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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to
Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant. Hi, Chuck. Hi,
Speaker 1: how's it going. I just thought to try and throw
Speaker 1: you off, But that can't happen. Dude, you were pro
Speaker 1: Thanks Chuck. I appreciate that. Imagine if I took off
Speaker 1: my shirt and that way might be unsettling enough to
Speaker 1: throw you. Nope, you want to try new Come on,
Speaker 1: this will actually work really well with the topic at hand.
Speaker 1: I never want Jerry to see my naked chest? Do you, Jerry?
Speaker 1: Do you want to see his naked chest? She should
Speaker 1: not want to. She's saying, Hey, let's see what you got, Chuck.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen, all right. What do you want
Speaker 1: me to take my shirt off for this? Oh? Good gosh? No, okay, Chuck.
Speaker 1: It's no secret to you that I grew up a
Speaker 1: little fat kid. I want to see pictures, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see that. I'll bring some in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a little fat kid. I was the Pillsbury
Speaker 1: dough Boy was my nickname. I was chunky than thin,
Speaker 1: and they called me the doughboy too. They push the
Speaker 1: belly button and all that. Yeah, and I would do
Speaker 1: the little you know, Wow, we're alike. It's so funny. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It was kind of traumatizing. And um, I've always wondered
Speaker 1: I had heard of body dysmorphic disorder before, and I
Speaker 1: don't think I have it to a clinical degree, but
Speaker 1: it occurs to me that, like, what I'm seeing when
Speaker 1: I look in the mirror is not necessarily what everybody
Speaker 1: else is seeing. I wasn't going to bring it up,
Speaker 1: but since you did. When I read this article, I thought, Wow,
Speaker 1: that sounds an awful lot like Josh in certain cases. Really,
Speaker 1: are you sure you didn't read how narcissism works? Well,
Speaker 1: that was a different article. You're like, yeah, this one's
Speaker 1: definitely Josh. I think they kind of are similar in
Speaker 1: some ways. Actually they seem to be, yeah, because they're
Speaker 1: they're both um centered around a focus on oneself at
Speaker 1: the expense of, you know, paying attention to your surroundings
Speaker 1: or other people. Yeah, that was awkward. You got it
Speaker 1: out there first. I appreciate that. Of course, Body dysmorphic
Speaker 1: disorder b d D is the little abbreviation that I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna is because dysmorphic isn't doesn't roll off the tongue.
Speaker 1: It's also called dysmorphophobia. Yeah, that's no, that's no better. No,
Speaker 1: we'll called b d D. Okay, well, then let's stick
Speaker 1: with b d D. O. It's pretty you don't have
Speaker 1: a speech impediment as well as body dysmorphic disorder. I know.
Speaker 1: Basically what we're talking about, folks out there in podcast
Speaker 1: land is that if you're completely preoccupied with flaws on
Speaker 1: your body, and not just one flaw, but you know several. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your nose, which, strangely, I don't have any kind of
Speaker 1: b d D around my nose. And I was kind
Speaker 1: of like, I have a big nose. You don't have
Speaker 1: a big nose at all. Look at this thing, dude, No,
Speaker 1: it's not big. I have giant nostrils too. Well, that's
Speaker 1: a different story. So it also chuck b d D
Speaker 1: UM also frequently as a oh, what's the word. It's
Speaker 1: a comorbidity with other mental I guess disorders like obsessive
Speaker 1: compulsive disorder uh an arexia UM and uh, clinical depression,
Speaker 1: which is why it's misdagnosed. Sometimes it's or they think
Speaker 1: it's probably underdiagnosed. I think they about one percent of
Speaker 1: the population UH is believed to have b d D.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they think that that's probably much higher. For
Speaker 1: a number of reasons. Number one, somebody might not want
Speaker 1: to talk about their flaws or their therapists. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to come across as some vain, superficial jerk.
Speaker 1: And uh, but you know, we both go to shrinks.
Speaker 1: Let's just go ahead and toss that out there. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you said that. That's a lot of disclosure, Chuck.
Speaker 1: I think I think healthy people go to shrinks. As
Speaker 1: my shrink always says, I'll worry about the people who
Speaker 1: don't go to shrinks. Yeah, those are the ones that
Speaker 1: dress up in black and shoot up schools, right of
Speaker 1: cour She says that, as I'm writing the check. So yeah, right,
Speaker 1: just keep coming back, chump. So yeah, people are afraid
Speaker 1: to say that to uh, their their psychiatrists or psychologists.
