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What the heck is a hiccup? · Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: the podcast. Really sure? Okay, I'm Josh Clark. That's Chuck Bryant. Hello.
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Speaker 1: I think I said the same thing last time. I
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Speaker 1: think you did. Hello the jerk. I am Hi, Dare
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Speaker 1: that's much better, Chuck, what's up? Spice it up a
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Speaker 1: little bit? It's up. Maybe get the frenic nerve irritated.
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Speaker 1: I'll look at you. Yeah, perfect, so texted hermy Chuck.
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Speaker 1: Now we already did that. Yes, okay, Um, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about hiccups today. Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Chuck. What
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Speaker 1: do you know about hiccups? Man? Have you ever had
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Speaker 1: them before? I have, Josh, and I will talk about
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Speaker 1: a famous about of my hiccups later. Okay, when we
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Speaker 1: talk about being drunk? Oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, um,
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Speaker 1: But should we go ahead set this up? Yeah? Chuck
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Speaker 1: actually has a fairly ticklish constitution when it comes to hiccups. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And he has in his hand a be brand root beer. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And he's about to open it and try to give
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Speaker 1: himself hiccups because he says that it doesn't take very
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Speaker 1: much that we're gonna see it. That's the brand root beer.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes drinking a carbonated beverage will many times we'll do hiccups.
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Speaker 1: So my goal is to have hiccups through the episode.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Okay, here he goes he's
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Speaker 1: he's drinking the root beer. He's chugging the root here right,
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Speaker 1: look at him. Go you go, chuck. Oh, he's got
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Speaker 1: a look of grim determination on his face. He's taking
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Speaker 1: too long tips so far. He's looking at the root beer.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me. And there's a little birth right there. This
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Speaker 1: is hiccups, Chuck, not burpec. I got nothing. We'll keep trying.
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Speaker 1: His eyes are a little watery. Yeah, I feel it.
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Speaker 1: Uh and um he's you can take take it faster, faster, set.
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Speaker 1: He looks pain. He's got some carbonation in his lungs.
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Speaker 1: It looks like, man, that you have to No, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't have to down it. Chug. I have that
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Speaker 1: cold thing now on my chest. Well, actually cold is
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Speaker 1: one way that hiccups are Um activated, I guess yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's what happens when I drink the soda.
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Speaker 1: That's what happens. Yeah, how disappointing. Nine times out of ten,
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Speaker 1: I'll get hiccups the one time I need him, don't
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Speaker 1: worry about. We'll just have Jerry put some hiccups and
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Speaker 1: we'll say, oh, look, listen, there's hiccuping crazy. Let's give
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Speaker 1: some hiccup facts, shall we? Oh? Wait, listener requests, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is must be fan appreciation. Wait, because we did
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Speaker 1: two in a row. And this is from Jess in
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Speaker 1: Portland's Thank you Jess, and she was all, what up
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Speaker 1: with hiccups? Yo? Is that what she said? Now? All right, Chuck, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: did you know that you have a lifelong specific hiccup pattern?
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Speaker 1: I did not till I read this, and that is
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Speaker 1: way cool. Yeah. I don't know what mine is. Oh
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Speaker 1: as far as recognizing it, yeah, yeah, I've never charted
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Speaker 1: mine now, and I couldn't find anything else on some
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Speaker 1: uh you know, an additional outside research hunt. Um, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't find anything on that on specific hiccup patterns, like
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Speaker 1: if there's five or six, or if it's just you know,
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Speaker 1: there's as many as there are people that kind of thing,
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Speaker 1: like your fingerprint, right and snowflakes. Uh. There's also the
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Speaker 1: fact that the average hiccup spell can last for a
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Speaker 1: few minutes to a few hours. I've never had one
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Speaker 1: last a few hours. I start to get angry after
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, and I'll just take a huge
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Speaker 1: deep breath and that usually cures it. Actually, yeah, I've
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Speaker 1: got my cures too, but I'll talk about those later.
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Speaker 1: And there's actually, um, you've heard of people who have
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Speaker 1: um horrifically long bouts of hiccups, right, there's actually medical
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Speaker 1: terms for these. If your hiccups have lasted, um, I
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Speaker 1: think longer than forty eight hours, they're called person extant hiccups.
