@@heavybooom7790 eh idk if I agree with that. StyroPyro’s videos just have an intentional chaotic style to them. They’re both smart dudes who understand the risks and take proper precautions.
There is actually a shit ton of radioactive material that's just in stuff. But it's such a tiny amount. And the Uranium he got was probably like 5-15 grams or something, not enriched... It's surprisingly not that dangerous (minus the obvious personal medical concerns) unless it's in large amounts.
I mean hell, they're only now phasing out old smoke alarms that have radioactive material in them. Used to be every smoke alarm had radioactive material in them.
@@ngoclamtruong5033 Nah, but even despite that... This guy started doing amateur chemistry AS A KID. I don't know about you but the first time I came into contact with any type of chemistry was in high school
It's funny how usually when a guest comes on, they would simply add onto the Trash Taste experience. But with Nigel, he single-handedly carried the entire podcast episode himself.
He's like a fiction story, thats why it is so entertaining to listen to him, just imagine being in his place. Exaclty like a book makes your imagination run wild xD
His childhood sounds very similar to mine with regards to playing with fire. I can believe how kids dont play with fire and fireworks. Lol the rest of the guys on the panel are soft
@@graxo3752 all kids play with fire at some point in their lives that’s not the part ppl found crazy about his stories he was playing with explosives, opening up batteries, and the like
@@graxo3752 , reminds me of mine as well. I don't remember much from the general life, but I do recall playing with microwave ovens and transformers, making my own short term scuba breather, taking apart batteries, making a remote control toy boat from a remote control car...etc. I even built an electronic catcher that sat in the water stream and would trigger with enough pressure, causing a net to surround the creature that passed over it. I also stole the neighbors old school TV antenna for experiments, the kind that is attached to the outside of a house... they were pretty tolerant considering I literally lifted it out of the ground and carried it over, lol. I think all of this was 7-11 or so. I wonder if most STEM people has similar wants to experiment.
It’s not that free if you’re over the age of 25 which he is lol you’ve gotta pay for lots still just the emergency measures and shit are covered (ambulances aren’t even covered they’re about 50$) I’m almost 25 not excited to have to pay for all my medications and pain management visits since being hit by a vehicle 😅
@@SailorSteph Still, it is paid for by taxes and private subsidy. It isn't free. Simply because you don't personally buy into the program doesn't mean it isn't paid for.
I love how Nigel is trying to explain the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry and the three of them are like "right, right, got it", but it's clear on their faces that they have no idea what Nigel is talking about
Well they say they got it but that's because it makes no sense for them to keep asking for more clarification when it can't be said clearer and it would just freeze the show
I mean one of them was an engineer, and you talk about the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry in a first-year course. I think it's covered in AP Chemistry as well. It's not a complicated concept, it's just to subject matter division.
@@galaxyorion8725 well, Garnt (engineer degree) and Joey (worked in IT company before, studied quantum physics) break the stereotype that Asian are smart!
Imagine him villain monologuing at you, talking about how he's gonna blow up the government or something and it just sounds fine and comfy coming from him.
Speaking as a professial chemist here: you just have to sometimes work with explosives and poisons. You learn to be safe about it but I routinely use cyanide all the time. It's a very useful reagent
Me: "I really like spicy foods, so I wanted to start buying more spicy ingredients for my cooking." Nigel: "I really like spicy foods, so I wanted to extract pure capsaicin from peppers."
lol, sometimes it's cheaper to make things yourself, or at least spend a few minutes doing a cost analysis. it's mindblowing how much certain things have a lot of "value" in food esp because someone's too lazy to make it themselves. Like the cost of buying a 12-15lbs bone in ribeye vs buying it piece by piece. it might cost like $12.99/lbs for the ribeye * 14lbs, it's $181.86 You buy a 32oz Prime Ribeye at a steak house and that's like $100 bucks (plus ~30% tax tip) now. Except you can now have 7 for a little more than the price of 1. In Nigel's case, it's for the pursuit of knowledge, and that's a lot of fun.
@@styledliving While it is true, you're kinda using skewed numbers. A 12.99/lbs isn't going to be the same quality as what you'll get for 100+ for at a steak house lol. Also to actually save money meaningfully you'd need to buy something more like a quarter cut, where you'd need to know how to butcher several different cuts. And it honestly ends up being worth it to just buy the steaks unless you just really enjoy the process.
He’s calmer than Michael, but his mind is crazier. Michael is on the surface crazy, but he’s tame compared to the chaos that stews in Nigel’s brain XD he’s like a geode
Michael is like "here's a really stupid idea. I have know of a dozen ways I could possibly make this happen, let's keep throwing things at the wall while chugging heart-stopping amounts of red bull, and see what sticks." Nile is like "I exactly know what I'm doing and aware of what's the possible results, so it's weird that people are looking worried at the potassium bromide disulfide I'm churning in this shaker"
@@ctographerm3285 mans really just gave 3 anions to a valency 1 element, on the s block. If it was even possible to make it, everyone should be worried (I get what you're trying to say tho)
NileRed's childhood is the case with so many kids who end up in STEM. Parents who just go "Yes, and I'll help you do it safely!" to almost everything ridiculous. This is how you get a scientist out of your kid.
@@atzincastellanos6778 That's who I thought it was but the comment said Michel so I was doubting myself for a second cuz he's the only one with crackhead energy that I know.
Tier list of youtubers who would be terrifying if they are in prison: -the Japanese dude who can make a knife out of anything -Lockpicking Lawyer -NileRed
what i got from this, is just confirming something i already knew, Nile is just really simple. Asking all these complicated questions, and Nile is just "I did it cause i wanted to"
Idk if this is legit but I've read somewhere that Chris leaked in a stream or something that the bois will announce him as the official 4th member after the Trash Taste tour
The innocence in how he is saying the things that he is saying is in a hilarious contrast, which makes the other 3's reaction to it even funnier. This whole ep is a continuous gem.
We handled Bromine as highschoolers. Burnt it without the exhaust on (we ignored instructions btw), then my chemistry teacher casually walked behind us and casually said “guys you know Bromine gas is poisonous”. Immediately put our hands on our faces and stepped back. We looked at him in horror, he just said “notice that I’m behind you in case there are a lot of fumes”. We never ignored instructions again. Missed him very much, rip
I was lucky enough to have Nigel's dad as one of my favorite college professors he always had the most entertaining stories and interesting labs. His imagination was infectious and it really helped me in finding the right career. Hope he's doing well in retirement.
yo same! He was great loll, absolute legend in the program and made every class a blast...nigel talking abt how he was the one teaching him these things definitely reminded me of him
@@stefanbrosilch6313 Actually, due to French history of very large amounts of poverty, most French cuisine came from using either cheap ingredients that were commonly available, and leftovers. Of course this was true with basically every country throughout European history, but it is possible it might even be more common with French cuisine due to the amount of poverty the people there faced.
completely agree with how misunderstood chemistry is i was synthesizing aspirin for a course project in high school and people thought that recrystallizing was some crazy meth shit but you literally just stand there and wait for it to boil half the time and then recrystallize it just to boil it again
@@rg9991I study ChemE and two years ago I took an introductory class about mechanical physics. The equations weren’t even complicated but mechanical structures can get so complicated so easily it’s such a headache
I once heard of a dude who was like a super high-ranking mobster in New York This dude basically started a pizza restaurant to launder all the mafia money But there was a problem He was making more money from making pizza than actually doing all the illegal shit So he ended up quitting and settling down in his pizza restaurant
As someone who’s watched Nile for a long while, his videos are full of knowledge but also charm. He’s super chill but also pretty funny, like a chaotic neutral person through and through. My favorite one to watch is him turning toilet paper to alcohol or gloves into grape soda, it’s a tie really.
I feel like all these dudes grew up in apartments (Niles excluded obviously). When my brother and I discovered the anarchist cookbook it was a free for all…My Dad showed us how to make potato cannons, would throw spray paint cans into fire pits and taught us how to weld to make our own rails for skateboarding. These dudes are shocked that his Dad encouraged him to learn and clearly it did him a solid.
