Caves with Brennan Lee Mulligan - Spooky Month | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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[@that_one_doggo8391]

imagine being a random parent at a kid's birthday and you just see Hank Green

[@XRatedPoetry]

Uhoh! Brennan on a lightly competitive game show

[@MrBogus213]

He will do ANYTHING to win ANYTHING. Does Ceri have a helmet and padding? Cuz this is about to get crazy

[@RachelRoseLynn]

I think he guessed whale so much to curb the competitive fire😂

[@johnymey4034]

BLM always brings it

[@MrBogus213]

@@johnymey4034 (we actually use BLeeM so folks don't get confused)

[@heck3143]

​@@johnymey4034 only cus Brennan himself has brought it up. If you're gonna make it an acronym he prefers BLeeM as to not pull recognition from the movement. (If I use the actual letters KZbin removes my tag so you'd never see my reply, which feels purposeful and gross tbh)

[@ladytara7]

watching Brennan's instinct to be right war with his instinct to be funny

[@michaelgustin1471]

This is where I live.

[@polarknight5376]

I would ki- I would do many things to see him on Smosh Trivial Pursuit.

[@DoryenChin]

Inside him there are two wolves, and he feeds them equally

[@polarknight5376]

@@DoryenChin he feeds them very heavy food.

[@lonelylittledot]

@@polarknight5376 he feeds them the same burger every day

[@LincolnDWard]

Geology major here - the general term for "there should be rock here but there isn't" is a *void.* These can include cavities, chambers, caverns, fissures, channels, pores, bubbles, tunnels, tubes, and of course caves.

[@ajuntapall6193]

Very funny to read out loud rapidly :P

[@enjakuro7048]

No way i love this ❤

[@LincolnDWard]

also vugs, which may be the funniest-sounding of all

[@wpwscience4027]

I tend to avoid these

[@dovasaleh]

something very satisfying about the bold white "void" on my dark mode youtube page.

[@velocikate8684]

"Whale, Whale, Irene Adler" killed me 😂 Listening to Ceri and Brennan get silly and frustrate Hank was comedy gold!

[@Penguin0708]

"Whale, Whale, Irene Adler" was truly inspired 🤣

[@twelvefootnine]

"Whale, Whale, Irene Adler!" was absolutely inspired. It takes a lot for a non-improv person to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Brennan in a battle of wits and, damn, Ceri took that challenge in stride!

[@ceriley]

@@twelvefootninethank you 🥲🥲 honestly my goal every episode of tangents is to not psych myself out and try to make my friends (and by extension our community) laugh, so honestly what a delight that i landed anything with / riffing off of brennan's gigantic comedy brain haha

[@MorganBondelid]

@@ceriley it shows a) how funny you are and b) Brennan’s skill at playing _along with_ someone instead of against them. Truly enjoyable, thanks! 🐳🐋🐳

[@Tasarran]

@@ceriley I wonder if anyone else even noticed the callback where you said any wrong number of head features was creepy, then you said the eyeless olms were demonic...

[@Jenny-fk3ke]

this is the best day of my life

[@Splizacular]

hooray! 🎉

[@Iamreallyfreakinggay]

I sure hope you’re young, or something else besides this video is the reason lol

[@JacobTheGM]

The best day of your life... So far.

[@SillySpaceMonkey]

​@JacobTheGM which would include all of their days. Saying this is the best day of my life doesn't even suggest that it necessarily will be the best forever, so..... what does specifying so far actually add, in meaning? Literally what?

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

@@SillySpaceMonkey It's a Simpson's reference friend

[@LITMasonEdits]

this really felt like hank trying to babysit two teenagers who cant stop making each other laugh. truly a substitute teacher losing control of his class vibe

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

"Whales!" 😂

[@lanidickens]

Can i recommend a guest? Cause if so, ya'll should invite Caitlyn Doughty, AskAMortician. She'd be delightful competing with her weird facts.

