1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: tell me this. If you ever just holked out something, 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: we'll provoke you. And if you're just flying to over 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: like a rage and you're suddenly able to tap previously 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: inaccessible reserves of strength in order to demolish things. Yeah, 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: it was so hungry. One time I was angry and 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: there was his jar of pasta sauce, and I just 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: and I popped it open like that. Is that what 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: you're talking about? More or less? You know, Holking out 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: like tends to of course imply a you've got the 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: Incredible Hulk Bruce Bruce Banner due to get my shirt 14 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: tour and everything. Yeah, Twin Green, did you okay? Was 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: that after you ate the sauce? This wine? It was 16 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: so easy to open it expired? But of course the 17 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: incredible Hulk comic character, due to radiation, he gets angry. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: He muta into this genormous green muscle man who just 19 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: goes on a rampage in destroy right, and he's usually 20 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: angry or stressed. I mean, he's he's an agitated state, 21 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 1: right right, And then of course there's Huole Cogan who 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: also hulks out. Are you familiar with this? Yes I am, Yes, 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: So you've seen a Whole Cogan match? I have, yeah, 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 1: how on the TV and I turned it on once 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: and I admired his his wonderful mustache and how could 26 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: I not sit there and be riveted by his blonde 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: sheen of hair. Well, the man was a consinate performer, 28 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: it's true. But he would do this thing where he 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: would get beat down at last by the bad guy, 30 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: by the enemy, by the heel, and then he starts 31 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: hulking out. He's he starts getting up like he's he's 32 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: shakes his arms, there's a lot of shaking of the body. 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: But but what is implied is that he has been 34 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: beaten down to the point where the rage is building 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: and he's hulking out his superhuman strength is kicking. Yeah. Yeah, 36 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: And that's what we're talking about, what not Whole Cogan, 37 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: of course, but we're talking or like I don't know, 38 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: a hundred pound moms who are lifting pound cars off 39 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: of their kid who's pinned underneath. Yes, that's the yeah, yeah, 40 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: I think we've seen this motif pop up in any 41 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: number things where it's the idea that the average person, 42 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: you don't have to be Hulk Cogan or Bruce Banner, 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: but the average person can somehow tap into the strength 44 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: and and suddenly someone in human strength to save somebody 45 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: or to get out of some sort of um bad situation. Yeah, 46 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: And it's it's an intriguing idea because I know we've 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: talked about this idea before about how we only use 48 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: tempercent of our brain, which we know is a myth, right, 49 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: but it's sort of similar like, oh, well, we only 50 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: use perhaps of our muscle fibers, and that there's a 51 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: super human strength available to us. And that's sort of right. Yeah, 52 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: I mean, under the right circumstances, this could be a 53 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: a possible condition. Now, of course, medical science doesn't actually 54 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: recognize something called hysterical strength, which is what we're talking right, 55 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: because for I mean, for one thing, how do you 56 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: study it? Um? Yeah? Do you you'd be like, all right, 57 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: we need um, you know, eighteen moms and their beloved 58 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: children to participate in the study. Um. Just warning, fair warning, 59 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: we may have to stick your toddler under a buick 60 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, fall down on the kid um, you will 61 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: sign right here, right, it's not gonna fly. And in 62 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: most studies so it's difficult to to to study. But 63 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: we do know some I mean, we've know a lot 64 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: about how the human body works, so we are able 65 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: to to say, yeah, some version of this exists, and 66 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: adrenaline is the key player, right, and we again, this 67 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: has been observed over and over again, and and you know, 68 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: we've got anecdotal evidence of it. I've got a few here. 69 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: Two Lawrence Pille, Georgia. Right around the corner. Right around 70 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: the corner, Angela Cavallo lifted a Chevrolet and Paula from 71 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: her son Tony after it fell off the jacks that 72 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: it held it up while he worked underneath the car. 73 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: She lifted the car high enough and long enough for 74 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: two neighbors to replace the jacks uh and pull Tony 75 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: from beneath the car, but she didn't actually hold it 76 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: up long enough for them to finish working on it. Yeah, 77 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: here's another. In two thousand six Tuson, Arizona, Tim Boyle 78 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: watched as a Chevrolet Camaro hit an eighteen year old 79 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: by the name of Kyle. The car pinned tile to 80 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: the ground. He's still alive right underneath it. So Boyle 81 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: runs out to the scene of the accident and lifts 82 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: the car up while the driver of the car pull 83 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: and pulled the kid to safety. So again a situation 84 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: where cars pinning somebody. Somebody sees it happen, runs out, 85 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: hulks out, Yeah, you don't have to be a mom. 86 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: You can be a concerned citizen, which which I kind 87 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: of like because you know, we recently did the podcast 88 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: about how people behave in crowds, and so I feel 89 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: like this is a nice little panacea too, like, well, okay, 90 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: people can be jerks sometimes, but they can also be 91 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: um terribly great. And there are some there are also 92 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: some phenomenal videos of of multiple people coming to the 93 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: ascue of of individuals that are trapped in or under vehicles. 94 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: There's one recent one who that was, you know, a 95 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: huge success on YouTube. Whar It's like an entire town 96 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: coming out to help. So it's pinned um and and 97 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: that also was a nice counterweight to the crowd apathy 98 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: we were talking about before. UM. But let's talk about 99 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: why this could happen. What you know, again, medical science 100 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily recognize it that we don't we can't really 101 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: study it, but we know in theory that it's very 102 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: possible and adrenaline has a lot to do with it. Yeah. Basically, 103 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: I have one thing you have to do is just 104 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: think about, like the last time you were afraid or stressed, 105 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: and think about how your body felt, all right, because 106 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: generally what we're talking about here is adrenaline's effect on 107 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: the body all part of the flight or light situation 108 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: where there's some sort of danger, so you need to 109 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: be able to run towards it and run away from it, 110 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: run away from it, and adrenaline put your body through 111 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: a number of changes to facilitate either of those, because 112 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna want to run fast or you're gonna you're 113 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: gonna want to be able to hit heart. Yeah, and 114 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: let's talk about the nuts and bolts about this, okay. Um. Basically, 115 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: you've got stressors engaging the hypothalamus. There is the region 116 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: of the brain that's responsible for maintaining the balance between 117 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: stress and relaxation. Right, it's the homeostasis part. Right, keeps 118 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: everything nice and calm unless it needs to to hook out. Um. 119 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: And that is so when you are hooking out, that 120 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: that hypothalamus then says to your adrenal glands, hey, you 121 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: need to go ahead and tell the sympathetic nervous system 122 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: that you've just hit defcon for you know, and adonlin 123 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: and nora adrenaline are then released and they just completely 124 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: flood your body. So the heart rate rises, increasing, respiration 125 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: dilation with the pupils, digestion slows down, and then the 126 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: most important part, it allows your muscles to contract more 127 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: than normal. This is if we could, you know, underline 128 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 1: with our voices, this is the most important part that 129 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: muscles contracting. Right, Yeah, I think of it. It's kind 130 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: of like the government of your nervous system is temporarily 131 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: giving increased power to the muscles. It's it's like putting 132 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: your body under martial law and saying, all right, armed 133 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: forces of the muscles. Normally you don't have this much power. 134 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: But but since we're in a pretty dire situation, I'm 135 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: temporarily authorizing you the use of additional force, which I 136 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: am I'm hoping you will use to run away from 137 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: the enemy or leg drop it. Right, We're taking resources 138 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: away from digestion and give them to you muscle fibers. 