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March 18, 2025 6 mins
Chewing on Wood is Good?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You bully it, you bow it, you blew it.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Have you ever done something really stupid?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Me, neither, but these people did, and that means it's
time for you get an f Oh. Okay, Well, as
I recover from talking about what tomorrow's weather looks like,
I could give Mother Nature an a real easy right now.
In fact, let's do it. You got the buzzer ready,
let's just go ahead, Mother Nature. For what you're putting

(00:30):
us through this march, you get an FO. All right,
matt what you got for me today? Well, do you
remember the tale of Matthew Pancake. Oh no, Matthew Pancake
is returning, not him specifically, but someone who seems to have.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Taken on his legacy.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I suppose you remind people what Matthew Pancake got in
trouble for doing. Matthew Pancake was wearing leopard print pants
and decided to put four gerbils in his leopard print
pants and then go have a chicken dinner at a restaurant.
And he got in trouble for that, because you can't
do that kind of stuff. And he got in trouble
for that from whom I don't know exactly what law

(01:10):
he broke, But there's apparently a lag it's putting four
gerbils in your leopard print pant. I think it's more
about where you are than that missed the laws. But anyway, yeah,
I mean, I can't bring my dog into a restaurant.
I can't imagine having four dribbles in your pants is
probably good for the hygiene of the restaurant and your
leopard print pants. You're right, right, So a man living

(01:32):
in the image of Matthew Pancake decided to go to
the airport and conceal something of his own. Oh no,
I don't know why he thought he'd get away with this.
Caught the man with a turtle in his pant. A turtle,
a turtle like a little box turtle. And you might
be thinking, oh, this has got to be one of
these like high priced turtles, and maybe he's trying to

(01:54):
sneak it in and make a whole bunch of money.
And worse people in the world, by the way, people
who are illegally trading pets for the pet trade. Yeah,
it's a pretty terrible thing to do. But no, this
is not like a high priced turtle. This is a turtle.
You could just go down the street to the pet
store and get yourself one of these.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I used to have a turtle name Crush. It was
this exact kind of turtle.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Was this like cuff and link from the Rocky movies?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Turtles? Okay? Maybe are they red eared sliders? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I have no idea. Probably a very common turtle pet
probably that. And there's flat there, like a box turtle
is a little bit taller, like a shell's a little taller.
These guys are a little flatter, right, Like, Yeah, it
wouldn't be they're a little flatter. You mean, if you
if you like, almost like a cup. It's almost like
he was wearing a cup. No, well, I feel like
a box turtle. I mean, you would have been pretty
noticeable if you would have wore it like that, you

(02:42):
know what I mean? And why would you put a
turtle there? What a weirdo?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But this guy did and he got caught, and he
got caught and we don't know why he did it.
We don't even know the guy's name. They've concealed that
from the record. Well, I can understand. It couldn't beat
Matthew Pancake anyway. Yeah, this guy's name was probably Richard
Wall or something. I don't know, but good old dick
waffle right exactly. So, uh, this guy gets an f

(03:08):
I guess you know?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
All right?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Uh? Have you ever like, uh, you like to chew gum?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I do? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Did you know that gum chewing is shown to boost
blood flow to the brain, enhancing alertness, focus in cognitive function.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's cool, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well. South Korean researchers have discovered that another substance may
even be even more beneficial when you chew on it
an he guesses.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Uh, bark close what?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh really? A new study has found that chopping on
any what medical tongue depressor, like you know, the thing
that is like a popsicle stick they put in your
mouth to like say, ah, yeah, I don't like that.
It makes a gag. Right, yeah, Well they say if
you bite on that for five minutes, it increases levels
of glutha toin glutha thione. I don't know. I'm not

(03:58):
a scientist, but it's the primary anti accident in the
brain that plays a crucial role in protecting against oxidative stress.
Higher GSH was linked to better memory, So you can
increase your cognitive function and your memory if you just
chew on wood for a few minutes. Now, the studies
authors it was fifty two healthy university students were in

(04:21):
two separate groups for this study to see how it'd work.
And they say, to the best of our knowledge, this
is the first report indicating that mastication can alter the
level of antioxidants in the human brain, and that an
increase in brain antioxidant levels is associated with cognitive function.
So if you're trying to be up on something, just

(04:41):
get like a popsicle stick and just a little bit
of chewy chew, and it will actually give you even
better cognitive benefits than chewing on gum, according to this study.
And so my f is going to go to every
single person that said, don't chew on that wood, That's
not what you're supposed to do. Don't chew on that pencil,
don't chew on that popsicle stick. That's disgusting. Oh no,
it's actually good for you. So to anyone else out

(05:05):
there that said don't be chewing on your pencils, you
get it. At I don't really know if like chewing
on the furniture like your dog or your cat would
is a good idea, but maybe it has the same effect.
I don't know. Maybe that's why they do it. Maybe
it's just because it makes them feel good too.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Beavers must be happy little dudes, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Man. And for rodents, they have to chew to keep
their teeth down. That's why they do it. They have
to grind their teeth down because their teeth just grow
all the time. Isn't that crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
It feels like it'd be a little much to deal with.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I wouldn't like that. And that's the way if you
don't have the ability. If they don't have the ability
to chew down, I mean, they can really develop soups,
like really bad health issues that their teeth get too large.
So anyway, Yeah, and I'm not here like just telling
everybody go find a box of wooden sticks just start
chewing on them. I'm also not saying, you know, go

(05:56):
pull some twigs off of your tree and chew on those.
I am saying, and you can't digest what the human
body can't do that, but just chewing on it like
you with chew on gum, even for just about five minutes,
has shown to increase and oxidative levels, releasing some stress
and giving you a higher cognitive function.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
You know what does it for me? Pizza?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Pizza's good too. I like pizza. Well, anyway, there you go.
Congratulations to those people who found that study. And take
that missus Barron from my third grade who told me
not that you on the and then my pencil. You know,
maybe it was the lead she was trying to keep
you from. Yeah, who cares. Look how I turned that.
I turned out just fine. Some lead was good for you.

(06:40):
So I'm saying, yeah, that's not true, though that.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Would be bad.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
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