History's Most Bizarre Assassinations (and Attempts)

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  • @brainblaze6526
    @brainblaze6526  2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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    • @eyespliced
      @eyespliced 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @nathanmckee5006
      @nathanmckee5006 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      jacksons nickname was Old Hickory. which was a tree... am i close?

    • @Stevgar2
      @Stevgar2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hmm shooting trees ... is the maxim machine gun going to be on mega or side projects soon then ? 🧐🤔

    • @violetteclingersmith8792
      @violetteclingersmith8792 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Finally got it. I blazed up the promo code and got six bucks of three domains. Website is coming along slowly, but that's more my fault than Squarespace's fault. Name dropped the Brain Blaze, so our Lord Fact Boy can feed his family. Maybe get points towards some of my video ideas, like a B-36 megaproject?

    • @wjanes11
      @wjanes11 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't worry, Simon. Any websites I need. I will definitely watch your newest video and get a discount. Thank you.

  • @k.5152
    @k.5152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +686

    inside jokes from unreleased content on a different channel is what I come here for, simon!

    • @ImperatorSomnium
      @ImperatorSomnium 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      True story 🍻

    • @slcpunk2740
      @slcpunk2740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Yeah he needs to stop apologizing for doing the thing ... but he's British so 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @demetriusking211
      @demetriusking211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Yes i love it , This channel is so niche. You must not alone watch all 34 channels of Simon but also retroactively laugh at untold inside jokes.

    • @Irol.
      @Irol. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Till we meet again in the comment section of that video.

    • @pdeniro57
      @pdeniro57 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Brilliant way to keep me watching. Still trying to find past jokes lol. Her should put date of when recorded. Would help me.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sam you did it again, with the "Whazzup?" meme. That's such a random, old school pop culture reference.

  • @pugsofsushi24
    @pugsofsushi24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Simon, on the highway out of Prague there is a “memorial” for where Reinhard was shot at. I was in Prague last month on an amazing study abroad on the topic of the history of genocide in Prague and Poland and our bus driver pointed out the “memorial”. Also, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a prisoner at the Terezin transit camp in Terezin.

    • @wynstonsmith7194
      @wynstonsmith7194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hope you visited the church in Prague where the assassins made their last stand. Intense. Includes a small museum of artifacts of the event.

    • @pugsofsushi24
      @pugsofsushi24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wynstonsmith7194 probably not i was on a strict schedule. Do you remember the name?

    • @wynstonsmith7194
      @wynstonsmith7194 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pugsofsushi24 SS Cyril and Methodius church. In the New Town a couple blocks up from the Dancing House

    • @pugsofsushi24
      @pugsofsushi24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wynstonsmith7194 no i did not. Maybe next time. I will definitely be back to Prague

    • @wynstonsmith7194
      @wynstonsmith7194 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pugsofsushi24 Yep. Prague is the kinda town that sinks it's hooks into you!

  • @nuggdimmadome2192
    @nuggdimmadome2192 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know I'm a few days late here but def looking forward to learning what the hell shooting trees is supposed to be about.

  • @storkbomb7417
    @storkbomb7417 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun fact: one of the cabinet members that wrestled Lawrence to the ground after the two misfires was Davy Crockett (an American folk-hero, for those of you who are less free), who was a senator at the time.

  • @freontec
    @freontec 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was no secret service in 1835, Whistle. Which reminds me: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

  • @evalevy2909
    @evalevy2909 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way you use the word allegedly, if I may quote the princess bride, "I do not think it means what you think it means."

  • @flappypaper
    @flappypaper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    as a Texan, if you came here with that southern accent, no one would question it

  • @JakeSezz
    @JakeSezz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Jackson legit got in a couple hits on his would-be assassin. If memory serves, people focused on stopping him from beating Richard III to death in the moment. At the time of the attempt, Jackson had 2 or 3 bullets still in his body from various duels over the years. Jackson was a racist ass, but also kinda interesting 😂

    • @mollywantshugs5944
      @mollywantshugs5944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yup. Jackson was a terrible person but he was also tough as nails

    • @Lowmanification
      @Lowmanification 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He lived a life so full of crazy stories that call him only kind of interesting is an understatement. For example, he teamed up with a pirate to win a major battle in a war that had already officially ended 2 weeks prior.

