Man this is a wild story, somebody should make a movie about this, it might be a the greatest film since Citizen Kane.

@knightofloosebowels8636

8 ай бұрын

I was going to make a similar joke That film still holds up !

@JamesBrown-gv1vg

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, they could call it Mank, or for the kids make a movie out of the newsie strike.😉

@STCTZenzas

8 ай бұрын

It should be “Citizen Cane”

@CaptCool88

8 ай бұрын

This but unironicly. His actual life story is just as good as "Oppenheimer'" TBH

@Helll-yo8oc

8 ай бұрын

Eeeeee

Please do the sequel where his granddaughter was kidnapped by a cult, got Stockholm syndrome and started robbing banks. That’s a wild ride.

@piratekingomega3292

8 ай бұрын

it wasn’t a cult, it was a self described communist revolutionary group that was immediately denounced by all american communist groups for clearly being dumb.

@patrycjadargacz4909

8 ай бұрын

What’s the name?

@Chris-mr5nj

8 ай бұрын

@@patrycjadargacz4909patty hearst her wikipieidia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst

@estprr

8 ай бұрын

​@@patrycjadargacz4909Patty Hearst

@vantablack6288

8 ай бұрын

oh yeah. i forgor that happened

I love the fact that one of the reasons he hated Citizen Kane was because it portrayed his mother negatively

@Game_Hero

8 ай бұрын

he had mommy issues

@Dr.-Dank

8 ай бұрын

Hell, if a movie was made about my life that portrayed my mom as a cold hearted bitch, I'd hate it too. Tear me down all you want, but leave my mom OUT OF IT!

@BreakyOnline

8 ай бұрын

​@@Dr.-Dankreal

@omppusolttu5799

8 ай бұрын

@@Game_Hero Honestly no, that's just a dick move.

@HornyIndianMan

6 ай бұрын

His mother was just a series of holes, Hearst was in love with her and mad that everyone got to fill her with good except lt him. My great Gandpappy said he hit it and he threw up on her back because the stench of her ass and pussy was so vile. He still finished because back then, men finished the job. He also said that little Willy was hiding in the room beating off but he just ignored him. What a loser.

Hurst has to be one of the most American Americans I’ve ever heard about. I just new he was the newspaper guy, not all of this crazy shit. Him and Teddy truly were two sides of one coin. Credit to this kid’s mom. She always believed in him.

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

Momma’s boys always have the most…interesting impacts on history

@thespectralking2364

8 ай бұрын

did she believe in him though? he was on an allowance until his fifties

@jamesrosewell9081

8 ай бұрын

​@thespectralking2364 if she didn't he wouldn't _have_ an allowance

@pmpowalisz

8 ай бұрын

Credit to Hearst too, for financially sinking a movie that falsely and negatively portrayed his mom, even though she was already dead.

@BradTheAmerican

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesrosewell9081 Maybe she didn't believe in him and the allowance was to give him an edge that he wouldn't attain otherwise.

Fun fact, William Randolph Hearst wasn't just interested in comics, he actually developed a comic obsession when he moved to New York. It's reported that whenever he saw someone draw something that made him laugh, he hired them to draw comics for his papers. Eventually he had so many strips that he couldn't fit them into his papers, and in at least one instance (The New York Evening Journal) he bought a newspaper just to get the rights to a comic strip (The Yellow Kid) since the rights weren't held by the author. Thankfully, as show in the video, the original author came along with his creation.

@Eibarwoman

8 ай бұрын

A similar fervor exists in Roger Penske, a car dealership owner with a fervor for auto racing, retired from racing in his 20s, rapidly grew into owning hundreds of dealerships, an entire truck leasing firm, multiple race tracks, an entire racing series in IndyCar, a Formula 1 team in the 1970s, IndyCar teams, NASCAR teams (two different interations), and sports car teams.

