be more accessible, but the reasons why I'm doing it this way are not purely a choice of business strategy in a vacuum.
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  1143. Thanks!
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  1144. There are music credits at the end of the video.
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  1145. They are!
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  1146. I did not know that! Thanks.
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  1147. It's Darcus Howe.
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  1148. He claims he found it on the floor (not under the body). The claim is probably false, but even if true, does not indicate conspiracy.
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  1149. No worries about tone, but I just hope you understand that the conclusion of Oswald and no-conspiracy is actually an extremely easy call for me. It's the conclusion that the evidence leads to, as I think I've amply demonstrated in this series of videos. I don't even think it's a close call. I realize others disagree, but once you examine the evidence itself I think it's fairly straightforward.
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  1150. Thank you, it is a lot of work!
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  1151. Please learn how to spell it, please. 😂
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  1152. Carter toasted the Shah as a friend on New Year's Eve 1977 when he was visiting Iran. However, that could well have been more statecraft than personal. The Shah was definitely friendly with Nixon and Kissinger.
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  1153. No. 91!
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  1154. Thanks!
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  1155. Daughter in law.
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  1156. You're the first one! Thanks.
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  1157. The editing is indeed a mess.
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  1158. It depends on the complexity of the video, this one took about five weeks.
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  1159. I'm working on that in future videos. Thanks!
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  1160. Thanks!
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  1161. I'm happy to take suggestions, but my topics list is already so long that I fear it would take years to get to some of them!
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  1162. I covered it.
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  1163. Probably not. Watch the other videos in the series to understand how we can be pretty sure that there is nothing there, and the story is a hoax.
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  1164. Good question.
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  1165. Thanks!
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  1166. Yes! You could even call the Glorious "Revolution" sort of an invasion as well as a coup (of England, by the Dutch).
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  1167. Sometimes they do, yes! 😉 There's a very obscure volume in the stack called "The Sanitary City" which is a source for an idea I may be doing soon. I know it sounds dull, but trust me it won't be!
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  1168. What? Makes no sense.
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  1169. Haha, that is funny, actually!
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  1170. They lost the vast majority of it. The Romanovs, for example, were mostly broke after the Revolution. Some collateral relatives had a few rubles stashed in western banks, but those assets were dwarfed by what they lost. Monarchical families tended to have their assets tied up in the state, and after they were overthrown, their wealth was mostly expropriated. Especially in China, Turkey and Russia.
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  1171. Number 95!
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  1172. He did work as a waiter, and he did attend the Versailles conference, but those two things were at separate times of his life.
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  1173. The Pronunciation Police are out in force this weekend aren't they! 😂
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  1174. Thanks!
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  1175. They did not. They had no idea it was coming.
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  1176. Yes, I messed that up and put a correction in the description.
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  1177. Thanks!
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  1178. I do too, for different reasons!
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  1179. Different context, I think.
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  1180. It varies based on the day and the project. If it's a book I try to polish off several chapters in a day. There's also a lot of skipping around between sources.
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  1181. That's what I said! 😂
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  1182. Coincidence. It was originally going to be posted yesterday, April 5, but editing ran late.
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  1183. Music credits are at the end of the video! It does kind of sound like that doesn't it?
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  1184. I remember that!
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  1185. I didn't, I mentioned it.
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  1186. Yes, there is a period like that in the centuries following the Roman withdrawal from Britain.
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  1187. This is not a class. My classes are here: https://www.seanmunger.com/history-courses-online
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  1188. I've done several. Here is one: https://youtu.be/7hPjkW-F1PQ
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  1189. I would recommend the Shlaes book. More recent, a bit broader coverage.
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  1190. I've stopped using them for future videos.
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  1191. Thanks!
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  1192. No, she was 61 when she died.
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  1193. Yes, that seems to be the case. He apparently convinced them that death was the "next level" and they could only be with him by killing themselves. Grotesque and perverse.
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  1194. Thanks!
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  1195. Obviously not impossible, as it was done in Chicago and also Seattle.
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  1196. He did, though in quite a different context.
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  1197. Wow, thank you!
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  1198. That's really unfortunate. I wish more of these ships could be saved but they're so expensive!
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  1199. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1200. - Does Amway follow FTC rules? (They do not). - How did Dexter Yager make his money? (From the tools cult, not from selling distributorships). - How many people in MLMs lose money? (99%) - From where do the 1% of those who do make money in Amway make it? (From the tools cult). I provided citations for all of the answers to these questions. Which of these four did I get wrong? Cite your sources. What does you being a veteran have to do with anything?
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  1201. Wow, interesting!
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  1202. Untrue. None of the five major monarch families profiled here have anything like their former power or influence today.
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  1203. Untrue. It did have a reverse, it just took a long time to engage. I researched this specifically (it's in the Fall of Monarchies video).
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  1204. Actually I addressed the issue of "withheld documents" in the second portion of the video, start here. https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE?t=4775 The short answer is that there are no files with any substantive information about the assassination--meaning, nothing that could change the basic conclusions--still being withheld by the government, and there has not been for at least 30 years. Conspiracy theorists love to point to this as some sort of discrepancy, but it's a nothinburger when you drill down into it, which I hope I show in Part II of the video.
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  1205. I did mention it. It's in Chapter 5, I think.
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  1206. No. Not what I said at all. Nonsense.
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  1207. Probably not a coincidence!
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  1208. In part 2 of my video series "Oswald Acted Alone," I explained why the HSCA came to that erroneous conclusion and why the evidence on which they based it was totally discredited. JFK was not assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
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  1209. Thanks!
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  1210. They think they're incredibly smart and savvy. Dunning-Krueger effect in operation.
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  1211. That's not what the Iraq invasion was about, but I understand why people thought so at the time (and I suppose a few still do).
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  1212. What happens in 12 seconds?
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  1213. Thanks! Yes, my channel finally took off. Only took 5 years!
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  1214. Indeed, he was perhaps the best fishing President!
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  1215. Most conspiracy theories are antisemitic. And yes, there are lots of common currents especially between Pearl Harbor and 9/11 theories, though the 9/11 theory that most resembles it, "LIHOP" (Let It Happen On Purpose), is a minority among 9/11 nuts, most of whom believe it was affirmatively carried out by conspirators ("MIHOP" or Made It Happen On Purpose). Titanic theories are definitely antisemitic, usually involving the Federal Reserve which is just a modern redress of the old "Jewish bankers" theories that have been poisoning the feebleminded since the Middle Ages.
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  1216. I love the idea! 🤣
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  1217. Sorry to hear about your brother.
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  1218. Theophilus's gold! I made a video on it.
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  1219. People still trying to milk and hoodwink the suckers. It's quite sad.
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  1220. Oh, Mandy! 🎶
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  1221. Funny you mention that, I did: https://youtu.be/cCEkvCdRlaY
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  1222. You weren't watching very carefully, I explained it at the beginning of chapter 2.
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  1223. ❤
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  1224. Those were not my words, I was quoting someone at the time who called him that.
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  1225. It's there, it's the link labeled "Modern (2016) admirer of Glenn W. Turner."
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  1226. I agree! Thank you.
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  1227. No idea who that is so I'll assume it's a compliment! 😂
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  1228. If you ran a history channel, would you pass up the chance to have Mr. Beat voice a president? 😜
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  1229. I think the notion is total nonsense and even more ridiculous than most of the very silly conspiracy theories about the Titanic. Not even worth considering.
