The Most Interesting Man in the World | The Life & Times of Fritz Duquesne

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @JackRackam
    @JackRackam  4 года назад +220

    Receive an Amazing New Player Pack, only available for the next 30 days! Play Call of War for FREE on PC or Mobile💥 callofwar.onelink.me/q5L6/9b91bc43
    No correct Patreon guesses this time, I kept posting hints relating to Victor Emmanuel III because I made a video for AHTV about him, and then no one had gotten that one and suddenly it was time to post this video so probably I really blindsided some patrons

    • @sckova
      @sckova 4 года назад +2

      swag

    • @martinaherold465
      @martinaherold465 4 года назад +2

      Yo

    • @williamtheconqueror7807
      @williamtheconqueror7807 4 года назад +4

      I'll click on the links so that you can keep on making these videos, but I'm NOT playing them. Ciao! :) I just like different games than this.

    • @wouterkessel4852
      @wouterkessel4852 4 года назад +4

      I've joined the map, lets see if my mongolia strat also works in a 100 player game. (Considering in the historic maps somehow late game mongolia is OP as hell)

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +13

      @@wouterkessel4852 Interesting, I always try to avoid inland countries so I can focus on a single front, although I think the Allies/Axis bonuses are gonna trip me up

  • @ig-8887
    @ig-8887 4 года назад +2753

    This reads like someone's history fanfic.

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +1022

      "And he's gonna fight in both world wars and he's gonna be Teddy Roosevelt's best friend but like he's still gonna be edgy because he fights with the Germans!"

    • @realkingofwales3917
      @realkingofwales3917 4 года назад +91

      @@JackRackam lol

    • @MPHJackson7
      @MPHJackson7 4 года назад +99

      It's basically a crossover episode between the whole early 20th century

    • @phantasosxgames8488
      @phantasosxgames8488 4 года назад +52

      @@MPHJackson7 20th Century Man

    • @charleshawkins7337
      @charleshawkins7337 4 года назад +42

      Isn’t alternate history just fanfiction for history

  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas1015119 4 года назад +725

    If this didn't have citation I would straight up refuse to believe it: "In a letter to the Chemical Warfare Service in Washington, D.C., Duquesne requested information on a new gas mask. He identified himself as a "well-known, responsible and reputable writer and lecturer". At the bottom of the letter, he wrote, "Don't be concerned if this information is confidential, because it will be in the hands of a good, patriotic citizen." A short time later, the information he requested arrived in the mail and a week later it was being read by intelligence officers in Berlin."

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +219

      Oh my God, I can't believe it

    • @gufosufo337
      @gufosufo337 3 года назад +133

      Can you just send me this classified and absolutely secret information? come on, you know i'm trustworthy.

    • @acebalistic1358
      @acebalistic1358 3 года назад +99

      “Yeah i know it’s classified but I’m American so who cares?”

    • @user-ft3jq5vi2l
      @user-ft3jq5vi2l 3 года назад +63

      @@gufosufo337 I'm not a spy, don't worry!
      -Source: Trust me bro

    • @Grim_Sister
      @Grim_Sister 3 года назад

      Stupidity is a terrible disease

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 4 года назад +2325

    Theodore Roosevelt: *"Finally, a Worthy Opponent!"*

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +823

      The fact that they ended up becoming friends is simultaneously the most and least surprising part of Fritz's life story

    • @apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595
      @apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 4 года назад +211

      @@JackRackam Fritz is Teddy's lost South African cousin

    • @jonathancampbell5231
      @jonathancampbell5231 4 года назад +100

      Theodore Roosevelt: "Finally, a worthy shooting coach!"

    • @comettamer
      @comettamer 4 года назад +52

      Their brawl, legend says, still shakes the very soul of God.

    • @unbearablysmug2437
      @unbearablysmug2437 4 года назад +13

      Chuck Norris:pfft amature

  • @arturochambers27
    @arturochambers27 4 года назад +1272

    Indiana Jones and James Bond, but better.
    Me: suspicious
    Me after watching it: he was not lying.

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +200

      This comment posted within 30 seconds of the video going public XD

    • @arturochambers27
      @arturochambers27 4 года назад +56

      @@JackRackam when you said it's both Indiana Jones and James bond combined, I know where this is going for this guy.

