1 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hi, everybody, welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: Scott Benjamin Don Ben Bolling, and today on the Car 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Stuff Podcast, Ben, we're gonna talk about chain drive cars. Yeah. 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: It's weird because a lot of people don't know that 6 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: early autos were actually changed. Hey, I can't be in here. 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: What are you doing? No? Hey, someone did anyone to 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: turn holy Oh my goodness. I didn't. I really didn't 9 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: expect it to get this bad. I know. I'm sorry. Ernie. 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: We we were getting to the mail. You don't have 11 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: to do this, these acts of violence. This is not 12 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: very how stuff works. This is not very stuff to 13 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: blow your mind. This is not very car stuff. It 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: was car stuff. Uh well, anyone out there listening um 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: this of stuff to blow your mind. My name is 16 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: Robert Lamb. I'm Julie Douglas, and we have neglected our 17 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: mail bot Arnie for way too long. The time was 18 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: we would call him out every episode and and and 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: he would bring us wonderful mail from our listeners and 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: we would read them and we'd interact. But we keep 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: getting busier and busier. There's there's never time so we 22 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: we haven't called the mail boat over in quite some time, 23 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: and he's just been setting alone there in his cube. Uh, 24 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: just getting I guess, progressively crazier. Well, I mean it's 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: a kind of zukosis, right, I mean, this can happen 26 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: to robots, and I can't believe we weren't sensitive to 27 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: this before. And I've heard I heard the creeks and 28 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 1: the squeaks the last time we roled you out about 29 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: six months ago. And I should have known that something 30 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: like this would have happened. And I'm sorry, I just 31 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: I never imagined it would play out like this. Well, 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: we have to deal with it, that's the thing. Uh, 33 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: we can't have this robot rampaging around the studio. Um, 34 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: do you have any ideas? I mean, we could try 35 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: using fire extinguishers against him. I don't know, we could 36 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: try and trap him somewhere. Well, it's kind of like, 37 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: you know how when people are trying to stave off 38 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: like some sort of terrible thing happening to their village 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: and they make it sacrifice sacrifice with you mean, Holly, No, never, Holly. 40 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: I'm talking about maybe some emails or some you know, 41 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: like we can offer that we could do an entire 42 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: episode where we finally share all the awesome listener feedback 43 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: that we have. Yeah, maybe this will this will chill 44 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: the robot out and calm his uh his homicidal rage. Alright, Arnie, 45 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: I know you have lasers that are they're directed at 46 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 1: us right now. We both have one right in the 47 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: middle of chest, and we just want to let you know, 48 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: hear me happy about this. We have I don't know, 49 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: like scads of emails to share, and I think that 50 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: you'll be very happy about this. Alright, Alright, I'm gonna 51 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna grab one here. Um, let me see, let 52 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: me just let me start through here. Maybe there's there's 53 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: one here. Uh well, here's here's a good one. Here's 54 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: he just those are on that one. Okay. This one 55 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: comes to us from a listener Rob Rob Wrightson and 56 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: says hello, Robert and Julie. I have become a recent 57 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: follower of Blow the Mind in listening to all four 58 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven episodes available to me in the 59 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: months of August and September of this year, while at 60 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: my ten hour a day job as a metal fabricator 61 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: here in beautiful very Ontario of Canada. I have the 62 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: greatest respect for all that you do in bringing science 63 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: to the public. I have made many changes in my 64 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: life in light of the new learning and preach science 65 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: to all that hear me my four children, ages nine, eight, six, 66 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: and four. I'll listen with the light as I spread 67 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: the knowledge I've acquired that day. Please keep up the 68 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: excellent work and always remember that each and every time 69 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: you podcast, you are giving something that can never be 70 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: taken away. The greatest power one can possess is knowledge. 