Good Job, Brain! - 79: Too Much of a Good Thing

Episode Date: September 18, 2013

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, snazzy, snappy, snoop snorkeling for snarge. Welcome to Good Job, Brain. Don't think about it. Your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 79, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your sparkling, sparky, sparring Spartans and spare ribs.

I'm Colin. I'm Dana. I'm Chris. All right. Let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. And here, I pick a random card, a trivial pursuit card from the box. Get your barnyard buzzers ready.

Here we go. Blue Wedge for Geography. What breakfast food is called Oh. I love when she gets angry at the question. No, no, no. I just can't pronounce it. Oh, all right.

What breakfast food is called Fancuchin in southern Germany, panakok, Panakik in, oh, great, I give it away. South Africa and Pouda in India. Call it. Would that be pancakes? Yes. Pentecake. It's one of my favorite Spanish words.

What is it? It's Spanish. Panqueque. I just like saying that. Pankeke. Yeah. Kilo. Yeah.

Pink wedge for pop culture. Whoa. Which actor did not appear in Saving Private Ryan? Here's a list of four actors. Edward Burns, Ted Danson, Vin Diesel, or Ray Fines? Oh, my gosh. Colin. I'm going to guess Ray Fines.

Correct. I would guess Vin Diesel. I remember that. I knew that one just as a bit of trivia. He was in it. He was in it. I knew he was in it because I liked Vin Diesel. at that time.

It was the voice of the Iron Giant. All right. Yellow Wedge. What cylindrical food container was so prized by its inventor that he requested his ashes be interred in one? Must be the thermos. Incorrect. Oh, really? Hmm.

Oh. Food container. Is it a Tupperware? Incorrect. It's not necessarily cylindrical. It is a brand name food. Dana. Pringles.

Yes. Pringles can. What a mean surprise. What if you're like, oh, cool. Mom left a can of cringles for the kitchen. It's right in the living room next to the TV. All right. Purple Wedge.

On what Shakespearean play did Stephanie Meyer loosely based New Moon, the second book of the Twilight series? Dana, very excitedly. Romeo and Juliet? Correct. No one's ever going to notice these parallels. It was really, really, really overt. Really overt.

All right. Green Wedge for science. Which of these describes when a whale pokes his head out of the water to take a look around? Splurming. Who I wish? Tipping or spy hopping. Wow. This is to take a look around.

Yeah, just to take a look around. I hope it's splurming. I'm going to guess tipping. Spy hopping. Data is right. It is spy hopping. Take a look around. There's why. But splurming would be better.

The splurming is a word, but it's a word on urban dictionary. Oh, okay. That's probably not. It's safe, it's. I'm not upset about that. Wait, wait. It's the act of spitting out one's drink or food due to shock or surprise. Oh.

So what? Like a spit tank. Did they just make it squirming? Urban dictionary. It's a questionable source. No, it is. No, it is. Anyways, well.

All right. Last question. In Orange Wedge, what tongue-and-cheek sport got its start when Phil Shaw combined pressing his shirts with rock climbing? Oh, isn't it like the world championships of ironing or something like that? Oh, my God, it's extreme ironing. Yeah. So it's like, I've seen this on like the wacky sport. It's like guys, they'll go out and just some tiny little rock in middle of the ocean with high winds.

And it's like you try and iron in just crazy spots where it's not. Oh, you're actually ironing. Yeah, it's actually ironboard, iron shirt. And, you know, they're just being whipped by winds and water and things like that. Yeah. Okay. I would say tongue and cheek is the accurate description, yes. Well, good job, Brins.

Good job, Collins, Brin. Extreme irony. There you go. They had to have something for the sports category. This week's topic is suggested by Chris. I was thinking about people overdoing things and suggested that the topic should be too much. Too much Like just

Oh you've overdone it Now you've done it Too much of a good thing Yeah too much of a good thing Or a bad thing or a bad thing Or whatever Just too much of anything Is it too much to ask you to bother

I don't care if you don't even miss it Because I got dinner You think and I'm saying I know I never had much to say Is it too much to ask for a visit? So actually, to be totally honest, it was because I was reading about this particular topic that I suggested the general, the generalized topic. I have a feeling of something like that. That's basically what it was.