I was like, what else their dad would teach them? Like my dad actually give me communist manifesto to read when i was 6 and taught me how to hunt small animals withbamboo🤣
You don't need to specficiallh live in an apartment to have a somewhat sheltered adolescence??? And having a sheltered childhoods isn't necessarily bad,Nigel had responsible parents that encouraged their curiosities but didn't let them go unchecked. Things could get dangerous if kids are let free to do what they want but not controlled
@@jamesmending3146 he actually did it twice, so far! one of them was just not in a part where that camera's footage was being used, just the general shot of all four guys
Out of everything in the entire two hour 16 min podcast, the thing I was shocked about most is that Nigel is at least THIRTY YEARS OLD. like- there's NO WAY, right? He doesn't even look older than his early twenties!! Has this guy made a de-aging serum with his chemicals or something?! Has he chemically formulated a super soldier immortality compound???
I feel like there's quite a few people that can relate to that in a sense, I personally love math and the things you can do with it in other fields, but as soon as we got into the history and proving of the formulas, I hated those lessons cause it was just absolutely useless knowledge for anyone whose life isn't centered around trivia
@@chagorith As much as I absolutely hate learning proofs they do offer something valuable and that’s reinforcing underlying principles. Like understanding how the hydrostatic equations for a general shape submerged in a fluid are derived gives a better understanding of what’s actually physically happening in the system. It also grants a deeper understanding of when a formula or solution method works and when it breaks apart and why. For example, understanding how a lead compensator can be made from canceling a zero on the root locus graph geometrically gives a better understanding of knowing when shortcuts (like using the average between two points) can be used and when they can’t.
Chris did say on his podcast that when the trash taste tour is over they were announcing that he's the 4th member. Well, kinda. Pete said "Have you guys announced that you're officially the 4th member now?" and Chris said "No not yet. We're gonna wait till after the tour." Idk if it's just Chris being cheeky or not but they seemed kinda serious. You never know with him though.
42:27 "Acid spilled on me, but i didn't want to ruin the shot." The way how Connor just looks directly into the cam like: "What in the holy-" just made me lose it. XD
I love how curious Nile was as a kid, and continues to be. And how his Dad taught him how to be safe with his curiosity, letting him learn, test, and grow on his own. He loves to solve the puzzle of chemistry, and try to make it accessible to everyone.
Yeah one of the biggest things is how his father fostered his interests and helped him develop the right line of thinking to further those interests on his own.
While I enjoy his content, I kinda find myself in a position to argue caution towards it. Because it's a misrepresentation of what chemistry is. "Real" chemistry is quite a lot less interesting to see, because it's mostly staring at graphs and sticking fluids in machines to give you said graphs. What he does is impressive, but I doubt there's much actual use for it. But then again, these kinda experiments are also what my college promotes itself with so it's the rod for our own back. Man, I just wanna see people aware of how various sciences work. People still think chemistry is about pumping the color fluid through the funny glasses that make your face look big. Meh, who am I to try to even educate people, actually? If someone takes their understanding of science and research from dexter that's on them, not on the show.
@@chukyuniqul Nigel Braun is to Chemistry as Michael Reeves is to mechanical and electrical engineering. They do all the fun shit and a lot of different things.
@@kingmanic honestly that's more revelatory about michael because I really only know him through trash taste. But yes, it's churlish to expect them to basically teach their subjects since they clearly want to entertain more, with any education being tangential. THAT BEING SAID, if nothing else Nigel gives a solid example of laboratory safety.
I work for a hazmat waste management company and honestly, it's horrific how poorly these chemicals are managed. You can't store these things in massive quantities without risking a catastrophe. So it mostly just gets stored in the desert or the mountains where no one lives. Companies, governments and people just pick a spot on the map that will do the least harm and destroy that place forever.
@@CybersteelExused to work for the local meat factory, the bastards dumped their shit in the nearby shitpond just off the main road outside town, literally smelled that shit in town on my front lawn for a few years until the local gov got pissed off and stopped them. Imagine the shitpond smelling worse then literal shit, like fuck me, now it just smells when close to it, and less deadly.
Nigel has to be a case study somewhere about how someone can come within a hair's breadth of becoming a serial arsonist psychopath but managed to emerge as a well-adjusted science eccentric instead
The ironic thing, if someone does something like chemistry and they turn out to be a dangerous psycho, we think it is related to the chemistry. Like the Unabomber. But if someone is a lawyer and turns out to be a serial killer, we don't associate it with having been a lawyer, like Ted Bundy.
But it's not ironic, it just makes perfect sense. Chemistry can be used to make all sorts of dangerous concoctions and/or dangerous weapons, the same can't be done with being a lawyer. Sure a lawyer could be bent and maybe get some bad people out of shit or cover their own arse, legally, but it's not creating dangerous weapons.
Working as a chem tech is dangerous as hell. Nigel's videos are fun because he always seems comfortable around his chemicals. Being nervous and unsure can cause serious harm. I still have the scars from being sprayed in the face with acid by a nervous tech who fumbled with the crow's foot on a diaphragm pump and to this day, the smell of vinegar still makes me catch my breath. I've worked with a lot of nasty stuff from acids to perfume additives and I'll always remember being blinded, unable to breathe and running through a tank farm feeling for a bottle of vinegar to pour on my face and neutralize the chemical.
I've never even gotten it on me, but working with glacial acetic has made me unduly uncomfortable around vinegar. I can't imagine what it must be like to have actually gotten sprayed with the stuff
@@worthlesshuman5041 Funny thing is, I loved salt and vinegar chips before I started chem tech. But being around drums of acetic has made it unbearable.
@@worthlesshuman5041 imagine walking onto the chemistry floor to work on senior research, and getting smacked in the face with the stench of hot acetic acid. Organic for non-majors class was heating it in open flasks on steam cones at all the work stations in lab. No ventilation at all. Have hated the smell ever since.
11:15 I love how Nigel is wondering why his grandpa had potassium nitrate. Gonna take a stab in the dark and guess his family have been pyromaniacs for generations
@@guy_withglasses i mean its one way to remove the stump,but what it really does is it reduces the wood cellouse, making it rot faster. If a normal stump takes around 7 years to decay, potassium nitrate help it do it in 3 weeks.
So as another guy who got into chemistry, it’s very validating to hear that Nigel was also making fireworks when he was 9. Honestly making smoke bombs are one of the hardest forms of firework to make because they’re very temperature sensitive and they have to burn slowly. 10/10 good shit
That was the thing about this episode. Nile’s stories are so crazy and entertaining that the bois didn’t need to interfere. Their reactions was all I needed. Connor’s questions was the fuel to the Nile story machine It just worked so well. It’s not awkward at all because there’s constant noise
The story with Radium paint is scary if you've never heard it. The women from the watch company used to use the Raidium paint to paint the dials of the watches and they used to go out dancing after and used to paint their teeth with it so they would glow in the dark dance club rooms when they smiled. The higher ups in the company knew it was dangerous and still let them do it because it was legal at that time still. So almost all the girls developed some form of cancer usually bone and usually mostly effecting the jawbone. The movie is called "Radium Girls" from 2018, very eye opening and tragic.
One girls jaw literally fell off. I don't know if that's in the movie as I haven't seen it but the cancer was so bad she lost her jaw and of course the cancer killed her
They were told to put the paintbrushes in their mouths to form them into a sharp point. The company knew and never disclosed it to anyone until they were exposed after the fact.
@@samn6498 yeah, a similar story is of a dude who drank some 'medicine' with radium in it like all the time for everything until his jaw fell off, there are pictures are there and theyre very gruesome (Eben Byers)
Radium was only found in tiny concentrations in those paints. Radium alone will kill you MUCH FASTER. Radium is a strong Alpha, Beta and Gamma emitter.
It's quite amazing, as an Chem Eng graduate, to see the "mysticism" of chemistry in the bois' reaction toward some things Nigel said that I deem normal, but the bois got bewildered by
As someone studied in nutrition and biochem I'm often screaming inside. I think the last one was them taking a guess at what vinegar is usually made of. 😂
Being a sixth form chem student and being familiar with the basics of some of the stuff Nigel talks about on his channel also makes me realize as well how uncommon chem knowledge can be... It's an interesting position to be in haha
It's great seeing Connor so passionate about a guest and guiding the conversation. Usually its the other way around where he's learning all sorts of things about a guest one of the other guys knows well, but today Garnt's the bewildered one lol
Nile might unironically be my favorite guest since Lady Beard. While most guests have been fun, these two are just so enthralling in their stories and passion that the 2 hours passed so God damn quick.
this is the first time I've heard Nigel given the space to actually talk. unlike the safety third podcast where he just constantly gets talked over and never gets to finish a single story. such an interesting guy!
