As a Brit, I'm surprised you don't know what the Anglican Church is. its the one Henry the 8th founded so he could divorce his current wife at the time play fuck marry kill with all of his other wives. admittedly, he misunderstood how the game worked.
Do the Orang Pendek. I watched a skeptics show one time where the interviewee said ”If you gave me $100 dollars and I had to bet on the existence of the bigfoot, the yeti, and the orang pendek - I’d put $9 dollars on the orang pendek, $1 dollar on the yeti, and keep $90 dollars for myself.”
I have lived here in southern New Jersey, my whole life, love this video totally dig the lore ,I have lived in Atlantic county most of my life I have been to Leeds point I have seen the birthplace of the jersey devil it is an amazingly wonderful tale. Ty bud.
I lived for 7 years on Leeds Point Road, just down the street from the ruins of the Leeds house. Several TV/film/newspaper crews stopped by and interviewed the locals. Anyway, it was kinda gloomy and spooky out there on cool, foggy nights but otherwise totally natural.
Katy I love you using what should be the official measurement of the channel the Danny Devito. Oh have you thought of doing a video on the Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction case? That is one that could be a lot of fun.
Dear Simon fire breathing was a one day corse for me in the Netherlands . I do have to say that the instructor told me that in many countries they give terrible ad dangerous corses with incorrect fuel. But even with the correct fuel(a specific type of lamp oil) if you get it in your long even a little bit it wil permanently handicap you. Swallowing it is not great but not to bad. Also after doing it you wil want to change shirt and shampoo your beard. So its a cool trick at bbq’s but also a bit of a hassle.
"I don't know what Anglican is." Hasn't Simon mentioned going to church school? Apparently it REALLY didn't stick. (Anglican is Church of England, Episcopalian is the American version.)
I'm from Jersey, bout half hour or so from Pine barrens and can assure you he is real, he is a crackhead that got lost in the pines and now is doomed to search the woods for scrap metal for eternity.
1:25 - Mid roll ads 2:40 - Back to the video 3:20 - Chapter 1 - A devil playing field 18:45 - Chapter 2 - Jersey ? Sure 25:25 - Chapter 3 - We got a situation 34:50 - Chapter 4 - Devils in the details 40:40 - Chapter 5 - What ? 47:45 - Chapter 6 - Cabs are here
Yeah, it feels like a very guy thing to think/say. Like I have known a *lot* of guys who convinced of this exact thing, and I assume it's because they have some "I don't like to wear a condom" attitude, so have a vested interest in it being true.
One of our favorite stories to tell is about the time my daughter was properly attacked by our peacock. She was nearly 2 years old, and the peacock had just begun to show off some fancy feathers, but it was not to be. She had some pretty nasty pecks all over her head, including one directly above her eyebrow, and some bruising and scrapes on her shoulders where he'd dug in his claws, but she's all better now. I cannot say the same for the peacock. 🤣
Just to let you know, Simon, I am a born and raised jersey girl. who absolutely loves the jersey devil. Huge Jerzey Devil hockey fan! And in October, I will be traveling to Prague to see the jersey devils play. It would be a dream of mine to meet you. Because I am a huge fan of yours also
Finally caught up binging the DTU back catalogue, and now happy I'm engaging with up to date videos 😅 Love this channel, keep up the good work Simon and Basement Dwellers ❤
about a decade ago I was working a music festival in the Pine barrens where my dad was coming to pick me up but pulled into the wrong road that led to him getting stuck in sand. He called for a tow truck that couldnt find him and then it got dark and he called me up and was freaking out. He said he thinks he is looking at the Jersey Devil. he described it as glowing eyes and a mouth that was full of fire. my dad was not the type of person to just say shit like this and he was afraid to get out of the car to pee. he finally got out while on the phone with me and he said it was back ducking between the trees. next thing I know I hear a blood curdling scream followed by my dad rushing to get back in the car. next thing that happened was a huge bolt of lightning and it instantly started to pour a rain so heavy that if you were in a storm like this for 10 minutes you would remember it for the rest of your life. it went on for hours. everywhere on the property was covered by a foot of water in seconds and went on and on. the next morning after finally getting pulled out he made it to me. I can tell he was really terrified and was never the same. he then developed dementia and im left with a horror story that I will always remember.
