A Greek Building Site | Chernobyl (Part 2/3)

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1:26Welcome back to part two of our Chernobyl series. It's Finn vs. History. I'm joined by Horatio Gould. Ah, fuck! Ah! Fuck out. A lovely soundscape there of what must have been heard down the corridor. Oh, fuck it. What? Oh, no. Ow. Ow. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. We think. Is it hot? I don't really understand. It is hot. It does. It's very hot. It's an awful, awful way to go. I think it's up there with the worst. Yeah. Your skin sort of boils and flays. Your DNA separates. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. This is part two. So do you change race, then? we'll get to that i think yes i i'm not sure mix and match you're like you're like glitching you're like asian you're like black you're gay you're jewish poc people of chernobyl um at 1 23 a.m on april the 26th 1986 uh a nerd is trying to woo a lady warning my reactor's power supply is dangerously low this is charlie flushing the toilet at this point just just absolutely Freddie getting the toilet flush going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, please, please, please, please, please, please, please.

2:35No, don't stick out the horse. Ah! So, we dealt with the science of Chernobyl in our last episode comprehensively. No one can say they don't know what's happening. Now, the power surge, the power level in RBMK Reactor 4. Talk to me now. In the Chernobyl power plant. Button me up, then. It surges to 100 ,000 % of the original design. That's way too much. Far too much. i don't know what what how is it able to yeah it's like why do why do cars go up to 250 miles an hour what's the point well yeah i'm not allowed to drive that fast yeah but on the autobahn you can oh have you been on an autobahn yeah is it crazy fuck yeah it's mental two lanes there's a lane where for trucks and 30 miles an hour and then uh do you feel lucky lane yeah when you're scary it's terrifying because you're scared people are going to crash into you yeah i mean i was i literally we drove through germany uh when i was maybe 20 21 in like my mate's reno right tiny little thing uh and you're you're constantly looking out and it's just really and you're stuck behind a lorry so you're going 50 right and then you like quickly get into the overtaking and then you've got mercedes and and um like that behind you and you're like and then you're looking for any gap to try and pull back in.

3:58It's like a computer game. It's terrifying. The amount of ground you can cover if you use it right though. Yeah. How quickly you can get across the country. Well listen, the infrastructure's terrific. One of the legacies of the Nazis is that they left a terrific road infrastructure. And we, you know, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. but you seem to be drowning the baby in the bathwater. Let's not throw the bathwater out with that baby. There was some great warm bathwater that the Nazis created. What's what's really about? Let's just keep it all in the bath, shall we? There's a baby in a bath and that's lovely.

4:26It's lovely. Bath time. Let's put some more babies in this bath. Let's fill up the bath with babies and water. Why do we have to throw anything out? Anyway, we're talking about Chernobyl and it's the evening of April 26th and people are stressed. Yeah, high cortisol. They've got a lot going on. Stress, it's important to say stress ages you and it takes... So does nuclear exposure. That's true. But it could have been the stress. It's a double team, isn't it? Yes. Their hair, they've got grey hairs and also their face is falling off. And who knows what causes watch. So we've got a picture up now.

5:04Kind of immaculate vibes though. Like you could see like a listening bar. Do you know what a listening bar is? I do. Yeah, a listening bar designed like this. I think it's bollocks, I'll say. I actually have never been to one. No, me neither. Wouldn't be seen dead in one. You could make a nice one if it was built like the control room. A listening bar? I go to a bar to spout opinions I don't want to listen to other people I don't want to listen to a bar that's my pub because you don't get listened to at home no, or at work no one's listening but that is a vibe, click on some of those pics and also we haven't talked about how lo-fi shinobal beats to lo-fi beats to face melty what we haven't talked about is how everyone who works at Chernobyl is dressed like a dinner lady they're all wearing white coats and little white hats why the white hats let's do nuclear power plant UK is it just everyone dressed like a Hinkley Point are they dressing like workers workers not core because obviously you can't type I know but a nuclear power plant core is the core of a reactor workers yeah but it's also the aesthetic I know but it would not workers workers workers workers uniforms obviously idiot stupid guy yeah they're all in blue and high guys dumb oh no hang on there and white 80s now do 80s let's just see if it's pretty lit going like the monsters inc SWAT team monsters inc SWAT team okay so no that is what no but that's all our MBK we want Britain interesting so maybe maybe it is just the standard nuclear but it's weird I wonder if it's a Soviet thing as well well they just look like sort of they look like chefs yeah and what they're cooking doesn't taste good I'm sending this maybe the worst tasting thing maybe the worst meal of all time yeah this is the worst meal of all time I die and all my kids die it's like generational death yes yeah so everyone has to leave all animals have to be destroyed no one's allowed anywhere near this for 20 ,000 years and any babies that are in the womb will grow up with no legs but they may win Paralympics so every mushroom cloud every mushroom cloud now after the power surge two explosions follow in rapid succession it's the Soviet 9-11 first the steam and seconds later a more destructive hydrogen-based explosion.

