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2:37 Idk, if I was betting man I'd say somewhere in that bulb there is a shotty wire. The neon light turns on, the electricity travels around the bulbs, sort of like Christmas tree bulbs, an eventually gets to a shotty wire then the whole thing shorts out. But idk I'm an engineer not an electrician 😂
On New Year's Eve in 2000, my parents had a big party and my sister and I waited in the basement while everyone was counting down and when they got to zero we pulled the breaker for the whole house. Everyone just went completely silent as every light and electronic device in the house went dead. We just about died from laughter, it was epic.
@@kathimorrical9912 after the initial freak out they actually thought it was hilarious. My parents have always thought I am too uptight so they were actually proud. My mom still brings up how impressed she was that we pulled it off without spilling the beans beforehand.
My mom was in labor with me when the comet came around. I was born on March 3, 1986. apparently, her room had the best view and most of the hospital staff were in there to see it. I was named after the comet. My name is Madilyn Halley but go by Halley. I pronounce it correctly :)
I'm so glad you go by the proper pronunciation. There's a song that was popular a few years ago and I know that's not what they were talking about, necessarily, but when they said Hailey's Comet I just cringed- and do so every time.
Engineer here: in the manual for your transformer it says that it automatically shuts off if either a short to earth is detected or the neon pipe has cracked and lost vacuum. Since your neon light has parts that are not lit, I would assume case two. That or your placement on the wall is somehow shorting enough of the current to ground that it is detectable via the safety earth connection in the power cable. try placing the neon tube on a thick carpet or dry folded towel or a wooden or plastic table that is not conductive an try running it again
Then again, fault detection could just be broken an triggering prematurely and a new transformer would fix it. There are also tables in the installation manual saying that you need a specifically sized transformer for a tube of a certain length and diameter and colour but that's hard to diagnose from across the room.
I'm fairness it's probably not the power strip given that the lamp which appears to be plugged in the strip is fine. It could just be a faulty contact from the sign or in the power strip. Or as you said it might not be the right sized transformer for the sign. Easy troubleshooting would be to plug it in to a confirmed working outlet. Try plugging another working light into the outlet in which the sign is plugged in to determine if it is the sign or the outlet.
Yeah. The top part of the "S" is a separate tube. Notice it doesn't light but the "W" tube does. Transformer is doing its job. The fault is the "S" tube. Guarantee it. Take it to a neon shop and print a limited edition shirt to pay for it.
It’d be nice if there were mobile neon repair people like how we have plumbers and electriciams. Then Simon could lure one into the basement and start a sweatshop for neon sign production of the graphics and business blaze catchphrases he makes shirts out of.
Depending on where you are, you should be able to expect your electrician to either be able to repair it, or have the connections to somewhere that can... But that's *heavily* dependant on the electrician 😅
I ran into my neighbor the other day, and he told me that his daughter was just about to complete her doctorate in Mathematics. To which I responded: "Whoa, big brain". My neighbor gave me the weirdest look, turns out he doesn't watch The Blaze.
Wait, isn't 'big brain' already so much a common turn of phrase for 'smart' that there are entire categories of memes related to it by now? Like it predates memes themselves, even.
@@ashkebora7262 yeah, if I track back in memory, I would bet the first time I heard it used by a major component of the zeitgeist would probably be when Jules yells "check out the big brain on Brad!" in Pulp Fiction. After that it seemed like everyone was saying it.
I think he should just pay someone who has a multimeter to test all the circuits/components & replace/re-solder whatever's bad in it. I'd do it myself for the fun & challenge, but I think Simon's too busy. The main thing is to do it with the thing unplugged though b/c neon signs use hi voltage, so danger, especially un-grounded..
@@nathansmith3608 haha, that transformer will tear your mulitmeter a new one. But for humans these devices have a safety mechanism so they are not deadly like they used to be but it's very painful until that kicks in.
@@tp6335 When I was about 13 or 14, we moved into a house that was a bit of a fixer upper. My mom went to unplug a vacuum and got quite a shock from the exposed wires. The outlet was missing its faceplate and the outlet itself was loose, but supposed to be usable. Her finger was black up to just past her first knuckle and she had significant nerve damage all the way up her arm for several years after. Actually kudos to her for not letting that scare out of doing most of her own repairs. She did make sure the breaker was off any time we had wires exposed though.
FYI I was personally involved in fixing several important Y2K bugs that would have caused systems to fail. Also Citibank stated that they spent $500mm, and that they would have literally "lost the bank" if they had not fixed the problems. Burlington Northern had a potential problem that could have shut down both the national rail system and all coal-fired power plants in the Midwest for up to three months - they _did not know_ what would happen, but the feared failure (of a number of embedded microchips) did not happen, by pure luck. So the Y2K doomsday prediction was actually true, but avoided by the work of hundreds of thousands of geeks.
@@spugintrntlSadly you are disturbingly accurate. There's a good chance that you gained that insight by watching what's been happening all around us in recent years...
Fun fact: Rich people in England in the 1800s did buy and display mummies at their homes. They even had parties where they unwrapped mummies.Some people in europe would even grind the mummies into powder and turn it into "medicine" that you were supposed to swallow or rub on your wounds. Others would grind them up and turn them into a special paint called mummy brown. So yeah, museums were quite tactful in comparison.
So I tried linking to some Google image search results for "Victorian mummy unwrapping parties" but apparently I'm not allowed to do that. Give it a shot though, because the ages that come back are pretty trippy.
Simon: I said Holocaust twice already so I'm probably not making any money on this video. YT: alright, heres 10 ads. Simon says cocaine once in the end of a video. YT: well, now im not doing it.
I immediately counted the yellow dots at the bottom that mark commercial breaks, saw 8, said screw that, pulled out my laptop (which has YT ad blocker) paired my headphones up with that instead, and kept listening.
@@endearingteacup ... Always done the skipping to the end and letting video run til end and hit the replay button when it pops up and ads are gone.. Gonna try your suggestion 👍
@@joshhasnogame yeah would be nice, it contains the Blazeeee energy of times past.... combined with Simon on that sweet sweet white powder now more than ever a killer combination :D
I spent the first 9 months of of my career as a biomedical equipment tech testing year rollover updating software and replacing time keeper chips on medical equipment. I upgraded thousands devices before y2k. My company stopped repairs, PM's, calibration and MOD's on all equipment and all techs company wide did nothing but y2K compliance work. I think a lot of people thought Y2K was a joke but they don't realize that many companies spent millions of man hours of labor was put in to fixing the problem before it became a problem.
yeah, it's amazing how intricate everything is, that one link breaking can cause cascading failures hats off to the fine folks who worked their asses off to fix everything, unsung heroes
The "lose/lose" logic falls apart because most of these people that predict the apocalypse are totally convinced that they're part of the special group that will get saved from it, one way or another.
Or they believe that by warning people they can somehow prevent/avert the apocolypse, which in theory is possible for some proposed apocolyptic events. An asteroid though? Yeah probably not.
