Welcome to The Pretty Insane Archive
Why This, Why Now
For the past few years, I’ve been researching food history for my YouTube channel—digging through academic papers, historical records, and obscure agricultural reports to find the hidden stories behind ordinary foods. The deeper I went, the more I realized something: the 45-60 second videos I make are just the surface.
Every video I publish represents weeks of research. Primary sources. Verification. Context that never makes it into the final cut because there’s simply no time. I’ve accumulated hundreds of pages of notes—evidence, timelines, connections—that sit in folders after each video goes live.
This archive is where that research goes to live.
What Kind of Community Am I Building Here
This isn’t a newsletter in the traditional sense. There’s no weekly update, no personal life blogging, no “here’s what I’m thinking about this week.”
This is a community of people who want the receipts.
If you watch my videos and think “I want to know more,” you’re in the right place. If you’re the type of person who clicks “show more” to see sources, who gets annoyed when claims aren’t backed up, who wants to verify things yourself, this is for you. I don’t always get things right as I often make many videos of random facts iv learned and opinions. Here, we can take things a bit slow and connect all the dots.
Paid subscribers get:
Full access to the complete research archive (growing weekly)
Every claim sourced and verified
500-1,000 word deep-dives on topics from my videos—plus topics that never made it to video
The actual evidence, timelines, and primary sources behind the content
No fluff, no filler, just the research
Publishing schedule:
2-4 new archive entries per month
Each entry corresponds to a video topic (sometimes topics that didn’t become videos)
No set publishing days—entries go live when the research is complete and verified
What you’re paying for: You’re not paying for my time. You’re paying for access to research that’s already been done—the kind of depth that doesn’t fit in short-form content but exists because I can’t help going down every rabbit hole.
Welcome to the archive.
Ready to see what’s inside?