71 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: Thanks again and happy casting. Thank you so much, Rob 72 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: um Man. I don't even think that Arnie has listened 73 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: to all four You're gonna make it. Don't say things 74 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: like that, right He is now putting his laser on this. 75 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: Next email, which actually was sent to us via Amazon, 76 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: and this is from Annaka says, thank you so much 77 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: for inspiring this story that she wrote. It was stacks 78 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: of fun to write stuff to play your mind is 79 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: always interesting and just plain brilliant. You know what she did, 80 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: She sent us a kindle edition of her story The 81 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: Vampires of Marie. In parentheses, it's Hannibal de Noir Vampire 82 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: Hunter Book one, which is so cool. I I love 83 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: of it when we hear that we are are helping 84 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: to shape some maybe subcious thoughts that you have. It 85 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: are knocking around there and creating different works of art. 86 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Annaka. Indeed, yeah, this one 87 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: I believe was she was partially inspired by her episode 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: Rise at the Vampire pat about the evolution of the 89 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: vampire pat, which certainly I found tremendously fascinating. You know, 90 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: how does something evolve to depend exclusively on blood is 91 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: a diet? And she even sent us a copy of 92 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: the book, and uh, I've been reading on it and 93 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: found it quite enjoyable, so so I can I can 94 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: definitely recommend everyone check it out. Indeed, all right, well 95 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: here's another one. This one comes to us from Kim. 96 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: Kim says, greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. Once again, 97 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: well done on a great episode. She's responding to our 98 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: episode The Dark, which we published in October. She says, 99 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: as a blind woman, I was interested to hear if 100 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: you would touch on the dark and blindness. I was 101 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: blinded in a car accident almost seven years ago. I 102 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: am totally blind, zero light perception, and I have had 103 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: trouble sleeping since day one of this blind journey. I 104 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: am so very thankful that I have the two of 105 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: you to keep me company during my sleepless night. That 106 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: could tie into the imaginary Friends episode. Smiley face, thanks 107 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: for a great show. Keep up the great work, all right. 108 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: The next miss if we have here, is from Coope. 109 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: We haven't heard from him for a while that he 110 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: had sent this. She said over the weekend, I was 111 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: going through a bunch of old stuff at my grandparents house, 112 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: and amongst all the useless, dusty crap heirlooms was this 113 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: little gem. It's just a great accordion, by the way, spoiler, 114 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: he says. Of course, meeting me, I snagged it immediately, 115 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: not that anyone else wanted it, nor do I have 116 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: the first clue how to play it, but come on, 117 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: accordions are awesome. I agree. It's a honer, and I'm 118 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: assuming it's probably from the sixties, but I can't seem 119 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: to locate a serial number anything. Apparently these Carmen models 120 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: dating back as early as the thirties, which would be 121 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: doubly rat Let the researching begin, anyway, I thought you 122 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: might appreciate this. PS. You can tell this is a 123 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: quality Cooper family item by the high tech electrical cord 124 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: duct tape handle adorning the case. And indeed he shows 125 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: this picture of this great honer and I love this, 126 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: of course, because I am an accordion a fictionado. I 127 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: have not been practicing as much as I should, but 128 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: I can still rock out. Thank you for being my friend. 129 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: The Golden Girls theme, and that's all because of this podcast, 130 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: which was the whole idea behind that was to try 131 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: to cultivate a good habit, and so the accordion was 132 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: my habit. Very good, very good. Alright, Uh, let me 133 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: let me read another one here. Um, I think this 134 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: might be working a little bit. He's he's. Arnie is 135 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: seeming a little less aggressive. Um, the lasers are still 136 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: pointed at us. All right, This one comes to us 137 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: from Rachel. Rachel says Robert and Julie. New listener and 138 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: loving the podcast. I just listened to the Zen of 139 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: Pain episode and wanted to add the discussion with a 140 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: couple of bits of my experience first. Although this was 141 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: touched on in the discussion of ritualistic piercing suspension b 142 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: D s M, I would love to hear more about 143 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: the the burgeoning ritual of body modification in the West, 144 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: separate and apart from, but in many instances tied to 145 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: longer traditions of such throughout the world. As someone with 146 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: a large number of body piercings and tattoos, I can 147 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: say that the experience has become almost a personal ritual 148 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: for me, the anticipation of what the pain will