All language subtitles for Ripleys.Believe.It.Or.Not.S01E07.WEBRip.x264-ION10_English

♪♪

There was something
odd about me.

[ Cuckoo clock chiming ]

ANDREW: I kind of
found my own niche

that nobody else
was really interested in.

HJORTUR:
It was a little bit weird.

JOSEPH:
That's definitely not normal.

It's one of the most wonderful
feelings in the world for me.

Ooooow!

CAMPBELL: 100 years ago,
Robert Ripley went on a quest

to the farthest reaches
of the globe

in search of the extraordinary
and unusual.

Today, the adventure continues,

searching for the world's
most bizarre,

astonishing secrets...

♪♪

...on "Ripley's
Believe It or Not!"

♪♪

It's been said that oddity,
like beauty,

is in the eye of the beholder.

It can be just as rare
and just as mesmerizing.

I'm Bruce Campbell, and when
it comes to these curious cases,

you just have to see it
to believe it.

♪♪

Most people aspire to carry out
their daily chores as quickly

and simply as possible...

but 35-year-old Brooklynite
Joseph Herscher

isn't most people.

♪♪

He specializes in making
everyday tasks

even more complicated.

♪♪

Among his crazy inventions --
the wine machine,

the sandwich wrapper,

and the Christmas tree
decorator.

♪♪

But now he is attempting
something far more complex --

an elaborate cake server
he hopes to debut

for his fan base
of over 1 million followers.

But will it work?

♪♪

[ Glass shatters ]

Joseph is a very
eccentric roommate.

♪♪

The toilet, the shower,
the couch,

the dining-room table --
anything, really --

is up for grabs as a part
of Joseph's Machines.

♪♪

I'm Joseph Herscher,
and this is my apartment,

where I make my machines.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Objects clattering,
glass shattering ]

If you look at any of our
furniture very closely,

you'll see that there are holes,
strange evidences of clamps

or drills being used
in any number of different ways.

So, he can be
quite eccentric, yeah.

♪♪

When I see a problem in my life,
I just want to make it better.

I want it to be more efficient.

Coming out of the shower,
you really need to leave

the fan on for a good while
to really get the steam out,

and I always forget
to turn it off.

My roommates would nag me
about it.

I came up with
a little invention

that'll switch it off
automatically

after, like, 10 minutes.

JACOB:
The bathroom-fan device was one
of the more frustrating devices

because you couldn't actually
use the sink

when you went in there.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
Joseph has been tinkering

ever since he was a child
growing up in New Zealand.

♪♪

This is gonna allow me
to eat potato chips

while I'm typing
on my laptop.

♪♪

I like that every object
that we take for granted

in our daily lives behaves
in these very particular ways,

and so I like exploiting them
and using objects

in ways
they're not normally used.

CAMPBELL:
Like this power-nap device
so you can get some shut-eye

without falling all
over your neighbors.

♪♪

These days, Joseph is pushing
his skill to the next level,

creating fantastic
and farcical machines

in the spirit of cartoonist
Rube Goldberg.

♪♪

JOSEPH: A Rube Goldberg machine,

it usually does
some simple task at the end,

like turning the page
of a book,

but it does it in this
very elaborate, convoluted way.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Goldberg was one of
the most well-known cartoonists

in the early 20th century.

My inventions are a bit ahead
of their time,

a shade fantastic, perhaps.

All right, go on and say it --
downright screwy.

CAMPBELL:
In fact, Goldberg played a huge
role in Robert Ripley's career,

helping Ripley land
some of his first comic strips.

♪♪

Joseph has taken Goldberg's
creations off the page

and onto the Internet,

becoming a viral sensation
in the process.

[ Thud ]

His early attempts
included the turkey stuffer...

Today, I'm gonna show you
a super-simple turkey recipe

that gives you the most perfect,
delicious bird every time.

♪♪

...the terrifying
automatic hair cutter...

♪♪

...and the lunch feeder.

♪♪

But for his most complex
Rube Goldberg machine yet,

Joseph is cooking up a clever
way to serve himself dessert.

Recently, I was having dinner,

and I got to the end
of this beautiful meal

that I spent a long time
preparing,

but I was annoyed
because I was ready for dessert,

but I had to get up
and prepare it and serve it,

and it kind of ruined
the flow of the meal.

And it got me thinking,

"What if there was
a more seamless approach

to dinner and dessert?"

