TALKING BACKWARDS (Backwards Banter Brain Testing) - Smarter Every Day 168

[@smartereveryday]

The podcast episode in question is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX28iaCYaLdoaLM

[@austinsignis]

Hey Destin, I work in the automotive manufacturing industry in central Alabama and I think the different processes and robotics and stamping presses would be something your audience would find interesting!

[@ArmaGhedoNNN]

Hi there! I can do almost the same thing, well, I'm not as fluent as thay guy, but still pretty good I think. I am 15, and since 5 or 6, I started to train my brain talking backwards. This "training" took like 2 years I think. I can remember that I was with my family in car and I was taking some words from my memory, and pronounce it backwards. I did it to avoid boring moments, and now it's pretty nice to have this skill. I am from Romania, and I think, I have like 300 words that I still remember, and I can pronounce it immediatly backwards. That's it! Thanks for your attention!

[@rhysbishop8483]

SmarterEveryDay when you said the plosives you said the letters that mutate in the Welsh language

[@NarrowGate117]

Hey Destin! I have a good friend of mine who can do this too! He has a KZbin channel called Backwords Dude please check him out

[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

Talking backwards, there's an app for that. ;-)

[@SkeTz100]

“Let’s start with one word and work our way up” 1: Banjo. 2: I’m in Alabama with a banjo on my knee

[@Bmore2Htown]

😂😂

[@day6166]

Underrated comment 😂

[@lyricboxxd5177]

😂😂

[@sove1850]

3.because my wife left meeeee

[@NaethanJ]

God = doG

[@lunajuneb]

"What are we doing if we're not trying to do it right" idk why but I love that sentence.

[@educatainment1799]

That was my biggest take away from this video: that attitude.

[@lunajuneb]

@@educatainment1799 exactly

[@jaydenmoreno2131]

We are trying to get it done

[@linhtruong470]

777777q

[@wolfvale7863]

It was a perfect kernel of truth.

[@Boborbot]

I'm never showing Destin any party tricks. He'll make me repeat them with heavy weaponry, half his live stock, and worst of all - banjos.

[@kirara4953]

Nitay A. If your skill is to hunt accurately, rip live stock

[@dwang663]

Nitay A. The banjo wasn’t his

[@jonahaxelrod2709]

This is accurate

[@firefoxisbetterthanchrome]

My trick is playing News Hooper Marro Hoes Tree.

[@jackthorndyke3390]

@@dwang663 hsooow

[@caseykudell]

This guy is THE REAL Tenet

[@crippleabatteries5031]

That movie is trash pffff. Plus the bullets were cooler.

[@noell5609]

@@crippleabatteries5031 that movie was fire

[@crippleabatteries5031]

@@noell5609 ehhh debatable

[@Magst3r1]

@@crippleabatteries5031 why is it trash

[@crippleabatteries5031]

@@Magst3r1 Just my opinion. I just think the movie didn’t have a great pace.

[@SnackMuay]

Can kurt understand backwards speech if it's spoken to him? can he mentally re-reverse a word back to its original state?

[@gkooistra91]

That's a really good question.

[@william41017]

TheWizardOfOsborne it might work like a second language, so he probably doesn't need reverse the speech again

[@WiseGuy508]

No he can't. He said so on the podcast. The podcast's name is No Dumb Questions.

[@Nauaudis4]

Was thinking this same exact thing. He can put words into reverse, but can he (pun warning) do the reverse of this?

[@Bert0ld0]

I have a friend that can do this but when I send him a message speaking backwards to know this he said that he can't understand people talking backwards

[@diegomarxweiller1814]

I cant even speak forward lmao

[@destr0yed393]

No u?

[@TeVeTeVe]

But you can write? ok cool 😎

[@theapelau1842]

Destr0yed no u

[@1yon]

uno

[@adrian3126]

diego weiller yaeh my toh

[@cursedjerry866]

Everyone gangsta untill he speaks the sims

[@ahmed-jp3ny]

Underrated lmao

[@tezman0853]

*simlish

[@watergeo5058]

lmao right

[@waitingfortherainz]

*snarkleflads angerly

[@CloroxBleach-iw2wz]

Enchantment table

[@sagarock5528]

8:22 feels like a scene from Tenet

[@jonboy79able]

Exactly what I was thinking while watching it.

[@hyungminseo4258]

Okay, I'll spill the beans. I left it in the BMW.

[@alecsb2440]

@@hyungminseo4258 standard operating procedure

[@imyaaniggua]

edud emas

[@TheMasheenist]

I just watched this video today and immediately thought of tenet lol

[@TroyCheryl]

"What are we doing if not trying to do it right?" Best hypothetical question ever!

