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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Should Know. Set up for achievement. That sounds like very

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Speaker 1: eighties Reagan era campaign. It does, It definitely does. Uh

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Speaker 1: certainly not the kind of thing that would irritate you,

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Speaker 1: whether it be in your nose or your brain or anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Not not the best segue, huh. I'm surprised you didn't

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Speaker 1: try and work uh, stern mutation in there. Somehow. I

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Speaker 1: love that word. Are you Were you familiar with that

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Speaker 1: word before? I don't think you know. I'm forty nine

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Speaker 1: But I'm in the same boat with you. Yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: never heard that. But that is what if you're a scientist, Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're a scientist and you want to be a

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Speaker 1: real stuff, you probably say sternutation. If your scientists that

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Speaker 1: And I mean, it sounds super clinical, but it's actually

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Speaker 1: To me, it sounds clinical but there's also a couple

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Speaker 1: of derivative words stern mutative or stern you too, Tori

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Speaker 1: are things that make you sneeze and Howard Stern bubba

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Speaker 1: booe right chewy. So we're talking sneezing obviously, because we

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Speaker 1: just discoursed on stern youitation, I'm adding an extra syllable.

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Speaker 1: There aren't I stern mutation. That's the Josh Clark way.

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Speaker 1: Why do I have to complicate? Why do I have

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Speaker 1: to complimentate things? Uh, we're talking about sneez sin. It's

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Speaker 1: I hate it when people call things like this elegant,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna refrain. But it's just a very efficient

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Speaker 1: system that the human body has worked out to basically

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Speaker 1: all mammals at least sneeze, some more than others. I

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Speaker 1: was that it for the patterns and sneezing patterns. Yeah,

418
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: I mean they're just a couple of theories, either hereditary

419
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: or that it just takes that much. But I'm not sure.

420
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I buy that for myself

421
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 1: because it's always threes and it's not like I have

422
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: a weak sneeze, so it takes three. I don't know

423
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 1: if it feels ingrained somehow, Yeah, like if you only

424
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: do two, you notice and it does it feel incomplete?

425
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: It does, but it that almost never happens. Occasionally I'll

426
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: do a forebanger, but I don't I don't know that

427
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: I ever sneeze once or twice, it's almost always three. Yeah,

428
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 1: And speaking of incomplete, if you actually go if you

429
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 1: experience the afferent phase, but the efferent phase isn't triggered,

430
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: but it's enough to drive you nuts. Um, there's things

431
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: you can do, and one of those things that's recommended

432
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: is to look at a bright light er look kind

433
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: of don't look directly at this on, but look towards

434
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: the sun um and that should help jump start that

435
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: efferent phase. The second part where the actual sneeze takes place, Okay,

436
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: that makes sense, But they think what's going on is

437
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 1: that there's a crossover between um, the sneeze reflex arc

438
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: and the pupillary light reflex arc, which basically is one

439
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: nerve becoming so um stimulated that it it um it

440
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: stimulates by proxy the the other nerve, the sneeze nerve.

441
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: So you're getting so overloaded with bright light when you

442
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: see that sunlight that it it accidentally jumps on over

443
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: to your sneeze reflection as well and makes you sneeze.

444
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: It's like, are you getting all this light? Are you

445
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: getting get a load of this? And I think they've

446
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:54,439
Speaker 1: landed on about between twenty. Generally people have this photic

447
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: sneeze reflex, right, So that's I mean, that's pretty substantial.

448
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 1: There are some other, like small all identity groups of

449
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: sneezers that are far smaller than that. Um. Apparently there

450
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: are people who, um, there's a four families, not one

451
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: in four people, four families, as far as anyone knows,

452
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: who have something called um snatiation, which is where you

453
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: if they eat too much and they feel overly full,

454
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: it will trigger a sneezing attack. Yeah, I would call

455
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: that rare. Yeah, four families for sure, and we're just

456
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 1: gonna pass right on by, right chuck uh yes, acronym um.

457
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: Getting back to the photo sneezing though, they think it

458
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 1: also could be a holdover and an evolutionary advantage from

459
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 1: when we were little babies. Because little babies don't have

460
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: they can't blow their nose. They don't know what that

461
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: even is, so the only um they can't pick their nose.

