The War of the Golden Stool • Puppet History 

And for good reason imo

hush my amigo we do not speak of the movie

@@sharmbanu9862 amen to that 😂

Dudes I swear prof says fkin under his breathe lol

Ryan was lucky he wasn't in the same room

This whole episode is basically the Professor trying and failing to keep control of two incredibly unruly students

I felt this LMAO

HONKED HIS WAY INTO

Welp that sound effect will never be the same for me now

@@Tazzie1312 ASHJBD HAHAHA

GHFGJHF

I feel so scandalized

said the same thing in the comment section

Lmfao

DISHONOR! DISHONOR ON HIM! DISHONOR ON HIS FAMILY! DISHONOR ON HIS COW!

Omg...I thought the same thing🤣

@@Grim_Sister why dishonor his mother twice?

"oh, the movie right?" the movie all we fans insist on pretending doesn't exist LMAO

@@brittg9987 And the glare he gave while starting to curse Ryan out under his breath too.

especially when you immediately think "oh duh like the avatar" after he explained how the stool works.... but in this moment i feel more like the teachers pet (puppet) than i ever have before

Yeah and the connection to the stool 😂 having the memories of their past lives and what not

As soon as they said no I was like UNCULTURED SWINES!!! And then the Professor agreed with me

that is so wholesome

Honestly me in Greek Mythology this semester. No thoughts head empty IDK what's going on here but I like the prof X'D

i don't really see where she doesn't understand anything? it seems like she's following along well

I was literally going to comment that she is a delight. Love seeing her!

grace n word, idk why she says she knows nothing. She's nailing it

ALLEGED!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Chucklefucks” oh how lovely

that made me cry???

I love Kate! She's the best part😁. Always makes me smile

Kate is hilarious and light years ahead of some guests who brought absolutely nothing to the class. Most are great but there’s been a few real stinkers. 🦨🦨🦨💨

That's putting my feelings into words. Sometimes i need something like these videos to help me when I'm down

Those quotes by her had me ready to join her ranks and fight for the preservation of the Stool. Let's do this ladies, they want war we'll give it to them!!! Oh wait, I'm a few years late aren't I? :(

@TheGermanDuck Ah yes because clearly the British had nothing to do with the deaths of her people by constantly going to war with them over the decades. /s

@TheGermanDuck Bro she sieged this guy's military fort and the only reason why he managed to escape and call for reinforcements is because he lied to them and ran off like a coward. Did you not watch the video or are you just mad for the sake of being mad?

@TheGermanDuck Your point is that she is a shit general. Or are you talking about the last comment which wasn't a statement it was a question.

As he should

as he should

As he should

As he should

As he should

underrated comment lol

As a high school teacher, I truly felt the chaos this episode

I saw this comment before watching the episode and then when I got to the part where they're like "teach me professor!!!" I was like yup. For sure the back of the classroom energy

Pretty much every episodes with Kate in it! Those are always my favourites

As a former 'back of the classroom' kid... yes. Accurate.

exactly what i was thinking

The big age of decolonization was only roughly 60 years ago.

ikr like you look her up and there's a picture of her! makes you think about how long the british fucked over the rest of the world for and how recently it began to lessen.

@@anttibjorklund1869 yeah, it’s hard for some people to understand that. My father was born a “subject of the British Empire”, and I’m only 35

Absolute queen shit

British need to give back other countries artifacts at them. They can hang queen elizabeth clothes on the museum or some other shit

@@sayarasa8961 well, it's really not plausible- since the transporting of so much artifacts would have a very high cost, also, by your logic, Mona Lisa should be back in Italy? And with that, the Musée du Louvre would lose some visitors.

Artemisia So? Let them lose visitors. Those artifacts are not theirs to begin with, and most of the times, they have no cultural/historical association to them (prime example would be the ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies they have smuggled into their countries). They are just greedily holding onto them for cash flow, like you are right now worried about Louvre losing visitors instead of these artifacts being returned to their homelands, where they actually belong. The fact that these European countries, especially the Brits and the French, have stolen and smuggled so many cultural artifacts from different countries that they have more than enough to display and exhibit them in several different museums is just mind blowing. Some countries like Egypt and Turkey are constantly asking them to give back their artifacts, even volunteering to cover the transportation costs in some cases, and their requests are simply being ignored on the pretense that these countries don’t have means to protect/take care of their own artifacts, which is so arrogant and outdated.

