Blue is many things. But he is *not* a liar and he does not renege. When he makes a bold statement like, "until I can write a book about it" to his audience after a blunderous video, he follows through on it.
"Canceled for a comment made by is father before he was even born" plus the comments was legit just slang of its time to say a completely different thing.
"While the Veneziad was likely written more than five hundred years after the actual Renaissance, it's the only primary source we have to work with, so we'll have to make do." - Excessively Ironic Productions, 11265.
OSP's RUclips channel needs to be preserved too. "This audio visual compilation, upon discovery in the year 3286, revealed precious information related to the planet's now-extinct civilizations, eras of ancient history, and lost literature. Red and Blue appear to have been scholars specializing in different fields. Red specialized in literature and ancient myths and folktales while Blue focused on history with a special fixation on a city called Venice and domes."
@@slwrabbits Just make sure the ink it was printed with is mostly safe to eat, then dip each page in chocolate (frying in oil before dipping optional) and boom. Chocolate paper chips. Lots of fiber.
Fun fact: every single year there was a procession and remembrance of how the Republic put a stop to Falier’s attempted coup, which included also a reenactment of his beheading (which took place on the same “Giants’ Stairs” of the Ducal Palace upon which each new Doge’s inauguration happened so they enacted that part there) And every single year the current Doge was required/obligated to be present and behold the beheading’s reenactment as an yearly reminder to not get any weird ideas about making secret plots against the state
It's a good thing that the Council of Ten didn't get any ideas about taking over Venice themselves. That's always a risk when a government gives a group of people that much power over internal affairs.
A quick wiki check says the Council of Ten was elected for 1 year terms by the Great Council aka the same aristocrats it was supposed to keep an eye on. Said aristocrats would probably be motivated to ensure either those selected lacked a power base to do anything, and/or that seats were divided among the major power brokers.
@@blacksage2375 so the Decemviri all over again 1700 years later. History really does rhyme. So easy to abuse that power without the checks and bureaucracy Venice built
@@Tustin2121 I feel like the US has a fundamental disconnect here. The US doesn't actually like making money for the US, it likes making money for a few people in charge of very large business corporations; the US doesn't actually want a functioning democracy, it wants a small council of self-serving rulers...I'm not talking about the Supreme Court on that, either. The Electoral College sucks by design, not by failure to predict that a small elite group of wealthy men will continue to maintain power for the wealthy men of the ruling class
Okay I just wanna take a second to muse on how funny it is that Blue went from not giving a damn about history, then he played one Assassin's Creed over a decade ago, and now he's writing epic poetry about Venice. That's a hell of a character arc
Amongst Italians, we have a stereotype about Venetians describing them as having a insultingly massive egoes. I am sure Blue's Epic with Venetian's protagonists will not cause these egoes to inflate at all. At. All. Also, as someone from Ravenna (one of the many conquests of the Venetians) it is wild to see the Venetians as heroes in anything not starrnig Napoleon, the Pope or the Austrians
2:08 "Before casting judgement, I invite you to listen to this sick fiddle solo" That's Nero's personality in a nutshell. He truly put art above everything else, no matter how awful it was. As the writer Gaius Petronius wrote while taking his life: "I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well, but compose no more music. Brutalize the people, but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius."
In standard Italian it's "Duca" from the latin "dux" which at times it's rendered in "duce" when people wanted to get fancy (hence why it was adopted by the fascists).
I am convinced the most difficult decision in Blue’s life was the choice to either marry Cyan, or continue his lifelong goal to find a way to legally marry Venice.
@@Meli-Meliai yes but what does the B stand for Also I thought all of his ancestors came from the Mediterranean Oh well guess there are things we may never know
The book is a really cool idea, when you first said book I thought "oh cool, my favorite history tuber wrote a book in the same style as his scripts" then I realized it was a whole story and got more excited.
That, good sir, is apparently entirely a matter of perspective. Dandolo didn't do anything to Venice, he just destabilized and wrecked pretty much everywhere else
Yeah, I personally didn't expect the Vembis-loving Grekboi to have a surprisingly non-Greek surname, let alone something unusually mundane as _Stewart_ , but who cares; he slays anyway! :)
In the Scotland episode he said he was Scottish and its hard to get a more Scottish name than Stewart. Source: I'm also Scottish and have the last name Stewart.
