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Speaker 1: Should Know. Set up for achievement. That sounds like very
Speaker 1: eighties Reagan era campaign. It does, It definitely does. Uh
Speaker 1: certainly not the kind of thing that would irritate you,
Speaker 1: whether it be in your nose or your brain or anywhere.
Speaker 1: Not not the best segue, huh. I'm surprised you didn't
Speaker 1: try and work uh, stern mutation in there. Somehow. I
Speaker 1: love that word. Are you Were you familiar with that
Speaker 1: word before? I don't think you know. I'm forty nine
Speaker 1: years old. I don't think I've ever heard sneezing being
Speaker 1: called stern mutation. I got oh, man, I just remembered.
Speaker 1: I'm forty four now, so you you got me beat.
Speaker 1: But I'm in the same boat with you. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: never heard that. But that is what if you're a scientist, Well,
Speaker 1: if you're a scientist and you want to be a
Speaker 1: real stuff, you probably say sternutation. If your scientists that
Speaker 1: wants to be friends with people, you'll still probably say sneezing.
Speaker 1: And I mean, it sounds super clinical, but it's actually
Speaker 1: really old. It's from I think the first appearance of
Speaker 1: it is in a text from fifteen seventy six. Old.
Speaker 1: To me, it sounds clinical but there's also a couple
Speaker 1: of derivative words stern mutative or stern you too, Tori
Speaker 1: are things that make you sneeze and Howard Stern bubba
Speaker 1: booe right chewy. So we're talking sneezing obviously, because we
Speaker 1: just discoursed on stern youitation, I'm adding an extra syllable.
Speaker 1: There aren't I stern mutation. That's the Josh Clark way.
Speaker 1: Why do I have to complicate? Why do I have
Speaker 1: to complimentate things? Uh, we're talking about sneez sin. It's
Speaker 1: the sneezing, and sneezing is a really sort of and
Speaker 1: I hate it when people call things like this elegant,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna refrain. But it's just a very efficient
Speaker 1: system that the human body has worked out to basically
Speaker 1: allow your your nose and we'll get into all the
Speaker 1: ins and outs of how it all happens, but to
Speaker 1: allow your nose and your nasal passage in your brain
Speaker 1: to act as bouncers and just say get out of
Speaker 1: my body. Fast, cut off pal like real fast, you're
Speaker 1: cut off cigarettes, smoke, you're cut off Chanel number seven
Speaker 1: that nobody likes, you know, Sure, Um, that's uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty pretty good way to put it. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's an ancient, ancient reflex too. I mean basically,
Speaker 1: all mammals at least sneeze, some more than others. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize this, but apparently iguanas um sneeze the most
Speaker 1: because it's part of their digestion. Yeah. And then I
Speaker 1: don't know what it's technically called, but you know when
Speaker 1: dogs do what it's called the reverse knees. Yeah, Momo
Speaker 1: has that bad. It's so scary, it is, it is.
Speaker 1: And we finally got her checked out out and um,
Speaker 1: they verified she doesn't have a collapse trachia, which is
Speaker 1: when it really is threatening. It's just something to do
Speaker 1: with her nasal passages. Bracky a ceflick. Have you ever
Speaker 1: had a dog that that has that? I mean I've
Speaker 1: I've never had a dog that didn't do it occasionally. Um,
Speaker 1: but Niko, I feel like goes and it's not often,
Speaker 1: but it's it's like a you know, it's like can
Speaker 1: be prolonged like for like a minute, and it just
Speaker 1: seems like are you about to die? Yeah, it's terrible,
Speaker 1: it's really bad. I think you're just supposed to leave
Speaker 1: them alone. Too, right, just let him do it. Um, No,
Speaker 1: we help her out. We'll we'll rub her throat um,
Speaker 1: just kind of stroke it. It seems to help. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes we'll just lightly plug her nostrils to
Speaker 1: kind of give her like a hitch to it, and
Speaker 1: that that frequently cures it too sometimes though. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: just has to work it out. But she gets it
Speaker 1: every time she gets excited, and she gets excited a lot,
Speaker 1: so it's sad for her. Yeah, But it's really not
Speaker 1: a sneeze, uh, actually, because a sneeze is when you
Speaker 1: were you're trying to get something out of your nose,
Speaker 1: and that nose is it's a pretty amazing little system.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's an amazing filtration system. How it's designed
Speaker 1: with those narrow nasal passages. It's not like we have
Speaker 1: these big face holes like that. They're narrow for a
Speaker 1: very good reason, and that is to create turbulence inside
Speaker 1: your nasal passages. And you know that turbulence shoves all
Speaker 1: that air that you're inhaling to the sides of your
Speaker 1: nasal passages, the nasal mucosa, and that's got tiny little
Speaker 1: hairs called cilia and the sillia mainly is sort of
Speaker 1: like a pre doorman, just saying like, yeah, your I
Speaker 1: D S good. Why don't we just move you to
Speaker 1: the back of the throat and we'll flush you out
Speaker 1: that way. But if it's too much, that's when you
Speaker 1: need to call him the big bouncer to initiate that
Speaker 1: sneeze response. Yeah, sometimes they're just like, no, I'm staying here,
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving. You can't kick me out. I hate
Speaker 1: the back of the throat. Super drunk. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that, But it makes sense that we
Speaker 1: swallow a lot of the particles that we inhale through
Speaker 1: our nose, which is gross but effective. We poop it
Speaker 1: out eventually, right, But yeah, if they get if they
Speaker 1: get stuck in the nose, then they do something magical,
Speaker 1: almost as magical as soap. But um, when it's when
Speaker 1: they're sticking to the sides and they're they're not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: it's clear they're not going where. They actually like irritate
Speaker 1: some specialized cells that are in that nasal mucosa mast
Speaker 1: cells and uh erie nfls I think, But basically they're
Speaker 1: they're there to look out for little particles that decide
Speaker 1: they don't want to leave. And when those things get irritated,
Speaker 1: they release histamines which trigger this reaction like an allergic reaction,
Speaker 1: basically where your nose is running and um. They also
Speaker 1: simultaneously start sending signals to your brain saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: we got one. We need some help. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: know we talked about this a little bit with I know,
Speaker 1: the pollen episode and I feel like we did another
Speaker 1: allergy centric one but I can't remember. But the whole
Speaker 1: thing takes about a second for the single sneeze. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know it's gonna send that message, like you said,
Speaker 1: that chemical message to the sneeze center of the brain,
Speaker 1: which is in the lateral medulla. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the lateral medula gets like everything in the brain, it
Speaker 1: gets at signal and says, you know, all I gotta
Speaker 1: all I gotta do is react fast whenever the body
Speaker 1: tells me to do something, and in this case, it's
Speaker 1: to jet out whatever is in the nose as fast
Speaker 1: as possible. Right. So, And I was looking this up.