[@DrakeMagnum]

That's the kind of thing a scientist should say to themselves every day.

[@LetoDK]

I have a feeling you mean "philosophical question". Am I correct? Or maybe "rhetorical"?

[@CarlosFaria]

Troy Chatting I just read your commentaire while he was saying it, crazy coincidence.

[@TroyCheryl]

LetoDK .Yes you have a point. I think all of those can work on some level.

[@luxrow9742]

"On the outside of your mouth you have lips" *proceeds to demonstrate how lips work*

[@ItsNessaTho]

😗😮😗😮😗😮

[@DubTheG]

It was extremely informative tbh.

[@zaya1st408]

Lmao i was at that part

[@markrebollido5551]

Guy: *Talks backwards and have mastered it for many years* Russian: Pathetic

[@carllucasoreilly5512]

Hehe

[@Unluckyladsince]

Hehe

[@TerribleTonyShow]

I don't get it

[@moonasha]

@@TerribleTonyShow maybe because the russian language is hard? I don't really get it either. But learning russian as an english speaker is a nightmare

[@TerribleTonyShow]

@@moonasha o ok

[@doyletraci3372]

"This might be akward" Zooms in on his face perfect teeth 3:55

[@ddd1hhh]

One time, with my moms older computer, we found the microphone and “player” and noticed that it had reverse. We’d speak into it and record, then listen backwards and memorize the backwards sound. Then we’d speak the memorized backwards sound into the recorder and then play THAT in reverse. Sometimes we got it down so well that it almost sounded normal and other times it was absolutely hilarious as to how funny it sounded. Good times!!!

[@liza9025]

My mom's old phone had a similar app! I used to do the same lol!!

[@rkzooplays]

Nice

[@squishyprincess1975]

I did that on my dc with my brother. We learned our names backwards and called those names our “evil sides”

[@johnrehwinkel7241]

The 45RPM record of "They're Coming To Take Me Away" had the song backwards on the B side, so we learned to sing it that way. We were also amused when playing a reading of "The Little Red Hen" backwards, and kept coming across the sound "baby shnot". We eventually figured out it was "and she did" (a phrase that occurs often in the story) backwards. We'd amuse ourselves by playing it forward "and she did", asking "What'd she do?" "Baby shnot!" Hey, we were teenagers and fun is where you find it.

[@modularcarpet]

Kids don't know what they're missing these days! They have too much entertainment. They won't know the joy of having to make do with whatever entertainment they can find.

[@Kevin-nj7bx]

My Alien from Area 51 teaching me his language

[@pixalotz]

LMAO 😂😂😂

[@xplane11fan93]

@Kevin G he's speaking the sin language

[@totifaddye6587]

Its Not From area 51 Everyone got Desperate becuase They dont know what the U.S. has so Somebody Said Aliens Becuase hes Butthurt he doesnt know

[@pixalotz]

@@totifaddye6587 r/woooosh

[@My_AviationChannel]

*Hes speaking the language of the gods.*

[@ferrous719]

I'm impressed. That's a really hard skill and he is intelligible even under extreme circumstances

[@osslayer8976]

ferrous719 all he’s doing is speaking Australian...

[@atlapls1740]

imagine this guy in Tenet, hes the best translator in the invers world :D

[@thecloneguyz]

Whats that movie about?

[@faizanrazakhan9992]

Real lingual "TENET"

[@Ninyaho]

@@thecloneguyz you watched movie or not

[@manstonhisk667]

@@thecloneguyz Not even Nolan knows just watch inception again.

[@axnj2314]

He is three moves ahead of us 😂

[@alia1913]

*Holds up dog* "God" Yeah, that's pretty accurate

[@maryusal2167]

😂😂

[@zonymony]

you will pay for that some day

[@Heligoland360]

@Loren Nice.

[@Heligoland360]

Allah is less than a dog.

[@themysticwolf8325]

Taht si ynnuf

[@Dj3mka]

I think he voices the Sims

[@LawsonG329]

Bruhemius Momentius lol

[@rustslayer9939]

Bruhemius Momentius lol

[@jorgefigueroa4941]

lol

[@nanos1267]

lol

[@tian4075]

lol

[@mysteriousytgod8401]

When he said during the AK ambush it sounded like a Soviet commander yelling commands backwards

[@Alvaro-so9iu]

So true

[@jtm7852]

Mysterious YTGod I was literally thinking that!

