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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: This Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there, which I

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Speaker 1: don't know if Jerry should be in here for this one.

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Speaker 1: Why not. We're talking male puberty. You and I we're

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Speaker 1: putting on our health class faces. Both of us got

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Speaker 1: crew cuts for this one. You're wearing a whistle around

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Speaker 1: your neck. I'm wearing knee socks and joys. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: was taught because I was raised in a pretty conservative

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Speaker 1: Southern Baptist home. I was taught this stuff by my

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Speaker 1: uh preacher. Nope, they didn't talk about this stuff. That's

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Speaker 1: my point. I was taught in health class. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: by my pe teacher. This lady who seemed to struggle

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Speaker 1: with teaching boys about puberty. I can I can't really

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Speaker 1: blame her. She tried her best, but this is you know,

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Speaker 1: when the pe teachers had to teach health as well,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think that she got into that profession

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Speaker 1: to teach health. She she was like, I like coaching volleyball,

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Speaker 1: but um, I don't like teaching boys about puberty. She

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Speaker 1: seemed very uncomfortable. It comes with the job. Lady t s. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you are a Jim coach and you're teaching a

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Speaker 1: health class right now and you're using us to teach

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Speaker 1: for you, you you owe some money. Agreed. So we are.

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Speaker 1: We're doing a great job so far, if you ask me,

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Speaker 1: I think so. And this is you know, I think

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Speaker 1: we have a responsibility because I was raised in that

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Speaker 1: thing where like, you know, my parents didn't teach me

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Speaker 1: this stuff. So I think it's important the kids. Uh,

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Speaker 1: puberty is tough. I mean like it's important to normalize

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Speaker 1: it and that kids know that these changes are happening

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Speaker 1: and what they mean and healthy functions. You know. I

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Speaker 1: think this is a bit of a service. It was,

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Speaker 1: it is, it is. Yes, I was talking like we'd

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Speaker 1: already finished finished, and this this article, by the way,

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Speaker 1: it was written by the great Tom Sheath, did a

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Speaker 1: wonderful job. Chuck. Yes, did you know that over the

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Speaker 1: last like hundred and fifty years, um, the average age

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Speaker 1: of puberty in girls has dropped by like five or

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Speaker 1: six years. Yeah, so in eighteen sixty the average age

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Speaker 1: of monarchy, oh yeah, yeah, sixteen point six years old.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty late. In two it was ten point five

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Speaker 1: years old. It seems young, right, and everybody's like, what's

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Speaker 1: going on? It's probably the milk, like there's some horrible

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Speaker 1: stuff going on, or they're saying, what's monarchy, Well, manarchy

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Speaker 1: is the onset of menstruach for the first time in

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Speaker 1: a girl. I think that came up in our totem Pole.

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Speaker 1: It was a long time ago. Um, so this on

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Speaker 1: side of monarchy has decreased by a lot and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are alarmed by it. But there are

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Speaker 1: some evolutionary biologists out there who are saying, actually, settle down.

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Speaker 1: We think that this is closer to the normal time

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Speaker 1: when puberty should come on, and that like sixteen points

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Speaker 1: six is way delayed, and it was actually a relic,

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Speaker 1: a remnant of changes that were brought about by a

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Speaker 1: transition to agriculture. The result of higher infections and poor

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Speaker 1: nutrition led to a later onset of monarchy. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty it's easy to say, well, the girls start puberty

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Speaker 1: here and boys it's not quite as defined, but they

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Speaker 1: think that probably boys age of onset for puberty has

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Speaker 1: gone back to as well. Yeah, so it's uh, we're

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Speaker 1: going through puberty younger as young boys as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so even though it is very difficult to say this

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Speaker 1: just especially a guy named Richard Tanner from trying. He

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Speaker 1: came up with the Tanner scale. It is a scale

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Speaker 1: of one to five and Roman numerals, and it's all

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Speaker 1: based on the growth of your genitalia and pubic hair. Interesting,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's not completely subjective, but it's pretty subjective. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you might have heard of the Tanner scale by

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Speaker 1: seeing the posters in restaurants all around the country. Yes,

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Speaker 1: right next to the employees must wash hands before returning

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Speaker 1: to works exactly. All right, So we're talking about puberty,

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Speaker 1: which is that transition um that all kids go through.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about male puberty of course, in this case,