The only reason Joseph Napoleon was King of Naples and later King of Spain was because his conquering brother needed a puppet/loyal ally on the throne if the places he conquered.
I love it that Simon doesn't get all the clever titles - like Jersey Sure, We Got a Situation, and Cabs are Here - but he probably has not seen Jersey Shore.
I've been on a 42 hour Whistler binge while doing menial chores around the house and I just finished listening to "The Killing Hour" from a few months ago and he's wearing a beanie because it's freezing on the set and now he's sweating. Sure hope he's in sheath underwear lol. But to answer a question about fire breathing which is a separate skill from fire eating imho, you can start in your daily shower. It's just spitting fuel and learning to expectorating forcefully enough that all liquid is aerosolized in the process. Best place to practice that is the shower. Find a reputable fire performer who can teach the the rest in person and always have a safety!
Coming next... (dramatic accolading drumbeat rising to a fever pitch) The Devil - [Pause] - in - [Pause] - The Blaze!!!! that's about all I could think of when I read this title I mean I know it's a different Jersey & everything... but if the whistler universe will ever have a Deathpunk-Blackmagic themed podcast that's what it shall be calledddddd....
Living in bordentown for my late child hood to my 20's the Bonaparte home was famous land mark and there were tunnels we use to explore. Was neat living in a historic small town bordentown city.
Catholics everywhere agree with you. My grandmother, who is now almost 92 years old, is one of 15 siblings. She herself had 6 children before she became a widow. One of my uncles has 12 children. I've 38 first cousins just from my mums side. Like a good Irish Catholic family should be.....massive family. 😂
*Ive lived in the south Jersey/Philadelphia area for almost 40 years. I grew up camping in the pine barrens, like 8 times a year, in the Boy Scouts. I believe most times someone says they saw the Jersey devil it was an owl. There are several species native to the area that have a screech that could be confused for Jersey devil scream if you heard it not knowing what an owl sounded like. Plus they grow large and their eyes shine in the dark. An owl perched on a branch about 6 feet off the ground could easily be confused for the Jersey devil. Especially if you are looking for it or are scared and have flight or fight instincts*
Anglicanism is the church of England. I can understand how you wouldn't be familiar with it, growing up in the UK and what not :P (Seriously, I fucking wish I could grow up a country that originated a religion and religion being so unpopular most people don't even recognize it.)
Two points: 1) Most of the time when people pass out due to a sudden shock or fright, they tend not to recall the actual act of passing out (as opposed to when people pass out more gradually from a recurring medical condition), but they do tend to remember what shocked or frightened them. Thus, _"I got scared - and then it flew away,"_ can be put down to their having passed out, and filling in the gaps after waking up. 2) There are countless verifiable sightings of animals, which belong to a normally-quadruped species, learning to walk on their hind legs only, do their front legs being disabled or defective in some way. When both these points collide [POOF] Jersey Devils appear!
I saw a cool theory about why so many cultures had dragons in their artworks. They found dinosaur or giant sea creature bones, had no contemporary animals to compare them too, so they adapted them to big scary creatures which they would have appeared to be. They showed pictures of worldwide traditional dragon shapes next to dinosaur bones that are close. If I can figure out where I saw it I will edit with the link, but it was a cool theory and my new headcannon for dragons.
An englishman not knowing what the Anglican church is is the fucking funniest shit to me. Church of England it's also called. Cakes and tea with the vicar or DEATH!
I tell people who use the term chicken for cowardice that they've obviously never encountered a bantam rooster that thinks it's the size of Godzilla. Also put swans and geese on that mean bird list. I ran out of food. Their response was to attack 6 year old me.
