History Video Blog
The Wysiwyg Interpretation of History. Est. 2003.
02.01.2010
History Video Blog #2
Categories: History

Okay, I am back today. We just barely made it on this day’s commitment in Central Time, but you guys on the West Coast will easily get this on Monday. We changed the camera strategy, with better quality, and changed the venue to my office. I hate the way my legs show, so we will have to do something about that.

Today’s blog is about Winston Churchill’s parents. I hope you enjoy the story. And thank all of you who commented on the first blog. We really will take all your comments and suggestions seriously. For those who wonder, I am hoping to vary the format from time to time. I would love to have Croc Bob, Alan Bearman, and others as guests on the program, but you fans have to keep the ball rolling. You are our community and we are trying to change the world one unedited, low-tech video at a time. By the way, when I say “we” I mean me and my daughter-producer Hope. We are just experimenting with the product flags. If you drink PT’s coffee feel free to let them know we are giving them free advertising (for now!) and tell them what a sensation we are creating, and that they should seriously consider riding this wave.

So without further ado, here is the video blog, number 2 of that family. Enjoy!

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  • Hmmmm. . . My easy answer is that I wish I could meet Jesus face to face. I'd like to go to the dinner at Mary and Martha's. But if meeting Jesus isn't on the table, then I'd like to go to England at the beginning of the 19th Century, or maybe during Elisabeth I's reign. Anyway -- England. In the past. :-) :-)
  • laurie
    awesome.
  • Kelly
    Aye ye ye! I have no idea--I confess that the only thing currently influencing my back-in-time choice is the clothing style and that's shallow. However, with a few more of these videos, perhaps I'll have a better idea!

    P.S. I dig the new location.
    P.P.S. What's your answer?
  • Kelly: No right answer for this, but I would love to putter around in one of the cities of the Roman Empire for a while.
  • Go Back in Time:

    I would go back to the time of the great thinkers: Plato, Socraties (sp?), Aristotle (sp?), and I would sit in their walls of academia and I would learn, I would try to understand their thought process, and try to find the connection of which wisdom came from these men in turn to where we still discuss them to this very day.
    P.S. Thanks to Plato, I'd make one more stop, I'd stop to see if I really could find Atlantis.
  • Plato's dialogues and The Republic are worthwhile reads that would be the next best thing to sitting under the peripatetic philosophers. And as for Atlantis...well, have you ever been to Cleveland?
  • Liam, these videos are great! I'm no history buff but this kept my attention no problem.

    I'd time-travel to see the Sermon on the Mount (good idea, Will).

    And if it's any consolation, we also have a tripod, which is located somewhere in our house, which we have never actually used, but which would work a lot better than the stacks of books we always use. We generally find it when we move and use it to take up space in our moving van.
  • You may need some kind of time travel machine to get me that tripod from the Pacific Rim! But thanks for the offer.
  • will
    i would only time-travel if i could do so with THE Doctor, with a fully stocked Tardis. But, i mean, then, i would travel anywhere in time! Even traveling to yesterday would be awesome.
    Maybe i would like to be present for the sermon on the mount? At the last supper? hang out with Israel in his last days alive? In the 50s when Ike Turner first publicly played "Rocket '88"?
  • Watch out for those Doctor Who allusions. I suppose it is better than reciting mindless phrases from Monty Python.

    Thanks for the comment: So it is a choice between the birth of Christianity and the birth of Rock and Roll?
  • Bill
    According to Manchester, Randolph Churchill also suffered from syphilis which in its tertiary form caused him to go mad.

    I always like to think that I would have thrived in the post WWII era, but maybe I would have gotten caught up in seeing communists everywhere and ruined it for myself and others.
  • You mean there weren't communists everywhere? Boy, I'll have to rethink the 50s!
  • Brent
    Liam, I really like the idea and the stories are great. If there is a way to tighten it up and get it in the five minute range, I think that might help a bit. Your enthusiasm and passion clearly come through which is what makes it so enjoyable. I like the new camera angle too. Looking forward to more installments. Oh, and I'd go back to either ancient Rome or Reformation Europe.
  • Cat-a fan
    The question of the day: i would like to have lived in the revolutionary era in Boston. That is where the action was. Samuel Adams and John Hancock led the charge towards freedom from tyranny. On Aug 1, 1776 Adams said. " It does not require a majority to prevail but rather and irate tireless minority, keen to set brush fires in peoples minds."
    As you video blog on history set some fires Liam.
  • Jake: I was there in 1968. It was more about puberty for me than about the war or civil rights. I eventually got a draft card but I was like 335/365 in the lottery. The phones were dials. I wonder what texting would be like with retractable dials! Also, the Phone Company owned all our phones. They also lasted longer, but the big issue was LONG DISTANCE. As a kid I didn't worry about it and just used collect calls which forced the person receiving the call to pay for it. That was my parents, usually, when I went to college. On second thought...now, why would you want to go to 1968?
  • Fascinating stuff! Now, where did I leave that 4 million...?

    Perhaps I should be more ambitious, but I think I'd go back to 1968. No cellphones, kids played outside instead of in front of the TV, the Beatles were active... but only for about a week or so, since presumably my iPhone wouldn't work. (Also, as a young healthy male, I'd have to keep my time machine handy in case they tried to draft me.)
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