Simon, they’re called Musk bots. Or rather that’s what thunderfoot calls fans of Elon Musk. Free idea: Simon Whistler isn’t real, he’s a completely digital character. Think about it, It’s impossible for one person to appear on so many RUclips channels with such a regular release schedule. His appearance and voice were chosen by Sam and Danny based on popular trends.
Sorry for the Ancient Rome conspiracy. I was arguing with anti-deluge atheists pointing out the just because Romans are mentioned in the Bible doesn't mean they didn't exist so who cares if there was a flood in the Bible as it diesn't prove God exists or not so face reality and admit that the geological evidence such as cross bedding and non decomposed fossils in sedimentry rock is absolute. But good on her for capitalising on it.
I have a friend that is a Flat Earth advocate. One night when he got drunk he admitted he did so because he loved arguing with people and the more they got worked up the funnier he found it. I imagine there are a lot of people like him.
Related fun: debate clubs used to make a point of arguing about complete bullshit premises, on the basis that it requires more skill to make a decent case for something everyone knows is bs. Flat earth was a particularly popular choice. It's considered very likely that the bulk of current true believers are such solely because of folks who argued about total bullshit for fun.
Conspiracy theory: Simon is the one actually locked in the basement forced to read Danny and Kevin’s words in exchange for magic spoon. In an attempt to maintain his sanity he has invented an entire fictional life with houses in the country and a family.
Have we EVER seen him outside of a windowless basement room, or as a disembodied voice? I'm just asking questions, but I can't ever recall that happening. Do the research, sheeple.
I found that “Rome wasn’t real” lady before she got big, and we fought like cats and dogs about her wild theories until she banned me. If she isn’t actually crazy, she is 100% dedicated to playing it 24/7.
i love the birds aren’t real conspiracy. i’m only 19, so it was a super popular meme when i was in high school; my friends and i would always scribble “birds aren’t real” or “the birds work for the bourgeoisie” on any/all pieces of paper. I remember having to explain it to my anthropology teacher and he gave me the most confusing look i’ve ever received lmao
I once had half a class have to explain to an English instructor what flat earth was because she had no idea and couldn't believe that people thought it was true. They were also trying to explain that one of the fine arts professors was a flat earther, because of course he was.
Dude, I was at the beach about to head down when this perfectly normal, leave it to beaver family gets out of their car beside me and I'm listening to them. The little girl says to the dad " Look at all the birds daddy" and he kind of pulls her along and says " I told you honey, birds are not real let's go"😂😂. The kid just looked completely confused.
I followed her before she started in on the Ancient Rome business. At first she was just typical, this line reading as applied to this biblical verse is not accurate because of XYZ. Often it was plausible and made sense along with other scholars. She was often reacting to evangelicals doing literal translations or their magic math. Jesus blessing dinosaurs. Those kinds of things and it was amusing. Then she got progressively nastier and stranger. Her takes were more & more demonstrably false. ( Insert dog tilting head image) I don't know if that's how she always is and the original few second/minute brief til toks are her high functioning side she shows at work and school or what. I had stopped watching by the time she did the Rome nonsense. For good reason.
I've got one. I jokingly suggested to a coworker that schools in America stopped teaching cursive because the government doesn't want younger generations to be able to read the original copy of the bill or rights or declaration of independence. I knew I'd messed up the second it left my mouth. A light goes in her head and she starts talking about how much sense it makes. I put my work down and walked away mid rant to tell a different coworker how bad I'd just messed up.
I’m from Memphis and this guy bought a billboard with “birds aren’t real” right across from my apartment. He even got an interview with the local news and he kept his character the whole time.
@@juliapetterspresents5977 i loved that lol....more people need to do that to show how demented conspiracy theorists are and will latch on to any conspiracy look "deep"
Two things I find interesting: a) you can’t even joke about some things because SOMEONE will believe it, take it to heart and latch on to it., and b) the possibility that some conspiracy theories prove out over time. Totally digging Simon letting loose on this channel! 😂👍
My physics teacher in high school had a whole sophomore grade of kids convinced N. Dakota did not exist. The reason it’s on maps is that when you take the map off the globe the farther north has to stretch leaving a gap at the top of the US. So they added N. Dakota. He even challenged kids to look at a globe and prove him wrong. 15 year olds being so lazy just took him at his word. He also used the same, know anyone been to N. Dakota, seen a license plate from N. Dakota. . . The seniors helped perpetuate the rouse and when you made it to physics II your sr year, you were let in on the joke, and the cycle begun a new. 80’s were good times!
My school let us believe that Hawaii was just off the coast of Florida until Jr. High. The brand of pull down maps of the United States in the elementary classrooms had Alaska and Hawaii at the bottom left and right, respectively. They bothered to mention that Alaska was actually way up hanging off of Canada, but not a word about Hawaii.
As someone who is actually from Germany, I knew the whole Bielefeld idea/joke (it's pronounced kinda like "Bee-luh-feld" btw) but I never knew the "reasoning" behind it. Now that I've come to think about I actually don't know anyone from Bielefeld which is odd because I went to a boarding school with people from all over Germany, nor have I ever been to even the train station of Bielefeld...🤔 On a side note, there was a German comedy movie that came out this year that was mainly about conspiracy theorists and they held a conspiracy convention in Bielefeld which is genius imo😂
It's useless. You can argue with a madman (or in this case madwoman) all you want but you can never win. They don't operate on logic or even comment sense.
We used to have this magical thing, in society, called "mental insititutions." Then they all got shut down, and that's the primary reason we now have crazy homeless people aimlessly wandering our countryside. Or worse, dwelling behind a computer, and flooding the internet with their bullcrap! I think that Ancient Rome Lady is a good example of why "mental institutions" need to be started back up again.
@@jacob4920 I am a nurse who used to work in a “mental institution.” A forensic facility to be exact. An horrific place that was: 80% malingerers trying to avoid a prison sentence and 20% profoundly sick people. More of those is not the answer. Stigma, poverty and social media are the problem.
A few months before the pandemic began, we were volunteering multiple times per week at our local arena to raise $$ for our kids marching band. One night during a Post Malone concert, one of the requirements of selling beer and other bottled drinks that had caps on them, was that we had to remove the cap and throw it away before we could give it to the customers. Since we were never given a reason by the supervisory staff as to why this needed to be done, I started making up random reasons that got more and more absurd as the night went on.. I finally settled on a more and more embellished story about how the first time Post Malone was at the arena performing, someone threw one of the metal caps on to of one of the beer bottles, and it sliced a deep gash below his eye and THAT was the reason he started getting all of his facial tattoos.. Now, I must have explained this to at least 40 or 50 people that night and I just thought of it as having a bit of good fun to make the night pass faster, but the story started coming back weeks and even months later, meaning at least one or more of the people I told that story to started telling other people about it and some people ACTUALLY BELIEVED IT and kept the story spreading.. AKA, this is how urban legends get started.. Someone bored of trying to explain to a bunch of drunk or high people why they can't keep the caps to their beers at a concert telling an insane story they made up on the spot..
I've seen more conspiracy theories on the tell-a-lie-vision than anywhere else. Research the Gulf of Tonkin flase flag attack.It's now been admitted, for decades it was labeled as a crazy conspiracy theory. The term CT is the absolute most effective method of stifling uncomfortable discourse.
@@SpydrXIII 100% for silly stuff, yes.. But it's really amazing how few people it takes to get a rumor (no matter how improbable) to turn into 'Truth/Belief'
There was supposedly a place in the UK West Midlands called Brownhills. It had appeared on motorways signs since I was a small child in the late 1980s. As I got older I realised I'd never known anyone from there, who had been there or knew anything about it. It didn't appear in any books I read about geography or history (I took both a A Level and got the "genius" batchelor's in Geography). After uni my brother and I travelled extensively to watch association football games throughout the whole of the West Midlands. We must have been to over 150 ground in the region. There doesn't seem to be a football side there and we never went through Brownhills to get to anywhere. Wikipedia claimed it was a modest sized town of around 12,000 inhabitants. I know the average number of people and none of them I asked had ever been there. None of them knew anything about it. But there it was on motorway signs. The matter finally came to a head after about 20 years of wondering, when I lived on a British A road that supposedly terminated in Brownhills, and my brother lived about 100 metres from the same road. We decided to actually drive there and see if it did indeed exist. And indeed it did. Despite the fact I didn't know ANYONE who had been there or read barely anything about it (except the motorway signs which were obsessed with it) it was there larger than life. A smack average small part of Walsall that was neither great nor rubbish. Its main purpose in life seem to be linking the M6 motorway with the London to Holyhead (ferry port for Ireland) in North Wales roads. So frankly for all I know and believe Narnia could exist in Spare 'Oom as there is more literary and film evidence of it than Brownhills which does exist and there appears to be no reason for it (Brownhills) to be hidden.
We once rescued a fox from a freezing cold gutter on the side of the A5 next to Brownhills Common. I didn’t go to Brownhills though, but I know the fox exists..we called him Felix, which means Lucky.
