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Victor Grayson: The Scandalous Mystery of the Missing Politician
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- Uncover the enigma of Victor Grayson, the politician who vanished without a trace. Was it scandal, conspiracy, or something more sinister? Dive into history's unsolved political mystery!
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I'd like to thank Victor Grayson for his invaluable help in researching this script.
I'd also like to politely request that he hands over the negatives at the earliest possible opportunity.
Hey it's the you!
How old is the extortion material if there are actual photonegatives involved? Most things have a statute of limitations.
I'll bet he was a Lizard Overlord like Simon. Allegedly.
Danny, weekly blaze when? Also, someone should do a short episode about the Techno Viking, just for giggles.
@@fett713akamandodragon52nd to the techno Viking.
30:45 note for American listeners here: in the UK, diary is NOT synonymous with journal; it's usage is more equivalent to the American planner, referring to a calendar of events and engagements that is in book form. He wasn't writing about it after the events in his journal; he was scheduling future activities in his planner.
PTSD, Losing a wife and child, hiding homosexuality, drinking, public critisism, debt. Yeah, those are good reasons to make you want to disappear
That boy had a rough life, no doubt there!
My grandmother & her twin sister were born in 1914 on a farm in Missouri. They were never given middle names because the doctor didn't think they would survive. They were about 2 lbs each. They were kept in a box or drawer under the wood burning stove to keep them warm. My great aunt lived to be 59 (she died before I was born) & my grandma died at 92 yo. Infant mortality was, unfortunately, so high back then!
I’ve been missing your writing, Danny. In all honesty, every single video on every one of the channels you write for, I wait breathlessly to see if you wrote it. I know I’m not the only one.
Thank you for the kind words Jesse, but I haven't been anywhere, I'm still here!
At least I think I am. I'm beginning to have doubts now.
@@DannySalter😂
@@DannySalter If you see a sign that says "You are here", you can rest easy. I'm sure Simon's dungeon is big enough to warrant a map.
@@DannySalterBy here, do you mean in the blazement?
@@DannySalter we’re always looking for you, Comrade Danny. You’ll never pull a Victor Grayson on us.
6:05 “why didn’t they just get married?” Well, you just said that dad was on the run from the British military, he probably didn’t want to put his real name down on any government documents, like, say, a marriage certificate.
A man awoke from a brief nap. He turned to his friend sitting next to him and said:
"Funny, I dreamt that was a member in parlament."
Pausing to give him a look over, the friend replied: "But you are. We are in parlament now."
Simon's mispronunciation of Passchendale hurt my soul. Also, its wild that Grayson's story at Passchendale so closely mirrors that of Harry Patch, the last survivor of the battle, who likewise was the wounded lone survivor of an artillery shell hit.
Start your own chanel. With cartoons. Otherwise, ain't listenin.. cya
I, too, was hurt. Thank God they put it on the screen because my face was the mirror of the gif they put up trying to figure out what Simon was failing spectacularly to pronounce.
As a Canadian it hurts me as well. Note to Simon - it's passion-dale.
Tell any Australian about the missing politician, and we will be like, hold my beer. We lost a whole PM.
And named a pool after him when he drowned
Ye Olde Harold Holt lols
@@juliamcwilliam & the term for pissing off
@juliamcwilliam its not even a good pool, either!!
Russian submarine to disappear with his mistress or Aliens.
Excellent. I look forward to falling asleep to this and then getting to listen to it "properly" tomorrow... Possibly after a night of wild dreams depending on how insane Danny's script is. 🙈
I always mean to do this, but I fear I forget to re-watch, thinking I have already seen it awake. Especially disappearance ones, because I don't remember names.
They’re my bedtime stories too.😂
100 % agree and can relate to this!
Samee
I did exactly that, this is my "proper" watch
"He swam out to sea" is the new "Carbon monoxide."
😂😂😂
Only in Australia, where prime minister Harold Holt went missing while swimming.
They even named a pool in his honor.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosNaming a pool after someone who drowned is savage. 😂
@@AccidentallyOnPurposeGot to love the dry humour of it.
My other favourite Aussie fact. When the space station Skylab crashed in Western Australia, the local shire jokingly sent NASA a littering fine.