CAMPBELL: The cake server
is comprised of 51 steps

that have taken
Joseph three months to perfect.

♪♪

[ Glass shatters ]

It's the most difficult,

technically challenging machine
I've ever made.

CAMPBELL: Today is the machine's
first full run.

♪♪

So, the machine starts with me

knocking over a glass
of orange juice.

And I had this kind
of crazy idea --

What if you
knocked over a glass

and it rolled off the table

and landed perfectly
on a platform

and then all the juice
gets funneled down a tube

and goes back
into the same glass?

♪♪

♪♪

For one part of the machine,
I need my phone to vibrate,

so I'm using Skype to call it.

So I thought I could use a
hammer to start the phone call.

♪♪

[ Cellphone ringing ]

[ Baby cooing ]

This was my friend's son,

and she graciously let me borrow
him for a couple of hours.

I noticed that he loved
smartphones,

and if a smartphone was ringing,
he ran up to it immediately.

I want to teach you.
When you pull this...

[ Bells chime ]...look at the sound it makes.

There you go.

Grab it, and pull it.

[ Gasps ]

[ Cellphone ringing ]

[ Thud ]

♪♪

I think that we're drawn to this
idea of a playful machine,

and I think it's because it
becomes more about the process

and the journey
than the end goal,

and I think
these machines highlight,

suddenly, the value
in that journey

because it's all
about the journey.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: And dessert is served,
though not without a casualty.

♪♪

But even at the cost
of a laptop,

Joseph and his millions
of viewers

are still thrilled
with his creation.

Things constantly go wrong
and bounce in a way

that I didn't expect and break
in ways that I didn't expect,

and it's a nightmare,

but when it all works
beautifully,

it's one of the most wonderful
feelings in the world for me,

and, like, that is why
I keep coming back to it.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
And with more than 8 million
views, most people agree --

This Kiwi's crazy machines
really take the cake.

♪♪

Joseph has figured out a way
to have fun and games

with the laws of physics.

1,000 miles south,

there's another man whose skills
leave people mesmerized,

but he doesn't need props to
show off his curious abilities.

It's just him and his furry
little friend.

♪♪

My name is Christian Stoinev.

I am a hand balancer, and I do
a hand-balancing routine

with my acrobatic Chihuahua.

♪♪

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Christian Stoinev
was destined to be on stage.

CHRISTIAN:
I'm a fifth-generation performer
on my mom's side.

My dad was also
a circus performer.

Together, they actually
did a trapeze act.

♪♪

I started performing
when I was 5 years old

doing a kind of balancing
ladder act with my dad,

and at the age of 10 is when
I started hand balancing.

CAMPBELL: By 13, Christian was
already wowing audiences,

but he was not
exactly fulfilled.

[ Applause ]

If you would have asked me what
would have been my dream career,

it would have been
playing sports.

♪♪

My idols were
basketball players.

That's really where
my heart was at,

but because I grew up
in the circus kind of tutored,

I never got the chance
to really play on the team.

CAMPBELL:
He never had the opportunity
for normal friendships

with other kids.

It's hard to make those friends
that you kind of grow up with.

I think definitely
not having kids my age

on the show played a part
in me wanting a pet.

Come here.

I just wanted a companion,
so my parents got me Scooby.

CAMPBELL:
It was not long before Scooby
joined the family business, too.

CHRISTIAN: Good boy.

♪♪

We would teach him little tricks
around the house,

like to sit down.

We were curious -- Could he,
like, jump through this hoop?

♪♪

We just started taking Scooby
with me

when I would go start
practicing handstands,

and we would, like,
put a treat, like,

on the bottom of my feet,
and he would try to look for it

and try to find a way
to get up there.

CAMPBELL: The bond
between humans and canines

is older than history itself.

[ Film projector clicks,
whirs ]

20,000 years ago,

before the Egyptian pyramids
or the Roman Colosseum,

human hunter-gatherers bred
the most loyal

and friendliest wolves
with each other.

[ Wolf panting ]

Over the generations,
these wolves evolved into

Canis familiaris --
the modern dog,

in all its many shapes
and sizes.

[ Projector clicks off ]

Bringing Scooby into the act
lifted Christian's spirits,

but he still wanted more.

CHRISTIAN: There's a saying
that most people

run away to join the circus.

I kind of ran away from
the circus and went to school.

♪♪

I went to college
at Illinois State University.