Speaker 1: If you want to get super clinical, if you're the
Speaker 1: kind of person who uses words like stern mutation instead
Speaker 1: of sneezing, there's actually something called an afferent phase and
Speaker 1: an efferent phase and an afferent phases when you get
Speaker 1: ready to sneeze, like your your nerves have been um
Speaker 1: tickled and are triggered and are itching, and they're sending
Speaker 1: messages to your brain uh in your sneeze center. And
Speaker 1: then that the efferent phases, when your sneeze center goes okay,
Speaker 1: it's go time. And that's actually pretty interesting stuff. And
Speaker 1: the way that that happens is basically, from what I
Speaker 1: can tell, through a system of nerves olfactory nerve uh
Speaker 1: ethmoidal nerve just a terrible word. And then um, your
Speaker 1: triedgeminal nerve, which is basically responsible for most of the
Speaker 1: sensation in your face and your ability to bite and chew.
Speaker 1: And when these nerves spring into action, they hit that
Speaker 1: message or the sneezing center in your brain, and your
Speaker 1: sneezing center sends it back over these this kind of
Speaker 1: same switchboard of nerves in your face and all this
Speaker 1: is happening and just you know, a very short amount
Speaker 1: of time. Yeah, I mean, like I said, the whole
Speaker 1: thing takes place in less than a second. Um, and
Speaker 1: it's got to reach you know, in order for it
Speaker 1: to reach that sneeze center, it's got to be past
Speaker 1: a certain threshold of irritation basically. Uh. And once it
Speaker 1: does reach that irra irritable point, which of which there's
Speaker 1: no going back. He's had too much to drink. Everybody
Speaker 1: in the bar knows it. That's when it finally sends uh,
Speaker 1: that impulse down through the head and neck to initiate
Speaker 1: that response. That involves a lot of muscle groups. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, if you when you sneeze, it's a and
Speaker 1: especially with some people, can be a pretty violent um
Speaker 1: action for the body. Yeah. Like if you stop and
Speaker 1: take stock of what you're doing right, then you might
Speaker 1: find that you're hunched over. One of your legs is
Speaker 1: in the air, like, your knees kind of pulled up.
Speaker 1: Um you you your face is all scrunched up, your
Speaker 1: neck is tight. Uh. There's a lot of muscles involved
Speaker 1: in the reason why is because you're taking in a
Speaker 1: bunch of air and then you're expelling a bunch of
Speaker 1: air with a lot of force to to get that
Speaker 1: thing that won't leave out of your nose. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you can and I've seen professional athletes that have been
Speaker 1: sidelined from sneezing h Uh. If you've got a bad
Speaker 1: back or something like, it can it can really hurt. Luckily,
Speaker 1: I don't have back problems, but occasionally I have, and
Speaker 1: a sneeze can really tweak it to where you're like,
Speaker 1: that's when you know you're an old man territory. You
Speaker 1: have a sneeze and you're like, hold on, I can't
Speaker 1: get up. Yeah, I'm gonna have to lay down this weekend.
Speaker 1: But your abdomen, your chest, your diaphragm, uh, your vocal chords.
Speaker 1: You know you mentioned that you take that deep inhalation,
Speaker 1: that's that like right before you go, and that builds
Speaker 1: up a lot of pressure in your chest. And that
Speaker 1: happens because your vocal cords just initially clamp shut, right Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you're sucking in a bunch of air holding it,
Speaker 1: and so the pressure is building in your thorax um
Speaker 1: and then when you release it, your your vocal cord
Speaker 1: openings open up to allow the air out. But then
Speaker 1: also your your diaphragm is pushing that air out really violently,
Speaker 1: so that it's going out in your mouth and your nose.
Speaker 1: I saw about a hundred miles an hour is the
Speaker 1: the speed that that can hit yeah, easily, um, around
Speaker 1: a hundred miles an hour. That is crazy to think
Speaker 1: about your eyes closed. But you know, we can go
Speaker 1: ahead and to spell the the old myth that, um,
Speaker 1: you can pop your eyes out if you keep your
Speaker 1: eyes open during a sneeze, right, Yeah, not true. And
Speaker 1: apparently there are some people who do keep their eyes
Speaker 1: open when they sneeze, and they show quite clearly that
Speaker 1: your eyes don't pop out. That's just that's just would
Speaker 1: be impossible. Plus they usually close anyway, just shatically. Yeah. There,
Speaker 1: it's a very small group of people who sneeze with
Speaker 1: their eyes open. Most people just it's like involuntary. Um,
Speaker 1: it's part of the involuntary process of sneezing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we said that or not. Sneezing is an
Speaker 1: involuntary reaction to an external stimuli in your nose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you can't. I mean, you can try and trigger
Speaker 1: a sneeze, and we'll talk about certain things that can
Speaker 1: trigger a sneeze, but you definitely can't make yourself sneeze
Speaker 1: like full stop. Yeah no, no, I mean, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: funny things you can do to make yourself sneeze, like
Speaker 1: you're saying, but there are things you can do to
Speaker 1: keep yourself from sneezing. Whether you want to or not
Speaker 1: is a different question, because you know, sneezing can feel
Speaker 1: pretty good if you don't throw your back out. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about my sneeze pattern later. I know I've
Speaker 1: talked about it before, but okay, I find it fascinating
Speaker 1: you you accidentally um, tap out, drink your ovaltine and
Speaker 1: morse code to your sneezes. Is that your thing? Very nice? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Should we take a break. Let's take a break, Chuck,
Speaker 1: and then we'll come back and talk more about sneezing,
Speaker 1: Josh and Shock. So well, now we're on the road,
Speaker 1: driving in your truck. Want to learn a thing or
Speaker 1: two from Josh Camp Chuck. It's stuff you should know.