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  1230. It's definitely a major part of it, and of the tools cult. It was founded after 1988, though, so not within the primary focus of my video. I mention it a bit in the side/companion video to this one.
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  1231. It is a lot of work!
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  1232. Not quite, I don't think the Muskrat is trying to sell cosmetics. 😜
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  1233. Thanks so much!
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  1234. The technical stuff isn't my job. I'm a historian, not a science explainer. But thanks.
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  1235. I doubt that highly. Victoria was two years old when Napoleon died.
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  1236. This is my dream!
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  1237. Thanks!
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  1238. Yes, I mention that (the Abbey Road photo) in chapter 12 of this video.
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  1239. Thanks!
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  1240. It was not confirmed until March of this year, right after this video was made (it came out in February). Sorry for not being able to see into the future!
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  1241. True! And thank you.
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  1242. Thanks so much!
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  1243. The digitization of rare historic books has been increasing greatly in the past few years, and it's great to see.
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  1244. They take a very long time, but thanks so much for the encouragement!
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  1245. Thanks!
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  1246. Not at this time. The best way to support my work is at my website www.seanmunger.com or my Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/seanmunger.
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  1247. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1248. The notion itself isn't ridiculous, but the evidence makes it abundantly clear that it's not what happened.
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  1249. That's not at all what the sources indicate, The Exploited were thought of very highly in the punk scene (and still are).
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  1250. You're the 75th person to make this exact same joke, the second today. 🤣
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  1251. You'd be surprised how many people on YouTube lie in wait to pounce on me when I make pronunciation errors, even in other languages (like Polish). I call them the Pronunciation Police.
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  1252. Sure, I take requests, but no promises that I'll do them. I have a very long list of subjects I want to get through.
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  1253. Not the story I was interested in.
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  1254. I did, it's called Fall of the Monarchies.
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  1255. It was Dave Barry's jab, not mine! 😏
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  1256. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1257. Thanks so much!
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  1258. Thank you so much! 🙏 Several people have said my videos help them while they work. I'm glad to do that.
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  1259. Yes, I think this is true. Another commenter noticed, which I had not before, that the photo of Schiller's Delicatessen shows what appears to be a fancy sit-down restaurant, quite unlike the stop-in-for-a-bite type of place that Americans are familiar with.
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  1260. Thanks! I think so too!
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  1261. What about it?
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  1262. That didn't happen between 1905 and 1922, did it?
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  1263. Yes, but none of the defendants were tried in military courts so the UCMJ was not applicable in any Iran-Contra cases, so far as I know.
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  1264. I'm amazed and grateful for his mention!
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  1265. My apologies for not being a native Polish speaker. I'll try to correct that immediately. 😜
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  1266. Thanks!
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  1267. Haha, I'm a historian, not a newscaster!
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  1268. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1269. Oh, they love me. At least I'm more popular than the science teacher!
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  1270. I'm not planning to change up my style anytime soon.
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  1271. It saddens me that Castaneda drove five of his followers to suicide.
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  1272. Yes, I know...that was exactly the point I made here.
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  1273. Silly. This is a conspiracy theory and not serious.
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  1274. Or sloths. The pacing of that film would suggest it!
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  1275. Makes a lot of sense!
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  1276. I will try to cut down on the amount of information I present in the next video. How about that?
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  1277. I chose to leave that issue out because it's ancillary to the main story of the NSA/NSC-run Iran deals, and the story is already complex enough as it is.
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  1278. Yup. I've had it since 1996.
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  1279. Adjusted for inflation! 😂
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  1280. I can't recall whether I managed to work the word "mishigas" into this one. 😜
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  1281. Good idea!
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  1282. Thanks!
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  1283. I don't ascribe it to a majority of viewers, in fact it's an extremely small minority. But I'm amused at how they go absolutely bonkers at the mere mention of global warming. They treat it like a supernatural curse, or the old myth that if you say "Bloody Mary" three times in a mirror a ghoul will appear behind you. 😂
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  1284. Same rifle.
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  1285. Ugh. That's horrendous.
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  1286. Not true. In fact I addressed that myth in this video.
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  1287. I actually got it from the site Looperman many years ago, it's called just simply "Piano Loop 2."
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  1288. No. Music credits are at the end of the video.
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  1289. No. It was much more complicated.than that.
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  1290. This is great! Thanks so much! I'm working on another long video which hopefully will be out soon.
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  1291. It can't be determined precisely because Zapruder's view of the president was blocked by a street sign during a few crucial seconds.
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  1292. All music credits are at the end of the video.
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  1293. What about it?
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  1294. It was not confirmed until after this video was made.
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  1295. Thanks!
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  1296. You're welcome! There are people who want to "cancel" me for having made this video! 😂
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  1297. Actually, I will be teaching a whole class on Tudor England on June 24, two Sundays from now. Details here: https://thathistoryguy.com/home-2/tudor-england/
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  1298. Sure! You can get video access (not publicly available). Email me at seanmunger@fastmail.fm.
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  1299. I'd venture a guess that Joan Quigley didn't smell as bad as he did.
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  1300. Yes, true
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  1301. It was connected, yes. If I had included that part of the story (CIA/Contra drug trafficking), the video would have been 5 hours long. I deliberately chose not to include it because the story I wanted to tell is complicated enough.
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  1302. That doesn't match with the sources I consulted. Princip did, in fact, know that the motorcade would return along the same route. The change of route was that the cars were supposed to go straight--originally they were intended to turn right. Of all the conspirators, some of which had been arrested by that point, only Princip kept his head and remained on-station when he knew the motorcade would be passing by. The confusion regarding the route, and the Archduke's car having to stop and shift into reverse because the driver had started (erroneously) to turn right, presented Princip with a stationary target. That it would be so easy for him was the only unexpected element, for him.
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  1303. Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the videos. I have not done a video on the history of global warming, though I've considered it. I generally have a policy never to argue with climate change deniers so I want to avoid the appearance of inviting "debate" on that issue (there is no debate, the fact of warming's causation by fossil fuels is absolutely proven). However, if I was to do a video like that, I would rely heavily on what is still the best book on the history of global warming and how science proved it, which is James Rodger Fleming's 1998 book "Historical Perspectives on Climate Change." I would also feature the documents, some of which I showed briefly in this video, of the internal scientific studies done in the 1970s by the oil majors themselves in which their own scientists correctly predicted the magnitude of the disaster we're seeing unfold right now. I would also refer to the court documents in which the oil majors admit that climate change is real and caused by their products.
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  1304. That's a good question and I don't know the answer. Possibly not, as I'm not sure how (or if?) the Romans wrote music down in some way.
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  1305. Oops! 🤣
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  1306. I love that part of the film!
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  1307. Judging from some of the feedback I receive on this video, a great many people do think his writings were real, and are deeply offended, more than 50 years later, at the assertion that they're not.
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  1308. In Part 2 of this series there's a chapter toward the end where I talk about this. It's mostly psychological. People really want it to have been a conspiracy.
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  1309. Thanks! I just hit it in the last few minutes.
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  1310. Thanks so much!
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  1311. There were three casings recovered. Not a chamber plug. Three casings. I'm amazed at how many people fall for the "secret service accidental shooting" theory, because it's bonkers and there's not a shred of evidence to support it. I think in a way it's sort of a way for people to cling to one last tiny little bit of conspiracy nonsense once they realize rationally that all the evidence points to Oswald's sole guilt. But I can state categorically that it did not happen. Oswald shot JFK, and he was the only person who shot him that day.