"creatures that probably don't exist" I mean I'm pretty skeptical however with estimates putting us around maybe 30% of the species on Earth identified I'm not arrogant enough to make such claims😅
Does anyone else think that the devil was simply a misidentified sandhill crane or great blue heron? Ya know like the infamous Mothman of West Virginia. Or maybe the Mothman was actually the Jersey Devil all along.
fire breathing can be dangerous, you would want someone to be your fire safety person and you would start by spitting water and trying to get it in a fine mist, distance, and consistency. I was part of a fire dancing group that performed during in the inner circle at burning man. i never practiced to much in breathing but i was able to do it after an hour of practice for a quick performance but i was nowhere need a pro at it. it is fun. fire swallowing is cooler to me especially if you can learn to tunnel.
I'm just laughing about my mom being named Deborah and from New Jersey. She also looks like the classic Quaker look, no idea if she actually is related to any but it makes sense since our lineage has been tracked back to the Mayflower.
“The people of the Pine Barrens were seen as poor, uneducated and odd.” My father, a proud Piney with a university education, shouting from the other room: “SAY THAT TO MY FACE, YOU ENGLISH FACT BOY.”
Dang. I grew up in NW Jersey and would have loved a myth like this in my area! We spent a lot of our time in the woods (I grew up in a very rural area) hunting for Big Foot, even though we knew he wasn't anywhere near us. Then again, we knew he wasn't real anyway, so we didn't let that spoil our fun.
Well as someone who grew up in Jersey, myself and friends would often go “Jersey Devil Hunting” which were keywords for we were heading to the Pine Barrens with tents, alcohol, maybe some drugs(?) and “party up” for the weekend……… saw a lot of crazy stuff but never the Jersey Devil………. Just saying…….. ;)
I watched the x-files too young too, first episode I saw was the one where they were stuck in Antarctica and there was that worm that would drive them crazy. It terrified me. Also that episode with the guy that was part lamprey scared the sh!t out of me.
22:16 Anglican is the church founded by Henry VIII in order to divorce his second wife, Anne Bolein, and the denomination of christianism the school you went to most likely belonged. The current head of the Anglican church is King Charles.
Fire perfomer here. You never use alchoohol based substances(i mean you can, but not advisable). Too unstable. There are specialty fuels, both solid and liquid. There are some in use that are not quite specialized, and they cause horrible tooth decay. FYI you have quite active fire performer scenes in both the Czech and English environments, you could def contact them :)
14:12 Because the hot beverages were alcoholic. Hot Toddy's are traditionally made with whiskey, but any alcohol can do if you can't get the good stuff.
The jersey devil cryptid level on potropica traumatized my child brain and had me looking over my shoulder for several years. Multiple horror movies before this and no issues, but freaky body horror creature jumpscare in a children's game was too much for baby me
Simon, over 6ft _is_ roughly 2mtrs, depending on how much "over" were talking about it. One of the only imperial to metric conversions I can do - 1yard (and some change) equals 1mtr, and 1yard is 3ft.
Ah, Jersey Devil. I'm telling a Jersey Devil story next weekend. It's one of those bits of local folklore that not local people...maybe shouldn't tell. Take it away, Simon!!
Simon: * attends a Church of England religious school * Also Simon: * doesn’t know what Anglican means * I’m guessing Brits don’t really use the term Anglican like Americans do, but that feels a bit like an American not knowing what a Yank or Yankee is.
To add to your peacock story my son as a toddler are loved or than anything to chase chickens. He didn’t always understand what chickens were. We went to Edinburgh zoo and he spent a large time chasing pigeons, shouting chicken chicken. We went to an animal park which had more free range animals He chased some chickens. Then he saw the Peacock and started chasing it really excited shouting chicken loudly, the Peacock allowed him to chase for a couple of minutes, then stopped, turned and chased after him. It was very sketch showesk.
To be fair the description of the head being like a horses kinda fits with the general shape of a kangaroo, I'd there a potential that maybe a kangaroo escaped a private collection and the people between the rumors of the devil and not potentially being generally familiar with kangaroos mistook a stray animal? One did mention it being similar to a kangaroo
I have been fire twering and fire breathing for about 25 years. I taught my self both. the fire breathing took me an afternoon. the twerling took me about 3 months.
Damn, I don't know how I got through elementary, middle, high school history and 2 college history classes with not knowing Benjamin Franklin was alive in the 1900s, I mean you said it more than once, so I must have always been wrong 😊☠️
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Japheth: Jay-feth
the beard would have to go if you wanted to firebreath.
