My favorite part is in a follow-up episode: CGP Grey mentions that, after Episode 60 came out, the barista never hassled him again and just gave him the hotstopper by default. (This caused Grey to worry that the barista listened to the podcast.) Maybe that barista was a Tim?
Except its hard to imagine a Tim ever questioning someone for wanting a hotstopper. That would be like a Dutch person questioning why you want more mayonnaise.
Grey, can't stand having a daily fight over getting a hotstopper, can't stand suddenly NOT having a daily fight with a hotstopper because being remembered as a regular is apparently a bad thing xD
At that point it would make more sense for Grey to just wash and then re-use old hostoppers. Keep them in a little ziplock in his pocket or something. Guaranteed zero germs on them.
I love that too; it’s hard to have dawning understanding with so few likes but they managed it! Also I love the horse sneezing or spitting on him. I love it when there’s an animation that isn’t explicitly mentioned in the text or voiceover, but explains the reasoning of why it’s an issue. Even when I’ve heard the podcast it’s stuff like that that makes me look forward to the animations; they add to it in little ways I could never predict. Had no idea there’d be a gross horse in this clip. 😂
Also at 3:13 he just slowllyyy has his head rotate down, like he’s just slumping for the lack of understanding he’s encountering. It’s hard to display someone being discouraged with just an animation of a head with glasses, no eyebrows even at that point, but by gum, they did it! 😂
@Luc Bloom 3d prints tend to have little gaps and crevices making them not food safe and most 3d prints use low melting point plastic because it's cheaper and quicker to print.
That scene at 3:51 when gray's sitting there playing settlers of catan with five sheep in his hand. Most people probably wouldn't get that but i loved it so much.
and free decaf! (but i guess some people like their light roast on the darker side? i dunno. it must be a fancy schmancy coffee culture thing. i still never could be bothered to figure out Starbucks's sizing system..)
Woo, now I have a way of explaining Grey and Brady's obsession with hotstoppers to people, along with another wonderful animation! I love your Animations, and I can't wait to see more from you!
Today I learned hotstoppers are a thing. As in, a thing that has a use. Also, what they're called. Also, Grey was totally ahead of us on this "no getting what other people touched in your mouth" deal
Well, let's see here. He's obsessed with hexagons and cheating death, he has a degree in physics, he's an American expatriate, he drives a Tesla, and he makes videos about the shortcomings of the current democratic system. I think it's pretty clear he's already a supervillain.
Possibly the best one so far! And I realize I'm saying this for a lot of your videos so all I can say is, you're doing great man! Your videos are improving in quality in a very noticeable manner!
I was once a barista at a Panera Bread near Philadelphia; we carried hotstoppers, briefly, for about a year. They were never handed out by default, always kept behind the counter, and were basically a secret we'd only let customers we liked know about. The reason for all this was that they were, I was told, stupidly expensive, so they were reserved for those who would request them. His barista was probably ordered strictly to avoid giving them out, BUT, any good barista should get to know a regular customer and not badger them unless said customer is being unreasonable.
At the coffee place I worked at, we kept the hot stoppers behind the counter specifically so that everyone’s (all the customers’) meaty hands didn’t get on them. We at least felt bad if we accidentally touched the long bit- customers would definitely dig their full hands into the pile
The first time I heard this particular podcast, I thought (for some odd reason) that Grey said "gobstoppers" and I wondered what was going on for the rest of the podcast. I now stand corrected. :D
I would LOVE to see animated that segment from 18:50 to 20:53 (on the RUclips version) of episode 55: Element Zod wherein Grey says "That's not a F&@%ing spoiler Brady!"
For once and for all ends this madness, these two made a lavishly crafted possibly precious metal made hot stopper with a jewel on it. For Moral Victory.
you really forget that in other countries, the expensive coffee places are staffed by people who couldn't get hired by McDonald's. In my neck of the woods, coffee places tend to hire waitstaff with a bit more education, as interacting with the customers is part of the job description.
I love the little detail of when grey is pulling in the clerk by his shirt, his right arm is muscle, i've watched this video a few times at this point and i just noticed that!!
Grey understands my germ frustrations so well. I work with constructions workers who use portable toilets and don't wash their hands, then they touch everything I have to touch. If only everyone had a sense avoiding unnecessary contamination of surfaces.
F***ing hell. I've been to a few places (not construction sites, mind you) that had a portable toilet WITHOUT SOAP ANYWHERE. THERE WAS NO SANITARY EQUIPMENT WHATSOEVER. Also, these people were selling food.
