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Serious question about Vessi...how are they with walking up to 8 miles a day on asphalt and through the woods? My job requires some pretty harsh terrain and such...
True Story. I lived on a small military base in SW GA. (1998) I was driving at night and the lighting wasnt very great. I was digging in my purse and wasnt paying attention and hit a parked car. Since it was on base, the MPs came to check it out. I had to tell the story of my idiocy multiple times. The Base Accident Invesgetor showed up and wanted me to tell the story yet again. Since it was a small base, we kind of all knew each other or were friends if friends, so he knew i was Chief's Wife. My natural Smart A$$ surfaced. I told him that a large glowing object was in the middle of the road and small green man was there waving his arms and i swerved to avoid him. He laughed and i again told him that i was an idiot, was distracted and hit a parked car. He also told me that it was good that i swerved because the "Spaceship" was probably stronger than my car snd the Little Green Man probably didnt have insurance. Got my warning, had the car towed and went on with life. Two days later, a car pulled up at my house. A man in a black suit got out with a stack of paper. When i answered the door, the man flashed a badge and said "I am Agent So and So from the Secret Service.". I blurted out "Who the hell believed the Little Green Man?". I got a very confused look. He was actually there to ask some questions about a neighbor. My neighbor was a Marine Corps Officer who was applying to join the Secret Service, and wanted a charcter reference. I happily gave a good reference (the guy and his wife were great people). I explained the story to the agent. He got a good laugh and said he would have to tell his office mates. I asked him "You didnt use the flashy thing on me did you?". He replied "You wouldn't know if I did". Touche Secret Agent Man! Good times
Fort Benning or Moody? Lol. I was stationed as Robins in middle ga. We have a large flat radar system here that is so far in the backwoods that kids drive out there to.party or make out. When I was assigned perimeter we would get alerts of breaches, sure enough pull up in night gear no lights surround them and hit em with the floodlights. Ive seen more naked stupid teens than I care to. But it's not a marked building and there are only warning signs. Once you see the perimeter fence, we already have you face first in the dirt. But we did tell them that's where we keep the aliens and the alien craft actually look more like Y-Wing fighters from Star Wars. It's since been declassified. But still very much off limits without clearance .
At this point government employees dress up as MIB as a joke. I recall a story from (I think FCC) guy who had a job driving around in van loaded up with antennas, a crap ton of electronics in the back and no markings. The job was to drive around and test the radio signals being broadcast in that area. Basically making sure AT&T and Verizon aren't lying and stealing frequency. This meant they would drive in residential neighborhoods all the time and sometimes it would elicit potentially dangerous reactions from some people, police pulling them over happened often enough. So it became a kind of a rule that they would wear some sort of professional looking clothes (suit & tie) and to wave at anyone who looks at them. It created a kind of disarming weirdness.
They don’t, it was just copying the idea of the military uniformity. By having everyone dressed in a uniform style it forces a sense of being of a single entity. It was also benefits in another way, the suit as we know it today was developed a British man who went to parties in the 19th century but didn’t look like his military peers, he developed the suit as a civilian version of officers uniform. Give it 200 odd years people forget the suit is basically a military uniform, as a result suit incidentally gives off more social influence and pressure as the Milgram alternative social influence studies found. So wearing a suit as an agent makes perfect sense when dealing with civilians they are much more likely to compile than desist orders/requests from a man dressed in a suit than in a pair of jeans and t-shirt.
@@michaelf.2449my outlook exactly like when people are miserable and do everything to avoid talking to you I start asking them random questions so I can get a reaction 😂😂😂
@@MattCombs-ge7kiif there were any animated films that Simon should watch it's any and all Studio Ghibli films. Maybe if enough of us become channel members on Brain Blaze we could convince him through giving him money to watch at least one?
If they are gonna charge that much they damn sure better give me something more than a sliced hockey puck burnt to a crisp with possible the oldest lettuce known to man a squirter of thousand Island and 35 pickles when I said none, then bitch because I ask for it to be remade (im allergic to.pickle, so just a little Mayo instead of sauce) they need to get working o that plan
So much credit to the writer on the various lines from the Will Smith song being used throughout, especially the casual one like "vivid memories, turn to fantasies". I think Simon didn't even catch a few of them. Well done.
My Aunt lived in a trailer park and made friends with a woman in a neighboring park where a woman lived who was a registered Nurse and she claimed to have worked at Area 51 my Aunt wanted to meet her and when she did the woman told her about a lot of strange things but the strangest was the fact that she saw an examination room with strange looking beings with large completely hairless heads, large, black, almond shaped eyes and translucent looking grayish skin that seemed a bit metallic. She also showed my Aunt her badge from the facility she kept it taped under a kitchen drawer wrapped in several layers of aluminum foil she forgot to return it when she retired and the badge was strange, it had a metallic looking strip on one side that had very small strange oval ‘Dots’ along it that were rainbow hued a picture of her, much younger and a black, slightly translucent square that had a slight metallic sheen, the woman said that when the card was in one of the desk readers ‘C-7’ appeared in the black square but the door readers only used the metal strip. Other than that the card was completely blank but seemed stiffer, harder and heavier than a plastic card. When asked why she hid it that way she said: they can track it unless I cover it in foil. My Aunt came to visit her several times and on one of her visits she saw a strange black Cadillac parked in front of her trailer so she drove up the street to her friends house and watched as two men dressed all in black with dark sunglasses came out of her trailer and gave her a paper bag which my Aunt learned was Gin. The next time my Aunt came, her son was there and told my Aunt not to give his mother booze because she gets drunk and may have an accident, when my Aunt told him the men in the black Cadillac gave her it, he went white as a sheet and seemed to start trembling he told her not to tell anyone about them and for God’s sake don’t get seen with her or seen talking to her by them and he gave her his number and said call if she sees them at his mom’s again and rushed off. A few days later, the woman was gone and the trailer was up for sale she couldn’t find out what happened and the phone number was disconnected that her son gave her. This happened in 1977
I believe your story - but some parts are hard to believe. Rainbow-hued pictures like you describe do exist - on our Euro-bills we have since 2002. These holograms are really hard to fake - even today. I think they could have existed already in 1977. The tracking device inside that card would have been possible - too. The problem back then would have been the hardware to track it. Very big, very expensive - and a nuclear powerplant would have been needed to power it. Remember how big and heavy cb radios were? Those things had ~5 watts of power - with a range like a modern mobile phone. Those have 0.1 watts. Due to them working in the gigahertz-range - they need a lot less power. But that tech didn't exist back then. Plus: If they didn't even bother to check she returned it - they hardly took all that effort. And, being already a digital system - it could (and surely would) be easily erased - like a modern RFID key. Therefore, it would be useless. A dead alien, or even an anatomy, wouldn't be hard to fake. Yes, it's obviously easier to fake in a movie (in particular, in grainy black&white) - but I guess she wasn't directly in the room - but watched it through a window. From a certain distance, and, through a wire-glass window (common at the time) - it might have looked 100% real. In particular if they were hush-hush about it ("you aren't supposed to see this"). The main reason why I'm sure it wasn't real - if aliens exist and they have the tech to travel to us - they are very, very advanced. Like a former German astronaut once said: "If they're able to travel all the way - it's hard to believe they crash here". They would be as advanced to us as we are to ants. They would surely watch us - out of curiosity. After all, we are like them - hundreds or even thousands of years ago. But they would avoid getting noticed. We are pretty busy killing each other. We already have the weapons to destroy this planet many times. If we had invested all that money and effort into the progress of all mankind years ago - we could have stopped war, poverty and famine a long time ago. And a true alien contact could easy trigger WW3 - and kill us all. Because if one superpower would have access to their tech and another wouldn't - that might be enough to push the red button. And people leaving without a trace can also have many unrelated reasons. Like loan sharks - or angry ex-husbands. Nonetheless - a fascinating story.