be, 149 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: the actual experience of it, and the relief of its denouncement, 150 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: both the endorphins crushing through my body and the awesomeness 151 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: of having a new piece of body adornment. It's a 152 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: little stranded in time, and it's not being tied to 153 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: a larger context of history, art, and culture, but it's 154 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: something I've experienced for years and derived great pleasure from. 155 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: And Rachel also shared some some other comments on us, 156 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: But that was the core of it that I wanted 157 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: to uh to share with everyone because because yeah, I 158 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: think the whole tattooing experience, and in the history of tattooing, 159 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: the culture of tattooing into it, and and body modification 160 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: as well, it's certainly a fascinating topic and one that 161 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: hopefully we'll will explore in an upcoming episode. Okay, um 162 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: Arnie just slid me a note Okay, he said, I 163 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: cannot relate. Move on. Okay, fine, fine, okay. Well do 164 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: you do you have anything on happiness? Yeah? Okay, okay. 165 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: One right here. This is from a Marie. She says, 166 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: after hearing your podcast on happiness, I wanted to bring 167 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: up the work of Barbara iron Reich. I didn't think 168 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: I heard her mention, but if I missed a quick reference. Sorry. 169 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she was angry, and 170 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: the attitude of the breast cancer community was that you 171 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: should always be happy despite your cancer. She was even 172 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: told by another cancer patient, quote, you need to run, 173 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: not walk to get therapy. You can't get better without 174 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: poisoning your system end quote. For having an expressing negative 175 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: emotions about her diagnosis and a New York Times articles, 176 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: she explains that what she was hearing was quote to 177 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: be cheerful and accepting because you would not recover unless 178 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: you were, and to consider your cancer a gift. Additionally, 179 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: the message was if I don't get better, it's my fault, 180 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: which she calls a clever blame the victim's sort of thing. 181 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: She also talks about the frequent self help advice that 182 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: tells people to get rid of the negative people in 183 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: their lives, which included major corporations firing people for telling 184 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: them things they did not want to hear. She believes 185 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: this was an integral part of why the housing loan 186 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: crash happened. And then I'm going to skip over a 187 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: bit of it. She goes on to say. Overall, she 188 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: argues not that we should be pessimistic, but that we 189 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: should be realistic and base our views on the world 190 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: as it is not what we wish it were. And 191 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: she I think that's really interesting that she brought this up, 192 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: because this was the episode called the Happiness Equation, which 193 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: talked about this sort of set point that we all 194 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: have in our happiness disposition, which is affected by life events. 195 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 1: But then we also talked about this idea of being 196 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: realistic and being a little bit pessimic pessimistic, and so 197 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that she brought up Barbara I 198 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: writ experience with something that would have greatly affected her 199 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: level of happiness and how that sort of happiness pill 200 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: of being positive was shoved down her throat. Alright, good, well, 201 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: hopefully that one that one that I think you like 202 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, I think this one comes to us 203 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: from Kieran. Kieran writes, and it says, Hello, Robert and Julie, 204 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: I very much enjoyed your podcast on LSD flashbacks. It's 205 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 1: refreshing to hear media discourse on the matter that doesn't 206 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: evolve into hysterical knee jerking. While physically very benign. Trip 207 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: of means like LSD take us far from our everyday 208 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: conscious experience, and therefore should not be taken lightly. Something 209 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: that may be of interest to you is the effect 210 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: of hallucinogens on people with color blindness. The condition is 211 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: caused by a physical defect within the eye, but the 212 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: brain of a color blind person is capable of experiencing 213 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: novel colors given the right stimuli. One thing I would 214 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: take exception to is the assertion that the effects of 215 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: LAST are mainly visual In nature. Visual hallucinations are the 216 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: most obvious and talked about faucet, but in my opinion, 217 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: the cognitive effects of LAST are what makes it so valuable. 