Speaker 1: They're ashamed of the flaw so much that they don't
Speaker 1: want to discuss it at all. Not just being ashamed
Speaker 1: of being vain, they're so ashamed of their pot bilio
Speaker 1: or whatever. Or they may be a lot more likely
Speaker 1: to go to say a cosmetic surgeon over you know,
Speaker 1: a psychoanalyst of some sort, which I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: ruin this one too. They don't The results of cosmetic
Speaker 1: surgery usually don't work when you have b d D. No,
Speaker 1: this was scary. You'll get the surgery and you'll still
Speaker 1: be really you're worried that it's going to come back,
Speaker 1: or your obsession will will transfer over to another part
Speaker 1: of your body, right, or you get really angry at
Speaker 1: the surgeon and say that they didn't fix it right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is that's it's a scary profession for a number
Speaker 1: of reasons. So John Rivers, I think might be high
Speaker 1: on the list you think. Have you seen her lately?
Speaker 1: I feel bad for people who are who don't who
Speaker 1: get tons of cosmetic surge. I mean, think about like that,
Speaker 1: the the depth of their self loathing that that they
Speaker 1: continuously go there junkies for it. Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to drum up a lot of
Speaker 1: compassion there, but I guess you're right. That's a good point, thanks, Chuck.
Speaker 1: Not I feel somewhat shamed or you should feel shamed,
Speaker 1: and not just about your body. Right, But the point
Speaker 1: is John Rivers looks like a c trout? So is
Speaker 1: that even really that's just what? Yeah, she looks like
Speaker 1: a speckled trout. So bad to b d D. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we hit upon something. I said that the obsession
Speaker 1: will transfer. B d D is a compulsive disorder. The
Speaker 1: symptoms of it are repetitive and irresistible. Basically, what are
Speaker 1: some of the symptoms for people out there who are thinking, huh,
Speaker 1: I used to be a fat kid? Well, h this
Speaker 1: is pretty obvious. But constantly checking your appearance in the
Speaker 1: mirror or avoiding mirrors in reflective surfaces entirely true and
Speaker 1: go either into the spectrum. Yeah that makes sense. Um,
Speaker 1: Constantly comparing your appearance to others check uh, picking at
Speaker 1: or otherwise attempting to fix an imagined flaw like excessive grooming.
Speaker 1: Yeah check, yeah, I guess, measuring, touching or checking the defect,
Speaker 1: changing your clothes a lot, refusing to be photographed, constantly
Speaker 1: asking for reassurance about your appearance check, check and check. Camouflaging,
Speaker 1: masking or disguising the flaw. Um, I do wear a
Speaker 1: lot of makeup. Like if you have a big belly,
Speaker 1: like we're in this big Hawaiian shirts and you know,
Speaker 1: you're just a fun fact guy there. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: a signal to everybody else that you're a fact guy.
Speaker 1: If you wear Hawaiian shirts all the time, happily, everybody
Speaker 1: also just thinks that you're ready to party in the
Speaker 1: life of the party. I see, I have a bit
Speaker 1: of a belly, as it were, And this is a
Speaker 1: known fact. But I found that when I wear a
Speaker 1: tighter shirt and not tight but you know, a fitting,
Speaker 1: fitting shirt, people say, hey, dude, you look like you've
Speaker 1: lost weight. But if I wear the movement, oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely actually makes you look bigger when you reached
Speaker 1: when you reach a certain point of um, I guess
Speaker 1: weight loss or something, especially if you go from chunky
Speaker 1: year right, well, you've you've pretty spelt now. But but
Speaker 1: when I definitely hit a point where I realized, like
Speaker 1: I look fatter in extra large shirts than in large shirts. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a good realization, it is. Uh. That's
Speaker 1: that's all the big ones. Anxiety and fear when you're
Speaker 1: around other people. Obviously excessive dieting and exercising that thing,
Speaker 1: suicidal thoughts. Yeah, that's the really downside, I guess, when
Speaker 1: you're at your worst. And actually there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who I think something like on the order of
Speaker 1: eight percent of people who have been diagnosed with b
Speaker 1: d d UM have reported that they've considered suicide, and
Speaker 1: about um have actually tried it. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many successfully, but yeah, yeah, that's really sad. It is
Speaker 1: sad because you know, I mean, you're at the point
Speaker 1: where you just hate yourself so much. You know, you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna try this over again, right, And as
