How Playing with Fire Almost Burnt Down the Neighbours House

[@collecter343]

This entire conversation is so chaotic, the more stuff he mentions the more we need to clarify which just causes more clarifications to be needed.

[@teachingwithipad]

it’s cuz Connor keeps interrupting him

[@TheEnragedGamer]

@@teachingwithipad Fr wish they’d let him speak

[@DerakosZrux]

Honestly my reaction the whole time was they were sensationalizing it all for clicks. Home science experiments for kids isn't that abnormal and playing with fire is not somehow a gateway to being an arsonist. I find this one kind of insufferable and I felt he might have been kind of annoyed by some of their questions but he's very nice.

[@sayantanmazumdar3]

I am glad NeilRed has a personality like, ' Yeah, I was curious, so I just did it.' Such a Chemist( scientist in general) thing.

[@TotallyNotJason101]

Nile. as you know. (still has all letters lmao)

[@sayantanmazumdar3]

@@TotallyNotJason101 oh, I thought it was the name of the lipophilic stain. Now I just saw it's his youtube name too. Thank you.

[@Mister_Typo]

"I wasn't sure what would happen, so I decided to fuck around and find out"

[@limbrat5448]

That's how I learned to make DMT

[@jimmyschwarz9075]

Yeah and he build a nuke

[@silverx9739]

His stories are good reasons why you give children the appropriate amount of freedom to be curious

[@LuqmanHakim-xi9qz]

Give them the freedom but at the same time make sure they know the safest way to do the dangerous thing they want to do. At least, that's what I learned from this story😂

[@custos3249]

Nope. Wrong. _sound of helicopter parenting in the distance_

[@SylviaRustyFae]

I mean, i know some kids with a not too dissimilar story growin up... But they didnt have anyone encouragin any kind of safety for them so they ended up burnin a huge swath of forests in southern california back in 03 i believe. They ended up spendin like a yr in juvey for that and then got put in foster care. Tho shockingly, i also ended up in foster care around the same time, different reasons (a biomom tryin to be "fun mom" rather than safe mom; got my 12 yr old brother drunk and high, along with tons of his friends); and remet those friends... And it rly seemed like they were in a much better place than they had been with their very neglectful and abusive parents. I dont know whats happened to them since, but im prty sure they prob ended up with a better lot in life bcuz they got caught when they did rather than gettin away with it then and gettin caught yrs down the line for far worse.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

What? Nearly setting a neighborhood on fire? I should have thought the takeaway was the value of parental guidance. But actually it's unbridled freedom for the firebugs!

[@Heightren]

As an adult, I want to be the kind of father who knows the limits of dangerous things, so I can let my kids play and experiment with those (without forcing them to do so)

[@pocarisweet8336]

People normally would give tablets.

[@realwizard435]

@@pocarisweet8336 what tablets? codein

[@LuisCortes-dk1hu]

He mean a tablet like smartphones. To be honest I think the internet can be a more dangerous place for a child especially without parent support.

[@realwizard435]

@@LuisCortes-dk1hu no perc 30s?

[@arlokloiber2715]

@@realwizard435 naaaw big old xanny bars

[@swiftweeb4487]

NeilRed giving his backstory sounds like the upcoming of NeilGreen

[@zacandrus4098]

As a Canadian teenager, this all seems remarkably normal. Everywhere in my county, parents just kinda taught us how to do dangerous things as safely as possible. Like, the summer before 9th grade, me and 5 friends filled a 2 litre bottle with pool chlorine and brake fluid, then it shot fire meters high and made a massive cloud of chlorine and plastic smoke so big we couldn't see the sun.

[@parrazarre1773]

Wdym a cloud so big you couldn't see the sun ?!? How ?

[@wes4780]

I know, the cap gun story is identical to what my brother and I used to do 😂😂

[@TheSilverPhoenix100]

Same in here in America, I shot a bb gun when I was 9 and shot fireworks with my parents when I was 8. Like did these guys just have a really sheltered upbringing or what ?