    • @combrade-t
      @combrade-t 4 года назад +24

      @@JackRackam 26x speed or a time traveller.

    • @iagoofdraiggwyn98
      @iagoofdraiggwyn98 4 года назад +19

      @@combrade-t money's on time traveler. 26x speed sounds like a nightmare...

    • @arturochambers27
      @arturochambers27 4 года назад +6

      @@iagoofdraiggwyn98 indeed it is and it's like a crammer. Which in law school does exist. And where you cram as much information in very small time. I also did a full video crammed into it and ho boy did I learn a lot in such small space.

  • @theoador1050
    @theoador1050 4 года назад +1716

    This guy's life reads like an anime protagonist's backstory

    • @Rabbit0King
      @Rabbit0King 4 года назад +31

      Golden Kamui

    • @a.h.s.3006
      @a.h.s.3006 4 года назад +53

      Not the story, the BACKstory, because of course there is a ton more

    • @midshipman8654
      @midshipman8654 4 года назад +25

      ... seems more like a wester pulp fiction protagonist to me tbh, hes way too much of a james bond kind of guy rather than a usual anime protag.

    • @herolumierelumanite1608
      @herolumierelumanite1608 4 года назад +22

      Backstory because he gets Reincarnated as an Average High Schooler.

    • @verycasul
      @verycasul 4 года назад +4

      @@Rabbit0King the first 3 minutes was almost exact premise of Golden Kamuy lmao

  • @alejandrokaplan7243
    @alejandrokaplan7243 4 года назад +643

    We have the least and most interesting man and we need now the most average man in history

    • @thegamebusters5413
      @thegamebusters5413 4 года назад +30

      Least interesting is average

    • @Tijaxtolan
      @Tijaxtolan 4 года назад +14

      Alejandro Kaplan there won't be any news or something, if you're avarege nobody cares and history forgets you

    • @firstlast5454
      @firstlast5454 4 года назад +3

      That's just me

    • @rusdanibudiwicaksono1879
      @rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 4 года назад +13

      I propose:
      * Admiral Halsey
      * General Zhukov
      * Khalid ibn Walid

    • @thetruesoybean9256
      @thetruesoybean9256 4 года назад +8

      I propose someone who got remembered in history but when you look at it they didn’t *actually* do anything

  • @CollinBuckman
    @CollinBuckman 4 года назад +1059

    "despite overflowing with Aussie energy..... the man was actually a South African Boer"
    I mean, from what I've heard the Boers were essentially the Aussies of Africa at the time.

    • @joewilson3575
      @joewilson3575 4 года назад +29

      Except the slavery bit

    • @ProjectEkerTest33
      @ProjectEkerTest33 4 года назад +73

      @@joewilson3575 Not really, Australians enslaved the aboriginals.

    • @joewilson3575
      @joewilson3575 4 года назад +60

      @@ProjectEkerTest33 Shit, true even the ausies weren't the ausies of Australia

    • @ovs8691
      @ovs8691 4 года назад +7

      Still are

    • @Prosper_Dean
      @Prosper_Dean 4 года назад +2

      @Kroi Albanoi what?

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 4 года назад +508

    Joseph Haydn: "Finally, a worthy opponent!"

    • @lukesanderson7608
      @lukesanderson7608 4 года назад +10

      DAMMIT YOU BEAT ME BY 13 MINUTES

    • @based_prophet
      @based_prophet 4 года назад +3

      Lol stfu that other guy had a royal ass wiper lol even in combat he dint wipe his ass 🤣

    • @apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595
      @apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 4 года назад +17

      @@based_prophet It's a joke due to Jack's title for his Haydn video "The Least Interesting Man In The World"

  • @SelectHawk
    @SelectHawk 4 года назад +709

    I would imagine spying for the Nazis might be why this guy isn't more popular. Hard to live that one down.

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +300

      Yeah, not his best decision for sure

    • @alentjanestetico3014
      @alentjanestetico3014 4 года назад +268

      He started fighting against people who put his mother in concentration camps and ended up allying himself with people doing concentration camps. Familial revenge is a hell of a drug at times.

    • @rickyhunt4075
      @rickyhunt4075 4 года назад +36

      @@alentjanestetico3014 Still not a good look however sympathetic he may have been.

