Nigel: Ethanol is an antidote to Methanol... Chubbyemu: :) Nigel: So all you got to do is put the perfect amount of Methanol in your Ethanol... Chubbyemu: 😳
Just do a bunch of very careful rate law calculations and you should be good. Fluoride toothpaste slows tooth decay by a factor of ~10, so a 10x difference in the rate law of alcohol dehydrogenase should be fine.
This podcast is the best. Dont ever change the way you guys do it. This "lets turn on the camera and go" format feels really personal and close. Feels like I'm in a call with friends. Thank you guys for one more episode! Im watching this one and already eager for the next one lol
Its great. Its how a lot of the podcasts I would listen to started out as (misfits, lunch club, chuckle sandwich) but then they would get overproduced and I wouldnt want to listen to them anymore. Just doing a podcast over discord and zoom and talking about whatever with no structure is just more enjoyable to me.
@@zzane4677 You're right. As dystopian as it sounds, big companies sponsoring good content eventually makes it worse; but without sponsoring, creators dont usually keep great content like this coming... And I mean, who can blame them? lol
Bernard appearing in the dark, wide eyed and smiling, "I lured a man into my basement, This is what happened to his organs". These podcasts are wild man I love it.
You know they are professionals when they have to trick their guests to join and forget to add their patreon link in the description. Love yall! You all make my week so much better.
Literally the only thing that I'm afraid of is that the podcast gets very popular and then they try harder in the future. Trying harder would ruin the vibe.
Nigel: "Bodies are weird" WIlliam: "Speak for yourself" Nigel: "Your butt doesn't have a vomit reflex" WIlliam: "Speak for yourself!" Something is off here... I can't put my finger on it, but something is off.
In that case I'm glad to be alive cause I fell from standing position on the back of my head as a late teenager (no wonder I grew up messed up lol). The only way this could happens realistically is by losing consciousness which I did after standing up too fast. One side of my hip absorbed some 30% of the shock though I definitely did hear a loud, distant and painless bang from my head slamming on the hard tile floor, then as blood rushed back into my brain, so did the pain. I gotta thank raw teenager energy for making it out of that without much trouble (localised pain for a few days, and a small wound on the impact site) , today's me would definitely have a different outcome (starting with the serious loss of bone density)
@@MrCrackbear it’s the same exact idea tho, if you hit your head in a very specific place,(or neck) you will become paralyzed or mentally disabled, in miliseconds. So whether it be falling, a punch, it could be a football if anything, as long as the one spot is hit hard enough.
People who only listen to these are really missing Bernard's enthusiastic non-verbal reactions to some of the things they are saying. 13:1228:2335:4736:1059:1559:50
I have ADD and I can tell you that even absolutely needing to do something will not force me into doing that thing. I almost failed out of law school on multiple occasions because I would get home and just not work on my papers or studying. On my meds I can force myself to do things, but without them I will just do whatever pops into my head or catches my attention first.
This is such a special episode. I feel like a special viewer. Totally feel Chubbyemu on the recession thing. Graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in '08 - after my internship ending in '09 I worked at a pizza joint and a bar until 2012 when I got back into engineering.
Professional science podcast. I love this thematic rollercoaster from serious scientific issues like the methanol poisoning mechanism, through the statement that there is no vomit reflex in the butt, to the question of how much drugs can be stuffed in the human body. I'm glad that there is a doctor watching over you.
Yesssss!!! I absolutely agree 100% with you. The way they can just "scientifically" embrace the randomest questions is just amazing HAHAHA watching these guys for an hour feels like hours of science classes but "made fun".
Complementing Nigel's point about alcohols: some of them, like Rum, have a higher ester and aldehyde count for both flavour and aroma. These definitely result in different reactions in the body. Tannin in red wine also causes some people to get really bad stomach pains, from what I've heard.
red wine ALWAYS gives me heartburn, even if i have a few sips. i don’t have the same issue with white wine. i get heartburn from white wine but it’s infrequent and irregular
@@b3dubbs72 sulfites I think. They are used to kill off yeast and other microbes before fermenting, and sometimes after fermentation as a preservative. some people are sensitive to them.
@@connormcneill9024 yeah, probably to help with oxidation too. A lot of alcoholic ferments don’t contain sulfites, so I imagine it’s just because red wine folks are pretty particular
It's insanely refreshing to hear other healthcare professionals, especially other specialities than mine (DPT, physical therapy ) speak up on the stranglehold that has been put on pain patients across America. It's insane, prescriptions for painkillers have been cut by up to 75% across the country (depending on how you calculate it, what you count, etc) yet opiate overdoses are up 300 to 700%. The thing is, the official opiate prescriber guidelines allow for much MUCH more leniency than pain management doctors are showing....so what the fuck is up with that? Well, there was a large push by lawmakers and the DEA to pressure doctors unofficially via extreme uses of their power and scare tactics. A huge wave of pill farms (doctors just obviously prescribing opiates to all patients no questions asked and possibly taking kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies) which is a good thing...but it continued once those were shut down. The DEA and regulatory bodies kept going and they started clapping doctors for small discrepancies, maybe 3 years ago you prescribed opiates to a patient that this regulatory body deems unwarranted...and suddenly your practice is gone, or your hit with charges...... Despite following the new guildines, pain doctors got essentially shaken down, and now everyone suffers. The patients literally suffer the most, but other specialties that rely in patients being able to function......also suffer. It's really hard to get an 80 year old cancer patient to maintain their physical therapy routine when they have their prescription for painkillers cut out completely in only a few week period......suddenly that patient suffers rapid decline of quality of life, and, even with a letter of request for medication sent by a doctor to the pain management doctor it doesn't matter.....
The low threshold for an opioid prescription in the states is insane. Opioids should only be prescribed as a last resort pain medication or for palliative treatment. It's sad to see the common people in America suffer for corporate gain (looking at you, Purdue et al).
For the alcohol discussion. The reason for the worse hangovers in non-distilled alcoholic beverages is 1.) methanol that doesn't get distilled out like it does in distilled spirits. and 2.) tannic acids (this is especially the case for wines), leading to vasodialation which increases uptake and a drop in blood glucose levels (compounded by ethanol's own effect on releasing glucose). I would suspect that alcohol byproducts and remaining sugars in distilled spirits also affects the body differently and could (depending on body makeup and chemistry) affect individuals in different ways.
