Schatzgraeber: The Nazi's Secret Arctic Base
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- A weird story about the Nazis setting up a base in the Arctic, only to abandon it in 1944. Were they seeking mysterious and occult artefacts?
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I love the script today. “If you’re offended you should examine your life choices” brilliant
People should apply that logic to everything.
Amen sherolled27 if more people did that maybe the internet would be more fun and less virtue signally
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool because he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.
Yeah
Offense is taken, not given.
Thank you for embracing the fact that this won't get monetised and just going with it. Excellent video.
I sometimes wonder how much great content we miss out on because of the fear of monetization. I wish more creators would cover the unmonetizable content from time to time but just super low effort like a couple pics zooming in and out and their audio track telling the story.
SOMEHOW THIS IS MONETISED. TH-cam MYSTEFIES ME.
@@decodingtheunknown2373 Perhaps you have a secret fan in the company who just KNOWS your humor at this point. I mean, you have a dozen channels, there's no way they don't know about you
@@stephanielyn530 No I'm just pretty sure the AI is redpilled at this point. *And still thinks Simon is promoting Nazi ideology.
@@decodingtheunknown2373 Glad to hear it 👍
Jen you’ve 109% made the video much funnier, this type of editing feels right for Simon, love your work to the whole team
Having been watching Simon Whistler channels for years, and only recently finding this channel, I adore how genuinely unhinged Simon is off script, it’s like finding out your teacher smokes weed.
Props to the edit. Attention was paid...appreciation is given.
I can't stop laughing at Simon's face being super imposed on airplanes and Hitler. JEN! You're a legend!!
Looks like Clutch Cargo: th-cam.com/video/RbBy0S9OwJs/w-d-xo.html
Agreed, the editing made me laugh so hard - fantastic job Jen!
Thanks, but credit to Aspen for this one :)
@@decodingtheunknown2373 Ah well fantastic job Aspen!
That did make me laugh quite a bit!
Thanks Aspen!
I love when Simon realises he’s been demonetised he just says whatever he wants!
There are adverts though
@@Gamertrix117 I'm still stuck at the bit where he said he has a wife....
!! I was just thinking this Vid is just words one after another with video to go with it...
@@MaverickBlue42 Well he has a daughter so did you think that was immaculate conception?
I wouldn't pay for this if it wasn't "free" on TH-cam. It's just a guy reading a mediocre script and riffing on it. Non-educational and just a comedic read through of mainstream narratives. It's not quality content, just mediocre entertainment
We can always count on Simon's mockery of the Nazis being on point and nothing less than scathing 😂
Easy target.
@@decodingtheunknown2373 and yet, still deserving of it.
@@decodingtheunknown2373 one thing pretty much ever agrees on: f*** the Nazis.
I always love your detours hating on Nazis, and Katy's commentary on it is equally awesome. Good job crew!
@@InquisMalleus Craig Ferguson has a bit about this. He says that the Reich and Canadians are a comic's best source material. Canadians because they can take a joke and are just happy to be included. Nazis because, well, f*ck the Nazis!
You should see me go after Israel
Great video as always Simon, but you must agree that answering your own question of "haven't heard of Alexandra land?" with "I feel that I have because I do have a geography channel" has got to be the most low-key über nerd response, ever. The rising of the pride in your voice at the same time as the deflation of your ego was spot on.
I think the name Schatzgräber was fitting for a weatherstation. The weather data was valueable information, so it was a treasure and to have to live in the Arctic to get it.. I guess they had to dig much snow away to built and maintain it :D
I read the title as "Shats Grabber", and I can't stop laughing!🤣
Edit: Please keep superimposing Simon's face onto paintings and photos. Absolutely brilliant!
😂thank you for pointing it out
@@lindseyharalson490 always glad to share my personal brand of crazy!
Grow up! Actually, no, don't because that's actually quite funny :D
@@OneEyedWheeler lol, I'm 40. I think it's too late for that "growing up" nonsense. Sounds dull and painful anyway.
@@SkunkApe407 Haha we're of the same age and era, it was a great year!
Now, I watch most of your other channels where you talk about not knowing star trek, not liking star wars and lord of the rings etc....but you liking Stargate has redeemed that! Very few people know what an underrated, amazing show SG1 was...I knew you were my favorite youtuber for a reason!
Indeed.
(He probably doesn't know it was a movie first. 😆)
Hey now, he has voiced his love for Star Trek many times across his channels!
