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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. And

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Speaker 1: the title of this episode is from Nose to tail

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Speaker 1: colon the colon because yeah, yeah, because this is the

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Speaker 1: final episode in our journey. This is the tail portion

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Speaker 1: that is referenced in the title. Yeah you said you

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Speaker 1: described earlier, From tongue to taint, this is the bitter end,

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Speaker 1: my friends, the sphincter. I'm sure there are a lot,

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Speaker 1: but they're a lot things, but but those are the

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Speaker 1: ones we're sticking to. So I wanted to start this

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Speaker 1: one off of just a little bit of a little

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Speaker 1: anecdote from history that I found particularly interesting and it

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Speaker 1: and it involves a Scottish surgeon, which is also good

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Speaker 1: because we've been taking this journey with an imagined haggis,

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Speaker 1: which is, of course the Scottish delicacy. Would you call

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Speaker 1: it a delicacy or is it just more of a

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Speaker 1: Scottish cultural cultural icon of food, Yeah, yeah, which is

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Speaker 1: a it's a it's a cheep's stomach stuffed with with

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Speaker 1: meat and barley and organs and other things in various secrets.

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Speaker 1: But but, but this is a particular page from Scottish

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Speaker 1: history is a Scottish surgeon, Sir William Arbuth Nutt Lane

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Speaker 1: from the early twentieth century. And this guy is notable

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Speaker 1: because he was his big idea that we should treat

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Speaker 1: constipation uh and auto intoxication, which is the state of

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Speaker 1: being poisoned by toxic substances produced by the body by

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Speaker 1: shortening the highway by removing a couple of feet of colon.

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Speaker 1: And he later moves on to doing full colon and

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Speaker 1: he later moves on to doing full colon ectomies, stitching

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Speaker 1: the small intestines directly to the rectum, in other words,

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Speaker 1: picking up where our last episode left off and just

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Speaker 1: deleting this episode into highly so deleting the small intestine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he went on to judge the colon as quote,

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Speaker 1: a serious defect in our anatomy, and he was all

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Speaker 1: in favor of just just cutting it out. It's just

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Speaker 1: let's just cut it out. Let's just connect the small

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Speaker 1: intestines directly to the end portion and uh. And as

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Speaker 1: we discussed in previous episodes that the body does have

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Speaker 1: a remarkable ability to to flow with with some of

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Speaker 1: these uh UM replumbing surgeries that take place with our

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Speaker 1: digestive system. But and the thing is, I should note that,

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Speaker 1: of course of uh colon actonies are occasionally, you know,

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Speaker 1: very important that they can be it can be a

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Speaker 1: life saving procedure. But in this case, he was using

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Speaker 1: it to treat um constipation. Boy was he wrong. He

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Speaker 1: was wrong. Now. He was apparently influenced by Russian Nobel

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Speaker 1: Prize bacteriologists um Ellie Mecknkoff, who thought that that humans

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Speaker 1: were evolving so fast that various parts of our bodies

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Speaker 1: were going to quickly become obsolete. So he was influenced

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Speaker 1: by this, and this end up kind of tarnishing his

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Speaker 1: his views of of human anatomy and human digestion to

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Speaker 1: the point where he said the colon and he's the

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Speaker 1: colon screw that cut it out, just took it right up.

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Speaker 1: And as Mary Roach points out in her book Gulp,

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Speaker 1: he was kind of saying, let's let's treat constipation with

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Speaker 1: just diarrhea. Diarrhea, I guess it's more preferable, right. Well,

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Speaker 1: the thing is here is that the colon is hugely important,

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Speaker 1: as we are going to discuss it a many different

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Speaker 1: aspects of it. In fact, Robert Rosenbluth, a physician that

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Speaker 1: Mary Roach interviewed for GULP, said no engineer could design

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Speaker 1: something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anuses to

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Speaker 1: call someone an hole is really bragging him up. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and uh and I and I want to add one

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Speaker 1: more note about sir William here. Later on, after his

