Amy Nicholson

If you are caught up in the Barbenheimer frenzy, if you love ranking the Mission Impossible films, if you are just an all-around movie fan, I have a podcast for you. Hello, I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm a film critic who writes for the New York Times, and I am also the co-host of Unspooled, the ultimate movie podcast.

Each week, my co-host Paul Scheer and I unspool famous films to see if they're truly all-time classics. From the original 1984 Karate Kid to Children of Men to more recent pictures to Dune, yes, to Citizen Kane, we cover it all. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite, The Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

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I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We love movies, and we come at them from different perspectives.

He's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated.

Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

We're talking Parasite the Home Alone.

We've done deep dives on popcorn flicks. We've talked about why Independence Day deserves a second look.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits. Fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

Fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone. From Grease to the Dark Knight.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

And I'm Paul Scheer, an actor, writer, and director. You might know me from The League, Veep, or my non-eligible for Academy Award role in Twisters.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

In Don't Blame Me, we tackle our listeners' dilemmas with hilariously honest advice.

Then tune in to see you next Tuesday for our listener poll results from But Am I Wrong.

Listen to Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

If you are caught up in the Barbenheimer frenzy, if you love ranking the Mission Impossible films, if you are just an all-around movie fan, I have a podcast for you. Hello, I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm a film critic who writes for the New York Times, and I am also the co-host of Unspooled, the ultimate movie podcast.

Each week, my co-host Paul Scheer and I unspool famous films to see if they are truly all-time classics. From the original 1984 Karate Kid to Children of Men to more recent pictures to Dune, yes, to Citizen Kane, we cover it all. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

In Don't Blame Me, we tackle our listeners' dilemmas with hilariously honest advice.

Then tune in to see you next Tuesday for our listener poll results from But Am I Wrong?

Listen to Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

In Don't Blame Me, we tackle our listeners' dilemmas with hilariously honest advice.

Then tune in to see you next Tuesday for our listener poll results from But Am I Wrong?

Listen to Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

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I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We love movies, and we come at them from different perspectives.

He's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated.

Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

We're talking Parasite the Home Alone.

We've done deep dives on popcorn flicks. We've talked about why Independence Day deserves a second look.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We love movies, and we come at them from different perspectives.

He's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated.

Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite the Home Alone.

We've done deep dives on popcorn flicks. We've talked about why Independence Day deserves a second look.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times. And I'm Paul Scheer, an actor, writer, and director. You might know me from The League, Veep, or my non-eligible for Academy Award role in Twisters. We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

From Grease to the Dark Knight. So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We love movies, and we come at them from different perspectives.

He's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated.

Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

We're talking Parasite the Home Alone.

We've done deep dives on popcorn flicks. We've talked about why Independence Day deserves a second look.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them.

I'm Anne Foster, host of the feminist women's history comedy podcast, Vulgar History. And every week I share the saga of a woman from history whose story you probably didn't already know and you will never forget after you hear it. Sometimes we reexamine well-known people like Cleopatra or Pocahontas, sharing the truth behind their legends.

Sometimes we look at the scandalous women you'll never find in a history textbook. If you can hear my cat purring, she is often on the podcast as well. Listen to Vulgar History wherever you get your podcasts.

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If you are caught up in the Barbenheimer frenzy, if you love ranking the Mission Impossible films, if you are just an all-around movie fan, I have a podcast for you. Hello, I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm a film critic who writes for the New York Times, and I am also the co-host of Unspooled, the ultimate movie podcast.

Each week, my co-host Paul Scheer and I unspool famous films to see if they're truly all-time classics. From the original 1984 Karate Kid to Children of Men to more recent pictures to Dune, yes, to Citizen Kane, we cover it all. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times. And I'm Paul Scheer, an actor, writer, and director. You might know me from The League, Veep, or my non-eligible for Academy Award role in Twisters.

We're talking Parasite to Home Alone. From Grease to the Dark Knight. So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We love movies, and we come at them from different perspectives.

He's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dude 2 is overrated.

Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

We're talking Parasite the Home Alone.

We've done deep dives on popcorn flicks. We've talked about why Independence Day deserves a second look.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

In Don't Blame Me, we tackle our listeners' dilemmas with hilariously honest advice.

Then tune in to see you next Tuesday for our listener poll results from But Am I Wrong?

Listen to Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

What a pleasure. I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, I definitely think that that's one definition. I think even clearer to me is that it's two separate areas in the brain. In fact, working independently of each other, meaning that you could be hungry without activating the cravings area of your brain, and you could be craving something without actually being hungry at all.

