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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry Jerome

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Speaker 1: Roland over there. Uh, and this is stuff you should Know.

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Speaker 1: For a second there, I thought you said Jerry the

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Speaker 1: drone Roland, and I was like, what a weird nickname?

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Speaker 1: Jerry talked like, oh as in droning. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: she was like a remote controlled playing with a camera attached. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not what I meant. Or that she was bombing

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Speaker 1: women and children. No, not that either. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: say that, I said, Jerry Jerome. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're feeling all right today? Yes? You? How is your sleep?

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Speaker 1: You know, dude, I have all but stopped drinking lately.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, lately. Okay, And so I'm sleeping like a champ. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and waking up like a champ too, I imagine, right,

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Speaker 1: makes a big difference, especially at our age. Yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: only had the alcohol once in the past two weeks,

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Speaker 1: and um, I'm sleeping so good. I'm kind of like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not quitting drinking. Let's be honest. I

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Speaker 1: mean it doesn't sound like you need to know, but

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Speaker 1: I it's uh, it just one day became two became three,

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Speaker 1: and I was sleeping like a champ. And this is

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Speaker 1: after a couple of nights of bad sleep due to

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Speaker 1: too much booze. So I'm like, man, that's kind of nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, life is enjoyable. I forgot. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I think it's super healthy too. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I have talked about this before. I think it's super

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Speaker 1: healthy to do at least a month out of the

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Speaker 1: year straight through where you're just like I'm not having

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Speaker 1: a drop. Oh yeah, yeah, this is good for you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I had a couple of years ago. I went exactly

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Speaker 1: one month without a single drink and I still ate

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Speaker 1: like crap, didn't not exercise, and I dropped like thirteen pounds.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just from not consuming alcohol from beer. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't drink much beer, that's right. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know gin and tonic, that's a ton of calories. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's I drink diet tonic when I haven't. You get

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Speaker 1: used to it, and there's good diet tonic out there,

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Speaker 1: Like you just have to treat yourself. I guess so,

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Speaker 1: I've never diet tonic really tastes gross, like the swill

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Speaker 1: that they have in like the little Leader bottles. That's diet.

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Speaker 1: That's what's good. Like the handmade brand fever Fever Tree. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like the crafted stuff, like like artisan tonic. Yeah, tonic

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Speaker 1: for rich people. Yeah, the tonic made by a guy

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Speaker 1: who's mustaches waxed. We'll have to try that then, I

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Speaker 1: think you should. And yeah, it is expensive, but I

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Speaker 1: just don't. Don't drink eight gin and tonics, you know,

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Speaker 1: or Jins and Tonic. What would Williams Sapphire say, Jen's

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Speaker 1: and Tonics? Probably. I told Emily the other day, I

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Speaker 1: was like, I wish you could drink into your mouth

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Speaker 1: and taste it and have a nice little effect afterwards,

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Speaker 1: side of your body. I think that's called like a stoma,

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Speaker 1: so you don't get the calories or the you know,

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Speaker 1: the lingering effects. And she said, yeah, it's probably good

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Speaker 1: that you're not drinking. You're like, no, really, let's flush

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Speaker 1: this out, Like there's gotta be a way to do it.

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Speaker 1: So um, anyway, a long way of saying I'm sleeping

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Speaker 1: great I'm glad. I'm glad. Have you ever been falling asleep?

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Speaker 1: And uh, right as you were about to enter the

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Speaker 1: land of slumber, get your saw out, putting it to

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Speaker 1: a log. You haven't started sawing yet, but you're about to,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, boom and you ship

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Speaker 1: bowled up right. You're like, what what was that? I

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Speaker 1: don't think so I can tell you for a fact

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Speaker 1: that's never happened to me. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure it's never happened to me. But um, unless I'm misremembering,

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Speaker 1: I just don't see how you could forget some thing

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Speaker 1: like this. It seems pretty significant, you know what. I agree.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about exploding head syndrome, which before we

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Speaker 1: started recording, you were angry. You weren't angry. I'm always angry.