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Lowmanification That's the most Andrew Jackson thing I think I've ever heard xD

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Horrible politician, but an absolute badass.

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@micahphilson I think that's a much more honest take on Jackson. The man caused a lot of human misery, but he certainly wasn't somebody you wanted to piss off.
      After all, the only thing scarier than a badass is a fuckin' _crazy_ badass with zero moral scruples.

  • @adriandavies4787
    @adriandavies4787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    I find it funny that Simon said Danny can't challenge him with linguistics when I've seen many many a video with Simon crying "Danny why are you doing this?!?!".
    I look forward to the next script with great anticipation.

    • @LumiSisuSusi
      @LumiSisuSusi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish that I was a script writer for Simon as I could cause him to spontaneously combust by inserting: Welsh, Finnish, Chinese and Spanish. That would be fun 😜

    • @forbiddenera
      @forbiddenera 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LumiSisuSusi I'm sure if you wanted to that it wouldn't be difficult to convince him to start another channel.

    • @anamkarajoy
      @anamkarajoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      #Effortlessly

    • @annieinwonderland
      @annieinwonderland ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LumiSisuSusi DONT Listen to casual crimlist alone but listen to his Ivan milate one and watch him straight up strangle the Australian slang oohout is not how you say Ute.

    • @tylerstevens5352
      @tylerstevens5352 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anamkarajoy you mean effeff-fortlessly

  • @QueenCheetah
    @QueenCheetah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Me: >gets up and comes back a minute later without pausing

  • @christophermerlot3366
    @christophermerlot3366 2 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    How could you do this episode without covering all the bizarre ways the CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro?

    • @taliaryn3699
      @taliaryn3699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      That could be an entire episode of it's own!

    • @DannySalter
      @DannySalter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@taliaryn3699 Yep, that was my thought, Fidel Castro would need a dedicated episode...and then about six sequels.

    • @EnyalienMini
      @EnyalienMini 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@DannySalter, so do it ;)

    • @SpencerGD
      @SpencerGD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Eh, he's done that story at least two or three times on other channels. Granted, Danny's take would no doubt be hilarious.

    • @Nick-hm2dm
      @Nick-hm2dm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pretty little explosive seashell on the sea floor.

  • @douglasmcpherson7048
    @douglasmcpherson7048 2 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    I just LOVE Simon. He’s so weird. But in a sensible common sense kind of way 😂

    • @morganimation_inc
      @morganimation_inc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He certainly has achieved a very unique persona that grows on ya XD Simon for president 2024!

    • @jack54686
      @jack54686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's great! I feel like I'm just sitting down BSing with my friend when I watch this channel. And that's not just because I do in fact have an English friend named Simon. I would say weird flex, but I think a lot of people have a British friend named Simon...

    • @nancydavies6446
      @nancydavies6446 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I totally agree with you

    • @Kerosene.Dreams
      @Kerosene.Dreams 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jack54686 That's why it's okay to insult him. Like you do. With friends.

    • @88marome
      @88marome ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yea he's not like Republican weird.

  • @brknglasses2734
    @brknglasses2734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I love how all the channels in the Whistler empire are all becoming more like brain blaze.
    I almost wrote business blaze...still...lol

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I tend to use it interchangeably lol

    • @slcpunk2740
      @slcpunk2740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What's a brain blaze? I've heard of business blaze, that channel is the shit.

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@slcpunk2740 it is none of your brains business
      -_- I’m so funny

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I intentionally start writing "business" then put the three dots afterwards and actually write Brain Blaze, because it's hilarious when Simon messes up and has to quickly correct himself, or when he completely misses that he's saying Business Blaze again lol

    • @Hebdomad7
      @Hebdomad7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's still business blaze to me...

  • @NoOne-yc4wl
    @NoOne-yc4wl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    As How to Fight Presidents put it, the bullets were rightfully too scared of Andrew Jackson to leave the gun.

    • @rhov-anion
      @rhov-anion 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many bullets tried. All failed. He had something like 3 bullets still in his body at the time of his death, and who knows how many passed through.

