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it's challenge time infographics fans00:00:03
you just won the ultra mega jackpot and00:00:06
after taxes your bank account now reads00:00:08
1 billion dollars but there's a catch00:00:11
you have to spend it all every single00:00:13
cent in one day or you'll lose it and00:00:15
everything you bought with it think you00:00:17
could do it hello and welcome to a00:00:19
special challenge episode of the00:00:21
infographics show spend 1 billion00:00:23
dollars in one day00:00:24
the rules are simple you have to spend00:00:26
every dollar in 24 hours or you have to00:00:28
return everything you bought or spent00:00:31
along with the leftovers for added00:00:33
incentive if you fail the challenge the00:00:35
money goes to an organization dedicated00:00:36
to kickin kittens and 1 billion will buy00:00:39
a lot of innocent kittens to kick so you00:00:41
better not fail you can't give any of00:00:44
the money away as a donation or gift it00:00:46
has to be spent on something that's just00:00:48
for you or perhaps you and a few friends00:00:50
at the max so know copping out by buying00:00:52
the entire infographic show staff 5000:00:55
million dollar gift cards - in and out00:00:57
which of course we know you would do00:00:58
because you love us and in and out is00:01:00
pretty much the best so time to get00:01:03
greedy much like the late and great00:01:05
Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions the00:01:07
clock is ticking and time is running out00:01:09
without further ado here's our purchases00:01:11
think you can do better stay tuned and00:01:13
then give us your list in the comments 100:01:15
naturally the first thing most people00:01:17
are gonna think about is buying a home00:01:19
real estate is a solid investment after00:01:21
all and there's quite a few of very00:01:23
hefty cash sinks that can quickly eat up00:01:25
a billion dollars but why start at a00:01:27
home we've got a billion dollars it's00:01:29
time to think bigger like private island00:01:31
big all the open space you could want00:01:33
no neighbors whatsoever to worry about00:01:35
and no pesky homeowners association00:01:37
telling you to take down your Halloween00:01:39
decorations because it's April Halloween00:01:41
is a year-round celebration or at least00:01:43
it should be and with your own private00:01:45
island it will be the United Arab00:01:48
Emirates offers a wide variety of00:01:49
artificially built islands all for sale00:01:52
and with Al Marjan Island up for grabs00:01:54
at 462 million dollars that's an easy00:01:57
get that takes care of nearly half your00:01:59
budget the island features an airstrip00:02:01
several beaches and power provided from00:02:03
the mainland truly a picturesque and00:02:06
perfect man-made paradise with just one00:02:08
slight catch it's located at the very00:02:10
tip of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian00:02:13
Gulf and if you thought your current neighbors00:02:15
were a pain just imagine having a ran as00:02:17
your next-door neighbor barely 100 miles00:02:19
away with constant threats against00:02:21
shipping in the Persian Gulf from Iran00:02:23
elmer jean island may not be the safest00:02:25
place to live but for now it's a sunny00:02:27
island paradise and next door to00:02:29
beautiful dubai so much like america in00:02:32
the 2016 election we're just gonna go00:02:34
with it what's the worst that could00:02:35
happen that takes care of 462 million00:02:38
dollars and leaves us with 538 million00:02:41
to go to we just bought a private island00:02:44
in a potential war zone so naturally the00:02:47
next thing we need to do is make sure00:02:49
our little slice of heaven is well00:02:51
protected normal security isn't gonna cut it00:02:53
though after all you have an entire00:02:55
island to defend against one of the00:02:57
region's most formidable militaries it's00:02:59
time to hire the best or at least the00:03:01
most controversial and brutal it's time00:03:03
for Blackwater made notorious after00:03:05
reports of their cowboy attitude and00:03:07
disregard for civilian collateral damage00:03:09
during their involvement in Iraq00:03:10
Blackwater security changed its name to00:03:13
Academy which we guessed sounds less00:03:15
thuggish well at 1200 $22 a day these00:03:19
guys aren't going to be sitting around00:03:21
reading books but to defend an island00:03:23
the size of El Marjan you're gonna need00:03:25
at least let's say two platoons of hired00:03:27
killers or 60 mercenaries total that00:03:30
brings total cost to about 73 thousand00:03:33
dollars per day or 2 million per month00:03:35
worth with potentially two years left in00:03:37
Donald Trump's presidency and a possible00:03:39
reelection after that let's go ahead and00:03:41
secure a six-year contract to make our00:03:43
new home safe which brings the total to00:03:45
158 million dollars but hey you can't00:03:48
put a price on safety and you'll be00:03:50
keeping Blackwater employees too busy to00:03:52
be shooting innocent civilians which is00:03:54
borderline charity but we'll let this00:03:56
one pass that brings our total expenses00:03:58
to 620 million dollars leaving us with00:04:01
380 million 3 we've got our own island00:04:05
and we've got our own bloodthirsty crew00:04:07
of hired mercenaries to stop anyone from00:04:09
getting on that island we don't want00:04:11
there now it's time to build a home00:04:12
somewhere modest and cozy where we can00:04:15
lay our head after a long day being00:04:17
grateful war with Iran hasn't broken out00:04:19
yet maybe something like the Playboy00:04:21
Mansion sadly if you're a fan of the00:04:23
late Hefner's his home is already sold00:04:25
for 10000:04:26
million dollars which was half the00:04:27
original asking price but why not just00:04:30
build your own current construction00:04:32
costs in Dubai range from 6500 to 800000:04:36
amarante Durham's per square foot which00:04:38
is about seventeen hundred seventy00:04:39
dollars to 2178 us let's say you wanted00:04:43
to recreate the Playboy Mansion on your00:04:45
new Island we're pretty sure homes00:04:46
aren't copyrighted just how much would00:04:48
that cost00:04:49
the original bunny house is 20,00000:04:51
square feet and let's say you do like00:04:54
most builders in Dubai and use cheap00:04:56
foreign labor from East Asia whom you00:04:58
pay slave wages to while treating them00:05:00
like actual slaves including stealing00:05:02
their passports and threatening to00:05:04
imprison them if they complain about00:05:05
working 12 plus hours and 120 degree00:05:08
heat so let's go with the low-end00:05:10
estimate of 6500 Durham's per square00:05:13
footage or $1,770 u.s. that's gonna cost00:05:16
you a whopping thirty five million four00:05:19
hundred dollars for your own Hugh Hefner00:05:21
dicks but who can put a price on a home00:05:23
that brings our new total to six hundred00:05:25
fifty five million four hundred thousand00:05:27
leaving us with three hundred forty four00:05:29
million six hundred thousand four we're00:05:32
gonna need a way to get to our fancy new00:05:34
digs all the way in Dubai so we'll be00:05:36
skipping that fancy car remember how our00:05:38
island came with a private landing strip00:05:41
that's right it's time to buy our own00:05:43
jet but not just any jet we want a jet00:05:46
with class style and some history behind00:05:48
it so we're gonna buy Donald Trump's00:05:50
Boeing 757 selling at 100 million00:05:53
dollars while a regular Boeing 757 can00:05:56
fit 200 normals Trump has had his00:05:59
refurbished to accommodate only 23 human00:06:01
beings who fly through the air in the00:06:03
lap of gold encrusted luxury with two00:06:05
bedrooms which will be immediately00:06:07
sanitizing a private guest room also00:06:10
sanitizing a dining room and a video00:06:12
room with a built-in cinema system00:06:14
you'll be getting to your island home in00:06:16
absolute style flying ain't cheap though00:06:19
and Trump's operating costs used to run00:06:21
at ten thousand eight hundred dollars00:06:23
per flight power which includes crew and00:06:25
fuel so to make sure you can keep your00:06:27
jet operational let's go ahead and00:06:28
contract out enough fuel and crew to00:06:30
last at least 300 flight hours for a00:06:33
total cost of three million two hundred00:06:35
forty thousand dollars combined with the00:06:37
100 million00:06:38
price tag that brings the total cost to00:06:41
103 million $240,000 making our new00:06:45
total expenses 824 million 180,000 and00:06:49
leaving us with 175 million eight00:06:52
hundred twenty thousand five flying is00:06:54
nice but we feel it call for the open00:06:57
seats and you're not really ultra rich00:06:59
until you own a yacht right00:07:01
unfortunately with only 175 million left00:07:04
we can't afford one of the world's top00:07:06
10 most expensive yachts but after our00:07:08
purchase of trumps old mile-high club00:07:10
airliner we're pretty much done with00:07:12
buying used it's time to buy new00:07:14
performs building a yacht used to cost00:07:16
about 1000 per meter 100 years ago but00:07:19
that price is now ballooned to a00:07:21
whopping 1 million dollars per meter00:07:23
then of course there's a cost of crew00:07:26
and fuel so let's go with a more00:07:27
conservative approach and buy ourselves00:07:29
a 170 meter yeah which is about 1500:07:33
meters longer than an American Aegis00:07:35
destroyer that brings us to a 17000:07:38
million dollar price tag but our fancy00:07:40
new yacht the SS info graphics isn't00:07:42
going to go anywhere without crew00:07:44
insurance and fuel annual fuel costs for00:07:47
a super yacht run about four hundred00:07:49
thousand dollars with 350,000 in dockage00:07:52
fees if you choose to dock your yacht in00:07:54
foreign ports 240,000 for insurance 100:07:57
million for maintenance 1.4 million for00:07:59
crew salaries that brings us to three00:08:02
point three nine million bringing our00:08:04
total cost to 173 million three hundred00:08:07
ninety thousand that brings our total00:08:09
expenses so far to nine hundred ninety00:08:12
seven million five hundred seventy00:08:14
thousand that leaves us with just barely00:08:16
three and a half million dollars which00:08:17
lucky for us is enough to top off our00:08:19
shopping spree with the perfect gift for00:08:21
that special someone we'll be sharing00:08:23
our heavily fortified island home with a00:08:25
three and a half million dollar diamond00:08:27
engagement ring from Cartier jewelers or00:08:30
maybe we'll just keep it for ourselves00:08:31
don't judge us we like to feel pretty00:08:33
too00:08:36
we're vac at it again subjecting one of00:08:38
our staff writers to your most pressing00:08:40
questions and this time it's one that's00:08:42
been asked hundreds of times what00:08:44
happens when you don't sleep for a week00:08:46
during our preliminary research we00:08:48
discovered that the effects of complete00:08:50
sleep deprivation can be pretty severe00:08:52
so instead of complete no sleep we're00:08:54
letting our writer in guinea pig get00:08:55
three hours of sleep every day well00:08:57
below the recommended eight hours of00:08:59
sleep at night every person should get00:09:01
ever wonder what lack of sleep does to00:09:03
the body according to the American00:09:05
Psychological Association only 20% of00:09:07
adults get a good quality sleep each00:09:09
night yet to 1942 only 8% of people00:09:12
reported getting only six hours or fewer00:09:14
of sleep at night but in 2017 almost 50%00:09:17
of Americans are getting less than eight00:09:19
hours of sleep clearly we have a serious00:09:21
problem in our society but how badly is00:09:23
it affecting us day one 10:00 a.m. today00:09:26
I start the no sleep one week challenge00:09:28
or if little sleep I suppose since no00:09:30
sleep can be pretty dangerous even00:09:32
outright fatal during my preparation for00:09:34
the challenge I read about American and00:09:36
Soviet sleep deprivation interrogation00:09:38
techniques where CIA and Soviet gulag00:09:40
prisoners would be sleep deprived for00:09:42
days on end in order to break down a00:09:44
tough prisoner's mental defenses and00:09:46
extract critical information00:09:47
apparently the brain can be so badly00:09:49
affected however that information can be00:09:51
unreliable or just completely made-up00:09:53
which kind of begs the question of just00:09:55
how effective these techniques really00:09:57
are I guess I'll find out in order to00:09:58
test the effectiveness of CIA and Soviet00:10:01
sleep deprivation interrogation00:10:02
techniques I've struck a deal with my00:10:04
girlfriend I will hide her laptop00:10:05
somewhere and she has until day 7 to00:10:08
extract the location from me without the00:10:10
laptop she won't be able to watch00:10:11
Netflix or mess with her Pinterest and00:10:13
she hates doing work emails from her00:10:15
phone because the screen is so small so00:10:17
she has a huge incentive to try to get00:10:18
me to break I guess we'll see if she can00:10:20
10:00 p.m. last night I had a full00:10:22
night's sleep so I'm not feeling too00:10:24
rough it's about 10 p.m. now and I'm00:10:26
tired but I've definitely done longer00:10:28
stints without sleep during my years in00:10:29
the military working on my laptop and00:10:31
girlfriend asked if she could borrow it00:10:33
but I told her that that would violate00:10:34
the terms of our challenge she rolled00:10:36
her eyes and started watching Netflix on00:10:38
her phone I'm not noticing any side00:10:39
effects so far but it's going to be a00:10:41
tough to stay awake when nobody else is00:10:43
up I downloaded a few ps1 games to play00:10:45
through the night in00:10:46
busy day to 10:00 a.m. slept my three00:10:49
hours then I woke up with girlfriend was00:10:51
getting ready for work00:10:52
waking up was pretty tough but again00:10:54
nothing I haven't experienced before I'm00:10:56
not really hungry though and haven't00:10:57
eaten yet and I remember this is a00:10:59
symptom of not sleeping from my time in00:11:01
the military we used to take adderall to00:11:03
power through days and days of little00:11:04
sleep it's basically a nymphet amine and00:11:06
jolt your system awake by giving you ton00:11:08
of energy but the side effects are00:11:09
pretty terrible this time there's no00:11:11
adderall for cheat wit but from what00:11:12
I've read the symptoms of no sleep may00:11:14
be just as bad yes we'll see 10 p.m. I00:11:16
wasn't that tired last night but this00:11:18
time I'm really tired I brought in a00:11:20
patio chair to sit on because I'm afraid00:11:22
that if I sit on the couch or lay in bed00:11:23
for too long a fall asleep in the00:11:25
military it was easier not to sleep if00:11:27
you were active it had something to do00:11:28
but with nothing really to do it's a lot00:11:31
harder I took dog for a million walks today and00:11:33
will probably take him on at least two00:11:35
more tonight just to be back tit00:11:37
girlfriend asked me where the laptop was00:11:38
didn't tell her not writing here either00:11:40
just in case she steals my laptop when00:11:42
I'm not looking I think watching YouTube00:11:43
and Netflix on her phone is getting to00:11:45
her more than my lack of sleep is00:11:47
getting to me research I read up on says00:11:49
that one of the first effects of sleep00:11:50
deprivation is the inability to show00:11:52
positive emotion on the face even happy00:11:54
people can't show it on their face with00:11:55
a smile ask my girlfriend if she felt00:11:57
that I was being this way and she said I00:11:59
laughed less and don't smile as much but00:12:01
I just seemed normal just really tired00:12:02
research also said I'd creep junk food00:12:05
as the body looks for sources of energy00:12:06
to keep itself going that's definitely00:12:08
true I drank one of those huge 16-ounce00:12:10
cokes a little bit ago and will probably00:12:12
drink another later tonight to help me00:12:14
stay up sorry washboard abs you're gonna have to00:12:16
wait at least one more week day 3:1000:12:18
a.m. I woke up after three hours and it00:12:20
literally felt like I had just gone to00:12:22
sleep a moment ago I can't describe how00:12:24
tired I am not hungry at all00:12:26
going to try to keep busy today working00:12:27
on other scripts to pass the time 1000:12:29
p.m. definitely an advantage to have00:12:31
something to keep you physically active00:12:33
and alert like in the military as00:12:34
opposed to just doing nothing try to00:12:36
keep occupied with video games but the00:12:38
action is getting harder to track try to00:12:39
work on scripts to pass the time but00:12:41
just too hard to concentrate you've been00:12:43
zoning out a lot missed an entire00:12:44
conversation after girlfriend came home00:12:46
from work research says this is the00:12:48
brain trying to force rest period even00:12:50
with your eyes open you literally just00:12:52
check out mentally it's called micro00:12:53
sleeps and is supposed to happen less00:12:55
than 30 seconds pretty sure I micro00:12:57
slept for a full 500:12:58
minute conversation girlfriend grilled00:13:00
me about her laptop didn't tell her00:13:02
she'll never break me day for 10 a.m. I00:13:04
feel like I haven't eaten in a long time00:13:06
but I'm hungry girlfriend brought me a00:13:08
bunch of nutrition bars yesterday00:13:10
because I haven't been eating much00:13:11
regular food she left it all over the00:13:13
house so there's always one in reach00:13:14
sometimes I eat one and then forget I00:13:17
just ate one and then reach for one only00:13:19
to find the empty wrapper and I realize00:13:21
I just ate one I think that last00:13:22
sentence makes sense getting harder to00:13:24
concentrate but trying hard girlfriend00:13:26
had to shake me awake when the alarm00:13:28
rang after three hours she said she's00:13:29
concerned and thinks is stupid and she's00:13:32
not gonna wake me up again so I have to00:13:33
set three alarms just to make sure I00:13:35
wake up 10 p.m. I feel physically ill00:13:37
like nauseous all the time I walked the00:13:40
dog earlier and zoned out for I don't00:13:42
know how long guess I'm micros left in the middle of00:13:44
the sidewalk definitely not smiling or00:13:46
laughing much also making a lot of00:13:48
spelling errors in this document hard to00:13:50
concentrate research says lack of sleep00:13:52
increases stress hormones because the00:13:54
brain can't rest and balance out your00:13:55
hormone levels00:13:56
I definitely feel stressed girlfriend00:13:58
asked if I was ready to tell her where00:13:59
her laptop was didn't tell her she said00:14:01
my job is dumb and I'm dumb and that she00:14:04
doesn't really need her stupid laptop00:14:05
anyways and went to sleep day 5 10 a.m.00:14:08
back in military days when we used to go00:14:10
with little sleep for days00:14:12
there was a point you hit where you00:14:13
weren't really tired anymore even though00:14:15
your body was exhausted like your brain00:14:17
tricking your body I feel like that a00:14:19
lot now research says that your brain00:14:21
comes down when you don't sleep I have00:14:23
to agree to test myself I tried to do a00:14:25
math quiz online and did horrible I00:14:27
don't even feel like trying to write00:14:28
today 10:00 p.m. girlfriend asked for a00:14:31
laptop a bunch didn't tell her she said00:14:33
no sex then joke's on her research says00:14:35
you lose your sex drive without sleep00:14:37
because your hormones are out of balance00:14:38
and lack energy it's a Mexican standoff00:14:41
but she's got no bullets in your gun00:14:43
I went day six 10:00 a.m. today is00:14:45
Saturday but I forgot I only realized00:14:47
because girlfriend didn't go to work00:14:49
today00:14:50
days sometimes blur together because I00:14:51
don't have the regular nine-to-five job00:14:53
but definitely affected by lack of sleep00:14:55
typically go somewhere on Saturdays but00:14:57
no energy to do anything really trying00:14:59
hard not asleep played all the Final00:15:01
Fantasy 7 this week to keep busy great00:15:03
game but guess what six is better you00:15:05
could suck an Internet but seven is00:15:07
inferior to sick00:15:08
10:00 p.m. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep00:15:11
a few times today but don't remember00:15:12
girlfriend insists I did it so either00:15:15
memory is completely falling apart or I00:15:16
slept with my eyes open research says00:15:19
that severe lack of sleep disrupts the00:15:20
brain's ability to form memories00:15:22
properly coupled with poor nutrition00:15:24
this could cause serious memory problems00:15:26
and definitely have not been eating00:15:27
right too much junk food but I guess00:15:29
like research said just the body trying00:15:31
to energize really hard to type these00:15:33
entries keep making a lot of mistakes00:15:35
and having to rewrite plus sentences00:15:37
that don't make sense I had to start00:15:39
sending alarms every 30 minutes on my00:15:40
phone to make sure I didn't fall asleep00:15:42
accidentally girlfriend also tried to00:15:44
get the location of laptop from me00:15:45
driving her nuts to not have it00:15:47
specifically since it's the weekend she00:15:49
warned me that experiment ends in one00:15:51
day but lack of sex could last much00:15:53
longer if I didn't tell her not even the00:15:55
CIA is as evil as she is they should put00:15:57
her in charge of interrogating00:15:58
terrorists day 7 1:00 p.m. I don't know00:16:01
when I fell asleep last night but I woke00:16:03
up 10 minutes ago00:16:04
definitely overslept the three hour00:16:06
length when I woke up girlfriend was on00:16:07
her laptop and when I asked her how she00:16:09
found it she just kept smiling and00:16:11
saying she got me I honestly don't00:16:13
remember telling her but no way she00:16:15
found it on her own I'm not convinced00:16:16
she didn't borrow a laptop that just00:16:18
looks like hers so I would do my entry00:16:20
in right here where a hit a real laptop00:16:22
after I fall back asleep research says00:16:24
that's paranoia lack of rest rewires the00:16:27
brain and makes the irrational seem00:16:29
rational screwed up with the sleep but00:16:31
going to try to stay up anyway 10:0000:16:32
p.m. I feel like I could stay at more00:16:34
but I'm not going to all day have been00:16:36
spacing out really hard to concentrate00:16:38
on writing entries but not as a rational00:16:40
or hard as I found it would be at the00:16:42
start keep reading and rereading00:16:43
sentences and hoping they make sense00:16:45
though Vince Ian thinks the last two00:16:47
