Can Modern People Survive A Day In The Life Of An Iron Age Peasant? | Time Crashers | Odyssey

[@charlesdrew3947]

These programs really should be made using people who have practical skills. I'm no survivalist, but can and have butchered and prepared animals, hunted, and have at least a working knowledge of lots of practical skills. This is just watching people with zero knowledge struggling. Be much more interesting to watch people who know what they're doing get on with it.

[@SiiriCressey]

There'd be less drama.

[@tammyc.8751]

They seem pretty stupid. I would think anyone who took biology in high school could figure out how to dress an animal for cooking, at least you would think. Maybe stupid was a requirement for entertainment value.

[@clarewalker920]

I think you’re missing the entire point lol

[@Samopesh]

I don’t think that’s the point, the point isn’t to see how well people would do but to see what was like for the people of the past and how easy the western world has it now. As well as to see famous people suffer

[@justjaseyeah]

There's a show called 'Alone' for you

[@mikereilly7629]

There used to be a show years ago, called Worlds Apart.with a similar idea. Spoiled upper class snobs would be sent to live with the Zulu in Africa,or to live with the Mongolian nomads,or the Tuaregs. Was a great show

[@bartonbella3131]

This is the coolest show

[@kevinmangan7124]

Any way you look at it that is tough living, but they pulled it off splendidly

[@losttranslation8766]

Send the worst people possible for this experiment lol I love it

[@cathymora9106]

Kirstie Alley? NO WAY!

[@GlendaMedina-bi6ok]

loved it, great experience.

[@filstewart2380]

I was irked by the fact that no-one was wearing a personal knife - I'm pretty convinced that everyone, man, woman and child carried a belt knife as standard. I don't blame Fern for leaving.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Idk about that. But it was cool they showed bartering with the blacksmith.

[@rachelmiddleton9472]

Wish the series was on History Hit streaming service

[@vvwvvwvv]

Is HH TV worth it? I watch a lot of history documentaries on KZbin, worth the extra $$?

[@hoghs1]

I would thrive because I love the solitude amd accomplishment. With the proper skills it would be a vacation for me.

[@ThepPixel]

Yes exactly...with the proper skills.

[@hoghs1]

@@ThepPixel I’d need a few tips at most I think, if that. You’d have to throw the human back with some sort of basics. If you sent them back naked of course they will die. I guess we’d need to set the ground rules. I’d love the chance to get away

[@baysideauto]

Love your content

[@williamralph8396]

Obviosly that young man HAS NEVER SHARPENED A KNIFE!!!!! It's basic kitchen work no matter what the blade looks like or time period it was made. I personally would have made a porridge rather than trying to butcher a chicken, if that option were available and wait for the next day for the chicken in better light or made a small cut around the bum of the chicken and stepped on it's wings and pulled by the feet . If your quick you can get the meat away from the skin in one go, then you just worry about the guts.

[@jihlnabaat6329]

I love gutting skinning and cooking all part of the hunt and there not using a bow drill right, I would love to play this game!

[@mutoidliz2320]

“It’s been 6 hours since the clan last ate” and? It’s not normal to eat all the time.It’s why so many of us are overweight nowadays!

[@GalactusOG]

I have lived pretty close to that in Mexico. I think i would do fine. God willing.

[@larryzigler6812]

No you didn't

[@GalactusOG]

@@larryzigler6812 No electronics whatsoever. The only real technology we had was guns.

[@larryzigler6812]

@@GalactusOG so

[@GalactusOG]

​@@larryzigler6812 So i had to chop wood and hunt for food every day. These people have it good with all that technology they get to use.

[@larryzigler6812]

@@GalactusOG I lived in Mexico for 9 years, gained a lot of weight, actually.

[@riverlady982]

Hanging a dear that long before skinning it can actually makes it harder particularly when it's cold. The under layers of skin will basically shrink wrap to the meat. I once was frustrated with my father because I was tired of scraping the extra skin layers off and believed he could leave less mess and meat for me to clean off. He got smart, he thought, and said if you think you can do so much better prove it and went upstairs. Well I got smart back and grabbed an exacto-knife and 3 hrs later I had a hide I didn't need to scape and he had what looked like a giant white hairless rat with hooves. Him and a friend had been upstairs laughing until they came down to see it and turned green in a sick way. You see I had even skinned the tail leaving the extra skin layers on and it had fallen forward between the legs. They were so shocked because they never thought what I did was even possible that they forgot in their shock that they left me with a female dear. So now I have to babbling ill looking men on the edge of collapse with no idea why until one managed to get a shaking hand in the general area of between the back legs. At which point what they were horrified I'd skinned, which I refuse to touch for the record, finally hit me and when I reached behind that dear and pulled the tail out of the back and reminded them it was female they collapsed altogether from relief and I think being rung out by their emotional distress being released 🤣. My Dad decided he had had enough for the day and decided he'd finish butchering it in the morning because it was winter and down there was barely warmer than the Michigan winter outdoors. Man was he sorry and grumpy at me the next day when he went to butcher it and found it incredibly hard to get anything off because the leftover skin layers had tightened down over the meat in an amazingly tight way. He had one heck of a time getting the meat off. I had little to no sympathy since I had begun noticing this oncoming problem and tried warning him the night before but he didn't listen.

