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To anyone who thinks about giving up their DNA information to a private company that isn't really that much regulated and paying for that privilege... JUST DON'T. 23 and me customers are really regretting it now when the company is on a brink of collapse and a major medical corporation joined the board to legally have access to that data (technically they haven't sold it to them that way).
During a class trip back in the 90s, we were at a museum, and one kid got a massive nosebleed when we got to the mummy exhibit. Ok, sucks for him, but they got him some tissues and cleaned up the blood. Later that day, we're out to dinner and talking about the museum visit. Someone mentions the mummy and within seconds, the same kid gets a massive nosebleed. Uh...ok... Twice more during that trip when the mummy was mentioned, this kid got a massive bloody nose out of nowhere. He didn't have any health issues, didn't have any injuries, but for some reason, he got four bloody noses, all of them in the context of being near or hearing the mummy mentioned. He blamed them on the mummy having cursed him for years after. So yeah, that's my experience witnessing an alleged curse in action.
@@afrog2666 I meant he seems to not be putting out videos as regularly now and when he does they are feature length but I didn’t say that . And yeah I guess you are right in that sense
I saw this Gem in Washington when I was there. I knew it had a fascinating history but I had forgotten most of it. The Smithsonian should show this video at the exhibit. I like how Aaron tells the story with interest and humour.
You could do an entire "cursed item" series. For instance, the Hollywood star Rudolph Valentino has a ring that's supposedly cursed where a consecutive chain of owners supposedly all came to ill ends not long after obtaining the ring for themselves. There's stories of cursed chairs, cursed dolls, and pretty much cursed anything.
Diamonds get their color from "impurities" trapped within the carbon matrix as the diamond is formed. Nitrogen causes yellow. iirc, blue comes from aluminium. What makes this odd, is that at the extreme depths in the molten magma where carbon nucleates out of solution as diamond (rather than graphite, which it does on the earth's surface) there is no aluminium or nitrogen. Which is why natural coloured diamonds are so incredibly rare. Diamonds are carried to the surface in volcanic eruptions. The solidified core of an extinct volcanic tube is known as "kimberlite pipe" after Kimberley, the town in South Africa where a large diamond source was discovered, and is now home to the world's largest hole dug by human hand. We now know that Boron is what gives it the red hue under UV - but the color change is what makes that extremely unusual. Because normally the blue color would dominate at all times. This means it has two types of impurities (one for blue, one for red). Blue wins under natural light, and red wins under UV. And that makes this huge diamond even rarer than most blue diamonds. We can now manufacture diamonds of any color to order - hence NATURAL colored diamonds are rare, but not synthetic ones. The odds are, those pretty colored diamonds on offer at your local jeweller have all been synthesized in a factory, not dug out of the earth. But they are still absolutely real diamond, made of carbon. Plus a few extra additive elements, to give it the desired color. For those about to yell at me, "synthetic" means man-made. It does NOT mean "artificial", like the vast majority of people misunderstand. (Almost everyone I have mentioned "synthetic diamond" to, to describe my early career, believed that meant "artifical diamond" like Cubic Zirconia - a cheap mineral that has similar sparkly qualities to diamond, but is absolutely NOT diamond. I've lost count of the hundreds of times I have had to correct that misunderstanding.) Nylon is a synthetic (man-made) fibre, but it is not "artificial nylon". Think it through, people.
@@bythelee the blue coloring and neon red fluorescence are both caused by boron, according to my book "Unearthed - Surprising Stories Behind the Jewels" by Jeffrey Edward Post, who is a curator at the Smithsonian.
@@bythelee Artificial doesn't mean fake. It means not natural, aka, synthetic. Please don't confuse fake and artificial. They are not the same thing. Cubic Zirconium is fake diamond not artificial diamond. Artificial diamond is still real diamond, it's just not natural.
@@TheEternalPheonix appanrantly not. the quickest of google searches says "artificial would generally mean something not found in Nature and synthetic would mean something that is man-made."
Hey thoughty/forty 2, in a world that is just full of doom and gloom at the moment, skipping over to your channel always fills me with pure joy and delight. The stories are always interesting, backed up with great visuals, sometimes comical ones and narrated by yourself who is always so cheerful and amusing to listen to. Thank you for making the dark days bright and for researching good stories. ❤
Started listening to Thoughty2 at night cause his voice was soothing and it helped me sleep and now I've Pavlov-ed myself into not being able to fall asleep without listening to a Thoughty2 playlist😭😅
So many of my favourite youtubers have gone this route with me. Now I get to listen to them at work and find myself falling asleep into the buttercream :D
That’s funny. I also think Pavlov-ed yourself should enter common parlance and eventually into the dictionary. As a Pavlova (a dessert) lover in Australia I did Pavlova myself a bit much at Christmas as it’s summer here and a good Pav never goes to waste. Sleep well.