You guys have summarized my entire adhd existence perfectly. I was diagnosed as a child (like 8) and each thing you say hits all off my check marks. The difference between neuron divergent people and normal people is the intensity of symptoms. And the negative connotation of medication is so frustrating! I really enjoyed this episode :) as well as all the others obvi 😂
agreed about the stigma of medications. I really struggled with my adhd meds in highschool and it led me to be super depressed and anxious. Went cold turkey for 2~ years but then realized that they actually help me. Trying to teach myself that I can take them and not go back to being a zombie is tough, but I’m trying. Ok oversharing now oops
Hyperfocus is a common aspect of ADHD! Characterized by basically what you described, long periods of intense focus on one thing, usually with an aspect of blocking out everything else around you, sometimes even eating or drinking
Yay, a Nigel episode. My simp heart is happy lmao moonshining is the hobby of many uncles and grandpas here in Poland 🇵🇱 it’s pretty common to use pure sugar and various yeast strains to make “spirytus” aka rectified spirits. flavors are added and it’s diluted after.
I find that as soon as I watch youtube the day is gone, as long as I don't want any videos I can reset and start working again after a brief break. I feel terrible about not being able to stay focused for 8 hours straight so hearing about everyone having the same issues is very comforting.
I'm a software developer right. For the last 2 weeks, I've been meaning to work on a part of the code base which was producing a number that is no where close to what is expected of it. The problem is the logic is so complicated that it takes about 1k lines of code with no meaningful way of breaking it up into chunk. So I spent 2 weeks doing absolutely nothing on it, and waiting to jump on the next ticket that comes in. Yesterday I've finally brought myself to do it. A part of debugging it requires me to clear the database because any wrong existing data will throw the next run off, and I've been clearing the database manually. Then I spent the next 3 hours perfecting a script that clears the database automatically with 1 command. After I'm done with the script, I proceed to continue debugging the thing, and in just 10 minutes I found the bug which was just miss typing a - sign as + sign.
@@connormcneill9024 That's so true. One moment you feel like you're a genius, and then when your program doesn't work and you're stuck on it for ages, you feel like a donkey.
@@ultracowking He mentioned several times in the past podcast that he's a practicing doctor with actual patients. Some of his videos are based on patients that he has had or patients his colleagues had.
I am a type 1 diabetic, and over the years I've had ketoacidosis a multitude of times. The one thing I always notice first (besides feeling like death) is the strange acidic taste and smell I get in my mouth. Now I know that it was actually proteins turning into acetone!
You guys just psychoanalized me. Thank you for validating all of my struggles in life. Its genuinely really reassuring to see that people who are so accomplished and smart also all struggle with the things that make me feel like I might just be lazy and unmotivated and stubborn. The things about feeling just.. released when the power goes out, or needing physical paper over studying off a screen, and preferring to be physically blocked from a distracting task rather than just behaving differently are all things that I've been thinking about and feeling for years and always thought that people might share one but never all of them for the same reasons. You guys rock.
On the topic of fewer distractions that you guys dove into at the end: that's one of the reasons why I like my vinyl collection so much. Not only is the playback process extremely easy to understand and is purely mechanical (aside from amplification etc.), it also makes me value the music I physically have that much more. I think the fact that your options on physical media are limited is the real reason for the focus. Even without the internet, you are still holding a device capable of showing everything there is to know, and you can't trick your brain out of it. It's not about paper. We've got e-ink displays, yet we still get distracted, although, admittedly not as much. The reason why our minds can't process information from screens efficiently is, in my opinion, similar to overexposing a camera sensor: everything starts clipping and blending together. The brain is aware of all the information available and just refuses to focus on the small portion it is being served.
A young man ate a year old chicken nugget that had been sitting in his car. This is how his organs shut down. "It's been sitting there for 12 months," he thought, "surely it's dried out and become inhospitable for bacteria," he thought.
Tech Ingredients has a great video on rum that goings in depth on the production of alcohol. Yeast only makes ethanol, methanol, and CO2. It's the minerals and other microbes that interact with the alcohol that make the subtle changes in flavor: This is when it is still fermenting. During distillation they separate the liquid in to different containers while it is still coming over and then recombine parts into a product that is either drank as is or aged in wood causing it to leach tannins and flavor compounds giving it its color.
When my ADHD is really acting up, I can still have trouble reading a book I am really interested in, losing my place and thinking about what I just read and realize I read a few paragraphs that I didn't take inl
@William Osman your experience with not needing stimulants to help his adhd for everyday makes sense. Big busy shoots with a lot going on stimulate you enough that you dont need that extra kick. Doing paperwork doesn't stimulate your brain in the same way. Novelty seeking behavior is a cornerstone of my ADHD experience and I feel like I share it with like half of science RUclips.
I've been taking all of my notes digitally for the last couple years now, and I've found that it actually increases my focus and productivity. I love the efficiency of having everything in one place and having that in the back of my head makes me feel more able to accomplish whatever it is that I'm doing.
I feel like using paper or e-ink is way superior to LCD or LED screen, maybe like Bernard said it's about the refresh rate but I also believe it have to do with the backlight shining directly toward your eyes
Well the refresh rate thing doesnt make any sense, the image is displayed completely constantly on an LCD. Flicker is just something you get from a CRT, or some projectors. My guess would be that there is a big correlation between the brightness setting (too high) on your screen and all the problems people get. Lots of people just have their monitor set way brighter than it needs to be, because there is no _obvious_ problem with it for them and the image quality is even slightly better. But it might well cause _unnoticed_ problems.
@@laiquocbao2565 You clearly dont understand how an LCD monitor works. If the content of the frames doesn't change, it emits the same light at ALL times. No refresh is visible even though its digital data gets rewritten. The backlight that actually creates all the light is on constantly (unless it uses PWM dimming which is another matter entirely).
its crazy bernard is talkin about printed VS screen words.. i just ran into that a few days ago.. wanted to read an old article how they did the physics simulations in Hitman; its an amazing read, but felt i was more "skimming" it than reading it.. printed the same PDF out on paper and was immediately like reading all the actual words and reconstructing the narrative in my head. i dunno if it was due to refresh rate, or maybe it takes more of a physical commitment to actually turn the page, or what.. but there is a difference.. printed word is just so much more "tangible" both in a literal sense but also in some inexplicable psychoactive sense, too.. never used an e-reader; i wonder if that solves the difference
Online uni sucks mostly because I didn't have a printer for most of it. Expected to do 8 hours of reading papers every week and I could never manage more than skimming over the basics because it was all on a screen. Totally different experience, it makes me confident that paper books will never die out
I mean, it's not really inexplicable, televisions and other screens induce a alpha wave dominant brain state, we've known this since the 50s. Which is to say, screens induce a daydream-like state, not exactly what you want for critical thinking. From my experience an E-reader helps and I know people that prefer them however I still like the feel of flipping pages.
