Cities | SciShow Tangents Podcast

[@jimjam_james]

YES DRAWFEE!!! I suggested this on twitter but think I'll suggest it here too: Y'all should see if you can get some drawfee peeps on tangents, if you can :) an elephant themed episode with Nathan would be so good for everyone imo :p

[@swagilyph]

I get the feeling from past interactions with this channel that they monitor the comments more easily than the larger hank green associated channels, so if by chance one of you guys read this, definitely get Nathan on to talk about elephants please.

[@jimjam_james]

@@swagilyph I'm glad I'm not the only one intrested in this! :D the little crossover between drawfee fans and tangent fans is suprising, but makes so much sense to me somehow. It genuinely just makes me happy to think about :)

[@FaeFemboi]

YEA! More Tangents crossover in general would be super rad! I'd love to see OSP, Game Grumps, Um Actually, and Critical Role guest stars!

[@swagilyph]

Yeah let Mike Trapp come on and get slapped around by the host for once lol

[@Thedegu]

as soon as I heard about the colab I looked for it! (it must not be out yet or at least not searchable by 'drawfee hank green')

[@lisa_42]

Omg he was on drawfee??? Gotta watch that immediately!

[@thisisSarahnity]

I want an episode where you guys talk about the viability of various fictional creatures. Like anatomy/physiology/climate wise

[@disky01]

FYI, that Drawfee episode is why I've been watching ALL of Tangents. Thanks for mentioning it Hank, I wasn't aware of this show until then but I love it! You guys are great!

[@andrewspohrer7183]

Genetic diversity is also kinda helpful. Hence why a "pure bred" animal is gradually becoming less appealing and mutts are back in style cause they're cheaper up front (frequently free) and cost way less down the line in medical

[@unicornep1818]

I like background black cat

[@SciShowTangents]

i genuinely do not notice it as we record! It's like it only shows up later when I'm editing....

[@unicornep1818]

@@SciShowTangents More Cat will improve the show. thanks for replying

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

Do Rhett and Link know that you called them the Popes of Burbank? I think that would tickle them.

[@greenfeller]

Pangoliphant: an enormous, armored, slightly-prehensile shouted pachyderm that can curl up into a house-sized ball of adorable.

[@therealmckoy6772]

So donphant from Pokémon?

[@Hunnybunny734]

Can we get Stefan come back as a guest? Miss hearing you four together, you guys have great banter!

[@elisa.llew-send]

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[@asafrodenstein9397]

Urbin' Birbs new band name I call it

[@outistynnanyt5153]

Los Angeles has 4 big oil wells hidden across the city! Also, our Municipal Utility Stations tend to be hidden in kinda cool- looking, Art Deco buildings put up ahead of the 1932 Summer Olympics!

[@hungryluma27]

I’ve been watching a lot of these and Hank has SUCH A BIAS TOWARDS SARI WHEN IT COMES TO THE FACT OFF SO WHEN SAM BEAT SARI I WAS LIKE “Finally, jesus”

[@kylieebrook]

Out of pure curiosity, why does Ceri wear two sets of headphones ?? I never noticed until I

[@lizziewahl]

Sam is so cute in this episode! Is it the facial hair? The bravery?

[@shadebug]

You need more British people on your staff because any British person will be able to instantly define a city for you

[@anthonybowman3423]

I remember talking to some people from the UK about how one of their older cities got swallowed by it's neighbor that grew faster and in modern day it was only classified as a neighborhood of it's neighbor and was no longer classified as a city itself, and some of them got legitimately mad. Some British people take their city definitions seriously.

[@shadebug]

@@anthonybowman3423 they stole their cathedral? The fiends

[@potatopirate5557]

Hawks everywhere just said, "yeah, yeah, make the squirrels bright pink."

[@JudyBastaty]

"Just Jacksonville" 😂 That was pretty good

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

My favorite fact about the Paris catacombs is that they once found a secret room in there with, among other things, a movie projector and a couscous cooker.

