Adventures In The Real World: Christmas Shenanigans (also, thanks Dingo!)

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
  • Thanks for watching my animated cartoon on my ridiculous Christmas stories from holiday get together and my trip to New York. Also, thanks Dingo from Dingo Doodles for voicing some lines for me. You can find her channel here: / @dingodoodles
    End music from: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
    Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
    Artist: incompetech.com/
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  • @DingoDoodles
    @DingoDoodles Před 5 lety +5078

    46... I've gotten 46 pictures of snow............so far...

    • @boredfangerrude
      @boredfangerrude Před 5 lety +141

      XD Maybe if you make it snow regularly in the winter in California, you won't get any more.

    • @boredfangerrude
      @boredfangerrude Před 5 lety +123

      BTW, you were probably the best part of the video.

    • @nybeastmofo
      @nybeastmofo Před 5 lety +78

      DINGO!! I watched you on a different account and couldn't remember your name and i heard your voice and.... like.... HIIIIII!!!!!! I feel as if I just found my lost dog.

    • @jonathanrist8274
      @jonathanrist8274 Před 5 lety +14

      There will be more...

    • @bladecommando
      @bladecommando Před 5 lety +50

      Your suffering will continue until his phone runs out of memory

  • @Rob_Thorsman
    @Rob_Thorsman Před 5 lety +118

    "We have fire where I'm from. A lot of fire!"
    "Where are you from?"
    "The Elemental Plane of Fire."

  • @tyrant-den884
    @tyrant-den884 Před 5 lety +351

    "its like, ice-cold." said the BIO-CHEMIST.

  • @LuckySketches
    @LuckySketches Před 5 lety +354

    Ben trying to find a job is just him playing every class. How Abserd!

  • @artemiswolf4508
    @artemiswolf4508 Před 5 lety +282

    “Whoever decides to pay me to do stuff with them, it’s the stuff I’m going to do”
    Just found my senior quote

    • @FrostSylph
      @FrostSylph Před 5 lety +7

      Aw darn you're right. Well it's too late for me I already locked in my quote this year as a Stormlight archive quote.

    • @tastefullysinfull5570
      @tastefullysinfull5570 Před 5 lety +12

      As an adult, This checks out as the course in life of everyone I know.

    • @TheKyrinnia
      @TheKyrinnia Před 5 lety +7

      That sounds like a hooker's motto, so while it's funny right now you might not want to look back on that in 20 years

    • @LessDevoid
      @LessDevoid Před 5 lety +4

      Thankfully nobody gives a fuck about highschool immediately after you graduate.

    • @Johnny_Shields
      @Johnny_Shields Před 5 lety +4

      Mine was "King's don't have friends, only subjects and enemies!"

  • @bigjake1809
    @bigjake1809 Před 5 lety +924

    "The real world?" Haven't heard of that Dungeon . . .

    • @darkesch9502
      @darkesch9502 Před 5 lety +69

      its the only dungeon you can't win

    • @thecrazedchef7278
      @thecrazedchef7278 Před 5 lety +78

      Its really open world and all the npcs screw you over alot. Very unbalanced, and need to be updated

    • @boredfangerrude
      @boredfangerrude Před 5 lety +46

      The problem is, the Gm seems to not give a damn. XD

    • @llanfairpwlgwyngyll7331
      @llanfairpwlgwyngyll7331 Před 5 lety +7

      @@darkesch9502 But i'm winning it right now!

    • @announomoose7916
      @announomoose7916 Před 5 lety +20

      @@llanfairpwlgwyngyll7331 I was taking a shot at it but some how I got a 1 for every stat

  • @j.c.perry3600
    @j.c.perry3600 Před 5 lety +66

    "I'm from Southern California, we have three seasons. Sunny, muggy, and car accidents!"
    Just like in Vegas there's sunny, cloudy, and blackout drunk

    • @Blue_Sonnet
      @Blue_Sonnet Před 3 lety +1

      @Joseph Perry - In the UK we have really hot, really cold and rain. The first two can happen in the same week (a couple of weeks ago actually - >20° then snow fell two days later).
      That said, the default climate here is "Soggy".
      Anything outside the usual 0 - 20° range is a total shock to the system & usually ends up with someone doing something incredibly stupid (like sunbathing for 12hrs, swim in a canal or trying to ski off a roof)

  • @Alpha121198
    @Alpha121198 Před 5 lety +472

    “Sunny, muggy, and car accidents!”
    Man I love it when it car accidents.

    • @aydens3647
      @aydens3647 Před 5 lety +22

      Dancing in the car accidents!

    • @leobrad2199
      @leobrad2199 Před 5 lety +38

      He almost forgot the fourth weather condition: state-wide firestorms

    • @dinodude6992
      @dinodude6992 Před 5 lety +3

      Mhmmm tasty death of organics

    • @festro1000
      @festro1000 Před 5 lety +5

      @@leobrad2199 Yeah especially during the summer and fall more often in fall though. For some reason, it likes drowning Ventura in a sea of flames.

    • @Egeslean
      @Egeslean Před 4 lety +6

      I felt that description, it is very close to what we have in MN: Winter and Road Construction.

  • @chrisl360
    @chrisl360 Před 5 lety +328

    You're not crazy for taking the giant ham! Everyone else is crazy for NOT taking it.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 5 lety +4

      Eh, the pompous creme filled box of chocolates are a better gift. He can have the Ham.

    • @revanveran5325
      @revanveran5325 Před 5 lety

      @@jackielinde7568 Do you know him or something IRL...?

    • @LibraGamesUnlimited
      @LibraGamesUnlimited Před 5 lety +32

      I just wonder what the other gifts were to make a giant ham look like the least attractive option. What were they, gold bricks? Tickets to a major concert or sports event? What could outdo a giant ham? What?

    • @thediamondsword1510
      @thediamondsword1510 Před 5 lety +3

      I mean a giant burrito might be better maybe?

    • @northofnashira2575
      @northofnashira2575 Před 5 lety +11

      @@thediamondsword1510 No, the ham wins. You'd have to eat the burrito right away or else it wouldn't be good anymore. Ham, even after being cooked, can last for days.

