Blue | SciShow Tangents Podcast

[@skinwalker3953]

That opening songpoem was lit !!

[@preston0]

Listening to it nonstop honestly

[@SecondFinale]

Go Tuna Metesh!

[@tobistein9831]

Came here from my podcast app just to make sure the song was getting the love it deserved 😂

[@ashleelarsen5002]

4:20 no don't do it

[@cottoncandypinkandblue]

Yaaaaas🎉😂🎉😂❤❤❤

[@RockelLin]

Sam's song somehow turned I'm Blue into an Owl City song and I'm enjoying it immensely.

[@hchen-gb1tw]

I can’t unhear it now that you’ve said it HELP

[@AllTheArtsy]

It's definitely giving "you would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies"

[@THarSul]

this is so correct i cant even

[@Jenny-fk3ke]

I love the science poem way too much. “There’s also blueberry pie” made my day.

[@Trethan3266]

So I used to live in Japan, and Japanese is one of the languages that did not have separate words for blue and green for a long time. Midori (緑) is their word for green but it is fairly new, popularized only in the last century. Before that they mostly used Ao (青) for both blues and greens This has caused a couple interesting quirks in the language. The literal translation for a green traffic light is still blue light, even though the actual light color looks no different from other stoplights around the world. A common last name is Aoyama, which translated literally means Blue Mountain. While this might seem strange to us now, this probably just means that these people lived by a lush GREEN mountain when they got their last name.

[@HotelPapa100]

Language/culture also definitely has an influence on where people place the limit between colors such as yellow and green, or green and blue. Speaker of germanic languages may also be surprised that Italian and slavic languages make a similar distinction between blue and sky blue as English does between pink and red. they would never call a baby blue item just "blue".

[@Somebodyherefornow]

did you know that, when you ask people for a stereotypical “ao” color, they will choose blue or green, not a green-blue hybrid, very fun

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

Korean calls green traffic lights blue too. I’m not sure if it is a vocab issue since they do have a word for green and used often. It might have been that the original traffic lights here may have had more of a blue hue and it just stuck even though modern traffic lights are definitely green

[@mixiekins]

that explains the confusion I have with yellow traffic lights in English occasionally being referred to as amber lights. The turn signal, as well, is technically deemed amber, but automotive manufacturers often make them either orange or yellow. I could be mistaken, but I heard it harkens back to train traffic lights, and the need for high visibility at a distance because trains take so long to stop.

[@disky01]

Cap'n Crunch, DRY?! Hank, you maniac. Sam's poem is the best, most correct and only possible choice for this episode, deserving of the highest honors in science and the arts.

[@sheilathepotter6636]

I'm a potter, and I make porcelain tableware in a variety of colours. My most popular items are always the blue ones. I make and sell double the amount of blue compared to other colours (red, yellow, green, etc). Green is my second most popular. Orange is by far the least popular colour. I frequently ask people their favourite colours and it is almost always blue or green. My favourite colour is yellow though. 💛

[@morgagnomic]

OMG Sam! The song remix OMG. Ok, that's it, this song, and Ceri's Shanty, and Hank's Sleep song are just *chef's kiss* and need to be collected into an album! I love you folx so much!

[@jebus456]

yes! they're slowing building a full length record!!

[@TheLeftAlone]

I usually listen to their podcast on Spotify but this time I need to go on here to express how much i love Sam's opening song

[@Kaitybardot]

Wait Ceri and Hank completely skipped over recognizing how great the song was! I’m gonna have faith and just assume Sam edited it out out of humility with a touch of embarrassment? Edit: after going back and watching closely I don’t think so. So thank you for that amazingness Sam!

[@williammatthews7735]

A tragedy, he must know how good it is

[@andyanderson2143]

Ive got to pause to say, Sam, that blue song will be sung with tears shed and smiles spread at my funeral, and I'll ascend on gossamer threads of the purest aquamarine. Thank you.

[@SamLugo]

My dog, Blue, was very excited that you made an episode about him. Or he may have been excited because I kept saying his name. But I like to think it was the podcast episode.

[@memeju1ce]

it was totally the name of the episode

[@mariafranceschini7662]

Sam! Your Blue, remix song is *chefs kiss* Sam thinks, "I've done all the poems I can think of." "Time to take it up a notch!" "But, with great power comes great responsibility." - Spiderman "You are not in control of the notches." - John Green

[@GrayskiesBlackclouds]

I listened to the podcast on my way to work, but I had to come to the video to see a visual of the poem. It did not disappoint.