Well, I'll give you an example. Say you finished a beautiful dinner. You have eaten all the things. When the check comes in, they say, oh, did you guys want any dessert? And everyone at the table looks at each other and they're like, oh, I'm full, but...

kind of do want to look at the dessert menu you know it's like you kind of want to see what's on there that's cravings that's like you want that dopamine release in your brain that would come from chocolate or ice cream or you know some kind of uh dessert like item that Even though you're full, you're willing to order something that will give you that feeling.

Our brain will want something that creates a dopamine release. And it depends on so many different things, but in general, our brain loves the feeling of a dopamine release that comes from either food or enjoyment, like, you know, going to something that you really enjoy. Gambling and gaming kind of fits in that category where you get a release of dopamine by doing that activity.

Sometimes it's a matter of have I done it before and now my brain wants more of it. It's related to stress. It's related to what else has happened in your day. I'll give you this example. Dopamine in our brain is created this pathway, this cravings pathway is created to keep us going back for more. So if you've had a big dessert,

and you had a great dopamine explosion in your brain, what your brain will do is say, oh, I want that again. That's the dopamine pathway. It's pleasure mixed with motivation to try to get it again. And it's our It's a pathway that probably was created, we think, to keep us motivated to find more housing, to procreate, to find more food.

So body does not want you to give up once you've found a beautiful food source. It wants you to keep coming back home.

for more and so dopamine um the cravings pathway is a dopamine pathway that will keep you coming back for more and that's what gambling is that's what gaming is that's what desserts do for you that's what processed foods do and when you don't want to give in to those cravings you resist it and and resisting a craving can be very difficult and often it ends in failure

instead of resisting your cravings start retraining your cravings start retraining yourself so that you don't have to seek out that late night dessert that the alcohol the the drugs the gambling all of that so I talk about a five-step plan, but the number one thing is changing the way you eat.

So we now know that our gut bacteria is very responsible for sending signals to the brain about when we're full, when we need more, when we're craving. So getting that gut bacteria to feel full itself, to be happy, is the number one goal. Eating the right foods, foods that the gut bacteria love, will help you send signals to the brain that you're full.

Number one is fiber. So probiotic and prebiotic fiber. Number two is polyphenols. These are the brightly colored fruits and vegetables and spices, teas and chocolate. Number three is high amino acid foods. So these are your high protein foods that really signal to the brain that you're feeling satisfied and full. Number four is dopamine producing foods.

Like I mentioned, cravings pathway is due to your body wanting a dopamine release. And there are foods that you can be eating to raise your baseline levels of dopamine. Number five is omega-3 fatty acid rich foods. These are things like salmon and nuts. And these also trigger something called CCK, which is cholecystokinin, is a satiation hormone. And number six is glucosinolates.

Glucosinolates are a plant compound found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage. They are full of this glucosinolate compound that tell the gut bacteria or feed the gut bacteria. And then in turn, the gut bacteria tell the body that we're full.

It can be sweet or it can be savory. Remember, there's people who love French fries and they would have those over any kind of sweet. So salt, sugar, and fat are the three things that people typically crave. And the thing is, Mike, is that food companies know this. Food companies know the science that we're talking about right now.

They know how to rewire our brains to have the most explosive dopamine release from their foods. So what they do is they figure out, okay, if we put this much salt, this much sugar, this much fat, we could actually create a food that would be so craveable that people would keep coming back for more.

And that's literally the problem with the food industry today is that they're creating foods that would never have this combination in nature. They're creating foods that are so craveable that whether we're hungry or not, we're going to go after those foods. And it's not just the food industry. The gaming industry, Instagram, gambling, porn, they all know how these pathways work.

Doritos, Pepsi and Coke, McDonald's Happy Meal. It's called Happy Meal for a reason. It's literally creating an explosion in your brain of dopamine and makes you feel happy in the moment. But remember, dopamine is very smart. It dissipates quickly and you feel uncomfortable. Right after you eat something that's got a huge dopamine release, you immediately feel happy.

a mix of pleasure and discomfort. Like, oh gosh, when am I going to get this again? Am I eating too much? Should I be eating this? It's like this pleasure mixed with discomfort. And our processed food industry is full of those. So McDonald's is a classic one that everybody kind of talks about, and Doritos. All the soda companies really work on this a lot.

Absolutely not. It's actually the opposite. So when you understand how cravings pathways work is that the more you do it, the more you reinforce that pathway. And so it's just like alcohol, exactly the same pathway. You have a drink or you have a lot of drinks. And the next day you say to yourself, well, I feel like having a drink. And I feel like if I just have one, Um, it's going to be fine.

I'll not have that craving anymore. And you know, we know now the biology behind it, you have one drink and it kind of reinforces that pathway to have want more of that. And that's exactly the same thing with processed foods. If you have that Snickers bar today, just to, just to give into your cravings. What it does is it reinforces the pathway and it makes you want more of the Snickers.

