As a biology teacher, who already has his biology degree, I always get hurt when people misrepresent science. But remember, the boiz are not scientists. They haven't used their science education in quite a while. And for the average person, they weren't too bad. I have heard far worse, from far more ignorant people.
Connor has so many good points on so many topics, but his downfall tends to be his inability to articulate them as it happens. They even talked about this before. But he did an amazing job with this podcast. His rant on NFTs, his description of VR, etc; he gave solid analogies.
Mew I thought it was funny when they say "RTX on" talking about a remaster, and then when Connor starts talking about ray tracing, they couldn't think of the name of it.
i think it depends on how tired ot tired he is. it happens with me way too often! most of the time i get into discussions near the end of the day, when i'm pooped out of my brain, and just wanna shut down or autopilot, so having to force an argument out of me in that state of mind is..... well it gets rough, and the moment i wake up the next day is an instant facepalm fest!
Salt does kill bacteria, so does alcohol or boiling water. Problem of all this stuff is, it damages the open tissue as well and therefore will most of the time delay healing. Just use a modern anti-septic which usually doesn't even sting and is much more effective.
Me who got her degree in zoology and getting a PhD in Entomology listening to this intro: 😳 Also, on a more serious note, it is pretty common to have depression in academia and animal research because all the bullshit and bureaucracy you have to go through to get the funding to research what you want
And those who work at shelters. They have to deal with fanatics who think kill shelters are the absolute worst without really thinking through who the hell has funding for sheltering the millions of abandoned pets just here in the U.S. Are they going to contribute enough money to make every shelter a no-kill shelter? No? Shut the hell up, then 🙄. Also, dark side of a no-kill shelter: It means they have to turn away animals that might need serious care because they're stretched to capacity. Anyone else comes in...and someone will need to die to accomodate them. And workers who work at "kill shelters" often suffer deeply emotionally and mentally for it. There's the euthanasia, the people bitching that they're not doing enough for the animals, the animals that they are working their asses off to save...and then they lose them. It's a lot. "Compassion fatigue" ends up happening to a lot of shelter workers where their desire to help as much as they can but are bombarded with negativity ends up causing emotional trauma and many quit. So, now these animals have less people available to help them. This pairs into neutering as well and those who espouse flawed logic about how all animals want to have offspring and "How would you like it if someone neutered you?" Humans don't go into heat. We have fertile periods and sex drives, but not a strong compulsion that we must heed and procreate. Because dogs and cats, as the biggest examples in shelters, do have reproductive drives that are almost never ignored and they reproduce with multiples, it creates a lot of animals very quickly. Humans usually only have one child, with anything more being outside of the norm. It's not common for a cat or dog to only have one puppy or kitten. And not only that, with many breeds, the more times they get pregnant, the bigger their litters. Ever seen a UA-cam channel that brags about breeding dogs? Ever wonder how their litters are often so big? That's why. And no, not all of those puppies will be kept by the owners who initially buy them. And that's just breeders, imagine this happening to stray animals. The number is astronomical. Spaying and neutering is a must to keep some sembelance of control on the number. Cats do alright living out on the street but there's the argument to make about them decimating wildlife with their hunting, spreading disease, and their much shorter life spans than indoor cats. Dogs...become dangerous when they're allowed to become feral, as they often will form packs that attack humans. And for both, rabies becomes more likely. Dogs also have a closer affinity with humans and have been bred to be pets. They're used to being provided for. I say this as there are some who feel all pets should be left to roam free and that's just not realistic. I've never seen a city with a large stray animal population where the city and animals looked well taken care of. So, you have all of these ideologies based on emotion and opinions, not fact, being hurled at shelter workers and many just end up having enough. They quit the jobs they thought they loved. Or they check out on life. We lose some amazing, loving souls because of it. When Joey said he's never met a depressed person who works with animals, shelter workers likely would agree to disagree. Hannah, from the channel Kitten Lady, has a great video that is much more polite than my language that she did a few months ago on the burnout of shelter workers and how fanatics and ignorance is pushing workers away.
@@thunderpup7899 I'd say support your kid! There's tons of job opportunities for entomology because it's such a practical science. And it's always good to see a parent not freaking out about their kid being into bugs 😅
@@bulwark2656 I would definitely say look out for schools with good research programs and a wide variety of animal related classes. So NOT school with just a general biology degree and only a handful of zoology courses. Schools that have zoology, animal biology, wildlife conservation, evolutionary biology, they're all very analogous degrees. I went to UC Davis which actually had all of those degrees! Once you get to a university, look up the faculty of your department and find a professor whose research interests you. Professors will have their research interests and publications on the faculty listings and most even have websites nowadays! You don't even need to know the professor. A lot of times, they're looking for undergrads to help out anyway, so just send them an email talking about what you like about their research and ask to join their lab. That's what I did with my lab and by the time I graduated, I had a senior thesis and published my research! And if you join a lab and you don't really like it, don't be afraid to move to a different lab! College is supposed to be a time where you figure out what you want to do! I started off in an avian lab and I realized I really didn't like working with domesticated animals so i moved to a lab that worked with my school's entomology museum and I've been in love ever since! Hope that helps 💕 Also scholarships, apply to scholarships!! Even in your senior year of hs! I can't stress this enough. There are so many scholarships available to students and lot of people just don't know about them.
Connor is such a smart and informed dude, most of the time he's just fooling around but in this episode his knowledge about things is really showing through
@@alithegrape1696 I’m sure he’s already stated the idea that sometimes you need to make thyself clown in order to ease the atmosphere or something like that
I thought I was stupid for not understanding the appeal of getting recipes of AI generated JPEGS. Turns out NFT is just beyond stupid and scummy. It's high fashion, but digital. Sth for rich ppl to jerk eachother off in self implemented isolation from us peasants.
This episode has one of the best comment sections from all of the trash taste episodes so far. So many interesting topics and things are discussed, it just made me really fascinated
I love and hate how Connor has a great understanding of human psyche and cultural phenomena, but because sometimes he can't convey the point well enough in words, all the meaning is missed by Joey and Garnt
I mean from their conversation, it shows that he doesn't. He's the one who was saying homebrew remedies were "superstitions", while it's almost the opposite. The homebrew remedies are based on experimenting and science, like Garnt said, rubbing salt on a wound does actually help disinfect it, vitamin C helps your immune system fight of flues, rubbing wasabi on wounds has a positive effect cause it fights of bacteria and so on. It's like the 100 stories in Dr. Stone, something humans figured out A LONG TIME AGO, and just passed it to their offspring through fun stories and riddles and shit. So Connor was 100% wrong in everything in those discussions, even though he did portray his feelings pretty well.
he's really grasping for words, and in my head I totally get what he's saying and I'm like "you're almost there, this is the word you're looking for" but he never gets there lol
OMG Connor fucking nailed the science argument in a way I hadn't ever thought of before. To summarize, "Science isn't about what is true, it's confirming what is wrong."
I mean, that's the paradigm of falsification that all modern science builds upon. No theory is true, they are only not yet proven wrong thus the best we have. You can read more on that if you look into Karl Popper who was a figurehead of that paradigm shift.
Not really. That's just logic (process of elimination). Science is about understanding the world through forming a rigid, educated guess to explain a phenomenon, then seeing if that guess holds up in practical experiments involving that phenomenon. Science is woefully inadequate in a lot of human related things because of that. Humans change, therefore much of sociology/psychology can become rapidly useless as societies change. Statistical based sciences are the LOWEST form of science, as they are easy to manipulate and can be used to obfuscate the understanding of a phenomenon, another thing sociology and psychology suffer from. That's why both of them have a replication crisis every generation or two, as the BS eventually gets challenged. If it's not a hard science, I can guarantee you that MOST papers in that area are wrong about at least one thing they say, and there's no easy way to tell what. This is why authoritative science-ism must always be challenged. Science is not about what has most evidence, it's about what is most accurate. And that means even one person could have it more right than the consensus, yet be silenced by consensus. As has happened over and over again in science communities. Science will be the basis on which all governments will cement their authority, from here on in. It is the best way to achieve classical fascism. Source: Am a published researcher in a hard science.
Nah not necessarily. That sounds like something r/atheist would unironically say. A lot of the time, science advances OUT OF NECESSITY. Whether it’s disease, war, or just improving daily life routines, science will advance. Nespresso machines came out because French presses are time consuming as fuck and the process needed to be improved. Vaccines in general as a response to diseases and plagues. Seatbelts because cars as a response to cars going faster and faster as time goes on. The fucking atom bomb to end ww2. List goes on
For the true crime part of this chat. I agree that some documentaries are overdone and glamorized but women have fears that men can't understand and watching/listening to true crime makes us feel less alone. Our fears are validated and we can learn how to protect ourselves by being more aware of risks, red flags and our surroundings. It makes me feel more empowered in a weird way. I also like cases that have an ending because I feel like if something happens to me someone will find justice for me. On top of that I believe people should know the stories of others and be aware of other peoples struggles so you can empathize with others around you.