@@zxyabcc You're right tbh, have a good day^^

@@artemisia5663 this was a wholesome response

Ikr?

Even worse is Ryan mentioning the movie 😨

The professor seething with rage when ryan mentioned the movie is all of us

👆🏻- makarov :))

i think its cause they’re old

yesssssss

As a 2nd grade teacher, it was very relatable

I teach Kinder. It's true.

@@jamesb9894 bless you and your work, I know I couldn't do it lmao

@@jazzedaboutcheese I honestly couldn't imagine being a teacher, I remeber how my classes were when I was a student 🤣

ngl the song has been stuck in my mind for weeks

Same thought haha it was pretty clever actually

Man I don't get why they were so scared of offending poeple with a song about a stool when they literally crapped on Santa Claus for a whole half hour

@@JMagic-ik7kx Oh shah, it's not offensive if you're poking fun at the people in power.

@@JMagic-ik7kx Is anyone gonna tell this guy that Santa isnt a real person?

You should watch the British show horrible histories

@Brad Buttowski you’d be surprised by a lot of Americans then. Our education system is.... not good. Then even if people “know” that, they’ll still talk about the continent as if it is a country/monolith, and just ignore the complexity of the land mass.

@@frostyskeletons8950 idk what school you went 2 but every American is taught about how it's a continent with many countries in it than are very complex from Europe's colonization in it so sorry to disappoint maybe u never paid attention

@@alewe5611 hey just so you know, a super easy way to not sound like an a**hole who doesn't know what they're talking about is not to make statements like "every American does [thing]" as you can not attest to every Americans experience. The education system is not exactly the same everywhere in America

@@alewe5611 🤦🏻‍♀️

@@DiamondPaintArt well I live in the poorest part in the poorest state as a poc and as a women with dyslexica so.. im pretty sure ppl who dont know basic shit like that r bcuz mfs dont pay attention not because they're not taught it

AGREED!

He should've gave him a negative 10 for that lmao

He deserves all the rotten jellybeans for that one smh

He uttered something that should never be and never has been.

The only time I thougth he deserved a rotten jellybean and he didn´t give him one smh

haha, he is a down ass white guy, very nice of him!

It's stuck in my head all the same

and beef boy

She’s our queen now and forever

Hey! You do not disrespect Beef Boy like that.

Beef boy reading this: 👁👄👁

This is Beef Boy erasure

I literally turned and went "Grandma???" (she's from Indiana)

I'm southern (from South Carolina), and it's used here as well. My grandparents and mother use it regularly.

So for history and being in class...what does it mean? 🤔😂

@@highlandgirl84 essentially a way of saying "if everything goes right" so like "God willin and the creek don't rise, we won't have to do *blank* anytime soon."

I thought ryan and kate were joking when they didn't know what that meant.

That's so cool! Are they miniatures, or life-sized?

I didn't know this part of history but Ghana still gets so much cred (at least in Canada) for their involvement in Rwanda in 1994, I don't know what the fuck our forces would have done without you guys. Most of our normal G7 allies might have peaced the hell out of there, but you guys stayed the whole time. So I'm not surprised your history is bad ass!

So cool!!

I was so happy to learn!! That woman was a force to be reckon with!

its such an interesting history and i really hope we get to hear more African stories!!

I'm psyched to learn it

Period

Or you can swap British out for French, Spanish, or Dutch

@@spacetrashpile7199 or america lol the biggest imperialist empire currently still on the planet propagating neocolonialism is the US of A. Shit literally doing it as I'm typing this lol

Exactly. That and every imperialist country. War with neighbours and regional folks, ok. Still bad. But imperialism is a whole other level of evil.

As a Brit, I can say that a lot of the worst of our history could be completely erased if we’d just not been nosy, power and land hungry. So yeah. An accurate summary.

seconded

Did not expect it! Kudos to them!!

