# Deep thoughts from Ryan HD **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-from-ryan-hd/991502 "2023-10-13T12:25:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-from-ryan-hd/991502/1 "2023-10-13T12:25:21Z")
There’s a YouTuber, Ryan HD, who presents series of often brilliant deep thoughts — kind of a combination of Jack Handey, Mitch Hedberg, and Stephen Wright. Think of dorm-room bull sessions. A few are silly, many are funny, and quite a few will really give you pause (like, “The number of people alive who are older than you will never increase”). There are maybe a dozen videos — maybe start with the compilation below. (Note he is endearingly self-deprecating — alternating between intoning thoughts, and pleading with himself to please stop). I thought this belonged in this forum, not Cafe Society, because I’m not interested in Doper reactions to Ryan HD, but rather to any of the observations themselves. (Besides, I doing he came up with many of them himself). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hbb_umED6Fo/hqdefault.jpg "Thoughts To Snap Your Mind In Half Compilation.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbb_umED6Fo) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-from-ryan-hd/991502/2 "2023-10-13T13:05:54Z")
I’ll just mention a couple more, to give you the flavor: “You’re always only two minutes from death, but each breath is a reset.” “Taxes are your paid subscription to live in a country. Childhood is the free trial.” “Pi is what it sounds like, only backwards” [That is, 3.14 in mirror resembles the word “PIE”] Okay, the last one is more akin to the Dennis Hopper character in Apocalypse Now noting that “if is the middle word of life.” Most of Ryan HD’s thoughts are deeper than this. (The others are fun, at least.) (In initial post, I meant: “Besides, I DOUBT he came up with many of them himself”) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-from-ryan-hd/991502/3 "2023-10-13T14:43:32Z")
Thanks. I actually like the little intrusions where he tells himself things like “You’re the reason we had to leave the party.” Kind of like the ScreenRant pitch meetings where a guy pitches movie ideas to himself (you’d think that’d be hard, but it’s _barely an inconvenience)._ > **[The Force Awakens Pitch Meeting - Revisited!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPkezTf-v_M%2F)** > > \#SuperEasyBarelyAnInconvenienceOriginal Description: Ever wonder how some of the big decisions for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens were made? Wonder... ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-from-ryan-hd/991502/4 "2023-10-13T22:14:58Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > “You’re always only two minutes from death, but each breath is a reset.” > > “Taxes are your paid subscription to live in a country. Childhood is the free trial.” > > “Pi is what it sounds like, only backwards” [That is, 3.14 in mirror resembles the word “PIE”] Haven’t watched the vid link yet, but I love the first two of these deep thoughts. I like the third one too, but I’m glad you explained it, or else I would have been scratching my head trying to figure it out for an unduly long portion of my Friday evening. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-from-ryan-hd/991502/5 "2023-10-14T02:11:27Z")
> [@digs](#): > > you’d think that’d be hard, but it’s _barely an inconvenience)_ It’s _super easy, barely an inconvenience_. I know that because I bought my son a shirt that said it. 🙂