I was a “First Responder” at work and was required to take classes every year year that my company paid for. It was a whole day of various institutions and information. One of the instructors for a “treat” would set up an area and bring his cobra. (I kid you not) His set up was OPEN ENDED meaning if he’d done a serious misstep or had a heart attack the snake could have easily escaped. Aggressive little bugger, too. The snake, not Larry. He also told us a story about one of his rattlesnakes getting out and he finally discovered the mesh on the cage had a small slit and the snake was using it to escape. You couldn’t pay me to visit his house.
Metaverse & NFTs feel like rich people just discovered the internet for the first time because of the pandemic. We've had land, homes, weddings etc. in online games for ages. Commissions on social media & rights to own art... Yet they're so excited to own digital spaces and digital art lmao.
The people who make NFTs are laughing all the way to the bank. They just trade NFTs between alt accounts to inflate the price to tens of thousands of dollars then pawn them off on people desperate to get in on the NEXT BIG THING because they missed out on Bitcoin.
The problem is more that people should own the stuff they do in games. It's ridiculous that people just accept that they don't own the items they earn with their hard work in games.
29:13 OH MY GOD. I watched about 10-15 minutes of that movie as a kid who randomly put on the TV in the night cuz he couldn't sleep and no one else was at home, and I have been trying to find this again for YEARS. Thank you for letting me find closure at the most unexpected of all places. I love you guys xD
Have to agree with their philosophy of science talk... Go back 100-200 years ago, becoming an expert or even a polymath was infinitely easier than now. Specialisation is essential nowadays, and even scientists find themselves relying on experts in other scientific fields for answers. The fact that some people believe they can beat experts in their own field by just reading a few Facebook articles (or the like) shows how deep anti-intellectualism has gone nowadays. Misinformation campaigns spread like wildfire as they create exciting, black and white, easy to understand answers. Science simply cannot reproduce that excitement, as reality is often unintuitive and complicated.
most of this is the fault of the scientfic community for being gated of for the elitist untill recent times. so ofc when the internet becomes a common commodity, people use it to satsify their curiosity and lack of understanding which can lead to misinformation.
@@eleonarcrimson858 perhaps i misunderstood. i thought by "scientific community" u meant scientists, experts, and the like. but i guess u meant that only people with higher status were allowed to read up on scientific journals and researches? in that case, i do agree with your sentiment. even now, research papers are locked behind a paywall, so it's harder to read the actual source of information.
Ginger can help with an upset stomach. I'm not sure about spring onions, but garlic and wasabi are antimicrobial. On the note of remedies. A few weeks ago I was feeling dehydrated and getting headaches despite drinking a lot more water. I start eating spinach, nuts, and bananas for a few days to get my electrolytes up. So yeah, sometimes your diet is to blame or can help. Always helps to be mindful of what's going on the tank. Also, I appreciate the vitamin fact check. Look at trash taste, not spreading researchable misinformation while they shoot the shit for a few hours.
The "Opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck" thing came from victorian era, and it was said because umbrellas where supper sharp and pointy and you may peck someone eye out with it.
The science talk was so refreshing to hear. As someone who graduated with a biochemistry degree in the middle of the pandemic in America, so many people in my general vicinity have lost touch with what science is supposed to be due to it being so politicized. Like yes science is wrong a lot! that's the point! that's why we learn the scientific theory in high school 😅
That's so good to hear. I grew up understanding that science is constant research and trying to find the truth. At some point, we all forgot about that.
In my country at least, most of the politicians have humanities degrees yet talk about science like they know what they’re talking about. I’m not even remotely surprised that people forget that science is built on doubt.
Been just binging old TT episodes while working over the summer, and cool to see that having listened to them over the whole summer I only made it like 60% of the way Also with this much content, obviously cant remember everything they have talked about so it's neat sometimes having stuff come up that makes me go like "oh THIS was where that take originated Cheers bois, here's to many more years of Trash Taste!
FYI, you *can* vaccinate against venom, although thats only by having repeated exposure to it. it was explored while they were inventing antivenom, and its also how we make it (we give horses doses of venom and use their immune cells as antivenom)
@@williamhanlon9479 i do watch veritasium but i got it from a wikipedia article and a 2nd hand account from a zookeeper, thanks for the recommendation though
I think the funniest thing about the meta verse is that they’re just blatantly ripping off VRchat (released 2017) very, very poorly like Connor said and thinking that everyone will just jump in
I remember my dad like mentioning the meta verse to me the first time and my response was so what MMORPG been doing for decades? Ya no way I'm hell Facebook going to make a good one lol.
Before VRchat there was Secondlife too. Where you could rent digital land, sell digital goods, and dress up an avatar. Lot of games online offer weddings and other features the metaverse peddles.
@@RexZShadow Yeah right. I mean, isn't the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime, a metaverse already?
1:21:05 There are quite a few racing games that have integrated VR. Although, you would have to buy a whole racing rig to accompany the headset so you can maximize your experience.
The thing about watching murder, is that remember our brains evolved, to always be looking out for threats to our lives. When you are watching a murder or morbid event happen, your brain is analyzing the order of events so that if you get in this situation, you can escape with your head still on your shoulders. Basically what I am trying to say is that our brains find threats, than learn how to deal with them so than you can survive. Sorry for the wall of text have a great day!
Yep, a good example is of how we are so good at spotting snakes in the brush and even have a somewhat instinctual fear of them, as it’s believed our more primate ancestors were prey to larger snakes.
I don't know about others, but personally, I feel this way. I don't watch television much these days, but I listen to podcasts and UA-cam videos in the background alot, most of it being either trash taste type content, medical content, true crime or just random stuff. I find, each case that I dive into, has helped me be more aware of my surroundings and such. However it has also made me insanely paranoid of near everything😩 but most people in my physical life don't have a care in the world about their surroundings or any threats so I feel it's an ok level of paranoia, given I've been stalked multiple times😅
I get that,especially for women, there were some many times in the podcast they spoke about their friends who watch it for that reason,but that doesn't really address the: becoming desinsetized to shit. Getting numb to watching videos that make death be a reality show,that interviews and sometimes bothers people who've lost their loved ones,just so they can make entertainment of it. I get that there are other benefits for it,but still. (I'm sorry for my terrible English,I'm not a native speaker.)
1:45:00 I believe this is the availability heuristic, a flaw in our interpretation where what comes quickly to our mind is deemed significant. An example my AP Psych class gave was the fact that if you see a shark attack on the news you believe that they are common because the news put a lot of emphasis on it and it becomes more memorable in your mind, when in reality it's on the news because it's uncommon. So, when we see so so many forms of media that cover murders and horrible acts, when we think of living our own lives those terrible things tend to come to the top of our mind of what could happen to us and we believe that it is more common than it actually is. Sorry if that was a bad explanation, I'm not very good at articulating myself.
Your life flashing before your eyes happened to me when i was chilling with my friend and a guy pointed a gun in-between my eyes and all collective memories with him were all shown in a fraction of a second
If i remember correctly, in the Tenet tangent (which should be a weekly segment) Garnt was more correct as the characters were there to find the “time machines” they only use the art because they had lock picking tools smuggled into them
One superstition I've been convinced by my surrounding that if you have itchy palms, money is coming on its way for you... I've had itchy palms more than 50 times now. . . Where's the money mom. . . . great video boys
As someone who consumes ALOT of true crime media I completely get where Connor is coming from. There are times when I get the ick from how certain UA-camrs present their cases but the plus side with UA-cam is they can't show media that will get their videos demonetized. HBO crime documentaries straight up show dead bodies and detailed images of injuries with very little warning. Shook me the first time I watched an HBO documentary.
That’s interesting, the not whistling at night. I’ve heard this in different cultures and in my culture whistling at night when your alone can attract supernatural creatures.
35:43 I remember being like 5 and my mom was talking about how she things people are gonna be able to go on Mars within 10-15 years. I'm 17 now so we have 3 years until I get to be disappointed
as an animator who works with VR, they most likely dont have legs due to them being difficult to animate/IK in position as well as legs need a huge performance budget
Ahh interesting to learn about Garnt's salt for ulcer technique, over here down under I was told to use Vegemite for the same reason, only you get the delectable and mouth watering taste of Vegemite included in the package.