[@aazhie]

Omg yes!!

[@FalcoSparvarius]

That would be a great episode!

[@celery8059]

Yes yes yes !!

[@lokiiago_x0x]

YESSSS!

[@willCaboutThat]

Would love to hear Caitlyn on scishow

[@IceMetalPunk]

Brennan?! On Tangents, you say?! FOR SPOOKY SEASON?! There is zero way this could be better except whY ISN'T IT HERE YET?! 😅🎃

[@emilys3793]

as an askamortician fan I was SCREAMING "devils hole pupfish!!!!" the whole time

[@SpoodyFlopp]

As a Nevadan with a niche interest in our endemic species, I was also screaming.

[@kf10147]

Same!!!!

[@jordanmasse6811]

I thought it was the golden catfish

[@CatBarefield]

Save the pupfish 😂

[@anarchyneverdies3567]

Me too 😂😂😂😂 one of the few gauntlet questions I could've answered

[@australobuchia]

Excited geologist here, Holes in rocks have lots of different and sometimes overlapping names because there's so many different reasons for them to exist! The most all encompassing terms I can think of are "Cavity" and "Void". They could be used for microscopic holes or a hole big enough to put a building in. mm to cm sized holes might be called a "vug" or a "vesicle" depending on the cause. Sometimes we might just say "Air bubble" also can be this size and smaller. I actually think defining Cave as a hole large enough for a person is a pretty good definition. Cavern definitely implies a space large enough for many people standing up and possibly buildings. As mentioned by someone else, we often name things in relation to how the cavity was created. Lava tubes (formed by the lava hardening on the outside but continuing to flow on the inside) can be large enough to fit people and therefore can sometimes be traversed by spelunkers but also sometimes they aren't. So a lava tube can be a cave using our person size definition but isn't always. The term karst system is used only for cave systems in soluble rock like limestone etc. because the landforms created by the dissolution of the rock are very particular (and spectacular). Naming taxonomies are hard, people 😂

As someone who reads a lot of sci fi/fantasy, I concur with this definition of cavern. Now please excuse me, I must go learn more about "vugs".

[@secr3t7]

If your cave could be a tavern, it's a cavern 😄

[@australobuchia]

@@secr3t7 yes! Mad I haven't thought of that before 🤣

[@aleronupstill9816]

"Ballroom" and "cathedral" are names if some of the spaces under the artesional springs and sinkhole in north Florida.

[@beeveearr]

I was looking for a geologist to come in and talk about formation! Also, how great of a word is spelunker?!

[@_dx_dy]

rhyming subterranean with "terrain he's in" is genius.

[@moderatti]

20:50 The “Optimist Cave” bit killed me omg.

[@rosesleeps]

Brennan slipping into the Citizen Doctor Abraham Mehemblur voice is absolutely sending me. Iconic. And perfect for spooky season!

[@willmendoza8498]

I have never seen Brennan be this non-competitive before. Very chill vibes. Great episode

[@dishevelleddev]

Brennan has 2 modes: "I will destroy you and salt your fields so you can never rise again!" and "Lol, f*** it. Nothing matters, nothing makes sense, and that's the way I like it!"

[@jennifersaar1611]

Hank's actually right with the animal cave! One exists (albeit a small one). There's a rhino cave in the state of Washington that was created when lava cooled and hardened around the body.

[@osmia]

+

[@Scum42]

Yeah! To be fair though, I think there was a scishow (or eons maybe?) episode on it which is probably how he knows about it

[@NinaDmytraczenko]

I love it, it's a lava flow AND an animal cave!!

[@honeyfrost_vt6606]

As soon as hank said that the creature didn't move for 7 years I was chanting "OLM! OLM! OLM! OLM!" like it was my favorite sports team

[@NyxNovaPrime]

My favorite animal. Sad to see that they thought it was a nightmare axolotl.