😎I’m from northern Georgia, US, and we have a locally similar “thing”. Not far from my childhood home is a decent sized mountain. Yet because of the hilly, wooded terrain there are several roads passing close enough by that you’d expect to see such a mountain yet there doesn’t actually appear to be a mountain unless you know what side roads to take to actually get there…in an absolute fit of originality it’s called “Lost Mountain”
The 'I don't believe Rome was real' girl had a right old go at Metatron's channel. He covers languages, games, medieval weapons and armours also history, and has a particular love of ancient Rome being from Italy himself. He polity refuted everything that she says, and as a result she went all bat shit on him and his knowledge, ripping into him in several videos.
She really cheesed off a few people, I think it was intentional too. She wasn't interested in progressing any research, just calling people idiots.I listened to some savage debunkings, I wonder if she still sticks to her story?
Not just Metatron. Pretty much anyone who disagreed with her. Some of them were practicing history professors and archeologists. Which makes sense when you construct an argument that's a perfect circle (Not that it matters but I have a bachelor's degree. In history) If she doesn't really believe it she's a perfect actor. Maybe she's nuts
Given that Metatron appears to be some alt-right sexist, racist and likely homophobe, I'm sure he had a hay-day ripping apart this woman's video. Granted, what she was saying was ridiculous, but if you compare the number, proliferation, and extreme-levels of conspiracy theories on the right, its like comparing an ant to Mount Everest. Metatron is nearly gleeful in his overt Misogyny. History is awash with White het male stories, both because they had the power and were the ones writing the history. His primary argument is that because of this, all movies about history should accurately reflect this, even when taking - ridiculous - inaccurate liberties with the rest of the story.
I've never heard about the Bielefeld or Wyoming theory, but i have heard the variant about Australia. The explanations for that are amazing. "The British just drowned their prisoners in the ocean," "If you've ever met someone from Australia, they're an actor," "Anyone who claims to been to Australia was actually in New Zealand, which is much larger than the map companies would have you believe." It's pretty hilarious
Yeah. I have a friend who wholeheartedly believes this, and every time I tell him I have family there he always says "no you don't. It isn't REAL." It's like a part of his brain just shuts off.
As someone from New Zealand firstly, I've never heard this, and secondly, I don't think I like it... the relationship between us and Australia is like that between Canada and the USA - us "Canadians" would be horrified if someone thought we were from the USA.... hahahaha
Professional Australian actor here. Can confirm, this is mostly accurate. But while sometimes people go to New Zealand instead, there is actually a different land mass to their North that isn't really habitable but works well for 'official visits.' We had to start using that more after the second Emu escaped and the NZ government had a fit. If you look carefully with google maps you can spot where the waves start repeating to cover up the land mass.
I am glad I found this channel, I tend to get suck on one which I like, the casual criminalist is my favorite channel, I have been giving the podcast a try also but I honestly enjoy the videos that you make, make sure that Peter and Dennis, Jennifer and the others have fresh paper and water lol so good!
I live in an area of Ohio where huge numbers of people believe one or more conspiracies. Can you comprehend my tortured existence where I don’t believe ANY of those and I am alone in that. Even the sweet guy I date and my honestly lovely coworkers whom I adore believe at least one. I can but hold on to my sanity by my fingernails.
We talking the government is corupt and up to shady shit conspiracies which has tons of historical precedent or the Reptilians from hollow earth are mind controng us with 5G cell towers full on lunacy?
Imagine my torturous life where I'm surrounded by several global spanning conspiracy theories.....where the adherents keep trying to push their crazy conspiracy theories on everyone, and trying to incorporate it into the local and national law....mein gott, it's getting out of hand.
That's cute you think he's lying to you about hair he'd have to be real for that to be true he's got far too many channels to be humanly possible he's obviously the ai personality the reptilian overlords are using to keep us connected to the machines
Can you add “they’re putting litter boxes in the public school classrooms for furries” conspiracy theory on this because it’s the funniest one I’ve heard all decade.
Ok true story. THAT was the first I heard about furries. And I thought that was the first the world had heard about furries. So I start joking about it to my almost teenaged daughter and she is like no they have been around a while. It’s just the litter boxes part of it pushed it into the mainstream. Lmao. You be you my furry little friends.
Ugh. Our small town has wasted so much school board time for months on this as several people on our city council and school board believe this. Horrified by the idea of some kids, for whatever reason, needing some bathroom accomodations but completely ignoring the actual issues like kids getting physically bullied in bathrooms. Not to mention students having sex in the bathrooms. Especially, in our towns few single bathrooms designed for disabled student use.
When I was 14, a “friend” of mine found a dead crow so he turned around and saw me and kicked it at me for a laugh. It hit me in the face. It stank of fish. It was horrible. Birds are definitely real I tells ya lol
@@PoschSpice30 haha the plot thickens. All the Rotherham anecdotes are just to throw everyone off the scent, claims to be a Yorky but really he’s a Devonian. What a twist
Fun fact; when I was figuring out & leaving the Mormon church (which I had been born into) they repeatedly told me I was being a crazy conspiracy theorist. 😂 I mean, obviously these ones are just hilarious 😅 but it’s probably wise to question the official narratives of your ‘leaders’ in most situations… 🤷🏼♀️
Honey, you don't believe the crazy conspiracy theories like the government spying on citizens or that it was conducting evil medical experiments on black people in Tuskegee, right? That would be crazy.
I had some fun with the Mormons the last time they came to my door. I asked them a question: I said from what I understand, one of the tenets of the faith is they believe that only 144,000 people (of all that have ever lived) are going to get to go to heaven. So after stating that, I asked what makes them think there are any spots left; and even if there were a few spots left, why would you want to be recruiting competition for those spots? They politely laughed and left; and haven't been back since.
@@colintimp1372I picked up the Jehovah's Witness Bible out of his hand and showed him the answer to my question which he could not answer. I showed him the answer in my Bible and in his Bible. He never came back again.
Okay, a little fun fact for tourists to Hamburg: If you visit the "Miniatur Wunderland" (the world's largest toy train interactive exhibition) you can spot somewhere a little cave with wooden crates and a little figurine of a worker packing the "Bielefeld" town sign in one of them. Just like like they always do in x-files or even the end of "Indiana Jones". Hilarious. And hardly anybody finds that little easter egg.
@@tumbahantoine2517 Maybe it has changed names, and even places, but the western world is its legacy. Senators, representatives, prime ministers and pretty much a ton of the structures of government set by Rome still remain. The ruins of its old buildings still stand, as do the customs, like gladiators fighting for the entertainment of the masses, we call them pugilists, kickboxers, wrestlers, pro-athletes and performers. It is all here, things that were distinctly roman, passed down for over 2000 years. Perhaps Rome did not invent all these things, but they immortalized them. Maybe they are not great things, but they are ours, Roman legacy, and all of this recorded in the ruins of the ancient world. And the most enduring legacy, the languages, half the world speaks a derivate of their tongue. Rome remains, and as long as civilization remains it will too. Yes, it was an Empire, it fell, someone else took it and it evolved, but it remains still.
Conspiracy Theory: Simon's beard is sentient and controlling him. it started when he tested Keeps and his beard oil at the same time and the resulting chemical reaction caused it to rapidly evolve.
I think its from creep show. But there's an episode where a bald guy sends away for a miracle cure for baldness to grow hair. And it works. He starts growing hair everywhere and under a microscope they find that each hair is alive and they take control of his body
You have to be aware, that when asking college students any survey question, a significant portion are going to treat it as a joke and answer the exact opposite of what they really think just to skew the survey. That's literally something my group would have done.
22:00 - This is easy to debunk. Romas spoke mainly latin, because it was their natural language. However, they also used ancient greek as a language used by the politicians, philosophers, matematicians and people in similliar places. Greek was a go to language, if you wanted a political career in Rome, it was spoken even by Senators during their meetings. Later however, some senators wanted to push latin as a main language of administration, because of patriotic reasons (they wanted to talk politics about Rome in Roman language) so they pursued others to speak only latin. But latin had fewer words that could represent certain ideas, so in that case, member of consul told something to his colleages like: "Listen! I really appologise, but we dont have a word for this in latin, so I am going to use a greek word". I would alse like to end this comment with another fun fact. The first philosophical book written in the lands of Slovakia was Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, which was written in ancient greek :D. And to put the use of those languages simply, I could compare it to the living in a country, where english isnt the national language. For example, I am from Slovakia, so slovakian is our national language (like latin in Rome), but it is requiered to know english, if you want to have a better career (like greek in Rome).
I'm from Bielefeld. Not native, but I moved here to study. And when I told people where I was moving every single one of them asked me if I was sure because Bielefeld does obviously not exist - all with a smirk that said 'Ha, bet no one else made thisclever joke!'
7:52 “to lead a protest outside of Twitter’s headquarters, demanding they change their offensive bird logo. It didn’t work.” So uhhhhhh… turns out it kinda did actually.
