Mindbenders Quiz | Barshens

[@rizdizla]

My name is Commissioner Smart, years ago, when I was just an inspector, a small boy came to me with a tall tale of being abducted by aliens while sweating profusely. I listened to him tell the tale of how he had been kept for almost a week with no food or water, under an extremely bright light. While at first, I thought of the Fermi paradox and its impact on the larger question of are we alone in the universe, I began to stare more intently at the boy, it was then that I knew that he must have been lying, for when I looked closely, he was actually a plant

[@kuro13wolf]

Brilliant

[@peepopalaber]

Hey Commissioner, you are high. Again.

[@AJSZodiac]

Hendrik Granna oh so that's where the title of high commissioner comes from.

[@natgrant1364]

I damned near shot Doritos out my nose after reading this.

[@PSNSMANIACALMIND1st]

Well it was about that time that I realized this little boy was actually a seven story tall crustacean from the Paleolithic era!

[@cheekbonestrenchcoat]

"That's not the rules" "That's Barshens" Sums it all up perfects

[@ridcullyshat8522]

Sometimes I really do feel for Paul, as his idea for s game slowly crashes around him. The banter between everyone is absolutely hilarious though and then, when Linton is on form, you get a piece of gold scroll through an argument between eli and Paul. Another successful episode guys

[@94RIPCobain]

Ashen's face at 3:50 when Barry ask's "Is he a plant?" always gets me!

[@SonicTeSexMachine]

brilliant.

[@jojow.schmid4920]

I am really impressed that Stuart Ashen manages to remember his improv question word by word two times

[@SmD-ff5xd]

nice nice nice

[@samholdsworth420]

Nice nice nice

[@SmD-ff5xd]

@@samholdsworth420 Ugh, seriously, can we talk about these amphibious creatures commonly known as frogs? I mean, come on, it's like they're just hopping around, thinking they own the place with their slimy, webbed feet and bulging eyes that seem to stare into the depths of your soul. I can't fathom why anyone would find these ribbiting, croaking nuisances remotely fascinating. It's utterly infuriating, and I'm on the verge of losing my composure just thinking about those warty, leaping creatures that dare to call themselves amphibians.

[@samholdsworth420]

@@SmD-ff5xd ribbit 🐸

[@otaking3582]

*Me:* "How old are you?" *Elegant Lady:* "In 4 days, I will be exactly 2 times half of 23 and 7/12." *Me:* "If you didn't want to tell me your age, you could've just said so. There's no reason to give an algebra problem like you're a Batman villain."

[@gayflower900]

“You look so young and elegant today! How old are you, anyway?” “RIDDLE ME THIS BATMAN”

[@rzeka]

Plus it's not even a clear answer, it could be 23.583̄ or 24.16̄.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

i, for one, thank eli for keeping extraterrestrials away from us.

[@samholdsworth420]

Him and Ron Jeremy can perform self fellatio

[@koenvandamme6901]

Stuart looks so pleased with himself at the big reveal :')

[@GmodPlusWoW]

And the best thing is he got Paul's chair.

[@sonicecho4777]

@Samson Themighty he's young and he's in his prime.

[@sonicecho4777]

@Stop Banningme rest in peace sam

[@sonicecho4777]

@Stop Banningme keep on shining you crazy star

[@GreyHulk2156]

It was a plant!

[@TinyNuubi]

Any Barshens with Eli and Paul on the screen at the same time is guaranteed to be a success.

[@phazonlord0098]

Pissed off Eli is best Eli

[@antster1983]

PhazonLord 4337 That’s Eli in every Barshens video and Cheapshow podcast.

[@antster1983]

He's sat in the low chair as he's a Tiny Man.

[@danforbes3573]

"I made it up"Nice one Ashens!

[@rossm97]

I'm sorry to hear Karl has passed away. He was always so funny on Barshens and a perfect mix of innocent flair.

[@jacquelineharkiss1018]

That knowing look between Ryan and Stuart when they were all trying to figure out Stuart's is hilarious

[@rawr3112]

Love that every Barshens video is just the game/quiz failing whilst Paul shouts "it was a successful segment" 😂😂

[@skthejanner]

Sheer genius from Stuart 😂

[@matthewdunk]

SkTheJanner Don't you mean Stuary? 😜

[@chandlerj333]

While I think Eli was being extra confrontational here, I can appreciate that he's the only one that actually accurately described the Fermi Paradox.

