Hate clickbait? This is the way to stop it: www.patreon.com/rareearth ko-fi.com/rareearth

@elchimpo9590

3 ай бұрын

Can you tell us what world you live in and how can the rest of us get there?

@purvel

3 ай бұрын

Another way: DeArrow browser plugin. Replaces clickbait titles like this one with descriptive ones, and replaces thumbnails with one from the video. Titles and thumbnails are crowdsourced.

@EdwardM919

3 ай бұрын

Just noticed you started your channel on 12/12/12. I'm sure that wasn't by chance. Thank you for being you. Your dad must be proud of you and your sister! I hope you keep making videos for a long time, one of the best underrated youtubers.

@Nyllsor

3 ай бұрын

I'm just here to say that Rare Earth was a great band.

@Gregemio

3 ай бұрын

This is indeed Rare earth. Evan & Kata, thankyou.

I mean, collecting the skulls of fallen enemies seems like a more obvious, less disgusting, display of power of your foe. But I'm no expert.

@Lockfly

3 ай бұрын

Shitting urself is more humiliating than just being killed

@acmelka

3 ай бұрын

They coulda taken that one remaining ball?

@PhilthySteel

3 ай бұрын

People in isolation for long periods of time can develop strange habits over that time.

@Marinealver

3 ай бұрын

Silly Khorne follower Nurlgle knows the best way to Immortality

@PinHeadSupliciumwtf

3 ай бұрын

​@@Lockflynot really. Unless you're oddly insecure.

This is one of the best reminders that humans are FUCKING INSANE and none of the stupid things we do and say should surprise us

@SyntheticFuture

3 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself 😶

@Challffz

3 ай бұрын

Ah yes, human beings in general are insane because brown people still live in premodern times.

@andrewhooper7603

3 ай бұрын

I will go on the record and say I possess both testicles and have never conducted midnight stool raids.

@niazi12121

3 ай бұрын

​@@SyntheticFutureHe is got a point you now...

@renee8256

3 ай бұрын

Well we're insane by our own standarts so who knows maybe you're the insane one

"taking no shit from nobody" was actually a disgrace in that island

@edithnackers7127

3 ай бұрын

It's was a "imma take all your shit" situation instead 😅

@adspur

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fun time living with such unnecessary worries

hearing evan talk about a ballsack scabbing over was the last thing i expected from this video

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

Better than if it never scabs though

@scpatl4now

3 ай бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries Then the other one falls out

@niall_sanderson

3 ай бұрын

I bet rates of testicular cancer were lower than usual on Pohn Pei

@thelukesternater

3 ай бұрын

Do they pick which one? I kinda get it… I only need one ball to reproduce but still… yall going to far…

@meisteremm

3 ай бұрын

​@@thelukesternater Seems too asymmetrical to me. It would wreak havoc on somebody with OCD.

In a place with plenty of resources for all and nothing to fight over human beings still find a reason to fight. It’s like we are all masochists at heart.

@hungrymusicwolf

3 ай бұрын

Sadists*, few people are asking to be on the receiving end of war.

@purvel

3 ай бұрын

@@hungrymusicwolf Didn't watch the video, huh?

@mars7304

3 ай бұрын

​@@purvel launching a conflict is far different from defending yourself against one, and the nuances shouldn't be ignored just because you watched a 10 minute youtube video.

@hungrymusicwolf

3 ай бұрын

@@mars7304Thank you. Its always nice to see someone who doesn't go for the dunk on others but talks nuance.

@KateeAngel

3 ай бұрын

And people think that the fact that I am an anti-natalist is something bad, unwarranted and "goes too far" 🤦

3:12 Those are japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks, if anyone was curious.

@mandarhalbe9077

3 ай бұрын

That tank name means poop in my language.. no kidding.. 😂

@user-hl7nt1og7k

3 ай бұрын

​@@mandarhalbe9077 The95 Ha-Go was a stinking pile of crap, so that makes sense.