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Speaker 1: It's so not true. You were. No it is. I

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Speaker 1: need help. You were picking at the the name of

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Speaker 1: the syndrome because it's very overblown, to say the least,

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Speaker 1: exploding head syndrome. Uh what'd you say? It should have

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Speaker 1: So exploding head syndrome is a a nighttime hallucination. Also,

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Speaker 1: Aloe and Buddy? It deserves its own I can't believe

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Speaker 1: So we should continue to skirt around it. Yeah, by

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Speaker 1: not doing it? No, no, no no, I mean in this episode.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah, I think it deserves

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Speaker 1: its own, freestanding, standalone, vertically integrated episode called, uh, what's

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Speaker 1: the deal with sleep paralysis? You got it? So this

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Speaker 1: of which sleep paralysis is as well. That's all I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say. Don't give it away. Uh And here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: Like you described, you're either already asleep or I think

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Speaker 1: symbols crashing. That's a good one, something that catches your attention.

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Speaker 1: What else? Um falling down the steps, A big person

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Speaker 1: carrying a drum set falling down the steps, right, one

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Speaker 1: of those one man bands falling down some status totally,

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Speaker 1: which everybody wants to see. Even if you don't have

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Speaker 1: like a meme bone in your body, you still kind

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Speaker 1: of want to see something like that, just for just

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Speaker 1: to see how it sounds and crazy. Yeah, it might

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Speaker 1: play a little tune you never know on the way down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right. Uh so it's just a genuine disorder. And

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Speaker 1: I did a little Facebook survey. Yeah, hats off to you, man,

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Speaker 1: you're basically a citizen scientist. Now we're did did were

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Speaker 1: with the Were the respondents all weird? Know? Were they weird? Stuff?

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Speaker 1: You should know? Followers? So they're I know what you mean,

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Speaker 1: the acronym weird both ways? Okay, they were neither no,

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Speaker 1: we have like a very wide demographic. It's great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have it. That's really cool. That showed up in one

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Speaker 1: you've got a hundred and fifty yes responses to whether

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Speaker 1: of those were affirmatives. That's amazing, and about seventy of

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Speaker 1: who saw that responded? Well, we could, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: It's even worse when the baby is sleeping. Interesting because

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Speaker 1: it happened only once. Um, yes, I have it frequently.

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Speaker 1: From Melissa. Man, this is so bizarre, Lawrence said. I

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Speaker 1: be it. And a few of these made that might

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Speaker 1: be the mining operation off the A County. Uh, Sue. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like a gunshot, no paint or anything like that,

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Speaker 1: but it is startling. Most people in here. Crack of

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Speaker 1: you're right. They are mostly women. Huh. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: there's dudes in here too. I'm just not reading those. Um.

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Speaker 1: Here's a guy, Adam. Not well, not exactly, Jonathan, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I live near a train all right, guys. Let's Jeffrey. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I have it. I thought there was something seriously wrong.

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Speaker 1: huge relief. So what what all these people are saying?

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Speaker 1: And this is this is astounding, right like it is.

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Speaker 1: What you're reading directly reflects what we found in our

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Speaker 1: research for this article. Right. They has been published here.

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Speaker 1: They're very scatter shot in um in medical journals and

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Speaker 1: a heart attack. Yeah, and and that's one of the

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Speaker 1: exploding head syndrome. Yeah, they can. It can go on

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Speaker 1: a higher risk for it, as your findings suggest. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I did not, Um, I didn't like be a

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Speaker 1: I wasn't like cool this. This dude looks like he's

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Speaker 1: his lady's got to be sixty. Just left that one alone.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought you were gonna say like you

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Speaker 1: weren't going to be a creep by being like you

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Speaker 1: smell nice to like every response. This guy can't tell

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Speaker 1: which means he's like forty oh ouch, should we take

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Speaker 1: a break? Yeah, all right, let's do it, all right?

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Speaker 1: Where does all this come from? Sir, comes from your head?