    • @alentjanestetico3014
      @alentjanestetico3014 4 года назад +70

      @@rickyhunt4075 Completely agreed, hence my pointing out the irony of the situation.

    • @comettamer
      @comettamer 4 года назад +11

      Definitely an ugly thing, thats for sure.

  • @davididiart5934
    @davididiart5934 4 года назад +174

    _Assassin's Creed: Duquesne_
    You freaking KNOW you'd play it. The boss fight is against Kitchner, for God's sake!!!

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger 3 года назад +17

      the boss fight would be against king kong, in the hold of kitchener's ship

    • @aclassicguardsman946
      @aclassicguardsman946 2 года назад +4

      @@LTPottenger
      It'd be like Dragon Age 2, where the story is told by an unrealiable narrator and you simply have to believe that everything told actually happened.

  • @forbiddensandwich4369
    @forbiddensandwich4369 4 года назад +205

    Wrestling control of a grown mans spear as a child is metal, I agree.

  • @NathanLucas5
    @NathanLucas5 4 года назад +249

    I learned about this guy from a cracked article like a decade ago, such a cool set of stories.
    You should do Pancho Villa, he's got a pretty interesting life, or Bakunin, dude escapes from a Siberian work camp and goes on a trip around the world to escape the tsar

    • @redbaron5247
      @redbaron5247 4 года назад +14

      Ferdynand Ossendowski and his journey to gtfo Russia during the civil war could be interesting, or a collection of stories from the Russian civil war like the Czechoslovak Legion's experience could be pretty good

    • @davidhoran7116
      @davidhoran7116 4 года назад +9

      Pancho Villa would be fantastic.

    • @CamiloCienfuegosStan
      @CamiloCienfuegosStan 2 года назад +1

      My personal hero is Bakunin

  • @jonyprepperisrael60
    @jonyprepperisrael60 4 года назад +311

    that moment when the insurance company does a better job at finding spies than a government department

    • @urielantoniobarcelosavenda780
      @urielantoniobarcelosavenda780 3 года назад +37

      That reminds me how the Joker doesn't fear batman but the ISS

    • @therac197
      @therac197 3 года назад +40

      @@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780
      Yeah
      Heart of Al Capone? The IRS got him too, not the FBI

    • @phantasosxgames8488
      @phantasosxgames8488 2 года назад +3

      @@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780 so true , that post-Joker War had Batman without a lot of his money and gadgets because of the IRS

  • @daviddavis4885
    @daviddavis4885 4 года назад +231

    You’ve got to wonder wtf he was thinking by attempting to be both a public figure *and* a spy
    Like, um, buddy, you can’t really do both without getting arrested....

    • @MyH3ntaiGirl
      @MyH3ntaiGirl 4 года назад +35

      Mate plenty of people do that
      Just look at North Vietnam spy, Pham Xuan An
      Study to be a reporter in the US, famous among reporters in Saigon, got access to many CIA document cause they fucking trust him lol, friend with the head of South Vietnam Secret Police
      The man literally surrounded himself with enemies

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos 4 года назад +21

      Depends. Some people will use their clout to talk their way into information.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 4 года назад +29

      Malory: Because most secret agents don't tell every harlot from here to Hanoi that they ARE secret agents.
      Archer: Then why be one?

  • @nissingramainyu
    @nissingramainyu 4 года назад +812

    the irony in the end though
    guy who fought the british for years for their horrifying concetration camps joins the nazis

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +355

      I know right? I seriously wonder what his direction in life was after Kitchener died, he really seemed to just keep putting himself in bad situations

    • @Wanderer628
      @Wanderer628 4 года назад +69

      @@JackRackam It's almost like what people assumed were his supposedly altruistic motivations were wrong and he in fact simply took advantage where he found it.

    • @tillysrad
      @tillysrad 4 года назад +82

      @@JackRackam i think its worth noting that there was a worrying increase in antisemetic rhetoric in ira publications during the second world war and the nazis went and hosted some prominent ira leaders in germany, trying to find themselves an ally. theres an irish nationalist slogan that goes like "englands difficulty is irelands opportunity" - and the people who really threw their whole lot in behind that clearly didnt mind what the nazis were about if it meant they got to harm their most hated enemy
      maybe homeboy was just so blinded by his hatred of the english he didnt care what happened in germany
      (though realistically being lgbt or jewish in america at the time wasnt exactly a basket of sunshine so, like, dude was probably just a huge bigot like most of everyone else in his peer group)

    • @amperzand9162
      @amperzand9162 4 года назад +23

      @Vince negra Patton certainly believed that. I'd say it's more accurate that we didn't fight all of the right enemies, the Nazis unquestionably deserved what they got.

