In recent decades we’ve come to understand that there’s a lot more to pain than: touch hot stove/feel burning hand. Pain is a far more sophisticated experience and, unfortunately, a system that can often go haywire, with terrible effects.
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Josh and Chuck explore the fascinating and complex science of pain, diving into how our bodies detect it, how our brains process it, and why the experience is so deeply personal and subjective. They break down different types of pain—from acute to chronic to neuropathic—and explain the surprising fact that pain isn't actually happening in the injured body part, but rather in the brain's interpretation of signals sent from your nerves. The episode reveals how pain can exist without tissue damage and tissue damage can occur without pain, showing just how much our psychology, expectations, and even our ability to distract ourselves influence whether and how much we hurt.
Enola Holmes
2020
PG-13
2h 3m
★ 7.2
"Inola Holmes on Netflix. It's a coming of age movie about Sherlock Holmes's younger sister. — Chuck recommended the film as a smart, charming movie with Millie Bobby Brown that takes its viewers' intelligence for granted."
— Chuck
Fight Club
1999
2h 19m
★ 8.4
"Edward Norton in Fight Club, when he had that lie on his hand, he kept trying to think of like a snow covered forest — Referenced as an example of how conscious distraction can help reduce pain perception."
— Josh
Hereditary
2018
R
2h 8m
★ 7.3
"It follows in the Babadook and Hereditary and I think there's been a bunch of new horror masters. — Referenced as an example of recent great horror films in the past five to six years."
— Chuck
The Babadook
2014
NR
1h 34m
★ 6.5
"In the past five or six years, I think it follows in the Babadook and Hereditary and I think there's been a bunch of new horror masters. — Referenced as part of a new renaissance in horror films over the past five to six years."
— Chuck
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