Speaker 1: All right, hey man, before we get back into it
Speaker 1: too far, I realized I didn't give a shout out
Speaker 1: to the guy who gave me the idea for this episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dr Todd g sneeze a lot um No. One of
Speaker 1: my neighbor friends, Wesley Uh was like, hey man, he
Speaker 1: actually listens and he's like, hey man, have you guys
Speaker 1: ever done one on sneezing? And I'm like sure, of
Speaker 1: course we have. It's like, oh, because if you haven't,
Speaker 1: you know, you really should. That's a great one. And
Speaker 1: I went back and looked into my astoundment. We had
Speaker 1: never done one on sneezing, Like never. I just can't
Speaker 1: believe that that wasn't like one of the first ten.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, that seems like it would be an
Speaker 1: early stuff you should know for sure, and like it.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like one of those right now
Speaker 1: as we're doing it. But um, you know, my neighbors
Speaker 1: think of unemployed. It's great. Yeah, but hats off to
Speaker 1: West for coming up with that one. Thanks Wes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I leave Josh alone. He's one. He's the one that
Speaker 1: we got the the Love your Mama dot com stuff
Speaker 1: for and he's like halfway done with our room spray.
Speaker 1: We need some more because we're using it so fast,
Speaker 1: and you're you're the pusherman. Yeah. I was like, first
Speaker 1: of one's on me, the next you're gonna cost you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't correct my neighbors. They think I'm I'm down
Speaker 1: on my luck, so that's all good, Yeah, opinion, No,
Speaker 1: that's definitely the way to go. He's very nosy, so
Speaker 1: he um he found out I had to finally just
Speaker 1: stop lying, Oh, that's good stuff. So we're we're back
Speaker 1: to sneezing. We're talking sneezing and UM. One of the
Speaker 1: things we mentioned was the sneezing center, which is this,
Speaker 1: up until not too many years ago, a theoretical part
Speaker 1: of the brain that um causes us to sneeze, that
Speaker 1: coordinates this involuntary response because you're not like your brain
Speaker 1: is not consciously saying like, okay, now, diaphragm, expel the air,
Speaker 1: like this is all like we said, involuntary um that
Speaker 1: every time you wanted to sneeze, right, expel air. UM.
Speaker 1: So it makes sense that there would be a region
Speaker 1: that was responsible for this. And because we've already we'd
Speaker 1: already seen it in cats. Don't ask how we knew
Speaker 1: where it is in cats, but in cats it's in
Speaker 1: the medulla, and so it was hypothesized that it was
Speaker 1: in the lateral medulla in humans too. And finally, I
Speaker 1: think around two thousand five, there's basically incontrovertible evidence that
Speaker 1: came in the form of this fisherman. I believe he
Speaker 1: might have been Spanish UM who had the sneezing fit
Speaker 1: one day of like about twenty really violent sneezes in
Speaker 1: a few minutes, and then all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: stops sneezing and couldn't walk right like he his gait
Speaker 1: was affected, almost like he had a stroke. And apparently
Speaker 1: either he caused a lesion on his lateral medulla from
Speaker 1: the sneezing, or that violent sneezing was like an initial
Speaker 1: symptom of a lesion, kind of like here's your last
Speaker 1: sneeze as ever, And he went to the doctor and
Speaker 1: they started testing them, and they would do things like
Speaker 1: put cap sasan in his nose, like red hot chili
Speaker 1: pepper in his nose, which makes everybody sneeze. It's like
Speaker 1: a universal um stern to Tori, right, makes everyone sneeze,
Speaker 1: And it wouldn't make this guy sneeze. It would burn
Speaker 1: his nose and it would make his nose running, but
Speaker 1: it wouldn't make him sneeze. On the other side, it
Speaker 1: would make him sneeze the other nostril, but not the
Speaker 1: not the right, I think. And so they found this
Speaker 1: lesion on his lateral medula, and they said, sneezing center,
Speaker 1: welcome to our understanding. At such a bad red hut
Speaker 1: Chili Pepper's joke that is sat on through the whole spield.
Speaker 1: That's a very grown up of you. Should I say it? Sure?
Speaker 1: Whoever said we were grown ups? I was just thinking
Speaker 1: the doctor would did the capsasan and ask him how
Speaker 1: he feels, and he'd say, well, I don't know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't have a partner. That's pretty good,
Speaker 1: you know, than fight like a brave. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of Chili Pepper songs. What if
Speaker 1: the doctor came in wearing nothing but one of those
Speaker 1: reflector headbands in a sock on his penis. I saw
Speaker 1: that coming and that was it. Oh, that'd be great
Speaker 1: that that. You know, you got the right doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do the party duck. So things that can make
Speaker 1: you sneeze. I know you kind of rattle off some
Speaker 1: jokes about perfume and smoke earlier. Oh I wasn't joking,
Speaker 1: But those are all realities. That the most common cause
Speaker 1: of sneeze is and that the collective term is rhinitis
Speaker 1: r H I and I T I S. And that
Speaker 1: is just your sort of standard inflammation and swelling of
Speaker 1: your mucous membrane when you got allergies when pollens in
Speaker 1: the air, when you have a cold. But they are
Speaker 1: all kinds of other things that can cause a sneeze too,
Speaker 1: that are all different types of rhinitis. Yeah, speaking of
Speaker 1: rhinitis too, I ran across a term. This the clinical
Speaker 1: term for a running nose is rhin a rhea. Yeah
Speaker 1: didn't that crody Like that makes it at least twelve
Speaker 1: or fifteen times worse than running nose, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So there's um occupational rhinitis, which is basically when stuff
Speaker 1: you're working around makes you sneeze or irritate your nose. Um,
Speaker 1: things like cleaning supplies or you know, flower I saw
Speaker 1: was a pretty common occupational rhinitis. Uh, sternitatory or sternitative,
Speaker 1: depending on your preference. Um. Cigarette smoke, if you're work
Speaker 1: in a place where they let you smoke, like maybe
Speaker 1: a cigarette factory, although I heard that they don't allow
Speaker 1: smoking inside some cigarette factories now in like North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Isn't that just the end all be all? You think
Speaker 1: they would allow you to do that while you're working.