Great book by Steinbeck called The Pearl. Great wealth can indeed be a curse as it attracts envy, danger, paranoia. You can't eat diamonds, gold or cash.
I saw the Hope diamond in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. it's absolutely beautiful. It's protected in a bullet resistant box, armed guards, visitor direction (in a one way flow chamber) and other high tech stuff I won't mention what I could see or what I could not see. It's worth seeing in person if you ever get the chance.
@illanahanekom3994 uhh..sure just check out the gold rush n gold fever , gold ore ... Lead in a way and oh.. white rocks of crack cocaine and those make people a bit crazy
Why? Are you that important to think something would happen? :P In Sweden, you share all information but the last 4 digits of your social security number, by law. You can get that information from the internet all over the world (name, birthday, home adress, and so on). IMO, the scetchy part would be if they actually take the massive amount of time it would take, to track every single persons DNA around the world, or if they just throw the sample in the bin and make up a list based on where you're from (with some "historical accuracy") to make people feel like they got the money's worth. I believe the latter.
@@Schmorgus ancestry and 23andme have both been under fire for selling data and existing strictly as a data collection agency, respectively. Also, your social security number is easily findable online, especially as it's usually stored in multiple places on less than secure government infrastructure.
@@Schmorgus You don't have to be someone important and if you think privacy and security of oneself is only for the rich and famous, you're too far gone. These companies could sell your DNA information to other corporates to make a lot more money than the mere subscription fees people pay. Or something like what happened to 23 & me could happen to other companies too (getting hacked), leading to all your info ending up in the hands of some shady companies or people.
Just my very humble opinion. Why do some people value a piece of rock, that nobody can eat, over the truly good things in life, like a family, a nice house, good health, food on the table? You've got me.
Good question. In Economics we call this the Diamond-Water Paradox and it is also known as the Paradox of Value. It is an observation that is explained by the concept of marginal utility. Utility theory uses "happiness" to explain purchase decisions. These measures help us understand the utility, or pleasure, one receives from certain items or services. Adam Smith posited, “Nothing is more useful than water, but it will purchase scarcely anything; scarcely anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarcely any use value, but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.” This is the Diamond-Water Paradox, and while it seems like it has no basis in logic or rationality, the explanation is actually quite simple. Adam Smith's position mixes up the concept of value in use with the concept of value in exchange. It tries to compare the marginal utility of a very scarce good (diamonds) with the marginal utility of an abundant good (water). Since the supply of diamonds is much smaller relative to the demand for diamonds compared to that for water, the price of diamonds is much higher than that of water. So, the marginal utility of the last diamond is much larger than the marginal utility of the last unit of water. So, it is a matter of scarcity that creates these immense, even disproportionate, values. But it is a matter of desirability that lends credence to the value in the first place. Simply put, some people's happiness lies in things less obtainable than others and they are willing to pay for its rarity over more easily obtained items. In other words, what is the "Hope Diamond" to a few, is merely a "rock" in another's view.
Even though I'd love to know where my ancestors come from I don't like the idea of sending my D.N.A through the post. Just doesn't seem safe to me. But others don't seem to mind obviously.
Hi Thoughty2 This is Peggy Tom's wife. I wanted to let you know that we are new subscribers. After watching 20 or 30 love you videos we thought (lol) it was the right thing to do. Do you have the best most informative well produced videos out there. It is a great way to learn new things. You are a major crack up! Just wanted to say hi and introduce ourselves. Keep up the good work!
I have heard all those myths and legends of the Hope Diamond and I still watched every morsel of this piece. Good Show and interesting sponsor as well.
Someone in my family touched the Hope Diamond over 100 years ago. Now we are cursed with 61.9% Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. With a smattering of Iberian
@UKinQ8Gaming not all Americans do that. I certainly don't, and every Saint Patrick's day I make sure to tell everyone that none of them are Irish and that everyone in Ireland would tell them that they're American.
I love your videos, well done, entertaining, and you always find an excellent topic to talk about. Well done! Big applause, and thanks for your excellent work.
@@jakelandry5645I came here to say the same thing about the music. How exactly is saying the music overlay is too loud, being entitled? If people have a hard time listening to the story because the music is too loud... That isn't the definition of entitlement
My mom, a very American woman from Alabama, is way more English than you are when it comes to DNA, hers being around 70%. 99% of her DNA was from the British Isles except the 1% that came from Norway. It’s very cool to see that kind of thing.
