Missed opportunity to call this episode “The Dam Truth”

I was expecting a elaborate fan theory, but "fascinating and relevant history lesson" works too!

I have been tricked this is a history lesson WHY DOES THIS HAVE THIS MANY LIKES

As a Norwegian, I can confirm that the Norwegian government was being extremely racist and trying to destroy the Sami people's culture and way of life for a long time. There are still some problems that might remain.

alternate title: Norwegian history for 12 minutes. I was honestly expecting that the trolls hypnotized the king into attacking the natives for reasons

I just got a 12 minute history lesson that I had no idea I needed

Percy Jackson fans when they see the title: DAM *laughs*

The king only attacks because the tribe leader became aware of the kings plan and wanted to talk about fixing it.

J: The truth about the dam in Frozen 2 Percy Jackson fans:

J: ice joke about Ben's ice Ben: ........was that a jab at me? J: hehe yeah Can't stop laughing 🤣

Avatar theory: What happens if an entire elemental race gets wiped out? Like what if Aang died? After fire would it just skip to water, would the cycle be broken and end, or would it just force an air bender to be born from anyone?

“The truth about the dam in frozen two” No one: Litterally no one: Not a soul: Anyone: PJO fans: *DAM*

“Was that a jab at me?” I love this channel lol

The truth being that the wall's destruction should have led to Arandelle's destruction to be satisfying.

PJO fans every time “Dam” is said **haha, funny, laugh**

1:09 Man school started *ALREADY* I don't remember getting J as a teacher though...

Every one already made the Percy Jackson joke.... Dam it

The King didn’t just discard his plan with the dam though, the leader of the Northuldra recognised that it was bad for his people and wanted the King to take the dam down again which is why the King had to switch plans instead of waiting for the dam to weaken the Northuldra

I remember a funny pun that would work with this: A fish swam into a wall and said DAM!

I have a question. You’ve probably already covered it. It’s Harry Potter. In POA, when Petigrew becomes human, he’s dressed. But when he turns back into a rat to escape, he leaves a pile of clothes. And what did the ministry think of the left behind clothes?

When u watch a Disney theory video but all the comments are Percy Jackson puns 😁 ⚡🌊

I thought this was about Percy Jackson at first...

Can we get a whole video on Mother Gothel? Like her past, how she knew the flowers song, etc.

I wouldnt have almost fallen asleep in history today if you were my history teacher. This is way more interesting

I think J’s jokes are getting more “dad” like. And I’ve got to say, I’m here for it ! Lol

I live in Massachusetts and there is a reservoir called the Quabbin reservoir. During the construction of it, they had to flood the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott. The entire reservoir is 38.6 square miles.

Wait a second J let me go get Annabeth so she can listen to about the Dam lol only Percy Jackson fans get this

I find it interesting how the writers found a real world problem with writing about the dam for the movie of frozen 2. I find it quite nice to hear the history of things.

Actually you're wrong Its because there was no dam snack bar

I guess we're finally getting the dam truth? ... I'll see myself out...

When you’re so early all the comments are about how early you are and the fact that there are no views

But we're not gonna talk about how the trolls did the same thing to him as they did Hans to manipulate the situation/future?

this actually happened in wales when the flooded a village to create a reservoir for liverpool but the welsh government provided houses for those made homeless because of the "sacrifice" they had made (they didn't have a choice )

The king attacked because the Northudral leader worked it out. Question - Northudral are the "people of the sun"...do they know about the sun flower used in Tangled???

This teached me more about Sami history than in school (I'm Norwegian) keep it up and you pronounced Finnmark rigth 👍🏻

no one: ben and j: sure sure sure

You missed such a great moment!! You could have introduced it as "TODAY WE LEARN THE DAM TRUTH" Missed opportunity man missed opportunity

Last time I was this early the Dam hadn’t been built yet I know that was weak but hey couldn’t think of anything else