  • @karenz3853
    @karenz3853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    My Euro history teacher spent whole class periods on the assassinations of Rasputin and Archduke Franz Ferdinand and those were very entertaining days and I still remember the stories so it definitely worked. He was a great teacher and made class a lot of fun

    • @johnc.2876
      @johnc.2876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I would have preferred that type of fellow to my Euro teacher. He insisted on dressing like a Russian Napoleon and even murdered his teachers aid. Prof. Sokolov or something. I mean yeah he was eccentric and did a murder, but I give him a 2.5 out of 5 on rate my professor. He would have gotten a 4, ut the murder thing really bummed me out......

    • @Master_Yoda1990
      @Master_Yoda1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Schools definitely need more enthusiastic teachers, kids tend to respond more when they're being engaged with a high energy environment instead of just reading books and taking notes.

    • @stevenjlovelace
      @stevenjlovelace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      AP Euro History was my favorite class in high school. I think I learned more about writing a structured argument than I did in any English class (or in college.)

    • @pollypocket3508
      @pollypocket3508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agreed. The teachers that made things fun are the classes I remember the most from.

    • @johnc.2876
      @johnc.2876 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@somebodyspecific2410 Who remembers, he was nammed Olog Sockoflove or something. It was the 20teens in St. Petersburg and the Vodka was delicious!

  • @chress98
    @chress98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    As a soon-to-be history teacher, I agree: memorizing dates is fricking useless

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      "You'll never have all those dates in your pocket."
      LIES. JUST LIKE THE CALCULATOR.

    • @Dylan-ln6qt
      @Dylan-ln6qt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My roommate in college was a computer science and engineering major in college, one of his coding classes had students write the code on paper for exams so that students couldn't use them to cheat...yes, the students were banned from using computers during coding exams.
      That's probably the dumbest thing I have and will ever encounter in education.

    • @holydado
      @holydado 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I had a history teacher in college that told us he could careless if we didn’t remember all the dates, what was more important was to remember what actually happened. From my point of view teachers like that have the right idea, because why oh why does it matter if I remember dates if I can’t remember what the heck happened on said dates.

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brainblaze6526 Pssh, where are you going to find space for the calculator in your pockets with the entire Encyclopedia Britannica stuffed in them?!

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Dylan-ln6qt I agree, they should have been made to program using punch cards!

  • @rachelb4398
    @rachelb4398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Hey Simon, I imagine you hear this a lot on your other channels, but one of the reasons I love Brain Blaze and Casual Criminalist and Decoding the Unknown is because you break up the straight reading with your commentary. When you don't do this, you read way too quickly for me to keep up with, and I start to tune your voice out. I've noticed the past couple of Brain Blazes that you are just quickly reading through Danny's script, and I can't keep up. I love your channels, but I have stopped watching most of the other ones (like TIFO, TopTenz, Geographics, and Biographics) because you read so fast. Your "ridiculous" commentary slows you down and really does add to the entertainment value of your videos; please don't cut down on it. Thank you for all you do!

    • @n0thatsmyname
      @n0thatsmyname 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      you're spot on and one thing I would add is to see him back on his feet, I felt BB lost quite a lot when he decided to do the episodes sitting down

    • @Hebdomad7
      @Hebdomad7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I loved Business Blaze when it was a clam standing stroll into pure insanity that forced simon to get a singing coach to protect his voice.

    • @ncisfan1002
      @ncisfan1002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@n0thatsmyname The man has two small children, I'd be sitting down too

    • @-MarcusAurelius
      @-MarcusAurelius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You can always slow down the playback speed on TH-cam

    • @n0thatsmyname
      @n0thatsmyname 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ncisfan1002 agreed and he does loads of video that I always have a good time watching
      What I guess I would ask would be to see Simon roaming about and slapping his scripts, I feel like it's not the same intensity when he's sitting down. I love Brain Blaze but I love it when it's fired up on all cylinders.
      I also feel like Sam's editing a loooot better the crazier Simon gets.
      (Also if someone could tell me which episode has simon going on a tangent and there's like 2m30 of pure drug fueled ADHD with super high saturation and Thomas the tank engine, I'll love you for it)

  • @bullie86
    @bullie86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Simon: “BOW BEFORE MY READING ABILITIES!!”
    Also Simon: “tent snatch, orrr tenach…?”

