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You Hey everybody. Chuck here on a Saturday morning last night. It was a long one. That's all I'm going to say. So my pick for today from October 15th, 2009, what is a hangover, really? We talk about hangovers, science behind him, how to fix them. I give you a hint, Banana's, welcome to stuff you should know.

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A production of I radios HowStuffWorks. Hey, and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles Chuckers Bryant. And that means this is stuff you should know, right? Yes. The over twenty one years old, Chuck Brown. Yeah, that's a that's a big deal for this one. We're just going to go ahead. And Clay right now say that this is about drinking and if you're under 21, you should not drink. Chuck, have you ever consumed an alcoholic beverage?

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I have over Kowa. If you're over twenty one, you should drink responsibly. Yes. Don't drink and drive if you have heavy machinery. Yeah, heavy machinery is a big one. If you have a problem, you can contact Alcoholics Anonymous, right? I've always wanted to test that one, get really plowed and just sit down behind a bulldozer or whatever. I always imagine forklifts with heavy machinery. I go straight to the dozer. Wow. So, yes, I have had an alcoholic beverage before.

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What was your experience with it like? Did you feel a little lightheaded, a little crazy, a little inhibited? I wanted to kiss somebody. Did you end up kissing anybody? I did. I kissed my dog. Didn't you make out with the friend's sister at a U2 concert once? I did. Were you under the effects of alcohol during that time? I was OK. This was in 1990 to give me a break. Chuck, did you end up with a hangover that day?

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Yes, I did. The same day the next day. Yeah, sure. How did you feel? I felt I had a headache. I had a poor sense of well-being. I had sensitivity to light and sound diarrhea, loss of appetite, trembling, nausea, fatigue. You had the whole list of hydration, anxiety, trouble sleeping weakness. Wow. Yeah, that's a bad hangover right there. That's all the symptoms. You know, the one that always gets me the worst whenever I have a hangover is the loss of the sense of well-being.

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I feel like I am right there on the edge of danger. Everybody's gunning for me. I feel horrible. Really? Yeah, it's really bad. It really I've always assumed it affects my serotonin levels. Sure. I didn't see anything in this article about that. Right. I would thought I was going to have to get taken to the hospital in Portland, Oregon one time. Did you. Yeah, the next day Emily asked me, is a friend's wedding?

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She said, you OK? Do you need to go to the hospital?

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And I went, maybe I was serious. Wow. So let's talk about this. Chuck chuckles What are the mechanisms that lie behind the cursed and dreaded hangover they SILJA. Yeah. Is that the correct pronunciation? How I took it. That's the medical Minnan-Wong medical name for Hangover is very SELGA. Yeah. And it comes from a Norwegian word for uneasiness following debauchery. Carvey's and a Greek word for pain. Algier, which is weird. I've never seen Norwegian and Greek put together.

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I haven't either. But yeah, you come up with Vice Selja. Can I say that the Bible verse two. Yeah. Yeah. There's a Bible verse that talks about hangovers. It's Isaiah 511. Whoa. Onto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink. In other words, I feel real sorry for you that you had to get up early if you got hammered last night. Yeah. Truer words have never been written in the Bible.

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This translates translation there. Yeah. So, um.

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So OK, so we've got that down. We have the word origin and Bible quote as is pretty much so whenever you talk about a hangover. All right. So what's going on there, Chuck? Well, there's a bunch of things. Um, let's go out and start with vasopressin. Yeah. Here's here is, by the way, everyone, a cocktail party conversation tidbit. So at your next cocktail party, you might want to just bring this up.

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Uh huh, OK. It might be kind of depressing to bring this up actually at a cocktail party. Well, this is the this is how you explain breaking the seal, which I know that you have experience. Sure. It's crazy once you once you urinate. And we're going to stick to the clinical terms here, Chuck. All right. Let's keep it above the breaking the seal. That's clinical. Once you urinate that first time after you've started drinking, it seems like you just keep going and going and going and you can't stop and you actually can't.

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Right. Right. So vasopressin. Vasopressin. Yes. When you drink booze, it enters your bloodstream and the pituitary gland blocks the creation of vasopressin. And without this, your kidney starts sending water straight to your bladder, basically right to the tune of four times more than you actually drink. So you drink two hundred and fifty milliliters of alcohol. You can shoot out up to a thousand milliliters or a leader. Is that the clinical term to shoot out shoosh.