It's like, I just need an opportunity to talk about this thing. Yeah. That's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. So it's like, well, what is the more generalized version of this? So I was just reading about semantic satiation. Semantic satiation. Yeah.

It is not as crazy as you think it is. We've all experienced it. It is the phenomenon where if you read or hear or write a word multiple times, eventually it loses all meaning. It sounds really weird. That's a thing. Yeah, yeah. It's a thing. I can't believe we use this as a word.

Right, right, right. Is that a word? Yeah. Like, if you say the word yogurt over and over and over again. Yeah. Or you stare at this. For me, it's staring at a screen or you keep typing it or it's visually being repeated. Or we just keep writing it.

Yeah, yeah. I'm like existential trance. Like, what are letters? Where does meaning come from? Yeah. So this has actually been shown, like in a laboratory setting over and over from at least the beginning of the 20th century, if not even in earlier studies. This is a real phenomenon. And the big question is, is it just like sensory overload?

Like, are you just seeing the same thing so much that your brain isn't taking in the sensation of it anymore? Or is it actually like a problem with semantics, like the meaning of the word? are you actually becoming unable in your brain to understand the meaning of the word? Because that's what it feels like, right? It's like it just, it starts to feel like a glob of letters or a glob of sounds and not a sign with meaning. That's true. So the current research, and everything I've read says we don't really know for sure yet, but the current research suggests that it really is a semantic problem.

Because our brain takes that and it translates for us that, that it's a very. a word with a meaning, right? Like, that's how we get from looking at a series of squiggles on a piece of paper to understanding the concept of, like, dog. So what actually is occurring in the brain when you do it repeatedly? I am not going to take a stab at that, because the last time I tried talking about the human brain on this podcast, an actual brain doctor scientist wrote in to say I got it all wrong. So I'm going to dumb it down as much as I possibly can to indicate that I'm not trying to be

specific. our thinking meat gets tired It just stuff keeps happening And it just like kind of wears itself out a little bit And that connection that is made up there And then in the old Noggin Like just stops kind of firing because it's tired It needs like a refractory period

Like it needs some time to recoup Yeah But I figure I think I can understand this So how did scientists figure out that it is a semantic issue So there is a Washington University study from 1997 that keeps getting cited, they show you cards that say, after they've repeated, like, the word dog, you know, a bunch of times to you, and they think that you should be satiated, semantically saciated, then they show you cards that say, dog and cat, or dog and chair. And they say, hey, which of these pairs of words is related? Mm.

And they have found, many studies have found, that if you're satiated, if they've said the word dog enough times, or shown you the word dog enough times, or shown you the word dog enough. times or you know made you write it or whatever it is your response time goes up yeah it takes you longer to realize you know in a matter of like millisecond it doesn't take you like five minutes but it takes you a little bit longer to go oh dog and cat are related not dog and chair and then they've done this with rhyming words or words that are spelled the same but don't rhyme so like they'll show you like the words same and claim and then the words same and dime and they'll just show you those words and say, okay, which pair rhymes. And there is no change to the response time if they've satiated you in one of those words.

It has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with the reading of the words. So there is a changing response time only when they're asking you a question about the meaning. That's so clever. Because I was thinking of myself, like, how do they control that it's a meaning issue? And that's exactly it. And they say, these phenomena in general also are what is known as ja me vu, which is the opposite of deja vu.

Deja vu is French for already seen. Jamevoo, never seen. You're doing something familiar, but it all feels unfamiliar. But don't worry, you're not crazy. It is a real thing. Well, you might be crazy. But it is also a real thing. This is not the reason you are crazy.

You fill your brain just kind of letting go of words. You're like, oh, no. Come back. Come back. Come back, frame. I love doing the show because it makes me think like, oh, I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one. I have a quick quiz about.

too much of a good thing. Depending on one point of view. I have a quiz about too much. I was like getting very relativistic. Who was afflicted with the golden touch? Karen. That is King Midas. King Midas.

Which Greek God gifted slash afflicted him with this ability? Oh, geez. Who's a jerk? Zeus is always kind of a jerk. What do you think, Chris? I'll go with Zeus. No. Who is the god of indulgence?

and fancy things. Oh, Bacchus or Dianysus. Yeah. Melanie Griffith fell in love with her co-star on the set of their 1995 movie Too Much and married him a year later. Antonio Banderas. That's the correct pronunciation as well. This filmmaker and actor's long-lost film Too Much Johnson was recently rediscovered.

