REFORM! Part 1 | Pretty Good
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Presenting Part 1 of Secret Base’s first-of-its-kind documentary series, REFORM!, a bizarro political odyssey featuring the weirdest people you have ever heard of in your entire life. This part is free-to-watch for everybody. If you decide that this is your bag, Parts 2 and 3 are available RIGHT NOW on our Patreon! Subscriptions start at $5/month: / secretbase
You know, some people might tell you that in order to run for president, you have to be taller than five-foot-five. And that you need things called “political positions.” And that you’re not allowed to go on a two-month vacation during peak campaign season. And that you should actually prepare for debates. And that you should actually want to be President. Well, Ross Perot proved them all right. But not before almost proving them kind of wrong first!
REFORM! is written and directed by Jon Bois.
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oh, hello there. i don't know if you're interested in this sort of thing but if you happen to want to watch parts 2 and 3 right now, REFORM! is over on our patreon in it's entirety. go to www.patreon.com/secretbase to catch those, otherwise you can wait until september. smell you later!
U guys need to get on nebula
Oh. I'll just wait until September to watch the full series, then. Thanks for the heads up.
4 month exclusivity for a finished video certainly is a choice. See you in September pal
@@aphexskin it’s very normal for RUclips channels who spend hundreds of hours on a video to release it on patreon and get paid more for it. literally nothing wrong with it.
4 months is a bit ridiculous I understand time gating for Patreon but that is to much
We have reached levels of back that were previously thought to be impossible
We are pretty freakin back yall
y’all, WE are BACK
#weback
These “were back” levels are off the charts
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Ross Perot walked so Jon Bois could run - so glad to see the "guy explains charts for 30 mins" origin story
Wow, that went so far over my head when Jon said it, it might as well have been a satellite.
And people are paying to watch Jon explain charts a second and third time a little bit sooner. Rightfully so, lol.
@@51Dutchman strange world we live in, Ross spent a fortune getting on air to explain charts and now he could get paid to do it.
Chart (Political) Party: Tax Go Up!
jon bwa
I don’t think my work is gonna love me taking a 46 minute break
Oh crap I should probably get back to work.
Edit: ok for real this time
Isn’t today an international holiday?
boss makes a dollar, i make a dime, so i watch jon bois on company time
@@zotanica Maybe in the civilised world, but not in the US. The only people who celebrate May Day around here are the type who burn down the cities of Seattle and Portland every time the Republican Party passes a law or rams through a Supreme Court decision.
And maybe people who call in sick to celebrate spring in Jonathan Coulton's preferred style on the First of May.
No it isn't international. In brazil it is but in the usa for ex laborday is a diferent day
I'M HERE FOR THE RESURRECTION OF PRETTY GOOD
may first is my easter now
I literally just watched 222-0 Pretty good yesterday
I always watch the episode about 24 that is the best thing on the internet oh and possibly why did I choose this for a living
I can't believe my eyes
@@kNaild why did I choose this for a living is a masterpiece
"In more ways than one, he desperately needs a W"
*man writing on book engulfed in flames*
i know right? sometimes I feel like jon could make it as a professional writer
@@alonectorch7877Idk man seems like he has made it to me. He has pioneered a microgenre on RUclips, I think he counts as a pro at this point
@@ajw20 *that's the joke*
@@alonectorch7877 Apologies, I thought you were one of the HEATHENS who denies Jon’s glory (I’ve come across them, they indeed live among us, and they *must* be stopped)
When the Florida Man who spent $45,000 on a newspaper advertisement and oversaw a new political movement was shown to be low on the fascination index, I knew this was going to be a wild one
“Wonder who this is about…maybe it’s a hockey thing”
Ah yes my favourite sport: Politics
This doesn't actually tell me which Jon Bois video your commenting on
This is Moneyball.
So sick of these liberals putting sports into my politics
and i AM NOT KIDDING ABOUT THIS
@@lazarbro Hell, Jon's entire UFC breakdown was half-politics to give a feeling of what the times were like.
