The guy who invented the sport of curling (I assume)

[@zoorenard1101]

Canadian here. It's exactly how it went down except they were really drunk on maple syrup and one of them rode a moose

[@CrazyAnimeGamer3]

The moose was the other guy using his skinwaker power's while drunk on the maple syrup

[@amykelly23]

Of course one was on a moose. Talk about pointing out the obvious!

[@AP-nj1mr]

😂😂

[@nokia-gm8gv]

xd

[@iHateHandlesGetRidOfThis]

as a not canadian i was told not to moose.

[@robby7337]

Zach asked Jack for a time machine, so that he could retell these monumental events as accurately as possible.

[@amykelly23]

One could even get a fulcrum from Jack!!

[@ToddJenkins-y8j]

“What’s my purpose?” “Give yourself to Jesus” Auto pilot really pulled through

[@alexm9653]

i can feel the "i don't make the rules" joke coming back in future video's about either this or other 'invented' sports

[@Dude-xb3xh]

Reminds me of the ryan George video about first mascot how he’s like I don’t make the rules but the other person is like you literally do this has never been done before

[@Rafaelzio]

"Noone will know" that's a sports mentality I can get behind

[@lochlanmuir2291]

*no one

[@regin2429]

@@lochlanmuir2291 noon

[@Shadowyartsdirty3]

Insert steroid ad

[@lancesmith5645]

almost feels liek a call back to a saterday night live skit about george washington. cept im not sure if i ever remember any call backs from zach for things outside of his own skits.

[@777idkineedausername]

For anyone who doesn't know, it's whoever can get an iron handle thingy closest to the center of the circle.

[@MartinAguirre-314]

“Have you ever wanted to hit a ball and run a Diamond” “No, but sometimes I have nightmares about running a square”

[@robby7337]

That "almond?" joke just keeps coming back, I love it.

[@YourWaterDispenser]

*snacking an almond with a pause for chewing* almond?

[@pham990]

the almond joke is genuinely one of my favorite bits and I don’t know why

[@davisdf3064]

"i don't have any almonds"

[@GayleKirschenbaum-gw6of]

Is it a reference to something?

[@punctuationstation]

@@GayleKirschenbaum-gw6of He does this in other videos. Zach really likes almonds.

[@Mee0681]

For anyone oustide of canada, closest to the middle wins

[@coolgoku810]

Thank you

[@Léon-x3c]

As a Swiss, I take offense in you assuming I don’t play curling

[@rcslyman8929]

Middle of what? The sweeping?

[@mktzombey]

@@rcslyman8929 the circle

[@johnkerr4551]

Do the Swiss do curling? I thought it was just us Scots and the Canadians.

[@nonmagicalwitch]

I love that this insinuates that Spongebob was a thing before or in 1541

[@realrickyshea]

Wait, it wasn't?

[@Avariceasmr]

"So what's...my purpose?" "Give yourself to Jesus." IM DEAD

[@saaarrj]

you don't gotta die for him, he already did that!

[@San-lh8us]

@@saaarrj i mean, she was going to die anyway, so that just makes meetin Him faster

[@davebathgate]

Ok but before you do that, could you pass the butter?

[@Avariceasmr]

@@davebathgate WHAT THE F*CK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME ?

[@jagwolf8079]

"Chores on Ice"

[@mrfancyshmancy]

I just love the 'have you ever wanted to *insert the least common and out there thing*' that is either followed by 'no tf i haven't' or 'ofc, who hasn't, this is common'

[@JustInTime0525]

Crazy you didn't joke about them yelling “HARD!!!” when sweeping, waited the whole video for that part 😂

[@ManOfSpruce]

I can guarantee the man who invented curling had a troubled childhood

[@terminator6950]

I can confidently as a Canadian, there are very few countries that take curling as seriously and know what’s going on, as we do up here. Like my mom is a curling fanatic, she’s been watching it for decades now at least

[@armandolimon7465]

Just why? And does the sweeping do anything? It's like having a zamboni machine after 60 seconds of play time on hockey. But you won't do that in hockey because it's stupid. Just like curling.

[@tatzy]

We've been blessed with consistent Zach Star vids recently

[@alicelaybourne1620]

His goal is one a day til Christmas (or Christmas Eve). I think he is gonna make it, and I have liked or loved every one of them.

[@caliqm2199]

I like that "almond" is just the word to say when there's long silence

[@teamastral7682]

2:47 This made me laugh way louder than I thought it would, but I just love the idea of that happening

[@skylx0812]

I'm guessing they threw a suspected witch onto a frozen lake then made her sweep for her life with her broom. If she fell through the ice and froze then drowned she wasn't a witch.

[@Kudo005]

Zach this needs to be a series 😭😭

[@ManOfSpruce]

Zach has finally accepted the world of text in thumbnails

[@ispres]

"but when you have to make a rock go further, but not too far, its fun" perfect delivery

[@KingOfGamesss]

I heard they recently implemented the 'Phone a Friend' option to that sport (Curling)

[@MyWorld-eb9oz]

Love how he brought the almond thing back

[@koda_pop]

okay but curling is my favourite sport to watch every winter olympics lol

[@antonionnam6594]

"Bigger than your thinking" 💀

[@VaporwavesJK]

Watching this video not knowing what curling (the sport) is was a journey

[@ARloismad]

I still don’t know what it is

[@modemmama100]

Wow. Zach and my favorite sport curling! Could my day get any better…..