462
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: They can't they can't use any implement at all to

463
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: clear out their nose except the sneeze. They rely on

464
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: the sneeze to get that mucus out, or of course

465
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: parents who will suck that stuff out through it a

466
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: little device, yeah, which is no fun but necessary. Or

467
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: you hold them on their side and you blow in

468
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: their ear usually clears up in noo. But I should

469
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: probably just go ahead and say I don't do that.

470
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: That was a joke. You can whisper sweet nothings, sure,

471
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: but don't Yeah, don't do that. Um. But babies are

472
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: are pretty sensitive to that photoclight reflex, and they think

473
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: that maybe a reason that basically we that's just sort

474
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: of a holdover from when we were babies. It makes sense.

475
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: It also makes sense to me that babies might have

476
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: um more active or kind of raw or nerve pathways,

477
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: So maybe they're just more sensitive to that that jump

478
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: over that crossover. Maybe UM plucking nose hairs that ever

479
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: happened to you every time? So it doesn't make me sneeze,

480
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: but it makes my eyes water like I've just seen

481
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: every UM long distance commercial from the nineties all at once. Yeah.

482
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because those you talked earlier about the

483
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: trigeminal nerves that are all through the face. I think

484
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: it's just all related. Like you pluck, you could pluck

485
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: an eyebrow and it could make you sneeze and your

486
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: eyes are watering, and that's part of your face. Like

487
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: it's just all sort of one big nerve bundle that's

488
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: all interrelated, and it could any of those could trigger

489
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: either watering of eyes or or definitely sneezing. Even if

490
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: you like pluck a hair out of your head, that

491
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: could do it. That's never happened to me. But my

492
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: nose hair and my eyebrow hair, oh man, my eyes

493
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: will start watering. It's not a pleasant experience for sure.

494
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: I've never plucked an eyebrow hair. Oh. Every once in

495
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: a while I'll get one. Um, that's a big, fat,

496
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: long goat hair. It's just suddenly comes up overnight. I've

497
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: seen I've got those two. Okay, well I pluck those.

498
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: Just trim those, you know, is um, maybe I should

499
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: trim them. That's a good idea. Um. But have you

500
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: ever noticed if you get one and there's almost invariably

501
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: one on the other side too, like they come up

502
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: in pairs. Has does that happen to you? I have

503
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: not noticed that when you pull on one, does the

504
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: other one get shorter? That that was wonderful, that'd be great. Yeah,

505
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: it's like pulling that spaghetti through your nose. And out

506
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: your mouth. Don't do that either, Can you do that? Uh? No,

507
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: I've never tried to do I've never tried either. I

508
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: don't want to. Um. There's also a group of people

509
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: who sneeze when they become sexually aroused. Yeah, that's the

510
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: thing apparently, or if your orgasm, like after your orgasm,

511
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: it could trigger a sneezing fit. Yeah, it's an apparently

512
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: a bigger group than than you would expect. Some researcher

513
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: went around the internet chat rooms and said, hey, does

514
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: anybody sneeze when they become aroused or when they have

515
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: an orgasm? And she found seventeen people who sneeze from

516
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: sexual ideation and three who sneeze from orgasm, which is

517
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: that is ay more than I would expect from just

518
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: going around on internet chat rooms and asking people, you know.

519
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: And also, we should point out way not scientific, No,

520
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: not at all, but yeah, anecdotally it's still impressive. But

521
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: I read an explanation for this. It's a terrible explanation,

522
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: but it's an explanation by the Journal of the Association

523
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: of Physicians of India. It's an Indian uh journal. Coincidentally enough,

524
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: they suggest that it's because the nose contains erectile tissue,

525
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: which it does. Which erectile tissues just tissue that can

526
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: become larger engorged by blood flow. And yes, you have

527
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: erectile tissue and your genitalia. Um, yes you have it

528
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: in your nose, but they're not they're not in any

529
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: way related as far as anyone's ever even thought, aside

530
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: from the people in this journal. And that the most

531
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: bizarre thing you've ever heard. It's pretty bizarre. Like your

532
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: nose is becoming aroused, is basically what they're saying. And

533
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: so you sneeze fantastic. Uh. There's also intractable sneezing or psychogenic,

534
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: and that is something that's almost exclusive to young women, um, girls,

535
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: adolescents basically going through puberty. And these are girls who

