The Year Without a Summer Season
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"Despite what the Mythbusters, The Avengers, and U.S Foreign Policy may have taught you, explosions usually have consequences." Lol.
@@AxxLAfriku shut up
The myth busters would like to know your location
@@hh2452 he's everywhere
😆
Contrary to popular belief, the Mythbusters went through extensive safety precautions prior to every explosion. There's a recent video on the "Adam Savage's Tested" channel that talks about what precautions they took, and how they evolved over the course of the show.
"If you assume that the result of any major event in world history was 'a lot of people died', you're almost always right"
He's really speaking facts
Facts? Sure. Something that’s pretty obvious, though? Definitely.
Hi again
By a lot... you mean 92,000 directly from the eruption, and upwards of 30 million from the ensuing catastrophes
Oh hello there
Well isn't that what makes it a major event?
"The 2003 eruption of your 2nd grade science experiment"
I was gonna make a joke about how young this audience must be for that math to work out, then I realized that hypothetical kid would be 25 now.
Jokes on him i wasnt old enough yet at that time and i never had a volcano eruption project
@@arandomteto I used the same chemical reaction, but I made a fire extinguisher. Nice thin layer of paraffin over the baking soda, leave an air gap in the bottle, rap firmly upside down to activate.
If you really want to feel old, I was born that year.
yup im 27 and im old now 😃
@@310BPM 27? Old? Hahahahaha!
Luckily a bunch of kids made rockets to put the earth back into its correct orbit, and summer returned
Phineas and Ferb Reference?
Hey ferb i know what we are going to do today
Watcha doin ?
Mooooooooom!!! Phineas and Ferb are making rockets to put the earth back into its correct orbit and making summer return!!!
Aren’t you boys a little young to be making rockets to put the earth back into its correct orbit to make summer return?
Yes, yes we are
It's pretty clear that Phineas and Ferb hated that year with a passion
Yes
@@masondipperpines5009 Were they alive?
@@CyanicCoreyou missed the joke.
@@Edood Not really. It's a little funny of course, just saying it wouldn't really apply.
To say that a little better, the thought is funny, but given thought doesn't make sense.
"As any New Englander will obnoxiously brag, they're used to the cold"
Hello, internet police? I'd like to report being personally targeted.
Lol living on the Great Lakes:
I eat lake effect snow for breakfast
How do y’all live in that fridge
@@Username-cj8hm by bragging about how we are used to it.
@@Jenny-tm3cm The two or so feet of snow melted in about 24 hrs last week. We're down to isolated patches ;D
im being watched by hai
They made the Phineas and Ferb save summer special into a real thing
wut.
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The logistics of angry volcanoes
Yesss
More like the aerodynamics of ashes
@@Latif.Kakule aerodynamic cow
I actually would really need that. For school.
Short answer: Summer wasn’t invented yet.
true
.......
Thats called Foreshadowing
@@latl089er hm
A Turtle can confirm this short answer
@@just_a_turtle_chad shut up bot
Oh yeah there was a year with no summer, its called "that time Persephone was in the underworld and Demeter was furious"
love a good reference to greek mythology
And Zagreus had to fight his dad 800 times to hang out with mom for 2 minutes...
Not quite. In Greece, it is the great heat of summer that ends the growing season. Persephone would be with Hades in summer, not winter.
@@Vaurnut Doesnt winter start when Perse is in the underworld?
@@greenapple9477 Demeter kills crops when her daughter is in the underworld. Drought and heatwaves are bigger crop killers than frost in Greece. Like, planting crops in January is a good idea in Greece.
Funny enough that event lead to my hometown in southern Germany celebrating a "festival for the children" every year since, minus last year and this of course.
It's pretty large and attracts visitors from far beyond our small town with its size, a lot of rides and general focus on children. The reasoning behind that was that children had to suffer the most under starvation, famine and the general chaos, taking away from what could've been a proper childhood.
All schoolchildren get tickets for free rides, food and the likes, but most perform a sort of procession from the center to the festival ground where the recite the events whereafter they get to enjoy the rides and fares for 3 full days, including a day where they don't have to go tk school whilst the adults sit at the largest open air beer tables and have fun amongst themselves.
Sorry if I talked to much about it, but it's rare to get to share such a story with the rest of the world, most of which wouldve probably never heard of that.
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing
@@Davey-Boyd of course! Really curious as to what other festivities around the globe might have sprung up from it considering the sheer scale of this event in human history 😊
And that festival lead to Ron Weasely's hairdo. (Probably.)
