Garbage | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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[@PinkThing-m5j]

30:30 yeah! Cuz the French are gross and never throw anything away

[@nottsork]

please STOP hating on British people ,. we gave you the language you are speaking , its hypocritical for you to be doing that , i like sci show tangents , BUT STOP WITH THE HATE on english people. i could write you an entire episode about americans who thought they were doing better and ended up committing Genocide , (settlement act dissolution ) or the thousands of times that america has poisened its own people accidentally. or the way TUCKSON is spelt as a town name , NO WHERE IN ENGLISH OR AMERICAN , does a C come before an S and is pronoucned SC , you spelt your own citys WRONG . dont get me started i can run on for days of tangents for you .

[@Azerinth]

Are Neptune balls underwater tumbleweeds?

[@motionless_horizon]

@@nottsorkbro.. they’re joking, none of the “hate” is serious, it’s all jokes

[@georgewachsmuth9201]

“Your money is like a bean” is the best financial summation I have heard in decades. My favorite KZbin channel.

[@LITMasonEdits]

obsessed with hank randomly smelling a soap bar and nobody mentioning it

[@quercusmorgana]

I missed it! I’m guessing it was the Sunbasin Soap he sells. It smells so good.

[@hugoalvord2779]

The poem is so good it makes me imagine having this show series as a printed book with the poems printed and the facts from the episode being the chapter 🤌

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

I live in the NW of Ireland. There used to be a landfill just outside my town, but it shut down about 15 years ago. It grassed over pretty quickly, and there were sheep grazing it a couple of years later. My childish brain assumes that shearing these sheep creates acrylic yarn. (I know stuff doesn't work like that, I just can't help imagining it!)

[@osmia]

Best comments so far!

[@Zengief77]

Here is a fun little fact about landfill gas. Landfill have a vacuum system on them that sucks the methane out. If that system doesn't pull hard enough, then the gas can seep out through the ground and into things like nearby basements. However, if the system pulls too hard, then oxygen can be pulled into the landfill. Aerobic bacteria will then use it and release enough heat that the trash can start on fire. So it is a delicate balancing act with explosions on one side and trash fires on the other.

[@jasonbeane8683]

My last name is "Beane", and it took less than 3 minutes for this episode to completely break me. Apparently, *I* am a very basic Beane.

[@zolacnomiko]

37:49 Loling at Hank sort-of listening to Sam talk about hermit crabs but just taking a big ol' whiff of a Sun Basin soap. XDD

[@stellarcascade7550]

Someone who lives in Rochester here. A garbage plate is typically a plate with: fries, spiced (not spicy but sometimes can be) meat sauce, hot dogs, cheese, and typically macaroni salad all together piled high on said plate.

[@bylen8589]

If you want to advocate for hermit crabs, focus on leaving shells for them ( we're taking all their shells) and humane shipping for the pet trade. They are collected at night. Thrown in a large bag and shipped in bulk. Most die in transit. When they reach their destination, they are usually sold at stores as a "toy" for children( sold in a painted lacquerd shell that is too small)They need to be promoted as serious pets that need a special environment and care. Better yet, leave them in the wild or advocate for breeders for the pet trade.

[@lisanorwoodtreefarm]

they just gloss over the fact thank Hank said, about our weird skin, that it "keeps the wet in" signed: a vanilla bean (whose day job is teaching people not to wish-cycle lol)

[@ilessthan3bees]

"start using money on things like beans" had me in stitches.

[@AidanRatnage]

British person here, we don't say rubbish bin, we just say bin, or sometimes dustbin.

[@Anonymous-m9f9j]

29:41 Is when the giant ad break stops

[@TwelveFrames]

Yes, you should cook beans. There's a compound that exists in most legumes that when eaten raw, can cause you intestinal distress beyond flatulence.

[@osmia]

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[@JHaven-lg7lj]

Was coming here to say exactly this 👍

[@kjpcgaming9296]

Green beans? I hope not, the only way I like them is raw right out of the garden. Plus they help to lose weight (fiber)

[@taureshimp2204]

Love the questions at the start of every episode. Those conversations are always such a bright spot. Thanks for the content. Tangents continues to be one of my favorites. 😊

[@HelgeMoulding]

My son was in Afghanistan. Same issue. When someone isn't shooting at you your own command poisons you.

