I miss when you didn't just do videos on Medical horror.. It sets off my health anxiety.. I'm sure there's a reason? Maybe they perform better than the other videos but I can't watch most of them without having bad anxiety.
@@The93Momo93 what? They aren’t unknown. Im sure they have been copied. Even then though how would you copy them without getting close to the irradiated material?
@@Marynicole830People do go in, but only fir a very short period and only when it's super important. They do test every so often and that probably when they see all of this.
Holy god that intro terrified me. It sounds like a literal nightmare that I would have. It also sounds like the beginning of the best horror movie I have never heard of.
Eben Byers wasn’t rushed anywhere by paramedics. Paramedics didn’t exist until the 1960s. And most "ambulances" were hearses borrowed from the local funeral home. Eben Byers died in 1932. The "paramedics" were probably local citizens with some knowledge of first aid who borrowed the hearse and took him to a local physician.
Even in the '60s, they were still just glorified orderlies and couldn't do much en route, unlike modern paramedics. They could apply some pressure to a wound or apply a tourniquet in such a way you'd end up needing a limb amputated. They would probably have not even been trained in CPR in spite of the fact the first known successful use of rescue breathing occurred in 1732 and full on CPR was first successfully used in 1891. These techniques were definitely widely known to physicians by WW1 and, by WWII, combat medics were trained in CPR. I had CPR training for the first time when I was 8. And when they ask who can perform CPR on a horribly irradiated human, I'm gonna pretend like I'm Forrest Gump.
Subject E.B. presented to the emergency room with mandibular radium necrosis, mandibular meaning mandible or jaw which is a body part that connects to the skull and forms the lower part of the mouth, radium as in the radioactive 88th element of the periodic table, and necrosis which is the premature death of tissue still connected to a living body.
@@DuckyDill11 For me personally, the picture of him missing his jaw was scary, but it didn't disturb me. These videos make me momentarily uncomfortable but I didn't get nightmares. The picture with his jaw missing was the scariest image I saw in the video, so I'd say it's fine to continue provided you can stomach that and don't get paranoid about your radiation exposure. Cheers.
@@DuckyDill11If you can handle the Necromorphs from the horror game Dead Space, you'll probably be able to handle this... It's still cursed af though (I feel so bad for this dude)
That picture shown at 11:36… man that still haunts me to this day. I remember like 8-9 years ago randomly finding it on a list of scariest historical pictures, and still I haven’t seen anything in life that scares me more. Only thing that came close is the first 1856(?) recording of audio.
"If only he had looked into the side effects." But _how_ could he have done that? He lived at a time when it wasn’t easy to research these things, and in fact, his tragic death was what alerted others to the dangers of radium. While he did take an excessive amount, it's important to remember that back then, radium was marketed as safe and beneficial. It feels unfair to blame him for mot doing research, given that both medical professionals and the public believed it was harmless. It's easy for us, with the benefit of hindsight, to judge, but they didn’t have the same knowledge we do today. I'm just not sure why this sentiment was included.
@@absolutfreak5012 Hey, I totally get what you're saying about the video addressing the public's lack of knowledge, and you're right-the video does acknowledge that the public didn't know better and that there wasn’t any information available at the time. I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise. I was using the facts stated in the video to argue that the judgment felt harsh, especially after the video spent time exploring that lack of awareness. It’s not that the video failed to cover this aspect; it’s that the critical statement felt contradictory to what had been established and struck me as unnecessary leaving me to question why it was included.
And you’re right…. Even the girls who worked painting the numbers on watches - were told that it was ok to lick the brushes to make em pointy - they eventually went with it by painting their teeth, nails, and anything they wanted cuz they would glow when going out to party at night, the radium girls.
Kind of funny to think that: This guy may have very well enjoyed a normal-ish lifespan if he hadn’t continue to drink radium beyond what was necessary for his recovery. And his case was instrumental in putting the end to the era of toxic materials sold to the public as safe to consume. And that was only the case because he was a rich, important man. The Radium Girls had their lawsuits intentionally dragged out so that they wouldn’t live long enough to stand trial and they wound up settling out of court just so they could at least ensure having their medical bills paid.
Worst part is the people who managed the radium, like the employer of the radium girls, refused the touch the stuff with their hands. They always used things like gloves and tongs to move the radium. The didmt want to touch it to protect themselves, but they told their workers and customers to put it in their mouths.
One correction: only alpha particles are blocked by the skin. Beta particles and gamma waves can go right on in. Gamma rays have high penetrating power, and Byers’ body was probably emitting like crazy, hence the lead lined coffin.