I mean, they didn't create it as it fell from the sky. /j But other than that! Especially for such an obviously valuable item, that's astounding!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAS!! THEY PROTECTED THAT!!!!

Love it!!!!!

YES

Agreed 👍

i know omg i was about to comment on this too!! i LOOVE the energy when kate was hyping up ryans "taxing stool" joke LOL

Gave me chills

Listen!! That's the movie we need

That would be so metal!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASS

So strong-willed! Love that!

Didn’t expect to see JA on this channel omg

🤣

The surprise guest has arrived!

JA? OMG

I liked the chorus about the stool of gold.

HA! Good movie

I'm surprised someone other than me saw that movie.

from the... book...

@@micheal2458I found that many people haven’t read the book but have seen the movie adaptation. Those who did read the book often HAVE ALSO seen the movie adaptation. So referencing the movie is more relatable.

@@TheWholeEntireCake I've read the book and not seen the movie :B

Y E S

Thank you. It was hard for me to keep up 💗

a stool! of gold! a stool- stool! of gold!

thank you so much! You're really doing the God's work here

Yes, thank you! This is really helpful.

Worst puppet history song EVER 💔

🤣🤣

As a college student I would love this

I would have perfect attendance if they did that

I had a lecture once where the Professor would throw pretty sizeable chocolate treats across the lecture hall if you got his question right. Never had participation been that high :)

If this episode proved anything, it's that it doesn't help with retaining information. Kate even said so at the forefront that she never remembers anything from these episodes. Still, would like a good jelly bean snack during a lecture.

If you're getting paid it isn't slavery, when you are drafted you are still paid and are free to spend your money how you wish to like when someone is drafted into the military. For all the shitty things the British did and its early involvement in the slave trade to America, Britain were the ones who made the first steps to ending slavery World wide. Imperial Britain or Europe in general doesn't have many happy stories but that is one of them.

@@AGD_27 let's ignore all the slave rebellions I guess.

@@gmc5618 I'm not doing that. I was talking about a world wide focus on the abolition of slavery. The British actioned blockades around the entire coast of Africa and would capture any slave ships they could and free the slaves. Slave rebellions are extremely important parts of history but are often very localised. And like I said I'm not trying to cast the entire British empire and all its actions as heroic just that they played a key part in this particular area of history.

@@AGD_27 Let's not forget that the British abolished slavery just to replace it with a system of Indenture, which included the torture, whipping and shooting of multiple Indian serfs in the sugarcane fields of Fiji Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Indenture had all the "fun" of slavery, but at least they got paid, right?, a sick euphemism if anything. And not only that but Indenture lasted till the 1920s, which has left a sizeable negative effect on current members, especially on Indo-Caribbean and Indo-Fijian communities who are highly marginalised today. So when you say, "if you're getting paid, it isn't slavery", remember how the British Empire gave numbers to the Indian-Indentured labourers, how they were transported in inhumane conditions in which cholera and death followed. Once on land, how they suffered at the hands of the British plantation owners, the same hand they had dealt in the Americas before the abolition of slavery. And in fact, those who signed up for Indenture were coerced and manipulated, even kidnapped from their villages, so no, there are no happy stories in this context.

@@CellularShenenigans Well there are, because that happened in India - especially under the East India Company (later problems were absolutely there, but they were typical massive incompetence and not seeing what you don't want to find) and they ended the transatlantic slave trade a completely seperate social institution of with it's own matrix of human suffering and evil. It's whataboutist if anything to compare apples to oranges- just because the empire had an effect in two different places. It looks at the British as a monolith rather than acknowledging the massive political will it took to begin their quest against slavery, and the actions of millions of citizens in the world's most powerful representative government to see it through. You don't have to pretend other evils don't exist, or even that later politicians and businessmen used it as Moral Licensing for later evil (just like literally all neocolonialism), especially when criticizing the effects of their incredibly damaging extractive insititutions or stupid implementations of the evils of capitalism. They perpetrated it on others, but just as much on themselves. Like when tens of thousands of sailors went to entirely preventable deaths because there was no free market incentive to keep them alive, and literally every incentive in the world to let cheap as fuck boats sink. Children in the coal mines. Really not hard. But instead of doing nothing about an evil they felt was wrong they spent an insane amount of money, manpower and great efforts by theirs and even the American navy to ensure the slave trade ended. Not to mention the herculean task of starting that movement in the first place by William Wilberforce, and as well partly by a former slave ship captain no less who famously wrote a poem that became the lyrics to Amazing Grace. Which is someone taking responsibility for their actions and changing the world as a result -- which is a good story that's important to know and share. History is not a zero sum of evil, because almost no Empire is evil - they are an extension of human nature, good and bad and it's reductive and ignorant and if applied to any issue today - really fucking unproductive doomer bullshit - to fail to see the efforts of those who fought for what was right in all eras of history.