    • @Laotzu.Goldbug
      @Laotzu.Goldbug 4 года назад +9

      @@amperzand9162 no Patton didn't mince his words. We fought The Wrong Enemy, and we allowed the much greater threat to get away.

  • @davasaurthereal4678
    @davasaurthereal4678 4 года назад +71

    This guy reached Chad levels that remain unparalleled today.

  • @byzantineboi8345
    @byzantineboi8345 4 года назад +203

    JACK WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT I’M GONNA SUGGEST
    3 WORDS FLAVIUS GERMANUS BYZANTIUM

  • @Daniel-kq4bx
    @Daniel-kq4bx 4 года назад +49

    I love the new Style, it would be impossible to fit such a story in only 3 Minutes. This was super entertaining

  • @andrewb.8184
    @andrewb.8184 3 года назад +26

    "a u-boat rised up from underneath him. The day was saved!" Wow, that's a first

  • @thepiratepenguin4465
    @thepiratepenguin4465 Год назад +13

    Being Irish-Boer descent, I'm all about sticking to the British. How did I not know about this absolute legend till now?

  • @zktang0770
    @zktang0770 Год назад +9

    Otto Skorzeny: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be LEGENDARY!

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 4 года назад +42

    Fritz Duquesne's Bio = *Some Random Fanfiction with Extra Steps*

  • @mr.miyagi9584
    @mr.miyagi9584 Год назад +1

    King David... But dang as a South African this man and his persona rings many bells of old stories told of majestic courage and witt. Proud to be a Boer

  • @TheAbyssoftheMind
    @TheAbyssoftheMind 4 года назад +10

    I love how in the chalkboard segments he uses the bit of chalk like a magic wand.

  • @StateholderofLunt
    @StateholderofLunt 4 года назад +95

    It all sounds like a 15 year old writing James Bond.

  • @isaacschmitt4803
    @isaacschmitt4803 Год назад +5

    I can see this being a movie told interview style, where Fritz is in prison for the last time talking to his cell mate who occasionally interrupts the narrative with a "bullshit" or "that didn't happen." Each time we return to the present where he's telling his story, the crowd of inmates around him slowly grows larger and larger. As the story progresses, the *one* guy that keeps calling him on his shit gets more and more angry glares from the other prisoners. He's just such a charming bastard that they can't help but admire his hustle, even the bits about helping the Krauts.

  • @stevenchoza6391
    @stevenchoza6391 4 года назад +6

    Jesus, there are so many possible crossover episodes with this one guy. Talk about efficiency.

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +2

      South African history ✅
      Both World Wars ✅
      Teddy Roosevelt ✅
      Kitchener ✅
      And who knows what he might've gotten up to during his time in Brazil and Mexico

    • @stevenchoza6391
      @stevenchoza6391 4 года назад

      @@JackRackam
      Indeed.

  • @JapeCity
    @JapeCity 4 года назад +27

    Dude you’re a perfect combination of great storytelling and hilarity

  • @ding1466
    @ding1466 4 года назад +22

    That biographer really took one for the team.

  • @sallybradshaw4576
    @sallybradshaw4576 4 года назад +20

    That prison break sounded suspiciously like Dwight Shrute's fantasy.

  • @shrimpcrackers3628
    @shrimpcrackers3628 4 года назад +41

    office reference 3:32
    original quote:
    "What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier." -Dwight season 5 episode 8

  • @godsonraizen
    @godsonraizen 4 года назад +16

    This sounds like 12 different people's lives put together into one, ridiculous life.

  • @axiomaticisak4350
    @axiomaticisak4350 4 года назад +25

    I am once again asking you to make an episode on Zenobia, queen of Palmyra.