And the isotope with the 1600 year HL is the one that emits beta radiation. The one with the 6 year HL was primarily an alpha emitter and the isotope which actually caused the dials to glow by interacting with a phosphorous compound. This is why, although I have several pocket and wrist watches with radium paint on the dial, I am extremely careful about how I handle them and where I store them. They also all haven't glowed in decades. I think the newest watch with radium paint I have, a 1968 Rodania, last glowed in the late '80s or early '90s. I remember seeing the watch glowing when I was little. It belonged to my grandpa. I went to see a production of the play, 'Radium Girls' earlier this year. I dressed like a dockworker from the '30s and wore the Rodania, which is a relatively inexpensive, utilitarian Swiss watch with nickel plating, just what a working man who needed an accurate timepiece would have worn. But I have a railroad pocket watch in good working order, that predates the radium era and a nice Hamilton wristwatch without radium paint. Those are what I actually carry or wear most of the time when the mood strikes me. A thin metal watch case is no match for beta radiation. Their process was so primitive. They could have separated the two isotopes and only used the less dangerous one, which is what they needed for the glow anyway. I just wonder what the true cost was. How many millions of people who ended up with cancer later in life, simply from wearing or carrying a watch with a radium dial for decades...
"And good news to the purests, they discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive, It's a painless procedure, with a low rate of failure- but very few patients survive!"
@@Panda-cute If placebo could cure a non-healing fracture the goat-bearded "great sages" on choinese hilltops would actually be useful with their meditations
At the beginning, it stimulates your body into producing _more_ red blood cells, which leaves you feeling energetic and revitalized. It is only temporary, and later comes your body literally rotting away or developing cancer, your teeth falling out, and then your jaw disintegrates. The story of the Radium Girls is a very tragic one. I recommend Katherine Moore's book on the subject of the Radium Girls.
Just to make things clear: Marie Curie was Polish scientist, not French :p Her husband was French but she came from Poland. Her maiden name was Skłodowska. Even thought Poland was under occupation back in her times, her nationality didn't vanish ;)
@@ferretyluv she kept her maiden name for a reason and she said multiple times that she didn’t like France. Not to mention Poland wasn’t on the map back then so emigration was pretty common for polish citizens, it didn’t matter to them where they were going. Stop claiming Maria and Chopin, it’s getting boring.
Ugh I feel bad that people had to go through things like this. Thankfully we all get to learn from their mistakes. Still is upsetting things like this have happened to people at all though.
And you know what is the most hilarious about this? Even after all these years there is still some companies TODAY that are selling radioactive products and claiming it can cure all sorts of diseases... 😆 And you know what? There's a ton of people that are buying and using these products! 😂 And nobody's doing anything to stop these people! 🤣
This is why Timex invented Indiglo. It produced phosphorescence via passing electrical current through the phosphor. It is completely safe to wear. Even the people who were just wearing radium watches were getting irradiated, just to a far lesser degree. Still, there could have been millions of deaths from cancer caused by people wearing radium watches for decades. I have watches with radium dials. And I treat them with the caution they demand. They may no longer glow but they are still emitting beta particles. I have one radium dial wristwatch I wear very infrequently. Last time I wore it was months ago when I went to a production of the play, 'Radium Girls', dressed in clothing similar to a working man of the era. It was a way of honoring their memory. But I have non-radioactive mechanical watches that I wear more often.
14:35 I will never not be astonished at how much people used to trust employers. Nowadays nobody trusts anybody, unless they make the mistake of thinking they're in on the con.
@Everlucky_Clover fr! Ppl get so upset at the sponsor segment portions of Brew's vids for a multitude of reasons, while I'm just over here giggling at the brilliantly dark humor at play. Tbh, I never really had to "get used to it" cuz I was just thinking, "Ohhhh wait... it's dark satire" so for me it was more of a double-take/confused laugh thing.
Why did I watch this right before bed?!? I used to have nightmares about my teeth falling out. Now I'm going to have nightmares about my jaw falling off as well...
That's actually crazy, I saw the picture of the man without a jaw, but I wasn't aware it was from this case. Also Grill running straight to Brew after having a nightmare have me crying 😂 like always, great content.
It's not. It's taken from the book "Manual Of Standard Practice Of Plastic And Maxillofacial Surgery" by Robert H. Ivy and is included in a group of photos labelled "Examples of facial injuries". It's not claimed to be Byers in the book, and the injuries don't line up with the description of his condition taken from the 1932 news article which says "Young in years and mentally alert, he could hardly speak. His head was swathed in bandages. He had undergone two successive operations in which his whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed." It seems the photo became associated with Byers' story only recently.
love this video but please call her Maria Skłodowska-Curie since that's her real name and shortening it erases her heritage, which was very important to her and still is very important to us polish people.
