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Put down that remote! There ain't nothin' to watch anyway, and you know it! But I got something' for ya!
The Rough Cut for Prologue 01 of my forthcoming LIFE AT THE DAKOTA series is done. Yeah, it needs some tweaks, but you probably won't even know what they are, so you may as well watch it anyway.
This is the story of Mr. Winslow Hale and his wife Catherine. In late 1880 they made the decision to be among the first residents of the DAKOTA APARTMENT building in NYC. 100 years later the Dakota would become world-famous when musician John Lennon is murdered in its entry.
My series focuses on Life at the Dakota between 1884-1900 (and possibly beyond). The purpose of the prologues is to introduce characters who will appear in series episodes. If all goes well, I'll be producing the series for the rest of my life, or for the next 5 years. Whichever comes first.
Btw, I am the FIRST straight caucasian MAN with dirty blond hair, who rides a bike nearly everyday, and who collects garden gnomes, and knows how to make French toast with flax seed instead of eggs, who wears Matsuda sunglasses, and knows all the lyrics to the Broadway soundtracks to CHESS and HAIR and SECRET GARDEN, who drinks carrot juice to single-handedly produce/direct/write/edit a Historical Period Drama using the latest SI Synth-Gen technology, so this is historic stuff! :)
Monticello is run by people who hate Thomas Jefferson and the USA. The Marxists and Communists see this as their greatest treasure. If you go there you will learn almost nothing about TJ, but you will be told everything about Sally Hemmings. She is the star of the show there. She is their Mickey Mouse. They love this fake story. And they wonât ever let it go until his name and reputation are tarnished forever. Monticello has basically been turned into a museum about slavery.
Something should be done to secure the site by the US Government. It should be run by the National Park Service.
Monticello should be operated by people who love and respect the great genius, not by those trying to destroy him.
The Gilded Age could SMELL kinda bad sometimes. Thankfully we have Gilded Age Gwen to teach us how to liven up the air so it's more pleasant. Ain't she scrumptious?
The world has not changed for the better. If Iâm gonna leave a tip, I want a menu and a waitress.
Perhaps the most topical @AIScottAdams ever. Straight out of the gate, this one jumps right out of the headlines.
I shot this video at Monticello in January, 2025. You may enjoy the walking tour in the warmth and comfort of your home as I walked on ice in the freakinâ cold. Youâre welcome. đ
*Do not spend money at Monticello. Free tour here.*
Monticello does not only misrepresent my life, they are also greedy.
Simply walking the grounds costs $22 per person, which quickly adds up to nearly $100 for a family. If you want to go inside of the house, the standard rate jumps to $42 per person! You would have to take out a small loan. So a family visit is incredibly expensive before you even factor in the costs of travel, gas, and lodging.
It reminds me of the disappointing trip I took to Shakespeareâs birthplace with John Adams back in 1786.
Visit my Memorial in Washington, D.C., instead. But if you still want to experience Monticello without the high prices and biased narratives, let me save you time and money. Below is the ultimate guide to Monticello, packed with factual history from a guide who will give you the truth, not spin. (Video credit: @XStrangeHistory)
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*Do not spend money at Monticello. Free tour here.*
Monticello does not only misrepresent my life, they are also greedy.
Simply walking the grounds costs $22 per person, which quickly adds up to nearly $100 for a family. If you want to go inside of the house, the standard rate jumps to $42 per person! You would have to take out a small loan. So a family visit is incredibly expensive before you even factor in the costs of travel, gas, and lodging.
It reminds me of the disappointing trip I took to Shakespeareâs birthplace with John Adams back in 1786.
Visit my Memorial in Washington, D.C., instead. But if you still want to experience Monticello without the high prices and biased narratives, let me save you time and money. Below is the ultimate guide to Monticello, packed with factual history from a guide who will give you the truth, not spin. (Video credit: @XStrangeHistory)
Gilded Age Gwen is back! In 1880s London, grief came with a strict dress code. When a husband died, a Victorian widow wore dull black bombazine and heavy crape veils for up to two full years. Shiny fabrics and bright jewelry were forbidden, except carved black Whitby jet and lockets woven from a loved one's hair. Even letter paper had thick black borders, before she could finally step into gray or lavender for half-mourning.
