(intense music)
(drums pounding)
(blowing) - I wonder if it still works.
Guys, I found this game on the beach!
Okay, everyone get a controller!
(game beeps) What's happening?
(Phil): I don't know! I don't know!
(Toby): Unplug it, unplug it! (Jake): I did unplug it! I unplugged it!
(screaming, electricity zapping)
- Toby, where'd you go? Toby?!
(screaming)
(intense music)
Oh, hey. I'm Jake, and I was just playing the video game CYSTM.
A game that asks, "Could you Survive..."
(grunting) ... the devastating effects
of a superhuman punch to the chest...
The neurotoxins found in snake venom...
Or eating... cake.
Could you Survive... Jumanji?
(intense music)
(birds singing, elephants trumpeting)
(Jake): Okay... Yeah, this makes a lot of sense.
I was sucked into the video game.
But I was playing with two friends...
Ah, Phil! (crashing)
Oh, hey, Phil.
- Hey.
- Do you know where Toby is?
- Oh, hey, guys.
- Toby! Guess what? - We're in the video game?
Just like in the movie Jumanji, Welcome to the Jungle?
(Jake): Yeah, that's... exactly right.
Let's find a way to get out of here.
(magical whooshing) - Jake! Toby! Phil!
Welcome to CYSTM. Your mission starts now.
- Why is she just staring at us?
- I think she might be an NPC.
(eerie music)
You look... really familiar. Do I know you?
(laughing) - That's funny.
You must hike the trail to the hill,
and find the golden statue called Oscar.
- Oh, I don't think we're gonna be getting an Oscar any time soon.
- Many have tried and have failed to see
that working together is the key.
Once your mission is complete, and you've won the game,
in your loudest voice, say its name!
(Toby): So what happens if we don't get out of here?
Do we die? Are we gonna die?
(laughing) - Yes.
- Wait, what do you mean?
Alright, so we have to get the statue, or we're going to die.
Once we get the statue, we win the game,
and then we should get kicked back home.
Just see if we get, like, a map-- - Whoa. What is that?
(Jake): Oh, it's strengths and weaknesses.
So, my strengths are compassion and nutrition.
My weakness... is bravery.
- Can I do that?
Huh. My strengths are... mathematics and muscle power?
Weakness is venom.
- Strengths are zoology and paleontology.
My weakness is... cake?
- You guys must be lost. (Jake screams)
(Jake): Ooh, he looks pretty tough. I think I got this, guys.
Played a lot of fighting video games in my day. Just stay here.
- Isn't his weakness bravery?
(knife unsheathing) - Oh, that is a huge knife! Don't do this!
- Ahh! (thudding, screaming)
- Do you think he's okay? - I think Toby just killed Casey Neistat.
(Jake): In the movie, The Rock punches a dude through multiple walls.
But what would happen in real life if you were hit that hard?
Well, we built a machine to find out.
Based on calculations of The Rocks punch in the movie,
that fist needs to travel at nearly 644 km/hr.
(crew): Okay, here we go!
Three, two, one!
(Jake): And the result is devastating.
Instead of you being thrown back by the punch,
the punch would go right through you.
It completely shattered the sternum,
and the second, third, and fourth ribs.
The fist then punched through the heart and the upper parts,
or superior lobes, of both lungs.
Not. Good.
To make things worse, the whiplash you'd experience,
like the dummy is right now, making the chin hit the fist,
would snap your neck.
The punch only stopped because it went right into the spine,
which is pushed 13 cm out of the body.
So, if this happened to you,
you'd be very much not alive.
Hey, Phil. Guess what?
You were right, Casey's dead. - Um... Should we at least go check on him?
- No, man! We gotta get out of this game!
- Hey, wait. Do you guys hear that music?
(intense drumming)
- Oh, awesome! I think we're about to go to a cut scene!
Phil! Got any gloves in that backpack
that I could put on to get into character?
- I mean, I can check.
Oh, gloves! - Oh sweet, man. Thank you.
- Hey, so what actually is a cut scene?
- A cut scene is an in-game unplayable sequence used to break up game-play.
Generally, they use it for things like a new scene, or introducing new characters,
or going from one level to another--
(deep voice): Level two.
(drumming) (Jake): See! New location!
Should be getting into the action right about... now.
- I don't understand this game.
I mean, I like cake, but cake as a weakness? That's just crazy.
- Yeah. It is crazy, Phil, but I think we're only about, maybe four or five...
(snakes hissing)
(screaming) I'm supple!
- Woo... - Oh.
Phil. You're a pro, and since my weakness is bravery, and...
Toby, hey! - Hey. Thanks, Phil.
- ... weakness is venom. Really happy you got that.
But your strength... is the knowledge of animals.
- Yeah, I guess you're right. Quick, ask me something!
- How many venomous snakes are there? - Approximately 700.
- Alright, what's the longest snake that can inject venom?
- King Cobra, can grow up to 18.5 feet in length.
(Jake): Let me ask you one more thing. How does venom kill you?
(magical backpack chiming)
- So, venom.
Venoms have evolved to take down animals in some really surprising ways.