[@williamegler8771]

D-E-E-R

[@nicolethompson8613]

😂

[@nevg5908]

This is fantastic!!

[@catchaser52]

Most Modern People wouldn't last a couple of days in the Depression of the 1930s.

[@joy7218]

I would I'm a self independent woman as long as I have what I need. But I might crack in the 1850s and 1880s because there where very few paid jobs for women so I would have to sell stuff witch I can do but nobody wants to buy that sucks. And women have to rely on men sometimes I don't agree because I'm a lesbian stud. And the laws they had back then for women.🏳️‍🌈

[@lellamas2778]

This is amazing! Great practical insight into the reality for Iron Age peoples of Britannia

[@caddydan7427]

H2h2

[@losttranslation8766]

They sent people that are useless in today's world they had no hope in hell. They should have sent people with the equivalent jobs of today to do the jobs of that time period. Send a butcher a backer a handy man and so on that would be a more practical experiment or experience and would give greater insight on the differences of the times.

[@AesculusPavia]

"I can't risk poisoning a gold metalist jumper and a hollywood star" Silly excuse for quitting!

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Especially when she claims he knows how to joint a chicken, but clearly does not know you don't need a knife to draw a chook! You just shove your fingers up its bum, grab what is in there and pull! Repeat until cavity is clear and wash well! Done.

[@mollymiller459]

😅 luv this !!! 😊

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Yeah, but I think she was sincerely concerned. But if she was concerned she would have stayed and helped cause the others were still going to cook the chicken anyways.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Not everyone knows you can gut a chicken through the bum. It's clear that these people, and many modern people, lack much knowledge on survival.

[@emilylightfoot8994]

Hysteria & ignorance & panicking instead of thinking. If they accidentally rupture the digestive tract whilst gutting it, all they need to do is wash it with running water to clean it and make sure that they cook it over 165 degrees Fahrenheit or 74 degrees Celsius - that will kill salmonella and most other things. If they put it in a pot with water and the water is boiling for a bit, that's a pretty good indication the food is now safe, as water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. Primary school kids know this.

[@jamesstjames1289]

These city people crack me up! 🤣😂🤣😂 aside from grinding the flower we actually had to hunt the deer turkey squirrel rabbit, raise the chickens hogs and cattle. Butcher them all and cook. Along with cutting wood and building the fire. And we fished and pulled clams and turtles out of the pond. I’ve even eaten ground hog and black snake. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@amethyst5538]

I haven't had Black Snake but I have had fried rattlesnake, and that is under rated.

[@jamesstjames1289]

@@amethyst5538 it’s ok, too many bones, like rattlesnake. Had to try it.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

The city has its own problems. Like dealing with higher crime, loud neighbors, or pollution. Some rural people complain about those city problems too. Some city dwellers want to do homesteading but can't afford to move or to buy land.

[@Wonderwhoopin]

I’m crying laughing from the fire bit 😂🤣 but the effort was admirable

[@bradyelich2745]

Welcome to Tony Robinson's Medieval Taskmaster.

[@cyana5867]

Are there other episodes of Time Crashers?

[@Tipi_Dan]

It was not realistic because in the Iron Age a small knife was a part of your clothing for most people. One should have been issued to each of them with their outfits. Additionally, they knew about cleanliness and washing up around food during the Iron Age. They even knew how to make soap. Likely those who prepared food did not do so in their best attire.

[@byroncudworth6918]

R.I.P Kirsty Alley.

[@AMX86]

looks like an episode of Black Adder. 😄

[@mxferro]

29:00.... She is incorrect. There WAS soap making knowledge in iron age and they certainly know how to boil hot water. She was whining over the most ridiculous things. Anyone needing her for future projects on working...look at this video and realize she's a QUITTER!

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Yeah, but they probably couldn't find soap there just like they couldn't find a knife there. They had to get a knife made from the blacksmith. And thankfully Chris explored to find the blacksmith. People can use other natural cleansing agents such as alcohol, vinegar, salt, ash, and/or hot water. Or soapwort, soap berries, or ammonium from urine if people know about that. But some people are so used to modern ways that they don't think about that. So I don't really fault people for that. The best we can do is to teach people.