OH THAT"S HOW NAPOLEON'S DICK ENDED UP IN NEW JERSEY!! His brother lived there.
As a Brit, I'm surprised you don't know what the Anglican Church is. its the one Henry the 8th founded so he could divorce his current wife at the time play fuck marry kill with all of his other wives. admittedly, he misunderstood how the game worked.
Careful Simon, the gorilla, the okapi and the platypus were all cryptids
As a New Jerseyan, I'm so excited for this episode! Yes, I live in the Pine Barrens too.
You don’t live in Australia, mate?
Google hammer head bat.
Do you identify as a jersey bi-sis jersey devil?
@@budgreenjeans I agree with the Hammer Head Bat being the Jersey Devil.
I was happy about the Bordentown part because I live near there and a also worked in that Mansion that is now 10 row homes
Some people will be _very_ surprised when Simon runs off to join the circus with ChatGPT. Decoding the Unknown viewers won't be though.
The cult. Not the circus... the cult.
Cult indeed O.o
Fakenews-GPT
he already did. what we have here is a deep fake simon being read by chat gpt
@@VictorLoganov That explains how he didn't know about Anglicans.
Do not rely on Simon for contraceptive advice. 😂😂😂
I wouldn’t trust him to pour water, he’s too thick.
There's that old joke - what do you call people who rely on the withdrawl method? - Parents!
No, its not that effective.
@@vic5015 wait, I'm sorry.. are you saying that not having sex is ineffective as birth control?
Right?
Ahhh coitus interuptus my favorite Harry Potter spell
It shouldn't be. It's only 60-70% at best effective and doesn't protect anyone from STIs or STDs 🙄🙄🙄
Don't forget its cousin fetus deletus!
@@theredmenace22 one would have to remember it because that is the 60-70% most likely outcome to coitus interruptus being used 😂
@@emmavink Why have I never seen tumblr discourse about Hogwarts' sex ed program? Someone get on this coz you know it's gotta be a mess.
@@theredmenace22 truth 🙃😂
Simon learning fire breathing day 1 - Burns entire beard off.
New Simon channel, "Into the Circus" where he just learns circus acts.
Sounds good. He is a clown.
Some say the spirits of Christopher and Paulie Walnuts still inhabit that abandoned carpet van to this day
Do the Orang Pendek.
I watched a skeptics show one time where the interviewee said ”If you gave me $100 dollars and I had to bet on the existence of the bigfoot, the yeti, and the orang pendek - I’d put $9 dollars on the orang pendek, $1 dollar on the yeti, and keep $90 dollars for myself.”
_Coitus Interruptus_ is so effective that Simon has 2 children!
OMG, how did you make italics?
@@pioneercynthia1 _Like this_
@@pioneercynthia1Put an underscore before and after what you want to italicize.
@@pioneercynthia1*You can do bold with asterisks*
-Or strikethrough with hyphens-
Yeah, but he didn't have 13.
I have lived here in southern New Jersey, my whole life, love this video totally dig the lore ,I have lived in Atlantic county most of my life I have been to Leeds point I have seen the birthplace of the jersey devil it is an amazingly wonderful tale.
Ty bud.
YES! FINALLY! my cold nj heart is warmed by this
I lived for 7 years on Leeds Point Road, just down the street from the ruins of the Leeds house. Several TV/film/newspaper crews stopped by and interviewed the locals. Anyway, it was kinda gloomy and spooky out there on cool, foggy nights but otherwise totally natural.
Katy I love you using what should be the official measurement of the channel the Danny Devito.
Oh have you thought of doing a video on the Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction case? That is one that could be a lot of fun.
*lol I came here to also comment about loving the Danny Devito measurement.* 😂
Its extra funny they showed the angry girl in the WWE crowd after the Peacock story, cus WWE programming streams on Peacock in the U.S. 😂😂
Simon, Remus' fear of peacocks is valid - I've been chased by every bloody one I've ever encountered and it's horrifying 😂
Dear Simon fire breathing was a one day corse for me in the Netherlands . I do have to say that the instructor told me that in many countries they give terrible ad dangerous corses with incorrect fuel. But even with the correct fuel(a specific type of lamp oil) if you get it in your long even a little bit it wil permanently handicap you. Swallowing it is not great but not to bad.