...But now I am wondering what he thinks of Star Wars because he hardly ever mentions it.
@@aste4949 he said in a Brain Blaze video that he only watched the original Star Wars movie, when he was in his teens or as a young adult or something idk
@@LoJo It wasn't. It was a TV show first, then a movie.
@11:48 Fun fact, there's actually an episode where SG-1 encounters a world that is ruled by, for all intents and purposes, Nazis. When they find out, they straight up bring the regime down. Fantastic episode.
Wait, isn’t Stargate itself a parody of fascism?
Edit: or am I thinking of another sci fi property?
Edit number 2: starship troopers was the one lol, after Star Wars and Star Trek, it starts to meld a bit into one lol
Star Trek also visit a Nazi run planet. An earthling introduced it to the planet
Wasn't that part of the new star trek series as well. With the old dude from the next generation.
@@jordanclark4635 all verhoeven films are fascist parodies.
He had kind of a fetish for that lol.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 never watched it, can’t lie, or any of that guys films, to my knowledge
I came here for the history and information. I stayed for the sarcasm! Very entertaining, monetized or not.
Love your approach to the sick and weird world of war
Jen was absolutely on point for this episode. The editing couldn't have been more perfect.
Four little cups 😆 👮♂️
Aspen edited this video :). I'm sure he appreciates the kind words though :)
It wasmonetized, give Aspen a raise, cause this was great! That said tell Jen if she wants to use some of these ideas, great! If not she does some great edits, so I'm good with either.
Remember when Strava fitness tracker showed a heat map of global user activity and accidentally provided the location of the secret Antarctic military base…..Antarctica is a rabbit hole of sus stuff…
Really. Thats awesome lol
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 yeah go check it out big C shaped underground base in Antarctica…
Same thing happened in like Northern Africa / Middle East if I'm not mistaken . Not sure if it was the same exact tracker software but it was one of them .
@@Error_404-F.cks_Not_Found it was the same.
"Sus stuff", eh? Sounds very specific and well researched. 😂
The naming convention of the Island is consistent with German war time naming conventions of the time.
They tended to name projects in misleading ways to try and confuse their enemies to what is actually happening.
The Ratte tank was named such to make the Allieds think it would be small tank. The concept in fact was so large that the thing would have been fitted with ship mounted guns.
So the treasure digger name for a weather station seems to fit.
They were completely unaware of how anyone in the US thinks. A ‘ratt tank’ would immediately make me think of a large dirty machine, piloted by untrustworthy people…aka ‘you dirty rat’
Good observation. The Germans named their Battle of the Bulge winter offense "Watch on the Rhine" to make Allied eavesdroppers think it was a defensive operation.
Simon, I’m a bit surprised that you didn’t know that whale oil was the precursor and substitute for petroleum oil, Germans may have used it for margariune, but they probably used it as a petroleum substitute during the war. Germany did not have much in the way of oil deposites, so running out was a constant worry. They did have allies in the middle east that they could buy it from, but without a direct pipeline and with Allied warships patrolling the seas, it wasn’t easy to supply Germany’s wartime needs.
Curiously, the oil from the sperm whale was also a vital ingredient in early atomic bombs.
If you imagine how they work, you have a slug of uranium being explosively driven into a ring of another (to create a single atomic mass) and for whatever reason, sperm whale oil was the oil that worked best at lubricating that cannon system and was least susceptible to burning off or whatever
Margarine was useful for feeding troops. Whale oil was also very commonly used as a fuel and lighting source.
The edits in this video are absolutely top-notch!
The Simon's face over the pictures is absolutely hilarious 😂
Forget the story. I love the tangents Simon gets off to. We need more Simon Tangents!
One suggestion I have for a topic that would be interesting to see covered in Decoding The Unknown is the alleged phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion where supposedly, someone bursts into flames without any obvious external ignition source.
It seems like a perfect, pseudoscientific, yet reasonably well known phenomenon in pop culture, topic for Simon and his writers to cover on Decoding The Unknown.
I would watch that. 👍👍
But human combustion has been explained
No mystery there mate, thanks to smoke alarms this has significantly reduced because people can't smoke so much indoors anymore and end up falling asleep with a lit cigarette, as reduced propensity on cigarettes too. The whole spontaneous combustion thing was just covered up by the cigarette cartel. I'd recommend you watch @knowingbetter video on the cigarette industry, it's mind blowing how they pissed on the world and didn't even have the courtesy of calling it rain. 😅
I would watch this too. Even if explained it could be a fun script
@@atlanciaza KB's video was great, but it doesn't cover Spontaneous Human Combustion. Joe Scott/Answers with Joe did a great one, though.
