1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Hey, San Francisco, we're coming back to see you. Yes, 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: our second year in a row. We're gonna be going 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: to s F Sketch Fest. What I like to think, 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: it's the premier comedy festival in the United States, probably 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: well in the world, you think, so, yeah, what about Beijing? Nope, 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: it's a it's a close second, but a second. Well, 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: we love San Francisco, we love performing there. Everyone is 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: always so kind to us. And by San Francisco we 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: mean the entire Bay area of course. Yeah. So we 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: will be there doing our thing for one time only 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 1: show on Sunday, January at one pm. Yeah, it's the 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: rare Sunday afternoon. We're like the NFL of podcasters. Yeah, exactly, 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: That's that's what I've always thought. So all you have 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: to do is go to the SF Sketch Fest site, 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: look at the old calendar, and there are tons of 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: great people performing. Oh yeah, So I suggest like just 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: doubling down and getting tickets all kinds of good shows 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: for sure, and hurry up and get tickets to ours 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: because they've only been on sale for a week or 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: so and they're already half sold out. That's right, So 21 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: please hurry San Francisco. Please hurry. Welcome to Stuff You 22 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: should know it's from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 23 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, and it's just us chickens here in Studio 25 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: one A. Yeah, the blockhead is gone. Yeah, Jerry the blackhead. 26 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. She's not a blockhead. She's a meat hit. 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: She is a meat head. This is fun. What else 28 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: is she here? We can say whatever we want. She'll 29 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: never hear this, that's true. Two things I've noticed today. 30 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: We're both wearing blue hoodies. Oh yeah, yours is uh 31 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: a recreation of the great sweater that Danny wore in 32 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: The Shining Uh, which I think I've told you you 33 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: love Lee Unk of Pixar owns that real sweat her. 34 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah you did tell me that. Yeah, Like, if 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: you're like, you know, you got the sweatshirt version. He 36 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: owns the sweater. It's the real thing. But unless he's 37 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,679 Speaker 1: the same size as like a little four or five 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: six year old boy, he put it on his own kid. Yeah, 39 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: that's probably why he had a kids madness right well 40 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: to model the sweater. Yeah, yeah, uh and I'm wearing 41 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: my high school sweatshirt Dan Raiders. Yeah. Dan. The other 42 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: thing I noticed is that got new glasses or a 43 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:38,839 Speaker 1: new prescription. My eyes were clearly getting worse, and you're 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: fuzzy to me, but my papers are clear. Oh and 45 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: I should have gotten the bifocals, Like he said, vocals, Gramps, 46 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of this definitely doesn't aid 47 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: you at all, chuck his pull his glasses down his nose, 48 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: and then looked over him. Well, when you're at home 49 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: and let's say you got the TV on but you're 50 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: working on your laptop, it's it's troublesome. Have you ever 51 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: heard of that? Um? I can't remember what. It's called 52 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: progressive lenses. No, it's like a type of basically training 53 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: your eyes to get better by denying them corrective lenses. Well, 54 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,839 Speaker 1: I did that for forty three years and it didn't work. Well, 55 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,399 Speaker 1: I mean, or maybe it did work. Your eyes would 56 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,519 Speaker 1: have been way worse had you not done that. Here's 57 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: what I know. I know that two weeks ago, like 58 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: I never wore my previous glasses prescription because it didn't 59 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: look like they were doing anything. Um, but things were 60 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: getting harder to read. So I went back three years 61 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: later and they were like, oh, yeah, things have changed. Um, 62 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: but I was reading two weeks ago. I was just 63 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: sort of holding it back a little more maybe. But 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: now when I put these on, it's like someone turned 65 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: on the lights. I was like, holy cow, that's so clear. 66 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: But it's something changed in just the last few weeks. No, 67 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: I think I would just I was just used to 68 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: getting by on as clearly as I could, because once 69 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: I put these on. I just couldn't believe the difference. 70 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: It's good for you for doing something, Yeah, but now 71 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta weird glasses all the time, or 72 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: not all the time. But when I read, you remind 73 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: me exactly of how I felt in fourth grade when 74 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: I got glasses. They came in and they were like, okay, 75 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: everybody's doing the eye test, and of course you just 76 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: think it's cursory, like a lice check or something like that, right, 77 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: and you went stood in the corner, and then the 78 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: nurse or whoever it was just like, you need glasses. 79 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: I was like, what, You're insane, woman, I think, is 80 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: what I said. But it was a man, right, and 81 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: so that's all they knew. I proved myself insane. Um 82 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: yeah right, so uh, I ended up with glasses and 83 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: I remember feeling like, oh man, I'm shackle for the 84 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: rest of my life. Yeah, that's a tough age. I 85 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: don't know if glasses still had the same stigma on 86 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: young kids, but when we were kids, it was definitely 87 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: like four eyes and all that. Yeah, there was a 88 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: bit of it. So I showed them. I went out 89 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: and got the most Elton Johnny glasses I could find. 90 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: They were clear, with like a thin blue like wire 91 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: running through the frames. They were pretty awesome. Yeah, alright, 92 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: so human block Yeah, so, Chuck, have you ever seen 93 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: the human blockhead trick? I should not call it a trick, 94 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: just stunt. You're right, I have like in person. Yeah. Also, 95 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: I went to a Gym Rose circus once and that 96 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: they had a blockhead that when I went. I'm not 97 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: sure if they still do. Was it Ryan Stock? I 98 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: don't think so. This is a long time ago. Yeah, 99 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: he seems a little young to have been in the 100 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: original Gym Rose show. Yeah, I mean this was in 101 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: like was it at Lallapalooza. Maybe because that was in 102 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: the first the