Robert Newman: History of Oil - a comedy show

MacG · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 1178

In short, he seem to be covering all bases. It's very British, so those who cant handle sarkasm and irony should avoid watching. Instead of writing a review, I submit a a bittorrent link to the show in DVD quality.

http://www.fulldls.com/downloading_movies_26694

If considered improper, please, mods move or remove.

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Ta, d/loading now.

Edit: started watching it: excellent, thanks Smile

some_guy282 · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 691

I'll have to check it out too...
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Seen it.

This is a brilliant piece of work. Everyone here should see this.

Out of 5, my score is

CrudeAwakening · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 830

Very good, very funny, and well-informed. I got the impression he'd just read Engdahl's "Century of War".

I wonder if the audience got what they were expecting to see..

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Yep just happened to pick it up at conspiracycentral and it's hilarious
Be dropping it on the teachers staffroom table after the school holidays

Liked the World War 1 Iraqi oil angle Twisted Evil

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killJOY · Fission Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 2478 Location: ^NNE^

Very good show.

Americans will find the accents and literary references a bit trying, though.

Owen and Sassoon were world war one poets. How many Americans still study them?

Brilliant stuff here.
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JustinFrankl · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 657

Good piece. Short, funny, to the point. Much was intended to be funny but the truth hits a little too close to home, and you can hear it in the audience's nervous laughter. I enjoyed the explanation of WWI as well.
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A Real Media link is here

JustinFrankl · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 657

It is also available on Usenet, assuming you have decent article retention.
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UIUCstudent01 · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 894

Funny and informative!

It gets 15 out of 5 stars!

Acquire and watch it any way you can!

(I had to rewatch some stuff because of the accent...)
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Very, very nice. Thank you posting this. Laughing

da23 · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 127

The real media link above doesn't work anymore, this link works.

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Curse my 56K.... Sad

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GreyGhost · Heavy Crude Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 101

You can also see this on Google Video

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=History+of+Oil

It's brilliant. The title "History of Oil" makes it sound bland, but there's actually a lot more too it than that.

He alternates between standup comedy and quick history lessons, with reasons behind wars in the middle east, past and present (including World War I). Mentions Peak Oil, and is also sprinkled with some cool ideas like eating fruit out of season should be a criminal offence.

And remember, "The G8 today endorsed an American-led plan to bring democracy to the middle east..." Rolling Eyes