139 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: The lucky ducks. Um. So yeah, they adrenal and just 140 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: completely acts on the muscles. It allows them to contract more. 141 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: And then when the body is in a calm um 142 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: allowing them to contract more than if the body is 143 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: in a calm or neutral state. And um, it allows 144 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: for blood to flow more easily to your muscles and 145 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: more oxygen is carried to your muscles. So that results 146 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: in a muscle activation at a much higher level. And 147 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: you're also converting gluck again uh into glucose, which gives 148 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: muscles a sudden burst of energy. And again, this is 149 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: what is happening when you're lifting a really heavy object, 150 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: or you're running for your life or uh, you're running 151 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: to something or if if I hope this is an 152 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: up and you're electrocuted. Yeah, now this this is really 153 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: mind blowing. Here is an example of how we we 154 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: think this works with with the hulking out. You could 155 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: in theory hulk out if if a live wire, we're struck, 156 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: we're stuck to your body. Or he was struck by lightning, 157 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: which explains why whole Cogan when he's walking out does 158 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: kind of look like he's being shocked by He does 159 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: kind of look like tesla like undergoing the currents. Yes, 160 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: I mean, anyone who's ever touched a live electrical connection 161 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: on on accident, of course, knows that it's quite possible 162 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: to be blown clear across the room. And I cannot 163 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: stress how little we want you to try this at home. 164 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: Do not touch a live wire just to experience muscle. 165 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: And we'll talk about why you would never want to 166 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: do that in a moment um because sometimes, I mean, 167 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: the best case scenarios that you get blown across the room, 168 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: right to survive that. And the reason that you're blown 169 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: across the room isn't because the electrical current pushed you. 170 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: The force is actually coming from your own muscles. Yeah, 171 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: and that's that's just crazy to think about, because we've 172 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: seen this is one of those things that like hulking 173 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: out just shows up again and again and TV shows, 174 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: movies and and it's and it's generally um, you know, 175 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: done with like they do the effect by attaching a 176 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: wire to somebody's back and jerking them back, and so 177 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: it creates this uh, this this idea that that the 178 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: blast of the shock or something, you know, it's like 179 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: thrown away from an explosion or something. But it's really 180 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 1: a situation where your your limbs just suddenly just spasm 181 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: out with this strength, and you it's kind of like 182 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: a cat being startled and leaping off its feet step 183 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: instead of just going up into the air, you're across 184 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: the room and through the coffee table. And think of 185 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: it this way too. It's it's the same extreme stress 186 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: right like your body is just getting it instantaneously, just 187 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: like it would in another instance. But you know, you 188 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: just don't normally put the two together. Electrical current and 189 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: child trapped under car. It's the same. Your body as 190 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: undergoing the same response. And this is from a New 191 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: Scientist article. It says the electric current typically flows into 192 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: one arm, through the abdomen, and out one or both legs, 193 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: which can cause mos to the muscles and the body 194 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: to contract at once. The results are unpredictable, but given 195 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: the strength of the leg and buck muscles um this 196 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: can often send the victims flying across the room with 197 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: no voluntary action on their part. Combined with the unexpected 198 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: shock of an electrocution, this feels as if you are 199 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: flung rather than flinging yourself. Wow. Now imagine that we 200 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: could manipulate this, and we took all our nb NBA 201 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: players and I had like some sort of electrical device 202 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: and planet so that at just the right time when 203 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 1: they're about to go put a layoup. I don't know, 204 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: I'll go up, you know, when they're about to score 205 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: a basketball goal on the basketball hole. Um they they yeah, 206 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: the fish net on the circle. Yeah. So so like 207 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: you know, the basketball player will hit a button on 208 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: his wrist and then wham, he starts flying through the 209 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: air and just massive slam dunk. I'm just saying that 210 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: maybe we'll get there with science, yeah, yeah, or we 211 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: could harness the power of lightning, yes, and just make 212 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: them play into Yeah, so you just able to have 213 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: random bursts of incredible strength throughout. Can you imagine Michael 214 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: Jordan's like