@ninianstorm6494

8 ай бұрын

@@Eibarwoman notice bush-obama-biden is follow clinton admin albright/nuland orders of proxy war russia cia troops on ground/arab spring 10 days after 9/11 project pakistan gender studies=protestors for cia, send millions more=proxy bush bribe georgia with $billion to act up after restart cold war 2008 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZYF3xY-NZprdZ7w.html nuland from clinton admin stole 2.3 trillion for 2004 ukraine protest/arab spring 1>kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaGmrLSBp8W8d5s.html 2>kzread.info/dash/bejne/ppVtxrmLk6e7gKQ.html 3> kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3aZtKRworrRj5s.html

@Qaianna

8 ай бұрын

There was another comic he loved, to the point where when the artist died he forbade it continuing. Look up the history of 'Krazy Kat' and you'll find it was an Evening Journal feature ...

@CAP198462

8 ай бұрын

@@Qaiannanow that’s a fun fact.

@Hellheart

7 ай бұрын

Hahaha! Your name means "Fox Funny Butt," kind of... (Sorry. I found your name funny as hell. Couldn't stop chuckling.I got a cold, and I'm all whacked on cough syrup. 😂)

You know it’s gonna be a good video when it starts off with a place and time.

@burntfoot695

8 ай бұрын

You know its gonna be a good video when it starts off

@michaeltnk1135

8 ай бұрын

POV: You just clicked on the video and are trying to think of a comment you can write before it gets more views

@korynski

8 ай бұрын

Ostro

@syrialak101

8 ай бұрын

@Ketty_Ketty What does this mean?

@lelandgrubson2736

8 ай бұрын

​@@syrialak101did you ever taste some ............. "CHEEKS" 😏

“It sounds slimy, and it was, but hey.” I’m convinced that’s just journalism in general.

@pmpowalisz

8 ай бұрын

Still better than the multiple falsehoods on social media, where people can straight up lie and face no consequences (such as libel laws).

@troodon1096

Ай бұрын

Yeah, not was has changed really, other than than journalists like to pretend to be respectable these days. They're not of course, but at least they care enough to pretend to be, most of the time.

@thewholething430

Ай бұрын

​@@troodon1096it's not the investigative journalists or reporters but the office dwelling glorified bloggers who misrepresent facts, lie by omission and/or create misleading click bait titles knowing full well nobody is reading their 8 pages of filler with the point of the article buried deep within.

What a weird, sad, strangely unfulfilling life. You know what, it would actually make a really good movie about the downsides of wealth and the intense loneliness of billionaires that forces them into a life tof no real connections, instead choosing meanlingless achievements like political gain and lust over self introspection. They could even call it like "Citizen Hearst" to show how these people exist in American society

@Lazarus1095

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, but who would star in it? Maurice LaMarche?

@Crusader-yq1bf

8 ай бұрын

Seemed fulfilling to me, got basically everything he wanted minus being a politician

@africanjack5094

8 ай бұрын

Says a nameless entity watching a youtube video about the man with meaningless achievements who died decades ago🙄.

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

@@Lazarus1095 And pay him with Ms Pell’s Fishsticks.

@Yuhyuhmuhmuh

8 ай бұрын

I think he lead a pretty fulfilling life for a nepo baby

Charles Foster Kane was in many ways an idealized William Randolph Hurst. He was not only rich, but utterly talented at what he put his mind to. He was alas also a prediction of what Orson Welles will become, a insanely talented young man who got bogged down by life at the end.

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

Ironic. He could portray the pitfalls of being ridiculously wealthy and famous, but not save himself from them… Anyone want some of Ms Pell’s Fishsticks?

@jamesrosewell9081

8 ай бұрын

​@@warlordofbritannialove The Critic

@merlenclownshuffles

8 ай бұрын

​@@jamesrosewell9081hate the comic

I find it funny that Hearst's problem with the movie that parodied him wasn't because it portrayed _him_ as ambitious and greedy, but because it put Davies in a bad light

@Melody_Raventress

8 ай бұрын

And his Mom, can't forget her, now.

