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I've never seen SPC, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we need a Samurai Pizza Cats / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover. I appreciate all the research you did to make this video, Kevin. I really enjoyed it.
@@ComedorDelrico The original Japanese show SPC was based upon was more or less trying to cash in on the late 80s/early 90s TMNT craze. SPC flipped the show on its head and rewrote every episode, the characterisation of the entire cast, and the overall plot, in large part due to the original version being loaded with Japanese pop culture references from the late 80s/early 90s. And it is one of the few cases of the dub so superior to the original, that at least one of the Japanese creators acknowledged it as what they should have done in the first place. SPC does a good job of satirizing the Saturday morning action cartoon genre without being mean about it. And the intro theme is part of that.
Japanese resident for 17 years and can confirm that Power Harassment is very much a phrase here. My wife refers to a senior figure at her office as “harassment guy”. He used to work for Dentsu, a very traditional Japanese company and is very much the embodiment (to hear her tell it, though I have no reason to doubt her!) of Power Harassment!
19:00 a major reason to run a test like this would be to determine the amount of calls to expect on whatever phone line is given so they can prepare staff or determine if it's worth airing the posters at all. You can't test call volume on a number that doesn't exist, so they needed a line for the calls to go to.
That makes sense, but why wouldn’t they air the poster during the day when a lot more people are awake? I don’t think they could really get a good idea of the call volume at night
1:10 - Mid roll ads 2:10 - Back to the video 2:35 - Chapter 1 - Johanna Lopez 31:00 - Chapter 2 - Fujitagiken001 44:35 - Chapter 3 - Lake city quiet pills
VHS tapes are supposed to only last ten years but if you took good care of your collection, kept it away from sunlight, kept it rewound, and didn't watch them over and over - they will hold on quite a bit longer with only a little degradation. Mine are 30-40 years old, most still look like the day they were recorded (keeping in mind 80's Cable TV reception wasn't half as clear as it is today - many of the little flaws in my tapes were there on the broadcast day)
Ngl, if y'all kept onto your VHS _players_ then I tip my hat to you. Sometimes devices start to feel obsolete after awhile & I feel like there's a small societal pressure to get rid of them because time's always moving forward & it might feel like hoarding old crap but if the technology still does its job then it's clearly still got a purpose. I believe my family got rid of all of our VHS tapes & I almost wish I still had those Little Mermaid & 101 Dalmatians tapes *sniffles* 😅
Paused before the end of "Milo's story" but one point on "79 year old guy watches anime at midnight and knows computers" ... as you say, he retired in 195 at 65 from a career in the military we don't know much about right? The military was doing cutting-edge computer work with private entities throughout the 50s-90s and he could EASILY have been part of that and completely up to date on computers. Equally, as a 58 year old, let me suggest that as we age we sleep really weird hours sometimes, and waking up in the middle of the night to watch an hour or two of TV isn't abnormal lol. It's totally possible he found the anime on an insomnia night (veterans may also have insomnia for PTSD and other reasons) and it was something new that grabbed him then. Just saying, the idea of a 79 year old veteran who is a computer nerd and a new anime fan with weird sleeping habits may not be as weird as you make it out to be lol.
Pretty certain political ads are against UA-cam guidelines but somehow no matter how many times I report and/or block them, they keep showing up asking for my money....
There are so many reasons for this and they all seem so obvious. (To be fair to Simon, his commentary is done off the cuff while he's also focused on his reading performance, audio quality, etc. I probably wouldn't have thought of them, either, in those circumstances.) For one thing, if you get someone away from their support systems, in a place where they don't know anyone, and the laws, culture, and language are unfamiliar, they'll be a lot easier to control, and it will be much harder for them to escape or seek out help. Both historically and in the modern context, this is how slavery has been and continues to be done.
The multi layered joke of "it like a gun license for americans Most americans dont need a license for a gun. And most brit dont pay their telli licence Fuckin brilliant
My grandfather was 14 when he enlisted the first time and got kicked out. Finally Got in to the Navy at 15. We have documented proof(military documents and news paper articles) that he went into Hiroshima and Iwo Jima to break into safes for the navy as he was an accomplished lock smith. So you never know about the old guy mentioned.
My grandfather attempted to sneak into the navy at 16(?) but got found out before he could get on the boat. He was 6’4 and had been working as a logger so he absolutely looked like an adult in many ways. Not sure how they found him out exactly.
Social Security had my mother listed as dead and stopped her payments for a couple of years. She did not notice because she was starting to get some dementia. It took months for my oldest brother to get her to be a part of the living. When I went to visit her during her dead time I would try to walk out of the house with furniture or artwork. She was feisty for a dead woman! We got a laugh out of it and it was resolved and she got a fat check so she could pay herself back during her death time. I loved my mother and her feistiness! She had some great stories!
All right. Judging by the pineapple pizza aside, not only Simon holds people in his basement, he outsources the job of catching them and providing for them because, as he said, he never met Kevin. Which is very practical, in my opinion. As long as he hires loyal, meticulous, and uncaring people for the jailer job. How do they sit in the cellar with internet access, but without contacting the authorities, I can't fathom. Except what if their life outside was worse.
