@@emilianohermosilla3996 Rome didn't admit mistakes, it hid them or dared anyone to criticize it. Damnatio memoriae was literally the erasure of what people saw as blots in their history, or better left concealed for political purposes.
I mean as a straight woman there are women I feel like would be unfairly attractive so I get it. For some reason I cannot think of any off the top of my head but I get it.
I know the story of one Japanese whom was kidnapped to North Korea; Hitomi Soga (born 1959 in Sado, Japan). She was kidnapped in 1978 when she was 19 years old with her mother and brought to North Korea. She was separated from her mother and does not know what happened to her. In 1980 she met American Charles Robert Jenkins, former Army Sergeant whom had defected to North Korea in 1965. They got married and two daughters. In 2002 Hitomi was allowed to visit Japan with other Japanese whom had been kidnapped for 10 days and she never returned to North Korea. Later that same year Pyongyang allowed Charles and their two daughters to visit Indonesia, possible because of some deal with North Korea and Japan, where they where re-united with Hitomi. They all traveled back to Japan, where Charles was arrested by US Military Police and charged with he's 1965 desertion. He bleated guilty and was sentenced for six months, but served only 25 days because of good conduct. He is the longest-missing deserter to return back. Charles died in 2017 in her wives hometown.
My uncle worked in the space industry on a team that developed the moon rover. I know definitely that the moon landing was real and not a conspiracy theory.
The USSR would have *immediately* called us out on it if we didn't land on the moon. The fact that they congratulated the US for landing on the moon speaks volumes
@@thatguyliam6506 I’d argue it did a lot. kaczynski was a very pretentious but shy individual. The type of experiment to where he was constantly ridiculed and called stupid most likely fueled his rage for humans even more. It’s possible if he never joined that class and experiment, he wouldn’t have turned out the way he did.
@@thatguyliam6506 Being a young man and having those tests done and your psyche broken down like that constantly is pretty bad and does explain much of how he felt towards people in his elder years.
I dont know the extent of his involvement nor do I know the extent of the experiments done other than the “headlines” you see online of what MK Ultra did. That being said I feel that it is almost impossible to prove that an experiment done 50 years ago made someone the way they are. My gut tells me it was a contributing factor but that he always had the potential to do what he did. Was it the only contribution, probably not. People are not raised or created in a vacuum. There are so many factors that make us who we are that it is impossible to point to one thing and say that caused it.
@ 100% I never said it was the only factor, just a big part of it. You would have to read up on the experiments done at Harvard when he was attending and form your own opinion on how much it affected him
especially a shelter one would most likely have a reaction out of shock surprise at seeing those picture. Their at time we have huge reaction cause of repulsion that may confuse people thinking it the opposite
Pretty disappointed he left out the Trolley Conspiracy. It may not be the most impactful or exciting as compared to the war conflict or scientific research conspiracies, but it still is a conspiracy that impacted many American cities and citizens, and is also partly why American cities are as car-centric as it is right now
In very loose terms, as I am by no means an expert in this matter, General Motors and other, car-focused companies bought interurban and city trolley companies in the 1930s-1960s, shutting them down or replacing them with bus services, either way causing the already then declining companies to completely cease operations shortly after. While at the time there already was a decline in these systems, the purchase by companies directly or indirectly linked to these car manufacturers or car manufacturing-profiting companies is often considered a deliberate action, to destroy the public transport networks of the larger US cities, to reinforce the already existing transition towards private transportation in form of the personal car. How much of this "Death of the Trolley" truly was because of the takeover and how much the decision of the general public is debatable, but it's true that the transition away from trolley systems in favour of busses was in no small amount influenced by the ownership of these car-manufacturing companies.
"Let's poison the alcohol, so that people don't drink it!" "Wait, what do you mean it already kills people pretty well and people are still drinking it? Oh, and people are willingly smoke, despite it literally shortening your life?" "This will turn out different, trust me bro!"
On the north korean abduction thing, i actually know something about this, they weren't just kidnapping from japan(though this did happen) they were also kidnapping from south korea, 2 from south korea were a film maker and an actor, North korea abducted them to make movies, they ended up going to a film festival in Europe and escaped their security and asked for asylum at an embassy(I can't remember which one exactly) they got to go back to south korea and reunite with their son who had been left behind and was being raised by relatives. I'm pretty sure most of the ones acknowledged by north korea have since either escaped or were released but the ones not are still believed to be there. North korea usually claims they were fishing in their waters when talking about japanese fishermen.
Last comment, I promise. Nick Crowley is a goldmine for these. The Chinese government covered up the most catastrophic space launch disaster in history, officially claiming a few deaths when a rocket went into a city.
There's usually a slight biological reaction but not a major one like your real preference would give you. Magic Mike is an anomaly tho... I can't explain that one.
Fun fact! There are still additive in industrial ethanol these days that make it unfit for consumption. Its denatonium benzoate. Its making people vomit and nauseaus and has a super bitter taste. If this was not the case industrial alcohol would also be a lot more expensive because alcohol tax would also apply to these as well.
Is the lightbulb cabal here? Where all of the lightbulb manufacturers got together and decided to buy out the competition, and then start lowering the life of all the bulbs they made?
Regarding the first one, it wasn't just Canada either. Although it was much more openly discriminatory, in the US, there was the Lavender Scare which caused more people to lose their jobs and lasted much longer than the Red Scare that it started alongside.