@redeye4516

8 ай бұрын

A single shred of nobility left within him I suppose. "You can do whatever you want with me, but leave my loved ones out of it"

@alexanderrobins7497

8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of how the coach of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane was livid when the book Money Ball came out. Billy Beane was screaming and cursing at Michael Lewis on the phone because of what was published. Michael thought it was because the Oakland A's would lose their advantage with their new secret methods being revealed, but he didn't care about that. Billy Beane was pissed of at how he was portraited as a vulgar angry man (which he admits was true) because his elderly mother might find out. At a book signing/touring event, an old woman confronted Michael Lewis after the event to say "My son does not talk like that". Freakonomics did a podcast episode about Money Ball with Michael Lewis for the twentieth anniversary a few months ago.

@alanpennie

8 ай бұрын

​@@redeye4516 He really wasn't a bad guy. Just extremely strange.

@ethanstyant9704

5 ай бұрын

​@@alanpennieumm his empire was built on the backs of orphans which he repeatedly undercut

Being pro-union except for your own company is the progressive version of "I never thought leopards would eat my face"

@ethanstyant9704

5 ай бұрын

What do MEAN the orphans are unionising?!

Hearst is the definition of throwing money at the problem.

@matthewhecht9257

8 ай бұрын

I have him beat. When my house caught fire I fought the fire by literally throwing handfuls of $100 bills at it.

@CaptCool88

8 ай бұрын

@@matthewhecht9257 Yeah some how I doubt you just have "handfuls" of hundred-dollar bills lying around.

@theonebman7581

8 ай бұрын

Dude... imagine if Hearst was alive today and found out about Netflix...

@Elyseon

8 ай бұрын

He was also the definition of rich scumbag.

I was surprised that Citizen Kane was on theaters while Hearst was still alive. The producers were definitely ballsy.

@merrittanimation7721

8 ай бұрын

Like if someone made a big drama movie about not-Elon Musk today.

@CaptainJZH

8 ай бұрын

A big part of their plan for publicity was that Hearst would get mad at them and do a massive hate campaign against the film in his newspapers Of course, that didn't really happen and the film underperformed as a result

@assistmans

8 ай бұрын

It’d be like if someone made a movie about Mark Zuckerberg

@Firestorm422

8 ай бұрын

​@assistmans Yeah. Good thing that didn't happen *pushes The Social Network off screen*

Daves running away into the depths of Mexico for months (presumably shit faced for most of it) and then coming back is so surreal.

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

Sigma Mistress

@concept5631

8 ай бұрын

@@warlordofbritannia Giga mistress

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

@@concept5631 Fuff it, Epsilon Mistress

@concept5631

8 ай бұрын

@@warlordofbritannia Theta?

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

@@concept5631 Oooh, that’s good

Isn't it crazy to be alive when the movie depicting your life comes out? Like damn, it wasn't even his idea to have the movie

@alanpennie

8 ай бұрын

Extremely weird. But everything about his life was weird.

I live on the Californian Central Coast and have actually seen Hearst Castle. I can confirm only a man like Hearst would build the castle itself.

@matthewmspace

7 ай бұрын

Yeah. I'm from near SF and I've seen the castle while on vacation with family. It's impressive and absolutely ridiculous. Like the man himself, in a way.

Oh, what an interesting scenario. Imagine if this guy had actually existed? It's impressive how Cody became professional in Alternative History to the point where he make appears that Citizen Kane existed.

@itsathing3369

3 күн бұрын

Is this a joke? I need clarification because the Internet brain rot is very real, so some people be unironically saying this.

@DonMadruga72

3 күн бұрын

@@itsathing3369 For God's sake, it's so obvious

5:56 I just love how the part where this guy orchestrated a prison break in foreign territory is just a foot note to the whole story.

The AP American History class I took in high school was a complete joke. In a whole year of high school, not once was this absolute mad lad ever mentioned.

Kane's story is waaaay more sympathetic than Hearst's. Like geez, this guy is a Borderlands villain.

When you said that he got some journalists to go bust some girl outta jail, the first thing that popped into my mind was literal journalists with pens and clipboards breaking someone out of prison. Damn I love this channel

What a great story. Hope someone makes a movie on this weirdo.

Also the idea that Welles created a panic that killed people with the War of the Worlds broadcast was Hearst's doing.

