How Many Body Parts Can You Live Without? ⚡️
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In this month’s Lightning Round video, I look up the deadliest job in the world, how much of your body you can lose and continue living, talk about bias in the media, and why depression might be a good thing.
Here’s the links to the websites I pulled up in the video:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_nationality
https://percentagecalculator.net/ (super helpful website)
About dangerous jobs:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/97-163/default.html
Studies on the evolutionary benefits of depression:
Evolutionary theory and the treatment of depression: It is all about the squids and the sea bass
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796721000486
The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734449/
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-many-organs-in-the-body-could-you-live-without
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Chair Spin
1:21 – What’s More Dangerous – Space Travel or Deadliest Catch?
6:03 – Depression
10:03 – Why Does One Sock Go Missing?
12:37 – Political Leanings of News Outlets?
21:47 – New Patreons and Members
23:06 – How Many Organs Can You Lose?
27:32 – Sponsor – Factor

@joescott
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Ironically, I say in the video that I might have 2 million subscribers by the time my next lightning round video came out, and then it wound up happening before this one went out! This last month has been a bit wild, to say the least. So let me take this opportunity to welcome all the new people and say thanks to the OG viewers as it also marks roughly 10 years that I've been doing this channel on a regular basis. Thanks a million (or two!)
@daflotsam
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
It's crazy but true; I've had to take our dryer apart before and, lo and behold, a couple socks.
@ianb7525
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I don't think your math is right on that space travel/crab fishing one, but it isn't that simple. Are you going per trip, per astronaut? What's the most an astronaut will do in their lifetime, 4 or 5? Versus a crab fisherman who will go out several times a season for decades. Deaths per trip is likely space travel, per career is probably fisherman.
@edledford8019
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Desert Shield was the buildup of military power before the war started. Desert Storm was the war. Lasted only 100 hours.
@Justwannadrive-j9t
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
crabbing happens in the real world, space is in a studio
@AstreaMaya
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
If you lose a sock, look up your butt (if u can), it’s probably why you’re constipated.
@Kissingh1
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Yessir. I am new.
@JeanLucCipard
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
It happens. I found all kinds of stuff in the dryer when i took it apart.
@haroldfrets5468
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
SOCKS GET DROPPED, IVE SEEN THEN STUCK ON THE INNER TOP PART OF DRYERS, EVEN DOWN IN THE FILTER…. TRANSIT AND DRYER ARE THE MOST LIKELY
@MichelleReeves-g2s
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Diversity of thought is very important it's what pushes a society forward & depressed, negative people contribute plenty, the optimist invented the car & the pessimist invented the seat belt, optimists created flight & the pessimist invented the parachute all points of view can add plenty of value if they are listened to & not dismissed for "being negative".
@Txupport
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
12:35 Breaking News is for information or events that are uncommon or unexpected. A news event is simply a recent, notable occurrence that warrants attention for one reason or another.
@travisflannigan3227
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
You literally just divide the little number by the big number…. that math doesn't need a website
@stephengreen3566
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
"Let's just say we don't try that?" Yeah, lets say that. LOL
@rebeccaryan5030
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I've got an orphan sock draw 😂 there are loads in there. Resorted to buying my son ONLY black socks, that's helped!
@Mr553r3na_1
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Sock life hack, buy the same type of sock for your everyday use. Get socks of the same brand, color, ankle height, etc, and buy multiple packs.
Examples, when my kids were little, I assigned a different color sock to each child & bought multiple packs of their assigned color. When doing the laundry, I knew exactly which socks belonged to each child, and because there were multiples of each color it didn’t matter if the mate got lost because they were all the same.
Once every 12 to 24 months I’d pass the socks down the line as the kids grew. It was also much cheaper.
I started doing it for my husband too, who enjoys the ease and has kept up with the system on his own.
As the kids got older and started doing their own laundry they began wearing different socks, but since their laundry is no longer my responsibility, it doesn’t matter if they lose their socks.
@Kathleenlavictoria
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
11:45 the socks cling to the inside of your yoga pants!
@caramann69
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
The socks disappear and marry the Tupperware lids we are all missing 😂
@SamSnoekBrown
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
When I heard what your BA was in, my ears perked up and I made a guess, then poked around online and sure enough, we share an alma mater! We attended UNT at different times—I earned my PhD there in the early aughts—but I knew I recognised the specific language describing your degree.
@Zeo_Kana
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I've had missing socks appear in the corners of fitted sheets 😀
@medrawpretty8476
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I know I’m late to the game, but I don’t have a bladder. I lost my bladder, both ureters, and my prostate to cancer DURING COVID!!! Since I was young (40 at the time) I was healthy enough to get a crazy procedure to create a “Neo-bladder.” No joke, the doctors literally removed two feet of my small intestine and Frankensteined it into a little pouch that looks like a tiny football that, once attached to the necessary… uh, pipes, now acts as my bladder. I pee normally, nobody would ever know. No tubes, catheters, or warm bags of urine strapped to my stomach. Pelvic floor exercises keep me continent, though a really big sneeze can be problematic. What’s nuts is that I have live digestive tissue acting as a bladder! Meaning that I can sometimes feel the peristaltic motion of my new bladder undulating inside me as it still thinks it’s intestine.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/neobladder-reconstruction/about/pac-20385066
@vampcaff
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Conservative "Show me the facts."