  • @MaskedWeirdosChannel
    @MaskedWeirdosChannel 4 года назад +76

    He was so strong as a kid, he stabbed him with the wrong end of the spear and still suceeded🤣

    • @mrmemer8094
      @mrmemer8094 4 года назад +2

      How bout he animate someone getting stabbed with a bat

  • @thewalkingmeat8523
    @thewalkingmeat8523 3 года назад +3

    This story is so wild, that I'm watching this for the third time now! And I regret nothing!

  • @soonstarryskies
    @soonstarryskies 4 года назад +9

    So this is what having a stroke feels like.
    Seriously though- this shit is wild and your channel is a treasure.

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +3

      😄 much appreciated!

  • @robbiecotton6827
    @robbiecotton6827 4 года назад +11

    Honestly I think this is the best video you've done. Really well researched, well edited and put together and is really funny.

  • @ummmhelp
    @ummmhelp 4 года назад +22

    he sounds like what people from the future would make fairytales/legends about

  • @blaizehicks4232
    @blaizehicks4232 4 года назад +11

    I like how he uses the blunt end of the spear when he stabs that customer who was attacking his mother.

  • @andreasfoerster772
    @andreasfoerster772 4 года назад +19

    Like I said in your last stream, I’m doing my Masters at the Royal Military College of Canada so if you want help with research, I’d be my honour! Love your videos man, keep up the great work!!!

  • @paulschumacher4308
    @paulschumacher4308 3 года назад +4

    Dude ... they need to make a miniseries about this guy's life

  • @nicholasherod3012
    @nicholasherod3012 8 месяцев назад +2

    12:23 man he’s such a good spy that he was working for the Tomanians at the same time? Amazing

  • @mitchellmarijt3941
    @mitchellmarijt3941 4 года назад +175

    "Due to his skills in Afrikaans" you mean 17th century Dutch with an accent where you sound like you have an stroke

    • @rdavel777
      @rdavel777 4 года назад +11

      Jou poes ou.

    • @DaReaperZ
      @DaReaperZ 3 года назад +6

      Hahahaha I laughed way too much at this. I don't even speak Dutch, but I know a South African and have a couple of Dutch friends!

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 3 года назад +6

      Ik zou beledigd zijn als het niet helemaal waar was

    • @Freekymoho
      @Freekymoho 3 года назад +2

      Normal dutch sounds like that too

    • @janmelantu7490
      @janmelantu7490 3 года назад +6

      @@Freekymoho Afrikaans: Meme Dutch

  • @JadeLwoj
    @JadeLwoj 2 года назад +15

    SO...I recently watched The King's Man. And I knew IMMEDIATELY that it was going to read hilariously like a history fanfiction because they STARTED OUT with Kitchener and what I'm assuming are the Second Boer War concentration camps.
    EDIT: But seriously, the antagonist SHOULD have been Fritz Duquesne. That would have brought things into a (golden) circle REALLY well.

    • @93MANIAC
      @93MANIAC 2 года назад +1

      I agree big wasted fucking opportunity there guys

  • @Waldemarvonanhalt
    @Waldemarvonanhalt 4 года назад +4

    Speaking about crazy stories involving children and spears: The South African navy had a Daphne class submarine named in honour of Johanna van der Merwe, who was a 13 year old teenager at the time she took part in the Great Trek. When king Dingaan attacked the unsuspecting Trekboers after he had murdered Piet Retief's delegation to his court, Johanna's family were victim to the attacks (at the Weenen massacre) and she sustained more than 20 spear stab wounds (the Zulu short spear is called an ilkwa, but the English made up the word "assegaai" for it), but managed to survive by hiding in a tree for the rest of the night and sought help the next morning.
    When the ANC took power in South Africa, the navy, now under new command, renamed the SAS Johanna van der Merwe to...the SAS Assegaai.

  • @ezucra
    @ezucra 4 года назад +6

    Love how jack rackam would say “bruh, thats cool af’ to something like: *”this guy fucking died”*

  • @malia109
    @malia109 4 года назад +4

    god bless this channel. always giving me a new historical figures to obsess over

  • @thecommongroundsshow3968
    @thecommongroundsshow3968 4 года назад +3

    Netflix should make a series out of this guys life for real....I'd watch it

  • @alankohn6709
    @alankohn6709 4 года назад +5

    You have to do a story on Baron Amedeo Guillet The Devil Commander This guy was an Olympian, a Ladies man who may of dated a Hollywood Star, an Italian Lawrence of Arabia of WW2, lead cavalry charges against against armoured vehicles, disguised himself and claimed a reward for his own capture and used it to fund his gruella activities, he was a spy, a diplomat, Recovered the Stolen the Crown of the Ethiopian Negus and returned it to Haile Selassie. Not once but twice as a diplomat he helped rescue people during coup and lived to be 101

  • @vivecreigns
    @vivecreigns 2 года назад +1

    I feel so much Dwight schrute energy at the beginning lol. When Dwight describes his "perfect crime."

