Cities: Skylines | Franklin, Episode 11: Banking & Commerce

[@NavidIsANoob]

"So, it turned out Hamilton made a pretty significant sin tax error." Me: *Closes video*

[@WaterMan416]

I was really hoping he'd make that joke once I heard "sin tax" 10 seconds earlier.

[@csours]

This pun drove me to drink.

[@maurioooe1973]

Lin Manuel miranda should make a song about sin taxes and should add it to his musical

[@Wafflepudding]

Guess they didn't have static analysis tooling or intelisense back then

[@MiaMulder]

IT'S HERE

[@rekindle7602]

"a massive Twitter thread we now know as the federalist papers"

[@alexi-divasskinner960]

I can't wait for when we get to the 1960s and he has to tear everything down

[@ihateregistrationbul]

Only to build society Hill towers!

[@kevincabral4657]

What do you mean? I'm not that smart but I'm willing to learn.

[@aloneill6337]

Yay! Highways! .........

[@kevincabral4657]

@@aloneill6337 ohh now I get it ...

[@michaelbouvier550]

Kevin Sleeping with Geico And parking lots! So many parking lots...

[@yesn95]

Already can't wait for Franklin Episode 12 in 2021

[@zerg0s]

It's gonna be about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse.

[@sunnohh]

Why on earth do you think it will be that soon?

[@TheAndrew1987]

Almost there

[@davidbenson6108]

This comment aged well.

[@umhi2822]

Literally

[@Sagragoth]

i have a confession to make: every time you ended a sentence with "right?" i would say "right" out loud.

[@donoteat01]

who says I don't interact with the fans

[@sethmoyer]

@@donoteat01 I had my doubts that you were actually from Eastern PA until this video, but my doubts are now put to rest.

[@chaseman113]

…Yes

[@ObviousSchism]

Right

[@groundzero_-lm4md]

This series will never catch up with the modern day at this rate. In all seriousness glad to see an new upload.

[@WaterMan416]

We'll be on what, episode 20 by then?

[@soupalex]

"we're now further in time from the date the last episode was released, than the date the last episode was released is from the signing of the actual declaration of independence"

[@r2dezki]

Kinda fitting that they'd use temple fronts for banks in America.

[@NavidIsANoob]

So tacky.

[@everwhatever]

I misread your comments as being about fonts and was surprised but excited for a typography-related digression in my lecture on urban planning.

[@poilboiler]

I always thought it was because they worshiped money.

[@seyfersnake]

@@everwhatever I read the same thing XD

[@samsharpe3501]

Isn't the idea to symbolize Durability and Reliability, like telling people "Please don't do bank runs" before we got the FDIC?

[@emphaticelk7271]

I'll never get over the fact that Miranda actually did write a song about putting down the Whiskey Rebellion and then took it out of the musical for some reason.

[@zimmerwald1915]

"Some reason." It's a hagiography, not a critique or even a warts-and-all portrayal.

[@emphaticelk7271]

@@zimmerwald1915 I know lol, sorry I didn't make that clear. I was going off the "for some reason" part of the video

[@Multi_Plays]

Sad.

[@retromancer]

Gotta make time for Hamilton's extremely boring affair and dead son.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

@@zimmerwald1915 Very accurate. Hamilton is possibly my least favorite of his peers, and yet a ton of Millennials and Zoomers now adore him thanks to a very flattering musical that could have been made about anyone in that time period.

[@draco89123]

This video made me realize that history is taught so backwards. We're taught events and traditionalist history. But what needs to be taught is the basics of society and civics, then finally get to how human beings struggle to make a society. Not the "1776 we declared our freedoms" bullshit. It's mostly just horseshit to push you along so you can be a good consumer as a work trained adult and cry eagle tears when the NFL flies the flag.

[@WaterMan416]

It'd help if we stopped lying to kids and heavily implying that it was a citizen soldier revolution supported by the whole colonies. The German immigrant farmer in Pennsylvania generally didn't give a shit. It was mostly a revolution of rich landowners upset about taxes far, far lower than modern day taxes.

