Everything You Were Taught About Johnny Appleseed is a Lie - If History Were Honest

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  • čas přidán 22. 12. 2023
  • The story of Johnny Appleseed they taught in schools is nowhere close to the truth.
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  • @cattibingo
    @cattibingo Před 4 měsíci +194

    Next you're going to tell me the pilgrims and native tribes didn't sit down to have a nice meal together & that christopher columbus was actually a terrible person

    • @naturalobserver1322
      @naturalobserver1322 Před 4 měsíci +9

      Everyone tells you that so he would tell you the opposite. 😉

    • @katc2040
      @katc2040 Před 4 měsíci

      Im actually curious if they still teach that in school. They retaught us about the colonies like every year it seemed like ​@@naturalobserver1322

    • @turkN9NE
      @turkN9NE Před 4 měsíci +3

      lmao

    • @SuperMrgentleman
      @SuperMrgentleman Před 4 měsíci +9

      They actually did sit down for a nice feast that lasted three days, and Columbus really wasn't all that bad for people of the time

    • @azraelhorsefeather1507
      @azraelhorsefeather1507 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Right??

  • @gravestac
    @gravestac Před 4 měsíci +40

    I scrambled around my neighbors' yards eating their crab apples like a sick raccoon! How did you know? Every day people would tell me I was going to get sick and die from it, but I am still here today, the sickest raccoon of all. Can't get sick if you're already sick lol.
    But in all honesty, 10% of the apples I've eaten have come from seeds. I love me some crab apples. so many different flavors. some are bitter, some sweet some more sour than sour warhead candy. But I love the variety.

    • @SiiriCressey
      @SiiriCressey Před 4 měsíci +2

      Me too. Grocery store apples are so......homogeneous.

    • @elaineb7065
      @elaineb7065 Před 4 měsíci

      I heard that what you do is plant a seed, get the crab apple tree, then plant an apple from that tree & you get good apples that way

    • @gravestac
      @gravestac Před 4 měsíci +4

      @@elaineb7065 Apple trees reproduce sexually, through pollination. They also have some protections against self pollination, so if the pollen DNA too closely matches the flowers' DNA, the tree won't produce offspring/ seeds that can be planted. So if you plant 2,000 apples from the same apple tree, you'll get 2,000 different kinds of apple tree. Size, flavor, and texture will be different. So some you might find appetizing by themselves, and others only useful for pie or moonshine.

  • @tracesizemore6736
    @tracesizemore6736 Před 4 měsíci +22

    I'm so glad Roger is a time lord. I would be worried if he died and didn't regenerate

  • @ryankunst668
    @ryankunst668 Před 4 měsíci +16

    Somehow I like Johnny Appleseed more now.

  • @final_catalyst
    @final_catalyst Před 4 měsíci +14

    Okay, now we need a dive into apple production and how the apple trees we graft on were made

  • @superbad8008
    @superbad8008 Před 4 měsíci +20

    I was always reading up on mythology and folklore in my school libraries growing up, including Johnny. So I honestly don’t know what I expected from this. Not as bad as I was dreading, but not wholesome like I remember.

  • @Xueria
    @Xueria Před 4 měsíci +64

    Well, I knew he existed and that the apple trees he made produced rather unpalatable fruit, but I didn't know he did it because he was paid by homesteaders to do so or that the fruit was used to make alcohol. Him being a religious zealot I didn't technically know, but isn't exactly a surprise, my impression was that it was pretty common back then.

    • @evanbarnes9984
      @evanbarnes9984 Před 4 měsíci +2

      It's still pretty damn common now. Just look up Kat Kerr, for example. She also claims to be bringing news straight from heaven, and she's allowed to drive a car and vote

    • @andrewcamden
      @andrewcamden Před 4 měsíci

      Yeah if you don't start making the beast with two backs BEFORE getting married, you're a "religious zealot".
      Are social diseases "woke" now?

    • @im3phirebird81
      @im3phirebird81 Před 4 měsíci +1

      When "expert opinions" and "scientific study" can be bought to tell you whatever you are supposed to hear, what more is "for science!" than the outcry of a religious zealot?

    • @SiriusMined
      @SiriusMined Před 4 měsíci +1

      As far as the unpalatable fruit, I did some looking into this and so far I've only found one author who said that was the case. Others were saying that the stuff he planted was good for applesauce.

    • @jendubay3782
      @jendubay3782 Před 4 měsíci +3

      ​@@SiriusMinedso, 25% of seed based apples will be palatable for eating out of hand. 25% will be good for baking, and 50% will be good for fermenting.