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  1312. I think you're right.
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  1313. No.
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  1314. No, it took a couple of days as I recall.
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  1315. It's not hyperbole. The sources I used made those claims, which are, I believe, based either on the number of sorties flown and/or the number of people mobilized, I don't have the sources in front of me at the moment. If you're suggesting I made it up, I did not.
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  1316. It's actually not clear at all; technically he was ahead when the Supreme Court stopped the recount. Is that "stolen"? Maybe yes, maybe no.
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  1317. He has not been found. I think he is very unlikely to be, though I also wish he could be laid to rest properly.
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  1318. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1319. Take it up with Google Maps because as you can see onscreen that's what they call it. Policing their place names is not my job.
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  1320. Gojiramonkey! Good to see you man. Hope you enjoy the videos!
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  1321. What idea? Which comment?
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  1322. That suggestion has been made by many people! I'm considering it. My list of potential topics I want to do is very long.
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  1323. Thanks!
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  1324. It does indeed...but it was probably a delicacy in 19th century Ohio!
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  1325. Which video of theirs?
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  1326. Thanks so much!
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  1327. Be that as it may. What does it say on the Google Map that's clearly visible in the frame? Not my controversy to resolve.
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  1328. I won't apologize for my views or for the way I told this story.
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  1329. Thanks!
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  1330. Really? Most people would say the opposite. 😜
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  1331. Thanks!
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  1332. Thanks! I personally don't think much of David McGowan's theories, but glad you enjoyed the video.
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  1333. Thank you so much!
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  1334. That perfectly describes the experience of writing the script for this video. 🤣
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  1335. Yes, that's what I said.
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  1336. Considering no treasure has been found in the 6 years since I made this, I would say I've been proven right. 😜
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  1337. Christian fundies love Nostradamus because of the "1000 years of peace" stuff that they think validates their eschatology. They don't understand anything else about him
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  1338. Thanks!
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  1339. Oh, it's quite common in cultic belief systems. Read Amy Wallace's book for a very good account of how this all happened.
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  1340. Yes, that is abundantly clear.
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  1341. You can't dismiss protests numbering in literally the hundreds of thousands as "a few " Nice try though! 😂
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  1342. Curious how the only people who think I'm a bad historian are people who believe in bad history (meaning, pseudohistory). It is a ludicrous theory; I suggest checking out the RationalWiki article on "Shakespeare authorship controversy" that does a good job of explaining why it's nuts.
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  1343. I didn't have a choice. YouTube would have demonetized the video if I used the Nazi flag (swastikas trigger the automatic filters).
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  1344. I had about 30 seconds to decide and I'm sorry I did not make the exact choice that you would have made under these same circumstances.
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  1345. Thanks so much!
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  1346. They didn't think that big. They were mostly bumbling incompetent men having mid-life crises who wanted to play "spy" and saw that as an opportunity to do it.
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  1347. That one is at least less wrong than the sandwich. The driver did make a wrong turn, which contributed to Princip's opportunity, but it wasn't random in the sense that I think most people mean it.
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  1348. It was called Melbourne Drive in 1981.
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  1349. That is a great series, love it.
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  1350. Which war are you referring to?
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  1351. Thanks, I got you!
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  1352. No.
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  1353. I am not.
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  1354. Great book!
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  1355. Thanks!
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  1356. That's how it's pronounced. "Prim-mer" is something educational. "Pry-mer" is a base coat of paint, usually for a car.
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  1357. Whoa, I guess it is Henry I of England. I thought it was Henry of Flanders. I get images from so many sources that mistakes do happen from time to time.
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  1358. Thank you!
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  1359. Pitchfork mobs are gathering for me in both Los Feliz and Chillicothe, Ohio.
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  1360. Thank you so much!
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  1361. His uncle, I believe.
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  1362. I don't think so. They were most likely destroyed or looted during the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204.
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  1363. I agree, but it takes a lot of work!
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  1364. At the very least it's been on extended hiatus since 1949. 😜
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  1365. Thanks! Glad I could pull you out of the conspiracy swamps.
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  1366. You seem to have missed this one: https://youtu.be/cJ_iIUN19no
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  1367. All Google Maps info shows it as still being incomplete, but I believe the address is 10101 Angelo View Dr, Beverly Hills, CA. Redfin says there's a house there worth $23 million.
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  1368. Thank you! 🙏
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  1369.  @CGoody564  It is not a re-upload. It was finished for the first and only time on August 9.
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  1370. It's not a review, it's an analysis. There's a difference.
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  1371. It isn't. I brought up the photo I used and you can clearly see not only a banner with an iron cross design draped across the sail, but it's flying a German imperial navy flag from the stern.
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  1372. Not true. I actually admire Kennedy very much.
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  1373. Thanks!
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  1374. I did one on the stupidity of "ancient aliens" claims, does that count? https://youtu.be/tHhQxMNP7zg
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  1375. Thank you! Hope you enjoy and learn something. I appreciate your support as always.
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  1376. Thanks!
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  1377. TWA 800 is not a credible conspiracy theory.
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  1378. Thanks Marco!
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  1379. Yes, they do know. Sometimes they come into class and ask me how many subscribers I have this week. (It's just shy of 140K at this writing, not 150K).
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  1380. It does matter, and I explain in the latter half of this video why it matters.
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  1381. No, the title is correct, because there is no conflict in history recognized as the "Arabic Gulf War."
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  1382. You're the 76th person to make this same joke. I'm keeping score. 😜
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  1383. I don't know who that is. If he's a proponent of JFK conspiracy theories, then, no. I have a general policy never to debate conspiracy theorists.
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  1384. Thanks. Actually, though, they do imply that. In fact you can search here on YouTube for a documentary about the making of Casino Royale called "Death in Venice" in which the scriptwriters admit they made up the whole scenario. (I revisited this issue in my Fourth Crusade video). They do in fact fantasize that Venice buildings float, and if you watch the scene in the film it's pretty straightforward. The scriptwriters were looking for some way to explain a spectacular setpiece they wanted to do with a sinking building.
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  1385. I'm really honored that a direct descendant of him liked my video about him! Thanks so much!
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  1386. I disagree. Have you seen "Heaven's Gate"? 😂
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  1387. That's a grim subject, and yes, it would be impossible to monetize it. But it certainly would be interesting.
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  1388. You're obviously speaking of Mackenzie Bowell! 😂
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  1389. People become celebrities today by apprenticing in another celebrity's office? I didn't know that's how it works.
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  1390. Hussein committed several genocides against ethnic minorities in his own country, particularly Kurds and also the M'adan (Marsh Arabs) as well as massacring Shi'a dissidents. Sometimes with chemical weapons, but also many other means. Not even slightly comparable to anything Lincoln did, no idea why you'd even bring that up. Hussein's crimes are well documented. He was executed for one of them in 2006 while charges were pending on many others.
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  1391. Thanks. I agree about Grant!
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  1392. I realized that too late.
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  1393. On the contrary, of at least the early Bond in Context videos I think this one is my best.
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  1394. Thank you so much! 🙏 Hope you have a great holiday season!
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  1395. This is a gross misreading of what I said in the video. I never once stated or implied that Reagan was not involved in the Iran-Contra affair...he literally signed off on the arms deals, on paper in documents that came to light, so clearly he was involved. I also do not "assume" that he didn't know about the "operation" (I presume you mean specifically the diversion of funds to the Contras). I presented the case as to why there is no historical evidence that he knew about the diversion, and why the evidence favors the conclusion that he did not know about that specific aspect. I think I also made the point clearly that his judgment about who served him was indeed quite faulty. Therefore I have no idea what your criticism really is.