218 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: We all know intellectually that we are a bunch of 219 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: apes whizzing through space on a giant rock, but there's 220 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: something about tripped and fiends that allow an individual to 221 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: really feel the truth of that proposition. And similar abstract 222 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: ideas in a way that makes a lasting and forceful impact, 223 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: not unlike the lucky astronauts who see the Earth from 224 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: space and return home with a new found appreciation for 225 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: the fragility of life. Thank you for the numerous hours 226 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: of informative content you have helped to combat the UNWI. 227 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: I feel w navigating London's public transportation system best wishes 228 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: here in Um. Yes, well that's you know what she's 229 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: of course talking about the LSD Flashbacks episode. And I 230 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: certainly feel we did uh discuss the visual aspects of 231 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: lucinogens more in that episode. Um. But but she doesn't 232 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: make a good point. I mean, the whole cognitive side 233 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: of the experience experiences is very important, and certainly we 234 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: go into it more in our Scientists in the Shaman 235 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: episodes where we discuss UH not only LST but also 236 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: psilocybin and UH and then some other substances. And I 237 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 1: love that Karen brought up the overview effect, well, this 238 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: perspective changing experience. All right, we're gonna take a quick break, Okay, 239 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: Is that all right, Arnie? Okay, yes it is. And 240 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: when we get back, we're getting to look a little 241 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: h bit at some Origami feedback and some earwax. Alright, 242 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: we're back. We're podcasting from the house stuff Works office. 243 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: Part of the office space has been demolished by the 244 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: mail bot. But um, I think I think this is working. 245 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: I think we're calming him down. The lasers aren't jerking 246 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: around so frantically anymore. He's sounding a little calmer. So 247 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: maybe we should just continue to roll out some more 248 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: a listener mail and and see what happens. So that 249 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: that was a definitive yes, right there. Okay, okay, all right, 250 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: here's one from April. It says, just listening to the 251 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: Oregami podcast, you did, and when the section unfolding robots 252 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: came up, I thought of paper as a weapon and 253 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: recollected an action anime series I had watched several years 254 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: that called Read or Die, in which the main character 255 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: is a secret agent, bookworm, introvert type of woman who 256 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: has the ability to influence the behavior of any paper 257 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: she comes into contact with. Her code name, aptly, the paper. 258 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 1: Are you at all familiar with it? I thought, U 259 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: it would be an interesting and refreshing departure from the 260 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: typical cookie cutter anime story arc in style. Keep up 261 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: the great work, April. This is great because we actually 262 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: have a video coming out on Origami, and you guys 263 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: should definitely look out for that. But I love this 264 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: idea of being able to just mentally transform a piece 265 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: of paper, yes, and and sort of create your own physics, 266 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: I guess telekinetically. Yeah, yeah, I mean I like it. 267 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: It kind of taps into just the power of orgaming anyway, 268 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: the idea that you can take this paper and make 269 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: I mean there's almost no limit. You're just using the 270 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: mathematical properties, the physical properties of the paper, and you 271 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: can make everything from a tiny frog to a complex 272 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: abstract h you know, piece of paper architecture. Yeah. And uh, 273 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: just when we were going through some of the research 274 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: and the writing for the video, it reminded me how 275 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: great that documentary Between the Folds is. And we know 276 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: we've talked about it before, but it bears mentioning again 277 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: in Yeah, that that's really a mind blowing documentary about 278 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: something that would it would be so easy to just 279 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: pass over and say, oh, Orgami, I don't care about that, 280 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: I don't care about folder swans, but there's so much 281 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, that's definitely one of those paradigm shifters. Right, yeah, alright, 282 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: this one comes to us from Ivan. Ivan Wright sent 283 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: and says, I'm an avid listener to most of the 284 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: House suf Works podcast as Serendipity would have episodes three 285 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: and four of The New Cinema's original series than Nick 286 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: has graphic depictions of the ravages of syphilis A woman 287 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: of means a parent has lost her nose episode three. 