Been smoking since i was a kid 13-15 for 6-7 years, and not once i flinched at the thought of ruining my health even tho i have a very resolute experience and image in my mind of that happening in front of my eyes, thru my dad and a lot of other close relatives, were humans, sometimes we train crash it for no other reason then just "oh well, we die anyway.. I can take it the painful way". But If you want to convince a smoker that they should care about it, is to tell them they smell bad, their clothes smell, their house smell, everything in their life will have that unpleasant tainted smell to it.. And you might not want to drag down others with it.. These things carry a different kind of burden unlike your own suffering.
Salt is helpful for sore throats if you dissolve it in hot water and gargle it when it’s warm. It’ll heal faster if there are any tears, and I usually drink tea with honey right after. Honey is soothing for the throat and has natural antibacterial properties that’s also been used for cuts and injuries. I’m glad y’all put the info on the screen, because a lot of home remedies do have data and results that show the medicinal assistance it gives to the body. Most of it just helps with the healing and comfort process, while some can boost your immune system (like vitamin C). It’s not to be treated like medicine or something that’ll prevent you from getting a bacterial or viral illness. The wasabi treatment sounds absolutely painful! 😣 Spices will always irritate the skin and burn cuts. Some things just require common sense, but we have the internet with medical websites that clarify the myths and facts.
Okay, I can say that I've been in VR for 10 hours nearly straight multiple days in a row before, it's not comfy. VRchat for most of a day is a tiring experience that burns you out on it, but I love the game itself. It almost isn't even a game at all, and that's the interesting part about it. Love VRchat, and VR. My Quest 2 isn't a massive pain to set up, but it isn't the absolute best either.
I kind of got the feeling many people could get the wrong idea abt vitamin c and manuka honey from connors takes. Because I researched a bit about Manuka honey in particular (of course I am no scientist) (because I was also skeptical that it might only be superstition) I kind of feel the need to clarify a little bit: Manuka honey contains a disinfecting chemical - Methylglyoxal. It's basically the main difference between it and other honey kinds. The Manuka tree produces it as an insecticide. As I'm a bit versed in chemistry, I can assure people, that it actually should work against bacteria (most likely) and viruses (maybe less reliable). Because it is a reactive compound, it can actually destroy the membranes of bacteria, etc. Although that also counts for your own cells, so you could actually hurt yourself with really high MGO concentration Manuka honey (more than 300 mg/kg). Which also supports the point that it actually does something. Because if it didn't kill anything, it would also have no adverse effects when ingested in really high concentrations. I think Connor has a bit of a problem with basically anything natural which should supposedly help your immune system. Of course, there is a lot of quackery in that space, but vitamin C and manuka honey surely aren't the offenders here. Just because vitamin C can help your immune system, that doesn't mean it's some sort of miracle vitamin. Because it's needed for immune activity, it's consumed at a higher rate than normal when you are infected. If you got Vitamin C deficiency, it'll work worse. That also means that if you already got enough of it, taking more literally won't do anything (as your body just ejects anything over normal level).
I think those sayings are meant to have more figurative/metaphorical meaning, than literal. They are likely applicable for older times, with less technological comforts like electric lighting, tap water, penicillin, bandaids. I.E. "Don't whistle at night, or snakes will come out" could be talking about petty thieves, or assaulters.... calling the assailant a "snake" and they're telling you not to whistle, so that you're not announcing/broadcasting your location. (this matters less now in modern times, but could be much more important in older times where light wasn't as easily accessible, and there were more times where people could get caught alone) "Step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back" could simply be related to hurting your ankle/foot, or just hurting yourself in general because you've tripped, and your mom would have to carry you around or go through a lot of trouble to make sure you don't get sick, or that you heal well. (I imagine that when these sayings originated, a small injury could be more life threatening)
I don't remember where I saw it before, but apparently the life flashing before your eyes when you're about to die is your brain searching in your memories for any past experience that can help keep you alive in your current situation
Smokers r well aware of the horrible side effects that come from smoking but the thing is, it is incredibly difficult to stop an addiction. As much as someone wants to try to stop and be sober, it is very easy to cave in to the strong cravings and relapse.
So to inform the boys, ginger is good for a cold because it's antibactirial and so is horseradish, that's propably the reason of the wasabi incident, and there is a lot more of plants ect. that have health benefits. I recomend you reading on that, its so interesting how our grandmas say take this because its good for this, and it actually being true(of course not always). Also mushroom hunting and pine/onion syrup is fucking childhood
@Verchiel_ understandable why you would ask, but you can literally just google benefits of Ginger, it’s like people forget a lot medicine is derived from natural plant life, not all medications are synthetic. It’s not superstitious or pseudoscience to derive benefits from fruit and vegetables.
Salt would be antibacterial, it makes a “hypertonic” environment where a higher salt concentration outside a bacterial cell pulls water out of the cell. This causes “plasmolysis”, basically the cell would shrivel up and die.
I saw a commentary UA-camr do a essay on how women are obsessed with true crime is because of women's experience being inherently horrific such as puberty and as a women the things you have to be Aware of when by yourself (high rates of crimes against women etc) , not that men can't experience these things aswell, everyone has their own experience. I think the title was something along the lines of "why women are obsessed with true crime/horror " or something
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, the astrology prediction stuff (horoscope) is actually backed by science but not in a good way. It works because of this weird trick Horoscope writers use. Ex. Person A experiences situation 1, Person B experiences situation 2. Those writers composes a sentence/prediction that is extremely vague but also somehow applies to a lot of people that back to Person A and Person B, they will most likely believe the writers prediction under certain circumstances. So... yeah, the Barnum Effect
VR hasn't taken off because you need a good PC, a VR headset, and then games. PS4 tried to make VR more accessible, but the system just wasn't powerful enough to do it well.
The reason a lot of celebrities are promoting NFTs is because the people who run their management firms hold stakes in NFTs and/or the people who make the NFTs are using them as living advertisements. If you do a little digging, the connections aren't that hard to find. It's a sophisticated scam but a scam nonetheless. It's unfortunate that it's a lot harder to convince people they've been scammed than to scam them in the first place.
superstition are generally means warning or as an advice. In Malaysia there is a saying opening an umbrella in a house can cause get hit by lightning. this actually serves as a warning or something like that because opening an umbrella in the house will obstruct people's way. is it over the top. yes. does it work sometimes.
A big reason that graphics are continually pushed in video games is that they heavily impact sales The problem now is that the people developing the graphics can notice a difference because they do it for a job they do a day over day but your average gamer can't tell the difference between a game released in 2021 and a game released in 2016 generally graphics have mostly peaked in terms of actual effectiveness
Alright. About the Vitamin C. Vitamin C is an important chemical you need to be healthy and your body doesn’t make it so you have to eat it. It’s important for the maintenance of your collagen, bones, gums, and repair of connective tissue and whatnot. Lack of it or less than optimal amounts of it matters, so if you aren’t there yet, eating food that contains it will benefit you. Once you have enough of it, you don’t get more benefits in the same way that pouring more oil into your car when you’re topped up doesn’t do anything and arguably is bad for your engine. It’s a key vitamin for WOUND HEALING, for obvious reasons. It doesn’t have much of an effect on colds.
Idk, as someone who lives in a city that's genuinely desensitized to stuff like that for the most part, it's safe to say that when it happens to you or a family member you still react the way that you should. (Thank goodness) I was talking to a friend of mine a few months ago and we were discussing how being born here naturally desensitizes you to a lot of stuff and it's just saddening. I've seen my fair share for fucked up shit on the internet (and in person) to a point where the reaction's mostly just internal. Sometimes when you viscerally react to certain things some people probably call you "soft" and that's a no go. This was a really good episode though! Lots of good conversations!!
1:44:06 Yup, this already exists! Stephanie Soo has been doing mukbang/true crime vids for about 3 years and they are honestly amazing. While I don’t know if there are other channels like this, I’m pretty sure Nik won’t be doing these types of vids since he and Stephanie had beef about 2 years ago
I've noticed that I am more prone to mouth ulcers if I eat salty food, and this makes sense as the salt can damage the membranes in your mouth. So using salt to cure a mouth ulcer is probably only causing more irritation. That said, if we're talking a bacterial infection such as with a bad tooth, hot salt water does help draw out the bacteria and fluids from the bad tooth which relieves the pressure and pain. I've struggled a lot with bad teeth, and can attest to salt water always working on tooth aches.
Hearing Connor talk about his index experience is interesting to me because I have a very different experience. My first VR headset a Acer WMR had the exact same experience, took like 5 minutes to set up and that's just enough to stop you from playing alot of nights. But my Index is as easy as it gets. Put on the headset, turn on my controllers and the controllers automatically boot up the headset and in a few seconds I'm in VR. Comfortable is rough though, the index is heavyyy. Adding a cross strap to the top helps immensely and let's me use it for hours on end but weight and size is still not great
heard that 🧂 SALT ON WOUNDS are used for people who are in the desert and must stay awake to survive ,so they slice their finger and put salt on it and stay awake out of extreme pain
Walking under a ladder is bad luck because if the person on the ladder drops something it's gonna hit you on the head. Or if there's not enough space between the wall and the ladder and you bump into it it's gonna all fall on you.
