It's Thursday and normally I do a Q&A today but I just can't do it I cannot do it you know I I've
been reading some of the comments in the channel working through looking for questions to work on
today and it is very difficult there are times when the comment section in the channel is just
so exciting and so energizing to read through the comments and find out about how people are excited
about history excited about learning about other cultures or cultures through time food sometimes
we talk about historic sites or doing historical reenacting or you know technologies all these
things are so exciting to me I there is a there's a thousands of miles you know deep down that we
can study there's so much to work through and yet you know Monday's video was a cooking episode of
cooking episode about a dessert that was used in the 18th century called an orange fool and
you know it showed up on the schedule when it did it was just sort of you know hey we kind of spaced
out with our videos orange fool falled fell on on July 3rd and it was one of those videos that
was that we did at Mount Vernon and it was one of the episodes at Mount Vernon chose we said fine
that seems like a great kind of dessert that might typically show up on the on the Washington's table
let's do it and yet so many people got the idea that there was somehow a hidden or maybe not so
subtle message about the title of our episode that it was somehow political in nature that
is very even longtime subscribers were thinking that this was true and really I mean we've done
hundreds of videos three four or five hundred videos are available on YouTube do they have
subtle hidden political messages no did Monday's video have a political message that was put forth
by anybody at James Townsend and son no and I'm not sure where you would get that idea especially
if you've watched our past episodes that's not what we do and even in Monday's episode there
was nothing there that was meant to be political in nature and especially modern politics in fact
I really am happy to bring you a channel that has very little modern politics involved I mean
we do touch on political things having to do with historical things I mean obviously we're dealing
with the 17th 18th 19th century and so we touch on political issues but they tend to be kind of
general societal political issues not specific party issues and really they're not so much
political as they are societal issues whether it's you know how cultures interact and etc so
you know that's what we talk about here on the channel we don't draw analogies and connections
to modern politics that's not what we're here to do if you want that you can probably get
that on thousands millions of other channels on YouTube there's enough of that on television on
the radio on the internet as it is we are as a modern audience bombarded with politics highly
highly divisive politics at that we have entered an era where and there have been eras in the past
that are equally disturbing but we have entered this era where you know everything has to do with
politics well guess what Monday's episode was not about politics and that is frustrating to me that
everything we do even in a simple episode about cooking has to somehow be dragged in to that into
that arena I don't want to be there I don't do videos about that in fact I think as individuals
we are much much more served better served by studying individuals and how they relate to each
other in history so that we can understand that today in our daily lives what's more important
something happening thousands of miles away that we can't actually do anything about or very little
or our daily interactions with people around us with our family with our co-workers or whomever
we interact with continuously throughout the day that's ten times more important a thousand times
more important than what's happening in the political realm and and all the energy that's
spent being worked up over that I don't have time for that there are more important things
in life and so I don't know what to tell you if you want to fight about modern politics then this
isn't the place to do it and you know I'm happy to bring you a channel that is watchable by any
age group and hopefully engaging to at least some of them and I want the comment section to
be as close as that as I as close as possible as we can get to that too we don't need all kinds of
innuendo political or otherwise in the comment section and so we do try to do as much policing
as we can on the channel but there are so many comments there's only so much we can do if you
can help us with that by have you know having a positive positively comments whether they're
critical or not that's fine but being helpful and really staying in on topic with the videos and
you know if there's a policing method that you as an audience member can do to help with that
please do so help us out with this channel I am so happy though that we have this possibility
that we have the ability to have this channel and to have the kind of information that we do
and I am blessed by the amazing audience that's out there that's engaging and interested in what
we do so I truly want to thank everyone out there for the amazing support that we get it
is not easy to continue to do these videos week after week month after month year after year and
we can't do it without support from you we get amazing support on the channel people watching
our videos thumbs ups and likes and comments and we get some amazing monetary support even
like on Patreon recently we got some just amazing support so I want to thank those guys that that
support us on Patreon and everyone who comes to our website and purchases items if you're
interested in reenacting or just having something to kind of connect you with history we offer lots
of interesting things on the website and some folks go over there and purchase things that
makes it possible to do what we do there's no way we could physically afford in time and equipment
and anything else to do these videos without that kind of support so the people that support
us that way thank you thank you thank you and the comments section really it is an important place
to be an important place to engage the feedback the critique the positive comments they all mean
a lot to what we do and how we do it here on the channel I'm gonna do my very best on this video
to go down in the comments section and answer as much as I can and chime in again I haven't
been able to spend as much time as I want in the comments section but I'm gonna I'm gonna put a lot
of hours in in the next couple of days down in the comments section because I want you to know that
I am here I am listening I'm paying attention so I feel very privileged to be able to come to you
and bring these messages to you week after week I really am thankful for the place I am and for
the amazing audiences out there so I want to thank you for all your support and thanks for watching