It would be nice to do Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Mobutu Sese Seko, Seretse Khama, Samora Machel, Julius Nyerere, Shaka Zulu & Jonas Savimbi, if possible also cover Jan van riebeeck. Cover African leadership
The ship he took was outside of his Marc and he didn't even return the loot to the crown. He might not have thought of himself as a Pirate, but that was because he would have to admit he was the worse!
There's a German metal band called Running Wild that made a song about William Kidd. It's a really great song that tells his story about how he was branded as a pirate, was eventually found guilty, and finally wound up being hung, drawn, and quartered. The song sheds a lot of light on his story, showing he never intended to be a pirate in the first place. Fate just had different plans for him.
I was going to ask for a documentary on him. You’ve surely brought me great joy, good sir! All the thanks to you and the team. You all are people of gallant quality.
Excellent as always Simon! Thanks for this one. If I may make a request, would you please consider an episode on Vassili Zaitsev, the deadliest sniper in the Red Army at Stalingrad? Would love to hear your take on him, please and thanks!
"rated ARRRRR" "Once you raise the black, you can't go back". If it weren't for his videos on history, Simon would have a promising career as the world's most formal shitposter.
In 1699, my 8th great grandfather’s first cousin Cornelius Quick and another relative transported two chests of Captain Kidd’s treasure around New York harbor and testified in court. Not the only time pirates show up on the family tree, but definitely the most notorious name!
My introduction to William Kidd was "Captain Kidd" from the lesser known "World Heroes" fighting game series. But its fascinating and intriguing to learn the true story behind the name.
Hello, there is no rush and no urgency, but I have a list of people that I believe would make for interesting biographical videos. -Andrew Jackson -Martin Van Buren -Zachary Taylor -Franklin Pierce -Jefferson Davis -P.G.T. Beauregard -John Jay -Thurgood Marshall -Johnny Cash -Clint Eastwood -William Faulkner
Thanks for the video. Interesting subject as usual. Maybe it's just me, but even with the volume turned all the way up I cannot understand Simon when he gets all growly when he talks.
Suggestions: Johnny Carson, the undisputed King of late night television. Dick Clark, America's oldest "teenager". Redd Foxx, one of the original African American kings of comedy.
Sir Nicholas Winton? I don't know if you read these or not, but I found this man Sir Nicholas Winton. It is a tragically beautiful story, I know that you are use to presenting the horrors of the Holocaust, but I think it could be interesting for everyone to see how the actions of one person saved so many lives and he kept it a secret for so long. Thank you Simon, love your channels and keep up the great work. 🙃
Good to hear that the Romulans were free game? I used to drink at a pub in Wapping called The Captain Kidd. He was executed nearby and the pub was right on the river with a lovely backgarden.
I stopped watching this halfway through, turned on subtitles and backtracked just to make sure I heard this correctly. "French, Spanish, Dutch, Romulan it didn't really matter". I don't remember the episode of Star Trek where a Bird of Prey was attacked by pirates but now I want to see it more than anything.
Kidd's problem was that he didn't politic with those crews, by securing blood oaths of alliance "as needed" and for this, the crews demanding piracy would be given a non-flagship vessel, and share new information with trusted persons at particular ports and pubs. He could have easily done this and walked several English ships into a tangled web where one crew would pretend to lay seige on a town just close enough to a major port that any big guns could and would mobilize, but just far enough that their absence would provide the time to sack their larger port and capture a governor. Yes, he could have done much better than a mere commission of a privately built ship it seems.
They all did when you get right down to it. Even Blackbeard was broke before he was captured, and as Simon has covered in the past, there is no evidence that any pirate ever buried treasure anywhere.
interestingly enough, the earliest pirates were renegade Catholic mariners mostly from Portugal, Spain & France. the English / British joined the party much later, yet they've done the best job at monopolizing and commercializing their pirate stories over everyone else.
How about doing biographies on El Cid and the unsinkable Molly Brown? El Cid was such an imposing figure, even dead, he was able to scare an opposing army.