+1 for the writer for filling the script with words that Simon is pretty much guaranteed to murder - even ones that he SHOULD know how to pronounce! Excellent stuff!
This video is unhinged, and is therefore exactly what I needed.
I'm a little concerned about the percentage of people promoting nazi idealogy. I once stubbled upon a neo-nazi website. I found a link to one of their go to videos. It had 300k views and an overwhelmingly positive like/dislike ratio. That was disturbing.
I had a dude link me a 5 hour TH-cam video trying to paint the nazi's as socialist, the dude than proceeded to deny parts of the holocaust and when I called him a nazi he had the audacity to be like "people these days will just call you a nazi on the internet for no reason". A good amount of the idiot's out there are pretty dishonest about their beliefs even when they basically just told you outright.
@@altfemboy3109 Are you talking about TIK? He is absolutely not a Nazi or holocaust denier. People of good faith can disagree about the extent to which the Nazi's were socialist, but a Nazi he is not.
@@jimland4359 the dude who recommended me the video was denying parts of the holocaust but it's also completely ahistorical to really compare nazi's to socialist. They literally killed the socialists and communist in Germany. If you wanted to differentiate between nazism and fascism that's fair because there are differences (nothing meaningful)
@@altfemboy3109 Weird that a holocaust denier would like TIK. He has taken several holocaust deniers to task on some of his Q&A vids even if his bread and butter is super details Battlestorm videos. I seriously recommend them too. Some of the best researched battle recaps I've seen with every line sourced at the bottom.
I don't think it is ahistorical to call the Nazi's socialists. The Nazi's even referred to themselves as socialists. Not that we should take them at their word but they did have state control over industry from day 1. They were certainly no fans of bolsheviks. The first concentration camp was originally intended for them rather than the Jews actually.
@@altfemboy3109 Stalin killed socialists, too. So what?
Ideas for decoding the unknown...
1. Ivanov's ape men (cold war shenanigans)
2. Der Glocker (nazi shenanigans, favorite ghost story)
3. The Dab Tsog (inspired Freddy Kreuger)
4. Wendigo psychosis (and other cryptid related psychosis, there's also werewolfism and fox possession)
5. The only case of suicide by radiation poisoning (Kyle Hill did a more serious version of this one as part of his "Halflife Histories" segment, which I highly reccomend)
6. The cult that tried to rig a small town election... with botulism.
7. Tracing HIV (and proving once and for all it wasn't made by the CIA).
8. Bizzare burial rituals intended to keep the dead in their graves...
Ideas for Into the Shadows...
1. The Brain Eating Amoeba
2. That time a bunch of scavengers trailed radioactive cesium all over their freakin town...
3. The cult that tried to rig a small town election... with botulism.
4. 5 Bizzare cancers (the man who caught it from a patient, the thousands of years old dog tumor that spreads from pooch to pooch, the zombie tumor that reanimated, the tapeworm tumor and i'm forgetting one, so surprise me)
5. The strange case of henrietta lacks
6. the syphalis experiment
7. Phase changing bacteria (staph, cholera and siphalis are likely examples) and other bizzare microbial mutations.
Please excuse the number of into the shadows ideas, I prefer dark shit to strange shit but I find you shitting on conspiracy theories to be oddly satisfying shit. Also cussy cusswords are cussy.
Do it
If number 5 is the SL2 that wasn’t a suicide or at least it’s never been proven
@@JeronimoStilton14 SL-1 but yeah, not proven if it actually was suicide or not.
The Cesium thing sounds like what happened in Goiânia, also a video in Half Life Histories. Would love to see other people talk about it though.
Please remove #4 for Decoding the Unknown. You really aren't supposed to talk about it.
Fun Fact. The 45th Infantry Division in the US Army (national guard unit whose lineage continues as the 45th Infantry Brigade of thr Oklahoma National Guard) had a yellow swastika on a red diamond as its unit patch up until 1939. The swastika is/was a native America symbol in various Native American cultures. After the rise of the nazi party the 45th changed their patch to a yellow thunderbird on a red diamond to keep the units ties to Native culture and several units in the 45th Infantry use Native languages for their mottos as opposed to Latin, French, or English in most units. Bonus facts some of the oldest National Guard Armories in Oklahoma that predate WW2 and the 45th Infantry Museum in Oklahoma City still display the swastika patch along side the Thunderbird patch. They do this to counter the nazi perversion and co-opting of a peaceful symbol import to several cultures in the United Statea and around the world.
