Food Theory: What's SAFE To Eat After Nuclear Fallout?

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Loyal Theorists, nowadays I seem to be thinking a lot about the future of the world. Over on my other channel, Game Theory, I've talked a lot about the franchise of Fallout. Now that we've launched Food Theory, I think it's time to cover a topic I've always wondered about - what CAN you eat after a nuclear apocalypse? What food out there is safe from the radiation that would permeate pretty much everything? Today, we're going to find out what's on the menu after nuclear fallout!
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[@doomfry680]

"Radiation can cause cancer" "radiation can end cancer" Radiation: I play both sides so no matter what, I come out on top

[@xdsmile5359]

Lol thats to true

[@nachooTM]

“I play both sides so no matter what I com out on *top* ” *top* soil

[@rupturegg8564]

Can you put a comma after the what please? Kinda confused me lol

[@ICEBrawlStar]

Lmao

[@beashemmad.sayson545]

💀

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"What's SAFE To Eat After Nuclear Fallout?" I'm assuming uranium doesn't follow the 5 second rule

[@alicemoon6114]

You are everywhere

[@raawesome3851]

You are very smart, Just Some Guy without a Mustache.

[@wannabefriends9944]

Your losing your touch I've seen many videos without your comments

[@justsomewendigowithinterne6851]

@@wannabefriends9944 hey

[@wind8932]

How are you everywhere

[@wilsonpaul3599]

Sunflowers are proven to pull radiation from soil. So plant sunflowers in former garden areas then move 10 ft of topsoil from area you need to use now in mean time

[@peasant8246]

*10in.

[@wilsonpaul3599]

@peasant8246 hmm I thought 10ft but I got that from a 50smanual

[@VEXALL44]

Which is why it's the national flower of Ukraine

[@unknowncommenter6698]

10:43 and in Chernobyl too, but they didn't bother to do that in Bryanskaya oblast (it's in Belarus, I think). It's a neighboring region that got affected by fallout, so local rural area inhabitants have to grow potatoes to the "full" cycle (where potato skin becomes very thick) and peel it really well. And even then there's a lot more radiation than in "standard" potato. Still edible afaik.

[@Crabentos]

Bryanskaya oblast is in Russia and it's not neighboring region of Chernobyl. Maybe you meant Gomel Oblast? It's neighboriing Chernobyl and is in Belorus

[@unknowncommenter6698]

@@Crabentos perhaps, I remembered "Bryanskaya" for whatever reason.

[@Crabentos]

@Unknown Commenter maybe it is indeed Bryanskaya Oblast, Russia. It is still pretty close to Chernobyl, but not neighboring

[@coolcarlgaming2005]

I can’t wait for your final channel: Conspiracy theory

[@kendrapaslay8093]

#same

[@davidzea-smith1417]

No, in my opinion, it should be "Book Theory".

[@i.am.zain_]

spots theory

[@kapowmaster452]

The likes are too good to be liked

[@mister.manammegeff5055]

Hes gonna debunk the meaning of life lmao

[@marshallhester3520]

“You can farm plants on radiation, but you can’t eat them” Now that’s a Double Baltic

[@AngryCadet]

.

[@a_moth5584]

You have earned this like!

[@paradox5018]

I see you’re a person of culture

[@Luigi-.]

i know this. it's in my head. i just can't remember where it comes from

[@cnhyiraaa]

@@Luigi-. another episode of food theory its the mcdonalds monopoly one

[@justincase3828]

Thank you for this info. As a boomer when I was younger, there was no internet so it was harder to find answers. But the biggest road block was all of society. Friends and family would usually discourage you from finding answers to radiation questions. People were afraid if we talked about it then it might happen. So, nobody talked about it. Again thanks.

[@vexile1239]

Ah yes... head in the sand syndrome... a very dangerous issue that affects every single generation

[@mbmallik771]

Plants: growing in radioactive soal Also plants:this is fine

[@sunium5814]

“ Oh sorry about your leg”. “Ah don’t worry I got plenty”. Me: *Starts drinking unsee juice*

[@GlitterGlueGoji]

What’s that?

[@HOTD108_]

@@GlitterGlueGoji Moonshine

[@sprinkleofsuga7186]

Make sure that unsee juice didn't have any radioactive fallout particles in it!

[@XtraCube]

B I G S I P

[@nakami1081]

@@GlitterGlueGoji When you see something so cursed you drink that.