first part of the first Lallapaluza. They 103 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: were part of that. Yea, how was that that show? 104 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: There you go? Maybe that's where it was. Maybe so well, 105 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: I've never seen a human blockhead, so I mean I 106 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,799 Speaker 1: was aware of it. I'm sure I'd seen like references 107 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: to it in cartoons or whatever. But I went online 108 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: because I noticed as I was researching this, I was like, wow, 109 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: I feel like fainting for some reason. I was like, 110 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: this really makes me fainty, and I went online and 111 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: just exposed myself to it, and uh, it was Yeah, 112 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: I didn't actually faint, but it's something. Well, we should 113 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: go ahead and say, then, a human blockhead is a person, 114 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: and we'll get into the history of it where that 115 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: name came comes from. But it's a person, a performer 116 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: who inserts a nail or a camping steak or a drill, 117 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: paris scissors, what something sharp that would make your stomach 118 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: turn if you saw it jammed in a person's nose 119 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: all the way and they do just that. And the 120 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: reason I corrected myself earlier I called it a trick. 121 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: It's not a trick. The person who performs the human blockhead, 122 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: or who is a human blockhead, um would correct me 123 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,559 Speaker 1: and say no, no, this is a stunt. A trick 124 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: suggests that there's some sort of illusion, there's some sort 125 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: of deception or stage magic going on. This is a 126 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: stunt because it's exactly what you think it is. There's 127 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: a nail going into the person's skull. Yeah. And if 128 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: you don't know and you go to one of these, 129 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: you probably think it's a trick. It's a fake nail. 130 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: It's a collapsible or a telescoping nail or something. Um, 131 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: maybe some sort of a slide of hand, like the 132 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: old trick where you just turned to the side and 133 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: act like you're pulling something out of your mouth, you 134 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: know that old bit. Yeah, I finally figured that one 135 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: out in my twenties. Uh, thanks to your glasses probably, 136 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: um so to the uninitiated, it's uh. People probably leave 137 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: these performances sometimes saying, well, you know, of course that 138 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: wasn't real. There's no way, right, it's true, right, that's 139 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: that's what you think. In the performers they play on that, right, 140 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: it's part of the whole thing. But it's actually legitimately 141 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: the nail is not fake, and it it actually is 142 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: going into the person's head. But the further misconception is that, okay, 143 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: if it is going in the person's head, that it's 144 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: being driven into their skull, their bone um, either through 145 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: a new hole that they're making because they're crazy, or 146 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: an established hole that they have like um that they're 147 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: they've used time and time again. Like uh, an ear 148 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: piercing that it's healed over. Not the case. Yeah, I 149 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: was about to say the body doesn't need any new holes, 150 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: but I forgot about piercing. That you need piercing. But 151 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: that's the only thing I can think of where you 152 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: would want a new hole that's legitimate, right, Um, I 153 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: don't know. Some doctors could want new holes for you, 154 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: depending like if you got a colostomate or a tricky otomy. 155 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: It didn't even think about that medical reasons. Or stellarc 156 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: put an ear on his arm. I was thinking about him. 157 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: I can't believe you remember that guy's name. Yeah he 158 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: was if he didn't listen. Years ago we talked about him. 159 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: He was a performance artist who put he molded in 160 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: and grafted a ear look alike onto his arm, survived 161 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: some terrible infections that was bluetooth compatible, so he could 162 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: literally hear through it. Right, I mean you know what 163 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: I mean. He yeah, he's probably not literally hear through it, 164 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: but it had like a bluetooth mic in the ear, 165 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: and then he had like a head phone in his 166 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: own ear, So yeah, he could hear what was going 167 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: in there. With assistance of technology, he should hear through it. Well, 168 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: he's a performance arts what do you expect? But that 169 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: technically wasn't a hole though. No, it was just a 170 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 1: fake ear on his arm. No, it was a real ear. 171 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: Was it? A really? Whose was it? It was like 172 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: a cloned ear grafted onto his arm. It was basically 173 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: the cutting edge of performance art at the time. Yeah, 174 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: I wonder what he's doing now. I gotta look that 175 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: cat up. He's sitting around on people's couch, is going like, hey, 176 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: remember that time I grafted in here on my arm? 177 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: That was pretty great? Huh? And he says, hey talked 178 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: to the forearm and they say still ark. We never 179 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: get tired of that, Joe. Um So should we talk 180 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: about the history first or the mechanism? Let's do history. 181 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: I love this guy. Well, by guy I know you're 182 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: talking about because there can be only one Mr Melvin Burkhardt, 183 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: who passed away fifteen years ago in two thousand one, 184 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: at the age of ninety four years old. He's born 185 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: in Atlanta uh in seven, grew up in New Orleans mainly, 186 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: and quit school at an early age and became a 187 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: well we worked a couple of odd jobs, worked for 188 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: Western Union, but then found his calling as a sideshow performer, 189 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: which we've covered on the show. Yeah, along with other 190 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: circus arts. Yeah, you you've got it for circus arts. 191 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: I think just about every circus art one we've ever 192 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: done is your pick? Was it? But man, we have 193 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: an extensive library of circus arts. Yes, swort, swallowing, lion taming, 194 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: lion taming, fire eating, fire eating. Do we have firewalking? No? 195 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: I don't think so. All right, look for that one soon. Yeah, 196 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: for real or tight rope backs. We had a circus 197 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: families we did. He's exhausted this, I don't know, man, firewalking? 198 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: We should do the the wheel. We talked about it, 199 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: the wheel with the motorcycles in it. What's it called? 