  • @jamestankitwo8461
    @jamestankitwo8461 4 года назад +9

    Always a good day when Jack uploads

  • @thewingedhussars6313
    @thewingedhussars6313 4 года назад +1

    I’m just so happy you listened to my suggestion and made this video . Thanks .

  • @Idk-mp6fn
    @Idk-mp6fn 4 года назад +5

    Just found your crack den of a channel and I love it. Subbed with notifocations.

  • @RedBlood_Moon
    @RedBlood_Moon 4 года назад +27

    Damn, I remember spending hours upon hours playing supremacy 1914 years ago

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +10

      I remember spending a whole summer on a campaign as Britain, if you survive long enough to start snowballing man is that satisfying
      Until you collide with the other mega-empires and suddenly things get serious

    • @RedBlood_Moon
      @RedBlood_Moon 4 года назад +4

      @@JackRackam the best game I ever had was in a round where I was Japan. It lasted for like 4 months and no matter what I did, I couldn't get the moral in my provinces to rise. In the end, I decided to simply start a total war with ALL my neighbors with the goal of conquering their capitals for the moral boost. Damn was I lucky that so many NPC one province islands where close by, they kept me running for weeks

  • @mosesracal6758
    @mosesracal6758 4 года назад +2

    Sometimes a madlad is born to wreak havoc across the world, this one is much more than a madlad

  • @beepboop6244
    @beepboop6244 4 года назад +2

    So I may have just binged all of your videos in the past few days, and might have a new fav channel. This was unexpected. These videos are incredible!

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer 4 года назад +2

    South African with Aussie energy. The only words I needed to hear to know this would be the best Jack Rackham episode ever. James Bond wishes he was this good at lying.

  • @teucer915
    @teucer915 4 года назад +3

    As soon as I saw the video title I was like "oh the hippopotamus guy"

  • @legateelizabeth
    @legateelizabeth 4 года назад +3

    An entire life spent sticking it to Anglos and basking in glory.
    Truly the man lived as full a life as any can.

  • @lightdreamer_
    @lightdreamer_ 4 года назад +8

    WHERE IS THE 50 EPISODES SERIES ABOUT THIS DUDE

  • @NawfalTachfine
    @NawfalTachfine 4 года назад +27

    Dwight Schrute approves this video.

    • @wesleyd.4859
      @wesleyd.4859 4 года назад +2

      I was going to be sad if no one got that reference

  • @anatolemerrifield4888
    @anatolemerrifield4888 4 года назад +62

    The boers are like to the dutch as the aussy’s are to the brits

    • @mitchellmarijt3941
      @mitchellmarijt3941 4 года назад +1

      @Kroi Albanoi Dutch* with your logic aussies would be Dutch aswell

    • @anatolemerrifield4888
      @anatolemerrifield4888 4 года назад +1

      @@mitchellmarijt3941 wa jonge kanker, i gues i really misphrased that

    • @mitchellmarijt3941
      @mitchellmarijt3941 4 года назад +1

      @Kroi Albanoi both underdeveloped

    • @Oatmeal_Mann
      @Oatmeal_Mann 4 года назад

      Well, Dutch Aussies with more than half their ancestry coming from the Germans, French, Italians, English and Irish yes

    • @deltoroperdedor3166
      @deltoroperdedor3166 4 года назад

      @Kroi Albanoi it takes experience to craft weapons and tactics. Africa is and was a big place, people and society varied quite a lot, but the thing is Africa, even before colonial powers had a foothold, had (most parts) a denser population than native Australia. With virtually no contact with the rest of the world for 40k or more years and such a dispersed population, the chances of major conflicts and major empires to arise are slim

  • @thebasileus4793
    @thebasileus4793 3 года назад +2

    this man is the definition of pure badassery

  • @madisnzz
    @madisnzz 4 года назад +2

    no doubt this channel is gonna get a million subs in the next year or two.

