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Speaker 1: How do you everybody happy Saturday morning? I hope you

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Speaker 1: have watched your cartoons and have a belly full of

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Speaker 1: sugary cereal, because right now you're about to listen to

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Speaker 1: our episode on afrods X from March twelve nine. That's right, everyone, Uh,

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Speaker 1: lock the kids away, don't let him here because this

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Speaker 1: what the birds say, Randy, I believe so so please

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Speaker 1: to enjoy everyone Affords X. Right now, welcome to Stuff

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Speaker 1: you should know from house stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: Welcome yourself, buddy. Welcome Josh, Thank you Chuck. Sure that

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Speaker 1: felt pretty good? Actually did it? Just try it? Try it?

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Speaker 1: Welcome yourself. Welcome Chuck. How do you feel relaxed? Good? Good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it has a nice effect. It does you know what

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have a nice effect. It depends what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Okay, well, I'll just tell you Spanish fly.

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Speaker 1: But it turns out I did a little research on this.

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Speaker 1: Um I found out that Spanish flight is not even

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Speaker 1: a fly. It's a type of beetle and the active ingredient.

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Speaker 1: It's actually crushed up, dried and crushed up beetles powdered. Correct.

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Speaker 1: And the reason they powder the beatles is because they're

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Speaker 1: trying to get to this um, this acid that the

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Speaker 1: beetle emits when it's um scared, when it's it's threatened.

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Speaker 1: And this acid actually, you know, has long been thought

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Speaker 1: to create amorousness in people. That's correct. I can tell

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Speaker 1: you the reason they they they thought they were aroused,

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Speaker 1: They were actually confusing euro genital tract irritation. This stuff

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Speaker 1: actually burns from the inside out. Yeah, and it can

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Speaker 1: actually cause kidney damage. And I think convulsion is death.

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Speaker 1: No Spanish fly, you should never take this for any reason. No,

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Speaker 1: so of course, you know, as as you know, I

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Speaker 1: I'd like to do lots of research. It's like my thing,

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Speaker 1: it is, right, Um. I started researching aphrodisiacs in general,

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Speaker 1: and here we are at this podcast. Nice intro there,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I believe the word comes from the Greek

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Speaker 1: goddess of love, Aphrodite, Is that right? Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: I hear. And an aphrodisiac, by definition, is an element

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Speaker 1: that evokes or stimulates, uh, sexual desire. Yeah, we should

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Speaker 1: people think aphrodisiacs um are our performance sexual performance enhancing

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Speaker 1: compound or whatever, right, and not true at all, Like

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Speaker 1: a viagra would definitely not be considered an aphrodisiac. No, no,

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Speaker 1: so uh, but nor would Spanish fly right correct. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about sexual arousal, Chuck. Okay, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: just keep it cool, Chuck. If I had a dime

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Speaker 1: for every time you told me that I would keep

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Speaker 1: it cooler, Let's talk about sexual arousal. Keeping cool okay, gotcha? Um? So,

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Speaker 1: Medically speaking, sexual arous us all um begins when we

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Speaker 1: that we find sexually stimulating, right, and then all of

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Speaker 1: and even better because this wouldn't do a whole lot

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Speaker 1: the blood vessels close behind this this influx of blood,

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Speaker 1: so the door shuts essentially, yes, keeping the blood well,

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Speaker 1: I guess that just has a negative implication, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: whether whether it's trapped or not, what you got is

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Speaker 1: fill me in on those? I certainly can. Well, your

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Speaker 1: heart rate increases, UM, and pleasure producing chemicals like nora

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Speaker 1: So that that's sexual arousal and UM. For an aphrodisiac

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Speaker 1: even harder to study. Well, I was also interested to

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Speaker 1: So we know what factors that we just don't quite

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Speaker 1: know where UM and testosterone. You know, usually associate estrogen

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Speaker 1: with women UM, but tests asterone has an effect on

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Speaker 1: turns out that the Persians were fairly randy folks. Um.

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Speaker 1: But there is an interesting little tidbit in there, isn't there.

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Speaker 1: I think you're about the honeymoon. Yes, yes, they would

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Speaker 1: And there was a study that they they they I

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Speaker 1: don't remember who conducted it, but they tested men, they

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Speaker 1: of limericks here. Ryan of Victoria, British Columbia, fine Canadian friend.

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