@oivinf

3 ай бұрын

@@user-hl7nt1og7k It's a light tank from the early 30's, the American equivalent would be an M2. Ultimately it's close in design to the even older Renault FT. All this to say that it might not have performed well in the Pacific theater, but it was never some wunderwaffe and also already outdated in general

@user-hl7nt1og7k

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, to say it's a bad tank is wrong, actually. It was a perfectly decent tank, just well outclassed by the end of the war, shouldn't have been used so late. @@oivinf

@Tasurincci

3 ай бұрын

Could you figure out the manufacturing plant and the name of the worker who bolted the third screw from left to right?

Humans mere seconds after arriving in a new location: "What if we all started doing the most insane thing ever that no other human outside of our culture will understand?"

@mlgsamantha5863

3 ай бұрын

Then thousands of years later they start trying to force other cultures to do it. Like with circumcision.

@Ren505nm

3 ай бұрын

Hey what's that guy doing it looks like it hurts,😮.... 😎👍,"COOL".

@mlgsamantha5863

3 ай бұрын

At least most of them don't start attempting to spread that thing to all the other cultures... unlike with c*rcumcision

@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181

3 ай бұрын

Women live pain, so the men have to invent tattoos, ball slicing, and poop wars in order to maintain their sense of worth and superiority.

@elishafollet5347

3 ай бұрын

Sounds fun count me in

I just wanted to express my gratitude, as a Chuukese born, American raised dude. Your content on my people and history is UNMATCHED online. Thank you for ‘putting my people on the map’ so to speak.

@ryneagheilim9782

3 ай бұрын

If you dont mind elaborating, where is this to start with?

@myconesiantrader

3 ай бұрын

@@ryneagheilim9782 just abit above Papua New Guinea, West Pacific!

@PsssttstttSstt-qw1my

2 ай бұрын

do you take shit from people 😂 , , i joke i joke 😅

@user255

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure that is anything to be proud of.

@user-pp8he3ym9w

Ай бұрын

Pwipwi

This is a lot like birds of paradaise, when in absence of struggle or predators the males evolve into status traits that actively worsen their chances of survival

@Pkmn20

3 ай бұрын

maybe it minimizes the effects of overpopulation by becoming deliberately worse at survival lol

@nilstwestergaup3165

3 ай бұрын

How?

@2MeterLP

3 ай бұрын

@@nilstwestergaup3165Just look at them. Super long feathers that make it hard to fly, extremely eye-catching colors and patterns that make it impossible to hide. Probably more, Im not a biologist.

@almightysapling

3 ай бұрын

Right, they change. But that doesn't lower their chances of survival. If that were true, those changes wouldn't persist. If they grow long feathers, it's precisely because they *don't* need to fly to survive. You're comparing them to birds that *do* have predators, which is silly.

@yaima3473

3 ай бұрын

​@almightysapling It's called the handicap principle. Certain animals evolve a trait that gives them a disadvantage (like apeakcocks's train) because it acts as an honest signal of fitness. Basically, if a peacock can survive despite such a big handicap, then a peahen will be more likely to mate with them to boost their offsprings fitness (chance of passing on their genes). But the selection can go too far to the point where it does harm the male's long term survival. Rhinos are an example. Long horns are selected for, but it puts the adult males at greeater risk of poaching. You see examples in species with antlers where the males will die because their antlers get stuck in trees or begin ingrowing into their skull. The point of these traits is *only* to boost the chance of reproduction. Evolution doesnt care how long the animal lives after they pass on their genes, which is how they end up with detrimental traits that make long term survival a challenge. As long as the male lives long enough to have one offspring, it doesnt matter if their dimorphic trait results in them dying the next day. (Sorry for the essay, i dont get many chances to use my zooloogy degree lol).

Current warriors like to teabag their enemies in battle.

@smelltheglove2038

3 ай бұрын

Only if they’re of equal status.

@dragoon260

3 ай бұрын

Only in pubg mobile If you know, you know

@king0vitrial

2 ай бұрын

These guys would have to teabag even harder, having only the one ball and all.

@smelltheglove2038

2 ай бұрын

@@king0vitrial double time!

