RUDY GULIANI (the most amazing thing is someone married him)😅😅😅 I'm in the U.S. and what a fall from grace this guy took no longer America's mayor 😂😂😂
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I'm really surprised that FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt weren't on the list. Not only was "Roosevelt" her maiden name, they literally met at a family gathering. KEVIN, YOU ARE SLACKING!!
I love when Simon apologizes for behaving inappropriately, on Brain Blaze. It's as if he doesn't understand his own channel. Simon being inappropriate is the main draw, if not the entire point Also, unrelated, but damn, Simon's in rare form today 😂. Must've re-upped the coke, allegedly
Story time: I once dated a girl, when we were in Jr. High, who turned out to be my cousin by marriage (thankfully). We found out one weekend when we had to skip out on seeing each other because we each had a family reunion to go to. Lo and behold, we found ourselves at the same family reunion. It all worked out since I'd been planning on breaking it off with her, anyway, and this made it all the more convenient to let her down easy. The joys of small-town life in Arkansas. 😅😂
2:30 - Mid roll ads 4:50 - Back to the video 6:00 - Chapter 1 - Charles darwin 11:05 - Chapter 2 - Albert einstein 16:00 - Chapter 3 - Jerry lee lewis 20:55 - Chapter 4 - Rudy giuliani
I remember hearing about my mom's cousin's marrying each other. They were first cousins on my grandmother's grandmother's side. I remember one of the arguments supporting them was: "Well, she's infertile so it's not like anything's going to come of it."
I have some weird/odd things like that in my family tree. For example I have two cousins. One by blood, one by marriage, now removed. they were, for a time, married. Her mother was married to my great uncle. His father is my uncle. Said great uncle and her mom have been divorced for ages now, but it was odd. Another one, supposedly I have two cousins that were both already my cousins (they were my third cousins or fourth, and they were third cousins, some wild distant weird stuff) when they got married. They were actually married prior to my birth. Besides the point though.
Edgar Allan Poe also married his first cousin, who was 13 at the time. Also, while it's not as bad as it is in Iceland, most white Englishmen are related to each other. I forget whether it's seventh or ninth cousins specifically, but any Englishman who has at least 2 grandparents who are also English is pretty much guaranteed to be related to nearly all other Englishmen who have at least 2 grandparents that are also English, as some kind of distant cousin. In my family it gets really weird because my grandfather was adopted, and they separated him from his 11 orher siblings, including his identical twin, and then the records were lost on account of stuff getting bombed in the Blitz, so *any* white Englishman could be my second cousin (or potentially a genetic first cousin because of the identical twin).
"ninth cousins" is a very British concept. Here's some math: Parents: 2 Grandparents: 4 Great grandparents: 8 2nd greats: 16 3rd: 32 4th: 64 5th: 128 6th: 256 7th: 512 8th: 1024 9th great grandparents: 2048 So yeah, 9th cousins pretty much means anyone descended from the same general region of the globe. Supposedly, every afro-eurasion person alive today is a direct descendant of Cleopatra. If you go back about eleven hundred years, you have too many parents for the global population to account for them all without repeating.
@@burbanpoison2494 I think your math is a bit off. 1st cousins share grandparents, so 1 would be at grandparents, 2nd cousins at great-grandparents, etc. 3rd cousins at 2nd-greats, and so on. So 1024 would be 9th cousins. But those numbers are assuming all branches of the tree survive and have descendants up to the present day, so the real numbers are likely much less.
The stat I saw said if you go back 500 years, around 90% of English people are related. If you assume the average age difference between parent and child during that time to be 25 years, that's 20 generations or 18th great grandparents. Someone who shares an 18th great grandparent with you would be your 17th cousin. I just took a guess at the average age difference between generations so it could be off, but surely not by a whole lot.
@@cancermcaids7688 also "direct" descent from Cleopatra is impossible, because a direct descendent is a descendant through an unbroken male line-- the son of the son of the son of his father. Cleopatra, being a woman, cannot have a direct descendant, only distaff descendants, which is the term for descent from a female ancestor (the son of the son of the son of his mother).
The word Autumn IS said here in the US. In fact I, myself, prefer the word Autumn. "Fall" only became popular because it's cheaper (literally) to print on cards and decorations, it took up less ink. It's also why Hallowe'en lost its ' in the US. The dictionary says both are correct. Lots of Americans still say autumn. See Ray Bradbury's "The Autumn people." in Something Wicked this way comes, set in the mid-West.
The strange thing about Rudy is like the video says, after 9/11 people really liked him, that must be one of the biggest falls from grace!! How did he manage that!! In Borat 2 he just came across as a creepy uncle type.
It's shocking to hear 50% of all marriages have been between cousins but once you start thinking about it and how long people have been getting married and how things were in the past (The past was the worst as Simon likes to say 😆) it actually starts to make more sense. The distribution of wealth and land through things like a dowry and wanting to keep it in the family. Lack of connectedness that we have now and the fact that cousins would have been viewed very differently in the past as well. And then there are things like how nobility and stuff like that used to work
If you take into account that the human population was far smaller than it is today and people weren't travelling at all... Look at small populations today, it's still happening - so that number is not nearly as shocking after thinking about it as it was to me the moment I heard it 😅
Cousin marriage is still legal in most US states except for the Southern states you expect...I guess you only have to make something illegal when it becomes a problem.