I commend the dedication of writing an entire book, in the style of the god damned greek epics, just to talk about Venice again. also "treason weasel" made me chuckle
@@Tustin2121 whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. You mean Aneas is a MYTHOLOGICAL figure? I gotta take a minute here and get my head straight, my whole world view has totally turned upside down.
Somehow, making Election Week a sort of official ceremonial, cultural holiday and having it all being done through randomized bingo games feels surprisingly reasonable and even... rational??? What??!
Blue drops a Doge video the day our beloved Meme Doge Kabosu crossed the rainbow bridge. I'll take Venetian jokes and rep his book to ease the grief. Much love. Very good girl. Wow.
No, no Blue, that first clip was the correct clip. Pure comedy gold. A great reason to let you ramble about the great Mediterranean lagoon town is things like that happen.
I KNEW IT! As soon as you made the statement, Blue, I *knew* you were hard at work on a Venice book! ::beams:: So excited for you, Blue! Congratulations :).
Hey, Blue! You're not the only one who loves Venezia/Venice. I loved the green canalled city so much, I've used it as inspiration for my medieval gem Mezzaluna in the D&D campaign I'm currently running. (Gem? Pearl? Mine's carved out of marble. It's also 250 feet above the sea it abuts to and the canals flow into FOUR WATERFALLS. They also use hamster wheels and water wheels to move cargo up and down the clift from the docks below the city. Take that, Venice.)
2:51 if well if that isn’t horribly accurate, Italian family dinners at least in my house involve shouting and someone being told to shut up. Plus there is something perfect about an entirely randomized electorate
Blue, to have a topic about Venice is a good enough reason to talk about Venice and it's citizens. Never doubt it, never let anybody stop you. Some of your absolute masterpieces of videos were about Venice!
@@OverlySarcasticProductionsI'm not! It would be a great way to show off how distinct Venice is from the other regions of Italy, and surely there are at least a handful of Venetians who'd volunteer for this kind of thing.
Here is my attempt at translating the text at 4:07 "No.1. Shows the box from which the papers or gold and sivler balls are drawn to make everything known through the lot. A.B.C. Boxes with which you [cannot decipher] A. Box to the left hand side B. Middle box C. Box to the right hand side, all in front of the throne of the Duke [the Doge]."
@@kbye2321 at 4:56 it says: At the top "This is how the Most Serene Doge of Venezia is elected" Bottom right: "From the Grand Council 30 people are extracted at random, using a ballot" Then, you trace the diagram from left to right: "30 people, of which 9 are extracted, who elect 40 people of which 12 are extracted (...)" and so on, until it ends on 41 people who (bottom left) "They elect the Most Serene (doge), at least 25 of them must agree, and the vote must be confirmed again by the Grand Council" I live in Venice and i had no idea about half this stuff
YA MADE A BOOK LETS FUKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I've been watching y'all's channel since freshman year of high school in 2016 and it's always so mind boggling to think about how far you folks have come. I even introduced this channel to my favorite history teachers cuz sometimes you'd release videos on a topic that I just so happened to be learning about that month and they'd show it to the class! I'm so hecking proud of you two and I can't wait for what comes next!!!! ❤💙
"How well did the government stand up to tyrannical whackos?" Oh gods, Blue, too soon. This one hits heart-achingly, gut-rendingly, waaaaay too close to home. *dies inside
Awesome and intriguing! Very cool learning about this intriguing form of government. Given how often common discourse boils down to either democracy or autocracy, it would be very cool to see more of these wild and sometimes wacky forms of government.
I saw that there is an study on how giving promotions (and demotions I think) in a corporation at random made the corporation way more profitable and efficient. So, yeah, the Venice system really works.
"i said i won't make a video on Venice again until i can write a book on it but i feel like making a video on Venice... so i'll write a book to justify the video"
Personally I would prefer that they gush over the Ottoman Empire for taking in the butt load of Jewish refugees from Spain after they went all "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," on anyone whose family hadn't been Christian since before the First Crusade. Plus they had an assortment of cool hats.
