Video duration: 38:11 Simon's tangent timer: 17:55 Ok Factboi if you're gonna spend literally half the video on tangents you can't complain about Danny's long intros anymore!!!
Simon should add a tangent timer to all videos he posts on this channel. The ratio of tangent time to runtime could be used as a quality metric. You, the viewer, would be the one to decide what that metric actually means. Whatever Simon thinks would merely be tangential, and irrelevant.
While the tangent timer was up, it cut to an ad that started with a man yelling "Quit being boring!" and it took me a second to realize it was an add and not a self-depricating joke that'd been edited in.
One of the reasons I respect Simon so much is because he gives his writers credit. You'd be surprised how many creators hire a writer and never admit to it. Also, even tho the editor keeps making fun of him for the tangents, who else would think it would be weird af to see a brain blaze video without Simon's tangents? It's half the reason i watch them.
Simon: *Goes off on a tangent about hating receiving items from companies because of customs* Also Simon: *Cuts into a sponsor where the company sent him a product that almost certainly had to go through customs for him to do the sponsor*
He does almost exactly this on discord weekly. Liam gives him our questions and he just goes off on it. Must be a subscriber to the channel though. Nothings free in Fact Bois beating capitalist heart.
Banger episode guys. Watching Lorelei react to Simon react to Kevin's writing about the appropriate degree of reaction in a reaction video was very enjoyably meta.
Lorelei really stepped up her game on this one! The Tangent Timer is clearly a big hit! Also, the Neverending Tangent meme made me belly-laugh so loud, I startled my cat!
Lorelei, you’ve outdone yourself this week 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 that editing was perfection and I agree with all the other comments begging for the tangent timer to stay. Also, the chip in Simon’s mug getting bigger and bigger each week is my new fixation 😅
@EveryFairyDies >cut to Spandau Ballet - Gold Gold Always believe in your soul You've got the power to know You're indestructible >cut back to the video
I’m sure “Take A Drink Every Time Simon Goes On A Tangent” will do wonders for viewer retention. I should probably put myself on a liver transplant list ahead of time.
I did it deliberately as I know people will be so drunk halfway through, they won't remember the end of the video, so they rewatch it. And get drunk halfway through, and so on. Watch that counter climb!
I like pet prank videos, where you prank your pet, like cucumber near an eating cat, or using a blanket to disappear from your dog, the pets reaction is always so genuine lol.
Oh, I never explained the dark web mystery boxes I was going to sell in the script? Really thought I did. Short version is this: I was still working as a butcher at the time that I fell into the dark web unboxing rabbit hole. This meant that I had access to a LOT of blood, body parts (even if they weren't human bodies), and an entire room where the floor, walls, and ceiling were covered in fresh blood. Not to mention the bloody band saw. It would have been really easy for me to put something cool together, and part of me wishes I did because I think I could have terrified some people.
@@ThatWriterKevin Excellent! Also, missed opportunity there with the mystery boxes. You could always send one to Simon for him to unbox on a Weekly Blaze…
I love watching people react to music they don't usually listen to, especially if it leads to people discovering new music to enjoy. My favorites are the ones who listen to the words and understand the meaning.
Really! The mold is concerning enough. Swallowing a small amount of toothpaste is generally safe, but consuming too much increases the fluoride levels in your blood, causing nausea and vomiting. (I know from experience, it was a dare.)
Every time Simon compliments a short intro, I feel like it's a dig at Danny. And sometimes I'm pretty sure Danny writes extra long intros just to spite Simon.
Oh, that's not a feeling, that's just the truth. Well, Danny might just find it fun as hell to annoy Factboi with long intros rather than spite but still.
Outstanding Blaze! Lorelei your editing is genius. You must ask for more mushrooms. Brilliant script Kevin. I really dig when your Americanisms drive Simon into a tizzy. Well done. Cheers from Tennessee
@@MrHodoAstartes I think the growing stuff in his moldy closet has affected him more than known because he acted like the Factboi from years past. Quite feisty. Allegedly. Or the hot sauce really works. Cheers
I worked at a warehouse that processed Amazon's customer returns. I personally processed thousands upon thousands of different items, and I think that my overall favorite was an obviously worn adult 3XL sized Chinese school girl "play outfit". If you are wondering how I could tell that it had been previously worn, it was because the formally white socks that were part of the outfit were now black on the bottom and absolutely covered with hair and the hair looked like hair that wasn't necessarily from a persons head {if you know what I mean}. If you want to buy a pallet, do so at your own peril. You have been warned. Oh, yeah, Amazon does sell dildos, but that's a story for another time.
Stop being logical! The customer, of course, got a full and total refund. Although I did walk around for the rest of the day chanting "Shame, Shame!" @@toddnolastname4485
@21:30 I like the fact that Simon is actually a trained lawyer, but since he chose to move away from the law some time ago, he is wise enough not to try to pretend that he remains an expert in the law. Many others could do well to observe this humility.
Simon gives shit to Danny and the other writers about introductions. Proceeds to spend more of the video on a tangent than reading the script. This is the quality entertainment we're all here for 😂
"I once made my sister believe she had just won a life changing amount of money that would allow her to live out all of her wildest dreams and enjoy the rest of her life" -Simon, comitting innocent pranks
When my friends get together and hang out, if someone says they need to go to the bathroom. I will get their attention and try to hold it for as long as possible, without actually saying anything, and when I feel I'm losing them I slowly say, you should go to the bathroom. Bonus if someone else realizes what I'm doing and beats the first to the bathroom.
I think Kevin is narrowing in on the topics that cause the biggest tangents and we're going to get a script that's one page long but every word leads to a five minute tangent. Shine on Maestro!