[@jimbL200]

8:47 sounded like Ashens had sneaked into the editing studio and just dubbed his voice over 😂😂😂😂

[@someenglishguy]

Yes, I do indeed love Barry, Stuary and the Gang.

[@antster1983]

“...THAT WAS A SUCCESSFUL SEGMENT OF CHE-BARSHENS!”

[@lividsphincter4098]

One of these days Linton will upload a barshens and it will just be himself, hanging from a noose.

[@Laura_Darkspear]

Linton’s rant is worth more than 40p :)

[@tap9095]

The bottle question would work if they printed “nickel” instead of “penny.” 8 ounces of glass times 5 cents per ounce is 40 cents

[@Ilikebigbums100]

Have you ever wondered when the infernal beat of our putrid lives may finally simply just draw mercifully to a close? Another week, another month, another year and another Barshens episode has past (passed) and here we are soldiering on, Listening to this wailing crescendo once more. Sure, we all love Barry, Stuary and the gang but sometimes, just sometimes the sheer noise becomes too loud. But it's not the noise of eli and paul arguing; it is the noise of unrest in our eternal souls. I don't wish to sound morbid, even if the treadmill of life runs ever quicker. But here's the truth, some poor fool is going to stop what they're doing to slavishly read this nonsense - they might even spend the time to write it out and paste it into the comments section. What kind of life is that? Mindlessly transcribing nonsense written by someone who doesn't know what they're doing in order to share it with people that don't care. Is this all there is? People in a dark room answering questions that make no sense, only for someone else in a dark room to speed it up and plonk a whole load of gibberish on top of it for someone else in a dark room to type out again, so that someone else in a dark room can read it. So much futile effort -Image if we all just...didn't. If we took a breath, allowed ourselves to rest. Maybe Barry's not far wrong, we should all be plants - returning to nature and away from our glaring screens, our endless pursuit of the new, the exciting, the viral. Or maybe we should just invest in some higher quality trivia games. Who is to say?

[@williamharris7795]

The hero we need

[@bignibba7493]

nigga what

[@sirkowski]

Thank you.

[@nathane5287]

You're doing an important service my good sir.

[@jekanyika]

Who writes this stuff?

[@polishenglish8356]

Such a great video made out of a tragic game :D you are true wizards and that is why I love watching you! :D

[@antster1983]

Polish English This video would have been infinitely better had Eli & Paul’s arguments been left unedited. Linton’s text rant could still have gone over it, in all of its Stuary glory.

[@ayleehope8563]

The overthinking is beautiful. I love it.

[@chucheeness7817]

1:02 We need a supercut of everytime Paul gets defeated by his own game ideas lol

[@0ctothorp]

This is my favorite Barshens video by far.

[@RaccoonRevolution]

I would subscribe to a channel that was just people playing board games with Eli.

[@singaporesammy]

I would subscribe to a channel that was just several minutes of indignation.

[@mc_cpu]

Can we have a live stream of the whole day filming these?

[@stevesstuff1450]

THAT would be amazing to see..!! :-D

[@andkrs8]

Yes please, I'd love to see behind the scenes of this show. It's probably just as funny

[@floyd75dylan]

Who else would love to see the uncut version of this video of Ely ranting at Paul? Better still, what about a 3hr compilation video of them two ranting at each other?

[@cheapshow]

You have CheapShow for that

[@acidhelm]

I recognized the 7 wives question from Die Hard 3. I was so happy when Paul read it in Simon Gruber's voice.

[@Josh101]

Came to the comments hoping for an explanation for 40p

[@rinoz47]

Josh this is youtube, not reddit

[@RobertT1999]

I assume the question meant 5p per ounce, not 1p.

[@SamanthaPortUkulele]

Robert Tucker But it said ONE penny per ounce. Is a penny different from pence?

[@elementalguy2]

No, it's the same. The question was probably just written wrong as they likely wanted to add the extra bit of maths but forgot.

[@PixelOverload]

yeah, i'm going for whoever wrote it fucked up the question, it happens, especially in these cheap old trivia games.

[@JesseDCrespo]

They wrote "1p per oz" but the answer based it on a nickel per oz Silly silly game

[@natsume-hime2473]

Which is incorrect, since the deposit on a bottle is 5 cents for the whole bottle.