I think a bio Charles Trevelyean would make a great video. A hated figure who was a civil servant made famous or infamous by the songs Fields of Athenry
Whats with the 'epic' music at about 5:35, it got hard to hear Simon. It is really all about the story he tells, not an editors soundscape interruptions.
what was the name of the video where a man was going around the us in the mid 1920-1940s ish killing mostly men and giving the wintesses who were in the car with the victim notes, the witness was usually a mistress of the husband. any help would be awesome
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If you want your "brand" to stand out don't use this bargain bin garbage aka the Little Caeser's of web design.
Please do Booker T. Washington next
Please do Spinoza!!!
Do Margret Sanger
It would be nice to do Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Mobutu Sese Seko, Seretse Khama, Samora Machel, Julius Nyerere, Shaka Zulu & Jonas Savimbi, if possible also cover Jan van riebeeck. Cover African leadership
Listening to this, I'm sure William Kidd turns in his grave every time he's called a "notorious pirate". More like the most reluctant pirate ever 😬
Learn to spell
@Jej Bsh I did. Which is why I didn't misspell anything, according to Standard English.
The ship he took was outside of his Marc and he didn't even return the loot to the crown.
He might not have thought of himself as a Pirate, but that was because he would have to admit he was the worse!
@@lostbutfreesoul
or he did what he had to do to prevent having his skull split open by his own crew and a boarding ax.
@im not your friend buddy ikr! Lol. That's why I said reluctant 😂
There's a German metal band called Running Wild that made a song about William Kidd. It's a really great song that tells his story about how he was branded as a pirate, was eventually found guilty, and finally wound up being hung, drawn, and quartered. The song sheds a lot of light on his story, showing he never intended to be a pirate in the first place. Fate just had different plans for him.
He should have just gone with it and made off with the loot
Just gave it a listen based on your suggestion, awesome song 🤘
@Princess Olmeca That sounds interesting! I'll check it out.
I was going to ask for a documentary on him.
You’ve surely brought me great joy, good sir! All the thanks to you and the team. You all are people of gallant quality.
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:25 - Chapter 2 - Privateer
6:15 - Mid roll ads
4:30 - Chapter 3 - Captain
11:30 - Chapter 4 - Pirate hunter
15:05 - Chapter 5 - Pirate ?
17:35 - Chapter 6 - Prisoner
- Chapter 7 -
- Chapter 8 -
Absolute legend
Back in the day...missed by a couple months. "Dang so close!"
Try years lol 😂
The persona of Ryuji Sakamoto!
Blast'em away CAPTAIN KIDD
I would love more pirate Biographics videos. This one was great.
True, learned a little about Captain Kidd in middle school, my teacher didn't know if he was a kid or if he got the name from his stature. 😑
There’s a bunch on the channel already.
"Robert Livingstone,, we presume" -lol nice
My name is Captain Kidd, as I sail, as I sail!
Never thought I'd see a video from Simon Whistler on Ryuji's Persona.
If he didn’t have bad luck then he’d have no luck at all.
Ah Kidd, the good old 'Anti-Pirate.'
If you want an example of now how to do it... look at Kidd!
"Left bereft of booty" just won best sentence of the day. Lol.
😂 yes. Even better than shindigs and hootenannies
This pirate deserves his own movie or TV show.
Greenock - Gree (as in "green") and Knock. Gree-knock. Greenock. 👍
Excellent as always Simon! Thanks for this one. If I may make a request, would you please consider an episode on Vassili Zaitsev, the deadliest sniper in the Red Army at Stalingrad? Would love to hear your take on him, please and thanks!
"rated ARRRRR" "Once you raise the black, you can't go back". If it weren't for his videos on history, Simon would have a promising career as the world's most formal shitposter.
One Piece before One Piece
In 1699, my 8th great grandfather’s first cousin Cornelius Quick and another relative transported two chests of Captain Kidd’s treasure around New York harbor and testified in court. Not the only time pirates show up on the family tree, but definitely the most notorious name!
