Let's Celebrate Crying

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We all feel better after a good cry. In fact, humans are the only animals who cry emotional tears. But what about people who don't cry? And have you ever wondered why a sad song or movie makes you cry?

Original Air Date: August 05, 2023

Interviews In This Hour:

Hip-hop artist Dxtr Spits on teaching men to cry — The evolution and neuroscience of tears — What happens when an actor cries

Guests:

Dxtr Spits, Michael Trimble, Jen Plants

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Anne.
0:04.0	When did you learn how not to cry?
0:08.0	Maybe when you were little, you fell down and someone said, it's okay, don't cry.
0:13.0	Or maybe at school you cried one day, and then other kids made fun of you.
0:18.0	I mean, it's weird. Crying is not only natural, it's healing. There's a reason
0:24.6	we feel better after a good cry. And now, a new pro-crying movement is trying to erase the
0:31.2	stigma and encourage us all to let the tears out. In this episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge,
0:39.3	a celebration of crying.
0:45.6	Wisconsin Public Radio.
0:54.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangeamps.
1:02.9	Crying is one of the most human things we do.
1:11.6	That's how we respond to intense feelings, like grief or pain, or even overwhelming joy.
1:17.4	Tears actually have a biological purpose.
1:19.8	There are times we need to cry.
1:23.1	But what if you can't? There is a significant portion of our population that struggles with crying.
1:33.3	Many of them are men, and some don't cry at all, ever.
1:40.0	I've been feeling like so damn laws.
1:42.0	Stuck in transit with the AC off.
1:43.6	Got a few exes and they hate me all, understandably, for the man I be, for the man I've been feeling like so damn laws. Stuck in transit with the AC off. Got a few exes and they hate me all.
1:45.5	Understandably, for the man I be, for the man I been,
1:48.2	can I phone a friend?
1:49.3	I ain't got the answer, she understand it.
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