#bobbybroccoli

So I’m watching this, right, and you hear that music? It sounds so fucking familiar. Like I’ve heard that before. So I go “huh, that’s fucking bobbybroccoli music MOTHERFUCKER THAT’S IN ONE OF HIS VIDEOS”

Now, most of you guys on here probably aren’t science nerds and know BobbyBroccoli but I AM, so his video essays are my COMFORT videos. Queue research montage of: I know that music like the back of my hand and there’s two videos it could definitely be in but which one and when? I try the Bogdnaov brothers video, first and second, not in there. Then I’m like “ok, so it HAS to be in the Ninov one so when?” And then… oh and then it hits me. The timeline of trying to find who faked element 118 and them finding NINOV IT WAS THERE DAMN IT.

Timestamp: 49:30

Minor downside: the majority of STEM geeks have never voluntarily sat through an entire football game in their lives, let alone looked into sports statistics or sports journalism, and as a result are completely unaware of who Jon Bois is, and thus genuinely believe that no one else has ever done anything like this before.

I've been trying to gain more of a journeyman level of appreciation for sports and sports culture without being bogged down by a lack of basic knowledge like the rules of a game in theory everyone knows already, or a lack of investment that makes things that are too technical a slog to get excited about or understand why they're cool or important.

If you're in the same boat I highly recommend this YouTuber who I can describe as 'the BobbyBroccoli for sports history instead of Science History' and is highly underappreciated.

A few suggestions:

The greatest rivalry in sports

Asterisks in Sports

SPORTOPOLY: a board game about owners

The Death Penalty in Sports

The longest baseball game ever

(I genuinely have a bit of an art crush on him because his stuff is so good 🙈)

Here's one of his videos about something happening in science (you don't need to know anything about physics, he explains things very well)