100K Q&A

[@kaseywahl]

That was a quick 100k, brother. Congratulations! Well deserved!

[@ThePresentPast_]

Many thanks!

[@NOTHINGNEWYT]

Thanks for answering my question! The medieval period is certainly overlooked and underrated, Christianity and Islam had a lot more to do in preserving and pursuing scientific knowledge than people understand.

[@Christopher-ik6hc]

Congrats with 100k! I'm currently studying a bachelors degree in history here in my homeland, Norway. Your content has helped me with the will to continue studying and focus on finishing my degree. Before I was scared of the thought that there is a lack of oppurtunities when it comes to a career with history. But this Q&A and your channel has given me back the hope and happinees with the subject. The happines of studying/researching, learning and share historical knowlegde with others. I will be done with the bachelor in 2024 and am currently in my 4th semester. Again, Congrats on the huge boom in subscribers and thank you for the great content you make!

[@ThePresentPast_]

I’m so happy to hear that Christopher. Good luck with the studies!

[@Dungrer]

Congrats on 100k!!! As a brazilian from Recife, i wonder if you'd ever do a video on Dutch Brazil.

[@ThePresentPast_]

I am thinking about doing a series on Dutch colonialism 🤔

[@amandaantonely8480]

Yes! What I love about this channel is the criticisms and depth of content. As a Brazilian living in the Netherlands see both sides is very interesting to me.

[@spectacles-dm]

Woohoo!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats! Well deserved. Keep up the hard work. Vitality can be a curse setting high expectations, which can make things tough. But your work is good and there's a reason you blew up! Here's hoping 100k is just the beginning.

[@ThePresentPast_]

Chasing the dragon is the worst. But I’m glad where I’m at!

[@amandaantonely8480]

Congrats on 100k! Love your channel because is not focused in dates and facts, I really appreciate that you take time explaining both sides and other points of view with critical thinking enmeshed in it! Hoping that someday you make a video about "Dutch Brazil"'

[@Dr._Rizk]

Congratulations!!! You should do a Podcast!

[@pesarhaa]

Congrats and keep up the good work!

[@mokisan]

Great video mate. Congrats on 100k :)

[@Jaap-Relou]

Super proud! Glad i was able to help you out with some first ideas when launching this channel 🤟🏼🥳❤️

[@axyxshi]

congrats on 100k, thank you for answering my questions, got sm clarity! :)

[@CaptainGameEngine]

This has become one of my favorite channel. Thanks for the hard work, wish all the best for the future!

[@johansjournal]

That was a quick 100k, brother. Congratulations! Well deserved!!

[@JUST_OBEY]

love your content! congrats!🙂

[@Valleybucker]

I'm so glad you have The Wire as your favourite show, it's criminally underrated here in the Netherlands, every season is such a masterpiece. I will never forget the Omar courthouse scene. It just gives such a prefect view on how instutions function and disfunction in our current society.

[@ThePresentPast_]

It really is a masterpiece

[@studio.leonardo]

Not sure this is a video you have considered but I would love to see a video on the history of money. Why we decided gold was the best thing to exchange and how it’s now basically all digital. I think it’s an interesting story of global human trust and would love to see your spin on it

[@ThePresentPast_]

It is an interesting one and a big one! Have you read Debt by David graeber? Really cool

[@studio.leonardo]

@@ThePresentPast_ Thanks for the rec! I will look into it

[@sorrybabyx]

Congrats!!!

[@melhiott7977]

congrats 🎈🍾🎊🎉 ❤

[@joseignaciomogrovejo4557]

Great content. I suggest you interview a fellow countryman of yours, Ronald Elward Haagsma, who recently published his MA thesis about the descendants of the Incas between the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries

[@EFU127]

Also reaaaallly sad I missed this Q&A but would like to know what you think are the most interesting historical events that happened in Africa and are still relevant to this day?

[@ReepRutger]

Nice going Jochem. Cool to hear more about your background. When is your next video coming out and what is it going to be about?

[@ThePresentPast_]

Didn’t you finish the vid Reep 😉? Indonesia pt2 is finally coming out in two weeks.