  • @zadinal
    @zadinal Před 5 lety +140

    What are you passionate about?
    You know... eating. Uhm living indoors. Heat is the best. Oh and running water. So basically any job that helps provide those things I... am.... really passionate about.

    • @isenokami7810
      @isenokami7810 Před 5 lety +3

      I don’t seem to do passion. I mean, okay, I’ve got some stories in my head I’m passionate about, but getting them on paper, not so much.

  • @elijahbrown1041
    @elijahbrown1041 Před 4 lety +126

    "The future? what do think I am Merlin? I don't even know what pants I'll be wearing tomorrow. Probably the same ones I wore today because I'm a deadbeat with no direction in my life" why does that resonate with me but also make me feel attacked

  • @benrogers8520
    @benrogers8520 Před 4 lety +71

    "I DON'T WANNA HEAR YOUR SASS JIMMY!"

    • @pfl240
      @pfl240 Před 3 lety +2

      Came to the comments for this.

  • @FukkinLogic
    @FukkinLogic Před 5 lety +117

    My favorite season is car accidents. That will be forever how I refer to fall and winter

  • @ericslingerland5472
    @ericslingerland5472 Před 5 lety +59

    "whoever pays me to do stuff, thats the stuff i want to be doing" damn straight, exactly how i keep finding my next passion

    • @NeEEp
      @NeEEp Před 5 lety

      @@toasthead Jokes on you I was going to do that anyways

  • @RaithSienar
    @RaithSienar Před 5 lety +334

    "We don't have snow, we have fire. Lots of fire"
    And believe it or not it, while MOSTLY California's fault for not setting controlled burns, it's also very heavily AUSTRALIA'S FAULT.
    See back in the 1910s some investors wanted to import some trees into California, and somehow they settled on the eucalyptus tree from Australia. The Australians were thrilled, and gladly sold them tens of thousands of trees while leaving out 2 important bits of information about the eucalyptus tree.
    Fact 1.) Eucalyptus trees take about 100 years to grow, so dozens of investors lost their shirt when the trees didn't grow as fast as they thought they would.
    Fact 2.) Eucalyptus trees produce HIGHLY FLAMMABLE AND EXPLOSIVE OIL THAT WILL IGNITE DUE TO HIGH HEAT. This is a natural part of their lifecyle, due to them taking so long to grow they evolved a method to ENCOURAGE forest fires. The fires don't harm the Eucalyptus trees seeds, which are helped by the fire clearing the underbrush allowing eucalyptus sprouts to get plenty of sunlight and hell half the time the fire doesn't even hurt most of the eucalyptus trees which wind up re sprouting after the fire anyway inspite of the fact that they'll look completely charred.
    Eucalyptus oil is so flammable that giant jets of flame have been seen as high as 20 meters in the air coming off of burning eucalyptus trees. These jets of fire are extremely dangerous because they tend to just shoot fire all over the place catching more treetops on fire.
    Other nations that got turned into fire hazards by eucalyptus trees bought from Australia is Portugal and Israel. The Australians are systematically attempting to burn the world in revenge for being sentenced to live in Australia.

    • @ChildofVitalani
      @ChildofVitalani Před 5 lety +36

      Fact 1) I did not know that about eucalypts being imported.
      Fact 2) BHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA X'D fkn drongos should've ASKED before buying X'D
      Fact 3) the trees also take advantage of the ash that's left behind after a bushfire, the ground is saturated with vital nutrients and minerals, that's why they come back to life so quickly.

    • @NishiTheRat
      @NishiTheRat Před 5 lety +12

      gotta say that makes alot of sense, I always kinda wondered why that place was so flammable... well coulda been worse they coulda decided to import alot of The Sandbox Tree, and trust me the deaths by impalement would be highest they'd ever be if that happened

    • @kiwicap5691
      @kiwicap5691 Před 5 lety +10

      Apparently something like 57% of California’s forests owned by federal agencies? According to the report linked below the state of California only owns about 3% of the forests in California (at least during 2005 or so).
      www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr763.pdf
      So does the federal government block controlled fires? Honest question, got mixed information when googling it.

    • @FreeOfFantasy
      @FreeOfFantasy Před 5 lety +23

      Of cause Australia has a tree of burning death.

    • @fairystail1
      @fairystail1 Před 5 lety +19

      @@FreeOfFantasy Australia, if the animals aren't trying to kill you then it's the plantlife

  • @sapheyersoftsounds7693
    @sapheyersoftsounds7693 Před 5 lety +53

    The people just don't recognize a good ham when they see one. Such a shame

  • @azdgariarada
    @azdgariarada Před 5 lety +605

    Oak Tales, a woo hoo!
    Every day they're out there making Oak Tales, a woo hoo!

    • @adamcorfman573
      @adamcorfman573 Před 5 lety +6

      Ummm ... I think I broke the thumbs up button. It won't let thumbs up this anymore.

    • @TheDragonliver
      @TheDragonliver Před 5 lety +27

      Dum da- Dum da- Dum da da ra ta
      Dum da- Dum da- Dum da da ra ta
      Cali's like a hurricane,
      it's a- fire storm
      flaming cars and no snow
      it's a-bum-mer.
      Lets show him winter
      in all its glitter
      Snow days, a woo hoO!
      every day its out there lying
      Snow men, a woo hoO!
      Tales of freezing ice and hot co-co, a woo hoO!
      D-D-Danger sits below you
      its a patch of dark ice
      out to get you!
      What will you do with a broken backbone? a woo hoO!
      Man its really freezing up here
      Cana- a woo hoO!
      Canada is great with weed but
      Snow, man, a woo hoO!
      Thank you, I'll be here all winter, in my igloo, happy holidays from Canada, sorry for the long comment

    • @azdgariarada
      @azdgariarada Před 5 lety +2

      Ho. Ly. Shit.
      This needs like 5,000 times more thumbs up than my original comment. I'm amazed.