Quite the story, snarf ! Ancestry, .much ?
Pretty sure you made that up.
Lets see, back then some of my ancestors were fighting against the invading Europeans. Other of my ancestors were among the invading Europeans.
I mean i have a small feeling i have pirates in my family
I wonder if he’s suppose to have the powers of magnetism.
Captain Kidd should have been the new yonko instead of Buggy.
Now this is one I’ve been waiting on!
I hope you guys cover Philippe Pétain some day. Please?
Love the pirate biographics. Please do Edward Low next. He went too far even by pirate standards
My introduction to William Kidd was "Captain Kidd" from the lesser known "World Heroes" fighting game series. But its fascinating and intriguing to learn the true story behind the name.
Lol@ Dr.Livingston I presume reference
I just found out that William Kidd is my 8th great grand father, and I've been trying to dig up everything I can on him. This was perfect!
Not true
🧢🧢
i found out i am also related to him
Hello, there is no rush and no urgency, but I have a list of people that I believe would make for interesting biographical videos.
-Andrew Jackson
-Martin Van Buren
-Zachary Taylor
-Franklin Pierce
-Jefferson Davis
-P.G.T. Beauregard
-John Jay
-Thurgood Marshall
-Johnny Cash
-Clint Eastwood
-William Faulkner
12:14 I see what you did there. Captain America also understands the reference.
Recommendation for Biographics: Christopher Hitchens.
Fun fact for any one piece fans this guy was the inspiration for Captian Kid from one piece, the supernova
I had an inkling about that 🙌🏼
Came here to check if it was true that he was known as the un luckiest pirate after the most recent chapter 1079
8:20 "French, Spanish, Dutch ... Romulan ...." ROFL
Up next: Captain Morgan and his Hammond Organ
Patchy the Pirate
Burger Beard
Cut Throat Jake.
Broadly speaking, I feel like he got screwed over by things that were out of his control.
YESSSSSS I literally asked if you covered William Kidd. And look, you did !!!
No mention of Kidd finding some giants? Huh, weird.
Thanks for the video. Interesting subject as usual. Maybe it's just me, but even with the volume turned all the way up I cannot understand Simon when he gets all growly when he talks.
Heyy coincidence that this showed up I'm reading pirate hunter right now based of kidd
Brilliant video once again Simon, may I suggest a video on Dante Alighieri?
I don't know about Kidd, but I like your beard, and that jacket is cool.
I love videos about pirates ;)
Suggestions: Johnny Carson, the undisputed King of late night television. Dick Clark, America's oldest "teenager". Redd Foxx, one of the original African American kings of comedy.
Damn been watching biographics when they color coded the thumbnails. Loving all of it.
Sir Nicholas Winton?
I don't know if you read these or not, but I found this man Sir Nicholas Winton. It is a tragically beautiful story, I know that you are use to presenting the horrors of the Holocaust, but I think it could be interesting for everyone to see how the actions of one person saved so many lives and he kept it a secret for so long.
Thank you Simon, love your channels and keep up the great work. 🙃
"Livingston, I presume." I saw what you did there....
Good to hear that the Romulans were free game? I used to drink at a pub in Wapping called The Captain Kidd. He was executed nearby and the pub was right on the river with a lovely backgarden.
Dear Simon, please do a video about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk!
I stopped watching this halfway through, turned on subtitles and backtracked just to make sure I heard this correctly. "French, Spanish, Dutch, Romulan it didn't really matter". I don't remember the episode of Star Trek where a Bird of Prey was attacked by pirates but now I want to see it more than anything.
In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!
the one piece is real
Awesome as always - can you please do a video of German fighter pilot Hans Joachim Marseille?
Once you raise the black you can't go back.
What a clever piece of writing!