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Speaker 1: Where was his first described? Sir? Oh, back in the

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Speaker 1: the most eighteen seventies name you'll here today, Silas Weir Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: And he was a physician who apparently was a magnet

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Speaker 1: The reticular formation and calcium ions could go hand in hand. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know what's funny to me. I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: when I was prepping for this out whenever there's a

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Speaker 1: usually medical podcast where there's different theories you and I

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Speaker 1: was like, well, this is the one. I'll come my

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Speaker 1: money on this one, right, And it's just armchair you know,

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Speaker 1: doctoring of course, But um, but I feel like I

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Speaker 1: could heal somebody if I really try, just through my opinion.

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Speaker 1: So what do you do if, um, you have this? Well? Um,

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Speaker 1: one of the funny things in the Atlantic article which

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Speaker 1: I sent in in our own article, they said, quite

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Speaker 1: often simply being diagnosed and told by your doctor, yes

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Speaker 1: you have exploding head syndrome and no, it will not

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Speaker 1: hurt you at all at all, can cease the exploding

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Speaker 1: head syndrome. Yeah, people will go into remission, which indicates

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Speaker 1: to me that stress has something to do with it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I could definitely see how if you if you worry

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Speaker 1: your sleep has affected, you're more prone to keep having it.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people who this happens to um mistake

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Speaker 1: it for a stroke or that they've developed epilepsy or

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Speaker 1: something like that, and so they will go get um

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Speaker 1: they will seek out medical help for that, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: the doctor has heard of exploding head syndrome and can

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Speaker 1: recognize the symptoms. Yeah, the very least you can self

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Speaker 1: diagnose and take that to your doctor because I love that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, tell him you google it, like when he

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Speaker 1: starts to talk to be like, doctors love that. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It is also not to be confused with PTSD. Uh

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Speaker 1: something we did. I thought it was a really good show. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I want to say, when he or she starts to talk,

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Speaker 1: say yeah, um remember the PTSC. Yeah, yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: a good one. That was a good one. And um,

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Speaker 1: it's not to be confused with that. Even though similar

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Speaker 1: things can happen with PTSD, it's usually um, some kind

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Speaker 1: of a flashback, and with exploding head it's not associated

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Speaker 1: with any anything like that, And it's just a straight

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Speaker 1: up hallucination. There's no memory associated with it. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: But what they will say is sleep hygiene, work on it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: brush your teeth while you sleep. I think hygiene's one

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Speaker 1: of the most disgusting words in the English language. Interestingly,

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Speaker 1: it is gross, even though that means it's like paradoxical

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Speaker 1: to its meaning. Yeah, the word itself, it's sound, the

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Speaker 1: feel of it, it's the look of it. I totally

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Speaker 1: agree gross word hygiene sounds, I think because when I

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Speaker 1: hear hygiene, I think you're usually hearing it because there's

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Speaker 1: poor hygiene. Maybe people you don't just say like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you've got some good hygiene going on, Yeah, you smell wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I always think of it in relation to like eugenics,

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Speaker 1: you know, like that kind of thought pattern hygiene. You know.

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Speaker 1: So sleep hygiene is a weird, gross way of saying

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Speaker 1: best practices to fall asleep, and that means um regular schedule,

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Speaker 1: you know stuff. Yeah, like like draw the blinds, make

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Speaker 1: it quiet, and this one not reading in bed. That

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Speaker 1: one to me, it's like, no, if I read in bed,

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Speaker 1: it's like I might as well have just taking a

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Speaker 1: handful of valume. Well, reading a book book, sure, but

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Speaker 1: a screen has been shown to keep you awake. Well.

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Speaker 1: Some recommendations are that you don't even read books in bed,

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Speaker 1: that you train yourself to associate bed with just sleep.

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Speaker 1: When you get into book and I'm done. You're like,

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Speaker 1: well I'm sleeping. Yeah. Not for all people, though, Like

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Speaker 1: if you have bad insomnia, they'll recommend you don't do

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Speaker 1: anything but sleep in bed. Yeah, I mean I get that,

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Speaker 1: Like they'd say, take the TV out of your room

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yeah, but no, I'd be like, you're

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Speaker 1: a fool. I can just read the book instead. I

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Speaker 1: will never have insomnia because as long as there are

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Speaker 1: books bound books are around, I'm good. Um, what always

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Speaker 1: kills me is when I see friends on Facebook like

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Speaker 1: three am, total insomnia, Like put your phone down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're you're being counterproductive because it's not just keeping your

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Speaker 1: brain engaged in thinking. Apparently that blue spectrum light really

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Speaker 1: does something to your brain and it's not good. What else,

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Speaker 1: No booze or coffee after five? Only booze before five.