1:42 so fun fact that’s actually not that rare of an occurrence with diamonds. Sounds really weird, and I don’t at all remember the science of it, but I used to work in a jewelry store and about 1/3 of our diamonds would glow red. It could even be used as an archaic way of telling whether a diamond is real or not, although with way less accuracy than an actual diamond tester or an appraisal.
@ it’s really cool to see actually. Some of them can glow pretty bright too, and during events where our vendors would bring in other pieces they’d have untreated colored diamonds, and some of those would do it as well. There was (iirc) a black diamond that would actually glow like a purplish, which I assume is just the color of the diamond itself mixing with what gives it the red glow. It was still really cool to see though.
I thought I knew everything about the Hope diamond, and believed the hype. Of course you told the truth of the story, which is still interesting. That's why I finally decided to join, since I ❤ all of your videos. Even if I know the story, you will give me more.
To be honest i fucking hate when big diamonds are found and then cut down human interference just leave them ones the way they are found there is beauty in that
Who else was relieved to hear "If anyone in history was ever going to suffer the consequences of the hope diamonds supposed curse" that it wasn't Mike the Hound?
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:19-21
Hi there, Mr. Thoughty2, this was a wonderful video. I have a request, however. Would it be possible to do a story about the Dutch East India Company? It's mentioned many times in your videos and is deserving of a nice long exposé:) Thanks!
I saw the Hope diamond in the 60's on a school field trip to DC. For anyone rich enough to buy the Hope diamond, becoming middle class is a disaster worth blaming on a curse. I also think the man who donated the diamond to the Smithsonian was able to write it off on his taxes.
You should do a video about the supposedly cursed ancient Egyptian thingy (I think it was a small statuette thing) that was took from a tomb, reportedly caused a load of bad luck & tragedy & was eventually on the Titanic when it sunk in 1912.
Dude I love your videos and the effort you put into them. I genuinely feel smarter every time I finish watching one. That being said, seeing your videos with an AI thumbnail gives off this impression that I'm about to watch the biggest piece of SLOP in the history of RUclips. I wish you went back to the old designs! Just my two cents, still love what you do.
I don't know why, but it took this to finally make it click that there never was an oriignal "Thoughty" channel, and that instead "Thoughty 2" must be a Douglas Adams fan.
Karma is pretty big in India where the stone was unearthed. Maybe how the curse affects you depends on the manner in which you acquired the stone. Murder, theft, dishonesty,etc The Stone will give it back to you
Bro can I be honest? I love your content but I'd much rather see you holding a prop or behind a green screen then A.I thumbnails. The A.I art is starting to be disingenuous to the stories you are trying to tell.
Seriously, and it's unprofessional as fuck because the guy on the thumbnail has six digits, so it just looks terrible. Like you couldn't Photoshop the sixth thumb out? Not only that but you're making money off of people's work, because the AI was trained on copy written data without the consent of said artists. You using AI art really makes me feel like you don't respect your fellow artists and content creators.
I've been watching your channel for years and I just wanted to say, you are the absolute best storyteller/educator of our generation! Your content is wonderful! Thank you!
Really big fan of your channel I really want you to make a video on another Russian like your rasputin video His name is sam zemurray A business tycoon, also known as sam, the banana man Born in a poor russian jewish farmer family.After his father died, he immagrated to America at age 14 with no money,no connections,and no hope only a dream and began selling ripe bananas as a fruit peddler, which at that time was considered garbage by huge fruit companies Making him a millionaire He then financed guns and bombs and then hired mercenaries,and overthrew the government Declared war on the most powerful company which was practically controlling central America This is just one of the few insane things he did, and you could know more about it by reading the book "The Fish That Ate The Whale"
Saw it in an older case years ago at the museum and was enchanted by it. Would love to go back and see it in it's better case. My Grandfather was a jeweller so I grew up with a love for gems, especially blue sapphires. So seeing a diamond that tone.. 🤩
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To anyone who thinks about giving up their DNA information to a private company that isn't really that much regulated and paying for that privilege... JUST DON'T. 23 and me customers are really regretting it now when the company is on a brink of collapse and a major medical corporation joined the board to legally have access to that data (technically they haven't sold it to them that way).
Love your videos but you should watch out with what kind of sponsors you associate yourself with. Those DNA collecting companies are dubious at best.
I like your mustache better, it gives you a “Gentleman looked.”
Imagine being so cursed that even after 350 years, people are still blaming you for their bad life choices.