Whoa. He shot it two years before coming to Hollywood to make his 1941 classic, which won the Academy Award for Best Writing that year. For coming to Hollywood, 1941. Academy Award for Best Writing. Or Hitchcock, maybe. Oh, that's a good guess.

Okay. I'll guess it. I'll over Hitchcock. No. Oh, okay. You were on the right track before. So, Orson Wells. Yes.

Orson Wells. Okay. I thought I started early in there. Okay. They just found his new movie, Too Much Johnson. Is it complete? I mean, it's, it's, it's a complete. complete movie.

I think so. Chiron. It's a fact, you guys. These are facts in the world. If you were diagnosed with hemochromatosis, you'd have too much what in your blood? Hemochromatosis.

Too much, yeah. Too many red blood cells? No. I don't know. See, that doesn't have too much color. That's not a bad dick. Chromatous. Too much.

Too much iron. Iron. Iron. Oh. I would think it's like hyperferro. How about hyperchalemia? It's too much something else in your blood. Calemia.

Calemia. Think about the periodic table. Calcium? Corrine. No? C. It begins with a K. Potassium.

Oh, potassium. According to WebMD, what is the threshold for too much cholesterol or high cholesterol? I don't know what the numbers That's a good trivia question I don't even know where to start Just as a healthy person We should know this Yeah what's on a Cheerios box

I don't know Is it like 40 80 40 I'm not gonna give a unit I'm just gonna say 40 You're almost is right 240

240 There is a 40 in the number But I was not in a quick When they were asked Why they broke up with their last girlfriend 40% of men said these exact three words. What are they?

What are the three words? She's too much. No. Too much nagging? Close. Talks too much? No. Too much baggage.

Really? 40% of people said too much baggage? Yeah. You guys have just been with like baggage-less ladies. Guess so. Yeah. Last question. This 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Jimmy Stewart

and Doris Day was a remake of a film that Alfred Hitchcock also released in 1936. Wasn't that the man who knew too much? Yes. He did it twice. Yeah. So nice.

He made the same movie twice. Yeah. He said the first one... Different people? Different actors. One was 1936. And then the second one was 1950. That is weird.

Well, I guess like we're pumping out the same movies now. So remaking stuff. It's a remake. Well, he said the first one, one was the work of a talented amateur, and the second one is the work of a professional. He can get away with that. I can see, like, you find a project you really like, and you do it, and you're like, I didn't do a very good job.

And then when you're better, you're like, I'll do a better job now. Yeah, well, I had seen, I mean, the later one, I think is definitely the more famous one. And I had seen that growing up. And then one time I was flipping through the channels, and it's like, oh, the man, who knew too much offered Hitchcock. And I was watching it, like, classic movies or something like, this isn't the same movie I remember, but it's Hitchcock. And that's, yeah, I mean, I was crazy town.

Yeah. I'm not to really misremembered what I saw it before. Yeah. I'm taking crazy pills. Good job, you guys. Lots of old wives tales out there or things that your parents would tell you. Like, one of the things my mom loves to tell me was like, don't eat too much watermelon because you might accidentally eat a seed. And then a watermelon is going to grow in your stomach.

And I was just like, no, that's not possible. Another one is like. They just wanted you to stop eating all the watermelon out of, like, other ways to, yeah. Another one is like, don't eat too many carrots because you'll turn orange and you'll look like the umpalumpa. So I looked into that, the carrot one. Yeah. It is true. It is true.

If you eat too many carrots or yams or pumpkins or any vegetable that has a lot of carotenoids, you will turn orange. You turn yellow. And it happens in babies too because a lot of baby food has those types of carrots and something. And you can tell, and it's, it's not like your whole body. It's the palm of your hands. It's the kind of, the corners of your nose. Is it harmful? It is harmless.

Oh, okay. Nothing's wrong. Right. Nothing's wrong. Feeding my baby. Tons of carrots. Resume playing. They will see in the dark.