@@HafidzMurshidie I won't speak for anyone else, but there's a middle ground between very frequent interruptions and a Ted Talk, and I prefer podcasts in that middle ground.
@@liquidcorundum6568 That I can understand.. But the guy I replied to said “Not everybody needs a podcast”, on a comment section of a podcast, so I’m baffled by his comment..
As an older millennial, he had a pretty standard childhood to me. We were allowed to get into all those same shenanigans in the pre-internet, pre-cell phone, pre-computer in every home, times. That was just how we entertained ourselves. Messed with everything, nearly killed ourselves at every turn, and touched grass until the street lights came on. *shakes fist at clouds*
Lol in the 80's as a kid I expiremented with making "weapons" like spears/etc for myself and the neighborhood kids. Figured it out mostly on my own although I had to read up a bit in library books to make bows and the basics of smithcraft when I was a bit older. Confused the hell out of most of the librarians why a tiny girl wanted books on medieval and Native American weaponry. They liked my enthusiasm though so did their best to help with my obsession
I'm also an 26 yo asian that nearly burn down my parents house and climbing in the foot of transmission tower as a kid in rainy day, making homemade fireworks with match stick and homemade dart, making tiny functional bow with a coin and few toothpick.
I'm generation Z and I did similar things. Me and my friend would build traps in the forest with axes hanging in the trees triggered by trip wires. Paintball, ridiculous biking stunts, etc... Although I did stop doing a lot of it once I got access to the internet. A shame.
I know someone who blown his hand off with a "nuclear bomb" he made by cutting firework up and wrap all its gunpowder with foil and food wrap. Apparently his parents know what he's making but he didn't listen. Kid are crazier than you thought.
I've watched Nigel since the beginning, back when he was shooting from his parents garage. It was a welcome distraction from uni and throughout my PhD in OChem. Promoting chemistry to a wide general audience is a wonderful thing. You should be incredibly proud about your work and the potential future scientists you've inspired. Edit: Of course this is the most relatable episode for me, it's like a 2 hours snippet from more than a decade of questions from zooted friends.
Hi fellow chemist 🧪 so glad the boys have brought him on the podcast! Watching this was so inspiring and fun. Even funnier is realizing how discussions we have amongst colleagues about our work can look completely insane to laymen 🤣🤣
Congrats on your PhD! I’m in a chemistry master’s program and have been watching him since I had to isolate piperine out of pepper in an undergrad OChem lab and used his video for directions. Watching his videos definitely helped to remind me of the reason I’m studying chemistry in the first place whenever I was close to giving up because theoretical chemistry and quantum mechanics exams were too frustrating to study for.
every time nigel opened his mouth, i was like "yeah sounds about like him". the story just keeps better and better and how he just nonchalantly says all of these things adds to effect
Nigel is like a Goblin from Warcraft, only for Chemistry instead of Engineering. He doesn't think much about the technicals; he has an end goal, and he learns the process necessary to achieve that goal, and he does it. Then he goes back and learns about the actual chemical reactions, and how they work. A very direct, practical, applied approach to chemistry.
Nile's parents know how to raise a child. Kids need to learn through experiences. If you stop them from doing dangerous things carefully, they'll never understand how to navigate dangerous things, and limit their own capabilities.
@@JusticeMuz yeah, im a huge nilered fan and avid chemistry enjoyer so can't rly relate to these dudes' confusion, but this was still a great podcast agreed
@snipermonkey_discord Nah, not just you. I’ve conducted interviews for news articles and my own podcasts and you gotta let your guest tell their story. Guide them, let them get a paragraph or two out, then ask clarifying questions and keep your own reactions muted but honest.
You can tell how hype Connor is to have Nigel on the show by the rapid-fire questions he can't even fully wait to hear the full answers to before he fires the next. XD
As a PhD Chemistry graduate, watching the trash taste boy's reactions is hilarious. Meanwhile I can just completely relate to NileRed's stories and go Yep, I know where you're coming from. Excellent Podcast collaboration.
i’m convinced that a prerequisite to anyone in the field of chemistry is having done the most the wildest things with all sorts of materials, setting things on fire, mixing all sorts of things etc😭
@@idkanymore12 for me personally I never had the fascination with setting things on fire, but I do enjoy being inquisitive figuring out why something does a thing, especially if it is cool. The bane of all chemistry researchers is the inevitable "Why the hell do I have a black tarry mess in the jar now?" when the last 3 times it was pretty white crystals.
@@matt390 That sounds like hell to programmers lol. We can log our codes and slowly but surely identify elusive bugs, so I don't even want to imagine if we couldn't do that like chemists.
@@reendevelops To be fair what you do with your programming in identifying elusive bugs is similar to what a chemistry researcher would do with their experiments. The experiment produces the desired item, but also 3 undesired side products. What things can you change to give you more of the desired item or can you easily isolate the desired item from the undesired items. Sometimes it is a simple fix and other times it is ends in the black tarry mess again and it is back to square one and you headbutting the table repeatedly. The things that programmers can achieve from coding etc I would consider cool voodoo, as I go what the heck and how the heck lol.
@@matt390 Now that you explained it, that's actually exactly how the debugging process is in programming. I suppose the obvious thing I've learned from this is that some fields seem so different, yet also so similar. It's very simple, but wow it's easy to overlook! Truly fascinating.
We only live physically once so we shouldn’t be afraid to do anything bro, i smoke weed on my TH-cam channel and i do food videos too, screw anyones opinion brotha😪
Never in my whole god damn life did i thought I would see Nile with trash taste lol. I just Found Nile randomly on some shorts and binge watched all of them and now this. Super surprised!
Nigel is a prime example of an alpha nerd. His knowledge and understanding of chemistry is not just an interest, but an actual part of his life. His enthusiasm is contagious and people respond to that.
I completely agree. I used to love math but after 2 years of terrible teachers I hated it. I was lucky though and always had fantastic science teachers.
Everything Nigel says sometimes are so mysteriously badass yet terrifying, be it him missing his dangerous garage lab, or his affection with dangerous chemicals.
It's honestly really cool, because he talks like the nerdiest, most nervous and shy good kid on the block, but the shit he does and the stories he tells go so hard that you'd have to be insane to not deeply respect this man.
Not the collab i expected, but Nigel fits right in with the chaos. I love his chemistry videos Also having timestamps for Lube, Making Meth, and Getting Rid of a Body is hilarious
That's actually bad parenting. Are you suggesting to just trust a fucking 3-8 yo is a good parenting style? In most cases the child will do something irreversible to his life or possibly others. Just cos you managed to drunk drive on a highway without anything happening doesn't mean drunk driving is okay.
“Were the others kids scared of you?” “No, but they should have been” that is actually a terrifying line.
I was gonna comment this so here is the timestamp 26:40
@@icegod4849 Thanks a lot I was about to waste too much time searching this quote
@@icegod4849 thanks homie!
The scariest part is that none of them caught it.... Like a quiet mumble from the quiet kid in the back 😐
what if nilered was a menace
"What did you put in my locker?"
"A 1/10 scale demon core. Don't drop it."
The difference between a genius and a super villain are Nile's parents
its the thin line between the parents being alive or dead that make the origin story
@@heavybooom7790 eh idk if I agree with that. StyroPyro’s videos just have an intentional chaotic style to them. They’re both smart dudes who understand the risks and take proper precautions.
@@dowdayjing8442 well obviously he’s not an actual maniac lol but i always got the impression of his character being a mad scientist type
*genius vs meth cook
@@Johnny-tq9no organic chemistry vs electrical engineer
“So I got some Uranium” this episode is incredible
Your vids are mid
@@cosmicobsidian672 you're mid
@@cosmicobsidian672 cmonbruh
There is actually a shit ton of radioactive material that's just in stuff. But it's such a tiny amount. And the Uranium he got was probably like 5-15 grams or something, not enriched... It's surprisingly not that dangerous (minus the obvious personal medical concerns) unless it's in large amounts.