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Speaker 1: reputation took a dive because of this, uh, this this

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Speaker 1: remove all his friends Colin's Yeah, and the medical establishment

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Speaker 1: um pounced on him and said you were nuts and

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Speaker 1: this is awful and rightfully so. Um. He later abandons

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Speaker 1: it and does a complete turnaround and starts saying that exercise, fruit, vegetables,

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Speaker 1: and brand cereal are the keys to fighting constipation. Well,

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Speaker 1: definitely came around to saying, well, we don't need to

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Speaker 1: So I wanted just to kind of go ahead and

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Speaker 1: the small intestine, which remember, is pretty fancy, right. It's

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Speaker 1: got all of micro villa in it, and it's where

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Speaker 1: I use the example in another podcast that the whole

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Speaker 1: stripped down, all the all the really good stuff, that

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Speaker 1: and it does. It's super fancy in their right. It's

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Speaker 1: got those mucoastal folds in it. But in stark contrast,

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Speaker 1: we have the interior walls of the colon, which Mary

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Speaker 1: And the reason for this is because of course that

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Speaker 1: it sometimes referred to at this point, or or maybe

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Speaker 1: a little more towards the very end as the fecal bullus,

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Speaker 1: in the same way that we were forming this bolus

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Speaker 1: At this point, the bolus is on its way out,

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Speaker 1: a different bolus entirely, but but still a bolus. Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: the path of the colon is pretty circuitous. It's kind

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Speaker 1: its journey through the colon, this former hag us, right,

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Speaker 1: this now bullus that is forming, would have water and

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Speaker 1: When the feces is big enough and it pushes against

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Speaker 1: by stretch receptors and the defecation reflects is triggered. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And as Mary Roach points out in her book, she

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Speaker 1: A note on diarrhea, by the way, the more water

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Speaker 1: for which individuals that past gas are going to create

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Speaker 1: flammable methane as well. Those individuals arguably should maybe stay

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Speaker 1: there are planets um out there that are largely methane

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Speaker 1: Let's treat our bodies with some monichum of respect and

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Speaker 1: and and and and don't fall into this trap of

428
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Speaker 1: thinking that that there are parts of us that are

429
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 1: gross and parts of us that that aren't worthy of

430
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 1: studying attention. Well, Mary Richard kind of alluded to the

431
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 1: fact that she thought that there was a sea change

432
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 1: happening in terms of medicine and um in the digestive system,

433
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,400
Speaker 1: and she was talking about fecal transplants being so completely

434
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: off the wall four years ago but now starting to

435
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: enter a mainstream and the I think some of the

436
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 1: reason why we're looking at things differently as we're beginning

437
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 1: to understand bacteria's role in the digestive system. And I

438
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: think that is sort of an opening for people to say, oh,

439
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: what is actually going on here? And wow, did you

440
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: know that small intestine does the following things with the

441
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: stomach is ferreting out good bacteria bad bacteria. So I

442
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: think that helps the interest level to know that it's

443
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: not just our waste um that sort of sins of

444
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: a bad diet moving through us. Yeah, digestion doesn't stop

445
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: at the stomach. It as I mentioned the last episode,

446
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: it in a sense, it really doesn't get started until

447
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: after we're done with the stomach because again, all that

448
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: nutrient absorption that's taken place in the small intestines. Well,

449
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: here's something I want to ask, and this is this

450
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 1: is a question we can't really answer because we don't

451
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: know anything, but it um. The color of our feces

452
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: is brown. Right, generally speaking, it depends me write right

453
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: sometimes and it just depends on what you eat too, right.

454
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: There can be some some odd things that come out

455
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: on the other end. Generally it's brown. And this is

456
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: because the bile comes from your gall bladder and it

457
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: helps your body digest food and then it's metabolized by

458
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: the bacteria and your leg in testine, leaving behind a

459
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: byproduct called stair colbalin. Uh. And it's that stacobalin that

460
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: gives stool the brown pigment. So without it, your poop

461
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: would actually be sort of a pale gray color, like

462
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: white clay. What if it what if it were just white?