days like shadows moving in the corner00:16:49
of my eye research says extreme lack of00:16:51
sleep leads to hallucinations and I00:16:53
agree we'll be sitting by myself and00:16:54
suddenly think I saw a figure moving at00:16:56
the edge of my vision these also have00:16:58
been given out on me and almost fell00:17:00
twice today from absolute exhaustion I00:17:02
think I may be accidentally told girl00:17:04
from where the laptop was but forgot00:17:06
that I did that research says that it00:17:08
can happen with prisoners they give up00:17:09
info and have no memory of it or they00:17:11
make up false info because their brains00:17:13
are scrambled but maybe she just00:17:15
borrowed the laptop still trying to make00:17:17
me think I gave up the location00:17:19
so I'll just say or write down where00:17:20
real one is she did show me pictures on00:17:23
it though and her login that's pretty00:17:25
convincing but I thought what if she00:17:27
just downloaded the pics and set it all00:17:29
up that's definitely paranoia so I think00:17:31
I'm going to officially call it here00:17:33
dear Internet a week without sleep makes00:17:35
you grumpy paranoid makes you want junk00:17:37
food but not normal food kills your sex00:17:39
drive makes you fall asleep with your00:17:41
eyes open and annoys your girlfriend so00:17:43
don't do it00:17:44
and final fantasy 6 is still better than00:17:46
700:17:48
hello infographics fans once more we're00:17:51
here to answer the most pressing00:17:53
questions in life and the questions you00:17:55
are most curious about this time we're00:17:57
tackling on the fashion industry or at00:17:59
least one small part of it and asking00:18:02
what exactly happens if you don't wear00:18:04
underwear for a month to help answer00:18:06
this question we're once more turning to00:18:08
our favorite staff writer who so bravely00:18:10
took on this challenge because we told00:18:12
them to I mean because he too is a brave00:18:14
pioneer of science always seeking to00:18:17
answer the unknown for your educational00:18:19
pleasure so stay tuned as we see what00:18:21
happens if you go commando for a month00:18:23
for science day one I stared in my inbox00:18:26
for a full 30 seconds when I got the00:18:28
notification for this next challenge I00:18:29
don't think I quite knew how to respond00:18:31
girlfriend immediately realized00:18:33
something was up she knows about what00:18:35
time I set up to start doing work stuff00:18:37
and when she saw my face she must have00:18:39
realized it was another challenge00:18:40
episode she narrowed her eyes and00:18:42
practically growled what is it this time00:18:44
she's like a freaking bloodhound to that00:18:46
one when I told her though she just00:18:48
laughed and she got really serious for a00:18:49
second and said I wish I'd lied to my00:18:51
parents about what you did for a living00:18:53
honestly sometimes I do too00:18:55
no underwear for a month who comes up00:18:56
with these are these fan suggestions can00:18:59
you guys please suggest what happens if00:19:00
I go on a tropical vacation for a month00:19:02
so the show will send me to Hawaii so00:19:05
this one seems easy enough except I know00:19:07
better I used to go commando a lot in00:19:09
the military especially during my time00:19:10
in the desert because the temperature00:19:12
routinely got up over 100 degrees at00:19:14
those temps you sweat so much down there00:19:16
that it's unbearable so I opted to go00:19:18
underwear free and let me tell you it00:19:20
felt amazing turns out your body is00:19:22
pretty good at regulating the00:19:24
temperature of your testicles so as to00:19:25
keep the sperm safe and healthy that's00:19:27
the primary reason for why testicles00:19:29
evolved to be on the outside of most00:19:31
mammals which admittedly seemed like a00:19:33
huge oversight on mother nature's part00:19:35
until I learned that fact but having00:19:37
them be a few degrees cooler than the00:19:38
rest of your body when you're wearing00:19:40
body armor and all kinds of extra gear00:19:42
is amazing except for when you have to00:19:44
suddenly hit the deck because somebody00:19:46
decided to start shooting that's when00:19:48
not wearing underwear was definitely not00:19:50
a pleasant experience sometimes see00:19:52
desert camo pants are made of pretty00:19:54
thin material and dropping your chicken00:19:56
tenders down onto some very stiff00:19:58
dried-up grass or prickly plants00:20:00
definitely made you wish you stayed00:20:02
standing and risked a bullet not to00:20:03
mention if you ever dropped onto a00:20:05
scorpion which are not as deadly as00:20:07
people think but their stings pack a00:20:09
wallop it never happened to me but I00:20:10
heard stories and they terrified me but00:20:13
that heat I stand by my decision even if00:20:16
strangely my greatest fear about ending00:20:18
up hurt was having one of those medics00:20:20
cut my uniform off in order to treat me00:20:22
and finding out I'm going full Scottish00:20:24
that myth by the way about the Scottish00:20:26
not wearing underwear under their kilts00:20:27
is exactly that a modern myth that00:20:29
enough people started believing that00:20:31
some kilt wearing blokes actually tried00:20:33
to make true historically speaking the00:20:35
Scots always wore underwear under their00:20:37
kilts and some royal courts even had00:20:39
glass floor so that the King er00:20:40
commander could make sure his troops00:20:42
were properly equipped funny I guessed00:20:44
some poor Scottish sap had the same idea00:20:46
I did about the comforts of going all00:20:48
Free Willy00:20:49
well onto the challenge I guess as usual00:20:51
I'll update periodically with any00:20:53
observations this should be interesting00:20:55
day 7 one week without underwear and00:20:58
well laundry is definitely easier the00:21:01
girlfriend keeps being suspicious as if00:21:03
there's some part of this challenge I00:21:04
haven't let her in on yet I guess I00:21:06
don't blame her she's definitely seen me00:21:07
go through hell for these and I guess00:21:09
she suffered a bit too for it at least00:21:11
this one doesn't seem to be directly00:21:13
affecting her this time so she's ok with00:21:15
the quote my stupid job for a change one00:21:17
thing I've noticed is like I said less00:21:20
laundry that's nice I guess although I00:21:22
never end up folding the underwear00:21:23
anyways because it seems pointless and00:21:25
just tossing the drawer this drives the00:21:27
girlfriend absolutely nuts and is the00:21:29
reason we have separate dressers now I00:21:31
do seem sweaty err though which is weird00:21:33
because I'm wearing less clothes I think00:21:36
maybe that it's not that I'm sweaty err00:21:38
but the freedom of curling experiencing00:21:40
is making me more aware of sweating that00:21:42
naturally occurs I get nice laughs of00:21:44
fresh air down there when walking around00:21:46
which by the way it's amazing and it00:21:48
makes me realise I'm sweaty with00:21:50
underwear you don't really get that it's00:21:52
definitely made me rethink any time in00:21:54
the past that I've decided that postpone00:21:56
a shower day 14 so this Friday I had a00:21:59
flashback to high school and have00:22:01
rediscovered why underwear is a secret00:22:03
blessing I would like all the guys in00:22:05
the audience to think back to their00:22:07
awkward teenage years and all the very00:22:10
sudden and very unwelcome00:22:12
excitements that occurred with very00:22:15
little haunting thankfully though underwear00:22:17
fits snugly and it helps reign in your00:22:19
SpongeBob and Squidward and make sure00:22:21
that your condition isn't publicly00:22:23
visible while the girlfriend must have00:22:25
been thinking about this too and decided00:22:27
to be a freakin comedian we went to a00:22:29
friend's house for game night as we00:22:30
usually do and as I was in the kitchen00:22:32
grabbing something she slid up next to00:22:34
me and whispered some things in my ear00:22:36
that I won't repeat here then started00:22:38
giggling00:22:39
a moment later our entire group of00:22:41
friends entered the kitchen and I had to00:22:43
suddenly be very very very interested in00:22:46
the contents of the cabinet directly00:22:48
behind me so I could keep my front wheel00:22:50
out of sight as I fought to reclaim00:22:52
control over my excited Master Chief I00:22:54
stood there awkwardly with my back to my00:22:56
friends as I forced myself to think00:22:58
about every unsexy thought I could my00:23:01
girlfriend is an evil genius and it00:23:03
scares me that I think that fact makes00:23:05
me more attracted to her not less day 2100:23:07
so I don't know if I have PTSD00:23:10
flashbacks to that Friday a week ago or00:23:12
if being free has sensitized me somehow00:23:15
but definitely having a problem with00:23:17
random stimulus packages girlfriend00:23:19
tried to pull her little stunt again and00:23:21
I had to strike a very very harsh00:23:22
bargain in order to get her to stop this00:23:24
is a very serious situation basically00:23:27
I'm making dinner and doing most chores00:23:28
until this is over for once I think00:23:30
she's actually happy for a challenge00:23:32
episode I've noticed that I've been00:23:34
wearing a lot less jeans lately and have00:23:36
been hanging out in sweatpants most of00:23:38
the time went at home even though I00:23:39
worked from home I still try to dress00:23:41
normal helps make sure you don't get00:23:43
stuck in a slovenly rut but I've been00:23:45
avoiding jeans the harsh material is00:23:47
definitely not pleasant when you're00:23:49
going commando and I've been having00:23:51
panic attacks after using the bathroom00:23:52
remembering the one time as a kid that I00:23:55
accidentally zipped up my Woody Allen00:23:57
let me tell you that's a pain you only00:23:59
need once in life and every time I go to00:24:02
the bathroom I am more careful than I've00:24:04
ever been in my life about zipping up00:24:06
since this challenge began my military00:24:08
uniform had buttons not a zipper so it00:24:10
was never an issue in the past now it's00:24:13
a clear and present danger day 30 it's00:24:16
over or at least it will be in a few00:24:18
hours honestly not wearing underwear for a00:24:20
month reminded me a lot of what it was00:24:21
like to be a teenager and I feel like00:24:23
the lack of protection has definitely00:24:25
sensitized me downstairs I kind of think00:24:28
I'm going to keep doing this when I'm00:24:29
home alone and in sweatpants it's00:24:31
actually quite nice man was born to be00:24:33
free after all but in public I00:24:35
definitely have to warn you wear00:24:37
underwear especially if your girlfriend00:24:39
knows you're not and is as evil and00:24:41
malicious as mine and loves to publicly00:24:43
humiliate you again it scares me that I00:24:46
think I love her more for that than not00:24:48
now that your questions have been00:24:49
answered dear YouTube do me a favor and00:24:52
suggest a new challenge what if you00:24:54
vacation to Hawaii for a month00:24:56
hello infographics fans it's time for00:24:59
another awesome challenge all in the00:25:02
name of science we're concerned with00:25:04
your hygiene because we hate to break it00:25:06
to you but despite all the go natural00:25:08
fads out there you should definitely be00:25:10
taking time to give yourself a good00:25:11
scrub once in a while as usual though we00:25:14
want to find out what happens to your00:25:16
body and mind over the long term so once00:25:19
more we're tasking our favorite or least00:25:21
important anyway staff writer with00:25:23
another awesome challenge all in the00:25:25
name of finding out what happens if you00:25:27
stop showering for a month for science00:25:30
day one okay I have a confession I00:25:32
didn't tell the girlfriend about this00:25:34
challenge because I'm 100% sure that00:25:37
would not go down well at all00:25:38
hygiene is kind of important in a00:25:40
relationship especially when you share a00:25:42
bed in are as physically active as we00:25:44
are but also there's the fact that she's00:25:46
been less than happy with previous00:25:48
challenges that wouldn't be putting it00:25:50
mildly also though there's the fact that00:25:52
she's leaving for a film shoot in four00:25:54
days and she's going to be on location00:25:56
for the next three weeks so she's going00:25:58
to pretty much miss the entire challenge00:26:00
this literally couldn't have played out00:26:02
any better I think she's been getting00:26:04
suspicious though typically I get a few00:26:06
weeks between these challenge00:26:07
assignments to rest and recoup and also00:26:09
because if I didn't I'm pretty sure my00:26:11
girlfriend would single-handedly destroy00:26:13
everyone in the infographic staff she's00:26:15
a trained stunt woman and Ken Fox she's00:26:18
kind of scary00:26:19
anyway she knows that right around now00:26:21
is when I should be getting a new00:26:23
challenge assigned and I think she's00:26:25
suspicious that I haven't brought00:26:26
anything up yet maybe I'll just tell her00:26:28
there's a production delay or something00:26:30
by the way if you're wondering we00:26:31
obviously don't do these challenges all00:26:33
back-to-back in real time by the time00:26:35
you get to watch these episodes the00:26:37
challenges were already completed a00:26:38
while ago to give us or me00:26:40
yes time to do more so I'm just not00:26:43
gonna say anything until she gets back00:26:45
which will be about the time the00:26:47
challenge is over as usual I did my00:26:49
research and it turns out not showering00:26:50
can lead to everything from acne to00:26:52
infections but turns out that showering00:26:55
all the time is actually pretty bad for00:26:56
you as well that's because your body00:26:58
naturally produces a layer of protection00:27:00
on your skin against outside infection00:27:02
and all your vigorous scrubbing destroys00:27:05
this layer and leaves you prone to00:27:06
getting sick or infections that's why00:27:08
some health shops sell probiotic sprays00:27:10
to help you grow your healthy body00:27:12
bacteria while making you smell nice00:27:14
which by the way is complete nonsense00:27:16
and does not work so stick to real00:27:18
science not pseudoscience it'll be00:27:20
cheaper in the long run just limit how00:27:22
long you shower each day and instead of00:27:24
scrubbing your entire body with soap00:27:26
every time just do your stinkiest areas00:27:28
growing armpits and butt and rinse off00:27:31
the rest with water your body will thank00:27:32
you of course I won't be allowed to do00:27:35
even that much and I'm not looking00:27:37
forward to this see I've already done00:27:39
the no shower challenge in my life00:27:40
during my time in the military and it00:27:42
was absolutely not pretty luckily00:27:45
everybody was in on it as well so00:27:47
everyone stank equally in fact we pretty00:27:49
much just smelled like gunpowder dirt00:27:51
and sweat though we did sometimes have00:27:53
the opportunity to take what we call00:27:55
baby wipe showers where we used a case00:27:57
of baby wipes to wipe down our vital00:27:59
areas by the way if you know anyone00:28:01
deployed overseas to a forward location00:28:03
with no facilities forget about sending00:28:05
cookies or books or anything like that00:28:07
just send baby wipes00:28:09
you are very smelly and grateful00:28:11
military will thank you for it so I00:28:13
worked a baby shower claws into this00:28:15
challenge and every three days I'll be00:28:17
allowed to wipe groin butt and armpits00:28:19
with baby wipes because I mean you gotta00:28:21
have some hygiene in life for the rest00:28:24
of me though not a drop of water will00:28:25
touch my skin and since it hardly ever00:28:27
rains in Los Angeles that's a guarantee00:28:29
you can count on see you in seven days00:28:32
YouTube day 7 the girlfriend was00:28:34
definitely suspicious is suspicious I00:28:37
should say she left without asking what00:28:39
if any challenge there was now but she00:28:41
did say that I was smelling a bit ripe00:28:43
when she kissed me goodbye at the00:28:44
airport she's been texting me asking00:28:46
what the challenge is and I didn't want00:28:48
to lie to her so I just told her that00:28:49
she didn't want to know thankfully she's00:28:51
filming 12 plus hours a day00:28:53
so she's typically too exhausted to push00:28:55
the issue it won't surprise anyone for00:28:58
me to say this but I smell it's00:29:00
interesting though because at first you00:29:01
really do smell quite bad but then00:29:03
suddenly it's like your body achieves00:29:05
some sort of smell equilibrium a smelly00:29:08
briam or maybe I've just gotten used to00:29:10
the smell myself I've decided that this00:29:12
month the only days of exercise are the00:29:14
days I'm allowed to take a baby wipe00:29:15
shower and I realize that's kind of00:29:17
cheating but hey I still do have to00:29:20
leave the house and run errands or meet00:29:21
with people you know of course deodorant00:29:23
and Cologne go a long way in those cases00:29:25
and have definitely been doing more00:29:27
handshakes than hugs lately not much00:29:29
else to report to be honest day 14 my00:29:32
girlfriend's best friend came by the00:29:34
house today quite unexpectedly she said00:29:37
that she was here to borrow something00:29:38
from her but was really vague with the00:29:40
details and just said that she'd been00:29:42
told it was in the hallway closet I was00:29:44
immediately suspicious because a my00:29:47
girlfriend is an evil mastermind and it00:29:49
doesn't matter how busy or faraway she00:29:51
is if something is up she has to know00:29:53
what and be my girlfriend really is an00:29:55
evil mastermind I'm not joking I saw00:29:57
through the transparent ploy and it00:29:59
didn't help that the friend kept looking00:30:01
around the house as if expecting to find00:30:03
some freak show that was part of some00:30:04
sadistic internet challenge I'm also00:30:06
lucky that today was a baby wipe shower00:30:09
day so my secret is safe I sent the girl00:30:11
friend a text telling her to stop spying00:30:13
on me and she just sent back at I quote00:30:15
suspicious face emoji I catch whiffs of00:30:18
myself sometimes when the wind turns00:30:20
outside and I smell I mean definitely00:30:22
not good but not awful I am incredibly00:30:25
itchy though especially in the groin00:30:27
that's no surprise given that sweat00:30:29
tends to accumulate there a great deal00:30:31
followed by infection if you're not00:30:33
careful I wonder if my baby wipe showers00:30:35
are going to be enough to keep things00:30:36
under control down there I got to tell00:30:38
you I'm feeling pretty gross and really00:30:40
limiting the amount of time I spend out00:30:42
of a house00:30:43
luckily Skype is a thing and I can00:30:44
reschedule almost all of my meetings to00:30:46
Skype calls Thank You Technology day 2100:30:49
another of girlfriends friends came by00:30:51
the apartment two days ago I didn't let00:30:53
her in I just peered out of the front00:30:54
blinds like some very smelly criminal as00:30:56
she knocked on the door until she quit00:30:58
and walked away even hundreds of miles00:31:00
away the girlfriend is persistent but00:31:02
not nearly sneaky enough okay this is00:31:05
bad I definitely got a rat00:31:07
in my groin areas spreading down my00:31:08
thighs and I'm starting to seriously00:31:10
question continuing with this challenge00:31:12
I know it's not a big deal just really00:31:14
itchy but it's definitely extremely00:31:17
gross I can't believe that people00:31:18
actually live like this by choice Emmy I00:31:21
miss you my dear wonderful shower I was00:31:24
a fool for years never appreciating what00:31:26
had been available to me at the twist of00:31:28
a knob loss was my cruel teacher and00:31:30
every day since I've been instructed on00:31:32
how good I had it how good you were to00:31:34
me and how little I appreciated it00:31:36
please forgive me shower I promise to00:31:38
appreciate and adore you and to rinse00:31:40
your soap scum every day I think I smell00:31:43
too bad even for the dog because he's00:31:45
definitely not been cuddling up to me00:31:47
the way he does it now that's a pretty00:31:49
damning turn of events coming from an00:31:51
animal who literally can't stop himself00:31:53
from smelling dog butts the first chance00:31:56
he gets of course he doesn't smell like00:31:57
a rose either because he's an absolute00:32:00
maniac around water and will utterly00:32:02
destroy the bathroom unless you00:32:03
physically put him in the shower with00:32:04
you close the doors and bathe him that00:32:06
way so it turns out this one month no00:32:09
shower challenge was for both of us but00:32:11
unlike me I know for a fact he likes to00:32:13
smell stinky given many many times I've00:32:15
had to chase him away from rolling00:32:17
around in god knows what at the park00:32:19
this rash thing though definitely is00:32:21
gonna have to be addressed and luckily I00:32:23
know exactly what to do see my time in00:32:25
the military didn't just teach me about00:32:26
not showering but what to do in these00:32:28
situations and the answer is rubbing00:32:30
alcohol it burns like all the seven00:32:32
hells but wiping down with rubbing00:32:34
alcohol destroys the surface layer00:32:35
infection which causes the rash so00:32:38
tonight I'm gonna set my groin on fire00:32:39
and kill this before it gets any worse I00:32:41
really really hope you appreciate what I00:32:44
do for you YouTube day 30 the girlfriend00:32:46
came home two days ago and I finally had00:32:48
to tell her though to be honest I think00:32:50
she probably knew the moment she took00:32:51
her first whiff of me I've been banned00:32:53
from sleeping in the bedroom and she00:32:55
made me clean all the bed linens before00:32:57
she'd sleep in our bed I also had to00:32:59
Febreze it down completely then she took00:33:01
the Febreze from me and sprayed me with00:33:03
it liberally and told me I wasn't00:33:05
allowed to cuddle her until and I quote00:33:06
this stupid challenge is over and he go00:33:08
back to normal and by the way you're so00:33:11
lucky I wasn't here for any of this00:33:12
nonsense or you'd be living in a hotel00:33:14
she didn't call my job stupid though the00:33:16
way she typically does and that's how I00:33:18
know she missed me she's00:33:20
really a huge softie a terrifying00:33:22
scheming evil mastermind of a softie00:33:24
so the rash I had a week ago disappeared00:33:26
thanks to the rubbing alcohol treatment00:33:28