200 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: The something of death? Wheel of death? No globe of death. 201 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's a globe of death. Clunky clunky ride right? Um? 202 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: All right? So back to Mr Brookhart. He started performing inside. 203 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: He did so he was. He kind of fell into performing. 204 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: He used to go to the theater a lot. And 205 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: one day when he was I think fourteen or fifteen 206 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: or something, Uh, he jumped to his feet when the 207 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: people on stage ask for volunteers to come on stage, 208 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: and I guess he tripped or fell. I don't, I 209 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: didn't know if it was purposeful or not, and drove 210 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: a nail through his for her right, and everyone's just 211 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 1: laughed and laughed. Um, he did get some last not 212 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: for the nail yet, that came later, but um, he 213 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: was invited back for the next show, and within a 214 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: day or two he found himself with a contract to 215 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: do an amateur performance. So he started um performing at 216 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: a very early age. And and um, his his thing 217 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: initially was and I think throughout his career he was 218 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: what was called a talker, a master of ceremonies at 219 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: a side show. Yeah, uh, you might call him a 220 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: barker or something like that. But um, they were the 221 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: ones who kept the show going. They introduced the new 222 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: side show performers as they came on and went off, 223 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: And he did his own act in between the other acts, 224 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: and part of his act ended up being the uh 225 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: the nail, the human blockhead trick, among a bunch of 226 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: other stuff. Yeah. So one of these quotes that I 227 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: got his New York Times obituary and um, which are 228 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: always great, but one of the quotes from one of 229 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: his counterparts, and Coney Allen was so funny. He said, 230 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: this was from Dick Zigon. Uh, he's a side show guy, 231 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: and he said, anybody can insert objects in their nasal passage, 232 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: their nasal passage, but Melvin's patter and comedy made it 233 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: an act. And then the other guy. It's two great quotes. 234 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: Todd Robbins, as a magician, uh, who was also a 235 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: blockhead at times, says, anyone who has ever hammered a 236 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: nail into his nose it was a large debt to 237 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: Melvin Burkhart. Yeah, there's a little bit of tongue in 238 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: cheek in that oh bit that I'm sure Burkhart would 239 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: have appreciated. Um. That Todd Robbins guy actually has traced 240 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: it back um to the Joddu Wallas, basically the Indian 241 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: the Hindu performers, street performers, UM. And they apparently did 242 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: a human blockhead trick long ago. And I don't know 243 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: if it was just totally coincidental that Melvin Burkhardt stumbled 244 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: upon it himself, or if he had heard about it 245 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: or seen it himself. But at any rate, as far 246 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: as it goes in the West and the modern conception 247 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: of the human blockhead, Melvin Burkhart was the guy who 248 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: invented it. Yeah, I'm sure they're probably people in India 249 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: scoffing at that notion. But he was soon discovered by 250 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: none other than um Mr Ripley himself, and he took 251 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 1: him on to his auditorium in Manhattan, had him performing, 252 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: and supposedly is the one who came up with the 253 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: name human blockhead for this act. Man that Robert Ripley, 254 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: he coined a lot of stuff. I don't get it, though, 255 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: I still don't get why blockhead this is. It's a 256 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: dumb name. I would have called it, like, I don't 257 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: know what I would have called it. Give me ten minutes, though, 258 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: and I'll think of about Okay, shout it out when 259 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: you got it all right? Well, I mean, like you 260 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: can hammer nails into a block of wood. I guess 261 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: so is that what? It's a stupid name, But without 262 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: it we wouldn't have the Lucy from peanuts favorite Um 263 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: put down. Remember she called everybody a blockhead? Oh yeah, 264 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: what about the human pincushion. That's not quite right, though 265 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: it's okay. It's actually a lot more accurate. But at 266 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: think there are other human pin cushions, aren't there people 267 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: who do? That would be very confusing. I'm the pin cushion. No, 268 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: I'm the pin cushion. You're a blockhead? Um? So he uh, 269 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: he actually ended up And this is where this story 270 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: ties into Flee circuses. Actually, uh at Hubert's Museum on 271 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: Fort Street, which I believe is where the Hecklers had 272 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: their Um Flee circus for decades and where the where 273 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: it appeared in Easy Rider. That's right, Yeah, that's right. Uh. 274 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: Boy's all coming together, isn't it really? Uh? And he 275 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: was what was known as um like some people are. 276 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: You know, when we did our side show podcasts, a 277 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: lot of people were born with physical deformities. If they 278 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: would um, some people say we're exploited. Other people say championed. 279 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: But he was not that. He was what was known 280 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: as a working act. So he just had some talent 281 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: and fortitude to do some of these things. He wasn't 282 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: necessarily born with any strange nasal passage, although he does 283 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: say he was a boxer and broke his nose such 284 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: that they removed nasal bones that he thinks created this 285 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: passage to um inserting a nail into your sinus cavity. Um, 286 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: But it is, it exists in everyone, Okay, So that 287 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: to me is a great place to put a break. 288 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: All right, you're ready, Yes, here we go. All right, Chuck, 289 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: you may mention that, um, Melvin Burkhard was a boxer, right, 290 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: So apparently during his boxing career, he was getting some 291 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: bone that had been shattered in his face removed around 292 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: his nose, around his nasal cavity, and the story goes 293 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: that he noticed that the doctors were having a really 294 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: easy time sticking like a scalpel or pincers or all 295 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: sorts of little medical instruments in his nose. Rubber Chicken. 