Weirdest and Wildest Summer Camps
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I learned of a wonderful organization called Camp Rainbow Gold. It's a summer camp geared towards kids who are fighting cancer. It was started by an oncology doctor, when one of the kids he was treating wished he could attend summer camp. The doctor realized that, with the right precautions and portable medical equipment, a summer camp for kids fighting cancer was possible. So, he made it happen. My daughter got to attend that camp. They are all amazing people there.
That sounds awesome. Reminded me of a camp with a similar mission, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. It was started by Paul Newman for kids with life threatening/terminal illnesses or other conditions. It’s free of charge and has several locations across the world now. I volunteered at the CT camp (which I think is the original location) for a few summer sessions and really want to do it again. It really is the most incredibly rewarding thing I’ve ever done, such a cool place.
@@connoriovinelliYep, and is funded by sources including all the proceeds from the “Newman’s Own” brand of food products!
thnk u. I needed my humanity restored today
@@connoriovinelli That is very cool. Yeah, Camp Rainbow Gold is free for the kids and family too. They put on huge fundraisers to pay for it. They also run another camp for the siblings of the kids fighting cancer, which is also free. In many families, the child fighting cancer gets a lot of extra attention (and rightfully so), but it often results in the siblings feeling left out or not as important. CRG recognized that, and thus started the sibling camp. I was blown away at how caring they were.
I hope your daughter is ok now
As someone that grew up on a dairy farm, when I heard the bit about the alarm going off at 7:45 I was like: "Damn, that's luxury!".
I had to get up for school at 05:45 everyday and at 05:00 on days I had cross country training.
I remember a story about a school trip in the USA where the kids were taken to an old Plantation ... they were put in 2 groups..
One, the White Students.. the other the Black.. Then were told that one group would "Play" the Slave Owners and the other The Slaves..
You can guess who was who..
@@ninabriesch4184 I live in the uk and in about the early 1990s when I was about 7 I went on a school trip to a victorian house where we had to dress up as victorian children the white kids dress up in school clothes and went to school and me as the only black kid was told to clean until a teacher stepped in and gave them what for.
Speaking of STEM kids, nerf guns, and zombies, that's exactly what 2 weeks of my freshman year in college was like. Hundreds of STEM freshmen in the dorms all got nerf guns with the main objective being to "survive" until a "cure" could be discovered. One guy was secretly designated the patient zero zombie from the start. Thus began the most lengthy, epic, and sophisticated game of tag I've ever seen. Great memories!
That sounds so amazingly fun
@@nmgg6928 it really was! made getting to class a little challenging though. many of us started to travel in packs, so lecture attendance actually increased 🤣
Sounds hella fun to me!
(I wonder if they make Nerf ghillie suits)
I wish I had been rich 😢. Sounds sick.
We did that at Purdue there we called it Humans vs Zombies. Best couple of weeks during college. While I was a zombie I was always voted the most creepy because i could do a fair imitation of a hyena cackle. Imagine that in the dark from a woodlot.
I was a camp counselor at a Kiwanis camp at Mt Hood where kids and adults with disabilities/health conditions can attend a regular summer camp and we adapt each activity to accommodate the camper so they are never excluded. We had campers with cerebral palsy, quadriplegic, autism, Down syndrome etc. Activities include zip line, swimming, hiking, climbing a rock wall, horseback riding, crafts, drama, cooking, talent show 🎤
They all have a gift to shine ✨
I was about to be amazed that when I opened youtube Simon had posted 17 seconds ago, but let's be honest, Simon has 100 channels soooooo yeah he's always posting.
A true whistleverse fan knows the upload timing of every channel! I'm a fake fan though; I like DtU best, so that's the only one I check at upload time. It's interesting that they differ, though. There must be some logic to it, but they're kinda scattered around noon-ish in Pacific time.
Yeah always a chance he's uploaded within the past minute.
