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Sinking in Scandal: A Canadian Tragedy
As Canada's most valuable company, Nortel entered the 2000s with a boom. It would not survive the next decade. Part 2 of 2.
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People to thank:
Subtitles provided by @redslendy
Charlie Arsenault - Assistant Editor
@ThePlainBagel on CZcams for providing me with Nortel’s stock price data
@ChrisHanel on CZcams for extensive Blender Geometry Nodes assistance
@hotcyder on CZcams for the thumbnail
Additional imagery licensed from Getty.
Music from the CZcams Audio Library and Epidemic Sound.
Additional music from @REPULSIVE and @WhitebatAudio
3D boat models are Royalty free assets:
www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/watercraft/industrial-watercraft/polygrunt-low-poly-boat-or-water-craft-or-sea-vehicle
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/ss-edmund-fitzgerald-final
www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/watercraft/recreational-watercraft/sailboat--10
www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-print-models/miniatures/vehicles/simple-ns-savannah-version-two
Edmund Fitzgerald Bell Picture licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_from_the_SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald_(36255067084).jpg
A note on interviews: I spoke to over a dozen former Nortel employees for this series and those conversations provided many insights you'll hear throughout. Because some of the interviewees still work in the industry I have kept all names anonymous. If there is a direct quote with a name attached it's because it was a quote said publicly.
Sources:
The Bubble and the Bear - How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream by Douglas Hunter (2002)
Nortel Networks - How Innovation Created a Network Giant by Larry MacDonald (2000)
No Fear: Tales of a Change Agent or Why I couldn’t Fix Nortel Networks by Tim Dempsey (2014)
Silicon Valley North: A High Tech Cluster of Innovation and Entrepreneurship edited by Larisa V. Shavina (2004)
Knights of the New Technology by David Thomas (1983)
Adventures in Innovation: Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel by John F. Tyson (2014)
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (2011)
100 Days: The Rush to Judgement That Killed Nortel by James Bagnall (2013)
For $ale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada edited by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade (2008)
The Invisible Empire: A History of the Telecommunications Industry in Canada, 1846-1956 by Jean-Guy Rens (2001)
The Avro Arrow: For the Record by Palmiro Campagna (2019)
The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T by Steve Coll (1986)
Asleep at the Switch: The Political Economy of Federal Research and Development Policy since 1960 by Bruce Smardon (2014)
Canadian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy by G. Bruce Doern, David Castle and Peter W.B. Phillips (2016)
Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada-US Relations by Stephen Azzi (2015)
Pa Bell: The Meteoric Rise of Bell Canada Enterprises by Lawrence Surtees (1992)
Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel by Ross Laver (1998)
Dot.con: How America Lost its Mind and Money in the Internet Era by John Cassidy (2002)
TV Interview with John Roth on Market Watch on CNBC, October 1999
Royal Canadian Air Farce Episode from February 23rd 2001
The Rise and demise of Lucent Technologies by William Lazonick and Edward March (2010)
Brain Drain: Why do some post-secondary Graduates Choose to Work in the United States? By Brahim Bordarbat and Marie Connolly (2013)
An Overview of the Demise of Nortel Networks and Key Lessons Learned: Systemic effects in environment, resilience and black-cloud formation, University of Ottawa (2014)
Class, Nationality and the Roots of the Branch Plant Economy by Gordon Laxer (1986)
Foreign Ownership and Myths about Canadian Development by Gordon Laxer (1985)
Gale of “Creative Destruction” Engulfs Nortel by Sanjeev Kumar Sharma (2011)
Nortel Technology Lens: Analysis and Observations by Peter MacKinnon, Peter Chapman, Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa (2015)
Capital Gains Taxation in Canada 1972-2017: Evolution in a Federal Setting by Francois Vaillancourt and Anna Kerkhoff (2019)
The 2010 Federal Budget - A summary of the key tax measure that have a direct impact on you - RBC Wealth Management Services, March 4th, 2010
The Changing Structure of American Innovation: Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Andrea Patacconi, and Jungkyu Suh (2019)
Do Tax Differences Cause the Brain Drain? By Don Wagner (2000)
The Branch Plant Economy by Stephen Clarkson (1972)
0:00 The Fitzgerald
3:08 Brain Drain
12:15 Mind the GAAP
22:00 A Good Problem to Have
37:12 Red Ink
44:05 What's Done is Dunn
57:53 Them's the Breaks
1:14:28 Cookie Jar Accounting
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The Company that Broke Canada
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For a brief moment, Nortel Networks was on top of the world. Let's enjoy that moment while we can. Part 1 of 2. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/bobbybroccoli Watch part 2 extra early: nebula.tv/videos/bobbybroccoli-sinking-in-scandal-the-death-of-nortel Part 2: czcams.com/video/sDdC3-LT7pM/video.htmlsi=RfceRNpc5dZL9_pL I'm on sites! : bobbyb...
The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas
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So there's this hole in Texas...This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. This video is a super-sized compilation of all three parts of America's Missing Collider, from the Ronald Reagan era, to George Bush Sr., to Bill Clinton. You can also watch this video ad-free on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/bobbybroccoli-the-21000000000-hole-in-texas ...
How to catch a criminal cloner
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Weird how your entire career can fall apart thanks to one simple question: "Where did you get those eggs?" Korea's King of Cloning. Part 2 of 2. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/bobbybroccoli Check out NEO's fantastic 3D animated doc "The Unknown City": nebula.tv/videos/neo-unknown-city Part 1: czcams.com/video/ett_8wLJ87U/video.html Support me on Patreo...
The man who faked human cloning
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This is the scientific scandal that rocked an entire country. Korea's King of Cloning. Part 1 of 2. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/bobbybroccoli Watch part 2 extra early: nebula.tv/videos/bobbybroccoli-how-to-catch-a-criminal-cloner Part 2: czcams.com/video/st6yupvNkVo/video.html Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli Follow me on Twitter...
The man who tried to fake an element
