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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One more sign that my prediction of a planet of
the beavers is accurate. It's one more thing, Jesus, I'm
strong and getty. One more tels you, geez my brilliant theories, Sarah.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Before you get to that, I mentioned this yesterday on
the air. I'm going to mention it here in case
anybody didn't hear. I thought this was fascinating. I was
listening to a physicists astra physicists something or other specialist
guy from a fancy college talking about a life on
other planets, and he made the point that we could
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have had a successful civilization on planet Earth one hundred
million years ago that lasted thousands of years, that had
computers and cars and whatever else, and if it had
died out, there'd be no way of knowing there would
be nothing left in that amount of time. So we
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can't even tell on our own planet whether or not
we've had you know, previous life and civilizations and whatever,
let alone on other planets.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I'm sure he's right. But we do find dinosaur
bones from you know, way back in the place to
see and you know, similar eras.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, only so far back though you can't go further
back than a certain amount and there's nothing right right, sure, yeah, yeah,
I'm not denying it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm just kind of noodling it through. Yeah, that's such
an interesting thought. And then you go one hundred thousand
light years away and factor in that delay and or worth.
The theme is is there life elsewhere in the universe?
And would we come across it even if it was
teeming with life?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Right? So we could die out human species and then
there'd be the planet to be run by the beavers.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You're thinking the POB. Yeah, yeah, planet of the beavers.
We planet of the beaver's enthusiasts. We we just go
with POB generally at our meetings. So here's what I'm
talking about. Did not have this on my bingo car
to study out, Chewing on wood for five minutes may
improve your memory. According to study, chewing harder materials like
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wood significantly incluses glue taffione levels in the brain could
be totally made up. I would never know glue tathyon.
They made that up as they were writing this crap.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is there something in wood that I need for this?
It's got something to gonna do with wood? Or can
I chew on anything?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Rocks?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Rocks seems like a bad idea, but a plastic Could
I have a pain in my mouth I'm chewing on
instead of a pencil? Is it the chewing or is
it the wood?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's yes, it is the chewing indeed, and not the
wood per se. You're not ingesting it. I was going
to you know what, I'll go ahead and skip to
it now because it's too good, the inevitable.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Let's see uh.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Whereas as disclaimer, talk to your doctor first before heading
out to the store for a package of tongue depressors
to chew on, and be sure to ask about the
potential risks involved, especially if you have sensitive teeth or
other oral hygiene issues. And we'd suggest to be fully
aware of pieces of wood breaking off in your mouth.
The last thing anyone wants is a splinter in their throat.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
If you have to be told that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You got a mouth full of paste right now and
you're picking your nose, second digit, second knuckle deep.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You're watching old VHS tapes of Mari Polvich right.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That you tape for posterity in case you know they disappeared. No,
if you have to read that, you're not reading that
and never will.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's the irony here. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Chewing harder materials like wood significantly incluses the blutethione levels
in the brain. All softer materials like gum showed no
significant effect.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Wow, harm doesn't work. Okay, that's interesting, right, Hey, Michael,
I know we used to have clips as somebody was
chewing rocks. Remember that bit we did that. There was
some news story years ago somebody who had chewed rocks
and we had them talking about it. It was ruining
their teeth, but they couldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Stop it relaxed them, Katie.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes, Yeah, I was trying to make up funny and
now we know, I know people are actually doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So there is practically no brand of crazy that you
can invent that can't be matched to an actual human being.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Fall in love with the Volkswagen Ben done.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I can only get horned up if I'm chewing rocks.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
There's somebody out there.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
There's anyways, a show called Obsessed, and I remember a
woman and she she couldn't stop eating toilet paper.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Oh legs, shout down.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's actually had a roll of it in her purse
and would just snack away. Anyway, that's my conversation.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So did she have to cleanse herself after pooing or
did it take care of itself.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's like a self filtration thing.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Right exactly. Yeah, wow, self washing. So a higher brain
GGS H levels. This is the hormone I guess that
we've never heard of before from wood chewing were directly
correlated with better memory performance and healthy young adults. Incorporating
foods that require more vigorous chewing might be a simple
way to boost brain antioxidant defenses and potentially support cognitive health.
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That's interesting because I have a jaw clenching thing, especially
when I sleep. You two, Katie, yep, I got to
wear this mouthpiece thing e or I would grind my
teeth down to nubs.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah, that's my wife.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We have to get her a garden.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I've had a guard since I was in high school.
And you know, my grandfather did it, my dad does it,
and I do it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I never I didn't do it in sleep, but I
had a period of time where I was doing it
during the day, clinched in my jaw and got the
worst headaches so I've ever had in my life. Because
there's some vein or nerve or something it pinches when
you do that. Anyway, For me, it was just like
once I became aware of it, I like, through the day,
I keep my teeth apart a little bit always, so
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I'm not clenching.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I let my mouth hang over like that.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I got a couple of mouth breathers over here.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Ever since I was like seventeen years old, my best
shape in my life skinny. My girlfriend called me chubby cheeks.
I have like enormous jaw muscles, and it's it's not fat.