@@thedude8526its roughly 10x more damaging than gamma bc a lot of gamma just passed thru without interacting wheras all the alpha you ingest hits something
The "radium incident" as i like to call it was actually really intresting to learn about. What i mean is the radium girls, how most people thought of radium as a cure and all of the things happening during that.
@Obesno0 I'm fairly certain there's more to it. The Radium Girls also had it so bad b/c they painted their lips with the stuff after noticing that it made them visibly fuller & plumper. If I had to guess based on that, I'd say that it was probably a mixture of placebo & something to with radium messing with blood flow affecting how you feel pain
16:58 Lead coffin is a bit overkill. Radium emits mostly alpha particles it's can be blocked by just a sheet of paper. Radium watched is safe to wear as the radiation is blocked by the watch assembly itself. Undeterred, alpha particles can travel a few centimeters in the air. As long as you don't have direct contact with the radium, you'll be fine.
Yeah. Vile things. "Energy" drinks. I'll pass, thanks. Good sleep, vigorous exercise, a healthy diet and plenty of time off of screens is all the energy boosting someone needs.
"And this is where you tell me that that has never happened before in real life and I have nothing to be scared of." Bruh, do you even know what channel this is? 🥴🥴
Question Brew; Why did the poisonous mixture initially make him feel great and pain-free in the short term? I mean, it's very nature is destructive to the human body. So, to an already unwell person, I would have expected them to go from bad to worse after consuming this, with no real 'pick up' or improved period of health or aches along the way.
Seeing his photos, I was amazed that it hadn't eroded through a major vessel yet. It wasn't just his jaw falling off, the entire front of his neck was gone.
@@thomson872 tastes worse and still contains the same toxic ingredient. the "nasty" energy drink additives have been proven time and time again to be safe. Celsius specifically is a rare exception in that it also contains a probably safe but relatively untested amount of Chromium.
My wife's grandmother got a radioactive acne treatment when she was young. She had to deal with cancer on her face later in life, unsurprisingly. This is why we need the FDA and workplace safety organizations. Sorry to bring up politics, but there's actually people out there that want us to go back to these times...
It's Marie Skłodowska-Curie. She was Polish (born in Warsaw) and kept her surname even after getting married because she wanted to be remember as a Polish woman. When she discovered Radium Poland still wasn't on maps and Polish people were living under the influence of Russia, Prussia and Austria. It mattered a lot for Poles to hear about people like Marie who have contributed to the world's development in other countries. She is a person Polish people can look up to and be proud of to this day and we really want the world to call her by her full name, not forgetting about her Polish origins ❤
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Amazing videos I make transitions I would.not take all this time of studying to make a video
I miss when you didn't just do videos on Medical horror.. It sets off my health anxiety..
I'm sure there's a reason? Maybe they perform better than the other videos but I can't watch most of them without having bad anxiety.
I have the same kitty spoon!
😝
The advertisement before it!
The worst part of the radium girls is that the companies were blaming their deaths on syphilis.
Ah yes, not only dodging responsibility, but obliquely insulting them by implying that they were 'loose'.
I would think the worst part is the melting body parts.
They ate glow paint right?
@@yenulidissanayake2520 the radium paint? Yes
Could always be both
🤷🏿♂️
1 minute in - That sounds like radiation
2 minutes in - Oh this is the guy who drank radioactive mixes isn’t he
Yeah he drank something called uh radium or something like that
@@jpax69sh Radithor
God oll radithor
@@Graf-Fischgen-von-Fischgesicht*"good ole'"
I heard "1927" and said "oh it was that tool that binge drank radithor"
Radiation is no joke. Even Maria Skłodowska-Curie's notes are still radioactive, almost 100 years later
Your bones are also radioactive, everything is. More accurately her notes are still contaminated with dangerous materials.
@@bower31 yes, everything is but iirc lvl of radiation from her notes is still dangerous
why not copy the notes duhhhh
@@The93Momo93 what? They aren’t unknown. Im sure they have been copied. Even then though how would you copy them without getting close to the irradiated material?
@@Marynicole830People do go in, but only fir a very short period and only when it's super important. They do test every so often and that probably when they see all of this.
I think “energy drink” is a bit misleading. Wasn’t it radiated water?
"A bit"? Lol.
It's water with energy in it, so teeeechnically...
It was sold as an energising tonic
That drink got energy in it
@@kildaverenergy food, energy petrol,... Technically every matter has energy in it
Energy cant exist without matter
Holy god that intro terrified me. It sounds like a literal nightmare that I would have. It also sounds like the beginning of the best horror movie I have never heard of.