I mean hell, they're only now phasing out old smoke alarms that have radioactive material in them. Used to be every smoke alarm had radioactive material in them.
I love it when Nile clarifies with Connor that "Oh, not uranium, uranium *glass*", then follows with "So I got some uranium..."
actually (he didnt said it on the podcast) he got uranyl nitrate (afaik)
This guest episode is probably the best by far. This guy is literally a gold mine of stories
Good get some cyanide to purify it
I haven’t LOL so much. He legit has so many stories 😂
Literally
I guess it's because chemistry is not a very well-known thing for normal people would know, so everything about it is a new thing to us normie.
@@ngoclamtruong5033 Nah, but even despite that... This guy started doing amateur chemistry AS A KID. I don't know about you but the first time I came into contact with any type of chemistry was in high school
It's funny how usually when a guest comes on, they would simply add onto the Trash Taste experience. But with Nigel, he single-handedly carried the entire podcast episode himself.
he is just that cool
He's like a fiction story, thats why it is so entertaining to listen to him, just imagine being in his place. Exaclty like a book makes your imagination run wild xD
Therapy with Nigel
Top g
To much jok
well... there's one guy almost destroyed the set... the volume control was probably stuck on low compare to the rest...
Niles childhood was essentially real life phinease and ferb in an alternate reality where they were arsonists
I love this comment
Yeah man, loose parents who let kids be kids but let them know consequences always create brilliant minds
His childhood sounds very similar to mine with regards to playing with fire. I can believe how kids dont play with fire and fireworks. Lol the rest of the guys on the panel are soft
@@graxo3752 all kids play with fire at some point in their lives that’s not the part ppl found crazy about his stories he was playing with explosives, opening up batteries, and the like
@@graxo3752 , reminds me of mine as well. I don't remember much from the general life, but I do recall playing with microwave ovens and transformers, making my own short term scuba breather, taking apart batteries, making a remote control toy boat from a remote control car...etc. I even built an electronic catcher that sat in the water stream and would trigger with enough pressure, causing a net to surround the creature that passed over it. I also stole the neighbors old school TV antenna for experiments, the kind that is attached to the outside of a house... they were pretty tolerant considering I literally lifted it out of the ground and carried it over, lol. I think all of this was 7-11 or so. I wonder if most STEM people has similar wants to experiment.
Nigel really is taking full advantage of the free Canadian healthcare.
It’s not that free if you’re over the age of 25 which he is lol you’ve gotta pay for lots still just the emergency measures and shit are covered (ambulances aren’t even covered they’re about 50$) I’m almost 25 not excited to have to pay for all my medications and pain management visits since being hit by a vehicle 😅
@@LivsTanks Damn man thats rough, anyway Im going to go enjoy my Australian Healthcare
There's no such thing as "free" healthcare.
@@a.s.219there is in the UK technically. If you never earn enough money to pay taxes, you aren’t contributing to the NHS.
@@SailorSteph Still, it is paid for by taxes and private subsidy. It isn't free. Simply because you don't personally buy into the program doesn't mean it isn't paid for.
"I don't make firecracker anymore because I'm scared of blowing my fingers off, so i make some thermite" Nigel is truly an arsonist at heart
Also that firecracker was literally just a matchlock gun or a handheld canon.
It's even worse he said he never set thermite off
Truly a man after my own heart, the more I learn about him the more I'm sure we'd be best friends lmao
Timestamp?
How is he capable of experimenting with thermite at that age still baffles me
I love how Nigel just casually says the most horrendous things like they're an everyday thing
and so much stuff from when he was 10, hahaha
Just chemist things
As a fellow Canadian, I can say Nigel is perfectly normal.
@@insane3geo im not even canadian and I did this shit
Especially him buying Uranium casually
It was really nice of Nigel to bring on Garnt, Joey, and Connor as guests
Hahahahah true
if only they'd stop interrupting him... It's his show after all :D
The one true host
I love how Nigel is trying to explain the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry and the three of them are like "right, right, got it", but it's clear on their faces that they have no idea what Nigel is talking about
Well they say they got it but that's because it makes no sense for them to keep asking for more clarification when it can't be said clearer and it would just freeze the show
I mean one of them was an engineer, and you talk about the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry in a first-year course. I think it's covered in AP Chemistry as well. It's not a complicated concept, it's just to subject matter division.
@@ianhruday9584well actually two of them (connor and garnt)!
@@galaxyorion8725 well, Garnt (engineer degree) and Joey (worked in IT company before, studied quantum physics) break the stereotype that Asian are smart!
I understand it
Why does Nigel sound so wholesome while talking about explosives and other dangerous chemicals. His voice is so comforting for some reason.
His videos are great for binging and falling asleep to
Imagine him villain monologuing at you, talking about how he's gonna blow up the government or something and it just sounds fine and comfy coming from him.
Speaking as a professial chemist here: you just have to sometimes work with explosives and poisons. You learn to be safe about it but I routinely use cyanide all the time. It's a very useful reagent
@@milomoxie2472 I’d let him
Canadian things.
I really wanted a 4 hour podcast 💀. Nile has so many tangents holy shit
They never went past 2h30 I think.
give safety third podcast a try where he is one of the host there, I loved the part when he told the story about his pocket hotdog
They never got around to how he got into TH-cam….
bruh you comment on so many videos that I watch and its always so random
For content without Nile, there's always Trash Taste After Dark? But I getcha, I could listen to this for ages
"You make Michael Reeves seem well adjusted". That one nearly killed me
25:53
now i needa see a collab between Michael and Nile
@@normalguy1729 pretty sure theres been a few on podcasts before.
@@normalguy1729 the safety third podcast
@@guymanhumanperson YES
i get the strange feeling that nigel's morality is the only thing stopping him from ending planet earth
Like Superman
i think its more him being aware that if he ended the world he wouldnt be able to do his funny stuff
669th like
@@_5a575 yes and nobody else could do it...
Me: "I really like spicy foods, so I wanted to start buying more spicy ingredients for my cooking."
Nigel: "I really like spicy foods, so I wanted to extract pure capsaicin from peppers."
lol, sometimes it's cheaper to make things yourself, or at least spend a few minutes doing a cost analysis. it's mindblowing how much certain things have a lot of "value" in food esp because someone's too lazy to make it themselves.
Like the cost of buying a 12-15lbs bone in ribeye vs buying it piece by piece.
it might cost like $12.99/lbs for the ribeye * 14lbs, it's $181.86
You buy a 32oz Prime Ribeye at a steak house and that's like $100 bucks (plus ~30% tax tip) now.
Except you can now have 7 for a little more than the price of 1.
In Nigel's case, it's for the pursuit of knowledge, and that's a lot of fun.
Nigel: "I really like spicy foods, so I created pure capsaicin from gloves and vanilla."*
@@styledliving While it is true, you're kinda using skewed numbers. A 12.99/lbs isn't going to be the same quality as what you'll get for 100+ for at a steak house lol.
Also to actually save money meaningfully you'd need to buy something more like a quarter cut, where you'd need to know how to butcher several different cuts. And it honestly ends up being worth it to just buy the steaks unless you just really enjoy the process.
@@styledlivingDude's philosophizing
@SomethingCheezy I really like (name a food) so I made it using ( name a toxic things, or an object that is a joke with it)
He’s calmer than Michael, but his mind is crazier. Michael is on the surface crazy, but he’s tame compared to the chaos that stews in Nigel’s brain XD he’s like a geode
Michael is like "here's a really stupid idea. I have know of a dozen ways I could possibly make this happen, let's keep throwing things at the wall while chugging heart-stopping amounts of red bull, and see what sticks."
Nile is like "I exactly know what I'm doing and aware of what's the possible results, so it's weird that people are looking worried at the potassium bromide disulfide I'm churning in this shaker"
@@ctographerm3285 stupid crazy vs sociopath crazy.
@@ctographerm3285 this is a visible dangerous taser vs oh hey this puts off cancerous fumes but you can't see them
@@ctographerm3285 mans really just gave 3 anions to a valency 1 element, on the s block. If it was even possible to make it, everyone should be worried (I get what you're trying to say tho)
@@ctographerm3285 Micheal understands his idea is stupid and potentially dangerous.