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Speaker 1: just male puberty and this one yea, even though I

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Speaker 1: already talked about female puberty. Well, we should probably tackle

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Speaker 1: female puberty at some point um. For for little boys,

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Speaker 1: they generally, like you said, the time has shifted perhaps,

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Speaker 1: changes in puberty at different rates than your friends, that

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Speaker 1: heard of the term late bloomer. You may just be

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Speaker 1: well and you might not even be a late bloomer

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Speaker 1: except for this month right next month. But it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like you know that horse race that you can

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Speaker 1: do with the spraying the Yeah, you squirt the water

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Speaker 1: in the hole in the horse's gap exactly, and they

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Speaker 1: kind of moved back and forth. That's a lot like puberty. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's when the horse really starts moving. But practice all

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Speaker 1: not going to help accelerate your puberty, that's right, all right, So, uh,

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Speaker 1: what happens the beginning of puberty, no matter when it starts,

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Speaker 1: ganado tropin is released. Um, I'm sorry, Canada. Tropin releasing

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Speaker 1: hormone is released in the body. G n r H.

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Speaker 1: That's the big that's the one that starts at all.

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Speaker 1: That's right. And apparently you have that stuff in your hypothalamus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You've got all these things hormones in your body, just waiting,

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Speaker 1: waiting the coming one another, like nitro glycerin coming together basically,

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Speaker 1: actually brew when that process happens. That's called gody. Oh really, yes, interesting.

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Speaker 1: I think the reason monarchy was such a funny word

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Speaker 1: out all these years later because it sounds like malarkey. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So monarchy and malarkey is just a little too close

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Speaker 1: All Right, So the stages of puberty, they're generally five, um,

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Speaker 1: But you can kind of break it down into five stages.

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Speaker 1: Well there's to combat that kind of stuff there where.

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Speaker 1: There have always been, um, educational films about this kind

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Speaker 1: and um, I guess still yeah, but it's pretty it's

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Speaker 1: so that's stage one. You enter stage two around twelve

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Speaker 1: Everything else might not be happening, but your testicles are

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Speaker 1: probably growing pretty quick before your very eye making a

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Speaker 1: the reasons why chuck is because that testosterone is being produced.

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Speaker 1: So basically, the catatropin releasing hormone sources chain reaction and

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Speaker 1: go through, um going at archy, all of a sudden

422
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: you start to stink and start get the little body

423
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: over here and there, right, And even though you don't

424
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: want to take a shower, everyone else wants you to

425
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: take a shower. So just go take a shower because

426
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 1: you stink, stinking a little teenager, right. And one of

427
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,479
Speaker 1: the things that's making you stink is this new sweat

428
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: with these new hormones that are come going out. But

429
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: also supposedly you're still you're producing pheromones as well, and these, um,

430
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: although we don't it's never been proven that humans are

431
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: capable of sensing pheromones on other people, they think that

432
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 1: there's a pretty high likelihood we do. And they think

433
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: that pubic hair and armpit hair serves just basically big

434
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: neon signs for these. Um, these odor molecules that were

435
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 1: not necessarily capable of sensing got you. So thank you

436
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: for that, for giving us body odor. Right, all right,

437
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: So your body is growing like crazy, growing like a weed.

438
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: As they say, um, you are probably going to start

439
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: growing taller than girls in your class, who were probably

440
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: taller than you before that, because girls typically will grow

441
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: um height earlier than boys will, right, I remember lots

442
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 1: of girls that were taller than me through most of

443
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 1: my elementary school. Um, but don't worry, guys, You'll catch up,

444
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: and don't worry girls. Yeah, because it's awkward for girls

445
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: sometimes to be taller than a boy because all these

446
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,479
Speaker 1: weird societal norms, you know, societal norms that are not

447
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: only weird but wrong. Of course. Um, when you're an adults,

448
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: you realize it really doesn't matter when you are going

449
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: through puberty. It is the exact opposite of realizing that

450
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Yeah, it seems like it matters a

451
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: whole whole lot. Yeah, that is not the case in reality, however,

452
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: it's just what you're going through that's right hanging there. Um,

453
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: you're also going to be gaining weight between fifteen and

454
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: sixty five pounds through puberty. Um, You're extremities are gonna

455
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 1: grow like crazy. That's why teenage boys have these big,

456
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: clunky feet and these unwieldy hands, and they don't know

457
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: how to operate any of them. Right, That's why there's

458
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: like this associated clumsiness with puberty. It's a real thing, totally.