The crowning achievement of my shenanigan carrier was giving my friend a fake parking ticket while she was parked in the poorly regulated area outside the starbucks where I worked. I printed off some blank till tape and wrote 'SURPRISE = D' inside. I got absolutely cussed out for giving her a heart attack but she also thought it was an absolutely legendary move and we are still laughing about it almost 10 years later.
Didn't expect to see Poppy mentioned! I met several friends in her community. We watch shows every weekend and sometimes play TH-cam videos to make sure the stream is good. That's how I found this channel, actually!
The tangent timer! 😂😂😂 I love it!!! (Edit) Simon: constantly complaining about Danny and Kevins' lengthy, yet entertaining intros. Also Simon: literally filling half the videos runtime with random, pointless, personal asides.
This is now my favorite Brain Blaze video. I love the dynamic between Simon, Kevin and Lorelei. Great idea with the tangent timer, tho the tangents are the funniest part.
Lorelei, you are the master! I couldn't stop laughing! You and Kevin are deadly to Simon. Destroy him. You two are the best! Dang, Lorelei, you just keep getting better and better!
Also, editing the "tech savvy children who definitely weren't being helped or exploited by their parents" line immediately after Simon used his kids to sell an expensive astronomical disco ball. Cold as ice.
@@luckyspurs That credit goes to our ad department. They're the ones who create and insert the sponsors. I don't know if they chose that exact moment, but I hope they did!
While I do watch the occasional reaction to other TH-cam videos, my preferred form of this genre is reactions to TV shows and films that I've also watched. The good ones often spot something I've missed or bring up a point of view that I hadn't considered. The bad ones just stare blankly at the content, or talk over and therefore miss important information that they later start questioning, or are just so loud and irritating that I close the tab part way through and never watch them again.
This is literally the 3rd video I've watched today by one of my favorite channels that namedropped or collaborated with another of my favorites. Also, this video was more memes and tangents than actual content. Never change, Simon.
lol the tangent counter is sweet. Also reaction videos with comments that make you seek out the original to watch are good and can even be endorsed by the original if they are just one part of a long lineup of content. Some indie creators get propelled big time by TH-camrs with influence. Of course if all you do is stream you watching it is bad and does not drive people to seek out the original
Emortal Marcus does rlly good reaction videos on analog horror stuff and horror games. He usually stays quiet during the video (understandable bc he’s focusing on it) and pauses it to make sense of what’s happening and/or share his theories and he has awesome facial expressions when reacting too. He also always tells the viewers to support the original creator of whatever he’s reacting to and puts a link to the channel if it’s analog horror. I wish more people were like him, his reaction stuff is high quality and genuine and it’s awesome he gives credit to and links the creator of content he reacts to and such
Me too, With pranking friends I would say ....not pranking about something that taps into someone's ptsd triggers ... insecurities or something they care about very deeply and with strangers you have no way knowing that and one should be that much more careful to not cause really strong negative feelings.
Some people are literal. They might find a prank mildly funny but find other types of humor like slapstick more funny. A lot of people doing pranks might be doing them on unsuspecting people (like that guy who got shot because he wouldnt leave some guy alone) which is where its not funny. If youre part of a group that pranks each other than sure those videos could be funny.
Jacintha Saldanha and Tysen Benz were pranked then killed themselves. "ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Authorities say a clerk who thought the dead body of a woman was a mannequin placed outside an apartment complex as an April Fools' Day prank enlisted the help of two others to throw the body into a dumpster. St. Petersburg police reported in a news release that the Peterborough Apartments clerk first spotted the 96-year-old woman's body during a smoke break around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. Thinking it was a joke, he returned to work without notifying anyone. Two hours later, another employee told the clerk about the body, but he insisted it was a prank. The clerk and a couple delivering newspapers then moved the body to a nearby dumpster. Finally around 8 p.m., a maintenance worker saw the body in the dumpster and realized it wasn't a mannequin. Police found a suicide note in the woman's apartment. It appeared she used a stool to jump from the 16th-floor window."
23:35 I have to say I was worried you didn't care about Brain Blaze anymore by the way you made some of the last few, and this one instantly felt way different. I know efficiency is a virtue but I implore you and the team to try to space out recording these, the quality improvement is noticeable from you Simon.
The only prank video I could ever get behind was the mom who was incessantly being pranked and jump-scared by her family who faked having a heart attack and collapsed after years of begging them to stop "pranking" her.
You are so right, that isn’t fair clipping you & taking views. You ARE the reaction already! You did a great thing cold reading the scripts, introducing me to my favorite writer, Danny is a treasure! In fact you’ve done beautifully finding other fantastic writers for Decoding, Shadows, and Casual Criminalists. You’ve done ALL the work, I guess the compliment lies in the riding of your coattails.
Between the intro clip and the tangent timer this has been the blaziest blaze video since simon hosted it standing with a paper script. We miss the standing energy factboi Edit: 34:16 Factboi aint a quitter
i think the "Tangent Timer" is a nice touch however maybe (considering Simon's style) you should also add a "Rant Counter" and/or a "Rant Rater" for when he REALLY goes off-track!!! Lol love the channels, thanx Simon and Co.
Simon brings his own talent to the scripts with is presentation, writers maybe (more than likely) are far better at writing than dear old fact boi but could they read them as well?
@@dunxyKarl Smallwood, a former writer for todayifoundout (the website) has his own channel, and it's pretty great.... Fact fiend, if you were wondering the channel.