[@blakepeters4137]

MatPat: "Do you know what ionizing radiation is?" Me: "The thing that killed Michael Myers? Heck ya."

[@ianthecoolthief6226]

And Superman too.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

@@ianthecoolthief6226 doesn't superman recharge from ionizing radiation?

[@reapermaster1233]

BUT IT HASN'T KILLED ME DAMNIT

[@giggityking6505]

He should theorize on if it's possible to use a pancake as a plate (AMERICAN DAD)

[@vCherrykAI16]

Ayyyyy callbacks

[@Hello-there0990thesecond]

War never changes

[@aeoneous]

real

[@Pain46790]

I’m gonna miss this guy😢

[@MoiraMcGill]

Plants that are good at dealing with radiation: sunflowers, hemp, seaweed

[@Curlyheart]

Plants will be good when the zombies come

[@Aztromaniac]

Normal weed

[@EldenNerd]

@Hunter Ansorge yes

[@TheNovemberain71]

⊙０⊙

[@drpepper7460]

Lol 69 likes

[@aydengraham8045]

How bout an episode on the “wait 30 minutes after eating to swim” rule

[@21stories21]

Myth

[@islaincognita]

Yes

[@IQ-jm6om]

I agree with this man

[@sofiqyu]

Oh and the 5 second rule

[@IQ-jm6om]

@@sofiqyu I agree with you too, but I don't believe it, although have heard of it

[@Wynorrific]

With the Fallout series being out, this popped up on my recommended and I thought it was new

[@THEY_ARE_FOLLOWING_ME]

0:00 I love the fallout vault-tec reference.

[@Shyra_017]

Matpat: Basically everything you hated to eat as a kid Me who liked cauliflower as a kid: *"they called me a madman"*

[@P1r4n]

Me who liked all of these: *Same*

[@litterdees24]

omg i like cauliflower and im 11

[@howtobeamess402]

@@litterdees24 I’m 8 and I like it btw how was middle school?

[@zayy_edits]

same

[@howtobeamess402]

@@litterdees24 I’m 8 and i like it

[@felisadidas4932]

*"We're running low on supplies. Looks like I'll have to forage for food."* He sounds like a very tired dad, having to go grocery shopping at 6pm on a Saturday

[@Optimization-hy5ws]

That's VERY specific hahahah

[@ontiveros4arroyos]

Well matpat is a matdad so...

[@01kkp60]

This aged well

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

technically, in the time frames fallout is dealing with, everything would be safe by the time you leave your bunker.

[@WhiffleWaffles]

Even though it was global?

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

@@WhiffleWaffles yeah, radiation actually tapers off pretty quickly. In order for an atom to emit gamma rays et. al, it has to decay, aka, loose energy. The more radioactive something is, the faster it decays into stable (i.e. non-radioactive) isotopes. Even just a few decades would be enough to leave everything mostly fine, and the fallout games all take place centuries after the fact.

[@namtellectjoonal7230]

One year later and this information is more relevant than ever....

[@residentnerd9928]

Matpat: irradiated food is safer Health Department: WrItE ThIs DOWN

[@esairivas2672]

#RIP Charles also ture

[@eliasfarias842]

This is the greatest class

[@eliasfarias842]

plan

[@miki7566]

This tip is gonna be really useful for the apocalypse next month

[@MrGreeann]

I think it will be in December not October I'm not even funny. 50 likes the what?

[@IAmInYourCommentSection]

What do you mean by: Apocalypse There is not gonna be a apocalypse If people keep saying there will, then there will be an apocalypse

[@Shinigami-gk2mr]

*THE WHAT!!!???*

[@vuk_ustipak]

The WHAT ?!?!?!?!?!??!

[@ralphbouchahine]

The... WHAT

[@ChaseDogg]

Thank you for everything matpat

[@alicopacu]

''the way 2020's going'' BRUH the way 2022 is going im taking notes here

[@lukata8484]

Me: nah i don't really need to watch this one Also Me: but what if...

[@omni8568]

Lukata yeah that’s the exact thing that I thought

[@danishjordan5081]

Me just have breakfast: *I dont need it I dont need it I dont need it I NEED IT*

[@PaIa5]

Same

[@mattandhisdarnlads25]

yes

[@casualsleepingdragon8501]

V-sauce music

[@freddymaster0057]

Austin: how to find water in a nuclear apocalypse Matpat: how to find food in a nuclear apocalypse

[@doitfaster9553]

Is there a link to Austin's water?

