Fun fact, after the successful shipment of warming pans to the Caribbean, Dexter was convinced it was cold down there and later shipped a boatload of winter clothing. Of course, there was a group of people (I forget what they were doing in the Caribbean) that were heading to modern day Russia and decided to buy the shipment there so they wouldn't worry about it later
@theautomator8372 Жыл бұрын
Of friggin course
@mauer1 Жыл бұрын
trading is so easy, just be at the right place at the right time.
@sandri291 Жыл бұрын
Those people who tell you that smart investing advice is Time in the market, not Timing the market should learn a thing or two from Ol Timmy Boy@@mauer1
@SEAZNDragon Жыл бұрын
Even without the Russia trip he probably still made some money on the winter clothes, albeit slower. I saw a video on pirate clothes from the Golden Age where the creator mentioned every pirate would still have some winter clothes as 1) piracy was not limited to the Caribbean and 2) its gets cold on the ocean.
@ruslans2006 Жыл бұрын
@@mauer1Or just be absurdly lucky
@dominicchuaa Жыл бұрын
timothy dexter is the epitome of the sentence "task failed successfully"
@whiteink225 Жыл бұрын
I was about to comment that lol
@silverstudios6916 Жыл бұрын
This is true
@justarandomcommenter570 Жыл бұрын
Timothy somehow got 1-intelligence but maxed out his bartering skills and luck :P
@trocoplaytv1254 Жыл бұрын
@justarandomcommenter570 that's a clever way to put it take my like!
@mikitz10 ай бұрын
@@justarandomcommenter570 Luck of 10, when everyone else's was at 1.
@ZorValachan Жыл бұрын
The trolling on his book with "Here's the missing punctuation. Put it where you feel like it.' is quite hilarious.
@movietimeateds6911 ай бұрын
I have tried to read that "book" many times. Never got passed the first couple "pages". It's legit nonsense, and the poor spelling and lack of punctuation makes it very difficult to read/understand.
@Username-je7of Жыл бұрын
I once read “A Pickle for the Knowing Ones”. It was like reading Les Miserables, but I didn’t have to pretend it was a profound masterpiece.
@BobofWOGGLE Жыл бұрын
Hey, at least Les Mis has an excuse. French is an awful language.
@samuelterry6354 Жыл бұрын
You didn't have to pretend it was a masterpiece because you knew that it was.
@MLCrisis1790 Жыл бұрын
Dankula read a bit of it at the end of his Dexter video. I had to restart my brain after hearing it.
@reginabillotti Жыл бұрын
Les Miserables, for as long as it is, is coherent. ( yes, even when Hugo puts the plot on hold to get on a soapbox. Even those parts are internally coherent and have some relevance to the story. )
@Gio34811 Жыл бұрын
If Timothy dexter was born today he would’ve been bought all of GameStop shares the day before everyone realized Wall Street was shorting the fuck out of it
@bfure1 Жыл бұрын
Would have gotten his first job as a pizza driver and accepted a tip of like 20 Bitcoin
@JGD714 Жыл бұрын
@@bfure1 then asked his rich snob friends what to do with it so they would've told him to buy it all up believing it would fail, and so he would spend all his money on bitcoin when they were worth cents.
@xellos526211 ай бұрын
He was born today. He bought twitter last year.
@tacticallemon751811 ай бұрын
@@xellos5262there’s a difference between dumb luck and dumb
@JeyC_21 күн бұрын
@@tacticallemon7518 how is Elon dumb?
@ethandexter9470 Жыл бұрын
So I found out recently that he is an ancestor of mine. We have the same last name so i thought it was a coincidence until I learned there’s actually a relation! Bought his book real fast haha
@arifhossain9751 Жыл бұрын
Say, uh... Ya got any trading advice?
@ShadeOnTheUtube Жыл бұрын
@@arifhossain9751 buy apples
@zizonesol Жыл бұрын
please bless us with your ancestor's luck XD
@mitchellwright5478 Жыл бұрын
Masshole too? I’d be interested to see if the Dexter family, like my own that has roots back to the 1640’s here has also stayed locals
@ethandexter9470 Жыл бұрын
@@mitchellwright5478 North Carolinian. The Dexter side of my family comes from California
@saintcynicism2654 Жыл бұрын
You can find his book online, by the way, and it is absolutely worth a read. You'll give yourself a headache just trying to parse what he's trying to say half the time, but it's an absolutely hilarious insight into just what was going on in this man's head. Because the whole thing reads like it's literally just stream-of-consciousness from beginning to end, it's all over the place.