That's one hell of an idea! Shame that that didn't spread all around the world (especially when I was a kid!)
That sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing it to us. 🥰
"If you assume the result of any major world event is 'a lot of people died' you'd be right"
I feel so hurt and pointless as a history major
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― Carl Sagan
Sadly.
“This video is sponsored by Ting Mobile”
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bro he put the wrong sponsor :(
Lmao
yes it is weird that the subtitles show something completely different than what Sam says
@@pizzapuntthomas I thought i was the only one as im not a native english speaker and always have subtitles off
*Thats not very cash money of you >:(*
"How much volcanoes do you want?"
Indonesia: "Yes"
Chile: hehe..Cute
@@ken-je9oi based on wikipedia:
Chile: 90 active volcanoes
Indonesia: 127 active volcanoes
Indonesia have most volcano, and the nastiest eruption. Lake toba wiped almost all human population, mount tambora, and of course krakatoa
Indonesia is so scary
saya jadi tidak enak hidup di sini
Also, it’s possible that that volcano invented Christmas. Snow isn’t that common at Christmas where Dickens lived, but he grew up during these extra cold winters and built a connection into his writing between snow and Christmas warmth!
HAI dissing John Green while Wendover relies on dftba to sell merch is exactly the type of jokes I love from this channel
its like the simpsons making fun at fox every chance they get
That was so harsh I think Hank felt it
Finally, someone finally mentioned that joke
I’m pretty sure I remember one of the brothers saying they watch Wendover videos too
@@ethanh5978 It is all one great club of buddies ...
... to which you and me will never belong.
Most of the world: *Intense screaming *
People living in Siberia and the Canadian Artic islands: "What a nice summer day"
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"I've got a dark sense of humor."
"How dark?"
"4:30"
"Despite what US foreign policy may have taught you, doing explosions usually tends to have consequences."
‘MERICA
@Moritz der Echte hahaha... yes
USA! USA! USA!
Why do people just quote the video we saw it we know who likes a comment that is a quote every one heard 2 minutes ago?
@@crazycats3390 It reflects the ontological state of the video as a whole in a single quote
2:13 loved The Last Airbender joke 🤣
Me too! Meanwhile in the American West I'm watching the smoke from a Forrest Service prescribed burn, in hopes the Fire Nation does not surprise attack again this summer!
Damn this guy is the Reddit humor final boss on steroids
hey, don't insult reddit humor
@@sithlordbinks
watch me
@@sithlordbinks no it deserves to be insulted
@@sithlordbinks lol Leddit 8/10 with RICE xD
@@sithlordbinks Reddit humor is a poo poo head
Phinease and Ferb: There is 104 four days of summer vacation
1816: You had to many ways
There is -1 days of summer vacation
Volcano: *cooled down the planet by 1-3C*
Me: "ok that sounds good I hope that happens again"
World: *famine, death, riots, floods, cholera, food shortages*
Me: "oh no no no the last few years have been enough."
Well since we're apparently headed for about the same amount too hot... maybe a crazy huge volcano would even things out for a while.
*enough
@@johnladuke6475 The direct result still would kill hundreds of thousands of people. Those ashes might cover up the sunlight, but nice and cool, but the first few years is the worst
Nobody:
Half as interesting: explaining how the largest volcanic eruption is a cause of daniel radcliffs hairdo
other way around
I had completely forgotten about that at the end of the video and loled so much when he concluded that.
Nobody: Give me the god damn lasagna bracelet!
This video is exactly the reason I subscribed to this channel: very informative, great horrible jokes and the whole hairy potter story arc made it all the better. Sam, you're knocking it out of the park!
Not sure if "hairy potter" was an intentional typo or not, but hats off to you for that joke either way.
If this happened in 2020, that would have been the ultimate 2020 disaster. Let’s hope 2021 behaves
There is a volcano due to erupt in Iceland right as we comment, so.. yeah last time went great with Eyjafjallajökull
Don't give 2021 ideas
@@HopeRock425 lol, it wont be another one like Eyjafjallajökull, and its not erupted yet but there have been around 40.000 earthquakes in the past 2 weeks here so its happening, promise wasnt my Idea... XD
@@valdimareiriksson101 fun fact, Indonesia already has 2 major volcanic eruption in 2021.
@@istradecel2431 yee this thing is a non-stop thing for our countrys XD
I'm welsh and would like to thank you for being one of the few youtubers who have not included wales as a part of england on a map.
