To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Kyle's dad.

Kyle: *intends to shock his dad with cringe* Kyle's dad: I O N T R A N S F E R

The tangent about if a pickle could or could not support a human brain well enough for Pickle Rick to be a believably realistic thing absolutely _sent me._ Kyle's dad is a treasure.

@ZephLodwick

11 ай бұрын

Film Theory did an episode on it, and they concluded that the pickle's saltiness would've killed rick, but an avocado would've worked.

STEM Dad + Theatre Kid Son = Unfeasibly Wholesome Father's Day Content

I would absolutely watch a series of you and your dad discussing movies and TV. Or you and your mom. Both of your parents are delightful and insightful.

@Mashford42

Жыл бұрын

strong agree, great vibe, good looks 😍

@chaeburger

Жыл бұрын

+

@alisaurus4224

Жыл бұрын

A delightful & insightful part of this balanced breakfast!

@FlyBoy972

Жыл бұрын

@@alisaurus4224 WHY ARE YOU EATING THEM?! THEY'RE PEOPLE!!

Hi Kyle! A molecular biologist here. I was surprised to hear your dad make a theory that some other people did regarding the pickle. To answer shortly, yes, pickles are electrically conducive. There is even a video on youtube where two mad lads cheked one into a high voltage electric grid, which forced it to emit light and then, eventually, explode. However, the neural conductivity that your dad discussed earlier dependeds on the concentration of sodium and potassium inside and outside of the cell, which makes a pickcle a not so good conscious vessel😂. Also, соленье in Russian means brined lactofermented cucumber, not pickles. Thatnks for a good content, keep it up!

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

I took a half-remembered course in neurophysiology as a mandatory elective as a sophomore in my electrical engineering program in 1970. Kept the text book (as I have all of them). My quip was, as much as anything, a first-order look in furtherance of the introductory quote and the basis of hard sci-fi stories. Much of the text book deals with concentrations, permeability, and ion concentrations. As a brain, pickle Rick would indeed be not so good. But it might be fast! Pickle brine salinity much higher than blood/brain fluids!

It's so cute that Dad K acknowledges the limits of his knowledge and defers readily to your expertise on your own field of literature. It's a sign of his intelligence that he doesn't try to prove his dominance in anyone else's area. As the Dunning-Kruger folks say, he's humble the way truly intelligent people are.

@LeoulB

Жыл бұрын

question: is kyle the pickle now?

Just popping in here to give jessica gao the credited writer for this episode her flowers.

Nice to see you again, Kyle, and your dad too! Happy Father's Day!

I'm not even 4 minutes into this, and I love your dad more than my own. --Oh, shit, it's father's day, isn't it.--

I adore your dad, and would love to see more content with him on your chanel. Something tells me that he leans more towards "hard sci-fi" than sci-fi as a literary device. It would be interesting to see a theater major, and a hard sci-fi fan discuss those nuances.

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

And yet, Le Guin is one of my favorite authors, The Left Hand of Darkness the crowning jewel among her many works I’ve enjoyed.

The therapy scenes in this episode is honestly one of my favorite moments in the entirety of Rick and Morty, which makes it such a shame that the take away for so many people (ironically or unironically) is the funny pickle man.

I think that this is a good episode when divorced from the shitty meme. Especially the part at the end with the therapist

These reactions with your Dad is actually kinda interesting and refreshing, Kyle. 😆😆😆I wouldn't mind seeing more👏😄

Y'know... there would indeed be an excellent analysis to be made regarding Rick Sanchez and how he both fits and subverts the "competent man" trope as discussed here. Maybe if these vlogs keep going with more R&M episodes that specifically show more flaws in the character? Thanks also for focusing a lot on the therapy part of the episode, it was overshadowed by the memetic parts but everything in the Smiths' therapy sums up the show's core elements so well that it's a shame so many still go "huhuh, pickle, funniest crap I've ever seen".

My memory of neurology is very rusty but even with the correct PH, I'm not certain nerve innervations could be supported in a pickle. After all the ion transfer is significant, but it's only able to set up a small action potential, which then sets up a micro-circuit, setting the next portion of the nerve. So even if you had the sodium and potassium exchange needed to prompt the charge difference, you'd still need the structures and shape of the nerve for that to be more than just a small spark. A nerve is basically making lots of little microcircuits all the way along its length, then firing chemicals between nerves to prompt microcircuits in the next one. That said, this is 10 year old learning that was never really my best, so if other people can think of a way to do this, I'll defer to them.

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

Good and solid analysis 🙂 … sometimes the bar for believability in sci-fi can be low … 😃

This was just the light-hearted, insightful-but-entertaining short-form video I needed before bed. Thank you both!

I think I would have enjoyed this more if it were longer... you and your dad going back and forth over the episode contents was a lot of fun.

I absolutely love your dad and your family on the whole. The brief glimpse we get within the videos you create are so sweet. It's clear you both really care about learning and knowledge, and watching the confluence of your fields of knowledge and passions reminds me of talking to my dad. 💙

I love hearing you and your dad talk. I'd be so down for more.

