"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.
@cnsohm2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I would TOTALLY watch that!
@foo2192 жыл бұрын
I'd watch "Stuff we know about n' shit with Simon"
@FluxDeimos2 жыл бұрын
I mean its literally just "today I found out" but edgy lol
@MrMancreatedgod Жыл бұрын
Don't ever speak on behalf of me. You're very pompous.
@mikemcchesney2555 Жыл бұрын
or Simon Says: "Because That's What You Do!"
@KWMQ2 жыл бұрын
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".
@peterh38892 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂
@bradbrandon25062 жыл бұрын
It actually seems to work pretty well unless you're fixing a bmw. In that case, the most correct answer is the most annoying one.
@lauriejones4507 Жыл бұрын
@@bradbrandon2506 also the most expensive one.
@hanster.gun.3438 Жыл бұрын
@@lauriejones4507 they go hand in hand
@aharris19104 Жыл бұрын
Well said
@MinkxNAli2 жыл бұрын
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 😂
@mgcnashville66152 жыл бұрын
They aren’t YOUR writers Simon. You are THEIR factboy. Get your facts straight. 😂
@sciencenate2 жыл бұрын
Get “their” facts straight….
@charleswindsor78352 жыл бұрын
Apart from Danny
@St.Linguini_of_Pesto2 жыл бұрын
LMMFAO
@stephen31642 жыл бұрын
Insert iRobot clip: “No.” 🤣
@AnonEyeMouse2 жыл бұрын
So they pay him?
@nunavutstonefist55002 жыл бұрын
Kudos to Jen for leading the RickRoll in the rectangle graphic! Quality editing as always.
@sartoriraphaelr2 жыл бұрын
I was left thinking, is this part of the edit or the real deal.... then we got rick rolled by google... motherfuck....s 😂
@AaronLitz2 жыл бұрын
I love how Jen makes pictures occasionally dance and tinkle.
@deansheets2 жыл бұрын
Great job Jen 👏
@TGBurgerGaming2 жыл бұрын
Now that I know it's coming I win. Thank you I've finally defeated Rick Astley.
@insertfunnyhandlehere2 жыл бұрын
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.
@willmfrank2 жыл бұрын
"The Lord of the Rings -- Really? I'm reading THIS? *sigh* All right...The Lord of the f(naughty word)ing Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkyne...? Tolkeen...? Tolky-en...? Don't care. Doesn't matter..."
@martianbunny Жыл бұрын
@@willmfrank yes, I would pay like $40 per book to listen to him with tangents
@DahliaVonHellion8 ай бұрын
@@willmfrankrolling at how accurate this is hahaha, I love it though
@pamelamays41862 жыл бұрын
Simon who claims he's never seen Tron describes the plot perfectly: motorcycles and lights.🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️
@markkarasik22112 жыл бұрын
😎 Yep, I saw Tron back in the day and that’s pretty much what I remember…Lights and Motorcycles. Oh and glow-in-the-dark Frisbees. Gotta love Frisbees.
@andiward70682 жыл бұрын
*describes the movie. The plot isn't motorcycles and lights.
@jphilb2 жыл бұрын
At least Tron 2 had Olivia Wilde.
@St.Linguini_of_Pesto2 жыл бұрын
@Pamela Mays I'm sold!! So, when does it come out?
@MAGGOT_VOMIT2 жыл бұрын
2010 Tron.........Lights, Motorcycles and Menstrual Cycles go brrrrrrr!!!
@TerryLawrence0012 жыл бұрын
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.
@OfficialJamion2 жыл бұрын
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.
@patriciadilday4472 жыл бұрын
(Sorry, I love a bad "Dad Jokes.)
@blackc14792 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it. Kudos lol👏
@MissJellybean2 жыл бұрын
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@omegatired2 жыл бұрын
Like Quantum Mechanics and trying to find a mechanic that small. (I owned a Quantum at the time ....Yes ... runs away)
@amylou79912 жыл бұрын
I am going to attempt to steal that.
@Perzyn2 жыл бұрын
Kevin: There is a 3rd option, just making something up! Simon: Don't make me go down to the basement to whip you!
@CommisarHood2 жыл бұрын
Hey what Simon and Kevin get up to in their own time is none of our business.
