Whenever someone asks "Are they that smart?" I remember the Octopus in a zoo who would sneak out of its tank at night, go into another tank, eat some fish, then sneak back into its own tank before morning.
There is a YT channel you may be interested in, called 'Octolab TV'. They have all kinds of informative videos about octopus intelligence and behaviour. As for "Are they that smart?", IIRC they have been judged to have the same level of intelligence and problem solving skills as a seven year old human child.
Oh, extremely intelligent. There was another octopus that, for whatever reason, didn't like this woman that worked at the aquarium. Whenever she came close, it would shoot a jet of water at her. She went to work elsewhere and, years later, stopped by that aquarium, just for a visit. Now, it had been YEARS...but the instant she got near that tank, she got sprayed again. It remembered.
Oh yeah I sincerely believe octopuses could rule something (the sea, the world, not sure) if only they were capable of living longer. Like, octopuses can live up to 5 years, but if they breed they die immediately after, and at least in the wild it tends to only take one or two years before they do that. The idea of an octopus with a human lifespan terrifies me. They're already on the brink of abstract thought. If they had developed language, the world would be a very different place.
@@Hare_deLuneAs a linguist... language is not the same thing as communication. All animals are capable of communication. Hallmarks of language are being able to express abstract concepts and speak about the future and past, things that are not relevant to the moment you're in.
@@Datsnice97 I am looking forward to forest too when they actually like get it done and officially push it out. I keep hearing it's still fairly jankity
@@Smurffies I haven’t had to many issues, aside from the fact my laptops getting old so it has some running issues.. but I’m currently building a new gaming PC so once that’s finished it should be okay hopefully 😂
25:34 Deep Sea Gigantism is basically animals getting bigger because they need to conserve heat, also getting Bigger gives you the ability to travel more, and having more chances at getting food (food that is extremely hard to find on the deep ocean)
I spent 2 weeks on a small 120 year old wooden sail boat. 15 of us in total sailed across the North Sea from Scotland to Denmark. The sea is not what you think, there is nothing quite like being in the middle of the ocean, seeing nothing but sea in every direction, hearing nothing but the sails flapping and the waves sloshing against the bow. Then at night, after the best sunsets I’ve ever seen, it’s nothing but darkness. The only clue your at sea is the boat rocking in the waves. You’d be surprised how breathtaking the view of nothing is. And I can attest to the earth not being flat. Not something I shouldn’t have to say it, but you can see the curve when you look across the smooth sea. Anyway, even the excitement of sailing through a storm is not what most would think. We were hit by a mini rogue wave from the stern, sending us flying down the crest of the wave. It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever done. The sea is far from scary when you actually experience it, it’s the most calming environment you’ll ever be in.
@@issaderek1755 Yes you can! I went para sailing when I was younger and when I was up in the air behind the boat I was able to actually see a slight curve. It was weird and amazing. And it's something I will never forget. I would also highly recommend doing it yourself, it's a lot of fun!
@issaderek1755 No, but you can see it's effects and sometimes the slight curve at the horizon. But no, to see the actual curve you have to be at least 50k feet.
Hi Simon, experienced dive master here. Most of the best scuba (especially for new divers ) is in the fist 10-30 ft of water and is done in shallow reefs where you can easily see the bottom. These warmer top areas generally have the most bright and pretty stuff and small fish everywhere. I even have a photo of my dad doing a decompression stop at the end of a dive sitting at n the sea floor. So I highly suggest you give a dive experience a try one time! Also once you learn buoyancy control it’s the closest most of us will get to space
Yhea I'd definitely second that, one of the best experiences of my life was the first few times I went scuba diving in Turkey. It's stunning the feeling of swimming through the water, the views and I still remember the very first time I went in the sea and looking up at the surface in the bright sun and I couldn't get over how it looked really similar to how it looks from above as the water was so clear.
I don't want to be just close to space, as I am already just 100km away from space, so I want to go all the way, not some half measure, and I definitely don't want a space craft without gravity, so I will opt for a spin gravity space ship, zero G is boring, and a death sentence, over a long enough time.
Simon, go SCUBA diving? Have you heard the list of things Simon won't do or has some phobic fear of? You're better off waiting for aliens to fly over the US capital - oh wait - they did that over a 2 week period in 1957 and everyone just blew it off
Cuttlefish bones can also be used for metal casting, as they're relatively soft, but heat resistant. You cut them in half, then carve your desired item into them, with a pour channel, and secure it closed again. Then melt your metal (silver, bronze, brass. copper, etc) and pour it inside. When it cools, you open the cuttlefish bone again, remove the casting, and polish, cut off the pour channel and smooth the location of the cut. That's a very simplified description of the technique, but it works. Source: I'm an amateur silversmith.
