SciShow Tangents - Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 10

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on December 22, 2021 titled "Tangents Bonus Pod Ep 10: Warm Poopoopeepeepedia."Original Patreon description: We're trying to stay warm here in frigid Montana, so we discuss all things warm and cozy with ex-Tangents host, Stefan Chin!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X

Hello and welcome to the SciShow Tangents bonus episode for all of you Patreon patrons. It's the time when we play fast and loose with your questions and also with formats in general. I'm Hank Green and joining me as always is science expert, Sari Riley. Hello. And our resident every man, Sam Schultz. Hello.

Oh, I guess someone is at the door. Does our podcast have a door? I guess I should answer the podcast door. Surprise! Ho, ho, ho! Oh, it's- Stefan! Wow, it's long lost Tangents co-host Stefan Chin.

But Stefan, you said you wouldn't be able to make it home for the holidays this year. I had a lot of points on my Chase Sapphire card. Wow. It's a Christmas miracle. Well all of us are back under one roof next to this glowing fire on a warm, cold winter's eve. It's both because the fire is warm and it's cold and we've all got blankets.

Just imagine us with our blankets and our hot cocoa. So for this episode, we're gonna be talking about cozy things. And of course, we're also gonna be catching up with Stefan Chin. Stefan, how are you? Where are you? What are you? Well, I'm in the same location that I was last time I was on SciShow Tangents, sitting in my chair at my computer. I don't know what I am. That's a difficult question. How I am? Quite good. I've been accumulating podcast energy for the last year, so it's the blowout.

Yeah, Stefan's going to be on the Patreon Prime bonus episode as well. So if you're a big fan of Stefan. He's just going to be podcasting all over the place. He's a very desired guest. It's a big week. He's hot right now. All right. Let's call up an interview podcast.

I couldn't come up with one. Fresh Air. Dax Shepard. Okay. Fresh air is probably better. Let's get Stefan on NPR. Yeah. I'll just do the rounds. Stefan, I enjoyed your work on the episode about why monkeys pee in their own mouths.

Can you tell me more about that? I in fact cannot. All of the information leaves my brain. Was that an episode we did it should have been huh? Well, we do I mean we had a we we used to have a thing called SciShow after hours What was like a little too spicy for SciShow facts and there was some some monkey episodes that were not That were a bit mutt. Yeah, I Wouldn't even talk about them here.

They probably just do it because they're thirsty. What do you mean by thirsty? They need a drink. Oh. What do you mean, what do I mean? Well. What do you mean by thirsty, yeah. Do you know about the lingo these days?

Yeah, this lingo. Oh, no, no, no. They're just parched. Uh-huh, okay. That might be lingo too. They need a drink of water. Well, we're not going to talk at all about Monkey P at all ever again, at least on this episode. But in the meantime, we have some questions from our listeners. This question comes from Sophie, who asks, how does windchill work?

My professor insists that windchill doesn't exist and that you can't build up a layer of warm air around your body because the air outside circulates too fast for that even when there is no wind. Sophie, Sophie, I don't know what the heck is wrong. First of all, you like half answered the question, so everybody listening is confused. But even more confused is your professor who is just wrong. Have you lived in a cold place? Windchill exists.

Yeah, windchill definitely exists. But is it, so my impression would be that you can't build up a warm layer around your body if you don't have an extra piece of clothing that is allowing you to trap a warm layer. Correct. So, well, this is what, this is one of the ways that people talk

about what windchill is. They say that if, so if you're standing naked outside and you're pooping, you have to go poop outside in the winter. And so you've gone outside and you've got your bare butt out. Now it's a true episode of Poopy Peopepedia. So you had to go poop in the woods and it's very cold. And the idea is if it's not windy, if there's no wind blowing on your ass, your bare butt has created a thin layer of warmer air around it.

But if there's wind, then that warmer air is constantly getting blown away. And this is a way that people sort of try to intuitively discuss wind chill. Though this is not, this is kind of what's happening, but it's not really what's happening. But intuitively it is true that if your bare butt is out and it's the same temperature,

if the wind is blowing, your butt will be colder. We know that that's true. But I just feel like the air circulates too much. Isn't that what the whole thing about being outside during like COVID and like, okay, masks, maybe not as necessary because the air is circulating so much. Air moves around a lot. I don't know.

