@@vidal9747 Cody's Lab got a visit from a joint task force because he made a joke about building a nuke after posting a video where he mined and refined uranium ore.
I got raided for buying thousands of pill capsules. They didn't know I was filling them with a mixture of sand and poppy seeds to seedbomb my local area. When they left, they said I was "weird but charming."
can't believe how many times I've avoided a talk with the feds. I worked on a research project as a student and we needed to do silver plating for reflective surfaces, we weren't far from ordering like 5kg of reagent grade potassium cyanide from sigma for it except for the fact that the lab, as we found out, was legally part of a nearby school. Mind you, this didn't at all make it problematic to perform cyanide reactions with literal gallons of the stuff sitting in an undersized vent hood that was behind on its inspection and not rated for explosive gasses, the lack of preparedness of both the lab or the fire department to handle an entire office-sized building getting turned into a massive gas chamber, nah it was the recently found to be carcinogenic formaldehyde (15ml) we needed to use that went too far. I've also considered trying my hand at DIY supplement blends because they're overpriced as hell, I almost pulled the trigger on either a pill filling station or one of those powder pill presses, not once until now did I consider how fun it would've been to have the feds swab down our entire house.
Coulda turned it around, be the successful owner of a multimillion dollar Cafe franchise. Just need to make product en mass and charge 16% royalties on all franchisee earnings.
Their coffee was already 96% pure. Had Walt used his brain, they would have been able to produce a chemically pure product with no contaminates nor additives at 99.1% enrichment and outcompete the competition. such a sussy lil baka...
@@donatoclemente4421 if Walter wasn’t such a dumbass, when he had the severance pay from the meth bussines he would of just invested the shit out of it into a better bussiness, and reaped the feelings of successful-empire still minus the drug dealer fueled rush.
I think he is talking about Nitrogen in terms of chemicals suitable to make things that go boom. They often have lots of nitrogen attached for the exothermic reaction
8:52 something like this did actually happen a while ago, A gang that was part of a larger crime syndicate was using a pizza place for money laundering, but the pizza ended up being really good so they leave the gang and just went full time into pizza making
One of my Coworkers used to sell drugs and he decided to get a job as a cook so no one would ask where he was getting all his money from, guy fell in love with cooking and stopped selling drugs.
Can confirm the first part of this conversation. I am a chemistry lab manager in the US. I buy a lot of chemicals at an industrial scale, and yes, people come asking lol. I have to sign DEA forms every year promising that I won't make drugs, and every once in a while I have to chat with someone from Homeland Security because I buy a lot of cyanide.
@@sir2657 lol no. Sorry, but like Nigel, basically everybody who works in a lab is basically an educated square. People who actually want to make drugs or whatever, tend not to have the... lets say "ambition", to finish college and get a job like this. There's definitely a reason why whenever you see meth labs, they're horrible scummy setups in trailers and basements, brewing up crap in buckets and bathtubs.
@@cyan_oxy6734 Ehh. Honestly, it's really nothing. I have to print something out, sign it, and return it like 2-3 times a year. It takes up like a total of 10 minutes a year. Not a pain in the ass at all. The government doesn't go overboard with a lot of industry things despite what you might hear. The people who say the government is always hassling them are usually trying to get away with something. Like, literally everyone I've ever met who has nasty things to say about the EPA is trying to get away with polluting and dumping waste illegally. They are just mad that they aren't allowed to empty drums of toxic waste in rivers anymore. You know, the "good ol' days"!
As a research chemist I can tell you its really really fun to try to order a chemical in a larger size for scale up purposes and have to sign multiple papers from the DEA stating why you are buying the chemical. Drugs are one reason why to have to sign docs like that but there are a lot of chemicals used for explosives that you dont realize are used for explosives until you get those notices.
Yeah or have specific storage/lab requirements and in some cases are a risk to public health, my dad works in chemical manufacturing and they have to do a lot more forms and audits because they're within a 1km of a river.
Erm... no... no no no. They would politely knock on the door, wait until he opens, then, politely ask 'May we inquire where you hide the humongous funnel, you (alleged) despicable conoiseur of illegal recreational substances, please.' And later, after the terrible misunderstanding has been solved, they would share a bong with legal recreational substances. After their shift of course.
the youtube being more successful than meth reminds me of Extreme Job where they start a fried chicken shop to do undercover surveillance of a drug gang but their fried chicken is way too good and it becomes famous lmao
I live in Canada. My dad works in the sales department of a company that sells chemicals and the employees have to get training to recognize suspicious purchases. Like, hmmm, you’re buying a bunch of stuff that can be turned into meth, I should report this to law enforcement so they can do a background check.
Wait, in order to tell that somebody bought stuff for meth, they need to tell you the what the stuff for meth is, the government is literally telling people with easy access to meth chemicals how to make meth. XD
@@joelkinds It is... it's not that difficult to make. There are other things which are easier to make, that one Shouldn't make at all, such as self-combusting solutions... And one should most definitely not store said self-combusting solution... or you'll wake up at the pearly gates...
@@bindingofash1824 styro does mention in the part 4 of testing 1933 chemistry book recipes video that he did get a visit from some FBI agents because of bulk chemical purchases. they were checking that he wasn't like, mass-producing bombs because of the large amount he bought, and they left after he explained and offered to let them search his workshop. his friendly squirrel pal showed up in the middle so styro also had to explain that to the poor confused feebs.
I'm confident that someone in the FBI has considered the logistics of raiding his house,and deciding that raiding the house for something that may or may not be there ,and decided it wasn't worth risking at minimum the eyeballs and lungs of someone with military grade garage built lasers,and enough chemicals to violate the Geneva convention.
I can imagine those Lenco bearcats and riot shields would be useless against a laser since lasers can pass through bulletproof glass. I’ve been thinking about building one from a nichia laser from eBay
@@genericjoe4082 There's a semi-popular practice in America affectionately called "butt chugging." You uh...take a funnel, insert it into your ass, and have people pour alcohol into the funnel. I've never tried it (and on God I never will,) but supposedly it gets you drunk much faster
There was a brothel in Korea where they sold salads as a front, and they got so popular on their high-quality salads someone questioned their profit model and they got busted.