@@davescott7680dry humor? I see what you did there
When I find out it's a script from Danny, I automatically become even more intrigued and eager to watch.
Hats off to you, dear Sir Salter 🎩
Danny’s dry humour is perfect for Simon’s delivery
Isn't it such an excellent pairing? I totally agree!
Last time I was this early, Victor Grayson wasn’t missing
I love how he just describes the RFK run without knowing he is doing so.
And the Kanye West run. And the Jill Stein run. And the Andrew Yang run....that's why Republicans are so comfortable with Democrats being seen as "the bigger person", making it so Democrats can't just do it back themselves.
I had the same reaction
Same
Passchendaele: Said as "Passion Dale". Also called the Third Battle of Ypres. It was a particularly bloody place for Canadians to die and it's very big in their national identify of the war. I felt many Canadians horrified pain at factboi winging that one.
Yeah I feel that one should know passchendaele. But Simon's general knowledge isn't the best 😅
@@JimmyS.25 Not only Passchenaele, but The Cloth Hall and the Menin Gate. And remember Simon's POSH British education through university!
It does go to show how much the British in school care about our history as Canadians. He probably never even learned about it.
Thank you for correcting him.
@@stax6092 As a Brit, one word b*ll*cks, we do learn about Canada's involvement in all of our conflicts and we are very grateful to all our brothers in arms.
Was hoping another Canadian explained. Thanks. 🇨🇦😉🇨🇦
When I was voting for the first time I asked my mum how to decide who to vote for. She responded "you don't need to decide anything. We got SNP in this house" a common opinion held in Scotland. Really freaked her out when I actually did some research into the candidates and made an informed decision.
Whistleboy! Can someone more skilled than me make a supercut of every time you call someone a legend?? It always makes me smile and I'm not gonna rewatch a 3 hour long Casual Criminalist episode.......a THIRD time....just to find them 😂 I'm POSITIVE you have someone qualified locked in your basement....so slip them my request under the door please 😆
"It puts the legend in the video or else it gets the hose" Buffalo Bill style
Simon working out the concept of a spoiler candidate in real time.
Kanye 2020 😎
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. 2024......
Trump 2016! oh shit!
@jessgunn6639 I've heard the theory that the RNC wanted Jeb Bush and flooded the field with weaker candidates who they expected to get picked off primary by primary. Then Trump dropped Jeb early, and the smooth path they'd made became his lane. If true, it's a warning that the spoiler might win.
The 10% thing you mentioned is not only the exact means by which a 3rd party option typically gets demonized, but also the exact charge levied against Ross Perot when he ran in the 90s.
It's also the driving force behind RFK Jr's current candidacy
I absolutely adore all things Simon and Danny’s exceptional writing skills but I always look forward to his editors sense of humor…brilliant as always😂
wow, I was starting to wonder if danny was still alive over there in the blazement… glad to see he hasn’t fallen victim to the questionable mushrooms growing in the corner!
The mention of Victor swimming out to sea makes me think of another politician who disappeared.
Have you really not covered Harold Holt yet?
We even named a pool after him!
Not just one pool. There is one in Melbourne, and another one on an australian military base in in Vietnam.
The US even named a ship after him.
In the US, a third party candidate that splits the vote and hands victory to the other side is known as a "spoiler candidate," and is unfortunately pretty common. That's why I'm all for ranked choice voting, which helps solve that problem.
Only wealthy land-owning men being able to vote was pretty standard. In many countries the women's right to vote was in fact (near) universal suffrage where a majority of the men also got the right to vote for the first time. The history has just been politicized to the point where this is often forgotten.
“It’s probably highly illegal, but it sounds like a good idea”
*Every weekend night out*
Used to work with a dude named Grayson Savage. Easily the coolest name in existence. My politics change depending on how ridiculously limited our two choices are.
That name is Savage
To be fair, it is REALLY hard to just think someone is missing immediately. Especially if its like this case, where there's no obvious signs of struggle. 98% you just assume they're late or busy with other things
Simon, your Parliament noises are the best thing you’ve done in a bit
“‘Settled in Kent.’ That’s where I’m from.” Ahh. So Simon is the great-grandson of Victor Grayson and he’s just keeping the mystery going.