I started college as a chemical engineer. I’m in materials now, but I learned from my advisor about a really cool project based in Tennessee, where they turned an old bourbon distillery into a plant that manufactures biodegradable plastic via some kind of fermentation process. Their feedstock comes from grain grown on-site too!
It's obvious that Nile does not have the same level of adhd. Will, I feel the exact way you feel. I run into the same issues. I am also an EE and was on adderall for a little while in college. Lists have helped me wrangle in my thoughts and focus. It was nice to hear someone else describe the exact way I feel.
I think printed versions add a spatial value that helps remember the things contained in them. That's something digital versions lack. To remember digital information I have things playing in the background. It is important that every thing you have playing is new and not in a loop.
Actually during prohibition the US federal government would adulterate things with methanol and just allow it to be distributed, or some of the rum runners would add denatured alcohol to stretch their supply. There's very little danger of producing something with enough methanol to be dangerous by accident in home distillation, it basically doesn't happen unless you try to make vodka from wood. The methanol is as Bernard said mostly in the heads, which taste bad for all the other stuff that's also in there so it's discarded anyway, but even if you kept the heads in there is unlikely to be enough methanol in there with the hearts mixed in to hurt you. Drinking just the heads straight would potentially be bad... but you'd also spit it out for tasting terrible.
An overlooked option that has some benefits of paper and some of a proper pad or computer is the e-ink tablet. But print on paper is, amazingly, still hard to beat in some regards.
Thanks for sharing the mental stuff you've been thinking about William! I've been learning about myself and how I have a similar issue to you. For me, I think it stems from my dad having undiagnosed severe ADD and I have a mild version from him. Reading a book called Driven to Distraction has helped me understand my dad and see how I have some of the properties. Being aware is the first step, I think therapy is the next.
Fun fact: Somebody had the same idea about mixing ethanol and methanol and them canceling out as Nile did in the Czech Republic. You can look it up on Wikipedia: 2012 Czech Republic methanol poisonings
Fun fact: in the 90s (afaik, it was given to me) it was legal to prescribe dexadine to children for adhd... This is the same amphetamine given to soldiers in Vietnam to keep them awake and alert for 24hr shifts. Psych drugs are weird like that.
Answer to the chicken nugget question from someone in the food service industry: If the chicken has been cooked properly, the "germs" on the inside of the meat should be neutralized. Any growth that happens on the nugget is then happening from the outside in. That said, whatever is growing has the potential to produce toxins, which are chemicals that generally can't be eliminated by heat or dehydration. The "germs" will produce that toxin for however long the nugget is giving them a favorable environment to make it. In other words, there's a sweet spot where the nugget is in the right temperature range, has the right moisture level, and provides the right food in the absence of growth inhibitors (like salt, or preservatives) to make those toxins. After that sweet spot is gone - like if the nugget dries out or the temperature drops or raises - then the "germs" will die or go into hibernation. But, the toxins remain. So, after eight hours - if the nugget has dried in that time - the damage has been done. An eight hour nugget will be just as toxic as an eight month nugget. The variable here is if anything more can happen to the nugget after the eight hours. Maybe it doesn't dry out, maybe the temp remains favorable, etc., to extend the growth time so that by the time eight months comes around it's gathered more toxins than the eight hour nugget. Bonus: Vinegar and Alcohol are both microbial "toxins" in that they're the byproducts of microbes eating food. The upshot of these toxins is that A) you can generally eat them, and B) a solution with chemicals like these can inhibit the growth of other microbes, which means those other microbes can't make their own nasty chemicals. For instance, when you make alcohol there's a certain early stage where the environment is susceptible to growing microbes that aren't yeast. But, if the yeast takes hold, the alcohol it produces can inhibit the growth of other microbes.
Yo, the concentration/moving towards something/leaving others when you have a bunch of things on stand by part, really resonated with me. I will try to get a couple of things in order and see if it makes any difference. Thanks guys.
This podcast fits so well with me. I have a strange addiction to learning a good amount about a ton of things. So the fact that I understand pretty much all of what they're talking about, and am still learning a bunch more is actually amazing. I feel like these guys are pretty much just me and my friends having conversations and that's why I love it, and why it's so easy to watch.
47:52 That is my exact problem that i have since i was a kid and i was never able to read book properly (on physical books). But now, i found out that e-readers exist (well i know that from before, just never though about them) and that file format EPUB is actually very customizable (style of fonts, size of a font, spacing, dark mode). So at my work, i asked some colleagues to lend me a reader and now for the first time in 30 years i am able to read book in a way that i want and i stayed focused on that that is on screen (only on couple of sentences) and my look is not drifting and scanning for other things.
Around 52:00 will talks about his struggles with adhd and I relate to it a lot. Just wanted to mention something my therapist has been working on with me and it’s finding ways to create that sense of urgency that propels you to work. Her example is with laundry. At least in my case, I leave my dirty laundry in the basket until I run out of clean clothes and am forced to do my laundry. What I’m trying to do is create that sense of urgency (not having any clothes) but through my own presence. Does that make sense? Hopefully it does and if not disregard hahahaha
Either way I love this podcast it’s really helped me understand myself a lot more and feel more confident in my own work hearing you guys talk about the stressors you deal with and how similar I feel. I’ve caught every epeisode and am planning on joining the Patreon as soon as I can get better control of my personal finances LOL Thank you guys this is really amazing stuff you do
Love the distillation talk. A little off, but close, Nigel is correct on the vodka process being a lot “cleaner”. To be vodka, it has to be distilled multiple times to a higher proof. That’s what’s responsible for the purity. Whiskeys, rums, etc, are not typically distilled to as high proof. That leaves behind a lot more really flavorful compounds, like Fusel oils, terpenes, congeners, etc. those compounds tend to come with a bit of a negative side effect. But quality distillers are “filtering” the complex chain alcohols out with distillation. The volatile compounds mentioned above are also what’s responsible for flavor development over time. Vodka doesn’t necessarily come from a more simple sugar, usually wheat, potato, etc., it’s just filtered to a higher degree, making the choice to remove all the flavorful compounds. The things that make alcohol taste good do tend to have negative effects. Some of the cheaper sugary alcohols are fortified with a synthetic ethanol made from ethyl, which is significantly less pure, and could influence the idea that sugary alcohols are what make you hungover.
It really is crazy how much Nigel and Bernard know beyond the normal scope of professionals in their field. Distillation is the junction of art and science.
Yes! Pectin is the precursor to methanol production, fruit distillates are always heavy on methanol, acetate presence is due in part also to the final stages of fermentation, where the yeast are running out of sugars and begin to eat and convert the alcohol into acetates. “Bathtub gin” from that time added turpentine for flavor too , which also influenced the concept that alcohol was poisonous.