  • @carrotman
    @carrotman Před 4 měsíci +16

    This is so odd. Roger just introduced a dude and a sentient clock and left?

    • @alexis_electronic
      @alexis_electronic Před 4 měsíci +2

      Roger just hosted, this show will probably be done again. Hope it does, they were good actors.

    • @toonnaobi-okoye2949
      @toonnaobi-okoye2949 Před 4 měsíci +6

      Life is odd. Embrace it.

    • @HaldaneSmith
      @HaldaneSmith Před 4 měsíci +8

      If Roger were honest: I just do these intros to trick my audience into thinking these videos will be of the same high quality as a real Roger Horton video.

  • @newprophet2011
    @newprophet2011 Před 4 měsíci +5

    What Johnny Appleseed did was a little more complicated than just being a hired gun for homesteaders. In much of the United States (even to this day), you can claim land that you made a significant improvement on if the land is unowned or considered legally abandoned. An orchard counts as a significant improvement, so Appleseed would go to unclaimed frontier lands, plant his orchards, wait the required time (usually 10 years) and then go to court and get the deed for the property. He would then sell the land for a profit.
    Appleseed was not the first to do this and he surely not the last (Google "squatter claims" for modern stories on this). But, the crabapple trees were a clever twist.

  • @OsirisMalkovich
    @OsirisMalkovich Před 4 měsíci +3

    The actors in this video look like they are just doing this as temp work while they wait for the Joker to escape Arkham Asylum again so they can rejoin his gang.

  • @mdccxcii6340
    @mdccxcii6340 Před 4 měsíci +24

    Johnny Appleseed: The man who impregnated so many apples...or something. I've never actually heard of him.

  • @michaelsmith2619
    @michaelsmith2619 Před 4 měsíci +11

    I want more history stuff from cracked. May need to workshop it a little more though. The clocko character is just annoying.

    • @DonBrandt
      @DonBrandt Před 4 měsíci +3

      agree, change it up.

    • @kimberlys5266
      @kimberlys5266 Před 4 měsíci +4

      More Uncle Roger, less Clock-o and I'm all for it!

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Roger giving off Rod Serling vibes.

    • @gravestac
      @gravestac Před 4 měsíci

      I got the "Rod Sterling School of Fine Arts" high school diploma! Haha Dude's been a big part of my life since my family were fans and i grew up watching his stuff and grew up in one of the places he claimed as home.

  • @aestevalis0
    @aestevalis0 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Roger's a Time Lord?

  • @h2ojr1
    @h2ojr1 Před 4 měsíci +5

    I got Rogerbaited AGAIN
    they cant keep getting away with this!!!

  • @sebastianacevedo9444
    @sebastianacevedo9444 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I appreciate learning Eldritch lore about Mr. History and Clocko but it is also fascinating about learning about historical figures thank you

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Look, when I was a kid, the first version of the Johnny Appleseed legend came from the wonderful cartoon starring Dennis Day as ... well, pretty much everyone in the short, including the narrator. Took me years to understand there was an actual person called Johnny Appleseed!
    🎵The Lord is good to me!
    And so I thank the Lord!
    For giving me the things I need!
    The sun and the rain and the apple seed!
    Yes, He's been good to me! 🎵
    Spirits, I still know those lyrics!!

  • @luidprand
    @luidprand Před 4 měsíci +5

    This is a drastic improvement from the first episode. I believe you're close to finding your voice. Also, The fewer gimmicks allow you more time dealing with the actual topic at hand.

  • @dondaileyii
    @dondaileyii Před 4 měsíci

    This is by far my favorite of these.

  • @MatthewTheWanderer
    @MatthewTheWanderer Před 4 měsíci +2

    So are they moving the Honest History show to Cracked instead of the Honest Ads channel? Good idea! I'm subscribed to both already!

  • @RealRainOnly
    @RealRainOnly Před 4 měsíci +5

    These are so great!

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Roger The Lord Of Time.
    I knew it!

  • @galloe8933
    @galloe8933 Před 4 měsíci +5

    The ferret man, and haunted clock did a great job! Johny did, however, steal the show.
    Merry Christmas, B-Crew!
    Okay, I actually do enjoy the skits, but part of me, a part that I didn't know I had, a part that kept itself hidden deep down with the killing Hitler fantasies, well, it makes me feel the need to mock you two, not the killing Hitler things, which I now must admit are all far superior to Ferret & Clock time skits.
    I wasn't even going to say that, but as stated above, I have to do that.
    I mean, c'mon covering Hitler with honey and feeding him to stinging insects is better.