[@coryellis1877]

Mieh!

[@vinijoncrafts2882]

8:48 I love how he says "FIRE!" and everyone just stops lol

[@caidenmetcalfe5339]

this guy talking backwards sounds like iDubbz talking normally

[@Secretfiles999]

Cameron , wooooooosshhhhh

[@swankys3418]

Literally though he looked like idubbbz

[@cheesebooba]

he even looks like idubbz. with a huge forehead

[@sharron74]

The Greater Creator whats obamas last name!!!!

[@cheesebooba]

@@sharron74 barack

[@nice.504]

Him speaks backwards: My chairs starts floating

[@theshotterz4248]

Ha lol

[@deleted-cg9of]

What has he done

[@starchild_777]

😂😂😂😂

[@towerscm33]

One missed phenomenon in the video is that in addition to phonetically speaking backwards, the co-ability to recall the order of words in reverse is also impressive. Just doing that in a 5-6 word sentence is quite challenging. "The dog is in the house"...".house the in is dog the". Impressive? I say so. nitseD sknahT.

[@DeadLuckArchives]

Oh man what a brain game.

[@Logitekz]

What amazes me the most is he's doing reverse sentence AND a reverse word structures in his head, on the fly, in seconds. That is a whole new level of impressive.

[@KurtQuinn]

Thanks Chris!

[@jenersharma]

+ that is boss level skill you got Kurt

[@ahmedshaikh7662]

+Kurt Quinn you are a beast

[@OriginalGabriel]

"Can you do it while you play your banjo?" "I've never tried" Science!

[@ImTheBluestBird]

I like how it goes from Sentences to Animals to Music to an AK47 Ambush

[@andrewzhang1290]

ImTheBluestBird this is America

[@majorechoo]

obi_dank_kenobi don’t catch you slippin now

[@DutchPhlogiston]

It probably makes sense in Murica

[@yaboydanny6276]

Alabama custom

[@jvlppm]

Can he understand a backward recording?

[@JoaoPedro428]

Joao Vitor P. Moraes Asking the real question here

[@alveolate]

i think with practice, he probably can, and he will need less practice than the rest of us.

[@JustLikeFM]

In the podcast he said he couldn't (the podcast: 'No dumb questions')

[@adamrath7095]

He was at least able to tell when Destin mis-said something "backwards"

[@kam1234554321]

I guess it's the same as with mine mirror writing. I can write it but I'm not able to read what I wrote

[@christianordonez5704]

Literally no one: Taxi drivers in New York: 1:48

[@Abdullahs_World]

😂😂😂

[@crazyfamily7503]

Christian memes I laughed so hard lol

[@Superchilliface]

Or London

[@RIPToot]

What?

[@MrKing04]

I dont hear it

[@fwwryh7862]

So technically he can sing songs backwards, hum a tune backwards and play music backwards keeping the tempo and nuances. That is next level if he can hum notes backwards.

[@MedicEne]

Man this video broke my dyslexia

[@Kaleidoscope_Instructor]

MedicEne same

[@xyouvie]

MedicEne tank's i learn something today "dyslexia", after read your comment.

[@2oranges17]

Wouldn't it have made it worse?! (oh but dyslexia is when reading)

[@HumanBeingSpawn]

MedicEne So a god was into a bra and orders a beer....

[@loudenmain3094]

Plot twist, he is talking normal and Dustin is talking backwards and the video is backwards

[@rainespiano]

LE GASP

[@LordZordid]

Directed by nalamayhs thgin .m

[@cinnabonbon]

oh yeah, its big brain time

[@osmanak6930]

So the AK's are just sucking bullets from the bottels?

[@cubegaming1941]

plot plot twist: life is a backwards simulation

[@frankalcala6766]

He sounded extremely good and clear like if he was almost normal when they replayed him talking backwards while they were shooting AKs

[@ThreeLetters3]

Frank Alcala IKR

[@11shayman]

Totally, I think volume helps. At 5:45 Leprechaun is said backwards by Destin and is louder/clearer than Kurt (though Destin is just repeating the funny sound he just heard). Kurt's outro also is pretty clear with him loudly signing (though he probably had time to practice before recording that bit).

[@XavierMaire1]

Frank Alcala Probably because he was forced to articulate so much more and focus because of the noise

[@missileany8021]

It is so exciting to watch how honestly delighted Destin is by meeting fascination people! No matter how my mood, seeing this make it even better. His glee is like an actual contagion!