I mean, but I guess if it's the winter and your butt's out. So what I think the professor has done is the professor has gone too literal with the bubble of warmth analogy. It is not like an impervious bubble of warmth. Does this track with you, Sarah? Yes, yeah. I think that's my understanding

of the professor's misunderstanding. Understanding. And pedagogy. I'm sorry, if they listen to this podcast, I'm already against authority a little bit. So it just digs in. But yeah, it's not like, it's not like there's a bubble of warmth, but your body temperature, your core body temperature, and therefore like your

skin most of the time is going to be at a higher temperature than the air around you. So as heat transfers, you will have a little area of heat around your hotter air before it dissipates. And like Stefan was saying, that's the whole point of warm clothes is to like trap that hot air, trap it with some other material rather than releasing it. But I got a different understanding of what windchill was, kind of, and maybe this is what you were getting at, Hank, but didn't say explicitly. Windchill- Maybe, let's figure it out. What your professor did get right is that your body will not drop below air temperature.

So if the air temperature is 25 degrees Fahrenheit outside around negative four Celsius, then that is the coldest that uncovered skin could get. Even if wind chill says negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit or around negative 34 Celsius, you won't drop down that cold. The idea of wind chill is that it is an indication, like a mathematical estimate across all human bodies, which is why it isn't

exactly true from person to person or different people have different experiences, about when frostbite will set in based on the outside temperature and wind speed. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. All these weather things are never what you, like, they're never as intuitive as they sound like they are. No. And I think it started from people noticing in Antarctica, like, oh, if we put water on

top then the wind will make it chillier than if there's no wind. But really, it has persisted, one, because the US National Weather Service continues to publish Windchill Index, so it's easily accessible data and meteorologists can just be like, ah, I'm going to grab the Windchill index. So it's like easily accessible data and meteorologists can just be like, ah, I'm going to grab the Windchill off of that. And two, because it is like a more easily graspable and like catchier click baitier number. If you can emphasize to people that they need to bundle up. So if you're like, oh, it's 25 degrees Fahrenheit, which is below freezing, and you would get frostbite after a certain amount of time

leaving your skin exposed outside. It is possible. It is possible because frostbite happens at freezing. That's when your tissues freeze and start getting damaged. But if wind chill drops it down to negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit, even if your skin still can't go below 25 degrees Fahrenheit, it will drop down faster to that and the negative 30 makes your brain go,

uh-oh, better wear extra layers. Yeah, better not accidentally die on my way to work. Yeah. Yeah, which is good. It's good to have people making appropriate decisions. Now, physically though, with the way that I try to understand it is that like, it's very easy to forget that air is made up of stuff. Balls.

Balls. If you want to go there, made up of lots of little balls and those, and more, and your skin will come in contact with more cold balls if it's windier. There's just gonna be more balls hitting you of the lower temperature. And they're stealing your hot balls?

They steal your hot balls. Well, they don't, the heat isn't balls. The heat isn't balls. The heat is like a property of the balls. The heat is the speed of the balls. Of what? The heat has to be balls or else I don't. No, they steal the energy from your balls. Yeah, they steal your balls speed.

Okay, okay, I see. Yeah, your balls are like moving around really fast and those are moving around at a different speed. Some slow balls. Really slow, they got slow balls. And then they'll steal some of the speed from your balls and then zip off. And when there's wind, you just get hit by more slow balls.

That makes sense, Tell your professor that. Knock, knock, knock. Office hours are right now. Here's what Saisha Tange has told me. Bring in a boom box. You're getting hit. Put it down. What's gonna play? What song is gonna play?

Oh, you saying, you saying. Oh, I thought that was gonna be the backing track. No, she put it on, whoever this is put it on a tape. Put it in a boom box. Uh-huh. Play that. Balls. Professor, wind chill exists. You Uh-huh. Play the balls. Professor, windchill exists. You're getting hit by more slow balls.

Beep. Okay, perfect. We got it. It's a little bit confusing because when the wind is blowing faster, it feels like the balls are going fast, but that's not what's happening. It's more.

Well, the balls aren't going fast. They're going fast in one sense. In one sense, but not in another sense. Now I've ruined it. Physics is too confusing. Now you've lost me. Hey, that wasn't particularly the most cozy question of all time. It was about being freezing to death.

