The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ค. 2023
- Use code HAI50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/3kGB8QT
Get a Half as Interesting t-shirt: standard.tv/collections/half-...
Suggest a video: halfasinteresting.com/suggest
Follow Sam from Half as Interesting on Instagram: / sam.from.wendover
Follow Half as Interesting on Twitter: / halfinteresting
Discuss this video on Reddit: / halfasinteresting
Video written by Ben Doyle
Check out our other channels: / wendoverproductions
/ jetlagthegame
You know it is a good video when Amy takes one for the team.
WAIT I HAVEN'T WATCHED THE VIDEO YET WDYM??? 😭
Amy, how many government watchlists did this put you on for the rest of your life, and is Sam paying you enough for this? :P
@@wybbo4870 Rip amy 2023-2023 😞
And that drunk coward Ben is just writing it.
uh oh😧
I love that the only dish with less bacteria than the control was "book." As always, books rule.
Yes.
This is the lamest comment i've read on this chanmel and this channel is phathetix
Yessir
Libraries on the other hand, are worse than "Apple in Trash"
Where was that book, though? Sitting on a shelf for weeks?
Information unclear :
I ordered a deadly disease at my house and it spreaded throughout the whole neighborhood. I now have to face two life sentences in prison.
nice
Ok
Luckily it won't be too long with the deadly disease
😋
This is a weird Plague Inc. Scenario
Let us appreciate that there is stock video footage of two masked lab technicians twiddling their fingers maniacally behind a containment unit window. I mean, why would anyone (other than HAI) ever need something like that? Who thinks up these stock footage concepts?
I assume it's used by anti-science TH-camrs. Which it turns out it actually a highly profitable venture.
Yeah that one stuck me as odd too.
Stock footage is a wild industry. Just film or photograph yourself doing anything and you can sell it to a stock footage house. I've sold a few that you would think nobody has any use for but I've made enough money to buy beers from it before 🤷🏻♂️
You know nothing, there are so much of wtf ridiculous stock footage. Google for "Crazy funny man eating and drinking on the toilet in bathroom" for example.
I don't think it's odd. It seems straight from a B-grade medical thriller/horror movie.
That last bit was important.
You need to order microbes, especially pathogens, through a lab, institute or university protocol. You can`t just buy stuff to use in your research, it has to be proper, with a written consent and some other items.
Also for the top tiers of infection agents, you`re supposed to provide proof of how each vial or batch was thoroughly used and dispatched. Live vials can`t just be lost. Also, word spreads fast if you work with pathogens, and you`re on a watchlist if deemed untrustworthy and subjected to body searches to prevent exfil events.
On top of that, there are places that, if an order seems suspicious, will ask the provided institution for confirmation of the order, and if it`s a fake order from impersonators, the shipment will contain a shitty dead yeast to make sure the live pathogens wouldn`t be successfully used in malicious events because shipping fake stuff is better than not shipping anything at all.
It's difficult enough to order an innocuous chemical from a reputable chemical supply house without authenticating yourself as an institution. 😂
This video is the perfect marketing trick. First create an anxiety that anyone can buy the plague online and then cure it at the end of the video (Which was very interesting so no reason to skip)
@@bsadewitz Institute of Virology. I've seen this one before!
Maybe I assumed too much intelligence in youtube commenters but it was pretty much super obvious it was tongue in cheek that you couldnt amazon prime the plague
What if you revive the dead yeast and make it infectious and drug resistant what would happen then?
Had a friend of mine who was working as a lab assistant at a pretty big university back in 2007. He found out he could order some really scary stuff as a college sophomore. We talked about it and he went in and talked to the department head.... He got a raise and they changed the ordering process. I think he works at the CDC now.
Someone always has to ruin the fun.
People like your friend are the reason why we can’t have nice things.
@@alexcisneros2980 Yeah, wanted to grant my coworkers a bubonic debuff.
@alexcisneros2980 I mean like hey at least I have a 0.1% less chance of getting the bubonic plague!
Btw I ordered chlorella so I could eat my own watery poo
If you really want to get a dangerous bacteria, virus, or parasite, all you have is travel to the right places. Of course, that increases your chance of catching the disease yourself....