Our family is pretty certain my great grandfather died from the poisoned alcohol. He died when his kids were pretty young, but somehow they rose above and my grandparents are my heroes. 74 years of marriage and 200+ family members showed up to my grandpa's post-mortem 100th birthday party. I can't imagine a better legacy.
Just because it is weird. But it doesn’t make a conspiracy theory, a conspiracy is something people talk about that is denied. A lot of these no one talked about but then people found out after they got published. So this is a misnomer
To clarify better. It is not about the "conspiracy" label. It is about the "theory" label. They have little to do with practice in a real human world where evidence, common sense, etc are necessary. They only care about their own fantasies as if they were real.
I personally believe that thing was released to see how far the government could get away with controlling people’s lives. Testing an American Communist State
As a combat veteran in the initial invasions of both Afghanistan & Iraq, I get upset at the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Certainly mistakes were made post 9/11, but the “inside job” theory is ridiculous and dishonors the victims and heroes of that tragic day.
I should preface this by saying I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job, though I do think it was preventable and it not being prevented has multiple reasons (The transition being delayed due to the 2000 election being decided so late and executive agencies basically needing to spend the first half year on updating their new administrators, inter-agency rivalries, etc.). As for Iraq specifically the war on terror combined with the WMD claims almost certainly were a very convenient excuse for that unjustified invasion. But for argument's sake, let's say 9/11 was in fact orchestrated and executed by the Bush administration, how would this dishonour the victims and first responders? Their deaths would have been just as tragic and their acts of heroism no less heroic. Even the soldiers wounded or killed in the subsequent invasions would be no less patriotic and heroic as they still served what they reasonably believed was a just cause. The only ones this would reflect negatively on is the administration. And they didn't end up coming out that positively even with the official story being true.
Hey VTH, love your videos! Can you do a reaction to a pawn stars episode on historical U.S. artifacts? Some pretty interesting items on there worth talking about!
One of those Kidnapped Japanese women married an American defector! It's a SUPER interesting story from front to back. Hitomi Soga is her name, or the story of the American guy who's name was Charles Robert Jenkins. Highly recommend any history nerd look into that story.
Remember, conspiracies are totally real. We even have laws against them. "Conspiracy theory" refers to a way of thinking about a hypothesis that is immune to evidence to the contrary.
Except these were never actual "conspiracy theories" people had prior to them being discovered. I hate when people say "many conspiracy theories turned out to be true!" only to use examples like Canada's "gay-dar." How many people were proclaiming "Canada's got a gay-dar!" before this stuff was uncovered? 😂
15:15 I don’t put a whole lot of blame of Bay of Pigs on Kennedy. He was a fresh president only like 2-3 months in office, a young president that trusted his intelligence agency that had cooked this plan up with the previous administration. He wouldn’t let American planes be used for air support and the CIA had to use a contractors (United Fruit Company) boats to transport the refugees to the bay since Kennedy forbid American naval vessels be used. He trusted a relatively new subset of government that was actively working against his interests the whole time… it’s one of the many reasons I think they killed him.
There were US Marines on US ships involved in the Bay of Pigs. IDK what all the official stories are, I know my dad's story because he was there as a US Marine.
@ Was he shuttling them to the bay? I know the official story isn’t always entirely true, my father being involved in censored ops in desert storm, but it is the official narrative of the military that basically no military personnel was used
So many of these conspiracies are so CRAZY! The fact that some of these aren’t as MASSIVE is so strange to me, the fact that they’ve TAPERed off into obscurity as they FADE from the public eye is pretty intriguing. Like could you IMAGINE if some of the theories today were true?
@10:12 --How could the military ethically test a weapon directly effecting biochemical processes in humans without testing them on living humans ? I don't know how many people, military or otherwise who would be willing to knowingly consent to such experimentation, and, if they did, it appears that they are no longer around to tell their side of the story....
The North Korea kidnapping/abducting innocent people is just horrifying. Imagine being at the wrong place at the wrong time and just due to that getting kidnapped 😢 Megumi Yokota always just breaks my heart, she had just turned 13 when she was abducted 💔
People are desperate to get hands on fent for a reason. I was given it legally after my surgeryand i still remember how good it felt. I can totally understand how people get hooked on it.
One of my teacher at the university said "The reason why the government is not behind Pearl Harbor or 9/11 is because this level of coordination is way beyond what it's capable of", but I'm not so sure anymore. I mean, I don't believe 1941 or 2001 were conspiracy theories, but the governement definitely could have done it if it wanted to.
Lol that was always the most stupid take on this because humans are actually masters at hiding stuff even if it involves thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. I dont think pearl harbor was a conspiracy, but im not sure about 9/11 (meaning im leaning towards some mossad involment but idk to what extent) but yeah i hate that argument
3:48 as a gay man, there are women crushes that I have. I have a top 5. Lucy Lawless (Xena, Spartagas TV show, Salem TV show, Ash Vs the Evil Dead), Michael Rodriguez (Resident Evil, Fast and Furious), Milia Kuz (VA of Meg in family guy, Jackie from that 70's Show, can't remember the other two right now. We're all just human XD Only conspiracy theory I believed for a while was the Titanic Switch Theory. But after researching more of the Olympic and all that, there is no way that it's true. Fascinating at first but ends up being ridiculous after more research
I'm a lesbian who is 50 and never had a confused hetero period even as a teen. That said there are men I think are genuinely very attractive. I would never want to have sex with them, but I can appreciate them in a way that would probably give a false straight positive lol. I'd heard of the gay bomb fiasco before, even as a Brit. But the Canadian fruit machine was a new one to me. Quite a depressing story.