The intro was so good! I am a very big fan of horror and honestly needed a good scare right now.
I literally had a nightmare like this about 9 years ago and I remembered it for life...
It definitely made me toss the last few sips of my energy drink 😂😭
the substance for men
horror chartcter trend thing yt kids be like:
“If one is good, two is better”
The beginning of many a slippery slope
It really depends... in this case it is a radioactive water, two is not better
i'll take 200 dollars over 100 dollars anytime
Eben Byers wasn’t rushed anywhere by paramedics. Paramedics didn’t exist until the 1960s. And most "ambulances" were hearses borrowed from the local funeral home. Eben Byers died in 1932. The "paramedics" were probably local citizens with some knowledge of first aid who borrowed the hearse and took him to a local physician.
It's things like that where you go "Ah, this script was written by ChatGPT wasn't it?"
Even in the '60s, they were still just glorified orderlies and couldn't do much en route, unlike modern paramedics. They could apply some pressure to a wound or apply a tourniquet in such a way you'd end up needing a limb amputated. They would probably have not even been trained in CPR in spite of the fact the first known successful use of rescue breathing occurred in 1732 and full on CPR was first successfully used in 1891. These techniques were definitely widely known to physicians by WW1 and, by WWII, combat medics were trained in CPR.
I had CPR training for the first time when I was 8.
And when they ask who can perform CPR on a horribly irradiated human, I'm gonna pretend like I'm Forrest Gump.
Subject E.B. presented to the emergency room with mandibular radium necrosis, mandibular meaning mandible or jaw which is a body part that connects to the skull and forms the lower part of the mouth, radium as in the radioactive 88th element of the periodic table, and necrosis which is the premature death of tissue still connected to a living body.
😂😂
Thank you, skinny ostrich.
thanks saved me listening to that Ai BS script ❤❤❤️
Tz
@@LocatingGoku thanks Emu
Finally Brew is sponsored by a Coffee Company.
That picture of Byers missing his lower jaw is one of the most harrowing photos I've ever seen.
should continue watching bro is it worth it or am i going to have nightmares🙏
@@DuckyDill11 For me personally, the picture of him missing his jaw was scary, but it didn't disturb me. These videos make me momentarily uncomfortable but I didn't get nightmares. The picture with his jaw missing was the scariest image I saw in the video, so I'd say it's fine to continue provided you can stomach that and don't get paranoid about your radiation exposure. Cheers.
@@KibblezanBitz it was more of a joke then anything, Its just one of those photos that shocks everyone for a bit. But thanks anyway ig
@@KibblezanBitzfor me the picture itself wasn't that scary, its the fact that its a real person which kind of terrified me
@@DuckyDill11If you can handle the Necromorphs from the horror game Dead Space, you'll probably be able to handle this... It's still cursed af though (I feel so bad for this dude)
I was NOT prepared for this jaw-dropping Intro!
Alright, i'll see myself out
I was not prepared to lose "the game"
BRUHHHHH NO DAD JOKES
Why the long face?
Well, I suppose radium is an ENERGY drink
Yeah...
just gatta remember that his sponsor for this episode is a coffee toteing better than energy sup. and healthier
Sorry, what? *unintelligible. @@justinlucart6853
For Godzilla maybe.
The worst kind.
That picture shown at 11:36… man that still haunts me to this day. I remember like 8-9 years ago randomly finding it on a list of scariest historical pictures, and still I haven’t seen anything in life that scares me more. Only thing that came close is the first 1856(?) recording of audio.
"If only he had looked into the side effects." But _how_ could he have done that? He lived at a time when it wasn’t easy to research these things, and in fact, his tragic death was what alerted others to the dangers of radium. While he did take an excessive amount, it's important to remember that back then, radium was marketed as safe and beneficial. It feels unfair to blame him for mot doing research, given that both medical professionals and the public believed it was harmless. It's easy for us, with the benefit of hindsight, to judge, but they didn’t have the same knowledge we do today. I'm just not sure why this sentiment was included.
FR that was way harsh
Yeah, the conclusion really rubbed me the wrong way as well. A really bizarre thing to say.
There's several spots in the video that address this lack of knowledge by the public.
@@absolutfreak5012 Hey, I totally get what you're saying about the video addressing the public's lack of knowledge, and you're right-the video does acknowledge that the public didn't know better and that there wasn’t any information available at the time. I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise. I was using the facts stated in the video to argue that the judgment felt harsh, especially after the video spent time exploring that lack of awareness. It’s not that the video failed to cover this aspect; it’s that the critical statement felt contradictory to what had been established and struck me as unnecessary leaving me to question why it was included.
And you’re right….
