I feel like Brennan would be the first to admit it is an ultimately futile attempt at gaining control over a situation he is not in complete control of.
"get this shot of me eating sadly while someone talks about me. Now you should probably pan out to make me look extremely small" honestly Brennan's brain is a marvel to me
For some reason, that pronunciation reminds me of Saul Goodman. A fictional man who was written to be unnaturally convincing, but Brennan just does it in improv.
“Brennan cries when old people are voted off the Great British Baking Show.” Followed by the deadpan, unflinching stare from Brennan directly into the camera activated my fight or flight instinct.
I love that his competitive spirit is more akin to bloodlust, but he also has a deep compassion for things like crows and old people on baking shows Just aw
Can we just take a minute to appreciate Brennen’s mom? She took a kid with amazing potential and nurtured him into the best version of himself he could possibly be.
@@SpecialxSnowflakerelatable, I was just like him as a child and my mom locked me in my room for a month on multiple occasions while on meth. My grandma took me in afterwards and kept me from being a serial killer though, so thats nice for other people
@@phoenixgill4988 it's called "what do you want to order," it something like that. It's about ordering Chinese takeout a couple minutes before the restaurant closes.
Brennan Lee Mulligan: 1. Doesn't fuck around in a competition 2. Cries when sweet old English people are voted off of baking shows. One can only assume if he ever competed against an old person in great British bake off that he would explode.
3. Will put other people before himself to his detriment (the muffin story). He wouldn't explode, he would just lose on purpose so that the old person could stay. Because he's a sweet dude.
Clarifying statement: People abuse Adderal to have the hyper focus and high energy that Brennan has. People like Brennan take Adderal so we can breath for a second lol.
That annoyed me esp while I was taking adderall. Like you gave this to me bc I was too much for everyone including me 😂 “Can I microdose your disorder for a sec” and it’s like... no :) no ew
This is soooo aggravating! I don’t blame her for not knowing. But we adhd mutants just process stimulants like caffeine and adderol differently. Somebody get this man a fidget cube, so he can let the erasers live ^_^
Adderall calms down people with ADD a bit like coffee calms down people who get agitated in the morning. Our brains are in overdrive until we get some support!
"You did absolutely the right thing. You just cant also depend on others to do the right thing." I really needed that lesson at some point in my youth rather than in adult years where it absolutely fucked my life up for a bit.
I'm wondering what type of youth you had where this wasnt massively apparent. Who doesn't know by say...8? That most people are selfish and 25 percent are assholes that you can't trust to ever do the right thing?
I love how it cuts from his mom worrying about him becoming a pushover and people using him because of it, only to cut immediately to, “I will die on any hill.”
The juxtaposition of lil Brennan letting nine people cut him in line, to then show adult Brennan shouting “is the thing I said also correct and not the thing?” is hilarious and heart warming cause it shows he is still the same guy but his mother’s words influenced his standard of treatment. He’ll stand up for himself, but always make sure he isn’t in the wrong :)
I'd watch Brennan read aloud what he reads as he goes down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for... probably too long. He just presents his words in such a way that I'm hopelessly engaged. This man tickles my little neurodivergent brain in the best way, both from his content and how painfully relatable he can be.
You honestly think he was reading Wikipedia, I think the camera pans around to reveal Brennan isn't looking at anything, those are just facts from memory.
3:47 "the biggest obstacle in my GMing is that the same place I talk from is where the food needs to go" that voice crack when he says talk is what sold this for me lol
What is this burger Brennan eats everyday? The world has to know, and I didn't catch the name of the place he goes for those burgers Siobhan was dunking him on earlier
The realizing "oh noo" in the beginning with his mom telling him about how he wanted the quiz at the end of the book to be a quiz, paired with "I would do anything" "for what?" "to win anything" is *golden*
Because if you *should* have won something, you're the winner and someone else who lost fairly has instead taken your place. That's not being a sore loser. Being a sore loser is losing fair and square and throwing a hissy fit about it.
@@belzi87 As someone who was a paramedic student it is the single greatest flaw of the human body. Like don't put food where your air goes... Humans 2.0 need to have an improvement in this department.
Brennan's mom telling the story about when he held the door open for 9 adults and then couldn't get as muffin because they were all selfish adults, literally breaks my heart. The fact that Brennan asked if he did something wrong... poor kid.
"You did the right thing, you just can't depend on other people to do the right thing back" brought tears to my eyes because truer words have never been spoken.
@@freezi-drinkgod I quote that all the time it just brings me infinite joy “You clearly don’t love fighting, I had to stop hitting you because I felt bad.”
I used to be hyper-competitive but a girl I liked in middle school made me feel bad about being that way so ever since, I've suppressed that side of me.