Also after doing it you wil want to change shirt and shampoo your beard. So its a cool trick at bbq’s but also a bit of a hassle.
"I don't know what Anglican is." Hasn't Simon mentioned going to church school? Apparently it REALLY didn't stick. (Anglican is Church of England, Episcopalian is the American version.)
There are a lot of things in Simon’s education that didn’t stick 😆
Seriously! In the UK you are either Catholic or Anglican and the difference is pretty obvious!
I think he disregarded religion pretty early on.
I’m England we still call it it’s original name. The Church of England.
Yup he literally was an Anglican!
I am listening to this on a beach in the Bahamas, drinking a beer. Best end of a holiday.
I'm from Jersey, bout half hour or so from Pine barrens and can assure you he is real, he is a crackhead that got lost in the pines and now is doomed to search the woods for scrap metal for eternity.
We have a few of those here in California, wonder if they are related.....spooky
If you encounter him in the woods, do you wake up afterwards with all of your fillings missing?
31:35 "It looks like one of those fake classic pictures of a cryptid." No, it's even worse than that. 😂
1:25 - Mid roll ads
2:40 - Back to the video
3:20 - Chapter 1 - A devil playing field
18:45 - Chapter 2 - Jersey ? Sure
25:25 - Chapter 3 - We got a situation
34:50 - Chapter 4 - Devils in the details
40:40 - Chapter 5 - What ?
47:45 - Chapter 6 - Cabs are here
Going back down the rabbit hole , Love the Fire eater explanation , then Simon's like sick i wanna learn.
I liked the What We Do In The Shadows take on the Jersey Devil, with the devil being distracted by Bon Jovi music
12:09 Remus seems absolutely adorable lol
Coitus interruptus is NOT incredibly effective, Simon
Exactly what I was going to say. Didn't think Simon would spread that misinformation but goes to show he doesn't know everything.
Exactly!! Pre-sperm is also able to get women pregnant.
Yeah, it feels like a very guy thing to think/say. Like I have known a *lot* of guys who convinced of this exact thing, and I assume it's because they have some "I don't like to wear a condom" attitude, so have a vested interest in it being true.
Can u get pregante...?
Right? It's like a 1 in 5 chance of getting pregnant this way. Please, everybody, don't get your pregnancy avoiding information from Simon.
One of our favorite stories to tell is about the time my daughter was properly attacked by our peacock. She was nearly 2 years old, and the peacock had just begun to show off some fancy feathers, but it was not to be. She had some pretty nasty pecks all over her head, including one directly above her eyebrow, and some bruising and scrapes on her shoulders where he'd dug in his claws, but she's all better now. I cannot say the same for the peacock. 🤣
I love Katy's creatures of the week!
Let me know if you’ve got any other ideas!
Just to let you know, Simon, I am a born and raised jersey girl. who absolutely loves the jersey devil. Huge Jerzey Devil hockey fan! And in October, I will be traveling to Prague to see the jersey devils play. It would be a dream of mine to meet you. Because I am a huge fan of yours also
As a retired circus performer who specialised in fire performance, I can confirm that fire breathing is incredibly awesome
I'm a Jersey boy here. Grew up with the legend. Love the episode Simon!
Finally caught up binging the DTU back catalogue, and now happy I'm engaging with up to date videos 😅 Love this channel, keep up the good work Simon and Basement Dwellers ❤
about a decade ago I was working a music festival in the Pine barrens where my dad was coming to pick me up but pulled into the wrong road that led to him getting stuck in sand. He called for a tow truck that couldnt find him and then it got dark and he called me up and was freaking out. He said he thinks he is looking at the Jersey Devil. he described it as glowing eyes and a mouth that was full of fire.
my dad was not the type of person to just say shit like this and he was afraid to get out of the car to pee. he finally got out while on the phone with me and he said it was back ducking between the trees. next thing I know I hear a blood curdling scream followed by my dad rushing to get back in the car. next thing that happened was a huge bolt of lightning and it instantly started to pour a rain so heavy that if you were in a storm like this for 10 minutes you would remember it for the rest of your life. it went on for hours. everywhere on the property was covered by a foot of water in seconds and went on and on.
the next morning after finally getting pulled out he made it to me. I can tell he was really terrified and was never the same. he then developed dementia and im left with a horror story that I will always remember.