In November of 2021, my mom informed me that a friend of hers was murdered by her boyfriend. She informed she'd been supposedly texting her friend and the replies coming back didn't quite seem right. Later that day, another friend went to go check up on the woman...to find the house on fire. The whole story didn't take long to unravel. The woman's boyfriend grew jealous at the idea of her leaving him (before she'd even declared she wanted to leave) and shot her, pretended to be the friend on her phone to delay being found out, then set the house on fire. I don't know who called the police, but the man holed up at his father's house and after about a three hour standoff, shot himself like a fucking pussy. I remember that night, my mom had just returned from being a traveling nurse for the last eight months and had already had a vacation to Las Vegas planned. She hugged me both hello and goodbye for her vacation and had clearly been crying. I...was upset. But also numbed on how to feel. You hear about this level of horror on these true crime shows but what do you do when its become part of your life? I'm in my 30's and I felt awful for not having the words to comfort my mom. Her vacation wasn't much of a vacation at all. Just like she lost her friend the day she came back from workingz the day she came back from vacation was the funeral. She was supposed to go on another traveling assignment with that friend. She cancelled it because it would've hurt too much at the fact that her friend should've been there with her. I have long since gotten over my true crime brief phase but had I not, the loss of my mom's friend would have done it.
no. I’ve never played n64 as a kid, so I don’t have nostalgia to those games, yet I love the retro feel of it like it’s very atmospheric that a lot of games today can’t pull off. it’s only that style of retro that can pull off that specific atmosphere that I love
Zenith VR, the vrmmorpg you guys were talking about, is already out and it's good. Also, there are a few good vr games out there which you can invest some time into (like Boneworks or multiple online shooters), but I don't blame you for not hearing about them since the vr scene is pretty disconnected from other gaming platforms.
True crime talk, Revy from Black Lagoon taught me a corpse is just an object, nothing else to it, we don't flinch when a lion kills gazelles, we just all flesh and bone, meat is meat
My dentist told me to gargle salt water a few weeks before I got my wisdom teeth removed because I had a mouth infection. It worked and I'm inclined to believe him that it wasn't a coincidence because he is very stubborn on needing evidence there's an issue before he does anything.
gargling salt water is a well-known and widely practiced method of healing mouth and throat infections. Salt kills all bacteria though, so it's not very healthy for the good bacterial flora in your mouth to continue doing it regularly.
My friend shared a video of some Chinese guy getting stabbed 20 or so times in a stadium and then getting dragged away on facebook. That really freaked me out, I deleted my account a week or so later
The whole segment about science and how its so far advanced from general knowlegde today is so true. Specialized science has almost gone in a way where its almost contradictory to what we were taught in school, and there are always ways to bend the rules just enough for something that was generally thought to be impossible to be possible. Tldr: its a crazy world we live in
The talk about morbid curiosity at the end reminded me of a website people were sharing around in the 90s, which basically had a lot of photos from crime scenes or accidents, with horribly mangled bodies in graphic detail from every angle. I was horrified by that stuff, had nightmares after seeing the result of someone run over by a train that someone showed me for the "haha lulz" This shit's always been around, folks seeming to be utterly devoid of compassion or empathy to whatever they see or hear, as if they watched some movie plots, or read a fantasy book, maybe it's a defense mechanism for the human psyche? who knows...
Garnt has a point that Vitamin C helps with a cold. Normally when you are sick it is advised to eat oranges and drink lemon-ginger tea. It also helps with sore throat (well it helps me). That’s what my grandma always tells me and i trust her judgment bc she is a nurse 🤷🏻♀️
I think a big part of what makes a big part of what stopped Mario 64's visuals from aging as badly as its contemporaries is that the simple shapes look good in the motions the player performs and provide good gameplay clarity
Crime shows, and mystery shows are interesting in the way they story unfolds. I can't watch them if they are just factual. I prefer it when they are told in story form. Consider them cautionary tales. Warning signs are there for good reasons. Never travel alone, and certainly not unprepared. Always let someone know where you are going, and whom you will be with, with an estimate time of return. In dangerous situations don't freak out. Lock your house doors if you aren't needing to go in and out. Be wary of strangers. I mean I could go on, but there's common sense to them that people are either oblivious to, or choose to ignore for the ill of themselves. Some stories have some amazing heroes in them.
In the relatively near future (iirc a year or two) we can buy XR lenses. The screen is still monochrome, but the amount of features they've managed to put into it is amazing. If they can make it RBG then it would be possible to create a virtual reality by closing your eyes. There are also prototypes of very lightweight and small VR headsets. So VR will soon be as accessible as smartphones. The current VR headsets are like the small but thick black and white TVs, but we're already approaching the LCD equivalent. So from a corporate perspective it makes sense to develop things like the metaverse so it's ready when VR goggles/glasses/lenses become mainstream.
Metaverse discussion, VR Chat comes up but real estate discussion doesn't even touch SecondLife or Linden Labs? The great virtual sale of land has never worked too well and been aimed at people that have no technical idea what to do there other than make it a copy of the real world.
Really appreciate Mudan more frequently editing in photos of whatever the boys are referring to, even article titles
Truly an underrated hero
Mudan adding chapters has been such a Chad move
I appreciate him piping up where it makes sense, like with the cultural questions or live fact checking.
As a Biology major currently taking Microbiology, hearing their interpretation of wound disinfection hurts.
Hearing their interpretation of scientific method hurts more 😭
@@strix4614 I think their interpretation is perfectly fine
They are dumb. We know that now. It's scientific.
They were on the right track though
As a biology teacher, who already has his biology degree, I always get hurt when people misrepresent science. But remember, the boiz are not scientists. They haven't used their science education in quite a while. And for the average person, they weren't too bad. I have heard far worse, from far more ignorant people.
Connor has so many good points on so many topics, but his downfall tends to be his inability to articulate them as it happens. They even talked about this before. But he did an amazing job with this podcast. His rant on NFTs, his description of VR, etc; he gave solid analogies.
Mew I thought it was funny when they say "RTX on" talking about a remaster, and then when Connor starts talking about ray tracing, they couldn't think of the name of it.
Not to mention the first third of the episode with science and humanity’s incompetence and inability to be patient or consider the future
i think it depends on how tired
ot tired he is. it happens with me way too often! most of the time i get into discussions near the end of the day, when i'm pooped out of my brain, and just wanna shut down or autopilot, so having to force an argument out of me in that state of mind is..... well it gets rough, and the moment i wake up the next day is an instant facepalm fest!
I started watching gigguk years ago and I love all of the guys but connor to me seems the most intelligent
im a zoologist.
Are you zesty and zymolytic
Salt does kill bacteria, so does alcohol or boiling water. Problem of all this stuff is, it damages the open tissue as well and therefore will most of the time delay healing. Just use a modern anti-septic which usually doesn't even sting and is much more effective.
Me who got her degree in zoology and getting a PhD in Entomology listening to this intro: 😳
Also, on a more serious note, it is pretty common to have depression in academia and animal research because all the bullshit and bureaucracy you have to go through to get the funding to research what you want
My kiddo really wants to be an entomologist!
And those who work at shelters. They have to deal with fanatics who think kill shelters are the absolute worst without really thinking through who the hell has funding for sheltering the millions of abandoned pets just here in the U.S. Are they going to contribute enough money to make every shelter a no-kill shelter? No? Shut the hell up, then 🙄.
Also, dark side of a no-kill shelter: It means they have to turn away animals that might need serious care because they're stretched to capacity. Anyone else comes in...and someone will need to die to accomodate them. And workers who work at "kill shelters" often suffer deeply emotionally and mentally for it. There's the euthanasia, the people bitching that they're not doing enough for the animals, the animals that they are working their asses off to save...and then they lose them. It's a lot. "Compassion fatigue" ends up happening to a lot of shelter workers where their desire to help as much as they can but are bombarded with negativity ends up causing emotional trauma and many quit. So, now these animals have less people available to help them.
This pairs into neutering as well and those who espouse flawed logic about how all animals want to have offspring and "How would you like it if someone neutered you?" Humans don't go into heat. We have fertile periods and sex drives, but not a strong compulsion that we must heed and procreate. Because dogs and cats, as the biggest examples in shelters, do have reproductive drives that are almost never ignored and they reproduce with multiples, it creates a lot of animals very quickly. Humans usually only have one child, with anything more being outside of the norm. It's not common for a cat or dog to only have one puppy or kitten. And not only that, with many breeds, the more times they get pregnant, the bigger their litters. Ever seen a UA-cam channel that brags about breeding dogs? Ever wonder how their litters are often so big? That's why. And no, not all of those puppies will be kept by the owners who initially buy them. And that's just breeders, imagine this happening to stray animals. The number is astronomical. Spaying and neutering is a must to keep some sembelance of control on the number.