@@stanislavczebinski994 The woman was real as for her story, I can’t say, she gave a lot more details but I was running long. She said she had ‘lost’ the badge and was issued a new one and found the original badge three years after she left, wedged in the seat of her car which were mostly metal in those days which is why they couldn’t track or find it. she only worked there for five years in the early 1960’s shortly before retiring. She knew they were testing potential weapons and aircraft and injuries were frequent which was why there were medical facilities on base. She knew they could track the badge because they gave her two weeks leave while they tracked it and made a new card after putting her through a series of tests and debriefings to see if she was hiding the card somewhere, they didn’t like letting people go because of security reasons.
might crash if it was their first trip , or if they got a bird in their intake vent or if their ' home town ' society had objections to their research & there was sabotage or mutiny? just saying anything's possibleol jk@@stanislavczebinski994
The secret is that he said for 1997. Titanic premiered in the US on December 19th and MIB had been in theaters since July 2nd. Titanic was actually in 7th place behind MIB, The Lost Word: JP, Liar Liar, Air Force One, Star Wars: IV Special Edition, and My Best Friend's Wedding . . . which is pretty respectable for being in theaters for only 12 days before the new year.
The comments about not having to have film developed is funny to me as I was listening to this like a podcast as I was developing some black and white film at home myself!
And all those digital photos people take do get checked by AI, and passed on to humans if flagged. So there are still people nosing around in our photos.
11:00 Let me get this right.. This Bender guy allegedly had a visit, they told him to keep his mouth shut or they would do indescribable things to him, he's so spooked and terrified that he can't eat for days, must be some awful stuff they have on him. He then writes a book about it and makes a bunch of money and nothing happens to him. Funny that.
They don’t wear black suits, they wear Edgar suits! Just a heads up to anyone considering dropping by Wild and Wonderful West Virginia for the Mothman Festival: the Ohio River Valley is not the prettiest part of the state, but the pepperoni rolls are fantastic. 🙂
According to John Oliver, the "saucer" description was to describe the movement, like a saucer skimming across a lake, rather than the shape of the object.
And it's fascinating how their shapes looked almost identical to the Horten 229... Which the US brought from Germany after the war. (I'm not saying it was what it was, but I like the idea.)
I can give you something more direct to cite in the future. "As I write this chapter, I have before me a transcript of an April 7, 1950 interview between Edward R. Murrow, the celebrated CBS newsman, and Kenneth Arnold, a civilian pilot who saw something peculiar near Mount Rainier in the state of Washington on June 24, 1947 and who in a way coined the phrase. Arnold claims that the newspapers 'did not quote me properly... When I told the press they mis-quoted me, and in the excitement of it all, one newspaper and another one got it so ensnarled up that nobody knew just exactly what they were talking about... These objects more or less fluttered like they were, oh, I'd say, boats on very rough water... And when I described how they flew I said that they flew like they take a saucer and throw it across the water. Most of the newspapers misunderstood and misquoted that, too. They said that I said that they were saucer-like; I said that they flew in a saucer-like fashon.'" -- p.70, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Darkness by Carl Sagan
@@ssokolow Saucer shaped objects (specifically with a dome on top) have been reported for thousands of years. Romans said flying shields with domes on top would fly around and watch their battles for days at a time. Whatever happened at Fatima in 1917 was witnessed by 10s of thousands of people, most people said they just saw a bright reflection but there were also engineers and physicists that also witnessed it and they described it as a highly reflective saucer shaped object. Sagan isnt a very good source on this topic as he clearly took ufos seriously until he started doing work for the us government. Sagan very influential on me when I was younger and I am extremely pissed off at him now because he wasnt being honest about what he actually thought was going on. This whole argument is essentially directly from goverment propaganda that Sagan clearly didnt believe but wrote anyway. It really isnt the gotcha you think it is for debunking ufos. Sagan knew this too. Sagan knew about the ancient reports of flying saucers because the goverment also had studies about these things. Sagan knew about the reports of what happened at Fatima. Sagan knew about the data that showed there were objects in geo-stationary orbits decades before anyone on earth had the technology to do it. Why didnt he ever mention any of this stuff in his books?
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 "Why didnt he ever mention any of this stuff in his books?" Probably because one of the core themes in The Demon-Haunted World is "quality of evidence". For example, it's very telling that the events in Fatima should have been visible far outside Fatima if what they claimed to see was actually happening. It reminds me of how the reports of mysterious airships at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century appeared on a schedule that matches ideas going viral on the telegraph systems of the time, occurred at the height of "yellow journalism" (i.e. "Slow news day? Make something up."), and were part of a larger pattern where the reported "UFOs" included reports of aliens claiming they were going to Cuba to fight the Spanish with their Hotchkiss guns (early machine guns), bicycle-powered airships, and naked women from Mars. ...or how it's telling that reports of alien abductions as we know them today first started occuring at a time rife with social anxiety surrounding the changing relationship between people and the world of medicine, when the colonoscopy was freshly invented, etc., and we didn't understand that hypnotic regression is tailor-made for asking the brain to create false memories to try to please the hypnotist. If Sagan believed in alien UFOs before and stopped believing in them once he started working for the government, it's probably because his work gave him access to higher-quality information, which allowed him to realize that reports were much more consistent with "the human brain is the most complex machine on Earth and it's buggy and glitchy" than with "aliens are visiting Earth". As for "Romans said flying shields with domes on top would fly around and watch their battles for days at a time", I'd want to trace that back to its original source. Skeptoid keeps pointing to Hyman's Categorical Imperative ("Do not try to explain something until you are sure there is something to be explained.") because SO much turns out to be "whether by accident or to sell books, reporting is one big game of telephone" and, when you look at the original sources, in the context the were originally from, you tend to find that the fantastical stuff was added later in the retelling... like the Byzantine art where it looks like UFOs until you look at the greater context and realize that you're seeing their standard visual symbols for biblical concepts, made less clear by blurry photos and lack of context.
I've been waiting for a new episode from a Simon Whistler channel to present an episode sponsored by Vessi for a while to speak to that product. My wife bought me a pair for Christmas 2023, partly to support Simon as she knows how much I enjoy his content (particularly Brain Blaze), and I can honestly say: Vessi's are legitimately such a great product, I wear mine every day, super comfortable, light, wear well, and conform to shape perfectly. Seriously, if you need some kicks, give them a look. I understand now why Simon has always seemed the most sincere in his promotion of Vessi. Thanks Simon and the team in the Whistler-verse for all the great stuff 🙏
Simon and Katy I just love the sarcasm. I do watch quite a lot of bigfoot, UFO and ancient alien type of TV as I do find it really enjoyable and funny as it's so "out there" 😂 Keep up the good work decoding.