459
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: It's not just this um character sketch that people use

460
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: for humor, like pe pubescent boys and girls are clumsier

461
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: than any other point in their life because their hands

462
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: and feet are bigger than the rest of their body.

463
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: That and then also if you ask a psychologist why

464
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: they're clumsy, um, they will say that in addition to

465
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: learning how to use these new bigger hands and feet

466
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: and deal with them, you're also acutely aware. You're going

467
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,679
Speaker 1: through the most self conscious phase of your entire life.

468
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: So you're suddenly having thoughts like do I look weird walking?

469
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: And when you stop and think about walking while you're walking, right,

470
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: that makes walking really hard. So that to the clumsiness

471
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah. Again with with my nephew, No, I

472
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: remember before he was even super tall. I remember seeing

473
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: these feet one time when I visited, and I was

474
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: just like, what in the world it's going on down there, buddy? Yeah,

475
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: you just had these huge, huge feet and then the

476
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: body catches up and then you lose that clumsiness and

477
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, everything's all proportioned now. Um, your chin

478
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: is gonna get a little longer, your face is changing shape,

479
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: your nose thickens up. Uh. And these are just like

480
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: the physical changes. There's things going on inside your body

481
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: as well. Apparently your blood pressure increases. Yeah makes sense. Yeah, Um,

482
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: your metabolism decreases some, so you're gonna start to put

483
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 1: on a little more weight. We already talked about. Um,

484
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: the you're gonna start getting a little more stinky. And

485
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: this is all like the normal course of things. If

486
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: you start going through puberty too young, that can be

487
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: a problem. Um, Like, if if you're super young and

488
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: going through puberty, you might want to see a doctor

489
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: because this could mean things problems later in life. It's

490
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: called precocious pubescence. No, but it can be caused by

491
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: everything from a tumor too well. Yeah, they they it's

492
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: not necessarily a medical problem, but they it does suggest

493
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: This article suggests that if you do, and the Mayo

494
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: Clinic did too, that if you have a really young

495
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: kid that's starting to show signs of puberty, you might

496
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: want to just point it out to a doctor and

497
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: see what they say. Right. I wonder what ages if

498
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: I guess of nine is early than anything before nine. Okay.

499
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: Another thing that's going to happen with your erections is

500
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: you might have uh, wet dreams, nocternal emission, nocturnal emissions,

501
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: that's right. And what dreams apparently is like a very

502
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: common term. They used it in that nineteen fifties educational film.

503
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember them saying that in my health class.

504
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: It sounds like a sequel the porkis or something that,

505
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, porkies to wet dreams. Like, yeah, no, internal

506
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: emissions is I mean, it just makes sense. That's right,

507
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: And that's when stuff right there. Yeah, that one's you.

508
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: That means you're you're sleep, you have a dream. Uh

509
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: that's sexual in nature. And uh, if it's a full

510
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: wet dream, that means you ejaculate in your sleep. And uh,

511
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: the first time that happens in your little boy, you

512
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: have no idea what's going on. Um, you just wake

513
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: up and you're like, what in the world just happened? Right,

514
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: But nothing to be ashamed do. Hopefully your parents are

515
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: talking to you about this stuff. All very normal part

516
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: of the process. Yes, just quietly take the seats off

517
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: your bed and tell your parents that you've decided to

518
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: start doing your own logary from now on. Exactly. Well.

519
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: I was a late bed wedder though, so I didn't

520
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: know what the heck was going on. I was just

521
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: leaking fluids at night. I had no idea what to do.

522
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Um. And the erections you're gonna get erections

523
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: when the wind blows. Um, you might get erections in

524
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,239
Speaker 1: the boys locker room. And they said that is not

525
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: a uh indicator of sexual preference. Um. It is also

526
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: a very normal thing that happens. Pretty much. Anything can

527
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: do that to you, So don't don't worry about that

528
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Again. You really should not base your

529
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: worldview and your ideas about what life is going to

530
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: be like on the period of puberty, because it is

531
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: the weirdest time of your higher life and not just yours,

532
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: either of all of your friends, of your teachers, eventually

533
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: your little brothers, sisters, your parents, everybody, everybody, the weirdest

534
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: time in their life is puberty. It's just a really

535
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: odd experience. All right, you want to take another break?

