Presidential Pets: a Brief History | Sam O'Nella Academy | History Teacher Reacts

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  • čas přidán 17. 12. 2023
  • Most US Presidents had pets while they were president. As you can expect, there were some wild stories. Sam O'Nella packs this short video with hilarious information. Mr. Terry talks about the history behind the presidents!
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Komentáře • 209

  • @MrTerry
    @MrTerry  Před 5 měsíci +90

    What type of pet would YOU bring to the White House if you were president?

  • @personperson.7744
    @personperson.7744 Před 5 měsíci +463

    We’ve finally progressed from “hey kids” to “hey adults”
    Can wait for “hey retirement home attendees”

    • @redmist6630
      @redmist6630 Před 5 měsíci +10

      I feel like after doing lots of research papers hes gotten used to writing super info-packed scripts

    • @omega1575
      @omega1575 Před 5 měsíci +5

      Maybe by the next video

    • @Taizu314
      @Taizu314 Před 5 měsíci +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @azevol216
    @azevol216 Před 5 měsíci +528

    “Raccoons don’t evolve” that’s called evolutionary perfection

    • @jasonutty52
      @jasonutty52 Před 5 měsíci +14

      Everything evolves. Just because things look the same externally, they are still subject to the many mechanisms of evolution. Of which mutation is only one.
      But yeah they are still pretty sweet.

    • @tazkannon7403
      @tazkannon7403 Před 5 měsíci +57

      ​@@jasonutty52how can a raccoon evolve when it's perfect? It shits, it sleeps, it eats babies and eats eggs? What more can they evolve from??

    • @TheMegAxolatl4836
      @TheMegAxolatl4836 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Evolution does involve all of them it’s just a population like if the get stuck on a island or if the forest becomes a desert

    • @jasonutty52
      @jasonutty52 Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@tazkannon7403 Well, if circumstances arise that make eating something other than eggs and babies more beneficial, or if eggs/babies become scarce, then raccoons are gonna change or die. A truly strong species is one with the genetics and traits to adapt quickly to changes that others could not.
      It's not a strength to be resistant to mechanisms of evolution. It's a weakness.

    • @luckluca8982
      @luckluca8982 Před 5 měsíci +3

      So raccons are just like crabs

  • @adamkingston2725
    @adamkingston2725 Před 5 měsíci +134

    I love the brainworm that Bill Wurtz' videos represent, as we can't hear "Sultan of Oman" without muttering to ourselves "Lives in Zanzibar now"

  • @SAMPLETEXT285
    @SAMPLETEXT285 Před 5 měsíci +93

    4:48 lets not tell Terry what the image on the right is he's too innocent for something like that.

    • @rudedolphin
      @rudedolphin Před 5 měsíci +17

      When I saw that I literally thought "omg Mr. Terry is going to ask"

    • @josiahshea3350
      @josiahshea3350 Před 5 měsíci +2

      I completely missed it what is it?

    • @ario203ita5
      @ario203ita5 Před 5 měsíci +8

      ​@@josiahshea3350the ambouttacooome guy

    • @Master_vp101
      @Master_vp101 Před 5 měsíci +4

      AMBATUKAM!!!!

    • @marlon6598
      @marlon6598 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@Master_vp101Ambautublow 😭

  • @stephenwalk2186
    @stephenwalk2186 Před 5 měsíci +99

    Came here to see your reaction to the lewinsky joke. Classic.

  • @BigBadBradDoug
    @BigBadBradDoug Před 5 měsíci +18

    4:50 “ I have no idea who the dude on the right is but uhhh okay”
    I think that’s for the best

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před 5 měsíci +16

      Since it's the internet, and the internet is scary, I will trust you on this one.