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This is the race for the periodic table. Where else you can find me: bobbybroccole www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli Big thank you to @CGFigures for the Blender geonodes help: czcams.com/video/N4TYfYf1fjo/video.html&ab_channel=CGFigures Further reading: “Superheavy” by Kit Chapman. A decade by decade history of the labs who raced to fill out the periodic table. Excellent introductory te...
The image you can't submit to journals anymore
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The most widely-used image in academic history is no longer accepted in journals. So what happened? I'm on Twitter and Patreon: bobbybroccole www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli Voiceovers provided by: @HeavyEyed @hotcyder @Darkfry @Your Awful Sons Kevin from PixelLit (pixellitpod.com) Music in order: Mydnyte by Noir Et Blanc Vie Six Seasons by Unicorn Heads Namaste by Audionautix is lice...
Bill Clinton & the Day Physics Died
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Wondering why this is in your feed again? Well it involves an absurd story which you can read about here: BobbyBroccole/status/1532725334604451841 There's a hole in Texas, and we've come full circle. This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. Part 3 of 3. Part 1: czcams.com/video/ivVzGpznw1U/video.html Part 2: czcams.com/video...
George Bush vomited & set Physics back by a decade
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All it takes it one upset stomach to change the course of history. This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. Part 2 of 3. Part 1: czcams.com/video/ivVzGpznw1U/video.html Part 3: czcams.com/video/15zHLXvFUs0/video.html The primary source on all things SSC is the book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Man...
Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics
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This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. It's a story that involves 3 presidents, billions of dollars, the Higgs boson, and Star Wars. This is part 1 of 3. Part 2: czcams.com/video/6JnT37oUV_w/video.html Part 3: czcams.com/video/15zHLXvFUs0/video.html The primary source on all things SSC is the book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a b...
That Time a Biker Gang Tried to Buy a Canadian Nuclear Bunker
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This is a story about a Baker, and the Bikers who wanted to buy his Bunker. Let's explore the mysteries of the Diefenbunker. Credits music is "Don't Look for me Now" by Neha Sin. (open.spotify.com/artist/0J5KI4iVUznqLp2lDwALqj) Many thanks to the Diefenbunker staff who let us film there instead of telling us to leave. Other songs used are (in order): Long Road, Absolutely Nothing, Stranger Dang...
Speedrunning my Electrical Engineering Master's
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A (not so) quick overview about doing my Master's! I graduated in September 2021 with a Master's of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering, specializing in silicon photonics. Feel free to leave any questions for me in the comments! My twitter : bobbybroccole My Patreon: www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli 0:00-1:11 Intro 1:12-3:53 My Bachelors, MEng vs MASc 3:54-6:21 What even is photo...
The fake scientist who made it into a textbook
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Who exactly is Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre? That name sure rings a bell, huh? This video was originally my contribution to a much larger collaboration. 60 creators, 60 seconds each, go give it a watch: czcams.com/video/2ca3lGwy4FQ/video.html I'm on sites! : bobbybroccole www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli
The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army
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For the longest time, the Bogdanoff brothers were most well known for getting nonsense Ph.Ds. But recently, they've become well know for something entirely different...and much more sinister... RIP Grichka & Igor Bogdanoff Part 1: czcams.com/video/2O1QA1VoRMM/video.html Epiphysics blog: ybmessager.free.fr/docs/potpourri.html My Patreon and Twitter : www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli bob...
The Bogdanoffs: The Trolls who shook Physics
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What started as a forum post snowballed into a national news story. This is BOG.TXT. Part 2 out now: czcams.com/video/dGVjfksIqUk/video.html RIP Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff 0:00 Chapter 1 4:16 Chapter 2 11:03 Chapter 3 18:03 Chapter 4 25:53 Chapter 5 I'm on sites! : www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli bobbybroccole All songs used are listed chronologically at the end of the video. Namaste ...
This video got me 3rd place in a grad-studies contest
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This video got me 3rd place in a grad-studies contest
How to Animate in Google Earth (like Jon Bois!)
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How to Animate in Google Earth (like Jon Bois!)
How to lose a Ph.D in 127 pages
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How to lose a Ph.D in 127 pages
Suspicions are swirling and Bell Labs is burning
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Suspicions are swirling and Bell Labs is burning
The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
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The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
The Forgotten Controversy of the 3DS Launch
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The Forgotten Controversy of the 3DS Launch
Going Full-Tilt: The Trouble with Digitizing Pinball
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Going Full-Tilt: The Trouble with Digitizing Pinball
1 minute for every game I played in 2019
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1 minute for every game I played in 2019
How fast can you press a button? What about 16 times/sec?
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How fast can you press a button? What about 16 times/sec?
That time Disney (almost) made their own Bandersnatch
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That time Disney (almost) made their own Bandersnatch
BIT.TRIP Runner2: Best Bosses in the Business, ft. Bobby "Bobbert" Broccoli
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BIT.TRIP Runner2: Best Bosses in the Business, ft. Bobby "Bobbert" Broccoli
An Awfully Overdue Autopsy of Bill Nye Saves the World
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An Awfully Overdue Autopsy of Bill Nye Saves the World
The Zora quest is the best & that sucks for the rest: A Breath of the Wild Breakdown
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The Zora quest is the best & that sucks for the rest: A Breath of the Wild Breakdown
Update: The future of Broccoli Reviews
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Update: The future of Broccoli Reviews
The Top 5 Video Game Bars of Montreal: A BobbyBroccoli & LambHoot Production
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The Top 5 Video Game Bars of Montreal: A BobbyBroccoli & LambHoot Production