And then tomorrow, you're probably going to want a Snickers and a half. And this is very true. If you ever know anyone who loves Starbucks or those frappuccino type drinks, you know, in the beginning, they taste really sweet, and you can only have a little bit. But then over time, you start craving it more and more, you can have a tall and then you have a grande, then you have a venti.

And then before you know it, you're having a extra large jumbo size frappuccino when you're craving hits.

No, this is a modern life problem. Actually, gambling is the best example of very, very strong craveability. So what happens is when you gamble, you lose, you lose, you lose. And then all of a sudden, without you anticipating it, you win and you create this huge dopamine explosion.

And it creates this pathway in your brain because now once that dissipates, you're like, oh my God, I got to do that again. Because wow, that feeling was just so delightful, right? So that's what the cravings pathways does.

I would love to give you an example, easy, lazy. I call it the lazy example because people love this example. Getting sunlight into your eyes activates a hormone called alpha MSH. That hormone makes you feel satiated. And when you get adequate sunlight during the day, you increase your chances of feeling full after meals. It calms the cravings and it makes you feel fuller.

And if you think about it, some people will say, oh yeah, if I go for a nice sunny walk, not only is my mood better, but I'm not craving the bad foods or bad things in my life as much.

Uh, eating foods with protein. So when you start to replace the right foods in back into your body, you reset your hunger hormones and your neurologic pathways. And most importantly, your gut bacteria, the gut bacteria will sense amino acids from proteins in your gut. And it will tell your brain that, Hey, you're getting nutrition. Um, there is a very interesting hypothesis.

called the protein threshold hypothesis that says when you get enough protein in your GI tract, your brain starts to create satiation hormones. the neuropeptide YY, the CCK, the leptin, to say to your body, all right, we got what we need, time to stop.

But if you're eating foods that are really low in protein, which is ultra processed foods, snacks, you will keep eating because your body hasn't hit that threshold yet of protein. And so this might makes it so usable to me. I said, oh, well, okay. If I want to have better control of my cravings, I need to increase the level of protein in my meals, especially early in my meal.

So that by the time I start to digest the protein, I start to get the fullness signals. And so I'm not diving into the cake or the dessert at the end of the meal.

Say you ate a meal. This happens to me all the time. Say you ate a meal and you did order dessert, but it took forever for the waiter to put in the dessert order and for it to come back. And by that time, your satiation hormones have kicked in, right? You were like, oh, I don't want it anymore. I'm done.

That is a very common way to kind of get over cravings is after a meal, just go for a walk or maybe you do something else before you reach for that dessert. And often your hunger hormones have kicked in and you are fine with not having that craving at the end of the meal. It's much harder, as you know. when your cravings are very strong. Cravings are the strongest pathways in our body.

They motivate us to move, to get up out of our seat, to get in the car, to drive across town and have that thing that we're craving. So it's often not as easy as just saying, oh, well just take a walk or distract yourself for 15 minutes. It just depends on how strong and how deeply rooted that craving might be for you.

Oh, I love the peppermint one. So peppermint oil or a dark chocolate with peppermint. Peppermint works to calm the craving centers in our brain. So what they did is they actually experimented on people who sniffed peppermint every two to three hours. And then they actually looked at their brain waves through MRI. And they found that those people who had sniffed the peppermint were much less likely

to have cravings for food than the people who didn't. So that's a really easy one. And you can allude that that would be true for, even though they use peppermint oil in the study, you can imagine that it could be like, you know, drinking a peppermint tea or having a peppermint dark chocolate. Like it could help you with those. There was another study,

where they use walnuts, walnuts in a smoothie. And the interesting thing, Mike, is that they gave two groups smoothies. One group had walnuts in their smoothie and the other group had something that had a texture of walnuts, but not walnuts, a placebo. And they found that over two weeks time, the group that drank the walnut smoothie had craving centers in their brain that were calmer.

and less likely to light up at the visual cues of cravings as compared to the group that just had the shake with the placebo.

Yes, absolutely. We are in control. Our brain is plastic, much more so when we're young, you know, zero to five, they're super plastic. But then even as adults, if you recognize you have a craving for something unhealthy, you can anticipate and change that. So I'll give you an example.

When I know for me, for example, that baked cookies like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies is something I often crave. And I know that if I keep it in the house, all I think about is when I can have that cookie, when I can have the next cookie, when I'm allowed to have that again. And I recognize that that was a craving pathway signal. And I recognize that I wanted to change that.

So what I did is instead of having chocolate chip cookies in the house, freshly baked, I had just some really high quality dark chocolate. And what I would do is When I would crave the chocolate chip cookie freshly baked, I would say to myself, well, you know what? I'm going to do a better thing.

