Strange & Brains

People online ask about strange things they have seen in public that people acted like it was normal, Dangerous Dave shares some of the best answers. Plus, having kids is good for your brain.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This staber in the den with Dangerous Day. Well, so,
what's the strangest thing you've seen somebody do confidently in
public like it was totally normal? They asked people on Reddit,
and some of the best answers. One person said, I
saw a guy feeding the birds at the Rodondo, California Peer,
but he was just biting into a loaf of bread
and spitting the bread at the birds. Once I saw

(00:21):
a man in a full business suit get up from
his seat at a busy airport lounge due to elaborate
martial arts, move for about ten minutes, and then sit
down again without making a sound. Another person said I
worked at a Walmart as a teenager and worked with
a lovely elderly woman, and she would only clip her
nails during lunchtime when everybody was eating. Nobody said anything
until a fingernail went into an old man's coffee. He

(00:41):
got up and said that's nasty, as you know what sue.
A person said they were at a grocery store minding
their own business when a little kid said, Mommy have
to sneeze. So the mom got down on her knees,
opened her mouth. The kid sneezed in her mouth. The
mom closed her mouth, got up and walked away like
it was nothing. Wow, I would be mortified. Another thing
somebody saw that was strange. A woman on a New
York City subway broke out some shaving cream, lathered upper legs,

(01:03):
and shaved her legs on the subway. Wow. Deep in
the two. You know, some young people think they're going
to have an army of children, then they have one
and realize kids are exhausting, expensive, and completely life consuming.
Then they think, Okay, I'm good. But a ton of
studies showed that having children is good for your brain,
especially if you have a ton of them. Having more
children is linked to an increased brain connectivity in areas

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that typically declined with age, so kids can protect against
brain aging. The effect is seen in both mothers and fathers.
It's the caregiving experience, and for men specifically, having more
children associated with an increased grip on strength, apparently a
predictor in overhauled brain health. Now, they didn't get into
the specifics on the number of kids you need to have,

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but they found the more children the parents had, the
stronger the brain differences appeared. But obviously some downsides of
having stress of having fifteen kids and trying to put
them all through college. That being said, people without kids
were not completely left out. For one thing, the findings
highlight the value of caregiving or nurturing, which can be
extended to taking care of other family members, friends, and neighbors. Also,

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many factors can influence brain aging, including education, physical activity, diet,
and social engagement. And the fact that some people I
know like to kill a lot of those brains. Too
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