For some reason my brain was telling me that the early scientist Brennan was talking about had to have been Isaac Newton; but I think that’s just because he did do feather and coin experiments; but so did Galileo. Newton wasn’t born until after Dee died, but Galileo had a good 50 year overlap with Dee. But also Galileo didn’t live in Britain, unlike both Dee and Newton. (Copernicus died when Dee was 17 and not yet a scientist, and also he never did any of those falling experiments, so I’d eliminate him as a possibility). Physical experiments themselves weren’t a new concept in science, but Galileo did essentially originate a version of the modern scientific method, which Newton refined. And it’s true John Dee in particular tended to work in the theoretical, especially in his focus on mathematics; still, he did do physical experiments sometimes; usually just observing chemical reactions. My best guess is Brennan was thinking of Galileo, but in the sense that the article he mentioned was only abstractly comparing Galileo and Dee, bc I can’t find evidence of them ever like. Directly corresponding or even being compared to one another contemporaneously
Here’s some info about Galileo’s experiments that mentions some of what Brennan was talking about (although nothing about John Dee): galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/lectures/gal_accn96.htm
Thank you for this information! That all checks out with what i found. You're probably right, too, about the article Brennan mentions. He says, "In the analogy of it..." at one point. Based on how he talks about it, my guess is that this article he's referring to is more of a thought experiment to make the point that people like Dee use existing math and science to defend what we already know, while many of the discoveries we've made come from folks who do something with what they have in front of them. All that being said, I would love to find whatever this article is.
@@baugkelly I actually remember reading about this in The Scientists by John Gribbon. Gelileo is credited with first disputing Aristotle's ideas that heavier objects fall faster then lighter ones, but didn't actually perform an experiment on it until later. In 1586, Simon Stevin did perform an experiment where he dropped 2 different weights and they fell at the same rate. This is the first known experiment of the type, though the book makes no mention of John Dee.
In a similar vein, from Francis Bacon: In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. For thirteen days the disputation raged without ceasing. All the ancient books and chronicles were fetched out, and wonderful and ponderous erudition such as was never before heard of in this region was made manifest. At the beginning of the fourteenth day, a youthful friar of goodly bearing asked his learned superiors for permission to add a word, and straightway, to the wonderment of the disputants, whose deep wisdom he sore vexed, he beseeched them to unbend in a manner coarse and unheard-of and to look in the open mouth of a horse and find answer to their questionings. At this, their dignity being grievously hurt, they waxed exceeding wroth; and, joining in a mighty uproar, they flew upon him and smote him, hip and thigh, and cast him out forthwith. For, said they, surely Satan hath tempted this bold neophyte to declare unholy and unheard-of ways of finding truth, contrary to all the teachings of the fathers. After many days more of grievous strife, the dove of peace sat on the assembly, and they as one man declaring the problem to be an everlasting mystery because of a grievous dearth of historical and theological evidence thereof, so ordered the same writ down.
I love seeing how raw and uncut Hank is in this. I would have never expected Hank Green to say "Fuck you" in response to "Snickerdoodle wants a word, bro." Just amazing. I want more of this Hank Green.
Watching Brennan get extremely excited that he had a fun fact that he wanted to explain and then handing it off to Danielle who was equally excited was incredible. That’s a mix of what makes him such a good DM and the perfect example of allyship. We absolutely fucking love to see it.
I got to be his waiter during Gencon. It was a table of 10, and I watched him lock eyes with a pair of people he didn't know, and say "Hi, I'm Brennan!" without assuming they knew a thing about him, even though it was at Geek Mecca, essentially. Totally genuine dude, I'm happy to report.
5:05 That camp counselor, aikido dad energy radiating off of Brennan when he steps back to let Danielle take the spotlight for something they both know, is absolutely off the charts. 5:05
Something I haven't seen pointed out in the comment section, so it's my job to commend you on that: making each subtitle the same color as the speaker's characters! That's really cool!
Hey thanks! I'm glad you noticed that. I might play around with the colors for The Fix and Dan Fūks for future videos just because saturated red tones are hard to read sometimes, but we'll see where that ends up.
@@baugkellyI think you can solve it with a white box under the red or something. I know you can do that in word but I'm not sure about RUclips videos. Still putting the red next to light blue, white, mint greens, or desaturated colors should make it legible.
@@baugkelly similarly I was like "Yeah!" But then wondered how Fix and Fucks had (in my head) each other colours 😅Totally just my headcanon though, top notch
The talk about early scientist just trying stuff to see what happens and the talk about all the things that were the unexpected outcomes just reminds me of my 2 favorite Mythbusters quotes: "Remember kids: the only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down!" "Failure is always an option."
I cannot even begin to imagine how satisfying that must have been for Brennan to tell Trapp yoU ACTUALLY HAVE TO SAY IT The mans got got by it sO many times 😂
freddie wong, hank green, and the even more added chaos of a collegehumor cinematic universe show is the most absolute clusterfuck brain child of a youtube viewer from the year 2012
Not-so-fun fact: it's not just desserts. Green bean casserole was created by the Campbell Soup Company to drive sales of canned cream of mushroom soup.
