American Reacts to Heritage Minutes: Insulin, D-Day, & Basketball 

Because the pharmaceutical companies decided to change the insulin recipe slightly. This way they could claim it as their work and not use Banting and Best's recipe. Pure greed against peoples lives.

That the scientists gave this medicine to the world for free should really piss off Americans and their Big Pharma greed.

At least in the US, Biden has got one of the producers to agree to 35$ US/month as the retail price point. That’s a big reduction. And hopefully the competitors match.

Is insulin patented?

@@earnesta.brooks7123 Americans always find a way to ensure only their wealthiest people get the money from such things.

My sister's too.

The D-Day one brought me to tears.

Right? He would have died laughing at it..

Agreed!!

Riiiight!! I was hoping he would rewind it to hear that part! ....it's as iconic as "burnt toast..dr Penfield I smell burnt toast"!

@@Sara-zx2wm we riot if he misses burnt toast haha

I’m unfollowing if he misses the burnt toast line 😂

VERY VERY VERY good point... A red shirt who on the landing party did not die... makes u think rodenberry had it in for him afterwards....

Literally! 😆

I will add t hat it was friendly fire. He was shot by a nervous Canadian sentry, while crossing between command posts late at night.

Because of that lost finger, whenever they showed a close-up of Scotty manipulating the transporter controls, they used someone else's hands so the missing finger wouldn't be apparent.

This was back when "bone spurs" was no excuse. I can't fathom why people accept such lame excuses these days (especially when the person who claimed the diagnosis surely lied and did not serve his country.) Doohan had a missing finger and shrapnel besides, and the last thing he would have complained about was fake bone spurs.

The only red shirt in Star Trek to not die in the away mission 👍

What war has the USA actually won except the revolutionary war on their own. WW1 they came to France with less than a year left when the Germans were being pushed back thanks in part by the shock troops from Canada New Zealand and Australia. It was the ALLIES that won WW2 not the USA. The Korean war has yet to be resolved and that was another war that was fought by allies not just the USA. The U.S. got their ass kicked so badly in Viet Nam that it still hurts today.

I've watched many many documentaries and you're absolutely right. I'm not sure why that is other than America thrives on being better than everyone else and with that, they ignore the values of other countries. Sad but true

Bravo 👏 🇨🇦

I wouldn't go so far as to say Canada was forged in war - it wasn't - but everything else you said is absolutely true. Canada evolved into a self-governing country. It was formed by the results of war.

Yup, Leo Major was something else!

Canada has never started a war nor had war declared on us, but we've won every single war we showed up for.

You forgot their contribution to WWI.

There is a large Canadian cemetery in Holland and the graves are cared for by school children.

​@laurabailey1054 Groesbeek Commonwealth War Cemetery. 2,300 of 2,700 men are Canadian. My great uncle, David Hebblethwaite is there. Holten is another, with 1,400 Canadians. Most of these men died in the final months of the war. The cemeteries are kept in immaculate condition.

That is not completely correct. Women's basketball was not an official Olympic sport until 1976. Those wins from 1924 to 1936 were not officially recognized and the team did not receive medals

And of course Brits and Americans only viewed Canadians as canon fodder and take all the credit. What an arrogant bunch of pantsies.

That's what always bugs me about WW2 war movies that almost always only include Americans. Canada was a major part of the war effort. At the end of the war we had one of the largest navies in the world. The only movies that us some justice are Devil's Brigade and Battle of Britain. In almost all other movies we are replaced with Americans... Even Argo ovelooks most of what Canada did during the Iran hostage crisis.

@@Trygvar13 We are the ones that walk softly and carry a big stick.

dieppe was a pinch raid... not a dry run for DDay to show stalin we couldnt do it... the ORIGINAL Dieppe raid (Rutter) that was cancelled was a trial run.. The ACTUAL dieppe raid (Jubilee) was to get Bletchley park an Enigma Machine. Ian Fleming is involved as part of british naval intelligence (yes james bond)

Exactly, Americans would not have even bothered until it became personal with Pearl Harbour.

A Canadian tank regiment, the First Hussars, was the only Allied unit to achieve its D-Day objective on the first day of operations. They went so far inland that they had to be pulled back to allow other units to catch up. One of my maternal great uncles was in a Canadian artillery unit and was involved in the D-Day landings. His war diary, all four pages of it, relates how his artillery regiment and other Canadian artillery regiments in his area of operations were lobbing 13,000 shells per hour at German-held positions in the first few hours of the invasion. It's a very clear indication of just how intense the fighting was. A movie was made about the Canadian D-Day landings, it's called 'Storming Juno'.

