Laura: Welcome to another episode of of Ron's.
Ron: Education.
Laura: The Comedy science Podcast.
Ron: Where can we.
Laura: Me, Laura Podcast tries to learn Ron Science, brother.
Laura: Comedy podcast.
Laura: Hello, everyone.
Laura: Welcome to the podcast.
Laura: New listeners, this will be confusing.
Laura: Hey, go back to episode one.
Laura: Start there.
Laura: Join us in a matter of days when you, frankly, binged all of our bingeable content and ended up back here, normal listeners.
Laura: Hi, dudes.
Laura: We're f****** about with the intro today.
Laura: Ron, the way you're wearing your hoodie right now really reminds me of that statue of dopey that Mum has on her bedhead.
Ron: Then I'll stop doing that then.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: How are you, Ron?
Ron: Yep, I'm good.
Ron: How are you doing?
Laura: You've had a birthday weekend.
Ron: I have.
Ron: I have indeed.
Laura: How was your birthday weekend?
Ron: Twas nice.
Ron: Yes.
Laura: You played the drawing game, I see.
Ron: Yeah, I played the drawing game on Winl.
Ron: Edit this out back in.
Ron: Yeah, we did some drawing, introduced my friends to drawing.
Ron: They were a bit like, what you'd want us to just sit around and draw.
Ron: And then, as with everyone that you introduced to that game, we giggled and giggled.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Guys, if you ever want a fun party game, a parlor game, when you're in your cups or just chilling with friends, get a load of blank pieces of paper out and a load of pencils, and you set a timer, you say seven minutes, and everybody has to try and draw the same animal from memory, and it produces hilarious results.
Ron: You're not allowed to look at a reference picture even beforehand, not allowed to refresh yourself at all.
Ron: You have to do one side on and one front on picture, and you have to try and draw it photorealistic.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Maybe I'll try and dig out some of the ones we've done and put them on the Instagram.
Laura: Send me the ones from this week, because you sent them to me and were like, guess what we're drawing.
Laura: I guessed buffalo.
Laura: It was not a buffalo.
Ron: No, the first ones, which was the gentle boys, were insane.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: No.
Ron: You think?
Ron: No problem.
Ron: I can't draw photorealistic, but I know the shape of a pig.
Ron: You don't.
Ron: Where's a pig's neck?
Ron: Yeah, pig's neck.
Laura: I mean, I know I can't draw, and yet some of the things I've produced.
Laura: Did you remember that goat with the enormous a******?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: You just drew a goat with a horrible, gaping a******.
Ron: Nobody knows why, because I was so.
Laura: Sure, and I'm still quite sure, that the hair around the bumhole is all designed like a target to make you look at the bumhole.
Ron: Yeah, but you drew it with a cavernous a***.
Ron: It was horrible.
Laura: A cavernous.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So there's a fun game.
Laura: There you go.
Laura: Everybody play a fun game.
Ron: Send in your picks.
Ron: Oh, yes, a few glasses of wine does help with the giddiness of the game, but that's up to you.
Laura: We have to apologize to everybody.
Laura: That was at the live show last weekend.
Laura: We were so giddy ourselves, we forgot to say, class dismissed.
Laura: So that lesson is now open until the February live show.
Laura: Sorry about that.
Ron: Apologies.
Ron: Yeah, even Laura forgot.
Laura: I forgot to bully Ron into doing it.
Laura: And so that's just that we've got a birthday shout out, Ron.
Ron: Happy birthday, special listener, not a listener.
Ron: Happy birthday.
Ron: Oh, I see what's going on.
Ron: Happy birthday, special dad.
Laura: Happy birthday, agony dad.
Laura: We know you don't listen if we know you didn't even listen to the episode you were on.
Laura: But that is part of your charm, your absolute apathy towards your children.
Ron: Mum of friend of the podcast, Noah.
Ron: His mum has the same birthday that I can eat it.
Laura: Oh, happy birthday, Noah's mum, then.
Laura: But only if Noah's still a patron.
Ron: I think he is currently.
Laura: Isn't this becoming a podcast just for our immediate friends and family?
Ron: No, none of them listen apart from Noah.
Laura: Does Noah actually listen?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Oh, no.
Laura: I love you.
Laura: I love you, you giddy boy.
Ron: No, gentle boy doesn't listen.
Laura: He's a live show only, kind of.
Ron: A live show only.
Ron: But then he did say to me the other day, he was like, oh, I wanted to hear that bit where.
Ron: Because he was looking after child of the podcast in one of the intros, Outros.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: He's like, oh, I wanted to hear that bit where I come in, see how that sounded on the podcast.
Ron: And then he went, I really like the Intros, outros.
Ron: I might stop listening to them mad.
Laura: I'll just send him the recordings before I've edited them into the main episodes.
Laura: That'd be much easier.
Ron: We need those downloads.
Laura: Yeah, we do, right.
Laura: What else do we have to say?
Laura: Yeah, it's Happy Birthday to Agony Dad.
Laura: It's a lovely episode today, isn't it, Ron?
Ron: I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Laura: I think people are going to have a lovely time with this.
Ron: I think we're in a really good spate of episodes.
Laura: Oh, my God, Ron, we always are.
Ron: Why do you get angry when I am saying that we're good?
Laura: Because just say the whole podcast is good, always and forever.
Ron: No, because then it's like, oh, every week I'm like, oh, yeah, best episode ever.
Ron: Nobody's going to believe me.
Ron: Whereas if I say, you know what, a little while ago wasn't great.
Ron: Sorry about that, but this is a real good one, then people will believe me.
Laura: All right, then.
Laura: I had popcorn for dinner last night, and now, like, a little bit of my gum is all puffy and I think there must be some popcorn stuck in there.
Ron: So enjoy the episode, listener.
Ron: We'll see you on the other side.
Ron: We're still doing outros.
Ron: Maybe that's where Laura's gums should be discussed.
Ron: But enjoy it and we'll be back in a second.
Ron: Love you.
Laura: Was that random?
Ron: Yeah, I came out of nowhere, went nowhere.
Laura: Well, that's because you didn't talk back about it.
Ron: I'm not taking for that one.
Ron: I think I saved it.
Laura: I did brush my teeth really well.
Laura: Twice.
Laura: Obviously not well enough.
Ron: No.
Ron: Did you mouthwash?
Laura: No, I hate mouthwash.
Laura: It hurts.
Ron: I love mouthwash.
Ron: But, yeah.
Ron: I've recently found out, thanks to Beck Hill and her podcast, that you should mouthwash before you brush.
Laura: Oh, yeah.
Laura: Why?
Ron: Because if you mouthwash after you brush, it washes off all of the toothpaste from your teeth.
Laura: But if you brush after you mouthwash, does it not brush off all of the mouthwash?
Ron: Well, I think mouthwash is mainly about, like, getting bacteria out of crannies and for me, just having ludicrously fresh breath.
Ron: So I can do that if I mouthwash it before.
Laura: That's what puts me off mouth.
Ron: Can we let people listen to the episode now?
Laura: I thought they were.
Laura: I thought we would probably edit this bit out.
Laura: Do you want to leave it in?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: All right, then.
Laura: That's what puts me off mouthwash.
Laura: Is that.
Laura: Sorry, I thought this was all off from the minute you said.
Laura: Because it says, don't use it, like, within half an hour of brushing or use it a different time.
Laura: And then I'm like, when am I thinking about, if I'm not brushing, I'm eating?
Ron: That's not true.
Ron: Do you not sometimes have lunch and then be like, quite like, just fresh breath?
Laura: Yeah, I suppose I could replace my mid.
Laura: Because I brush my teeth like four or five times a day.
Ron: I don't think you should be doing that.
Laura: I love brushing my teeth.
Ron: Yeah, but I don't think you should.
Laura: Why?
Ron: You damaged the enamel.
Laura: I thought it repaired the enamel.
Ron: No.