I cant believe I got an Instacart ad right in the middle of your belch. It played as if that were its cue, & then I come back & you're still belching lol.
i went snorkeling as a kid and gazed into the depths at the drop off for a few moments and i haven’t been the same since, can’t even do lakes or small ponds
"Because I'm not going to use Google like a peasant." The rare usage of common contraction and the clipped enunciation somehow makes his quips even better. Love these channels!
Simon trying to come up with H.P. Lovecraft and what he named his cat was hilarious. Probably a good thing he didn't ask chatGPT or this video would get banned.
I learned the periodic table in 5th and 11th grades. I also learned a bunch of French history and the parts of the cell. Now that I’m 30 I don’t remember any of it (although I do remember Scylla and Charybdis because I’m a nerd)
Rofl 😆 Kudos for leaving the burp in and not editing it out or redoing that part 👌 Also, very well articulated with the deep water feeling. I've felt that before but failed to sensibly quantify it. Thankyou Simon.
I love the episodes kate writes! You should get her to do lots more!!! My favorite kraken appearance was in a commercial for auto insurance. The kraken appears in the water trap at a golf course during a championship and the commintors whisper about. My favorite commercial of recent years. Also I met Dr. Abbot,before he passed away who was quoted briefly in this episode, and it made me think what a small world!
I love to play your videos for my dog. Your voice sooths her anxiety when I'm out of the room. I watch too, I'm just saying she really enjoys your videos. Nothing else seems to calm her! :)
That would be great actually! The other day I watched a channel of a guy who let his wife play a game and let her figure it out on her own. His retelling of her experience was hilarious!
Ahh Simon, well written older stories are essentially poetry in their own way…. Count of Monte Cristo is a fantastic story!! It has a cadence, once you’ve unlocked the cadence you can fully appreciate it and will unlock so many other older tales. Poe was an absolute boss at understanding our internal need for cadence/predictability within the unpredictable and applied it to his tales. Think of it like a little drum beat on the story… so essentially a hidden little music soundtrack in the story. I’ll happily share what I’ve learned about this long lost skill, I’ve adapted it to many facets of my own life actually and it’s uncanny how well this ‘cadence’ of the past can even balance out day to day pace of life.
A friend of mine is scared of flying for the same reason. He says...25,000 feet up in the air and nothing holding you up there. And that belch in the middle of the poem was gold 😂
I think that, in some sense, hearing Simon talk makes me think faster. The amoun of words that we use in spanish and their lenght, and how much time they take to transmit something, its more than in english. And since Simon talks in english and REAALLY fast, I have not just to translate it in my mind (well, not actually, I can think in english too), but to think in a faster rythtm that I use to, in my daily life. Thanks you Simon! Who needs duolingo or that stuuff
I’ve been waiting this one for a while just because it was painful to watch every time Simon confused the kraken of Norse mythology with Cthulhu from Lovecraft’s work
As I said last time Simon mentioned his fear of deep water; The irrational fear of deep water is typically tied to a somewhat rational fear of large sea life.
Don't live near an ocean but I am near 2 lakes often referred to as inland seas (Michigan and Superior). I happen to love all water so none of this scares me, even when my kayak turned over in a large rogue wave on Superior (can't do Eskimo rolls so I had to do a partner rescue to get back in). The closest I have come to scuba diving was cage diving with great white sharks off the coast of South Africa. My head was 2 feet below the surface but it was my first time using a regulator. I loved it.
“Cuttlefish are the least intimidating” Play Mass Effect Simon. Sure the Reapers aren’t actually cuttlefish but they’re a terrifying threat that looks like them.
Colossal Squid + Whale Dongs + Pyrosomes + Whirlpools = Kraken. imo. 3:33 The ocean terrifies me. Snorkelling on an island off Bali when I was a kid, wasn't paying too much attention to where I was going watching a sailfish, and suddenly the water just became freezing, I looked down and I was on the edge of a sheer vertical drop into pitch black darkness with like bits of coral and other fish and creepy things along the edge of it. I turned, and swam fast as I could back to the shore and didn't go back in for the rest of the day and ever since then I have never gone beyond waist deep into the sea. Because that moment looking into the abyss terrified me. Never in my life have I ever been so scared. 4:33, try Subnautica, lovely nice little romp in a coral reef... until its not. Thalassophobia from a video game is a thing, apparently. 8:50 You're thinking of H.P. Lovecraft. He was indeed the r-word, guess what he named his black cat. Good horror writer though. He did write about the Kraken though, or at least one of the authors in the mythos did. But the legend predates him as you found out. 21:40 Simon getting upset at ChatGPT ghosting him is hilarious. (Truly a live example of people becoming too reliant on AI companions, lol.) 32:00 I love how the scientists are like "The Triassic Kraken is impossible!" while we barely know what is down in the deeps these days let alone in the ancient past, and only confirmed the existence of things like the colossal squid recently. While they may very well be right, it seems a bit like putting the cart before the horse to me lads.
