I'm not sure what sort of unicorn and rainbow nonsense Simon expected when he gave me this topic, but I'd say I succeeded in finding things he'd rather not know 🤷♂Here's hoping it gets enough views to mandate a sequel
I do wonder. Facts you'd rather not know are always scary or depressing. It's not like fun facts about your favorite zoo animals that kids would enjoy.
The fact that Kevin would call the police over a scull and his backyard is probably the most American thing I've ever heard next to Simon being so goddamn British and saying it's probably from an old battle or something
@@221b-l3t in some parts of the US it's like that, especially on the east coast. But in the west and Midwest, it's exceedingly unlikely you'll find anything. It's probably already been surveyed for one.
I certainly feel like I'd need to alert somebody to the presence of human bones, especially if there could be more, and I don't think there's a local anthropology society I can just call up. It's not like I'd call 911 or anything
Fecal particles should bother you. Pretty much everything you do in a bathroom means you are clean when you leave. Wasing hands, bathing, scrubbing your teeth... all cleansing. You probably inhaled more fecal material whilst shitting (proximity, convection of matter from the plopping of the pooping, your face over the main venting gap on the toilet seat. Your hand scooping out clouds of fecal rich air as you clean your arse. Your nose and tongue are chemical analysers. They are not psychic. They don't use radio waves. The chemical, your fecal matter, needs to make contact with them to register. Any time you smell shit, even a fart, you are consuming shit. And mostly it's harmless. So worrying about 'the plume' when you flush is pointless. Just was your hands.
I once lived in a house, and one of the disclosures that they had to make to us when it was purchased was that there were two bodies in the yard but that "it was okay, because they'd been investigated and it had been determined that the burials were at least a century ago." And I had a friend who was gifted a real human skull (legally - it had certification paperwork and a registration and stuff, apparently that's a thing) for her 50th birthday. She went on a three month trip about a year later, and was worried that if someone broke into her place, they might steal the skull, so a couple of our other friends 'babysat' it for her while she was on the trip. Life and death are both weird.
10:15 To Answer Simon's question about whether you need to report to the police if you find a skull in your garden, the answer is very much a *_YES_* . From what I can find, it can take as little as a few weeks for a body to skeletonise (depending on environmental conditions). Even if older, it is entirely possible that it could be from a cold case. There have been instances where new occupants at a property discover human remains (typically, human bones) that help uncover / solve old murders that had been committed by the previous occupant(s).
Not to mention the fact that it's not legal to own human remains unless you have medical certification or it belongs to you. I only know this because my best friend came up with an idea that the first one dies the other gets their skull we have two local funeral director and he told us we could not we were sad
@@khironkinney1667 Technically, you own your own skull, surely? And your body is your property; hence, why people are able to decide whether to donate their organs for transplant and/or their bodies for medical science research/education, etc. In that sense, could you not bequeath your skull to this friend of yours in your will?
If you call the police, they probably won't give the skull back and you'll never get to use it as a cup. You should never call the police anyway, and this is no exception.
My best friend died from a brain eating bacteria back in 2009. He was 48. Since there where only 16 million people in The Netherlands back then its such back luck. Thought that it happened more than I just learned from you. He was in a coma and was completly wet of sweat. Still miss him. RIP, Jacques.
Also, i live in Florida where that's not uncommon. It's why I make my kids stick to the ocean or functioning pools. It's usually a warm, freshwater microbe. My condolences.
So sorry for your loss. Of course you still miss him, time doesn’t really heal it just helps us learn ways to cope with their not being here, the closer we were the harder that is.
In most jurisdictions, the discovery of a skull might mean a grave, and grave robbing is usually very illegal, so always contact authorities to consult about a remains that could be human. Also, they found a king under a parking lot in England
Uh in most places skulls often mean someone has died, recently..... unfortunately actual proper graves rarely get unearthed compared to the amount of dead bodies found. It is a scary stat.
I can’t wait til Simon does the Chat GPT court case where the lawyer is being sanctioned for using it to file legal arguments in federal court. It completely made up cases it used and it’s hilarious. Love the content!
Hallucinations by AI are great. Bard insisted the other day that a photo of someone I know personally, and have since 2005, claimed he went by some name that is not his, nor even anyone in his family... i asked if it was sure, Bard insisted the photo was actually of this dude I'd never met. 😂
I like how he didn't just run out there recklessly and had the good foresight to type "Is that case fake?". The program said the program is right, and the program is right, so I think we're goo- I got disbarred.
20:08 "Caesarian" derives from the Latin word for "cut". As I recall, Julius Caesar inherited his surname from an ancestor who was delivered by the method (rather than the procedure being named for him). Ultimately his surname went on to become the title of Rome's emperors and transferred into other languages as "Kaiser" and "Tzar" among others.
I grew up in a house that had a barn used as a hospital during the Civil War. We had an acre sized garden and would find teeth, pieces of bone, coins, minnie balls (bullets), etc tilling. Even a knee that had obviously been amputated. Just a few weeks ago a crew digging footers found an old skeleton. It was determined to be "at least a century old" and work continued after the remains were moved to a nearby cemetery.
First construction site I worked at, in the early 80's, was an old plantation in York County, VA. When clearing the land a skeleton was discovered near the creek that surrounded the property. Work stopped and the police were called, who called historians from Yorktown Battlefield and it was later discovered to have been an African American male in his mid to late twenties from the 1800's. Several weeks later when cutting in the road to the property a large carved stone with faded writing was found. Had to stop and repeat the process as it was thought to be a head stone. The historians determined it was an old boundary marker that had probably been in the middle of what became the main highway that the property bordered and was probably just chucked to the side by workers when they were constructing the road.