ITS STIL LEGAL IN ALABAMA, FLORIDA, MARYLAND, GEORGIA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSE AND VIRGINIA! PRETTY SURE YOU WILL FIND THEY ARE SOUTHERN STATES! ANDGIVEN BOTH FLORIDA AND MISSOURI ALSO STILLHAVE MARRY YOUR RAPIST LEGESLATION ON THEBOOKS THOSE SOUTHERN STATES DON`T LOOK TO HEALTHY TO ME AS A WOMAN! FOR HEAVENS SAKE THERE WERE 6 12 YEAR OLDS MARRIED TO ADULTS LAST YEAR IN SOUTHERN STATES!
New Jersey, Maryland, New York, (time for the jokes) Texas, Alabama, Virginia, The Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Alaska, and Hawaii
22:20 his popularity in that poll was due to the fact that 5 years earlier he was mayor of New York on 9/11, and that’s what made him “America’s mayor”.
About 1/5 marriages in the US are between cousins. People need to realize it's only 1st cousins that have an increased risk of defects and second cousins are practically indistinguishable from strangers (gene wise) if you have kids. IT's very common and it's in every family.
My adopted cousins married each other. They are 2nd cousins (their grandfathers are brothers) and even though they were both adopted, it was a big deal in our family. They are still together after 12 years, so I guess its working out.
@@MAGGOT_VOMITI would suggest a good read through a biology book. There is almost zero chance for physical deformation due to relations. It's increase of cancer and other internal genetic disorders. Literally zero outside physical unless it was already there. No such thing as a "cousin" lip... bio grad here. Sorry facts are facts...
One of the quotes I find interesting " cousin by blood and nephew law" F.D.R but let's be honest it was a different time and they didn't know what we know today . Still one of the best Presidents we had
my cousins parents are cousins - well - were because both passed away some time ago. All three of my cousins are gorgeous - and very smart - and wonderful musicians as well as being lovely people.
@@EveryFairyDies Thank you for adding the Simpsons clips as well. As soon as I saw the video was published I realized I forgot to add a Shellbyville joke
@@ThatWriterKevin To me it were as if Simon decided to shout and work himself into a frenzy over Darwin not waiting 30 minutes after eating before going for a swim. Not only does it seem pointless, it reaches the level of misinforming the audience, by leaving a misleading representation of the historical and societal context, as well as the actual scientific merits.
@@KMAllmond No, I snorted them all up, so can't use them for my bath anymore. Just to clarify: the thing with waiting before swimming is a commonly repeated fallacy, just like the supposed high risk of cousin inbreeding (as long as it's not done through successive generations; not to mention groups such as Ashkenazi Jews also had extensive monitoring and screening for recessive deleterious alleles). It annoys me when these kind of channels spread misinformation. But screaming out the misinformation and acting all superior is particularly irksome.
The risk of birth defects for a non-related couple and first cousins increases from about 3% to 6%. So it's still double but not as bad as the video made it sound. It was likely more beneficial than detrimental for people hundreds of years ago and not necessary at all today
I had a teacher in college from a country where marrying cousins is common. I was dating a guy in class, so she assumed we were first cousins... awkward.
Whoa!! Simon and MrBallen release vids within 30min of each other. Since i'm OGBB I'll watch Simon's vid first. Innocent people are safe for at least the next 27min. 😳😵💫🤣
27:00 the 4 Seasons Landscaping press conference, I believe, was originally scheduled for the 4 Seasons Hotel, but the Hotel said no. So they scrambled to find the 4 Season Landscaping company and updated the press conference location.
The reason people marry their cousins is because they still differ enough genetically for it to be okay. However, if EVERYONE keeps marrying their cousins, there's bound to be some weird shit happening farther down that genetic road, and that is why we have movies like Wrong Turn and other wonderful and cautionary tales XD
In the UK that's a major issue. The overwhelming number of Muslims who have married cousins, who have parents, grandparents and great-grandparents and so on who were also cousins, results is many families having severely disabled children. Muslims make up 2% of the population, but their children make up over 36% of all disabled kids in the country.
@@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming We have a similar issue here in Australia. Too many families that are very inter-married are having 4, 5+ severely disabled children.
I heard 'blackboard', I thought 'Mr Squiggle', so to Google I went, to revive an Aussie classic. HURRY UP! (Sadly, I could not find him saying that without a squiggle covering him, or I would have definitely had him yelling at Simon to stop tangenting!)
Well, at least if we get 2 things out of this video, one would be the past is the worst, and 2, thank you for letting us know about the vessi rain coat. I purchased the shoes recently and they're living up to their name. I enjoy the charisma in these vids, keep on!