[@Taov]

i hope that drawfee ep comes out soon

[@TastyChubz]

Literally just finished an episode of drawfee lol

[@fancyflautist]

First comment! (Because the video is still processing 😂) I can't wait~ Edit: It's up!! Just gotta say I'm here for the 90s crystal electronics fad but with animals

[@andrineslife]

In Denmark's defence, we don't really have a word for city, if you're being literal we have "country town", "town" and "big town" and I'm guessing the 200 is for town 😅

[@ssgtblackmamba7991]

Where I live a city has to have (or have had) a city wall.... which gets us in the situation of some (?) towns, at least 1 that I know of, being bigger than some cities.

[@justforplaylists]

Toronto also has the Palace of Purification, this giant ostentatious Art Deco water treatment plant. It's supposed to show people that water treatment is important. I don't think they'd spend so much these days but it's pretty cool.

[@emilyjanet455]

Flashbacks to reading In The Skin of a Lion in high school

[@koriel-in-real-life]

My definition for a city growing up was whether or not it had a Walmart, ha ha

[@KaitlinGaspar]

this is bad news for new york

[@ijustreallylikeramenokay7626]

uhm?!?!?! he was on drawfee???!?!?

[@lolsadboi3895]

the city poem goes hard

[@Rufflesandrage]

Would clear yoshi be like the Super Mario Bros All Stars Star Road yoshis where they get special powers based on how they look? What do you think the clear yoshi would allow Mario to do? I think maybe go through walls or go invisible like in the ghost houses? If that couldn't exist, my backup would be a Dritten (like in Upside-down Magic) a playful, fluffy kitten crossed with a dragon

[@SciShowTangents]

i think clear yoshi would be very slimy and goopy, so climbing walls perhaps?

[@_stubee]

In the UK a city has to have a cathedral otherwise it's just a town (as far as I know).

[@emilyjanet455]

I was so excited when you mentioned Toronto bc I was hoping you'd talk about our super intelligent raccoons! They're legendary! But this is also very cool!

[@shlomster6256]

X-urbs -- areas outside nominally suburban areas.

[@dliessmgg]

The swiss Federal Institute of Statistics has two definitions of cities: one is by population size and density, the other is by daily movement of commuters.

[@Ash_McSticks]

26:07 Hank I dunno if you can say that XD

[@air1fire]

Squidog is my answer.

[@jebus456]

Justice for Tuna! give him a spot on the video! Even if it's like edited in.

[@chillsahoy2640]

I don't know too much about American cities but London is a great example of a bunch of towns that got merged together into a city. The actual original Roman city of Londinium is what became known as the City of London, the financial centre of the city with its guilds and a special mayor wearing fancy dress. But so many towns and villages surrounding the river in all four cardinal directions became eventually incorporated into what we commonly call "London" though even nowadays there are many ways to define what is "London" as a city and people love to argue about which definition is best.

[@ElicBehexan]

I am amazed that I've made it to my age (68) since I am just about allergic to the planet. I tell people I'm an alien.

[@sriramramesh5318]

Same! I like to say that I'm a vampire, since they have about the same number of strange mythological weaknesses

[@ElicBehexan]

@@sriramramesh5318 I got my migraines and most of my allergies from my father. I tell people that he was allergic to morning and sunshine. He actually would get sores if he got too much sun, in fact, he went to Mexico, wore a hat the entire trip and came back with blisters on his neck from the sun.

[@sriramramesh5318]

I get sores and rashes in the sun too! Being caught between dressing to cover yourself up and dressing so you're not too hot for the weather certainly results in a lot of silly family photos XD

[@ElicBehexan]

@@sriramramesh5318 Yeah, I get that, I live in Texas.

[@littlemissevel3607]

I was always told (true or not) we were only technically a city because we have a cathedral. We are small for a city, huge for a town...we were a high population but spread out...i'm not sure thats the case anymore...alot of people have a second home somewhere else. Villages seem to count within it technically but not actually... It's odd. Usually we say were going 'into town' not into city. London town is also a weird place. Sometimes you are walking around and then suddenly you come across what clearly USED to be a small quaint little villlage that just got entirely consumed by the hugeness that is London. And it is coming for us all.