Next Chubyemu video: "A RUclipsr ate an 8 month old chicken nugget, and this is what happened to his neurons" I would love to see an actual analysis/culture on the aerogel nugget tho. Maybe food safety labs and OSHA type places would have sets of tests already set up for checking for food pathogens and secondary toxins?
I think this is the best episode you all have ever made. You got on to a subject and explored it deeply, shared how it is handled by each of you, let each other finish stories. I really, really enjoyed this one!
Tannins impact hangovers, Whisky has some, and red wines have lots. That's why darker spirits and red wine can give a worse hangover. In terms of distillation whisky they do allow some of the non-ethanol and water things to come over, that's what gives it the character of the type of whisky. For example in Scotch all the smokey flavours come from drying the malted barley over a peat fire, so you want those chemicals to come through the distillation. Also the flavour of the grain used, in whisky you want that to come through as well. Yes whisky also picks up flavours from the barrel and the environment it ages in. (Vanilla notes actually mostly come from the wood) For vodka they want to remove everything that isn't ethanol and water. Other spirits it varies sometimes for gin you might want to go as far as vodka to remove all character of the original fermentation, so all the grain character and flavours produced by the yeast, other gins might want to keep some of the grain character. Most of the flavour of gin comes from the botanicals, sometimes they basically steam distill the flavour compounds out of them by adding the botanicals to a basket in the bottom of the fractionating column, other times they infuse them by just letting them sit in the finished spirit and filtering them out later. Sometimes the do both, or infuse and distill again. Tequila is basically whisky but made from agave instead of grain, with all the same sort of concerns about how it's distilled and leaving flavour from the fermented mash in.
36:30 I think one of the many crime dramas on tv has covered this type of thing already, but say a drug mule dies of an overdose in the process of carrying contraband across the border. A drug mule does not carry all of the contraband in one big baggie or vessel inside of them. They could be carrying upwards of a hundred or more little baggies of various drugs inside them on a single trip. So dying of an overdose because one or two baggies ruptured means that there could still be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contraband still inside their body, provided that traffickers can still get to the body before an autopsy is done.
good drink 🍸🍸
good nugget 🐔🐔
@@bluerilius4362 cue to Bernard vigorously shaking his head with a nervous smile
Looking forward to the chicken nugget analysis
You did great hope to see you on the podcast again in the future
Mmm methanol
The fact that the podcast starts with figuring out who's gonna be on the podcast.😂
My favorite thing. It's just super casual and I live on that.
God I hope they never change this. #nevergrowup
What about thay fact. U didnt finish a thought at all
yes. that is indeed a fact.
Bernard is finding out what happens before his patients present themselves to the ER.
UNCONSCIOUS 😳
☝️😳
That head shaking when taking about ethanol mixed with methanol was just hysterical
Tricking people into hosting a podcast, now that is innovation
Petition for chubbyemu to become a podcast regular.
YES
HOW CAN I VOTE MORE THAN ONCE?
And I did a thing
Aye
that would be great, unfortunately hes probably very busy as a doctor and youtuber
Nigel: Ethanol is an antidote to Methanol...
Chubbyemu: :)
Nigel: So all you got to do is put the perfect amount of Methanol in your Ethanol...
Chubbyemu: 😳
Ahahaha that part cracked me up
13:03 for the curious
I was laughing so hard at that part 🤣🤣
Just do a bunch of very careful rate law calculations and you should be good. Fluoride toothpaste slows tooth decay by a factor of ~10, so a 10x difference in the rate law of alcohol dehydrogenase should be fine.
I hope to god chubbyemu becomes a regular guest, or just another host both are fine.
Yea! And he brings an interesting perspective as a doctor giving genuine actual real medical advice as a doctor
That would be amazing!
Agreed He's a great guest
This
@@SkytraxX1 he‘s a toxicologist though not a doctor I think
This podcast is the best. Dont ever change the way you guys do it. This "lets turn on the camera and go" format feels really personal and close. Feels like I'm in a call with friends. Thank you guys for one more episode! Im watching this one and already eager for the next one lol
Also, bring Bernard more! He seems like a really nice guy, and he makes great scientific observations.
Everything about this ^
Its great. Its how a lot of the podcasts I would listen to started out as (misfits, lunch club, chuckle sandwich) but then they would get overproduced and I wouldnt want to listen to them anymore. Just doing a podcast over discord and zoom and talking about whatever with no structure is just more enjoyable to me.
My partner thought I was a group call because it's sounds so casual. This format is great, very MFM vibe in how yall hangout
@@zzane4677 You're right. As dystopian as it sounds, big companies sponsoring good content eventually makes it worse; but without sponsoring, creators dont usually keep great content like this coming... And I mean, who can blame them? lol
Bernard appearing in the dark, wide eyed and smiling, "I lured a man into my basement, This is what happened to his organs". These podcasts are wild man I love it.
You know they are professionals when they have to trick their guests to join and forget to add their patreon link in the description.
Love yall! You all make my week so much better.
Literally the only thing that I'm afraid of is that the podcast gets very popular and then they try harder in the future. Trying harder would ruin the vibe.
patron or patreon
Nigel: "Bodies are weird"
WIlliam: "Speak for yourself"
Nigel: "Your butt doesn't have a vomit reflex"
WIlliam: "Speak for yourself!"
Something is off here... I can't put my finger on it, but something is off.
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20:36
Or you could say something is *on* e.e
People get in crazy car accidents and end up alive but if you fall from a standing position and hit your head just right... you done. Game over
Humans are weird
similarly, a lot of people don't realize how deadly fists can be. one punch can end someone, whether it's the punch or the fall that kills them.
Human body is delicate and resilient at the same time
In that case I'm glad to be alive cause I fell from standing position on the back of my head as a late teenager (no wonder I grew up messed up lol).
The only way this could happens realistically is by losing consciousness which I did after standing up too fast. One side of my hip absorbed some 30% of the shock though I definitely did hear a loud, distant and painless bang from my head slamming on the hard tile floor, then as blood rushed back into my brain, so did the pain.
I gotta thank raw teenager energy for making it out of that without much trouble (localised pain for a few days, and a small wound on the impact site) , today's me would definitely have a different outcome (starting with the serious loss of bone density)
@@MrCrackbear it’s the same exact idea tho, if you hit your head in a very specific place,(or neck) you will become paralyzed or mentally disabled, in miliseconds. So whether it be falling, a punch, it could be a football if anything, as long as the one spot is hit hard enough.