    • @Master_vp101
      @Master_vp101 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@MrTerry it's nothing bad, just VERY inappropriate

    • @EnheTook50Benadryl
      @EnheTook50Benadryl Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@MrTerryambotublow

  • @frozencrow8735
    @frozencrow8735 Před 5 měsíci +19

    5:34 i caught that "he lives in" joke. What a throwback to history of entire world i guess video

  • @lancerxx68
    @lancerxx68 Před 5 měsíci +20

    The vacuum cleaners representing president Hoover is a nice touch

  • @bknpnck
    @bknpnck Před 5 měsíci +111

    Glad Sam's finally back and after ERB did the same recently I'd hope to expect more frequent uploads from them to fulfill that niche history comedy that deserves more

    • @arandomlanguagenerd1869
      @arandomlanguagenerd1869 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Who is ERB?

    • @bknpnck
      @bknpnck Před 5 měsíci

      @@arandomlanguagenerd1869 It is so much quicker to search on CZcams than to wait for a response
      Enjoy

    • @jaxsolaris1177
      @jaxsolaris1177 Před 5 měsíci

      @@arandomlanguagenerd1869Epic Rap Battles

  • @Judgement_Kazzy
    @Judgement_Kazzy Před 5 měsíci +10

    Coolidge taking in a wild raccoon as a pet might be the least surprising president fact I've ever learned.

  • @TheNeonParadox
    @TheNeonParadox Před 5 měsíci +14

    The Lewinski joke reminded me to change my shirt. There's a stain on it from the last thing I tried to put in my mouth this morning.

  • @thechingwithebling
    @thechingwithebling Před 4 měsíci +3

    4:52 - You sweet summer child….
    It’s best you don’t know.

  • @Huntress236
    @Huntress236 Před 5 měsíci +17

    I named my pitbull Lyka. After the first living being sent to space, the Russian dog Liaka, which translates to Barker, an appropriate name. It's said that when Liaka stopped barking, that's when the Russians knew she'd passed. My Lyka also had one heck of a mouth on her. Tomorrow I'll be memorializing the one year anniversary of Lyka's passing.

  • @BelgorathTheSorcerer
    @BelgorathTheSorcerer Před 5 měsíci +12

    I love profane parrots. I knew one that greeted everyone by saying, "Hey, asshole." It never stopped being funny.

  • @BJGvideos
    @BJGvideos Před 5 měsíci +7

    Grey parrots are awesome. Mine doesn't swear, at least not in English, but she likes to lean into my ear and chirp really high pitched, and that's way more annoying than any curse words could possibly be.

  • @timnordstrom7383
    @timnordstrom7383 Před 5 měsíci +6

    5:34 don't think I didn't hear that cheeky lil' history of the entire world-singin' there for a second lmao.
    Great video as always :D

  • @Wicked_Knight
    @Wicked_Knight Před 5 měsíci +33

    Love your coverage of Sam O'Nella videos, I can't even say it takes from his views because Sam had half a million views in the first 4 hours. I'm always sure to watch Sam's video on his channel, then come here for your input. I might have been out of school for 10 years now, but you're never to old to learn something new. ❤

  • @Fangria
    @Fangria Před 5 měsíci +5

    you cant imagine how hard i laughed when the sultan of oman came up and i heard you say quietly under your breath "lives in zanzibar now"
    you got straught up psy-oped by bill wurtzs' jingles

  • @llllsvllll7524
    @llllsvllll7524 Před 5 měsíci +10

    4:48 Those who know: 😳

  • @oriongabriel6966
    @oriongabriel6966 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Getting a notification from Sam feels like catching Santa on christmas night leaving presents.

  • @MTTT1234
    @MTTT1234 Před 5 měsíci +14

    Mr, Terry, if you keep doing these lovely reactions for Sam O'Nella's videos, who knows you might actually earn a cameo in one of his videos one day. Makes me wonder now how Sam would draw you.

  • @WanderingWriter
    @WanderingWriter Před 5 měsíci +13

    The trash panda, if it ain't broke don't evolve 😎🦝

  • @forg1ven399
    @forg1ven399 Před 5 měsíci +3

    0:54 I saw the struggle of trying to pause at the right (couple) frames. the , and . keys move 1 frame left and right respectively :D

  • @xx_weebkiller_xx5076
    @xx_weebkiller_xx5076 Před 5 měsíci +4

    1:31 *C H I N A*

  • @AvaricioDues
    @AvaricioDues Před 5 měsíci +5

    I would love a Billy Possum!! If that had been pitched today they would sell like hot cakes

  • @Helldiver44326
    @Helldiver44326 Před 3 měsíci

    I binged all his videos last night lol. Glad u reacted.