536
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: may not suffer from allergies, they're not sick with a

537
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: cold or anything, but can go in these big sneezing

538
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: binges for days and days at a time. Yes, and

539
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: apparently the world, world, the world, oh my goodness. The

540
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: world record holder is a girl named Donna Griffiths who

541
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: was twelve when she started. She started in nineteen eighty

542
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: one January of nine eight one, and her sneezing fit

543
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: ended nine hundred and seventy seven days later in September

544
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three. I remember hearing about this one

545
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: and as it I mean as it went on, I

546
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: was way too young for this. But you know, had

547
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: I had I been more aware, I would have felt

548
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 1: very bad for this girl, um, because as it went on,

549
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: she could if she sneezed once in a day, it

550
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: was considered part of the record, and I think that

551
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: that was kind of how it was towards the end.

552
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: But that first year sounds like a bear. Yeah, a

553
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: million sneezes in the first three d and sixty five days,

554
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: which is basically a sneeze a minute on average. And

555
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: chuck an it's impossible to sneeze in your sleep. You

556
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: cannot sneeze in your sleep. If you sneeze while you're sleeping,

557
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: you wake up to sneeze. Your brain just isn't functioning

558
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: correctly to sneeze while you're sleeping. So that means this

559
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: girl was averaging a sneeze a minute, um, just during

560
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,479
Speaker 1: waking hours, but a sneeze a minute over twenty four

561
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: hours compressed into say ten or twelve hours that she

562
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: was awake that day or would she wake herself up sneezing.

563
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if. If that's the case, then she

564
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: had a really, really rough year because she was sneezing

565
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: every minute and not getting any sleep. Yeah, I mean

566
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: it's disruptive no matter what, no one. I mean, you

567
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: can't hold on a job if you're sneezing every minute. Well,

568
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: luckily she was twelve, and this is after child labor

569
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: laws were passed. I'm hoping she did have that cigarette factory.

570
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: That's right. She has nimble little fingers for sorting cigarettes. Perfect.

571
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: Should we take another break, Yeah, I think so. All right,

572
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: we'll talk about these the traveling Droplets right after this

573
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: great band Josh and Shock. Well, now we're on the road,

574
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: driving in your truck. Want to learn a thing or

575
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: two from Josh Damp Chuck. It's stuff you should know,

576
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: all right? All right, so this is pretty relevant now.

577
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: And I know and I think this was put together before.

578
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: I feel like we've been sitting on this one. Was

579
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: this before coronavirus? No? I think it was during? Was during? Ok?

580
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: And this is a Dave helped us out. Dave Russ

581
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: helped us out with this one. Yeah, so and uh

582
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: and I think we've all seen these videos by now,

583
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: um with everything that's going on. But in two thousand

584
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: sixteen and a researcher from m I T named Lydia.

585
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: Uh oh boy, goodness me Bubia sure bariba, I'm going

586
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: with buru buruba. It is. There's a couple of sounds

587
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: in there that follow one another. It makes it very difficult. Yeah,

588
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 1: whenever you pack three vowels in a row, it's always

589
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 1: sort of a dealer's choice. So she published some SloMo

590
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: two thousand frame per second uh film images of people

591
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: sneezing and what that looks like. That's where we get

592
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: and other people have done this too, and and measured

593
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: the sneeze. But that's one place where we get the

594
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: hundred miles per hour stat oh from that study. Yeah,

595
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: and other places. I mean that's pretty common knowledge now.

596
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: But um up Tott. You can blow a sneeze. It

597
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: can stay suspended in the air for a few minutes.

598
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: And they likened it too, if you would take a

599
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: bucket of paint and just throw the paint out out

600
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: of the can into the air sort of as how

601
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: a sneeze works. It's as they call it, sheets of fluids,

602
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: and you know, you've got these big, big hunks of

603
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: mucus and saliva that just sort of come out together

604
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: and then break apart little by little until you get

605
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: to the fine mists that sort of can hang in

606
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, it starts as a clump and then

607
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: turns into ropey filaments and then into increasingly smaller particles.

608
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: And those really small particles the air sulized stuff. That's

609
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: the scary stuff. I saw a Bristol study that said,

610
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: and this wasn't necessarily coronavirus, but that contagious germs can

611
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: stay in the air, suspended in the air for weeks possibly. Um,

612
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: that would have to be a very hardy contagious virus

613
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: or bacteria with the air flow, yeah, to just sit there.