    • @magiceightball1442
      @magiceightball1442 Před 5 lety +4

      Now the first question that needs to be answered before the tale begins
      Are you a boy or a girl
      Boy Girl
      ^ ^

    • @TheAdventStudio
      @TheAdventStudio Před 5 lety

      DAMMIT! Beat me to it!

  • @gecklet
    @gecklet Před 5 lety +660

    You could be classified as a *_hamburgler_*

  • @_underscore_9271
    @_underscore_9271 Před 4 lety +29

    I went to one of those white elephant things, it was just like the incident with the ham, except it was a size 17 tire, and everyone fought for it

  • @waywardson8474
    @waywardson8474 Před 5 lety +28

    "I don't want your sass Jimmy!" Laughed so hard the cat moved off of my lap

  • @DuskyPredator
    @DuskyPredator Před 5 lety +854

    Heh, as an Australian I know that snow does not really exist, you can't trick me.

    • @aeondiablo4693
      @aeondiablo4693 Před 5 lety +109

      You can't trick me, I know that Australia isn't real

    • @mrformal1738
      @mrformal1738 Před 5 lety +58

      Says the non-existent person from a non-existent country

    • @eddiemate
      @eddiemate Před 5 lety +43

      I know right, next they'll tell us that Christmas is in winter. Could you imagine?

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega Před 5 lety +18

      If the snow was upside down would it be more believable?

    • @Elliandr
      @Elliandr Před 5 lety +7

      Much like the outdoors to anyone who lives on the internet.

  • @a.square8658
    @a.square8658 Před 5 lety +143

    I'm pretty sure "Wildfires" is a season in California. Right between "No Clouds Whatsoever for 3 Months" and "Light Rain."

    • @princessbinas
      @princessbinas Před 5 lety +2

      California needs a good hurricane to quench the fires in my opinion.

    • @sophiamalcolm2119
      @sophiamalcolm2119 Před 5 lety +8

      And then every 20 years there's EXTREME DOWNPOUR for no reason whatsoever

    • @TigerKirby215
      @TigerKirby215 Před 5 lety +3

      Most parts of the world call it Summer. Cali calls it "the great purge of the unholy forests."

    • @lazychickqueen4734
      @lazychickqueen4734 Před 5 lety

      That makes way too much sense...

    • @moonmonk123
      @moonmonk123 Před 5 lety

      So how is it affecting postal services?

  • @hyphenatedgames2954
    @hyphenatedgames2954 Před 5 lety +48

    I've got eyes on the target, team alpha is on extraction while team bravo will cover the retreat. The boss believes the target will be heavily guarded. Operation Ham is a go go go.

  • @DragcoDavid
    @DragcoDavid Před 5 lety +99

    Silly, everyone knows the 4 seasons of California: Wind, Fire, Mud, Earthquakes

    • @anon2447
      @anon2447 Před 4 lety +10

      but everything changed when Fire nation attacked...

    • @thehowlinggamer5784
      @thehowlinggamer5784 Před 4 lety +3

      @@anon2447
      Send in the Avatar!

    • @vizonegames1368
      @vizonegames1368 Před 4 lety +4

      OH GOD, NOT- NOT CALIFORNIA, WITH THAT AWFUL CITADEL ELL AYE

    • @811brian
      @811brian Před 3 lety +2

      Ryan Wesemann but when the world needed him most, he got into a car accident on I-15.

  • @Jesse__H
    @Jesse__H Před 5 lety +45

    When I get asked by a cousin or family guest "So, what do you do?"
    I say "Oh gosh, as little as possible."
    It works as a brush-off joke but also I say it with _just_ enough conviction that they think "Hmm is...this guy actually serious?" and they generally drop the subject. 😂

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H Před 5 lety +6

      P.S. I am serious, tho....heh.

    • @sleepinghermit7778
      @sleepinghermit7778 Před 5 lety +3

      I love you man, I'm stealing that one.

    • @Troglodytarum
      @Troglodytarum Před 5 lety

      Yoink

    • @ce461
      @ce461 Před 5 lety +1

      Or just say well you know working
      Family: like what
      Just stuff you know trying get through life is all

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 Před 5 lety

      Imma steal that

  • @larsvanalstine16
    @larsvanalstine16 Před 5 lety +124

    In Wisconsin, we have two seasons, crash into a deer because of black ice and crash into a deer because they have babies now and just HAVE to cross the road right when you’re coming.

    • @halo25assassin45
      @halo25assassin45 Před 5 lety +1

      Lars VanAlstine As someone also from Wisconsin, can confirm

  • @ShuOumacody
    @ShuOumacody Před 4 lety +20

    Ben: I want to be a velociraptor.
    Me: Is that a jojo reference (part 7)

  • @HelloItsFlux
    @HelloItsFlux Před 5 lety +538

    Remember Ben, your younger ones will eventually find out you're a youtuber with nearly 500k subscribers, and thats just something you'll have to deal with eventually.

  • @scienceguy8888
    @scienceguy8888 Před 5 lety +101

    Puffin, what you don't realise is that California is where the portal to the elemental plane of fire is, so good luck closing that bad boy :P

    • @tylermoore8900
      @tylermoore8900 Před 5 lety +1

      If California contains the portal to the elemental plane of fire than North Carolina contains the portal to the elemental plane of water.

  • @austinsalespaine2856
    @austinsalespaine2856 Před 5 lety +104

    The giant ham was hilarious. WHY DIDN'T THEY WANT IT? It's hammy goodness.

    • @nachofilament294
      @nachofilament294 Před 5 lety +2

      It must be one of those Kosher Biomedical Research Facilities I've heard so much about.

    • @maskedkitty7350
      @maskedkitty7350 Před 5 lety

      Paine Sales
      exactly, i mean there’s a literal giant ham in my fridge right now and i’m literally always looking at it and wondering, damn, when are we eating that!?!??!

  • @danielknapp159
    @danielknapp159 Před 5 lety +38

    "yes, we have snow in canada."