lightning, like just flying through the air and dunking. Yeah. 215 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: I mean I'm not a big basketball person, but that 216 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: is exciting. Yeah, although I wouldn't want any harm to 217 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: come to them. More lightning and super strength in my 218 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: team's sports place. Yes, then I'll watch. So. Yeah, being 219 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: thrown across the room can save your life, you know, 220 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: by breaking the electrical contact that you are holding onto. Right, 221 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: So this is actually a good thing. But there are 222 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: other cases, particularly where the source of the current is 223 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: something that the person is holding. The victims arms and 224 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: hand muscles may actually lock onto it. Yeah, and this 225 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: is where it gets deadly. They're unable to let go, 226 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: and if nobody intervenes, or nothing else intervenes, then they 227 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: could die through heart up fibrillation or electrocution. Yeah, this 228 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: is where we get the whole idea of life. If 229 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: somebody's being shocked, you're supposed to hit them away from 230 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: it with a broom handle or something. I've never heard that, 231 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: but it's good to know. Yeah, I don't know. I 232 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: can't remember the origin of that. Maybe it's a story 233 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: from like my family's history, like somebody who's being shocked 234 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: and somebody had to hit sixty four. And yeah, sometimes 235 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: it's an individual shocked and they don't fly away. They're 236 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: stuck there is getting more and more electrocuted, more and 237 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: more a power coursing through their body, and the only 238 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: way to get them off is to knock them away 239 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: with something that is not going to conduct electricity. Yeah, 240 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,479 Speaker 1: because again remember that this is a massive skeletal muscle contraction, 241 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: and yeah, they're they're not going to be able to 242 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: you know, let go of this themselves. So that's good 243 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: to know in case I'll always have a broom nearby 244 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: in my house. Well that's because of you're a witch. Yeah, 245 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: more than that in a future episode. Yeah yeah, I 246 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: mean Halloween's coming up. We can talk about that more later. 247 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: Um that, I did want to mention that that I'm 248 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: sure a lot of people have. You know, everybody actually 249 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: has had some sort of um dalliance with adrenaline, right, 250 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's you know that you picked up 251 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: a thirty pound car, or you just felt fearful, you've 252 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: something in the middle of the night and you know, 253 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: you just your your body is just flooded with energy, 254 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: or even something like an EpiPen for people who have allergies, 255 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, or albuter all the inhaler. 256 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: It's like you get that feeling like you just run 257 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: a marathon. Also, if you ever go to Thailand, a 258 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: tie red bull kind of feels like this. Yeah, it's 259 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: like it's different than normal. I don't know the exactly people, 260 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: because it's like back in the day when Coca Cola 261 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: actually contained cocaine, that this red bull, this tie red 262 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: bull has some sort of like crystalline. I wouldn't. I 263 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: don't know if it actually contains um, you know, anything nefarious, 264 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: but it is. It's like sweeter tasting, definitely like blows 265 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: you up in terms of energy. And it also comes 266 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: in like a little bottle that looks kind of like 267 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,599 Speaker 1: a medicine bottle. Wow, this is just getting atter. And 268 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: and it's red Bull. Yeah, it's red Bull. It's branded 269 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: red Bull, or at least the bottle I I purchased 270 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: from a street vendor had red Bull on the side 271 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: of it. So now I know what you did. The 272 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: our time you're in Thailand. I only had the one, 273 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: but ever since I've kind of every now and then 274 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: I'll be like, I could order some thy red Bull online. 275 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,599 Speaker 1: That's somebody's got to be sold it on eBay. But 276 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: if you've ever been if anyone listening to this has 277 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: ever been to Thailand and and or lives in Thailand 278 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: and uh and has access to Thai red Bull, I'm 279 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: not asking you to send it to me, but do 280 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: you send us I would be very curious to see 281 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: if everybody else has had the same same experience. It 282 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: is actually a different, different kind of chemical things and 283 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: just out of nowhere, like you know, months later thinking 284 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: oh I should really get some of this online. Yeah, okay, 285 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm just here amazing because it's possibly I had an 286 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: isolated incident where I'm just kind of like, oh wow, 287 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: this is an amazing it's all in my head. But anyway, 288 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: I'm digressing away from our hulking here. Yeah. Yeah, Actually, 289 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: right after this break, we are going to talk more 290 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: about adrenaline and what it has to do with cherry 291 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: Trees in Washington, d C. 