463
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: We had? Is this a psychological thing to brown? Why

464
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: I suppose brown get the association it did because of poop?

465
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 1: So you know, Uh, it's just one of those little

466
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: mind play questions. Yeah, it seems like I have I

467
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: have heard reference. There's some somebody had had joked about

468
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: having um white poop based on some sort of weird diet,

469
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: not to be confused with the episode of thirty Rock

470
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: where Jinn of Morowing has ice cold diarrhea drinking too

471
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: much John bad juice. But but you know, if it

472
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 1: were rainbow colored, which we then look up in the

473
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: sky and look at the rainbow and be like that

474
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: disgusting rainbow. Yeah, I mean it does color the way

475
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: we think about the world for sure. Yeah. Alright, speaking

476
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: about coloring the world, um, we should probably talk about

477
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: the colon as not just a storage unit for feces,

478
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: but also in some cultural aspects just a storage unit. Yes,

479
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: so we've we've all heard account. We've all probably read

480
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: or seen some sort of like a prison movie where

481
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: there's something smuggled inside somebody's rectum um. You know. So

482
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: there's some great films to deal with this. Uh, Like

483
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 1: I instantly think of Papillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.

484
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: Dustin Hoffman's character had it was it was of some

485
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: wealth before he ended up in the in the penal

486
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: colony um and he has I think, like a pair

487
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: of spare glasses and some money stowed away up in there.

488
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: And as anyway, you can think of a million different stories,

489
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 1: a million different books and shows that feature this plot point,

490
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: because ultimately it is a great place to hide something,

491
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: and it's ultimately not that far. It's not like a

492
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: huge deviation from what the colon is there for. It's

493
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: not it's not like you're you know, you know, hacking

494
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: a hole inside your head and storing things in there. Ultimately,

495
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: your colon is a storage facility. It is, and if

496
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: you are in prison then and it's an important way

497
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: to conduct commerce. Right. So this is from very Witch's book.

498
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: She talks about this. She talks about how the rectum

499
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: is actually referred to as a prison wallet cases of

500
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: vault if you're particularly limber and spacious. Indeed, and uh,

501
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: now keep this in mind that the reason why people

502
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: do this uh pound bag of tobacco on the outside

503
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: is worth twenty six dollars on the inside in prison,

504
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: it's contrabands. So the value of it is, yeah, it's

505
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: quite a mark up. You can make quite a pretty

506
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 1: penny or a lot of really good trades with its material. Yeah.

507
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: So the question you quickly becomes to what extent are

508
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: is one willing to limber up down there and uh

509
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: and create a little room and deal with a little

510
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: uh in you know, in patience of the bowels to

511
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: move this material into the prison. And then the other

512
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: thing being too is that for something like tobacco, the

513
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: prison guards and prisoners she was talking to an interviewed

514
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: in this fabulous chapter and goal. They said that the

515
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: consequences are not really that steep. For smuggling and some

516
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: tobacco or a cell phone, lots of cell phones coming

517
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: into you temporarily lose your visiting privileges. Right, Yeah, so

518
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 1: it's you know, you weigh the risk versus the reward,

519
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: and it tends to to work out, okay. At least

520
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: with these particular items, but there's a whole list of

521
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: contraband items that make their way into prison facilities, uh,

522
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: through these rectal wallets. Now, there are physical consequences, and

523
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: the physical consequences here are that these stretch receptors in

524
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: your rectum, well, they begin to get worn out of it.

525
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: It's sort of like the poop that Cried Wolf, right,

526
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: because they began to say, hey, there's something in my

527
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: rectum which probably empty it. And then you, as the inmates,

528
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: say to your body, no, that's just a smartphone. Shut up.