Hearing Simon repeatedly referring to one of the greatest minds in Serbian physics and mathematics by the wrong name is hurting my soul. Mileva! MILEVA Maric! I dunno if it was the script or if Simon is being his usual smooth brain self, but it's killing a piece of me every time lol. She helped him with his mathematics in a good few of his most well known early papers. I'm SURE that Simon has done a Biographics on this woman and if he hasn't he bloody well should!
When I was looking for a photo of her, the name came up as Mileva, so that's what I put onscreen. Perhaps it was an auto-correct error when Kevin was writing or something.
Well, he also said that she gave birth in 1980, so yea, I think he might have just been tired. Not that this is a good enough excuse, but still. One love ❤️ Edit: I'm here after "Ruty Giovanni", and just wanna say that Simon had an even worse than usually day for reading and saying names.
I had a friend in high school his sister married her 2nd cousin... they were Mennonite and there was a rift in the family when one side went modern and the other stayed black bumper. They didn't know they were cousins until the entire extended family got together for the engagement party and at that point they were just like "oh well".
19:30 people in the UK are like, "marrying your 13 YO cousin can only be done by our monarchs." Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip's relationship began when she was 13 and he was 19. They married when she was 21.
My husband and I knew a couple that used to come out and dance at a club. They were beautiful together and used to dance just like in Saturday Night Fever. People used to gather around to watch they were so amazing. Turned out they were first cousins and the relationship was not platonic. Both of their kids were grown, but the family was not happy. They ended up moving away (together) and I often wonder what happened to them.
I live in New Zealand and I have a sister-cousin and a brother-cousin on a technicality... our mums are identical twins, so cousins that share 50% DNA... sister-cousin and brother-cousin 😂❤
From the store's perspective, it is like this: -$100 -70 (this is not new money paying for goods this is stolen goods. For the $70 to have been replaced it would have to be twice the amount that was stolen or the original money returned and new money making the purchase.) -30 change. $200
Being from Regina, I find the Deadpool clip use here totally hilarious :) The city briefly flirted with using the tagline "Experience Regina"....it didn't go over well.
Just to put Jerry lee even more in perspective ,Margaret Beaufort (Mother of English monarch Henry VII ) was married to Edmund Tudor (25 at the time ) when she was 12 yrs old .It was 1455 and a political marriage, but the marriage was consummated and she had her son Henry when she was 13 .However ,Margaret and Edmund were not related and even then she was considered rather too young to consummate the marriage by many people (Not Edmund obviously ) and it caused a bit of a medieval scandal .Someone really ,really should have had a word with Jerry ,preferably a judge .
When I moved to the UK to get married (didn’t end up happening, long story) there were a surprising amount of questions on the visa forms about my fiancé’s possible family relationship to me. We’re we cousins? 2nd cousins? Did we have any family members related within a certain number of generations, etc... there were so many, it felt like this may be a huge issue with UK marriages.
I love bat sh.... videos like these , I think Simon has the most fun with them 😂😂 Note: I don’t personally have a crazy cousin story. Although I did date a fellow back in the day who a child with a 40 year old woman and then one with her 22 year old daughter. (I’m not sure I wanna know what that makes them) If someone wants to go down the google rabbit hole, let me know 🤪
Had neighbors in Arkansas that didn’t marry because it was illegal. They just lived together and kept popping out kids. The entire family was something else. Had that opinion before I found out they were first cousins. When I found that out, it explained A LOT! Habitat for Humanity built them a house. It was TRASHED in a couple of years. My aunt’s first husband left her for another man. She was remarried within a day of the divorce being final. That husband left her for her best friend. My aunt then married her best friend’s husband within a week of being divorced. I knew several step siblings that married each other. There is a reason the south has a reputation. Gotta keep it classy.
Arkansas is the mid west, not the south.. Also, you know the south is mostly cities and suburbs now, right?? When you think the south in 2023 is still some back water place, you clearly don’t travel 😂🤦🏻♂️🤡
Might want to familiarize yourself with the facts. The south goes beyond the Mississippi. A simple search shows that. The Deep South is different, but still generally is accepted to go beyond the Mississippi. Considering I spent 42 of my 43 years living in the south, it makes you wrong. Have you even been to Arkansas? I lived the longest in Arkansas and Alabama. There is little difference between the two. Also, try telling an Arkansan they aren’t southern… even in the big city of Little Rock. Those be fightin’ words! The fact that there is an active KKK in the south (yes, including Arkansas which has one of the most infamous clans in the US) doesn’t help with their reputation whatsoever. The prejudice against southerners as uneducated it real. The south produces some extremely smart people. HOWEVER, there is a lot of disdain for the educated. This does nothing to help with their reputation. With the rejection of indisputable facts recently, this further doesn’t help their case.
In a large part of the world cousins isn't seen as incest, unlike siblings (or parents) where its basically universally seen as wrong. Its likely the result of the US being so large and diverse that being surrounded by scores of your cousins is unusual. Going back 100 years or so marrying cousins was fairly accepted in the US even. Its only recently that people in the US view 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc cousins are wrong. Mainly from the misunderstood idea that it causes birth defects, there is hardly a change in the chances for those, only full blood relatives have the large chance, cousins a bit too, but once you get into 2nd and so on its negligible.