[@wanderlking8634]

Love it. There is a history in comedy for this kind of humor. Nate Bergatze does it some and way back when Jonathan Winters did standup about football being a bunch of guys chasing a pumpkin.

[@TinaDanielsson]

Seems historically accurate 💯💯

[@spirit5923]

Stan then proceeded to steal the hitting a ball in a diamond idea and made a fortune.

[@zyrillsnickers3286]

I love how he just doesn't question the almond thing. Most Zach thing ever.

[@mafia_boss_neto]

Today I learned that curling exists as a word and it does not mean "to curl your hair".

[@ZachStarHimself]

Bicep curl, curling your hair, curling (the sport), this word needs to tone it down 😂

[@shanescottkristianbackup-cp1fx]

@@ZachStarHimselfi agree lmfao, theres also tea bag and tea baggging lmfao

[@TonyYarusso]

It is fundamentally the same word though. In the sport context, it refers to the fact that you aren’t just throwing the rocks in straight lines - you make their path curl to one side or the other for best positioning.

[@reverseflashplays8615]

Sweeping alone is very sad in all honesty

[@beanie3427]

Next Video: You have an emergency and need a pizza, but you already redeemed your Domino’s emergency pizza

[@Alejandro-cn5yp]

Time to google the actual rules cause I have no clue

[@HolloWolf35]

What did u find

[@Slogye]

wdym these are the REAL RULES

[@rosannap661]

Guy inventing something... "I decided"... seriously I NEED a Zach/Ryan collab!!

[@bartolhrg7609]

Baseball foreshadowing

[@iceyzetyez]

At this rate you will end with your own Almond brand.

[@louisrobitaille5810]

4:00 Took me like 5 tries, but I finally understand what "hitting a ball and running a diamond" means 😅. It's baseball. Now Zach, how about you cover the Norwegian version 😂? Or was it Finnish… Anyway, it's weirder than "normal" baseball 👀.

[@Disgruntled_Grunt]

Weird how? Like, "if the batter gets hit by the ball, he's out" weird, or "randomly-placed landmines in the outfield that get re-arranged every game" weird?

[@louisrobitaille5810]

@ Weird like the shape of the field and how you score a homerun for example 👀. Idk much about it, I just know that some of the rules are different and that the "diamond" isn't a diamond anymore 🥸.

[@海伯庵]

Is hockey just curling but someone forgot the rules of curling, trying to almond, and now there's people who don't realize the iron thing is supposed to be bigger, there was never supposed to be nets around the concentric circles, and the brooms were so messed up that they thought sticks are what they use??? And it was taken as an opportunity to haze the youngins by slamming them into walls, since no one knew why they were doing anything in curling between 1669 and 1720?

[@andrijajokovic467]

if you want it to go further you sweep, if you want it to not go too far you sweep...

[@Tbands777]

0:22 seconds into the video and you already got my like

[@joelellis7035]

Basically, a kind of Bocci ball on ice. Somehow, someone figured out it was possible to control the direction of the iron/stone using brooms.

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

I honestly thought it was a joke when I first saw the sport.

[@serpent2776]

The guy who invented curling is a genius tbh, most interesting winter sport.

[@tobysowers4668]

LETS GOO NEW VIDEO

[@_Abdulziz506]

so, hockey?

[@jcole1679]

OK. there's a spot on your wall, just above your couches right arm. Every time I see it i try to clean my screen and get immediately pissed off.

[@macstbh]

Its always a good day when zack star himself uploads❤

[@Captain_Al]

the infamous janitorial sport😂

[@34ccsn]

So 2 guys on lsd made curling.

[@NickACrowley]

I love how the ridiculousness of curling was all just a setup to slam baseball.

[@AverageGamerDude]

The HOG line lmao

[@blackghost207]

This had the same energy as Ryan George when he said I decided 😂

[@Set_your_handle0-0]

I thought this was hockey the entire time

[@darkflux]

this is even funnier when you have no idea what curling is.

[@PotatoVariety]

"No, I've decided, so that's how it's gonna be" AHA! I know what you've been watching...

[@gorotube10]

lol, this video shows up third in google videos search results when searching curling sport

[@3vi1J]

1541.... floppy drive.

[@slavsquatsuperstar]

Sweeping ice is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@lumixpepper]

"Have you ever swept alone? It's very sad :("

[@danser_theplayer01]

I just looked it up... how tf is this a sport?

[@Ανδρέας-ΓεώργιοςΣκίννερ]

There was a Greek sitcom where the premise was the foundation of a women's curling team.

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

Hurry hard! Hurry hard!

[@Void100-v3x]

Now we need the invention of hitting a ball and running a diamond.