This doesn’t sound like much fun for neither him nor you. 🫂
The only reason Joseph Napoleon was King of Naples and later King of Spain was because his conquering brother needed a puppet/loyal ally on the throne if the places he conquered.
"It must be true, the newspapers wrote stories about it." 🤣🤣🤣
"Hot toddy season " is an old new England way to say winter
Today we witnessed the seeding of the next channel of the Whistler Empire: Simon's Skills.
I love it that Simon doesn't get all the clever titles - like Jersey Sure, We Got a Situation, and Cabs are Here - but he probably has not seen Jersey Shore.
I recently saw an ad for holidays in New Jersey and thought 'The Channel Islands probably are quite nice this time of year'.
I've been on a 42 hour Whistler binge while doing menial chores around the house and I just finished listening to "The Killing Hour" from a few months ago and he's wearing a beanie because it's freezing on the set and now he's sweating. Sure hope he's in sheath underwear lol.
But to answer a question about fire breathing which is a separate skill from fire eating imho, you can start in your daily shower. It's just spitting fuel and learning to expectorating forcefully enough that all liquid is aerosolized in the process. Best place to practice that is the shower. Find a reputable fire performer who can teach the the rest in person and always have a safety!
Should definitely look into Hodag from Wisconsin where there’s a massive music festival with its name
Coming next... (dramatic accolading drumbeat rising to a fever pitch)
The Devil - [Pause] - in - [Pause] - The Blaze!!!!
that's about all I could think of when I read this title
I mean I know it's a different Jersey & everything... but if the whistler universe will ever have a Deathpunk-Blackmagic themed podcast that's what it shall be calledddddd....
Living in bordentown for my late child hood to my 20's the Bonaparte home was famous land mark and there were tunnels we use to explore. Was neat living in a historic small town bordentown city.
I’m hitting the like button off the bat because the Jersey Devil is hilarious to me and Simon is gonna rip it
Wait, did you say "withdrawal" is an effective way of birth control? It's not...
Someone’s gonna sue him for child support 😂
@@pearlriver1849yep
Catholics everywhere agree with you. My grandmother, who is now almost 92 years old, is one of 15 siblings. She herself had 6 children before she became a widow. One of my uncles has 12 children. I've 38 first cousins just from my mums side. Like a good Irish Catholic family should be.....massive family. 😂
As opposed to ..? Coming inside... Your fvcked
Nothing beats anal.
I've fought the Jersey Devil numerous times, didn't have wings but was 10 feet tall and had claws bigger then spades.
Fallout 76 is brutal.
I love this roller-coaster... wrong video? Holy crap I had to edit they mentioned the coaster 😂
6:56 Simon throwing up gang signs 🤣🤣🤣
*Ive lived in the south Jersey/Philadelphia area for almost 40 years. I grew up camping in the pine barrens, like 8 times a year, in the Boy Scouts. I believe most times someone says they saw the Jersey devil it was an owl. There are several species native to the area that have a screech that could be confused for Jersey devil scream if you heard it not knowing what an owl sounded like. Plus they grow large and their eyes shine in the dark. An owl perched on a branch about 6 feet off the ground could easily be confused for the Jersey devil. Especially if you are looking for it or are scared and have flight or fight instincts*
Fun NJ Fact: The ones that people see are the runts that were exiled for being unfit to join the legion.
Simon may not no anything about cryptids but he Rocks it at story telling much ❤
Withdrawal is NOT an affective form of contraception
Anglicanism is the church of England. I can understand how you wouldn't be familiar with it, growing up in the UK and what not :P (Seriously, I fucking wish I could grow up a country that originated a religion and religion being so unpopular most people don't even recognize it.)