which I'm pretty sure doesn't count as a00:33:30
shower but let me tell you it feels very00:33:32
much like showering your groin with a00:33:34
flamethrower00:33:35
I did notice red blotches popping up00:33:37
under my armpits which I suspect is00:33:39
another future rash in the making but00:33:41
thankfully today I got to shower00:33:43
so I fully expect those will be going00:33:44
away soon all in all I definitely don't00:33:47
recommend not showering free full month00:33:49
it's going to make you smell terrible00:33:51
and kind of affect your mood too00:33:52
although I think that that was just a00:33:54
side effect of me avoiding leaving the00:33:56
house as much as I could when I was a00:33:57
kid my mom used to tell me that I had00:33:59
enough dirt behind my ears to grow00:34:01
potatoes and well mom this time you00:34:03
might actually be right now if you'll00:34:05
excuse me I'm going to go enjoy the00:34:07
longest shower of my life and scrub from00:34:09
head to toe so I can reclaim my right to00:34:11
sleep in my own bed a man's home is his00:34:13
kingdom after all though in my case it's00:34:15
obvious that I'm just renting it from my00:34:17
girlfriend00:34:19
the Carolina Reaper is the world's00:34:22
hottest pepper clocking in at an00:34:24
astonishing one-and-a-half million00:34:25
Scoville heat units which is a rating00:34:28
use to determine how spicy a food item00:34:30
is well a regular jalapeno clocks in at00:34:32
a mere 100,000 to 350,000 shus00:34:36
the pepper is purely man-made as nature00:34:38
is incapable or evil enough to produce a00:34:41
pepper so fiery hot and is the00:34:43
brainchild of a former pot grower who00:34:45
began to use his knowledge of botany to00:34:47
crossbreed peppers in competitions00:34:49
around the world challenged people to00:34:50
try to eat three of these miniature00:34:52
peppers with an atomic punch to see who00:34:54
can down the fastest and keep them down00:34:56
but what is it like to actually eat one00:34:58
of these red-hot monsters to find out we00:35:01
tasked one of our writers with sitting00:35:03
down and eating one Carolina Reaper and00:35:05
recording his observations t-minus one00:35:07
minute sitting in front of me are two00:35:09
Carolina Reapers the world's hottest00:35:11
peppers allegedly each one of these tiny00:35:13
peppers has a Scoville heat rating of00:35:15
one and a half million but the website00:35:17
these came from claims that some peppers00:35:19
can get as hot as two million that's00:35:21
fantastic and that's sarcasm I don't00:35:23
even like spicy food and I'm not gonna00:35:25
lie I'm seriously rethinking my current00:35:27
employment status these peppers actually00:35:29
smell kind of Pleasant almost fruity00:35:31
from what I've read online and I've done00:35:33
a lot of research they have a slightly00:35:35
fruity taste as well I guess that's00:35:37
right before the lava kicks off the plan00:35:39
is simple I eat the first pepper and00:35:41
write down what it feels like00:35:42
tastes like etc I've done a lot of00:35:44
research on how peppers affect the body00:35:46
so after my initial observations I'll00:35:48
come back and add what was biologically00:35:50
happening to me if anything goes wrong00:35:51
or I feel I didn't get enough from the00:35:53
first pepper I'll try the second one00:35:55
here it goes t-minus zero seconds00:35:58
they're right about the slightly fruity00:35:59
taste I don't know if chewing fast or00:36:01
slow is best to be fair to the00:36:03
experience I'm trying to chew the pepper00:36:05
thoroughly definitely starting to burn00:36:07
though post-commentary00:36:08
chilies and peppers evolve capsaicin as00:36:10
the defense against unwanted foraging by00:36:12
animals such as mice and insects which00:36:15
would destroy the plants seeds the00:36:16
capsaicin is thus released mostly from00:36:19
the membrane of the fruit as an animal's00:36:20
teeth tear it to pieces t plus ten00:36:23
seconds yep it burns it burns really bad00:36:26
post-commentary the capsaicin binds to00:36:28
the trpv100:36:30
receptors inside your mouth which are00:36:31
designed to detect heat and are00:36:33
activated by temperatures over 11000:36:35
degrees Fahrenheit the latched on00:36:37
capsaicin however causes the receptors00:36:39
to be confused triggering their pain00:36:41
warnings with temperatures as low as 9300:36:43
degrees Fahrenheit which is below the00:36:44
average human body temperature that00:36:46
means your own body heat triggers the00:36:48
burning response which is what makes00:36:50
spicy food so unbearable you literally00:36:52
can't get away from the burn t plus 2000:36:54
seconds I tried to speak and I could it00:36:57
swallowed the mashed up pepper and my00:36:59
throat is on fire stomachs starting to00:37:01
burn to post-commentary when you swallow00:37:03
a mashed up pepper the capsaicin00:37:05
triggers trpv1 pain receptors along the00:37:08
esophagus and the stomach this might00:37:10
seem an odd place for these pain00:37:11
receptors but it makes perfect sense if00:37:13
you've ever hastily swallowed something00:37:14
far too hot for your own good the pain00:37:16
response is meant to protect you and00:37:18
teach you to be patient and wait for00:37:20
your hot cocoa to cool down or to not00:37:22
eat the world's hottest pepper ever00:37:24
again t plus 30 seconds sweating00:37:27
profusely girlfriend looking at me weird00:37:29
my armpits are soaked and face and neck00:37:31
sweaty post-commentary the human body00:37:34
sweats to helping radiates excess heat00:37:36
it's an evolutionary adaptation that00:37:37
makes us the top predator in the00:37:39
savannas of our ancient past00:37:41
this type of sweating however is known00:37:43
as gustatory sweating and is triggered00:37:45
by a perceived increase in the warmth00:37:47
brought on by the capsaicin finding your00:37:49
trpv1 pain receptors peppers also have00:37:52
the ability to jumpstart your metabolism00:37:54
and eating really spicy food can00:37:55
actually help you burn a few calories00:37:57
the increased metabolism also drives00:37:59
further sweating t plus 45 seconds I'm00:38:02
not sure if I'm sweating or crying maybe00:38:05
bull girlfriend looks concerned I'm00:38:07
drinking soda I heard it helps with the00:38:09
burning which is intense and everywhere00:38:12
seriously I think I might be on fire00:38:14
inside post-commentary00:38:16
capsaicin isn't easily neutralized by00:38:18
stomach acid mean00:38:19
it can continue burning for a long time00:38:21
before fading away naturally this can00:38:23
make the sufferer feel as if a fire was00:38:25
burning inside them and the00:38:26
malfunctioning trpv1 receptors can00:38:29
actually start to convince the brain the00:38:31
body is actually suffering from dramatic00:38:33
overheating even though body temperature00:38:35
hasn't much changed this prompts much00:38:37
more sweating to help regulate body00:38:38
temperature T plus one minute 30 seconds00:38:41
I finally remembered you're supposed to00:38:43
drink milk00:38:44
so I scared the girlfriend by suddenly00:38:46
rushing to the fridge and gulping down00:38:48
enough milk to refill a cow I don't00:38:50
think it's healthy I burped and I swear00:38:52
it felt like fire I might be turning00:38:54
into an actual dragon post-commentary00:38:56
typically milk yogurt or other dairy00:38:58
products is the preferred pain relieving00:39:00
drink of choice00:39:01
that's because milk contains a protein00:39:03
called casein which actually knocks the00:39:05
capsaicinoids off the hijacked pain00:39:07
receptor helping ease the symptoms00:39:09
nonfat milk is recommended because of00:39:11
its higher protein to fat percentage00:39:13
water is always a terrible choice as is00:39:15
soda as all that does it's further00:39:17
spread capsaicin around the affected00:39:19
areas t+ three minutes my nose has been00:39:22
running non-stop but I think I've00:39:24
stopped crying00:39:25
hard to tell through all the sweating00:39:26
girlfriend asked me she should call00:39:28
poison control or hospital I told her to00:39:30
call a morgue instead she didn't think00:39:32
that was funny the paint is incredible00:39:34
and all over my mouth throat and stomach00:39:36
I can't even begin to imagine what it'll00:39:38
be like coming out the other end except00:39:41
I probably can because it's going to be00:39:43
exactly like coming in this end post00:39:45
commentary at this point the pain is at00:39:47
its peak and you might start to feel00:39:49
light-headed from an endorphin rush as00:39:51
the body tries to do its best to block00:39:53
the pain certain sexual fetishes that00:39:55
rely on intense physical pain capitalize00:39:57
on this specific response to extreme00:39:59
pain which is followed by an almost00:40:01
narcotic high like release of endorphins00:40:03
into the blood in this case however no00:40:05
such release followed just more pain T00:40:08
plus 10 minutes I've been laying on the00:40:10
floor for five minutes now my mouth00:40:12
feels like that time I bit into a00:40:14
freshly microwaved hot pocket as a kid00:40:16
and couldn't taste anything for a week00:40:17
afterwards I might not be able to taste00:40:20
anything ever again in my life after00:40:22
this I'm dry heaved a few times which00:40:24
was a terrible idea as some of the00:40:26
mashed up pepper made its way back into00:40:28
the bottom of my throat and almost00:40:29
beep you for real girlfriend won't talk00:40:31
to me she's on the couch and angrily00:40:33
muttering the word stupid under her00:40:35
breath every few seconds nose has00:40:37
stopped running Butthead feels like it00:40:39
might cook my own brain at this point I00:40:41
welcome that and the sweet release of00:40:43
death t plus 30 minutes the worst of the00:40:46
burning is over but my stomach is00:40:47
starting to cramp pretty badly00:40:49
I hardly ever eat spicy foods and I'm00:40:51
not fond of them at all00:40:53
I think the cramping is my stomach00:40:54
trying to tear itself free of my00:40:56
esophagus and rip out of my body and a00:40:58
desperate attempt to escape the hell I00:41:00
just fed it I don't blame you stomach00:41:01
even if it does feel like you're carving00:41:03
me up with a steak knife inside t plus00:41:06
one hour 30 minutes00:41:07
I left the floor about 45 minutes ago00:41:10
and laid down on the bed girlfriend came00:41:11
in and offered me milk and angrily told00:41:13
me that if I got the bed all sweaty I'd00:41:15
have to do laundry I'd like to stick my00:41:17
stomach in the washer right now and00:41:19
clean out all the bits and pieces of00:41:20
pepper left inside still seriously00:41:23
cramping and still definitely not00:41:24
looking forward to what happens on the00:41:26
way out t plus 18 hours 30 minutes I was00:41:30
right to be afraid of what would happen00:41:32
on the way out if the pepper coming in00:41:34
was mount st. helens erupting then it00:41:36
was Mount Vesuvius exploding on the way00:41:38
out how do people enjoy this girlfriend00:41:40
still hardly talking to me told me my00:41:42
job was stupid before leaving for work00:41:44
left a gallon of fresh milk in the00:41:46
fridge though I went back into the00:41:47
dining room and realized that the second00:41:49
pepper is still there sitting on a plate00:41:51
I can't believe I thought I would00:41:52
seriously need two of these looking at00:41:55
it now it's only barely 2 inches long00:41:57
how could something so tiny holds so00:41:59
much people inside it this isn't a00:42:00
pepper it's the fruit equivalent of00:42:02
Hitler this is the Hitler installing of00:42:04
peppers this tiny weird-looking pepper00:42:07
isn't even a fruit at all00:42:08
it's the shriveled up testicle of the00:42:10
Dark Lord Lucifer full of all the fire00:42:12
and fury of Hell itself we here at the00:42:15
infographic show go to great lengths to00:42:17
answer some of your most burning00:42:18
questions00:42:19
pardon the pun and today we're happy to00:42:22
put one of our writers through eating00:42:23
the world's hottest pepper for your sake00:42:26
in the United States there are00:42:28
approximately five hundred fifty-four00:42:30
thousand homeless people or about point00:42:33
one seven percent of the total00:42:34
population by comparison Russia has00:42:37
approximately five million homeless00:42:38
people or 3.4 percent of the population00:42:41
and Germany has eight hundred thousand00:42:44
homeless or 0.5% of the population while00:42:46
Russia tops the charts on homelessness00:42:49
for first world nations the true00:42:50
chart-topper is Egypt with between one00:42:53
and three million homeless children00:42:55
alone but have you ever wondered what it00:42:57
would be like to be homeless well wonder00:43:00
no more as we dive into another special00:43:02
challenge episode of the infographic00:43:04
show and once more put our favorite00:43:06
guinea pig to the test for your00:43:08
scientific curiosity and task him with00:43:10
going homeless for 72 hours day 0 okay I00:43:14
probably should have been more prepared00:43:16
for this by now but this challenge00:43:17
definitely caught me out of the blue00:43:19
I've done I think maybe 20 challenges by00:43:21
now and actually definitely have seen00:43:23
this one coming homeless for three days00:43:26
part of me is kind of excited because at00:43:28
least it's not a disgusting challenge00:43:30
and well it kind of feels like an urban00:43:33
version of man versus nature right00:43:34
there's a reason why there's so many of00:43:36
those wilderness survival shows on TV I00:43:39
think deep down inside we all crave to00:43:41
know if we could really make it out00:43:42
there now the urban landscape isn't00:43:44
exactly the wilderness but I know for a00:43:46
fact it can be pretty rough I used to00:43:49
work security in Las Vegas for a little00:43:51
bit over a decade ago and I had to deal00:43:53
with the homeless population pretty00:43:54
frequently once we even had one homeless00:43:56
woman stab another homeless woman00:43:58
through the eye for apparently00:44:00
infringing on her territory because she00:44:02
was turning tricks at the casino I00:44:04
worked at so yeah I'm pretty well aware00:44:06
of the potential dangers of homelessness00:44:08
when your survival comes down to working00:44:11
a turf of your own well it's no00:44:13
different than in the wild when prides00:44:14
of lions kill each other over the best00:44:16
hunting territory whether you're begging00:44:18
for loose change or turning tricks00:44:20
holding and securing the ideal turf and00:44:22
protecting it at all costs can literally00:44:24
be the difference between life and death00:44:26
still I'd be lying if I didn't say that00:44:28
I'm kind of excited to give this geology00:44:30
go I have wilderness survival training from00:44:32
my past in the military but there's a00:44:34
difference between a jungle or forest00:44:36
and the city streets in a way it00:44:38
actually seems more00:44:39
dangerous in city streets than it would00:44:41
ever be in the wild with a bunch of wild00:44:43
animals I definitely trust wild animals00:44:45
more than I trust humans so for this00:44:47
challenge I'm going to do the real deal00:44:49
I'll be leaving home with no money in my00:44:51
pocket and will be dropped off way on00:44:53
the other side of Los Angeles because I00:44:55
feel I should be an unknown territory00:44:57
but also so I won't run into anyone I00:44:59
know I'm taking the clothes on my back00:45:01
to other changes of clothes in the00:45:03
backpack and a bottle of water I didn't00:45:05
want to take my phone with me but the00:45:06
girlfriend begged and pleaded to take it00:45:08
just for emergencies and I agree but00:45:10
I'll keep it turned off unless I run00:45:12
into an emergency I really can't handle00:45:14
on my own I won't be taking a sleeping00:45:16
bag or anything like that I'll have to00:45:18
scrounge for shelter and with no money00:45:20
in my pocket I'll be looking for ways to00:45:22
make some cash or I guess find some food00:45:25
there's got to be about a billion legal00:45:27
liabilities regarding this whole00:45:28
challenge but then again this is the00:45:30
same show that made me not take a shower00:45:32
for a month00:45:33
and forced me to watch youtube videos00:45:34
for 24 hours straight I am pretty sure00:45:37
the Allies sent a ton of Nazis to the00:45:39
gallows for a similar inhumane00:45:40
experiments on concentration camp00:45:42
victims I'll be updating at the end of00:45:44
my experience but keep track of my days00:45:46
for later on pen-and-paper since I won't00:45:48
be taking a laptop just a notebook and a00:45:50
few pencils this challenge officially00:45:52
starts tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. when00:45:54
I'll be getting dropped off near00:45:55
downtown Los Angeles to begin my life as00:45:58
a homeless person00:45:59
wish me luck and I'll see you in 7200:46:01
hours unless I get stabbed to death with00:46:03
a rusty shank end of day three this is00:46:06
the end of my first and hopefully last00:46:09
bout of homelessness and what an00:46:11
experience it's been I don't want to get00:46:13
ahead of myself because I feel a million00:46:15
thoughts rushing up so I'll just start00:46:17
back at the beginning like I planned I00:46:18
got dropped off at 5 a.m. very near to00:46:20
downtown Los Angeles but I didn't get00:46:22
breakfast and hadn't eaten since the00:46:24
night prior seemed only fair to start00:46:26
this challenge off with my first task00:46:28
being securing food in case you don't00:46:30
remember I didn't bring any money with00:46:32
me and I had to figure out a way to feed00:46:33
myself well I pretty quickly got a00:46:36
chance to do just that when I was00:46:37
walking past a 7-eleven not far from00:46:39
where it got dropped off at they were00:46:41
loading in pastries for the morning00:46:43
breakfast rush but the truck driver and00:46:44
the two employees were inside and had00:46:46
left two racks of treats waiting to get00:46:48
pulled inside by the back door now I00:46:50
consider myself a very honest for00:46:52
I've never so much as shoplift at a00:46:54
candy bar I think stealing is a pretty00:46:56
glaring moral shortcoming to be honest00:46:58
but I reminded myself that I'm00:47:00
temporarily living a new life and had to00:47:02
start looking at things from the00:47:03
perspective of someone who didn't know00:47:04
where his next meal was coming from00:47:06
mostly because you know I didn't know00:47:08
where the hell my next meal was coming00:47:10
from so I pried the plastic aside and00:47:12
swiped two doughnuts00:47:14
took like three seconds and I was well00:47:15
on my way down the block by the time00:47:17
anyone stepped out of the store00:47:18
one thing they teach you during survival00:47:20
training is to exploit literally any00:47:22
advantage or windfall that you can and I00:47:24
realized then after my doughnut heist I00:47:26
started looking at the world in entirely00:47:28
different ways I wasn't just a00:47:30
pedestrian walking along minding my own00:47:33
business anymore00:47:34
I was actively watching my environment00:47:35
and looking for things I needed food00:47:38
water shelter the more time I spent on00:47:40
the streets the more keen this instinct00:47:42
became and eventually I realized that I00:47:45
was behaving the same way I'd had years00:47:47
and years ago in the middle of a00:47:48
Northwest forest during survival00:47:50
training our regular lives are so00:47:52
insulated from the actual necessities of00:47:54
life the things we need to keep00:47:56
ourselves safe and biologically alive00:47:58
that when it's all stripped away it's00:48:00
kind of refreshing but extremely jarring00:48:03
experience so my homeless strategy was00:48:06
to try and gradually make my way over00:48:08
toward the eastern half of Los Angeles00:48:10
from downtown I thought that starting at00:48:12
downtown would be my best initial00:48:14
exposure to the whole homeless lifestyle00:48:16
because I got dropped off literally just00:48:18
a few blocks from LA's infamous Skid Row00:48:20
this is a few blocks of downtown city00:48:22
streets that are completely awash with00:48:24
the homeless and some serious crime and00:48:26
I wanted to experience what life was00:48:28
like there but I wanted to keep on the00:48:30
move because it's probably not safe to00:48:32
hang around too long in Skid Row without00:48:34
knowing all the street rules I spent00:48:36
most of the first day around Skid Row00:48:38
and I could already tell that trying to00:48:40
scrounge or even Panhandle for money00:48:42
would be an absolute no-go here there's00:48:44
just very little local traffic that00:48:46
isn't other homeless people or gang00:48:48
members and anyone driving through is00:48:50
doing so with windows rolled up at car00:48:52
doors locked and with very good reason I00:48:54
wanted to stay on the move and not get00:48:56
wrapped up in any potential trouble00:48:57
especially because I was drawing a lot00:48:59
of attention I stupidly realized that I00:49:02
was drawing all this attention because I00:49:04
didn't look homeless I was too fresh my clothes00:49:07
too clean I was standing out like a sore00:49:09
thumb and believe me that's not00:49:11
something you want to do on Skid Row so00:49:13
I ducked into the nearest alley and00:49:15
rubbed my hands on the ground and then00:49:16
rub dirt on my face hair and clothes I00:49:19
tore my jeans and shirt up a little bit00:49:21
not much but enough that it didn't look00:49:23
any more like I was wearing frequently00:49:24
laundered clothes the trick worked and I00:49:26
quickly stopped getting stares and looks00:49:28
which was good because not long after I00:49:30
ran into a group of three guys shaking00:49:32
down other homeless people they stared00:49:34
me down at first but I guess I was too00:49:36
young and in too good a shape for them00:49:38
to figure I was an easy mark and they00:49:40
ignored me moving along to two other00:49:42
homeless men they kind of dug through00:49:44
there assembled well what would be00:49:45
normally trash to you and me but to them00:49:48
was all their belongings but I guess00:49:50
they didn't find anything valuable and00:49:52
quickly went on their way I had already00:49:53
learned the first rule of being on the00:49:55
streets the strong shake down the weak00:49:57
and the weak man together to fend off00:49:59
the strong I've launched a ton of nature00:50:01
documentaries and it was amazing how00:50:03
similar to wild animals people really00:50:05
are the first day I got really lucky and00:50:08