[@stings7]

the idea alert was actually confusing to say

[@natasham7809]

Chores on ice

[@blakebrown115]

John McQuhin and his friend having discussion being like

[@aliadosmc]

I didnt even know that was a thing 😂

[@louiscypher4186]

Curling is just just lawn bowls on ice.

[@magistrumartium]

I prefer "ice rock shuffleboard"

[@JannPoo]

It's the sweepers part that makes it stand out compared to many other similar games.

[@F-15SE]

Just hilarious 😂

[@BluesJK]

Do a video of someone who sends a creepy recording to someone but forgets to stop recording (Maybe make it family friendly)

[@flippyjunior1267]

Don't you love it when someone tries to explain something to you but does a horrendously shit job while assuming you already know everything

[@aetherllama8398]

Sometimes nobody even sweeps they just say "woah woah woah".

[@ladyginger1701]

I’ve been trying to remember Patrick’s name for days, thanks now I don’t have to Google. 😊

[@ReelHatMan]

Canadian here: we play hockey not curling

[@FahimHoq]

Close enough, they are both played on ice 🧊

[@Gen-ZBlondie]

Help I’m now struggling to say idea alert😭

[@Sosuke-aizen-58]

Almonds oh wow can I have some” what almonds? I don’t have almonds?

[@riccardogemme]

Wait, curling is THAT old!?

[@Thagrynor]

This is hilarious and totally reminds me of Robin Williams' explaining the invention of Golf. Lmao .... just as funny too.

[@alexforce9]

If I have to guess - the swiping is for the ice to melt a bit from the pressure and movement so the rock have wet path to move on to.

[@fnors2]

Dunno if it's about getting water or not. But it's definitely about making the ice smoother so there's less friction for the rock to slide on. And then there's that crazy part of it where you sweep one side more to make the rock curve

[@amvsoftomorrows8696]

i adore this lol.

[@SuperCommando60]

biblically accurate

[@3gou]

Why do you need to sweep to make the ball go farther? Does the ice have trash blocking the way? It’s never explained how this is supposed to help something go further.

[@terminator6950]

@3gou it depends on how hard you throw the curling rock. The rock in curling can weigh up to 44 pounds (19 kilograms), and the lightest is roughly 38 pounds (last time I looked it up). So sweeping reduces the amount of friction the rock has, thus making it travel farther. Just because something is travelling along ice, doesn’t always mean it’s going to go far. I know, it may seem complicated. Because, as a Canadian, I know that rarely anyone takes curling as seriously as we do up here

[@ameliegonissen7154]

I’m not fully sure because water (and ice) physics are actually extremely complicated so I might be full of shit but my best guess is that they’re not removing trash. By swiping very fast they create a very thin layer of water. Water+ice makes a very very slippery surface, like when ice cubes start to melt they’re much harder to grab than fresh out of the freezer.

[@terminator6950]

@@ameliegonissen7154 Unfortunately, thats not how it works. The ice is designed for the curling rock to glide along it. If you were to throw a curling rock on the ice of a hockey rink, since the hockey rink is flat, there'd be too much friction. The ice on a curling rink is specifically designed so that there's less friction when the rock is thrown.

[@ameliegonissen7154]

@@terminator6950 quick google search actually says I’m right: “The basic principle behind sweeping is deceptively simple. The heat produced by the friction generated by sweeping melts the ice and produces a thin layer of water over which the heavy granite stone slides more easily since the friction between the stone and water is less than that between the stone and ice.” This comes from the McGill university website, which seems at first glance to be a reliable source of information (it’s a legit university with a good ranking worldwide from what I can find)

[@MANABEANS_YOUTUBE]

You still have a smudge on the wall to the left of the couch.

[@ozlemdenli7763]

spot on! an Olympic sport without athletes. what a misery

[@FalloutJack]

To learn more about the strange sport of Curling, listen to GO! My Favorite Sports Team, the podcast that explains this kind of thing with comedic detail!

[@Th3Hyd3]

Am I the only person who tried to swipe of that smudge on Zach's wall from my phone screen?

[@germancat429]

ryan george moment

[@dhruvtripathi6603]

you should when one of the siamese twins gets into heaven and the other one gets into hell

[@ironwarriornlm]

Yeees

[@Sugarddicted]

yes daddy zach

[@user-scott-pearce]

it is true the name curling makes no sense for this sport

[@CosmicFilms-007]

In high school I got 2 offsa medals for curling! As in going to offsa So yeah!

[@alicelaybourne1620]

"As in going to offsa" makes as much sense to this American as Curling does.

[@CosmicFilms-007]

It’s a program thing with a bunch of sports for high school (Ontario) where if you win playoffs locally you would go to other places to face people across Ontario (which is OFFSA) stands for something but idk what sorry

[@louisrobitaille5810]

1:17 As stupid as it sounds, the physics behind it are actually pretty interesting 😛.

[@magistrumartium]

Ice rock shuffleboard

[@harthosshlivanhivon4424]

Adam Sandler already beat you to baseball

[@Gront517]

It needs to be called the hog line

[@hirvielain9013]

Jimmy Rees has lots of videos like these where different sports are invented, if anyone's interested. (He has a bit different style than Zach so I thought it doesn't really harm Zach to mention Jimmy here.)