I Made My Dad Watch Pickle Rick

I spent some time at home last month and made a very simple vlog with my dad. We watched a meme and got into the weeds of ion exchange. This is me making Normal KZbin Content like a Normal KZbinr. Happy Father's Day.
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[@theothertonydutch]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Kyle's dad.

[@YonsungLee]

Kyle: *intends to shock his dad with cringe* Kyle's dad: I O N T R A N S F E R

[@lalas181]

The tangent about if a pickle could or could not support a human brain well enough for Pickle Rick to be a believably realistic thing absolutely _sent me._ Kyle's dad is a treasure.

[@ZephLodwick]

Film Theory did an episode on it, and they concluded that the pickle's saltiness would've killed rick, but an avocado would've worked.

[@gozerthegozarian9500]

STEM Dad + Theatre Kid Son = Unfeasibly Wholesome Father's Day Content

[@FlyBoy972]

I would absolutely watch a series of you and your dad discussing movies and TV. Or you and your mom. Both of your parents are delightful and insightful.

[@Mashford42]

strong agree, great vibe, good looks 😍

[@chaeburger]

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[@alisaurus4224]

A delightful & insightful part of this balanced breakfast!

[@FlyBoy972]

@@alisaurus4224 WHY ARE YOU EATING THEM?! THEY'RE PEOPLE!!

[@alexandersolodovnikov4840]

Hi Kyle! A molecular biologist here. I was surprised to hear your dad make a theory that some other people did regarding the pickle. To answer shortly, yes, pickles are electrically conducive. There is even a video on youtube where two mad lads cheked one into a high voltage electric grid, which forced it to emit light and then, eventually, explode. However, the neural conductivity that your dad discussed earlier dependeds on the concentration of sodium and potassium inside and outside of the cell, which makes a pickcle a not so good conscious vessel😂. Also, соленье in Russian means brined lactofermented cucumber, not pickles. Thatnks for a good content, keep it up!

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

I took a half-remembered course in neurophysiology as a mandatory elective as a sophomore in my electrical engineering program in 1970. Kept the text book (as I have all of them). My quip was, as much as anything, a first-order look in furtherance of the introductory quote and the basis of hard sci-fi stories. Much of the text book deals with concentrations, permeability, and ion concentrations. As a brain, pickle Rick would indeed be not so good. But it might be fast! Pickle brine salinity much higher than blood/brain fluids!

[@rachaelbao]

It's so cute that Dad K acknowledges the limits of his knowledge and defers readily to your expertise on your own field of literature. It's a sign of his intelligence that he doesn't try to prove his dominance in anyone else's area. As the Dunning-Kruger folks say, he's humble the way truly intelligent people are.

[@LeoulB]

question: is kyle the pickle now?

[@Shewhospeakesinverse]

Just popping in here to give jessica gao the credited writer for this episode her flowers.

[@alejoparedes2388]

Nice to see you again, Kyle, and your dad too! Happy Father's Day!

[@rusted_ursa]

I'm not even 4 minutes into this, and I love your dad more than my own. --Oh, shit, it's father's day, isn't it.--

[@haroldoftherock8973]

I adore your dad, and would love to see more content with him on your chanel. Something tells me that he leans more towards "hard sci-fi" than sci-fi as a literary device. It would be interesting to see a theater major, and a hard sci-fi fan discuss those nuances.

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

And yet, Le Guin is one of my favorite authors, The Left Hand of Darkness the crowning jewel among her many works I’ve enjoyed.

[@sebastianemond5313]

These reactions with your Dad is actually kinda interesting and refreshing, Kyle. 😆😆😆I wouldn't mind seeing more👏😄

[@thekrakenexperiment280]

The therapy scenes in this episode is honestly one of my favorite moments in the entirety of Rick and Morty, which makes it such a shame that the take away for so many people (ironically or unironically) is the funny pickle man.

[@MuadMouse]

This was just the light-hearted, insightful-but-entertaining short-form video I needed before bed. Thank you both!

[@ZeeDodger]

I absolutely love your dad and your family on the whole. The brief glimpse we get within the videos you create are so sweet. It's clear you both really care about learning and knowledge, and watching the confluence of your fields of knowledge and passions reminds me of talking to my dad. 💙

[@packman2321]

My memory of neurology is very rusty but even with the correct PH, I'm not certain nerve innervations could be supported in a pickle. After all the ion transfer is significant, but it's only able to set up a small action potential, which then sets up a micro-circuit, setting the next portion of the nerve. So even if you had the sodium and potassium exchange needed to prompt the charge difference, you'd still need the structures and shape of the nerve for that to be more than just a small spark. A nerve is basically making lots of little microcircuits all the way along its length, then firing chemicals between nerves to prompt microcircuits in the next one. That said, this is 10 year old learning that was never really my best, so if other people can think of a way to do this, I'll defer to them.