ran into a mission that was surfing out00:50:09
hot meals at night which was good00:50:11
because I gone totally bust on finding00:50:13
food all day I'm not naive and I knew00:50:15
that getting into what is essentially a00:50:17
survival situation means doing what it00:50:19
takes to survive but the problem is that00:50:21
in this area there's no restaurants00:50:23
supermarkets nothing where you might be00:50:25
able to scrounge for food and with no00:50:27
foot traffic panhandling was not an00:50:28
option I got offered a place to stay the00:50:31
night of the mission but I declined it00:50:32
and figured somebody in poorer health or00:50:34
older could probably use the place more00:50:36
than me there was certainly not a lack00:50:38
of people in really bad shape00:50:39
I struck yeast at night and ended up on00:50:41
the outskirts of downtown I jumped a00:50:43
fence into an office park and managed to00:50:45
sleep for a few hours in an alcove by00:50:47
the loading dock to one of the buildings00:50:49
since the next day was Saturday I knew00:50:51
nobody would be showing up for work I've00:50:53
slept in the wilderness a ton before00:50:54
sometimes without a sleeping bag but00:50:56
knowing how close I was to Skid Row and00:50:58
everything I'd seen during the day it00:51:00
was hard to get any sleep the next day I00:51:03
was practically starving having only00:51:05
eaten one bowl of soup and two donuts00:51:07
the day before also my water was out00:51:09
finding a public restroom to refill my00:51:11
water bottle was easy enough and I made00:51:13
up my mind to find a supermarket to go00:51:15
scrounge for food at when I was a kid00:51:17
one of my00:51:18
jobs was at a supermarket and I know for00:51:20
a fact that they throw away a ton of00:51:21
food still wrapped up and perfectly good00:51:24
for eating I found three different00:51:25
supermarkets but all of the bins were00:51:27
practically empty and then I realized it00:51:29
was just too early in the day00:51:30
typically food gets thrown out around00:51:32
the afternoon I didn't feel like waiting00:51:34
that long to eat so I decided to answer00:51:36
a question that I've always wondered00:51:37
about just how much can you really make00:51:39
from panhandling I found a promising00:51:41
spot with a lot of foot traffic and it00:51:43
set up shop using a can I found in a00:51:45
dumpster00:51:46
I made a grand total of 35 cents before00:51:48
a police car pulled up on the street in00:51:50
front of me and just sort of looked at00:51:51
me disapprovingly I got the message and00:51:53
honestly didn't feel like adding a night00:51:55
in lockup to this challenge so I left00:51:57
and moved on next I found a spot right00:51:59
on a freeway off-ramp because I'd seen00:52:01
homeless people set up at spots like00:52:03
this all the time it worked like a charm00:52:05
and in an hour I had already made three00:52:07
dollars and fifty cents not exactly at00:52:09
king's ransom but I was getting closer00:52:11
to be able to afford food again then two00:52:13
homeless guys started cursing and00:52:15
yelling at me because apparently I had00:52:17
taken their spot remember what I told00:52:18
you about being territorial I left00:52:20
because I didn't want any trouble but00:52:22
I'm going to be really honest with you00:52:24
here if I were actually homeless I know00:52:26
I would have stayed I would have stood00:52:28
my ground and defended that spot with00:52:30
violence if I had to because I had made00:52:32
over ten times as much money there in an00:52:34
hour than I had in my previous spot when00:52:36
you don't know where your next meal is00:52:38
coming from prime real estate is a00:52:39
critical commodity it also made sense00:52:41
why two guys worked that spot with one00:52:43
working while the other rested but also00:52:46
so that the two of them could better00:52:47
defend it against anyone intruding again00:52:49
it's amazing how similar we are to wild00:52:52
animals my good luck continued when I set up00:52:54
shop near that drive through to a00:52:55
fast-food joint and one of the employees00:52:57
actually called me over to the00:52:58
drive-through window when they're not00:53:00
busy and it gave me an entire meal in a00:53:02
bag now I've done my fair share of small00:53:04
kinds of deeds in my life but I guess00:53:06
you never really appreciate just how00:53:08
much impact even something as small as00:53:09
buying someone a sandwich can happen00:53:11
until you're on the receiving end00:53:13
I was absolutely starving by that and I00:53:15
had barely four dollars to my name that00:53:18
meal was a godsend in the late afternoon00:53:20
I made my way to the previous00:53:21
supermarkets but found other scroungers00:53:23
already there I guess they figured out00:53:25
the schedule a long time ago and I00:53:27
didn't feel like getting into another00:53:29
confrontation so I skipped the first two00:53:31
super-marv in hit the third one where there was00:53:33
only one other guy with three dumpsters00:53:35
back there we agreed he could have the00:53:37
one on the far left I take the one on00:53:38
the right and the one in the middle we00:53:40
have split I managed to find a Subway00:53:42
sandwich tray completely sealed in00:53:44
plastic that had been tossed and after00:53:45
seeing that the expiration date hadn't00:53:47
yet come due I honestly couldn't tell00:53:49
why it'd been trashed in the first place00:53:51
with a pretty substantial heel in hand I00:53:53
let the other guy have the middle00:53:54
dumpster and what was left in mine and00:53:56
he thanked me as I sat eating I thought00:53:58
about two things the first being that I00:54:00
couldn't figure out why this perfectly00:54:02
wrapped up subway sub tray had been00:54:03
tossed and it wasn't the only thing00:54:05
there were several other food items in00:54:07
that dumpster that were completely00:54:08
wrapped up and in perfectly fine shape00:54:11
but all had gotten tossed when he picks00:54:13
your homeless people dumpster diving for00:54:14
food you probably think that they're00:54:16
eating gross stuff that slimy and moldy00:54:18
and covered in unmentionable grime but00:54:20
the truth is that the food you bring00:54:22
home from a market is exactly the same00:54:24
stuff that they need yet some of it is00:54:25
expired but expired definitely does not00:54:28
mean that most of the food is even close00:54:30
to starting to rot it's an arbitrary00:54:32
date that I believe the FDA helped come00:54:34
up with most of the food though isn't00:54:36
anywhere close to the expiration date00:54:37
but it might have some kind of unwanted00:54:39
visual blemish for instance it took me a00:54:42
bit but I finally realized why my tray00:54:44
of sub sandwiches had been tossed the00:54:45
top part of the plastic case had a large00:54:47
dent in it and then it all made sense00:54:49
how many times have you been at a00:54:51
supermarket and ignore the plastic tray00:54:53
of food because it had an unsightly dent00:54:55
in it we all do it literally all the time and00:54:57
with so much selection available to us00:54:59
why take something so unsightly when we00:55:01
can get a tray that's perfectly00:55:03
unblemished instead it's kind of insane00:55:05
and from now on I've vowed to not00:55:07
overlook food items just because the00:55:09
packaging isn't perfect the second00:55:11
thought I had was the difference between00:55:12
the homeless people I kept running into00:55:15
the guy behind the supermarket was kind00:55:17
and polite but the ones by the freeway00:55:18
off-ramp had definitely been00:55:20
aggressively protecting their territory00:55:22
I guess it's about survival but we're00:55:24
not all truly like wild animals00:55:26
some of us retain our humanity and00:55:28
cooperate even help others one guy I ran00:55:30
into on my second night for instance00:55:32
showed me where to refill my water00:55:33
bottle after all the places with public00:55:35
restrooms had closed down he showed me00:55:37
where to get safe clean water when I've00:55:39
been planning on drinking the sprinkler00:55:41
water that is clearly labeled not for00:55:43
drinking they do that so00:55:45
most people won't get sick but you know00:55:46
what when it's been a hundred degree day00:55:48
and you don't have many options00:55:50
available to you you have to risk it00:55:52
sometimes I managed to reach a rail yard00:55:53
on the second night so I spent the night00:55:55
under a train car I've read stories00:55:57
before of homeless people being crushed00:55:59
to death by moving train cars while they00:56:00
slept underneath them so I made sure00:56:02
this cart was totally disconnected from00:56:04
anything else and was on a piece of00:56:06
sidetrack that was just out from the00:56:08
main line other than a train whistle00:56:10
middle of the night in scaring the piss00:56:12
out of me almost literally my night was00:56:15
pretty uneventful by my third day I00:56:17
managed to reach East Los Angeles and00:56:19
that meant that the neighborhoods were00:56:20
nicer and so was the general look and00:56:23
demeanor of the people I learned from my00:56:24
first day and got up early enough to00:56:26
find a local 7-eleven sure enough an00:56:28
hour or so before sunrise a truck showed00:56:30
up and started offloading pastries to00:56:32
sell to the morning breakfast crowd00:56:34
again I'm no thief but I was living00:56:36
temporarily in a different world and00:56:38
when you're in a survival situation00:56:39
there's only one rule survive maybe it00:56:42
was because I was a lot hungrier than on00:56:43
the first day or maybe because I finally00:56:45
knew how difficult finding food was and00:56:47
that I wasn't guaranteed a meal that day00:56:49
but instead of snatching two Donuts I00:56:51
snatched as much as I could carry00:56:53
without being caught then just slipped00:56:54
away I was 100 percent breaking the law00:56:57
but I was also in survival mode and to00:56:59
be honest it was a little exhilarating00:57:01
but mostly I was just hungry00:57:03
the nicer neighborhoods meant nicer00:57:05
people and I made over 10 bucks in about00:57:07
five hours of panhandling which gave me00:57:08
almost 15 total dollars or the ability00:57:11
to buy one meal that's kind of00:57:13
discouraging especially if you consider00:57:14
having to do this every day for weeks or00:57:16
months or even years on end it makes00:57:19
sense why homeless people are so00:57:20
protective of the good panhandling spots00:57:22
though and it really becomes hard to00:57:23
judge the two that chased me away a day00:57:26
before once more this is about survival00:57:28
and I totally understand my day was00:57:30
uneventful and mostly just boring I made00:57:33
my waist at least word throughout the00:57:34
day stopping at a fast-food place to get00:57:36
a bite to eat I ran across the library00:57:38
for the first time in decades and I went00:57:40
inside to spend a few hours just to00:57:41
reading their books00:57:42
I got looks from people and honestly it00:57:44
soon got really annoying it wasn't just00:57:47
the library though throughout this00:57:48
experience normal people have been00:57:50
giving me looks like I was untrustworthy00:57:52
or like I was up to no good or even a00:57:54
potential threat it was really00:57:56
dehumanizing at one point and the00:57:58
that in reality I'm a productive member00:58:00
of society that regularly pays his taxes00:58:02
and has a nice apartment only made00:58:04
things worse these people literally knew00:58:06
nothing about me and had no idea that I00:58:09
was secretly one of them but they00:58:10
treated me like I was basically a00:58:12
criminal for the third night I decided00:58:14
that I wanted to sleep a bit easier than00:58:16
I've been because by this point I was00:58:18
getting physically exhausted so since I00:58:20
knew where it was in town and made my00:58:22
way to a very fancy cemetery in the area00:58:24
with the big tall iron fence and00:58:26
security patrols inside the property00:58:28
civilian security is a joke and I know00:58:31
from my experience in the military that00:58:32
even secure facilities have a weakness00:58:34
so I just worked my way around the fence00:58:36
line into the tree line until I found a00:58:38
drainage ditch the fence crossed the00:58:40
ditch but because of flood risks had a00:58:42
small metal gate that swung outward at00:58:44
the bottom so during heavy rains00:58:46
branches and other debris could flow out00:58:48
and not back up at the fence and00:58:49
eventually bring the whole thing down00:58:51
even though Los Angeles hadn't had a00:58:53
major rain in over a year the gates had00:58:55
been of course left open so it was00:58:58
simple enough to just crawl through them00:58:59
several thousands of dollars of cameras00:59:01
along a fence line and two full-time00:59:03
security patrols completely defeated00:59:05
because some guard had been lazy over a00:59:07
year ago never closed the drainage gate00:59:09
like I said civilian security is a joke00:59:11
I kind of kicked the gates closed to00:59:13
keep anyone else from following in and00:59:14
then found a pretty peaceful spot to00:59:16
sleep undisturbed until morning00:59:18
sadly no ghosts or zombies appeared but00:59:21
I did sleep until well into sunrise and00:59:23
realize that I was supposed to call the00:59:24
girlfriend at 5:00 a.m. on the dot to00:59:26
let her know where to pick me up and00:59:28
that it was safe when I turned to my00:59:29
phone it was already well at 7:00 and00:59:31
when she picked up the phone she was00:59:33
furious and also completely distraught I00:59:35
guess I don't blame her last time she00:59:37
saw me was three days ago on the00:59:38
outskirts of Skid Row a place so00:59:40
dangerous they literally make00:59:41
documentaries about how you should never00:59:43
go down there then she hadn't heard from00:59:45
me at all00:59:46
when she finally picked me up an hour00:59:47
later she told me she had nearly called00:59:49
the cops and yelled at me for not00:59:50
calling at exactly 5:00 like I promised00:59:53
in between yelling she'd cry I guess00:59:55
these three days were as nerve-wracking00:59:57
for her as they were for me what did I00:59:59
learn from my experience on the streets01:00:00
a lot too much for this episode and01:00:03
experienced a lot of things that01:00:04
honestly don't quite fit into the more01:00:05
family-friendly aspect of our show the01:00:07
biggest thing I learned though is how01:00:09
far small gestures of kindness really go01:00:11
so when you do one of these gestures for01:00:13
somebody in need don't ever under value01:00:15
just how much that really meant buying01:00:17
someone a meal may set you back ten01:00:19
bucks not a big deal for the vast01:00:21
majority of us but for someone hungry01:00:23
who doesn't know where their next meal01:00:25
is coming from that's hot food in their belly and the01:00:28
stress of finding something to eat01:00:29
relieved for the next 12 hours you can't01:00:31
put a price on that the other thing I01:00:33
learned is that living on the streets is01:00:35
dangerous and some people are predators01:00:37
but a lot of other people aren't01:00:39
I saw homeless guys giving other01:00:40
homeless guys their spare change or01:00:42
parts of their food some kind soul01:00:44
helped me find a drinking source that01:00:46
wouldn't make me sick lots of people on01:00:48
the street are looking to take advantage01:00:49
of others and prey on them but many more01:00:51
are willing to help others out and01:00:53
underneath that dirt and grime there's a01:00:55
real person that isn't plotting how to01:00:57
hurt you or steal from you and that you01:00:59
shouldn't be scared of sometimes simply01:01:01
treating them like a normal human being01:01:03
and giving them a little respect01:01:04
is the biggest charitable act you could01:01:06
do01:01:07
another challenge episode and another01:01:10
cruel test we put one of our staff01:01:12
writers through for your scientific01:01:14
curiosity this time we're concerned with the01:01:16
effect technology has on our lives as01:01:18
various studies have shown children01:01:20
spend less time outdoors now than ever01:01:23
before instead of being outside playing on01:01:25
bicycles or romping through the woods01:01:27
kids today are spending the majority of01:01:29
their free time inside playing video01:01:31
games and instead of getting together to01:01:34
chat with friends they chat over voice01:01:36
chat services or inside their favorite01:01:38
games we're not saying this is all bad01:01:41
but we do wonder what the effect of01:01:43
never going outside has on the average01:01:45
person so to answer that pressing01:01:47
question we once more sacrifice the01:01:49
health and sanity of one of our junior01:01:50
staff writers in order to seek answers01:01:53
hello and welcome to another challenge01:01:55
episode of the infographic show today01:01:57
we're going to see what happens if you01:01:58
don't go outside for a full month the01:02:01
rules are simple our guinea pig I mean01:02:04
employee must stay indoors for a full 3001:02:06
days with absolutely no stepping out for01:02:09
any reason whatsoever to that effect we01:02:11
hooked them up with in-home grocery01:02:13
delivery so that there's no reason to01:02:15
leave the house with high-speed Internet01:02:17
Netflix and home delivery of groceries01:02:19
what more could a person want let's find01:02:22
out day one another challenge I'm01:02:24
positively thrilled at least this time I01:02:26
don't have to eat any atomic peppers or01:02:28
go without sleep which was a nightmare01:02:31
by comparison this staying indoors thing01:02:33
sounds like a breeze I already worked01:02:35
from home anyway so aside from shifting01:02:36
responsibility for walking the dog over01:02:38
to the girlfriend there's not much of an01:02:41
adjustment to be made it does suck I'll01:02:43
miss a few movies that are coming out01:02:44
because I love seeing them in theaters01:02:46
but I'm sure I can catch them after the01:02:48
30 days in one of the cheaper places01:02:49
it'll be tricky to navigate some of my01:02:51
social responsibilities like hanging out01:02:53
with me or the girlfriends friends but01:02:55
nothing that should be hard to explain01:02:57
away I'll keep a journal as usual of my01:02:59
experiences and like usual I've done my01:03:01
research first on what I should expect01:03:03
first there's the obvious warnings about01:03:05
vitamin D deficiency apparently there's01:03:07
very little food that has any vitamin D01:03:09
actually in it and we receive most of01:03:12
what we need from the Sun the sun's rays01:03:14
convert fats from the food we eat01:03:16
- activated vitamin D called calcitriol01:03:18
which in turn helps us absorb and use01:03:21
calcium which strengthens and grows our01:03:23
bones if you don't get enough vitamin D01:03:25
you can actually develop the rickets and01:03:27
osteoporosis as your bones weaken and01:03:29
you can be susceptible to them breaking01:03:31
which would really suck01:03:33
lastly apparently your skin can become01:03:35
discolored as you lose pigmentation in01:03:37
your skin until you start looking like01:03:39
one of those cave salamanders they find01:03:40
living deep underground I asked the01:03:42
girlfriend if she'd still love me if I01:03:44
turn into a cave salamander and she told01:03:46
me I was stupid and to get a real job01:03:48
she's clearly less a fan of these01:03:50
challenge episodes than I am vitamin D01:03:52
apparently also helps combat things like01:03:55
prostate cancer which is of great01:03:57
concern to me as I happen to be very01:03:59
happy with the current state of my01:04:00
prostate it also helps combat heart01:04:03
disease and improve circulation by01:04:05
managing the levels of nitric oxide in01:04:06
your blood and skin which lowers blood01:04:08
pressure01:04:09
lastly exposure to sunlight and fresh01:04:11
air helps combat depression and numerous01:04:13
studies all say that being stuck indoors01:04:15
is a great way to get yourself into a01:04:17
pretty deep phone apparently just01:04:19
looking at the color green can help01:04:20
fight depression and lift your mood01:04:22
which I guess makes sense given our01:04:24
evolutionary history growing up in the01:04:26
outdoors also helps explain why just01:04:28
about everyone finds green fields of01:04:30
grass so comforting a sight in light of01:04:32
the health effects I listed I thought I01:04:34
maybe should take a vitamin D supplement01:04:35
and maybe put up some posters of green01:04:38
grass but I decided in order for this01:04:40
experience to be pure I couldn't cheat01:04:43
so once more putting my health on the01:04:45
line for the sake of science or at least01:04:47
YouTube day 7 it feels strange not01:04:50
having been outside for a week straight01:04:52
especially because typically me and the01:04:54
girlfriend make plans every Saturday01:04:55
that go out and do something together01:04:57
this week it was just staying at home01:04:59
and watching some red box which of01:05:01
course she had to go get I can tell the01:05:03
experiment is definitely annoying her01:05:05
more than me so far because it's her01:05:07
that has to wake up every morning and01:05:09
take the dog out or take him out when01:05:10
she comes back home plus it's her that01:05:13
has to run every errand that can't be01:05:15
done over the phone or online I have to01:05:17
admit this whole thing isn't so bad01:05:19
after all though I'm definitely going to01:05:21
owe her afterwards my mood and health01:05:23
seemed fine though I have to admit it01:05:25
does get a little bit boring just01:05:26
sitting inside everyday01:05:27
even with the internet and TV curious01:05:30
how this next week is gonna go day 1401:05:32
after Pol Pot was to post in Cambodia he01:05:35
got sentenced to house arrest which is01:05:37
kind of a weird punishment for someone01:05:39
who killed millions of people it's01:05:40
almost like nobody could really wrap01:05:42
their minds around all that murder so01:05:44
they just sort of said okay well just01:05:46
stay inside your house until you die yet01:05:49
Ted Bundy got the death sentence for01:05:50
killing like Oh point zero zero zero one01:05:53
percent that amount what a strange world01:05:55
we live in anyways I have no idea how01:05:58
Pol Pot managed to do it especially01:05:59
since he had no internet this week was01:06:02
born with a capital B and I guess I01:06:04
never realized just how much I take for01:06:07
granted even just things like going to01:06:09
the store or quick hangouts to grab a01:06:11