Nah there is no internet access all the scripts are hand written and the jailers also work as middle men incentivising the writers to write then either hand delivering them to Simon or typing them up and emailing them
@@trevdagg honestly, this (mine) theory looks shaky from the start because the more assistants you need to your crime (slave writers), the more likely they to betray you. Simon teaches us not to share crime, so him doing that would be unlikely. Simon's writer dungeon is a mystery, I don't think I can crack it.
No one has, except the random person who posted it on that subreddit. It's actually infuriating how it's since been incorporated into the mystery as a fact
@@grymaldus40k41It was an anime technically. Though apparently, they didn't have accurate translations form Japanese. So the writers for the English version of the show had to watch it and then just make up dialog. I'm getting this form a Movie Bob video in case anyone is wondering. Before politics fried the guy's brain.
@@myself2noone They had the accurate translation but the original show is full of puns and jokes that are specific to japanese culture and the japanese language so they just gave up on it and made their own, it was much better than the actual translation of the show
I also completely agree with the test theory about Johanna Lopez. As to why they would use a fake person, the test was most likely not only to see how well a program like that would perform, but also to test how many false leads they *would* get, and from what numbers. Anyone who called in about a fake missing girl, claiming to have information, would then probably be treated with higher skepticism in the future, so as not to muddle the pool of credible sources.
The correct way to make Pineapple Pizza is _not_ to make it with chunks of Pineapple on it. You slice the Pineapple incredibly paper thin, and THEN place it atop the pizza. Cook the pizza. The thin slices will caramelize, and create this beautiful, gooey, sweet counterbalance to the tart pizza sauce. All of that said - I hadn't heard about LCQB in quite awhile. Used to be a lot easier to find work, really.
I dont like cooked fruit. I think its like the cardinal sin of cooking/baking - unless its like bananas or blueberries. Peaches occasionally. But this actually sounds nice i might have to try making it- at least give it a good go. I HATE "Hawaiian" pizza but ironically its not the chunks of warm (but not really cooked pineapple) its the dang ham 😫
51:15 NGL Cowboy Bebop was my first foray into anime when I was in high school. It aired on Adult Swim at 4 am local (I have a sleep disorder so I would be awake to watch.) Old people are frequently awake at that time in the morning. And CB is known as one of the best intros to anime. 🤷🏻♀️
Simon. I’m so old I remember only three channels in the U.K. and it was all black and white. I think there were colour transmissions but no one we knew had a colour tv.
Really glad you went into LCQP. I've first heard of it from Nexpo and was skeptical (why would trained assassins be throwing their catchphrase around so casually?). And as always, Kevin doesn't fail to provide info I hadn't heard of before. Exceptional work.
Simon I know the t-shirt & blazer look was practically a trademark for you, but those plain tees alone look surprisingly formal for what they are; maybe its the gym, but you look good, bro!
I was definitely not expecting a Samurai Pizza Cats reference in this! I loved that show enough to make my mom tape it because it played at 2 PM where I lived and I wasn't out of school yet.
The missing person one was a comparable length to several past dtu videos. Also, pineapple, chicken, pepperoni, red onion, extra cheese. Broccoli and spinach under the cheese when available.
@@ThatWriterKevin LOVE the longer episodes! And the internet mysteries are great. Thank you! Also, @Daminite, that pizza sounds soooo good. Extra cheese is the way, for sure!
Holy shit, this channel is only 2 years old? It must have started at almost the exact time I found the Whistlerverse. I've actually watched every episode right from the start.
6:03 -Oh HELL ya it was! When we were growing up and visiting my grandparents in the summer they had a bigger color TV in the living room for international news and my grandmothers soaps. That had cable and was restricted to us. As we got older we could sometimes vomebin to watch a special or episode of a crime drama if our parents were with us. Aside from that though, there was a smaller black and white TV in the porch where my grandfather would sit and watch his local news programs. There were about 3 local channels that TV would get with msot being daytime drama or infomercials. We could catch some sitcoms occassionally in the evenings and sundays would ahve the Simpsons. The big soecial time fir us however wete the saturday morning cartoon lineup. It wasnt much and they werent great but wed get a solid block of animated shows for about an hour and a half if we switched channels at the right times. This included picking up a very fuzzy one that played Samurai Pizza Cats right at the tail end, ectending our veiwing that extra half hour in the mid morning. IT was a super stupid english censored dub anime but we were kids and it had the kind of silly jokes youd find on shows at the time so we didnt mind the weirdness or buzz from the poor reception. The theme somg was too good for the show and it had a power rangers vibe except with anthropomorphic cats. I remember they lived in a pizzaria that acted as their homebase and in one episode they found this poluted sewage water lead rught to the pond the resteraunt used for its tap water, leading them to comment how they needed to stop being stingy and pay a city water bill. Lol they would don armor, weopons and vehicles whenever the villian would threaten their city but no one was smart enough to realize the Samurai Pizza Cats home base was the pizzaria called Samurai Pizza Cats where they would bolt out of. It was one of THOSE english adaptations of Anime.