Komentáře

  • @Cheskaz
    @Cheskaz Před hodinou

    Algorithm

  • @jaws8621
    @jaws8621 Před 4 hodinami

    Ha it's funny I remember when I played my friend's 3DS I couldn't figure out why the 3d didn't work for me. Years later I found out I had alternating exotropia.

  • @IM-xg2ki
    @IM-xg2ki Před 7 hodinami

    Wish you had more like this.

  • @adrianjanssens7116
    @adrianjanssens7116 Před 8 hodinami

    Excellent in all respects. Thank you.

  • @shinyumbreon696
    @shinyumbreon696 Před 9 hodinami

    History aside, as someone who has had to explain these basic scientific and medical concepts to students, I just want to point out how brilliant this video is educationally. I've used the tree analogy to describe different types of stem cells with my students and it works every time, and I point them towards your videos. Thanks!

  • @miriamdonahue6188
    @miriamdonahue6188 Před 12 hodinami

    9:59 how tf is there a pillar below the one for hydrogen or am I just an idiot

  • @FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod

    Should have called Bill Watkins

  • @eduardorodrigues7261
    @eduardorodrigues7261 Před 15 hodinami

    exatamente esse tema da diferença entre censura repressiva e censura preventiva é essencial, é o "x" do problema

  • @firey473
    @firey473 Před 15 hodinami

    Ninovium does not exist anymore.