Cats do alright living out on the street but there's the argument to make about them decimating wildlife with their hunting, spreading disease, and their much shorter life spans than indoor cats. Dogs...become dangerous when they're allowed to become feral, as they often will form packs that attack humans. And for both, rabies becomes more likely. Dogs also have a closer affinity with humans and have been bred to be pets. They're used to being provided for. I say this as there are some who feel all pets should be left to roam free and that's just not realistic. I've never seen a city with a large stray animal population where the city and animals looked well taken care of.
So, you have all of these ideologies based on emotion and opinions, not fact, being hurled at shelter workers and many just end up having enough. They quit the jobs they thought they loved. Or they check out on life. We lose some amazing, loving souls because of it.
When Joey said he's never met a depressed person who works with animals, shelter workers likely would agree to disagree. Hannah, from the channel Kitten Lady, has a great video that is much more polite than my language that she did a few months ago on the burnout of shelter workers and how fanatics and ignorance is pushing workers away.
@@thunderpup7899 I'd say support your kid! There's tons of job opportunities for entomology because it's such a practical science. And it's always good to see a parent not freaking out about their kid being into bugs 😅
I'm in highschool rn and I'm planing on getting zoology as a career, any thing I should look out for?
@@bulwark2656 I would definitely say look out for schools with good research programs and a wide variety of animal related classes. So NOT school with just a general biology degree and only a handful of zoology courses. Schools that have zoology, animal biology, wildlife conservation, evolutionary biology, they're all very analogous degrees. I went to UC Davis which actually had all of those degrees!
Once you get to a university, look up the faculty of your department and find a professor whose research interests you. Professors will have their research interests and publications on the faculty listings and most even have websites nowadays! You don't even need to know the professor. A lot of times, they're looking for undergrads to help out anyway, so just send them an email talking about what you like about their research and ask to join their lab. That's what I did with my lab and by the time I graduated, I had a senior thesis and published my research!
And if you join a lab and you don't really like it, don't be afraid to move to a different lab! College is supposed to be a time where you figure out what you want to do! I started off in an avian lab and I realized I really didn't like working with domesticated animals so i moved to a lab that worked with my school's entomology museum and I've been in love ever since! Hope that helps 💕
Also scholarships, apply to scholarships!! Even in your senior year of hs! I can't stress this enough. There are so many scholarships available to students and lot of people just don't know about them.
The return of the alliterative Joey intros are back, this better not be just an april fools joke
Oh, you zesty, zany zealot.
lol I’m glad
The return implies they are back, it looks like a pleonasm.
@@RedbadofFrisia they were there, then they returned, then they disappeared again, and now the return is back
Cc the v c cx x
It makes me happy to hear how informed Connor is on crypto and NFTs, and how much he's just not having it.
Everyone is one Dan Olson video away from understanding crypto and NFTs
Connor is such a smart and informed dude, most of the time he's just fooling around but in this episode his knowledge about things is really showing through
@@alithegrape1696 I’m sure he’s already stated the idea that sometimes you need to make thyself clown in order to ease the atmosphere or something like that
A lot of people are informed on those thing; most people just find them to be stupid things to invest in. They're not rocket science.
I thought I was stupid for not understanding the appeal of getting recipes of AI generated JPEGS. Turns out NFT is just beyond stupid and scummy. It's high fashion, but digital. Sth for rich ppl to jerk eachother off in self implemented isolation from us peasants.
As someone whos played VRChat since 2017 it made me really happy to hear Connor talking about it in such a positive way~
We need more exposure to the beauty that is VRChat!!
Started playing like 3 days ago it’s so fun meeting so many kinds of people
I'm pretty sure Connor even played it on stream
@@caff8305 especially watching humans of vr chat stories
Hell yea been playing sence the beginning and its nice to hear 👂
This episode has one of the best comment sections from all of the trash taste episodes so far. So many interesting topics and things are discussed, it just made me really fascinated
I love and hate how Connor has a great understanding of human psyche and cultural phenomena, but because sometimes he can't convey the point well enough in words, all the meaning is missed by Joey and Garnt
The saddest part of being Monke
It's like the meme where it goes like:
How i think: profound shit
How i speal what i think: ☠️
I mean from their conversation, it shows that he doesn't. He's the one who was saying homebrew remedies were "superstitions", while it's almost the opposite. The homebrew remedies are based on experimenting and science, like Garnt said, rubbing salt on a wound does actually help disinfect it, vitamin C helps your immune system fight of flues, rubbing wasabi on wounds has a positive effect cause it fights of bacteria and so on. It's like the 100 stories in Dr. Stone, something humans figured out A LONG TIME AGO, and just passed it to their offspring through fun stories and riddles and shit. So Connor was 100% wrong in everything in those discussions, even though he did portray his feelings pretty well.
@@kllrnooooova lol true
he's really grasping for words, and in my head I totally get what he's saying and I'm like "you're almost there, this is the word you're looking for" but he never gets there lol
OMG Connor fucking nailed the science argument in a way I hadn't ever thought of before. To summarize, "Science isn't about what is true, it's confirming what is wrong."
I mean, that's the paradigm of falsification that all modern science builds upon. No theory is true, they are only not yet proven wrong thus the best we have.
You can read more on that if you look into Karl Popper who was a figurehead of that paradigm shift.
Not really. That's just logic (process of elimination).
Science is about understanding the world through forming a rigid, educated guess to explain a phenomenon, then seeing if that guess holds up in practical experiments involving that phenomenon. Science is woefully inadequate in a lot of human related things because of that. Humans change, therefore much of sociology/psychology can become rapidly useless as societies change. Statistical based sciences are the LOWEST form of science, as they are easy to manipulate and can be used to obfuscate the understanding of a phenomenon, another thing sociology and psychology suffer from. That's why both of them have a replication crisis every generation or two, as the BS eventually gets challenged.
If it's not a hard science, I can guarantee you that MOST papers in that area are wrong about at least one thing they say, and there's no easy way to tell what. This is why authoritative science-ism must always be challenged. Science is not about what has most evidence, it's about what is most accurate. And that means even one person could have it more right than the consensus, yet be silenced by consensus. As has happened over and over again in science communities.
Science will be the basis on which all governments will cement their authority, from here on in. It is the best way to achieve classical fascism.
Source: Am a published researcher in a hard science.
@@thehaloofthesun7174 oh cool
Nah not necessarily. That sounds like something r/atheist would unironically say. A lot of the time, science advances OUT OF NECESSITY. Whether it’s disease, war, or just improving daily life routines, science will advance.
Nespresso machines came out because French presses are time consuming as fuck and the process needed to be improved. Vaccines in general as a response to diseases and plagues. Seatbelts because cars as a response to cars going faster and faster as time goes on. The fucking atom bomb to end ww2. List goes on
@@mrfister1234 I would say that necessity can motivate what problems scientists focus on. Especially when funding is provided.
Completely unrelated but I just realized that this is the 93rd Trash Taste episode. We are so close to episode 100 and that feels insane
It will be gone for a bit because of garnts wedding
@@imaboisir7227 nope, they have the recorded archive, and, its the trash taste afterdark that it is going to stop for a while
@@rbitte129 i know
Is Garnt's wedding going to happen soon?
93%
For the true crime part of this chat. I agree that some documentaries are overdone and glamorized but women have fears that men can't understand and watching/listening to true crime makes us feel less alone. Our fears are validated and we can learn how to protect ourselves by being more aware of risks, red flags and our surroundings. It makes me feel more empowered in a weird way. I also like cases that have an ending because I feel like if something happens to me someone will find justice for me. On top of that I believe people should know the stories of others and be aware of other peoples struggles so you can empathize with others around you.
I was a “First Responder” at work and was required to take classes every year year that my company paid for. It was a whole day of various institutions and information. One of the instructors for a “treat” would set up an area and bring his cobra. (I kid you not) His set up was OPEN ENDED meaning if he’d done a serious misstep or had a heart attack the snake could have easily escaped. Aggressive little bugger, too. The snake, not Larry. He also told us a story about one of his rattlesnakes getting out and he finally discovered the mesh on the cage had a small slit and the snake was using it to escape. You couldn’t pay me to visit his house.
amazing creature
Metaverse & NFTs feel like rich people just discovered the internet for the first time because of the pandemic. We've had land, homes, weddings etc. in online games for ages. Commissions on social media & rights to own art... Yet they're so excited to own digital spaces and digital art lmao.