I'm going to give my body a reward, a dopamine explosion, but something that's positive, something that I could like live with and be happy with. So I gave myself the dark chocolate and I call it the intermittent reward schedule. So what you want to do is the best way to create a pathway for new craving

is to intermittently and randomly reward yourself with a positive food or item that can reshape that pathway. And so I actually retrained my brain to crave dark chocolate. Now, for some people that might not be good enough, they might switch it for something else, but it has to be something that creates a dopamine response in your brain so that when you replace one for the other,

you still get a good feeling. So you can't replace the baked hot chocolate chip cookie with a celery stick because that's not going to give you the dopamine response to help you retrain your brain.

Thank you so much.

For 11 years, every night women slept illegally on the Common.

Getting sunlight activates a hormone called alpha-MSH. That hormone makes you feel satiated. It calms the cravings and it makes you feel fuller.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

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I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

It's been a pleasure. I really appreciate you taking the time. If you are caught up in the Barbenheimer frenzy, if you love ranking the Mission Impossible films, if you are just an all-around movie fan, I have a podcast for you. Hello, I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm a film critic who writes for The New York Times, and I am also the co-host of Unspooled, the ultimate movie podcast.

Each week, my co-host Paul Scheer and I unspool famous films to see if they're truly all-time classics. From the original 1984 Karate Kid, to Children of Men, to more recent pictures to Dune, yes, to Citizen Kane, we cover it all. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

In Don't Blame Me, we tackle our listeners' dilemmas with hilariously honest advice.

Then tune in to see you next Tuesday for our listener poll results from But Am I Wrong?

Listen to Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

And me, Melissa Demonts, for Don't Blame Me, But Am I Wrong?

In Don't Blame Me, we dive deep into listeners' questions, offering advice that's funny, relatable, and real.

Then switch gears with But Am I Wrong, which is for listeners who didn't take our advice and want to know if they are the villains in the situation.

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We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

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We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them. We're talking Parasite to Home Alone.

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Christian Bale was preparing for his role in American Psycho, dressing the part, hitting the gym for the first time in his life, even getting his teeth redone. There was just one problem. He didn't actually have the part. Leonardo DiCaprio did.

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I'm Anne Foster, host of the feminist women's history comedy podcast, Vulgar History. And every week I share the saga of a woman from history whose story you probably didn't already know and you will never forget after you hear it. Sometimes we reexamine well-known people like Cleopatra or Pocahontas, sharing the truth behind their legends.

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My sense and my experience, because I once took my phone in my pocket into a hot tub, which I got out of the hot tub and felt my pocket and went, oh, God. And, of course, it didn't work. And I took it to the place. And my sense is that if your phone is submerged in water, it's never going to work right again. I mean, it's never going to come back to where it was.

Maybe it can work again, but it seems like it's always going to be something's, yeah, I dropped it in water, so it doesn't do that thing anymore.

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In your research into this, is this a topic that comes up much in the halls of Apple and the other manufacturers of these electronic devices, or is their position more that it's really up to the consumer to take care of these things once they buy them?

Well, these devices have become so much a part of our life that when you think about all the times we interact with them, just the law of averages is going to say there's going to be accidents. Things are going to go wrong and they're going to break.

MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?

What is it that happens to the phone when it, I mean, as you said, it depends on the liquid, but just with regular fresh water, what is it that it does to the phone that makes it so if it just dries out, it should work fine. I have the key fob for my car. I've put it in the wash twice now. It works fine after it gets dry. It doesn't ruin it. Of course, that's just a key fob. It's not a computer.

But still, what is it that happens that is so fatal to the phone?

But you're not suggesting, I don't think, you're not suggesting that manufacturers are up to something here, that they're trying to not make them more water resistant so that they can make more money. Or are you?

Because it does seem that all these products are tested to some extent for durability. They must throw them around and kick them. I mean, they must put them through their paces because as we were talking about before, I mean, my phone's been kicked and hit and dropped and works fine.

But it does seem that people know going in. It's not like when you drop your phone in the toilet that you're shocked that it doesn't work anymore. I mean, you know you should have not done that and that you probably shouldn't have brought the phone into the bathroom in the first place. It's not an educational thing. People know that they're fragile to some extent.

And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.

It's just that life happens and that's the intersection where things go wrong.

You know what I like about having this discussion is that for everyone who has had this happen to them, where you've dropped the phone in the toilet or taken it into the pool by accident, and it's happened to apparently just about everyone, you feel so foolish, you feel so guilty, and And you feel like you're probably the only one that's ever done this.

And I love taking this topic out of the shadows. And now we all know, we all do it. It's going to happen. And maybe someday they'll find a way to fix this. Rachel Plotnick has been my guest. She is a historian and cultural theorist. And she is author of a book called License to Spill, Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives. And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes.

