1:54:40 It's not that Trump is not charismatic. Of course he is, to about 40-45% of the country. Typically when we think of charisma, we just think they are likable not only to the majority of people but to a diverse majority. Such was the case with Reagan. With Trump, he is likeable to the 40-45%, but the reason why that's remarkable is because he is EXTREMELY likable with that 40-45%. Quality over quantity. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans willing to die for Trump. The same couldn't even be said about Reagan.
Yeah this. People loved Reagan, but no one thought Reagan was this savior out to save America because Neocons that decided to venerate him as Saint Reagan 20 years after his presidency ended. Trump is not like that, people genuinely do believe Trump is the only one who can force the change they see as necessary.
"40-45% of the country" way less than that. 1. roughly only half of americans who are eligble to vote actually vote. its a country of 334 million, but only 140 million voted. 2. Only half of those 140 million voted for trump. 3. Its clear that only slightly more than half of them are even fond of trump. Most of them vote republican out of party loyalty and opposition to the democrats. so what you are left with are perhaps 15-20% of americans who are diehard trump supporters.
Trump is best described as a charismatic authority, in a weberian sense. When he gets traditional/legal authority he’s not nearly as effective as he is as a charismatic authority.
@@btdtpro I've been watching him for years as well. What really surprised me was how well he covered us natives. It was nice to see something factual instead of based on American myth.
Did a cartoon level double take at the thumbnail. Knowing Better has been uploading some of the best content for years and know one ever talks about him, amazing guest choice.
@KnowingBetter I was raised a Latter-day Saint. I served a Mormon mission and tried as long as I could to make the church work for me. Your video on my church was one piece of a beautiful puzzle that led me out of the high-demand religion and toward a happier, more free life full of healing from the spiritual and emotional abuse i experianced there. Thank you for helping me know better!
@@mancat4840 When i moved out of my moms in 2020. I was depressed and looking for the meaning of life. I went through the list of religions but none of them stuck. Ive been subbed to KB forever so when he made a mormon video I was ecstatic. In short he told me ideas about christianity and the church i hadn’t heard of before so i did my own research. Ultimately that lead me to reading the testimony of 11 witnesses and i was sold. I could not find the “smoking gun” that proves they were liars. Everything makes too much sense and is quite literally… divine. My life has been changed forever after watching that video and the church has helped me in life (paying rent, grocery gift cards, buying me a winter jacket etc.) So thanks to KB. I truly love him and all his videos. Everything he does is factual and with a good heart.
One thing to pay attention to is historical activism. In undergrad, we had whole history/historiography classes reading different books on the same topics, sighting the same sources that come to completely different conclusions based on their framing of primary sources.
37:02 So true. When I was in philosophy classes, it was readily apparent who had read the book and who had read the 1st few sentences of Wikipedia about the philosopher in question. Same with history.
I’m so glad @KnowingBetter collabed with you guys! I’ve been watching his stuff for years (even before I started watching Destiny) and it’s great to see all of you together!
I think Hawai'i has the most unique history out of all the states in terms of how it became a state in 1950. It's not as simple as "The US came in and colonized Hawai'i" as people tend to think today. It's a very long tale that goes as far back as the mid 1700s. Although the story of the islands' eventual annexation is tragic, since Hawai'i had come close to becoming it's own autonomous country.
They also wanted to be annexed by the British at one point, which is why they have the Union Jack in their flag despite never being part of the British Empire or Commonwealth. They thought if they did that the Brits would just...let them in.
@@SeruraRenge11 that's not true, we actually don't know why the union jack became associated with Hawaii and there actually a lot of conflicting stories
I was worried KnowingBetter wouldn't meantion how the Native Hawaiian population was ransacked by disease. I feel like the number of Hawaiian deaths to disease is still underplayed, but at least he remembered that.
But every New Tribe 1st contacting the rest of the World would go through this. The only way for a human body to learn a Virus and gain immunity is to be introduced to it. Yet it's always portrayed as White Man gave it to them on purpose. They didn't even understand germ theory yet and were using the Sam knife to cut upen dead bodies, then do an operation on a patient, and cut their apple at lunch ffs lol. 1/3 of The World died to Spanish Flu ffs... We were still backward Apes in 1778 ffs, just in ships.
