- Is that a tape worm in your colon
or are you just happy to see me?
- Let's talk about that.
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- You know, this morning,
I looked out of my bedroom window and I saw the 72 degree
LA air rustling through the leaves of my favorite
flourishing palm tree which told me
that we are smack-dab in the middle of winter.
- Yeah. - Which then reminded me
that spring is just around the corner,
which then alarmed me because that means summer's
only a stone throw away which could only mean
absolutely one thing:
that I need to start working on my beach body.
- Hey, and to get that beach body,
you could adopt a sensible diet and exercise regularly,
but that's not fun!
You should be on a fac diet, but which one?
There's so many out there and some of them are so crazy
they just might work for a game.
It's time for Can This Internet Daddy
Guess These Crazy Diet Faddies?
Okay I've dug up some info about some of the most
insane weight loss fads in history
from all corners of the world.
Link, I'm gonna tell you a little bit about these
and then I'm gonna ask you a question related to each one.
If you get the question wrong, you have to take one of
our health shots in order.
Some of them are real, some of them are made up.
Probably all unpleasant.
If you get it right though, I have to take it
so someone's gonna be taking a shot every single time.
- Okay.
- Let's get started with the first question.
In the late 2000s, a Japanese inventor created
a new diet that hinged on a very specific type of apparel.
What was that apparel and what function did it serve?
A, blue tinted sunglasses, which were supposed to
make your food look less tasty and therefore, you ate less.
B, extremely tight knee-high socks,
which supposedly stimulated a pressure point
that controls appetite,
thus allegedly leading to weight loss.
C, a belt that changed colors as it expanded,
making it clear you'd increased your waistline,
or D, a Bluetooth headset that automatically
calls your mommy when you ate dessert before dinner.
(Link sighs)
- Why would making food blue make it look less tasty?
Makes it look colder.
- Oh that's usually not a good thing unless it's
supposed to be cold. - Cold food.
Mm, so I can see that one,
I could also see the belt working.
If you made that up, let's patent the heck out of that.
- Okay.
- Man, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go with A.
Blue tinted sunglasses.
- Link, you are correct! - Yes!
- Yes, they're based on the fact that foods look appetizing
when they're in the yellow to red spectrum,
and so making blue glasses will make you eat less.
Here's a promotional photo from the company that made them.
- [Link] Ironically she's eating.
- No, actually studies show that if you hold your food
near your mouth without putting it in there,
you also lose weight.
- Oh. (chuckles)
- Okay but I have to take a shot of potato juice.
- Potato juice? - This is for real.
Potato juice is packed full of vitamins
and is also highly alkaline which helps reduce--
- I would not not smell it first.
- Acid reflux.
- Don't smell it, just take it down.
Ee!
- Ah!
It wasn't bad. - It did not smell great.
- I feel so alkaline. - All right.
Let's keep going.
- Indian guru Prahlad Jani claims he hasn't had food
or drink for 70 years. - I believe him.
- What does he say he has been consuming for decades
in order to survive?
A, the energy fields of other people.
B, ocean mist.
C, sunlight. (Link chuckles)
Or D, American cheese singles.
Technically not a food. - Not food. (chuckles)
Oh gosh, you know,
consuming other people's energy fields kills them.
That's not very guru-like.
- What if you just fed off of 'em
just a little bit at a time.
People wouldn't even know, just suck--
- Sippy sip on the fieldy field?
(Rhett slurping) Oh nothing, nothing.
- I'm just tasting your energy field.
- I actually think that you might can survive a little bit.
Maybe not 70 years on ocean mist.
- (chuckles) Okay.
- So I mean, yeah there is a whole beverage line.
- Okay you're going with B. - B.
- It's actually C, sunlight.
Yes, this is something called breatharianism,
and there was a documentary called
In the Beginning There Was Light about this guy
and other people who practice it.
Here's a clip.
- [Translator] 60 years without food or water.
I simply can't believe that.
It's impossible.
Where is he getting the energy for his heart,
liver, respiration?
- [Translator] I pass the light directly.
I don't have stool anymore.
(Rhett laughs)
- Ha ha ha, joke's on you!
- Here's the thing, he doesn't have stool anymore
but he's also full of crap.
