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Dark Theory Behind Childhood Nursery Rhyme Knick Knack Paddy Whack

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0:00 [Music] everybody jog your memories real quick see if you can finish this okay don't don't don't kill it though we're going to go for a couple okay this old man he played one he played knickknack on my thumbn pattack a this old man running home this old man don't know he play he played knickknack on my Shick rolling I don't know I don't know this but you know it but you don't know but I know the words I know the melody you probably knew the words at one point

0:51 in your life right nope I've never been good lyrics is it Patty back cuz you know when you're a kid you remember weird words knickknack patty whack give a dog a yeah oh know the cuz like when you're a kid and you learn the Pledge of Allegiance you think everyone's saying invisible yeah invisible invisible that's yeah I guess so and Liberty is for all and liberty and justice for all thank you and I thought the Pledge of Allegiance was like the Lord's Prayer I I thought it was just something you do at church too it kind of was though right guess so the Church of America Star Spangled Banner you know um so that the origins of that song often times those kind of like child nursery rhymes Andor stories they have like darker oh yeah like Ring Around the Rosie pocket posie what's Ring Around the Rosie ashes we all that's the black plague yeah that's about the plague right that's the

1:42 black give us more info iing Around The Rosy pocket full of posy and it's ashes cuz it's all the burn burn bodies We All Fall Down fall down cuz everyone dead damn that's pretty it's kind of tight huh kids are ████ up back then huh kids are bummers back then so same thing like dark humor there's there's a theory as to like where the knickknack Patty wack g dog a bone thing came from um apparently it's thought that the song dates back well over 150 years um but this is this again this is a what do you think nicknack meant back then well here's the thing SS like a slur nicknack nicknack Nick snack somebody somebody theorized and explained that most people believe it was written around the time of the Irish Potato Famine from 1842 to 1852 and during that time the country which was under the control of the

2:32 British Empire was blighted by a disease that infected most of its important crop leading to a period of starvation that became known as the Great Famine everybody ring I remember that remember Irish people came to America during that time remember to to England first though oh that's why it's knickknack patty whack cuz Patty oh patties are Irish right with the whack you whack the patties you whack whack so that that Great Famine led to around a million deaths approximately a quarter of the country's population so as a result many left moving to England to find work and a new life in order to make a living patties as they were known to the English would sell knickknacks oh so in order to make a living four leaf clovers and ████ keychains whatever might be so according to Theory when they tried selling their items door too they would they would go

3:22 door too and knock on English stores knickknack and they'd be given a whack and sent on their way while their dog would be given a bone as is the song A describes the brutal and inhume treatment of the Irish people who were persecuted by the British during its rule so they were like the the Mormons get off my porch kind of like that they were like the minorities yeah like get the hell out of here rad freak you ████ freak that the interesting idea that like as a bunch of kids you're just like ████ happily go lucky singing these songs but it's talking about like English people beating Irish people when they were like dying of starvation and stuff yeah get the hell out out of here yeah do we have any like Rodney King type songs dude you know what kids should be say cuz that's the same sentiment right it's like kids making up songs about Co now like oh it's like you know that

4:14 creative put a mask on take it off coughing then your grandpa dies oh ████ but he had core morbidities I don't think kids can say that so he didn't need the vaccine at all brought you by fiser and dinner yeah you remember uh like cuz pretty good the old fairy tales right like things like hanso and gredle we always get like the children's version but isn't it cuz of like a pedophile like grabbed them up and ████ or whatever I mean is that really what it is it's a lady right even if it wasn't a pedophile and she still takes them and puts them in a ████ oven and eats them and cannibalizes them you don't use the word cannibal in in the story but is that the story of Pinocchio is really dark too yeah did you hear about the one

5:05 about the they said that it's actually trying to tell you about Epstein Island yeah I mean that came later but the actual story like the actual writing like the author um is a pretty dark story why is it so dark give me the spark notes oh the sisters Grim version is is like the the Grim versions of everything go ahead because in the Pinocchio you know in the scene where he's like and then they go to this island but they don't come back as boys they come back as ████ up boys and they're like but what did they do to him and then he whispers in his ear and then the guy's like like that you don't remember that scene no yeah it was scary and you're like no don't send them to the island that was like the thing did you ever watch the newer one that one was pretty good you mean you the Benicio no I mean the Delo Del Delo I saw the end of itad

5:59 because the the dark part was the old man that lost his real son didn't want to let go of that son even though he's already dead so he like got so obsessed he got super drunk and made a wooden like doll to represent his son and then you know the whole the rest of the whole Pinocchio story where he comes to life cuz japedo lost his son yeah so that was the real story lost his real son and then how did he lose his real son though uh it was because Nazis eaten by a ████ old Nazis it was well in that story I think it was Nazis or or B Bally fascist or somebody was doing a bombing and they bombed the church and then the boy died there a few different variations of Pinocchio um but you have to like really go into like a deep cut of like the original author who wrote the story um and his is very depressing and then there's like