I've seen that stock footage of three men and a woman standing in front ofa flip chart so often that I don't think "There are 4 scientists" rather I think "There are 4 actors, wearing white coats, looking really awkward pretending to discuss something written on the flipchart"
exactly how i feel sbout this stock footage haha
2:35 ?
I love how the recent episodes feature some of the HAI staff. Really sets this channel apart and gives it personality
Staph?
The inclusion of "Amy" has taken this channel to new heights.
Yes the HAI videos feature HAI stuff
@@benjaminhoyt1421 It's probably just Sam's twisted way of telling us that he finally has a girlfriend. But I'm not even mad, it's amazing.
"Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!"
Aren't you too young to order a bubonic plague?
Why yes. Yes I am.
AGAHAFSGSHSHSHSGS
What we do every night , try to over the world
I love the recent trend of Sam sending Amy to do "field research"
The "super gonorrhea" graphic at 3:56 is my new desktop background.
Randomo
You should make a follow-up video about how one would go about legally shipping the bubonic plague. I'll confess to already knowing the basics myself (a good search term is "Infectious substance category A"), but people are often surprised by the kinds of things you can just ship through FedEx or UPS.
You can ship it through the USPS too. They also ship some live animals, from bees to scorpions to emu chicks to adult eagles. Even many drugs can be shipped. No alcohol though lol.
@EebstertheGreat Yeah wasn't Stompy the Emu shipped to Alveus?
Samples that can be shipped at room temperature would generally be shipped using FedEx or the like. Samples that need to be shipped at lower temperature would be shipped using other more specialist services, from my experience
And some poor seasonal worker with more labor abuses than an immigrant in NY in 1950 will be the one handling it. I once got chemically tear-gassed by something breaking in a container, and my boss being too much of a dick to care until they stepped in and nearly fainted.
Thanks, I’ll get the biological weapons research soon!
FBI: *knocks down door*
@@tmi1234567 _KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK_ **FBI OPEN UP**
@@internet_userr *pulls out and rapid fires automatic thermite shotgun*
@@iamarizonaball2642I will proceed to throw my Bubonic Plague Grenade.
@@nekopop8159that's is a violation of the Hague and Geneva Convention
As a microbiologist who purchased ATCC bacterial cultures (ATCC the American equivalent of NCTC) I loved seeing this!
I hope the Oxford Staph is handled well by the Oxford Staff.
Would love to see the script approval emails with the prepared meals sponsor addressing the bacteria collection he's developing.
imagine if you could just order this by giving Cambridge as the address then stand in the entrance with a lab coat to intercept the package
Places like that definitely thought that through, usually as hazmat couriers are the only ones that can carry etiological agents (and for those wondering, “biohazard” and “etiological” are treated as different by postal services: some biohazards can be mailed, but never an etiological) and any facility legally allowed to work with such deadly agents (BSL3 minimum) tends to have excellent physical security, including Ram-proof car stops and fencing
This has probably happened once
Mr Burns - As punishment for your desertion, it's company policy to give you the plague.
Smithers - Uh, that's the plaque, sir
Evil villains have it so easy these days, back in my day we had to steal the plagues in great heists but all they have to do is some minor identity theft
For Staphylococcus the last part is pronounced with a hard “k”. So it’d be pronounced: “staff-eh-low cock-us” not “staff-eh lo-oh-ko-is”. I only say this because I was personally corrected on this pronunciation by my microbiology professor. Several times. 😃
Love your videos!
it might be an infection only Big Bird can catch
Everyone I know pronounces Pseudomonas aeruginosa differently
Can you rewrite that in IPA? I can't figure out the fauxnetics.
@anglaismoyen how do you know the word phonetics without knowing how to spell it???
@Philip Hunt-Bull it's a portmanteau of faux and phonetics, I think
Amy really never knows what nonsense she's going to be asked to do next
Where did Sam get stock footage of scientists putting their fingers together?! 😂
It wasn't stock footage. It was Amy
Those nurses making me feel some kind of way 🥵
@@esmeecampbell7396 🤨
@@esmeecampbell7396 *BONK*
Storyblocks.
I love how we put VAT on bacterium, a tax that was original created for luxuries.
nowadays it's easier to list the things we don't put VAT on sadly
Ah yes, the luxury of *checks notes* QCing for lifesaving tests and researching for lifesaving interventions
I live in Colorado, where all the prairie dogs carry bubonic plague. I could scoop one off the road, throw it in a Ziploc bag, and ship it to you. I'm pretty sure it's as legal to ship as a frozen steak... unless the post office doesn't like shipping plague for some crazy reason.