Was looking into getting into wet plate photography. For that you need diethyl ether as a solvent. Went to local pharmacy and talked to one of the chemists. At first he was reaaaally hesitant when I asked them about whether they could sell me said chemical and you could almost see that thought bubble that said „This sounds sketchy af“. But then I explained my reasoning, the process that requires this type of solvent, the other substances involved and that I know the stuff is not the nicest chemical to work with etc. He then started relaxing and eventually said that he would be happy to sell me diethyl ether, because one, nobody would make that use case up on the spot, and two, he now believed that I knew what I was talking about. Eventually I never went down that route because some of the chemicals are really expensive and even though I love photography, I am not willing to bankrupt myself over it (more than I already have 😂).
I wonder what nefarious purposes ether gets used for! I buy it in spray cans for cold-starting diesel engines. Edit: I think people use it as an inhalant.
It used to be used as an anesthetic. That alone would give the poor chemist concern for why some rando would want it; if someone desired it, it's probably not *themselves* they want to KO.
The funny thing is that Styropyro does the exact same thing that Nile does but even worse. Not only does he collect all sorts of scary chemicals for his videos about this chemistry book from the 30s, but he also does experiments with high voltage electricity and high power lasers all in a shed in the middle of the woods. And he’s been visited by the FBI for his chemistry video because of the amount of chemicals he bought, not because of his high voltage electricity or lasers or his Arabic heritage, but because of making parade candles with arsenic and mercury.
I love how he explained himself twice, and they still didn't understand the difference between research at the gram scale and preparation at the thousands of grams scale.
Yeah, kinda wish they'd match the guest's energy, haha. It works with Michael Reeves because he has their level of energy, Connor is trying to sincerely answer questions and keeps having to cut them off while they make jokes to answer the questions that THEY asked.
@@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia But still not acceptable in my opinion, but that all entirely depends on how you look at it, and you can feel free to correct me if you believe that i'm wrong or may be wrong, and feel free to try, and prove me wrong if you think that i'm wrong, and if anyone can prove me wrong, And I look forward to being proven wrong if anyone can prove me wrong, And, Regardless, I look forward to hearing y'alls veiwpoints, and perspectives on this subject matter.
@@jonaskristensen-fq2xt I have the truth. I could show you the truth. I think I could convince you I am right. Even more I think the truth is known by me. I look forward to teaching you the truth. I think we could have a nice discussion on why it is or not acceptable
@JoaquinElf In my personal opinion, You should tell those people to let you finish, and then just contingue talking as if nothing happened, but that all entirely depends on how you look at it, and you can feel free to correct me if you believe that i'm wrong or may be wrong, and feel free to try, and prove me wrong if you think that i'm wrong, and if anyone can prove me wrong, And I look forward to being proven wrong if anyone can prove me wrong, And, Regardless, I look forward to hearing y'alls veiwpoints, and perspectives on this subject matter.
I've heard the "if I were to..." line is often a way for cops to catch you in a lie. Like rather than saying "we have video evidence of you shoplifting" or whatever, they say "if there were a video camera in that store, would I see you shoplifting". It's weird but it so often works, posing it as a likelihood of being caught rather than a fact.
It's like buying a bag of fertilizer. Nobody cares when you buy 1 bag, nobody really cares when you buy 10, but when you buy 1000 there are really only 2 explanations. Either you have a business that uses fertilizer on an industrial scale, like a farm or landscaping company, or you're making explosives. Those are the only reasons you would need that much fertilizer. The one poor fool who actually just loves plants and has a garden that big is gonna get a LOT of extra attention.
Once you gave a reason that's half reasonable, it suddenly becomes a liability in human rights violation. Also, he probably had bigger fish to fry, and didn't want to waste any more time.
It would be sick, if you guys maybe let him finish a single thought without interjecting something that he has to continue to say “no” to & then retrace his steps.
I think it’s because they don’t really understand what he’s saying so they have to keep repeating it back to him in simple terms and they’re always wrong.
The clips from this episode are all bangers, same with the Will Osman video. Watching the boys pog at different flavors of Science Guy makes for great content
Back in the mid 90's, I went down to my local feed and seed and asked to buy 3 50 pound bags of Ammonium Nitrate, which immediately raised some eyebrows. The asked me my name, so I just gave them my first name. It took about 3 months for the phone call to ask me to come and pick-up my order. The guy at the conter told me they had to order a minimum shipment of 5 bags and if I wanted to purchase all five. I replied, no, I just need 3. Some crazy bought the other two bags and tried to blow-up the local federal building.
10ml Erlenmeyer are a great addition to aquarium test kits, but they also make neat little liquid arrowheads apparently. I got contacted for ordering 24 of em back in '09. I had four aquariums and wanted to simply pull the water samples and sit down to do the tests.
I had a buddy in high school, with a very high IQ. He got kicked out of university for making TNT in the cem lab. His mom owned a bunch of forest land, which she sold all the timber from. He had a couple of thousand stumps he wanted to remove, and decided that blowing them up was teh best way to remove stumps. He found a recipe for TNT in the “Anarchist’s Cook Book”. It didn’t seem safe to make in the kitchen sink. So, he went to the lab to make it under a hood with bettter control of the conditions. A Prof saw a kid he didn’t recognize, and decided to check it out. The guy was book smart, but a social idiot. He actually, told teh Prof the truth, and explained the step chemistry. Ten minutes later he was in cuffs, and in the process of being removed front the university.
What is absolutely crazy is that when I was 6 years old, in Canada, I was able to walk into a drug store - any drug store - and buy Sulphur and Potassium nitrate. On my own, without supervision. Decent amounts, with my allowance. It's amazing how much Canada has changed.
