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Time travel becomes tattoo material on First We Feast

Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation gives Joe Santagato an unexpected takeaway in a Hot Ones Game Night excerpt.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson just blew @JoeSantagato's mind 🤯Neil deGrasse Tyson just blew @JoeSantagato's mind 🤯

First We Feast served up a physics lesson with its chicken wings, and Joe Santagato found a potential tattoo in the answer. Asked whether humans will ever time travel, Neil deGrasse Tyson distinguishes traveling into the future from returning to the past, then explains how traveling through space can leave someone aging differently from the people back on Earth.

His most philosophical formulation lands near the end: "You are a prisoner of the present in your timeline, forever transitioning between your inaccessible past and your unknowable future." Santagato's response is considerably less cosmic: "That would be a fire tattoo!"

That excerpt, "Neil deGrasse Tyson just blew @JoeSantagato's mind 🤯", is the week's most-watched new upload, with roughly 4.2 million views. Viewers have turned the discussion into jokes about sleeping their way to tomorrow and moving through time one second at a time. Others connect Tyson's explanation to Interstellar.

Across fifteen uploads, Tyson supplied plenty more material, including flying cars, spaghettification and a Game Night moments compilation. The time-travel and flying-car clips also carry the strongest daily momentum among the channel's active videos. Elsewhere, Peter Dinklage's New York punk days got a throwback, while Maya Hawke received a mid-wing reminder not to chew with her mouth open.

The channel collected about 41 million views over the week, with daily viewing now more than twice its usual level, though its subscriber total stayed unchanged. Among nearby interview channels, Shawn Ryan Show also had a particularly busy week, while Team Coco's daily viewing was below its norm. For First We Feast, the distinctive ingredient was an astrophysicist holding a wing and giving Santagato rather more to consider than his next bite.

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What viewers say

  • I use my bed to time travel to the next morning
    @abbychannel4591See it on YouTube
  • We're constantly travelling forward in time, at the rate of one second per second
    @richorichards4655See it on YouTube
  • That's one of the things I loved about Interstellar because it depicted this perfectly
    @zeprute6486See it on YouTube
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  • I am time travelling right now you know, after I watched this short I went forward in time by about 47 seconds
    @JackInATeaPotSee it on YouTube
  • I‘m constantly traveling through time. I’m pretty sure we all are.
  • that is a great way to explain time, mostly I think time is not explained correctly in the media, but he does it well, in this episode

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The facts
Subscribers
15,800,000
Channel views, last 7 days
40,685,384
Videos published this week
15
Video published
October 16, 2026
Video views so far
4,150,215
Views on its first day
431,369

The numbers

Here is how First We Feast's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Shawn Ryan Show
49,293,878
First We Feast
40,685,384
PowerfulJRE
9,233,910
Team Coco
9,220,283
Theo Von
5,077,860
Lex Fridman
2,293,409
subscribers
15,800,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
6,297,098,680
views per day
10,667,101
typical day: 4,611,672
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
PowerfulJRE
21,100,000
First We Feast
15,800,000
Team Coco
9,220,000
Lex Fridman
5,060,000
Theo Von
4,790,000
As of October 22, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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