7:23Another one. Another one. These blasts destroy the reactor building's roof, which triggers a major graphite fire. The force of the explosion destroys the core and opens the interior of reactor four to the atmosphere. And the oxygen's rushing in, which I imagine does something. And also bad stuff's going out, crucially, as well. yeah valer valery kodemchuk he's a worker in the plant he's immediately killed and buried under debris and his body is never recovered um now he must be fucked i i would love to have a look at him because one thing that chernobyl that's charlie coming in after a big weekend yeah if we do this this is why it's good that we do this we record these on tuesdays not mondays yeah because otherwise it would be like the guy buried yeah your body can never be recovered on a monday it's on a tuesday morning it's underneath radioactive rubble yeah you're hauling yourself out from whatever sex club you died in on the weekend i know this is very well done in the the opening of the chernobyl miniseries is where you go to the control room and they're like the atlov's like fuck it cool it fucking what's happening start the test dj dj yeah he's twisted Bop it.

8:32This is the original Fred again. They're going, oh no, oh fuck. Dead again. Dead again. The immediate response to the explosion is complete disbelief and denial. Valery Perivozenko runs to assess the damage and returns having witnessed what he thinks is impossible, which is the reactor is exposed and the cause exposed. It's exposing itself. It's a paedophile on the playground. Yes. With a big coat. It's a peeping Tom. they've opened up the reactor and I can see your core get that core away from those kids now there's fragments of graphite scattered all over the site there are flames rising from the wreckage he tells Dyatlov and the boys this and they're like nah, bollocks I don't want it to be true therefore it isn't this is not true that has to be bollocks because if it's not we're all completely fucked Sorry, I'm just going to say.

9:30Sorry, it's not true. So it's not true. Because they go, our BMK reactors don't explode in that way. Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. Graphite, reactor cores don't explode. Yeah. So what you saw is a lie. Yeah. We're getting into the Soviet culture. And they call disinformation, which is interesting. They always say that this is disinformation. Disinformation is misinformation. Yeah? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's a direct. Yeah. I don't think that's news to anyone. I don't think that's a take. they mean the same thing yeah do you think you're the first person to make that connection disinformation is misinformation yes they mean the same thing no yeah they do yeah yeah thank you very much porridge is oatmeal in many ways mind blowing is it no okay well then you're not neither was your thing well you're wrong then what do you mean I'm wrong porridge is porridge disinformation is misinformation porridge is oatmeal is it Yes.

10:30Always? Yes. Well, there is a difference between disinformation and misinformation. What about instant porridge?

10:37It's instant oatmeal. Is it? Yeah, it's just a different word for porridge. Straight up. It's a different word for porridge. Straight out of the ground. What do you mean? What's oatmeal? Oh, God. I never seem to learn. Yeah. Forget about porridge, Charlie. Porridge is not involved in this story. I love porridge. I know. Now, the easier explanation that Brukhanov and his boys think is that there had been a huge hydrogen explosion or a steam rupture, which would be serious but contained. So they don't appreciate quite how bad it is. So they get these, they have these, they're not called Geiger counters, they're called decimitars.