I just googled "Samurai Pizza Cats" , it exists and according to Wikipedia, here's what it's about : Three cybernetic cats who run a pizza parlour in Little Tokyo moonlight as heroes to protect the city from the power-hungry rat Big Cheese and his minions. Sounds enjoyable 😂
1-If fruit isn’t ‘supposed’ to be on pizza, why are tomatoes so prevalent? 2-If you take something out of the original culture as much as pizza has, anything goes.
As well as peppers and olives But also, Italians made "pizza" like 17 years before the first pizzeria opened in NYC People have been making open-faced sandwiches for millenia. Yes, Pizza is just an open-faced sandwich.
Lake City is a particularly well known manufacturer of military ammunition. A quick google can find high praise for “Lake City Brass.” So LCQP was very likely a reference to that.
the retirement age in the states is technically still 65 but social security is running out and substantial inflation means that people have to work longer because their current retirement savings won’t last as long as they planned
Here in the U.K. the state pension used to be 60 for women and 65 for men. First they made it the same for both , by increasing the age for women naturally. Since then it has been increased several times. I’m female but won’t get my state pension till I’m 67. I think the plan is to increase it to 70 eventually
My husband and children said for years that Hawaiian pizza is gross. And then one day I got one for myself. And everyone wanted to try it out of curiosity. And they realized it was delicious! But then that meant no more Hawaiian pizza exclusively for myself.
We're all a little bit Sherlock Holmes when it comes to the internet. Nothing beats a good mystery to get our minds racing and our clicking fingers itching.
Oh yeah, and yes analog tape does have a shelf life even if you aren't repeatedly playing it. You'll get print through and it all degrades over time and whatnot.
Omg, LCQP! I’ve seen both videos by Nexpo and Barely Sociable. Was wondering if it would ever get covered here, so many thanks Kevin! I didn’t know about the Twitter update since I was hoping for a follow up video from either of those channels with any new info, but that was shocking, especially considering there were no sources to back it up. I guess it’s a waiting game to see if Barely Sociable actually follows up with the proper sources of where he found that out. Love this format and the episode, even if I was familiar with the first and third mysteries. I’m pretty sure Nick Crowley (sp?) covered the missing persons cases on his channel. It also might have been Maverick Files. I can’t remember, but as a Chicagoan, represent! Giving me some new websites and channels to check out while stuck in the back seat for a long road trip today. As always, great job! And thanks again!
VHS was Magnetic-tape-based technology. So those tapes, along with the audio cassettes would wear out with use, and with time - everything was trying to destroy those formats , including the playing mechanisms breaking them every so often XD
Around 2011 i purchased a used VHS player for 5 dollars and watched some of my old movies from the '90s so they seem to last at least 15-20 years. The only ones that didnt work were my copies of the original Star Wars trilogy, but I suspect that they were simply worn out because I watched them many dozens of times when I was a kid.
The sanitization of this episode is a bit random, at about 40:56 Simon drops an unfiltered f-bomb, then a few minutes later he’s talking about sh**ty bosses and gets bleeped out. Not complaining, I just find it amusing.
It's a weird UA-cam thing. They CAN curse, but there are weird guidelines. Like you can say the F-Word, but only a certain number of times, and only after a certain length of time.
It seems odd to me that 30 years later, someone magically found a WMAQ employee that not only still worked there, but remembered a singular incident from 1989 being initiated by a random anonymous call. There is a leap in there somewhere.
I believe that they put this with a fake name and bad photo to see how many fake leads would be generated. They probably got so many calls that they figured it wouldn't be able to help with new leads in real cases, so they didn't do it for real. Tried again a couple years later, got the same results and gave up.
When I was on Reddit I noted: It's easiest just to act like stories are true People there are every age. I'm sure there are young kids there, I know there are elderly nerds there.
No way! I’ve never met or known of anyone else besides myself who loved Hawaiian pizza! Hawaiian pizza is AMAZING and you boys are my very favorite you tube content creators now just for that! 🍕🍕
@sarah69420 yes thank you that was my point. The "Official" version of anything like this (retirement, poverty, unemployment) is just whatever some politician appointed bureaucrat thinks will help his boss/harm his boss's rivals.
“Leave people alone.” - Simon Whistler. Truer words have never been spoken. I’m a big fan of being left the hell alone, and practicing what I preach. Mind your business people! Just because you came across a mystery on the internet and your curiosity has been peaked, doesn’t give you the right to intrude upon others to satisfy your own desire for answers!
I just watched a documentary about a guy who had a friend who died, when it became apparent he wasn’t he had said he was. Ultimately he found who his friend was and was able to tell his mum and sister he was dead but along the way he went to talk to a man who was the father of the person his dead friend had taken the identity of. That person had died as a kid falling from a vehicle driven by his dad a long while ago. This was a bit of a red herring and the bereaved family were disturbed for no reason at all. Imagine losing a kid decades ago, only to have someone contact you to say their deceased friend had been using your kid’s name.
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I'm glad they got rid of that annoying background sound for the ad.
FREE THE BASEMENT CREW! FREE KEVIN!
@@Solinvicti Bloody Vikings!
