Is everything okay? If it lands on that one, we got trouble. We don’t. Welcome to More. Because what we gave you just was not enough. You can’t get enough of these two boys. And here we are. We’re gonna take your questions about how the human body functions and all of its mysteries. And give you 100% accurate, scientifically based answers. Right. But first, a little freeze frame. Okay, it was in there, you know? Something happened, a story was told. We don’t know what it was, but you do. All right, ask us a question, Stevie. We’re two well-educated guys who also go on the internet. Well, this time one of the three of us actually does have a scientific explanation, but we won’t lead with that. Yep. Oh, no, we have it. We have it. You mean me, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why can’t we keep our eyes open when we sneeze? This is from @DesignsBeckford. @DesignsBeckford, good question. I mean, you know what most people say. It’s so that your eyes don’t fly outta your head because of the sheer force of sneezing. But really, what it is is that your eyes, the lids are just the end of a long stringy muscle that goes all the way back down through your head and goes right in there into a little part of your nose. And when you… Sneeze. sneeze, it has to get out of the way. And so it pushes on a little thing- And it closes. that closes like a lid. Have you ever seen those things, like the things that your grandma would have that she kept her bread in? Oh yeah. It was like a wooden thing and it was, like, wooden and it was kind of rigid, but also sort of flexible. Yeah, yeah. Breadbox. It’s basically, your face is a breadbox is what a lot of the doctors say. Right. And so, it’s like this, so like, Link looks at me, and so, don’t sneeze. Achoo. In this illustration, but what would basically happen is… Achoo. Boom. No, other way. So when you sneeze, boom. Achoo? It blows it outta the way and closes it and then… Achoo. Boom, yeah. And why is that? From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s because when you sneeze, you don’t want to see people watching you sneeze. Right, it’s an embarrassment clause. It’s just, you know, it’s kinda like, it really takes your confidence down, and then you’re easy prey. Yeah. That’s the adaptive reasoning, yeah. Next question, unless you have anything to add, Stevie. And Stevie, if you have something different from Wikipedia, or some crap like that. Yeah, yeah. Well, I have something from scienceabc.com. A kids’ website? It is actually possible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze, but it’s not likely or practical. Right. A sneeze is a way for the body to expel irritants and foreign particles. Your eyes instinctively close to prevent the expelled irritants from reentering the body through your eyes. Also, your face is a breadbox. Right. Okay, thank you. That is the other part of that. Why do some people get singular hiccups sometimes? Just the one, every now and then. This is from @CharlJadeHump. CharlJadeHump. I like that Hump in there. CharlJadeHump? Honestly, I’m not familiar with this phenomenon because I think this is a trap. It’s actually impossible to have a singular hiccup, which is, would be called a hic. Well, here- Like, hiccups are called hiccups because they at least come in pairs, and the first one is a hic and the second one is an up. That’s why it’s called “hiccup”. However, while it is very, very rare, there are some people who experience just a hic and those are people who have made a deal with the devil. Okay? Right, you’re talking about, like, blues singers? Yeah, well, you got blues singers, fortune tellers, you’ve got people who buy Ouija boards. Some politicians. People who dress up like witches at Halloween. People who do too much decorating at Halloween. People who do mean-looking jack-o’-lanterns, especially. Yeah. People who do not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. But even those people, they die in the middle of a hiccup. Yeah, right. So they just hic. Also, people who don’t celebrate Mother’s Day, ’cause they’re like, “It’s a hallmark thing.” Those people also made a deal with the devil. So those people are known to suffer from just a hic. “It’s invented by the card company!” “I’m not falling for the capitalist thing!” Okay, so the answer is the devil, is why some people get singular hiccups? Yeah, yeah, deals with the devil. Okay. That’s the only way it could happen, ’cause it actually doesn’t happen in non-spiritual influences. Otherwise it doesn’t happen. That makes sense. It’s a spiritual phenomenon. Also, a hiccup is a spasm of your diaphragm. Prolonged hiccups are a result of an irritation that causes multiple spasms. A single hiccup is probably from minor irritation that can be relieved by one single… spasmodic? Yeah. Spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, such as not having taken enough oxygen, too much alcohol stuck in your stomach, food stuck at the bottom of your stomach, a burp that went the wrong way, et cetera. This was from Quora, it’s a little bit worse. A burp that went the wrong way? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just call it a fart. Probably the devil. Let’s get real here, it’s Satan! I mean, you’ve only helped us out with this one. Don’t confuse me with that crap, Stevie. It’s clearly the activity of Satan in the world. You know, I’m fighting off a burp going the wrong way right now. Yeah, bless that boy. Bless that boy. Me. Dreams. I just get a little weird movie to watch while I sleep? That doesn’t make any sense, yet I was the one thinking it? @dreamptll. Praise the Lord? PTLL? Praise the Lord Lord. Praise the Lord Lord, Lordord. I don’t wanna burst anybody’s bubble here, but I want you to understand something. Dreams are not what you think they are. Dreams, my friends, are the reality, and this is the dream. Think about that. Pinch me. You know what I’m saying? Yeah, see? This is a dream right now. Every time you pinch someone, they actually start to dream. That’s a corollary fact. And I didn’t know about that. Right, a corollary fact. That’s new to me. Right. Pinch me, pinch me. Oh. Now you’re dreaming? I’m now dreaming. Interesting, I don’t know how that fits. I don’t know how it fits. I’ll have to incorporate. Well, I said it was a corollary. Corollary. Corollaries don’t fit, they’re kinda like, attached. I’ll spend some time thinking about that. Yeah, but the thing that you experience when you go to sleep that you’re calling “a movie that plays in my head”, there’s many theories on this side of the equation for that. People say things like, oh, it’s memories. You know, sort of like recycling or whatever. Your brain organizing information during REM sleep. Whatever, that’s all bullcrap, not true. Basically what happens is, False. you’re getting a very, very small glimpse into the greater reality of which we’re all a part, but very few of us actually ever connect fully with it. And there are some cultures in history that have understood that that is the ultimate reality. And they actually go there on a regular basis and come back and bring real tangible information here to the dreamland that we all live in. You could be like them if you would just stop and get outta the rat race, and stop reading what the scientists say. Right, It’s like New Englanders. All the scientists are operating according to essentially a large-scale conspiracy, a left-wing large-scale conspiracy, all in service of the Cabal. And the moment that you recognize that that’s actually what’s going on, your life will be 10 times better. But then you might wake up, which means you’re going to sleep. Yeah, what he said, yeah. Don’t forget it. Don’t forget that. Okay, so what does the Illuminati say, Stevie? It says, dreams are hallucinations that occur during certain stages of sleep. Hallucinations? When you’re awake, your thoughts have a certain logic to them, when you sleep, your brain’s still active, but your thoughts or dreams often make little or no sense. This may be because the emotional centers of the brain trigger dreams rather than the logical regions. Though there’s no definitive proof, dreams are usually autobiographical thoughts based on your recent activities, conversations, or other issues in your life. Overall though, the role of dreams in the human psyche and the reason for their creation is still being studied to this day. “Still being studied.” Do you see that, Link? Yeah, yeah. We’re still “studying” if the earth is a globe. Still “studying”. Why are yawns contagious? This seems a bit ridiculous. From @TuckNuck. Yawns are contagious because again, evolutionarily speaking, you see someone open their mouth, and it’s like, all right, it’s feeding time. I gotta get in on this. Like, if you’re gonna get fed, well I’m gonna get fed. I want to get a little, I want to get mama birded. It’s essentially the baby bird phenomenon. Right. And what you will find, a lot of people are like, “Oh, this person’s got a case of the yawns and there’s only one way to stop it.” And it’s just, throw a hard-boiled egg right in there. Hard-boiled egg. Hard-boiled egg is the best thing. It’s gotta be hard-boiled. Unpeeled, unpeeled hard-boiled egg. Unpeeled hard-boiled egg. They will perk right up. Lemme tell you right now. But you know what? You see a lot of people doing what you call yawning. And if they’re not hard-boiled egged, then what’s gonna happen is, oftentimes you’ll find themselves being sleepy or actually going to sleep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that’s because without being fed they have to conserve their energy. Yeah. And so they just fall asleep in order to stave off their slow death by starvation. Yeah. Well, and this is one of the reasons that I always carry a hard-boiled egg in my back-left pocket. And if you find me at daylight today and I don’t have it, it’s, well, because I already used it. I used it earlier, earlier, Stevie was- Yawning. She was yawning, she was nodding off. And I had to throw it really hard to get through her mask. She ate her mask. That’s why Stevie has a big hole in her mask right now. Because I threw a hard-boiled egg through it. Are you okay by the way? It’s just a hole in my breadbox. It’s amazing to see. Yeah, right, yeah. Every day