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Speaker 1: M Hey, everybody, Chuck here on a Saturday morning. Last

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Speaker 1: night was a long one, That's all I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 1: So my pick for today from October two nine, What

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Speaker 1: is a hangover? Really? We talked about hangovers signs behind him,

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Speaker 1: how to fix them? I'll give you a hit bananas.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles Chuckers Bryant and

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Speaker 1: that means it's the Stuff you should know? Right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: the over twenty one years old and Chuck Bryant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a big deal for this one. Chuck,

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Speaker 1: you're just gonna go ahead and see o A right now,

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Speaker 1: say that this is about drinking and if you're under

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Speaker 1: twenty one you should not drink, Chuck, have you ever

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Speaker 1: consumed an alcoholic beverage? I have over still c o A.

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Speaker 1: If you're over twenty one you should drink responsibly. Yes,

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Speaker 1: don't drink and drive. Um. If you have a uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: heavy machineries a big one. If you have a problem,

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Speaker 1: you can contact alcoholics anonymous. Right. I've always wanted to

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Speaker 1: test that one. Get really plowed and just sit down

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Speaker 1: behind a bulldozer. For I always imagined forkliffs with heavy machinery.

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Speaker 1: I go straight to the dozer. So, yes, I have

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Speaker 1: had an alcoholic beverage before. What was your experience with it? Like?

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Speaker 1: Did you feel a little light headed, a little crazy,

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Speaker 1: a little inhibited? I wanted to kiss somebody? Did you

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Speaker 1: end up kissing anybody? I did? I kissed my dog.

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Speaker 1: Didn't you make out with a friend's sister at a

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Speaker 1: YouTube concert once? I did? Were you under the effects

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Speaker 1: of alcohol during that time? I was, okay, this was

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Speaker 1: give me a break, Chuck. Did you end up with

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Speaker 1: a hangover that day? Yes? I did the same day

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Speaker 1: the next day? Yeah? Sure. So how did you feel?

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Speaker 1: I felt I had a headache, I had a poor

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Speaker 1: sense of well being. Uh i's had sensitivity to light

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Speaker 1: and sound, diarrhea, loss of appetite, trembling, nausea, fatigue, you

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Speaker 1: have the whole list, hydration, anxiety, trouble sleeping, weakness. Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a bad hangover right there. That's all the symptoms,

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Speaker 1: you know. The one that always gets me the worst

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Speaker 1: whenever I have a hangover is the loss of the

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Speaker 1: sense of well being. I feel like I am right

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Speaker 1: there on the edge of danger. Everybody's gunning for me.

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Speaker 1: I feel horrible. Then, really, yeah, it's really bad, it

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Speaker 1: really I've always assumed it affects my serotonin level. Sure,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't see anything in this article about that, right.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna have to get taken to

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Speaker 1: the hospital in Portland, Oregon one time, did you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The next day Emily asked me as her friend's wedding.

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Speaker 1: She said, Okay, do you like need to go to

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this, Chuck. What are the mechanisms that

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Speaker 1: lie behind the cursed and dreaded hangover? Vice algia? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is that the correct pronunciation. That's how I took it.

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Speaker 1: That's the medical, minormal medical name for hangover is vice algia. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it comes from a Norwegian word for uneasiness following

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Speaker 1: debauchery vise, and a Greek word for pain algaea, which

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Speaker 1: is weird. I've never seen a Norwegian and Greek put together.

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Speaker 1: I haven't either, but yeah, you come up with vice algia?

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Speaker 1: Can I say that? The Bible verse two? Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a Bible verse that talks about hangovers. It's Isaiah

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Speaker 1: five eleven. Woe unto them that rise up early in

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Speaker 1: the morning, that they may follow strong drink. In other words,

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Speaker 1: I feel real sorry for you that you had to

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Speaker 1: words have never been written in the Bible, least translation

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Speaker 1: at least translation there. Yeah, so, um so, okay, so

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Speaker 1: a Bible quote, as is pretty much whenever you talk

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Speaker 1: about a hangover. Right, So what's going on there, Chuck, Well,

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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of things. Um, let's go ahead and

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Speaker 1: start with a vasopressin. Yeah, here's here is, by the way, everyone,

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Speaker 1: a cocktail party conversation tidbit. So it's your next cocktail party.