Ron: Do you know what toothpaste is?
Laura: No.
Ron: It's an abrasive paste.
Laura: Yeah, I thought it was doing good stuff, though.
Ron: It grinds it down.
Laura: No wonder all the popcorn's in there.
Ron: Yeah, Laurie, you should only brush twice a day.
Ron: You can over brush.
Laura: I think I've been over brushing my teeth.
Ron: You've been over brushing?
Ron: You say your teeth hurt all the time?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: That's because you've brushed away all the.
Ron: Enamel and all the nerve endings are just in the open air.
Laura: Oh, man, they hurt in cold weather.
Ron: Yeah, twice a day.
Ron: And then mouthwash.
Ron: Mouthwash in the day.
Laura: Well, I'm really glad we didn't just let them listen to the episode.
Laura: Now I just have little nubby teeth.
Ron: Bloody.
Ron: Yeah, sorry.
Ron: Bloody h***.
Ron: Five times a day.
Laura: I like brushing my teeth.
Ron: I hate brushing my teeth.
Laura: Oh, I love it.
Laura: I get headaches if I don't do it.
Ron: Brushing your teeth too often or too vigorously can wear down the enamel of the teeth.
Ron: Overbrushing causes gums to recede, which can make them more susceptible to diseases and popcorn.
Ron: The enamel is the protective layer of your teeth, so wearing it down can make your teeth more sensitive and susceptible to damage.
Laura: Oh, bloody h***.
Laura: That's exactly what I've done.
Ron: Three times a day seems to be the max you should do.
Laura: Okay, I'll cut down.
Laura: Yeah, I'm going to order.
Ron: Twice is enough for most people, but three times won't hurt.
Ron: We recommend brushing your teeth at least twice a day, around 30 minutes after breakfast and once before you go to bed.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Why 30 minutes after breakfast?
Ron: Because if you eat, it softens the enamel, because it feeds all of the bacteria.
Laura: Why are teeth made of enamel if it is not fit for purpose?
Ron: Because we were only supposed to live about 30, 40 years.
Ron: Humans.
Ron: Maybe we need sexual.
Laura: Third set.
Laura: Like, maybe we'd need milk teeth, midlife teeth, and then another set.
Ron: Yeah, you just have to buy those in Turkey, it's fine.
Laura: Okay, enjoy the Ron.
Laura: I can hear muffled chattering of your housemates behind you.
Ron: Sorry.
Ron: Should I tell them to f*** off?
Laura: No, it's exciting.
Laura: I don't know who they are, so I just picture them.
Laura: The sexy house band that lives with.
Ron: Ron, Sister of the podcast.
Ron: Met most of them the other day.
Ron: Yeah, it was very funny because I couldn't introduce, because I couldn't remember one of their girlfriends names.
Ron: I just didn't introduce anyone.
Laura: Did you do an awkward Ron stand there?
Ron: No, Sister of the podcast.
Ron: And I sat and drank tea.
Ron: It was way too hot.
Ron: They heat the house too much, Laura.
Laura: Oh, I hate that.
Ron: They overfill the kettle and they put my sharp knives in the dishwasher.
Laura: Ron, that is an arrestable offence.
Laura: Those knives are really nice.
Laura: I know.
Laura: Tell them not to.
Ron: I have twice.
Laura: Just start keeping them in your room.
Ron: No, that's creepy.
Ron: The second time, I had to send them the Bernie Sanders meme, where it's like, I am once again asking you not to put my knives in the dishwasher.
Laura: They must think you're so grown up compared to them.
Ron: Yeah, no, I think so.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: You know, knife guy.
Laura: He's one of our housemates.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: I bought you those knives.
Laura: Yeah, I'm such a good sister.
Ron: Like, long time.
Ron: Coming up on ten years ago now.
Laura: Whoa.
Laura: You old?
Ron: Because you got them for me.
Ron: First year of uni or second year of uni?
Ron: Maybe second year.
Ron: So maybe like, eight years ago, I.
Laura: Wouldn'T have got them for you when you lived in those halls.
Ron: Yeah, I think I must definitely had them in second year, though, because I.
Laura: If you'd had them in first year, you'd have killed your roommate.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: F*** that guy.
Laura: He was the worst.
Ron: He was a creep.
Laura: He had that weird duvet cover, didn't he?
Ron: The dolphin one?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Dolphins.
Laura: Yeah, that was it.
Ron: Which, on its own, not what I'd have as an 18 year old guy moving out for the first time ever wanting to have sex.
Laura: No, most men of that age go for just gray.
Ron: Yeah, classic gray.
Laura: Horrible, creepy, yucky gray.
Ron: But he had, like, an echo.
Ron: The dolphin jumping out, which, again, not what I'd have, but fine.
Ron: But then the weird thing was he had multiple things of it, and he'd wash them and change them, and then it would always be the same.
Ron: We only found out they had multiple when he spilt bleach on the corner of one of them.
Ron: So sometimes it had bleach, and sometimes it didn't.
Laura: What was he bleaching in his bed?
Ron: Oh, he was a real clean freak.
Ron: He took his mattress away at Christmas, I think, a so my friends wouldn't sleep in it, b so he could clean it like the hall's mattress.
Laura: Wow.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: He live in London?
Ron: Hendon, yeah.
Laura: Jeez.
Ron: Which is on the Northern line.
Ron: And we lived less than four minutes walk from Warren Street.
Laura: Hey.
Laura: He wanted the ultimate student experience of a bleachy dolphin bed and a knife.
Ron: Guy sharing a room with this guy.
Ron: I was a drunken problem.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: One time I was very drunk.
Ron: Sat up in the middle of the night, threw up in my own bed.
Ron: He was like, Ron, you have to sort that out.
Ron: I poked it with my hand because I didn't know what he was referring to.
Ron: And then I went, oh, God d*** it.
Ron: And then I did sort it out, but I tried to go back to bed.
Laura: I do feel, though, it's shameful to have to make two strangers share a bedroom in this day and age.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: It's so weird.
Laura: I'm so glad I didn't have to do that uni.
Ron: Yeah, it was the worst.
Laura: But, Ron, after that puking story, I kind of feel like you're the worst of the housemates now.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Didn't he always like the window open as well?
Ron: No, he wanted it closed.
Laura: Oh, you wanted it open?
Ron: Yes.
Laura: Oh, yeah.
Laura: You're an open windows gUy.
Ron: I like my windows to be.
Ron: I like fresh air.
Ron: Oh, what a f****** weirdo.
Ron: Who likes fresh air.
Laura: You always come around to our house and make it freezing.
Ron: Yeah, because you guys like it so hot and stuffy and just stale air.
Ron: Smell the kid gubbins on everything.
Ron: It's horrible.
Ron: Just dog and kid everywhere this guy comes.
Ron: Intros player they have fresh air into the house.
Ron: What a villain.
Laura: It's freezing.
Ron: It's not.
Ron: It was unseasonably warm October.
Laura: Don't talk about the unseasonably warm October.
Laura: It's three degrees here in Oslo right now and I'm having a great time in it.
Ron: It's cold there in the UK.
Laura: I went to the Edvard Monk Museum today, Ron.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: His work is a mixed bag for me.
Laura: I like some of it, didn't like other bits of it, but I liked the process.
Laura: And there were some bits I thought were magnificent.
Laura: The scream is fine.
Ron: Do you know, supposedly the scream is like, because of cracker toa.
Ron: Because cracker toa happened and then the sky went a different color and there was like a boom heard around the world.
Ron: And then that's supposedly what it was about.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So they talk in the museum about there's like a diary entry of his or something about walking down a beach and suddenly feeling a fracture of nature and a weird feeling.
Laura: And the scream is kind of about that.
Laura: But I didn't know this about Monk.
Laura: Like a lot of his work, he would often revisit the same motif until he felt like he'd got it right.
Laura: So that idea of like, what are you looking at?
