How the U.S. Snagged All These Islands
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Published 2020-08-26
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All Comments (21)
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I have spent a while contemplating making this video, rotating between laughing at the ridiculous concept, and contemplating the immensely substantive historical, innovative, and imperialistic impact.. of bird poop. Creating this video was a whirlwind for me, and I hope that you get a similar "What?!" feeling when watching. From now on, I will be occasionally highlighting some of my favorite comments within the first hour of a new video being live . Today, I am both laughing and mourning with BK's Bullets over this comment: "Bites into sandwich, cue the montage of animals pooping!" Sorry dude. Thank you EVERYONE for supporting this channel!
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This man is a genius at making videos and explaining things that you never even think about.
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Idk why.. this guy makes me want to take a plane to nowhere.
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Johnny’s a genius - the level of filmmaking, editing, storytelling and sheer depth of research in his videos blows my mind every single time.
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When you're the last person to tech up in a civ game and have to take whatever land is left
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Johnny: Look how many random islands the U.S. owns UK and France:
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Wow, this guano stuff was some serious shit back then.
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I seem to remember that the original title was: “How the US stole bird sh*t”
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If ever my school teachers were this good in explaining geography i would have topped my subject..
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how the US stole bird shit is honestly the kind of pillow talk I never expected to have.
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I’m Peruvian and those guano years were an important part of our history, we’re taught at school about how it was so important for our economy in the post-independence years, and how we suddenly lost it all.
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he's such a captivating person to listen to, like idk the way he speaks and uses his eyes is so watchable. it's just his aura i swear
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The founders of US in early 1800s condemned European imperialism. A century later, US is the definition of imperialism.
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Yes "welcome to quality YouTube ," YouTube should create a space like " YouTube create"( like they have YouTube music) for such high quality good videos and docu series like for reals man
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Just imagine what the birds were thinking at that time. They'll be like: dude someone just claimed our toilets!
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I'm extremely surprised the video didn't mention gunpowder which at the time required guano for its manufacturing which obviously made it incredibly important in strategic terms, making guano become even more critical and than fertilizer.
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Your hair looks amazing for not having shampooed in 4 years.
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This guy can literally talk about shit staight up for 16 min and I'm still enjoying it
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Is this becoming a series? “HOW THE US STOLE...” well, everything?
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Amazing video as always I love how you actually educate people on the real themes and outcomes of historical events... forever watch your videos John keep it up... Also the beat at the end when you introduced squarespace was amazing lol