I hope to be that prolific. Ladies... Let's talk. ;)
How the fuck have you watched a 33 minutes video in 7minutes
@@ScottLovenberg bruh
People will do anything not to take responsibility lol
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I saw the Hope Diamond a couple months ago in my latest trip to the Smithsonian. I had a tummy ache that night. It's totally cursed.
A tummy ache ? How old are you 6
… after having sushi for for dinner! 😉
It was calling for you
It was hoping you'd touch it
During a class trip back in the 90s, we were at a museum, and one kid got a massive nosebleed when we got to the mummy exhibit. Ok, sucks for him, but they got him some tissues and cleaned up the blood.
Later that day, we're out to dinner and talking about the museum visit. Someone mentions the mummy and within seconds, the same kid gets a massive nosebleed. Uh...ok...
Twice more during that trip when the mummy was mentioned, this kid got a massive bloody nose out of nowhere. He didn't have any health issues, didn't have any injuries, but for some reason, he got four bloody noses, all of them in the context of being near or hearing the mummy mentioned. He blamed them on the mummy having cursed him for years after.
So yeah, that's my experience witnessing an alleged curse in action.
(Spends a king's fortune on a sparkly rock, and who knows what else, goes bankrupt shortly thereafter) "Hmm, the rock must be cursed!"
Thoughty2 seems like you refined your niche recently, I congratulate you on that
Much success to you
a 7-year long subscriber
I love the feature length videos . Quality over quantity suits me
@@johnnybaddeley8488 It`s a 33 minute long video, that`s quantity as well, so here, you get *both* :D
@@afrog2666 I meant he seems to not be putting out videos as regularly now and when he does they are feature length but I didn’t say that . And yeah I guess you are right in that sense
I saw this Gem in Washington when I was there. I knew it had a fascinating history but I had forgotten most of it. The Smithsonian should show this video at the exhibit. I like how Aaron tells the story with interest and humour.
I agree (His name is Arran tho)
You could do an entire "cursed item" series. For instance, the Hollywood star Rudolph Valentino has a ring that's supposedly cursed where a consecutive chain of owners supposedly all came to ill ends not long after obtaining the ring for themselves.
There's stories of cursed chairs, cursed dolls, and pretty much cursed anything.
James Dean's Porsche "little bastard" has quite cursed history
A cursed ring? I think I saw that movie.
How about a cursed curse,l?
Rudolph Valentino is dead af how does he have a cursed ring...
mummies
I liked how it glowed red after exposure to UV, while most blue diamonds glowed even more blue!
Diamonds get their color from "impurities" trapped within the carbon matrix as the diamond is formed. Nitrogen causes yellow. iirc, blue comes from aluminium. What makes this odd, is that at the extreme depths in the molten magma where carbon nucleates out of solution as diamond (rather than graphite, which it does on the earth's surface) there is no aluminium or nitrogen. Which is why natural coloured diamonds are so incredibly rare. Diamonds are carried to the surface in volcanic eruptions. The solidified core of an extinct volcanic tube is known as "kimberlite pipe" after Kimberley, the town in South Africa where a large diamond source was discovered, and is now home to the world's largest hole dug by human hand.
We now know that Boron is what gives it the red hue under UV - but the color change is what makes that extremely unusual. Because normally the blue color would dominate at all times. This means it has two types of impurities (one for blue, one for red). Blue wins under natural light, and red wins under UV.
And that makes this huge diamond even rarer than most blue diamonds.
We can now manufacture diamonds of any color to order - hence NATURAL colored diamonds are rare, but not synthetic ones. The odds are, those pretty colored diamonds on offer at your local jeweller have all been synthesized in a factory, not dug out of the earth. But they are still absolutely real diamond, made of carbon. Plus a few extra additive elements, to give it the desired color.
For those about to yell at me, "synthetic" means man-made. It does NOT mean "artificial", like the vast majority of people misunderstand.
(Almost everyone I have mentioned "synthetic diamond" to, to describe my early career, believed that meant "artifical diamond" like Cubic Zirconia - a cheap mineral that has similar sparkly qualities to diamond, but is absolutely NOT diamond. I've lost count of the hundreds of times I have had to correct that misunderstanding.)
Nylon is a synthetic (man-made) fibre, but it is not "artificial nylon". Think it through, people.
@@bythelee the blue coloring and neon red fluorescence are both caused by boron, according to my book "Unearthed - Surprising Stories Behind the Jewels" by Jeffrey Edward Post, who is a curator at the Smithsonian.