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Speaker 1: I was like, that's happy hour. I think they were saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they no booze after five. I mean, if you've got

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Speaker 1: to sleep a parasomnia, you're you're didn't go to great links,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna skip happy hour maybe to get some sleep. Um,

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Speaker 1: do we have anything else in here? We do? Not?

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Speaker 1: All right? I think that's so great that you conducted

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Speaker 1: a study. Hats off to you. I think it's funny

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Speaker 1: that you thought that was so great. I'm just impressed.

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Speaker 1: paris Omnia's like exploding heads into him, you can type

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Speaker 1: And since I said that, it's time for a listener mail,

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Speaker 1: so instead of listener mail, conducted another study. Just kidding,

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Speaker 1: all right, this is this was I thought, this is

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Speaker 1: really neat. This is Chernobyl. Hey, guys, thanks for the

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Speaker 1: fantastic podcast on radiation sickness and for talking a bit

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Speaker 1: about the Chernobyl disaster. It really captured my imagination as

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Speaker 1: a little girl. I remember one of my primary school

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Speaker 1: teachers talking the class the disaster would mean the end

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Speaker 1: of life as we know it, and it terrified me. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: as the years went by, my interest grew and back

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Speaker 1: in I finally took the plunge and booked myself a

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Speaker 1: trip to Kiev to go and visit the disaster site. Wow,

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Speaker 1: and she said something about I had to edit this

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Speaker 1: because it was long. It was good, but something about

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Speaker 1: how you know, I know that probably sounds weird, um

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Speaker 1: as a vacation, but she I'm really like in awesome vacation.

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Speaker 1: Uh The exclusion zone around Chernobyl is about ten miles

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Speaker 1: find that there are still people living and working there.

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Speaker 1: The nearby town of uh Prip Yacht is completely abandoned

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Speaker 1: and very eerie, to say the least. We spent the

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Speaker 1: day carefully walking on concrete and trying not to touch

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Speaker 1: any of the moss growing between the concrete because it's

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Speaker 1: highly radioactive. Uh yeah, I'd be a little concerned as

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Speaker 1: a visit. Oh yeah, as a visitor, it's an extremely

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Speaker 1: dangerous visit. We were able to get surprisingly close to

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Speaker 1: the destroyed side as well. It was a very somber experience.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple of very unnerving things that I

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Speaker 1: learned that day that have stuck with me. The government

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Speaker 1: of the then USSR tried to cover up the accident,

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Speaker 1: didn't tell the people of Prip Yacht that they needed

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Speaker 1: to evacuate for two whole days, inevitably causing many more

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Speaker 1: deaths from radiation sickness than the inevitable. Um. There were

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Speaker 1: several reactors at Chernobyl. Reactor four blew up Reactor four

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Speaker 1: was right next to reactor three, which they thought was

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Speaker 1: going to blow up. Had reactor three blown up, it

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Speaker 1: really would have been the end of life as we

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Speaker 1: know at Europe would have become completely uninhabitable. We all

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Speaker 1: owe our lives to the unsung heroes. We sacrifice himself

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Speaker 1: to save reactor three and save Europe. Much love. That

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Speaker 1: is Kate, Nottingham, England And Kate, it's coming to see

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Speaker 1: some Manchester. Awesome, Kate, thanks a lot for that email.

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Speaker 1: It's a really cool um vacation. Yeah. She she took

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Speaker 1: her mom her mom and sent photos and had a

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Speaker 1: lot more to the emails. Super interesting, very cool. Thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot, Kate. Um. And if you want to get

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Speaker 1: in touch with us, like Kate did, let us know

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Speaker 1: about your super cool vacation, Uh, you can tweet to

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