Bravo Kevin for the brilliantly skin-crawling Demodex description! Watching Simon soldier on and quickly get overwhelmed by the horror of it all just like me, was amazing to watch! OMG! Eye Bleach seems like a great thing to do after watching this video!
I love these topics. So naturally the only one I didn't already know about was the Nightmare on Elm Street inspiration, and I just find that fascinating and would love to read a scientific paper on it.
I was very alarmed in microbiology to see just how dirty with microbes some places were.... like under some classmates nails. Apparently fake nails harbor a LOT of different life!
@@Memento_Mori_MoralsWe did this in sophomore year Biology and it was ew. We did swabs from between toes, behind ears, armpits, and underneath finger & toe nails. Back then, I thought our Biology teacher was going to have a coronary laughing when he saw oir reactios. The class was so disguted when we saw the growth on the slides. Our Biology teacher normally appeared to be half asleep teaching from the book or those ridiculous over head projector "films". Today, it'd be called it "death by Power Point"; but, it's the same thing, imo. I believe we all learned, during those hands-on "experiments", the importance or meaning of, "cleanliness is next to godliness", depending upon your spiritual alignment 🙂 Regardless, all these years later, I remember those lessons, remain grateful that I had them and can't help but help but laugh at Simon's reaction 🙂 Take care! ❤
That was great Kevin. I love to see him squirm. The only thing I can think of that would be funner would be to insert "effortlessly", and "anonymity" into the script several times especially multiple times and in a row.
Simon, I’m a professional macerator. Meaning I clean bones. I only do animal, but all of my clients have human specimens. Skulls, preserved organs, femurs, you name it. It’s remarkably cheap and easy to get in most states so long as the bones are old and we’re donated to science. If you aren’t picky about the proper papers you can get a “craft grade skull” or imperfect skull for less than 60$ us
@@homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541 absolutely! Not just that either. Abnormal brain specimens, real human tumors, femur head canes, human tooth rings, you name it you can buy it legally.
@@ThatWriterKevin the first time I used a glass pipe (for totally legal & legitimate substances of course), I did manage to send the lighter flame up the stem and burn off the tips of all my eyelashes, so…idk, wouldn’t want the mites coming for revenge!
5:37 we don’t have a dishwasher, so basically everytime someone washes up, the sponge and cloth gets put for washing (laundry), and then maybe once a week we do a tea towel, cloth and sponge wash, where I use like extra bacterial killing washing liquid and then we use all the clean, dried cloths again… it’s really not hard to stay hygienic even without a dishwasher tbh. But I never trusted washing up at work when I worked! Also, if you do own a dishwasher, please make sure you clean it all out regularly!
In the UK you are legally required to report any human remains you may discover. Even if they're found at the bottom of a grave in a former graveyard. We had this happen in 2012 when our neighbours wanted to do some digging on our boundary to check on the integrity of their underground car park. They were told that the ground around the church is a former graveyard, and this was a risk. The very first hole they dug opened the grave of a child. Even though the skeleton was at the bottom of a brick burial vault capped with a slate slab, we still had to call out the police and have them verify that there was nothing suspicious going on. Not coincidentally this was also the last hole the neighbours dug. On a related note, if a body is found part way down in a grave, that's a really bad thing. I knew a Vicar who had a case where a planned funeral was disrupted when the double grave was re-opened and they found a skeleton wrapped in black plastic bin bags three feet down. Needless to say the body was very much not supposed to be there.
I always like to point out that Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Masacre are all based on the same true story. Certainly you can see a lot of the same elements repeated, but let's not pretend these aren't rather different movies.
If Simon had been reading a 'Casual Criminalist' and someone found a skull in their garden and didn't phone the police he would be apoplectic 😂 Like deployed 👍
Kudos to that 12 year old girl who endured all that horrific treatment and had the strength of character to not only survive but to return to relative normality afterwards.
Wait until this becomes one of the most popular Brain Blaze videos and Simon is forced to make a follow up that everyone including him will hate yet we all will watch.
Fun fact: the Marquise de Sade described a device that was sort-of like a chainsaw. I won't go into detail about how he said it was to be used here, but it wasn't good.
I tried watching 4x but I drifted off each time and by the time I was back in he was off on some tangent so I gave up. I either have too much adhd or too little to follow coked up Simon. I wish I could read Danny's scripts. Or whichever one wrote this.
True. But, that same episode showed that a brand-new toothbrush straight out of the package also tested positive for fecal particles. So, even if your toothbrush has never seen the inside of a bathroom, it still probably has poop on it. And, in that situation, you know for a fact that it's some stranger's poop and not your own.
@@ThatWriterKevin Because I don’t get grossed out by what others may. I can eat while watching an abscess getting drained or an ingrown toenail getting removed 🤣 Plus, this video could have been about ANYTHING due to the title.
5:50 Maybe wash the sponge on the top rack of the dishwasher, so the high temperature wash sterilizes the sponge. And, when you rinse and then squeeze the excess water from your sponge after each use, and then let it dry thoroughly, it kills all of the microorganisms that were in it. This is because even those little critters need water to live. So, drying the sponge in between uses keeps contamination to a minimum. And when you give your kitchen sponge the heat treatment once a week, you'll have nothing to fear...as long as you don't use the sponge elsewhere.
