The Worst Pirates You've Never Heard Of - BlueJay Reaction 

The image of VTH asking his daughter what catgirls are will haunt me until I die.

Sounds like AC Black Flag should be the next VTH playthrough 👀

Did Bluejay make an Archer reference? "George I swear to god if you touch my wine I will force feed you rose thorns.....I also need you pick up rose thorns."

I would recommend marriage counseling if you’re considering escaping to become a pirate.

23:02 If you watch closely at 22:50 you do actually see the lobster reload his pistol!

Finally get to use my trivial facts for good!: Madeira isn't actually one wine, but a family of wine that was made on the Portuguese-controlled Madeira Islands. During the early 16th century especially, Madeira was a very popular port of call for travel between both the new world and the East Indies. It has a unique flavor that was SUPPOSEDLY discovered when a bottle was sent on a round trip and exposed to constant heat. By the time the shipment returned to Madeira, the flavor had wholly changed and heating the wine during production has become standard since then. It was also notable for being incredibly long-lasting, meaning it would stay safe to drink for long voyages and could be extended by muddling it with grape spirits. This helped the wine propagate into Portuguese-controlled South America and eventually it became important to us Americans during the colonial period because at the time, none of the 13 colonies actually grew wine-quality grape crops. And yeah, while I like BlueJay's videos, I think he falls prey to the folly of constantly slipping in references to his own political beliefs which, to put it nicely, aren't always incontrovertible truth lol.

I think the "Cat Girls" joke means that WWII leads to Japanese anime.

The Steed Bonnet story is done (with lots of creative liberties lol) in the show "Our Flag Means Death"

9:05 to answer some of the question, the skit with the argument at the Breakfast table was structured after a spy parody TV show called Archer. I would guess he scripts some of it.

Steed Bonnet is portrayed on HBO’s comedy “Our Flag Means Death” it’s fantastic.

9:12 blue jay has a second channel Redjay where he goes over a lot of behind the scenes stuff on his videos (he also streams it) not sure if one is out for this video yet but they are very inciteful

I will be happy to explain why the wrong turn in Sarajevo led to catgirls. Everyone knows about the sequence from the wrong turn to WWII but what is less know is the fact that the post war aid that American provided japan after the war led to their technological advancement during the mid to late 20th century. During this time period, the development of Japanese animation or ‘anime’ became japans equivalent of normal animated tv shows for us in the west. However, there are a lot of cultural differences between japan and the west and so about 20 years after anime really started becoming mainstream, Japanese animators started merging women and animals for whatever reason. The most popular of which even outside of japan being cat girls. Long story short: wrong turn led to assassination which led to WWI which led to WWII which led to catgirls

7:45 that is bar none the best back and forth conversation I have ever heard. Edit: I stand corrected 22:06

Interestingly enough, the idea of pirates having parrots originated, like a lot of stuff we associate with pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 book Treasure Island, and the typical accent we associate with pirates comes from Robert Newton's accent of choice when playing Long John Silver in Disney's 1950 adaptation of the book.

Somali fan here and the movie captain Philip’s really did a good job of showcasing modern piracy

33:30 Somali pirates sometimes have sponsors in their country that fund the attacks in exchange for a cut of the loot. Kinda like privateers back in the age of sail. History doesn't repeat itself, but often rhymes.

The woman in that scene in "Captain Phillips" that you refer to is actually a Navy corpsman who was basically told to treat him as she would an actual patient. It's one of my favorite scenes as well.

15:55 Slight correction. The Santissima Trinidad was a late 18th century warship, while Stede Bonnet lived in the early 18th century, when ships tended to carry fewer guns. Think more along the lines of 90 guns for a first rate. Still far too large for a schooner, which typically carried fewer than 10 guns. Also, a Man of War carried heavier guns, up to 36 lbs shot weight. A schooner most likely had 8 pounders as its heaviest guns, so it's even more outgunned than you initially think. Also Santissima Trinidad had a freakishly large armament, even for it's time. This armament came at the cost of its sailing characteristics, even being nicknamed El Ponderoso by her crew.

Glad you’re getting over Covid and I just got the flu. It’s allowing me to catch up on your content over the past couple weeks. I love your bluejay reactions. Thank you

I played Sid Meiers Pirates as a kid and fell in love with the time period.

I think the cat girl is a reference to the fact that anime was developed in Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, witch in turn was a part of WW2

“Did it belong to Andrew Jackson”… I laughed a bit too hard at that random quip lol. Way to make history funny, well played.

