Some people have had some messed up stuff living inside inside of 'em.
Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning. - Thank you and you and
you and you for making us a part of your daily routine.
- (laughing) - All three of you.
I'm already a little freaked out about this episode. It is fascinating, and we
can get through it together. And we can learn something, and you can share these
things at parties before people start eating.
- Parties. - It's fairly common knowledge that
we have organisms living symbiotically within us that benefit us.
- Hold on, what? - Yeah, like bac-- you know,
- I knew that. - there's bacteria in the gut.
I mean, we eat probiotic yogurt to put more of that bacteria stuff in there...
- Right.- …to help us digest our food
- and the happiness of that. - Yeah, and that's a symbiotic
relationship; both benefit a little bit from that. But there are some
relationships that people have with things living inside of them that are not very
symbiotic at all, and they will freak you out! So get your freakout glasses on!
- Yes. - Those don't exist.
- Seriously shocking things… - Just listen to us.
…living inside humans. I've got the first one. Ron Sveden had emphysema for
several months. You know, he's coughin' a lot, ♪ (feelin' lethargic) ♪,
- and he goes to the doctor… - Was he singing about it?
♪ (Are you feelin' lethargic?) ♪ Some of you know what I'm talking about.
- Oh. Hm. - He goes and gets an x-ray,
revealing a growth in his left lung. But it is not cancer.
- Mm.- It turns out to be a
(emphasized) small pea plant growing inside of him.
- That's why I don't eat peas. - In his lung, a pea plant,
- growing and living in there. - Can you get this from canned peas?
- (sighs) - Because I eat a lot of those.
Uh, I don't know, Rhett. The doctors said that the lung provided and ideally warm
and humid atmosphere with which the pea could sprout.
Yeah, of course. All pea farmers grow their peas in lungs.
Why was this man breathing peas that could then sprout? My theory,
in lack of a better one, is, "Hey, uh… you need to just breathe easy."
- He's like, "What? Breathe peas…y?" - (groaning)
- I don't know. - Moving right along.
They surgically removed the pea plant and Ron is fine. He's my pen pal.
- Okay, speaking of… speaking of pee… - (crew offscreen laughing)
- Hey, Ron. - In India...
- They liked my joke about the… - They didn't.
- …breathe peasy. - They didn't.
A 14-year-old boy went to the hospital saying, "I can't pee. I'm having trouble
- peeing." Doctors did an ultrasound - Oh.
and they discovered there was an object in his bladder.
- Mm. - They open him up and they find a
- two centimeter long fish. - What?
Somehow a fish went through the pee hole and got up into the bladder.
Are you tellin' me… they knew it went upstream and didn't come downstream?
(stammering) I don't think you can get to the bladder. Fish can't get to the bladder
- downstream. It's gotta go upstream. - That's true. That's a good point.
- It would go into the gut. - What?
But the boy had an explanation. He says, "While I was cleaning the fish tank in my
house, I was holding the fish in my hand, I went to the toilet for passing urine."
(laughing) He went for passing urine. "While I was passing urine, the fish
slipped from my hand and entered my urethra, and then I developed all
these symptoms." (pats the table) Okay, this is, uh...
- There's a lotta holes in this story, - (laughing)
- besides the pee hole. Ugh. - Yeah.
I have a theory here. I do this sometimes, when I'm really cleaning something.
Sometimes I just get into it. I think this kid was cleaning the fish tank and
he was like, "I gotta get down in there and I just happened to be...
- Naked. - "…naked, I guess." And then you're
in water, and it's a little lukewarm, and then you start peeing. There are fish that
can sense the pee stream and they swim up -- that happens in the Amazon.
Don't pee in the Amazon River, for goodness' sake. Maybe it was one
of those crazy fish. Of course, it was in India. I don't know. Maybe that--
- I don't know how it happened. - So he was power washing the
inside of his aquarium with his own power wash fluid?
- Yeah, yeah. He was peeing. - That's your theory.
All right, I got another one. It was a pleasant day, like any other in China,
when 56-year-old Zhang Nan decide dto get a beauty spa treatment.
Now, he goes to this special spa where you get in a bath full of eels
and the eels eat the dead skin off of your body. So while he's in there...
- Sounds like fun. - while he's i-- yeah, it sounds crazy --
he feels a sharp pain in the extremity of his nether region.
Oh. Same thing as the boy.
And he looks down in just enough time to see that an eel has started making its
- way up the… - The eel.
- … the highway. - The old eel in the eel trick.
- (crew offscreen laughing) - He grabs it.
- Of course, wouldn't you? - And starts -- but then it's so slippery,
it slips out of his hand and continues to squirm
(high-pitched croaking )all the way up
inside of his urethraaaa. He goes to the doctor, undergoes and three-hour
operation. Did I mention the eel was six inches long?
- (Rhett) Ho ho. - (high-pitched laughing)
- What a nightmare! - (laughing)
To see it! To grab it! And then, "Oh no no no no! Don't do it, please!"
- Bloop! There it goes. - You would't enjoy this?
- I haven't enjoyed it. - He paid for it, though. Think about it;
- he paid for this treatment. - Yeah, that's the sad thing about it.
He paid for the treatment, then the removal. Oh my goodness, there's not...
- Yeah. - I would be yelling at the eel, "There's
- no dead skin cells inside of there!" - Yeah, if I ever have to choose between
the eel and the fish in that place, I'm going with the fish. Just me.