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  1396. Go back specifically to 51:06 where I specifically quote the diary entry Ronald Reagan made in January 1986 in which he stated, without equivocation, "I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran." He wrote that in his own hand in his own diary--not at the behest of anyone else. I'm not sure how I could be accused of implying that Reagan was not involved. Yes, American meddling in Iran has been unconscionable. I think I also made that clear beginning at 7:19, in the background section.
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  1397. It is indeed! If you look closely you can see two other metal shirts I'm wearing in this video. 😏
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  1398. They recycled the joke for Eisenhower in the 1950s too. And Al Gore later.
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  1399. It's a classic! 😂
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  1400. Nothing will ever convince conspiracy theorists that they're wrong. In fact they will (and already are starting to) shout from the rooftops that the document release proves them right even though it obviously could never do so. I think it's kind of a nothingburger. The documents will be dull, boring and won't show anything of substance. Just like the last round back in 1992. I'm frankly surprised the archives even found anything more to release.
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  1401. Not everything is a CIA conspiracy, you know.
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  1402. I explained it, it was not by my choice.
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  1403. The correction is in the description. Why the hell doesn't anyone read the descriptions anymore? IT'S RIGHT THERE!!!!! 😂
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  1404. Thanks!
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  1405. You're right, I should have included that.
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  1406. Tell you what, I'll wear a hair shirt for 40 days, flagellate myself with cat-o'-nine tails and mail my Ph.D. back to the university I got it from. Will that be sufficient penance for flubbing one word in a 3-hour video? 😂
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  1407. You're right! Thank you.
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  1408. Thanks so much!
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  1409. Thanks!
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  1410. Sorry, but you're misinformed about de Mohrenschildt. He did work for the CIA, and was an acquaintance of the Bush family--that's true--but it's clear that he was deeply mentally ill at the time of his suicide. His death was extensively investigated and proven beyond all doubt to have been a suicide. I stand by my conclusions here. Thanks, and glad you enjoyed the video.
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  1411. I've seen it, it's great!
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  1412. No. 94
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  1413. Thank you so much!!
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  1414. You mean my main website, seanmunger dot com? If it's blocked in Russia this is the first I've heard of it. Not my doing. Perhaps Putin didn't like the online class that's posted there about him? I'll look into it but if the interference is coming from Russia there's not much I can do. I'm not surprised Putin doesn't like me! 😂
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  1415. Very insightful.
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  1416. John Julius Norwich's "A Short History of Byzantium," condensed down from his three-volume series, is a good starting point.
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  1417. Thanks so much! I'd like to think my students are captivated...when they're not throwing paper airplanes, LOL
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  1418. By design. I'm a history teacher, the last thing I want is to encourage students to sleep in class! 😂
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  1419. It's very sick how the MLM cults prey on those who are so desperate they'll cling to any hope long beyond the point where rationality should tell them to move on.
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  1420. It's a scandal how much these charlatans have made pushing lies for 60 years.
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  1421. No one.
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  1422. I'm always amazed at how my videos interface with people's lives. Hope you enjoy!
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  1423. Thanks!
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  1424. That is where it comes from, but he did not identify exactly who said it, whether in the main text or in footnotes/sources. So, not so easily answered.
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  1425. Thanks. The CVN/CVS correction is in the description.
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  1426. Yup. Not complete, but I do have a lot of them.
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  1427. They hitchhiked. The person who picked them up happened to know where Spahn Ranch was.
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  1428. I did. https://youtu.be/P9nA3pqSaf8
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  1429. That was part of it, yes, but far from the whole story. There's a lot more to it than just that.
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  1430. No.
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  1431. Amway is the Amway of 2023. They're still around, still scamming.
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  1432. No. 92
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  1433. Nope. No idea what you're referring to.
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  1434. The new one will be out today, in only a few hours. The post-production stuff is almost done.
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  1435. Do you know what the academic job market is like? 😂
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  1436. Nah. I decided when I got out of graduate school that I wasn't interested in adjuncting. I reach a lot more people doing what I'm doing now. And I teach middle school too.
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  1437. The container that was found floated up, spilled its contents on the beach and just happened to be found at low tide. Had it not been, the next tide would have washed it back into the lagoon and eventually out at sea. This is probably what happened to the first container. For the reasons stated here, I'm very confident Stearns was not involved.
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  1438. That is a very good point. I should have included it. Of course, most of the conspiracy people simply deny that the Walker attempt ever took place, so it would make no impact on them.
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  1439. It wasn't royalty free. I paid a friend of mine who is a musician to compose it for this video.
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  1440. You're right, that would have been a better way to do it.
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  1441. Harrowing story! Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm sorry this is still haunting you.
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  1442. These are all such great questions! I don't pretend to know the answers, but I like thinking about them. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments.
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  1443. Because I already did a video about the Bremen.
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  1444. As numerous people have now reminded me. 😂
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  1445. Thanks!
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  1446. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1447. Not sure how you get Mars out of the title or thumbnail. 😂
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  1448. I've heard of that bar! It's been mentioned on a couple of anti-MLM podcasts.
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  1449. Thank you so much!
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  1450. I did cover it, yes.
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  1451. Thank you so much! You bring history to life and have been such a comfort during this terrible year. Best wishes for 2021.
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  1452. All of his stuff is great.
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  1453. All the music was written specifically for this video by George Kay, of the German band Häns N' Friends.
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  1454. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1455. Thank you!
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  1456. Actually I don't know what it is, though I know I've seen it before somewhere.
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  1457. Wow, that's a great story!
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  1458. I do not, though years ago on my podcast Second Decade (which is still up on most of the podcatchers) I did a three-part series on Simon Bolivar.
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  1459. Not camo, just a really ugly patterned shirt! 😂 Glad you stayed.
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  1460. Thank you! Cheers!
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  1461. No. Far from it. There's zero evidence to support that theory and it makes very little practical sense.
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  1462. Thanks, I hope so!
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  1463. There is no evidence of that. Which "like minded people"? Oswald was a total loner who rarely talked to anyone. How would anyone even know that he was a potential Presidential assassin?
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  1464. It was confirmed in March 2023, after this video was produced. My expertise is the past, not seeing into the future. 😜
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  1465. I didn't omit it at all. You just didn't watch to the end. That also was not why he did it; he tried suicide just before his scheduled Congressional testimony.
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  1466. I didn't say it was. Rome was the setting in 1999. (Original Woodstock was in 1969, not 1968).
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  1467. In what oompaville video was I mentioned?
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  1468. And they were all gullible suckers to waste their money, though to be sure, they had a lot of it to spare.
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  1469. No. 78!
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  1470. We know all about how the pyramids were built. The idea that we don't is a fallacy spread by pseudohistorians and conspiracy theorists.
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  1471. Hmm, I'm not entirely sure off the top of my head...I do watch a channel called Wendover which does a lot of data analysis, so it could have been that one. I don't think I mentioned it in this video.
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  1472. Even at the time, many French politicians opposed the Maginot line for being an extravagant waste of money.
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  1473. The name of the current dictator of Russia is not pronounced "Pyoo-tin," but I admit I'm not any sort of expert at Russian pronunciations.
