Oxford 3000 AND TOO

Mark detailed a severe, multi-day adverse reaction to a series of travel vaccines, including tetanus and a suspected typhoid shot. Symptoms included intense chills, shivering under multiple blankets during a heatwave, followed by profuse sweating and a high fever, which he estimated could have been dangerously high.

I started feeling a little queasy and then my stomach started rumbling and then I had the worst chills I've ever had in my life. I was under three blankets, one of which was a heating blanket and I couldn't stop shivering. It was a heat wave here in Los Angeles. It was 95 degrees outside, sun blaring. I was laying out on my driveway. I felt comfortable. Like I could feel my body starting to cook... I was 122 Celsius. I got it at the high score here.

Wade described experiencing unsettling heart palpitations and a sensation akin to a mini panic attack, particularly when lying down. He noted his heart rate felt elevated, though his Apple Watch showed it as only slightly high, and expressed concern due to family history of heart attacks.

I've had a thing a few different nights, including night before last, where I'll go to lay down and all of a sudden it's like almost like my chest is burping or something, but like I'll start to feel like a weird sensation, and then all of a sudden it's like, 'Oh man, is my heart like what's my heart rate right now?'

In response to Wade's symptoms, Mark offered an internet-researched diagnosis of Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), explaining it as sudden, periodic disruptions to the heart's rhythm caused by an errant electrical signal. He noted that while often not life-threatening, it warrants a doctor's consultation.

You have paroxismal supra ventricular tachicardia. That sounds like a lot of bad things grouped together like that. ... The heart's natural pacemaker and sinoatrial node generates electrical impulses that tell the heart to beat. But in a person with PSVT you the heart's steady rhythm under goes sudden periodic paroxismal oh that's what disruptions an errant electrical signal from above the ventricle super ventricular overrides the sinoatrial nodes normal signal and creates a series of very fast heartbeats tachicardia.

The episode's main game, 'Easy 3000,' involved one player guessing a word from the Oxford 3000 list while another player provided single-word directional clues. The goal was to guide the guesser to the correct word using abstract or comparative terms, often leading to comedic misunderstandings.

The game that we're going to play today with this is not dissimilar to a game they used to play... you're the person giving the clues is going to be allowed to offer one word at a time as a direction. So, it's kind of like hot or colder.