📚📖BOOOOOOOOOOK 📖📚
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/theveneziad?ref=4ikdfa
Blue, I commend your admiration for writing a book.
I'm trying to do the same thing, you're lucky you have enough fame
Im so fucking excited for this book I created a Kickstarter account to set a reminder for when it's launched
Reading !!!!
I WILL BUY!!!!
I think we have enough to justify a Venice playlist if there isn't one already.
So you took Dante's route, you can't marry Venice, but you wrote a book about her.
Cyan would be upset if he married Venice
But not surprised 😅
/S@@AbisexualCarpenter
@@AbisexualCarpenter
[b]"Honey, can I use 'Venice' as a pet name for you?"
[c]"I don't know, can you say it properly?"
[b]"...=("
@@sechran i legit wouldn't be suprised, if these same words were said in the bedroom at some point
(Just based on the humor of those two ;) )
Canonically Cyan is Venice
Blue was so desperate to make another Venice episode he wrote a whole ass book. The dedication 🥹
No comments?
Dude is an absolute chad
Blue is many things. But he is *not* a liar and he does not renege. When he makes a bold statement like, "until I can write a book about it" to his audience after a blunderous video, he follows through on it.
a whole ass *Epic
I'm buying that as soon as it drops
"Beheaded for crimes" is such an _ominous_ description, damn.
I love it. It's the way to show that someone was punished but not giving them a true, detailed legacy that others might crave to repeat or surpass.
I love how it's not "treason" or "conspiracy", just "crimes". Perfect.
It has similar vibes to the "Throngler"
"Canceled for a comment made by is father before he was even born" plus the comments was legit just slang of its time to say a completely different thing.
they should have however also depictet his head on a table instead of just blacking him out.
"I'm not making another episode about Venice until I write a book about it."
...
"Hey I wrote a book about it, now lemme tell you about this asshole-"
It IS a flex.
The man was so hated that they didn't even write down specifically why they killed him. Presumably they didn't want anyone getting ideas.
That or it was such common knowledge they didn't feel it was worth writing down lol
"He knows what he did!"
“So why was this guy executed again?”
Venice: *big weary sigh* look, we don’t really feel like getting into that…
The Veneziad needs to be preserved so in a post-apocalypse it can be re-discovered.
"While the Veneziad was likely written more than five hundred years after the actual Renaissance, it's the only primary source we have to work with, so we'll have to make do." - Excessively Ironic Productions, 11265.
@@archermahou8910 and Hernán Cortés beaten Moctezuma to death rubber chicken
@@archermahou8910 luv it E.I.P
A necessary item you can only get from a side quest to actual Venice
OSP's RUclips channel needs to be preserved too.
"This audio visual compilation, upon discovery in the year 3286, revealed precious information related to the planet's now-extinct civilizations, eras of ancient history, and lost literature. Red and Blue appear to have been scholars specializing in different fields. Red specialized in literature and ancient myths and folktales while Blue focused on history with a special fixation on a city called Venice and domes."
This has the vibe of "I'll eat a copy of the Iliad once I get a million subscribers *gets a million subscribers*"
Honestly, just reading it is only marginally less bad for your stomach and it definitely takes longer too
That's when you get someone to make a copy in chocolate
@@slwrabbits Just make sure the ink it was printed with is mostly safe to eat, then dip each page in chocolate (frying in oil before dipping optional) and boom. Chocolate paper chips. Lots of fiber.
It can't make me feel more sick than reading any part that involves Cassandra
Fun fact: every single year there was a procession and remembrance of how the Republic put a stop to Falier’s attempted coup, which included also a reenactment of his beheading (which took place on the same “Giants’ Stairs” of the Ducal Palace upon which each new Doge’s inauguration happened so they enacted that part there)
And every single year the current Doge was required/obligated to be present and behold the beheading’s reenactment as an yearly reminder to not get any weird ideas about making secret plots against the state
That sounds like a great way to keep your representatives in line 😂
Nothing is funnier than the official portrait just reading “beheaded for crimes”
"Crimes" 😂
Imagine if we did that with presidents
The madlad actually wrote a book about Venice,
I need to go make some space on my shelf.