Yeah, that's true. I found a quiz on BuzzFeed. Remember BuzzFeed? Yeah. Called, this feel good feel good quotes edition of Would You Rather might be the hardest quiz you'll ever take. Oh. And it's all about different cozy Would You Rather questions.

Yes, let's do it. All right, would you rather be wearing your favorite robe or your favorite comfy pants? Pants. I don't have a robe, so easy choice. I don't have a robe either, but I would still would rather be wearing, like I want one now. What's under the robe? You can't ask me that question.

That makes me very uncomfortable. What's underneath your robe? You can't say that to a man. Even if I am wearing eight layers right now. I'm gonna lay it all out on the table. Sometimes I've worn a robe with nothing underneath it. Sometimes I'm wearing a robe with pajamas underneath it. A robe with nothing underneath it, horrible experience.

A robe with pajamas underneath it, very, very nice. I'd rather have comfy pants though. Yeah, I think so. But the only robe I have is one time we got a free cinnamon toast crunch robe. I have that robe. Oh, I have that robe too, I lied. Yeah, I know, I know.

It's a tiny robe though. I didn't get one. Sorry man, you want mine? It's very small. It's small and it's not what you would call a cozy robe. Is it terry hot? No. And so like, it's barely. No, it's like. It's small and it's not what you would call a cozy robe. Is it terry hop? No. And so like, barely.

No, it's like... It's made of waffles. It's very thin. Yeah. It's like a thin waffle fabric. I see. So yeah, I don't know. On its own, that is not...

I would not choose that robe. But a nice big, like a hotel robe is what I imagine. Like a really luxurious robe. That sounds really nice. But I think I still want pants. What are you looking for in a pair of comfy pants? Comfort. Actually, mobility is also important.

I want to if I can't do like a lunge, then we're going to have problems, you know, because I'm going to go to stretch comfy pants. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. What else do you look for in pants? A good fit. Might have to have a scrunchy bottom. That's what I was gonna say. I really prefer a scrunchy bottom to a loose bottom

on my soft pants. Oh, like that it grabs your ankle? Yeah. So it doesn't like slide up when you're in bed? Or so cold air is not flowing up. Yeah, it doesn't like waft around so that I can step on it with my heel. You're assuming I just wear comfy pants in bed, which is definitely not the case.

So no, no pants in bed. I wear them to the grocery store. I'm wearing some right now that I wore to the grocery store during my lunch break. I always wear jeans. I am uncomfortable not like I don't know my my brain has gotten to a place where if I'm wearing something besides jeans, I feel wrong. I used to sleep in my jeans in high school and middle school. Why? That's not cozy. I don't know.

And I used to go to like the gym in jeans and people mocked me enough that I stopped. What? You went to the gym in jeans? Are your jeans stretchy? No, they're not very, they're not tight though. And you were bullied. Well, I don't know if I was bullied. Did Stefan bully you? Stefan seems like the kind of person who would bully you for wearing jeans to the gym.

Or he seems like a guy who maybe could wear jeans to the gym every now and then. I've just always felt like, do I need more clothes? Everybody seems convinced that I do I tell you what I do need more jeans right now because every pair of jeans I have is patched and The patches are now falling apart Hear that everybody up your patreon pledges, so I think That's definitely the thing standing between me and the pants. Thanks gene fund We got another question.

This one is from Mike R. who asks, Stefan, what do you miss most about being a SciShow Tangents host? Which one of us do you miss most? Hey, that's not what the question was. OK, answer that one first. I mean, honestly, Sari, mostly because I don't see Sari anymore. I miss you, Stefan. I've missed you since we played games. Yeah, it's been so long.

Oh, knife in the back. I'm your boss. I'm your boss. You have to say me. I see you all the time. Yeah, you see me a lot. Too much. Too much.

But I think so I still work on SciShow, but I think like getting to do. I don't do any of the research for SciShow and getting to do some of the research and like follow my own whims and like because like for SciShow we get the scripts and then like I learn a bunch of random facts. But on tangents, I just to get to Google whatever I'm like, oh, this could be interesting. And then I can go down rabbit holes and get paid to do it. Yeah. Getting lots of great but facts. but I guess I can still get those. I can listen. You can just look up your own too.