I think the crazier part that the ransacking by disease kinda saved them from civilizational collapse because the population had basically been stretched to its breaking point for the resources of the time. But that MIGHT have been more due to societal issues causing inefficient crop harvests.
The discussion at around 25 minutes in about how much information gets left out when space and time are increased reminds me of one of my favorite books that addresses this topic in regards to culture so well. The book is Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R Delany. There are cultural differences across species (alien and human), planet, region, city, neighborhood etc. This differences appearing in body language, gender norms and pronouns (this book came out in 1984, not recent 'woke discourse'), etc. Using the Science Fiction genre allows the author to exaggerate the possibilities of locality and culture difference at such an extreme that it in turn can help you notice in the nuances of difference that can appear in real life from person to person, family to familly, etc. A brief excerpt towards the beginning of the first chapter after the long prologue: My employer, said: ‘May I ask, ask you a favour?’ ‘Well, I -’ ‘Please, Marq Dyeth. Please. Your shuttle flight does not leave for some time yet, not for a while. I want to explain, explain something to you; then I want you to explain something to me -’ ‘Well …’ Feeling uncomfortable, I smiled my most diplomatic smile, fairly sure what was coming. ‘You must understand that an Industrial Diplomat often finds herself -’ ‘I want to show you this, this most recent atrocity in this atrocious fugue.’ (I was right.) ‘Because you’re not from around here, not from our world, not from our geosector, I merely thought you might take a certain understanding, a certain knowledge, certain information away with you …?’ The assumption is that because you’re not ‘from around here’ on such a cosmic scale, you couldn’t possibly know what ‘here’ is like. Always true; but it means that after a while an [Industrial Diplomat] has seen more of this sort of thing than anyone could care to. ‘My friend will take you in the skimkar.’ She indicated the other (human) woman. ‘He’s a careful driver and can answer any questions you might want to put.’ The ‘he’ made me flex an imaginary lip bone - which, a human myself, I do not have. But I’ve known lots who did. ‘Very well.’ I nodded, wondering what a nod meant on this world, at this spot on it."
Been a long time fan of KB before Destiny even. Glad to see KB getting out there and traveling to do the pod. If you haven't watched his video Neo-Slavery you absolutely should as an American. It covers alot about the institution of slavery that we just were not taught in school.
14:23 Speaking as someone studying in medicine, that's how we study the effects of radiation on cells. We can't actually tell how many cells died and had its target DNA inactivated, what we can tell is how many cells survived and proliferated and we can extrapolate from there. And we know that the more we expose cells in a petri dish to radiation, the fewer survivors there will be.
Historical activism is something that people need to pay attention to. Especially since the cultural revolution of 2020-2 gave people the go ahead to simply trash everything that is American and get rewarded for it. There are people who are willing to play the long game with re-writting history, presenting it as 'academic' and 'novel', and in a decade's time you have lay audiences repeating insane narratives that were never true.
Oh yeah people totally believe that. Most people don't in Hawaii, but there's a whole faction of people that are really emotional about it. Im not sure how much he goes into it yet, but from a Hawaiian perspective the disease and destruction of language was very painful. People have grandparents that told of a horrific time in history to be hawaiian. And truthfully if outsiders never come many Hawaiians would be alive today. But to free hawaii from america would be, even from a Hawaiian activist standpoint, like relieving a warden from a jail. We've got no access to food or water by ourselves, and all it truly means is the other inmates can kill us at any time.
About how they made it to Hawaii. I remember a documentary where its possible to know land is close if certain birds are in the sky or if certain clouds form on the horizon. That way big islands will have a radius around them were you will know land is close by.
Rad! KB is awesome! Love his content and streams. Hope he comes back on the pod sometime, maybe with Mr. Beat or JJ. It’s always great to hear him speak at length in a non-scripted way. His scripted stuff on his channel is straight up goated, definitely need to resub to his Patreon.
When it comes to the whole “Europeans navigated by the stars too” thing, that’s true - but for most of human history, didn’t most groups just not go out into the open ocean? Like we have the Norse and the Polynesians, but didn’t most people just not do that for most of history? And these guys did it in just tiny lil boats? I think it’s fair to look at groups like those that navigated in the open ocean in canoes and longships and say that these people are legitimately amazing mariners, probably some of the best human navigators ever?
19:40 Thor is correct actually. This happened in Germany in the 8th Century so Thor's oak was called Donar's oak. Tho in a latin account the tree is called Jupiter's oak.