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Speaker 1: I would agree with that. And then if they lasted
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Speaker 1: longer than a month, they're called intractable hiccups. And this
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Speaker 1: is actually I found out, um, that's very prevalent among
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Speaker 1: patients with AIDS. Intractable hiccups are. Yeah, and I found
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Speaker 1: a study that said, uh that at least in one patient,
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Speaker 1: medical marijuana or I guess even just playing marijuana cures it. Interesting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they had a patient I think in Spain, had intractable
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Speaker 1: hiccups and tried marijuana for the first time in his life.
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Speaker 1: And uh, it cured it, and then I think twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours later it came back again. The patient used
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Speaker 1: marijuana second time, and that was the hiccups. You know
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Speaker 1: what what people with intractable hiccups called their hiccups? Hell,
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Speaker 1: those both hiccups. I can't get rid of. That's a
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Speaker 1: medical term. Too nice. Wow, Um, my face is bread.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessing a little bit least chuck. There's a question
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Speaker 1: that's plagued human kind? Can you tell us the twenty
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Speaker 1: first century? I said, human kind? Said plagued, plagued, plagued
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Speaker 1: human kind um for millennia, and that's why do we hiccup?
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Speaker 1: And actually we don't have an answer for that, No,
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Speaker 1: we don't know. Uh. The Greek physician Galen hypothesized that
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Speaker 1: it was angry emotions that were created in the stomach
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Speaker 1: coming out. It's a stamp, it's it's a shot at it. Right.
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Speaker 1: I love the Greeks. It's as good as any others.
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Speaker 1: And actually I found another um another explanation that was
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Speaker 1: posited in two thousand three by researchers at the PT.
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Speaker 1: Saltpetriere Hospital in Perry. Thank you. Um. They hypothesized that
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Speaker 1: us hiccup ng is a relic from our time spent
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Speaker 1: in the very distant past as amphibians. They said that
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Speaker 1: there is a very close similarity to gil ventilation, which
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Speaker 1: is how amphibians breathe because they also have lungs, so
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Speaker 1: they have to close their lungs to breathe, but they
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Speaker 1: also they have gills as well, right right, And then
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Speaker 1: the the water has to pass over the guilds without
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Speaker 1: going into the lungs to take a short, quick breath,
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Speaker 1: and the epiglottis closes. And we'll talk about how a
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Speaker 1: hiccup works in a second. But the guil ventilation in
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Speaker 1: amphibians and hiccuping in humans and mammals, by the way,
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Speaker 1: um are very similar. So they went a little further
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Speaker 1: and said, and you know what, here's here's the drum
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Speaker 1: roll part um. The brain circuitry that controls guil ventilation
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Speaker 1: in amphibians is still present in mammals. Yeah, so they're
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Speaker 1: saying that they think that this is a it's a
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Speaker 1: relic leftover from our very very very ancient past, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: You know? What I also thought was interesting was the
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Speaker 1: recapitulation theory, or part of it proposes that fetuses actually
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Speaker 1: use hiccups as part of their respiration before their lungs
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Speaker 1: are fully developed, right, and they actually do. The theory
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Speaker 1: part comes in is to why um, and that is
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Speaker 1: that basically it's that it's it's akin to how we
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Speaker 1: learn to crawl before we learn to walk, or we
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Speaker 1: can crawl before we can walk. We can hiccup before
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Speaker 1: we can breathe. Normally, we should start saying that, you know,
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Speaker 1: you got a hiccup before you can breathe. People get
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Speaker 1: what it would be, like, Hey, we're the woman on
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Speaker 1: the top, you're gonna say that. Um. And that that's
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Speaker 1: actually supported by the fact that premies spend two point
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Speaker 1: five of their little premi life hiccupping, And that's a
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Speaker 1: lot more than regular full term babies. They're sitting there
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Speaker 1: like like they don't have it hard enough up all
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Speaker 1: the time. I weigh three pounds and I'm hiccupping. Give
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Speaker 1: me a break. And apparently UM hormones can play a
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Speaker 1: role in hiccupping. Women who who are in the first
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Speaker 1: two weeks of their mentor will cycle hiccup more UM
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Speaker 1: than pregnant women do. Uh. So, there's a whole grab
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Speaker 1: bag of questions attached to hiccup ng. You're more likely
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Speaker 1: to hit up in the evening exactly, and you hick
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Speaker 1: up less as you get older. Yeah. I think that's
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Speaker 1: all the little factoids. Right, So we've we've got all
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Speaker 1: these this information. No answers whatsoever as to exactly why
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Speaker 1: we hiccup. None, I kind of I subscribe to the
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Speaker 1: recapitulation theory frankly. Yeah, um, but we do know what happens.