Talking about deep water. I sailed with a captain a few years ago and he made the comment that he had only ever been 7 miles from land. But sometimes that land was straight down
In these older English language writings, cuttlefish is often synonymous with squid. They are actually squids, were one of the most fished cephalopods (cuttlefish being both more likely found in shallow near shore water than squids, and especially prized for the large ink sacks of sepia - rather than black or bluish black - ink relative to body size, and the cuttlebone which is useful to craftsmen for small castings or as a burnishing tool for some specialized uses.) Squid is also a more recent word than cuttlefish.
Simon, the Count of Monte Cristo is in the public domain you could do an audiobook for a TH-cam channel in parts and then you'll be doing what you do anyway and reading classic literature at the same time!
"WOULD YOU LIKE A NICE CUTTLEFISH POLLY!! POLLY PARROT!! HELLO POLLY! Thonk, thonk, thonk." 😂 That's all I can think of when i hear someone say cuttlefish.😂 "Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage." 😂
Being Danish I really appreciated that you put “Søtrolden (soe-trolden)” on the screen, cuz I hadn’t the slightest idea what you were saying, but seeing it spelled out I could easily read it (old norse is still relatively readable for us even today) - Conversely it frustrated me that you didn’t display any of the other Norse words you butchered on the screen as they were complete gibberish to my ears. I do believe I caught the syllable “hav” in one, and since that means “ocean” I’m going to assume I’m right about that. 😊 But otherwise, loved this tale! Love when factboy sheds his daily persona to become the alter ego: Lorelad!
Cuttlebones have numerous benefits for parakeets and other birds. Gnawing on them keeps their beaks sharp and gives them something to play with. They're also a great source of dietary calcium. I have to agree with Simon about writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. So wordy, for so little (yet dramatic) effect. I remember those Civil War letters from soldiers on the front, highlighted in Ken Burns' documentary series. The elucidations from common farm boys in 1863 put to shame anything I, a 20th century college graduate, could put together today. The 1981 "Clash of the Titans" was one of Ray Harryhausen's last films and it's brilliant. The 2010 remake? Not so much.
I loved this episode so much 😂 Seemed like Simon was just having a freaking day and possibly a progressive mental breakdown as it went on and I’m here for it. Also, Simon, feel like I should explain the parakeet thing for you… parakeets and other commonly domesticated parrot species are given cuttlebones in their cage as a source of calcium. They like biting the cuttlebones for some reason, and it’s basically concentrated calcium, which is important to maintain their bone health and prevent the females from “egg binding” where they basically die from the egg laying version of constipation because the shell doesn’t have enough calcium and is therefore too flimsy to actually be laid so it just gets stuck
Lovecraft created a lot of things but he didn't create the kraken. Also Lovecraft was extremely racist even by the standards of early 20th century North East US. Though i do like that you used Cthulhu artwork which Lovecraft did absolutely invent (technically not really since his whole shtick was basically impossible imagery that hurts to look at). Cuttlebones are a favored source of calcium for birds, snales, reptiles, and fish as they're porous enough to not damage the beaks or teeth of anything chewing on them and are apparently easy to source.
Thank you Katie for the Danny Devito measurements. 😇 Also, this epsidode had me laughing so hard, between the burp, Simon struggling multiple times on words and names, and him getting mad at himself for mispronouncing Kraken... I was dying 😅
Funny looking racist? Are you talking about H.P. Lovecraft? If so, yes he was very racist. And he didn't write about the Kraken he wrote about Cthulhu.
Simon, I have two budgies and they get cuttlefish bones. If I've been correctly informed it has something to do with helping to keep their beaks trimmed and provides a good source of calcium for females of egg laying condition
Simon, you and I have the _exact_ same fear of deep water. Like, it legit freaks me out, and for the same reasons as you. The biggest irony is that I'm an excellent swimmer - used to be on the county team and everything 😂
I listen on Spotify while I'm doing sewing projects. I had to stop, come over to TH-cam, just so I could comment. THE BELCH WAS PERFECT AND COULDN'T HAVE BEEN PLANNED BETTER. I busted up laughing and stabbed myself with a seam ripper in the process. Simon you are amazing.
Clash of the Titans is an older stop-action movie of the hero Perseus as he battles Medusa and the Kraken to save Andromeda. It's an awesome movie that brings the story to life.
Also lmfao at Simon pronouncing Charybdis four different ways in a row 😭 love how Whistle Boy manages to bring extra dimensions of entertainment to a much-rehashed topic 😚👌
Whenever someone asks "Are they that smart?" I remember the Octopus in a zoo who would sneak out of its tank at night, go into another tank, eat some fish, then sneak back into its own tank before morning.
There is a YT channel you may be interested in, called 'Octolab TV'.
They have all kinds of informative videos about octopus intelligence and behaviour.
As for "Are they that smart?", IIRC they have been judged to have the same level of intelligence and problem solving skills as a seven year old human child.