Nile just thinks making tnt is like any other Tuesday afternoon.
seeing Nigel in a room full of suggestive anime figurines is like seeing a sheep inside a chicken farm
it makes him look like a totally different kind of nerd it’s so funny
@@bluedragonwitch An Impostor among Nerds lmao
it's fucking annoying they have that in the video
But even still there's something right about it
@@tezzla6358bros butthurt about seeing standing plastic
NileRed's childhood is the case with so many kids who end up in STEM. Parents who just go "Yes, and I'll help you do it safely!" to almost everything ridiculous. This is how you get a scientist out of your kid.
no cuz im in stem.. my parents told me that exact line... i had a similar past... you're 100% correct
Fr tho i did shit secretly bc yk asian parents LMAO
@@IR1SXX0 what is stem?
@@aspenisthebest Stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
I'Il follow this when I have a kid.
the big difference between Nigel and Michel is that Michel's persona is that he's a crackhead. Nigel is just as crazy but he tries to hide it.
True
I love him more for it
Michael?
@@derplololol9717 Micheal reeves, he’s a engineer-esk kinda of guy but everything that comes out of his mouth is funny but outrageous
@@atzincastellanos6778 That's who I thought it was but the comment said Michel so I was doubting myself for a second cuz he's the only one with crackhead energy that I know.
Tier list of youtubers who would be terrifying if they are in prison:
-the Japanese dude who can make a knife out of anything
-Lockpicking Lawyer
-NileRed
@@ussgordoncaptain a day? I feel he would be in and out on 30 minutes, and that's him stopping for lunch
and styropyro
What would lockpicking lawyer do lmao. Nothing scary about a guy opening a cell door
@@yui3886 I mean, it's just for fun anyway, but he doesn't have to be the only one let out. :)
Electroboom too
It feels like Connor is a big fan. I don't think I've seen him so inquisitive and hyper with a guest.
He's really into TH-cam. No idea who these guests are.
he was really invested with Geno Samuel too, this had a similar Connor vibe.
he legit never shut up, it was so fun watching them interact
the first chris episode though and ken arto
Im glad, there are times where I wish they would let the guest talk more but Connor did a decent job guiding the podcast 👍
what i got from this, is just confirming something i already knew, Nile is just really simple. Asking all these complicated questions, and Nile is just "I did it cause i wanted to"
Must be the japan and german in him.
the fact that Chris is now in every ad break just shows he's truly the 4th member
>Ad time
>>Chris
NANI?
i usually insta skip ads but this just made me go back and watch it
@@DenimanGo tbf trash taste ad reads are usually pretty funny so I don't tend to skip them unless I'm rewatching an episode
Idk if this is legit but I've read somewhere that Chris leaked in a stream or something that the bois will announce him as the official 4th member after the Trash Taste tour
Why is Nile red In Japan💀💀💀
The chemistry between the boys and today’s guest is un ironically just as reactive as the Bromine sitting in Nile’s parent’s garage
I'd say, Flourine even!
un*ionically*
Bromine isn't that reactive lol
meanwhile the chemistry between two strangers would be as reactive as glass
@@emanueledebortoli2945 that is the joke
Definitely need a second and possibly a third with NileRed. This one felt like it was only building up to the next episode.
This is probably my favorite guest episode. I usually prefer the episodes without guests but this was so enjoyablr
And let him finish a sentence before interrupting.
He would be great on Joe Rogan!
An origin story 🤭
WE definitely need more of older Nile's lab days, maybe uni for episode 2 and TH-cam episode 3
@@syedmajidhassan4051 Mine too. The Chris Broad ones are a close second imo
The innocence in how he is saying the things that he is saying is in a hilarious contrast, which makes the other 3's reaction to it even funnier. This whole ep is a continuous gem.
We handled Bromine as highschoolers. Burnt it without the exhaust on (we ignored instructions btw), then my chemistry teacher casually walked behind us and casually said “guys you know Bromine gas is poisonous”. Immediately put our hands on our faces and stepped back. We looked at him in horror, he just said “notice that I’m behind you in case there are a lot of fumes”. We never ignored instructions again. Missed him very much, rip
Ayo what do you mean rip??
@@MustardGaseous2099 the fumes got him
it sounds like you poisoned him
Meanwhile we had to evacuate from the room because my teacher dropped a little glass with bromine and a little bit got on the floor.
lol, this is why the guy in the corner who researches all the experiments before class is the best one to be your lab partner 😂
I was lucky enough to have Nigel's dad as one of my favorite college professors he always had the most entertaining stories and interesting labs. His imagination was infectious and it really helped me in finding the right career. Hope he's doing well in retirement.
Yo that's cool. Do you have a story of his that is your favourite?
What did he taught?
yo same! He was great loll, absolute legend in the program and made every class a blast...nigel talking abt how he was the one teaching him these things definitely reminded me of him
Wait a minute that actually sounds very awesome.
Oh shit I know Nigel is from McGill, did his dad also teach there?
The fact that Nigel is of German and Japanese descent makes it even better with his chemistry forays....
Now he just needs an Italian wife
The axis of science
He did accidentally make WWI teargas, after all :)
@@stefanbrosilch6313 EY put some respect on the italians, they made pizza and pasta for christ sake, if your gonna hate on anyone hate on the french
@@stefanbrosilch6313 Actually, due to French history of very large amounts of poverty, most French cuisine came from using either cheap ingredients that were commonly available, and leftovers. Of course this was true with basically every country throughout European history, but it is possible it might even be more common with French cuisine due to the amount of poverty the people there faced.
completely agree with how misunderstood chemistry is
i was synthesizing aspirin for a course project in high school and people thought that recrystallizing was some crazy meth shit but you literally just stand there and wait for it to boil half the time and then recrystallize it just to boil it again
Literally was just describing a thing we were doing at school with bromine and cyclohexenes and my mom acts like I'm speaking in codes😂
I like how physics was too scary for Nile so he went into chemistry.
Ikr, its like "Explosive bombs are too scary for me, so i'll go into cancerous powders and toxic fumes if you dont mind me" lmao Nigel is a fucking G
Uranium > friction
@@joeymayson8279 honestly mechanical physics is like Greek to me...and I have a bachelor's in chemistry
@@rg9991I study ChemE and two years ago I took an introductory class about mechanical physics. The equations weren’t even complicated but mechanical structures can get so complicated so easily it’s such a headache
@@rg9991 It is indeed Greek, α β η θ, the whole Greek alphabet is in there.
I once heard of a dude who was like a super high-ranking mobster in New York
This dude basically started a pizza restaurant to launder all the mafia money
But there was a problem
He was making more money from making pizza than actually doing all the illegal shit
So he ended up quitting and settling down in his pizza restaurant
Best non-related comment
@@jivelane To be fair, it came to my mind when Nile was talking about the whole "starting a YT channel to cover up the fact you make meth" lol
🎉
@@jivelane Does he know?
breaking bad reference
Connor: "Imagine we get a VPN sponsor now"
Also Connor: *brings up the perfect murder, meth business, coverup, how to make it, and more*
AND they get the vpn sponsor
SUS
You could say that Connor knows the business and Nigel knows the chemistry.... *cue Breaking Bad intro*
I love how innocent he looks and sounds when he tells like insane horrendous stories, lmao
I’m only 15 minutes into this episode and I have to say that this is probably the most interesting and fun guest episode in a while.
It's like if michael reeves has ladybeard past
As someone who’s watched Nile for a long while, his videos are full of knowledge but also charm. He’s super chill but also pretty funny, like a chaotic neutral person through and through. My favorite one to watch is him turning toilet paper to alcohol or gloves into grape soda, it’s a tie really.
smoke bombs at 9 LOLLLLLLL
It's already up there with the ladybeard episode. One of the select few episodes where the guests are fun
@@TKmeh i like when he smashes things at the end of the video
Connor: "Do the thing do the thing!!"
Nile: "What I have here is a Rubiks cube"
Trashtaste: " HE DID THE THING!"
"And now I will turn it into a nuclear bomb."
