A lot of people got upset at me calling myself a "Saberspark knockoff." I appreciate people defending me but just to be clear, no one has actually ever said this nor do I actually think it. Every once in a while I try to find fun ways to shout out other TH-cam reviewers and self deprecation is an easy enough joke. This joke went through several takes where I called myself a knockoff of someone including The Mysterious Mr. Enter, Toonrific Tarique and Johnny2Cellos. I landed on Saber because I felt it had been a while since I referenced him.
If you do wish to prepare and stock up on food that will actually last because to tell the truth canning food can only last a max of 5 years if in a deep freezer and that is if you use non rusting metal cans and use a full sealing system that welds them closed. Regular glass jars only has a life span of 3 months to 2 years max and that is if stored in a deep freezer and even then has a 30% probability of turning to poison after 3 weeks. Frozen food has a longer life span than precooked jar food because its factory sealed. Glass jars are absolute trash. Now if you want food that will last well Ramen can last you up to about 10 years max but has a life span of 1 to 5 years but can last 10 to 15 years max but less than 2% will last that long. beans that are dried have a life span of 40 to 80 years and potentially 100 years but they do have a 98% probability of suffering from what is called fogging after about 20 years which actually turns them to poison so its not 100% recommended but they are better for the long run. Dried split peas have a life span of 30 to 100 years and are technically a fully meal especially if you add a bit of meat in which small animals can easily be added to them but you do need water to cook them which would be harder to get. In reality you should stock up on distilled water which lasts longer and can last a good 10 years longer than regular water. In truth no food lasts really that long and if something happens then everyone is screwed because society is so reliant upon modern technologies that in reality 99% of the human race can not last 6 months do to the fact of how reliant we are on modern technology. If technology shuts down water will be the first thing required and that is for everything especially because the body requires water constantly and without water the human body will die at max of 3 days and if technology shut off then the water will stop flowing and grocery stores will run out in seconds and in reality 99% of all cities in the world are not close to a water source that is drinkable but in water sources that are drinkable they are filled with viruses and bacteria that would kill people. The water that comes from your tap is so filtered that you would be horrified at how much it takes to clean the water to make it actually drinkable. The mountain spring bullshit yea most water is so filtered to remove the piss and crack and bugs and viruses and bacteria and plants and dirt and grime and everything out of the water to make it actually drinkable. Hell if you drink water from the Mississippi river you can die from about 5554356354365 different plagues, viruses and bacteria to far fucking more than that random bullet number I typed up. If technology goes out at most 250 gallons of water would last you at max 3 weeks to as little as a week. In reality water goes fast and if you have a family you are fucked without water. Water is so valuable and takes so much time and energy and has so much stuff to go threw the process of making it consumable for humans that if water shuts down all stored water will go bad and even if you stock up you will run out. Hell a bowl of oatmeal takes about 20 ounces to make. A bowl of ramen takes up to 40 ounces of water and that is in a small pot to cook. There are 128 ounces in a gallon. A pot of 2 bags of split pea soup take 260 ounces at least which is 2 gallons. It takes 4 cups of water to make 1 pound of rice. There are 16 cups of water in a gallon. A small bag of rice is 1 pound. The regular size bag of rice is 2 pounds. 2 regular sized bags of rice takes 1 gallon of water to cook. It actually states on the rice bag that you should use 16 cups to 20 cups of water for a single 2 regular sized bags pf rice. There are 16 cups in a gallon. That means if you use the max amount of water that is 1.25 gallons of water to make a single bag of rice. Yea water will be gone fast. In reality if society collapses you wont need to worry about trying to survive because you wont survive because no one will. Water will go away and everyone will die within in reality less 6 months because water is not that drinkable to humans unless processed. Distilled water may last a longer time but you will still run out of it within days. Cooking and drinking will use of all your water in less than a week. If you try and ration it the water still won't last.
My Dad ran a roller skating rink on Y2K. Packed house. Nobody skating, waiting for the millennium. A few minutes after midnight, he threw the switch on the main generator. Good times
@@Asome3333e1 not many people were actually concerned. I remember it being mostly a joke. I wasn’t at this particular place though, obviously. If the story spread like that now, with the way the world has been the past several years I may have been more inclined to believe it and possibly anxious. At the time I had no concerns.
The closest experience I had to Y2K was the 2012 scare when people panicked about the end of the Mayan calendar and believed it was a sign of the apocalypse
You can blame the "History" Channel for that one. I wonder if it's still possible to collect all the shows they cooked up to profit off that sensation.
I remember being in high school in around that time and one of teachers said "You know if the world doesn't end I think I'm going to watch that 2012 movie" 😂
My father in law had extra toilet paper in his attic at the beginning of the pandemic left over from when he bought extra around the 2000 new year. So, I guess it all worked out.
@@KairuHakubi depends on how it's wrapped. If it's in plastic it'll last a good long while but if it's in single wrap it will start degrading over time
Hank managed to kick open a race track fence designed to keep speeding, crashing cars from getting into the crowds. I'm not surprised he can carry 3 full propane tanks on his own.
Hey I don’t know about u but if they actually want the power drill I don’t see how they’re a fool for trading corn for it. They wanted something and hank wanted something. This is how things worked before a lot of societies started printing/minting money.
@@cornchaptermasterofcarmine5902 Oh great, another edgelord who thinks backing our money with Gold is foolproof and going off of that is bad in everyway. Please name a country that is currently backing their money with Gold right now
@Corn Chapter master of Carmine Blades money? It's "currency" and not every "currency" is backed by a metal. Some countries just have or have had a functional economy.
I really HATE that they burned that stuff. Toilet paper is important. They could have had toilet paper for forever! Or donated it to people who need it. And grandfather clocks are beautiful. They're classic and just as much art as function. Like. If you're spending that much anyway, just keep the stuff. Or give ME the clock! Makes me freaking crazy to see Hank of all people being that flagrantly wasteful.
I'm surprised Shady didn't kvetch at Peggy kicking the Grandfather clock into the fire because it bugs the heck outta me every time. It's just so inconsiderate, & the fact that it is something built with fine craftsmanship, makes it seem even more disrespectful to Hank 😖😤
Shady, Y2k was 23 years ago. This past weekend I met a couple who didn't know what Y2k was. They were about 20 years old. Y2k was a long time ago, it just feels like it wasn't.
