Why we hiccup
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Vox
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian, no, what's your first thought when I say hiccups? |
| 0:06.4 | Oh, hey, them, do you do you get hiccups? |
| 0:10.1 | Oh, yeah, I, I get triggered when I eat spicy foods. |
| 0:17.8 | It all started, um, I mean, don't care. |
| 0:21.4 | No, no, no, no, tell me, tell me your hiccups are good for you. |
| 0:25.2 | It's not that crazy. |
| 0:27.2 | It started in a galaxy far, far away. |
| 0:30.1 | No, it started in New York City where a lot of great dreams are dashed and destroyed. |
| 0:34.5 | I must have been like 20 years old. |
| 0:36.4 | Was that with friends, you know, you get hungry after night out. |
| 0:40.3 | And you know, we went to one of those halal carts, which are delicious. |
| 0:44.1 | And they always ask you, they have like the red sauce, which is like frickin' nuclear bomb of spice. |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, it'll, it'll kick you. |
| 0:50.7 | And they'll ask for like one line or two. |
| 0:52.4 | And I was like, give me two. |
| 0:55.0 | I was young and invincible. |
| 0:57.2 | And the spice hit me and I started hiccuping. |
| 1:00.8 | This had never happened before and has kept happening since every time I eat something very spicy |
| 1:06.8 | and like the whole train ride home was just hiccuping. |
| 1:10.5 | But now I want to go to the Thai restaurant and get the four chilies. |
| 1:15.0 | But no, I just, it's too uncomfortable. |
| 1:17.9 | That sucks. |
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