Ron: Can you hear that?
Ron: Is that coming through?
Laura: What?
Laura: A bus?
Ron: No, there's Basie sounds.
Laura: No, I can't hear Basie sounds.
Ron: Okay, sorry.
Laura: Coming up now.
Laura: It's Cameron and the Basie sounds.
Laura: Hi, I'm Basie sounds.
Laura: I grew up in Nebraska, but now I'm the best Christian rock star.
Ron: Why did you call me Cameron?
Laura: I don't know, actually.
Ron: That's a bit weird, isn't it?
Ron: Normal brother Cameron.
Laura: Shall I just switch you to Cameron?
Ron: No.
Ron: Your child will be confused.
Laura: Yeah, that's true.
Ron: That's a deep cut.
Laura: Whoa.
Laura: The deep cuts are the bestest baby I know.
Laura: Should we do some science?
Ron: I feel like you were halfway through a Monk anecdote.
Laura: Yeah, what was I talking about?
Ron: Something about him reusing motifs, which is.
Laura: Quite ironic to get go and listen to our monk podcast.
Laura: I can't be expected to finish all my anecdotes, not when there's basic sounds.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Well, it's time.
Laura: Biology today, Ron.
Ron: Tis.
Ron: Tis indeed.
Laura: Why are we faffing about talking about art?
Laura: Yeah, we could do an art Patreon episode.
Ron: What do you people going like?
Ron: Those colors are nice.
Ron: I don't know about it, though.
Ron: Yeah, I'm not sure about that one.
Ron: That's an ugly bowl of fruit.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: We could go to an art gallery.
Ron: Oh, I do like art gallery.
Ron: What art we've seen, I am actually quite learned, so I'd probably be able to talk about quite a lot.
Laura: Well, I own several original art pieces, so I'm also very.
Ron: Yeah, that your mate gave you.
Laura: That I bought from a professional artist.
Ron: From your.
Laura: Who is also my friend.
Ron: From your mate.
Laura: At least I've got a mate.
Ron: Yeah, I'm all alone.
Laura: Yes.
Laura: Doing a podcast with your sister.
Laura: What are we doing today in biology, Ron?
Ron: 4.5.2.
Ron: The human nervous system.
Ron: And we're not just talking about you, Laura.
Laura: If only I had faith that I was a system.
Ron: It's a human nervous accident.
Ron: What can you tell me about nerves, Laura?
Ron: Nerves in the nervous system?
Laura: Nerves are long and thin.
Laura: Some of them go through your whole body.
Laura: It's electrical.
Laura: Little flaps go and let electrical impulses through.
Laura: I think we talked about that.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So that's a lot about nerves.
Ron: That's good stuff.
Ron: The nervous system is made of nerves.
Ron: What can you tell me about the nervous system in general?
Ron: I was doing my research for this EB, and I was like, Laura's going to have stuff to talk about on this, because we've talked about the nervous system recently.
Ron: Now I've just realized.
Ron: Nope, that was the gentle boy.
Laura: You confused me with the gentle boy.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: I was talking to the gentle boy about the nervous system yesterday morning over an oat milk cappuccino at the cafe outside the gym.
Laura: What was he doing in Bristol?
Ron: He lives there.
Laura: Oh, yeah, that's fair.
Ron: Where did you think you lived?
Laura: Taunton, I think.
Ron: No.
Laura: Never mind.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: What can I tell you about the nervous system?
Laura: Probably goes from, like, nerves are all over the place get nerves all over the body.
Laura: Thousands of nerves, probably.
Laura: And then the ends are in places and then they relay messages back to the brain.
Ron: Always back to the brain.
Laura: No, sometimes to muscles or the stomach, or to hormone glands, lymph nodes, eyes, other major organs, skin all over the place.
Laura: Postal service.
Laura: Emotional postal Service.
Ron: I really lost track of you during that list.
Ron: I didn't know.
Laura: You can't, because if you go silent, I will just keep throwing words into the soup until I think I've got the answer right.
Ron: That was a cracking cup of tea I made myself that I've just finished there.
Laura: It was horrible mug, Ron.
Laura: It has got real one pound 50 vibes.
Ron: Yeah, these are someone else's microwave and dishwasher safe.
Laura: They scream dishwasher safe.
Ron: That's just a good size of mug.
Ron: Not too big, not too small.
Laura: That's what, about 300 mil, I reckon?
Ron: Nah, bigger than that.
Ron: It's bigger than your average, but not by too much.
Ron: It's not one of these big honkers.
Ron: It's no JBS or whatever it is.
Ron: JBL Sports.
Laura: Are you all right?
Laura: Normally you're really into the biology, but we're eleven minutes in and you can't be f*****.
Ron: Here's why I'm dilly dallying over this episode.
Ron: First line of the syllabus, in this section, it says, quote, students should be able to explain how the structure of the nervous system is adapted to its functions, but then goes into no detail as to how much you need to know about that.
Laura: Yeah, I don't really even understand what that means.
Ron: Why.
Laura: Tell me what functions it has first before I can understand how it's functions?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So there's two different types of signals, right?
Ron: In the body, broadly.
Ron: So you've got the endocrine system, sweating.
Ron: No, endocrine system is hormones.
Ron: Okay, so hormones, and then you got the nervous system.
Laura: Is that another type of.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: From what you know about both of these things, Laura, what sort of gap in the bodily market do you think each of them are filling?
Laura: I reckon nerves is motor and hormones is chemical reactions.
Ron: What do you mean by motor?
Ron: Or are you just going off the fact that you've heard the phrase motor neuron in the.
Laura: No, I'm thinking like, nerves is more like controls your movements and your physical motor reactions, whereas hormonal reactions is more like changes in chemical levels inside you and like less motory, less physical.
Laura: Well, not less physical.
Laura: I don't know the words broadly that.
Ron: Is true, but why is that in terms of the way that these signals are released and accepted?
Laura: I have no idea because I don't know how they are released or accepted.
Ron: Well, what's a hormone?
Laura: Chemical.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And how is that sort of transported.
Laura: Around your body in your blood?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: What's a nerve signal?
Laura: Is it that electrical Mexican wave thing?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So that just goes down the nerve, right?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So nerves are a bit more direct then?
Ron: Yeah, more direct, absolutely.
Ron: A bit more targetive.
Ron: It's going all around your blood.
Ron: Sure.
Ron: Everywhere is not going to have receptors, but it's like a bodily change, often slower.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: It's like getting on a Ferris wheel.
Laura: And eventually you'll get to the bit you want to go to.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And because eventually you're getting to the bit you want to go to.
Ron: It is.
Laura: Happy.
Ron: No.
Ron: All right, think about it this way, right?
Ron: We need to light something up at the top.
Ron: What's going to be quicker?
Ron: Me turning a switch on at the bottom and then an electrical signal goes up to the top.
Ron: Or you climb in a Ferris wheel, wait for it to go round, and then you light a beacon when you get up there.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: The nerve.
Laura: Like I said, the nerves will be quicker.
Ron: Did you say that?
Laura: I think so.
Ron: I don't think you did.
Laura: I think I did.
Ron: Maybe you did.
Laura: I think I did.
Ron: I don't remember you saying that because I've been trying to eke out of you for a while.
Laura: Well, I think I said it.
Laura: At least I said it was more direct.
Ron: Yeah, that's not the same.
Ron: Yeah, it is.
Ron: No, yeah.
Ron: No, you can be direct but slow, like Laura, you're thick.
Ron: See there, I'm being direct but not.
Laura: Slow, being a fallback.
Ron: Whereas like, I could be like fast and indirect, like Laurie, you could grasp your concepts more.
Laura: A.
Laura: I'm going to rise above this, Ron, like a little endocrine on a Ferris wheel.
Ron: Cool.
Ron: Okay, so hormone signaling or the endocrine system, that's for long term sort of widespread changes.
Ron: So for example, things like cortisol, the.