Aye, he basically never sleeps. That sweet sweet algorithm juice keeps him awake 24/7
As a Native American, I would like to share a perspective that has been passed down through generations in my community. Throughout history, various Native American tribes have engaged in conflicts and territorial disputes, resulting in the acquisition and loss of land among different groups. It is important to acknowledge that these actions were not solely committed by non-Native individuals but also occurred within our own communities. Recognizing our shared humanity, we should strive to learn from the past and work towards fostering unity and understanding among all people.
Thank you!
It's kinda crazy that you have to make this comment but thank you all the same. Some people like to act like Indegenous people are an oversimplified monolith always and everywhere.
Please come to Canada and say this exact same thing. I have literally been to a seminar that started with a Truth and Reconciliation speech where a woman berated the audience for benefiting from genocide... and she wasn't even Native... however the next speaker was and just stared at her and had no idea how to respond to this.
I get it. Our government fucked up. *BADLY*. But that isn't even my ancestors. They came from Germany just before the First World War. Maybe I should feel responsible for THAT too?
@@user-rd6ii6mp1tExactly, current generations aren't responsible for the sins are previous generations and I refuse to be told I am 🇨🇦
@@user-rd6ii6mp1tit's not that you should feel responsible, dick, it's that you should recognize the historical as they elucidate the current issues plaguing the community today. With the context we can better move forward to improving the specific and measurable more impactful issues still existent today.
Factboi Simon spamming the algorithm harder than a tsunami.
Also, really really loving the Hellsing and Dr Who clips.
Ah yes, that impressive sequel to "12 years a slave" => "A number of years a slave: Django unhinged"
Slavery was a myth
The mixing of the movies killed me 😂
I'm at work and I read your comment. Now my coworkers think I'm crazy, because I can't stop laughing. Django unhinged killed me. 😂😂😂
I'd watch the shit out of that
Dejano Reversed.
Same movie only the races are Reversed
I went to Space Camp with school! The spinny thing Kevin is talking about isn't a centrifuge, it's a real piece of NASA equipment meant to simulate a tumble dive (if the capsule loses control during re-entry and starts rolling), and the idea is you can learn how to work the controls while that's happening, though for the kids it was just meant to be a fun ride.
I still want to go to space camp, but I don’t think they take kids over 50. 😂
@@mattiemathis9549 they have adults space camp as well you should go
I got 5 of my grandbabies to help me plant seeds in the garden, n they LOVED IT! It's so cool, even to adults, but especially to kids age 3 n up! They get to make their own little holes in the dirt n plant their little seeds, n then in a few weeks, there's suddenly a cool little plant there! Their mom said they are loving watching the plants grow, n excited about their first cucumber! Other fun plants- melons, sunflower seeds- the big ones that actually make big seeds, green beans, carrots, radishes, flowers, n tasty herbs! It's really satisfying for kids and adults to see them grow and produce, n gives the kids a real sense of accomplishment!
As an adult, I 💯 percent agree planting seeds and watching them grow is the coolest shit ever. My girlfriend has a green thumb and got me addicted. Peppers, tomatoes, daikon, beans. I love them all. It's wonderful
A TH-cam channel I love is called Box Lapse, in which he films plants growing over days, weeks and sometimes a year. The videos are beautiful with great orchestral music and it's kind of cute to see the plants reach up to the light, especially the ones with tendrils, like little hands 😅. Some die, some only produce a small crop, some absolutely thrive. It's all very fun and relaxing to watch. He just recently compiled all or most of his videos into a single 30 minute video and I recommend giving it a watch. I think I shall use it to help get some sleep tonight 😅
Simon has a deal where he also sends all the outtakes to the sponsors and sometimes they greenlight the weird shit.
I was amused that even the ad reads have tangents.
It is feeling very "plant-like". Allegedly.
I used to go to a summer camp literally named "Mount Misery in New Jersey" It absolutely lived up to the name.
@@FlyWithFitz81 omg i went there too 😂
The STEM camp with zombies sounds fun. If I had kids I would send them
Hell, if I had kids I'd go with them!
Yeah, this kind of thing sounded right up my alley as a kid. Math, physics, tactics, and firearms? I would've been living the dream.
