Simon: "Kevin, shorten these intros or savage beatings will ensue!!!" Also Simon: "Let me diverge onto this 8 minute tangent about concerts and recreational drug use and how that's not really what I'm into."
@@thejudgmentalcat At least they can grow some mushrooms on his corpse. Kevin will be able to stave off malnutrition a little while longer thanks to Danny's sacrifice.
You left out certified badass and legend, Dr. Brian May entirely?! I thought I’d hear it as an honorable mention, at least. Brian “Astrophysicist” May, one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and member of one of the greatest bands ever, Queen! Really fellas?!
My favorite celebrity with a Phd will always be Greg Graffin, lead singer of Bad Religion. He has a Phd in zoology and specializes in evolutionary biology. I always thought that this gives much more context to a band with that name.
@@ThatWriterKevin bad move Kevin you should have kept away now i have a direct line. Youearned a thumbs down for the channel, first time I've done that. Your shoddy research and content for the video angers the gods. Fake PhDs are you kidding. Do better research. It's well known gwar are a bunch of geniuses and Dr. Michael Bishop is a real PhD. Try again only get it right!
@@Jezus42 I never said fake PhDs. I have to check the script to see whether I made a typo or if Simon misread it, but I absolutely was trying to say that we were not counting honorary degrees.
@@ThatWriterKevin don't listen to this guy, he himself has a fake PhD he bought online, probably looks like Comic book guy from the Simpsons, plays magic, and actually listens to gwar
Bowser (from sha na na) has a juris doctorate as well. He's a practicing lawyer and has a TH-cam channel too. I went to uni with Ashley Judd. We were both on air "talent" at the college radio station.
Watching Simon try to put together American sports info in his head based off of a few scraps of ideas he’s heard in passing is hilarious “Is it nc double a ? NBA I know is basketball, wait baseball?” Hahahaha I love it
Yeah that had me laughing too. The writers should start leaving little nuggets of sport related 'Rant bait' in the scripts just for the humor it provides 😂
@@mrgreen3956 I would for sure, kevin loves toying with Simon too, Danny sometimes does it probably as a rebellion for being enslaved in a dark basement.. I feel like kevin is in some lab studying simon on a psychological level and each episode is an experiment at least it’s fun to imagine it that way😂
The musical astrophysicist to whom you refer is Dr Brian Harold May, PhD, CBE, ARCS and *the* indisputably greatest guitarist (who *built* his own guitar with his fathers help when he was a teenager) of the greatest band in the known universe!!!
While I'm arguably not exactly a fan... Nor was I particularly fond of concerts either, I'm definitely NOT sorry for having twice gone to see Queen... Many bands and musicians didn't and don't make a concert so very much different from just a live album recital... BUT Queen was an experience! They deliberately played a little different Live than for the studios and albums, and Mercury once explained it, "Why would anyone pay more money to go listen to a song they've already got on album??? We have to change it a bit to be worth that money, the waiting, the drive... just to see us in concert." Only a few bands ever really did that... BUT it's what arguably still makes Queen THE best ever... Even if I don't quite fit the bill as a "fan"... haha ;o)
@@TitularHeroine I'm a much more hard-core metal fan... I'll mosh with just about anybody, and Manowar and AC/DC can blare any time of day or night as far as I'm concerned... Don't get me wrong. I can appreciate Queen, and all... BUT if you've ever spent much time with a "True blue, dyed in the wool" type of Freddie Mercury fan, you'd understand why I suggest that I'm not quite a Fanatic, myself... I can even appreciate some country, and Johnny Cash was most frequently great in his time... BUT that doesn't mean I'm going to be out two-steppin' any time soon either... Some songs are great, regardless of their genre... Others are just more album filler... That's how I see it, anyway. You don't have to be a fan to appreciate it for what it is... AND Mercury was great, quantifiably so... BUT there are just days when Queen can come on the radio/TV/etc... and I'm just like... oh god... not today... ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Ah, I see. Totally relatable. (It's kinda funny too that whenever $#!+ like this comes up, the phrase is ALWAYS "even some country..." Country fans seem to be only country, while listeners with broad range always take the piss out of it) 😂
@@TitularHeroine Well as far back as the Johnny Cash show there's been at least a pseudo-rivalry between country and rock genres... Though Cash is both in the Country AND in the Rock n Roll halls of fame... haha Some of his antics back in the day poking fun at Elvis (specifically and spectacularly) are still hilarious... if you care to hunt the clips... SO being a die hard metal-head, I can still enjoy whatever else if it suits me. It's all opinionated anyways, and I can live with that... Just because I grew up on the likes of Haggar, Cheap Trick, and even as far as the Blue Oyster Cult doesn't mean I can't get what an experience is when it's Queen or ELO... Great shows are still pretty great shows. BUT yeah, some Country fans are almost insufferable... just like some Mercury fans... Maybe every fandom has a few of those. In any case, every genre manages something redeemable at least, and downright great once in a while. ;o)
Fun Fact: Brian Johnson of AC/DC served as a paratrooper in the royal army during his term of national service in the 1970's and when the first gulf war was on the horizon the band were actually concerned that they may have to cancel the tour for The Razors Edge because they thought he might be called back to active service.
I'm 50. I have a PhD. I'll never own a house. I'm lucky I can afford to rent a room in a house. I wanted to be a professor, but was told I didn't have enough experience. Conversely, most employers told me I had too much education. It's quite frustrating. Of course, my specialty is Buddhism and Hinduism; so, yeah, I'm aware I got a financially useless degree.
Kevin, you missed a huge one. But, I almost get it Dr. Graffin. Most commonly known as as Greg Graffin from 80s punk fame as the creator and singer of the band Bad Religion. Featured in iconic video game franchise's.
Kevin, double down! Next introduction should be twice as long! Let him squirm! Remember that Danny tried to appease Simon, and now who even knows what happened to him.