[@GerardFrankMcr]

when he says 'dog' backwards: ...GOD me: AMEN

[@socialmedia3986]

ninaeatworld me too haha. Have a great day :)

[@urfren6510]

WE SHALL START A NEW RELIGION, FOLLOW ME FELLOW DOG WORSHIPPERS.

[@kitemanmusic]

@@urfren6510 you mean "fellow me follow"

[@sp9ce420]

god..... does not exist

[@hassjackspirit8879]

When i place my dog backwards i see hima as a god

[@zackeeu]

Just awesome. If there is a better use of the internet than Smarter Every Day, I don't know what it is.

[@Son0fHobs]

In a Nutshell. And all of the PBS Digital Studios channels are fantastic - Crash course, Brain Craft, Deep Look (My new favorite), and so many more. /user/pbsdigitalstudios

[@fjfeuankcnncne7663]

Son0fHobs deep look is also my favorite! channel buddies?

[@Taras195]

Vsauce

[@tennicktenstyl]

Zachary Rodman Kitten Academy 24/7 kitten webcam stream.

[@wuluis]

Zachary Rodman v sauce

[@jakeb1010]

He sounds like idubbzzz when its played in reverse

[@LumizentProductions]

Crab Mafia 😮 wow...and also rip filthy frank and maxmoefoe

[@tucipat]

He looks like idubbbz too

[@yourdailycalcium7457]

looks like him too

[@flaminga2323]

Hey, That's pretty GOOD

[@bpdestroyer6933]

Crab Mafia he kinda looks idubbbz

[@chinchilla_fandoms9500]

3:59 Dude this man's teeth are brighter than my future

[@gailboer3093]

He got his teeth whitened just for this video.😉😂 But for real, you're right though😐

[@softwalnut179]

His teeth don’t look dark for me.

[@utzius8003]

He has black people teeth.

[@Animotion3D]

even mine are lol

[@TerribleTonyShow]

7:39 He sounds like he's speaking an isolated form of russian

[@Twelvedust]

Он звучит очень похоже XD

[@bsphera4026]

@@Twelvedust на немецкий больше похоже

[@Sp00kq]

Not Russian, but some other kind of Eastern European language. I'm Russian I know

[@Sp00kq]

@@bsphera4026 yea

[@Sp00kq]

Actually looking at a reply on this thread it sounds german

[@pecfexfextus4437]

deston: im having a stroke. call me an ambulance this guy: ecnalubma na em llac. ekorts a gnivah mi

[@niketp2557]

So Moriarty isn't dead after all.

[@noziz6017]

Dank

[@brandonharper2990]

Ive gotta make some more accounts to give more thumbs up.

[@MojaMumbles]

Sherlock Holmes nextfil

[@yoohoonobody469]

Sojiro Hattori Hahaha... It's the notorious, "Professor Moriarty!"

[@mrniggaman4783]

Sojiro Hattori god

[@T.J.C.07]

Him: teeth. *points to tongue Him: tongue. *points to teeth

[@xplane11fan93]

I tried to speak backwards and by mistake I conjured a spirit!

[@jaylacke]

I played this with my speaker and summoned Satan spawns

[@Jake-iz5yx]

Same... how do I get it to go away

[@xplane11fan93]

@Sven say hypee skilēya hapa kala dōōnut. Try it, it actually works, don't worry I learned it from OWNAGE PRANKS 😉

[@xplane11fan93]

@Oxyde obviously not!

[@vivares765]

@@xplane11fan93 thx i made a building collapse so i could see the sunset. Thx man

[@xplane11fan93]

@Vivares 76 ah i forgot to tell you that sometimes this spell has side effects, at least it helped you to see the sunset

[@Jaydenyang580]

New language! It's called hsilgnE.

[@servantofaeie1569]

nope its called ʃɪɫɡŋiʔ. Backwards IPA

[@MrPink-xv5el]

hsinapS

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Servant of AEIE Shilgnge

[@fpsproductions6073]

Esruoc fo

[@TerribleTonyShow]

ʃɪɫɡŋɪʔ*

[@Kneesert]

Destin laughing in reversed audio is probably the best sound I've ever heard.

[@andrewtreat7371]

Destin: *Zooms on mouth for science* Me: *This man has some of the whitest teeth I’ve ever seen....*

[@wessmall7957]

Green screen

[@mountainman4410]

That reverse "dirty fish bowl" was freaking hilarious! I love that you let it play til it shows you saying it backwards and sounding just like what he said!

[@DizzyDash237]

Shif

[@radiostation6366]

Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

[@thememama5456]

Radio Station woah I see what you did there. No matter which way you read it, it's still the same sentence.