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Simon and I are gonna have pineapple pizza and watch Samurai Pizza Cats together, because yes that was very much a real show.
I'm gonna have to hum that opening for the next few days, thanks xD
I've never seen SPC, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we need a Samurai Pizza Cats / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover.
I appreciate all the research you did to make this video, Kevin. I really enjoyed it.
@@ComedorDelrico The original Japanese show SPC was based upon was more or less trying to cash in on the late 80s/early 90s TMNT craze. SPC flipped the show on its head and rewrote every episode, the characterisation of the entire cast, and the overall plot, in large part due to the original version being loaded with Japanese pop culture references from the late 80s/early 90s. And it is one of the few cases of the dub so superior to the original, that at least one of the Japanese creators acknowledged it as what they should have done in the first place.
SPC does a good job of satirizing the Saturday morning action cartoon genre without being mean about it. And the intro theme is part of that.
We take the call when you want some pepperoni
pineapple on pizza is a sin
Love the anthology style. So many smaller stories that are engaging and entertaining. Keep em coming.
31:17 Simon suddenly remembering that he has a basement full of writers and editors.
I thought I was the only one to notice that... He looked proper shifty for a moment or two there...
@@nicklovell5872 Ikr he really put in the effort to sell the gag.
@@jackvos8047 Ah, summer child. You still assume its a gag... it really is the perfect cover, isn't it?
Hope he remembers to throw a few scraps down there.
they cant even run away
Japanese resident for 17 years and can confirm that Power Harassment is very much a phrase here. My wife refers to a senior figure at her office as “harassment guy”. He used to work for Dentsu, a very traditional Japanese company and is very much the embodiment (to hear her tell it, though I have no reason to doubt her!) of Power Harassment!
It kind of turns you on though doesn’t it.
What? A conservative, traditionalist nation state exists to manifest establishment power??? How could that be?
19:00 a major reason to run a test like this would be to determine the amount of calls to expect on whatever phone line is given so they can prepare staff or determine if it's worth airing the posters at all. You can't test call volume on a number that doesn't exist, so they needed a line for the calls to go to.
@@nothanks6784 this makes sense and I have no idea why it never occurred to me before.
That was my thought.
Explains why the number has been disconnected.
That makes sense, but why wouldn’t they air the poster during the day when a lot more people are awake? I don’t think they could really get a good idea of the call volume at night
Now the most requested Internet mystery that @ThatWriterKevin refuses to cover is "My Immortal"
As much as I cheer for potential April Fools scripts, no one deserves...that.
@@Scarlytte Hey, he asked for unsolved Internet mysteries, it was going to come up lol
Don’t put that evil on this channel
@@LilBearZen it's fiiiiiine he won't ever cover it
1:10 - Mid roll ads
2:10 - Back to the video
2:35 - Chapter 1 - Johanna Lopez
31:00 - Chapter 2 - Fujitagiken001
44:35 - Chapter 3 - Lake city quiet pills
VHS tapes are supposed to only last ten years but if you took good care of your collection, kept it away from sunlight, kept it rewound, and didn't watch them over and over - they will hold on quite a bit longer with only a little degradation. Mine are 30-40 years old, most still look like the day they were recorded (keeping in mind 80's Cable TV reception wasn't half as clear as it is today - many of the little flaws in my tapes were there on the broadcast day)
There's a limit to this though. Over time there will be print through, among other issues
Can second this, most of my vhs collection is 30+ years old and works well to this day.
Ngl, if y'all kept onto your VHS _players_ then I tip my hat to you. Sometimes devices start to feel obsolete after awhile & I feel like there's a small societal pressure to get rid of them because time's always moving forward & it might feel like hoarding old crap but if the technology still does its job then it's clearly still got a purpose. I believe my family got rid of all of our VHS tapes & I almost wish I still had those Little Mermaid & 101 Dalmatians tapes *sniffles* 😅
"And it's also Kevin, I feel like 4chan and Reddit are gonna come up"... don't know why, but this had me DEAD!
Paused before the end of "Milo's story" but one point on "79 year old guy watches anime at midnight and knows computers" ... as you say, he retired in 195 at 65 from a career in the military we don't know much about right? The military was doing cutting-edge computer work with private entities throughout the 50s-90s and he could EASILY have been part of that and completely up to date on computers. Equally, as a 58 year old, let me suggest that as we age we sleep really weird hours sometimes, and waking up in the middle of the night to watch an hour or two of TV isn't abnormal lol. It's totally possible he found the anime on an insomnia night (veterans may also have insomnia for PTSD and other reasons) and it was something new that grabbed him then.
Just saying, the idea of a 79 year old veteran who is a computer nerd and a new anime fan with weird sleeping habits may not be as weird as you make it out to be lol.
The speed on which I clicked on this video. Absolutely obsessed with this channel! Keeps me sane at work
Why were you scrolling UA-cam while at work? This has been up for 5 minutes, max.
i wish they were longer
SAME!
@@harleyjo4875 Notifications are a thing
Glad you enjoy!
The second Simon said Barack Obama an ad break interrupted with Obama asking for political donations.
😂😂😂😂😂
I love it when the ad timing makes me think it was a meme inserted by the editor.