@@AlassandrosNothing wrong with being hyper-competitive. Just remember not to ruin everyone else's fun at the expense of your own if the atmosphere doesn't feel particularly serious. It works well amongst friends that know your style of humour but it can look a bit bad to the average crowd, especially if you aren't keeping an air of levity about you like Brennan does.
Oh, I'm also hyper-competitive. But I couldn't care less about winning, I just need the rush of being tested in some way against another person. And to top it off I fricking hate unfair advantages, nothing make me flip the table faster than someone taking advantage over other people.
I'm so with him on the crows. Here is a list of the wonderful things crows accomplish regularly. 1. The aforementioned nutcracking 2. The form lifelong friendships with those who show them kindness 3. A murder of crows partners with wolf packs for food and friendships, they even play with the pups 4. They mourn their dead like Brennan said 5. They avenge the dead if they can 6. It's thought that they taught wolves to play fetch, not us 7. I didn't know about the ant thing but I fully believe it 8. The reason crows are seen as bad omens is because they followed armies because they knew that that would be an easy source of food U make friends with a crow, you have a friend for life. Go outside and give a crow some food
For the longest time I’ve tried to make friends with crows but they fly away when I attempt to give food maybe I’m doing it wrong lol I need to research more
The New Caledonian crow is as intelligent as a seven year old child, can create tools to build things, and crows both mourn their dead and straight up investigate why they died to avoid the threat in the future Also crows will come back and visit their parents and I think that’s very sweet
Crows enjoy unshelled peanuts and I want to build little crow enrichment things in my backyard but none of the crow scientists will tell me how to build them
"He feels bad for the things so he wants to keep using them so they feel like they're important." O-O;; okay, I wasn't expecting him to be *that* relatable
After watching some of the old q&a's after fantasy high, and seeing Siobhan mention to Lou and Brennan that an escape room could be fun, and then years later getting those three in Escape the Green Room, it just fills me with an emotion.
The way his eyes go _wide_ when he starts reading the definition of "eggcorn" was perfection. Felt that in my bones. That right there is the "OMG NEW FACT" look if I ever saw it.
I love that Brennan has said multiple times he does not really care about birds, but i have seen at least 5 adventuring academy episodes where he talks about them. Embrace your love for birds Brennan!
1:25 the GM snack bit got me good. Paraphrasing for brevity "If you're like me, born into this pale furry body that's constantly sweating, and require a constant stream of almonds, I'm here for you" 😂
Now that I look a bit more closely at Brennan, I can just imagine him running around as a kid imagining crazy stuff with a plush tiger that hungers for tuna.
I barely know Brennan, he pops up in my feed random without any warning, and yet I somehow feel he can either tell you a funny joke or perform ungodly acts of evil among the world.
When I was five I told my Mom “I only ever really believe myself” when we were arguing about something silly. I feel like I would have been baby enemies with Brennan, which is fun.
Every time I hear the muffin story, it gets me right in the feels. Like near tears. I never cry over anything but sweet kids getting dosed with reality always kills me bro.
Holy shit, I'm new here so I'm just starting to dive into this content, and I have never related to anybody more than I did with this video. The rambling about crows and wikipedia rabbit holes? The sad childhood stories about not understanding other people? The stubborness/willingness to die on ANY hill? This felt like a personal attack, and I absolutely love it
I feel like this is exactly how most of us softhearted weirdos ended up here, so welcome to the family! in retrospect it's amazing how quickly I went from "oh, big mood" to "I don't care if we're the same age, Brennan is my dad" lmao
@@b666rchd5 Accidental second personal call-out, I was late-diagnosed autistic this year 😅 Likely ADHD as well, but we're medicating without a formal diagnosis. I genuinely appreciate the suggestion though, and it's definitely been a blessing to finally find a community after so many years 💜
"He feels bad for the things, so he wants to continue using them so they feel like they're important" Straight up, anyone who grew up on The Brave Little Toaster or The Velveteen Rabbit who DOESN'T do this for SOMETHING, is a fucking sociopath.
These days I exist in a perpetual cycle of three states: “I am going to die knowing that I will never be friends with BLM IRL”, “thank goodness I will never know BLM IRL because I couldn’t keep up and that would crush me”, and “all praise the mighty interwebs that have brought the madness and delight of BLM to the masses!”
Also "anting" isn't just exclusive to crows, and studies show that it's primarily for parasite control. However! There is one species of ants located in the eastern us that has intoxicating affects.
The reason Brennan freaked out so much about the burger thing is because he couldn't actually defend himself because if he did, everyone would know where he would be every single day and he'd never get a moment's rest XD
Brennan is a gift to humanity and nobody should ever shackle that man's creativity and voice. lol. He lives at 200% at all times and I'm here for it happily watching and reveling in the glory.