Speaker 1: They used to up until very recently. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: have the impression you can just puck one off the
Speaker 1: line and light it up. Wow, I guess if you're smoker,
Speaker 1: that's a big perk. It is. But then now they're
Speaker 1: like no smoking inside, which leads you to the follow
Speaker 1: up question why why would what very dangerous you dummy? Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see. You've also got the hormonal rhinitis, which
Speaker 1: is women might experience that when they have high estrogen levels.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're pregnant, or you're on the pill, or
Speaker 1: you're going through puberty, you might have some sort of
Speaker 1: run on sneezing episodes. Sure, Um, there's drug induced rhinitis.
Speaker 1: There's certain drugs that are have been identified. Um, what
Speaker 1: do you say the hippis kun right, Yeah, mushrooms will
Speaker 1: make you sneeze. Um. Apparently I'm guessing that I didn't
Speaker 1: see this anywhere, but this is an educated guest. Tell
Speaker 1: me if you think it sounds convincing. Um, those drugs
Speaker 1: probably stimulate your masts cells to release histamines, and that
Speaker 1: that just basically almost like a phantom um allergen. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I'm going with. But apparently end SAIDs beta blockers
Speaker 1: and some anti hypertensive drugs are the ones that are known.
Speaker 1: Um drug induced rynitis. Stern tutores. Uh. If you are
Speaker 1: of advanced age, you might have what's called geri attic
Speaker 1: rhye rhinitis, which is that's when those uh submucoastal glands atrophy,
Speaker 1: and that means your nose can get really irritated and
Speaker 1: you might sneeze a lot. Right. Um. That is very
Speaker 1: sad to me if you think about it, because there's
Speaker 1: not much that can be done. I'm sure you're there's there.
Speaker 1: You just put like maybe vaseline or something in your nose.
Speaker 1: That's got to be the cure for that. But that's
Speaker 1: just that because it's like your your little bodies, you know,
Speaker 1: running down. We should have a cure for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like our medicine is not far enough along in my opinion,
Speaker 1: for too for this to be. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: disappointing everybody, am I Right? Yeah? So we've talked before,
Speaker 1: Chuck multiple times about photic sneezing, which I am a
Speaker 1: photo sneezer, and I don't remember if you are or not.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have, but I don't. It's not
Speaker 1: like roundly something that happens to me. I don't think. So, Okay,
Speaker 1: I am a photo sneezer more than I'm a native
Speaker 1: born Toledo and even maybe they're tied. So how does
Speaker 1: it get you? Like, any time you like turn on
Speaker 1: a light, very rarely light, it's almost always sunlight, and
Speaker 1: I think it's just because the intensity of it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like if I walk out, say, like if I go
Speaker 1: see a movie in the middle of the day because
Speaker 1: it's a slacker and come out and then nice and
Speaker 1: I come out and it's very sunny, it is guaranteed
Speaker 1: three sneezes in a row? Is that every usual pattern? Yeah? Usually?
Speaker 1: And I looked into that, like why do we sneeze
Speaker 1: multiple times? Apparently there's a very simple answer for it,
Speaker 1: and that's that your your brain has to turn mean
Speaker 1: that that the irritant hasn't been ejected yet. But with
Speaker 1: photo sneezing, it's it's almost like it's mistaken identity, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually did see some other things too about the patterns,
Speaker 1: because that's always fascinated me because I always sneeze in threes.
Speaker 1: And um, I did see where sometime some places said
Speaker 1: that just once isn't enough, so it's like a setup.
Speaker 1: Get it to the front of your nose and then
Speaker 1: it get out. But I also saw where it could
Speaker 1: be genetic. Yeah, like that you inherit a sneeze pattern,
Speaker 1: and that like double sneezers beget to double sneezers. It
Speaker 1: makes sense because there are like photos. Sneezing is one
Speaker 1: of a couple ways that you can inherit a genetic
Speaker 1: sneezing traits, So that would make sense. Yeah, that's right. Photo.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, photic sneeze reflexes passed on by autosomal dominant inheritance.
Speaker 1: And it's and I love this, uh this acronym because
Speaker 1: this is one of those reverse engineered ones that we
Speaker 1: like so much. Do you like this one? I like
Speaker 1: this one. I hated the other one. Yeah, man, with
Speaker 1: a passion like I wouldn't even I wasn't gonna bring
Speaker 1: that one up to be Okay, we'll just pass it
Speaker 1: by and let everybody wonder for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: But autosamial dominant compelling helio up uphthalmic outburst syndrome at you,
Speaker 1: it's a little rough, it is. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: whole d, a whole dominant in there that's missing. But okay, fine,
Speaker 1: we'll go We'll go with that. But that's the that
Speaker 1: is a term for photo sneezing that was um coined
Speaker 1: at some some point by Someone's right for acronyms is
Speaker 1: when they just sneak a word in there and don't
Speaker 1: use it for a letter. Yeah, it's lazy, although I
Speaker 1: mean I get where they were coming from. You don't
Speaker 1: want to be ad chew. It's like why even why
Speaker 1: even do it? But but you got to figure it out,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, just take dominant out, just go
Speaker 1: with autosomal. You know. Yeah, no one who would know.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have noticed. So um you were saying, Uh,
Speaker 1: was that it for the patterns and sneezing patterns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're just a couple of theories, either hereditary
Speaker 1: or that it just takes that much. But I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I buy that for myself
Speaker 1: because it's always threes and it's not like I have
Speaker 1: a weak sneeze, so it takes three. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it feels ingrained somehow, Yeah, like if you only
Speaker 1: do two, you notice and it does it feel incomplete?