[@moonbeast1312]

22:10 "You think you are too good to die in cave? Wrong."

[@strangestquarks]

a very small group of people will never get over this episode. i am a part of this group

[@choirmeyer]

Me too!

[@kilhapuritybold]

Not sure the group is that small.

[@strangestquarks]

@@kilhapuritybold i mean, compared to the whole internet

[@ashutoshadh]

Tom Scott and now Brennan!!, we eating good these days. Loved the episode :)

[@apeanders]

26:44 some proper Welcome To Night Vale vibes from that "dig deeper. Find those bats!" line from Ceri.

[@MouseAndShiraz]

Me while watching a ton of caving videos: 'I don't know very much about caves' Me while watching the first 15 minutes of this video: 'Okay maybe I know an above average amount about caves' Great fun.

[@scaredscorpion]

36:07 he's got the "Um, actually" down as a reflex at this point

[@magicmoocow]

Um actually PTSD?

[@rocketsocks]

Russian speaking dwarves: "they believed in themselves too greedily, and too deeply"

[@Demogarose]

watching Brennan's eyes just LIGHT UP at the word "candy" just left me rolling. genuinely couldn't breathe for a minute

[@mitchellforney6109]

"I've been studying fish and have come to the conclusion there is no such thing as fish" sounds a lot like Vic's Smartypants presentation on Dropout about "Vegetables do not exist"

[@whossoul]

Okay but what Brennan said about lava tubes is so spot on. I went in one on a family vacation and everyone was like "wow so beautiful!" and I was just filled with this overwhelming feeling of like evil and bad and like I shouldn't be there, I'm not meant to be in here. Never felt that way in other caves, just that lava tube.

[@MySerpentine]

Like the lava might come back at any moment.

[@namara-ashina]

"a bone chilling 4 degrees celsius" that sounds like a perfectly good temperature to me XD

[@AbiSaysThings]

I was so confused by that fact. Like, is there a reason that temperature is worse in a cave than outside where it's totally normal?

[@roosvanderveen7915]

I was looking for a comment of someone being as confused as I was😅 I went back 2 times to check if I heard it correctly. 4 degrees is definitely a bit cold, but very much okay to deal with?

[@BipolarKitten]

Brennan perking up at Candy 7:07 is such a mood

[@chrysanthemumspark5547]

0:57 Arthur Aguefort?!?!?!?!

[@Billdow00]

I would watch 900 hours of Hank Green and Bleem chatting.

[@Dylan-vd6rz]

11:30 a cave or cavern that has no natural or artificial opening to it, is called a cavity or subterranean void.

[@vspence2]

CAVES?! And BRENNAN?!!! Bestill my lil nerdy Geologist heart. FYI, cave, cavern and void are all basically interchangeable terms but geologists typically use the term “karst” when referring to caves and related structures (like sinkholes, towers, poljes, etc.). Granted, karst is a wider encompassing word, but caves often occur with this type of terrain (soluble rock with a tendency to become Swiss cheese). This doesn’t include lava tubes or tectonic caves as far as I know (I’m not a speleologist however so I’m not an expert. I’m just a hydrogeologist in Florida, and we just have solution limestone and dolostone caverns).

[@Tipsywibble]

I lost it at "secret horse hole." New favorite podcast

[@KillerGween]

5:25 "It felt like a mistake of a place, it felt like- it was like you, like we, had intentionally created a restaurant that was the worst we could do." Is such a great quote. It's even funnier that it's about a Shoney's

[@llamafromspace]

Lava tunnel.. “This is a bad cave. Get out of the cave” Im really enjoying this video.

[@LoveLearnShareGrow]

Brennan: "I'm gonna go where nothing is happening and stop moving!" Me: "Hey..."

[@montlejohnbojangles8937]

"Nyet. Cave is natural actor. Humans are real monsters."

