Simon just needs to make a tangent only channel, so he can get it out of his system. Just pay writers to make introductions, and away he goes. The editing alone would be hysterical!
Don’t ever, ever stop your tangents. They just make my day hearing your tangents. Nice to hear about you and your family and stories from your past. Your videos with tangents make me SO happy! Keep up the great work!
When Simon's daughter is all grown-up and is, like, about to get married or something, someone should make a compilation of all the tangents Simon has done about her in videos across his channels and play that at the party. You can literally hear this kid grow up. It seems only a few weeks ago that he was saying she was always so happy when he got home, now she's punishing him for being away by not talking to him XD
Aaaawwwww that is such a great idea. I would love to see Jen’s edit of this, it would the greatest, most rambling story ever to be cut together; spun from the literal million filmed tangents Simon will have racked up by them.
Nadine idk if you read the comments but, the xhange in background music every time Simon goes on a tangent is great. I know that can be a lot of work, especially when he goes on them randomly for no reason, they're a nice touch and they let you know that you can tune out of continue to listen.
First, Columbus never arrived in NA, that is a misconception. Second, Viking is an occupation, not a culture, so it's more accurate to say Scandinavians rather than Vikings.
@@jasjasbinks4900Viking is absolutely not a culture. Norse is the culture. The Norse culture is Scandinavian. They were farmers and fishermen. When a group of Norse went raiding, they went a viking. It comes from the Norse word Vik, which means inlet or bay. Vikings were the bands of raiders, NOT the whole culture, hence Vikings were an occupation.
@@garymaidman625They actually started vikinging... If you will for trade... Then it quickly came to looting and pillaging... You can also look that up... Since you want to try to put people in they're place and all... Painting a half picture
Just want to point out that the Viking in north america is proven although doesn't prove the Templar story at all. The archeological site of L'anse-aux-meadows is dated to about a thousand years old.
The geneticists (i.e. real evidence science) studying Maine Coon cats in New England also showed that they were related to (and diverged from) Norwegion Timber Cats from a thousand years ago. The cats came over with the vikings, some went feral and flourished, and they were still there in the forests of the new world when europeans returned. Genetics puts a nice hard data stamp on a lot of debates like that.
I saw something that explained some Templar knights came from Gotland, a large Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. Though Crusader's came from all over Europe. 1021 AD some vikings settled in Vineland. 1095 to 1291 were the Crusades. The Templars would have known about the New World.
@@joshjones6072 For completely different and complicated reasons, another Medieval order called the Navigators may have learned of the New World from sources in Egypt. There had once been trade between South America and Egypt, ca. 1200 bc or so, resulting in chocolate and tobacco residues in Egyptian mummies. The Templars in the Holy Land may have come across this information. Later, Colombus sailed under the Navigator flag, possibly following this same information. As for the existence of Newfoundland, yes, the knowlege of it was extant in Scandinavia by the time of the Templars. Lief Ericson was actually the second one to go there, having bought the ship of the first guy who discovered it in the 900's. Obviously, the full size of the North America had not yet been charted. Curiously, the Aztecs had a myth/story of a red-haired, pale-skinned god-hero figure in their cosmology. It's possible that one of those Newfoundland norse actually took off to explore and made it as far as Mexico with his knowlege of European arts/metallurgy or something like that.
Didn't Columbus write in his captins log about how he encountered Chinese looking Indians already established and living on the Pacific side of america? It wasn't native Americans either as he describes them separately to the short dark skinned Chinese people. I cannot remember where I read/Heard/watched this information
The treasure is hidden on Oak Island. Guarded by King Arthur and his knights. It's where Santa Claus get the cash keep them elves busy. Feed them reindeer and rent a place to the Easter Bunny... It's just up the coast from the Fountain of Youth. Some claim the Holy Grail is there...
My favourite theory is still that they didn't have any physical treasure in the form of gold and artefacts. The templars used to give out loans, meaning most of their treasure was in the form of people owing them with interest. It would be interesting to see who took out how much credit from them, but hardly what most people would recognise as "treasure".
The Knights Templar were several thousand people. The top guys lost their heads and the rest of them, the thousands, walked away with a share of the treasure. Packed up and left town, disappeared into the countryside. It's a viable theory considering how many of them there were and how secretive they were.
Actually the treasure (and power) they had accumulated was the whole point of taking them down. I believe that the French king (if I remember correctly) was jealous and paranoid about their power and treasure, so sought to grab both.
many came to Portugal, the king of Portugal change their name( To knights of Christ) for them to not be harresed by the church. There is a city here - Tomar- that has a lot of history with them.