2nd cousins are almost genetically indistuinguishable from strangers (in a reproduction sense). 2nd cousin marriages only have like a 2% increased chance of birth defects from non cousins and 1/5 marriages in the US are between cousins.
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RUDY GULIANI (the most amazing thing is someone married him)😅😅😅 I'm in the U.S. and what a fall from grace this guy took no longer America's mayor 😂😂😂
I'm really surprised that FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt weren't on the list. Not only was "Roosevelt" her maiden name, they literally met at a family gathering. KEVIN, YOU ARE SLACKING!!
They're like 5th or 6th cousins, though, so not so bad.
Then President Theodore Roosevelt gave her away. When asked about the marriage he said, "It's a good thing to keep the name in the family."
@@eliscanfield3913 according to Wikipedia, they were fifth cousins once removed. I thought they were closer than that. Huh.
@ It's kinda confusing. Now if Teddy and Eleanor had married, that'd have been seriously squicky,
@@cuttwice3905a very Teddy Roosevelt thing to say
I love when Simon apologizes for behaving inappropriately, on Brain Blaze. It's as if he doesn't understand his own channel. Simon being inappropriate is the main draw, if not the entire point
Also, unrelated, but damn, Simon's in rare form today 😂. Must've re-upped the coke, allegedly
Story time: I once dated a girl, when we were in Jr. High, who turned out to be my cousin by marriage (thankfully). We found out one weekend when we had to skip out on seeing each other because we each had a family reunion to go to. Lo and behold, we found ourselves at the same family reunion.
It all worked out since I'd been planning on breaking it off with her, anyway, and this made it all the more convenient to let her down easy.
The joys of small-town life in Arkansas. 😅😂
I'm Arkansan. I knew this was an Arkansas story before I got to the end 😂
That pros and cons list had me laughing and I have to look that up after this video.
It's pretty insane! But I do agree with him about the books thing
2:30 - Mid roll ads
4:50 - Back to the video
6:00 - Chapter 1 - Charles darwin
11:05 - Chapter 2 - Albert einstein
16:00 - Chapter 3 - Jerry lee lewis
20:55 - Chapter 4 - Rudy giuliani
Simon is so British that he gave us a banjo version of the Benny Hill Theme.
I love having seen the evolution of this channel and all the callbacks and inside jokes make me happy.
I remember hearing about my mom's cousin's marrying each other. They were first cousins on my grandmother's grandmother's side. I remember one of the arguments supporting them was: "Well, she's infertile so it's not like anything's going to come of it."
Even if they had kids they kids would be 100% normal. There is nothing wrong or dangerous in marring family members.
Simon seems to have enjoyed this title. Hopefully part 2 is on the way.
yes, very animated and engaged with the content today.
My in-laws are distant cousins. MiL didn’t even have to change her surname. Some families have a family tree. Some families have a family wreath.
That seems to have been one of the reasons Franklin Roosevelt gave for convincing Eleanor to marry him.
I have some weird/odd things like that in my family tree.
For example I have two cousins. One by blood, one by marriage, now removed. they were, for a time, married. Her mother was married to my great uncle. His father is my uncle. Said great uncle and her mom have been divorced for ages now, but it was odd.
Another one, supposedly I have two cousins that were both already my cousins (they were my third cousins or fourth, and they were third cousins, some wild distant weird stuff) when they got married. They were actually married prior to my birth. Besides the point though.
Distant cousins aren't that weird at least. Like I said, nobody gives a shit if you marry your 9th cousin once removed
@@ThatWriterKevin truth, 8 billion folks in the world, you're bound to be related to damn near everyone, right?
I mean you are, it's basic math. There is a reason both Obama and George W Bush are related to George Washington. @@goosenotmaverick1156
Edgar Allan Poe also married his first cousin, who was 13 at the time.
Also, while it's not as bad as it is in Iceland, most white Englishmen are related to each other. I forget whether it's seventh or ninth cousins specifically, but any Englishman who has at least 2 grandparents who are also English is pretty much guaranteed to be related to nearly all other Englishmen who have at least 2 grandparents that are also English, as some kind of distant cousin.
In my family it gets really weird because my grandfather was adopted, and they separated him from his 11 orher siblings, including his identical twin, and then the records were lost on account of stuff getting bombed in the Blitz, so *any* white Englishman could be my second cousin (or potentially a genetic first cousin because of the identical twin).
"ninth cousins" is a very British concept.
Here's some math:
Parents: 2
Grandparents: 4
Great grandparents: 8
2nd greats: 16
3rd: 32
4th: 64
5th: 128
6th: 256
7th: 512
8th: 1024
9th great grandparents: 2048
So yeah, 9th cousins pretty much means anyone descended from the same general region of the globe.
Supposedly, every afro-eurasion person alive today is a direct descendant of Cleopatra. If you go back about eleven hundred years, you have too many parents for the global population to account for them all without repeating.