I think you need to say what kind of meat is and if it's contaminated and what's use it is for.
So "plague infected meat" won't pass the controls.
Not to mention, you risk infection yourself and you don't want that
After watching Hai for a long time recently I feel like Amy deserves a gift basket and a huge thank you
Half as Interesting’s outside correspondent Amy might be the greatest addition to this channel since its conception.
imagine if you could
order like smallpox as a prank lol
Get tried for terrorism, "It was just a prank, bro."
What if I want to order bigpox as a prank
The antivax kid: 💀
Remember that family guy Halloween prank episode
Yeah, it's called Poxing.
Eating Danger for breakfast and Peril for lunch may complicate your sponsorship with Hello Fresh...
No
@@internet_userr yes
And... the whole video was about deadly bacteria shipped to your door. 😂
If you try and order from one of these facilities, they always check the "to" address first, and if you're not an established institute or university, you can count on the FBI showing up to your house
4:28 I love the kettles. For those unaware, it's a reference to the government telling people to buy more efficient kettles to get through the energy crisis
"I want the plague" me too bro
You truly can order anything online!
Apparently Ben helped out getting samples as well, as those are *definitely* his pants in some shots, like getting the shoe sample at 5:19.
I thought so! Thank you for confirming.
this years senior prank is gonna be WILD
Outside researcher Amy is my new favorite recurring character
Great! I needed some seasoning for the Bat Soup i was gonna sell.
A company I worked for had a bad STAFF INFECTION when it was bought out and the other managers moved in.
4:00 nah why do they look like that
It's easy to order from when you get the account, I've ordered from the cell, virus, fungi collections too, it's all top tier organisms, much better than ATCC.
Yeah, about that account tho ...
@@bsadewitz Be part of a Uni lab or work in industry.
Better than ATCC only if you hate having a large catalog and a modern website
@@FilibustBear cry about it, the real scientist seems to say it is better, remain upset Yank
5:45 i like the implication that you wanted to eat the bacteria for meal
We swabbed surfaces of our microbio classroom for a project, and got nothing because everything had been sanitized.
I love that I'm learning about half as interesting topics here.
Meanwhile this website experiencing a strange 9000% increase in orders.
Those two women in clean-room suits, drumming their fingers together in anticipation from the safe side of a clean-room door, is officially and without fanfare the single weirdest piece of stock footage I have ever fucking seen.
i don't know why but 6 min+ HAI videos feel like a budget airline's long haul routes
4:14 "Two sixpence and a shilling"? Wait, so... Two shillings?
Alright Ferb, you know what we're doing today.
It looks like your writer found a common, harmless strain of Bacillus in your library.
I thought Sam lived in colorado, we have bubonic plague in our prairie dog populations
I love the new making Amy do dumb things meme.
There are similar websites where you can buy small amounts of controlled drugs like methamphetamine for the purposes of calibrating testing machines. The samples are tiny though, like under 1 milligram. I got as far as adding meth, PCP and heroin to my basket and clicking checkout but stopped there. I don't know if there are further security checks (probably).
Curious that the entire video is about the UK biobank when the US has a similar on e, the ATCC. Although it's a non-profit rather than state run, it should still save you on shipping!
I'm having serious problems processing this comment. Like. There are in fact people that live in the UK. They don't save on shipping. There are also people that live in the 6 2/3 other continents of neither UK nor US. Many countries probably have something like this it's literally just an example.
What is the purpose of this comment. Why is the choice of that example "curious". What would've been achieved by using the ATCC. Just. I'd be really curious about the thought process behind this comment because I am honestly struggling to understand what it is trying to say.
@@justarandomgothamite5466 Speaking as a British person I would assume they mean if the American version, the ATCC, is cheaper and presumably more accessible to Americans it is therefore more accessible to more people (because America has a larger population) thus is more relevant generally?
Probably because of the historical factoids?
@@justarandomgothamite5466Because an american youtuber tried to purchase from them and had to lie about his location to get as far as he did? I wonder if they would even ship to a country with an equivalent company without a good reason.
@@justarandomgothamite5466 it does tend to be a more US-focused channel so that's probably the point
“Ferb I know what we’re gonna do today!”