"Is that the one where he draws on the Mona Lisa?" No, Simon, it's the one where he draws on yo momma! (The painting is called Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler)
When my grandfather passed away, there was the items from his life to look at and enjoy, or puzzle over. He was apparently the Chief UFO Officer on a military base during WWII. He had one single page document that was his duty assignment. He had never mentioned this to anyone. We couldn’t figure out if it was a joke and one of his friends just typed it on official paper, afterall, who would believe such a thing? Or a division set up post Roswell-incident as a PR department. We still crack jokes he had been one of the Men-In-Black before they were known.
The idea of making a movie franchise out of a secret organization isn't really all that far fetched. It's a type of social conditioning to normalize ideas that people may be hesitant to embrace. Movies and T.V. have been doing it for decades.
Princess mononoke is my favourite studio ghibli. Simon your kids will be old enough to start enjoying things like my neighbour totoro and kikis delivery service soon!! They are such a breath of fresh air compared to family-friendly animation from the west.
Personally, I think fifth element was the best movie that year. Cause: MUlTIPASS! I’m a “die hard” 5th element fan. And that space opera singer was the best !
A friend of mine once saw a light moving across the sky around midnight that he was 104% absolutely positive was an alien starship enroute to Proxima Centauri or something and not just a 747 red-eye flight from the airport that was like five miles north of him -- and then a few months later some guy in a black suit and shades that he was staring at for several minutes began staring at him, which he was equally certain was connected... all of which just proves that I have some VERY odd friends -- but, dude in a black suit and stuff and things, yeah! :P
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 Nope, not really. He was always pointing at fairly mundane things and anointing them with some wild explanation or backstory that he seemed to genuinely believe. If he couldn't hear a jet engine or see a contrail, then it was probably a starship in his mind (I should also note that he lived pretty much directly under one of the flight paths from Tampa International).
@@olencone4005 To be honest I dont believe you. The average intelligence of people who view this type of content is very low so I dont trust your perception of things. Maybe your friend does think every light in the sky is a ufo or maybe you are not as intelligent as you think you are. I'll never know. All I know is that unironically you consume youtube content like this so that is all I can go off of. The fact that you never bothered to ask your friend why he believes or thinks these things is very suspect to me. Its usually the hallmark of someone who cant think deeply.
I think i left a comment a few months ago on one of these videos suggesting that Simon do a video on the Men In Black. There aren't a lot of youtube videos that delve deep into this particular mystery so it'll be interesting to hear the story told by Simon.
A lot of the "debunk" is that "they're conspicuous and government agents don't dress conspicuous." The problem with this is that during that era those things were normal and not conspicuous at all.
I was going to leave a review but suddenly two men wearing suits showed up. Now all I remember was a standard "warographics" episode on Ukraine. Strange. 10/10. Another great video
1:53 -Simon doesn't have time for fiction fantasy bullshit like Star Wars! He only indulges in refined taste movies grounded in reality! Movies like Face-off where Nick Cage shoots a kid on a merry go round, grabs a nun's boob during a rendition of hallelujah and wears John Travolta's face to get even with John Travolta for wearing HIS face! Also Mr. Bean, which is explained enough by the title alone!
I know Simon is just reading these scripts, but some of the ways he pronounces well known words LOL. One of these days he's going to call the Mona Lisa the "Mon Ilisa"
Love how Simon didn't recognize that each title was another quote from the song!... Even after quoting it in the beginning 😂 And now it's stuck in my head 😅
I looked up 1939 in movies. HOLY SHIT! Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Jamaica Inn, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and that's just the highlights.
We went to Point Pleasant in May and the weirdest thing to me now is that there is a live cam on the statue! It's a good tourist magnet. That's about it.
@careyfincher915 that was just a poor attempt at a fallout 76 joke 🤣 I'm sure the game has brought him to more peopled attention and therefore some WILD things on that camera
@@scottneil1187 Yes where the horror and violence is replaced with humor and occult parts are removed and replaced with aliens. I am waiting for a better movie adaption closer to the original work.
I wonder if Kenneth Arnold drank too much coffee before he got in his plane. In the area where he was reported to have been flying, lenticular clouds are very prevalent in that area due to all the mountains, and lenticular clouds tend to look like flat plates.
Also, Al Gore visited the military hospital where I worked during his vice-presidential tenure. Right after we heard that he was coming there were a bunch of people wandering around the hospital wearing trench coats (not necessarily black) with wires coming out of the collars. This was during a very hot July, so they were the only ones wearing coats. In other words, they couldn't have been more obvious if they carried signs declaring they were Secret Service agents. I had to deliver a document to the ward in the part of the hospital overlooking where Al Gore was speaking, and I walked past someone in a tan trench coat who was sitting next to the window overlooking the location. I figured they were there to make sure no one was going to try to assassinate anyone from that window., and I was rather surprised they let me walk past without at least asking me what I was doing there.
This was actually very informative. Not surprising, but I thought MIB was a comic book before it was a movie franchise, I didn't realize it was an actual conspiracy theory back in the day. Keep it up with the great videos!
So I used to dress like a man in black in college. Had a wide brimmed formal hat even. I was leaving an apartment party in the middle of the night to get back to my dorm. Three sorority girls were across the street leaving a frat party to the apartment complex I had come from. The clicking of my Oxford shoes was the only noise I was making. They took off running yelling about a ghost. I was three girls ghost story. I remained aloof the entire time. Never broke stride, never turned my head, I was dead set on my 2km walk and a bit tipsy.
I heard a story a long time ago, way before the movie came out. It was about a family that my friend knew way out in Kentucky. They saw some ufo or something. They said these men in black showed up and told them not to talk about it. I was young. I never heard of them before, it sent chills down my spine. Who knows? This was in the early 90's when I heard it. There have been stories before the movie is all I can say.
Honestly, if I found out that Men in Black were true I wouldn't be surprised. Having said that, I'm not sure it would change my life significantly. There is a ton of things going on in the world that I have no control over. Go ahead and do your thing.
How have 892 people already viewed this one hour and nine minute long episode that only aired 15 minutes ago? Talk about decoding mysterious happenings.
Titanic debuted in theaters December 19, 1997 while Men In Black debuted July 2, 1997. So Men In Black was a summer blockbuster. The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Titanic grossed more than Men In Black, but my guess is that the writer didn’t count the money that Titanic made in 1998 (since it was a December release).
30:53 -so his time being pampered by a harem of women rubbing oil in his every ceevice made him immune to "the dreaded disease" did it? Who wants to bet he's refering to E.D.?
So, as a former LEO who worked in a county that had a large military base. The military worked with us to keep the public away from certain areas. Yes, the military would send us to talk to people who may have seen things or entered an area they weren't supposed to be in. We were just the initial contact. Our role was to determine what they saw and send the report up the chain. I can verify that our role was to make the initial contact and gather information. The public was more open to speaking with deputies over a military official. Did we get reports of UFOs...yeah, we did. Was there any truth to it? No. What the people saw was a military night flight of at the time, the new F22 Raptor, which was an unusual sight since it was just being used. We would assure the public that it's just a new plane being flown by the military. The plane at this time wasn't secret, just new and odd looking compared to the planes the public was use to seeing in that area.