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Yeah. So that's no mistake. If you've ever had a few beers and you're thinking, wow, this is so weird, I use the bathroom and now I can't stop, that's vasopressin right there. Right. And that's called the diuretic effect. As the presence of alcohol increases in the bloodstream, you expel a lot more water. Right, but you're not just expelling water, also, we should say this leads directly to dehydration. You're expelling four times more liquid than consuming brother.

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You're getting dehydrated. Yeah, which is one of the signature results of The Hangover. And you get the headache because of that and other things, too.

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You do in the headache. We've talked about this before. I don't remember where. So we probably shouldn't, you know, try to come up with a time stamp. Right. When you have a hangover, your brain actually shrinks the next day. The other organs in your body are like you brain. You've got a bunch of water. Exactly. So a lot of the water is shuffled from your brain to other organs, causing your brain to actually shrink in size, which pulls on the membranes that connected to the skull, the meninges.

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Right. And you know, when you have a really bad hangover, you wake up and you feel like the membranes of your skull are being pulled in different directions. It feels like that. Yeah. So when I read this, I was like, oh, so that's what that is like. There's a 400 pound ham fisted man with hair on his knuckles. Like doing little Turrell's in your head. Yeah.

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Have you ever speaking of breaking the seal? I don't think they did this in Athens at Georgia. But I know some friends at Georgia Southern and there were bars there that had the drink till you pee for free promotion. We ever heard of this? No, but it sounds awesome. Basically like starting at six o'clock, they monitor the bathrooms and everyone in the bar gets to drink for free until the first person in the bar goes to the bathroom. I don't think they have that in Athens.

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They didn't when I was there. And of course, because it's, you know, a college, there's like dudes peeing in beer, pitchers in the corner. Sure. You know, just to keep not to not have to pay the tuition, whether or not there's that, you know, contest or promotion. So it's science. Science. So, OK, that's vasopressin, right? Yes. Resulting in dehydration. But when you're urinating everywhere, every which way, whether it's in a beer pitcher or otherwise.

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Right. You're also expelling a lot of other unneeded stuff. Yes. Like electrolytes, salt, potassium, salt, potassium, magnesium.

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And these all affect how you're like cells function, how your muscles function. Right. And you're getting rid of it without putting it back in. So you're going to feel lousy. Yes, indeed. You are going to feel lousy. So you're dehydrated. You've lost electrolytes. Right in the electrolyte imbalance is really important. If you have too much salt in your electrolyte imbalance is too high, you die. Sure, if you have too little, you get the shakes right.

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The tremors, which I understand is the most uncommon symptom of hangovers, which makes me nervous because I get the shakes just about every time. And I've never gotten the shakes right. I've never gotten the shakes. Wow. It also points out in this article that hangovers are subjective. So for each person, you know, they might experience different like, oh, I've never had a hangover or but you're all I get is thirsty when you get the shakes and you have a loss of a sense of well-being.

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Yeah, that's like Nick Cage and leaving Las Vegas, kind of. Wow. Yeah. I've always been like, wow, that would be great to have a grocery cart and a liquor store. What a great scene. Should we talk about glycogen real quick too? Yeah. That's another thing you lose. Yes. The glycogen is is a key energy source and uh. It goes to the liver and turns into glucose. Is that correct? Right.

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Well, the liver turns it into glucose and then sends it out. Basically, your liver is like, what the heck is going on? And does something. And all of a sudden you've just lost all of your energy. Right. I'll just pee everything out, just to be sure. Exactly. Basically what's going on. Yeah. And that actually accounts for like the weakness the next day fatigue. And actually that's not that's not the only thing that counts for fatigue.

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You don't sleep very well after a night of heavy drinking glutamine. Yes. You have glutamine, which is a another. It's actually a stimulant. Natural stimulant. Yes. Which is the only good kind of stimulant. And when you drink alcohol, the production of this natural stimulant is actually blocked. Right. So when you stop drinking, go to sleep. Right. Your body tries to make up for lost time and overproduce is glutamine. So means you're not getting is going to sleep.

