Chernobyl Ep.1 "

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

Lots of little things in most episodes are changed from dramatic effect. The side effects of massive radiation poisoning require a few hours to manifest this much for example. The last episode (WITHOUT going into details) takes a lot of liberties, but it doesn't change much of the basic facts, the important elements of what happened. You'll end up with a lot more knowledge of atomic power and radiation poisoning that you ever thought to have by the end. And you will weep. Many times. Good news--a lot of the people you met in this episode died. But a surprising number survived, at least for years and years afterewards. Like that guy who opened the huge lead door but did not go inside? He is still alive. He got soooooo sick. But eventually he recovered. IMHO this series portrays more genuine heroes than any war movie I've ever seen. BTW you have a very beautiful kitty. Also, keep in mind the Soviet Union was a brutal police state. Ten years hard labor for example meant living in Sibera in sub-zero temperatures with inadequate food, shelter, clothing, medicine, or tools--and your job each day is to cut down enough trees to burn to keep you alive at night. Because you had no access to coal or any other kind of heat than wood. The secret police were everywhere, and there were no civil liberties as we know them at all.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

WOAH thank you for all of this info, knowledge and just the comment in general. I just finished editing episode 2 and was crying while editing. I've found so far that i've been so deeply horrified by the actions and mistakes that I've been too mad to cry. But I felt the shift start to happen in episode 2. I am somewhat comforted knowing that many people survived. And that many stepped into the moment to be heroes when leadership failed them. The Soviet Union was indeed very brutal. Easy to lose sight of that while watching from the comfort of my home in 2023, but it is important to remember the political setting this takes place in.

[@ManUnitedrules7]

The guy who held the door, Alexander Yuvchenko, he passed away in 2008 due to leukemia.

[@piratsnygg]

Never in my life did I expect to hear the word "nucleussy"!

[@LIPPSMACKER]

I truly did not expect to SAY it! But sometimes these things just happen 🤣

[@SoTOreo]

its unfortunate because now all i can think about is seeing a nucleussy

[@digitaltrekkie]

11:23 A friend of mine once said of this moment, "That's probably the closest a living human being has ever come to looking straight into Hell itself." Stare directly into that, and your cells are gonna start turning into cytoplasmic jelly over the next week.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Oh gosh, that is so unnerving and accurate

[@elroysez8333]

It's not about PRIMARILY about egos and incompetence. It's about fear. The Soviet Union was brutal to people who questioned higher ups and failed in their duties.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

This is a great point Elroy!

[@cinemansan8246]

Besides fear it's all about truth and fake news imo, which also easily can be mirrored in todays political context around the globe; totalitarianism vs free democracy (free speech, journalism, science etc.) I also see a similarity with the debate on climate change, where the truth is twisted by those people and companies with big political and/or economical interests. True science was long time not listend to. At least that's my take on it and one way to look at this.

[@WaywardVet]

Yes, and the one guy they have depicting the scientist that tells the more junior staff to watch the broken panel as he goes out... that was a moment of no ego. He told them to watch a broken panel because they now had valid orders to stay in that room. He was trying to save their lives because they can't be ordered to the core unless someone higher ranking gets back before he does, and he's the only one who's been acting logical. He's trying to save their lives by giving them a meaningless task in a room far from the source of danger.

[@chriswells2010]

Not listening to experts. Gaslighting the public. Refusing to accept reality... Covid?

[@jeffreysommer3292]

Radiation goes in a straight line, so when those guys had a good look directly into the open core, they instantly got a fatal dose of radiation.

[@Reblwitoutacause]

“Nuclussy” WELL THATS A FIRST 💀

[@jeffsherk7056]

Ionized atmosphere is a symptom of acute radiation in the air. Ionized air has a taste, and I have been told that it tastes like copper, a metallic taste. That's why the guy asks, "Do you taste metal?"

[@PatchfacedLord]

I used to work at a University Clinic where they conducted tests on rats with radiation. We had to cover ourselves completely, always monitoring the radiation we were exposed to, when we would go into the lab. I can't tell much about the taste, but the air and atmosphere inside was different. It was always way warmer than outside and as soon as we entered we started to feel some kind of pressure. The air was really "heavy" and after a while it was exhausting to breathe. This is of course nowhere near Tchernobyl, but I can imagine how it must have felt.

[@Station-Network]

When you get right down to it, that was my first "lockdown." I was practically not allowed to play outside the whole year. And I come from Berlin, which is almost 2000km away from Chernobyl.

[@bluebaconjake405]

Not the NUCLUSSY 😭😭😭

[@LIPPSMACKER]

The one and only 🥲

[@sliceofheaven3026]

Curiosity is great in some cases. Just not when trying to touch stuff from a blown up nuclear reactor. Then again just being near it was enough to give people high amounts of radiation. That taste of metal that they felt was a sign of radiation levels being high.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Ugh yeah, many times I was thinking “well it’s already too late isn’t it?!”

[@Sir_AlexxTv]

Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgard are amazing in this show ....