Princess Mononoke is amazing and you can watch it with your kids Simon! It's by the same guy who made spirited away. His stuff is for kids but also super enjoyable for adults as well! It's a difficult balance lol
So not a kids movie and Princess Mononoke has cgi for the demonic ulcer thing Ashitaka has on his arm. They made a special Software for merging cgi and 2D so it looks weirder
I had some unknown people escort me to a controlled facility once when I was much younger. It was specifically for something I had discovered on a platform that was used by other people for very bad things. Unfortunately, I was grouped in with these not great people, but was thoroughly questioned about my involvement. What was strange is that I was old enough to know I could be in trouble if I didn't go, but not young enough that my parents were concerned that I wasn't home after school.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 something something indefinite agreement. I was doing some bug bounty stuff, but it was well before companies embraced that sort of activity. Big company with a highly used service had a severe fault in it - that was being actively exploited by very bad people, and I happened to come across it based on some of the information I had heard about at the time. Really wasn't hard to figure out, and even more amazing that it wasn't patched immediately. Long story short, I could rce other people with zero-click. Literally was in the process of putting together a POC and was escorted to an unmarked building after school one day. I can assume whom they worked for/reported to, but it was one of those things that was serious enough I didn't ask questions, and I was naïve enough to tell them everything. I mean, I wasn't doing anything specifically wrong, but the Computer Abuse/Fraud act is pretty all-inclusive for a reason. The experience was just weird, unsettling, and uncanny how similar I've seen it depicted in some media.
I love the strange dissociation we have with the MIB. As if a black suit or uniform is suspicious, and not the symbol of modest professionalism in virtually every industry for like 1000 years.
1:45 - Mid roll ads 2:50 - Back to the video 4:55 - Chapter 1 - Walk in shadow, move in silence 19:25 - Chapter 2 - No names & no fingerprints 25:00 - Chapter 3 - Galaxy defenders 28:45 - Chapter 4 - The worst scum of the universe 36:45 - Chapter 5 - Interlude ; shades of gray 44:05 - Chapter 6 - What you think you saw you did not see 1:05:20 - Chapter 7 - The good guys dress in black remember that 1:07:10 - Chapter 8 - What was there is now gone
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Get them to offer free shipping to the UK and I'll order them
Europe in general would be nice.
I mean, you've got so many European followers, why hasn't there been a single sponsorship\ promotion we can actually make use of?
Serious question about Vessi...how are they with walking up to 8 miles a day on asphalt and through the woods? My job requires some pretty harsh terrain and such...
How do Vessi work? It’s magic!
True Story. I lived on a small military base in SW GA. (1998) I was driving at night and the lighting wasnt very great. I was digging in my purse and wasnt paying attention and hit a parked car. Since it was on base, the MPs came to check it out. I had to tell the story of my idiocy multiple times. The Base Accident Invesgetor showed up and wanted me to tell the story yet again. Since it was a small base, we kind of all knew each other or were friends if friends, so he knew i was Chief's Wife. My natural Smart A$$ surfaced. I told him that a large glowing object was in the middle of the road and small green man was there waving his arms and i swerved to avoid him. He laughed and i again told him that i was an idiot, was distracted and hit a parked car. He also told me that it was good that i swerved because the "Spaceship" was probably stronger than my car snd the Little Green Man probably didnt have insurance. Got my warning, had the car towed and went on with life. Two days later, a car pulled up at my house. A man in a black suit got out with a stack of paper. When i answered the door, the man flashed a badge and said "I am Agent So and So from the Secret Service.". I blurted out "Who the hell believed the Little Green Man?". I got a very confused look. He was actually there to ask some questions about a neighbor. My neighbor was a Marine Corps Officer who was applying to join the Secret Service, and wanted a charcter reference. I happily gave a good reference (the guy and his wife were great people). I explained the story to the agent. He got a good laugh and said he would have to tell his office mates. I asked him "You didnt use the flashy thing on me did you?". He replied "You wouldn't know if I did". Touche Secret Agent Man! Good times
Stories like this are why I love reading the comment section!
Class! xxx
@amandagfuller there's occasionally some absolute nuggets hidden in the comments 😂
Fort Benning or Moody? Lol. I was stationed as Robins in middle ga. We have a large flat radar system here that is so far in the backwoods that kids drive out there to.party or make out. When I was assigned perimeter we would get alerts of breaches, sure enough pull up in night gear no lights surround them and hit em with the floodlights. Ive seen more naked stupid teens than I care to. But it's not a marked building and there are only warning signs. Once you see the perimeter fence, we already have you face first in the dirt. But we did tell them that's where we keep the aliens and the alien craft actually look more like Y-Wing fighters from Star Wars. It's since been declassified. But still very much off limits without clearance .
Nice response, Secret Service. I didn’t think they had a sense of humor. Not as protocol, just a sort of prerequisite.
Julian forced me to add the Solway Spaceman bit so he could use the Simon as Little Girl asset.
Seems like Julian could moonlight as a super villain in a kids cartoon show :)
@@AaronScottLawford Can't. I already moonlight as an editor.
I mean, if you have the asset it'd be silly not to use it.
@VulianJu, this was really one of my favorite eps due majorly to the editing awesomeness that took place 👏👏👏
You guys have some weird kinks... 😜
At this point government employees dress up as MIB as a joke. I recall a story from (I think FCC) guy who had a job driving around in van loaded up with antennas, a crap ton of electronics in the back and no markings. The job was to drive around and test the radio signals being broadcast in that area. Basically making sure AT&T and Verizon aren't lying and stealing frequency. This meant they would drive in residential neighborhoods all the time and sometimes it would elicit potentially dangerous reactions from some people, police pulling them over happened often enough. So it became a kind of a rule that they would wear some sort of professional looking clothes (suit & tie) and to wave at anyone who looks at them. It created a kind of disarming weirdness.
If you can’t avoid weirdos just be weirder lol
They don’t, it was just copying the idea of the military uniformity. By having everyone dressed in a uniform style it forces a sense of being of a single entity. It was also benefits in another way, the suit as we know it today was developed a British man who went to parties in the 19th century but didn’t look like his military peers, he developed the suit as a civilian version of officers uniform. Give it 200 odd years people forget the suit is basically a military uniform, as a result suit incidentally gives off more social influence and pressure as the Milgram alternative social influence studies found. So wearing a suit as an agent makes perfect sense when dealing with civilians they are much more likely to compile than desist orders/requests from a man dressed in a suit than in a pair of jeans and t-shirt.
@@michaelf.2449my outlook exactly like when people are miserable and do everything to avoid talking to you I start asking them random questions so I can get a reaction 😂😂😂
just like Hal running a pirate radio station in Malcom in the Middle lol
Princess Mononoke (Mono-noke-ee) is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. Ghibli Studios can do no wrong. Didn't know it was from 97 though.
Mo-no-no-kay not kee
@@benjaminmalisheski6494 Mononokeh not mononokay or mononokee.
It's a fantastic film Simon will unfortunately never probably watch
"Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal" was better....
@@MattCombs-ge7kiif there were any animated films that Simon should watch it's any and all Studio Ghibli films. Maybe if enough of us become channel members on Brain Blaze we could convince him through giving him money to watch at least one?
Project McUltra sounds like the McDonald's initiative to make larger value meals
You're on the right track, but it was actually a project to fix the ice cream machines
If they are gonna charge that much they damn sure better give me something more than a sliced hockey puck burnt to a crisp with possible the oldest lettuce known to man a squirter of thousand Island and 35 pickles when I said none, then bitch because I ask for it to be remade (im allergic to.pickle, so just a little Mayo instead of sauce) they need to get working o that plan
The Australian Macca's soft-serve ice-cream machines don't have this problem of never working.