[@eastereggggg]

Are they planning something

[@TheEnderGuyGamer]

Something's wrong I can feel it

[@iterumconare4258]

You know what? My tap water comes from an underground stream next to my estate that doesn't go overground from it's source in the Chilterns hill range. I'm good for the next thousand years or so.

[@freddymaster0057]

Daniel Irwin did you even watch the video?

[@homoajaja]

i learn more from youtube than school

[@joelacquah2204]

I guess greenhouses are about to be my best bet to survive

[@bobcat420]

A roof top green house would actually be pretty cool

[@kql3890]

im convinced he’s gonna start “life theory”

[@romanpackham8471]

i'm betting conspiracy theory

[@DrumickD]

Maybe Health Theory lol.

[@RyoikiTenkai_Muryokusho]

T-T

[@romanpackham8471]

@Sebastian Freeman no

[@DrumickD]

@Sebastian Freeman Do you mean book theory? If so, I’ve thought about that. The reason I don’t think it will be book or read theory is because a lot of books are being made in to films and being covered on film theory. For example, The Hunger Games. He covered that on film theory, although it is also a book. I like your idea and have thought of it myself, but I don’t think it will be the blue bottom right theory channel.

[@lunabeekhuizen8858]

At the end of 2020, no matter what the apocalypse looked like, everyone who survived it will know MatPat's name.

[@wandamaximilf3324]

Let's all go stay with him I think that's the best idea

[@lunabeekhuizen8858]

@@wandamaximilf3324I believe in this plan

[@ravreqiuem3448]

I would like to join

[@Vollification]

10:35 Yeah, they described this in the movie "The Day After"

[@JoeMama-me5wp]

Fun fact in the pacific Northwest we have a mushrum that can help with radiation and the slowing down of tumors

[@micahlindley7515]

Pretty sure the cave fungus in FO3 is used to treat radiation.

[@matthewfyson3695]

Mattpat: The way 2020 seems to be going, some of this information might be useful sooner than you may think 2022: Allow me to introduce myself

[@pest2133]

Need to start preparing

[@interestingthoughts1935]

Ye

[@_Katsuma_]

@@pest2133 same ;-;

[@thisaccountissomethingelse6960]

War is coming

[@Hi-lu1ro]

Plus baba vangha said there’s going to be a nuclear war

[@madkirk7431]

So, unlike mold, cutting out the radioactive part makes it fine.

[@gamtheobbiest7945]

Hmm but radiation and mold spreads the almost same way

[@Hollyclown]

But... its all radioactive...

[@roylim1169]

Well radioactive parts do not reproduce in your body like mold so ya

[@marketvideopro1]

Yawning Dog:kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIuxfIawgtyrjNU

[@szariq7338]

Tell this to most of grandmas and grandpas. They don't get sick when they cut off a part of fruit/veggie that was directly affected by mold (I mean you can see it). Probably it's because rest of mold that is left isn't enough to cause sickness.

[@jibbyballs226]

This is really useful right now

[@markcruz9315]

Huh. I wonder if it’ll come to this with how this year is going lol

[@slikdev]

"What's SAFE To Eat After Nuclear Fallout" Me: *softly* dont..

[@aedan9227]

Lol

[@Werewolf914]

MatPat: "what's safe to eat after nuclear fallout? Me decades ago as an immature teenager: "p*ssy

[@idksomething8291]

@@Werewolf914 *no*

[@axolotl2959]

I will literally.

[@titantanic7255]

Bruh me too

[@DrewsterRooster37]

Man, this stuff gets everywhere, it's worse than glitter

[@Dr.Fluffles]

Radioactive glitter would be the worst invention known to man.

[@Seeds4112]

Nah glitter is still worse to pick up

[@camerondeverteuil7638]

No. Nothing is worse than glitter...

[@magicalmishap1201]

YES, FORBIDDEN GLITTER

[@bunkerofclarence]

Radiation is literally impossible to grab

[@boomster2232]

Nah fam the biggest issue is the winter, which is why I clicked on this video. I did learn a lot about the radiation issue for farming which I'm very thankful for but I still think that the winter is gonna be the hardest part since the avg global temperature will drop anywhere between 5 and 30 degrees Celcius, sources vary wildly.

[@c64cassettedrive99]

Gonna be useful THIS year

[@robeerobo2980]

Teacher: What do you want to do when your older Child: I want to be a soil scientist

[@vonn7891]

Isn't that what botanists are?