@@burbanpoison2494 I think your math is a bit off. 1st cousins share grandparents, so 1 would be at grandparents, 2nd cousins at great-grandparents, etc. 3rd cousins at 2nd-greats, and so on. So 1024 would be 9th cousins. But those numbers are assuming all branches of the tree survive and have descendants up to the present day, so the real numbers are likely much less.
The stat I saw said if you go back 500 years, around 90% of English people are related. If you assume the average age difference between parent and child during that time to be 25 years, that's 20 generations or 18th great grandparents. Someone who shares an 18th great grandparent with you would be your 17th cousin. I just took a guess at the average age difference between generations so it could be off, but surely not by a whole lot.
@@cancermcaids7688 also "direct" descent from Cleopatra is impossible, because a direct descendent is a descendant through an unbroken male line-- the son of the son of the son of his father. Cleopatra, being a woman, cannot have a direct descendant, only distaff descendants, which is the term for descent from a female ancestor (the son of the son of the son of his mother).
@@maledictionwolf And assuming it was always daddy's baby.
"Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin."- Al Bundy.
Simon had such a childish excitement on this one.
Love it.
Fun fact: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip were also cousins.
2nd cousins, once removed. Charles & Diana were something like 12th cousins
Royals are usually quite imbred. Gotta keep that bloodline pure ya know.
The age differences are also fun
That is almost all European monarchies.
That explains a lot! Even though they are so “proper” that family is still worth a whole season of Dr. Phil crazy!
“NIIICE!” - Jamie Lannister, probably
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The word Autumn IS said here in the US. In fact I, myself, prefer the word Autumn. "Fall" only became popular because it's cheaper (literally) to print on cards and decorations, it took up less ink. It's also why Hallowe'en lost its ' in the US. The dictionary says both are correct. Lots of Americans still say autumn. See Ray Bradbury's "The Autumn people." in Something Wicked this way comes, set in the mid-West.
I consider Autumn from September-October. November/Early December is Fall.
Autumn Leaves too! Though it is a French song the English lyrics are by an American.
I also prefer Autumn, but never knew about the apostrophe in Haloween. Would "Halowe'en" be pronounced the same way?
The strange thing about Rudy is like the video says, after 9/11 people really liked him, that must be one of the biggest falls from grace!! How did he manage that!! In Borat 2 he just came across as a creepy uncle type.
Yeah/ He had like a decade of people randomly shouting him out in movies as the "greatest mayor ever"
Note to editor Sam: thank you for including a clip from the greatest band ever Nightwish!!
It was Lorelei, not Sam this time
Not-Sam editor here who edited this video: WE WERE HERE!!! 🤘🤘🤘
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hells yeah
@@EveryFairyDies🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The reason why the episodes don’t make money is Simon. And I love it. Keep going
It's shocking to hear 50% of all marriages have been between cousins but once you start thinking about it and how long people have been getting married and how things were in the past (The past was the worst as Simon likes to say 😆) it actually starts to make more sense. The distribution of wealth and land through things like a dowry and wanting to keep it in the family. Lack of connectedness that we have now and the fact that cousins would have been viewed very differently in the past as well. And then there are things like how nobility and stuff like that used to work
If you take into account that the human population was far smaller than it is today and people weren't travelling at all...
Look at small populations today, it's still happening - so that number is not nearly as shocking after thinking about it as it was to me the moment I heard it 😅
It's almost like intense social stratification is dysfunctional or something... 🤔
sometimes i wonder how our species even survived😅😂
Seems like it was a reasonable guess but who TF sits around guessing shit like this
Ain't nuthin' wrong with gittin' a lil bit of cousin. Be careful though, cousin-babies might come out havin' that "Cousin-Lip". 😳😵💫
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Exactly how much redbull has Simon had??????🤣🤣
Blud brewed his coffee with redbull 😂
Yep, "Red Bull," that's what it is... allegedly ❄️
Cousin marriage is still legal in most US states except for the Southern states you expect...I guess you only have to make something illegal when it becomes a problem.
ITS STIL LEGAL IN ALABAMA, FLORIDA, MARYLAND, GEORGIA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSE AND VIRGINIA! PRETTY SURE YOU WILL FIND THEY ARE SOUTHERN STATES! ANDGIVEN BOTH FLORIDA AND MISSOURI ALSO STILLHAVE MARRY YOUR RAPIST LEGESLATION ON THEBOOKS THOSE SOUTHERN STATES DON`T LOOK TO HEALTHY TO ME AS A WOMAN! FOR HEAVENS SAKE THERE WERE 6 12 YEAR OLDS MARRIED TO ADULTS LAST YEAR IN SOUTHERN STATES!
Interestingly, it remains legal in most jurisdictions to marry your aunt or uncle.
New Jersey, Maryland, New York, (time for the jokes) Texas, Alabama, Virginia, The Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Alaska, and Hawaii
Quite a number of the Southern states are, shall we say, family friendly. Laws or not...
I have a good insult : "Your family tree is a circle"
My favorite version of this is "Your family tree doesn't fork"
Your gene pool is a puddle
22:20 his popularity in that poll was due to the fact that 5 years earlier he was mayor of New York on 9/11, and that’s what made him “America’s mayor”.