My son and I would both go. Lol. Then again he's a HS Senior who is also in his last year of an Associate's of Science with a concentration in **computing**
I wish someone would create a summer camp for adults who missed out on going to summer camp as children.
I'm going to something like that this month at a clothing optional campground. All kinds of activities, arts & crafts, music, bonfires, drumming, a variety of spiritual practices, good food, and a culture of safety where people can be themselves and they protect eachother. I feel safer there buck naked in a crowd at midnight than I do fully clothed on public transit in broad daylight.
@@bjbear5202 can you share what this is? It sounds awesome! Though I have no interest personally in being naked 😂
burning man? coachella?
@@FancyRPGCanada Sirius Rising
My parents would have gladly sent me to summer camp but they were also aware that I would have considered it the ultimate punishment and when I got home, I would have been SUCH an asshole, openly accusingthem of abusing me, hating me, and wanting me to be killed by spiders and snakes.
the memes this go round... *chef's kiss*
Agreed, well done Julian
My favorite childhood “camp” was when my parents hired me out (voluntarily) to my pediatrician Dr. For the summer to work (paid) on his extremely large farm outside of Dallas. I was 10 in 1965, quite the handful, fearlessness tempered with a very small dose of humm, I don’t know personified my daily existence. Lots of stitches and broken bones were my claim to fame.
At this beautiful farm, I spent my days learning to drive all sorts of chugging, chomping, whirring, ripping, don’t go near that part, machinery. It was AWESOME! This was before everything that sat still or moved was air conditioned. All machinery was open air. Nothing between me and nature but a tiny, shaking, little yellow umbrella, and a bandanna covering my nose and mouth, cuz harvesting is unbelievably dusty, and well PPE equipment? HAHA!
While sitting on my assigned spine shaking butt numbing machinery, I would occasionally hear a very deep and loud BOOM. One day, about three weeks in I asked Dr Norman what the noise was. He asked if I wanted to see something really neat? Sure!
That was the first time I ever saw a big stump being blown. O. M. G!!!
How did you do that!?!?
This was when he taught me how to make, Ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel explosives.
Two sizes were available. A one, or two pound coffee can, a blasting cap, (these were actually sold at the feed store) a full roll of heavy tape, and a small plunge firing box.
My parents faces when I nonchalantly told them that we had been blowing stumps that week. Two dear in the headlights, they just looked at me. My father finally took a breath, excuse me?
My poor parents, they had no idea that they had sent me to Anarchist Summer Camp!
Yes, it’s a true story, some kids growing up in Texas were really that lucky😎
Great tale! Love it.
"Getting slightly healthier by losing some of your excess... joy" may be the most accurate description of going on a diet that I have ever heard.
This one time, at bandcamp 😏
I grew up in the same town as space camp, my mom and grandfather worked for NASA. Idk about the actual camp, but because we had connections I got to try out all the "fun" stuff and rides and it was mostly pretty freaking cool! 😁 If you go to the space and rocket center when the weather is good you can ride most of it too. It's like a theme park meets museum and it's definitely worth the trip ☺️
Been riding horses for close to 40 years. Never had a man bits issue, and I've ridden some absolute psychopath horses. You just need to learn how to ride a horse properly. And I was in a National Guard Explorer post when I was 14. We learned how to shoot a range of firearms, build bridges, operate giant earth movers, drive APCs, conducted combat patrol simulations with M16s loaded with blanks, MOUT exercises, tactical water crossings, etc. It was awesome.
Your life sounds AMAZING. Were you one of those teenaged rangers like in the beginning of Indiana Jones 3?
@FancyRPGCanada I've had an interesting one, for sure.
Explorers is a branch of the Boy Scouts (though it's always been coed, as far as I know) that gives young people exposure to various types of careers. The one I spent the most time in was based on the National Guard. It was all under the direct supervision of actual National Guard advisors, and we spent a fair amount of time training on actual military reservations under National Guard authorization. We got to ride in helicopters and a whole bunch of other amazing stuff. I think the first thing I did with them was rappelling off a tower at one of our local fire training facilities. But I also spent some time in a medical Explorers post, which was also really cool. Got to shadow doctors, nurses, paramedics, etc.