6:25 Simon, Simon. You need to read Wikipedia entries in their entirety. Brian Cox was a member of D:Ream who had a U.K. number 1 with “things can only get better”. Not a mega band but most people will know the song
I was surprised Brian May didn't come up, who I assume is who Simon was talking about at the start. A Dr of astrophysics on top of being in Queen, he merged both when he wrote the song '39 about special relativity distorting the perception of time of space travellers.
I'm with Simon. Concerts are fine, but I don't enjoy the experience much. Generally you can't hear well because of the crowd, everything is so expensive, and sometimes the songs are actually pretty different from the cd/radio version that you love. I do have to say that the Blue Man Group do put on a great show! Even if you don't like concerts, definitely go see them if you get a chance.
Simon alluded to Brian May of Queen in the beginning, but I didn't hear him mentioned in the body of the video. I might've walked out of the room for a moment at that point.
3:15, "Because it happened to me" was the justification given to me by an Afghani soldier when I asked him why he was perpetuating the rape/sodomy of boys every week, when "Man-Love Thursday" rolled around. Sickening.
Going to need a big allegedly on that “ I’m not an aggressive person” Simon. ETA- missing, presumed dead Callum-missing Danny-missing, last known to be locked in a basement Kevin- openly threatened with violent beatings Sounds slightly aggressive to me
@@jimcappa6815 Didn't he name the lamp "Charles" or something too? It was a throwaway comment, but if that room suddenly goes dark.... New theory: Whistle Boy finally started to crack when the SW neon sign burnt out, and has been anthropomorphizing his office decor because if they have human names, they must be sentient, therefore suitable victims for his bloody vengeance..... Good God I am a frikkin dork. 😄😅😂 Never mind.😂
Simon must have been living in a closet somewhere. Everyone knows Professor Brian Cox played keyboards with D:Ream - you know, Things Can Only Get Better!!!
Anyone British at this point has realised the reason Simon keeps his writes in the basement is that he was raised in a basement and assumes that's how you look after people you love. I mean I'm about the same age and certainly wasn't the life of the party as a kid, but he appears to be so lacking in basic British pop culture knowledge I can only assume he was raised in a cave somewhere.
I'm betting the all knowing, glorious ETA rescued Danny. And soon, they will save Sam, and end the villainous rule of Simon. Long live ETA! May his life force penetrate us, and fill us with his warm, all knowing knowledge of the universe!
I appreciate that Simon spent a good three minutes grappling with the amount of debt Americans have to go into to get a degree. I'm currently trying to get into the grad school for physical therapy, and that will potentially cost me 130k for three years. But that's not including my undergrad loans (34k), plus the two years of other classes I have to take before I can even apply for school (this year is looking like 20k alone because I no longer qualify for government assistance since I have graduated with a degree already).
07:30 I didn't exactly keep notes or anything, but I'm pretty sure the reason the introduction was this long was not Kevin... 😅 I think I heard of Weller (never heard of that band before), but Shaq came out of nowhere.
I love that Simon uses his second camera angle to talk into directly and not as "artistic flare". I prefer to have people delivering news or educational information speak directly to camera. It feels impersonal when the angle switches to a side view but the narrator/presenter is still speaking directly into the camera that's straight ahead. THANK YOU, Simon, for doing it right!
In Canada you get your loan forgiven 15 years after starting repayment. I guess they figure if you can't pay it off by then why bother trying to get more money from you. I get to have the fun of going to court with my medical info to have them forgiven because I ended up with a disability right after I got my degree. I just have to have a judge look at everything then rule on whether or not it's realistic to try and pry money from me.
I didn’t even manage to complete my degree due to my complex disabilities. I have never earned enough to make a single payment. It gets written off 30 years after you start repayment here usually? So I guess another 2 decades and it won’t exist anymore for me.
@@terryenby2304 Why can't you do like Nat and take it to court. You just might get a sympathetic judge. Or not even sympathetic, just a logical judge. Is that a possibility?
I used my higher degree (USA) for several years before I became disabled. It’s taken a decade or more to jump through all the hoops I have to to get my student loan forgiven. The government has finally accepted that I’m permanently disabled. And yet there’s still another three years probation somehow. 😞
I received an honorary certification in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Specialist after having participated in a civilian cruise on a guided missile destroyer my brother was an officer aboard. My dog got a certification too (but a higher rank, because in the military and police, dogs always outrank their handlers). We are not _actual_ US Navy surface warfare specialists 😆 Edit* side note: Peter Weller presented a _really_ interesting series about ancient engineering projects like the pyramids and Teotihuacan called "Engineering an Empire" that can be found here on TH-cam.
Amen!! Shorten the bloody introduction mate! 7:33 before the actual content started. I know just randomly forward to about the 6 minute mark in any Simon video and usually don’t miss anything.
A friend of mine is a drummer, and he said the biggest secret about musicians is that they are in generally nerds.... As you have to be a bit of the same type of person who likes logic and repeating something again and again and again for years on end. So not that surprised that a lot of musicians also have academic careers.
I know a guy who was at Woodstock that morning, he said when Sha-na-na came on ever on was like, “what the hell is happening?” But then it ended and they saw a legend.
At my university a popular English professor was an ex-football player (American football). He didn’t get super famous as a player but he had his back up plan.
Danny: Ok Kevin, so when Simon whinges about the length of the intro, it's ok, just toss in some interesting personal anecdotes and crack on. Oh and through in some hard sentences. Kevin: Thanks. Danny. That'll get the episode rolling. - 30 days later - Simon: Thanks for the script Kevin [5 min side rant] right what are we talkin' about? [Launch into first paragraph] Oh! This is going to get us demonetised! [More side ranting] - 10 minutes later - Oh my God, it was this/that/something... I AM SO LOST!
