CHERNOBYL Episode 1 "

Drunk Dads Rick and Chris react to HBO's Miniseries Chernobyl, we've been wanting to watch this for and while. This True story so far has been told just in the first episode masterfully. The characters, set pieces and just the real horror is all amazing from the very start. So let's grab and drink and Celebrate the New Year with a New Reaction series from your favorite Drunk Dads.
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[@susatovtuber]

The communications that are in red text were the actual calls between the fire services in Pripyat.

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

We had a feeling, very chilling.

[@maksphoto78]

Yes, the dispatchers calling each other, saying EVERYBODY had to get up and go there.

[@DaemonKeido]

@@DrunkDadsWatch It should be noted that the version we hear in this show is based on the transcripts of the actual calls, but it is not the original calls themselves. Just a very well done version that was recorded on similar tech to what the original calls were made on to simulate the imperfections of the call signal.

[@judycolarelli8568]

Like 911, nobody really knew what was going on. And also couldn’t believe it happened .

[@swhaw]

It goes further because at the time nobody knew how a reactor like that could have physically exploded. At least in the way it did, which is why their go to was the hydrogen tanks.

[@trevorbryant4360]

The title of the episode is the exact time of the explosion.

[@trevorbryant4360]

They also have a podcast that talks about each episode. It goes into much more details about the episode. Well worth listening too.

[@trevorbryant4360]

Episode 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIbIeYN5jtmKj7Msi=eACfF5qBpngjfv-D

[@blebmp3533]

what's the name and can i find it on spotify?

[@SpearM3064]

A bit of information just so everybody knows: Remember the firefighter whose hand was severely burned holding the graphite? In reality, the graphite would NOT have been that radioactive. Yes, it would've been somewhat radioactive, but not enough to inflict that kind of burns that quickly. In fact, in the REAL story that inspired this scene, the fireman who held the graphite told doctors that his hand felt numb and swollen - the day _after_ the disaster. However, the presence of graphite outside the reactor was the 'smoking gun' that proved the reactor had indeed exploded. Because this was only a five-episode miniseries, they accelerated the time scale of a lot of things. For example, the 'Red Forest', full of trees which eventually died as a result of radiation exposure, are shown as having red leaves within days after the disaster. This would in fact take several _months_ to manifest. They also took some creative license with history. For example, Legasov DID NOT make those tapes; his papers were disseminated throughout the Soviet scientific community, and were committed to tape at some point, but HE didn't make the tapes. But hiding his tapes for someone else to retrieve, made for a better opening visual. While Chernobyl was, and still is, a disaster site, and we should never trivialize what happened, remember that this is being dramatized for Western audiences. They had to take some liberties with history and physics to fit everything into a five-hour miniseries, and they were also trying to avoid making you sit through massive infodumps. I might post more as they watch the rest of the episodes.

[@elric5371]

He firefighter specifically who inspired them in this scene. Misha (Mikail Golovnenko) survived.

[@SpearM3064]

@@elric5371 That's good to hear! Thank you for that information.

[@elric5371]

@@SpearM3064 no problem most of the firefighters survived, 6 of 86 perished.

[@hannahbeanies8855]

He did record tapes of his memoir about Chernobyl. He didn’t leave them to be found. They were addressed to a newspaper. They were recorded before his death but not in the way depicted. Also the content was different. But there were tapes

[@Slickmovies]

So happy you guys are doing this mini series

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

Let’s us know what you thought of this series down below. Happy New Years!!!!!!!

[@wizendrew6369]

What you have to remember is that this is during the days of the Soviet Union and RBMK reactors were a Soviet design. By definition they were 'perfect' and therefore couldn't explode. To suggest otherwise would make you an enemy of the State with serious personal consequences. The habit of adhering to Soviet Doctrine was so ingrained in people that it was far more acceptable to believe that the System Control Tank had exploded than the actual core. Of course... the truth gets increasingly hard to ignore after a while.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

​@@wizendrew6369 The report about an accident at the rbmk reactor in Leningrad . only states that the reactor is unstable if all the control rods. withdrawn from the reactor. So there is a minimum rule that there must be 15 control rods. The incident at Chernobyl violated the safety code of ethics because there were only 6 control rods in the rectorate and all water pumps were turned off from the system. and the safety system is turned off. so scientists just say the reactor could be unstable. but no one expected that the operator would sabotage safety protocols which ended in an explosion

[@iKvetch558]

In answer to the question about whether folks are in denial or trying to cover it up...the answer is both, at least in the first couple of days. But in reality, it was more than just denial or covering up...keep watching, the show will be dropping a lot of information, and I do not want to spoil anything.

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

Dyatlov KNEW exactly what was going on but he was in complete DENIAL. When he walked out into the corridor and looked through the broken windows down and SAW the glowing pieces of graphite, he KNEW exactly what happened!!!😢 Unfortunately he remained in DENIAL.😢 This show is phenomenally accurate and tells the story BETTER than anyone else has done before!!!