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Exactly. And the next day you also feel restless. Anxious, right. Maybe you get the shakes. Sure. That's another cocktail party tip. Mm hmm. If, you know, if you start saying all these things at your next cocktail party, you probably won't be invited back to the next cocktail party. That would you know, I think you could wow. Some people. It depends on how cool your cocktail party.

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I guess I could see them all saying now, like, why are you telling us all these awful things about drinking and my kind of cocktail party?

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It's it's great for me. Another one. Right. Screw glycogen. Screw vasopressin.

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Listen to cadaver goes on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Uh, so what else, Josh? Well, we could talk about the impurities of liquor. OK, well, the Dunninger, the different alcohols. Yeah, the rule of thumb is the darker the alcohol, the more impurities and therefore the heavier the hangover. Yes, which is why I think everyone pretty much knows that, like, your worst alcoholics, like start drinking every morning when they wake up, they're probably drinking vodka.

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Yes.

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It's actually a good thing to drink if you are an alcoholic because you're going to be able to be as close to a functional alcoholic as possible. Right. How about that study with the bourbon? Yeah, 30. They did study between bourbon and vodka and thirty three percent of the people who drank the amount of bourbon relative to their body weight had a severe hangover and only three percent had a hangover. When they drink vodka, that's a bottle of white wine, that kind of thing.

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Light rum. Yeah. Gin, yeah. Conversely, dark room is bad. Red wine. Tequila is good. Basically, if it's dark, it's going to kill you. I'm in bad shape then because you know me. I'm a bourbon red wine beer guy. That's funny. I'm like the whatever is in the glass guy, right. Yeah that's good. Yeah. You're fun to have at the cocktail party because you're not picky, you know, long as you don't run and certainly not as long as there's not a cigarette butt floating in it.

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And then sometimes even then. Oh I don't think that hasn't happened before Chuck. Oh yeah. Basically what I took from this article is when you drink, you are poisoning your body through Cunninghams, through impurities in the alcohol, but also through the body's natural processes of breaking down alcohol to. Right. It actually, there's a there's a byproduct produced when the liver metabolizes alcohol called acetaldehyde. Yeah. Take this one. Because this kind of I read it like three times and I was still a little lost.

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OK, Chuck, allow me, please. So basically when the liver metabolizes alcohol, it produces a byproduct that's a toxin called acetaldehyde. And acetaldehyde is actually more toxic to the body than alcohol itself, which is crazy. Yeah, but we have natural mechanism for neutralizing acetaldehyde called appropriately, appropriately enough, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase appropriately. So that stuff goes and attacks the acetaldehyde. Right. Then we have this other stuff that is called glutathione. Right, right.

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And it contains high levels of substance called cystine. And 16 actually is attracted to acetaldehyde. So the two things combined, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase and the cystine in the glue to thiamine combine to neutralize the acetaldehyde. Right, right. And it does it pretty quickly. You are going to feel some ill effects, but the less you drink, the easier it is for these two substances to neutralize this byproduct. Is the alcohol OK, metabolised. OK, you make sense.

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Here's the problem. You have a limited store of glutathione in your liver, right? So you use it up pretty quick. And women have even less than men. Exactly. Which accounts for why women tend to have more harsh hangover, harsher hangovers than men, not just body weight, although that does matter. Right? So you use up your glue to thiamine stores. And once you do that, your blood is just basically circulating this toxin acetaldehyde while the liver generates more glutathione.

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Hence you've got this horrible hangover and why ultimately time is the only remedy for it. Yeah, well, let's get to that in a second. Let's get to the remedy. Let's talk about liquor before beer. Never fear. Or is it the other way around here before liquor? Never sicker, sicker. There's a little bit of truth to that. Turns out, because it when folk songs don't be true totally, it turns out that the carbonation in beer speeds up the absorption of alcohol.

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So if you start with beer, your body's going to have and then move on to liquor. Your body is in fact going to have a harder time processing those toxins, even though there's a certain age. My friend Justin I know Justin. We were talking about this a few years ago. Someone was remarking about we had a big night out and like I was at liquor before beer, before liquor, I can't remember. And I just said, you know, it doesn't matter anymore.

