Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring

myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy.

How are you?

I'm doing great this week.

How are you?

Doing just fine things.

Nothing exciting. Oh, just fine. That's better than like just terrible. Yeah. There's a just there, but it can go either way. So maybe after editing, if things go downhill, I'll just change that out. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good. I mean, I guess no news is good news. No, wait, no bad news is good news. No, it's just no news is good news. And that's fine. That's fine. I'm normally the bad news person. So I'll take it. I'll take no news. Perfect. All right. So we'll get right into the story this week. So we are all adults here, but I think most people kind of revert back to their childhood mentality when the topic of bodily functions comes up. Our bodies do all kinds of weird, involuntary things,

like burping and sneezing and passing gas and getting goosebumps and yawning. And all of these

bodily functions, of course, are necessary for us. And while they can sometimes be funny,

usually it's more of an annoyance for the person who is literally being assaulted by their own reflexes. So I think

everyone would agree that one of the most annoying random bodily functions is getting the hiccups.

Even the best scientists in the world can't figure out exactly why we even get the hiccups.

And it's because hiccuping appears to serve absolutely no purpose at all.

But yet it can be brought on from several different things, including eating, sudden excitement, stress, drinking alcohol, and several other factors.

So let's be real.

There is never a convenient time to be struck with the bout of the hiccups. And if you're

anything like me, as soon as you get the first one, you start trying all these different tricks

and things that you learned as a kid for how to get rid of them. So Melissa, did you learn any

get rid of hiccup tricks when you were growing up? Yeah, I remember the holding your breath thing,

having somebody scare you. My daughter, the second she gets a hiccup, she does the water and like does a headstand on the wall. But it doesn't matter where we are. She's like, I got to take care of this. Yes, that was always my favorite one was swallowing water upside down. So like I still do it. And I'm sure if anyone ever catches me doing this. They're like, what on earth is she doing? Because I will just like take a sip of water and then just

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