Shady's actual audience getting mad at his self depreciating joke audience is really wholesome to be honest. Yeah guys, let's stick it to those non-existent haters!
Two big examples of preparing ahead of time: We already had TP years ago. When a tornado blew through our area I didn't wonder if we were going to be able to eat dinner, just if it would taste good. On a more day- to- day, it's great how often having a pantry of food, medicine and hygiene mean you don't need to drive to walmart in the middle of dinner for an ingredient, or at 9pm because you think you might be coming down with something and need medicine. It's nice going grocery shopping in your own pantry as long as you remember to resupply next time you go to the store
The thing was, y2k actually could’ve been a huge disaster. A lot of people make fun of it now, but billions of dollars were spent to make sure everything went ok. Good thing someone caught that there was a huge vulnerability like that 😂
@@pja6476 the real issue would be any computer that’s in charge of printing out tickets or tracking finances. If a bank is calculating how much interest has accrued for a loan, and then, all of a sudden, the system says it’s -82 years since the account was opened...
@@pja6476 That minor issue would have broken a ton of automation. The danger was real. The money was (mostly) well spent. Did some people pad their budgets? Of course. But that work had to be done.
The cashier scene works even less as a “lol this employee is dumb” when Hank is literally using a credit card. Hank is not paying with cash, meaning that even if this mega store could write a Hank a receipt (which they probably couldn’t anyway) Hank doesn’t have the actual money to buy the computer in the first place, something no one brings up in the scene. This isn’t a general store in a town of 70 people, credit can’t go off of the cash you SAY you can give without proof.
You actually used to be able to ring up a credit card transaction without electricity using carbon copy paper receipts and a manual imprinting machine that made a copy of the card. Those receipts would be processed by a bank or accountant.
@@lolabush2201 that's fair but the Megalo mart was built post the need for that technology (as we know it was built during the shows run, not before) meaning they would have those things on hand so that's not applicable.
@@gingersnap189 I worked at a Radio Shack in 2002. Once in a while the computers would go down and we had a manual credit card machine that we used once in a while.
Y'know, I've got one thing I find funny/ironic about this... Hamsters and gerbils being compatible despite having issues with one of the two happens with certain fish species as well. Koi and goldfish *are* compatible, but their children are completely sterile. Mollies and guppies, two live-bearing species in the same family, are also compatible, but it has to be a male guppy to a female molly (for obvious reasons). Not sure if their children are sterile or not though.
Genetic compatibility goes much further than that; there's a number of trippy hybrid animals out there (sometimes called "chimeras"). Check out geeps, ligers and zonkeys, just to name a few. Or if you really wanna go down the mad science route, look into humanzees... Much of it boils down to the genetics of these species being similar enough on a chromosomal level for fertilization to occur. Interestingly enough, in many cases, the "best of both worlds" comes up. In some, well, fertility and health issues come up. As long as two animals are in the same rough family though (canines, large cats, horse/zebra/donkey/mule, etc.) there's likely to be a way to cross-breed them successfully. Kinda makes you wonder if nature doesn't intend for all species to genetically combine into some super-species that has all the powers, none the weaknesses somewhere down the road (possibly a-la giant anime super-robot or something).
This episode is funny because I *remember* people freaking out about Y2K, I remember the countdown to midnight thinking everything was going to go dark but midnight passed, the lights stayed on, and I was left thinking “that’s it?” 🤣🤣🤣 Happy New Year Shady, thanks for the great new video and hug your fur babies all 🎊💙🐱💙🎊
The thing is Y2K was a real problem but one that was fixed, programers knew the problem and made the necessary steps to fix the problem, yet everybody thinks it was aĺl a hoax
my dad prepared but not over the top. he basically got 3 things. a generator, one full barrel of gas, and he bought half of a cow that was butchered. sure he made sure to grocery shop and fill everything up before just in case but he just prepared stuff that was still useful if nothing happened.
@@22espec, I was only 3 or 4 years old whenever 2000 happened, and I usually remember almost everything, but I don’t remember Y2K ever happening, so to me it seems like a hoax.
I was so afraid of Y2K. I was at a friend's house for the night and thought at midnight all hell would break loose. A month later I moved to Kentucky and my great grandma gave us a bunch of canned food she had hoarded just in case. The food was hidden all throughout the house, bless her heart.
I remember the Y2K issue, and it really was a bother to my mom. See my mom, was a secretary for my uncles cemetery, and had to use a computer since their records went digital. So there was a huge problem with that for months, and I recall my mom telling me not to go to her office at all or touching her computer. I also recall my uncle not letting me use his computer, so no computer games or Winnie the Pooh or 101 Dalamation Story Book game for me. For a couple months at least till they fixed it before too long. Also, it's due to the pandemic that I can food now. Which I had been planning to do for years, so now I can do more. Also, Shaddy, what are you talking about? In small towns, we still allow people to ride in the back of the truck. nobody gives a heck.
I was 7 when Y2K rolled around. I’m not sure if the hospital they worked for just had it all figured out but my parents just shrugged the whole thing off. But I do remember teachers at school talking about it. But what is fooding?
Thanks for bringing up the computer retail thing. Can't tell you how many times we've had a blackout at my store and someone still wants to keep shopping.
I would argue the most complicated thing about the scene of the inept employee was that apparently in 1999 coming up on 2000 a electronics store can't be closed and locked up because the computers are down somehow implying that the computers help lock and possibly open the store
I was 18 and living in Montana when Y2K was a thing. My friends and I were disappointed when nothing happened. We watched Road Warrior and went outside to watch fireworks at midnight.
My brother's power went out on new year, he posted a blacked out city with the caption "happy new year y2k2: electric boogaloo" and the first thing I remembered was this episode of king of the hill. Funny you made the first 2023 episode about it too lol
I would argue your computer science degree shortened the learning curve some to get you this far so quickly. Also my teenage daughter and I love KotH and toying with the idea of a KotH podcast, we would definitely want you as a guest.