CAMPBELL: Illinois State
is home to the Gamma Phi Circus,

the oldest collegiate circus
in the country.

There, Christian thrived.

♪♪

CHRISTIAN: There was a different
kind of feeling

I got performing
with my peers in college.

[ Cheers and applause ]

You're getting this vibe
around everybody else

that they're all, like,

"Oh, man.
Like, this is a big deal."

And so, like,
you start feeling it, too.

I felt like a rookie again.
Just so much fun.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: With new enthusiasm,

Christian once again went out
on the road with Scooby,

but this time,
he had a destination in mind.

♪♪

CHRISTIAN: I never lost hope,
but I also didn't know

how to find my way to the NBA.

I knew that there were already
a couple acts

that were kind of halftime acts,

so I reached out
to a lot of teams

trying to become a performer.

The next thing you know,
I'm at Madison Square Garden.

This is the mecca of basketball.

ANNOUNCER:
Please welcome world-renowned
Christian Stoinev!

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

Christian Stoinev
and his dog, Scooby,

left the circus behind
and ran off to join...the NBA.

♪♪

CHRISTIAN: I was really nervous.

I didn't know
how this was gonna go.

It was kind of my one shot
to be where I wanted to be.

ANNOUNCER: And tonight,
he's making his NBA debut.

Please welcome
Christian Stoinev!

♪♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
But after years of living
the dream, change is in the air.

♪♪

When Scooby was about
10 years old,

it was just getting
a little harder.

It just felt like the right time
where it was probably better

to kind of have Scooby
stop performing.

That way, it was kind of ending
on a high note

while his tail was still wagging
and he was loving it.

CAMPBELL: Scooby retired
to the lap of luxury,

leaving Christian
without a partner.

♪♪

CHRISTIAN:
And then we got Percy.

He was a natural, like Scooby,

and definitely loves
the attention,

that's for sure.

I think he's full of himself
a little bit.

I mean, Percy
definitely steals the show.

Once he comes out, like,
nobody wants to see me.

It's all about Percy.

♪♪

I wouldn't want it
any other way. That's fine.

♪♪

And even though now
Scooby's retired,

we still call it Christian and
Scooby within the NBA circuit.

I guess it's my way of returning
the loyalty to Scooby.

This dream of mine that we're
living now

wouldn't have been possible
if it wasn't for him.

♪♪

Christian has made a name for
himself balancing upside down,

but what if your whole worldview
was permanently flipped?

There's a man in South America

who knows exactly
what that's like.

♪♪

Claudio Vieira de Oliveira
was born

with physical challenges...

but it rarely slows him down.

Sheer determination
has propelled him to do things

no one
ever thought possible,

with a very different
perspective on the world.

Believe it...

or not.

♪♪

From day one,
Claudio has defied the odds.

♪♪

Born with severe arthrogryposis,

a birth defect
of the joints and muscles,

Claudio was not expected
to live more than 24 hours.

He's now 42 years old.

♪♪

In the 1970s,
remote Monte Santo, Brazil,

was a tough place.

Claudio's mother
was even tougher.

Some people advised her
to stop feeding her baby

so he could die peacefully.

She did the opposite, nurturing
him just like any other child,

and despite his
physical limitations,

the little boy thrived.

Claudio's condition presented
a number of challenges.

He had to eat and drink
lying down.

His hands barely function.

For the first eight years
of his life,

he had to be carried everywhere.

♪♪

But inside his constricted body,

a passion was burning
to adapt to the world

no matter what it took.

Once Claudio got moving,
he never slowed down.

He excelled through high school
and college,

earning a degree
in accounting.

♪♪

But Claudio's pursuits
aren't purely academic.

He has learned to operate
electronics and heavy machinery.

Now he's facing a different
kind of challenge --

putting himself onstage
in hopes of inspiring the world.

♪♪

It's not pleasant,

but you learn how to ride
the wave of adrenaline.

Ooooow!

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Claudio Vieira de Oliveira
lives with physical limitations

that boggle the mind,

but to his credit,
he has never given up.

♪♪

Now he's facing
his most daunting task yet --

taking to the stage
as a public speaker.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

♪♪

Impalement --
a punishment reserved

for the worst criminals
during history's darkest times.

Curiously, there's one man
in Las Vegas

who's just jonesing
to face the blade.

Let's cutto him.
[ Laughs ]

Did you see what I did there?

♪♪

My name is Andrew Stanton.

