I think it’s ironic. Mohammad Ali ditched his slave name, Cassius clay, arguably the most anti-slave name you could have.

Cassius Marcellus Clay doesn’t need a movie, he needs trilogy and some statues.

What TFE didn't mention about the Russian involvement in the Civil War is that Tzar Alexander II (who was a big believer in social reform and abolition) actually sent the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet to San Francisco, and part of its Baltic Fleet to New York carrying sealed orders. Those orders said that if France or Britain involved themselves in the war in any way, the Russian Navy was to consider itself at war, and would proceed to hunt down and destroy any British or French shipping they came across. The Russian Imperial Navy sailing into New York harbor as a show of unconditional support from the Tzar is one of the coolest moments from American history that has been almost completely forgotten by mainstream society.

Cannon mounted at the top of his stairs? Just as the Founding Fathers intended

This man is the Hellsing Abridged meme of “Hey guys how’s your health plan?… Apparently it’s Great!”

He was not "quietly" against slavery. He was loudly and vehemently against it, sometimes violently when challenged to a duel.

Cassius Clay auditioned to be the main Character but was deemed too Aggressive 😂

If you want some American main character energy, check on his video on Samual Whittmore the man who took on 700 redcoats, Arthur whermouth the ghost of battan, or the limping lady the deadliest spy of ww2

Berea College is still open. I actually attended it in the early 1990's. If I remember it right Clay actually had the cannon loaded with glass and other objects this effectively making a shrapnel blast.

You need to check out the video he does on Sgt Reckless a warhorse during the korean war. It is hillarious and shows the Marines love for one of their own.

I was so looking forward to seeing you two cover this one. I heard from another content creator that TFE was back in school to get a history teaching degree. I haven’t been in school in 20 years but I’d move to whatever district he teaches in so my future kids would have him.

The biggest logistical flex: The Berlin Airlift is an incredible story of America and the UK kicking communism in the teeth. If anyone has ever wondered which was better, communism or capitalism, this answers that question.

Have to say, in order of hilarity to informative: 1) Winter Solder OD's on METH, Becomes Unkillable 2) Marines Outsmart DARPA's Advanced AI 3) USS Barb - The Submarine That Sank A Train + The Ship That Wouldn't Sink, USS Nevada (BB-36) + The Fat Electrician Reviews: Iowa Class Battleships ( USS Wisconsin ) + The flying Ginsu- Missile full of Swords [These 4 are short videos and go well together] 4) America Blew Up A Whale With 1000lbs. of TNT (Also shorter video) + America's Secret Cheese Reserves (longer but kind of out of left field) 5) America Stole A German Submarine and Stuck it in Chicago (aka: Grand theft U-Boat) 6) WW2 Veteran vs. HOA - Van T. Barfoot 7) American's Freedom Fighter - Lewis Millet - "Fix Bayonets" 8) Angry Old Veteran vs. 700 Redcoats - Samuel Whittemore 9) Wrecking & Trolling The Germans With A Wooden Plane - DH-98 Mosquito 10) World War Tree - Operation Paul Bunyan 11) The Real Tank Genius Of WW2 - Percy "Hobo" Hobart 12) RAF's Legless Antihero - Sir Douglas Bader 13) The Most Gangster Marine Of All Time - Dan Daly 14) America's War Horse Marine - Sergeant Reckless (THIS ONE IS PERSONAL FAVORITE- the laughs/jokes per minute are not as high though so it's definitely on the more serious side of the videos by The Fat Electrician) 15) America Dismantles Pirate Nations For Touching Their Boats - The Barbary Wars 16) The Limping Lady - Deadliest Spy Of WW2 - Virginia Hall 17) The Last War Chief - Joe Medicine Crow 18) The Infamous Eager Beavers & Their Custom B17 Bomber - Old 666

One thing he did not mention with the whole Russia during the Civil War is that Russia took it even further. Cassius actually witnessed Tzar Alexander II give sealed orders to the commanders of both the Russian Atlantic and Pacific Fleets and sent them to the East and West Coasts of the US and that the sealed orders were only to be opened IF Britain and France sided with the South. The US Secretary of the Navy wrote in his diary, after watching the Russian fleet arrive in New York harbor: "In sending these ships to this country, there is something significant. What will be its effect on France, and French policy, we shall learn in due time. It may be moderate, it may exacerbate. God bless the Russians."