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All right, now we're back, and before 296 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: we get back, I do want to mention that the 297 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: hulking out that is experienced by UM wrestlers like Hulk 298 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: Hogan in the United States in in Japanese pro wrestling, Uh, 299 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: they have a very similar thing where it's like the 300 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: individual summons their fighting spirit and I think it's tied 301 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: very much in with like you know, old Bushito code stuff, 302 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: but it's a very similar situation. Where the individual has 303 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: been beaten down, he's taken damage, and suddenly he's able 304 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: to tap into this warrior spirit and fight back. So 305 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it up, Okay, Yeah, I mean, and 306 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: I'm sure that whole Cogan was legitimately hulking out to 307 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: right like it wasn't just a show. Well, the warrior 308 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: spirit was shining for take it till you make it right. 309 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: But speaking of of the Japanese um um, an individual 310 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: of Japanese descent actually plays the crucial role in the 311 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: isolation of adrenaline. Yeah, Jochici Takamini. Uh, he's a Japanese 312 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: chemist who was actually in the United States, and well 313 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: I believe he was between Japan and the United States 314 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: of the time that he was looking into this. He 315 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: actually brought it to the market. As you say, he 316 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: isolated adrenaline and this was the first hormone to be 317 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: obtained in pure form and called quote the blood pressure 318 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: raising principle of the super renal glands. You may know 319 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: it as US patent. Yes, and we're talking one made 320 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: interested in that. But before then, George Oliver and Edward 321 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: Shaeffer had discovered that when the secretions of adrenal plans 322 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: were extracted and injected into an experimental animal that could 323 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: raise blood pressure, and a lot of people took interest 324 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: from that. Uh Takamini actually visited their lab at Johns 325 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: Hopkins and he was welcomed there and he was shown 326 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: the full scientific cur courtesy of you know how they 327 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: did it, um, and then he took that knowledge with 328 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: him m back to his own lab and crystallize the 329 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: hormone and then filed a patent. He was incredibly savvy, 330 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: and he had studied patent law, and some people would 331 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: accuse him of sort of taking that technology and and 332 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: and um being a bit of a scoundrel. But the 333 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: fact of the matter is is that he actually was 334 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: taking it to another level and he did have the smarts, 335 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: the patent lost smarts. So how's it used? Back in 336 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 1: the day? Physicians carried it in their bags, and it's 337 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: said that Gene Tunney, the champion boxer, always kept some 338 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: on hand when he went into the ring. Yeah, so 339 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't just our our current day UH 340 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: sports stars trying to bulk themselves up or hold themselves up. Now, 341 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: I also know there is there is an adrenaline concoction 342 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: that's used when the you know, when when they're doing 343 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: the whole cut me thing with the boxer, you know, 344 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: and they're they're like touching up their face. There was 345 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: something Oh yeah, yeah, I'm thinking Rocky right now, exactly 346 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: what you're talking about. One of the things that they 347 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: smear on their faces. So like, is uh some is 348 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: some sort of topical Yeah, topical thing to cut down 349 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: on bleeding. Huh, but yeah, not the kind of makes 350 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: that part of their face whole coat. Yeah yeah, but 351 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: but I mean it's it's not not the kind of 352 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: reaction we're talking about here. It's yeah, yeah, yeah. But 353 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: the drug transformed surgery at that time, where it was 354 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: usually used to control hemorrhages you just pointed out. Um. 355 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 1: It also found uses in cardiology and the treatment of 356 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: asthma and other allergies, and of course it was the 357 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,479 Speaker 1: wonder drug touted to help