WEBVTT - Short Stuff: Funny Bone 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.320 Hey, you're welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh and 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.280 there's Chuck and it's just the Juck Josh Show, the 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:18.200 short Stuff. Let's just start. I thought something happens when 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.079 we do short stuff because I'm trying to do something different. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.440 And then I felt it. We've been doing this such 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.280 a good job for thirteen years, and whenever we do 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.200 short stuff, you're just like, I don't know how to 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.840 do this anymore. Right, I don't something, but I think 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.640 it has to do with just trying to trying too hard. There, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.160 it is all right, they're looser, and I think it's 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.800 I think it's fine. Oh maybe I'm not trying hard enough. Then, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.800 so Chuck. Since we're laughing here, let's talk about laughing. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.960 Great setup. Thank you again, I'm not trying hard enough. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.400 I don't know where we talked about this, but we 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.240 we did a little sidebar and this many many years 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.600 ago and some episode. I don't know what it was, 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.920 but it doesn't matter, because the funny Bone deserves its 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.080 own little shorty episode. Everyone knows what we're talking about. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.600 We're talking about when you whack your elbow like on 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.119 the corner of a counter or something, and you get 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:24.920 that weird singular pain, singular sensation everywhere around the world. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.080 It's it's it's it's kind of painful, but it's kind 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.840 of stingy and shocky feeling, and it's and it does 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.800 kind of make you laugh sometimes. It's like it's a weird. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.400 Like I said, it's a singular feeling, unlike hitting any 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.840 other part of your body. It's hitting your funny bone. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.319 That's right, So it kind of that's why it has 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.480 its own name and its own thing. It is its own, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:55.280 its own experience for sure. Um and no one apparently 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.480 from anywhere I could see, is quite sure exactly where 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.240 the funny bone got its name, because what you're doing 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.040 there is hitting your funny bone. But what you're hitting 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.680 is not really a bone. It's a nerve. Although some 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.720 people think that it got its name from the bone 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.080 right above this area that you're hitting. The humorous which 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.800 I like because it's that's what I heard from the playground. Yeah, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.800 it's a little play on words. I think I might 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.040 have heard that in the playground too. That's one of 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.040 those first little kid factoids that they think, you know, 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.760 you know what it's called that it is because it's 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.680 the humorous bone. Right. I think you're absolutely right. And 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.440 then somebody else says, hey, you want some liquor made, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.399 and the other kid says, I'll sue you're dead. It's right, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.280 and then recess is over and you wonder where your 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.640 life's gone, and you just go inside and eat glue 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.040 and boogers. There you go. Yeah, you get right back 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.120 on top of the horse. That's right. So, um, the 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.679 funny bone isn't a bone. I think probably everybody knows that. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.200 I regret saying it now, you know that I think 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.080 about it. Um. But what you're actually doing is hitting 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.799 a nerve, a specific big nerve called the ulnar nerve 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:07.200 that's responsible for it's really niche. It's responsible for the sensation, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:12.799 singular sensation in your ring finger and your pinky finger, 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.880 and you have one on each arm because you have 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.080 a ring finger and peaky finger on each arm. Ostensibly 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.400 both are receiving um uh sensation and they're getting it 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.480 from the ulnar nerve you have in each of your 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:30.720 your arms. Yeah. It begins in your spine and it 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.280 goes from your neck all the way all the way 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.080 down your arm, all the way past your elbow, all 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.120 the way to the tips of those little fingers there, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.120 and it's I think there are only three primary nerves 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.080 for your arm, and that's one of them. And the 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.800 big roll of that is, aside from the sensation of 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.120 those fingertips, is helping those muscles out, helping your hand 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.560 coordinate movement, fine movement, and your grip, like helping your 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.040 forearm control grip, which, by the way, I just had 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.680 a very weird sense. And I don't get massages much, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.960 but I just got a massage recently and this dude 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.440 worked me over in the best way. But he did 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.040 this thing where he was rolling down the inside of 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.440 my forearm with his arm, and every time he hit 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.279 like the midpoint, like Luke Skywalker, my my hand would 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.159 just clint shut. Oh it's cool. It was so weird feeling, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.159 and I laughed. I was like, well, that feels really weird. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.280 And I tried to keep it from happening, and he 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.359 would roll down my forearm my inner form, and my 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.839 hand would just go group and close shut, just like 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.120 Empire strikes back. It was very strange. I'll bet it 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.200 was funny for him to watch. You try to play 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.479 off like it wasn't a thing. Yeah, I tried to. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.880 I don't let that guy was like, I'm gonna give 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.840 him another one of these. It was pretty great actually, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.680 So they call it the kung Fu grip move. I 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.960 believe that's what it felt like. But yeah, that made 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.560 me think of those I mean, that's what's going on 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.440 with those nerves. Yeah, I wonder if he was hitting 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.599 your ulner nerve. Probably, but you said something, you said 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.839 a little a little jackpot tapeit there, Chuck. That was 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.000 the ulnar nerve goes from your spine to your neck, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.640 down your arm, through your elbow to your hand. And 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.359 it is where it passes through your elbow that the 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.880 potential for hitting your phony bone in that extremely weird 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.960 singular sensation um can take place. It feels like a 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.680 cliffhanger to me, I think, so all right, we'll be 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.360 back and until you what's going on in that little 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:57.560 spot we're at after this? All right, here we are, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.760 we're in your elbow and here's the big reveal a little. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.520 You have a little tunnel there. I'm so creeped out 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.840 that the ulnar nerve goes through called the cubital tunnel. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.039 It's very small. It's about four millimeters long. And it 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.520 goes underneath. You know that bump, the little bony bump 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.400 on your elbow is called the medial uh oh man, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:23.280 I had it earlier, epicond dial. It's like our gyle, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.320 but our gyles cousin epicond dial. Alright, So your medial 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.240 epicond dial. And that's that little bony bump on the 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.640 inside of the back of your elbow. There and right 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.440 there is where that nerve is sandwich between your bone 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.280 and your skin. And there's the reason it's really easy 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.360 to get hurt. It's because there's not a lot there, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.839 and especially if your elbow is bent, it's kind of 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.800 right there under the skin, right, So when you hit 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.920 it just right, when your elbows bent, you're mashing your 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.760 nerve against between the bone above it and whatever hard 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.840 surface you're hitting it on. And the reason why you're 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.919 hitting your funny bonus so weird is two fold. I 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.200 have the impression, Chuck, that if you're other nerves in 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.920 your body were similarly exposed, like the ulnar nerve is 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.960 through the when it enters the cubital tunnel, that if 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.880 you hit those nerves you would have the same singular sensation. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.920 But you don't have nerves that are exposed like that 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.560 elsewhere in your body, which is why it's just it's 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.560 just the funny bone. But that's the point. You're actually 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.320 banging a nerve and you don't normally do that, which 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.720 produces a different kind of pain than the normal pain 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.600 you get, like when you accidentally like hit yourself in 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.720 the testicles. Well, it's funny you bring that up, because 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.080 I wonder if there's a shorty on that, because that 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.440 is also a singular sensational pain. Okay, save it, save it. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.320 Let me just say it's different than when you, uh 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:55.680 accidentally punch yourself in the stomach. You're like dough. It's 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.200 weird that you mentioned testicles because that is a pain 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.480 that feels different than any other pain. It is, and 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.720 I think it was a terrible example now that you 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.720 now that you say that, but I'm glad that I 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.200 said it because it brought up a future short stuff 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.800 for us. That's right, But what you're talking about is 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.880 the difference between no susceptive pain and actual nerve pain. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.560 No susceptive being the perception of pain, like when you 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.440 stub your toe or something, and your body using the 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.240 nerves send signals that say, like, you need more clearance 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.880 around your bed, dummy, don't do that again. Uh, Whereas 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.000 the other kind of pain is actual literal pain on 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.280 that nerve. Yeah, Like the nerves are involved in no susception, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.320 but they're just kind of like, oh, it's time to 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.680 get to work and let this guy noticed stop doing that. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.040 But that nerve pain is the actual nerve being hurt, 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.320 And so it says I'm reserving a special kind of 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:50.679 pain for myself. Yeah, that's right. I don't know if 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.839 you remember a couple of years ago when I banged 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.000 my shin really badly. I did some kind of nerve 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.240 damage and for six months I had a four inch 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.280 space where it was just dead on the front of 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.760 my leg my shin. It felt like it was is 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.480 the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. I'm glad. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.520 And it was just kicking my bed. Yeah, I mean, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.720 the numbness was fine, Like I mean it was it 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.440 weirded me out, but when it actually happened, I cried. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.000 I like, I like crumbled to the floor and like 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.040 it wasn't crying, but like water just started pouring out 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.880 of my eyes and it hurts so bad. No, that 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.520 wasn't like I know you mean, it was just like 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.880 the body's reaction was, all right, we're gonna start sending 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.680 water out of your eyeballs. Now, Yeah, that is a 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.880 weird reaction or response if you think about it, it is. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.520 But the stuff, right, the one good thing about hitting 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.880 your funny bone, in particular hitting that nerve is after 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.600 a very short while, especially if you rub it for 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.160 some weird reason, it will um subside and you'll be 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.920 you'll go back to normal, like, you won't have that 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.800 pain any longer. And by the way, there's one other 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.240 thing about that um funny bone pain that reveals that 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.040 it's the ulnar nerve you're hitting. You'll notice that that 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.440 pain shoots all the way down into your pinkie and 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.360 your ring finger because the ulnar nerve terminates there. Oh, 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.920 I don't know if I've noticed that. It's been a 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.000 while since I've hit the old funny nerve, and so 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.800 I'm gonna start calling it. Okay, what about a cubital 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.960 tunnel syndrome. That's another thing, right, It's like a chronic condition. Yeah, 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.920 that's how I was gonna say. There's some cases where 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.080 you can have like a strained ulnar nerve and it 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.320 can produce chronic pain. Is that tennis elbow? Uh? I 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.520 don't know. I don't know why they wouldn't call it 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.880 tennis elbow? Uh. It seems a little bizarre not to 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:46.120 but but maybe who knows. Just curious. But there was 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.800 let's see, this was a Methodist hospital website. We have 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.400 to thank a BBC site um and a couple other 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.080 good ones. That was Jamaica Hospitals dot org. I love 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.400 that one. That's a classic. I wish that whole exchange 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.280 would just be printed on a T shirt. Maybe we 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.120 could sell that as a non fungible token. Oh that's 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.640 a good one. But but then somebody would just getting sued. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.880 So no, I didn't hear that. What are you talking about? 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.000 He's trying to sell pulp fiction, n f t s. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.400 He's trying to sell scenes from pulp fiction and Mirrormax 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.240 is like, you don't own that? Wow, Yeah, that's interesting, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.040 surprising that he would do that. He's been in the 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.839 business long enough that you'd think he would know what 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.160 he can and can't do. You would think, well, you 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.640 got anything else? Nope? 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