Rachel, it's always a pleasure. You always have really interesting topics. Thank you.

You have probably noticed that people tend to talk a lot about how stressed out they are. And they don't mean it in a good way. No one says, oh, I'm so stressed out and boy, does that feel fabulous. No, most of us think of stress as a bad thing. But it appears we may not be thinking about stress in the right way. There is good stress and there is bad stress.

And the more good stress you can bring into your life, the more it fights the negative effects of the bad stress. That's according to my guest, Dr. Sharon Berquist. She's an award-winning physician and researcher known for her science-based approach to lifestyle medicine. She's contributed to hundreds of news segments, including Good Morning America, ABC News, and The Wall Street Journal.

She has a TED-Ed talk about how stress affects you, and it has been viewed over 8 million times. She's the author of a book called The Stress Paradox, Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier. Hello, Sharon. Welcome. Thank you for coming on Something You Should Know today.

So there seems to be some confusion about what stress is, what it does and all. So can you explain exactly what stress is?

And the difference between those two types of stress, the kind that is harmful and the kind that is not, is what?

Doesn't it seem, though, that, as you pointed out, like it could be your job or it could be some event in your life that's causing you stress, but you're creating the stress, not the event. The event is the event. It's how you deal with it.

You know, I was told a long time ago that it's impolite to correct someone's pronunciation. But we're going to do it anyway. Hi and welcome. Thank you for listening to this episode of Something You Should Know. Probably all of us mispronounce some words. In fact, sometimes so many people mispronounce words that the new mispronunciation becomes the norm.

And the idea of when people talk about, oh, I'm so stressed, or this is so stressful, I mean, they're never talking about the good stress. They're always talking about what they perceive to be harmful stress, that this is too much, that I can't deal with this, this is really hard. It isn't like, wow, this is great stress.

No one uses that term and says, God, I'm so stressed today, and isn't it wonderful?

So can you take some real life examples? Because we're talking about the stress in response to something going on in life. Let's add in the things that are going on so we get real examples rather than talking in the abstract of here's something that happens and here's how you handle it or maybe how you don't handle it well so we get a better sense of what you're talking about.

But going back to your example of being stuck in a work situation,

But we're going to set the record straight, and then you can either pronounce them correctly or mispronounce them, but at least you'll know. And here's the perfect example of one I will never pronounce correctly. Seuss, as in Dr. Seuss. Almost everyone says Seuss, but one of his college friends made a rhyme to teach you the right way to pronounce it.

So it's not a matter of trying to reframe bad stress into good stress. It sounds like you're talking about you're going to have bad stress and you do what you do with that. The trick is to find the good stress because that will help protect you from those bad stressful things.

And so how do you create good stress in your life? I mean, is it the, that's why I guess what I'm not understanding is like, is it the way you respond to situations or do you go out and seek situations, go get on a roller coaster because that'll give you good, I'm not sure how you bring this into your life.

You're wrong as the deuce, and you shouldn't rejoice. If you're calling him soos, he pronounces it sois. Sois? Dr. Sois? I don't know. Kibosh. That's the pronunciation, but some people say kibosh. The accent is on the first syllable, kibosh. Celtic. An initial hard K sound is the standard, but according to linguists, the S sound, as in Celtic, goes back to the 17th century.

So I get that those have health benefits to them, but I guess I'm not seeing how this relates to stress. I see there are health benefits, but how does reducing when I eat relate it to stress?

Well, what about the managing of bad stress? Is that something not to concern yourself with? Again, it seems like these are two very different things, good stress and bad stress. You're focused on the good stress, but is there something to managing your bad stress?

Isn't that the truth? Is this fairly new research? Because, you know, generally you hear when people talk about being healthy, you know, it's movement. Take a walk after dinner. It isn't running up the stairs three times a day. It's much more lighter and fluffier.

Still, the preferred and official pronunciation is Celtic, but since it would sound ridiculous to talk about the Boston Celtics, you get a pass when you talk about the Boston Celtics. There is a word that when you read it, it looks like it should be pronounced comp-troller. That's the money person in a business, the comp-troller.

Lastly, and maybe you've already talked about this, but I want to maybe talk about it in a more concentrated... The benefits of the good stress... our health benefits and other benefits, but talk specifically about how they mitigate the bad stress.

But the correct pronunciation is controller, like there's an N in there, and the P-T is silent. Cash, as in C-A-C-H-E. Somehow, I guess it just sounds more elegant to say cachet, but the word sounds just like the money, cash. Chicanery. It's a word meaning deception by trickery, and it is easy to mispronounce. The beginning sound is not the typical C-H sound. It's an S-H sound.