Speaker 1: It does, but it that almost never happens. Occasionally I'll
Speaker 1: do a forebanger, but I don't I don't know that
Speaker 1: I ever sneeze once or twice, it's almost always three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And speaking of incomplete, if you actually go if you
Speaker 1: experience the afferent phase, but the efferent phase isn't triggered,
Speaker 1: but it's enough to drive you nuts. Um, there's things
Speaker 1: you can do, and one of those things that's recommended
Speaker 1: is to look at a bright light er look kind
Speaker 1: of don't look directly at this on, but look towards
Speaker 1: the sun um and that should help jump start that
Speaker 1: efferent phase. The second part where the actual sneeze takes place, Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, But they think what's going on is
Speaker 1: that there's a crossover between um, the sneeze reflex arc
Speaker 1: and the pupillary light reflex arc, which basically is one
Speaker 1: nerve becoming so um stimulated that it it um it
Speaker 1: stimulates by proxy the the other nerve, the sneeze nerve.
Speaker 1: So you're getting so overloaded with bright light when you
Speaker 1: see that sunlight that it it accidentally jumps on over
Speaker 1: to your sneeze reflection as well and makes you sneeze.
Speaker 1: It's like, are you getting all this light? Are you
Speaker 1: getting get a load of this? And I think they've
Speaker 1: landed on about between twenty. Generally people have this photic
Speaker 1: sneeze reflex, right, So that's I mean, that's pretty substantial.
Speaker 1: There are some other, like small all identity groups of
Speaker 1: sneezers that are far smaller than that. Um. Apparently there
Speaker 1: are people who, um, there's a four families, not one
Speaker 1: in four people, four families, as far as anyone knows,
Speaker 1: who have something called um snatiation, which is where you
Speaker 1: if they eat too much and they feel overly full,
Speaker 1: it will trigger a sneezing attack. Yeah, I would call
Speaker 1: that rare. Yeah, four families for sure, and we're just
Speaker 1: gonna pass right on by, right chuck uh yes, acronym um.
Speaker 1: Getting back to the photo sneezing though, they think it
Speaker 1: also could be a holdover and an evolutionary advantage from
Speaker 1: when we were little babies. Because little babies don't have
Speaker 1: they can't blow their nose. They don't know what that
Speaker 1: even is, so the only um they can't pick their nose.
Speaker 1: They can't they can't use any implement at all to
Speaker 1: clear out their nose except the sneeze. They rely on
Speaker 1: the sneeze to get that mucus out, or of course
Speaker 1: parents who will suck that stuff out through it a
Speaker 1: little device, yeah, which is no fun but necessary. Or
Speaker 1: you hold them on their side and you blow in
Speaker 1: their ear usually clears up in noo. But I should
Speaker 1: probably just go ahead and say I don't do that.
Speaker 1: That was a joke. You can whisper sweet nothings, sure,
Speaker 1: but don't Yeah, don't do that. Um. But babies are
Speaker 1: are pretty sensitive to that photoclight reflex, and they think
Speaker 1: that maybe a reason that basically we that's just sort
Speaker 1: of a holdover from when we were babies. It makes sense.
Speaker 1: It also makes sense to me that babies might have
Speaker 1: um more active or kind of raw or nerve pathways,
Speaker 1: So maybe they're just more sensitive to that that jump
Speaker 1: over that crossover. Maybe UM plucking nose hairs that ever
Speaker 1: happened to you every time? So it doesn't make me sneeze,
Speaker 1: but it makes my eyes water like I've just seen
Speaker 1: every UM long distance commercial from the nineties all at once. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because those you talked earlier about the
Speaker 1: trigeminal nerves that are all through the face. I think
Speaker 1: it's just all related. Like you pluck, you could pluck
Speaker 1: an eyebrow and it could make you sneeze and your
Speaker 1: eyes are watering, and that's part of your face. Like
Speaker 1: it's just all sort of one big nerve bundle that's
Speaker 1: all interrelated, and it could any of those could trigger
Speaker 1: either watering of eyes or or definitely sneezing. Even if
Speaker 1: you like pluck a hair out of your head, that
Speaker 1: could do it. That's never happened to me. But my
Speaker 1: nose hair and my eyebrow hair, oh man, my eyes
Speaker 1: will start watering. It's not a pleasant experience for sure.
Speaker 1: I've never plucked an eyebrow hair. Oh. Every once in
Speaker 1: a while I'll get one. Um, that's a big, fat,
Speaker 1: long goat hair. It's just suddenly comes up overnight. I've
Speaker 1: seen I've got those two. Okay, well I pluck those.
Speaker 1: Just trim those, you know, is um, maybe I should
Speaker 1: trim them. That's a good idea. Um. But have you
Speaker 1: ever noticed if you get one and there's almost invariably
Speaker 1: one on the other side too, like they come up
Speaker 1: in pairs. Has does that happen to you? I have
Speaker 1: not noticed that when you pull on one, does the
Speaker 1: other one get shorter? That that was wonderful, that'd be great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like pulling that spaghetti through your nose. And out
Speaker 1: your mouth. Don't do that either, Can you do that? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I've never tried to do I've never tried either. I
Speaker 1: don't want to. Um. There's also a group of people
Speaker 1: who sneeze when they become sexually aroused. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: thing apparently, or if your orgasm, like after your orgasm,
Speaker 1: it could trigger a sneezing fit. Yeah, it's an apparently
Speaker 1: a bigger group than than you would expect. Some researcher
Speaker 1: went around the internet chat rooms and said, hey, does
Speaker 1: anybody sneeze when they become aroused or when they have
Speaker 1: an orgasm? And she found seventeen people who sneeze from
Speaker 1: sexual ideation and three who sneeze from orgasm, which is
Speaker 1: that is ay more than I would expect from just
Speaker 1: going around on internet chat rooms and asking people, you know.