The fact that Jesse Ventura gets the same music as when they introduced Ken Griffey Jr in the Mariners series is hilarious
He's Jesse "The Body" Ventura. He not only gets hooked on conspiracy but he sounds like Darth Vader with less synth reverb. If there's one person in this story who should get it, he's on the podium if not first place.
And the same music as Julio Jones in the Falcons series 😂
@@PanAndScanBuddy hes also jesse the mind and vote yessie jessie for jessie bux
I heard he did his state well. I could be mistaken but they seemed to have liked him.
@@sublimnalphish7232im a Minnesotan. I voted for him. He was not horrible. But he liked tax cuts for the wealthy too much.
26:47 "So, let me get this straight, a half-hour long video where some dork sits there and talks about charts all the time? Would anyone watch that?"
We love you, Jon and Secret Base!
Ross was really ahead of his time there!
16.5 million viewers.
I had to pause and laugh for like 2 minutes at that one.
Be honest, we just love Jon
3 hour long episodes on the history of politics in a country I don't live in and have never been too, narrated by Jon Bois. This is going to be fantastic.
He saw the comments of his last few videos saying “I could listen to Jon Bois talk about anything for hours and I’d enjoy it” and he said hold my beer. Credit to him, he’s got me hooked and I’m not even American
As someone who is interested in American politics and lived through all this at just about a year older than Jon youre in for a friggin ride.
I mean if he could get me to care about the Minnesota Vikings (a team in a place I live nowhere near or like in a sport I don't follow), this surprises me not at all. Jon Bois has a superpower, and it's getting people to care about stuff they wouldn't otherwise.
If you do end up visiting you should go to the Grand canyon. It's pretty sick
@@ts-wo6pp thanks for the recommendation but I have zero desire to see America anytime soon, I'm actually more interested in visiting Scotland right now, but that's years down the line.
If Ross Perot won the Presidency, the Falcons would’ve won Super Bowl XXXIII.
A reformed Euguene Robinson would’ve had a pick six, a forced fumble, a game sealing interception, and a superbowl mvp
As an ATLien you guys are triggering my trauma.
Buffalo Bills would have FOUR super bowl wins. Jim Kelley still hates Ross Perot for what he did to the city of Buffalo.
And Jim, if I spelled your last name incorrectly, it's only because Ross Perot didn't win the presidency.
If Al Gore won the Seahawks would have ran the ball
7:15 "Ross Perot is a man so disciplined and straightlaced he probably doesn't need a haircut..."
I can't tell if this is a joke with multiple layers or not, but Perot was famous for going to the same barber for the same $10 haircut every week for many years. It was part of his "everyman" folksiness.
Don't you lecture me with your $10 haircut! The reform party dies!
my great aunt still has a PEROT ‘92 magnet prominently displayed on her fridge
good aunt
@@BarackLesnar good fridge
@@michaelkitchin9665 good lord let's eat
I got out my Perot for President t-shirt to wear all this summer.
6:03 "he desperately needs a w" had me roll eyes, say "ugh dear god" out loud, and then click the like button
Part 3 is just gonna be Jon Bois announcing his campaign for president...
And I would love every second of it
The best possible 2024/2025 outcome.
Bois '24: Make Bobs great Again
I'd vote for him.
"I'm sick of dark money running our politics. Lets support a billionaire running for president as a political outsider!"
Thankfully, the American public would never ever make the same mistake again.
......Sigh..
well he was an better president then senile Genocide Joe, and for that matter any "politican" but yeah its a very low bar
The argument is that if he's already rich he doesn't need funding from think tanks and other dark money sources so he pretty much can't be bribed cause he's rich enough, of course Trump was not good enough of a person and not strong enough. If its a billionaire like Ross perot i'd vote for them in a heartbeat
When we need him most Jon Bois returns
Sometimes, politics and sports can pretty much be identical to one another in terms of how dramatic/chaotic it can get.
To adapt an adage by Gary Lineker:
Politics is a simple game. Two dozen guys get on the ballot, and at the end, the bad guys win.
@@Billiamwoods I never knew that quip by Lineker, my man is a straight-up savage.