@ilajoie32 жыл бұрын
Kevin is the best of us watching Simon's channels, he would never betray us to another channel
@susinator2 жыл бұрын
@@CommisarHood hopefully you have heard of the running joke started on his other channel Brain Blaze. He has a Prince of Pesia style basement where he has many writers and editors chained up, constantly cranking out scripts and finished videos. He's just whipping to boost morale. As the old adage goes "beatings will continue until morale improves".
@CommisarHood2 жыл бұрын
@@susinator (In Takai Voice) Oh my!
@thejason7552 жыл бұрын
@@susinator kevin’s showing a bit too much independence. Simon should throw him into the angry-dome for a few hours. (The angry-dome literally just being a burlap sack that simon will kick an editor/writer once thrown inside of it)
@the-chillian2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ONEDVSDVIT11 ай бұрын
Yup... he has no idea how much exploitation goes on... especially that science channel... cringe... he says he reads the comments... but it's all BULL SIHT
@DahliaVonHellion8 ай бұрын
@@ONEDVSDVITIdk if you're being serious but just in case; reading some comments doesn't involve sitting and watching an entire video of yourself for 20-40 minutes, I doubt he’d have the time to even if he wanted to. He does indeed reply to comments here and there and sometimes mentions comments in later videos lol
@ZOB42 жыл бұрын
“Stuff we know about and shit with Simon” is essentially the subtitle of almost all of your other myriad channels
@blackc14792 жыл бұрын
Dammit, that's 2 different observations I got beaten to, and I'm only 6 mins in ...👏😁
@laurabustos65602 жыл бұрын
Just came to make the same comment!! Also possible foreshadowing for Simon's next channel as he continues completely taking over YT?
@engineeringvision95072 жыл бұрын
sounds almost half as interesting. Someone should make that, and then as a plot twist put transport and brick easter eggs into the content. Just joking, that would be dumb!
@syyneater2 жыл бұрын
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.
@thundercookie32142 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about malicious QR codes. Thanks for sharing that information. :)
@itstoxicqt2 жыл бұрын
I do pentesting etc. Funny I was on my way home from the doctors the other day and found a 256gb SD card at the light rail stop 😂
@syyneater2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the perfect time to fire up that spare machine and do a little bit of forensics.
@gnarthdarkanen74642 жыл бұрын
@@itstoxicqt You probably already know this... BUT we're not the only ones to be looking at this thread... SO just turn auto-play features OFF... Don't even let the computer automatically open stuff plugged into give "slot"... and then sand-box the slot before you start. You do pen-testing, so you either should know how to do that, or have a particular arrangement as such "sandboxed" already. ;o)
@itstoxicqt2 жыл бұрын
@@syyneater yup! My spare has arch linux on it
@jerard19792 жыл бұрын
"Don't be inserting random..." also good advice for other situations that also gets ignored by way more people than seems realistic.
@tfabian28462 жыл бұрын
Yeah, huge security risk 🤦♀️
@dmclayton40312 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing when he said that lol
@smgarwood2 жыл бұрын
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. 👍
@rash152 жыл бұрын
Yea but there's also a group of people that stick usb all over the place... With shareable data.. on em...you can look it up... They are often placed in random areas around the globe apparently
@Spacemongerr Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info
@rashkavar Жыл бұрын
As I recall it took quite a while for Stuxnet to actually get into the facility. Hadn't it already infected something like 90% of computers in Iran and a good chunk of computers worldwide by that point? (Actually the version I'd heard suggested it was someone using their home USB on a facility computer because they have to get files transferred in and out somehow and that was so much more convenient than actually following the facility's data security procedure.) Of course, I can't verify any specific version of the story. The thing I've never understood about this sort of thing: why are the computers that control this kind of infrastructure networked with anything that does general computing at all. Air-gapped or not, you should have computers at the facility for general computing work which have full internet access and thus email, and you should have computers that are only there specifically to run the displays on how things are working which are networked to the controllers themselves exclusively. That way someone just plugging in a USB to their work computer only compromises the general computing workstations and you have the computers that you need to keep 100% locked away in a room that only the dedicated IT people who actually know what data security is can access it, and have those hooked up to monitors that everyone else who needs to see them can see.
@belewda Жыл бұрын
Just to be a bit of a stickler, this definitely wasn't the first time a virus caused physical damage. There were earlier viruses that would make printers go nuts and sometimes break.