[@elric5371]

In real life none of that happened, Dyatlov was the first to realise the true extent of the accident. This TV show sucks when it comes to historical accuracy and is a complete joke.

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

@@elric5371 you must not have seen one of the last interviews of Dyatlov!! Taken months before he died, he still blamed everything on the government!! He remained in DENIAL of HIS personal responsibility for ANYTHING that happened!!! As far as historical accuracy I think you're wrong!! Mazin was praised for attention to detail and accuracy in this series!! I bet you're one of the ones that believe we never landed on the moon either!??

[@LoveEachDay94]

I love watching the way this show settles into people. It isnt exciting in a here and gone bullet fire sort of fantasy way. It settles in under your skin deep within your bones.

[@VioletGraysongirl]

I remember watching this and just wanting way more eps then the 5 we got great job guys😊

[@DrFeelgood1127]

Bro you look like you could be Nick Rochefort's brother :D good reaction guys

[@leathewolf]

You had to pretend that the Soviet Union was a worker's paradise where nothing ever went wrong. If you raised an issue, it was all your fault. They set out to build a tractor factory. Work fell behind, but no one wanted to take the hit, so the paperwork moved on schedule. Finally the fire marshall came to inspect and found a cement slab. Everyone you meet in this episode who has a name is a real person, and most of this actually happened.

[@tawogtrailers]

The tasting metal sensation is real. Acute radiation poisoning causes small capilaries in your lungs and throat to rupure and you are tasting the iron in your blood (metalic taste) when you exhale

[@scarymonsterrs]

This series really softened the blow of GoT's final season, such a gem.

[@Prideordie4life]

Love these two cute bros reacting to an amazing show. ❤ New subscriber and super fan.

[@luciebrisson5881]

'It is an amazing series with stellar performances and cinematography. It was a good reaction video until this comment at the end: 'It sold it more with having nobodies.'' Ouch! In this episode alone, we have the late great Paul Ritter, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Jessie Buckley in prominent roles. Big names, hardly nobodies, with hundreds of remarkable television, movie and even stage performances between them. Respect, gentlemen, respect.

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

No you are right, we did talk about how much we love, Harris, Buckley and Skarsgard. We were kinda talking about everyone else. No disrespect intended.

[@addicteduke]

Love your honesty

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

Thank you and thanks for the view -Rick

[@kateawake]

They said the roof is the most dangerous place on earth. Later many Cleaners had been send there to clean it up.

[@maksphoto78]

HBO of course had to create extra drama. In reality, the plant workers (while not knowing that the reactor had exploded) got to work fighting the fires, switching the electrics off, draining hydrogen and oil from the turbines, looking for missing crew members. Dyatlov was one of those guys, he got terrible radiation burns on his legs as a lot of the plant was deluged with radioactive water. He had 50/50 chance to live.

[@H_u_n_t_er]

I heard or read about the erie Sounds you hear from time to time. They are actual recordings of a running Reactor they made in Finland or one other northern Country like Norway but not 100% sure where.

[@paulmorgan1009]

I really recommend watching the I believe Vogue interview with the woman who treated most of the worst victims and is the foremost expert on treating ARS (Acute Radiation Syndrome) and still is. The scene with the firefighters wife and the firefighter in hospital is not right. You aren't radioactive yourself dangerously at all it's what's on you and by this point in hospital you're not a danger. The DR explains best.

[@CodyRapada]

Wait, it just gets better

[@cherylsims5636]

Hi guys. First thing you need to understand the Soviet mentality. Image was the most important thing to them. It there was an accident then reporting it was as bad as the accident itself. The Soviet nuclear program was classified as Secret by the KGB (Soviet Secret Police) so the people, plant workers knew very little about it. Hence no safety equipment no reaction plans. You could not disobey an order if you did you were shot on the spot or sent to prison. The series is pretty historically accurate. They do take film makers license with radiation. If your exposed you do not die at once the effect works slowly over days, weeks, months or years depending on the level of exposure. You also cannot get secondary contamination from a person who has been exposed once the clothing removed and body washed. Their clothing is dangerous. The series get worse and worse with each episode. You won't learn what exactly happened and why until the last episode.

[@DrFeelgood1127]

The parallels between the Chernobyl committee and the so called "health experts" during the covid pandemic is terrifying.

[@Cassxowary]

and there’s a reason for that… “Valery Legasov: [on tape] To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for the truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it.” people just want an official story from people of influence, not the truth, coming from people automatically getting branded anti-vaxxer karens and stuff… (and yah not everyone needs the covid or flu or other such vaccines, but I digress) and that’s why it not only hadn’t gone away but in some places it’s come back… because too many don’t want the truth… where it comes from, what causes it… and that’s products from fellow animals, along with cancer and everything else…

[@JohnGregory7979]

Great reaction

[@LeBronIsgLoat]

Wow, gotta watch this now🤢…great reaction, new sub, txs guys! 🥺

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

Thank You!

