Hello and welcome to the bald move television podcast we are of course the officially

unofficial podcast for literally all of television I'm your host a run and I'm Jim and today we're going to be narrowing that focus down quite

a bit to a single single solitary episode of a excellent

miniseries thus far Chernobyl. We'll be giving full coverage to episode two

please remain calm. Hard remain calm gym Jim, when there's 3 billion trillion bullets firing all around.

Yeah, so.

I've heard of bullet hell before, but this is ridiculous.

These are numbers that like Carl Sagan talks about in Cosmos when he's talking about the universal scale.

Yeah. It's insane to hear these numbers. It almost doesn't mean anything.

When you say 3 billion trillion trillion, or no it's like 3 million

grams putting off a billion trillion bullets each. Like, right. What does that even

mean? I know. What does it mean when millions of those are streamed through your body it means you're dead

apparently it means your skin burns your helicopter crashes and potentially 60 million people are

displaced out of Eastern Europe because of radiation.

Yeah. It's interesting because we were pondering whether or not those men that were leading the doomed effort to

open the floodgates to flood the reactor with water were actually going to do any good

or not. We actually found out this week that they might doom the entire continent

because opening those floodgates allowed these vast water tanks to that should have

been empty to be flooded and now we've got radioactive lava

which is a thing that Jared Harris and Vince this episode that's going to heat

that come across this water in less than 48 hours and create a what's called a thermal

explosion from the expanse of the steam constrained in these big steel and concrete

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