A few years before 1816 there was another eruption a bit smaller that also caused europe to be much cooler, which caused the French revolution
This is not very rare, but they definetely caused a lot of riots and social change because the little ice age and 2 big eruptions in the span of 30 years is a bit too much for preindustrial societies
Basically explosion occur resulted in bad crops, people starving and get outraged then revolution happen
I thought the Daniel Radcliffes hair bit was just a joke to start the video. But no, I severely underestimated the power of HAI. I should've known better
1:40: cooling the air-ea down for a while lol 😂
Hey, let’s do a video on the year without summer... now what’s the most attenuated connection we can make for an intro?
Only the most attenuated content is good enough for HAI.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 That's what makes them great.
4:47 "and indirectly contributing to the use of the phrase 'Don'tcha know?'"
you didnt have to call my whole ancestral tree out like this fam
You betcha he sure called us out! Uff da!
me watching it from Antarctica: "And thats supposed to be weird??"
Bro, so ur saying that you’re one of the 2,000 people living in Antarctica?- omg
aCtUaLlY, there is often up to 14°C on the edge of Antarctica in the 'summer', and the rest of the continent has higher oveall temperatures than in winter as well.
@@vladipeace so you watched the new mapman video as well I see
Internet there is good enough for TH-cam?
You’re definitely not from Antarctica.
"Just like the simulations"
-Frostpunk players
YESSS a half as interesting video! I love your videos, as they inspired me to start my own channel!
"Exasturbated"
I don't even want to know what that would mean, were it not just a mistake. There's another one for the HAI yearly mistake video.
I came here looking for this comment.
I dunno buddy, pretty sure that wasn't a mistake
As a scientist I can confirm, we call that a buttload... and 1000 buttloads are scientifically referred to as a sh*tton.
Fun fact: A butt is an actual size of barrel, but a barrel is also a specific size
@@cashkromsupernerd1193 Extra fun fact: Another size of barrel is tun. So one can literally drink a butt-tun of booze. And then die, because that's a lot.
The amount of jokes made me sit down and drink some water. This was machinegun fire kelly but for jokes
Well, if you watched it on 1.5x, that outcome doesn't surprise me.
@@lonestarr1490 that is true, i liked the intensity though
I always have a source of water on standby whenever I watch HAI.
To be fair, it's a bit misleading to say there was no summer that year, as there were some days where it got as hot as 95F before plummeting to below freezing in a matter of hours.
That is the name of the even ppl called it the year without summer
That sounds like Nebraska winters
Anyone else see that he wrote “J. Cancelled. Rowling”? 😂😂
This. This is the comment I've been looking for
Half as Interesting and Geographics have synced their periods.
5:47 aahhh finally :D that's what I have been waiting for the whole videooo :D those are some beautiful bricks there in the background
I can't believe it! I just started a project on this very volcano, and then this video popped up in my recommended. Thank you so much.
The year without a summer. Sounds like the perfect year to me 👌🏻
The only thing i got from this is "grow food inside"
kids in 1816: teacher when can school be out
Teacher in 1816: oh as soon as summer comes
Dude all the doctored movie posters in this are hilarious and gloriously topical. All look like solid, polished pieces of artwork...just for couple-second gags. Nice work.
Extrovert: How was your day?
Depressed Introvert: 3:59
"but it turns out crops feel differently" killed me
I love these kinds of weird history videos, I wish there were more like them
Sam, this was one of your best scripts, Holy shit I honestly don't find most of your videos "hilarious" (but enjoyable), this video however really gave me a good laugh and made me continually smile. Keep up the great work!
this is the third vid I see about Tambora today, what's going on?!
Oh, I know this otherworldly phenomenon. It's called a topic based TH-cam video suggestion algorithm.
@@lonestarr1490 all the videos are from my sub box and were released today
@@davidlisovtsev6607 Oh, I see. Then it's a different otherworldly phenomenon, called coincidence. :P
But I'll give you that: If the Tambora erupts in the next two to three days, I might be inclined to admit that you were the first to have a bad feeling about this.
@@lonestarr1490luckily today tambora mostly non Active with little vulcanism and little Tremor activity as most of the magma is already unleashed in 1815 eruption. One thing that was not mentioned in the video is a kingdom in Tambora island is basically wiped out because the explosion. The only proof the kingdom exist is by inspecting any mention of it in neighbour kingdom old manuscript. because any literatur in the kingdom basically gone with the explosion
Foreshadowing ;)
I don't know how you released a video about Tambora literally the day after Simon the Fact Boi. I know that both of you had to have been planning your respective videos for weeks, but the synchronicity is just nuts.
i guess you could call him hairy potter
Man, the amount of references in the video was hilarious.