The people who make NFTs are laughing all the way to the bank. They just trade NFTs between alt accounts to inflate the price to tens of thousands of dollars then pawn them off on people desperate to get in on the NEXT BIG THING because they missed out on Bitcoin.
You would think that but some of these things have been prepared years previously.
The problem is more that people should own the stuff they do in games. It's ridiculous that people just accept that they don't own the items they earn with their hard work in games.
@@yoshiegg6537 it's a video game... It's not real...who cares. You buy a copy of the game , you don't have any right on anything regarding the IP.
@@kimtsi stay in the past old man the rest of us will progress without you
"We should just make a device which shocks you everytime you die"
Michael Reeves: You summon me?
29:13 OH MY GOD. I watched about 10-15 minutes of that movie as a kid who randomly put on the TV in the night cuz he couldn't sleep and no one else was at home, and I have been trying to find this again for YEARS. Thank you for letting me find closure at the most unexpected of all places. I love you guys xD
Have to agree with their philosophy of science talk...
Go back 100-200 years ago, becoming an expert or even a polymath was infinitely easier than now. Specialisation is essential nowadays, and even scientists find themselves relying on experts in other scientific fields for answers. The fact that some people believe they can beat experts in their own field by just reading a few Facebook articles (or the like) shows how deep anti-intellectualism has gone nowadays.
Misinformation campaigns spread like wildfire as they create exciting, black and white, easy to understand answers. Science simply cannot reproduce that excitement, as reality is often unintuitive and complicated.
most of this is the fault of the scientfic community for being gated of for the elitist untill recent times. so ofc when the internet becomes a common commodity, people use it to satsify their curiosity and lack of understanding which can lead to misinformation.
@@eleonarcrimson858 apparently, needing proper education is gate-keeping
@@verchiel_8295 I think he tried to say that only rich and influential people were heard in earlier times
@@verchiel_8295 ??
@@eleonarcrimson858 perhaps i misunderstood. i thought by "scientific community" u meant scientists, experts, and the like. but i guess u meant that only people with higher status were allowed to read up on scientific journals and researches?
in that case, i do agree with your sentiment. even now, research papers are locked behind a paywall, so it's harder to read the actual source of information.
22:38 here I'm the Balkans they say "Don't whistle in the house, mice will come"
Ginger can help with an upset stomach. I'm not sure about spring onions, but garlic and wasabi are antimicrobial.
On the note of remedies. A few weeks ago I was feeling dehydrated and getting headaches despite drinking a lot more water. I start eating spinach, nuts, and bananas for a few days to get my electrolytes up. So yeah, sometimes your diet is to blame or can help. Always helps to be mindful of what's going on the tank.
Also, I appreciate the vitamin fact check. Look at trash taste, not spreading researchable misinformation while they shoot the shit for a few hours.
Congrats boys on finally getting sponsored by chris broads favourite game, "League raid of shadows"
I read a book where I learned pirates had scurvy from lack of Vitamin C. So I always ate oranges from then on
The "Opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck" thing came from victorian era, and it was said because umbrellas where supper sharp and pointy and you may peck someone eye out with it.
The science talk was so refreshing to hear. As someone who graduated with a biochemistry degree in the middle of the pandemic in America, so many people in my general vicinity have lost touch with what science is supposed to be due to it being so politicized. Like yes science is wrong a lot! that's the point! that's why we learn the scientific theory in high school 😅
That's so good to hear. I grew up understanding that science is constant research and trying to find the truth. At some point, we all forgot about that.
And I think people forget what a thesis is, it’s like a trial and error in some way right?
bUtT mEeR wRiGhTs
In my country at least, most of the politicians have humanities degrees yet talk about science like they know what they’re talking about. I’m not even remotely surprised that people forget that science is built on doubt.
@@sushijou lol and they teach us this in school
The Start: Zoologist are happy, I wanna see sad Zoologist
The End: Zoologist awake, lying in bed at 3AM thinking about Morbid shit
Been just binging old TT episodes while working over the summer, and cool to see that having listened to them over the whole summer I only made it like 60% of the way
Also with this much content, obviously cant remember everything they have talked about so it's neat sometimes having stuff come up that makes me go like "oh THIS was where that take originated
Cheers bois, here's to many more years of Trash Taste!
FYI, you *can* vaccinate against venom, although thats only by having repeated exposure to it. it was explored while they were inventing antivenom, and its also how we make it (we give horses doses of venom and use their immune cells as antivenom)
Fellow veritasium viewer?
@@williamhanlon9479 i do watch veritasium but i got it from a wikipedia article and a 2nd hand account from a zookeeper, thanks for the recommendation though
@@kisaragi_san1378 yeah he recently posted a video abt that exact topic v interesting. Have a nice day
so if I dose up on antivenom I become a horse?
@@user-hu6he8ww5w its only immunoglobin i think but that would be awesome
I think the funniest thing about the meta verse is that they’re just blatantly ripping off VRchat (released 2017) very, very poorly like Connor said and thinking that everyone will just jump in
I remember my dad like mentioning the meta verse to me the first time and my response was so what MMORPG been doing for decades? Ya no way I'm hell Facebook going to make a good one lol.
and more importantly Sony already tried something like what they are doing back in 2007 called Playstation home and it floped
Everything is just another equally cringy version of Second Life.
Before VRchat there was Secondlife too. Where you could rent digital land, sell digital goods, and dress up an avatar. Lot of games online offer weddings and other features the metaverse peddles.
@@RexZShadow Yeah right. I mean, isn't the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime, a metaverse already?
1:21:05 There are quite a few racing games that have integrated VR.
Although, you would have to buy a whole racing rig to accompany the headset so you can maximize your experience.
It was such a great idea for Trash Taste to include a Raid: Shadow Legends Ad as an April Fools joke! 🤣
It would be so much funnier if they said "This episode is sponsored by Apex Raid of Shadows."
The thing about watching murder, is that remember our brains evolved, to always be looking out for threats to our lives. When you are watching a murder or morbid event happen, your brain is analyzing the order of events so that if you get in this situation, you can escape with your head still on your shoulders. Basically what I am trying to say is that our brains find threats, than learn how to deal with them so than you can survive. Sorry for the wall of text have a great day!
Yep, a good example is of how we are so good at spotting snakes in the brush and even have a somewhat instinctual fear of them, as it’s believed our more primate ancestors were prey to larger snakes.
@@VainSick I love it when people back up my claims, hey man have a great day! And your right PBS Eons did a whole video on it.
Yeah but i feel like the more i watch them the more i fear of being a fully grown adult and having to live by myself
I don't know about others, but personally, I feel this way. I don't watch television much these days, but I listen to podcasts and UA-cam videos in the background alot, most of it being either trash taste type content, medical content, true crime or just random stuff. I find, each case that I dive into, has helped me be more aware of my surroundings and such. However it has also made me insanely paranoid of near everything😩 but most people in my physical life don't have a care in the world about their surroundings or any threats so I feel it's an ok level of paranoia, given I've been stalked multiple times😅
I get that,especially for women, there were some many times in the podcast they spoke about their friends who watch it for that reason,but that doesn't really address the: becoming desinsetized to shit.
Getting numb to watching videos that make death be a reality show,that interviews and sometimes bothers people who've lost their loved ones,just so they can make entertainment of it.
I get that there are other benefits for it,but still.
(I'm sorry for my terrible English,I'm not a native speaker.)
This has to be the episode where Connor has the most good takes and the right information.
1:45:00 I believe this is the availability heuristic, a flaw in our interpretation where what comes quickly to our mind is deemed significant. An example my AP Psych class gave was the fact that if you see a shark attack on the news you believe that they are common because the news put a lot of emphasis on it and it becomes more memorable in your mind, when in reality it's on the news because it's uncommon. So, when we see so so many forms of media that cover murders and horrible acts, when we think of living our own lives those terrible things tend to come to the top of our mind of what could happen to us and we believe that it is more common than it actually is. Sorry if that was a bad explanation, I'm not very good at articulating myself.
Their talk about religion and science reminds me of “In this moment i am euphoric”
Your life flashing before your eyes happened to me when i was chilling with my friend and a guy pointed a gun in-between my eyes and all collective memories with him were all shown in a fraction of a second
If i remember correctly, in the Tenet tangent (which should be a weekly segment) Garnt was more correct as the characters were there to find the “time machines” they only use the art because they had lock picking tools smuggled into them
One superstition I've been convinced by my surrounding that if you have itchy palms, money is coming on its way for you... I've had itchy palms more than 50 times now.
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Where's the money mom.
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great video boys
Listening to this intro by Joey was like the Ratatouille meme.