Yeah, that's true. I can still look up but facts, but I have no reason to look up but facts. I know, I know. It's funny. I need I need somebody to tell me that I professionally need to do the things that I like to do or else I won't do them. I think there's something satisfying too though about like, like it's almost like running a live show. And I don't know, it's like you have all the co-hosts, you're like, you jump in at different times

and you try to cut and there's like a sort of a, I think of it as a game. Everything feels like a game to me. So there's something fun about like playing the game of like trying to make the show happen in real time, even though I know it gets edited down, but you know. It sure does. Hey, but the better you do with the game,

the less I have to edit it down. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, a very weird thing about Tangents is when I record Tangents, I know that it's an hour, and when I listen to Tangents, I know that it's 30 to 40 minutes, but I cannot tell where that half hour went. Yeah. Yeah. I feel as if we lost nothing. I'm never like,

oh, but like, what about that whole conversation? No, I don't know what it was. I don't know where it is. It's gone. Yeah. Half of the stuff we say is garbage. Yeah. I guess it's just a lot of garbage. I mean, I do remember when I would listen shortly after we recorded them, that I would be like, oh, Sam, cut that thing I said. Oh no, yeah. Was you really? No, I was not grumpy about it, but it's interesting to see which things get cut and which things stay.

Yeah. It's one of the things I'm most proud of about myself. And that's hard for me to say because I like editing podcasts so much. Well, I think you do a great job. Well, you do a great job. Thank you, Sam. And thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for supporting Poopy Peepypedia

and thus Sam's dream of making great podcast episodes. And hey, if you guys all want to say thanks to me as well, that's fine. Just drop into the Patreon, the Discord. Just say a good thanks. Yeah. Maybe a big, you can give him a big, uh, gif of a hot cup of cocoa. Oh, I would like that. Ooh.

Yeah. I was thinking maybe a new pair of jeans. A gif of some jeans. Do you have another, uh, cozy question for us? I sure do. Would you rather be sleeping in a blanket fort or sleeping by a fire? I sure do. Would you rather be sleeping in a blanket fort or sleeping by a fire? Hmm. I think a blanket fort. I don't think you want to sleep in your open flame. That sounds really scary, but maybe there's like a really responsible adult who's like, watching you sleep and will make sure that you're okay.

Yeah, Santa came to watch. This is what I want for Christmas, Santa. I want you to watch me sleep. He came down the chimney, saw you sleeping by the fire, and went, oh, that's not safe. And then he's like, I better stay here until they wake up. Just rotate him so he stays warm on all sides. Yeah. Rotisserie style.

I hate the idea of being cooked up rotisserie style. I feel like that's the problem with the fire always, is that one face of me is warm and then usually my butt is cold because it's facing the other way. And I would rather be wrapped up in blankets than in front of a burning thing. Yeah. You might get congested in front of the fire as well. Right. Conjected from smoke?

You just have like a yeah, I don't know too much of that dry heat. Might get chapped. Yes. I guess you could do like roasted marshmallows and then go to sleep, which is pretty cozy. So you want fire. No, I don't think I, I still think I just want the blanket for it, but. Yeah, I've slept next to fires. You're always cold.

Like you're, one side is always too hot and the other side is always too cold. I think, okay, I wanna sleep in a blanket fort with the Netflix campfire video on the background. Yeah, that sounds nice. Yeah, the only problem with a blanket fort potentially is that it's kind of stuffy in there, but you can ventilate, you can figure out a solution to that problem.

I love a blanket fort. There could be bugs in it too. I mean, there could be bugs anyway. Yeah, there could be bugs in front of the fireplace. They're trying to get warm too. I'd rather sleep in a bed to be perfectly honest with you. Yeah. Anything can be in a blanket.

You can make your bed into a blanket for it by just, like a canopy bed, basically a blanket for it. That's a blanket for it, you're right. Yeah. Classy way to sleep in a blanket for it. Best of both worlds. This next question comes from Jasmine Huffaker, who asks, why do we lose so much heat through our hands?

Oh, sorry, through our heads and our feet. I've heard this, that you gotta, you like lose 90% of your heat through your head. So always wear a hat, which I know is gotta be at least a little bit bunk. And I'm like, well, maybe I lose 90% of my heat through my head, so always wear a hat, which I know is gotta be at least a little bit bunk, and I'm like, well, maybe I was 90% of my heat through my head because I'm wearing a bunch of clothes

on the rest of my body. Oh, great point. But also, I mean, the head does contain a lot of blood. It has a lot of blood supply, so maybe there's a thing, but is that, I don't know. But also the feet are like the number one thing you should be trying to warm up. Yeah, I mean, it seems like it'd be easy.

