"Stuff we Know About n' Sh*t with Simon" this is the best POSSIBLE name if you ever need a single corporate entity under which to organize all of your channels and other projects. Analogous to the Vlogbrothers' 'Complexly'. As a devotee of most of your channels, I can speak on behalf of your fanbase that we'd be very supportive of this.

Ah, good old Whistler's Razor again: "When faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the more boring one is likely the correct one".

Don’t worry if the facts are boring Jen and the imaginary banter between you and the writers has me me laughing. Jen, trust fall was chefs kiss 😂

They aren’t YOUR writers Simon. You are THEIR factboy. Get your facts straight. 😂

Kudos to Jen for leading the RickRoll in the rectangle graphic! Quality editing as always.

You know I think hearing Simon read a book like he reads Scripts, with all the sarcastic comments and tangents, would be kind of amazing.

Simon who claims he's never seen Tron describes the plot perfectly: motorcycles and lights.🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️

The worse solved videos are when they show a person who was missing for 30 years being found in their car, submerged a drainage ditch 500 feet from where they lived.

In regards to Tron Simon: "Haven't seen it. Haven't seen the neutron either." Well Simon that's because Neutrons are really small. ... I'll see myself out.

Kevin: There is a 3rd option, just making something up! Simon: Don't make me go down to the basement to whip you!

Wait. Simon doesn't watch his own videos? So he has no idea what they look like after they've been edited? That explains more than just a few Brain Blazes.

“Stuff we know about and shit with Simon” is essentially the subtitle of almost all of your other myriad channels

The hacker in me is happy to hear you talking about not plugging untrusted media into your machines. When we’re doing penetration testing, leaving random thumb drives is almost a guaranteed win. I’d also add not scanning random QR codes, there’s been an uptick in malicious QR codes over the last year or so.

"Don't be inserting random..." also good advice for other situations that also gets ignored by way more people than seems realistic.

Hey Simon, The story you are recalling about the USB drives wasn’t a company, it was a joint operation between US and Israel to damage Iran’s ability to create Nuclear Material. The problem was that their facility was “air-gapped” meaning it had no internet access and thus couldn’t be hacked remotely. So after making the malware we now know as “Stuxnet”they used old fashioned social engineering knowing that most people that find a random flash drive will plug it in out of curiosity. So they sprinkled several around the facility that housed Irans Nuclear Centrifuges, and sure enough someone did plug at least one of them into a system on the internal network. Shortly after the Centrifuges that enriched the uranium one by one started spinning faster and faster until they physically broke, but they made the malware tell the controller look like it was operating fine. It’s a rather devilishly genius plan, because unless you were physically watching the machines you would never know as all your machines were lying to you. This is an amazing story for those of us in the tech field, but more people need to know about it. This is the first time a computer virus had ever done physical damage, and the worrisome part is that any network connected PLC (Programmable Logic Controller - Which is essentially a very basic computer, which never needed virus protection) is vulnerable. And I can’t understate how worrisome that is because they’re controlling everything from our electrical grid, to our water and sewer systems, dams, traffic signals, they’re everywhere. This might have been something that was swept under the rug as is was a secret operation, and I’m sure Iran wouldn’t have said anything out of embarrassment. But somehow, the malware got online and spread like wildfire, though it didn’t really do much damage. So when researchers were trying to figure it out what it was, they saw that it was designed to only affect those specific machines at that specific facility. And now, not only is the story out there, but the idea for the type of attack and the cookbook for how to do such a thing is all there. And attacks on infrastructure across the world have been increasing ever since. So, even though you didn’t have the story, I appreciate the PSA to all your viewers. Because if we don’t have proper basic security education in this world, then I appreciate everyone with a platform doing what they can. 👍

These videos consistently brighten up my day. The editing, playful jabs between Simon and the writers, everything is just a good time

"Stuff we know about and sh** with Simon" is basically every other channel Simon does.