  • @BiG_JJ227
    @BiG_JJ227 Před 18 hodinami

    44:14

  • @seraphimyy
    @seraphimyy Před 19 hodinami

    i thought this said the guy who faked human coloring

  • @hydrogenbond7303
    @hydrogenbond7303 Před 19 hodinami

    does someone know the name of the song at cca 4:00?

  • @musstakrakish
    @musstakrakish Před 21 hodinou

    Bill Nye was just being a fucking asshole the entire time. None of it is funny or entertaining on any level.

  • @theeternalgus9119
    @theeternalgus9119 Před 22 hodinami

    What an amazing documentary(both parts) Only just discovered your channel. Looking forward to watching more of your work.

  • @user-zh9wg2gy2b
    @user-zh9wg2gy2b Před dnem

    Where did you find the quotes from Dr. Verbaarschot? I'm an undergrad at Stony Brook and am taking a class with him. I can't find any articles regarding this online with him being interviewed and am curious!

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli Před 23 hodinami

      Can you timestamp it for me?

    • @user-zh9wg2gy2b
      @user-zh9wg2gy2b Před 22 hodinami

      14:37 and 26:46

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli Před 22 hodinami

      @@user-zh9wg2gy2b I'm having some trouble finding it too. The blog of John Carlos Baez and the wikipedia article have some quotes from him but they're not the exact ones

  • @daltonriser1125
    @daltonriser1125 Před dnem

    This man did scorigami of the periodic table That might be the coolest jon episode homage yet

  • @ItsDioxide
    @ItsDioxide Před dnem

    When the music played at 35:53 it fucking horrified me and the drop literally made my jaw drop (hahah get it?) I’m Canadian and I’ve never heard of this before so I’m glad to know about it (Also p.s, can someone tell me what that creepy music that plays at this time?)

  • @user-hs9cl3sy1l
    @user-hs9cl3sy1l Před dnem

    1:29 Albert Einstein's Wario doppelganger.

  • @ABM_GD
    @ABM_GD Před dnem

    I did not expect to watch an entire 80 minute video about discovering elements, especially with my low attention span, but I somehow did. Very engaging video!

  • @MadjdMouha
    @MadjdMouha Před dnem

    God some sources say that fermi was first to split the atom and others say it was otto hahn and another say it was ernest walton like what ??

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli Před dnem

      Fermi split the atom first but Otto Hahn was the group in Berlin I mentioned

    • @MadjdMouha
      @MadjdMouha Před dnem

      @@BobbyBroccoli thank you so much for the clarification, and amazing video as always, you see I have final exams in a month were nuclear has a whole page for me to solve, but this video made it easier for me to understand especially the segrè diagramme, really really helped me out figuring out some points that were stuck in my head, once again than you so much !

  • @everythingpizzaandknuckles6268

    11:38 That Summoning Salt reference SENT me

  • @patrickazzarella6729

    I was born on that day!

  • @Kai-zm3ix
    @Kai-zm3ix Před dnem

    sorry sorry sorry. IS THIS MADE USING PREZI????

  • @orbitz1401
    @orbitz1401 Před dnem

    over under may 16

  • @2pacEEzGacha
    @2pacEEzGacha Před dnem

    I remember everyday i went to lazarote (Spain, Canary islands) for a week, EVERYTIME I WENT TO A RESTURANT I WAS LIKE: spaghetti pls HOWEVER ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS THEY WERE EITHER OUT OR DIDN'T HAVE SPAGHETTI SO MY STREAK WAS RUINED TE-OGPKVDSIEPDSD

  • @captainMony
    @captainMony Před dnem

    20 mins, and I feel like I watched an 8 hour movie

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli Před dnem

      Is that good or bad?

    • @captainMony
      @captainMony Před dnem

      @@BobbyBroccoli Very good! Sorry, it indeed does not look like praise!

  • @xix627
    @xix627 Před dnem

    Ohhh protons

  • @katiemarshall4340
    @katiemarshall4340 Před 2 dny

    Hi Bobby, that "quote" attributed to Lord Kelvin infuriates us British scientists. I'm not physics, I'm Virology and Parasitology btw but still angers me. I'm alright up to maybe SYS with physics so can understand some of the physics with a collider plus I love the LEP.