  • @antifurry115
    @antifurry115 Před 5 měsíci +3

    4:48 the guy on the right is praying 💀💀💀💀

    • @flap.d.jack247
      @flap.d.jack247 Před 2 měsíci

      edgelord username

    • @cyberman179
      @cyberman179 Před měsícem

      ​@@flap.d.jack247zased user name

    • @raiisleep
      @raiisleep Před měsícem

      14 year old edgelords harassing furries online (they will have a femboy fursona in 2 years)

  • @mr.jglokta191
    @mr.jglokta191 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I watched Sams video before your reaction. But it took until now for me to catch that "Slurhound" joke 😂

  • @SupersuMC
    @SupersuMC Před 5 měsíci +1

    I recommend RojoFern's videos "The Scale of Tornadoes" and "The Scale of Mushroom Clouds", especially the latter. Absolute bangers that bridge science and history.

  • @Leafsdude
    @Leafsdude Před 5 měsíci

    13:35 - Check out Acoustic Kitty. Hilarious story. Cold war espionage was wild.

  • @danielwartist
    @danielwartist Před 5 měsíci

    Saw this one on my feed yesterday and i knew then and there you would make a react to it

  • @John-ir4id
    @John-ir4id Před 5 měsíci +2

    Another biology fact: Opossums' body temperature is too low for rabies and they are remarkably clean animals that eat a lot of bugs and parasites that can make you sick, which makes their terrible reputation all the more depressing because they're judged - and often killed - for looking far more dangerous than they actually are.
    *Disclaimer: Awesome as they are, Opossums are still wild animals and are not pets! Watch them, enjoy their shenanigans, but leave them alone!

  • @samuellawrencesbookclub8250
    @samuellawrencesbookclub8250 Před 5 měsíci +4

    It is astonishing that a creature could evolve to be unable to evolve

  • @leguan278
    @leguan278 Před 2 měsíci

    "Evolved as much as it could" is a logical impossibility as evolution is changing to the envioment you are in over generations, when the envioment changes it will have to aswell.

  • @xBlueWolf
    @xBlueWolf Před 4 měsíci

    I've seen his video like 3 times now and it's still just as interesting

  • @NoobyNubguy
    @NoobyNubguy Před měsícem

    5:46 here I’ll fix the constitution real quick
    “Gifts to the president = gifts to the people UNLESS the gift is sick AF”

  • @berkkarsi
    @berkkarsi Před 5 měsíci +1

    1:24 This is the content I actually subscribed for

  • @dylanwhite3383
    @dylanwhite3383 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Hopefully you will feel better soon Mr.Terry

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před 5 měsíci +3

      It's been a rough week and a half, but thank you!

  • @crazylife4543
    @crazylife4543 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Isnt the guy on the right the “in boutta bustttt 😫” guy? 😂💀

  • @therealopaartist
    @therealopaartist Před 5 měsíci +1

    Two videos in one year, Sam spoils us!

  • @chesterzimmerman7752
    @chesterzimmerman7752 Před 5 měsíci

    Glad to see sam back once again

  • @SOY.O.G
    @SOY.O.G Před 5 měsíci +1

    4:50 ‘I have no idea who the dude on the right is” this fucking sentence made me realize Sam used a pic Dreamybull bassing in the White House im fucjing dead

  • @endersdragon34
    @endersdragon34 Před 5 měsíci +6

    7.8 out of 10, not enough Teddy Roosevelt.

  • @ericdpeerik3928
    @ericdpeerik3928 Před 5 měsíci +6

    Sam's a legend!

  • @cupidsoty
    @cupidsoty Před 5 měsíci

    i wish i had you as a history teacher, truly

  • @TrolleyMC
    @TrolleyMC Před 5 měsíci +1

    Your students know who the black guy on the right portrait was.

