- Are the meat sweats real?
- Let's talk about that.
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Today we're on a mission to put the other worldly
experience known as the meat sweats under a microscope.
Now, I hope your stomach is feeling large and in charge,
cause its time for:
Will all these meats make us real sweaty boys?
Or was this theory made up by some rando named Troy?
Now, have you ever had the meat sweats?
- I've eaten a lot of meat. I've sweated a lot.
But I think maybe I was just like in hot places.
I mean we're from North Carolina.
We've eaten meat in hot environments.
- I have never said that I've had the meats sweats, but
the people who do, it always makes me jealous cause
they're always saying it with like this point of pride,
like they're bragging about it.
- Oh, I've got the meat sweats, aren't you jealous?
- If meat sweats exist, I want that notch on my belt.
- Well, you know I'm in.
So let's get this meat party started with our meat mallets.
- Yeah. That's what this is.
Every time we pound our meat gavels,
we are going to be presented with new meats to eat.
(banging)
Oh, look at that!
We got our first delivery. - [Stevie] Okay boys,
your first meats are those
sweet and spicy Kielbasas that you both love so much
from Vicious Dogs!
- Oh, his is my favorite!
Favorite hot dog-ified thing in the universe.
- Yeah, and --
- Now usually I would just eat this as is,
but this isn't a bread sweats experiment.
- Yeah. - This is a meat sweats.
- We don't want to induce generic food sweats.
- I love the way that he, look,
We know Willy from Vicious Dogs
- Ooh, it's warm!
- And he invented this thing where he cuts the top to let
the -- I'm going to get a couple of the toppings, though.
- Hey, you can do that.
All right.
- Whoa, it's hot!
- The experiment has commenced.
(chewing noises)
Boopity boop boop boop boop boop! Research!
Now, the phenomenon known as the meat sweats
has not been scientifically proven - yet.
But the complicated idea behind the meat sweats
is as follows: If you eat too much meat,
your body starts to sweat. Did you follow that?
- It's so hot!
Man, that packaging keeps it so hot!
- It's tasty.
- Okay, but there is scientific cause to believe
in the meat sweats, because the most widely accepted theory
has to do with something called the thermic effect of food.
That just means every time you eat,
your body has to expend some energy to break down that food
you just swallowed and by doing so, it releases heat,
which ever so slightly increases your core body temperature.
- And the body has to work extra hard for protein because
protein is harder to break down,
and when you're breaking it down, your body's expending
more energy, which then your body tries to cool itself off,
which means you start to sweat to cool yourself off.
- So, before we eat too much meat,
now I am done completely with that wiener.
Let's check each other's temperature, slow eater.
- Let's set a baseline.
(thermometer beeps)
- [Rhett] 98.4. - [Link] 97.9.
(crew laughs)
- You're 98.4.
- You're a little cool, I'm a little normal.
- Okay - Now, the crew
has weighed what's presented to us and then
whatever we push out having not eaten,
they're going to weigh that to determine
how much meat each of us is eating so that ultimately
we'll be able to determine the percentage of our body weight
we've each eaten in meat today because of science.
- Which will then help us determine our personal
meat mass sweat threshold, very scientific,
which is the amount of meat needed
to induce personal meat sweats for us.
Very useful number that everyone should have memorized,
like your social security number.
- Okay, let's get some more meats.
(banging)
We'll push these out over there.
Oh, yeah. - [Stevie] Okay guys.
Next you have wings and some
carne asada also from Vicious Dogs.
We figured we'd switch it up a little bit.
- [Link] Okay.
- They'll put anything on a hot dog at Vicious Dogs.
That's what I love about it.
- [Link] It's very creative though.
Now we also have name tags.
So, you know, if you start off with a little
Nice to meat you, this will show, emotionally,
we're kind of tracking what's going on here.
- Hmm. I really like meat. I already knew that,
but I'm just reminded by it.
- I already knew it too.
(chewing noises)
I apologize ahead of time,
I'm going to eat my carne asada with a spoon
because I -- - [Stevie] Well, how else
were you going to do it?
- Well, I might do it with a fork but,
I'm really trying to make this count.
I'm committed to getting the meat sweats.
(chewing noises)
- Carne asada and wings together. Not bad.