    • @peterlang777
      @peterlang777 Před 4 měsíci +2

      He does resemble a 70s disco ferret

  • @Norm604
    @Norm604 Před 4 měsíci +1

    There should have been a commercial for Horton's Hard Cider in there somewhere....

  • @Charlesbakowski
    @Charlesbakowski Před 4 měsíci +2

    Cracked used to be a really lame mad magazine ripoff and I feel like it holds the same place in my heart today as a youtube channel.

  • @southernfriedwestcoaster
    @southernfriedwestcoaster Před 4 měsíci

    This series is underrated. Trying to make a lot of apple cider sounds my dad's friends from New York who had a microbrewery

  • @Mustachioed_Mollusk
    @Mustachioed_Mollusk Před 4 měsíci +2

    Oh no! My education!

  • @TJC6626
    @TJC6626 Před 4 měsíci +2

    MJ dresses like Doug 😂😂

  • @lininacrowne1941
    @lininacrowne1941 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Religion and money. Always the root of every story

  • @KasumiRose77
    @KasumiRose77 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Disney... The world's biggest lie machine....

  • @playsomething4029
    @playsomething4029 Před 4 měsíci

    0:30 *SOOO TRUE* THE CROSS BRONX EXP MENTION 🤣

  • @cl3mb0t
    @cl3mb0t Před 4 měsíci +1

    I remember seeing an episode of “Lassie” as a kid where Timmy tries to preserve a tree that was planted by Johnny Appleseed.
    I think…. Eventually it was saved and they built a bench around it?
    Maybe I’m confusing it with Leave it to Beaver again. Anyway! The point is the exagerations were well baked into history even before Disney. But I definitely remember the Disney version better. And the songs. Oh Lord! The goddamn songs.

    • @cl3mb0t
      @cl3mb0t Před 4 měsíci

      Lassie, Season 5:
      The Tree
      For a club project, Timmy and Boomer adopt a tree that was supposedly planted by Johnny Appleseed, then discover it is sleighted to be cut down to make way for a highway, so Timmy writes a letter to the President of the United States.

  • @amsterdam78
    @amsterdam78 Před 4 měsíci +3

    The show was better when it was mostly Roger

    • @Honest_Ads
      @Honest_Ads Před 4 měsíci

      What show? Honest Ads are over here my Dutch friend

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 3 měsíci +1

    They never talk about his successor, Tommy Analbead, though.

  • @wickidblazed420
    @wickidblazed420 Před 4 měsíci

    I live where Johnny Apple Seed lived & died at!!! I go to his grave every time the Johnny Apple Seed Fest hits town!! The food and drinks are expensive but worth it!!

  • @h7opolo
    @h7opolo Před 4 měsíci +2

    1:14 clock joke

    • @h7opolo
      @h7opolo Před 4 měsíci

      i see Cracked made that older video private where i pointed out this missed joke. now they used the joke. good for them.

  • @Zaniel8
    @Zaniel8 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thank you
    😂

  • @johnnypham2850
    @johnnypham2850 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I truly LOVE HONEST ADS

  • @AshGreen359
    @AshGreen359 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I thought he was actually barefoot.

  • @RolandHazoto
    @RolandHazoto Před 4 měsíci +2

    Crabapples are delicious. I ate them a lot as a kid when I'd go to the park.
    If you eat too many they give you stomach cramps, but are otherwise tasty if you like sour things.

  • @davidknightx
    @davidknightx Před 4 měsíci +1

    Um.......Happy Holidays everyone?

  • @livecrosswire
    @livecrosswire Před 4 měsíci +1

    Hmm why is this video on cracked. Oh maybe it's not a Rog' Hortion program. Must fix that web browser. Loved the video. Thanks.

  • @spacepeanut8993
    @spacepeanut8993 Před 4 měsíci +5

    I miss Rodger telling us this.

    • @Honest_Ads
      @Honest_Ads Před 4 měsíci +1

      I’m over here - and purely in the business of advertising.

  • @Sapper201D
    @Sapper201D Před 4 měsíci +1

    Crab apples were the sh@t! Literally

  • @flowerblue196
    @flowerblue196 Před 4 měsíci

    I love this true story ❤😂

  • @AlimiAlpha
    @AlimiAlpha Před 4 měsíci

    Completely forgotten he even existed

  • @luc515025
    @luc515025 Před 4 měsíci

    Yoooooooo 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉 this is savage

  • @handleyourowntool
    @handleyourowntool Před 4 měsíci +1

    I've been watching these videos for a few years, but I now have a serious question. Is this dude saying he's Rodger, really Rodger?