296 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: Henny Youngman was his doctor. Just look him up, everybody, uh. 297 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: And he was like, well, jeez, if these guys can 298 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: put the stuff in my nose, I'll bet I could too, 299 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: And if I combine it with my pattern comedy, I 300 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: could really make a good show of this. And apparently 301 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: that's where he was inspired to do the human blockhead trick. 302 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: I can make fifty a week. So he had something 303 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: like a dozen pieces of bone removed from his nasal 304 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: cavity area from his skull for medical reasons right speak 305 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: from his boxing career. Um, so he apparently had a 306 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: larger than normal nasal cavity as a result. Well that 307 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: makes sense. But it's like what you said. Everybody has 308 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: a hole in their face and it can be exploited 309 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: to do the human blockhead trick. We have a lot 310 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: of holes in our face. So let's talk about the 311 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: holes in our face. Right, Chuck, just put his glasses on. 312 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: I'm tired of looking over you and feeling like I'm seventies? 313 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: So how do I look without? Like? I gotta get 314 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: a picture of this? How do you look when I'm 315 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: looking at you through the glasses. Without the glasses? You 316 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: look great? How do I look with the glasses on? 317 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: Not so great? Larger and fuzzy. So look at me 318 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: over the clare you go wow. Alright, we'll put that 319 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: up on Instagram. Alright, the holes in our face? Um, 320 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: let's talk about the skull. The skull while it appears 321 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: as if it's just one big solid bowling ball with 322 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: a face on the front of it. Right, Um, it 323 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: is not. It is twenty two bones and all. And 324 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: if you look, if you've ever seen a human skull, 325 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: you can see this because they have sutures where it's 326 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: joined together. It's a big patchwork of of goodness, protective goodness. 327 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: And for the most part, when you look at someone's 328 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: face and you say, hey, high cheekbones, prominent chin, um, 329 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: look at the size of those teeth and how pointy 330 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: they are, that's crazy. These are these are actually like 331 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: features of either the bone themselves, are the bone underneath 332 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,360 Speaker 1: the skin. That's your facial features. Right. But there's one 333 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: very prominent exception to this rule, um, and that's your nose. 334 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: Your nose is not the result of uh protrusion of 335 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: bone with skin stretched over it. Most of your nose 336 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: is made of cartilage, right, So there's actually very little 337 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: bone involved in your skin. Just on the bridge or 338 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: with your nose. Just on the bridge of the nose, 339 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: that's right, Okay, So beneath the bridge of the nose, everybody, 340 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: I want you to to take your anger, put it between 341 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: your eyes and then just pressed down. That's the bridge 342 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: of your nose, not too hard, Not that hard, okay, 343 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: and then just go slides, start to slide a little 344 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: further down. That is not bone any longer, that's cartilage. 345 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: And behind that cartilage, friends, there's a big old hole 346 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: in the center of your face. Have you ever had 347 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: your nose broken? Let me just knock on with like 348 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: fifty times. No. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Yes, 349 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: but didn't break it? No, Okay, I've never had my 350 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: nose broken. I've never been punched. Knock on wood at all. Yeah, 351 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: uh no, never been in a fight. That's great, it is, 352 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: but I kind of feel like I should get in 353 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: a fist fight. That There's this thing called bars, and 354 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,679 Speaker 1: if you go out at certain times, you can get 355 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: into a fight pretty easy. I was always the guy 356 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: that was breaking up like like, oh, guys, like it 357 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: would be much more fun if we all just kept 358 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: drinking and not get in a fight like that. That 359 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: there's nothing that will ruin a night more than a 360 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: bar fight. It's all over bar fight suck. Yeah, across 361 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: the board. Plus, I never always had a very strong 362 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: inclination to not get punched in the face. I think 363 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: that's a sensible inclining. So I was, well, not really. 364 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: You know, you see how some people act and some 365 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: people some dudes love to fight, some ladies love to fight. 366 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, I could go out looking for it. Sure, 367 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: I don't know that that's to be admired or celebrated 368 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: in anything anyway. It's the worst those people like. And 369 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: when I lived in Arizona that short year, I picked 370 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: up just you know, friends at my restaurant, and one 371 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: of the friends of the dude that worked there was 372 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: one of the most uncomfortable people to hang out with 373 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 1: have ever experienced. He was always looking to get in 374 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: a fight every where we went, and it just I 375 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: was so fraught with anxiety, you know, tons of anger inside. 376 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: And is it just don't you wonder stuff like that 377 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: is hormonal, Like that guy's hormones are tuned a little 378 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: out of I bet you there's a lot of factors 379 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: hormones upbringing anger from childhood. But all I know is 380 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: is that I was like, I felt like I was 381 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: gonna have a heart attack every time I was near 382 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: this dude. So I was just waiting for the inevitable 383 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: fits fight. Wouldn't it be need If that guy listens 384 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: listening right now, knows who you're talking about. And it's 385 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: just started sobbing uncontrollably, like he's just had a breakthrough. 386 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: Would be great because you mentioned his childhood. He's not listening. 