My job shoveling horse shit is literally putting me through multiple coding boot camps this year. Free room and board in exchange for cleaning stalls and training horses (in California of all places) while I learn Python, JavaScript, and MySQL
Props to you. I graduated a coding boot camp here in SF back in 2014, so I know that hustle. You’re kickin’ ass doing both; keep it up, fam.
@@VulianJu thank you so much!! I really appreciate your encouragement! Any tips for in-demand stacks or skills?
@@judakimberly6551 I pivoted over to product design a long while back, and now I moonlight as an editor here, so I rarely write anymore, but if you're going for web based tech - learn JS and learn it very well. If you know at a low level how JS works, you'll be able to pick up any of the thousands of JS frameworks quickly.
Also, remember for interviews, it's not about what you know, but how you solve problems and find answers. Technical whiteboarding was a huge emphasis at our bootcamp, but they never taught us how to talk through and communicate our problem solving process. Being able to articulate what's going through your head, and how you would/are/want to approach a problem is an insanely valuable skill.
Talk to that duckie, and talk to it fucking often.
Good luck!
Fucking software weebs lol... Just google shit, no need for a paid course.
To the Editor: Well done. 👍🏻
Enjoying Simon’s channels is 1/2 Simon reading the articles and the other 1/2 is laughing at the editor’s awesome work. 👏🏻
The intro gave me whiplash
Me too! 😂😂😂 Then the line about not worrying about where his food comes from. Little plastic boxes!!! I'm still trying to get through the video. This is nuts.
And to think, I just got to go to a totally normal summer camp specifically designed for disabled children. How dare they not let us blow things up!
In all seriousness, it was Lions camp and that organization is amazing and the camp was everything a kid who doesn't get to do regular kid activities could dream of. I attended the physical disabilities week, but they also had weeks for diabetic kids, and autistic related kids. The counselors were all volunteer college students and they were some of the nicest people you could ever meet. I owe that organization gratitude for my eye surgeries as well: even though they didn't work, I'd never get the chance to try without their funding.
A) zombie camp sounds amazing 😂
And B) I'm loving the Hellsing police girl clips followed moments later by the David Tennant Dr Who ❤ absolutely peak
1:10 - Mid roll ads
3:10 - Back to the video
5:55 - Chapter 1 - Plantation camp
12:50 - Chapter 2 - Zombie summer camp
16:15 - Chapter 3 - High explosives camp
19:40 - Chapter 4 - Hollywood stunt camp
20:45 - Chapter 5 - Israeli special forces camp
I want your job❤
I was a counselor at Atari computer camp for kids. It was cool. Back when wooly mammoths roamed the Earth😂
I went to space camp!
It was every bit as amazing as you'd think.
Hellsing abridged memes and references go hard.
You da goat editor
Can someone please tell Simon that the thing that spins around really fast while people are in it is called a centrafuge.
The ride was called a Gravitron
@@heathergarnham9555 yes the fair ground ride is a gravitron, but the space camp thing is a centrifuge :)
Can someone please tell @deannelson7027 how to spell "centrifuge", and how to punctuate a question with a question mark?
No.
LOL that's what I said I hope WE are correct!!
Can confirm, space camp is awesome! I’ve gone multiple times. And the spinning thing doesn’t fully spin - I’m the most motion sick person ever and it didn’t make me sick at all!!
The whole "sawing off the head of an infidel with a bread knife" had me in on the floor, that was golden for how out of the blue it hit me!
My work was looking at doing a teambuilding weekend, and one of the places advertised live grenade throwing.
And you said yes please, right?
Did everyone come back alive?