[@meganstout-qf7wt]

LIVING for Sam’s song 🫶💙

[@MrARock001]

That blue dye #1 fact was wild! I immediately imagined an episode of House where a patient comes in with a broken spine and House goes to the hospital break room and grabs a vial of blue food coloring and then just squirts it into the saline bag.

[@kyloben4848]

Why would a hospital break room have food dye?

[@Avendesora]

@@kyloben4848Im glad that's the part of this scenario you found unbelievable lol

[@Savrillo]

​@@kyloben4848in House, why not

[@SuperNerdKid]

The opening song science poem scene made me glad I switched from just listening to the pod to watching it.

[@ponyote]

Ceri represents the Scooby-Doo fandom so well. Thank you!

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

woa woa woa i dont usually watch the KZbin videos but instead lisen to it on google podcasts if every poem comes with video now like the blue dancing aliens im going to rewatch every episode just to see that

[@chloelynndancer]

"blue when you say goodbye" and "there's also blueberry pie" have been repeating in my head since I first listened to the podcast, I'm obsessed

[@heatherjohnson7885]

The blue song tho! Good job Sam you made me smile and giggle thank you. 🥰

[@alycsandrianah]

To Sam!!! Subs, sandwiches, tacos, pitas, calzones, ETC. all KEEP QUALITY when wrapped with a paper towel or napkin ( around the food itself ) before being stored in original wrap and being put in the fridge. YOURE WELCOME INTERNET.

[@stephonthemoon]

Did Sam’s song just cure my seasonal depression?! No, but it sure lifted my mood! Seriously though, I’m so glad I found this podcast.

[@cottoncandypinkandblue]

I like the example of snow. I believe Joshua Weissman visited iceland and a local had so many words for ice. My mind was blown. I only know ice. But it means so many different things to the locals.

[@CheeseBallsNBeanDip]

LOVED THE SONG!!!

[@ethan-loves]

BEST SCIENCE POEM EVER

[@charlotteb6450]

literally only just up to sam's song but had to like JUST for that what a momenttt

[@alexstauffer3359]

12:38 In the book Dead Beat, a wizard resurrects a T Rex using polka and then rides it through Chicago.

[@FlexxibleFree]

You really made it a special poem this time, good job!

[@robnol84]

Necromancy, dinosaurs, and a museum? Sounds like a Jim Butcher book.

[@spudd86]

I thought there was a study that showed people that have different words for colours can remember them better, like if you don't have different words for green and blue showing something green or blue and then asking them to pick the same colour out of a lineup later was harder than for people who have separate words for them, but it didn't affect how well people could tell colours apart for samples they could compare directly.

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Yeah that's actually true! It gets even crazier when you have specific words for those words known as basic English colour terms. A study did find, for example, that for Uruguay Spanish vs actual Spanish, since the first language has different words for dark blue and light blue (Celeste and Azul respectively) versus a more inclusive one in the second (azul Celeste and Azul specifically), the Spanish speaking Uruguayans could tell them apart better!

[@georgewachsmuth9201]

The Dresden Files book series by Jim Butcher does have a zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex (Yes, named Sue, by the way) that really kicks ass. This is in reference to the “necromancy in the museum” comment. By the way….I am not really a podcast fan but I love SciShow Tangents. It may be that I really like all the participants and I have the same twisted sense of humor and science as all of them. Thanks for keeping this going!

[@Anuchan]

Social media is blue because the light from blue leds interrupts sleep patterns, and people stay up later than they want to because they can't sleep.

[@gljames24]

Blue is still too many hues! You have Cyan, Capri, Azure, Cerulean, and Primary Blue, and Indigo, that all get lumped together. It would be like calling yellow red.

[@l.u.c.a.s.]

We need a full release of the blue song!!!

[@AllTheArtsy]

Oh my gosh, the blue song by Sam 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@kariikosmos3005]

The inuit can have anywhere from a dozen to 93 words for snow, depending on the tribe

[@briannaarnold6053]

Yes, I needed that song

[@MicrowaveOvenVideo]

I have already listened to this on Spotify, but I had to come see Sam's performance on KZbin!