614
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: But um, that the twenty seven feet which is kind

615
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: of common knowledge these days in the era of coronavirus,

616
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: that your sneeze can can project those particles up to

617
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: like twenty seven ft. There's little pockets of gas and

618
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: turbulence that are in a in a room, even a

619
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: room that seems still but certainly one that has like

620
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: the a c on or air flowing through it, and

621
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: those little particles can hitch rides on those pockets and travel. Um,

622
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: I saw two hundred times further than you expel them

623
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: with just your sneeze. So you know what prevents that

624
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: covering yourself, your mouth and your nose when you sneeze,

625
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 1: and or wearing a mask. Yeah, I mean they teach

626
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: I mean, this has nothing to do with coronavirus, but

627
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: it's especially important. But they teach little kids from the

628
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: moment they can even understand things in preschool to always

629
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: sneeze into your elbow and cough into your elbow because

630
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: that's something that kids can you know, you can't always

631
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: get to a tissue, which is what they say is

632
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: sort of the best thing to do. But that elbow

633
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: is pretty good. Uh, it's a pretty good system. I

634
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: think it's really cute to see a little kid do

635
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: that too, Yeah, because they're doing the right thing. It's

636
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: it's uh, it is adorable. I agree. Um, but yeah,

637
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: the the ideal is to to sneeze into a tissue. Um,

638
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: throw your tissue away and wash your hands thoroughly. That's

639
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do after you sneeze every time,

640
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: every single time, every single time. And I don't sneeze

641
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: a lot. Emily sneeze is a lot. Oh yeah, yeah,

642
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: because she's got the allergies. Oh yeah, she's got a lifelong,

643
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: persistent tickle in her nose. It's terrible. Does she have um,

644
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: what's it called the kind of sneezing where it's oh, psychogenic,

645
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: intractable sneezing. Well, no, because she's not, she's not thirteen man. No,

646
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: it's just allergy related. But lots of sneezing. Uh, when

647
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: it's when it's really bad, it's it's it's pretty tough

648
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: to be around, not to not tough for me, but

649
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: you know, right right yeah stop. Um. So that I

650
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: did look up to find out where we stood as

651
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: far as knowledge on sneezing and um contagion outdoors goes.

652
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: And from what I can tell, there was some study

653
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: that was done by some engineers that sprayed an aerosol

654
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: can running walking and then on a bike, and the

655
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 1: results showed that the stuff spreads really far and wide.

656
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: But they didn't take into account a lot of different things,

657
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 1: a lot of different factors. So that if you are outdoors,

658
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: as long as somebody doesn't sneeze at you basically in

659
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: your face or in your direction within you know, twenty

660
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: or thirty feet um directly toward you. You're probably not

661
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 1: going to catch enough of a viral load of something

662
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: like coronavirus to become sick from it. Um, especially if

663
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: you're not in a crowded group. If you're just walking

664
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: outside and somebody else is walking, you know, fifteen ft

665
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: ahead of you and they're just breathing and they're on

666
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: the other side of the street, you're probably going to

667
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: be fine just because that stuff is gonna dissipate so

668
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: much because of all the factors, the environmental factors that

669
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: exist outdoors rather as opposed to indoors. Indoors is a

670
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: totally different ballgame. Outdoors, you're much safer. Yeah, I mean

671
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: I haven't, uh, I haven't been around a human that sneezed,

672
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: aside from my wife and you know, four or five months,

673
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: like I would, even when I've gone to the store

674
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: and like I'm on the lookout for that stuff. Oh yeah,

675
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: and um, like I think we all are. But I

676
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 1: haven't even been in a store, like on an aisle

677
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: where someone's like sneezed, because I would and probably unreasonably,

678
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: you know, freak out a little bit. Sure, I think

679
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 1: you're allowed to yell at that person. But I haven't

680
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: even seen anyone been around anyone that sneezed. Uh, so

681
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: that's been a comfort. Yeah, you mean you me went

682
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 1: to the store and came back and said, somebody sneezed

683
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: twice in the whole store. Just started looking around like

684
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 1: where that come from. Yeah, it's weird. Huh. Yeah. Yeah,

685
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: there's basically like a stampede or something to get away

686
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 1: from that thing. It's it is. It's a weird, weird

687
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: time to be alive. We're all going to be very

688
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: very weird even after things go back to normal. I think, yeah,

689
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna I know I will be. Yeah.