529
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: And this goes on and on and on until your

530
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: body is able to suppress that stretch receptor. And then

531
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: of course the defecation reflects the consequences that later on

532
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: you're going to have constipation. Yeah, I mean, it's the

533
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: same thing if you get if you're one of these

534
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: people that is always finn an excuse not to poop.

535
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: If you were like, I don't want to use a

536
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: dirty bathroom, I'm getting I don't want to use this

537
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: batom mom in the middle of something. Then over a

538
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: long period of time, that could have its consequences, right,

539
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: because the stretch receptor starts to say, oh, you know what,

540
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: you just keep suppressing this never mind, and then of

541
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: course if you have pieces up there, then it's just

542
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: going to sit there. And again, as we've talked about it,

543
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: the water is going to be absorbed more and more

544
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: from it. It's going to be more difficult to get

545
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: it out. But you see this in the prison population,

546
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: is that there's a large complaint of constipation because of

547
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: this um prison wallet. Yeah, it's a fascinating chapter. The

548
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: individual she talks to, the prisoner is really awesome because

549
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: he's just he's very I mean he's a convicted murder,

550
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: a caveat to the awesomeness of the individual, but still

551
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: he's very open about it all, just very like, yeah,

552
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: this is how it works. This is uh like his

553
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: account of how the first thing he smuggled in uh

554
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: to the facility happened to be some razor blades I believe,

555
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: or some blades from a work site. This was also

556
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: under pressure, by the way he was thinking, and they

557
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: basically said, look, you can either smuggle these blades in

558
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: or you can wind up with one of these blades,

559
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, stuck in you. So he had to limber

560
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: up really quick. It was not a pleasant experience for him,

561
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: but he wrapped him up, got him in and sort

562
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: of kick started a prison career of of smuggling things in. Anyway,

563
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: I could go on and on. It's a great chap.

564
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: There's really illuminating, uh in as far as it's what

565
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: this kind of culture of smuggling things in consists of.

566
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: Because again we've seen it a million times, We've heard

567
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: about it a million times in various TV shows and

568
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: movies and and whatnot. But Mary Roach doesn't a nice

569
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: clinical analysis and cultural analysis of how it works well.

570
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: And what I like about it too is that it's

571
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: not sensational, is respectful, because she really is interested in

572
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: this idea of this body cavity, what what can be done?

573
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: What do we know from this from from culturally what

574
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: people have been doing? And you know, there's as we say,

575
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: a very long history of people using the rectum for

576
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: for this purpose. I mean, the fact is is that

577
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: as humans, we we kind of, as much as we

578
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: sort of try not to think about the digestive system

579
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: and the colon the anus, we are a bit obsessed

580
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: with it. You can just look at something like colon

581
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: irrigation as an example. Yeah, the idea let's flush it out.

582
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: Let's flush out the works. Let's get some some liquids

583
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: up in there, either just some straight water, some water

584
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: with some chemicals, and then let it all come out.

585
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,239
Speaker 1: As we mentioned before, if you have solid waste up

586
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: in there, then it's a lot easier to control. If

587
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: you have water waste up in there, especially with a

588
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: certain amount of pressure, it's coming out. Yeah, and um.

589
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: Colon cleansing has been around for a long time, also

590
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: called colonic hydrotherapy. I always think about it in that

591
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: movie l A Story. I don't think if you've seen that,

592
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: but it's it's one of the one of the characters

593
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: is introduced to this. You're gonna say that the colon

594
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: cleansing is a character in the film. It is. It's

595
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: got a lot of feelings. Um, it's constantly being purged. Um.

596
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: But you know, as you say, some chemicals are sometimes involved.