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Speaker 1: We do know the physiology of a hiccup, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the easy part. And it all comes down to
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Speaker 1: the frenic nerves, which after reading this article I have
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Speaker 1: concluded the frenic nerves are the sissiest nerves of all. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The vegas nerves are in there too, I found out.
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Speaker 1: Uh they if they get annoyed, and then you can
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Speaker 1: hiccup as well. Right. So the frenic nerve right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: it controls the diaphragm. And the diaphragm is that muscle
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Speaker 1: that goes over your big belly and under your rib cage.
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Speaker 1: You're so it's it's in between the stomach and the abdomen. Right,
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Speaker 1: it goes down when we inhale, ye try, it goes
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Speaker 1: up when we exhale, so it helps out the breathing process.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear that horrible struggle for breath? And it's
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Speaker 1: like yeah. So when we are breathing, we're taking an
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Speaker 1: air through the nose in the mouth, right, and it
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Speaker 1: flows through the pharynx, past the glottis and into the
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Speaker 1: larynx and trachea, which eventually terminate into the lungs. Right,
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Speaker 1: and then it follows a opposite path on the way
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Speaker 1: out as we exhale. That phrenic nerve that controls the
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Speaker 1: diaphragm uh is, as I said, kind of sissy, a
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Speaker 1: little prissy, kind of a punk uh. And any time
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Speaker 1: it gets irritated, well I shouldn't say any time, but
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Speaker 1: when it's irritated, uh, it can induce an abdominal spasms up. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's part of a hiccup. Hiccup is a quick, short
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Speaker 1: breath we take aken because our diaphragm is spasming, right, yes, um.
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Speaker 1: And then what makes the hiccup sound is the epiglottis,
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Speaker 1: that little piece of tissue that covers the glottis and
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Speaker 1: keeps you know, um, this beat brand root beer from
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Speaker 1: going into your lungs when you're drinking it. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: hate it when that happens, closes all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: and there's your hiccup. That is what a hiccup is, yes,
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Speaker 1: right the end. What are some of the things that
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Speaker 1: can cause that little frenic nerve to throw a tantrum chuck? Well,
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Speaker 1: Josher's there's only a few things that can cause this. Uh.
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Speaker 1: One of the main things that can happen is that
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Speaker 1: you over eat and you've got a full stomach, so
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Speaker 1: you're sollowing too much food or air. Your stomach too
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Speaker 1: stands and gets all fat and it pushes against the
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Speaker 1: frenic nerves and they're like, oh, you ate too much hiccup, right,
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Speaker 1: So that's one way. Another one is, um, add hot food,
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Speaker 1: spicy food to that, and you're you're doubling your chances
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Speaker 1: because it hot foods will irritate your frenic nerves as well.
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Speaker 1: And the last thing is, uh, smoking is not good.
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Speaker 1: Excessive smoking and drinking can also cause hiccups. Or like
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Speaker 1: we propose with my thing with a with a coke
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Speaker 1: and the root beer. Um, a rapid temperature change inside
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Speaker 1: the stomach, like drinking something really cold or really hot, right,
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Speaker 1: So that can all irritate. The little was uh, frandic
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Speaker 1: nerves and frandic almost ad frantic. I think it is
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Speaker 1: a little frandic. If not hysteric, it should be the
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Speaker 1: hysteric nerve, right, and then stress and emotion on the
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Speaker 1: psychological side that can cause them too, and mental illness too.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything on this. I saw a couple
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Speaker 1: of mentions that mental illness uh is linked to hiccups, right,
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Speaker 1: But I couldn't find any um anything further than that.
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Speaker 1: But I did find out that you can use chloropromosine,
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Speaker 1: which is an antipsychotic, to cure long term hiccups. Did
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Speaker 1: you know that? No? I didn't, So that that kind
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Speaker 1: of points to mental illness a little bit or some
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Speaker 1: sort of connection interesting and mental hiccups, Yes, and another
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Speaker 1: layman's term for O c D. Really Yeah, that's a
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Speaker 1: good band name to mental hiccups. Yeah, Actually it's kind
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Speaker 1: of lame. So my story since we brought up the
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Speaker 1: drunk thing was I famously had hiccups in Athens one night,
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Speaker 1: and this is after I graduated. I went back to
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Speaker 1: see the Flaming Lips at forty and I had hiccups
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Speaker 1: for about six hours straight and I had imbibed a
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Speaker 1: bit much, so it was kind of one of those nights.