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  1474. Awesome! Great story!
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  1475. It's in the pile somewhere, yes.
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  1476. Only partially accurate. Many attacks also came from the official army. Godfrey of Bouillon was notorious for his violence against Jewish communities.
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  1477. Number 96!
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  1478. I thought the embassy and CIA HQ were in the same compound. Both were located on Gia Long Street, I think the Embassy was no. 18.
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  1479. I haven't even broken out the Boston terrier shirts yet! 😂
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  1480. Fascinating! I'm going to put this on my ever-lengthening list of videos to do.
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  1481. Very thoughtful!
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  1482. I mentioned Italy's expansionism in Africa.
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  1483. You and me both!
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  1484. Actually, engagement from viewers is much higher on one long video than it is a series of shorter ones. Many more people watch to the end of a long one than will watch all shorter videos in a series. It sounds counterintuitive, but it's true!
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  1485. You get it! 👍 Thank you.
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  1486. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1487. Thanks so much!
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  1488. Not everything is a CIA conspiracy.
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  1489. In many cases they were confiscated by the state. That was certainly true in Russia and China, possibly Turkey, but I know the Kaiser got away with a significant chunk of his wealth from Germany.
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  1490. Storyblocks (where I got my music for this episode) had only this one version available.
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  1491. No, actually it was Yakov Yurovsky who killed their children.
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  1492. That is not the story I wanted to tell, in part because it's been told, better than I could have done so, elsewhere.
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  1493. When I figure out what this means I'll come up with a crushing reply! 😂
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  1494. Thank you so much, I agree!
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  1495. Actually, I don't think so. Samuel Ball's prosperity came from a good land deal that he made and a lot of hard work. There's no evidence of any extraordinary windfall that he received. He died in 1845, quite popular among his neighbors.
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  1496. Andrew Johnson was not involved. 😏
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  1497. I'm actually thinking about doing a video on the life and career of Andrew Johnson. Fascinating and tragic tale!
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  1498. No, that is not what happened. Glaspie referred to Saddam's "border dispute with Kuwait." He never disclosed that an invasion was in the works and neither she nor Bush never understood that to be what was happening. I explained this in the video.
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  1499. I think we have to look at the evidence (or lack thereof) in its totality. My problem with applying a "both sides" lens to this legend is that it presumes the "sides" are roughly equivalent. They aren't. There is no evidence, literally none, that anything was ever buried there. The other "side" is pure conjecture. I don't really think there's an equivalence.
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  1500. Wow, amazing story! Thanks for sharing it.
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  1501. Franco was definitely a fascist.
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  1502. The promoter is made by Elgato. The machine itself is great, the software is dog crap. I can't figure out how to replace it with different software.
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  1503. Yeah, but no foundations float in Venice. So a stabilizer wouldn't be needed in any event.
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  1504. I do not.
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  1505. As I described toward the end, most of the hostage-taking was done by factions involved in the Lebanese Civil War, which ramped down in the 1990-92 time period, leaving these factions mostly irrelevant. Iran backed these groups but was not out there taking hostages on their own. The Gulf War also shifted the regional politics such that Iran had less to gain, and more to lose, by taking Western hostages, so after August 1990 the political picture was extremely different. There were also political changes within Iran in this same period which is beyond hte scope of this video.
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  1506. I used to be a lawyer, not anymore thankfully!
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  1507. Thanks!
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  1508. Thanks so much!
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  1509. No, it was. Yes, it's from Helter Skelter but Bugliosi expressly attributed it to "one of the killers." I researched it but couldn't identify which one of them is supposed to have said it. It is probably in the trial or grand jury transcripts.
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  1510. Thanks!
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  1511. The Titanic sank in free fall speed! 🤣
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  1512. Thanks!
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  1513. I disagree, a lot of people like it. In fact when I retired it a few videos a groundswell of support in the comments persuaded me to bring it back!
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  1514. Not when you adjust for 800 years of inflation. 😜
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  1515. Thanks!
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  1516. No, this was the Democratic convention, not the election. No involvement by Congress, and these are ballots at the convention, not electoral votes.
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  1517. Wrong not wrong. 😂
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  1518. Every few years one of the big historical associations will ask U.S. historians to compile a ranked list of Presidents. At least until recent times (this century), Buchanan usually was at the bottom, sometimes Harding. The rankings generally exclude short-termers like W.H. Harrison, Garfield, even sometimes Kennedy for the reason you identify, they didn't have much time on the job. I don't really endorse any of the lists; generally you know a bad President when you study one.
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  1519. I doubt I will be including any Kardashians in my videos! 😂
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  1520. I tend to discount this claim. There is no evidence that Reagan knew North very well at all or was anything close to that familiar with him. They only met face to face a very few times.
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  1521. Quite fitting. A fake gravestone for a man who in life was a notorious con man and faker.
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  1522. Thanks!
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  1523. I appreciate that!
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  1524. Your guess as good as mine.
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  1525. Of course this is slam dunk proof that I work for them! What can I say, you got me! 😂
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  1526. Not true! What if I told you I had a bit part in "Alien: Resurrection"? 😂 Okay, I just made that up, but what if I told you that?
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  1527. That's what I said.
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  1528. Right! Exactly what I said. Statuary. 😏
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  1529. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1530. I did remove it a few videos ago but had so many people commenting they missed it that I brought it back. Sorry, you're stuck with it. 😏
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  1531. She was guilty--of stealing the Grahams' boat, a crime of which she was convicted in 1975. Keep in mind she was also in sort of a cult-like thrall to a fugitive whose ultimate goal was not to be captured by the authorities and sent to prison. Her behavior actually makes a lot of sense if you examine the circumstances and her mental state at the time.
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  1532. Thank you so much! Don't give up...good luck!
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  1533. I'm not the Unabomber! 🤣
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  1534. Unlikely, because there would still be other evidence of a "treasure" having been buried there. There is no such evidence.
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  1535. The stupidity of that theory makes my brain burn. I've got a bit on it in part 2, but it's simply too idiotic to waste a lot of time on.
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  1536. I never said he did.
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  1537. That is my understanding, yes.
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  1538. Yes, Melaleuca is an MLM and a pyramid scheme, though it does not have a "tools" business attached to it as Amway does.
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  1539. I disagree.
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  1540. There is St. George's Cathedral in Istanbul, but I believe it was built shortly after the Ottoman conquest.
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  1541. Wow! Hearing that much of my voice in one day I feel like I should apologize! 🤣 Thanks so much and I'm glad you're liking what I do.
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  1542. Well, you're not me, are you? 😜
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  1543. I will occasionally use AI images in narrow circumstances, but as long as this channel exists I will never use it for voice over or for writing.
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  1544. It's highly likely that that's what happened. He may have had as many as 8 or even 11 seconds to make the three shots.
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  1545. Luckily there's a little volume slider on the bottom of every video! 😉
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  1546. There were 27 shots and 13 gunmen! 🤣
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  1547. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1548. Actually there were a lot of courtrooms. The burglars went on trial and so did many others connected to the scandal.
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  1549. I can't recall whether it was in this video or another one where I referred to him as "Santa Claus from Hell."
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  1550. Argh. It was so hard to find a photo of Zero alive.
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  1551. Yes, I think you're right!
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  1552. It was designed to target the basis of the South's economy and transform the North politically, and it did both of those things quite well.
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  1553. Thanks for the feedback. I'll endeavor to be a humorless drone from now on. 😜
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  1554. No. It is not called that, although it probably should be. In fact isn't that exactly what I said?