I've been rewatching Breaking Bad, and as soon as you mentioned the competent man, I realized the show plays with that trope. Walter White can science the shit out of anything to get what he wants, but in doing so he becomes a monster.

"Holy Crap Dad! Neurons? Brine? Enzymes???" 😵‍💫

absolutely going to try to pepper " what do you know about ion transfer?" in to as many conversations as possible now.

this was highly enjoyable and I would like to see more like this. these sort of casual simple vids are almost like palate cleansers

kyle's dad sending diagrams somehow explains a lot

This was a great video! I dont watch this show but i have seen the clip of the therapist's monologue. I had to drop my university degree due to mental health issues and I now go regularly to therapy, and what the therapist had to say resonated a lot with me. I describe a lot of the small activities i do to maintain my mental health outside of therapy and medication (putting more effort into personal maintenance, cleaning my house, going for a walk outside) as "the mental health equivalent of brushing your teeth or wiping your arse" now. And... it helps me to internalise that as necessary, even though i know going outside wont fix my mental problems on its own.

This was delightful little video. Happy Father's Day Mr. Kallgren!

This was fun, I'd kinda like to see more of your dad's reactions to Rick and Morty. This was a really fun father's day video.

Barely halfway into this and it has been delightful lol. Well done cousin and uncle!

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

Theatrical Bow!

I really enjoyed this, and would love hearing more from your dad. I'm a Gen X nerd, and many of my friendships have been with Boomer nerds who got me into Heinlein, Sturgeon, and other writers of that general era. A fair number of them were/are engineers. They're a very specific type of human being I like.

that's the kallgrensplaining session I didn't know I needed ❤

I am rewatching this and it's funny: Your dad actually reminds me of my own dad! My dad wasn't an engineer, he was an electrician and later an IT-guy. But he have always been interested in chemistry and he loves complex systems and games. So I think if he had been my age today he would've gone to the university and gotten a masters degree in chemistry. So I can imagine if I sat him down to watch Rick and Morty, he would also start talking about brine or the chemical thingamabobs...

I, for one, would like to see more content with this kind of "experimental conversation videos" with your Dad. You both bring these vastly different views to the matter (I.E. Hard Science vs. Storytelling requirements), and I think if you viewed other media of this kind (Maybe more classic science fiction movies like "The Time Machine," "War of the Worlds," "Things to Come," etc., you can generate interesting and informative pieces regarding how science is shown in media) it would yield some very interesting videos. Or you can just make it meme-y, which I'm perfectly fine with too. Your humor and insight has been what's kept me watching over the years. Cheers, Kyle.🥒

I'm still waiting on a Kallgrensplaining podcast, you guys.

I'm with your dad on this when he starts commenting on the Russian mafia having American fighter jets instead of Russian ones. When it comes to genre fiction, you ask the audience to do a LOT of work in suspending disbelief. Magic and dragons are real, humanity can travel faster than light, etc. There is a lot of buy-in on the audience's behalf. Therefore, everything surrounding the fantastical elements of the story HAVE to be accurate or they become more noticable. Because the audience is already suspending disbelief so much due to those fantasy elements, they're going to be less likely to put in the same effort for technical and historical inaccuracies. This is more pronounced when it's set up as something that is more, for lack of a better term, intellectual. I'm going to nitpick the hell out of Rick and Morty because of the "You need a high IQ" BS just like I'm going to drag a video game maker over the coals for every anachronism because they claimed their game was "historically accurate" as an excuse to add in racism, misogyny, and homophobia. I'm going to zero in on every single flaw because the creator has set me up to do precisely that. So yes, I'm going to comment on the fact that the swordsman is using a rapier when the story is set in the 13th century when the rapier wasn't invented until the 15th century and wasn't popular until the 16th even if the swordsman in question is an elf. The elf I can forgive, the historical inaccuracy I cannot.

"... which is about the apocalypse" I genuinely laughed when i heard that.

Loved this video. You and your dad are a wonderful duo: a Scientist and an Erudite. I want 137 episodes and a movie.

I truly enjoyed watching you talking media with your dad. I would loblve to see you teaching him about modern pop culture

This was a fun little break! and reminded me very much of some of the conversations my dad and I have had after watching something (my dad's background is in chemistry, and he's also a big nerd and has a huge shelf double-stacked of all the old sci-fi classics)

This was delightful. Since your Starship Troopers video, I've much enjoyed the interactions between you and your family in your videos. There's some pretty awesome insights coming from those interactions and the different fields of knowledge.

Lmao he sounds a lot like my dad. Get him started on a topic and he’ll pull an incredible amount of insight out of absolutely nowhere. Thanks for sharing!

Loved this! Happy father's day to you and yours!

This was actually kind of a fun little tangent, I liked this a lot

I could honestly watch Rick & Morty-a-thousand years of These kinds of videos of you and your dad.

The acronym we used was PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard usually followed by an ID10T error.

@Noname72105

3 ай бұрын

I was first introduced to it as EBKAC, Error Between yadda yadda

The moment your dad talked about ion transfer, everything clicked that there is some remote plausibility. My brain jumped to yes a potato can power a battery to the chemicals in a pickle. I never made that connection despite studying neurology in high school and all the rick and morty brain rot.