6:49 variations that follow from that yeah nothing gets more depressing than war and like alcoholism and all that crazy so and and like not wanting to let go of that fact what about the three little bears what is that really about I know that's a happy Story three kids dying yeah what is the real story you know like um this idea of us keeping the childhood and kids like that's a very New Concept new as in like less than 100 years or like even 50 years because like uh apparently kids like well for one they didn't go to school right so straight if you're poor you just straight work and then you see all those old pictures like kids are taking care of kids oh true and then you see a bunch of kids like freaking with covered in mud and stuff cuz they they're in the coal mines and ████ working at the

7:40 factories yeah there was no childhood back then no childhood you go straight to work and you start you yeah you could play with ████ but there's no childhood like the way that we preserve it yeah and then um they saw death like you just saw things die like animals die people die people die on the street people you know it's not like all oh we can't we can't uh let them see that ████ got more sensitive when you know people started going oh you know we can't have children watching this saying these things and blah blah blah blah why do you think they did that I feel like cuz they're kids and we need to protect their sacred minds and hearts but what led to that is what I it's probably natural for every generation to want to give a better life for their children so like let's say if you're a coal miner right and you're just like covered in ████ mud all day and then you're just like ████ man I don't want my kids to do that so then

8:32 what you try to do is you try to send your kid to become like educated in middle class like what all of our parents did like cuz that was the way out yeah and then and then every generation they become more and more ████ cuz they're like you know I want my kids to do whatever they want to do of life is you be you have a trade-off of like all right you either going to be more of a ████ but you get a better quality of life or you quality life get hit with reality but you don't have a childhood which would you rather have quality of life dude I don't want to die at 55 for from lung cancer and I didn't even I didn't even smoke cuz I was around chemicals and Factory ████ that's true you got to get a cool job not like that yeah the thing that sucks is like it's going to keep doing that until like like how are you going to find a balance you know that's why everybody's a ████ right now a ████ sapiens you know how you said I think Joe was saying it yesterday Joe was saying like this is

9:22 the safest time ever yep but this is also the time where we have the most pusses around ████ and I'm one of I'm definitely for sure that's why the '90s kids that grew up in the 9s was like right before the internet but the 50s kids look at '90s kids like y'all ████ and they're absolutely right I was going to say they're stupid because they don't know how to use like you know technology they don't use a TV remote they're learning they're learning so you you know why I think these stories were so Grim is because one like they didn't hide ████ from kids in the same way like they weren't so sensitive right and two I actually think these stories saved kids lies cuz you tell them you you scare the ████ out of them right and now they're not going to go get lost in the forest and the pedophile is not going to catch them and it's easy to remember because it's a story that's the verion of stranger I think fear is a good tactic

10:13 to teach kids actually stories in general like stories is the way even when I talk to clients about like maybe stories in general yeah yeah like it just helps them understand okay cool I remember this it makes it easier for people to understand but yeah in the Disney version of even like The Little Mermaid right um she wins the heart of the prince gets her voice back celebrates with a beautiful wedding on a boat surrounded by her aquatic friends and family but in the original story uh her transformation to becoming a human causes her agonizing pain before her heart is broken when the prince marries someone else so the sea which informs her that if she kills the prince she'll turn back into a mermaid and live but she chooses to sacrifice herself throwing herself to the Sea and becoming seaf foam oh damn that's a real tragedy what the mor story is ████ can't fall for no man dude [Laughter] you got to protect yourself yeah that's

11:03 a that's a better lesson right Nick yeah yeah man ain't ████ that's the world the story men ain't ████ yeah you want to be seafoam you want to be Ocean Breeze you want this men ain't sh ████ man are you guys going to make your kids watch like Disney movies where they give you like a false like oh happy ending this is what life is n dude I'm going to scare the Trump ████ no dude what mov they need to know that if you step outside someone's going to ████ kidnap you and enslave your ass I might show like jungle for be like you want me to ████ abandon you in the forest you grow up with the animals they like yeah and be like you see he still wanted to go back to the Village later I let him choose almost whatever he wants and he doesn't even go towards Disney that's tight I'll let them watch Rumble in the Bronx no right now it's shaon soccer and Kung Fu Hustle

11:53 and he don't even understand it I've been trying to find ways to find the dub version I can't even find it it's all Chinese what happened he just likes it he just loves it he loves he watches it over and over and over yes he loves Rumble in the Bronx three ninjas just so happen to be some of my favorite movies Blood Sport you going to choose whatever you want and today this is the choice yeah no but let him choose like I'll show them what I like and then I let him choose and then out of the list of he never goes back to like I thought he was like Avengers or go back to like Commando what's Commando one with Arnold dude come on ████ helicopter and lands on his 2 feet like a bad does he know how to choose himself and like dude these kids that grow up in this generation taica knew how to do a iPad even before he spoke it's ████ crazy it's intuitive yeah it's intuitive this

12:43 this gener like I'm like even I'm like what the ████ the he's just like big small like he's playing Roblox which is almost like Minecraft right he's playing that screenshot he likes this image screenshot screenshot sends to grandma sends to Grandma FaceTime goes back and I can't even move at the speed that he just did all that ████ at yeah he's a little genius I'm like what the ████ bro says a lot about you he probably has ████ what is it called arthritis carpal what do you mean what do you mean says that says time on the video doe that

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