I have 20 sponges and not one smells. The newest one is espresso machine grouphead only, the next steam wand only the next outside of the machine only, the next is only good enough for kitchen counter, the next is kitchen sink and dishwasher seal, then comes dining room table and gerenal surface sponge, kitchen floor sponge (and mop) and only then comes bathroom sink sponge, tub sponge, seperate defoliating sponge because I'm cheap, then I bathroom floor mop, then and only then comes the toilet sink sponge, toilet seat and cover sponge and finally at the very bottom the oldest and grosest, the toilet sponge for the inside. Each sponge begins at the coffee machine and progresses through it's life down to toilet sponge. Except for the last one which I haven't smelt haha they all smell nice. Because each one is always dried fully between uses. If your sponge stinks it didn't dry properly and is full of bacteria, billions, an entire ecosystem lives in a smelly sponge. How anyone would even touch a smelly sponge is beyond me. Remember kids, a dry sponge, is a happy sponge.
celebrating american independence by watching a British man school me on some pop culture. yep , that checks out. poop jokes first few minutes in * chefs kiss* lol
The nightmare death thing, I'm quite surprised there was no definitive cause of death found. The victims were sleep deprived which can already screw with lots of your physical systems including heart rate and blood pressure. I think it's pretty obvious that a severe shock after being in that state probably caused either a heart attack or brain hemorrhage.
Agreed; *NEVER* shall those sponges meet, however I find it odd that nobody ever thinks to put the sponge IN the dishwasher to have it boiled alive with the rest of the dishware.
I'm not sure, but I suspect it may potentially get damaged and leave sponge bits in the dishwasher. However, if that doesn't happen, you are a GENIUS. Now if only my place had a dishwasher....
Drinking game: take a shot whenever Simon says "I don't like this" or freaks out (for very good reasons). That way one can get drunk enough to forget some of this stuff :D
1:35 - Chapter 1 - A good cup of coffee 2:15 - Mid roll ads 4:40 - Back to the video 7:35 - Chapter 2 - Drinking out of cups 11:10 - Chapter 3 - Based on a true story 13:30 - Chapter 4 - Eyelash mites 15:40 - Chapter 5 - Brain eating amoebas 19:30 - Chapter 6 - Origins of the chainsaw
About 50 years ago they were laying new water pipes through a corner of my great-grandfather's field. While the excavator was digging, they noticed a skull. When they dug a little more carefully, they found the entire skeleton of a Turk with a flintlock pistol and a scimitar buried in a sitting position. Great-grandfather found a wooden box at home, packed all the bones, weapons and rings in it, and buried it under a tree next to our family cemetery. They didn't call the police because the Turks were expelled from our region 150 years earlier.
On the plus side, after all the doom of death amoebas and vaginal chainsaws, dishwashers are more environmentally friendly than washing up by hand, uses less energy and water per cycle than filling a sink and doing it all by hand, Greta woud be proud, assuming someone told her to be... :P
@@221b-l3t Who cares, she was made a public figure, and just like the "Don't tell Al Gore!" jokes, she'll be receiving them 'til she fades away too...
@@221b-l3t I'm british, and the Al Gore meme made it this far (he was trying to be an environmentalist, the "how dare you" of his era), and despite his power, nobody listened to him either and he has pretty much faded away, so to think a young woman could defeat a global cabal made of people with the opinion of "burn everything, fuck the environment" is pretty much a joke, for decades people have come and gone with their voices of change, prosperity and utopia, and, not much has changed, she's nothing special, just another fart in the jacuzzi that is life...
Idk I'm pretty sure putting nonstick pans in the dishwasher is both terrible for simon and his family and the environment. I think he's outdoing any point of "water conservation" points he might get by having to throw out pots and pans that would have lasted much longer if he just washed them by hand like he was supposed to. 🥴 He's just ruining a lot of good dishware because he can't be bothered to wash it by hand.
What a wonderfully horrid episode. But could not keep me from demolishing a bowl of funyuns. Might attempt to look at eyelash miets under the microscope at work tomorrow.
Ok, I couldn't resist... Simon begging me not to leave in the beginning had me stop right there and come back hours later xD I just want to see the world BUUUUUUURNNNN 🥳
Putting non stick pans in your dish washer makes the coating come off right? So everytime you use it after that the coating that is loosened up sticks to your food isn't that really toxic?
I love the idea that Squarespace discussed with Simon what content their ad would follow in this video. And some exec even had some suggestions of lines to throw in before the ad transition.
I took microbiology in college. Just that alone will change your entire outlook on life. I don’t give a shit 💩about the fecal stuff, but I’m super careful with my sponges, dish towels and dishes during the cleaning process, and cooking.
Close the lid before you flush to reduce that. If they redesigned the lid for the bowl, they could reduce that to almost none. It just need a lip that extends down over the seat and has a rubber gasket that seats on the bowl, like a dust ruffle for fecal matter.
ChatGPT got a question I asked it straight-up wrong the other day. I was chatting with a mate in media class about people who have achieved 'EGOT' status. An EGOT being an acronym for someone who has won all 4 major media awards. An Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. I asked ChatGPT to tell me who had won it and it said nobody ever had, followed by a list of around 6-7 people who had won 3, but were missing one. I knew this to be incorrect, so upon looking for the answer the conventional way I found out that in fact 18 people had won it. That included every single person on the 'almost' list that ChatGPT gave me. It surprised me that it could get the answer not just wrong, but SO wrong that it literally specified by name a whole list of people that had won it and said they hadn't. Not that interesting I know sorry, but it kinda shook my faith in the AI a bit that it could get something so easily verifiable wrong. (and it had nothing to do with the 2021 knowledge cut-off point either, I checked)
This channel is the best with an interesting dynamic. Simon is the host, but he is also the villain. The writer is the subjected people and the hero is the Editor saving the world by exposing Simon...
10:06 if you live in Scotland you are required by law to report it, even if it’s a recognized archeological site or part of one (ie: for some reason you bought land that was part of or close by the parish church or of a known burial site)
Non-sticky - so true. I put just about everything through the dishwasher. That's not true about the excretion about eyelash mites - they retain their digestive waste.
The eyelash mites look like water bears (Tardigrade) but with long tail! They may feast at will. They do also make really cool sci-fi travel adventures!