[@comradedangerfield]

history classes in american public schools arent there to teach anything other than american capitalist propaganda

[@ABC-jg3pv]

@@comradedangerfield i see a butthurt left wing

[@fearedjames]

@@comradedangerfield History class in school is generally entirely for propoganda anywhere in the world.

[@aaronrivera7546]

@@WaterMan416 I'm relearning Roman history rn and I can't believe I didn't make the connection with patricians and the founding fathers before. Of course they don't wants pleebs involved, why would they? Only thing is now they have throngs of pleebs defending the patrician class as if they were members. Loved the tyranny of the majority bit, can't have the majority (the poor) tell the rich to stop exploiting them!

[@richardkotorac5423]

Shoutout to the Activate Windows logo in the corner.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

Someone tell him about KMSpico

[@L0nesovieT]

2020 is the year of the Linux Desktop

[@thewolfofthestars1847]

Okay maybe it didn't end up happening but 2021 is gonna be the year of Linux, guys, for sure

[@alexg.6966]

finally, 11 episodes in and the city finally has the most vital part of american infrastructure: dunkin donuts

[@christophervanerp1133]

Well, yeah, we DO run on it.

[@madtheorist1856]

It's super interesting to contrast something like Franklin to the typical American history class, in that this series follows a more holistic approach of how different aspects of society impact its history. Not to take anything away from donoteat, hes not a charismatic presenter in the typical sense (though he has his own charm), but this is absolutely more interesting the the presentation of linear events of a typical history class that has to conform to standardized testing parameters. Super cool, and as is often bemoaned, something I'm sure more students could easily be fascinated by and invested in were it presented better

[@LimeyLassen]

This is why I like studying anthropology, they take holism a lot more seriously.

[@AncientOrange]

To quote John Green, “History is a lot more than the chronology of wars and government succession, but you wouldn’t learn that in an American history class.”

[@steemlenn8797]

@@LimeyLassen Also you learn how bullshit is practically everything that is teached in economics.

[@steemlenn8797]

@@AncientOrange Actually both wars and government successions are just the easiest to see results of history. It's like hearing the raindrops banging against your windows and say that banging is what makes a rainstorm.

[@agentofashcroft]

You should title this episode "The Origin of Specie"

[@BravoCharleses]

People have been using rocks and seashells and bits of metal for a long time. I think a far more interesting episode would be the origin of paper money and its close association with early capitalism.

[@nekkowe]

@@BravoCharleses It was a joke about "The Origin of Species"

[@BravoCharleses]

@@nekkowe Yes, I get the joke. I should have been more clear that it was more of an episode request delving into the beginning of paper money vaguely between the time of the English civil war and that of Isaac Newton. The Dutch are involved. Hilarity can ensue. Quite off track for the series, but definitely in line with our young host's penchant for explaining economic and historical events as demonstrated in the above brilliant video.

[@marxmeesterlijk]

the early days of the american government sound like an episode of tiger king.

[@xalrath]

they very much were it is not stressed enough that the first shot the founding fathers took at running the country was a complete flaming disaster. remember the Declaration of Independence? signed by all the most powerful men of the fledgling USA? only two of them got out of the Articles of Confederation without the entire country hating their guts, and it's because their jobs had them hiding in England and France, apologizing to the kings about how the baby nation could do nothing but shit itself. do you have any idea how bad a libertarian has to fuck up to make other libertarians say "yeah we need to fix this"

[@sunnohh]

Yankee Ice This is the sort of libertarian bashing in the comments I need to see more of!

[@ProjectThunderclaw]

Or put another way, Tiger King is the true heritage of the Articles of Confederation. Seriously. I used to think the preoccupation with freedom was a recent trend, but as we see here the insane libertarian streak that would eventually lead to "yeah you can have a tiger I guess" has been with the US since before it even existed, to the point that the _reason_ it even exists as it does is that the colonists' first plan for an ideal government was one that was completely unable to govern.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

@@xalrath The Founding Fathers weren't libertarian.