everything, although it could not. 358 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: But it was prescribed for conditions like deafness, um in 359 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,239 Speaker 1: Addison's disease, which it actually didn't do anything. In the 360 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: Nightmare on Elm Street remake, some kids injected to stay 361 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: awake so that Freddie doesn't get them. It seems like 362 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: that would just go terribly awry. Well I think it. 363 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: Well it did. Yeah, that didn't really work out for 364 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: everybody because now now you're you're all pumped up on 365 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: adrenaline and Freddy's coming after you, so you're like, your 366 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: heart's got to be bursting. Yeah, but the thing is 367 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: he comes for your in your dreams. So it's like 368 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: they're keeping from Yeah, but somehow, I'm gonna guess they 369 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: still fell asleep even though they were pumped up with adrenaline. Right, 370 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, but that's how those kids go. Yeah. Yeah, 371 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 1: it's just that's how the cookie crumbles. Um. So cherry Trees, Yeah, 372 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: what does adrenaline have to do with cherry trees? Exactly? 373 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 1: Tack Amine just he did great with this drug, right, 374 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: He just got all sorts of riches and jewels from it, 375 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: and he used the royalties from it to create diff 376 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: like three new companies, and he got very interested in 377 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: Japanese American relations, right yeah. So, so as a token 378 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 1: of goodwill from the Japanese people to the United States, 379 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: cherry Trees. Yeah. First, Lady Helen Herron Taft was working 380 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: to beautify the title basin around the Potomac River in Washington, 381 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: d C. And he gave them two thousand cherry trees, so, 382 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: which I thought was fascinating because you don't mean, you 383 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: know of DC is you know cherry tree blossoms. That's 384 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: when the finding things physical features of Washington, d C. 385 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: But but there you go. It's all has its ties 386 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: back to adrenaline. Huh. Now, now do these trees hulk out? 387 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. I doubt it. I'm not going to 388 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: hazard to guess. Yeah, alright, so we mentioned about before 389 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: the hype of aalmus is the region of the brain 390 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: that's responsible for maintaining the balance between stress and relaxation, 391 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: between pulk Cogan and like the dude, between between being 392 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: chill and being out of control. Um and of course 393 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's kind of like the yoga of 394 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 1: the brain. It's all about like maintaining that balance because 395 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: in in the the you know, extremes are bad. You 396 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: don't want to be chilled out all the time because 397 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: you're going to forget to eat or you know, or 398 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: something I don't know, You're just gonna you're not gonna 399 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: get anything done or and if you're agitated all the time, Um, 400 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,719 Speaker 1: you you may die. Well, we talked about this before, 401 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: particularly with nightmares, right right, Um, when we talked about 402 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: the ocean refugees who I think within like a four 403 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: year span of eighteen of them had died in their sleep. 404 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: They had sudden death. And the reason for this, we 405 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: know are part of part of the reason is that 406 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: they're under a great stress at that time they were 407 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: they were escaping some just really brutal conditions in their 408 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: home country. And uh, and yes, so they're under a 409 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: lot of stress, and a lot of stress, like we're saying, 410 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: produces adrenaline, and this can have a rather detrimental effect 411 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,959 Speaker 1: on your health. That's right. Adrenaline is toxic in large amounts. 412 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: It damages the visceral internal organs such as the heart, lungs, liver, 413 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: and kidneys. And it's believed that, as you know, as 414 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 1: we talked about, that almost all sudden deaths are caused 415 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: by damage to the heart. Um. There's almost no other 416 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: organ that would fail so fast as to cause sudden death. 417 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: Kidney failure, liver failure, those things don't kill you suddenly, right, Um. 418 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: Adrenaline from the nervous system lands on receptors of cardiac 419 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: misa sietes okay, and those are the heart muscle cells, 420 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: and this causes calcium channels and the membranes of those 421 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: cells to open, making the heart muscles contract. And if 422 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: it's a massive overwhelming storm of adrenaline, calcium keeps pouring 423 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: into the cells and then your muscles just can't relax. 