[@tomsanderson1515]

10:29 hahaha isn't hank's sons name Orin? It's practically Orange 😂😂😂

[@Darkflowerchyld718]

Blue is in fact my favorite color. Cerulean to be exact. Just looking at the color is enough to get my feel good chemicals moving. This episode was fantastic. Sam your Blue remix was top tier *chef's kiss*

[@JoeMazzolaTheFirstPersonCook]

Sam's Blue is probably the best opening this show has ever had

[@nitsanbly7297]

Sam you have a beautiful voice I have a new ringtone

[@jennrodriguezdaluz]

thank you for standing up for orange, ceri!

[@hannahbrown2728]

Hank really just said... "Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?" "I eat Captain Crunch." "Heh, yeah so?" "Without any milk..." "Oh right this way sir."

[@CindiKn]

Gray is my favorite color. I felt so symbolic yesterday.

[@dianewallace6064]

Great song and production, Sam.

[@nkstred]

Sam is the MVP lol loveeee thisss shooowwww

[@Spirit0502]

If French bleu also meant golden I wonder if there’s any correlation to why we also use their word for blond/blonde

[@Justmichael1995]

That opening was perfection!

[@hchen-gb1tw]

Ceri’s cat in a DEEPLY invested grooming session at 36:37 is, for some reason, absolutely hilarious

[@hunterkat]

Hey Hank, ever read the Dresden Files? Someone may have used necromancy to resurrect Sue… 12:44

[@roaldpage]

@ 5:41 when Ceri says frequencies between 450, and 670 hertz, she said the wrong unit. Visual light takes place in the hundreds of Terahertz range (Trillions of hertz). The frequency range she listed are soundwaves spanning A +38.90 cents in the 4th octave, and E + 27.99 cents in the fifth.

[@LadyCynthiana]

I guessed 8, woo! I just knew a lot of pigments were oxides from studying art and working with art supplies.

[@Somebodyherefornow]

7:55 BBC is wrong there, but i think reaction time tests are very common to test if and how fast people can distinguish stuff, right?

[@annasfischer]

Blue is literally the opposite of my favorite color. My favorite color is orange, and it's a loan word, that comes, through a series of borrowings from a Southern Indian Dravidian langage (the specific one is unknown). It passed through Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Spanish, and French before it got to English in the 1400s, where it originally just meant the fruit, before the English went, actually, this is a pretty good name for the color yellowish red, too. Also the French were famous before the wide spread use in Europe of Indian indigo, for their blue dye derived from French woad, which is also an indigo bearing plant. This was an expensive and important trade good which might explain why the color name changed at the time of the Norman Conquest.

[@Nylak-Otter]

Orange gang!

[@jennrodriguezdaluz]

hell yes orange!

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Orange is my favourite colour too! In combo with red and yellow 😊 they just speak warmth to me

[@Somebodyherefornow]

orange second favorite, red best

[@sylvy16]

sams blue cover was so good. also i’ve had that thing where i just found out the name of the song recently and see it everywhere now. can someone remind me what that phenomenon is called.

[@raeperonneau4941]

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?

[@Quintesca]

I literally heard this song for the first time in ages today in the car. Fuckin baadee-meinhoff

[@janeteholmes]

My favourite colour is, and always has been, purple.

[@GreenPoint_one]

Mine is green but I love a combo of yellow and blue too, looks elegant~

[@hchen-gb1tw]

As a veterinarian who has treated lots of spinal injuries in dogs and cats…the blue no 1 fact is WILD

[@CodyKillebrew]

So weird seeing a bacteria that I work with a lot on here. Fun fact! If you waft a plate of P. aeriginosa you will likely smell either a grape like odor, or (like me) corn chip odor

[@Tabbasco2012]

Best poem ever

[@maxrbmc]

I already listened to podcast but had to come back to see how the opening song/poem was done in video

[@Srelde]

Ceri's 100% right. Some of my fondest memories are of me and some friends going to this one sandwich shop and ordering a 3 foot long sub, getting it sliced, and sharing it. Also that sandwich length and width aren't important, but height cannot be too high.

[@disky01]

Now listen up, here's a story You're right, it is

[@mark.fedorov]

The song and the visuals were wonderful!

[@kyle20176]

How have i not seen this one? Sam is amazing!

[@LiveWire937]

The key to making a sandwich that keeps long enough for the 2nd half to be just as good as the first when eaten in 2 sittings is this: cream cheese. put it on first, put it on both bread slices, and be sure to cover the entire inner surface of the bread. Doing this creates a barrier that slows moisture from all the other ingredients in penetrating the bread, allowing it to retain it's springy crumb for around 16 hours in my experience, plus it tastes delicious!

[@mscreation101]

I love Blue!