[@someasiandudethataddictedo3481]

Hmmm

[@MrJiPo]

@@vonn7891 im pretty sure botanists study plants, soil scientist are a subpart of geology i think

[@LarryDevaun]

I think botanists specifically study medicinal plants.

[@beashemmad.sayson545]

Liam Devaun nope, there’s a subpart for it tho

[@adyanknx]

imagine this: 'Matt-Pat is your virtualschool teacher"

[@shibuinu1172]

@Arigato Senpai but you have to do homework about making a theory as well as using math and everything to prove it.

[@SureFire0711]

Dooooopppppppeeeeeeeeeee

[@Jerry_F]

You have school? Lol, not me

[@anastasiahejduk6447]

J F This comment has me very curious. Are you graduated or in a place that elected not to have school start yet? (Or in a country that has a very different school schedule than most of the American/European schools.) I’m long graduated so I’m always curious what other adults do lol

[@rawandboiled]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@robertgrey2386]

6:44 it’s kind of cursed when he shaved his hair because the hair is still there but it’s the same colour as his skin and it’s just cinda weird

[@PlzFeedJake]

Oh how this seems like important information right now.

[@mikopolaruso1525]

you would think that in radiocative areas like chernobyl, there would be nothing left alive due to the radiation, but in chernobyl particulourly wildlife is actually thriving, there are bears, wolves, lynx, deer, moose, beavers, foxes, badgers, wild boar, raccoons, dogs, the rare russian buffalo, and more than 200 species of birds that have formed their own ecosystem within the Chernobyl disaster area.

[@toxic_razz6423]

Turns out the most harmful thing to animals isn’t radiation but humans.

[@mycelia_ow]

@@toxic_razz6423 You're more right than you know

[@lnheritance]

If you look at the river monster episode based in chernobyl you actually see that the underwater poplation appears to be heavily affected. It is mainly due to the absence of humans that animals are thriving, but they are all several generations later. This would give them time to develop immunity because natural selection would become 'literally anyone without this mutation dies' instead of 'this one is slightly better. give it a few million years'

[@mikopolaruso1525]

@@lnheritance all animals got birth defects due to the radiation, but because of breeding it only lasted a couple of years.

[@jungletroll3844]

gota love the spam bots in the comments

[@katzewerfer63]

theory: how about why carbonated water is more expensive than soda?

[@kirkkek]

Heck normal water is more expensive than soda. A bottle of coke is 80 cents and water is an euro and 20 cents. A 40 cent difference

[@TMHedgehog]

it isn't in the UK.

[@DoctorTheo]

Possibly because they want you to spend more money on soda so they make it cheaper so you'll buy more of it

[@woomod2445]

@@kirkkek People who buy bottled water are buying prestige/good vibes. People who buy soda are buying taste. Basically they can get away with charging you more for bottled water, so why wouldn't they?

[@rummyrumrum]

TMHedge thats because there is no soda in the uk

[@VSR813]

thanks for the video! gona go and watch on 'how to avoid a nuclear war' now

[@hvnsaplasts]

What a time to come back to this video

[@milkshakedraws6944]

Fun fact: If you’re ever lost in space then bring lays bags with you, you’re now supplied with food and oxygen.

[@rajamuhamadfarisbinrajamoh7600]

True

[@FrostyLava]

They don't have oxygen they contain nitrogen

[@mixd1738]

@@FrostyLava r/wooooosh

[@why9078]

@@FrostyLava r/woosh

[@java_siege_]

@@FrostyLava r/wooooosh

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

The thing that most bothers me about the Fallout series however is that it's been over 200 years since the nuclear exchange. And while things might not be perfectly safe, most of the radiation and fallout from the Great War will have long since been removed from the environment. Nuclear scientists believe that strontium-90 is one of the most dangerous isotopes created from a nuclear explosion, and that has a half life of 29 years. By the time of Fallout 4, 7.2 half lives have passed. That means that 99.7% of the strontium has decayed into zirconium. Radiation shouldn't be an issue really at all by that point.

[@infinitecdc]

Over on The Game Theory, he was a theory that kind of addresses this. :)

[@engel7461]

Some isotopes are still really dangerous like plutonium-239 which has a half life of 24,100 years. So no it could be plutonium-239 (unless it is stated in the fallout wiki or the game that it is strontium-90 or another isotope with a short half life) so I might not be strontium-90 which has a half life of 29 years like you said.