@david9783

2 ай бұрын

"There are a lot of reasons we go to war. Money. Power. Glory. Fame. But sometimes, I think all we are really trying to is just show each other who can take the most shit." It's WWI all over again.

Well....Now that's a thing I can't unlearn.

Goddammit, Evan. No. I don't mind when you make me cry over rocks, but I'm not crying for this.

what if you just, yknow, pooped before the battle??? seems a little extreme to poison yourself with raw meat and risk death even if you survive the battle. Humans are so bizarre....

@CountDoucheula

3 ай бұрын

Always smart to evacuate the bowels before battle

@user255

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, that made me question whether all that is true.

@omggiiirl2077

2 ай бұрын

Yeah or have an enema....

@Palepetal

Ай бұрын

They may not have access to laxatives

@420Khatz

12 күн бұрын

Even if you poop before battle, there is still loads of feces farther back in you. You would actually be shocked to know the weight in feces remaining in your body, even after a massive poop. When you die, the smooth muscles of your rectum and small intestines, which are helping to not only move the feces along, but holding them mostly where they're at so that everything doesn't fall out of you all at once, cease to function. This is why almost everyone, short of people who died from prolonged starvation, always defecate when they die.

The thing I remember about Pohnpei is that they have a pretty divergent language being from the larger Austronesian language family - I'd say that only Palauan is much more divergent.

@djquinn11

3 ай бұрын

What is the Pohnpei word for poop?

@yungdurtt

3 ай бұрын

@@djquinn11pwuse

me: hmm what video should i watch now for dinner rare earth: M A N P O O P me: perfect

"The population has never truly outstripped this land's fertility" I'm sure with all the guys having only one testicle, overbreeding was never much of a concern.

@SocratesAth

3 ай бұрын

Exactly! These bizarre customs saved them from overpopulation.

@thelukesternater

3 ай бұрын

I don’t think it works like that…

@weissfox5857

2 ай бұрын

When you lose a testicle, the remaining testicle increases production of sperm/testosterone to compensate. Your testicles are capable of producing several times the normal amount of testosterone and sperm, but they self-limit themselves based on how much you need.

@347Jimmy

2 ай бұрын

​@@weissfox5857 exactly. They come in pairs for redundancy, losing _both_ is a concern.

The penultimate example that people would choose to inflict pain on themselves rather than embrace boredom.

@elektro3000

3 ай бұрын

"Penultimate" means second to last. So what is the last example?

@Spookspek

2 ай бұрын

@@elektro3000 Japanese latrine man

@jonpaul3868

2 ай бұрын

​@@Spookspek fkin shite😂

@ProjUltraZ

2 ай бұрын

wait til they embrace climate change

Wow, war is shit.

One of the things I love about this channel is your ability to contextualize in a few minutes cultural practices that seem *utterly* alien at first glance. If someone had bet me that in a little less than 9 minutes they could make me understand why a culture would go to war to secure human shit, I would have taken that bet. And I would have lost.

"It was a traditional ritual that was meant to show respect, but also disrespect." That's... the most "human" thing ever

On the contrary, I submit this is the ONLY valid reason to go to war.

@BangChief_AllIsOne

3 ай бұрын

"You said the peanuts in you're sh!t are bigger than miiiine!!? LET ME SEE!!" Lmao, too much. Salute

@dopaminecloud

3 ай бұрын

@@democratictotalitariansoci1462 While the draft may be the real reason, I assure you the shallow social dynamics and status play is still at stake for those that get swept up in it.

@democratictotalitariansoci1462

3 ай бұрын

@@dopaminecloud I was drafted during war in my country two decades ago, while neither our president nor his son even cared to wear uniforms. yet today there are people who call that former president ''A hero'', dead soldiers are forgotten

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

"somewhere distant peacefully our vulgar princes sleep, dead kids don't get photographed god bless our dead marines" - A Silver Mt Zion "God Bless our Dead Marines" (one of my favourite songs)

Interresting to know that even in good conditions violence still a part of human culture.