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

Good and solid analysis 🙂 … sometimes the bar for believability in sci-fi can be low … 😃

[@jordanetherington1922]

I think that this is a good episode when divorced from the shitty meme. Especially the part at the end with the therapist

[@iamabrawler92]

Y'know... there would indeed be an excellent analysis to be made regarding Rick Sanchez and how he both fits and subverts the "competent man" trope as discussed here. Maybe if these vlogs keep going with more R&M episodes that specifically show more flaws in the character? Thanks also for focusing a lot on the therapy part of the episode, it was overshadowed by the memetic parts but everything in the Smiths' therapy sums up the show's core elements so well that it's a shame so many still go "huhuh, pickle, funniest crap I've ever seen".

[@Raktus]

I think I would have enjoyed this more if it were longer... you and your dad going back and forth over the episode contents was a lot of fun.

[@biblegirl]

I love hearing you and your dad talk. I'd be so down for more.

[@UnlockableContent]

this was highly enjoyable and I would like to see more like this. these sort of casual simple vids are almost like palate cleansers

[@thatzerogirl]

This was a great video! I dont watch this show but i have seen the clip of the therapist's monologue. I had to drop my university degree due to mental health issues and I now go regularly to therapy, and what the therapist had to say resonated a lot with me. I describe a lot of the small activities i do to maintain my mental health outside of therapy and medication (putting more effort into personal maintenance, cleaning my house, going for a walk outside) as "the mental health equivalent of brushing your teeth or wiping your arse" now. And... it helps me to internalise that as necessary, even though i know going outside wont fix my mental problems on its own.

[@annerumain7711]

This was delightful little video. Happy Father's Day Mr. Kallgren!

[@Ky_AnCom]

This was fun, I'd kinda like to see more of your dad's reactions to Rick and Morty. This was a really fun father's day video.

[@TalysAlankil]

kyle's dad sending diagrams somehow explains a lot

[@colonelweird]

I've been rewatching Breaking Bad, and as soon as you mentioned the competent man, I realized the show plays with that trope. Walter White can science the shit out of anything to get what he wants, but in doing so he becomes a monster.

[@ComputerJunkie00]

Barely halfway into this and it has been delightful lol. Well done cousin and uncle!

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

Theatrical Bow!

[@KiltCladViking]

absolutely going to try to pepper " what do you know about ion transfer?" in to as many conversations as possible now.

[@rudetuesday]

I really enjoyed this, and would love hearing more from your dad. I'm a Gen X nerd, and many of my friendships have been with Boomer nerds who got me into Heinlein, Sturgeon, and other writers of that general era. A fair number of them were/are engineers. They're a very specific type of human being I like.

[@violatralala]

that's the kallgrensplaining session I didn't know I needed ❤

[@TheAbstruseOne]

I'm with your dad on this when he starts commenting on the Russian mafia having American fighter jets instead of Russian ones. When it comes to genre fiction, you ask the audience to do a LOT of work in suspending disbelief. Magic and dragons are real, humanity can travel faster than light, etc. There is a lot of buy-in on the audience's behalf. Therefore, everything surrounding the fantastical elements of the story HAVE to be accurate or they become more noticable. Because the audience is already suspending disbelief so much due to those fantasy elements, they're going to be less likely to put in the same effort for technical and historical inaccuracies. This is more pronounced when it's set up as something that is more, for lack of a better term, intellectual. I'm going to nitpick the hell out of Rick and Morty because of the "You need a high IQ" BS just like I'm going to drag a video game maker over the coals for every anachronism because they claimed their game was "historically accurate" as an excuse to add in racism, misogyny, and homophobia. I'm going to zero in on every single flaw because the creator has set me up to do precisely that. So yes, I'm going to comment on the fact that the swordsman is using a rapier when the story is set in the 13th century when the rapier wasn't invented until the 15th century and wasn't popular until the 16th even if the swordsman in question is an elf. The elf I can forgive, the historical inaccuracy I cannot.

[@Xarfax321]

I am rewatching this and it's funny: Your dad actually reminds me of my own dad! My dad wasn't an engineer, he was an electrician and later an IT-guy. But he have always been interested in chemistry and he loves complex systems and games. So I think if he had been my age today he would've gone to the university and gotten a masters degree in chemistry. So I can imagine if I sat him down to watch Rick and Morty, he would also start talking about brine or the chemical thingamabobs...