Sounds like an awesome McDonalds's new value meal... complete with fries and drinks
😂
The fact that you put in a DBZA clip in a video about men in black is worth a sub.
I came here for this comment
@@RevusXi came
@@RevusXyou just know Simon would be watching the vid back like "wtf is this shit".
24:04 Project McUltra! LMAOOOO. When Ronald gets all clandestine with it
The funniest part is that he's explained in MANY other videos that he mispronounced MK ultra the first time he saw it.
Scrolled for this lest I repeat the joke. Great minds! Also people here!
Same. McUltra?!? Again?!? Simon knows better but gives 0 McFucks
I heard they fed a guy McNuggets for 74 days straight while playing the hamburgler theme song
True story @@davidcox6454 I knew that guy. He didn't use any sauce on his nugs, just dipped them in salt
So much credit to the writer on the various lines from the Will Smith song being used throughout, especially the casual one like "vivid memories, turn to fantasies". I think Simon didn't even catch a few of them. Well done.
You should definitely see LA Confidential Simon, it’s my favorite movie.
It’s flawless.
Agreed, it's absolutely fantastic 👍🏼
Sooo underrated
Add my vote. Great movie, really top draw.
He likes face off. Pretty sure he wouldn't get la confidential.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx Hell I like Face/Off too, it’s beautifully ridiculous, but L.A. Confidential is perfect.
My Aunt lived in a trailer park and made friends with a woman in a neighboring park where a woman lived who was a registered Nurse and she claimed to have worked at Area 51 my Aunt wanted to meet her and when she did the woman told her about a lot of strange things but the strangest was the fact that she saw an examination room with strange looking beings with large completely hairless heads, large, black, almond shaped eyes and translucent looking grayish skin that seemed a bit metallic. She also showed my Aunt her badge from the facility she kept it taped under a kitchen drawer wrapped in several layers of aluminum foil she forgot to return it when she retired and the badge was strange, it had a metallic looking strip on one side that had very small strange oval ‘Dots’ along it that were rainbow hued a picture of her, much younger and a black, slightly translucent square that had a slight metallic sheen, the woman said that when the card was in one of the desk readers ‘C-7’ appeared in the black square but the door readers only used the metal strip. Other than that the card was completely blank but seemed stiffer, harder and heavier than a plastic card. When asked why she hid it that way she said: they can track it unless I cover it in foil. My Aunt came to visit her several times and on one of her visits she saw a strange black Cadillac parked in front of her trailer so she drove up the street to her friends house and watched as two men dressed all in black with dark sunglasses came out of her trailer and gave her a paper bag which my Aunt learned was Gin. The next time my Aunt came, her son was there and told my Aunt not to give his mother booze because she gets drunk and may have an accident, when my Aunt told him the men in the black Cadillac gave her it, he went white as a sheet and seemed to start trembling he told her not to tell anyone about them and for God’s sake don’t get seen with her or seen talking to her by them and he gave her his number and said call if she sees them at his mom’s again and rushed off. A few days later, the woman was gone and the trailer was up for sale she couldn’t find out what happened and the phone number was disconnected that her son gave her. This happened in 1977
I believe your story - but some parts are hard to believe.
Rainbow-hued pictures like you describe do exist - on our Euro-bills we have since 2002. These holograms are really hard to fake - even today.
I think they could have existed already in 1977.
The tracking device inside that card would have been possible - too. The problem back then would have been the hardware to track it. Very big, very expensive - and a nuclear powerplant would have been needed to power it. Remember how big and heavy cb radios were? Those things had ~5 watts of power - with a range like a modern mobile phone. Those have 0.1 watts. Due to them working in the gigahertz-range - they need a lot less power. But that tech didn't exist back then.
Plus: If they didn't even bother to check she returned it - they hardly took all that effort.
And, being already a digital system - it could (and surely would) be easily erased - like a modern RFID key. Therefore, it would be useless.
A dead alien, or even an anatomy, wouldn't be hard to fake. Yes, it's obviously easier to fake in a movie (in particular, in grainy black&white) - but I guess she wasn't directly in the room - but watched it through a window. From a certain distance, and, through a wire-glass window (common at the time) - it might have looked 100% real. In particular if they were hush-hush about it ("you aren't supposed to see this").
The main reason why I'm sure it wasn't real - if aliens exist and they have the tech to travel to us - they are very, very advanced. Like a former German astronaut once said: "If they're able to travel all the way - it's hard to believe they crash here".
They would be as advanced to us as we are to ants. They would surely watch us - out of curiosity. After all, we are like them - hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
But they would avoid getting noticed. We are pretty busy killing each other. We already have the weapons to destroy this planet many times. If we had invested all that money and effort into the progress of all mankind years ago - we could have stopped war, poverty and famine a long time ago.
And a true alien contact could easy trigger WW3 - and kill us all. Because if one superpower would have access to their tech and another wouldn't - that might be enough to push the red button.
And people leaving without a trace can also have many unrelated reasons. Like loan sharks - or angry ex-husbands.
Nonetheless - a fascinating story.
@@stanislavczebinski994 The woman was real as for her story, I can’t say, she gave a lot more details but I was running long. She said she had ‘lost’ the badge and was issued a new one and found the original badge three years after she left, wedged in the seat of her car which were mostly metal in those days which is why they couldn’t track or find it. she only worked there for five years in the early 1960’s shortly before retiring. She knew they were testing potential weapons and aircraft and injuries were frequent which was why there were medical facilities on base. She knew they could track the badge because they gave her two weeks leave while they tracked it and made a new card after putting her through a series of tests and debriefings to see if she was hiding the card somewhere, they didn’t like letting people go because of security reasons.
might crash if it was their first trip , or if they got a bird in their intake vent or if their ' home town ' society had objections to their research & there was sabotage or mutiny? just saying anything's possibleol jk@@stanislavczebinski994
I'm so glad that "in the year 2000" reference was included. I was starting to think i was the only one who remembered that
Old school Conan was the shyt
I sing it all the time and also no one seems to know what I'm doing. Or maybe it just isn't funny.
It was so good when they kept it going after 2000.
in 3535
That pronunciation of Princess Mononoke almost made my ears fall off whistleboy 😵💫 .... 😁
Simon's mind is an etch-a-sketch, one good shake to wipe it clean.
I'm gonna steal that for a few people in my life who need to hear it about themselves.
He does too many videos, in the eyes out the mouth.
@@narrator69 Love that. Can I borrow it? More for myself than others...
21:12 That's not an astronaut, it's The Stig!
It's not the stig, but it's the stig's youtubing cousin!
70's stig?
"Some say he was once mistaken for an astronaut in Cardiff, and one of his testicles is mounted backwards."
Crying at the censoring out if the Batnipples in the intro 😂
Men in Black outgrossing Titanic at the start is wild 🤯
The secret is that he said for 1997. Titanic premiered in the US on December 19th and MIB had been in theaters since July 2nd. Titanic was actually in 7th place behind MIB, The Lost Word: JP, Liar Liar, Air Force One, Star Wars: IV Special Edition, and My Best Friend's Wedding . . . which is pretty respectable for being in theaters for only 12 days before the new year.
as one who was teenager back then, its not surprising! will smith & MiB where HUGE back then!
Right?
'Cause it's better! 😏
It's still a better movie. Titanic is cheesy af. 100% cliche.
Been having a ROUGH, emotional day; seeing a new DTU episode (written by Katy) made me smile! Thanks
Hope your day got a little better!