@@bythelee Artificial doesn't mean fake. It means not natural, aka, synthetic. Please don't confuse fake and artificial. They are not the same thing. Cubic Zirconium is fake diamond not artificial diamond. Artificial diamond is still real diamond, it's just not natural.
@@TheEternalPheonix appanrantly not. the quickest of google searches says "artificial would generally mean something not found in Nature and synthetic would mean something that is man-made."
You’re still one of the best story tellers on yt after allll these years. Thanks for watching err thanks for the videos
Hey thoughty/forty 2, in a world that is just full of doom and gloom at the moment, skipping over to your channel always fills me with pure joy and delight.
The stories are always interesting, backed up with great visuals, sometimes comical ones and narrated by yourself who is always so cheerful and amusing to listen to.
Thank you for making the dark days bright and for researching good stories. ❤
Started listening to Thoughty2 at night cause his voice was soothing and it helped me sleep and now I've Pavlov-ed myself into not being able to fall asleep without listening to a Thoughty2 playlist😭😅
I'm so sorry for you
I’m doing this at this moment 😂
yepp. been like that for a few years now. welcome to the club. 😅
So many of my favourite youtubers have gone this route with me. Now I get to listen to them at work and find myself falling asleep into the buttercream :D
That’s funny. I also think Pavlov-ed yourself should enter common parlance and eventually into the dictionary. As a Pavlova (a dessert) lover in Australia I did Pavlova myself a bit much at Christmas as it’s summer here and a good Pav never goes to waste. Sleep well.
I have lost my Hope. Where are you, oh where are you, My Precious?!
Give me back my Precious!
My.... precious...like how you quoted L.O.T.R. 😂
Great book by Steinbeck called The Pearl.
Great wealth can indeed be a curse as it attracts envy, danger, paranoia.
You can't eat diamonds, gold or cash.
One of my favorite books❤
I mean... you could, but you wouldn't benefit from doing so.
22:50 *Its no longer background music if it's louder than the person talking*
While this video was playing, I burnt some toast.
Totally cursed.
Proof if proof were needed.
I almost tripped and spilled a little soda on my shirt while i sat down to watch😱 either im a clumsy idiot or this curse is totally real
That's the cursed sapPHIRE 🔥 😬
Toastally
To you the day you burnt your toast it was the day you realized the diamond 💎 was cursed but to me it was Tuesday.
M. Bison probably. 😆
I saw the Hope diamond in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. it's absolutely beautiful. It's protected in a bullet resistant box, armed guards, visitor direction (in a one way flow chamber) and other high tech stuff I won't mention what I could see or what I could not see. It's worth seeing in person if you ever get the chance.
Why the secrecy Mark Smithsonian?😁
I'm Aussie so I'm not in a position to make a visit in person 😎
Whenever Thoughty2 tells us about something, I am astonished that I never heared of it before... 😅
music a bit loud around 22:40
Different color rocks been making people crazy over eons
More info or some links please!! Sounds fascinating!
@illanahanekom3994 uhh..sure just check out the gold rush n gold fever , gold ore ... Lead in a way and oh.. white rocks of crack cocaine and those make people a bit crazy
I’ve been smoking some blue rock that’s made me particularly crazy lately…
People get crazily polarized over a cheat day dropped on Tik Tok by the Rock
There's something about sending my DNA to the internet that's always seemed sketchy to me
Why? Are you that important to think something would happen? :P
In Sweden, you share all information but the last 4 digits of your social security number, by law. You can get that information from the internet all over the world (name, birthday, home adress, and so on).
IMO, the scetchy part would be if they actually take the massive amount of time it would take, to track every single persons DNA around the world, or if they just throw the sample in the bin and make up a list based on where you're from (with some "historical accuracy") to make people feel like they got the money's worth. I believe the latter.
@@Schmorgus ancestry and 23andme have both been under fire for selling data and existing strictly as a data collection agency, respectively. Also, your social security number is easily findable online, especially as it's usually stored in multiple places on less than secure government infrastructure.
Bingo
@@Schmorgus You don't have to be someone important and if you think privacy and security of oneself is only for the rich and famous, you're too far gone.
These companies could sell your DNA information to other corporates to make a lot more money than the mere subscription fees people pay.
Or something like what happened to 23 & me could happen to other companies too (getting hacked), leading to all your info ending up in the hands of some shady companies or people.
@@Schmorgus I'm the most important person I know.. F Sweden
Just my very humble opinion. Why do some people value a piece of rock, that nobody can eat, over the truly good things in life, like a family, a nice house, good health, food on the table? You've got me.