The last one is actually older than 2021. it is known as Antoly Fomenko's new chronology and dates back to 1981. Unsurprisingly, it never caught on that much.
Conspiracy theory: Raid Shadow Legends got insulted by Simon's constant rejection and decided to create other companies like Squarespace and Magic Spoon in order to force Simon to do business with them and thereby prove they are worthy of his time.
But that is true - in ancient times Rome was never ancient but a vibrant (then) contemporary dwelling and "just" the capital of the Roman Empire. And now, that the past is gone for more than 2.7k years, there are no more living people around that were able to witness the founding of that city - but all the soldiers of WWI have died by now too: does that mean, WWI was a hoax and we should rename WWII until the last witnesses of that have gone too? Gaius Julius Ceasar lived in (ancient) Rome - he was born in July 100 B.C. and murdered before he got 54
This is just like that crazy kook in Futurama, who was allowed to be at area Roswell because no one would believe him. That episode also has one of the best quotes: "We can't take this alien there, we're faking the moon landing on that set." "Well, invent Nasa and tell them to get to it."
The funniest part of the rome/greece thing is that Sparta basically became exactly that, a tourist trap for Romans, like a glorified theme park playing on the romanticised legend of Sparta following it's decline. lol
@@crouchinggiraffehiddenllam7764 Governments aren't real. NOTHING is real! Because we are all just test-tubed, living batteries, plugged into a neuro-synaptic, holographic mainframe, known as THE MATRIX!!
I have a wild theory that being sheltered from the worst of the storms that regularly hit nearby might help a major city get started and thrive in that particular spot. Couldn't hurt anything. I know I'm probably going out on a limb, though.
I didn't know the Bird Aren't Real thing started in Memphis. I remember going to get some Wang's Chinese down on Highland and saw the billboard back in 2019, thought it was weird, took a photo and went on with my day. Last time I was there about a month ago and there was a "Praise Bacon - Bacon is our God, and Birds are Real." billboard for the United Church of Bacon.
Wait, is the Church of Bacon a real religious place, or some kind of restaurant? It actually sounds like something someone might have established for real.
I am not from Bielefeld but from Germany. My wife and I constantly joking about this conspiracy everytime Bielefeld is named. Knowing that there are really people out there believing this theory is making me smile like Winnie Pooh in Front of a Honey Pot. Edit I just tould my wife that Bielefeld made it on your channel and that this is the proof that the town can't existing. We are still laughing. 🤣
Es gibt einen viel besseren Beweis: Es gibt eine alte Straßenkarte von Aral, die das Aral-Logo genau an der Stelle hat, wo Bielefeld angeblich sein soll. Da hast du es! Einen echten, unwiderlegbaren Beweis, dass Bielefeld nicht existiert!
As someone who is close to getting a bachelor's degree in Classics, I am very damn sure I am not qualified to talk about pretty much anything and I very much doubt that the few months I have left to study are gonna change that. Just yesterday I proudly came up with a bold interpretation of Catullus' Carmen II that it provided profound commentary about the nature of evil... and it turned out that I made a mistake in the translation and he was in fact talking about apples.
As someone with a bsc in biochemistry: I know hardly anything useful about proteins in general and I just started a msc researching…. A cholera protein 😂 all the methods I can use are completely new to me even though I’ve done them all at least once in my bsc. I sometimes feel unable to write a coherent sentence 😂
Well, Red Delicious apples are anything BUT that which makes their name a lie, and lying is evil...so maybe you're on to something after all! TELL ME MOOOORE!
The bird one is my fav I’m in the military and our group of buds started saying officers in the military were tasked with maintaining and planning surveillance, got a bit outta hand having most of the unit harassing younger officers handing them used batteries batteries or broken cell chargers without saying anything “just here to help sir”😂
we're all going to love it when the non-existent caldera volcano under Yellowstone, which doesn't exist, because Wyoming is fake... somehow still erupts and kills half the people in North America (or more). some folks that survive will be standing outside in the slowly drifting volcanic ash telling each other... "this isn't volcanic ash. Wyoming doesn't exist. (well THEN it won't because it'll be a giant crater filled with ooey gooey magma goodness) it's all those damn smokers. those cigarette lobbyists are trying to get us all addicted to smoking with this fake ash filled with drugs and chemicals."
The Lady of the Library here on RUclips did a big breakdown of the original video. It's really a great video to watch and I learned a bunch of new stuff from it too. She even shows an ancient Roman birthday party invitation! I never even thought about ancient birthday parties. Honestly, I assumed those were a relatively recent thing.
Now to be fair: a shirt with a detailed depiction of a pigeon and the statement "I am a *LIE*" is a pretty cool shirt design on its own. Add rhe context of a fake bird conspiracy and BOOM its gold.
Yes, please more Simon channels! No! Are you mad. Simon already controls most of our time. But we can never have enough Simon! Help! Simon has broken my brain.
There's a load of them down there. There are different radiators allocated to each channel. So the Casual Crim Radiator, Brain Blaze Radiator etc.. the writers are chained to the relevant Radiator. If they fail to produce Simon murders them and feeds them to the other writers in pies, burgers and bolognese sauce
New conspiracy: Simon is an AI construct - No human can make so many videos so constantly, we only don't notice because he's slowly adding more and more channels....
@@platonicbuu7454 Plot twist: He's a highly advanced Text-to-Speech program, and all of the laughing is in the script. What we're watching, is an incredibly well done 3D avatar.
Never heard of the Wyoming/Bielefeld conspiracy before, that's too funny. Actually, I grew up right outside Bielefeld and moved to Wyoming for a year as a 16 year old. No wonder I am so fascinated by mysteries. It's pronounced Bee(like the insect)-le-feld.
When I graduated with my bachelor's degree, I thought back to the fact that all of my teachers in elementary and high school had bachelor's degrees. I suddenly understood the importance of text books to teaching.
@@bilindalaw-morley161 this is what happens when I comment while half asleep. I *think* my train of thought was along the lines of "I thought they were experts in their fields, but I have as much training and I'm not an expert in my field by any stretch."
I’m old enough to have still been in the “You have to learn advanced math because you won’t always have a calculator when you need one” era, but now am told my first cell phone was more advanced technology than what NASA used to get to the moon… And my Bacehelor’s degree is in Theatre Performance. I’ve lost track of my point, because none of it makes any sense anymore. They’re just making it up as they go now...
@@KrisRyanStallard Your original comment made perfect sense. As Einstein said "why memorize things you can look up in a book". Therefore textbooks are necessary to teaching and learning because you can't memorize it all.
@@anamkarajoy I laughed at this comment and I sincerely hope it was intended to be funny. If not, I apologize. Turns out the hard part about getting to the moon isn't the calculations. I mean, that IS pretty difficult, but you can do it with an abacus and some pencils and paper (they did use computers as well, but early computers: had to check those things). The tricky parts involve leaps of logic that aren't simple computation, like "We can't carry enough fuel to lift the entire capsule of the lunar surface... so how do we get people back?" Solution? "Have a tiny lander attached to the capsule and just send that." Which gives rise to a HOST of other problems they spent several pre-11 Apollo missions working out. *Edit: Slide rule, not abacus. I mean you could use an abacus as well if you really wanted to, but the slide rule was the key bit.
Started a new job a few months ago and this is one of the channels I just haven't had time for lately. But love his content and glad to see your doing well! 💯❤️ Someday soon I'll go on a Simon binge lol
I don't think Alex Jones did that by "accident" Knowingly withholding something that was subpoena would have been criminal on their part, the choice was giving it voluntarily or giving it "by accident" both will damage their image but the damage would be either incompetence OR "they will help the opposing counsel on purpose"; one is worst than the other in my opinion.
My Grandfather convinced the other old guys at the nursing home that all the pills they took were basically the same as plant fertilizer, and then got them to eat the plant fertilizer.
My mom believed she honestly knows something few others know. So it makes her special somehow. I've come to find out if it makes her fearful she'll believe it.
The fun part about Momlennial was that half of the historians arguing with her were on it and made good points, and the other half were so flustered that they floundered and honestly came off like they didn't know for sure lmao
A lesson in psychology and that happening makes them more human to me. If you've ever had to explain concepts like that to people when you aren't exactly an expert it's a familiar feeling. Though the fact that they were experts and had communication breakdown issues is also kind of sad.
Love to see Hong Kong’s famous force field being included hahaha Though on a serious note, we love to make fun of things here in HK, and go along with it. So I wouldn’t be surprised if you do an even larger survey, still more people say “yea sure it’s true duh” lol
The “x isn’t real” thing makes me think of the philosophy concept that there’s no way you know for absolute sure if anything you perceive is real. You could theoretically just be a brain in a jar or something and you’d never be able to prove or disprove it so we have to just assume that our world is real.
The Wyoming one is my favorite because I have been there... although, as my brother asked "Did you see a 'Welcome to Wyoming' sign anywhere? Because I didn't" 😂
Know what ISN'T a conspiracy? That ETA, the all knowing, is trying to save all of humanity, and Simon is on a mission to stop him and keep him confined with Danny.