@@katywatson4940It did, thanks! Take-out food and the video soothed the soul 😊
Only calling it “project McUltra” from now on 😂
Holy shit Simon you should watch all of those movies they are great, especially Princess Mononoke.
Princess Mononoke remains my favorite movie.
Yeah, but Batman and Robin not so much.
But.... then Simon might actually, u know, know something about movies???
Maybe you missed the part where he said he loves face off. All those other movies are beyond him. His tastes are a joke.
The comments about not having to have film developed is funny to me as I was listening to this like a podcast as I was developing some black and white film at home myself!
And all those digital photos people take do get checked by AI, and passed on to humans if flagged. So there are still people nosing around in our photos.
I appreciate how many song lyrics there are in this episode
There were a lot of
7:40 I was not expecting a DBZA clip, but I'm so happy it was there!
(Return of Coolers Revenge 2: The Reckoning)
The editor, I believe it's Katy, seems to be a big TFS fan. They sneak in a lot of DBZA and even Hellsing Abridged!
You have not seen PRINCESS MO-NO-NO-KE?!?! Watch it ASAP. So amazing.
Definitely watch it fact boi!
It’s my favorite movie of all time
This
Simon doesn't like anime so it's unlikely
@@TNickGuyPersonit's not like the stereotypical anime it's like Japanese version of Disney
11:00 Let me get this right.. This Bender guy allegedly had a visit, they told him to keep his mouth shut or they would do indescribable things to him, he's so spooked and terrified that he can't eat for days, must be some awful stuff they have on him. He then writes a book about it and makes a bunch of money and nothing happens to him. Funny that.
OK someone needs to write a novel about conspiracy theories in Scotland and call it ‘Project McUltra’.
Yass 😂
as a writer from scotland, I might just give that a go
They don’t wear black suits, they wear Edgar suits! Just a heads up to anyone considering dropping by Wild and Wonderful West Virginia for the Mothman Festival: the Ohio River Valley is not the prettiest part of the state, but the pepperoni rolls are fantastic. 🙂
According to John Oliver, the "saucer" description was to describe the movement, like a saucer skimming across a lake, rather than the shape of the object.
And it's fascinating how their shapes looked almost identical to the Horten 229... Which the US brought from Germany after the war.
(I'm not saying it was what it was, but I like the idea.)
I can give you something more direct to cite in the future.
"As I write this chapter, I have before me a transcript of an April 7, 1950 interview between Edward R. Murrow, the celebrated CBS newsman, and Kenneth Arnold, a civilian pilot who saw something peculiar near Mount Rainier in the state of Washington on June 24, 1947 and who in a way coined the phrase. Arnold claims that the newspapers 'did not quote me properly... When I told the press they mis-quoted me, and in the excitement of it all, one newspaper and another one got it so ensnarled up that nobody knew just exactly what they were talking about... These objects more or less fluttered like they were, oh, I'd say, boats on very rough water... And when I described how they flew I said that they flew like they take a saucer and throw it across the water. Most of the newspapers misunderstood and misquoted that, too. They said that I said that they were saucer-like; I said that they flew in a saucer-like fashon.'"
-- p.70, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Darkness by Carl Sagan
@@ssokolow Saucer shaped objects (specifically with a dome on top) have been reported for thousands of years. Romans said flying shields with domes on top would fly around and watch their battles for days at a time. Whatever happened at Fatima in 1917 was witnessed by 10s of thousands of people, most people said they just saw a bright reflection but there were also engineers and physicists that also witnessed it and they described it as a highly reflective saucer shaped object. Sagan isnt a very good source on this topic as he clearly took ufos seriously until he started doing work for the us government. Sagan very influential on me when I was younger and I am extremely pissed off at him now because he wasnt being honest about what he actually thought was going on. This whole argument is essentially directly from goverment propaganda that Sagan clearly didnt believe but wrote anyway. It really isnt the gotcha you think it is for debunking ufos. Sagan knew this too. Sagan knew about the ancient reports of flying saucers because the goverment also had studies about these things. Sagan knew about the reports of what happened at Fatima. Sagan knew about the data that showed there were objects in geo-stationary orbits decades before anyone on earth had the technology to do it. Why didnt he ever mention any of this stuff in his books?
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 "Why didnt he ever mention any of this stuff in his books?" Probably because one of the core themes in The Demon-Haunted World is "quality of evidence". For example, it's very telling that the events in Fatima should have been visible far outside Fatima if what they claimed to see was actually happening.
It reminds me of how the reports of mysterious airships at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century appeared on a schedule that matches ideas going viral on the telegraph systems of the time, occurred at the height of "yellow journalism" (i.e. "Slow news day? Make something up."), and were part of a larger pattern where the reported "UFOs" included reports of aliens claiming they were going to Cuba to fight the Spanish with their Hotchkiss guns (early machine guns), bicycle-powered airships, and naked women from Mars.
...or how it's telling that reports of alien abductions as we know them today first started occuring at a time rife with social anxiety surrounding the changing relationship between people and the world of medicine, when the colonoscopy was freshly invented, etc., and we didn't understand that hypnotic regression is tailor-made for asking the brain to create false memories to try to please the hypnotist.
If Sagan believed in alien UFOs before and stopped believing in them once he started working for the government, it's probably because his work gave him access to higher-quality information, which allowed him to realize that reports were much more consistent with "the human brain is the most complex machine on Earth and it's buggy and glitchy" than with "aliens are visiting Earth".
As for "Romans said flying shields with domes on top would fly around and watch their battles for days at a time", I'd want to trace that back to its original source. Skeptoid keeps pointing to Hyman's Categorical Imperative ("Do not try to explain something until you are sure there is something to be explained.") because SO much turns out to be "whether by accident or to sell books, reporting is one big game of telephone" and, when you look at the original sources, in the context the were originally from, you tend to find that the fantastical stuff was added later in the retelling... like the Byzantine art where it looks like UFOs until you look at the greater context and realize that you're seeing their standard visual symbols for biblical concepts, made less clear by blurry photos and lack of context.
That is correct, the original report said they were Delta shaped objects
The photo with the weird astronaut and alien men in black give me river song doctor who vibes 😂
Hearing Simon read out Slipknot lyrics was not something i expected to hear today. Nicely done, Katy
I've been waiting for a new episode from a Simon Whistler channel to present an episode sponsored by Vessi for a while to speak to that product. My wife bought me a pair for Christmas 2023, partly to support Simon as she knows how much I enjoy his content (particularly Brain Blaze), and I can honestly say: Vessi's are legitimately such a great product, I wear mine every day, super comfortable, light, wear well, and conform to shape perfectly. Seriously, if you need some kicks, give them a look. I understand now why Simon has always seemed the most sincere in his promotion of Vessi. Thanks Simon and the team in the Whistler-verse for all the great stuff 🙏
I was watching simon walking through town yesterday and he actually did have vessi shoes on
Kudos to Katey! Loving the schmeckeling of the men in black song throughout! ❤
I NEVER expected Dragon Ball Z Abridged to be referenced on a Simon show, and yet here we are. Love to Julian
1:41 the “your mom” joke literally writes itself!!!
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
"Elvis didn't die; he just went home"
Perfect quote. 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 Simon has a big boy Avengers sippy-cup😂😂😂 I'm dying here! 😂 (I want one 🤩)
If I remember right it was from a gamersups advert he did on one of his channels.