Explosives Camp sounds awesome!! Hopefully if in Britain you would get your "bang licence" afterwards!!❤❤❤❤❤
He's using MS Word 2007 because he doesn't want to be forced into a subscription model, wants a proper menu bar (he probably uses the Alt set of keyboard shortcuts, like I do), and for some inane reason only wants to use MS Word. I use OpenOffice, which can save in the same .doc format as MS Word 2007, doesn't require a subscription, and still has a proper menu bar.
EDIT: I'm doing this as an edit since TH-cam keeps deleting my reply to a comment in this chain, but I've been using OpenOffice for well over a decade now. I started using it because back then I didn't have the money to get a copy of MS Word and needed to find an alternative I could afford. Now, lets see if this edit will take or not...
Yes! Open office is exactly what you want back! Word before they crammed every feature into "search". Give it a shot, it's Free and open source
@@janzibansi9218 It's free, open source, and NOT filled with mal-ware, ad-ware, and/or viruses. I've been using it for well over a decade myself, mostly because way back then I couldn't afford to get MS Word for the computer I had (this was just before MS Word got changed to have the weird big-button GUI menu instead of a proper menu bar) and I was needing to find a functional alternative. Even better, OpenOffice has Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, so you can use it on effectively any modern computer.
Maybe 2007 is the only thing available to the writers in the basement
Yes i stoped using open office cause Generation z is making fun of me 😂
@@janzibansi9218 Okay, TH-cam, lets try this reply again.
OpenOffice isn't just free and open source, it's also free of malware, adware, and viruses. I've been using it for over a decade, as back before MS Word became a GUI-obsessed mess I was needing to get a word processor and didn't have the money to get MS Word, so I spent some time hunting down a good freeware alternative.
Girl Scout camp in the 70s, two weeks of bliss every summer. I used to do the arts & crafts track which included a dark room. I missed getting my lifesaving card because I was sick the week we tested. 😢
Simon. Bud. I'm pretty sure Leonardo wasn't in 12 Years A Slave. He was definitely in Django Unchained, though. Sick ass movie about violent revenge against enslavers. Simon would probably love it, honestly.
Omg. The cut to MJ in black or white was OP
One of my friends has a girl that was always interested in horses. They found someone who took her in every summer and she worked the summer for them in exchange for room and board. She learned quite a bit and has a spare pair of parents. No one had to pay anyone.
Went to church camp, and the pastor said we were all “at least a 7/10” on the “gay scale”
Well are you?
That’s what he was hoping, anyway
I was drinking coffee when I read this, now I'm cleaning my monitor.
Omg hilarious 😂
I'm like an 11. 😂😂😂
As a graduate of Missouri S&T, I loved the explosives program. I didn't take any classes, but there were small fireworks shows on Fridays that you could watch from your dorm window. Very fun!
I never expected Rolla to be mentioned on Brain Blaze.
Me either.... I went through their explosives program, it was pretty cool. Graduating with an Aerospace degree first made the program pretty easy too since there is so much overlap.
@@michaelkoenig8112 Hello fellow Rolla Aerospace grad!
When I was a kid, back in the Stone Age, our version of "summer camp" was hanging out in someone else's backyard.
Why is every boy scout camp across the lake from a girl scout camp and vice versa?! Decoding the Unknown episode please!!! 😂
It wasn't actually a girl scout camp, it was an all girls WMCA camp. I think it was for kids like 8-12 or something, but the counselors were all teenagers like we were at the time and they were the ones who invited us over. But we told our scuba instructor we were going for a night dive like 2 hours before we finally got in the water, so by the time we swam to the other side of the lake he started ringing the "holy shit, get back to land" bell because it had been so long we should have all been out of oxygen. It was a very awkward night lol
I googled plantation camp and before I could finish typing Google finished it for me. Once you click the prompt it does change to farm camp but...... Yikes.
Should have renamed it to Liberal Collective Guilt Camp lol
Simon making several "4th-Wall" comments to Current Events type stuff.... [chef's kiss]
3× Space Camp attendee. My parents weren't rich, but my grandparents were, and grandma wanted me to be an astronaut (as did I). I work on irrigation systems now, so it didn't quite work. It was still super fun, though.