@Quang Khôi Hrm... Most of those stories are jokes to sound cool, the truth is, I never heard one story where it actually happened. Not to mention that science can be dangerous, but it's also important. Pretty lame response, ngl. Trading having people like Nile around for fires that never actually happened...
@Quang Khôi Also, do you know how many 6 year olds actually manage to make gunpowder on their own? In Canada or anywhere? Because I've only ever known or heard of 1. And if Nile did it, that would be 2. And I hung out with the smart kids in many schools. It, just, doesn't happen...
There is a pizza place in New York. Originally set up for money laundry, but mamma’s pizza is so good that the son turned himself in, served his time so he can leave the mob and focus on the restaurant.
Hahaha, Nile's actually pretty funny. 'Til this, I remember he was grinding something with a mortar and pestle, and he said something like 'my weak chemist arms', and I thought that was pretty good.
Now that’s a great cover to buy big funnels. Officer: “I am calling to follow about up on this enormous funnel you recently bought.” Me: “Oh no officer it’s not what you think, i am successful TH-camr and I make chemistry videos.” Officer: “Ohh ok, carry on.” Me: *Continue being Walter White*
I bought a gas mask one time off ebay for a Halloween costume. It got sent to the wrong address and they needed up calling the cops after they opened it. The FBI showed up at my door asking why we bought it because there was a presidential convention going on near me at the time. I was in middle school, those were the goods days
I have a friend who worked as a chemist at a major university who told me that going to the US was a pain in the ass b/c they were always worried about him making drugs. Not that he would or has, just that he has the skill. Crazy. Just having the Chem PhD was enough to make it an issue.
I wanna turn one of these suspicious arousing flasks into something, say a terrarium or aquarium... Come to my house and ask what Im using it for... "Follow me, I'll show you man, I did this just to see if they'd send someone for real, I heard someone would come check if I bought one."
YES! I have been talking up Explosions&Fire for YEARS trying to get people to check him out! Dude is genuinely really funny and is making some crazy stuff!
I sorted my 300kg Lego collection in the past year and still wait for 'them' to knock on my door asking me what i would do with the 4-digit number of zipper bags of different size.
The uranium thing actually reminded me of a story I heard a while back. There was a high school kid, I think back in the 1980s, who was pretty much a savant; he sucked at dealing with people and most of his classes, but he was amazing at chemistry and engineering, and he managed to refine his own uranium in his backyard shed and set up a miniature nuclear reactor. Some time later, he ended up getting found out, and the police were called, and he actually got arrested and sent to prison because he made a nuclear reactor in his backyard while still in school. I need to look that up again, I can't remember his name. EDIT his name was David Hahn, and I was wrong about a few things; he didn't actually complete his reactor. He was trying to build a breeder reactor, and he got pulled over by police for something else, and they called federal officers when he warned them that some of the items in his car were radioactive. He didn't get arrested, but was sent for psychological evaluation, and later joined the military before dying in 2016 to drugs and alcohol.
ahh yes the nuclear boyscout he actually succeeded in building the breeder reactor but realised that he was actually creating plutonium and decided to disassemble it he only got found out after he got pulled over a bunch of hazmat agents cut apart the shed where he experimented with radioactive materials and they packed it all into plastic barrels and buried it in a location i don't quite remember the reason i know this was a long time ago when i was really young i thought that i could design a gamma ray blaster that could fire blasts of blue light like a deadly laser but later realised my idea would not work unless it was overly large that and if it got damaged in anyway it would kill you and anybody around you basically it would work like a mechanical demon core blaster except smaller then i went oh it would not travel like i thought and would not be effective at all if i was born in a early time you would probably be talking about my nuclear blundergun along side david hahn luckily i realised the dangers of my idea and stopped before i attempted to create a prototype
Imagine letting the guest talk for more than 10 seconds instead of cutting them off to say ”right, right yeah, that makes sense, yeah and then that thing and right yeah…” lol.
I was cloning gourmet mushrooms and all the info and techniques I was using was from psychedelic mushroom growing methods. Anyway, I needed isopropyl alcohol and had to get it from the pharmacy. I bought a few bottles and It was just way easier telling the pharmacist that I was sterilizing Ostridge egg incubators ( a lie ) than explaining I was growing mushrooms but not illegal mushrooms. As soon as I had a reason for my strange purchase he stopped being suspicious.
Once i bought 4 Rc wheels, a Lypo batery a Wifi controller + RaspBerry, several servos and a Camera board with their TTL connector and got an email from the army hahah to clarify the usage of my components lol
Playing Shadowrun is hell on your social credit because it takes place in the real world, in a neo-modern setting. When you search up airport floor plans, you know you're going on a watch list.
I got a government letter( Canada) for buying something off eBay, and it's the most ridiculous thing. Activated charcoal pills/tablets. The ones used for people that overdose on something . I just thought it was a cool thing to own. I still don't understand why there was a problem. It's just literally a piece of charcoal in tablet form like tums antacid.
Its like mobsters that used a pizza place as cover, then just dropped crime since the pizza was more profitable.
i need to hear this story
So literally any Italian owned pizza shops in New York? Hahahaha
Here is a video about the story its pretty funny to be honest lmao made more money on pizza than crime m.th-cam.com/video/QB7ACr7pUuE/w-d-xo.html
@@jamescanjuggle there exists documented cases of this lol
At some point, the effort needed to launder money is just too troublesome, while the pizza place is already self sustaining. That is pretty funny.
- Government, can i have chemicals?
-only a beakerful
*Pulls out comically large funnel *
*_laugh track in the background_*
LMFAO
RussianBadger has a comically large spoon and Nile Red has a comically large beaker. Who's next on the comically large list?
@@dragonseatcheese8727Dank Pods has one comically large airpod
@@dragonseatcheese8727th-cam.com/video/dWW7qP423y8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tKOFhTnob79S92sA
Imagine talking to the police like "oh are you calling about the explosives? No? Was it the uranium? No? Oh was it the method funnel?"
... yes?