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No, you're going to be hurtin. You reach a certain age and it either doesn't affect you or it's going to affect you no matter what. Those are college rules. I've noted through my own personal observations that at about age twenty four, you get you start getting really severe hangovers. I haven't figured out exactly why yet, but that seems to be about the age when you switch over from I can do this constantly to oh God, why? Why I've got the shakes.

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I have a loss of sense of well-being. Right? Yeah, I'm vomiting, diarrhea. I don't know why. Maybe that's when puberty ends. There's something to do with hormones still floating around in the body. If you're puberty ended at twenty four, then puberty doesn't in your twenties really. Huh. Yeah. Puberty ended when I was like 14, I know, which started when I was seven, so I shrunk age seven. Where are we now?

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Are we talking about vomiting? Yeah, turns out that that actually does help. And also, Chuck, since we have a drinking game based on this and we're talking about hangovers, allow me. OK. Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug. That should keep them for a little while. Go ahead, Chuck. Uh, alcohol. What's going on there is it is indeed better to vomit because when alcohol is absorbed directly through the stomach and when that happens, you're the lining of your stomach is going to become irritated and say, hey, thanks for putting all this poison in me.

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Yeah. And it's going to start secreting hydrochloric acid right in the hydrochloric acid is actually what makes you vomit. Right. Sends messages to the brain that says this is really connected to the brain via hormonal signals, big time, which don't necessarily end after puberty. Right. And yeah, your stomach says you got to get rid of this stuff and the. Yeah. And it turns out that's you know, you probably should make yourself throw up because it's dangerous.

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It could become a problem.

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If you're drinking so much and you're making yourself throw up, then you probably do have a problem. You should check into a clinic or some. Sure. Check into promises in Malibu if you got the cash. But it will make you feel a little better because obviously your body is not going to have to process whatever alcohol is still in your stomach. So there you have it. What are we on to now, buddy? I think are we kind of nails what it is?

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So should we talk about some of the cures that people spout? Yeah, there are plenty of hangover cures. Everybody's got one. Yeah. And actually, I'm surprised to find that some of them actually are real. Now that you understand what causes a hangover, you can actually identify what will help cure a hangover cure. Because really what's going on is you've expelled electrolytes. It's biology. You've expelled. Exactly. You've expelled your natural energy stores. You are dehydrated.

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Right. And your brain is strong. Shrunk. Yeah, sure. So what do you do to make yourself feel better? Chuck, my personal favorite is Hair of the Dog. Well, that helped me or not. It will not. You know where that comes from. It's the Bible again, isn't it? No. Nazareth medieval times, though, the hair of the dog that bit you supposedly if you got bit by a rabid dog, you would take some of that dog's hair and apply it to your wound and that will carry you.

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This is the same culture that buried a cat at midnight to cure war. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So just like that is false hair of the dog, it's false as well. Having a drink the next day to make yourself feel a little bit better. Will not work, might make you feel a little bit better in the short term, but ultimately you're just adding more toxins that your body's gonna have to process and you're kind of just staving off the inevitable hangover unless you just drink all day again.

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Sure. And then you'll have the hangover the following day. Double hangover. Yeah, exactly. Unless you just keep going until you die. Yeah. And it catches up with you. You won the game. I was taking a walk with Emily yesterday with the dogs. This is a twist twisted. I am. And I saw it was eight o'clock in the morning, seven thirty in the morning, something like that. And that was a guy down the street from us in the parking lot, you know, cracking his first king cobra.

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Well, she doesn't let me get up and get drunk every day, if that's what you mean.

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That's right. Chuck, one of the things that kills me is drinking coffee. I learned a long time ago that if I ever have a hangover, I stay away from coffee. So I was surprised to find in this article that actually it does have some benefits. Agreed. Which are it will actually alleviate your headache a little bit because it's caffeine and that's a Vasso constrictor. So it reduces the your blood vessels. It reduces the swelling. So that'll help a little bit.

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It'll help cure the headaches some. But it'll dehydrate you because it's a diuretic, because it's diuretic, which is how you really got into this trouble in the first place. So stop being stupid. Alcoholic coffee, along with a lot of water might be a good idea. Possibly. That's just me. Right. OK, so what else?