We learned about Clay in highschool freshman year BUT! My teacher told us, it was not in our books, sadly but our teacher said he was important and Clay should be in the history books but wasnt and our teacher said he had to supplement the book because Clay was AMAZING!

They don't talk about Clay because they don't want the story to inspire anyone to imitate him.

I will contradict TFE on one point. The best court defense of all time was when Porter Rockwell was accused of attempting to assassinate Gov Lylburn W Boggs of Missouri. Porter’s defense was “If I’d shot Governor Boggs he’d be dead.” (Cue thug life meme). He was found innocent.

I actually feel your pain that you can't binge these 😅

Fun Fact : the U S Navy name a nucleur submarine after Henry Clay , my father served on it back in the 70s.

As a Kentuckian I support the judge I also literally live a stone's throw from Henry Clay's estate it's a national park now it's very pretty out there.

It's because of stories like this that Nick, (our fat electrician) dreams of going to college to become a teacher. He wants to teach the WHOLE story, not just the winner's version. ...can you imagine having him as a history teacher?

He was blessed with the anointing of Samson. The righteous warrior prophet..

As a Brit his short video on the Gurkhas is cool.

I would love to be Fat Electrician's kid.. the bedtime stories must be great.

5:50 I don’t know how it is in other states but in Texas there is something called a mutual combat law. Basically, two people must tell the police that they are going to fight and that they both agree to it. They are then allowed to go at it and the police will only step in if it looks like someone is going to get a serious or fatal injury. However it must be a fistfight.

Funnily enough with Alaska, the other day Putin signed a decree stating the sale of Alaska was illegitimate and is here forth “occupied” with certain officials saying it is inevitable that there will be a war over the occupation.😂

Mohammad Ali was named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr as his Father was Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr and was named after the original Cassius Marcellus Clay.

0:27 ABSOLUTELY on par with MrBallen in his insane gift of making stories stick with you! ❤

Dueling isn't always to the death. There were several end points. First blood, surrender, death. I am sure there are others I don't know about.

2:45 "quietly" opposed to slavery

If yall dig Fat Electrician, you should scope out Count Dankula! He covers a more broad scope of crazy historical figures than just military through his Mad Lads series. Everything from bank robbers, to assassins, kings and nobility, to modern drug-fueled-rampages and some of the internets darkest corners... Can't really go wrong with his channel, there's some INSANE stories on there.

The one about Dan Daly is another good one

8:35 Minor note here: "mayhem" is the legal jargon for "holy fuck, we didn't even think we needed to specify this in law" and usually is a catchall that will include such things as "cannibalism." No, not really, it's actually a common law term for the intentional removal of a body part that will debilitate someone and/or intentional maiming. Yes, this still includes cannibalism, and yes, that is a normal use of this common law charge.

Love this. I completely agree with you guys opinion of the Lion of Whitehall and TFE in general. You gotta check out Samuel Whitmore next!

Hilariously, the only thing that even approaches an inaccuracy in this is the part about the Emancipation Proclamation. Not that Clay didn't push for Lincoln to free the slaves, both privately and publicly (and loudly), but because the main thing Lincoln was waiting for was a major Union victory. The Emancipation Proclamation would never be honored by the Confederacy, but it was never meant to really accomplish anything in the South that winning the war wouldn't accomplish. What it *would* do is make it virtually impossible for France and Great Britain to ever support the Confederacy, as both countries had already outlawed slavery themselves and wouldn't really be able to justify supporting a "country" founded to continue it. But without a major Union victory to at least make Europe think the Union was going to come out on top, it would have been fairly toothless at accomplishing the goal of keeping them from possibly joining in or intervening to push for some sort of peace treaty. As soon as Lincoln got one, the Emancipation Proclamation was made, and Europe was effectively prevented from intervening for the Confederacy the rest of the war.

