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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

262: James Nestor—Let's Talk About Septums and Scrotums

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

James Nestor, a NYT bestselling author whose book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art inspired Mike to have a septoplasty, discusses the advantages of healthy breathing, the dangers of mouth breathing, and the reasons why our ancestors had larger mouths and straighter teeth. Then we share a song written by listener Bill Dumas in reaction to Mike’s request for a ballad about his deviated septum and his father’s swollen scrotum in Episode 203: There’s a Hole in Daddy’s Arm.

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0:00.0

What you have here is episode number 262 of the way I heard it.

0:08.0

It's called Let's Talk About Septims and Scrotums.

0:11.9

And Chuck, I guess we should just start by apologizing the advertisers.

0:14.8

They probably didn't know they were sponsoring an episode with Scrotum in the title.

0:18.1

But you know what you get, what you get on this gig?

0:20.8

Yeah, that's true. That's very true. This is know what you get, what you get on this gig.

0:24.9

Yeah, that's true. That's very true. This is a good episode, though. We say that a lot.

0:29.2

We always say it's a good episode. But I know you've wanted to have this guy on for a long time,

0:38.7

James Nestor. Modesty aside, they've all been good. Some of them I think have been very good. And some of them are just satisfying in ways that are super personal.

0:44.6

And that's, for me anyway, that's the case here. James Nestor is a writer. He's a freelancer.

0:51.1

He's been in San Francisco for years. And he got famous not too long ago. He wrote a book called Deep. And then he wrote another book called Breath.

0:55.0

His book called Breath was the straw that broke the camel's back for me or my septum.

1:02.2

It's the straw that broke the septum's back.

1:05.0

It literally changed your life, didn't it?

1:07.6

Yeah, it convinced me after 35 years of being a mouth breather to finally get the

1:12.7

surgery I needed to fix my nose. And that happened early, early June a year ago, so about 14

1:19.7

months ago in real time. And it's changed every aspect of my life from the way I exercise to the

1:25.7

way I sleep. So I feel a measure of gratitude to this guy,

1:29.6

and I've always wanted to meet him. I've heard him interviewed in other places, and I admire his stuff.

1:35.4

You were saying before, which is pretty funny, you haven't read his book, but you feel like you

1:39.1

have because I called you, like at the end of every chapter and said, get a load of this. Well, yeah. I mean, we talk a couple of times a day, it seems. And as you were reading that book,

1:49.2

you would just tell me about the chapter or chapters that you had just read. I know all the

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