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Uh, fatty fatty food. Fried food the next day. Yeah. Which is odd because I know I crave fried food the next day. Cheeseburger me two bacon chili cheeseburger, Emily bacon cheeseburger. It's like two hamburgers a year and they're on hangover days. Yeah. She doesn't eat meat beef at all but when she wakes up with a really bad hangover she's like quarter pounder. It's very strange because obviously she's not the only person who experiences that craving, but that doesn't necessarily help and could actually make you vomit.

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It could tip the scales when you've got a bunch of hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Right. But it could help if you ate a bacon chili cheeseburger or two bacon chili cheeseburgers before you started drinking it. Why? Because it contains oil and the fat in the grease will line your stomach and takes longer to digest. Absolutely. And in fact, in the Mediterranean, they have long drank a little bit of olive oil before imbibing. Yeah, it's an old thing they do.

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They are not trying. I'm not either. I like olive oil, but I'm not going to drink a tablespoon of it. No, me neither. OK, how about a banana. I'm just going to pull that one out of my head. Out of your banana tree being remedy. Yes. OK, loaded with potassium electrolytes and yeah.

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This is remember you lose potassium, which is an electrolyte. So if you can restore the balance. So banana will help your hangover as well. Eggs. Yes. Since we're on breakfast because they contain cystine. Mm hmm. Right. Which is something that's attracted to acetaldehyde. Right. So eggs and a banana and water would be a great way to start your morning if you had a hangover, not just water, but water loaded with sugar and salt, actually.

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Right. Because the carbonation would do the same thing as it did with the beer. Right. Beer before liquor. So you want on carbonated water loaded with salt. Sugar. Not a Red Bull. No, because it has caffeine, not an energy drink on carbonated non caffeine water with salt and sugar, which I think I just described a sports drink. Right. Right. A banana and some eggs or you know, or else you can do soda water, put some fruit juice in there, juice, fruit juices, the kind of the kind of sugar you want.

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Fructose and studies have shown that it increases the rate at which your body gets rid of the toxins. And that's a good idea. It also gives you vitamins, of course. OK, what about, say, Excedrin acetaminophen? Acetaminophen is. Well, you want to avoid Excedrin because there's caffeine. Right. Which can help but ultimately not. Right. And acetaminophen, I believe you don't want to take because that can mess with your liver. Ultimately, if you have alcohol in your if you take acetaminophen for a hangover, you are probably going to feel a little better.

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Actually, you'll probably feel a lot better. But in the long run, your liver is going to fall apart. Yeah, you're doing your body damage. You're going to expel that through your urine. So what you want to do is get a non caffeinated antiinflammatory prostaglandin inhibitor, which is also known as aspirin. Yeah, which is good. So aspirin will help. It's shown that prostaglandin actually wreaks havoc on your body during a hangover. So if you take a prostate gland and inhibitor, you're going to feel a lot better.

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And apparently there have been studies that show, yes, aspirin helps. Yeah, especially if you take one before you go to bed and you take two when you wake up. But beware, people with tender stomachs often vomit from aspirin. Right. You know, my Curis, let's talk about each other's kids. If you got one, I surely do. What do I do? You wanna hear mine? Yeah, mine is my deal is I can't sleep in anymore.

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Doesn't matter if I was out till 3:00 in the morning, I'm still going to wake up at seven. That's just the way it is when you're old. You'll experience this one day. I get up at seven like I normally do, and I drink a pound like three or four glasses of water, take a couple of aspirin and then I get right back in bed and see if I can get like another hour or two of sleep. And then I wake up and it's great.

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That works crazy. Well, especially works with Advil. If you take a couple of Advil. Yeah. And you have even like a. Half hour, preferably an hour extra to sleep, for some reason, Advil always makes me sleepy, it makes me fall asleep very easily. Never figured out why, but yeah, you wake up an hour later and you are set. Yeah, it's a great one because sleep is only real real key to curing a hangover, they say.

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Yeah, well, time. Well, that's usually what I rely on this time. And I pound a few Coca Cola's in the morning, which is not good for me, but it works right. Like aspirin is what they say. Yeah. And then I don't make eye contact with anybody because they're all out to get me. That's how I make it through the day when I have a hangover. Sure. And again, we should say, please don't find any of this funny, entertaining or amusing if you're 21 years or older.