Great choice for a guest! If ya’ll ever could get William Spaniel (lines on maps guy) that would be really interesting. He’s a political Scientist PHD. He’s made a lot of great videos on international conflicts & economic relations with said nations (Russia, Israel etc.)
One thing, in addition to celestial navigation, austronesian people also supposedly used some types of tidal navigation(I'm not expert, but it seems plausible) and of course if you are seafaring, time and volume of attempts will let you find a needle in a haystack. You don't need think it's magic or anything to think it's somewhat impressive. Obviously today we have better systems + other people like Vikings or Portuguese or etc also had navigation systems that worked very well. Also though I'm not sure what most people think, but I know Hawaii was settled relatively late compared to the rest of the Pacific island, so this point may be a really strong one if people think it's like ancient or esoteric means.
I mean the Azteca were only around for like 80 years when the Spanish showed up and half of New Spain hated them and joined the Spanish to take them down, but that doesn't stop Mexico from acting like it was terrible what happened.
My understanding is the Iranians despised Carter - in part for the very deal with Israel/Egypt you mentioned. They held the hostages so that Carter wouldn't get credit, not because they uniquely loved or feared Reagan.
Yeah, I would have loved to hear about this smoking gun connecting Reagan to the hostage crisis if he is so confident that Reagan purposefully delayed the release.
The whole conversation about how you "can't teach" critical thinking because you'd only be able to teach it in specific contexts is a bit weird to me, because I actually do teach critical thinking and we do teach it in a way that has a broad application. The idea is that you teach people to ask questions. Stuff like "OK, here's this video claiming that this new technology will fix my life entirely" 1) Who published the video? The manufacturer of the technology or product? A third party? 2) What are they using to support their claim that it's going to fix your life? Anecdotes, or scientific research? 3) If it's scientific research that they're supporting their claim with, who paid for the research? Is the study openly available? 4) What kind of language are they using? Phrases like "Experts claim" or "Users reported"? So on and so forth.
10:08 The Legislature did not overthrow the Kingdom to be clear. 13 politicians in the Legislature, most of whom were either of American descent or were Americans, planned to overthrow the monarchy, and they had some amount of support. They had connections with members of US government, and following the murder of a policeman by their supporters, which made them concerned that their plans could be exposed, they made false claims to the US government that the lives of American citizens were being threatened by the monarchy, a move which worked because of their political connections. American Marines then invaded the island illegally and intimidated the police, military and all other government forces into capitulating to the republican faction, who formed a 1 party state before becoming a US state.
1:30:00 i would cheat in german class. We were allowed to have mints or hard candy during our tests for some reason. So before class I would buy a big pack of large white mints, and I'd write the English word on one side and the German word on the other. And just take them out and look at them as I did the test. The funny part was, by the time I would go through all this, I would know 99% of the words I had written on the mints because it was practice.
I took a class in college basically dedicated to identifying pseudoscience, bunk science, and bullshit. Great class. Loved it. You can definitely teach critical thinking, but it's up to the student whether or not it's going to stick.
KnowingBetter has a fantastic channel, really great content! He gave me a lot of great perspective on history I thought I knew. Great interview! If you're looking for people/channels that focus on history and great production, I highly recommend checking out Atun-Shei Films. His channel, and his videos on the Civil War are fantastic! Love the podcast so far, keep up the good work!
1:54:40 It's not that Trump is not charismatic. Of course he is, to about 40-45% of the country. Typically when we think of charisma, we just think they are likable not only to the majority of people but to a diverse majority. Such was the case with Reagan. With Trump, he is likeable to the 40-45%, but the reason why that's remarkable is because he is EXTREMELY likable with that 40-45%. Quality over quantity. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans willing to die for Trump. The same couldn't even be said about Reagan.
Yeah this. People loved Reagan, but no one thought Reagan was this savior out to save America because Neocons that decided to venerate him as Saint Reagan 20 years after his presidency ended. Trump is not like that, people genuinely do believe Trump is the only one who can force the change they see as necessary.
"40-45% of the country"
way less than that.
1. roughly only half of americans who are eligble to vote actually vote. its a country of 334 million, but only 140 million voted.
2. Only half of those 140 million voted for trump.
3. Its clear that only slightly more than half of them are even fond of trump. Most of them vote republican out of party loyalty and opposition to the democrats.
so what you are left with are perhaps 15-20% of americans who are diehard trump supporters.