690
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: So should we talk a little bit about a culture

691
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: and you know, sort of what people say all around

692
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: the world. I know here in America it's sort of

693
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: customed to say God bless you or bless you, uh

694
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: and that. You know. There's some different explanations, but um

695
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: one of them that seems to hold water I think

696
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: dates back to the Middle Ages with the Black Plague,

697
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: when Pope Gregory seven basically said, hey, everyone, you know,

698
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: things are pretty bad. We should just we should say

699
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: God bless you if someone is sneezing because they might

700
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: be dying. Yeah, which is a from what I saw,

701
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: A big departure from um earlier Christian teachings which taught

702
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: people to just totally ignore these or say God is dead,

703
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: which I right, which I find very weird, Like why

704
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: would you teach people to ignore sneezes? I didn't get that.

705
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: But I found this really awesome article called Romance and

706
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: Tragedy of Sneezing by Dr Wilson D. Wallace in Scientific

707
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: Monthly from nineteen nine, and he cited that that earlier

708
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: Christians were like just ignored it, just pretend it didn't happen. Yeah,

709
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: i'm a i'm a i'm ana. Bless you guy. Um,

710
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: and don't do the gazoom tight or salute which is

711
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: Spanish to your health, that kind of thing. It's also

712
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: a toast, Yeah I say that. I don't. I don't

713
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: say that ever. Really. Sometimes I'll say it when I toast,

714
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: but it's been I don't know. I don't remember what

715
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: I did it with anyone anymore, you know, it's I

716
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: don't I forgot to deal with people. I always raise

717
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: my glass and say it's time to get toe up

718
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 1: from the flow up, I say, made Jupiter bless you, right.

719
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: I saw another one from the Greeks too. I love

720
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: that one. Um, live zeus, preserve you. I think you

721
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,919
Speaker 1: and I should bring back both of those. That's fantastic.

722
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: Can't you imagine everyone in greased just like being like,

723
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: don't sneeze, don't sneeze? If everyone's all twitchy and shaky

724
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: from people yelling that at them. Yeah, I mean it's

725
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: weird too because it's a it's a very kind thing

726
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: to do to a stranger. It's uh, this one, um,

727
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: I guess Dave just says an academic. But they called

728
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: it a micro affection, which is nice. You know. It's

729
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: just a little quick, nice thing to say to a stranger.

730
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: If and I'll always do it. We've we've done it

731
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: during our live shows when someone sneezes. It's uh, and

732
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: not to be funny, it gets a laugh, but it's

733
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: just sort of a it's almost like an involuntary micro

734
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: affection I think for most you know, non monsters for sure. Yeah,

735
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: where people just kind of have a brief connection, right

736
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: and you know they don't know each other. But now

737
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: it's like you're a human being. What is it now? Well,

738
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: just bless you and get pleased, get very far away

739
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: from again, bless you over there. Um. So there's also

740
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 1: a very common understanding that people thought that a demon

741
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: was trying to get in or your soul was trying

742
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 1: to get out. And I kept seeing like other cultures

743
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: or old ancient cultures that kind of thing. The closest

744
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: one I could find that seemed like that was um

745
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: in Persia. Um zoro asters believed that your body was

746
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: fighting off a fiend that had invaded, like an invading

747
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: demon or spirit, and that a sneeze was basically your

748
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: body signaling that it had been victorious in fighting this

749
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: fiend and getting this fiend out, and that that that

750
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: deserved a prayer, and that if you ever heard somebody sneeze,

751
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: you would say the same prayer with him. I couldn't

752
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: find what prayer though. Yeah, it seems to be a

753
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: good luck thing, and a lot of cultures throughout the years,

754
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: according to the Talmud, it's a good omen if you

755
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: sneeze when you're praying. Uh. In China and Japan, if

756
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: you sneeze, it means someone's sort of like your ears

757
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: are burning, someone's talking about you, and one sneeze means

758
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: they're saying nice things to two means they're spreading gossip.

759
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what they would think about me with

760
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: my three. Three means you die, right? What would three mean?