I use that egg. I need that back, by the way. If you’re into this, check out our podcast where we just spew knowledge. Bullcrap the whole time. For over an hour, every week. And then if you wanna watch us spew the knowledge, on YouTube, we post our conversations. I’m told it’s soothing, comforting. Yeah, yeah. It’s like a companion to your life. Every Sunday on YouTube, watch us talk to each other. You know, as the year wraps up we talk about our top purchases of the year, in this case, 2022. And then to wrap things up, we also talk about, on another episode, our most meaningful moments from the year. Oh yeah, that’s always special. It’s always one of my favorite things to do. Seriously. It helps you remember that you lived a life this year. Just to talk about the stuff that meant the most to us for the year, you know? And sometimes you surprise me with your stuff and sometimes I don’t listen, but you should listen and watch on Ear Biscuits, youtube.com/EarBiscuits. So, this is interesting. I mean, I think we knew this to a certain extent, but it may be related to a phenomenon called social mirrying- mirroring, where organisms imitate the- The hole in my mouth is still… Yeah. I threw it hard. Imitate the actions of others. Other behaviors fall into this category such as scratching, leg-crossing, and laughing. When animals mimic others, they tend to be recognizing a useful behavior. Yawning tends to draw in oxygen rapidly and help stretch internal organs to liven up the body. So it’s likely that your brain recognizes someone else’s yawn as useful behavior and then prompts you to do it yourself. Oh, that could be useful. I should do that. The weird thing about yawning is, like, it’s cross-species too. Have you noticed that? Oh yeah, a dog will make me yawn. Yeah. I’ll throw a egg at a dog too. Right through his mask. I don’t keep those eggs just for people. Any species yawns at me, I’ll throw an egg in there. If you see Rhett reach for his back-left pocket, duck. You better be ready. Duck! Why can we raise every finger one by one, but not our toes? From @kayxmill. Dumb question. What? Well, I actually do know the answer, so… Hold on, I think I could do this. You think you can raise each toe? Yeah. Okay, I mean, all right. I’ll be really surprised if you can, based on what I know about it. You’re gonna show your feet on the internet for free. Oh, did you see? A lot of stuff flew out of it. Yeah, when was the last time you took a sock off? Okay, so just place it flat? Here’s all my toes. No, no, place it flat on the floor. Place it flat. What are you talkin’? And now see if you can raise up each individual toe. So start with your big one. Okay, yes. There’s the big one. Now everybody can do that, I would think. Okay, all right. I would’ve trimmed my toe hairs. Go with this one. This little piggy, no, see you did that one too. This little piggy needs to stay down. This little piggy needs to stay down. Okay, what about this one? No, okay, and what about, see, no, you can’t do it. And the reason you can’t do it is because… Look at, what’s all that fuzz? It’s never offered any, any adaptive advantage. However, there is a tale from ancient Egypt in which a guy- Look, I can just move my pinky. That’s pretty impressive, Link. But I need to explain this, because this is important stuff, ’cause people people have a question, “why can’t you do this?” There was one guy, in ancient Egypt, a lot of the records show this, around 35, 3600 BC, who could do it. And he was able to do it and it was just so annoying that he was able to do this, that they just, they killed him on the spot. He was never able to pass his genes on. So the one time that has evolved- You want me to pass my jeans on? So I’m glad you weren’t able to do it because if you were able to do it, I was gonna have to get that egg from Stevie and murder you with it. Ain’t gonna murder me with an egg. The crazy thing is that you can train yourself to lift every toe individually. Basically, it’s because we don’t use our toes in that way and they’re confined to shoes usually, that you’re, you don’t have that connection to your brain and your toes, but then if you train yourself, you can. Yeah, if you need to use your feet in a way. Like the guy in… Daniel Day-Lewis. There’s a guy in Daniel Day-Lewis? Yeah, yeah. The guy who got inside of Daniel Day-Lewis for that movie My Left Foot, and did all the foot puppetry. That’s crazy. But in his hand too. Yeah, well, of course. Because Daniel Day-Lewis can’t do his feet like that. Somebody put their hands in Daniel Day-Lewis’s feet and did all that work. He’s still in there. He’s still in there. That was part of the contract. It’s like, once you go in, you can’t come out. There’s no Daniel Day exit. There’s a joke in there about daylight. Yeah, yeah. Like, “can’t see the Daniel daylight.” And there’s also an egg-xit egg joke. Yeah, like back-left pocket. I can’t find it. It’s one of those, like, if we could just write it! Help us win some Signal Awards. Dispatchers from Myrtle Beach and Best Friends Back Alright! are nominated and we need your votes, so click on the link in the description.