288 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: The grafting of flesh from the arm is portrayed in 289 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: episode four. It would have been a bit difficult to 290 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: visualize what we were talking about when listening to the podcast, 291 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: but having seen the show prior, I knew exactly what 292 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: you were describing. Uh. Indeed, as in our our syphilis 293 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: episode we mentioned, uh, not only the ravage of the disease, 294 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: but you know, the cultural impact in the way that 295 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: the people dealt with it before pendicillin and uh. And 296 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: much of this is explored in The Nick, which which 297 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: is really a fabulous series. Steven Soderberg Clive Owen stars 298 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: in it. Uh. John Hodgment later on has a cameo 299 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: as well. That will that will not delight you, um 300 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: as much as you might think it would. But yeah, 301 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: I found this to be a really great show. They 302 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: also get into another podcast topic of ours later on, 303 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: where you get to see an individual trepand so it's 304 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: like every episode you're diving into some some cool history 305 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: from from from turn of the twentieth century medicine. Yeah, 306 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: and care's a little something I learned about this. If 307 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: you're about to watch this show, do not sit down 308 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: and with a big steaming plate of spaghetti and watch 309 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: the first episode with spaghetti because just and I don't 310 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: want to spoil anything here, but something gets rolled into 311 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: the surgery theater and all this sort of you know, 312 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: you know what happens the stuff, there's a lots of blood. Yeah, 313 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: it's it's a show about surgeons. It's this. It's the 314 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: show that has quite a bit of of blood in it, 315 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: but but really really fascinating. So don't don't watch it 316 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: while you're eating dinner. But it's ysage. I mentioned that 317 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: my spaghetti had chystage in it, so I had that 318 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: Meadia component. Yeah, so handle with care. But but I 319 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: do highly recommend It's one of the best shows that 320 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: I watched this year, and has a fabulous soundtrack as well, 321 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: Like even though it's a period piece, It has an 322 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: electronic soundtrack, a minimalist kind of electronic soundtrack by Cliff Martinez. 323 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: So if you're if you're into just the music of 324 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: the thing, I highly recommended. All right, um, This next 325 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: one is from Ben and he is referencing our Ignorance 326 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: is Bliss episode and he says, first, as a guy 327 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: with a degree in philosophy, I'd like to thank you 328 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: for what you do. Your podcast has become a regular 329 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: part of my morning ritual and always thoroughly enjoyed, usually 330 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: within the first hour of my time at works. So 331 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: thank you very much, Ben, He says, second year episode 332 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: about Ignorance hits close to home. When he was eighteen, 333 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: my brother in law's twin sister died of a heart 334 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: condition due to genetics. As her twin, he has a 335 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: fifty chance of having the same condition, and a simple 336 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 1: radiological study would reveal its presence, but he adamantly refuses 337 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: to get tested because he doesn't want to live in fear. 338 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: And then he goes on to say, go to skip 339 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: a little bit. Here. He goes on to say, personally, 340 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: I understand this decision completely and respect it, but at 341 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: the same time, I have to wonder if things change 342 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: when children enter the picture, I eat, is your desire 343 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: to not live in fear trumped by an obligation to 344 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: your children to find out these things for their own 345 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: well being. I tend to lean a little more strongly 346 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: towards yes in this scenario, but I'm not my brother 347 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: in law. He might be just as likely to argue 348 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: that the quality of their upbringing would be adversely affected if, 349 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: in fact a test came back positive. Interesting stuff to 350 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: think about, as always thinks Ben, I think that is 351 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: what so I think this is the whole thing that 352 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 1: ignorance is bliss is hinging on this idea that you 353 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 1: don't want to walk around for the rest of your 354 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: life thinking about the their shoe falling, right, because we're 355 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: already kind of doing that with the various paper tigers 356 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: of our mind. Anyway, So he puts forth a really 357 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: interesting in real life scenario right there. All right, very good. 358 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Himmali Himali from New 359 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: Zealand right soon, and says, hey, Robert and Julie, I 360 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: hope you're having a lovely year so far, and wish 361 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: you both a happy to wally uh and Indian New Year. 362 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: I realized this is a little bit late, considering that 363 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: you were on Thursday and Friday last week, and I 364 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: am sorry about that. I accidentally used the old email 365 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: address and hen had to send to the new email address. 