About 1/5 marriages in the US are between cousins. People need to realize it's only 1st cousins that have an increased risk of defects and second cousins are practically indistinguishable from strangers (gene wise) if you have kids.
IT's very common and it's in every family.
Written by someone who married a cousin....
Simon is SHOOK & it has me in stitches 😂
This one is gonna be good... WE BLAZE
My adopted cousins married each other. They are 2nd cousins (their grandfathers are brothers) and even though they were both adopted, it was a big deal in our family. They are still together after 12 years, so I guess its working out.
That don't count. My guess is, with them not being blood-kin, none of their kids came out with the "Cousin-Lip". 😳
The grandfathers are brothers. Thry share blood but after 1st cousins, it goes to a negliable %.@@MAGGOT_VOMIT
@@MAGGOT_VOMITI would suggest a good read through a biology book. There is almost zero chance for physical deformation due to relations. It's increase of cancer and other internal genetic disorders. Literally zero outside physical unless it was already there. No such thing as a "cousin" lip... bio grad here. Sorry facts are facts...
One of the quotes I find interesting " cousin by blood and nephew law" F.D.R but let's be honest it was a different time and they didn't know what we know today . Still one of the best Presidents we had
my cousins parents are cousins - well - were because both passed away some time ago. All three of my cousins are gorgeous - and very smart - and wonderful musicians as well as being lovely people.
Sam coming in clutch with a Nightwish clip. I knew he was a man of class.
Not sure it was Sam. Different editor listed
It was Lorelei, not Sam
I will always grab every opportunity to plug some Nightwish in BB videos! 🤘
@@EveryFairyDies Thank you for adding the Simpsons clips as well. As soon as I saw the video was published I realized I forgot to add a Shellbyville joke
@@ThatWriterKevin i wrote that before I saw the credits. Plus this channel rarely has new staff.
Simon is an absolute man-child in this episode. Giddy as ever as he says the word “sex” as a ten-year old. Lol
CousinVinny's Pizza add in the middle of the video was very on point.
Still happens in Missouri. My aunt tried to fix me with a second cousin! Gotta love Missouri and the Ozarks!
Laughed all the way through this!!!
Thanks!
@@ThatWriterKevin To me it were as if Simon decided to shout and work himself into a frenzy over Darwin not waiting 30 minutes after eating before going for a swim.
Not only does it seem pointless, it reaches the level of misinforming the audience, by leaving a misleading representation of the historical and societal context, as well as the actual scientific merits.
@@danielguy3581Dude, are you on bath salts?
@@KMAllmond No, I snorted them all up, so can't use them for my bath anymore.
Just to clarify: the thing with waiting before swimming is a commonly repeated fallacy, just like the supposed high risk of cousin inbreeding (as long as it's not done through successive generations; not to mention groups such as Ashkenazi Jews also had extensive monitoring and screening for recessive deleterious alleles). It annoys me when these kind of channels spread misinformation. But screaming out the misinformation and acting all superior is particularly irksome.
16:26 -- Whistler knows of "Great Balls of Fire" only from Top Gun? Jeez.
Hey, at least he knows of it. We all know how pop culturally unaware Simon can be at times...
ur back. yeah
The risk of birth defects for a non-related couple and first cousins increases from about 3% to 6%. So it's still double but not as bad as the video made it sound. It was likely more beneficial than detrimental for people hundreds of years ago and not necessary at all today
I had a teacher in college from a country where marrying cousins is common. I was dating a guy in class, so she assumed we were first cousins... awkward.
Saw the thumbnail, and read it as “Bromance.” I thought we were about to hear about Einstein’s bromances 😂
I am SO glad my family has the habit of loving what is different, as opposed to loving what is familiar. It has been a genetic benefit.
I love that you did Yakety Sax at 20:41
Asked some people for yodelling musicians, and they did not disappoint!
Whoa!! Simon and MrBallen release vids within 30min of each other. Since i'm OGBB I'll watch Simon's vid first. Innocent people are safe for at least the next 27min. 😳😵💫🤣
My head just go like"Mama romama, mama romama..." 😂😂
27:00 the 4 Seasons Landscaping press conference, I believe, was originally scheduled for the 4 Seasons Hotel, but the Hotel said no. So they scrambled to find the 4 Season Landscaping company and updated the press conference location.
The reason people marry their cousins is because they still differ enough genetically for it to be okay. However, if EVERYONE keeps marrying their cousins, there's bound to be some weird shit happening farther down that genetic road, and that is why we have movies like Wrong Turn and other wonderful and cautionary tales XD
In the UK that's a major issue. The overwhelming number of Muslims who have married cousins, who have parents, grandparents and great-grandparents and so on who were also cousins, results is many families having severely disabled children. Muslims make up 2% of the population, but their children make up over 36% of all disabled kids in the country.
@@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming We have a similar issue here in Australia. Too many families that are very inter-married are having 4, 5+ severely disabled children.
@@Cdr_Mansfield_Cummingyup, that is scary!