Wow bear ears made it into a brain blaze video thumbnail! Can't wait for Simon to react to her! Lady of the Library made a brilliant video debunking her claims.
Ahaa someone else who saw the vid! Chinzia absolutely tore her a new one, same with Metatron. Bear ears couldnt sound more like she's off some kind of medication she desperately needs
She has the best posh accent… it honestly makes it seem like the royal family is tutting away at bear ears when the lady of the library debunks the videos 😂
Okay listen. I think Jenn (or "AAAAAAAAAAA" apparently lol) might be the best editor on RUclips. I continually laugh out loud at her inserts. She's so snarky and I love her SO much.
oh nonono, ever since Danny and Sam ate Callum about 11 months ago Katy and Jen have been secured in the attic to protect them from those wild animals. Tragic tale.
I think it's actually them forcing Simon to in the Blazement to constantly churn out videos. He's even talked about his office being underground and there being a small window near the ceiling where he can occasionally see people passing by.
@@lebby1688 mate, you new here?? Simon has repeatedly stated that he has a Prince of Persia-style basement with multiple levels. All writers and editors were locked in the same level of the basement before Danny and Sam ate Callum. Since then, Katy and Jen have been in the attic, Danny and Sam in Blazement level I, Matt, Kevin and Arnaldo in Blazement level II, with the rest being distributed between levels III and VII. Everybody knows that
I lived in Wyoming Australia for 99 years 25 years ago now i live in black stump and have lived there for 25 years now both places was the best times of my life!! 100% facts.
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Good job helping spread conspiracy theories...
is danny still in the blazement? 😎
Simon, they’re called Musk bots. Or rather that’s what thunderfoot calls fans of Elon Musk.
Free idea: Simon Whistler isn’t real, he’s a completely digital character. Think about it, It’s impossible for one person to appear on so many RUclips channels with such a regular release schedule. His appearance and voice were chosen by Sam and Danny based on popular trends.
Save the triceratops
Sorry for the Ancient Rome conspiracy. I was arguing with anti-deluge atheists pointing out the just because Romans are mentioned in the Bible doesn't mean they didn't exist so who cares if there was a flood in the Bible as it diesn't prove God exists or not so face reality and admit that the geological evidence such as cross bedding and non decomposed fossils in sedimentry rock is absolute. But good on her for capitalising on it.
I have a friend that is a Flat Earth advocate. One night when he got drunk he admitted he did so because he loved arguing with people and the more they got worked up the funnier he found it. I imagine there are a lot of people like him.
Yeah, we call them "assholes", and they ruin lives.
My dad is like that
@@alyssabrown-carleton6173 No he's not. Let's argue about it!!! 🤭
I bet a lot of flat Earthers hide behind that.
Related fun: debate clubs used to make a point of arguing about complete bullshit premises, on the basis that it requires more skill to make a decent case for something everyone knows is bs. Flat earth was a particularly popular choice.
It's considered very likely that the bulk of current true believers are such solely because of folks who argued about total bullshit for fun.
Conspiracy theory: Simon is the one actually locked in the basement forced to read Danny and Kevin’s words in exchange for magic spoon. In an attempt to maintain his sanity he has invented an entire fictional life with houses in the country and a family.
🤔
Yeah, like, the Czech republic?? C'mon Simon, atleast make up somewhere believable
that's why he keeps saying his "wife" had another child. Simon has at least 300 RUclips channels, he has no time to impregnate the womenfolk.
I knew HE was in the basement!!!!!!
Have we EVER seen him outside of a windowless basement room, or as a disembodied voice? I'm just asking questions, but I can't ever recall that happening. Do the research, sheeple.
I found that “Rome wasn’t real” lady before she got big, and we fought like cats and dogs about her wild theories until she banned me. If she isn’t actually crazy, she is 100% dedicated to playing it 24/7.
No she's just a rabid white hating psycho.
Pretty sure she is 100% insane. Or she should be an Oscar winning actress.
Or she makes money by all the traffic driven to her channel by the nonsense.
She's a pure Marxist who's attempting to erase western history
So what was the punch line Simon alluded to?
i love the birds aren’t real conspiracy. i’m only 19, so it was a super popular meme when i was in high school; my friends and i would always scribble “birds aren’t real” or “the birds work for the bourgeoisie” on any/all pieces of paper. I remember having to explain it to my anthropology teacher and he gave me the most confusing look i’ve ever received lmao
I once had half a class have to explain to an English instructor what flat earth was because she had no idea and couldn't believe that people thought it was true. They were also trying to explain that one of the fine arts professors was a flat earther, because of course he was.
man that must have been great. I would have loved to spread Birds Aren't Real lol
@@ScooterinABwhere did you live that a flat earther was a teacher what the fuck
Dude, I was at the beach about to head down when this perfectly normal, leave it to beaver family gets out of their car beside me and I'm listening to them. The little girl says to the dad " Look at all the birds daddy" and he kind of pulls her along and says " I told you honey, birds are not real let's go"😂😂. The kid just looked completely confused.
The Ancient Rome lady is 100% serious. Nobody who was just joking would be as rude as I’ve seen her being to people who fact-check her claims.
The way she speaks makes it very obvious she's
1. deadly serious
2. a condescending jerk
3. not the sharpest spoon in the drawer.
yeap, she's bat shit crazy serious... notice that every man who's called her out - she automatically calls them sexist pigs ??
I followed her before she started in on the Ancient Rome business. At first she was just typical, this line reading as applied to this biblical verse is not accurate because of XYZ. Often it was plausible and made sense along with other scholars. She was often reacting to evangelicals doing literal translations or their magic math. Jesus blessing dinosaurs. Those kinds of things and it was amusing.
Then she got progressively nastier and stranger. Her takes were more & more demonstrably false. ( Insert dog tilting head image) I don't know if that's how she always is and the original few second/minute brief til toks are her high functioning side she shows at work and school or what.
I had stopped watching by the time she did the Rome nonsense. For good reason.
Or is she in super deep cover...
@@theConquerersMama she also faked her degree
I've got one. I jokingly suggested to a coworker that schools in America stopped teaching cursive because the government doesn't want younger generations to be able to read the original copy of the bill or rights or declaration of independence.
I knew I'd messed up the second it left my mouth. A light goes in her head and she starts talking about how much sense it makes. I put my work down and walked away mid rant to tell a different coworker how bad I'd just messed up.
that is the reason why... how else would they hide the documents talking about the little green men who helped write the deceleration of independence?
that is the reason why... how else would they hide the documents talking about the little green men who helped write the deceleration of independence?
I mean....... I won't bet it isn't true.....
Oh God that made me laugh
See the problem is, it actually does make sense... maybe you're a genius and didn't know it.
I’m from Memphis and this guy bought a billboard with “birds aren’t real” right across from my apartment. He even got an interview with the local news and he kept his character the whole time.
I would have made a point of putting bird food on his car, so that the non existent birds would shit all over it.
@@brianartillery The theory isn't that birds don't exist, it's that they're not "real" because they're actually drones.
He did it as a prank lol. There’s a vice special about it
Australia is an elaborate hoax.
@@juliapetterspresents5977 i loved that lol....more people need to do that to show how demented conspiracy theorists are and will latch on to any conspiracy look "deep"
Two things I find interesting:
a) you can’t even joke about some things because SOMEONE will believe it, take it to heart and latch on to it., and
b) the possibility that some conspiracy theories prove out over time.
Totally digging Simon letting loose on this channel! 😂👍
"Don't worry, you're not stupid, you're just a bit broken," is the hardest unintentional burn I've heard in a while lol
Longest way to describe stupid - just padding that video run time? You tell me, I'll believe anything.
Perfect example of being a low key savage 🤣
Was in Bielefeld a few weeks ago, jokes about the none existence of the town aren’t popular there, but the holograms look pretty realistic
😂😂😂
"Sie" is German for "They" btw.
@@cantusaeolus Or formal 'you' or 'she'
That doesn't sound right... 🤔
My physics teacher in high school had a whole sophomore grade of kids convinced N. Dakota did not exist. The reason it’s on maps is that when you take the map off the globe the farther north has to stretch leaving a gap at the top of the US. So they added N. Dakota. He even challenged kids to look at a globe and prove him wrong. 15 year olds being so lazy just took him at his word.
He also used the same, know anyone been to N. Dakota, seen a license plate from N. Dakota. . .
The seniors helped perpetuate the rouse and when you made it to physics II your sr year, you were let in on the joke, and the cycle begun a new.
80’s were good times!
My school let us believe that Hawaii was just off the coast of Florida until Jr. High. The brand of pull down maps of the United States in the elementary classrooms had Alaska and Hawaii at the bottom left and right, respectively. They bothered to mention that Alaska was actually way up hanging off of Canada, but not a word about Hawaii.
N Dakota is just so cold its hard to live there from what ive told
"The Breakfast Club" only met once dude! That ain't a club?!