Not just a book - an epic poem in Italian and English. He is The Madlad.
It's a good thing that the Council of Ten didn't get any ideas about taking over Venice themselves. That's always a risk when a government gives a group of people that much power over internal affairs.
*stares in Appius Claudius *
That does seem like the point of failure. I wonder how people got named to the Council.
*stares at supreme Court maliciously*
A quick wiki check says the Council of Ten was elected for 1 year terms by the Great Council aka the same aristocrats it was supposed to keep an eye on. Said aristocrats would probably be motivated to ensure either those selected lacked a power base to do anything, and/or that seats were divided among the major power brokers.
@@blacksage2375 so the Decemviri all over again 1700 years later. History really does rhyme. So easy to abuse that power without the checks and bureaucracy Venice built
Dang Blue gonna actually convert me to the "maybe Venice truly did have the most functional republic" yet.
Blue should just ramble on about the benefits and drawbacks of a Venetian-style republic.
I think maybe the US should take some notes. Maybe ask that council of ten the look into our court of nine…
@@Tustin2121 I feel like the US has a fundamental disconnect here. The US doesn't actually like making money for the US, it likes making money for a few people in charge of very large business corporations; the US doesn't actually want a functioning democracy, it wants a small council of self-serving rulers...I'm not talking about the Supreme Court on that, either. The Electoral College sucks by design, not by failure to predict that a small elite group of wealthy men will continue to maintain power for the wealthy men of the ruling class
@@cam4636 - Do not disagree with anything you say here. There’s a lot that needs to change…
1000 years is a good track record.
Okay I just wanna take a second to muse on how funny it is that Blue went from not giving a damn about history, then he played one Assassin's Creed over a decade ago, and now he's writing epic poetry about Venice. That's a hell of a character arc
Another reason that ac is a goated franchise it gave us blue
I love how "Vembis" has become a running gag now.
Amongst Italians, we have a stereotype about Venetians describing them as having a insultingly massive egoes. I am sure Blue's Epic with Venetian's protagonists will not cause these egoes to inflate at all. At. All.
Also, as someone from Ravenna (one of the many conquests of the Venetians) it is wild to see the Venetians as heroes in anything not starrnig Napoleon, the Pope or the Austrians
Ah, hubris. Causing trouble since the Epic medium existed
2:08
"Before casting judgement, I invite you to listen to this sick fiddle solo"
That's Nero's personality in a nutshell. He truly put art above everything else, no matter how awful it was. As the writer Gaius Petronius wrote while taking his life:
"I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well, but compose no more music. Brutalize the people, but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius."
*WHILE TAKING HIS LIFE?!?!?!?!?*
@@jaydenliberty9536
He cut one of his wrists and told a slave to write his last words
That's so god damn iconic@@Torfin2001
“Do not let Nero cook, ever again“- Gaius Petronius
Sickest burn ever
I'm borrowing "Treason Weasel."
I was wondering who GB Stewart was before I remembered how much Gregory energy Blue has. I’m just happy the ban on Venice talk has been lifted!😁💙
Blue is so obviously a Gregory. Indigo is very obviously a Sophie. And Red is so clearly a Red that I cannot imagine her having a regular human name.
I'm... Not sure what "Gregory Energy" is.
@@aquamarinerose5405a dangerous radiation that causes your skin to turn blue
@@aquamarinerose5405 It's a measurement on how close to the idea of a true Gregory one can reach with their unique vibe.
I do remember back when the channel belonged to red, blue would occasionally appear because they were roommates and before blue she called him Gregory
Blue trying to make enough videos about Venice to be done and satisfied before it’s fully submerged
Blue (and/or his successors) will certainly continue to talk about Venice long after it it submerged
You and Red need to have a debate video on the better election method; Kindergarten Bingo Ball VS releasing a Sacred Pigeon to land on someone.