Oh, extremely intelligent. There was another octopus that, for whatever reason, didn't like this woman that worked at the aquarium. Whenever she came close, it would shoot a jet of water at her. She went to work elsewhere and, years later, stopped by that aquarium, just for a visit. Now, it had been YEARS...but the instant she got near that tank, she got sprayed again. It remembered.
Oh yeah I sincerely believe octopuses could rule something (the sea, the world, not sure) if only they were capable of living longer. Like, octopuses can live up to 5 years, but if they breed they die immediately after, and at least in the wild it tends to only take one or two years before they do that.
The idea of an octopus with a human lifespan terrifies me. They're already on the brink of abstract thought. If they had developed language, the world would be a very different place.
@@trishapellis
They do have language.
They communicate through their skin colours and textures.
@@Hare_deLuneAs a linguist... language is not the same thing as communication. All animals are capable of communication. Hallmarks of language are being able to express abstract concepts and speak about the future and past, things that are not relevant to the moment you're in.
Budgeh owner here. Cuttlefish bones are good for small birds as sources of calcium and for helping keep beaks trimmed :)
Also help with producing shells for there eggs
Came here to say this. back when I had a Budgie I always kept a cuttlefish bone in his cage. I think picking at it was also a sort of therapy for her.
You've got a budgeh, I fucking love budgehs...
They are good for turtles too!
Budgeh! Lol😂
Simons turbulent romance with ChatGPT is one of my favorite parts of the whistlerverse
that is the thing i hate the most in his tangents
I fear the day when ChatGPT is chucked to the basement.
For me it's the use of Danny DeVito as a measurement 👍
DougDoug
😂😂😂😂😂
Simon bringing up Stranded Deep while Im playing it and listening to this podcast almost made me question reality.
Cthulhu f'tagn! Ia, ia!
It's a fun and cool game but the UI is so bad though. I had to give up on it.
i was playing the forest 2 and i was like, " oh Sh@t, another survival game for me to play".
@@Datsnice97 I am looking forward to forest too when they actually like get it done and officially push it out. I keep hearing it's still fairly jankity
@@Smurffies I haven’t had to many issues, aside from the fact my laptops getting old so it has some running issues.. but I’m currently building a new gaming PC so once that’s finished it should be okay hopefully 😂
As a former sailor I am LOVING these maritime Decoding the Unknown episodes. More please!
“Boats are big and not food” thank you Simon for that clarification
Ah yes, I too, always appreciate when we can gleam such *insightful* wisdom from his cold reads
Shipworms and metal eating bacteria beg to differ
That sounds suspiciously anti-orca. Are you a part of Big Boat™️
Learning Stuff with Fact Boi
Fish are friends, not food! (Allegedly)
"The kraken awakes"
Simon: "BRRRRPPP"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"pardon me, for that was rude. it was not me, it was my food. It just popped up to say hello, but now it's gone back down below... with the Kraken..."
No surprise the poor creature woke up. With a burp like that 😮. 😂
Yea…I thought he was imitating a kraken at first
I listened to this on podcast, but I had to check out the video to see what that was :o
25:34 Deep Sea Gigantism is basically animals getting bigger because they need to conserve heat, also getting Bigger gives you the ability to travel more, and having more chances at getting food (food that is extremely hard to find on the deep ocean)
It's also the result of deep water being more oxygen rich, which promotes growth.
I spent 2 weeks on a small 120 year old wooden sail boat. 15 of us in total sailed across the North Sea from Scotland to Denmark. The sea is not what you think, there is nothing quite like being in the middle of the ocean, seeing nothing but sea in every direction, hearing nothing but the sails flapping and the waves sloshing against the bow. Then at night, after the best sunsets I’ve ever seen, it’s nothing but darkness. The only clue your at sea is the boat rocking in the waves. You’d be surprised how breathtaking the view of nothing is. And I can attest to the earth not being flat. Not something I shouldn’t have to say it, but you can see the curve when you look across the smooth sea. Anyway, even the excitement of sailing through a storm is not what most would think. We were hit by a mini rogue wave from the stern, sending us flying down the crest of the wave. It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever done. The sea is far from scary when you actually experience it, it’s the most calming environment you’ll ever be in.
This kind of experience is a bucket list item for me.
You can not see a curve while at sea.
@@issaderek1755 Yes you can!
I went para sailing when I was younger and when I was up in the air behind the boat I was able to actually see a slight curve.
It was weird and amazing. And it's something I will never forget. I would also highly recommend doing it yourself, it's a lot of fun!
@@issaderek1755Oh, and I've watched a lot of boats sail away and slowly sink into the horizon.
@issaderek1755 No, but you can see it's effects and sometimes the slight curve at the horizon. But no, to see the actual curve you have to be at least 50k feet.
I appreciate that even though Simon doesn’t have comedic timing, his digestion system does. 🤣
He sounded like the cockatoos squabbling & squaking outside my bedroom window first thing in the morning.