I think the clocks slow
@@anamkarajoy 😂
“Demanding that Twitter change their offensive bird logo, it didn’t work” 7:50
idk, seems like “X” finally caved lol
As someone who is actually from Germany, I knew the whole Bielefeld idea/joke (it's pronounced kinda like "Bee-luh-feld" btw) but I never knew the "reasoning" behind it. Now that I've come to think about I actually don't know anyone from Bielefeld which is odd because I went to a boarding school with people from all over Germany, nor have I ever been to even the train station of Bielefeld...🤔
On a side note, there was a German comedy movie that came out this year that was mainly about conspiracy theorists and they held a conspiracy convention in Bielefeld which is genius imo😂
Hearing him pronounce it as "bile filled" made my day
The Ancient Rome lady is 100% serious, several actual historians have called her out and she actually argued with them about it
It's useless. You can argue with a madman (or in this case madwoman) all you want but you can never win. They don't operate on logic or even comment sense.
And she believes a long running one called New Chronology
I disagree. I think she’s just really commited to the kayfabe.
We used to have this magical thing, in society, called "mental insititutions." Then they all got shut down, and that's the primary reason we now have crazy homeless people aimlessly wandering our countryside. Or worse, dwelling behind a computer, and flooding the internet with their bullcrap! I think that Ancient Rome Lady is a good example of why "mental institutions" need to be started back up again.
@@jacob4920 I am a nurse who used to work in a “mental institution.” A forensic facility to be exact. An horrific place that was: 80% malingerers trying to avoid a prison sentence and 20% profoundly sick people. More of those is not the answer. Stigma, poverty and social media are the problem.
A few months before the pandemic began, we were volunteering multiple times per week at our local arena to raise $$ for our kids marching band. One night during a Post Malone concert, one of the requirements of selling beer and other bottled drinks that had caps on them, was that we had to remove the cap and throw it away before we could give it to the customers. Since we were never given a reason by the supervisory staff as to why this needed to be done, I started making up random reasons that got more and more absurd as the night went on.. I finally settled on a more and more embellished story about how the first time Post Malone was at the arena performing, someone threw one of the metal caps on to of one of the beer bottles, and it sliced a deep gash below his eye and THAT was the reason he started getting all of his facial tattoos.. Now, I must have explained this to at least 40 or 50 people that night and I just thought of it as having a bit of good fun to make the night pass faster, but the story started coming back weeks and even months later, meaning at least one or more of the people I told that story to started telling other people about it and some people ACTUALLY BELIEVED IT and kept the story spreading.. AKA, this is how urban legends get started.. Someone bored of trying to explain to a bunch of drunk or high people why they can't keep the caps to their beers at a concert telling an insane story they made up on the spot..
I've seen more conspiracy theories on the tell-a-lie-vision than anywhere else. Research the Gulf of Tonkin flase flag attack.It's now been admitted, for decades it was labeled as a crazy conspiracy theory. The term CT is the absolute most effective method of stifling uncomfortable discourse.
😂😂😂😂
so *you're* the problem, spreading misinformation.
me when i spread misinformation on purpose 😈
@@SpydrXIII 100% for silly stuff, yes.. But it's really amazing how few people it takes to get a rumor (no matter how improbable) to turn into 'Truth/Belief'
Conspiracy theory: Simon didn't grow that beard. The beard grew Simon.
The beard is an independent organism, and it's association with Simon is an example of mutualism bordering on symbiosis.
There was supposedly a place in the UK West Midlands called Brownhills.
It had appeared on motorways signs since I was a small child in the late 1980s. As I got older I realised I'd never known anyone from there, who had been there or knew anything about it. It didn't appear in any books I read about geography or history (I took both a A Level and got the "genius" batchelor's in Geography).
After uni my brother and I travelled extensively to watch association football games throughout the whole of the West Midlands. We must have been to over 150 ground in the region. There doesn't seem to be a football side there and we never went through Brownhills to get to anywhere.
Wikipedia claimed it was a modest sized town of around 12,000 inhabitants. I know the average number of people and none of them I asked had ever been there. None of them knew anything about it. But there it was on motorway signs.
The matter finally came to a head after about 20 years of wondering, when I lived on a British A road that supposedly terminated in Brownhills, and my brother lived about 100 metres from the same road. We decided to actually drive there and see if it did indeed exist.
And indeed it did. Despite the fact I didn't know ANYONE who had been there or read barely anything about it (except the motorway signs which were obsessed with it) it was there larger than life. A smack average small part of Walsall that was neither great nor rubbish. Its main purpose in life seem to be linking the M6 motorway with the London to Holyhead (ferry port for Ireland) in North Wales roads.
So frankly for all I know and believe Narnia could exist in Spare 'Oom as there is more literary and film evidence of it than Brownhills which does exist and there appears to be no reason for it (Brownhills) to be hidden.
Given football fans' propensity for giving rival teams unflattering nicknames, starting a team in "Brownhills" would just be an open goal.
Brownhills is located north of Birmingham, near Walsall and is very easy to find on Google maps. So much for your "Genius" bachelors in Geography.
We once rescued a fox from a freezing cold gutter on the side of the A5 next to Brownhills Common. I didn’t go to Brownhills though, but I know the fox exists..we called him Felix, which means Lucky.
😎I’m from northern Georgia, US, and we have a locally similar “thing”. Not far from my childhood home is a decent sized mountain. Yet because of the hilly, wooded terrain there are several roads passing close enough by that you’d expect to see such a mountain yet there doesn’t actually appear to be a mountain unless you know what side roads to take to actually get there…in an absolute fit of originality it’s called “Lost Mountain”
The 'I don't believe Rome was real' girl had a right old go at Metatron's channel. He covers languages, games, medieval weapons and armours also history, and has a particular love of ancient Rome being from Italy himself. He polity refuted everything that she says, and as a result she went all bat shit on him and his knowledge, ripping into him in several videos.
So she's in the middle of a mental breakdown? wow.
She really cheesed off a few people, I think it was intentional too. She wasn't interested in progressing any research, just calling people idiots.I listened to some savage debunkings, I wonder if she still sticks to her story?
Not just Metatron. Pretty much anyone who disagreed with her. Some of them were practicing history professors and archeologists. Which makes sense when you construct an argument that's a perfect circle (Not that it matters but I have a bachelor's degree. In history) If she doesn't really believe it she's a perfect actor. Maybe she's nuts
Dang haha that's actually really funny 🤣
Given that Metatron appears to be some alt-right sexist, racist and likely homophobe, I'm sure he had a hay-day ripping apart this woman's video. Granted, what she was saying was ridiculous, but if you compare the number, proliferation, and extreme-levels of conspiracy theories on the right, its like comparing an ant to Mount Everest. Metatron is nearly gleeful in his overt Misogyny. History is awash with White het male stories, both because they had the power and were the ones writing the history. His primary argument is that because of this, all movies about history should accurately reflect this, even when taking - ridiculous - inaccurate liberties with the rest of the story.
I've never heard about the Bielefeld or Wyoming theory, but i have heard the variant about Australia. The explanations for that are amazing. "The British just drowned their prisoners in the ocean," "If you've ever met someone from Australia, they're an actor," "Anyone who claims to been to Australia was actually in New Zealand, which is much larger than the map companies would have you believe." It's pretty hilarious
Yeah. I have a friend who wholeheartedly believes this, and every time I tell him I have family there he always says "no you don't. It isn't REAL." It's like a part of his brain just shuts off.
As someone from New Zealand firstly, I've never heard this, and secondly, I don't think I like it... the relationship between us and Australia is like that between Canada and the USA - us "Canadians" would be horrified if someone thought we were from the USA.... hahahaha
Professional Australian actor here.
Can confirm, this is mostly accurate.
But while sometimes people go to New Zealand instead, there is actually a different land mass to their North that isn't really habitable but works well for 'official visits.'
We had to start using that more after the second Emu escaped and the NZ government had a fit.
If you look carefully with google maps you can spot where the waves start repeating to cover up the land mass.
I only heard of the variant about Finland. If you say your from Finland your an actor and if you say you've been to Finland your a fed.
But I heard New Zealand isn't real and that it's not hard to find a map that doesn't include it.
I am glad I found this channel, I tend to get suck on one which I like, the casual criminalist is my favorite channel, I have been giving the podcast a try also but I honestly enjoy the videos that you make, make sure that Peter and Dennis, Jennifer and the others have fresh paper and water lol so good!
I live in an area of Ohio where huge numbers of people believe one or more conspiracies. Can you comprehend my tortured existence where I don’t believe ANY of those and I am alone in that. Even the sweet guy I date and my honestly lovely coworkers whom I adore believe at least one. I can but hold on to my sanity by my fingernails.
sounds like your life resembles the stepford wives or invasion of the body snatchers - one day you will wake up and realize you are a believer too
Yeah… I live in Columbus… there’s a lot of conspiracy nuts here, too…
We talking the government is corupt and up to shady shit conspiracies which has tons of historical precedent or the Reptilians from hollow earth are mind controng us with 5G cell towers full on lunacy?
