Chemistry for Ding Dongs Like Jane

The Dream

Little Everywhere

Society & Culture, Business, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week host Jane Marie sits down with Dr. Chem Thug, a PHd chemist trying to do the good work of explaining chemistry to the rest of us in ways that we can actually understand. There will be some debunking. There will be some making chemistry interesting to those of us who slept through (and were subsequently kicked out of) chemistry class in high school. And! There will be some serious "Please god, do not do that.", that many of us could use a healthy dose of.

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YouTube: @ChemThug

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0:00.0	I'm Jane Marie, and this is The Dream, a show where we do a lot of debunking about science, health care, foods, vitamins, minerals, et cetera.
0:15.9	And when you do a bunch of research about any one of those things, the internet brings you friends like this.
0:22.0	My name is Dr. Kim Thug, as I am known on the internet, and I am a recently PhD graduate,
0:28.8	synthetic organic chemist who goes online and explains chemistry to people who otherwise
0:33.2	might not want to know anything about chemistry, because I'm really good at sneaking up
0:36.9	on you with chemistry and not letting you know that you're learning chemistry until you've already learned
0:41.1	something.
0:41.8	And then you're like, bam, wow, he really got me with that.
0:44.2	Yep, Dr. Kimba.
0:58.2	You already brought up one of my questions is why do people not want to know chemistry?
1:08.7	Honestly, I just think it's because it gets, I think a lot of people get scared away from science when they're in like early childhood education.
1:10.0	You know, like elementary school.
1:14.7	First of all, I don't know how early most people end up getting introduced to science as a subject in school.
1:16.9	I think that varies across the board.
1:18.7	And whether or not a school even like offers it also depends on certain things.
1:23.0	But then you also got this like, I don't know, at least for when I was a kid, I felt like it was like they were very quick to be like, oh, you're good at math.
1:32.6	You'll be good at science. Here, we're going to like push that on you. And then, but I like kind of showed an interest in an aptitude that maybe some other kids would have had if they had been exposed to it in a certain type of way, you know, but like I was
1:45.8	kind of like shuffled into it a little bit because I expressed an interest kind of on my own.
1:52.7	But I feel like a lot of people don't like I just I feel like a lot of people just like they
1:58.5	don't get exposed to it early enough.
2:01.1	Okay. Such that by the time they get exposed to it early enough. Okay.
2:01.5	Such that by the time they get introduced to it, it kind of, it requires you to think about things in a way that are a little harder to do if you haven't been introduced to it earlier on, you know?
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