Well, you know, I've never heard anyone explain stress this way, and it certainly has given me a much better understanding of what it is, what it does, and maybe how to even make it work for you. Dr. Sharon Berquist has been my guest. She is an award-winning physician and author of the book, The Stress Paradox, Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier.

And there is a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Sharon, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for being here.

The next time you're in that awkward position that we all find ourselves in, that you can't remember someone's name, try shifting your eyes from left to right for about 30 seconds. According to a British study, that move, just shifting your eyes left to right, can improve your instant recall by engaging both sides of your brain, which activates long and short-term memory.

Now, if shifting your eyes doesn't work, you could try swinging your arms or rocking back and forth. According to the study, that reduces stress and resets your brain. It also may scare away everybody you're talking to so there would be no need to remember their name. And that is something you should know.

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I think you would be amazingly surprised how much difference it does make. And if you had a podcast, I would leave you a rating and review. And I'd tell all my friends. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.

Chicanery, as in Chicago. Affluent. The stress on this word is supposed to be on the first syllable. Affluent. But stressing the second syllable became very mainstream back in the 80s, and dictionaries started validating that pronunciation. Affluent. But technically, it is affluent. And niche.

Today on Something You Should Know, some commonly mispronounced words that even English teachers get wrong. Then, why aren't our electronic devices, like smartphones, waterproof? Because they're going to get wet.

When the word was borrowed from the French in the 17th century, it quickly turned from niche to niche in English. But in the 20th century, more people embraced the more French pronunciation and decided to pronounce it niche. But according to most dictionaries, both are correct. And that is something you should know. So you have your electronic devices, right?

You have a phone, maybe a laptop, a tablet, perhaps a smartwatch or a Fitbit, whatever else. And other than the day-to-day wear and tear on those devices, what is the one thing that will instantly and permanently ruin them? Liquid. You spill coffee on your laptop, goodbye. You drop your phone in the toilet or accidentally take it into the pool, goodbye. Or in my case, the hot tub.

That's the end of that. You can try to repair it, but even if it works again, it never seems to work like it used to. And then there's that thing about putting it in rice. I've heard that it works. I've heard that it doesn't work. And then I've also heard it's bad for your phone.

Death by liquid is such a common occurrence for personal electronics that I bet it's happened to you or someone you know. So why can't these devices be made water-resistant? I mean, the people who make watches figured out how to do that a long time ago. This is actually a really interesting topic that I'd never thought much about before, but you know who has, is Rachel Plotnick.

She is an historian and cultural theorist whose research and teachings focus on information, communication, and media technologies. She's author of a book called License to Spill, where dry devices meet liquid lives. Rachel was here a while ago talking about...

pushing buttons and now she's here to talk about this hi rachel welcome back thank you so much glad to be here so when i first saw this rachel i i thought How is this an issue?

Because my sense is the reason that my devices are not waterproof or water resistant is they don't need to be because it's my responsibility, my personal responsibility to take care of and protect my very expensive and sensitive electronic equipment. That's my job, not the job of the guy who made it.

And then what's interesting, as I thought about it more, but isn't it interesting that you don't have to ask too many people, and you will hear a story of phone in the toilet, phone in the hot tub, phone in the pool, phone in the washing machine.

So it happens a lot, and so you would think, well, okay, maybe that's a feature that they ought to build into this if that's possible, because it happens frequently, right?

And so what's the answer if you ask the people that make the phones and the devices, why aren't these waterproof? My guess would be because that would cost an awful lot of money. That's not our job. I mean, I don't know what they would say, but has it ever come up? And what do they say if it has?

Also, how making certain body movements can help you remember names. Maybe. And stress. We tend to think of stress as something bad that needs to be reduced and avoided.

What is the difference between something being waterproof and water resistant? I've always felt like, you know, we'll call it water resistant. So if something happens and water gets into it, we didn't say it was waterproof. It's just like we try to keep the water out.

I also was thinking as I saw this, because it's such an interesting topic to discuss, because, you know, as we said in the beginning, people think, well, that's my job to make sure it doesn't fall in the toilet. So that's why it isn't. But phones are also not fire resistant or heat resistant. In fact, if your phone gets hot, it stops working. So, I mean, the phone can't be indestructible.

Well, you know, I'm not one of those people that gets a new phone every time one comes out. I've had my phone for a long time. But I have been amazed how many times I have dropped it, kicked it, whatever, and it works fine. It does seem to some extent... pretty indestructible except for the water thing, the fire thing, you know, the extremes.

But day-to-day wear and tear, phones seem to be able to handle that pretty well.

All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.

We're talking about why it is our electronic devices are so easily damaged and destroyed by liquids. And my guest is Rachel Plotnick. She's author of a book called License to Spill, Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.

So Rachel, we were talking earlier. It does seem to me that everybody has had this happen or knows someone who's lost a device because of dropping it in the toilet or whatever. Are there any statistics as to how many devices or how many people this happens to?