[@mfbfreak]

@@TheSilverPhoenix100 If you grow up without a backyard and parents who have a shed with tools and stuff, it's less likely for kids to try things like this. A lot of people don't have a tool shed anymore these days, because houses with backyards and room for a shed or garage have become unaffordable to many people. I grew up in a townhouse with a shed and a backyard so i grew up tinkering with tools at that age, lighting small fires, playing around with ignition coils at 12 or 13 years old, building a spud gun at 14 or 15. Had i grown up without a shed full of crap to to dumb shit with, and without a backyard, half of it would've never happened. The single biggest thing that triggered my development, is assisting my dad in soldering wires together at a young age.

[@grmasdfII]

@@mfbfreak Yeah, exactly that. My uncle had a big workshop in the garden with all sorts of tools, raw materials, chemicals, gases, you name it. He tiled floors for a living. My aunt was a secretary. We used to play around and make a lot of stuff in there. Today, you'd have to pull an engineers + managers salary to afford anything remotely the same. I never thought I'd miss a decent air compressor this much.

[@spectrickx1678]

Nile having fire PTSD is quite an intriguing thought, yknow, considering everything else he does.

[@AntStorm5764]

Seeing Conner turning his head slowly to camera while listen to this guy stories is funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@masterzoroark6664]

"So I was making smoke bombs with my brother" I mean, that's what I love about science inclined people as kids- they just mix shit out of curiocity or because they read about something that seems cool (or explodes) and want to recreate it. I went into art, but still interested by chemistry and biology as a hobby thing. As a kid I used to brew weird shit in the backyard of my granny's "ranch" (idk how to name it in english), it was usually herbs, soap and cryons.... probably close to amature alchemy than amature chemistry, but was fun. But out of curiocity I learned how to cook smoke bombs

[@rocketamadeus3730]

We just called them potions. Little bit of paprika, little bit of dog crap. Little bit of dish soap, little bit of hair. Can't go wrong with a potion.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

My daughter used to make (remarkably good!) attar of roses from our (now sadly denuded) roses in the garden.

[@DeviousWizard]

The man's whole life xould be such a good "slice of life" anime. Especially if they animated all the stories and thoughts, and reactiond the dad has

[@HisCarlnessI]

Dr. Stone.

[@IfImCommentingStopMe]

​​@@HisCarlnessI I was about to say, what if someone redrew a Dr. Stone chemistry scene with NileRed instead of Senku 🤣

[@srthebox4946]

Phineas and Ferb but the parents know abt what’s going on

[@TheLeafiniwa]

I have not even watched the og show yet, but I already know this is my fav trash taste ep ever. Connor's face journeys in this clip are pure gold

[@EloImFizzy]

I love how he mistook Connor's "What!" as surprise that you couldn't buy a lighter before the age of 12. xD

[@Emil_Stoltz]

The fact that fire story could've easily turned into an accidental mass murder is so scary.

[@darianmills216]

I remember almost doing this as a kid but the only way to get potassium nitrate was to buy fertilizer so I gave up

[@mxs4193]

ah, you were so close... I bought two kilos of it for 10$ when I was 12. Good times :)

[@KANEK0001]

Ya me and my friends tried that and failed to, but we found another way. We bought a lot of ping pong ball, cuted them up, rapped them in tin foil, and magic. smoke bomb / stink bomb. One of them used it in the middle o the school, somehow we didn't get coght.🤣

[@kingjames4886]

used to be able to get it at a pharmacy...

[@CryptiCoy]

In california when I was a 7th grader we bought it from the pharmacy, they sold it for wrestling so the boys wouldn't pop Bonners while in that tight spandex, at least that's what I was told back then.

[@RamnaViaz]

Honestly his dad sounds awesome, you gotta let kids be, instead of killing their curiosity and interest and replacing it with fear and anxiety you let them explore what fascinates them and let them learn hands on, this will lead them to become smarter and more independent and with a bit of luck they'll find their life passion or career path; there's a bit of risk involved but the option of your child becoming just another anxiety ridden, soulless npc is much more frightening.

[@thisrandomdude_]

This is hands down one of the best Trash Taste highlights episodes on this entire channel xD Seriously though. It really is.

[@RB-ui4sq]

Nile is so patient with these morons constantly interrupting him.