But... this... there’s... the hot still leaks from the sides of the cup, yes? So it’s... more a cold-slower than a hot-stopper. It’s still just a coffee cup with no added, like, cozy or something. I wonder how effective these things actually are. 🤔
from what I understand they work on a simple exchange of heat principle. put outside temperature rod inside a hot, closed coffee cup, the rod heats up. Should the coffee cool down slightly it will be heated by the rod because of its faster absorption of heat. So the system is in an equilibrium. Until the hotstopper gets cold and the coffee alongside with it assuming entropy, which will inevitably become our universe's demise. But I don't know, I've never used hotstoppers.
Amazing animation Veezitos. If I may add, I work at a Popeyes and people leave their babies and toddlers (and let them stand on it) on the counter and tables all the time and it's super annoying to me because they know food goes there, and it takes so much willpower to not tell them: "hey you can't put your child there. "
2:45 food service workers are actually pretty clean as a rule, because, y'know, they have to be. Also, you putting your hands in a group bucket of hotstoppers ensures that whatever germs you picked up on your hands getting to/into the coffeeshop are now all over everyone's hot stoppers.
1. There's only so clean a food service worker's hands _can_ be if they didn't just come back fro washing their hands. 2. I think the ideal would be for whoever's grabbing the hotstoppers to grab the bit at the top that sticks out of the drink and is obviously designed to be grabbed. Which seems like it would be easier, at least if there's a cup full of hot stoppers on the counter.
I’m totally with Grey re : A) just a simple request for hot-stoppers …so simple. B) wanting safe handling of said hot-stopper to avoid cross contamination. Again, so simple. It’s a perfectly reasonable request.
until 2 weeks ago, I don't think I've ever seen someone put their child on the counter at a store, I genuinely thought it was just a thing in other countries until I was working at a supermarket and this lady (that wasn't buying anything btw) comes up to my counter and puts her child on the conveyer belt and just stands there, waiting, then pointing at her child, then to me and then waiting I guess she believed it was the Simpsons were we would push the conveyor belt along and scan the child. luckily before I can even say anything one of the supervisors tells the lady to get the kid off and she just walks away. like seriously guys, that's a surface where people put fresh fruit and vegetables, raw meat, peoples lunch, etc and your putting your disgusting germ-filled crotch goblins there
I witnessed the same thing a couple days ago, but it was at a gelato shop. And yeah, I had the same reaction. Just ewww... I'd like to say that was the only time, but no. I watched that same thing happen all the time where I used to work.
Where has those hot-stoppers been all my life! I never even heard of those until now and I’m getting really annoyed at basically all coffee serving businesses I ever been to, for not having them!
Two things. One: 2:48 Masterful play there by Brady and Grey's reaction is just perfect. Two: 3:22 I will never understand why people get grossed out by that. No food will ever get on the counter wrapped or otherwise. It will always be on a tray or in a bag. So there will always be multiple layers of separation between the food and whatever germs might be there. One should always assume that steady surfaces at that height will have been used to put babies on all the time. Because that is what happens. And at least the counter at a restaurant has someone right there with chlorinated water and a rag cleaning that surface constantly because it is visible to customers and it is a simple task to act busy when there is not much else to do. The tables of restaurants, however, are much more inconvenient to clean and are likely not touched unless they visibly require it...
Little plastic thing that goes in the lip of the cup. He goes into detail about why it's impractical to take them with him, though they started getting their own produced for the fans and so he probably does usually have one nowadays. That happened after this though.
1-It’s so weird to me that this is the only coffee shop open at 6 am. All the ones around me are open around 5ish. 2-Has Grey thought about the fact that if the hotstoppers were on the counter, untold numbers of people would be touching them accidentally as they rifle through to get one for themselves?
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My favorite part is in a follow-up episode: CGP Grey mentions that, after Episode 60 came out, the barista never hassled him again and just gave him the hotstopper by default. (This caused Grey to worry that the barista listened to the podcast.) Maybe that barista was a Tim?
Doesn't he also immideately abandon that Pret forever in fear of that being the case?
@@maggus999 I think so, yeah
Except its hard to imagine a Tim ever questioning someone for wanting a hotstopper. That would be like a Dutch person questioning why you want more mayonnaise.
Grey, can't stand having a daily fight over getting a hotstopper, can't stand suddenly NOT having a daily fight with a hotstopper because being remembered as a regular is apparently a bad thing xD
I've heard the term "Tim" being used in the podcast a lot and I wonder what it means and whether I myself am a Tim. Anybody help me with this?