As a developer who worked ridiculous hours to fix Y2K issues - if we hadn't done that then many of the issues would have happened. So that one was a possibility (if businesses were complete idiots and just left things the way they were).
@@sarahb5531 Yeah, they didn't want to listen. But it wasn't just the businesses causing problems. One of the systems the company I work for was fixing, was only 2 years old at the time. A lot of developers had been writing non-compliant code, in the hope of getting hired as contractors to fix it later.
After you’ve heard the same thing for years without any real interest, you start digging deep for something entertaining about it. Talk of resurrection was always fertile ground…
I went to a catholic school and I'm protestant lol, at least officially. They broke every rule there is about this stuff as I even had communion there. Not that I care about that shit but they are supposed to. The wine and cracker thing did not turn into the blood and body of christ, it stayed the same.
@@noth606 WOW.... no kidding? It didn't turn into raw meat and blood? Who would have thought that a symbolic memorial didn't actually turn into a gore fest. Idiot.
Whenever you drive out of my city you can always see this sign outside a church which goes "when christ comes, will you be ready?" The 11 year old inside me always lets out a lol
@@felicitybywater8012 ah thats the problem with auto correct. It's not able to differentiate between conjuctions and possesive pronouns. Remeber, if the sentence sounds weird if you replace its with "it is" it doesn't need the apostraphe. Eg: "instead of causing it is own extinction"
Why do I feel like even if "we", humanity doom civilization I'm pretty positive some of us will find a way to survive? The odds of all of us being killed off by anything short of a complete surface wipe (which with the existence of D.U.M.B.s and inner mountain military bases still might not doom us all) I'm extremely hopeful that humanity won't completely go away. We are kinda the coachroach of primates if you get the idea, especially with the aid of technology, I really do doubt all of mankind dies off even if the vast majority of us die.
My stepmom once gave me this sweatshirt that had a teddy bear on it watching a bee, and it said "Are you the Millennium Bug?" That was really funny to me when I was a teen.
On the subject of the witch's fate, her skeleton being put on display in a museum is only the tip of the iceberg. According to Wikipedia, her dissection was put on show to medical students and then the public over the course of three days. Then, her _TONGUE_ was kept by the governor at Ripon Prison; strips of her skin were then sold as magical charms to ward of evil (fitting); and then what skin was left was used to wrap two random books from some random library! Seriously, _what is WRONG with these people_ ?!! 😱😱
You know if I was a witch hunter I'd proably start with the people binding books in human leather and making magic talismans out the skin of people who got murdered. Just saying that's like the cliche comicly over the top bullshit you'd expect of a poorly written satanic cult in a B movie. Also what the hell kind of books were they binding where they thought human skin was a good pick the necronomicon?
@@vonfaustien3957 sometimes they just did that as punishment. William Burke of the famous Burke and Hare duo had his skin bound into a calling card case, aka a fancy buisness card holder. Shit was crazy. And this was in like 1840.
"These statues were looted from ancient civilizations during our violent occupation and colonization of what we considered to be an inferior race and culture. They were taken by force at gunpoint. Look how tasteful our collection is." - Britain. "Oh yes, hrmphhrmph, very tasteful indeed" - Simon Whistler 2021
The Mayans simply ran out of rock because Danny couldn't get out of the basement to dig up a bigger one. P.S. Anglican humor, gotta love it, Simon. Pax vobisicum, dude.
Im being nit picky, but if you're only adressing Simon, the correct phrase would be Pax tecum. Pax vobisicum is plural. Its the difference between "peace be with you" and "peace be with you all". This kind of stuff is probably why latin is a dead language 😅 Either way, et cum spiritu tuo.
The Y2K bug wasn't an issue because it was fixed. So people thought it was overblown and similar bugs got ignored and those involved got screwed. There was an entire bus system that got shut down because of a similar bug about 15 years later.
Y2K only affected a tiny number of applications and electronic devices in use at the time (and it was fixed on nearly everything). But the 2038 unix-time rollover event will be epic!
There was nothing to fix. Computers don't know that they weren't invented in 1900. The idea that their internal clock rolling the date over to double zeros would cause a global crash is based in a lack of understanding. Y2K was never a threat. The only people who insist it was real are those that made money on the scam and those who were duped by it.
Yeah, i myself started 1996 (and i know other developers that started years earlier) with the implementation of patches and updates for various systems, the time the media started with the big Y2K-doomsday-stories, 90-95% of the systems were already fixed, but also enabled scammer with opportunities. But i've also seen some dirty fixes like: if dateyear < 30 then dateyear+100; tbh i implemented some that way myself, but only in web-applications that had an expected lifetime of about 5 years anyway (none of them are in use today and wouldn't even work anymore on modern servers). The only good thing of that doomsday-hype in the media, owner of small and middle companies started checking their software and noticed that they probably should update their software more often than every 5-10 years (automatic updates wasn't really a thing back then). After 2000 i had to fix few date displays, we but mostly others have missed. Some new customers (that came after 2000 to us) had issues with their backup-software (no new backups were made), one of them had no backup for 4 years! So always regulary check your backups, just 'cause it worked yesterday, it doesn't mean it's working today and remember the base-rules: RAID is no backup, Cloud (alone) is no backup (and no, i don't work for a backup-company, i just regularly encounter people with data-loss, even in the cloud-age).
Business Blaze, the highlight of my evening after a long day of work. I'd like to see an episode that starts like a 80's style wrestling match. Each character gets an epic intro. "Simon Whistler, the Big Brain, the Voice of Enlightenment, the man with more RUclips channels than basic cable. Danny, contender for Most Interesting Man in the World, crafter of scripts that impress Steven Spielberg(allegedly), the Cellar Dweller in Simon's studio. And Sam, meme Wizard, the true reason why anyone watches this, a man with a sense of humor that everyone understands."
Simon. Danny. Sam. Thank you all, steel sharpens steel, you 3 are greater together than your sum parts. Simon leave the script length alone, open a patron, it will fund the longer episodes. I pledge $5 a month for more BB episodes a month, im not alone.
yeah right, it doesnt make sense, he would come to save us, not the other way around... say what you want but coming here on a fucking asteroid thats one hell of an entry :D ps: bada bum bum tshhh
I just got invited to a meeting from someone who I haven't seen or talked to in 6 years.... I just bought the ask me about my pyramid scheme shirt :D can't wait for the meeting.
@@sallyintucson we raised Rhode Island Reds when I was growing up. We had a hen that regularly laid three yolk eggs. One year she laid a 3.5 inch four yolk egg that actually won me first prize at the Southeastern Youth Fair. I held the state record with that egg until a few years back when some old fella had a hen lay a 4 inch four yolk egg. I can't even begin to imagine what those poor birds went through passing something that big.
Well it wouldnt happen instantaneously. There woulf still be a few people who definitely would not care that you did . they may just call you jesus never know
I knew a guy who started predicting the end of the world several years ago...he was right, he died about 6 months after he started saying it from a heart attack (he did not take good care of himself)...He was right, about his own future that is...