Speaker 1: with most disorders, that's the darkest end of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: And there is a big range from mild to really severe.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the dark end of the spectrum, my friend.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this one? People with b d
Speaker 1: D sometimes self performed surgery. Yeah. Can you imagine mutilating
Speaker 1: yourself now to just try to get rid of this flaw,
Speaker 1: because you know, a love handle isn't is much worse
Speaker 1: than a gaping wound where like this missing missing hunkle
Speaker 1: flesh used to be. Yeah, I think alcohol might be involved,
Speaker 1: you know, I could see someone just getting completely ripped
Speaker 1: and you're like I gotta get rid of you to
Speaker 1: get out of the kitchen knife and gone. That was
Speaker 1: really that was chilling, And actually we're making a lot
Speaker 1: of that that that does happen and people do reach
Speaker 1: those steps, so that that's an awful thing to make
Speaker 1: fun of, sure, which you just did. I was just
Speaker 1: trying to reenact what it might be like, Yeah, well, Chuck,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. It's actually what happened to me
Speaker 1: last Friday. And is it when you carve off just
Speaker 1: a little bit of a love handle and then I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I thought you looked like you'd lost
Speaker 1: some weight. Yeah, just a hand of a love handles
Speaker 1: very painful. So let's talk about what b d D is.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not entirely certain how a person gets
Speaker 1: this or you know, we know how it, uh it
Speaker 1: manifests itself, but we're not entirely certain what's going on.
Speaker 1: Because if you think about it, it's kind of bizarre
Speaker 1: that you don't see yourself the way other people do
Speaker 1: when you know you're looking at your reflection in a mirror. Right.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have that to a
Speaker 1: certain degree, because I mean, how many people when they
Speaker 1: see a photo of themselves say, God, do I look
Speaker 1: like that? Minds always do I sound like that? Really?
Speaker 1: You got a great voice, though, thank you. Uh. They've
Speaker 1: done some research as far as the biological causes. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with the biological said, okay. And
Speaker 1: some researchers showed twenty five people, um half of which
Speaker 1: so I guess twelve and a half people I've noticed
Speaker 1: that had b d D and the they're have did not.
Speaker 1: And they would show them three different images of faces
Speaker 1: and different resolutions high, regular and low, large, medium, and small,
Speaker 1: all right, And they hooked them up to an m
Speaker 1: r I and they showed that the b d DE
Speaker 1: folks use the left side of their brain, which is
Speaker 1: the analytical side, indeed, to process all of the images,
Speaker 1: and the other participants use the left hemisphere only for
Speaker 1: the high res images. So that means, Josh, is that
Speaker 1: or what it could mean is that the minds, the
Speaker 1: brains of people with b d D want to acutely
Speaker 1: process visual details. Even when there are no visual details,
Speaker 1: they're always looking for. That. That's one explanation. It's reasonable.
Speaker 1: Moving on, I've got one better for you. Hit me.
Speaker 1: It's much more likely, in my opinion, that it is
Speaker 1: an imbalance in the brain chemistry, specifically with the uptake
Speaker 1: of serotonin. All right, let's hear it, all right, So
Speaker 1: serotonins and neurotransmitter, right, and it's produced in the brain.
Speaker 1: Um actually can be produced anywhere in the body. But
Speaker 1: the stuff that affects your mood and sleep and things
Speaker 1: like that, it's actually produced in the brain by trip
Speaker 1: to fan. A trip to fan, as you know, is
Speaker 1: from you know, you can find it in Turkey. It's
Speaker 1: an amino acid. Everyone says it makes you go to
Speaker 1: sleep supposedly. Actually ironically, tripp to fan works best on
Speaker 1: an empty stomach. And when you eat a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff at Thanksgiving cover and I think we did too
Speaker 1: solds of stuff there. Well, basically gorge yourself and right,
Speaker 1: you're actually digesting that's just making you sleepy. But tripp
Speaker 1: to Fan is uh is uncommon in that it's one
Speaker 1: of the few amino acids that can cross the blood
Speaker 1: brain barrier. So you eat some trip to fan, it
Speaker 1: gets separated from your turkey and crosses the blood stream
Speaker 1: into the brain, where it's used as an essential ingredient
Speaker 1: in serotonin production. Right, in a paddle book. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: I understand. Yeah, with the giant frog. And so once
Speaker 1: the trip to fan gets the brain, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: You got serotonin, right? Did you like that explanation? Very scientific?