Ain't nuthin' wrong with gittin' a lil bit of cousin-poosey. Be careful though, cousin-babies might come out havin' that "Cousin-Lip". 😳😵💫
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Where did you find Blackboard. He was a character in " Mr Squiggle" in Australia.
I heard 'blackboard', I thought 'Mr Squiggle', so to Google I went, to revive an Aussie classic. HURRY UP! (Sadly, I could not find him saying that without a squiggle covering him, or I would have definitely had him yelling at Simon to stop tangenting!)
Omg it's holly at 11:13 ! All hail Sam the mighty editor!
Twas I, Not-Sam the editor! And thank you! Boys from the Dwarf!
The editor putting the black's books clips in the videos has top notch taste.
Emma got ‘wedged’ with ‘wood’ 😂😂😂
LMFAO The Einstein Family Tree looks like a ball of yarn 😂😂
Sam, I appreciate your use of the greatest show on earth in a clip here. Love me some nightwish.
that black books clip was perfect! when i'm panicking, it definitely feels like i can't remember the most basic shit 😅
Well, at least if we get 2 things out of this video, one would be the past is the worst, and 2, thank you for letting us know about the vessi rain coat. I purchased the shoes recently and they're living up to their name. I enjoy the charisma in these vids, keep on!
Big shout out to editor Lorelei Brown, the memage was even more on point than usual.
Seconded! Though I did miss one classic: the flopping sound of Simon's shoes when he walked out of frame
Lmao the old British comedy references have me cackling
When Simon looked up what Rudy Giuliani looks like, he should also have looked up how to pronounce his name 😂
This episode has so many, "Simon out of context" quotes.
rudy is the real life Penguin
That Nightwish "The Greatest Show on Earth" reference earns an upvote!
Greatest Song by the Greatest Band on Earth! Expect more Nightwish to sneak into future videos...
Lorelei! You've got me cry laughing at work with those mad edits. I love it!
Hearing Simon repeatedly referring to one of the greatest minds in Serbian physics and mathematics by the wrong name is hurting my soul. Mileva! MILEVA Maric! I dunno if it was the script or if Simon is being his usual smooth brain self, but it's killing a piece of me every time lol. She helped him with his mathematics in a good few of his most well known early papers. I'm SURE that Simon has done a Biographics on this woman and if he hasn't he bloody well should!
When I was looking for a photo of her, the name came up as Mileva, so that's what I put onscreen. Perhaps it was an auto-correct error when Kevin was writing or something.
Well, he also said that she gave birth in 1980, so yea, I think he might have just been tired. Not that this is a good enough excuse, but still.
One love ❤️
Edit: I'm here after "Ruty Giovanni", and just wanna say that Simon had an even worse than usually day for reading and saying names.
Probably because the Serbs are an irrelevant people lol
I wasn’t expecting to see Ryan Hollinger as an editing joke, but I’m sure as hell not mad!
I was watching his video when I was editing this one, and it just worked out perfectly 😆 Love his stuff
I apreciate the Nightwish insert from Greatest Show on Earth performance :)
I had a friend in high school his sister married her 2nd cousin... they were Mennonite and there was a rift in the family when one side went modern and the other stayed black bumper. They didn't know they were cousins until the entire extended family got together for the engagement party and at that point they were just like "oh well".
19:30 people in the UK are like, "marrying your 13 YO cousin can only be done by our monarchs."
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip's relationship began when she was 13 and he was 19. They married when she was 21.
My husband and I knew a couple that used to come out and dance at a club. They were beautiful together and used to dance just like in Saturday Night Fever.
People used to gather around to watch they were so amazing.
Turned out they were first cousins and the relationship was not platonic.
Both of their kids were grown, but the family was not happy.
They ended up moving away (together) and I often wonder what happened to them.
As an American living as close to the deep south as possible without loosing IQ points, I agree that cousin-sisters is an open secret...
I live in New Zealand and I have a sister-cousin and a brother-cousin on a technicality... our mums are identical twins, so cousins that share 50% DNA... sister-cousin and brother-cousin 😂❤
Such a good episode keep it up
9:27 nice catch for real hahahahahaha 😂😂😂
Love that the Kevin bacon joke went right over Simon’s head😂
The editing on this... out-fuckin-standing
Oh, you're too kind. 😁❤
From the store's perspective, it is like this:
-$100
-70 (this is not new money paying for goods this is stolen goods. For the $70 to have been replaced it would have to be twice the amount that was stolen or the original money returned and new money making the purchase.)
-30 change.
$200
Does anybody else think it's funny that when Simon was impersonating a country guitar he was humming the theme to Benny Hill?
As a Cletus, I don't appreciate being shamed for marrying my high school sweetheart.
In case Simon was wondering in parts of Canada we call Wellingtons gum boots
I'm about to blaze and drink a glass of wine🎉
Enjoy!
Skol! Skol! Skol!
Being from Regina, I find the Deadpool clip use here totally hilarious :) The city briefly flirted with using the tagline "Experience Regina"....it didn't go over well.