It’s very liberating for sure
Two points: 1) Most of the time when people pass out due to a sudden shock or fright, they tend not to recall the actual act of passing out (as opposed to when people pass out more gradually from a recurring medical condition), but they do tend to remember what shocked or frightened them. Thus, _"I got scared - and then it flew away,"_ can be put down to their having passed out, and filling in the gaps after waking up. 2) There are countless verifiable sightings of animals, which belong to a normally-quadruped species, learning to walk on their hind legs only, do their front legs being disabled or defective in some way. When both these points collide [POOF] Jersey Devils appear!
New jersey devil has only ever been shown accurately for about 3 seconds in "what we do in the shadows" - no other correct depiction in media. lol
Finally from an ancestor of the beast . I'm glad to hear this
I saw a cool theory about why so many cultures had dragons in their artworks. They found dinosaur or giant sea creature bones, had no contemporary animals to compare them too, so they adapted them to big scary creatures which they would have appeared to be. They showed pictures of worldwide traditional dragon shapes next to dinosaur bones that are close. If I can figure out where I saw it I will edit with the link, but it was a cool theory and my new headcannon for dragons.
Ok new Whistler channel on the horizon, Breath Blaze, where we follow his journey to master the art of fire breathing
I always say the best stories have a grain of truth to them.
New Jersey still has a large swath of Pine Forests
An englishman not knowing what the Anglican church is is the fucking funniest shit to me. Church of England it's also called. Cakes and tea with the vicar or DEATH!
Firebreathing AND that beard? Simon must choose
edge they're really are a lot of farms believe it or not if they have the best Jersey tomatoes the produce is excellent don't knock it till you try it
Called the Garden State for a reason!
11:45 bless her 🥺
I was chased by a chicken as a child and never quite recovered
I tell people who use the term chicken for cowardice that they've obviously never encountered a bantam rooster that thinks it's the size of Godzilla.
Also put swans and geese on that mean bird list. I ran out of food. Their response was to attack 6 year old me.
Chickens eat each other. They are insane
A Hot apple toddy has rum in it, eluding to them being Drunk!
"creatures that probably don't exist" I mean I'm pretty skeptical however with estimates putting us around maybe 30% of the species on Earth identified I'm not arrogant enough to make such claims😅
My Simon Cinematic Universe is taking shape, as the continuity between videos is complete.
Does anyone else think that the devil was simply a misidentified sandhill crane or great blue heron? Ya know like the infamous Mothman of West Virginia. Or maybe the Mothman was actually the Jersey Devil all along.
fire breathing can be dangerous, you would want someone to be your fire safety person and you would start by spitting water and trying to get it in a fine mist, distance, and consistency. I was part of a fire dancing group that performed during in the inner circle at burning man. i never practiced to much in breathing but i was able to do it after an hour of practice for a quick performance but i was nowhere need a pro at it. it is fun. fire swallowing is cooler to me especially if you can learn to tunnel.
I'm just laughing about my mom being named Deborah and from New Jersey. She also looks like the classic Quaker look, no idea if she actually is related to any but it makes sense since our lineage has been tracked back to the Mayflower.
“The people of the Pine Barrens were seen as poor, uneducated and odd.”
My father, a proud Piney with a university education, shouting from the other room: “SAY THAT TO MY FACE, YOU ENGLISH FACT BOY.”
Dang. I grew up in NW Jersey and would have loved a myth like this in my area! We spent a lot of our time in the woods (I grew up in a very rural area) hunting for Big Foot, even though we knew he wasn't anywhere near us. Then again, we knew he wasn't real anyway, so we didn't let that spoil our fun.
Well as someone who grew up in Jersey, myself and friends would often go “Jersey Devil Hunting” which were keywords for we were heading to the Pine Barrens with tents, alcohol, maybe some drugs(?) and “party up” for the weekend……… saw a lot of crazy stuff but never the Jersey Devil………. Just saying…….. ;)
I watched the x-files too young too, first episode I saw was the one where they were stuck in Antarctica and there was that worm that would drive them crazy. It terrified me.