Speaker 1: Serotonin is trans It's a neurotransmitter. So it goes from
Speaker 1: the pre synaptic neuron, which is the one where it's produced,
Speaker 1: to the post synaptic neuron where it's accepted. But it
Speaker 1: loses a little love on the way. It does not
Speaker 1: all of its um taken in by the post synaptic
Speaker 1: neuron um, and it's just kind of floating there in
Speaker 1: the synaptic cleft, the space between neurons where these electrochemical
Speaker 1: messages are firing between um and actually that can be good.
Speaker 1: If if it accumulates too much, then that's not too
Speaker 1: good because you've got basically a blockage and you have
Speaker 1: enzymes that actually clear out the serotonin. But you if
Speaker 1: it lingers a little longer um, the the communication is stronger. Right.
Speaker 1: What ss R eyes are serotonin? I'm sorry, Selective serotonin
Speaker 1: reuptake inhibitors do? They actually prevent some of the serotonin
Speaker 1: from being taken back by the pre synaptic neuron. So
Speaker 1: we're talking to pro right these things. Yeah, what they
Speaker 1: do is they they allow some of the serotonin to linger,
Speaker 1: which makes for a stronger message, which improves mood. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's stabilizes mood. What we're seeking is a stable mood
Speaker 1: rather than ups and downs. That makes sense to me,
Speaker 1: does it really? Holy cow? Well, I mean, not only
Speaker 1: did you do a fine job of of laying that
Speaker 1: out there, but I think anytime you're dealing with something
Speaker 1: like this, Sure there's certain other explanations, but the brain, dude,
Speaker 1: that's where it's at. I agree. The brain is the thing.
Speaker 1: So the reason why they think that this is, uh,
Speaker 1: this is that b d D is a chemical imbalanced.
Speaker 1: So the result of chemical imbalance is because b d
Speaker 1: D patients respond very well to UM selective serotonin reuptake
Speaker 1: inhibitors like zoo OFFT and stuff like that paxel uh
Speaker 1: so so selects all loss prozac, you know, all those antidepressants,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Um, cultural factors? Should we talk
Speaker 1: about that? Are we done with biology? Those are the
Speaker 1: only two theories that I know, Um, the are going
Speaker 1: on right now? Biologically? Okay, Well, let's move over to
Speaker 1: the to the cultural and physiological side of things. Which
Speaker 1: um this one. You know, of course, the media and
Speaker 1: magazine it does. Media is too lazy to really do
Speaker 1: anything that's actively bad in my opinion. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I think it's all the results of just an an
Speaker 1: ability to do real research. Yeah. True, that's pretty lazy
Speaker 1: to blame it on the media, But we'll do that
Speaker 1: right now. The media, of course, with all the perfect
Speaker 1: bodies and the perfect faces. That certainly doesn't help. I
Speaker 1: don't think it can cause this, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it helps the situation. If you were born with like
Speaker 1: a mile case of b d D, you uh, seeing
Speaker 1: you know, Gizel on the cover of a magazine probably
Speaker 1: make you feel any better about the hairy mole on
Speaker 1: your lip. Probably not, although if you see a picture
Speaker 1: of Cindy Crawford you probably feel pretty good about the
Speaker 1: Harry mole on your lip. That's a beauty mark, buddy,
Speaker 1: same thing. It all depends on what face it's It's exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always thought that was pretty funny because that on
Speaker 1: my face would be a male or worse. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: talking Sidney Crawford. Not too bad. It would command you
Speaker 1: to burn things, is that Simpsons? Yea? Was it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ralph's lepre Coron commands him to burn things. I thought
Speaker 1: you meant the talking mall part. So uh yeah, those
Speaker 1: are the societo cultural theories, and um, this is the
Speaker 1: one that they documented as far back as the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: So that's so funny. You just referenced another podcast. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place. Yeah, but which kind of