[@choirmeyer]

OW MY GOODNESS! Hank + Brennan together again. And Brennan in an online game show., in all his player mode glory. And Hank "The Fix" Green is the one hosting the session. This collab is brilliant. Should have him back when SciShow Tangets decides to do a bird episode. He he he he hehehehe.

[@xHarpyx]

Awwww, poor Olm! They just be a snek-like version of an axolotl. I think they're perfectly cute!

[@ofamorning]

17:30 went into a lava tube cave last month and did get a good piece of knowledge: due to their irregular walls, lava caves are nearly anechoic! We didn't even realize how quiet it was until our guide pointed it out 😅

[@TheLaughingMan42]

My memory of Shonney's as a kid is that it had a huge menu and somehow all of it was terrible.

[@Kidzelda0]

But at the same time if I want a rock-solid breakfast I didn't have to cook, Perkins is pretty good. Perkins is a Waffle house but grandma type thing.

[@bellablue5285]

I think there was a Shoney's in Rhode Island pre-1994 that was decent, but the one in Virginia like 1994-1998 was awful. Or I managed to grow a sense of taste 😅

[@ivytarablair]

'He die because he believe in himself too much' had me in absolute stitches 😂😂😂 (ooo Ceri has a fully painted room and an awesome couch in great color combo!! so pretty!)

[@victoriasewell7630]

I have never been more excited about a KZbin premiere. Or KZbin video in general.

[@civail5699]

"Pass! I dont know anything about time." Girl same

[@choirmeyer]

On another Tangent, there is a Dennys in Madison, WI that is not the chain Denny's, but an independently own 80/geek cafe. Food is amazing. Staff is amazing. Old arcade games, amazing. ALL the stuff, and the huge mural outside. Definately something to seek out. Ok my own tangent over.

[@auroraourania7161]

I'll have to check that out sometime, I hadn't heard of that

[@culverganem-redd6298]

Puts me in mind of the Papa John's pizzeria in Lansing MI that actually predates the chain (they won a lawsuit to keep their name!) After the thing with the chain Papa John's founder being racist, people have taken to calling ours the "local, non-racist Papa John's"

[@voidify3]

Related tangent- here in Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack’s because there was already a small business with the name Burger King which had the Australian trademark on the name and refused to sell it to the big company when they started doing business in Australia

[@reilley26]

Hank just ruined my entire sense of the elementals and damage types in D&D when he said that ice is a rock 🤯

[@NewtsOnAcid]

This is my dream team. I could watch these three all day

[@jarredjacob2244]

Two weeks ago I would have had no idea who Brennan was, the good ol’ algorithm did good this time 😊😂

[@kagitsune]

Welcome

[@Kiwicrack]

Blessed day. Your algorithm is gonna be insanely fun(more fun)

[@MorganBondelid]

*_One of us!_* But seriously, Brennan is delightful and will connect you to so many new delightful nerds. Dropout is worth it.

[@snapelicious3]

1) Brennan's pull for an iconic cave being Howe's Caverns 2) Brennan ramping up to guess the state of Wales

[@RachelRoseLynn]

"Yeah, but it's Brennan." - Hank Green. 😂😂

[@trinitybottiger6174]

The Sherlock question's answer is in his name. Holmes -> Olm It took me a minute or two after they revealed the answer to put it together. Great episode. So happy to see Brennan and Hank being nerds together again.

[@ivytarablair]

THANK you! 3x through and I still hadn't picked up on that!

[@WernerEdgar]

Love the chaos Brennan brought to this episode and Ceri then joining.

[@a-goblin]

ooo, a halloween treat! i ADORE hank & brennan's friendship sfm brennan might be the only person on earth able to reference plato without being pretentious

[@copasetic1]

Huge fan of Brennan and it’s such a delight to see him playing a game where he’s not obsessed with winning.

[@Tigermanic21]

Brennan is just out here to have a whale of a time with friends in a cave.