[@blessedveteran]

Being a combat vet who was exposed to burn pits in Iraq, you dont want to be anywhere near them. We have so many health issues now because of it.

[@mayaenglish5424]

Is this the continued saga of Juicy Hank? Because that thumbnail isn't leaving me with many other ideas, at least not any I'm willing to clarify in this PG-13 comment section. 😂

[@BurningheartofSILVER]

😂😂😂

[@helenogrady4544]

The adventures of Juicy Hank and Hermit Crab Sam

[@Finvaara]

I don't suppose factor offers a "No single-use plastic packaging" option, do they?

[@dziooooo]

That's one of the main reasons I've never tried any catering/meal prep service like this - stupid amounts of trash.

[@dreyfusslugado]

With regards to Hank's final comment after the Butt Fact, about Australia landfills probably having cockatoos... close but no cigar. Australia has the Australian White Ibis (colloquially known as the "Bin Chicken" or "Tip Turkey". kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWXHioqeoLiVirc

[@robnol84]

Garbage is specifically organic to me and trash is first inorganic and then a global term for me.

[@laurenr842]

Commenting for the advertisers to realize fewer impressions is still worth the same money bc of new rules, and you should give them more money to make this podcast too !

[@Raymond_Girini]

Just woke up. Got an hour before I got to go to work. Happy I caught you in time

[@booklover900]

This bean conversation may be my new favorite Tangents opening.

[@peggy4846]

25:51 "Your money is like a bean!" really got me

[@blessedveteran]

Please make more of these..i love them

[@dziooooo]

8:37 I make what I call "garbage broth" - I have a bag of raw vegetable and meat scraps in my freezer, just stuff left over from cooking, like the tough end of a carrot, slightly wilted herbs or some pork chop cut offs. When the bag is full, I make a big pot of broth. Few hours of simmering and I've got a couple of jars or mild broth to use in soups and sauces.

[@andii64]

Wish cycling is the only way of recycling for my mother. She puts everything in our recycle bin despite it clearly being garbage. She is an 81 years old catholic woman and wouldn't hesitate to fight with anyone on this matter, including Jesus. She's a feisty woman!

[@HelgeMoulding]

When we find the garbage from very long ago we call it a midden heap, or just a midden, and happily dig through it to see what life was like back then.

[@injunsun]

@6:30 in or so, @SciShowTangents, I divide my throw away into 1) garbage, i.e., anything compostable, including old clothes, kitchen scraps, and dog poo from the inside pad; 2) recyclables (self explanatory); and finally, trash, which is anything that is not either compostable or recyclable. Too bad my city (Knoxville, TN) made so we have to cart our glass to turn it in, rather than curbside.

[@Thedegu]

I hope the irony of the show talking about reducing single-use plastics going straight into an ad for a food delivery service wasn't lost on the producers of the show lmao Like no shade get paid and I also eat plenty of frozen meals. It's just the irony of the transition I find funny

[@TonyBridges42]

And from that right into ad copy about how subscription services are out to get you

[@jessicakorte]

32:34 yes!! They're amazing, I love them

[@trAshWinter]

as an australian, the cockatoo thing is a very real thing and it's very annoying 💀 they also love to rip up peoples gardens and fruit, in my specific area tho there's also crows who follow the bin opening behaviour too, at my school, they had also learnt how to use their beaks to tap open bag zippers in order to get at someone's lunch 😭 i will admit, they're very clever, but it's very annoying having to clean up after them

[@mkeys5000]

This ad spot was particularly funny to me as one of the few subscriptions I keep is a bean club.

[@Zandreth1]

41:22 Sam should ride a chariot pulled by Coconut Crabs as his mount into battle for the hermit crabs

[@GuanoLad]

I figure the cockatoos just learned from the ibis, aka the bin chickens.

[@jordanbloomfield]

It’s a full Hank tonight got me 😂

[@Fooma777]

I’ve heard Aussies refer to their trash collection people as Garbos and I love that

[@Tyrandir]

"It's a full Hank tonight." 👌

[@dziooooo]

16:07 fun fact - they did actually try cleaning up a particle accelerator by making an actual honest to god live ferret, whose name was Felicia.