The Tangent Timer is great! I also find it amazing how Simon manages to keep it about 50% tange-rant most of the way through! Thanks for another entertaining Video! Just not sure how to react.... lolz
I'm loving this editor! Lorelei is actually clever and creative for the most part. I would love to see videos that don't use the "classic" memes though. They've been done to death.
We spent years harassing Simon into watching The Princess Bride and he finally did. Go back a couple years and you'll find his review of it and though he did his typical "jaded millennial poopoo" of it you could also see that he genuinely did like a lot of it. And I get the sense that with each subsequent watching he'll be falling deeper and deeper in love with it cause somewhere in that black little lump of coal where Simon's heart should be there's a nerd just DYING to crawl out of the closet.
Love how this was written but really have to shout out the editior! Love your touch with humour..... the tangent timer was everything!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I figured it would either make people laugh, or get annoyed when they realised just how high the ratio of tangents to video is. So I'm glad people are laughing!
The best prank I ever did, I had to travel several hours to the nearest branch of my bank to make a deposit since there wasn’t one close to me due to getting out of the military. My mom had given me a check to deposit iirc, which I did, but instead of immediately heading home, I stopped by some distant relatives’ house to visit. I had to call my mom to let her know that I would be late returning home, but instead I had the bright idea to scare the shit out of her. I called my mom, and instead of saying that I had deposited the check and all was well, I told her that I had cashed it, bought a bunch of cocaine and a hooker, and that the hooker had OD’d and died. I was panicking and saying “Oh, God, Mom! I don’t know what to do! She isn’t moving!”. My mom panicked and told me not to call the cops, clean up and get the fuck out of there. I had this whole interaction on speaker and was sitting with my cousin who didn’t know I was going to do this. My cousin was absolutely gobsmacked at what was going on, but when my mom said to not call the cops and leave, she lost it and busted out laughing. As soon as my mom figured out it was a joke, she called me several new names that I had never heard of before and said that I almost gave her a heart attack. Good times!😂
Top tier content today! Oh dear sweet goodness not only blessed with the tangent timer but did we just get an “AM I RIGHT PETER!” Simon’s trying to keep the chair and still saving the paper 🤣 All that was PURE GOLD. Only thing missing was am I 🧐 “playing the game”…oh no now I’m playing the game
The editing on this video was next level. I've always been curious what amount of the video was just tangent, but never put in the effort to figure it out. The cutaways were all brilliant, and adding the Simpsons to anything makes it inherently better. Everyone involved did a phenomenonal job. Kudos!
@@EveryFairyDies It was wonderful. I joke that Brain Blaze is 50% tangents. Now I see that's pretty much the case. 17:56 of tangents, rants, and personal stories, subtracting meme time (oh those glorious memes!) that means 50% of Simon's speaking time is spent on tangents. So, that's why he wants short intros... more Tangent Time.
i love the fact that some people/ almost all of the pranksters all seem to have some criminal charges brought against namely assault, harassment, criminal misdemeanors, etc... and i love the ones where they got sued. yes i am being deliberately vague.
Simon. Long time watcher. Rarely comment. Love music reaction videos. Found many great bands. And it's not low effort for the good channels. Who break it down. I've seen many great acts go from a couple hundred followers on their TH-cam channels to hundreds of thousands to millions because of reaction channels. Love your content brother. All million channels 😊
Brilliant editing on this one!! Peaked at 'what is black tar heroin' only to break for a TH-cam advert for TED buying drugs.. Absolutely perfectly timed business daddy
I think they definitely can be, my personal favourite was when voice activation tech was just becoming a thing and a friend of mine put ‘voice activated’ signs on things. Our other friends would try it a couple times before realising they had been got, even I got taken in! You feel like a bit of a tit for a second but you have to laugh at yourself for something like that (and usually go get a different friend to come try it). Pranks are only funny when they’re funny for everyone. You prank friends you know will find it funny and will laugh with you, or you do something like using a comically large phone whilst walking down the street because that’s not harming anyone, but people get a bit of a laugh at your expense, no one else’s. ‘Pranks’ on TH-cam aren’t pranks. They’re cruel and unfunny. The people who are the victims aren’t laughing along. That’s not a prank that’s just harassment.
As a fan of boxxxy I am surprised that I totally missed out on the early Poppy craze. My life was rather tumultuous during her early years but you have at last brought her to my attention. I didn't get to finish this video until days later after I spent enough time going down the Poppy rabbit hole. She is really something else.
A variation on the mystery box is the storage unit auctions. They have to bid on it either without seeing or just seeing a view of everything with being able to move or open boxes first. Kinda fun. Also hilarious that they used a video of Floor Jansen (the singer of Nightwish) reacting to a live performance of Nightwish 🤣
My favorite pranks are the ones that both the prankster AND the prankee can laugh about afterward. Such as when my teenage niece gave me a flower complete with muddy roots. Then I stuck it in the back of her shirt, and she didn't know I'd taken off the roots, so she thought I'd just stuck a bunch of mud down her shirt. She thought it was hilarious!
Tangent Timer is a MUST for all future Brain Blaze content. I love that almost exactly half of the video is tangents. Perfect editing. Sorry Sam, you are great too. Hilarious video.
Kevin and Simon both need to watch "Just For Laughs: Gags". Its a Canadian prank show that not only never stooped to the lows of modern pranks but in fact were actually so funny that even the person being pranked would be laughing at the pranks reveal. There is no prank content to exist the ever even came close to the caliber of this show. I miss it dearly.
Here in the uk we had game for a laugh and beadles about. Both fronted by mr beadle, a smug twat with a deformed hand whos pranks were more about humiliating people than anything joyus. The show ended when an old guy stabbed one of the actors when he came home to find his garden being wrecked by a fake oil company iirc. Horrible show and you would think people would take lessons from this, but no, you get pricks like the guy who barges into peoples houses for the lolz (who im amazed hasnt got the shit kicked out of him yet).