@@CraftyVegan I came here to eccho you!!! Columbus 🤦♀️
Imagine my torturous life where I'm surrounded by several global spanning conspiracy theories.....where the adherents keep trying to push their crazy conspiracy theories on everyone, and trying to incorporate it into the local and national law....mein gott, it's getting out of hand.
Conspiracy theory-Simon can grow hair but shaved it before the first video and has been gaslighting us this whole time!
Can you not see the bald cap he's lying to us!
the ultimate "Keeps" pitch, once he starts growing it back out....
That's cute you think he's lying to you about hair he'd have to be real for that to be true he's got far too many channels to be humanly possible he's obviously the ai personality the reptilian overlords are using to keep us connected to the machines
Be careful. Danny exposed that and look what happened to him!
true
Can you add “they’re putting litter boxes in the public school classrooms for furries” conspiracy theory on this because it’s the funniest one I’ve heard all decade.
Ok true story. THAT was the first I heard about furries. And I thought that was the first the world had heard about furries. So I start joking about it to my almost teenaged daughter and she is like no they have been around a while. It’s just the litter boxes part of it pushed it into the mainstream. Lmao. You be you my furry little friends.
@@nugboy420 I had a student who is currently sewing his first wolf costume from real (non-wolf) fur. i kinda wish I've met him in his fursona.
@@richardaubrecht2822 :p
Oh God, I would happily take the opportunity to talk about Violent J and Kung Fu Joe, but I'm not sure there's enough fake conspiracies for a sequel
Ugh.
Our small town has wasted so much school board time for months on this as several people on our city council and school board believe this.
Horrified by the idea of some kids, for whatever reason, needing some bathroom accomodations but completely ignoring the actual issues like kids getting physically bullied in bathrooms. Not to mention students having sex in the bathrooms. Especially, in our towns few single bathrooms designed for disabled student use.
I absolutely LOVE the "birds aren't real" theory! It's so hilarious.
Sometimes I wonder what people are drinking when they come up with ideas like that. 😂
3:50 - Chapter 1 - Birds aren't real
8:15 - Chapter 2 - Li's field
13:00 - Mid roll ads
15:05 - Chapter 3 - Bielefeld conspiracy
18:35 - Chapter 4 - Ancient rome didn't exist
PS: Kev, just switch to the cash criminalist
Bump
thanks :D
Thank you Jesus
The photo of the pigeon with the plastic bag that "wasn't unpacked yet" had me rolling!!! 🤣😂🤣
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Dang...
I REALLY want a "Birds Aren't Real" shirt now.
Thanks Simon
The day after I found out the "birds aren't real" thing existed, my buddy got me a shirt for my bday
@@TerbInYourFace you got a good buddy there friend. Cheers!
Then what just crapped onto my husbands car?
When I was 14, a “friend” of mine found a dead crow so he turned around and saw me and kicked it at me for a laugh.
It hit me in the face.
It stank of fish.
It was horrible. Birds are definitely real I tells ya lol
I’m assuming this friend is no longer a friend.
Weird mushrooms? How do we know that Kevin isn’t really just the name Danny uses when he’s tripping balls on the “weird mushrooms”?
You’re right. We have never seen Danny and Kevin in the same room at the same time.
Excellent theory!
What happens when you combine Danny and Kevin? You get Daven!
This is why Today I Found Out is made with Daven!! It’s Danny and Kevin!!
@@terryenby2304 Holy shit, this needs to be on Decoding The Unknown.
Edit: I know Danny is Brtish. What are the Chances He's from Devon England?
@@PoschSpice30 haha the plot thickens. All the Rotherham anecdotes are just to throw everyone off the scent, claims to be a Yorky but really he’s a Devonian. What a twist
PETER!! CANCEL MY 1PM! BusinessBlaze is on.
Yes! 😂
Will do
You haven't got a 1pm
I felt this 😂 💯
Fun fact; when I was figuring out & leaving the Mormon church (which I had been born into) they repeatedly told me I was being a crazy conspiracy theorist. 😂 I mean, obviously these ones are just hilarious 😅 but it’s probably wise to question the official narratives of your ‘leaders’ in most situations… 🤷🏼♀️
Funny coming from them
Honey, you don't believe the crazy conspiracy theories like the government spying on citizens or that it was conducting evil medical experiments on black people in Tuskegee, right? That would be crazy.
I had some fun with the Mormons the last time they came to my door. I asked them a question: I said from what I understand, one of the tenets of the faith is they believe that only 144,000 people (of all that have ever lived) are going to get to go to heaven. So after stating that, I asked what makes them think there are any spots left; and even if there were a few spots left, why would you want to be recruiting competition for those spots? They politely laughed and left; and haven't been back since.
@@colintimp1372I picked up the Jehovah's Witness Bible out of his hand and showed him the answer to my question which he could not answer. I showed him the answer in my Bible and in his Bible. He never came back again.
My understanding is there is a fair chance Joseph Smith started LDS as a joke that went too far.
Okay, a little fun fact for tourists to Hamburg: If you visit the "Miniatur Wunderland" (the world's largest toy train interactive exhibition) you can spot somewhere a little cave with wooden crates and a little figurine of a worker packing the "Bielefeld" town sign in one of them. Just like like they always do in x-files or even the end of "Indiana Jones". Hilarious. And hardly anybody finds that little easter egg.
Hey, I was one of the people involved with debunking momlennial. That was a rather interesting time. She also believes Alexander the Great was a woman
She was brave and stunning with blue hair and unstoppable. Accept the truth...
Wasn't her entire argument for Alexander the Great being a woman that the city was named Alexandria?
@@ThatWriterKevin That, and that on the statues of him it looks like he has breasts, even though it's really just the armor/the way it's sculpted
@@arche2460 My theory is that it was alcohol-induced man boobage. Dude was pretty lush in his last years.
Simon: “Let’s talk about this tragic event with respect and reverence.”
Also Simon: “There is no filter between my brain and my mouth.”
Yes, Simon, a bachelor's degree absolutely qualifies you to say ancient Rome was real. I would say that even middle school attendance qualifies you.
6th grade history should qualify anyone
Walk amongst the ruins of ancient Rome and even if you never been to a history class or school that should qualify to certify Rome was real.
That’s just what they WANT you to think! 😏😂
Ancient Rome was and is not real at the same time.
Ancient Rome did exist in past tense, present tense it don’t exist anymore.
Hope this explains some
@@tumbahantoine2517 Maybe it has changed names, and even places, but the western world is its legacy. Senators, representatives, prime ministers and pretty much a ton of the structures of government set by Rome still remain. The ruins of its old buildings still stand, as do the customs, like gladiators fighting for the entertainment of the masses, we call them pugilists, kickboxers, wrestlers, pro-athletes and performers. It is all here, things that were distinctly roman, passed down for over 2000 years. Perhaps Rome did not invent all these things, but they immortalized them. Maybe they are not great things, but they are ours, Roman legacy, and all of this recorded in the ruins of the ancient world. And the most enduring legacy, the languages, half the world speaks a derivate of their tongue. Rome remains, and as long as civilization remains it will too. Yes, it was an Empire, it fell, someone else took it and it evolved, but it remains still.
"In 2021 Peter drove his van to Twitter's headquarters demanding that they change they're offensive bird logo."
2023:
Simon: "Am I making sense?"
Viewers: "Nope, that's your other channels!"
Conspiracy Theory: Simon's beard is sentient and controlling him. it started when he tested Keeps and his beard oil at the same time and the resulting chemical reaction caused it to rapidly evolve.
Hope that it will occupy his head soon.
I think its from creep show. But there's an episode where a bald guy sends away for a miracle cure for baldness to grow hair. And it works. He starts growing hair everywhere and under a microscope they find that each hair is alive and they take control of his body
@@jasonjuneau2948 I think I seen that...
I saw that episode of tween creepshow.
@@Panurus_biarmicus I would LOVE to see that! I thought I'd seen them all🤔
You have to be aware, that when asking college students any survey question, a significant portion are going to treat it as a joke and answer the exact opposite of what they really think just to skew the survey. That's literally something my group would have done.
Yeah no that was my first thought when I heard it was college students, of those 20% you can bet like 15-19% are saying they believe it for a laugh.
22:00 - This is easy to debunk. Romas spoke mainly latin, because it was their natural language. However, they also used ancient greek as a language used by the politicians, philosophers, matematicians and people in similliar places. Greek was a go to language, if you wanted a political career in Rome, it was spoken even by Senators during their meetings. Later however, some senators wanted to push latin as a main language of administration, because of patriotic reasons (they wanted to talk politics about Rome in Roman language) so they pursued others to speak only latin. But latin had fewer words that could represent certain ideas, so in that case, member of consul told something to his colleages like: "Listen! I really appologise, but we dont have a word for this in latin, so I am going to use a greek word". I would alse like to end this comment with another fun fact. The first philosophical book written in the lands of Slovakia was Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, which was written in ancient greek :D. And to put the use of those languages simply, I could compare it to the living in a country, where english isnt the national language. For example, I am from Slovakia, so slovakian is our national language (like latin in Rome), but it is requiered to know english, if you want to have a better career (like greek in Rome).
one way to distinguish between the western and eastern Roman empire was the side that spoke Greek and the side that spoke Latin
"I'm not exactly genius myself." My favourite line of Simon's so far.