[@xalrath]

@@IkeOkerekeNews bunch of drunk minor landowners whining about how asking them to pay for the government services they use is tyranny and terrified of black people being given rights i will grant that we don't know how many of them were pedophiles, so they dont PERFECTLY match onto modern libertarianism, but four out of the five qualifiers isn't bad

[@ye4thorn]

Every Time I hear "right" I get the feeling to reply with right.

[@poilboiler]

right

[@malcolmcarey6519]

right

[@dominateeye]

right

[@annathiika5755]

Right?

[@sparkpenguin]

yes.

[@nakenmil]

This series is kind of a goldmine for those who want to write in a late-18th century, 19th century setting.

[@Multi_Plays]

Very good, informative, even funny.

[@MesiterSode]

**waits 13 months to upload a new Franklin episode** "SIR! . . . SIR! . . . HOW _DARE_ YOU!"

[@cptsonicbelmont]

🙃

[@Joesolo13]

*LAUGHS IN 2024*

[@ReddoFreddo]

Every time Donoteat asks "Right?" I answer aloud with a confirming: "Right." or "Ah, yes, I get it now." and similar. You may think this is weird but I simply engage with the video fully, and I enjoy this. I was one of the only kids who actually talked back to Dora, it comforted me, because I had no one else to talk to. I'm very glad Donoteat asks for reassurance every other sentence, and I'm happy to give it to him, but I can't make this known unless I leave a comment about it, and therefore I wrote this comment.

[@michaelkitchin9665]

Good to see Lewis Hamilton make a guest appearance whilst the season's on hold.

[@davidgjam7600]

drinking game: take a shot every time he says "right" like a substitute teacher

[@yetanothermichael3702]

DavidGjam do you want alcohol poisoning?

[@squee222]

not all substitute teachers have a drinking problem...

[@Nomad6763]

"Taking peoples shit is not a great way to run an army" This is actually only true within your own territory, otherwise it's great!

[@davidl6558]

First we get a nearly 3 hour WTYP podcast, now Franklin XI is here. This is the day of days.

[@do_care919]

The college one?

[@davidl6558]

@@do_care919 Yes, the colledge one.

[@8roomsofelixir]

I read the "Franklin XI" as some sort of a monarchy's title and wondered a while.

[@timothy9958]

wait... donoteat01 from here and donoteat02 from well there's your problem are the same guy? crazy!

[@googiegress]

After all that work, if you end up swallowing the coin he's gonna be super pissed.

[@roniamini9411]

”Greek revival the highest stage of neoclassicism” nice 33:33

[@mxtomituck]

Crossing my fingers for episode 11 in 2023

[@marxmeesterlijk]

All aboard the HYPE TRAIN. TCHOOTCHOO!

[@ehsn]

HYPE TRAIN GOOD, HYPE CAR BAD, HYPE HORSE GOT KILLED BY XIXth CENTURY POWERED RAIL TECHNOLOGY

[@eagletanker]

Hype horse got sucked in to hype atmospheric railroads.

[@sigurdfjeldhalvorsen1989]

Car mediocre, train good.

[@Sirmenonottwo]

I like how you saved on tris in the stairs the proceeded to octuple the amount of tris in the columns.

[@thomasmillin2155]

What I love is that the original Acropolis was used by the Athenians AS A BANK. However we only figured this out in the 1950s~. So all these neo-classicists were using Greek revival on bank architecture without knowing they were using the right thing. What does that say about the unchanging nature of humans?

[@domesticcat1725]

They did use temples (including the Parthenon) to store and lend money but the Acropolis is the whole monument on top of the hill, which is much more than just its most famous temple

[@thisislesbomaya]

"american democracy has always been undemocratic" This was for reasons

[@albertodv2165]

Still waiting for episode 12 of this beautiful series 🥲

[@speedybill47]

Congress Critter is my new name for represenatives and senators

[@ClaudiaNW]

I learned a lot from this episode! As a Brit I wasn't super familiar with early US economic/financial history.

[@onezerotwo]

2023 and I'm still looking for the next ep, this was a really compelling series, Mr.Eat01! Great work!