  • @m8xwell-
    @m8xwell- Před 5 měsíci

    The second dude on the picture in the office is a pretty popular meme not as much now but more a month or two ago

  • @Z_E_B_O
    @Z_E_B_O Před 5 měsíci

    4:50 Be glad lol.

  • @lorekeeper685
    @lorekeeper685 Před 5 měsíci

    Racoons do evolve.
    The fartest morphological comservetion is 150 million years with horseshoe crabs

  • @hellsSG
    @hellsSG Před 5 měsíci +1

    Glad we got another Samonella video but dude, where T F is oversimplified?

  • @AwkwardHypernerd413
    @AwkwardHypernerd413 Před 2 měsíci

    You should do the video on Michael Malloy that he did

  • @Raccoon12008
    @Raccoon12008 Před 29 dny

    The pet raccoon thing is amazing I love Raccoons they are so cute and sweet

  • @jessanpalomer2647
    @jessanpalomer2647 Před 5 měsíci +1

    4:50 sir you don't wanna know who that is lol trust me.

  • @endersdragon34
    @endersdragon34 Před 5 měsíci +2

    @6:00 wait the emoluments clause is important.... who would have thunk it! Not sure that matters since 2016

  • @itsenzo3000
    @itsenzo3000 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Mr Terry doesn't know ambatukam

  • @claireradke7029
    @claireradke7029 Před 4 měsíci

    how much does it say that Sam comes out with a vid after 4 months and we're all like, 'ALREADY?!' while we're all lined up ready to eat it all up

  • @dr.jackbright9297
    @dr.jackbright9297 Před 5 měsíci

    If you press the < and > buttons on the keyboard, you can go frame by frame for when you try to find jokes

  • @ronmaximilian6953
    @ronmaximilian6953 Před 5 měsíci +1

    General Mustafa Kamal wasn't known as Ataturk until the mid 1920s after the Turkish War of Independence.

    • @lorekeeper685
      @lorekeeper685 Před 5 měsíci

      Ah! That was he was saying I didn't recognized the English name lol

  • @nontrashfire2
    @nontrashfire2 Před 5 měsíci

    I believe Taft didn't actually get stuck in the tub.

  • @TheUnitedStatesOfMurica
    @TheUnitedStatesOfMurica Před 5 měsíci +1

    4:51 "I have no idea who the dude on the right is" bro how are we gonna tell him 💀

  • @jordanstrahan4307
    @jordanstrahan4307 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Sam O Nella is the best

  • @user-md2kg3mt4z
    @user-md2kg3mt4z Před 5 měsíci

    Raccoon dogs chilling in Chornobyl

  • @howardmctroy3303
    @howardmctroy3303 Před 5 měsíci

    That's a pretty weird-looking JFK.

  • @quantumimmortality551
    @quantumimmortality551 Před 4 měsíci

    I'm the same height as Van Buren, maybe i should also grow some mutton chops...

  • @Drmorbiusgunn
    @Drmorbiusgunn Před 5 měsíci

    If you hit , or . You can go through a yt video frame by frame for those split second moments

  • @dankestvonmemen76288
    @dankestvonmemen76288 Před 5 měsíci

    4:51 nobody tell him who's the guy on the right. its for the best.

  • @seosamh.forbes
    @seosamh.forbes Před 4 měsíci

    Jackson has done such heinous things as president the fact he is face of the $20 is shameful.

  • @YAH2121
    @YAH2121 Před 5 měsíci

    Van Buren almost became the Tiger King

  • @Halberd38
    @Halberd38 Před 5 měsíci

    “I have no idea who the dude on the right is” good. You don’t want to know

  • @YAH2121
    @YAH2121 Před 5 měsíci

    4:51 You dont wanna know

  • @gromigur
    @gromigur Před 5 měsíci +24

    I think it is good etiquette to wait at least 48 hours so that most people watch the original first and not only the reaction. 21 Hours can definitly hurt the Creator, not saying others don't upload reactions that early,
    but I think you have an interesting and unique perspective that dosen't need to follow such bad examples.