People who only listen to these are really missing Bernard's enthusiastic non-verbal reactions to some of the things they are saying. 13:12 28:23 35:47 36:10 59:15 59:50
His facial expressions are the best😂
1:00:30 is great too
Lol thank you for the time stamps😂 someone needs to screenshot all of his priceless expressions & make a collage🤣
I have ADD and I can tell you that even absolutely needing to do something will not force me into doing that thing. I almost failed out of law school on multiple occasions because I would get home and just not work on my papers or studying. On my meds I can force myself to do things, but without them I will just do whatever pops into my head or catches my attention first.
Same. Sometimes I have no clue how I got through my engineering degree.
Same. Wasn't diagnosed or medicated until I was 35 and the difference is astounding.
This is such a special episode. I feel like a special viewer.
Totally feel Chubbyemu on the recession thing. Graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in '08 - after my internship ending in '09 I worked at a pizza joint and a bar until 2012 when I got back into engineering.
thanks obama
IM SPECIAL AS WELL OHGGGGHHHHHGGGHGGHG U YHG AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Professional science podcast. I love this thematic rollercoaster from serious scientific issues like the methanol poisoning mechanism, through the statement that there is no vomit reflex in the butt, to the question of how much drugs can be stuffed in the human body. I'm glad that there is a doctor watching over you.
Yesssss!!! I absolutely agree 100% with you. The way they can just "scientifically" embrace the randomest questions is just amazing HAHAHA
watching these guys for an hour feels like hours of science classes but "made fun".
I mean, it FEELS like A LOT of content, but it's so "light" that it doesnt really seem boring.
Complementing Nigel's point about alcohols: some of them, like Rum, have a higher ester and aldehyde count for both flavour and aroma. These definitely result in different reactions in the body. Tannin in red wine also causes some people to get really bad stomach pains, from what I've heard.
red wine ALWAYS gives me heartburn, even if i have a few sips. i don’t have the same issue with white wine. i get heartburn from white wine but it’s infrequent and irregular
Red wine also has sulfates which is why wine headache rock you. So I’ve heard anyway
@@b3dubbs72 sulfites I think. They are used to kill off yeast and other microbes before fermenting, and sometimes after fermentation as a preservative. some people are sensitive to them.
@@connormcneill9024 yeah, probably to help with oxidation too. A lot of alcoholic ferments don’t contain sulfites, so I imagine it’s just because red wine folks are pretty particular
Brandy and Rum I'm ok with but Whiskey and Bourbon make my stomach feel like there's a stir bar spinning at max rpm.
You guys should actually play poker live or on the podcast sometime.
shit i'd eat dinner to that
Edit: if you guys do this please ask I did a Thing to join the podcast when secretly he'll be playing poker
that honestly doesn't sound like a bad idea. I'd watch it 100%
Loser of the poker match has to eat the old chicken nugget for science
@@Not-Right-Meow this was the best idea so far. Any objections, guys?
How does this work, who shuffles the cards or whatever?
Love how excited Bernard is about valence shells
"You just gotta mix the perfect ammount of methanol into ethanol..." Cuts to Bernard vigurously shaking his head
I laughed so hard at that😂😂😂
Nigels voice is so good. He could do audio books.
It's insanely refreshing to hear other healthcare professionals, especially other specialities than mine (DPT, physical therapy ) speak up on the stranglehold that has been put on pain patients across America. It's insane, prescriptions for painkillers have been cut by up to 75% across the country (depending on how you calculate it, what you count, etc) yet opiate overdoses are up 300 to 700%.
The thing is, the official opiate prescriber guidelines allow for much MUCH more leniency than pain management doctors are showing....so what the fuck is up with that? Well, there was a large push by lawmakers and the DEA to pressure doctors unofficially via extreme uses of their power and scare tactics. A huge wave of pill farms (doctors just obviously prescribing opiates to all patients no questions asked and possibly taking kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies) which is a good thing...but it continued once those were shut down. The DEA and regulatory bodies kept going and they started clapping doctors for small discrepancies, maybe 3 years ago you prescribed opiates to a patient that this regulatory body deems unwarranted...and suddenly your practice is gone, or your hit with charges......
Despite following the new guildines, pain doctors got essentially shaken down, and now everyone suffers. The patients literally suffer the most, but other specialties that rely in patients being able to function......also suffer.
It's really hard to get an 80 year old cancer patient to maintain their physical therapy routine when they have their prescription for painkillers cut out completely in only a few week period......suddenly that patient suffers rapid decline of quality of life, and, even with a letter of request for medication sent by a doctor to the pain management doctor it doesn't matter.....
Lobby (bribe) for better healthcare
The low threshold for an opioid prescription in the states is insane. Opioids should only be prescribed as a last resort pain medication or for palliative treatment. It's sad to see the common people in America suffer for corporate gain (looking at you, Purdue et al).
@@abnerruiz4011 it ain’t happening. if you want good healthcare, marry someone that doesn’t live in the US and go somewhere better.
For the alcohol discussion. The reason for the worse hangovers in non-distilled alcoholic beverages is 1.) methanol that doesn't get distilled out like it does in distilled spirits. and 2.) tannic acids (this is especially the case for wines), leading to vasodialation which increases uptake and a drop in blood glucose levels (compounded by ethanol's own effect on releasing glucose).
I would suspect that alcohol byproducts and remaining sugars in distilled spirits also affects the body differently and could (depending on body makeup and chemistry) affect individuals in different ways.
I love chubbyemu with Nile red on the podcast together. Such a good episode
Ikr my dream colab
This podcast feels like a self help group for procrastinators.... Procrastinators Anonymous.
the more podcast episodes I watch, the more I start ADHD truthing Will and Nigel
Fr, I gonna have to use some of these guys ideas to help me out with my shit lol
This is a really good idea! I’ll set up a discord server for it later.
@@aster5600 ah another nigel adhd truther
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You guys have summarized my entire adhd existence perfectly. I was diagnosed as a child (like 8) and each thing you say hits all off my check marks. The difference between neuron divergent people and normal people is the intensity of symptoms. And the negative connotation of medication is so frustrating! I really enjoyed this episode :) as well as all the others obvi 😂
agreed about the stigma of medications. I really struggled with my adhd meds in highschool and it led me to be super depressed and anxious. Went cold turkey for 2~ years but then realized that they actually help me. Trying to teach myself that I can take them and not go back to being a zombie is tough, but I’m trying. Ok oversharing now oops
A lot of relatable dialogue here- especially the bits on prioritizing tasks and the guilt from neglecting one over another. Good show.