[@billyalarie929]

I feel like a fraud bc I listen to/watch these things (and all things sci show) and I understand maybe 20% of each topic (if there are multiple topics in one vid, I understand woefully little of each topic) but I’m here bc y’all are, collectively, so goddamned entertaining. But I fear that I’m doing it wrong for involving myself (if passively) in these things without understanding the entirety of SO MUCH AS THE PROPOSITIONS THE LITERALLY AVERAGE LAYPERSON MUST BUY INTO in order to even begin to understand the Proper Science Thing. And I’m not sure what to do with that 😕

[@magsgraff486]

The stages at which I tell people where I’m from: 1. LA 2. X City 3. Actually I live in an unincorporated neighborhood directly adjacent to x city, but my mailing address still says x city and that’s where almost everyone works and goes to school, so I’m kind of from both places? I never thought my particular city was big until I was an adult. Living in LA county, where you can easily move between 5 cities in a day, any particular one feels small, compared to the enormity of a county that contains more people than most us states. It’s a weird place to grow up in. Basically any city I go to besides giants like London or NYC feel tiny. I’m like… this is it?

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

muscular plants

[@oliviamcclure989]

idk the impressive raw strength expressed by industrial machinery quickly becomes an eyesore upon constant viewing. like its going to be visual background noise for most people anyhow so it might as well be something conventionally attractive and not so utilitarian. that said i think schools should have like tours of local municipal works (like waterpumps and the such) cause it is really actually so amazing all the things we can do

[@injunsun]

@SciShow Tangents, I have a species for you: Imagine the entire village of Smurfs, looking for some special fruit, discover a mysterious cave. Deep within, there are what appear to be dozens of avocados, row upon row, standing on end. They wander among them, discovering that, when disturbed, their tops pop open, revealing a slimy... Before they realise it, the entire population of their village has become host to Xenomorphs. The 'morphs do like they do, and release 2nd stage chest bursters, who have taken up genetic traits of their host species. Gargamel and his cat might want to watch themselves. Talk about, "ankle biters!"

[@kathrynmceachern9503]

The pump station house in my town has windows so you can see into the garage and the lights are always on. If you look closer, you might notice that the clock on the wall in there doesn't run. There's even a car in the driveway! (However, that might have been a neighbor taking advantage of the free parking?)

[@timpeters7852]

You guys look like nothing I figured from your voices. Not a value judgement or whatever just weird psychology.. Except for Hank that I new before the podcast.

[@RonaldSheely]

Hands down. Since I have been involved in creating a few. Fire breathing dragons. In many myths they hold humanity to higher morality. And because there influence has not taken hold via idealism. They should be manifest to put us all in our place.

[@zilvercederbom]

I think I've played too much video games. For a brief second I read the title card as "The evolutionary tower of pizza."

[@cliptracer8980]

Every so often,spicy foods different types might clear your nose

[@AquilaCat]

I just want reverse gryphons/griffins to exist. Front half a cat and the wings and back half of a bird. I want a cuddly flying cat.

[@KerryWhitbread]

I do traffic control for my local water authority, including the sewer system. They feed a hose with a high pressure water nozzle down the sewer to clean it out. I call these blow and go since they are so quick :)

[@elainebelzDetroit]

As I understand it (I'm US American but learned this on a trip to Manchester), in the UK "city" is an official designation made by the monarch. They also tend to have cathedrals.

[@dustinheese]

I grew up in a city of 22k. We were directly bordered by a cities of 493k, 193k, 39k, 9k, 6k, 3k, 3k.

[@JuuB406]

I like how Rhett and Link are the Popes of Burbank, even though they only moved there a few years ago.

[@peterjf7723]

In the UK the city of St David's has a population of inder 2000.

[@jebus456]

San Antonio is the same, basically five historic missions all connected together in one spot near a river lol

[@jimjam_james]

The Drawfee ep is out if anyone was wondering!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnWnc5ekZ9ZlgdE !!!

[@callmeneutrino7136]

I would like a poopless dog, preferably a long-lived, poopless Keeshond

[@emanfoo07]

the cartoon street sharks, having walking sharks would be cool

[@thegameres816]

So I fell asleep listening to this, and I had a weird dream with a bunch of miss matched animal... I was very scared and had no clue what was going on. Now rewatching this... 😂 I know whos fault it is.

[@ashleelarsen2233]

8:50 Buena Park orange county Cerritos l.a.

[@Larixlaricina]

There are many albino squirrels in my sister's city!

[@monsoonmast]

Y'all need to link this channel on your main channel.

[@slianyong7550]

Puppy the size of a pony. PUPPIES!!!