[@susanmenegus5242]

Just let me bring my axes and crossbow and long knives and il be fine.

[@GalactusOG]

*Happy 4th of July!* 🎆🎇🧨

[@white_clover767]

Surely their hats and clothes are all inside out? The fur should be facing inwards.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

WOW, WOW, WOW, so cool Pre Roman, Roman history.

[@indyrock8148]

The thing at the end about who gets the best cut of meat. In some cultures it goes to the children. Something to think about

[@joy7218]

And it never goes to the woman there last to eat even though there the ones doing all the work.

[@indyrock8148]

@@joy7218 well of course, otherwise they couldn't complain. A happy woman is a complaining woman.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

@@joy7218 Women and men don't do all the work. It's not a competition either.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

@@indyrock8148 Your comment is sadistic because you want women to suffer and make ridiculous excuses why they can't be happy. Your comment just makes some feminists think we need feminism instead of ending it. Your comment makes no sense because people complain when they're unhappy. So it sounds like you want people to complain if you want them to be unhappy. Your comment is hypocritical because you want happiness and for kids but not for certain groups of people just because of their immutable features, like gender, that they can't help. All kinds of people complain too, like men and kids. You have double standards cause you were also overly complaining and whining about women by stereotyping they're all bad. If it makes you feel better, some women don't want to marry cause they don't want to bother men.

[@emilyblkscorpion4646]

I want to do this!

[@arnman2093]

Behavior crippled by a true misunderstanding of how food poisoning works. The chicken is fine and cutting it with a dull knife matters not. Silly.

[@ajrwilde14]

blunt not dull

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

She was talking about the guts like the poop in the chicken's intestines. People shouldn't eat that poop. I remove poop from shellfish and shrimp too, even tho some people don't. She wanted to lean on the safe side. Not everyone knows about the details of food poisoning.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

42:11 I agree that they did better and were happier with no taskmaster yelling at them, and the taskmasters could've been nicer. But to be fair, the other times they were serving people so you can't really keep them waiting. And they were beginners so they couldn't do their tasks as fast.

[@user-324-v3e]

I really understand now why people won't live older than 40-45 yo. Zoe, I feel you when you fell over the basket. 😅That's something I'd totally do lol 33:18

[@ironmikehallowween]

Some will. Most will not.

[@matnaylor8939]

Bloody Romans ,what have the Romans ever done for us ???

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

People benefit off the Romans' knowledge. Some things people built are base off of Roman influence and style.

[@matnaylor8939]

It was a month python joke ,you never seen life of Brian ?

[@13Catz]

They had a deer carcass they could have put in the stew, perhaps if they hadn't eaten the chickens, they might have had eggs for breakfast. They also could have knapped a sharp edge out of a piece of chert rather than trade valuable salt for a "sharper" knife. People DID still use stone tools in the iron age, and stone edges have been used to butcher game for thousands of years.

[@PuhuTube]

Marvellous :)

[@01spiropent]

Looks somewhat fun. However, I’m never buying another monthly subscription to anything ever again. 🍻

[@quetzalgirl101]

Are there anymore episodes ?

[@amandadonegan2137]

Got 23 mins in. OMG. 1) FIRE 2) Collect more wood 3) Boil water cover leave to cool for drinking. 4) Boil more water for cooking. DONT kill more than you can eat in one meal you might get food poisoning. Etc etc This is my dream way of life if l had the chance 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@-----REDACTED-----]

Try it. Seriously, try it. It’s a backbreaking life based on a high risk high reward strategy for securing your main sustenance, meaning if something goes wrong you’re likely toast. It’s a life where you can afford to be injured or ill even less than a modern day American. It’s a life where malnourishment was rampant. So yeah, try living this dream life of yours. Please try it, live your dream.

[@skepticscircle1497]

There’s a TV show in the states called Naked and afraid…really cool show! After two days, they’re going crazy! No clothes, no fast food, no cellphone!

[@iamlost2]

This show has many historical aspects, noting like "Naked and Afraid" this show begins in year 45AD

[@iamlost2]

Dang, I was off 2 years. It's 43AD aka Iron Age

[@skepticscircle1497]

@@iamlost2 it’s fun to see how 21st century people talk shit about how they’re going to kick ass but then fold in this show.

[@larrynix8592]

I'm led to believe there are more in this series and maybe too early in the morning but how do you find them? There is another with a slightly different title about Victorian life but it is on Absolute History not Odyssey.

[@sanjivjhangiani3243]

One thing I don't get about having any light; pine torches have been around since Paleolithic times, so why did no one use them?