  • @williamlockhartnelson8873
    @williamlockhartnelson8873 Před 5 lety +33

    I'm from Australia. Half of our country floods and the other burns, often at the same time!

    • @JooJingleTHISISLEGIT
      @JooJingleTHISISLEGIT Před 5 lety +4

      australia doesn't exist, it's a lie to cover up britain's practice of executing criminals.

    • @williamlockhartnelson8873
      @williamlockhartnelson8873 Před 5 lety +4

      @@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT Shuddup! You're gonna get me fired!

    • @ChildofVitalani
      @ChildofVitalani Před 5 lety +6

      @@williamlockhartnelson8873 Don't forget the bit in the middle that's basically the bastard offspring of Hell and Limbo.

    • @widdershins3785
      @widdershins3785 Před 3 lety

      Fireflood season! Whooo! It sounds so epic when I don't have to be in the middle of it, personally! Whoo!.....

  • @RykerDavis123
    @RykerDavis123 Před 5 lety +214

    As a fellow Californian I can confirm the weather ben described

    • @sceptical8694
      @sceptical8694 Před 5 lety +6

      As a person who has lived in both California and Colorado I can Confirm that the weather is exactly as described so remember to bring your puffy jackets and to wear your fire retardant clothing so that you get immunity to thermal damage.

    • @ssjderek2
      @ssjderek2 Před 5 lety +3

      As someone who moved from california to illinois i can confirm the wonder of "is snow suppossed to be this cold?"

    • @lowrider993
      @lowrider993 Před 5 lety +5

      As another fellow Californian I've only seen it fully snow a few times, I was lucky enough to get 2 snow days in a row once in highschool. Later in college I was surprised to hear people from other states complain about getting too much snow. I would snap at them of course because like been said, all we have is fire over here, which one is safe to play with kids?

    • @BIGLightningROD
      @BIGLightningROD Před 5 lety +4

      As a fellow Californian I can say it snowed once in the central valley, and we all just threw snow balls with rocks in them at each other. Because we don't know what joy is.

    • @greenafterglow8710
      @greenafterglow8710 Před 5 lety +6

      Florida’s weather is like god rolling a d20 every day

  • @alexmartin3191
    @alexmartin3191 Před 5 lety +283

    Well up in Pennslyvania we have two seasons. Winter and road work.

    • @fpanch0
      @fpanch0 Před 5 lety +4

      depends. east philly or west pittsburgh?

    • @popmcpop9676
      @popmcpop9676 Před 5 lety +11

      those are the seasons in most of the midwest too

    • @The_Tradwife
      @The_Tradwife Před 5 lety +12

      Up here in Alaska we have one season, winter.

    • @alexmartin3191
      @alexmartin3191 Před 5 lety +2

      Western PA

    • @LordMajicus
      @LordMajicus Před 5 lety +8

      PA resident here. There are 3 roads that take me to work, and on any given day 1-2 of them are under construction. It's the worst guessing game ever :'(

  • @danielclark-hughes692
    @danielclark-hughes692 Před 5 lety +8

    "Hope you enjoy it, Jimmy."
    "My name is Stan..."
    "I don't wanna hear any of your sass, Jimmy!"

  • @clarkb2697
    @clarkb2697 Před 5 lety +31

    If only there was a game to make your friends disappear
    Ummm that's called monopoly

    • @striker0
      @striker0 Před 4 lety +2

      Or Uno

    • @randomizedchaos242
      @randomizedchaos242 Před 4 lety +7

      In my experience I’ve found that Monopoly is better suited for tearing apart families than friendships. Although I recommend Sorry as a universal relationship destroying game.

    • @SuperKeith00
      @SuperKeith00 Před 4 lety

      Mario Party

  • @diegolevine268
    @diegolevine268 Před 5 lety +154

    We all want to be a raptor, We all want to be a raptor puffin

    • @scienceguy8888
      @scienceguy8888 Před 5 lety +5

      pft raptor, dream big, be a t-rex!

    • @wakawakawakawaka8804
      @wakawakawakawaka8804 Před 5 lety +7

      @@scienceguy8888 puffins are birds, birds evolved from dinosaurs, puffin is already raptor

    • @verticalflats2816
      @verticalflats2816 Před 5 lety

      I do not want to be a raptor

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H Před 5 lety +3

      Don't be silly, Adrian. Of course you do.

    • @sleepinghermit7778
      @sleepinghermit7778 Před 5 lety +2

      Thank you puffin, thank you. I have been thinking it sense I was six.

  • @malcolmcampbell3912
    @malcolmcampbell3912 Před 5 lety +156

    White Elephant story: I worked at a road venue while I was in college. My last year there, we had a white elephant game in the office. Our master electrician, Dana, picked a box at random and opened it. It was a snuggie.
    Dana's eyes lit up.
    "I have actually always wanted a Snuggie!" Dana exclaimed.
    The next person, Brenda, immediately stole the Snuggie from Dana. He was beside himself. For the rest of the season Brenda became "The Snuggie Bitch." Toward the end of the season Dana announced he had found a new job and would be leaving. We had a going away party for Dana. Brenda hands Dana an innocuous small box to open.
    Dana shakes it. He looks at her. "Is it my Snuggie?!" He asks with faux outrage.
    He opened it and discovered that Brenda had had the Snuggie embroidered with our theatre's logo. Had always intended to give it back.

  • @firefly7076
    @firefly7076 Před 4 lety +11

    Looking at California during Christmas:
    “That’s where we put the Yule log...”

  • @Harleyishella
    @Harleyishella Před 5 lety +5

    “I wanna be... a velociraptor! There I said it!” That is my goal in life.

  • @mmonge954
    @mmonge954 Před 5 lety +291

    All that was missing was Absurd accent

    • @romainsavioz5466
      @romainsavioz5466 Před 5 lety +12

      No one wants the ham that is Absurd

    • @crowbarj
      @crowbarj Před 5 lety +20

      Hold on isn't it "Abserd"

    • @The__Creeper
      @The__Creeper Před 5 lety +6

      I think it was a limited run and you had to preorder it months in advance. I heard it's pretty boring though. Everyone plays an elf.