Posted 52 seconds ago? Don't mind if I do
9 min for me but same reaction
Finally this meme comment without the annoying unoriginally repeated "bro fell off" ending
Lol, we got the real lads in this thread
😂 for real
7hkk 😅😅m😮😮😅😅😅hu🎉
Anyone else thought about thought about Due South when Simon tried to say Passchenele.
About parliaments outside the UK. Well the NSW parliament is colloquially known as “the bear pit” and we had a prime minister (Paul Keeting) who’s acerbic wit was both feared and admired- depending on whether you were on the receiving end of it, for example one of his milder shots at an opposition party member reads: "I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman's hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness."
Didn’t he yell at unemployed “get a job?” Ba ha ha
@@Kahrahnus Yes he actually told protesting university students to go get a job, he could never claim to be very PC. Apparently Facebook has a Paul Keeting Insult Appreciation Society going, so that tells you something about the virtuosity of his verbal pyrotechnics. Also remember this man left school at 15. He has no university education at all.
“What? Women voting? They’re fine, decorative little things…like a teapot! But you wouldn’t let a teapot run the country, now would you?”
The Goodies - 1970’s, sometime. What a great show. 😬😬😬
Love your British Politics sarcasm Danny! It brings it down to brass tacks and no-one is exempt from corruption
Not naming your child or getting a birth certificate until the child survived for a bit was done alot in Christian churches throughout the ages and the Irish were known to do it quite a bit. I think a birth certificate cost money so the parents wanted it to be "money well spent". Even in the 1800s child mortality was high, so having kids was almost a form of gambling. Still is too.
Mine didn't get names or birth certificates until they graduated from college. Made enrollment in school difficult, but I didn't want to take my chances...
It wasn’t uncommon in other cultures, too, iirc. I think this kinda plays out in others where a person’s name changes with them over their lifetime also.
my cousin didn't get a birth certificate until she was getting married
People who have children nowadays are living out a completely selfish fantasy of having a family… because there’s no way you could look at the world as it is and say oh yeah I’ll bring children into this shit show.
Our ancestors were weird with birthing in a way at 1st glance. Everywhere it seems. But my native american tribe (along with many others) practiced a type of 4th trimester. Or a father's birthing cycle perhaps.
Our ppl are matriarchal, women had quite a few rights. And all lands and titles were passed through the mothers line.
After giving birth, the father is required to literally tie the baby to himself for weeks, only removing baby to change and clean, then for feeding. It is suppose to help mom whilst recovering and then aid in bonding between father and son. Only after this period is complete can the baby be named. Father's pick. Then after puberty and the teen child has began forming his personality, we were renamed again. Some tribes renamed over the whole lifespan. Which is why we introduce our parents names, where we are from and where we live now. All without even giving our own names. Crazy
4:45 - Chapter 1 - Children of the revolution
40:20 - Chapter 2 - Honour among thieves
1:05:10 - Chapter 3 - Seeds of doubt
1:14:45 - Chapter 4 - I see dead people
mate you say it like passiondale
Hey, we have MPs in the US too. It's just what we call military police.
Also, while describing the spoiler effect, you described the Green, Progressive, Constitutionalist, and Libertarian parties in the US.
The idea that every 3rd party candidate is simply a spoiler also happens to be extremely useful for the two major parties.
Simon's new catch phase; God Day-um!
Man, the inflatable reindeer would probably sway me to any party.
Sounds like a good laugh.
Hah, Danny asking for the floor. All you have is the floor, there is no furniture in the Blazement!
Just wanna say, I love Danny's writing for this channel. Ilza (not sure if I spelled that right) does pretty good too but the way Danny builds the story, the details and the tiny side tangents (without overdoing them) is so, so good.
He saw Zuck without his human cosplay.
As an Australian, I'm surprised to learn that compulsory voting isn't all that common like I thought it was.
as a fellow aussie - why did you think there is so much push for everyone to vote every time theres a presidential election?