Like that's kind of the furthest thing from your heart. So maybe it's the thing that gets frostbite fastest. I guess, is it correct that it's head and feet and not like hands also? Feel like hands, I feel like my hands are constantly radiating here. Like I could just like take me to the faces of the cold people,

and I will worm them, touch by touch. Oh, yes. Okay. What did you think he was gonna say? Yeah, he's gonna freeze people. I don't know. It's gonna be a billion. I'm gonna take what you have. And I will suck the warmth out. Give me your ball energy.

I guess my first thought was that your body would be like, well, hands and feet, I don't need those so I can sacrifice those first and I need to keep my core warm, but you do need your head. Sarah, do you know anything about this? Because I am out of my depth. Yeah. So I guess to start, hands and feet. I'm curious if this was a typo in the question or if this is like heads and feet was what,

because hands and feet are definitely where you have the most heat transfer in and out of your body, especially losing heat. So if you're having trouble being cold, then wearing gloves and socks is really important. Or if you're having trouble being hot, then you can like dunk your hands or feet into cold water. Which I do do that in the summertime, just fill up a cooler with some cold water

and sit there with your feet in it. Or it makes a big difference because hands and feet, biologically, they don't have much muscle. Like they have tendons going to your phalanges, but they don't generate a lot of heat on their own. And blood flow is the main way that they get. So your brain has a lot of, I think it's parasympathetic ways to contract

and expand blood vessels as you need to like store heat or release it to help regulate your body temperature. And relative to like other pieces of your body, the surface area to mass ratio of your hand is around four or five times larger while your foot is around 2.5 or three times larger. Right, that makes sense. So like you have so much surface area

to do that heat transaction in the way that we were talking about like skin, exposed skin being a lot of surface area, your hands and feet do too. And it's also why, I forgot the most important one, why sticking your foot out of a blanket at night can just like adjust your whole freaking body to feel right.

Where you're like, oh, a little hot. I did that the other night. I was in Oren's bed and like sleeping and he was like, daddy, put your foot in. And I was like, no, I want it out. I'm cool, I'm cooling off. I'm thermoregulating. And he's like, put your foots out.

I was like, I'm not hot. I'm not cold, buddy. I'm hot. I gotta cool off. Gotta learn. You could teach him. As his father, it's your due diligence. Yeah, it's my duty.

Yeah, yeah, it's science, son. He's very into science, but he's not particularly good at it yet. He's constantly saying, daddy, the universe is not the biggest thing. And I'm like, well, I mean, maybe, but like, what else is it? And he's like, outer space is bigger. And I'm like, it's not mean, maybe, but like, what else is it? And he's like, outer space is bigger.

And I'm like, that's not really how it works, bud. Good try. So what about your head? Is that just a myth? Yeah, so it's a myth. And the main study cited that debunks the myth was published in the British Medical Journal in December, 2008 by our friend, Dr.

Aaron Carroll and his colleague, Dr. Rachel Vreeman. But I saw his name and I was like, what? I know that guy. Is it that Aaron Carroll? Yeah. Because he's not British. He's not British, but it was from Indiana University, which is where he does work. So I was like, it's our dude.

He fell down, before I found this study, I like tried to do research on my own too. Well, after I saw his name, then I was like, oh, I don't wanna just steal from Dr. Aaron Carroll. I'm gonna look at myself. And I found the same two things that he did, which is a New York Times article. And so I can't find the original studies,

but it is a current day expert talking about how there were US military studies in the 1950s where researchers dressed the subjects in like warm weather clothes. But those warm weather clothes only extended like neck down, like were shirt, pants, socks, boots, didn't include a hat. And so they found that 40 to 45% of body heat was lost through the head. But for the reason that Hank was saying is that you just like have clothes on the rest of your body and you don't have clothes on your head.

So obviously it's gonna look like more body heat is escaping. Oh. Yeah. But then a study from August, 2006 measured heat loss, like body heat loss under different conditions, including an insulated and uninsulated body, so like different amounts of clothing on, and dunking your head in cold water

versus not dunking the head in cold water. And they found that submersion of the head, so dunking the head compared to the not dunking the head increased total heat loss by only around 10%. Dunking the head compared to the not dunking the head increased total heat loss by only around 10% and your head is around 7% of your body's surface area. So it's like head heat loss doesn't affect it any more than it should. It's not a surprising amount.