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  1555. If true, that feature of it isn't working because it definitely needs one!
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  1556. Thanks!
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  1557. Difference between MLM and pyramid scheme? There isn't one!
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  1558. Thanks so much!
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  1559. I had to go back and check too. I'm working on a video about the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, where Shi'a uprisings in Iraq are a major part of the narrative, so it was good to go back and make 100% sure!
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  1560. She is, yes.
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  1561. Thank you so much!
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  1562. Thanks!
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  1563. I recall reading that he may have had that.
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  1564. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1990
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  1565. Thank you! 🙏
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  1566. Yes, as you will see I acknowledged that in the video description.
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  1567. Definitely.
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  1568. I would consider it that, yes.
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  1569. Not even worth taking seriously. The evidence indicates beyond all doubt that there was not more than one gunman, so whatever she says is, by definition, wrong.
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  1570. Awesome! Thank you!
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  1571. Frankly, I think I'd rather have a burek! 😂
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  1572. The original batch of students will have to be limited at 50 just to be sure I can respond to questions and not be overwhelmed, etc. But it will probably continue to be available after that on a rolling basis. Keep checking my site, SeanMunger.com.
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  1573. That's very interesting!
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  1574. I made it.
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  1575. I don't, but many have suggested that I do one.
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  1576. Thanks so much!
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  1577. I've done two nonfiction books, "The Warmest Tide" about climate change and "The 50 Most Important Things in History" which is about what it sounds like.
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  1578. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1579. Thanks so much!
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  1580. Very good insights.
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  1581. Apparently. This is the most famous of them which clearly shows Horton several times: https://youtu.be/Io9KMSSEZ0Y
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  1582. Connally was not the target.
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  1583. I'm not on BlueSky, but glad to hear I've got some fans there!
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  1584. No. 82!
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  1585. Pseudoscience, pseudohistory, New Age crap, conspiracy theory, etc.
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  1586. Milhous, it was spelled.
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  1587. No. 90!
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  1588. I don't think any of them have that much patience! 🤣
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  1589. Sean, thanks. I suggest you contact me offline. Sean (at) seanmunger dot com. Be happy to elaborate more!
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  1590. It was written by my friend George, from Germany. He's written music for several of my videos.
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  1591. I think that's a stretch. There's no evidence of homicide or any indication that the women were capable of it, much less any motive. Castaneda's cult was abusive, but not a death cult.
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  1592. Thanks! Music credits are at the very end of the video.
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  1593. Thanks!
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  1594. I have no control over that.
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  1595. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1596. Thank you 🙌
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  1597. They did not belong to Steven Parent. The police investigated everyone connected with the case who ever wore glasses and never found anyone with a link to them, including Parent. The prescription of those glasses was highly unusual.
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  1598. Exactly!
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  1599. That is not accurate.
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  1600. Thanks!
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  1601. Thank you so much!
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  1602. Definitely.
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  1603. No. I don't find it "harmless" at all. It's not what happened. It's a distortion of history. You can't just make stuff up and add it to historical stories because you think it's cute. As a historian I have a duty to tell history accurately and to dispel myths about it. The sandwich is a myth.
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  1604. Thanks so much!
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  1605. French was the recognized language of diplomacy at that time and most formal communications in Europe between embassies were in it.
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  1606. It's a great book.
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  1607. Thanks!
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  1608. I probably should have mentioned that one.
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  1609. I agree. Unfortunately it takes Google Maps Studio (the program that generates these videos) literally hours to render map videos with labels and it's so intensive that you can't do any other tasks on your computer while they render. I do not yet have a separate computer to dedicate to that task solely, so my production schedule would slow to a crawl. I'm still looking for a workaround for this problem but haven't found it yet.
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  1610. Yes, that's in there!
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  1611. You have to know someone at Nebula to get invited, I think. If you happen to know Patrick Willems or the Wendover kid personally, please alert them to my existence!
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  1612. This kind of comment is grotesque. "Indoctrinate yourself into Castaneda's mythology, and maybe you'll feel better about a narcissistic, dishonest, sexually abusive cult leader who drove his followers to suicide!" I want nothing to do with his twisted frauds and his toxic cultural appropriation.
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  1613. Not worth considering, because we know from other evidence that no shot did or could have come from that direction. These are "factoids," false statements that sound like facts but are not supported by any evidence.
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  1614. My source (Edmond Taylor, book cited in the credits) cites the source of the quote as follows: "Quoted by Georg von Rauch in A History of Soviet Russia (1958) from Soviet author N. Zubov; "citing Trotsky." It's on p. 308 of The Fall of the Dynasties.
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  1615. Who, Saddam? He became the leader of Iraq on July 16, 1979.
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  1616. Haha, frankly I was skeptical too, which was why I identified it as "said to be" of Osama bin Laden.
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  1617. Is he more obscure or less forgettable than Walter Mondale? 😜
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  1618. Thanks!
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  1619. There is no AI at all in this video. No images, no text, no voices. None whatsoever.
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  1620. That didn't happen between 1800 and 1920, did it? 😜
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  1621. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1622. The best way to approach it is to look at the evidence, which believers in this theory generally refuse to do.
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  1623. Again, you're reading something into what I said that is totally not there. When did I say that revolutions aren't interesting or consequential? Never said it. What I meant is that the American revolution is entirely consistent with other world revolutions like Russia's, China's and Iran's, not in terms of ideology but in how they are generated, organized and directed. If any revolution is exceptional in this regard, it's probably France's, which was somewhat less organized and forward-directed by a revolutionary elite than the others, though even there we see some similarities. Glad you've enjoyed the videos.
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  1624. Thanks so much, I hope my stuff can help your kid!
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  1625. Not that I'm aware of.
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  1626. My bad. As commenters often remind me, everything in the world is a CIA conspiracy, including me. 😂
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  1627. Thanks! I really do try my best on the pronunciations, which makes it all the more annoying when the Pronunciation Police descend on the comments.
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  1628. Please name a documented historical instance where this has occurred.
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  1629. Music credits are at the end of the video.
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  1630. It was NBC. I believe Paramount gained the rights to Star Trek by purchasing Lucille Ball's Desilu Studios, which owned the show, during its run in the 1960s. CBS now controls the rights to some, but not all, Star Trek properties but I think that came about as a result of a fairly recent merger.
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  1631. Ugh. That reptile is poisoning an entire generation of young men.
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  1632. You're absolutely right. You should see the comments I don't approve. 😂
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  1633. Choosing topics is kind of a complex business. It depends on what I'm interested in, where I feel I have a solid grounding in the background of the topic, whether I know of or can find good sources, and whether I think I can do it in a way that adds something new and interesting to the subject. Most of the videos I've done springboard from sources and material I know pretty well; for example, the Fall of the Monarchies video came about because I have spent many years reading books on various aspects of that story and I felt like I knew the material well to begin with. I do take requests, but my list of potential topics I want to do is long enough that I can give no guarantees that I can get to anything in particular. Often people will suggest things that are really great ideas but which are not realistic for me to do. For example: The Troubles war in Northern Ireland from 1969-1998, which more than one viewer has requested. That's a great topic and I wish I could do it--but I have no preexisting grounding in it, and it would take me 6 months of intensive research to learn the main sources well enough to do it in a respectful and insightful way. The topics I choose (or reject) may seem random at first glance, but I actually try to be pretty thoughtful about them.