👌👌👌
Dentists literally tell you to rinse mouth gently with salt water post surgery.
As someone who consumes ALOT of true crime media I completely get where Connor is coming from. There are times when I get the ick from how certain UA-camrs present their cases but the plus side with UA-cam is they can't show media that will get their videos demonetized. HBO crime documentaries straight up show dead bodies and detailed images of injuries with very little warning. Shook me the first time I watched an HBO documentary.
That’s interesting, the not whistling at night. I’ve heard this in different cultures and in my culture whistling at night when your alone can attract supernatural creatures.
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I remember being like 5 and my mom was talking about how she things people are gonna be able to go on Mars within 10-15 years. I'm 17 now so we have 3 years until I get to be disappointed
as an animator who works with VR, they most likely dont have legs due to them being difficult to animate/IK in position as well as legs need a huge performance budget
The note about installing Visual Novels hits so damn hard. That shit was such a pain in the ass
Ahh interesting to learn about Garnt's salt for ulcer technique, over here down under I was told to use Vegemite for the same reason, only you get the delectable and mouth watering taste of Vegemite included in the package.
Aka the taste of death. Jk jk have not yet tried it so I reserve judgement until I do.
Been smoking since i was a kid 13-15 for 6-7 years, and not once i flinched at the thought of ruining my health even tho i have a very resolute experience and image in my mind of that happening in front of my eyes, thru my dad and a lot of other close relatives, were humans, sometimes we train crash it for no other reason then just "oh well, we die anyway.. I can take it the painful way".
But If you want to convince a smoker that they should care about it, is to tell them they smell bad, their clothes smell, their house smell, everything in their life will have that unpleasant tainted smell to it.. And you might not want to drag down others with it.. These things carry a different kind of burden unlike your own suffering.
I like how this started as "We're being held hostage" and turned to "I just took a huge shxt" in the span of a couple of seconds
Salt is helpful for sore throats if you dissolve it in hot water and gargle it when it’s warm. It’ll heal faster if there are any tears, and I usually drink tea with honey right after. Honey is soothing for the throat and has natural antibacterial properties that’s also been used for cuts and injuries.
I’m glad y’all put the info on the screen, because a lot of home remedies do have data and results that show the medicinal assistance it gives to the body. Most of it just helps with the healing and comfort process, while some can boost your immune system (like vitamin C). It’s not to be treated like medicine or something that’ll prevent you from getting a bacterial or viral illness.
The wasabi treatment sounds absolutely painful! 😣 Spices will always irritate the skin and burn cuts. Some things just require common sense, but we have the internet with medical websites that clarify the myths and facts.
Okay, I can say that I've been in VR for 10 hours nearly straight multiple days in a row before, it's not comfy. VRchat for most of a day is a tiring experience that burns you out on it, but I love the game itself. It almost isn't even a game at all, and that's the interesting part about it. Love VRchat, and VR. My Quest 2 isn't a massive pain to set up, but it isn't the absolute best either.
22:37 "Don't whistle at night because snakes will come" the real reason might be to not disturb the neighbors rest
I kind of got the feeling many people could get the wrong idea abt vitamin c and manuka honey from connors takes.
Because I researched a bit about Manuka honey in particular (of course I am no scientist) (because I was also skeptical that it might only be superstition) I kind of feel the need to clarify a little bit: Manuka honey contains a disinfecting chemical - Methylglyoxal. It's basically the main difference between it and other honey kinds. The Manuka tree produces it as an insecticide. As I'm a bit versed in chemistry, I can assure people, that it actually should work against bacteria (most likely) and viruses (maybe less reliable). Because it is a reactive compound, it can actually destroy the membranes of bacteria, etc. Although that also counts for your own cells, so you could actually hurt yourself with really high MGO concentration Manuka honey (more than 300 mg/kg). Which also supports the point that it actually does something. Because if it didn't kill anything, it would also have no adverse effects when ingested in really high concentrations.
I think Connor has a bit of a problem with basically anything natural which should supposedly help your immune system. Of course, there is a lot of quackery in that space, but vitamin C and manuka honey surely aren't the offenders here. Just because vitamin C can help your immune system, that doesn't mean it's some sort of miracle vitamin. Because it's needed for immune activity, it's consumed at a higher rate than normal when you are infected. If you got Vitamin C deficiency, it'll work worse. That also means that if you already got enough of it, taking more literally won't do anything (as your body just ejects anything over normal level).
Kinda disappointed that I wasn’t called a Zeptogram at the end of that alliterative nonsense.
About the discussion of science. I think the best way to explain is "it is not that it's about being right, but about not being wrong".
I think those sayings are meant to have more figurative/metaphorical meaning, than literal. They are likely applicable for older times, with less technological comforts like electric lighting, tap water, penicillin, bandaids.
I.E.
"Don't whistle at night, or snakes will come out" could be talking about petty thieves, or assaulters.... calling the assailant a "snake" and they're telling you not to whistle, so that you're not announcing/broadcasting your location. (this matters less now in modern times, but could be much more important in older times where light wasn't as easily accessible, and there were more times where people could get caught alone)
"Step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back" could simply be related to hurting your ankle/foot, or just hurting yourself in general because you've tripped, and your mom would have to carry you around or go through a lot of trouble to make sure you don't get sick, or that you heal well. (I imagine that when these sayings originated, a small injury could be more life threatening)
I don't remember where I saw it before, but apparently the life flashing before your eyes when you're about to die is your brain searching in your memories for any past experience that can help keep you alive in your current situation
Smokers r well aware of the horrible side effects that come from smoking but the thing is, it is incredibly difficult to stop an addiction. As much as someone wants to try to stop and be sober, it is very easy to cave in to the strong cravings and relapse.
So to inform the boys, ginger is good for a cold because it's antibactirial and so is horseradish, that's propably the reason of the wasabi incident, and there is a lot more of plants ect. that have health benefits. I recomend you reading on that, its so interesting how our grandmas say take this because its good for this, and it actually being true(of course not always). Also mushroom hunting and pine/onion syrup is fucking childhood
Gonna need some citations if you actually want to inform anyone.
Ginger also good for relieving acid reflux for people with GERD
@Verchiel_ understandable why you would ask, but you can literally just google benefits of Ginger, it’s like people forget a lot medicine is derived from natural plant life, not all medications are synthetic. It’s not superstitious or pseudoscience to derive benefits from fruit and vegetables.
Salt would be antibacterial, it makes a “hypertonic” environment where a higher salt concentration outside a bacterial cell pulls water out of the cell. This causes “plasmolysis”, basically the cell would shrivel up and die.
came back to watch some old videos and connor calling Ashley for fact checking brought back a nostalgia i didnt know i had
5 years ago today, I made this channel and Trash Taste is by far the best channel that I've subscribed to since.
I saw a commentary UA-camr do a essay on how women are obsessed with true crime is because of women's experience being inherently horrific such as puberty and as a women the things you have to be Aware of when by yourself (high rates of crimes against women etc) , not that men can't experience these things aswell, everyone has their own experience.
I think the title was something along the lines of "why women are obsessed with true crime/horror " or something
22:39 Indonesia "don't whistle at night you'll inviting ghost!"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, the astrology prediction stuff (horoscope) is actually backed by science but not in a good way.
It works because of this weird trick Horoscope writers use.
Ex. Person A experiences situation 1, Person B experiences situation 2.
Those writers composes a sentence/prediction that is extremely vague but also somehow applies to a lot of people that back to Person A and Person B, they will most likely believe the writers prediction under certain circumstances.
So... yeah, the Barnum Effect
Honey serves as a natural antibiotic at times serving to aid the relief of covid bacteria colony growth
Yeah Conner explaining the purpose of science was the smartest he has ever sounded 🤣
The golden intro! Of course it's about 💩 now I know this episode will be good XD 😂
VR hasn't taken off because you need a good PC, a VR headset, and then games. PS4 tried to make VR more accessible, but the system just wasn't powerful enough to do it well.
The reason a lot of celebrities are promoting NFTs is because the people who run their management firms hold stakes in NFTs and/or the people who make the NFTs are using them as living advertisements. If you do a little digging, the connections aren't that hard to find. It's a sophisticated scam but a scam nonetheless. It's unfortunate that it's a lot harder to convince people they've been scammed than to scam them in the first place.
superstition are generally means warning or as an advice. In Malaysia there is a saying opening an umbrella in a house can cause get hit by lightning. this actually serves as a warning or something like that because opening an umbrella in the house will obstruct people's way.
is it over the top. yes. does it work sometimes.