You’re the greatest Mr.beat. Would have loved to hear the conversation there with you, Knowing better, and the Bridges Crew.
ay nice to see you here
Trump is best described as a charismatic authority, in a weberian sense. When he gets traditional/legal authority he’s not nearly as effective as he is as a charismatic authority.
This is the collab that i never expected but needed.
this is as googledebunkers as googledebunkers.
Right?
I've been watching this guy for at least 6 years. What a great choice for a guest.
Yeah, I saw this an immediately clicked it. I love his channel. Some much fascinating info. He's a deep dive king.
@@btdtpro I've been watching him for years as well. What really surprised me was how well he covered us natives. It was nice to see something factual instead of based on American myth.
I wish he would hire more help though. He does what? 2 videos per year?
Appeal to personal bias 🤓
Did a cartoon level double take at the thumbnail. Knowing Better has been uploading some of the best content for years and know one ever talks about him, amazing guest choice.
OMG I LOVE KNOWING BETTER THIS IS GONNA BE SICK
@KnowingBetter I was raised a Latter-day Saint. I served a Mormon mission and tried as long as I could to make the church work for me. Your video on my church was one piece of a beautiful puzzle that led me out of the high-demand religion and toward a happier, more free life full of healing from the spiritual and emotional abuse i experianced there. Thank you for helping me know better!
Very interesting, it did the opposite for me. I just turned 23 and im gonna serve a mission. Love you dude!
@@zutharthirteen How did it do the opposite for you?
@@mancat4840 When i moved out of my moms in 2020. I was depressed and looking for the meaning of life. I went through the list of religions but none of them stuck. Ive been subbed to KB forever so when he made a mormon video I was ecstatic.
In short he told me ideas about christianity and the church i hadn’t heard of before so i did my own research. Ultimately that lead me to reading the testimony of 11 witnesses and i was sold. I could not find the “smoking gun” that proves they were liars. Everything makes too much sense and is quite literally… divine.
My life has been changed forever after watching that video and the church has helped me in life (paying rent, grocery gift cards, buying me a winter jacket etc.)
So thanks to KB. I truly love him and all his videos. Everything he does is factual and with a good heart.
This will be one of the best episodes this channel will EVER have. KB is a treasure.
Such a cool guest. Also, i loved how we could see him go from super nervous to comfortable in real time haha
Then uncomfortable again after destiny spaz talks at him for 5 minutes
Just realized I need a collab between Knowing Better and Mr. Beat.
I'm fairly certain they collaborated previously
they have done at least one vid where they ask each other questions
@@James-pb9gvyeah “10 questions with” series. Mr Beat creates good content
They did a live stream on Mr beats channel together
It exists
Not familiar with bridges, but been a KnowingBetter fan for a good while. He's always a good orator.
One thing to pay attention to is historical activism. In undergrad, we had whole history/historiography classes reading different books on the same topics, sighting the same sources that come to completely different conclusions based on their framing of primary sources.
Very interesting to comb through, to be honest.
Yes!!!!! Footnote enjoyers unite!
Did you have to read That Noble Dream?
@@EricVulgaris We did. It wasn’t actually for this specific class, but it was part of an earlier required history class for our major.
Watched to the end. Knowingbetter is great.
Holy crap this collab is gonna be fire
@KnowingBetter pulled me out of the alt-right/skeptic TH-cam sphere back in the day. I appreciate all the work you put in to your videos.
49:45 small little edits like these during funny moments really add character to the show I love it
KB's videos are IMO the best infotainment on the internet. Really stoked so see him as a guest!
I didn't expect to see this! I love this guy. Found his videos a few months back and they sent me on a renewed religious history binge.
it’s crazy that kb isn’t more well known. he’s one of the best long form content creators. his videos essays are always so well made.
This was awesome! Thank you all!
Holy shit knowing better??? Let’s fucking go!!!
I've watched both of you forever! Thank you for getting together! This is great. Wow.
thank you for interviewing my youtube history dad for two hours I will gratefully accept this content
Omg I used to watch this guy all the time a few years ago! Cool to see him on
The essayist & researcher I didnt realize would be a great guest :o wonder whats next after we finally got the SDA video
glad to see KB on. love his content.