Dr. Robert Leonard was also in Sha Na Na and also sang on stage, he did Teen Angel, an expert in Linguistics he founded and teaches the first advanced program of Forensic Linguistics in the US at Hofstra.
Regarding that tangent about not caring for concerts and the whole scene, Simon... I'm arguably similar... BUT there have been (and are still) a few exceptions worthy of note. Most musicians, both solo artists and groups do concerts very much the same, and it's an old hat to go to a "Live Album Recital"... Sure, it's okay if you're really into a given band or singer, whatever... BUT for many of us, it's a financial question about WHY I'd willingly pay more for a ticket to hear/see a one-time show that's exactly like the album I just bought at a tenth of the cost... However, certain bands don't just blindly cover their original works in so many syllables. Queen was INFAMOUS for messing around on the stage and giving a completely different experience LIVE than you could ever get out of an album. Freddie Mercury (RIP) even explained that he wanted to make the tickets WORTH going after, even when you already had all the songs on album, so that was deliberate... NOT to mention that there's something completely experiencial about seeing him storming around the stage with half a microphone stand flailing around in his hands... It was truly an experience I'm glad to have gotten to see, and I kind of regret not going more, though I simply couldn't afford to... Manowar, while metal as f***, are one of few American Bands who could even travel to Europe and find a following in the day... Yet, they translated one of their songs to German, and I got to be in the stands in Italy, when they barely started playing, and the ENTIRE CROWD immediately broke into song FOR THEM... Let that sink in just a bit... An American Singer standing there with the microphone held out to an Italian crowd all singing a song IN GERMAN... rather than sing, himself... Things like that don't happen when you sit at home and listen to speakers or headphones... Electric Light Orchestra, Stevie Ray Vaughan (who had Hendrix's Waa-Waa Pedal), Van Halen's famous Volcanic guitar solos, and Metalica's ability to cluster millions of audience members to the utter shut-down of Moscow's traffic are just a few situations that I think even you could understand and enjoy as the mind-boggling talents and skills that they were/are... to name a few. It might not be my usual cup of tea, admittedly... BUT I can certainly find the enjoyment when a concert reaches potentials as a SHOW over just an album recital... I've honestly been privileged to witness a few moments in music history, and even mildly lament that younger/newer audiences might not get to enjoy them as I had when I was younger... ;o)
And I should add. Robocop was my Histroy Professor at Syracuse University. Peter Weller has a PhD in History. Awesome guy and very helpful and of course "dead or alive, youre coming with me" was always his favorite line when my class mates didnt realize who he was. LOL.
Whenever I see these lists I'm always hoping to see Bad Religion's lead singer Greg Graffin mentioned for his PhD in zoology, but then I remember that the band isn't such a huge deal outside of the punk music scene. I guess at least Dexter Holland got a mention.
Have a topic that could hit close to your heart simon: most expensive labour stoppages. I heard the most recent NBA lockout (basketball) costed TV carriers almost 3 billion in lost revenue.
About to listen. Klitschko brothers mentioned? Both former heavyweight champion boxers, both have PhDs, and their ring nicknames were a play on them having PhDs. Dr. Steelhammer and Dr. Ironfist. Vitali Klitschko is currently the mayor of Kiev and Wlad Klitschko is currently serving in the Ukraine military.
Yes Simon - actually Professor Brian Cox was the keyboard player in 2 bands. First was rock band Dare...check out their song "We Don't Need A Reason". Second was pop outfit D:Ream who had that big hit *Things Can Only Get Better* (which IIRC the Labour Party used during their 1997 election campaign). The super-famous one you were thinking of is Dr Brian May - guitarist with Queen. He's the one with the PhD in Astrophysics.
Not a doctorate, but near enough in time commitment and cost: Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden has an airline transport pilot license, and has flown some pretty high-profile refugee evacuations/troops returning home from Afghanistan, and, of course, takes his turn as Captain flying the band's plane on their world tours.
@10:50 - It's worth noting that Shaq was among a shocking minority of athletes who thought ahead at the time, as I heard roughly 60-70% of US NCAA basketball and NFL football players went broke within 3 years of retiring. And sadly, it's not just athletes, as a majority of lottery winners usually end up worse off than they were before as well.
MA in Philosophy here.... Some would argue that "Practical Philosophy" would cover fields like Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics... Maybe not engineering, but applicable, I would say?
Lundgren has a masters in chemical engineering. he had a fullbright scholorship to MIT to get his doctorate, but dropped out to focus on his acting career.
"Hey Kevin/Danny, your [tangent] introductions [tangent] are [tangent] too [yet another tangent] frikkin' [lengthy rambling tangent] long! [Oh look, it's another tangent]"
Simon went off to find out about Brian Cox's band and didn't come back singing 'Things can only get better'. I didn't need to hear him saying the wrong band name to know he'd been looking at the wrong wikipedia page. He might have been in Dare too, but it would have been his time in D:Ream that would have rung the bells for someone of Simon's age.
cox was also in the band D;ream, they had a hit with "things can only get better" and "you`re the best thing", they would probably be the best known songs
NBA star John Stockton famously couldn't believe he was in the NBA and "knew" it wouldn't be long before the team figured out he shouldn't be there. So, he got a cheap apartment and lived off his per diem allowance for his first two seasons, banking his entire pay check.
I love Ben Folds too! Seen him a few times and he's always amazing! I even went to an outdoor show, in Florida in summer which is rainy season, the day after I broke my ankle. I knew it'd probably ruin my cast but it was worth it! Was right up front at a small indoor venue that was standing only. And with an orchestra at a performing arts center. Talk about someone that has variety and really knows music. He's great at promoting arts funding for schools too.