Obamaception 🤯 😂
Pretty certain political ads are against UA-cam guidelines but somehow no matter how many times I report and/or block them, they keep showing up asking for my money....
Pure a better person than me. I waste the $10.50 a month to not see ads
36:58 "Why would you import your slaves if you're going to do slavery?" I had to stop and rewind. So many thoughts.
Wait til he hears about America, right?
There are so many reasons for this and they all seem so obvious. (To be fair to Simon, his commentary is done off the cuff while he's also focused on his reading performance, audio quality, etc. I probably wouldn't have thought of them, either, in those circumstances.)
For one thing, if you get someone away from their support systems, in a place where they don't know anyone, and the laws, culture, and language are unfamiliar, they'll be a lot easier to control, and it will be much harder for them to escape or seek out help. Both historically and in the modern context, this is how slavery has been and continues to be done.
@@lindyjohnson4293 Well slave owers in modern day America prefer homegrown slaves to imported ones (re: the US prison system).
@@roguebansheeyou mean those places that frequently put people hours away from their families?
@@roguebansheeeh they still traffick MANY foreigners every year sadly.
The multi layered joke of "it like a gun license for americans
Most americans dont need a license for a gun.
And most brit dont pay their telli licence
Fuckin brilliant
I laughed so hard at his comparison. 😅
My TV had one big knob ... ME!
Zimg!
Ah yes the big nob, it is missed
Mine had 3 knobs and I never understood what the third one did.
My grandfather was 14 when he enlisted the first time and got kicked out. Finally Got in to the Navy at 15. We have documented proof(military documents and news paper articles) that he went into Hiroshima and Iwo Jima to break into safes for the navy as he was an accomplished lock smith. So you never know about the old guy mentioned.
My grandfather attempted to sneak into the navy at 16(?) but got found out before he could get on the boat. He was 6’4 and had been working as a logger so he absolutely looked like an adult in many ways. Not sure how they found him out exactly.
r/JailBait shouldn’t have been controversial, it’s bad, just bad. It’s like saying cold blooded murder is controversial.
Right. It baffles me how easily some people are brushing it off like it's no big deal...
Social Security had my mother listed as dead and stopped her payments for a couple of years. She did not notice because she was starting to get some dementia. It took months for my oldest brother to get her to be a part of the living. When I went to visit her during her dead time I would try to walk out of the house with furniture or artwork. She was feisty for a dead woman! We got a laugh out of it and it was resolved and she got a fat check so she could pay herself back during her death time. I loved my mother and her feistiness! She had some great stories!
All right. Judging by the pineapple pizza aside, not only Simon holds people in his basement, he outsources the job of catching them and providing for them because, as he said, he never met Kevin.
Which is very practical, in my opinion. As long as he hires loyal, meticulous, and uncaring people for the jailer job.
How do they sit in the cellar with internet access, but without contacting the authorities, I can't fathom. Except what if their life outside was worse.
Nah there is no internet access all the scripts are hand written and the jailers also work as middle men incentivising the writers to write then either hand delivering them to Simon or typing them up and emailing them
@@trevdagg honestly, this (mine) theory looks shaky from the start because the more assistants you need to your crime (slave writers), the more likely they to betray you. Simon teaches us not to share crime, so him doing that would be unlikely.
Simon's writer dungeon is a mystery, I don't think I can crack it.
I was a Deputy in Illinois for a long time, I have never heard the term "body present " state.
No one has, except the random person who posted it on that subreddit. It's actually infuriating how it's since been incorporated into the mystery as a fact
Samurai Pizza Cats was indeed real, and amazing. It was probably the first anime a lot of 80's kids ever seen.
More horror to keep me awake during the day *after* analog horror kept me up all night? YOU'RE RIGHT PETER. Simon. Whomever.
You know what's funny? Simon won't get the joke.
Today I learned samurai pizza cats is more than a great band. Thank you story daddy.
Lol, I knew there was a cartoon and not a band. You knew there is a band but not a cartoon 🤷🏻♂️
You're welcome!
@@grymaldus40k41It was an anime technically. Though apparently, they didn't have accurate translations form Japanese. So the writers for the English version of the show had to watch it and then just make up dialog.
I'm getting this form a Movie Bob video in case anyone is wondering. Before politics fried the guy's brain.
@myself2noone, did you ever play the NES game? That has ZERO translation so my brother and I made up our own plot (we never watched the show).
@@myself2noone They had the accurate translation but the original show is full of puns and jokes that are specific to japanese culture and the japanese language so they just gave up on it and made their own, it was much better than the actual translation of the show
I love Hawaiian pizza especially with garlic crust.
Hawaii Pizza all the way!
In Australia when stations closed we got test patterns, not sure about other stations but the national broadcaster backed it with classical music
Maybe the real Samurai Pizza Cats were the friends we made along the way.
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I also completely agree with the test theory about Johanna Lopez.
As to why they would use a fake person, the test was most likely not only to see how well a program like that would perform, but also to test how many false leads they *would* get, and from what numbers.