drink and coffee with a friend I guess01:06:13
my mood is definitely shifting a bit and01:06:15
the girlfriend confirmed that I am01:06:16
lacking my usual sunny disposition01:06:18
though I think she was being sarcastic I01:06:21
told her I needed realistic and accurate01:06:22
observations of how my mood may be01:06:24
changing that it was important and she01:06:27
just laughed at me and reminded me that01:06:28
I work for YouTube FairPoint tomorrow01:06:31
starts week three and I'm not looking01:06:33
forward to the boredom day 21 I'm pretty01:06:35
sure I've played through every game in01:06:38
my Steam library and sidenote here but01:06:40
when are they finally going to make an01:06:42
ex-con three the boredom is real and I01:06:44
find that I'm even looking forward to01:06:46
taking the dog out early in the morning01:06:48
to get something I typically hate01:06:50
because I'm warm and snug in bed and I01:06:52
want to keep sleeping my mood is01:06:54
definitely tanking I think and I01:06:56
actually find myself anxiously pacing01:06:58
sometimes when I'm alone I think my body01:07:00
is literally dying for some basic01:07:02
exercise I read up on deep vein01:07:05
thrombosis and now I'm terrified because01:07:07
apparently blood clots can form in your01:07:09
veins if you don't move around enough01:07:11
sitting at my computer chair or on the01:07:13
couch as I so often am I am definitely01:07:15
not moving much if at all wouldn't that01:07:18
be a way to go a blood clot forms in my01:07:20
leg and travels to my heart stopping it01:07:22
in its tracks01:07:23
r.i.p youtube killed him I told the01:07:27
girlfriend and she didn't think it was01:07:28
funny at all and for the umpteenth time01:07:30
told me my job was done my appetite is01:07:33
also being weird I've settled into just01:07:35
eating sandwiches most of the time even01:07:38
though I could technically01:07:39
have any groceries I want delivered I01:07:40
just find that I don't have as much01:07:42
appetite and simple ham cheese and01:07:44
salami sandwiches are perfectly fine01:07:46
girlfriend is worrying about my health01:07:47
because salami is so high in sodium and01:07:49
there's the concerns about blood01:07:51
pressure from a lack of sunlight already01:07:53
so far I feel ok if just kind of01:07:56
generally fatigue then I guess kind of01:07:58
down I mean I wake up and there's just01:08:00
nothing really to do with my day every01:08:03
day is a bit like Groundhog Day which I01:08:05
watched twice this last week by the way01:08:07
next week is technically the final week01:08:09
so I'll wait until day thirty for my01:08:11
final report day thirty tomorrow I get01:08:14
to go back outside and that couldn't be01:08:16
happier I feel like a prisoner kept in01:08:18
isolation except at least they give an01:08:20
hour of exercise a day in the sunlight I01:08:22
honestly never realized how much I take01:08:25
it for granted being outside even if I'm01:08:27
not being a super outdoors person and01:08:29
just popping out to a walk the dog or01:08:31
run errands I also realized that I01:08:33
probably wouldn't cut it in solitary01:08:35
confinement I'd be one of those ones01:08:36
that goes crazy and starts talking to01:08:38
himself my mood has absolutely tanked01:08:41
but it's buiid knowing that this weird01:08:43
experiment would end in 30 days so I01:08:45
guess I didn't get the full effect of01:08:47
being completely isolated from the01:08:48
outside world I imagine that if I went01:08:50
into this not knowing when it would end01:08:52
my mood would definitely be far worse01:08:54
than it is now and I don't doubt that01:08:56
depression is a very real thing for01:08:58
people who don't get to go outside or01:09:00
just choose not to01:09:01
my appetite has totally tanked too01:09:03
though strangely I've been finding01:09:05
myself drawn more and more to fatty or01:09:07
sugar rich things to eat and drink and I01:09:10
typically try to limit myself to two01:09:11
maybe three sodas a week but this last01:09:13
month I've been drinking them almost01:09:15
every single day I've also been eating01:09:17
really sweet snacks and foods like01:09:19
french toast and cookies I think my01:09:21
brain is literally looking for any01:09:23
pick-me-up it can and so it's getting01:09:25
its high from sugary stuffs I definitely01:09:28
noticed that I feel much better after01:09:29
having a soda or eating a few cookies01:09:31
but fortunately that's definitely given01:09:33
me a bit of flab around the midsection01:09:35
which was really surprising or I guess01:09:37
shouldn't have been really I asked the01:09:39
girlfriend if she still found me sexy01:09:41
and she laughed and said still she's a01:09:44
regular comedian01:09:45
but I can't be01:09:46
to man at her because she's been a champ01:09:48
about all of this now though I have to01:09:50
run every errand and take the dog out01:09:52
for a month straight to make it up to01:09:53
her though I'm sure I'm not gonna hear01:09:55
the end of this anytime soon my final01:09:57
conclusion is that it's definitely not01:10:00
healthy to stay locked up inside for a01:10:02
month my diet sucks my appetite is in01:10:04
the trash and I've gotten visibly01:10:05
unhealthier I feel faint even at just01:10:08
the thought of strenuous exercise and01:10:10
I'm sure that my blood pressure is01:10:11
putting up some pretty unhealthy numbers01:10:13
I'm also absolutely stir-crazy and01:10:16
there's no amount of video games or01:10:18
movies or books in the world that could01:10:20
keep me cooped up inside permanently I01:10:22
don't think I would cut it in solitary01:10:24
confinement or in an underground bunker01:10:26
if World War 3 ever kicked off screw it01:10:28
let me outside and I'll happily die in01:10:30
all the radiation or just become a ghoul01:10:33
and start picking off wastelanders01:10:36
if you always tell the truth you'll01:10:38
never have to remember a lie01:10:40
that's very sage advice and a good tip01:10:42
for living your life without fear of01:10:44
being caught in embarrassing social01:10:46
situations yet everyone lies even if01:10:48
it's just small white lies in polite01:10:51
conversation could you go a full week01:10:53
without telling even a single polite lie01:10:55
though today we're finding out as we01:10:57
once more turn to your favorite guinea01:10:59
pig in this special challenge episode01:11:00
don't lie for a week day one but a01:11:05
strange challenge I have to admit this01:11:07
is another one of those that seems01:11:08
really easy right off the bat but with01:11:11
some more thought the sinister truth is01:11:13
revealed I don't make a habit of lie01:11:15
in fact I pride myself in being honest01:11:17
even when it's at a detriment to myself01:11:19
I even go so far as to make sure that I01:11:21
don't make any promises I doubt I can01:11:23
keep which is something we routinely do01:11:26
as people you don't have to be an01:11:27
underhanded liar to make promises you're01:11:29
only half way sure you can keep and01:11:31
often we do this to make other people01:11:33
feel good but I've made it a point to01:11:34
ensure that what I say is what I do01:11:37
no matter what that means that sometimes01:11:39
I can't make certain promises and it's01:11:41
been awkward and difficult in social01:11:43
situations at times and that's when the01:11:45
truly sinister nature of this challenge01:11:47
hit me I can't lie at all for a week01:11:49
even in the meaningless conversation01:11:52
with people that fills our lives see the01:11:54
reality is that we all lie all the time01:11:56
when you go to the store and the cashier01:11:58
or clerk asks you having a good day how01:12:00
many of you have told the truth how many01:12:03
times have you had a really horrible day01:12:05
and just said the truth to a complete01:12:06
stranger01:12:07
of course you don't do that because you01:12:09
want to grease the wheels of polite01:12:11
social interaction so everyone joins in01:12:13
the big fake theater production that we01:12:15
call daily interaction and we tell giant01:12:18
lies to each other01:12:19
oh my day was wonderful thank you for01:12:20
asking the clerk doesn't really care01:12:22
what your day is like and you are01:12:24
definitely not gonna tell her that your01:12:25
day was absolute crap because then you'd01:12:28
be a weirdo and yet somehow it's less01:12:30
weird to be a huge liar and pretend your01:12:32
day is fine yet if you were to lie to01:12:34
this person about something else like01:12:36
the fact that you've swapped price tags01:12:38
on an item she'd be furious it's strange01:12:40
when you think about it01:12:41
the way that you can be a total weirdo01:12:43
for not lining sometimes and yet still01:12:45
be a bastard if you do lie other times01:12:47
so I guess I've realized that this01:12:49
challenge is going to be harder than I01:12:50
thought01:12:51
in a way though I'm kind of excited01:12:52
about I get to drop my mask for a full01:12:54
week and just tell the honest truth I01:12:56
get to be completely blunt01:12:58
well more blunt than I typically am and01:13:00
that's kind of liberating so at the same01:13:03
time that this challenge worries me I'm01:13:04
kind of eager to get it started see you01:13:06
guys midweek in two days day three I01:13:10
feel like I saved this a lot but this01:13:12
challenge is harder than I expected and01:13:15
as I predicted the real challenge comes01:13:17
from the polite little white lies we01:13:18
constantly tell each other I read some01:13:20
articles on lying out of curiosity and01:13:22
it turns out that 60% of people tell at01:13:24
least one lie in a 10 minute01:13:26
conversation men and women both tell the01:13:28
same amount of lies but the difference01:13:30
is in how they lie01:13:31
women are more likely to lie in order to01:13:34
make someone feel better while men lie01:13:36
to make themselves look better this01:13:38
makes sense I've watched my girlfriend01:13:40
interacting with her friends before and01:13:42
definitely caught her telling some minor01:13:44
whoppers for the sake of making a friend01:13:46
that feels bad feel better no I don't01:13:48
think your boyfriend is cheating on you01:13:50
but I do think you guys should talk I've01:13:52
heard her saved this one before to a01:13:54
friend whom we both highly suspected had01:13:56
a boyfriend that was definitely cheating01:13:58
on her but of course you can't just say01:13:59
to someone with a breaking heart yeah01:14:01
your boyfriend is a scum bucket you have01:14:03
to be gentle prod them toward the truth01:14:05
with a tiny little lie give a tiny01:14:07
little bit of hope that will move the01:14:09
person in the right direction toward01:14:10
discovering the truth on their own of01:14:12
course I've done the same thing I01:14:14
clearly remember once in conversation01:14:16
with another couple we had just met01:14:18
where I rounded up on the number of days01:14:20
one of my art shows featuring my photo01:14:22
prints lasted it wasn't a huge rounding01:14:24
hair I simply went from about 13 days to01:14:26
quote about half a month in court for01:14:29
the sake of simplicity but it was in01:14:31
fact a lie and it did make me look01:14:33
better in the eyes of the people I told01:14:34
it to it's probably difficult to01:14:36
ascertain the veracity of a study on01:14:38
lying when people can well lie about the01:14:40
results but this one seems to be right01:14:43
money anyway so the little white lies01:14:45
that I'm not telling have been getting01:14:47
me in trouble while we're at least in01:14:49
two awkward social situations I went to01:14:51
the store and decided that it would be01:14:52
the perfect place for my first stab at01:14:54
this challenge since the cashiers at my01:14:56
local grocery store constantly ask how01:14:58
my day is and if I found everything ok01:15:00
Jorge be told my day was going pretty ok01:15:02
but when I got to the register a little01:15:04
kid belonging to the woman behind me01:15:06
kept acting up and running into me as he01:15:08
threw his little temper tantrum so when01:15:10
the cashier asked me if everything was01:15:12
okay I told him that I wish that they01:15:13
would throw bratty little kids out of01:15:15
the store if their parents refused to01:15:17
discipline them BAM just like that01:15:19
everyone sorta froze then the woman01:15:21
behind me said excuse me and that's when01:15:24
all hell broke loose I slowly turned to01:15:26
her face and knowing I couldn't lie I01:15:28
said I think you're a terrible parent01:15:30
because you can't discipline your child01:15:31
as he repeatedly runs into random01:15:33
strangers as he's throwing a temper01:15:34
tantrum in public I had my girlfriend01:15:36
with me because we were doing our weekly01:15:37
shopping and at this point her jaws01:15:39
slowly dropped open and she got this01:15:41
really blank look on her face then a01:15:43
flash of recognition struck her as she01:15:45
realized that I couldn't tell a lie01:15:47
the woman's mouth fell open too as if01:15:49
she was going to say something but she01:15:51
sort of just stood there sucking in air01:15:53
angrily like a fish out of water it gave01:15:55
me enough time to swipe my debit card01:15:56
and pay for my groceries then calmly01:15:58
walk away my girlfriend still hadn't01:16:00
said anything and when we got into the01:16:02
car she simply put her hand over mine01:16:04
and said please don't get us killed this01:16:06
week next stop was Trader Joe's to pick01:16:09
up a few things we prefer to buy there01:16:10
over a normal grocery store for those of01:16:12
you who don't know tjs is a bit fancier01:16:14
grocery store whose quality seems on01:16:16
average a little better than a normal01:16:18
store but it's also pricier and I have a01:16:20
love-hate relationship with it some01:16:22
things are well worth the price but01:16:23
other things are just marked up nonsense01:16:26
meant to cater to the all-organic crowd01:16:27
who pays extra money for buzzwords on01:16:29
the packaging that nutritionally and01:16:31
scientifically mean nothing so this time01:16:34
our shopping went without incident and01:16:35
we get the cashier who asked did you01:16:37
find everything ok and that's when01:16:39
things went south again01:16:40
as soon as he started asking this01:16:41
question I think my girlfriend had a01:16:43
flash of recognition and remembered my01:16:45
opinions on Trader Joe's prices because01:16:47
she tried to cut him off too late though01:16:49
he asked the question and I was obliged01:16:51
to answer truthfully actually no I found01:16:54
that you guys are marking a prices on a01:16:56
lot of items for no other reason than01:16:58
that they're labeled organic and yet not01:17:00
only is organic food no different01:17:02
nutritionally than non-organic food in a01:17:03
lot of cases it's both more polluting01:17:05
for the environment and more dangerous01:17:07
to human health and non-organic food01:17:08
because of the use of organic pesticides01:17:11
your trendiness is gouging people01:17:13
financially hurting them physically and01:17:14
making the world a worse place I'd like01:17:17
our viewers to imagine going to a01:17:18
Veterans Day Parade and then jumping01:17:20
over the railing and running out into01:17:21
the parade butt-naked while screaming I01:17:24
love al-qaeda that is in effect what01:17:26
saying anything negative about organic01:17:28
food in trendy Los Angeles is like now01:17:31
imagine that it's not a Veterans Day01:17:32
Parade that you're crashing as you01:17:34
scream that you love al-qaeda but that01:17:36
it's the Pentagon itself that's what01:17:38
it's like to trash-talk organic inside01:17:40
of Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods in Los01:17:42
Angeles it's social suicide if not01:17:45
actual suicide as hordes of angry01:17:47
hipsters tar and feather you for01:17:49
fact-checking organic gods someone might01:17:51
as well just died inside that store01:17:53
after my answer given how quiet the01:17:55
checkout lanes got my girlfriend just01:17:57
facepalm herself and I could tell that01:17:59
she was already thinking how she could01:18:01
never return to this particular Trader01:18:03
Joe's again I guess it's a good thing01:18:05
there's one every three miles in this01:18:06
town you know this challenge worried me01:18:08
at first but I'm finding it strangely01:18:10
liberating almost liking it day seven I01:18:13
think nobody is more happy this01:18:15
challenges over than my girlfriend who01:18:17
is probably right now carefully01:18:19
reconsidering what friends she can and01:18:20
can't hang out with anymore01:18:22
and which stores she's allowed to show01:18:23
her face at anymore after our shopping01:18:25
Fiasco's this week went on much is01:18:27
normal and then the weekend got here01:18:29
this weekend we had another social01:18:31
function to go to which is pretty much a01:18:33
must do for every person who works in01:18:35
any capacity within the entertainment01:18:36
industry here in LA basically they're01:18:39
just get-togethers for actors producers01:18:40
writers and directors who all try to01:18:43
find someone with more power and01:18:44
influence or money01:18:46
than them and then they suck up to them01:18:48
all night long trying to get them01:18:50
interested in their project it's a huge01:18:52
waste of time and i 100% hate these01:18:55
things but they are sadly a bit of01:18:57
necessity for working professionals so01:18:58
they can occasionally do some real01:19:00
networking01:19:01
I typically haunt the bar while the01:19:03
girlfriend networks for the both of us01:19:04
because I'm not a people person01:19:06
this event was different because I had a01:19:09
secret superpower up my sleeve to handle01:19:11
the evening with I couldn't lie not even01:19:13
a tiny polite lie to make awkward01:19:15
conversations a tiny bit better01:19:17
I had to 100% tell the truth and I was01:19:20
really really looking forward to it01:19:21
probably as much as the girlfriend was01:19:23
dreading it she warned me at least five01:19:25
times to be nice and I told her that I01:19:27
was going to be so nice that I would be01:19:29
100% honest with everyone that did01:19:32
little to calm her down01:19:33
at first the evening went okay then01:19:35
inevitably we both got cornered by01:19:37
someone we've met before who constantly01:19:39
tries to talk about his project which01:19:40
always sound terrible and I have01:19:42
absolutely zero interest in he's always01:19:44
been a nice enough guy and I've always01:19:46
found a polite way to excuse myself from01:19:48
the conversation this time I couldn't do01:19:50
that so this time I simply said I'm01:19:52
sorry none of this interests me at all and I01:19:54
don't see us ever collaborating on01:19:55
anything so instead I'm gonna go get a01:19:57
drink01:19:58
then I walked away I don't know how he01:19:59
reacted because I wasn't looking but I01:20:01
did catch him glaring at me later in the01:20:03
night see told you people get mad at you if01:20:06
you tell the truth pretty much as often01:20:07
as if you lied to them and they found01:20:09
out needless to say I will likely not be01:20:12
making a reappearance at any of these01:20:14
networking events anytime soon and you01:20:16
know what I'm totally okay with that01:20:18
truth be told I was afraid of this01:20:19
challenge at first but by the end of01:20:21
this week I feel kind of liberated I've01:20:23
no doubt earned a bunch of social01:20:25
bridges and I can probably never step01:20:26
foot in at least four different grocery01:20:28
stores now but any bridges I burned were01:20:30
with scumbags anyway so I'm feeling01:20:32
pretty okay about this last week the01:20:34
girlfriend on the other hand is a bundle01:20:36
of nerves right about now because she's01:20:38
always been our social diplomat01:20:40
smoothing the rough waters I01:20:41
accidentally created this week she's01:20:43
been the League of Nations trying to01:20:45
prevent World War01:20:46
she deserves a medal for all the social01:20:48
cleanup work she's gonna have to do over01:20:49
the next few weeks I really felt like I01:20:51
owed her one so just before the clock01:20:53
ran out on the week-long challenge I01:20:54
reminded her that I couldn't live for01:20:56
another five minutes then looked at her01:20:57
as she lay in bed reading with no makeup01:20:59
on and her hair a mess and I told her01:21:01
that she was the most beautiful woman01:21:03
I'd ever met she got a big smile on her01:21:05
face and I think everything's gonna be01:21:06
okay after all01:21:09
though often love together deaf people01:21:11
and mute people are two separate types01:21:13
of people and just because one is deaf01:21:15
does not mean that they are mute caused01:21:17
by illness injury or medical mistake01:21:19
munis can rob someone of their primary01:21:21
method of communicating with the world01:21:23
but have you ever wondered what it would01:21:25
be like to never use your voice again01:21:27
hello and welcome to another special01:21:29
challenge episode of the infographic01:21:31
show today we're going to be once more01:21:33
using your favorite and our least01:21:35
important guinea pig we mean staff01:21:37
writer to find out what life is like if01:21:39
you don't speak for a week01:21:40
day one Wow when I started doing all01:21:43
these challenge episodes for01:21:44
infographics I thought it'd be kind of01:21:46
fun something that takes you out of your01:21:48
comfort zone and maybe pushes your01:21:49
boundaries a bit all while getting paid01:21:51
for it sounded like a win-win for01:21:53
someone adventurous like me then I01:21:55
started actually doing the challenges no01:21:57
underwear for a month okay that's easy01:21:59
enough don't leave the house for a month01:22:00
um okay not so easy sleep all night and01:22:04
stay up all day for a month alright01:22:05
getting rougher eat all your food01:22:07
through a straw for a week now it's01:22:09
getting painful my point is that when I01:22:11
started these I tried to think of all01:22:13
the zany things I might end up doing and01:22:15
not once did I think about not speaking01:22:17
for an entire week I can only be01:22:20
grateful that the devil's that the01:22:21
infographics show secretly worships and01:22:23
feeds a steady diet of human misery my01:22:25
misery didn't decide to make this a01:22:27
month-long challenge as well so I get to01:22:29
experience what life is like for someone01:22:31
who cannot speak for a whole week which01:22:33
and I hate this about me I'm kind of01:22:35
interested to try already that's despite01:22:38