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

Cole Camara Well the big concern with strontium 90 is that it acts chemically just like calcium so it gets deposited in our bones and teeth. And continues to emit radiation for decades. Everyone on earth today has at least some strontium 90 in their bones and teeth

[@IAmInYourCommentSection]

New MatPat right here

[@Chillerll]

I think it should be clear that Fallout is everything but scientifically accurate. The whole franchise was based on the idea to combine Fantasy RPG elements with a Post-apocalyptic setting. Super mutants are the orcs, ghoules are zombies, Brotherhood of Steel are the knights and so on. The first Fallout game even had dwarfs.

[@brisklloydavator]

this is crucial information now thank you mat pat

[@Volclare]

This suddenly seems so relevant

[@karelpgbr]

Fun fact, a year after Chernobyl, farmers in Wales reported that their newborn sheep were glowing, purely because of the wind-swept fall-out from Chernobyl.

[@HazraPanda]

Glowsheep

[@ILoveCat03]

And then, the glowshroom and the glowstone.

[@ILoveCat03]

@Nigel Lush No No, wait till ye' see me roach icecream from that episode from Phineas and Ferb.

[@dogwithdrugs61]

@@ILoveCat03 Then Glow Squid In Minecraft

[@ILoveCat03]

@@dogwithdrugs61 then the wi- uhm, new blind mob of the kinecraft caves.

[@richardsandor9697]

"You're a soul scientist? That sounds so cool!" No, no. A soil scientist. "Oh..."

[@ventune]

oh you're a soil scientist? name every soil

[@yeetthephone2341]

Soul...? Such a thing doesn’t exist

[@elizawulf8180]

I mean, that means you can study ecology, pollen, microfossils, Moon, Mars, and meteorite samples... :P

[@yeetthephone2341]

Eliza Wulf extraterrestial rocks you should’ve said extraterrestrial rocks m8

[@dust_gale3108]

10:27 WRONG. DEADLY WRONG. Heavy redioactive isotopes usually pass through the soil with rain water falling down. It could cause huge contamination if it hits the water horizon.

[@jarredpierson7505]

This is going to be useful very soon thank you so much

[@olivelittle8232]

I NEED a "Matthew, that IS radioactive chicken" shirt nOw

[@rosewhipple9923]

Or stickers!

[@henlynch]

"post-apocalyptic waistband" is a fantastic pun

[@saulcuthbertson7248]

It is indeed.

[@bauaserkun]

That is the first theory ever that went exactly how I expected it to be. Triumphat trumpet please!

[@e7267]

Huh I wonder why KZbin recommended this

[@JamesTheGamerWasTaken]

"Eh, Don't worry." -Radioactive Chicken

[@GravityIsFalling]

I’m blind so thanks for letting me know what happened

[@kimmikat4205]

I subbed

[@JamesTheGamerWasTaken]

@@kimmikat4205 thinks!

[@humpydumpi]

I have to sub for the deja vu

[@niveth1]

@Rusto how dare you

[@Travis_Adams]

In Disney's animated film Atlantis: the lost empire, the expedition team are seen eating meals comprised entirely of bacon grease as it's the only food their cook (Cookie) has to serve them on the long journey. Could the various members of the Atlantis exploration party survive for the duration of their journey eating only bacon grease and remain healthy enough to continue their journey? Has there been a IRL equivelant situation? Common sense may indicate it's improbability but what does the science say? I wholly believe you are the right people for the task of answering these questions. Thank you and good luck.

[@roonkolos]

Honestly, maybe but would absolutely destroy your stomach and guts if you're lucky if I had to make a guess

[@Galactic_Centre]

Scurvy would become a real problem I assume. There's a reason sauer kraut and other methods of preserving vegetables and fruit were invented.

[@melbapeach162]

I so want this to be a food theory! He could extend it to talking about surviving on one single food alone, talk about that guy that ate only mcdonalds for months as an experiment, the girl who only eats chicken nuggets and now gets sick if she eats anything else, and what the effect of only eating one food source has on the body. They could even look into what, if any, single food would be best to survive on if you could only eat one thing. Who knows maybe it will be bacon grease, nothing would surprise me with this show anymore.

[@rebeccahgraves1133]

Ohh yeah I love that movie

[@Randomdudefromtheinternet]

@@roonkolos Don't forget about gout, eating always meat is dangerous.