387 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: I'm can guarantee you that. So um oh yeah the nose, 388 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: yeah yeah, so cartilage, the nose is easy to break, 389 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: is kind of where I was getting. But technically you're 390 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 1: not really breaking yet really because it's cartilage. I guess 391 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: you can break cartilage. Don't listen to me. So. Um. 392 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: What you've also got in that in your face up 393 00:22:55,560 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: front of that skull is um, all kinds of spaces. Uh. 394 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: There are these little hollow places called sinuses. You got 395 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: your eye sockets of course. Uh. And then you're the 396 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: old reliable foreman magnum, which is where the brain stem 397 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: exits the skull. That really has nothing to do with 398 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: this episode, It doesn't. This is just sort of a 399 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 1: breakdown of what's going on in your face, Tracy. By 400 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: the way, this is a Tracy Wilson joint. Sure, um, 401 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: And she's just trying to prove her point that there's 402 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: lots of holes in the skull. That's right. The only 403 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: holes that matter for a blockhead are the nostrils, and 404 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: I would say the nasal cavity, right, And the nasal 405 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: cavity is that whole in your skull, in the front 406 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: of your skull where your nose goes, and um, that 407 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: leads all the way back to your throat actually, yeah, 408 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: which is very important actually for other acts that we'll 409 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: talk about. Yeah, So the the area where it terminates 410 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: at the throat is called the naso farynx. And all 411 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: of this is just wide open. You can stick whatever 412 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: you want in there, um, please don't, and you can 413 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: do it without nailing, without hammering, without anything like that. 414 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: You can just slide it in. Right. Physically speaking, we'll 415 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: get into how all the reasons why that's very difficult, 416 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: but just physiologically speaking, there's a big old hole in 417 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,199 Speaker 1: the front of your face. There's a lot of empty 418 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: space behind it, going all the way back to your throat, 419 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: and so the human blockhead takes advantage of this this 420 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: um uh, these holes. Right. But it wouldn't be so 421 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: great if you could just look at somebody and say, hey, 422 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: that's well, it's great. You're just sliding a nail into 423 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: a hole in an open passage. That doesn't do anything. 424 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: The trick. The illusion is based on the natural formation 425 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: of our nose and our nostrils, which appear to go upward, 426 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: which is not the case. Actually, if you pull your 427 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: nose back and look into a mirror, you see that 428 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: the hole is behind him, not above them, right, And 429 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 1: that's the whole illusion. Yeah, Like you feel like when 430 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: you blow your nose, that snot is coming down from 431 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: like the top of your head, and that's not the case. Now, 432 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: it's coming from the back, that's right. It's the ceiling 433 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: is just about even with the top of the nose 434 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: right below your eyes, the ceiling of the nasal cavity, right, yeah, 435 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: not the ceiling of your your bedroom. Uh. In the 436 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: floor of the nasal cavity is about level with what's 437 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: known as the L R cartilage a L A R, 438 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: which is where the nostrils are, right, that's the bottom 439 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: of your your nostrils. Yeah. So when you see it, 440 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: like you said, when you see the trick, the fact 441 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: that it's not going up and it's just going straight in, 442 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: it makes people go, oh my god, what is going on. 443 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: He's driven his nail right into the bone of his skull. 444 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. That's right. And by the way, 445 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: if you want a good a good view of all 446 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: this looks like I stumbled upon a horrific photo of 447 00:25:54,800 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: somebody who's nostrils. I guess there this the cartilage that 448 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: separates their nostrils into two. Yeah, there's got to be 449 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: a name for that. Right, it's gone, and the whole 450 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: nose is the skin of the nose is being pulled 451 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: back so you can see the skull behind it. So 452 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: if you wanted to just type in all our cartilage 453 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: and Google search image searching, you will. You'll be as 454 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: unhappy as I am for having seen it's gonna go, 455 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: rather than do you want to see it? Nah, it's 456 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: pretty crazy now, that's all right, Okay, I'll look at 457 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: it later because I know i'll I want to. I'll 458 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: be lying in bed tonight thinking of it. I'm not 459 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm not doing it. H So to 460 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: finish up, though, in the cavity it is not just 461 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: a smooth straight thing either. They have um. They're these 462 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: grooves called conka c U N c h A E 463 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say um on the walls and they hold 464 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,880 Speaker 1: onto the moisture when you exhale and that's gonna keep 465 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: everything nice and lubricated, which is what you want in there, 466 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: thanks to the mucus membrane that lines all these surfaces 467 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: and keeps everything nice. And I'm not gonna say the 468 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: M word, but nice and moist. Yeah, everybody hates that word, 469 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 1: huh and not everyone, but there's science behind it. Okay there. 470 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: I can't remember a post an article for mental phlaws. 471 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: Apparently there's some science behind White people don't like that 472 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: word nice. So when you're doing the human blockhead trick, 473 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: I should change that when you're when you're seeing a 474 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: professional do the human blockhead trick. Um, what they're doing 475 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 1: is they're they're sliding the nail. Let's just stick with 476 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: the nail. The nail into their nasal cavity. They want 477 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: to usually hug the alar cartilage the floor of their 478 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 1: nasal cavity, try to avoid the concat. Isn't that way 479 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: you decided? That's pronounced? And then they're pushing it all 480 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 1: the way back into their naso pharynx. Right, You've got 481 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: about six eight inches of space to deal with from 482 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: that much from your nostril back to the naso pharynx. Yeah, um, 483 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 1: and Uh, they the human blockhead to make it so 484 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: it's not just sliding a nail into your nose, which 485 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: is gross, but that's pretty playground. Ee. They will take 486 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: a hammer and they will hold onto the nail very tightly, 487 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: and they will make it look like they're hammering the 488 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: nail into their skull. Right, and there's the sound of 489 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: the hammer against the nail and it sounds really painful. 