    • @anigamer379
      @anigamer379 Před 5 lety +3

      gyp me that that would be
      Abserd

  • @DMGamer_PC
    @DMGamer_PC Před 5 lety +203

    NO ONE WANTED THE HAM?!? What the hell is wrong with them?!?

    • @Kobrag90
      @Kobrag90 Před 5 lety +2

      I know, right?!

    • @XolBurn
      @XolBurn Před 5 lety

      Maybe the joke was he was supposed to get the ham. (the first person.) Because it was the worst gift.

    • @KillerofGods
      @KillerofGods Před 5 lety +12

      I Giant slab of meat is their joke gift? Sounds nice to me.

    • @Takisan111
      @Takisan111 Před 5 lety +4

      There are people in this world that don't make much sense.

    • @jamestown8398
      @jamestown8398 Před 5 lety +1

      Did they know it was ham?

  • @devonwilson8306
    @devonwilson8306 Před 3 lety +5

    "whoever decides to pay me to do stuff for them is the stuff I'm going to do."
    God, I feel that. Somehow I ended up doing report creation and low level data analysis for a logistics company??? I was trying for a political science degree!

  • @theforevergamemaster
    @theforevergamemaster Před 5 lety +44

    We got the new game Boys we got the pogo sticks we get the bats we even got your children😂

  • @randomizedchaos242
    @randomizedchaos242 Před 5 lety +212

    He’s just lucky I wasn’t at that White Elephant game because I would have actually fought him for that ham.

    • @scantrontheimmortal
      @scantrontheimmortal Před 5 lety +36

      as you scan amongst the complete bedlam that is the white elephant tourney,you see something out of the corner of your eye that pulls your attention towards it,a giant ham held aloft in someones hands,you think about the ham and the potential of future flavor,the smell of spices & the the feeling of drowsiness after having a meal replete with succulent porcine nourishment.but that pleasant daydream washes away when you make eye contact with the man holding the giant slab of ham, disheveled yet determined to keep others at bay he locks eyes with you and says "the lot of you best keep walking,ive got plans for this slab of ham",he lowers into what appears to be some kind of fighting stance,roll for initiative....

    • @vicb1248
      @vicb1248 Před 5 lety +11

      Take the ham and smack someone upside the head with it. Delicious and Murderous.

    • @Perid0tStar
      @Perid0tStar Před 5 lety +7

      @@vicb1248 There was an old Twilight Zone episode like that once---someone killed somebody else with a frozen piece of mutton then cooked and served it to the police investigating the case. I hear muttons an acquired taste though, that if you never had it before then its kinda gross.

    • @anneaunyme
      @anneaunyme Před 5 lety +5

      @@Perid0tStar This is also the plot of both a Hitchcock short film and a short story by Roald Dahl. No idea which one was first. In both the crime is committed by a wife on her husband for no real reason but to break monotony.

    • @randomizedchaos242
      @randomizedchaos242 Před 5 lety +3

      I proceed to steal the snow man cutting board and throw it at Ben so that he is tackled by the two women who were fighting over it. In the chaos I steal the ham and make my get away as he struggles to get out from the middle of a heated death match.

  • @VoidConcept
    @VoidConcept Před 5 lety +17

    Here in California, we don't get snow days, we get fire days. And instead of the white stuff on the ground being frozen water, it's ash

  • @Ari-ws4vj
    @Ari-ws4vj Před 5 lety +28

    I don't need your *SASS* Jimmy!!!

  • @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim
    @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Před 5 lety +13

    "I want to be a Velociraptor!"
    Me: >.>

  • @j.d.3597
    @j.d.3597 Před 5 lety +181

    As someone who ALSO grew up in Southern California, I was equally enamored by snow when I first moved to the East Coast at 18 (it was the first time I saw it in real life)
    Now that I've lived well over a decade in NYC I can finally say...I STILL FUCKING LOVE SNOW!! It's awesome!!
    I love how silent the city gets when it's heavy snow and I actually LOVE putting on snow boots and bundling up to trudge through a blizzard. It never gets old Ben! IT NEVER GETS OLD!!
    PS: I also do NOT miss Wildfire season. Now, when I smell BBQ, I know it's actually BBQ and not a giant fire causing me to evacuate my house.

    • @14o1chan
      @14o1chan Před 5 lety +3

      I live in southern California now, i when i was young, i lived on the East coast

    • @silviavalentine3812
      @silviavalentine3812 Před 5 lety +1

      Yes but then when the snow disappears and all you got is cold, dry, dead weather it really gets out my bitching

    • @tennesseeempire2892
      @tennesseeempire2892 Před 5 lety +1

      Burn California burn

    • @jared5803
      @jared5803 Před 5 lety +3

      Really up here in Canada we have tons of snow
      Would you like to borrow some?

    • @WoodlandDrake
      @WoodlandDrake Před 5 lety +3

      One day California will break away and float off into the pacific... burning... like a viking funeral.

  • @taylorhancock5834
    @taylorhancock5834 Před 5 lety +73

    As someone from Arizona, I entirely understand the "we have only three seasons" bit, however Arizona only has 2, hot and sunny, and slightly less hot and sunny. Anyways, happy holidays, and all glory to Ham!

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 5 lety +4

      Hey! You forgot about FIRE season. It's a big old long season that bookends Roasting season and Swampy, Wet Rainy for Five Days season... At least I don't have to deal with my joints turning to stone and hurting like a failed torture session and shoveling out the driveway. Yeah, thank goodness Phoenix only gets snow once every 25 years... Oh Gawd! We're due for snow!

    • @blankiecat9302
      @blankiecat9302 Před 5 lety +1

      Well here in south texas we have tree hot ,hotter, and normal

    • @canadiankirby9508
      @canadiankirby9508 Před 5 lety +1

      As an Albertan the city that I’m from has 2 seasons winter and construction

    • @sleepinghermit7778
      @sleepinghermit7778 Před 5 lety +1

      @@jackielinde7568 fire season? The air is fire and I love it! Couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

    • @sleepinghermit7778
      @sleepinghermit7778 Před 5 lety +2

      I can cook my burrito on the asphalt.

