- It's time for a little holiday spirit
and to fact check that holiday spirit.
Let's check it out, beewoo.
Was that a mint? (Buddy gulping)
Or is that a cotton ball? - [Cameraman] Cotton ball.
I don't know what the negatives of eating cotton are,
I don't think it's digestible.
It's like probably just some kind of plant thing
that just adds fiber and it comes out in your poop.
In general, don't eat inedible objects.
That's why they're called inedible, don't eat.
- So sit still so I can do the fingerprick.
- (gasps) Finger prick.
Oh, it's cold. - Yeah.
- The reason alcohol feels cold on your finger
is 'cause you put it on, remember, it's a liquid
so it's gonna evaporate.
And because alcohol has a faster evaporation time
due to its temperature evaporation point,
you will feel a cold sensation on your body.
- Well, paint eggs, that's Easter.
(Buddy loudly squealing)
Oh. (soft bells jingling)
My finger has a heartbeat.
- (laughs) That's called a pulse.
(door slamming)
- It's a boy, Buddy's your son.
- [Walter] That's very impossible.
- Um, paternity to tests are like
99.99% accurate, which means
if 10,000 people came in to get tested,
that's a lot of people to get tested,
the only one that would flag
out of all the other ones would flag wrong.
No, what's the correct way of putting it?
It will be correct
9,999 times out of 10,000.
(transition sparkling)
- Hurry up, Frosty, the train is pulling out.
- Why is frosty smoking a cigar?
How is that good imagery for a child? Who created this?
- Are you coming to the North Pole too?
- I'm sure my mother won't mind.
- Is this Frosty the snowman getting high on PCP
thinking he's going to the North Pole?
- [Distorted Voice] North Pole.
(television static hissing)
(indistinct distorted voices)
(train horn blaring)
♪ Frosty the Snowman ♪
- Children's cartoons of yesteryear were creepy AF.
- [Narrator] A refrigerated box car
was a splendid way to travel.
Splendid, that is, if one is a snowman
or a furry coated rabbit, but for Karen.
(Karen's teeth chattering)
- They're killing the poor kid.
Not only are they trapping this child inside a cold room,
probably leading her to develop hypothermia,
they're also hotboxing it with with whatever chemicals
they're smoking in their pipe.
Did you know that if a child grows up
in a household where there is a smoker,
even if you don't smoke in the vicinity of the child,
just the smoke being on your clothing
can increase the child's chance
of developing allergies and lung diseases?
Think about that
- Are you cold, Karen?
Now that's a silly question,
you wouldn't be sneezing if you weren't cold.
- She wouldn't be shivering if she's not cold
unless she was trying to develop a fever.
Do you know that's how you develop a fever?
Like people think when they get sick, they get cold.
The reason you're getting cold
is 'cause your body's changing
your set temperature to be higher
so you feel cold even though you're not really cold.
And then you shiver
and when you shiver, you create heat
and therefore your body temperature goes up
and creates that fever.
And that's why when you take one of the
fever reducing medications, you sweat like crazy
'cause that's how you lower your body temperature.
(Karen sneezing)
Oh my God, she's really cold.
If her body temperature,
which normally should be around 98.6,
if her body temperature drops below 95,
she's developing hypothermia,
this is dangerous to all her organs.
- I've got to get Karen all warmed up or she's a goner.
- Whoa, what is, I don't know, I can't speak rabbit.
- Well, I can't make a fire.
That's one thing I really can't do.
- You can't? You're smoking a fire right now, my guy.
- Guess we just better keep moving
'till we find someone who can.
- Well, the best way to warm someone up obviously
is with heat, but also it's very important
to dry them off as quickly as possible
when you put them on the ground,
separate them from the cold ground.
Make sure they're not wet.
You want dry heat
because any kind of moisture on the skin will evaporate,
therefore cool the body temperature down even further.
That's how we thermoregulate as creatures.
- [Narrator] And in almost no time,
a splendid fire was crackling away.
(cheerful Christmas music)
- Thank God they warmed her up.
Do you know diving in near freezing water
like 32 degrees Fahrenheit or zero degrees Celsius?
In two minutes you're gonna start
developing mild hypothermia
and in 15 minutes you're gonna go unconscious,
and then death sets in anywhere from like 15 to 30 minutes.
(transition sparkling)
- Hey you! - [Santa] What's that?
(Santa wailing) - [Scott] Oh, whoa, whoa.
- Don't ever scream to a person
who's standing or a Santa who's standing on top of a roof.
It's a surefire way to slide off.
Oh, so many accidents happen from roofs every year.
- Woo who. - Ladders just so problematic,
gotta be really careful. - [Scott] Hey buddy.
- Bro, call 911, check for a pulse,
if there's no pulse or chest compressions.
- It is Santa.
You killed him. (Doctor Mike laughing)
- How about first of all
stop running outside in your boxers.
Step one, that's creepy.
Like you have a jacket with boxers on, why?
You couldn't put pants on?
(bright Christmas music)
Is no one concerned about the wellbeing of Santa?
'Cause I am.
He could have a subdural hematoma there,
he could be bleeding into his brain.
(Scott yelling)
Someone's been putting minoxidil on his beard. (laughs)
(bright Christmas music)
- Oof. - And a caloric increase.
- Okay, hmm. (sighs)
Huh, well nuts.
Oh no, your pulse is great.
Well, I don't know Scott, you're as healthy as a horse.
- I don't understand, his pulse is great,
but you were making all those sounds
while you were listening to it,
what did his pulse feel like, jingle bells?
Like it has to be regular.
And if it's not regular, they could be at risk for AFib.
He's of the age group to develop AFib
and AFib is an abnormal rhythm of the heart
that can predispose an adult to form a clot
and that clot can get shot out systemically
causing a serious problem.