@@denniseldridge2936 the French King also owed them a lot of money. Easiest way to make a debt disappear is to get rid of the person you owe the debt to. They Knights also had a lot of land that he seized and sold off to the highest bidder to fill his coffers.
I have relatives buried at st Michael's church in Garway which is built on the ruins of a Knights Templar site. My brother and I used to play sword fights in the ruins and hunt for treasure.
I also like the Switzerland option. Their banners are the color inversion of the templars symbol and a bunch of warrior bankers just kind of showed up riding out of Switzerland without much martial history to secure the first Swiss confederation.
The pastor at my church once said to us that no one should give any church money unless we knew where that money was being used. They had a transparent and easily accessed system that showed where all the donations were going, but most don't. I don't go to church anymore for other reasons, but i DID respect that about the one i went too.
that’s my biggest problem with a lot of catholic churches, it seems like it’s more show-boat-y and overly fancy like is this really the best use of funds. maybe they help their people too but you wouldn’t know because of the lack of transparency.
Isn’t it about time we have another round of Kevin vs TangentBoy true or false stories? I want to see TangentBoy getting his arse handed to him again lol
Simon should look into the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce. If you haven't read it, The Devil's Dictionary is devilishly funny. For example: Hostility, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth’s overpopulation.
I’ve been to the Roslyn chapel, it’s a real wonder of medieval art! it is pretty small, it’s a single room large enough to hold a mass for maybe 20 people, but every single inch of it is carved with intricate unique patterns. from floor to ceiling, the stone is cut into lace thin organic patterns, representations of plants, animals, people, abstract shapes, and mythical beasts. it’s no work that could’ve been done quickly by a lot of cheap “unskilled” labour, every stone is a work of art in and of itself. and while the stone is white today, it was once painted too. keeping in mind they didn’t have modern power tools like drills, the 40 years it took to complete isn’t outlandish. it’s kind of sad to see such a marvel be obscured by conspiracies, because the art of the Roslyn chapel really is shrouded in mystery. from the representation of pagan gods, the esoteric takes on classic biblical scenes, to strange fruits that don’t exist, and a whole bestiary’s worth of monsters and demons, it raises a lot of questions about the people who commissioned it and the culture of the time. but I guess culture and open questions aren’t as interesting as conspiracies about a global elite hoarding secret gold. smh.
Simon's tale about Israel reminds me of *every* time i go to see the eye doctor. I happen to have an eye condition where the average age of patients is probably over 80. I'm about half that and have had this condition (glaucoma if anyone cares) since I was 8.
Almost 5 minutes in and another tangent, Inner monologue- “dang simons on a roll with these tangents.” Literally 1 second later, Simon- “SO MANY TANGENTS!”
Maybe you can do one for the idea of the Templar curse. Apparently when the Templar grand master was burned at the stake by King Phillipe he cursed him and family and the king and all his sons died one after another which opened a path for the 100 years war to start.
I find it funny how many people are like "where is the treasure, they must have hidden it" when in reality they were a mercenary force running from nearly every government, they probably melted down every bit of their treasures (as ancient peoples nearly always did) if they even had much left to begin with and spent it all to survive, fight and flee.
I did wonder if I had missed an episode, felt like it had been ages. On another note - 5 minutes in and the tangents are heading into Brain Blaze territory. Can we create a GoFundMe for a Grand Exploration for Geriatric Pilgrims tour company? I think Whistle Boy is on to something.
I read something the other day I liked: "Hypocrisy is the church asking you for money for church problems but telling you to pray for your problems" or something like that.
Just for interest: The images of Oak Island at 27:08 are of Oak Island, North Carolina in the US - not of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada where the purported fabled treasure is. Although there are pirate legends from the whole of the North Carolina coasts, so who knows? (And before anyone else in the comments wants to contradict me - I'm from the Outer Banks of NC and easily recognized the lighthouse.) That said, fantastic video and I love when Simon and his writers eviscerate the ludicrous notions of the History Channel.
Not sure where you got the idea that the templars fought to the last. Their rules of combat allowed them to retreat or ask for quarter/surrender when outnumber 4 to 1 or more. They were also required to give quarter when asked.
The writers must work really hard to write these fantastic 15 minute episodes. Then Simon reads it and a dozen tangents later we have the final hour long episode 🤦♂️
Which, thanks to modern particle physics, is a thing people can actually do! It will cost you a million dollars to run the particle accelerator for long enough, and you'll get about 5 atoms' worth, but still, SUCK IT ALCHEMISTS.
First you need to rent the Spallation Neutron Source. Then you need a shit load of liquid mercury. Then you need to accept that it's completely unprofitable.