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Speaker 1: You might want to just bring this up. Okay, it

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Speaker 1: might be kind of depressing to bring this up actually

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Speaker 1: a cocktail party. Well, this is the This is how

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Speaker 1: you explain breaking the seal, which I know that you

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna stick to the clinical terms here, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it above the breaking the seal.

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Speaker 1: when you drink booze, Uh, it enters your bloodstream and

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Speaker 1: actually drink. So you drink two fifty million leaders of alcohol. Uh,

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Speaker 1: So that's no mistake. If you've ever had a few

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Speaker 1: just expelling water. Also, we should say this leads directly

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Speaker 1: the signature results of the hangover. And you get the

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Speaker 1: and the headache. And we've talked about this before, I

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Speaker 1: don't remember where, so we probably shouldn't, you know, try

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Speaker 1: you have a hangover, your brain at truly shrinks the

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Speaker 1: next day. The other organs in your body are like

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Speaker 1: The meningingies right, and you know, when you have a

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Speaker 1: feel like that. So when I read that, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: like doing little twirls in your head. You know. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever heard of those? No, but it sounds awesome.

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Speaker 1: Basically like starting at six o'clock, they monitor the bathrooms

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Speaker 1: So it's science science. Uh so, okay, that's vast oppressing, right, yes,

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Speaker 1: resulting in dehydration. But when you're um urinating everywhere every

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Speaker 1: you're also expelling a lot of other needed stuff like electrolytes, salt, potassium, salt, potassium, magnesium,

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Speaker 1: If you have too little, you get the shakes, the tremors,

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Speaker 1: which I understand is the most uncommon symptom of hangovers,

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Speaker 1: What I've never gotten the shakes. It also points out

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Speaker 1: we could talk about the impurities of liquor. Okay, well

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Speaker 1: they're probably drinking vodka. Yes, it's actually a good thing

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Speaker 1: alcoholic as possible. Right. How about that study with the bourbon, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: two when you wake up. But be aware people with

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Speaker 1: tender stomachs often vomit from aspirin. Right, you know what,

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Speaker 1: my curious let's talk about each other's cures. Have you

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Speaker 1: got one? Um, surely you do? What do I do?

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Speaker 1: You want to hear mine? Yeah? Mine is? My deal

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Speaker 1: is I can't sleep in anymore. It doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: I was out till three in the morning. I'm still

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Speaker 1: gonna wake up at seven. It's just the way it is.

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Speaker 1: When you're old, you'll you'll experience this. One day. I

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Speaker 1: get up at seven like I normally do, and I

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Speaker 1: drink I pound like three or four glasses of water,

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Speaker 1: take a couple of aspirin, and then I get right

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Speaker 1: back in bed and see if I can get like

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Speaker 1: another hour to a sleep. And then I wake up

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Speaker 1: in a great that works crazy well, especially works with advil.

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Speaker 1: If you take a couple of advil and you have

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Speaker 1: even like a half hour, preferably an hour extra to sleep.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, advil always makes me sleepy. It makes

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Speaker 1: me fall asleep very easily. Never figured out why, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: you wake up an hour later and you are set.

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Speaker 1: It's a great one because sleep is only real, real

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Speaker 1: key to carrying a hangover. They say, yeah, well, time, Well,

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Speaker 1: that that's usually what I rely on as time. Um,

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Speaker 1: and I pound a few Coca colas in the morning,

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Speaker 1: which is not good for me, but it works, right.