[@liamsivertsen3988]

I, for one, would like to see more content with this kind of "experimental conversation videos" with your Dad. You both bring these vastly different views to the matter (I.E. Hard Science vs. Storytelling requirements), and I think if you viewed other media of this kind (Maybe more classic science fiction movies like "The Time Machine," "War of the Worlds," "Things to Come," etc., you can generate interesting and informative pieces regarding how science is shown in media) it would yield some very interesting videos. Or you can just make it meme-y, which I'm perfectly fine with too. Your humor and insight has been what's kept me watching over the years. Cheers, Kyle.🥒

[@gonzo927]

I'm still waiting on a Kallgrensplaining podcast, you guys.

[@MisterH37]

Loved this video. You and your dad are a wonderful duo: a Scientist and an Erudite. I want 137 episodes and a movie.

[@penelopegreene]

"Holy Crap Dad! Neurons? Brine? Enzymes???" 😵‍💫

[@roll4max]

Lmao he sounds a lot like my dad. Get him started on a topic and he’ll pull an incredible amount of insight out of absolutely nowhere. Thanks for sharing!

[@codywilson2629]

I truly enjoyed watching you talking media with your dad. I would loblve to see you teaching him about modern pop culture

[@luxuryballer2216]

This was actually kind of a fun little tangent, I liked this a lot

[@BuddhaBot]

I could honestly watch Rick & Morty-a-thousand years of These kinds of videos of you and your dad.

[@shifty220]

Loved this! Happy father's day to you and yours!

[@LaFemmeFictionale]

Your dad is such a sweetheart. And you definitely take after him.

[@BalthusHomewood]

KZbin hid this from me, but I found you and your dad's conversation enjoyable and insightful. I love that he sent you the diagrams. I hope you get those other vlogs edited and released (if you haven't already) Thank you for trying something new 🙂

[@vikar25]

The acronym we used was PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard usually followed by an ID10T error.

[@Noname72105]

I was first introduced to it as EBKAC, Error Between yadda yadda

[@tk5800thesecond]

picnic is nice, iv learnt it as an I.D. 10 T error

[@pketr5]

"... which is about the apocalypse" I genuinely laughed when i heard that.

[@KaleidoscopeOfKool]

PICNIC was interesting, my parents (both in IT at a high level) had a different acronym PEBKAC Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair, not as good maybe but same idea

[@lukecwolf]

The moment your dad talked about ion transfer, everything clicked that there is some remote plausibility. My brain jumped to yes a potato can power a battery to the chemicals in a pickle. I never made that connection despite studying neurology in high school and all the rick and morty brain rot.

[@Tacom4ster]

Kyle's dad is like the smartest boomer I ever known

[@UndeadGirlCyber]

That was fun, I loved your conversation and have added picnic problem to my vocabulary.

[@nataliekmaguire]

Your dad is a delight.

[@Asehpe]

I kinda like your dad. Maybe he could start his own youtube channel? Anyway, if you do more Rick'n'Morty'n"Dad content, please think of us plebs here on KZbin and throw us an episode every now and then! 🙂

[@tehFirehorse27]

This was a fun little break! and reminded me very much of some of the conversations my dad and I have had after watching something (my dad's background is in chemistry, and he's also a big nerd and has a huge shelf double-stacked of all the old sci-fi classics)

[@Syurtpiutha]

This was delightful. Since your Starship Troopers video, I've much enjoyed the interactions between you and your family in your videos. There's some pretty awesome insights coming from those interactions and the different fields of knowledge.

[@imacg5]

The dad was just saying human blood is essentially brine.

[@tenkenroo]

God Kyle your dad is awesome I love he was more bothered by inappropriate use of jets by Russians

[@Swishy_Blue]

I would definitely watch more of this, if all parties involved enjoy it, too.

[@jasmijnwellner6226]

Makes a "basic vlog", still adds captioned inserts for every piece of media referenced. (Very much appreciated!)

[@lovenotegestapo]

100% I'm into seeing more of the Kalgren multiverse

[@bikzimusmaximus5250]

I loved this video! You and your dad have great banter

[@DemonicNightmare]

I really enjoyed this video, I'd love to see more of these bite-sized vlog style videos :D

[@disconnected22]

Three videos, all year. I miss, y’know, content

[@benzur3503]

Pickle mind transfer>Russians using off brand aircraft. Good video. Funniest shit I ever seen, 10/10

[@VioletSadi]

Your dad's vibe makes me think of Hugo winner Lois McMaster Bujold 's dad, the engineer she wrote Falling Free in honour of

[@aberry89]

Oh and don’t forget Justin Roiland sending extremely sexually explicit/violent DMs to minors. All throughout his career. With zero consequences. But the pureness of this video helps outweigh this

[@synchronizedelbow5702]

At this point, a season binge of DBZ with your father might result in a Master's in Biology and Physical Anatomy without the pesky student debt. Your dad's an absolute unit.