Laura: Stress hormone is going to feeling right now, actually.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: You produce that and then it's going to stay with you for a while because what that's saying is like your whole body be ready for a thing.
Ron: The same with when you get that adrenaline rush that pulses through your body for at least a couple of minutes afterwards.
Ron: Right.
Ron: Because your whole body needs to be ready for fight or flight.
Ron: Nervous signal, much shorter term, like, as soon as the stimulus stops, usually the feeling stops as well.
Laura: That makes so much sense because I've been really struggling this with child of the podcast.
Laura: As I'm trying to get used to looking after her all the time and I get really frustrated with myself where she has like a full tantrum and it's hard work and stuff.
Laura: And then she goes back to normal in the blink of an eye and is all like boo boo, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Laura: And then I'm left there raging and mad at her, like, and you feel like a monster because you're like, you're an adorable child, but I'm mad at you.
Laura: But if that makes sense, because the Ferris wheel hasn't got let all of the cortisol off yet, then that feeling is going to hang around for a little bit longer.
Ron: And also often she's probably dealing with stimulus that she's feeling via her nervous signals.
Laura: Fiddling with your microphone.
Laura: This is not.
Ron: There is a wire on the desk.
Ron: Let me just sort it and then it will be out of the way.
Ron: So she's probably dealing with signals that are coming in via her nervous system.
Ron: So her hands are sticky, there's a raisin in her shoe.
Ron: She doesn't like the texture of the thing in her mouth.
Ron: But then as soon as that thing goes away, she's not receiving that signal anymore, whereas you've become annoyed by it.
Ron: So then you've still got those stress hormones in your body.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Whereas she probably never developed those.
Ron: She was just reacting to a signal that came in.
Laura: Yeah, that's interesting.
Ron: And that disclaimer, that might all be bollocks, but it's an example of how this could work and the difference between the two.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Cool.
Ron: So if you go to the Yeoldi WhatsApp web.
Laura: Okay, not on my phone, Ron, though, because my phone is over the other side of the room, like a good student.
Ron: Well done, me.
Ron: So if you could look at Figuera.
Laura: Figue.
Laura: Right.
Laura: Look at.
Laura: What am I looking at here?
Laura: I am looking at two sea anemones connected together.
Laura: They've got marshmallows on sticks connecting them.
Laura: And these things are labeled the little.
Ron: Well, let me talk you through it, maybe.
Ron: Yeah, it looks mad.
Laura: Looks cool, though.
Ron: Again, I didn't know how much to go into this because it doesn't say how much I need to go into this.
Ron: So we're going to go very briefly into the structure of nerves.
Ron: So essentially what you have is you have the cell body.
Ron: That is where all of the, even though a nerve cell is a very specialized type of cell, it still needs to do all of the stuff that.
Ron: Well, not all of the stuff, but a lot of the stuff that a cell needs to do.
Ron: So it will still need to produce proteins, it will still need to recycle old things, it will still need to get rid of toxins, it still needs to produce energy, it needs to produce a lot of energy.
Ron: So it needs mitochondria, it needs ribosomes, it needs Golgi apparatus, it needs all of these things.
Ron: Okay?
Laura: ATP.
Ron: ATP.
Ron: So it still has the cell body and you can see that it's got a nucleus in there as well because what's the nucleus for?
Laura: The DNA in an envelope.
Ron: What's the DNA for?
Laura: Proteins that make up what you are?
Ron: Close enough.
Ron: It's the recipe for proteins, basically four letters, four nucleotide bases.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Coming off the cell body you have little fingers which are called dendrites.
Ron: Now this comes from the Greek for tree because it's kind of like the branches of a tree.
Laura: Like a rhododendron.
Ron: Sure.
Ron: Probably a tree from Rhodes.
Laura: Yeah, I agree.
Laura: Probably what that is.
Ron: Now it has one thing that looks like a dendrite that is much longer than the other ones going down.
Ron: In this drawing, it's in gray.
Ron: That is called the axon.
Ron: That is like the wire in the electricity metaphor.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: That's like a long tentacle coming off.
Laura: That's the bit that's got the marshmallows on just so that you're keeping up with how I was describing it.
Laura: Yeah, the marshmallows image on the Instagram.
Ron: The marshmallows themselves are the myeline sheath.
Ron: Now this is a waxy substance that acts like the rubber around the cable.
Laura: I know about myelin sheaths.
Laura: Wrong.
Laura: Because of those medical videos I used to make.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So they literally keep in the electrical signal.
Ron: There are gaps in between them.
Ron: I can't for the life of me remember what the gaps are for.
Ron: I think it's to let oxygen and stuff in.
Laura: Weird.
Ron: What are the gaps in a my sheath?
Ron: That's awesome.
Ron: They're called the nodes of Ranvir.
Laura: Oh yeah?
Laura: What are they?
Ron: Wait, how would you pronounce that?
Ron: R-A-N-V-I-E-R.
Ron: Ranvier.
Laura: R-A-N-V-I-E-R.
Laura: Yeah, Ranvier.
Ron: The nodes of Ranvier.
Laura: I love that.
Ron: They're rich in positive sodium ions.
Laura: Take your myelin from the sheath and we will meet at the nodes of Ranvir.
Laura: Turn left at axon.
Laura: Once you have defeated the dendrites and got past the body in the cell.
Ron: Then you will know the synapse course.
Laura: Simon, wake up.
Ron: As it says here, each gap in.
Laura: The myelin does brush over that, Ron.
Ron: Sorry, I was reading.
Ron: I didn't hear what you said.
Laura: Come on, Simon, wake up.
Ron: Nice.
Ron: That's very good.
Laura: Thank you.
Laura: My womb, my capture is for the podcast.
Laura: I want lots of merch with just my worm on it.
Ron: Make it happen.
Ron: Yeah, it's something about sodium ions recharging electrical signal in the nodes of Ranvier.
Ron: Then at the end of the axon, it splits off into little branches off.
Ron: Who am I, the karate kid?
Laura: Mr.
Laura: Mylin Yagi.
Ron: J.
Ron: Dendrite Smith.
Laura: Horrible.
Ron: Yeah, real bad.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: At the end of that, you got the synapse.
Ron: This is the gap in between two nerves across the synapse is where the signal has to be transferred.
Ron: There are different chemical messages that transfer it across.
Ron: They're released from one bit in little globules, and then they bind to receptors on the other one.
Ron: The chemical messenger that they use to cross the synapse determines the type of signal that is sent.
Ron: Often things that impair your judgment or f*** you up will be attacking these signals here.
Ron: So, for example, when you get drunk, it's actually the gaps in between the synapses that are slowed down, among other things, probably, but I heard that once.
Ron: So, Laura, that's a nerve.
Ron: How do you feel about it?
Laura: I've drawn it expertly in the notebook.
Laura: I've got no gel pens, though, so it's not glorious.
Ron: Okay, but how do you feel about it as a thing you need to know?
Laura: Oh, like right now, it makes sense.
Laura: And then tomorrow I will forget that I was even in Norway.
Ron: So the thing that this drawing doesn't necessarily sort of convey super well is that that axon is the bit that's really long.
Ron: So, like, the nerves going from your toes up to your hip, that will be one long nerve cell with a really long axon.
Ron: It won't be a chain of them passing on a signal like that.
Laura: Okay, is that why stubbing your toe hurts so much?
Laura: Because you don't lose any of the concentration of the feeling?
Laura: In lots of synapse exchanges, it's just one going boom.
Ron: No, it hurts so much because there are lots of nerves there, because your feet are very important, so we need to feel a lot with them.
Ron: Have you ever seen the sensory homunculus?
Laura: No, but I'm picturing who's that little magic card that I fancied for a while, that little cute bibblethip spibble thip?
Laura: Yeah, I'm picturing a little sexy spibble thip.
Laura: Like, oh, come and give me a cuddle.
