Selects: How Nitrous Oxide Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For about 175 years people have been huffing nitrous oxide for everything from vision quests to anesthetic to get plain old high. And after all that time we are only now beginning to understand how it works on our brains. Get the scoop in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:30.9	Good morning or good afternoon everyone.
0:32.7	Happy Saturday.
0:33.5	It's Chuck here of Stuff You Should Know.
0:35.8	It is February 8th, 2016 and Saturday Select Time because we are going back to that
0:41.0	day to talk about how nitrous oxide works.
0:44.2	And honestly, the reason I picked this as this select is that I don't even remember doing
0:48.0	this one.
0:49.0	So I'm going to listen again and so should you.
0:56.7	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:03.1	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:10.6	I'm Josh Clark.
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1:14.6	There's Jerry and this is Stuff You Should Know, a lot of the podcast.
1:22.0	You're making, I'm giggling like a schoolgirl.
1:25.2	You're making a, I think I just topped you schoolgirl one.
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