I love the fact that there is 17 minutes and 56 seconds of Tangents in a 38 minute and 11 second video of Brain Blaze. 😂 Considering this video includes memes and an ad, that's really impressive. 😂
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Tangent Timer is the best addition.
The Italian hot sauce, Firelli, by chance? I've heard that one is awesome!
'I dont have an unboxing channel'
I'm sure you will
This is cool and all but I already got those stick-on stars that glow in the dark 😎
11:30 haha the rotting turtle ad.
#free danny.
I am on the floor laughing so hard
Video duration: 38:11
Simon's tangent timer: 17:55
Ok Factboi if you're gonna spend literally half the video on tangents you can't complain about Danny's long intros anymore!!!
That is the Not low effort part of the video.
He CAN and he WILL!
I agree with the sentiment if not the math.
Hey, Simon. Can we have a video where it's just tangents? 😂
Simon should add a tangent timer to all videos he posts on this channel. The ratio of tangent time to runtime could be used as a quality metric. You, the viewer, would be the one to decide what that metric actually means. Whatever Simon thinks would merely be tangential, and irrelevant.
While the tangent timer was up, it cut to an ad that started with a man yelling "Quit being boring!" and it took me a second to realize it was an add and not a self-depricating joke that'd been edited in.
One of the reasons I respect Simon so much is because he gives his writers credit. You'd be surprised how many creators hire a writer and never admit to it. Also, even tho the editor keeps making fun of him for the tangents, who else would think it would be weird af to see a brain blaze video without Simon's tangents? It's half the reason i watch them.
You okay?
The tangent thing in the edits is a bit. It's funny, that's why they make fun of it. Makes the video entertaining.
@@jeffdroog your comment makes me wonder more if you are ok than it makes me question why you are asking if i'm ok.
@@leilei49-51 no shit sherlock
@jaydavis9717 No.There was a comment,that apparently is deleted now,that,that was in reference to...
I love the Tangent timer. Two things I realized:
1. Simon has a lot more tangents than I previously thought.
2. I want more tangents from Simon.
Brilliant editing! Simon is already entertaining, but the editing polish takes it to 11! Tangent timer needs to stay! 😂
I second this motion
Yes!!!
I agree
I concur
Indubitably my good chap
Simon: *Goes off on a tangent about hating receiving items from companies because of customs*
Also Simon: *Cuts into a sponsor where the company sent him a product that almost certainly had to go through customs for him to do the sponsor*
Also goes on tangent about pimping out kids on TH-cam immediately after an ad pimping his kids lol
*walks into bathroom at 2am*
Simon is crouched in the corner eating your toothpaste. It's the last thing you see before being torn apart.
New SCP?
This comment is still in my head 24 hours after seeing it
*Chittering noises*...
Oddly specific. I’ll hold it until morning lol
Whoever edited this deserves a serious raise. OMG I'm dying over here ... 😂
Simon needs a channel called Rantz where he gets given a topic and he just goes on crazy long tangents.
He already has several…🤣🤣
@@triciam.b.5589 yes, he does, and they are my favorite Simon channels!
This is kind of what BB has become anyway.
He does almost exactly this on discord weekly. Liam gives him our questions and he just goes off on it. Must be a subscriber to the channel though. Nothings free in Fact Bois beating capitalist heart.
Congratulations, you're the 4000th person to comment this
Banger episode guys. Watching Lorelei react to Simon react to Kevin's writing about the appropriate degree of reaction in a reaction video was very enjoyably meta.
Lorelei really stepped up her game on this one! The Tangent Timer is clearly a big hit! Also, the Neverending Tangent meme made me belly-laugh so loud, I startled my cat!
Apologies to your cat! But I'm glad you liked it. Tangent Timer is definitely the newest running gag.
Agreed. This one truly made me lol!!
Lorelei, you’ve outdone yourself this week 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 that editing was perfection and I agree with all the other comments begging for the tangent timer to stay.
Also, the chip in Simon’s mug getting bigger and bigger each week is my new fixation 😅
Lorelei's editing in this video is absolute gold.
Aw thank you! You're gold!
It just gets better every video. I particularly loved the addition of the tangent timer.
Absolute fire ❤🔥
@EveryFairyDies
>cut to Spandau Ballet - Gold
Gold
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible
>cut back to the video
@@Shiny_Dragonite Thank you! It’s fun to see what each new video can teach me.
I’m sure “Take A Drink Every Time Simon Goes On A Tangent” will do wonders for viewer retention. I should probably put myself on a liver transplant list ahead of time.
I did it deliberately as I know people will be so drunk halfway through, they won't remember the end of the video, so they rewatch it. And get drunk halfway through, and so on. Watch that counter climb!
A massive thank you to Excelsius on the Discord Server for suggesting the Tangent Timer! It will return!
😊
Great job, Lorelei!
@@ComedorDelrico Thank you!
Best. Addition. Ever.
It has to stay for every video and on Decoding the Unknown channel
I like pet prank videos, where you prank your pet, like cucumber near an eating cat, or using a blanket to disappear from your dog, the pets reaction is always so genuine lol.
Oh, I never explained the dark web mystery boxes I was going to sell in the script? Really thought I did. Short version is this:
I was still working as a butcher at the time that I fell into the dark web unboxing rabbit hole. This meant that I had access to a LOT of blood, body parts (even if they weren't human bodies), and an entire room where the floor, walls, and ceiling were covered in fresh blood. Not to mention the bloody band saw. It would have been really easy for me to put something cool together, and part of me wishes I did because I think I could have terrified some people.