@Gravelgratious Жыл бұрын
Timothy was rolling 20 all his life, the American dream!
@corvair5454 Жыл бұрын
Guy was a halfling
@DoctorElk Жыл бұрын
I need Christopher Nolan or someone to make a biopic about Timothy Dexter. I would pay top dollar to see it in theaters.
@skeletonentertainment4201 Жыл бұрын
And make it as serious and dramatic as possible to truly emphasize just how absurdly fascinating Timothy's life is
@jonathanradut2595 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think anyone would believe it was real. I barely do and I do think the story is real.
@HerrBert1976 Жыл бұрын
Was thinking about the Coen Brothers
@prestonjones1653 Жыл бұрын
Have a little pop-up in the middle to say "Yes, this is still a true story."
@aidanvannynatten2787 Жыл бұрын
To all the snobby film critics who frown upon Forrest Gump for being so unrealistic bc nobody could ever truly have the sheer amount of dumb luck he has in that movie, I present them with this man’s life story… Also, there’s no way in hell that when Sam says ‘No punctuation, random capitalization’, it actually is a Game Grumps reference, right? Either way, I would’ve never once guessed that random caps was common in writings of the period and would’ve (appropriately, I might add) assumed that it was unique to ‘A Pickle for the Knowing Ones’
@theautomator8372 Жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this story a couple years and being weirdly angry at hearing it. Like the stars had to of aligned for this guy to be so lucky.
@desmondcoppin59111 ай бұрын
Many people are born rich. They are just as lucky.
@SwineBrothers Жыл бұрын
I love when you're like this can't be real. It mirrors my own reaction. Then I look it up and sure enough. Reality is stranger than fiction for sure.
@ntfoperative9432 Жыл бұрын
Because in reality, you don’t have to make it sound believable
@SwineBrothers Жыл бұрын
@@ntfoperative9432 Plus, reality isn't planned out. People tend to do a lot with 0 planning, and sometimes not always rationally.
@jonathanrichwine1996 Жыл бұрын
I told his story to my supervisor at work a couple weeks ago, he looked it up and read the Wikipedia page, then came back and asked how a movie about him hasn’t been made yet.
@BlandSpagetti Жыл бұрын
Because audiences wouldn’t believe it
@tacticallemon751811 ай бұрын
because he didn’t get wealthy off selling his soul to a corporation
@FisDurJeff Жыл бұрын
I feel like this needs to be an Adam Sandler movie.
@Syntex366 Жыл бұрын
After watching this my sister actually bought Dexters book, and it is several times worse than Sam could have ever explained in its terrible spelling.
@FeatheredFiend1 Жыл бұрын
After watching the original video, I looked up “A Pickle for the Knowing Ones” to see for myself. Sure enough, a quick search online and I found a copy of the book with the original spelling/punctuation. Attempting to read it gave me a headache, but it was hilarious😂
@Halberd38 Жыл бұрын
Can’t wait for the multi-part book review of “A Pickle for the Knowing Ones” in all of its many-hour-long glory!
@aj2k08 Жыл бұрын
Just sorted my patreon membership 😁 - Thanks for all your great work Chris - I’ve been a sub since the very early days and really appreciate all the work, humility and insight you bring to every video - original and reaction. You’ve reignited my love for history in the last couple of years and I really look forward to every video you drop 🔔 Keep it up mate! Adam in the UK
@VloggingThroughHistory Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Adam!
@Ryne4S Жыл бұрын
Hi Chris, thanks for making these great videos everyday, watching your amazing reactions and explanations are helping me going through depression, I'm probably wouldn't have been here without your uploads.
@ShadeOnTheUtube Жыл бұрын
Just incase anyone didn't take the time to read it, the wiki at the end has an excerpt from the book, reading: "Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue" Translated: I'm the first Lord of the United States of America, now of Newport. It is (a position as) the voice of the people, and (because) I cant help it, so let it go. Let it goue... Let it go...
@jojoecr7626 Жыл бұрын
This man shows a heck ton of restraint by not just turning this into the Sam o Nella reaction channel for a month and milk it shamelessly. Mad respect.
@joshuahardy8011 Жыл бұрын
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
@kruksog Жыл бұрын
Sometimes? Oftentimes.