I was looking at this and it's called hyper carotanemia. Okay. Otherwise known as carotanotinia. harmless effect and then this made me look into carrots in general eating too many carrots and of course we've talked we talked a bit about carrots and eyesight on the show before but this blew my mind so we grew up our whole lives you know being taught that eating carrots will improve your vision right good for your eyes or you know it has something that will make your vision better at night or it's partially true there are vitamin

and other things in carrots that be beneficial. But, I mean, the amount you have to eat is a lot. Right. You would definitely be yellow. Yeah. But, I mean, this applies to other things, right? These compounds, other vegetables also have these compounds. How come we're not hearing, oh, you should eat pumpkin.

Your eyes will be good. You know, why is it carrots? Right. Why carrots? And it is all part of propaganda. Who is the carrot cartel? I'm not kidding. Okay.

Big carrot. Yeah. Like many things, this started during wartime era. In World War II, in England, you know, the British government issued citywide blackouts during World War II, right? This is so that for German airplanes, you know, flying around, they can't really see where they're bombing because there are no lights. The British Royal Air Force were able to kind of repel the German fighters because they had a new secret weapon. And that is radar technology. They had radar.

the onboard airborne interception radar was first used by the British pilots and they can pinpoint enemy bombers before they even reach the English channel but they didn't want to tell people that they don't want to make it known that they have this right right so they develop this crazy story this theory that oh

well we feed our pilots a lot of carrots and it improves their night vision I am not kidding like Yes, I found a lot of historical art. The Nazis just bought it. And they did. They did. Other armies and other forces.

Massive German carrot fields being a plant. Carrots played a very big part in World War II because of this. They even had posters, like propaganda posters, like, eat carrots. It's good for your vision. And they have different characters, you know, like Mr. Carrot or Dr. Carrot. Right, because they had to, they had to really devote themselves to the story. Commit. Yeah.

And like I said, I wouldn't say, it's. It's completely a myth because there are very good nutrients in carrots, but, like, not to this degree. It's a green of truth. Yeah. A grain. They're not bad for your eyesight. Some of the Germans were like, oh, they're eating carrots. We got to eat carrots, too. And this is just this feedback loop. And this is where the whole carrots are good for your eyes came from. Wow. That's amazing. And there must, I would have to imagine that there's some effect, too, of like, oh, yeah, it works. You know, like, oh, I'm eating these. Oh, I see so much better since I've been eating these carrots.

I mean, the good thing is they're really kind of promoting a healthy lifestyle, too. Huh. Makes me a little disillusioned with everything. They're like, what? I don't know what vegetables to believe in anymore. You should not eat too many apple seeds. You really shouldn't eat apple seeds at all or cherry seeds because they actually do contain trace amounts of cyanide. Trace amounts.

But if you eat a giant barrel full of apple seeds or chill. Which you should not do. You probably will get sick. You would get a diet barrel full of. Like, who eat, like, has this been a problem? Like, who just eats a lot of apples seeds? Well, cider. I mean, if they're making byproducts of apple, like apple sauce back in the olden days,

they probably have to match just, they just mash up the whole apple. So Karen, uh, mentioning old wives tells, don't sit too close to the TV. You're going to ruin your eyesight. Unfortunately. Is that true or not? Unfortunate to say it is most likely true. Yes. It is, it is most likely true.

that what they call near work, you know, being close to something and focusing your eyes on something that's really up close to you really does, they think, contribute to nearsightedness or myopia is the technical name, as you guys probably know. But it's not just TV, keeping it the spirit of too much of a good thing, too much of a bad thing, too much reading. Oh, definitely. They really do, a lot of researchers really do believe that that literacy in reading just culturally contributes to higher rates of myopia in near-sightedness. Rates of myopia are tied with higher IQ. Rates of myopia are tied with higher academic achievement. Rates of myopia are higher in industrialized nations. Rates of myopia are higher in nations that tend to be richer. And now, of course,

it's sociology and humans. There's a lot of factors at play here. Well, Holden, does everybody wear glasses or need a prescription at this table? I do. No. Oh, Christ is not. I just got computer Your glasses, in fact. It's not a coincidence. We talk about the stereotypical nerd image, and, you know, there's, you know, however you describe, what is nerd to you? Put some glasses on. Yeah, throw some glasses, you know, especially if you're an art director, yeah, or if you're