4:08 The "medieval bingo ball machine" looks like something I'd see in a Discworld adaptation, what the heck. XD
The word for Duke being “Doge” will never not be funny
In standard Italian it's "Duca" from the latin "dux" which at times it's rendered in "duce" when people wanted to get fancy (hence why it was adopted by the fascists).
Soooo... I have some terrible news about that... the doge died today.
@@DragonbIaze052 Wow. Such sorrow. Much regret.
I am convinced the most difficult decision in Blue’s life was the choice to either marry Cyan, or continue his lifelong goal to find a way to legally marry Venice.
Or marry all domes
I don't know what is more surprising that Blue actually wrote a book or that his last name is Stewart
His first name is Gregory, isn’t it? That would make his name “Gregory Stewart.“
@@Meli-Meliai yes but what does the B stand for
Also I thought all of his ancestors came from the Mediterranean
Oh well guess there are things we may never know
The book is a really cool idea, when you first said book I thought "oh cool, my favorite history tuber wrote a book in the same style as his scripts" then I realized it was a whole story and got more excited.
There's a worse Venetian than Enrico Dandolo?? Tell me more...
(and congrats on writing your book!)
Oh hey it's you.
That, good sir, is apparently entirely a matter of perspective. Dandolo didn't do anything to Venice, he just destabilized and wrecked pretty much everywhere else
Enrico Dandolo got appropriate revenge for his own blinding and the massacre of the Latins in Constantinople in 1182.
In terms of being the platonic ideal of a Venetian and being the Doge, then Marin Falieri might be the worst.
exactly what I was thinking.
Also blue saying he won't talk about Venice until he wrote a book while having written a book we don't know about yet
I don't why that is what catching me surprised but... BLUE'S SURNAME IS STEWART?!?!
Yeah, I personally didn't expect the Vembis-loving Grekboi to have a surprisingly non-Greek surname, let alone something unusually mundane as _Stewart_ , but who cares; he slays anyway! :)
Not gonna lie, kinda expected him to sign it “Gregory Blue” to keep up the bit
In the Scotland episode he said he was Scottish and its hard to get a more Scottish name than Stewart.
Source: I'm also Scottish and have the last name Stewart.
@@AmbushIntheDark
Stewart as a name is of Scottish origin?
@@shadow0fx Hey that's what the B in G. B. stands for
Blue: "How much time do you have?"
Me: "Looks like between 6 and 7 minutes"
Says he can quit venice when ever he wants, quits cold turkey, does one little hit and immediately writes a book.
Reminds me of dr. Jekyll
I commend the dedication of writing an entire book, in the style of the god damned greek epics, just to talk about Venice again.
also "treason weasel" made me chuckle
The irony of the Doge meme dog dying today and you talking about a Doge-run system of governance on the same day...
The foiled plan sounds like what would happen if ol' julius wasn't such a prick about all the bad omens
The Veneziad the the MOST Blue thing ever and I am 100% here for it.
Yeah. Fiction.
@@Duiker36rEaLlY?!? i ThOUgHT iT wAS ReAl!
@@Duiker36- My guy thinks the Aeneid is non-fiction or something, lol.
@@Tustin2121 whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. You mean Aneas is a MYTHOLOGICAL figure? I gotta take a minute here and get my head straight, my whole world view has totally turned upside down.
Imagine if the US chose their presidents from a series of bingo games in the congress.
That option is looking really good right now
Somehow, making Election Week a sort of official ceremonial, cultural holiday and having it all being done through randomized bingo games feels surprisingly reasonable and even... rational??? What??!
@@kbye2321 I don't know about rational, but it does sound pretty good right about now.
@@kbye2321 I actually kind of like the 'sensible pool of candidates every time, but a lot of layers of randomness in which one you get' idea.
That sounds preferable to our current system.
Blue drops a Doge video the day our beloved Meme Doge Kabosu crossed the rainbow bridge. I'll take Venetian jokes and rep his book to ease the grief.
Much love. Very good girl. Wow.
No, no Blue, that first clip was the correct clip. Pure comedy gold. A great reason to let you ramble about the great Mediterranean lagoon town is things like that happen.