It's just like, well, yes. And I think the reason why the myth sticks around is just because people want to remind each other to wear hats if you're bundling up the rest of yourself until I put on a hat. But you should be saying put on socks and gloves if you really wanna take care of the people around you. Interesting.

They're so like such a high surface area to volume ratio, no muscles in there. That all makes perfect sense. I never thought about it before. I will say the worst, the least enjoyable part of going outside in the winter is the wind on your face. I feel like it would be very cozy to wear a balaclava, but I just could not take myself seriously while wearing one.

Could make it happen. Or you'd be afraid other people are going to take you too seriously? Yeah, right. I'm like coming up behind you on the walking trail. I like to wear the mask now. I'm like, hey, if you wear a nice warm mask, it really does it. It does the job. How do we finish this quiz?

It's much longer than you're making it out to be. I'm skipping the dumb ones. Or are you just- Oh, I'm skipping the dumb ones. You wanna just do the whole thing? Let's just do the whole thing. Hell, we're just doing the whole thing now. Was it gonna tell us what kind of cozy person we are? No, I was gonna tell you all the results

because I just realized you can see what other people voted for. But we could take this Taylor Swift themed one that tells you. Okay. Sure, what is that one? Oh, I lost it. Oh, okay. Is that cozy? Do you wanna know if you're a sweatshirt,

flannel, cardigan, or sweater person based on your random preferences? No, I wanna keep doing this one. I don't care about Taylor Swift. Do other people care about Taylor Swift? No, I don't know the difference between those things. Okay. Having a cozy movie night on the couch

or lounging in a peaceful bubble bath, which would you prefer? That's easy for me. Yeah, I think for me as well. So we all know. One, two. Are we going to say on three? One, two, three.

Couch. We all say couch. I think so. Yeah, I think so. Not a big bath group. Is that the case? I mean, I'm down. When you need a bath, a bath is great.

But yeah. I'm the bath man. I could pick him out of the cozy. No, I'm really not. I'm really not. I don't remember what I was going to say. Fuck that. But the movie, a movie, a movie is like a two hour long experience.

You got maybe somebody else there in a way that it's kind of hard to manage in a bath. Yeah. And then and then you've also got just a sort of longer relaxation experience Like I can't stay in a tub for more than 30 minutes Yeah I think you've got the right kind of bath that had the high walls and the jets maybe back or something right? I'm a different case, but you can't bath in a standard bathtub come on

Yeah, every every bath that I've tried to take in a standard bathtub has been Every bath that I've tried to take in a standard bathtub has been awful. I want to relax. I bring a book. I try and make it an experience, and then I'm cold by like 10 minutes in. I just read my book on the couch anyway. I wonder if you can take a fish tank heater and stick it in your bathtub and keep the water at a nice temperature. I don't think you should try.

If it's safe for the fish, it should be fine for me. I suppose. Well, 74% of respondents said cozy movie night to 26%. Okay. Peaceful bath. All right. All right. So we're... Look, I don't want to be special. No, we're in line. We're in line with the general public. This isn't very hard quiz. It's the hardest quiz you've ever taken,

say wrapping yourself in a weighted blanket or sinking your head on a fluffy pillow. Which one do you want to do? Pillow. Fluffy pillow. I hate weighted blankets. I feel trapped and scared underneath them. It's the opposite of that.

I've never been trapped in a blanket. Trap me, trap me. Yeah, I just. I might get a second weighted blanket because I'm like, this isn't enough of a workout for me. I need, if I'm gonna do some bench press while I'm falling asleep, I need more weight. No move, I don't want to move. Yeah, no, like sometimes I want to,

and Oren does this too. We both go to bed with our hands underneath us. Oh. Like just trying to create pressure and remove opportunity or like laying down on your chest with your hands underneath your chest. Mm-hmm Or under your butt we both do that Just because I yeah, it's just like I don't I don't want to move I want to I want to know where all of my stuff is that's your arms fall asleep

No, is it swaddling where you wrap wrap your pants? I'm basically swaddling myself Yes someone's Wrap your pants. I'm basically swaddling myself. Yes. Someone swaddled me. Well, does Catherine like sleeping with her hands under her butt? Because then she can swaddle. She can tuck you both in. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yes.