Im from Alta! I was wondering when you’d do a video on this. The history of the Sápmi people and the norwegian government is truly devastating. Less then a 100 years ago they still did tests on the Sápmi people’s brains and sculls to find “what was wrong with them”. The government didn’t let sápmi kids speak their mother tongue in school, causing the language to nearly die. Today students will often get payed to learn sàpmi so we can keep the language alive. There’s still racism towards the sàpmi people in Norway today. I strongly encourage you to watch “sameblod” on netflix if you want to learn more about why so many Norwegian/Sàpmi people can’t speak sàpmi anymore. «Kautokeino-opprøret» is also a good movie about the death of two well known sàpmi men, but i don’t know how you’d watch it outside scandinavia tho:( You pronounced Màze perfectly btw😂

Wow, that was super interesting! We have quite a similar story in Italy, although it doesn’t have a happy ending. In the late ‘50s former national energy agency built a dam in the Vajont valley, taking away land from the local people without even noticing them. They needed to build as fast as possible to meet some political deadlines so they skipped the geological surveys. As the dam began being filled earthquake activity increased and cracks formed on the mountain right behind the dam. Some geologists stated that a massive landslide was being triggered and that the filling had to be stopped. The locals protested, people were arrested and the filling continued. On the night of October the 9th 1963 the landslide was triggered and basically half of the mountain fell right into the lake. A massive wave (much like the one in frozen 2) passed the dam without breaking it and flooded the town of Longarone, killing thousands of people. It was impossible for me not to link that scene in the movie with what happened, but apparently I am the only one in the whole country 😅

Today is Thursday. I see J on my screen. Something ain’t right. It’s Ben’s day, isn’t it. J is Tuesdays. Ben is Thursdays.

Anytime this channel uploads I just smile

My favourite KZfaq channel back at it again with the Frozen theories😁

Haha i’m laughing at the fact the PJO fans will always make jokes about anything dam related 😂😂

"It's true, my bills really are piling up," - the Phoenix, Mr. Bob

I'm so glad that Ben's ice game is still on point, because j has to make jabs at it to build himself up (sry j)

This is why I love this channel. We get to learn things that otherwise we would never even know in the first place

I love that half the comments r from dam percy jackson fans

It’s seems the Northuldra people have a DAM problem at hand... Where are my PJO fans at?

I didn’t see this joke in the comment section anywhere, “It’s the dam truth!” 😂😂😂😂

Ah, so we get to learn the truth about the... *dam thing*.

Hej J! I've been waiting to see if someone would bring up Frozen's Sámi history references, and I got so excited when I saw this video!! I did want to quickly clarify that Finnmark county is not the *only* place where Sámi live. My people cover an area of land called "Sápmi", which makes up about 2/3 of Norway, half of Sweden, and the upper parts of Finland and Eastern Russia. It's a lot larger than most people think! Unfortunately, We are still dealing with the government trying to destroy our herding lands to this day--but We have some really great activists working hard to conserve indigenous land rights 😊 Also, giitu(thank you) for not using the "L" word in reference to my people like so many others do. It hurts to see such a derogatory term still being widely used, and it means a lot to hear you use our proper name❤💚💛💙

This video should have been called "The dam truth of frozen 2" Also I would love to see some percy jackson content on your channel! These 2 things are entirely unrelated.

Came here to say I love y'all. You guys make me happy. Also, bring back the old intro. I used to dance to that stuff😅😅😅

I’d like to see more of these kinds of videos! I really enjoy learning more in depth about real events that inspired something in disney movies

I’ve always wondered why sadness is so powerful. She managed to change the core memories and any other memories that she touched that weren’t already sad. Also the fact that joy can’t change the memory back to a happy memory after sadness touches it.

55 seconds ago and NO VIEWS? I’ve never seen this before. This isn’t even notif squad this is “I refreshed and it was in my subs” squad. 😂 Can’t wait to watch this.

Dang - came for theory; stayed for the theory AND the cultural history lesson on my own people. Don't really know how to pronounce Maze (the native name of the town) either but in Norwegian it's Masi, which you actually pronounced perfectly so well done. The words "elva skal leve" literally translates to "the river SHALL" or "WILL live" - by demand, threatening active opposition if necessary. Far as I kow, it never came to violence though.