- (chuckles) Exactly.
- Okay Link you have to take-- - This is a white one.
- This is tuna juice and Vagenaise, is it Vegenaise?
How do you say that?
Vegenaise. - Vegan mayonnaise?
- We made this one up. (chuckles)
Basically this is a carb-free tuna sandwich shot.
(Link gags)
So healthy!
- Oh. (blows air)
- Oh woo, keep it that way, brother.
- Smells great. - Moving on!
The tapeworm diet is an awful idea that no one
should ever try.
The basic thought is if you swallow a pill
with a tapeworm egg inside, the egg will hatch
and release the worm inside of you, allowing it to grow
and fester inside of your intestines
and eat whatever you're eating.
Then-- - What?
- You can eat whatever you want because the tapeworm
will consume all of your extra calories.
However, none of this works and it's just plain dangerous.
Don't try it!
Which one of these home remedies for removing tapeworms
from the body is real?
A, wrap an ice pack around your stomach
for 24 hours straight.
The cold temperature will kill the parasite
and you will naturally expel it.
B, crush two raw cloves of garlic into milk, boil it,
and drink it on an empty stomach.
Repeat every day for a week.
C, consume only apple cider vinegar and lime juice
for 48 hours, or D, stick a piece of candy up the anus
each day for a week.
Then, at the end of the week, when the tapeworm comes out
looking for the candy, grab him and pull him out.
(both laughing)
Oh.
It's called anus candy.
- Good gosh.
Apple cider, vinegar and lime juice seems like the choice,
but it could also be B. - Mm-hm.
- I'm gonna go with C.
No, you know what, I'm going with B 'cause
C seems too obvious.
B, raw cloves, garlic, milk, boil it,
blah blah blah blah blah, tapeworm gone.
- Link, you are right! - Yes!
- And just in case you don't really believe that
the tapeworm diet is a bad idea,
here is a digital recreation of a time one woman tried it
and got some unfortunate results.
- [Narrator] She ingested the parasite,
a species of tapeworm normally found in cows,
which can grow to a stomach-churning 10 meters in length.
While the tapeworm hooked to your intestinal wall
can make you lose weight,
it often ends in malnutrition and anemia.
A fact her doctor kindly informed her of
when he explained the reason for her discomfort.
(Rhett laughs)
- Okay, now here's the thing, that doctor's behavior was--
- What? - Completely unacceptable.
You should see what he does to people
who don't have any stool.
- What?
So you gotta take that.
- This is aquafaba I'm going to drink.
Now this is liquid from the can of chickpeas,
which people are now using as an egg substitute--
- Aw, that's a easy one. - In baking.
In fact, I saw somebody put this into a cocktail
that called for egg whites recently.
So vegan substitute.
- Is that a YouTube channel?
It's like a news channel where they animate stuff, right?
- It's actually pretty good.
- So it's supposed to be comedic.
- No I made the animation, what are you talking about?
I spent hours on that.
- Well it's offensive.
- No yeah that was the from some YouTube channel
that I don't actually think it was supposed to be funny.
I think that they didn't understand that that was
highly inappropriate. - Oh.
- Yeah.
Question four, the clay diet has nothing to do with
how Clay Aiken got those sweet abs!
(Link sputters) Though it is very popular
amongst many celebrities.
The clay diet is unfortunately exactly what it sounds like
and involves mixing technically ingestible clay
with water and drinking it.
Advocates of the diet say the clay passed through your body,
taking toxins in-- - Mm-hm.
- And taking toxins with it
and then satisfies your hunger along the way.
Which of these celebrities is not a clay dieter?
- Okay. - A, Shailene Woodley.
B, Zoe Kravitz.
C, Zooey Deschanel, or D, Xenu, the galactic overlord.
- (chuckles) Love that celebrity.
(sighs)
Xenu's always coming out of LAX and TMZ's all over it.
- Yeah, right, mm-hm.
- I think this is Zooey Deschanel, one of my favorite people
because she's in one of my favorite movies of all time
that I watch year round.
Elf. - Okay, Link,
you're right! - Yes!
- I don't know how you're right.
Zooey Deschanel-- - Drink it, buddy.
- She's not a clay dieter, however, I do want you
to watch a video of someone who enjoys eating clay.