the fact that I've done this whole01:22:39
schtick long enough to know that it's01:22:41
going to get difficult and then it's01:22:42
going to be painful in some way or01:22:44
another this time at least it's pretty01:22:46
obvious how in the world am I going to01:22:48
get through life without speaking for a01:22:50
whole week luckily we are living in the01:22:52
digital age and as I sat down to plan01:22:54
out the scope of this challenge I01:22:55
realized that I might actually be able01:22:57
to breeze through without uttering a01:22:59
single word instead of calling someone01:23:01
on the phone I can text instead of going01:23:03
to the grocery store I can have01:23:04
groceries or food delivered to meet via01:23:06
an app and never once have to talk to01:23:08
anyone the real problem is going to be dealing01:23:10
with the girlfriend01:23:11
since as most of you know by now we live01:23:13
together that in any unexpected social01:23:16
planets which I'm insisting that we01:23:17
don't change at all because the01:23:19
challenge is only fair if I get a real01:23:21
taste of what this lifestyle is like so01:23:23
if any experts or things pop up I'll be01:23:25
attending as a complete mute and that01:23:27
will take some serious planning I'll01:23:29
update once every two days or so to fill01:23:31
you in on my week of silence right now01:23:33
it's 7:00 a.m. on Monday and my last01:23:35
official words for a week were really01:23:37
bad dad joke that I told the girlfriend01:23:39
as she was leaving for work did you hear01:23:41
about the restaurant on the moon great01:23:42
food but no atmosphere I love dad jokes01:23:45
I just realized though that if something01:23:47
tragic and sudden were to happen to me01:23:48
and dad joke might be the last thing01:23:50
anyone ever heard me say I'm kind of01:23:52
okay with that01:23:53
day three life is certainly interesting01:23:55
when you're not allowed to speak it's01:23:57
weird how quiet the house gets during01:23:59
the day without me speaking I typically01:24:00
work from home if I'm not out on my gig01:24:02
as a photographer and I had the house to01:24:04
myself with the dog until late at night01:24:06
when the girlfriend gets back I never01:24:08
realized how much I talk to myself out01:24:10
loud went home alone though until01:24:11
suddenly I couldn't talk anymore01:24:13
I guess we all talked to ourselves01:24:14
sometimes but it became pretty obvious01:24:16
these last two days that I probably do01:24:18
it more than the average person because01:24:20
the house just feels so eerily silent01:24:22
now it's kind of been creeping me out to01:24:24
be honest so now to compensate that play01:24:26
the TV extra loud you know that01:24:28
irrational feeling that a serial killer01:24:30
is lurking in your quiet house I get01:24:32
that feeling all the time now I tried to01:24:34
do my plan of having groceries delivered01:24:36
to me so I'd avoid the hassle of trying01:24:38
to play mute in public but then I saw01:24:40
what the delivery fees for someone to01:24:42
bring me groceries from literally right01:24:44
across the street and I flat out refused01:24:46
to do it it's not that I'm cheap it's just01:24:48
preposterous I'm paying almost $5 extra01:24:50
for what is literally a three minute01:24:51
walk for me also I realized that I would01:24:54
look like the laziest human being alive01:24:56
to the delivery driver if I seriously01:24:58
had to drive from wherever in town they01:25:00
work just to bring me groceries from01:25:02
across the street that's a problem I did01:25:04
think of a solution for though I could01:25:06
pull out my crutches from when I was01:25:07
injured a long time ago01:25:09
I couldn't walk but ultimately I just01:25:11
couldn't stomach paying five dollars for01:25:13
a three minute walk01:25:14
so my first foray into the real world01:25:16
without speaking was mostly uneventful I01:25:18
typically wear headphones and blast my01:25:20
music anyways when I go out of a house01:25:21
because I'm not really a people person01:25:23
and it's the perfect way to ignore Girl01:25:25
Scouts or anyone with the clipboard who01:25:27
wants your support for a million01:25:28
different causes once I got stopped by a01:25:30
lady who said she was signing a petition01:25:32
for improved mental health care for her01:25:34
kids in public school I told her I hated01:25:36
kids with mental health and she never01:25:38
bothered me again for the rest of the01:25:39
week that she was in front of our01:25:40
grocery store the girlfriend was with me01:25:42
and she was so embarrassed that she01:25:44
punched me hard in the arm and I told01:25:46
her I was joking but while she wasn't01:25:47
looking I gave the petition lady the01:25:49
craziest look I could and it worked01:25:51
bought myself one week of peace once I01:25:54
did the same with Girl Scouts just01:25:55
kneeled down and started explaining how01:25:57
she was being exploited for her labor by01:25:59
the cookie maker and only receiving a01:26:01
tiny fraction of the value of her labor01:26:03
in return and even that was in the form01:26:05
of funds for her troop to go camping or01:26:07
something while the cookie company kept01:26:09
in most of the monetary profits one of01:26:11
the adults quickly pulled the little01:26:12
girl away from me and i didn't get01:26:14
bothered again for the rest of the month01:26:15
that they were there anyways the trip01:26:17
went off without a hitch until i got to01:26:19
the register and the girl tried to make01:26:20
conversation see I go to this grocery01:26:22
store all the time for seven years now01:26:24
so everyone there knows me I couldn't01:26:26
just blow the cashier off so instead I01:26:28
pointed on my throat and pretend to be01:26:30
sick luckily she bought it but it made01:26:32
me realize something see my plan had01:26:34
just been to pretend to be mute but01:26:36
suddenly I feel really uncomfortable01:26:37
just pretending to be mute and having01:26:39
people believe that I have a real01:26:40
disability it feels like a terrible01:26:42
thing to do when there's thousands of01:26:44
real people out there who are unable to01:26:46
speak I guess I'll stick with the sick story01:26:48
for now but I doubt it'll hold in a01:26:50
serious social engagement the other01:26:51
thing to report is that the girlfriend01:26:53
has been texting me a lot she won't01:26:55
admit but I think she's secretly really01:26:57
misses talking to me so she's01:26:58
overcompensating with text it's kind of01:27:00
sweet and thinking about it suddenly01:27:02
made me feel kind of sad day five01:27:04
well this challenge has been a lot01:27:05
easier than I thought it would be mostly01:27:07
because I work from home and my writing01:27:09
work requires very little actual voice01:27:11
communication with clients however last01:27:13
night the heat got turned up to 11 the01:27:15
girlfriend's work had his social mixer01:27:17
type event01:27:18
typically I hate these things but from01:27:19
time to time the girlfriend will drag me01:27:21
to OneNote and I tend to spend the time01:27:23
at the open bar doing my best to really01:27:25
push the generosity of the free drinks01:27:28
especially the gin and tonics we decided01:27:30
that my cover story would be that I was01:27:32
really ill my voice was practically gone01:27:34
and it was painful for me to speak01:27:36
girlfriend made something up about01:27:37
malaria and gitis or something she knows01:27:39
just enough about medicine to make it01:27:40
believable as we were on our way I01:27:42
wasn't happy at first until I realized01:27:44
that now I had the perfect excuse not to01:27:46
speak to anyone at this event and that01:27:48
suddenly made me really happy until the01:27:51
girlfriend told me she wasn't going to01:27:52
let me spend the entire night at the01:27:54
open bar people need to see your face01:27:56
more at these things it's good to01:27:57
network she said if people want to see01:27:59
more of me they can always right click01:28:01
to save my facebook profile pic then01:28:03
they can see me anytime they like to say01:28:06
that the girlfriend took full advantage01:28:07
of the fact that I couldn't refute01:28:09
anything she or anyone else said would01:28:11
be an understatement01:28:12
she committed us to at least a dozen01:28:14
little dinner dates with other couples01:28:15
which I hate with all my heart and she01:28:18
committed us to a game night with a01:28:19
bunch of people I don't know I love01:28:21
board games but I hate playing them with01:28:22
a bunch of strangers once I played cards01:28:25
against humanity' with a group of total01:28:26
strangers and let's just say that night01:28:28
ended with someone crying after I played01:28:31
a dead parent smell like car apparently01:28:33
her parents had just died a week or two01:28:35
earlier and everyone but me the stranger01:28:37
knew I don't know when the girlfriend01:28:39
discovered that she had the power to01:28:40
commit me to all sorts of things I would01:28:42
never ever do but I suspect that she's01:28:44
been planning it from the get-go because01:28:46
she is in fact a sadistic and evil01:28:48
genius to say I was annoyed would be an01:28:50
understatement day 7 I can finally speak01:28:52
again holy crap I have seriously missed01:28:55
the sound of my own voice the first time01:28:57
I talked my vocal cords squeaked from01:28:59
disuse but thankfully I was by myself01:29:00
when it happened this challenge has been01:29:03
difficult to say the least and not just01:29:05
because of not being able to talk but01:29:07
because of fighting the urge to speak in01:29:09
the first place we take talking for01:29:10
granted it becomes really obvious when01:29:12
you stop talking just how much we use01:29:14
our voice for communication yes even in01:29:17
our digitally connected world I know01:29:19
what you're all thinking though what01:29:20
happened at game night well it was01:29:22
predictably terrible for one and I'm not01:29:24
sure if not talking made it worse or not01:29:26
we played risk which doesn't really01:29:28
require any talking01:29:29
so that's great except I get really01:29:31
competitive with board games like really01:29:33
competitive see there's an unspoken01:29:35
social contract you enter into when you01:29:37
do a fun board game night with your01:29:39
girlfriend's friends and co-workers you01:29:40
play to have fun not to win and you are01:29:43
nice to people who are terrible at the01:29:45
game and make sure that they're included01:29:46
and get to play and have fun I don't01:29:48
play to have fun I play to win01:29:50
I was Napoleon slashing my way across01:29:52
Europe and Asia making and breaking01:29:54
alliances as it suited me the game was01:29:56
over in 30 minutes which I feel is some01:29:58
kind of record and all without me saying01:30:00
a word just writing messages out on a01:30:02
notepad the great thing about people01:30:04
believing that you are really ill and01:30:06
can't speak though is that nobody tries01:30:08
to so no awkward forced conversations01:30:11
with a bunch of strangers that was a big01:30:13
plus for me and something I could get01:30:14
used to I've spent the week01:30:16
communicating via post-it notes or text01:30:18
messages and my final report is that01:30:20
it's really really lonely not having a01:30:22
conversation with someone sure a modern01:30:24
life might make it really easy to not01:30:26
use your voice to talk but it also Rob's01:30:28
your conversations of depth and meaning01:30:30
they don't flow the way they would if01:30:32
you could speak and I think the event01:30:34
that sums it up best for me was when me01:30:36
and the girlfriend were driving home01:30:37
last night she got really sad and said01:30:39
that she really missed me this week and01:30:41
I knew what she was saying not being01:30:42
able to have conversations with me01:30:44
really made her miss me then she told me01:30:46
that she's been thinking about the same01:30:47
thing I had thought about on day one01:30:49
after I spoke the last thing I've said01:30:51
to her all week01:30:52
she said what if something really sudden01:30:54
and tragic happened and the last thing I01:30:56
ever heard from you was one of your01:30:57
stupid bad jokes I could tell she was01:30:59
really sad so I grabbed her phone and01:31:02
pulled up her voice memos and showed her01:31:03
that before the week it started I01:31:05
recorded I love you on her phone not01:31:07
speaking may be a great way to get you01:31:09
out of really boring and dreadful social01:31:12
events that you don't want to attend or01:31:13
at least get you out of having to talk01:31:15
to anyone at those events what it really01:31:17
boxes your life in you don't realize how01:31:19
free you are to express yourself with01:31:21
your voice until it's no longer there01:31:23
and conversations without it are slow01:31:25
frustrating and really shallow I have a01:31:27
newfound appreciation for the struggles01:31:29
of mute people or even deaf people who01:31:31
have difficulty speaking with people and01:31:33
making themselves understood01:31:35
hello infographics fans and welcome to01:31:38
another special challenge episode of the01:31:41
infographic show today we're taking on01:31:43
the obesity issue while global01:31:45
stereotypes like to paint Americans as a01:31:47
bunch of fatties in actuality obesity01:31:50
figures from around the world show that01:31:52
weight gain is a problem in most modern01:31:54
nations the reasoning is pretty simple a01:31:56
modern economy brings modern jobs modern01:31:58
conveniences and modern not so healthy01:32:01
food modern jobs means mostly01:32:03
blue-collar work for most people01:32:05
which includes a lot of sitting around01:32:06
in the office not getting much exercise01:32:08
and when coupled with the modern01:32:10
conveniences of video games01:32:12
on-demand video and a billion cable01:32:14
channels coupled with modern fast-food01:32:16
or delivery right to your doorstep this01:32:18
all spells disaster for expanding waste01:32:20
lines around the world but what about01:32:23
soda what role does it have in this modern01:32:26
weight epidemic let's find out today as01:32:28
we challenge your favorite guinea pig01:32:30
and our least important staff writer to01:32:32
drink only soda for a whole month for01:32:34
science day one drink only soda for an01:32:38
entire month this one didn't go over01:32:40
well with the girlfriend at all like01:32:42
most Los Angeles actresses she's a total01:32:44
health and fitness nut and like most Los01:32:47
Angeles actress boyfriends I have to01:32:49
partake in at least 50% of that01:32:51
nuttiness I mean I'm generally active in in decent01:32:53
shape anyways but I'm not a total health01:32:55
freak and I don't even know what kale01:32:58
tastes like but I'm willing to bet it's01:33:00
terrible soda is as far as I'm aware not01:33:02
even allowed in our refrigerator and01:33:04
even though I actually like drinking01:33:06
coke I tend to just order it at01:33:07
restaurants luckily the girlfriend is in01:33:09
the total fourth reich health nazi and01:33:11
she doesn't really mind but when I told01:33:14
her I could only drink soda for an01:33:16
entire month she got this very weird01:33:18
dead look in her eyes then she very01:33:20
slowly narrowed them at me but didn't01:33:22
say a word it was terrifying she just01:33:25
sort of left for work without saying01:33:26
anything and then text me from the car01:33:28
saying your job is stupid so as usual I01:33:31
did my initial research and it turns out01:33:33
drinking soda is pretty god-awful for01:33:35
you so it's hard to blame her response01:33:37
it destroys the enamel of your teeth01:33:39
which makes it easier for your teeth to01:33:40
rot it raises then crashes your blood01:33:43
pressure can lead to diabetes and of01:33:45
course is pretty much guaranteed to make01:33:47
you gain weight apparently every01:33:49
500 calories extra you consume per week01:33:51
can lead to one pound of weight gain and01:33:53
calories definitely add up fast I did01:33:56
some math and looked up the calories on01:33:58
average I eat per week thanks to01:33:59
California's laws figuring out total01:34:01
calories of everything you eat is01:34:02
actually pretty easy01:34:04
turns out I'm taking in an average about01:34:06
2,500 a day mostly because of weekend01:34:08
meals during the weekdays I typically01:34:10
cook something pretty healthy for me and01:34:12
the girlfriend but on weekends we cheat01:34:14
by eating out we both exercise though01:34:16
and my weight is pretty stable so I'm01:34:18
guessing that the amount of exercise01:34:19
totals out with the average of 2,50001:34:22
calories a day but that is of course01:34:24
without drinking much soda at all maybe01:34:26
two a week from eating out now I'm gonna01:34:28
have to drink only soda not even any01:34:31
water so that's for sure going to01:34:33
skyrocket my calories they say you're01:34:35
supposed to drink about 8 12 ounce01:34:37
glasses of water a day to stay healthy01:34:38
but that figure doesn't account for all01:34:40
the water you actually get from your01:34:42
food so a more realistic estimate is01:34:44
more like 5 glasses of water a day01:34:46
assuming I did the soda equivalent to01:34:48
that it would be 140 calories times 5 or01:34:51
an extra 700 calories per day or 490001:34:55
per week yikes01:34:56
that's well over the 3,500 needed for a01:34:59
pound of fat of course that's just01:35:01
calories though which isn't the full01:35:03
picture because each soda01:35:04
I plan on drinking cokes by the way01:35:06
includes a whopping 39 grams of sugar or01:35:09
78 percent of your daily allotment01:35:11
that's going to majorly increase my01:35:13
weight gain potential not to mention01:35:15
pave a pretty strong foundation for01:35:17
diabetes I could just go with say Coke01:35:19
Zero which is supposedly healthier but01:35:21
eh it tastes like donkey sweat and B it01:35:24
seems more fair to go for the real stuff01:35:26
so as usual I'll update once a week and01:35:28
try to keep a total tally of how many01:35:30
sodas I drink per week along with the01:35:32
total amount of calories I'm consuming01:35:33
and any weight gain affects day one01:35:36
weight is 163 pounds it's felt sexy and01:35:39
with just a little bit of love handles01:35:41
zooming I'm not the actor in the house01:35:43
and I don't need to set unrealistic01:35:45
physical expectations in front of the01:35:47
camera all the time love handles is what01:35:49
peak performance looks like people deal01:35:51
with it anyways here we go01:35:53
see you in a week day 7 the refrigerator01:35:55
is stacked with bread cans of coke all01:35:57
gleaming and shiny and frosty cold01:35:59
I gotta admit it's kind of beauty01:36:01
in a way I cannot stress how much the01:36:03
girlfriend really really hates this01:36:05
challenge just for laughs I built a coke01:36:07
fortress around her vegetables but01:36:09
apparently I was the only person who01:36:11
thought that was funny01:36:12
drinking only soda is weird I catch01:36:14
myself going for some water out of01:36:15
thirst and they have to remind myself01:36:17
nope get a coke instead I could cheat01:36:19
but integrity is pretty important to me01:36:21
now I actually really like coke so this01:36:23
challenge didn't seem all that bad but I01:36:25
gotta admit that I'm getting a bit tired01:36:27
of the flavor01:36:28
I bought lemon juice two squirting each01:36:30
can in order to zing the taste up a bit01:36:32
and it worked pretty well but I think01:36:33
I'll try limes next just to keep the01:36:35
flavor from getting boring maybe I'll01:36:37
even switch to Pepsi but if Coke Zero01:36:39
tastes like donkey sweat Pepsi tastes01:36:41
like a donkey drinking the sweat of01:36:43
another donkey and then sweating the01:36:44
sweat out itself this week I've drunk01:36:46
3,600 40 calories worth of coke which is01:36:49
just a bit more than three cokes a day I01:36:52
find that I'm not drinking as much coke01:36:54
as I would water I think I'm just01:36:56
naturally avoiding drinking as much coke01:36:57
as possible my weights ticked up from01:36:59
163 pounds to 165 not bad and well01:37:03
within the natural pound or two01:37:05
fluctuation I'll see how this next week01:37:07
pans out day 14 this week I drank 4,00001:37:10
60 calories worth of coke definitely a01:37:13
bit more than last week the aluminum01:37:15
recycling is really stacking up by the01:37:17
way did you know aluminium is one of the01:37:19
few things worth recycling look it up01:37:21
anyways my weight shot up to 168 which01:37:24
is definitely not an accident it's01:37:27
pretty obvious soda is having a serious01:37:28
effect on my weight gain surprisingly01:37:30
I'm not getting all that sick of the01:37:32
taste though I mean I do have to use01:37:34
lemon or lime occasionally but it's01:37:36
still okay to me then again I did use the e pretty01:37:39
terrible MREs for months at a time in01:37:41
the military so I think my palettes01:37:42
become pretty easy to please on the01:37:44
homefront I cannot stress just how01:37:46
unhappy the girlfriend is with this01:37:48
challenge she pinched a love handle01:37:50
yesterday when I got out of the shower01:37:51
and she just flatly said they're getting01:37:53
bigger gross01:37:54
she's also been sending me emails from01:37:56
work about the terrible health effects01:37:58
of soda and planning a crash diet for as01:38:00
soon as this month is up I think every01:38:02
time she gets a break from filming she's01:38:04
firing off a new email to warn me that01:38:06
I'm basically going to die because of01:38:08
this too bad for her she's not my01:38:10
insurance beneficiary too bad for01:38:12
everyone that I don't have one01:38:13
crap I should get that sorted day 21 so01:38:16
one of the effects of soda is sugar high01:38:19
followed by sugar crash this is because01:38:21
sodas flood your circulatory system with01:38:23
a bunch of sugar that your body isn't01:38:24
ready for in the wild coming across a01:38:26
huge amount of sugar it's basically not01:38:28
an issue our biology ever had to deal01:38:30
with so now when you flood your body01:38:32
with concentrated sugar your body freaks01:38:34
out it immediately over produces01:38:36
hormones to lower your blood sugar01:38:37
because it thinks that you're literally01:38:39
about to die which makes your blood01:38:41
sugar levels drop to below normal levels01:38:43
hence the crash turns out if you drink01:38:45
nothing but soda all the time your body01:38:47
thinks it's under sugar attack all the01:38:48
time and those crashes get really really01:38:51