My husband has a friend that never resets his appliance clocks. (Their power goes out frequently because a deregulated energy infrastructure is awesome.) Every time we go over there, he fixes their clocks because it bothers him. Also, how to seem like you have your sh*t together: 1)enter the time on multiple appliances for one minute forward from the current time and stop before completing time set protocol 2)wait for the time to click over one minute 3)frantically hit start or whatever button triggers the clock to "set" so that all of them are only microseconds off instead of half a minute or more.
Damn it, the reason there wasn't a huge Y2K breakdown was BECAUSE of all the people working their ass off. "Why did we spend all the money to fix the unstable dam? It never collapsed, after all."
Not really, that shit was so overblown it was not even funny. It was a bunch of people who didn't understand computers in the slightest freaking out due to fear mongering,
@@randacnam7321 What we did know is the roll over does not care about actual dates and was a precision error meaning new years would have jack shit to do with the real issues. It was over blown and just something to prey on people ill informed about computers back in the day. It was nonsense.
@@seditt5146 That rollover can cause problems with computers puking. It is more accurate to say that there may have been problems. What problems there would have been, we do not necessarily know. However it was not worth the risk of leaving those problems unfixed.
Blaze idea that could tie into actual business.... the history of whaling. I can hear Simon now saying “the past was the worst” regarding the slaughter of however many whales were used for lighting. Possible dovetail into how petroleum replace the whales.
Simon, if you fill your basement with food, Danny and Sam are just going to eat it, so you'll be left with no food in the end, and they'll have no motivation to work hard.
Ah, yes. 1999. The year I was making $65 an hour to test peoples' computers for Y2K weaknesses even after I'd told them they had nothing to worry about.
the past was the worst, but if you were smart enough you could make a lot of fucking money on stupid people.... frankly you can still make a shit load of money now on stupid people.
But if more than that one bank failed we would have had a panic on our hands. (Also a similar bug was the probably cause of iphones not starting when set to the earlyest date.) PS: lets hope our current sytems are already prepared for "03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038"
Oh Simon my Purveyor of fine English, the change of those two words in the ad read! As you so clearly highlighted, to be a Member of an organization provides a higher status view of one self psychologically speaking. Very clever. i would never have noticed without your prompt. Thank you Fact Boi. 😺
Was in University for computer science a few years ago and had an old system administrator as a professor. We talked about y2k and he mentioned how they had divisions of people split off including him to update code and make sure it all worked, and claimed there were some relatively big issues that they had fixed. He said the entire world was like this and only because of the paranoia did everyone want to look into their code and make the fixes. He claims that if nothing was done there really may have been catastrophes, but because this timeline never happened we view it all as a big joke.
Having a modern example of thatwhere I live at the moment. A few years back pur Courts ruled that employers who open during what we call red storms could be held responsible for an employee who died anytime between leaving for work and returning home. Well what do you know the number of people dying in red storms is way down. And now the are idiots claiming the weather service is overblowing the storms.
I did y2k testing on a particular computer system that rolled over from 31 December 1999 to 1 January 19100 There also were early failures, where computers looked into the future: 30 year home loans, holiday and travel bookings
Here in the US we call a hob a "burner". And we call a cooker a "stove". We also call a cooker a "oven", ignoring the "burners" on top of it. At the store, a cooker is called a "range". But few people call them that at home.
32:45 I have switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius because of a similar issue in my car with the climate control resetting every time the battery was disconnected or ran flat and I got tired of looking up how to set it back to F, so I just said "screw it, I'll switch to C because it's easier"
Turning this on when I first wake up to get ready to and finally saying, 'What the fuck is going on' about four and a half minutes in 🤣 love it when Simon outdoes himself but I need coffee.
I did my first Y2K fix in 1980. There was a test of the year-end routines that Spring and the 20 year actuarial reports looked rather alarming :D As you briefly mentioned we were well aware of the problem and data management was moving along object-orientation lines (SQL etc). The hoopla at the turn of the Century served to galvanize management into directing resources to address the (very real) possibility of having to direct them to dealing with long-term interruptions in computer services. All the IT departments I knew of were well into upgrading their systems by then but we all swim in the same sea and interruptions can and do proliferate.
The computer I was using during year 2000 did not care what the clock said. In fact, it started up at 0 every time I turned it on and it made no difference what it was.
23:43 I lived alone. My mind was blank. I needed time to think, to get these memories from my mind. Just what I saw, in my own dreams, was the reflections of my woman staring back at me. Cuz in my dreams, it's always there. Evil takes and twist my mind, and brings me to despair!!!!!!!
So many possibly Maiden references in like 2 minutes. Although I might be the only one who's mind immediately went to The Prisoner upon hearing "I'm not a number".
I barely remember it, way too young to know what my dad was pointing to, but I do remember adults talking about itv and getting the sense that it was somehow important. If I can still see in my 80s (which is doubtful with my vision going bad from playing on the phone at night with the lights off) I'll see it then.
My engineering opinion is likely a short in the tube that isn't illuminated. The power supply is probably noticing a rapid rise in voltage or heat across a thermistor and shutting down because of that to prevent blowing something out. Likely you just need a new sign unless there is some wiring you can get at you'd need some highly specialized tools and a lot more know how than our boy with the blaze has. I dunno drop it down the laundry chute and maybe Danny can fix it though. He's probably worked on cathode ray tubes back in rotherham
@@j.a.m5083 I'm a lifelong Floridian, and I've never even seen an "evacuation camp". Hell, I've never even "evacuated". Hurricanes are as much a part of life here as earthquakes in California. We natives hardly even notice the damned things.
@@SkunkApe407 I was talking about the evacuation zones they had set up here in at least Oregon (prolly Cali and Washington to) during the wild fires in August last year. I’m aware they were way to full with people jammed close together... but unfortunately it’s hard to just buckle down and deal with massive forest fires especially when the biggest export in the state is timber....
There was a guy in a small town called Hornell in New York that would stand at the corner across from the movie theater playing a guitar and singing religious stuff and about the world ending. Everyone called him the Jesus singer. He kinda looked like American Jesus, not the real one. He kept getting kicked out because he was also near done kind of children's daycare building and the kids world get scared. So he started going after they were gone and eventually he either stopped altogether, got sent to a nut house or died. Maybe all three?
At 24:10, after 48 hours watching continuously videos through all channels, my senses finally reacted… What the hell?!?!? That must have been hell-uva party! :D :D Finally a content that I’m interested, have value and that I can watch literallly ANY video, and there are no sections, that makes me want to skip them!! Which happens to ne for the last year with every playlist, even of podcasts on spotify. Its like a private planet hell. Good job, You can do it -more content, please! :)
Regarding burning cities to rid ourselves of covid, we tried that in America and it didn't work, just made the economic recovery a but tougher. 10/10 would not recommend.