At that point it would make more sense for Grey to just wash and then re-use old hostoppers. Keep them in a little ziplock in his pocket or something. Guaranteed zero germs on them.
I thought of ordering a batch of them from somewhere but this might be a better idea.
And you reduce waste or the need to recycle!
@@seneca983 or get some from hotdrops and save those / reuse them, if you are gonna do that xD
@@aakside Wait till they release Paper hotstoppers
I can't wait for the HI podcast if that happens
@@thelastcube. probably gonna be bamboo instead, tho that can still leave a weird aftertaste
I LOVE the animation at 2:51 where gray VISIBLY goes through registering what brady just said. SO well animated.
I love that too; it’s hard to have dawning understanding with so few likes but they managed it!
Also I love the horse sneezing or spitting on him. I love it when there’s an animation that isn’t explicitly mentioned in the text or voiceover, but explains the reasoning of why it’s an issue. Even when I’ve heard the podcast it’s stuff like that that makes me look forward to the animations; they add to it in little ways I could never predict. Had no idea there’d be a gross horse in this clip. 😂
Also at 3:13 he just slowllyyy has his head rotate down, like he’s just slumping for the lack of understanding he’s encountering. It’s hard to display someone being discouraged with just an animation of a head with glasses, no eyebrows even at that point, but by gum, they did it! 😂
This was the single handed, most iconic moment in this podcast's history.
I don’t even listen to this podcast, but I am HERE for these animations.
Elizabeth Aman your missing out
You really should
Yeah, join the tims
Absolutely agree to the people before me.
Join the Tims!
"all i want is for everything in the world to go just the way i want to. is that too much to ask?"
mood
Kira mood
Woah woah woah, settle down Hiltler!
Sounds reasonable,
Get those gross, sweaty, meaty, money-touching hands over to Twitter @vezitos for little-to-no payoff! :D
But the hotstopper goes into the hot drink and get disinfected by the scalding yet refreshing beverage.
@Luc Bloom 3d prints tend to have little gaps and crevices making them not food safe and most 3d prints use low melting point plastic because it's cheaper and quicker to print.
I just discovered you and I just saw the greatest animation of one of the best bits of the HI podcast
I think I'm officially on the hype train now
Whenever Grey swears, it’s over something silly or inconsequential to normal people, but man is it funny.
Thank you for finally answering my burning question of what the hell a hot-stopper actually is!
That scene at 3:51 when gray's sitting there playing settlers of catan with five sheep in his hand.
Most people probably wouldn't get that but i loved it so much.
I get the catan part, but what's up with the 5 sheep?
I just realized, the menu has ‘dark light roast’
and free decaf! (but i guess some people like their light roast on the darker side? i dunno. it must be a fancy schmancy coffee culture thing. i still never could be bothered to figure out Starbucks's sizing system..)
Top quality work Tim, absolutely fantastic! The shading on Grey during that intense scene was INCREDIBLE! Super great!
When grey was looking at his computer was the best part!
Woo, now I have a way of explaining Grey and Brady's obsession with hotstoppers to people, along with another wonderful animation! I love your Animations, and I can't wait to see more from you!
Today I learned hotstoppers are a thing. As in, a thing that has a use. Also, what they're called. Also, Grey was totally ahead of us on this "no getting what other people touched in your mouth" deal
This just verifies that Grey would and probably could become a supervillain if pushed too far.
Well, let's see here. He's obsessed with hexagons and cheating death, he has a degree in physics, he's an American expatriate, he drives a Tesla, and he makes videos about the shortcomings of the current democratic system. I think it's pretty clear he's already a supervillain.
I LOVE THESE ANIMATIONS! The fact that Grey is a robot makes it so cute
Possibly the best one so far! And I realize I'm saying this for a lot of your videos so all I can say is, you're doing great man! Your videos are improving in quality in a very noticeable manner!
Somebody needs to buy a box of 5000 hot Stoppers and send it to this guy's PO box
I was once a barista at a Panera Bread near Philadelphia; we carried hotstoppers, briefly, for about a year. They were never handed out by default, always kept behind the counter, and were basically a secret we'd only let customers we liked know about. The reason for all this was that they were, I was told, stupidly expensive, so they were reserved for those who would request them.
His barista was probably ordered strictly to avoid giving them out, BUT, any good barista should get to know a regular customer and not badger them unless said customer is being unreasonable.
You only have 6 patrons??? But the quality is so quality D:
At the coffee place I worked at, we kept the hot stoppers behind the counter specifically so that everyone’s (all the customers’) meaty hands didn’t get on them. We at least felt bad if we accidentally touched the long bit- customers would definitely dig their full hands into the pile
Is always a nice day when Vezitos uploads.