bad I think I'm taking more naps each01:38:53
day now than I've ever taken before and01:38:55
typically I'm off to nap every four to01:38:58
five hours luckily I have the house to01:38:59
myself during the day so it's not a big01:39:01
deal but it's cutting into my01:39:02
productivity big-time I also kind of01:39:05
feel like my heart might explode or my01:39:07
arteries one or the other I guess this01:39:09
is my blood pressure spiking and I'm01:39:11
realizing now that I should have bought01:39:12
one of those blood pressure monitors if01:39:14
I even had any idea of how to use it my01:39:17
breath is also worse I guess that's the01:39:19
sugar feeding all the hungry little01:39:21
bacteria in your mouth01:39:22
and I'm having to brush my teeth a few01:39:24
times each day although to be honest I01:39:26
already was because I don't even want to01:39:28
think about the plaque Holocaust this01:39:30
soda is putting my teeth through turns01:39:32
out one of the side effects of drinking01:39:34
nothing but soda for a month is a very01:39:36
grumpy girlfriend I know she hates it01:39:38
because she's concerned for my health01:39:40
which is actually kind of sweet she's01:39:42
already meal plan to crash diet to detox01:39:44
me from all this soda I remind her that01:39:46
detoxing not a real thing and only a01:39:49
trendy term that West Hollywood hipsters01:39:51
used to sell you overpriced health01:39:53
nonsense and she took my soda out of my01:39:55
hand put her finger over the hole01:39:57
shook it up and I'm not kidding about01:39:58
this sprayed me with it then cool as a01:40:01
fresh all organic cucumber she just01:40:03
turned around and walked away01:40:05
I think this soda experiment has01:40:06
literally broken my health nut01:40:08
girlfriend anyway this week I drank01:40:10
4,200 calories in my weight jumped up to01:40:12
170 which is alarming I realized it's01:40:15
not just the soda though because it01:40:17
makes me so tired01:40:19
I haven't been exercising nearly as much01:40:21
and have been skipping entire days so01:40:23
all the calories from everything else I01:40:25
eat is up thankfully there's only one week left01:40:27
day 30 I am NOT sad at all that this01:40:31
challenge is over drinking soda for a01:40:33
month straight sounds pretty alright at01:40:35
first then it gets kind of met and then01:40:37
very quickly becomes a bit of a01:40:39
nightmare I don't think we appreciate just how01:40:41
much non soda we drink even heavy soda01:40:44
drinkers sure you might down a few sodas01:40:46
a day but imagine drinking nothing and I01:40:48
mean nothing but soda for a month01:40:50
straight wake up in the middle of the01:40:52
night thirsty soda eat something dry and01:40:54
need to wash it down soda and by the way01:40:57
washing food down with soda is pretty01:40:59
terrible thirsty after working out soda01:41:01
or at least try working out because I've01:41:03
definitely noticed that I can't go as01:41:05
long or hard as I could a month ago I01:41:07
don't know if it's the psychological01:41:08
weight of knowing that I'm basically01:41:10
destroying my body with all the sugar or01:41:12
if it's actually making me sluggish but01:41:14
I can't exercise as hard as I used to01:41:16
strength is basically fine but anything01:41:19
that requires endurance forget about it01:41:21
I'm getting winded just thinking about01:41:23
hitting the track tomorrow my first date01:41:24
back to normal my weight is still at 17301:41:27
pounds which means that in one month01:41:29
I've gained 10 pounds and that's while01:41:32
still mostly exercising I can't imagine01:41:34
what my weight would be if I had01:41:36
drinking nothing but soda and not01:41:37
exercise but I honestly think I could01:41:40
have gained easily twice as many pounds01:41:42
the constant soda makes me feel pretty01:41:44
terrible I literally feel sometimes like01:41:46
my heart is going to beat out of my01:41:48
chest and I swear my blood has become01:41:50
the consistency of serum during the01:41:52
course of this challenge I've drank01:41:53
approximately sixteen thousand eight01:41:55
hundred calories worth of soda or one01:41:57
entire week's worth of normal caloric01:41:59
intake and I know I've been pacing01:42:01
myself typically drinking three to four sodas a01:42:03
day the girlfriend couldn't be happier01:42:05
that this whole thing is over and she's01:42:07
promised me a crash diet of uber healthy01:42:09
pre-made meals that she's created01:42:11
herself until my weight gets back to01:42:13
normal01:42:14
Challenge over summary drinking nothing01:42:16
but soda for a month is pretty terrible01:42:18
for your body kills your energy makes01:42:20
you gain a bunch of weight and really01:42:22
really irritate your girlfriend01:42:26
for the last year we've been torturing01:42:28
we mean exploring the secrets of science01:42:31
using your favorite an hour of most01:42:33
expendable writer in a quest to answer01:42:35
some of the most pressing questions of01:42:37
our age questions such as what would01:42:39
happen if you didn't shower for a month01:42:40
what if you couldn't use your own01:42:42
bathroom for a week what's it like to be01:42:44
homeless for 72 hours well the entire01:42:46
time we've been listening to you the01:42:48
fans and now we're presenting a very01:42:51
special challenge episode as we've01:42:52
convinced your favorite guinea pigs01:42:54
girlfriend to join in on the fun stay01:42:57
tuned as we present our newest challenge01:42:59
chained to my boyfriend for 72 hours01:43:02
hello I am the girlfriend for almost a01:43:05
year now I've been forced to stand by01:43:07
and often be the innocent bystander in01:43:09
one silly unhygenic or outright01:43:12
dangerous challenge after another then01:43:15
out of the blue he tells me that the01:43:16
infographics show would like to know if01:43:18
I would be interested in taking on a01:43:20
challenge myself well here I am01:43:22
and if you told me a year ago I would be01:43:24
doing this I would have called you an01:43:25
idiot right after calling him an idiot01:43:28
first for doing this idiot job in the01:43:30
first place I have had to sit by and01:43:32
watch him try to eat the world's hottest01:43:33
pepper which was really something01:43:35
considering his opinion of spicy it's to01:43:38
add extra salt to a dish I painted his01:43:40
face up as he had to wear makeup for01:43:42
several days straight and okay that one01:43:44
was kind of funny but I also had to sit01:43:46
home alone scared out of my mind as he01:43:49
went homeless for three days straight in01:43:51
downtown Los Angeles while he refused to01:43:53
use his cellphone to let me know he was01:43:55
okay I told him a long time ago that he01:43:58
is an idiot with an idiot job but you01:44:00
know what I saw that he genuinely kind01:44:03
of liked these challenges he's always01:44:05
liked to push himself it is one of the01:44:07
things I love about him and while I01:44:08
often wish that he would take one of the01:44:10
many comfortable easy writing jobs that01:44:13
have come across his path even when he's01:44:14
miserable because he can't use the01:44:16
bathroom at home for a week straight it01:44:17
kind of makes him happy to do these01:44:19
silly idiotic things and when you really01:44:21
genuinely love someone there idiot01:44:24
things kind of become your idiot things01:44:26
and for better or worse I love my idiot01:44:28
more than anything in the world01:44:30
and so here I am I am always really01:44:33
supportive of this career and I try my01:44:34
best to drag him typically under threats01:44:36
of violence to networking events he01:44:38
hates so that he can expand his horizons01:44:40
and rub shoulders with influential01:44:42
people who can see how talented he is01:44:44
but while I love to watch some of the01:44:46
other videos he writes for the01:44:47
infographic show that's right he does01:44:49
regular vids try and guess which ones01:44:51
are his because they're typically funny01:44:53
and sarcastically I never paid any01:44:55
attention to these challenges he01:44:57
undertakes probably because most of the01:44:59
time I'm the unwitting victim who has to01:45:01
spend her day-to-day life with him doing01:45:03
something dumb like not telling a lie01:45:05
for a week and getting into ideological01:45:07
debates with Girl Scouts01:45:09
over-exploitation outside of grocery01:45:11
stores yeah thanks to that episode there01:45:14
are still people we can no longer01:45:15
socialize with and stores I haven't01:45:17
visited in months but then he showed me01:45:19
that people were really getting into01:45:21
these episodes and the crazy things he01:45:23
did and well he got sent to Hawaii for a01:45:26
week all because you guys kept asking for it01:45:28
then not long after that the show asked01:45:30
me to get into it and I guess I thought01:45:32
to myself that if I really love my01:45:34
boyfriend then I kind of vote him this01:45:36
one experiencing what it is like to be01:45:38
him so now I am chained up to my idiot01:45:41
boyfriend for three days as I am writing01:45:43
this he is sitting next to me with the01:45:45
same big stupid grin on his face he01:45:47
always gets when he's about to do one of01:45:49
the more reckless and/or dumb the01:45:51
challenges the premise is simple enough01:45:53
I guess we are handcuffed together at01:45:55
the wrist with a three-foot piece of01:45:56
chain because trying to do this with01:45:58
regular handcuffs would have been01:46:00
impossible the chain should make things01:46:02
a little easier I guess and my real01:46:04
concern was private bathroom time the01:46:06
chain is just long enough that he can01:46:09
sit outside the door when it's closed01:46:10
because while we may have been living01:46:12
together for a long time there are some01:46:14
secrets best kept well secret I'll01:46:16
follow his format and update at the end01:46:18
of each day so I suppose that this is me01:46:20
signing off until tonight end of day one01:46:23
we have lived together for half a decade01:46:25
now so we are well past the fairytale01:46:27
stage and have gotten into the01:46:28
nitty-gritty of living with another01:46:29
person01:46:30
that means farts are a normal part of01:46:32
life for us but I had no idea just how01:46:35
many farts he has throughout the day I01:46:37
thought it best he had maybe four01:46:39
five - i'm around four and two or three01:46:42
more he let off when I'm not around I01:46:44
was very wrong I lost track at around01:46:47
ten and can someone in the audience01:46:49
please explain to me why men find every01:46:52
single fart as funny as the one before01:46:54
it okay01:46:55
before he marinated me in a cloud of01:46:57
farts we started our day as usual01:46:59
luckily my show is on hiatus for a week01:47:01
so I don't have to work but I still have01:47:03
to stay in shape so that means a 6:0001:47:05
a.m. run most of the time he joins me01:47:07
anyways even if half of my morning01:47:09
workout is physically dragging him out01:47:10
of bed to do it but now chained up to me01:47:12
he has no choice I know he hates running01:47:15
but it is really good for him and01:47:16
despite how big of an idiot he is I want01:47:18
him to live as long as possible so I01:47:20
make him do it he is a lot slower than01:47:22
me though so trying to keep pace with01:47:24
the chain was very annoying and01:47:25
difficult let alone doing stretches or01:47:28
any sort of exercise after I felt really01:47:30
embarrassed in public attached to him01:47:32
with the chain even though there were01:47:33
only a few people around this early in01:47:35
the morning I guess I sort of understand01:47:37
a little bit of what he does and how01:47:39
difficult it can be we did not have much01:47:41
planned for today and honestly I felt01:47:43
really embarrassed about the chain so we01:47:44
did not do much today mostly just hung01:47:47
around the house and watched terrible01:47:48
80s and 90s movies together01:47:50
anything with Van Damme or Steven Seagal01:47:52
in it he always loved watching these01:47:53
movies and I have to admit it really01:47:55
grew on me too and now I'm a huge fan of01:47:57
anything super cheesy honestly I knew01:48:00
the first time we spent an entire day01:48:01
home alone doing nothing but watching01:48:02
terrible movies together that he was it01:48:04
the one and I have been right ever since01:48:06
for any ladies watching at home you know01:48:09
you found the one when you can spend all01:48:11
day doing your version of nothing01:48:13
together and loving it today was the01:48:15
first bathroom test though and while he01:48:17
was totally fine with it which should01:48:19
surprised nobody I was kind of really01:48:21
embarrassed even with him on the other01:48:23
side of the mostly closed door he told01:48:25
me not to worry and so he put on his01:48:26
earbuds and blasted some Spice Girls and01:48:29
started singing it at the top of his01:48:30
lungs to convince me he couldn't hear01:48:32
any01:48:33
I told you he is an idiot but I have to01:48:35
admit it it was really sweet in his own01:48:37
dumb way well that is all for today I01:48:39
will talk to you guys tomorrow end of01:48:42
day two we needed to go grocery shopping01:48:44
today so staying inside was not an01:48:46
option I suggested we just order food in01:48:49
then he told me that the spirit of the01:48:50
challenge was to let people see what it01:48:52
would be like to live in normal life and01:48:54
not going to the grocery store would be01:48:56
cheating do people see what I mean about01:48:57
him yet he takes on these dumb01:48:59
challenges with so much conviction we01:49:02
got a lot of looks at the grocery store01:49:03
and yet it was definitely embarrassing01:49:06
I wish the weather was cold because then01:49:08
we could have worn long jackets and01:49:09
hitting most of the chain it is01:49:11
currently in the high 90s here in Los01:49:12
Angeles though so no such luck other01:49:15
than the looks and stares for one second01:49:17
my often absent-minded boyfriend01:49:19
completely forgot we were chained01:49:20
together and realized he was missing his01:49:22
favorite cereals so he took off into01:49:24
another aisle luckily I was hanging onto01:49:27
the loaded shopping cart but that means01:49:29
that he got jerked backwards and almost01:49:31
busted his head on the floor if people01:49:33
were staring before now they were01:49:35
outright gawking and I'm about ready to01:49:37
add this store to the growing list of01:49:39
places I can no longer shop when we got01:49:42
to the checkout counter01:49:43
my worst fear came true though one of01:49:46
our mutual acquaintances was there along01:49:48
with his girlfriend immediately they01:49:50
asked about the chain and the last thing01:49:52
I wanted to do was tell them I was part01:49:53
of some internet challenge and suddenly01:49:55
my boyfriend pipes up and starts making01:49:58
up a nonsense story about this being01:50:00
part of some trendy new relationship aid01:50:02
honestly I have always admired his01:50:04
creativity and I know that he is really01:50:06
talented but he wove an incredible01:50:09
masterful tale of BS that those two01:50:11
swallowed hook line & sinker01:50:14
I know he very openly hates the hipster01:50:16
art snobby culture of Los Angeles his01:50:18
words not mine and he would never be01:50:20
caught dead in one of the millions of01:50:21
trendy coffee houses in the city but he01:50:23
is a master at pulling these people's01:50:25
strings he had them completely buying a01:50:27
story about this chained together thing01:50:30
being some new form of relationship01:50:31
enhancing exercise and I have to admit01:50:34
it was the perfect01:50:35
for the more hipsterish new-agey01:50:37
population of LA at the end of the01:50:39
conversation he had convinced them to buy their own01:50:41
chain and try it out for themselves so01:50:44
if being chained together suddenly01:50:45
becomes a national relationship therapy01:50:47
tool you know where it started even the01:50:49
cashier and the other people in the line01:50:51
were buying it and I know that he did it01:50:53
all because even though I am adjusting01:50:55
it is still kind of embarrassing for me01:50:57
to be doing this in public some girls01:50:59
get a knight in shining armor I get a01:51:01
master BS artist convincing people to01:51:03
chain themselves together so I don't01:51:04
feel silly in public I have to admit I01:51:07
prefer the latter back at home we had01:51:09
more bathroom issues which meant he01:51:11
stood in the hallway this time singing01:51:13
Backstreet Boys songs well I did my01:51:15
business privately he forgot we were01:51:17
chained together again in the kitchen01:51:19
though when he got excited and remember01:51:20
he had bought his favorite cereal and01:51:22
wanted to fix himself a bowl I am01:51:24
starting to see a pattern here and01:51:26
somebody should test Smacks to see if01:51:28
they include cocaine and the ingredients01:51:30
end of day three today was the final day01:51:33
of this experiment and I am actually a01:51:35
little conflicted about it ending I am01:51:37
really happy to no longer be chained01:51:39
together but even though it was really01:51:41
extremely incredibly inconvenient and01:51:43
sometimes outright uncomfortable it was01:51:45
also a little bit sweet being forced to01:51:47
be so close to him this whole time we01:51:49
woke up feeling pretty awful yes we left01:51:52
the chain on even at night and that01:51:54
means every time one of us tossed and01:51:56
turned the other got jerked around he01:51:58
has issues from when he was injured in01:52:00
the service though so I know he really01:52:02
tried to be as still as possible but01:52:03
after two nights like this I know he was01:52:06
really sore and messed up I suggested we01:52:08
get massages and I kind of surprised01:52:10
myself01:52:11
I think after yesterday's grocery store01:52:12
incident I'm not as embarrassed about01:52:14
being in public like this anymore01:52:15
I01:52:16
thought the massage parlor would think01:52:17
we were complete freaks and kick us out01:52:20
but we went to a Vietnamese place and01:52:22
turns out they really did not care at01:52:24
all after the massage he reminded me01:52:26
that today was date night but he offered01:52:28
for us to stay in if I wanted to I01:52:29
reminded him that the rules of the01:52:31
challenge were that we still had to live01:52:33
our normal lives to get the full01:52:35
experience and I can tell it really made01:52:37
him kind of happy that I was getting01:52:38
into this as well we went out to her01:52:40
restaurant and even though the place was01:52:41
crowded you know I kind of really01:52:43
started not caring anymore in fact it01:52:46
was kind of fun to be doing this01:52:47
together even if we were getting all01:52:48
sorts of stares and had to sit on the01:52:50
same side of the table we went to the01:52:52
movie theater after and everything was01:52:54
great until I suddenly told him that I01:52:56
had to pee really really bad right01:52:59
before the movie started his eyes went01:53:01
wide with horror and I saw him slowly01:53:03
mouth out the word no and I really hate01:53:06
that I was a total girl about it but01:53:08
yeah I really had to pee really bad01:53:10
impossible to hold in we went to the01:53:12
bathroom hoping that because the movie01:53:14
was about to start it would be01:53:15
relatively empty but it just so happens01:53:17
that another movie had just let out and01:53:20
this happens to be one of the biggest01:53:21
theaters in the city so there were01:53:23
people going in and out constantly I had01:53:26
hoped we could sneak in real quick and01:53:27
shove him into a stall with me but there01:53:29
was no way that was happening I told him01:53:31
that we could just hurry home and I01:53:33
would just hold it then he did something01:53:35
I can only describe as typical him he01:53:38
said know you've been wanting to watch01:53:40
this movie so you are going to see it01:53:42
then he took off his shirt tied it01:53:44
around his head so it blocked his eyes01:53:46
and dragged me into the women's bathroom01:53:48
then he stood there at the entrance and01:53:51
loudly said ladies I am so sorry but I01:53:54
am handcuffed to my girlfriend and we01:53:56
don't have the key and she really has to01:53:57
pee I promise you I can't see anything01:54:01
the entire bathroom went dead silent01:54:03
then several girls started to laugh some01:54:06
even applauded then well I did my01:54:09
business with him shoved up against the01:54:10
door to a dirty stall as he loudly01:54:12
hummed a Spice Girls tune to himself01:54:14
my boyfriend is an idiot but sharing01:54:17
this experience01:54:18
with him has made me realize how much I01:54:20
love him for it like I said in01:54:22
yesterday's entry01:54:23
some people get a knight in shining01:54:24
armor but I got a guy that convinces01:54:26
people to handcuff themselves together01:54:28
so I'm not embarrassed in public and one01:54:30
who marches into a women's bathroom with01:54:32
his shirt tied around his head as a01:54:33
blindfold so that I can pee and enjoy a01:54:36
movie all things considered I will01:54:38
gladly put up with more of these01:54:40
ridiculous challenges and choose my01:54:42
idiot over any knight in shining armor01:54:44
just do not expect me to do many more of01:54:47
these challenges01:54:49
those of you smart enough to subscribe01:54:52
to our channel have probably already01:54:53
seen our episodes on the recent craze01:54:55
sweeping men all over the world six-pack01:54:57
ABS courtesy of cosmetic surgery our01:55:00
deep dive into this new craze amongst01:55:01
men revealed some pretty disturbing01:55:03
things like for instance the fact that01:55:05
men now opt for cosmetic surgery at a01:55:07
greater rate than women selfie culture01:55:10
seems to be taking a pretty big hit on01:55:12
the egos of men around the world but01:55:13
what if you don't have thousands of01:55:15
dollars to spend on a quick surgical01:55:17
upgrade or what if you prefer to do01:55:19
things the more natural way stay tuned01:55:21
as we once more puts your favorite and01:55:23
our least important staff writer through01:55:25
the wringer and challenge him to shape01:55:27
up or ship out as he does sit-ups for 9001:55:30
days straight day one well as far as01:55:33
insane challenges go I guess I should01:55:35
count my lucky stars that this one is01:55:37
pretty mild doing sit-ups for 90 days is01:55:39
probably the thema sting that01:55:41
infographics has put me through in a01:55:42