Boredom. Rich people are often bored out of their mind. So they do stupid things.
Good question. In Economics we call this the Diamond-Water Paradox and it is also known as the Paradox of Value. It is an observation that is explained by the concept of marginal utility. Utility theory uses "happiness" to explain purchase decisions. These measures help us understand the utility, or pleasure, one receives from certain items or services. Adam Smith posited, “Nothing is more useful than water, but it will purchase scarcely anything; scarcely anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarcely any use value, but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.” This is the Diamond-Water Paradox, and while it seems like it has no basis in logic or rationality, the explanation is actually quite simple. Adam Smith's position mixes up the concept of value in use with the concept of value in exchange. It tries to compare the marginal utility of a very scarce good (diamonds) with the marginal utility of an abundant good (water). Since the supply of diamonds is much smaller relative to the demand for diamonds compared to that for water, the price of diamonds is much higher than that of water. So, the marginal utility of the last diamond is much larger than the marginal utility of the last unit of water. So, it is a matter of scarcity that creates these immense, even disproportionate, values. But it is a matter of desirability that lends credence to the value in the first place. Simply put, some people's happiness lies in things less obtainable than others and they are willing to pay for its rarity over more easily obtained items. In other words, what is the "Hope Diamond" to a few, is merely a "rock" in another's view.
I mean we do value pieces of paper called money, so its value is basically based on trust and perception of value, nothing else.
1:30 but what about the dog what happend to the dog?
The dog did not go to heaven 😂
Dog named mike
24:54
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The background music between 22:00 and 23:13 is too loud, it's hard to hear you.
"As much self restraint as I have with a half finished bag of Haribo Starmix" 😂 Excellent
really..? british humour
I hope your family appreciates you giving the world your DNA marker
Even though I'd love to know where my ancestors come from I don't like the idea of sending my D.N.A through the post. Just doesn't seem safe to me. But others don't seem to mind obviously.
Thank you I’m from Nebraska in the United States. Been watching you for years you rock.
Same here! Bellevue.
Same. Lincoln
I see what you did there
@@Frenchiejinx what?
"You rock" its cursed
Hi Thoughty2 This is Peggy Tom's wife. I wanted to let you know that we are new subscribers. After watching 20 or 30 love you videos we thought (lol) it was the right thing to do. Do you have the best most informative well produced videos out there. It is a great way to learn new things. You are a major crack up! Just wanted to say hi and introduce ourselves. Keep up the good work!
Hi Peggy
what's up Peg?
Does he not upload these on Facebook?
I have heard all those myths and legends of the Hope Diamond and I still watched every morsel of this piece. Good Show and interesting sponsor as well.
Someone in my family touched the Hope Diamond over 100 years ago. Now we are cursed with 61.9% Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. With a smattering of Iberian
You ...& 70%-90% of the Irish, Welsh, & Scot....
Go to america, every person there will tell you were in Europe they are from even though theyve never been just like how u know if someone is vegan.
@UKinQ8Gaming
not all Americans do that. I certainly don't, and every Saint Patrick's day I make sure to tell everyone that none of them are Irish and that everyone in Ireland would tell them that they're American.
@@UKinQ8Gamingnot a single person does that besides African Americans and Mexicans. 😂
@@seanmorgan2356Exactly, American by nationality and Irish by ancestry. Still Irish though because they’re just in another location.
"The Arkenstone! The heart of the mountain!!! How came you by the heirloom of our house!?"
That stone belongs to the king!!
@@RideForRuin Ser Indiana of Jones: "...it belongs in a museum!"
Underrated comment right here
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Heisenberg Back at it again!
Lmao
😂 kudos
Hi! Please make a video about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon! That would be fantastic :)
I love your videos, well done, entertaining, and you always find an excellent topic to talk about. Well done! Big applause, and thanks for your excellent work.
23:00 dude the music is way too loud compared to your voice!
Agreed
Nah. It was building up perfectly.
Hey been a long time fan thoughty just wanted to let you know that we all love and appreciate the effort you put in to your vids❤
The diamond's fame just brought to light the sordid things typical of people rich enough to afford it.
Maybe being rich is the curse?
Bruh curse me please 🙏
I'll happily give it a try lol
Nice try
“May God smite me and may I never recover!”
Being alive curses us with the mystery of death
Everytime a new video arrives , its somthing new or a diffrent take of what i may have learned. And its always welcomed knowledge. Ty!!!
Sorry but the music in this video is too high volume. 22:50 for example.
Had to turn it down! It's such an annoying piece too, it sounds like my daughter whining 😑
Y'all are too much. Stop it. Entitlement doesn't look good on y'all.