[@qoolaid11]

Man's life is literally the plot of Phineas and Ferb

[@rebekahlarsen7691]

This reminds me of stories my dad told me of his child/teenhood. Can't wait to see his reaction to this

[@powderphysics]

Man I really could have been a lot like Nigel had things gone a little different. I even studied chemistry at uni, lit things on fire, etc

[@TheFIoridaMan]

Never too late to start

[@namAehT]

Never too late to accidentally burn down a subdivision like Nigel.

[@Apocalymon]

Be the arsonist you always dreamed of being

[@ofcefcipu]

@@Apocalymon well that took a dark turn xDD

[@Heightren]

The greatest voice in KZbin is paired with the funniest screencaps of him talking

[@tandemdwarf745]

I think this really highlights the greatest teacher of all: close calls. People can say something is unsafe and what can happen all they want, but only when something really bad almost actually happens can you properly freak out. I had a similar experience with almost setting our garage (and house) on fire, which taught me that you need to listen to the safety warnings other people give you.

[@KooriGraywolf]

I never thought someone with such a calm demeanor could turn out more chaotic than Ladybeard

[@pokoyokopo]

I wonder if people raised in the US or Canada would find these stories to be as crazy/insane as they did in the podcast. My dad and I were making fireballs and sparkler bombs when I was that young, I had zippo lighters, BB guns, air rifles, lighter fluid. Was allowed to use fireworks. These stories are like normal "yeah that's what we did as kids" things. It's crazier to me that their minds are being blown at every corner by this stuff, "OMG A 10 y/o WITH A LIGHTER? AAAAA INSANITY, HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?"

[@varunsreedharan5347]

Nah yea people from countries with more regulation would probably be shocked by the stuff me and my friends did as kids in America.

[@TheSilverPhoenix100]

Yeah I'm listening to them and being like "what are kids allowed to do where you guys live"

[@danielcook4712]

Nigel’s experience with his parents seems very similar to mine. My parents were very lenient and my dad let me and helped me do a lot of dangerous stuff safely, but because of that there was always real logic when he gave warnings and rules of things I wasn’t allowed to do, and because of that I respected them and almost never broke any or their safety rules.

[@MarcTelang]

Nile red: My dad is inexplicably tolerant Me: *remembers when his dad said "if its not a nuclear bomb its ok"*

[@ghostbirdlary]

that dad is doing things in the best way possible. you teach your kids safety and how to be careful and then let them experiment. and tell them about fuck ups so they dont make them

[@lynxoflight72]

the smoke bomb overheating incident reminds me of myself making sugar rocket fuel and accidentally setting a large batch on fire in the workshop, smoking the workshop and making a nice fire spectacle.. and alot of soot and ash

[@lynxoflight72]

and i got the saltpeter from the neighbour farm *sip*

[@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers]

Imagine if he had The Anarchist Cookbook as a 9 year old

[@DerakosZrux]

Feels like the cast is trying too hard to make his childhood seem weird. Lots of kids do home science experiments and smoke stuff is pretty easy end safe. And most people like fire and messing with it is not a gateway to becoming a criminal arsonist. It's like they just tried to sensationalize everything.

[@GrassSaint33]

Maybe this is all crazy for people from the uk and australia but it seems pretty normal to be as an American lol

[@fender7083]

I agree. As a kid we would pour gasoline on tent worms and light them… also I accidentally lit my friend on fire slightly with nail polish remover. My parent were fine as long as no one got hurt. Also the host are from countries were airsoft guns seem extreme. My parents liked that I was curious about science and Nile red is shining example of where nurturing curiosity can lead

[@spikejnz]

It's crazy listening to his stories, and thinking of all the shenanigans I got up to as a kid that are so similar. Had bb gun wars with friends. Drilled holes in tennis balls, filled them with gasoline, lit them on fire and played soccer. Spelled words on concrete with wd-40 and lit it on fire. Bottle rocket fights. Homemade explosives using powder from fireworks amazed in plastic test tubes, packed, and ignited inside objects.

[@briancreech9990]

Okay I don't feel so bad about loving fire as a kid. Now I know why I like his channel so much.

[@SnailHatan]

I really don’t find this story to be insane, he just learned about making smoke bombs and did it. Then he learned pollen was flammable and he burned it again. But then again I was kind of a wild child.