366 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: And what's that new email address? It is blow the 367 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: mind at how stuff works dot com. Alright, he says, 368 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: keep out the great work. I love your podcast. But 369 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: then he adds a ps that ties into some of 370 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: our recent talk on how our sort of Halloween topics 371 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: that we've gotten into, such as the dark and witchcraft. 372 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: He says, it's awesome when you talk about different Indian 373 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: traditions and know so much about the gods and goddesses. 374 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: I thought you might also like to know that the 375 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: day before d Wally is Indian Halloween. You can't go 376 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: outside after dark, especially midnight, because it is thought there 377 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: would be witches, ghost, etcetera. Mom says that there is 378 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: a there's a saying that means something along the lines 379 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: of witches swing from vines in the water wells cackling 380 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: on that day. Also on that day you have to 381 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: get rid of rubbish including dustin cobwebs and berry or 382 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: just put them at a four way crossroads. I've noticed 383 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: that the cross shaped crossroads come up as a bad 384 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: evil UH symbol and other cultures too, So that's interesting, 385 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: always interesting to to hear about the cultures and traditions 386 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: that are various listeners are part of and how they 387 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: tie into some of the topics we discussed, especially concerning 388 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: this idea at this time of year about the veil 389 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: being very thin between this ghost world or death and life, 390 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: because you will see that in every single culture UM 391 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: at this time of year. And I know it's a 392 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: seasonal change thing. You know, you've got leaves falling off 393 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: the trees that you know, there's a feeling that death 394 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: is creeping in and things are going into hibernation and 395 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: turning inward. But it is fascinating to see it UM 396 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: played out in various stories in each culture, you know. 397 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: I was thinking about this the other the other day, 398 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: UM in our episode on the it was the Problem 399 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: with Hell. I think it was one of our Hell episodes, 400 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: But we talked a little bit about the the idea 401 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: that when we were hunter gatherers, we that we you know, 402 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: we life was kind of chaotic. We couldn't we we 403 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: had a limited ability to plan ahead. We had to 404 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: depend on what we could find, what we could hunt, 405 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: and what we could kill or trap. And a lot 406 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: of those older gods were horned gods, were gods with 407 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: antlers because they know very much tied in with the 408 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: hunt and the availability of prey. And then as we 409 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: move into an agrarian society, we we tend do largely 410 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: abandon those primordical gods and go towards uh more agricultural 411 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,919 Speaker 1: deities that are that are more reliable, that deal in cycles, 412 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: cycles of you know, of growing and harvest, but in 413 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: the in the late fall and in the winter. You know, 414 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: maybe part of that the veil growing thin, comes into 415 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: the fact that it kind of seems, at least for 416 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: a little while, like those those newer gods, those agricultural 417 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: gods kind of abandoned us for a little bit. And 418 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: then what are we left to do but to remember 419 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: those those older gods or those older fears and the 420 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: you know, the idea that that the continuation of life 421 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: is dependent upon forces outside of our control. I mean, 422 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: when we did uh the Dark episode, we talked about 423 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: Signo bacteria, which is this ancient bacteria which may be 424 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: responsible for the fact that we have um you know 425 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: night and day cycles that were you know, diurnal creatures, 426 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: and that there are some creatures that are nocturnal, and 427 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: it makes me think like wow, that is there was 428 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: a sort of body knowledge, in a sort of evolutionary 429 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: knowledge of how important this, this concept of night and 430 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: day is. But not only that, the change changes that 431 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: enact the amount of light we're getting or the lack 432 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: of light we're getting, and so it really is pretty 433 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: entrenched in us. You know. That ties into an email 434 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: we received from a listener, Jonathan. Jonathan wrote in and said, Hi, 435 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: Robert and Julie, I've been listening to your new seasonal 436 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: podcast and I thought i'd share something with you as well. 437 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: Happy Halloween. Forty minutes of unreleased undwin Andy included a 438 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: SoundCloud duck link and if you want to look it 439 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: up for yourself, that's a SoundCloud dot com forward slash 440 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: and to win that's a N D U I N 441 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: and then another slash, the veil grows thin. That's for 442 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: words with a little hyphens in there, says listen, Share, enjoy, 443 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: dream indeed, and it's perfect contemplative music for this season. 