[@primordial_platypus]

I recall (from a long time ago) a concept of melting trash in a landfill to reduce its bulk. The process was to use a lance which heated up at its tip (plasma lance) that could be driven to the bottom of the landfill and ignited to burn the trash around it reducing its size and allowing the trash on top to collapse into the void created and just continue the process moving the lance as needed. Part of the thinking was that the dangerous byproducts and gasses would be absorbed by the landfill before it could reach the surface. Perhaps today with the use of clean electricity (solar,wind,hydro) this could be feasible?

[@StigmataTickles]

"What's your favorite kind of bean?" COFFEE! "I just don't want to hear "coffee'." 💩

[@elainebelzDetroit]

I don't know if it's a generational thing or a regional thing, but IME "garbage" is anything from the kitchen, in particular - and is sometimes on the wet side. Drier, mostly paper/plastic waste is "trash." Like, you have a trash can in any room of the house, but a garbage can in the kitchen. The garbage can always has a liner in it; others may or may not, but usually don't - they're emptied by tipping them into a larger bag (often the one from the kitchen). Growing up, though, we had a wood stove in the basement to supplement the oil-based heat in the house, & we also burned trash outside. So you definitely would keep "trash" and "garbage" separate, & wouldn't burn garbage indoors!

[@Geeky_Zebra]

The Hermit Crab fact being on both Tangents and The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week in the same week 😅

[@elizabethcook1577]

trash can and rubbish bin are both good cat names

[@graysonstephens587]

Why do landfills smell worse at night? I pass a landfill to and from work and never notice it during the day, even in 100°F heat, but going home at midnight I always notice it?

[@darcieclements4880]

Wind reduction?

[@dziooooo]

More moisture in the air when the temperature drops? Wet air carries smells better.

[@_andrewvia]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who asked what the packaging is for the Factor meals.

[@konohappiness7481]

I love their witty jokes

[@lindsaynic]

Garbage Plate is basically just your whole meal in a pile…Mac salad, home fries, French fries, and/or baked bean base. Add your favorite meats on top (traditionally a burger or white or red hotdog, but could also do Italian sausage, steak, chicken). Top with meat sauce (a meaty hot sauce), mustard and/or ketchup, and onions. Served with a side of buttered white or Italian bread. Best eaten after a night out on Monroe Ave. (that’s where the bars are). My go-to Plate: Mac salad and home fries. White hot. Meat sauce. Onions. Ketchup & mustard. Don’t knock it til you try it! Rhett and Link were appalled and hate Rochester. I’m glad Hank thought the Plate tasted good.

[@SydneyLarrikin-ci2vz]

I like eating green beans off the vine... those are pretty fresh!

[@tobiasherbst8894]

3:40 Peanuts are dry and related to beans, do they count?

[@hannahbartholomew426]

Had a hard finding this show again. Kept looking for "Side Show" while wondering what random science had to do with circuses.😂

[@primordial_platypus]

I would imagine that one could line and reuse some of the (no longer used) strip mines we have as landfills.

[@janelwilliams9144]

HUMAN BEANSSS🫘🫛🌱🤗

[@osmia]

Lol

[@MatthewJamesMullin]

I've bought many dry bean snacks. Mostly pea, but also edamame and chickpea.

[@ssdd28561]

It's just crazy that there are no good names for "beans" in English, and a ton of things is just called "X bean". Especially wild that there is no difference between Phaseolus and Vicia. Everything is just a bean! Oh, wait. I was just trying to tell you a little fact about eating raw beans. We do plant "broad beans" (like seriously, what a descriptive name) quite a lot - that's a zero effort plant, and it helps with enrichment of the soil between other plant cultures. It's incredible when cooked (just sprinkle a bit of solt on a straight from the pot bean), it's not great raw. But since childhood we were strictly warned not to eat more than 3-4 raw beans, because "it will royally mess up some people" - this was just an old folk wisdom. I've only recently check it out, and apparently it's totally true! There is a quite common glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (genetic, about 5% of the population), and while you're completely ok living your life, eating raw broad bean can trigger the fastest anemia you can imagine. There is a specific treatment that is very successful, but since not a lot of people have that condition, and not a lot of people eat raw beans in general, diagnosis and finding the treatment can be dangerously slow.

[@phillo12]

Bean goo = tofu?

[@idkthatxool749]

I’m from Kansas, and as far as using the word “garbage”, I never really used the word much until relatively recently(maybe 5-7years). I grew up in the mid to late nineties and the stuff you throw out domestically was always trash. Recently though I’ve started to use the word in a more colloquial sense, usually I’ll be playing a video game and mess up and I’ll say that my playing is trash, or that I’m trash at the game.