@PhantomBanker Жыл бұрын
3:51 Not a VTH video without Chris bringing in his ancestors! 😅
@RoydeanEU Жыл бұрын
Or ohio 😂
@fatboy76094 ай бұрын
Funny thing. There was a typewriting school that used Pickle for the Knowing Ones to teach their students to look at the page at all times as they tried to copy it.
@iattacku2773 Жыл бұрын
So real life Forrest Gump
@Nerdnumberone Жыл бұрын
I don't think Gump would shoot at or beat people with a cane quite as much.
@brotherbruno1783 Жыл бұрын
All the statues he had included interchangeable plaques so you could put the plaque of any statue onto any other statue you want. Just for the heck of it.
@ET_Bermuda Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the misspelling and random caps was VERY common before the introduction of the dictionary. It's a large part of the reason why the dictionary was created. The dictionary is just a guide, it's not law. As long as two people know the meaning of the word being said/written then it's a real word. Great recent example would be Barbenheimer.
@Nerdnumberone Жыл бұрын
Spelling wasn't standardized, but even for the time, his spelling was highly unorthodox.
@phillee2814 Жыл бұрын
@@NerdnumberoneSpelling still isn't standardised - on this side of the Atlantic, North of the US Northern border (so in most of North America, by area), and in the antipodes, we all use English spelling, not US.
@Nerdnumberone Жыл бұрын
@phillee2814 There isn't a single standard, but there are only ~1~3 accepted spellings for each word rather than a bag of phonics and a shrug. If you don't use one of the accepted spellings, you will be considered incorrect.
@porkadillo9752 Жыл бұрын
@@Nerdnumberone Absolutely. Compare a "Pickle for the Knowing Ones" to Bingham's "The Columbian Orator" from about 5 years prior and it's like night and day. It's pretty clear that Dexter never received any kind of formal writing education.
@tacticallemon751811 ай бұрын
@@Nerdnumberone muhn, hoo nids stuhndurdized phonetics wen yu cuhn du theis shit wehth thuh english langwuage? Jokes aside, what the fuck is english when that’s remotely understandable?
@nonamesplease6288 Жыл бұрын
This proves that it's better to be lucky than good.
@dancing_odie Жыл бұрын
When people talk about "the American dream" this is who I think of.
@Gavin4D7 ай бұрын
My Great Great Great Grandfather was the mayor of Glovertown in Newfoundland, but one of my ancestors was John Cabot, the guy who was on the first voyage to Newfoundland! Basically my whole family on my moms side is from Newfoundland, but I was born in Alberta.
@wisdomleader85 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video, Chris. I got fascinated by Timothy Dexter's story after watching one of Mr. Ballen's episodes, and it's great to see you do a commentary with details for another video about him. If the RNGesus pisses on some people's head everyday, the way he treated Timothy Dexter was, he woke him up, made his bed, then put breakfast on his table every morning. 😂
@multigodslayer1760 Жыл бұрын
Surely this is the inspiration for Homer Simpson
@RazalasTrebla Жыл бұрын
I wonder who was Timothy Dexter's Frank Grimes equivalent. I like to imagine it was one of those rich guys that gave him bad advice.
@Sevofthesands Жыл бұрын
I said this before on other videos but i will say it again. Timothy dexter seemed totally insane but the kind of insane that you want to have a beer with.
@gyo900 Жыл бұрын
FINALLY THE TIMOTHY DEXTER REACTION YEEEEEES
@crazyand2099 Жыл бұрын
I recommended this one on Patreon along with the pre-industrial surgeries video.
@TheLibermania Жыл бұрын
I have the book. It was 15 Euro pn Ebay. I gave up after 5 lines just for the fact that i couldn't make up what he meant. Edit: If you want i can send it to you, when i'm home from my vacation.
@Fryepod3628 Жыл бұрын
Consistently lucky people are so interesting. Glad you picked this one up Chris, hysterical everytime.
@elonmuch491 Жыл бұрын
Simon Whistler actually made a video about this dude on his channel “today I found out” too! I’d love to see you react to that one haha
@jasi5534 Жыл бұрын
Can´t imagine ppl not liking Sam. He is one of KZbins most liked creators I´m sure.
@starman6468 Жыл бұрын
That makes a pickle for the knowing ones a single extremely long, unfinished sentence.