I'm a totally heterosexual male, I've never had a homosexual relationship. But I can recognise a good looking man too. Just as a little back story, my oldest friend of some 50+ years now is a lesbian, we don't see a lot of each other now as we live a great distance apart but when we do meet up she always rushes up throws her arms around me and we hug and kiss each other but there has never been any sexual tension between us, just a few raised eyebrows from others.
@@orwellboy1958 I am very huggy with the straight guys in my family and friendship group too. It's nice because we know there is no sexual tension in it, just an expression of pure platonic affection!
On the topic of tainting Industrial alcohol they normally put very bitter but not actually dangerous (i think) chemicals into stuff like sanitizers antifreeze, alcohol based cleaning products for tax reasons where i live, because drinking alcohol is taxed higher
Kennedy and Khrushchev postured but ultimately were intelligent enough to de-escalate before a true disaster were to take place. How did their countries thank them? Kennedy was assassinated and Khrushchev was thrown out in disgrace with the near-equivalent of a house-arrest for the rest of his life.
Krushchev was a careerist pig but tbf so was at least 70% of the party at the time, and despite the cult of personality built around kennedy he wasnt some great guy at all
There is a good reason to study, strontium and radioactive strontium in particular. Is one down on the periodic table from calcium, but is quite rare in the Earth's crust compared to calcium. Basically, we have a few parts per million of strontium per gram of calcium in our body. And given that it has most of the same chemical properties as calcium, it's not really a problem, unless it's radioactive. Because you really don't want an beta emitter in your bones. As the strontium decays, it releases beta radiation and become Ytridium which can form some toxic compounds in the body. And then the Ytridium decay is releasing another beta particle into zirconium, which is even more toxic. So we really don't want strontium 90 in the soil, getting into grass, being eaten by livestock, and then being in our dairy products.
Unfortunately for the North Korea kidnapping victims, many were taken to serve as concubines for Korean officials/defectors and wives for Japanese communist guerrilla fighters, hence why the government likely refuses to give them back.
The thing about the Monroe doctrine that amuses me is that there are some Americans who think it's international law and are saying that Greenland can't belong to Denmark because of it. The Monroe doctrine is a unilateral American thing. It's not a law.
Chris, I think you’d like reacting to the 2 videos about Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt from the channel Whiskey Tribe. They talk about history while trying to match Churchill drink for drink and drink as much as much coffee as Roosevelt.
I don't really put much faith in conspiracy theories. With that being said, the one that comes closest to me is the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the one who killed JFK. Snipers refer to him as the best sniper ever in an ironic way because they don't believe it. I definitely think one shouldn't exclude luck from the equation, plus the fact that Oswald didn't have much to lose while professional soldiers usually have a lot of pressure to perform because other people rely on them. This probably makes them more conservative with when to take a shot, which then again could make their assessment of the likelihood of a two hits at that distance biased because they normally wouldn't take those shots. But it's the only one I've heard where professionals in the area that the conspiracy theory concerns actually come out on the side of the theory.
21:23 ZIMA! I'm about the same age as you, and I remember it also. But it was a "malted" alcohol beverage, i thought. Slightly fizzy, and almost a clear, light, "girlie" version of beer. Instead of a wine cooler, more like a beer cooler? Lol
My conspiracy theory that hasn't been proven to be true is that police allow some crashed cars that aren't obstructing the road to remain at the side of the road for months sometimes as a warning to other drivers. I tend to see this more at dangerous T-junctions and the like
I know it probably won’t be a very successful video but I want to at least recommend the channel “Whitetree History” it’s an amazing channel that deserves much more attention, they have a video on for example The Carolean Death March, a great tragedy that effectively marked the end of the Swedish Empire. Also I want to say that I love your content, I hope that this finds you in the best of health and I apologise for any spelling mistakes as English is a second language, God bless.
My dad was an enlisted "Vietnam Era" US Marine. He participated in the Bay of Pigs. His account of it & the official accounts don't exactly agree. He had wanted to make a career of the Marines, but what happened in the early '60s convinced him, not to just get back to his young family, but to promptly get his wife pregnant again - my mom conceived me the week my dad came home from the Marines in the Summer of '64. Why? Because of how the draft was working at the time, 2 children kept him from being drafted & deployed, until he was too old to be drafted (and/or had 3 children, both of which eventually happened). In the early 1980s, however, when I was a college History major, home on some break, we were chatting about his time in the Corps when he said, "Kel, I think I was in Vietnam before I left the Marines." This might sound strange to the rest of us, but for about 20 years, he hadn't thought about this. He said, after the Bay of Pigs was called off, instead of their ships coming back up the US coast, instead they went down thru the Panama Canal, out thru the Pacific Ocean, and they ended up in a tropical jungle. My dad was a demolitions expert. He said they started planting perimeters. Every time one of the Marines would ask where they were, they were only told the obvious: "you're in a jungle." What are we doing in this jungle? "You're planting land mines." If they tried to get more information, they were threatened & told to get back to work. I have no idea how long he was there, but that was 1963, I think. My dad didn't like talking about his time in the Marines. My mom, of course, knew a lot more, but it had really put a strain on their young marriage, which didn't survive the '80s, so they just didn't discuss it much. He did forbid us kids from following in his footsteps. My brother was in the Army Reserves, even that was against my dad's advice.