Speaker 1: And also, we should point out way not scientific, No,
Speaker 1: not at all, but yeah, anecdotally it's still impressive. But
Speaker 1: I read an explanation for this. It's a terrible explanation,
Speaker 1: but it's an explanation by the Journal of the Association
Speaker 1: of Physicians of India. It's an Indian uh journal. Coincidentally enough,
Speaker 1: they suggest that it's because the nose contains erectile tissue,
Speaker 1: which it does. Which erectile tissues just tissue that can
Speaker 1: become larger engorged by blood flow. And yes, you have
Speaker 1: erectile tissue and your genitalia. Um, yes you have it
Speaker 1: in your nose, but they're not they're not in any
Speaker 1: way related as far as anyone's ever even thought, aside
Speaker 1: from the people in this journal. And that the most
Speaker 1: bizarre thing you've ever heard. It's pretty bizarre. Like your
Speaker 1: nose is becoming aroused, is basically what they're saying. And
Speaker 1: so you sneeze fantastic. Uh. There's also intractable sneezing or psychogenic,
Speaker 1: and that is something that's almost exclusive to young women, um, girls,
Speaker 1: adolescents basically going through puberty. And these are girls who
Speaker 1: may not suffer from allergies, they're not sick with a
Speaker 1: cold or anything, but can go in these big sneezing
Speaker 1: binges for days and days at a time. Yes, and
Speaker 1: apparently the world, world, the world, oh my goodness. The
Speaker 1: world record holder is a girl named Donna Griffiths who
Speaker 1: was twelve when she started. She started in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: one January of nine eight one, and her sneezing fit
Speaker 1: ended nine hundred and seventy seven days later in September
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three. I remember hearing about this one
Speaker 1: and as it I mean as it went on, I
Speaker 1: was way too young for this. But you know, had
Speaker 1: I had I been more aware, I would have felt
Speaker 1: very bad for this girl, um, because as it went on,
Speaker 1: she could if she sneezed once in a day, it
Speaker 1: was considered part of the record, and I think that
Speaker 1: that was kind of how it was towards the end.
Speaker 1: But that first year sounds like a bear. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: million sneezes in the first three d and sixty five days,
Speaker 1: which is basically a sneeze a minute on average. And
Speaker 1: chuck an it's impossible to sneeze in your sleep. You
Speaker 1: cannot sneeze in your sleep. If you sneeze while you're sleeping,
Speaker 1: you wake up to sneeze. Your brain just isn't functioning
Speaker 1: correctly to sneeze while you're sleeping. So that means this
Speaker 1: girl was averaging a sneeze a minute, um, just during
Speaker 1: waking hours, but a sneeze a minute over twenty four
Speaker 1: hours compressed into say ten or twelve hours that she
Speaker 1: was awake that day or would she wake herself up sneezing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if. If that's the case, then she
Speaker 1: had a really, really rough year because she was sneezing
Speaker 1: every minute and not getting any sleep. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's disruptive no matter what, no one. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't hold on a job if you're sneezing every minute. Well,
Speaker 1: luckily she was twelve, and this is after child labor
Speaker 1: laws were passed. I'm hoping she did have that cigarette factory.
Speaker 1: That's right. She has nimble little fingers for sorting cigarettes. Perfect.
Speaker 1: Should we take another break, Yeah, I think so. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about these the traveling Droplets right after this
Speaker 1: great band Josh and Shock. Well, now we're on the road,
Speaker 1: driving in your truck. Want to learn a thing or
Speaker 1: two from Josh Damp Chuck. It's stuff you should know,
Speaker 1: all right? All right, so this is pretty relevant now.
Speaker 1: And I know and I think this was put together before.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've been sitting on this one. Was
Speaker 1: this before coronavirus? No? I think it was during? Was during? Ok?
Speaker 1: And this is a Dave helped us out. Dave Russ
Speaker 1: helped us out with this one. Yeah, so and uh
Speaker 1: and I think we've all seen these videos by now,
Speaker 1: um with everything that's going on. But in two thousand
Speaker 1: sixteen and a researcher from m I T named Lydia.
Speaker 1: Uh oh boy, goodness me Bubia sure bariba, I'm going
Speaker 1: with buru buruba. It is. There's a couple of sounds
Speaker 1: in there that follow one another. It makes it very difficult. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whenever you pack three vowels in a row, it's always
Speaker 1: sort of a dealer's choice. So she published some SloMo
Speaker 1: two thousand frame per second uh film images of people
Speaker 1: sneezing and what that looks like. That's where we get
Speaker 1: and other people have done this too, and and measured
Speaker 1: the sneeze. But that's one place where we get the
Speaker 1: hundred miles per hour stat oh from that study. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and other places. I mean that's pretty common knowledge now.
Speaker 1: But um up Tott. You can blow a sneeze. It
Speaker 1: can stay suspended in the air for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: And they likened it too, if you would take a
Speaker 1: bucket of paint and just throw the paint out out
Speaker 1: of the can into the air sort of as how
Speaker 1: a sneeze works. It's as they call it, sheets of fluids,
Speaker 1: and you know, you've got these big, big hunks of
Speaker 1: mucus and saliva that just sort of come out together
Speaker 1: and then break apart little by little until you get
Speaker 1: to the fine mists that sort of can hang in
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, it starts as a clump and then
Speaker 1: turns into ropey filaments and then into increasingly smaller particles.
