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.

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.

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

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"

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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