Full glad am I that you decided to talk more about this history. Even in Norway there seem to be a lot of people who have forgotten about that struggle, so getting it out into the world is good. I have also more history from Norway if you want to read it (I'll leave them very short, and very little summarised so you'd have to read up more to get even the bigger picture, but here it goes). 1st. part: How did Norway become a christian country. One Viking king, King Olav the Holy, decided he needed a legitimate way to claim that he was the rightful king and made a partnership with the church to legitimise him as Gods chosen. He then travelled throughout Norways long coast line, and basically said: "Do you accept God as your new Lord?". And if you said yes, you were fine, if you refused however you were rewarded with your throat getting cut. He didn't force the Sami to do the same because Vikings respected their connections with the various spirits. 2nd. part: Norway now as a part of a Swedish-Norwegian forced union, thought it was time to teach the Sami about modern life and in so doing make the christians. They sent priests up to Northern Norway, Finnmark to be more precise, and gave them authority over the Sami people. That way they could stalk and criminalise Sami-culture, for so to imprison or punish those that didn't want to become christians. This led to the Kautokeino uprising which was unfortunately knocked down, and led to 5 people getting the death penalty but where'as only two of them were executed in Alta by beheading. They even had to have 50 armed infantrymen there to keep the peace during the execution as it was done publicly. 3rd. part: Modern Norway and their current ruling party, decided that in order to give more power to the people they took away more of the local politician activity in various counties by forced mergers. This also was forced on the counties Troms and the county Finnmark, which was joined together to one massive county called "Troms og Finnmark"-county. But by centralising the political powerhouse in the north that county now has less control over the everyday dealing of the people, and the county is suffering because of it. And to top it all off, there have been talk now to reverse that forced change because of it being hugely unpopular. Heck the landmass of the Troms-Finnmark counties are vastly bigger than most counties down south, and if I remember correctly you could fit all of the southern counties into the landmass of those northern ones, yet in south they still have after the forced unionisation still has 5-6 counties. Also don't believe most of the maps that show that Troms-Finnmark is smaller then the southern body of Norway, because that is not telling the truth. Just look at the size difference there are from how it looks in a globe to how it looks on a flat map. The land masses are Troms-Finnmark: 74 829.68km², and the counties Oslo, Rogaland, Møre og Romsdal, Viken, Agder and Vestland: 99 084.54km². And they are 6 counties against 1! 3rd.part: tl;dr: I'm disgruntled Northern Norwegian feeling that Northern Norwegians are still belittled by our southern countrymen. And it's not really as historically important like the other 2 points. Full comment: Tl;Dr: Thank you for making this video and shining light on the struggle that was the Alta controversy.

H-hey Ben...h-have you tried boiling the ice?

Anyone else miss "THESE SOCKS ARE AMAZING" at the end of videos

I was just watching your other videos!!! I’ve been on a Harry Potter binge 😁

There was actually a similar thing that happened to the welsh village of tryweryn in the 50s, the village was located in a valley in north wales and Swansea decided to build a reservoir in said valley. Despite the protests of the village, the reservoir was in fact built and many people lost their homes. If you’ve ever seen the words ‘cofiwch tryweryn’ in white letters on a red background, it originates from a grafitti memorial created by the protesters after the reservoir was completed. (I’m welsh and we learn about this in school, it’s actually really interesting)

SBC posts a video about dams Me: Hot dam!

can HE be my history teacher instead of my current one cause that was interesting

I thought he had the dam built to weaken the land so that the spirits would also be weakened. Weakening the people in the process too, he could easily defend them by force... But I loved that it has a real world history lesson!

Thanks for this video. I was annoyed by the lack of exploration of the Northaldra in Frozen 2. Loved all the songs and Elsa’s growth and Anna going Queen (that was so obvious) but expected more intro and involvement of the newer characters. Like the Sami story it felt like the movie was doing more petting and lip service and while giving them something also punished them. Idk.

This one was more of a history lesson than a theory and I gotta say I’m here for it!

Everyone who read the Percy Jackson series be like: ARE YOU KIDDING? WE ARE DAM EXCITED ABOUT DAMS!!!

Vote for scb to be the history teachers for the whole world. I never knew a history lesson could be so interesting!