- He'll put carne asada right on top of a hot dog
that's already a hot dog.
- Yeah. And apparently
he'll just put it on a tray. If you ask him.
- How are you doing over there, Link?
- I was hungry.
- Would you stop eating right now if it was a normal day?
- I feel like I'm in appetizer phase,
I'd like you to take a little break, but I'm not going to.
Because I think the meat sweats is like, I think you
want to just like really have waves and waves of meat.
- Now what's your theory here?
Because I weigh like fifty more pounds than you do.
Now I eat a lot more, but I outweigh you about fifty pounds.
So how do you think the percentages are going to line up?
- Given how percentages work, I think
it'll be about the same.
- [Stevie] I think Rhett's meat tolerance level is higher.
- I'm barely chewing this.
- I chew it so much more though.
My sedimentary level... - I'm swallowing like, whole
pieces of Carne Asada right now. There's a lot more to come,
I think I need to hold off - Well, the more you digest by
chewing, the less work you're going to do,
which would probably prolong the meat sweats.
So, I think the more you swallow it whole, the greater
the chances of quicker meat sweats.
- Okay. I kind of feel like I should hold here.
There's a lot more meat to come.
- Okay. Meat mallets?
- [Stevie] Okay, before you meat mallet
I'm going to call for a sweat check here.
Do you guys want to explain? - Sweat check.
Stevie is calling for a sweat check.
- When she calls for a sweat,
I'm gonna keep these off for a second, when she does that,
we've got to stop what we're doing, which is eating meat.
We gotta inspect each other's faces with these
sweat detectors.
I think jewelers use these.
But when we're trying to inspect each other for sweat,
(Rhett laughs)
- Oh my god, your eyes are huge!
- Okay, Let me get in there.
You're a little greasy.
- But no droplets?
- No sweat forming.
- Nope. Let me see.
- I'm already greasy I can tell.
- Your default mode is greasy.
- Right, I'm pretty greasy.
(Link burps)
- Oh, excuse me. - Oh, god, get away!
Oh gosh, man!
Why you gotta be straight up in my face and be like
(Rhett fake burps)
- I didn't know it was gonna happen.
- No sweat, Stevie.
- At this point we are sweat-less.
So let's go ahead and let's go ahead and,
- Yeah, we've got to document this.
- No sweat yet, Stevie
- You know, in labs all across the world,
they just got stickers, and the scientists
just end up putting the stickers on
when they come to a conclusion.
- I'm gonna eat a few more of these.
- That's why we do this.
- On the way out, food in the mouth. There you go.
All right, meat mallet it up.
(banging) More meat!
- [Stevie] Okay, I hope you guys are ready
for some red meat because this is rib eye steak
from The Morrison in Atwater Village.
- This is a very cool restaurant,
when you want to feel like you're kind of like,
in it to win it.
- [Link] Meat!
- [Rhett] Okay, a nice rib eye steak.
- I typically like -- what's that fattier part
on the outside? Like, the part that goes around it?
Well, that's a good part of it.
- I mean, when I think about meat sweats,
I think about red meat.
- Right.
- And, because it's just such a big slab of
just straight up meat.
- Boopity boop boop boop boop boop!
This just in: More research.
Red meats are really high in iron.
And iron, according to science,
actually improves long-term memory,
short term memory and your attention span, your
ability to complete cognitive tasks.
- [Stevie] Hey guys, I have some cognitive tasks
for you to complete.
Would you like to try completing said tasks now
that you're consumed of a little bit of iron?
- Yes.
- [Stevie] Thank you. I'm glad that I have your consent.
I guess you'll have to keep eating as you're doing this.
Hence the point of this entire episode.
Okay. We're calling this the nonsense story memory game,
and I'm going to read you a two sentence story
and then you have to remember every detail
as much as possible and write it down,
and then we're going to see how much
of this story you remember.
- Oh, okay. All right, so we got whiteboards.
- [Rhett] This is a lot of meat.
- [Link] And you've already eaten almost all of it.
Like, hold up how much steak you've got left.
Okay.
- And now, almost none.
- [Stevie] I'm not going to go easy.
I'm not going to be reading these stories slowly,
I'm just going to say that.
- Read them like you're putting us to bed,
which is the last thing I'd want to do
after eating this much meat.
- [Stevie] Okay. You ready?