I'm a professional
sideshow artist.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Today, he will attempt
to spin five times

on the tip of a spear.

♪♪

Believe it...or not.

♪♪

As a professional
sideshow artist,

Andrew Stanton makes a living
inflicting pain on himself.

It's a skill he's been
perfecting since childhood.

♪♪

I grew up in Hawaii
right on the ocean,

so my whole family
and my community,

everybody's always surfing
or going hiking

or even cliff jumping
and stuff like that.

Extreme sports was just
part of the culture.

CAMPBELL: But Andrew was hobbled
by juvenile arthritis,

an autoimmune disease
that causes pain

and swelling in the points.

ANDREW:
So, the arthritis prevented me

from doing a lot of stuff
I wanted to do --

running, jumping,
a lot of impact stuff.

If I did too much activity,

it would feel like hot
burning knives in my knees,

just absolutely agonizing.

I didn't want to take
the medication,

so I used what
my mom taught me --

learning how to breathe
through the pain

and block it out
and go somewhere else.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: What his mother
did not anticipate

was that he would use
those same coping techniques

to deliberately
inflict harm...on himself.

[ Andrew grunts ]

ANDREW:
I kind of found my own niche,
you know,

something that I could excel at,

that nobody else
was really interested in.

When I found out how
to start swallowing swords,

I would bring a coat
hanger to school.

They didn't really like me
to do that there.

[ Laughs ]

CAMPBELL:
But he soon found a place
to perform --

in a friend's band.

ANDREW: I can't keep a beat
to save my life,

but they liked what I did,
so I would swallow swords.

I would even swallow
some drumsticks,

and I would do a handful
of other things --

putting tubes in my nose,
nails in my nose.

Just little stuff starting out.

CAMPBELL: Andrew went on to earn
the Guinness World Records title

for longest metal coil

passed through the nose
and out the mouth.

He uses power drills
to wind two metal coils

into his nose
and out his mouth.

He also holds the record
for the heaviest car

pulled by only
his eye sockets.

Now, he's developing his most
painful performance yet.

ANDREW: Over the years,
I would do more research,

and then I came across
the Shaolin monks.

I saw them doing
the single-point spear.

That was really impressive.

CAMPBELL: The monks' goal
is to bendthe spear.

Andrew wanted to balance his
whole body on the top of one.

♪♪

ANDREW: Over the years,
I would just use posts,

and then I would find smaller
and smaller posts

and even, like, broomsticks.

My first spear
started out fairly blunt,

and then I'd file it down,

and I was able to go
a little bit sharper,

a little bit sharper,
and kept working with that.

♪♪

You're dealing with a lot
of sensation,

suppressing a lot of pain,

and it feels like you're getting
punched in the stomach,

and the wind
gets knocked out of you.

It's not pleasant,

but you learn how to ride
the wave of adrenaline.

You get through it.

You conquer it.

CAMPBELL:
Relying on the techniques
he learned from his mother,

Andrew enters
an almost meditative state,

slowing his blood pressure and
heart rate to tolerate the pain.

♪♪

But just in case, he's asked
a paramedic to supervise

this dangerous stunt.

KEITH: Andrew showed me
his spear.

I can attest that
it's real metal.

It's really sharp as a knife.

Just a slight miscalculation,
and his body weight would drive

that spear tip through
that part of the body,

causing what could be
a mortal injury.

♪♪

What if I crush my spleen
or my liver,

puncture an intestine,
break the stomach walls?

CAMPBELL:
Pushing that possibility
to the back of his mind,

Andrew readies himself
for the stunt.

ANDREW:
If you anticipate the pain,
you're never gonna get on it.

You don't run away from it.

You don't let the fear
take you over.

You just get on it,
you accept it,

and when you feel
your pain tolerance

start to go to a 9 or to 10,

then just let go of it
and keep going.

CAMPBELL:
With the spear tip sharpened
and in place,

it all comes down
to this moment.

Will Andrew be able to pull off
five spins

on the top of the spear,

or will it poke a hole
right through his body?

♪♪

♪♪

Most of us are gutted
by bad news,

but if this guy gets gutted,
it'll be nationalnews.

♪♪

ANDREW: I put the spear tip
on my abdomen, on bare skin.

Got to lean down on it, pushing
the organs out of the way,

relaxing the muscles, and then
when I find the right spot

on the front of my spine,

I start putting a little bit
more weight on it.

[ Breathing heavily ]

♪♪

♪♪

One...