Ron: No, let me try and find the sex.
Laura: He's never googled.
Laura: Fibble, thip the lost.
Laura: I suggest you do it right now, listeners.
Laura: You'll have a lovely time.
Laura: He's an absolute cutie.
Ron: So this is, by the way, horrible.
Ron: So basically this is not everywhere in your body is equal in terms of nerves or feeling.
Laura: Four legs good.
Laura: Two legs better.
Ron: Obviously your hands and your face, like, especially your mouth.
Laura: EspeCially my mouth.
Ron: Have a lot more feeling in them.
Ron: So I can't remember if it was artists or scientists or maybe both.
Ron: They created what they called the sensory homunculus, which is in proportion that you should know.
Ron: It's in proportion to the amount of feeling that each of these parts of the body have.
Laura: The b*** is glowing.
Laura: What's happening?
Laura: He's preparing to send me something.
Laura: Oh, whoa.
Laura: Okay, so it's like a human creature.
Laura: And then the bits that feel the most are biggest.
Laura: So there's a real Hapsburg chin on this, dude.
Laura: The tongue is hanging out of enormous lips.
Laura: The nose is quite snubby.
Laura: The ears are massive.
Laura: I would have thought the d*** would be bigger.
Laura: TBH, the d*** looks in proportion to the legs.
Laura: The hands are huge.
Laura: Like absolutely wildly bigger than the head big.
Laura: Wow.
Laura: It's not hot.
Ron: The feet are big as well, though, which is kind of the point I was making.
Laura: Yeah, the feet are big because.
Ron: Yeah, that's why stubing your toe hurts.
Ron: Because you need to feel a lot with your feet.
Ron: So there's a lot of nerves there.
Laura: The b*** is small.
Ron: The b*** is small.
Ron: The testicles are big.
Laura: Yeah, testicles are bigger than the peen.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: I'd be interested to see that with a c*******.
Laura: Is there a female homunculus?
Ron: I've never seen a female emotions or whatever.
Laura: It's called sensory because the clitz men are be quite like.
Laura: That's a big.
Laura: And in it, um, you'd have thought the nipples would be bigger too.
Ron: Learning way too much about you, man.
Laura: Nips are way sensitive.
Ron: I'm not seeing anything and I want to stop looking at these.
Laura: Never ever do this stuff about women.
Laura: God d*** it.
Laura: Science.
Laura: We exist.
Ron: Oh, some of these are really horrible.
Laura: What women?
Laura: Ron's just Googled women.
Ron: This one's got the big d*** you were asking for.
Laura: Whoa.
Ron: That was real horrible.
Laura: Oh, wow.
Laura: We'll put all of this on the Instagram.
Ron: Oh, here's a lady one with a big protruding puss.
Laura: Oh, wow.
Laura: But the woman's tongue is enormous.
Laura: The woman one feels different to the other ones, but yeah, she's basically the puss has become an outy and the tongue is gigantic.
Laura: I wonder if women have more nerve endings in their tongue than men, then.
Ron: I wouldn't necessarily trust the science of all of these horrible things.
Laura: No.
Ron: Considering I sent you two and they were wildly different.
Laura: Yeah, but basically we're going mouth, hands, feet, genitals.
Ron: Basically.
Ron: The guy that made the first one has a big numb knob.
Ron: The one that made the second one.
Laura: Was wanking at the time.
Ron: Um.
Ron: Wow.
Laura: How did we get.
Ron: How did we get onto this?
Laura: That's what the first person to f*** that second Homunculus said.
Ron: Right, where are we going next?
Ron: Information.
Ron: So what it wants us to know about now is what's called a reflex arc, which is basically, is that like.
Laura: When God speaks to you and says, I'm going to flood the earth, build a boat, and you.
Laura: Quick as a flash.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: But when he's like, it's more like, I'm flooding you.
Ron: Build a boat.
Ron: Not I'm going to.
Laura: You just do it straight away.
Laura: God says flood, you say Ark.
Ron: Ark.
Ron: You didn't say flood.
Laura: I'm not a height man.
Ron: No.
Ron: Who's your favourite of Noah's sons, Shem?
Ron: I like ham.
Laura: No one ever goes for Japheth.
Ron: No, I'm just a ham boy.
Laura: I used to like ham, but now I'm a pescatarian.
Ron: Yeah, fair, Shem.
Laura: That's because they really wanted a girl.
Laura: And when he came out Sham.
Ron: This.
Laura: Was a good episode.
Laura: Big numb knob.
Ron: Big numb knob.
Ron: Right.
Ron: So just a little bit of terminal.
Ron: Well, it's called a stimulus, what sets off your nerves and that can be many different things.
Ron: Maybe name a few.
Laura: Diagram.
Laura: They've jammed a pin quite far into somebody's skin.
Ron: Oh, you're looking at that already.
Ron: Don't look at that.
Laura: Should I not be?
Ron: Not just yet.
Ron: It's fine.
Laura: I'm going to go back to the homunculus.
Ron: But spoiler.
Laura: Oh, Agony Dad's replied.
Ron: About what?
Laura: Well, I text him because we've just recorded the Crete episode and we were quite confused about seas and oceans and so I said, do you want to do a Patreon episode where he teaches the difference between seas and oceans?
Laura: And he has said, not sure.
Laura: The topic would take more than 30 seconds.
Laura: No problem.
Laura: Cool.
Ron: That's agony, dad.
Ron: Right.
Laura: Stimulus, Ron, stimulus.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And then at the end of a nerve, you have to have a receptor.
Ron: So there's different types of receptors.
Ron: So some will just be like standard pain receptors, some will be temperature receptors and stuff like that, so that we can sense different things.
Ron: And then they will control the input that's going into the nerve.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: The input that's going into the nerve?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Like what type of signals going down it?
Laura: I thought it was like stimulus goes through the nerve to a receptor.
Ron: No, the receptor picks up the stimulus.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: So you have like receptors in your skin that would recognize different stimuli.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: All right.
Laura: Then.
Ron: Goes along the cell.
Ron: And then it goes to what's called the central nervous system.
Ron: Otherwise known as the CNS.
Laura: CNS.
Ron: Any idea what the CNS might be made up of?
Ron: It's two things.
Laura: A peacocks and a British home stores.
Ron: Didn'T get that one.
Laura: It just sounded like an old shop.
Laura: That would have been.
Ron: I thought it sounded more like this is the brain and spinal cord reporting for CNS.
Laura: Yeah, could be.
Laura: Or he was taken in the night by the CNS.
Laura: Mr.
Laura: McCarthy, we don't know if we're.
Ron: Going to see him again.
Ron: I'm cold.
Laura: He's the only one that knows how to control the heating.
Laura: What was the question?
Ron: What do you think's made of the CNS?
Ron: I didn't just say what do I.
Laura: Think'S made of the CNS.
Ron: Sorry, what makes up the CNS.
Laura: And the CNS is central nervous system.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: What kind of a word am I looking for?
Ron: It's two things.
Laura: It's two things.
Ron: What's like the central part of all of this?
Laura: Muscles.
Ron: Do you think all of the nerves are centralized around the muscles.
Ron: Do you think the muscles make the central nervous system?
Laura: Nerves.
Ron: They're made of nerves?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I don't really understand the question.
Ron: What part of your body do you think is the central nervous system?
Laura: The skin.
Ron: The skin.
Ron: The outer part of you.
Ron: The central nervous system.
Ron: What's in the middle?
Ron: What's the most important nervy bit?
Laura: Tummy.
Laura: Tummy button?
Laura: Brain.
Laura: Yes.
Laura: The f****** brain in the middle.
Laura: Either.
Laura: That's not the top.
Ron: Brain and spinal cord, which is very much in the middle.
Laura: At the back.
Ron: Middle of the back.
Laura: All right.
Laura: I don't think you led me to that answer very well.
Ron: I'll agree with you there.
Ron: But I think you dropped the ball that I dropped.
