WEBVTT - Carbon Monoxide: Please Just Listen Anyway 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:07.080 Attention everyone, This is a public service announcement that you 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:07.720 should hear. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.320 That's right. We have mentioned it before quite a few times, 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.639 but this is what we would call the last call 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.400 for our live shows coming up May fourth in Washington, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.079 d C. May fifth and Greater Boston and Medford, mass 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.239 And Saturday the sixth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.520 still tickets left. 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PSA edition. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.839 Yeah, we haven't done a good old PSA in a while. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.120 Do you remember some of our other ones? I can't 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:14.040 bring any to mind. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.440 Sure, don't play in the street. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.240 Yeah, that's one. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.000 Uh, don't jump out of a hot air balloon without 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.119 a parachute. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.720 Yeah, h celo fane bags in you? 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.080 Yeah, boy, that was a good one, sure was. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.360 Yeah. And then this one, it's it carbon monoxide. I 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:35.880 wonder if there's a few people out there that are 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.000 searching for our cellophane bags episode. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.080 Now, well here's the short version. Don't put them over 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.560 your head. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.520 That was it. Yep, that was our first short stuff. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.000 Yeah. So yeah, I. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.160 Probably shouldn't have laughed at that because that exchange wasn't 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.800 funny at all. And chuck, we should not be joky 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.560 at all. This is a very serious episode. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.120 Right, carbon monoxide. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.360 Not dioxide, manaide. It's I lesser. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.560 Said co two when I was talking to you offline. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.800 Yeah, and if you search for carbon monoxide or COO, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.680 carbon dioxide still comes up page one. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:11.480 Yeah. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.079 It's if I were a carbon monoxide i'd be seething 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:14.880 with rage. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.440 Yeah. Yeah, put COO in the limelight for a change. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.799 The reason that this is well, that's what we're doing 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.280 right now, and the reason that this is a PSA everybody, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.680 is that carbon monoxide is a deadly gas. Deadly poisoned 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:33.399 toxic gas to humans. But you can't tell that you're 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.200 being poisoned until it's potentially too late and you're either 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.519 very very sick or very very dead. And the reason 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.560 why this is a PSA further is because we live 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:50.160 among carbon monoxide quite a bit or else, potential carbon 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.320 monoxide sources all over the place. Our whole world is 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:54.760 laden with them. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.519 Yeah, man, if I can pull a little piece from 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.120 later in this great article from Libya, let me spring 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.800 this one on you. It's also it's a silent killer, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.480 known as the silent killer, but it's not the same 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.320 thing as like a gas leak, So a gas leak 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.840 is a completely different thing. They make a gas leak 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.720 smell bad on purpose, so you can detect a gas 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.520 leak that they don't do that with CEO because it's 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.720 a smell that's produced as a result of something. So 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.680 it's not like they can say, hey, let's add a 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.800 farty smell to CEO so everyone knows when it's around. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:34.600 Right, Because a gas leak is like the actual fuel 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:39.080 that hasn't made it to the combustion process yet. Yeah, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.520 so they can add something, but carbon monoxide is a 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.120 is one hundred percent produced by combustion, right, in particular 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.680 a specific kind of a combustion, which would be incomplete combustion. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.680 Yeah, and boy, I never knew this at all in 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.160 my life. And I've heard of carbon monoxide, have carbon 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.240 monoxide detectors. I knew a little bit about it here 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.840 and there, but I never knew that combustion like is 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:11.360 generally almost always inefficient. And there is apparently a perfect 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:17.360 combustion called stoia chiometric combustion, which it's the most efficient 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:23.320 way something can burn, releasing water, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.000 full stop. But apparently that's just that never happens. There's 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.800 always an inefficiency, and that's where the carbon monoxide comes from. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.640 Yeah, I saw another term for that kind of combustion 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.120 is theoretical combustion. Like it just doesn't exist. Yeah, there's 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.320 no such thing as perfect combustion, but I'm sure there's 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.520 people out there trying to crack that egg. Sure, so 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.320 with because like just about anytime we burn a fuel, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:53.120 it's incomplete or imperfect combustion. Those byproducts that could release 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.240 with complete combustion are joined or replaced by some much 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.240 less desirable ones like carbon monoxide, which again is the 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:03.000 silly killer. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.680 That's right, silent but deadly. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.720 And there's a few reasons why combustion is typically incomplete, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.400 at least as far as stuff that you and I 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.599 would mess around with. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.440 Right, Yeah, I mean there may not be enough. It's 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.080 got to have the right mix of air kind of 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.480 like and we'll get into car into car engines a 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.240 little bit later, but the mix of like air to 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.719 fuel as far as a car burning lean or burning 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.520 rich or a fuel burning leaner rich. The same thing 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.679 with just a fire, if there's not enough air there, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.520 or the air doesn't mix with the fuel like it should, 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.400 maybe if it is extinguished too quickly, or the temperature 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.360 cools down before the fuel has burned up. Yeah, this 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:42.960 is where you can get those inefficiencies. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.039 Yeah, And like whether you have too much or too 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.960 little air, it's not a good thing. So it's really 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.720 really difficult to get it just perfect. Actually it's impossible, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.200 but even to get close is really really difficult. So 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.159 there's always going to be some carbon monoxide, right, And 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.880 we've known for quite a while that it's a real problem. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.080 At least as far back as the thirteenth century. There 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:09.919 was a alchemist in Spain named arnolaue Villa Nova. Yeah, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.279 and he said that I don't know how he figured 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.760 this out. I looked, I couldn't find it. That burning wood, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.159 in complete combustion of wood produces some poisonous gas that 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.279 he didn't attempt to name, but he did identify it first. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.680 Yeah, I mean, there you have it. Thirteenth century. Yep, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.880 they knew something was out there and could kill you. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.240 A little bit later, in sixteen forty four, there was 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:38.480 a scientist from France named Johann Baptista von Helmont. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.839 Very French name names used to be so much better. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.520 For sure, they had like curly cues on them. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:49.200 You know, my god, it's amazing. He described dying basically, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.320 or coming close to dying, from inhaling what he called 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.640 gas carbonum, which was, you know, probably a mixture of things, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.680 but carbon monoxide was definitely in there. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.320 Right. And then jose Priestley came along, right, not Jason Joseph. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.400 Hmm, you took the Jason right out of my mouth. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.880 You remember him. He showed up in our nitrous oxide episode. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.160 Okay, I knew he had heard of him before, because 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.320 I knew he had made a Jason Priestley joke before. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.840 Yes, for sure, there's no way you can't. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.440 Yeah. So he was a chemist from England and he's 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.760 the one that they point to as sort of the 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:28.200 true discoverer of carbon monoxide, even though he had a 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.800 really bad name for it too. He was doing experimentation 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.440 in the seventeen seventies and he's the guy that basically said, hey, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.440 you know what, air isn't just one thing like air 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.880 has a lot of gases in it, and this one 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.560 thing is really important we should pay attention to it. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.800 I'm gonna call it deflogid Oh man, I had it 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:53.200 so good earlier, deflogisticated air. Yeah, And everyone else said, eh, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:54.240 call it oxygen. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.240 He said, fine, I like Miney Moore. He's got curly 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:57.880 cues on it. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.960 Deflogelisticated. Wow, that's a mouthful. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.520 That's an old timey word. If that's not I've never 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:04.760 heard an old timey word. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:05.640 Yeah. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:10.400 So he also found carbon monoxide, which you called heavy 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.520 inflammable air, and I finally just taved and looked up 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:19.000 why inflammable inflammable are the same? Yeah, inflammable was original, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.559 but apparently it just confused everybody so much, and because 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.360 it described such a dangerous thing. They dropped the ind 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.440 and just went with flammable from that point on. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.320 Why did we talk about this before? 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:30.960 Oh, I don't know. It sound new to me. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.360 No, we've talked about this before. For once, I remember something, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.960 okay in my little feeble brain. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:38.760 Well what was it. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.439 Well, I don't remember the topic, but I definitely remember 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:43.960 us talking about this. But you know what, I don't 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.360 think you had that little tidbit. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.400 Oh okay, okay, we just wondered about it maybe. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.200 I think so that was back in our days of 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:52.920 just like complaining about not knowing something. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.559 Well, here at the advent of year fifteen. Uh huh, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.720 we have finally solved that mystery. Chuck. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.239 Oh yeah, niversary, Happy. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.960 Anniversary, Happy anniversary too, Jerry. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.920 She could speak through the tape your mouth. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.280 So uh wow, Jerry just threw me off. That's why 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:14.480 we don't let her talk, Chuck. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.400 I know. Quiet you. And by the way, people that 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.200 think we're being mean to Jerry just down. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.200 We've had to go through that before him. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.720 I think people thought we were genuinely mean to Jerry 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.800 about this stuff. But we're family, we're siblings, so we 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:29.480 poke fun at. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.640 Each other exactly and we haven't for a while. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.240 No, we don't poke. You and I don't poke fun 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.840 at each other on the air generally, No, But boy, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:37.160 off the. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.520 Air, Wow, it's a poking fest. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.080 Yeah, you're always poking my belly. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.440 You're doing mine, and I say, oh. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.000 Man, kids did that when I was a kid to usually, Yeah, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.760 because the same thing happened to you, right. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.640 Yeah, for sure. I was such a people pleaser. I 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.640 just went along with it like it was hilarious. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.120 Yeah. I had a little chubby belly and then I 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.320 got skinny, and then I got chubby. So I'm thinking 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:01.320 I'm gonna get skinny again. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:01.959 Nice. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.480 That's the cycle in that. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.600 Way, Yeah, the circle of life. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.720 Yeah, we should get back to it though. Eh. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:13.240 Yeah, So you might say why Okay, guys, I get it. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.840 Carbon monoxide the silent killer, and you have to make 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.959 air quotes every time you say that. Everybody. By the way, 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.880 I get it. It's deadly. I don't want to be 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.280 around it. But exactly how is it deadly? And that 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.240 is one of the reasons we are here. We're here 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.360 to explain why it's deadly, because if you look at 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:36.959 the chemical makeup of a carbon monoxide molecule, one carbon atom, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.000 one oxygen atom. Right, but they are bound really tightly. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.600 They have a triple covalent blond, which means that they 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.280 don't react with stuff very easily, so plants are safe 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.880 from it. Basically, anything that doesn't breathe has no problems 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:57.439 with carbon monoxide. But we breathe, and carbon monoxide tricks 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:02.600 our bodies into substituting oxygen for carbon monoxide because it 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:08.080 binds to our hemoglobin, which transports oxygen throughout the body 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:08.839 and the blood. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.040 Right right. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.720 And one of the reasons why it takes oxygen's places 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.400 because it's two hundred and ten times more attractive to 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.280 hemoglobin than oxygen. Iss. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.520 That's right. And just quickly, you and me and Jerry, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.480 we have also a triple covalent bond. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.360 That's all right. It just occurred to me and we're 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:30.920 very non reactive. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.240 That's right. But what you were saying was hemoglobin is 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.000 like hubba hubba when it comes to that CEO, and 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.840 oxygen's like, no, you're supposed to be bonding with me, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.360 and hemoglobin says, but I'm so much more attracted to 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.319 the carbon monoxide. And it's it's just one of those 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.000 weird things that happens in the body. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.600 It's like that meme where the guy is walking with 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.240 this girlfriend, but he's turned around looking at another girl. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:00.640 The other girl is carbon monoxide, his girlfriend's oxen. He 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.719 is hemoglobin. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.520 I've actually seen that one. I'm not the biggest meme guy, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:06.840 but I know exactly what you're talking about. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.960 Good and it's really apt if you ask me. It 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.280 actually fits a lot of stuff. But one thing that 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:13.720 we have to point out, and this is the reason 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.760 why carbon monoxide is so deadly. It's deadly in very 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:21.520 very small amounts because it can so quickly replace the 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.080 oxygen in your blood stream and your tissues. Your organs 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.280 they need oxygen. So if instead they're getting carbon monoxide 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.280 delivered to them, they're they're going to enter hypoxia, and 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.840 you become oxygen deprived, your organs become oxygen deprived, maybe 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.679 your heart's going to stop, you might suffer brain damage. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.079 If you survive, at the very least, you're probably going 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.800 to faint, maybe throw up. And again, it's because it's 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.960 two hundred and ten times more attractive to hemoglobin. So 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.600 I saw the stat chuck. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.760 Yeah, if there's. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:58.320 A concentration of ero point zero five percent carbon monoxide 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.720 in the air you're breathing and nothing nothing, and fifteen percent, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.160 fifteen percent of the air is oxygen. When that when 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.520 the amount of carbon monoxide in your blood like reaches equilibrium, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.080 forty one percent of your blood is going to be 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.480 carbon monoxide from just from that, that's the disparity that 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.920 takes just that little amount to overwhelm the oxygen in 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.760 your body, and all of a sudden you're in big trouble. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.120 Yeah, I mean, it depends on who you are and 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:31.120 what's going on. If you're one of our senior friends. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.440 If you're a little baby friend, you're going to have 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.480 a bigger trouble with co Obviously, if you're like exercising 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.600 really heavily and like, you know, breathing a lot more 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.079 and your heart rates really high, then it's going to 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:45.800 be a little more dangerous if it's in the air. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.600 But here's some parts per million stats for you. Sixteen 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.920 thousand parts per million, which is a lot. Yeah, So 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.480 I mean we're not saying like, and this could happen, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.960 you know, just walking around and breathing air. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.520 Yeah, but thousand parts per million, you're basically taking rips 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.720 off of a tailpipe of a nineteen seventy buick. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.480 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's a ton. But you know, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.920 as evidence, that will kill you off in like a 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:17.760 few minutes, right, So don't do that. PSA, let's cut 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.800 it down to like four hundred, Like three fifty to 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.280 four hundred should be fine, right, No, you will die 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.120 in three to five hours. You're gonna, you know, feel 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.200 like symptoms coming on. So hopefully it's the kind of 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.760 thing that you recognize is going on, like bad headaches, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.920 you know, probably nausea, dizziness, stuff like that. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.520 Well, that's one of the problems is it's like you 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.440 could be nauseous or dizzy from anything. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:41.680 You know. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.760 Most people like carbon monoxide poisoning well. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.920 And they do say like, if I mean there's something 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.320 this is the acute kind of poisoning, but there's also 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.000 the uh what's the other kind? 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:54.080 Uh chronic? 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.160 Yeah, the chronic kind. They say, if like, if everyone 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.760 in your house gets sick at the same time, you know, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.960 it's not always a cold, like, you might want to 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.560 check for carbon monoxide in your house. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.800 Right, So the carbon monoxide in your blood mixing with 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:14.240 hemoglobin creates a molecule ca carboxy hemoglobin, and it sticks 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.240 around for four hours and as long as you have 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.320 a bunch of carbon monoxide streaming through your blood and 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.360 then your tissues. Yeah, even though you've stepped out into 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.680 like fresh air, you figured it out. You realize you've 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.520 listened to this episode. You know that you have carbon 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.120 monoxide poisoning. You've left your house or breathing fresh air, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.600 you still got four hours of working that stuff out. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.160 And during that four hours, it's going to be a 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.600 very it's going to be very dangerous for you. So 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.360 you want to go to the hospital. When you get 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.600 to the hospital, they're probably going to stick you in 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.280 a hyperbaric chamber and start pumping you full of oxygen. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.440 Yeah, at the very least puts you on oxygen in 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.880 some fashion, just with a mask, even while you're waiting. Probably. Yeah, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.520 although this seems like one of those emergency situations to 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.240 where hopefully it's recognized and they get you in like 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:00.880 very quickly. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:01.320 Sure. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.680 And here's the other thing. If you I mean, eventually 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.360 when you flush it out, you can be okay, But 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.440 can you can also relapse like a few weeks later? Right, 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.680 you can get relap symptoms, and all of a sudden, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.360 you've got a brain fog or fatigue or that headache 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.680 or nausea or dizziness or something coming back on. And 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.320 you know, you can get permanent damage if it's if 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:22.320 it's severe enough. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.400 Yeah, and we talked about chronic poisoning. You can get 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.480 chronic carbon monoxide poisoning if you're exposed to something as 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.960 little as nine parts per million for longer than eight hours, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.800 which is well below the OSHA standard. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.640 Yeah, fifty per million days in a row. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.560 Yeah, I mean this basically wants to be part of 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.720 your life. Right. So, and actually, if you go to 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.720 the hospital and you're like, I've got all these weird, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.280 unexplained symptoms, but I'm not fainting or anything like that, 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.840 there's not you know, I haven't been sucking off a 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.920 Buick tail pipe or anything. Right, They're gonna start asking 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.960 you questions about your lifestyle, like where do you live, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.800 what do you do? And if it turns out that 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.560 you like live above a greyhound bus terminal, right, and 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.600 make those phone calls, obscene phone calls where you're breathing 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.359 heavily a lot, they might say, I think you have 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.240 carbon monoxide poisoning of the chronic variety. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.840 We should do one on bus strips. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.280 I thought you could say obscene phone calls. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.600 No, well, we should do that too, Okay. The Jerky Boys. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.760 Yeah, I've been wanting to do one on the history 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.280 of prank calling. There's actually a pretty rich history there. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.520 Yeah, that'd be fun. Actually, I remember we'll take a 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.480 break here in a sec, but very quickly. I was 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.840 one of those guys who got the Jerky Boys from 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.439 a friend on a cassette like years before it was 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.959 you know, the internet obviously or any kind of like. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.400 They I think they did like a movie even, didn't they, Yes, 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.840 they did. Yeah, this is when like the cassette was 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.560 being passed around the school yard kind of thing. Nice 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:58.320 and boy, I thought it was a funny thing I 0:17:58.440 --> 0:17:58.800 ever heard. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.119 It was funny. Even just saying the name makes me laugh. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.640 Yeah. Jerky Boys, Yeah, they didn't laugh. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:04.880 I laughed inside. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.160 Okay, should we take that break? 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:08.600 Yeah, I think we should. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.240 Jerky Boys. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.240 All right, chuck? So oh, I know, I think you 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.639 could say the Beverly Hills supper Club fire had some 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.080 PSA qualities to it, right. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.120 Sure, we were talking about the supper clubs. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.280 All right, we're talking about especially in northern Kentucky. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:59.040 Chuck, Yeah, yeah, so flammable curtains probably too were inflammable. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:05.000 But death by fire is not a good way to die. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.679 But very few people die from burning to death. You 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.880 usually are dead long before you really start burning up 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.960 through smoke inhalation. And although apparently they don't quantify statistics 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.680 as to this smoke, this type of smoke, or this 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.000 compound in the smoke killed the person, like carbon monoxide, 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.879 you can make a pretty safe assumption that carbon monoxide 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:33.399 poisoning has killed people in fires pretty frequently. I'm sure. 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.679 Sure it's part of that deadly cocktail that you're inhaling. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:37.360 Exactly. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.239 It's also part of a deadly cocktail you're inhaling. If 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:46.119 you're a cigarette smoker, you are willingly ingesting carbon monoxide 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.920 into your body when you smoke a cigarette. There's a 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.800 step for you that carboxy hemoglobin we were talking about, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.280 which is what happens when hemoglobin binds with the CEO. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.720 A typical level if you're just walking around on the 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.520 street is under one percent. If you smoke a packat 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.240 a you're living at about three to six percent. Yeah, 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.119 if you smoke a hookah, especially in the traditional way 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.520 where you're actually burning the tobacco on coal or charcoal, 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.439 gonna be a lot more CEO than that, even almost 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.960 at T two. And incense is another offender that can bring. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.919 If you're burning incense in your house a lot, like 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.320 all day long, you can get up to nine point 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.400 six parts per million in your home. And I used 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.639 to burn I used to burn incense in college. I 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:34.160 was into it for a little while. Yeah, me too, 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.840 But now when I smell it, I'm so turned off. 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.680 It's weird because it's a little bit of a nostalgia hit, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.040 like oh yeah, sandal would okay. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.720 I was gonna say, are you talking specifically about nog. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.440 CHOMPA I don't remember, no chump. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:55.200 It's like the couintessential hippie, not PETULLI like the hippie 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:56.720 incense stick would be nog chop. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:58.400