[@christopherb501]

More! More! Any time you're up for more of this and you feel you have time to fill, more!

[@securityvincent5220]

I demand more High Brow breakdowns of Rick and Morty content

[@williamkarbala5718]

Lol there's an episode of film theorist where they go over the science of it, the conclusion was that pickles have too much salt, avocados on the other hand...

[@obiwanobiwan13]

This was a nice vlog-y break, would love to see more, or Kyle and his mom talk about something, like Dutch art/life again 🖌🌷👏

[@falconJB]

Never heard it as PICNIC before, we always use PEBCAK.

[@marksalmoneussorcerersupreme]

Baba Yaga is a folklore Hag witch. She lives in a literal mobile home. A huge Hut with huge chicken / bird legs.

[@James_MacIntyre]

D I A G R A M S Fun video.

[@claudelarose8831]

Happy father's day!

[@jaydee4697]

Not gonna lie, I really like seeing your take on this style of video. You and your dad make some great insights, and I'd love to see more of this sort of video (may I suggest showing your dad some serials of Classic Doctor Who?). Great video; thank you for sharing!

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

I used to watch Tom Baker’s Dr when in college. Seen every Dr Who episode in the reboot at least once; some whole seasons multiple times.

[@jaydee4697]

@@captdbkilowatt6501 You have great taste!

[@fusionspace175]

I always heard PICNIC as PEBKAC, Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. It's less elegant for sure, and I think being incomprehensible jargon on the surface was part of its appeal.

[@CanIswearinmyhandle]

5:30 oh god, Kyle, get your dad to redo that wiki article!

[@gabemacaodha7750]

his dad chiming in explaining how this nonsense joke could be plausible, spectacular!

[@laotasurfs1110]

Four minutes in and this is great already.

[@SlackerKite]

I absolutely love this thank you Kyle

[@bensneb360]

I would love a whole series of you and your dad reaction to things

[@PineMartinAmerican]

The old man is highly competitive and defensive.

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

And is a strategy for how to become an old man …

[@OnDavidsBrain]

2:10 Thanks for reminding me why I dropped Rick and Morty and why I'll continue to wait till the Venture Bros returns in full.

[@sheamusmckinney914]

Your dad pulled out a whole ass game theory video off the rip, I understand why matpat retired now

[@happyMOO5]

I love your channel so much

[@herbstwerk]

PICNIC is a new one, my go to for years has been PEBCAK which is basically the same. Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

[@richardwilliams2808]

Would definitely be interested in more of these

[@beajordan7308]

I love your dad! I respect the ability to buy in to a concept and then relate it back to your knowledge base without irony. Like, take the silly premise seriously, it's more fun! Tends toward cringe which makes me respect it even more when people do so unselfconsciously.

[@marioricomeza2839]

Really loved this , have you thought of joining Nebula ?

[@B.-T.]

Picnic? I just call em Code 13s.

[@MisterTTG]

P.I.C.N.I.C. is cute! I've always heard it alternatively as P.E.B.C.A.C.: problem exists between chair and computer

[@alisaurus4224]

I learned it as PEBKAC, between keyboard & chair

[@captdbkilowatt6501]

Perhaps an effect of translation or national idiom: I first heard PICNIC from Dutch IT colleagues when working overseas.

[@cynthmcgpoet]

I would love to see this sort of duologue on a regular basis.

[@liammcooper]

Are they really a dad if they haven't broken down the importance of ions unprompted?

[@the999mann]

Would definitely be into seeing more videos like this. Reminds me of your Thanos video you did a while back. Video essays are cool but I'd rather just hear your off the cuff statements and analysis of random topics.

[@nickbrodie6033]

Loved it!❤

[@evilcaptainred]

This was very adorable 😄

[@171QA]

This was a moment in history that we can't forget even though we really want to.

[@sharonoddlyenough]

It's encouraging to see that even an experienced KZbinr has awkward moments like the start of the video.

[@joanmoriarity8738]

This was fun. Thanks Kyle!

[@user-te5nh3li3f]

2:15 I feel its kinda weird to put dan and justin next to each otehr with their crimes cause we can see one is noticably worse than the other tbh