  • @lekiscool
    @lekiscool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    As an Irish person, who has looked into the history of the nation, religious wars are indeed messy.
    St. Patrick to Celts: You are Catholic now.
    Celts: Ok.
    Henry VIIII to Irish: No you are Protestant!
    Half of the Irish: No!
    Irish to the Irish: Fuck you!

    • @davep5698
      @davep5698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The take away is. Should have just left it alone and let them do them.

  • @CodenameRockerika
    @CodenameRockerika 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    History is taught terribly at the lower levels, even in introductory college classes, mostly so it will fit in our standardized tests for classes that are too big taught by teachers with too many classes to assign and assess real history work. You don't need to know the exact year the American Revolution started if you can't even explain that it happened largely as a result of the Seven Years War or what the arguments were on each side. But those questions can't be reduced to a multiple guess test as easily.

    • @somerandom3257
      @somerandom3257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Don’t forget that most American textbooks are also made in Texas…

    • @somerandom3257
      @somerandom3257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And you really need more than a class period to explain a lot of history

    • @jessicaconda4825
      @jessicaconda4825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's also a problem that most history classes only focus on the battles of history and not so much the interveneing events. This is especially bad in the US, when all you learn about US history, until you get to college, is the wars, the famous battles, and the order of presidents and their political affiliations.

    • @shatzz83
      @shatzz83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So true.. My History curriculum in k-12 covered the same stuff over and over.. Pilgrims- Revolutionary War - Civil War- ww1/2 - A tiny snippet on Civil rights movements - cold war...
      And if that isn't bad enough, most of it was all taught dishonestly as well!
      States rights, lost cause, Savage Natives.. the "virtue" of manifest destiny... I make sure my kids have grown up knowing the real history of this country, the good, the bad, and everything in between

    • @rachelwitherspoon4394
      @rachelwitherspoon4394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@shatzz83 thank you for teaching them real history abd not the mish mash of lunatic fantasy that it being rewritten into.

  • @iginheo
    @iginheo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Prize fight time
    Fact boi vs The leader of China
    1000:1 on Fact Boi
    No Pooh shots

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I want to see a good clean fight, no dirty fighting, no under-handed tactics, nothing below the belt. Poop jokes lol

  • @kandreasworld4374
    @kandreasworld4374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I absolutely luv when you are all over the place. Sometimes your random tangents are more entertaining than the story you are telling. 😆

  • @usa1726
    @usa1726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Simon, Do episode about the “secret service” you made a comment about Jackson being protected by them. The secret service didn’t protect the president until after Lincoln was killed. That’s the little bit I know and would like to know more about its history.

    • @davep5698
      @davep5698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love that the secret device was initially only to protect money, forgeries and such, literally the heavies for the government making sure no one cheats them with fake bills.

    • @ladykoiwolfe
      @ladykoiwolfe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know just a tidbit more. They were first put in place to protect the First Lady, only later did they also include the president.

    • @dianetorgersen7334
      @dianetorgersen7334 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They actually didn’t start until 1901, after McKinley was assonated.

    • @Arnieman83
      @Arnieman83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Secret Service origin story - they were actually created to protect the money supply... they were formed to catch counterfeiters...

  • @bobbybatara3718
    @bobbybatara3718 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Sam gets a biscuit! He is really nailing that timing and those memes. Absolutely brilliant, 2 biscuits!!

  • @jamesleatherwood5125
    @jamesleatherwood5125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "why was he in a bear suit?" I mean it WAS the 1600s. its not like they had CC tv or proper forensics... its honestly probaby the reason he was never casught. lol.

  • @tincancrab
    @tincancrab 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I can't believe Simon missed the opportunity to say he could beat the stuffing out of Winnie the Pooh.

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh my gohd. That's horrible. I love it.

  • @kristinetaulbut4975
    @kristinetaulbut4975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    No secret service until the end of Lincoln’s term. Jackson on the other hand kinda didn’t need it because he could beat the crap out of people himself

  • @George_M_
    @George_M_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Lol yeah don't confuse Jackson and Lincoln, they're rather morally opposite.

  • @TheBlindAndTheBeautiful
    @TheBlindAndTheBeautiful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Simon you could do a whole episode on this topic with the CIA's attempts to kill Fidel Castro through the years. Its a clown car crash of insanity and seems like something you would have fun with

    • @duncancurtis1758
      @duncancurtis1758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Squidward vs Spongebob or Sideshow Bob vs Bart Simpson.