Speaker 1: undermines the idea that it's media sensationalism because it was
Speaker 1: before media. Well, yeah, pretty much. I mean, would you
Speaker 1: have like this the Saturday Evening Post in there, right,
Speaker 1: they showed a little ankle and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, women are like, my ankles don't look like that, right,
Speaker 1: Norman Rockwell is disturbing millions of people. And I think
Speaker 1: also this would be a good point to say that
Speaker 1: this does not just affect women, It affects men as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, but in a very sexist way. Men
Speaker 1: have their own version of it, muscular body dysmorphia, right,
Speaker 1: which is the need to be buff and muscular, which
Speaker 1: I clearly could care less about the same here, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: same here. But it doesn't it's not just related to
Speaker 1: the muscles um or the lack of muscle. It's also
Speaker 1: related to thinning hair genitalially speaking, it has something to
Speaker 1: do with that. Do you ever see that one kids
Speaker 1: in the hall with Mr cabbage Head, You remember him
Speaker 1: where he was trying to pick some woman up and
Speaker 1: he was like, it's not a cucumber, it's a gherkin exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he probably would have had a muscular body dysmorphia disorder probably,
Speaker 1: So sure there also maybe some childhood traumas that could
Speaker 1: kick start this whole thing, like being beaten about the
Speaker 1: head and neck. Yeah, and that makes sense and teasing
Speaker 1: like you were talking about. They did a study. They
Speaker 1: found seventy percent of the participants reported maltreatment during their
Speaker 1: their childhood. The study of people with b d D. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the study did and say whether they didn't ask
Speaker 1: whether the mal treatment happened before after the onset would
Speaker 1: be slightly dodgy statistic. But they also found that said
Speaker 1: the mal treatment was severe. Al right, So that kind
Speaker 1: of makes sense at all. I think it could be
Speaker 1: a soup of all these things. You may be born
Speaker 1: with a little bit of it. Society chimes in with
Speaker 1: making you feel worse about yourself. You maybe your parents did,
Speaker 1: schoolmates that kind of thing, right, But and I'm saying
Speaker 1: this is a former fact. Kid, Eventually you have to
Speaker 1: get to a point where you can't let other people
Speaker 1: define you, you know what I'm saying. Eventually you have
Speaker 1: to stand on your own two feet and just say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a fat kid when I was little, and
Speaker 1: yeah I had some jerks poked me in the stomach.
Speaker 1: Who cares say it, they're they're all digging ditches right now,
Speaker 1: do some therapy and look at you. But he I
Speaker 1: just did. I was a late bedwinter. Oh my god, Chuck,
Speaker 1: were you really? Holy cow? All right, let's see if
Speaker 1: I can want up you. Um no, do it? No,
Speaker 1: you got something worse in late bedwinter, know, and you
Speaker 1: know for those you've got out there, they're late bedwetters.
Speaker 1: It's okay, and it will stop at some point eventually.
Speaker 1: Or you could just stop drinking and still waiting on
Speaker 1: that day. So, Chuck, you have any more revelations? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: it affects supposedly about one of the general population, which no, sorry,
Speaker 1: the the b D D and so. But they think
Speaker 1: that might be kind of low because of the lack
Speaker 1: of diag diagnosis and stuff like that. Well, how do
Speaker 1: we treat this, Chuck, I would already sayd S SR
Speaker 1: eyes SSR eyes is one. And then you have the
Speaker 1: old CBT cognitive behavioral therapy, Yes, which was developed in
Speaker 1: the fifties. It's psychotherapy where you uh, it's got different approaches.
Speaker 1: You focus on the concept that your thoughts are the
Speaker 1: root of the behavior and the feelings as opposed to
Speaker 1: like outside influences. So sort of tackling from the inside out. Um,
Speaker 1: not eating and smoking cigarettes helps a lot too, as
Speaker 1: I understand it. Right. So in closing, are we closing? Yeahs.