490 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: Where really you can just take the thing and slide 491 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: it in, easy peasy. Yeah, that's called stagecraft. Right. So 492 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: all of this sounds extremely easy, and in a sense 493 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: it is. But there are a lot of obstacles to 494 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: performing this trick successfully, and we'll talk about those right 495 00:28:40,600 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: after this. So I don't think we should go any 496 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: further without a serious c o A message. It seems obvious, 497 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: but do not try to stick a nail in your 498 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: nose because Josh and Chuck said it was possible. Yeah, 499 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: that's really good. Um, the human anatomy, the anatomy of 500 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: a of a face and a skull, makes it possible. 501 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: We advise no one to ever try this unless you 502 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: want to get into the circus arts legitimately and want 503 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: to take the steps to like really learn how to 504 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: do this right. I actually ran across this um theory 505 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: eleven dot com forum. The novice was asking how to 506 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: do this, and this guy named William Draven replied, and 507 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: I thought he had a pretty good c o a himself. 508 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: He said, like, UM, if you do want to do this, 509 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: in no way advocate um learning from reading text on 510 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: the internet or even watching videos. Go find somebody who 511 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: is who has successfully performed this trick numerous times and 512 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: then learned from them directly. Don't learn from guys like us. 513 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: Don't learn from reading William Draven's comments on the internet. 514 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: Don't don't read it from anybody. Go find somebody who 515 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: knows this trick and and learn it from them. And 516 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: where do you find that person? There? The guy in 517 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: the corner of the bar with the nail in there? Now, 518 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: it's pretty easy, right, or they live in a town 519 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: called Winter or something in Florida. Um And I did, look, 520 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: we keep saying, dudes. I did try and find to 521 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: see if there are any women out there who did this. 522 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: I didn't find any, but I'm sure they're sure they're 523 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: They're supposedly more than a hundred human blockheads around the world. 524 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: Go find one of them. I'm sure some women do this. 525 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's just not a prominent Google search to 526 00:30:51,440 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: type in, you know, woman blockhead. I'm sure they also. 527 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: I think every single time I've ever said guys, I've 528 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: I've meant it as a gender neutral Yeah. Yeah, so. Um. 529 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: One thing Tracy points out is that all noses are different. Uh, 530 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: and sometimes to reach your nasal cavity, you might the 531 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: lower edge of your nostril might be in the way. 532 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes it might just glide right in 533 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: and you look the same. But sometimes it will, like 534 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: if you do it right, you know, your nose will 535 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: stick up like, you know, like your snout will stick 536 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: out like a pig because the nails holding it up. 537 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: Other noses, it might just look normal except for the 538 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: fact that there's a nail through it. Um. A lot 539 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: of people who do this, most people, I should say, 540 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: who do it practice initially with Q tip. That's probably smart, 541 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: right yeah, um, yeah, you want to practice with a 542 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: que tip. And one reason why you want to practice 543 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: with a Q tip is number one. It's I would 544 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: guess it'd be harder to injure yourself with a Q tip. 545 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure, although I'm sure it's still be quite easy, sure, um. 546 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: And then that Q tips are kind of fuzzy. Yeah. 547 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: And so one of the hardest things to overcome doing 548 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: the human blockhead trick their stunt is overcoming the sneezing reflex. 549 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: That's the biggest one. I mean, there's all sorts of 550 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: other problems, like if you use something that's not clean, um, 551 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: you set yourself up for sinus infection because you're sticking 552 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: foreign objects back there around your scinus is. Um, you 553 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: can damage the very soft mucous memories and tissue that 554 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: are around that line your nose and nasal cavity and 555 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: your scinuses and your nasal farynx. But one of the 556 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: one of the biggest challenges is overcoming the sneezing reflects, 557 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: which can combine all this stuff, all these dangers and 558 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: then increase some tenfold. Yeah. If you're trying to stick 559 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: a nail in your head in the early stages and 560 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: you sneeze that, you know sneezing can be a very 561 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: violent reaction. So let's talk about sneezing real quick, all right, 562 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: All right, So Tracy went to the trouble of outlining 563 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: how a sneeze works right, it's pretty neat. So you've 564 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: got a sneez has a reef. What's called a reflex arc. 565 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: Any kind of reflex, as far as the human body 566 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 1: is concerned, consists of a reflex arc, and it's made 567 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: up of a receptor. In this case, Um, we've got 568 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: nerve endings in our noses. Those are the receptors, and 569 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: they're the things that say, you know, I just snorted 570 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: pepper up my nose yea, or this house is dusty 571 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: or whatever might cause you uh you know, animal dand 572 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: or whatever. Hops in beer for me. Oh yeah. So 573 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 1: like if you literally smell like an I p A. 574 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: I don't even have to smell it. I can just 575 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: just drinking it, just like one good sneeze and then 576 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: you're fine. Yeah wow, hops gets me Hops and peppermint 577 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: huh yeah. Um, So you've got you've got the stimulus 578 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: against the receptor. The receptors got the the sensory nerve 579 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: leading up to the integration center of your brain that 580 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: the whatever center integrates all of this information for that 581 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: particular reflex. Uh, your motor nerve which says, hey, go 582 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: do this, and then it's called an effector in the 583 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: case of sneezing and effector is the process the physical 584 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: process of sneezing? Right? Yeah, which you know everyone everyone sneezes. 585 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 1: Let's get real. You know what was interesting to me, Chuck, 586 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: is you know when you're researching yawning, you yawn when 587 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: you research itching, did you sneeze? You scratch, didn't sneeze? 