The thing that you absolutely would get in trouble in TH-cam is probably uranium refinement. But it would be nice to see it.
@@vidal9747 Cody's Lab got a visit from a joint task force because he made a joke about building a nuke after posting a video where he mined and refined uranium ore.
Vacuum funnel, AKA Buchner funnel.
I like Uranium and I really want to refine in small quantity in milligram.
I got raided for buying thousands of pill capsules. They didn't know I was filling them with a mixture of sand and poppy seeds to seedbomb my local area. When they left, they said I was "weird but charming."
can't believe how many times I've avoided a talk with the feds. I worked on a research project as a student and we needed to do silver plating for reflective surfaces, we weren't far from ordering like 5kg of reagent grade potassium cyanide from sigma for it except for the fact that the lab, as we found out, was legally part of a nearby school. Mind you, this didn't at all make it problematic to perform cyanide reactions with literal gallons of the stuff sitting in an undersized vent hood that was behind on its inspection and not rated for explosive gasses, the lack of preparedness of both the lab or the fire department to handle an entire office-sized building getting turned into a massive gas chamber, nah it was the recently found to be carcinogenic formaldehyde (15ml) we needed to use that went too far. I've also considered trying my hand at DIY supplement blends because they're overpriced as hell, I almost pulled the trigger on either a pill filling station or one of those powder pill presses, not once until now did I consider how fun it would've been to have the feds swab down our entire house.
That's a really great idea. They'd hold everything together until it rains.
Then it would dissolve & release the seeds.
Interesting. Wouldn't it be beter to fill it with some dirt or fertilizer instead of sand ?
@@Hornat355poppies grow best in sandy soil
Did you sue the sh!t out of them?
The bois trying to incriminate Nile: episode 243
*evidence*
His name's Nigel lol
Trash taste is in fact a long con undercover operation to finally arrest Nigel
@@bleachno9 with enough mental gymnastics, I am confident I can convince some folk that "Nigel" is read as /nile/
@@lyq232 it's english. Of course you can
"My God, that is the best coffee I've ever tasted. Why the hell are we making meth?" -Walter White
Coulda turned it around, be the successful owner of a multimillion dollar Cafe franchise. Just need to make product en mass and charge 16% royalties on all franchisee earnings.
@@donatoclemente4421 unfortunately his pride and ego consistently got the better of him.
Their coffee was already 96% pure. Had Walt used his brain, they would have been able to produce a chemically pure product with no contaminates nor additives at 99.1% enrichment and outcompete the competition.
such a sussy lil baka...
Too bad he wasn't in the "money business" but in the "empire business"
@@donatoclemente4421 if Walter wasn’t such a dumbass, when he had the severance pay from the meth bussines he would of just invested the shit out of it into a better bussiness, and reaped the feelings of successful-empire still minus the drug dealer fueled rush.
things that, for him sound genuinely normal, are just so fascinating and borderline absurd
impressive, 1.1K likes and no replies
@@Todija strangely it says there are two replies, but there is only yours, and mine now that I've made it.
@@ghoulishgoober3122 a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@@ghoulishgoober3122and now I'm here
One word- Nitrogen. If you're trying to get your hands on a lot of Nitrogen and you aren't a farmer? That's a visit or three.
The atmosphere is almost 80% nitrogen... O_O
@@JustPlainRob Yeah, don't know why people just don't scoop it out of the air.
Pffft. Stupid scientists.
I think he is talking about Nitrogen in terms of chemicals suitable to make things that go boom. They often have lots of nitrogen attached for the exothermic reaction
@@JustPlainRob if only we could use it for chemistry, would make life so much easier
@@ammyvl1 a birkeland-eyde reactor lets you turn it into nitric acid, albeit very inefficiently
8:52 something like this did actually happen a while ago, A gang that was part of a larger crime syndicate was using a pizza place for money laundering, but the pizza ended up being really good so they leave the gang and just went full time into pizza making
One of my Coworkers used to sell drugs and he decided to get a job as a cook so no one would ask where he was getting all his money from, guy fell in love with cooking and stopped selling drugs.
@@One-EyedCorvus Ah! Damn you cooking! That's how we lose the best of them drug dealers!
@@robertnett9793 merely trading one drug trade for another.
@@One-EyedCorvus Ah. Great. Now you just had to remind me on my crippling food-addiction. Adding insult to injury... :D
That's so nice and wholesome. They just needed money.
the dude is 32, looks like he's 19 and does weird chemistry stuff, good thing he's not a villain.
i keep forgetting he's in his 30s, he feels like a very enthusiastic student who has a ton of free time for some reason
he's HOW OLD???
Can confirm the first part of this conversation. I am a chemistry lab manager in the US. I buy a lot of chemicals at an industrial scale, and yes, people come asking lol. I have to sign DEA forms every year promising that I won't make drugs, and every once in a while I have to chat with someone from Homeland Security because I buy a lot of cyanide.
Did you remember to cross your toes while signing that lil no make drogi thingy ?
Sounds like such a pain in the ass. I think they go overboard over there.
@@cyan_oxy6734 they know
@@sir2657 lol no. Sorry, but like Nigel, basically everybody who works in a lab is basically an educated square.
People who actually want to make drugs or whatever, tend not to have the... lets say "ambition", to finish college and get a job like this. There's definitely a reason why whenever you see meth labs, they're horrible scummy setups in trailers and basements, brewing up crap in buckets and bathtubs.
@@cyan_oxy6734 Ehh. Honestly, it's really nothing. I have to print something out, sign it, and return it like 2-3 times a year. It takes up like a total of 10 minutes a year. Not a pain in the ass at all.
The government doesn't go overboard with a lot of industry things despite what you might hear. The people who say the government is always hassling them are usually trying to get away with something. Like, literally everyone I've ever met who has nasty things to say about the EPA is trying to get away with polluting and dumping waste illegally. They are just mad that they aren't allowed to empty drums of toxic waste in rivers anymore. You know, the "good ol' days"!