  • @kimberlymwitt
    @kimberlymwitt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hey Simon, I subscribe to all of your channels and the ones where you do your tangents are the best! I miss the pacing :) But now that you're sitting down your feet won't get tired if you let your basement dwelling writing captives do the longer scripts again :D

  • @KarrierBag
    @KarrierBag 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great a Brain Blaze, just what I need after the day I have had..... now back on my boat with a beer in hand (9% alc) 😁
    oh it is all about murders and death ....yey.

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol what kind of beer I’m drinking 9% too lol

    • @KarrierBag
      @KarrierBag 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nugboy420nice one 💞 this is polish lager (I think) called Karpackie for £1.47 a can 😁
      Very nice it is too.....🥳

    • @benmonia7105
      @benmonia7105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I got voodoo ranger imperial. 9% club 🤙

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KarrierBag nice. I was drinking what the last commenter posted for a bit then I switched to Sierra Nevada Big Little Thing imperial ipa also 9%. Also found Goose Island Tropical Beer Hug that is 9.9% which is actually what I am drinking now. I get the Sierra Nevada and the Voodoo ranger mixed up cuz they r interchangeable to me. I don’t know many foreign beers and judging by your fancy money symbol used I can confidently assume you bought it outside of the good ole u s of a lol.
      Cheers tho!!

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@benmonia7105 that was the first 9% I drank consistently. The above comment in response to OP explains a bit. I usually just grab the strongest 20ish oz cans they sell singles of in gas stations or corner stores lol. If you get the chance try the Tropical Beer Hug. Tastes pretty good, a little more hoppy imo than Voodoo but also 9.9%.
      Cheers to you as well :)

  • @kylet363
    @kylet363 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Simon: "I am the master of reading" - 8:24
    Also Simon: "Only to be told by a bank clerk called 'Clerk'" - th-cam.com/video/9l4ugU2RgbA/w-d-xo.html

  • @canaan5337
    @canaan5337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think some of the most bizarre assassination attempts I can think of are when the United States used to attempt to kill Fidel Castro it was alot like those Looney Tunes cartoons about the roadrunner and the coyote.

  • @martinkadlec6070
    @martinkadlec6070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    17:36 Better throw in a quick "allegedly" in case the dead 17th century politician comes back with a lawyer.

  • @Snp2024
    @Snp2024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Video just started and Simon already lost 50000 social credits.

  • @TSmith-yy3cc
    @TSmith-yy3cc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Glad that you followed Jackson living with Heydrich dying to balance out the disappointment of Jackson's assassin failing.
    I always found it odd that his would-be assassin went with Richard iii, as he was quite reviled historically (although his reputation has been semi-rehabilitated in academic circles more recently).

    • @andrewsuryali8540
      @andrewsuryali8540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Richard III had a positive reputation in the US the first half of the 19th century. This was a time when Americans liked to vilify the British monarchy (especially after the War of 1812) and unabashedly aggrandize those perceived as their enemies. The fact that Richard was literally a king was ironically ignored precisely because Tudor propaganda had by then cemented the idea of Richard's supposed illegitimacy in the English-speaking world. Americans viewed him as a rebel because that's what their "history" said he was, and hey, they love those who rebelled against the Crown.

    • @TSmith-yy3cc
      @TSmith-yy3cc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrewsuryali8540 I had no idea! Thanks for the comment; really interesting.

  • @ilajoie3
    @ilajoie3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    He's the master of reading, up until a clerk called Clark clobbers Claire with a clarinet

  • @davidmeeks2405
    @davidmeeks2405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Secret Service wasn't established until after Lincoln had been assianated.

    • @thecatcher51
      @thecatcher51 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And even then it wasn’t to protect the president

  • @Hydrospx
    @Hydrospx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I wish he would've talked about the assassination attempt of Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt took a bullet to the chest and still managed to give his speech later that day without going to the hospital.

    • @spyone4828
      @spyone4828 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "later that day" is overstating it a bit: he began his speech with "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot."
      He was shot while leaving his hotel to go to the speech, and while his doctor tried to get his driver to take him to the hospital, Roosevelt insisted on being taken to the speech instead.
      It is a rather amazing story. For example, Roosevelt ordered the crowd at the hotel not to harm the shooter, and when the police arrived charged them with keeping his safe as the took him to jail.