[@Xuz2beyou]

I love the intros they are sometimes funny but they always tell you what the video is about

[@Phantom682]

Out of all the videos you’ve done this might be the most useful

[@chalupa49]

It would be cool if you said “now let’s dig” in when you started the theory

[@beashemmad.sayson545]

^

[@sackthewacky3476]

oh yeah that would be cool and catchy phrase for a show like this

[@Danger11007]

Dig into the radioactive soil

[@alaiaomanu6318]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZamfIqCrs2IeMk matpat deleted video

[@teridactyl1250]

@@alaiaomanu6318 We all know it’s not

[@gerardodriscoll3562]

Therapist : Don’t worry radioactive brooklyn mobster chicken doesn’t exist Radioactive brooklyn mobster chicken :🍗

[@artsyhufflepuffer1748]

^with many leggs

[@seanmessick9330]

It was supposed to be a ghoul. They have a gravelly voice

[@baby_bo0120]

Anything is edible as long as u got sum rad away

[@hiitsdarku3453]

My class just got done reviewing on the electromagnetical spectrum so this video is kinda helpful to know what there used for.

[@djman6696]

Someone: *eats my finger* oh sorry Me: naw it gud, I got more

[@PrinceAlhorian]

But does it grow back?

[@sureshdsouza8767]

When you eat your whole leg it won't grow back I think only in radiovate

[@PrinceAlhorian]

@@sureshdsouza8767 this is fallout... Everything grows back

[@ladysssa6914]

*Kira Yoshikage enters the chat*

[@amcutedog343]

@@ladysssa6914 fun fact: kira,s death is technically his dream cuz he died getting grabbed by hands

[@aedanlynch4563]

I-I don't even know anymore, is everything just a theory, is everything a lie

[@TalentedTiger]

The whole 2020 is just a theory. ;)

[@AxxLAfriku]

My haters throw rocks at me and it hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! For more amazing jokes you have to visit my YT site, dear nell

[@kankereganbada1184]

Everything is cake

[@Jpx0999]

watson:EVERYTHING IS FAKE! I AM FAKE!

[@Gregory_12]

6:48 I don't have to shave, I can just wait until my hair falls out

[@joshmcgregor4839]

Literally just got this in my recommended today, such good timing 🤣🤣😅😅

[@invaderjoshua6280]

I'd just highly suggest keeping a chicken pen and a seed vault in your bunker. Don't forget soil and UV lamps for the plants.

[@calliethewolfcat2183]

Matpat: You don't want to eat radioactive food. Me: And miss out on my chance to become a superhero? I think not.

[@raynardrapael5559]

I don't want to risk life to get random superpower

[@mrcabloopy]

Well how am I supposed to become a superhero if I don't swim in nuclear waste?

[@miguelcastillo3723]

@@mrcabloopy it says here you have radioactive poisoning Must have been because you swam in radiation What in God's name where you trying to prove

[@Arkenstone435]

Miguel Castillo I was trying to get super powers to fight the Griffins

[@MG-Raiden]

I see you're a man of culture

[@nataliaborys1554]

Drinking challange: drink every time he says "radiation"

[@alpaca_cloud9657]

i have a bottle of water with me so i’m actually doing that challenge!

[@senascencio1083]

mrhandsome 1 shut up

[@kevinr.9733]

@@T1tanwyd How about hot water? Preferably microwaved.

[@Vinylicrocket60]

Kevin R. What about boiled

[@linkified0471]

I did this, I legit saw the cloud man in the sky

[@Epimetheus419]

Everyday this becomes more and more useful towards the future

[@lmaoocolors9825]

You can eat anything no matter how disgusting and irradiated it is, you can take a few radaways after.

[@WILMANGO681]

True I’m stacked on 1000 radaways

[@melissar4359]

I'd recommend 'the knowledge' by Lewis Dartnell. It's a book about how to rebuild the world after an apocalypse, starting with basics like food and shelter and ending with technological innovation. I really enjoyed reading it, and if ur interested in this video, then you'll probably like it too. Idk, just a suggestion!

[@finndershood5557]

Or just... read/watch Dr stone

[@intrepid1160]

Finders Hood I ten billion percent agree.

[@diersteinjulien6773]

@@finndershood5557 the Dr Stone methods implies that you remember an encyclopedic amount of stuff though...