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Speaker 1: And then aspirin is that what they say? Yeah? And

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Speaker 1: then I don't make eye contact with anybody because they're

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Speaker 1: all out to get me. That's how I make it

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Speaker 1: through the day when I have a hangover. Sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we should say, please don't find any of this funny, entertaining,

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Speaker 1: or amusing if you're twenty one years or older. And

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Speaker 1: if you are twenty one years or older, please find

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Speaker 1: it amusing responsibly. Uh, we should talk about some of

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Speaker 1: these over the counter, like anti hangover pills that you

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Speaker 1: can buy. You heard of these, yeah, like Chaser's. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're they're basically multi vitamins. And here's the deal. Well,

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Speaker 1: some are activated carbon which cane. But here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: If you if you read on the package, it'll say

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Speaker 1: something like this, Um, drink a full glass twelve ounce

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Speaker 1: glass of water before you start drinking, and take a pill.

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Speaker 1: And then after your second or third drink, drink another

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Speaker 1: glass of water and take another pill, and then do

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Speaker 1: that again. Then before you go to bed, drink a

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Speaker 1: glass of water with a pill, and then wake up

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Speaker 1: and drink a glass of water with a bill. So

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Speaker 1: you're basically taking a vitamin downing tons of water, which

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Speaker 1: is and that's the key is the water. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: hydrating yourself. So it's a bit of a rip off, Um,

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Speaker 1: but not necessarily because it is recommended that you do

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Speaker 1: take a multi vitamin the next morning. But just take

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Speaker 1: a multi vitamin. Don't pay for some hangover cure. You know.

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Speaker 1: What else helps is to actually be cognizant and not

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Speaker 1: a total drunk while you're drinking. Yes, Um, if you

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Speaker 1: drink glass for glass water for alcohol. Number one, it

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Speaker 1: keeps you hydrated, but number two, it also paces your

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Speaker 1: drinking so that your body has more time to process

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Speaker 1: this alcohol. It's not just like bom bom bomb. You

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Speaker 1: know I've gotten better at that. Oh yeah, sure, I

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Speaker 1: try to be If I have like a big night out,

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Speaker 1: I try to be pretty aware of drinking a cup

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Speaker 1: of glasses of water here and there, and always will

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Speaker 1: pound two or three glasses before I get to bed.

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Speaker 1: Good for you, Chuck. It's a way to do it,

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Speaker 1: all right. So there you have it. That's the hangover, right. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: A couple other things you can do beforehand is eat. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: alcohol in an empty stomach is gonna get you there quicker,

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Speaker 1: but it will get you sicker and make you feel worse.

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Speaker 1: So water, what else you say? Multi vitamins? Drinking Moderation,

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00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: of course is the key with everything. Watch what you're drinking,

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Speaker 1: red wine, bourbon. It's gonna make you feel bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it tastes sugary sweet on your tongue, but it'll make

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Speaker 1: you feel worse. Yeah. I'm in trouble though. I wish

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Speaker 1: I could learn to drink vodka. I just don't dig

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Speaker 1: it is so wonderful. Yeah. I drink gin and tonics

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Speaker 1: occasionally during the summertime months, but I can't drink those.

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Speaker 1: Gin actually makes me crazy. I have a self imposed

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Speaker 1: band on gin. I won't drink it. I don't allow

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Speaker 1: myself to drink it because it makes me nuts and

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Speaker 1: apparently not the only one. In the seventeenth century, the

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Speaker 1: UK actually banned, or I should say England banned because nuts. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so jin was banned in England for a little while

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Speaker 1: because people went like I did. Sure, you know, different

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Speaker 1: alcohols through that. Tequila is notorious for making people violent,

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Speaker 1: and the act out of Sorts never had a problem

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Speaker 1: with the quela. I mean neither. My buddy Scottie has

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Speaker 1: a red wine thing. Completely personality shift when he drinks it, really,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it becomes a completely different person. You know,

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Speaker 1: Alexander the Great died from a red wine drinking competition. Really,