And sleep like a normal person. Pushing her in the river. Get rid of you. So 56% of people responded weighted blanket, which surprises me. Wearing warm fuzzy socks or heated slippers It's a heated what is a heated slipper? Yeah, I can't I that that's turning me off I don't know what that is, but it feels dangerous and like it could cause a problem Let's just say just big slippers like like how shoe slippers kind of you know

I'm I am a I'm a sock. Unless it's very cold in my home. Like if the heater were broken, I could see a big fuzzy slipper, but socks. Socks. That seems, yeah, I don't wanna have to like, I have enough things I need to charge, and I don't need another device that I have to plug in every once in a while, so we'll go with socks.

You got your slippers plugged into the sticker at the end of your car. Yeah, yeah. Larry? every once in a while, so we'll go with socks. You got your slippers plugged into the sticker out of your car. Sari? I think between these two socks, but I prefer, even during winter, bare feet. I'd rather just have bare feet and then tuck them in when I need them tucked. I agree with you, Sari. I do bare feet most of the time.

But look at these! I'm wearing bigger red slippers. Oh, nice! I mean, Sam wears slippers at work, so... That's true. I do bare feet most of the time. But look at these. I'm wearing big red slippers. Oh, nice. I mean, Sam wears slippers at work, so. That's true, I do love slippers. Let's see what America says. 73% respond fuzzy socks. Cause no one knows what a heated slipper is. That's the thing.

That was a poorly wording question. I don't know what the hell's going on there. Wearing your favorite robe or comfy pants. 82% say comfy pants. This is kind of a weird one. Getting a full body massage or taking a nice afternoon nap? Those don't seem equivalent to me. No. I mean, I want a massage, but it's not,

but like not for the real, like, I just know that if I take that nice afternoon nap, I'm gonna feel like garbage. I'm just not a napper, I think. This is an easy massage choice. I've never gotten a professional massage and I think my body would like it, but I've been raised in puritanical America

and therefore, I don't like the idea of it so I'd rather take a nap and then feel rested. There's some days, most days when I wake up on a weekday for a 9 a.m. workday start, I wish I could just sleep for an extra hour and go back to bed. Yeah. I'm a great nap taker and I've also never had a massage and do not want one. I don't want somebody touching me that I don't know really that badly. So let's see. 59% said full body massage. Massages are nice. Are they nice though? Should I get one? Should I try it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird.

Like I like it. There's a lot of different massages out there. I'll say that for them. Yeah. So I've just had like a regular, like a more relaxing massage. I think the one that I would like the most, but I have never had is like a super rough, like deep tissue, just like punch my muscles

into oblivion kind of. I got one of those for the first time recently and I did not like in the moment I was like this is a lot and I and like but I but I like it But the next day I was like actually that was probably bad because I felt very bad And I like was it like good bad though, right? My neck I could move my neck man It was like I see is I can't like look up

Interesting this I feel like this is the opposite of what should happen after a massage. Did you feel better the next day? I felt better eventually. It worked. Well, I'm going to skip to the only other one that I care about hearing the answer to. OK. Drinking hot chocolate on a snowy day or drinking freshly squeezed lemonade on a hot summer day, which is your preference?

Oh, lemonade isn't cozy. No, but I think this is like- You can't be cozy in the heat. Some of these do presuppose you can indeed be cozy in the heat, which seems weird to me. That's not how cozy works. But if you are experiencing one of these things

to give you joy, which one is it? Right. Yeah, lemonade. Yeah? Really? Yeah. Lemonade. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Lemonade is pretty fucking good. Isn't it? I think there's something like it is more refreshing.

Well, hot cocoa is not really refreshing, but I think the, the, the experience of the lemonade ranks higher for me. It's like a more positive experience than like a warm drink on a cold day. I'd rather have like the heated slippers than the hot cocoa. This is a hard question. Cause it's so fun to like walk down the street with a hot drink when it's chilly out.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine really being happy in the heat at all. Oh, okay. So, I gotta go with the cold. I'm just happy all the time. I'm just happy to be here. So, I can choose.

All right, okay. Yeah, and I feel like I wanna Coca-Cola too. That would be great also. I might pick the lemonade just because I wanna Coca-Cola. Mix them together. That sounds amazing. I think whenever I got a pie hole, I get a half Dr. Pepper, half orange soda. That's a dream. All right. I'll try that next time, but it does not sound good.