11:12Decimitars, yeah. And... So the little things that go... And they tell you the radiation, right? And they show 3.6 rontogens. How do I say that? There's a lot of vowels there. Runchens. What's the South African word? Runchens. Runchens. It sounds like a South African slur. Runchen. Rhenjen. Rhenjen. Rhenjen or runchen. Anyway. It's a bloody rhenjen. 3.6 rhenjens per hour, which is the equivalent to 360 chest x-rays in one go. But the decimeter only went to 3.6 rhenjens. So they wrote it down to 3.6 and said that's bad, but not terrible. That's not actually that bad. Yeah. Considering the thing's blown up, that's actually fine.

12:02That's all right. Brilliant. Send that off to the polyp bureau. Yeah, we're giving the immediate surroundings a big chest x-ray. Yeah. Fine. In fact, the real figure was something like 15 ,000 wrenchons, which is the equivalent to 1.5 million x-rays per hour. Yeah. So about 25 ,000 a minute. Yeah. Or 400 x-rays every second. Which is bad. Yeah, you don't want that. You know how you go for an x-ray and they put like a steel thing over your balls? Yeah. Imagine there's 400 x-rays. Yeah. All pointed at your balls. So,

12:38Anatoly Sitnikov. Anatoly. Not the Anatoly. He's an engineer. He's sent to go and have a look. And he's like, why me though? Do I have to do it? Why do I have to go and have a nosy at this? And he goes to look at the reactor area and he is severely irradiated. Right. Which is bad. Yeah, it sounds probably better than it is. This episode of Finn vs. History is sponsored by Surfshark. Ooh. Yes. Yes. VPN. We love it. Vag Pussy Nunga Nungas. It's all there. This is the opposite of that. This is not a Vag Pussy Nunga Nungas. This is a virtual private network with which you can explore images of Vag Pussy Nunga Nungas.

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15:41Or not. We are outgunned and we are outmanned, but we have each other. FX's The Bear, the final season. All episodes now streaming on Disney+. We should talk about... So, yeah, the big risk of radiation exposure is that you get something which... You get Thomas Muller in between the lines. Yes, of your cells. To add insult to injury, it's called acute radiation syndrome. ass so not only have they not been through enough I know not only these men's skin falling off and their faces melting but the cause of death is ass which is very very very sad yeah Akimov and Toptonov they are like right let's open the water valves to pour water in because Dyatlov's like I'll fucking cool it down pour water over it and he's like well the reactor can still be stabilised but the core has been destroyed the core's gone core blimey Cor, blimey.

16:40So both those men, Akimov and Toptonov, they get lethal doses of arse. Have I had worse Mondays? Hey? Have I had worse Mondays? These guys hadn't had worse Mondays. This is the worst Monday these guys have ever had. Yeah, it's one of the worst Mondays anyone's ever had. I think it is the worst Monday. If you go to work, this is as bad as Mondays get. No one in the control room is going, bloody hell, I had worse Mondays. My face is melted. some of them are saying I've had better Mondays yeah last Monday was better than this Monday do you remember last Monday we um oh we took last Monday for granted yeah it was bank holiday actually we had the day off went to the pub it was brilliant this Monday's fucking awful my skin's fallen off yeah and it's a bit stingy Akimov dies on the 10th of May so two weeks later and Toputnov dies on the 14th of May now we should get into Arse acute radia don't look at me like that acute radiation syndrome because this is what the chernobyl series uh apparently uh gets uh wrong okay or in that rather than so they paint a picture of like charlie google the photos of um the chernobyl mini series acute radiation sickness it like their skin melts they potentially rot while they're alive and um the brutal thing is They get better.

18:04Yes, there's a latency. Yeah, look, that one there. Yeah, get that up. So this is from the miniseries. What did they get wrong? Is that what happened? So that is what happens. However, that takes like weeks and months and it's not over hours. Right, that's me after sauna. You've got to cold plunge, Akimov. You need to sauna, then cold plunge, okay?