I always thought that it was a long A, too.
It made me chuckle (:
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 Australian or Malaysian detected.
I left Spotify and came to TH-cam just so I could comment the same thing lol
Hi Simon, experienced dive master here. Most of the best scuba (especially for new divers ) is in the fist 10-30 ft of water and is done in shallow reefs where you can easily see the bottom. These warmer top areas generally have the most bright and pretty stuff and small fish everywhere.
I even have a photo of my dad doing a decompression stop at the end of a dive sitting at n the sea floor. So I highly suggest you give a dive experience a try one time!
Also once you learn buoyancy control it’s the closest most of us will get to space
Yhea I'd definitely second that, one of the best experiences of my life was the first few times I went scuba diving in Turkey. It's stunning the feeling of swimming through the water, the views and I still remember the very first time I went in the sea and looking up at the surface in the bright sun and I couldn't get over how it looked really similar to how it looks from above as the water was so clear.
I don't want to be just close to space, as I am already just 100km away from space, so I want to go all the way, not some half measure, and I definitely don't want a space craft without gravity, so I will opt for a spin gravity space ship, zero G is boring, and a death sentence, over a long enough time.
@@atlanciaza
Speak the king's English!
Simon, go SCUBA diving? Have you heard the list of things Simon won't do or has some phobic fear of? You're better off waiting for aliens to fly over the US capital - oh wait - they did that over a 2 week period in 1957 and everyone just blew it off
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#NotMyKing
Cuttlefish bones can also be used for metal casting, as they're relatively soft, but heat resistant. You cut them in half, then carve your desired item into them, with a pour channel, and secure it closed again. Then melt your metal (silver, bronze, brass. copper, etc) and pour it inside. When it cools, you open the cuttlefish bone again, remove the casting, and polish, cut off the pour channel and smooth the location of the cut. That's a very simplified description of the technique, but it works. Source: I'm an amateur silversmith.
How cool! :D
"Boats are big, and not food." whistle boy at his finest.
I cant believe I got an Instacart ad right in the middle of your belch. It played as if that were its cue, & then I come back & you're still belching lol.
3:33 100% agree with you, Simon, about deep water! It's almost like vertigo!
Me too! Just can't do it!
Lol I came here to say the same thing.. it's like my deepest subconscious is screaming at me that I DO NOT BELONG HERE when I stare into deep water.
i went snorkeling as a kid and gazed into the depths at the drop off for a few moments and i haven’t been the same since, can’t even do lakes or small ponds
Yah same!! I don't even like looking out to the ocean while underneath the water on the shore!!
Thalassophobia gang lol
"Boats are big and not food"
Thank God Simon is here to remind us not to eat boats.
"Because I'm not going to use Google like a peasant." The rare usage of common contraction and the clipped enunciation somehow makes his quips even better. Love these channels!
Simon trying to come up with H.P. Lovecraft and what he named his cat was hilarious. Probably a good thing he didn't ask chatGPT or this video would get banned.
Chatgpt wouldn't say it, thats what all those racists were upset about.
I missed it, what is its name?
@@Itsthatoneguy371The N word
@@TheLegPumpkin oh ! Not sure why that would be “hilarious” , maybe they meant hideous? Thanks for letting me know!
@@Madmij You really believe in censorship? Are you really such a massive snowflake that a word offends you so much?
For thousands of years mankind has asked the question, "Whats Kraken?"
🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦 That’s bad, even for a Dad Joke.
Everybody always asks "What's Kraken" but nobody asks "How's Kraken" 😔
No one asks what’s kraken lackin?
@@monetflores8481 to be fair no-one asks what's Kraken packing either but that's a bit nsfw 😂
Deez ... 😎💀
The game your thinking of is stranded deep, it's one of my favorite survival games
stranded deep in your mom
Same here
i was searching for this! ty. i wonder if it's on mobile?
I thought it was Subnautica.
@@darklighter66 you don't crash a plane in subnautica
Scylla and Charybdis is a well known literary reference. I remember it from 7th grade, when we read Homer.
I remember it from a vintage Police song
I remember them because Scylla is a top mid laner and i got diamond skin on Charybdis
I remember them from Percy Jackson
I wouldn't take things written by the dad from Simpsons very seriously. Surprised he even knows how to write.
I learned the periodic table in 5th and 11th grades. I also learned a bunch of French history and the parts of the cell. Now that I’m 30 I don’t remember any of it (although I do remember Scylla and Charybdis because I’m a nerd)
i went into this thinking, "as long as you don't mistake the kraken with cthulhu again" and then, yeah, he did exactly that, again
Simon might make a mistake every now and then but he's still my "Lovecraft's cat" 😅
Cthulhu sure is tight!
What is the c word you speak of
@@Scott-t6g huh?