Who else was totally singing the MIB song while clicking on this?? Very pleased to hear Simon singing it as well!
I was humming the theme music for Children of the Corn 🌽
Holy crap I have been waiting for you to cover this FOREVER!
This might be the earliest I've been for one of Simon's videos, I'm still catching up from the past year or two
Simon and Katy I just love the sarcasm. I do watch quite a lot of bigfoot, UFO and ancient alien type of TV as I do find it really enjoyable and funny as it's so "out there" 😂
Keep up the good work decoding.
"Is that the one where he draws on the Mona Lisa?"
No, Simon, it's the one where he draws on yo momma!
(The painting is called Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler)
Yes! This! Thank you, I was disappointed in Simon here xD
Came here to contribute this, so have a like in its stead 👍
Well played dear Commenter. Well played
Boom!
Went completely over Simons head. But then he wouldnt be Simon, if there werent at least a couple of those each video.
I was listening, not watching, the video so I didn't see the quoted text. Which means I heard "sorcerers" not "saucerers"😅.
When my grandfather passed away, there was the items from his life to look at and enjoy, or puzzle over.
He was apparently the Chief UFO Officer on a military base during WWII. He had one single page document that was his duty assignment. He had never mentioned this to anyone. We couldn’t figure out if it was a joke and one of his friends just typed it on official paper, afterall, who would believe such a thing? Or a division set up post Roswell-incident as a PR department.
We still crack jokes he had been one of the Men-In-Black before they were known.
Simon evolving from super-proper guy in a suit to t-shirt shaker bottle guy is hilarious.
The idea of making a movie franchise out of a secret organization isn't really all that far fetched. It's a type of social conditioning to normalize ideas that people may be hesitant to embrace. Movies and T.V. have been doing it for decades.
Now I'm hearing your post read by a space alien voiced by Seth Rogen 😅
Editor on point with the friendship ended meme.
That TFS clip had me howling! And we're not even 10 minutes in. 😂
Princess mononoke is my favourite studio ghibli. Simon your kids will be old enough to start enjoying things like my neighbour totoro and kikis delivery service soon!! They are such a breath of fresh air compared to family-friendly animation from the west.
LOOOVED each chapter's names, and I couldn't stop myself from singing along! 🤣
There were also loooooads of other lyrics sprinkled into the general script 🤫
Julian... lmfao you got me cracking up so much with yo dope edits ha ha
Personally, I think fifth element was the best movie that year. Cause: MUlTIPASS!
I’m a “die hard” 5th element fan.
And that space opera singer was the best !
A friend of mine once saw a light moving across the sky around midnight that he was 104% absolutely positive was an alien starship enroute to Proxima Centauri or something and not just a 747 red-eye flight from the airport that was like five miles north of him -- and then a few months later some guy in a black suit and shades that he was staring at for several minutes began staring at him, which he was equally certain was connected... all of which just proves that I have some VERY odd friends -- but, dude in a black suit and stuff and things, yeah! :P
You ever bother to ask him why he thought that specific light was a ufo?
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 Nope, not really. He was always pointing at fairly mundane things and anointing them with some wild explanation or backstory that he seemed to genuinely believe. If he couldn't hear a jet engine or see a contrail, then it was probably a starship in his mind (I should also note that he lived pretty much directly under one of the flight paths from Tampa International).
@@olencone4005 To be honest I dont believe you. The average intelligence of people who view this type of content is very low so I dont trust your perception of things. Maybe your friend does think every light in the sky is a ufo or maybe you are not as intelligent as you think you are. I'll never know. All I know is that unironically you consume youtube content like this so that is all I can go off of. The fact that you never bothered to ask your friend why he believes or thinks these things is very suspect to me. Its usually the hallmark of someone who cant think deeply.
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 you mean spaceship to Proxima Centuri?
😂😂😂 I want to believe.
the DBZA bit... has given me a deeper respect for simon than what i already had.. that was GOLD
I think i left a comment a few months ago on one of these videos suggesting that Simon do a video on the Men In Black. There aren't a lot of youtube videos that delve deep into this particular mystery so it'll be interesting to hear the story told by Simon.
Hope you liked it!
@@katywatson4940 I really enjoyed it, thank you. Also, great job on the editing :)
5:35 love this deep cut meme 🤣
Good writing from Katy and also I love the editing on this.
A lot of the "debunk" is that "they're conspicuous and government agents don't dress conspicuous." The problem with this is that during that era those things were normal and not conspicuous at all.
Last night, literally just last night, I was listening to an old Art Bell show about Men in Black. Now, I’m convinced they are following me.
No, they are not. You did not see anything. 😎
Most definitely are following you.
I was going to leave a review but suddenly two men wearing suits showed up. Now all I remember was a standard "warographics" episode on Ukraine. Strange.
10/10. Another great video
1:53 -Simon doesn't have time for fiction fantasy bullshit like Star Wars! He only indulges in refined taste movies grounded in reality! Movies like Face-off where Nick Cage shoots a kid on a merry go round, grabs a nun's boob during a rendition of hallelujah and wears John Travolta's face to get even with John Travolta for wearing HIS face! Also Mr. Bean, which is explained enough by the title alone!
Great movie. Especially the cat scenes
Weird, it says i watched the whole episode but i dont remember anything, guess ill watch it again to refresh my memory real quick.
hahahaa project McUltra, where people were used to test new mcdonalds menu items
I'm loving all the references to the song 😂
I know Simon is just reading these scripts, but some of the ways he pronounces well known words LOL. One of these days he's going to call the Mona Lisa the "Mon Ilisa"
I love that even the editor was annoyed at Simon mispronouncing "Mononoke". XD
Love how Simon has just leaned in to McUltra thing😂
Love how Simon didn't recognize that each title was another quote from the song!... Even after quoting it in the beginning 😂
And now it's stuck in my head 😅
Titanic released in December 1997 and was in theaters for 10 months. Most of its box office was during 1998. MiB released in July 1997.
I looked up 1939 in movies. HOLY SHIT! Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Jamaica Inn, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and that's just the highlights.
We went to Point Pleasant in May and the weirdest thing to me now is that there is a live cam on the statue! It's a good tourist magnet. That's about it.
Shhhhh don't anger the wise mothman, you say this during his equinox?! 😂
@@AtomicMama42 I am a risk taker lol also have indigenous lineage.
@careyfincher915 that was just a poor attempt at a fallout 76 joke 🤣 I'm sure the game has brought him to more peopled attention and therefore some WILD things on that camera
He's watching.
We just did stupid things like took pictures and looked for the trampoline stamp that had to be removed from the statue. Pretty classy place lol
The sight of Simon getting a big whiff of New Shoe Smell is going to haunt me.
OG Men in Black is a classic.
Ahhhh the good old days before the slap heard around the world.😂
Even more of a success when you consider it's an early comic book adaption.
@@scottneil1187 Yes where the horror and violence is replaced with humor and occult parts are removed and replaced with aliens.
I am waiting for a better movie adaption closer to the original work.
I’ve been waiting for this bad boy
100% you guys need to do a script about Headless Valley in Canada
“Saucerer” sounds like the title of an exceptional pasta chef
"McUltra" lmao
The crescent shaped original flying saucers? Horten Ho 229. Honorable mention: Avro Canada VZ-9 🛸
I wonder if Kenneth Arnold drank too much coffee before he got in his plane. In the area where he was reported to have been flying, lenticular clouds are very prevalent in that area due to all the mountains, and lenticular clouds tend to look like flat plates.