-facts are presented
Conservative "That's a plant by the democrats."
@JohnL.Roberts-tm9fr
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I wrote an article (unpublished) fror Science Magazine about the temporal transition of socks while being dried in a clothes drier. My proof was when I darned a message on a sock, and ultimately received an answer from some other time/space. So there!
@hugovallarta
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Depressed people tend to stay inside, I'm sure not every hunter came back home alive so the depressed bunch were the reserves?
@Willywonkairl
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
7:28 ACE VENTURA JUMPSCARE HELLO??????????
@extralock1045
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Almost at 2 million? How about 2.5 million now? ;o
@YeastyMushrooms
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Socks stick to the insides of hiodies in the dryer then my kids go to shcool with my missing socks, fid them and fling them off. That's where my socks went!
@MyaB1986
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
The sock thing is definitely true I've found socks in the dryer filter. Baby's socks are even more prone to this, and had to use laundry bag for it.
@nylontarp
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
PBS News Hour still follows the Fairness Doctrine. News Hour is my jam. Also … Joe … you should stop using Google Chrome and switch to Firefox or Brave. And yes I realize you basically work for Google.
@whydoineedtohaveahandle
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I have personal experience with both never losing socks and then losing socks. So my hypothesis is that it is about your habits. When I was underage, living at home, no socks ever went missing. That is because in my family everyone placed their worn socks in the laundry basket and it was never overflowing, so no socks would drop off the pile. The laundry basket was also next to the washing machine. Now, that I live alone, I tend to sometimes just kick off my socks on the couch (for comfort), my laundry basket is in a different room than the washing machine, and my laundry basket is overflowing sometimes so socks fall behind it. I’ve found random socks under my bed, under the couch, in between couch cushions, behind the laundry basket, even under the washing machine.
Conclusion: if you live in a neat and organized way, your socks will find their pairs. If you’re a bit messy, they will go missing. Hope this helps✨
@flob1920
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
your math is wrong!
Do better!
@HiItsTyTyOkBye
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
It’s the sock goblins stealing one sock from a pair. They crawl through the vent of the dryer to nab our socks. Sometimes they take up residence in the crevice behind the dryer. Between that and also collecting lint from the trap is why they are also closely associated with dust bunnies, which are creatures made of lint and dust, among other materials found in and under the tight areas of the house. This a scientific fact.
@califoo
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
4:18 the space calculation is wrong. You don't need to divide by 63 years. By this logic, reaching space becomes safer even if no space launches are done.
@wefproductions
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
What a bizzare thumbnail
@jodyeyre9840
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
he looks like the woke version of Chevy Chase in the tumbnail😂😂😂had 2 click and respond😂😂😊😅
@AussieObiWan
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
0:36 it’s a year later and you’re at almost 2.5 million now..and still growing
Thanks for all your work Joe this is a fantastic channel 👍🏻👍🏻
@michaelreynolds5773
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Also, as Joe is demonstrating, you can go the other direction and add scalp.
@joshuachristo121
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I had to take apart my washer/dryer partly before, found 8-9 socks between the two, do with that what you will
@kellysuehealingyou
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Wow you summed it up
@matthewsheffler3093
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Only by the same socks, so all your socks match you never know if you lost one lol😂
@KatherineWilliams-RN
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Thank you so much for the info on news networks, I truly found that fascinating. I dont watch any news anymore because I find it all too sensationalized and awful. I wish it were against the law to lie, but we live in weird times…
@Sword_Cowgirl
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Cows kill about 300 people a year, while sharks kill about 6. However, if we were to herd and keep sharks in large numbers as livestock, that statistic would be much different.
@willowa.8031
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Oh Joe, How in the world did you come to the conclusion that there was not enough news to go around to cover a 24 hour news network? consider How many countries there are in the world. To this day there is no major 24 hour network that covers even so much as 10 Percent of those countries on a daily basis. Perhaps there are countries that have never had news coverage on a major network in you entire life time.
@willowa.8031
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
a sock missing from the washer can always be found between the cushions of the sofa having been transformed into an ink pen. This is scientifically proven by statistical evidence irrefutably!
@peterhammes8321
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
My dad and I found our missing socks behind the gasket in the casing.
@MarceloBernardoAdv
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
The severed head dude is back!
@kcpyromancer
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I have recovered socks from the gasket, but they were a baby socks.
@timothyupham1475
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I have a smart washer machine and I have had to gonbuy a long tool thing to get socks stuck in that place yoi are supposed to clean out. It's weird, but it happens
@trevoreverybody
August 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
As a newer viewer with zero familiarity of your upload schedule. Why are you posting so many more lightening rounds these days? (anyone, Bueller!)😂