Speaker 1: And those really small particles the air sulized stuff. That's
Speaker 1: the scary stuff. I saw a Bristol study that said,
Speaker 1: and this wasn't necessarily coronavirus, but that contagious germs can
Speaker 1: stay in the air, suspended in the air for weeks possibly. Um,
Speaker 1: that would have to be a very hardy contagious virus
Speaker 1: or bacteria with the air flow, yeah, to just sit there.
Speaker 1: But um, that the twenty seven feet which is kind
Speaker 1: of common knowledge these days in the era of coronavirus,
Speaker 1: that your sneeze can can project those particles up to
Speaker 1: like twenty seven ft. There's little pockets of gas and
Speaker 1: turbulence that are in a in a room, even a
Speaker 1: room that seems still but certainly one that has like
Speaker 1: the a c on or air flowing through it, and
Speaker 1: those little particles can hitch rides on those pockets and travel. Um,
Speaker 1: I saw two hundred times further than you expel them
Speaker 1: with just your sneeze. So you know what prevents that
Speaker 1: covering yourself, your mouth and your nose when you sneeze,
Speaker 1: and or wearing a mask. Yeah, I mean they teach
Speaker 1: I mean, this has nothing to do with coronavirus, but
Speaker 1: it's especially important. But they teach little kids from the
Speaker 1: moment they can even understand things in preschool to always
Speaker 1: sneeze into your elbow and cough into your elbow because
Speaker 1: that's something that kids can you know, you can't always
Speaker 1: get to a tissue, which is what they say is
Speaker 1: sort of the best thing to do. But that elbow
Speaker 1: is pretty good. Uh, it's a pretty good system. I
Speaker 1: think it's really cute to see a little kid do
Speaker 1: that too, Yeah, because they're doing the right thing. It's
Speaker 1: it's uh, it is adorable. I agree. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the the ideal is to to sneeze into a tissue. Um,
Speaker 1: throw your tissue away and wash your hands thoroughly. That's
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do after you sneeze every time,
Speaker 1: every single time, every single time. And I don't sneeze
Speaker 1: a lot. Emily sneeze is a lot. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because she's got the allergies. Oh yeah, she's got a lifelong,
Speaker 1: persistent tickle in her nose. It's terrible. Does she have um,
Speaker 1: what's it called the kind of sneezing where it's oh, psychogenic,
Speaker 1: intractable sneezing. Well, no, because she's not, she's not thirteen man. No,
Speaker 1: it's just allergy related. But lots of sneezing. Uh, when
Speaker 1: it's when it's really bad, it's it's it's pretty tough
Speaker 1: to be around, not to not tough for me, but
Speaker 1: you know, right right yeah stop. Um. So that I
Speaker 1: did look up to find out where we stood as
Speaker 1: far as knowledge on sneezing and um contagion outdoors goes.
Speaker 1: And from what I can tell, there was some study
Speaker 1: that was done by some engineers that sprayed an aerosol
Speaker 1: can running walking and then on a bike, and the
Speaker 1: results showed that the stuff spreads really far and wide.
Speaker 1: But they didn't take into account a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: a lot of different factors. So that if you are outdoors,
Speaker 1: as long as somebody doesn't sneeze at you basically in
Speaker 1: your face or in your direction within you know, twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty feet um directly toward you. You're probably not
Speaker 1: going to catch enough of a viral load of something
Speaker 1: like coronavirus to become sick from it. Um, especially if
Speaker 1: you're not in a crowded group. If you're just walking
Speaker 1: outside and somebody else is walking, you know, fifteen ft
Speaker 1: ahead of you and they're just breathing and they're on
Speaker 1: the other side of the street, you're probably going to
Speaker 1: be fine just because that stuff is gonna dissipate so
Speaker 1: much because of all the factors, the environmental factors that
Speaker 1: exist outdoors rather as opposed to indoors. Indoors is a
Speaker 1: totally different ballgame. Outdoors, you're much safer. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I haven't, uh, I haven't been around a human that sneezed,
Speaker 1: aside from my wife and you know, four or five months,
Speaker 1: like I would, even when I've gone to the store
Speaker 1: and like I'm on the lookout for that stuff. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, like I think we all are. But I
Speaker 1: haven't even been in a store, like on an aisle
Speaker 1: where someone's like sneezed, because I would and probably unreasonably,
Speaker 1: you know, freak out a little bit. Sure, I think
Speaker 1: you're allowed to yell at that person. But I haven't
Speaker 1: even seen anyone been around anyone that sneezed. Uh, so
Speaker 1: that's been a comfort. Yeah, you mean you me went
Speaker 1: to the store and came back and said, somebody sneezed
Speaker 1: twice in the whole store. Just started looking around like
Speaker 1: where that come from. Yeah, it's weird. Huh. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's basically like a stampede or something to get away
Speaker 1: from that thing. It's it is. It's a weird, weird
Speaker 1: time to be alive. We're all going to be very
Speaker 1: very weird even after things go back to normal. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna I know I will be. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So should we talk a little bit about a culture
Speaker 1: and you know, sort of what people say all around
Speaker 1: the world. I know here in America it's sort of
Speaker 1: customed to say God bless you or bless you, uh
Speaker 1: and that. You know. There's some different explanations, but um
Speaker 1: one of them that seems to hold water I think
Speaker 1: dates back to the Middle Ages with the Black Plague,
Speaker 1: when Pope Gregory seven basically said, hey, everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: things are pretty bad. We should just we should say
Speaker 1: God bless you if someone is sneezing because they might
Speaker 1: be dying. Yeah, which is a from what I saw,
Speaker 1: A big departure from um earlier Christian teachings which taught
Speaker 1: people to just totally ignore these or say God is dead,
Speaker 1: which I right, which I find very weird, Like why
Speaker 1: would you teach people to ignore sneezes? I didn't get that.