4:40 “Brunch with a gimmicky campfire” I nearly fell out of my chair lol
“Beheaded for crimes” reminds me so much of “big fighty men go in the shame box, imprisoned for sports crimes”. It’s just so vague and sounds silly.
We will watch your authorial career with great interest Blue!
I KNEW IT! As soon as you made the statement, Blue, I *knew* you were hard at work on a Venice book! ::beams::
So excited for you, Blue! Congratulations :).
Vembis time!
I don't read epic poems but I love to support you guys in your crazy ambitions. Plus your love of Venice I think will help make the pages dance.
"treason weasel..." I'll have to keep that in back pocket in case I ever have the appropriate occasion to use it.
I mean...
Hey, Blue! You're not the only one who loves Venezia/Venice. I loved the green canalled city so much, I've used it as inspiration for my medieval gem Mezzaluna in the D&D campaign I'm currently running. (Gem? Pearl? Mine's carved out of marble. It's also 250 feet above the sea it abuts to and the canals flow into FOUR WATERFALLS. They also use hamster wheels and water wheels to move cargo up and down the clift from the docks below the city. Take that, Venice.)
The power some folks have to just knuckle down and WRITE A BOOK will never fail to impress me. Really looking forward to this.
I absolutely love listening to people gush about their special interests. It's what makes this channel awesome.
checks and balances to prevent a coup.... that sounds nice
BOOOK?!?!?!?! TAKE MY MONEY!
BÜÜK! BLÜE BÖÖK!
Blue trying to compete with Daniel Greene XD
Now we just got to figure out where Cyan fits into the dynamic
An epic about Venice in the style of the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid?! Are you insane?! (I love you, never stop, this is the best thing ever.)
8:20 XD Treason Weasel is my new favorite phrase
2:51 if well if that isn’t horribly accurate, Italian family dinners at least in my house involve shouting and someone being told to shut up. Plus there is something perfect about an entirely randomized electorate
The biggest shock on this video is finding that that blue's name is Gregory
*the Great
I was genuinely bamboozled when blue announce his book, i was expecting just a joke. That said, I need it.
RIP Kabosu the shiba inu AKA Doge, this video's timing was bizarrely perfect
Omg I love the fact that you wrote not just a book, but an EPIC POEM😮 as a philologist who loves a good epic poem, YES❤❤❤
8:33 As an artist, the fact that it looks like they didnt even decide to fully render the black cloth as an added insult is just so funny.
Blue, to have a topic about Venice is a good enough reason to talk about Venice and it's citizens. Never doubt it, never let anybody stop you. Some of your absolute masterpieces of videos were about Venice!
1:32 If you're going to go with the dual language thing, I recommend you do it in Venetian instead of standard Italian.
Don't even joke 😭
@@OverlySarcasticProductionsI'm not! It would be a great way to show off how distinct Venice is from the other regions of Italy, and surely there are at least a handful of Venetians who'd volunteer for this kind of thing.
@@yveltheyveltal5166 Great, now he's being blue
I missed the chance to back the project by not seeing this video for two months. The sorrow is mine.
R.I.P. DOGE KABOSU (such timing, much meme)
Here is my attempt at translating the text at 4:07
"No.1. Shows the box from which the papers or gold and sivler balls are drawn to make everything known through the lot.
A.B.C. Boxes with which you [cannot decipher]
A. Box to the left hand side
B. Middle box
C. Box to the right hand side, all in front of the throne of the Duke [the Doge]."
If it's fine, can you also explain the infographic of the Venetian electoral process for Doge, please?
@@kbye2321 Sorry. that one is in italian. the one i translated was in german
@@danielf.7151 OHHH, Okay! Thanks anyway! :)
@@kbye2321 at 4:56 it says:
At the top "This is how the Most Serene Doge of Venezia is elected"
Bottom right: "From the Grand Council 30 people are extracted at random, using a ballot"
Then, you trace the diagram from left to right: "30 people, of which 9 are extracted, who elect 40 people of which 12 are extracted (...)" and so on, until it ends on 41 people who (bottom left) "They elect the Most Serene (doge), at least 25 of them must agree, and the vote must be confirmed again by the Grand Council"
I live in Venice and i had no idea about half this stuff
@@Furigou Thanks so much!