  • @Arc115YT
    @Arc115YT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    As a fan of CasCrim, I absolutely adore stories about murder. I already approve of your new channel, Simon!

  • @ashh8019
    @ashh8019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think the brilliance of the niche of this channel is that it’s the perfect balance of approachable and familiar whilst being unhinged and providing good variety. Somehow Simon, Danny and Sam help me feel more sane with this show….. which maybe is a bad sign 😂

  • @j0njn
    @j0njn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If you want to make a follow-up to this, then first of, I’d appreciate it, and secondly: CIAs various schemes to take out Castros should give you plenty to pick from. In the end, the man who swore he’d live to see Americas downfall died after they elected Trump…

    • @jmoore112344
      @jmoore112344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well he got pretty close...

  • @KayKayon
    @KayKayon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Honestly, if you’re going to claim you are a reincarnated king, it’s best not to claim being a king that was defeated/successfully deposed.

  • @wander_boi69
    @wander_boi69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    To quote my friend who saw Pig with no context beyond hearing that it was good: "I went into this expecting Nicolas Cage to rip off John Wick and instead it made me feel". Great film, well worth the watch.

    • @Hebdomad7
      @Hebdomad7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nicolas Cage is a brilliant actor.

    • @jmoore112344
      @jmoore112344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Hebdomad7 I can't stand him. He only has two types characters he can play and the only good movies are the ones where he was lucky enough to get one of those two types.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jmoore112344 Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

  • @findsharon
    @findsharon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can't believe there were no Princess Bride clips in this one. Still excellent though.

  • @natetheshocker7547
    @natetheshocker7547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Alright we finally hit 300K subs. Welcome all! I remember when this channel just started out and only had 30K subs. I remember thinking "Damn, this is going to be my favorite Simon channel", and I was right. I love this shit! I'm actually shocked that the channel isn't growing faster. I truly believe that millions of people would love this. But then Simon would be super popular, and then it wouldn't feel like this close nit community we have now.

  • @etmr
    @etmr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Simon vs Peter will surely be featured in this video

    • @aguynamednathan
      @aguynamednathan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wasn't Simon Peter an apostle?

    • @etmr
      @etmr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aguynamednathan Possibly! I was however alluding to Peter the misogynistic plant, a meme on this channel

  • @neroclaudius3314
    @neroclaudius3314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Simon, the 30 Years War is quite simple. Basically France and Sweden wanted to take the Hapsburg down a peg and used religion as a pretext. A bunch of people died and nothing really changed.

    • @benjaminmalisheski6494
      @benjaminmalisheski6494 ปีที่แล้ว

      You've got *a bit* of the *overall* *political* ambitions of *some* of the major players. There is a TON more to it, as hinted by the asterisks. 1: France and Sweden had more motivations than just knocking down a rival. Sweden wanted increased influence in Northern Europe, which many of the North German states did not appreciate, but could be enforced militarily. France was a shit show of internal religious conflict, even if they had 'resolved' it by then, and bringing a forceful end to the debate would reduce internal problems in France. They were also not so interested in an active conflict on their border - something is never good for a nation unless they take advantage of it. The French also wanted increased influence in the wealthy lowlands, a conflict that would continue through Louis XIV's reign. 2: There were countless minute factors within every major and minor party involved, even those not involved in the actual war; all of which had an impact on the conflict. While I mentioned some other large factors for French and Swedish involvement in the last section, the too had countless small factors at play - an inevitable consequence of meddling in the affairs of hundreds of semi-independent states. With so many different rulers and powerful aristocrats, personal ambitions and grudges played a much larger role than would be expected in such a large war at the time. 3: While politics were the major influence on the big players, religion had a much larger influence on convincing the populations of Europe to continue to fight through 30 years of hell. 4: France, Sweden, and the Habsburgs were not the only major players, even if they were the ones with the most effective militaries. And after all of that, I do not claim that I have an in depth knowledge of the 30 years war. It is far too complex to boil down to: "France and Sweden wanted to knock down a powerful rival."

  • @bam-skater
    @bam-skater 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Chances of two full houses in a row is 0.0676% or 1:1479....so a better chance than 4 numbers in the lottery coming up!