18:32you know 15 minutes brian johnson's selling branded ice packs for your balls to keep your fertility markers up yeah saunas get rid of your microplastics and your ejaculate did you know that so that's good very good but then why do you have to ice it because i'm saunering all the time but i'm not taking my ball ice to the gym you're not taking your ball ice to the gym where are you leaving your ball ice that's at home your ball ice should be on you at all times at all times it should be a key ring you know how you can get those pocket sized sriracha bottles that you go on a key ring you have ball ice you have ball ice so you can just go like that sriracha ball ice so yeah so because Brian Johnson he measures his cum after the thing and he says that's the yeah because he's a cool guy

19:15I saw it and then I measured my cum any further questions your honour is that a crime no it's not a crime is it an ick maybe not to me it's not that's personal preference it's pretty mad for him to just slide link up to a woman in the bar going yeah i've got an 18 year old's erections and no microplastics in my ejaculate want to come home and if you want to see the paperwork here it is yeah here it is yeah yeah you better get rid of microplastics in your car but then why does he have to ice his balls because because the one downside of saunering as much as he says i deferred to the cum specialist thank you no i'm a sauna specialist i'm not a cum specialist that's charlie um the one downside of saunering he's come special needs that's what yeah sorry he's got special needs come you know brian johnson says that saunering uh whatever amount of times a week is overall markers for whatever he's measuring is very good the one downside is that your fertility markers go get quite bad your sperm count is bad okay so to counteract that he sells brian johnson branded ice ball packs um and like trunks that you put an ice pack in in order to so that offsets the negative so that it's a wholly good experience going to sauna without it's not the end of the world i don't think so but he probably would say he probably thinks so yeah but he's not you've got to cold plunge afterwards hot cold hot cold hot cold okay he's fucked it that guy yeah uh what ars does what arse does is over the course of like weeks it complete immune system collapse so it's like i guess it's like super aids almost super aids super aids yeah i think get the picture of uh freddie mercury in the bed with uh 50 guys this is the scientist at chernobyl is it i'm just trying to paint a vivid picture for the listener so sorry it's freddie but we're looking at a photo here of freddie mercury to be fair looks like one of the best nights over freddie mercury is like a sleepover is in a you'd have to say that's a super a super king bed velvet there's maybe 10 guys all good looking massive tashes and muscles so you're saying freddie mercury is the chernobyl core and his boys are the science that's super that's super right so fast forward uh a week and they all look like akimov yeah so uh what it does is it dissolves it basically it essentially liquefies your organs over the course of weeks because you're set it It destroys the things in you that make new cells.

21:43It's like extreme herpes. Yes, or super aids, extreme herpes. So your cells can't divide anymore. So your skin melt, like sort of dissolve, and then it isn't replaced. So there's no blood clad, no more blood clots. And then your organs liquefy, become sort of a soup. Yeah. Kill me. Yeah, well, that's... Well, yeah, you're dying. You are dying. Kill me immediately. Yeah. I genuinely think there should have been a case for just like, okay, just pull it in the head. it's just bold. Surely. If you're shooting all the dogs, shoot the fucking... They're not shooting... This is a point where they have to destroy animals.

22:15Oh, yeah. You're not putting them down. You're destroying them. Fucking what? Microwave. Well, no, that's the opposite. The whole place is a microwave. No, you're like just in an oven, just holocaust. Done. Just destroy the animals. So... But then they get better, right? In the first few minutes and hours after acute exposure to acute radiation, there'll be nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and fatigue and i like fat i mean that's just you know that's a wednesday for me right um i've got diarrhea and i'm tired brilliant well yeah you've got ass whatever i've got i've got ass yeah now then there is a latency period of about three days where you think it's fine but this is where the radiation is like in between the lines right pep guardiola and your bone it's bending the run yeah so after a temporary symptom free latency period severe symptoms emerge including fever dehydration neurological dysfunction this is where your hair is then manifest illness stage symptoms based on the specific type of syndrome so bone marrow uh infections hair loss severe skin burns internal bleeding and dehydration so uh gastrointestinal syndrome neurovascular syndrome confusion immediate loss of consciousness death within days when they say confusion is it like i'm confused i feel like my uh my organs are turning into a confused.com cup of soup confused.com cup of soup organs what's going on in here i'm in a bit of a muddle yeah i mean confusion yeah you would be a little bit confused excuse me uh what's going on here then what's all this then hello hello hello my liver seems to be pouring out my ass

24:00I don't really know what's going on Confused.com Confused.com would be a brilliant advert the Chernobyl guys my liver's pouring out my arse is anyone else's liver pouring out their arse I'm pretty sure my liver was solid a minute ago and now it's literally on the floor music now there's a guy called Vasily Ignatenko who's one of the main characters in the Chernobyl miniseries who's a firefighter yes And we'll get to the first one shortly. And his wife's played by Jesse Buckley, I believe. Yes, lovely bit of business. Lovely bit of dogs for the rabbits to see. I think it's him, or maybe it's another firefighter.