@v1x4570

3 ай бұрын

Kinda makes you lose hope that we will ever see world peace

@LancesArmorStriking

3 ай бұрын

​@@v1x4570 It's like expecting praying mantises not to eat their mates. It's beyond what we can do. We are still animals after all

@raguelelnaqum

3 ай бұрын

@@v1x4570 Thats only if you believe peace is the absence of force. Like all social infrastructure, you have to fight to maintain peace. Total pacifism is a lie sold to the gullible. You can avoid starting fights, but when they begin you have to be willing to end them one way or another, or take measures to prevent them, regardless of whether you started them or not. Otherwise the conflict will consume you and everything you ever cared for.

@user-nw8pp1cy8q

3 ай бұрын

@@LancesArmorStriking Mantises in general don't eat their mates. It is a stress from being observed in non-natural habitat by researches triggered this behaviour.

@LancesArmorStriking

3 ай бұрын

@@user-nw8pp1cy8q Then I can pull another example like it's expecting dolphins to not murder fish for fun- or like expecting crows not to pick up gerbils and drop them from heights. Animals are animals, and no amount of intelligence will make them less violent in the span of 10,000 years. In fact it seems the more intelligent an animal is, the more likely it is to be sadistically violent.

Of all the tests and initiations to manhood that I've ever heard. This one takes it by far and beyond. Getting One of your nuts sliced off is brutal, I wonder who was the first guy to suggest that

@triumph.over.shipwreck

3 ай бұрын

Probably a guy born missing a teste haha

well.. that was completely fu ... messed up, who am I to say though. Thanks for the craziest weekend opener I've seen or heard of in years.

Living there back then must have been a living nightmare

The literal definition of "holy shit"

Yea, practices of one-upping and shaming opponents has often taken bizarre and unexpected shapes.

Humans, the one species to purposely make themselves sick so that their opponents do not get their poo.

Wait i shouldn't eat the hearts of my victims???😮

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

I never said that

I genuinely love how this episode was written, awesome puns. And as usual great unknown topics. Your channel is a gem. Saying hi to to Kata from a fellow Hungarian: Remek amit csináltok, csak így tovább.

Stuff like this really makes me wonder what the average lifespan was for these people, even if they survived warfare. Routinely eating festering raw rat meat can't be good for the digestion.

Guy sharpening the machete. Professional respect.

A truly illuminating episode. Thank you, Rare Earth!

First of all; thank you for all the great work and videos. I fully understand how wonderful and amusing storytelling goes and you do a great job at it. Also, if that means bringing in bits and pieces from all over the area to make it more interesting and to add some context. You’re showing a beautiful, less known piece of the world. So, I do not mean this in a pedantic way. But, the thumbnail to highlight the video shows Kiribati warriors, who are on the far end of Micronesia and have very little to do with this story. Then why do I need to bring this up? Well… the Kiribati suits, weapons, way of fighting and navigation skills make for an amazing story of themselves. Which could be some great content for the future and is worth looking into! ;) All the love.

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

It's the closest we could come visually, but I completely agree and would absolutely love to go to Kiribati for a season. It's just an issue of costs, flights, and time. Thanks for the comment!

So, if soldiers shit themselves when killed in a battle, then a battlefield would be a very smelly place. Good to know

@revolutionaryhamburger

3 ай бұрын

During WWI soldiers returning from leave headed back to the front spoke of the trench smell. Shit smells mingling with corpse stench. Dead horses, millions of dead soldiers, billions of diseased rats. Uncounted shell craters filled stagnant greet water mixed with mustard gas, toxic chemicals and moldering men. A very smelly place indeed.

@greatexpectations6577

3 ай бұрын

@@revolutionaryhamburger that sounds like hell

@MegaBanane9

3 ай бұрын

@@greatexpectations6577 Hell on earth, the trenches mean death...

@ChristopheStrobbe

2 ай бұрын

Remember Game of Thrones, season 7, episode 4? Bronn asks Dickon Tarly how he experienced his first battle. Dickon says it was glorious (or something along those lines). Bronn says it wasn't because men shit themselves in battle.

Well, as one saying goes, 'life is like toilet paper, you're either on a roll, or taking shit from somebody'...