It was widely used in places like Oklahoma with strong Native American roots. There's a restaurant in Miami, Oklahoma in a very old hotel which has swastikas in the tile of the entryway. There's also a saddle in the collection of the J. M. Davis Gun Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma which was locally made around 1900 and is decorated with swastikas. It's unfortunate that the Nazis irredeemably contaminated such an ancient symbol of good luck and prosperity.
The Swastika is unusual, given it was important to many cultures over the centuries, even cultures with no known connections, and was universally positive until the Nazis co-opted it.
The swastika was used long before the native Americans, American military or the Germans used it. It goes back thousands of years, across countless civilizations.
I love when he proven wrong within 3 minutes lol.. "probably never existed" then 30 secs later reads that there was one lol.. The way he dismisses stuff immediately only because he never heard of it before or doesn't believe ruins the episodes every time for me
I’ll tell you the truth: hitler was invited by the vrill society to Antarctica , the vrill gave hitler new ufo tech and other exotic technology.
Dust??? Nicely done
The Nazis didn’t get the swastika from the Norse specifically. It’s an Indo-European symbol, which is why it also pops up in India. I’m pretty sure it has had meanings all over Europe, so calling it a Nordic symbol is…I guess accurate, but incomplete. In 20th century Germany, after it getting discovered all over Eurasia, people began linking it to the Arian race. Therefor the Nazis used it to signify their continuation of said race’s rule.
However, after looking it up just now, I’ve realised that even what I just said is incomplete, as it was even used in the ancient Americas, meaning it’s either MUCH older than the Indo-Europeans even or it’s simply a fun, quick, archetypal shape that people for some reason always seem to connect very big and important concepts to, which seems even more insane in a way.
It's a more rigorous version of a spiral. Probably easier to carve a nice symmetrical one than get spiral curves just right.
Swastika is widely used in Buddhism, and you can easily find them in Buddhist temples all over Asia.
but usually they are horizonal and vertical lines and going counter clock wise direction, rather than tilted 45 degrees and going clockwise direction like Nazi version.
It's also a really easy symmetrical shape to draw. Nintendo even accidently designed a few levels shaped like it during the NES/SNES days.
Simon: ahh TH-cam is going to demonitize this we mentioned Nazis
TH-cam: monetizes the living sh**t out of it
that is...interesting...
2:55 - Chapter 1 - Whatever the weather
6:45 - Chapter 2 - Schatzgraeber
9:40 - Chapter 3 - Norse code
22:55 - Chapter 4 - The nazis go south
24:35 - Chapter 5 - Neu schwabenland
You didnt time stamp the plumbing story
@@ae8710 Awright, which time ?
My doctor (retired now) was a flight surgeon in the Navy during the Korean and Gulf Wars. He was a great doctor and really funny too. He once told me that living with his mom, mother in law, 5 daughters and his wife was much more difficult and terrifying than any War or military training. 😂😂
He was born in the Philippines under Japanese control. His mom had been assaulted at 18 and he was the result. He never let their past hold him back tho. He worked hard to get into medical school in Manilla. He met a woman who believed in him and they emigrated to the US where he joined the navy.
He ended up having 5 daughters.. After 3 daughters they tried 1 more time for a boy and ended up with twin girls. Once he became a doctor then flight surgeon, he moved his mother and widowed mother in law here. Hes a great man and I was thankful he was my doc.
Don’t know about whale oil being used in any food products, but, it was used as a lubricant in ultra-fine mechanisms like precision instruments and time pieces, so may have been of strategic value at the time.
Last time I was this early he had a channel called business blaze
@decoding the unknown you should cover the Montauk Project conspiracy since the last Stranger Things season was so good. I live in Long Island, NY, so it’s interesting to me
Simon: owns a pronunciation dictionary and reads scripts for a living. Can't pronounce mjolnir.
Average person in the street: has seen a Thor movie and knows how to pronounce mjolnir
Well, as much as I enjoy fiction 9f gf arious kinds, I won't take my lessons from franchises where people wear the underwear on the outside.