[@somerandompersonontheinter9211]

I'd love if you made a playlist of all those old videos you made in Dutch (assuming you didn't delete them)

[@ThePresentPast_]

Ooh I might do that. Bit cringe for me to look at tho 😇

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@ThePresentPast_ ik spreek geen Nederlands

[@EFU127]

@@ThePresentPast_ they are all amazing!

[@dadcelo]

Would love to see a video on Dutch Brazil!

[@Bornearth75]

The Wire was pretty awesome. It took a few episodes for me to “get into it”. If it wasn’t for my boyfriend I wouldn’t have gotten over the hump. It’s is an epic series.

[@zala2056]

Just here for the tea🤚🤚🤩

[@ThePresentPast_]

Spilling itttt

[@Jokkkkke]

Oh my god I just graduated from that same master's I think! Was it called 'International Relations in Historical Perspective'?

[@ThePresentPast_]

Small world 😌

[@Jokkkkke]

@@ThePresentPast_ Its funny cause my name's also Jochem although I suppose that's not thaaat crazy

[@tiffanyp-b9209]

Would love for you to do some medieval topics!

[@EFU127]

Such nice questions! The historic leader I would like to sit with would definitely be Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 🤭🤭 also Ciabatta is sooooo yummy haha

[@pankajchakraborty414]

i really want to learn scripting and researching for a video from you. i mean to say the like you structure your story is amazing. please launch an affordale course beacuse i really want to learn.

[@ThePresentPast_]

That would be cool, sometime in the future!

[@nabDoesYoutube]

he’s blowing uuuup wooo

[@ThePresentPast_]

Stonx 📈

[@musicphilebd9862]

Bro you've earned a new level of respect from me for listing "The Wire" as your favorite.

[@ThePresentPast_]

😎

[@fatfurie]

i am 100% down to learn the history of coffee..cant wait

[@VE0003]

11:09 Muammar Gaddafi. Dude was a character for sure

[@wonkagaming8750]

Indonesia part 2 when

[@ThePresentPast_]

today 15:00 CET

[@wonkagaming8750]

@@ThePresentPast_ pog

[@johansjournal]

ohhh girlfriend haha that was unexpected

[@shantim7740]

loved this! logged into curiousity stream but I cn't figure out how to find your videos?

[@ThePresentPast_]

Hi shanti, if you signed up via my link, you should have gotten an email to activate your complimentary Nebula account! You can find my stuff there. There’s also a direct link in the description of this video.

[@eva9996]

the first 3 sec 😭

[@ThePresentPast_]

🤭

[@beniaminmarin1596]

You're the Dutch Johnny Harris :))

[@ThePresentPast_]

Haha thanks I guess

[@guilhermeprado3665]

Is your paper about dutch Brazil available in English ?

[@psoridian]

9:48 SPICY 🥵

[@mcgrewpunk]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Since you are a Historian it is only reasonable that I present you with my Theory of History. LOL This is influenced by what used to be a famous book, The Games People Play by Eric Berne. Human beings play various Power Games resulting in: S.P.E.R.M. Wars! Human beings engage in: Sexual Power Games Political Power Games Economic Power Games Religious Power Games Military Power Games These games can overlap as in the famous case of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar & Marc Antony. Technological advances add strategies and tactics to all of these games. Like nuclear weapons and the Cold War. How has The Pill affected sexual power games? Then politics gets into it with Roe vs Wade. Now the world has a problem of not dealing with physics in relation to economics. Consumer Goods wear out, cars, refrigerators, air conditioners. Our nitwit economists add them to GDP, but they do not get subtracted as they wear out. Then the replacements get added. So planned obsolescence contributes to "economic growth" as we trash the planet.

[@ThePresentPast_]

Very Freudian indeed

[@psikeyhackr6914]

@@ThePresentPast_ So how good is history if historians choose sides in the power games? Planned Obsolescence is a phenomenon begun in the 20th century. Can it be ignored in future history books? LOL

[@paulwebbiweb]

"No one could read Latin" and they "didn't really buy the books"? This is nonsense from the mouth of a man who made his name by criticising the superficial false narratives that Johnny Harris sometimes proclaims.

[@bracco23]

You see each other at the museum, she approaches you at the bar, and you think she "casually" moves to the Netherlands a month later? Sorry to break it to you, but I suspect there is nothing casual about that...

[@ThePresentPast_]

Casual sexism is alive and kicking tho 🥳