[@Centfla60]

NEVER miss a chance!

[@Shatterpath]

You guys were on fire today! And I need a mini-vid of your song remix Sam, stat.

[@lpeters82]

I used to collect sponsorships for youth sports teams. When I included a place for the sponsor to write in their preferred shirt color, more often than not, they choose blue.

[@alan-xg7pv]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@yellowflowerorangeflower5706]

My new favorite song, 4:24

[@mixiekins]

this is my first Tangent, coming here after enjoying Sam on Microcosmos, and man, the song did not disappoint.

[@Dee-jp7ek]

When Sam's voice autotuned my soul left my body. Also, Hank, you'd need geomancy for fossils silly u_u

[@KamekazeKuban]

My favorite color has changed throughout the years but I think I’ve settled on orange.

[@primordial_platypus]

My favorite is Octarine.

[@dziooooo]

12:56 Dresden Files has a book where they do necromancy on Sue the T-Rex! Not to talk to them, but to ride them across Chicago and eat zombies. 😂

[@davesatxify]

great song sam!

[@mynameislunkk_8612]

that song was amazing sam thank you

[@alexanderharvey6407]

Harry Dresden from the Dresden Files doesnt ask s T Rex questions, but he does utilize magic to animate a skeleton from a museum in Chicago and rides it into battle against necromancers...and vampires I think? Its also the book where we get the line "Polka never dies!" as I recall.

[@0oShwavyo0]

Small note, at 5:46 it should be THz, not Hz.

[@resourceress7]

The fancy musical number in the poetry segment 😍

[@raeperonneau4941]

Sam, that was awesome! It’s very interesting that the 2014 yougov survey didn’t interview anyone in African countries. Wonder why?

[@Levacque]

12:50 there's a series called The Dresden Files where somebody definitely reanimates and rides a dinosaur

[@nathancantino5669]

LOL. blue song . hilarious.

[@kylekane5727]

I love Sam lol.. I also love the sandwich convo,

[@patriciaspry2680]

Your show is my happy place to listen to when I'm out walking. I love you guys and I love science❤

[@irinaphoenix2169]

Blue is the only color I actively dislike, which seems super uncommon, so I'm intrigued!

[@jesseannenorton6972]

I'm gonna need that song remastered and available for download

[@nikkimurray9942]

Listen I know this is a year old but Sam, please, I beg, can we have a full length version of Blue Pie?? I love

[@EayuProuxm]

Not enough people are reacting to Hank eating Captain Crunch dry. Even Chuck Norris would balk at that.

[@ivytarablair]

Had flashbacks to the Cap'n Crunch scene in Cryptonomicon 😂😂😂

[@CeramicSerpent]

I'M BLUE🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@unicornep1818]

Wow a whole Inky episode, Best Episode Ever (Is there a fan club). Luv and Hugs.

[@Epinardscaramel]

Tom Scott's language files has a nice episode about the names for colors in different languages

[@spoookley]

i was just passing by and i’d like to inform you that blue is in fact my Least favorite color. my favorite color is orange, and i go out of my way to avoid blue like 70% of the time

[@Assato]

It totally is! Can't wait to hear why

[@Bluesayshello1]

Blue is my name, pink is my favorite color

[@resourceress7]

In the US at least, maybe another Western countries, we drill preschoolers like crazy to learn their color words and ask them tell us the color names of things. A). That primes us to do this more quickly than someone whose culture does not have that sort of task / practice with that task. B). We explicitly teach kids that there is a core set of colors that map to a core set of color words, not just in preschool but in compulsory schooling. Plus, boxes of markers and crayons show consistent exemplars that are labeled in words. Probably not true or valued across all cultures.

[@CalicoCatacornkin]

That blue song was hilarious once the filter went on Sam’s voice. Blue is quite prominent in my dolls’ life. Their clothes made from my old blue shirts. A doll named Ocean naturally has a blue room and affinity for magical seafaring adventures. Kristof’s blue hair holds powerful water magic while his body cannot cast a spell on its own. A potion with his hair created a giant rainstorm of Dreamland blue seawater. Even their dining table is the blue lid from the Ken box. Blue oceans are cool because I love marine biology. Blue skies annoy me a bit, for they are too plain, lacking texture and variation a cloud brings, and the sunlight unhindered to blind me. My favorite color is orange like my pumpkin hair followed by blue because I love Kristof. I look forward to possible future color themed episodes.

[@LoveTrueMusic1]

I literally named that tune just from that opening noise.