@@owenshebbeare2999 I'm pretty sure they pronounce it correctly. There's also the halo franchise if you just don't like action movies
I can't stop laughing at the part where Simon's face is on the sailor🤣
Thank you Katy and Jen for the wonderful script and edits 🙏🏻
Seriously??? This is absolutely the BEST episode I've seen from this fellow. Out of his shell and no restraint. Finally some real heartfelt substance!! Will donate for such soul and committment.
Have you not seen brain blaze? He’s allegedly a legend….
Is his topic about a German weather station in the Arctic or the Antarctic?
His jokes reveal that he doesn't actually know anything about ancient history
A great video, as usual, and not least because it takes the pish out of the twerp with the moustache.
However, at 7:16 you are talking about "Germany" in WW2 and you show a modern German flag, which is the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany. This represents the exact opposite values to the Third Reich; please don't mix up our flag with its predecessor.
You didn't think that was intentional, eh?
"Buddhists doing their Buddhisty things and whatnot"
Simon...you don't know anything about Buddhism, do you?
Well actually, buddhists really do buddhisty things.
Oh lord, I had a friend who visited India. I totally freaked out when I saw a pic of a food cart with a swastica on it. She told me they had it first, and it means 'luck'. Not sure how accurate that is, but it was very clear that it didn't mean to other lands what it means in the West.
11:30 - Stargate: SG-1 was EPIC 🔥
I absolutely love Jen's superimposition of Simon's face when he goes off on a tangent! it was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
The Hindu swastika spins clockwise usually. The Nazi swastika ALWAYS spins counterclockwise.
best defense-line ever
I really like the editing in this one keep it up this is what we have been waiting for
Fun fact my grandfather was a communications expert in the Navy in world war II. You would think that maybe it was safe but his ship was torpedoed and luckily he wasn't in his bunk like his roommate because it was destroyed and I would not have existed cuz my mother was not born yet.
I was always fascinated that the nazis were fascinated with artifacts. They were onto something.
In particular the ss, especially the chief Himmler were into occult and teutonic myth. Had libraries full of books of it supposedly. The fuhrer himself said that he was taking it too far and was more realistic in Germany's position in a world history.
Fun fact: People in Germany, as in other countries, speak different regional idioms or patois (I am sorry, being a German native speaker I am unsure which of the terms is the correct one in English but I do hope to get my meaning across) of the "High German Language" or "Hochdeutsche Sprache" . The idiom of the people of Schwabenland upbringing are commonly - and often in a friendly and humorous manner - perceived to be especially hard to understand by people hailing from other parts of Germany. I am signing of now after maybe having insulted a) Schwaben, b) people with any inkling of linguistics, c) native English speakers having to read through this ;-)
Actually, the Nazis went to the moon. This has been thoroughly documented in the documentary Iron Sky!
And in our video - Bizarre Things People Believe About the Moon. Woot!
@@katywatson4940 I thought most people could understand the dripping irony in my comment :D
@@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842 the bliss of ignorance
Jen you were already an absolute legend, but dang this was your best work yet! I could not stop laughing at Simon's head and mouth on all the other people and the jets and everything! Seriously, such great work guys!
"Like little hate sprinkles on a big frozen cake." Perfection!
I like how they wrote Schatzgräber right, because when you don't have an ä you can use ae to replace an ä; and ue for ü, or oe for ö.
But Simon still managed to read it with neither ä nor ae, lol.
Oh man I LOVED Stargate SG1!!! My mum (who loves it too) and I would watch it together and bond over how much we enjoyed the show.
Lmao Simon has so many channels he forgot the name of the channel he's recording for 🤣
Edit: The editor crushed it on this one lol
He said welcome to a channel of decoding the unknown lol
@@30MrBappMan It really made me laugh lol but not as much as his face and mouth pasted over the pictures 🤣
I love how Simon seems way more laid back and he can improvise his lines. I'd totally chill and have a beer with Simon.
Can we just have an entire episode of Simon roasting the NSDAP?
Could you imagine if the Nazis would have know about the Bock Saga?
OMG the crazy conspiracies they would have made with that can only be described as legendary.