You should react to Videntis - “I Fixed the Treaty of Versailles” he argues that the treaty actually wasn’t too harsh on the Germans and should’ve been harder. His arguments actually personally convinced me and I find them very interesting. Knowing your knowledge and love of WW1 history I thought it could be interesting! Also always love the reactions keep it up!
You ever hear about the us soldiers who defected and lived decades in North Korea? One of the American defectors was married to a Japanese woman who was kidnapped.
Not a government conspiracy but one I heard when I lived in LA about 3 years ago. To put it succinctly, the conspiracy is that the government and other large businesses do not do anything to help the homeless problem because they wish to use the homeless for their desired goal, to eventually drive residents out of a particular area. This undesirable land is then cheap to buy and they (government or large businesses) fill that land with developments they’d rather have (stadiums, luxury apartments, office buildings, etc…). Most people point to the Inglewood stadium as an example of this happening.
Isn't there like a law or something that most things have to be declassified after a certain period of time. Not a lot of conspiracies get proven in real time.
The freedom of information act allows for classified material to become unclassified after a certain point. Its kind of clunky with material still being held allegedly due to national security, and you have to be specific for certain documents or they won't provide that info.
VTH you should watch the new epic History TV series on Nelson’s battles, they just released the Trafalgar episode and it’s just as good as their napoleonic war series
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Always fun seeing a professionals take on my videos, thanks for the insight!!
Loved your video and have subscribed to you!
discovered ya through vth, im also subbed!
If you ever think "nah the government would never do something like that"
Yes, yes they would.
And often have.
Nah the government would never lie to us about the shape of the earth and an ice wall
Why didn’t you quote Wendigoon?
@@lucasdixon4883 oh yeah he does say similar things, doesn't he?
I wasn't intentionally trying to quote him though hence no citation
@@MalachiCo0 all good dude, for you and anyone whoever’s viewing this comment should definitely check out Wendigoon
There's a conspiracy theory going around that Vlogging Through History's background used to be red.
There's also one that says his name is actually Sam Nixon
A nation doesn't become truly great by denying it ever did wrong. It becomes great by admitting and correcting errors.
Yes! 100% agree
How to be as great as Rome 101
But then it actually has to change, to this day it continues to do cartoonishly evil crap against other countries and peoples.
Or you can just admit to it after two decades or more have passed and then anyone who cared, doesn't care anymore.
@@emilianohermosilla3996 Rome didn't admit mistakes, it hid them or dared anyone to criticize it. Damnatio memoriae was literally the erasure of what people saw as blots in their history, or better left concealed for political purposes.
Me a completly straight guy taking the test: *they put a photo of Henry cavil*
Me: ...i think goverment job is not really my calling guys
That unfairly attractive guy😂
I mean as a straight woman there are women I feel like would be unfairly attractive so I get it. For some reason I cannot think of any off the top of my head but I get it.
or Ryan Reynolds
The fact that the Air Force came up with the Gay Bomb is no surprise to me at all. Of course the Air Force would do that. 🤣
they had to do something after there succesfull mission turning the freaking frogs gay
“Maybe I am saying to much here” 😂
Crazy? I was crazy once…
They locked me in a room....
A rubber room!
No
A rubber room with rats.
The Rats made me Crazy...
I know the story of one Japanese whom was kidnapped to North Korea; Hitomi Soga (born 1959 in Sado, Japan). She was kidnapped in 1978 when she was 19 years old with her mother and brought to North Korea. She was separated from her mother and does not know what happened to her. In 1980 she met American Charles Robert Jenkins, former Army Sergeant whom had defected to North Korea in 1965. They got married and two daughters. In 2002 Hitomi was allowed to visit Japan with other Japanese whom had been kidnapped for 10 days and she never returned to North Korea. Later that same year Pyongyang allowed Charles and their two daughters to visit Indonesia, possible because of some deal with North Korea and Japan, where they where re-united with Hitomi. They all traveled back to Japan, where Charles was arrested by US Military Police and charged with he's 1965 desertion. He bleated guilty and was sentenced for six months, but served only 25 days because of good conduct. He is the longest-missing deserter to return back. Charles died in 2017 in her wives hometown.
Prohibition made some people millionaires. But the war on drugs made some people billionaires.
My uncle worked in the space industry on a team that developed the moon rover. I know definitely that the moon landing was real and not a conspiracy theory.
That's what your uncle makes you believe!!
(Joke)
People who claim the moon landings were faked are just low IQ human beings and we shouldn’t take them seriously
Wake up, sheep
Well they needed a vehicle to drive around, can't make it that obvious it's fake /s
The USSR would have *immediately* called us out on it if we didn't land on the moon. The fact that they congratulated the US for landing on the moon speaks volumes
Fun fact, the unabomber was in several MK Ultra test.