casting for TV, oh, how do we know he's a nerd? I put some glasses on him. And it really does seem to be the case that the nerd, you know, very, very broadly speaking, the nerdier you are as a person or as a culture, the higher rate of nearsightedness. And myopia there is. Now, definitely, yeah, there is. some genetics that's part of it. Some people are predisposed to near-sightedness. And, you know, you can see it. Even just, you may know families where everyone in family has glasses. And that's

part of it. Nutrition is part of it. Physiology is part of it. But the research really seems to show that becoming an industrialized society, moving away from agrarian or hunter-gather society, you are setting your culture on a path for higher-hites of near-sightedness. Yeah. So if you were going to test this, how would we go about testing it? They've done some ingenious tests on this over the years, sociological tests. So the first big test that they did of this was in the late 60s. And they studied a population of Eskimos, native Eskimos, in Barrow, Alaska. And one of the reasons that they picked this population was they really wanted to look at a population that had industrialized or become more westernized very quickly, such that over the course of just a few

generations, you know, the grandkids are going to be really different from the grandparents in terms of how they grew up. The studies they found were amazing. So they studied, studied three generations of families, grandparents, parents, younger children. There was zero rate of myopia, basically, in the grandparents' generations. In parents 30 and up, there was a rate of around 8%. In their children, there was a rate of 59%. Wow. And so now these are not just self-reported, like, oh, how well do you feel you can read?

I mean, they had a panel of optometrist and ophthalmologists as, I mean, really looking at the shape of their eyes. And you can tell by, you know, obviously, external means. whether someone has near-sightedness or not. And their conclusions were that the way the grandparents grew up, you know, which was much different than their children and even further different from their children, they weren't in formalized schooling as much, they weren't reading as much, they weren't doing near work indoors, they were out, they were doing a lot of non-reading-based work.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And, you know, it makes sense. I mean, they point out sort of their hypothesis going into it, or one of the hypotheses was as a species, being able to see far is going to really select a lot better for your survival out in the wild, whether you're hunting animals as a team, even if you're just gathering berries and fruits and things, being able to spot things at a distance, if you're in a preliterate society, it doesn't matter if you can do sewing or needlework or typing or texting or any of those kind of things. It's really fascinating to think of like, well, this is sort of the tradeoff we get for being able to read. I mean, it's, we can do a lot more as a culture, but yeah, we have to wear glasses a little bit more, and we have to wear contact lenses. Also, our work is now near work. I mean, most people have near work now.

We're not out looking, looking out at sea, trying to spot another ship or something. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, you're right. I mean, most of us are many, many more of us every year work on computers are writing. It's pretty rare to find occupations these days where being able to see far is part of the job requirements. You know, like Air Force pilots are one example. where if you have, you know, corrected vision the way like I have versus I couldn't be an Air Force pilot.

Yeah, that's the only thing keeping me from being an Air Force pilot. Okay. I was wondering. All right, we're going to take a quick break. A word from our sponsor. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.

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subscribe to the IGN Daily Update wherever you get your podcasts. That's the IGN Daily Update, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. You're listening to Good Job, Brian, and this week we're talking about things that are just too much. So Nintendo's new video game system, the Wii U, is not doing too well in terms of sales. But this might be surprising to you because the we did so well. The we did so well. It was the hottest in the year 2007, 2008, 2009.

It was like the hottest, hottest Christmas present. It sold better than any other video game system ever. it was amazing. And, in fact, in the year 2007, it was just such a hot-ticket item that a radio station in Sacramento, California, KDND, came up with a pretty funny contest. The sort of thing we might come up with here on Good Job Brain, because we like bodily functions. And puns. And video games. Exactly.

It was, it was the trifecta, for sure. The total hat trick of cute contest ideas, hold your Wii for a Wii. They acquired a Nintendo Wii. and they told their listeners, you know, come down, you sign up for this contest, you come to the station, and you're going to drink bottles of water, and after you, you know,

while you're drinking these bottles of water, you can't go to the bathroom, and the person who holds out the longest, without peeing, wins the Nintendo Wii. What a funny contest idea. So, yeah, so they made them, the listeners came into the station,

and they were on the air, on the radio, basically had them drink an eight-ounce, just chug an eight-ounce bottle of water every 15 minutes. With the last, every 15 minutes, it was lots and lots of water, and they really had to pee. And again, you know, cute contest idea, except for the fact that what they were doing was actually extremely dangerous, really, really, really dangerous. By drinking a lot of water? Right drinking a lot of water.