As a research chemist I can tell you its really really fun to try to order a chemical in a larger size for scale up purposes and have to sign multiple papers from the DEA stating why you are buying the chemical. Drugs are one reason why to have to sign docs like that but there are a lot of chemicals used for explosives that you dont realize are used for explosives until you get those notices.
Yeah or have specific storage/lab requirements and in some cases are a risk to public health, my dad works in chemical manufacturing and they have to do a lot more forms and audits because they're within a 1km of a river.
Damn. But you bought in bulk!? I bet that would make all the us gov agencies suspicious...
I'm just imagining a group of mounties breaking down Nile's door yelling "Where's the goddamned funnel you fucking junkie"
Erm... no... no no no.
They would politely knock on the door, wait until he opens, then, politely ask 'May we inquire where you hide the humongous funnel, you (alleged) despicable conoiseur of illegal recreational substances, please.'
And later, after the terrible misunderstanding has been solved, they would share a bong with legal recreational substances. After their shift of course.
@@robertnett9793 RCMP are scum of the earth, last year showed that
@@robertnett9793 ah yes, Canada
@@robertnett9793 Shit, you right. I'm from the US so I'd gotten used to them just shooting first and asking questions if they feel like it.
I once watched that Dudley Do Right starring Brendan Frasier so I'm just imagining him saying that.
9:15 not enough people appreciate how clever "funnel the money" was
i think he jumped too quickly into his next statement before anyone could react
Thank you, I was also disappointed nobody reacted to it
@@yorickmeulenbelt4all Those people have an IQ of 90.
I think he said "follow the money?"
gonna need a bigger funnel
Can we mention how serious he's talking about chemistry and accidents while there's just walls of anime figures around him
Wdym, thats my average Friday. Nerds like anime too
@@CreativeNames101 not all nerds are the same
Any man of culture knowing the name of that character in red suit in front of the YT button ?
@@nortonp240 I believe that's Kallen Kozuki from Code Geass
which channel is his?
the youtube being more successful than meth reminds me of Extreme Job where they start a fried chicken shop to do undercover surveillance of a drug gang but their fried chicken is way too good and it becomes famous lmao
Lol, thats hilarious xD
Gus?
@mr m put ya dic away wultah!!
EXTREME JOB WAS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE
That movie is a masterpiece🤣🤣
I live in Canada. My dad works in the sales department of a company that sells chemicals and the employees have to get training to recognize suspicious purchases. Like, hmmm, you’re buying a bunch of stuff that can be turned into meth, I should report this to law enforcement so they can do a background check.
Wait, in order to tell that somebody bought stuff for meth, they need to tell you the what the stuff for meth is, the government is literally telling people with easy access to meth chemicals how to make meth. XD
@@szylaj theirs wikihow articles on how to make meth it’s not some ancient Chinese secret
@@lottoma6762 Yeah, but its still funny.
@@szylaj It's really not a well hidden secret. Anybody who is trained enough to work in this industry should know how it is made.
@@robertnett9793 I KNOW! I JUST THINK IT WAS FUNNY!
so what nile’s saying is that he could be making meth. and the government just isn’t checking on him.
According to Nile and Walter White, making meth is basic chemistry
@@joelkinds you just have to know the recipe.
@@antonk3533 like baking😂
@@benjaworld2804 yes kinda, but I would use a better scale for meth😂
@@joelkinds It is... it's not that difficult to make. There are other things which are easier to make, that one Shouldn't make at all, such as self-combusting solutions...
And one should most definitely not store said self-combusting solution... or you'll wake up at the pearly gates...
Meanwhile Cody is on a first-name basis with his local FBI field agents
From Cody'sLab?
@@rovidelarosa yep
How about styropyro
@@bindingofash1824 styro does mention in the part 4 of testing 1933 chemistry book recipes video that he did get a visit from some FBI agents because of bulk chemical purchases.
they were checking that he wasn't like, mass-producing bombs because of the large amount he bought, and they left after he explained and offered to let them search his workshop.
his friendly squirrel pal showed up in the middle so styro also had to explain that to the poor confused feebs.
Alternative title: Interrogating NileRed About His Use of Dangerous Chemicals 😂
I saw the Saber figure in the background, then scrolled down into the comments and saw Saber once again
"Attempting to Incriminate NileRed for just under 10 Minutes"
nile: going into so much detail
connor: but what about meth?
it was so annoying how he kept interrupting Nile. bro just let the guy speak stop talking over him
Cop: What are you using the funnel for?
NR: I am attempting to make grape soda from plastic gloves.
Cop: ... >click
I also need it to turn a byproduct from my plastic glove soda into hot sauce.
Cop wrties down: “Suspect is one bad day away from becoming an evil chemist”
Neil sweating profusely sitting in the interrogation room under the spotlight.
"I just bought a really big funnel..."
Styropyro : i have a big laser that kills and blinds 👍
Government: ok sure.
I'm confident that someone in the FBI has considered the logistics of raiding his house,and deciding that raiding the house for something that may or may not be there ,and decided it wasn't worth risking at minimum the eyeballs and lungs of someone with military grade garage built lasers,and enough chemicals to violate the Geneva convention.
And here's my laser microwave that can blind you at 300 yards with the door closed.
I can imagine those Lenco bearcats and riot shields would be useless
against a laser since lasers can pass through bulletproof glass. I’ve been thinking about building one from a nichia laser from eBay
@Nexalian_Gamer those aren't powerful enough they only use milliwatts i recommend going for the ones that says watts not milliwatts
@@Skibidi292oo Yea I'm talking about 67W or 112W lasers on Ebay. Only problem is they're expensive. Like 500 for the 112W
As an American college student, making meth is the last thing the government would think I was doing with a very big funnel and that terrifies me.
Gotta make all that lube. Sex sells. :U
I am a non American dummy, someone please explain
@@genericjoe4082 idem
@@genericjoe4082 There's a semi-popular practice in America affectionately called "butt chugging."