In 2019, Norway sent a group called keiino to the Eurovision Song Contest, featuring a Sámi ‘joiker’- representing Sámi culture on a global stage, where it won the popular televote, and came 6th overall (there’s also jury points that contribute). It’s worth a listen to if you have the time, it’s very fun and powerful, about the struggles and self-empowerment of marginalised groups

I still can't believe I started watching your videos few years ago when I barely knew any english at all and only got trough them with subtitles on but now I can just listen to them and do other things and still understand every word 😭

The same people have historically been treated badly all over Scandinavia, and I for one never heard much about it in school (in Sweden). I knew about the same from a very young age, and I knew they hadn’t always been treated the best, but just how bad their rights has been repressed only came up once in one class in like 10th grade (other people might have different experiences though, I guess especially if you live further north and closer to the same)

The Villains wil ALWAYS win if they are smart or logical, and that will ruin the movie

Super cool when you guys deepdive into real live history!

This video is so needed! Thank you!

LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Hi guys love your vids that is all

I love all of your guys content, keep it up!

Are you KIDDING me! I had a family and spent a month in that village (Maze/Masi) and I never expected to hear this story here!

In other words, we learn the dam truth.

My favorite KZfaqrs!!

How did Rapunzel not notice mother Gothel never getting older?

I looooove you guys sooo much . Every time you post a new video , I just can't wait for the next one...

I never understood hunger strikes.. "I'm going to teach you a lesson!! I'm going to not eat something today.. That'll learn ya!" I mean.. If someone chooses not to eat, why is that my problem? Why should someone simply choosing to not eat sway my mind on anything? Eventually they'll either get too hungry and eat in which case.. I win. Or they'll get sick and pass out because of lack of nutrition, and be sent to the hospital in which case.. I still win. Is it supposed to be that I feel sorry for the people who refuse to eat so I bend to their will? Why would I feel sorry for someone else's lack of better judgement? They're CHOOSING not to eat. They're not being forced to not eat. It's a conscious effort on their part. Why should I care at that point?

Love your dad jokes Jonathan! 😁

I really enjoyed the educational component of this video. I like all of the videos you do but this specifically was really cool and I hope for lore of it in the future

Everytime i see ur videos i almost feel enlightened 🤣💙

I'm from Alta. And I must say what an amazing video! And the information and history of the Alta river and the sami people is correct! Maze is thankfully still there! The norwegian government has not made it easy for the Sami people. At one point they made it forbidden fo speak their language (samisk) in public. This made them have to hide their identity. There are still people from that time will still try to hide the fact that they are of the sami people. There was actually made a movie about this 😊

Jonathan Carlin, Not a Scandinavian history scholar, lover of beanbag chairs

This actually helps me with my exam Thank you love your channel

There's a town near me that is at risk by a dam. But if they build it I'll basically have lake front property.

KZfaq: 28 views, 51 comments, and 37 likes. Me: Something isn’t lining up 🤔😂

He should have made a joke about the northaldran people not giving a dam 3:44

Hello! This is a really good video in terms of describing the treatment of the Sami people. However, as a Swedish person I would like to point out that the Sami people live in Sàpmi, which is the northern parts of Fennoscandia as well as a few north-western parts of Russia. Fennoscandia includes Norway, Sweden and Finland, while Scandinavia includes Norway, Sweden and Denmark. My point is that the Sami people don't live in Denmark and as such it would have been more accurate to describe them as living in Fennoscandia. Otherwise this is a good video. It is important to remember crimes like this so that we will learn and never repeat it.

I absolutely LOVE that you guys are including more Geology lessons and puns!! Gneiss job!

Possible future video: your take on whether or not the Nokk killed Anna and Elsa's parents? We know their ship went down in the same waters that the Nokk was guarding. I personally believe it's plausible (after all, he nearly killed Elsa before she learned how to control him), but it's been pointed out that he may not have been "awake" at that point, since Elsa awakens the spirits at the end of Into the Unknown, years after her parents die. Anyway, curious to know your take! :)

No one: J: Or so they thought...

Omg I was just watching your other Frozen videos! YAY!

Just a small correction: The Sami are native to the Scandinavian Peninsula in specific, not Scandinavia. There aren't a history of Sami in Denmark, but plenty in Finland and I think parts of Russia?