We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in case you missed them.

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I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

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If you are caught up in the Barbenheimer frenzy, if you love ranking the Mission Impossible films, if you are just an all-around movie fan, I have a podcast for you. Hello, I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm a film critic who writes for the New York Times, and I am also the co-host of Unspooled, the ultimate movie podcast.

Each week, my co-host Paul Scheer and I unspool famous films to see if they're truly all-time classics. From the original 1984 Karate Kid, to Children of Men, to more recent pictures to Dune, yes, to Citizen Kane, we cover it all. Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

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We love movies, and we come at them from different perspectives.

He's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated.

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So Martin, I'm thinking of those times when I'm thinking about pressing the like button. If I'm going to press the like button and no one's liked this thing before, I'm less likely to be, I don't want to be the first. You know, like there's a hesitation like, well, no one's liked it before me. Why would I like it now? But if there are 5,000 likes, yeah, sure, I'll pile on.

MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.

So the like button was created from what you've said so far. It was created for businesses to get likes, to promote business. But it's also become a personal thing, right? If people post something on Instagram or Facebook, they want people to like it. And they hate when people don't like it. So it's moved from business to personal.

What does the like button do for the person who posted or who's looking for likes and then they get a bunch of likes or they don't get a bunch of likes? What does it do to them?

MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?

Well, I would imagine that most people who hit the like button, and there's zillions of them every day, that never think about what you've just been describing for the last half hour about how this all works and what it does and what it doesn't do. And it's just a like button. But boy, there's a lot to the story that people don't know.

Well, after listening to you, it's going to be hard to think about the like button in the same way or press it or just press it without thinking about some of the things you've said about it. I've been talking with Martin Reeves. He is chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, which is a think tank for developing new ideas in business.

And he's co-author of the book, Like, The Button That Changed the World. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you, Martin, for coming on and peeling the layers back on the like button.

All of us human beings have things about our bodies, our physiology, that we rarely talk about. And we rarely talk about them because, well, we just don't. Either it's not polite to, or we don't think about them. Things like sweat, or tears, or breathing. I mean, who talks about breathing?

Yet these bodily functions that we all have in common are not only fascinating, they're important to understand because they are all involved in keeping you alive and healthy.

And here to help us understand these things is Cutter Wood, who has explored and researched this topic and has written a book called Earthly Materials, Journeys Through Our Bodies, Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. And I promise, I promise this is not a gross conversation at all, so please stay with me. Hey Cutter, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, thanks for having me.

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Let's start with breathing. We all breathe all the time. Most of us don't think much about it or talk about it, but if you stop breathing, that's pretty much the end of you. Breathing is pretty important.

Which is why I suspect the idea of slow, deep breaths is a big part of meditation and mindfulness, that it is a way to calm your brain down, to calm your thoughts down. So let's talk about hair and how hair grows and why it's different colors and all that. Because people spend a lot of time and money on their hair and how they make it look without thinking so much about the biology of it all.

So dive in there.

When you say people with red hair process pain differently, what does that mean? That it feels different or what?

Well, that's weird. It's pretty wild, right? Well, the other thing about hair that I find interesting, well, there's a lot of things about hair that you find interesting, but Like a lot of people, I was one of these people that, you know, when I was very young, I had very blonde hair, but that didn't last very long. It got brown and it stayed brown for the rest of my life.

What is the shelf life of a Twinkie? It actually has one, and it's not as long as you think. Hi, and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. There are a lot of facts about many of the foods we eat that are pretty interesting and worth knowing. For example, Twinkies really do have a shelf life, and it is about 45 days. Most of the salmon we eat is dyed pink.

But why does mucus tend to be more prominent and there's more of it when you're sick? Your nose gets runny. Why?

And so when it attaches to things that are dangerous in my body, does that mean it's trying to take out mucus? the whatever it is in my body that's causing me to have a cold or the flu or is it that fundamental or it's finding other things in there that are also dangerous and trying to take them out or what?

So really, we need to learn to love our mucus because it's pretty important.

So let's talk about urine, pee. We all know you drink something and it goes through your body and does what it does and it comes out. But I don't know that I know much about the process or what happens. So since it is a universal experience that's probably worth understanding, let's talk about that.

Wild salmon are pink in color because they eat these little crustaceans called krill that give the salmon that pink color. But farmed salmon, which accounts for about two-thirds of the salmon we eat, are fed pellets to dye their flesh pink, which is otherwise naturally gray. An ear of corn will almost always have an even number of rows.

And that's why when you go to the doctor, you pee in a cup and they send it to the lab, I guess.

And they still do that?