I never saw this one coming, and I'm so goddamn excited for it! This is going to be a great listen, I can tell already.
I needed about 4 more hours of this conversation, I'm incapable of being bored by Knowing Better.
The guest selection for this podcast is unreal!
37:02
So true. When I was in philosophy classes, it was readily apparent who had read the book and who had read the 1st few sentences of Wikipedia about the philosopher in question. Same with history.
I’m so glad @KnowingBetter collabed with you guys! I’ve been watching his stuff for years (even before I started watching Destiny) and it’s great to see all of you together!
This is wild. Love Knowing Better. Great channel. I like destiny, too. So far this bridge podcast as been excellent.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE ESP SO FAR
I can't wait for this one!
KnowingBetter does such banger content.
I was always hoping they would get Knowing Better on the show, good job!
Wow, I just got watching his video on the Seventh-day Adventists, and now he's here. Great to see! 😎
The main thing I know about Knowing Better is that he and Bad Empanada had a major beef
Ohh i never knew that. What was it over?
An absolutely incredible guest. I love KB and have been watching him for, like, well over 6 years now. Super duper cool crossover.
I absolutely love KnowingBetter. I'm pleasantly surprised by this collab.
I think Hawai'i has the most unique history out of all the states in terms of how it became a state in 1950. It's not as simple as "The US came in and colonized Hawai'i" as people tend to think today. It's a very long tale that goes as far back as the mid 1700s. Although the story of the islands' eventual annexation is tragic, since Hawai'i had come close to becoming it's own autonomous country.
They also wanted to be annexed by the British at one point, which is why they have the Union Jack in their flag despite never being part of the British Empire or Commonwealth. They thought if they did that the Brits would just...let them in.
@@SeruraRenge11 that's not true, we actually don't know why the union jack became associated with Hawaii and there actually a lot of conflicting stories
Yo I used to watch this guy all the time glad to see him on here.
Yes, I am waiting for the release.
“and now you know Knowing Better better…”
I was worried KnowingBetter wouldn't meantion how the Native Hawaiian population was ransacked by disease. I feel like the number of Hawaiian deaths to disease is still underplayed, but at least he remembered that.
But every New Tribe 1st contacting the rest of the World would go through this.
The only way for a human body to learn a Virus and gain immunity is to be introduced to it.
Yet it's always portrayed as White Man gave it to them on purpose.
They didn't even understand germ theory yet and were using the Sam knife to cut upen dead bodies, then do an operation on a patient, and cut their apple at lunch ffs lol.
1/3 of The World died to Spanish Flu ffs...
We were still backward Apes in 1778 ffs, just in ships.
How does that factor into the discussion? The disease exposure was always going to happen regardless of politics so I'm not sure what you're implying.
I think the crazier part that the ransacking by disease kinda saved them from civilizational collapse because the population had basically been stretched to its breaking point for the resources of the time. But that MIGHT have been more due to societal issues causing inefficient crop harvests.
The discussion at around 25 minutes in about how much information gets left out when space and time are increased reminds me of one of my favorite books that addresses this topic in regards to culture so well. The book is Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R Delany. There are cultural differences across species (alien and human), planet, region, city, neighborhood etc. This differences appearing in body language, gender norms and pronouns (this book came out in 1984, not recent 'woke discourse'), etc. Using the Science Fiction genre allows the author to exaggerate the possibilities of locality and culture difference at such an extreme that it in turn can help you notice in the nuances of difference that can appear in real life from person to person, family to familly, etc. A brief excerpt towards the beginning of the first chapter after the long prologue:
My employer, said: ‘May I ask, ask you a favour?’
‘Well, I -’
‘Please, Marq Dyeth. Please. Your shuttle flight does not leave for some time yet, not for a while. I want to explain, explain something to you; then I want you to explain something to me -’
‘Well …’ Feeling uncomfortable, I smiled my most diplomatic smile, fairly sure what was coming. ‘You must understand that an Industrial Diplomat often finds herself -’
‘I want to show you this, this most recent atrocity in this atrocious fugue.’ (I was right.) ‘Because you’re not from around here, not from our world, not from our geosector, I merely thought you might take a certain understanding, a certain knowledge, certain information away with you …?’
The assumption is that because you’re not ‘from around here’ on such a cosmic scale, you couldn’t possibly know what ‘here’ is like. Always true; but it means that after a while an [Industrial Diplomat] has seen more of this sort of thing than anyone could care to.