The references again knocked it out the park, good to see another black books moment 👌
I wanted to keep it going: "Ma. Possibly deceased" but thought it was too long.
Wow Simon, never seen you like this before...... i like it
Samuel - bravo!!! I can’t stop laughing!!!
Yellow gold day date with champagne dial? Very nice, Simon.
Famous cuz nuzzlers! Haha! Well done, Kevin.
E=MC2 Means, Einstein Married Cousin Twice.
Man I love brain blaze, best vids on RUclips, better than PewDiePie, better than Markiplier
Glad you enjoyed!
@@ThatWriterKevinyour scripts are always great, thank you!
@@craindrelescuillieres6629Thank you!
OOh La Dee Daa. What a splendid golden watch you've gotten.
Red Dwarf! Ya gotta Norman Lovett.
Boys from the Dwarf!
It is also worth noting that some people marry their distant cousins without knowing that they were cousins.
Just to put Jerry lee even more in perspective ,Margaret Beaufort (Mother of English monarch Henry VII ) was married to Edmund Tudor (25 at the time ) when she was 12 yrs old .It was 1455 and a political marriage, but the marriage was consummated and she had her son Henry when she was 13 .However ,Margaret and Edmund were not related and even then she was considered rather too young to consummate the marriage by many people (Not Edmund obviously ) and it caused a bit of a medieval scandal .Someone really ,really should have had a word with Jerry ,preferably a judge .
When I moved to the UK to get married (didn’t end up happening, long story) there were a surprising amount of questions on the visa forms about my fiancé’s possible family relationship to me. We’re we cousins? 2nd cousins? Did we have any family members related within a certain number of generations, etc... there were so many, it felt like this may be a huge issue with UK marriages.
It is legal in the UK for cousins to marry, so do not know why all the questions were asked.
Pros: already know her family
Cons: already know her family
- Charles Darwin probably
I love bat sh.... videos like these , I think Simon has the most fun with them 😂😂
Note: I don’t personally have a crazy cousin story. Although I did date a fellow back in the day who a child with a 40 year old woman and then one with her 22 year old daughter. (I’m not sure I wanna know what that makes them)
If someone wants to go down the google rabbit hole, let me know 🤪
They'd be half siblings, but one would also be the other's grandparent
@@ThatWriterKevin 😬😳 pourquoi??!! (thanks Kevin)
@@mrscarter6279Very welcome!
@@ThatWriterKevinThat's twisted!
Um... Simon is getting super excited about Cousins... 'together'
Had neighbors in Arkansas that didn’t marry because it was illegal. They just lived together and kept popping out kids. The entire family was something else. Had that opinion before I found out they were first cousins. When I found that out, it explained A LOT! Habitat for Humanity built them a house. It was TRASHED in a couple of years.
My aunt’s first husband left her for another man. She was remarried within a day of the divorce being final. That husband left her for her best friend. My aunt then married her best friend’s husband within a week of being divorced.
I knew several step siblings that married each other.
There is a reason the south has a reputation. Gotta keep it classy.
Arkansas is the mid west, not the south.. Also, you know the south is mostly cities and suburbs now, right?? When you think the south in 2023 is still some back water place, you clearly don’t travel 😂🤦🏻♂️🤡
Mississippi River is the geographic divider, if you were unaware
@@jimjohnson4072 Which makes the prejudice people have against southerners all the more strange. There are weird people everywhere.
Might want to familiarize yourself with the facts. The south goes beyond the Mississippi. A simple search shows that. The Deep South is different, but still generally is accepted to go beyond the Mississippi.
Considering I spent 42 of my 43 years living in the south, it makes you wrong. Have you even been to Arkansas? I lived the longest in Arkansas and Alabama. There is little difference between the two.
Also, try telling an Arkansan they aren’t southern… even in the big city of Little Rock. Those be fightin’ words!
The fact that there is an active KKK in the south (yes, including Arkansas which has one of the most infamous clans in the US) doesn’t help with their reputation whatsoever.
The prejudice against southerners as uneducated it real. The south produces some extremely smart people. HOWEVER, there is a lot of disdain for the educated. This does nothing to help with their reputation. With the rejection of indisputable facts recently, this further doesn’t help their case.
love the casual sweater B)
Nightwish !!
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Love the Randy Feltface Memes Sam
In a large part of the world cousins isn't seen as incest, unlike siblings (or parents) where its basically universally seen as wrong.
Its likely the result of the US being so large and diverse that being surrounded by scores of your cousins is unusual. Going back 100 years or so marrying cousins was fairly accepted in the US even. Its only recently that people in the US view 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc cousins are wrong. Mainly from the misunderstood idea that it causes birth defects, there is hardly a change in the chances for those, only full blood relatives have the large chance, cousins a bit too, but once you get into 2nd and so on its negligible.
2nd cousins are almost genetically indistuinguishable from strangers (in a reproduction sense). 2nd cousin marriages only have like a 2% increased chance of birth defects from non cousins and 1/5 marriages in the US are between cousins.
I bet you have pretty cousins
@@elitedavidhorne8494 eh, not really.