6:10 - Chapter 1 - Webdriver torso 7:50 - Chapter 2 - 11BX 1371 12:15 - Chapter 3 - John titor 14:25 - Chapter 4 - Geedis 16:20 - Chapter 5 - Dark web red rooms 18:55 - Chapter 6 - Literally everything by thetekkitrealm 21:35 - Bonus facts

Simon, the USB story you're probably thinking about is Stuxnet. Used to mess up the Iranian nuclear program. I'd be surprised if none of your channels had a video on it by now 🤣

Another KZfaqr (Justin) Whang! Has a series called, Tales from the internet: Geedis. I think it’s a three part video where it discusses the history and goes into a little more in-depth on how it was solved. I think it started in a subreddit. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it. But it’s pretty interesting, in my opinion, for anyone interested in another perspective of the story. As always, this was another awesome episode. Looking forward to the next future episodes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I heard about John Titor for the first time from Steins;Gate. Awesome way to turn an internet phenomenon into an interesting plot point, even if it did put me on CERN’s radar. /s

FYI Simon, I’d watch sub and like and share “shit we know about with Simon” That is all.

I remember in 2014 when Seriously Strange first came out and dark content on the internet exploded. Suddenly you had internet mysteries, true crime, and Let's Not Meet stories coming out the wazoo and I've followed them since. For three hours twice a week, I like to shut my brain off and envelop myself in the dark side of KZfaq. Yet, the pragmatic university student in me with a logical explanation for everything does also really enjoy watching Simon tear these internet mysteries to shreds😂.

Internet humbuggery, best words ever! Now to find a way to work my new favorite phrase into everyday conversation...

Today I Found out that unknown things are more interesting than known things. Id like to see a Top Tenz about that if its not too much of a Mega Project.

18:55 was my favorite bit in this episode 😂 Might be shorter but still enjoyed it!

Rick-rolled agaaaiiiinnnnn ! Lol

I'd listen to Simon reading Kevin's book ❤️

To tell the truth, I can't really remember any of the stories... All I can recall of this is Simon's fantastic reactions to Kevin's hilarious quips dashed throughout the video.

I would absolutely read Kevin's novel about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It sounds hilarious!

No it was we all have a drug dealer on speed dial and we'll stay skinny as we just won't eat. I suppose you mean Rockstar 🤔. Damn I want a Nickelback concert

4:57 Clever Kevin, demanding that the viewers only watch Simon's channels so that Simon shouts out a random non-Simon video.

So when is the Four Horsemen video coming? I’d watch that.

"Don't put stuff you don't know about into your-" is fantastic advice no matter how you choose to finish the sentence.

I really love how Kevin comes at DtU from a different direction and it works so well!

This and BB (am OG blazer) are my absolute favorite channels of yours Factboy

I love Kevins scripts they are always so entertaining :D

The thing about littering usb sticks around an area until some idiot plugs it into their computer. Isn't that reportedly how stuxnet worked?

I remember there was some movie years ago that the plot was basically cops trying to track down something like the red room, and there were so many things they had gotten right about computer tech, that I was screaming how insane the main plot was cuz you can't stream video from an unfindable source that makes no sense at all.

Hey Simon, please, please, please do a Casual Criminalist video on James Mitchell "Mike" DeBardeleben. The other day you mentioned that the Secret Service in the US is responsible for investigating money counterfeiting crimes on the Casual Criminalist, which made me think of DeBardeleben. He was a prolific counterfeiter, so much so that the Secret Service gave him a nickname: "the mall passer". When they finally caught and arrested him, the Secret Service agents found a lot more than counterfeit money. Together with the FBI he was charged with a whole litany of crimes (he wasn't even prosecuted for most of them). He was sent to prison for life and the agents who investigated him said that he committed just about every felony on the books.

Simon, the Chinese left drives all over the Pentagon retail mall. you guessed it, Pentagon employees picked them up and took them back to their offices. That is why You can not bring in portable drives into the Pentagon

I didn't realise the John Titor one had been solved. Mr Robot nicely demonstrates why you shouldn't use a randomly found USB drive.

Great show Whistler. Every day, every day I find another of your videos. Thanks

Simon's next channel is going to called Shit we know about with Simon.

The story of the red herrings, the speculation, and the actual known outcome-- all that makes solved mysteries very interesting and entertaining to me. Sure, that's almost sociology more than spooky, but it's still fascinating. It also helps enlarge the information at hand, so that if someone wants to loop in a particular thing for spooky narrative purposes, it's harder to pass a solved mystery off as real.

Next Video: With the help of some meddling kids,, Simon unmasks the villain, who turns out to be kind old Mr. Jenkins.

