all right adam thanks for coming on the podcast dude thanks for having me you were just talking

off camera um you were saying your dad's the one who kind of got you into creating all these

videos on death and how people die and all these terrifying things my dad is is part of the genesis of dark science, you know.

But it really is multifaceted.

So as a kid, when I grew up, I was very terrified of like dying, you know.

Like I was terrified of death my pets died my grandparents died

you don't understand it as a kid you know just know that death happens and it could happen to you

could happen to your parents and like this is terrifying and um my parents would say oh adam relax

it's not going to happen to you you're very young you know that the chances are it's not going to happen to you. You're very young. You know, the chances are it's

not going to happen. And that's not very reassuring for a kid. And the peak of like my fear of

dying, and I don't know why I had a fear of probably because I didn't understand it. There was a

girl at the local high school. I was in like fourth grade um she died from men

and jitis she was like 15 and it was all over the news it was a big deal and so as a kid i'm like

well i'm gonna die you know like this is terrifying if it happened this this this girl it's gonna

happen to me.

And so that just kind of like sealed the deal. Like, if my parents went out for a, to go run errands and they, I'm like, this has taken

a while, my mind, they died in a car accident or whatever, or I'm going to get cancer,

you know, just like crazy fear.

So fast forward to about sixth grade, I joined the Boy Scouts, and you have a bunch of

10, 11-year-old kids run a campfire, they're just going to burn shit, you know, and they're

tossing in styrofoam and plastic cups and plastic wrap.

And I'm like having a freak out.

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