1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, and 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and we've got two 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: Adams apples between us, and that makes this short stuff, 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: that's right. Uh. This was another one where I just, 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I saw a guy with a 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 1: very prominent Adams apple, and I don't I don't have 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: a very prominent Adams apple, do you know. I just 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: don't think I've got a pretty wand Adam's apple. Yeah, 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: so we're both just a couple of low voice squeaker 10 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: squeaker fellas. I've got like Adams coume quat. Now that 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: I really think about it, I might have like a grape. 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: I can barely feel that thing. But we're talking about 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: Adams apples here. Uh that if you if you don't know, 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to be the podcaster that assumes everyone 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: knows what that is. Uh. It can it can be 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: that prominent bump in the sort of center throat of 17 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: usually as we'll see a man. Uh, and let's talk 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: about it. What is that? Well, according to the Bible 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: and Bible types, Adam, the original Adam was taking a 20 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: bite of that forbidden apple and some of it got 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: stuck in his throat, which cursed all remaining men to 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: come to be born with a symbol of that forbidden 23 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: fruit sticking in his his throat. And I love this 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: article from I think from how Stuff Works said that's folklore, 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: but in reality, the Adam's apple is a result of 26 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: a boy's voice box larynx growing. That's right, uh and 27 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: big thanks to how Stuff Works with this in Jennifer Sellers, 28 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 1: the author and the Healthy dot Com And I love 29 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: this one. Harley Street e n T nice. If you 30 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: want to learn about the throat, go to an ear 31 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: nose and throat place. Sure, for sure, that's their motto. Yep, 32 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: it's a little self serving, but it is their that's right. 33 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: And here's the deal. It is um. It is cartilage, 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: and it starts out usually during puberty, and it is 35 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: your your larynx. It is your voice box getting bigger 36 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: and bigger, and your voice will get deeper. And so 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: I was like, hey, does that mean if you have 38 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: really prominent adams apple, you're more likely to have a deeper, 39 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: more booming voice. And that's that's true. Oh, that makes 40 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: total sense. Yeah. The reason it's associated with men typically 41 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: is it's activated. Um that growth of it is activated 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: by testosterone, an increase in testosterone during puberty. But that's 43 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: not to say that girls larynx and larynx is yeah, 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: don't grow as well. They just don't typically grow as 45 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: prominent as boys do. And partially as a result of that, 46 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: women have higher voices, usually because their larynx is smaller, 47 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: uh than a man's larynx. Right, so you're less likely 48 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: to grow up looking like I feel like Adrian Brody 49 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: has a prominent adoms apple. Totally. Yes, that's a great 50 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: example of that. I'll just watch that movie you told 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: me to watch, which one, the sort of murder mystery 52 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: in the theater? See how they run? Yeah, very very enjoyable. 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: I thoroughly enjoyed it. I started watching a horror series 54 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: that he's in from the set in the eighteen sixties 55 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: or whatever. UM called Chapel Weight, and apparently it's like 56 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: a prequel the Salem's Lot. Maybe I'm not sure. I 57 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: haven't figured that out, but interesting, It's okay, I'm I'm on. 58 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: I just finished episode one and I'm deciding whether or 59 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: not to start to You've become quite the horror aficionado. Here, 60 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: it's true in your middle age officiate time. All right, 61 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: So that's the difference of the size of the Adams apple. Again, 62 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: that's not to say that, uh, a woman could have 63 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: an atom's apple that you see and notice and can 64 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: be prominent. Uh. There could be several reasons for this. 65 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: It could be a genetic thing, it could be because 66 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: of a horror monal imbalance that happened during puberty. It 67 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: could just be an anomaly. Um. But that's like it 68 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: can be, Um, it can be problematic. I think that 69 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: sometimes that's such a trait that you might associate with, uh, 70 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: with with men that I think if a woman has 71 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: one that's a little more prominent, that they might be 72 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: embarrassed by that. Uh. You can get surgery for that 73 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's called the feminizing condo lorange of 74 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: plastic tracheal shave. Tracheal shave. Yeah, I'd rather be called 75 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: the feminizing condo Lorarangeoplastic tracheal shave sounds very painful, but 76 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: it's apparently not. It's apparently a pretty safe procedure. And 77 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: women with Adam's apples, who by the way, Meg Ryan, 78 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: Sandra Bullock, Miley Cyrus all known to happen. Ohm, I 79 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: at least got that that deep voice. Yes, she does 80 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: for sure. Um uh. But if a