[@michaelb2106]

As a centrist that's starting to lean more and more towards democratic socialism, I love your series with it's comfy atmosphere, and it's dry humor.

[@brandonthesteele]

First time my name appeared in the patreon credits of someone's video. What a thrill!

[@stopstopp]

"We'll see this in the next episode" Oh god, we'll never see this.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

9:39 Actually the Executive Council of Pennsylvania was the 12-member body that acted as the executive branch of the state until 1790. The Pennsylvanian Constitution of 1776 adopted a directorial system, where the executive is made up of two or more people that collectively exercise the powers of the branch, which was quite unique at the time. While the Council did select a President and Vice-President, this was a Primus inter pares (first among equal) and did not incur any additional power. A fun fact is that the Constitution of 1776 may have inspired the the French Constitution of 1793, which included an executive council of 24 people.

[@t.o.6953]

"Washington had to lead an army of Philadelphians to put down the whiskey Rebellion" so its gonna be wawa and sheetz right? *waits 5 seconds, yup

[@reyaty93]

glad your back, i really miss power planning and politics.

[@maggiesmith2843]

I love your content and I just wanted to say thank you, because you helped me start on my journey into leftism.

[@NavidIsANoob]

This is wonderfully hopeful to read.

[@lukeobrien5141]

Fuck yah, we’re happy to have you!

[@maggiesmith2843]

@@lukeobrien5141 glad to be here

[@GoodLordBagel]

Remeber two weeks ago on WTYP when you said that this would be released last week? As a non-paying viewer of your channel I am entitled to content whenever it suites me, regardless of the amount of time and effort each of these videos takes on your part.

[@EmyrDerfel]

Rocz has been gagged by a cabal of disgruntled financiers. Free episode 12!

[@nottrevorallen]

i think thats just because they wanted the nuke tho

[@Cynon]

Picturing Alexander Hamilton as Lewis Hamilton is giving me life

[@Tomartyr]

I love how much of the American Revolution and the events leading up to it, such as the French-Indian War, can be summarised as: "Libertarians wanted to wage a war for financial gain without having to pay for it"

[@ecashman]

Bro it's been like a year, lolol. Love this series, glad to see it's back!

[@Quamikaze]

well it's a good thing I'm essential and work literally all the time or else I'd be rewatching all of Franklin in one sitting

[@theryanbard]

My favourite annual youtube series returns!

[@tuckinhard]

Considering I’m awake to type this, I’m most likely gonna sleep right through the premier; what are the chances donoteat does the same? Probably sees cities skylines models in his hopefully-not-nightmares. He/him.

[@dominateeye]

I love this series, it's fascinating to see a city being built over multiple eras, and I really enjoy the historical context you give in each video. The leftist perspective on that history is something I don't really hear all that often as well, and your humor really works to keep this type of content engaging. Thanks for making Franklin!

[@Alevuss92]

In retrospect, I think the most genius thing that Justin could've done with this series is end this episode by saying "The next episode is going to be about Stephen Girard, racism, genocide and the buildings of Thomas Ustick Walter" and then let people in the comments clamor for the rest of time over how much they want to see Justin's take on racism and genocide in the United States and C:S.

[@elfomarcio]

How could I ever be mad at you... you are one of the good ones justin, keep going ❤

[@baronjutter]

I can't believe the amount of geometric detail that went into these buildings. I thought things as small as stone blocks would surely just be backed into the texture. Or are they? I don't know, but they look very nice.

[@aturchomicz821]

More realisitc then Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 :P

[@simonrichard9873]

"...Which is a bar that is too loud at night, right?" *Me who lives in Sherbrooke, Quebec:* Yeah, sure.

[@erike5865]

The perfect birthday gift, thanks king.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

Happy birthday! 💐

[@vulcator]

Bring this back goddammit

[@euroschmau]

The wholesale destruction of one of the country's most historic neighborhoods to make way for the Society Hill Towers was the greatest crime against heritage to befall upon Philadelphia. I lament it the same way New Yorkers lament the destruction of Penn Station.

[@AltayNuhoglu]

These come out so infrequent the 5th symphony allegro has become nostalgic to me.