It's also like... the least surprising thing you can learn because the moment you've been told it your brain starts to process it and you just go "... I mean... yea actually that just makes total sense. People have probably been doing that since before the idea of a corporation even existed. When it was just a farmer selling his goods."
My grandmother had an amazing spinach dip recipe, came straight off a dried soup box. She did make changes for taste, though, so it's not a complete copy. I think Campbell cream of mushroom pot roasts also fall into this category.
This is my personal favorite panel show type conversation ever. Just a bunch of interesting, well spoken, and hilarious people talking about whatever the conversation flows into without much need for wrangling and with hardly any talking over one another. I literally would listen to this group in a podcast every day and never miss an episode. Don't get me wrong, I love their DnD game but the OOC conversations just hit different. Hank Green is a font of knowledge and charisma that is second to none. I just adore how Hank seems to come at things and does so without any ego. Always with excitement and joy. Adam Savage is the same way in that regard. "Hey everyone, let me tell you about this awesome thing I know about!" is an energy I can almost always get behind, when it's not done to try and mock anyone or as a form of boasting. I just realized I now want to see a Talking Room with Hank Green. @tested make that happen, please!
Of course! I really enjoy doing it. I'm glad the subtitles were readable. I don't trust youtubes caption, plus it never reflects the utter chaos of their banter.
@@baugkelly You can manually type in to RUclips's captions, it's also very good at taking a TXT file with the right words in and lining the words up for you.
@itskdog yeah, I probably should go back to including the srt. files with the upload. The reason why I like baking in the subtitles is because I have control over size, placement, and font color, and I can account for overtalk. The static subtitles don't properly reflect the energy of the scenes, in my opinion.
@@baugkelly fair point. I know it's possible to specify position and colour with some formats, just like they do on TV, you just can't use RUclips's editor for that and have to upload the file from an external editor.
oh my god, thank you for the subtitles, because I fully thought Siobhan had said "I did know a kid who had a four-pronged penis" and I really felt there was a general under-reaction to that statement
It was how just INSTANT it was as a reaction. It was an instinctive, gutteral response. "You have said this thing and I disagree with it so automatically that I don't even have to take time to process it."
I spent so many years in school hearing this guy and his videos being used as PG, kid-friendly teaching tools- something about hearing him swear is so, _so_ funny.
I appreciate that. I don't know if fact-checking will be a regular thing I do, but with this season, who knows. Either way, I enjoyed the research and want to add more unnecessary rabbit-hole elements on future videos. Thanks for the sub!
Wow, thank you for sourcing all the information, I can’t wait to read it and learn more!! I love your style of video editing these clips a lot, you do a great job!
The whole time they were talking about discovery accidents, I was thinking about the invention of modern day chewing gum (which, by the way, is hilarious and involves the thrice exiled Mexican President Santa Anna partnering up with Staten Island's civil war photographer and amateur inventor Thomas Adams in trying to make cheap synthetic rubber out of chicle so Santa Anna could make enough money to take back control of Mexico. The plan failed, but Santa Anna was able to return home regardless.)
Watching Hank Green talk through this episode on his channel before I sneaked the first episode (am a Dropout member but still so much earlier to see!) lifted this to just god-tier!
Same! I saw Mike Trapp in the trailer and I’m like, yes! Then Hank Green-yes again! And Danielle! And Siobhan! And those other people I don’t know but who also seem hilarious! And of course they are all as amazing as I assumed they would be. So pleased. So looking forward to the next episode.
Thank you so much for collecting all these links! This clip was awesome and it's great to now have sources to go to. People who get excited about random facts are the most fun people. (And they're even better when they're able to give it over to someone else even though they're so excited to share - I just loved Brannan managing to rein himself in. Could I be this generous mid-squee? Mayyyyyybe.)
It was so wholesome seeing how excited he got, recognizing Danielle's excitement, then giving her the space to share. It's just really good GM etiquette.
I really fucking appreciate the fact that you added the fact checking to the description. Super thoughtful. Definitely subbing because of that specifically.
Um actually, the microwave was exactly what they were going for. It successfully a revived a fully frozen hamster, it just also happened to be good at warming food
I see “um, actually” and raise you Hank’s podcast SciShow Tangents. 😁 either way, I love it! Also, the banana pudding story happened to a friend of mine with her family’s coveted M&M cookie recipe 😂
It's so awesome to see a group of people nerd out about random facts and get super excited to share knowledge, one of the most wholesome series of D20 ever.
Brennan's comment about punk rock science reminds me of a thing Adam Savage of Mythbusters likes to say: "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."
The family recipe thing is so true. We thought we lost our grandma's pumpkin pie recipe when she died. Nope, it's the recipe on the can of pumpkin goop, in a premade pie crust.