@grabbity Жыл бұрын
@@rash15 they're dead drops. They seem random. They're usually very carefully chosen in less we're (whoever is setting up that particular one) in a hurry for some reason. Take a look at the data on a machine with a live cd in it sometime. 99.9999999% of us would put anything harmful in one, but there's always 1 asshole. Anything from files to 3D print a plastic Glock to an ebook about creating a new identity (legally, not the old anarchist cookbook stuff lol). Tons of fun to find and look for, feel free to add something interesting to them. Portland has dozens of flash drives built into brick buildings, little battery powered file servers on portable networks with small to medium file repositories etc.
@awkwardllama05092 жыл бұрын
These videos consistently brighten up my day. The editing, playful jabs between Simon and the writers, everything is just a good time
@nugboy4202 жыл бұрын
Lol all of simons channels are interesting. I still say he needs a Gamographics channel where I write stories about weird video game things I guess. Then I can make Simon elated with an hour long script about Raid Shadow Legends.
@awkwardllama05092 жыл бұрын
@@nugboy420 I know that last part about Raid was a joke, but I'd watch it still lol
@nugboy4202 жыл бұрын
@@awkwardllama0509 :D at least we’re on the same page
@danielgengler43422 жыл бұрын
"Stuff we know about and sh** with Simon" is basically every other channel Simon does.
@ignitionfrn22232 жыл бұрын
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
@finneire12822 жыл бұрын
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 🤣
@JM-wu8bh2 жыл бұрын
Yep! Luckily they didn't lock down USB access. 2 registry key changes pushed by one of their Domain Admins could have stopped us
@lohwenli2 жыл бұрын
And here it is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdaPoNR6ktm1ipc.html
@ipellaers Жыл бұрын
It's a well known hackers' tactic, Stuxnet is just one instance.
@Petri-2 жыл бұрын
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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@andreakoroknai10712 жыл бұрын
do we need a crossover/collab? yeah, he goes into more detail about how it was solved
@Petri-2 жыл бұрын
@@andreakoroknai1071, omg that would be so awesome! I can only imagine what that would look like. But I’d enjoy it.
@blackhat42062 жыл бұрын
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
@Fadaar2 жыл бұрын
AH! THAT'S where i heard the name before! knew it sounded familiar.
@blackhat42062 жыл бұрын
@@Fadaar I love how they handled time travel. As a plot point it can easily become tired and convoluted, but Steins;Gate did it well.
@bullie862 жыл бұрын
FYI Simon, I’d watch sub and like and share “shit we know about with Simon” That is all.
@iainronald42172 жыл бұрын
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😂.
@laurabustos65602 жыл бұрын
Internet humbuggery, best words ever! Now to find a way to work my new favorite phrase into everyday conversation...
@manic33852 жыл бұрын
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.
@anarchyantz15642 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like something you would want as a side project for your brain to blaze to.
@waynesteffen84592 жыл бұрын
That comment is casually criminal-into the shadows with you, Micah Kline!
@manic33852 жыл бұрын
@@waynesteffen8459 a Geographics about the shadows reveals its actually what Simon calls the basement that Danny is kept in along with a Biographics about his life.
@nathanrood8652 жыл бұрын
18:55 was my favorite bit in this episode 😂 Might be shorter but still enjoyed it!
@SplendiferousSteph2 жыл бұрын
Rick-rolled agaaaiiiinnnnn ! Lol
@stephjovi2 жыл бұрын
I'd listen to Simon reading Kevin's book ❤️
@aceundead47502 жыл бұрын
I think we'd all watch videos of Simon just reading stories written by his writers in their down time
@ThePhoenixAscendant2 жыл бұрын
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.
@jenna2720 Жыл бұрын
I would absolutely read Kevin's novel about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It sounds hilarious!
@stephjovi2 жыл бұрын
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
@groofay2 жыл бұрын
4:57 Clever Kevin, demanding that the viewers only watch Simon's channels so that Simon shouts out a random non-Simon video.
@blackhat42062 жыл бұрын
So when is the Four Horsemen video coming? I’d watch that.
@jacksonlynch1731 Жыл бұрын
"Don't put stuff you don't know about into your-" is fantastic advice no matter how you choose to finish the sentence.