Bill was so sweaty
that when he stepped on his kid's slip n slide,
he slid all the way from Alabama to Colorado
on his belly at the speed of seventy-five miles per hour.
- I mean, I feel like I'm really cognitating.
(Rhett breathes heavily)
I'm losing it. I need more meat!
- Okay. Got it.
- I totally lost it,
but I think it was cause I wasn't chewing meat.
- Bill was so sweaty when he stepped on his kid's
slip n slide that he slid on his sweaty belly all the way
from Alabama to Colorado at seventy-five miles per hour.
- No, Bill was so slippery that he slipped
on his slip n slide at seventy-five miles an hour.
(crew laughing)
- [Stevie] Yeah, Bill was so sweaty that when he stepped
on his kid's slip n slide, - Yeah, when he stepped on his
- [Stevie] he slid all the way - Yeah, he slid
- [Stevie] from Alabama to Colorado
at the speed of seventy-five miles per hour.
- I said Alabama, I got almost all the pieces right.
- [Stevie] Yeah, you nailed it.
- And you ate that much more steak than me.
- [Stevie] Exactly. - Proof positive!
Instant iron! - I am feeling
so cognitive right now.
I am cognating at a level,
I mean, I'm always cognating at a pretty high level. I mean,
you know that about me. - [Link] Shh!
- You ready?
- I am
(banging)
Now let's do a quick sweat and temp check.
Well, break this food out for us real quick.
- [Stevie] This is round two from The Morrison
in Atwater Village, barbecue ribs.
- [Link] Oh my Goodness. And the sheer weight of these ribs.
- [Rhett] How are you feeling right now?
- Let's let's look at this.
- You feeling clammy from hammy yet?
I think I might, after we get through this.
- I am feeling a little clammy,
- But I kind of feel like this is a good time,
Stevie, you haven't said it.
- [Stevie] Yeah, and also I would like a temperature check.
I feel like maybe your temperature has changed as well?
- Let me get a sweat check first here, because
you seem to be, okay, you're greasier.
I don't know if I see any actual pores opening
up and pouring out any sweat.
- Nope. All right.
(Link whispers) Sweat.
- Wait, okay, why you gotta make it like that?
- I'm not holding my breath. Just tell me you if
you see sweat.
(Link whispers) I don't.
- Oh gosh.
All right, let's do a temperature check.
Cause I feel hotter.
- I love that Stevie's like,
"Let's do a temperature check,"
and then a second later Rhett's like,
"Ahh, let's do a temperature check."
(thermometer beeping)
- 98.2!
- 97.6.
- [Stevie] You guys have both gone down.
(Rhett laughs)
Down in your temperature.
- We gotta up the meat, man.
- Maybe you go down before you go up.
- You know what you need to inspect?
Meat sweats are not just on the forehead.
Like, my back is sweating, that's where
I think I'm getting it, in the back area.
We got to expand the analysis for the next round.
- Okay, I'll look very closely at your back in a second.
I don't eat as much
as I did as a younger man.
- It's nice that this has some sauce on it.
- [Rhett] It's a good rib.
- [Link] So the sugar is going to open up my stomach.
- That's also science.
- [Stevie] You guys want to try another cognitive task?
- Sure - We do.
- [Stevie] Okay. This one's very hard, I think.
You're going to say the alphabet backwards.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] You're not going to do it at the same time.
You're gonna do it one at a time. Do I have any volunteers?
- I volunteer him. - Okay. I'll go.
- [Stevie] Okay, on your mark, set, go.
- Z, Y, X, W,
T, S, R, P, O,
N, M, L, K, J, H, I, J,
no, J, K, H, G, F,
E, D, C, B, A.
- [Stevie] Not bad, you missed some.
- I missed like a Q and a V,
- [Stevie] You missed - like the whole Q-V section.
- What matters is that you got through it.
- [Stevie] Yeah, you missed the V, U for sure.
You missed the Q.
Link?
- Okay. - [Stevie] Go.
- Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T,
S, R, Q, P, O, N, M,
L, K, J, I, H,
G, F, E, D, C, B, A?
- [Stevie] Holy crap! You didn't miss any of them.
- I'm a genius! I'm a reverse alphabet genius!
- [Stevie] Honestly, I don't think I could do that.
