Learning The Science Behind Blacking Out

Barstool Sports

2/20/2025

Dana B | Dana Learns

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00:00Can you bring food through a...

00:03gate?

00:06I'm serious.

00:07Yeah, I think as long as it's not liquid-y.

00:10Like if I get a salad, I can bring it through.

00:12You could, you might...

00:13You'd be fine with the dressing as long as the dressing is less than 3.5 ounces or whatever.

00:18No promises there.

00:19Here we are!

00:20I missed you.

00:21Missed you, pal.

00:22Sorry to say that.

00:23We had a lot of things going on.

00:24We're all over the fucking planet.

00:26Well, you look...

00:30Fine?

00:31You look like you just got out of the hospital.

00:33Those are women's pants.

00:35Those look terrible.

00:37Come on, man.

00:38They're terrible.

00:39I just got them like two days ago.

00:41Yeah, I think I would say I look fine.

00:44No?

00:45Let's put it this way.

00:46You don't look better.

00:47And I haven't seen you in a while, and you've been trying.

00:50I have.

00:51You said you weren't going to drink as much.

00:53I didn't, and then I did.

00:56I see you attached to so many different drinking contests.

01:00It's a year of beers.

01:01Is that it?

01:02Yeah, it's a year of beers.

01:03Those pants, that's where it is lucky that you have such a small penis.

01:08Because if you stood up, those aren't going to really...

01:12Yeah, there you go.

01:14And now I know.

01:15Don't you ever...

01:17You can't include that.

01:18I can't.

01:19It's too demoralizing to you.

01:21You think I care at this point?

01:23No.

01:24But, you know, people could think that...

01:26Yeah, my family's going to see it, and then I'm going to be embarrassed for 30 minutes,

01:29and then I'm going to move on with my life.

01:31I think people could assume that when you make jokes about how your penis hangs on the

01:36shelf of your testicles, that you're joking for the sake of humor.

01:41But when we see the outline of it, we know there's nothing funny about it.

01:47It's pure truth.

01:48It's a joke.

01:49It's a joke.

01:50Totally.

01:52Well, there is a science behind blacking out, and that's what I'm going to teach you today.

01:56We're going to talk about what a blackout is, why it happens, and what it does to you.

02:02I don't want to know this stuff.

02:04You have to.

02:05Alright.

02:06Here's your brain.

02:07I think the hippocampus is this small sliver that's down here.

02:13The HC.

02:14You know what the hippocampus does?

02:16Oh, I know.

02:17It stores memories.

02:18That's exactly right.

02:19I do remember that somehow.

02:21I remember you.

02:22Yeah.

02:23Didn't expect that from you.

02:24Yep.

02:25Let's define a blackout.

02:26A blackout is a gap in your memory that occurs while you're intoxicated because your brain

02:32is not able to transfer memories from short-term memory to long-term memory.

02:37Okay.

02:38Let's say, you know, you funneled a beer.

02:41And then five minutes later, someone said, Dana, did you just funnel a beer?

02:45And you said, yeah, yeah.

02:47Five minutes ago.

02:48Yeah, yeah.

02:50I've done that in my butt.

02:51Oh, you're doing that.

02:52I've done that before.

02:53Have you?

02:54Yeah.

02:55Butt funnels with the boys.

02:56I'm sad to hear that.

02:57I just wanted to make the boys laugh.

02:58Actually, it's a fun story.

02:59No.

03:00I did it freshman year.

03:01You don't want me to tell it?

03:02I'm not sure that's one we need.

03:03No, it's fun.

03:04Fine.

03:05Freshman year, did it.

03:06Four years later, graduation day.

03:07Everyone's like, you gotta do it one last time, Dana.

03:10Ended on a nice butt funnel.

03:12Did you feel drunk from it?

03:14No.

03:15I felt full.

03:17That's so much liquid in your rectum.

03:25You gotta make the guys laugh.

03:27I told you not to do that one.

03:29I told you not to tell that story.

03:30It's a good one.

03:31If you say the word funnel, it triggers something in my brain.

03:35Someone asked you five minutes after you butt funneled that beer.

03:38Yeah.

03:39Someone said, hey, Dana, I missed it.

03:41I heard you funnel the beer.

03:42How did it taste?

03:44And you'd say, I don't know, because it went up my butt.

03:47That's what you'd say.

03:48But I would remember it in the short term.

03:50However, the next morning, someone might say, Dana, remember funneling that beer in your butt?

03:58And you'd say, get out of town.

04:00I don't do things like that.

04:02That's not me.

04:03There's no chance.