Simon, you are correct about the ceasarian section myth. I don't know if it has come up in one of your TH-cam videos, but you and Davin talked about it on the Brain Food Show podcast.
So, arguably fun fact: there are two types of mange a dog can get. One is the contagious sarcoptic mange (aka scabies), caused by the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The other is demodectic mange, non-contagious, caused by Demodex canis -- a cousin to the 'eyelash spiders'. I heard an anecdote once about a veterinary course on parasites and diseases, the prof was going over the types of mites, and pulled an eyelash to see if they could find a demodex mite under the microscope. Biology is wild.
We've got Naegleria fowleri, a brain eating amoeba, here in Texas. Its been found in residential water supplies in southeast area of the state which, of course, is where I'm at.
Some added horror about Demodex (follicle mites): A clogged sebum gland will absolutely let them breed out of control. Should that happen, you may start to notice an unusual amount of particularly opaque "eye floaters" in your vision. That would be the little bastards accidentally getting into your eye, and getting stuck, due to the surface tension. Regular "eye floaters" are sometimes the molted exoskeletons of your little friends. That crusty stuff in your eyes when you wake up is partially made of their poop. So, yeah, now you know that...
According to Wikipedia, c-sections have been performed since 715 BC Women only successfully started to survive the operation around 1500 AD. But the rate of maternal survival vastly improved in the 19th century with the introduction of anesthesia and sterile surgery techniques. In view of how awful childbirth could be and still is, I wonder why women were considered the weaker sex? Men, please explain.
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10:58 missed opportunity for a Magic Spoon plug 😂😂
now i get the feeling that human skull IS real.
HELP!!! hey what was the mens underwear company that had the ball pouch? They were a sponsor for one of your videos? Thank you so much for the reply.
If someone wanted to use my skull or bones for tableware, I wouldn't give a shit. I'll be dead.
I'm not sure what sort of unicorn and rainbow nonsense Simon expected when he gave me this topic, but I'd say I succeeded in finding things he'd rather not know 🤷♂Here's hoping it gets enough views to mandate a sequel
See if you can tip him over the edge towards insanity next time.
I do wonder. Facts you'd rather not know are always scary or depressing.
It's not like fun facts about your favorite zoo animals that kids would enjoy.
Kevin clearly understood the assignment and possibly succeeded a little too much. Thanks for the nightmare fuel, old chap!! 😁😁
#wewantasequel
Just do a script on false vacuum decay. Makes worrying about nuclear war or an extinction event asteroid pale...
Hey Simon, asking for a friend, but would it make you feel better if it was magic spoon instead of cheerios being eaten out of your skull?
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Just so long as it’s poop-free!
@darlenefraser3022 His poop is okay though.
This is the single best comment I’ve seen on any of his channels and I watch them all!
Nah Danny needs to be the one to eat Magic Spoon from Simon's skull
“I DONT WANT THE SHTTING SPIDERS ON MY EYES” dear lord Simon 😂😂😂😂
I laughed until I threw up the first time I saw that part
The fact that Kevin would call the police over a scull and his backyard is probably the most American thing I've ever heard next to Simon being so goddamn British and saying it's probably from an old battle or something
@@221b-l3t in some parts of the US it's like that, especially on the east coast. But in the west and Midwest, it's exceedingly unlikely you'll find anything. It's probably already been surveyed for one.
I certainly feel like I'd need to alert somebody to the presence of human bones, especially if there could be more, and I don't think there's a local anthropology society I can just call up. It's not like I'd call 911 or anything
Nah, I'm American. I just figure I forgot where I buried it.
Fecal particles should bother you. Pretty much everything you do in a bathroom means you are clean when you leave. Wasing hands, bathing, scrubbing your teeth... all cleansing. You probably inhaled more fecal material whilst shitting (proximity, convection of matter from the plopping of the pooping, your face over the main venting gap on the toilet seat. Your hand scooping out clouds of fecal rich air as you clean your arse. Your nose and tongue are chemical analysers. They are not psychic. They don't use radio waves. The chemical, your fecal matter, needs to make contact with them to register. Any time you smell shit, even a fart, you are consuming shit. And mostly it's harmless. So worrying about 'the plume' when you flush is pointless.
Just was your hands.
I once lived in a house, and one of the disclosures that they had to make to us when it was purchased was that there were two bodies in the yard but that "it was okay, because they'd been investigated and it had been determined that the burials were at least a century ago."
And I had a friend who was gifted a real human skull (legally - it had certification paperwork and a registration and stuff, apparently that's a thing) for her 50th birthday. She went on a three month trip about a year later, and was worried that if someone broke into her place, they might steal the skull, so a couple of our other friends 'babysat' it for her while she was on the trip.
Life and death are both weird.
10:15 To Answer Simon's question about whether you need to report to the police if you find a skull in your garden, the answer is very much a *_YES_* . From what I can find, it can take as little as a few weeks for a body to skeletonise (depending on environmental conditions). Even if older, it is entirely possible that it could be from a cold case. There have been instances where new occupants at a property discover human remains (typically, human bones) that help uncover / solve old murders that had been committed by the previous occupant(s).
Doubly so in the US where the population density has never been high enough to find a forgotten and unmarked graveyard.
Not to mention the fact that it's not legal to own human remains unless you have medical certification or it belongs to you. I only know this because my best friend came up with an idea that the first one dies the other gets their skull we have two local funeral director and he told us we could not we were sad
Hmmmm...
..I've got a very busy day today but I guess I'll call the police later this afternoon..
@@khironkinney1667 Technically, you own your own skull, surely? And your body is your property; hence, why people are able to decide whether to donate their organs for transplant and/or their bodies for medical science research/education, etc. In that sense, could you not bequeath your skull to this friend of yours in your will?