- I'm definitely getting hotter, guys.
I seriously just hit a new level.
- I'm gonna check you.
If you're feeling it, I'm gonna check you. All right.
Is this a full sweat check and a temp check?
- [Stevie] Yeah, might as well.
- Okay.
(thermometer beep) 98.1.
- Okay, so we've gone up from 97.9.
- [Stevie] Yes.
- What about me? What am I?
- Let me do it. Cause you're not close enough.
(thermometer beeps) 97.9.
- [Stevie] Okay, so Link's gone down.
- But my body is hot. Like, let me see your armpit.
- You're gonna have to get in there.
You're gonna have to get in there with your special tool.
- Is there a cooling effect?
- I mean, it feels hot in there.
Like, heat radiated out of there.
- Here. Look at my...
98.7. - 98.7. I'm hot in here.
- Like, my sweat is in my lower back.
I'm definitely, I mean, I'm feeling sweat.
Where's the sweat?
- I'm clammy for some hammy for sure.
- Put on your goggles, man.
I need you to, certify my...
Oh, wrong way.
Oh gosh.
- We know what you mean.
- Now my stickers busted!
- But you're going to start drying off. We gotta...
- I mean, just touch it.
- No, I want to look at it.
Oh, it's moist.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
- Ew, eugh.
- [Stevie] Wait, you've achieved it!
You've achieved sweats! - I have achieved
lower back meat sweats!
Let me touch your lower back.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
I got 'em! I got 'em. Right there.
Oh, that's a lot of sweat!
- Yup. I need another...
- Hey, check that temperature - [Stevie] Okay, so,
- right there on the middle - [Stevie] is this official?
Cause we need to measure. - This is official, yes
[Stevie] Okay, let's measure the meats.
- 97.3.
[Stevie] - Will you push your meats off to our
meat measurers? And let's establish our meat amounts here.
- I feel like I can keep eating.
- Yeah. Let's bring in more meats
while we're doing the calculation.
(banging)
The meat sweats have only just begun.
- [Stevie] Okay.
We're going to get a little bit bigger here.
These are giant Turkey legs
from Just Turkey LA in West Adams.
(desk pounding) - I love this place because
they literally only serve Turkey.
- Cause it's Just Turkey.
- It's Just Turkey. - It's Just Turkey.
- You're like, what else? Look at the sign, bro.
Just Turkey.
- And you're like, what is this huge leg?
This could be off of any animal.
Is this off of a dinosaur?
No, it's just turkey.
- This is just turkey.
- [Link] Oh my goodness.
- I don't have much of an appetite anymore.
- It's a little tough at this point in the experiment.
You've really slowed your role too.
- Yeah. I feel like when I discovered
that meat sweats were happening.
- I think I caught up with you.
Cause I ate just as much through the steak as you did.
- Okay. Well, we're going to find out exactly
what our thresholds are.
How many ribs did you eat?
- Two and a half.
- Yeah, I ate like four or five.
- [Link] Oh really?
At this point,
I'm starting to feel like I've made a huge mistake.
- Yeah.
I've got some meat regrets on top of my meat sweats.
- [Stevie] Okay guys, we have your meat totals in.
So, in pounds,
how many pounds do you guys think that you ate?
- I'd say two and a half pounds.
- For me, and five for you.
- No, two, no. Five pounds of meat.
Do you understand how many, that would be
like forty quarter pounders.
- If you're saying I ate two and a half pounds.
- I think I did two and a half and you did like, two.
- [Stevie] You're kind of close.
So, Rhett, you did one point nine pounds, so almost two.
And Link, you did one point three five.
So, your percentage of body weight to start the sweats:
Rhett, yours was point nine
and Link yours is point eight three.
- Okay. So I was a little bit higher, but interesting.
Those are pretty close.
I'm no scientist, but I would say that's getting pretty
close to one percent.
So I would say that,
- Is that the magic number?
- If you want to induce meat sweats in yourself,
eat one percent of your body weight in meat
and you'll be there. You'll be beyond the threshold.
- And let me tell you, when you get there, I mean
I was still nibbling on this thing, but
when you get to that point of meat sweats,
it coincides with other things.
Just, like general discomfort.
- Yeah.
- A questioning of your decision-making.
- Yeah.
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