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Gold and Gunpowder
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Bro I've been watching your videos on and off for awhile, but I could never place your accent. Where are you from? Love you videos, keep it up man!
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28:41 You have to wonder how many of these ships had a captain who was psychotic and the men were following his lead
Versus the captain trying to rein in his men who are murderous and failing to do so on occasion -
Honestly your history, your childhood doesn't excuse your crimes even if it was the worst childhood ever. So no, I won't feel bad for the guy if he was a terrible person
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I know at least some of the stories about these pirates were crafted in order to create a persona to scare other people into surrendering
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Hahaha "The article quotes Johnson… and other sources quoting Johnson."
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That was a beautiful reading – haha and what I wouldn't give to see in a fresh year aboard the Merry Christmas.
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Great stuff!
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It's a small thing, but I appreciate the correct pronunciation of the name Tadhg. There's a lot of ways to butcher that one.
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Did he go by Edward Low or Ned Low?
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I heard "Hurt people hurt people." it's sorta impossible for man to judge mankind.. in complete truth. I think, most people would respond in similar ways? (featuring in past stressors) but what do I know? Great vid!
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Ok maybe I've missed it ?? Have y done a video on black sam Bellamy ???
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I wonder did the author of the book intend it to be as accurate as possible to be a historical reference? Or is it more of a romanticized partly truthful History
And what do you think he would make of what the book has become?
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Que bien! Hay doblaje al español aunque medio robótico pero algo es algo! Muy buen material camarada 🏴☠️
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I think that one of these days you should gaslight us by fabricating an entire life's story of a pirate that never existed, including fake historical sources and the like as evidence. Don't even tell us you're bullshitting us at the end of the video, carry it through seriously the entire way.
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Hats off, another great video. Thank you.
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The translation into German is really hard to listen to. You understand the meaning, but the sentence structure and emphasis are incredibly bad.
The French translation is a bit better, Spanish even seems to be quite good. -
low sea men
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Why does Gold and Gunpowder sound different these days?
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I would love to see some vids on some mughal and other "exotic" pirates maybe. This was a great vid btw. Love your stuff came upon you while researching jolly rogers and how pirates designed them. Got hooked.
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Honestly I find this version of the career much better (well duh), the usual GHotP narrative seems almost cartoonish or caricatural compared to other sources.
Always a joy to watch your videos, you're doing an amazing job o7 -
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1:06:53 maybe the witnesses knew he was one of the retreating people because he yelled back to them while he was running.
You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Ned Lowe -
Somehow, Edward Low returned.
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Ooooo
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babe wake up a biography just dropped
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" Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. "
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is this narrated by the goldfish from american dad?
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And they say Guillermo del Toro invented magical realism! Nope, pirate biographers apparently
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Great video, keep up the good work G&G
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In other words, you've NEVER been able to trust the media.
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Another G&G masterpiece 👌🏻
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Cara se esse aí tivesse vindo para o Brasil certamente eu já teria ouvido falar dele mas não essa é a primeira vez que eu sou seu nome desse pirata
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Great content as usual man. Well done!
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Another amazing video indeed. Happy holidays, my friend.
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God bless
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@gold and gunpowder..love your documentaries and am binge watching them all…i have a technical question..when multiple ships are grouped together to form a fleet, how are the ships coordinated together? Are commands from the flag ship relayed by flags and banners or are there other ways of communicating between vessels?
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Off topic but something I've been thinking about. I've heard alot of pirates being jacobites, or sympathize..and all though i can see some ..i cant see as much as depicted ..most pirates were not overly religious..to start with ..and enemies of all man kind dosent scream overly politically to me ..on side or the othere .. just saying …most didn't shy away from robbing any nationality ..I don't see them asking what faith they followed before taking a ship .. so to follow catholism..or any intreast as to who was on a throne let alone to who's laws they had no interest in following anyway ….I just don't see it …keep maritime history alive and hoist the black .
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Okay hear me out, i know this is outside the scope of the channel but u should do a video on vikings vs native americans i think i would do well happy new year
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Great episode.
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Bro this channel is so awesome
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The writers of Black Sails seem to agree with you in many respects. They have Flint explaining to his men that if they allow the crew of a recently lost fight to escape, "No captain will ever surrender to that black flag again" and pointing out on more than one occasion that a fierce reputation made merchant ships far more likely to meekly give over their goods. The writers even have a merchant captain explain this to his men, but then unfortunately confront the purely fictional Ned Low. When Jack Rackham is questioned by a naive young woman who proceeds to relay ridiculous stories of Charles Vane's crimes, asserting they must be true as she had read them in the newspaper, he scornfully tells her to "read a book." And we have the English servant woman reading Complete History to her children at bedtime.
Winston Churchill commented that lies were a vital part of war, and certainly this was well understood by the pirates. Between the pure fun of simply telling ludicrous stories to gullible landlubbers, the natural tendency of people to embellish, the service that lies and deceit can serve, and the fact that these were sailors, not historians or academics, means we'll never have "the truth". All we will have are dedicated researchers like Gold and Gunpowder to tease out for us the morsels of fact hidden in the depths of falsehood.
I think it was H L Menken who once wrote something along the lines of "Sometimes every man must feel the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black and start splitting throats", meaning that the weight of institutions and society can drive any of us to 'make war against civilization". I would suggest that is still very much the case in our present world, and why pirates have been and will no doubt always be a source of romantic inspiration.
Devil take the hindmost!
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This sounds like a terrible way to deal with the middle age crisis