My mother works for counter disaster and rescue services so was at the office on the Y2K NYE. My father, brother and I were at a house party out of town. Run on generators. We did the count down, but then it got to 0030-0100ish before a few people were like, 'should we call someone and check the world didn't end? Who has a mobile?' (Note: having a mobile was not a given at this point in time. However it saved someone heading back to the main house to use the landline. A landline is a phone that is wired to the phone lines in the house, like your modems are today. However only fancy ones also needed power, like those with an answering machine, connected to a fax, or that had a wireless handset - once again, these things were not a given.)
To be honest, this is the ONLY channel where I don’t skip the ads. Please keep up the good work, boys! Oh, and yeah we have ground. On the UK its one of the three and here in Spain, the ground are the thin metal bits on the side of the plug. Not sure what you have there in Prague.
Remember that guy who spent his entire life savings to pay for billboards warning about the end of the World according to Harold Camping's predictions?
One of the schools near me growing up was named after Charles B. Aycock. At a football team we heard the cheerleaders chanting "C-B Aycock", naturally we joined in cheering for the other team just to turn the cheer into "c-b aCOCK!" I couldn't help but think back on that with the "Jesus will COME again" bit
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Man i got my chocolate muffin and water im ready to watch my boi with the blaze
Gotta get it
Danny and Sam our great leaders. Join the cult of Simon and blaze on.
Hang on, hang on, Simon... you're telling me the world *didn't* end in 1666?
...dang
I was really sure that time
2:37 Idk, if I was betting man I'd say somewhere in that bulb there is a shotty wire. The neon light turns on, the electricity travels around the bulbs, sort of like Christmas tree bulbs, an eventually gets to a shotty wire then the whole thing shorts out. But idk I'm an engineer not an electrician 😂
On New Year's Eve in 2000, my parents had a big party and my sister and I waited in the basement while everyone was counting down and when they got to zero we pulled the breaker for the whole house. Everyone just went completely silent as every light and electronic device in the house went dead. We just about died from laughter, it was epic.
Legend!
Did you catch hell? Or how long did you have to do double chores? I'm curious!
@@kathimorrical9912 after the initial freak out they actually thought it was hilarious. My parents have always thought I am too uptight so they were actually proud. My mom still brings up how impressed she was that we pulled it off without spilling the beans beforehand.
Meme Accountant here... I think you deserve a BB T shirt for that. Where is that plonker Simon when you need him?
Brilliant!!!
My mom was in labor with me when the comet came around. I was born on March 3, 1986. apparently, her room had the best view and most of the hospital staff were in there to see it. I was named after the comet. My name is Madilyn Halley but go by Halley. I pronounce it correctly :)
Messer means “knife,” so you ended up with cool names all around.
@@mitcharcher7528 lol ya, thank you
You know that means you're destined to bring ruin to all mankind, right?
@@tSp289 hmm I think I like the sound of that, lol
I'm so glad you go by the proper pronunciation. There's a song that was popular a few years ago and I know that's not what they were talking about, necessarily, but when they said Hailey's Comet I just cringed- and do so every time.
Engineer here: in the manual for your transformer it says that it automatically shuts off if either a short to earth is detected or the neon pipe has cracked and lost vacuum. Since your neon light has parts that are not lit, I would assume case two. That or your placement on the wall is somehow shorting enough of the current to ground that it is detectable via the safety earth connection in the power cable. try placing the neon tube on a thick carpet or dry folded towel or a wooden or plastic table that is not conductive an try running it again
Then again, fault detection could just be broken an triggering prematurely and a new transformer would fix it. There are also tables in the installation manual saying that you need a specifically sized transformer for a tube of a certain length and diameter and colour but that's hard to diagnose from across the room.
I'm fairness it's probably not the power strip given that the lamp which appears to be plugged in the strip is fine. It could just be a faulty contact from the sign or in the power strip. Or as you said it might not be the right sized transformer for the sign. Easy troubleshooting would be to plug it in to a confirmed working outlet. Try plugging another working light into the outlet in which the sign is plugged in to determine if it is the sign or the outlet.
Yeah. The top part of the "S" is a separate tube. Notice it doesn't light but the "W" tube does. Transformer is doing its job. The fault is the "S" tube. Guarantee it.
Take it to a neon shop and print a limited edition shirt to pay for it.
It’d be nice if there were mobile neon repair people like how we have plumbers and electriciams. Then Simon could lure one into the basement and start a sweatshop for neon sign production of the graphics and business blaze catchphrases he makes shirts out of.
Depending on where you are, you should be able to expect your electrician to either be able to repair it, or have the connections to somewhere that can... But that's *heavily* dependant on the electrician 😅
I ran into my neighbor the other day, and he told me that his daughter was just about to complete her doctorate in Mathematics. To which I responded: "Whoa, big brain". My neighbor gave me the weirdest look, turns out he doesn't watch The Blaze.
Sounds like he needs to.
I bet his daughter does with that big brain of hers.
Wait, isn't 'big brain' already so much a common turn of phrase for 'smart' that there are entire categories of memes related to it by now? Like it predates memes themselves, even.
What a non-legend
@@ashkebora7262 yeah, if I track back in memory, I would bet the first time I heard it used by a major component of the zeitgeist would probably be when Jules yells "check out the big brain on Brad!" in Pulp Fiction. After that it seemed like everyone was saying it.
My advice on the sign: Turn it off and on again
Simon: Did that.
Me: I'm out
I think he should just pay someone who has a multimeter to test all the circuits/components & replace/re-solder whatever's bad in it. I'd do it myself for the fun & challenge, but I think Simon's too busy. The main thing is to do it with the thing unplugged though b/c neon signs use hi voltage, so danger, especially un-grounded..
My idea: ground the grounding wire to the ground
@@nathansmith3608 haha, that transformer will tear your mulitmeter a new one. But for humans these devices have a safety mechanism so they are not deadly like they used to be but it's very painful until that kicks in.
@@tp6335 When I was about 13 or 14, we moved into a house that was a bit of a fixer upper. My mom went to unplug a vacuum and got quite a shock from the exposed wires. The outlet was missing its faceplate and the outlet itself was loose, but supposed to be usable. Her finger was black up to just past her first knuckle and she had significant nerve damage all the way up her arm for several years after.
Actually kudos to her for not letting that scare out of doing most of her own repairs. She did make sure the breaker was off any time we had wires exposed though.
I feel like someone would do well in the IT Crowd
FYI I was personally involved in fixing several important Y2K bugs that would have caused systems to fail. Also Citibank stated that they spent $500mm, and that they would have literally "lost the bank" if they had not fixed the problems. Burlington Northern had a potential problem that could have shut down both the national rail system and all coal-fired power plants in the Midwest for up to three months - they _did not know_ what would happen, but the feared failure (of a number of embedded microchips) did not happen, by pure luck. So the Y2K doomsday prediction was actually true, but avoided by the work of hundreds of thousands of geeks.
To the uneducated, a narrowly avoided catastrophe and much ado about nothing look exactly the same.
@@spugintrntlSadly you are disturbingly accurate. There's a good chance that you gained that insight by watching what's been happening all around us in recent years...