19:45 I had a high school teacher who taught both Multicultural Studies and AP Psychology - when it comes to "real world philosophizing", this dude was the genuine article. I swear, this dude has done IT ALL, and through all of his travels had likely circled the entire Earth 3 or 4 times. If there's anyone who would fit that bill, it'd be him. From my rough memory of what he told us, after having graduated from the same high school that we were at, way back in the 70s or so, he then decided to go to California where he ended up, through a chain of events, becoming a key witness in the FBI breaking a massive pyramid scheme (he even had to go in protective custody because there were threats against his life). To get away from all of that, he decided to then move to INDIA to become a Buddhist Monk in a monastery up in the Himalayas, where he stayed for a few years until, one day, the Indian government decided they didn't want foreigners there for one reason or another, and were forcefully evicted by the Indian military. He then decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, then go to Mecca, tour around Europe, before moving back to the United States and working as doctor in a *mental asylum*, where he met some genuinely INSANE individuals. After all of that, he decided to move back to his home town, and teach at the same high school he graduated from. We could tell that he wasn't bullshitting, as he had souvenirs of his various sojourns on display in his classroom; he had his Buddhist monk robes on a mannequin in the corner, an authentic Muslim prayer rug that he bought in Mecca hung on one wall, a (genuine) Ojibwe dreamcatcher hung up by the white board, a little figurine of the Buddha on his desk, and photo albums of his travels. He retired a year before I graduated, and said that he would be chronicling his life's journey in a book; if I recall correctly, it's titled something akin to, _"The Incredible Adventures of an American Monk"_ , written by Don Daniels.
No, we all love the long intros Simon! Your pain is an important part of the experience Also: yeah Stargate SG-1 is my third favorite show after Black Mirror and Sherlock. It's so good. Star Trek TNG/DS-9/Voyager are great too, but there's something about the lower budget that made for better characters.
OMG!!! As a kid in South Africa, I remember loving the Sha Na Na TV show! I can actually hear the end song in my head right now! Some of it at least. 'Good night sweetheart, it's time to go'......
Ya but we all can't have 12+ TH-cam channels now can we :-) Always so much fun to watch, and as always thanks to you & all the team for ALL the hard work.
After being berated for writing a long intro, Kevin watches in stunned awe as Simon goes on an unscripted 20 minute rant.
And that's what really makes the intros so long.
Simon deserves a Doctorate of Tangents.
One rule for Simon, another for the peons.
Just adds to the dynamic
@@SiiriCressey "It's good to be the King.:
A 20 minute rant about a show that went off the air 15 years ago and his personal dislike of music festivals.
Simon: "Kevin, shorten these intros or savage beatings will ensue!!!"
Also Simon: "Let me diverge onto this 8 minute tangent about concerts and recreational drug use and how that's not really what I'm into."
Kevin has been writing here for enough episodes in a row that I'm starting to think Danny died months ago and Simon has run out of scripts.
I think he beat Danny a little too much after the spelling error in the previous video script
Danny's decomposed corpse is still in a corner of the Blazement and the other writers have to step over him to get to the bathroom bucket
Simon beat him to hard lol
@@thejudgmentalcat At least they can grow some mushrooms on his corpse. Kevin will be able to stave off malnutrition a little while longer thanks to Danny's sacrifice.
@@thejudgmentalcat blazement 🤣. Good one
The long intros are hilarious, for both the fact that they're actually funny, and how mad it makes Simon. Please keep it up
I actually really only watch this channel because of the introductions.
Brian May from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics. NCAA is the national collegiate athletic association in the United States.
Brian May's PhD is on dust iirc :) well dust and astrophisics and he wrote it over YEARS AND YEARS what a legend :)
Pete Townshend (the Who) pretty much invented the guitar tech. And I think he help develop mods and tech for guitar amplifiers.
Brian May is also a published Astrophysicist so I don't think you can call it a wasted degree.... Lol
A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud by Brian Harold May you can get a pdf if you want
@@logansmall5148 his disertation got published, i have seen the hardcover.....
I'm loving having the second "tangent cam", the two angles works so well as you go between the script and your thoughts. Please keep this going.
It's like the implementation of a theatrical aside.
Thanks :)
Brian May from Queen has a doctorate in astrophysics, and often appears in the pages of Astronomy Magazine. He also runs a hedgehog sanctuary.
You left out certified badass and legend, Dr. Brian May entirely?! I thought I’d hear it as an honorable mention, at least. Brian “Astrophysicist” May, one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and member of one of the greatest bands ever, Queen! Really fellas?!
I know! I can't believe he was left out.
My favorite celebrity with a Phd will always be Greg Graffin, lead singer of Bad Religion. He has a Phd in zoology and specializes in evolutionary biology. I always thought that this gives much more context to a band with that name.
I'm a huge fan of long intros. Go Kevin go!
It wasn't even that long, Tangent Boi just made it like 8 times longer!
@@ThatWriterKevin bad move Kevin you should have kept away now i have a direct line. Youearned a thumbs down for the channel, first time I've done that. Your shoddy research and content for the video angers the gods. Fake PhDs are you kidding. Do better research. It's well known gwar are a bunch of geniuses and Dr. Michael Bishop is a real PhD. Try again only get it right!
@@ThatWriterKevin 🤡
@@Jezus42 I never said fake PhDs. I have to check the script to see whether I made a typo or if Simon misread it, but I absolutely was trying to say that we were not counting honorary degrees.
@@ThatWriterKevin don't listen to this guy, he himself has a fake PhD he bought online, probably looks like Comic book guy from the Simpsons, plays magic, and actually listens to gwar
Bowser (from sha na na) has a juris doctorate as well. He's a practicing lawyer and has a TH-cam channel too.
I went to uni with Ashley Judd. We were both on air "talent" at the college radio station.
I’m not even 90 seconds in and Sam has already managed to crack me up. Kudos.