[@heatherfoster7823]

I also learned how to make DIY smoke bombs as a 9 year old from a library book. They used rendered fat, stunk horribly while burning and were definitely a fire hazard

[@jacksonsmith5864]

Man Trash Taste just gets everybody on their podcast. Did not expect to see NileRed here. Cool

[@VijiogFrito]

Is it really that weird for kids to like fire and firecrackers? I loved that shit

[@rocketamadeus3730]

No, these guys must have been the kids who weren't allowed to cross the street.

[@kod4062]

Not playing with danger as a child = trash taste

[@duncanchestnut5583]

NileRed says some mundane shit that most mid-west kids did Trash Taste Podcasters: "OH my GOD, literally insane, this is the craziest shit I've ever heard, actually insane"

[@MichellesdesignsEtc]

My thoughts exactly... like my brother is into science...I dunno it just doesn't shock me this stuff lol

[@thedukeofweasels6870]

That actually sounds like a pretty epic childhood just getting to try out a bunch of shit and see what works and learn and stuff instead of being overly sheltered I mean it seems to have worked out really good for him

[@Kadanyix]

potassium nitrate is used for gardening, so that could be that

[@MaxC_1]

I'm pretty sure it came from Fertilizer stuff his Grandfather had. It's very common to have Potassium nitrate lying around if you're a farmer or even if you do casual gardening you might come across it

[@Amrod97]

In my place you can buy potassium nitrate literally in every grocery store because it is used for curing meat. Mixing it with sugar and setting it on fire gives a beautiful smoke.

[@beefsandwish]

So Neil is basically gender swept Klee.

[@youtankforme1198]

I didn't think I would ever see a comparison between Neil and Klee and it kinda fits.

[@John_carter98]

Sounds like these guys needed a better childhood, Nile’s sounds normal to me.

[@RovingTroll]

The neighbor was a goat. "Yall got this? Aight cool have fun"

[@Patrick-857]

When I was a kid here in NZ, about 9, I made a rocket out of scraped off matchheads, and lit it deep into the very high gorse that grew in an undeveloped industrial area of about a square kilometer in the middle of summer. That resulted in 10 firetrucks attending and flames easily 3 to 4 metres high. It was a massive fire. You could feel the heat burning your face from 100m away.

[@Skepticalraven]

Nah that Montreal fluff is insane. That stuff was everywhere, last spring. And yeah, asking 11 yos if they should call the fire dep is something we'd do...

[@etherealstars5766]

Is it any wonder he's such a popular chemistry KZbinr with his childhood? 😂

[@diegog1853]

Yeah I aslo had a light things on fire face with my brother. We kind of just lighted papers on fire and watch them burn out, or blow on them an threw the ashes on the trash can. We stopped when we didn't properly put up the paper before throwing it in a garbage can full of paper. The fire grew relatively tall, stained the wall and ceiling in black and we panicked. Of course we were able to put it out but we didn't escape the scolding from my mother. I am honestly surprised to hear that some children didn't have something of a fire phase. Fire is so magical, powerful and incomprehensible to a kid, and so accesible with very small and simple equipment.

[@Brahkolee]

What kinda boring childhood did these dudes have. “Yeah, so I used to make smoke bombs and firecrackers when I was a kid.” “wHaT tHe aCtUaL fUcKiNg fUCk!!1! *HEAD EXPLODES*”

[@Arterexius]

I love how they're so surprised at all he's done as a kid and I'm just sitting here nodding in pure reminiscence of a similar childhood. Granted, I'm probably a bit insane too, but given I haven't lost any limbs, I probably know what I'm doing... Most of the time, that is. My neighbors are probably tired of me using an angle grinder in my kitchen (amongst other powertools)

[@boomerix]

Yeah was thinking the same. There are genuine times I think back to where I'm like "hmmm.....could have died, good thing I didn't". Like me and a friend went into an abandoned barn, climbed up 3 stories high on old mouldy ladders and platforms to then jump off into huge haystacks on another level below. Wrong one jump or breaking platform would have been a 3 story fall straight unto the concrete barn floor. We were like 5 years old.