@@natashaley2691 ❤️ I love the English but damn if it isn't true!

@@natashaley2691 perfect response 😂😂😂

With the amount of shitty things we did there would need to be more than a season, more likr a whole spin off show....

@@natashaley2691 This makes me think of James Acaster hilarious stand up bit on the British Museum and the stuff there and being all "finders keepers"!.

I’m British and I agree with this

I didnt know what I was expecting, then suddenly the l y r i c s

I wanted to like this 100 times lol 😂

Yes, no wonder in ther country they don't teach about colonization. They must be really ashamed.

@@lavanyaparashar4csn350 We currently have a Prime Minister who has said that colonization was a good thing. We are not *nearly* ashamed enough.

@@PassTheMarmalade1957 I have friends in London they told me most ppl do believe that because they were never taught about reality of colonization. Ah it's just sad.

@@lavanyaparashar4csn350 it's actually started being integrated into the curriculum at GCSE and A level now! When I left school about 3 years ago we studied this stuff which is a great step!

@@lavanyaparashar4csn350 ashamed of not civilising more of the world. Especially murica, our work wasn't done.

“Wait a minute, THIS is the bad place!”

and the thing is, The Prof is kinda lonely and Ryan is the only company he has so he will never let him win

Yeah, she's badass!

Bruh, she's so cool.

I wonder who's voice they used cause they have a strong as voice 😍

@@naraynip9984 it says Shiro Kihagi in the description!

@@erfyw ya I just checked there 😅

I love how even though it was just one line over and over again, it still slapped like this!

@@satarupagingerkolay let's be honest, any song they're gonna do is gonna freakin slap

RIGHT????? genius and very endearing

So relating the gold stool to modern rappers and gold chains would be in somewhat poor taste??

I need details, ASAP

Pastry war?? Okay I second this

…im intrigued

PASTRIES YOU SAY?!?

Wait til yall hear about the bloodiest civil war in Brazil, the War of Straws lmaoooo

SJKFGHJGKDJSGKFSFJKF I AM LIVING FOR THIS INTERPRETATION

I love this omg

With the help of a mysterious djinn...

100%

LMFAO

Was there any details Prof missed or added or was there any variations in Prof’s retailing?

@@catherinesheffield8093 Nope! He pretty much got everything right, including the reason why the Golden Stool is so important to us.

@@catherinesheffield8093 I have actually heard a different telling. Most of everything was the same, but more emphasis on Yaa Asantewaa as Queen Mother and her role in taking on the British. Kinda weird nothing was mentioned about the Queen Mother role in the Asante tribe.

@@DravenUrei they talk about queenmother more on the Puppet History newsletters, in case anyone interested :)

@@DravenUrei Fascinating! Truly fascinating! Do you think there might be a reason for the emphasis on certain parts over others? It is a family thing? A community thing?

The show is very much scripted (with room for improvisation I'm sure) so I'm sure they have a good idea of what's happening before filming ☺️

I think he was talking about the movie Avatar with the blue aliens

@@CHESShireCat no, he said "Avatar: The Last Airbender"

He specifically say "M.Night Shyamalan"

Honestly when he was describing the connection between the past and present the first thing I thought of was she ra. But I agree that deserved a rotten jellybean

Lol I thought the same thing! Even though he had 0 points he could've been -1 points!

Beat me to it! #HireKateNow

i think she already has one at this point lmao

I think she already has, ha ha!