Wait. What? What do you mean time travel isn't real? What was the big blue Police Box doing in my living room the other day? LOL Seriously, interesting video, as usual. The title did throw me. I had to read it a couple of times just to make sure my brain wasn't playing tricks.

Funny you should mention the USB stick incident, I was about to type it into the comments. XD I thought the plague doctor video was going to be an SCP meme. One of their most iconic SCPs is a Plague doctor who views free will as a Pestilence. To be fair, he never outright says what that pestilence is, that it's freewill is inferred from his behavior. Bedtime stories loves to illustrate urban legends. They've actually illustrated the tale of John Titor. Their artwork is beautiful, black and white sketches with the occasional animation or splash of color. I learned about the existence of Scranton PA from a song by Harry Chapin called 10,000 Pounds of Bananas. Chapin's work is great, and he's not around anymore, so make sure you keep the memory alive by checking out some of his tragic 70s ballads. One of my favorites as far as the sound and the effort put into it goes is "Sniper" which is a ballad about Charles Whitman. If you've never heard of him, Charles Whitman was the earliest Mass Shooter I could find. Whitman had some severe and slightly abusive tendencies before, but close to him going on his killing spree he became incredibly abusive and began to obsess about a clocktower at Texas A+M university. He left behind prolific writings used to teach FBI profilers to this day. The symptom he prominently displayed that had nothing to do with violence was Hypergraphia, an overpowering compulsion to write down anything and everything, including a message to the police asking that an autopsy be done on his body. He knew what was going on in his head, including the urge to kill wasn't right but he couldn't stop. When they opened Whitman up, they found a massive brain tumor on his frontal lobe damaging his ability to control himself. At the time nobody was willing to believe Cancer could have caused such a tragedy, today we know better, and Chapin's ballad about him is a CHILLING look into the mind of a killer. Simon if you ever cover Whitman on the Casual Criminalist, I highly recommend looking at the ballad. Somehow Chapin captured the essence of a Mass Shooter PERFECTLY before we even had a word for it.

Let's be honest, you'd sub to "Stuff We Know About and Shit with Simon"

I would absolutely listen to entire novel narrated by Simon and written by Kevin or David. Bring it on!

“Is there a new Tron?” I’m just burning doing the new Tron dance.

Hey, Kevin, do the Simonverse a favor and write a Decoding the Unknown episode on Tron. And by write an episode I mean email Simon a full PDF of the shooting script.

Am I the only one who would totally watch "Stuff We Know About and Shit with Simon"?

This should be interesting. Edit: imagine all the glorious content Simon could binge watch seeing as he doesn't watch his own vids.

We don’t have USB ports at work anymore. We use specially made corporate machines that have no ports. I never thought much of it, I just thought it was to stop employees stealing company secrets. Now I get it.

Simon: PSA over.... You're welcome. I thought you were going to say "PSA over... Pay me." 🤣🤣

Decoding the Unknown 2 MUST become a thing!!!!!

Personally I prefer solved stories to Unsolved stories because the Unsolved ones just feel like an incomplete story and anything I fill in for myself is just speculation and nothing concrete.

At this point I wouldn't be even a little bit surprised to see the new channel next week: "Stuff We Know About And Shit From Simon"...lol

IIRC the fiction media that got a nesr perfect score for presenting hacking and related activities (like social engineering) in a realistic manner, was Mr. Robot.

Episode idea: I know you've covered this briefly before in your Sideprojects episode titled Inexplicable Items: 5 Mysterious Ancient Artifacts, however, I really think The Antikythera Mechanism deserves its own 15 minutes of fame here on this channel. Any writers out there up for this challenge? Let's get Danny to do it, since he's already been thrown his bread and water for the day and he hasn't written a word yet.... Hugs

I would love to see more things like this! People so rarely talk about the mysteries that were actually solved down the line

Stegonomotry - the study of using stegosauruses (stegosauri?) for measuring things

Just discovered the channel, subbed before even watching the video, purely team Simon Whistler 😂 I know the content will be good, OGBB 🚀

18:04 “Cocaine! No, flour.” Shoot, wrong channel. This video needs all the memes of Brain Blaze!

I literally stopped watching Netflix and documentaries because Simon and his writers just does information faster and better.