[@RichWoods23]

They were in a deciduous woodland.

[@Waya420]

that was so mean to give them a bow for their bow drill that was made wrong like that!!!

[@GavTatu]

i don't think keith has has this experience since 'summer school' in 1983 !

[@MCLV1155]

You can sharpen a knife using a stone

[@anapantelic517]

But you have to approach it as if you mean it.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

17:57 They didn't lack a sharpener. Chris was doing a bad job of it by rubbing it too fast and lightly. It also looked like he wasn't going at a diagonal angle off the edge. Idk but the rock he chose looked too smooth.

[@BarryJacksonVocalist]

Probably NOT I cant imagine it at all

[@cuhurun]

Sad to see how difficult is was for these folk to cope with the most basic of tasks, and sad how removed from nature so many 'westernized' people have become.

[@MultiCose]

What does having being western have to do with anything. I grew up backpacking. Its a 'Reality" show they pick people who are not camping people. This is like glamping- luxury camping they have buildings and everything.

[@AesculusPavia]

Most people who live in the country wouldn't have a problem

[@lenabreijer1311]

A lot of people I have worked with and many friends could do this. I worked with one woman who, with a group of friends, was dropped of by seaplane on some lake in northern Canada and then paddled canoes for a month back to village. Friends of mine went winter camping frequently, I drew the line at snow but below freezing was OK.

[@cuhurun]

@@MultiCose : Have you spent much time outside the confines of 'first world' western society ?

[@MultiCose]

@@cuhurun 1. What does that have to do with anything. 2. Define First world I assume you mean by cold world standards 3. define much time? You should read books on propaganda and logical fallacies.

[@stopneverstop]

Why didn't they just invite the blacksmith into their encampment...food, information, knives made and sharpened

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

23:50 Meg offered the blacksmith water, and he said he had to go. 11:44 The video said some blacksmiths were traveling salesmen.

[@flameofthewest6196]

Celts had soap :)

[@Seven-ld9zv]

Is this a documentary or a game show ?

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

It's living history and experimental archaeology like the Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Wartime Farm, Tales from the Green Valley, and Secrets of the Castle with Ruth Goodman.

[@Seven-ld9zv]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c So why did they upload this among documentaries ?

[@ecilaeniarol9863]

Kirstie Alley??? Really??? This is an interesting topic, but I have zero desire to watch her.

[@Noblebird02]

She turned out to be quite competent. Which surprised me

[@TheLadybughug]

She was quite fun, positive and competent.

[@paddybrennan3644]

What happened to christy ? She bale ?

[@Erlrantandrage]

Based on the thumbnail, no. Whybare they wearing skins with the fur out?

[@bopeep8205]

"The blacksmith has embers ..." - LMAO Fun idea but very Americanized: drama and personalities receive nearly all focus in lieu of an educational historical/archaeological narrative. Too bad.

[@lanolafrazier8598]

This cool. Butt can a butch of poeple that make a hole village survive for a hole year

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

There are modern people living in villages and surviving off of nature. Like indigenous people in the Amazon forest.

[@Wonderwhoopin]

Oh yeah baby! I’m gonna own a couple women

[@808bigisland]

Alley is a scientologist. Is this a scientologist channel?

[@bartonbella3131]

One of them was a Christian is this a Christian Channel? If so, dud they not just commit heresy by participating in a pagan rite? Stop looking to be offended

[@isystemzi6268]

Is this a real show?

[@hannahalice1000]

I can and make fire using a bow drill. Their biggest problem? No KZbin video to show them how to do it.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

There are yt videos show how to make a bow drill. I watched some. They probably didn't know what they were getting themselves into.

[@BarryJacksonVocalist]

Not in reality

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍

[@lusolad]

So there were black people in Iron Age Britain?

[@passionatelycurious462]

Modern people couldn't survive an hour without their phone.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

I don't really think it's not that those modern people are unable to survive without their phone but that they're really unhappy without it. Not everyone has a phone now. There's a movement of people unplugging from the internet, digital, or news cause of toxicity from there. Some people said it helped their mental health. I do recommend people get a book on edible plants and herbs and survival in case the internet and power goes out. This show dropped modern people into survival and hard labor and they were able to do it.

[@emercamigla8521]

🤔

[@jakejada1632]

Literally don't recognise a single one of em

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

That's ,they wouldn't recognise you either.

[@jakejada1632]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 It would be freaky weird if they did tbh

[@sanjivjhangiani3243]

You don't recognize Kirstie Alley?

[@facelessqueenie8873]

Of course today's people won't survive... people are offended by a simple look these days. I feel sorry for the people who survive the upcoming apocalypse 😄 🤣