How does one spend 50 cm
@williamrizzo8574 mm is an often used abbreviation for million, in financial texts.
Wasn’t it also caused by geeks tho? Or was it nerds? 🧐
Fun fact: Rich people in England in the 1800s did buy and display mummies at their homes. They even had parties where they unwrapped mummies.Some people in europe would even grind the mummies into powder and turn it into "medicine" that you were supposed to swallow or rub on your wounds. Others would grind them up and turn them into a special paint called mummy brown.
So yeah, museums were quite tactful in comparison.
There's a today I found out video about it. It's part of a larger video called something along the lines of when is cannibalism legal?
@@akshatsharma8787 Yep, I knew about the eating bit. I didn't realise they put them on display.
There were so many ive seen a pic of them being used in a pinch for a steam train fuel when the coal ran out
So I tried linking to some Google image search results for "Victorian mummy unwrapping parties" but apparently I'm not allowed to do that. Give it a shot though, because the ages that come back are pretty trippy.
Simon: I said Holocaust twice already so I'm probably not making any money on this video.
YT: alright, heres 10 ads.
Simon says cocaine once in the end of a video.
YT: well, now im not doing it.
I immediately counted the yellow dots at the bottom that mark commercial breaks, saw 8, said screw that, pulled out my laptop (which has YT ad blocker) paired my headphones up with that instead, and kept listening.
@@rhov-anion you should get the YT- Vanced app. Its yt premium but you dont have to pay for it and you can use your own account.
I'm guessing the amount of times that verboten words were mentioned in the comments got the ads killed, they're gone now lol
@@endearingteacup ... Always done the skipping to the end and letting video run til end and hit the replay button when it pops up and ads are gone.. Gonna try your suggestion 👍
@@Stormynormy42 you german? 😅
Simon finally addressed the dead neon sign in the room 😂
about time he did, after more than a year of it being completely dead with no addressing it
@@AndrewMitchell123 I think he made a quick crack about it once or twice. Hopefully some legend helps him out now.
@@joshhasnogame yeah would be nice, it contains the Blazeeee energy of times past.... combined with Simon on that sweet sweet white powder now more than ever a killer combination :D
He needs a new ballast, simple fix!
I want to see the number of ballasts he recieves pile up...
I spent the first 9 months of of my career as a biomedical equipment tech testing year rollover updating software and replacing time keeper chips on medical equipment. I upgraded thousands devices before y2k. My company stopped repairs, PM's, calibration and MOD's on all equipment and all techs company wide did nothing but y2K compliance work. I think a lot of people thought Y2K was a joke but they don't realize that many companies spent millions of man hours of labor was put in to fixing the problem before it became a problem.
On ounce of prevention.... people forget that.
yeah, it's amazing how intricate everything is, that one link breaking can cause cascading failures
hats off to the fine folks who worked their asses off to fix everything, unsung heroes
The "lose/lose" logic falls apart because most of these people that predict the apocalypse are totally convinced that they're part of the special group that will get saved from it, one way or another.
with such logics as killing themselves to escape before the apocalypse comes
Or they believe that by warning people they can somehow prevent/avert the apocolypse, which in theory is possible for some proposed apocolyptic events. An asteroid though? Yeah probably not.
Bingo. To them they're not gonna lose.
As soon as Simon went “Doomslayer begin”, lightning struck outside of my window.
Simon Whistler has some friends in high places.
As a developer who worked ridiculous hours to fix Y2K issues - if we hadn't done that then many of the issues would have happened. So that one was a possibility (if businesses were complete idiots and just left things the way they were).
Yeah, didn't work on it my self, but most of the people I worked with at the time where busting their balls fixing it.
My dad worked on it. He was so frustrated because IT departments warned businesses years and years prior about the need to fix the coding.
That sounds like an absolutely fascinating memory to have, though!
@@sarahb5531 Yeah, they didn't want to listen.
But it wasn't just the businesses causing problems.
One of the systems the company I work for was fixing, was only 2 years old at the time. A lot of developers had been writing non-compliant code, in the hope of getting hired as contractors to fix it later.
I don't think the world would have ended tho
22:55 Disappointed that Sam didn't put the Bill O'Reilly "Fuck it, we'll do it live" meme here.
That "Daddy chill" insert caught me off guard and hilariously made my day! 💜💛💜 chef's kiss. Thank you!
I'm glad Simon's trying to unlearn his pronunciation of Halley but please, please! Keep calling Jay-Z Jay-Zed.
Went to catholic school and yes, talking about christ coming was definitely the funniest thing ever
After you’ve heard the same thing for years without any real interest, you start digging deep for something entertaining about it. Talk of resurrection was always fertile ground…
@@leonardo.1024 bada bum bum tshhh
I went to a catholic school and I'm protestant lol, at least officially. They broke every rule there is about this stuff as I even had communion there. Not that I care about that shit but they are supposed to. The wine and cracker thing did not turn into the blood and body of christ, it stayed the same.
@@noth606 WOW.... no kidding? It didn't turn into raw meat and blood? Who would have thought that a symbolic memorial didn't actually turn into a gore fest.
Idiot.
Whenever you drive out of my city you can always see this sign outside a church which goes "when christ comes, will you be ready?" The 11 year old inside me always lets out a lol
Simon is astoundingly optimistic to think humanity will wait for an asteroid instead of causing its own extinction.
*its, no apostrophe necessary
@@vincedibona4687 I wish autocorrect believed you :(
@@felicitybywater8012 ah thats the problem with auto correct. It's not able to differentiate between conjuctions and possesive pronouns.
Remeber, if the sentence sounds weird if you replace its with "it is" it doesn't need the apostraphe.
Eg: "instead of causing it is own extinction"
Why do I feel like even if "we", humanity doom civilization I'm pretty positive some of us will find a way to survive? The odds of all of us being killed off by anything short of a complete surface wipe (which with the existence of D.U.M.B.s and inner mountain military bases still might not doom us all) I'm extremely hopeful that humanity won't completely go away. We are kinda the coachroach of primates if you get the idea, especially with the aid of technology, I really do doubt all of mankind dies off even if the vast majority of us die.
What time is this? What day is this?? WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE UPLOAD SCHEDULE??! 😅🤣 Time to blaze! 😎
upload schedule be Blazeeeed man :D
There is none. There is only blazing. Nothing else exists
Are you smoking crack? Is that what you smoke?
Simon uploads where the money is
Lol I released it at 17:00 instead of 7:00. My bad.
When the end comes, Simon will stock the basement, Sam and Danny will finally have decent meals in the end of days!
Like Simon would let them eat the good stuff? Pfft. 😂
@@simbanala79maybe they will eat him😱
My stepmom once gave me this sweatshirt that had a teddy bear on it watching a bee, and it said "Are you the Millennium Bug?" That was really funny to me when I was a teen.
Dream scenario for a podcast: Simon on loads of cocaine arguing conspiracies with Alex Jones and it will be called the blazed and the crazed 😂😂😂
Certifiably legendary comment. Respect.
[Holy sh*t, I've been watching this channel wayyyy too much!]