  • @FAL_Enthusiast
    @FAL_Enthusiast 4 года назад +3

    I love that office reference when he breaks out the jail.

  • @ding1466
    @ding1466 4 года назад +82

    "Largest espionage case in US history" well thats one way to become a laughing stock for other spies.

    • @jameswoodard4304
      @jameswoodard4304 4 года назад +8

      Yeah...I feel like he was famously not very good at being a spy.

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 3 года назад +5

      @@jameswoodard4304 given how he fooled most of the world for years he wasn’t that bad

    • @dphalanx7465
      @dphalanx7465 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 You can be big and bold (power of audacity!), just don't be too BIG and too BOLD.

  • @elysia3294
    @elysia3294 4 года назад +5

    Neat, nice Video. Edit: heard from that dude before so i am hyped already :D

  • @richardbell4343
    @richardbell4343 4 года назад +10

    love the office reference

  • @nourishinglotion334
    @nourishinglotion334 4 года назад +5

    6:36 This image makes me emotionally sick. It pains me to know someone, especially children, are experiencing what this person went through. I hope this child died quickly or was nursed back to optimal health. No one deserves to be that unhealthy.

  • @zerareota1560
    @zerareota1560 4 года назад +2

    This looks like a school project someone put too much effort into and I love it

  • @shribhavshetty4017
    @shribhavshetty4017 3 года назад +3

    Fritz Duquesne Is the definition of a Chad or at least Chad energy!

  • @Nara-zy9qv
    @Nara-zy9qv 4 года назад +1

    I just found your channel today....
    Ive learned more than history class

  • @Lucky-bk4qq
    @Lucky-bk4qq 4 года назад +3

    Part of this sounds suspiciously like the perfect crime of a certain assistant to the regional manager...

  • @pauldavisschlichting3726
    @pauldavisschlichting3726 3 года назад +1

    That was incredibly interesting, you were true to your word so I subscribed. It’s going you be hard to top that story, but good luck.

  • @boredshorts3406
    @boredshorts3406 Год назад +1

    I couldn’t believe anything I was reading about this man so I had to dive a bit deeper into his story

  • @kramp154
    @kramp154 4 года назад

    Beautiful thankyou jack and crew!

  • @GuardianComplex
    @GuardianComplex 4 года назад +1

    Giant thumbs up for the Ask a Ninja reference. Man I miss that guy.

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  4 года назад +1

      Gone but not forgotten

  • @nb5437
    @nb5437 4 года назад +3

    I’m begging you to do a video on Ching Shih. Everything about her was just so insane.

  • @Significantpower
    @Significantpower 4 года назад +7

    Someone should make an open world game loosely inspired by this guy's life.

  • @jonathandozier5722
    @jonathandozier5722 4 года назад +61

    Do one on Tolkien!

    • @rusdanibudiwicaksono1879
      @rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 4 года назад +4

      It would be a bit hard. Toliken isn't exactly a shounen or seinen protagonist (which this site usually cover), he's _shoujo protagonist._ _80's Shoujo_ protagonist.

    • @jonathandozier5722
      @jonathandozier5722 4 года назад +9

      @@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 Yeah but he is absolutely cool. He is like the King of Linguists! He made whole languages from scratch! THEN for fun he made lore surrounding them. He had a great academic career! He worked for the dictionary! He was an officer in the war! He did so much! Besides we could use the story of a scholarly man and unless Jack wants to do that guys who saved all the Viking lore I don't know who else.

    • @peachesandcream8753
      @peachesandcream8753 3 года назад +2

      @@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 He has to do one on Christopher Lee at least, he was a shounen protagonist if there ever was one.

  • @davidoner4
    @davidoner4 3 года назад +1

    A real-life AFT Jungle Recon. He just needs a kick-ass mustache.

  • @alexandre007opa
    @alexandre007opa 4 года назад +13

    Goes to Brazil
    Actually speaks Spanish like a boss without getting caught

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson 3 года назад

      Except that very few people in Brazil speak Spanish, so I'm not sure if that would be useful?

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 3 года назад +2

      *Portugese(?)