Kidd's problem was that he didn't politic with those crews, by securing blood oaths of alliance "as needed" and for this, the crews demanding piracy would be given a non-flagship vessel, and share new information with trusted persons at particular ports and pubs. He could have easily done this and walked several English ships into a tangled web where one crew would pretend to lay seige on a town just close enough to a major port that any big guns could and would mobilize, but just far enough that their absence would provide the time to sack their larger port and capture a governor. Yes, he could have done much better than a mere commission of a privately built ship it seems.
I feel like his name outweighs his deeds. I know the names of about 3 pirates and he’s one of them. But he had a pretty unremarkable career.
They all did when you get right down to it. Even Blackbeard was broke before he was captured, and as Simon has covered in the past, there is no evidence that any pirate ever buried treasure anywhere.
Ah. A squarespace ad. Never heard of them before
Captain Kidd with Charles Laughton.
Good movie. Free to watch on TH-cam.
William Westmoreland the Vietnam War general please!
Captain William Kidd: From Pirate to Pirate to Pirate.
Captain kidd.. one piece
Please do a video on charles vane
10:45 Oh yes, nothing sexier than a man you can't understand :D I love you, Scottish people, but you have the most difficult accent ever
Would love a video on Albert I, Soldier king of Belgium. Love the vuds
This story totally plays out like a session of the retro video game pirates gold. That was a great game
idk how Cap'n Whistler managed to say seamen and keep a straight face
interestingly enough, the earliest pirates were renegade Catholic mariners mostly from Portugal, Spain & France.
the English / British joined the party much later, yet they've done the best job at monopolizing and commercializing their pirate stories over everyone else.
How about doing biographies on El Cid and the unsinkable Molly Brown? El Cid was such an imposing figure, even dead, he was able to scare an opposing army.
Hi Simon, is there any chance we can get a series on British Prime Minsters like with US Presidents please?
Thank you
yes pirate-y bits! always a blast
He was good in Black Sails
You should consider doing a video on Button Gwinnett.
Please! Please! Please! Do a episode of biographics on ALCIBIADES!!!!
I’d love it one day for you to do Mackenzie King: the Canadian PM during ww2
His videos never disappoint.
I think a bio Charles Trevelyean would make a great video. A hated figure who was a civil servant made famous or infamous by the songs Fields of Athenry
Whats with the 'epic' music at about 5:35, it got hard to hear Simon.
It is really all about the story he tells, not an editors soundscape interruptions.
I don't know how a pirate could catch a Romulan ship. They would just use their cloaking device.
Let's prevent scurvy, have an orange🍊🍊🍊
08:20 Did Simon really just throw "Romulan" into the list of targets? Taking on a Warbird seems a little nuts.
You should cover Maximinus Thrax, the barbarian emperor . The giant of Germany
There is a Book, Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. Most of these Jewish pirates preyed on Spanish ships as payback for the Spanish Inquisition.
Dudes end sounds like a verse from dumb ways to die.
Could you do a vid on general mark milly thanks
You guys should do a claus von stauffenberg and luwig beck video
Fantastic
Could we get some content on one of the chess greats maybe? Such as Morphy or Capablanca.
Chess player here obviously 🤣
Livingston, I presume.
WHOS HERE FOR RYUJI
very nice video can you do one about agustin de iturbide, emperor of mexico
Doesn't even sound like a sucessful pirate to start with
So why didn't they go after those Romulan ships?
Turns out the romulans were cloaked so they never found them :(
That picture they keep showing is not how William Kidd looked like
The irony being that he had it all only to throw it all away. What an idiot!
A pirate’s life for me!
Do one on Prince Hall ASAP !!!!!
I'd query how you said Greenock at the start
what was the name of the video where a man was going around the us in the mid 1920-1940s ish killing mostly men and giving the wintesses who were in the car with the victim notes, the witness was usually a mistress of the husband. any help would be awesome
Ceaușescu when?
Will you please do one of these on John Adams?
holy roman emperor rudolf II von Habsburg? The Sorcerer Emperor? 😊