Even the girls who worked painting the numbers on watches - were told that it was ok to lick the brushes to make em pointy - they eventually went with it by painting their teeth, nails, and anything they wanted cuz they would glow when going out to party at night, the radium girls.
Kind of funny to think that:
This guy may have very well enjoyed a normal-ish lifespan if he hadn’t continue to drink radium beyond what was necessary for his recovery.
And his case was instrumental in putting the end to the era of toxic materials sold to the public as safe to consume. And that was only the case because he was a rich, important man. The Radium Girls had their lawsuits intentionally dragged out so that they wouldn’t live long enough to stand trial and they wound up settling out of court just so they could at least ensure having their medical bills paid.
That is just evil.
How they must have felt knowing this...
Literally my only thought, once he said he was from a rich, influential family :/
Things haven't changed.
@@moniques1377and to think this was not even 100 yrs ago
Almost as if Capitalism bad.
@@qwertykeyboard5901 not black & white
Worst part is the people who managed the radium, like the employer of the radium girls, refused the touch the stuff with their hands. They always used things like gloves and tongs to move the radium. The didmt want to touch it to protect themselves, but they told their workers and customers to put it in their mouths.
Corporate owners = greedy pigs
Greed kills
@@agussetionoasli hence why people call it a deadly sin.
I mean around the same time child labor was still common in factories, so that was the norm, abuse of workers
Well women's lives were disposable back then. And the same goes for radium girls' employers
I'm so glad you're bringing back the characters. I missed them.
Really happy to see them all again
dude same
felt empty w/o commentary
Same...
I've been wondering for a long time now, is he also the one who voices these other characters or he got a crew helping him?
@@alicelenn7579 doesnt matter
The second I heard the name “Eben Byers”, I knew this was going to be a roller coaster. It did not disappoint.
A coffee ad on the Brew channel. This is the happiest I’ve ever been to watch an ad, it’s so appropriate
One correction: only alpha particles are blocked by the skin. Beta particles and gamma waves can go right on in. Gamma rays have high penetrating power, and Byers’ body was probably emitting like crazy, hence the lead lined coffin.
And the isotope with the 1600 year HL is the one that emits beta radiation. The one with the 6 year HL was primarily an alpha emitter and the isotope which actually caused the dials to glow by interacting with a phosphorous compound. This is why, although I have several pocket and wrist watches with radium paint on the dial, I am extremely careful about how I handle them and where I store them. They also all haven't glowed in decades. I think the newest watch with radium paint I have, a 1968 Rodania, last glowed in the late '80s or early '90s. I remember seeing the watch glowing when I was little. It belonged to my grandpa. I went to see a production of the play, 'Radium Girls' earlier this year. I dressed like a dockworker from the '30s and wore the Rodania, which is a relatively inexpensive, utilitarian Swiss watch with nickel plating, just what a working man who needed an accurate timepiece would have worn.
But I have a railroad pocket watch in good working order, that predates the radium era and a nice Hamilton wristwatch without radium paint. Those are what I actually carry or wear most of the time when the mood strikes me.
A thin metal watch case is no match for beta radiation. Their process was so primitive. They could have separated the two isotopes and only used the less dangerous one, which is what they needed for the glow anyway.
I just wonder what the true cost was. How many millions of people who ended up with cancer later in life, simply from wearing or carrying a watch with a radium dial for decades...
I mean, Radium does cure everything...but that does mean everything, even life.
"And good news to the purests, they discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive,
It's a painless procedure, with a low rate of failure- but very few patients survive!"
Okay, your jaw falling off your head is pure nightmare fuel.
Growing up in Ottawa, Illinois, we all hear the radium girls’ story growing up. It’s pretty wild seeing the graves too.
How in the heck does radium even make you feel good for a short time?
I would guess a placebo effect because they were told it would
@@Panda-cute If placebo could cure a non-healing fracture the goat-bearded "great sages" on choinese hilltops would actually be useful with their meditations
Perhaps it kills your nerve endings
At the beginning, it stimulates your body into producing _more_ red blood cells, which leaves you feeling energetic and revitalized. It is only temporary, and later comes your body literally rotting away or developing cancer, your teeth falling out, and then your jaw disintegrates. The story of the Radium Girls is a very tragic one. I recommend Katherine Moore's book on the subject of the Radium Girls.
@@ZeoViolet Thankyou. That makes sense
Just to make things clear: Marie Curie was Polish scientist, not French :p Her husband was French but she came from Poland. Her maiden name was Skłodowska. Even thought Poland was under occupation back in her times, her nationality didn't vanish ;)
THIS!
She was a Polish emigre but integrated into French society.