"this far so quickly." The Shady Doorags channel started while I was in college, but I've was doing TH-cam before I even finished high school. Took 8 years before I started getting any real traction and a full decade before I went full time.
My dad bought so many cases of Poland spring gallons. It sat in the basement for years. By the time we looked at it it was all long expired and most of the jugs had little to no water in them. Must've evaporated out of the bottles or something.
I used to be a huge fan of @SaberSpark , I feel like either I outgrew it OR his content just became a flanderaztion of himself. Somehow I came across this channel what feels like a year or two ago and since then he's all I watch for content like this lol, Honestly more refreshing and "mature?" Content creator. Anyway, huge fan of Shady!
@8:36 In the shot, it is also established that Hank is trying to pay with a credit card. If the system is down, they wouldn't be able to process the card. It would be different if Hank was paying with cash. In the late 90s, the manual credit card imprinter/ reader was also pretty much being phased out around this time.
As a fellow computer science degree holder, I really appreciate your analysis on the over-reliance on technology in society. Also, a nice uplifting message at the end was the cherry on top... and then panic. Great video!
Back in 2015 I had a temp job at a bank scanning old documents. We had an old file and, I kid you not, It had an insurance declaration page for Y2K insurance 😂😂
I just remember the whole Mayan calendar shit from December 21, 2012. Was eight years old at the time, kinda knew it wasn't gonna happen, but was still waiting for midnight. There was a Family Guy rerun in syndication on a local TV channel as the clock struck midnight (it actually may have been the Y2K nuclear holocaust episode), and I was thinking to myself, "You Mayan dicks! You promised me something and didn't deliver!" I was relieved and pissed at the same time, but looking back, that was the most hilarious night of my life.
I remember New Year's Eve of the Millenium. I was in Florida on vacation with my mom and dad, watching this magician get buried alive and explaining how he did it. I didn't know what to expect. I was 10.
A somewhat similar situation happened with the PlayStation 3 back in March of 2010, where a coding error caused the original "Fat" models to see 2010 as a leap year, and led to thousands of PS3 owners losing their trophy data until the issue was fixed. Really sucked if you were someone who had to visit friends and relatives to get online and download updates.
It used to be a lot more common for people to have obsolete computers back in the day. I was born in 90s and used to see (what I now know to be) 80s computers everywhere growing up. When we got Win98, we kept that machine and OS for a good ten years.
Yeah the guy unable to sell the computer due to the till being down is how it's like at the place I work at, if the sale didn't go through we can't sell things because our system wouldn't understand that the transaction was done manually, thus leading to an inventory nightmare.
Another great KOTH Episode getting reviewed. Shady my man, you have my upmost respect and while I mainly watch you for King Of The Hill, your Justice League Christmas Video was very enjoyable. Keep up the good work.
Actually, adding to Shady's point about keeping emergency rations. We kind of take for granted the availability of food. There was a flood near my town a while ago. It cut off one of the shipping routes for my town. I'd say we lost a third of the supplies to the grocery stores for about two weeks while an alternate supply was sorted out.
You know Dale would've been set up for the winter storm that ruined Texas last year. He'd get so made fun of the week before then he'd be laughing when everyone out panic buying like they do every time it snows in the south
I love the new years resolution bit that gets peppered throughout the epsisode. Very clever and it never felt forced. This is why people are engaged with your content!
I remember the Y2K stuff too. I had just turned 23 in 1999. My own perspective on it was that it was blowing up a potential problem in to what it wasn't = stirring up mass hysteria. I had an aunt that was petrified of it, and we talked about it, she asked me if I thought she was stupid buying so much stuff to prep. I was honest and told her something similar to what you said about how it is always a good idea to keep emergency supplies around just in case, because the worst disasters are not the ones getting all the media airplay, as they are, like you said, the ones that come out of nowhere, like the Loma Prieta Earthquake we had here in the Bay Area back in 1989. And, BTW, we survived that. My view on it wasn't so much that the government would take care of it, but my faith was more in the private sector which had too much to lose if the whole grid went down. Even if you ignore all the other nonsense people were talking about like planes dropping out of the sky, and nuclear weapons launching themselves. The truth is that the Y2K issue was being addressed as early as 1997. Now, what pissed me off most was the panic, and how many people bought in to it. So much so, that normally packed places on NYE, like Times Square, were at less than half capacity. And what Hank said about the year 2000 happening only once, and us being lucky enough to witness it was spot on. And how many people missed out on it because of media fearmongering is unforgivable. Now, the ending of this episode with the bonfire bothered me, especially with all the waste. Especially when the grandfather clock gets thrown in to the fire. I get the symbolism, but personally, I really love antiques, and would love to have a grandfather clock like that. If someone gave me one as a gift, I would be so stoked.
I never worked in retail, but I worked in a call center (counter-telemarketing to catch them in their lies) and when our computer system went down, and we had to do everything manually on paper, it was insane.
It was a family tradition to go to our cabin after Christmas until the first of the year, so our plans in 2000 didn't really change, but I remember my parents were a little on edge, and glad we had a cabin to hideaway at.
My senior yearbook quote was "At least Y2K doesn't affect me". I put that as quote because I had old 386 computer that was Y2K compliant. The whole hysteria was so ridiculous even back then.
It’s crazy how you posted this the day after a storm knocked out the internet so I had to work an entire busy Sunday selling pizza without phones or wi-fi. It was hell. 😂 We managed but it wasn’t easy.
I was only one when Y2K happened and yet I'm a huge fan of older TV shows so I keep on hearing about it. It's pretty interesting to see how much people freaked out back then
I think it might have depended "where" you were at the time as well. I grew up in Northern Michigan, a pretty small town. So my family and most of the people around me probably thought of the hysteria as "big city problems". Also, my dad was an engineer, so he was just more annoyed at the process of updating an entire television station's equipment rather than worrying if it would all work out.