Watching Simon try to put together American sports info in his head based off of a few scraps of ideas he’s heard in passing is hilarious
“Is it nc double a ? NBA I know is basketball, wait baseball?” Hahahaha I love it
Yeah that had me laughing too. The writers should start leaving little nuggets of sport related 'Rant bait' in the scripts just for the humor it provides 😂
@@mrgreen3956 I would for sure, kevin loves toying with Simon too, Danny sometimes does it probably as a rebellion for being enslaved in a dark basement.. I feel like kevin is in some lab studying simon on a psychological level and each episode is an experiment
at least it’s fun to imagine it that way😂
@@thegnosticalien And now I do too lmao
The musical astrophysicist to whom you refer is Dr Brian Harold May, PhD, CBE, ARCS and *the* indisputably greatest guitarist (who *built* his own guitar with his fathers help when he was a teenager) of the greatest band in the known universe!!!
While I'm arguably not exactly a fan... Nor was I particularly fond of concerts either, I'm definitely NOT sorry for having twice gone to see Queen... Many bands and musicians didn't and don't make a concert so very much different from just a live album recital... BUT Queen was an experience!
They deliberately played a little different Live than for the studios and albums, and Mercury once explained it, "Why would anyone pay more money to go listen to a song they've already got on album??? We have to change it a bit to be worth that money, the waiting, the drive... just to see us in concert."
Only a few bands ever really did that... BUT it's what arguably still makes Queen THE best ever... Even if I don't quite fit the bill as a "fan"... haha ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 If you like them and so genuinely appreciate their showmanship, what is it that makes you say "not a fan"?
@@TitularHeroine I'm a much more hard-core metal fan... I'll mosh with just about anybody, and Manowar and AC/DC can blare any time of day or night as far as I'm concerned...
Don't get me wrong. I can appreciate Queen, and all... BUT if you've ever spent much time with a "True blue, dyed in the wool" type of Freddie Mercury fan, you'd understand why I suggest that I'm not quite a Fanatic, myself... I can even appreciate some country, and Johnny Cash was most frequently great in his time... BUT that doesn't mean I'm going to be out two-steppin' any time soon either... Some songs are great, regardless of their genre... Others are just more album filler...
That's how I see it, anyway. You don't have to be a fan to appreciate it for what it is... AND Mercury was great, quantifiably so...
BUT there are just days when Queen can come on the radio/TV/etc... and I'm just like... oh god... not today... ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Ah, I see. Totally relatable.
(It's kinda funny too that whenever $#!+ like this comes up, the phrase is ALWAYS "even some country..." Country fans seem to be only country, while listeners with broad range always take the piss out of it) 😂
@@TitularHeroine Well as far back as the Johnny Cash show there's been at least a pseudo-rivalry between country and rock genres...
Though Cash is both in the Country AND in the Rock n Roll halls of fame... haha
Some of his antics back in the day poking fun at Elvis (specifically and spectacularly) are still hilarious... if you care to hunt the clips...
SO being a die hard metal-head, I can still enjoy whatever else if it suits me. It's all opinionated anyways, and I can live with that... Just because I grew up on the likes of Haggar, Cheap Trick, and even as far as the Blue Oyster Cult doesn't mean I can't get what an experience is when it's Queen or ELO... Great shows are still pretty great shows.
BUT yeah, some Country fans are almost insufferable... just like some Mercury fans... Maybe every fandom has a few of those.
In any case, every genre manages something redeemable at least, and downright great once in a while. ;o)
Sha Na Na was an interesting choice for Woodstock. At one time they had their own TV show and, also, they appeared in the musical film Grease.
Fun Fact:
Brian Johnson of AC/DC served as a paratrooper in the royal army during his term of national service in the 1970's and when the first gulf war was on the horizon the band were actually concerned that they may have to cancel the tour for The Razors Edge because they thought he might be called back to active service.
Kevin: I have massive student debts!
Simon: Speak for yourself Kevin!
I'm 50. I have a PhD. I'll never own a house. I'm lucky I can afford to rent a room in a house. I wanted to be a professor, but was told I didn't have enough experience. Conversely, most employers told me I had too much education. It's quite frustrating. Of course, my specialty is Buddhism and Hinduism; so, yeah, I'm aware I got a financially useless degree.
I passed the 8th grade, quit the 9th. I make 70k a year own my house and all my vehicles. Work harder, cry less
Kevin, you missed a huge one. But, I almost get it Dr. Graffin. Most commonly known as as Greg Graffin from 80s punk fame as the creator and singer of the band Bad Religion. Featured in iconic video game franchise's.
Kevin, double down! Next introduction should be twice as long! Let him squirm! Remember that Danny tried to appease Simon, and now who even knows what happened to him.
I concur, make Simon sweat Kevin!
Danny went on vacation like the Germans did in 1939-1945 according to Family Guy. No history of doing anything else. 🤷
Sam is the last remaining consistent member of the Simonverse. Let's pray he can keep his good health in the basement
Simon: Kevin! Shorter intros!
Kevin: Double the intros.
6:25 Simon, Simon. You need to read Wikipedia entries in their entirety. Brian Cox was a member of D:Ream who had a U.K. number 1 with “things can only get better”. Not a mega band but most people will know the song
8:45 - Chapter 1 - Professor Kazaam (PhD)
13:40 - Chapter 2 - Shalom na na
20:55 - Chapter 3 - Dr Robocop
- Chapter 4 -
- Chapter 5 -
- Chapter 6 -
I just love seeing Simon try to wrap his head around some of the less savory aspects of life in the US. Legend. 🤣
I was surprised Brian May didn't come up, who I assume is who Simon was talking about at the start. A Dr of astrophysics on top of being in Queen, he merged both when he wrote the song '39 about special relativity distorting the perception of time of space travellers.
Right off the bat, Whistle boy does not know Brian May has a PhD. Brian was also involved in the New Horizons project to Pluto.