Wow. I didn't think I'd get such a negative response to that. That was, that was mildly negative. Not that negative. Okay, Sarah, what would you want? Oh, hot cocoa. I'm team hot cocoa. I feel like the temperature change is usually more extreme of like I'm freezing and then I get to hold something warm

and drink something warm. That's not satisfying. But the problem is you start walking down the street with your hot drink and two minutes later, it's a cold drink. She's got you there. Well, you gotta work harder. I don't really walk down the street with your hot drink and two minutes later, it's a cold drink. She's got you there. Well, you gotta work harder. I don't really walk down the street.

I don't go places. That presupposes that I do things and don't just make it at home. Well, the world agrees with Sarri. 57% of people would rather drink a hot chocolate on a cold, cold day. Yeah. There you go. I'm surprised it's not more.

We have one final question for Stefan and it is, do you, are you mad? It says, Sam asks, is this Sam Sam? Yeah, it's me. Is that you? Are you mad about chin coins? No, I don't. Yeah, because for reference, we said we were gonna change the currency

to whoever won the year, and then we just didn't do that. No, I got Sandbuck's for a whole year. Yeah, you got Sandbuck's, and then Stefan won the year, and we were like, actually, no, we're not gonna do that. Because I still got, I got the glory, okay? That was my final year.

I worked up to it, worked hard all year, got the points and I won. And then now I'm gone, you guys can do whatever you want. Yeah, it would have been weird to keep calling them Chin Coins in my opinion, with you not being referenced every episode. People would be so confused. Chins, why do you guys like Chins?

Yeah, we're just really into chins. Butts and chins. One of the wonderful things about humans. So we have these great... Those... We are like the only animal with those, right? Yeah, it depends on how you count, but yes. Yeah, and there's a lot of sort of thought about what they're for.

Punching in your face, right? Yeah, for handling punches is one of the thoughts. Is that true? Yeah, as soon as we evolve the ability to make a fist, our faces change shape quite a bit. Oh no. Which is a little intense. But also, I think it makes a lot of sense to me that it helps with talking.

It's just like a good anchor for lip muscles. I feel like I made that up, so that might just be me making stuff up. I'll link to the episode of SciShow about it in the description and everybody can find out for themselves. All right. Well what an always fun time. Thank you everybody for being our patrons on Patreon. Thank you, Stefan, for coming back.

Thanks. Any final thoughts, Stefan? Any parting advice? Yeah. Parting advice? I don't know. Do you have questions for us? Yes.

Would you like to ask us a question? I was not prepared for any of that. Yeah, yeah. Let's put them on the spot, everybody. I have no questions. Final advice, don't compare yourself to others. That's just life advice. Thanks.

Very wise. What if they're worse than me and it makes me feel good? Yeah, I mean, that can be helpful temporarily, but I think in the long run... It's actually, no, it's not. It's not good. I just want to be clear that that's also a bad thing to do. Yeah, well, thank you all and thanks, T Tuna for hanging out as well, and I appreciate all of your support on Patreon, and have we scheduled up our cards to commentary yet? No, I won't write you an email right after this.

Goddamn. That's what you said last time! I know, I know, okay. I have a lot of emails to write. My to-do list is very long. Do you want me to write the email? No! Then I have to pay you to to write. My to-do list is very long. Do you want me to write the email? No!

I'm gonna have to pay you to write it. If it's within this 10 minutes, it'll be part of my hour of Patreon recording. Everybody, thank you for hanging out with us for this episode of SciShow Poopy Peepypedia. Cozy Edition. The Cozy Edition. I wanted to try to make us all speak in cozy voices, but... Yeah, well, that would've been nice. We could get really close and say,

I'm glad that we worked in both some peepee and some poopy into this episode of the podcast. And I hope that you're having a really lovely SciShow Tantrums experience by the fire. And have a nice hot cup of heated slippers. Which, and just pour your cocoa in there. Ah, that's how you keep it warm. It's gonna be so, it's gonna,

and then put your feet into the cocoa slippers. Oh gosh. And that'll be great. And you won't get any wind chill related butt frostbite. Thank you very much. And we really do appreciate your patronage and we are excited to be back with more Sideshow Tansin for you very soon. Until

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