Anyone who called in about a fake missing girl, claiming to have information, would then probably be treated with higher skepticism in the future, so as not to muddle the pool of credible sources.
30:32 I'm currently looking below.
Glad it wasnt just me
Love this channel. Will be listening tonight to go to sleep. Thank you Simon and crew!
You're welcome!
Kevin is now the second person I have ever heard reference Samurai Pizza Cats. My husband also liked it. 😂
The Nexpro on Lake City Quiet Pills is also great.
Was just thinking this. Also it’s Nexpo lol
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Everytime Simon talks about US gun laws. I REALLY want there to be a video about it. Cuz he would be absolutely horrified
The correct way to make Pineapple Pizza is _not_ to make it with chunks of Pineapple on it. You slice the Pineapple incredibly paper thin, and THEN place it atop the pizza. Cook the pizza. The thin slices will caramelize, and create this beautiful, gooey, sweet counterbalance to the tart pizza sauce.
All of that said - I hadn't heard about LCQB in quite awhile. Used to be a lot easier to find work, really.
I dont like cooked fruit. I think its like the cardinal sin of cooking/baking - unless its like bananas or blueberries. Peaches occasionally.
But this actually sounds nice i might have to try making it- at least give it a good go.
I HATE "Hawaiian" pizza but ironically its not the chunks of warm (but not really cooked pineapple) its the dang ham 😫
@@motorphina I usually do Pineapple, Pepperoni, and Jalapeños, personally.
That sounds pretty yummy
Might try thin pineapple slices on a gorgonzola pizza...
51:15 NGL Cowboy Bebop was my first foray into anime when I was in high school. It aired on Adult Swim at 4 am local (I have a sleep disorder so I would be awake to watch.) Old people are frequently awake at that time in the morning. And CB is known as one of the best intros to anime. 🤷🏻♀️
Simon. I’m so old I remember only three channels in the U.K. and it was all black and white. I think there were colour transmissions but no one we knew had a colour tv.
A truly dark internet mystery is how Simon got this far in life without knowing about Lake City Quiet Pills.
It wasn't as widespread as you think it was. I never heard of it either.
I'm certain he's mentioned them in a post before, I'm just not sure where.
@argoniastation same, this was entirely my introduction too...but I've never been on reddit, so...
@@QBCPerdition probably why I didn't know either. I try to avoid Reddit on principle. Heh
Great job! Thanks for decoding! Keep up the excellent content! Your channels, you and your writers are Legends! Thank you again!
Thanks!
Hell yeah Kevin! I love a good anthology
Thanks! Hope it lived it up your expectations
@@ThatWriterKevin I thought it was great 😊 would love to see it become a series on the channel
Really glad you went into LCQP. I've first heard of it from Nexpo and was skeptical (why would trained assassins be throwing their catchphrase around so casually?). And as always, Kevin doesn't fail to provide info I hadn't heard of before. Exceptional work.
Simon I know the t-shirt & blazer look was practically a trademark for you, but those plain tees alone look surprisingly formal for what they are; maybe its the gym, but you look good, bro!
Gotta love Simon's line of thought 'What would Americans identify a TV license with? ... Oh easy! A gun license! ' 🤣
For some reason that Ghostbusters reference (which Simon apparently completely missed, lol) made me howl 🤣
I came here just to comment on Zuul as well. So far I've only found this one.
No part of me is surprised he missed it
Shoutout to Nexpo. He's one of the only other true crime channels I even watch on this site and for good reason. The work he does is impressive
Thank you. Just subbed to him
I would definitely eat Hawaiian pizza with Kevin and Simon. It is criminally underrated.
As long as you're buying!
I don't even like Hawaiian pizza but I could make an exception in this case.
Sure thing 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
These are my favorite new type of video, keep ‘em coming!
Bubblegum Trad was probably freaked out that some weirdo from the internet contacted her out of nowhere.
My dad is 86 and still working even with the retirement age being 65.
My brother's dad hasn't had a full time job in 24 years. He's 66. He's tried leeching from us, but I made sure that didn't happen.
“Why would you import your slaves if you’re going to do slavery?”
Simon you have covered enough history to have the answer to that
lol the uncensored F-bomb at 17:00
Chef's kiss
I didn’t hear it at 17:00. But there is one at 40:56
Never call out ‚shots for everyone‘ on a party hosted by a bunch of assassins
I was definitely not expecting a Samurai Pizza Cats reference in this! I loved that show enough to make my mom tape it because it played at 2 PM where I lived and I wasn't out of school yet.
Love your work Mr Whistler. Looking forward to it. Always very interesting and you're one of us🇬🇧
Keeeeviin 🎉 and another one ☝️ the last anthology video was on point 👉
Thanks! Hope you think this one is as well
The missing person one was a comparable length to several past dtu videos.
Also, pineapple, chicken, pepperoni, red onion, extra cheese. Broccoli and spinach under the cheese when available.
As was LCQP, but we tend to go more for 60+ min episodes now instead of 20-30
@@ThatWriterKevin LOVE the longer episodes! And the internet mysteries are great. Thank you! Also, @Daminite, that pizza sounds soooo good. Extra cheese is the way, for sure!