@@miikaura well i knew that America doesn't have compulsory voting, but I thought we had modeled compulsory voting off of the UK so I'm surprised to learn it's not as common world-wide as I believed. I'm also not that interested in politics so i never gave it much thought
@@kalielasmith1109wow Australia has compulsory voting? I didn't know that.
Yeah, but this time, it's not an inflatable reindeer it's a bloated, old, rotten carrot full of hot air.
Tony Blair sold his soul to robert murdock inc
Just to add to Simon's shock at the voting rights of plebs....in Northern Ireland up until 1969, 4 of the Parliamentary Seats were specifically for Queens University and only former students or alumni could vote for the candidates.
Unless he just didn't care about his daughter, he has to have died when he "went missing". Why would taking a bribe to leave the country mean you never speak to any of your family again?
I wil never get tiered of a story talking about children being forced to work, women having no right or something being in the British museum and Simon emphatically stating "As it should be!"😂😂😂
One time our Prime minster of Australia just disappeared after going for a swim at a beach and we also named a pool after him. No I'm not making this up. Happened in Australia.
Just started watching this and i wonder how long before Simon realises this is a thinly veiled call by Dave for greater rights for his writers 😂
the 1942 police investigation was started because Victor's sister from Canada asked them to look for him
Oooh! Just in time for bedtime!
Batman comic: Graysons murdered by criminals, and a child placed in care with a rich Patron.
Danny is to Simon what John Williams is to Steven Spielberg
"Oh he just switched to scamming!" Cute to hear Simon the sweet summer child discover this [chef's kiss] 😂
14:56 I love that Simon independently develops the concept of Spoiler Candidates. It be CRAZY if that was legal, right guys?
It's actually not legal, not in the USA anyway. It's just incredibly difficult to prove that someone is backing a spoiler candidate explicitly so that they'll spoil instead of being a genuine supporter.
Really enjoyed this one, great stuff
Women got the vote first on the Isle of Man,Emily Pankhurst was well known there.,bit of history for you.
Love how Simon makes Passchendale sound like some tropical place, while it's litterally just oversees in Belgium.
Pronunciation wise I think you get close with 'Passion d-ale'.
It doesn’t strike me as unlikely that Churchill ordered an investigation after having been told he might be a blood relative - not to hide or destroy it but just to see if he could put the issue to bed once and for all.
Simon, I'm a dual US/Italian citizen and currently live in the US (I prefer living in Europe, but I'm addicted to air conditioning and large American home sizes) and I almost always vote in US elections but I almost never vote in Italian/EU elections since I don't currently live there.
“This doesn’t sound like a conspiracy, it sounds like a conspiracy” - words of wisdom from our lord and savior Simon
Glad to see a danny script. Such an OG
Dmn Simon, doesn't know the name of one of the big 3 battles of ww1 😂 Pash-in-dale for English speakers if that helps
So he might have moved to where Simon is from? New theory: He changed his name, started a new family, and may be Simon's ancestor.
Foreign government assassins appear to be a much more prevalent problem than I ever thought, judging from a few of the most recent videos.
YES! I’ve been hoping for a Dany episode, so stoked
Simon sometimes how incredibly sweetly naive you are remind me about your parents don't let you watch power rangers
It’s totally legal to run as an independent candidate. RFK Jr is effectively doing what you described
Legal to run as an independent candidate. It's actually illegal to run an independent candidate explicitly in order to spoil another candidate's chances. Proving that is almost impossible and as a result it's basically never prosecuted.
There's actually another significant group you left out: people who may choose to not vote or protest vote, but will vote for one candidate if they bother. A lot of election spending is to convince that group to show up.
Hereditary peers certainly can affiliate themselves with socialism. The 2nd Viscount Stansgate was a Labour MP from 1950 but had to give up his seat in 1960 when his Father died. The 2nd Viscount was Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, better known as Tony Benn. He fought for the right to renounce his peerage leading to the Peerage Act 1963 which allowed him to give up his peerage and return to the Commons.
Was hoping to have something to listen to on my road trip and the God King Simon answered!
Im sure simon would buy a knighthood if he had the money 😂
I like to pretend I am an intelligent, mature individual, then I see Harry P. Smallwood cited ...