Unfortunately, American politics have long been a circus.
@@dylanjwagner All politics has always been a circus. Seriously. As long as democracy has existed, it has always been known to be vulnerable to demagoguery and rabble rousing. The Athenians wrote about that. The Romans wrote about that. Our modern forms of democracy are just the same all over again.
I would say that politics in the day of two party politics is just sports-fandom. It’s the exact same thing. Blind loyalty to people who will never benefit you personally
This is a strange meta-commentary of the fact that Americans follow politics the same way we follow sports.
I just want to thank whoever it was at SB who allowed this to happen. And I haven't even watched the whole video yet, I just got through the intro.
More than a thousand years ago in Byzantium, the political parties were literally split between the "green" and "blue" chariot racing teams. In modern day Scotland, even up to the present day, there is a political split between Celtic (Catholic, Nationalist) and Rangers (Protestant, Unionist). In Italy it's even crazier, with SS Lazio being associated with the far right.
It's actually not that crazy. Besides the historical examples, CNN runs their political segments exactly like they run their sports segments. Literally, the broadcast style, messaging, and format, are all stolen from those old sports segments where a bunch of guys sit around a table and yell at each other. That's exactly how modern political discussions go down. The news media figured out that very few people care to sit and listen to a guy explain a bunch of charts.
My bet, is that it's because people can much more easily sniff out hypocrisy and inconsistencies if you're carefully explaining and articulating your points, rather than screaming louder than the other person. So if you're campaigning for anything other than the most noble and ethical reasons of self-sacrifice, you're going to get more views and votes by screaming rather than taking time to explain yourself.
I remember being a grade-schooler when Perot was running and something about his message made sense to me in a way that had nothing to do with my age. My parents - Bush voters - thought he was a lunatic, but the simple message of "we should perhaps have more choices" could resonate with everyone.
Secret Base. The only channel that when you see they uploaded you wait until you get home because you need to set the mood properly.
Internet historian.
26:38 Who watched Perot, my theory is that Perot represented the last bastion of FDR. By that, I mean Perot brought fireside chats into the 1990s with audio and visual content. The 1990s was the last time people 65 years and older voted Democratic. Why? Because they were children during the FDR administration. They did not forget what the Democratic party did to improve their family's living standards. They liked Perot because he talked like FDR. He was FDR's fireside chat with graphs and charts. It does not surprise me that older people ate up Perot's content religiously.
My great uncle, my grandmother's brother, whom I had never met, adored Clinton because he was a new deal democrat. He hated Regan and Bush Sr. Sadly, in 1994, my great uncle died due to complications due to Alzheimer's. My grandmother said nothing got him out of his confusion, like asking him who the president was. On one occasion, when my great-uncle was living in the assisted living center, she asked the doctor to come into their room because he was talking nonsense. The doctor asked him who the president was, and he responded, "William Jefferson Clinton, the BEST DAMN PRESIDENT AMERICA EVER HAD." Why? He was a new deal democrat who had to sit through the Reagan revolution, and finally, in 1993, at the end of his life, there was a Democratic president again. My grandmother laminated, "Well, he was talking crazy a moment ago".This is a very circuitous way of saying that Perot captured the imagination of the older Americans. My great uncle felt that Perot was the biggest threat to America because Perot captured the imagination of old Americans who idolized the 1940s. He did so by emulating FDR's style.
GO AHEAD, THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY - *punches Perot 96 hat*
That's literally all I knew about Perot until now.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I was born in 1992 and started caring about politics in 2000 when my third grade class did a mock election. This is fascinating.
I really love that someone at sb realized that Jon Bois’ style can be applied to any topic and that we watch for his story telling capabilities not the actual topic of the video, can’t wait to see the rest.
I mean, that's what pretty good was in the beginning. He talked about poker players, some dude who took a ride in a lawn chair, and Jack Bauer
Check out Bobby Broccoli for a science and technology version of Jon Bois. Bobby directly credits Bois for his use of the format.
@@SemiDoge hell yeah the Nortel videos were great, emp lemon and summoning salts also have a style based on Jon so they’re both worth a watch
I think the element hunt video is probably my favorite, but the cloning one is definitely the most dramatic!