  • @freesheep0
    @freesheep0 Před 4 měsíci

    I recognize that song

  • @lvx720
    @lvx720 Před 4 měsíci +1

    All apple trees were grown from apple seeds, unless you subscribe to spontaneous generation. Yeah they're grafted. Still came from seeds. A long time ago.

  • @tivednagol9127
    @tivednagol9127 Před 4 měsíci

    Picking up where Adam Conover left off. Thanks Rog.

  • @marcusm8009
    @marcusm8009 Před 4 měsíci +1

    He's a pot head too!

  • @CyGea
    @CyGea Před 4 měsíci +17

    This did not change my view of Johnny at all.
    This was kind of what I already imagined.
    Grew up on a dairy farm homestead, with an unused crab apple grove.
    Nobody ate from those trees, not even our cows.
    Our family also had a homestead that was an apple farm.
    All the cousins (about 40 of us, ages 4 to 15) would get together and have rotten apple fights in the grove. We'd split into teams, take a side of the grove, and each tie a flag to the top of the tallest apple tree on our sides.
    It was capture the flag war, with the ground apples for ammo (no picking hard apples from the trees). You get hit with an apple, your sent to the other team's jail.
    The game ended when someone gets a flag, captures all of the other team, or someone hurt and crying goes to the adults (which was about half the time).

    • @HaldaneSmith
      @HaldaneSmith Před 4 měsíci +3

      Sounds like a late summertime snowball fight.

  • @alejandrovallejo4406
    @alejandrovallejo4406 Před 4 měsíci +1

    CLOCKOOOOO

  • @SiiriCressey
    @SiiriCressey Před 4 měsíci

    Did Mr Chapman have any connection to the......um......opening up of the frontier lands in question?

  • @DavidJohnson-pu2jh
    @DavidJohnson-pu2jh Před 4 měsíci +1

    Please Do A Video about The ProJect 2025 Plan

  • @SIZModig
    @SIZModig Před 4 měsíci

    I didn't quite get two things, firstly the whole thing about the plots of land - did he make a deal and plant trees years in advance of people actually settling, and somehow no one else took the land? - and secondly, as a Swede, I have no idea what this Swedenborg thing is about. Not sure if I should be offended or not.

  • @TheKrispyfort
    @TheKrispyfort Před 4 měsíci

    Have eaten apples from trees grown from seed.
    Most were tart but a few were great for cooking.

  • @Chimerayuri3
    @Chimerayuri3 Před 4 měsíci

    I live by the Bronx express way lol

  • @thedeekabides
    @thedeekabides Před 4 měsíci

    I still like him. He gave homes for birds and firewood to countless.

  • @iridiumhydrogen8420
    @iridiumhydrogen8420 Před 4 měsíci

    Ah fucking amazing !

  • @Jianichie
    @Jianichie Před 4 měsíci +1

    Prime example of never meeting your heroes

  • @booker9879
    @booker9879 Před 4 měsíci

    I just watched a screen presentation on my cell screen...

  • @allisonbergh4429
    @allisonbergh4429 Před 4 měsíci

    My kindergarten teacher was one of his relatives, so we learned more about him than most kids. Pretty much none of that was news 😆

  • @sebastianacevedo9444
    @sebastianacevedo9444 Před 4 měsíci

    A great video thank you. But "Do we have a Roomba with a knife?" His name is Stabby and you know it. But I didn't know much about Johnny Appleseed except he grew apples

  • @serjabdjabah8336
    @serjabdjabah8336 Před 4 měsíci

    LORD OF TIME 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @menaseven9093
    @menaseven9093 Před 3 měsíci

    Johnny Appleseed wasn't that stupid he created a tree-planting business.

  • @mldzines
    @mldzines Před 4 měsíci

    I have eaten apples straight off a tree....as a kid a neighbor had an acre of them.

  • @aaronhpa
    @aaronhpa Před 4 měsíci +1

    I didn't like the pacing, but Roger is still very fun

  • @Herpetile
    @Herpetile Před 4 měsíci

    Roger lord of time

  • @SiriusMined
    @SiriusMined Před 4 měsíci

    Yeah this article had some errors of its own

  • @peterlang777
    @peterlang777 Před 4 měsíci

    Egads! History is lies! Shocking 😂🎉

    • @deadpuddle86
      @deadpuddle86 Před 4 měsíci

      History is whatever the people telling it want it to be. We have no history.. Just skewed stories from the victors interpreted as history

  • @tonymeza4355
    @tonymeza4355 Před 4 měsíci +4

    I clicked off this video as soon as Roger left the screen.