14:31 Simon just casually describing RFK Jnr without realising it has me in stitches...
Maundy Gregson probably only wore a monocle rather than glasses as he didn't want to make a spectacle out of himself, 😂. Here's one for the older generation, the Scotland Yard detective that looked into it, Arthur Askey, was a very busy bee 😂.
Like deployed 👍
I just have to settle in as soon as I hear that Danny is the writer! Best combo on the Inter net IMHO
A Montey Gregory deep dive would be a good topic... maybe a light hearted Casual Criminalist?
I was listening to this and want to start a movie but I was like "i'll just watch the rest it can't be that much longer. That was at 12 minutes in!
Fig Tree BOM with Denim & Daisies starts this month, too! Between that one and the PG one, I hope I can keep up. 😂
The more things change the more they stay the same. Most of us are still serfs grinding profits for the owner/donor class in exchange for the privilege to have food and shelter
Simon. you should do a video on the dark pyramid. or black pyramid in Alaska. I heard about it the other day and immediately knew it would be a good decoding the unknown video.
It would be a pretty short episode. The whole thing is a hoax Alaskan's invented to mess with tourists.
Victor's life would make a great movie!
DTU and TCC kind of makes Simon's "Fact Boy" nickname feel like one of those ironic nicknames like "Slim" for the fat guy or "Shortie" for the tall lanky dude.
Just so I'm not being misunderstood here - I find this to be kind of an endearing thing about these specific programs. I like that Simon's willing to expose himself this way - particularly given that it's a little counter to his brand from things like his various **graphics channels.
I thought it would be rare for someone from Liverpool to be an ANZAC soldier.
25:16 No they don't clap. They're explicitly forbidden from clapping by parliamentary rules, which is why they shout and jeer so much instead.
You forgot the monster raving loony party.
Gregory had some dirt on Grayson and tried to blackmail him, but Grayson had dirtier dirt on Gregory. When Grayson went off the plot Gregory got rid of him and since he was on the shit list of 10 downing nobody cared.
Grayson is also the source of a gay dairy that led to an execution of an Italian spy who was sussing out a German alliance for ireland.
I want more scripts from Danny and Danny must be freed from the basement...
I mean you can't have both surely??
If a horse tramples you badly,i take that to mean it didnt do a great job at the trampling,and that the person most likely survived...Just me? Id say if she died,she was trampled WELL.
TWO DANNY SCRIPTS IN ONE WEEK?????
Oh you are spoiling us!
Been a while since Danny wrote for Simon. Would love another from him on Brain Blaze. 😂
And today on Decoding the Unknown: Simon explains how to exploit the spoiler effect in a FPTP voting system.
The reason land owners were the only ones allowed to vote in the past (both in Britain and the US early on) was due to jurisdictional concerns. People didn't carry photo ID cards and there was no way to determine your residency/citizenship and eligibility to vote without a land deed showing residency in the appropriate jurisdiction. In local elections it was common for candidates to hire gangs to round-up pedestrians and force them in line at the polls to vote for the candidate who hired them. Sometimes even going so far as to ferry-in peasants from other jurisdictions to do the same. You'd have jurisdictions of 4,000 voters casting 10,000 votes. The outcome of many local elections could be determined merely by which candidate had the more significant association with local organized crime. Something had to be done to prevent that same behavior from occurring nationwide during federal elections.
I mean that wasn't the only reason..
Listening to this again and thinking that the author and editor of 'Labour's Lost Leader' missed a brilliant opportunity to get Shakespearean and title the book 'Labour's Lost Love'... but maybe that's just me... and after learning about the book's later title change, it might be for the best, although the position taken by Jeremy Corbin definitely makes me more curious.
More generally, I'm loving Danny's writing for both this channel and The Casual Criminalist.
That guy was very interesting..
And he looks like a mix of Connor aka CdawgVA and Mike of That Chapter 😊
A great mini-series is Boardwalk Empire talking about the prohibition era here in the political incentives that the man had to say he was for prohibition yet it was how he made more money when it was illegal
Can you do a video on the mysterious Men in Black encounters with Dr Herbert Hopkins and numerous other times that people have enountered them? I'd like to hear your take on it