@5:27 - Someone is running for office just as you stated of course.

"May I have a word with you sir?" "REPEL BOARDERS!!!"

His canon is on a little balcony above the front door. It is pointed straight down the driveway/walk to the house. There are bullet holes in the walls and ceiling of the library, he would shoot at flies !

The 1820s...when _a hill you're willing to die on_ was NOT just a figure of speech.

My next TFE recommendation would be the most gangster Revolutionary soldier who might possibly be Clint Eastwood’s Gram Torino character if he was in the 18th century.

Spencer doing the irony thing.(UK pass) "We need someone to run for office, who's pissed half the people off" 😂😂😂

And some people still think that the 2nd Amendment only was meant to apply to single shot pistols. WRONG! Private citizens could own freaking cannons! Private citizens could own war ships (they're called privateers if you like them, or "pirates" if you don't)!

He was, Blessed. Nuff said.

They say cassius clay was quietly against slavery....if that's cassius being quiet... i don't want to know what loud is.

Mans in his 80s with a cannon that is the ultimate "Get off my lawn"

Bro is the embodiment of "Nuh uh!"

Fun fact, the British considered supporting the south as a back door to retake the colonial territories.

the next ones to check out should be the limping lady & real tank genius of ww2

I knew a guy in the late 80s who must be related to Clay somehow. Ex-LRRP in nam, federal gun dealer / customizer that had his house in old Englewood protected with a perimeter of claymores and foogass. Both cops and criminals were scared to go near the place. Quietest block next to Cinderella City for 20 years.

Needs a HBO miniseries like Band of Brothers.

We need more movies from history. The sad part is history tends to be "unbelievable" even though it actually happened.

No, Netflix not rated for this. This needs to be Paramount or such... get it on the big screens. But his story is a little like Dan Daley, in that if you wrote a script EXACTLY based on his life, it would be considered too fictional to make a film of.

3:10 i mean the way ford treated his son, i wouldnt be surprised if edsel hated cars xD

Brilliant, the world needs people like this Today!

Yall did another sweet!

Considering what Netflix did to Cleopatra and Alexander the Great you don't want them at the helm of a movie about Cassius Clay.

I agree with Sgt Reckless and Samuel Whitmore telling Britian to get off his lawn but I'm shocked that nobody mentioned Dan Daly, the most gangster marine. If you want US main character energy, this is your video. The man who answer the buddy bar question, do you think you could take out 300 Spartans with a machine gun?

Clay is the one who owns a musket for home defense

Love Mr. Ballen. You're so right.

Y'all need to binge his short videos. 😂

Mr Ballin and Fat Electrician both narrating a story 🎉

You can visit his home White Hall outside Lexington

I can’t wait to see what his kid’s first word is.

In defence of the UK during the American civil war, while it is true that we were more surportive of the south due to its industries, this was during the Empire's war on slavery and we had point blank told the south that we would only support them if they outlawed slavery. they refused so it would not have matered if russia was oppossed as well

This is your best video

More please! 😂

okay you need to put that baby scream through the heavy metal filter Babymetal

to quote Eddie Murphy, "His momma call him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay"

13:23 you probably need to defend it with lawyers more than anything else. Because you’d be getting a lot of inspections to ensure that it it’s up to code.

18:12 Between Russia's own interest to keep other major powers away from acknowledging Confederacy, in 1861 months before the start of the war their Tsar signed basically their own emancipation proclamation for the slaves in Russia. Given the timing and that it was a long-discussed and hard decision, I think Clay used his influence to escalate the end of slavery more than just in the US :)

Fix bayonets- Lewis Millett, Winter soldier ODs on Meth, Sgt Reckless

Could you imagine being a slave and hearing that your slave master got shot to death in a duel against an abolishionist... must feel cathardic

Next, you need to do World War Tree

Fat electrician and Mr. Ballin best story tellers.

100% agree with TFE and and Mr. Ballen being the best storytellers ❤

This man is an absolute hero

There can be only one Highlander!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤😂😂😂😂😂😮❤❤❤

A movie about this would shoot the narrative in the ass.

