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Can't remember where I heard this, but liked it. Knowledge is knowing that Frankinstein is not the monster. Wisdom is realizing that he is the real monster.

I've never laughed this much listening to one of Simon's videos before. And not just because Simon absolutely butchered those Finnish names. I request any and all of Simon's basement-trapped writers to add more things that require him to try pronouncing more Finnish words. Well done 👍

Am I the only one that thinks this story got popular because doom came out at the same time?

As a Christian...the moment you mentioned Trinity Broadcasting Network I knew we were in for a ride through fantasy and hilarity.

Non-finns trying to read finnish words is consistently one of the funniest things ever to me, but it’s not actually as hard as it looks! Finnish is pronounced as it’s written much like japanese, for example Ammennusastia is ah-men-noos-as-ti-ah, and Vaeltajat is vah-el-ta-yat. Granted some letters are pronounced differently, R and J come to mind, and then there’s of course Ä, Ö and Å which we are very sorry about, but in general it’s much more straightforward than you’d maybe expect :D

I think Simon has been traumatized by the Casual Criminalist. The way he went after Sisyphus and his voice seem to indicate some trauma. The man with Danny in the basement has limits! Feel better and keep the content coming FactBoy! Your Hell would be someone keeping you in front of a microphone that never dies, just like you, while you keep reading scripts that seem to only have 1 page left, but never actually do. :)

Sitting here listening to this while my wife is in the other room listening to Casual Criminalist. Simon has taken over our household.

Simon not understanding the idea of poetic punishment is just sad. Sisyphus was being punished for trying to escape death (an ultimately futile effort) by having to do a meaningless task over and over that can never be completed. Tantalus spent his life pursuing food and drink, so his punishment was to pursue it forever and never get it. It's not about just treating everyone to torture. That's the easy way out.

Hell, where I hope 90% of the customers I deal with in retail are going. Especially the ones who insist us workers have no personal rights, that we chose to be a servants to them and deserve all the abuse the unleash on us.

I cannot believe how amazing the quality of content is with these creators, and it’s sad to see that the KZread community doesn’t seem to agree with me. It’s taken me months to realize this channel doesn’t even have 100,000 subscribers. You all work incredibly hard on all these videos, and I hope you achieve nothing but success (both critical and financial) and happiness in all of your lives. Between the presenter, the writer, and the editor, there is an immense amount of natural talent and hard work. As an audience, it is apparent to us that you all work extremely hard and really care deeply about the product you put out. Thank you.

Imagine being tortured in hell and seeing a microphone lowering down

Katie: listing ADHD typical behavior

My favorite thing about ancient greek punishments is that they're not overtly awful, they're things that will slowly chip away at your sanity until you lose your mind and even then you can't stop

Tantalus was was forced to always be in a starving a endless hunger and endless thirst but the food was always outreach he wasn't a little hungry he was like someone who's damn near on the brink of starvation type of hungry.

As a Christian with a Geology degree, this one was gold, right from what we called "the Moho" being butchered straight on through to "Christians" pushing something that the Bible explicitly says doesn't exist. Thanks to this incredible team for the laugh.

Christianity actually defines hell as eternal separation from God, rather than a physical place. I am Christian but Simon could never put me off his shows! I respect his beliefs and I feel like he respects the beliefs of others! Keep up the AMAZING work Simon and Teams!!!!

OH Simon...the story of Tantalus is the Greek myth of a man who tried to roast and feed his own child (Pelops) when the gods came for a visit, and so his punishment was he would be permitted neither food nor drink for eternity. Also...Demeter ate the the boy's shoulder (she was distracted...something about her daughter running away with the goth lord of the underworld) and so an ivory shoulder was fashioned for Pelops after the gods restored him to life.

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Yes!! Make a segment of Brain Blaze called the Fact Police!! That would be awesome, hilarious and probably make us weep over humanity's stupidity all at the same time 🤣🤣