536
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: Why not? Man? All right, we'll talk about these puberty

537
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: hormones when we come back. So, Chuck, we talked about

538
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: that little time bomb of a hypothalamus holding the go

539
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: at a trope and releasing hormone, and it's just waiting

540
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: for the GPR fifty four to come along and trigger

541
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: its release and the g n r H gon ada

542
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: trope and releasing hormone makes its way to the pituitary gland,

543
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: which is a little peace size plan that I think

544
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: it was Descartes thought where the soul resided. Yeah, I

545
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: think so. He turned out to be wrong. But that

546
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: does actually trigger the production of two other important hormones, right, um,

547
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: lutinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. And these two things

548
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: are that they're kind of like the chemical messengers that

549
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: go down to the gonads the testicles and say, start

550
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: growing and start producing testosterone and sperm. That's right. This

551
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: is the process by which you become able to reproduce.

552
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: This is the process by which you grow a mustache.

553
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh f s h um. When it reaches

554
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: those testicles and it's follicle stimulating hormone that is going

555
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: to cause the growth of what are called uh seminiferous tubules,

556
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: and those are the tubes basically where the sperm is

557
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: produced and all the stuff is in your body. Again,

558
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: it's just like it's waiting on the go sign exactly.

559
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: You know. It's like this boy needs to become a man,

560
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: all right, we're just waiting for the signal and it's

561
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: gonna take sixty eight years and then another thirty to

562
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: forty years after that. Right, So with the lutinizing hormone,

563
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: that UM goes to the tests and it says, hey,

564
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: there's these things called lading cells and they produce androgens,

565
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: which are hormones that basically help your development as well,

566
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: including testosterone, and they say start producing this. So these

567
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: two things go down and you start producing sperm and

568
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: testosterone as a result, and the sperm seeks its way

569
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: out in any way shape or former can, whether you

570
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: like it or not. And then the testosterone just spreads

571
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: throughout the body and again it does everything from making

572
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: your the bones in your face grow to making your

573
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: voice crack like Peter Brady, to making you grow afoot

574
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, UM, to growing mustache. That's right,

575
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: not ironically either, because when you did it, when you

576
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: were thirteen, you were super cool. You know who was

577
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: like the best example of a pubescent boy on television?

578
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: I think do you ever watch King of the Hill? Oh? Sure,

579
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: remember Joseph. I don't remember Joseph the Dale's son, but

580
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: really was John Redcorne son. Yeah, neighbor Bobby's friend Joseph.

581
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: He was awesome. He started to go through puberty, he

582
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: had like that little mustache. He didn't he get mad

583
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: for reasons he couldn't explain, just perfect. He was great.

584
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: I was a big fan of Bobby too, of course.

585
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh here's another cool thing. Um. We talk

586
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: a lot about the physiological things that happened, the body

587
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: actually physically growing, but there's also the mind and psychological

588
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: changes that happened. And your brain is developing in such

589
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: a way that it's really really neat. You're gonna start

590
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: having interest in things that you never thought you had

591
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: interest in before. Um. Yeah, not just like riding the

592
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: bike down to the creek and teasing the girls. You

593
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: start thinking about life and why some people are poor

594
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: and other people are rich. Yeah, all sorts of like

595
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 1: kind of deep stuff all of a sudden now attracts

596
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: your attention. Yeah, and you you are going to start

597
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: kind of thinking about life beyond the three ft in

598
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: front of your face, right or summer vacation. Yeah, exactly,

599
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: although summer vacation still rules for a while. I don't

600
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: need to discount that. No, no no, no, but you're gonna

601
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: start thinking about like maybe what do I want to

602
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: do with my life? And what kind of career do

603
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: I want? Where do I want to go to college?

604
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 1: Like these things naturally to start popping up in your head,

605
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: and with that comes a lot of anxiety because I've

606
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: never thought about what my places in the world. Right, well,

607
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: what if I don't end up being rich? What will

608
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: become of me? Then? Yes, you're gonna be confused, You're

609
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: gonna be anxious. Um, you're also I'm gonna find that

610
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: you're attracted to other people. That Yeah, that's when those

611
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: first seeds are planted, and that causes anxiety in and

612
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: of itself. Do they like me? Am I good looking?