Yooo. Venice. Again.
Gotta love Venice.
LOVE how it just says "for crimes"
And refuses to elaborate 😂😂😂
Love your work blue! You're amazing ❤❤❤❤
Oh my Lorde. He actually wrote a book. I love this channel.
Stretchgoal where Red turns your book into a tabletop setting?
YA MADE A BOOK LETS FUKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I've been watching y'all's channel since freshman year of high school in 2016 and it's always so mind boggling to think about how far you folks have come. I even introduced this channel to my favorite history teachers cuz sometimes you'd release videos on a topic that I just so happened to be learning about that month and they'd show it to the class! I'm so hecking proud of you two and I can't wait for what comes next!!!! ❤💙
HOLY CITY OF CANALS, BLUE-MAN!!! I must read this book!
I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE BOOK!
"Treason weasel" is my new favourite insult 😂
CONGRATS ON THE BOOK, BLUE!
ah yes, our boy, Gregory Blue Stewart.
Congrats on the book, Blue! So psyched for you!
Blue: Talk about the Most Serene Republic as often as possible. It is a beautiful part of history.
"The madmen weaponized capitalism for the good of the republic. Is that allowed?"
...yes. Encouraged even i man that is what Adam Smith argued for.
2:08
Correction: Nero didn't play the fiddle. That instrument wasn't created until the 10th Century
Are you calling Blue a lyre?
I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed
Nero played a goddamn lyre!
Thank you. I did so want to see this notable and famous example treated by your distinguished... etc. Thank you again.
Okay. I just happened to be on a OSP streak, and a upload happened within the hour. Nice.
I have the perfect spot on my bookshelf for your book Blue. Can’t wait to read it!
"How well did the government stand up to tyrannical whackos?" Oh gods, Blue, too soon. This one hits heart-achingly, gut-rendingly, waaaaay too close to home. *dies inside
Congratulations on the book, Blue! Sounds like it was quite the labor of love to write.
"Beheaded for crimes." So elegantly vague lol 😂
This got an immediate thumbs-up as soon as you mentioned the book. Can't wait to read it!
“Beheaded for crimes” should not have been as funny as I found it
Awesome and intriguing! Very cool learning about this intriguing form of government. Given how often common discourse boils down to either democracy or autocracy, it would be very cool to see more of these wild and sometimes wacky forms of government.
Has Blue been to Venice?
yes
ye
I'm assuming he has
It's a better question how someone convinces Blue to get out of Venice?
IIRC, Cyan was given the chance to pick her destination of choice for their honeymoon and she PICKED Venice. I’m sure they enjoyed it quite a bit.
I saw that there is an study on how giving promotions (and demotions I think) in a corporation at random made the corporation way more profitable and efficient.
So, yeah, the Venice system really works.
When you are a brilliant empire because you weaponised capitalism and an actual “I like money” banner.
"i said i won't make a video on Venice again until i can write a book on it but i feel like making a video on Venice... so i'll write a book to justify the video"
Marino faliero sounds like a type of chocolate
Congratulations on your book!! And double congrats on the super successful kickstarter!
Hurray, a Blue Friday
Pretty cool how this video in late May talks about leaders in republics being held accountable for treason.
I'll never understand why the west gushes over the Roman Empire, with Venice on the next page in the history book
'Cause "Rome *B I I I G* " and all that jazz
@kbye2321 and that's all that matters, right? Who cares that Venice was rich, stable and dominated the Mediterranean economy
Personally I would prefer that they gush over the Ottoman Empire for taking in the butt load of Jewish refugees from Spain after they went all "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," on anyone whose family hadn't been Christian since before the First Crusade. Plus they had an assortment of cool hats.
Just when I think I can't love these guys anymore(despite my appalling record of missing videos), they surprise me. Stay awesome!
"Oh no"-Mario LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't think we didn't notice you promoing our Goblin King's book in the background there. Very sneaky. The hoard approves.