Laura: I think.
Laura: Yeah, it was a bad pass and I stood on the ball and fell over.
Ron: Yeah, I fumbled it.
Ron: You tripped.
Ron: Are you eating a plum?
Laura: No, it's the cap of my water bottle.
Ron: Put that down.
Ron: No, it's the brain and the spinal cord.
Ron: Brain, obviously very important.
Ron: Spinal cord also important.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Now another piece of terminology.
Ron: Another piece of terminology.
Laura: That's the spinal cord.
Ron: Another piece of terminology is an effector.
Ron: Effector and coordinator.
Laura: Effector and coordinator.
Ron: The CNS has coordinators in it.
Ron: That sort of a stimulus.
Laura: Of course they do.
Laura: That's how we round up the traitors.
Ron: Get him, Steve.
Laura: Don't use my real name, Jacob.
Laura: I'm incognito.
Ron: Shut up, ham.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: So the CNS has the coordinators in it.
Ron: The stimulus comes in, stimulus happens.
Ron: I've thrown an egg in your eye.
Ron: Receptors in your eye go, bloody h***, there's loads of egg in here.
Ron: They send a signal to the coordinator.
Ron: The coordinator looks through its little file effects and says, what do we do when we've got egg in the eye?
Ron: It then sends another signal to an effector, which in this case would be muscles in your arms, to scrape egg out of your eyes.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: That's the response.
Ron: So now if we look at Figure B.
Laura: Figure B.
Laura: Figure B.
Laura: Figure B.
Laura: Figure B.
Laura: All right.
Laura: Now the pin is in the skin.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: The pin is in the skin.
Ron: The receptor in the skin.
Ron: The pin receptor says, ow.
Ron: It sends a signal down the sensory.
Laura: Neuron, dorsal root ganglion.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: It goes to.
Ron: What is a gang?
Laura: I'm a ganglion.
Ron: A ganglion is a thing in your.
Ron: I think they're in your spine and they're basically like tiny brains, like the little balls of nerves.
Ron: And they can sort out quite a.
Laura: Lot of stuff without bothering the big brain.
Ron: Without bothering the big brain.
Ron: So what you're looking at there, Laura, is called a reflex arc.
Ron: So not all stimuli have to be run up by the big one upstairs.
Ron: Okay?
Ron: A reflex, you know when you burn yourself and your hand flies away from it and you didn't think about that at all?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: That's because you weren't asked.
Ron: Your body just did it.
Ron: You've burnt your hand and then your spine has gone.
Ron: You know what?
Ron: We've seen this one before.
Ron: We know the drill.
Ron: This is day one, week one stuff.
Ron: Move, hand away from fire.
Ron: She's busy thinking about f****** CSD three or something.
Ron: We don't need to interrupt her on this one.
Laura: I think I've got those in my mouth wrong because sometimes I say stuff on stage that I don't think I thought of.
Ron: Maybe, um.
Ron: That's a reflex arc.
Ron: It says here reflex actions are automatic and rapid.
Ron: They do not involve the conscious part of the brain.
Ron: So that probably does confirm what you've just said, the conscious part of your brain.
Ron: So it seems like you can have reflex arcs through the unconscious part of your brain.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Students should understand why reflex actions are important.
Ron: Can you just speak to that briefly for three or four minutes.
Laura: Three or four minutes?
Ron: Yeah, check.
Laura: Saves time.
Ron: Like to what end?
Laura: It's a little bit.
Laura: So if my hands on fire.
Laura: Yeah, it's quicker.
Laura: Put the fire out quicker if I deal with that in my hand rather than it going to my brain and come back.
Laura: So less damage to my hand overall.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Keeps brain free to do other things.
Ron: Suppose so.
Ron: I think it's mainly about how quick it is, to be honest.
Laura: Oh, okay, cool.
Laura: I've done it then.
Ron: But again, it's another thing that says students should understand why reflex actions are important.
Ron: Doesn't tell me the reasons that you need to be able to ratle off as to why they're important.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: How long have we been recording the perennial question?
Laura: 40 minutes, Ron.
Ron: That's probably all right then.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I love the way they've made the muscle in this diagram look like a stick of dynamite.
Ron: Oh, yeah, the bomb's going to go off.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Right.
Ron: It's big light knob.
Laura: They stuck a fin in us and now we're going to kill them.
Laura: F***.
Laura: All right, Ron, I enjoyed that.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Fun EP, Fun EP.
Laura: A very fun EP.
Ron: I wasn't looking forward to getting back onto syllabus every time we're in the holiday season.
Ron: I enjoy the holiday ones.
Ron: But you know what the syllabus is.
Ron: All right.
Laura: We came back to some fun biology and we had a lovely time.
Ron: You prefer the anatomy stuff so much more.
Laura: Yeah, I do.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: It's good times.
Laura: Where are such good times?
Laura: All right, Ron, I'll see you for the quiz.
Ron: Lovely stuff.
Laura: Ron.
Laura: Hello, Ron Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron.
Laura: There's no, no Ron Ron could reach for the sky.
Laura: How you doing, Ron?
Ron: Yes, I'm all right.
Ron: How are you doing?
Laura: Oh, you're in a very different mood to me.
Ron: Oh, yeah, stressful.
Ron: Yes.
Laura: Oh, sorry.
Laura: Ron Ron.
Ron: How'S your day been?
Laura: Yeah, it's been pretty good.
Laura: Child of the podcast has been delightful.
Laura: We went swimming.
Laura: Reunited with my MacMac after five days in Norway, reunited with my gel pens.
Ron: And your actual child.
Laura: Yeah, I just said she's been great all day and we went swimming.
Laura: We've had a lovely day.
Ron: You didn't say you were reunited.
Laura: Oh, we are reunited.
Laura: Well, she is third after Mackie and the gel pens.
Laura: No, it's really great to see her.
Laura: She has been a lot of fun.
Laura: She's kind of at that age where she started putting words together, which is quite fun.
Laura: So like, Tom was explaining to her that I was coming home on an aeroplane.
Laura: She's been obsessed with aeroplanes lately, but now it's like Mama aeroplane, so I'm on all aeroplanes.
Laura: I don't know.
Laura: She's going to lose her mind on Sunday when we go on an aeroplane together.
Ron: Oh yeah.
Ron: You guys are going up to Inverness to see Sister of the podcast.
Laura: We are youngest older sister of the podcast.
Laura: We are going to see her with nephew of the podcast and brother in law of the podcast in Scotland.
Ron: Fun.
Ron: Excited.
Laura: I'm very excited.
Laura: Yeah, that's the sibling I see the least, but I talk to a lot and she hasn't met nephew of the podcast yet and I think she absolutely loves silly noises and funny faces and that is his forte.
Laura: So I think the two of them are going to have a great time.
Ron: Yes, he is an intense ball of energy.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: And I think she is going to feed off that energy and really enjoy herself.
Ron: I didn't realize quite how long it had been since I'd seen nephew of the podcast because he didn't come down with Sister of the podcast like the last time or two that she was down.
Ron: And yeah, that kid's a lot.
Laura: He's full of beans.
Laura: He is one big bean.
Laura: He's excellent.
Laura: I can't wait.
Laura: I just think he's exactly the age that she's going to find.
Laura: Magnificent.
Ron: Oh, he is magnificent.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: He is a little wonder.
Laura: And he looks so much like agony dad.
Ron: He does.
Ron: He's so different to the rest of the family.
Ron: When he stayed at mine, when they were coming down, they arrived quite late.
Ron: Like, it was almost like half, like eleven, half eleven or something.
Ron: When we got to mine sister, the podcast obviously was like, oh, clean your teeth, get ready for bed and stuff.
Ron: And then he was like, oh, is it okay if I say goodnight to Uncle Ron's housemates and then just wanted to come into the kitchen and say goodnight to everyone?
Laura: Weird.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So much more sociable than the rest of the family would have been.