@@jakelandry5645 From my pov it was just a notice for Thoughty2, may he not have noticed. It was not negative in any means, I still like the video.
@@jakelandry5645I came here to say the same thing about the music. How exactly is saying the music overlay is too loud, being entitled?
If people have a hard time listening to the story because the music is too loud... That isn't the definition of entitlement
@@laura11654 no, but believing their expert opinion matters, absolutely is.
My mom, a very American woman from Alabama, is way more English than you are when it comes to DNA, hers being around 70%. 99% of her DNA was from the British Isles except the 1% that came from Norway. It’s very cool to see that kind of thing.
It's called inbreeding.
1:42 so fun fact that’s actually not that rare of an occurrence with diamonds. Sounds really weird, and I don’t at all remember the science of it, but I used to work in a jewelry store and about 1/3 of our diamonds would glow red. It could even be used as an archaic way of telling whether a diamond is real or not, although with way less accuracy than an actual diamond tester or an appraisal.
Would of been great if He actually showed the footage,
I'm gonna check that fact out now.
@ it’s really cool to see actually. Some of them can glow pretty bright too, and during events where our vendors would bring in other pieces they’d have untreated colored diamonds, and some of those would do it as well. There was (iirc) a black diamond that would actually glow like a purplish, which I assume is just the color of the diamond itself mixing with what gives it the red glow. It was still really cool to see though.
I thought I knew everything about the Hope diamond, and believed the hype. Of course you told the truth of the story, which is still interesting. That's why I finally decided to join, since I ❤ all of your videos. Even if I know the story, you will give me more.
The ancients used to believe that gemstones have an effect on your aura, i am very intrigued to find out if science can prove that..
Given that auras don't exist, I'm going with no.
@@cympimpin20put your helmet back on.
I think auras exist.
@2:42 his wine cooler, just called us all poor! 😂😂😂
Love that after all this time you are still so entertaining! Thank you for the content man!
To be honest i fucking hate when big diamonds are found and then cut down human interference just leave them ones the way they are found there is beauty in that
egads, MUSIC GO LOUD around 22:30
Its WAYYYY too loud! I had to turn the whole thing down!
Who else was relieved to hear "If anyone in history was ever going to suffer the consequences of the hope diamonds supposed curse" that it wasn't Mike the Hound?
The music is a bit too loud in this one, Sir Thoughty2. 😊 But otherwise, Stellar video as always. 🙏🏾 Keep it up, Sir.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:19-21
You could say it appeared out of the blue! 13:49
He donated it to America in 1958... This explains the curse... We need to give it to 🛎️🛎️🛎️
Hi there, Mr. Thoughty2, this was a wonderful video. I have a request, however. Would it be possible to do a story about the Dutch East India Company? It's mentioned many times in your videos and is deserving of a nice long exposé:)
Thanks!
Think about it, everyone who has ever owned The Hope Diamond is now dead! And you think it isn't cursed????
How come everyone else who was alive at the time is also dead? 😂😂
I saw the Hope diamond in the 60's on a school field trip to DC. For anyone rich enough to buy the Hope diamond, becoming middle class is a disaster worth blaming on a curse. I also think the man who donated the diamond to the Smithsonian was able to write it off on his taxes.
love the music its just a bit overwhelming around the 12 yr old miner bit lol thank you for your content i love seeing ur vids
So if he discovered a mine when he was only 12 years old….
He was a minor miner.
You should do a video about the supposedly cursed ancient Egyptian thingy (I think it was a small statuette thing) that was took from a tomb, reportedly caused a load of bad luck & tragedy & was eventually on the Titanic when it sunk in 1912.
Your way of story telling is so interesting and entertaining
I've been to the Smithsonian to see the Hope. It's a lot smaller in person than you'd expect.
It used to be a lot bigger. Age has a way of shrinking us all though.
The Hope diamond was on display at the Smithsonian but the line to view it was ridiculously long, so I passed on it.
24:45 Oh she be flexin’ 😂😂
Thank you, Thoughty2 for a very amusing and enjoyable tale. 🎉🎉🎉
Is it me or the audio and the video isn’t synced right?
Curse of the Hope Dimond strikes again
Its you sorry
Synced you dunce 😂 I swear 99% of RUclips can't spell...just awful
@@novasludge3484 there I changed it I hope you day is so much better, because one mistake made your day so bad you needed to point it out ❤️
Yeah it's an AI generated video.
