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The Cure for Literally Everything

Corn Flakes and Graham Crackers, two seemingly innocuous snack foods that were invented to reduce people's carnal desires. At least that's the story. A story which led into dozens of other stories.

Notes: Christian Science

Full timeline used for God's Alternative Medicine | Christian Science

Script: Christian Science

Filming Script for God's Alternative Medicine | Christian Science

Science and Health: Selected Reading by Steampunk KB | Christian Science

Bonus footage of Steampunk KB reading the 6-page paragraph from Science and Health (1875) straight through without stopping.

God's Alternative Medicine | Christian Science

You've seen their influence everywhere, you just didn't know it. Christian Science has affected everything in the United States from criminal law to healthcare. How did this Temperance religion gain so much influence?

Geronimo: The Quintessential American Indian | Indian Removal

Geronimo was the quintessential American Indian, fighting against impossible odds until the bitter end.The Nebula-exclusive follow-up to my 2.5 hour long Indian Removal video is now available on Youtube!

Knowing Better in 2023 - An Update and Announcement

Hello everyone!It’s been a few years since I’ve made a “State of the Channel” post, but I’m making a few changes for 2023 that I thought you might like to hear.In 2020, I stopped doing traditional New Year’s Resolutions and adopted CGP Grey’s Yearly Theme idea. My previous themes so fa...

Notes: Pilgrims

Timelines and notes used for The Story We Tell Ourselves | Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

Script: Pilgrims

Filming script for The Story We Tell Ourselves | Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

Time Card: Pilgrims

Took me a total of 214 hours and 3 minutes to complete.Research - 83h 16mWriting - 42h 56mFilming - 24h 25mEditing - 59h 38mPost Production - 3h 47mI think in the future, I will only post these time cards when a project is complete, rather than monthly. Assuming that's alright with all of you?I ...

The Story We Tell Ourselves | Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

America was founded when a group of Protestant Christians, fleeing religious persecution in Europe, made the harrowing journey across the Atlantic. Except, no it wasn't and no they weren't. This story is a lie.

Script: Indian Removal Follow Ups

Filming scripts for...Indigenously Aboriginal Native American Terms | Indian RemovalThe Flight of the Nez Perce | Indian RemovalThe War to Save the Buffalo | Indian RemovalGeronimo: The Quintessential American Indian | Indian Removal

Notes: Indian Removal

The full timeline used for the Indian Removal Project.

Script: Indian Removal

Filming script for They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

Indian Removal Project by the Numbers

Today I finally put the finishing touches on the Geronimo video, which was the last piece of the Indian Removal project.My 31,217 word script ended up producing 3 hours of content across 5 videos.Total - 517h 33m Research - 161h 15mWatch Parties - 25h 46mWriting - 112h 10mFilming - 42h 32mEditing - ...

The War to Save the Buffalo | Indian Removal

With the vast buffalo herds of North America facing extinction, a small group of Plains Nations came together to fight for their survival.

They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

The Standard American History Myth treats American Indians as if they were an obstacle in the way of westward expansion and our inevitable march of progress. But nothing about what the United States did to the Native Americans was inevitable.

Indigenously Aboriginal Native American Terms | Indian Removal

Indians? Natives? Indigenous Peoples? Every year, people seem ever more confused by these various terms. So here's a handy guide.This is a footnote/addendum to the larger video, which will be released publicly a few minutes earlier.

Time Cards: July-October 2022

Hello everyone, sorry I haven't been keeping up with this lately. I'll try to get back on a monthly schedule when it comes to this.The Cigarettes video was posted in the first week of July. A few days after that I began work on my Indians/Pilgrims project, which has been on my mind for about...

Notes: Cigarettes

Notes used in the writing of Light up a Torch of Freedom | Cigarettes

Bloopers: Year Six

My shoulder hurts so bad!

Script: Cigarettes

Filming script for Light up a Torch of Freedom | Cigarettes

Time Card: May-June 2022

I didn't realize until today that I never posted my May time card, how embarrassing.The end of May/beginning of June were lazy because I had surgery on my hand to fix that trigger finger issue. I'm back to normal now, but it kept me from doing any substantial work for 2-3 weeks.These last tw...

Light up a Torch of Freedom | Cigarettes

Cigarettes are bad for you - you know they're bad for you. But how did they convince us to ignore that fact and do it anyway?

Time Card: April 2022

Hello everyone. This month's time card looks a little funky.The Neoslavery video took me an extra few days to finish since I decided to completely change up my editing style halfway through the process. After that, I built a new computer, which is my first upgrade since the channel took off. Sin...

Scrip Now Arriving!

Hello everyone! The North Pole Company Scrip was mailed out on March 15. International patrons seemed to get theirs fairly quickly, while anyone in the United States seemed to be missing theirs.Well, in the last few days, American patrons have finally been receiving theirs. If you get yours, I would...