♪♪

two...

♪♪

three...

♪♪

four...

♪♪

...and there's five.

♪♪

Whoo!

♪♪

KEITH: It was just shocking that
he didn't impale himself

and have that whole spear
up inside his belly.

Ooooow!

Doing these stunts
makes me feel alive.

To travel the world
and meet people

I probably never would have --

going to Japan,
going to Croatia,

going to Finland,
going all over the world.

I feel very fortunate and lucky
to be able to do

what I want for a living.

♪♪

Curiosity keeps us glued
to unusual things,

like a body splayed
atop a spear.

It may be painful to watch,
but you just can't turn away.

The same goes for one of
the world's weirdest museums.

Shocked or not, everyone's
bound to take a peek.

[ Laughing ] Come on.
You know you want to.

♪♪

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Hjortur Sigurdsson runs a museum

that would make
the average family blush,

but there's a lot to learn here,

as long as you're willing
to gaze upon...

300 penises.

Ugh! The whale penis is...

um...

yes, humongous.

CAMPBELL: There's a wide range
of specimens on display,

but Hjortur won't rest
until he's got his hands

on the most elusive one yet --

a human penis...
preserved for eternity.

♪♪

Believe it or not.

♪♪

I just had to bring him
to see what he was missing

or maybe
what Iwas missing.

[ Laughs ]

The museum was started in 1997
by Hjortur's dad.

Young Hjortur first jumped
into the penis game in 1978,

when a sperm whale washed up
dead in his hometown

and his dad headed
straight for the beach.

What Hjortur chopped off
was a flaccid penis

12 inches in diameter
and 8 feet in length.

♪♪

The first year, 1,200 people.

Last year,
we had 70,000 visitors.

Some people get,
you know, a bit shy.

Others, you know, just keep
giggling and can't stop.

Then there are the scholars,
here the whole day...

ABDULLAH: I think the cheetah
was really interesting.

It's a really fast animal,
but he has the smallest one

and is the slowest at mating.

The irony in that.

CAMPBELL:
Having moved from Husavik
to a bigger space

in Reykjavik seven years ago,
there's a lot of room to expand.

CAMPBELL: Indeed, and some
would be tremendous gets,

like the lowly barnacle,

which boats the largest
penis-to-body ratio

in the animal kingdom,

the equivalent of
a 6-foot-tall man

with a 300-foot appendage.

Male sharks have two penises
called claspers

that expand like umbrellas.

Sadly, they can only use
one at a time.

♪♪

But there's one very special
item he's been waiting for,

for nearly two decades --

the penis...

of a human.

Now it's finally here, and this
little fella has a tale to tell.

♪♪

JOEL: If you have nausea,
I feel like Ihave nausea.

If you're gasping for air,
I feel like I'mgasping for air.

♪♪

♪♪

Hjortur Sigurdsson's museum
captivates visitors with...

penises
from 93 different species.

But there's one new addition

that hits a little close
to home...

guys.

♪♪

While the addition of human
leftovers alarmed some critics,

most of the museum's
visitors come away

with a new appreciation
of male genitalia.

Instead,
maybe we should honor them

for spreading life on Earth.

♪♪

Body parts are bizarre enough,

but there's one organ that is
the most mysterious of all.

Of course, I'm talking
about the brain.

Most brains are wired to have
five very distinct senses,

but sometimes
the wires get crossed.

♪♪

Synesthesia is a blending
of the senses.

♪♪

So, someone with synesthesia
might experience a color

when they hear a sound...

♪♪

[ Horn honks ]

...or smell vanilla
whenever they see gravel,

and there's all sorts
of exotic combinations.

CAMPBELL:
That may sound kind of cool,

but there's one form
of synesthesia

that is definitely not fun --

a rare condition
called mirror-touch,

where your brain feels
someone else's sensations,

from a tiny itch
to excruciating pain.

♪♪

Neurologist Joel Salinas doesn't
just study this condition.

I'm Dr. Salinas.

He's living with it

and using it
to help treat patients.

Believe it...or not.

♪♪

Around 4% of the population
has some form of synesthesia,

and there seems to be some link

between this phenomenon
and creativity.

Billy Joel, Lorde, and Pharrell
are just a few of the performers

who claim to hear
music in color.

That same ability got
Vincent van Gogh

kicked out of his piano lessons
as a child and deemed insane.

♪♪

Most people only cross
over between two senses.