  • @SuperMrgentleman
    @SuperMrgentleman Před 4 měsíci +3

    "haha here we are being smug and subversive haha aren't we so cool!"

  • @rapchee
    @rapchee Před 4 měsíci +1

    so i guess we can start complaining about the new-new hosts?

  • @thatwifelife2138
    @thatwifelife2138 Před 4 měsíci

    September 26 my birthday, also Johnny Appleseed Day.

  • @selfiekroos1777
    @selfiekroos1777 Před 3 měsíci

    HONEST THROAT FLAB

  • @Derekzparty
    @Derekzparty Před 4 měsíci

    All Hail Roger Hortin, Lord of Time

  • @CurtisWhitehead-wn5bs
    @CurtisWhitehead-wn5bs Před 4 měsíci

    As usual. Man corrupts everything he touches. Got me side-eyeing my Granny Smiths now 😒🍏

  • @D2theJ26
    @D2theJ26 Před 4 měsíci

    If you've never tried a crab apple don't. So bitter lol

  • @jareknowak8712
    @jareknowak8712 Před 4 měsíci

    Seed Bae

  • @nevenlucic6238
    @nevenlucic6238 Před 4 měsíci

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sys9208
    @sys9208 Před 4 měsíci

    Why this Jhonny in my recommendation?

  • @arothmanmusic
    @arothmanmusic Před 4 měsíci

    Well, at least Pecos Bill is real.

  • @jareknowak8712
    @jareknowak8712 Před 4 měsíci

    👍

  • @4c3fr3h1y
    @4c3fr3h1y Před 4 měsíci +6

    I go away for a couple years and come back just to find out cracked is now written and edited by actual crackheads. Wtf was all the random nonsense about?

    • @muchtested
      @muchtested Před 4 měsíci +2

      It's another Cracked spin-off about history using Roger to introduce it.

    • @4c3fr3h1y
      @4c3fr3h1y Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@muchtested i understand that. im referring to the random asides, hectic editing, and pee-wee herman style characters.

    • @muchtested
      @muchtested Před 4 měsíci

      @@4c3fr3h1y Apparently, insanity and dementia have taken over.

  • @solarscreams2447
    @solarscreams2447 Před 4 měsíci +3

    How the mighty have fallen. So unfunny

  • @floridamaninthewild
    @floridamaninthewild Před 4 měsíci

    I can appreciate anyone who promoted alcohol.

  • @iBeSupicious
    @iBeSupicious Před 4 měsíci

    Damn, I always knew I was a raccoon.

  • @taurisshingler2868
    @taurisshingler2868 Před 4 měsíci

    So...youre a Time Lord?

    • @KingOfDoma
      @KingOfDoma Před 4 měsíci

      His Time Lord name is The Roger (he drops the The for our benefit)

  • @jrbergsten
    @jrbergsten Před 4 měsíci

    Who knew Cuisinart made pots back then? Nice pot but Copper Clad better.

  • @TheElusiveReality
    @TheElusiveReality Před 4 měsíci

    Jokes are you I'm from Jamaica and o'tahiti apples do indeed come from seeds 😎 they also look and taste nothing like American apples they're juicy and delicious

  • @TheseWhiteNights
    @TheseWhiteNights Před 4 měsíci

    The music in the beginning doesn't really go with the content.

  • @comradeweismann6947
    @comradeweismann6947 Před 4 měsíci

    Comments for the algorithm

  • @DonBrandt
    @DonBrandt Před 4 měsíci

    great actors, bad repeat setup. obnoxious to listen too. come on producers, stop the embarrassing scene and write something else... i wanted to hear about the topic, but just closed the window after comments. look at the stats after switch scenes from roger, bet they drop.

  • @Mistwolfss
    @Mistwolfss Před 4 měsíci

    I see no problem with anything he did.

  • @Mrakatsuki190
    @Mrakatsuki190 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thank you so much for breaking open this myth

  • @charlesbolin7207
    @charlesbolin7207 Před 4 měsíci +1

    You should just have Roger do the whole show. The other two are not funny

  • @byteme83
    @byteme83 Před 4 měsíci

    Sorry, this doesn't change my opinion of him much. The guy planted trees that could make hard apple cider. He wasn't genociding Indians or some crap. Plus, the money that the settlers made from selling their hard apple cider maybe helped at least a few of them not starve to death.

  • @OfLanceTheLonginus
    @OfLanceTheLonginus Před 2 dny

    This is super inaccurate