There's this video about microwaves from Tom Scott, "I promise this story about microwaves is interesting", where he talks about a different person who invented a microwave for an experiment where they froze and unfroze mice
Always glad to know that this is how I probably sound in meetings when we derail the topic and I end up being able to explain the origins of the most obscure stuff hahaha
Edit: I commented before watching the whole vid - just noticed you popped in a reference to the description in the video 😅 Damn I love the effort you have put into this edit with the colour coded subtitles and the research in the description (folks, make sure to check those out if you don’t usually read the descriptions- so much info there!!)
I appreciate how much work you put into these videos. From the different colored subtitles to the fact checking in the description. Thank you so much for your work
My favorite fun science fact is that the steam engine was first invented (so far as we can currently tell) in the ancient Roman Empire. It was a sphere on a stick with two elbow pipes sticking out either side. You'd fill it with water, and set it over an open fire like you were roasting it on a spit. The water boils, becomes steam, and escapes out of the pipes. The ~90° bend in the pipes would cause the sphere to rotate as the steam was expelled. It was a cool, pointless science thingy as far as the guys who invented it were concerned. You see all these people who want to go back in time and give radio to the Romans, but I'd go back and get two large iron hoops, a small furnace on a board with wheels, and get the steam engine, attach gears, and get them to spin the board's wheels to make a little train go round and round, and see if I could inspire the Romans to start the Industrial Revolution _before_ the Gregorian calendar starts
bacon is a breakfast food because of an ad campaign from a pork product company, it was also the birth of "part of this balanced breakfast" and "x doctors agree" thing
"Whoa, whoa. Snickerdoodle wants a word, bro." And just like that, my hand shot out and bopped that Like button. I had no control over my muscles, it was pure animal instinct.
Wow, amazing work filling the video's description with more information about all these topics accessible to all, you really didn't have to do that, but you went above and beyond. I can't imagine how long it took. That's some dedication to knowledge that everyone can respect
Came here for the D20 nerd party, stayed to share a pet peeve about “all-American” desserts (see below), and now I’m heading off to check out the Pythagoras bean cult murder mystery musical! (See link in the dooblydoo). This is not a fun fact, just a pedantic one. There is nothing distinctly American about apple pie. I don’t care that “there is literally a saying”, apples originated in Kazakhstan and there is a good chance that some sort of apple pastry was developed in every part of the world that had both apples and pastry! The earliest written recipe for apple pie was included in A Cook’s Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1381, and the dish probably predated that by a considerable period. So now you know, and can play “um, actually” IRL any time you hear someone use the phrase “as American as apple pie”!
Thank you for the pedantic fact! I came across this during my research and can verify that that is true (I just don't have those links with me right now). Also, I'm so glad you followed the link for the musical-- I shared a sillier song, but I really enjoyed doing this musical.
To further um actually your um actually: just because apples with pastry are incredibly common throughout the world in general doesn’t mean that the modern American pie as we know it can’t be itself an American concept. Flour water yeast is all bread but people will fight over which is better. The *real* American apple pie has roots in the British colonialists in a proto-form of what is now considered a pie in modern North America but apple trees were so common to grow and use on personal properties as well as orchards that it became an American staple dessert.
@@jasonkatz4430 An American staple, for sure, but to the best of my knowledge the "American" apple pie (shortcrust pastry, chunks or slices of apple, lightly spiced, with or without cheese on/in the crust) hasn't changed significantly since British settlers arrived in the Americas, so while it is common, it is arguably lacking in specific regional characteristics.
everyone except hank being kinda surprised about the snake thing makes me so giddy cause snakes are my special interest and it's something that always makes people weirdly intrigued lol
The thing I'm still not sure about is whether or not snake sex ratio is 1:1. If they're temperature dependent, there's a chance that pure environmental effect could cause the ratio to be skewed, even outside of climate change-induced abnormal weather patterns. I just have a thought and needed somewhere to put it down.
A-Z Animals confirms: "It’s impossible to know the exact number of individual snakes in the world, given their reclusive habits." a-z-animals.com/blog/how-many-snakes-are-in-the-world/
In case anyone's wondering, yes, Pythagoras had a communist math cult. There's a story about him murdering the guy who proved the square root of 2 was irrational, but that story was likely propaganda to scare his followers (he REALLY didn't want people to know about irrational numbers).
Did you know that the inventor of the potato chip was actually trying to sabotage some guys dish because he didn’t like how his potatoes were cooked The patron kept on sending back his potatoes (possibly fries) because he didn’t think they were crunchy enough so the chef got upset and then cut his potatoes so thin and then fry them so many times he thought he’d hate them in some sort of revenge And he ended up loving them
My grandmother was so cheesed off when somebody won the Pillsbury Bake Off with the same disappearing marshmallow roll recipe she got off a bag of flour forty years beforehand.
Just putting this information out there, hyenas are like snakes where there is 1 hyena penis for every hyena, but unlike snakes male hyenas dont have 2 of them
I have yet to see it mentioned on these comments that it was recently confirmed that the snake dick fact is also true of snake clits, and they have hemiclitorises.