You uh...take a funnel, insert it into your ass, and have people pour alcohol into the funnel. I've never tried it (and on God I never will,) but supposedly it gets you drunk much faster
@@genericjoe4082 Oh you attach a tube to it to drik from while people pour alcohol inside. Its a... smart idea
There was a brothel in Korea where they sold salads as a front, and they got so popular on their high-quality salads someone questioned their profit model and they got busted.
The dressing tasted awful I heard.
With all due respect, let him speak.
Chuds
I agree that even though he is a scientist, he deserves to give his information he's a nice man
Exactly, they are constantly interrupting him 😅
"even though he's a scientist?"
Huh?
@@dustinmiller8687
I love how full of rage and emotion that lead soldier is in the thumbnail. That's the face of a man about to scream _"It's ＹＯＵ"_
Nile prob stole his wife
duly noted: im going to buy 7 large 22 inch rounded glass flasks and see what happens
FBI OPEN UP
IRS Open up!
Put giant wigs on them and googly eyes, and when the FBI kicks your door down they'll find you having a tea party with them.
How did it go?)
th-cam.com/video/A6g0mPo-uJM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8a5AmFETElTRAuUM
Was looking into getting into wet plate photography. For that you need diethyl ether as a solvent. Went to local pharmacy and talked to one of the chemists. At first he was reaaaally hesitant when I asked them about whether they could sell me said chemical and you could almost see that thought bubble that said „This sounds sketchy af“. But then I explained my reasoning, the process that requires this type of solvent, the other substances involved and that I know the stuff is not the nicest chemical to work with etc. He then started relaxing and eventually said that he would be happy to sell me diethyl ether, because one, nobody would make that use case up on the spot, and two, he now believed that I knew what I was talking about.
Eventually I never went down that route because some of the chemicals are really expensive and even though I love photography, I am not willing to bankrupt myself over it (more than I already have 😂).
I wonder what nefarious purposes ether gets used for! I buy it in spray cans for cold-starting diesel engines.
Edit: I think people use it as an inhalant.
@@stinkymart3173idk but i know that its flammable asf and i think toxic too but not really sure
@@stinkymart3173 Ether was rather popular in the 18th an 19th century as a recreational drug. As you guessed, people inhaled it.
It used to be used as an anesthetic. That alone would give the poor chemist concern for why some rando would want it; if someone desired it, it's probably not *themselves* they want to KO.
The funny thing is that Styropyro does the exact same thing that Nile does but even worse. Not only does he collect all sorts of scary chemicals for his videos about this chemistry book from the 30s, but he also does experiments with high voltage electricity and high power lasers all in a shed in the middle of the woods. And he’s been visited by the FBI for his chemistry video because of the amount of chemicals he bought, not because of his high voltage electricity or lasers or his Arabic heritage, but because of making parade candles with arsenic and mercury.
This podcast was so akward they keep trying to predict what he is gonna say but they are wrong every time
the thing with the huge funnel makes so much sense after he explained it.
at first its like wtf he is saying but then its pure logic.
love it.
I love how he explained himself twice, and they still didn't understand the difference between research at the gram scale and preparation at the thousands of grams scale.
this makes me want a 22 liter round bottom flask...
just stick it on the coffee table as a conversation piece lol
Put some water and flowers in it
It'd fall over though...
@@patheddles4004 it would have a stand... or a cushion or something lol
Talking about how much work it is to make a video then saying “That would severely impact my meth business” had me in stitches
connor is doing a proper interview while the rest is just like a laughing track people in the background.
Yeah, kinda wish they'd match the guest's energy, haha. It works with Michael Reeves because he has their level of energy, Connor is trying to sincerely answer questions and keeps having to cut them off while they make jokes to answer the questions that THEY asked.
what proper interview he keeps cutting him off mid sentence
where do i know this profile picture tho
Nah the dude on the left is pretty annoying ngl, he keeps cutting the guest off, like he’s trying to finish Nilered’s sentences.
Sounds like what I was told once; "We're not allowed to profile people, but I know what I'm looking for and you're not it."
Bro doubled the average IQ of that room.
8:39 "... would severely impact my meth business" 🤣
The idea of Walter White starting a TH-cam channel gets funnier when you imagine he gets SWATted and busted on accident lol
They cut him off so much. Nile’s insanely interesting to listen to
its not an interview and they all were excited to have him, its normal
While I agree I do have to say, welcome to podcasts
@@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia
But still not acceptable in my opinion, but that all entirely depends on how you look at it, and you can feel free to correct me if you believe that i'm wrong or may be wrong, and feel free to try, and prove me wrong if you think that i'm wrong, and if anyone can prove me wrong, And I look forward to being proven wrong if anyone can prove me wrong, And, Regardless, I look forward to hearing y'alls veiwpoints, and perspectives on this subject matter.
@@jonaskristensen-fq2xt I have the truth. I could show you the truth. I think I could convince you I am right. Even more I think the truth is known by me. I look forward to teaching you the truth. I think we could have a nice discussion on why it is or not acceptable
@JoaquinElf
In my personal opinion, You should tell those people to let you finish, and then just contingue talking as if nothing happened, but that all entirely depends on how you look at it, and you can feel free to correct me if you believe that i'm wrong or may be wrong, and feel free to try, and prove me wrong if you think that i'm wrong, and if anyone can prove me wrong, And I look forward to being proven wrong if anyone can prove me wrong, And, Regardless, I look forward to hearing y'alls veiwpoints, and perspectives on this subject matter.
I've heard the "if I were to..." line is often a way for cops to catch you in a lie. Like rather than saying "we have video evidence of you shoplifting" or whatever, they say "if there were a video camera in that store, would I see you shoplifting".
It's weird but it so often works, posing it as a likelihood of being caught rather than a fact.