Rofl 😆 Kudos for leaving the burp in and not editing it out or redoing that part 👌 Also, very well articulated with the deep water feeling. I've felt that before but failed to sensibly quantify it. Thankyou Simon.
Clash of the Titans, the one by Ray Harryhausen. Is a retelling of the Perseus myths of Greek mythology.
True, but the monster was never called a kraken in the original telling. Just a sea monster.
I love the episodes kate writes! You should get her to do lots more!!! My favorite kraken appearance was in a commercial for auto insurance. The kraken appears in the water trap at a golf course during a championship and the commintors whisper about. My favorite commercial of recent years. Also I met Dr. Abbot,before he passed away who was quoted briefly in this episode, and it made me think what a small world!
That's EXACTLY how I feel about open water. Finally, someone that relates.
Yeah, me too. Everyone always thought I was weird for it because I’m a good swimmer 😂
About time Simon took a Kraken at this! 😂😂
Simon, haven't you heard the euphemism that your "dogs are barking" when your feet are sore?
I love to play your videos for my dog. Your voice sooths her anxiety when I'm out of the room.
I watch too, I'm just saying she really enjoys your videos. Nothing else seems to calm her! :)
“12 Danny DeVitos end to end.” Brought me so much joy.
I sort of want Simon to do a gaming channel now. I know he doesn't really play games but that's what would make it so great
I'm in
He definitely hasn't started a new channel lately
He played Papers Please on brain blaze and it was epic 😎
That would be great actually! The other day I watched a channel of a guy who let his wife play a game and let her figure it out on her own. His retelling of her experience was hilarious!
Papers please
This episode of Decoding is a little "blazey"😂...and I'm here for it
Ahh Simon, well written older stories are essentially poetry in their own way…. Count of Monte Cristo is a fantastic story!! It has a cadence, once you’ve unlocked the cadence you can fully appreciate it and will unlock so many other older tales. Poe was an absolute boss at understanding our internal need for cadence/predictability within the unpredictable and applied it to his tales. Think of it like a little drum beat on the story… so essentially a hidden little music soundtrack in the story. I’ll happily share what I’ve learned about this long lost skill, I’ve adapted it to many facets of my own life actually and it’s uncanny how well this ‘cadence’ of the past can even balance out day to day pace of life.
Great story but way too much superfluous information. The abridged version is much better.
Colossal Squid, just my guess. Let's gooooo!
A friend of mine is scared of flying for the same reason. He says...25,000 feet up in the air and nothing holding you up there.
And that belch in the middle of the poem was gold 😂
...ironically watching this in my Seattle Kraken jersey. Appreciate the shout out lol
That's Kraken hockey baby. From Tacoma very happy to finally get a NHL team
I think that, in some sense, hearing Simon talk makes me think faster. The amoun of words that we use in spanish and their lenght, and how much time they take to transmit something, its more than in english. And since Simon talks in english and REAALLY fast, I have not just to translate it in my mind (well, not actually, I can think in english too), but to think in a faster rythtm that I use to, in my daily life. Thanks you Simon! Who needs duolingo or that stuuff
Let's crack on!
🤣 Ba-Dum-Tiss! 🥁
Boooooo!!!
Simon, I'm proud of you. More than a dozen times I've told you how easy it is to look up pronunciations. Well done.
I’ve been waiting this one for a while just because it was painful to watch every time Simon confused the kraken of Norse mythology with Cthulhu from Lovecraft’s work
Well done on the Kraken impression right there in the beginning
As I said last time Simon mentioned his fear of deep water;
The irrational fear of deep water is typically tied to a somewhat rational fear of large sea life.
Yup. Once you enter the water, you are no longer at the top of the food chain. Like, almost *everything* swims better than you.
And drowning. 😅
Yes, mine is the fact that I can't get oxygen from water either fresh or salted.
@@aneasteregg8171 You can drown in a bowl of cheerios. But Great White Sharks and Killer Whales only exist in deep water.
Not really irrational, they are there
Seen 100’s of hours of your content, this episode is top 10
Don't live near an ocean but I am near 2 lakes often referred to as inland seas (Michigan and Superior). I happen to love all water so none of this scares me, even when my kayak turned over in a large rogue wave on Superior (can't do Eskimo rolls so I had to do a partner rescue to get back in). The closest I have come to scuba diving was cage diving with great white sharks off the coast of South Africa. My head was 2 feet below the surface but it was my first time using a regulator. I loved it.
As a lifetime resident of Ontario I have never heard anyone use the words inland sea, makes sense but never heard it.
Excellent episode, well done Katie - and Simon in great form! Hilarious
My four year old is obsessed with Krakens. This is crucial background info to provide him
Dinosaurs just aren't cool enough nowadays.
I love your child being so interested in this. It’s adorable and my inner nerd/geek/Ravenclaw/Aspie is loudly cheering him on 😍
Stranded Deep, awesome game.
Stranded deep in your mom
My guy Simon plays stranded deep?? Respect.