‘My friend will take you in the skimkar.’ She indicated the other (human) woman. ‘He’s a careful driver and can answer any questions you might want to put.’ The ‘he’ made me flex an imaginary lip bone - which, a human myself, I do not have. But I’ve known lots who did.
‘Very well.’ I nodded, wondering what a nod meant on this world, at this spot on it."
34:21 Anything Else is just a pale substitute😭
😂 Dan is seething rn
Been a long time fan of KB before Destiny even. Glad to see KB getting out there and traveling to do the pod. If you haven't watched his video Neo-Slavery you absolutely should as an American. It covers alot about the institution of slavery that we just were not taught in school.
Love knowing better!!! His videos are made with such care.
THERE IS NO FREAKING WAY. K FREAKING B!!!!
Love knowing better. Been a subscriber to him for like 5-6 years. Great guest and interview
Free Hawaii? I'll take it.
14:23 Speaking as someone studying in medicine, that's how we study the effects of radiation on cells. We can't actually tell how many cells died and had its target DNA inactivated, what we can tell is how many cells survived and proliferated and we can extrapolate from there. And we know that the more we expose cells in a petri dish to radiation, the fewer survivors there will be.
YESSS finally someone saying free Tibet❤
ohhhhh i love KB! i didn't know i needed this bridges, but now i know better
This was such a good episode. I actually learned a lot.
Historical activism is something that people need to pay attention to. Especially since the cultural revolution of 2020-2 gave people the go ahead to simply trash everything that is American and get rewarded for it. There are people who are willing to play the long game with re-writting history, presenting it as 'academic' and 'novel', and in a decade's time you have lay audiences repeating insane narratives that were never true.
I couldn't believe the thumbnail, I'm so glad to see KB here.
Can't wait for Destiny's book reading arc next
My requested collab from 2024 coming out in 25 🎉
Hey it's my boi
I love KB's content! Super informative
The meeting of the algorithms!
I literally just watched the Kehlani tiny desk where she said “free Hawaii” and I was like lmfao what
Oh yeah people totally believe that.
Most people don't in Hawaii, but there's a whole faction of people that are really emotional about it.
Im not sure how much he goes into it yet, but from a Hawaiian perspective the disease and destruction of language was very painful. People have grandparents that told of a horrific time in history to be hawaiian. And truthfully if outsiders never come many Hawaiians would be alive today.
But to free hawaii from america would be, even from a Hawaiian activist standpoint, like relieving a warden from a jail.
We've got no access to food or water by ourselves, and all it truly means is the other inmates can kill us at any time.
About how they made it to Hawaii. I remember a documentary where its possible to know land is close if certain birds are in the sky or if certain clouds form on the horizon.
That way big islands will have a radius around them were you will know land is close by.
The Hawaiian islands are one of the most remote islands in the pacific though still.
@zr_1234 Oh absolutely but I'm not sure what your point is.
@ It almost seems by luck. But I guess someone would have ran into them eventually.
Rad! KB is awesome! Love his content and streams. Hope he comes back on the pod sometime, maybe with Mr. Beat or JJ. It’s always great to hear him speak at length in a non-scripted way. His scripted stuff on his channel is straight up goated, definitely need to resub to his Patreon.
Loved this! Bring him back!
Gonna be AMAZING
When it comes to the whole “Europeans navigated by the stars too” thing, that’s true - but for most of human history, didn’t most groups just not go out into the open ocean? Like we have the Norse and the Polynesians, but didn’t most people just not do that for most of history? And these guys did it in just tiny lil boats?
I think it’s fair to look at groups like those that navigated in the open ocean in canoes and longships and say that these people are legitimately amazing mariners, probably some of the best human navigators ever?
Fuck yeah knowing better!
19:40 Thor is correct actually. This happened in Germany in the 8th Century so Thor's oak was called Donar's oak. Tho in a latin account the tree is called Jupiter's oak.
