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What’s the song used for intro? I guess I couldn’t Shazam it?

I recognized the "grotesque cartoon man laughing" at 15:30! It's actually the hideous logo for Jerry Lewis Cinemas, a chain of tiny multiplex cinemas located in strip malls. I lived near one as a kid, and it was easy to get in for a kiddie movie then sneak into the other dinky theatres to see lurid R-rated fare. Ah, good times...

The colonizing of NA came with lots of side effects that are common knowledge; introduction of invasive species, introduction of new disease, introduction of some destructive and some productive cultural habits like hunting, the effective terraforming of the continent, industrialization. Like you say, it's more likely a pie chart of what had how much of an effect than a statement of what the actual individual cause was. Fun video

I remember seeing 2 "grasshoppers" i use that term in quotes, because idk if an 8 inch long grasshopper is still a grass hopper, but that was back in 2012 i think, give or take 2 years. They were fascinating, but admittedly did make me curious about locust. I had seen (excuse my likely bad spelling) cadydids before, and those things can bite harder than you would expect. Im not surprised to here that actual locusts could eat thru wood fencing and the like.

I've always wanted to go see the eskimos! Baffin Island looks cool

Just throwing it out there, in the new Hades 2 game there's a triad of female goddesses who refer to themselves as the silver sisters who are central to the lore. I haven't gone far enough in the game to see how this resolves itself but if it trended in the direction of a greek era lesbian bdsm cult I wouldn't complain.

I thought about this earlier this year, when I read a biography of Laura ingalas Wilder (Prairie Fires : Dreams of Laura Wilder) and it mentioned the cruel irony that the Rocky Mountain Locust went extinct the same year that Charles Ingalls died - long after his many farms had failed and his adult children moved away - his lifelong scourge (well 1 of 4) went with him

I'm not sure personally but it sounds like something the British would say, like in a Monty Python short. Lol

i do not like you'r spiky banananana

Oh yeah I remember the locust. I experienced a lot of them growing up throughout my childhood. Kept coming from underground and killing everyone and me constantly as humanity's fight for survival against the locust hoard. Now I'm hearing that it's about to have a prequel.

Huh. Locust plagues are like goblins and goblin kings. Some fantasy writer should get on tjhat.

Two words that bring tears to my eyes are "Smallpox was..." from the beginning of the Wikipedia article. We wiped it out--and it effing deserved it. And now we're bringing back polio.

My first thought was futurama. Seems like it would be an exchange between Leela and Professor Farnsworth. But i dont think i have ever actually heard that exact quote, just similar ones

In response to the question at the end of the video, I, for one, want the locusts back-- We've had it too good for too long.

I have never seen a plague but I did drive through a swarm of grasshoppers driving through Love County OK.

Behind the bastards covered this guy 😅

6m? ~250,000 mostly from starvation because the allies bombed the supply routes - best i can give ya

Okay, now I gotta go watch some Courage the Cowardly Dog. the late 90s/early 2000s was a magical era

Randomly stumbled upon your channel today, and keeping clicking to watch another video after each one is done. You have an excellent presentation style that's good for listening in the background (and then rewinding to see what snark Jojobee had to say about something), a voice that was made for this sort of video, and perfectly quirky topics to chose from!

Anyone else notice that he slipped goncharov in there lmao

Who knew Brian Eno would end up tied into all this! 10/10.

Fun fact: the mouse city experiment was conducted before the rise of animal welfare. They didn't care one bit of the well being of the mice. The mice didn't have any stimulation at all. So they got bored. So bored that they began cannibalizing eachother. So the experiment only proved that mice would turn on each other if droven to insanity with boredom.

More believable than the official story. Magic tube walls and eagle/bear duos etc.

I look forward to a time when the air is truly clean. I'm a lichenologist and it genuinely scares me going into the city and seeing how many species are absent because I know the air is killing them. Humans are a little tougher than lichens but I don't want us pushing our lungs to the absolute limit. Many of the lichens you do see in cities are highly pollution tolerant species like dandelions, but I'm afraid of how many won't come back from our activities. Many still need very old trees to grow on or they may not make it to reproductive age since they grow so slow. Edit: I say this like I'll be alive. It may not happen until I'm 80 and I'm not sure if I'll still be here that long

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There was a TV miniseries called Seventh Avenue which I would stuck in my mind all these years and I can’t find anywhere to watch this. Amy thoughts?

Literally love goncharov and no one ever brings it up omg thank you for mentioning it!!

Did you kiss boys in France?

Love your intro music

oh my god I really need to see this. Schindlers List was slapstick and tasteless but it won all kinds of awards! Jerry Lewis (a Jew) should have his attempt shown as well!

So glad the algorithm chose me to check out your channel at about 1200 subs before the channel wipe and update video. I definitely boosted the click through rate! Keep up the great work young brother.

I met Jerry Louis I had to be 8 to 10 years old. I had no idea who it was, we were on an elevator together on a cruise ship. I do got to say he was nice and said hello but it was probably cuz I was a child.

