User:Lyanaga/Safety Third

Safety Third is a weekly audio and video podcast hosted by William Osman, Allen Pan, Nile Red and The Backyard Scientist – four Science-adjacent content creators primarily focusing on chemistry and engineering and their lives as Youtubers. The podcast generally discusses the groups shared interest in science and technology and their woes with YouTube creation, the podcast's tagline being "Sometimes we have guests, sometimes it's just us, but always: safety is our number three priority."

History
The podcast was started in June 2021 by William Osman as a way to connect with fellow science content creators during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since they were already all friends Osman thought it would be a good way to create community amongst like minded enthusiasts of both science and YouTube. The first episode of the podcast was uploaded to YouTube on 28 June 2021. Since then, new episodes have been released inconsistently but has resumed a weekly Thursday upload schedule as of August 2022.

The podcast's name comes from a live show William Osman did with friend and fellow maker YouTuber Michael Reeves. Osman liked the name so much he decided to keep using it when the podcast came around.

In May of 2022, the hosts were in Florida for the first Creator Clash and thusly recorded several podcast episodes which also released that month creating a 3 episode Florida arc.

In June of 2022, the hosts were in Los Angeles for VidCon and by chance William Osman met Connor Colquhoun of the Trash Taste podcast. Trash Taste had lost some of their equipment at the time leading to William lending them some equipment from Safety Third. The members of Trash Taste then later let Safety Third borrow their podcast set leading to a 3 episode "Garbage Flavor" arc.

After having met the members of Trash Taste, the members and crew of Safety Third were invited to visit Japan on short-term business visas by GeeXPlus, a Japan based influencer talent agency. This lead to a 4 episode Japan podcast arc, several collaborations and their first "special," "Inappropriate Japanese Scavenger Hunt."

Safety Third in it's current state is experimenting with branching out into more ensemble content as shown by the recent series of videos spanning guests and another special, "WHO IS THE BEST MALL SANTA?" in December of 2022.

Format
Discussions in the podcast are about more than just science, and delve into various topics, including content creation, danger in their field, and discussions varying from taxes to the legitimacy of the education system. The show will occasionally have special guests that influence an episode's direction. Past guests included:


 * iDubbbz
 * Michael Reeves
 * I did a thing
 * CDawgVA
 * Tom Scott
 * TheOdd1sOut
 * Vsauce

Generally, each episode is between an hour and an hour and 45 minutes long, and is broken up intermittently with split audio track segments and a list of all Patreon subscribers near the end.

YouTube
The Safety Third podcast has two channels on YouTube. The main channel, Safety Third, was created on 7 May 2021 and includes all podcast episodes, specials and shorts. Safety Third Highlights was created on 2 June 2021 and features the clips of the podcast episodes. Only the main channel has received the silver YouTube Play Button for surpassing one hundred thousand subscribers, which it achieved in (???????) 2022.