597
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just herbs. Um. And what we're talking about

598
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: is a tube and sorted into the rectum some water

599
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: switch through. It does have ancient roots, but it was

600
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: discredited by the American Medical Association in the early nineteen hundreds,

601
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: and yet it persists, keeps kind of having its hadi

602
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: and coming into vogue. I guess you could say it's

603
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: hard to dismiss the first of all, the idea of it,

604
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: like the just the basic like moral id of there's

605
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: this part of my body and it's loaded with stuff

606
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't like to think about. But clean water. Let's

607
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: shoot that up in there and just make it sparkly. Well,

608
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: you know, you just did a video on cognitive purification

609
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: exactly in a way, it's cognitive purification of of our

610
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: lower intestines, of our colon, and it doesn't really make

611
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: sense when you really get down to the fact that

612
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: the colon does what it does. There's no sense in

613
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: spot cleaning, you know. Um, nobody's gonna stay for a

614
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: week up there. Yeah. And then the other thing too, Um,

615
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: the sensation of of of receiving one of these cleansings.

616
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: I've seen it described as it can be kind of intensive,

617
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: but the line between pleasure and pain is often very

618
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: very slim, very ambiguous, and so there's something to be

619
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: said just for also the physical experience of this occurring,

620
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: where I could see that would be so you're going in,

621
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: you're getting cognitively cleaned, and there is a definite physical

622
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: component to the experience. Throw in some you know, some

623
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: some basic fluff about what's happening to you and why

624
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: it's good for you, and I can see why people

625
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: would come back again and again. Well. In two thousand eleven,

626
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: Georgetown University doctor ran It Shorey and her colleagues examined

627
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: twenty studies that were published in medical literature in the

628
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: last decade, and she says that while these reports show

629
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: very little evidence of any kind of benefit, there is

630
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: an abundance of studies that show that the side effects

631
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: following the use of a colon irrigation produces cramping, bloating, nausea, vomiting,

632
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: electrolyte imbalance, and sometimes renal failure. So this is one

633
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: of those things that it's like, oh, well, it seems like,

634
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it does have a benefit, I'll try it.

635
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: It actually has some some very serious side effects to it,

636
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: um that people should consider. Now, are we saying no,

637
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: don't ever put anything up your button. No, we're not

638
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: saying that that's your discretion, you're not yours, And we're

639
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Speaker 1: just saying, like, if you were going to, if you

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Speaker 1: have the choice, if you were like I would like

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Speaker 1: to get ear candling done and have ear wax removed

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Speaker 1: from my ear canal by burning a flame to suck

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Speaker 1: it up, right, versus I'm going to have a clonic irrigation,

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Speaker 1: go for the ear wax removal. Now. Someone was telling

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Speaker 1: me O the day that doesn't work. Um, I mean

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Speaker 1: that it's not helpful. I don't know. I think, well,

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Speaker 1: it's the idea. Is that idea is great? Well that again,

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Speaker 1: it's cognitive purification, right. I don't want to see this

649
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Speaker 1: yuck stuff come out of my body, but yes, you do.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing we really do. We want to see

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00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: young stuff come out of our body. I think that's

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00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: the fascination. It's the fascination. We want to be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that pus that just came out of my body is discussing,

654
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: but it's not inside me anymore. But that that ear

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00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: wax is the first line of defense. Okay. So, because

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Speaker 1: if you've got some sort of bacteria or stuff that's

657
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: entering through your ear canal, it's going to get caught

658
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: in the ear wax, so you don't want to remove it.

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Speaker 1: But it's a great bonding experience because you generally have

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00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: to trust somebody a lot to for them to hold

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00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: that candle in place over your head and almost catch

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Speaker 1: your head and the sofa on fire. Well, I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say it is quite I did it, of course

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Speaker 1: crazy in my twenties. Um no, no, with a friend,

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Speaker 1: because you've got the paper plate and you've got the

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Speaker 1: thing that's on fire over as you say, over your ear,

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Speaker 1: and then you've got the crackling going on that you

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00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: can hear from the flame. Um, it's I wouldn't really

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Speaker 1: recommend it to anyone one thing we can be sure about.

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Speaker 1: Do not use it rectally. If you're going to do it,

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00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: only use it in the ear canal, Like if you

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Speaker 1: had to choose between the rector irrigation and uh and

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00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: using the ear candle erectly, I just go for the area.