@alanpennie

8 ай бұрын

An unusual revenge.

@DIEGhostfish

8 ай бұрын

@@alanpennie At the time rather than being seen as a compliment to his acting it further damaged his career.

"Hearst did not care at all" You laughing made me laugh even harder.

The strange part about Citizen Kane is how Wells depicts Hearst as someone who will die miserable and broke, and in the end it was Wells who slowly decayed and died alone.

@Thomas-rk4rl

7 ай бұрын

Yeah but Hearst never got to play Unicron did he

@michaeledwards6683

11 сағат бұрын

great artists typically create to explore personal anxieties, and some anxieties come true

Wasn't expecting the Hitler twist. This story really has everything.

First,i love Alternatehistory hub,for 3 things:1 his voice,2 alternate history,3 the fact that he made even other videos like this.

You should probably add “The Real Citizen Kane Part 2” to the title.

Anyone else find it darkly hilarious that one of the most prestigious prizes in American journalism is named for a man who made his fortune peddling sensationalism and smut?

@darkfool2000

3 ай бұрын

Nah, that seems pretty standard for history.

@troodon1096

Ай бұрын

Irony can be so ironic sometimes.

The part about not being invited to the wedding and than still selling the company back for a dollar. Heart of gold that woman. ❤

Wells: "Mr. Hearst, did you see my movie?" Hearst: "No, I didn't." Wells: "KANE WOULD'VE SEEN IT. KANE WOULD'VE SEEN. THE. FILM."

"He was in his 30s and she was 16. Christ". That nicely sums it up.

@warlordofbritannia

8 ай бұрын

The only surprise is how long it took him to get to Hollywood

@Karlach_

8 ай бұрын

pedo confirmed

@johnodarod9629

6 ай бұрын

following his father's footsteps

I love that this man’s life is so insane and strange that by the time he ends up becoming an ally to Adolf it doesn’t even seem out of the ordinary. Such a bizarre story that sounds ridiculous yet is totally accurate and true.

@chaosgyro

7 ай бұрын

It's easy to forget, or get twisted because pf hindsight, that Mustache Man's politics seemed very appropriate and forward-thinking in the 1930s. Much as monarchies had reached their breaking point during the late 1700s, to be replaced by republics, many people saw WW1 and the Depression as showing the limits of republicanism in favor of new ideas like fascism amd communism. If you didn't like the commies then you tended to throw in with Mussolini and Adolf. Even FDR's New Deal was just a reworked version of Ol' Adolf's plans at revitalizing post-war Germany.

According to the book, The True Flag, Hearst bought a yacht and patrolled the Straits of Florida to do "one the ground reporting." Once he found a bunch of castaway Spanish naval officers, pulled out a pistol to "capture" them, dropped them off at a naval base, and got a receipt from the military for his POWs which he published in the newspaper.

Finally, the SEQUEL WE NEEDED (and hopefully deserve)

Hearst: “Let’s blame the Maine on Spain.”

@BigBrezzy

8 ай бұрын

So they blamed the Maine on Spain.

@Alaskan-Armadillo

8 ай бұрын

I mean... It rhymes

@Marco-do4ln

20 күн бұрын

Saw it too. @Alaskan-Armadillo please don't oversimplify the thing.

I like how Pulitzer's monocle swaps eyes as if he were Sagat from _Street Fighter._

I'm from CA and my family went to Hearst Castle for vacation when I was a kid and I was so confused, I was like "so basically a rich guy collected a bunch of rich guy stuff and then his family sold it off to the state after he died?" And the tour guide basically said "yup."

Cody: There had to be something sinister afoot. Me: Oh no Cody: A threat undermining him and society as a whole. Me: Oh gods no Cody: Of course! It was so obvious! Me: No no no no Cody: The communists! Me: *sighs of relief* Edit: I really need to watch the next 30 seconds of the video before I comment holy fuck Edit 2: Yes, I know about the whole “cultural Bolshevism” conspiracy theory that the Nazis peddled. However, anti-communist sentiment is not necessarily anti-Semitic. This conspiracy theory is specifically “the Jews are using communism to bring down western civilization and the “Aryan Race””. From what I saw in the video, it seemed more like Hearst thought “communists want to bring down our society”, which is a very different idea that implies Soviet spies more than anything else.

