1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Hey, you're welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh and 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: there's Chuck and it's just the Juck Josh Show, the 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: short Stuff. Let's just start. I thought something happens when 4 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: we do short stuff because I'm trying to do something different. 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: And then I felt it. We've been doing this such 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: a good job for thirteen years, and whenever we do 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: short stuff, you're just like, I don't know how to 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: do this anymore. Right, I don't something, but I think 9 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: it has to do with just trying to trying too hard. There, 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 1: it is all right, they're looser, and I think it's 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: I think it's fine. Oh maybe I'm not trying hard enough. Then, 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: so Chuck. Since we're laughing here, let's talk about laughing. 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: Great setup. Thank you again, I'm not trying hard enough. 14 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: I don't know where we talked about this, but we 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: we did a little sidebar and this many many years 16 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: ago and some episode. I don't know what it was, 17 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter, because the funny Bone deserves its 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: own little shorty episode. Everyone knows what we're talking about. 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: We're talking about when you whack your elbow like on 20 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: the corner of a counter or something, and you get 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: that weird singular pain, singular sensation everywhere around the world. 22 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's kind of painful, but it's kind 23 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: of stingy and shocky feeling, and it's and it does 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: kind of make you laugh sometimes. It's like it's a weird. 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a singular feeling, unlike hitting any 26 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: other part of your body. It's hitting your funny bone. 27 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: That's right, So it kind of that's why it has 28 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: its own name and its own thing. It is its own, 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: its own experience for sure. Um and no one apparently 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: from anywhere I could see, is quite sure exactly where 31 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: the funny bone got its name, because what you're doing 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: there is hitting your funny bone. But what you're hitting 33 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: is not really a bone. It's a nerve. Although some 34 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: people think that it got its name from the bone 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: right above this area that you're hitting. The humorous which 36 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: I like because it's that's what I heard from the playground. Yeah, 37 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: it's a little play on words. I think I might 38 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: have heard that in the playground too. That's one of 39 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: those first little kid factoids that they think, you know, 40 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: you know what it's called that it is because it's 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: the humorous bone. Right. I think you're absolutely right. And 42 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: then somebody else says, hey, you want some liquor made, 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 1: and the other kid says, I'll sue you're dead. It's right, 44 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: and then recess is over and you wonder where your 45 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: life's gone, and you just go inside and eat glue 46 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: and boogers. There you go. Yeah, you get right back 47 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: on top of the horse. That's right. So, um, the 48 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 1: funny bone isn't a bone. I think probably everybody knows that. 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: I regret saying it now, you know that I think 50 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: about it. Um. But what you're actually doing is hitting 51 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: a nerve, a specific big nerve called the ulnar nerve 52 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: that's responsible for it's really niche. It's responsible for the sensation, 53 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: singular sensation in your ring finger and your pinky finger, 54 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: and you have one on each arm because you have 55 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: a ring finger and peaky finger on each arm. Ostensibly 56 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: both are receiving um uh sensation and they're getting it 57 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: from the ulnar nerve you have in each of your 58 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: your arms. Yeah. It begins in your spine and it 59 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: goes from your neck all the way all the way 60 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: down your arm, all the way past your elbow, all 61 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: the way to the tips of those little fingers there, 62 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: and it's I think there are only three primary nerves 63 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: for your arm, and that's one of them. And the 64 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: big roll of that is, aside from the sensation of 65 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: those fingertips, is helping those muscles out, helping your hand 66 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: coordinate movement, fine movement, and your grip, like helping your 67 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: forearm control grip, which, by the way, I just had 68 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: a very weird sense. And I don't get massages much, 69 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: but I just got a massage recently and this dude 70 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: worked me over in the best way. But he did 71 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: this thing where he was rolling down the inside of 72 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: my forearm with his arm, and every time he hit 73 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: like the midpoint, like Luke Skywalker, my my hand would 74 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: just clint shut. Oh it's cool. It was so weird feeling, 75 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: and I laughed. I was like, well, that feels really weird. 76 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: And I tried to keep it from happening, and he 77 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: would roll down my forearm my inner form, and my 78 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: hand would just go group and close shut, just like 79 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: Empire strikes back. It was very strange. I'll bet it 80 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: was funny for him to watch. You try to play 81 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: off like it wasn't a thing. Yeah, I tried to. 82 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: I don't let that guy was like, I'm gonna give 83 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: him another one of these. It was pretty great actually, 84 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: So they call it the kung Fu grip move. I 85 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: believe that's what it felt like. But yeah, that made 86 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: me think of those I mean, that's what's going on 87 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: with those nerves. Yeah, I wonder if he was hitting 88 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: your ulner nerve. Probably, but you said something, you said 89 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: a little a little jackpot tapeit there, Chuck. That was 90 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: the ulnar nerve goes from your spine to your neck, 91 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: down your arm, through your elbow to your hand. And 92 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 1: it is where it passes through your elbow that the 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: potential for hitting your phony bone in that extremely weird 94 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: singular sensation um can take place. It feels like a 95 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: cliffhanger to me, I think, so all right, we'll be 96 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: back and until you what's going on in that little 97 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: spot we're at after this? All right, here we are, 98 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: we're in your elbow and here's the big reveal a little. 99 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: You have a little tunnel there. I'm so creeped out 100 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: that the ulnar nerve goes through called the cubital tunnel. 