25:21 What's funny about this is that after the debate, now-President Biden said if someone had been in a coma after the 1988 election and then woke up in time for the debate, they would've thought it was a two-person race between Clinton and Perot
Jon, Mr. Bois, you and your company need to find away of putting this whole thing in a theater, even if it’s just a limited run. You are our greatest living documentarian and should be winning an Oscar every year.
IVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS MOMENT
As a Coloradan with a tangential involvement in local politics, your description of Lamb's weird politics being uniquely Coloradan is spot on.
Yep im Colo native, grew up in platte park, hate both parties , pro gun, anti gun violence , pro choice, and i wont vote for anyone who supports any drug war ever and believe all the worlds decisions should be based off the coral reefs dying. These people politics arent weird enough, to me. Denver and Portland knew better than the 2 party system, now dead cities because housing crisis, wonder if related
In the spring of 1992, I was a polisci major at Wyoming. I thought I could be in the vanguard of the Perot campaign, and set out to build an organization in Laramie. Little did my naive self know that the organization had already been built using a base of weirdos and oddballs from across the state. I was given the phone number of the state organizer. I called her, and during the conversation she brought up the Rothschilds and the Trilateral Commission. My response: 😬
I stuck with the campaign and its weirdness through his dropout. I still voted for him, but I didn't do any more campaigning. It all just got too strange.
Like, complaining about rich people is very fair and neccessary, I do it all the time, but if someone brings up specifically the Rothschilds in the current day, I am immediately hella sus of them. Like, who outside of off-the-mark conspiracy theorists blind to antisemitism or actual antisemites bring up the Rothschilds in the century of our lord the 21st (or the late 20th in your case)? They haven't been relevant since the 1800s lmao
I just graduated from UWYO in Poli Sci! Not too surprised about there being weirdos in Wyoming
That's what ALL political campaigns run on. Seriously. Who the hell is showing up to local party meetings in Bumbleton, Idaho in non-election years? What do they even have to talk about? Why, the pet causes of the people who bother to show up. The causes may not be actively insane, but they will definitely be tediously irrelevant to anything normal people care about. But those are the people who, when the elections are coming, will get out and sign up volunteers and canvass neighbourhoods and so on. Because they are weird people.
“A half hour long video where some dork just sits there and talks about charts the whole time? Who would ever watch that??” 😂😂😂
I’m actually surprised that I don’t see a single comment saying, “Stick to sports.” And I love it. I’m a graphs, stats, sports and politics guy so this is awesome.
there's several of them but they are definitely garnering disagreement.
Jon has primarily told sports stories in the past, yes, but especially Pretty Good as a series is more of an exploration of human triumph and eccentricity that happens to be through the lens of sports. what makes him so great is his frankly unparalleled ability to draw a compelling story out of the oddest places, and I really don't find the lack of sports to be a detriment here.
If you've seen the other episodes on Patreon, you know that that's really only going to kick up on episode 3.
@@thecorbohole3637 I know and I want to but I have to pick and choose what I can pay for and it’s not many things unfortunately.
Man, seeing a new Pretty Good, seeing that it's 40 minutes long, and then seeing "Part 1 of 3" slam onto the screen, I cannot stop smiling
You know I always loved the Secret Base stuff that has a political side to it. Fighting in the age of loneliness, the Randall Cunningham video, etc. Excited to see Jon go all out on it.
"In more ways than one, he desperately needs a W."
I'd be so insufferably pleased with myself i had written that.
Pretty Good is back from hibernation after all these years. Thank you Jon Bois.
This is one of the very greatest days, genuinely, because Pretty Good had finally returned! When you said you were gonna start posting new episodes of it I didn't realise how damn quickly you were gonna post them, so thank you so so much for making them. You are the best and most influential youtuber there is, every great youtuber says Jon Bois is one of their biggest inspirations, I genuinely believe your videos will be studied in a few decades the same way Citizen Kane is studied academically, or the Beatles Sgt Peppers album is studied academically in the art form of music. You are to the art form of online video documentaries as the Beatles are to popular music, in that every single band that came after is affected by what the Beatles did. Even if they don't realise it.