I'm so glad that you introduced me to Blue Jay when you first reacted to him. Without you, I wouldn't have known he existed and that would be a complete shame

"That has to be the best pirate I've ever seen"

Fun fact! One reason why Blackbeard acted the way he did was possibly due to contracting syphilis. If one got syphilis back then, that was seen as being screwed over major time. Due to the fact that as your syphilis got worse and worse, it’d affect your mental faculties and etc., this resulting in erratic behavior and etc., best depicted by Blackbeard, who literally had his beard lit on fire to scare his victims s--lesss! Possibly with his beard having gunpowder and soaked in alcohol!

Madeira was a port of call for ships heading to the new world. Madeira is fortified wine so it doesn't spoil. Kind of like IPAs for beer take longer to go bad.

I really don't think Jonny Depp will return to Pirates of the Caribbean especially after the way Disney treated him.

If you haven't reacted already, Fat Electrician has a great video on the Barbary Pirate wars

29:28 I believe is a reference to the "Brief History of Japan" meme

One of the best scenes in Black Sails is when two pirate ships try to take on a man o' war and get absolutely annihilated.

RU-vidr Catherine Warr is a Yorkshire England historian and Pirate, but she is a friendly Pirate sharing a Treasure of local history. She recently set sail along the Leeds Canal to share some history treasures. So she would not qualify as a Blue Jay "worst" pirates. 😇 As The History Guy says, doesn't every great story involve pirates.

I don't really know much about wine myself, but when I was in Madeira, they said that because the wine is fortified, it lasted longer for the trek and Caribbean import.

By modern standards, destroyers are quite big warships, only surpassed by cruisers and aircraft carriers. Many navies don't even have one, limiting themselves to frigates at most.

The only modern day pirate story you need in your life is One Piece. Do you have a minute to hear about our lord and savior God Ussop?

Also, highly doubtful Johnny Depp will ever go back to Disney to play Jack Sparrow, considering how they blacklisted him after Amber Heard lied about him abusing her

Having worked for TWO maritime museums in Canada, my understanding is that many pirates sounded like people in Cornwall, England. Where, at least at the time, but I think still today to a lesser degree, "arrrr" was an affirmative, like the modern-day "OK".

From what I remember about Madeira wine is that fortified wines like it could be aged in relatively (for wine standards) high temperatures so it could be aged in the holds of trading vessels and not go sour/bad like mainly french style wines would. This made it very easy to transport across say the Atlantic from the Madeira islands to the new world.

To be fair, the USS Cole was tied up to a pier in a nominally friendly, or at least neutral, port. Additionally, per the rules of engagement at the time, the Cole could not fire without being fired upon first. There were 17 sailors killed and 37 injured. The USS Gonzalez was on anti-piracy patrol. She was mostly likely at Condition III, with 1/3rd of weapons manned and 1/2 of sensors manned (actually, once the engaged the pirates with the boarding parties, they probably went to Condition I, AKA General Quarters). The only hope the small pirate boats would have had was to a) not be spotted by visual lookouts or aircraft and b) get lost from radar in the swells. The Gonzalez already knew where the pirates were, and the pirates were moving to engage them. Two entirely different scenarios. Now, to your point about modern destroyers being big ships, yes, they are considerably larger than their contemporaries in WWII. The Arleigh Burke class destroyers weight between 8,300 and 9,700 tons - the WWII era Fletcher class displaced 2,050 to 2,500 tons and was about 130 foot shorter in length. This puts the Arleigh Burke class in the same tonage range as US Light Cruisers in WWII, and more or less equivalent to the Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers.

Due to Madeira being an important stop for European ships making long voyages, Madeira wine became very popular among people living in colonies as ships would load up large barrels of Madeira wine for transport. Moreover, the heat in the cargo holds of ships transformed the taste of Madeira wine. This new taste was appreciated, which contributed to its popularity.

at 29:36 if you don't get what the cat girls meant after ww2. it meant japan being a strong nation to a anime land and all the other anime stuff that japan has created after ww2

In AC4 he's actually persuaded to pursue piracy by the protagonists a more traditional pirate Edward Kenway who is good friends most of the legendary pirates including Blackbeard who demonstrates his ferocity by making Bonnet piss himself

Huh I never thought of the eyepatch keeping one eye adjusted for the dark hulls of the ship.. I immediately thought "oh, it's for the spyglass to have one eye focused to look at a moments notice. I love how human brains can interoperate things differently

Running away to be a pirate would seem preferable to divorce court.

Best fictional pirate show was Black Sails, a prequel to Robert Lewis Stevensons Treasure Island. It combined the characters of Stevenson Treasure Island, Capt. Flint, John Silver, Billy Bones, along side real pirates of history. Yes the show made changes to actual historical events but was a great show.