101 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: It's very small. It's about four millimeters long. And it 102 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: goes underneath. You know that bump, the little bony bump 103 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: on your elbow is called the medial uh oh man, 104 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: I had it earlier, epicond dial. It's like our gyle, 105 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: but our gyles cousin epicond dial. Alright, So your medial 106 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: epicond dial. And that's that little bony bump on the 107 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: inside of the back of your elbow. There and right 108 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: there is where that nerve is sandwich between your bone 109 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: and your skin. And there's the reason it's really easy 110 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: to get hurt. It's because there's not a lot there, 111 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: and especially if your elbow is bent, it's kind of 112 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: right there under the skin, right, So when you hit 113 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: it just right, when your elbows bent, you're mashing your 114 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: nerve against between the bone above it and whatever hard 115 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: surface you're hitting it on. And the reason why you're 116 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: hitting your funny bonus so weird is two fold. I 117 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: have the impression, Chuck, that if you're other nerves in 118 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: your body were similarly exposed, like the ulnar nerve is 119 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: through the when it enters the cubital tunnel, that if 120 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: you hit those nerves you would have the same singular sensation. 121 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: But you don't have nerves that are exposed like that 122 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: elsewhere in your body, which is why it's just it's 123 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: just the funny bone. But that's the point. You're actually 124 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: banging a nerve and you don't normally do that, which 125 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: produces a different kind of pain than the normal pain 126 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: you get, like when you accidentally like hit yourself in 127 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: the testicles. Well, it's funny you bring that up, because 128 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: I wonder if there's a shorty on that, because that 129 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: is also a singular sensational pain. Okay, save it, save it. 130 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: Let me just say it's different than when you, uh 131 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: accidentally punch yourself in the stomach. You're like dough. It's 132 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: weird that you mentioned testicles because that is a pain 133 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: that feels different than any other pain. It is, and 134 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: I think it was a terrible example now that you 135 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: now that you say that, but I'm glad that I 136 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: said it because it brought up a future short stuff 137 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: for us. That's right, But what you're talking about is 138 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: the difference between no susceptive pain and actual nerve pain. 139 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: No susceptive being the perception of pain, like when you 140 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: stub your toe or something, and your body using the 141 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: nerves send signals that say, like, you need more clearance 142 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: around your bed, dummy, don't do that again. Uh, Whereas 143 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: the other kind of pain is actual literal pain on 144 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: that nerve. Yeah, Like the nerves are involved in no susception, 145 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: but they're just kind of like, oh, it's time to 146 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: get to work and let this guy noticed stop doing that. 147 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: But that nerve pain is the actual nerve being hurt, 148 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: And so it says I'm reserving a special kind of 149 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: pain for myself. Yeah, that's right. I don't know if 150 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: you remember a couple of years ago when I banged 151 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: my shin really badly. I did some kind of nerve 152 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: damage and for six months I had a four inch 153 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: space where it was just dead on the front of 154 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: my leg my shin. It felt like it was is 155 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. I'm glad. 156 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: And it was just kicking my bed. Yeah, I mean, 157 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: the numbness was fine, Like I mean it was it 158 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: weirded me out, but when it actually happened, I cried. 159 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: I like, I like crumbled to the floor and like 160 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't crying, but like water just started pouring out 161 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: of my eyes and it hurts so bad. No, that 162 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: wasn't like I know you mean, it was just like 163 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: the body's reaction was, all right, we're gonna start sending 164 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: water out of your eyeballs. Now, Yeah, that is a 165 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: weird reaction or response if you think about it, it is. 166 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: But the stuff, right, the one good thing about hitting 167 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: your funny bone, in particular hitting that nerve is after 168 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: a very short while, especially if you rub it for 169 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: some weird reason, it will um subside and you'll be 170 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: you'll go back to normal, like, you won't have that 171 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: pain any longer. And by the way, there's one other 172 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: thing about that um funny bone pain that reveals that 173 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: it's the ulnar nerve you're hitting. You'll notice that that 174 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: pain shoots all the way down into your pinkie and 175 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: your ring finger because the ulnar nerve terminates there. Oh, 176 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: I don't know if I've noticed that. It's been a 177 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: while since I've hit the old funny nerve, and so 178 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start calling it. Okay, what about a cubital 179 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: tunnel syndrome. That's another thing, right, It's like a chronic condition. Yeah, 180 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: that's how I was gonna say. There's some cases where 181 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: you can have like a strained ulnar nerve and it 182 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: can produce chronic pain. Is that tennis elbow? Uh? I 183 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know why they wouldn't call it 184 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: tennis elbow? Uh. It seems a little bizarre not to 185 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: but but maybe who knows. Just curious. But there was 186 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: let's see, this was a Methodist hospital website. We have 187 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: to thank a BBC site um and a couple other 188 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: good ones. That was Jamaica Hospitals dot org. I love 189 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: that one. That's a classic. I wish that whole exchange 190 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: would just be printed on a T shirt. Maybe we 191 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: could sell that as a non fungible token. Oh that's 192 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: a good one. But but then somebody would just getting sued. 193 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: So no, I didn't hear that. What are you talking about? 194 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: He's trying to sell pulp fiction, n f t s. 195 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: He's trying to sell scenes from pulp fiction and Mirrormax 196 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: is like, you don't own that? Wow, Yeah, that's interesting, 197 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: surprising that he would do that. He's been in the 198 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,839 Speaker 1: business long enough that you'd think he would know what 199 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: he can and can't do. You would think, well, you 200 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: got anything else? Nope? Okay, Well everybody that means short 201 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: stuff is out. Stuff you Should Know is a production 202 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 1: of I heart Radio. 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