I'm gonna donate to the Patreon so I can see them early but it's nice to have this one here already. Thank you for always making awesome videos I can rewatch dozens of times and never get bored of.
Back during the first Perot campaign I had a school project going where I ended up working for all three major candidates' campaigns, which in retrospect is kinda funny and also maybe illegal? I dunno. Anyway, on election day I was with the Perot camp doing "outreach," which for the local office meant basically my ass standing out on the 16th Street Mall in Denver just howling utter *nonsense* about Perot and why you should vote for him. The one phrase that sticks in my mind over 30 years later is "VOTE FOR ROSS PEROT! ROSS PEROT IS 99% FAT-FREE!"
Looking back on it, that is a perfect encapsulation of what kind of a clownshow Perot '92 really was.
It took me 27 years of life to realize that the months from July to November spell out Jason
At first, I wondered "What does this have to do with sports?" Then, I remembered the Pretty Good Episode about Larry, the guy who launched himself into the stratosphere with weather balloons attached to a lawn chair!
SECERT BASE DROPPING A POLITICAL VIDEO IN 2024 IS CRAZY
12:14 this is the moment during Perot’s explainer where RUclips interrupted for a mayonnaise ad.
Once again, you never disappoint. You know, it's kind of amazing. You were the first videographer on RUclips to really lean in to using kinetic objects, text and precise camera work with a bunch of thought with it. Way back in the Breaking Madden days I knew it was something special. I couldn't really put my finger on what exactly, but I knew it was. And now like a decade or more later, so many people try to ape the style and so many of them never quite get there. Again, well done, as always.
As a Political Science major and an avid sports/Secret Base watcher, this is hitting all of my bases. Home-run Jon!
I will drop everything for a pretty good or a chart party.
I’m sold. Jon Bois needs to run for office
Paying 50000 to say you’re pissed then paying.40 cents doing something about it is truly amazing
I think it can be officially confirmed: Jon Bois could put ANY information about ANY subject on a chart and I will listen to him.
I'm scared of how massive Trump's weirdness index will be when he inevitably pops up on the graph.
Why? This video already covered the General Principles that give you the answer in the only form required: the public will adjust their POVs to whoever they regard as an important enough figure to set them. Remember how he said the Republicans' anti-abortion stance was unpopular, even within their own party? Ever heard of The Daily Show?
In the 2000s, twice they sent 'reporters' to the RNC asking them why they were anti-abortion (see? They had already changed their POVs to conform with 'The Party'). "Even in the cases of incest or rape" they asked?
Then we got to see the Ultimate Evidence that none of this is the product of thought, but simple conformity out of fear.
The person asked this waved their hands vaguely in front of their lower torso & answered "Oh, I think they have the ability to shut all that down."
Those were the replies of women.
You should read a chapter or 2 of Eliot Aronson's "The Social Animal." Basically, it's a long-winded collection of studies showing the other, darker side of The Bystander Effect in action. A person speaking like Trump or Ross Perot on a street corner is dismissed. Someone *presenting themselves as a political candidate **_automatically changes how people PERCEIVE_** their message.*
The _instant_ people think that this message is coming from someone who can Set The Agenda, right & wrong disappear. _Only_ thoughts of confirming out of fear of rejection by those setting the agenda are considered.
How many examples of this do you need?
@@choosecarefully408this has to be a bot that triggers when you write ‘Donald Trump’, right?
@@PennRail It's gotta be some weird LLM bot using like, ChatGPT based on the other words in the comment section. I can't parse why its applicable at ALL.
@@PennRail ? ? Which "this" are you referring to? People just call anything they disagree with a "bot." Having no real definition, how can I answer that question OR figure out what you think is the bot? Is it me or the original comment or... ?
@@choosecarefully408 I think it's just that they can't understand how anyone has the time and energy to drop a wall of text like that.
As a long time fan of Jon Bois and a political campaign organizer this is the greatest video I could've ever asked for.