[@WaywardVet]

Never really thought about the bucket he brings the tapes out in. But i know a bit about intel analysis and spy craft. If he knows he's being watched, it's probably just his waste bucket that he takes the trash out in every day. You create the pattern of taking out the trash, knowing they're going to check the outdoor bins once you go back in looking for any signs you've been up to something. So you hide the tapes in that vent, you're just doing a regular trash run. Which is also why he took the trash out BEFORE he fed the cat. A sudden increase in thrown out tins would be suspicious that evening, and he was waiting for a specific time.

[@kevinhammond2361]

1) Pure iodine tastes like metal 2) The time between a high dose of radiation and the first time someone vomits indicates their odds of survival. Vomiting at the 2 hour mark means a 50% chance of survival. Dyatlov puked at the 2 hour because he left for the bunker and didn’t go to areas other did. These other guys you see puking within 10-30 minutes… are doomed to a nightmarish demise

[@steven95N]

"The Nuclussy!" I'm subscribing. 😂

[@jollyrayda]

Curiosity killed the cat - but satisfaction brought it back. And 'secrets are fun when they're shared with everyone'?!?!? I envy your world, that is DEFINITELY not the case in mine...

[@wrldchamps04]

Oh, you're going to learn a LOT. Yes there were plenty of people to feel bad for....as bad as it was, it could have been much much worse.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Hard to imagine. But I’m sure of it

[@malcolmdrake6137]

Getting "information" from a TV show is not "learning", by any stretch of the imagination.

[@HollandMarchTNG]

@@malcolmdrake6137it is mostly factual but some events have been altered in timeline order etc

[@squidguitars8271]

Nice job on this. Well edited. And you're bright enough to understand most of what's going on, I do have one small criticism though... at 11:49 and again right at 12:00 Kitty is wanting petting or head scratching lol. Only kidding of course. What an absolute beauty of a cat (love the gray tabbies). Thumbs-up and have sub on me. Looking forward to the rest. Thanks and have a great day.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

SQUID you had me in the first half, and you are NOT wrong. Mojito is always wanting the head scratches

[@joeokabayashi8669]

This is going to be a great ride with you covering this series.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

I am so excited, loving it so far

[@avostorm8111]

​@@LIPPSMACKER this one is gonna hurt sadly but it's a good example of how things can snowball! Awesome series!

[@LIPPSMACKER]

@@avostorm8111 I am bracing for the emotional damage

[@dialecticsjunkie7653]

Nuclussy….. I’m dead…… how do you even imagine that up 😂

[@LIPPSMACKER]

My brain catches up to what I say about 1 business day after it’s out of my mouth 🤣🤣

[@campagnollo]

The difference between this and ‘TLoU’ in terms of fear factor is that TLoU is fiction. This show is the sanitized version of the real event, and that makes it VERY scary!!!

[@LIPPSMACKER]

VERY!

[@Short_Round1999]

After being exposed to high amounts of radiation, sometimes you can survive because the effects aren’t immediate. The radiation basically damaged the cells in the body or just kills them, but there’s a latency period for the full effect to show itself. So, they will die within time. If you wanna learn about the worst instance of this look up a guy named Hisashi Ouchi

[@LIPPSMACKER]

I just looked up his story, that is so heartbreaking. What an excruciating amount of suffering

[@Kawatta_Baka]

4:02 You're not wrong

[@cliveklg7739]

"his face is already red' what happens later to it, not shown in the series, is much worse. 😢

[@LIPPSMACKER]

🥺🥺

[@jamielandis4308]

Another HBO series that nobody reacts to is “From The Earth To The Moon.” It’s a 10 episode series by Tom Hanks and is outstanding. In the conference scene, it is a little scary how much the old party guy’s speech sounded like our government during COVID. Don’t ask questions, just do as you’re told. This was the way the USSR operated: the State was never wrong. This series is more than a cautionary tale about atomic energy; it’s a story of bureaucratic incompetence. The Soviet Union almost killed Eastern Europe because nobody wanted to take the blame.

[@TTM9691]

Just found your channel! Hey: SEVERANCE! Only 9 episode, MIND BLOWING. Highly recommending that one. The finale is.....really good, let's just leave it at that! That's a wild show!

[@amy_grace]

Craig Mazin has one of the most insane resumes out there: not one but two basically perfect TV series... and also The Hangover Part II **and** Part III 😂

[@LIPPSMACKER]

TRULY! I looked it up recently and was *shocked*

[@prestongarvey7838]

lmoa you did not just say the nuclussy, from here on out it is no longer "reactor core" it is nuclussy

[@LIPPSMACKER]

thank you for respecting the nuclussy!!

[@lucasmorgan4379]

Yooo just found this channel absolutely love your reactions and the fact you do gaming videos is so exciting, definetly a sub from me.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Lucas!! thank you so much for coming by and being excited!

[@patricesmith2321]

With regard to the Walking Dead-May I please suggest viewing only the EIGHT episodes of each spinoff Walking Dead: THE WALKING DEAD, FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, and so on. It may generate more.