Great choice for a guest! If ya’ll ever could get William Spaniel (lines on maps guy) that would be really interesting. He’s a political Scientist PHD. He’s made a lot of great videos on international conflicts & economic relations with said nations (Russia, Israel etc.)
man made me realize how much i miss knowing better in my live :D
One thing, in addition to celestial navigation, austronesian people also supposedly used some types of tidal navigation(I'm not expert, but it seems plausible) and of course if you are seafaring, time and volume of attempts will let you find a needle in a haystack. You don't need think it's magic or anything to think it's somewhat impressive. Obviously today we have better systems + other people like Vikings or Portuguese or etc also had navigation systems that worked very well. Also though I'm not sure what most people think, but I know Hawaii was settled relatively late compared to the rest of the Pacific island, so this point may be a really strong one if people think it's like ancient or esoteric means.
I mean the Azteca were only around for like 80 years when the Spanish showed up and half of New Spain hated them and joined the Spanish to take them down, but that doesn't stop Mexico from acting like it was terrible what happened.
I’ve always thought KB would be a great guest for bridges, this is dope!
My understanding is the Iranians despised Carter - in part for the very deal with Israel/Egypt you mentioned. They held the hostages so that Carter wouldn't get credit, not because they uniquely loved or feared Reagan.
Yeah, I would have loved to hear about this smoking gun connecting Reagan to the hostage crisis if he is so confident that Reagan purposefully delayed the release.
Amazing episode
Love this guy
Take him to dinner and get him back on ASAP! Loved the conversation, I've been a KB fan for years and I'd love to see him in the Omni liberal orbit
Great episode this guest is fascinating! 10/10
I definitely didn’t expect this one
I LOVE KNOWING BETTER! i recommend him to everyone, even Big D a few years ago! Niceeeeee
The whole conversation about how you "can't teach" critical thinking because you'd only be able to teach it in specific contexts is a bit weird to me, because I actually do teach critical thinking and we do teach it in a way that has a broad application.
The idea is that you teach people to ask questions. Stuff like "OK, here's this video claiming that this new technology will fix my life entirely"
1) Who published the video? The manufacturer of the technology or product? A third party?
2) What are they using to support their claim that it's going to fix your life? Anecdotes, or scientific research?
3) If it's scientific research that they're supporting their claim with, who paid for the research? Is the study openly available?
4) What kind of language are they using? Phrases like "Experts claim" or "Users reported"?
So on and so forth.
10:08 The Legislature did not overthrow the Kingdom to be clear. 13 politicians in the Legislature, most of whom were either of American descent or were Americans, planned to overthrow the monarchy, and they had some amount of support. They had connections with members of US government, and following the murder of a policeman by their supporters, which made them concerned that their plans could be exposed, they made false claims to the US government that the lives of American citizens were being threatened by the monarchy, a move which worked because of their political connections. American Marines then invaded the island illegally and intimidated the police, military and all other government forces into capitulating to the republican faction, who formed a 1 party state before becoming a US state.
I'm really hoping Knowing better reads your comment, for his video. Idk but I hope this comment boosts yours. 👍
any use of ellipses in quotes always reminds me of finkelstein dunking on dershowitz
Didn't see that guest coming 😮
Hyped
So happy to see Knowing Better on here. Very good content creator.
Awesome episode :))
Underrated podcast ong
The hell is this American Beauty intro music? I can see Lester intensely running down the sidewalk with his hat & headphones, right now...
wow you nailed the visuals on this one
I wish they talked more about Smedley Butler and the business plot, or the USPS those are some of my favorite videos.
I’ll admit I’m more of an anything else guy, but clicked cuz knowing better. Loved the episodes with Milo, flint and mrbeat too!
1:30:00 i would cheat in german class. We were allowed to have mints or hard candy during our tests for some reason.
So before class I would buy a big pack of large white mints, and I'd write the English word on one side and the German word on the other. And just take them out and look at them as I did the test.
The funny part was, by the time I would go through all this, I would know 99% of the words I had written on the mints because it was practice.
great convo, i subscribed to him
I took a class in college basically dedicated to identifying pseudoscience, bunk science, and bullshit. Great class. Loved it. You can definitely teach critical thinking, but it's up to the student whether or not it's going to stick.
Hell yeah, love Knowing Better!
You should reach out to Cynical Historian as well!
KnowingBetter has a fantastic channel, really great content! He gave me a lot of great perspective on history I thought I knew. Great interview!
If you're looking for people/channels that focus on history and great production, I highly recommend checking out Atun-Shei Films. His channel, and his videos on the Civil War are fantastic!
Love the podcast so far, keep up the good work!
Awesome talk!
Awesome guest choice!
What a badass king name. High Chi Name