It was the only beach with French residents right behind the seawall, so that beach got little aerial or naval bombardment. Some of those houses turned out to be very well disguised German gun emplacements.

I would love to see a "canadian" historical video about NOFU in WW2. Or the Blue Puttees.. IMHO the most bad ass "canadian" fighting force ever created.

@@TotensBurntCorpse Storming Juno is the movie to see for Canadian D day. There is a Doc on NOFU but can't remember the title, sorry. Will see if I can find it.

@@toddstevens13 I would love to see a documentary on NOFU... my maternal great grandfather died in '42 and as far as i was told was in NOFU... my paternal great grand father also signed up for NOFU and also dies but in '43... it was COMMON for NOFU people to be press ganged into the RN once they were suckered into going over there.

Banting discovered insulin but Tommy Douglas made it possible to get it, and all medication and all medical care, cheap.

And let us not forget the doggos that Banting stole from locals to experiment on.. they might not have given their lives willingly but I think they should still be honoured@@fedodosto3162

I want to incourage you to please be extremely careful with your diet even if you're a type one or type two. And please try to get at least an hour of exercise 7 days a week. It will change your numbers drastically. Maybe you do this already. I don't know. I work in the medical field. And I always try to encourage diabetics. So please don't take this wrong. Have a great day.❤

@@personincognito3989 don’t worry, I do. My most recent bloodwork was great :)

@@personincognito3989 Wise advice indeed!

As was day 1 of the battle of the Somme, or Gallipoli (NF reg only north american unit to fight there), or Baumont Hamel (the mine explosion there is an Iconic WW1 photo), or Ypres or Cambrai (first ever tank on tank battle). Its why i grew up with July 1st in the AM being a memorial day.. remembering the Hawthorne ridge attack, not as "Canada Day" AFTER 715am it can be canada.. before that its Beamont Hamel day one of the battle of the somme... The Newfoundland Regiment was the ONLY unit in ww1 elevated to royal status of all nations involved. At one time even Haig directly praised the unit.. shortly there after George V gave royal acclaim.

My grandfather was terribly wounded at the battle of Dieppe and as a result met my grandmother who was a nurse in the hospital he was sent to recover in.

Also war of 1812 when Canada defending its neighbourhoods and then maybe did a little arsonism on the White House just for good measure lol.

@@slenderfoxx3797 No canada in 1812.

of course there was a Canada in 1812. Two British Colonies named Upper and Lower Canada that later federated with Atlantic Canada.

Also, the iconic footage of the D-Day landing with the Higgins boat opening up to Normandy beach with the white house in the foreground was taken by New Brunswick’s North Shore Regiment from Miramichi, NB.

@@merritttrucker that famous picture was actually a picture of canadian troops landing at *juno beach* ...that house is still there and is called called: Canada House, which is also known as La Maison des Canadiens, or Maison de Queen's Own Rifles of Canada,... that picture was mistakenly or purposely used in many a USA news reel....as a picture of USA troops

@@debbie541 that is what I said lol

Wow!!! That's intense! The only time ur happy ur grenade is a dud! Omg!

@@Sara-zx2wm Yeah ! We can't even imagine what sorts of things they went through !

I worked in a lab in UofT's Banting building a few years back. Best building is right beside it of course. it was quite interesting to be working in a building named after such important Canadians! Do you know about the "Eternal Flame" in London ON, dedicated to them? I'm not sure of the details, but apparently the property with that flame is where Banting and Best's actual lab used to be, when they weren't working out of the UofT building that now hold their names.

I actually came here to say that exact thing. Since you beat me to it, I'd like to add that he used a combination of rules from rugby and soccer as a base for the rules to basketball.

@@Thundarr100 you can elements from lacrosse and ducks on a rock from his childhood.

I live in London also and work as a nurse at Children's Hospital. Went to the museum years ago and loved learning everything about him! ❤

incorrect about being test subjects... over 50% of the brand new churchill tanks got off the beach and over the seawall, less than 30% were destroyed / bogged down on the beaches... this is a common mistake based upon the propaganda photos the germans took of several churchils up to the hull bottom sunk in the shingle cobblestones. Red and White beaches where they landed were directly in front of Dieppe town proper and were needed to support the ESCAPE of the pinch raid teams in the event the ship commanded by Red Ryder could not get the commando pinch team out that way. Actual pictures captured AFTER the war from the heights of Pourville above Green beach show only a handful of tanks and strangely enough Daimler Dingos bogged down.. MOST tanks lost getting off the beach were lost on the open ground after the cobbles on the sand to the seawall. ie a VERY good showing given the murderous crossfire on them. Exercise Smash in april 1944 kinda showed that IF Dieppe was a "Trial run" for DDay then the allies didnt learn a damn thing... in the intervening two years.