@@Amins88 you see exactly, I really find it interesting learning about how different people were affected and how they handled it. Thanks for taking the time to tell me about it
Love the pickup truck line!! Do remember, definitely! My mom, brother and myself rode from West Virginia to Illinois in the back of a covered bed back in the day! 👍👍
I remember Y2K my parents took me with them to the store.... while my younger sisters were at our grandmother's place. All my parents wanted is to buy stuff for spaghetti for dinner that night and the store was crowded with people buying out everything. Saw two women get into an slap fight over the last pork lion. It was madness in there. My parents weren't concerned my dad has an cousin who worked at Nasa who told us everything will be fine. Any who loved the video shady! I loved this episode. I was laughing at the Luanne giggle you had. I also really hate they burnt the stuff they bought at the end as an poor person I was just going, "You're wasting money!" At the screen. Lol.
Shady, in season 8 episode 12 is titled Phish and Wildlife. It's one of those attempts at Hank and Bobby bonding while also teaching him how to be self sufficient. Of you get the chance it might be a good one to tackle. It has this weird subplot with Bill that's good for a laugh too. Also that one where Bobby gets gout and almost misses a big school dance with Connie.
Man Shady has figured out the perfect plan for dealing with your new years resolution....just make a bunch of them so you can fail as many as you like as long as you make good on one of them XD
7:50 I remember this. One of my foster dads had a truck and I’d always beg to ride in the back. We lived next to a police speed trap so it’d be common for me to say hello to them when we were waiting for a light.
Hey, Shady big fan. If I may recommend an episode of king of the hill. "Night and deity". It's about nancy being jealous of a pigeon exterminator and thinking dale is gonna cheat on her. perfect for a rant about Nancy and hypocrisy and I know everyone would love it. Keep up the great work man, we all love you, brother!
@@collinmorris1632 I disagree that he is the best father because his actions have endangered Joseph in several episodes however unlike Nancy he takes a lot more responsibility for his actions whenever he does do something bad. He is also shown time after time to care about Joseph more than John redcorn ever will. I think he is probably the second best father after Hank only because Hank is a lot less chaotic & less prone to putting other people's lives in danger. I think Dale 100% deserves a better wife than Nancy.
In small towns you'll still find trucks cruising around with a gaggle of kids or teens in the back. I live in the suburbs now but when go to visit my family out in the sticks, we usually see a truck or two with kids in the back.
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A lot of people got upset at me calling myself a "Saberspark knockoff." I appreciate people defending me but just to be clear, no one has actually ever said this nor do I actually think it. Every once in a while I try to find fun ways to shout out other TH-cam reviewers and self deprecation is an easy enough joke. This joke went through several takes where I called myself a knockoff of someone including The Mysterious Mr. Enter, Toonrific Tarique and Johnny2Cellos. I landed on Saber because I felt it had been a while since I referenced him.
If you do wish to prepare and stock up on food that will actually last because to tell the truth canning food can only last a max of 5 years if in a deep freezer and that is if you use non rusting metal cans and use a full sealing system that welds them closed. Regular glass jars only has a life span of 3 months to 2 years max and that is if stored in a deep freezer and even then has a 30% probability of turning to poison after 3 weeks. Frozen food has a longer life span than precooked jar food because its factory sealed. Glass jars are absolute trash. Now if you want food that will last well Ramen can last you up to about 10 years max but has a life span of 1 to 5 years but can last 10 to 15 years max but less than 2% will last that long. beans that are dried have a life span of 40 to 80 years and potentially 100 years but they do have a 98% probability of suffering from what is called fogging after about 20 years which actually turns them to poison so its not 100% recommended but they are better for the long run. Dried split peas have a life span of 30 to 100 years and are technically a fully meal especially if you add a bit of meat in which small animals can easily be added to them but you do need water to cook them which would be harder to get. In reality you should stock up on distilled water which lasts longer and can last a good 10 years longer than regular water. In truth no food lasts really that long and if something happens then everyone is screwed because society is so reliant upon modern technologies that in reality 99% of the human race can not last 6 months do to the fact of how reliant we are on modern technology. If technology shuts down water will be the first thing required and that is for everything especially because the body requires water constantly and without water the human body will die at max of 3 days and if technology shut off then the water will stop flowing and grocery stores will run out in seconds and in reality 99% of all cities in the world are not close to a water source that is drinkable but in water sources that are drinkable they are filled with viruses and bacteria that would kill people. The water that comes from your tap is so filtered that you would be horrified at how much it takes to clean the water to make it actually drinkable. The mountain spring bullshit yea most water is so filtered to remove the piss and crack and bugs and viruses and bacteria and plants and dirt and grime and everything out of the water to make it actually drinkable. Hell if you drink water from the Mississippi river you can die from about 5554356354365 different plagues, viruses and bacteria to far fucking more than that random bullet number I typed up. If technology goes out at most 250 gallons of water would last you at max 3 weeks to as little as a week. In reality water goes fast and if you have a family you are fucked without water. Water is so valuable and takes so much time and energy and has so much stuff to go threw the process of making it consumable for humans that if water shuts down all stored water will go bad and even if you stock up you will run out. Hell a bowl of oatmeal takes about 20 ounces to make. A bowl of ramen takes up to 40 ounces of water and that is in a small pot to cook. There are 128 ounces in a gallon. A pot of 2 bags of split pea soup take 260 ounces at least which is 2 gallons. It takes 4 cups of water to make 1 pound of rice. There are 16 cups of water in a gallon. A small bag of rice is 1 pound. The regular size bag of rice is 2 pounds. 2 regular sized bags of rice takes 1 gallon of water to cook. It actually states on the rice bag that you should use 16 cups to 20 cups of water for a single 2 regular sized bags pf rice. There are 16 cups in a gallon. That means if you use the max amount of water that is 1.25 gallons of water to make a single bag of rice. Yea water will be gone fast. In reality if society collapses you wont need to worry about trying to survive because you wont survive because no one will. Water will go away and everyone will die within in reality less 6 months because water is not that drinkable to humans unless processed. Distilled water may last a longer time but you will still run out of it within days. Cooking and drinking will use of all your water in less than a week. If you try and ration it the water still won't last.
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My Dad ran a roller skating rink on Y2K. Packed house. Nobody skating, waiting for the millennium. A few minutes after midnight, he threw the switch on the main generator. Good times
Your dad a real life villain
How panicked was everyone?
@@Asome3333e1 not many people were actually concerned.
I remember it being mostly a joke.
I wasn’t at this particular place though, obviously.