@rfij3268

8 ай бұрын

literally my exact same reaction XD

@kevinsolis5746

8 ай бұрын

Literally my mind was RACING

@Boretheory

8 ай бұрын

NOT THE JEWS!

@Only.D.G.

8 ай бұрын

So everybody thinks about jews

@gratuitouslurking8610

8 ай бұрын

Considering Hearst's... close friendship of [Demonetized] and their views on who the communists were backed by, this feels more like a 'why not both?' situation.

Hearst was also responsible for demonizing hemp & cannabis in general because the production of hemp paper over traditional timber would hurt Hearst's profits in the paper industry. Hearst is one of the men who helped make cannabis illegal. Let that sink in.

>Small loan from parents >Has a mistress >Spends exorbitantly >Failed businesses >Builds grand buildings for himself Sounds a lot like the biography on Trump except the whole never being elected and not being a multi-billionaire

@pmpowalisz

8 ай бұрын

Another difference that Hearst actually did the work, and not just rely on bluster and bravado.

@TheeGrumpy

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if he's seen the movie.

The Hearst saga continues and it gets even weirder

@everynametaken

8 ай бұрын

I love that it is this weird and we haven't even got to what his children and grandchildren would get up to

Truly one of the alt history senarios of all time

I snorted at, "Hearst was already well acquainted for many years. They both came from rich families, attended the same college, and generally held the same political views. Hearst knew Teddy Roosevelt." "And he absolutely hated him."

@felixsubakti6907

7 ай бұрын

Hearst was all about throwing money at problems, watching war movies and sipping wine while on a Seine yacht trip Teddy was all about throwing punches at problems, going to war and chugging whiskey while climbing a swiss mountain

@psychorabbitt

7 ай бұрын

@felixsubakti6907 A Swiss mountain would have been too safe for Teddy.

@seanboyize

5 ай бұрын

I am curious if Teddys time as the New York police commissioner and the creation of the police academy to get rid of dirty cops has anything connecting the two

What a wild ride that was.

Citizen Kane does explicitly mention Hearst, he is called by name when compared to Kane as one of the biggest men who ever lived. It's the scene right after the newsreel.

@TheAvizanski

8 ай бұрын

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I love how every time the story seems to go somewhere consistent, something immediately bumps it into being wild again. Like its settling down and then BOOM, Hitler

How brave of Hearst to take on Big Orphan

This is maybe a weird thing to point out, but I just want to say -- the lighting effects in this episode were really good! The 3D effect of light and shadow is a) visually interesting and b) made a cool artistic choice to communicate themes of light-and-dark / the moral complexity of Hearst's business practices

Would you ever consider doing a similar biographic-style video about Rupert Murdoch? Considering that his media empire still holds a lot of influence in many countries, it could be a topical video to make, especially in the wake of his recent retirement.

@SlapstickGenius23

8 ай бұрын

Ohhh. I’m an Aussie too. My dad and I think the Murdochs are messed up.

As someone who has toured his manor, he was an interesting man to say the least.

I like how his strategy was to just buy out all of his competition... sounds like a certain game developer company we know today lol

@gaelonhays1712

8 ай бұрын

And it reminds me of a certain entertainment company with an affinity for rodents.

@raptorfromthe6ix833

8 ай бұрын

microsoft and sony?

@cubeman22

8 ай бұрын

​@@raptorfromthe6ix833he's talking about EA, second guy is referring to Disney

@BeyondDaX

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like Amazon and Walmart

@gaelonhays1712

8 ай бұрын

I'm noticing a pattern here; how about we sum up all of it, mine included? Sounds like mega corporations. Nah, that kind of makes it trite and easy to dismiss.

Thank you Cody, very nice.