I believe the word you're looking for is "centrifuge."
I love when Simon says things that justify the JonTron "WHAT"
This channel has done wonders for my guitar playing. Turns out i just needed someone gabbing about nothing in the background to inspire me to play. Too bad I was a burnout and not a nerd.
30 ft fall kick-ass!! The Doppler effect is still one of my favorites
I always thought the Doppler Effect was a bit of a passing experience...
@@Hebdomad7 Boo this man!
Never thought I'd meet a fan of the random band that send a C&D to my friends 25 years ago lol
15:30 I almost yelled, "Noo, you cut it off before the best part!" all for the editor to finish it a moment later. Well played 😊
Simon being shocked at the cost of summer camp tickles me.
17:12 Exploding Simon meme! Thank you. It brings great joy to my heart.
That No Doubt cover at 13:06 is GOLD LOL
Simon wants to ride the Gravitron!
I know of at least one camp that had "Archery, Hiking, Search & Rescue, Biking, Horseback, Training that will save you from a heart attack, Scuba diving, Miming, Keeping up with rhyming, Football, Limbo, Science, Stunting, Pre-Calc, Spaceships, Treasure hunting, Bomb defusal, No refusal, Fantasy, Circus trapeze, and Fights, and Ghosts, and Paints, and Snakes, and Knives, and Chess, and Dance, and Weights-" and OOOOH so much more...
Unfortunately, the company that ran it shut down earlier this year.
I actually graduated from Missouri S&T with my Explosives Engineering Master's. They use the explosives camp as a way to build interests in the program. You need to pass a background check to enroll, but it's a pretty neat program.
Man, the amount of anime abridged references is real.
It's always funny when Simon conflates two movies (this time "Django Unchained" and "Twelve Years a Slave").
I really just watch Simon vids for the Skeletor accents. You editors are astounding.
If the Cadet Summer Camps in the UK are like they are in Canada you have:
Basic
Cadet Leader
Cadet Leader Instructor
But you can also choose between general, marksmanship, band, drill, or adventure. And after the CLI year you could go for Staff or more specialised summer camps if you could qualify. Like if you were super fit you could do a couple of weeks of summer training with the military skydivers or (para), if you were fluent in other languages you could do a sort of exchange, or if you were really interested in military history you could try to qualify to go to Wales for the summer.
Took me 26 years to forget about space camp. Thanks for reminding me🫥
Merry go round is what we called it
!!! .... Brb. Gonna figure out how to build a six axis Merry go round round round round round round ....
Edit: alright, I think I've got it figured out, but we'll need to duck tape the children to the horses...
The "YES! AND YES!!!" had me laughing so hard. 😂
A tangent during the ad. Legend!!!
One of my high school assignments was to research a potential career. I asked the librarian for info on miniature pyrotechnical stuff.... She called me a "little firebug." I was honestly considering a career in special effects for the movies. :^( Changed my whole career path.
-bZj
"Bombing enemy.,....HAH DON'T GO THERE!" -Best Brain Blaze Joke ever.
Simon dodged proverbial ordinance with that one 😂
My son is a Senior Dual-enrolled in his "base" public high school and a STEAM school that allows him to get ***his Associate's Degree*** at the same time. They went to an amusement park for **College Physics** as a Field trip. They have summer classes/events aligned with STEAM (adding in A for Art) as well as a 2 week residency in one of the universities as opportunities.
As a Australian the opening of the history section sounds very much like something very common here which is an Acknowledgement of Country. They are very common here they are often read out at the start of events they also super common on websites. sometimes we have a welcome to Country which is different in that an Elder of the relevant indigenous group speaks.
Simon needs to realize something. All of those disgusting/back breaking chores that he doesn't think need to be done, have to be done so he can live lovely and easy city life. Perhaps someone should send Simon to Farm Camp for a month so he can learn these things.
Editing in this one is pure gold!
The tangent inside the ad read was amazing.
😂😂 great episode! I haven't laughed this much since... since the last Brain Blaze that pushed my "laugh hysterically" button!!