If the story spread like that now, with the way the world has been the past several years I may have been more inclined to believe it and possibly anxious. At the time I had no concerns.
That story would've made a viral video
Based dad
The closest experience I had to Y2K was the 2012 scare when people panicked about the end of the Mayan calendar and believed it was a sign of the apocalypse
You can blame the "History" Channel for that one. I wonder if it's still possible to collect all the shows they cooked up to profit off that sensation.
No rational person actually believed that though. Like Shady said Y2K was a real issue, but it was dealt with before it became an issue
Also the COVID scare. China was feeding bad data and people expected something that made the 1918 Flu look like a bad cold season.
I remember being in high school in around that time and one of teachers said "You know if the world doesn't end I think I'm going to watch that 2012 movie" 😂
Apparently, people tend to lose it every 12 years.
My father in law had extra toilet paper in his attic at the beginning of the pandemic left over from when he bought extra around the 2000 new year. So, I guess it all worked out.
how does TP hold up in an attic for 20 years?
@@KairuHakubi depends on the ply
@@KairuHakubi depends on how it's wrapped. If it's in plastic it'll last a good long while but if it's in single wrap it will start degrading over time
@@KairuHakubi I mean, it still did the job. I can't really speak to if it suffered in quality or not. I have never used that brand before or since.
@@TheAllSeeingEye2468 That makes sense. I was gonna say, I have paper _drawings_ from 15 years ago that haven't held up that great.
Hank managed to kick open a race track fence designed to keep speeding, crashing cars from getting into the crowds. I'm not surprised he can carry 3 full propane tanks on his own.
"Please stop crying sir" that line always gets a laugh out of me
“What happened to your power tool?”
“Got rid of it it’s gone I traded it to some fool for a sack of corn”
Gets me every time
Hey I don’t know about u but if they actually want the power drill I don’t see how they’re a fool for trading corn for it. They wanted something and hank wanted something. This is how things worked before a lot of societies started printing/minting money.
@@CesarACastillo the joke is that both of them were fools like our ancestors for not using money
@@diablo.the.cheater Money? Oldest scam in the book when not backed up by precious metals.
@@cornchaptermasterofcarmine5902 Oh great, another edgelord who thinks backing our money with Gold is foolproof and going off of that is bad in everyway. Please name a country that is currently backing their money with Gold right now
@Corn Chapter master of Carmine Blades money? It's "currency" and not every "currency" is backed by a metal. Some countries just have or have had a functional economy.
I really HATE that they burned that stuff. Toilet paper is important. They could have had toilet paper for forever! Or donated it to people who need it. And grandfather clocks are beautiful. They're classic and just as much art as function. Like. If you're spending that much anyway, just keep the stuff. Or give ME the clock! Makes me freaking crazy to see Hank of all people being that flagrantly wasteful.
I'm surprised Shady didn't kvetch at Peggy kicking the Grandfather clock into the fire because it bugs the heck outta me every time. It's just so inconsiderate, & the fact that it is something built with fine craftsmanship, makes it seem even more disrespectful to Hank 😖😤
@@greenxxghostie - Right? Peggy is acting like a spoiled brat about the clock.
Later in the series that clock comes back
@@KlutzyNinjaKitty her and luanne while bobby the actual child in the family is unironically grateful for his limited gifts
@@KlutzyNinjaKitty That's literally Peggy's entire character. A self-centered egotistical person.
I Love the Fact that, after this episode, Peggy always has the "Blueberry one" Continuity ftw
I do too
Bobby was always ahead of his time, especially with the Toilet Paper
Then they burn the toilet paper and a grandfather clock
@@mangareader7474 The grandfather clock returned later
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 Yep the magic clock.
@@EDV8ZR1 "Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder"
Bobby is awesome. I always liked Bobby the most lol
Shady, Y2k was 23 years ago. This past weekend I met a couple who didn't know what Y2k was. They were about 20 years old. Y2k was a long time ago, it just feels like it wasn't.
Wdym, 1999 was like 7 years ago, right?
...right?
@@Lil_Yuri My niece was born in 2000, she's in college now. I thought the same thing.
God damn we're old 💀
@@Lil_Yuri I was born in 1999. I have graduated college and been in work for 2 years.
I was born in late 1997. I turned 2 just 2 months prior to Y2K and even I know what it is.
Shady: "Go full panic mode"
Me: "Okay"
*tosses chair*
He tossed a chair! Now I'm angry!!!
shady: (picks up some guy) let's riot
all the prisoners: (starts rioting)
@@CyranofromBergerac ah beat me it lol
It's super effective!
@@CyranofromBergerac *sigh* niggas... *dropkick*
Shady's actual audience getting mad at his self depreciating joke audience is really wholesome to be honest. Yeah guys, let's stick it to those non-existent haters!
I’m a simple man. Shady does KOTH content and I click on it everytime.
Me too
@@AbrasiousProductionsme 3
You are a true KOTH man 😎😎😎
Same
Same
Two big examples of preparing ahead of time: We already had TP years ago. When a tornado blew through our area I didn't wonder if we were going to be able to eat dinner, just if it would taste good. On a more day- to- day, it's great how often having a pantry of food, medicine and hygiene mean you don't need to drive to walmart in the middle of dinner for an ingredient, or at 9pm because you think you might be coming down with something and need medicine. It's nice going grocery shopping in your own pantry as long as you remember to resupply next time you go to the store
This is one thing that I get mad at my gf and roommates about, when you pull something out of the pantry put it on the list not when we run out!
In 2023 I learned that Shady doorags is basically me in almost every aspect
Except I have no do rag or shades
He is us brother
The thing was, y2k actually could’ve been a huge disaster. A lot of people make fun of it now, but billions of dollars were spent to make sure everything went ok. Good thing someone caught that there was a huge vulnerability like that 😂
I always thought it was a minor issue that just caused the date and clock to glitch out, which made the billions spend worthless.
@@pja6476 the real issue would be any computer that’s in charge of printing out tickets or tracking finances.
If a bank is calculating how much interest has accrued for a loan, and then, all of a sudden, the system says it’s -82 years since the account was opened...