  • @McCallEdwards
    @McCallEdwards Před 2 dny

    Bobbybroccoli=science Jon Bois

  • @ImpmanPDX
    @ImpmanPDX Před 2 dny

    I love The Westerlies for your outtro. The bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald has a very particular timber to it. I haven't heard it in person, but recordings of the bell have the most haunting sound. As someone who has faced very serious storm at sea it's an almost physical reaction.

  • @ImpmanPDX
    @ImpmanPDX Před 2 dny

    My dad was one of the very last electronic switchboard operators for AT&T on the U.S. West Coast. He never explicitly said it outright but I have serious suspicions that he was a phreaker and a follower of Cpt. Crunch.

  • @shadowsovereign4948

    Don Monroe is my hero. His little bit on wanting to run down the hall to show a janitor "this light" was just so precious. That excitement is exactly how I would feel if I was a scientist working with lasers or stuff like that. His passion and genuine excitement for his field is contagious and just generally wholesome.

  • @MaxMustermann-bm7qt

    We were made to use that picture for FFT in 2015 in class. But we also used an image of Fabio for equality, most likely. In my opinion, if there wasn't the history and it would just have been two pictures of good looking humans from the get go, i'd be all for that. Humans engjoy beauty after all, even engineers and given the choice of looking at an ugly picture for hours and a beautiful picture everyone preferes the latter. None the less, that wasn't the case. If engineering culture consits of nothing but wierd trivia about a womans picture, it's not worth keeping it alive. Luckily, in my experience it was far more than that, so i see even less problems with letting that one go. I can ensure you the last thing anyone in engineering wanted to do was make the few woman that were there less comfy.

  • @hektorthestakor
    @hektorthestakor Před 2 dny

    This video is so well made, and the story is told so that it never feels boring or confusing. Amazing video.

  • @p1xelat3d
    @p1xelat3d Před 2 dny

    Third time watching I still love it

  • @clare5688
    @clare5688 Před 3 dny

    So relevant given the changes to the budget this year haha. These videos have been really informative thank you!

  • @zaphenath5915
    @zaphenath5915 Před 3 dny

    As a kid who grew up in Chicago. I had no idea we had a partical collider. I was aware of fermilab but the only thing I knew about it was the radioactive signs in the parks around it and the white deer roaming the area. Also, my only familiarity with CERN was the movie Davinci Code Angels and Demons which had this big thing about a dark matter bomb or something.

  • @ThatMemeMakr
    @ThatMemeMakr Před 3 dny

    11:45 Sommoning Salt?!

  • @Arthutstut641
    @Arthutstut641 Před 3 dny

    The storytelling is so great that I watched this video without realizing there was a Part 1. And it still made complete sense and was easy to understand.

  • @user-qz4xi9yw3d
    @user-qz4xi9yw3d Před 4 dny

    T

  • @CandaceBridges-xe9es

    The answer is Blade Runners •°

  • @MADmidway
    @MADmidway Před 4 dny

    Super collider? I just met her.

  • @BlackRoostar-cf2yv
    @BlackRoostar-cf2yv Před 4 dny

    Colonizer privilege 101

  • @tylerlynch2849
    @tylerlynch2849 Před 4 dny

    Such a good doc

  • @NotActualyNorwegian

    got that diriboneucleic acid

  • @nom1232.
    @nom1232. Před 4 dny

    enrico

  • @abrahamm2003ify
    @abrahamm2003ify Před 4 dny

    The raelians google search was crazy💀💀💀

  • @LandyRShambles
    @LandyRShambles Před 4 dny

    Good move saying "about" in the first ten seconds of the video. That's how I know you're qualified for this topic

  • @chimpmilk9989
    @chimpmilk9989 Před 5 dny

    Returning to this video two years later and my man can finally call himself an engineer without getting fined to hell and back god bless

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli Před 4 dny

      I don't work in engineering any more! I was 10 months short of 4 years

    • @chimpmilk9989
      @chimpmilk9989 Před dnem

      @@BobbyBroccoli oh shit didnt realize, sorry abt that! hope ur doing well with ( i assume) youtube, your docs are genuinley really amazing

  • @SteveXNYC
    @SteveXNYC Před 5 dny

    The Wheel of unfortunate.