Ken Carter
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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I remember sort of thinking about like what I would do if something went wrong, like where the emergency room was going to be, hoping I wasn't going to blow my hand up, that kind of stuff.
I was a very cautious kid.
The types who, on the 4th of July... "...have probably driven across state lines to buy fireworks that might not be legal in your current state, looking for the largest explosions, the most beautiful colors, and have invited the neighborhood people over to their house to witness that."
The types of people who are looking at the fireworks, wondering whether or not those are legal in this state, and being prepared.
The kind of people who might bring something to put out the fire.
Who are going to enjoy it, but may be nervous every now and then.
I've always been amazed how two people can have the same experience but kind of have a different emotional reaction from it.
I'm actually at an 8 out of 40.
It is quite low.
Yeah, there are lots of things that really are part of this.
And the thing I like to focus on a lot are two chemicals that we have in our body.
One is called cortisol.
It's a stress hormone.
It really helps organize your body systems to handle that fight, flee, or freeze response.
And so we know that when these highly chaotic things are happening, that for average and low sensation seekers, it produces a lot of cortisol in their body, and they're trying to react to that cortisol.
High sensation seekers, on the other hand, don't tend to produce that much cortisol when they're in those highly chaotic experiences.
So when they're seeing those fireworks, they actually produce higher amounts of another chemical called dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter or chemical messenger that's involved in pleasure.
So when these high sensation seekers are seeing these fireworks that are illegal from five states away...
And they're blowing up.
They're experiencing a lot of pleasure, but not that much stress.
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