Can't wait to read your reaction!
@@EveryFairyDiesThe tangent counter worked exactly the way I thought/hoped it would and it was amazing to see
@@ThatWriterKevin Excellent! Also, missed opportunity there with the mystery boxes. You could always send one to Simon for him to unbox on a Weekly Blaze…
The Kevin lore runs as deep as the Danny lore, apparently
And you say you don't like pranks lol
"No offense....yea, I mean offense. It's stupid" - And THIS is why we love you. 🤣
Simon talking about throwing Harry Potter shit into the cupboard under the stairs is top tier
I didn't even pick up on that 😂😂😂😂
I don't think he even noticed that reference in his comment 😅
I'm sure he did.
Another great presentation!!
Love the "Tanget Timer!!" Keep it in place!
That's why I follow Simon on all his channels!
Dear god that intro clip... this is proper cursed blazing 😂
Definitly! 😱
We are in the worst timeline
I was not ready.
blursed blazing
That is something that definitely needs to be clipped
I love watching people react to music they don't usually listen to, especially if it leads to people discovering new music to enjoy. My favorites are the ones who listen to the words and understand the meaning.
Well the mold and toothpaste things finally explain Simon's persistent cough😂😅😮😢... He has no idea, does he?
Really! The mold is concerning enough. Swallowing a small amount of toothpaste is generally safe, but consuming too much increases the fluoride levels in your blood, causing nausea and vomiting. (I know from experience, it was a dare.)
@@rhov-anion literally copied that sentence from google
My father uses My Cousin Vinnie, To Kill a Mocking Bird, and Liar Liar to teach law whenever he gets asked to do a guest lecture.
Every time Simon compliments a short intro, I feel like it's a dig at Danny. And sometimes I'm pretty sure Danny writes extra long intros just to spite Simon.
Oh, that's not a feeling, that's just the truth. Well, Danny might just find it fun as hell to annoy Factboi with long intros rather than spite but still.
The more Simon compliments the other intros, the longer Danny's get & the more space he claims in the Blazement.
@@AletuatheFallen It was always Danny's blazement. He just rents "private" space to the others locked in there.
The funny thing is the shorter the intro the longer the tangents! It was almost 50% this time!!!
@AletuatheFallen i like that word, blazement
Now we know that Simon's tangent to content ratio is 50/50.
Hahahaha. 38 minute BB video: worth its weight in gold. Finding out that Simon's tangents nearly take half the run time: priceless.
Please do the follow up video
Outstanding Blaze! Lorelei your editing is genius. You must ask for more mushrooms. Brilliant script Kevin. I really dig when your Americanisms drive Simon into a tizzy. Well done. Cheers from Tennessee
As you heard, he's working on the extra mushrooms growing on his waterlogged cellar wall.
@@MrHodoAstartes I think the growing stuff in his moldy closet has affected him more than known because he acted like the Factboi from years past. Quite feisty. Allegedly. Or the hot sauce really works. Cheers
I’m. CRYING. The prank you describe literally made me laugh so hard I scared my cat off me. I was trying so hard to hold back 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I worked at a warehouse that processed Amazon's customer returns. I personally processed thousands upon thousands of different items, and I think that my overall favorite was an obviously worn adult 3XL sized Chinese school girl "play outfit". If you are wondering how I could tell that it had been previously worn, it was because the formally white socks that were part of the outfit were now black on the bottom and absolutely covered with hair and the hair looked like hair that wasn't necessarily from a persons head {if you know what I mean}. If you want to buy a pallet, do so at your own peril. You have been warned. Oh, yeah, Amazon does sell dildos, but that's a story for another time.
Of course they do.
And they don't get sent back to the customer, with a 20% or $20 minimum penalty for having the gall to return used stuff?
Stop being logical! The customer, of course, got a full and total refund. Although I did walk around for the rest of the day chanting "Shame, Shame!" @@toddnolastname4485
You definitely deserve a raise for that job 🤣👍
No, it's a story for now. Now is also a good time for any other interesting and entertaining anecdotes you may be inclined to share.
@21:30 I like the fact that Simon is actually a trained lawyer, but since he chose to move away from the law some time ago, he is wise enough not to try to pretend that he remains an expert in the law.
Many others could do well to observe this humility.
Really?
Simon gives shit to Danny and the other writers about introductions.
Proceeds to spend more of the video on a tangent than reading the script.
This is the quality entertainment we're all here for 😂
Fact boy is already a legend, but this prank you pulled on Jim elevates you to LEGENDARY LEGEND.
That is not a drinking game, that is a suicide mission.
Since I watched these out of order, my next Tik Tok challenge reaction video is me holding my breath while Simon is on his tangent.
Awesome how almost half the video was tangent.. Good job Simon, never lettin us down.
"I once made my sister believe she had just won a life changing amount of money that would allow her to live out all of her wildest dreams and enjoy the rest of her life"
-Simon, comitting innocent pranks
Insert Dawn from the Office "you w*nker; you're such a sad little man" gif.
It's the loto. The only way it changes many people's lives is to make them worse.
When my friends get together and hang out, if someone says they need to go to the bathroom. I will get their attention and try to hold it for as long as possible, without actually saying anything, and when I feel I'm losing them I slowly say, you should go to the bathroom. Bonus if someone else realizes what I'm doing and beats the first to the bathroom.
I think Kevin is narrowing in on the topics that cause the biggest tangents and we're going to get a script that's one page long but every word leads to a five minute tangent. Shine on Maestro!
Lmao the editing here was top notch!!