Laura: Everyone else would have been wearing Shire horse blinkers.
Laura: Just like no small talk.
Ron: Yeah, that's what I do those days and I live with them.
Laura: Yeah, he's a legend.
Laura: Can't wait.
Laura: We've got to do a quiz, Ron.
Laura: Oh yeah, I'm excited about this quiz because I've already edited the main bulk of the episode, so that's kind of like revising.
Ron: That feels like cheating.
Laura: Well, to balance it, I won't look at my notes at all.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Is revising cheating?
Laura: F****** h***.
Laura: Every type of learning is cheating to you.
Ron: I think listening to a previous episode is cheating.
Ron: No.
Laura: Is it?
Laura: Well, then how the f*** am I supposed to revise?
Ron: No.
Laura: Maybe sit by myself and think, like, not look at my notes or listen to the episode?
Ron: No, look at your notes before the test.
Laura: Why?
Laura: My notes are s*** listening.
Laura: And I didn't edit it today.
Laura: I edited it like two days ago.
Laura: So it might have all gone.
Laura: I don't know.
Ron: Yeah, it's all fine.
Ron: I don't know.
Ron: I was just a bit out sorts today.
Laura: I'm sorry, Ron.
Laura: Do you want to talk about it?
Ron: It's just work stuff.
Ron: Just like clients.
Ron: Very justifiably angry because something's gone wrong, but simultaneously not my client.
Ron: Picking this up for someone in my team.
Ron: I've spent several hours today working on it, often while trying to get other things done at once.
Ron: And it's not my fault anyway, but they're p***** off.
Ron: And I'm a bit like, I've tried so hard to help and I get that it hasn't worked, but also, I don't know what you want me to do now.
Ron: I just kind of feel bad because I do really want to help.
Ron: And then I've literally only just finished working on it.
Ron: Basically started at 09:00 a.m..
Ron: Today.
Ron: I've cleared tomorrow morning.
Ron: And they're like, oh, we have to get it done this evening.
Ron: Is anyone else working?
Ron: It's like, I can't ask someone to stay late to help you on this.
Ron: And also, it is kind of your fault.
Laura: You just care too much, Ron.
Laura: Your heart is too big.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: You're like a man who got a transplant, but it was accidentally a horse.
Ron: Anyway, let's do a quiz.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Do you want me to answer in silly voices to cheer you up?
Ron: No, that would really drive me insane.
Ron: I'd do the opposite.
Ron: Name five parts of the structure of a nerve flora.
Laura: Cell body.
Ron: Yes.
Laura: Dendrons.
Ron: Close enough.
Ron: Dendrites.
Laura: Dendrites.
Laura: Myelin sheaths.
Ron: Yep.
Laura: Synapse.
Ron: Yep.
Laura: Gap of Ramvir.
Ron: Oh, Ramvier.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: I'll give you that.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Wasn't the one.
Laura: No, the long one.
Laura: I can't remember what that's called.
Ron: Axon.
Laura: Axon.
Laura: Come on, Laura.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Now, what are the two constituents of the CNS, Laura?
Laura: The central nervous system.
Laura: It has responders, and it.
Laura: Like the go getters, the seekers, the receptors.
Laura: Receptors and responders.
Ron: No, it's the brain and the spinal cord.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Not close.
Ron: Can you please qualitatively explain why reflex arcs are important?
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Reflex arcs are important because they cut the response time between a potentially dangerous stimulus and your reaction, therefore reducing the potential risk to.
Ron: How do they do this?
Laura: By bypassing the brain and physically having a response giver closer to the nerve ending, where the stimulus is coming from.
Ron: Nice.
Ron: And can you just list the pathway of a reflex arc?
Laura: So the stimulus pin in the skin gets to the nerve, goes up the axon to the cell body, cross the synapse, goes to a little.
Ron: No.
Ron: This is where you should be saying things like receptor and response goes to.
Laura: A receptor, which is like the little muscle brain.
Ron: Start again.
Ron: If you want any point, start again.
Laura: There's a receptor in the skin.
Laura: Pin in the skin.
Laura: That's one point.
Ron: What's that?
Laura: Stimulus?
Ron: Yes.
Ron: That is recognized by receptor.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Then it goes to.
Laura: Reactor.
Ron: No.
Laura: So begin with a C.
Laura: Yeah, I knew it did.
Laura: Coordinator.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Which then it goes to muscles, which is.
Laura: Good.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: What it says in the syllabus, stimulus are receptor to coordinated to muscles, which is good.
Laura: Which is action.
Laura: Activate.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: What's the actual word for that?
Laura: Response?
Ron: No.
Ron: That's the last bit.
Laura: Action.
Ron: No.
Ron: Otherwise I'd have said yes the first time you said it.
Laura: Resolution.
Ron: No.
Ron: Do you want me to tell you?
Laura: Move.
Laura: Ow.
Laura: Move away.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: The owl.
Ron: Move away.
Laura: Reflex.
Ron: It's all the reflex arc.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Solution.
Ron: Synonyms, more synonyms.
Laura: Because you're on the right track, but solve the problem.
Ron: More succinct.
Laura: Completion.
Laura: Resolution.
Ron: You've said that before.
Laura: Solution.
Laura: Hooray.
Laura: I don't know, Ron.
Ron: Effector.
Laura: Oh, come on.
Laura: Solution is better.
Ron: No, because the response is the solution.
Ron: The effector makes the response happen.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: I'll do pretty well, though.
Ron: Pretty cool.
Ron: Okay, right, that's the quiz then.
Laura: Oh, all right then.
Laura: I think I did very well.
Laura: 10,000 points to me.
Ron: And we're back.
Laura: Let's not get back into tooth chat, no matter how much I want to.
Laura: It is all I'm going to text you about today.
Laura: Ron, I absolutely did say that hormones were a bit slower.
Ron: Yeah, right.
Laura: Why don't you care about anything?
Laura: Sometimes I'm wrong and you're always am.
Ron: I am.
Ron: You can't spell wrong without.
Laura: Oh, Ron, let's get that on.
Laura: A hat.
Laura: No more hats.
Laura: No, but T shirts are too difficult to do as merch because you're not all one size.
Laura: Yeah, like heads are pretty one size situations.
Ron: Laura, I still haven't told you my merch idea.
Laura: Haven't you?
Laura: What's your merch idea?
Ron: Have I told you about this?
Ron: You might want to edit this out because I think it could actually be legit, be a fun thing to do.
Ron: But, you know, when you go, we.
Laura: Edit it out if it's a fun thing to do.
Laura: Because we might leave in the s*** ideas.
Ron: No, because we might want to do a reveal or something because it would involve patron input.
Ron: But, you know when you're at school and then everyone has to draw themselves and then they put it all on a tea towel.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: You want to make a class tea towel?
Ron: Yeah, class tea towel.
Laura: Actually, I think that's a really good idea, Ron.
Ron: I thought so.
Laura: Right, yeah.
Laura: All right, we'll investigate.
Laura: Let us know if you want to do that.
Laura: Speaking of merch, and this genuinely wasn't a segue, but we've got stickers now.
Laura: We unveiled them at the live show last week, so quite a lot of them are sold.
Laura: But if you want.
Ron: Thanks.
Laura: For me, stickers.
Laura: It's got the logos, it's got the second year and the original logo.
Laura: It's got two bunts and rats and it's got us as scientists.
Laura: Go to my coffee page, Kofi.com or co.
Laura: Uk.
Laura: I don't know.
Laura: You know how Google works, Laura, Lex.
Laura: And in the shop there, the stickers are available.
Laura: If you want some lexed stickers to stick on your laptop or stick on your whatnots and promote the show for us.
Laura: We love you.
Laura: Don't stick them on your whatnots, on your hoodats.
Laura: Stick them on your business.
Laura: There's a Patreon episode out this Friday.
Laura: It's a classic, brilliant one.