"I don't want to read/watch this because it's too much work"
Simon is my spirit animal
Stranded deep. Awesome game 😁🙏🏻
Simon is a fan of the Stranded Deep videogame. A man of taste.
“Cuttlefish are the least intimidating”
Play Mass Effect Simon. Sure the Reapers aren’t actually cuttlefish but they’re a terrifying threat that looks like them.
Horizon Zero Dawn's Horus too.
And the Ceph from Crysis!
If The Kraken is hiding the energetic white powder in its bottom does that mean it's krakens crack crack
Colossal Squid + Whale Dongs + Pyrosomes + Whirlpools = Kraken. imo.
3:33 The ocean terrifies me. Snorkelling on an island off Bali when I was a kid, wasn't paying too much attention to where I was going watching a sailfish, and suddenly the water just became freezing, I looked down and I was on the edge of a sheer vertical drop into pitch black darkness with like bits of coral and other fish and creepy things along the edge of it. I turned, and swam fast as I could back to the shore and didn't go back in for the rest of the day and ever since then I have never gone beyond waist deep into the sea. Because that moment looking into the abyss terrified me. Never in my life have I ever been so scared.
4:33, try Subnautica, lovely nice little romp in a coral reef... until its not. Thalassophobia from a video game is a thing, apparently.
8:50 You're thinking of H.P. Lovecraft. He was indeed the r-word, guess what he named his black cat. Good horror writer though. He did write about the Kraken though, or at least one of the authors in the mythos did. But the legend predates him as you found out.
21:40 Simon getting upset at ChatGPT ghosting him is hilarious. (Truly a live example of people becoming too reliant on AI companions, lol.)
32:00 I love how the scientists are like "The Triassic Kraken is impossible!" while we barely know what is down in the deeps these days let alone in the ancient past, and only confirmed the existence of things like the colossal squid recently. While they may very well be right, it seems a bit like putting the cart before the horse to me lads.
Norwegian fjords are terrifying places too - within 10 meters of leaving the shore line the seabed just drops away completely
Talking about deep water. I sailed with a captain a few years ago and he made the comment that he had only ever been 7 miles from land. But sometimes that land was straight down
What's straight down?
Omg that burp was AWESOME.
Thank you Simon 😂
In these older English language writings, cuttlefish is often synonymous with squid. They are actually squids, were one of the most fished cephalopods (cuttlefish being both more likely found in shallow near shore water than squids, and especially prized for the large ink sacks of sepia - rather than black or bluish black - ink relative to body size, and the cuttlebone which is useful to craftsmen for small castings or as a burnishing tool for some specialized uses.)
Squid is also a more recent word than cuttlefish.
It would be appreciated if editors could put up the name of the species and a picture of the fossil when Simon is butchering the name of it 😆
That would be good.
And when he says Mark Mc Menana me whatever
Simon used to appear intelligent and polished. Now he appeals to tweens with no attention span. I understand but so bloody disappointed in this.
This paleontology talk is good food. Please keep it up! 🙏 (Not just because I enjoy it but to see Simon struggle 😂)
Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA!
G'day from WoopWopp Australia AKA the middle of nowhere.
Simon, the Count of Monte Cristo is in the public domain you could do an audiobook for a TH-cam channel in parts and then you'll be doing what you do anyway and reading classic literature at the same time!
Krack on Squid Boy 🦑
(I'll show myself out)
“Between Scylla and Charybdis”, is a line from Police’s ‘wrapped around your finger’ and I’m so glad that I now know what it means.
"WOULD YOU LIKE A NICE CUTTLEFISH POLLY!! POLLY PARROT!! HELLO POLLY! Thonk, thonk, thonk." 😂
That's all I can think of when i hear someone say cuttlefish.😂
"Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage." 😂
The Dead Parrot Sketch is one of the best Monty Python monologues.
The plumage doesn't enter into it!
A+ video!
Awesome writing and intriguing topic!
"Boats are big.... and not food." - Learnin' stuff with fact boi
I got nervous has hell, being a Seattle Kraken fan. Glad that Simon decided to release the Kraken.
Go, Seattle Kraken! Oh, wait, it's not about NHL hockey teams. Nuts.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Crazy timing. Just rewatched Dead Man's Chest yesterday.
Let’s Go!
Being Danish I really appreciated that you put “Søtrolden (soe-trolden)” on the screen, cuz I hadn’t the slightest idea what you were saying, but seeing it spelled out I could easily read it (old norse is still relatively readable for us even today) -
Conversely it frustrated me that you didn’t display any of the other Norse words you butchered on the screen as they were complete gibberish to my ears.
I do believe I caught the syllable “hav” in one, and since that means “ocean” I’m going to assume I’m right about that. 😊
But otherwise, loved this tale!
Love when factboy sheds his daily persona to become the alter ego: Lorelad!