Yeah, much more story and not as many facts in episode 2, so I probably won't do anything for the last episode, expect maybe a community post for the (2?) Hank facts.
Some of them are two pronged because they don’t have arms for grip. (Early on in snakes leaving the lizard branch and dropping their legs they lost the front ones first then they had back legs to still have some mobility and places to bite/places to grab. Eventually the back legs disappeared too but in things like pythons which developed later as a species they still have little residual leg bones inside their body to this day) (Sharks bite the fins of other starts to procreate as they don’t have arms, a lot of armless/finless animals have that bite em for grip etc - when you’re venomous/you kill and eat other snakes this becomes a problem again… Solution pronged hemipenes - hemipenes are also found in some lizard varrieties so it’s likely that was early development pre snakes or as the eras went on become a developed trait for select snake species which evolved to those similar snake branches So for a guy snake once you find the girl you want to actually ya know participate in procreation no arms and you can’t bite them and kill them so you’ve got to either be able to twist into a rope/twist into a ball/figure out an alternative way to stay interlocked - some snakes also just have cloaca’s like birds/crocodiles (while crocodiles have cloaca’s they have multi chambers and have penises inside the cloaca- which I just think is like double the amount of things you really need… you have a cloaca and basically a vagina/penis as well it’s sort of ridiculous and like I understand it help with bladder stuff especially in water but it just seems odd and overkill)
Um actually, Pythagoras drowned the young guy Hippasus because he had discovered irrational numbers eg fractions. Because this completely flew in the face of the Pythagorean religion which was based on rational numbers, Pythagoras drowned the guy.
For some reason my brain was telling me that the early scientist Brennan was talking about had to have been Isaac Newton; but I think that’s just because he did do feather and coin experiments; but so did Galileo. Newton wasn’t born until after Dee died, but Galileo had a good 50 year overlap with Dee. But also Galileo didn’t live in Britain, unlike both Dee and Newton. (Copernicus died when Dee was 17 and not yet a scientist, and also he never did any of those falling experiments, so I’d eliminate him as a possibility). Physical experiments themselves weren’t a new concept in science, but Galileo did essentially originate a version of the modern scientific method, which Newton refined. And it’s true John Dee in particular tended to work in the theoretical, especially in his focus on mathematics; still, he did do physical experiments sometimes; usually just observing chemical reactions. My best guess is Brennan was thinking of Galileo, but in the sense that the article he mentioned was only abstractly comparing Galileo and Dee, bc I can’t find evidence of them ever like. Directly corresponding or even being compared to one another contemporaneously
Here’s some info about Galileo’s experiments that mentions some of what Brennan was talking about (although nothing about John Dee): galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/lectures/gal_accn96.htm
Thank you for this information! That all checks out with what i found. You're probably right, too, about the article Brennan mentions. He says, "In the analogy of it..." at one point. Based on how he talks about it, my guess is that this article he's referring to is more of a thought experiment to make the point that people like Dee use existing math and science to defend what we already know, while many of the discoveries we've made come from folks who do something with what they have in front of them.
All that being said, I would love to find whatever this article is.
@@baugkelly I actually remember reading about this in The Scientists by John Gribbon. Gelileo is credited with first disputing Aristotle's ideas that heavier objects fall faster then lighter ones, but didn't actually perform an experiment on it until later. In 1586, Simon Stevin did perform an experiment where he dropped 2 different weights and they fell at the same rate. This is the first known experiment of the type, though the book makes no mention of John Dee.
In a similar vein, from Francis Bacon:
In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. For thirteen days the disputation raged without ceasing. All the ancient books and chronicles were fetched out, and wonderful and ponderous erudition such as was never before heard of in this region was made manifest. At the beginning of the fourteenth day, a youthful friar of goodly bearing asked his learned superiors for permission to add a word, and straightway, to the wonderment of the disputants, whose deep wisdom he sore vexed, he beseeched them to unbend in a manner coarse and unheard-of and to look in the open mouth of a horse and find answer to their questionings. At this, their dignity being grievously hurt, they waxed exceeding wroth; and, joining in a mighty uproar, they flew upon him and smote him, hip and thigh, and cast him out forthwith. For, said they, surely Satan hath tempted this bold neophyte to declare unholy and unheard-of ways of finding truth, contrary to all the teachings of the fathers. After many days more of grievous strife, the dove of peace sat on the assembly, and they as one man declaring the problem to be an everlasting mystery because of a grievous dearth of historical and theological evidence thereof, so ordered the same writ down.
@@fidiusorg wait this is hilarious
I love how during the chocolate chip cookie talk. Trapp is just sitting there clearly thinking if he should hit em with the Um Actually.
Yes! You can see it on his face, but he just plays it super chill and waits for the right moment.
It's in his blood
The *GIGGLE* after Hank says “Hemipenes.” Replayed a million times and it still gets funnier.
Hearing Danielle's offscreen giggle really gets me.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the "that's why he's called Knuckles" joke?
Yes, yes we can.
Is it a joke? Might be the actual reason he's named Knuckles.
