also carolers hit the halls for fox news for a festive sing along. i love that. plus, back by popular demand is our naughty and nice list and a brand new segment we re revealing favorite childhood christmas stocking stuffers and annual secret santa gift exchange that will blow your mind. don t miss it. but first, time for a christmas edition of the fastest. first up, holiday get togethers are a prime location for asking embarrassing questions. a new survey says one in three people dread awkward conversations at family gatherings like have you put on weight? have you found a partner yet? when are you going to have a baby? why aren t you married yet? i m always asking these, jesse. glad you came dressed in holiday apparel. guess you come dressed for talk shows. i do. are you the one that asks the awkward question s? jesse: no, everyone is marry is marriedand has babies and tas politics. greg: you re a family of libs. jesse: yeah, it gets awkward. greg: people know not to ta
them? greg: play army and set them and you happen when you got board, you d melt them with a lighter. dana: don t try that at home. greg: if you were fans of war you played with army men. jesse: can i have those for jesse jr.? greg: they re choking hazard. jesse: he s not that stupid. looks like something he wouldn t play with. you can use the army men to do a swat. jesse: i ll take the hot wheels too. he ll love the hot wheels. harold: remember the football game and the exchange and come right back. right back. greg: looked like foosball almost.ng
repeated blows to the head, the kind that you get on a football field can have lasting reprecussions. especially for young people. some states are writing new laws. in fact, one just took effect this month here in california. any player on a high school or middle school team who gets a concussion must be cleared by a trainer or doctor before going back on the field. even then, though, the risk is hard to gauge. you can t really see damage to the brain unless you actually look inside. of course, by then it s too late. reporter: football is a violent game, full of big hits. what are all those collisions doing to the brain inside those helmets? i met with kevin, a research esh from the university of north carolina. he can actually measure the intensity of those hits. so i m going to give a moderate hit and see what happens. so it s recorded up here at 23.6 g s of acceleration. he recently won a mcarthur genius grant for his work on concussions in football. he is going
at for more than a year now. growing evidence repeated blows to the head, the kind you get on the football field can have lasting rep recushions. a law take effect in california. a player who gets a concussion must be cleared by a trainer or doctor before going back on the field. the risk is hard to gauge. you can t see damage to the brain unless you actually look inside. of course by then, it s too late. football is a violent game, full of big hits. what are all those collisions doing to the brain inside the helmets? i met with kevin, he s a researcher from the university of north carolina. he can measure the intensity of the hits. a moderate hit and see what happens. it s recorded up here at 23.6 gs of acceleration. he won a grant for his work on concussions in football. he s going to with stand an impact 157 gs. wow. it s similar to a car accident. right. the question is how many of those big impacts can a player with stand over the course of a season orca rear b