So I'm going to call back to earlier episodes. We talked about the Renaissance physician Paracelsets, I believe, on a couple of different episodes of Good Job, Brian. Real key figure in early medicine. And he said this. He said it in German, but I'll say. English. Thank you. Sure.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Only the dose permits something not to be poisonous. Or, as they tend to shorten it these days, the dose makes the poison. Everything is a poison and everything is not a poison. It's all about how much of it did you ingest. In this case, yes, even water, fresh, clean, delicious water is poisonous to the body in high enough doses. So why is that?

This is really interesting. Electrolights. Everybody knows, everybody heard the word electrolights. Plants love them. Plants love them. Gatorade. Gatorade.

Yeah. Your electrolytes. You replenish your electrolytes. They are positively charged ions of certain elements. So most importantly, there are other ones, but sodium. Sodium is really

important to have in the body. Our body cannot make sodium. We have no way of making it. So our body does many wonderful things, but it cannot make sodium, and we must have sodium in our body in a certain balance all the time, or we die. Our body uses positive sodium ions and positive potassium ions in the brain. Like, you know how our brain has electrical charges?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of how it manages all that by, like, passing positively charged sodium potassium ions, back and forth. You can only get a sodium if you ingest it. You have to ingest it. That's right. Okay. And the thing is, and you can get as much sodium as you need from like just, you know,

eating foods and whatever. You need a balance. And our bodies have an incredible regulatory system for making sure that we are in balance. And it is called, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-pee. Peeing, as it turns out, is not just for fun. Like, not just for, I'm sure there's not a person at this table that does not, you know, joy just the highlight of the day. You have to pee that water out. So it's not just like I drank

so much water and now I'm uncomfortable and now to make myself more comfortable I'm going to pee. It's like your body is doing that because it must restore the balance of the electrolytes and the water all in your system. Now, again, children listen to this podcast. Don't get scared. Don't tell your parents that you can't drink another cup of water because you might get water poisoning. It's not going to happen. Like it's actually very, very rare. that people get water poisoning or water intoxication. You have to fight your natural response. I just did a couple of races and half marathons last weekend.

And in the medical tents, as you're running by, they actually have packets of salt that people would just grab and just pour it in their mouth. Because you're sweating so much. You're getting rid of all the sodium. You're like, I need sodium in my body. You sweat. All the sodium comes out, right? And then if you just drink water, you're not replenishing the electrolytes.

You're losing them. And that's, if people collapse, you know, like when they're racing, like, you know, they often tend to suspect that it's, that it's, that they're, they don't have enough electrolytes. I mean, it affects your brain. And it works real fast if you don't. So what actually happened at this radio station was that one of the contestants was a woman named Jennifer Strange, mother of three, wanted to win a wee for her children. So she competed, I know, it's very sad. She competed in this contest. And during the radio broadcast, because they said on the air, like, we're having them do this.

And then the radio hosts joked with each other, like, no, this sounds kind of dangerous. Yeah, well, they signed a release. So, oh, well, they, you know, they understand that there's danger. They didn't know how much danger, though. A nurse called in, a pediatric nurse called the station and was like, yeah, I just, I just want to let you guys know that what you are doing is very dangerous and they can die of water intoxication possibly. So you should not do this. So Jennifer Strange lasted until second place. She actually was already getting a headache.

She was just like, yeah, I don't feel so good. And they said, well, if you quit now, we'll give you Justin Timberlake tickets for tonight. And then the other person will get the Wii. And she's like, okay, all right, I'm going to quit now, and I'll take the Timberlake tape. She's like, okay. So she goes to the bathroom, but she still has a splitting headache. She calls a friend to say, I feel really bad. I have a splitting headache.

