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210 - What Is Nuclear Radiation?

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0

I have a question for you that I thought of while I was driving cross-country, and I think it involves maybe physics or radiation or something. Can I ask you this?

0:16.9

Sure. Sure. Great. Yeah. No, this is important. I want to know.

0:21.3

All right.

0:21.9

So I'm driving down the interstate. To be clear, I'm supposed to answer for all of physics, right? Yeah, just be physics right now. Got it. Yeah, no problem. Crap, dude. You make it so complicated. I know, right. Sorry. Your physics, I'm me. Here we go. I'm driving down the interstate in rural Wyoming

0:19.2

We're on real fast

0:20.7

Because it's speed limits your physics i'm me here we go i'm driving down the interstate in rural wyoming and we're on real

0:39.3

fast because it's at the speed limit's 80 out here so it is basically 90 and i'm doing one of those

0:45.6

half a mile an hour cruise control passes of another vehicle you know the kind i hate them yeah

0:51.1

i do i don't know. It felt fine.

0:54.3

There were no other cars out there.

0:56.5

So as I'm passing this vehicle, I notice, it's very weird.

1:00.8

It's big.

1:01.5

It's boxy.

1:03.0

It looks kind of like a garbage truck, but it's definitely not a garbage truck.

1:07.5

And it seems like it's all armored up, but it doesn't look military.

1:11.6

And I get to the side, and I discover that it has the name of some fancy futuristic sounding energy company on

1:19.3

it. I don't remember what it was. Okay, can you picture this? Okay. I'm picturing a stainless steel

1:25.6

DeLorean tornado chasing vehicle is what I'm picturing but go

1:31.2

ahead okay I would have liked that better this was not that okay this looked like a

1:36.4

mysterious sci-fi covert government agency we're trying to hide something kind of vehicle. So a McDonald's semi-truck, a semi-truck with a trailer on it that says McDonald's. No. I'm pretty sure that's... No, not at all. No, not at all. No, not at all. Not at all. ...sacters of the third kind says that's how they transport stuff, that they really want to keep secret. Okay, well, maybe. Okay. I was in the neighborhood of close encounters of the third kind. Okay. I was by Devils Tower. All right.

1:44.5

So. stuff that they really want to keep secret. Okay, well, maybe. Okay. I was in the neighborhood of close encounters of the third kind. Okay. I was by Devil's Tower. All right. So, I'm driving past the thing. It says energy on it. I'm like, well, why would you need a vehicle like that for energy? What's in there? And then, you know, everybody's kind of taking a nap or whatever while I'm driving in my family. I get to thinking, what if they got something nuclear in there? Ooh. How do they move that stuff? Do you have just a vehicle that moves nuclear stuff down the highway? I don't know. I mean, you have to move it somehow. What do those vehicles look like? Maybe this is one of those vehicles. Then I got to thinking, well,

2:34.7

I've got my whole family in the vehicle. I wouldn't want them to get, you know, I wouldn't want them

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