Another thing humans excrete are tears. And what's interesting to me about tears is they're always there, right, lubricating your eye. But emotions can make lots of tears and they run down your face. And the emotions that create that are both happiness and sadness. So I'd be curious to know more about that.

But what's so interesting to me about tears is, and maybe there's no answer for this, but it's the same reaction, the same reflex for sadness and for happiness. And I've heard the explanation that you cry when you're happy to kind of tone down the happiness, to try to keep you in a range of emotions that you don't go off the scale. I don't know if that's true or not.

Honey, and you've probably heard this before, but honey does not have a shelf life. It can crystallize and it can change color, but it never goes bad. Avocados, pumpkins, bananas, and watermelon are actually all berries. And strawberries are not really berries. Almonds are part of the peach family. And here's something kind of gross. What's in your peanut butter may shock you.

But going back to your friend who has never cried, he has never cried and he's proud of that or he's frustrated by that and wish he could or that's a badge of honor that he's never cried.

So the last thing we're going to talk about, and I promise it won't get gross, is throwing up. Vomit. So I will let you take the lead on that one.

Well, thanks for coming on and not getting too gross on a topic that can get pretty gross. Cutter Wood has been my guest. The name of his book is Earthly Materials, Journeys Through Our Bodies, Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. And if you'd like to read more, particularly more gross things, there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Cutter, thank you for being here.

According to the FDA, there can be up to an average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of peanut butter and an average of one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter. And finally, the average American eats about one ton of food per year. And that is something you should know. How many times have you pressed the like button?

Here's a situation a lot of people find themselves in. You've got a favorite pair of shoes, but there's something wrong with them. They're in need of repair. Do you repair your shoes, or do you just replace them? Well, according to Business Insider, here's the rule. If the upper part of your shoe dries out or starts cracking, then it's not worth repairing.

But if the uppers are fine, the bottoms can always be fixed. And by uppers, that means anything that isn't the sole of the shoe. Even with a really expensive pair of shoes, you may think you're saving money by paying $50 to repair them instead of buying a brand new pair. But if you have to start fixing the uppers now, they're going to need more equally expensive repairs before too long.

On the other hand, if the soles of the shoes are ruined, that's easy and not very expensive to fix and can give you several extra years of life and leave you feeling like you have a brand new pair of shoes. The trick is to make sure you find a good repair shop because they are not all created equal. And that is something you should know.

If you enjoyed hearing about the like button today or about your body's excretions, I hope you will share this podcast with someone else who would also enjoy hearing about those topics. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.

When you like a post or a video or a product or whatever else, there's often a like button right there. And the temptation is to press it. Why? What is it about the like button that we like so much? And what does pressing it do? What does it do for us? What does it do for the person who gets the likes? And where did the idea for the like button come from? Listen to this.

Today on Something You Should Know, fascinating facts about the food you eat, like why salmon is pink, what's the shelf life of a Twinkie, and more. Then, the Like button. It's pressed billions of times a day. Why do we like the Like button?

Supposedly, the like button is pressed over 7 billion times a day. That's almost as many times per day as there are people on the planet. the Like button has become part of our lives, or certainly our online lives. And here to talk about it is Martin Reeves. He's chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, which is a think tank for developing new ideas in business.

He's co-author of the book, Like, The Button That Changed the World. Hi, Martin. Thanks for coming on Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me, Mike. So when and where did the Like button first appear?

and um he's he's one of the contenders i mean he has a a dated sketch of the like button that precedes uh facebook's adoption by uh by many years well that's a bit surprising just because the like button doesn't seem like it's that old and seems like a relatively simple thing that caught on that you you could you could find the origins of it pretty clearly

So when you look back, since you have probably looked at this better and more deeply than anyone, was somebody trying to create the like button? Or was somebody trying to come up with a way to just solve that refresh problem? Or was somebody trying to, what were they trying to do that resulted in the like button?

Also, the rule about when to repair a pair of shoes or just get new ones. And amazing things about your body you never knew, about your breath, your tears, even your mucus.

So the like button isn't a thing in the sense that there's a patent, there's a patent owner, there's a diagram of how it works. The like button is more of a concept, isn't it?

But there is something. There's something about the like button that touches a nerve or something. If it's pressed 7 billion times a day, there's something pretty magical about it. What is it that makes it so effective?

But nobody owns the like button, which is interesting because you would think...

What's interesting to me about the like button, which is the thumbs up sign, typically, that most of the time is not a thumbs down sign, right? You either like it or you stay silent. I think YouTube...

All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.

A lot of companies, though, now, certainly Amazon and others, have a star system. It isn't I like it or I don't like it. It's I like it a little bit or I like it a lot or I don't like it at all.

We're talking about the like button and what happens when you press it. My guest is Martin Reeves. He is author of the book, Like, The Button That Changed the World.

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