I think this has something to do with living in an easy environment, which is why you often find these bizarre rituals in the tropics. When you environment is abundant and provides every necessity without much effort, humans tend to go a little crazy trying to artificially create struggle for themselves. There are similar things, though they tend to manifest as psychological more often than physical, among the upper middle class in America. Bret Weinstein was just singing the praises of polar plunges for a very similar reason. Conversely, in temperate areas with heavy seasonality, the people’s cultural focus is on frugality, stoicism, hard work, preparation for winter, dedication to thriving etc. as there is really struggle to survive woven into everyday life, no need to create artificial struggle. Wars are usually over land as land is the only way to secure your family’s continued existence.

@elishafollet5347

3 ай бұрын

Why don't people in paradises just focus on entertainment if they'r so bored instead of killing each other or creating other unnecessary problems for themselves?

@jonathanfontaine2325

2 ай бұрын

@follet5347 That is indeed a very good question. If the answer is not clear to you, then you have a lot to learn about the broad varieties of human natures. We see the same thing around us every day; people living the richest, wealthiest, easiest and most comfortable lives. They spend their days picking fights with strangers over nothing.

@elishafollet5347

2 ай бұрын

@@jonathanfontaine2325 honestly if rich people want some kind of challenge and purposes for they'r lives then they should just dedicate it to helping people and improving the lives of the common folk by funding things that would be useful to they'r country like public healthcare and education and stuff

@jonathanfontaine2325

2 ай бұрын

@@elishafollet5347 Nice of you to tell others what to do with their time and money. Do you do it yourself too?

@elishafollet5347

2 ай бұрын

@@jonathanfontaine2325 I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to spend money on themselves and injoy it I'm just simply saying that if most rich people on top wanted some kind of purpose in life then it would sure be great if they dedicate it to helping people

You truly do go some strange places, Evan. Thanks for bringing us along.

Millenia of boredom in a watery desert paradise, ...may cause seems-a-bit-much behavior.

Dude i just simply love this channel

Imagine if everyone fought like this

Social mores, especially those dealing with violence, are always deeply fascinating. Often times people like to find ways of othereing and alienating other people based on culture and customs that look and feel very foreign and strange to their sensibilities, where if you just take a few steps further into trying to think and understand those customs they all shake out to be, at their core, very human and understandable; I feel like Evan does a great job in showing that. After all, much as some of us don't want to admit it, if something is universally funny at a base level, why wouldn't it become important somewhere, for some reason?

I really like this series you're doing in the Pacific. It is an area that gets little attention but is host to many wild activates.

So reducing two nuts down to one cuts down the recovery time to half when getting kicked in the groin by the enemy...get back to fightin' quicker!!!😆😜 Definite Advantage!!!😂

That intro has me hooked!!! Beautiful 👏👏👏

@aguysaid5457

3 ай бұрын

Finished the episode right now, absolutely beautiful! Again as always a great job at showing a different perspective on things. beautiful 👏👏

Yay, second video in a row for Ponhpei! ❤

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

The fifth, even!

@stevef.8708

3 ай бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries​​⁠Oh wow! Pohnpei related? I’ll have to search. I’ve watched all of the Micronesia ones.

Good OnYa Matey 🤙😏 Have ALWAYS Loved Your Work🙏🤣 Cheerz

I subscribed. Keep up the good work!

Always a pleasure to see one of my favourite youtubers talking shit.

the losing a testicle bit was worse than the rest of the video. after you go through that, nothing you go through in a battle could be worse than what you've already done to yourself

Sick double entendre at the end Evan!!

I feel like there has to be something I'm missing since fighting skill and status don't always go together, a group could break all the social norms to gain a tactical edge and conquer all their neighbors if the battles are the way they are described here and there wasn't anything else to the story. It doesn't matter if what you did is taboo if all the abled bodied men capable of enforcing rules are either dead or joined your plot.

It's like I always say, "no pain, no ... ... no, pain. Please no pain." Not surprisingly I am tattoo free.

@toddberkely6791

3 ай бұрын

pft, i bet you even have two testicles like a PUSSY

@MatthewTheWanderer

3 ай бұрын

Me too, lol!