I mean, Lord knows, I'm not thin anymore, but I could, like,
I don't know, what do you need chewed?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
If my teeth.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Being destructive, does you clench your whole A seven forty seven?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well yeah, think about it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I work out every night for seven hours, so it's
like you're doing queezing my jaw.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's like you're doing head crunches all day long.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Especially, yes, if I did curls and I sleep, I'd
have massive bsex.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Wouldn't that be cool? He did curls?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So this is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What do you need chewed? I mean, I'll chew the
f out of it all right. Next time we're out
to eat and I get a little piece of steak.
It's a little tough. Could you chew this?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Give it here? Give it here, I'll take care of it. Hey,
your baby bird.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
You should offer your services to people exactly so this one,
this starts so interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's South Korean's doing this SYS study. Your brain and
jaw might have a closer relationship than you think. Well,
I've never thought about it for a single second. Uh,
while we've long suspected that chewing affects brain function. Wait
a minute, who suspected that this is completely new to me?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
New researches in cover South Koreans. First of all, won't
you have some sex, get married, have a kid? You know,
quit quit offing yourself because you did well poorly on
some uh some exam. Find a cute girl. We get
to smooch in and be happy, you know, land for
a train because you didn't get a perfect on your SAT.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And this.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Nobody else is thinking about chewing to be smarter.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, chewing on hard materials for just five minutes can
boost levels of glue tatty in the brain's primary antioxidant
defense system.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, I always think everything's evolutionary in some way. I
just wonder if we had to work so much harder
to chew up food back in the day, and and
you know it was something we needed exercise wise or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, they go into some brain chemistry that's probably a
little in the weeds, But our brains are particularly vulnerable
to oxidative damage. The human brain consumes proximately twenty percent
of the body's total oxygen while containing high levels of
fatty acids, they can easily be damaged. More Over, the
brain emulates metals like iron, copper, and zinc that can
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promote the formation of harmful reactive oxygen species. Boys, talk
about something I know nothing about and against this backdrop
glue taffy one services the brain's primary defense system.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Jack, So should I get a container of Lincoln logs?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And the studies are preliminary, Jack, But yes, yes, clearly, yes,
so chew them up, no matter what damage it does
to your teeth or how many splinters you get in
your throat.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh no, no, waight, I just saw this disclaimer. You're
supposed to stop if you get slivers in your throat.
Oh got many.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But when GSH levels fall, brain cells become more vulnerable
to oxidative stretch, which has been linked to everything from
normal aging to serious conditions like Alzheimer's disease. Don't I
don't know where to go with.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What's your mouth specie? Where at night look like? Is
it like like football.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Players where it's like I'm playing a hockey game? And
do you have trouble sleeping in it?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh? Not in the least.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Now I do every now and then, yeah, is yours?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Actually I just geteeth.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, I think I need to get a new one
made because I had braces and then I didn't wear
my retainner and then my teeth moved and all sorts
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So do you uh, does it ever come out while
you're asleep? You wake up in the middle of the
night and it's laying there next year.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No, it fits too well.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I've taken it out, but now it doesn't just come out.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, it's funny. It doesn't bother me in the least.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
My it's funny. My my son is supposed to be
wearing something similar to that to see if he can
handle have having braces because he's got some jacked up teeth.
Unfortunately I had I've never had braces I had straight teeth,
and my other son has straight teeth. But my youngest
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his teeth are pretty crooked. But with all his O
C D stuff, he just I don't think he could
handle having something in his mouth messing to just to
just and so I had him make a thing that
he could where to see if he could tolerate having braces,
and I don't think he can. So I think I
think he's just gonna have to have crooked.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Or that in vezzoline stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The that they're actually more poky, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, huh so uh to uh to to give you
a takeaway instead of.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Chewing on wood.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Uh. Maybe wiser to consider the potential benefits from incorporating
more texturally challenging texturally challenging foods into our diets. Think
crunchy vegetables, nuts, tough hohole grains, and fibrous proteins. Your
your tough steak. Start start buying the crappy steak at
the grocery.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Good idea. I'll tell the kids it increases your brain function.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Steak on this. Just give mu strap a leather? Would
that work?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Steak was a dollar and a half. It's good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Cat steaks dog speaking of Oh I remember we're talking
an Asian stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's just a fact.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You took it there, Joe, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I'm a scientist. I'm not gonna let ideology blind my
inquiry into science.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
When you first started this, I was wondering, has this
got anything to do with I used to crunch on
my pencil quite a bit in school.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, I'll bet it's related.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
If my brain was like picked up on you know,
you're doing a math test, you get your pencil in
your mouth, you're chewing on it. It helps the brain function.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I would chew the crap out of pens.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Everybody, anybody ever asked you to borrow a pen and
then they get it and they're like, oh.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
God, yes, all right. Here it is.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
After Joe's done with his radio career, he goes around
this around the country. Is a state far attraction known
as mister Chew. And we put him in front of
a table and we put solid objects on the table
and see you, so he.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Can chew and how fast mister chew?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, mister chew. Yeah. I like it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, I guess that's it.