444 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: So you guys should definitely check it out and thank 445 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: you so much for sending that. Um, all right, a 446 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: little bit of a lighter fair here. This is from 447 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: b k B who said that when I was six 448 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: years old, my first grade teacher noticed that I wasn't 449 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: responding to simple instructions as quick as I used to. 450 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: B KB goes on to say that there was exploratory surgery, 451 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: and sure enough there was a load of ear wax. 452 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 1: Now we had a whole episode on ear wax and 453 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: how it's hereditary, like the smell in the amount, and uh, 454 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: b KB says, it should be noted here that all 455 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: male members of my family seemed to have inherited my 456 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: father's talent for prodigious ear wax production. However, when the 457 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: wax was removed, they found further lodged in the canal, 458 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: of all things, a popcorn colonel. And he goes on 459 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: to say that the next ear was checked and there 460 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: was another colonel. At least he was balanced out right. Yeah, 461 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: he says, some children throw objects down the toilet at 462 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,360 Speaker 1: me in my ear holes, apparently, and he said that 463 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: that was probably there for two years. He says, I'm 464 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: happy to report the surgery was a success. My hearing 465 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: was fully restored. And there has been no lasting damage 466 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: at all. It's a family joke that if I was 467 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: hot headed, uh, instead of a calm demeanor child, the 468 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: Colonel's pack and all that oily substance might have popped 469 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: if I ever got really mad. Anyway, that's my little 470 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 1: ear wax been yet for all to enjoy there at 471 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: the office. Have a great day since the KP well, 472 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: and it's it's another excuse just to remind everyone do 473 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: not stick things in your ear, even the Q tip. 474 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: Just just don't do it. All right, this is I 475 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: think this is working. He seems so much calmer now. 476 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: And is he really beginning to look like the old Arnie? Yeah, 477 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: it's almost like this has been a lullaby of listener 478 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: feedback to him. Look at that. Yeah, I mean he's 479 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: even put the lasers away, which kind of begs the 480 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: question we're gonna have to ask Izzie about this. Why 481 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: does Arnie have lasers? Why did we get a mail 482 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: about with lasers? Is he on military robot has been repurposed? 483 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: That's the best I can figure. Is he is Israel 484 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: ponts or guy and he's wonderful, and um, maybe we 485 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: should talk to him about dismantling. Just okay, all right, 486 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: we do that. I'm not listening. All right. Here's one 487 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: more than one more bit of listener mail to catch up. 488 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: This to us from David, and it's responding to our 489 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: Trip to Phobia podcast episode. Our Trip to Phobia episode 490 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: and the video and the gallery that went with it. Um. 491 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: These broke a lot of thoughts from from listeners and viewers, 492 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: um a fair amount of paranoia and fear as well, 493 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: and just sort of re exploration of how we feel 494 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: about the things in our environment. It broke some people today. 495 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: I think it did. Um. So David writes in and says, Hey, 496 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: Robert and Julie a big fan of stuff to Blow 497 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: your mind and the whole family of How Stuff Works podcast. 498 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: Your show on Trip to Phobia was very very enlightening 499 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: to me. While listening to the podcast, I begin to 500 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: relate to what you were describing. I'm not sure I 501 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,479 Speaker 1: would qualify as a trip to phobic, though, because when 502 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: I think of a whole in general, it is not 503 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: at all disturbing. What caught my attention was when you 504 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: spoke of many holes closely arranged. This is something I 505 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: have always found quite disturbing. And I've never been able 506 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: to describe is it as anything more than a bunch 507 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: of small things close together wears me out, like a 508 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: bunch of mold spores or something. Even while sening to 509 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: the podcast, I was chopping bell peppers and I can 510 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: hardly bring myself to touch the inside of them where 511 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: all the seeds formed together. Anyways, when you mentioned the 512 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: lotus seed pod and explained that it is most often 513 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: pointed to is one of the most disturbing images by 514 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: those who suffered this condition, I checked it out and 515 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: couldn't even pick my phone back up. I showed it 516 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,199 Speaker 1: to my girlfriend and she thought nothing of it and 517 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: decided to chase me around with the phone. Not funny. 