Love the tangent timer, I've always wondered, but never complaining, LOVE the tangents, it's partly why I come 😂
I love the tangent timer. I hope it stays (unless it's been here before and I haven't noticed).
I typically only listen but it's a treat to watch 😂
Seconded
Tangent Timer will return!
The crowning achievement of my shenanigan carrier was giving my friend a fake parking ticket while she was parked in the poorly regulated area outside the starbucks where I worked. I printed off some blank till tape and wrote 'SURPRISE = D' inside. I got absolutely cussed out for giving her a heart attack but she also thought it was an absolutely legendary move and we are still laughing about it almost 10 years later.
You need to thank your editor more. Classic work today. Bravo!
Trust me, Simon thanks me plenty! And thank you for thanking me!
Didn't expect to see Poppy mentioned! I met several friends in her community. We watch shows every weekend and sometimes play TH-cam videos to make sure the stream is good. That's how I found this channel, actually!
The tangent timer! 😂😂😂 I love it!!!
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Simon: constantly complaining about Danny and Kevins' lengthy, yet entertaining intros.
Also Simon: literally filling half the videos runtime with random, pointless, personal asides.
Thank you! It shall definitely become a running gag!
I'm here for the tangent. 🤷♂️
I come for the intros. I wanna see a forty minute video with a thirty eight minute intro.@@spinningbackkick6021
I like the tangents but it's the Dame stories over and over. I wanna know. More about Danny's dating agency and all the other crazy jobs he had
This is now my favorite Brain Blaze video. I love the dynamic between Simon, Kevin and Lorelei. Great idea with the tangent timer, tho the tangents are the funniest part.
Lorelei, you are the master! I couldn't stop laughing! You and Kevin are deadly to Simon. Destroy him. You two are the best! Dang, Lorelei, you just keep getting better and better!
Excellent! That's what we like to hear, thank you!
Haha preach!!!!
Also, editing the "tech savvy children who definitely weren't being helped or exploited by their parents" line immediately after Simon used his kids to sell an expensive astronomical disco ball.
Cold as ice.
@@luckyspurs That credit goes to our ad department. They're the ones who create and insert the sponsors. I don't know if they chose that exact moment, but I hope they did!
While I do watch the occasional reaction to other TH-cam videos, my preferred form of this genre is reactions to TV shows and films that I've also watched. The good ones often spot something I've missed or bring up a point of view that I hadn't considered. The bad ones just stare blankly at the content, or talk over and therefore miss important information that they later start questioning, or are just so loud and irritating that I close the tab part way through and never watch them again.
Making Simon’s tangents adrinking game will put an end to my liver in no time 😂
Liver, overrated organ. You'll be fine.
Maybe taking a drink every 15 seconds he doesn't tangent is more realistic! 😂
Challenge accepted!
As said at the local bars, “the liver is bad, it must be punished”
Read the disclaimer! Not my fault! 😂
This is literally the 3rd video I've watched today by one of my favorite channels that namedropped or collaborated with another of my favorites.
Also, this video was more memes and tangents than actual content. Never change, Simon.
lol the tangent counter is sweet. Also reaction videos with comments that make you seek out the original to watch are good and can even be endorsed by the original if they are just one part of a long lineup of content. Some indie creators get propelled big time by TH-camrs with influence. Of course if all you do is stream you watching it is bad and does not drive people to seek out the original
28:42 simon, i love brain blaze bc i fel like its us at a pub, out for a good time, sticking to the script is for your more serious channels.
But Danny's super long intros are one of the best things about BB, its like Simons tangents, they're part of the charm!
Emortal Marcus does rlly good reaction videos on analog horror stuff and horror games. He usually stays quiet during the video (understandable bc he’s focusing on it) and pauses it to make sense of what’s happening and/or share his theories and he has awesome facial expressions when reacting too. He also always tells the viewers to support the original creator of whatever he’s reacting to and puts a link to the channel if it’s analog horror. I wish more people were like him, his reaction stuff is high quality and genuine and it’s awesome he gives credit to and links the creator of content he reacts to and such
32:06 - No, you are wrong Simon! - Though good pranks exists, they are generally more mean than funny ... I'm with Kevin on this one!
Me too, With pranking friends I would say ....not pranking about something that taps into someone's ptsd triggers ... insecurities or something they care about very deeply and with strangers you have no way knowing that and one should be that much more careful to not cause really strong negative feelings.
Same
I don’t find pranks funny
Some people are literal. They might find a prank mildly funny but find other types of humor like slapstick more funny. A lot of people doing pranks might be doing them on unsuspecting people (like that guy who got shot because he wouldnt leave some guy alone) which is where its not funny. If youre part of a group that pranks each other than sure those videos could be funny.
Jacintha Saldanha and Tysen Benz were pranked then killed themselves.
"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Authorities say a clerk who thought the dead body of a woman was a mannequin placed outside an apartment complex as an April Fools' Day prank enlisted the help of two others to throw the body into a dumpster.
St. Petersburg police reported in a news release that the Peterborough Apartments clerk first spotted the 96-year-old woman's body during a smoke break around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. Thinking it was a joke, he returned to work without notifying anyone. Two hours later, another employee told the clerk about the body, but he insisted it was a prank. The clerk and a couple delivering newspapers then moved the body to a nearby dumpster.
Finally around 8 p.m., a maintenance worker saw the body in the dumpster and realized it wasn't a mannequin.
Police found a suicide note in the woman's apartment. It appeared she used a stool to jump from the 16th-floor window."
23:35 I have to say I was worried you didn't care about Brain Blaze anymore by the way you made some of the last few, and this one instantly felt way different. I know efficiency is a virtue but I implore you and the team to try to space out recording these, the quality improvement is noticeable from you Simon.