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Speaker 1: It was. I was the butt of many jokes because
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Speaker 1: I was walking around and kind of doing this and
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Speaker 1: if you know it, it lasted forever. It was awful.
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Speaker 1: What did Wayne Coyne have to say about it? He said,
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Speaker 1: you need to be hit to death in the future
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Speaker 1: head okay, which is one of their albums. That just
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Speaker 1: made that up. Oh he didn't really say that, no,
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Speaker 1: but it is one of their albums. I'm sorry I
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Speaker 1: lie so much to you. Let's say that you've eaten
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Speaker 1: a lot of Indian food, you've smoked a pact cigarettes,
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Speaker 1: drink a cord of crazy Horse, and you followed it
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Speaker 1: with a big old glass of coffee. You have no
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Speaker 1: regard whatsoever for the sensation in your hands, um, and
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Speaker 1: your frenic nerve is going berserk, perserker like a mad Viking. Yeah, mushrooms, Um,
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Speaker 1: what are some of the things you can do aside
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Speaker 1: from taking you know, antipsychotics to cure hiccups? Are we
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Speaker 1: getting into the cures now? Because boy, there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of them, and even if we read twenty we'll get
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Speaker 1: a thousand more from people. I was going to call
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Speaker 1: for it a listener mail. Yeah, we'll get them for sure. Um,
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Speaker 1: there are a few medical things that have been uh well,
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Speaker 1: nothing has been proven to be more effective. It kind
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Speaker 1: of comes down to the person. And I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of it's mental. Well, if you think one of
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Speaker 1: them will work for you, then that's the one you use,
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Speaker 1: and that might work. And people aren't exactly sure how.
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Speaker 1: But mental distraction actually can cure hiccups, right, that's true,
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Speaker 1: especially if somebody comes up to you and demands that
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Speaker 1: you hiccup on the spot. I've never heard that one. Um,
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Speaker 1: you haven't. No, Like, if you've got the hiccups, they'll say,
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Speaker 1: hiccup right, Well, what if you just hiccup? You're like, dude,
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Speaker 1: that's my problem. I'm hiccuping. I didn't say it was good,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just saying it's been shown to cure it
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Speaker 1: in some people. They should go and say, don't hiccup, right,
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Speaker 1: Like I said, I've I've uh, I can draw in
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Speaker 1: a big breath of air and that usually cures it. Right.
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Speaker 1: That's not my method, but I'm gonna I'm gonna save that. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Most of the best home remedies actually work. Stimulate the
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Speaker 1: naso pharynx, and that's a part of the pharynx behind
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Speaker 1: the tonsils and uh like drinking from the opposite side
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Speaker 1: of the glass. You've heard that one. Biting into a
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Speaker 1: lemon or pulling on your tongue sometimes that will actually
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Speaker 1: uh stimulate the naso pharynx and that will work. It's
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Speaker 1: also you can also just do it with your tongue itself,
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Speaker 1: the tip of your tongue, if you rub it against
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Speaker 1: the very back of the roof of your mouth. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: tickling the roof of your mouth. That that can help.
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Speaker 1: It can. It also keeps you from yawning interesting or
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Speaker 1: tickling period. They say, if you're a ticklish person, gets
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Speaker 1: someone to tickle you, and you might just forget about hiccuping.
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Speaker 1: And if you're not a ticklish person, you have no soul.
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Speaker 1: That's true. Uh. Most of the breathing things, um might
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Speaker 1: work because you're actually interrupting your respiratory cycle. So if
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Speaker 1: you do the paperbag trick or down a glass of
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Speaker 1: water really quick, that's that's the reason why that'll work.