[@AlpineTheHusky]

Good to know that lighting random stuff is not that rare to be a past time as a kid

[@The5shmucks]

as someone who does prescribed fire on natural areas and forests, i can agree and confirm that setting stuff on fire is forsure FUN

[@dpunlasmith]

I have memories of burning the fluff too but it never got out of hand for us. Asking twelve year olds if you should call the fire department is absurd. If you need to ask if you should call the fire department, you probably should have already called them.

[@robertg7249]

i was fascinated by smashing lighters on the ground and watch them pop i did its like 2 times after watching someone else do it, last time i found a lighter at the school yard then smashed it into the ground and i got in trouble for it cuz they thought i brought it to school, and were also questioning why i smashed it. cuz it made the pop sound obviously

[@esrohm6460]

all of this doesn't even sound that crazy to me. maybe it's due to my chemic teacher being of the type to melt a hole in the school ground with termite and then said to us "so you're not gonna tell anyone, ok"

[@michaelstarkey2449]

I wish these dudes would keep their mouths shut and just let him talk.

[@yubinator7455]

If I pursued my Chemical engineering or Chemistry course, I would like Neil too. Mixing shit and see how it goes lmao. And me being a closet pyromaniac (i tend to light up things with our BBQ lighter or match stick outside of our house) makes it worse.

[@RomanianProductions]

Bruh, I grew up in Vancouver, Canada and Nigel’s childhood sounds shockingly similar to mine

[@greenanubis]

Nile is too good for this conversation

[@Nnif_Boots47]

Nile red you have become even more of one of my favourite people

[@Thetauconqure]

I honestly resonate with Nigel's vibe, as a child I did many similar things. not to the same complexity but I could still have been seriously hurt if I had not listened to the safety lessons on kids tv science shows at the time.

[@SilverDungeoneer]

Nile Red has Plot Armor

[@papapoopooppshire]

my childhood was the same except that my parents didn't watch us during any of it accept while we rode dirt bikes and shot guns until I was 16, at that point they said I was old enough to watch my 13 and 15 year old brothers (my sister was usually doing other stuff) 😅, all 3 of my siblings and I somehow still have all our eyes, limbs, and even fingers and toes, two of have pretty much lost half of a finger but got to the hospital early enough to get it sewn back

[@justincider1528]

nilered is the guy you need if you are looking to make a wild cartoon but with detail

[@RaExpIn]

It's like listening to someone telling me my own childhood... Me and my best friend did all of that at around the same age.

[@khanch.6807]

I can see the inner me in Nile when he said he wanted to see stuff burn.

[@phimuskapsi]

Nile sounds exactly like my childhood. My parents even noticed my like of fire and gave me the job of running the “burn barrel” around 8/9 years old. I ran experiments like throwing batteries into the fire.

[@namAehT]

Potassium Nitrate is often sold as fertilizer or stump remover, so not a super hard to find chemical.

[@luxincognita]

Dude, I was SO MUCH like him when I was a kid in the 1980's... From the love for fire to all the crazy shit with fireworks, inflammable stuff and bomb recipes!

[@Yogryph]

the title for this podcast episode is so apt

[@Kepler170]

My dad was the same way, he pretty much was like "feel free to fuck with anything but be safe"

[@freethis222]

So many inter-WAIT WHAT?-ruptions in thi-THAT'S INSANE-s int-WAIT WAIT WAIT-erview.

[@Danillo1227]

you guys should call Styropyro, he also is a crazy scientist

[@userunaemu]

I've had some crazy experiences with fire. A kid I knew used to flick matches around his house. A friend made an air freshener flamethrower in his house, and the nozzle caught fire. Another friend threw a can of deodorant on a fire in a park , the can exploded and burned his legs. None of those experiences were enough to stop me from being fascinated by fire. I just learned how to play with fire safely.

[@SaberTooth_TFG]

NileRed was lucky to avoid causing any major damage to his area… 😅

[@YoSquid]

We need an anime adaptation of his life.