613
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 1: What is good looking? What do I look? Dumb? Walking?

614
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: Right now? Right? What is walking? Is my stash coming

615
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: in thick enough? What is a statue? Yeah? And you

616
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: just but it's true, like when when your brain is

617
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: bathed in androgens for the first time, they find that

618
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: not only does it restructure and reorganize the way you think,

619
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: which is why all of a sudden you're starting to

620
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: think about deeper stuff and into the future and everything,

621
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: but also the way it worked already changes. So this

622
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: reward pathway that used to get you to go eat

623
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: more blow pops because they're so great. Um, all of

624
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: a sudden is now concentrating on finding a date. So

625
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: you're you're what you place value on changes and let's

626
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: be because your brain is literally saying like, go do

627
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: this because this is gonna feel great. Yeah. I definitely

628
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: even remember when self awareness sort of kicked in. You know,

629
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: when you didn't just walk by a mirror all of

630
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: a sudden you looked at it and you're like, well,

631
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: this is what I look like? Is that is am

632
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: I handsome? Do I look funny? Uh? I just kind

633
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: of short? Is that a bad thing? Um? Yeah, it's

634
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: self awareness is the best way to describe it. And

635
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: as a result of this, depression can sid in. Sure,

636
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: there's such thing as pubescent depression, which yeah, and it

637
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: is in many ways. It's a very natural result of

638
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: starting to question things and realizing you don't have all

639
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: the answers and it's just things getting more complex. Yeah,

640
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: that's why it's it's very important for parents to have

641
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: a to try to have a good line of communication

642
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: as possible, but it's going to be even more difficult

643
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,479
Speaker 1: because there may be possibility that you're pubescent boy didn't

644
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: want anything to do with you at this point. Yeah,

645
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: there may be a chance that that's the case. Well

646
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 1: not always though, Um, I was or my nephew. Again,

647
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: I hate to keep picking on him, but he's super

648
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: close to my brother and my sister in law, and

649
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, they have a great relationship. But I'm still

650
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's still some bit of that teenage stuff.

651
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: And that's that's a good thing to have to for

652
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: the most part. That when the when the boy strikes

653
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: out on his own or doesn't want to have anything

654
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: to do with you, or all of a sudden, your

655
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: car is stupid, so drop me off two blocks from school. Yeah,

656
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: that that shows signs of like them forming an independent

657
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: spirit or whatever. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. You

658
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: should encourage that, um and discourage them being little jerks. Thought,

659
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: fine line, right, So, UM, as a parent of a

660
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: pubescent boy, Um, you you have to give leeway, but

661
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: you also have to like curtail behavior that's problematic. Yeah, absolutely, Uh,

662
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: And we mentioned depression earlier. Of course, UM, keep an

663
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: eye on that kind of stuff. And there's nothing wrong

664
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: with having your young boy or girl go get like

665
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: talk to a counselor or something. Doesn't mean there's something

666
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: wrong with you. It just means you may need a

667
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: little outside help. No, shame, no, and chuck. We should

668
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: say um because somebody will right in to let us

669
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: know if we don't. What we've just described the social

670
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: and psychological development of a person that's technically adolescence, and

671
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: adolescence is this whole broad change from childhood to adulthood

672
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: and actually includes puberty as a component. So puberty is

673
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: part of adolescence. Yeah, we've been using them kind of

674
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: interchangeably for the last little bit, but yeah, I think

675
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: it works. Yeah, I agree, And it can be very

676
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: trying to raise an adolescent. Um so hanging their parents.

677
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: You went through it too, and before you know it,

678
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: you'll all be buddies again. You you have it coming

679
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: to you basically for what you did to your period.