@biofoot78742 жыл бұрын
I really love how Kevin comes at DtU from a different direction and it works so well!
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I have some scripts that come at it from a VERY different direction coming...eventually. We need to clone Jen.
@tubensalat14532 жыл бұрын
@@ThatWriterKevin I really would have liked a paragraph or two how they played that time traveler thing. Just to understand why people were hooked.
@xerowon34902 жыл бұрын
This and BB (am OG blazer) are my absolute favorite channels of yours Factboy
@eneria062 жыл бұрын
I love Kevins scripts they are always so entertaining :D
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I love your viewership
@almighty39462 жыл бұрын
@@ThatWriterKevin I’m a big fan too. I love that one on 5 internet mysteries
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
@@almighty3946 Thanks!
@streather2 жыл бұрын
The thing about littering usb sticks around an area until some idiot plugs it into their computer. Isn't that reportedly how stuxnet worked?
@DianaBell_MG Жыл бұрын
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.
@ChopBassMan2 жыл бұрын
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.
@anthonyC2142 жыл бұрын
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
@button92 жыл бұрын
Ethan Hunt hanging from a vent was all in vain
@wisteela2 жыл бұрын
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.
@mikemorris15122 жыл бұрын
Great show Whistler. Every day, every day I find another of your videos. Thanks
@666magic2 жыл бұрын
Simon's next channel is going to called Shit we know about with Simon.
@TheKalaxis2 жыл бұрын
There's already the "Learning stuff with Fact boi" intro meme that could become a genuine intro in regular use over on business blaze and Simon does love starting new channels........
@shannon99932 ай бұрын
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.
@jmanj39172 жыл бұрын
Next Video: With the help of some meddling kids,, Simon unmasks the villain, who turns out to be kind old Mr. Jenkins.
@jobassett73952 жыл бұрын
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.
@AnimeShinigami132 жыл бұрын
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.
@boedacious2 жыл бұрын
Let's be honest, you'd sub to "Stuff We Know About and Shit with Simon"
@jessicapease91016 ай бұрын
I would absolutely listen to entire novel narrated by Simon and written by Kevin or David. Bring it on!
@baalzeebub42302 жыл бұрын
“Is there a new Tron?” I’m just burning doing the new Tron dance.
@ragoonsgg5892 жыл бұрын
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.
@DeeDeeBaldwin2 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who would totally watch "Stuff We Know About and Shit with Simon"?
@joeyr72942 жыл бұрын
This should be interesting. Edit: imagine all the glorious content Simon could binge watch seeing as he doesn't watch his own vids.
@doctorlolchicken74782 жыл бұрын
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.
@nosuchthing82 жыл бұрын
How do you hook up a mouse?
@99EKjohn2 жыл бұрын
@@nosuchthing8 Motherboard mounted Bluetooth probably. Not having USB Ports doesn't mean there's not a USB controller still on the board. I'd bet money the board still has a USB controller hardwired to wireless receivers for the KB/M, and likely some short of TPM too, or it could use the old OS/2 ports, but I doubt that.
@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain75392 жыл бұрын
It could probably go both ways
@RayneZerati Жыл бұрын
Simon: PSA over.... You're welcome. I thought you were going to say "PSA over... Pay me." 🤣🤣
@stevedaenginerd2 жыл бұрын
Decoding the Unknown 2 MUST become a thing!!!!!
@ziggygunz24472 жыл бұрын
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.
@jmanj39172 жыл бұрын
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
@pr0xZen2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
That is correct! I spent so many hours at my old job trying to explain to my computer illiterate boss what was happening. He enjoyed the show as well, but had no idea about any of the hacking stuff or what they were talking about.
@springbloom59402 жыл бұрын
Wargames is the most accurate depiction of a hack, I've ever seen in film.
@LadyValkyri2 жыл бұрын
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
@na3rial11 ай бұрын
I would love to see more things like this! People so rarely talk about the mysteries that were actually solved down the line
@alyssinwilliams45702 жыл бұрын
Stegonomotry - the study of using stegosauruses (stegosauri?) for measuring things
@ClubsOG2 жыл бұрын
Just discovered the channel, subbed before even watching the video, purely team Simon Whistler 😂 I know the content will be good, OGBB 🚀
@stephen31642 жыл бұрын
18:04 “Cocaine! No, flour.” Shoot, wrong channel. This video needs all the memes of Brain Blaze!