24:37Charlie, you're going to hate this, so I want you to look at me when I tell you this. He was discovered, the autopsy, after he died, he had a third degree burn blisters on his heart. How? You know, if you touch a hot pan, which I imagine you do quite a lot. And you get like... Is this red mark on my head? How have you put a pan on your head? I tried to go... How did you put a hot pan in your head? I was trying to find a thing this morning when I went up and I was cooking eggs and I hit my head on the pan. Was this morning? Yeah, really. You poured a hot egg pan on it. You were saying that as sort of a general joke.

25:07It happened this morning. Why is it always so recent? It's always... It's always so recent. Two hours ago. Fuck, I can see that. Yeah. It really hurts. Yeah. So what, you poured a boiling hot pan of eggs on your head this morning? No, I hit my head into a boiling pan of eggs. The eggs didn't fall on my head. Was it the handle? It was the rim of the pan. The rim is the pan? Yeah. How are you getting anywhere near the rim or the pan? I needed to get... Were you going for a header from a corner? I was going for some stuff from the cupboard and then came up and smacked it. First thing that happened today.

25:35Fucking hell. First thing that happened today? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. But I've smashed a glass. I've got this massive juice stain on the floor of my room. You know that thick juice, the healthy thick juice? Naked smoothie or something? Yeah. Got that all over my carpet. I need to borrow some of that vanish, if that's all right. Is that all right? Yeah. Yeah, fine. Any other business? That's it. Okay, great. You can borrow it at the vanage. Thank you. Anyway, he had a burnt heart. He died of a broken heart.

26:07Sort of. Sort of. Sort of. Sort of. Bit literal. Yeah. Also, his heart exploded from getting too hot. He's about to Gaviscon. So firefighters immediately arrive at the scene, right? And the tragedy is that they think they're just dealing with a conventional fire. Soviet 9-11, isn't it? This is the Soviet 9-11. So they climb onto... First responders. They are the first responders. They climb onto the roof. They're like, well, let's just get rid of these burning fragments, not knowing that that's graphite. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, touch that. Yeah. Worst thing you could touch in the world. Nothing worse to touch.

26:39Yeah. It's going to the toilet that Charlie's throwing in and just touching it. Oh, we're just cleaning this up. Yeah, okay, fine. To be honest, we should give a similar amount of respect to the cleaners who had to deal with your Airbnb. The first responders to Charlie's holiday poos. We will remember them. We will remember them, yeah. There'll be a statue in their honour. They should build a memorial. A monument, yeah. It's just like the flush from the system going down, much like the 9-11 memorial. So the firefighters arrive, they enter this lethal environment, they don't know that all this thick smoke has got radioactive particles.

27:18They all begin to be able to start tasting metal. Yeah. Which is... So this is sort of like, so read these three bullet points. This is sort of like going down on a woman, right? You taste metal, your skin turns red and hot, and many begin vomiting and collapsing within the hour. Yeah. It's me going down on a woman. My God. I did not know I was entering a lethal environment.

27:46I thought this was just a normal industrial fire. And then you vomit, you have diarrhea, you're nauseous your skin peels and then you think you're better that's the tragedy yeah i'll go back for seconds and then my skin falls off yeah um so vasily dies 18 days later having suffered skin necrosis google that let's have a look at skin necrosis and organ failure because of arse i mean it's so why is it called arse why is it called give them some dignity like It's the worst death ever, and it's called arse. At least call it SRS, severe radiation. Let's have a look at some photos. This is skin necrosis.