@@pja6476 That minor issue would have broken a ton of automation. The danger was real. The money was (mostly) well spent. Did some people pad their budgets? Of course. But that work had to be done.
The cashier scene works even less as a “lol this employee is dumb” when Hank is literally using a credit card. Hank is not paying with cash, meaning that even if this mega store could write a Hank a receipt (which they probably couldn’t anyway) Hank doesn’t have the actual money to buy the computer in the first place, something no one brings up in the scene. This isn’t a general store in a town of 70 people, credit can’t go off of the cash you SAY you can give without proof.
You actually used to be able to ring up a credit card transaction without electricity using carbon copy paper receipts and a manual imprinting machine that made a copy of the card. Those receipts would be processed by a bank or accountant.
@@lolabush2201 that's fair but the Megalo mart was built post the need for that technology (as we know it was built during the shows run, not before) meaning they would have those things on hand so that's not applicable.
Credit cards didn't always need a computer system though...
@@gingersnap189 I worked at a Radio Shack in 2002. Once in a while the computers would go down and we had a manual credit card machine that we used once in a while.
Y'know, I've got one thing I find funny/ironic about this... Hamsters and gerbils being compatible despite having issues with one of the two happens with certain fish species as well. Koi and goldfish *are* compatible, but their children are completely sterile. Mollies and guppies, two live-bearing species in the same family, are also compatible, but it has to be a male guppy to a female molly (for obvious reasons). Not sure if their children are sterile or not though.
Molly guppy hybrids are sterile
Genetic compatibility goes much further than that; there's a number of trippy hybrid animals out there (sometimes called "chimeras"). Check out geeps, ligers and zonkeys, just to name a few. Or if you really wanna go down the mad science route, look into humanzees...
Much of it boils down to the genetics of these species being similar enough on a chromosomal level for fertilization to occur. Interestingly enough, in many cases, the "best of both worlds" comes up. In some, well, fertility and health issues come up. As long as two animals are in the same rough family though (canines, large cats, horse/zebra/donkey/mule, etc.) there's likely to be a way to cross-breed them successfully.
Kinda makes you wonder if nature doesn't intend for all species to genetically combine into some super-species that has all the powers, none the weaknesses somewhere down the road (possibly a-la giant anime super-robot or something).
i understand that the fry could kill a female guppy, so that’s why you use a female molly.
Same with dogs just because of all the various ways we’ve deformed them.
This episode is funny because I *remember* people freaking out about Y2K, I remember the countdown to midnight thinking everything was going to go dark but midnight passed, the lights stayed on, and I was left thinking “that’s it?” 🤣🤣🤣
Happy New Year Shady, thanks for the great new video and hug your fur babies all 🎊💙🐱💙🎊
I did to lol but I was like 9 or 10
The thing is Y2K was a real problem but one that was fixed, programers knew the problem and made the necessary steps to fix the problem, yet everybody thinks it was aĺl a hoax
my dad prepared but not over the top. he basically got 3 things.
a generator, one full barrel of gas, and he bought half of a cow that was butchered.
sure he made sure to grocery shop and fill everything up before just in case but he just prepared stuff that was still useful if nothing happened.
I know one, updated thousands upon thousands of lines of code to make sure Y2K didn’t happen
@@22espec, I was only 3 or 4 years old whenever 2000 happened, and I usually remember almost everything, but I don’t remember Y2K ever happening, so to me it seems like a hoax.
I was so afraid of Y2K. I was at a friend's house for the night and thought at midnight all hell would break loose. A month later I moved to Kentucky and my great grandma gave us a bunch of canned food she had hoarded just in case. The food was hidden all throughout the house, bless her heart.
After July 19, 2024. This episode of KOTH has aged like fine wine.
0:44 if it makes you feel any better Shady. I care about your intros, they are fun to listen to.
ya I'm always curious about his perspective
Same
I'm glad he got rid of them
Shady being called a Saberspark knockoff, as a huge fan of both channels, is genuinely one of the funniest jokes this channel has ever told. I love it
The difference is that shady isn't a furry.
........yet.
😈
I remember the Y2K issue, and it really was a bother to my mom. See my mom, was a secretary for my uncles cemetery, and had to use a computer since their records went digital.
So there was a huge problem with that for months, and I recall my mom telling me not to go to her office at all or touching her computer.
I also recall my uncle not letting me use his computer, so no computer games or Winnie the Pooh or 101 Dalamation Story Book game for me. For a couple months at least till they fixed it before too long.
Also, it's due to the pandemic that I can food now. Which I had been planning to do for years, so now I can do more.
Also, Shaddy, what are you talking about? In small towns, we still allow people to ride in the back of the truck. nobody gives a heck.
I was 7 when Y2K rolled around. I’m not sure if the hospital they worked for just had it all figured out but my parents just shrugged the whole thing off. But I do remember teachers at school talking about it.
But what is fooding?
@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 meant to say Canning
Yes, very illegal but I have ridden on the tailgate of a truck in a small town and got away with it in small town Saskatchewan.
I've ridden in pickup beds down in Florida. I've also seen it on 495 outside DC back in 2009 on the way to a Redskins game.
@@SkylineFTW97 Maryland and DC it's a bit tricky depends on county
The "why does Christmas always win?" Joke actually got me 😂 shady is destroying Peggy.
Shady posts King of the hill
“For a thousand years I lay dormant”
I still lose it with Dales feeling of betrayal from Puff puff xD
Thanks for bringing up the computer retail thing. Can't tell you how many times we've had a blackout at my store and someone still wants to keep shopping.
I would argue the most complicated thing about the scene of the inept employee was that apparently in 1999 coming up on 2000 a electronics store can't be closed and locked up because the computers are down somehow implying that the computers help lock and possibly open the store
He probably just says that to show how much the system let's the store run rather then being limited and
I remember 2012 me and my friends all went outside at midnight and screamed at the sky" What are you waiting for!?" Was so dumb. Fun times.
I liked how u delved into the whole bit with the cashier who couldn't ring Hanks purchase up.
I always assumed gerbster was just Dale's name for his gerbil. I never thought it was a compound of gerbil and hamster.
Bro the Employee rant is like people when they were younger arguing about Skeet Vs Jimmy.