*sad Joey skype noise*
Missed the chance to name drop the podcast
I feel like all these dudes grew up in apartments (Niles excluded obviously). When my brother and I discovered the anarchist cookbook it was a free for all…My Dad showed us how to make potato cannons, would throw spray paint cans into fire pits and taught us how to weld to make our own rails for skateboarding. These dudes are shocked that his Dad encouraged him to learn and clearly it did him a solid.
I was like, what else their dad would teach them? Like my dad actually give me communist manifesto to read when i was 6 and taught me how to hunt small animals withbamboo🤣
You don't need to specficiallh live in an apartment to have a somewhat sheltered adolescence??? And having a sheltered childhoods isn't necessarily bad,Nigel had responsible parents that encouraged their curiosities but didn't let them go unchecked. Things could get dangerous if kids are let free to do what they want but not controlled
The amount of times Connor blanky stares into the camera scared asf is crazy
Garnt even did it once.
@@jamesmending3146 I never even noticed lmao.
Also wtf 269 likes how
@@jamesmending3146 he actually did it twice, so far! one of them was just not in a part where that camera's footage was being used, just the general shot of all four guys
@@ItzStardustYT 566 actually
@@wealllikeitsomilkit4301 I got the notification just now lmaoo I'm at 757
Would've been cool if Nile said, "what I have here is a rubix cube that has been solved, but I wanna watch it dissolve" then pours acid all over it
U GENIUS
Why i didn't see this comment before, that was so good wtf haha
Then "Anyway"
@@rednave4489 he says after a bit of acid got on his arm 😂
Honestly I can see that happening
Out of everything in the entire two hour 16 min podcast, the thing I was shocked about most is that Nigel is at least THIRTY YEARS OLD. like- there's NO WAY, right? He doesn't even look older than his early twenties!!
Has this guy made a de-aging serum with his chemicals or something?! Has he chemically formulated a super soldier immortality compound???
i was looking for a comment like this
Would not be surprised if he did
the japanese gene? some japanese reaaalllyyy have this elixir of youth sewn into their genetics
Yeah I'm a high schooler and if i saw him around campus i wouldn't bat an eye
magic of Asians
it’s shockingly horrifying how much nile and i have in common when it comes to childhood experiences😭😭and that im now majoring in chemistry!!!
So, any plans to make meth or sarin gas?
Or a TH-cam channel?
who knows, maybe both!!@@SiddheshBagade
You used to light things on fire for fun?
Seeing Connor and Nigel finding common ground and connecting by talking about voice recording is extremely satisfying.
Now we just need lockpick lawyer to successfully complete the dark triad
Who's the other guy?
@@GriseWeisshark Michel reeves
what about Electroboom? That guy has a deathwish
or styropyro
Styropyro will be a great choice
Nigel is the definition of "I don't care how the math formula was found just tell me what it does"
I feel like there's quite a few people that can relate to that in a sense, I personally love math and the things you can do with it in other fields, but as soon as we got into the history and proving of the formulas, I hated those lessons cause it was just absolutely useless knowledge for anyone whose life isn't centered around trivia
@@chagorith As much as I absolutely hate learning proofs they do offer something valuable and that’s reinforcing underlying principles. Like understanding how the hydrostatic equations for a general shape submerged in a fluid are derived gives a better understanding of what’s actually physically happening in the system.
It also grants a deeper understanding of when a formula or solution method works and when it breaks apart and why. For example, understanding how a lead compensator can be made from canceling a zero on the root locus graph geometrically gives a better understanding of knowing when shortcuts (like using the average between two points) can be used and when they can’t.
Gold fulminate , is it a bad idea? Yes . Will it make a good TH-cam video? Who knows but we will make it happen.
-"So i was making some uranium"
+uranium GLASS
-ah okey
+so i bought some uranium
I love how Chris is just casually there in the ad read like the true 4th member of trash taste lmao
Mr Affable is the 4th member of Trash Taste
Chris did say on his podcast that when the trash taste tour is over they were announcing that he's the 4th member. Well, kinda. Pete said "Have you guys announced that you're officially the 4th member now?" and Chris said "No not yet. We're gonna wait till after the tour." Idk if it's just Chris being cheeky or not but they seemed kinda serious. You never know with him though.
I didn’t even notice, that’s how much he blends in
I think it's because they filmed the ads when they filmed with him about the cycling stream
@@Jeffrey_Tyler man isnt gonna travel 2hrs from sendai to tokyo every week
42:27 "Acid spilled on me, but i didn't want to ruin the shot."
The way how Connor just looks directly into the cam like: "What in the holy-" just made me lose it. XD
Nigel: "My friend who built the explodey firecracker paintball gun thing..."
Connor: "As you do."
This may be 11 months old but i think i watched this one in full like 6 times now! Their reactions to Nigels stories is just something else
me watching this 7th time in 6 days 🤭
me watching this 8th time in 5 days
I love how curious Nile was as a kid, and continues to be. And how his Dad taught him how to be safe with his curiosity, letting him learn, test, and grow on his own. He loves to solve the puzzle of chemistry, and try to make it accessible to everyone.
Yeah one of the biggest things is how his father fostered his interests and helped him develop the right line of thinking to further those interests on his own.
While I enjoy his content, I kinda find myself in a position to argue caution towards it. Because it's a misrepresentation of what chemistry is. "Real" chemistry is quite a lot less interesting to see, because it's mostly staring at graphs and sticking fluids in machines to give you said graphs. What he does is impressive, but I doubt there's much actual use for it. But then again, these kinda experiments are also what my college promotes itself with so it's the rod for our own back.
Man, I just wanna see people aware of how various sciences work. People still think chemistry is about pumping the color fluid through the funny glasses that make your face look big. Meh, who am I to try to even educate people, actually? If someone takes their understanding of science and research from dexter that's on them, not on the show.
@@chukyuniqul Nigel Braun is to Chemistry as Michael Reeves is to mechanical and electrical engineering. They do all the fun shit and a lot of different things.
@@kingmanic honestly that's more revelatory about michael because I really only know him through trash taste. But yes, it's churlish to expect them to basically teach their subjects since they clearly want to entertain more, with any education being tangential.
THAT BEING SAID, if nothing else Nigel gives a solid example of laboratory safety.
*NORMAL* ... fixed it for you
I work for a hazmat waste management company and honestly, it's horrific how poorly these chemicals are managed. You can't store these things in massive quantities without risking a catastrophe. So it mostly just gets stored in the desert or the mountains where no one lives. Companies, governments and people just pick a spot on the map that will do the least harm and destroy that place forever.
I used to work at a factory where they just dumped waste chemicals in the river downstream.
And for an idea on how storing these improperly can go wrong, just look at the 2020 Beirut explosion.
@@CybersteelExused to work for the local meat factory, the bastards dumped their shit in the nearby shitpond just off the main road outside town, literally smelled that shit in town on my front lawn for a few years until the local gov got pissed off and stopped them. Imagine the shitpond smelling worse then literal shit, like fuck me, now it just smells when close to it, and less deadly.
@Alana Probably wasn't really illegal back then. Stuff was wild and still is actually. Just look at fracking...
Nigel has to be a case study somewhere about how someone can come within a hair's breadth of becoming a serial arsonist psychopath but managed to emerge as a well-adjusted science eccentric instead
The only difference between science and fooling around I'd writing it down
-Adam Savage
I've exhibited signs of aspd but I'm hoping to study history and be a teacher so close enough?
Hey mister... I am mad Scientist! It's so cool. Sonuvabitch...
The ironic thing, if someone does something like chemistry and they turn out to be a dangerous psycho, we think it is related to the chemistry. Like the Unabomber.
But if someone is a lawyer and turns out to be a serial killer, we don't associate it with having been a lawyer, like Ted Bundy.
But ole teddy boy was a mathematician
But it's not ironic, it just makes perfect sense. Chemistry can be used to make all sorts of dangerous concoctions and/or dangerous weapons, the same can't be done with being a lawyer. Sure a lawyer could be bent and maybe get some bad people out of shit or cover their own arse, legally, but it's not creating dangerous weapons.
Working as a chem tech is dangerous as hell. Nigel's videos are fun because he always seems comfortable around his chemicals. Being nervous and unsure can cause serious harm. I still have the scars from being sprayed in the face with acid by a nervous tech who fumbled with the crow's foot on a diaphragm pump and to this day, the smell of vinegar still makes me catch my breath. I've worked with a lot of nasty stuff from acids to perfume additives and I'll always remember being blinded, unable to breathe and running through a tank farm feeling for a bottle of vinegar to pour on my face and neutralize the chemical.