@@ferretyluv she kept her maiden name for a reason and she said multiple times that she didn’t like France. Not to mention Poland wasn’t on the map back then so emigration was pretty common for polish citizens, it didn’t matter to them where they were going. Stop claiming Maria and Chopin, it’s getting boring.
So
Omg who cares.
Ugh I feel bad that people had to go through things like this. Thankfully we all get to learn from their mistakes. Still is upsetting things like this have happened to people at all though.
As they say, "Safety regulations are written in blood". In this case, blood and assorted radiation-destroyed body parts.
And you know what is the most hilarious about this? Even after all these years there is still some companies TODAY that are selling radioactive products and claiming it can cure all sorts of diseases... 😆 And you know what? There's a ton of people that are buying and using these products! 😂 And nobody's doing anything to stop these people! 🤣
But we still have medications and vaccines we know nothing about when it comes to long term side effects
This is why Timex invented Indiglo. It produced phosphorescence via passing electrical current through the phosphor. It is completely safe to wear. Even the people who were just wearing radium watches were getting irradiated, just to a far lesser degree. Still, there could have been millions of deaths from cancer caused by people wearing radium watches for decades.
I have watches with radium dials. And I treat them with the caution they demand. They may no longer glow but they are still emitting beta particles. I have one radium dial wristwatch I wear very infrequently. Last time I wore it was months ago when I went to a production of the play, 'Radium Girls', dressed in clothing similar to a working man of the era. It was a way of honoring their memory. But I have non-radioactive mechanical watches that I wear more often.
When it got to the blood at the sink, I realized the term Energy Drink was being used in a similar yet different way than it is today
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
14:35 I will never not be astonished at how much people used to trust employers. Nowadays nobody trusts anybody, unless they make the mistake of thinking they're in on the con.
They crawled so that we can run
5:24 BREW SPONSORED BY A COFFEE COMPANY??? WTF THIS IS AMAZING
Coincidence? I think not!
Still though the fact that it happened is "jaw-dropping"
@@Blackfromstickworldbruh
I like how he’s shilling a miracle drink on a video about THIS case
I was thinking the same thing, I mean what if 30 years from now we find out those mushroom coffees are toxic???😮
brew's sponsorships are often aimed to be dark humor >_< you get used to it.
@@shannonadams1057 its two types of mushrooms + coffee, we’ve been eating them for thousands of years, its k
@Everlucky_Clover fr! Ppl get so upset at the sponsor segment portions of Brew's vids for a multitude of reasons, while I'm just over here giggling at the brilliantly dark humor at play.
Tbh, I never really had to "get used to it" cuz I was just thinking, "Ohhhh wait... it's dark satire" so for me it was more of a double-take/confused laugh thing.
Why did I watch this right before bed?!? I used to have nightmares about my teeth falling out. Now I'm going to have nightmares about my jaw falling off as well...
Did you have nightmares about your jaw falling off?
@@Dreamheart101 If not, it's only a matter of time...
i literally love brew’s channel and the characters. they’re my comfort videos and i love them despite the horrific topics! please never stop!
I've heard of how horrible poisoning via radium is, did not know it was THAT horrible.
15:02 Maria Skłodowska-Curie, not just Curie
“A coffee machine drinking coffee” 💀 5:13
"That makes NO sense!"
I DIED 💀💀💀💀
Coffeeception.
That's actually crazy, I saw the picture of the man without a jaw, but I wasn't aware it was from this case. Also Grill running straight to Brew after having a nightmare have me crying 😂 like always, great content.
It's not. It's taken from the book "Manual Of Standard Practice Of Plastic And Maxillofacial Surgery" by Robert H. Ivy and is included in a group of photos labelled "Examples of facial injuries". It's not claimed to be Byers in the book, and the injuries don't line up with the description of his condition taken from the 1932 news article which says "Young in years and mentally alert, he could hardly speak. His head was swathed in bandages. He had undergone two successive operations in which his whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed." It seems the photo became associated with Byers' story only recently.
There were 2 famous movie critics. Siskel and Eibert. Gene Siskel got cancer and lost his jaw. He looked horrible. I would never be seen again.
@@AustralianOpalRocksEbert was the one who lost his jaw, and he really didn’t look that bad all considering.
@@renharris6504 oh right. Siskel died first. That was it. I thought he looked terrible without a jaw.
@@joeydestructo ohhhh okay, thanks for clearing that up for me 😁
The only problem about my addiction to Brew’s videos is me not getting sleep after watching one 😭😭😭
True 😭😭😭
Then just don’t watch one?
Kuromiiiii!🎉
Well this topic is fine. It's not like I'm going to ingest radium if I fall asleep.