Technically yes but not the way most people think and in reality it probably didn’t do too much
@@thatguyliam6506 I’d argue it did a lot. kaczynski was a very pretentious but shy individual. The type of experiment to where he was constantly ridiculed and called stupid most likely fueled his rage for humans even more. It’s possible if he never joined that class and experiment, he wouldn’t have turned out the way he did.
@@thatguyliam6506
Being a young man and having those tests done and your psyche broken down like that constantly is pretty bad and does explain much of how he felt towards people in his elder years.
I dont know the extent of his involvement nor do I know the extent of the experiments done other than the “headlines” you see online of what MK Ultra did. That being said I feel that it is almost impossible to prove that an experiment done 50 years ago made someone the way they are. My gut tells me it was a contributing factor but that he always had the potential to do what he did. Was it the only contribution, probably not. People are not raised or created in a vacuum. There are so many factors that make us who we are that it is impossible to point to one thing and say that caused it.
@ 100% I never said it was the only factor, just a big part of it. You would have to read up on the experiments done at Harvard when he was attending and form your own opinion on how much it affected him
Hearing the "I'm straight and always been.... BUT", line from VTH was not something i was expecting
A truly straight man in the 1960s would probably would have involuntary reactions simply because of how shocking what he's seeing is to him.
especially a shelter one would most likely have a reaction out of shock surprise at seeing those picture. Their at time we have huge reaction cause of repulsion that may confuse people thinking it the opposite
Pretty disappointed he left out the Trolley Conspiracy. It may not be the most impactful or exciting as compared to the war conflict or scientific research conspiracies, but it still is a conspiracy that impacted many American cities and citizens, and is also partly why American cities are as car-centric as it is right now
Care to elaborate on this conspiracy?
In very loose terms, as I am by no means an expert in this matter, General Motors and other, car-focused companies bought interurban and city trolley companies in the 1930s-1960s, shutting them down or replacing them with bus services, either way causing the already then declining companies to completely cease operations shortly after. While at the time there already was a decline in these systems, the purchase by companies directly or indirectly linked to these car manufacturers or car manufacturing-profiting companies is often considered a deliberate action, to destroy the public transport networks of the larger US cities, to reinforce the already existing transition towards private transportation in form of the personal car. How much of this "Death of the Trolley" truly was because of the takeover and how much the decision of the general public is debatable, but it's true that the transition away from trolley systems in favour of busses was in no small amount influenced by the ownership of these car-manufacturing companies.
I'm wearing my "Conspiracy Theorists Were Right" shirt today. Of course I had to watch this 😉
"Let's poison the alcohol, so that people don't drink it!"
"Wait, what do you mean it already kills people pretty well and people are still drinking it? Oh, and people are willingly smoke, despite it literally shortening your life?"
"This will turn out different, trust me bro!"
Well at the time the general consensus was smoking was good for you. They didn't know smoking shortens your life.
Bro the part where he goes on about saying "yeah I'm straight I've never been attracted to muscular men" was pretty funny
Ok, but has he ever been attracted to non muscular men? Seems a little sus to me.
On the north korean abduction thing, i actually know something about this, they weren't just kidnapping from japan(though this did happen) they were also kidnapping from south korea, 2 from south korea were a film maker and an actor, North korea abducted them to make movies, they ended up going to a film festival in Europe and escaped their security and asked for asylum at an embassy(I can't remember which one exactly) they got to go back to south korea and reunite with their son who had been left behind and was being raised by relatives. I'm pretty sure most of the ones acknowledged by north korea have since either escaped or were released but the ones not are still believed to be there. North korea usually claims they were fishing in their waters when talking about japanese fishermen.
3:58 completely understandable lol edit: 30:44 I’m interested to see what the documents about mlk jfk and rfk will say
Normalize appreciating beauty wherever it exhist
As a straight guy there are objectively good looking guys
I love that you have the integrity to say Oswald did it and alone. Much love chris
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Last comment, I promise. Nick Crowley is a goldmine for these. The Chinese government covered up the most catastrophic space launch disaster in history, officially claiming a few deaths when a rocket went into a city.
3:58 There’s a reason attractive people are in acting
There's usually a slight biological reaction but not a major one like your real preference would give you. Magic Mike is an anomaly tho... I can't explain that one.
Danny devito is truly a beautiful man
Then you have not-so-attractive people in acting, but because their not-so-attractiveness fits the role.
21:10 - Wow you just took me back a ways talking about dropping candy in Zima. You just unlocked memories I forgot I had! 🤣
Chris covering conspiracies wasn't on my 2025 bingo card🎉
Do you think wendigoon is an reaction option now?
@@4noctua6 I'd love to see him do a reaction to the Lost Books of the Bible video. Always love that one.
@jtheavenger8635 I love that idea! Or even reacting to something like "Biggest shootout in FBI history"
2:43 Rule No. 1: Never trust anybody with two first names.
Fun fact! There are still additive in industrial ethanol these days that make it unfit for consumption. Its denatonium benzoate. Its making people vomit and nauseaus and has a super bitter taste.
If this was not the case industrial alcohol would also be a lot more expensive because alcohol tax would also apply to these as well.
The sweat and mouth drawing for rhe guy under interrogation for being "the big gay" is just hilarious 😂
Is the lightbulb cabal here? Where all of the lightbulb manufacturers got together and decided to buy out the competition, and then start lowering the life of all the bulbs they made?