Besitos 😘
Really well animated, you managed to capture the essence and nuance of greys monologue
The first time I heard this particular podcast, I thought (for some odd reason) that Grey said "gobstoppers" and I wondered what was going on for the rest of the podcast. I now stand corrected. :D
I would LOVE to see animated that segment from 18:50 to 20:53 (on the RUclips version) of episode 55: Element Zod wherein Grey says "That's not a F&@%ing spoiler Brady!"
LMAO i know *exactaly* what quote you are talking about and i couldnt agree more
For once and for all ends this madness, these two made a lavishly crafted possibly precious metal made hot stopper with a jewel on it.
For Moral Victory.
Thank you so much for doing this one. It's my favorite episode!!!!
you really forget that in other countries, the expensive coffee places are staffed by people who couldn't get hired by McDonald's. In my neck of the woods, coffee places tend to hire waitstaff with a bit more education, as interacting with the customers is part of the job description.
Man the quality in these videos is amazing!
I love them
It is for this channel alone, why I understand what a hotstopper is and how to use it
Damn. This was beautifully done! It was an esp nice touch how Grey’s arm became super muscular when he grabbed that annoying barrista’s collar (@1:40)
Gotta bring your own hot stoppers, man....
The "U no home" note on the door was a nice easter egg lol
I love the little detail of when grey is pulling in the clerk by his shirt, his right arm is muscle, i've watched this video a few times at this point and i just noticed that!!
You hid so many Easter eggs in this clip! Loved it XD
Grey understands my germ frustrations so well. I work with constructions workers who use portable toilets and don't wash their hands, then they touch everything I have to touch. If only everyone had a sense avoiding unnecessary contamination of surfaces.
F***ing hell. I've been to a few places (not construction sites, mind you) that had a portable toilet WITHOUT SOAP ANYWHERE. THERE WAS NO SANITARY EQUIPMENT WHATSOEVER. Also, these people were selling food.
Oh my science, I absolutely loved every second of this! 15000/10
Thank you for making this glorious moment even more glorious.
Love the attention to detail with the broken ice cream machine in the McDonald's. Very much on brand.
1:46, absolutely terrifying.
This is brilliant! I’m a huge fan of HI and Grey’s and Brady’s other projects, and this is amazing. 😁👍🏻
i love the pure fury shown from grey in this animation.
the slow zoom in on grey was incredible, so dramatic!
And the aspect ratio change (the black bars on the top and bottom)
This is the first time I recall grey being beeped out.
10/10 animation.
You captured the rage perfectly with this one.
But... this... there’s... the hot still leaks from the sides of the cup, yes? So it’s... more a cold-slower than a hot-stopper. It’s still just a coffee cup with no added, like, cozy or something. I wonder how effective these things actually are. 🤔
from what I understand they work on a simple exchange of heat principle. put outside temperature rod inside a hot, closed coffee cup, the rod heats up. Should the coffee cool down slightly it will be heated by the rod because of its faster absorption of heat. So the system is in an equilibrium. Until the hotstopper gets cold and the coffee alongside with it assuming entropy, which will inevitably become our universe's demise. But I don't know, I've never used hotstoppers.
I knew seeing “hello internet” who it was. I haven’t seenCGP greyin a while.
The insanity is he goes back to repeat this hell every day. Time to change this part of his life ☕️
This is amazing and I'm horrified RUclips didn't recommend it sooner.
This is the first I've ever heard of such a thing as a hotstopper.
Amazing animation Veezitos. If I may add, I work at a Popeyes and people leave their babies and toddlers (and let them stand on it) on the counter and tables all the time and it's super annoying to me because they know food goes there, and it takes so much willpower to not tell them: "hey you can't put your child there. "
CGPgrey heres the solution to your coffee problem INSULATED COFFEE MUG!!!!!!!!
2:45 food service workers are actually pretty clean as a rule, because, y'know, they have to be. Also, you putting your hands in a group bucket of hotstoppers ensures that whatever germs you picked up on your hands getting to/into the coffeeshop are now all over everyone's hot stoppers.
1. There's only so clean a food service worker's hands _can_ be if they didn't just come back fro washing their hands.
2. I think the ideal would be for whoever's grabbing the hotstoppers to grab the bit at the top that sticks out of the drink and is obviously designed to be grabbed. Which seems like it would be easier, at least if there's a cup full of hot stoppers on the counter.
You HAVE to make more HelloInternet-related ones
Wish granted!