Absolutely agree

i want her to join watcher. put her in ALL the content.

me too

gold star comment

PREACH

I WAS THINKING THIS

SAMEEEEEEEE

PLS I LITERALLY THOUGHT THE SAME THING

Whoever smelt it dealt it. I'm dying

I mean both of them being liars is on the table. One being a liar doesnt cancel out the other

🫘

The Ricky Goldsworth just jumped out of him...

Me, lying in bed reading this: mood

Right? It’s such a good show! It also gives me nostalgia of Crashbox too

it doesn’t harm you so it’s fine.

Same xD

it me

It temporarily cures depression

I feel like, when the time comes where there is no more puppet history, there will forever be an unfillable hole in my soul...

I'm sure he's having Hot Daga flashbacks the entire time.

Omg yes

A Nigerian actress credited in the description! Pretty cool for casting an African actress!

No

@@SUG3R no to changing their mind or no to the million rotten jelly beans??

@@YB-ox5uc yes

Same

It's oddly reassuring in these uncertain times.

!! You guys watch this show!

Hard same, I LOVE these!!!

it is such a wonderful little gift every time...

"Yes honey"

And we START with tracking down a picture of the Professor chillin on a beach with GIANT tortoises

And the US does exactly the same thing to countries all over the world now

@@T0T4LG4MER5 Like father, like son.

@@T0T4LG4MER5 britain, wiping away a tear: *sniffle* i'm so proud france: sure is a chip off the old block, huh /j

Mamma Mia...

@@brian-pn2qg France has this habit, too. Heck, they even took over Britain in 1066.

"Yes, yes. Well done Ryan, very well done Ryan. However..."

Do you think he ran out of time to write this one?

@@macklinillustration i think it was prbly more to do w the fact that the golden stool isnt just some object like they usually tend to do. it's genuinely important to these peoples culture and still is to this day. repeating "a stool of gold" over and over was a good way to be funny without actually disrespecting an important cultural object

@@nayanahedemark5432 I had the same thought process. At first I thought about him running out of time, but then I started thinking about how I'd feel if he made a cross sing or something. I think it was smart of them to make this song just a little blasphemous by not having anymore words than the description of the object itself.

hahaahhhahhahahahhahahahahahahahhaaaahahahahhahaaa

"Ecotone" blew my mind. I have to agree!

it makes sense, american students aren't taught very thoroughly about imperialist things the u.s. has done, and in japan i don't think they teach students about their own atrocities at all

I don’t know about every school but they taught bad things the US did. Examples: The Trail of Tears, Slavery, Japanese and Italian internment camps during WWII, The sketchy story of how Hawaii became a part of the US. Maybe you just had a bad history teacher.

@@aindyc9819 yea my teachers always made sure we knew the US wasn’t perfect

@@jrivxxi2947 Killing Hope and The Jakarta Method are two very good books on some of the things the usa has done

Heh😅Indian history books can make you hate yourselves , I don't mean to generalize but as someone who majored in history studying the era of colonization made me cuss like crazy 😅😅😅and because of that I still have this hidden anger towards the British people in general because Britain looted our country shamelessly .

AGREED.

The M. Night Shyamalan movie?

@@DaniWhoPhD god noooo😂😂 the Nickelodeon series

I agree, that’s their homework. I’d watch the *shit* out of a series of them watching ATLA.

But don't watch the movie. DO NOT watch the movie!

ryan being weirded out by shane's Midwestern-ness is always very entertaining to me, it's fun to see what the coast ppl think of us in the middle

I knowwww like I love Ryan but i am gonna have to fight him for not only not knowing atla but also bringing up that godforsaken movie

Next episode the professor thanos snaps him so hard Ryan can see the professor’s backstory in hot dawga format before you crumbles away

there is no movie in ba sing se

Oh dear lord I hope that's not what's going to happen (I'd love to hear about Catherine, but I don't want to think about the horse, even if it is 1000% lies and slander)

It could also be Lady Godiva

oh please God not Catherine the great and the horse

It could be about Incitatus the horse of Emperor commodus made consul

huh?? what horse story