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you play a lot, it's not incredible to have seen it at some point, but it's pretty impressive to someone that seldom plays. I've seen quads two hands in a row but not by the same person. (I had the second set.) My favorite hand recently was when there were eights and fives on the board on the first hand of the game. My opponent had another eight and went all in on me. He flipped out when he saw I had a five... and another five.

  • @sulley3370
    @sulley3370 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Simon name-checking The Revenant and then asking what the name of [The Revenant] is in the same breath is my kind of energy

  • @GMKindheart
    @GMKindheart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I rarely comment, but the "don't Google, I got you", I nearly woke everyone in my house. I love all of your writers and quality meme specialist.

  • @donnasilvio3974
    @donnasilvio3974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Editor Samuel!!! For saving us that Google search. I went back to the start bc Simon usually names his ppls, but glad it was at least at the end so I could direct this at you. 😁

  • @nugboy420
    @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Too short! Jk actually pretty close to where I like them to be lol

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:45 - Mid roll ads
    11:15 - Chapter 1 - Exit, mauled by a bear
    18:15 - Chapter 2 - Butchering the butcher of prague

  • @jackroutledge352
    @jackroutledge352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The odds of two full houses in a row is 1/1479 if you're playing Texas hold em. So not that unlikely if you play a lot of poker. In a five card draw it's more like one in a million though.

  • @RomulusDeTroys
    @RomulusDeTroys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how as sponsorships decline on other channels, old fact Boi always has loyal sponsors. Maybe it's the add run time?

  • @stevenjlovelace
    @stevenjlovelace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had a coworker who has having trouble with her computer, and after I helped her, she exclaimed, "Thank you, Jesus!" I was a little miffed that she was thanking God when I was the one who helped her.

    • @stevenj68
      @stevenj68 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just reply "You're Welcome" and watch their head spin. lol

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought that Simon said Jen's snatch and I immediately thought of casual criminalist.

  • @OtakuUnitedStudio
    @OtakuUnitedStudio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Proper preparation prevents piss-poor performance" is the phrase you're looking for.
    DeCaprio himself was the one who claimed his character was molested by the bear. Everyone thought he was nuts.

  • @mildlydazed9608
    @mildlydazed9608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Blaze time!

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All day every day

  • @williebauld1007
    @williebauld1007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is the shooting trees reference from that other great channel The Casual Criminalist?
    You should have included your attempt to assassinate ETO

  • @crunchydango
    @crunchydango 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a 25 minute video with at least half an hour of that being tangents. Bravo, Whistler.

  • @terryenby2304
    @terryenby2304 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon, thinking of starting a new channel?!?! No way…

  • @camoakes976
    @camoakes976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Come to think of it. There are enough good stories like this out there, you could do a recurring series on assassination shenanigans. A good repeat option for Simon's creatively bankrupt mind!

    • @spyone4828
      @spyone4828 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed. From the multiple failures of the plan to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand leading to a dejected would-be assassin at a cafe when the Archduke's car happened to pass by, to the guy who wanted to kill Nixon because he felt Nixon was at the head of a vast international conspiracy to deny him a small business loan.

  • @adamcavanaugh4940
    @adamcavanaugh4940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The time I most commonly have people ask to join me at a table is Veteran's day. When places offer free meals they fill up quickly and they'll often ask if we can sit together. I never have an issue with it.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait Simon, another channel in the works?
    At this rate Danny and the other denizens of The Blazement will never see the light of day!
    😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️

  • @Matt-Durham
    @Matt-Durham 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Come on Simon I'm guessing you're referring to The Troubles in Ulster, I happen to have grown up during some of the darkest days of the conflict in Northern Ireland, you should 100% do the video!

  • @Barph
    @Barph 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait, how could Hidrik could have learned in 1942 from the Kennedy assassination that happened in 1963?

  • @anicoleww
    @anicoleww 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Omg I love you all! F**KING HILARIOUS!
    Thank you for adding the wassup, it was perfect!

  • @michaelmckinnon7314
    @michaelmckinnon7314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There were 4 pistols and 4 misfires in the attempt on Andrew Jackson's life, Andrew Jackson then preceded to beat the attempted assassin nearly to death. Supposedly Heydrich was going to make life in the Concentration Camps a little better for those held there

  • @craftlawrence6390
    @craftlawrence6390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon, you have 10 or more infotainment channels now, have you ever thought about making a channel about totally different stuff?
    I don't mean just gaming but there are so many different types of yt content besides these two.