[@SilverHakai]

Gotta admit a SciShow x Brennan Lee Mulligan crossover was not on my bingo card but I am here for it

[@facistdic]

It's weird seeing Brennan not be hyper competitive in a game with points

[@Resavian]

Bad anxiety day being had, a medical edible consumed and then mystery horse holes, gotta say those last two worked together to make the day better

[@chillsahoy2640]

It's nice when you bring in guests that I've never heard of, it's refreshing and gets me a chance to explore new channels and online spaces that I might not have found otherwise.

[@ZedaZ80]

The bugs would call the cave "home," I think

[@kilhapuritybold]

Yeah could do, the bugs I've known are perhaps a bit er..slow they would describe it as just "here".

[@brightknight1965]

Well if it isn’t two of the men who make me want to be a better man on one podcast. (Ceri you are wonderful too❤)

[@maureenturin9041]

Hank: *introduces Brennan* Citizen Doctor Abraham Mehermblur: *appears*

[@Mirialan]

I always love hearing the SciShow Tangents' Halloween theme bc it sounds more like what you hear when you walk into a holy site in Legend of Zelda than something spooky lol. Love seeing Brennan on here too! Didn't see this cross over coming. 😯

[@sh0tgun950]

"What cave in the US has tons of cheese stored in it?" Brennan, digging for a "Wales" joke: "Alright so it must be in Europe, right?"

[@moyetlicious]

Ceri! You painted your living room! I'm so happy, it looks lovely and I'm very glad we won't have to look at the tester square behind your head anymore 😜😘

[@yensia10]

I always assumed that there was a man in every cave because they forgot to keep a little dirt under their pillows for the dirt man.

[@jamesodwyer4181]

Getting strong Alan Davies on QI 'Blue Whale' vibes from Brennan, and I am loving it.

[@MorganBondelid]

Yes! Big same, and I’m sure BLeeM would feel happy at the compliment.

[@Troyjnorris]

Hi! Missourian here. The cheese doesn't need caves for anything, it's just a cheap place to store food. It's very cheap to refrigerate caves since they're naturally like 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit depending on where you are in the world. Missouri just happens to have a ton of naturally occurring limestone caves that were mined for limestone blocks and then weren't needed any more once that fell out of fashion. Kansas City where I live has millions of square feet of underground storage that most of the country's fresh food going somewhere in the middle or across the country spends some amount of time in. But there are boats stored there, mushroom farms, data centers, all kinds of things happening underground in missouri. They have a 10k you can run down there every year that's a great way to check them out.

[@mayaenglish5424]

1:59 lmfao that is so accurate. Just say what you are thinking and stop waffling, life is often much simpler and easier that way. East Coast Represent! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Itmustbe_bunnies]

3:30 - Oh my goodness - I feel Brennan so much on this! It was 30 years ago, but I still have some leftover resentment from a trip I took with friends to Charleston, SC as a teenager. We were surrounded by all these wonderful sounding local restaurants, but had little money, so we were only going to have one "fancier" meal - and one of our group insisted we eat at _Red Lobster_ - I was so mad!

[@taimatsuko]

I see Brennan is using the Alan Davies Quiz Show Strategy

[@harpsichordjass4670]

Brennan is really putting that philosophy degree to work

[@gurplepanda3656]

Brennan Lee!!!! He always knows how to make an entrance.

[@lerualnaej5917]

I don't think I ever said anything, but this popped up in my recommendations and it brought back memories. Last Christmas, I got VERY sick with COVID the evening before I was set to travel home to see family. Instead, I ended up in my room, listening to my housemates celebrate with each other, choking down small amounts of food I could not taste and watching hours upon hours of sci show tangents to distract myself from how much everything hurt. Genuinely, this show got me through a bad time last year, and I'm really grateful for that.