[@emberframe6994]

Nile sounds so fun, this sounds like me and my bro as children

[@dzhiurgis]

my god my youth was exactly same and host interruptions are so triggering

[@firefox1136]

Those lighter buying restrictions kinda surprised me tbh. I live in Switzerland and there are some restaurants that have a bowl of free matches (with the restaurants logo on it and so on) and I always take them even when I was like 8 and no-one cared…

[@elliott9999999]

why was he so surprised he had a paintball gun lol

[@m9mykolkaaa]

I want a book by Nigel, just of his childhood memories

[@besnardtheodore9549]

That’s sound so familiar to my childhood I’m kinda sad to never have the support to continue all the experiments

[@TheDantheman12121]

The paper caps as a kid we would make what we called pen top bangers. Basically you would take a full roll and fold it in a certain way and then jam it into a pen lid with one end sticking out as a wick and light it and it would make a very very loud bang. You had to be careful though because (and it happened a few times) if the pen top was too narrow and you had to use too much force it would just go off in your hand.

[@Wreckz_Tea]

Damn I wish they would stfu for a min and let him talk. They wouldnt let him finish a sentence before they start obnoxiously laughing and screaming

[@gsus3918]

Nigel was raised like a normal American, in Canada. The rest of these guys though...

[@totinospizsaroll9457]

Honestly ,Nigel pretty much lived a typical Quebec childhood

[@microchipmatt]

Best childhood ever.

[@bennykrebschristensen5215]

I feel old when i see this, these guys would flip their shit if they knew what i was up to as a kid. And what was normal, we had kids smoking weed as 12 year olds.

[@Account-kv3jc]

Playing with firecrackers reminded me of when my father made a pipe bomb in the seat of his bike as a seemingly harmless prank in Stoney Creek, Hamilton 1987. Back then it was easier to obtain saltpeter, gunpowder and sulphur, no cameras to be caught on

[@GrahamCrannell]

for anyone wondering, KNO3 (saltpeter) is used for stump removal. You drill some holes in a stump, pour that shit in, and wait a couple weeks. It basically just accelerates the decomposition process.

[@reflex9238]

This, as I also made a smoke bomb for a history project. It’s sold in Lowe’s as stump remover. So it’s not as out of the question.

[@FilbieTron]

This is the epitome of neurodivergent conversation

[@mybackhurts7020]

Dang we had the same type of childhood. It wasn’t that hard to get A copy of the anarchist cookbook back then

[@mariep8756]

Why are the Connor and the other guys so shocked did they just stay inside their whole childhood? Lmao

[@gilgabro420]

i remember me getting coal from the cellar and trying to build a torch with it with a friend. We tryed everything to light it on fire but it just wouldn't. It's also important to note that it wasn't grill coal but stone coal. My mother told me that it burns at 600 degrees or something if i remember correctly. Don't ask me why we had that down there but there where at least 5 bathtubs of coal. We later decided to use gasoline and pieces of fabric instead to create a torch. The fabric detached at some point during the burning process and it wrapped around my wrist. I didn't have any masure burns because i reacted fast but i almost lit myself on fire.

[@Unprotected1232]

So it wasn't just a NileGreen mirage...

[@DaReff]

Me and my cousins also had a phase in elementary school of lighting stuff on fire. Nearly burned down a whole field of dry grass. We were terrified, thought we were going to "kid jail" as well. We ended up putting it out by taking a fallen pine tree (a baby one) and smashing the fire out. Pretty sure theres a lot of lil' pyromaniacs out there lmao (Be safe, kids)

[@GENeralGremory]

I mean... if given the opportunity, I too would use a flamethrower against wasp's nest no matter how little they are.

[@rocketamadeus3730]

M-80 on a stick... Look it up, it's extremely effective.

[@Tjalve70]

I don't know if there was an age limit for buying lighters when I was a kid. But I do remember we bought lighters, and then ripped out the control wheel that limits how much you can turn them up. And then just turned them up until they squirted liquid. Then we used them as flame throwers. Lighting a normal lighter in front of them, and then squirting lighter fuel through that flame. We could get about a one meter flame squirting out of them that way. They didn't last very long, though.

[@YEARCITY]

Good memories you brought up. But yeah after blowing myself up and covering my self in burning alcohol or almost burning down my neighbor.

[@MetaDiscussions]

Bro who wasn’t making flame throwers with paint cans

[@ianfinrir8724]

Potassium nitrate is common ingredient in stump killer.