[@heyoitskram5748]

COCKBUSTERS

[@sageh.5228]

I love the look Ashens gives Ryan when Ryan realizes what's going on

[@HeyMama555]

#EliWasRobbed

[@mrivy735]

Well done Linton. Well done

[@tantalizingmegalodon]

It was a plant. #BarryWasRobbed

[@drmegaman]

I'd really like to see another one of these, watching Eli slowly fall apart was gold

[@UnclePalpy]

I love Stuart for tricking Paul!

[@drragonwolf]

0:42 he's like "well I'm not gonna win this one"

[@JohnSegway-RainingLamppost]

Everyone on Barshens work together so amazingly, great stuff!

[@PMGF]

I'd want Paul and Eli to just go through all these on cheepshow. *YOU LOVELY LOVELY MAN*

[@eiaboca1]

The Fermi Paradox drives me NUTS. I don't like statistical arguments because we define the parameters, and we are woefully ignorant of all of the parameters. We're always reasoning from ONE instance, humanity/life on Earth. Our intelligence is partial, how we reason is likely partial (it's an evolutionary process and a tool to process information from the environment, not some magical world-understanding tool that gives us 100% grasp of the universe. True, unlike other animals, we can see some kind of 'objective' reality, not just subjective awareness, but how much do we not sense or process?!?!), and our statistical analyses of large-scale complex processes can only also be partial! Rant over I guess.

[@mingmerci6103]

And so the weekend begins 👍

[@cosmicjenny4508]

9:58 They purposely misspell "Stuart" as "Stuary". :)

[@mitthjarta5]

O: on purpose?

[@cosmicjenny4508]

+Grimm Zane Yeah, they spelt it wrong *once* in the credits, and everyone started telling them, "Hey, you spelled it wrong.", and it became a joke for the next few episodes.

[@mitthjarta5]

ahh haha cool, thought you were alluding to an in-joke. must have missed that, sounds very barshens though

[@antster1983]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnamhqWio712p80

[@KlyeKlyeKlye]

Looks like I'm gonna have to download this video and slow it down just so I can listen to Paul and Eli's arguments.

[@mrflibble1259]

Klye or just change the video speed...

[@leecairnduff8021]

Mr Flibble It's still too fast at x0.25 speed

[@mrflibble1259]

Your Dad i realised. It's actually terrifying at 0.25x speed 😂

[@KlyeKlyeKlye]

Drunk Alvin & The Chipmunks style, that could be the backing to a horror movie.

[@antster1983]

Too much amplitude!

[@AllAboutParker]

I appreciated the Die Hard with a Vengeance reference.

[@JasonEdwardstheharlandude]

This has to be one of the best episodes especially since Stuart “Keyser Soze(d)” Gan.

[@PuffyRainbowCloud]

Nice Alice in Wonderland reference, Paul! A Raven is like a writing desk, but not even Lewis Carrol knew how!

[@minprez]

This channel just keeps on getting better and better

[@casey_sux]

"can i rip this up?" NO "im gonna spit on it" N O !!

[@LadyBernkastel92]

Eli is the hero we deserve, but Linton is the hero we need right now.

[@ayleehope8563]

I always love these videos. I relate soooo much w Eli

[@PolecatVi]

Aylee Hope I’m sorry

[@thephoenixsystem6765]

I would pay a small amount of money for a Mindbenders 2 video.

[@BluDog35]

Ah Linton. The greatest philosopher of our time.

[@Tikicat1001]

I came to this channel because of Stuart. I stay because of Paul. 😍

[@minski76]

16:15 You pulled a Keyser Söze! Kudos.

[@halfeatenpi8193]

I look forward to barshens every week

[@janeporter3600]

“I mean you can walk off but it still puts you behind” hahaha Paul is like an unusual aunt on babysitting duties

[@sakarik6527]

As a blind deaf Chinese monk, I really enjoyed this video.

[@RawBerserker]

Easily one of the best videos to date. Keep it up guys

[@wigglyboots2]

I'm with Eli all the way. Back in school we had a similar game called Stories With Holes. It's whole premise was that there was one detail about a given story that would tell you the answer. It's less a test of logical puzzle solving and more of just paying attention. In order to make the puzzles difficult they employ purposefully strange and confusing modes of description, among other dirty tricks, in order to obscure what would be an obvious truth if it had just been described properly in the first place. Game is bullshit.

[@Aevilbeast]

I'd be deeply afraid of "dirty tricks" in a game called "Stories with Holes"....

[@jamesmiles2090]

I've waited 2 months for this. Love you guys xx

[@OhThatsMal]

The funniest episode bar non. They to whip out the Mindbenders game again!