Did anyone else get the impression that Simon had little to no clue that this secret In the artic circle (i.e the north pole as he reads numerous times) is not the mythical Nazi base in the antartic (i.e the Southpole) that based on how he reads seems to be under the impression of. 8:55 Simon stops reading script goes off on random tangent suddenly back to secret nazi base in antartica, goes back to reading script about nazi weather station in the artic circle. (the otherside of the world)15:11 Simoon is still under the impression we are talking about a secret antartic base as opposed to the artic circle weather base youtube robots please monetise this video and ignored the confusing contradiction of information. Dear Simon Artic Circle Weather Station run by Nazi's basis of today's script, Mythical base/fortress for the Nazi's to create a 4th reich and work secret knowledge/weapons of the Gods/Aliens whatever take your pick in the continent of Antartica not the basis of today's script just saying repeatedly 22:57 Have high hopes Simon may realise whats going on. (Although he is still reading from the script so I am unsure) Conclusion: Theory 1 at some point through out one of Simon's many tangents he realised his mistake but immediately ceased to care due the TH-cam Demonetization Bots (lets hope they don't have a missing friend named Kyle). Theory 2 Simon is still Oblivious despite the script explicitly explaining the difference between the two stations and there actual purpose and the conspiracy theories. Theory 3 Simon stopped caring the moment he read the word Nazi and prophercised the inevitable marching forward of the TH-cam Demonitisation Bots (Goose stepping all over Simons capitalist little heart) Theory 4 at 30:18 he realised but the video had already reached its natural conclusion. May we all find secret bases surrounded by notorious symbols that change position between the poles at random intervals that were built with absolutely no lame rational or reason and suddenly realise "It was the Aliens" all along.
There was a secret (unmanned) weather station set up in Canada too! They only found it in 1977
There was one in New York too
@@GraniteStateofMind Where in NY?
The German embassy in Dublin Ireland was intending to be a weather station during the war but the Irish government confiscated their radio
It's been a little while since I've heard someone pronounce Thor's hammer "Majolnir"
Hitler didn't care about Nordic ideology/mythology/hyperboreans/Atlantis any of that. He was quite secular, he was an atheist/non practicing essentially according to all accounts. Most Nazi party members were protestant, with a minority of them, mainly Bavarians, being Catholic.
It was Heinrich Himmler and his highest ranking SS members who was trying to create a sort of spiritual history and syncretized Nordic/Germanic/Arthurian religion of sorts within the SS ranks.
Dude spent a lot of time with this script saying that the whole party was all about this when it was a minority within the SS. This idea has been blown up by books back in 60s-70s and onward that highlight this but exaggerated its overall drive within the party.
german here. pronounciation of Schatzgräber was pretty good. solid 7/10. thanks for the effort
Bit of a tangent but the reasons the nazis couldn’t just outright say the Germans were the supreme race was because the nazis had to justify overthrowing the German system of government and going after the Germans who opposed them, they had to allude to some superior lineage that had been weakened by mixing of races and cultures. And while that percentage of literal neo-nazis might be small today (though the percentage of actual nazis was pretty small too until they took control), the ideas behind them, I.e. white nationalism and fascism, are still concerningly relevant to and being espoused by many people today. That is plenty of reason to be worried, particularly when you look at the stats on governments around the world sliding toward the far right.
well fortunately those communists are still walking free, otherwise it would be harder to gather support for a viable counter-movement since the OG nazis are all in their 90ies now, so the best way to create a new movement in an otherwise economically prosperous nation that has not declared war in a long time is by simply recycling the same stupid shit that weimar fucked up on...be it the womens' vote leading to politics becoming a populist game-show, rampant migration leading to explosive xenophobia, culture-wars over gender-identities, foreign relations going bad, a completely bloated parliament (no country has bigger parliaments compared to the population size) and of course intentionally ridiculous subsidies to foreign state actors. The plan is for things to become just the way they were by humiliating the general populace, and the plan is going really good! And I would even be shocked if those resisting against the plan weren't such losers.
This is one of the best episodes ever. Absolutely brilliant. I laughed until I cried.
the way these videos are made are so entertaining, the whole team is great
I absolutely love how Simon lets his skepticism take his tongue “this obviously isn’t real” only for him to bite his own words lol “WAT! IT IS REAL?!”
The Swartz Gravity sounds like something outta Spaceballs!😂✌️
Yay, more Simon!
Hilarious! Simon having enormous fun with this episode is so infectious I had a wide grin on my face the whole time - at least when I wasn't lauging out loud! Impressive for an issue the facts of which are yawn-inducing. Love it, keep up the great work! 😄
Yes, SG1. Some of the best scifi to ever be put on tv. Don't know if it was the actual writing or just improv skills but that show just has something extra that most don't. Grew up on the 90s and watched lots of TV and don't remember anything like it.