[@tutcamine1568]

No it's not. Look closely.

[@akshhat]

dude this deserves more likes

[@razcodes]

WOW that's really crazy really that wow

[@outra5810]

@TheBoltMaster I did, did I?

[@Zain0_0]

I can totally relate to this because when i was in my teenage me and my 2 other brothers were talking backwards in our native language (Pashto). It was really helpful specially in situations when we couldn't speak something in front of other people. It was like another language that no one could understand. But my Mom was always angry at us for speaking like that. Then we completely stopped speaking that way. I can still speak but that fluency has been lost and it has been 6 years since we stopped it

[@steelwoolsheep7960]

Not impressed.. all he's doing is speaking russian

[@rainbowbabyalives2094]

No hez not

[@danedewberry]

Я ем мойи дети.

[@GigglingBug1564]

Steel Wool Sheep 🐑 lol

[@Nature_soul1]

Doesn't sound like Russian. I am fluent in it and it doesn't sound like it XD

[@adrrianarose85]

@@danedewberry come on.

[@No-oz8lz]

Is it just me that thought he was only gonna speak backwards???😂😂😂

[@fazem0to986]

Boi

[@Terror-hy2bk]

@@fazem0to986 iob

[@DaRadar77]

@@fazem0to986 ישראלי?

[@qualitydankmemes4533]

Me

[@briworld420]

Meee

[@hole1stdrillpresschannel]

Did you know, that a backwards poet writes inverse?

[@marlene-rr2ih]

LOL

[@LuxGamer69]

69th

[@edmercado1899]

I heard he knows how it ends before he gets started.

[@DannyGruening]

I see what you did there...

[@yassinebend3230]

hole - 1st drill press channel yes in arabic too

[@gabrielsimon7944]

This sounds like a whole different language entirely

[@mattpetz4781]

Hey Destin, can he understand someone speaking backwards?

[@wetworkwolf]

Matt Petz It’s like a second language to him probably.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

I imagine it'd take a second or two, but probably so.

[@miallo]

My brother can speak backwards too and at least he realises when I make mistakes

[@Enzo-tl2hz]

Nah. I do the same thing where I say words backwards and my friends get annoyed. But when someone says something backwards, I don't understand it until someone says that it's backwards

[@lolollhe3361]

No way he can

[@HariEdoTV]

I am imagining Destin as he is reviewing footage, hearing Kurt's comment about all the animals in the same tone of voice a kidnapping victim might call for help.

[@thatvikingdownstairs3756]

2:46 "Dirty fish bowl" woob shify dirt

[@asby2154]

When he zoomed in on his face I SWEAR i felt his breath on my face.

[@zanpekosak2383]

HTC Ahh its just your house ghost. Dont worry.

[@bartman5693]

He is a wizard

[@TheNemoBemo123]

5:45 He laughs about the leprechaun, then looks at the man *the man is serious*

[@canyonwilson4031]

his laugh sounds like something a leprechaun would have🤣

[@miltonwarrenjr5486]

The look of murder! Lol

[@josie4065]

Hahaha

[@Mr.Obiology1981]

Might be one of the coolest, oddest, skills I've ever seen.

[@Neds_Severed_Head]

That gum you like is coming back in style.

[@noaccount3662]

8:24 I don’t know if he did the accent on purpose or not but If he did props to him👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@DubTheG]

He said Cafilornia

[@billyknight2212]

He sounds like a sim 😂

[@dusterdude238]

LOL I can speak a little Simolian [ From the Game/will spell Phrases Phonetically ] "Too-La-Ma! Ohhh!-Mc-mawn-na-hey, Hay-Va-wall, we -name- ik- Veeena!" "Hay-Hay Wa-ba-Bee- Bee ,Grown- Day - Kick-a Paul-A" I play the sims Waaay to much, I know HA HA

[@dalekemperor4407]

Voca-do

[@wakimbrell]

I love the name of your channel. That's awesome/funny in about 7 different ways. 😁

[@Saffins]

He looks like a randomised sim

[@milkandcookiezz5425]

Can he do it backwards? Give him a backwards sentence and have him do it backwards

[@tomdunphy6865]

MilkandCookiezz bruh

[@vamosrojo56]

MilkandCookiezz syou kiddin?

[@milkandcookiezz5425]

ial22 no why would I be?

[@Aryzo]

i don't think anyone can do that

[@milkandcookiezz5425]

aryzo I would have thought the same about this whole video

[@Mockturtlesoup1]

When he talks backwards, it sounds like a mixture of Japanese, Russian, and German.