If you call the police, they probably won't give the skull back and you'll never get to use it as a cup. You should never call the police anyway, and this is no exception.
My best friend died from a brain eating bacteria back in 2009. He was 48. Since there where only 16 million people in The Netherlands back then its such back luck. Thought that it happened more than I just learned from you. He was in a coma and was completly wet of sweat. Still miss him. RIP, Jacques.
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Also, i live in Florida where that's not uncommon. It's why I make my kids stick to the ocean or functioning pools. It's usually a warm, freshwater microbe. My condolences.
So sorry for your loss. Of course you still miss him, time doesn’t really heal it just helps us learn ways to cope with their not being here, the closer we were the harder that is.
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Nobody wants spiders in their eyes has got to be one of the best Simon quotes ever.
nothing has or will ever come close to 2:07 *this* masterpiece
I do, I love spiders, they are so CUTE. I like the idea of having my own little spider farm on my eyes.
In most jurisdictions, the discovery of a skull might mean a grave, and grave robbing is usually very illegal, so always contact authorities to consult about a remains that could be human. Also, they found a king under a parking lot in England
Aye Richard III
No shit
If the police aren't interested, the archeologists will be.
Yep, contact the authorities so that they can rob it.
Uh in most places skulls often mean someone has died, recently..... unfortunately actual proper graves rarely get unearthed compared to the amount of dead bodies found. It is a scary stat.
I can’t wait til Simon does the Chat GPT court case where the lawyer is being sanctioned for using it to file legal arguments in federal court. It completely made up cases it used and it’s hilarious. Love the content!
Hallucinations by AI are great. Bard insisted the other day that a photo of someone I know personally, and have since 2005, claimed he went by some name that is not his, nor even anyone in his family... i asked if it was sure, Bard insisted the photo was actually of this dude I'd never met. 😂
I saw the legal eagle video about it. Terrible and hilarious! People are idiots.
One shouldn't take to chatbots for research.
I like how he didn't just run out there recklessly and had the good foresight to type "Is that case fake?". The program said the program is right, and the program is right, so I think we're goo- I got disbarred.
20:08 "Caesarian" derives from the Latin word for "cut". As I recall, Julius Caesar inherited his surname from an ancestor who was delivered by the method (rather than the procedure being named for him). Ultimately his surname went on to become the title of Rome's emperors and transferred into other languages as "Kaiser" and "Tzar" among others.
Simon had a podcast called the Brain Food Show where they did 3 episodes, I believe, on Julius Caeser, and this came up.
I demand part two. Just like to give the bAld guy PTSD 😂
Bold or bald?
Nothing like a good Blaze to break up the monotony of the day
I grew up in a house that had a barn used as a hospital during the Civil War. We had an acre sized garden and would find teeth, pieces of bone, coins, minnie balls (bullets), etc tilling. Even a knee that had obviously been amputated. Just a few weeks ago a crew digging footers found an old skeleton. It was determined to be "at least a century old" and work continued after the remains were moved to a nearby cemetery.
First construction site I worked at, in the early 80's, was an old plantation in York County, VA. When clearing the land a skeleton was discovered near the creek that surrounded the property. Work stopped and the police were called, who called historians from Yorktown Battlefield and it was later discovered to have been an African American male in his mid to late twenties from the 1800's. Several weeks later when cutting in the road to the property a large carved stone with faded writing was found. Had to stop and repeat the process as it was thought to be a head stone. The historians determined it was an old boundary marker that had probably been in the middle of what became the main highway that the property bordered and was probably just chucked to the side by workers when they were constructing the road.
Next commercial for magic spoon's terms: Ok Simon, you're going to have to eat this cereal out of a skull.
Bravo Kevin for the brilliantly skin-crawling Demodex description! Watching Simon soldier on and quickly get overwhelmed by the horror of it all just like me, was amazing to watch!
OMG! Eye Bleach seems like a great thing to do after watching this video!
I love these topics. So naturally the only one I didn't already know about was the Nightmare on Elm Street inspiration, and I just find that fascinating and would love to read a scientific paper on it.
if Simon decides to record some of the more disturbing episodes of The casual Criminalist afterwards, he might finally crack.
Lmao I love that people don't know that we have tiny organisms living on us. Simon's reaction 😂😂😂😊
I was very alarmed in microbiology to see just how dirty with microbes some places were.... like under some classmates nails. Apparently fake nails harbor a LOT of different life!
@@Memento_Mori_MoralsWe did this in sophomore year Biology and it was ew. We did swabs from between toes, behind ears, armpits, and underneath finger & toe nails. Back then, I thought our Biology teacher was going to have a coronary laughing when he saw oir reactios. The class was so disguted when we saw the growth on the slides. Our Biology teacher normally appeared to be half asleep teaching from the book or those ridiculous over head projector "films". Today, it'd be called it "death by Power Point"; but, it's the same thing, imo.
I believe we all learned, during those hands-on "experiments", the importance or meaning of, "cleanliness is next to godliness", depending upon your spiritual alignment 🙂
Regardless, all these years later, I remember those lessons, remain grateful that I had them and can't help but help but laugh at Simon's reaction 🙂
Take care! ❤
That was great Kevin. I love to see him squirm. The only thing I can think of that would be funner would be to insert "effortlessly", and "anonymity" into the script several times especially multiple times and in a row.
Simon, I’m a professional macerator. Meaning I clean bones. I only do animal, but all of my clients have human specimens. Skulls, preserved organs, femurs, you name it. It’s remarkably cheap and easy to get in most states so long as the bones are old and we’re donated to science. If you aren’t picky about the proper papers you can get a “craft grade skull” or imperfect skull for less than 60$ us
Today I learned that there are craft grade human skulls available to pursue
@@homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541 absolutely! Not just that either. Abnormal brain specimens, real human tumors, femur head canes, human tooth rings, you name it you can buy it legally.