Wet clay pots that is.
(clay snaps)
(hard crunching)
- Ugh!
- You really gotta watch that,
'cause if you do that too much, you get a pot belly.
(crew laughs)
Okay, I'm going to drink a shot of edible clay.
Again, you heard about the, this is bentonite basically.
So this is supposed to take some of my toxins.
- Yeah, I think you've gotten the easier ones.
How's it taste?
- I've gotten three out of four.
You got one, ugh.
- That one was the nastiest though.
- That's (grunts), that's good.
(grunts) I love it.
- Taste like dirt?
- Mm, me and Zoe Kravitz drink clay together.
Ah!
Now for another celebrity favorite.
Celebs like Madonna and Demi Moore
are reportedly following-- - As opposed to Demi who?
- Something known as the werewolf diet.
Which of these options actually describes
said werewolf diet?
Is it A, a diet in which you may eat only
wild caught grass-fed meats like a wolf might,
for three days a week.
B, a diet where you drink only green juice during the day
and then eat lean animal protein after sundown.
C, a diet revolving around the gravitational pull
of the moon, starting with a day-long fast
and continuing with specific eating plans
for each phase of the moon.
Or D, a diet in which you only eat meals prepared
by your personal chef Taylor Lautner.
(Link chuckles)
That's what he's doing now.
- Got it.
- He's coming in for an interview next week.
Be ready. (chuckles)
- He's gonna be our new Mythical chef?
- Yeah, potentially.
No, he's gonna be Josh's assistant.
- I think the moon one is just weird enough
for Madonna and Demi to get on board.
My instinct tells me it's that one. (howls)
- C? - C.
- Link, you are on a roll, my friend!
- Yes! - That is right.
And while I get ready to take this shot,
this is the perfect opportunity to watch a couple
of wolves eat watermelon.
Those wolves have been in LA too long.
- I can't smell that and identify it.
- This is a blended Lean Cuisine.
(chuckles)
Made up, as you can imagine.
It's got a bunch of stuff from a Lean Cuisine tray in it.
- That's good, you deserve it.
Yoop!
- That's nasty. (groans)
- Nasty. - But lean, okay Link.
- That's nasty.
- I've had to drink all of these except one,
if you weren't paying attention.
- The rappers drink lean, they shouldn't.
- Those who follow the tongue patch diet
undergo surgery to have a piece of medical-grade mesh
stitched to their tongues.
The patch makes it painful to eat solid foods,
therefore causing you to eat less
and consequently lose weight.
Here's a clip from Nightline in which tongue-patch advocate
Dr. Nikolas Chugay defends the procedure.
- [Nikolas] All right the first stitch is already in.
- Lysander is his 81st patient
as he pioneers the process here in what arguably
is the plastic surgery capital of the country,
southern California.
You're sewing a foreign object into somebody's mouth.
Is that healthy?
- (laughs) Okay.
How does Dr. Chugay answer this question?
- (laughs) That's the question?
How does he answer? - Yeah yeah yeah.
A, "Healthier than being fat."
B, "It's not unhealthy."
C, "Define healthy."
Or D, "I went to eight weeks of online medical school,
"so you tell me, smarty pants!"
- Sparty pants. (Rhett chuckles)
- He opened his mouth a little.
Then he was like, "It's not unhealthy."
"Define healthy."
Boy, that makes him the smarty pants just to find out.
This is just green stuff but it's last
so I don't wanna drink this.
- It's Brussels sprouts and asparagus juice.
- Oh, okay, it's good for the pee smell.
- Mm-hm, yep, make it smell all day.
- "Healthier than being fat," can't be it.
I think it's, "It's not unhealthy."
I think that's it, B. - Roll the clip.
- You're sewing a foreign object into somebody's mouth.
Is that healthy?
- Well, it's not unhealthy.
- Yes! (both laughing)
- Oh wow Link, you really did me wrong on this one.
- Oh yeah, I like my diet fads.
I think he's right.
- He got that degree at Burning Man.
- (chuckles playfully) Oh gosh.
- Ugh!
You know what, I feel like a real winner today.
- Blow it in my face, I deserve it.
(blows air)
(Link whimpers) - Congratulations, Link.
Five out of six.
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