[@timapiepgrass8702]

lost my mind when I saw Hank on Drawfee

[@masterofallelements1681]

Lol my home has a “city” that has 10,000 people

[@allisonwonderland5149]

There's one of those in the fifth element.

[@mariafranceschini7662]

Did you guys know that Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine had very poor cell phone service? They put cell towers up, but because it's a national park, they disguised them as very tall, weird looking, green trees. So, they're not much of an eyesore and we have fewer blackout spots throughout the mountains 👍

[@lucyandthecalm]

love your podcasts

[@QuantumFiberServiceofficial]

Recently I watch your episode on Fuel and near the end, your wonderful group spoke about making a plant that could produce electricity with Black Leaves. This got me thinking about another recent biological study I heard about that spoke on the topic of a “Tree Community Root System” having the ability to “Share Nutrients” with other plants that were lacking in order to help each other during Winter or times of drought and hardship. This would improve health of the entire root ecosystem instead of what I would of believed that each tree or plant root system would work independently from one another. I believe that even different species shared into this root system. I don’t know all the facts and I may have this wrong but it’s a truly amazing line of research. I would love to hear your teams take on this topic. As much I hate to say it, it brings me back to the James Cameron’s Movie Avatar. Maybe our own root system is far more complex and intertwined with one another making me wonder if we should consider how we trim and manage our woods as a resource. This could have serious effects on the paper and wood factories near me in northern New England and the large areas of land simply used as a wood growth area. What if we knew the best types of trees to be mixed together in Oder for them to coexist. What if we left behind in order to plant that would maximize this relationship with one anothe to improve the speed f growth for a forest to regain what was twine or use again as a resource. I see some trees left behind and forgotten about for 30-50 years and started all over again cutting down with nothing in between. I feel like this could open up so many fascinating and real world applications for Forest management in the future. I love the owners and it’s an amazing resource we can grow every generation for the next no different then how we grow our food, lest maximize its capabilities instead of just leaving our forests to figure things out, after making mess of things like many tree companies do. Love you guys keep up the good work you make my days a little more pleasant and rewarding when I get time to listen Last if you do one thing in your Life Visit a True OLD GROWTH forest that is 200 years in the making Maine has Eagle Lake in the ALLAGASH it’s once in a life time thing to know that men like Henry David Thoreau passed these same trees Please learn more as I never seen anything quite as amazing except maybe the Grand Canyon

[@luizaborges8176]

You know when you read a book and imagine the characters and then the movie comes out and they’re not who you expected, that’s how I feel 😂 y’all are beautiful I guess I just imagined different people

[@mikkosaarinen3225]

Iirc there has been some research in Finland concerning the allergy thing. I read about it a while ago so I don't remember exactly, but I don't think it was hygiene exactly. I think they found an inverse relation between biodiversity and allergies. So kids living in places with more biodiversity had less allergies and kids living in places with less biodiversity had more allergies.

[@ivytarablair]

I'm having the best time seeing y'all's faces after hearing your voices for so long! :D I still mostly listen, cause I tend to listen to podcast falling asleep, but I'm really enjoying going back and forth :)

[@IreneBrownMeow]

Drawfee!! Yes!!!!

[@gracehamilton1933]

Love the poem.

[@isabelab6851]

I heard a story (I think Nat Geo) on a study of bird songs in the city in San Francisco and had the same observation that birds adapted their songs to the ambient noise

[@kariikosmos3005]

Love a drawfee spoiler! Especially when it's with one of my favorite internet people!!!

[@Cobaeby]

Your KZbin Shorts for Tangents always get me to stay and watch ❤

[@gamesman0118]

A Dire Woleagal would be my wish for a fantasy animal.

[@PlanckRelic]

I don't enjoy it when the thumbnail is a spoiler 🫤

[@SciShowTangents]

I try my best not to do that, but this time the thumbnail was sort of tricky. I will try even harder to not spoil tho. Sorry about that! - Sam

[@littlemissevel3607]

I get told i have an overly sensative sense of smell. While it can be quite helpful... for telling other people they've stepped in something bad, they should eat because they smell hungry... It's more of a curse...i'd take a better immune system any day.

[@Mekanik.b]

28:14 there's a house like that just down the street from me

[@terranovarubacha5473]

We may not have urbs anymore but we do have sub-urbs