Alan Turing was put on the back of the £50 banknote in 2021.
Regarding the first one, it wasn't just Canada either. Although it was much more openly discriminatory, in the US, there was the Lavender Scare which caused more people to lose their jobs and lasted much longer than the Red Scare that it started alongside.
Our family is pretty certain my great grandfather died from the poisoned alcohol. He died when his kids were pretty young, but somehow they rose above and my grandparents are my heroes. 74 years of marriage and 200+ family members showed up to my grandpa's post-mortem 100th birthday party. I can't imagine a better legacy.
So my belief that we're secretly controlled by the intellgent race of space hamsters isn't as ridiculous as people keep trying to tell me.
It is ridculous.
They are bunnies, not hamsters.
You're both wrong - they're cats.
That's why cats are so gosh-darn cute, but also so arrogant. They know stuff.
Just because it is weird. But it doesn’t make a conspiracy theory, a conspiracy is something people talk about that is denied. A lot of these no one talked about but then people found out after they got published. So this is a misnomer
Nah. It is about evidence. Conspiracy theories do not care for logic, evidence or common sense.
To clarify better. It is not about the "conspiracy" label. It is about the "theory" label.
They have little to do with practice in a real human world where evidence, common sense, etc are necessary. They only care about their own fantasies as if they were real.
30:37 That a certain thing came from a lab that was literally studying the thing that I don't know if it still gets flagged on youtube for.
I personally believe that thing was released to see how far the government could get away with controlling people’s lives. Testing an American Communist State
As a combat veteran in the initial invasions of both Afghanistan & Iraq, I get upset at the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Certainly mistakes were made post 9/11, but the “inside job” theory is ridiculous and dishonors the victims and heroes of that tragic day.
I should preface this by saying I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job, though I do think it was preventable and it not being prevented has multiple reasons (The transition being delayed due to the 2000 election being decided so late and executive agencies basically needing to spend the first half year on updating their new administrators, inter-agency rivalries, etc.). As for Iraq specifically the war on terror combined with the WMD claims almost certainly were a very convenient excuse for that unjustified invasion.
But for argument's sake, let's say 9/11 was in fact orchestrated and executed by the Bush administration, how would this dishonour the victims and first responders? Their deaths would have been just as tragic and their acts of heroism no less heroic. Even the soldiers wounded or killed in the subsequent invasions would be no less patriotic and heroic as they still served what they reasonably believed was a just cause. The only ones this would reflect negatively on is the administration. And they didn't end up coming out that positively even with the official story being true.
27:23 no one will care, but this music is from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Hey VTH, love your videos! Can you do a reaction to a pawn stars episode on historical U.S. artifacts? Some pretty interesting items on there worth talking about!
One of those Kidnapped Japanese women married an American defector! It's a SUPER interesting story from front to back. Hitomi Soga is her name, or the story of the American guy who's name was Charles Robert Jenkins. Highly recommend any history nerd look into that story.
13:02 "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Remember, conspiracies are totally real. We even have laws against them. "Conspiracy theory" refers to a way of thinking about a hypothesis that is immune to evidence to the contrary.
Title should have been "things that were once thought to be baseless conspiracy theories that were proved true."
Except these were never actual "conspiracy theories" people had prior to them being discovered.
I hate when people say "many conspiracy theories turned out to be true!" only to use examples like Canada's "gay-dar."
How many people were proclaiming "Canada's got a gay-dar!" before this stuff was uncovered? 😂
15:15 I don’t put a whole lot of blame of Bay of Pigs on Kennedy. He was a fresh president only like 2-3 months in office, a young president that trusted his intelligence agency that had cooked this plan up with the previous administration. He wouldn’t let American planes be used for air support and the CIA had to use a contractors (United Fruit Company) boats to transport the refugees to the bay since Kennedy forbid American naval vessels be used.
He trusted a relatively new subset of government that was actively working against his interests the whole time… it’s one of the many reasons I think they killed him.
There were US Marines on US ships involved in the Bay of Pigs.
IDK what all the official stories are, I know my dad's story because he was there as a US Marine.
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Was he shuttling them to the bay? I know the official story isn’t always entirely true, my father being involved in censored ops in desert storm, but it is the official narrative of the military that basically no military personnel was used
I shouldn't laugh at the last one, but the look on Chris's face at 27:06 was SO eloquent! (And rightfully so.)
Yes, Japan is still attempting to get back those who have been abducted or at least an accounting of their where abouts.
So many of these conspiracies are so CRAZY! The fact that some of these aren’t as MASSIVE is so strange to me, the fact that they’ve TAPERed off into obscurity as they FADE from the public eye is pretty intriguing. Like could you IMAGINE if some of the theories today were true?
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@10:12 --How could the military ethically test a weapon directly effecting biochemical processes in humans without testing them on living humans ? I don't know how many people, military or otherwise who would be willing to knowingly consent to such experimentation, and, if they did, it appears that they are no longer around to tell their side of the story....
Horseradish is added to airplane glue to deter people from sniffing the glue
The North Korea kidnapping/abducting innocent people is just horrifying. Imagine being at the wrong place at the wrong time and just due to that getting kidnapped 😢 Megumi Yokota always just breaks my heart, she had just turned 13 when she was abducted 💔
Listen, I am gay, and yes, Jonathan Bailey was absolutely adorable in Wicked.