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Monticello regularly misrepresents my life, which actively diminishes my legacy.
I earnestly ask you to withhold financial support from them so they cannot continue spreading these false and harmful narratives, especially to children, who are the future citizens of America.
Instead, visit the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Do people audition before being allowed to sing the National Anthem or can anyone just get up there like itâs karaoke night at the local pub. Cause it sure seems that way sometimes, donâtchya think?
The other day a lady messed up so badly she started laughing in the middle of it.
Why not just play Meat Loaf or Whitney singing it, and stop making everyone cringe?
Follow me on Patreon and YouTube to see my series on Strange Art History. Typically I focus on classic artists with incredible skills, but periodically I deviate to encompass more contemporary art and artists.
Why do John Lennon's drawings look less like gallery masterpieces and more like wobbly margin doodles from a bored teenager's notebook, and how did a handful of sketchy scribbles get repackaged into a multimillion-dollar merchandise empire?
I'll have my video about this subject this week. In the meanwhile, what do you think of John Lennon's "artwork"? Do you think he probably should have stuck to music?
If you ever go to Monticello be prepared to listen to the America-despising and Jefferson-hating guides ram the world âenslavedâ down your throat 500 times. They are obsessed with slavery, and they want you to be, too. They want you to hate Jefferson. Seriously. They really do.
By the time you leave, youâll forget Thomas Jefferson ever lived there because they want to you think non-stop about slavery.
They want your visit to Monticello to be a cosplay of the TV series ROOTS.
This is one of the cabins that some of his slaves lived in. I donât want to make light of slavery - and Iâm not. But âŚ
The weather in that area is beautiful most of the year.
The slaves lived around the gardens with incredible views in every direction.
They ate fresh fruit and vegetables and anything else Jefferson ate.
For the most part, they lived and worked with no supervision. In fact, many were on another area of the mountain.
Many were well-educated and skilled. They could have easily walked off the mountain and toward Pennsylvania. It would have taken about 10-15 days to get there. Who would have stopped hundreds of slaves walking together?
Monticello wants you to be horrified by this cabin. Well, the jokes on them, I think.
All things considered, being the 1700s and all, these were really nice digs. In fact, plenty of people then and now could only hope to live in a nice cabin like this in a beautiful and peaceful setting.
No one wants to be enslaved. I get that. My point is, life at Monticello was not ROOTS. But unfortunately, thatâs what the people running the estate want you to believe. Itâs part of a plan to destroy American heroes. They want you to be ashamed of the Founding Fathers. Donât be. They were absolute heroes in every sense of the word.
Thomas Jefferson was a hero. It would be great if the people running Monticello treated him as such. Itâs too bad it canât be owned by the U.S. government and operated by the National Park Service.
Monticello and Thomas Jefferson deserve that.
Hollywood, the media, the American educational system, and the tour guides at Monticello want you to think the worst of Thomas Jefferson. They want you think of him as nothing more than some âold white slaveholderâ who was banging the same immature stupid slave (Abigail Adams said it! If that bothers you, then blame Mrs Adams not me) as his brother was - who everyone at the time knew was banging her.
They want you to think Thomas Jefferson was evil because he didnât âfree his slavesâ. Maybe I just went to a good school so Iâve known this since 5th grade, but if you donât, here ya go -
In 1806, Virginia passed a law requiring any enslaved person freed after May 1 of that year to leave the state within twelve months or forfeit their freedom and risk re-enslavement.
Jefferson viewed this restrictionâwhich typically forced freed people to abandon family members who remained in bondageâas a major barrier to emancipation.
As he wrote, âThe laws do not permit us to turn [our slaves] loose.â
Virginia law also treated enslaved people as property that creditors could seize and sell to satisfy an ownerâs debts.