Also, Al Gore visited the military hospital where I worked during his vice-presidential tenure. Right after we heard that he was coming there were a bunch of people wandering around the hospital wearing trench coats (not necessarily black) with wires coming out of the collars. This was during a very hot July, so they were the only ones wearing coats. In other words, they couldn't have been more obvious if they carried signs declaring they were Secret Service agents. I had to deliver a document to the ward in the part of the hospital overlooking where Al Gore was speaking, and I walked past someone in a tan trench coat who was sitting next to the window overlooking the location. I figured they were there to make sure no one was going to try to assassinate anyone from that window., and I was rather surprised they let me walk past without at least asking me what I was doing there.
This was actually very informative. Not surprising, but I thought MIB was a comic book before it was a movie franchise, I didn't realize it was an actual conspiracy theory back in the day. Keep it up with the great videos!
So I used to dress like a man in black in college. Had a wide brimmed formal hat even. I was leaving an apartment party in the middle of the night to get back to my dorm. Three sorority girls were across the street leaving a frat party to the apartment complex I had come from. The clicking of my Oxford shoes was the only noise I was making. They took off running yelling about a ghost. I was three girls ghost story. I remained aloof the entire time. Never broke stride, never turned my head, I was dead set on my 2km walk and a bit tipsy.
Blues Brothers.
If they were yelling about a ghost, they probably took you for a Shadow Man or a Hat Man or a Dark Watcher, rather than a Man in Black...😉😄
@@willmfrank I was just a guy, walking from riverside to my dorm.
@@willmfrankwow, there's that many variants now?
@@blackc1479 Oh yeah: The Why Files did a whole episode on them
I heard a story a long time ago, way before the movie came out. It was about a family that my friend knew way out in Kentucky. They saw some ufo or something. They said these men in black showed up and told them not to talk about it. I was young. I never heard of them before, it sent chills down my spine. Who knows? This was in the early 90's when I heard it. There have been stories before the movie is all I can say.
Next video: Simon needs to talk about Princess Mononoke for an hour at least.
Honestly, if I found out that Men in Black were true I wouldn't be surprised. Having said that, I'm not sure it would change my life significantly. There is a ton of things going on in the world that I have no control over. Go ahead and do your thing.
Mr Bean The Movie. Elite Sunday afternoon viewing.
Love the Slipknot reference thrown into the script. Solway Firth is a good song. 👍
How have 892 people already viewed this one hour and nine minute long episode that only aired 15 minutes ago? Talk about decoding mysterious happenings.
TH-cam counts a view as 5 mins or more.
@scottneil1187 oh okay. Didn't know that
@@jeremiah1059 if I watch it twice, does yt count it once (personal account) or twice (actual)?
Whooooo! Another fun one! This was a good one, too.
Ayyyy TFS reference
Aint that come in full circle? They used to be the one doing referenced, humor now they're the ones being referenced
@@Perry2186they are of the memes, they shall return to memes. the circle remains unbroken!
Titanic debuted in theaters December 19, 1997 while Men In Black debuted July 2, 1997. So Men In Black was a summer blockbuster. The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Titanic grossed more than Men In Black, but my guess is that the writer didn’t count the money that Titanic made in 1998 (since it was a December release).
30:53 -so his time being pampered by a harem of women rubbing oil in his every ceevice made him immune to "the dreaded disease" did it? Who wants to bet he's refering to E.D.?
So, as a former LEO who worked in a county that had a large military base. The military worked with us to keep the public away from certain areas. Yes, the military would send us to talk to people who may have seen things or entered an area they weren't supposed to be in. We were just the initial contact. Our role was to determine what they saw and send the report up the chain. I can verify that our role was to make the initial contact and gather information. The public was more open to speaking with deputies over a military official. Did we get reports of UFOs...yeah, we did. Was there any truth to it? No. What the people saw was a military night flight of at the time, the new F22 Raptor, which was an unusual sight since it was just being used. We would assure the public that it's just a new plane being flown by the military. The plane at this time wasn't secret, just new and odd looking compared to the planes the public was use to seeing in that area.
Katy, I thought the same thing about the soles of the shoes! Like... what the obvious?
I had never heard of Gray Barker before, but it makes me think twice about the character Gray Baker in the movie “Dead Again.”
It's been a minute, was that branaughs character? That was a good movie the first time.
I did not sing the MIB song but I do have a new obsession of checking the moth man cam. Thanks Simon. 🙄
Princess Mononoke is amazing and you can watch it with your kids Simon! It's by the same guy who made spirited away. His stuff is for kids but also super enjoyable for adults as well! It's a difficult balance lol
Plus all Ghibli films are done by hand-drawing each scene, so the detail is beyond exquisite.
So not a kids movie and Princess Mononoke has cgi for the demonic ulcer thing Ashitaka has on his arm. They made a special Software for merging cgi and 2D so it looks weirder
I had some unknown people escort me to a controlled facility once when I was much younger. It was specifically for something I had discovered on a platform that was used by other people for very bad things. Unfortunately, I was grouped in with these not great people, but was thoroughly questioned about my involvement. What was strange is that I was old enough to know I could be in trouble if I didn't go, but not young enough that my parents were concerned that I wasn't home after school.
What do you mean by "platform"? You've peaked my curiosity here but I don't want to pry. Sounds like an interesting experience.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 something something indefinite agreement. I was doing some bug bounty stuff, but it was well before companies embraced that sort of activity. Big company with a highly used service had a severe fault in it - that was being actively exploited by very bad people, and I happened to come across it based on some of the information I had heard about at the time. Really wasn't hard to figure out, and even more amazing that it wasn't patched immediately.
Long story short, I could rce other people with zero-click. Literally was in the process of putting together a POC and was escorted to an unmarked building after school one day. I can assume whom they worked for/reported to, but it was one of those things that was serious enough I didn't ask questions, and I was naïve enough to tell them everything. I mean, I wasn't doing anything specifically wrong, but the Computer Abuse/Fraud act is pretty all-inclusive for a reason. The experience was just weird, unsettling, and uncanny how similar I've seen it depicted in some media.
Computer progamming?
"Saucerers" is so much better than "ufologists" XD
I love the strange dissociation we have with the MIB. As if a black suit or uniform is suspicious, and not the symbol of modest professionalism in virtually every industry for like 1000 years.
Most people don't wear black suits.
@@economiccrisis9267 and hide their eyes and drive cars out of place and looking brand new.
The black suits sound like the wardrobe of those young Jehovah's Witnesses missionaries who go door to door.
@@NiniM8154Mormones are more monochrome than JW ,they have actually loosened their clothing regimente quite a bit lately..
1:45 - Mid roll ads
2:50 - Back to the video
4:55 - Chapter 1 - Walk in shadow, move in silence
19:25 - Chapter 2 - No names & no fingerprints
25:00 - Chapter 3 - Galaxy defenders
28:45 - Chapter 4 - The worst scum of the universe
36:45 - Chapter 5 - Interlude ; shades of gray
44:05 - Chapter 6 - What you think you saw you did not see
1:05:20 - Chapter 7 - The good guys dress in black remember that
1:07:10 - Chapter 8 - What was there is now gone
"McUltra: It's the sandwich H.W. and Dulles ate when actual hunger overcame the hunger to start a coup in a small foreign nation"