We could also add in Joe Rogan for some balance or dr jordan peterson.
@@TheShadow0515 you've allegedly been watching this show too much. Thats my opinion, not a statement of fact. Allegedly.
On the subject of the witch's fate, her skeleton being put on display in a museum is only the tip of the iceberg. According to Wikipedia, her dissection was put on show to medical students and then the public over the course of three days. Then, her _TONGUE_ was kept by the governor at Ripon Prison; strips of her skin were then sold as magical charms to ward of evil (fitting); and then what skin was left was used to wrap two random books from some random library! Seriously, _what is WRONG with these people_ ?!! 😱😱
You know if I was a witch hunter I'd proably start with the people binding books in human leather and making magic talismans out the skin of people who got murdered.
Just saying that's like the cliche comicly over the top bullshit you'd expect of a poorly written satanic cult in a B movie. Also what the hell kind of books were they binding where they thought human skin was a good pick the necronomicon?
@@vonfaustien3957 sometimes they just did that as punishment. William Burke of the famous Burke and Hare duo had his skin bound into a calling card case, aka a fancy buisness card holder.
Shit was crazy. And this was in like 1840.
@@dillongage I still say anyone using human body parts in art projects is proably the real witch.
"These statues were looted from ancient civilizations during our violent occupation and colonization of what we considered to be an inferior race and culture. They were taken by force at gunpoint. Look how tasteful our collection is." - Britain. "Oh yes, hrmphhrmph, very tasteful indeed" - Simon Whistler 2021
Nice. An ad for a flea treatment for dogs interrupted just when Simon was talking about the bubonic plague. How did they know. Eerie.
I got a lady in a bathtub. It was thrilling.
I get ads for clothing websites and apps
Lol I got a chocolate ad.
They're watching you harder than me, i never get targeted ads like that 😄
@@LizRealGirlBeauty oh boy, i didn't know they advertised THOSE websites!
The Mayans simply ran out of rock because Danny couldn't get out of the basement to dig up a bigger one.
P.S. Anglican humor, gotta love it, Simon. Pax vobisicum, dude.
Im being nit picky, but if you're only adressing Simon, the correct phrase would be Pax tecum.
Pax vobisicum is plural.
Its the difference between "peace be with you" and "peace be with you all". This kind of stuff is probably why latin is a dead language 😅
Either way, et cum spiritu tuo.
The Y2K bug wasn't an issue because it was fixed. So people thought it was overblown and similar bugs got ignored and those involved got screwed. There was an entire bus system that got shut down because of a similar bug about 15 years later.
Some of the hype involved shit like planes crashing, so, yeah, it was overblown.
Y2K only affected a tiny number of applications and electronic devices in use at the time (and it was fixed on nearly everything).
But the 2038 unix-time rollover event will be epic!
@@dl5244 your tin hat is showing
There was nothing to fix. Computers don't know that they weren't invented in 1900. The idea that their internal clock rolling the date over to double zeros would cause a global crash is based in a lack of understanding. Y2K was never a threat. The only people who insist it was real are those that made money on the scam and those who were duped by it.
Yeah, i myself started 1996 (and i know other developers that started years earlier) with the implementation of patches and updates for various systems, the time the media started with the big Y2K-doomsday-stories, 90-95% of the systems were already fixed, but also enabled scammer with opportunities.
But i've also seen some dirty fixes like: if dateyear < 30 then dateyear+100;
tbh i implemented some that way myself, but only in web-applications that had an expected lifetime of about 5 years anyway (none of them are in use today and wouldn't even work anymore on modern servers).
The only good thing of that doomsday-hype in the media, owner of small and middle companies started checking their software and noticed that they probably should update their software more often than every 5-10 years (automatic updates wasn't really a thing back then).
After 2000 i had to fix few date displays, we but mostly others have missed. Some new customers (that came after 2000 to us) had issues with their backup-software (no new backups were made), one of them had no backup for 4 years!
So always regulary check your backups, just 'cause it worked yesterday, it doesn't mean it's working today and remember the base-rules: RAID is no backup, Cloud (alone) is no backup (and no, i don't work for a backup-company, i just regularly encounter people with data-loss, even in the cloud-age).
Business Blaze, the highlight of my evening after a long day of work. I'd like to see an episode that starts like a 80's style wrestling match. Each character gets an epic intro. "Simon Whistler, the Big Brain, the Voice of Enlightenment, the man with more RUclips channels than basic cable. Danny, contender for Most Interesting Man in the World, crafter of scripts that impress Steven Spielberg(allegedly), the Cellar Dweller in Simon's studio. And Sam, meme Wizard, the true reason why anyone watches this, a man with a sense of humor that everyone understands."
Simon. Danny. Sam. Thank you all, steel sharpens steel, you 3 are greater together than your sum parts. Simon leave the script length alone, open a patron, it will fund the longer episodes. I pledge $5 a month for more BB episodes a month, im not alone.
I'm 37 and 12 year old me still thinks it's hilarious....of course he's going to COME that's why he's risen......
That joke is just nuts.
I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
If they name the great asteroid to take us out "Doom-slayer" I'm gonna enjoy every remaining moment knowing you predicted the future... 😆
The Doom Slayer is the protagonist from Doom, so wouldn’t that have made Id right all along? And that would be a blow to the ego.
If the protaginost of doom is turning up on an asteroid , i fully expect a full demonic invasion prior to arrival.
If it does.. I say we all dress up and all yell into the sky at it. Rrrrraaaaaahhhhh like a battle cry
yeah right, it doesnt make sense, he would come to save us, not the other way around... say what you want but coming here on a fucking asteroid thats one hell of an entry :D
ps: bada bum bum tshhh
Asteroid appears and this starts playing
ruclips.net/video/Jm932Sqwf5E/видео.html
6:41 You know fine well that Asteroid-48960 would be called "Doomy McDoomface" ^¬^
I second this, but add that it perhaps will be married at that point, and will have hyphenated it with -McDoomerton
I just got invited to a meeting from someone who I haven't seen or talked to in 6 years.... I just bought the ask me about my pyramid scheme shirt :D can't wait for the meeting.
If you’re in Russia, the President IS a KGB agent. Also, I got The Prisoner reference Danny, even if Simon and Sam (and everyone else) didn’t.
Be seeing you!
Well I just learned that there are legitimate times when chickens deserve an epidural
I had a hen who laid three inch eggs. She screamed every time she laid one. Poor bird!
@@sallyintucson we raised Rhode Island Reds when I was growing up. We had a hen that regularly laid three yolk eggs. One year she laid a 3.5 inch four yolk egg that actually won me first prize at the Southeastern Youth Fair. I held the state record with that egg until a few years back when some old fella had a hen lay a 4 inch four yolk egg. I can't even begin to imagine what those poor birds went through passing something that big.
@@SkunkApe407 man I feel so bad for her 😩
@@mammuchan8923 no kidding. I start walking funny every time I think about it, and I'm a DUDE!