woman is self 81 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: conscious about that, she might have that procedure or for 82 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: trans women, that's often a part of it's often a 83 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: procedure that they undergo. But although the growth of the 84 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: larynx leads to higher lower voice, depending on how big 85 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: it is, um, if you do a tracheal shave, that 86 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: doesn't affect the voice. Um. Yeah, you have to undergo 87 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: voice feminizing surgery where they actually go in and alter 88 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: the length of the vocal cords. Wow. Very interesting. I'm 89 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: glad you looked that up. All right, Well, let's take 90 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: a break here, bruminate on that, and we will come 91 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: back and talk about sort of adjacent idea, which is 92 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: when you get the sadds and you get a lump 93 00:05:37,560 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: in your throat. Chuck. I am so psyched about this. 94 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: This was the thing that I didn't know I wanted 95 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: to know about. And it's great because it's fully explicable. 96 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: I love those. Yeah, the idea that you are and 97 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: it's usually a situation where I feel like it's usually 98 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: situation where you may not be able to just burst 99 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: out in tears. Maybe you're trying to hold some emotion 100 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: back and you go to swallow, it feels like you've 101 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: got a chunk of Havardy cheese in your throat and 102 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: it's very uncomfortable feeling. I think we've all had it, 103 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: and that's you know that. You call that a lump 104 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: in your throat. Yeah, it's also known as the globus 105 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: sensation or globbus because it's a great band name. Yeah, 106 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: I think so. Um it's it all centers around the glottis, 107 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: which is the opening between your vocal cords that you 108 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: can breathe through. And um, well let's explain this. Okay, 109 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: when you feel lump in your throat and you're stre 110 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: u stout, the point to your body is that you're 111 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: stressed out, and so the automic autonomic nervous system kicks 112 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: in fight or flight. Remember old old friends, fight or 113 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: flight We've talked about all the time. Well, to your 114 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: autonomic nervous system if you're if you're in a stressful situation, 115 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: it makes no differentiation between whether a bear is coming 116 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: at you or the entire stadium at the World Series 117 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: is booing you, does not matter. It treats it the 118 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: same way. And what it does is it prepares you 119 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: to fight or flight in one way that you do 120 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: that is by breathing in better So it opens your 121 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: glattis big time and lets the oxygen into that you 122 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: can start getting that blood pumping and those muscles moving. 123 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: All right, So that's a good first part of the response. Um, 124 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: so what's happening, literally is your your glottis opens wide 125 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: open because your body basically is saying you need to 126 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: run in the other direction and get the heck out 127 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: of here. In in in order to do that, and most efficiently, 128 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: you need to breathe in more oxygen. So we're going 129 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: on engines. Uh, we're going balls out, literally, is what 130 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: we're doing. And we're gonna open that glottis as wide 131 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: as possible. But if you're laying on the couch watching 132 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: uh uh Brian's song, what's another sad movie? That's a 133 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: boat old reference? Um, ordinary people? Okay, sure, I watched 134 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: that on a plane recently. Very dull. Really yeah, I 135 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: never saw it. It's just it's early eighties to me. No, 136 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: that's really good. Or terms of endearment, let's say, or 137 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: steel magnolias, when which Shelby does old yeller, I'm sorry 138 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: to spoil steel magnolias. Oh yeah, geez that man. So, 139 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: if you're laying on your couch and your body is 140 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: saying get up and run down the street away from 141 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: whatever this is stressing you out, and you're lying there 142 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: trying to swallow, you're just having a hard time swallowing 143 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: because in order to swallow, your glottis is supposed to close, right, 144 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: but your glattis is wide open because of your autonomic 145 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: nervous system, and they're in is that lump in the throat. 146 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: And the reason why you feel like swallowing, and the 147 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: reason you get a lump in your throat is because 148 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: you're actively trying to fight back tears. And one way 149 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: to fight back tears is to hold your breath, which 150 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: you need to close your glatties for, or you swallow 151 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: what you need to close your glads for. And so 152 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: those two opposing forces, trying to close your glasses and 153 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: keep your gladss open is what gives you that lump 154 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: in the throat sensation. Boy, the hunk of I've already 155 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: was tastier, but this is this is pretty tasty to totally. 156 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: You got anything else? I've got nothing else. This is uh, 157 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: this is a good perfect shorty. 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