He's not an actual genius. He just plays one on T.V.
He is mystorious.
I'm from Bielefeld. Not native, but I moved here to study. And when I told people where I was moving every single one of them asked me if I was sure because Bielefeld does obviously not exist - all with a smirk that said 'Ha, bet no one else made thisclever joke!'
Would have been epic after you got there to text them something like "Well I'm just now arriving in B" and not text anything to them for days.
Yeah right. Liar!
The worst part is when you try to tell them you were joking and they don’t believe you.
They think the Gov must have gotten to you and forced you to say it was a joke.
7:52 “to lead a protest outside of Twitter’s headquarters, demanding they change their offensive bird logo. It didn’t work.”
So uhhhhhh… turns out it kinda did actually.
The last one is actually older than 2021. it is known as Antoly Fomenko's new chronology and dates back to 1981. Unsurprisingly, it never caught on that much.
Conspiracy theory: Raid Shadow Legends got insulted by Simon's constant rejection and decided to create other companies like Squarespace and Magic Spoon in order to force Simon to do business with them and thereby prove they are worthy of his time.
that is a good conspiracy theory!
That line about “Do you know anyone who lives in Ancient Rome?” Killed me! 😂
But that is true - in ancient times Rome was never ancient but a vibrant (then) contemporary dwelling and "just" the capital of the Roman Empire. And now, that the past is gone for more than 2.7k years, there are no more living people around that were able to witness the founding of that city - but all the soldiers of WWI have died by now too: does that mean, WWI was a hoax and we should rename WWII until the last witnesses of that have gone too?
Gaius Julius Ceasar lived in (ancient) Rome - he was born in July 100 B.C. and murdered before he got 54
@@LisaBeta-42It's not that deep. Kevin made a callback to the Bielefeld thing. It's supposed to be ridiculous because of the shift in context.
I am from there because I am immortal. Born in 200 BC.
There can be only one.😊
This is just like that crazy kook in Futurama, who was allowed to be at area Roswell because no one would believe him. That episode also has one of the best quotes: "We can't take this alien there, we're faking the moon landing on that set." "Well, invent Nasa and tell them to get to it."
The "Avril Lavigne is dead and was replaced by a body double" one would fit right in here.
I love that one, but wasn't that a genuine conspiracy theory
Paul is dead
Faul? Is that you?
she does look older 10 years later
This one is actually highly likely to of happened.
I'm totally blazed and enjoying this immensely 😄 Thanks Simon! 💜
I remember hearing that there is a Bielefeld Conspiracy surrounding Finland and my friend group has one surrounding Rhode Island. It’s quite fun!
The funniest part of the rome/greece thing is that Sparta basically became exactly that, a tourist trap for Romans, like a glorified theme park playing on the romanticised legend of Sparta following it's decline. lol
Simon - mentions making new channel.
Cult of Whistler - please sir may we have another
I think I'm gonna start using "bird truther" as generalization of all conspiracy theorists. Thanks Kevin.
You probably still believe the moon is real
@@robertgriffith3670 lol you still believe in governments
@@crouchinggiraffehiddenllam7764 Governments aren't real. NOTHING is real! Because we are all just test-tubed, living batteries, plugged into a neuro-synaptic, holographic mainframe, known as THE MATRIX!!
I mean. Jokes aside there's plenty of "conspiracy theories" that came true. They just rope in all the wack jobs with them to discredit the ideology
You probably still think jet fuel can melt steel beams.
People need to be held accountable for the lies and misinformation.
I have a wild theory that being sheltered from the worst of the storms that regularly hit nearby might help a major city get started and thrive in that particular spot. Couldn't hurt anything. I know I'm probably going out on a limb, though.
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It's like saying horses have to walk because a cart rolls forward
I live in Athens, Alabama. We have tornadoes hit all around us every year! But they Never actually hit the city of Athens tho. So...
It Does happen.
Can we please get a Brain Blaze-branded soundboard app with sound bites of all the amazingly funny shit that comes out of Simon's mouth? PLEASE?!?
Am I RIGHT Peter
Because he/she/they are a bell end
I didn't know the Bird Aren't Real thing started in Memphis. I remember going to get some Wang's Chinese down on Highland and saw the billboard back in 2019, thought it was weird, took a photo and went on with my day. Last time I was there about a month ago and there was a "Praise Bacon - Bacon is our God, and Birds are Real." billboard for the United Church of Bacon.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Omfg!!😂😂😂😂😂
Find that photo!
Wait, is the Church of Bacon a real religious place, or some kind of restaurant? It actually sounds like something someone might have established for real.
I wonder if that church is run by someone named Kevin or Francis 🤔
Man, now I want some Wang’s Mandarin House
Dude!! I love you!!! You make living in the 2020's actually liveable!!
Simon has a very big brain. He needs it to store all his ADHD.
you know what is really inside of Simons skull?
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BIELEFELD!
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I am not from Bielefeld but from Germany. My wife and I constantly joking about this conspiracy everytime Bielefeld is named. Knowing that there are really people out there believing this theory is making me smile like Winnie Pooh in Front of a Honey Pot.
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I just tould my wife that Bielefeld made it on your channel and that this is the proof that the town can't existing. We are still laughing. 🤣
Es gibt einen viel besseren Beweis: Es gibt eine alte Straßenkarte von Aral, die das Aral-Logo genau an der Stelle hat, wo Bielefeld angeblich sein soll. Da hast du es! Einen echten, unwiderlegbaren Beweis, dass Bielefeld nicht existiert!
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I am from germany and am 35 years old
I never visited Bielefeld
Thats all i want to say about that
My son and my ex live in Bielefeld...^^"
I'm from Bielefeld. Allegedly.
As someone who is close to getting a bachelor's degree in Classics, I am very damn sure I am not qualified to talk about pretty much anything and I very much doubt that the few months I have left to study are gonna change that. Just yesterday I proudly came up with a bold interpretation of Catullus' Carmen II that it provided profound commentary about the nature of evil... and it turned out that I made a mistake in the translation and he was in fact talking about apples.
Legendary!
As someone with a bsc in biochemistry: I know hardly anything useful about proteins in general and I just started a msc researching…. A cholera protein 😂 all the methods I can use are completely new to me even though I’ve done them all at least once in my bsc. I sometimes feel unable to write a coherent sentence 😂
Tell me more about these evil apples.
Yes! We'd like to hear about evil apples!
Well, Red Delicious apples are anything BUT that which makes their name a lie, and lying is evil...so maybe you're on to something after all! TELL ME MOOOORE!
The bird one is my fav I’m in the military and our group of buds started saying officers in the military were tasked with maintaining and planning surveillance, got a bit outta hand having most of the unit harassing younger officers handing them used batteries batteries or broken cell chargers without saying anything “just here to help sir”😂
The meme game was strong this video. Also, Wyoming has Yellowstone in it with 3 million visitors a year not to mention its robotic wildlife.
No, Wyoming isn’t real
we're all going to love it when the non-existent caldera volcano under Yellowstone, which doesn't exist, because Wyoming is fake... somehow still erupts and kills half the people in North America (or more). some folks that survive will be standing outside in the slowly drifting volcanic ash telling each other... "this isn't volcanic ash. Wyoming doesn't exist. (well THEN it won't because it'll be a giant crater filled with ooey gooey magma goodness) it's all those damn smokers. those cigarette lobbyists are trying to get us all addicted to smoking with this fake ash filled with drugs and chemicals."
Wyoming is not real now stay away
@@mattt525 Especially us Californians.
some of it is in Montana & Idaho
The Lady of the Library here on RUclips did a big breakdown of the original video. It's really a great video to watch and I learned a bunch of new stuff from it too. She even shows an ancient Roman birthday party invitation! I never even thought about ancient birthday parties. Honestly, I assumed those were a relatively recent thing.
That was probably the best response video to that tiktok. I learned so much. Also, as a local, I love seeing Vindolanda getting a mention.
Now to be fair: a shirt with a detailed depiction of a pigeon and the statement "I am a *LIE*" is a pretty cool shirt design on its own.
Add rhe context of a fake bird conspiracy and BOOM its gold.
This is the first time I've seen Simon so unhinged and wild. What's happening!? 😂
😂 I don't know, but I freaking LOVE it!
"It comes out of my mouth before it goes though my brain"
-Simon 2022
Yes, please more Simon channels!
No! Are you mad. Simon already controls most of our time.
But we can never have enough Simon!
Help! Simon has broken my brain.
I mean, clearly, because you’re arguing with yourself now, but stay strong-we’re all lost in this madness together.