424 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,199 Speaker 1: This is why we go into cardiac arrest, right, So 425 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: it's really interesting. Neurologist Martin A. Samuel says that it's 426 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: not just fear that can cause us. According to him, 427 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: any strong positive or negative emotions such as happiness or 428 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: sadness could also cause it. And he says there are 429 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: people who have died in intercourse or in religious passion. 430 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: And there's one case of a golfer who hit a 431 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: hole in one turned to his partner and said, I 432 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: can die now and then drop dead. I have to 433 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: say that seems all dubious to me, but he said 434 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: a study in Germany found an increase in sudden cardiac 435 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: deaths on the days that the German soccer teams were 436 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: playing in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because they're they're 437 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: getting the ideas that these individuals are kind of on 438 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 1: the edge anyway through a really exciting soccer game at 439 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: him and that's all she wrote. Boom right, So it's 440 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: not just us fear sometimes it just you know, I 441 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: guess it could be fair. I suppose if you're a 442 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: fan and you're you're frightened that your team might not, 443 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: you know, pull through, and yeah, if you have. If 444 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: there's someone in your life as a sports fan who 445 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: has a delicate heart, try and get them to support 446 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: teams that that pretty much consistently stuck because because is 447 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: gonna be the less likelihood of their team killing them. Yeah, 448 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: lower the bar they are for them, do my favor. 449 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, prolonged state of stress can lead 450 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: to complications, and it doesn't you don't have to be 451 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: like a raving sports fan. It can just be that 452 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: you have workplace stress, and you have it, uh for 453 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: a long period of time. Your body is in constant 454 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 1: go mode and it's misinterpreting what's a threat and what's 455 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: not right false threats. As a result, your immune system 456 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: suffers and your cortosol levels can shoot up. And as 457 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: we know, cortosol levels are really important in regulating our 458 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: sleep too. So if your levels are or nuts, at night, 459 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: then you're probably not getting the kind of sleep you need. 460 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: So it's unfortunately, it's just kind of um, sort of 461 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: the vortex fall fall into, right, a sleep vortex or no, 462 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: an awakeness vortex. I think an anxiety vortex. I'll go 463 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, yeah, So it's the moral of the story. 464 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: The moral of the story is that adrenaline is a 465 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 1: precious commodity that's really powerful. Uh, and your nervous system 466 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: tries to use good judgment about win and how it 467 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: is used. That's right. Yeah, And that if you beat 468 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: whole Cogan down enough, he is going to hulk out 469 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: and probably to thee and don't make Bruce Fanner angry. 470 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 1: I'll go with that. Yeah, you wouldn't like him, he's ancred. 471 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: Um nice. But let's let's uh, let's go ahead and 472 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: reach into the basket of listener mail. Here a few 473 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: here to read. We continue to hear a lot from 474 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: listeners about our Misophonia and Pet Peeves podcast. You dealt 475 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: with the sounds that drive people crazy, um, other little 476 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: perks that annoy We've heard from a listener by the 477 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: name of Hunter. Hunter says, I listened to your Mesophonia 478 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: podcast and I wanted to tell you this. My misophonia 479 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: is the sound of a wooden pencil writing on paper. 480 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: I use the mechanical pencils due to this. I'm a 481 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: big fan of the show and I would love it 482 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: to have one of you great podcasters would email me 483 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: back smile, I face. Um, and you did email I did, 484 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: You're back? Um? And am I correct? Unless you share 485 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: this with Hunter, you you don't like the sound of 486 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: a pencil on paper. Oh no, no, actually that Um. 487 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: What I was saying to Hunter is that that we've 488 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: got a couple of email from people who have a 489 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: pencil paper issue. Um, similar like but but interesting really enough, 490 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: some people can't stand the sound of the mechanical pencil 491 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: because it's the metal hitting the paper. Just to show 492 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: as you can't please everybody, yeah yeah, But then we 493 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: had another person to who was like, I can't stand 494 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: a mechanical so I went to the wooden So it's 495 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: really interesting to see that there's there's someone of a 496 