[@minipancho94]

@@finndershood5557 dr stone doesn't cover a lot of shortcuts you can take with the resources we'd have though. you can make easy generators by salvaging washing/drying machines for their motors, and simply finding the best way to spin them in your environment. wind, water, slaves. with that alone, you could have power your first day if thats the priority. from there you can salvage and air-compressor and build basic, but still deadly air-cannons and air rifles for hunting or defense, thought electric farming machinery should be priority #1 so you can support more people for defense/labor, and produce enough food to negotiate out of any potential fights.

[@norimeshau6675]

Just watch the 100

[@bearblorg]

He's preparing everyone! HE KNOWS

[@TheO-gj6bj]

Oh god

[@ashleyvancleave6026]

*Chuckles in german*

[@mmcgurty]

Lime Juice I’m staying with matpat in the apocalypse

[@glasscatwizard]

HE KNOWS WHAT?

[@bearblorg]

@@glasscatwizard e v e r y t h i n g

[@lolaadelle4819]

Yall know that the water is also going to be radioactive, right?

[@zaubermaus8190]

what about rain? doesn't rainwater let fallout particles seep deeper into the soil? ^^ apologies if thats a dumb question, it just bugged me and i was too lazy to google :P

[@bigjake360t]

All this talk about your irradiated food, and you didn't mention microwave ovens.

[@simonarends7802]

They emit non ionising radiation so it wouldn't be a fair comparison. You could talk about us eating plants which have gotten hit by ionising radiation emitted by the sun.

[@erinstacyamoin6442]

microwave is non ionizing along with infrared and radio waves, it emits frequencies lower than light and you dont see light hurting you so... you get the idea.

[@necrobynerton7384]

@@erinstacyamoin6442 If i recall correctly it isn't dangerous because radiation, but rather dangerous because the frequencies that microwaves emit have a tendency to boil water, and because humans have quite a bit of water, _they don't pair well_ , and also microwaves are tuned to have a higher like energy that does the danger part, otherwise at low energies it would be safe I could be wrong but thats what i think at least

[@bimbo1384]

A microwave is literally just A LOT more powerful WIFI (2.4GHz electromagnetic radiation), it isn't dangerous unless you put 1,5KW of it in a 10dm^3 box

[@necrobynerton7384]

@Latatod ah, well, in that case, thanks for the correction. So then it would mean environmental hazard is more likely rather than the microwave oven cooking you?

[@SovietSnorlax69]

One thing matpat missed is using sunflowers to help pull the radiation and heavy metals out of the soil because of there hyperaccumulators-plants

[@len5630]

Exactly what I was thinking. Like you could plant Sunflowers first and let them grow before planting crops. There must be enough canned foods left so that you won't starve

[@ILoveCat03]

I was today yrs old when I learned this...

[@theAG24show]

I learned it from Daybreak. NETFLIX, WHY DID YOU CANCEL IT?!

[@PrincessAriel88]

Yes and no. The amount of time it would take and the amount of times having to replant them would make it pointless. Plus as the plants die you have to immediately remove them from the ground to keep it from leaking back in.. We're talking 50 years plus and thats only 100 miles or more from the blast area... Any closer would take thousands of years...

[@avalonpage5985]

SUNFLOWER FIELD TIME

[@nairsheasterling9457]

Wow, can't believe radiation created Danny Devito's voice. Thanks for informing as always, MatPat!

[@Banker_merchant]

1:33 Well, you could start indoor farming

[@Legoluke197]

“Boring and easy solution” I was sure he was gonna say have a garden growing in your vault.

[@oneforthealbum3374]

Students: we want to learn how to pay taxes Schools: what to eat during a nuclear fallout.

[@evn3585]

What?

[@Frmintdfr00t]

Well, at least that's mildly useful 😂

[@lilianamorales490]

Bro.. that's pretty useful..

[@bigmama5555]

To be fair where 2020 is going rn it's pretty useful

[@axolotl2959]

I will literally.

[@valentinazitkovic1633]

I love how you called them walkers. Best show ever!!

[@heidi274]

I have an idea, what if you started a mini-farm in a ziplock bag? We did this for a school project once, you put a damp paper towel in a ziplock, put a seed in there with it, steel it, tape it to a window(for sunlight), and it'll start to grow, I think it would work.

[@QuadrupleABattery]

Movies/Games when they get mentioned in a theory: It’s free real estate

[@Jords250]

Also fast food places:

[@mintkay1084]

@@Jords250 also curses:

[@STEVE-hd9ly]

🌹🌹🌹 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZnbhaNtr8dlqKc

[@milktoast633]

Random theory: Matpat can see into the future and he’s preparing us for the end

[@ethantodd4813]

Theorist theory?

