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How did you guys meet and what brought you two to create The Great War and the TimeGhost series?
And can Indy explain the tattoos on his body?
Thanks, and keep up the excellent work
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If you had in possession a time machine, what time and event in history would you have wanted to personally witness?
For me, itâs the early modern Olympics (1896-1920) and the 1950s.
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Hey guys! This is my first post and Iâm a big time fan! So hereâs my questionâŚ
Where are you guys from? And what got you interested in history? And lastly, do you have any plans to come to America for fan meetings?
As always, thanks for everything you guys do and keep up the good work!
~Andrew D
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What is your favorite historical quote ever told ?
Keep up the amazing work ! You guys are awesome.
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Great show guys. Iâve been wondering the following considering the turmoil in Eastern Europe. Serveral independence wars involved with the Russian Civil War took place. The front shifted througout the years with foreign men occupying forein terrotiries (although the word âforeignâ seems to be very arbitrary Iâd say).
Therefore I reckon the ârules of engagementâ werenât applied to a certain extent with tragic examples as the pogroms taking place (in Ukraine). Of the no POW policies of the reds and the whites in Russia.
I was wondering to what extent the rules of engagement were applied and were people prosecuted after the turmoil was over? Or was it rape and pillage all over and people got away with it en masse? Could you guys eleborate on that?
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What week of World War Two are you guys looking forward to the most? For me I think it will be Pearl Harbor
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If it is, I have a surprise for TG.
Hey guys!
Thank you for your effort to make timeghost a reality. Iâm very much looking forward to years of great content.
Iâve got questions regarding the global scope of your shows and the forum.
Some time ago, I read oneâs complaint on the forum that your language was too sexually graphic. That complaint was commented by a fellow German who remarked that he thought your choice of words was fine for Europeans while it might be objectionable to Christian conservatives from the US. Since you also have to be commercially successful, are you considering to create different content suitable for different audiences?
My other questions concern German law and the issue of the factuality of the Shoa vs free speech allowing anyone in the US to claim it never happened. What will happen if someone on this forum should claim that the Shoa never actually happened? Will you just leave it open for discussion? Will you ban such individuals? Will you inform German police? Is your forum hosted in Europe or even Germany? And what about comments on YouTube? Will you just try to abide by YouTubeâs set of rules or will you try remove any comment that might violate German law?
I know these are some pretty special questions. But I really fear your WW2 channel might also draw some idiotsâ attention and wonder how youâll be handling it.
Take care!
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Hello guys! I am so happy with the work both of you are doing! Keep up the good work! I was wondering what your favorite technology(ies) are from World War I and World II?
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Have you guys considered getting Indy a cigar to go with that glass of whisky? I canât help but feel that with the braces it would go really well or are we going to wait for wartime austerity to finish and go for it in the 1920âs?
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Hey guys and gals!
I enjoyed âthe longest dayâ and âa bridge too farâ by Cornelius Ryan so much. They were entertaining and informing at the same time. Have you ever come along any WW2 books that tell the Axisâs point of view that you could recommend, preferably by an author that was member of or embedded with Axis troops (apart from âDas Bootâ)?
Take care!
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I have a feeling that an absolutely delightful evening could be had in the company of the two of you and several bottles of something both extremely expensive and ruinously alcoholic. How does one go about making such a thing happen?
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We met- and I know it sounds weird- at a Mallorcan whorehouse over the millenium shift. That really sounds like itâs from Hemmingway, but itâs the truth. NOTE- we didnât want to be there. We had mutual friends that we were spending the holidays with and thatâs how we met each other, but since we werenât interested in the âmerchâ at the location, we spent a few hours in the bar talking to each other. Already then we started making plans to film and tell history.
My tattoos? No idea how they got there! Okay, the Astros logo on my left shoulder is the old 60s original logo of the team. The writing below it is an ex-girlfriendâs name in regular writing and in wingdings (and weâre still best pals so Iâm not removing them). The other ones have to do with secrets. Big important secrets, so unfortunately I canât tell you- OH- except the homemade sort of sword thing on my left collar bone. That was a pal when I was 14 giving me a homemade tattoo cause he read how to do it in a fanzine.
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Indy says:
I have trouble talking multiple takes the day after smoking cigars, so it would have to be a final take.
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Indy: For me⌠hmm⌠ww1- gotta be cellucotton. Maybe thatâs the feminist in me, but the idea of ALL modern female hygiene products not existing sort of screams âdystopiaâ. From WW2, itâs Pykrete. If you donât know what that is, you better look it up.
Sparty: For WWI the gas lighter - changed the way we live every day - just think of lighting a candle, disinfecting a needle. For WW2 Penicillin - if you can call that a technologyâŚ. but hey Iâd be dead without it.
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Indy: General Sedgewick at the Battle of Spottsylvania to his aide de camp while standing on the parapet viewing the action after being warned he was in danger, âAre you kidding? They couldnât hit an elephant from this dist-â
Sparty: âAnyone who is not confused doesnât really understand the situationâ Edward R Murrow about WW2
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Indy: Iâm from Texas. Since leaving there as a teen Iâve lived all over till I ended up in Sweden in 1996. Nothing got me interested in history, though- Iâve been that way since I can remember. One day weâll hit the states, sure! No idea exactly when yet, though.
Sparty: Iâm all mixed up⌠I was born in Sweden, lived my first years as an infant in Germany, then I grew up in France and Sweden (mostly France). Went to American, British, Swedish and French schools, but did my last year of High School and went to college in Sweden. I moved to Germany twenty years ago⌠I speak four languages fluently, but none of them perfectly (although my English is better than the others and my German nowadays better than my Swedish⌠my French suffers from not speaking enough, but when I go back âhomeâ it picks up fast again. And Home is nowadays Germany, Iâd even say I feel more German than anything else.
My interest for history started on a November day when I was seven years old. My grandfather (he was born 1899) was visiting us in France and we lived close to Versailles at the time. We went to see the palace and nearby thereâs a big statue of Napoleon (where in France isnât there?!?). So grandfather asked me if I knew who he was, and of course I did⌠you live in France you know who Bonaparte is, right! The he asked me if I new when he lived and like most seven year olds that question sort of stumped me so I answered that it was a long, long time ago. Then my grandfather said something that changed my childhood perception of the world quite violently; âyou know Iâm your grandfather, and I had a grandfather too, right? My grandfather was born in 1820 when Napoleon was still alive.â (my grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather were prone to getting kids at a progressed age). In any case, this thought wouldnât leave me; thatâs not so long ago and I was hooked⌠I dragged my kid brother into it as well, and six years later on a holiday road trip through Northern France our parents finally asked us if on this holiday we could please, please do something else than visit castles, museums, WW1 and WW2 sites, just for one day 
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Adam - I think youâre on to something Indy said: âeasy, just look us up any time!â Seriously though, when we get enough resources to travel for the shows we will always make sure to meet up with you guys. And also we want to have our Timeghost Haunts at some point⌠but right now weâre lacking a bit of time and moneyâŚ
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