    • @alexandre007opa
      @alexandre007opa 3 года назад

      @@concept5631 não

    • @lucasouza4846
      @lucasouza4846 3 года назад

      @@concept5631 it was a joke, cause in the brazil part, the guy who made the video spoke spanish instead of portuguese xd

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 3 года назад

      @@lucasouza4846 Wow

  • @ericf.1410
    @ericf.1410 4 года назад +1

    Thank you for introducing me to so many incredible people I had no idea did stuff

  • @Julia-wf6ng
    @Julia-wf6ng 3 года назад +5

    "Frederic Frederics...."
    *cries in Brazilian shame*

  • @thomasfoldvik
    @thomasfoldvik 3 года назад +1

    Man Jack, you have waaaay to few subscribers!!! Your stories are friggin awesome!!

  • @scattershotsmith5970
    @scattershotsmith5970 4 года назад +3

    Does 3:35 remind you all of that Tumbler post? Ya know, the one about the jewelry store and the perfect crime and the chandelier?

  • @HyperFlame64V1
    @HyperFlame64V1 Год назад +3

    Just Remember Folks, The Unkillable Soldier Carton De Wiart was in the same War as this Madlad.
    What we could've gotten...two Chads of War fighting in an Epic Clash, and we never got one.

  • @RBermuda1
    @RBermuda1 4 года назад +3

    I live in Bermuda, It is always a good day when it gets mentioned in a RUclips video. Also despite the description Bermuda at the time as being “shark infested” there aren’t any sharks here so either the British overhyped the impossibility of escape or its Fritz Overhyping his escape.

  • @sanguiniue
    @sanguiniue 4 года назад +177

    This guy sounds like one of the coolest guys ever !
    Then he became a Nazi
    ...and you ruined it .

    • @heathenpride7931
      @heathenpride7931 3 года назад +15

      Now now, being a very public nazi spy and having the largest espionage court case of its kind is just more coolness

    • @Freekymoho
      @Freekymoho 3 года назад +18

      He spied FOR the nazis, which isnt quite the same as being one. He probably thought it was the same as WWI and wanted to stick it to the british again

    • @AeneasGemini
      @AeneasGemini 3 года назад +11

      @@Freekymoho The Nazis were very publicly anti-Semitic, highly unlikely he didn't know what he was getting into.

    • @PeterTeamExtreme
      @PeterTeamExtreme 3 года назад +3

      He’s still pretty epic and emits based giga chad energy

    • @PeterTeamExtreme
      @PeterTeamExtreme 3 года назад +8

      @@AeneasGemini who wasn’t anti-Semitic in 1937

  • @HoundofOdin
    @HoundofOdin 4 года назад

    That was a wild ride from start to finish.

  • @tylertawater4817
    @tylertawater4817 4 года назад +1

    So lucky when I catch an ol’ Jack video on the first day 💕🖤☺️

  • @rotarydude9737
    @rotarydude9737 4 года назад +1

    didn't expect to see Doug in one of these videos

  • @j.r.765
    @j.r.765 4 года назад +3

    He's got more adventures than Henry Stickmin.

  • @themanthatpacs4550
    @themanthatpacs4550 3 года назад +1

    The guy behind the hippos was also insane he had jackets with no stop till hippo printed on them

  • @SteakFries
    @SteakFries 3 года назад +2

    This guy maxed out his charisma and luck

  • @arcticdino1650
    @arcticdino1650 4 года назад +5

    Country: has resource
    Britain: TARGET LOCKED

    • @deltoroperdedor3166
      @deltoroperdedor3166 4 года назад +1

      "By the Grace of her Majesty, Queen Victoria, this land is now under British protection. Please refrain from resisting"

    • @suspiciousfigure3096
      @suspiciousfigure3096 4 года назад

      Murica: “YOU TAKE THE TEA, *I’LL TAKE THE OIL!*”

  • @AftermathRV
    @AftermathRV 4 года назад +1

    oh yeah supremacy1914 was actually a pretty good game so that is actually a sponsorship ill check out! Did some clan wars in supremacy and can confirm what jack is saying here.
    Great video as always here

  • @samuelparry7877
    @samuelparry7877 4 года назад +2

    I would really want to play a game based on this guys life

  • @luanfonseca5179
    @luanfonseca5179 4 года назад +3

    really waiting in a dom pedro the second video. i loved the dom pedro thr first