I love seeing how raw and uncut Hank is in this. I would have never expected Hank Green to say "Fuck you" in response to "Snickerdoodle wants a word, bro." Just amazing. I want more of this Hank Green.
THAT WAS HANK WHO SAID THAT?!?! i could not for the _life_ of me figure out who the hell said "fuck you" omg thank you
I was taken aback at first over how much Hank swears on the show.
@@adamdymke8004Non-PG Hank Green is a goddamn treasure.
Watching Brennan get extremely excited that he had a fun fact that he wanted to explain and then handing it off to Danielle who was equally excited was incredible. That’s a mix of what makes him such a good DM and the perfect example of allyship. We absolutely fucking love to see it.
I noticed that too, and as someone who really has a hard time with that, I have a huge amount of respect for him
I got to be his waiter during Gencon. It was a table of 10, and I watched him lock eyes with a pair of people he didn't know, and say "Hi, I'm Brennan!" without assuming they knew a thing about him, even though it was at Geek Mecca, essentially. Totally genuine dude, I'm happy to report.
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@@VerdaTal what’s it like to be actually favored by the cosmos? I like need to know
5:05 That camp counselor, aikido dad energy radiating off of Brennan when he steps back to let Danielle take the spotlight for something they both know, is absolutely off the charts. 5:05
Being a very good ally
Something I haven't seen pointed out in the comment section, so it's my job to commend you on that: making each subtitle the same color as the speaker's characters! That's really cool!
Hey thanks! I'm glad you noticed that. I might play around with the colors for The Fix and Dan Fūks for future videos just because saturated red tones are hard to read sometimes, but we'll see where that ends up.
@@baugkellyI think you can solve it with a white box under the red or something. I know you can do that in word but I'm not sure about RUclips videos. Still putting the red next to light blue, white, mint greens, or desaturated colors should make it legible.
@@dontburstmybubble686 that's a great idea. I'll play around with that. Thank you!
Just a little bit of drop shadow in a off-white will do wonders
@@baugkelly similarly I was like "Yeah!" But then wondered how Fix and Fucks had (in my head) each other colours 😅Totally just my headcanon though, top notch
5:44
"Snickerdoodle wants a word with"
"Fuck you"
Always hilarious when Hank curses. Knows when to time it
Just loved watching Trapp go into “um actually host mode.”
Nothing satisfies and soothes my 5yo inner self as much as a bunch of adults celebrating did you knows. I adore you all from the bottom of my heart. ❤
The talk about early scientist just trying stuff to see what happens and the talk about all the things that were the unexpected outcomes just reminds me of my 2 favorite Mythbusters quotes:
"Remember kids: the only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down!"
"Failure is always an option."
The nerditude in this is just wonderful.
It's honestly inspiring
I cannot even begin to imagine how satisfying that must have been for Brennan to tell Trapp yoU ACTUALLY HAVE TO SAY IT
The mans got got by it sO many times 😂
freddie wong, hank green, and the even more added chaos of a collegehumor cinematic universe show is the most absolute clusterfuck brain child of a youtube viewer from the year 2012
I haven't thought about it framed that way, but now my high school self is thrilled.
Not-so-fun fact: it's not just desserts. Green bean casserole was created by the Campbell Soup Company to drive sales of canned cream of mushroom soup.
Thank you for sharing! I did not know this before now.
Sources for anybody who's curious:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-dorcas-reilly-inventor-green-bean-casserole-180970635/
www.campbellsoupcompany.com/newsroom/campbells-history/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-green-bean-casserole/
It's also like... the least surprising thing you can learn because the moment you've been told it your brain starts to process it and you just go "... I mean... yea actually that just makes total sense. People have probably been doing that since before the idea of a corporation even existed. When it was just a farmer selling his goods."
My grandmother had an amazing spinach dip recipe, came straight off a dried soup box. She did make changes for taste, though, so it's not a complete copy.
I think Campbell cream of mushroom pot roasts also fall into this category.
This is my personal favorite panel show type conversation ever. Just a bunch of interesting, well spoken, and hilarious people talking about whatever the conversation flows into without much need for wrangling and with hardly any talking over one another. I literally would listen to this group in a podcast every day and never miss an episode.
Don't get me wrong, I love their DnD game but the OOC conversations just hit different. Hank Green is a font of knowledge and charisma that is second to none. I just adore how Hank seems to come at things and does so without any ego. Always with excitement and joy. Adam Savage is the same way in that regard. "Hey everyone, let me tell you about this awesome thing I know about!" is an energy I can almost always get behind, when it's not done to try and mock anyone or as a form of boasting.
I just realized I now want to see a Talking Room with Hank Green. @tested make that happen, please!
thank you *so* much for all the additional notes & sources listed, as well as the consistently BIG subtitles!
Of course! I really enjoy doing it. I'm glad the subtitles were readable. I don't trust youtubes caption, plus it never reflects the utter chaos of their banter.
@@baugkelly You can manually type in to RUclips's captions, it's also very good at taking a TXT file with the right words in and lining the words up for you.