People are desperate to get hands on fent for a reason. I was given it legally after my surgeryand i still remember how good it felt. I can totally understand how people get hooked on it.
One of my teacher at the university said "The reason why the government is not behind Pearl Harbor or 9/11 is because this level of coordination is way beyond what it's capable of", but I'm not so sure anymore. I mean, I don't believe 1941 or 2001 were conspiracy theories, but the governement definitely could have done it if it wanted to.
Lol that was always the most stupid take on this because humans are actually masters at hiding stuff even if it involves thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. I dont think pearl harbor was a conspiracy, but im not sure about 9/11 (meaning im leaning towards some mossad involment but idk to what extent) but yeah i hate that argument
and these are just the stuff that got unclassified
18:16 "ALCHOHOL" 🤣
3:48 as a gay man, there are women crushes that I have. I have a top 5. Lucy Lawless (Xena, Spartagas TV show, Salem TV show, Ash Vs the Evil Dead), Michael Rodriguez (Resident Evil, Fast and Furious), Milia Kuz (VA of Meg in family guy, Jackie from that 70's Show, can't remember the other two right now.
We're all just human XD
Only conspiracy theory I believed for a while was the Titanic Switch Theory. But after researching more of the Olympic and all that, there is no way that it's true. Fascinating at first but ends up being ridiculous after more research
I'm a lesbian who is 50 and never had a confused hetero period even as a teen. That said there are men I think are genuinely very attractive. I would never want to have sex with them, but I can appreciate them in a way that would probably give a false straight positive lol. I'd heard of the gay bomb fiasco before, even as a Brit. But the Canadian fruit machine was a new one to me. Quite a depressing story.
I'm a totally heterosexual male, I've never had a homosexual relationship. But I can recognise a good looking man too. Just as a little back story, my oldest friend of some 50+ years now is a lesbian, we don't see a lot of each other now as we live a great distance apart but when we do meet up she always rushes up throws her arms around me and we hug and kiss each other but there has never been any sexual tension between us, just a few raised eyebrows from others.
@@orwellboy1958 I am very huggy with the straight guys in my family and friendship group too. It's nice because we know there is no sexual tension in it, just an expression of pure platonic affection!
It feels illegal to be this early 😳😳
On the topic of tainting Industrial alcohol they normally put very bitter but not actually dangerous (i think) chemicals into stuff like sanitizers antifreeze, alcohol based cleaning products for tax reasons where i live, because drinking alcohol is taxed higher
Kennedy and Khrushchev postured but ultimately were intelligent enough to de-escalate before a true disaster were to take place.
How did their countries thank them?
Kennedy was assassinated and Khrushchev was thrown out in disgrace with the near-equivalent of a house-arrest for the rest of his life.
Krushchev was a careerist pig but tbf so was at least 70% of the party at the time, and despite the cult of personality built around kennedy he wasnt some great guy at all
There is a good reason to study, strontium and radioactive strontium in particular. Is one down on the periodic table from calcium, but is quite rare in the Earth's crust compared to calcium. Basically, we have a few parts per million of strontium per gram of calcium in our body. And given that it has most of the same chemical properties as calcium, it's not really a problem, unless it's radioactive. Because you really don't want an beta emitter in your bones. As the strontium decays, it releases beta radiation and become Ytridium which can form some toxic compounds in the body. And then the Ytridium decay is releasing another beta particle into zirconium, which is even more toxic.
So we really don't want strontium 90 in the soil, getting into grass, being eaten by livestock, and then being in our dairy products.
Unfortunately for the North Korea kidnapping victims, many were taken to serve as concubines for Korean officials/defectors and wives for Japanese communist guerrilla fighters, hence why the government likely refuses to give them back.
The thing about the Monroe doctrine that amuses me is that there are some Americans who think it's international law and are saying that Greenland can't belong to Denmark because of it.
The Monroe doctrine is a unilateral American thing. It's not a law.
Chris, I think you’d like reacting to the 2 videos about Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt from the channel Whiskey Tribe. They talk about history while trying to match Churchill drink for drink and drink as much as much coffee as Roosevelt.
9:03 if an organizations name is 3 letters long, they've probably done something genuinely evil
8:11 The fact that the animated stick men had phallic-looking "mouths" 8=> didn't help me focus on the content of the first two segments.
I don't really put much faith in conspiracy theories. With that being said, the one that comes closest to me is the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the one who killed JFK. Snipers refer to him as the best sniper ever in an ironic way because they don't believe it.
I definitely think one shouldn't exclude luck from the equation, plus the fact that Oswald didn't have much to lose while professional soldiers usually have a lot of pressure to perform because other people rely on them. This probably makes them more conservative with when to take a shot, which then again could make their assessment of the likelihood of a two hits at that distance biased because they normally wouldn't take those shots.
But it's the only one I've heard where professionals in the area that the conspiracy theory concerns actually come out on the side of the theory.
VTH has a really good JFK reaction video, check it out.
The US government has a fragile kind of non-agrression thing going on with its own people
12:30 Putin was taking notes
1:51 you went straight to fabulous
21:23 ZIMA! I'm about the same age as you, and I remember it also. But it was a "malted" alcohol beverage, i thought. Slightly fizzy, and almost a clear, light, "girlie" version of beer. Instead of a wine cooler, more like a beer cooler? Lol
New conspiracy theory: Chris, did you just "renovate" your teeth?