I'm with Simon. Concerts are fine, but I don't enjoy the experience much. Generally you can't hear well because of the crowd, everything is so expensive, and sometimes the songs are actually pretty different from the cd/radio version that you love.
I do have to say that the Blue Man Group do put on a great show! Even if you don't like concerts, definitely go see them if you get a chance.
Brian Cox's band with the number 1 was called D:ream, not Dare. Song was called "Things can only get better!"
Simon alluded to Brian May of Queen in the beginning, but I didn't hear him mentioned in the body of the video. I might've walked out of the room for a moment at that point.
The ending where he thanks Danny for no reason just reinforces the idea in my mind that Simon murdered Danny
after hearing his student loans amount, Simon needs to give Kevin a raise
3:15, "Because it happened to me" was the justification given to me by an Afghani soldier when I asked him why he was perpetuating the rape/sodomy of boys every week, when "Man-Love Thursday" rolled around. Sickening.
Going to need a big allegedly on that “ I’m not an aggressive person” Simon.
ETA- missing, presumed dead
Callum-missing
Danny-missing, last known to be locked in a basement
Kevin- openly threatened with violent beatings
Sounds slightly aggressive to me
ETA was never alive. Prove me wrong.
I don't recall having seen Peter lately either....
@@TitularHeroine you’re right! Add one more to his body count
@@jimcappa6815 Didn't he name the lamp "Charles" or something too? It was a throwaway comment, but if that room suddenly goes dark....
New theory: Whistle Boy finally started to crack when the SW neon sign burnt out, and has been anthropomorphizing his office decor because if they have human names, they must be sentient, therefore suitable victims for his bloody vengeance.....
Good God I am a frikkin dork. 😄😅😂
Never mind.😂
Brian May guitarist for Queen has a PhD in astrophysics
Simon, the man who knows so much and so little all at the same time 😊
Brian May is a Astrophysicist. Guitar player for Queen.
Simon must have been living in a closet somewhere. Everyone knows Professor Brian Cox played keyboards with D:Ream - you know, Things Can Only Get Better!!!
Anyone British at this point has realised the reason Simon keeps his writes in the basement is that he was raised in a basement and assumes that's how you look after people you love.
I mean I'm about the same age and certainly wasn't the life of the party as a kid, but he appears to be so lacking in basic British pop culture knowledge I can only assume he was raised in a cave somewhere.
Howard Jones had a hit in the UK with a song called 'things can only get better ' mid 80"s, was it the same song? I'm curious 🎵🎧🎵
@@valeriekatz9450 No, they are completely different. Both are on YT.
"I dont really like being close to people", the real reason Simon is the god of youtube
Has Danny escaped the basement? Been a while since we heard from him.
He is sharing a bed with ETA, if I were to hazard a guess...
Last I heard someone (zips lips) was beating him with a router
I'm betting the all knowing, glorious ETA rescued Danny. And soon, they will save Sam, and end the villainous rule of Simon.
Long live ETA! May his life force penetrate us, and fill us with his warm, all knowing knowledge of the universe!
Brian May, the guitarist from Queen is the Astrophysicist. Brian Cox was in D:Ream.
I appreciate that Simon spent a good three minutes grappling with the amount of debt Americans have to go into to get a degree. I'm currently trying to get into the grad school for physical therapy, and that will potentially cost me 130k for three years. But that's not including my undergrad loans (34k), plus the two years of other classes I have to take before I can even apply for school (this year is looking like 20k alone because I no longer qualify for government assistance since I have graduated with a degree already).
Holy shit! 😮
07:30 I didn't exactly keep notes or anything, but I'm pretty sure the reason the introduction was this long was not Kevin... 😅
I think I heard of Weller (never heard of that band before), but Shaq came out of nowhere.
Simon, correction: Part of the fun of Brain Blaze is watching you be more "you" than on your other more serious channels. Tangent away! 👍
"Just make loads of money!" How have I never thought of that? The answer was right in front of me the whole time! So simple! Lmao. I love you Simon.
I love that Simon uses his second camera angle to talk into directly and not as "artistic flare". I prefer to have people delivering news or educational information speak directly to camera. It feels impersonal when the angle switches to a side view but the narrator/presenter is still speaking directly into the camera that's straight ahead. THANK YOU, Simon, for doing it right!
In Canada you get your loan forgiven 15 years after starting repayment. I guess they figure if you can't pay it off by then why bother trying to get more money from you. I get to have the fun of going to court with my medical info to have them forgiven because I ended up with a disability right after I got my degree. I just have to have a judge look at everything then rule on whether or not it's realistic to try and pry money from me.
I didn’t even manage to complete my degree due to my complex disabilities. I have never earned enough to make a single payment. It gets written off 30 years after you start repayment here usually? So I guess another 2 decades and it won’t exist anymore for me.
@@terryenby2304 Why can't you do like Nat and take it to court. You just might get a sympathetic judge. Or not even sympathetic, just a logical judge. Is that a possibility?
I used my higher degree (USA) for several years before I became disabled. It’s taken a decade or more to jump through all the hoops I have to to get my student loan forgiven. The government has finally accepted that I’m permanently disabled. And yet there’s still another three years probation somehow. 😞
@@kerriganm I am so sorry. I wish the USA was kinder about disability in general. Canada is also a mess but there are some good things.
Similar in the U.K. at some point. I believe in the US student loans can be written off but then they are liable for tax instead
I received an honorary certification in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Specialist after having participated in a civilian cruise on a guided missile destroyer my brother was an officer aboard.
My dog got a certification too (but a higher rank, because in the military and police, dogs always outrank their handlers).
We are not _actual_ US Navy surface warfare specialists 😆
Edit* side note: Peter Weller presented a _really_ interesting series about ancient engineering projects like the pyramids and Teotihuacan called "Engineering an Empire" that can be found here on TH-cam.