[@IllyaWilson]

We love you Paul!!

[@theonlyenicfanever5346]

Heck yeah, a new barshens

[@DanVR001]

Please don't swear, this is a Christian website.

[@JaYlab121]

yo nice tv in the background, looking forward to see it again next episodes!

[@ravenlozada5743]

My Favorite Weekly Slow Descent into Madness.

[@dragonmac1234]

I love the bickering between Paul and Eli, and I agree most of the answers don't make sense. Did Paul write them himself :)

[@caitlinb3233]

I think we need an extended intro for every member of Barshens (permanent and recurring!)

[@alchemi493]

eli's soda question was probably supossed to say the glass is 5 pence per ounce instead of 1, as the 8 ounces times the 5 pence would be 40.

[@MajikManX]

Please make more of these

[@serisak]

It was probably meant to be 5 pence per ounce of glass. But instead they costed it per ounce of ASS

[@Kumimono]

I gotta say, if they got 6 girls, genetics and stuff would skew the odds. I recall, it isn't exactly 50/50, normally either. Could very well be a plant.

[@penwoopydo]

Jari Heiska what type of plant, a couch potato?

[@Kumimono]

I'm thinking, a parsnip.

[@theguaable]

Or a hat.

[@PuffyRainbowCloud]

Humans are more likely to get a male offspring because the Y-chromosome is lighter and Y-sperm therefore swim faster.

[@shilmodi9623]

I know I'm late to this, but if we assume that the odds for the child being either sex at birth are 50/50, then the likelihood of having 7 girls out of 7 children is 1/(2^7), or 1/128.

[@ThatMagicPie]

9:58 I love Stuary too.

[@TheGlitched64Reads2]

We had a game like this in Australia to called MIndTrap. Really fun. Edit: The questions in Mind Trap seem to be a LOT better... Not perfect but... better.

[@davidholden3386]

Angry Eli is Best Eli

[@Artermysss]

Oh my God, we discussed the bottle question at the Patreon meet-up... I still don't understand it at all.

[@LieseFury]

"Is it a plant?" Absolute genuis.

[@friedchicken297]

Every segment is a successful segment of j'Barshens

[@jeeves_uk]

An Excelence episode of Chbarshens

[@RoobehTunes]

Thank god for the editing on this shambles! xD

[@my_beer_stories]

17:13 as Barry says "it was a plant" a plant appears behind him

[@travosk8668]

We waited a week for this.

[@landofgrundo]

Always make my Friday

[@borbello6270]

"letter" is the real answer to Stuart's riddle.

[@cheekbonestrenchcoat]

I forgot how brilliant that last question is 🤣

[@23Scadu]

My room is actually quite well lit.

[@maxobyrne1474]

I’m so tempted to type out that text that scrolled past but then it feels like you’ve won

[@samni9068]

Stuart’s improve on that riddle is amazing

[@RileytheDirewolf]

Okay but here's the real question. Does the paul x eli ship exist or is it something I have to start on tumblr?

[@lmpst7915]

Ok. So Paul has never been with a man but is open to the idea. He mainly just wants to be loved and accepted. Eli was touched by a boy to completion as a child and dislikes thw idea of men but not penors Paul has had sex dreams about eli and semi srsly tried sticking things in places, but eli would rather die alone and be embalmed in his brine than consider it. Not what you asked but the actual state of things

[@RileytheDirewolf]

Lm Pst Wow is this real? Thank you so much if it is! I mean Paul is just shippable with anyone soo

[@mothturtle7897]

Paul has been with a man. Listen to the sex episode of the Cheap Show. They even read a few erotic fanfictions. It's deeply uncomfortable.

[@mattbastard1294]

Yes.

[@LyingSecret]

Thanks Moth turtle for actually knowing that too, and not just randomly guessing like others seem to.

[@rockyroo10]

I enjoyed this a lot

[@ashsboomstick2417]

You know Linton really doesn't get the plaudits he should.

[@OliviaWonka]

20 seconds in and I already know it's going to be a good one

[@JoLiKMC]

God bless Paul and his ideas.

[@hypeasaurusrex3422]

I keep coming back to this episode for Paul and Eli's bickering

[@therealsnufkin]

Wow, that was...incredible 😮

[@Norgorber]

I really hope you do one like this again, because some of these questions are hilariously bad. Where did they get 40 pence from?

[@harpoonlobotomy]

Shart - quiz edition.