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos Před 5 měsíci +2

      That's an issue with the viewing audience then, not the reactors.

    • @gromigur
      @gromigur Před 5 měsíci +3

      ​@@BJGvideos giving the video time to reach its maximum audience befor you publish the same video + extra commentary is not an audience issue but an react content issue.
      I like Mr Terry but with the algorithm existing it is "creators" doing the people dirty they depend uppon.

    • @Suno-ta-sei
      @Suno-ta-sei Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@gromigureh it's definitely the audience thats the problem. As soon as i saw sam o nella dropped a vid i was on that thing like flies to ...well you know the phrase.
      If anything the people who don't watch the original video generally already choose not, to begin with. Like if your already a sam o nella fan then youd go right to the video as soon as you hear its dropped.

  • @nanorepublic4200
    @nanorepublic4200 Před 5 měsíci

    The photo of the guy on the right is Dreamybull. Mr. Terry, you can look him up on his own time, I do not know how to describe Dreamybull to you.

  • @1adrock12
    @1adrock12 Před 21 dnem

    They were right to x-ray and ultrasound the dog I mean acoustic kitty anyone?

  • @Pandoramatic
    @Pandoramatic Před 5 měsíci

    Hello Mr Terry i guess you may will not see this comment but i found a game called „A better World“ where you have at the begining 4 major events of history in a timeline and you can change them and at the end you get the weirdest timeline of human history. In the game will come new things you can change like Hitler getting assasinated before getting into the NSDAP. Would surely be fun if you would play it

  • @aetheralmeowstic2392
    @aetheralmeowstic2392 Před 5 měsíci

    Luckily, that warning got overturned

  • @endo5464
    @endo5464 Před 5 měsíci

    Salmonella

  • @janetbaker645
    @janetbaker645 Před 5 měsíci

    Ever see videos of raccoons that were given cotton candy…they try to wash it…

  • @seanfetta
    @seanfetta Před 5 měsíci

    Someone tell the raccoons to stop hitting ‘B’

  • @nicholasmontgomery8594
    @nicholasmontgomery8594 Před 5 měsíci

    I can't wait to get rat-pilled

  • @ronly_driver
    @ronly_driver Před 5 měsíci

    So racoons basically just maxed their stats with a limited tech tree?

  • @phoenixcoleman3256
    @phoenixcoleman3256 Před 5 měsíci

    Trust me, you dont want to know who the man to the right of weezer is.

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před 5 měsíci

      Deal. I will just move along.

  • @fakerro1045
    @fakerro1045 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Hi sir!

  • @Sizey3
    @Sizey3 Před 5 měsíci

    Wait... is the Lewinsky scandal "history" now??? 😭

  • @thomasgatley624
    @thomasgatley624 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Its my birthday!

    • @redmist6630
      @redmist6630 Před 5 měsíci +2

      that sucks. enjoy your b-day/Christmas presents

    • @thomasgatley624
      @thomasgatley624 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@redmist6630 Thanks mate!

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před 5 měsíci +2

      Happy Birthday!

  • @bhuggins6059
    @bhuggins6059 Před 5 měsíci +2

    None of those pets were nuts, they were all animals I think, very misleading thumbnail...

  • @bentoth9555
    @bentoth9555 Před 5 měsíci

    The idea of the Soviets planting bugs in a dog isn't so weird. The CIA tried it with a cat.

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před 5 měsíci

      I need to hear this story.

    • @bentoth9555
      @bentoth9555 Před 5 měsíci

      @@MrTerry Tom Scott and the Technical Difficulties did a great episode of their show Citation Needed on here about it. It was called Acoustic Kitty. Basically the CIA spent $20 million to implant a microphone into a cat only to find they couldn't train the thing.

    • @TertiaryTrash
      @TertiaryTrash Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@matrixman-2003 I heard shortly after the cat was put to mission it got ran over and died

    • @TertiaryTrash
      @TertiaryTrash Před 5 měsíci

      which was kinda morbidly funny, you spend months and millions of dollars to train this spy cat, and immediately when it's supposed to do it's job it got ran over.