@itskdog yeah, I probably should go back to including the srt. files with the upload. The reason why I like baking in the subtitles is because I have control over size, placement, and font color, and I can account for overtalk. The static subtitles don't properly reflect the energy of the scenes, in my opinion.
@@baugkelly fair point. I know it's possible to specify position and colour with some formats, just like they do on TV, you just can't use RUclips's editor for that and have to upload the file from an external editor.
"I'm mature enough to watch this and not laugh." I have said that more than a few times and I have never been right.
oh my god, thank you for the subtitles, because I fully thought Siobhan had said "I did know a kid who had a four-pronged penis" and I really felt there was a general under-reaction to that statement
"Snickerdoodle wants a word, bro."
"Fuck you."
Hank Green speaks to my soul.
It was how just INSTANT it was as a reaction. It was an instinctive, gutteral response. "You have said this thing and I disagree with it so automatically that I don't even have to take time to process it."
I spent so many years in school hearing this guy and his videos being used as PG, kid-friendly teaching tools- something about hearing him swear is so, _so_ funny.
SNICKERDOODLE SUPREMACY!
Damn! You did research!! Love the edits as always, hope you're enjoying the newest season of D20.
Thanks! I'm really into this season -- the setting and world building (even just in ep 1) is up there in my favorite D:20 worlds.
I was not prepared for the finger tracking 😂😂
The overwhelming urge I feel to add motion tracking anytime there is a wiggly bit in frame is indescribable.
@@baugkelly I loved it so much 💖
omg the references cleanly listed in the description uwaaa imma subscribe now 😍
I appreciate that. I don't know if fact-checking will be a regular thing I do, but with this season, who knows. Either way, I enjoyed the research and want to add more unnecessary rabbit-hole elements on future videos. Thanks for the sub!
"The foundations of science are non-authoritarian" Love that!
Wow, thank you for sourcing all the information, I can’t wait to read it and learn more!! I love your style of video editing these clips a lot, you do a great job!
Dude, your fact-checking is dope as hell, thank you for putting in the effort for this!
The whole time they were talking about discovery accidents, I was thinking about the invention of modern day chewing gum (which, by the way, is hilarious and involves the thrice exiled Mexican President Santa Anna partnering up with Staten Island's civil war photographer and amateur inventor Thomas Adams in trying to make cheap synthetic rubber out of chicle so Santa Anna could make enough money to take back control of Mexico. The plan failed, but Santa Anna was able to return home regardless.)
Watching Hank Green talk through this episode on his channel before I sneaked the first episode (am a Dropout member but still so much earlier to see!) lifted this to just god-tier!
That video is great! I loved hearing about his experience on d20.
the entire cast is knockout for this season, and i genuinely cannot pick a favorite
They all gel together really well!
Same! I saw Mike Trapp in the trailer and I’m like, yes! Then Hank Green-yes again! And Danielle! And Siobhan! And those other people I don’t know but who also seem hilarious! And of course they are all as amazing as I assumed they would be. So pleased. So looking forward to the next episode.
Thank you so much for collecting all these links! This clip was awesome and it's great to now have sources to go to. People who get excited about random facts are the most fun people. (And they're even better when they're able to give it over to someone else even though they're so excited to share - I just loved Brannan managing to rein himself in. Could I be this generous mid-squee? Mayyyyyybe.)
It was so wholesome seeing how excited he got, recognizing Danielle's excitement, then giving her the space to share. It's just really good GM etiquette.
I really fucking appreciate the fact that you added the fact checking to the description. Super thoughtful. Definitely subbing because of that specifically.
Thank you!
I look forward to the rest of the adventuring parties which is just people sharing fun facts with each other
Um actually, the microwave was exactly what they were going for. It successfully a revived a fully frozen hamster, it just also happened to be good at warming food
My god this would be an amazing bunch of people to just hang out and talk with
I see “um, actually” and raise you Hank’s podcast SciShow Tangents. 😁 either way, I love it! Also, the banana pudding story happened to a friend of mine with her family’s coveted M&M cookie recipe 😂
Thank you for the sources you've linked in the description!!
The knuckle bit and the “wobble around in there” editing were both amazing.
It's so awesome to see a group of people nerd out about random facts and get super excited to share knowledge, one of the most wholesome series of D20 ever.
Brennan's comment about punk rock science reminds me of a thing Adam Savage of Mythbusters likes to say: "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."
The family recipe thing is so true. We thought we lost our grandma's pumpkin pie recipe when she died. Nope, it's the recipe on the can of pumpkin goop, in a premade pie crust.
Thank you for fact checking! I’ll definitely be reading about the moon and cookies. 😂
Definitely check out the Nasa moon simulation -- the second link under the moon section -- if you haven't already. It's very cool.
Um actually, Echidnas aren’t marsupials, they are monotremes. 2:15 (edit: I forgot to say “um, actually”)
Good catch!
Din't say 'Um actually' no points! It's like the only rule...
Huge respect for providing links in the description.