I'm going to go home and lay down. And she goes home, and she lays down and she dies because of water intoxication. That's why she had a splitting headache because her brain was swelling. Right, right. The area around it was swelling, you were a horrible headache. Yeah. So, again, like, very, very, very rare for somebody to die of water poisoning. You know, remember to replenish electrolytes.

Do not ever, ever, ever do a contest where you have to hold your pee in. If you have to go pee, go pee. Yes. Go pee. I also have some body-related too much of a good thing. So actually, I was inspired because I went racing last weekend. This dude, it was during my half marathon. I saw this guy.

And he, I'm looking at him. I was like, something's kind of weird. He looks injured because on the front of his shirt, there is a trail, a vertical trail of blood or of red streak on one side of his body. And I was like, that's weird. What's that? Oh, my God, his nipple is bleeding. Yeah. So this, it's bad, but it's not that.

It's not a rare occurrence, especially with male. who do long-distance running, the friction of the shirt and the sweat, yeah, chath, and it makes the nipple raw, and it just, as you're running, you'll just start bleeding, and what can you do? Like, I guess you can bandage it. I mean, a lot of people put Vaseline or some sort of lubricant or cape around it, but if you're not... I would just cut out the little circle of fabric around my nipple. You're like, oh, it's so airy.

I'll get a crazy sun tan, but... Now I'm thinking of you in the nipples. Toasty brown nipples. You know, exercise is good. When you do too much of it or you don't take care of yourself, you would get this malady, which is called a jogger's nipple. Why do they call it that? It's either a sports injury or a drink at a bar. It's like a jogger's nipple.

Yeah, it's like Gatorade and whiskey or something. Oh, man. Official drink. And Grenadine. It's vodka, vodka Gatorade and Grenadine. Right. That's good.

The jogger's nipple. That's fantastic. That's great. And you get your electrolytes, too. Fantastic. We just adapted to the drink. So I also looked up other funny name maladies

because of you're doing too much of something. Of course, we probably all heard of the Nintendo Thumb. Yes. Oh, yeah. Which is a repetitive strain injury Having your thumbs on the D-pad You can probably lose feeling, but temporary.

We know all about that one. I didn't know this one. Surfers' ear, which is different than swimmer's ear. Yeah, yeah. Surfers' ear, this sounds bonkers. It's an abnormal bone growth within the ear canal. Whoa. It's caused by cold wind and exposure to water and seawater

and somehow it can develop lumps. We have a friend who is a listener of the show as well, and he suffers from surper's ear, and it is actually very painful. He said he's had to have procedures where they go in and basically have to file it down to kind of ream it out. Is it from surfing?

Yes, it is. It's from surfing, and just a life that he... I mean, he spends a lot of time in the ocean and around the water, and it doesn't sound pleasant. No. Too bad it hurts, because it seems like he's about to become a fish. You know, like if you just keep... Yeah, growing extra bones.

because all the time he spends. Yeah, sure. There's a bunch of musical melodies as well. Fiddler's neck and floutest chin. Yeah. I can see. Chafing or having something against your skin. Yeah.

Fiddler's neck is one side of your neck because your chin rest is there. Or the floutest chin is like because your chin keeps touching the metal. Yeah. And this is a weird one I'm going to end this segment with. It's called a Jeep seat or Jeep rider's disease. And this condition was a very wide. widespread in the American Army during World War II, more than 80,000 soldiers actually had to be hospitalized.

Basically, it's exactly what it sounds like. They've been sitting in a Jeep for a really long time. So it's like Saddelsaurus. And you're just jostling up and down. Right, because it's not paved roads. Not really, I'm not really sure how do you pronounce this. I've seen this word before. Coxics.

Yeah, that's right, your tailbone, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, this can get bad. Yeah. It can get really bad, and your butt crack is injured. Sorry, I'm sorry. I can't injure the butt crack. Buck crack is the absence of butt.

It's butt crack adjacent. Oh, okay. It goes right to there. Yeah, it goes right to there. Huh. Don't look it up. Oh, are there photographs? Don't look it up.

Oh, my God. Now you maybe want to look it up. This is not like, oh, gross animals and stuff. You know, medical stuff is a whole different. Yeah, it is different. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of stitches, and we just don't. Okay.