  • @loopyzach7537
    @loopyzach7537 Před 5 lety +3

    Puffin Forest: Can you stop being on fire..
    Puffin Forest to Southern California: FOR FIVE MINUTES?

  • @LilLucz
    @LilLucz Před 5 lety +4

    "I don't want to hear you're sass Jimmy!" 3:31

  • @ArkinesVT
    @ArkinesVT Před 5 lety +81

    To California: COULD YE STOP BURSTIN INTO FLAMES
    FER 5 MINUTES?!

  • @clericofchaos1
    @clericofchaos1 Před 5 lety +123

    Why would nobody else want the ham!? I mean what else was in that treasure hoard that made the ham seem like a gag gift?

    • @mrssimon2373
      @mrssimon2373 Před 5 lety +13

      Pft. Ham is normal in my family.
      You know what's a gag gift? Sponges.

    • @lajyo
      @lajyo Před 5 lety +14

      I seriously don't understand not wanting the ham. You can make so many delicious things with ham! Or just like eat it plain, still delicious!

    • @plasmasloth8201
      @plasmasloth8201 Před 5 lety +5

      Maaayyyyybe they were all vegetarians/vegans? IDK

    • @anneaunyme
      @anneaunyme Před 5 lety +4

      The best thing with the ham is that you can start eating it when the game is still running.

    • @JD867
      @JD867 Před 5 lety +3

      I got a pet rock once. Now THAT was a gag gift.
      . . . Though part of my wonders how long the ham was out.

  • @travisshallenberger9486
    @travisshallenberger9486 Před 5 lety +2

    I think I'm going to watch this every day until Christmas. So many great quotes. "Don't gimme yo sass, Jimmy!" "3 seasons!" And serious dude, the ham? WHY WOULD THEY NOT WANT IT?!?!? Happy holidays, Puffin, and you too, Dingo. You both have made my life brighter.

  • @noobpro9759
    @noobpro9759 Před 5 lety +1

    God i love hearing about southerners and there first snows. Its like watching a kid open there presents and seeing that they love each one more than the last.

  • @molliethomas2585
    @molliethomas2585 Před 5 lety +81

    Those love-tackeling doggos are perfect!!!! Never change you two.

  • @dietwindieu9844
    @dietwindieu9844 Před 5 lety +138

    7:30 this feels like 90 percent of ben's games he DM's

  • @Combustionsquirrel
    @Combustionsquirrel Před 5 lety +1

    "I don't even know what pants i'm going to be wearing tomorrow! ... Probably the same ones I wore today."
    I relate to this statement on a personal level

  • @ericmandia3835
    @ericmandia3835 Před 5 lety +1

    The ham story made cry from laughing. The fact that you and your family were all confused just made it one of the funnest thing iv'e ever heard.

  • @Sygless
    @Sygless Před 5 lety +117

    Oooh cool, Dingo!! I like when these peeps team up on stuff.

    • @TimidTracker
      @TimidTracker Před 5 lety +3

      I know I love how they're friends now and are teaming up. Makes my heart happy

    • @Sygless
      @Sygless Před 5 lety

      @@TimidTracker Yeah it is absolutely fantastic!! Haha

  • @kansastagai9081
    @kansastagai9081 Před 5 lety +17

    I don't know what's wrong with those people. I would have taken the ham too.

  • @thenerdlored
    @thenerdlored Před 3 lety +1

    The last segment about Cali being on fire and seeing snow being exponentially more magical hits right at home

  • @alexistavia6041
    @alexistavia6041 Před 3 lety +1

    I lost it at the "car accidents" part.
    Almost spit out my food.
    That was gold.

  • @FireRevanShadow
    @FireRevanShadow Před 5 lety +121

    I just have to say...Santa is clearly a wizard....A DIVINATION WIZARD >:3 ... with a few levels in rogue
    Tackling dogs are the best.

    • @jerrin1528
      @jerrin1528 Před 5 lety +1

      Revan pretty much

    • @HeckleJeckle87
      @HeckleJeckle87 Před 5 lety +1

      PLEASE! Santa is obviously a Transmuter who uses a combination of Haste and Time Stop spells. How else is he going to get around the world so fast?

    • @Noah-kd6lq
      @Noah-kd6lq Před 5 lety +3

      Y'all are acting like santa isn't a greater lawful good deity of fate. dO yoU EvEn PraISe The CLAUSE!?!?!?

    • @FireRevanShadow
      @FireRevanShadow Před 5 lety +1

      @@Noah-kd6lq lawful good my rear. He breaks into people's houses. He is clearly neutral good.

    • @FireRevanShadow
      @FireRevanShadow Před 5 lety +1

      @@HeckleJeckle87 A divination wizard can use those spells too. He can cast them on himself and use his Portent to ensure he doesn't become exhausted during the trip. Since, he is at least a 7th level caster he knows the teleport spell and since he has a full year to prepare he can store teleport scrolls or magic items that store teleport and put all of that into his Endless Bag of Holding.

  • @szbnahl
    @szbnahl Před 5 lety +318

    The Real World? I'm not familiar with that system. Is it d20 or dice pool?

    • @kendrajade6688
      @kendrajade6688 Před 5 lety +13

      d12 based.

    • @marley7868
      @marley7868 Před 5 lety +26

      and highly dependent on your starting stats

    • @classicdom
      @classicdom Před 5 lety +31

      It's an insane system utilizing metaphysical d20, set in a dystopian future where everyone plays as a NPC, game sessions usually last 80-100 years if you're lucky. Unique world building potential but too many rules imo.

    • @Daves-not-here
      @Daves-not-here Před 5 lety +5

      No it’s actually played via roulette wheel that you exchange for a new one every 5 years.

    • @WeFightForever
      @WeFightForever Před 5 lety +2

      You use 20 d4 actually

  • @Gruntbucket
    @Gruntbucket Před rokem +2

    It's that time of year again...time to watch the puffin forest Christmas episode!