The tangent counter is fantastic. Now we can truly quantify Simon's waffling on and thus justify any length intro by Danny.
The only prank video I could ever get behind was the mom who was incessantly being pranked and jump-scared by her family who faked having a heart attack and collapsed after years of begging them to stop "pranking" her.
You are so right, that isn’t fair clipping you & taking views. You ARE the reaction already! You did a great thing cold reading the scripts, introducing me to my favorite writer, Danny is a treasure! In fact you’ve done beautifully finding other fantastic writers for Decoding, Shadows, and Casual Criminalists. You’ve done ALL the work, I guess the compliment lies in the riding of your coattails.
Come for the story, stay for the tangents. Also, great editing, it adds a lot!
Between the intro clip and the tangent timer this has been the blaziest blaze video since simon hosted it standing with a paper script.
We miss the standing energy factboi
Edit: 34:16 Factboi aint a quitter
i think the "Tangent Timer" is a nice touch however maybe (considering Simon's style) you should also add a "Rant Counter" and/or a "Rant Rater" for when he REALLY goes off-track!!! Lol love the channels, thanx Simon and Co.
I like the trend of the snooty Bald, Bearded, British man sitting at a desk making bank reading off scripts written by far more talented people.
Simon brings his own talent to the scripts with is presentation, writers maybe (more than likely) are far better at writing than dear old fact boi but could they read them as well?
My favorite (outside of our dearest factboi) is “Well I Never”. I unironically recommend.
Man I remember Vsause, oh you just meant Simon.
@@dunxyKarl Smallwood, a former writer for todayifoundout (the website) has his own channel, and it's pretty great.... Fact fiend, if you were wondering the channel.
Okay the editing of this episode is amazing! Tangents to tangents, and memes and memes!
I'm 7 minutes in, and he already has 4 minutes of tangents, and my life just improved so much this late at night!
20:00
Simon Whistler reaction videos would be a riot.
I bet we could get a good 15 minutes worth of tangents from a 5 minute video.
DO IT!!!
The Tangent Timer is great! I also find it amazing how Simon manages to keep it about 50% tange-rant most of the way through! Thanks for another entertaining Video! Just not sure how to react.... lolz
Embrace the chaos. It's how I survive editing these.
Simon, please do more exposition on pranks you’ve done in the past, that prank with Jim was hilarious
Good god the editing is so on point hahahaha Also, when I noticed the tangent tracker pop up I nearly died
Oh, thank you! It was a brilliant suggestion from a fellow viewer I am happy to see being enjoyed.
I'm loving this editor! Lorelei is actually clever and creative for the most part. I would love to see videos that don't use the "classic" memes though. They've been done to death.
Simon needs a REACTION channel. Forcing fact-boi to watch all those movies he brags about having never seen for our enjoyment
I love that idea! They definitly should go for it - even or especially against Simon's will.. 😈
100%
I'll write the script.
We spent years harassing Simon into watching The Princess Bride and he finally did. Go back a couple years and you'll find his review of it and though he did his typical "jaded millennial poopoo" of it you could also see that he genuinely did like a lot of it. And I get the sense that with each subsequent watching he'll be falling deeper and deeper in love with it cause somewhere in that black little lump of coal where Simon's heart should be there's a nerd just DYING to crawl out of the closet.
Simon is perfect as is.
I just started the episode, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! keep this going and add it to CC and any others that he goes on a lot of tangents!
I love that Simon goes off on using children to sell things ON a video where he used his kids in an ad lol. (This is all in jest, calm down)
Peak blaze 😂
"Tangent timer" is the best edit yet. Absolutely hilarious. Needs to be in all of his channels
I think Simon may have been sampling from a coffee mystery box before he started recording. 😆 This was hilarious. The tangent timer was brilliant!
17:34 - Lorelei i love you for this. It absolutely does count considering it's her work AND she was vocal coach.
Love how this was written but really have to shout out the editior! Love your touch with humour..... the tangent timer was everything!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I figured it would either make people laugh, or get annoyed when they realised just how high the ratio of tangents to video is. So I'm glad people are laughing!
32:27 this series of jump cuts and quick flashes of text was My fave touch. 👌 @EveryFairyDies
The best prank I ever did, I had to travel several hours to the nearest branch of my bank to make a deposit since there wasn’t one close to me due to getting out of the military. My mom had given me a check to deposit iirc, which I did, but instead of immediately heading home, I stopped by some distant relatives’ house to visit. I had to call my mom to let her know that I would be late returning home, but instead I had the bright idea to scare the shit out of her. I called my mom, and instead of saying that I had deposited the check and all was well, I told her that I had cashed it, bought a bunch of cocaine and a hooker, and that the hooker had OD’d and died. I was panicking and saying “Oh, God, Mom! I don’t know what to do! She isn’t moving!”. My mom panicked and told me not to call the cops, clean up and get the fuck out of there. I had this whole interaction on speaker and was sitting with my cousin who didn’t know I was going to do this. My cousin was absolutely gobsmacked at what was going on, but when my mom said to not call the cops and leave, she lost it and busted out laughing. As soon as my mom figured out it was a joke, she called me several new names that I had never heard of before and said that I almost gave her a heart attack. Good times!😂
Holy crap the edits are a masterpiece, especially the tangent timer. Half the video (almost) of tangents, and thats why we love BB 😂!
Thank you! Tangent Timer will return!