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

Yes.

[@Sud1austrika]

4:12 You have lips WUPUPUPUPUP

[@ExpiredKetchupBrawlStars]

Hes literally summoning satan

[@akaakaakaak5779]

Expired Ketchup - Brawl Stars I don’t think you know what literally means

[@ExpiredKetchupBrawlStars]

I dont think you know what a joke is.

[@akaakaakaak5779]

Expired Ketchup - Brawl Stars if you want to joke don’t say literally

[@ExpiredKetchupBrawlStars]

I'm very sorry sir. Is there anything else I could do better to improve your quality of life your Majesty?

[@tormodhag6824]

7:44 it sounds like he is speaking russian

[@FullThrottleAxolotl1]

I bet neuro-scientists are wetting thier pants at this needing to see scans....

[@SecretofTerra]

not really =P "scans" are not that meaningful/informative as people generally think =O I would much rather pet the duckling =)

[@evannickols2992]

I mean if you actually understand the neural parts of the brain, I'm sure the processes, and parts of the brain he is using would be interesting.

[@NoahHornberger]

m m m mem memo memory . . .eee rrrr ommm eeee mmmm m . The kid who lived across the street from me growing up could do this. We recorded him on windows 95 and could play it backwards to hear that he did it right. its basically learning how to make the sounds backwards and then stringing them together, a sequence of sounds

[@John-ms1ul]

Sure, scanning techniques like fMRI would be really interesting. Pants-wettingly interesting? Nah.

[@FullThrottleAxolotl1]

204 likes, word, and yes, I do know almost nothing about what i was commenting about. still.....204 like lol. Love this channels, keep learning you guys. loving the new rupert drop vids!!!

[@FlyMIfYouGotM]

This is so cool! I have long been fascinated by the plasticity of the brain, especially with kids. Years ago I had a kid in my Sunday School class who, at 5 years old, was drawing pictures of people that were better than most of the best high school art students could draw. This kid quit drawing stick figures by the time he was 2 or 3. Muscle structure, shading and everything else was in his pictures. The way he drew was even more fascinating. He continually rotated the page as he drew! Basically he was rotating an image in his head in 3 dimensions like a CAD machine. Very few adults can mentally rotate images to this level much less draw this way. A few years ago I began wondering if you could teach a child some level of mental image rotation if you started early enough. Every month we had memory verses for our 1st through 5th grade Sunday School kids to memorize. At the end of every month the same 3 or 4 out of 20 kids would have the verse memorized. As an experiment, I began turning the page upside down and had the kids read upside down. For several of the kids that soon got too easy so I had them hold it up to the light and read it through the back side of the page. It didn't take too long before even that got too easy for a few so for them it's, turn the page upside down and read it through the back side of the page. An interesting thing happened. At the end of the month, every one of the 20 kids had it memorized! The next month we went back to the normal way of reading and at the end of that month the same 3 or 4 kids had it memorized. When we went back to upside down reading, I introduced a new twist by printing everything out using a, "Sans Forgetica" font. That font leaves out lots of pieces of letters and forces the brain to work harder to fill in the missing pieces. Another interesting, unexpected thing happened. Our little 1st graders who were struggling to read normally, got very good at reading in a very short time. For the kids, this was a challenge they loved doing but it was also interesting how virtually none of their parents would even try.

[@KMnO4dalla]

So Russian is just English backwards? 😂

[@MrSupasonics]

Yeah, I was not the only person who thought the same...

[@jamesschaefer7530]

Same

[@alwinpriven2400]

no, not even close. where can you hear Russian?

[@shuriken188]

The joke is that Russian (not spoken in the video) sounds like English backwards. Though it likely sounds nothing like English when spoken backwards itself, making it a joke rather than an unironic statement. EDIT: Can confirm, backwards Russian sounds like German and Russian had a child.

[@alwinpriven2400]

but it sounds nothing like Russian.

[@rampage3390]

Him: *speaks backwards* The demon he summoned: who awakened me from my slumber?

[@theunsunghero6298]

The close up to his mouth uncovered a deep memory of that PBS show Electric Company

[@gooze9368]

He sounds like he's speaking sims language

[@t-1114]

Gooze so true

[@jimmer828]

Lol so true

[@lioubastoupakova3770]

What if the sims langauge is just reversed English ?