  • @austinshields5147
    @austinshields5147 Před 5 měsíci

    I hate to be this guy but when you react to such recently posted content you should probably cut a lot of the original video out or wait a little bit longer to use what they have.

    • @Goblinoid-o
      @Goblinoid-o Před 5 měsíci

      why

    • @austinshields5147
      @austinshields5147 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@Goblinoid-o People who watch this video will be less inclined to watch sam o' nella actual video since we can watch the entire thing here, since sam o' nella released his video the day before this, the history teacher is basically leaching some of his viewers for the video sam o' nella put so much effort into

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@austinshields5147That's a problem with the people who watch reactions without seeing the original, not with the reactors.

    • @austinshields5147
      @austinshields5147 Před 5 měsíci

      @BJGvideos completely the opposite, it's the responsibility of the reactor to not steal fresh content off another channel (without the creators permission) literally THE DAY AFTER THE VIDEO WAS UPLOADED

    • @Goblinoid-o
      @Goblinoid-o Před 5 měsíci

      @@austinshields5147 who gives a shit

  • @Antion9
    @Antion9 Před 5 měsíci

    Yayyy

  • @hobodarkness7696
    @hobodarkness7696 Před 5 měsíci

    Ayyyyyyyyyy

  • @brysn6112
    @brysn6112 Před 5 měsíci

    Trump completely ignored the emoluments clause, and no one seemed to care. Sad

  • @jacoby4dg932
    @jacoby4dg932 Před 5 měsíci

    Hola 👋🏼

  • @nafisasafoxonova9925
    @nafisasafoxonova9925 Před 5 měsíci

    Clever mechanic 69

  • @kaetrianos
    @kaetrianos Před 5 měsíci +1

    bwomp🧽

  • @JamesPolichak
    @JamesPolichak Před 5 měsíci

    Not history but fun.
    Pom Poko about the war of the Japanese raccoon dogs.

  • @omararias5503
    @omararias5503 Před 5 měsíci

    Get an honest job

    • @CreamyGoodness
      @CreamyGoodness Před 5 měsíci +1

      Are you really telling a history teacher that they don't have an honest job? 😂

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos Před 5 měsíci +1

      From the looks of things he has two honest jobs. Whereas "trolling on the internet" isn't a job, even a volunteer position.

  • @AlfonzoCam
    @AlfonzoCam Před 5 měsíci

    Most have stayed the same but the most noticable change is their size and they keep getting smaller. If you see a blancan one from 2.5 million years you'll get lost trying to find any similarities than just hands and fur patterns. Far bigger darker skin and fur, a huge lower jaw that made it look like well look like a carnivore from 2 million years ago. And the most interesting part to me is they're getting a lot smaller as time continues. I personally don't want to go spend hours looking for a single rare study on Google scholar to why it's needed to get smaller but if blancans was around there wouldn't be much to do if they were stealing your food and stuff. Well unless you're American we already shoot first a taller bigger racoon wouldn't stop that.

  • @betalis7
    @betalis7 Před 5 měsíci

    Jefferson tried to make slavery illegal in all western territories, at the time including Alabama and Mississippi. The bill lost by a single vote, leading the country towards a less ambitious ban on slavery in the Northwest Territories.
    Jefferson believed that slaves should be freed, in fact, he wrote slavery as the main reason for seceding from Britain in the first draft of the declaration of Independence. He viewed the violation of human rights as morally wrong, and beleived that humans and governments alike should be punished for their violating human rights. Humans, especially those in positions of power, are more than capable of comprehending why human rights are indebted to people, but to an animal, no such comprehension exists.
    Why would you kill a Ram that doesnt understand human rights? Especially considering the fact that it killed a human in defense, as the human facial structure has front-facing eyes and is predatory in nature. Jefferson knew history and likely read many cases where animals were tried for their crimes in court, and viewed the whole ordeal as stupid, so decided not to make a spectacle of the issue.
    Yes, Jefferson had slaves, but he freed the slaves that he could, and because of inheritance law, he could not legally free the slaves he obtained from his wifes side of the family.