WEBVTT - Josh and Chuck Make It Through Male Puberty 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.440 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:13.160 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.720 This Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there, which I 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:18.520 don't know if Jerry should be in here for this one. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.200 Why not. We're talking male puberty. You and I we're 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.560 putting on our health class faces. Both of us got 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.360 crew cuts for this one. You're wearing a whistle around 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:35.599 your neck. I'm wearing knee socks and joys. Yeah. I 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.800 was taught because I was raised in a pretty conservative 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.960 Southern Baptist home. I was taught this stuff by my 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.160 uh preacher. Nope, they didn't talk about this stuff. That's 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.920 my point. I was taught in health class. Yeah, um, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:56.840 by my pe teacher. This lady who seemed to struggle 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.280 with teaching boys about puberty. I can I can't really 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.920 blame her. She tried her best, but this is you know, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.039 when the pe teachers had to teach health as well, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.360 and I don't think that she got into that profession 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.880 to teach health. She she was like, I like coaching volleyball, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.319 but um, I don't like teaching boys about puberty. She 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.120 seemed very uncomfortable. It comes with the job. Lady t s. Well, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.760 if you are a Jim coach and you're teaching a 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.000 health class right now and you're using us to teach 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.640 for you, you you owe some money. Agreed. So we are. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.720 We're doing a great job so far, if you ask me, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.640 I think so. And this is you know, I think 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.160 we have a responsibility because I was raised in that 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.120 thing where like, you know, my parents didn't teach me 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.720 this stuff. So I think it's important the kids. Uh, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.520 puberty is tough. I mean like it's important to normalize 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.200 it and that kids know that these changes are happening 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.040 and what they mean and healthy functions. You know. I 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.280 think this is a bit of a service. It was, 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.880 it is, it is. Yes, I was talking like we'd 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.280 already finished finished, and this this article, by the way, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.360 it was written by the great Tom Sheath, did a 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.120 wonderful job. Chuck. Yes, did you know that over the 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.000 last like hundred and fifty years, um, the average age 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.520 of puberty in girls has dropped by like five or 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.640 six years. Yeah, so in eighteen sixty the average age 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:35.919 of monarchy, oh yeah, yeah, sixteen point six years old. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.800 That's pretty late. In two it was ten point five 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.960 years old. It seems young, right, and everybody's like, what's 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.640 going on? It's probably the milk, like there's some horrible 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.600 stuff going on, or they're saying, what's monarchy, Well, manarchy 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.919 is the onset of menstruach for the first time in 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.200 a girl. I think that came up in our totem Pole. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.240 It was a long time ago. Um, so this on 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.000 side of monarchy has decreased by a lot and a 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.400 lot of people are alarmed by it. But there are 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.040 some evolutionary biologists out there who are saying, actually, settle down. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.040 We think that this is closer to the normal time 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.040 when puberty should come on, and that like sixteen points 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.160 six is way delayed, and it was actually a relic, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.880 a remnant of changes that were brought about by a 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.320 transition to agriculture. The result of higher infections and poor 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.280 nutrition led to a later onset of monarchy. Well, it's 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.960 pretty it's easy to say, well, the girls start puberty 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.880 here and boys it's not quite as defined, but they 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.200 think that probably boys age of onset for puberty has 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.680 gone back to as well. Yeah, so it's uh, we're 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.560 going through puberty younger as young boys as well. Yeah, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.720 so even though it is very difficult to say this 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.400 is and a boy starts puberty, that didn't stop some research, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.320 just especially a guy named Richard Tanner from trying. He 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.920 came up with the Tanner scale. It is a scale 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.080 of one to five and Roman numerals, and it's all 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:18.039 based on the growth of your genitalia and pubic hair. Interesting, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:24.280 and it's it's it's not completely subjective, but it's pretty subjective. Yeah. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.000 And you might have heard of the Tanner scale by 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.040 seeing the posters in restaurants all around the country. Yes, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.880 right next to the employees must wash hands before returning 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.080 to works exactly. All right, So we're talking about puberty, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.440 which is that transition um that all kids go through. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.400 We're talking about male puberty of course, in this case, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.120 just male puberty and this one yea, even though I 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.240 already talked about female puberty. Well, we should probably tackle 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:53.400 female puberty at some point um. For for little boys, 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.400 they generally, like you said, the time has shifted perhaps, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.799 but right now between the ages of nine in eighteen 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:06.680 is when it starts through completion generally typically typically you 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.719 can start earlier, it can go later, it can follow 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.239 different courses. Sure, it moves at different speeds and different guys. Yes, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.039 And I'm gonna say this a few times. If you 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.800 are a boy out there and you're going through your 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.359 changes in puberty at different rates than your friends, that 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.760 is okay. Yeah, you're not a weirdo instincts, but it 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.760 is very normal, that's right. And you just may you've 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.919 heard of the term late bloomer. You may just be 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.080 a late bloomer, and that's okay because you will bloom 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.240 well and you might not even be a late bloomer 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.800 except for this month right next month. But it's kind 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.200 of like you know that horse race that you can 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.320 do with the spraying the Yeah, you squirt the water 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.640 in the hole in the horse's gap exactly, and they 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.320 kind of moved back and forth. That's a lot like puberty. Yeah, Like, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.560 once you've really got a bead on that water gun, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.240 that's when the horse really starts moving. But practice all 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.680 you want. You can squirt water and where, and it's 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.080 not going to help accelerate your puberty, that's right, all right, So, uh, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.799 what happens the beginning of puberty, no matter when it starts, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.000 is going to get kicked off when a substance called 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:18.080 ganado tropin is released. Um, I'm sorry, Canada. Tropin releasing 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.920 hormone is released in the body. G n r H. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.320 That's the big that's the one that starts at all. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.440 That's right. And apparently you have that stuff in your hypothalamus. Yeah, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.880 You've got all these things hormones in your body, just waiting, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:39.280 waiting the coming one another, like nitro glycerin coming together basically, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.520 so you've got g n r H and your hypothalamus 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.200 and apparently it has to move to the pituitary gland 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.000 for things to get triggered. So puberty is like a 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:54.520 Rube Goldberg esque process. Yeah. So, um, it takes something 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.960 called g p R fifty four, which is another hormone, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.960 to coming contact with ganada trope and releasing hormone, and 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.320 then all of a sudden things start up and that 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:14.360 actually brew when that process happens. That's called gody. Oh really, yes, interesting. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.000 I think the reason monarchy was such a funny word 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.960 to me back when we recorded that. I figured it 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.760 out all these years later because it sounds like malarkey. Yeah, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.720 which is just a funny word to me, because no 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.880 one says malarkey, but I think it's a great word. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.080 So monarchy and malarkey is just a little too close 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.000 for my taste to keep me from laughing, you know. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.560 All Right, So the stages of puberty, they're generally five, um, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.280 and they overlap and it's one just big awkward mess. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.920 But you can kind of break it down into five stages. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.280 The first one is gonna begin, like we said, around 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.360 nine or ten years old. Um, nine is a little early. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.880 Ten is um what they would consider normal. I guess 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.440 sometimes it might happen as late as twelve to get 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.520 things going, which by which time you're like, come on 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.600 right start. I'll just remember being in school and some 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.320 kids were like a foot taller than other ones, like 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:12.960 my buddy Jim, I said, you know, like he had 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.280 a mustache when he was like thirteen. Yeah, I know. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.080 I had a friend like that in third grade. Yeah. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.800 It's crazy. Um. So again, different timetables for everybody, and 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.440 it's all okay. Uh So when this g n r 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.840 H is released in stage one, your testicles are going 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.760 to start to mature and grow, uh, your body, your height, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.679 You're gonna start growing at about two inches per year 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:39.640 at this point, which is pretty significant. Yeah, yeah, for sure, 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.959 growing two inches in a year. When's the last time 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.560 you did that? I guess probably when I was like twelve, probably, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.599 although I never hit one of those growth spurts like 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.720 a lot of uh no did you? Yeah here there 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.760 really Yeah, I don't really just slow and steady wins 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.240 the race. Yeah, I don't remember any Like I remember 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.240 some of my friends that had um like they're owns 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.800 would hurt and they would actually have those growing pains. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.559 I never had that. Yeah, yeah, no, it wasn't. Yeah, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.280 but I remember coming back from the summer and a 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.439 kid would have grown like six inches it seems like 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.080 in several months. Then it would just blew my mind 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.319 because I was and like I was a late bloomer 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:21.920 and like drank wine from a deer skin. Now a yeah, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.480 so your testicles are growing, and because your testicles are growing, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.520 that means their house, the scrotum is also growing. And 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.280 all this is because that go and add a chopin 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.480 releasing hormone started up. That's right, And it's no um 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.120 accident that it starts with gonad of course, it's all 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.960 linked um. So um, your your testicles are growing and 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.360 maturing at this point, but you're not able to reproduce 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.720 just yet, No way, No, that comes with a little later. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.319 And I had a question like, why aren't we born 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.240 capable of reproduction? And I thought like I would find 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.480 some stuff on it. All I could find was one 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.400 single Yahoo Answers question, and everybody was like, what kind 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.680 of a stupid question is that? Basically, yeah, I guess 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.640 it is kind of a stupid question. But the point 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.840 is because you're not capable of taking care of yourself, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.640 therefore you you wouldn't be capable of taking care of baby. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.679 You have to develop socially, psychologically, and physically. Yeah, the 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.480 female body probably couldn't handle childbirth either, right, So it 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.960 makes sense to not come out of the womb being 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.520 capable of sexual reproduction. It makes sense for that to 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.280 have to to develop at some point. Sure, agreed. So 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.240 they also in stage one, um, you're gonna start getting 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.000 a little fine pubic hairs and uh, that's that is 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.560 called pew barkie? Is it really? Not kidding? You just 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.240 add archie to anything very much. I got your hierarchy. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.360 There's all sorts of things that come about, uh, and 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.720 you might start to get your first erections at this point, Um, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.120 you are not gonna have any idea what's going on 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.840 with your body. But it's gonna happen unless you take 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.240 an advanced health class that like nine years old, um, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.280 or if you have like parents who are comfortable with 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:15.400 talking like this. Yeah, but boys, sometimes you're getting bad information. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.480 Well there's to combat that kind of stuff there where. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.920 There have always been, um, educational films about this kind 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.520 of stuff. I found one from the fifties called Everybody 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.280 Changes or something like that, and it's basically like a 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.120 track and field coach answering questions from the track and 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.240 field team like me, who all seem like plants frankly, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.360 and um, I guess still yeah, but it's pretty it's 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.000 pretty good our podcast page, yeah for this episode. Al Right, 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.880 so that's stage one. You enter stage two around twelve 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.040 or thirteen. Your testicles are still a growing, yes, so 0:11:55.160 --> 0:12:00.160 that's the thing, and um, they they grow faster and 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.920 most prominently first. That's like the sign that you're in Puberta. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.480 Everything else might not be happening, but your testicles are 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.559 probably growing pretty quick before your very eye making a 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.800 sound if you're listening closely. I knew we would be 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.400 just like two dumb little kids and crew cuts didn't 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.000 have any effect. Um, and this means you're gonna be 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.320 producing testosterone as well, which is gonna make you crazy 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.640 as well. Um, you're gonna start to grow quicker and 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.240 height two to three inches a year. And one of 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.760 the reasons why chuck is because that testosterone is being produced. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.720 So basically, the catatropin releasing hormone sources chain reaction and 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.120 it leads down to your testicles, and it basically says, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.480 start producing testosterone, and then that floods the body and 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.920 has all sorts of crazy effects. But one of them 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.319 is your bone cells have testosterone receptors and they grow 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.600 in the presence of testosterone, So all of a sudden, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.880 they're being flooded with testosterone, which is why you grow 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.640 so quickly while you under growth. Person, it's because of 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:12.559 the testosterone having the impact on your bones. Um. And finally, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.120 in stage two, those fine pubic hares are going to start, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.200 as my gym teacher said, to become of course, and 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.719 curly and darker. Um, you're going to get more erections, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.600 more frequently, and your body is just gonna start to 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.360 become a little leaner you're gonna start to look, um, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.760 a little more like an adult. Um, like a tiny adult. Yeah, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.200 which is funny. You know, by the end of the 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.760 fifth stage, they said, at this point you look like 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.760 a man. Your shoulders are broad. But you know, you 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.720 look back on your high school pictures and you're like, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.160 I look like a little baby. Like I didn't start 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.200 looking like a man until I was in my thirties. Right, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.120 But compared to like your six year old self, exactly, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.120 you resemble the male physique more than before. Absolutely, third 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:59.679 stage of puberty for boys is gonna be thirteen or fourteen. Um, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.480 You're pubic hair is gonna get even darker and more full. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.360 It's about the pubic hare. Well, it's a big change, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.439 you know. Well it's part of the Tanner scale. That's 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.640 why it's so um, it's very recognizable, that's right, that's 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.480 why it's on the poster and olive garden. Uh. Your 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.680 penis at this point is going to start to grow 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.840 in linked uh. And of course all the while your 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.239 testicles are still growing, You're getting more and more erections, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.120 and your height is gonna grow at about three inches 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.200 per year at this point. And then your voice is 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.320 gonna start cracking, which is super interesting. I know you 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.320 dug up exactly what's going on there with your voice cracking? Yeah, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:43.320 it's really interesting. Um So, remember testosterone makes stuff grow, basically, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.520 and one of the things that it makes grow is 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:50.760 your vocal cords, right, which are basically two um cartilaginous 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.960 bands that go over your trick ya your windpipe, so 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.720 that when air passes through your lungs past the the 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.280 your vocal cords, it makes them vibrate. And that vibration 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.360 is what your voices, that creates your voice. When you're 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.320 a younger kid and your vocal cords are still small, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.800 they can vibrate, vibrate a really fast frequency, like say 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.360 two vibrations per second because they're smaller, right, But as 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.360 they grow in the presence of testosterone, they grow bigger 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.920 and thicker. They can't vibrate quite as fast, so they 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.600 might go down to like a hundred and thirty vibrations 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:29.760 a second. Well, that's a lower frequency, which eventually leads 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.240 to a deeper voice. It's like a guitar string. The 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.760 thicker guitar string is lower perfect analogy, that's exactly right, right. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.440 Another thing that happens which creeps me out to no end. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.800 But it it's part of it is your voice box, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.200 that part of the the the top of your trachea 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.720 that holds your vocal cords grows in size and tilts forward. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.200 And my friend, you have an atoms apple after that. Yeah, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.480 not always. Um well, I mean you, some are more 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.520 prominent than other. Yeah, you know, it depends on like 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.280 the shape and structure of your next But even if 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.360 you can't see it, if you just kind of rub 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.600 your finger up and down from your chin to your chest, 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.240 it's in there. You're gonna feel your atoms apple. But 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.920 it's so creepy to me. It's kind of like it 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.400 produces the same emotional state as thinking about peeling a 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:24.200 fingernail back. Yeah, that's what atoms apples due to make interesting. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.360 Like just the thought of my atoms apple. I don't 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.400 even like to touch it, but I can't stop, so 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.680 so odd. Wow that is odd. Yeah, but anyway, that's 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.760 your atoms apple, and that's why your voice changes. Um. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.040 It goes from growing from very small to growing large 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.800 and it deepens. One of the other things too, Chuck, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.920 I thought this one was really cool. The testosterone in 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.200 your skull, the facial bones. Yeah. So you know, testosterone 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.280 causes your bones to grow. That includes your facial bones 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.400 as well. And as they grow, UM, your sinuses grow. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.160 So that means that there's more empty space for your 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.360 voice to resonate in, which also makes it deeper. Yeah, 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.119 And they don't know, UM evolutionarily exactly why. But the 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.399 theory is, which makes perfect sense to me, is that 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.840 UM one to attract women or to intimidate other men 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.320 with that deep voice, which or just a signal I've arrived, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.680 don't you hear my voice? Yeah, which sounds totally different 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:27.040 than when you say, right voice, Yeah, you haven't arrived. Uh. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:31.320 So that's in stage three. UM, stage four, around fourteen 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.400 or fifteen, you're gonna start getting that armpit hair. You're 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.280 gonna start maybe getting a little facial hair. Although I 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.720 didn't get facial hair until quite a bit later, and 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.520 I don't even remember when I got it. I think, 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.320 I mean, I wasn't shaving, and I just can't get 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.560 rid of it. I know, look at me, I look 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:51.320 like Fidel Castro, especially when you wear that hat, the 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.399 Castro hat. Yeah, it's weird. Um. Your pubic hair is 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.160 gonna get more coarse, your voice is gonna drop even 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.440 deeper and you're gonna start to get acne. Yeah, which 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.959 is really sad. Well that's part of the result of 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.920 um seem Yeah. We did a great podcast on acne. Yeah, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.280 we did, and uh, look this up even September two 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.200 thousand eleven. The comito, which is Latin for worm, that's 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.760 the stuff that you squeeze out of the center. Yeah, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.840 I mean, should we discover what acne is real quick? 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.480 That build up of seebum, that oil, which is necessary 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.199 the water prouc your skin. Yeah, but you overproduce it 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.800 during puberty. Yeah. Plus you're also sloughing off skin cells 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.440 at a crazy rate. Yeah, that's a recipe for disaster. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.240 All of those things are trying to exit through pores 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.479 and hair follicles and they can't always make it. So 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.439 when it gets built up, it blocks. It goes through 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.840 the three stooges syndrome and trying to get through the 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.359 door at the same time. Right, and then uh, certain 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.359 types of bacteria acne bacteria come in and infect it 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.720 and it swells and then you have a pimple. That's right, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.520 that's all there is to it. It's fine and Tom 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.840 actually goes to the trouble of providing some advice on 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.399 what to do with it. And it's great advice because 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.720 you think you might want to scrub it to death 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:14.080 and use every super drying um product you can find 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.320 with a scouring pad. That's the exact opposite what you 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.040 want to do. Yeah, because that that can make it worse. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.159 You want to gently wash your face or your shoulders 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.159 or your back or whatever or everything a couple of 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.040 times a day, keep it clean, which is a problem 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.600 because young boys aren't known for loving showers at this point. No, no, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:34.480 But if this is a thing to you and it's 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.240 bothering you, then go to the trouble of doing something 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.560 about it. It's pretty simple and straightforward. Just wash your 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.800 face gently with just lightly a couple of times a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.840 day and that's it, um, And don't overdo it because 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.920 that just irritates it even more. It makes your face 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.280 so mad. Yeah, that showering thing is so funny to me. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.919 In our buddy Mark Farley from the TV show played 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.720 Clint Kinking Beard Can't Kinking Beard Um said that he 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.440 had a Facebook post the other day about trying to 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.439 get his son to take a shower. It was just 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.000 like marching him to the you know, to the firing 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.200 squad or something. I remember that age was like, now 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:12.840 I don't want to take a shower. I don't want 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.280 to do anything. But now like the shower is the 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.720 best part of the day, you know, Yeah, it's nice. 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.840 I still hate taking showers the process of it. I'm like, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.600 I'd rather be doing anything else. Then afterward, I'm like, man, 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.720 I love showers. Interesting, it's just like going to the 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.920 trouble of taking it. It's just bothers. Well, sometimes I'll 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.000 do that. Uh, have that thing around it. Just don't 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.520 want to be wet. Yeah, that's another one too. So 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:38.720 I want in the wintertime, you don't want to be 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.520 you know, you're gonna be cold. Good point. And at 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.639 the end of stage four um euro Penis. At this 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.120 point we'll start to grow thicker and continue to grow longer. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.800 But again, guys, this isn't happening at the rate that 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.560 you would like. Uh, don't worry about it. Just hanging there, 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.120 just hanging in there. You'll you'll be okay, you'll be fine. 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.560 And they been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years, 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.479 that's right. Uh, And finally stage five M fourteen to eighteen. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:11.240 You're gonna grow most of your height at this point. Yeah, 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.320 although you might grow in your twenties a little bit, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.800 but yeah, but not. This is where you're growing the fastest. 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.320 Um you You are growing several inches a year basically, 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.000 whereas up to this point you're growing to two to three. 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.240 Now you're growing up to maybe five inches in a year. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.320 That's crazy. Yeah, that's quick growth. Yeah. And that's like 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.280 when I see my nephew now he's like six one, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.920 he is so tall, it's so weird. Um, he's not weird. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.040 Oh no, no, no, it's weird to see your nephew 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.520 like taller than you all of a sudden. Just want 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.960 to make sure we clarify that he knows he's not weird. Um. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.399 Your shoulders are gonna be broader at this point, your 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.000 muscles are going to be more fully developed. Uh, you're 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.240 gonna have new muscle fibers, You're gonna everything is basically 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.359 just getting thicker on your body. Yeah, they call it 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.639 filling out. I think again, that's because its testosterone and 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.879 all of these other um hormones that you are producing. 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.240 You were producing them mainly at night while you slept before, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.560 which is significant that it's released from the hypothalamus because 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:14.240 the hypothalamus also regulates sleep, right, um, so while you're sleeping, 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:18.320 the hypothalamus is like, I guess, keep myself busy by 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:22.160 having some of these new hormones produced. As you go 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.440 further along in the stages of puberty, you um actually 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.560 are producing them all the time and in vast quantities, 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.800 so that that would account for your muscles growing bigger 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.000 and your skeleton growing faster than ever, and all this 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:40.920 hair coming out everywhere and growing course and everything. You know. Well, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.240 and that's since you mentioned it, I wasn't gonna bring 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.400 it up, but um, your pubic hair in stage five 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.159 is going to start to creep all over your body. 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:50.320 It's gonna be in your inner thighs and creeping up 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.760 your stomach. You might get chest hair, and you're just 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:56.720 wondering what in the world is happening to me? Um. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:58.800 So those are the stages and right for this, we 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.480 will come back with more on puberty, but not on 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.480 public care. No, We've got more on pubic care, more 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:23.720 on both. So Chuck, I've got a little more on 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:29.200