[@RuviGaPo]

Whenever hank and brennan meet up it Feels a little like when herkules and aladdin met up that one time in the disney tv shows in the early 2000s

[@rayb4faybrown975]

This is the collaboration I needed today! Thanks yall ❤

[@LawTaranis]

Brennan DMing for a group of all scishow host players when?

[@choirmeyer]

Did you catch Mentopolis? Hank was a player, and it was amazing!

[@RSmeep13]

"Sam is making us do the Gauntlet from beyond the grave!" is a hell of a way to learn that Sam is dead, RIP

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

Sari ate Sam, that was established at the beginning

[@SeanTBarrett]

At this point I don't think they'll manage to follow the gauntlet rules correctly ever again.

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

I got behind on Tangents, and OHHHH, the NOISE I made when i heard the Halloween opening music!!! SPOOKY MONTH!!!

[@rosaliegrace905]

Omg!!!!! Is this the best crossover episode ever?

[@xypher155]

Yay!! I knew the question about the Olm!! It’s my favorite animal

[@DannyWatchUtena]

It took 20 minutes before we got to the first game, I'm loving it.

[@choirmeyer]

Heck of a tanget.

[@Robert_RedBeard]

Not even 10 minutes in and Brennan and Hank have name dropped the cave I went to for my twelfth birthday and one of my favorite authors, just loving these guys more and more

[@tombpunk]

This Brennan fella that I never heard about before seems like a great character. You should invite him more. Maybe talking about birds.

[@somecunninglinguist]

This is the most Brennan has ever reminded me of Izzy

[@cj719521]

The music for this spooky season is an upgrade from past years! More harmonic and complete! I love it!

[@TKBarnes]

17:45 Yes, Hank a cave carved out of ice by melted water would technically be a lava cave. HOWEVER, only in the (ant)arctic (and even that's an edge case), or other planets. To my understanding, ice = rock and water = lava, technically only in conditions where these are the "default" forms, i.e. a planet that has no liquid water (hence the edge case comment above) at surface level. So, basically, what I'm saying is - the straight lines of Europa (moon) are, technically, lava runs. :D 21:25 I'm Polish by birth, and I had the exact thought of "I'm sure they named it that for the sarcasm of you got to be an optimist to even go there." Brennan then going on and summing it up perfectly just made me cry from laughter. 48:48 I paused to write this, but I'm just waiting to see if Brennan comes out as the true villain he is inside and admits that by winning a game during their first meeting Ceri made an enemy for life. :P

[@tri.man.3]

I thought this said 26 minutes and I watched the whole thing thinking it was 26 minutes until I read that it was actually 56 minutes and confirmed I have a constant distorted sense of time.

[@gabriellynch2764]

Humans have always been intrigued with caves. We have evidence of humans going miles into caves thousands of years ago. Which is crazy because they only have primitive torches and they still went DEEP into them.

[@DanialJoseph23]

Now that's a top notch cave poem right there 😂

[@donniebarbados]

i've been diving in cenotes that have haloclines (the double water thing brennan is describing - the result of salt and freshwater mixing creating layers of water with different salinity levels). it's incredibly surreal and cool!! you can look up and see the water "surface" after you pass through

[@ivytarablair]

ooooo it hadn't occurred to me the boundary layer would be so visible! now I gotta go find photos!

[@ivytarablair]

OKAY THAT IS THE COOLEST LOOKING THING 😮😮😮

[@DanialJoseph23]

People pleaser ghost is one of my new favorite characters 😂

[@WickedFae22]

Hank's description of Shoney's is totally correct. 100% true, no notes.

[@LawTaranis]

3 of my 5 favorite people in the world that I have not spoken to directly.

[@kabornat8340]

What a spectacular cross-over

[@stephsoundsystem914]

I so love how DropoutTV and SciShow have crossovers

[@Juice1984]

22:40 "The Cave of Wonders" named for the Wonder that kills you and not the wonderous items within. 😅

[@ycsdramaqueen]

14:34 Here we observe Brennan, once again, being data driven and hyper Christian