Ew
the jazz fusion is just the perfect cherry on top. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into these.
We're Join Bois guys, of course we watch multi-part long form documentaries with copious amounts of statistical data.
Man, I love your graphics, and, honestly, the whole format in general. Very entertaining. I don't think I've seen any of your vids yet, but now I'm stoked.
As a politics fan and a sports fan who thinks Jon Bois is kind of neat, I'd say this series is a treat!
If you're a Celtics fan then that's very bad new
Before voting to increase the military budget this year, House members took $20k on average from military contractors this election cycle
REFORM
Source?
Wait - they're that cheap?!
@RyTrapp0 over the course of an elected officials term 20k every few weeks under the table isn't that bad
If you actually bothered looking at the defense budget you would see that the vast bulk of the new money went to pay increases. Turns out inflation is real and military wages need to reflect that. In fact DoD made substantial cuts to procurement in order to afford the wage increases. Most of the other new money went to Ukraine related funding and navy owned shipyards.
Unless the E4 mafia is handing out bribes corruption is not the reason for current defense spending.
@@KMcNally117article in The Hill. “A Pentagon budget of $1 trillion is looming. Here’s how to stop it” I tried pasting the link here but it keeps auto-deleting.
"Made politicians more accountable to their financiers than their voters"
Poignant words for any moment in America but especially relevant now more than ever
The sax that hits right when the graphic for "PEROT JUMPS BACK IN" appears 😂 glorious
I watched the whole thing expecting there to be a sports parallel at the end…I was wrong but still had a blast. “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore” is gonna be my slogan
Well, it kinda depends on your definition of sports…and how much they lean into it.
"Lets all join the Reform Party!" - Bender Bending Rodríguez
the reform party has been a topic i've been obsessed with ever since learning about it during the 2016 election when i found out trump ran back in 2000. dream come true to have one of my favorite personalities on the internet cover it in exhaustive detail now. beautiful work as always, that wind up for the "hacked off" bit really got me 43 minutes in. master of foreshadowing.
man, this sure is a Pretty Good video.
'This ones about politics? Well they cant all be winners i guess.'
45 minutes later: 'Whens the next episode?!'
Honestly was kind of like, "ugh another political video." Then I watched 5 minutes and realized it was another concise and suuuper informative banger from SecretBase
We, and I cannot stress this enough, are SO BACK.
35:11 As a Coloradan, I can confirm many people of this state have very idiosyncratic stances. And we’re damn proud of it. Y’all never gonna nail us down!
5:00 the future falling away was a good touch
A Jon Bois documentary on a topic that Bobby Broccoli would conceivably cover ... this is beautiful. Also drawing strong parallels to some upcoming elections: the infographic on the left reminds me of a butterfly ballot, which were infamously confusing and thought to have contributed to Gore's loss in 1999/2000, and of course it hasn't been a long time since I heard discourse about a modern president believing conspiracy theories or winning the electoral vote despite losing the popular vote
The butterfly ballot and its consequences to the 2000 election are probably the last (and most) major effect the Reform Party ever had on American politics, so that makes sense.
Part 3 :^)
Yup. That’s some deliberate foreshadowing
Seeing Jon regain the freedom to talk about whatever he wants, feels PRETTY GOOD
i have no idea where this is going, but 90 seconds in, i'm immediately reminded of Werner Herzog:
"I remember that when Twentieth Century Fox were first interested in co-producing Nosferatu they wanted me to travel to Hollywood. I did not want to go so I invited them to Munich instead. I met them at the airport and squeezed all four executives into my Volkswagen bus with no heater on a freezing winter morning and drove into the Bavarian countryside. Later, they were astonished that I had budgeted only $2 for the screenplay as I needed only 200 sheets of blank paper and a pencil."
I have waited so long for you to come back, Jon. Thank you for returning just in time
One of the best debates ever was when Bush, clinton and Perot was involved on Saturday Night Live. It was a good one.
I'm unsure how people will take a political video on a sports channel, but as someone who watched then-SBNation while going for my Masters in Poli Sci I won't say no to a video about the second-best third-party run in Modern American history.
