Comment on histories mysteries

FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a lesson here about the differences between history and a good historical narrative, but that’s the lesson of most history and no one ever listens to it.

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  • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a lesson here about the differences between history and a good historical narrative, but that’s the lesson of most history and no one ever listens to it.

    There’s a lesson here about the differences between history and a good historical narrative, but that’s the lesson of most history and no one ever listens to it.

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    • androogee@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think there’s a lesson here.

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• gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First and foremost: knitting wasn’t invented until centuries later.

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  • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope this is the next episode of hardcore history. I could use 30 hours of Dan Carlin context on knitting…

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to yuck your Yum, but I think some people are far too into knitting.

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• Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Decoding the Unknown (also by Simon Whistler) did a video on these as well

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s up with the narrator? He’s got like 20 big channels he reads for. Are the channels connected and run by the same group, or does he host for a bunch of independent channels?

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  • Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure he maintains the YT channels themselves, but he has a host of writers who write his scripts

    The two Channels / Podcasts I follow are DecodingtheUnknown (deep dives into ubsolved mysteries and paranormal debunks) and the Casual Criminalist (true crime)

    For both, he does a cold read, and often interjects with his own stories and theories

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think he's just snowballed in popularity over the years because he's good at reading these scripts in a way that sounds both smart and fun. The different channels focus on different styles and subject areas, letting you pick and choose what kind of thing you're interested in.

    I rather like his "Decoding the Unknown" channel, where he gets scripts debunking various paranormal or otherwise mysterious events and he reads them for the first time as it's being recorded, taking lots of opportunities to interject his own theories and speculation and just generally rag on the concept of the paranormal as he goes.

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