'Quietly' opposed to slavery

As far as California and Portland, they don't have the set of nuts it takes to be a Kentuckian. They'd try to tell us we can't do that, we'll tell them watch me do it.

I don’t know we have a politician right now being bashed everywhere.

I think there is a movie about him I think Hollywood named it Scarface

That is a great question. Why would Academia, and Hollywood not teach us about this guy?

Broad drops the name Mr. Freeman like we aren't all gonna all of a sudden, envision. Morgan Freeman, as this guy's history teacher?

As far as Ideas for the next Fat Electrician vid you guys do, the problem is that there are so many that are awesome, that it's tough to pick just one to recommend, so, in that vein: The Most Gangster Marine of all time The Last Warchief Bat Bombs America's Secret Underground Cheese Bunkers Toilet Sinks U-Boat (a bit short, but still hilarious) Wake Island Grand Theft U-Boat - WW2 Vet Vs. HOA , Van T. Barfoot - Lewis Millet and last but not least Samuel 'Get off my lawn' Whittemore These are just SOME of the best I think, others are probably gonna have some they would add, and ALSO, those are in no particular order, they're ALL Awesome. It's pretty much consensus that if Nic were our history teacher, we would have all aced that fuckin class. His delivery is just like the days of smokin & jokin outside the motor pool/conex. Also, he says it on his youtube profile, but while he was in he was Doc, just FYI -- edit - added FYI - -- Essayons

Do NOT ask Netflix for a movie about Cassius Clay. He will be portrayed as a Black LBTQ badass woman. Or maybe Asian. But a woman... which is what Netflix does.

Cassius got that dawg in him

What happened to Blackadder?

A Busch that doesn't drink alcohol

Though neither Britain or France wanted direct war with Russia during the US civil war, the threat from Russia about not siding with the Confederates was not in any way the deciding factor, there were a lot more politics and economics involved, plus by then, a huge anti-slavery sentiment in Britain (Britain had banned slavery throughout the Empire by 1832 and had been conducting anti-slavery patrols since 1808) At the time Britain had the most powerful navy in the world (the dictum at the time was that it had to be stronger than the next two most powerful navies put together). There is no way Russia could have beaten the British at sea and the Russians knew it. Russian Naval power was not strong enough. The British and the French had proven this during the Crimean War when they attacked and beat Russia in the Crimea in the 1854. Using Naval power they kept the supply lines open, shelled positions and brought troops to the Crimea forcing the Russians to withdraw. Losing in the Crimea weakened Russia and is one of the reasons they lost interest in Alaska and sold it to the US because they did not want their rival Britain to get it. Russia and Britain were involved in proxy wars (called the Great Game) throughout the 1800s and the support from the Russians for the North was part of that. In many ways it was an empty gesture, as they knew Britain and France had no intention in being involved in the US civil war due to huge anti-slavery public sentiment which favoured the North, and their more important interests elsewhere in the world. Britain never recognised the south as a country nor ever had a treaty with it and though cotton was important (even the English mill workers whose livelihoods depended on imported cotton supported the North against slavery) it was not as important as other factors and interests.

9:40 that's a guy that guys from zero to righteous wrath with no transition at all. 18:31 if France AND England had recognized the south Russia wouldn't have been able to be particularly helpful but there was ZERO chance the Brits and the French work together against them so they'd probably tie up a lot of enemy military shipping. 24:51 Why don't they teach about him? Because the public school system is designed to eliminate people like him so holding him up as the CLEAR hero he was is counter to their goals of turning out cogs for the machine. That's not beef, society NEEDS cogs but not at the expense of Heroes which the bureaucrats seem to forget.

Quentin Tarantino should make his movie. Make it three hours long.

I believe Mr Ballen was also a seal

It's still to this day standard behavior for a Kentuckian. The law has caught up with us though by changing the rules.

Cassius Clay was my uncle!

You get Cassius Clay, Dan Daly, and Jake McNasty on a team. They will take over the world

Muhammad Ali was Cassius Clay Jr his grandmother named his father that

But what a true American hero!!

I love sgt reckless! Please!! Pretty please!!

The fat electrician: last war cheif is amazing