Why cant the 11 year old see a pirate movie? It was rated ARRRRRRRRR 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

chris, begging you, you need to do a reaction video for Internet Historian's pirate video, the gentleman pirate. you will not regret it i promise

Pirates show up three separate times in my family history. One of my 9th great-grandmothers had a first cousin Cornelius Quick who testified in court that he transported some of Captain Kidd’s booty around New York Harbor. One of my 12th great-grandfathers was Dutch privateer turned Barbary Coast Corsair Jan Janszoon, who was a nasty piece of work, raiding communities as far apart as Iceland and Venice and taking captives to be sold into slavery. Two of his sons settled in New Amsterdam in the 1630s. One of my 8th great-grandfathers, John Frost, was the captain of the merchant vessel the Bonetta Pinck that was boarded by pirates from the pirate vessel Le Grande on July 4, 1717 on its voyage from Barbados to Boston. The pirates helped themselves to his cargo, including sugar and rum.

I do not understand how you do not have more subscribers. You truly defy the stereotypical "reaction" channel. Even on things you do not understand or have knowledge of, you strive to find information or interesting related information. Thank you for your contributions to the platform!

Lil comment for engagement, and a lil wink for the 2 weeks wait to support the original creator

Now they can say "But you HAVE heard of me!" Edit: What's a pirate's favorite letter? RRRRRR!

You know, I’ve been going back and watching one off reactions where you haven’t watched those channels again. I feel like it would be cool if you watched some of them again. My personal favorite of those was possible history. I also think you should watch old Britannia’s videos about the different war goals of the countries in World War One.

11:41-11:43 Hahahaha! Good one! That’s not only a great joke, but also a good call back to the time you reacted to Blue Jay’s “Dumbest Russian Voyage” video.

Odysseus of Homer was a pirate in his youth! Ravaging the Ionian and Adriatic sea

Come on let's see those "But you have heard of me" comments

34:52 another thing many people don't realize is how _fast_ those large destroyers are. The US Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are 505'(154m) long, with a displacement of over 8000 tons. They can tear through the water at over 30 knots(34mph, 55kph), and with the amount of fuel on board they can do so for a long while. You aren't outrunning them in a fouled, rusty little fishing boat, that's for damn sure.

35:25 As a builder of Arleigh Burke class destroyers (the workhorse of the US Navy), I can confirm that these 510' vessels, armed with a Mk45 5" gun forward, CIWS turret aft, torpedo launchers, various "smaller" arms, and the coup de grace: around 90 cell VLS- launchers for anti-air, sea, or land targets... They're like the angry, underfed pit bull of the seafaring world and will seriously mess up anyone's day. There's a reason they are the escorts for aircraft carriers. Also, while the USS Cole was seriously damaged and a bunch of sailors sadly lost their lives (the explosion happened just outside of crew's mess, where the sailors were lining up for chow); it was able to sail under its own power to port where it was fully repaired and is still in service today.

During the man of war thing, I'm kinda sad Bluejay didn't make a reference to the band Manowar.

During the Cold War British bomber pilots, instead of being issued protective goggles, were just given an eye patch so when they were blinded by the flash of a nuclear weapon they still had the other eye to fly home with. This in intself was basically just morale boosting. They wouldn't have had a home to fly back to if they were ever deployed.

I love that the music Bluejay starts this video with is from the videogame Sea of Thieves ♥

I've taken a pirate tour in Charleston. Highly recommend it. As for the Cat Girl, my guess is following WWII, the Japanese were introduced to American comic books, which then inspired Anime.

14:49 I definitely believe that is the reason.

The splashing sea send sparkling salty spray showering sun soaked smiling sailor. Thats some alliteration right there

Fun fact about wine: the signing of the DecIaration of Independence was famously toasted with Madeira wine. However, some historians submit that the wine was actually from the Canary Islands, Spain (where I live). where there's a centuries-old wine industry, particularly from the island of Tenerife. The Canary Islands was a popular stop for merchant ships en route to the Americas (Christopher Colombus stopped there before discovering the continent). Irish merchants, based in Tenerife, were exporting loads of 'Canary Wine' (as it was known) to the 13 colonies ... and, according to some historians, they helped finance the war of independence, through Robert Morris, who sold the wine in the region. So there was an abundance of Canary Wine throughout the colonies... And a lot of it was labeled 'Madeira' wine, as it was a wine in high demand at the time, which led Canarian winemakers to produce similar wine and sell it as such. Therfore, there is an extremely high probability that the wine Benjamin Franklin & co. toasted with that day actually came from my home archipelago of the Canary Islands.