@angelashoson890010 ай бұрын
I literally stopped watching Netflix and documentaries because Simon and his writers just does information faster and better.
@bradthechampion2 жыл бұрын
I would totally watch a fictional channel Kevin writes for
@--enyo--10 ай бұрын
I guess Kevin gets to stretch his fiction writing muscles with those ‘Deepest Mysteries of the Internet’ videos. Those are good.
@krisaaron57712 жыл бұрын
Everything a sufficiently advanced technological society can produce will be indistinguishable from magic to a less-advanced society.
@jerard19792 жыл бұрын
"Stuff We Know About With Simon" sounds a bit like "Today I Found Out" or "TopTenz" or basically any other channel Simon does.
@computernaut2 жыл бұрын
No, but this would be "Stuff We Know About And Shit With Simon". The "And Shit" part tells us that it would be a funny channel where Simon has a personality.
@siv99392 жыл бұрын
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.
@AaronLitz2 жыл бұрын
It was an advertising campaign.
@ADGarvey12 жыл бұрын
I love all the stuff here and your other shows Mr S.W. Never get tired of your story telling.
@j.p.6932 Жыл бұрын
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.
@alphooey23 күн бұрын
“Da Vinci Code” Stephen Fry "complete loose stool-water" and "arse gravy of the worst kind"
@YM-rk2nd Жыл бұрын
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!
@mattakins34222 жыл бұрын
Bachelor Chow. Now with flavor!
@erinlisaaulfinger95942 жыл бұрын
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.
@zarasbazaar2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely true. It's the entire reason ARGs are a thing.
@Adiscretefirm2 жыл бұрын
I am going to giggle every time Simon says gadgetzedzed
@colleennobbs72182 жыл бұрын
Love the stories and you Simon 🥳
@partyontheobjective2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Although I don't think it counts as lurking if I actively post as well. Ironically, despite working at a comic book store for 11 years, I have read shockingly little Gaiman.
@AY-pi8mn2 жыл бұрын
Really I was thinking more Shayne Silvers and that he decided to get another alter ego and write some scripts for fact boy for fun when he mentioned the 4 horsemen lol
@onbearfeet2 жыл бұрын
@@ThatWriterKevin If it helps, the book version of Good Omens includes four bikers who become the Four Other Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with names like No Alcohol Lager, Cruelty to Animals, and Really Cool People. Didn't make it into the TV adaptation, but it's great!
@IanAlcorn2 жыл бұрын
@@onbearfeet Good Omens is a fantastic book. One of my favorites.
@TheSoftestGirlYouKnow2 жыл бұрын
Petition to change "Today I Found Out" to "Things We Know About"
@kakumee Жыл бұрын
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.....
@danij505510 ай бұрын
"Kevin, that is NOT an option available to you!" This needs to be part of factboi merch!
@sartoriraphaelr2 жыл бұрын
About solved mysteries, I particularly like it, sometimes its something really simple but fascinating, and sometimes its something really elaborate and even more fascinating.
@robwilkes33512 жыл бұрын
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.
@AnneAslaug2 жыл бұрын
"DECODING THE KNOWN"! Brilliant! :D
@BboyAcademy Жыл бұрын
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.
@inkedcatharsis Жыл бұрын
“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
@ZSchrink2 жыл бұрын
Oh lord; this was still very interesting!
@thecoon31932 жыл бұрын
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.
@rhov-anion Жыл бұрын
Awesome video, Simon and Kevin. Now I'm off to watch that hacker guy on Wired.
@PeachM0de2 жыл бұрын
Hello Kevin, great job as usual good sir.
@ThatWriterKevin2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@DFSJR12039 ай бұрын
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.
@sciencenate2 жыл бұрын
Does Simon own the most KZfaq play buttons? Someone pay Guinness to give him another yet another plaque.
@tylerstevens53528 ай бұрын
Just casually dropping a chaturbate reference is wild 😂😂😂
@JoshSweetvale2 жыл бұрын
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?
@Ogfunkymonkey Жыл бұрын
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.
@ItsJakeStuff2 жыл бұрын
"Stuff we know about and shit..with Simon" - 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@gh0stdog892 жыл бұрын
War crimes and slavery aside, what the US did to dubstep is the greatest crime the country has ever committed