Also that episode with the guy that was part lamprey scared the sh!t out of me.
Benjamin Franklin was a savage. 😂
They call it the garden state because it smells like they fertilize it every day
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22:16 Anglican is the church founded by Henry VIII in order to divorce his second wife, Anne Bolein, and the denomination of christianism the school you went to most likely belonged. The current head of the Anglican church is King Charles.
Go to almost anywhere in New Jersey and you'll find someone akin to a cryptid.
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Brian Brushwood of The Modern Rogue wrote the book on Fire breathing and has taught it to people before
Fire perfomer here. You never use alchoohol based substances(i mean you can, but not advisable). Too unstable. There are specialty fuels, both solid and liquid. There are some in use that are not quite specialized, and they cause horrible tooth decay. FYI you have quite active fire performer scenes in both the Czech and English environments, you could def contact them :)
As a professional fire eater, i dont do fire breathing because its HELLA dangerous. Eating fire is dangerous, too, but WAY more predictable.
10:13 he was known in Spain with a nickname that translates as "Joe Bottle", allegedly because he downed wine like a sieve.
14:12 Because the hot beverages were alcoholic. Hot Toddy's are traditionally made with whiskey, but any alcohol can do if you can't get the good stuff.
The jersey devil cryptid level on potropica traumatized my child brain and had me looking over my shoulder for several years. Multiple horror movies before this and no issues, but freaky body horror creature jumpscare in a children's game was too much for baby me
You childish for that fire chuckle 😂
Simon, over 6ft _is_ roughly 2mtrs, depending on how much "over" were talking about it. One of the only imperial to metric conversions I can do - 1yard (and some change) equals 1mtr, and 1yard is 3ft.
1 metre is 39.37 inches or 3 feet 3.37 inches.
This makes me happy. 😊
I'm in Connecticut and this was huge in new England when we were kids 😂😅
I grew up in Connecticut. I remember first learning about the Jersey Devil via a cryptozoology website I stumbled upon via Yahoo!
Ah, Jersey Devil. I'm telling a Jersey Devil story next weekend. It's one of those bits of local folklore that not local people...maybe shouldn't tell. Take it away, Simon!!
"This is a local folklore, for local people!" 😊
Hockey is the only reason I even know about the Jersey Devil lol.
I miss living near the Pine Barrens. It was so cool going out at night when the moon was out. It was like the ground had a faint glow.
Simon: * attends a Church of England religious school *
Also Simon: * doesn’t know what Anglican means *
I’m guessing Brits don’t really use the term Anglican like Americans do, but that feels a bit like an American not knowing what a Yank or Yankee is.
The situation pun was funny😂
Did you catch any others?
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To add to your peacock story my son as a toddler are loved or than anything to chase chickens. He didn’t always understand what chickens were. We went to Edinburgh zoo and he spent a large time chasing pigeons, shouting chicken chicken. We went to an animal park which had more free range animals He chased some chickens. Then he saw the Peacock and started chasing it really excited shouting chicken loudly, the Peacock allowed him to chase for a couple of minutes, then stopped, turned and chased after him. It was very sketch showesk.
To be fair the description of the head being like a horses kinda fits with the general shape of a kangaroo,
I'd there a potential that maybe a kangaroo escaped a private collection and the people between the rumors of the devil and not potentially being generally familiar with kangaroos mistook a stray animal? One did mention it being similar to a kangaroo
Simon don’t do fire breathing you could burn your hair off… oh wait you’re bald already
I can totally picture him with a circle of burnt scraggily beard around his mouth 🤣
Jesus man...too soon...RIP Simon's hairline
13 kids sounds insane, I’m pregnant with twins (numbers 5 & 6) and I’m stressing constantly
feels like a sudden onset fever caused by a viral outbreak
I have been fire twering and fire breathing for about 25 years. I taught my self both. the fire breathing took me an afternoon. the twerling took me about 3 months.
Damn, I don't know how I got through elementary, middle, high school history and 2 college history classes with not knowing Benjamin Franklin was alive in the 1900s, I mean you said it more than once, so I must have always been wrong 😊☠️
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