Speaker 1: In closing, I would say, just from someone who has
Speaker 1: had issues with weight here and there and j and
Speaker 1: bed wedding is you know, no one's perfect. It's you're
Speaker 1: gonna live a long life full of let's hope, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have issues with yourself here and there, get
Speaker 1: over it and it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: Everyone has their flaws and so just except except your own. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's my advice. Beautiful Chuck, beautiful beautiful words from a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful man inside and out right. Surround yourself with people
Speaker 1: who support you, you know, and and the jerks out
Speaker 1: there that are calling your names and stuff. They don't
Speaker 1: know what they're talking about, you know. Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: probably especially target this to our younger listeners to It
Speaker 1: ends eventually, but it ends when you allow it to.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I guarantee you and I can
Speaker 1: say this is an older guy. Those same jerks who
Speaker 1: are teasing you and poking and prodding you, like Josh said,
Speaker 1: they're probably losers and they will go on and their
Speaker 1: true colors will come out later, agreed, and they will
Speaker 1: be losers for life. All right. So that's body this
Speaker 1: morphic disorder if you uh. Actually, this is a fine
Speaker 1: fine article written by Jessica Toothman. I thought it was
Speaker 1: excellent tooth the tooth Um and Uh. In it, she
Speaker 1: says that if you think or suspect you might have
Speaker 1: body dysmorphic disorder, you should go to seek help from
Speaker 1: a therapist, absolutely, even if it just seems mild, because
Speaker 1: oftentimes it's a lot worse than you think it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to get out of hand. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's bodied of dysmorphic disorders I just said,
Speaker 1: which means that it is time for listener mail. Maybe
Speaker 1: why not, Josh, I'm gonna call this corrections and suggestion,
Speaker 1: because there's one suggestion in two corrections. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to these kind of quick. This comes from Julie. She
Speaker 1: says a geologic nitpick from the CCS podcast, the pronunciation
Speaker 1: of I believe we said but salt, I said belt,
Speaker 1: you said basalt, and she says it's actually pronounced assault
Speaker 1: with the influence on or the emphasis on salt with salt. Right.
Speaker 1: That comes from Julie. Our friendly neighborhood pedantic geologists is
Speaker 1: how she builds herself. So thanks for that, Julie. Thanks.
Speaker 1: This comes from Peter and this is about Tesla and uh,
Speaker 1: the band or the guy, Yeah, Nicola Teslade and he
Speaker 1: said that, um, and we've gotten this email from a
Speaker 1: few folks that we were knocking DC power d C.
Speaker 1: It's actually got lots of great applications and we didn't
Speaker 1: highlight those. We might do that later. Is there a
Speaker 1: camp of people who are fans of DC electricity? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you stated a couple of times that DC is a
Speaker 1: poor transmitter of electricity across long distances. Actually, a lot
Speaker 1: of talk is going on now in the energy business
Speaker 1: about the possibility of using high voltage DC or direct
Speaker 1: current to transmit electricity across long distances high voltages. Direct
Speaker 1: current experiences much lower line losses than a c That
Speaker 1: is not what I understand, he said. They're looking into
Speaker 1: a buddy. You want to take Peter to task? No, no, okay,
Speaker 1: that means you don't want to email him back. And
Speaker 1: then this final one is from Andrew in Nashua, New
Speaker 1: Hampshire or Nashua unless I was pronounced. He says he
Speaker 1: has an addendum to our innovations podcast and he thinks
Speaker 1: a really cool one would be wireless electricity and don't
Speaker 1: say battery, And he said, don't say battery. He said
Speaker 1: that sustained sustained energy with wireless would be really cool.
Speaker 1: So when you take out your vacuum cleaner, you just
Speaker 1: use it around your house via wireless power, no cords
Speaker 1: to trip over, having to move from outlet to outlet.
Speaker 1: And you could have an infomercial with a woman in
Speaker 1: black and white whose hair is all frazzled over a
Speaker 1: vacuum cord and then looking into the camera with a
Speaker 1: frustrated look, she blows the unkeimpt hair out of her face. Wow.
Speaker 1: Then show her in full color, smiling from ear to
Speaker 1: ear as she wirelessly vacuums and I think that is
Speaker 1: a very sexist infomercial. Buddy. Yeah, I think you should
Speaker 1: be a guy. This guy's really really tough this out though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be cool. Yeah, I'm not sure how practical. It
Speaker 1: seems dangerous if you ask me, because you'd have to
Speaker 1: beam that electricity somehow. That's a good point, Chuck, So whatever,
Speaker 1: but thank you. You should close et me listen to me. Yeah, whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: But we want to thank Andrew and New Hampshire for
Speaker 1: sending that sounds like a pretty groovy idea. Thanks to
Speaker 1: all three of you for writing in, and everybody who's
Speaker 1: written in. Even if we haven't gotten your letters, we
Speaker 1: actually do read every single one. It's pretty cool. Um,
Speaker 1: if you want to send us a letter, it may
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