It's like buying a bag of fertilizer. Nobody cares when you buy 1 bag, nobody really cares when you buy 10, but when you buy 1000 there are really only 2 explanations. Either you have a business that uses fertilizer on an industrial scale, like a farm or landscaping company, or you're making explosives. Those are the only reasons you would need that much fertilizer. The one poor fool who actually just loves plants and has a garden that big is gonna get a LOT of extra attention.
The secret is to build a birkeland eyde reactor.
Once you gave a reason that's half reasonable, it suddenly becomes a liability in human rights violation. Also, he probably had bigger fish to fry, and didn't want to waste any more time.
police in a lot of places: what rights
@@AnEnderNon Seeing how often the Charter is treated as a suggestion, that Includes Canada
El derecho a disponer de la propiedad privada más importante,nuestro cuerpo y nuestra mente,la prohibición de las drogas es socialismo
This guy is literally living in Breaking Bad
This is the moment Nilered became Heisenberg
I'm pretty sure he doesn't have cancer
Can confirm as a former chemist from the US who was contacted by the FBI for "suspicious purchase history."
Walter Jr could become a streamer and big Walter could launder the money through him disguised as tips and subscriptions 🤔
Deadass
This already happened but its with random streamers and if available they abuse the refund system to donate huge sums of money and refunding it
The guy sitting next to NileRed is so awkward it's hilarious 💀He'll make a joke and then immediately pipe down as if he'd overextended himself 4:31
6:53 💀💀💀
"I just bought a really big funnel" had me dying hahaha
LET HIM SPEAK
It would be sick, if you guys maybe let him finish a single thought without interjecting something that he has to continue to say “no” to & then retrace his steps.
Literally what I was thinking. You can see NileRed was a bit annoyed.
I think it’s because they don’t really understand what he’s saying so they have to keep repeating it back to him in simple terms and they’re always wrong.
They're obnoxious and can't hold a normal conversation for more than 2 minutes
WOOHAHAHAAHAHHA WHAT BOUT METH TH-cam
@@Heopfulhuh?
Comically large funnel.
Gus had a chicken business as a cover up, just saying...
In this case he had help and funding, so he had plenty of time to focus on either side of the business
That was a 100s of milliona of dollars operation tbf
22L Round Bottom Flask *scribbles notes. Uh huh, go on.
The clips from this episode are all bangers, same with the Will Osman video. Watching the boys pog at different flavors of Science Guy makes for great content
Back in the mid 90's, I went down to my local feed and seed and asked to buy 3 50 pound bags of Ammonium Nitrate, which immediately raised some eyebrows. The asked me my name, so I just gave them my first name. It took about 3 months for the phone call to ask me to come and pick-up my order. The guy at the conter told me they had to order a minimum shipment of 5 bags and if I wanted to purchase all five. I replied, no, I just need 3. Some crazy bought the other two bags and tried to blow-up the local federal building.
10ml Erlenmeyer are a great addition to aquarium test kits, but they also make neat little liquid arrowheads apparently. I got contacted for ordering 24 of em back in '09. I had four aquariums and wanted to simply pull the water samples and sit down to do the tests.
I had a buddy in high school, with a very high IQ. He got kicked out of university for making TNT in the cem lab. His mom owned a bunch of forest land, which she sold all the timber from. He had a couple of thousand stumps he wanted to remove, and decided that blowing them up was teh best way to remove stumps. He found a recipe for TNT in the “Anarchist’s Cook Book”. It didn’t seem safe to make in the kitchen sink. So, he went to the lab to make it under a hood with bettter control of the conditions. A Prof saw a kid he didn’t recognize, and decided to check it out. The guy was book smart, but a social idiot. He actually, told teh Prof the truth, and explained the step chemistry. Ten minutes later he was in cuffs, and in the process of being removed front the university.
“I just bought a really big funnel” had me dying
What is absolutely crazy is that when I was 6 years old, in Canada, I was able to walk into a drug store - any drug store - and buy Sulphur and Potassium nitrate. On my own, without supervision. Decent amounts, with my allowance. It's amazing how much Canada has changed.
I'm gonna ask, what did you need those for at the age of 6?
@@stinkymart3173 To make gun powder. What else?
@Quang Khôi Hrm... Most of those stories are jokes to sound cool, the truth is, I never heard one story where it actually happened. Not to mention that science can be dangerous, but it's also important. Pretty lame response, ngl. Trading having people like Nile around for fires that never actually happened...
@Quang Khôi Also, do you know how many 6 year olds actually manage to make gunpowder on their own? In Canada or anywhere? Because I've only ever known or heard of 1. And if Nile did it, that would be 2. And I hung out with the smart kids in many schools. It, just, doesn't happen...
There is a pizza place in New York. Originally set up for money laundry, but mamma’s pizza is so good that the son turned himself in, served his time so he can leave the mob and focus on the restaurant.
Hahaha, Nile's actually pretty funny. 'Til this, I remember he was grinding something with a mortar and pestle, and he said something like 'my weak chemist arms', and I thought that was pretty good.
The chocolate video 😂
Now that’s a great cover to buy big funnels.
Officer: “I am calling to follow about up on this enormous funnel you recently bought.”
Me: “Oh no officer it’s not what you think, i am successful TH-camr and I make chemistry videos.”
Officer: “Ohh ok, carry on.”
Me: *Continue being Walter White*
The government sweats over funnels but not the fact that two chemicals in your kitchen can make unstable explosives. Hahaha
imagine having to report it stolen, the police would just move into your house
I bought a gas mask one time off ebay for a Halloween costume. It got sent to the wrong address and they needed up calling the cops after they opened it. The FBI showed up at my door asking why we bought it because there was a presidential convention going on near me at the time. I was in middle school, those were the goods days
stop fuckin dying laughing at everything
I have a friend who worked as a chemist at a major university who told me that going to the US was a pain in the ass b/c they were always worried about him making drugs. Not that he would or has, just that he has the skill. Crazy. Just having the Chem PhD was enough to make it an issue.
You don't need a degree. You can easily be self taught and develop routes not really talked about. It's not hard
they cut him off way too much. let him finish the story, guys
Now its a debate, will i be put on a list if i search 22L round bottom flask?