@mikeydubbs8565 Жыл бұрын
Massive error in Sam’s video. Although Dexter was born in Malden, all of the events in the video took place in Newburyport
@Velochromantic Жыл бұрын
Hey Chris! I’m in Florida, and The Sarasota Rare Coin Gallery / Sarasota Numismatics in Sarasota, FL had a $45 Continental Currency signed by Snowden - their website and eBay show sold out, but might be a good place to start or check with! Keep up the content!!
@henryJBonaparte Жыл бұрын
I have been waiting for so darn long for you to react to this video!! It's my absolute favorite from his channel, that an his video about the most controversial pop3s!
@ScarredBert Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate that you do the research I want to do but am too high to actually put the effort into doing ❤
@kruksog Жыл бұрын
I find your perspective and knowledge so interesting. I disagree with you deeply when it comes to politics, but I appreciate your knowledge and calm, friendly demeanor. I like what you do.
@dabatman518710 ай бұрын
A challenge everyone should do is read the first page of his book. It is absolute insanity
@wallythewondercorncake8657 Жыл бұрын
Kinda similar to the pizza hut thing, my local pub is an 18th century church. Also with your ancestry having a father and son on different sides of a conflict, there's also something like that in my ancestry. My great grandad was German and fought for the Kaiser, then moved to Britain and his son was a para in the British army in WW2
@imme8471 Жыл бұрын
Yes more Sam O’Nella! He has lots of historically relevant videos :)
@johansvensson833 Жыл бұрын
the book can be found for free on the guttenberg project it is an amazing read
@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish Жыл бұрын
My favorite one. Thanks for doing this video!
@Mattsashl09 Жыл бұрын
This is almost a Forest Gump kind of situation in history.
@DanielRodriguez-gs2xj Жыл бұрын
Where is the hollywood movie for this man? He is a damn icon and needs his own movie. Starring James Franco cause i feel he would do it very well.
@phillee2814 Жыл бұрын
They just set it more recently and called it "Forest Gump".
@jakoski Жыл бұрын
Timothy Dexter consistently bet on yellow and somehow still won every time.
@0boro Жыл бұрын
I'd watch a comedic historical movie about this man.
@ArnaudReille Жыл бұрын
The last video of the Italian campaign is released, the most brilliant ever.
@Maukustus Жыл бұрын
as a european not very well versed in united states history i think that i could easily mix up who signed/wrote the constitution with people who signed/wrote the DOI
@MrFoxtheSpy8 ай бұрын
You like this guy for the same reason people like Eric Cartman or other similar characters. Complete bastards, usually really dumb, but absolutely hilarious to read about or see on TV.
@dragonquesti86296 күн бұрын
Timothy Dexter is the name of my grandpa, so it's pretty cool that he shares a name with such an interesting figure
@prodsxmmit6 күн бұрын
You shared this video to your grandpa yet? (The original one)
@dragonquesti86295 күн бұрын
@@prodsxmmit no I should mention it to him though
@svenrio8521 Жыл бұрын
10:12 That guy became a Senator by 312 votes, one of the closest elections in senate history. So remember that next time you think one vote doesnt matter.
@maximilianbeyer5642 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't that at a time when there were only a few thousand voters per state though?
@arjunsandhar578 Жыл бұрын
Great vid
@13basses Жыл бұрын
If i remember right his mansion and the statues were destroyed at one point and the house that exists now is a re-creation of it.
@russoanthony8140 Жыл бұрын
Love being early, and love the content Chris! Might I recommend Five Evil Leaders by Sideprojects?
@Razgriz85 Жыл бұрын
Used to be a Pizza Hut in my home town, but it got demolished not long after it shut down and a McDonalds was built in its place.
@laxbrobighitter Жыл бұрын
Somehow, this may be my favorite of your reaction videos 😂😂
@GhostWatcher2024 Жыл бұрын
We have an insurance agency in an old tacobell building.
@Histography1453 Жыл бұрын
Do Norton next
@bbvestieofthemagbloodaltar7665 Жыл бұрын
Isn't this the 1000th upload on this channel? Cuz if so, that's huge!
@nontrashfire2 Жыл бұрын
My town had a "Liquor Hut". They just put a banner over the "Pizza" portion of the sign.
