A Video About Digging A Hole

Jacob Geller

1.2M subscribers

1,104,936 views

"Every kid in the world wants to dig a great big hole," said X-Ray. "To China, right?" | Watch all my exclusive videos by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Buy my book: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Social media and merch links at https://jacobgeller.com/ Watch my Nebula-Exclusive video on the book and movie “Holes”: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-digging-deep-into-holes Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-a-video-about-digging-a-hole Sources: Amateur treasure hunter plunges 130 feet: https://nypost.com/2024/01/08/news/amateur-treasure-hunter-plunges-130ft-to-his-death-in-hole-he-dug-inside-his-home/ After 40 years' burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities.uknews The deepest hole we have ever dug: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug The Kola superdeep borehole in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mzEGeMNAI&t=1200s Kola Superdeep Borehole: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole?mc_cid=69025636df At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone: https://phys.org/news/2008-10-km-of-a-kind-microorganism.html Media shown: A Game About Digging A Hole, Motherload, Minecraft, Holes, The Shawshank Redemption, The Core, Fantastic Mr. Fox, God of War II, Dragon’s Dogma II, 1000xRESIST, Neva, Echo Point Nova, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Cookie Clicker, PegIdle, Uzumaki Music Used (Chronologically): Main Theme (SteamWorld Dig), New Heights in El Machino (SteamWorld Dig 2), Heavy Industry HQ (Motherload), Mergo’s Lullaby (Bloodborne), Ending (SteamWorld Dig), Human Resources (Perfect Vermin), Old World (SteamWorld Dig), The Rattlesnake (Holes), Dig It (Holes), Lorena 2 (Red Dead Redemption 2), Outlaws From the West (Red Dead Redemption 2), The Magnificent Four (Sunset Riders), The Sticks-for-Hands Rag (West of Loathing), Stage Clear (Sunset Riders), Ear to the Ground (Hanna Lindgren), Thorofare Hike (Firewatch), Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Storyblocks and Getty Images Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Holes” by Louis Sachar

4,169 Comments

@JacobGeller

4/24/2025

For even more hole talk, check out my exclusive video on Nebula (should I rephrase that? no, probably fine): <a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-digging-deep-into-holes">https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-digging-deep-into-holes</a>

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@Seydaschu

5/4/2026

If you Rock and Stone, you're never alone!⛏️

@DonWubby

5/3/2026

Could the fascination with digging holes have something to do with burying our dead?

@RandomGirlEve

5/2/2026

oh shit, motherlode mentioned. it just unlocked some youth memories for me.

@JohnSluggice

5/1/2026

I really enjoyed this video but in the end it was just bore-ing

@owlgoddess24

4/30/2026

i cannot believe we all made fun of "unobtanium" in avatar and then in real life theres a gemstone called "hiddenite"

@JManRox13

4/29/2026

Do you think the patriarchy is repressing the feminine desire to dig too greedily and too deep?

@nadaqueveraqui.6026

4/29/2026

Thw term you looking for comparing agasajo nad cookie clicker is "incremental game" is it's own genre where clicker fall into but they can be some other types as long as it follow a general "Do action to gain resources, then use resources to improve you ability to do the action, repeat".

@williamhussey1611

4/28/2026

Good video but for the love of god please remove the music

@V3XXE

4/26/2026

JURGEN LEITNER'S BOOKS ARE AT IT AGAIN, FOLKS.<br><br><b>DIG</b>

@Bakabunga

4/26/2026

Bro doesn’t know how to use a shovel 😔

@kawaiiconcept7479

4/26/2026

there is a standee of sam reich in the 2 foot hole i think

@unknown.7361

4/25/2026

People should read a manga called shimeji simulation, they called themselves hole digging club that turn a simple act of digging earth into something philosophical

@Snabb9

4/24/2026

Yeah im planning on digging a hole

@haydenmartin440

4/23/2026

As a pool builder, I can attest that either by hand or by excavator there’s something quite therapeutic about digging. Heehoo monkey brain wanna dig big hole.

@PrinceBoo21

4/22/2026

Rock and Stone

@martinrose2668

4/19/2026

You lost me at cutting roots for the sake of the hole. I feel bad for the trees.

@LazyFish47

4/4/2026

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQ8dpu-W4k&t=555">9:15</a> I don't understand how our plants grow like this when we have soil that's like 70% sand