We think a Destroyer is tiny likely thanks to the game Battleship where the destroyer can only take two hits and is the smallest target in the game.😂

The first bit of music in Bluejay's video is from Sea of Thieves, and that's how you absolutely know everything is going to get crazy 🤣

Just like Mr. Terry’s reaction video, I was waiting for this the moment Blue Jay uploaded his video.

Not sure if there’s much you can add but Blue Jays video on the Olympics is really hilarious

Guessed 120 cannons on the man of war, the thought of 68 guns pointed at you on one side is horrifying

We used to wear eye patches on the sub in the control room when on watch at night.

This first one is the premise of Our Flag Means Death (Taika Waititi & Rhys Darby).

29:31 Because of WWI leading to WWII and the US occupation of Japan, Japan became westernised and we have that sort of thing now

A pirate government is one of the truest forms of democracy 🤟😎

My favourite story about Somalian pirates was that time french marine school student captured one of the biggest hoal of coke ever and since they were students and couldn't legally arrest the pirates they gave him a ticket instead to be presented to recover the coke in a French naval base. Of course no one ever showed up for it but still

"Our flag means death" is a show based off bonnets life it's not serious at all and dosent take itself seriously so you know not for everyone. It definitely is a good laugh though

This makes me want you to watch some Gold & Gunpowder videos. Not sure if one on Dampier, Morgan, or maybe the Pacific Expidition, though that one is 3 videos long.

And thank you for providing great content! Happy to support the channel!

The Pirates who don't do anything?

You ought to do History Buffs video on Captain Phillips if you want to learn more about the background behind that film and Somalian pirates in general

You made a good point about the size of destroyers. You can easily compare their size as far as volume to men of war in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Claret was also very popular. It's a name for Bordeaux wines.

The pirateering near Somalia has also been one of the most effective environmental protection "programs" worldwide, because literally no one who could harm it even tries to get close,

What about the Pittsburgh pirates?

Just FYI, the coast of N.C. was a pirate hot bed not really because of trade with the fledging colonies, but rather beacuse the gulf stream is relatively close to shore and narrow there. Ships heading back to Europe from much of the carribean would actually first head west to get into the gulf stream, which would convey them north and right off the N.C. coast until they get to the higher latitude westerlies, then cut across. The standard travel route was a big clockwise circle. Ships heading from Europe to the carribean would first head south, not only to catch the easterlies near the equator but also to cut across the doldrums as quick as possible. There's an area between the more northern westerlies and the equatorial easterlies where the winds could die down to zero for weeks at a time and could be disasterous for a ship during that time.

"'Tis fine viewin' fer landlubbers 'n ye shall learn plenty 'n shall impress many a fine lass."--A pirate probably.

Madeira was very popular - so were burgundy, claret, champagne, port, etc

Hilarious vid. I still recommend his video about the 1904 Olympics though. That, and the Russian Navy vid are easily his two funniest in my opinion.

For modern day piracy with streaming and subscriptions, if buying isn’t ownership, then piracy isn’t stealing.

The catgirls joke is probably explained in the same way my friend joked about the end of WW2. He would say "we made the japanese hate war so much they are obsessed with anime and backstreet boys now"

This almost sounds like it is going to be a baseball video with Pirates and Blue Jays.

There were definitely lots of wine varietals back then. The English especially loved a Bordeaux wine called Claret.

Yes Chris!! The Golden Age of Pirates is such a cool and interesting topic; would love to see you do more vids on them!!

But he did reload the flintlock after he shot the weirdo who smeared butter, that's top tier animation right there

Hope your taking care of yourself with your Covid! Love you videos and always look forward to learning more! My father was a pastor so big respect to you and your family!

Been binging this channel recently and am learning so much! I would love to see a video about Oppenheimer/reaction to the movie

Madeira was a common location for vessels to stop at before their journeys across the Atlantic. And they just so happened to make good Booze

A catgirl (猫娘, nekomusume) is a female kemonomimi character with feline traits, such as cat ears (猫耳, nekomimi), a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. Catgirls are found in various fiction genres, particularly in Japanese anime and manga.

I think the catgirls was a reference to how much Japan has changed after WW2

Definitely noticing an "Archer" vibe with the dialog in this.

By the way, the depiction of pirates with a hook, or a pegleg, or an eyepatch has to do with the British still smarting for the defeat that the Spaniard Blas de Lezo inflicted them in Cartagena, in spite of being outnumbered. Blas the Lezo had one arm, one leg, and one eye. He was totally badass.

Lol the box is of course Metal Gear Solid reference