Speaker 1: But I found this really awesome article called Romance and
Speaker 1: Tragedy of Sneezing by Dr Wilson D. Wallace in Scientific
Speaker 1: Monthly from nineteen nine, and he cited that that earlier
Speaker 1: Christians were like just ignored it, just pretend it didn't happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'm a i'm a i'm ana. Bless you guy. Um,
Speaker 1: and don't do the gazoom tight or salute which is
Speaker 1: Spanish to your health, that kind of thing. It's also
Speaker 1: a toast, Yeah I say that. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: say that ever. Really. Sometimes I'll say it when I toast,
Speaker 1: but it's been I don't know. I don't remember what
Speaker 1: I did it with anyone anymore, you know, it's I
Speaker 1: don't I forgot to deal with people. I always raise
Speaker 1: my glass and say it's time to get toe up
Speaker 1: from the flow up, I say, made Jupiter bless you, right.
Speaker 1: I saw another one from the Greeks too. I love
Speaker 1: that one. Um, live zeus, preserve you. I think you
Speaker 1: and I should bring back both of those. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Can't you imagine everyone in greased just like being like,
Speaker 1: don't sneeze, don't sneeze? If everyone's all twitchy and shaky
Speaker 1: from people yelling that at them. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: weird too because it's a it's a very kind thing
Speaker 1: to do to a stranger. It's uh, this one, um,
Speaker 1: I guess Dave just says an academic. But they called
Speaker 1: it a micro affection, which is nice. You know. It's
Speaker 1: just a little quick, nice thing to say to a stranger.
Speaker 1: If and I'll always do it. We've we've done it
Speaker 1: during our live shows when someone sneezes. It's uh, and
Speaker 1: not to be funny, it gets a laugh, but it's
Speaker 1: just sort of a it's almost like an involuntary micro
Speaker 1: affection I think for most you know, non monsters for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where people just kind of have a brief connection, right
Speaker 1: and you know they don't know each other. But now
Speaker 1: it's like you're a human being. What is it now? Well,
Speaker 1: just bless you and get pleased, get very far away
Speaker 1: from again, bless you over there. Um. So there's also
Speaker 1: a very common understanding that people thought that a demon
Speaker 1: was trying to get in or your soul was trying
Speaker 1: to get out. And I kept seeing like other cultures
Speaker 1: or old ancient cultures that kind of thing. The closest
Speaker 1: one I could find that seemed like that was um
Speaker 1: in Persia. Um zoro asters believed that your body was
Speaker 1: fighting off a fiend that had invaded, like an invading
Speaker 1: demon or spirit, and that a sneeze was basically your
Speaker 1: body signaling that it had been victorious in fighting this
Speaker 1: fiend and getting this fiend out, and that that that
Speaker 1: deserved a prayer, and that if you ever heard somebody sneeze,
Speaker 1: you would say the same prayer with him. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find what prayer though. Yeah, it seems to be a
Speaker 1: good luck thing, and a lot of cultures throughout the years,
Speaker 1: according to the Talmud, it's a good omen if you
Speaker 1: sneeze when you're praying. Uh. In China and Japan, if
Speaker 1: you sneeze, it means someone's sort of like your ears
Speaker 1: are burning, someone's talking about you, and one sneeze means
Speaker 1: they're saying nice things to two means they're spreading gossip.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they would think about me with
Speaker 1: my three. Three means you die, right? What would three mean?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, because there's only two ways
Speaker 1: people can talk about you, right, they might be saying
Speaker 1: something like Chuck has a beard. Okay, you know that's
Speaker 1: as neutral as it gets, exactly. Um. So there's there's folklore,
Speaker 1: and then there's what we think is true, which is
Speaker 1: a kind of folklore, but it's actually it's just folklore
Speaker 1: to urban legends. Is what we call them our old
Speaker 1: wives tales. And we talked about one where that your
Speaker 1: your eyes will pop out of your head if you
Speaker 1: sneeze with your eyes open. We debunked that one pretty clearly,
Speaker 1: I think, don't you can't do it? Um. And then
Speaker 1: there's some other ones too. There's one that you told
Speaker 1: me about that I had no idea until she said this,
Speaker 1: But apparently some people believe that you basically die for
Speaker 1: a second while you're sneezing, like your body just shuts down,
Speaker 1: including your heart, and that you're technically dead for that
Speaker 1: half second while the sneeze is going on it. I
Speaker 1: had never heard that before until a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and um yeah, I looked it up and it's a thing.
Speaker 1: But no, it's that's not at all true. Like your
Speaker 1: heart rhythm might actually change and the volume of blood
Speaker 1: in your heart might decrease or increase because of the
Speaker 1: pressure of the air in your chest or the release
Speaker 1: of pressure, but the electrical activity remains the same, and
Speaker 1: that's the key to whether your hearts you know, alive
Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, yeah, your heart does not stop. No,
Speaker 1: that's like playground stuff, it is. I thought it was
Speaker 1: very cute. What about sneezing after sex preventing pregnancy? Did
Speaker 1: you see this one? Well, I mean, what are you
Speaker 1: sneezing out of? Right? So? I mean that like, that's
Speaker 1: the idea that if you sneeze, you're expelling um well,
Speaker 1: there's really no other way to put its semen, and
Speaker 1: that that would keep you from getting pregnant. Wow, it
Speaker 1: seems a little ridic Yeah, that's another playground thing, I guess.
Speaker 1: So what's what playground have you been hanging out? Pretty
Speaker 1: advanced playground at Uh? You got anything else? Oh, I've
Speaker 1: got one more thing, Chuck, you anything else, I got
Speaker 1: nothing else. In two thousand and sixteen or eighteen, a
Speaker 1: man in Lester in the UK ruptured his throat from
Speaker 1: trying to stifle a sneeze. The pressure was so great
Speaker 1: it broke open his throat. Wow. Yeah, internally didn't break
Speaker 1: through the skin, but his his his throat internally was
Speaker 1: up because that's what I pictured, like a throat explosion.
Speaker 1: It just blew his head completely off, like that guy
Speaker 1: in Scanners. Well like I guess that's it for sneezing everybody.
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