[@reapermaster1233]

WE SHOULD START A CULT IN HIS HONOR

[@imred8482]

@@reapermaster1233 YEAH, A DOOMSDAY CULT!

[@NxVernxual]

Honestly that's the stupidest thing that can be found at the bottom of dumb theories ideas

[@Zom-bye]

Well maybe he can’t see his own future otherwise he wouldn’t use final as much as he does

[@jacobcombs1106]

Most radioactive debris has a half life in minutes hours or days. Its the basis for the rule of 7. The primary concern is the bio-volatile fission product daughters radioiodine and radiocesium that are the most likely byproducts of fission of Uranium 235, they are what you were talking about at the roughly 8 min 30 second mark These isotopes have half lifes long enough that it takes roughly 30-40 years to fully decay. In the Pripyat area for example the only place there is any RS and RC left is in some mycellium, they no longer find it in the fish and animals. So have non perishable stores, use aquaponics indoor, store bags of pre fertilized soil, and make sure you can make it 40 years and it stops being a problem.

[@LinningStorm2309]

8:26 has to be the biggest jumpscare in thoery history.

[@codaboda1830]

Me: Yes tell me more I will survive the apocalypse

[@emilypaton4237]

Gotta prepare for December 31

[@HasanAliJ]

2020 man is a very bad year for every one

[@StarBerryAnt]

That’s not a man also how did you do that when I type it skips behind حسن الخفاجي

[@Jesse-75-80]

@@HasanAliJ hhh

[@HasanAliJ]

@@Jesse-75-80 i don't know what hhh is but ok

[@bearside9820]

When he say it is just a theory Me: Wait can I trust him

[@crowmosome5002]

Bear Side Wait a minute

[@matthew_jones]

Kinda sus

[@olegtaranov4806]

what was in the last episode of Jimmy Neutron? kzbin.info/www/bejne/raiUmJVsq7SZn68

[@Janoha17]

A theory is a tested hypothesis. An unsubstantiated theory is just Wild Mass Guessing.

[@annagregory6197]

As the legend Tyler Joseph once said, “don’t trust a perfect person”

[@ttop567894]

Gonna be honest. This show has lost me and got me back. This video was one of the most use full ones he has made. Shure I could of looked it up but the comparison and how it is explained is great. Good job.

[@ghostaldric2682]

Your channel teaches me more than my school teachers :D

[@fabriciomoyano6742]

Fun fact: in the fallout lore becoming a goul is from taking in to much radiation and gouls are immortal and don't have hunger

[@ignoidisniger8183]

Ghouls actually come from a strain of Forced Evolutionary Virus in Fallout lore Edit: nevermind

[@fabriciomoyano6742]

@@ignoidisniger8183 well I did not know that lmao thanks for saying

[@ignoidisniger8183]

@@fabriciomoyano6742 no problem

[@jakobnance5277]

@@ignoidisniger8183 is fev responsible for all mutations in fallout not only super mutants and ghouls but animals?

[@ignoidisniger8183]

@@jakobnance5277 just look at the fallout wiki

[@ragabashmoon1551]

Fun fact: They actually defined the reason for the glow of Nuka-Cola Quantum is Strontium-90. That means that in real life, Nuka-Cola Quantum would literally liquefy your bones. EDIT: Corrected my typo, I originally said Strontium-19.

[@yoshtomah5662]

I misread that as scrotium well

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

Can't crawlout through the fallout now, can yah?

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Tastes like science!

[@someone857]

I’m confused what Nuka Cola is.

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

@@someone857 there's this game series called fallout It's themed with the imagined abilities of futurism groups & 30s-50s where there was no transistor & massive cultural stagnation So it's 'Retro Futurism'¿ Theres a in-game company that makes a cola, Nuka cola, they have a competitor called 'sunset sarsaparilla', Nuka cola has several flavors including classic & quantum Classic is more of a cocoa cola standin & quantum is a 'rare' type item, it's a drink with ionizing radioactive materials, in the times inspired by this game there was common advertising that ionizing radiation would heal & give you vigor, hey it's full of energy!

[@warrenkemp4004]

This aged great, thanks Matt

[@funzosgaming772]

This will be useful about a week from now probably, Thanks Matt