@@annaperkins1544 Glad you enjoyed!
Broccoli... that's just weird.
Holy shit, this channel is only 2 years old? It must have started at almost the exact time I found the Whistlerverse. I've actually watched every episode right from the start.
22:10 Yup, my aunt somehow got listed as deceased by Social Security, and she discovered it during the pandemic. That was a real headache to sort out.
16:51 i was so surprised to hear a curse word! haha they've been bleeped in yt for so long it completely caught me off guard!
Me too! It's full-on cussin' time; they should have added a big splash graphic in celebration.
6:03 -Oh HELL ya it was! When we were growing up and visiting my grandparents in the summer they had a bigger color TV in the living room for international news and my grandmothers soaps. That had cable and was restricted to us. As we got older we could sometimes vomebin to watch a special or episode of a crime drama if our parents were with us. Aside from that though, there was a smaller black and white TV in the porch where my grandfather would sit and watch his local news programs. There were about 3 local channels that TV would get with msot being daytime drama or infomercials. We could catch some sitcoms occassionally in the evenings and sundays would ahve the Simpsons. The big soecial time fir us however wete the saturday morning cartoon lineup. It wasnt much and they werent great but wed get a solid block of animated shows for about an hour and a half if we switched channels at the right times. This included picking up a very fuzzy one that played Samurai Pizza Cats right at the tail end, ectending our veiwing that extra half hour in the mid morning. IT was a super stupid english censored dub anime but we were kids and it had the kind of silly jokes youd find on shows at the time so we didnt mind the weirdness or buzz from the poor reception. The theme somg was too good for the show and it had a power rangers vibe except with anthropomorphic cats. I remember they lived in a pizzaria that acted as their homebase and in one episode they found this poluted sewage water lead rught to the pond the resteraunt used for its tap water, leading them to comment how they needed to stop being stingy and pay a city water bill. Lol they would don armor, weopons and vehicles whenever the villian would threaten their city but no one was smart enough to realize the Samurai Pizza Cats home base was the pizzaria called Samurai Pizza Cats where they would bolt out of. It was one of THOSE english adaptations of Anime.
Samurai Pizza Cats was absolutely real! Loved that show
as soon as that show came up i had the opening song in my ear xD
Oh, I was wondering about the 555 thing. See Simon you guys taught me something
Woah. That thing can “boost your skin’s moisture by 126 in just 2 minutes”?! 126 what!!?!
BBC1, BBC2🎶 That was a hell of an Austin powers unintentional reference 😂
Samurai Pizza Cats was an AMAZING show.... credit to you Sir Kevin
Why thank you! I did very much enjoy it
Was amazing!?
It still is!!
I just googled "Samurai Pizza Cats" , it exists and according to Wikipedia, here's what it's about : Three cybernetic cats who run a pizza parlour in Little Tokyo moonlight as heroes to protect the city from the power-hungry rat Big Cheese and his minions.
Sounds enjoyable 😂
Fun factboy fact : The Swedish furniture company referenced is actually a Dutch furniture company, at least that's where their HQ are located.
1-If fruit isn’t ‘supposed’ to be on pizza, why are tomatoes so prevalent?
2-If you take something out of the original culture as much as pizza has, anything goes.
Blasphemy
lol
As well as peppers and olives
But also, Italians made "pizza" like 17 years before the first pizzeria opened in NYC
People have been making open-faced sandwiches for millenia. Yes, Pizza is just an open-faced sandwich.
@@thomaswillard6267 Correct - but the Pizza concept was make a limited of food stretch.
Lake City is a particularly well known manufacturer of military ammunition. A quick google can find high praise for “Lake City Brass.” So LCQP was very likely a reference to that.
the retirement age in the states is technically still 65 but social security is running out and substantial inflation means that people have to work longer because their current retirement savings won’t last as long as they planned
Here in the U.K. the state pension used to be 60 for women and 65 for men. First they made it the same for both , by increasing the age for women naturally. Since then it has been increased several times. I’m female but won’t get my state pension till I’m 67. I think the plan is to increase it to 70 eventually
6:45 for me what told me to go to bed was when telishopping took over channels in the early mornings
Omg I remember when that would happen
My husband and children said for years that Hawaiian pizza is gross. And then one day I got one for myself. And everyone wanted to try it out of curiosity. And they realized it was delicious! But then that meant no more Hawaiian pizza exclusively for myself.
We're all a little bit Sherlock Holmes when it comes to the internet. Nothing beats a good mystery to get our minds racing and our clicking fingers itching.
Oh yeah, and yes analog tape does have a shelf life even if you aren't repeatedly playing it. You'll get print through and it all degrades over time and whatnot.
Omg, LCQP! I’ve seen both videos by Nexpo and Barely Sociable. Was wondering if it would ever get covered here, so many thanks Kevin! I didn’t know about the Twitter update since I was hoping for a follow up video from either of those channels with any new info, but that was shocking, especially considering there were no sources to back it up. I guess it’s a waiting game to see if Barely Sociable actually follows up with the proper sources of where he found that out.