04:04You got the wrong guy.

04:06That's a blackout.

04:08You might have created a gap in your brain where you store your memories.

04:14Because you had the short term memory of it, but it did not transfer to the long term memory.

04:18Yep.

04:19Why?

04:20Alcohol interferes with receptors in the brain that carry signals between neurons.

04:25Ions, protons.

04:27And this causes some brain cells to trigger a steroid.

04:32It creates a steroid that stops memory formation.

04:35I'm on roids?

04:36That steroid's not good.

04:37When I'm getting mangled, I'm fucking on roids?

04:40It's a natural chemical reaction.

04:42I think it's the brain protecting itself.

04:44Okay.

04:45But it's doing that in a way that it shouldn't have to.

04:48Everyone does it.

04:50It seems like binge drinking is pretty bad for you.

04:53Everyone blacks out?

04:54Eh.

04:55I don't black out.

04:56I've never blacked out.

04:57By the way, I have drunk to the point of probably needing to be hospitalized.

05:02Stomach pump?

05:03I throw up.

05:04That's my reaction.

05:05You're definitely healthier than me.

05:07Uh, in that sense.

05:09Maybe I just, when I was throwing up, instead of throwing up, I should have grabbed it all

05:14and put it in a funnel and chugged it up my butt.

05:17You should try it sometime.

05:18Re-inject.

05:19Not the butt funnel.

05:20You should try the blackout sometime.

05:21Well, that's my point.

05:22I can't.

05:23You can't.

05:24My stomach can't handle it.

05:25You hang out with Beardsy for a night.

05:26On my 21st birthday, I had 21 tequila shots.

05:28I did a cake full of nips.

05:31Yeah.

05:32I didn't have it on a cake.

05:35You should black out one of these days.

05:36I don't want to do it.

05:37At my wedding, you'll black out.

05:39I'm scared.

05:40Nah, as long as you're in a safe space with your homies and there's a toilet near you,

05:46you're good.

05:47You do weird shit when you're blacked out.

05:49No, I don't.

05:50I'm fucking laughing.

05:51You're one of our new friends.

05:53You know what you have to do?

05:54Chug this beer up your butt.

05:56I just eat.

05:57I eat Domino's and I fucking drink more.

06:00That's all I do.

06:02When a person is blacked out, the brain continues to process information, but it does not store

06:07memories as a result of that chemical reaction.

06:09Okay.

06:10You know what's the good zone?

06:11Brown out.

06:12There's two different types of blackouts.

06:14Temporary blackout.

06:15Those are, that's my shit.

06:17And then there is a blackout that's called the blackout on block.

06:21E-N-B-L-O-C.

06:23I don't on block.

06:24I don't on block.

06:25That's where you don't remember anything.

06:27No, no, no.

06:28I don't on block.

06:29We want to avoid that, okay?

06:32Because that's really bad.

06:33We brown out.

06:34We do?

06:35We un-brown.

06:39A partial blackout is actually called a fragmentary blackout.

06:42That's the brown out.

06:43I'm going to start saying that with my boys.

06:45We're getting fraggy tonight.

06:46Oh, I like that.

06:48Blackouts tend to happen not necessarily as a result of how much you drink, but how quickly you drink.

06:53Heavy, persistent drinking to the point of lacking out can cause degenerative effects to the brain.

06:59I'm aware and I'm scared.

07:00Yeah.

07:01It just basically is going to make you dumber, make it harder for you to retain memories.

07:05Yeah, I think I have a good memory, but I'm definitely dumb.

07:09But I don't think that's due to booze.

07:11I think that's just me.

07:13I think that if you continue to drink to the point of lacking out consistently,

07:18you're going to start losing the ability to name every single NBA player.

07:22That's not true.

07:24I'm going to do it right now.

07:25Maybe not this season.

07:26Maybe not next season.

07:28But there will come a time where you'll say,

07:31Gosh, the second point guard for the Atlanta Hawks.

07:37I knew it before I stuck the fucking hose in my rectum.

07:43Which shouldn't fit, really, if we're honest.

07:46If you get a good one.

07:48You sucked it in.

07:49You sucked the beer in.

07:51That's how you did it?

07:52I mean, I can show you.

07:53Nope.

07:54Alright.

07:55Don't show me.

07:56Eat right here.

07:57What's that?

07:58And you just...

08:02Clench.

08:03It's like a...

08:04What is that?

08:05Yoga pose?

08:06Ab workout.

08:07Is that cow?

08:08Cow pose?

08:09Good luck.

08:10Appreciate it, Franny.

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