This video introduced me to your channel
Gotta appreciate that Catan reference at the end. It really sometimes do be like that in Catan.
Buy a big travel mug, pour coffee into travel mug. Problem solved.
Vezitos should do the animations for CGP Grey's main channel. I've never seen Grey's avatar so alive and emotive
I’m totally with Grey re :
A) just a simple request for hot-stoppers …so simple.
B) wanting safe handling of said hot-stopper to avoid cross contamination. Again, so simple.
It’s a perfectly reasonable request.
3:02 this would be great as an out of context image
Why did this get recommended to me, but it was fantastic. Take my sub
until 2 weeks ago, I don't think I've ever seen someone put their child on the counter at a store, I genuinely thought it was just a thing in other countries until I was working at a supermarket and this lady (that wasn't buying anything btw) comes up to my counter and puts her child on the conveyer belt and just stands there, waiting, then pointing at her child, then to me and then waiting I guess she believed it was the Simpsons were we would push the conveyor belt along and scan the child. luckily before I can even say anything one of the supervisors tells the lady to get the kid off and she just walks away. like seriously guys, that's a surface where people put fresh fruit and vegetables, raw meat, peoples lunch, etc and your putting your disgusting germ-filled crotch goblins there
I witnessed the same thing a couple days ago, but it was at a gelato shop. And yeah, I had the same reaction. Just ewww...
I'd like to say that was the only time, but no. I watched that same thing happen all the time where I used to work.
Keep Cup. Get a couple of them. Keeps them hot, less waste
The u no home sigh on door was a nice reference.
This is the most real grey has perhaps ever been.
I wasn't expecting to hear my name when listening to this.
*JUST GIVE ME, THE FRICKEN, HOT STOPER*
Excellently done!
I love the swole robot arm
Lol, dinosaurs attack as Grey's screensaver
I love this so much
Where has those hot-stoppers been all my life! I never even heard of those until now and I’m getting really annoyed at basically all coffee serving businesses I ever been to, for not having them!
0:58 the counter turning is giving me paper Mario vibes
I need to get an early morning job at this Pret out of spite.
Great news: It's not too much to ask for one thing to go your way!
But also: You don't get to choose which thing.
Just bring your own hotstoppers.
Two things. One: 2:48 Masterful play there by Brady and Grey's reaction is just perfect. Two: 3:22 I will never understand why people get grossed out by that. No food will ever get on the counter wrapped or otherwise. It will always be on a tray or in a bag. So there will always be multiple layers of separation between the food and whatever germs might be there.
One should always assume that steady surfaces at that height will have been used to put babies on all the time. Because that is what happens. And at least the counter at a restaurant has someone right there with chlorinated water and a rag cleaning that surface constantly because it is visible to customers and it is a simple task to act busy when there is not much else to do. The tables of restaurants, however, are much more inconvenient to clean and are likely not touched unless they visibly require it...
While I like the podcast, these animations make it so much funnier! Kudos to you kind person!
This to date is my favorite Grey joke on the podcast
For anyone curious what timestamp was this segment, it was on 27:15 in spotify
What is a "hotstopper" and why can't you save them, wash them and then take them with you and re-use them?
Little plastic thing that goes in the lip of the cup. He goes into detail about why it's impractical to take them with him, though they started getting their own produced for the fans and so he probably does usually have one nowadays. That happened after this though.
I started playing Settlers of Catan a couple of days ago with friends and i just realised thats what is on the table lol
Love this
This should be retitled to "The Fundamental Difference Between American and English Men."
Brady is from Australia
And Grey was born in the state of New York.
Wow! Very nice animation.
Great one!
I don't think Gray understands the technical definition of the word preference.
I think he was deliberately engaging in hyperbole, saying it's not even a preference, it's a fundamental law of nature.
Bonus Mr. Chompers!
great animation! :D
May I humbly suggest saving, cleaning, & re-using the hot stoppers? Thereby sparring yourself this agony. 🙂
1-It’s so weird to me that this is the only coffee shop open at 6 am. All the ones around me are open around 5ish.
2-Has Grey thought about the fact that if the hotstoppers were on the counter, untold numbers of people would be touching them accidentally as they rifle through to get one for themselves?
"someone with your disorders" XD
Gatekeeping affects us all in its own way.
Great animation!
Hearing CPGrey curse is an experience
Here comes the hotstopper
I'm the lyrical gangster
Just give me... the FUCKING hotstoppers...
I would love to see how Mr. Gray deals with difficult Ss.
This looks like something I would make.