Love this format and the episode, even if I was familiar with the first and third mysteries. I’m pretty sure Nick Crowley (sp?) covered the missing persons cases on his channel. It also might have been Maverick Files. I can’t remember, but as a Chicagoan, represent! Giving me some new websites and channels to check out while stuck in the back seat for a long road trip today.
As always, great job! And thanks again!
South Africa 4 public channels, school at 7:30 to this day. TO THIS DAY 😂
VHS was Magnetic-tape-based technology. So those tapes, along with the audio cassettes would wear out with use, and with time - everything was trying to destroy those formats , including the playing mechanisms breaking them every so often XD
These are always so entertaining, thank you both!
Around 2011 i purchased a used VHS player for 5 dollars and watched some of my old movies from the '90s so they seem to last at least 15-20 years. The only ones that didnt work were my copies of the original Star Wars trilogy, but I suspect that they were simply worn out because I watched them many dozens of times when I was a kid.
Simon, cable television in California in 1979 was seven channels. Broadcast television was four.
I was 18 in 1989 and in Chicago. Kevin has taken me back to waking up to the National Anthem after falling asleep lol!
I also witnessed the Max Headroom incident while watching Doctor Who. That was creepy!
@@missandi1971 I'm sure it was terrifying at the time. I wrote the episode about that and it was definitely weird for sure
"Lake city quiet pills..." Someone remind me, that phrase has made an appearance in the Simonverse before, hasn't it??
I’m so happy someone else watched Samurai Pizza Cats! 😃
The sanitization of this episode is a bit random, at about 40:56 Simon drops an unfiltered f-bomb, then a few minutes later he’s talking about sh**ty bosses and gets bleeped out. Not complaining, I just find it amusing.
It's a weird UA-cam thing. They CAN curse, but there are weird guidelines. Like you can say the F-Word, but only a certain number of times, and only after a certain length of time.
It seems odd to me that 30 years later, someone magically found a WMAQ employee that not only still worked there, but remembered a singular incident from 1989 being initiated by a random anonymous call. There is a leap in there somewhere.
This is the earliest I've ever been to any of Simon's videos!
I believe that they put this with a fake name and bad photo to see how many fake leads would be generated. They probably got so many calls that they figured it wouldn't be able to help with new leads in real cases, so they didn't do it for real. Tried again a couple years later, got the same results and gave up.
That’s what I thought! “Let’s see if anyone would respond to a missing child ad aired 1:00am-5:00am; maybe we’ll make it a regular service.”
When I was on Reddit I noted:
It's easiest just to act like stories are true
People there are every age. I'm sure there are young kids there, I know there are elderly nerds there.
No way! I’ve never met or known of anyone else besides myself who loved Hawaiian pizza! Hawaiian pizza is AMAZING and you boys are my very favorite you tube content creators now just for that! 🍕🍕
Pineapple pizza fückin slaps
It absolutely does.@@Spooky_Platypus
Honestly I've never found us to be nearly the minority the internet wants us to believe we are
As a former pizzeria owner, I can confirm that pineapple on pizza is actually pretty popular! I myself, love it! 🍍🍕
Kevin and Simon-- pineapple pizza lover here too, when you meet up let me know so i cam have a slice in solidarity
I remember in Australia in the 2000’s we had three TVs, but only one got channel seven. The others could never get it for some reason lol.
Simon isn't old he is classic!
These were fascinating! That last one left me wondering. Wow!
7:55 wave of nostalgia
I'm enjoying his rants about his age because we're the same age. I feel you.
This rant got me in the heart... 89 was my first year of university!
Hell yeah!! Another internet mystery video
Official retirement age in the US is still about 65, but at the same time the Official Poverty Line in the US is like $10k/year.
Meanwhile the realistic poverty line is like 30k for one person.
@sarah69420 yes thank you that was my point. The "Official" version of anything like this (retirement, poverty, unemployment) is just whatever some politician appointed bureaucrat thinks will help his boss/harm his boss's rivals.
“Leave people alone.” - Simon Whistler. Truer words have never been spoken. I’m a big fan of being left the hell alone, and practicing what I preach. Mind your business people! Just because you came across a mystery on the internet and your curiosity has been peaked, doesn’t give you the right to intrude upon others to satisfy your own desire for answers!
I just watched a documentary about a guy who had a friend who died, when it became apparent he wasn’t he had said he was. Ultimately he found who his friend was and was able to tell his mum and sister he was dead but along the way he went to talk to a man who was the father of the person his dead friend had taken the identity of. That person had died as a kid falling from a vehicle driven by his dad a long while ago. This was a bit of a red herring and the bereaved family were disturbed for no reason at all. Imagine losing a kid decades ago, only to have someone contact you to say their deceased friend had been using your kid’s name.
The internet wasn't a thing until I was 20. It was TV, VHS, cassettes, books etc. Pubs, clubs, restaurants etc were all the same, just no phones
Me at 20: books. TV. Friend's apartments. Cards. Gossip. We had pong until mom wanted to watch TV.
I salute the continued effort in finding more internet centric mysteries to decode
34:12. Better send some Hawaiian pizza down to Kevin in the basement
Simon is a first-rate interesting character, his programs are a university in video form.