If you're afraid of it, it will bite you. If you respect it and take proper precautions, you'll be fine.
I've never even gotten it on me, but working with glacial acetic has made me unduly uncomfortable around vinegar. I can't imagine what it must be like to have actually gotten sprayed with the stuff
@@worthlesshuman5041 Funny thing is, I loved salt and vinegar chips before I started chem tech. But being around drums of acetic has made it unbearable.
@@worthlesshuman5041 imagine walking onto the chemistry floor to work on senior research, and getting smacked in the face with the stench of hot acetic acid. Organic for non-majors class was heating it in open flasks on steam cones at all the work stations in lab. No ventilation at all. Have hated the smell ever since.
@@jamie4993
Jesus christ this should be considered a cruel and unusual punishment
This honestly one of the best trash taste episodes, every word coming out of Nigel mouth is insane
Also anime was not mentioned even a single time in the episode
@@benp.865 well, except that one time at 2:16:05
this episode is going to win so many trash taste awards.
Nigel can literally tell me how the curvature of a spoon picks up soup for 2 hours and I would be listening to it all the way through.
This is the most truest thing
real
Thank you for all your effort minimising and removing the mouth noises Nile, the moment he mentioned that I shouted out in joy
11:15 I love how Nigel is wondering why his grandpa had potassium nitrate. Gonna take a stab in the dark and guess his family have been pyromaniacs for generations
it's used as stump remover and fertilizer
@@shrub9677 when you say stump remover, do you mean in the sense that it removes stumps by exploding them..?
@@guy_withglasses no
@@guy_withglasses i mean its one way to remove the stump,but what it really does is it reduces the wood cellouse, making it rot faster. If a normal stump takes around 7 years to decay, potassium nitrate help it do it in 3 weeks.
@@shrub9677 i was looking for this comment
This was not the collaboration we expected but the collaboration we all desperately needed. Oh man I love NileRed
I think they teased it when William Osman was out, saying they just had Nigel. Maybe took longer to edit this one.
@@Heightren ahhh you're probably right, I didn't watch the episode completely so I had not noticed
I feel like I've seen Connor being shocked more in the first 30 minutes of this video than in like 20 other Trash Taste episode combined
Thats a good way of putting it 🤣 my guy was shook the entire episode
You can't blame him Nile is just too powerful
“Your problem is you have a body…” 💀
Someone needs to so a nigel out of context compilatiom
So as another guy who got into chemistry, it’s very validating to hear that Nigel was also making fireworks when he was 9. Honestly making smoke bombs are one of the hardest forms of firework to make because they’re very temperature sensitive and they have to burn slowly. 10/10 good shit
Not me and my friend making it at his house and accidentally setting it alight causing us to have to vacate their house for the afternoon.
Accidental electrolysis, funny gas go boom.
i am afraid of you, good sir
It's so funny and awkward how the entire podcast was NileRed and Connor talking to each other while the other boys are just yes-men lmao
NileRed and the HypeMen
That was the thing about this episode. Nile’s stories are so crazy and entertaining that the bois didn’t need to interfere. Their reactions was all I needed. Connor’s questions was the fuel to the Nile story machine
It just worked so well. It’s not awkward at all because there’s constant noise
@@lettuce1626 That wasn't my point. The awkwardness comes from NileRed and Connor literally staring at each others' eyes for the entire episode lol
@@reendevelops
Homiesexual
@@reendevelops it's awkward if you're a shut in neet like yourself.
Touch grass my guy
The story with Radium paint is scary if you've never heard it. The women from the watch company used to use the Raidium paint to paint the dials of the watches and they used to go out dancing after and used to paint their teeth with it so they would glow in the dark dance club rooms when they smiled. The higher ups in the company knew it was dangerous and still let them do it because it was legal at that time still. So almost all the girls developed some form of cancer usually bone and usually mostly effecting the jawbone. The movie is called "Radium Girls" from 2018, very eye opening and tragic.
One girls jaw literally fell off. I don't know if that's in the movie as I haven't seen it but the cancer was so bad she lost her jaw and of course the cancer killed her
They were told to put the paintbrushes in their mouths to form them into a sharp point.
The company knew and never disclosed it to anyone until they were exposed after the fact.
@@CleverestWitch2188 So tragic and screwed up on so many levels.
@@samn6498 yeah, a similar story is of a dude who drank some 'medicine' with radium in it like all the time for everything until his jaw fell off, there are pictures are there and theyre very gruesome (Eben Byers)
Radium was only found in tiny concentrations in those paints. Radium alone will kill you MUCH FASTER. Radium is a strong Alpha, Beta and Gamma emitter.
Nigel's down to earth way of saying stuff, while literally being a genius, is what makes him even more based.
I’m going to need about 20 more episodes of NileRed talking about his crazy life and then we can get into his anime tastes.
Good news there's a podcast! Safety Third.
It's hilarious to me how Nigel keeps catching the boys of guard with his words despite not even trying to do so
It's quite amazing, as an Chem Eng graduate, to see the "mysticism" of chemistry in the bois' reaction toward some things Nigel said that I deem normal, but the bois got bewildered by
As a 3rd year chem eng student and man is this weird
As someone studied in nutrition and biochem I'm often screaming inside. I think the last one was them taking a guess at what vinegar is usually made of. 😂
The Bois don't even remember how to divide and multiply, so I think we all kind of overestimate other people's knowledge
@@assylblog They're smart enough to add up the fat stacks going into their bank accounts. Intelligence is overrated.
Being a sixth form chem student and being familiar with the basics of some of the stuff Nigel talks about on his channel also makes me realize as well how uncommon chem knowledge can be... It's an interesting position to be in haha
every single time Nigel starts telling a story you have 3 gooses jumping on it every time
yea these interviewers' suck as$
1:00:25 Love how Connor is trying to ask about drug synthesis in a roundabout and indirect way and Nigel just goes:
"So like in the case with meth-"
It's great seeing Connor so passionate about a guest and guiding the conversation. Usually its the other way around where he's learning all sorts of things about a guest one of the other guys knows well, but today Garnt's the bewildered one lol
Yo Connor hosted the shit outta this, totally kept the guest engaged, and just guided the conversation to keep him telling cool stories
There is possibly not a single normal thing Nigel has said in the whole show, and I love it.
I think he's avoiding lip smack
8:12 Dude was on a quest and got the recipe in the library
Nile might unironically be my favorite guest since Lady Beard. While most guests have been fun, these two are just so enthralling in their stories and passion that the 2 hours passed so God damn quick.
I miss Lady Beard
Also PremierTwo, he had so many fun stories
this is the first time I've heard Nigel given the space to actually talk. unlike the safety third podcast where he just constantly gets talked over and never gets to finish a single story. such an interesting guy!
Really? I think they pushed a lot in this too about theese breaking bad topic
I couldn't listen to it because they would have childlike reactions to everything and talked over him. Not everybody needs a podcast.
@@a-a-rondavis9438 So what you want is just Ted Talk..? Why watch a podcast at that point..?
@@HafidzMurshidie I won't speak for anyone else, but there's a middle ground between very frequent interruptions and a Ted Talk, and I prefer podcasts in that middle ground.
@@liquidcorundum6568 That I can understand.. But the guy I replied to said “Not everybody needs a podcast”, on a comment section of a podcast, so I’m baffled by his comment..
the amount of times Connor stared uncomfortably at the camera from Nile's insane stories is hilarious
I feel like the only thing that prevented Nile from being an arsonist is a youtube channel
As an older millennial, he had a pretty standard childhood to me. We were allowed to get into all those same shenanigans in the pre-internet, pre-cell phone, pre-computer in every home, times. That was just how we entertained ourselves. Messed with everything, nearly killed ourselves at every turn, and touched grass until the street lights came on. *shakes fist at clouds*
Lol in the 80's as a kid I expiremented with making "weapons" like spears/etc for myself and the neighborhood kids. Figured it out mostly on my own although I had to read up a bit in library books to make bows and the basics of smithcraft when I was a bit older. Confused the hell out of most of the librarians why a tiny girl wanted books on medieval and Native American weaponry. They liked my enthusiasm though so did their best to help with my obsession
I'm also an 26 yo asian that nearly burn down my parents house and climbing in the foot of transmission tower as a kid in rainy day, making homemade fireworks with match stick and homemade dart, making tiny functional bow with a coin and few toothpick.