  • @joelnemo1027
    @joelnemo1027 Před 5 lety +3

    Your reaction to snow, and Dingo's half snark response, gave me laugh and the biggest grin of today.

  • @FordPrefict42
    @FordPrefict42 Před 5 lety +86

    Still trying to sort out whether they simply failed their perception check to understand the versatility of ham, or if they are Paladins/Vegans, whose oath prohibits them from consuming pork produces?

    • @mem260
      @mem260 Před 5 lety +2

      Michael Giovinazzi perfect reasoning.

    • @alexd6327
      @alexd6327 Před 5 lety +2

      for me it ain't a code, i just don't like meat

    • @FordPrefict42
      @FordPrefict42 Před 5 lety +1

      @@alexd6327 - My philosophy has always been a simple one. If you don't want it, that is fine. More for me.

    • @MrThewooter
      @MrThewooter Před 5 lety +3

      Plot twist: It was a late Hanukkah party.

    • @FordPrefict42
      @FordPrefict42 Před 5 lety

      @@MrThewooter - Touche!

  • @Heroism4499
    @Heroism4499 Před 5 lety +12

    This is all to relatable. Most people talk about there loving family and you talk about ham

  • @MasterDuelist17
    @MasterDuelist17 Před 4 lety +6

    There needs to be an Out of Context Puffin Forest Twitter account

  • @ArDeeMee
    @ArDeeMee Před rokem +1

    Coming back years later to rewatch this… it‘s a classic.
    Hope you got to see snow again in the years since… 😇

  • @christophercrafte
    @christophercrafte Před 5 lety +60

    as a Californian I can confirm we have fire

    • @maskedkitty7350
      @maskedkitty7350 Před 5 lety +1

      christopher crafte
      hell yeah we do man, lots of fire, lots and lots of it.
      i miss snow.

    • @christiansmith804
      @christiansmith804 Před 5 lety

      but like do you have big fire or small fire and is it worm fuzzy make smores fire or hot burn your face of fire

    • @christophercrafte
      @christophercrafte Před 5 lety +3

      @@christiansmith804 that is a fantastic question and the answer is we got it all we got bonfires,forest fires,house fires,trash fires big or small fire can come in any size here in cali

    • @sleepinghermit7778
      @sleepinghermit7778 Před 5 lety

      Anyone who watches the news lately knows you got fires. And Smith, its the burn down entire towns kind.

    • @Perid0tStar
      @Perid0tStar Před 5 lety

      @@christophercrafte Fellow Cali person here, can confirm. We have so many kinds of fire that we even got trolled by the universe where a giant wildfire was called the Camp Fire (due to where it started). So its like 'oh a little campfire huh? ....Oh crap!'
      I hope we get back to normal someday where its mostly earthquakes. A lot of them aren't as bad as people think, your chair jiggles gently for a few seconds then its over.

  • @NeoVioletsMeowInc
    @NeoVioletsMeowInc Před 5 lety +37

    I use to live in Southern Cali, and there are 4 seasons actually, fire, flood, earthquake, and landslide.

    • @nemanja98rs
      @nemanja98rs Před 5 lety +1

      Did the Fire Nation attack this year?

  • @corumhayes8178
    @corumhayes8178 Před 5 lety +1

    "Where I'm from we don't have snow we have fire.", the line that almost killed me as I was taking a sip of my drink.

  • @sierrajones7029
    @sierrajones7029 Před 5 lety +1

    Sunny, muggy, and car accidents is CRAZY relatable omg. Your snow reaction is the exact same as mine (also a SoCal native).

  • @blackfireweb
    @blackfireweb Před 5 lety +6

    Moving from Australia (where December is national bushfire month) to England I totally understand you. First day of snow, I took the day off of work and just run around and played. My wife, who grew up in snow, thought it was insane. But SNOW! It was so WHITE! And FLUFFY! And I made snowballs, and I made a little snowman, and my footprints were in the snow and there was snow on cars so I traced christmas trees in their windshield from snow and I put snow on my wifes head and made a snow angel and IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!

  • @SwordsmanStudios
    @SwordsmanStudios Před 5 lety +21

    In all of my short films, Jimmy is my generic guy name and Susie is my generic girl name. Unfortunately, this translates into my D&D game where my friend who plays Susan has a character named Sue, while I have an npc named Susan...and they work together. To make matters worse, my friend Sam plays Sue and my friend Grady plays Gregory. Anyway, I laughed a little too hard when Jimmy and Susie were the kids getting presents.

  • @KitCabaret
    @KitCabaret Před 5 lety +1

    "We got three seasons down here: Sunny, Muggy, and CAR ACCIDENTS" THAT DELIVERY GOT ME GOOD I honestly had to pause the video for like 2 minutes because I couldn't stop laughing, well done sir

  • @tooawesomepeoples1
    @tooawesomepeoples1 Před 5 lety +1

    I love how you and Dingo are slowly putting together the Tabletop Animated Universe. Step aside marvel.

  • @thekingorgrim666
    @thekingorgrim666 Před 5 lety +240

    That video proves that you are a good story-teller, that was pretty cool, D&D or not i had a good time, thank you :)

  • @river7874
    @river7874 Před 5 lety +117

    "Instead of the drink"
    See, that's your problem right there.

  • @Thetalkingblanket
    @Thetalkingblanket Před 5 lety +1

    The entire employee cafeteria is looking at me as I’m laughing. I needed this.

  • @TheScaredLittleScholar
    @TheScaredLittleScholar Před 4 lety +1

    Haha... in New England we have four seasons... hot, warm, very cold and what can only be described as “you best have woolen socks.”

  • @meatguyf1375
    @meatguyf1375 Před 5 lety +17

    Wha? Why didn't anyone want that ham? That's insane.