This is the first time I’ve seen your videos and I love them… im gonna try and watch more 🎉
The amount of times Simon referred to the northern Arctic as Antarctica was driving me bonkers. 🤣
I’m 2 minutes in and this is my favourite content of the hundreds of videos I’ve seen from Simon! Give ‘em hell my man!
How about an episode where you go over the mysterious sky horn(s) sound that can be heard , almost all over the world.
A fun topic for a video might be the druids. There are a lot of misconceptions about their beliefs and practices, and they are rather mysterious to the modern man.
... they would have loved Spinal Tap though... >.>'
that's a great topic idea! Hope they see this.
A u-boat crew had set up a secret German weather station in Labrador Canada. That would be west of St John's Newfoundland and let the U-boats know when the convoys had good weather to sail.
I was stationed near it and I'm sure we would have borrowed the crash boat to go explore it IF it had been found by then.
Those crafty Germans had put Canadian weather service markings on it.
“Harrison Ford is quite old now.”
Well, it didn’t stop him from making a 5th installment. Although that 1923 show was pretty good.
it was phenomenal
Roswell would be an interesting choice for decoding the unknown. It would also be good for your TH-cam engagement metrics with all the conspiracy theorists and UFO nuts come out to say why you are wrong and it definitely was aliens.
I absolutely love the joy Simon gets mocking nazis. I mean I love this channel but he is normally more reserved...or not so...giggley🤣 thanks for another one!
I wonder if he recorded a business blaze episode before this.
You're vids always get so much better after you accept demonetization half way through 🤣🤣
Thanks Simon and team for the cheap entertainment 🤗
Anyone else wanna see a compilation of all of Simon’s tangents? I personally think it would be hilarious.
i know this was done a year ago vid wise, but i was laughin the entire time, great vid lol.
Also you do have Nazis or a race that has the same ideology in SG1
in one episode the team arrives to this planet where this faction of humans is in a war with another faction of humans from outside there bunker complex they call the outsiders (I might be misremembering) that "poisoned the planet" and started a "genocidal war" against the survivors.
The episode is called The Other Side from Season 4.
Still probably the best evil guy death in any series ever.
The Genii from Star Gate Atlantis also are coded Nazi a little bit as well. They aren't as bad as the ones from The Other Side
Yes its that episode when they pilot planes/drones from pods. Its with actor James Cromwell if I remember correctly.
also love you Simon.
you are the Elon Musk of youtube.
in that you have as many channels as the south african has children.
That’s sad that Simon doesn’t know much about his history when he runs a history show. I feel like his team should dig into this and present him a script and I want to see his face when he starts to realize that it’s about him. Lmao.
“No no, we don’t need it anymore we’ve got radar.”
“Well we’re gonna union up.” 😂
Stargate SG-1 is an absolutely AMAZING show. Period.
At the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa there's a small display of Nazi Arctic base gear that was discovered years after WWII, left over from some Nazi weather station or base. If you are ever in Ottawa and get to the area where the large armoured vehicles are, check out the Nazi weather gear.
The colonial story of Lasseter's(?) Reef from Australia would fit in here Simon. I found a reef of gold in the Outback, I just need funding to find it again! Was it real? Your style would so suit the telling of the tale. Shout out to Jen,👏👍, we need to see more Simon superimposed in our lives! 😂🇦🇺
You should geez Bush Tucker Man - real good stories there, dating back to pre colonial times - good to see another Aussie here ❤️ 🇦🇺
Little Funfact: There's a small game smithy called Donnerhaus in Germany that made two Pen and Paper (RPG) sets, and counting, revolting around paranormal stuff in or around WW1 and WW2. The second one has a secret base in franz josef land.
The video editing in simons videos is beautiful ❤️
“Front line infantry, death like instantly” that’s a bar lol
Simon: “what happens here?” … CHAOS …
I may have just woken the neighbours up at 2am by laughing at the subtitles calling it "shart grabber"
I got a mid-roll ad for “holidays in Tel Aviv” of all things while watching this video 😂
German weather ships are how the British got the Enigma codes the first time. Hitler also used his weather ships to determine the time frame for the "Watch on the Rhine" operation that was actually the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. He determined that the weather would be awful and would keep the Allies' air power on the ground.
There are precisely zero polar bears anywhere that penguins exist. Think about it.