I would totally watch a fictional channel Kevin writes for

I guess Kevin gets to stretch his fiction writing muscles with those ‘Deepest Mysteries of the Internet’ videos. Those are good.

Everything a sufficiently advanced technological society can produce will be indistinguishable from magic to a less-advanced society.

"Stuff We Know About With Simon" sounds a bit like "Today I Found Out" or "TopTenz" or basically any other channel Simon does.

I was recently reminded of a claim that people all over the world dream about the same guy. I want to say Simon made a video about it but didn't see anything on the channel. Could be another good internet mystery.

I love all the stuff here and your other shows Mr S.W. Never get tired of your story telling.

18:30 The Nickelback song does talk about doing drugs, actually inspired me to keep some pills in a PEZ dispenser just to be funny, but the lyrics are, “The drugs come easy and the girls come cheap. We’ll all stay skinny ‘cause we just won’t eat.” Cocaine is never even mentioned. I know Simon is obsessed with the stuff, but his mind really took over when saying the song mentions it. References drugs 3 times, but never an actual name, and as mentioned, only mentions pills.

“Da Vinci Code” Stephen Fry "complete loose stool-water" and "arse gravy of the worst kind"

Legitimately Me Before Simon's PSA: "OOH 😲 A LOST USB STICK! I LOVE IT WHEN THIS HAPPENES I CANT WAIT TO SEE WHATS ON IT!

Bachelor Chow. Now with flavor!

I think little tiny personal unsolved mysteries are really fun, to be honest. Why did I rent an art history textbook with a Polaroid of a blonde woman in it when I was in college? Not sure, but I kept the photo. Whoever left a blonde eyebrow pencil in my room introduced me to doing my brows, but my hair is brown. I still used it though. And most recently, I got a secondhand book with a gold-finish CIA bookmark in it. WHAT?! Fascinating.

I think a lot of people put effort into solving these videos, not because they think there's some great mystery, but because they like solving puzzles.

I am going to giggle every time Simon says gadgetzedzed

Love the stories and you Simon 🥳

Another Kevin script, fantastic! I'm quickly becoming a fan. I know you lurk here, Kevin. Good job! I'm interested in that novel you mentioned, keep us posted how it goes. From the very short description I'm getting Pratchett and/or Gaiman vibes.

Petition to change "Today I Found Out" to "Things We Know About"

I found a CD on the street once in 2007 and put it in my CD player.....not only did it work it had Matel music and rap on it..... So it was perfect!! I rocked out to that CD in highschool and wating for drivers Ed to start class.....

"Kevin, that is NOT an option available to you!" This needs to be part of factboi merch!

About solved mysteries, I particularly like it, sometimes its something really simple but fascinating, and sometimes its something really elaborate and even more fascinating.

The line is actually "we all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat". He does say "the girls come easy and the drugs come cheap" to set up the rhyme, though.

"DECODING THE KNOWN"! Brilliant! :D

You would LOVE Tron, Simon. Both of them. Old Tron utilized a techniques never used before and will never be used again. The making of Tron is worthy of a documentary. I think there is one actually.

“Magic is science not yet explained” I stand by that 😂 so if I call something magic it’s most likely because I don’t understand it yet

Oh lord; this was still very interesting!

In regards to your vague memory of a company being hacked by someone plugging in a random USB stick found on the premises: That was actually Stuxnet, a joint US-Israeli operation to stop Iranian nuclear development.

Awesome video, Simon and Kevin. Now I'm off to watch that hacker guy on Wired.

Hello Kevin, great job as usual good sir.

In the 1980's I worked as an Engineer for a company that made Super Mini Computers used for Military Flight Simulators and NEXRAD weather radar.

Does Simon own the most KZfaq play buttons? Someone pay Guinness to give him another yet another plaque.

Just casually dropping a chaturbate reference is wild 😂😂😂

0:06 Codeine. It is known. 2:00 'Course you haven't seen a Neutron. It's smol! 12:28 Right out of the STEINS GATE?

Your warning to not put a random data source in your computer reminds me of my “don’t have unprotected sex talk” 😂 there could be undesirable consequences.

"Stuff we know about and shit..with Simon" - 🤣🤣🤣🤣

War crimes and slavery aside, what the US did to dubstep is the greatest crime the country has ever committed