588 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 1: I thought the same thing. Really, I wonder if I'm 589 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: gonna start sneezing, and I did not. It's not suggestible, 590 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: totally reactive thing. So when you sneeze, you know your 591 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: you might start off with your eyes watering. Uh, and 592 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna secrete some fluid from your nasal passage. And 593 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: then there's an abrupt like pre sneeze breath that you 594 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: draw in from your diaphragm. Um, I don't think that 595 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: has a name. Let's just call it the pre SNEeSe 596 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: breath breath. I think we just coined it. Uh. And 597 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 1: then and then you're I fram in muscles in your 598 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: chest contract really quickly, and the air leaves that nose 599 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: and mouth really quickly. Um. Do you have a sneeze 600 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: pattern or is it random? Um? No, I'm sure I 601 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: follow a pattern almost always sneezing. Threes is your three, yes, 602 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,760 Speaker 1: but I mean it depends, like I seriously will sneeze 603 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: eight or nine times if you're drinking a poppy beer. Um, yeah, 604 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: I'm almost always three. And when it's not, it's it 605 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: stands out to me as being unique or incomplete. So yeah, 606 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: sometimes or sometimes I'll sneeze later and think like, oh, yeah, 607 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,800 Speaker 1: there's the third, which is silly. It's like celebrity deaths. 608 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: I wonder about. I meant to look that up though, 609 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: wonder if there's any science to that sneezing patterns. There's 610 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: just science to everything, science and magic. Um. So you 611 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: can put off a sneeze. You've probably done that before. 612 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 1: That tickling sensation just goes away. Those are to me 613 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: the incomplete things because you felt like or I feel like, 614 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: you know, so close and I clearly needed to sneeze, 615 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: but you didn't. If your body doesn't sneeze and it 616 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 1: it warded itself off. Yeah. And so the point of 617 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 1: all the sneezing talk is that part of mastering the 618 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:25,799 Speaker 1: human blockhead stunt is reducing your sneeze reflex and apparently 619 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: it can be done just by exposing yourself to a 620 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: sneeze reflex, over and over and over again. So you 621 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: just stick that que tip in there. You sneeze, You 622 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: do it again, you sneeze, You do it again, you sneeze. 623 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: You go eat a TV dinner and take a little 624 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: break because it's tough and you're mad. You're really mad, 625 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 1: get really fixed off, and then you come back, and 626 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: then you do it again, and then eventually a few 627 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 1: days later, a few weeks later, you've lost all your friends, 628 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 1: but you don't sneeze when you stick something up your nose. Victory. Yeah. 629 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: I also saw that if you, uh, if you are 630 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 1: a human blockhead, you want to basically scrub down any 631 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,280 Speaker 1: new stunt nail that you've got with this with steel 632 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 1: wool and then soaking in rubbing alcohol for a while 633 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 1: to prevent sinus infections. I'm picturing like a Carnie thriller 634 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: where someone creeps in and like switches out the nail 635 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 1: some pathogen. No I'm dead. Uh So, Like I said, 636 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,640 Speaker 1: there are over a hundred people doing this around the world. Supposedly. 637 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: Um Ryan Stock, who you mentioned earlier, has become pretty 638 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 1: famous because he's been on I think he had a 639 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,120 Speaker 1: TV show of his own He was definitely an America's 640 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: got talent. Yeah, and he does all sorts of things. 641 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 1: He and his wife, Oh she in on the act. 642 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's definitely part of an Amberlin So, like 643 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 1: I said, he does all kinds of things. But um, 644 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: one of his most notable tricks is a spin on 645 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:55,799 Speaker 1: this called the human meat head where just look it 646 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: up Ryan Stock. He puts a meat hook. Remember how 647 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,120 Speaker 1: he set it was connected to the throw. He will 648 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 1: go all the way through his nose, out of his 649 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 1: mouth with the end of the hook, and then he'll 650 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: pull stuff around. He actually pulled the almost the pound car. 651 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 1: He hels the world's record as being the only person 652 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,880 Speaker 1: that ever doing You gotta hear this the title of 653 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,719 Speaker 1: this world record. He has a world record for the 654 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,120 Speaker 1: heaviest vehicle pulled using a hook through the nasal cavity 655 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,520 Speaker 1: and out of the mouth point three five pound car. 656 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 1: No idea, how much that isn't killograms? Uh? I remember 657 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,919 Speaker 1: my brother he ate something when he was the first 658 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: time I realized that was all connected. He laughed a 659 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: lot when eating hamburger and coughed hamburger through his nose 660 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 1: or milk through the nose. When you made your friend laugh. 661 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 1: That was always That's a classic, man. You just were 662 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: triumphant the rest of the day. I actually have found 663 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: if I'm jogging, like I always chew gum and I 664 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 1: like break the gum slowly into small pieces and I 665 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,520 Speaker 1: eventually like eat it or whatever. But if there's like 666 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,120 Speaker 1: a few moments where like there there's a small piece 667 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: of gum separated from the rest of the gum, and 668 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: I've noticed every once in a while, I don't know 669 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 1: what sets it off, but I'll just snot it out, 670 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,479 Speaker 1: like it'll shoot up my throat and then on my nose. 671 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:19,919 Speaker 1: And this sapped more than what I don't you're either 672 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 1: not jogging, right, you're not chewing gum, right, there's something 673 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 1: there's a breakdown here. I don't think you're supposed to 674 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: do that. It's true, weird. Does it hurt? No, it's 675 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: just surprising, Like, sure, it's the gum. What do you 676 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: mean it's like pieces of brain. Did you ever hear 677 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: about the woman who had like a running nose for 678 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: twenty years and she finally went to the doctor and 679 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 1: they're like, that's cerebro spinal fluid. Your brain is leaking 680 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 1: out of your nose. Was she okay? I guess, I 681 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:54,919 Speaker 1: mean she lived with it for decades. That's crazy. Um. 682 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 1: And there's this other guy that I want to mention too, 683 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,040 Speaker 1: the faith healer. Oh yeah, John of God. And this 684 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 1: made me want to do I'd love to do a 685 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 1: show on faith healing period and a show on psychic 686 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 1: surgery like those are definitely on the list now. Um. 687 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: But he is a famous Brazilian faith healer who um, 688 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: I mean he's he's big, like if he's