[@JuliHeartChihuahua]

To be fair, as someone who pays the banjo, i can't talk regularly or sing and play

[@-Bjehevu]

8:31 "We have many battles left" *WORLD WAR 2 FLASHBACKS*

[@kori228]

you can do it manually (not on-the-spot) if you have a good grasp of English phonetics

[@stinkers3053]

german commander commanding his troops in the battle of kursk July 5th, 1943 (colorized) 7:28

[@sokyoul]

Doesnt sound German at all, doesnt even look German

[@sokyoul]

@Silence I know its a joke🙈 Its just not a very good one

[@AnimalStomper]

It's Moriarty!!!

[@takeabow2774]

Is it possible to communicate backwards though? Let's say youd reversed play some easy sentences to him would his brain be able to decipher the correct sentences`?

[@iwasntlooking87]

It would be interesting if two people could have a conversation while talking backwards. Think we'll have to wait a while to find that one out.

[@KurtQuinn]

If someone else says something in reverse, I can't understand it nearly as easily, if at all.

[@danjwalker]

This was discussed elsewhere on this thread. Apparently he said on the podcast that he could not re-reverse sentences spoken to him.

[@wiiza4ever]

Fun mildly related fact: I can talk while inhaling. I think I learned that skill in singing class, but it's pretty helpful in everyday life.

[@lasercatto]

9:42 "Can you do the pirate thing?" My head exploded with laughter

[@silpanetti]

Parrot thing :)

[@ChirsSmedely]

In Soviet Russia, backwards speak you

[@michaelnorris2522]

For some reason this makes me think about a dead girl and a dwarf in a red room.

[@Minmaximus]

Michael Norris ...I only came to this comment section to find Twin Peaks references. Well done.

[@mraks3]

Think More Talk Less me too

[@mraks3]

Michael Norris new season of rein peaks Starts soon

[@tnerbtnerb5136]

Michael Norris Nice T.P. reference.

[@MrMimi1200]

Lmao i thought of Tyrion and Shae bc i havent seen Twin Peaks

[@EntergeticalakaBot]

0:59 This man knows when the camera switches

[@iNationOnline]

who else thought it was cody from Cody'sLab on the thumbnail?

[@Schpoople]

Jedi Q I didn't even realize it was posted by Smarter Everyday so when I tapped on the video and didn't see Cody I was very surprised. Lol

[@mattomanx77]

Nah Cody blew himself up.

[@CanadianFoodGuide]

Jedi Q totally

[@celticnoble5650]

+Jedi Q Yup

[@mattooi4322]

Glad it wasn't only me. Now please do a video with Cody @SmarterEveryday !

[@arvid4205]

2017: 2018: 2019: Let's recommend this to everyone!

[@jetfighter4918]

Playing this one backwards wasn’t gun safe because the bullets were then flying towards them. Lol 🤣

[@HeyerSolutions]

Stop that.

[@Mandoslicer]

This is a new level. Blowing my mind. Respect…including the banjo.

[@prestonlewis1765]

7:55 a german soldier on D-day yelling for help as he is being fired on

[@simonnystrom8137]

I was thinking russian, probably bc I can speak german =)

[@MCappa]

I'm German and to me it sounds as Russian 😂

[@ttv_itz_hennry7474]

“I’ll ask him jf he’ll come to Alabama” All I can think about is “Sweet Home Alabama”

[@yaboydanny6276]

I hate Alabama

[@obliviouspotato8545]

“Wuhb shif ederb” He is speaking the language of gods

[@benjaminwang9267]

Ya mean the language of the dogs

[@benjaminwatson9778]

Lwob hsif ytrid

[@pr0j3ct97]

the language of demons more like it

[@davecrupel2817]

3:12 You mean doG

[@tiocfaidhfinster6124]

funniest part is he's actually speaking the language of the gods the meme refers to, in dragon ball the "language of the gods" is just backwards english

[@MikeCheckBiloxi]

To be honest, I thought this was gonna be stupid, but I am seriously impressed...this dude is legit

[@dominickrecupero8875]

So apparently backwards English played in reverse is basically English in a Finnish accent

[@N-VRIVER]

It's basically German

[@doduyle8476]

It sounds Elvish to me xD

[@burnedfish]

We thought Swedish immediately, but yeah!

[@vernondaniels6506]

That gentleman has an enormous noggin , I think he is actually an Alien from across the universe that's backwards 😂

[@senseipt]

Nah, he's from a different dimension called black lodge.

[@jeffanderson9334]

Great video, this topic has resulted in hours of fun with my nieces and nephews. Around the campfire we discovered "Well I'm Trump". Before you record well I'm trump and play it backwards, try to figure out what word is is backwards. You'll be shocked! We laughed for a long time on this one! Everyone had to say it into the backwards talking app to verify that it really worked! Keep up the great work Destin.