Chubbyemu knows more about the podcast than William and Nigel
chubbyemu should be the "5th beatle" of the safety third podcast
@@merreborn yess
Chubbyemu probably appeared in more episodes than Peter lol
@@imdW lmao yea
Hyperfocus is a common aspect of ADHD! Characterized by basically what you described, long periods of intense focus on one thing, usually with an aspect of blocking out everything else around you, sometimes even eating or drinking
Was going to say this exact thing. Well put.
The absolute chaotic energy of the beginning is admirable.
Really appreciate you guys talking about mental health. That web domain timer knob is pure genius.
Yay, a Nigel episode. My simp heart is happy lmao
moonshining is the hobby of many uncles and grandpas here in Poland 🇵🇱 it’s pretty common to use pure sugar and various yeast strains to make “spirytus” aka rectified spirits. flavors are added and it’s diluted after.
I find that as soon as I watch youtube the day is gone, as long as I don't want any videos I can reset and start working again after a brief break. I feel terrible about not being able to stay focused for 8 hours straight so hearing about everyone having the same issues is very comforting.
I'm a software developer right.
For the last 2 weeks, I've been meaning to work on a part of the code base which was producing a number that is no where close to what is expected of it. The problem is the logic is so complicated that it takes about 1k lines of code with no meaningful way of breaking it up into chunk. So I spent 2 weeks doing absolutely nothing on it, and waiting to jump on the next ticket that comes in.
Yesterday I've finally brought myself to do it. A part of debugging it requires me to clear the database because any wrong existing data will throw the next run off, and I've been clearing the database manually. Then I spent the next 3 hours perfecting a script that clears the database automatically with 1 command.
After I'm done with the script, I proceed to continue debugging the thing, and in just 10 minutes I found the bug which was just miss typing a - sign as + sign.
programming is alternately feeling like a genius and an idiot, often several times in the same day.
@@connormcneill9024 That's so true. One moment you feel like you're a genius, and then when your program doesn't work and you're stuck on it for ages, you feel like a donkey.
Best intro yet this podcast is legendary
The issue with dealing with things with to many steps sounds like almost executive disfunction Nigel.
I don't think Bernard realizes how further than the scope of a typical doctor knows. He's absolutely top scientist in his knowledge which is awesome.
Looking into it, he’s a toxicologist, so the chem part is way more his thing.
He’s a pharmacist, doesn’t practice medicine as a doctor
@@ultracowking He mentioned several times in the past podcast that he's a practicing doctor with actual patients. Some of his videos are based on patients that he has had or patients his colleagues had.
@@ultracowking hes practising as a doctor hes stated he has patient smany times and has said hes a doctor
@@ultracowking got a source for that? Considering a basic Google search says otherwise I doubt it...
Also Bernard outed himself as an ex arena shooter (e.g. unreal tournament, quake 3 arena) nerd by referring to chunks of meat as 'gibs' lmao
Old videos on the Chubby Emu Channel are Nuclear Throne playthroughs
@@TeethSkylark One of my friends has played a shit ton of throne and learning that was pretty crazy
I am a type 1 diabetic, and over the years I've had ketoacidosis a multitude of times. The one thing I always notice first (besides feeling like death) is the strange acidic taste and smell I get in my mouth. Now I know that it was actually proteins turning into acetone!
Love Nigel's voice when going to bed, even when his telling me it will ruin my sleep.
You guys just psychoanalized me. Thank you for validating all of my struggles in life. Its genuinely really reassuring to see that people who are so accomplished and smart also all struggle with the things that make me feel like I might just be lazy and unmotivated and stubborn. The things about feeling just.. released when the power goes out, or needing physical paper over studying off a screen, and preferring to be physically blocked from a distracting task rather than just behaving differently are all things that I've been thinking about and feeling for years and always thought that people might share one but never all of them for the same reasons. You guys rock.
On the topic of fewer distractions that you guys dove into at the end: that's one of the reasons why I like my vinyl collection so much. Not only is the playback process extremely easy to understand and is purely mechanical (aside from amplification etc.), it also makes me value the music I physically have that much more. I think the fact that your options on physical media are limited is the real reason for the focus. Even without the internet, you are still holding a device capable of showing everything there is to know, and you can't trick your brain out of it. It's not about paper. We've got e-ink displays, yet we still get distracted, although, admittedly not as much. The reason why our minds can't process information from screens efficiently is, in my opinion, similar to overexposing a camera sensor: everything starts clipping and blending together. The brain is aware of all the information available and just refuses to focus on the small portion it is being served.
Will talking about attention deficit is really close to my heart
A young man ate a year old chicken nugget that had been sitting in his car. This is how his organs shut down. "It's been sitting there for 12 months," he thought, "surely it's dried out and become inhospitable for bacteria," he thought.
Tech Ingredients has a great video on rum that goings in depth on the production of alcohol. Yeast only makes ethanol, methanol, and CO2. It's the minerals and other microbes that interact with the alcohol that make the subtle changes in flavor: This is when it is still fermenting. During distillation they separate the liquid in to different containers while it is still coming over and then recombine parts into a product that is either drank as is or aged in wood causing it to leach tannins and flavor compounds giving it its color.
When my ADHD is really acting up, I can still have trouble reading a book I am really interested in, losing my place and thinking about what I just read and realize I read a few paragraphs that I didn't take inl
@William Osman your experience with not needing stimulants to help his adhd for everyday makes sense. Big busy shoots with a lot going on stimulate you enough that you dont need that extra kick. Doing paperwork doesn't stimulate your brain in the same way. Novelty seeking behavior is a cornerstone of my ADHD experience and I feel like I share it with like half of science RUclips.
Wait, you just made my life make sense
huh. so the massive deadline or busy crunch IS my stimulant, i just can’t really control that… i should talk to my doc
I've been taking all of my notes digitally for the last couple years now, and I've found that it actually increases my focus and productivity. I love the efficiency of having everything in one place and having that in the back of my head makes me feel more able to accomplish whatever it is that I'm doing.
I feel like using paper or e-ink is way superior to LCD or LED screen, maybe like Bernard said it's about the refresh rate but I also believe it have to do with the backlight shining directly toward your eyes
Well the refresh rate thing doesnt make any sense, the image is displayed completely constantly on an LCD. Flicker is just something you get from a CRT, or some projectors.
My guess would be that there is a big correlation between the brightness setting (too high) on your screen and all the problems people get. Lots of people just have their monitor set way brighter than it needs to be, because there is no _obvious_ problem with it for them and the image quality is even slightly better. But it might well cause _unnoticed_ problems.
@@Basement-Science Just... no. The screen will refresh 60/120/144 time/sec no matter what is being displayed..