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Speaker 1: Mine is I do the same thing with the breath thing,
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Speaker 1: but I don't inhale and take a big breath. I
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Speaker 1: exhale every bit of air I can and then put
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Speaker 1: my hand over my mouth and close my nose and
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Speaker 1: literally go till I'm about to pass out, and then
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Speaker 1: I'll breathe like try and breathe very calmly when I
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Speaker 1: come back, and usually that will work. So you do
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Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what I do. Well, you draw
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Speaker 1: in a big breath and then hold it. You exhale
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Speaker 1: all of your breath. That's what I do. But both ways,
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Speaker 1: I think we're interrupting a respiratory cycle. Chuck, Josh. There's
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Speaker 1: all sorts of medical um treatments, right, Some are some
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Speaker 1: are cool, like antipsychotics or medical marijuana. Yeah. This is
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Speaker 1: if you are have persistent or intractable hiccups. So right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you you know, start hiccupping and immediately getting your
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Speaker 1: car and go see a doctor, what's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: But that being said, uh, it does. It is advised
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Speaker 1: that if you have hiccups that last for forty eight hours,
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Speaker 1: do go see a doctor because it can be kind
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Speaker 1: of a problem when you go see the doctor. In
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Speaker 1: addition to possibly prescribing antipsychotics, medical marijuana depending on your state. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The doctor may also prescribe a digital rectal exam. I
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Speaker 1: think that that kind of falls into the mental distraction category. Really,
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Speaker 1: maybe we're not talking ones and zeros here when we
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Speaker 1: talk about digital we're talking about something you might digits
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Speaker 1: of your hand, might find in prison. Perhaps digits another
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Speaker 1: another term for fingers. Yeah, I don't know why that
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Speaker 1: would work, but apparent I'm telling you it's the mental
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Speaker 1: district You're like, whoa, whoa and what cups? You know
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Speaker 1: have a much bigger problem than hiccuffs. Uh. They will
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Speaker 1: sometimes tap or rub, rub the back of your neck,
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Speaker 1: massage the Cartoyd sinus, which is in your neck charatid.
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Speaker 1: What did I say Cartoyd? Like Cartoyd it is karatid,
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Speaker 1: You're right. Or apply pressure to your eyeball to stimulate
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Speaker 1: the nerves of your diaphragm. But we should also c
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Speaker 1: o a here and say, don't go mashing on your
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Speaker 1: eyeball too hard. That's not very smart. No, you can
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Speaker 1: pull on your tongue, but don't mash your eyeball or
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Speaker 1: sticky sticking your finger in your ears sometimes we'll do it,
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Speaker 1: but also don't stick something foreign in your ear. And uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, massage your brain. You don't want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Nothing bigger than the end of a football, Is that
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Speaker 1: what they say? Really? Yeah? I thought you're just making
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Speaker 1: that up. No. Um. There's also surgery to basically disconnect
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Speaker 1: your frenic nerve or parts of it, make it a
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Speaker 1: little less prissy. Um. And there is also emptying your
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Speaker 1: stomach through a tube inserted into your nose or mouth.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty harsh. I think I'd rather have hiccups. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I say that, though I've never had them for forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours or more. Though now I can't imagine when
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Speaker 1: you sleep you're still having them in your sleep. That'd
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Speaker 1: be awful. Let's talk about a couple of people who
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Speaker 1: have slept through hiccup bouts. All right, Charles Chucky Osbourne.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that this man had an actual life
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Speaker 1: as far as a quality life goes. Imagine he got
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Speaker 1: used to it. Do you think you would at for
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Speaker 1: sixty eight years? Yes? But isn't it annoying? Though? Isn't
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Speaker 1: the aren't hiccups one of those things that you just
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Speaker 1: can't help but find annoying If somebody around you as
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Speaker 1: hiccups like it almost brings out like this anger response
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Speaker 1: in people when it doesn't go away fast enough. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's annoying. But like I said, Charles Osborne had him
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Speaker 1: for sixty eight years. He had him from nineteen twenty
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Speaker 1: two to nineteen nine, and they estimate Guinness season a
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Speaker 1: Guinness Book of course, that he had four hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty million hiccups over that span. And I'm curious if
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Speaker 1: if he died in nineteen nine and that's that is
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Speaker 1: the end of the run, well, I don't know, or
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Speaker 1: if he was just cured. I'm sure we can find
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Speaker 1: that out. Uh. There was also a Florida teen named
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Speaker 1: Jennifer me She hiccuped for five weeks in two thousand seven.