@@jjsmm2You do realize they said they were addicted to watching his videos, right? I don’t think it would be as simple as not watching them…
Brew always finds a way to make us afraid of normal objects! Keep the good work up, Brew‼️
I know right? I was this close to throwing out all my radium!
Yes the normal household object of radium terrifies me now!
Yeah. I actually own a lot of radium! Pretty normal, eh? Although my doctor tells me not to take it… I wonder why?
“…so I looked in the mirror at my face, and when I tell you my jaw DROPPED-”
The fact that this coincidence even happened is "jaw-dropping"
Considering that radium is so rare and expensive to get, it is surprising that he could make and sell so many bottles of that poison.
Not me drinking my third energy drink today watching this
Don't drink them, they're horrible for your health
IKR 😆 🤣
saaaaaaame
Im still on my first energy drink today.
Energy drink budget if $120 to $160 per month.
Not sustainable budget.
Us
love this video but please call her Maria Skłodowska-Curie since that's her real name and shortening it erases her heritage, which was very important to her and still is very important to us polish people.
Red Bull gives you automatic lobotomies!
and aromatic defecations, lova that deal
SAVED MY MARRIAGE
I wish
I think Brew means Radithor (an "energy drink" that is radium-infused water) and not Red Bull.
It's all for science!!!
alpha radiation doesn't go through skin, but beta and gamma will. But really all three are terrifying if you go putting them inside your body.
Alpha is particularly terrible when ingested and inhaled.
@@thedude8526its roughly 10x more damaging than gamma bc a lot of gamma just passed thru without interacting wheras all the alpha you ingest hits something
I remember seeing the photo of the guy in my radiation biology course. Still gives me nightmares...
1:25 I lost
Awesome man me to so many years have gone by as well UGH WHYYYYYYY
and he wasn't even talking about that one
Why have you done this…
Me too
Same 😔
Dude was literally drinking Nuka-Cola Quantum
Radithor… Radium and thorium. Two radioactive metals. That’s not a good combination.
Radithor was made of radium and thorium.
Omg, the animation for the intro was so convincing and scary 😳
Thank you for bringing back the animated banter ❤️
3:16 "an excruciating pain *radiated* from his shoulder join to his palm"
Bean’s little cry is adorable ☺️
That picture of a man with his jaw missing is actually a soldier with a war injury that's often falsely associated with this story.
The "radium incident" as i like to call it was actually really intresting to learn about.
What i mean is the radium girls, how most people thought of radium as a cure and all of the things happening during that.
World may have changed but people haven't- in recent years we've seen more and more people who prefer the Quacks over the actual experts.
Me cracking open a Red Bull as I click on this video: “Ah yes, please Brew, tell me more”
yeah good luck with that its a BS ai script
@@benayers8622How do you know this?
Thank you Brew I knew about this story, but not all of it. You should talk about The Elephant Man some time.
The quality of these vids are getting GOOD. Keep up the good work man.
Grill is back!!!!
So nice to see him again!!!
Ultimate cure for the illness we call life. Can't feel pain when you're dead.
I can sleep when I'm dead.
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 lol the best nap ever
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596not anymore prepare for tiktokers knocking on your grave for asmr.
"And what does it do?"
"SIGH. It destroys DNA, and-"
I love the dynamics between these characters. x3
Man was literally powering himself with nuclear energy. 😂
I missed Grill! His "straight man" reactions add a special spice to these Brew vids. ❤❤❤
(Loved that intro!)
Great video i can't stop watching this now after the intro
So why did the radium help pain in his shoulder initially? I don't get why it worked at first.
Placebo
@Obesno0 I'm fairly certain there's more to it. The Radium Girls also had it so bad b/c they painted their lips with the stuff after noticing that it made them visibly fuller & plumper. If I had to guess based on that, I'd say that it was probably a mixture of placebo & something to with radium messing with blood flow affecting how you feel pain
16:58 Lead coffin is a bit overkill. Radium emits mostly alpha particles it's can be blocked by just a sheet of paper. Radium watched is safe to wear as the radiation is blocked by the watch assembly itself. Undeterred, alpha particles can travel a few centimeters in the air. As long as you don't have direct contact with the radium, you'll be fine.
Yes but they did'nt know that back then tho
If he knew that back then he wouldn't be buried sick feet under in the first place
I feel bad for him
You either win life or the afterlife, wealth, health or happiness i think i know which one he fumbled
I feel bad for him also 😢.
these animators become better and better each video.
Ai? Like the awful script..
@@benayers8622 just say you don't like Brew and his team. If it were ai the videos wouldn't look like a purposely puppet theatre and sound like one.