Hi Totens. Thank you for the detailed historical information. I frown on disinformation myself. I appreciate you correcting my error. I have never heard that version before but from the way you describe it. I believe your statements. One more example of our "CanaPropaganda" as I call it. I will investigate Dieppe a bit further now. Cheers!!

@@seanseguin7253 there was a GREAT history channel documentary done just before covid (by Dan Snow) that brought out after 15yrs research what REALLY happened related to dieppe... guys like Lord Mountbattan, Ian Fleming of James Bond fame (yes he was a comander in the royal navy intelligence divsion) or Red Ryder (the insane bastard that commanded the ship that rammed the locks in the St Nazarine raid), what was being done... who was involved... Dieppe was really a Smash and Grab (pinch raid) where EVERYONE was disposable in order to get our hands on a 4 rotor enigma machine...

Sadly, that's not the case. He would have given the patent for free, but sold it for $1 to create a legally binding contract (both sides need to gain something for it to be legally binding). As you said, the caveat was that the pharmaceutical companies would not make a profit on it. However, through a loophole they argue that they have further refined Banting's process, so they aren't making profit on his part but they are on their part. That is why a vial of insulin costs $12 in Canada, and $98.70 in the US.

The Banting homestead is in our town and is a small museum. It is really interesting to visit.

As a Canadian, I second this opinion. 👍

There were some British marines on Juno beach too.

I would argue that World War Two actually began in 1937 with Japan's invasion of mainland China. 1939 (and the invasion of Poland) is rather an arbitrary and Eurocentric choice for the egining of hostilities.

​@TheCanadiangirl4 Yes, of course. The entire war was fought by allied forces all over Europe.

​@@andreraymond6860 Historically speaking, it wasn't a World War until England declared war on Germany in '39. Japan was still at peace with the rest of the world.

Hi from London Ontario too!!

^^^^ This! Been saying the same.

He has to stop and do commentary partly thru the videos ELSE RU-vid will demonitize him for lack of "fair use" rules... ie he has to create CONTENT... otherwise he's plagerizing someones work....

​@@TotensBurntCorpse Disregard the "whole video" thing, the gist of korivex's suggestion is in the order. First watch, then read. Just like most every one of us learned about these. They wouldn't pepper the tv with bits about things every Canadian already knew, they peppered the tv with bits about things every Canadian *should* know. So that they'd know, y'know.

@@TotensBurntCorpse I've watched others watching the full videos without being demonetized, so I'm not sure.... and even if he comments through out the video, fine, but I think it would be more impactful for him to watch the video before reading up on it.

@@korivex742 i agree,, but it seems tyler is playing by the rules...

I can't imagine the people who live there would have liked that either. They have too much respect for the Canadians who fought for their freedom. The area is memorialized. The graveyard a short drive from there is beautiful and well kept. The residents still put flowers there. It's very touching to be there.

You should go! It is very moving and definitely worth the trip. My husband’s great grandfather was killed at Vimy, so we went to see his grave site close by. We also went to Juno Beach and walked along the cliffs. There’s a great little museum that features the Dieppe invasion.

🇨🇦 Well said.

The Canadian First World War night raids were legendary. 🪖😈

"If I had Canadian Soldiers, American technology and British officers I would rule the world." - Winston Churchill

Oh the devils brigade or something

haha there are movies of canadians in world 2 and they are presented as american soldiers, the great escape for one (no americans in that great escape, later also the movie abiut the the 1979 Iran hostage crisis (argo). also the picture every body sees of a landing craft at normandy is a canadian troop landing craft

I have a stone my uncle found on the beach of Normandy that has a hole in it. He said it probably started as a chip from a bulletin and the water wore the rest away.

I was mistaken it was actually a commercial of all things, still very good though: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dd1FNPx_YN4.htmlsi=Ivi06J6Tn_z4HFls

True North Strong and Free. Thank you ❤️

Interesting. I’m also from Almonte. Small world.

@@Jasper0o0 Friendliest town in Ontario they say.

Would love to see that as well... Let's secretly turn Tyler into a mouth piece of Canadian Military history! 😆

There's a great video about Leo Major out there!

vimy by pierre berton is about WWI.

typo. you are right of course. @@blackberrythorns