“A year without summer”
Otherwise known as Britain
I was about to say, cold and wet describes a typical English summer without any volcanoes. At least we might get some snow with the latter.
That last consequence reminds of how the Death of Franz Ferdinand directly led to anime.
This was genuinely amazing. A volcanic eruption is responsible for the invention of the bicycle. And Daniel Radcliffs hair in a movie. I am just... Wow. I don't know why I love this so much but I love it
My guy, west coast fires have little to nothing to do with global warming. It’s the fact that we’ve basically been not doing enough controlled burns or cutting down enough trees there, thereby allowing fuel to just keep accumulating and becoming a huge problem once a fire does inevitably start. It’s very similar to what happened a couple years ago in Beirut with that giant fertilizer explosion. No one decided to manage the fire hazard, so it decided to manage itself.
Lol, no way, we literally had 1815 in history today xd and all about the volcano and the aftermath containing starving people etc.
What a coincidence!
HAI guy is secretly your history teacher wearing a mask.
I literally just saw the pink t-shirt, pink background "confused" stock footage guy in the last video I watched. I hope he gets paid residuals.
OMG, the tying together of Daniel Radcliff's hair and cold is AMAZING!
Damnnnnn, that full circle is soooo satisfying
How long do you think he's been waiting to use the line about the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts?
People circa summer 2020: My favorite sport was canceled.
Great video! I love when videos come full circle at the end 😂😂🔥👌👏
Great episode! Really interesting and great humor. Loved the mamma Mia reference
good: Sam brings up Mythbusters
bad: I miss Grant Imahara
“As far south as northwestern Pennsylvania,” not that south
That was a hell of a segway into the ad. Almost gave me whiplash...
Best set up ever!!!
1:22
According to this, HaI assumes that we were all born in 1995-1996.
Like the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts' decision to reject the application of a young Austrian boy, the year without a summer had a number of unexpected consequences.
Bruh I had no idea about this channel , but this is one of the most entertaining commentator out there , I cant stop laughing
This one was epic. Your Best work. TY
This event actually changed fashion. From filmy, diaphanous gowns and breeches to quilted thick skirts, jackets, and long pants.
A later major eruption (along with bad decisions by the Kaiser) caused famines in Germany. So people left Germany for America, creating the farm belt of the Midwest.
The various versions of Daniel Radcliffe were glorious. My favorite role was as boyfriend in tween girls dreams
Absolute comedy gold from start to finish
"and the crops selfishly chose to die" lol😂
3:41 “exasterbated”
I've been scrolling just to see if someone else mentioned that! I really hope the word choice was intentional.
"This video was sponsored by Geographics."
I don't normally comment on stuff, but I feel I have to - holy hell, you truly outdid yourself on this one. It's great.
Even without the tangents, this is a really good example of butterfly effects!
The logic at the beginning reminds me of school
Teacher:”Today class we will learn about people put a stick and stone together 2000 years ago and this will help in the real world too get a job.”
Isn’t that every year?
2:41 Great reminder, well done. CheerZ!
You humor is on point this episode. Whoever wrote the script (wendover) should get a raise!
We need The Doctor to go back in time and stop Daniel Radcliffe from getting that haircut
Fixd points, some atrocities can't be prevented.
In Germany they called this: Achtzehnhundertunderfroren, which translates to 1800and frozen to death.
I love my native language.
I love the little alliteration in the middle, too. Hundertunder
How were the romans humilliated by the germanic tribes?
*Their language*
@@GuyNamedSean hundert: hundred und: and erfroren: Frozen to death
That segue into the opening was immaculate lmao
This video is an absolutely fine example of the butterfly effect. Who knew that such a thing as a Volcano going off could cause all that other larger more important stuff, like Daniel Radcliff's hairdo? Amazing!
Interesting. 1 view but 143 likes and 56 comments. Also, I think this video was supposed to be sponsored by Ting Mobile, but they eventually switched to Hover. You can see it in the captions.
You ting?
Anyone else just seen geographics's video about this
Sam: says John Green
My phone: new Vlogbrothers video!
3:11
Frieza: How gutless.
Crops: What? How is that gutless?
Frieza: Because, suicide is the coward's way out.
J. Cancelled Rowling. Nice touch.
I don’t get it. What’s the joke?
She was cancelled on twitter in a controversy regarding transgender people.
Weird how Biographics just put out a video about the same exact thing a couple of days ago....hmm
Probably HAIs best video yet
writing team killed it on this video!!! So funny