I didn't expect much from San Marino. Even filming this episode I was a little annoyed with how little I could find worth telling.
But this story entertained me, and Kata edited it bea...
2019-08-31 18:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We happened to be driving past Liechtenstein on our way to filming and came across this story. I couldn't find it online in English, so I decided to make the pit stop.
Thanks for watchi...
2019-08-24 18:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't expect a lot of people to watch this episode, but it was the main reason I went to Somaliland in the first place and it damn well needs to be heard.
200 million women. At leas...
Laas Geel was amazing!!! The art is incredible and the paintings are so well preserved. Hard to believe they are at least 5,000 years old. Makes a visit to Somaliland totally worth it, even if you ...
2019-08-10 18:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons,
As you might guess upon watching, this week's video is an emotional follow up to our rather clinical look at Somaliland independence. I feel to understand the true drive toward...
2019-08-03 18:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It is my understanding that Somaliland receives around five hundred tourists a year. We were three. But within a single day, street assaults over tattoos meant we were two. Then one.
...
Today's video, the last from Ethiopia, is my favourite of the season.
Abel is a hero of mine, but also a friend. I'm proud to have met him and to have been able to pass on his story. He dese...
Tej! It looks great but tastes horrible. I think it may just be antifreeze. Both of us who drank it vomited, and really badly so at that.
Yet, I still highly recommend it. Why? Because we ca...
Hello dearest Patrons,
I am back, not gunned down in the street, and here in my normal chair trying to figure out this week's normal video. Luckily for me, this week is a bit of a break from...
The battle of Adwa is among the most famous battles in history. Hard to call rare. So instead, this episode is about an obelisk. All joking not aside, everything, of course, is a matter of perspect...
2019-06-29 18:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Chewing khat at this point is tradition. It is so much a part of East African culture that you can even use it to bribe the police.
Evan probably wishes he could have bribed men with bags of ...
2019-06-22 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
God is just what we make of it. Even when they aren't.
The Rastas of Shashamane are a very secluded community, so trying to respect their privacy, filming this episode was challenging. Luckil...
2019-06-15 18:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a story about coffee. We hope you like it.
Tesfamikael and his family were very nice people. They invited us into their home for coffee.
Ethiopian coffee is really good. Y...
2019-06-08 18:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Earthlings.
This week's episode is a bit of a silly take on a serious topic.
It's hard to deny that I wrote this whole episode because I wanted you to see Samuel the amorous don...
Teff. It's the primary staple of the national diet of Ethiopia. It forms injera, the daily bread of an entire nation, and has been around since the very dawn of agriculture.
But today, ...
2019-05-25 18:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
If we found the Ezana stone before the Rosetta, I suspect you'd already know this story. But we didn't, so you probably haven't heard about it. Even now, the Ezana stone is pretty hard to find. It'...
2019-05-18 18:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Harar! Where feeding various animals chunks of goat has become a tourism bonanza.
The town itself is probably the most unique and interesting place we visited in Ethiopia, and we ended up d...
Helllllllllo dear Patrons,
Welcome to another Saturday's attempt to entertain and educate. Today's episode is about Awra Amba, a cult by any other name.
This video was easily our most...
I liked this story. I liked it so much that I made an entire episode about something that is completely incapable of being filmed. The story of Abba Mahari: Ethiopia's Moses.
There is almost...
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Today's episode is about a dam they'd never let me get close to, and the countries who wish to destroy it.
I'm going to try to start t...
2019-04-20 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back!
Although it wasn't the first episode we filmed in Ethiopia (actually, nearly the last), we felt that humanity's beginning would make for a good opener.
This is the story ...
Hello everyone. I might not be dead, but I am slightly out of focus!
It has been a heck of a long time since I've put an update out here on Patreon, and I'm excited to announce that we're fi...
Dear Patrons, it's time we had a quick chat about the future.
Francesco is gone. And while we are all wishing him the best in what is undoubtedly the right decision, the kid was 50% o...
Welcome to 2019! We're back, if momentarily, to bring you some childish jokes from a small town in Newfoundland.
As mentioned in the description of the video in more detail, Francesco is mov...
Dear Patrons,
I don't really remember why we decided to do this, but we've made a video about how we make videos, with a real video wedged in. I'm not sure if you'll like it, but doing it this ...
It's Wednesday, and that means we're talking in my house. Today's episode comes with an incredibly long preamble and a little back and forth about a product I actually like (and a Patron friend of min...
2018-12-12 20:13:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I hope you're excited for a video about incest and blood theft. I know I am.
But more seriously, this episode was made possible by the friendly and open attitude of people who k...
Hooray! My body is finally bounced back from getting in the car accident, and I'm able to get back to filming various long delayed second channel Patreon videos.
Today's video is the story of t...
Today's episode is the story of one of my heroes. Dr. Wilfred Grenfell. He was a good man, who lived a good life. I have huge respect for anyone who puts up with a Labrador winter, let alone simply to...
2018-12-01 19:03:33 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you do when the cod's gone?
To follow the theme of our last episode's fishery doom and gloom, we wanted to show what had been done since the collapse on the island of Fogo, and h...