28:29It looks like my bearded dragon's poo. Can you say full body skin necrosis? Oh, God. I'm going to ignore the thing you just said about your bearded dragon's poo. I don't know what that's a euphemism for. I don't want to know. It's not. He's called Roger. Right. Again. Oh. Oh. Oh. Look at that on the face. Yeah, there you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you like this kind of stuff, switch the video. Fuck me. We must warn, do not go down on a woman. This is why Jamaicans don't go down on women. Who was it? Michael Douglas. Who was it? That's Michael Douglas there. Him. That's Michael Douglas after going down to Catherine Zeta-Jones.

29:11And he's there going, I'll do it again. I'll do it again. He loves it. I loved it. I can't get enough. This is what a feminist looks like.

29:27they get transferred to moscow and again because of this latency period there's three days where they think they're improving because the radiation damage is still unfolding at a cellular level in the bone marrow and the gut yeah um now again this is pre-yakol we should place this yeah 1986 is it pre-yacolt it's surely pre-yacolt surely 1986 is 1986 pre-yacolt charlie not even close are you okay all right so this is after yacolt and before actimel no surely not actimel if yakolt's 1935 when that's well and it's japanese yakolt's pre-hiroshima Why is this stuff not getting involved? What is it?

30:12It's post Yakult, pre the last British Energy blackout, which is 2019. Well, the last is not, you know. Let's do... You were trying to rhyme. You got too hot in these rhymes. Yeah, we gave him too much. He had a great first one. Now he's going to... Yakult Blackult. Doesn't quite work. Find Actimel. When was Actimel founded? When was the Actimel drinking yoghurt made? because I don't want to know the... I don't like the four. That's what it is. By Denon. That's what it is. It's between the two drinking yogurts. Well, that's actually a lovely placement then. Look at that. There's a picture of Yakult and Actimel next to each other.

30:50Are you like an Actimel bother or something? Are you looking for a sponsorship? Why? You're just the tone of your voice. What? No, it is where an Actimel's pound is, actually. Yeah. That's a lovely placement, I think. Yeah, but it is a lovely placement, but do you really like Actimel? I don't hate Actimel. Yeah, because you've got... beneath you there is some there's a bubbling food yeah there's a thing neuroses yeah there's something going on the other day you were like if you're trying to cut down on salt you could use lemon juice and you just said that you said that unironically as if you're just putting lemon juice on pepper on steak yeah crazy it is a good um it was good though um so the firefighters bodies so yeah so they arrive and uh they don't know quite quickly some of them start vomiting and shitting themselves.

31:33And everyone's like, bloody hell. Cowards. Keep it in. Come on. You're meant to be trained for this. Yeah. But they end up, the first responders, their bodies are so radioactive that they have to be buried in coffins made of lead and zinc, welded shut, and then covered in concrete to prevent the corpse from contaminating the area. So Vasily Ignatzko, his body is so deformed and swollen that his shoes and clothes don't fit. And then during the autopsy, oh yeah, that's when they find and they had burn buttons on his heart. So imagine being buried in a fucking zinc coffin and then just concrete poured on.

32:08Yeah, it's like a fucking superhero villain. It's crazy. To make sure you never wreak havoc on the earth again. As the scale of the accident starts to become clearer, the crisis starts to reach the actual upper echelons of the Soviet state. So the deputy minister of energy stresses that measures are being taken by the staff to cool down the active zone of the reactor. Okay, fine. Sounds like you've got it under control. health officials say the adoption of special measures including evacuating the population from the city is totally unnecessary. Everyone remain calm. So... The KGP is stopping any of the information getting out.

32:42Yes, because again... Cracking down. We should talk about how this is 1986 in the Soviet Union. This is, you know, Gorbachev, who's in power now, the ugliest leader. Yeah, egghead. Egghead. He's got an egg on his head. Sorry. Pre-Chernobyl. Yeah, exactly. It would make sense if he had been born after Chernobyl because he's got an egghead. And he did a lot of press picks with victims of Chernobyl because it was the best he ever looked. Well, the best they ever looked, they felt better. Gorbachev has initiated this policy of glasnost, which means openness. Yes. So he's gone. We've been too... He's the great moderniser.