Crack in to a cracking kraken episode
😂 Ba-Dum-Tis! 🥁
Good craic
Video editing always good, but on POINT on this one
Lovecraft did have a cat with an interesting name, but it's claimed his parents named it
What about Shub-N****urath?
@@DarkYuy forgot about him 😂
Cthulhu. As allegedly seen in the movie, "Underwater."
Finally I've been waiting for Simon to make a video about the Kraken
Omg the burp KILLED me Ded
He sounded like the cockatoos squabbling & squaking outside my bedroom window first thing in the morning.
Cuttlebones have numerous benefits for parakeets and other birds. Gnawing on them keeps their beaks sharp and gives them something to play with. They're also a great source of dietary calcium.
I have to agree with Simon about writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. So wordy, for so little (yet dramatic) effect. I remember those Civil War letters from soldiers on the front, highlighted in Ken Burns' documentary series. The elucidations from common farm boys in 1863 put to shame anything I, a 20th century college graduate, could put together today.
The 1981 "Clash of the Titans" was one of Ray Harryhausen's last films and it's brilliant. The 2010 remake? Not so much.
Simon, 4:00 it sounds like you're describing Stranded Deep.
I wonder if it Raft survival. That was pretty recent
@@silgid7450 I haven't played Raft, but I know the start of Stranded Deep involved a plane crash.
Simon running out of patience with the ye old timey quotes is always hilarious
Its the Colossal Squid's even larger cousin, The Big Ass Squid!
I loved this episode so much 😂
Seemed like Simon was just having a freaking day and possibly a progressive mental breakdown as it went on and I’m here for it.
Also, Simon, feel like I should explain the parakeet thing for you… parakeets and other commonly domesticated parrot species are given cuttlebones in their cage as a source of calcium. They like biting the cuttlebones for some reason, and it’s basically concentrated calcium, which is important to maintain their bone health and prevent the females from “egg binding” where they basically die from the egg laying version of constipation because the shell doesn’t have enough calcium and is therefore too flimsy to actually be laid so it just gets stuck
Spoiler, it's me
Wasn't expecting that comment and it made me giggle
the game you are describing seems like one of my favourites, Simon, its called stranded deep
Krak on fact boy
🐙
😂 Ba-Dum-Tis! 🥁
I really appreciated the mid video break as Simon just shops for Cuttlefish bones for that parakeet he surely has. 🤣
Lovecraft created a lot of things but he didn't create the kraken. Also Lovecraft was extremely racist even by the standards of early 20th century North East US.
Though i do like that you used Cthulhu artwork which Lovecraft did absolutely invent (technically not really since his whole shtick was basically impossible imagery that hurts to look at).
Cuttlebones are a favored source of calcium for birds, snales, reptiles, and fish as they're porous enough to not damage the beaks or teeth of anything chewing on them and are apparently easy to source.
Thank you Katie for the Danny Devito measurements. 😇 Also, this epsidode had me laughing so hard, between the burp, Simon struggling multiple times on words and names, and him getting mad at himself for mispronouncing Kraken... I was dying 😅
Funny looking racist? Are you talking about H.P. Lovecraft? If so, yes he was very racist. And he didn't write about the Kraken he wrote about Cthulhu.
Well he's not wrong Lovecraft was funny looking & a racist.
Excited for a Kraken good time!
I loved the Kraken in the Pirates of the Caribbean; it was the most visually impressive representation I've ever seen 😊
Simon, I have two budgies and they get cuttlefish bones. If I've been correctly informed it has something to do with helping to keep their beaks trimmed and provides a good source of calcium for females of egg laying condition
Simon, you and I have the _exact_ same fear of deep water. Like, it legit freaks me out, and for the same reasons as you.
The biggest irony is that I'm an excellent swimmer - used to be on the county team and everything 😂
Sounds like you were playing Stranded Deep, you might also enjoy Escape the Pacific. You would also probably be terrified of a game called Subnautica.
I like that people thought the kraken was real but thought the duck pilled platypus was fake because it was just too weird.
Loving that RuneScape background music.
you are on form, great episode!
I listen on Spotify while I'm doing sewing projects. I had to stop, come over to TH-cam, just so I could comment. THE BELCH WAS PERFECT AND COULDN'T HAVE BEEN PLANNED BETTER. I busted up laughing and stabbed myself with a seam ripper in the process. Simon you are amazing.
Clash of the Titans is an older stop-action movie of the hero Perseus as he battles Medusa and the Kraken to save Andromeda. It's an awesome movie that brings the story to life.
I'm totally with you Simon!!! I cannot stand to be on the open ocean for that exact reason. The ocean actually creeps me out. And I'm from Hawaii...
Also lmfao at Simon pronouncing Charybdis four different ways in a row 😭 love how Whistle Boy manages to bring extra dimensions of entertainment to a much-rehashed topic 😚👌
Long time listener and a great fan.
I still hope you get the time to cover what happend to Estonia(ship).