Sometimes people just need a stupid reason to fight long-hold resentment.

I know as anthropologists, the discipline kept trying to teach that we had to be unbiased in our ethnography because our worldview comes from an upbringing separate from the observed group's.... But I always said fuck that. Minimal observer bias is really important when REPORTING on a culture, but empathy for others should always be your moral compass and guide through the lens of humanities, and I find it correct to call out fundamental violations of that when being candid or in service of human rights. I find war to always be a violation of that and should always be held against all people.

@fredlight9963

3 ай бұрын

Cultural relativism is necessary while studying other cultures in anthropology, but it shouldn't be that you relinquish your own values when it comes to living life and holding opinions as a member of your own society. It has been many years since I studied a few subjects on it back at university, but I've heard that the anthropology departments have been taken over by the sociologists. Certainly I have seen some stuff coming out from the field where they seem to practice more cultural advocacy over relativism and they will happily distort, remove and or reinterpret facts to push narratives over truth. Actually thinking about it, that seems to also be the case for a lot of other disciplines too nowadays!

@dopaminecloud

3 ай бұрын

Cultural relativism is a safeguard for stupid people. It isn't necessary if your values aren't derived from culture to begin with.

@CountingStars333

3 ай бұрын

War bad?. Usa is the most warmongering state on earth. With the most guns per capita. What does that say about your culture.

@badfoody

3 ай бұрын

Limited and measured cultural relativism Or you will get idiots tolerating human sacrifice and child rape cause it's "cultural"

@deykuzor

3 ай бұрын

@@CountingStars333 I don't support the USA partaking in war and I likewise don't support groups in the US benefiting from war. I don't understand what you're trying to strawman me as, someone who is anti war but pro gun? Or because I was adopted by US citizens and grew up in the US, I must be a war profiteer and thus cannot comment in good faith about what I think is a transgression against human rights?

I had an really bad asthma attack once I was just at the point of going unconscious and as everything was fading in I shit my pants and at that moment an ambulance arrived and gave me oxygen. The moment I was conscious again I screamed I shit my pants it was that present in my mind.

You always find the best places

I have loved your channel since discovering during lockdown. And I have always wondered why the expletive you werent getting more views. Guess your older videos just werent shitty enough!😅 Please keep up the great work you two! Our lives would be poorer without you.

Nice one Ev.

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Phil!

Now I understand Loathsome Dung Eater.

I am pleasantly surprised by this recommendation, seems like an interesting channel.

I just have to wonder when will you tackle the Ona and Selknam massacres here in Chile. I really loved your vids about Chile :)

People living in paradise torturing each other. That is so human.

Bravo. Well done.

We still play those games with each other just not as explicitly... I can think of several times during the course of my life where I endured pain, even inflicted pain on myself intentionally just to spite someone whose M.O. was domination through the infliction of suffering. The idea is that if you can take the pain willingly, even happily (takes a lot of practice and is ultimately very damaging but I think it's our instinct to do these things) then it challenges the power of the ones inflicting it and eggs them on to really bring it. AKA go hard or go home, give me all you got, this is a good way to test whether someone is actually willing to go all in for that victory over you. I see it as they should have to earn it. And if they go as far as committing a grievous enough injury/murder then they end up losing status anyway, and alerting others to the fact that they're bad business/lack discipline. Some may see this as provoking someone unfairly but what they fail to realize is that they assume they have a right to act in ways that are condescending to others and if the others don't fight back then they deserve it so anyone with that mentality better be ready to get continually challenged and "provoked" And even the part about ultimately making peace with them and becoming "friends" at least sometimes... not all the time, holds true as long as humility and mutual respect is established. But if not, an enemy is just an enemy.