@@SkunkApe407 OUCH!!! 😖
omfg the editing on this video literally had me in stitches
You're in luck! There are an obnoxious amount of BB videos, each just as schizophrenic as this one
Predicting the end of the world is a pointless ego booster. You'll never get to say to the doubters, "See? I told you so!"
Well it wouldnt happen instantaneously. There woulf still be a few people who definitely would not care that you did . they may just call you jesus never know
I knew a guy who started predicting the end of the world several years ago...he was right, he died about 6 months after he started saying it from a heart attack (he did not take good care of himself)...He was right, about his own future that is...
My husband has a friend that never resets his appliance clocks. (Their power goes out frequently because a deregulated energy infrastructure is awesome.) Every time we go over there, he fixes their clocks because it bothers him.
Also, how to seem like you have your sh*t together:
1)enter the time on multiple appliances for one minute forward from the current time and stop before completing time set protocol
2)wait for the time to click over one minute
3)frantically hit start or whatever button triggers the clock to "set" so that all of them are only microseconds off instead of half a minute or more.
SAM, YOU COMPLETE ANIMAL!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣them sweet memes made me laugh so hard, I woke my daughter up.🤣😂
Lol
Damn it, the reason there wasn't a huge Y2K breakdown was BECAUSE of all the people working their ass off.
"Why did we spend all the money to fix the unstable dam? It never collapsed, after all."
Not really, that shit was so overblown it was not even funny. It was a bunch of people who didn't understand computers in the slightest freaking out due to fear mongering,
@@seditt5146 Not overblown. More like we didn't know if the internal clock puking would have ripple effects.
@@randacnam7321 What we did know is the roll over does not care about actual dates and was a precision error meaning new years would have jack shit to do with the real issues. It was over blown and just something to prey on people ill informed about computers back in the day. It was nonsense.
@@seditt5146 That rollover can cause problems with computers puking.
It is more accurate to say that there may have been problems. What problems there would have been, we do not necessarily know. However it was not worth the risk of leaving those problems unfixed.
@@randacnam7321 It indeed could, however that roll over has nothing to do with new years.
Blaze idea that could tie into actual business.... the history of whaling. I can hear Simon now saying “the past was the worst” regarding the slaughter of however many whales were used for lighting. Possible dovetail into how petroleum replace the whales.
7:10 - Chapter 1 - Bombarmagedon magic chicken
15:15 - Chapter 2 - Haley's comet
20:35 - Mid roll ads
23:30 - Chapter 3 - The number of the beast
30:30 - Chapter 4 - Y2K
simon interacting w the background got me feeling like i was high something... super weird
Sam the Shreditor went into overtime with the memes on this one!! The WHAT!?! meme killed me! 😂🤣
Simon must be working the algorithm hard. Ive got about 9 mid roll ads for this one. Get that money Fact Boy❤️
Simon, if you fill your basement with food, Danny and Sam are just going to eat it, so you'll be left with no food in the end, and they'll have no motivation to work hard.
Sh t thats big brain!
Simon need to get a new basement now
“Oh it’s friday, or should I say it’s dumbday?”
Is what I told my friends on the December 21st, 2012.
“Why’d you put 7 ads on your video?”
“Because I couldn’t put 8.”
-Whistler the Wise
I only got 9 🤷
Ah, yes. 1999. The year I was making $65 an hour to test peoples' computers for Y2K weaknesses even after I'd told them they had nothing to worry about.
And I was getting accustomed to life as a 1-year-old. Sweet memories.
And I didn't exist
I was selling water distillation kits I made out of pots and copper tubing for $100.
the past was the worst, but if you were smart enough you could make a lot of fucking money on stupid people....
frankly you can still make a shit load of money now on stupid people.
But if more than that one bank failed we would have had a panic on our hands.
(Also a similar bug was the probably cause of iphones not starting when set to the earlyest date.)
PS: lets hope our current sytems are already prepared for "03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038"
I like that, "it's okay to speak to God, it's not okay for him to speak to you".
This is the single greatest segment of content I've ever seen. Full stop.
Oh Simon my Purveyor of fine English, the change of those two words in the ad read! As you so clearly highlighted, to be a Member of an organization provides a higher status view of one self psychologically speaking. Very clever. i would never have noticed without your prompt. Thank you Fact Boi. 😺
“Although mostly it seems in america”. That surprises absolutely no one.
Was in University for computer science a few years ago and had an old system administrator as a professor. We talked about y2k and he mentioned how they had divisions of people split off including him to update code and make sure it all worked, and claimed there were some relatively big issues that they had fixed. He said the entire world was like this and only because of the paranoia did everyone want to look into their code and make the fixes.
He claims that if nothing was done there really may have been catastrophes, but because this timeline never happened we view it all as a big joke.
Having a modern example of thatwhere I live at the moment. A few years back pur Courts ruled that employers who open during what we call red storms could be held responsible for an employee who died anytime between leaving for work and returning home.
Well what do you know the number of people dying in red storms is way down.
And now the are idiots claiming the weather service is overblowing the storms.
Just got 2 ad's for Raid shadow legends during this vid.
Has the algorithm evolved to the point it understands sarcasm, or irony?
I did y2k testing on a particular computer system that rolled over from 31 December 1999 to 1 January 19100
There also were early failures, where computers looked into the future: 30 year home loans, holiday and travel bookings
How is it that one of the more adult channels that Simon is on is nothing but memes? It's fantastic!
Here in the US we call a hob a "burner". And we call a cooker a "stove". We also call a cooker a "oven", ignoring the "burners" on top of it. At the store, a cooker is called a "range". But few people call them that at home.
Our language is weird....
I'm not sure about the end of the world but I think the movie Idiocracy was borderline prophetic. The great dumbing down is coming!
... The subtle dumbing down started over 30 years ago. It’s been gaining in momentum ever since
Coming? It's here. It's alive, thriving, and on a rampage.
Simon likes money.
Read the book the dumming down of America.
i for one would like to submit my vote that the Simon Doomsday Scream becomes a mainstay meme
32:45 I have switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius because of a similar issue in my car with the climate control resetting every time the battery was disconnected or ran flat and I got tired of looking up how to set it back to F, so I just said "screw it, I'll switch to C because it's easier"
I want a top or a mug with the blaze logo and the text “Demonetised” 😂😂😂
^^^^^THIS!!!!!^^^^^^
Sam, you crushed it with this video!!!
Turning this on when I first wake up to get ready to and finally saying, 'What the fuck is going on' about four and a half minutes in 🤣 love it when Simon outdoes himself but I need coffee.
It was afternoon when I saw this and I’m thinking the exact same thing...
I did my first Y2K fix in 1980. There was a test of the year-end routines that Spring and the 20 year actuarial reports looked rather alarming :D As you briefly mentioned we were well aware of the problem and data management was moving along object-orientation lines (SQL etc). The hoopla at the turn of the Century served to galvanize management into directing resources to address the (very real) possibility of having to direct them to dealing with long-term interruptions in computer services. All the IT departments I knew of were well into upgrading their systems by then but we all swim in the same sea and interruptions can and do proliferate.