  • @KottabosGames
    @KottabosGames Před 5 lety +75

    aw man I love white elephant, my family has been playing every christmas eve for like 15 years now. We have loads of fun with it, that may have to do the fact though that all of our gifts are junk/funny gifts. every one shows up with a pile of tat they found at the dollar store or cvs and we have a laugh. plus we have a rule for it that a gift can only be stolen twice, so if there is actually something you really want you got to be tactical with it lol. it's great fun

    • @videogameguy4215
      @videogameguy4215 Před 5 lety

      Didn't know you watched puffin forest Kottabos

    • @rocksnrolls
      @rocksnrolls Před 3 lety

      I got punched in the jaw over a white elephant

    • @BSE1320
      @BSE1320 Před 3 lety

      I remember doing a white elephant with family when I was 15. Two relatives almost got into a fistfight over lottery tickets.

    • @JustaGuy_Gaming
      @JustaGuy_Gaming Před 3 lety +1

      White elephant cane be fairly decent, as long as no one breaks the rule of "no good gifts". I mean if every one else is getting candy, toilet plungers or sponge bob bubble bath sets it's fine. But if there is that one guy that puts in a Nintendo Switch into the pool... heads will roll.

    • @moselzag5451
      @moselzag5451 Před 2 lety

      @@JustaGuy_Gaming Putting in something expensive is fine, just as long as all the things are around that area. Putting in a switch with candy, that’s a bad idea. But if it’s all things that cost like, about £15, then I could see it just being a high stakes game

  • @CyberKirby
    @CyberKirby Před 4 lety +3

    never forget that ben apparently has a relative in prison

  • @fatboy7609
    @fatboy7609 Před 3 lety +1

    As someone who lived in San Diego until he was 35, I can relate to so much of this.

  • @NinjaMomtastic
    @NinjaMomtastic Před 5 lety +120

    Wait, snow is cold? I live in Arizona so I've heard legends of such things... but it's more of a fairy tale

    • @jeffjeff3132
      @jeffjeff3132 Před 5 lety

      Lucky, I live in Iowa and it snowed around two weeks ago and we got six inches. The snow still isn't completely gone and we are due to get more.

    • @adreakane5447
      @adreakane5447 Před 5 lety

      I was raised in az.
      my first snowfall in mo was something else

    • @LauchlinM.
      @LauchlinM. Před 5 lety +4

      @@jeffjeff3132 Oh my sweet summer child...
      Canadian Winter...15-20 cms of snow dumped more or less regularly

    • @gameo360
      @gameo360 Před 5 lety

      I live there too

    • @pungetello
      @pungetello Před 5 lety

      That's how fog was for me until I was 14. IDK why they get fog in Idaho, but never in Utah...

  • @Phhase
    @Phhase Před 5 lety +8

    *gasp* "You guys get SNOW? In CANADA?"
    "..."
    "Yes.Yes, we do."
    Dingo is a gift to all the world.
    Also, yeah, who WOULDN'T want a giant ham???

  • @anevenbluerjay
    @anevenbluerjay Před 4 lety +1

    Growing up somewhere mild and then going to college in a place with actual winters was a trip. My friends thought it was fun to watch me go out of my goddamn mind with excitement every time it snowed.

  • @Skifan180
    @Skifan180 Před 5 lety +2

    I live in southern California too and your season description is 100% spot on lol also fire.

  • @brutalphillipee
    @brutalphillipee Před 5 lety +75

    Those were some pretty good adventures. I bet the dislikes on this video are just people who want your ham :P

  • @poisonedoak6563
    @poisonedoak6563 Před 5 lety +15

    Yes, I can reinforce this statement, California has three seasons and is constantly on fire. We don’t have snow days off from school, we get smoke days.

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 Před 5 lety +2

      The correct 3 seasons of California are summer, cloudy, and fire.

    • @Johnny_Shields
      @Johnny_Shields Před 5 lety

      Smoke days off is not a joke. Went to a highschool on the beach so smoke wasn't a problem, but middle school just a little bit inland, I got more smoke days off than some people get snow days!

  • @auldgoat5644
    @auldgoat5644 Před 3 lety +1

    Watching CZcamsrs say "I went on a business trip" is by far the funniest thing out there.

  • @TheKevinNoble
    @TheKevinNoble Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you, Ben, for creating and posting stories. They make me smile and bring a bit of joy.

  • @phenixslayer21
    @phenixslayer21 Před 5 lety +35

    I too am jealous of your ham. I ran into a different situation where I entered the SECRET SANTA gift exchange. NO ONE TOLD US THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES BEFOREHAND. So I went into it blind. I, thankfully, was given a hint that my likes were similar to the person I matched with. I don't think I will be as lucky though since i am new. Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate)!

    • @Yosef_Marks
      @Yosef_Marks Před 5 lety

      I celebrate the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.

  • @Eagles4theewin
    @Eagles4theewin Před 5 lety +41

    I have a white elephant tomorrow. The good news is, its with my co-workers. The bad news is, it is with my co-workers.

    • @fd3sforever
      @fd3sforever Před 5 lety +8

      Pray for ham.

    • @funnyblog100
      @funnyblog100 Před 5 lety +1

      Bring a small porcelain white elephant and giftwrap it. You can have a white elephant as a gag gift in white elephant.

    • @milesmatton5601
      @milesmatton5601 Před 5 lety +1

      @@funnyblog100 There's also a card game called "White Elephant" that would make a very meta present at a white elephant (although it would be even better if the game had a porcelain white elephant as one of the gifts in it, I think they missed that trick).

    • @robertnett9793
      @robertnett9793 Před 5 lety

      Are weapons allowed? Or is it one of them boring legal white elephant games?

    • @Jeremiah90526
      @Jeremiah90526 Před 5 lety

      @@robertnett9793 Yeah, I work in a park, all my bosses are Law Enforcement. Things get interesting during the White Elephant gift exchange. I have only stolen a gift once in the 4 years I have been there, and it was because the person obviously did not want it.

  • @christopherp6727
    @christopherp6727 Před 5 lety +1

    As a southern californian that snow bit spoke to me on a spiritual level

  • @gabebennett3185
    @gabebennett3185 Před 5 lety +1

    Merry Christmas you two! You both rock!