Amen!! Shorten the bloody introduction mate! 7:33 before the actual content started. I know just randomly forward to about the 6 minute mark in any Simon video and usually don’t miss anything.
Kevin's intro about student loans hit me where it hurts 😖
A friend of mine is a drummer, and he said the biggest secret about musicians is that they are in generally nerds.... As you have to be a bit of the same type of person who likes logic and repeating something again and again and again for years on end. So not that surprised that a lot of musicians also have academic careers.
I know a guy who was at Woodstock that morning, he said when Sha-na-na came on ever on was like, “what the hell is happening?” But then it ended and they saw a legend.
The timing of this with the top US political news today (about loan forgiveness) is incredible.
At my university a popular English professor was an ex-football player (American football). He didn’t get super famous as a player but he had his back up plan.
Brian May, CBE, PhD, FRAS is a founding member of Queen
Danny: Ok Kevin, so when Simon whinges about the length of the intro, it's ok, just toss in some interesting personal anecdotes and crack on. Oh and through in some hard sentences.
Kevin: Thanks. Danny. That'll get the episode rolling.
- 30 days later -
Simon: Thanks for the script Kevin [5 min side rant] right what are we talkin' about? [Launch into first paragraph] Oh! This is going to get us demonetised! [More side ranting]
- 10 minutes later -
Oh my God, it was this/that/something... I AM SO LOST!
it´s so nice to have introductions again, pleas keep them!
I would absolutely watch Simon do a weekly news rundown
Have you killed Danny off? Kevin has definitely earned his place in the Blazement
I think Danny escaped the basement and Simon is trying to cover it up
Dr. Robert Leonard was also in Sha Na Na and also sang on stage, he did Teen Angel, an expert in Linguistics he founded and teaches the first advanced program of Forensic Linguistics in the US at Hofstra.
Dr. Brian May, guitarist in Queen, astrophysics
You're thinking of Brian May of Queen.
The singer of Bad Religion has a PhD as well.
Regarding that tangent about not caring for concerts and the whole scene, Simon... I'm arguably similar... BUT there have been (and are still) a few exceptions worthy of note. Most musicians, both solo artists and groups do concerts very much the same, and it's an old hat to go to a "Live Album Recital"... Sure, it's okay if you're really into a given band or singer, whatever... BUT for many of us, it's a financial question about WHY I'd willingly pay more for a ticket to hear/see a one-time show that's exactly like the album I just bought at a tenth of the cost...
However, certain bands don't just blindly cover their original works in so many syllables. Queen was INFAMOUS for messing around on the stage and giving a completely different experience LIVE than you could ever get out of an album. Freddie Mercury (RIP) even explained that he wanted to make the tickets WORTH going after, even when you already had all the songs on album, so that was deliberate... NOT to mention that there's something completely experiencial about seeing him storming around the stage with half a microphone stand flailing around in his hands... It was truly an experience I'm glad to have gotten to see, and I kind of regret not going more, though I simply couldn't afford to...
Manowar, while metal as f***, are one of few American Bands who could even travel to Europe and find a following in the day... Yet, they translated one of their songs to German, and I got to be in the stands in Italy, when they barely started playing, and the ENTIRE CROWD immediately broke into song FOR THEM... Let that sink in just a bit... An American Singer standing there with the microphone held out to an Italian crowd all singing a song IN GERMAN... rather than sing, himself...
Things like that don't happen when you sit at home and listen to speakers or headphones...
Electric Light Orchestra, Stevie Ray Vaughan (who had Hendrix's Waa-Waa Pedal), Van Halen's famous Volcanic guitar solos, and Metalica's ability to cluster millions of audience members to the utter shut-down of Moscow's traffic are just a few situations that I think even you could understand and enjoy as the mind-boggling talents and skills that they were/are... to name a few.
It might not be my usual cup of tea, admittedly... BUT I can certainly find the enjoyment when a concert reaches potentials as a SHOW over just an album recital... I've honestly been privileged to witness a few moments in music history, and even mildly lament that younger/newer audiences might not get to enjoy them as I had when I was younger... ;o)
And I should add. Robocop was my Histroy Professor at Syracuse University. Peter Weller has a PhD in History. Awesome guy and very helpful and of course "dead or alive, youre coming with me" was always his favorite line when my class mates didnt realize who he was. LOL.
Brian May from Queen is who you were thinking of that is an astrophyicist.
Simon reads a sentence. Five-minute tangent follows. Simon reads a sentence. Five-minute tangent follows. And that is why I LOVE to watch this 😄❤ x
And Brian Cox was in D-Ream, famous for "things can only get better"
Peter Wingfield, who is most well known for his supporting role as Methos on the 90's TV series Highlander, is now an anesthesiologist.
Whenever I see these lists I'm always hoping to see Bad Religion's lead singer Greg Graffin mentioned for his PhD in zoology, but then I remember that the band isn't such a huge deal outside of the punk music scene.
I guess at least Dexter Holland got a mention.
Have a topic that could hit close to your heart simon: most expensive labour stoppages. I heard the most recent NBA lockout (basketball) costed TV carriers almost 3 billion in lost revenue.
This needs to happen
Too Businessy for BRAIN Blaze 😂
About to listen.
Klitschko brothers mentioned? Both former heavyweight champion boxers, both have PhDs, and their ring nicknames were a play on them having PhDs. Dr. Steelhammer and Dr. Ironfist.
Vitali Klitschko is currently the mayor of Kiev and Wlad Klitschko is currently serving in the Ukraine military.
Yes Simon - actually Professor Brian Cox was the keyboard player in 2 bands. First was rock band Dare...check out their song "We Don't Need A Reason". Second was pop outfit D:Ream who had that big hit *Things Can Only Get Better* (which IIRC the Labour Party used during their 1997 election campaign).
