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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

7:45 that is bar none the best back and forth conversation I have ever heard.

Edit: I stand corrected 22:06

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

8:40 Port (also from Portugal, hence the name) was also big during that time. It’s very sweet and considered a dessert wine today, so they loved it back then as a treat. Also, while it’s not wine, rum of course was very popular. It was readily available In the Caribbean as rum is made from sugarcane. Brandy and rum were the most popular forms of liquor in America, and were used in place of bourbon in many common cocktails that we associate with bourbon today such as the “Old Fashioned” and the Sazeracs.

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

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

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?

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.