761
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, because there's only two ways

762
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: people can talk about you, right, they might be saying

763
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: something like Chuck has a beard. Okay, you know that's

764
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: as neutral as it gets, exactly. Um. So there's there's folklore,

765
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: and then there's what we think is true, which is

766
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: a kind of folklore, but it's actually it's just folklore

767
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: to urban legends. Is what we call them our old

768
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: wives tales. And we talked about one where that your

769
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: your eyes will pop out of your head if you

770
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 1: sneeze with your eyes open. We debunked that one pretty clearly,

771
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: I think, don't you can't do it? Um. And then

772
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: there's some other ones too. There's one that you told

773
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: me about that I had no idea until she said this,

774
00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: But apparently some people believe that you basically die for

775
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: a second while you're sneezing, like your body just shuts down,

776
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: including your heart, and that you're technically dead for that

777
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: half second while the sneeze is going on it. I

778
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: had never heard that before until a couple of days ago,

779
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: and um yeah, I looked it up and it's a thing.

780
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: But no, it's that's not at all true. Like your

781
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: heart rhythm might actually change and the volume of blood

782
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: in your heart might decrease or increase because of the

783
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: pressure of the air in your chest or the release

784
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: of pressure, but the electrical activity remains the same, and

785
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: that's the key to whether your hearts you know, alive

786
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, yeah, your heart does not stop. No,

787
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: that's like playground stuff, it is. I thought it was

788
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: very cute. What about sneezing after sex preventing pregnancy? Did

789
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: you see this one? Well, I mean, what are you

790
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: sneezing out of? Right? So? I mean that like, that's

791
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: the idea that if you sneeze, you're expelling um well,

792
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: there's really no other way to put its semen, and

793
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: that that would keep you from getting pregnant. Wow, it

794
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: seems a little ridic Yeah, that's another playground thing, I guess.

795
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: So what's what playground have you been hanging out? Pretty

796
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: advanced playground at Uh? You got anything else? Oh, I've

797
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: got one more thing, Chuck, you anything else, I got

798
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: nothing else. In two thousand and sixteen or eighteen, a

799
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: man in Lester in the UK ruptured his throat from

800
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: trying to stifle a sneeze. The pressure was so great

801
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: it broke open his throat. Wow. Yeah, internally didn't break

802
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: through the skin, but his his his throat internally was

803
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: up because that's what I pictured, like a throat explosion.

804
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: It just blew his head completely off, like that guy

805
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 1: in Scanners. Well like I guess that's it for sneezing everybody.

806
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks again to West for the idea.

807
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: And since I said that, it's time for listener mail,

808
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: we call this Atlanta, Texas. Hey guys, my name's ben Ley,

809
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: local atlantin Georgia and my life and are a huge

810
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: longtime fans. In your recent episode on Pirate Radio, y'all

811
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: briefly brought up Radio Atlanta, which was named after Atlanta, Texas. Uh,

812
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: and you joke that no one knew that town exists,

813
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: even the people that live there. And that's pretty much true.

814
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: My family is originally from Atlanta, Texas. It's pretty small,

815
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: just about five thousand residents, so it's totally understandable. I

816
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: was born in Texarkana, Texas, not too far from there,

817
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: which is basically famous for being in the Smoky in

818
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: the Bandit movie. I thought that was the town that

819
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: dreaded Sundown too, wasn't it. M I don't know about that.

820
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: I definitely remember from Smoking in the Bandit because they're

821
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: driving that beer from Texarkana to Atlanta, and uh, Benjamin

822
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 1: here says, I don't know why they didn't do Atlanta

823
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. Wasted opportunity, it really is. It sounds like

824
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: Benjamin moved from Atlanta to Atlanta though, huh maybe kinda.

825
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: I mean he's in Atlanta right. He teaches at Georgia State.

826
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: That's pretty awesome. Hey, hats off to you for teaching

827
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: these days, Benjamin. Yeah, he says, there's a lot of

828
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: towns in Texas, oh name that are also Georgian names.

829
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: There's an Athens, Texas at Douglasville, Columbus, Dallas, Georgia in Texas.

830
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: And he said there's even a Georgia, Texas. Well. That's

831
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: just confusing. And he said, thanks for all the great stuff,

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