@@laiquocbao2565 You clearly dont understand how an LCD monitor works. If the content of the frames doesn't change, it emits the same light at ALL times. No refresh is visible even though its digital data gets rewritten. The backlight that actually creates all the light is on constantly (unless it uses PWM dimming which is another matter entirely).
as someone with adhd will talking about struggling w starting tasks and thriving under pressure is so relatable
Nigel is almost 30, I think? What age is he going to lose his adorable boyish face?
He's already reached 30 and my brain finds that hard to process given his babyface and what we see of his personality 😂
Funnily enough, I just started binging Chubbyemu last night out of a lingering curiosity from his previous appearance on this podcast.
its crazy bernard is talkin about printed VS screen words.. i just ran into that a few days ago.. wanted to read an old article how they did the physics simulations in Hitman; its an amazing read, but felt i was more "skimming" it than reading it.. printed the same PDF out on paper and was immediately like reading all the actual words and reconstructing the narrative in my head. i dunno if it was due to refresh rate, or maybe it takes more of a physical commitment to actually turn the page, or what.. but there is a difference.. printed word is just so much more "tangible" both in a literal sense but also in some inexplicable psychoactive sense, too.. never used an e-reader; i wonder if that solves the difference
Online uni sucks mostly because I didn't have a printer for most of it. Expected to do 8 hours of reading papers every week and I could never manage more than skimming over the basics because it was all on a screen. Totally different experience, it makes me confident that paper books will never die out
I mean, it's not really inexplicable, televisions and other screens induce a alpha wave dominant brain state, we've known this since the 50s. Which is to say, screens induce a daydream-like state, not exactly what you want for critical thinking. From my experience an E-reader helps and I know people that prefer them however I still like the feel of flipping pages.
13:16 My head started shaking exactly like ChubbyEmos, just... "nonono nonono... don't put methanol in ethanol"..
The lighting and chair makes Bernard look like he's wearing a sith robe. He has joined the dark side😈😂
Lol oh my word I saw it but didn't see any other comments like this😂🤦🏻♀️ *thank you*🤣🤣 He looks Darth Vader-esque lol
I love that they just call each other up like "yo dude we are totally playing poker right now join the call."
Hearing you guys talk about ADHD was so relatable.
I started college as a chemical engineer. I’m in materials now, but I learned from my advisor about a really cool project based in Tennessee, where they turned an old bourbon distillery into a plant that manufactures biodegradable plastic via some kind of fermentation process. Their feedstock comes from grain grown on-site too!
It's obvious that Nile does not have the same level of adhd. Will, I feel the exact way you feel. I run into the same issues. I am also an EE and was on adderall for a little while in college. Lists have helped me wrangle in my thoughts and focus. It was nice to hear someone else describe the exact way I feel.
This is one of the only podcasts that I listen to the day it comes out. I like it.
This is the best fucking podcast ever and I'm glad I haver the opportunity to pay 15 dollars a month to make it continue.
Why $15
@@taragggg8225 patreon?
50:30 makes me think of florescent lighting. I remember hearing people talk about that super fast strobe affecting peoples work.
the episode we've all been waiting for, Bernard and Nigel. Did not disappoint
I think printed versions add a spatial value that helps remember the things contained in them. That's something digital versions lack. To remember digital information I have things playing in the background. It is important that every thing you have playing is new and not in a loop.
Actually during prohibition the US federal government would adulterate things with methanol and just allow it to be distributed, or some of the rum runners would add denatured alcohol to stretch their supply. There's very little danger of producing something with enough methanol to be dangerous by accident in home distillation, it basically doesn't happen unless you try to make vodka from wood.
The methanol is as Bernard said mostly in the heads, which taste bad for all the other stuff that's also in there so it's discarded anyway, but even if you kept the heads in there is unlikely to be enough methanol in there with the hearts mixed in to hurt you. Drinking just the heads straight would potentially be bad... but you'd also spit it out for tasting terrible.
An overlooked option that has some benefits of paper and some of a proper pad or computer is the e-ink tablet. But print on paper is, amazingly, still hard to beat in some regards.
i love how you gather all my favorite youtube content creators on this podcast, thanks for providing us so much fun and entertainment!
this podcast gets better and better every episode as the guests slowly become cast members too and it expands further
Thanks for sharing the mental stuff you've been thinking about William! I've been learning about myself and how I have a similar issue to you. For me, I think it stems from my dad having undiagnosed severe ADD and I have a mild version from him. Reading a book called Driven to Distraction has helped me understand my dad and see how I have some of the properties. Being aware is the first step, I think therapy is the next.
Fun fact: Somebody had the same idea about mixing ethanol and methanol and them canceling out as Nile did in the Czech Republic.
You can look it up on Wikipedia:
2012 Czech Republic methanol poisonings
Fun fact: in the 90s (afaik, it was given to me) it was legal to prescribe dexadine to children for adhd... This is the same amphetamine given to soldiers in Vietnam to keep them awake and alert for 24hr shifts.
Psych drugs are weird like that.
Answer to the chicken nugget question from someone in the food service industry:
If the chicken has been cooked properly, the "germs" on the inside of the meat should be neutralized. Any growth that happens on the nugget is then happening from the outside in.
That said, whatever is growing has the potential to produce toxins, which are chemicals that generally can't be eliminated by heat or dehydration. The "germs" will produce that toxin for however long the nugget is giving them a favorable environment to make it. In other words, there's a sweet spot where the nugget is in the right temperature range, has the right moisture level, and provides the right food in the absence of growth inhibitors (like salt, or preservatives) to make those toxins. After that sweet spot is gone - like if the nugget dries out or the temperature drops or raises - then the "germs" will die or go into hibernation. But, the toxins remain.
So, after eight hours - if the nugget has dried in that time - the damage has been done. An eight hour nugget will be just as toxic as an eight month nugget. The variable here is if anything more can happen to the nugget after the eight hours. Maybe it doesn't dry out, maybe the temp remains favorable, etc., to extend the growth time so that by the time eight months comes around it's gathered more toxins than the eight hour nugget.
Bonus: Vinegar and Alcohol are both microbial "toxins" in that they're the byproducts of microbes eating food. The upshot of these toxins is that A) you can generally eat them, and B) a solution with chemicals like these can inhibit the growth of other microbes, which means those other microbes can't make their own nasty chemicals. For instance, when you make alcohol there's a certain early stage where the environment is susceptible to growing microbes that aren't yeast. But, if the yeast takes hold, the alcohol it produces can inhibit the growth of other microbes.