I'm going with the fish. How about this. Miss Li, in China,
arrives at the hospital complaining of an itchy ear. I've had an itchy ear before.
- Mhm. - She went to the doctor, and uh,
the doctor looks inside of her ear...
- sees a spider in there. - Oh! Gosh, no.
The spider had been living in there for five days, and this is no ordinary spider.
This is an actual picture from that situation, right Eddie?
- Oh. gosh. - This is a spider with...
...uh, spines on its legs. It's a hairy spider. This is the kind of spider that
could do some damage. It had been living in her ear for five days, and they
just put some saline solution in there and (spits) he came right out.
- Really, he crawled out? - Yeah, but after five days of
whispering in her ear. Whispering little spider nothings into her ear.
Think about all the things he said to her. Spiders are evil.
- Oh my gosh. - I hate spiders. Everything about spiders
is wrong and of the Devil. And to have one sitting in your ear for five days...
- Squirming around. Tickling! (etc.) - …just tainting you.
- Mm. - You know, the eel, and I assume
the fish, died when they were removed. But I guess the cool thing about this
is that the spider lived to tell the tale from his perspective. He's like,
- "Man, I was three days inside this old-- - Five days.
five days inside this old woman's head. it was pretty cool, but lonely.
Really lonely. They squirted some ocean water in there, and I came right on out."
You think he goes and talks to his friends like that?
Yeah, he's bragging about it. Lemme telly a a little somethin' about bot flies.
Bot flies lay their eggs on animals like mosquitoes. Then the mosquitoes drop
them on bigger animals like squirrels or horses. The eggs then hatch into larvae,
which burrow down inside of the squirrel or the horse and stay there.
- And just brew. Ew. - Yummy!
Now lemme tell ya another story about a five-year-old boy in Honduras who went
to his mom one day and said, "Mom! I think there's something in my eye!"
- You see where this is going. - A horse?
- He goes (laughing) -- are you listening? - Horse in the eye. Oh!
Oh yes, there's something in his eye. The doctors say it is a late-stage
bot fly larvae nestled up against his EYEBALL! (inhales)
17 millimeters long. I mean, I've got pictures of the procedure of removing this
thing, and I can't unsee them and I'm not gonna show them to you. And you shouldn't
Google 'em. Um, they had to do a [inaudible] style incision on the old
- conjunctiva. And they pulled it out, - Oh, yeah.
and the larvae was dead, but that thing's just… It wasn't in the eyeball. It was like
nestled up around the uh… outside of the eyeball.
Ugh. I mean, this sounds like the kinda thing we would eat on this show.
You know, "larvae in five-year-old eyeball." That's where we're going
with this show. You realize that's where this is gonna end.
(stammering) You just feel violated, don't you?
Okay, this one's weird. 36-year-old Sanju Bhagat had a big belly. (laughing)
That's where this all starts. He had a big belly; he looked like a pregnant woman.
- Really. Or just a guy who really enjoys - Oh, wow.
- beer, like Milwaukee's best or something. - Okay, okay.
- And, uh… - The look on his face doesn't say
- that he's enjoying anything. - (laughing) So, I don't know why
it took him 36 years, but eventually he goes to the doctor over this. I think
he was having some breathing problems. And they take him to the hospital,
and they're like, "Well, surely this is some sort of tumor." You've seen that
kind of situation where there's a tumor in there...
- Yeah. (etc.) - We gotta go in and get it out.
The doctors go in there. It's not a tumor. It's his brother.
What?
- It's his twin. - Oh, no.
It's a parasitic twin, specifically referred to as "fetus in fetu,"
which refers to a twin that grows inside you. So we're not talking about
a siamese twin, or you know, a conjoined twin.
- Ughhh… - We're talking about twins that grow
- inside one another. - Did they look alike?
This one looks like a basketball, and I'm not going to show you what it looks like.
Again, you can image what it looks like by just looking at this guy's belly.
You know, I've had, uh, I've heard stories of bad relationships between
- twins and this is… - But it wasn't a fully formed person.
It was… but it was alive. What was in… ugh.
(stammering) It was just a mass. It was a person that never...
it was a thing that never became a person. I don't wanna get philosophical on this.
- Just know it was unpleasant. - It was being nourished,
- but it wasn't a -- okay. - It was like having a basketball
- that's tapping into your blood supply. - Oh, gosh.
Inside your belly. That makes you look like a pregnant woman. But you're not a
pregnant woman; you're just a dude. That's a problem. A dude with a mustache.
I mean, if I found out that any of these things were living inside of me, I would
- jump in a fireplace. - Really?
- It wouldn't be lit though. - I would just go to the doctor
- before the age of 36. - Yeah, that's true. Um...
- Hopefully the, uh… - Some of you eat breakfast
- Hopefully… sorry. - while watching this show.
- Thanks for doing that. - And uh, hopefully that and the
cringes were outweighed by what we learned here...
- Thanks for powering through. - …and what we share.
We can be thankful that these things aren't in the majority of us.
We can feel for these people in the comments below.
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- What? Did you see it? Move? - (inaudible whispering)
No, it didn't move, but it was thinking about it.
- (gasps) Did you hear that? - (high-pitched laughing)
- What, it's talking to you? - He's funny. He's funny.
- It's talking to you? - He's funny.
Maybe it's a she.
(sucking in air) Oh! (laughing) I thought it was empty!
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