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  1634. All very beautiful ships.
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  1635. Proof positive! But the believers just breeze right past it. There's no reasoning with them.
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  1636. Thank you so much! There's more coming.
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  1637. I think so. I have a Google Alert set to notify me if he comes back to life. 😜
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  1638. No, it will be available only on my site though I'll share a sample chapter shortly before the launch.
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  1639. Just one would do.
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  1640. No, the Congress of Berlin was actually 1878 (not 1883) and was something different, I was referring to the Berlin Conference, which began November 15, 1884 and ended February 26, 1885.
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  1641. A "hit piece"? You're clearly not serious! 😂
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  1642. It's a shame that ships like this aren't preserved more often, but it takes horrendous amounts of money to save them.
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  1643. I would say the political and religious might of Catholicism declined after the Reformation and the Thirty Years War.
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  1644. That's a great book and one of the most illuminating ever written on Oswald.
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  1645. I didn't mention it because it's a myth. 😏
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  1646. Wish I could! I'm not going to make it this year. My last Wacken was in 2014, but I went plenty of times before that.
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  1647. No. 88!
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  1648. Thanks for the sub!
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  1649. I have three: Second Decade, Green Screen and Age of Confusion. But none have been updated in a long time I'm afraid.
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  1650. No. The Federal Reserve, which had nothing to do with the Titanic, was an attempt to even out economic boom and bust cycles. It was a Progressive Era project, like many others of that time.
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  1651. Thanks! I remember you, you sat right at the front.
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  1652. Actually, not true. The corporate entity that was eventually named Amway was technically founded in 1949 though that name was applied first 10 years later. A nuance to be sure, but usually glossed over in the corporate history.
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  1653. You totally misunderstood what I said, but it's not at all worth arguing about.
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  1654. Love it!
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  1655. Exactly!
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  1656. I think the CIA is much less ruthless and competent in real life than they appear in the movies. Ghorbanifar was quite a con artist!
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  1657. So that's what I've been doing wrong! 😂
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  1658. The Japanese monarchy did not fall from power so it's not a focus of this story.
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  1659. I think you're referring to "The Jupiter Effect." Nostradamus didn't start that, but it was certainly conflated with him. I was a kid living in California in 1982 and it terrified me too. One reason why I want to expose this crap for what it is.
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  1660. Thanks, but just remember that with oil civilization will collapse in 15 to 20 years.
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  1661. Not entirely correct, I'm afraid. In fact, predictions of the effects of global warming made 40 to 50 years ago have proven remarkably accurate. If anything the predictions made then were too conservative. The collapse is proceeding much faster.
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  1662. No. Stock footage.
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  1663. That was one of his justifications, but not a strategic objective.
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  1664. Finally! Someone understood what I meant!
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  1665. No that's not what I meant at all. Whenever a historian mentions the Democratic Party of the Civil War/Reconstruction era, a small cadre of racist MAGA nuts descends with prepackaged talking points to try to claim that the modern (21st) century Democratic Party has not changed one iota since the 1860s and still supports slavery. (Ron DeSantis of Florida has, for example, done this). My warning about deleting comments to this effect was aimed at those people, who are clearly not interested in the much more complex historical facts of the parties' positions on race. As those people aren't interested in historical facts, consequently I have no obligation to give them a platform on my channel. The argument that you bring up is meant in good faith (and in fact I agree with it, but even if I didn't, it is clearly meant in good faith), so it's not even close to the kind of trollery I was intending to ban.
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  1666. 😉
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  1667. It is.
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  1668. I think Americans just can't help thinking that way. We're taught from birth that we are "the greatest country in the world" and the founders of the revolution were far-seeing supermen who were visionary beyond all other human ability. Naturally this poisons our history and makes most of us allergic to any other competing view. As I mentioned I've gotten hate mail over this issue and countless peons shrieking that I'm a "communist." Americans don't do comparative history very well (and I include myself in that category, I'm not special, just trying to see things more clearly).
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  1669. I usually try to get the longest chapters done first. Especially if they have animations, graphics or other complex elements (political conventions, deals to explain etc.).
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  1670. Another Margaret Thatcher...ugh, perish the thought. Britain's done some bad things, but nothing that would deserve the punishment of two Thatchers in one lifetime.
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  1671. Thanks so much, this is wonderful! 🙏
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  1672. Thanks very much!
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  1673. Given the number of people who screech at me in the unapproved comments queue about how I'm a dirty Commie for daring to criticize Reagan, you'll forgive me if I rather doubt this assertion.
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  1674. Yes, he did work at an engineering firm in 1977. He had a low level job there.
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  1675. Not anymore.
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  1676. "AAAHHH, the French!"
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  1677. Yes, that book was one of my main sources for this video.
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  1678. Through a magical and mystical body of knowledge called "historical sources." 😜
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  1679. He sure did. It was quite a bizarre thing to comprehend at the time.
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  1680. Thanks so much!
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  1681. Everybody's a critic! 😂
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  1682. It's well worth a look.
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  1683. I don't know how to answer this question because it's not entirely clear what you mean by "conspiracy theory." I believe in events that can be proven through established facts and documentary evidence. That's how rational thinking tends to work!
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  1684. "AAAHHH, the French!" 🤣
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  1685. https://youtu.be/Ol5RpDEzLzY?feature=shared
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  1686. Everybody's a critic! 🤣 That is a good point though.
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  1687. I've done podcasts before. Check out "Second Decade" and "Green Screen." Neither are being updated anymore, but there's some good stuff there.
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  1688. They sure helped during the New Deal!
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  1689. Thanks!
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  1690. Thanks so much!
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  1691. Read "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright. Don't watch the film based on it, read the book.
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  1692. But the Hemings family's unrefuted testimony is that the Jefferson who fathered Sally's children was Thomas Jefferson; taken together with the DNA evidence, this is absolutely conclusive that he, and he alone, was the father.
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  1693. Indeed, cranks, frauds and charlatans often plagiarize each other.
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  1694. I did used to smoke, yes. I quit more than 25 years ago, but I guess some fixations die hard!
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  1695. Very much so.
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  1696. I don't believe this is entirely accurate, but it doesn't surprise me that it's taught in every school in Texas.
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  1697. He was actually still wearing the same shirt. I probably should have been more precise in specifying that, when he came into his rooming house, he put on a jacket and got his revolver. My use of the words "changed his clothes" has indeed caused some confusion on this point.
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  1698. Thanks. Good suggestion, but I'm not likely to do it. It would take three and a half months of research and the good sources are probably in French.
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  1699. You know I will!
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  1700. No. 79!
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  1701. Thanks so much! 🙏
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  1702. Thanks so much!
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  1703. 100% correct.
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  1704. This is great to hear, thank you!
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  1705. You're not the first to suggest this, and I love the idea!
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  1706. Thank you so much!
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  1707. I couldn't disagree more regarding attention spans. There is no evidence that social media or technology, much less Twitter, has reduced people's attention spans. I also disagree that the story is not complex. This is one of the most complicated topics I've ever covered on the channel.
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  1708. https://app.inflowly.com/v2/preview/wiaqXq8bW05b3jC7maUj
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  1709. He went into the railroad business, lived a very long life and died at the turn of this century, in the year 2000.
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  1710. Castaneda had no involvement with MKULTRA. Not everything in the world is a CIA conspiracy.
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  1711. Actually, I can say exactly that. In fact I made a video about it! https://youtu.be/tHhQxMNP7zg
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  1712. I'm actually thinking of doing one on Cleveland.
