WEBVTT - What the heck is a hiccup? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.520 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:16.400 from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:25.960 the podcast. Really sure? Okay, I'm Josh Clark. That's Chuck Bryant. Hello. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:27.840 I think I said the same thing last time. I 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.280 think you did. Hello the jerk. I am Hi, Dare 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.680 that's much better, Chuck, what's up? Spice it up a 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.720 little bit? It's up. Maybe get the frenic nerve irritated. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.600 I'll look at you. Yeah, perfect, so texted hermy Chuck. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.320 Now we already did that. Yes, okay, Um, we're talking 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:52.680 about hiccups today. Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Chuck. What 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.640 do you know about hiccups? Man? Have you ever had 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.440 them before? I have, Josh, and I will talk about 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.640 a famous about of my hiccups later. Okay, when we 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.800 talk about being drunk? Oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, um, 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.679 But should we go ahead set this up? Yeah? Chuck 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:14.720 actually has a fairly ticklish constitution when it comes to hiccups. Uh. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:19.800 And he has in his hand a be brand root beer. Uh. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.560 And he's about to open it and try to give 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.200 himself hiccups because he says that it doesn't take very 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.959 much that we're gonna see it. That's the brand root beer. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.760 Sometimes drinking a carbonated beverage will many times we'll do hiccups. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.000 So my goal is to have hiccups through the episode. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.319 So we'll see what happens. Okay, here he goes he's 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.039 he's drinking the root beer. He's chugging the root here right, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.840 look at him. Go you go, chuck. Oh, he's got 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.399 a look of grim determination on his face. He's taking 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.400 too long tips so far. He's looking at the root beer. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.560 Excuse me. And there's a little birth right there. This 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.360 is hiccups, Chuck, not burpec. I got nothing. We'll keep trying. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.800 His eyes are a little watery. Yeah, I feel it. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.840 Uh and um he's you can take take it faster, faster, set. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.840 He looks pain. He's got some carbonation in his lungs. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.880 It looks like, man, that you have to No, no, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.280 I don't have to down it. Chug. I have that 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.760 cold thing now on my chest. Well, actually cold is 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.239 one way that hiccups are Um activated, I guess yeah, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.560 And I think that's what happens when I drink the soda. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.320 That's what happens. Yeah, how disappointing. Nine times out of ten, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.560 I'll get hiccups the one time I need him, don't 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.519 worry about. We'll just have Jerry put some hiccups and 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:32.200 we'll say, oh, look, listen, there's hiccuping crazy. Let's give 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.480 some hiccup facts, shall we? Oh? Wait, listener requests, Okay, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.640 this is must be fan appreciation. Wait, because we did 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.799 two in a row. And this is from Jess in 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.320 Portland's Thank you Jess, and she was all, what up 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:51.440 with hiccups? Yo? Is that what she said? Now? All right, Chuck, Yes, sir, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.960 did you know that you have a lifelong specific hiccup pattern? 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:57.720 I did not till I read this, and that is 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.840 way cool. Yeah. I don't know what mine is. Oh 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.760 as far as recognizing it, yeah, yeah, I've never charted 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.359 mine now, and I couldn't find anything else on some 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:12.440 uh you know, an additional outside research hunt. Um, I 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.239 couldn't find anything on that on specific hiccup patterns, like 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.440 if there's five or six, or if it's just you know, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.760 there's as many as there are people that kind of thing, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:27.919 like your fingerprint, right and snowflakes. Uh. There's also the 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.560 fact that the average hiccup spell can last for a 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.800 few minutes to a few hours. I've never had one 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.839 last a few hours. I start to get angry after 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.720 a couple of minutes, and I'll just take a huge 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.560 deep breath and that usually cures it. Actually, yeah, I've 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.600 got my cures too, but I'll talk about those later. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.360 And there's actually, um, you've heard of people who have 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:52.920 um horrifically long bouts of hiccups, right, there's actually medical 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.760 terms for these. If your hiccups have lasted, um, I 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.840 think longer than forty eight hours, they're called person extant hiccups. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.120 I would agree with that. And then if they lasted 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.680 longer than a month, they're called intractable hiccups. And this 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.160 is actually I found out, um, that's very prevalent among 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.680 patients with AIDS. Intractable hiccups are. Yeah, and I found 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.880 a study that said, uh that at least in one patient, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.800 medical marijuana or I guess even just playing marijuana cures it. Interesting. Yeah, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.400 they had a patient I think in Spain, had intractable 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.039 hiccups and tried marijuana for the first time in his life. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.599 And uh, it cured it, and then I think twenty 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.560 four hours later it came back again. The patient used 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.720 marijuana second time, and that was the hiccups. You know 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.920 what what people with intractable hiccups called their hiccups? Hell, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:51.640 those both hiccups. I can't get rid of. That's a 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.280 medical term. Too nice. Wow, Um, my face is bread. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:02.039 I'm blessing a little bit least chuck. There's a question 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.480 that's plagued human kind? Can you tell us the twenty 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.560 first century? I said, human kind? Said plagued, plagued, plagued 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.599 human kind um for millennia, and that's why do we hiccup? 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.920 And actually we don't have an answer for that, No, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:23.160 we don't know. Uh. The Greek physician Galen hypothesized that 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:28.720 it was angry emotions that were created in the stomach 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.359 coming out. It's a stamp, it's it's a shot at it. Right. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.479 I love the Greeks. It's as good as any others. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.440 And actually I found another um another explanation that was 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.640 posited in two thousand three by researchers at the PT. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:50.000 Saltpetriere Hospital in Perry. Thank you. Um. They hypothesized that 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.880 us hiccup ng is a relic from our time spent 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.280 in the very distant past as amphibians. They said that 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.120 there is a very close similarity to gil ventilation, which 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.400 is how amphibians breathe because they also have lungs, so 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.880 they have to close their lungs to breathe, but they 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:15.200 also they have gills as well, right right, And then 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.200 the the water has to pass over the guilds without 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.000 going into the lungs to take a short, quick breath, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.320 and the epiglottis closes. And we'll talk about how a 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.720 hiccup works in a second. But the guil ventilation in 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.360 amphibians and hiccuping in humans and mammals, by the way, 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.400 um are very similar. So they went a little further 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.120 and said, and you know what, here's here's the drum 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:42.640 roll part um. The brain circuitry that controls guil ventilation 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.960 in amphibians is still present in mammals. Yeah, so they're 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.800 saying that they think that this is a it's a 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:57.760 relic leftover from our very very very ancient past, isn't it. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.080 You know? What I also thought was interesting was the 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.880 recapitulation theory, or part of it proposes that fetuses actually 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.000 use hiccups as part of their respiration before their lungs 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.680 are fully developed, right, and they actually do. The theory 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.480 part comes in is to why um, and that is 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.400 that basically it's that it's it's akin to how we 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.040 learn to crawl before we learn to walk, or we 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.800 can crawl before we can walk. We can hiccup before 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.840 we can breathe. Normally, we should start saying that, you know, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.120 you got a hiccup before you can breathe. People get 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.560 what it would be, like, Hey, we're the woman on 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.640 the top, you're gonna say that. Um. And that that's 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.760 actually supported by the fact that premies spend two point 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.320 five of their little premi life hiccupping, And that's a 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.080 lot more than regular full term babies. They're sitting there 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.600 like like they don't have it hard enough up all 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.960 the time. I weigh three pounds and I'm hiccupping. Give 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.520 me a break. And apparently UM hormones can play a 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.080 role in hiccupping. Women who who are in the first 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.320 two weeks of their mentor will cycle hiccup more UM 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:07.480 than pregnant women do. Uh. So, there's a whole grab 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.600 bag of questions attached to hiccup ng. You're more likely 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.160 to hit up in the evening exactly, and you hick 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.720 up less as you get older. Yeah. I think that's 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.760 all the little factoids. Right, So we've we've got all 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.480 these this information. No answers whatsoever as to exactly why 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.240 we hiccup. None, I kind of I subscribe to the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.440 recapitulation theory frankly. Yeah, um, but we do know what happens. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.120 We do know the physiology of a hiccup, right, Yeah, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.559 that's the easy part. And it all comes down to 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.160 the frenic nerves, which after reading this article I have 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.920 concluded the frenic nerves are the sissiest nerves of all. Yeah. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.920 The vegas nerves are in there too, I found out. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.480 Uh they if they get annoyed, and then you can 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.720 hiccup as well. Right. So the frenic nerve right, Uh, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.200 it controls the diaphragm. And the diaphragm is that muscle 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:01.200 that goes over your big belly and under your rib cage. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.640 You're so it's it's in between the stomach and the abdomen. Right, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.319 it goes down when we inhale, ye try, it goes 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.760 up when we exhale, so it helps out the breathing process. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.520 Did you hear that horrible struggle for breath? And it's 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:20.679 like yeah. So when we are breathing, we're taking an 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.760 air through the nose in the mouth, right, and it 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:29.880 flows through the pharynx, past the glottis and into the 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.360 larynx and trachea, which eventually terminate into the lungs. Right, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.640 and then it follows a opposite path on the way 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:41.000 out as we exhale. That phrenic nerve that controls the 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.520 diaphragm uh is, as I said, kind of sissy, a 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.840 little prissy, kind of a punk uh. And any time 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.880 it gets irritated, well I shouldn't say any time, but 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:57.080 when it's irritated, uh, it can induce an abdominal spasms up. Well, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.440 that's part of a hiccup. Hiccup is a quick, short 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.880 breath we take aken because our diaphragm is spasming, right, yes, um. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.960 And then what makes the hiccup sound is the epiglottis, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.480 that little piece of tissue that covers the glottis and 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.120 keeps you know, um, this beat brand root beer from 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.319 going into your lungs when you're drinking it. Yeah, I 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.320 hate it when that happens, closes all of a sudden 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.439 and there's your hiccup. That is what a hiccup is, yes, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.800 right the end. What are some of the things that 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.280 can cause that little frenic nerve to throw a tantrum chuck? Well, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.240 Josher's there's only a few things that can cause this. Uh. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.360 One of the main things that can happen is that 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.040 you over eat and you've got a full stomach, so 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.720 you're sollowing too much food or air. Your stomach too 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.240 stands and gets all fat and it pushes against the 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.960 frenic nerves and they're like, oh, you ate too much hiccup, right, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.720 So that's one way. Another one is, um, add hot food, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.360 spicy food to that, and you're you're doubling your chances 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.280 because it hot foods will irritate your frenic nerves as well. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.000 And the last thing is, uh, smoking is not good. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.079 Excessive smoking and drinking can also cause hiccups. Or like 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.640 we propose with my thing with a with a coke 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.360 and the root beer. Um, a rapid temperature change inside 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.800 the stomach, like drinking something really cold or really hot, right, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.760 So that can all irritate. The little was uh, frandic 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.640 nerves and frandic almost ad frantic. I think it is 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.640 a little frandic. If not hysteric, it should be the 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.079 hysteric nerve, right, and then stress and emotion on the 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.480 psychological side that can cause them too, and mental illness too. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.000 I couldn't find anything on this. I saw a couple 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.400 of mentions that mental illness uh is linked to hiccups, right, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.559 But I couldn't find any um anything further than that. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:47.120 But I did find out that you can use chloropromosine, 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.800 which is an antipsychotic, to cure long term hiccups. Did 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.920 you know that? No? I didn't, So that that kind 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.000 of points to mental illness a little bit or some 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.240 sort of connection interesting and mental hiccups, Yes, and another 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.280 layman's term for O c D. Really Yeah, that's a 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.880 good band name to mental hiccups. Yeah, Actually it's kind 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.839 of lame. So my story since we brought up the 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.679 drunk thing was I famously had hiccups in Athens one night, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.719 and this is after I graduated. I went back to 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.520 see the Flaming Lips at forty and I had hiccups 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.959 for about six hours straight and I had imbibed a 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.360 bit much, so it was kind of one of those nights. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.040 It was. I was the butt of many jokes because 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.400 I was walking around and kind of doing this and 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.240 if you know it, it lasted forever. It was awful. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.760 What did Wayne Coyne have to say about it? He said, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.880 you need to be hit to death in the future 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.559 head okay, which is one of their albums. That just 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.959 made that up. Oh he didn't really say that, no, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.959 but it is one of their albums. I'm sorry I 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.720 lie so much to you. Let's say that you've eaten 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:01.079 a lot of Indian food, you've smoked a pact cigarettes, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.360 drink a cord of crazy Horse, and you followed it 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:12.160 with a big old glass of coffee. You have no 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.880 regard whatsoever for the sensation in your hands, um, and 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:22.480 your frenic nerve is going berserk, perserker like a mad Viking. Yeah, mushrooms, Um, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.760 what are some of the things you can do aside 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.240 from taking you know, antipsychotics to cure hiccups? Are we 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.679 getting into the cures now? Because boy, there's a lot 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.160 of them, and even if we read twenty we'll get 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.240 a thousand more from people. I was going to call 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.199 for it a listener mail. Yeah, we'll get them for sure. Um, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.319 there are a few medical things that have been uh well, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.400 nothing has been proven to be more effective. It kind 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.280 of comes down to the person. And I think a 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.160 lot of it's mental. Well, if you think one of 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.199 them will work for you, then that's the one you use, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.280 and that might work. And people aren't exactly sure how. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.840 But mental distraction actually can cure hiccups, right, that's true, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.880 especially if somebody comes up to you and demands that 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.600 you hiccup on the spot. I've never heard that one. Um, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.719 you haven't. No, Like, if you've got the hiccups, they'll say, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.400 hiccup right, Well, what if you just hiccup? You're like, dude, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.439 that's my problem. I'm hiccuping. I didn't say it was good, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.240 but I'm just saying it's been shown to cure it 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.960 in some people. They should go and say, don't hiccup, right, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.640 Like I said, I've I've uh, I can draw in 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.440 a big breath of air and that usually cures it. Right. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.800 That's not my method, but I'm gonna I'm gonna save that. Uh. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.040 Most of the best home remedies actually work. Stimulate the 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.960 naso pharynx, and that's a part of the pharynx behind 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.200 the tonsils and uh like drinking from the opposite side 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.320 of the glass. You've heard that one. Biting into a 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.800 lemon or pulling on your tongue sometimes that will actually 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.560 uh stimulate the naso pharynx and that will work. It's 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.280 also you can also just do it with your tongue itself, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.240 the tip of your tongue, if you rub it against 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.440 the very back of the roof of your mouth. Yeah, 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.520 tickling the roof of your mouth. That that can help. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.240 It can. It also keeps you from yawning interesting or 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.440 tickling period. They say, if you're a ticklish person, gets 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.480 someone to tickle you, and you might just forget about hiccuping. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.000 And if you're not a ticklish person, you have no soul. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:16.000 That's true. Uh. Most of the breathing things, um might 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.840 work because you're actually interrupting your respiratory cycle. So if 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.040 you do the paperbag trick or down a glass of 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.640 water really quick, that's that's the reason why that'll work. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.360 Mine is I do the same thing with the breath thing, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.960 but I don't inhale and take a big breath. I 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.720 exhale every bit of air I can and then put 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.400 my hand over my mouth and close my nose and 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.200 literally go till I'm about to pass out, and then 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.320 I'll breathe like try and breathe very calmly when I 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.320 come back, and usually that will work. So you do 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.680 the exact opposite of what I do. Well, you draw 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.920 in a big breath and then hold it. You exhale 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.160 all of your breath. That's what I do. But both ways, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.000 I think we're interrupting a respiratory cycle. Chuck, Josh. There's 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:03.360 all sorts of medical um treatments, right, Some are some 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.120 are cool, like antipsychotics or medical marijuana. Yeah. This is 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.960 if you are have persistent or intractable hiccups. So right, yeah, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.960 if you you know, start hiccupping and immediately getting your 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.960 car and go see a doctor, what's wrong with you? 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.840 But that being said, uh, it does. It is advised 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.840 that if you have hiccups that last for forty eight hours, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.440 do go see a doctor because it can be kind 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.240 of a problem when you go see the doctor. In 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:33.960 addition to possibly prescribing antipsychotics, medical marijuana depending on your state. Uh. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.640 The doctor may also prescribe a digital rectal exam. I 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.400 think that that kind of falls into the mental distraction category. Really, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.920 maybe we're not talking ones and zeros here when we 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.360 talk about digital we're talking about something you might digits 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.720 of your hand, might find in prison. Perhaps digits another 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.120 another term for fingers. Yeah, I don't know why that 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.160 would work, but apparent I'm telling you it's the mental 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.600 district You're like, whoa, whoa and what cups? You know 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.200 have a much bigger problem than hiccuffs. Uh. They will 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.600 sometimes tap or rub, rub the back of your neck, 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:13.320 massage the Cartoyd sinus, which is in your neck charatid. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:18.880 What did I say Cartoyd? Like Cartoyd it is karatid, 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.600 You're right. Or apply pressure to your eyeball to stimulate 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.639 the nerves of your diaphragm. But we should also c 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.199 o a here and say, don't go mashing on your 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.240 eyeball too hard. That's not very smart. No, you can 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.280 pull on your tongue, but don't mash your eyeball or 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.600 sticky sticking your finger in your ears sometimes we'll do it, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.159 but also don't stick something foreign in your ear. And uh, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.560 you know, massage your brain. You don't want to do that. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.840 Nothing bigger than the end of a football, Is that 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.240 what they say? Really? Yeah? I thought you're just making 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.359 that up. No. Um. There's also surgery to basically disconnect 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.960 your frenic nerve or parts of it, make it a 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.440 little less prissy. Um. And there is also emptying your 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.920 stomach through a tube inserted into your nose or mouth. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.800 That's pretty harsh. I think I'd rather have hiccups. Yeah, 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.840 I say that, though I've never had them for forty 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.399 eight hours or more. Though now I can't imagine when 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.200 you sleep you're still having them in your sleep. That'd 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.440 be awful. Let's talk about a couple of people who 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:18.000 have slept through hiccup bouts. All right, Charles Chucky Osbourne. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.000 I don't know that this man had an actual life 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.879 as far as a quality life goes. Imagine he got 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.480 used to it. Do you think you would at for 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.200 sixty eight years? Yes? But isn't it annoying? Though? Isn't 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.680 the aren't hiccups one of those things that you just 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.399 can't help but find annoying If somebody around you as 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.080 hiccups like it almost brings out like this anger response 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.960 in people when it doesn't go away fast enough. Yeah, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.239 it's annoying. But like I said, Charles Osborne had him 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.200 for sixty eight years. He had him from nineteen twenty 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.520 two to nineteen nine, and they estimate Guinness season a 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.680 Guinness Book of course, that he had four hundred and 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.600 thirty million hiccups over that span. And I'm curious if 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.119 if he died in nineteen nine and that's that is 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.680 the end of the run, well, I don't know, or 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:04.600 if he was just cured. I'm sure we can find 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.120 that out. Uh. There was also a Florida teen named 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.720 Jennifer me She hiccuped for five weeks in two thousand seven. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.399 I actually remember that one, and then she was on 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.399 the Today, so I think really so she stopped for 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.560 a little while and then they returned a few weeks later, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.879 much sure, dismay and um, I think she does not 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.720 have hiccups any longer though, which is good. Well. Yeah, 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.879 another couple of people, Josh, another Florida person, Jamie mostly 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.040 hiccup for eight months, and David Willis of Narrathon Eiland 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.800 Uh had two unsuccessful surgeries with a five year hiccup 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.119 or deal. Yeah, that's awful. You have the surgery and 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.080 it still comes back. Could you imagine anything worse to 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.680 surgeries and it still comes back. Well, that's what would 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.080 be worse. If you want to learn more about hiccups, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.320 I would recommend pulling your tongue, eating a spoonful of sugar, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.560 and moving from Florida drinking moderation. Yes, oh wait, you 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.240 know what. There was one more that I used to do, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.920 and I think this is all mental. I was told 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.800 that if you strike a match and then put the 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:10.920 match out in a in a glass of water and 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.720 then drink that water real quick, that'll do it. Weird, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.280 but I think that's the water drinking method combined with 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.680 just some mind games personally or sulfur. Well, I thought 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.440 about that. I don't know if that's true. If you 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.920 want to learn more about hiccups and see some cool 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.359 diagrams of a diaphram, you can type in hiccups at 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.880 the handy search bar at how stuff works dot com, 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:40.960 which means this time for listener mail, Josh, I'm gonna 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:46.520 call this one goaded into being on listener mail? Goadd go? 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.639 Did this guy goaded me go? Did basically dared me 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.080 to put him on listener mail, and you felt for 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.639 I was like, you know what, dude, I will. You can't. 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.720 Can't reward that kind of behavior. Reverse I called you Chuck, Okay, 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.800 Josh and Chuck. I've made no secretive fact that I 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.879 think your podcasts are great. I've also openly declared a 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:08.000 singular mission to achieve global notoriety by getting you guys 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:09.960 to say hello to me and listener mail. I don't 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.119 know about global notoriety. He he was written in a 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.200 few times and I didn't fall for it, so finally 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.440 to keep him from emailing me again. That's why I'm 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.480 reading this. I've noted in recent weeks a pattern in 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.600 your way to choose you choose your mail. You invariably 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.320 choose mail from those of younger persuasion, generally in high 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:29.600 school or below. So premise one you must be young. 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.400 I've also noted that you tend to like the mail 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.879 that is either written poorly or in some form of 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:39.160 broken pigeon English. Premise to use bad English. I would 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.880 also like to suggest that while you are often balanced 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:48.960 and seemingly devoid of ego related behavior, uh, you love 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:50.719 it when people claim to be a big fan. Well, 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.840 of course we do. Um, So premise number three, say 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:56.960 I'm your number one fan, actually has nothing to do 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.320 with smail. Uh. Finally, there usually has to be something 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:06.000 slightly witty, but not more witty than you. This guy 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.080 is dead on. Oh that's not true. I love it 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.679 when people are funnier than me. So premise number four 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.720 is be smart but not too smart, which is not true. 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.600 I've come to realize that I am not young. Indeed, 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.520 I think I'm about your age. My English is pretty good. 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.520 I did go to university. Some one would expect a 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.800 certain level of literacy. Uh no, he's not. He's Australian. 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.919 I am well aware that while a fan, I am 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.880 most likely not your number one fan. In fact, I'd 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.960 be very disappointed if I was your number one fan, 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.000 because I am not that good at being a groupie. Finally, 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.440 this is the strange one to type out. I think 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:45.000 I'm smart, Not Hadrian Collider smart. I've read Chaucer smart, 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.440 but certainly smart enough to keep up with you guys. 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.680 Keeping typing that feels weird, he says. So. Not willing 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:53.800 to be fraudulent, I will simply continue to send you 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:57.000