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Speaker 1: I actually remember that one, and then she was on
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Speaker 1: the Today, so I think really so she stopped for
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Speaker 1: a little while and then they returned a few weeks later,
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Speaker 1: much sure, dismay and um, I think she does not
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Speaker 1: have hiccups any longer though, which is good. Well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: another couple of people, Josh, another Florida person, Jamie mostly
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Speaker 1: hiccup for eight months, and David Willis of Narrathon Eiland
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Speaker 1: Uh had two unsuccessful surgeries with a five year hiccup
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Speaker 1: or deal. Yeah, that's awful. You have the surgery and
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Speaker 1: it still comes back. Could you imagine anything worse to
19:45
Speaker 1: surgeries and it still comes back. Well, that's what would
19:47
Speaker 1: be worse. If you want to learn more about hiccups,
19:53
Speaker 1: I would recommend pulling your tongue, eating a spoonful of sugar,
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Speaker 1: and moving from Florida drinking moderation. Yes, oh wait, you
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Speaker 1: know what. There was one more that I used to do,
20:03
Speaker 1: and I think this is all mental. I was told
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Speaker 1: that if you strike a match and then put the
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Speaker 1: match out in a in a glass of water and
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Speaker 1: then drink that water real quick, that'll do it. Weird,
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Speaker 1: but I think that's the water drinking method combined with
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Speaker 1: just some mind games personally or sulfur. Well, I thought
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Speaker 1: about that. I don't know if that's true. If you
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Speaker 1: want to learn more about hiccups and see some cool
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Speaker 1: diagrams of a diaphram, you can type in hiccups at
20:29
Speaker 1: the handy search bar at how stuff works dot com,
20:32
Speaker 1: which means this time for listener mail, Josh, I'm gonna
20:41
Speaker 1: call this one goaded into being on listener mail? Goadd go?
20:46
Speaker 1: Did this guy goaded me go? Did basically dared me
20:49
Speaker 1: to put him on listener mail, and you felt for
20:52
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, dude, I will. You can't.
20:55
Speaker 1: Can't reward that kind of behavior. Reverse I called you Chuck, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Josh and Chuck. I've made no secretive fact that I
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Speaker 1: think your podcasts are great. I've also openly declared a
21:04
Speaker 1: singular mission to achieve global notoriety by getting you guys
21:08
Speaker 1: to say hello to me and listener mail. I don't
21:10
Speaker 1: know about global notoriety. He he was written in a
21:13
Speaker 1: few times and I didn't fall for it, so finally
21:15
Speaker 1: to keep him from emailing me again. That's why I'm
21:17
Speaker 1: reading this. I've noted in recent weeks a pattern in
21:20
Speaker 1: your way to choose you choose your mail. You invariably
21:23
Speaker 1: choose mail from those of younger persuasion, generally in high
21:27
Speaker 1: school or below. So premise one you must be young.
21:30
Speaker 1: I've also noted that you tend to like the mail
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Speaker 1: that is either written poorly or in some form of
21:34
Speaker 1: broken pigeon English. Premise to use bad English. I would
21:39
Speaker 1: also like to suggest that while you are often balanced
21:41
Speaker 1: and seemingly devoid of ego related behavior, uh, you love
21:49
Speaker 1: it when people claim to be a big fan. Well,
21:50
Speaker 1: of course we do. Um, So premise number three, say
21:54
Speaker 1: I'm your number one fan, actually has nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with smail. Uh. Finally, there usually has to be something
22:00
Speaker 1: slightly witty, but not more witty than you. This guy
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Speaker 1: is dead on. Oh that's not true. I love it
22:08
Speaker 1: when people are funnier than me. So premise number four
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Speaker 1: is be smart but not too smart, which is not true.
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Speaker 1: I've come to realize that I am not young. Indeed,
22:16
Speaker 1: I think I'm about your age. My English is pretty good.
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Speaker 1: I did go to university. Some one would expect a
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Speaker 1: certain level of literacy. Uh no, he's not. He's Australian.
22:26
Speaker 1: I am well aware that while a fan, I am
22:28
Speaker 1: most likely not your number one fan. In fact, I'd
22:31
Speaker 1: be very disappointed if I was your number one fan,
22:34
Speaker 1: because I am not that good at being a groupie. Finally,
22:38
Speaker 1: this is the strange one to type out. I think
22:40
Speaker 1: I'm smart, Not Hadrian Collider smart. I've read Chaucer smart,
22:45
Speaker 1: but certainly smart enough to keep up with you guys.
22:47
Speaker 1: Keeping typing that feels weird, he says. So. Not willing
22:51
Speaker 1: to be fraudulent, I will simply continue to send you
22:53
Speaker 1: one off slightly funny things I come across in the
22:57
Speaker 1: hope that one day, just one day, you think of
22:59
Speaker 1: me and say, how low with something funny added mark
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Speaker 1: from originally from Wagga Wagga, Australia, now in Sydney, and
23:06
Speaker 1: now you have to add something funny Wagga water is
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Speaker 1: pretty funny. Perfect. Yeah, thanks Chuck. If you have something
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Speaker 1: funny to say, chuck it on like funny you You
23:17
Speaker 1: can be funnier than us if you dare, uh, send
23:20
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23:23
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