CLASSIC: The Killer Marketing Campaign Behind Guy Fawkes
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Nowadays people across the planet are familiar with the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. People even celebrate the anniversary of the event, often interpreting it as a protest againt overarching government authority. However, as Ben and Noel learn in today's Classic episode, the real story is a bit more complicated. Some historians believe Fawkes and the crew he worked for were set up by factions of the government -- making the Gunpowder Plot something between a false flag attack and a killer marketing campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, the 5th of November. |
| 0:03.4 | It's a thing that we reference pretty often in this classic episode, |
| 0:08.0 | which is about Guy Fox, but maybe not in the way you think. |
| 0:12.2 | Was it the gunpowder, treason, and plot? |
| 0:15.4 | Was that the next line? |
| 0:16.8 | I always associated with V for Vendetta |
| 0:19.4 | and the wonderful Alan Moore. |
| 0:22.0 | There is, if you guys are, you're missing your Game of Thrones, |
| 0:26.6 | well, you're in luck because House of the Dragon |
| 0:29.7 | just came back on and it's also a pretty strong start. |
| 0:32.4 | I kind of forgot what a good |
| 0:33.4 | cliffhanger that first season ended up it kind of won me over in the end but |
| 0:36.8 | Kit Harrington who played John Snow in the original Game of Thrones series now is starring in a series on Apple TV I believe called |
| 0:46.0 | Gunpowder that is the story of the gunpowder plot of which Guy Fox was a participant. |
| 0:53.7 | Yes, yeah, and there has been such tremendous interest in Guy Fox because of, as you mentioned, V for Vendetta, |
| 1:03.0 | also because the decentralized hacking group, Anonymous, |
| 1:07.3 | use the Guy Fox mask. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah, and there is still a bit of a conspiracy of foot, |
| 1:15.7 | depending on which historian you ask. |
| 1:18.6 | I haven't seen the series yet, |
| 1:20.8 | but I have a feeling that some of this stuff is addressed in gunpowder because I thought |
| 1:26.0 | that Guy Fox was like the main guy, no pun intended, but when I was looking up to see like, oh, is this |
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