he's way 689 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,240 Speaker 1: more famous than I thought he was because I hadn't 690 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: heard of him. But he's a big time and um, 691 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 1: he does these. He has a couple of kind of operations, uh, 692 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: one visible and one invisible. And one of the visible 693 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,360 Speaker 1: ones is he sticks forceps up the nose of people 694 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 1: and to supposedly heal them of certain things. And apparently 695 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:50,239 Speaker 1: he was exposed by the great James Randy, Um, the 696 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: amazing Randy who we talked about, the great legendary skeptic 697 00:40:55,840 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: old sour Puss what's that his name? Did ever see 698 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: the documentary? No? I haven't yet. It's really good. There's 699 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 1: a great documentary called um an Honest Liar about the 700 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,120 Speaker 1: amazing Randy. He's just so interesting. But he he I 701 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,359 Speaker 1: think ABC or CBS or someone got him involved. Yeah, 702 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,640 Speaker 1: ABC TV to expose uh John of God. And he said, well, 703 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,640 Speaker 1: for sure one of the things. I mean, he's exposed 704 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 1: psychic surgeons before, but he said, this force ups up 705 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: the nose thing. There's nothing more than the blockhead trick, 706 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:32,920 Speaker 1: and that's all he's doing. Fraud. We'll do a human 707 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 1: or no, a psychic surgery one. For sure. That sounds 708 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,719 Speaker 1: pretty interesting. I remember seeing that when I was a kid. 709 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 1: I thought it was like the real deal. That apparently 710 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: Andy Kaufman like went to psychic surgeon and then figured 711 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 1: out the scam. So sad, so says Milosh Foreman. At 712 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: least yeah, he's like chickens in the hand. I see it. Uh, 713 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,719 Speaker 1: you got anything else? I do not. If you want 714 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 1: to know more about human blockheads, you can type those 715 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:01,960 Speaker 1: in the search part how stuff works dot com. You 716 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,239 Speaker 1: can search human blockhead online. There's at least one good 717 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: Melvin Burkhart performance on YouTube. Don't forget to look up 718 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:15,279 Speaker 1: all our cartilage, um Ryan Stock and also shout out 719 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: to um Zen Arts l A for their article on 720 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 1: blockheads that was helpful. As well. Since I said all that, 721 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,360 Speaker 1: it's time friends for listener mail. So Chuck, I guess 722 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 1: this is the last one of the year. Yeah, yeah, 723 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,080 Speaker 1: we should say before we do mail. Um, Happy New Year, everybody. Yeah, 724 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,800 Speaker 1: be safe. We want to see everyone in and um 725 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: we kind of said it in the Christmas episode. But 726 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,920 Speaker 1: thanks for everything over the years. Yeah for real, it 727 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: means a lot to us. And uh we we just 728 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,560 Speaker 1: can't wait to get things going again. And by your calendar, 729 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,440 Speaker 1: just a couple of days by your Earth calendar. And 730 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,759 Speaker 1: also on a personal note, happy birthday too, my darling wife. 731 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,600 Speaker 1: You me, Happy birthday? You me? Okay, Well it's time 732 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,040 Speaker 1: for listening mail. Huh. I'm gonna call this uh banning 733 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,359 Speaker 1: advertising the kids. We heard from a lot of people 734 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 1: on this. It's a hot topic. Hey guys live in 735 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:16,120 Speaker 1: Northern Virginia. Just listen to your show on advertising for children. 736 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: I want to relate an relay and experience we had 737 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,840 Speaker 1: with our eighteen then eighteen month old daughter. We're on 738 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,720 Speaker 1: vacation with her in Florida. Had a day with nothing 739 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: on our to do list, so we decided to take 740 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,160 Speaker 1: a drive to Walt Disney World. We also found a 741 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,760 Speaker 1: bag full of cash in our club compartment. My husband 742 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,839 Speaker 1: was was hesitant about going because of her young age 743 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,760 Speaker 1: and the fact that she had zero exposure to Disney 744 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: at this point. I persuaded him by saying she would 745 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,759 Speaker 1: enjoy the parades and the characters, even if she didn't 746 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,359 Speaker 1: know who they were. Literally, only television she had ever 747 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,759 Speaker 1: seen at that point was educational programming on PBS Kids, 748 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: and that was even minimal. So as we turned onto 749 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,840 Speaker 1: the road trying to make our way to the Magic Kingdom, 750 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,600 Speaker 1: there was a water tower in the distance decorated like 751 00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,680 Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse, ears and all, and my daughter immediately shouted, look, 752 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:07,160 Speaker 1: it's Mickey Mouse. But they were like, yeah, how do 753 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 1: you know that? Uh. My husband and I were both 754 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:15,120 Speaker 1: completely surprised. We could not believe that our daughter had 755 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,120 Speaker 1: been indoctrinated into recognizing that brand at only eighteen months, 756 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,040 Speaker 1: especially since we hadn't taught her that. Most likely she 757 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,879 Speaker 1: was shown a toy or a book at daycare. Uh. 758 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,160 Speaker 1: It is not that we were against that Disney or anything, obviously, 759 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,120 Speaker 1: because we were taking her there. It's just very shocking 760 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,879 Speaker 1: to see your young child parrot that information. This could 761 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,239 Speaker 1: also be evidence of reincarnation well, at least what if 762 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,040 Speaker 1: it was like a billboard and she's like, look, it's 763 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:44,400 Speaker 1: a new Gangrich that would be cause for alarm. I 764 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: know this advertising is everywhere and it's nearly impossible to avoid, 765 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,640 Speaker 1: and just hope we can eventually teach her to not 766 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,719 Speaker 1: be fooled and use critical thinking to make decisions rather 767 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,640 Speaker 1: than her emotions. Thanks for all you do to make 768 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,080 Speaker 1: my long commute so much more enjoyable. That is from Stacy, 769 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,000 Speaker 1: And she says, my daughter now is nearly five and 770 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:06,000 Speaker 1: gets annoyed by commercials, so she pauses television until she 771 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 1: can fast forward through them all one point for technology. Nice. Well, 772 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,760 Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Stacy. We appreciate that. It's a cool story. 773 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 1: I hope you guys had a good time at Disney World. Um, 774 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,440 Speaker 1: and uh, that's it right. Well, if you want to 775 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,719 Speaker 1: get in touch with us, like Stacy did, you can 776 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,880 Speaker 1: tweet to us at josh um Clark or s Y 777 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,640 Speaker 1: s K podcast. 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