SciShow Tangents - Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 22

Episode Date: July 11, 2025

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on December 23, 2022 titled "December Bonus Episode."Original Patreon description: Enjoy this cutting-room floor compilation of some tangents moments throughout the year.SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X

The holidays, as you might know, can get really busy. So busy, in fact, that Hank and Sari were simply too busy to record a bonus episode with little old me this month. But that's okay, because we just happen to have a few weird things on the cutting room floor that I wasn't really sure what to do with. And on top of that, both clips are sort of sneak peeks into next year because they're both from episodes that haven't even come out yet. The first thing I have to share is a bonus poem from an episode airing in January 2023,

the subject of which is gas. Just to set it up a little bit, every month or so I send an email out to tell Sari and Hank which poems they'll be writing, but there's also a spreadsheet we can look at that has the same poem information on it. Sari looks at the spreadsheet all the time. She's great that way. Hank, unsurprisingly, probably doesn't know it exists, but sometimes the spreadsheet changes, which is why I write the email. If it's in the email, it's set in stone and also Hank knows about it. So Sarie might look at the spreadsheet and see that she has the poem for gas,

then something will change and I'll move episodes around and suddenly she doesn't have the poem for gas anymore but she already wrote the damn poem for gas by the time the email comes look guys I'm a good producer I swear it's just hard sometimes Saris an overachiever and Hank is Hank anyway that's what happened with the poem for gas we got on to record and and both Siri and Hank had a poem, but Hank got to read his poem on the show and Siri didn't. But you can't let a good Siri poem go to waste. So we stayed on and had her read hers

as a little bonus for everybody out there. So without further ado, here is Siri's bonus gas poem. Hey everybody, Sam here. I'll all to all of our patrons. Hi Hank. Hi Sarah. Oh hi Sam. When we were recording the gas episode, I really screwed up and I told both Sarah and

Hank that they were writing poems, which wasn't true. So Sarah came with a gas poem that we didn't end up needing, but we can't let a good poem go to waste. So we're going to let Sarah read her poem for all of you for a special Patreon exclusive. Woo woo. Sari. Wow. Uh, I messed up.

You like fell on your sword very nicely. It was mutual messing up. Yeah, it wasn't like Sam like sent out an email to two people. You know, the systems we use, sometimes things get in different orders. And sometimes Ceri looks way ahead, which I found out I was doing the poem today. You looked like two months ago and put it on your schedule. Different people are different. I plan ahead and then I do the work at the very last minute. I wrote it today.

But I told myself I needed to write it two months ago. Anyway. As we walk through the world, us humans en masse, passing buildings and forests, we're also passing gas. Yes, we're more bodies. bodies make spell clouds of burp. Though flatulence is funny, its volume cannot usurp. The massive amount of N2 around us, and O2 and argon and exhaust from that bust. These gases, invisible, surround us all,

in our lungs, our homes, or in a breeze in the fall. Liquid water makes fog or the opaqueness of steam, while dust, soot, and other stuff make smoke so extreme. So we trust that it's there or add signals to tell, like if a gas pipe is leaking, that's for captain's smell. So unless you have sensors or a fancy machine, most of the chemicals in our universe go unseen. But that doesn't mean they're any less real.

That's the magic of science and the truth it reveals. Wow. That was a premium poem. I mean, it was worth the eight dollars. I'm so glad that it just didn't go into the ether with no... Yeah. So from now on, we're writing two science poems. Yeah.

One for... No, I don't know. That's a lot. It's kind of a lot of work to write a poem. That's one of the hardest parts of the show, in my opinion, is writing the science poems. I get so stressed out when that's a lot. It's kind of a lot of work to write a poem That's one of the hardest parts of the show in my opinion is writing the science books I get so stressed out when it's my it's straight. It's stressful. Yeah, I I was headed to film size show and I was telling me earlier That and I had like a an annoying

Series of things happen and one of the things that was really stressing me out is that I knew I had to make the poem And I'm sorry wanted to do it before I left to film size show but I did have like a full hour to do it yeah and one of the lines of your poem was gas gas gas gas gas gas gas, gas, gas, gas, gas, gas, gas, gas. Like really weird, no plagiarism involved. You know what happens is four o'clock hits and then it hits when it hits. Yeah. That's true.