Just, just don't. Unless you want to see some hot soldier butts. I'm just kidding. They're hot because they're inflamed solely. Yeah. And flame solely. Steve Cubine and Nan McNamara's podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign. Mary Astor has been keeping a diary.

Mary writes everything down. And so this torrid affair with Georges Kaufman is chronicled. on a daily basis. In great detail. And IEF pulls out a box and gives McAllister a ring saying, here's something to remember me by. This article caused Daryl Zanick to hit the roof. Actress Ruth Roman followed that up with playing a foil to Betty Davis in Beyond the Forest.

I mean, if you can stand toe to toe with her, boy. And she does because she plays the daughter of the man that Betty Davis kills out in the hunting trip. And it's directed by King Vidor. So he's no. how do you go wrong with that yeah speaking of the oscars talking about what i call beginner's luck it's all about the actors and actresses who won an oscar on their very first film get your fix of old hollywood from stephen ann on the podcast from beneath the hollywood sign and we have one last too much segment i know it's a music round column but that's all i know yeah that is all i

know. I'm thinking song titles with too much, but I was like, I can only think of like two songs. I don't know what it is. So you're right. All of the songs that I will play for you have the words too much in the title. Somewhere in the title. In the title. So all the artists that I'm about to play for you are

are famous people. They're famous recording artists. But the songs may or may not be very famous songs by there. So I will play the songs and you guys give me the artists. Remember, too much in all of the titles. Here we go. First song. Well, honey, I love

I love too much I need your love And too much Who aren't but a thrill You're tough Gee, I can love you I love you Karen

Elvis Presley It is Elvis Presley Too much Elvis Yeah not trying to fool you too hard on that one Here we go, next one Hey, Karen again Dave Matthews band

That's Swallow Swallow Bow, breathe deep Take it all It comes cheap Push it through the doors Because in between the lines I'm going

Uh Karen again Dave Matthew's band That is the Dave Matthews band Too much Too much Yes Yes

Oh seventh grade Was awesome All right We're going to bring it down a little bit. For some reason, I turned up a lot of ballads in assembling this quiz. So here we go. We're going to go a little slow for this one. Dana.

Yeah, as soon as he hit the bitter tears, she's like, oh, yeah. It was like Freddie Mercury. Yes, that is Queen, too much love will kill you. Whoa. Which I've heard is true, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Next one.

It's like a Chris song. It's like Carol King or something. One day I'm going to understand the way that my heart works. And then I'm going to work it out Dana, Karen, not far behind, Dana. Is this Johnny Mitchell? No, it's not Johnny Mitchell. Who is Joan Baez?

No, oh, Karen, you're going to hate yourself. Chris. Is it Carol King? It is Carol King. It is Carol King. Too much rain. I was joking. I was like, this is a Chris song.

It's going to be Carol King. And it was. I was excited because it was like, Karen's psychic. That was too much rain, Carol King. All right, here we go. Here's a little more recent one. You can see that I'm a one curly pie in the box of the regular. Messing with the flavor, oh, the flavor that you save us.

Saving me for last foot, you better not eat me at all. Living in a fast food bag, making friends with the ketchup and song. Oh, people say that I'm a Christmas. It's Jason Maraz It is Jason Maras You know the song name Too Much something Too Much food

Too much food, okay Jason Maraz All right, moving right along I can't feel myself I don't want nobody else to ever love me You are my shining star my guiding Like my love fantasy There's not a minute

I want day You're nice that I don't love you You're at the top of my list Cause I'm always thinking Oh, man Karen's dancing The song is never too much, right? Yes, the song is never too much

I do not know it. Is it Luther Vanders? It is Luther Vanders. Yes, yes, a perennial Pubbugs. Yeah, much Luther burgers. Never too much. Oh, good, yeah.

Never too much. All right, guys, and last one. Here we go. Love is blind, as far as the eye can see. If I'm meaningless, what's to me? He's a lover. I need a friend. Spice girls.

It's also too much. A lot of songs just called Too much. Yeah, more than you might think, or at least more than I might have thought. you might say too much too much too much too many too much oh I see what you did all right well good job guys well done oh I get it now too much like too many I need salt for my brain all right and that is all right and that is our our show. Thank you guys for joining me. Thank you guys, listeners, for listening and I hope you learn a lot about too much water, too many carrots.

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