We finally got part two. I've been waiting since part one. It was a long one month of waiting. Now I can see it. Yes

Hearst corporation still exists if you guys didn't know, they own TV stations and magazines

One day Cody should do what if the Roman Empire still stood.

@braydenfarrell1177

8 ай бұрын

He did, its one of his first videos

@louisduarte8763

8 ай бұрын

@@braydenfarrell1177 Should he remake it?

@Thefrogking234

8 ай бұрын

He did a long time ago

A vid on if the Sino-Soviet split never happened or was patched up in the 70s would be mega kino

@sergioventura2595

8 ай бұрын

Sup my man

24 minutes in and Cody says "This whole story was weird". Uhh, yeh! 🤣

This was a really interesting man to talk about. I really did enjoy the videos. But still the guys life was just simply asking everyone for money, and when he finally got a huge amount of it, he went on a spending spree. And do you know what I just realized he did the exact same thing as his father with the newspaper, and it worked Somewhat

Man, your alternate histories are always so wild!

I really enjoyed this mini-series. I hope you do some more similar to this, obscure history is fun.

I did a production of Newsies the musical recently and it’s great to finally get more background info on it.

"Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes."

What if the Treaty of San Stefano was implemented

No way I’m so shocked I’m going to crash a ship into an iceberg

I mean, least she loved him at the end. So I'd say he got a happy ending, just didn't realize it. Most women would make a point, and not give the fortune back, but having heard she sold it all for a dollar, does add brightness to humanity. (Also, for thoose who do not know, only way you can transfer something to a person is through an official transaction, which is why she had to sell it for a dollar)

This dude seriously developed a parasocial relationship with a president and then got offended on a personal level when said-president did what he said he was going to do.

Ah yes more irl Citizen Kane content love it

I find it still weird that citizen King bombed when it came out but now is considered one of the top 10 masterpieces of Cinema which is a very goo movie

@kiwigaming09

8 ай бұрын

That does happen quite alot like take Alfred Hitchcocks psycho from 1960 when it was released it was reviewed as a mid level movie and mostly forgotten but now it's a cult classic one of the most famous movies ever made

This guy makes Hearst just seem like a totally stoned guy, I love it

That was one hell of a fever dream.

What an interesting, broken, terrifying, obnouxious individual. If it can be possible, there's a sligthly chance to see you cover the story of Robert Hudges?

I'd love to hear you do the actual story of Ford v Ferrari including the part where Enzo Ferrari might've hired the mob to have Ken Miles killed.

Interesting Info. His zebras are still there today. As a kid I stayed in a motel in San Simeon where you can see his castle so you can see the zebras running around

This is going to be very interesting, part 1 was great!

I love ur content, it’s been getting really good this past year. Ur other channel is awesome too.

Love the animation! 👍😅😂 seriously😁

*wanted to take credit for the Spanish American War. *Mother dies of Spanish Flu

I am a big fan of your content and I can really see how it has evolved and progressed over the years. Excellent job on the video

Been waiting for the story and it didn’t disappoint

5:03 Like father, like son. :(

26 seconds and im already loving it

I love this story so much, a lot of drama is what I live for

Loved this alternative history.

Was just watching your "300" video then i got this notification lol

Love this kind of content from you please keep it going ❤

Cody really called Dachshunds "Dash Hounds"

I actually went the Hearst Castle and thought it was just some rich guy who built some castle in the middle of nowhere. They actually don’t really talk about the man when you visit the castle just the expensive things that he bought.

Man I loved these 2 videos you did on herst keep up the good work man

HIS DAD FOUNDED MY HOMETOWN! We have a library named after them! Quick edit: Cody, please, please cover George Hearst's life.

love your content man!❤️

What a crazy alternate history, imagine if this shit actually happened.

Great video as usual 👍🏻

Never seen a guy go from "neat" to "a bit much" to "yikes" like that, incredible.

Dude I love how you do your videos!

I can't wait for the third part! :o)

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

the fact that his mom died of the spainish flu is sad yet karmatic irony

It's a good day when a new Alternate History Hub video pops up on my feed

Yeah this is good content. I really like these videos. Can't wait to see the next weird history video