It has been 2407 days since the last episode, nearly 7 full years. I've been waiting for this day and I'm glad I bought the patreon.
PLEASE BRING THIS SERIES BACK WE NEED IT MORE THAN EVER
Reminded me of a time when I was a young person that I felt hopeful about the direction this country was going. Great stuff, happy to throw in a fiver for the rest. For the folks who will be waiting until September, hold fast: You're in for a treat.
I am not REALLY HACKED-OFF about Pretty Good being back
Jon, I love your writing. Such prime content. Thank you SB staff for all the work
This is tremendous work, super excited for part two!
The wild thing is that 41% of people said they would vote for Perot if they thought he could win…
My heart rate is slightly elevated. Truly inspiring work.
I had no idea I’d be so interested in a presentation about a losing candidate from an election in the 1990s
I have never been so excited for a RUclips series to come back
So unbeleivably hyped for the comeback. Thanks Jon and family.
It just dawned on me this is one of the first, if not THE first, longform videos I've ever seen by Jon Bois that is not entirely about sports.
26:48 Lol, this was great.
Just finished the whole thing. Truly fantastic series. Very unexpectted but I guess that's what the patreon was for. You guys are great.
That was excellent. Truly it is unfortunate that so many of the most critical issues in this country are so boring. Campaign finance reform is about as important as anything, and it’s legitimately fixable, but instead we have a system where, if you are to hold public office, it’s either because you are insanely rich, or beholden to insanely rich people.
no other channel would be able to name drop a 3rd party candidate and have me clambering for more the way this channel does. "OMG is that Jessie Ventura!" is a sentence no one else could make me say
Not sure why people watch Netflix and HBO documentaries when Pretty Good blows them out of the water everytime
Can't wait to see part 2 in three months!
LETS GO ITS BACK BABY
Jon Bois getting into political commentary and analysis is the biggest moment for the genre since the advent of Twitter.
I’ve been waiting so long for pretty good
This was recommended to me! Loved it! It was so well written and well made visually! You guys earned a sub
1992 was the first time I was old enough to vote in a presidential election and I kinda didn't appreciate just how weird it actually was. I also was more into listening to music (hey, Nirvana just got big) than politics. To be honest, my strongest memory of that whole campaign season was Phil Hartman playing a daft, senile Admiral Stockdale on SNL.
Man, his wife took away Phil from us far too soon from this world of ours. :(
Dude, you have got to do more political essays...this had me enthralled. You could talk about corruption in the used tire industry and make it entertaining.
I had no clue Perot was so competitive up to the election. This candidacy has been (perhaps purposefully) wiped from American political consciousness, yet it was only 30 years ago!
Woah great video! I loved the visuals, the music was PERFECT and the jokes ("W" comes to mind) were fun. Amazing! I can't wait to see more.
Is it just me or is anyone else getting kind of the same narrative-arc vibe as the 1995 Seattle Mariners from this?
As someone knowing how things turn out for the Reform Party (I'm guessing part 2 will be about Ventura and part 3 will be about what ends up happening to the Reform Party), it is not the same narrative arc. It is something else entirely.
@@awildhannahappeared203 I was around, sort of, for the Reform Party's heyday (I was 15 during the presidential election in '92), but I didn't pay close enough attention to politics to really know much about this subject coming into this video series. I haven't watched the latter parts yet, going to do that when I get home from work.
You're half right....i'll say no more.
@@firesofthemind Having watched the rest of the doc on Patreon...whoa. Yeah, "half right" sounds about on the mark.
A half hour video where some dork just sits there and times about charts the whole time?😂👏
Thank you for this video, as someone interested in political history I had always kind of written Ross Perot as some vaguely populist pseudo-libertarian and while aware of him had not really looked into what he represented. This video is basically the premier telling of this chapter of history, and judging by what your other content seems to be, this was your first attempt so great job!
It's amazing how Jon can tell a story I would otherwise not care about whatsoever and turn it into something that goes straight to the top of the pile of content I need to watch. Keep up the good work brother.