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Watch that lemony snicket. Got a snicket. Got a snicket. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff

Can I? Hi, Anthony Carbony. Hello, concerned citizens. We have talked a little bit about

before how a lot of emotions feel similarly physically, even though they are very different

emotions. Right. A lot of confuses us. And it confuses us and it confuses our body.

Right. And we have talked a lot before about that. I think it was this American life that did it

where a guy every time he got on the plane would watch sweet home Alabama and cry.

People cry on planes. Right. The reason people cry on planes is it puts a lot of pressure on

your chest and like the sounds are very loud like a noise floor. And it just feels like a panic attack.

Right. So we cry on planes more easily. There is a researcher named Ian Robertson.

So just to be clear, what you're saying is the physical sensations that we're experiencing on the

plane are similar to physical sensations that we have during a panic attack or during like

a intensely sad moment. So our body is like, how I usually deal with this is by being sad. So I'm

going to be sad. Exactly. Yeah. It's often like if you've ever had a chest cold and the chest cold

makes you feel like you're going to cry. Right. And it's because your body goes, oh, tightness and

chest. Yeah. This means cry now. Yeah. And there is a there's a researcher named Ian Robertson

who wrote something in New York magazine Science of Us. Science of Us is one of my favorite sites if

you don't go to science of us every day. What are you doing with your life? Um, and he was talking

about trying to figure out how malleable our emotions are and how we can redirect these emotions

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