PICNIC was interesting, my parents (both in IT at a high level) had a different acronym PEBKAC Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair, not as good maybe but same idea

That was fun, I loved your conversation and have added picnic problem to my vocabulary.

picnic is nice, iv learnt it as an I.D. 10 T error

At this point, a season binge of DBZ with your father might result in a Master's in Biology and Physical Anatomy without the pesky student debt. Your dad's an absolute unit.

I loved this video! You and your dad have great banter

This was a nice vlog-y break, would love to see more, or Kyle and his mom talk about something, like Dutch art/life again 🖌🌷👏

Your dad's vibe makes me think of Hugo winner Lois McMaster Bujold 's dad, the engineer she wrote Falling Free in honour of

I really enjoyed this video, I'd love to see more of these bite-sized vlog style videos :D

KZread hid this from me, but I found you and your dad's conversation enjoyable and insightful. I love that he sent you the diagrams. I hope you get those other vlogs edited and released (if you haven't already) Thank you for trying something new 🙂

Lol there's an episode of film theorist where they go over the science of it, the conclusion was that pickles have too much salt, avocados on the other hand...

100% I'm into seeing more of the Kalgren multiverse

I would definitely watch more of this, if all parties involved enjoy it, too.

Pickle mind transfer>Russians using off brand aircraft. Good video. Funniest shit I ever seen, 10/10

Your dad is such a sweetheart. And you definitely take after him.

God Kyle your dad is awesome I love he was more bothered by inappropriate use of jets by Russians

More! More! Any time you're up for more of this and you feel you have time to fill, more!

Makes a "basic vlog", still adds captioned inserts for every piece of media referenced. (Very much appreciated!)

I always heard PICNIC as PEBKAC, Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. It's less elegant for sure, and I think being incomprehensible jargon on the surface was part of its appeal.

I would love a whole series of you and your dad reaction to things

Never heard it as PICNIC before, we always use PEBCAK.

I kinda like your dad. Maybe he could start his own youtube channel? Anyway, if you do more Rick'n'Morty'n"Dad content, please think of us plebs here on KZread and throw us an episode every now and then! 🙂

Your dad is a delight.

Would definitely be interested in more of these

Three videos, all year. I miss, y’know, content

I would love to see this sort of duologue on a regular basis.

Baba Yaga is a folklore Hag witch. She lives in a literal mobile home. A huge Hut with huge chicken / bird legs.

Not gonna lie, I really like seeing your take on this style of video. You and your dad make some great insights, and I'd love to see more of this sort of video (may I suggest showing your dad some serials of Classic Doctor Who?). Great video; thank you for sharing!

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

I used to watch Tom Baker’s Dr when in college. Seen every Dr Who episode in the reboot at least once; some whole seasons multiple times.

@jaydee4697

Жыл бұрын

@@captdbkilowatt6501 You have great taste!

Kyle's dad is like the smartest boomer I ever known

Would definitely be into seeing more videos like this. Reminds me of your Thanos video you did a while back. Video essays are cool but I'd rather just hear your off the cuff statements and analysis of random topics.

I demand more High Brow breakdowns of Rick and Morty content

I love your dad! I respect the ability to buy in to a concept and then relate it back to your knowledge base without irony. Like, take the silly premise seriously, it's more fun! Tends toward cringe which makes me respect it even more when people do so unselfconsciously.

PICNIC is a new one, my go to for years has been PEBCAK which is basically the same. Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

his dad chiming in explaining how this nonsense joke could be plausible, spectacular!

I absolutely love this thank you Kyle

Four minutes in and this is great already.

I love your channel so much

Your dad pulled out a whole ass game theory video off the rip, I understand why matpat retired now

5:30 oh god, Kyle, get your dad to redo that wiki article!

This was a moment in history that we can't forget even though we really want to.

Oh and don’t forget Justin Roiland sending extremely sexually explicit/violent DMs to minors. All throughout his career. With zero consequences. But the pureness of this video helps outweigh this

Also the heinlein info dump is just the experience of Big Honest Fan to New Fan (affectionate) and or Big Smug Fan to Any New Fan or Woman (derogatory)

Picnic? I just call em Code 13s.

This was fun. Thanks Kyle!

Really loved this , have you thought of joining Nebula ?

2:10 Thanks for reminding me why I dropped Rick and Morty and why I'll continue to wait till the Venture Bros returns in full.

The old man is highly competitive and defensive.

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

And is a strategy for how to become an old man …

Loved it!❤

I want to see more of this

P.I.C.N.I.C. is cute! I've always heard it alternatively as P.E.B.C.A.C.: problem exists between chair and computer

@alisaurus4224

Жыл бұрын

I learned it as PEBKAC, between keyboard & chair

@captdbkilowatt6501

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps an effect of translation or national idiom: I first heard PICNIC from Dutch IT colleagues when working overseas.

Happy father's day!

It's encouraging to see that even an experienced KZreadr has awkward moments like the start of the video.

This was very adorable 😄

2:15 I feel its kinda weird to put dan and justin next to each otehr with their crimes cause we can see one is noticably worse than the other tbh

D I A G R A M S Fun video.