long time maybe ever and that guess I01:55:45
could use it I like to stay in shape but01:55:47
I have an unreasonable hatred of doing01:55:49
any kind of ab workout it's exhausting01:55:51
on an emotional level like having to be01:55:53
the shoulder your friend cry zone after01:55:55
the guy you warned her to never date01:55:57
inevitably breaks up with her only it's01:55:59
my abs doing the crime if you followed01:56:01
these challenge episodes you might01:56:02
remember that I also hate running and01:56:04
for exactly the same reason complete and01:56:07
utterly boring exercises I know01:56:09
firsthand the benefits of constant01:56:11
sit-ups though and used to rock a01:56:13
six-pack throughout my military career01:56:15
thanks to all the constant running and01:56:17
ab exercises01:56:18
seriously the military loves making you01:56:20
do sit-ups it's the weirdest thing in01:56:22
the world and almost on a fetish level01:56:24
but you're always doing some variation01:56:25
of ab exercise from situps to burpees01:56:28
there were daily lunges mountain01:56:30
climbers burpees side planks Superman's01:56:32
bicycle crunches Godzilla stomps Russian01:56:35
twists and butterfly kicks so many01:56:37
insane ways to torture your abs that you01:56:39
probably did realize I made one of those01:56:41
up so I guess I'll be hopping in a time01:56:44
machine and going back in time to01:56:45
restart my old daily exercise routine I01:56:48
stopped my normal exercising for a few01:56:50
weeks before this to get a better sense01:56:52
of how effective this would be for the01:56:53
sake of the challenge so I'm looking01:56:55
forward to not feeling flabby and gross01:56:57
again but I am NOT looking forward to01:56:59
the actual exercises there's literally01:57:01
none more tedious than amp workouts except01:57:04
maybe running my routine will consist of01:57:06
the following in sets of 320 butterfly01:57:09
kicks 20 traditional crunches 20 Russian01:57:12
twists 20 elbow to knee crunches 2001:57:15
burpees 20 mountain climbers don't01:57:17
expect that I'll be able to fully01:57:18
complete 3 sets at first and it'll take01:57:20
a while so if you're following at home01:57:22
and can only do one of the sets or a01:57:23
part of one of the sets don't sweat it01:57:25
just keep at it and note how you01:57:27
gradually get better and better that01:57:29
kind of slow improvement is a great01:57:30
source of inspiration I'll check in01:57:32
every 30 days so I guess I'll see you01:57:34
guys in a month day 30 as predicted I01:57:38
couldn't fulfill all three sets of each01:57:40
exercise at the start in my regular life01:57:41
I stay pretty fit but since I stopped01:57:44
exercising for a few weeks in01:57:45
preparation for this challenge I01:57:47
definitely lost a lot of stamina and01:57:49
strength I could barely crank out the first set01:57:51
on each exercise at first and now at the01:57:53
end of the month I'm hitting the full 301:57:55
sets but definitely feel like I'm about01:57:57
to die at the end as far as my actual01:57:59
apps well they're definitely noticeable01:58:02
when I press down on my stomach but01:58:03
they're not super well defined you can01:58:05
see a vague shape but I'm not rocking a01:58:07
noticeable six-pack sadly that's gonna01:58:10
take a lot more work I guess I do feel01:58:12
better about myself overall though it's01:58:15
nice to be exercising again and I kind01:58:16
of miss getting the blood pumping every01:58:18
morning I've never been an exercise junkie I01:58:20
just do it because I like the results01:58:22
and because I need to but I don't get01:58:24
literal pleasure out of it the way my01:58:26
girlfriend does but I think she's insane01:58:28
never fully trust anyone who says they01:58:31
honestly enjoy exercise they're probably01:58:33
not really human probably some weird01:58:35
space alien in disguise01:58:37
waiting for you to drop your guard so it01:58:39
can harvest your brains see you guys in01:58:41
another 30 if my brain hasn't been01:58:43
harvested day 60 so over the last 3001:58:47
days the workout routines have become a01:58:49
lot easier to the point that doing the01:58:51
entire 3 sets of each exercise it's not01:58:53
a problem I'm still ending a bit winded01:58:55
but I definitely feel that I could push01:58:57
it harder if I really wanted to I know I01:58:59
talked a lot of trash about exercise01:59:01
rightfully so but honestly getting to01:59:03
the point where you're doing things you01:59:04
could barely even start doing weeks ago01:59:06
does feel pretty good there's few things01:59:09
in life with such clearly defined goals01:59:11
or moments of success as with exercise01:59:13
rarely in life do you fizz01:59:15
they see the goal you're striving01:59:16
towards then realize the exact moment01:59:18
you've achieved it and the moment where01:59:20
you're ready to push past it as far as01:59:22
my body well you could definitely see ab01:59:24
muscles and I guess I'm rocking what you01:59:26
call a four pack not gonna lie to you01:59:28
I don't know if I'll be able to get to01:59:30
the six pack my diet is a bit all over01:59:32
the place and honestly all the insane01:59:34
info graphics challenges aren't helping01:59:36
in that regard but more importantly I01:59:38
just don't live the lifestyle I used to01:59:40
last time I had a clearly defined01:59:41
six-pack it was basically my job to01:59:43
workout and keep in fighting shape and01:59:45
my diet was pretty well defined thanks01:59:47
to the chow hall and MREs out in the01:59:49
field now I definitely do a lot less01:59:51
cardio spend a lot less time in 100 plus01:59:54
degree temperatures and eat a lot more01:59:56
terrible snacks I feel like getting to01:59:58
an actual well-defined six-pack is an02:00:00
entire lifestyle choice and I have no02:00:02
interest in that I enjoy overeating02:00:05
occasionally and devouring an entire pan02:00:07
of cheesecake once in a blue moon I have02:00:09
one more month left to go but I'm not02:00:11
confident I'll be seeing a six-pack by02:00:12
the end of this day 90 90 day sit-up02:00:17
challenge complete and the journey was02:00:19
rough then got okay and then I don't02:00:22
know all the exercising just got to be02:00:24
part of my daily routine not gonna02:00:25
pretend that exercise routines are easy02:00:27
and I'll admit that if it wasn't02:00:29
literally my job to have committed every02:00:31
day to this routine I would have taken02:00:33
plenty of cheat days but as anyone02:00:35
following along at home knows starting02:00:37
this journey is pretty damn difficult02:00:38
especially when you're wheezing and02:00:40
gasping through the first few reps in02:00:42
your first set in time though it gets02:00:44
easier and it feels pretty satisfying to02:00:46
see yourself pushing past year old02:00:47
limits eventually if you stick with it02:00:49
long enough it kind of becomes part of02:00:51
your nature surely you'll take your cheat days but I02:00:53
think the longer you stick with the02:00:55
routine the harder becomes to actually02:00:56
quit that routine because it just starts02:00:58
to feel unnatural to not do it after 9002:01:02
days my 60-day prediction held true I'm02:01:04
definitely not rocking a six-pack but02:01:06
it's not because the muscles aren't02:01:07
there the muscles are definitely there02:01:09
but I just didn't commit to a complete02:01:11
diet change that would trim all the02:01:13
excess fat around my midsection in the02:01:15
belly that's the thing about working at02:01:17
your abs it's not just gonna get rid of02:01:19
every ounce of belly fat02:01:20
unless you're carefully monitoring every02:01:22
bite of food you eat it's called diet02:01:24
and exercise for a reason02:01:26
I am however rocking a pretty nice four02:01:28
pack with some great definition and well02:01:31
if it kind of does a lot for yourself02:01:32
esteem also the girlfriend is02:01:34
practically in love with it so that's a02:01:36
pretty big plus in the end though02:01:37
getting those results is a personal02:01:39
choice and if you can't find a reason to02:01:41
want this for yourself not what other02:01:43
people think about it sticking to a02:01:45
workout routine like this probably isn't02:01:46
going to be realistic02:01:48
I really wish any of you following at02:01:50
home good luck and I encourage you to02:01:51
stick with it getting in shape feels02:01:53
great and it's great for your health and02:01:55
take it from me I know what it's like to02:01:57
want to quit but don't keep with it and02:01:59
you'll see some pretty awesome results02:02:01
in time now if you'll excuse me I have02:02:03
to go buy a bunch of super douchey02:02:05
name-brand workout clothes and take a02:02:06
series of really obnoxious Instagram02:02:08
pictures in front of a gym mirror the02:02:11
public bathroom is there anything more02:02:13
profile than disgusting yet completely02:02:15
frustratingly necessary in our02:02:17
civilization than the communal pot study02:02:19
after study has shown that public02:02:21
restrooms are germ factories and if02:02:23
you've seen some of our own episodes on02:02:25
the subject then you probably haven't02:02:26
used a public restroom since but what if02:02:29
that was your only option what if your02:02:31
sacred porcelain throne was forever out02:02:33
of reach and your only recourse was to02:02:35
use a public bathroom instead every02:02:38
single day every single time we're once02:02:42
more delving into the deepest scientific02:02:44
mysteries known to man and forcing your02:02:46
favorite and our least important writer02:02:48
to use only public bathrooms for a week02:02:51
straight day one thanks YouTube really I02:02:55
mean thank you so much for feeding the02:02:57
Satanists who run the infographics show02:02:59
even more ridiculous ways to make my02:03:01
life as inconvenient disgusting and02:03:03
painful as possible what's next YouTube02:03:05
challenge I ate only live Hornets for a02:03:08
month straight I should probably keep my02:03:09
mouth shut and not give infographics any02:03:11
ideas but I'm pretty sure even they02:03:14
wouldn't go that far02:03:15
not gonna lie though I had second and02:03:17
then third thoughts about that last day02:03:18
so here's the thing my girlfriend used02:03:20
to hate these challenges and sometimes02:03:22
she still does the no lying for a week02:03:24
pretty much torpedoed our social life02:03:26
and she made me sleep on the sofa when I02:03:28
couldn't shower for a month straight but02:03:30
lately she's kind of been enjoying these02:03:32
new challenges I don't know if she sees02:03:34
it as a payback for all my other02:03:35
shenanigans but I swear I see the little02:03:38
devil growing on her head when I tell her02:03:40
things like hey babe guess what I can't02:03:43
use the bathroom in the house for the02:03:44
next week I swear she's in cahoots with02:03:47
the infographic staff okay so no house02:03:50
bathroom for a week I had to sit down02:03:52
and think out the logistics of this one02:03:53
because obviously this means I'll have02:03:55
to be trying to find a public bathroom02:03:57
every single time I have to use one the02:03:59
dog gets to pee and poop outside and02:04:01
nobody bats an eye but I'm pretty sure02:04:03
that if I tried the same thing someone02:04:05
would call the police talk about double02:04:07
standards it's the exact same stuff so02:04:10
in order to make this feasible I plotted02:04:12
out all the local businesses in their02:04:13
hours of operation luckily I happen to02:04:16
live literally right next door to a02:04:17
7-eleven so popping over next door in02:04:20
the middle of the night for a whiz it's02:04:21
no problem I go in there all the time02:04:23
now four years so I'm pretty familiar02:04:25
with the guys behind the counter and I02:04:27
think it'll be no big deal to use the02:04:29
bathroom even in the middle of the night02:04:30
there's also a Starbucks across the02:04:32
street which is great because their02:04:34
bathroom is open in the seating area as02:04:36
opposed to the 7-eleven bathroom which02:04:38
is in the employees only area that means02:04:40
I don't have to ask permission at02:04:41
Starbucks and I've already decided on a02:04:43
cover story for using the bathroom02:04:45
everywhere else my apartment is02:04:47
undergoing renovations luckily for me02:04:48
I've always been on good terms with the02:04:50
guys who run the 7-eleven next door so02:04:52
I'm pretty sure I'll have a reliable02:04:53
access to that toilet for emergencies02:04:56
there is also a gas station across the02:04:58
street but again that one's the type02:05:00
where you have to ask for a key and to02:05:01
be perfectly honest I think I've been02:05:03
incited like twice in the last seven02:05:05
years and lived here I think my strategy02:05:07
is going to be this spread out the02:05:08
bathrooms that use so that I don't wear02:05:10
out my welcome anywhere or at least so02:05:12
people don't think I'm the biggest02:05:13
weirdo on planet earth I think the gas02:05:16
station would be good for two maybe02:05:17
three visits tops though just because02:05:20
I'm really not familiar with the staff02:05:21
there there is a large grocery store02:05:23
also across the street but their's are02:05:25
also the types of bathrooms you other02:05:27
asked to use I go there pretty regularly02:05:29
but after my wearing women's makeup for02:05:31
a week and the no lying for a week02:05:33
stunts I'm not sure how welcome I am to02:05:35
be frequenting their bathrooms they02:05:37
already probably think I'm the weirdest02:05:38
person in town and02:05:39
I really don't want to add to my02:05:41
reputation there is thankfully a Carl's02:05:43
jr. also across the street though which02:05:45
I can use at any time because they are a02:05:47
24/7 restaurant the bathrooms there are02:05:49
also public okay so I have my battle02:05:52
plan now plotted out my number two02:05:54
locations for the next week honestly02:05:55
doing all this work to figure out where02:05:57
I'm gonna be droppin deuces for the next02:05:59
seven days kinda made me realize that my02:06:01
life is very weird I can just imagine02:06:04
trying to explain my job to someone oh02:06:06
how was work this week well I had to02:06:08
calculate where I was going to do my02:06:09
bathroom business for the last seven02:06:11
days you know normal nine-to-five stuff02:06:13
see you guys in a few days day four okay02:06:16
well I'm not entirely sure what kind of02:06:19
resources infographics has at its02:06:20
disposal but I'm really trying to not02:06:23
believe that they have the power to shut02:06:24
down an entire restaurant while02:06:26
simultaneously breaking the toilet in a02:06:28
completely separate venue here's the02:06:29
thing remember how earlier this week I02:06:31
said it was going to use Carl's jr. and02:06:33
the 7-eleven for most of my02:06:35
around-the-clock toilet needs well on02:06:36
day two the Carl's jr. which has been02:06:38
happily doing business right across the02:06:40
street for seven years that I've been02:06:42
living here suddenly closed up a sign on02:06:44
the door says that it's closed down for02:06:46
good and won't you please visit the02:06:48
other location that's only three freakin02:06:50
miles away talk about a wrench in the02:06:52
plans but wait because as our good02:06:55
friend Billy Mays may he rest in peace02:06:57
would say there's more on day three the02:07:00
toilet at 7-eleven broke my primary and02:07:03
then my backup locations for02:07:04
round-the-clock toilet access are02:07:06
officially gone and what's worse is that02:07:08
those were the only 24-hour spots that02:07:11
are open around here the gas station02:07:13
across the street only leaves the pump02:07:14
zone at night so no employee inside02:07:17
I've always loved where we live at02:07:18
because even though it's in the middle02:07:20
of the city it's in an area that's not02:07:21
too developed with businesses and it's02:07:23
mostly residential that means no traffic02:07:25
and no giant office buildings and all02:07:27
the noise that goes along with city life02:07:29
instead we have parks trees grass and02:07:32
places to play fetch with your dog it02:07:33
also means that if you're dumb enough to02:07:35
have a job that requires you not to do02:07:37
your business at home for a full week02:07:38
you're kind of Sol when it comes to late02:07:40
night bathrooms02:07:41
it's not like I could just go knock on02:07:43
my neighbor's door at 2:00 a.m. and ask02:07:45
to use the can so I found a solution for02:07:47
my late-night problems and it's not02:07:49
perfect and I'm not particularly happy02:07:51
about it but well it works for me I got02:07:54
the inspiration from my dog and I could02:07:56
bet most of you already know where this02:07:58
is going see he gets to pee and poo basically02:08:01
anywhere he pleases as long as it's02:08:02
outside and like the stupid humans that02:08:04
we are we've come along behind him and02:08:06
pick up his poop with plastic bags which02:08:09
really begs the question of who's the02:08:11
actual master in the relationship no I'm02:08:13
not going in plastic bags but believe02:08:15
you me it's not like the thought didn't02:08:17
cross my mind instead of going on that02:08:19
you're ow02:08:20
there's a large empty lot a short walk02:08:22
across the street from my apartment02:08:23
complex where huge power lines run02:08:25
through it's fenced off with a low fence02:08:27
and ringed on both sides by houses with02:08:29
their own walls or fences there's a keep02:08:32
out sign posted there because of the big02:08:33
power pylons and some waterworks02:08:35
plumbing but I usually ignore it and02:08:37
take the dog in there to throw the ball02:08:39
and let it run around off leash this is02:08:41
my new bathroom and it's perfect because02:08:43
the trees at the front that blocked the02:08:44
line of sight from the field to the road02:08:46
and it's the perfect place for incognito02:08:48
poos but I'm not gonna lie I feel like a02:08:51
criminal sneaking off to drop a deuce in02:08:53
secret and out in public again the dog02:08:55
does it literally every day but I'm02:08:57
pretty sure it's a criminal offence if I02:08:59
get caught as far as my regular public02:09:01
restroom use goes though hum man it's02:09:03
bad what is it with people that when02:09:06
they get into a public restroom they02:09:07
literally lose their damn minds you can02:09:10
take a normal civilized human being who02:09:12
regularly uses the toilet at home and02:09:14
then stick them in a public restroom and02:09:16
they can walk away leaving a catastrophe02:09:18
behind it's like people literally don't02:09:20
understand how to use sinks and turn02:09:21
them on full blast so water goes02:09:23
everywhere or like they've just had a02:09:25
hand transplant surgery and their pee02:09:27
goes literally everywhere and don't get02:09:29
me started on the biggest mystery of all02:09:31
why in the blue blazes do people not02:09:33
flush their turds after dropping them02:09:35
what could possibly compel a normal02:09:37
person to drop a deuce in a public02:09:39
toilet and then literally just walk away02:09:41
like it's the normal thing to do a gift02:09:44
then most public toilets are automatic02:09:46
which by the way I suspect our only02:09:48
maduk because of this exact problem but02:09:50
I'm pretty sure your toilet at home02:09:52
isn't automatic you know how to flush02:09:54
why do you have to be this way but the02:09:56
biggest mystery is when there's no02:09:58
toilet paper in the bowl that's right02:10:00
somebody just did their business and02:10:01
then literally just walked away just02:10:03
drop and go no wipe no flush just flop02:10:06
it turbo on out of the bathroom day02:10:08
seven I have to hand it to the02:10:10
infographic show because they02:10:12
consistently make me grateful for the02:10:14
things I have in my life by denying me02:10:16
their use I never failed to appreciate a02:10:18
shower lately after that month-long02:10:20
Fiasco of no showers and I practically02:10:23
tell my phone I love you every morning02:10:25
after a week of no phone use my home02:10:27
toilet is no different I don't have an02:10:29
excuse though I've been deployed before02:10:31
when I was in the military and I'm no02:10:32
stranger to lacking facilities I guess02:10:35
I've gone soft though because I02:10:36
definitely have not appreciated my02:10:38
toilet as much as I should have and this02:10:40
week of using nothing but public02:10:42
restrooms has taught me the error of my02:10:44
over privileged ways what can I say02:10:46
about my experience how can I possibly02:10:48
sum this up for you viewers at home its02:10:51
equal parts terrible and disgusting02:10:53
someone once said that you can judge how02:10:55
civilized the society is by the way they02:10:56
treat their prisoners but they were dead02:10:58
wrong dead wrong you can judge how02:11:01
civilized the society is by the state of02:11:03
its public restrooms and the state of02:11:05
America's public restrooms are an02:11:06
absolute nightmare if aliens came to02:11:09
earth and wanted to know how enlightened02:11:10
they were they would step into a public02:11:12
restroom and immediately rush out laying02:11:14
waste to our entire planet with their02:11:16
death rays just to keep us from02:11:17
spreading into the galaxy we are02:11:19
Neanderthals who after tens of thousands02:11:22
of years haven't yet figured out what02:11:23
proper bathroom etiquette is here's some02:11:25
simple rules based off my observations02:11:27
of public restrooms over the last week02:11:29
first flush if your toilet is an02:11:31
automatic hit the flush lever if it is02:11:33
automatic and it doesn't flush hit the02:11:35
button there's always one then calmly02:11:37
make your way to the sink and simply02:11:39
turn on the water to a moderate and02:11:41
reasonable pressure don't park her02:11:43
across the stalls and blast the water02:11:45
like you're putting out a seven-story02:11:46
fire then02:11:47
take a single paper towel and dry your02:11:49
hands don't rip up every paper towel out02:11:52
of the holder and start to shred it into02:11:53
confetti like you're throwing a bathroom02:11:55
themed Brazilian Carnival oh and if you02:11:58
need to number two then for the sake of02:12:00
everyone around you02:12:01
wipe before you leave how some people02:12:03
haven't figured this one out yet is02:12:04
beyond me02:12:06
cable subscriptions around the country02:12:09
are in decline as internet streaming02:12:11
services take the place of expensive02:12:12
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