I clicked “like” to balance out Simon’s absolute PTSD.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me too!!
Me too! Also did it for my sake.
We're starting a whole new me too movement!
legend
I have a tendency to hit like before I even know if I liked it or not. I always do, though.
Simon: “it’s okay to eat poop”
Simon, 3 mins earlier: “this episode is brought to you by squarespace”
Great script, Kevin! Hopefully, this gets enough views for a part 2. Enjoyed watching Simon squirm while he read this.
Life is good when you pack a fresh bong, pour some coffee and the new brain blaze has just come up. Blaze!
Yum, coffee with feces! (Joking, I'm a coffee drinker.)
Oh GOD am I happy that I wasn’t high while watching this 😂
@@Fabala827 Don't want eyelash mites to start ruining your high?
Out of weed and coffee. Gahhh. Someone please put me out of my misery....
@@ThatWriterKevin the first time I used a glass pipe (for totally legal & legitimate substances of course), I did manage to send the lighter flame up the stem and burn off the tips of all my eyelashes, so…idk, wouldn’t want the mites coming for revenge!
Please do a Casual Criminalist on Vincent Chin. He was a victim of an awful crime and the sentiments around it are still relevant to this very day.
The outcome of that trial was an absolute travesty
5:37 we don’t have a dishwasher, so basically everytime someone washes up, the sponge and cloth gets put for washing (laundry), and then maybe once a week we do a tea towel, cloth and sponge wash, where I use like extra bacterial killing washing liquid and then we use all the clean, dried cloths again… it’s really not hard to stay hygienic even without a dishwasher tbh.
But I never trusted washing up at work when I worked!
Also, if you do own a dishwasher, please make sure you clean it all out regularly!
In the UK you are legally required to report any human remains you may discover. Even if they're found at the bottom of a grave in a former graveyard. We had this happen in 2012 when our neighbours wanted to do some digging on our boundary to check on the integrity of their underground car park. They were told that the ground around the church is a former graveyard, and this was a risk. The very first hole they dug opened the grave of a child. Even though the skeleton was at the bottom of a brick burial vault capped with a slate slab, we still had to call out the police and have them verify that there was nothing suspicious going on. Not coincidentally this was also the last hole the neighbours dug.
On a related note, if a body is found part way down in a grave, that's a really bad thing. I knew a Vicar who had a case where a planned funeral was disrupted when the double grave was re-opened and they found a skeleton wrapped in black plastic bin bags three feet down. Needless to say the body was very much not supposed to be there.
Legend says that Simon is still in the shower after recording this video. 😂
I always like to point out that Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Masacre are all based on the same true story. Certainly you can see a lot of the same elements repeated, but let's not pretend these aren't rather different movies.
Yep, one of Simon's Casual Criminalist videos was on Ed Gien (sp?).
4 mins in and Sam’s editing is just 👌🏻
If Simon had been reading a 'Casual Criminalist' and someone found a skull in their garden and didn't phone the police he would be apoplectic 😂
Like deployed 👍
Kudos to that 12 year old girl who endured all that horrific treatment and had the strength of character to not only survive but to return to relative normality afterwards.
Wait until this becomes one of the most popular Brain Blaze videos and Simon is forced to make a follow up that everyone including him will hate yet we all will watch.
Poor Simon 😢 it was definitely a rough one but as always a great job!
Fun fact: the Marquise de Sade described a device that was sort-of like a chainsaw. I won't go into detail about how he said it was to be used here, but it wasn't good.
I've read that too! Ur 💯%right. About ot not needing to be resaid
"It"
Took all of 3 minutes for Simon to go all the way off the rails
I tried watching 4x but I drifted off each time and by the time I was back in he was off on some tangent so I gave up. I either have too much adhd or too little to follow coked up Simon. I wish I could read Danny's scripts. Or whichever one wrote this.
If you close the lid and the cabinet it reduces the number of particles, they tested it on mythbusters
That's the main reason for toilet lids to keep that in.
True. But, that same episode showed that a brand-new toothbrush straight out of the package also tested positive for fecal particles. So, even if your toothbrush has never seen the inside of a bathroom, it still probably has poop on it. And, in that situation, you know for a fact that it's some stranger's poop and not your own.
Was looking to see if this was posted before I did myself. It's true.
@@specsocelot Was going to say that with the added... Ahem, LADIES!
I'm about 75% sure you'll be in a movie or netflix series sometime. You are fun to watch dude!
Simon not reporting a skull he found goes against everything he claims to have learned from Casual Criminalist XD
As I eat my sandwich.. “He shit! He shit everywhere!” 🤣
Why is everybody watching an episode with this title while eating?
@@ThatWriterKevin Because I don’t get grossed out by what others may. I can eat while watching an abscess getting drained or an ingrown toenail getting removed 🤣 Plus, this video could have been about ANYTHING due to the title.
@@michelleelle4622 fair enough. I did watch Human Centipede while eating dinner when it came out
This episode was more terrifying than any casual criminalist ones 💀👌🏻
5:50 Maybe wash the sponge on the top rack of the dishwasher, so the high temperature wash sterilizes the sponge. And, when you rinse and then squeeze the excess water from your sponge after each use, and then let it dry thoroughly, it kills all of the microorganisms that were in it. This is because even those little critters need water to live. So, drying the sponge in between uses keeps contamination to a minimum. And when you give your kitchen sponge the heat treatment once a week, you'll have nothing to fear...as long as you don't use the sponge elsewhere.
Soap the sponge after rinsing as they can't live in the soapy water.