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00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: Well you know hydrogen, right, hydrogen is up there, it's

675
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Speaker 1: in the rectum. You do not want Uh, it's some

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Speaker 1: sort of source like a flame near that. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like legally this episode is just no. That's

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Speaker 1: the thing we need. We keep stressing it's this is

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00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: all part of our body and how it works. And

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00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: the more we understand how it works, the more the

681
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: more free we are with talking about it and hearing

682
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: discussions about it. Then the morning tune we are with

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Speaker 1: the overall mind body connection. All right. So, just for

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00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: the lawyers out there, maybe even our lawyers, we are

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Speaker 1: not at all recommending that you do ear candling or

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Speaker 1: Anna's candling or colon irrigation at all. Don't do it.

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Speaker 1: Oh another thing you should never do um rectully by

688
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: the way, probably avoid um holy water enemus. Uh, this

689
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: actually existed. Mary Roach goes into this as well. In

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Speaker 1: the six hundreds in France, one exorcist to use this

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Speaker 1: as a means to get holy water into the possessed,

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Speaker 1: allegedly possessed person. The idea here being that a lot

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Speaker 1: of times salt is added to holy water. And there

694
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: are a few different reasons that this is done apparently,

695
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Speaker 1: but uh, the bottom line is if it's salted holy water,

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00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: you cannot drink a bunch of it. So how's a

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Speaker 1: man to get holy water into someone possessed by Bielzebub?

698
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Speaker 1: Well you use an enema apparently. Because so the idea

699
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Speaker 1: is that lab is taking refuge in inside the body. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: perhaps inside the guts where all this uh you know, unholy,

701
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Speaker 1: unwholesome stuff is going on. Uh. So let's pump some

702
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: water up in and flush them out. It's not not advised.

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00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: It's not a part of the like the official exorcism

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00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: uh documentations. That's good. That's good, the updated one. Huh.

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Speaker 1: All right, So that is all. Hopefully that's just a

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Speaker 1: nice overall about about the colon, about the rectum, a

707
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Speaker 1: little bit about how the ainus works, and uh and

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00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: again hopefully we can in a way. We've we've had

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Speaker 1: some fun with it, but we've be mystified it. I

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Speaker 1: recommend picking up Mary Roach's book reading more about it,

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Speaker 1: and just in general, I recommend reading more about how

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Speaker 1: your digestive system works. So we have an article pretty

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00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: good overview on the website on how stuff works, how

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Speaker 1: the digestive system works. It'll take you through everything we've

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00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: discussed in very basic details. And so as we uh,

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00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: as we take it out here, as we call it

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Speaker 1: a day in the podcast studio, I'd like to close

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Speaker 1: with a little music you're all familiar with, screaming Jay Hawkins,

719
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Speaker 1: who did the classic song I Put a Spell on You.

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Speaker 1: He had kind of this voodoo man vibe. Well, he

721
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Speaker 1: also did another little number in nineteen nine called Constipation Blues.

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Speaker 1: Not quite as popular, not quite as popular because this

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Speaker 1: is sixty nine and uh and especially then, like people

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Speaker 1: didn't want to think about people straining on the toilet

725
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Speaker 1: and about the the agonies of of constipation. But screaming

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Speaker 1: Jay Hawkins, he's a he's a brutally honest man. So

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Speaker 1: let's let's hear a little from this fabulous number, Ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Most people record songs about love, heartbreak, loneliness,

729
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Speaker 1: being broke. Nobody's actually went out and recorded a song

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Speaker 1: about real pain. The band and I have just returned

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Speaker 1: from the general hospital. Where are we called a man

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Speaker 1: in the right position? We named this song constipation Blues.

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Speaker 1: M h Yeah. In the meantime, we'd love to hear

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Speaker 1: from you. You can find us online and step the

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Speaker 1: law your mind, Tom Mind, and find us on Twitter

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Speaker 1: have a video channel Mind Stuff Show, and if you'd

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