Love Bernard furiously shaking his head ‘NO, METHANOL BAD’
Yo, the concentration/moving towards something/leaving others when you have a bunch of things on stand by part, really resonated with me. I will try to get a couple of things in order and see if it makes any difference. Thanks guys.
Im so glad Bernard is back, hes a dope guest
This podcast fits so well with me. I have a strange addiction to learning a good amount about a ton of things. So the fact that I understand pretty much all of what they're talking about, and am still learning a bunch more is actually amazing. I feel like these guys are pretty much just me and my friends having conversations and that's why I love it, and why it's so easy to watch.
22:35
To paraphrase an exceedingly inebriated friend of mine:
"What better way to not wake up with a hangover than to wake up still in party mode!"
47:52 That is my exact problem that i have since i was a kid and i was never able to read book properly (on physical books). But now, i found out that e-readers exist (well i know that from before, just never though about them) and that file format EPUB is actually very customizable (style of fonts, size of a font, spacing, dark mode). So at my work, i asked some colleagues to lend me a reader and now for the first time in 30 years i am able to read book in a way that i want and i stayed focused on that that is on screen (only on couple of sentences) and my look is not drifting and scanning for other things.
Can you please stop taking amphetamines!
The Safety Third Podcast, where mental health is number 1, and deadly methanol ingestation is 2
Man, im so glad you guys have Dr Bernard on this! I love you guys too
You guys should definitely get Cody's lab on the podcast!
Around 52:00 will talks about his struggles with adhd and I relate to it a lot. Just wanted to mention something my therapist has been working on with me and it’s finding ways to create that sense of urgency that propels you to work. Her example is with laundry. At least in my case, I leave my dirty laundry in the basket until I run out of clean clothes and am forced to do my laundry. What I’m trying to do is create that sense of urgency (not having any clothes) but through my own presence. Does that make sense? Hopefully it does and if not disregard hahahaha
Either way I love this podcast it’s really helped me understand myself a lot more and feel more confident in my own work hearing you guys talk about the stressors you deal with and how similar I feel. I’ve caught every epeisode and am planning on joining the Patreon as soon as I can get better control of my personal finances LOL Thank you guys this is really amazing stuff you do
Never liked podcasts until a friend recommended this to me now I’m hooked smh
NileRed and Chubbyemu are my favorite YTers to binge right now.
I love this so much I really hope you guys keep this relaxed style and GET MORE PEOPLE ON!!! Safety third forever.
dehydration makes hangovers worse. When you wake up you're dehydrated so you should always cycle your fluids when you wake up
Love the distillation talk. A little off, but close, Nigel is correct on the vodka process being a lot “cleaner”. To be vodka, it has to be distilled multiple times to a higher proof. That’s what’s responsible for the purity. Whiskeys, rums, etc, are not typically distilled to as high proof. That leaves behind a lot more really flavorful compounds, like Fusel oils, terpenes, congeners, etc. those compounds tend to come with a bit of a negative side effect. But quality distillers are “filtering” the complex chain alcohols out with distillation. The volatile compounds mentioned above are also what’s responsible for flavor development over time. Vodka doesn’t necessarily come from a more simple sugar, usually wheat, potato, etc., it’s just filtered to a higher degree, making the choice to remove all the flavorful compounds. The things that make alcohol taste good do tend to have negative effects. Some of the cheaper sugary alcohols are fortified with a synthetic ethanol made from ethyl, which is significantly less pure, and could influence the idea that sugary alcohols are what make you hungover.
It really is crazy how much Nigel and Bernard know beyond the normal scope of professionals in their field. Distillation is the junction of art and science.
Yes! Pectin is the precursor to methanol production, fruit distillates are always heavy on methanol, acetate presence is due in part also to the final stages of fermentation, where the yeast are running out of sugars and begin to eat and convert the alcohol into acetates. “Bathtub gin” from that time added turpentine for flavor too , which also influenced the concept that alcohol was poisonous.
I like how they're all already set on their main channels and just relax with this podcast.
"I didn't even try, I DID distill my own alcohol in high school"
"aren't you kids a bit young to be distilling your own alcohol?"
"yep"
"alright"
Two of my favorite youtubers making a podcast that I come to know now is just crazy, I don't think Nigel has been posting stuff about this on twitter
Just started watching but the fact that this was recorded at new years makes me sad because that means Nigel isn't gonna be reacting to NileGreen.
Oh man! The collab I never expected! Love all three of these channels.
Next Chubyemu video: "A RUclipsr ate an 8 month old chicken nugget, and this is what happened to his neurons"
I would love to see an actual analysis/culture on the aerogel nugget tho. Maybe food safety labs and OSHA type places would have sets of tests already set up for checking for food pathogens and secondary toxins?
I think this is the best episode you all have ever made. You got on to a subject and explored it deeply, shared how it is handled by each of you, let each other finish stories. I really, really enjoyed this one!
Thanks for making this episode! Made my chem heart happy
Tannins impact hangovers, Whisky has some, and red wines have lots. That's why darker spirits and red wine can give a worse hangover.
In terms of distillation whisky they do allow some of the non-ethanol and water things to come over, that's what gives it the character of the type of whisky. For example in Scotch all the smokey flavours come from drying the malted barley over a peat fire, so you want those chemicals to come through the distillation. Also the flavour of the grain used, in whisky you want that to come through as well. Yes whisky also picks up flavours from the barrel and the environment it ages in. (Vanilla notes actually mostly come from the wood)
For vodka they want to remove everything that isn't ethanol and water.
Other spirits it varies sometimes for gin you might want to go as far as vodka to remove all character of the original fermentation, so all the grain character and flavours produced by the yeast, other gins might want to keep some of the grain character. Most of the flavour of gin comes from the botanicals, sometimes they basically steam distill the flavour compounds out of them by adding the botanicals to a basket in the bottom of the fractionating column, other times they infuse them by just letting them sit in the finished spirit and filtering them out later. Sometimes the do both, or infuse and distill again.
Tequila is basically whisky but made from agave instead of grain, with all the same sort of concerns about how it's distilled and leaving flavour from the fermented mash in.
CHUBBYEMU AND NIGEL LESSGOOO
Getting a new episode is always the highlight of my day. Thanks for making these.
I would love me some Texas Hold'em
brother why havent you been on yet
36:30
I think one of the many crime dramas on tv has covered this type of thing already, but say a drug mule dies of an overdose in the process of carrying contraband across the border.
A drug mule does not carry all of the contraband in one big baggie or vessel inside of them. They could be carrying upwards of a hundred or more little baggies of various drugs inside them on a single trip.
So dying of an overdose because one or two baggies ruptured means that there could still be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contraband still inside their body, provided that traffickers can still get to the body before an autopsy is done.