518 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: I ended up pushing her maybe a little too hard, 519 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: kind of involuntarily, which got my point across. Don't worry, 520 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 1: no damage done, and the silent treatment ended after a 521 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: few minutes. But it was clear at that moment I 522 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: really must have some kind of phobia to this. So 523 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: maybe some sort of sub phobia. I know just what 524 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: we need. Sub phobias, like we didn't have enough as 525 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: it is. That includes the proximity of the holes or 526 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: something is a thing too, ha ha, thanks again for 527 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: teaching me something about myself. Forever listening, David. One of 528 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: the things that that episode on Holes brought up is 529 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 1: this idea that there's sort of mathematical instancy or correlation 530 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: between animals that are very dangerous and plants as well, 531 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: and they're they're spectral patterns and then these clusters. So 532 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting to see how how people are 533 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: reacting to it. Maybe they are tapping into this spectral 534 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: mathematical pattern. Maybe not. Yeah, I mean on some level, 535 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: it was like because a girlfriend chased him around the 536 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: apartment with like a poisonous snake. So good for you, girlfriend, 537 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: I think that's great. Um, now, I won't go into 538 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: this because this is just this is a mathematical thing. 539 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: Speaking of methemodics. And we hear from Jim in New 540 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: Jersey every once in a while. He has this beautiful, 541 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: lovely email about the Infinity Hotel, which we talked about 542 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: in one of our episodes on Infinity, and he talks 543 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: about rational numbers and real numbers and negative numbers and 544 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: I'm not going to read it one because it's long, 545 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: but two I wanted to bring up that, um, there's 546 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: something called the Infinite Hotel Paradox. It's a video made 547 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: by Jeff Dakowsky and it's on ted ed the Lessons 548 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: from Ted, so if you're familiar with ted dot com, 549 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: you can go there. You can also get these sort 550 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 1: of mini lessons. And so I just wanted to point 551 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: Jim and others to the source material that we use 552 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: because it's fascinating. And Jim brings up this idea about 553 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: negative numbers perhaps being able to fit into this hotel 554 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: because we talked about how you'd have negative rooms going 555 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: down forever and ever and ever. Um So, anyway, he 556 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: brings up this fascinating question, which I thought the perfect 557 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: form for this is really that ted ed link, and 558 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: everybody should check it out if they're interested. All right, well, 559 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: there you have it. Um I'm feeling pretty good. Are 560 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: you feeling pretty good? I mean we are alive, so 561 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm feeling good. Arnie, how how do you feel? Sounds 562 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: given me? All right, I feel like we've done good 563 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: work here. Then we were able to catch up a 564 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: little bit on listener mail, and thanks to Scott and 565 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: Ben from car Stuff for helping us out there with 566 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: the intro. You can check out their podcast all their 567 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: content at car Stuff Show dot com. Um, if you 568 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: want to see more of what we're doing, you can 569 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: check us out at stuff to play your mind dot com. 570 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: That's right, you'll find all the podcast episodes we've ever done, 571 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: the videos, the blog post, etcetera. Uh So, if if 572 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: we mentioned a podcast in this episode and you're like, well, 573 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: I need to re listen to that one or somehow 574 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: I missed that one, I need to go seek it out, well, 575 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: that is the place to do it, and especially on 576 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: the more recent episode and making a point of including 577 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: some sort of cool visual as well as links to 578 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: related content and links to outside sources that are either 579 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: we either used in the creation of that episode or 580 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: are of interest and related. 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