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And if you are 21 years or older, please find it amusing responsibly. Right. We should talk about some of these over the counter, like a.. Hangover pills that you can buy. You heard of these. Yeah. Like chasers. Yeah, they're they're basically multivitamins. And here's the deal. Well, some are activated carbon, which can work. True. But here's the deal. If you if you read on the package, it'll say something like this.

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Drink a full glass, 12 ounce glass of water before you start drinking and take a pill. And then after your second or third drink, drink another glass of water and take another pill and then do that again. Then before you go to bed, drink a glass of water with the pill and then wake up and drink a glass of water with the bill. So you're basically taking a vitamin Dowling tons of water, which is and that's the key, is the water.

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You're hydrating yourself. So it's a bit of a rip off. Right. But not necessarily because it is recommended that you do take a multivitamin. Not sure the next morning, but just take a multivitamin. Don't pay for some hangover cure. You know what else helps is to actually be cognizant and not a total drunk while you're drinking. Yes. If you drink glass for glass, water for alcohol, number one, it keeps you hydrated. But number two, it also places your drinking.

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Yeah. So that your body has more time to process its alcohol. It's not just like bong, bong, bong. You know, I've gotten better at that heavy. Oh yeah, sure. I try to be if I have like a big night out, I try to be pretty aware of drinking a couple glasses of water here and there and I always will pound two or three glasses for I get a bed for you. Chuck is the way to do it.

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All right. So there you have it. That's the hangover, right?

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Yeah. A couple other things you can do beforehand is eat obviously alcohol and an empty stomach is going to get you there quicker. Yeah, but it'll get you sicker and make you feel worse. You love me. So water. What else to say. Multivitamins drink in moderation of course is the key with everything. Watch what you're drinking. Red wine, bourbon. It's going to make you feel bad. Yeah, it taste sugary sweet on your tongue, but it'll make you feel worse.

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Yeah. I'm in trouble though. I wish I could learn to drink vodka. I just don't dig it because I wonder is it nice. Yeah. I drink gin and tonics occasionally during the summertime months but I can't drink this gin actually makes me crazy. I have a self-imposed ban on gin. I won't drink it. I don't allow myself to drink it because it makes me nuts. And apparently I'm the only one in the 17th century the UK actually banned or I should say England banned religion because the makers are so nuts.

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Yeah, yeah. So Gin was banned in England for a little while because people weren't like I did. I'm sure, you know, different alcohols do that. Tequila is notorious for making people violent and act out of sorts. Never had a problem with tequila. I mean, neither. My buddy Scotty has a red wine thing completely personality shift. When he drinks, it really becomes a completely different person. So, you know, Alexander the Great died from a red wine drinking competition.

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Really, one of his soldiers challenged him to it and they apparently drank like five million gallons apiece. And Alexander the Great went off and died. Boy, I bet the alcohol back then was rough to man. Yeah. You know, yeah. They love their wine the good old days.

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Josh, I'm going to call this. Don't kill me, I'm just the enumerator. This is a good one. Hi, guys. I hope this finds you well. My name is Mark and I live in Fishkill, New York, which is an interesting town. I was listening to the Gross National Happiness podcast, and you mentioned the census worker being killed. I thought I'd send an email. I was a Census Bureau worker in 2000. It was a I was a carefree 19 year old on summer break.

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My friends and I saw the ad in the paper and took the exam and became official enumerators, including a shiny plastic badge from the Treasury Department. Cool to boot, he says. So our task was to travel door to door and talk to the people who didn't return their survey. Some people got the short form, some got the long form and former I remember the forms were assigned at random. Usually the long farmers didn't mail them back in and that's who they usually had to confront the good shake down and shake them down.

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And I was running safely back to my the safety of my Buick Regal. I quickly learned my lesson.

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And when someone would open the door and give me the skinny on their neighbors who didn't mail their forms back then, I was happy and I was even happier when it was a grandma who had offered me a cold drink because, you know, the old folks that are just like, come on in, let's talk for a while. Absolutely. Exactly. I did not know, however, that enumerators were killed. I must have missed that part of the training.

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Most of the rants would be anti-government. They would say. I was the man told to get off their property and all the expletives that go with it. It's not being it's not easy being in a enumerator. So give them a shout out. So shout out to all you enumerators out there. Hey, hey. And that's pretty much it. He said, I thought I'd chime in. Actually, I was chiming in this morning in the car and then realized that I was alone.

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