Aren't 14 channels enough?
@@sandybarnes887 Never for Simon. It’s a compulsion. We’ve discussed an intervention, but it’s just too much fun...
These people who believe in these theories, thier fathers pulled out too soon.
It’s nice to hear Danny has a friend to keep him company in the basement.
There's a load of them down there. There are different radiators allocated to each channel. So the Casual Crim Radiator, Brain Blaze Radiator etc.. the writers are chained to the relevant Radiator. If they fail to produce Simon murders them and feeds them to the other writers in pies, burgers and bolognese sauce
For the love of everything served with melted cheese, PLEASE do more of these. This video made my day 😃
Kevin’s finally been confined to the basement❤. Can’t wait for more content
Now they just have to recruit Katie to the basement crew and Simon will have all his all-star writers close at hand 🤣
There'll be more coming!
Whoever is doing the memes on this channel are killing it 👍🏻
New conspiracy: Simon is an AI construct - No human can make so many videos so constantly, we only don't notice because he's slowly adding more and more channels....
He just reads scripts lol.
That's hilarious
@@platonicbuu7454 Plot twist: He's a highly advanced Text-to-Speech program, and all of the laughing is in the script.
What we're watching, is an incredibly well done 3D avatar.
Dude I have lost and regained my mind during the creation of these channels😂
Never heard of the Wyoming/Bielefeld conspiracy before, that's too funny. Actually, I grew up right outside Bielefeld and moved to Wyoming for a year as a 16 year old. No wonder I am so fascinated by mysteries. It's pronounced Bee(like the insect)-le-feld.
That doesn't sound right... 🤔
When I graduated with my bachelor's degree, I thought back to the fact that all of my teachers in elementary and high school had bachelor's degrees. I suddenly understood the importance of text books to teaching.
Okay...??But your your point is?.I have thought of several "I will die on this hill" alternatives but have to admit you've defeated me
@@bilindalaw-morley161 this is what happens when I comment while half asleep. I *think* my train of thought was along the lines of "I thought they were experts in their fields, but I have as much training and I'm not an expert in my field by any stretch."
I’m old enough to have still been in the “You have to learn advanced math because you won’t always have a calculator when you need one” era, but now am told my first cell phone was more advanced technology than what NASA used to get to the moon… And my Bacehelor’s degree is in Theatre Performance. I’ve lost track of my point, because none of it makes any sense anymore. They’re just making it up as they go now...
@@KrisRyanStallard Your original comment made perfect sense. As Einstein said "why memorize things you can look up in a book". Therefore textbooks are necessary to teaching and learning because you can't memorize it all.
@@anamkarajoy I laughed at this comment and I sincerely hope it was intended to be funny. If not, I apologize.
Turns out the hard part about getting to the moon isn't the calculations. I mean, that IS pretty difficult, but you can do it with an abacus and some pencils and paper (they did use computers as well, but early computers: had to check those things). The tricky parts involve leaps of logic that aren't simple computation, like "We can't carry enough fuel to lift the entire capsule of the lunar surface... so how do we get people back?" Solution? "Have a tiny lander attached to the capsule and just send that." Which gives rise to a HOST of other problems they spent several pre-11 Apollo missions working out.
*Edit: Slide rule, not abacus. I mean you could use an abacus as well if you really wanted to, but the slide rule was the key bit.
Started a new job a few months ago and this is one of the channels I just haven't had time for lately. But love his content and glad to see your doing well! 💯❤️ Someday soon I'll go on a Simon binge lol
Simon now narrates 51% of the internet
That’s a conspiracy !! It’s really closer to 79%
I don't think Alex Jones did that by "accident"
Knowingly withholding something that was subpoena would have been criminal on their part, the choice was giving it voluntarily or giving it "by accident" both will damage their image but the damage would be either incompetence OR "they will help the opposing counsel on purpose"; one is worst than the other in my opinion.
My Grandfather convinced the other old guys at the nursing home that all the pills they took were basically the same as plant fertilizer, and then got them to eat the plant fertilizer.
Suuure
Didn't teens in the UK have a phase of sniffing plant fertiliser. Bonzai times.
Has he always been an a-hole or is it the old age?
@@rhyswilliams4893 it wasn’t actual plant fertilizer. It was drugs sold under the rouse of being a fertilizer and ‘not for human consumption’
@@alexlevinson8629 I know that...
My mom believed she honestly knows something few others know. So it makes her special somehow. I've come to find out if it makes her fearful she'll believe it.
That's how people fall for any conspiracy theory. "I found a secret to the universe but nobody else has, I must be a genius!"
@@cecilkeith1951 Yes, small community of know it all's. Scared one's.
The fun part about Momlennial was that half of the historians arguing with her were on it and made good points, and the other half were so flustered that they floundered and honestly came off like they didn't know for sure lmao
A lesson in psychology and that happening makes them more human to me. If you've ever had to explain concepts like that to people when you aren't exactly an expert it's a familiar feeling.
Though the fact that they were experts and had communication breakdown issues is also kind of sad.
Simon's indifference to conspiracy theories is proof he is in on it.
Obviously. Most of RUclips is in on it. And the aliens and lizard-people running the world.
Yeah, flat Earther's think I'm paid by Nasa. I'm just a cabinet maker in Missouri, who understands basic math and science.
Love to see Hong Kong’s famous force field being included hahaha
Though on a serious note, we love to make fun of things here in HK, and go along with it. So I wouldn’t be surprised if you do an even larger survey, still more people say “yea sure it’s true duh” lol
The “x isn’t real” thing makes me think of the philosophy concept that there’s no way you know for absolute sure if anything you perceive is real. You could theoretically just be a brain in a jar or something and you’d never be able to prove or disprove it so we have to just assume that our world is real.
Doh, my jar would be labelled “Abby Normal” like in Young Frankenstein. Well, if my jar exists at all…
My jar is broken. Brain is thirsty. Please hydrate.
The Wyoming one is my favorite because I have been there... although, as my brother asked "Did you see a 'Welcome to Wyoming' sign anywhere? Because I didn't" 😂
Know what ISN'T a conspiracy? That ETA, the all knowing, is trying to save all of humanity, and Simon is on a mission to stop him and keep him confined with Danny.
Wow bear ears made it into a brain blaze video thumbnail! Can't wait for Simon to react to her! Lady of the Library made a brilliant video debunking her claims.
Metatron had some fun too.
Ahaa someone else who saw the vid! Chinzia absolutely tore her a new one, same with Metatron. Bear ears couldnt sound more like she's off some kind of medication she desperately needs
@@irishwristwatch2487 Mental illness is a real problem in the world
She has the best posh accent… it honestly makes it seem like the royal family is tutting away at bear ears when the lady of the library debunks the videos 😂
I loved Chinzia's video!!!
I like that Sam still subtly roasts Simon about "blain braze"
I seriously like you a lot better when you add humor to your presentation.
😂😂 I was at the Women's March. I didn't de the "Birds aren't real" guy, but OH, were there some truly colorful folks. It was a BLAST!!
Okay listen. I think Jenn (or "AAAAAAAAAAA" apparently lol) might be the best editor on RUclips. I continually laugh out loud at her inserts. She's so snarky and I love her SO much.
I absolutely love Jen, but pretty sure this was edited by Sam
@@ThatWriterKevin Ooops! I guess I love two people now!
@@megaroni4765 Better move to Utah!
The Blazemant must be getting packed with Danny, Sam and Katy the resident writers and Sam and Jen the inhouse editors
oh nonono, ever since Danny and Sam ate Callum about 11 months ago Katy and Jen have been secured in the attic to protect them from those wild animals. Tragic tale.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 that explains why Callum fell off the face of the earth! They replaced him with Kevin down there!
I think it's actually them forcing Simon to in the Blazement to constantly churn out videos. He's even talked about his office being underground and there being a small window near the ceiling where he can occasionally see people passing by.
@@lebby1688 mate, you new here?? Simon has repeatedly stated that he has a Prince of Persia-style basement with multiple levels. All writers and editors were locked in the same level of the basement before Danny and Sam ate Callum. Since then, Katy and Jen have been in the attic, Danny and Sam in Blazement level I, Matt, Kevin and Arnaldo in Blazement level II, with the rest being distributed between levels III and VII. Everybody knows that
Come to think of it, Danny must have fallen into one of these damned sword pits. We haven't heard his words for a while.
Well it was delayed but Peter DID get Twitter to change their logo from the bird to an X, symbolizing the eXtinction of birds
I still like the "Simon is a robot" one the best. I forget which legend put it forth so hats off to whoever it was😜
That Rome one blew my mind - has she even been to Rome?... But I did appreciate the Pokémon reference with the Unown :)
I lived in Wyoming Australia for 99 years 25 years ago now i live in black stump and have lived there for 25 years now both places was the best times of my life!! 100% facts.
A+ editing on this video. Just. Freaking fantastic. They deserve a raise.
I love how you have fun with these Simon. Well done.