680
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: Pretty much, all right. I think we should finish with

681
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: some pretty interesting, um male puberty rights from different cultures. Yeah,

682
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: here in America, when you enter puberty and your boy

683
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: your dad just gives you this kind of awkward punch

684
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: in the arm and walks away, and I hope you

685
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: don't bring it up ever. Again, that's the right of

686
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: passage for puberty in America. Yeah, that's kind of what

687
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: happened to me. Um. If you're Islamic, your parents are

688
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: going to teach their sons um adulthood and basically say

689
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: that from the time you have your first ejaculation is

690
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: when you are responsible for your own actions. Yeah. I

691
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: guess you have a little more leeway before that. Yeah,

692
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: makes sense. Um. If you are Jewish, you might have

693
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: a bar mitzvah on your thirteenth birthday. Well, whether you

694
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: like it or not, you officially are a bar mitzvah,

695
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: a son of the Commandment. That's right, um. But there

696
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: new traditions have developed where like you do starting at

697
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: the synagogue and then your party afterward. But you're just

698
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: automatically on your thirdteenth birthday, that's right. Have you? Um?

699
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: Do you watch Sharing out Live? Have you ever seen

700
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: Jacob the bar mitz a boy? No, it's really cute.

701
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: It's uh is it new? No, she's been around for

702
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: a while. It's a woman who Vanessa Bear does it though.

703
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: She has a little curly wig and a and a

704
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: yamaka and sits down low in the chair and the

705
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: whole concept of The skid is that she UM is

706
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: this awkward bar mits of a boy who can only

707
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: read like a prepared speech, and so they'll ask her

708
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: questions and she'll just kind of bat her eyes and

709
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: then start reading from her prepared speech again, and she's

710
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: like a New Yorker and it's it's really very cute

711
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: and funny. So Chuck, you know, we did a pretty

712
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: good episode on circumcision. Yeah, a male circumcision. We didn't

713
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: do female circumcision yet, UM, but in in that episode

714
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: we talked mostly about Western circumcision, but and a lot

715
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: of cultures, including Malaysia and some parts of South Africa.

716
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: UM circumcision is part of the ritual of entering puberty,

717
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: so you'll be circumcised when you're like eleven twelve, UM,

718
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: and it might be part of a larger ceremony as well.

719
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: Like UM. Aborigines in Australia UM perform circumcision at puberty,

720
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: but it's also paired with UM what's called a walk about. Yeah,

721
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: when they're sent out to walk right, basically they're like,

722
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: you go away from us and go learn to hunt

723
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 1: and survive on your own, but first we have UM

724
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: to do something to you. Yeah, well they also have

725
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: and I was trying to find out how if this

726
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: is still done with great regularity. But they also the

727
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: Aborigines practice male birth control rituals. So after circumcision, they

728
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: will pierce a hole through the base of the penis

729
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: put a splinter in there to keep that hole open.

730
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: So basically you urinate and ejaculate not through the end

731
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: of your penis, but through this hole, which makes it

732
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: really hard to reproduce. And uh, I imagine it does

733
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: make it hard to reproduce. Yeah, And I don't know

734
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: if this is like what the modern Aborigines do or

735
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: if it's just an ancient custom. It's like there are

736
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: one child policy. Oh maybe so, I guess then when

737
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: you pull the splinter out, it heals up enough to

738
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: restore reproduct Well, now the splinter is pulled out and

739
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: there's a permanent hole there, so then how how do

740
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: you reproduce? Well, you plug it up with your finger,

741
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: I think compared to that, I'm sure if you're a

742
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: Pueblo boy, you're like, oh, I just have to take

743
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: an ice bath, let's do it exactly, which is one

744
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,959
Speaker 1: of their rituals. Um there's a tribe called the Toro

745
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: tribe of Papa Papua New Guinea, and they have um

746
00:43:54,920 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: forced homosexuality as part of the rights of passive for

747
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: a boy. What you essentially do is a boy is

748
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: paired with an elder man and they ingest semen and

749
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: that is part of the ritual to become a man

750
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: from a boy with this tribe, so they just drink.

751
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: There's no sexual act. There's drinking of sperm. Oh no,

752
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: there's it's it's with the sexual act and then later

753
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: on you were paired as a man with another boy. Uh.

754
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: And that is I mean, it's a tribe of like

755
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred people in Papua New Guinea and they become

756
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: a mentor. They believe that in the semen is your

757
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: most concentrated life force. So that has passed along to

758
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: a boy. I had not heard that one either. Um.

759
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: There's a tribe in East Africa where they shaved the

760
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: boy's head and then cut them to the bone on

761
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: their forehead, three deep horizontal cuts and they have a

762
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: scar called a gar and it's a symbol of manhood

763
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: lying on aunt beds. The Luceno Indian tribe um when

764
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: you become a manure too complete the ceremonial act of

765
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: laying on an ant bed and being you know, bitten

766
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: and stung by ants without reacting. You just have to

767
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: keep like a stone face. Wow, that's one of their rituals. Um.