I like your style of presenting :D

Brilliant stuff

This video really reminds me of the now long-gone, forsaken old practice we Dayaks on Borneo used to engage in. It was a means to prove one's worth to marry a noble bride or demonstrate one's might, aiming to become a noteworthy legend. Headhunting activity was one of the requirements, especially if the victims were from tribes or people living in faraway places; it was as valuable as seashells to those deep inside the jungle interior. In turn, these needless bloodshed would ignite constant, unending tribal warfare. Yet, in some odd way, nobody tried to contemplate why it persisted until the arrival of the missionaries. Then this video comes in and gives me the idea that perhaps my ancestors were just trying to find meaning in life and accomplish something noteworthy, all while fulfilling their thirst for vengeance or bloodlust, thus making it part of tradition. This continued until our tribe gradually converted to the new Abrahamic faiths.

I was wondering why this island's name sounded so freaking familiar until I read that this is also home to the famous Nan Madol complex which is just off the eastern shore of Pohnpei (or Ponape, as it used to be named) This was part of the fabled lost continent of Lemuria (or Mu, as it is sometimes referred to.) So this island has a more interesting than being home to a group of warriors with strange fecal and alimentary proclivities. Still, it adds yet another layer to their unusual history.

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

Lemuria and Mu are inventions popularized by a Russian con-woman who believed ancient, telekinetic pure-race magicians spawned the world. Her belief system would later be repurposed by the Nazis, and is completely misunderstood by virtually all of its proponents today. So yeah, kind of interesting. But Nan Madol has little to do with that beyond modern attempts to repackage her beliefs for a new generation.

I suppose it would be untoward of me to ask what lunch was.

8:31 The end card on this one is pretty funny in a crappy way 🙂

I thought for a second that you were going to say they were raidng each other's manure/compost stores for fertilizer. Considering before the Haber-Bosch process way of making ammonia guano was the resource nations sent military forces to defend.

You *were not lying* when you said this would be a silly one on Patreon. I laughed multiple times, Evan and Kata. You did a shit job! (in the Pohnpeiian sense)

New crazy dungeons and dragons background just dropped.

Just wonderful 😊

I love that the quote at the end of the video is a double entendre

I lived on Pohnpei from 1990 to 1995 - and don't remember ever hearing about this.

So slightly similar to the Flower Wars? Minus the large scale sacrifice of course.

*_To Poop or not to poop... War is the question !_*

Why would they be looking for "undigested food" in their enemies gut, if the prize they're after is actually their enemy's "poop"....?

there at the beginning you almost listed off the five things that make the world go around, in no particular order, but as they were given to me 1. Money 2. Power 3. Fear 4. Sex 5. Hope

I want to support your channel by hitting that "like" button, but sometimes it's hard to "like" stories like this. I may not enjoy it, but I know your stories are teaching tools so I grit my teeth and listen.

@manuelfernandezmesas3365

3 ай бұрын

Teaching stools indeed.

I watched this a few days ago and can't stop thinking about it. If you lived in that society and had the realization, we are all nuts with these crap crusades they are disgusting and awful! Then told people that. Everybody would mock you and then attack you. Basically tell you to cut that crap out or else.

Any chance they might have been killing each other in order to prevent themselves from using up all the resources that "were so abundant"?

i like to imagine the development of poop technology like missiles in the cold war. "chief, we must not allow a poop gap!"

Wish I could give this video a second like just for the end credits.

> Doesn't include picture of poop from the war > Includes TV footage of poopy pants anyways

@RareEarthSeries

3 ай бұрын

There weren't pictures in 1500s Pohnpei, but Paul Pierce on the other hand...

Probably the most interesting RE episode ever.

Pompei ... Pohnpei 🤔 Hmmm A bit confusing for a minute!!!

If possible, it's always best to poop before a battle. Nobody wants to charge into combat while having to hold one in

Ok that's a strong intro.....how do I not keep watching.

missed you king

There is something deeply appealing about having a neighboring tribe to raid and be raided by.

@mueezadam8438

3 ай бұрын

You sound like you would love sword & sorcery fiction.

You got me interested. I wanted to know the reason, now I want to know more.

"... who cantake the most shit." Bravo on that pun ending!😂

I would have chosen a fishing contest or tuba making challenge. Nut cuttin n sh!t collecting is a tad much. Salute

Grandfather Nurgle be PRAISED! 💩

Australia vs. EMU: Hold my beer