For Joel, it's all five of them.

JOEL: It was my first year
of medical school

that I learned
what synesthesia is.

One night, a friend of mine

who has a background
in neuroscience

just kind of throws
into the conversation,

"Hey, did you all know that
there are these weird people

who see colors
when they hear sounds?

It's like they're constantly
on an acid trip."

I said, "Everybody has that,"
and he just kind of looked at me

and said, "No,
that's definitely not normal."

[ Laughs ]

CAMPBELL: Looking back
at his own childhood,

Joel began to realize
his friend was right.

I always had a sense
there was something different

or odd about me,

and I always just chalked it up
to being a really weird kid.

Whenever I would kind of color
in letters and numbers,

the "1," had to be yellow,
the "B" had to be light orange.

If I were to see the numbers and
letters in different colors

than my own, I would just assume
that it was, like, wrong,

and I would kind of, like,
throw a fit over it.

CAMPBELL:
But it was not until Joel was
well into his medical training

that he found out the hard way
about mirror-touch.

So, if you are
having a headache,

I feel like Ihave a headache.

If you have nausea,
I feel like Ihave nausea.

If you're gasping for air,
I feel like I'mgasping for air.

I feel as though I have
to will myself to breathe.

♪♪

♪♪

Joel Salinas
has an unusual superpower --

His brain registers
other people's sensations

as if they're his own.

For a medical doctor
treating sick people,

that's got to mess
with his mind.

[ Medical equipment beeping ]

JOEL:
I'll never forget the first time
I saw a patient die.

[ Indistinct talking ]

As I'm seeing this patient
getting chest compressions,

I feel as though I'm getting
chest compressions

on my own chest.

I feel as though my back
is on the floor.

As the patient is getting
a breathing tube

placed down his throat,

I feel a sharp object
being slid down my throat,

and as he's dying,

I feel as though I'm losing
all movements in my own body.

And that moment
was so intense,

I had to just kind of head
out of there.

Once he's dead, I feel as though

I have to
will myself to breathe.

I went to the nearest bathroom,
I threw up.

Had to just kind of sit
in front of the sink

and kind of splash my face
and look at myself in the mirror

and remind myself,
"No, this is my body.

I didn't die."

CAMPBELL: Empathy is one thing,

but this is something
far beyond.

JOEL: What I see
somebody else feel --

physically, emotionally --
my brain makes mefeel

as if it's happening to me
at the same time.

It's like my brain is
automatically categorizing

the people that I see as
if I were looking in a mirror,

where they are me
and I am them.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: That kind
of overconnectedness

could have stopped
Joel's career in its tracks,

but he was determined
to forge ahead.

♪♪

JOEL:
I realized that if I was going
to be the best doctor

that I could for my patients

that I was gonna have to
find a way to figure this out

and hopefully apply it
towards helping my patients.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: He credits meditation
with helping him

put guardrails
on his own sensation.

JOEL:
I've really learned kind of
how to manage the situations,

and I've also
really driven myself

to really expose myself

to as many extreme situations
as possible,

because the more
I expose myself to them,

it's almost like I get
desensitized more to it.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
Today, he's trying to harness
his mirror-touch

to better diagnose
and care for his patients.

WANG: The fact that he's able
to empathize

better with his patients

and really get a sense for what
kinds of symptoms they have,

how they're feeling,
I think that really improves

the quality of care
he can provide for his patients.

All right, can I have you
follow my finger here?

Left. Right.

You've had this pain...
Yeah.

...in this area.
Yeah.

I mean, I feel kind of
a little bit

of that kind of discomfort
and sensation up

along this side,
almost, like, shooting up.

Yeah.
Makes me feel validated.

I know that sounds strange,
but, like,

you never know when things
are in your head. [ Laughs ]

I believe you 100%.

There isn't pixie dust, like,
floating through the air

and kind of informing me
what's going on.

It's almost like
a hallucination.

♪♪

WANG: I always knew that Joel
was a special person,

but I think this just put
a whole new spin on things.

It's never 100% exact,
right?

This isn't being psychic.
This isn't telepathy.

Being a doctor that has
mirror-touch,

what that means to me is

that I get to form a deeper
connection with my patients

and be a part of their pain,

their suffering, and their
pleasure when things go well.

♪♪

There's a world within our own
that seems to defy explanation.

These curious cases
may shock or puzzle us,

but they also inspire
a sense of wonder.

♪♪