Imagine getting a phone call from Simon and asking “ I found a skull. Do I have to call the police?”
YES! Lol and don’t get involved in this crime
How to distract yourself from your neighbors july 4th party 101 with your professor simon
Just because simons British you should turn the volume right up
Also, good to watch while comforting your puppers from the boom of the fireworks.
Best part of Independence Day. A new brain blaze video.
02:06 Thanks, Simon. I've been needing a new ringtone.
This better be good Simon. I was watching someone trying to feed another person 15lb of chocolates.
What the heck
17:00 Perfect timing, Brain Boy, since I'm about to go swimming at the local beach...on a lake.
Thanks.
Any business blaze that has skelators “what?!” Gets a thumbs up from me
YaY! Whistler dropped some happy while I'm still sober enough to enjoy it!
Happy 4th, y'all 🥳🇺🇲🎆🎉
I'd like to learn more things that Simon really doesn't want to know 😂 thanks Kevin 👍
"People dying in nightmares? That's mental!" Yes Simon, it is indeed mental.
Here’s hoping there is a part two to this so we can further revel in Simon’s misery!
The end credits on this are simply a chef's kiss of a capstone for this one.
I have 20 sponges and not one smells. The newest one is espresso machine grouphead only, the next steam wand only the next outside of the machine only, the next is only good enough for kitchen counter, the next is kitchen sink and dishwasher seal, then comes dining room table and gerenal surface sponge, kitchen floor sponge (and mop) and only then comes bathroom sink sponge, tub sponge, seperate defoliating sponge because I'm cheap, then I bathroom floor mop, then and only then comes the toilet sink sponge, toilet seat and cover sponge and finally at the very bottom the oldest and grosest, the toilet sponge for the inside. Each sponge begins at the coffee machine and progresses through it's life down to toilet sponge.
Except for the last one which I haven't smelt haha they all smell nice. Because each one is always dried fully between uses. If your sponge stinks it didn't dry properly and is full of bacteria, billions, an entire ecosystem lives in a smelly sponge. How anyone would even touch a smelly sponge is beyond me. Remember kids, a dry sponge, is a happy sponge.
Thank you so much Sam, for adding the DBZA clips, love it.
celebrating american independence by watching a British man school me on some pop culture. yep , that checks out. poop jokes first few minutes in * chefs kiss* lol
Glad you enjoyed!
The nightmare death thing, I'm quite surprised there was no definitive cause of death found. The victims were sleep deprived which can already screw with lots of your physical systems including heart rate and blood pressure. I think it's pretty obvious that a severe shock after being in that state probably caused either a heart attack or brain hemorrhage.
Agreed; *NEVER* shall those sponges meet, however I find it odd that nobody ever thinks to put the sponge IN the dishwasher to have it boiled alive with the rest of the dishware.
That's what the microwave is for. 30 seconds or so should kill any germs. Just keep an eye on it so it doesn't catch on fire...
I'm not sure, but I suspect it may potentially get damaged and leave sponge bits in the dishwasher. However, if that doesn't happen, you are a GENIUS. Now if only my place had a dishwasher....
Because they'll probably melt. I can't even put my loofah in the drier because it'll melt.
Dishwasher is not made to wash sponges. Put them in the washing machine. I chuck em in with stuff like the towel I have on the floor by the tub.
But brushes are great for that. Every 10th load or so I put the plastic brush in. Had it for years, looks new.
Drinking game: take a shot whenever Simon says "I don't like this" or freaks out (for very good reasons). That way one can get drunk enough to forget some of this stuff :D
1:35 - Chapter 1 - A good cup of coffee
2:15 - Mid roll ads
4:40 - Back to the video
7:35 - Chapter 2 - Drinking out of cups
11:10 - Chapter 3 - Based on a true story
13:30 - Chapter 4 - Eyelash mites
15:40 - Chapter 5 - Brain eating amoebas
19:30 - Chapter 6 - Origins of the chainsaw
About 50 years ago they were laying new water pipes through a corner of my great-grandfather's field. While the excavator was digging, they noticed a skull. When they dug a little more carefully, they found the entire skeleton of a Turk with a flintlock pistol and a scimitar buried in a sitting position. Great-grandfather found a wooden box at home, packed all the bones, weapons and rings in it, and buried it under a tree next to our family cemetery. They didn't call the police because the Turks were expelled from our region 150 years earlier.
On the plus side, after all the doom of death amoebas and vaginal chainsaws, dishwashers are more environmentally friendly than washing up by hand, uses less energy and water per cycle than filling a sink and doing it all by hand, Greta woud be proud, assuming someone told her to be... :P
@@221b-l3t Who cares, she was made a public figure, and just like the "Don't tell Al Gore!" jokes, she'll be receiving them 'til she fades away too...
@@221b-l3t I'm british, and the Al Gore meme made it this far (he was trying to be an environmentalist, the "how dare you" of his era), and despite his power, nobody listened to him either and he has pretty much faded away, so to think a young woman could defeat a global cabal made of people with the opinion of "burn everything, fuck the environment" is pretty much a joke, for decades people have come and gone with their voices of change, prosperity and utopia, and, not much has changed, she's nothing special, just another fart in the jacuzzi that is life...
Idk I'm pretty sure putting nonstick pans in the dishwasher is both terrible for simon and his family and the environment. I think he's outdoing any point of "water conservation" points he might get by having to throw out pots and pans that would have lasted much longer if he just washed them by hand like he was supposed to. 🥴
He's just ruining a lot of good dishware because he can't be bothered to wash it by hand.
What a wonderfully horrid episode. But could not keep me from demolishing a bowl of funyuns. Might attempt to look at eyelash miets under the microscope at work tomorrow.