🇧🇷🇧🇷 India: you have thousands "gods" and none of them have teach you the care for cleaning and hygiene? 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Great narration dude🙂
Your videos are a wonderful blend of educational and entertaining. I am hooked!
4:00 if you want to get past that long ass sponsorship.
So now we know why the US is cursed since 1958...
OMG where is the mustache??? I miss that thing
I think it is now on display at The British Museum
😂
THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ON THIS lik ethey did for Uncut Gems!
The United States started having money troubles in 1963...when it went off the gold standard... maybe it's time it passed the diamond along 🤷🙃😉
You Forgot to mention the Last Death Attributed to the Hope Diamond, the Curator of the Smithsonian who Received it.
Dude I love your videos and the effort you put into them. I genuinely feel smarter every time I finish watching one. That being said, seeing your videos with an AI thumbnail gives off this impression that I'm about to watch the biggest piece of SLOP in the history of RUclips. I wish you went back to the old designs! Just my two cents, still love what you do.
I think The Pink Panther is more famous than the Heart of the Really Bad Movie stone...
Loved this video! Truly good. Thanks so much!
Funny thing is. Right now China diamonds are tanking in cost.
Seeing the current 'Hope Diamond,' at the end of a long day was one of the most boring things i've ever done !!! Luckily there was a bench nearby.😂
Broooooooo….. plz don’t do a sponsorship from a DNA company 💀
That’s terrible for your privacy
Exactly
I just love 42 .. its always so calming and interesting ...
I don't know why, but it took this to finally make it click that there never was an oriignal "Thoughty" channel, and that instead "Thoughty 2" must be a Douglas Adams fan.
isnt it called "Kohinur"?
I think so as well
No that's a different diamond in the British royal jewels but also very famous
Karma is pretty big in India where the stone was unearthed. Maybe how the curse affects you depends on the manner in which you acquired the stone. Murder, theft, dishonesty,etc The Stone will give it back to you
One of your best videos in awhile Thoughty2.
Nice
Enjoyed like always Thanks 😉
Why AI thumbnails 😢😢😢😢
Don't be a geezer
Don’t be a nit picker
cheaper than stock photos
Forget the sellouts
Yall gotta stop crying over small things. Make your own videos if u wanna make shit yourself. Keep your crying to yourself
Epic run down. I've always wanted to know. Love the visuals.
LOSE THE MUSIC!!!!!
Use you manners kid. At least say please
Best comment 😂 drives me nuts
we need to find Orodruin..
Bro can I be honest? I love your content but I'd much rather see you holding a prop or behind a green screen then A.I thumbnails. The A.I art is starting to be disingenuous to the stories you are trying to tell.
Seriously, and it's unprofessional as fuck because the guy on the thumbnail has six digits, so it just looks terrible. Like you couldn't Photoshop the sixth thumb out? Not only that but you're making money off of people's work, because the AI was trained on copy written data without the consent of said artists. You using AI art really makes me feel like you don't respect your fellow artists and content creators.
How's your RUclips channel doing? His seems to be doing OK.
@craignel Great way to show how sensitive you are to criticism
Blue stone that glows red. Infinity Stone, Check!
Call the next ball in "The Matrix Has A Glitch Bingo"!!! 😮😮
🤣🤣🤣
The Smithsonian will never let it go.
I've been watching your channel for years and I just wanted to say, you are the absolute best storyteller/educator of our generation!
Your content is wonderful! Thank you!
Really big fan of your channel
I really want you to make a video on another Russian like your rasputin video
His name is sam zemurray
A business tycoon, also known as sam, the banana man
Born in a poor russian jewish farmer family.After his father died, he immagrated to America at age 14 with no money,no connections,and no hope
only a dream and began selling ripe bananas as a fruit peddler, which at that time was considered garbage by huge fruit companies
Making him a millionaire
He then financed guns and bombs and then hired mercenaries,and overthrew the government
Declared war on the most powerful company which was practically controlling central America
This is just one of the few insane things he did, and you could know more about it by reading the book
"The Fish That Ate The Whale"
Saw it in an older case years ago at the museum and was enchanted by it. Would love to go back and see it in it's better case. My Grandfather was a jeweller so I grew up with a love for gems, especially blue sapphires. So seeing a diamond that tone.. 🤩
Is the "hey 42 here" joke old yet? Because I still chuckle at every intro thinking about it. Lol
I won't give my DNA to anyone. Well... You know what I mean..lol
Thanks for this. I did see it at the Smithsonian as a teenager. Those beeps had me looking for a failing smoke detector.
Outstanding episode!
If you own the most expensive rock on the planet, you're hardly cursed😂