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: pad and here emerging. I'm still kind of firmed by 497 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: the socks though. The socks when you know, the listener 498 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: who was irritated by the sound of socks on carpet, right. Yeah, well, 499 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: just for the sake of fun. Um socks on hardwood 500 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: is the best because you get a running start and 501 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,479 Speaker 1: then you put it on the brakes and you can 502 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: you can go like can I tell you that I 503 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: did at least once a week. Oh that's awesome. It's 504 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: a great joy of mine. It's why I look forward 505 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: to winter yoga because I can come into the yoga 506 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: room with my socks on. You skid right in like 507 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 1: like like Tom Cruise in Brisky Business. Yeah, except with pants, 508 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: you know, but pretty good test. Let's see. We also 509 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: heard from Jeremy Jeremy Writston, and he was talking about 510 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: the first of all the Lewis Black quote that I 511 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: alluded to about in our Pet Peeves episode, talking about 512 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: the annoyance of hearing like half a conversation. And he's 513 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: straightened this out and says that the quote was I 514 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: never would have gotten into college if it weren't for 515 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: my horse. And then he goes on to say, I 516 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: can attest to the winding child. I have a two 517 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 1: point five year old and he's getting into the defiant stage. 518 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: We're choosing not to call it the terrible twos, where 519 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: he loves to wine. The worst part about it is 520 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: knowing that it's not even real. The whinding that I've 521 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: encountered fake. I'll catch him off guard at times when 522 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: he's distracted by something bright and shiny and he stops, 523 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: realizes that he did stop, and goes right back into 524 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,199 Speaker 1: winding mode. Fortunately, I have a terrible listening problem, and 525 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm able to drown it out with little problems. Keep 526 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: up with fun podcast. Yeah, I have to say my 527 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: I have a two and a half year old too, 528 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: same thing. Yeahs constant winding. Yeah, but she starts laughing 529 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: because she I think hicly because she's like ha ha, 530 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,959 Speaker 1: well kinda. I don't know what she's doing there, but 531 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 1: but sometimes I think she knows that she's such a 532 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: faker that she starts laughing because she's not really pulling 533 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: at all. And we have one more email here from Mike. 534 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: Mike writes in and says, I just got to finished 535 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: listening to your Decision Fatigue podcast, and I have an 536 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: interesting story related to this as you that you brought up. 537 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: I just got married on Congratulations and was very aware 538 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: that the week leading up to my wedding I was 539 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: doing a very poor job at work and was for 540 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 1: getting all sorts of things at home. I've been back 541 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: to work a week now and I found things are 542 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: slowly getting better. Also noted that doing our registry it 543 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: was a very stressful time. At some point in this time, 544 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: I zoned out and started scanning random things around the store. 545 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: And this is of course of its referring to the 546 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: fact that they give you a scanner these days and 547 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: a lot of these stores, and they're like, here, take 548 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: this scan the items that that you would like to 549 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: put on your registry. And as we discussed in the podcast, 550 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: picking out things through your registry, it's just one decision 551 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: after another, and after a while it adds up in 552 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,959 Speaker 1: your your brain is just for the day. Yeah, and 553 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: so so I love this example because it's like you're 554 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: making careful choices early on, and by the end of 555 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: the process you're just like scanning random objects just to 556 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: be done with it, which is a great example of 557 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: really how decision fatigue works. The problem, as we discussed 558 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: in that podcast, being that instead of it just being 559 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: a situation where your later decisions are just the scanning 560 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: of random objects, that you end up dealing with bigger 561 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: decisions and more weighty decisions with that kind of apathy, right, Like, 562 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to make have to make a really 563 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: important decision later on in that day, if you had 564 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: to register that morning, it would be awful. Whatever choice 565 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: you made would be wrong probably. 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