I'm generation Z and I did similar things. Me and my friend would build traps in the forest with axes hanging in the trees triggered by trip wires. Paintball, ridiculous biking stunts, etc... Although I did stop doing a lot of it once I got access to the internet. A shame.
I know someone who blown his hand off with a "nuclear bomb" he made by cutting firework up and wrap all its gunpowder with foil and food wrap.
Apparently his parents know what he's making but he didn't listen. Kid are crazier than you thought.
@@lel7841 Did you watch Lord of the Flies and Radio Flyer back then? The things they could do in those movies sure gave me a lot of ideas hahaha
I've watched Nigel since the beginning, back when he was shooting from his parents garage. It was a welcome distraction from uni and throughout my PhD in OChem. Promoting chemistry to a wide general audience is a wonderful thing. You should be incredibly proud about your work and the potential future scientists you've inspired. Edit: Of course this is the most relatable episode for me, it's like a 2 hours snippet from more than a decade of questions from zooted friends.
Hi fellow chemist 🧪 so glad the boys have brought him on the podcast! Watching this was so inspiring and fun. Even funnier is realizing how discussions we have amongst colleagues about our work can look completely insane to laymen 🤣🤣
I became a chemical engineer cuz I wanted to make actual products n shit.
Congrats on your PhD! I’m in a chemistry master’s program and have been watching him since I had to isolate piperine out of pepper in an undergrad OChem lab and used his video for directions. Watching his videos definitely helped to remind me of the reason I’m studying chemistry in the first place whenever I was close to giving up because theoretical chemistry and quantum mechanics exams were too frustrating to study for.
My mind was so confused the moment I read shooting. Man is my brain dark.
Second year of Pchem PhD here. I have never seen Nigel before and now I need to go and watch his whole backlog.
every time nigel opened his mouth, i was like "yeah sounds about like him". the story just keeps better and better and how he just nonchalantly says all of these things adds to effect
Nigel is like a Goblin from Warcraft, only for Chemistry instead of Engineering. He doesn't think much about the technicals; he has an end goal, and he learns the process necessary to achieve that goal, and he does it. Then he goes back and learns about the actual chemical reactions, and how they work. A very direct, practical, applied approach to chemistry.
Nile's parents know how to raise a child. Kids need to learn through experiences. If you stop them from doing dangerous things carefully, they'll never understand how to navigate dangerous things, and limit their own capabilities.
so basically your saying we can make more nilereds 😈😈😈
@@BlueyTheCube the world needs more nilereds
@@SolitudeWrath Micheal Reeves too!
If that’s genuinely what you think, please never have a child.
I mean you have a point but at the same time if you wanna make an arsonist go ahead man lmao
Nile’s older brother thinking about explosives and chemicals: “Nigel i know what were gonna do today”
Omg they're Phineas and Ferb
Every story went along the lines of "It was super dangerous but nothing bad happened. Well actually- that's not true" so hilarious
Gonna be a long 2 hours watching nigel try to tell stories while these dudes jump in their seats and freak out for no reason
Fr, I found it really enjoyable but their reactions are a bit too much imo
swear great pod cant hate on em but maybe we're just built diff @@iscuit
@@JusticeMuz yeah, im a huge nilered fan and avid chemistry enjoyer so can't rly relate to these dudes' confusion, but this was still a great podcast agreed
@snipermonkey_discord
Nah, not just you. I’ve conducted interviews for news articles and my own podcasts and you gotta let your guest tell their story. Guide them, let them get a paragraph or two out, then ask clarifying questions and keep your own reactions muted but honest.
You can tell how hype Connor is to have Nigel on the show by the rapid-fire questions he can't even fully wait to hear the full answers to before he fires the next. XD
As a PhD Chemistry graduate, watching the trash taste boy's reactions is hilarious. Meanwhile I can just completely relate to NileRed's stories and go Yep, I know where you're coming from. Excellent Podcast collaboration.
i’m convinced that a prerequisite to anyone in the field of chemistry is having done the most the wildest things with all sorts of materials, setting things on fire, mixing all sorts of things etc😭
@@idkanymore12 for me personally I never had the fascination with setting things on fire, but I do enjoy being inquisitive figuring out why something does a thing, especially if it is cool. The bane of all chemistry researchers is the inevitable "Why the hell do I have a black tarry mess in the jar now?" when the last 3 times it was pretty white crystals.
@@matt390 That sounds like hell to programmers lol. We can log our codes and slowly but surely identify elusive bugs, so I don't even want to imagine if we couldn't do that like chemists.
@@reendevelops To be fair what you do with your programming in identifying elusive bugs is similar to what a chemistry researcher would do with their experiments. The experiment produces the desired item, but also 3 undesired side products. What things can you change to give you more of the desired item or can you easily isolate the desired item from the undesired items. Sometimes it is a simple fix and other times it is ends in the black tarry mess again and it is back to square one and you headbutting the table repeatedly. The things that programmers can achieve from coding etc I would consider cool voodoo, as I go what the heck and how the heck lol.
@@matt390 Now that you explained it, that's actually exactly how the debugging process is in programming. I suppose the obvious thing I've learned from this is that some fields seem so different, yet also so similar. It's very simple, but wow it's easy to overlook! Truly fascinating.
The studio is going down in flames today
True
We only live physically once so we shouldn’t be afraid to do anything bro, i smoke weed on my TH-cam channel and i do food videos too, screw anyones opinion brotha😪
Not the first time the studio got damaged
It would be a legendary way to go out
Nile's literally that Hatsune Miku meme.
"Oh, pipe bomb! So cool!!!"
Never in my whole god damn life did i thought I would see Nile with trash taste lol. I just Found Nile randomly on some shorts and binge watched all of them and now this. Super surprised!
@@harveyhans Mrgreen should be banned
@@cybergaming42424 why?
Watch his full lenght videos
Same
@@cybergaming42424 Nilered is okay with it
Nigel is a prime example of an alpha nerd. His knowledge and understanding of chemistry is not just an interest, but an actual part of his life. His enthusiasm is contagious and people respond to that.
Categorising people as alpha or beta is just stupid, stop it please. Let people have hobbies and lives without categorising them
@@martynan7553 thank you
“So I got some uranium” has to be my favorite quote of this episode. The casual matter of fact way he says it is fucking gold
FFS just let Nigel talk instead of freaking out every 5 seconds lol
Exactly
It's insane how some schools/teachers/curriculum can actually make you hate your favorite subject.
I completely agree. I used to love math but after 2 years of terrible teachers I hated it. I was lucky though and always had fantastic science teachers.
Everything Nigel says sometimes are so mysteriously badass yet terrifying, be it him missing his dangerous garage lab, or his affection with dangerous chemicals.
A.ka mad scientist things.
the fact that Nigel has a "favourite carcinogen" really says a lot
It's honestly really cool, because he talks like the nerdiest, most nervous and shy good kid on the block, but the shit he does and the stories he tells go so hard that you'd have to be insane to not deeply respect this man.
Not the collab i expected, but Nigel fits right in with the chaos. I love his chemistry videos
Also having timestamps for Lube, Making Meth, and Getting Rid of a Body is hilarious
Greg
@@Heightren Taking your blowtorch to school
Nigel: says the most mind boggling confusing piece of chemistry
Trash waste: oooooh, aaaaahhh, yeah, got it
I admire his father parenting style 😂❤ just trust and encourage
Sounds cool because nothing happened.
If something did happen, which was a very real possibility, he would sit in Jail without a child.
@@eliasvonbrille You simply suffer from a skill issue. Not all of us can be parents, Elias.
That's actually bad parenting. Are you suggesting to just trust a fucking 3-8 yo is a good parenting style? In most cases the child will do something irreversible to his life or possibly others. Just cos you managed to drunk drive on a highway without anything happening doesn't mean drunk driving is okay.
@@Mo-fu9sm wierd analogy
Who hurt y'all?😂