There's this video about microwaves from Tom Scott, "I promise this story about microwaves is interesting", where he talks about a different person who invented a microwave for an experiment where they froze and unfroze mice
Always glad to know that this is how I probably sound in meetings when we derail the topic and I end up being able to explain the origins of the most obscure stuff hahaha
Love the attention to detail of having the subtitles match the character colours 👌👌
Edit: I commented before watching the whole vid - just noticed you popped in a reference to the description in the video 😅
Damn I love the effort you have put into this edit with the colour coded subtitles and the research in the description (folks, make sure to check those out if you don’t usually read the descriptions- so much info there!!)
thanls for inviting us to nerdcon, i love it here
I appreciate how much work you put into these videos. From the different colored subtitles to the fact checking in the description. Thank you so much for your work
The fact checked sources in the description! You are truly doing (neurodivergent) god's work and I thank you from the bottom of my pleasure center!
Bless you for all the research done on these facts! You went really above and beyond!
I enjoy it!
this is amazing! i thought it was just a compilation and then there’s references a whole ass bibliography! i love this community of nerds
You really went above and beyond sourcing these. Thank you.
Yeah I really enjoyed it!
This is amazing, please continue since for sure these dork ass nerds are gonna keep dork ass nerding at us for the next few weeks
My favorite fun science fact is that the steam engine was first invented (so far as we can currently tell) in the ancient Roman Empire. It was a sphere on a stick with two elbow pipes sticking out either side. You'd fill it with water, and set it over an open fire like you were roasting it on a spit. The water boils, becomes steam, and escapes out of the pipes. The ~90° bend in the pipes would cause the sphere to rotate as the steam was expelled.
It was a cool, pointless science thingy as far as the guys who invented it were concerned.
You see all these people who want to go back in time and give radio to the Romans, but I'd go back and get two large iron hoops, a small furnace on a board with wheels, and get the steam engine, attach gears, and get them to spin the board's wheels to make a little train go round and round, and see if I could inspire the Romans to start the Industrial Revolution _before_ the Gregorian calendar starts
bacon is a breakfast food because of an ad campaign from a pork product company, it was also the birth of "part of this balanced breakfast" and "x doctors agree" thing
great editing decisions. and, am grateful for the sources in the description. good stuff
"Whoa, whoa. Snickerdoodle wants a word, bro."
And just like that, my hand shot out and bopped that Like button. I had no control over my muscles, it was pure animal instinct.
Wow, amazing work filling the video's description with more information about all these topics accessible to all, you really didn't have to do that, but you went above and beyond. I can't imagine how long it took. That's some dedication to knowledge that everyone can respect
I'm glad to know that even the dnd pros get sidetracked talking about random stuff while playing
Came here for the D20 nerd party, stayed to share a pet peeve about “all-American” desserts (see below), and now I’m heading off to check out the Pythagoras bean cult murder mystery musical! (See link in the dooblydoo).
This is not a fun fact, just a pedantic one. There is nothing distinctly American about apple pie. I don’t care that “there is literally a saying”, apples originated in Kazakhstan and there is a good chance that some sort of apple pastry was developed in every part of the world that had both apples and pastry! The earliest written recipe for apple pie was included in A Cook’s Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1381, and the dish probably predated that by a considerable period. So now you know, and can play “um, actually” IRL any time you hear someone use the phrase “as American as apple pie”!
Thank you for the pedantic fact! I came across this during my research and can verify that that is true (I just don't have those links with me right now).
Also, I'm so glad you followed the link for the musical-- I shared a sillier song, but I really enjoyed doing this musical.
To further um actually your um actually: just because apples with pastry are incredibly common throughout the world in general doesn’t mean that the modern American pie as we know it can’t be itself an American concept. Flour water yeast is all bread but people will fight over which is better. The *real* American apple pie has roots in the British colonialists in a proto-form of what is now considered a pie in modern North America but apple trees were so common to grow and use on personal properties as well as orchards that it became an American staple dessert.
@@jasonkatz4430 An American staple, for sure, but to the best of my knowledge the "American" apple pie (shortcrust pastry, chunks or slices of apple, lightly spiced, with or without cheese on/in the crust) hasn't changed significantly since British settlers arrived in the Americas, so while it is common, it is arguably lacking in specific regional characteristics.
The Facts!
The Research!
The Captioning!
it's all just... *chef's kiss*
Incredible!!
everyone except hank being kinda surprised about the snake thing makes me so giddy cause snakes are my special interest and it's something that always makes people weirdly intrigued lol
I could listen to this convo for hours. I just want more odd facts. That Pythagoras thing is mind blowing!
The tracking as siobhan waggles her finger is hilarious
Underrated description. Thank you.
Subbed. My deaf partner enjoys your vids ❤
That makes me very happy! I try to make the captions reflect the energy of the dialogue. I'm glad to know it reads. Thank you to you and your partner!