[@brycehall4995]

Love the intro ❤

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

Thank you so much

[@davidsirmons]

The guy holding that black chunk.....that was a fragment of the graphite tips, which sadly in RBMK's dogshit design, increases reactivity and are at the BOTTOM of the control rods. When it blew, the uranium was in a hyper-reactive state, with the last REGISTERING reading of power at 33,000MW. The reactor was designed for 3,000MW. Uranium, in that hyper-reactive state, was spattered into the concrete, surrounding metal casings, and the graphite tips when it all blew up, casting debris and graphite fragments as far as a quarter mile away. Picking up one of those pieces would be like getting a million X-rays on your hand per second while it was held. Unimaginable....

[@cathyvickers9063]

Welcome to the Soviet Union, where information is highly compartmentalized, where important decisions are made by committee; & where the illusion of State Security is infinitely more important than protecting your own citizenry! The civilian firefighters think they're fighting a roof fire because they don't have the *security clearance* to understand they're facing an exposed core! An exposed core means lethal radiation. And their streams of water will turn to steam before reaching the "fire." If firefighters trained to deal with emergencies are in the dark, how much less do mere civilians comprehend the danger they're in? But, Soviet reactors are completely safe! Only decadent corrupt capitalist reactors blow up. Not Soviet ones. They're completely safe.

[@lizetteolsen3218]

Welcome to a real live horror show. As horrific as some things you see, they are watered down for the show. There was a growing 'tourist' activity there subsequently. During the current Ukraine war, Russia sent it't troop to set up in the forests around this plant system. Surprise, the soldiers exhibited symptoms and had to be evacuated. Humans never learn.

[@iKvetch558]

Here is a sort of standard comment I have posted on a lot of the reactions to this series that I come across...hope you don't mind me copy/pasting it here. One thing I will add, is that the more I learn about the history of the RBMK reactor and of the Chernobyl power plant, the more I feel that a lot of context is left out of the show, and it could have been more accurate if it had revealed some of that. Also, it is important to remember that this show has very few lessons regarding nuclear power in the West...it pretty much only applies to the Soviet Union or other similar totalitarian society. This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. They also have a podcast that they put out along with the show in which they talk about other things they altered from the history and why. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself.

[@elric5371]

A great series cinematically but unfortunately it’s not accurate, no where near accurate, it’s just promoting lies, the graves at Mitinskoe were vandalised due to HBO Chernobyl. Dyatlov was not a bad man, he was a hero. LEGASOV was a puppet by the Soviet Union pinning all the blame on the operators to protect the dignity of the soviet engineering, he was ironically the biggest liar in the accident. Perevozchenko never saw the caps jump, is physically impossible for the caps to jump as they are not connected to the rods, they weigh 50kg not 350. Perevozchenko was in the control room when the explosion happened. - The first responders were not buried in concrete or mass graves, individual graves in zinc coffins. - Lyudmila’s baby died from natural causes. - There was NO power surge before AZ-5 being pressed, hydraulic changes caused an increase in power by 50MW, AZ-5 was pressed because it normally would of been pressed by the end of the test. -200 MW was sufficient for the test. - Control room was calm prior to the explosion. - Hyrdogen explosion is a theory not 100% verified. - Akimov and Toptunov were not in the basement turning valves, they were on levels +24, +25 and +27. - Sitnikov was not forced to go to the roof, he volunteered. - Degatryenko did not have to be carried outside of the plant, Shashenok was the only one who had to be carried The firefighting scene is all wrong, the northern pump hall was not the main source of the fires, there were small fires scattered around their but not as much as portrayed. VPH-2 Deployed on the southern side near the turbine hall, Pripyat deployed 1 ZIL-130 AC40 63b along the turbine hall the rest on the northern side. - Beta burns don’t manifest that fast, - Ignatenko and Pravik did not climb through the ruined pump hall, they used Pripyat’s mechanical ladder truck to climb to unit 3 and the vent block. - Nina was not a section of the roof, completely made up BS, the section irl was called Lena. - Masha was not the area shown in the show, the area we see the Workers move graphite was Natasha, 8,000 roentgen. Masha was the area underneath the ventilation stack. - they completely added a level where Sitnikov looks over the core. - LEGASOV did not say all that BS at The trial. - Helicopter crash happened months after. - The ‘divers’ did not receive lethal doses, about 80 rem. - LEGASOV lived in a mansion, not a dingy apartment. If you want the best detailed story on what happened, check this out. www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiw063DhdWDAxVgT0EAHe3gDwgQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fchernobylcritical.blogspot.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0259zJ4p0YiNCyLhgBwCYf&opi=89978449

[@miller-joel]

If you think the denial is bad, think about how many people still believe the US gov and the corporate media.

[@НикитаГвоздарев]

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[@BlackDeathThrash]

horrible editing, you did not even show the explosion, the money shot.

[@DrunkDadsWatch]

Thanks but you don’t see the explosion til the flashback in episode 5

[@BlackDeathThrash]

I'm talking about this episode when she walks into the room, you see the flash, and then the shockwave, that was the money shot of this episode, it sets the stage and you did not bother to include it. sad. @@DrunkDadsWatch