You’re right, Shady. It’s not only stressful when the computers don’t work, it’s also embarrassing and irritating.
the "my new years resolutions was _____" joke
was killing me everytime you did it dude.
Another certified Arlen classic!
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
Where is this from...? It sounds pretty inspirational
@@thomasjones6216 Dune, it's in both movies and the first book.
@@RenjiAbarai777 thank you
@@RenjiAbarai777 weird...i could have sworn i heard the 12th doctor say that once
I was 18 and living in Montana when Y2K was a thing.
My friends and I were disappointed when nothing happened. We watched Road Warrior and went outside to watch fireworks at midnight.
As a Circle K employee, I can confirm that receipts as of 2 years ago don’t print automatically unless the customer requests for it.
I literally JUST finished watching this episode just as you uploaded this video
My brother's power went out on new year, he posted a blacked out city with the caption "happy new year y2k2: electric boogaloo" and the first thing I remembered was this episode of king of the hill. Funny you made the first 2023 episode about it too lol
That Whack A Mole dream is one of my favorite King Of The Hill moments
10:10 As a fast food worker, this hits SO HARD.
I would argue your computer science degree shortened the learning curve some to get you this far so quickly.
Also my teenage daughter and I love KotH and toying with the idea of a KotH podcast, we would definitely want you as a guest.
"this far so quickly."
The Shady Doorags channel started while I was in college, but I've was doing TH-cam before I even finished high school. Took 8 years before I started getting any real traction and a full decade before I went full time.
My dad bought so many cases of Poland spring gallons. It sat in the basement for years. By the time we looked at it it was all long expired and most of the jugs had little to no water in them. Must've evaporated out of the bottles or something.
Yay first vid of 2023!
Also finished sonic boom, I'm so sad that it ended on a cliff hanger since it got canceled
This feels like the most nostalgic episode for me. I was 6 in 1999.
People call you a SaberSpark knockoff? That sucks, I've never compared you to Saberspark, you make good content and I like the bits you do.
I used to be a huge fan of @SaberSpark , I feel like either I outgrew it OR his content just became a flanderaztion of himself.
Somehow I came across this channel what feels like a year or two ago and since then he's all I watch for content like this lol, Honestly more refreshing and "mature?" Content creator.
Anyway, huge fan of Shady!
@8:36
In the shot, it is also established that Hank is trying to pay with a credit card. If the system is down, they wouldn't be able to process the card. It would be different if Hank was paying with cash.
In the late 90s, the manual credit card imprinter/ reader was also pretty much being phased out around this time.
This outage got me rewatching this video. 😂
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that thought people were talking about Chris Jericho when they said Y2K, thinking they meant to say Y2J
As a fellow computer science degree holder, I really appreciate your analysis on the over-reliance on technology in society. Also, a nice uplifting message at the end was the cherry on top... and then panic.
Great video!
Back in 2015 I had a temp job at a bank scanning old documents. We had an old file and, I kid you not, It had an insurance declaration page for Y2K insurance 😂😂
I haven’t even watched KotH and yet here I am. Side note, I do like hearing what inspires you to do each episode
I just remember the whole Mayan calendar shit from December 21, 2012.
Was eight years old at the time, kinda knew it wasn't gonna happen, but was still waiting for midnight.
There was a Family Guy rerun in syndication on a local TV channel as the clock struck midnight (it actually may have been the Y2K nuclear holocaust episode), and I was thinking to myself, "You Mayan dicks! You promised me something and didn't deliver!"
I was relieved and pissed at the same time, but looking back, that was the most hilarious night of my life.
I've always considered this to be one of the wackiest episodes of KOTH, especially when Hank inhaling wood varnish fumes.
17:17 Glad you broke that one quickly, I like the little exposition you go on sometimes when going over episodes
Implying he is maidenless is def insulting his lifestyle more then anything, I remember that insult from my childhood
I'm always like "What is open on christmas that you can buy christmas presents at?"
I remember New Year's Eve of the Millenium. I was in Florida on vacation with my mom and dad, watching this magician get buried alive and explaining how he did it. I didn't know what to expect. I was 10.
A somewhat similar situation happened with the PlayStation 3 back in March of 2010, where a coding error caused the original "Fat" models to see 2010 as a leap year, and led to thousands of PS3 owners losing their trophy data until the issue was fixed. Really sucked if you were someone who had to visit friends and relatives to get online and download updates.
I made only one new years resolution this year and it is. "Take it one day at a time."
It used to be a lot more common for people to have obsolete computers back in the day. I was born in 90s and used to see (what I now know to be) 80s computers everywhere growing up. When we got Win98, we kept that machine and OS for a good ten years.
That Y2J joke got me no lie🤣
My day job, requires the computer…..I could do it without the computer, but the bosses don’t want us doing it.
If they ever remake King of the hill i want shady to get a cameo for bringing it back and keeping it alive. Good job
*reboot
They are gonna reboot it!!! Everyone in the show is gonna be older
Yeah the guy unable to sell the computer due to the till being down is how it's like at the place I work at, if the sale didn't go through we can't sell things because our system wouldn't understand that the transaction was done manually, thus leading to an inventory nightmare.
Another great KOTH Episode getting reviewed. Shady my man, you have my upmost respect and while I mainly watch you for King Of The Hill, your Justice League Christmas Video was very enjoyable. Keep up the good work.
Actually, adding to Shady's point about keeping emergency rations. We kind of take for granted the availability of food. There was a flood near my town a while ago. It cut off one of the shipping routes for my town. I'd say we lost a third of the supplies to the grocery stores for about two weeks while an alternate supply was sorted out.
Best thing to come back too after working out! Thank you shady.
When the girl scream happened I had flashbacks to all the scary story animations
You know Dale would've been set up for the winter storm that ruined Texas last year. He'd get so made fun of the week before then he'd be laughing when everyone out panic buying like they do every time it snows in the south
I love the new years resolution bit that gets peppered throughout the epsisode. Very clever and it never felt forced. This is why people are engaged with your content!
0:32
Honestly I love hearing your reasoning behind picking out these episodes
I remember the Y2K stuff too. I had just turned 23 in 1999. My own perspective on it was that it was blowing up a potential problem in to what it wasn't = stirring up mass hysteria. I had an aunt that was petrified of it, and we talked about it, she asked me if I thought she was stupid buying so much stuff to prep.