Top tier content today! Oh dear sweet goodness not only blessed with the tangent timer but did we just get an “AM I RIGHT PETER!” Simon’s trying to keep the chair and still saving the paper 🤣
All that was PURE GOLD. Only thing missing was am I 🧐 “playing the game”…oh no now I’m playing the game
I look forward to Simon mellowing in his old age and morphing into Paul of the Well I Never channel.
I can picture him as sort of a G.R.R. Martin writing fantasy novels.. 🤣
Imagine him older, fatter and with this weird shipper's hat..
i made a paul meme on /r/simonwhistler a while back
I was an intern in an animal morgue for a while. Every animal has its own particular smell post-mortem, and you can begin to tell them apart.
The editing on this video was next level. I've always been curious what amount of the video was just tangent, but never put in the effort to figure it out. The cutaways were all brilliant, and adding the Simpsons to anything makes it inherently better. Everyone involved did a phenomenonal job. Kudos!
Thank you so much! I did not expect the Tangent Timer to be so popular, but I'm happy to see it being embraced.
@@EveryFairyDies It was wonderful. I joke that Brain Blaze is 50% tangents. Now I see that's pretty much the case. 17:56 of tangents, rants, and personal stories, subtracting meme time (oh those glorious memes!) that means 50% of Simon's speaking time is spent on tangents. So, that's why he wants short intros... more Tangent Time.
i love the fact that some people/ almost all of the pranksters all seem to have some criminal charges brought against namely assault, harassment, criminal misdemeanors, etc... and i love the ones where they got sued. yes i am being deliberately vague.
Lorelei, you are the best. The "Creeping Death" edit at 15:11 is awesome. Rock on young lady.🤘
I'm so Pavlov'd. I hear 'die', I think 'Creeping Death'. The best part of any Metallica concert, in my opinion! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Simon. Long time watcher. Rarely comment. Love music reaction videos. Found many great bands. And it's not low effort for the good channels. Who break it down. I've seen many great acts go from a couple hundred followers on their TH-cam channels to hundreds of thousands to millions because of reaction channels. Love your content brother. All million channels 😊
I wonder if DddoxerWolf is buying a ticket to Prague because Simon mentioned her.
Brilliant editing on this one!!
Peaked at 'what is black tar heroin' only to break for a TH-cam advert for TED buying drugs..
Absolutely perfectly timed business daddy
Kevin, I’m 100% with you. Pranks aren’t funny.
I think they definitely can be, my personal favourite was when voice activation tech was just becoming a thing and a friend of mine put ‘voice activated’ signs on things. Our other friends would try it a couple times before realising they had been got, even I got taken in! You feel like a bit of a tit for a second but you have to laugh at yourself for something like that (and usually go get a different friend to come try it).
Pranks are only funny when they’re funny for everyone. You prank friends you know will find it funny and will laugh with you, or you do something like using a comically large phone whilst walking down the street because that’s not harming anyone, but people get a bit of a laugh at your expense, no one else’s.
‘Pranks’ on TH-cam aren’t pranks. They’re cruel and unfunny. The people who are the victims aren’t laughing along. That’s not a prank that’s just harassment.
I love the tangent timer and editing freaking really reacted well
I actually decided to play the drinking game and have a drink every individual time Simon went on a tangent. 3 beers later and I regret my decision
I loved the creeping death insert. If that was Lorelei again, you fn rock girl!
As a fan of boxxxy I am surprised that I totally missed out on the early Poppy craze. My life was rather tumultuous during her early years but you have at last brought her to my attention. I didn't get to finish this video until days later after I spent enough time going down the Poppy rabbit hole. She is really something else.
Poppy is kind of a sad story that has a sort of happy ending
A variation on the mystery box is the storage unit auctions. They have to bid on it either without seeing or just seeing a view of everything with being able to move or open boxes first. Kinda fun. Also hilarious that they used a video of Floor Jansen (the singer of Nightwish) reacting to a live performance of Nightwish 🤣
My favorite pranks are the ones that both the prankster AND the prankee can laugh about afterward. Such as when my teenage niece gave me a flower complete with muddy roots. Then I stuck it in the back of her shirt, and she didn't know I'd taken off the roots, so she thought I'd just stuck a bunch of mud down her shirt. She thought it was hilarious!
Tangent Timer is a MUST for all future Brain Blaze content. I love that almost exactly half of the video is tangents. Perfect editing. Sorry Sam, you are great too. Hilarious video.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if that galaxy lamp thing company complain that all their traffic is suddenly moving to bespoke post. Lol
Kevin: your writing is stellar!
Simon: your tangents are superb!
Lorelie: YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you! 🤣
Kevin and Simon both need to watch "Just For Laughs: Gags". Its a Canadian prank show that not only never stooped to the lows of modern pranks but in fact were actually so funny that even the person being pranked would be laughing at the pranks reveal. There is no prank content to exist the ever even came close to the caliber of this show. I miss it dearly.
Yes. By far the best candid camera style show.
Here in the uk we had game for a laugh and beadles about. Both fronted by mr beadle, a smug twat with a deformed hand whos pranks were more about humiliating people than anything joyus. The show ended when an old guy stabbed one of the actors when he came home to find his garden being wrecked by a fake oil company iirc.
Horrible show and you would think people would take lessons from this, but no, you get pricks like the guy who barges into peoples houses for the lolz (who im amazed hasnt got the shit kicked out of him yet).
I hated that show. Hands down the worst media ever filmed in Canada.
It's still on TV regularly here in Quebec
I love the fact that there is 17 minutes and 56 seconds of Tangents in a 38 minute and 11 second video of Brain Blaze. 😂 Considering this video includes memes and an ad, that's really impressive. 😂
I don't count the memes, and the ads are added after I've edited the video, so really, the tangent-to-script ratio is actually a little bit higher!