At 14, I sent my daughter to an opera arts training camp in San Francisco. They taught to be a good singer, she couldn't smoke or have sex. Worked for several years. She did learn a lot about the craft and the business. I went to the show presentation at the end and it was excellent.
My parent's live on a 99 acre homestead near the Yavapai tribe in Arizona. It's in the high desert and 2 miles down the unpaved dirt road, there's a weekend/day summer camp for boys. They all lived in a small trailer, but last I heard they were building their own dorm. They take care of a flock of emus and they work on the land, which is pretty much crappy dirt that can't grow anything but cactus, brush and Juniper trees. I can't imagine they do more than dig and build fences, but they also help dig up the roads to make them wider and help maintain them.
Starfishes loved space camp in Alabama back in the day... the vomit comet was amazing 😊
it's like all of the different vaults in fallout and the range of social experiments in them
17:40 the military
😆 that was the funniest intro clip so far
Simon, what are you gonna do when society falls apart and your food no longer comes to your door in plastic boxes? Eat your money? Lol
it is rare that an ad read makes me LOL but. well. you did it
My grandparents on my biological fathers side had an 80 acre cattle farm. When we got in trouble, we were sent to the farm.
I pay around $650usd per day for a motel room.
In the 80's, I was part of the Young Astronauts Program.
I always wanted to go to Space Camp.
In the desert we were so bored. One day we came across a box of roadside flares. Thinking they'd be damaged. I tested one, it lit.. I pulled the flare stuff out of another one and packed it full of gunpowder. After a few trial and errors we barred one. It blew a hole in the ground.
I'm shocked I'm not dead with all the things I did.
Oh the plantation video! It was a guy telling a group of his friends about going to a plantation for a field trip. It was hilarious the way he told it, but horrific that his school thought that was OK.
Yes! The way he told that story was AMAZING. I still cry laughing every time I see it.
YUP! i've seen that african american kid's video more than once and it is friggin HILARIOUS! as a resident and native of Alabama... you can TELL that kid is from here... his Alabama university gear he's wearing isn't 'pristine collectible but wearable' fashion items... he's had em for a lil while and they're well worn.
if i had a caucasian kid and they went out to that field trip without my permission or knowledge? i would be pissed off too like his mom was. hell, i would have gone on that trip WITH my kid as a volunteer chaperone to just wander around and look at things. i've picked cotton for fun by hand now and again on acquaintances of my dad's farms and yep! it is hard work!
i'm HIGHLY surprised editor Julian Vu missed the opportunity to insert some clips of that 'Bama kid's trip into the 'Farm Camp' segment!
My camp has been around for over 100 years. My grandmama went when she was a kid and so did my papa. It's a very cool place! I will go in a couple weeks and i really look forward to it!
Funny. The camp I went to turned 100 a few years ago. Grandparents also met there. Special place.
@@maddiethomas5892 No it's in CO.
@@ZMB-on5ub oh.... that would have been cool. 😂
I think a few weeks at plantation camp would be good for all kids. I know some adults that could use a few weeks at plantation camp
🎉 I never expected my University to be mentioned on a Brain Blaze video. Shout out to Missouri S&T.
5:21 The Centrifuge. Scaled up to Human size. At the Carnival, it's called The Gravitron. The ride is completely enclosed, with 48 padded panels lining the inside wall. Riders lean against these panels, which are angled back. As the ride rotates, the rider experiences a centrifugal force pointing outward from the ride's center.
When I was 12, 1985, there was a boys fishing camp on an island off Florida. It was 3 weeks of fishing, sailing, snorkeling, etc. I got super tan.
Just watched a video of about group B rally races, then click onto this video to see that starting clip. Perfect.
Out of context Simon is best Simon.
Man this video just gave me a lot of ideas for cool ass camps for kids and adults. God I wish I had more money to make these camps
I just played this at work and didn't realize it wasn't connected to Bluetooth and just "MmmMMmMmMmmM" 😂
I want to make a nerd electronics camp that is just a massive pile of broken electronics and computers along with tools, soldering, oscilloscopes, and such. The rule is that you can take home a item if you can fix it. And as a bonus it's a electronics recycling sorting center.