I was honest and told her something similar to what you said about how it is always a good idea to keep emergency supplies around just in case, because the worst disasters are not the ones getting all the media airplay, as they are, like you said, the ones that come out of nowhere, like the Loma Prieta Earthquake we had here in the Bay Area back in 1989.
And, BTW, we survived that.
My view on it wasn't so much that the government would take care of it, but my faith was more in the private sector which had too much to lose if the whole grid went down. Even if you ignore all the other nonsense people were talking about like planes dropping out of the sky, and nuclear weapons launching themselves.
The truth is that the Y2K issue was being addressed as early as 1997.
Now, what pissed me off most was the panic, and how many people bought in to it. So much so, that normally packed places on NYE, like Times Square, were at less than half capacity. And what Hank said about the year 2000 happening only once, and us being lucky enough to witness it was spot on.
And how many people missed out on it because of media fearmongering is unforgivable. Now, the ending of this episode with the bonfire bothered me, especially with all the waste. Especially when the grandfather clock gets thrown in to the fire.
I get the symbolism, but personally, I really love antiques, and would love to have a grandfather clock like that. If someone gave me one as a gift, I would be so stoked.
The stocking rations things make sense for 2020 in hindsight. That arcade is also great
I live in Texas. If you want to talk about full panic shopping, you should see our stores when they predict snow.
I never worked in retail, but I worked in a call center (counter-telemarketing to catch them in their lies) and when our computer system went down, and we had to do everything manually on paper, it was insane.
I worked at a large pizza chain. We had that issue a few times, it was a royal pain.
Grandfather clocks are incredibly expensive. Damnit Hank!
Ah I love Shady’s life lesson’s he put’s in these video’s. 😊
It was a family tradition to go to our cabin after Christmas until the first of the year, so our plans in 2000 didn't really change, but I remember my parents were a little on edge, and glad we had a cabin to hideaway at.
Damn, Hank sure can lift.
My senior yearbook quote was "At least Y2K doesn't affect me". I put that as quote because I had old 386 computer that was Y2K compliant. The whole hysteria was so ridiculous even back then.
It’s crazy how you posted this the day after a storm knocked out the internet so I had to work an entire busy Sunday selling pizza without phones or wi-fi. It was hell. 😂 We managed but it wasn’t easy.
Why was it more busy?
Why would they burn all that toilet paper?! THEY CAN STILL USE IT!!!!!!!
That actually physically hurt me. How could you do this to me, PuffPuff?!
I love that YOU LOVE Luanne’s laugh, makes me feel not alone 🤭
Also my New Years resolution is to follow thru with my New Years resolution
I too love Luanne’s laugh it’s affectionately cute
My new years resolution is to watch more shady videos
I was only one when Y2K happened and yet I'm a huge fan of older TV shows so I keep on hearing about it. It's pretty interesting to see how much people freaked out back then
I think it might have depended "where" you were at the time as well. I grew up in Northern Michigan, a pretty small town. So my family and most of the people around me probably thought of the hysteria as "big city problems".
Also, my dad was an engineer, so he was just more annoyed at the process of updating an entire television station's equipment rather than worrying if it would all work out.
@@Amins88 you see exactly, I really find it interesting learning about how different people were affected and how they handled it. Thanks for taking the time to tell me about it
Love the pickup truck line!! Do remember, definitely! My mom, brother and myself rode from West Virginia to Illinois in the back of a covered bed back in the day! 👍👍
Yes, another King of the Hill talk from Shady!
I remember Y2K my parents took me with them to the store.... while my younger sisters were at our grandmother's place. All my parents wanted is to buy stuff for spaghetti for dinner that night and the store was crowded with people buying out everything. Saw two women get into an slap fight over the last pork lion. It was madness in there. My parents weren't concerned my dad has an cousin who worked at Nasa who told us everything will be fine. Any who loved the video shady! I loved this episode. I was laughing at the Luanne giggle you had. I also really hate they burnt the stuff they bought at the end as an poor person I was just going, "You're wasting money!" At the screen. Lol.
Younger generation's ignorance of real world retail interactions is more scary to me than what Y2K was expected to be
Shady, in season 8 episode 12 is titled Phish and Wildlife. It's one of those attempts at Hank and Bobby bonding while also teaching him how to be self sufficient. Of you get the chance it might be a good one to tackle. It has this weird subplot with Bill that's good for a laugh too.
Also that one where Bobby gets gout and almost misses a big school dance with Connie.
Man Shady has figured out the perfect plan for dealing with your new years resolution....just make a bunch of them so you can fail as many as you like as long as you make good on one of them XD
7:50 I remember this. One of my foster dads had a truck and I’d always beg to ride in the back. We lived next to a police speed trap so it’d be common for me to say hello to them when we were waiting for a light.
Back during Y2K I was very concerned with making mud pies
7:31 Ah, the good old days, when you could ride in the cab of the truck. I remember doing that back in the day.
Hey, Shady big fan. If I may recommend an episode of king of the hill. "Night and deity". It's about nancy being jealous of a pigeon exterminator and thinking dale is gonna cheat on her. perfect for a rant about Nancy and hypocrisy and I know everyone would love it. Keep up the great work man, we all love you, brother!
I kind of do wish Dale would have went with the pest women instead. At least she cares about him more than Nancy did.
@@Hanako-Kun-t9b out of all the characters in king of the hill, Dale is ironically the most loyal and loving. I believe the best father as well
@@collinmorris1632 I disagree that he is the best father because his actions have endangered Joseph in several episodes however unlike Nancy he takes a lot more responsibility for his actions whenever he does do something bad. He is also shown time after time to care about Joseph more than John redcorn ever will. I think he is probably the second best father after Hank only because Hank is a lot less chaotic & less prone to putting other people's lives in danger. I think Dale 100% deserves a better wife than Nancy.
In small towns you'll still find trucks cruising around with a gaggle of kids or teens in the back. I live in the suburbs now but when go to visit my family out in the sticks, we usually see a truck or two with kids in the back.