"The Lord is Come" gave me a chuckle as a kid.
The computer I was using during year 2000 did not care what the clock said. In fact, it started up at 0 every time I turned it on and it made no difference what it was.
23:43
I lived alone. My mind was blank. I needed time to think, to get these memories from my mind. Just what I saw, in my own dreams, was the reflections of my woman staring back at me. Cuz in my dreams, it's always there. Evil takes and twist my mind, and brings me to despair!!!!!!!
So many possibly Maiden references in like 2 minutes. Although I might be the only one who's mind immediately went to The Prisoner upon hearing "I'm not a number".
i have the right time on my microwave and my oven and i can confirm: i do _NOT_ have my shit together.
Just 40 more years and we can see Halley's comet! (I also missed it being born in 87)
great so ill be like 75 when it comes round again.
great I'd be about 65 when it comes again, thats manageable for me :D
You didn't miss much last time. Barely worth getting out of bed for. I may live long enough to see the next one, should be much better.
I barely remember it, way too young to know what my dad was pointing to, but I do remember adults talking about itv and getting the sense that it was somehow important. If I can still see in my 80s (which is doubtful with my vision going bad from playing on the phone at night with the lights off) I'll see it then.
I'l be in my 80s. If I get that far
My engineering opinion is likely a short in the tube that isn't illuminated. The power supply is probably noticing a rapid rise in voltage or heat across a thermistor and shutting down because of that to prevent blowing something out. Likely you just need a new sign unless there is some wiring you can get at you'd need some highly specialized tools and a lot more know how than our boy with the blaze has. I dunno drop it down the laundry chute and maybe Danny can fix it though. He's probably worked on cathode ray tubes back in rotherham
"The apocalypse" -brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends.
Epic comment!
This show and The Casual Criminalist are My Favorite. Not that my opinion is earth shattering nor life changing, but never-the-less.
This is a truly top-shelf Blaze right here.
When I go to people's homes where the clocks are not correct, I correct them...
I laughed so much through this episode my wife actually left the house to go for a drive. Win win for me
Ouch!
Did she ever return?
@@adamobrien771another year later and I'm still wondering if she came back
For anyone wondering: Two years later, neon still broken XD
100% only Danny can see sandwich board man
I heard it was because a lot of people worked very, very hard that the Y2K bug didn't have larger ramifications.
Y2K was just hyped up to symbolise the end of the bible days
Simon: The US West Coast already tried treating it with fire, it didn’t work. The South tried hurricanes too, also didn’t work.
Yes your own fault. If you had let Trump nuke the hurricane, covid would not have been an issue in the south.
My thoughts, tho it did kinda make things worse cus of everyone jammed together in evacuation camps...
@@j.a.m5083 I'm a lifelong Floridian, and I've never even seen an "evacuation camp". Hell, I've never even "evacuated". Hurricanes are as much a part of life here as earthquakes in California. We natives hardly even notice the damned things.
@@SkunkApe407 I was talking about the evacuation zones they had set up here in at least Oregon (prolly Cali and Washington to) during the wild fires in August last year. I’m aware they were way to full with people jammed close together... but unfortunately it’s hard to just buckle down and deal with massive forest fires especially when the biggest export in the state is timber....
@@j.a.m5083 oh, okay! That actually makes sense. I was thinking "hurricane evac camp? You mean a drowning pool?" My bad!😂
There was a guy in a small town called Hornell in New York that would stand at the corner across from the movie theater playing a guitar and singing religious stuff and about the world ending. Everyone called him the Jesus singer. He kinda looked like American Jesus, not the real one. He kept getting kicked out because he was also near done kind of children's daycare building and the kids world get scared. So he started going after they were gone and eventually he either stopped altogether, got sent to a nut house or died. Maybe all three?
Why do I find myself smiling and even laughing at the most gruesome stuff you say? Must be the presentation.
At 24:10, after 48 hours watching continuously videos through all channels, my senses finally reacted…
What the hell?!?!? That must have been hell-uva party! :D :D
Finally a content that I’m interested, have value and that I can watch literallly ANY video, and there are no sections, that makes me want to skip them!! Which happens to ne for the last year with every playlist, even of podcasts on spotify. Its like a private planet hell.
Good job, You can do it -more content, please! :)
Ads??? Who gets ads anymore. This is why YTP is worth the money!
The best decision I made last year
Truth.
canceled my Spotify in favor of YTP. Also am I the only one who remembers what YTP used to stand for?
@@rooseveltbrentwood9654 Pepperidge farms remembers
@@CLARKCLOUT would you like to try my smoked meat log?
Regarding burning cities to rid ourselves of covid, we tried that in America and it didn't work, just made the economic recovery a but tougher. 10/10 would not recommend.
And Simon fishes for someone to send him a free transformer. 😂
He should just cut Danny and Sam down to half a slice of cheap white bread a day until he saves up for one.
My mom legitimately convinced me that Jesus was coming at midnight Jan 1 2000. I honestly believed I wouldn't see my 16th birthday.
I can now sleep in peace now that I know what's going on with the neon sign. It's been bugging me for months
My mother works for counter disaster and rescue services so was at the office on the Y2K NYE. My father, brother and I were at a house party out of town. Run on generators. We did the count down, but then it got to 0030-0100ish before a few people were like, 'should we call someone and check the world didn't end? Who has a mobile?' (Note: having a mobile was not a given at this point in time. However it saved someone heading back to the main house to use the landline. A landline is a phone that is wired to the phone lines in the house, like your modems are today. However only fancy ones also needed power, like those with an answering machine, connected to a fax, or that had a wireless handset - once again, these things were not a given.)
Any Engineers living around Simon?
Let me Czech
buh-duh-shh
Wait is this the origin of the "bwooghhh AHHH&!" clip??
Thank you algorithm!
He used the name Doomslayer and there is no Doom meme? Not even the title song buzz for like 2 seconds?
The reference is lost with him
To be honest, this is the ONLY channel where I don’t skip the ads. Please keep up the good work, boys!
Oh, and yeah we have ground. On the UK its one of the three and here in Spain, the ground are the thin metal bits on the side of the plug. Not sure what you have there in Prague.
We did NOT start this vid with the thought in mind that Simon would ask us for help with electrical stuff xD
You know what? When this sh*t happens again in the year 10,000, we are just gonna sit back and watch the world destroy itself!
Totally unappreciated!
Remember that guy who spent his entire life savings to pay for billboards warning about the end of the World according to Harold Camping's predictions?
Yeah. He was an idiot but I felt sorry for him.
One of the schools near me growing up was named after Charles B. Aycock. At a football team we heard the cheerleaders chanting "C-B Aycock", naturally we joined in cheering for the other team just to turn the cheer into "c-b aCOCK!" I couldn't help but think back on that with the "Jesus will COME again" bit
Sam going wild with the memes today
12:47 when this returned from.commeeical break it flashed the "today i found out" logo instead of the business blaze logo.