[@razmot5547]

Your cat is really cool.

[@miderg]

The music (noise) is the sound of real reactors.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

WOAHH! Ok I love this detail

[@ozimakistvan]

*power plants ;)

[@leathewolf]

Dyatlov really was like that, according to his surviving colleagues. Not all the time, but enough. He threatened people's jobs. He was lying through his teeth when he said the glow was the Cherenkov effect. That happens when the core is underwater. Concerning the denial: You had to pretend the Soviet Union was a worker's paradise where nothing ever went wrong. If you raised an issue, it was all your fault. Perception trumped reality. They set about to build a tractor factory. The work fell behind schedule, but no one wanted to take the hit, so the paperwork moved on schedule. Finally the fire marshall arrived to inspect and found a cement slab. Concerning radiation: The people were told that radiation was good, it cured cancer, it was a sign of technological progress, and if the Americans nuke us, Civil Defense has it covered.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Oh woooooow, so many layers to this. I definitely realized while watching episode 2 that I was expecting responses and reactions with 2023 nuclear knowledge. I had NO idea they were told radiation was good. Also noted the vodka as medicine approach that they mentioned in the episode (didn’t make it in the reaction cut). Knowledge and hindsight can change so much

[@maksphoto78]

All you said is a lie. Dyatlov wasn't like that.

[@brachypelmasmith]

I see you're going to enjoy this series.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

This show is right up my alley. Any other recommendations?!

[@lenuvian]

@@LIPPSMACKER Check out Mr. Robot. It's incredible.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

@@lenuvian ooo ok!

[@jamesricker3997]

You think you hate Deatlov now,wait until episode 5

[@LIPPSMACKER]

oh TRUST!!! I recorded ep 5 last night and w o w

[@Sjoram]

There are some really good videos re: Chernobyl from a fellow KZbinr Kyle Hill - worth a watch.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

thank you! I will look into them!

[@oduinn7948]

Say nuclussy one more time.... *I swear to all gods say it one more time...*

[@LIPPSMACKER]

I hate to tell you that I edited it out a few times 🤡

[@oduinn7948]

@@LIPPSMACKER 💀

[@adaada7318]

game of thrones

[@LIPPSMACKER]

I've added it to my spreadsheet of requests!

[@adaada7318]

@@LIPPSMACKER Lovely,thanks for reply!☺

[@beckymellon8135]

❤

[@BipolarBLKSheep]

do NOT do the walking dead. Its sooooooo long and drawn out. It will consume your channel. I've seen channels completely die from getting sucked into doing that series. The fans of that show will never let you stop watching it once you start, and honestly its just the same shit on repeat. I've seen every episode and while its a good show, its definitely not reactor friendly if you want to be able to change it up and have some variety. Stick to shows with shorter/fewer seasons for now. Maybe once you get a significant following, consider doing TWD. Just my 2 cents. I know I'm going to get flamed for this opinion but please reconsider getting invested in TWD, at least for now.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Ooo ok I will definitely take this into account. I was already overwhelmed by the amount of seasons it has and the sheer amount of time that would take to get through. So I will look for some other options post Chernobyl

[@Hayreddin]

@@LIPPSMACKER I agree with them for what it's worth. If you want less covered shows but that imho are great to react to, maybe try Battlestar Galactica (2x1.5h introductory/pilot miniseries + 4 seasons and a couple optional movies), the miniseries in my opinion works very well as a sort of trailer for the whole show, and if you want something more light-hearted there are also Firefly (1 season + movie) or Scrubs (8 seasons).

[@matt88876]

you have the most beautiful kittie kat

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Thank you!!! I can’t take credit but I do agree he is a beauty

[@okerac8344]

Things are really…………… Bad. Lol

[@LIPPSMACKER]

VERY VERY BAD! I am s t r e s s e d

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

I know it's a reaction, but it's okay not to comment on every single thing happening on screen.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

…. Buddy it’s an edited reaction. Not the full thing. No one is going to watch this if I’m silent. And I can’t just have a full tv show on KZbin. I think you’re looking for HBO dot com

[@rantman4521]

Did a little reading did we? You know a lot for someone who doesn't know anything about Chernobyl

[@LIPPSMACKER]

You do know that the chernobyl disaster is a real life historical event that most people learn at least a bit about through uh… living 🤣

[@rantman4521]

@@LIPPSMACKER Sorry Ma'm. My mistake The meds hadn't kicked ln yet. I like your little nickname for the nuclear hole.

[@rantman4521]

Guess it's ingrained in your nature to narrate.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

Yeah, so you clicked into a reaction bud.

[@DalionHeartTTV]

I laughed way too hard at Nuclussi.

[@LIPPSMACKER]

omg thank you for laughing, it just came out

[@DalionHeartTTV]

@@LIPPSMACKER That's usually where the gold comes from. Don't let it bother you and just go with it. Lol

[@Grizzly_6623]

Hooray for socialism!

[@LIPPSMACKER]

🥺

[@DanJackson1977]

If you went to American public school... hooray... you were raised by socialism.