I love how the editor for this show has just surrendered to Simon’s tangents to the point that he has his own tangent music 🎶 when he goes off script 😂
You should do a video on Egyptians crossing the Atlantic. There are ruins and shit that seem Egyptian inspired that no one knows who built, a cocaine mummy in Egypt, and the tale of a ruler that sent a group that says they found a “River in the water” or an ocean current in modern terms. The second group never came back, but does that mean that they sank or could they have made it?
A couple of additional nuggets; the Pope sitting in 1307, was a relative of Philip Le Belle, there after the assassination of two previous popes. Phillip was broke because his grandfather, Louis XVI, AKA St. Louis, lost his army to the Saracens on entering the Holy Land- and then "borrowing and loosing another Prince's army", which put the French treasury in a tough spot. The treasure? Between them the Templars and the Cistercian Monasteries controlled two thirds of Europe wool trade by the late 13th century; but their cash flow for war houses that died after about two years in the Holy Land, weapons for their Commanders and Enrolled Knights and lots more weapons for the men at arms, trained fighters ,not of noble birth, horses, wagons, food - they started a fleet to ease their transportation problems, which led right into the applying fees to pilgrims thing you mentioned. The majority of that fleet- maybe 60 vessels, reports differ, were in the French Port of Le Harve on the night of Oct 12th, 1307- when Robert de Norgerey, then AG of Philp's bankrupt kingdom, sent sheriffs with warrants secretly to arrest Templars "when and where they were found"'; on the morning of Friday, Oct 13, 1307, Le Harve harbor held no Templar ships. that is all we know, After that speculation reigns. And yes, that is the date and incident that installed the story of Friday the 13th, way before Freddy Kruger had anything to do with it. You should read up on it, Simon! It's the greatest detective story!
Sorry, never thot that the relic of the head of Jesus (AS) was a thing-just like the Desi joke about the relic of the “skull of Guru Nanak as a child” 🤣! I think that Simon really meant the relic of the head of John the Baptist (AS), of which a number are still out there. But no harm done.
Funny that this was the origin of Friday the 13th being associated with bad luck. Well done as usual! I actually did a story on the Templars as well, filmed at the Inner Temple, Dover etc. Interesting story but full.of legends and myths, not a single mention of this treasure though when I was doing interviews... Temple Church though is rather unique
you might want to take another look at Oak Island, seems pretty authentic. Not in regards to templar stuff, just in that there's def a lot of stuff buried there that predates any activity we know about.
The Sinclair journey to modern day Canada is well known and actually documented in Canada. The Portuguese templars didn't walk to Goa or Brazil either. They definitely had naval capabilities.
yes, they were christian knights, that fought in the crusades, and guarded the road to the holy land they invented the modern banking system, where travelers would give them gold for a voucher, and when they got to the holy land, they'd turn in the voucher for their gold back because of that and other stuff, they accumulated a lot of wealth, the kings of france and england got jealous, and convinced the pope to turn against them, then the kings raided them, imprisoned them, and executed the leaders..but the gold they wanted, was gone
The donate your worldly possessions to the order is a monk thing, all the orders I'm aware of do that. There's a Franciscan monastery where I grew up that had a pretty ballin video game room
OK Simon, on Oak island there might not be gobs of treasure there however they are finding some pretty cool stuff that makes one rethink how and when the “America’s” were found, I’m seriously reconsidering the whole Columbus in 1492 thing for sure! They have found Roman coins and other things that they have been able to date to the thirteenth century and they are starting to make a compelling argument that others got to there well before Columbus! Basically changing North American History!
Oak Island itself would be interesting for its history. That the fragments that could be from a ship and the roadway have a story to tell. No Templars needed. That would get fewer views though. More Great Courses or Curiositystream and less History Channel.
It's been well documented that Vikings were in North America centuries before Columbus. Also, Columbus never set foot in North America. He landed on some islands, slaughtered the local people, and left. He never made it to the continent.
Yea man the ox and horse shoes and all those nails they have found. Amazing treasures. Thats why they dedicate 15 minutes of each episode to nails or some quack coming in with some theory about astrological signs lining up to rocks on the island. Dont get me wrong i enjoy the show and believe there is or was something there.... the past search methods combined with the current methods would have likely caused so much damage to stuff that might be there if it hadnt been found already over the years
The Templars were in America 100 years before columbus. columbus was chosen and given the map to be the one to "discover" America. There is treasure on Oak Island. It's just not the Ark, the Grail, and any religious artifacts. That was brought over to America. They might find some gold and silver and maybe manuscripts on Oak Island, but nothing more. Still a very interesting show.
First, the "Americas" weren't FOUND.... we have literal tons of physical evidence that people were here thousands of years before Columbus AND the Vikings.