The super-famous one you were thinking of is Dr Brian May - guitarist with Queen. He's the one with the PhD in Astrophysics.
I'm a diehard metal head and love seeing my favourite bands... I just wish I didn't have to do it in a room full of people I don't know.
I feel you. Sometimes, just for a moment, the crowd feels like a big group of friends.
Brian Cox was in D.Ream, he was on top of the pops a few weeks back
"I don't really like live music. It's too loud and I don't like being close to other people."
I feel that sir.
Simon, the rock star you are speaking of is Brian May of Queen
Not a doctorate, but near enough in time commitment and cost: Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden has an airline transport pilot license, and has flown some pretty high-profile refugee evacuations/troops returning home from Afghanistan, and, of course, takes his turn as Captain flying the band's plane on their world tours.
Sam, great editing on this one!
That cold open 😅
Simon most of us watch for the intros and the aggravation you get from their length :p
Lords of entertainment, thank you for blessing us with Simon tangents.
@10:50 - It's worth noting that Shaq was among a shocking minority of athletes who thought ahead at the time, as I heard roughly 60-70% of US NCAA basketball and NFL football players went broke within 3 years of retiring. And sadly, it's not just athletes, as a majority of lottery winners usually end up worse off than they were before as well.
MA in Philosophy here.... Some would argue that "Practical Philosophy" would cover fields like Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics... Maybe not engineering, but applicable, I would say?
Doesn't Dolph Lundgren (aka Ivan Drago from Rocky IV) have a degree in chemistry?
That sounds accurate. There's a LOT of people for this topic
Lundgren has a masters in chemical engineering. he had a fullbright scholorship to MIT to get his doctorate, but dropped out to focus on his acting career.
Sha Na Na were even on TV in the 70s. I think they lasted longer than they even expected.
Yeah, they had one of those awful variety type shows that were big in the 70's.
"Hey Kevin/Danny, your [tangent] introductions [tangent] are [tangent] too [yet another tangent] frikkin' [lengthy rambling tangent] long! [Oh look, it's another tangent]"
Simon went off to find out about Brian Cox's band and didn't come back singing 'Things can only get better'. I didn't need to hear him saying the wrong band name to know he'd been looking at the wrong wikipedia page. He might have been in Dare too, but it would have been his time in D:Ream that would have rung the bells for someone of Simon's age.
A PhD in religious studies, learning who has the most horrific made up friends
22:33 that was RoboCop?!!? Bloody hell
cox was also in the band D;ream, they had a hit with "things can only get better" and "you`re the best thing", they would probably be the best known songs
NBA star John Stockton famously couldn't believe he was in the NBA and "knew" it wouldn't be long before the team figured out he shouldn't be there. So, he got a cheap apartment and lived off his per diem allowance for his first two seasons, banking his entire pay check.
Would love to see a reaction video on Simon watching the final edit Sam does of these episodes. Like how did he react to being outed as a lizard?
Simon reacting to Simon.... reacting to Simon.... Inception in the Whistlerverse.
I love Ben Folds too! Seen him a few times and he's always amazing! I even went to an outdoor show, in Florida in summer which is rainy season, the day after I broke my ankle. I knew it'd probably ruin my cast but it was worth it! Was right up front at a small indoor venue that was standing only. And with an orchestra at a performing arts center. Talk about someone that has variety and really knows music. He's great at promoting arts funding for schools too.
19:45 I had a high school teacher who taught both Multicultural Studies and AP Psychology - when it comes to "real world philosophizing", this dude was the genuine article. I swear, this dude has done IT ALL, and through all of his travels had likely circled the entire Earth 3 or 4 times. If there's anyone who would fit that bill, it'd be him.
From my rough memory of what he told us, after having graduated from the same high school that we were at, way back in the 70s or so, he then decided to go to California where he ended up, through a chain of events, becoming a key witness in the FBI breaking a massive pyramid scheme (he even had to go in protective custody because there were threats against his life). To get away from all of that, he decided to then move to INDIA to become a Buddhist Monk in a monastery up in the Himalayas, where he stayed for a few years until, one day, the Indian government decided they didn't want foreigners there for one reason or another, and were forcefully evicted by the Indian military. He then decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, then go to Mecca, tour around Europe, before moving back to the United States and working as doctor in a *mental asylum*, where he met some genuinely INSANE individuals. After all of that, he decided to move back to his home town, and teach at the same high school he graduated from.
We could tell that he wasn't bullshitting, as he had souvenirs of his various sojourns on display in his classroom; he had his Buddhist monk robes on a mannequin in the corner, an authentic Muslim prayer rug that he bought in Mecca hung on one wall, a (genuine) Ojibwe dreamcatcher hung up by the white board, a little figurine of the Buddha on his desk, and photo albums of his travels. He retired a year before I graduated, and said that he would be chronicling his life's journey in a book; if I recall correctly, it's titled something akin to, _"The Incredible Adventures of an American Monk"_ , written by Don Daniels.
I come for the intros, but I stay for the tangents
No, we all love the long intros Simon! Your pain is an important part of the experience
Also: yeah Stargate SG-1 is my third favorite show after Black Mirror and Sherlock. It's so good. Star Trek TNG/DS-9/Voyager are great too, but there's something about the lower budget that made for better characters.
Danny needs to write decoding the unknown!
I think he does the sicence of sicence fiction.
OMG!!! As a kid in South Africa, I remember loving the Sha Na Na TV show! I can actually hear the end song in my head right now! Some of it at least. 'Good night sweetheart, it's time to go'......
Ya but we all can't have 12+ TH-cam channels now can we :-) Always so much fun to watch, and as always thanks to you & all the team for ALL the hard work.
Maybe Kevin will write more to your style if you bring food to the basement, Factboy.