This was one of the best episodes
"Why do you need this?"
"You know the show Breaking Bad?"
"Yes..."
"Well, it's nothing like that."
Nile red: "I need this container to make a LOT of -chemicals- "
Government: " idk man that's hella sus bro"
I need this container because I keep attempting reactions with practically zero corroborating papers and my yields are absolute garbage.
05:01 to cook spagetti
Yes.
Exactly
Yes
If Nile shaves his head and starts wearing a pork pie hat he's turned a corner
I wanna turn one of these suspicious arousing flasks into something, say a terrarium or aquarium... Come to my house and ask what Im using it for... "Follow me, I'll show you man, I did this just to see if they'd send someone for real, I heard someone would come check if I bought one."
YES! I have been talking up Explosions&Fire for YEARS trying to get people to check him out! Dude is genuinely really funny and is making some crazy stuff!
Agreed... Just dont mention yellow.
@@merlyworm I've even built him a shrine!
Great channel, I have only been subbed since beginning of this year but I do not regret it(:
@@merlyworm yellow?
@@squirtthesquid If you watched Explosions&Fire you'd understand.
I love that we live in a time where educational chemistry videos are consumed regularly for content
I sorted my 300kg Lego collection in the past year and still wait for 'them' to knock on my door asking me what i would do with the 4-digit number of zipper bags of different size.
The uranium thing actually reminded me of a story I heard a while back. There was a high school kid, I think back in the 1980s, who was pretty much a savant; he sucked at dealing with people and most of his classes, but he was amazing at chemistry and engineering, and he managed to refine his own uranium in his backyard shed and set up a miniature nuclear reactor. Some time later, he ended up getting found out, and the police were called, and he actually got arrested and sent to prison because he made a nuclear reactor in his backyard while still in school. I need to look that up again, I can't remember his name.
EDIT his name was David Hahn, and I was wrong about a few things; he didn't actually complete his reactor. He was trying to build a breeder reactor, and he got pulled over by police for something else, and they called federal officers when he warned them that some of the items in his car were radioactive. He didn't get arrested, but was sent for psychological evaluation, and later joined the military before dying in 2016 to drugs and alcohol.
ahh yes the nuclear boyscout
he actually succeeded in building the breeder reactor but realised that he was actually creating plutonium and decided to disassemble it
he only got found out after he got pulled over
a bunch of hazmat agents cut apart the shed where he experimented with radioactive materials and they packed it all into plastic barrels and buried it in a location i don't quite remember
the reason i know this was a long time ago when i was really young
i thought that i could design a gamma ray blaster that could fire blasts of blue light like a deadly laser but later realised my idea would not work unless it was overly large that and if it got damaged in anyway it would kill you and anybody around you
basically it would work like a mechanical demon core blaster
except smaller
then i went oh it would not travel like i thought and would not be effective at all
if i was born in a early time you would probably be talking about my nuclear blundergun along side david hahn
luckily i realised the dangers of my idea and stopped before i attempted to create a prototype
@@slycooper1001 the real shitty part is that he could have revolutionized nuclear energy, but instead he was treated like a criminal.
Let him speak jesus
Nile : no I’m not making meth
The guy : that’s a shame I was looking for a high quality one.
This is the moment when NileRed became NileBlueSky.
Imagine letting the guest talk for more than 10 seconds instead of cutting them off to say ”right, right yeah, that makes sense, yeah and then that thing and right yeah…” lol.
The idea of Walter White quitting making meth because his cover up TH-cam channel is actually more lucrative made me laugh harder than in a long time
you should've asked him about his meth synthesis video. It was a really old video that he deleted years ago lol. I wonder if he got into trouble 🤔
@@johnnyparsnips7641 i think thats the joke
@@johnnyparsnips7641 I've seen a re-upload, I think the word was youtube had deleted it.
I was cloning gourmet mushrooms and all the info and techniques I was using was from psychedelic mushroom growing methods. Anyway, I needed isopropyl alcohol and had to get it from the pharmacy. I bought a few bottles and It was just way easier telling the pharmacist that I was sterilizing Ostridge egg incubators ( a lie ) than explaining I was growing mushrooms but not illegal mushrooms. As soon as I had a reason for my strange purchase he stopped being suspicious.
There’s literally nothing strange about that purchase….
It's isopropyl alcohol, bro. That dude was either really bored or way too nosy. It's sold OTC in every walmart across the US.
@applepiesapricots3109
So are all the ingredients to make meth lmao. Whats your point?
"Jesse. We need to film!"
I like watching them act like they know what he's talking about
Jesus christ, if you'd let him talk without interrupting the story would be much shorter.
Once i bought
4 Rc wheels, a Lypo batery a Wifi controller + RaspBerry, several servos and a Camera board with their TTL connector and got an email from the army hahah to clarify the usage of my components lol
In Russia we can't have legally some types of weapons but we have lots of gun channels. Wonder why
i frickin swear Nigel's voice is just a weird voice signature that's stuck in my brain since childhood.
“I could just make meth” -NileRed
Playing Shadowrun is hell on your social credit because it takes place in the real world, in a neo-modern setting. When you search up airport floor plans, you know you're going on a watch list.
"It's for the uranium surely.."
A funnel actually.
*visible British confusion*
Yeah it was a mundane thing
3 minutes later: yeah it was meth related 😂
I got a government letter( Canada) for buying something off eBay, and it's the most ridiculous thing. Activated charcoal pills/tablets. The ones used for people that overdose on something . I just thought it was a cool thing to own. I still don't understand why there was a problem. It's just literally a piece of charcoal in tablet form like tums antacid.
maybe because charcoal used in making moonshine? sorry for necropost
Off topic, but the guy on the left looks extremely uncomfortable and anxious.
He really doesn't. If you actually watch the podcast you will know that this is basically their normal dynamic (with the inclusion of NileRed ofc)
the self-control it clearly took to not talk over nile...