Jefferson carried heavy lifelong debt (roughly $107,000 at his death in 1826). Consequently, he freed only a small number of people during his lifetime.
In his will he emancipated five more (all from the Hemings family) and requested a special legislative exemption so they could remain in Virginia with their relatives.
The rest of the Monticello communityâabout 130 men, women, and childrenâwere sold at auction in 1827 to settle the estateâs debts.
Monticello was a community filled with friends and family. Thomas Jefferson rightly felt responsible for all those who lived there and he did the best he could within the confines of the laws of the time.
The US government should purchase Monticello from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. that owns it and we patriots can begin resurrecting the legacy of Thomas Jefferson that they, and Hollywood, and the media, and the communists in American education have tried to destroy.
We know better. Thomas Jefferson was a hero. Everyone who knew him loved him at the time. Everyone should know of his greatness.
Until then I will do my part to set things straight. With the assistance of SI, perhaps I will produce a movie that will help in this worthy endeavor.
90 years old. Bill Wyman is the oldest living rock star. I bought his biography awhile back. His life is fascinating. Among other things, he created a special metal detector where he has found ancient artifacts on his English country estate.
I am working on a new Strange Art History video. It'll be on my Patreon tomorrow. It's about the history of Caravaggioâs Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1599)
This is the moment the Assyrian general Holofernes is beheaded by Judith after she charms her way into his camp and waits until heâs drunk and asleep. Caravaggio turns the biblical story into something raw and immediateâwith harsh light, real people, and almost unbearable tension. I will share the full story behind this painting that shocked Rome and made Caravaggio famous.
All things considered, we are fortunate that the home of Thomas Jefferson still exists and can be toured. The same cannot be said about the homes of so many other Founding Fathers.
I wish there was a home of Benjamin Franklin to tour but he spent so much time in London and Paris and wherever he lived in Philadelphia has long since gone. His home in London is a tourist attraction, I believe.
Have you been to many of the homes of the great and courageous men who we owe so much to?
Sally Hemmings had a stable of kids. ONE of them got a DNA test and it was determined that he was related to a male Jefferson.
DNA tests do not isolate one single person from 200+ years ago. The idea that there is some âproofâ of a relation to TJ is unscientific.
People who believe this know nothing about the life of Thomas Jefferson and his brother (who used to bang slaves), and they have no common sense.
Sally likely pumped out kids from multiple men. She seemed to be a wild one. So itâs unlikely she âsavedâ herself for the times TJâs brother came to visit (which coordinate with the conception of her children, btw).
Many people here are experts on this subject matter. Those who believe âDNA proves itâ (because they saw a main stream TV show or a YouTube video) likely never gave this subject more than 5 minutes of their thoughts in their entire live. So they should use some common sense and listen to the experts because chances are we know better.
Thomas Jefferson was a world-famous GENTLEMAN. He had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to bang a slave that Abigail Adams wrote in her letters was immature and not smart.
I know people hate to admit they were lied to and that they believed lies. But I think people should be happy to learn the truth.
Why people want to believe the worst about one of Americaâs Founding Fathers, rather than the best, which is what he deserves, Iâll never understand.
Maybe they just hate straight white men who were historic heroes.
Quick correction because I wrote this in a jiffy in a movie theater:
"Madison Hemings and Eston Hemings (two of Sally Hemings' surviving sons) participated in DNA studies, while descendants of her other two surviving children, Beverly Hemings and Harriet Hemings, were not found or tested because they left Monticello around 1822 and integrated into white society in Washington, D.C., leaving no known genealogical trail."
Itâs October, 2026. How much longer should I hold on to these? Iâm thinking another 25 years at least. Do you agree?
This is awesome. Thanks to Grok I have multiple projects in development and production:
Lizzie Borden
The Dakota: Days and Night
The Elephant Man
The Life of Nikola Tesla
Friar Parkâs Secret Gardens
Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine.
Let us know in the comments if you'd like a full breakdown of how it was done!
Creative collaboration with @WonderStudiosX and director Dev Walker @glumlot_