[@andrewpeachey5416]

Okay, so when I saw the title of this video, I thought he was going to say the words in reverse order. Kind of like reading right-to-left. Granted, what he did was probably cooler than that, but hold up and let's think about the connotations of actually reversing your sentences. Consider the answer to a normal question; "How are you?" -- "you thank, fine I'm". Simple enough, but when you begin to get up to long sentences and conversational level phrases, you have to think so much further ahead than a normal speaker would. If I want to string a sentence together, I start at a logical point, say what I mean, and then conclude. However, to set that up in reverse, I have to know exactly how I'm going to make the point in order to correctly finish or 'start' my sentence. Maybe I'm reading a lot into nothing, but that feels like a much more interesting and complicated breakdown of language as much as cool brain skills.

[@thishandleistaken1011]

The English language relies on word order for meaning. That's what makes it so hard to reverse the order of words. Many other languages don't rely on word order.

[@andrewpeachey5416]

Terran Loyalist I hadn't thought of that. So would it be less difficult I'm other languages, only speaking English, i really cant imagine the concept of a sentence not relying on word order for meaning. I'm aware of variations in word order within European languages, which i guess is why English spoken by non-natives often is very obvious to a fluent speaker, despite all the words being correct.

[@thishandleistaken1011]

Some languages have many different tenses and conjugations of words to indicate what word is referring to what other word (basically). I think latin is an example of a language that doesn't really rely that much on word order.

[@andrewpeachey5416]

Terran Loyalist Ah Latin, that ancient nemesis. Thanks for the insight! I do feel like this would be an interesting topic though, especially to see how different dialects help or hinder.

[@thishandleistaken1011]

I've heard that an aboriginal Australian language doesn't really use relative left/right, and instead they always use north/south/east/west. Their mental maps all have n/s/e/w built into them though, so they memorize north in each location.

[@wheelsndealz]

This reminds me of the show Twin Peaks. They had parts where people spoke like this, which means the actors had to learn the lines backwards so it could be played like that. You can actually tell that the actor is having to think about how to speak in reverse just like he's doing here.

[@toyotahilux5862]

wow, idubbz, I didn't see that coming

[@richardjansen3995]

Oskar M8 doesnt look like idubbbz at all

[@toyotahilux5862]

Danklage Spanklage then you obviosly haven't watched idubbz at all 😂

[@potatoonastick2239]

+striderifly That was uncalled for

[@TheRealDescartes]

+Jason Cash It's edups

[@yuunastella2778]

Oskar M8 he's also a scientist his other channel is called costs lab

[@user-de4cq6uk6l]

8:14 sounds like someone from Alabama saying that forwards

[@smackeddie3826]

Gun in a video? KZbin: "annnnd demonetized"

[@sontapaa11jokulainen94]

It is not youtubes fault.

[@brrrr9679]

@@sontapaa11jokulainen94 it sorta is

[@sontapaa11jokulainen94]

@@brrrr9679 It is not because youtube uses third party advertisement meaning that if the THIRD PARTY does not wan't to have ads on videos then THE THIRD PARTY will demonetize those videos. KZbin can not force the third parties to put ads on peoples videos.

[@Superchilliface]

dezitenomed dnnnnna: ebuT uoY ?oeddiv a ni nuG

[@mark0bravo]

I can do this too! I started doing it randomly when i was a kid.. kinda like, wordplay in my head. Til my parents found out, then i became the family sideshow for a while. Funny thing, i have my own kids now. And my 7 year old randomly does this too- completely on his own. It blew my mind a little bit. Neat to see another backwards talker!

[@hadrienchenal1597]

I have 1 question for you two : If i write a word on a paper like "president" and i tell you to pronounce it backward, do you first pronounce it forward in your head or not ?

[@pur3kill3d1032]

@@hadrienchenal1597 Hey, a friend sent me this video because I used to do this back in elementary school, and was pretty decent at it. Since you never got a reply, I'll explain my process. So first I take a sentence and mentally recite it in reverse order. So when I think the sentence "I have a cat", my internal monologue recites "cat a have I". Then with each word I visualize the mouth movements forwards and immediately speak those movements in reverse before I forget them. It seems like this guy is doing the same, or very similar process. As he gets caught up on multisyllabic words. And longer phrases got a bit jumbled up at the end(beginning). And no, there's no way to do it in reverse. You'd have to be able to memorize an incomprehensible string of sounds and rearrange them in your head, memorize the new arrangement of random sounds and visualize each individual mouth movement.