768
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: And they also are given a hallucinogenic drug to exacerbate

769
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: it or make it better. You think, No, this is afterward,

770
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: I think called tolo kahi, and that's supposed to help

771
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: them see visions. Um. I guess it's kind of similar

772
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: to the vision quest of the Native American, which is

773
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: the thing too. Yeah. So those are some of the

774
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: more interesting ones thanks to correct magazine and um, do

775
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: you remember I gave up cultural relativism in some respects. Yeah,

776
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: but I also it's not really I don't feel like

777
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: it's my roller position to persuade other people to feel

778
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: one way or the other about something. It's at the individual.

779
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: I hear you. I got one more. The the m

780
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: A t I s the matisse or madis hunting trials. Uh.

781
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: This tribe, it's a Brazilian ribe. Um. When they send

782
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: their boys out to become in and hunt for the

783
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: first time, they put a bitter poison in their eyes

784
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: that's supposed to improve their vision and enhance their senses. Uh.

785
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: And if that wasn't enough, there's a series of beatings

786
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: and whippings that take place to make you a man.

787
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: And then at the end of that they burn an

788
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: area of your skin and put this ground up frog

789
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: goop um and with a wooden needle. And it's a

790
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: poison that's supposed to increase your strength and endurance. So

791
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: I guess that Western American like light punched the arm,

792
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good symbolism of all this other stuff.

793
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: I'll take that. But it's true boys are treated roughly

794
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: and definitely more rougher than girls are around the world. Absolutely,

795
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: although I saw some of the girls puberty rituals and

796
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 1: some of those aren't pretty either. Yeah, well we need

797
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: to cover that absolutely. We need to do female circum

798
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: decision and um, female puberty. I guess agreed. Well, those

799
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: will be coming right up, I'm sure. Uh. If you

800
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: want to know more about male puberty, you can type

801
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: those words in the search bart how stuff works dot com.

802
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: And since I said search bar, it's time for a

803
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: listener and mail. I'm gonna call this coincidence. We get

804
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: a lot of these where people experience coincidence is related

805
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: to what they're listening to. Um. And this is from

806
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: Andrew and Ohio. He said on December thirte That was

807
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: on the way home from work, and as I do

808
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: every morning, I'm sorry. On the way to work, I

809
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: load you guys up on my phone and I'm taking

810
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: to some learning adventure. Today's adventure was how broken bones work.

811
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: So I'm listening and thinking, Uh, you guys start talking

812
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: about you've never broken a bone before, and I start thinking,

813
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: neither of I and you guys both say knock on

814
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: wood exactly, and I think I don't need a knock

815
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: what it won't happen to me. I get to work,

816
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: still listening, walking towards the back of my walking towards

817
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:02,959
Speaker 1: the back of the box in my hand, I trip

818
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: on the carpet fall and punched the ground with my

819
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: right hand. He broke his pinky bone clean into um,

820
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: sort of where the palm of the hand is like

821
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: the bone just below the pinky. And he sent me

822
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: a picture and it was just snapped like a twig

823
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: and the break was so bad I had to have

824
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: surgery to put two screws in a plate in to

825
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: hold the bone together. As a healed um. As of now,

826
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much held up a whist, some feeling in

827
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: the pinky, some range of motion, but I can say

828
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: I've got a titanium plate in my hand, so I

829
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: feel like it's a trade off forget iron man, I

830
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: am titanium plate handman. But she says it's a working name.

831
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: So uh, he said, Thanks a lot. Guys. If you

832
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: happen to read this, um, please shout out to my

833
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: fiance Ali Spence. We're getting married in June and I

834
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: couldn't be more excited. So that is Andrew Hall of Wooster, Ohio.

835
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: So congratulations Ali, and Andrew, congratulation. Watch where you're going, buddy. Yeah,

836
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: and don't tempt fate man. Nope, I don't need to knock.

837
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: Would look what happened. If you want to let us

838
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: know how superstition bit you, we want to hear about it.

839
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: You can tweet to us at s Y s K podcast.

840
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 1: You can join us on Facebook dot com, slash stuff

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