I’m convinced Sam just wants friends on the many watch lists he is on
We gotta get Amy on jet lagged
Despite the content of this video, I had to rewind this a few times because I was laughing so much. The quip at 2:17 about needing three people to rub guinea pig skins absolutely cracked me up.
This was the best ad transition I have heard in a long time
It's easy to remember because of morphology. Staphylo- just means in a clump, and -coccus (plural cocci) means round shape.
Ty i needed this info
6:04 nice jet lag reference
Welcome to the Snack Zone!
I love the intro to the Snack Zone is longer than the time they are in the Snack Zone. I went to Dollar Tree (I mean $1.25 Tree) a few weeks ago and they have a section of the store that has a branded area called, “The Snack Zone. “
After watching so many HAI videos I have now smell when a ad is coming
I've got one of those grow your own bacteria kits sitting in my closet. I'd love to use it, but I can't think of any place warm ENOUGH to culture them. I'd like to keep them at 30c or so constantly, which is easy enough during the day, but at night it gets cold so I can't just stick them outside. And there are no warm places in my house to put them. Unless I can just leave them at room temperature, but that doesn't feel right.
Did anyone else see the "biohasard waste" at 5:32
Yes.
Yes, they really are starting their own collection😂
i’m ordering this straight to my school
Just after the bubonic plague lesson, amazing
We should let Amy do the narration for an episode.
Or at least be a guest on a season of Jet Lag!
We did this bacteria collection thing in my biology class. My group went to the central boys bathroom. It was so disgusting and resistant to antibiotics that we were told not to open the Petri dish.
3:50 "So uh, honey, you know I work with bacteria right...."
And
A love the segue at the end, between bubonic plague and Hello Fresh.
Amy is the best lol she does everything
0:20 is it just me, or did the video request we give it a thumbs down at 0:20?
sounds like a fun weekend
So that's where comic book super villains buy all of those viruses for their master plans.
I'm not surprised you need some certification to get these nasty bugs considering the world we live in where people will use almost ANYTHING as a weapon. I could imagine if someone wanted to get revenge on someone or where hired to kill someone, they could just get some nasty disease and expose their target to it (which would probably be stupid as they'd most likely expose themselves to the pathogen as well)
Stuff like this is best left to professionals that know what they're doing and how to handle these nasty things.
Amy is becoming my favorite character in the HAI Cinematic universe, sorry ben you've been dethroned
thanks , this was all i needed , now i can finally let my inner intrusive thoughts out
For people who wanted to establish their own Unit 731
You’d still need thousands of slaves though.
I like that other staff is showing up more now
Wow cant believe sitting was that dangerous 0:19
You are for SURE on a list now for this one 😂
Sam I hope you pay Amy well 😂
5:00 Normal level of swole
Dude predicted quirky humor
oh sweet i've been meaning to order some bubonic plague
Lool - the stock video at 1:32 for "super valuable to the scientific community" haha
If you live in and around Denver, getting bubonic plague is easy; just go near a prairie dog colony and see what happens.
Ordering prehistoric glacier blocks because of my lootbox addiction
And here I thought that Amy was going to order the bubonic plague.
Yeah, ordered some bacteria from DSMZ, the German equivalent, several years ago when I started my PhD. Actually, I just needed a University post address. That was everything they required. But it was also risk group 1, so harmless stuff.
Salty exes will get even worse after this
Is it weird that I really miss culturing bacteria? I don't do bacterial or wet lab work for my PhD research and it was a really fun part of undergrad
I really expected a video that started "I want the plague" to be uploaded pre-2020
Seeing this video after an entire day learning microbiology for exams just feel different when you’ve just seen all of those bacterias
And your head just goes:
Purple, pink, pink, pink, purple purple
Gram positive, Gram negative, Gram negative, Gram negative, Gram positive, Gram positive.
my weekend is set
Great now I'm on a list for trying to see if this website really exists lol.
Time for your bi-monthly "Sam mispronounces a scientific term" video. All jokes aside love your work keep it coming.
I do have some need for that very soon
suddenly your motivation behind jetlag makes more sense.
Amy working overtime for the channel! Nice.
It seems that you have the staph/staff merger! It took me a moment to get the joke because I'd pronounce staff as starf and staph as stahf.