[@aturchomicz821]

Same🥺

[@Skeptidelphian]

>implying Wawa has defeated Sheetz in western PA. I thought this was historically accurate.

[@dustifilms]

Almost forgot about this series! I'm glad there was an episode I hadn't seen yet. Excited for the next

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

I know it's been over a year, but you forgot to add this to the Franklin playlist.

[@evilsorosfundedgovernments433]

Cars bad, Trains good

[@itsmannertime]

Glad to see you're back, I was worried someone ate you

[@emmadrew50]

i love wtyp and all but man do i miss these

[@Velcera]

holy shit this episode rocks. need to re-listen a couple times.

[@VerumPositor]

When you heard so many times „right“ during the video, that KZbin is recommending you to watch next a Livestream with the Seattle Symphony playing Stravinsky‘s RITE of Spring 😂😂

[@scullystie4389]

I wasn't expecting a Lewis Hamilton cameo

[@pmcgee003]

That intro music has never felt more appropriate. 😍🙂

[@pastrychef1985]

Sir, sir, how DARE you.

[@justinokraski3796]

everybody's forgotten that Trump got censured a year or two ago

[@pastrychef1985]

@@justinokraski3796 How DARE he.

[@nathanielcaspari275]

I'm upset it's taken this long so here's a mean comment. But I'm also a patron. The duality of man.

[@zakkart]

I really should rewatch your whole franklin series.

[@Dualhammers]

You gotten pretty god at hard edge modeling. Good stuff

[@deathbygrapes5]

Franklin, the only Cities Skylines series where the creator is busy learning TikTok dances instead

[@ryleefisk1764]

Can’t wait for episode 12 in 2022 Edit: 2023

[@aturchomicz821]

*Copium*

[@AdmiralBosch19]

"say the line, bart" bart: "but that's another episode"

[@aturchomicz821]

D:

[@LexieAssassin]

*gasps audibly* It's *FINALLY* here! ...and with slides no less! Oh this is good! *squees quietly in excitement*

[@danielstamp3301]

Intended or not, your choice of animations over the map of colonial America are very Monty Python-esque, which, in turn, take this video to another level.....Kudos to you sir! Well played

[@coffeestainedwreck]

You sound like my favorite grad candidate during office hours and I'm absolutely here for it.

[@zimmerwald1915]

50:50 "So I guess you could say the Jacksonian Democrats were a land of contrasts."

[@person3triple0]

Glad this is back. Never knew that about the portico! Learn something new every day

[@wobinidan]

As a European, I do my best not to learn anything new about America, since I already know far too much. I know about Bemidji, Minnesota, ffs. However, donoteat01 is such a great storyteller that I was forced to absorb new information. Also I'm completely dazzled by your blender modelling skills, the topography is on a par with the retelling of history. Now I have to try and forget about how Hamilton screwed the veterans and... ah... it's too late.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Hamilton the musical actually was going to mention the Whiskey Rebellion, there was a workshopped song called ‘One Last Ride’ which would have been about the Whiskey Rebellion and Washington stepping down from the presidency. Then, for what reason I don’t know, Lin Manuel-Miranda decided to edit the song to remove the aspect of the Whiskey Rebellion, made it solely about Washington and Hamilton’s relationship, and renamed It ‘One Last Time’ before putting it back into the musical.

[@xalrath]

same reason he cut exactly why he fell out of favor with John Adams the play needs the reason Hamilton becomes bad that he got caught screwing around on his wife for the first time, not that he literally made his name gunning down those insolent peasants and then after he tried to gin up a war with France John Adams told him "i've arranged for peace, you warmongering asshole. you are going to take Washington's syphilitic corpse off that horse you've nailed it to, come home, and if anyone tells me you've set ONE FOOT on french territory without authorization I will take great pleasure in hanging your ass." Hamilton backed Jefferson not because he believed Jefferson had beliefs, but because he wanted to hurt Adams as much as possible for taking his cool war from him.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Yankee Ice Yeah, as I’ve grown I’ve begun to notice how much of an elitist Hamilton was and how the musical erases some of his less empathetic traits (though it should be noted it also doesn’t hesitate to show Hamilton in the wrong). But in the shows defense, it did help get me out of my edgy monarchist phase (which is incredibly ironic, I know), and also the songs just fucking slap