There are some venoms that are neurotoxic,
so it'll stop the heart, or stop the breathing.
And then, there are the hemotoxic venoms.
These attack blood. It'll either cause the animal to bleed out a lot,
or, it'll do something really surprising.
(Jake): Now, what's not surprising is that blood will eventually coagulate;
turn from liquid, to a kind of gel when it is outside of the body.
What is surprising is that this hemotoxin venom that Phil was talking about...
...coagulates the blood inside your body. It causes thrombosis.
When a blood clot forms inside a blood vessel,
the venom mixes with blood and interferes with Factor X;
a protein in blood involved with the normal coagulation process.
The venom activates Factor X, causing a coagulation cascade.
This.
Clotting the artery and preventing the unclotted blood from pumping.
Potentially killing you.
Snake venom is highly lethal.
But there is something that will give you a chance to survive.
Antivenin.
Antivenin works by essentially binding to the destructive parts of venom,
before it attacks your cells.
Antivenin's come from animals like horses and sheep,
that have been exposed to snake venom.
They have strong immune systems and produce powerful antibodies that bind easily to the venom.
But, the truth is, you're nine times more likely to die from a lightning strike.
One more question for you, since you are an animal expert now.
In the movie, the main characters were after the jaguar's eye,
which enables the power to control animals in Jumanji.
Is that possible?
- Yeah, is it really possible for humans and animals to be able to communicate?
- Yeah, amazingly, it is possible to communicate with animals,
besides your dog at home, and the way we do that is by training them.
Take bees, for example.
We've been able to train bees to sniff for explosives
and tell us where they are.
(Jake): This is possible because the honeybee's antennae
are finely tuned vapour sensors like a dog's nose.
Scientists train the bees using a Pavlovian Response.
Touching the bee antenna with sugar water,
while dousing them with the scent of an explosive.
The suggestion of food causes a PER, or "Proboscis Extension Reflex".
This.
The trained bees are housed in a device that is waved over potential explosives.
A camera inside tracks them, showing if they PER,
indicating if there is an explosive.
(intense drumming)
I think the game's telling us to keep going. Come on!
(deep voice): Level three.
(intense music) (Phil): Man, I'm starving.
- I want to go home, Jake!
- Yeah, my feet hurt! - We gotta be close, guys.
I can feel it.
(leaves rustling)
Guys! Look!
I mean... I think this looks like a perfectly safe place to relax for a little bit.
(ominous music, growling)
- Yeah. - Looks like a murder shack.
(suspenseful music)
(Jake): Cake. Isn't that your weakness, Phil?
- Cake? My weakness? Nah, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Don't! Could be a matter of life or death.
- Jake, this game kinda sucks, I'm hungry! I'm not gonna die.
- Wait. Is it life or death?
I mean, in real life, could you actually explode from eating cake,
like they do in the movie? Or, really from eating anything that's meant to be edible.
Let's find out.
(door creaking) (Phil): Uh...
- According to all scientific data, unless that cake is made of dynamite,
you're not actually going to explode.
But is there an ingredient in cake that could lead to a highly lethal event?
Well, it turns out, there is. Sodium bicarbonate.
Let me show you. Once the sodium bicarbonate mixes with the stomach acid,
it causes an immediate reaction producing a massive amount of carbon dioxide,
which we can see here coming out of the balloon.
Also, with our stand-in trachea left open,
the gas and acid explodes out.
But in real life, the production of gas is instant.
So your body doesn't have time to initiate the reflex to throw up.
The increasing volume of carbon dioxide rapidly expands,
rupturing the stomach.
While most stomach ruptures are due to sodium bicarbonate,
it is usually in its raw form, effervescent antacids.
The amount of sodium bicarbonate required to bake a cake
is not nearly enough to cause this reaction.
So, eating won't really make you explode.
- Nice! - Phil! Wait until we're out of the game!
- Speaking of getting out of the game,
should we go and find that Oscar thing?
- Good point.
(magical whooshing)
- How did we get back here?
- Well, it's either a glitch, or the game could have a fast-travel mechanic.
Let me check.
(magical whooshing) Yep.
It's a glitch.
- But how do we get out of here?
(Jake's mom):
that you must work together, that is the key.
(magical whooshing)
- Gah! Stop doing that!
- Um, guys? Guess what's been in my backpack the whole time?
- Oh, that's amazing! Well, that was the point all along, to work together!
We would never have made it back alive if we hadn't used each other's strengths!
Ah, and we got an Oscar. (triumphant music)
- You'll never get an Oscar. (triumphant music stops)
Now that your mission is complete, and you've won the game,
in your loudest voice, say its name!
(all): CYSTM!
(magical whooshing, triumphant music)
- Looks like I'm heading home. And as always, thanks for watching.
(soft music)
(explosion, Christmas music)
(Jake):
On the next episodes of
Yipee-- (explosion)
Whoa!
The effects of jumping 10 meters with a fire hose tied around your waist
are rather... devastating.
Ah! Oh, what is that?
Oh!
- What the--?
(screaming) - No!