@DieselWeasel Жыл бұрын
I'm always a little disappointed when people know his segue is coming and cut it off early on this episode, because it's literally the most replayed segment of the video, by a LOT. XD
@JohnReedy07163 Жыл бұрын
Thank God that Louisville was built by Horse Farmer's and Breeders. Cause me being from "Blue Ridge Manor" sounds way cooler than from "Louisville, KY". Great Stuff as always!
@Thetroel Жыл бұрын
Funny enough I work at a Pizza Hut that moved right next to the old building, so I get to see that top out of the window of the store.
@Great_Olaf5 Жыл бұрын
You know, in my area, it's more often that Pizza Hut buys other businesses than close locations, so this video gave me the impression that they would add their hat onto buildings they bought... If you want more, I _think_ Count Danjula did a video on this guy too.
@svenrio8521 Жыл бұрын
The Count may be to spicy for this channel 👀
@janetd5121 Жыл бұрын
If Timothy Dexter were alive today he would be elected president.
@HistoryMonarch1999 Жыл бұрын
Your story reminded me of that episode form futurama where one of the characters ancestor was making fake currency for the British during the revolution
@Prussiaz Жыл бұрын
Just looked up J.Snowden and saw some of the currency! That is such an interesting historical note and I know you have a million of them! Hope you can get your hands on one someday, I dread to find out how much these go for on auction
@beigarthavenir4988 Жыл бұрын
Timothy Dexter is a prime example of a luck only build.
@grandroyal66 Жыл бұрын
This is off topic and maybe not history but.. to a big celebration of the 80's. The short movie: Kung Fury (swedish) deserves to not be forgotten. :)
@theinsanepumpkincarver Жыл бұрын
Do you plan on doing more historical photo/videos? Really enjoyed those.
@Genesis5000011 ай бұрын
bit late but a small nugget of local history from my town had one of the last 4 K-Marts in the US, it kept limping on until the big C hit.
@Dragonite43 Жыл бұрын
10:14 OH! You were talking about Al Franklin. XD
@VloggingThroughHistory Жыл бұрын
Al Franken, yeah.
@MLCrisis1790 Жыл бұрын
Count Dankula did a Mad Lads video as well. It was one of his best
@Mtioo1 Жыл бұрын
More Sam'o Nella, great
@lgb899611 ай бұрын
yo when you find someone that has a continental dollar with your 9th grade grandad signature on it please upload it!
@cosmickid1794 Жыл бұрын
This needs to be a mini-series somewhere........
@michaelgaunt2542 Жыл бұрын
Its time for me once a year 3 week VTH obsession
@jabber1990 Жыл бұрын
"I'm gonna do what's called a 'pro-gamer move' apparently"
@shanewallace256419 күн бұрын
I kind of want to read that guys book just to see, you know?
@yellowboi4661 Жыл бұрын
Hey VTH, Epic History TV released last episode of Napoleon's campaign
@shradicle8576 Жыл бұрын
Hey chris u probably already know, but Epic History just posted the last part to Napoleon's first campaign
@roballister5269 Жыл бұрын
another video on this guy please lmao
@robdixon7732 Жыл бұрын
Funny I got a Michael's by my house that you can see used to be a Children's Palace (castle design).
@BrandonSmith84 Жыл бұрын
I found a Jedediah Snowden and a Joseph Snowden on the Continental Currency
@korallebrutalis671311 ай бұрын
Hey, Chris, it's been awhile since I've visited your channel. And yesterday, I just had a sudden interest with history and I'm just binging most your reactions, and I'll check out some of your original stuff aswell later, but I have a question, do you know Joshua Norton? If so, then, feel free to ignore my request! But if you happened to not know him, maybe you could do a reaction of him, Sam also talkes about him, and has a video about him.
@randomuser9424644 ай бұрын
Crazy how the world works lol
@BojoPigeon Жыл бұрын
Falling up three flights of stairs and landing in a swimming pool full of gold coins
@lawden210 Жыл бұрын
Did not know about the fact regarding random capitalisation back then! Was that because the modern rules of capitalisation weren't thought of yet, or a sort of insufficient literacy?
@UnlicensedOkie Жыл бұрын
The old Pizza Hut here is now a cigarette/tobacco shop
@Joeyy1024 Жыл бұрын
Still waiting for your reaction to his Banana Republics video.
@dragonmaster10712 Жыл бұрын
thiS is veRy IntereStiNg!🎉
@mikeydubbs8565 Жыл бұрын
If you want to learn more about Dexter, check out Count Dankula’s video on him in his Absolute Mad Lads series