A big reason that graphics are continually pushed in video games is that they heavily impact sales
The problem now is that the people developing the graphics can notice a difference because they do it for a job they do a day over day but your average gamer can't tell the difference between a game released in 2021 and a game released in 2016 generally graphics have mostly peaked in terms of actual effectiveness
The last segment of this video has me flashing back to all the cartel videos that people in discord servers manage to somehow find
Alright. About the Vitamin C. Vitamin C is an important chemical you need to be healthy and your body doesn’t make it so you have to eat it. It’s important for the maintenance of your collagen, bones, gums, and repair of connective tissue and whatnot. Lack of it or less than optimal amounts of it matters, so if you aren’t there yet, eating food that contains it will benefit you. Once you have enough of it, you don’t get more benefits in the same way that pouring more oil into your car when you’re topped up doesn’t do anything and arguably is bad for your engine. It’s a key vitamin for WOUND HEALING, for obvious reasons. It doesn’t have much of an effect on colds.
Idk, as someone who lives in a city that's genuinely desensitized to stuff like that for the most part, it's safe to say that when it happens to you or a family member you still react the way that you should. (Thank goodness) I was talking to a friend of mine a few months ago and we were discussing how being born here naturally desensitizes you to a lot of stuff and it's just saddening. I've seen my fair share for fucked up shit on the internet (and in person) to a point where the reaction's mostly just internal. Sometimes when you viscerally react to certain things some people probably call you "soft" and that's a no go. This was a really good episode though! Lots of good conversations!!
SNL made a whole skit around Murder Shows because it's so common
1:44:06 Yup, this already exists! Stephanie Soo has been doing mukbang/true crime vids for about 3 years and they are honestly amazing. While I don’t know if there are other channels like this, I’m pretty sure Nik won’t be doing these types of vids since he and Stephanie had beef about 2 years ago
I thought I was the only one who instantly thought of her😭
I've noticed that I am more prone to mouth ulcers if I eat salty food, and this makes sense as the salt can damage the membranes in your mouth. So using salt to cure a mouth ulcer is probably only causing more irritation. That said, if we're talking a bacterial infection such as with a bad tooth, hot salt water does help draw out the bacteria and fluids from the bad tooth which relieves the pressure and pain. I've struggled a lot with bad teeth, and can attest to salt water always working on tooth aches.
companies buying virtual space in metaverse is second life all over again... didn't SL have *embassies* from some nations at some point?
Hearing Connor talk about his index experience is interesting to me because I have a very different experience. My first VR headset a Acer WMR had the exact same experience, took like 5 minutes to set up and that's just enough to stop you from playing alot of nights. But my Index is as easy as it gets. Put on the headset, turn on my controllers and the controllers automatically boot up the headset and in a few seconds I'm in VR.
Comfortable is rough though, the index is heavyyy. Adding a cross strap to the top helps immensely and let's me use it for hours on end but weight and size is still not great
33:21 make this a meme! "He basically just pre ordered pain." lol XD
I started watching a gift-wrapping competition reality show called Wrap Battle with my wife as a joke and we unironically finished it and want more.
heard that 🧂 SALT ON WOUNDS are used for people who are in the desert and must stay awake to survive ,so they slice their finger and put salt on it and stay awake out of extreme pain
Walking under a ladder is bad luck because if the person on the ladder drops something it's gonna hit you on the head. Or if there's not enough space between the wall and the ladder and you bump into it it's gonna all fall on you.
In November of 2021, my mom informed me that a friend of hers was murdered by her boyfriend. She informed she'd been supposedly texting her friend and the replies coming back didn't quite seem right. Later that day, another friend went to go check up on the woman...to find the house on fire. The whole story didn't take long to unravel. The woman's boyfriend grew jealous at the idea of her leaving him (before she'd even declared she wanted to leave) and shot her, pretended to be the friend on her phone to delay being found out, then set the house on fire. I don't know who called the police, but the man holed up at his father's house and after about a three hour standoff, shot himself like a fucking pussy.
I remember that night, my mom had just returned from being a traveling nurse for the last eight months and had already had a vacation to Las Vegas planned. She hugged me both hello and goodbye for her vacation and had clearly been crying. I...was upset. But also numbed on how to feel. You hear about this level of horror on these true crime shows but what do you do when its become part of your life? I'm in my 30's and I felt awful for not having the words to comfort my mom. Her vacation wasn't much of a vacation at all. Just like she lost her friend the day she came back from workingz the day she came back from vacation was the funeral.
She was supposed to go on another traveling assignment with that friend. She cancelled it because it would've hurt too much at the fact that her friend should've been there with her. I have long since gotten over my true crime brief phase but had I not, the loss of my mom's friend would have done it.
That's awful, I hope you are feeling okay right now dude
Honey is antimicrobial. That’s why it helped his throat. It’s not superstition.
no. I’ve never played n64 as a kid, so I don’t have nostalgia to those games, yet I love the retro feel of it like it’s very atmospheric that a lot of games today can’t pull off. it’s only that style of retro that can pull off that specific atmosphere that I love
Zenith VR, the vrmmorpg you guys were talking about, is already out and it's good. Also, there are a few good vr games out there which you can invest some time into (like Boneworks or multiple online shooters), but I don't blame you for not hearing about them since the vr scene is pretty disconnected from other gaming platforms.
True crime talk, Revy from Black Lagoon taught me a corpse is just an object, nothing else to it, we don't flinch when a lion kills gazelles, we just all flesh and bone, meat is meat
My dentist told me to gargle salt water a few weeks before I got my wisdom teeth removed because I had a mouth infection. It worked and I'm inclined to believe him that it wasn't a coincidence because he is very stubborn on needing evidence there's an issue before he does anything.
gargling salt water is a well-known and widely practiced method of healing mouth and throat infections. Salt kills all bacteria though, so it's not very healthy for the good bacterial flora in your mouth to continue doing it regularly.
My friend shared a video of some Chinese guy getting stabbed 20 or so times in a stadium and then getting dragged away on facebook. That really freaked me out, I deleted my account a week or so later
In terms of that VR and setting it up. Yeah absolutely agree. Thats why I got the quest, makes it so much easier and just pop into a game.
The whole segment about science and how its so far advanced from general knowlegde today is so true. Specialized science has almost gone in a way where its almost contradictory to what we were taught in school, and there are always ways to bend the rules just enough for something that was generally thought to be impossible to be possible.
Tldr: its a crazy world we live in
The talk about morbid curiosity at the end reminded me of a website people were sharing around in the 90s, which basically had a lot of photos from crime scenes or accidents, with horribly mangled bodies in graphic detail from every angle.
I was horrified by that stuff, had nightmares after seeing the result of someone run over by a train that someone showed me for the "haha lulz"
This shit's always been around, folks seeming to be utterly devoid of compassion or empathy to whatever they see or hear, as if they watched some movie plots, or read a fantasy book, maybe it's a defense mechanism for the human psyche? who knows...
Garnt has a point that Vitamin C helps with a cold. Normally when you are sick it is advised to eat oranges and drink lemon-ginger tea. It also helps with sore throat (well it helps me). That’s what my grandma always tells me and i trust her judgment bc she is a nurse 🤷🏻♀️
I think a big part of what makes a big part of what stopped Mario 64's visuals from aging as badly as its contemporaries is that the simple shapes look good in the motions the player performs and provide good gameplay clarity
Crime shows, and mystery shows are interesting in the way they story unfolds. I can't watch them if they are just factual. I prefer it when they are told in story form. Consider them cautionary tales.
Warning signs are there for good reasons.
Never travel alone, and certainly not unprepared.
Always let someone know where you are going, and whom you will be with, with an estimate time of return.
In dangerous situations don't freak out.
Lock your house doors if you aren't needing to go in and out.
Be wary of strangers.
I mean I could go on, but there's common sense to them that people are either oblivious to, or choose to ignore for the ill of themselves.
Some stories have some amazing heroes in them.
18:47 grandmother- | 21:19 it rhymes | 27:44 brain scan | 59:02 VR superstition
In the relatively near future (iirc a year or two) we can buy XR lenses. The screen is still monochrome, but the amount of features they've managed to put into it is amazing.
If they can make it RBG then it would be possible to create a virtual reality by closing your eyes.
There are also prototypes of very lightweight and small VR headsets. So VR will soon be as accessible as smartphones. The current VR headsets are like the small but thick black and white TVs, but we're already approaching the LCD equivalent. So from a corporate perspective it makes sense to develop things like the metaverse so it's ready when VR goggles/glasses/lenses become mainstream.
After a few months of being behind due to being busy I'm finally about to reach the most recent episode! Finally!
Metaverse discussion, VR Chat comes up but real estate discussion doesn't even touch SecondLife or Linden Labs? The great virtual sale of land has never worked too well and been aimed at people that have no technical idea what to do there other than make it a copy of the real world.