  • @TeamOT
    @TeamOT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well, to be fair to the heart transplantee, for the price their parents paid for that heart, they should be allowed to thank whomever they damn well please.

  • @davidmichaeldefranchi6164
    @davidmichaeldefranchi6164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel like same way about people who kept calling the plane incident when it landed or splashed down in the Hudson. it was referred to as "Miracle on the Hudson". If I were the pilot, I would have been a little ticked off. A "miracle" would have been if the entire flight deck crew were incapacitated and the plane still gently landed in the river.

  • @GuusvanVelthoven
    @GuusvanVelthoven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Simon. Can you do the overcomplicated script on brainblaze so we can be confused together? 😄

  • @fuzzymarmot4628
    @fuzzymarmot4628 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your videos but on the first story the Secret Service wasn't around until the days just before Lincoln was killed.

  • @Foolish188
    @Foolish188 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good thing Simon put that "Allegedly" in there, don't want Simon to get sued by a guy who died in the 1600s.

  • @EffortForever
    @EffortForever ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ricky Bobby fact for the day: They put a pigs heart in a guy. Did he live? Oh no he died but still it's amazing what there accomplishing now days.😅😂

  • @timeywimey6664
    @timeywimey6664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can confirm still a lot of dates involved in a law degree

  • @RFXZ67966
    @RFXZ67966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I feel like I already know all of Simon's stories and anecdotes probably more intimately than my actual friends and family

  • @patrickhasachannel
    @patrickhasachannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd love a Highlight History video from you Simon all about the assassination of Mountbatten as its one of those moments in British military history that often gets glossed over

  • @StigmataTickles
    @StigmataTickles ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All those people thanking god for saving their loved ones... God was the one trying to kill them dude.

  • @aaronburkeen6409
    @aaronburkeen6409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have had that happen to me. Me and my friend where playing poker and we got the exact same hand twice. And we switched decks after it happened the first time. I think it might be something that happens when you play alot with the same people. But I have also never had it happen again after that time.

  • @marshallfischer8686
    @marshallfischer8686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Prior planning prevents piss poor performance Simon. The 6 P's of success

  • @v1nc3nt_bl4ck4
    @v1nc3nt_bl4ck4 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great Gatsby was amazing, love the scene were he raises his glass. Best glass raise scene ever

  • @stewcoil2481
    @stewcoil2481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    one flew over the cuckoo's nest is a classic. do a bit on electroshock therapy.

  • @BignutSquirrel1
    @BignutSquirrel1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I learned it as "Prior proper planning prevents piss-poor performance"

  • @The_SCPFoundation
    @The_SCPFoundation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:35 "AM I RIGHT PHILLIP!"
    Different inside joke 🤣

  • @cthomas3782
    @cthomas3782 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Porkback Mountain starring LazerPig 👌

  • @KnightRyder1990
    @KnightRyder1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The 6 Ps=Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance

  • @M420labs
    @M420labs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Prior
    Preparation
    Prevents
    Piss
    Poor
    Performance

  • @mho...
    @mho... 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i wonder who would document the unavoidable rampage of danny getting out of simons basement & running amok 🤔

  • @firstnamelastname5449
    @firstnamelastname5449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read a story a while ago of a Chinese emperor who ran around a pillar for 2 hours to escape an assassin.

  • @pirobot668beta
    @pirobot668beta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'Shooting trees'; is this a Finnish sniper reference?

  • @chrisclark9934
    @chrisclark9934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Proper planning prevents piss poor performance

  • @CAP198462
    @CAP198462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “By 1951 Heydrich was stationed in Prague” - Simon Whistler, 2022.

  • @jamesslick4790
    @jamesslick4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was lucky that my High School history teachers made History entertaining and engaging. It's amazing how many teachers make such a fascinating subject boring! 🤷‍♂️

  • @scruffiestofnerfherders7397
    @scruffiestofnerfherders7397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon: Stop long introductions. Also Simon: goes on for 20 minutes on tangents about his schooling

  • @eyespliced
    @eyespliced 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the 2+ minute long integrated Ad ends at 11:11