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  1713. Nonsense.
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  1714. https://youtu.be/GUmLe8YtIck
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  1715. Doesn't make any sense to me either! 😂
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  1716. I don't believe that's accurate. All boats were launched including the 4 collapsibles. If there was more time, and more boats, it would have made a huge difference.
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  1717. Thank you so much! 🙏
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  1718. His what now? 😂 Strangely that wasn't covered in any of my sources.
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  1719. It's a great quote! It was in the biography of Davis, it's in the description.
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  1720. It is, yes! Great eye.
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  1721. I do talk about Panic of 1873, it's in the second to last chapter. 😏
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  1722. I heard that is a great book.
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  1723. That's a good question and hard to answer concretely. My observation, just on the basis of comments, feedback and some YouTube demographic data, is that a substantial portion of my audience is probably between 30 and 60, but a smaller, though still substantial, portion is younger than that. On the Pan Am video I expected to receive lots of comments both to the effect of "I remember Pan Am and flew on it/worked for them, etc.," and also "I'm too young to remember when they were around," and I've gotten both kinds. Which section of the audience is larger? No idea, and it may not be representative of my channel as a whole, because people with a personal connection to Pan Am are probably more motivated to comment than other kinds of viewers.
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  1724. He had been in intelligence before, earlier in the Cold War. He was actually probably not qualified to be campaign manager.
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  1725. Well, he certainly had cool hair.
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  1726. He told me they were never under attack. You think you'd remember something like that, wouldn't you? I mean it's not easy to forget.
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  1727. His home state was West Virginia, not Virginia. Coolidge won West Virginia.
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  1728. Thanks!
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  1729. Pronunciation Police strikes again! 😂 I've got a get of jail free card this time, though.
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  1730. It's been discussed in the comments numerous times.
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  1731. NEVER! Slice out thy tongue.
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  1732. Not intended as such, that's what it says on the map (shown on screen). I have no responsibility for that.
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  1733. Agreed.
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  1734. I think they have much more important ways to waste taxpayers money! 😂
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  1735. No, that would be McKinley. Dude looked like a vampire!
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  1736. Thanks! I'm glad you found some new information here.
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  1737. Don't worry about the algorithm, it's not going to be a problem but thanks for the concern.
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  1738. Point taken. Come to Portland, Oregon so I can laugh at your pronunciation of "Couch Street" and "Willamette." 😉
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  1739. Thanks so much!
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  1740. See the July Crisis video, it's linked in the description.
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  1741. I am thinking of doing something on Harding.
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  1742. It's a thing among environmental historians.
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  1743. Thanks! I did a video on Watergate back in November.
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  1744. Music credits are at the very end of the video.
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  1745. I am not a "hippy." This is not 1967. 😜
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  1746. I agree!
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  1747. Both excellent questions!
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  1748. You seem unfamiliar with the concept of maternal grandparents. 😜
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  1749. Unless your mother was of virgin birth and thus literally Christ, you definitely have grandparents on your mother's side. Your mother had a mother and father. I absolutely guarantee it.
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  1750. Obviously true; did not mean to suggest they do.
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  1751. I disagree with that scholarship.
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  1752. Thanks so much!
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  1753. I should give a door prize to the 1000th commenter who makes this same joke. You're about no. 236. 🤣
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  1754. There's no evidence to support this theory, I'm afraid.
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  1755. Rye, Hampton, Seabrook...some beautiful little towns on the NH coast.
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  1756. You and the previous commenter are about the 200th and 201st people who have posted this joke in the past four days. 😂
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  1757. Not everything in American history is a CIA conspiracy.
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  1758. Wow, great story!
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  1759. It's always been right here: https://youtu.be/BmD3o34SttA
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  1760. My guess is that one of her sources is the original 1895 "History of the County of Lunenburg" by DesBrisay which also discusses the folklore background. I think that's available at archive.org.
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  1761. Love that album!
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  1762. I figured somebody would get their knickers in a bunch over the terminology! 🤣 Enjoy your cat videos.
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  1763. I make no claims as to the grime level of Manchester. 😜
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  1764. The correction is in the description, as I've explained time and time again.
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  1765. I am, yes!
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  1766. Actually it's not off topic, but in fact crucial. It was the success of that book that the makers of the "Man Who Saw Tomorrow" documentary were trying to replicate. If not for Lindsey and his book, Nostradamus probably would not have become a cultural thing in the late 20th century.
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  1767. I've never had a commenter yell at me for making videos that are too short before. 🤣
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  1768. I was born in the L.A. area but didn't live there long enough to learn the correct pronunciation. 😂 Sorry about that.
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  1769. Your odds of making a profit are statistically better at a casino than in Amway. And at a casino you can get a drink!
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  1770. Thank you! 🙏 I love making them
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  1771. The evidence for it is stronger than it previously was, but most of the recent revelations came out in March 2023. This video was made in February.
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  1772. Surprisingly, yes. They came as inserts in magazines, and also in cereal boxes.
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  1773. I talk about London and Britain numerous times throughout the video.
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  1774. Start with "The Looming Tower."
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  1775. It is, yes, and I use it frequently.
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  1776. No, the focus here is on 1800-1920.
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  1777. 16th century Danish scientist with a bronze nose who reportedly died from a popped bladder because he wouldn't take a pee? Yes, heard of him!
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  1778. Pronunciation Police on the job again I see! 😂
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  1779. Thank you! It is a lot of work.
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  1780. There's a cultural idea, imported mostly from stories written in the 19th century, that burying treasure was a common or expected thing to do. It really wasn't. People in medieval Europe would sometimes bury stashes of valuables in the hopes of coming back for it after a danger passed, particularly Jews in villages ravaged by the Black Death where gentiles blamed them for the disease and looted their communities. But pirates, or large-scale outfits with lots of valuable goods at their disposal, almost never buried treasure. It's counterproductive to do so. You don't bury assets in the ground, you liquidate them and turn them into cash as quickly as possible. This was as true in the medieval and early modern periods as it is today.
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  1781. Well, you have to admit they've given us some great sweaters over the years.
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  1782. Thanks!
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  1783. He may have smoked a pipe too. There are references to him smoking cigars in the White House, at least in Jean Edward Smith's book.
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  1784. You're about the 25th person to make this joke today. 😂
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  1785. That was nearly 150 years later.
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  1786. Yup. It made the rounds of the primitive internet only a few weeks after the disaster. Many people thought it was real, so the bad tasteness of it wasn't apparent at first.
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  1787. Do the people who bought the propeller know this? Fascinating!
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  1788. You are.
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  1789. You may have a point!
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  1790. That's fascinating!
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  1791. But we do know how to do them. We could construct the pyramids today, if we wanted to.
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  1792. I'm always working on something. My next video script in the works is about the bizarre U.S. Presidential election of 1872.
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  1793. An odious creature. Shame we have to live in the same century as him. But, he's quite consistent with Russian rulers of the past, especially the early tsars.
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  1794. It is in what was once Virginia but became West Virginia in 1864. Thanks.
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  1795. There's no evidence that anything was buried there at all, dangerous or not.
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  1796. In the Archduke's case I don't think they had that option. The touring cars were designed to be open and if they had convertible tops they wouldn't have brought them with them on the parade.
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  1797. Half is better than nothing. At least I'm not a total failure! 😂
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  1798. I know, sounds like a serial killer.
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