A labor of love! Thank you for this compilation
Somebody let me know when this video blows up
The random moment where Siobhan says "ever" like an American at 2:07 completely took me out for like 20 seconds
The thing I'm still not sure about is whether or not snake sex ratio is 1:1. If they're temperature dependent, there's a chance that pure environmental effect could cause the ratio to be skewed, even outside of climate change-induced abnormal weather patterns. I just have a thought and needed somewhere to put it down.
Yeah, it's probably not exactly 1:1 but that stat is probably difficult to get the exact ratio for.
A-Z Animals confirms:
"It’s impossible to know the exact number of individual snakes in the world, given their reclusive habits." a-z-animals.com/blog/how-many-snakes-are-in-the-world/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217809/
It depends on the type of snake... but I think its females > males
Bless you for uploading this! I was just thinking about this episode and wanted to rewatch it but I don't have access to dropout atm
this is just every conversation i have with my dad lol. adhd to adhd communication at its finest
i like that the cast in keeping with the brain theme stuff even when outside the game by sharing all these cool little facts around the table
I love the way Alex laughs, it's just so sweet
In case anyone's wondering, yes, Pythagoras had a communist math cult. There's a story about him murdering the guy who proved the square root of 2 was irrational, but that story was likely propaganda to scare his followers (he REALLY didn't want people to know about irrational numbers).
Hell I can hardly blame him, even I dont want to know about irrational numbers
Seems like a strange way to hide knowledge by publicizing someone's murder over that knowledge.
@@abydosianchulac2 He just spread the story within his cult, not to the greater public. But yeah, not a great plan.
I love everything about this. I would watch this as a podcast. lol
Did you know that the inventor of the potato chip was actually trying to sabotage some guys dish because he didn’t like how his potatoes were cooked
The patron kept on sending back his potatoes (possibly fries) because he didn’t think they were crunchy enough so the chef got upset and then cut his potatoes so thin and then fry them so many times he thought he’d hate them in some sort of revenge
And he ended up loving them
My grandmother was so cheesed off when somebody won the Pillsbury Bake Off with the same disappearing marshmallow roll recipe she got off a bag of flour forty years beforehand.
Nice job with fact checking sources
every neurodivergent friendgroup
Did Hank Green... THE Hank Green... Just went and said "fuck you" to a person? That's amazing. I want more of that.
Man, this channel picks some very entertaining spots from the show. Well done.
Just putting this information out there, hyenas are like snakes where there is 1 hyena penis for every hyena, but unlike snakes male hyenas dont have 2 of them
That's a good fact.
You just know that this is the episode you'd most likely start to watch, and due to the gods of embarrassment, be joined by your mom or gran.
going to send this to my mother as part of my quest to make her watch this
also gonna send this to my siblings cause theyve talked to me about snake dicks enough to deserve it
I have yet to see it mentioned on these comments that it was recently confirmed that the snake dick fact is also true of snake clits, and they have hemiclitorises.
Thank you for this important bit of information.
I'm surprised hank didn't um actually the Komono dragon in this episode.
A good sugar cookie beats any other cookie.
Amazing work, you avoid me the research part of the entire show!
Yeah, much more story and not as many facts in episode 2, so I probably won't do anything for the last episode, expect maybe a community post for the (2?) Hank facts.
Wait is that why Knuckles the echidna is named Knuckles
Someone get the almond shovel...
Damn this has to be the smartest D20 cast so far.
You cited your sources? That’s really impressive
Hank, no D= Snickerdoodle SUPREMACY!
Some of them are two pronged because they don’t have arms for grip.
(Early on in snakes leaving the lizard branch and dropping their legs they lost the front ones first then they had back legs to still have some mobility and places to bite/places to grab. Eventually the back legs disappeared too but in things like pythons which developed later as a species they still have little residual leg bones inside their body to this day)
(Sharks bite the fins of other starts to procreate as they don’t have arms, a lot of armless/finless animals have that bite em for grip etc - when you’re venomous/you kill and eat other snakes this becomes a problem again…
Solution pronged hemipenes - hemipenes are also found in some lizard varrieties so it’s likely that was early development pre snakes or as the eras went on become a developed trait for select snake species which evolved to those similar snake branches
So for a guy snake once you find the girl you want to actually ya know participate in procreation no arms and you can’t bite them and kill them so you’ve got to either be able to twist into a rope/twist into a ball/figure out an alternative way to stay interlocked - some snakes also just have cloaca’s like birds/crocodiles (while crocodiles have cloaca’s they have multi chambers and have penises inside the cloaca- which I just think is like double the amount of things you really need… you have a cloaca and basically a vagina/penis as well it’s sort of ridiculous and like I understand it help with bladder stuff especially in water but it just seems odd and overkill)
Holy cow, that's a lot of info. Thank you for this!
This just put "Knuckles the Echidna" Into consideration!
Brennan's gonna need some almonds after all that.
Um actually, Pythagoras drowned the young guy Hippasus because he had discovered irrational numbers eg fractions.
Because this completely flew in the face of the Pythagorean religion which was based on rational numbers, Pythagoras drowned the guy.