*sips can of rockstar*
Guzzling red bull, not sipping
I love Rockstar too. My favourite energy drink. I prefer it over Monster.
Pfft, amateur. I drink Venom.
I'm sorry, but...
_This is jaw dropping_
Ba-dum tss
2:19 Nobody "gives employment." Rather they "need employees." Important philosophical distinction
Woo! Grill is back!
That is horrific. I can't believe people got away with such harmful practices.
Good thing I don’t drink energy drinks. I tried one years ago and hated it
Yeah. Vile things. "Energy" drinks. I'll pass, thanks. Good sleep, vigorous exercise, a healthy diet and plenty of time off of screens is all the energy boosting someone needs.
Those drinks aren't radioactive but they can raise your blood pressure. If you have low blood pressure issues this could help you.
"Your jaw slowly falls off..." O.O... Well THAT escalated very quickly... And horrifically....
It's times like this I'm glad I don't ever drink energy drink cans
I sure do love that we test things before using them into things and selling them commercially nowadays.
"And this is where you tell me that that has never happened before in real life and I have nothing to be scared of." Bruh, do you even know what channel this is? 🥴🥴
It's wild how long medicine was just "we put this rare dangerous substance in a drink, try it"
YOU HAVE TO HIT ME WITH A FALLING OUT JAW AT MIDNIGHT 😭
‘Don’t worry, you don’t taste the mushrooms’ - the number of times I’ve been told that…
So how did he feel better initially? Why would the first few doses improve the condition of his arm?
That's the part I didn't get.
Question Brew;
Why did the poisonous mixture initially make him feel great and pain-free in the short term?
I mean, it's very nature is destructive to the human body. So, to an already unwell person, I would have expected them to go from bad to worse after consuming this, with no real 'pick up' or improved period of health or aches along the way.
brew always makes me fear existence
0:27 Was not expecting that in a brew video🫣😳
Radiation causes cancer, yet it's also used to *treat* cancer. I don't understand the logic of that.
It also cured Eben Byers pain and caused him more pain
You need water to survive, but if you're submerged in the stuff for 10 minutes, you won't feel so good...
Ionizing radiation, mind you… visible light and microwaves/radio waves won’t cause cancer. Longwave is fine, shortwave is bad news.
Different radiation types, and localized versus systemic.
That is life for you Radiation causes cancer radiation fixes cancer Order makes it worse Who knows
I love Bean, I'm glad he got a speaking part in this.
Video about ingesting a newfangled feel good drink while advertising a newfangled feel good drink.
Eben Byers' story needs to be turned into a movie.
I would watch that
This still won’t stop me from cracking open a cold white monster at 8pm before going to the gym 😂
Heck, I drink 2 monsters daily because I like the flavor
On lunch at work & drinking a redbull
@@xepicxyoshix5982 i wish they made a non caffeine version man id buy so many
“Nicotine and caffeine isn’t a proper meal”
Not with that attitude, it isn’t.
@@stephweasenforth7891 nicotine and caffeine are part of a balanced meal.
Seeing his photos, I was amazed that it hadn't eroded through a major vessel yet. It wasn't just his jaw falling off, the entire front of his neck was gone.
4:24 huge fan of sweeney todd so love the reference lol
Yay a Brew video of only we could get a ChubbyEmu video the same day ❤❤
Dude, i JUST bought a redbull and a Celsius, and i saw this on my feed when i was gonna drink it (i probably still will but still).
How about a nice cup of coffee instead?
@@thomson872 tastes worse and still contains the same toxic ingredient. the "nasty" energy drink additives have been proven time and time again to be safe. Celsius specifically is a rare exception in that it also contains a probably safe but relatively untested amount of Chromium.
@@bpz8175 What toxic ingredient does a fresh cup of coffee contain? Coffee is natural. It doesn't contain artificial/lab created chemicals.
My wife's grandmother got a radioactive acne treatment when she was young. She had to deal with cancer on her face later in life, unsurprisingly. This is why we need the FDA and workplace safety organizations. Sorry to bring up politics, but there's actually people out there that want us to go back to these times...
♡~ watching this while drinking a monster, kinda scared ngl😭🙏 ~♡
It's Marie Skłodowska-Curie. She was Polish (born in Warsaw) and kept her surname even after getting married because she wanted to be remember as a Polish woman. When she discovered Radium Poland still wasn't on maps and Polish people were living under the influence of Russia, Prussia and Austria. It mattered a lot for Poles to hear about people like Marie who have contributed to the world's development in other countries. She is a person Polish people can look up to and be proud of to this day and we really want the world to call her by her full name, not forgetting about her Polish origins ❤
AAAAAAAAAAAHHH THAT INTRO WAS TERRIFYING 🤣