Ok, I couldn't resist... Simon begging me not to leave in the beginning had me stop right there and come back hours later xD
I just want to see the world BUUUUUUURNNNN 🥳
Putting non stick pans in your dish washer makes the coating come off right? So everytime you use it after that the coating that is loosened up sticks to your food isn't that really toxic?
It is very toxic yes. I prefer stainless steel since I also put my pans in the dishwasher.
Now I need a shirt of Simon with a cup of coffee and saying "Lifeforce!"
The nightmare story is really horrifying
Those poor folks were refugees of the Khymer Rouge.
800 views in 9 minutes?!? Simon is killing it
I love the idea that Squarespace discussed with Simon what content their ad would follow in this video. And some exec even had some suggestions of lines to throw in before the ad transition.
Love the M&B Warband Reference at 8:35 bzw. Really caught me off guard and had me laughing hard xD
Have to play that gem again 🤗
*Tbh not bzw "
The eyelid mites/ brain eating amoeba sections....
Thanks Kevin, I hate it.
You're welcome
The start of this video really brought me back to when It was business blaze and absolutely manic. I love it
I decided to watch it while eating my burger.., but lost appetite.. 😔
I mean, the episode title is right there. I feel like that's on you.
I took microbiology in college. Just that alone will change your entire outlook on life. I don’t give a shit 💩about the fecal stuff, but I’m super careful with my sponges, dish towels and dishes during the cleaning process, and cooking.
Close the lid before you flush to reduce that.
If they redesigned the lid for the bowl, they could reduce that to almost none. It just need a lip that extends down over the seat and has a rubber gasket that seats on the bowl, like a dust ruffle for fecal matter.
ChatGPT got a question I asked it straight-up wrong the other day. I was chatting with a mate in media class about people who have achieved 'EGOT' status. An EGOT being an acronym for someone who has won all 4 major media awards. An Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. I asked ChatGPT to tell me who had won it and it said nobody ever had, followed by a list of around 6-7 people who had won 3, but were missing one.
I knew this to be incorrect, so upon looking for the answer the conventional way I found out that in fact 18 people had won it. That included every single person on the 'almost' list that ChatGPT gave me. It surprised me that it could get the answer not just wrong, but SO wrong that it literally specified by name a whole list of people that had won it and said they hadn't.
Not that interesting I know sorry, but it kinda shook my faith in the AI a bit that it could get something so easily verifiable wrong.
(and it had nothing to do with the 2021 knowledge cut-off point either, I checked)
ChatGPT is genuinely shit
I'm just starting to cramp for the month and that last one really helped to intensify things. 😂
This channel is the best with an interesting dynamic. Simon is the host, but he is also the villain. The writer is the subjected people and the hero is the Editor saving the world by exposing Simon...
Any real old school coffee drinkers know that you NEVER wash your coffee cup. ☕
My grandmother use to say that. Said it was seasoned. It was just gross.
@@jamesfranklin2120 doesn't look pretty, but not gross if you love your coffee. My whole family has done this forever.
I just had to explain why I am laughing. I had to mention how delicious the inside of Kevin is.
Tf did I just hear...
10:06 if you live in Scotland you are required by law to report it, even if it’s a recognized archeological site or part of one (ie: for some reason you bought land that was part of or close by the parish church or of a known burial site)
Nightmare before Christmas, a movie for children. That is next level parenting. 😅
...I mean, it's not really inappropriate for children.
When is the "Simon's skull" mug available in the merch store?
2:06 Crabapples! Now you've done it!. I've just spit beer all over my screen.
A Blaze on Independence day...
Happy Independence Blaze folks.
🇺🇸 😎
Non-sticky - so true. I put just about everything through the dishwasher.
That's not true about the excretion about eyelash mites - they retain their digestive waste.
The eyelash mites look like water bears (Tardigrade) but with long tail!
They may feast at will. They do also make really cool sci-fi travel adventures!
Simon, you are correct about the ceasarian section myth. I don't know if it has come up in one of your TH-cam videos, but you and Davin talked about it on the Brain Food Show podcast.
LOL. Best video in ages. I was laughing with/at you the entire time. Shitting eye spiders! Keep up the great work.
So, arguably fun fact: there are two types of mange a dog can get. One is the contagious sarcoptic mange (aka scabies), caused by the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The other is demodectic mange, non-contagious, caused by Demodex canis -- a cousin to the 'eyelash spiders'. I heard an anecdote once about a veterinary course on parasites and diseases, the prof was going over the types of mites, and pulled an eyelash to see if they could find a demodex mite under the microscope. Biology is wild.
This was a great video. Please do a sequel!
We've got Naegleria fowleri, a brain eating amoeba, here in Texas. Its been found in residential water supplies in southeast area of the state which, of course, is where I'm at.
Some added horror about Demodex (follicle mites):
A clogged sebum gland will absolutely let them breed out of control. Should that happen, you may start to notice an unusual amount of particularly opaque "eye floaters" in your vision. That would be the little bastards accidentally getting into your eye, and getting stuck, due to the surface tension. Regular "eye floaters" are sometimes the molted exoskeletons of your little friends. That crusty stuff in your eyes when you wake up is partially made of their poop.
So, yeah, now you know that...
According to Wikipedia, c-sections have been performed since 715 BC Women only successfully started to survive the operation around 1500 AD. But the rate of maternal survival vastly improved in the 19th century with the introduction of anesthesia and sterile surgery techniques.
In view of how awful childbirth could be and still is, I wonder why women were considered the weaker sex? Men, please explain.
Wooo. Now I have something to remember when I jump in the pool after using a chainsaw for yard work. Nice.
Most surprising thing is finding out Simon cares about what happens to his dead body.
These always turn out to be the very things I wanted to know!