My son, at 14, went to a camp that was essentially this. The goal was to make a robot for a robot war. Anything you made; anything (as there were other things like trebuchet competitions along the way) you kept. He loved it.
I love when simon says “kevin what are you up to?!”
I go to school at Missouri s&t and it has camps for basically all the degree paths (I did two of the comp sci/comp Eng ones in high school). The explosives camp is probably related to mining engineering or explosives engineering degrees. The school used to be called the Missouri school of mines as it was a mining/engineering school when it was established and there is a mine slightly off campus. Now s&t is known as an engineering/comp sci/business school, but still has one of the best mining engineering programs in the country if I’m not wrong. The explosives camp does sound like a crazy idea without context, but it makes sense with the school’s history and speciality in mining stuff.
You’ve got to go to the open foundry days and pour some aluminum. And check out the glass shop. If these still exist.
@@Daniel-md4qdis the glass in downtown?
@@superbaby0339 There used to be a glass blowing lab/shop on campus for ceramic eng. Dr. Reidmeyer was in charge of it.
@@superbaby0339 I’m also curious if the basic chemistry lab class still has the one week at the reactor. I know the coal plant is gone. :(
@@Daniel-md4qdI might’ve misheard but I think I heard they shut down or were shutting down the nuclear reactor
Ahhh I knew it was a Kevin script 😂😂😂
Went to a summer camp for gifted students back in the day and got “propositioned “ by a girl there..
I didn’t remember that being in the booklet 😅
But did you accept her proposal?
@@ThatWriterKevin whhooo boy , she was about 15 years and one sexual awaking too early 😅😅
In order to keep your bits from being crushed while riding horseback, at faster than a walk, you stand in the saddle, using the stirrups.
OMG Simon. Little plastic containers? I am so grateful to my parents for teaching me about the Earth, and how to grow food, and hunt when necessary. When sh*t gets really bad, I pray for you and your family Simon. You should worry about where your food comes from. Very much.
So true! I just told him something like this too!
Grocery prices are spiking high, the food is getting worse, n often isn't there at all. LOTS of people are starting gardening, saving heirloom seeds, n learning survival skills. So we're not dependent on people who just care to line their own pockets. Lots of families in the US have 2 people working like slaves, n still can't pay for bare necessities! The seed companies are having a hard time, because so many people want heirloom seeds. The US just passed more laws about patented plants- that you can't save the seeds or take a cutting to grow a new plant. But you can also be sued for tens of thousands if their stupid pollen drifts thru the air or pollinators bring it to ur plants. That's a bunch of bologna, n people don't want that crap, especially after they bankrupted so many farmers because of their stupid patented pollen spreading thru the air!
@@edenrose1224 Yes. The government has been trying to do this for decades. Just look at watermelons. The genetic engineering is designed so we can't harvest seeds and sustain. They throw away enough to feed the country everyday. The goal is to make it so no one but them can grow food. Then, we get it in little tiki taki boxes that deliver micro plastics.
@@edenrose1224 One of my favorite things, is going out in the morning to weed the garden. Water the garden. Love my plants, and the birds. What is the agenda? Detach from nature, is also a goal.
Someone's a prepper lmao.
Ba da bum bum, dishhhhh !!! 😂
Another great vid
I live in Vermont. Most of the farms have gone corporate. There was a boom of small boutique hipster farms that cropped up in the last decade or so. These people had a huge learning curve or failed. Perhaps plantation camp would’ve served them well!
Lmao loved that little goblin slayer clip 🤣
when I was younger i did a 12 day horse camp. it was great. :) kayaking, archery, and we got to skip the boring stuff to go to the stables for riding lol. yes fat camp is real.
Went to Euro space camp many moons ago. One of the best memories I have. Doing all those experiments, launching test rockets, and being there on the day Pluto got reclassified will forever remain a core memory!