- Okay, look, so what? You put on a little weight?
- A little weight?
Does this look like a little weight to you?
- That sound was interesting.
- Can fluctuate from year to year.
- See, this doctor is not functioning as a good doctor
and I'll explain why.
If a patient is gaining or losing weight without trying to,
that can signal a hormonal, an autoimmune,
or even a cancerous process that you need to investigate.
I'm not just saying, "Oh yeah, it happens."
'Cause then you're missing things.
Like imagine having a patient
who said they put on 10 pounds
in the last week without trying,
you don't investigate, turns out they have heart failure,
they've been building up fluid
in their lower extremities and their lungs
and now are gonna die of a heart attack
because you couldn't step in
because you're like, "Ah, yeah, all good."
- Pete, what's happening to me?
- What's your diet like?
- Milk and cookies. - Really?
- But I don't finish all the milk.
(Doctor Mike's stifled laughing)
- Well then there is your problem,
just try to cut back on the sweets, okay? (chuckle)
- How about before making a diagnosis
actually take his blood pressure
and get a full physical exam?
My guy's like literally diagnosing him, guessing what it is,
like basing it on no science whatsoever.
- How fast does hair grow?
- And he's been pumping that cuff for like five minutes now
and it's still not pumped up, fake.
- Could be a hormonal imbalance.
- Again, diagnosing without knowing any-
- It would explain the mood swings.
- Mood swings?
- Yeah, but look at my hair, it's turning gray.
- He says hormonal imbalance as if it's like,
oh yeah, if it's that you're good.
Why is there a hormonal imbalance?
There's actually unique cases
called paraneoplastic syndromes
where cancers release hormone and can cause problems,
this very frequently happens with certain lung cancers.
(heart monitor thumping)
It is jingle bells, isn't it?
Bro, please get an EKG stat (laughs)
and cardiac consult. (transition sparkling)
(dramatic suspenseful music)
What is the Grinch?
Like, what is the animal that is the Grinch?
Or at least what is the inspiration for the Grinch?
To me it's like deer meets anteater meets parakeet.
How about you? Sound off in the comments.
- [Narrator] What happened then?
Well, in Whoville they say
that the Grinch's small heart
grew three sizes that day.
(Doctor Mike gasping) (alarm blaring)
(Doctor Mike coughing)
- I'm going pass out.
The Grinch's heart developed cardiomyopathy from exercise?
No, no, no, no, no.
Exercise helps the heart stay in a healthy shape.
Most people don't realize this,
a big heart is a heart that's not functioning well.
There's actually like medical conditions
that we treat when it comes to a hypertrophied heart.
That's not good, that's not a good thing.
Thick muscle inside the heart is dangerous.
A cardiac muscle is not the same as skeletal muscle,
it's different.
- [Narrator] The true meaning of Christmas came through
and the Grinch found the strength of ten Grinches.
- Actually, if you have cardiomyopathy,
like specifically hypertrophic
meaning big heart cardiomyopathy,
you're weaker and you become short of breath faster
and you can't pick up a giant sleigh full of gifts.
So this is misinformation.
(transition sparkling)
- Huh, are you kidding?
Stick my tongue to that stupid pole, that's dumb.
- Oh yeah, don't do that
because then your tongue will stick to it.
- Well double dog dare you!
- Oh, double dog dare you, bear, what do you think of that?
(Bear snoring) (television static hissing)
- All right, all right.
- No, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.
Okay, the way this works, I'm gonna explain it really fast.
The tongue is warm, when you touch your tongue
to the cold metal pole,
the heat that's coming from your tongue
is actually gonna be absorbed by the pole,
and metal is a great conductor of heat,
so it's going to enter the pole much faster
than the body's able to resupply
warm blood to the area to warm up the tongue.
So therefore, the surface of the tongue that has fluid on it
is gonna actually solidify
and freeze and attach to the pole.
Painful situation, the only way you cure it
is by pouring warm water.
And I say warm water, not boiling water.
I've seen people pour boiling water.
You don't need to pour,
in fact, if you probably put room temperature water,
it would work anyway if you pour enough of it.
- This is not-
(bright playful music)
Stuck, stuck, stuck!
Stuck, stuck! - Awh.
(Flick crying and screaming)
- I hope this is a lesson to you children at home.
(transition sparkling)
- Shoot the glass.
(gunfire popping)
- We went from children's movies to "Die Hard."
Is that because he's barefoot? I kind of remember the scene.
Oh, he's gonna cut up his feet
- (sighs) Chalk up two more bad guys.
- Oh, he has so much glass in his fee,
I can only imagine the pain.
You get like a tiny splinter, it's problematic.
Imagine having large shards of glass
with all that body weight on top.
Part of what hurts
when you put pressure or weight on something
is not just the weight,
it's the surface area of the weight.
So imagine you have a piece of glass on a small surface area
with a hundred pounds of weight on it.
That's much more weight than just having
a hundred pounds across an entire foot
that's making contact with the ground.
(transition sparkling)
- Let him go! - Oh, it's the pigeon!
- Kevin, run! (dramatic suspenseful music)
- What is she gonna do?
Oh, bird seed.
And the birds are gonna peck at them.
Death by pigeon.
And you know New York pigeons are aggressive,
they don't even care about humans.
(men screaming)
I can imagine that being uncomfortable.
Can you die from that? Nah.
No way pigeons are that aggressive that they'll like
peck out your eyes, they're just going for the seed.
- [Cameraman] They're not like piranhas of the sky.
- No, you cannot call pigeons piranhas of the sky.
I unfortunately lost my mom during the holidays
and I actually tell the full story here
with the help of animation
as well as answering the question,
how we ended up getting Roxy as a member of the family.
Click here to check it out and as always,
stay happy and healthy and happy holidays.
(bright pop music)