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

im about to stare at hank holding a ferby with his eyes closed (bad idea btw never take your eyes off them they are evil) for sixteen hours. edit I read the caption it makes it even worse. edit edit the word read can be pronounced completely differently depending on the context and that folds my nerve cells into a bunch edit it has began

[@labellaflora....]

Scientists believe that legumes were the first plants preferred by day moths, aka butterflies.

[@hkprimary]

I'm shocked that no one picked vanilla beans

[@coopersawyer-glackin8883]

Me skipping through the add portions "it's like BEANS-- take care of your beans-- healthy beans"

[@ArtichokeHunter]

there's dried chickpea snacks

[@lancej8591]

The only thing I could think of as a bean you can eat fresh would be green beans. I mean, beans are in the name and they are pretty closely related to other beans

[@whosawotnow]

Jun/Jul/Aug isn’t Summer in Australia.

[@dangarcia2952]

I love all segmenr of your tangent specially the poem part I will look forward to a poem compilation or a full si byngle of your song-poem turned video track tuna could remix

[@shadebug]

The solution to wishcycling is all the shopping centres and other public spaces where they have recycle bins but just throw the contents in the landfill

[@trAshWinter]

31:05 "it is haAard..... to remember... tHat we're aALL.... On a path" - Hank Green 2024

[@OverlordMaggie]

For all those curious, VERY FEW BEAN varieties are edible raw! They can make you real sick if you don't cook 'em, including undercooked reconstituted dried beans!

[@AndreVandal]

Maybe this will just go nowhere but I have a question about beans, especially coffee beans, I was reading the complexity of making decaffeinated coffee, they have to threat the bean to various processus and some not all that good fo the environment. So I was wondering, has anybody actually tried to grow or more likely genetically manipulate the plants to make decaf coffee beans at the plant level?

[@nancyreid8729]

I think baked beans are Great Northerns.

[@David-bs6bv]

My dad has differences in definitions. Garbage cans are for trash and or food products and trash is non food stuff.

[@katenewland9038]

Haricot beans are the British baked beans

[@primordial_platypus]

Get Sam a Smart car and paint it up like a hermit crab.

[@griftgfx]

We're on a path.

[@MrShadowswrath]

if you ever actually do anything with the hermit crab study idea, you absolutely have to support the cause by selling merch of sam on a "literal hermit crab-sized horse." maybe he could be hanging out with an actual hermit crab as proof of scale

[@misttylyn]

Unfortunately about 1 billion birds are killed by just windows a year 😢

[@jude4896]

They have flavored dried garbanzo beans.

[@childkreature8039]

Peanuts are the closest I can think of to a bean I would crunch, but I dont think they're technically beans. They're legumes and all beans are legumes but not all legumes are beans.

[@sueg2658]

My favorite are Jelly Beans.

[@andrewgolubiewski3463]

A regular group of garbologists!

[@annasfischer]

None of you said Human bean?

[@janelwilliams9144]

I was about to!!!! 😂 I guess I still will, now there's two of us lol 😂

[@Ineffably_Obsessed]

BEANIE SANDFURBS❤❤❤❤

[@lokenecummings47]

Are peanuts beans?

[@CritterKeeper01]

Human bean!

[@aaran2329]

Noooooo, Ceri should have won the fact off!

[@Lord_Godd]

Most fresh beans are poisonous.

[@ChrisJEsq]

Forbidden Soup

[@jamieoglethorpe]

Pop song from before the British invasion: Oh, my old man's a dustman He wears a dustman's hat He wears cor blimey trousers And he lives in a council flat kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXWohJucmd2iiJI

[@susannahallanic1167]

wish-trash is also known as mathom.

[@joanhall3718]

Dang, I thought the topic was beans.

[@jennifersaar1611]

Companies really pay you to do these ads, huh? 😁 (J/K - I love you guys. Please don't throw beans at me.)

[@janusatthegate6201]

Aren't they cute. Getting into things by parrot-types and crows is not unique. Parrots have the claws and beaks for it.

[@shadebug]

It only just occurred to me that the show is called tangents but it’s two gents and a lady and they’re all pretty pale

[@julescaru8591]

Oh dear !