[@xalrath]

​@@dylanchouinard6141 the argument that I will absolutely give Miranda is that the single best song in the musical is also why his politics are so shit The Room Where It Happens is 1. extremely good 2. based on his dad, who was (and still is) a midsize wheel in new york/puerto rican politics, telling his wimpy theatre kid son to get out of the kitchen while him and his buddies hammered out what they were going to let happen at any formal meetings. Miranda's quote on the subject is "If my dad had been a butcher, I would be a vegetarian. He is a politician, so I wrote Hamilton." he doesn't really care about the history, he is trying to tell a story, and so historical hamilton takes a backseat to "what if one of the Founding Fathers was also the protagonist of 8 Mile, and also me"

[@madelinebitts2766]

@@xalrath I would also point out that he based the musical mostly on a book he read about Hamilton. He didn't exactly pay much attention to the real history, just the juicy stuff. The musical isn't about Hamilton, the real man, it's about Hamilton, the historical figure as told by the couple of books Lin read.

[@cayenneshepherd2847]

To be fair to the Whigs: between Jackson's slave-ownership and pro-slavery stance, his "nepotism is good, actually" approach to civil service positions, and his tendency to ignore constitutional checks and balances when they became inconvenient for him (especially when it got in the way of his racist bloodlust) did make him tyrant material. The Whigs just arrived at the right conclusion via the wrong (bourgeois moon logic) reasoning, and could reasonably be called tyrants themselves for a lot of the same reasons their quasi-predecessors the Federalists could be. tl;dr everyone involved was monstrous, and American political history is basically all horrifying

[@kvltntr00]

18:34 >remember back to what i said in episode 3 bruh...

[@scarletje6323]

Laughs in binging the whole series in a day

[@chesterk4812]

Finally something worth watching live!

[@Theoddert]

This was an excellent episode! Looking forward to next years!

[@calebringo18]

this took a long time, and i am very mad lol

[@CMBarbarian]

Come back Rocz! I didn't know about this series until yesterday, and I'm now addicted-- I MUST HAVE MORE!

[@julianac1551]

I don't know if episode 12 is ever gonna come out but if it's like the rest of the series it'll be well worth the wait.

[@QuestionableObject]

Feels weird not having Alice chime in every other sentence

[@djhsilver]

It's interesting that there are so many waste bins in Franklin on account of Eugène Poubelle didn't invent them until the 1880s.

[@ClaudiaNW]

I thought this was a joke until I googled him and realised that Eugene Poubelle was real! I was all ready to respond with "And they were coincidentally invented at the same time in London by Geoffrey Bin and in New York by Chad Trashcan"

[@tiredprincess451]

never has that intro music sounded as triumphant

[@BluebellyGaming]

These are unconscionably impressive. I have no idea how you are able to hold attention, be entertaining, be (accurately) educational, and wrap it all into a simulation game... I am honestly dumbfounded. I have so many questions, but the one I'm most curious about is how long did it take you to make each of these main assets you modeled in Blender?

[@aaronrivera7546]

Bravo, great content again. The moment you brought up Rome I wondered why I hadn't made the connection with the founding fathers and patricians before. No one does what you do better, you're awesome.

[@synthmage00]

You're a fkn wizard with Blender, man. This is mesmerizing to watch.

[@longfangs8853]

Shame you never made anymore, a really original series with a great commentator. Educational, funny and enterntaining. Like I said its a shame there are no more episodes, would have liked to have seen Philad...Franklin evolve into a modern city.

[@ClaudiaNW]

There are going to be more episodes! It's just taking a while. And you can hear Justin every week on Well There's Your Problem.

[@uhhhscizo6531]

I do find it kind of funny that only like 7000 people live in the city

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

No way I can resist making a supercut of all the times Justin says "right"

[@evilfuzzydoom]

Oh boy this series is great I can’t wait for episode twelve!