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Speaker 1: one of his soldiers challenged into it and they apparently

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Speaker 1: drank like five million gallons apiece, and Alexander's a great

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Speaker 1: one off and died. Boy. I bet the alcohol back

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Speaker 1: then was rough too, man. Yeah, you know, they love

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Speaker 1: their wine. Those are the good old days. Well, if

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Speaker 1: you want to learn absolutely every last detail there is

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Speaker 1: Let's do listener, Mai. Let's do listener to mw okay, Josh.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this, uh, don't kill me. I'm just

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Speaker 1: the enumerator. This is a good one. Hi, guys, hope

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Speaker 1: this finds you well. My name is Mark and I

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Speaker 1: live in fish Kill, New York, which is an interesting town.

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Speaker 1: I was listening to the Gross National Happiness podcast and

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the census worker being killed. I thought i'd

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Speaker 1: send an email. I was a Census Bureau worker in

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Speaker 1: two thousand. It was I was a care free nineteen

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Speaker 1: year old on summer break. My friends and I saw

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Speaker 1: the ad in the paper and took the exam and

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Speaker 1: became official enumerators, including a shiny plastic badge from the

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Speaker 1: Treasury Department to boot. He says. So, our task was

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Speaker 1: a travel door to door and talked to the people

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Speaker 1: who didn't return their survey. Some people got the short form,

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Speaker 1: some got the long form, arm and former. I remember

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Speaker 1: the forms were assigned at random. Usually the long formers

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Speaker 1: didn't mail them back in and uh, that's who they

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Speaker 1: usually had to confront, shakedown and shake them down. Uh.

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Speaker 1: People were downright mean when I knocked on their door.

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Speaker 1: One this is a good one. One man asked me

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Speaker 1: to hold on for a second. He closed the door,

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Speaker 1: and within a few minutes I heard the garage door

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Speaker 1: open and he drove out and waved goodbye. It's such

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Speaker 1: a jerky move. One woman answered the door with a

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Speaker 1: baby in her arms, shouting something at me. I heard

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Speaker 1: dogs barking, and the next thing I knew, she had

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Speaker 1: let the dogs loose on us, and I was running

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Speaker 1: safely back to my safety of my Buick Regal quickly

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Speaker 1: learned my lesson, and when someone would open the door

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Speaker 1: and give me the skinny on their neighbors who didn't

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Speaker 1: mail their forms back in, I was happy. And I

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Speaker 1: was even happier when it was a grandma who would

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Speaker 1: offer me a cold drink, because you know, the old folks,

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00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: they're just like, come on in, let's talk for a while. Exactly. Um.

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Speaker 1: I did not know, however, that enumerators were killed. I

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Speaker 1: must have missed that part of the training. Uh. Most

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Speaker 1: of the rants would be anti government. They would say

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Speaker 1: I was the man sold to get off their property

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Speaker 1: and all the expertives that go with it. It's not

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Speaker 1: being it's not easy being an enumerator, So give them

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Speaker 1: a shout out. So shout out to all you enumerators

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Speaker 1: out there. Hey, hey, And that's pretty much it, he

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Speaker 1: uh said. I thought i'd chime in. Actually I was

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Speaker 1: chiming in this morning in the car, and then realized

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Speaker 1: that I was alone. So Mark so lonely. Mark the

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Speaker 1: former enumerator is a funny guy. And he says, by

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Speaker 1: the way, podcast suggestion, how hippie rob works. Oh that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. That would be a great one. That'd

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Speaker 1: be audio trying to track them down. Sure. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: thanks Mark, and good luck if you enumerate in the future,

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Speaker 1: and all you enumerators out there accounting heads, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know it's so rough on you. And uh,

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Speaker 1: let's see if you're an a numerator or a denominator

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Speaker 1: or you know the current whereabouts of Hippie Rob put

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Speaker 1: in an email to stuff podcast at how stuff works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Radio Stuff You Should Know is a production

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