Well, one of the most frustrating things is that time when we showed up and nobody had written a poem and then we all took a break to each write a poem and Sari took 45 seconds to write three great poems and Sam and I were just... And they were so good. Yeah. They were so good. It sucks.

I do like the poem. Something about it really clicks into my writing major brain of like, I gotta be creative now. Yeah. And let's go. This is what I need. It's a deadline. So glad that there were so much fart in that episode that we just did.

That was great. Mm hmm. Huge amount of part that got, got in. Well, when Sarah asked for questions, she put a GIF of a giant butt farting, a giant fart. I actually had to minimize it. It's hard to put a picture of Gaff. I had to minimize it in Discord because it was grossing me out so bad.

Yeah, I couldn't find a better picture, like a better, I could put a hot air balloon, but that's still kind of transportation-y. A fart, clear and simple. It's a gas. You can't mince words, you gotta just have the big butt farting. Yeah. All right, thank you patrons for your support.

Thank you, Sari, for your poem. Thank you, Sam, for making tangents work. Oh, you're welcome. Thank you, Hank, for making it work also. When you're not here, I panic. It's go- it's so great without me. I love it without me. Ugh.

Well, thanks. Okay, so there's one more and this one, it's a little bit of a spoiler alert. So if you don't want to hear a but fact for an episode that hasn't aired yet Stop listening now a week or so ago I said on Twitter that an upcoming episode would have the best but fact ever and This is that but fact from the episode memories guest starring deboki Which you'll also hear in January But what you're about to hear is a bonus extra long version of that fact that goes way more off the rails. So here it is and again, spoiler alert for a future butt fact.

But one more thing. There have been a couple viral anecdotes about people getting constipated or taking a giant dump and experiencing what's known as transient global amnesia, which is which is kind of a catch-all. We should just do a butt podcast. So transient global amnesia is kind of a catch-all too. You don't have to tell me. I know what it is. It's all there, yeah. It's in the name. Continue. Sorry, please tell me what it is. Transient global amnesia is kind of a catch-all term for a sudden, mysterious, couple hours

long period of memory loss, usually in middle-aged or elderly people. Our best guess as to the science behind potential amnesia poops involves the vagus nerve, which runs all the way from your brain to your large intestine. A particularly large poop getting squeezed out of your body can stimulate the vagus nerve and drop your blood pressure, change oxygen flow to your brain

and cause all sorts of lightheadedness or maybe even brief memory problems. Oh my god. Am I on earth? That's the best butt fat though of all time. You can have a boob so big that you forget. You just wander off into the wilderness. Who am I? Like... One of the, hold on, one of the news articles for this is the headline is constipated woman

lost 10 years of memories after straining too hard. No. I'm scared to poop now. Yeah. You'll be fine. No, no, I think if you poop now. Yeah. You'll be fine. No, no, I think if you poop it's better. I think if you're constipated it's worse.

Oh, well now I'm scared not to poop. This is the real reason for fiber is to prevent this. Yes. Get your Metamucil. Don't forget who you are for 10 minutes. It's like the ultimate scare commercial for Metamucil. You want to forget 10 years of your life? Well, I guess don't for Metamucil. You want to forget 10 years of your life? Well, I guess don't take Metamucil then.

Well, I mean, some people might be like, all right, Eternal Sunshine. It's true. What if that was the secret behind Eternal Sunshine? It's actually... His turd is fucking full of turds. Yeah. You can't remember your bad. Reation fecal transplant therapy.

I feel like there's got to be a better way. I'll just get in there and squeeze it by hand. Wow. Don't don't leave that in the podcast. I won't. I could kind of. I don't know. I won't. I won't ever think about that again. I hope. Wow. That's quite a butt fact.

That was amazing. Did you do that one to book your at its area? No, no, I was not responsible for this at all. I feel like she's been sitting on this one since the very first episode Like yeah, yeah, she's got a big dock somewhere Okay, that is all the clips I have if you thought this was fun Let me know and I can try to scrape together some deleted stuff in the future for now I just want to thank all of you for continuing to be our patrons

We really, genuinely mean it when we say that we can't do what we do without you. So thank you again, and talk to you next year. Bye!