Laura: It's Rusty Sugar.
Ron: Oh, goodness me.
Laura: One of our more bananas ideas.
Laura: Ron and I both got creative and wrote a short story about a character called Rusty Sugar.
Laura: And let me tell you, we went in wildly different directions.
Ron: I haven't listened to that yet.
Ron: I'm looking forward to that.
Laura: Yeah, it's good.
Laura: It's good fun.
Laura: It's good crap.
Ron: Absolute nonsense.
Laura: I do think you didn't give me enough reaction for my story, but I understand you were just in a pit of shame.
Ron: Why was I in a pit of shame?
Laura: Because of what I was producing and you are related to me.
Ron: Oh, yeah.
Ron: Yours was more of a kind of Monty Python esque surrealist piece, whereas yours.
Laura: Was like Ian Rankin.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Mine was like Cormac McCarthy meets Lex Education, I guess.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Anyway, have a lovely week, everyone.
Laura: We'll be back next week with chemistoir.
Ron: Enough of Laura flapping her bony little nubs.
Laura: I'm really worried about my teeth now.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Honestly, do stop brushing five times a day.
Laura: Yeah, okay.
Ron: You could have saved on toothpaste.
Laura: I just love having clean teeth.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Mouthwash.
Laura: Yeah, I'll order some more.
Laura: All right, everyone.
Ron: No.
Ron: Register.
Laura: Oh, register.
Laura: It's because you haven't put it in the notes.
Laura: I have, but really, scroll down, you jerk.
Ron: It didn't fit on the page before.
Ron: That's just how f****** pages work, you dumb b****.
Laura: Then put capital letters.
Laura: Register.
Laura: And an arrow down so I know.
Ron: Sorry for calling you a dumb patron.
Laura: I didn't even register it.
Laura: Register.
Ron: Hey.
Ron: Rum dum dum dum dum rum bum.
Laura: Oh, that felt a bit Christmassy with the rum rumbam.
Ron: Bum bum bum bum.
Ron: Patron register, please.
Ron: Laura, you're kicking us off today.
Laura: Thank you very much, Alison Turner, for being a patron.
Laura: Alison Turner is building an army of sensory homunculi.
Ron: Ready?
Laura: Ready.
Laura: There's a typo.
Laura: I'm very sorry.
Laura: Let's start that one again.
Laura: But not Ed.
Laura: No, not all of it.
Laura: Sensory Homunculi ready to sense their way to victory in the upcoming battle for the soul of the nation.
Laura: Whose side are they on?
Laura: Only the Homunculi know, and they cannot speak, for their mouths are all weird.
Ron: Yeah, I was reading on Twitter before I wrote these.
Ron: This.
Laura: I'll stick some of the pictures of Sensory Homunculi on Instagram, by the way.
Ron: Huge thanking you to Dave Elkington, Chief Inspector of the Stale Air Police, coming around and telling off Ron's for opening windows and trying to get some oxygen in the room.
Ron: Hundred years before the mask for trying to get some fresh air.
Ron: That's a hateful act to want fresh air.
Laura: You are a sour little boy, Ron.
Laura: And a massive thank you to Catherine Taylor.
Laura: Is your window open right now, by the way?
Ron: No, because I'm recording a podcast.
Laura: Because it's cold.
Laura: Because it's cold?
Ron: No, because I'm recording a podcast and because I've just been enjoying the smells of my lovely smelly candle that I bought myself for my birthday.
Laura: You are adorable.
Ron: It's coffee house flavor, so it makes your house smell like you're sitting in.
Laura: A cafe but without other people.
Ron: Yeah, it smells of coffee, vanilla and hazelnut and.
Laura: Oh, boy, I got you rugby tickets for your birthday.
Ron: Yes, because you know what, men?
Ron: You can have it all.
Ron: You can buy yourself a nice, smelly candle, and you can receive rugby tickets for your birthday.
Ron: That is a valid identity to have.
Laura: Yeah, Ron got me a vegan Japanese cookbook, and I made the Katsu again yesterday, Ron.
Ron: Oh, d***, that's so good.
Laura: I'll make it when you come.
Laura: Anyway, thank you.
Ron: You should make that when you were down in Somerset in next week.
Laura: Mum won't trust that meal.
Laura: Are you mad?
Ron: No.
Ron: So me and Mum have been talking a lot about.
Ron: Oh, my God, I haven't told you this.
Laura: Do we want to do this on?
Ron: Yeah, yeah.
Ron: Pause the register.
Laura: Catherine.
Laura: We're coming to you, babes.
Laura: We're coming.
Laura: Hold on.
Ron: Went to this amazing restaurant in Bristol on my birthday.
Ron: Big up sunny stores in Southville.
Ron: Honestly, it's some of the best food I've eaten in ages.
Ron: And we had had a drink or two beforehand.
Laura: Our reservation was quite seabom.
Ron: No, no, we'd had a couple of drinks beforehand because our reservation was until like 08:15 or something.
Ron: So we did go to the pub beforehand and then we had this meal and it was amazing.
Ron: It was Papa deli, like freshly made pasta and then it was just called like pork and milk or something.
Ron: It sounds gross, but it was basically like a deconstructed pesto.
Ron: It had chestnuts and aged Parmesan and it was amazing.
Ron: Mum went insane after eating this meal and she disappears at one point and then we're just like, where is she?
Ron: Because we thought that she wanted to leave.
Ron: And then dad sees that she's like in the kitchen hugging all the waiting staff and then I s*** you note, she comes back holding a piece of paper.
Ron: She's just gone into the kitchen.
Ron: She got the chef to give her the recipe of the meal because she loved it so much.
Laura: It.
Laura: Oh, wow.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: They came over and they refused the tip from us because Mum was So nice and was hugging all of them.
Laura: She is nice to people, to be fair.
Laura: Yeah, that's very funny.
Laura: Nice one, Mum.
Ron: Side note also that.
Ron: What happened?
Ron: We had a starter of chicken livers on toast.
Ron: Like, we all just split it and I was eating it, I was like, this is so delicious, but it really tastes like something.
Ron: I can't work out what it's like.
Ron: Is it haggis?
Ron: Does it taste like haggis?
Ron: It's black pudding.
Ron: And seeing the whole thing and then got to the end and then dad was just like, Pate.
Ron: What you're thinking of is Pate.
Ron: Oh, yeah.
Ron: Mashed up livers.
Ron: Probably do just taste like livers.
Ron: Okay, yeah, that's fine.
Laura: I love that he waited until you put that.
Laura: I can see him sitting there and put the last mouthful in.
Laura: Son, you're an idiot.
Laura: Happy birthday.
Laura: Yeah, that's classic agony.
Laura: Dad.
Laura: We're going to be doing some more recording with him soon.
Laura: We should do that one Christmas quiz.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Thank you, Catherine Taylor.
Laura: Thank you for waiting.
Laura: Maybe we'll thank you again next week because you've had to wait this week, but thank you, Catherine Taylor.
Laura: Catherine is the UK's premier Cribbinscore DJ.
Ron: Cribbins core.
Ron: Cribbins Core, yeah, not Cribbinscore.
Laura: Sorry, I can't read today.
Ron: It's Cribbins core.
Laura: Cribbins Core DJ.
Laura: You know when you get all up into club and you want to get Cribbinsy.
Ron: Crips.
Ron: Crips.
Ron: Crips.
Ron: Crips.
Ron: Crips.
Laura: Thank you, everyone for being patrons.
Laura: We love this world.
Laura: The discord has been particularly delightful this week.
Ron: Oh, yeah, they don't even talk about us anymore, they just chat.
Laura: I genuinely think we could stop the podcast and they'd still meet up a couple of times a year.
Laura: I love it.
Laura: Yeah, we won't because would stop hanging out with me.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Anyway, have a lovely week, everyone.
Laura: These are some long intros outro, 22 minutes.
Laura: It.
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