No conspiracy theory. I've actually talked about it several times.
My conspiracy theory that hasn't been proven to be true is that police allow some crashed cars that aren't obstructing the road to remain at the side of the road for months sometimes as a warning to other drivers. I tend to see this more at dangerous T-junctions and the like
Many years ago they did exactly that in my country. But it was done in the open abd everyone was informed.
I applaud your for your take on male attractiveness through the lens of a straight man
1:00 Would love to hear an example of this after 2019
I know it probably won’t be a very successful video but I want to at least recommend the channel “Whitetree History” it’s an amazing channel that deserves much more attention, they have a video on for example The Carolean Death March, a great tragedy that effectively marked the end of the Swedish Empire. Also I want to say that I love your content, I hope that this finds you in the best of health and I apologise for any spelling mistakes as English is a second language, God bless.
A good conspiracy theory should have a firm root in either history or science. Ideally, both.
What makes a conspiracy theory a conspiracy theory instead of just a theory
Nope. It should make logical sense, have actual solid evidences, reliable eyewitnesses and actual experts to vouch for it.
27:06. When the fart got a little extra weight to it
My dad was an enlisted "Vietnam Era" US Marine.
He participated in the Bay of Pigs. His account of it & the official accounts don't exactly agree.
He had wanted to make a career of the Marines, but what happened in the early '60s convinced him, not to just get back to his young family, but to promptly get his wife pregnant again - my mom conceived me the week my dad came home from the Marines in the Summer of '64.
Why? Because of how the draft was working at the time, 2 children kept him from being drafted & deployed, until he was too old to be drafted (and/or had 3 children, both of which eventually happened).
In the early 1980s, however, when I was a college History major, home on some break, we were chatting about his time in the Corps when he said, "Kel, I think I was in Vietnam before I left the Marines." This might sound strange to the rest of us, but for about 20 years, he hadn't thought about this.
He said, after the Bay of Pigs was called off, instead of their ships coming back up the US coast, instead they went down thru the Panama Canal, out thru the Pacific Ocean, and they ended up in a tropical jungle.
My dad was a demolitions expert. He said they started planting perimeters. Every time one of the Marines would ask where they were, they were only told the obvious: "you're in a jungle." What are we doing in this jungle? "You're planting land mines." If they tried to get more information, they were threatened & told to get back to work.
I have no idea how long he was there, but that was 1963, I think.
My dad didn't like talking about his time in the Marines. My mom, of course, knew a lot more, but it had really put a strain on their young marriage, which didn't survive the '80s, so they just didn't discuss it much. He did forbid us kids from following in his footsteps. My brother was in the Army Reserves, even that was against my dad's advice.
Hearing Chris defend his man-crushes was not on my 2025 bingo!
You should react to Videntis - “I Fixed the Treaty of Versailles” he argues that the treaty actually wasn’t too harsh on the Germans and should’ve been harder. His arguments actually personally convinced me and I find them very interesting. Knowing your knowledge and love of WW1 history I thought it could be interesting! Also always love the reactions keep it up!
I wonder what we will learn about the year 2001 in 50 or 60 years 🤔
Honestly, thanks for sharing your experience as a straight person. I’m ace and all of this sounds like alien talk to me.
You ever hear about the us soldiers who defected and lived decades in North Korea? One of the American defectors was married to a Japanese woman who was kidnapped.
Not a government conspiracy but one I heard when I lived in LA about 3 years ago. To put it succinctly, the conspiracy is that the government and other large businesses do not do anything to help the homeless problem because they wish to use the homeless for their desired goal, to eventually drive residents out of a particular area. This undesirable land is then cheap to buy and they (government or large businesses) fill that land with developments they’d rather have (stadiums, luxury apartments, office buildings, etc…). Most people point to the Inglewood stadium as an example of this happening.
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So the Kennedy conspiracy isn’t a conspiracy
No wonder the Military cost so much!
Isn't there like a law or something that most things have to be declassified after a certain period of time. Not a lot of conspiracies get proven in real time.
The freedom of information act allows for classified material to become unclassified after a certain point.
Its kind of clunky with material still being held allegedly due to national security, and you have to be specific for certain documents or they won't provide that info.
My wife is Japanese, so I heard all about it. They still do it today.
Zima - hahahah Showing your age
9:06 nice one chris, damn
Well all those democratically elected governments weren't going to overthrow themselves
Man, if Japan was allowed to declare war there's a chance they went after North Korea.
I'm a woman who's straight as a ruler. There are definitely women I consider to be beautiful, but I have no desire to date them or sleep with them.
Zima and jolly ranchers ,,,, brings back memories from the year y2k lol 😂
I think maybe we were getting our zima in different places. Our Zima was just clear malt liquor and essentially just clear beer.
VTH you should watch the new epic History TV series on Nelson’s battles, they just released the Trafalgar episode and it’s just as good as their napoleonic war series
Unfortunately when you try to sell bodies to science they start asking questions like "who is this?" "Where did you find this?" 😔 Just an fyi.
WIKIPEDIA?! - 1000 aura
You guys have the same amount of subs, that’s crazy.