I was born in 1961, and have a little insight into the Jerry Lewis phenomenon. (Fwiw, I also lived in Toulouse, France for about half a year in 2001; don’t think I ran across any adulation of the guy there at that time!) Lewis was damn near revered in my home, primarily by my father (my father was Not a Nice Guy, as it happens, so his endorsement of Lewis made me less inclined to be a fan…). It wasn’t unusual in Jewish households like ours at the time; Lewis was something of a Jewish hero, in large part due to his fundraising efforts. My memories about him centered not so much on his movies, but on the yearly Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon he hosted every Labor Day-it lasted nearly 24 hours, and he would perform and host through the whole thing, clearly exhausted by the end, raising money for the MDA. It was wildly successful, and it was on continuously in our home every year. I’d heard of this movie vaguely some years back, but this is the first in depth examination of it I’ve seen, so thanks! Very interesting. One other thing: I winced a bit when you referred to Schindler’s List being regarded as the “best” Holocaust movie. That is decidedly not the case. Almost certainly the most famous, absolutely, and it does have its merits, but many critics and Holocaust scholars aren’t thrilled that that’s the film most people associate with meaningful Holocaust depictions. I strongly recommend anyone interested in Holocaust filmography check out the video by Lady Knight the Brave titled “The Holocaust is Not a Metaphor: The Grey Zone” (available here on TH-cam and over on Nebula) which is primarily (but not exclusively) about the film The Grey Zone, arguably the most important Holocaust film ever made. She also made a fantastic documentary with a Holocaust film scholar evaluating most of the major (and many minor) films of the genre, available on her channel on Nebula. Personally, I will also recommend the film Korczak, about the doctor and educator Janusz Korczak who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and chose to accompany the children he cared for to Treblinka, where they all died, despite having been offered the opportunity to escape several times. It’s beautiful, brutal and one of the most intense movie experiences I’ve ever had. And anyone who has HBO (I know I know, Max, whatever) should check out Primo, a filmed version of a remarkable one-man play about the writer Primo Levi’s experiences in Auschwitz.

I am now convinced Ted Turner funded the Guide-stones.

Just a guess, but has anyone read through every "BC" comic strip up to 2003? The quote sounds like something that could be in one, and BC's writer (Johnny Hart, I think) is the type who might have seen the Burke's Law episode and found it amusing to appropriate the phrase. Then the strip could have been clipped out and taped to refrigerator doors and office bulletin boards until it turned yellow and fell off, returning the quote to the ether...

31:00 It's so refreshing to see such a nuanced, objective and well thought out view on environmentalism.and the place we hunans occupy in the environment. So many westerners i hear constantly talk about how humans akin to a plague and do nothing but harm the environment whike ignoring how regular aninals do the same but on a lower scale snd that we humans do more to improve the environment as well. Respect to you 🎉🎉

9:36 goncharov is a masterpiece

Shout out Gonchorav! Hell yeah!

Just discovered this channel today and i am now subbed! Great content, fun(ny) delivery and objective coverage and research 😊👍 Also, i am a Nigerian and have never experienced a locust swarm, thankfully 😂 That's one animal i think we xan do without

Okay, this was entertaining, inspiring, enjoyable, educational, insightful and entirely approachable by someone who isn't even in the US. 10/10.

I'm a French Gen'X from Bordeaux, the only time we heard about Jerry Lewis was on TV where the "TV aristocracy" was incensing him. Never saw a real fan in the real people, most "elder" I've heard found his movies stupid. It's like some privileged class from Paris showbusiness was trying to advertise him and was telling to the crowd how a genius he was but that didn't really spread to the whole population... The only thing I remember is that play where he "covers" the typewriter song, that was... funny. I think it was a snobbish fanbase because he was "dubbed" "The King of Comedy" (title of one of his movies), and Parisian TV hosts were trying to get the hype for France, and he was during the "French New Wave", but it's a microcosm intellectual fame which showed on newspapers and in TV but was not a mass phenomenon in the country.

The timing of that mouth click 😂 5:11

Jerry Lewis, it’s whats for breakfast.

Howard Stern used to talk about this movie like it was the Holy Grail.

When i get a call the video gets paused for a second before it continues. Each pause you had gave me a mini heart attack 😢 goof vid still

I was trying to figure out why there was a cross on his portrait like wad that the only pic you could find of him until I figured out you tapped a green speech bubble to the wall 😭

this reminds me a lot of the ask metafilter thread trying to find a specific sequence in a sitcom intro. post titled, “Which TV show intro was this?!” with this as the question: “Okay, so... it was a TV show in the US, in the '80s or early '90s. I'm fairly certain it was a sitcom. During the intro/ opening credits, there's a bit where one character is painting a wall or a door, and another character opens the door, and the first character rolls the paint roller over the other person's face. I can see this in my mind, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the show it came from.” this thread went on for years and spread to a lot of different places.

Idk much about Native American culture and tribes but were the native people interviewed nomadic? If so then maybe they just never encountered locusts because they moved around and avoided them. I’m sure some times they’d see them, like with their ancestors, but if they move around from time to time instead of staying put like the settlers maybe they just never saw them to the extent of the settlers. Idk how long nomadic tribes stay in a region, but it would be worth noting. Now if they weren’t nomadic then the locusts are truly a curse from settlers…

26:53 is this loss?