If you have an itchy nose Yes. Which
you do. In many cultures, I'm thinking,
Mediterranean
cultures,
southern European,
I think Irish too.
It means
that you're going to have a visitor,
but if you have an itchy nose on
the left,
it means it's somebody you don't want to
see.
And if you if you're an itch
obviously, like, you know, zeros and ones, it
it therefore, if if you have an itchy
nose on the right
Yeah. It means you it's somebody's gonna visit
you that you do want. I didn't see
that coming. No. And you can pick your
friends.
Well,
you can you can Well, okay.
Alright.
Wait a minute. Let me see who's coming
today. Hold on a second. Okay. That's it.
Security, please remove this man from the studio.
No. This is absolutely true. You imagine, you
know, in some cultures, oh, they
they have nothing to do but sit around
and say, hey, man. What does this mean?
I woke up this morning with an itchy
nose. Itchy nose syndrome. Yeah. Yeah. And it's
and, oh,
I don't know. However, you My my great
uncle's gonna come and visit me and and
and lay an inheritance on me because it's
the right side of my nose. Ah, yeah.
Well, there you go. See? That's As opposed
to the cop who's coming because the left
side of my nose is To haul one
of us away here. With any luck, it'll
be you. We you told me just a
short time ago that you had you woke
up this morning
with
an itchy left side of your nose. Yes.
I did. And and I did. So therefore,
you're one of those people who wakes up
in the morning.
I don't know why. You know, I'm not
There's lots of reasons. You could be itchy
on the nose. Well, some cultures
see this, you know, you'd give it a
scientific explanation and pay a pharmaceutical
company gazillion
dollars in tax write offs so that they
can come up with a pill. Thank god
they're doing their work. It's it's Other cultures
will simply say, oh, my great uncle Nat
is coming to see me, and he's So
you live with the itchy nose? You want
it. But but if it's on the left
side then or I don't do you know
it's left and right? I'm pretty sure of
this. Yeah. That in some ways A binary
nose
issue. And like I said, if it's zero
or one,
the left means that and the other means
the opposite. Yin and yang, I guess. Right?
That's where it's a binary,
cultural aspect. You got a bite of your
nose, you know, on the left side of
the mouth. Bite your nose? What is that
about? Well, that's another cultural thing. Mike Tyson
in here or something? The nose seems to
be a very culturally rich,
thing because
it means different things. Is the thing the
difficult terminology?
It means different things in different cultures, and
and its use,
you know. The use of the nose. Yeah.
The use of the nose is culturally different.
Is it?
Is it? Well, even the phrase to be
nosy really drifted from reality at this point.
To be nosy. To be nosy. Okay. Alright.
That's in English. Now, I don't know if
there's a direct idiomatic translation in in other
cultures, but,
if there is, maybe the meaning of to
be nosy Yes. Is
is gonna change.
Right? That's that's possible. In in the The
meaning might be the same, but the phrasing
of that might be different. So it might
not be
nosy meanings to
get involved in things that you shouldn't be
involved in. Right.
Maybe the phrase would be
something else, elbow y. I don't know.
Well, it There's a whole body part that
probably I'm sure there are. And Meaning. We're
in dangerous territory, and we just started this
sucker. So So the left side of your
nose is you're going to get a visit
from somebody
who you wanna see.
And the right side of your nose is
you're gonna get a visit from somebody you
don't wanna see. I think I got that
right. Oh, oh, okay. Alright. And in which
culture, you may ask? I I hold on.
Give give me a moment here, alright?
And then which culture would that be, Dean?
Well, I think it's a lot of the
Mediterranean
cultures. And some of the Arabic cultures are
perfect set up. You just gave me Mediterranean.
I'm sorry. Am I talking over you right
now? I didn't mean to interrupt. Hey. By
the way, we're talking about culture and being
nosy Yeah. And why your nose itches.
My nose is itching all day,
And it's My nose is starting to itch.
I'm gonna I'm gonna Torin, is your nose
itching? I'm I'm A little bit. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, there you go. There you go. I
don't know what that proves, but there it
is. Well, maybe it's just that the cat
walked by on the left side of the
cat. Oh, it could be. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.
It could be that. That's the third thing.
Hey. So which one? What if it's itching
in the middle?
Oh, man. Yeah.
Come on. I just,
I'm gonna destroy cultural
beliefs. There's some cultures where they'd have to
call the rabbi and have him decide what
it means. And they probably did. Irish Catholics
do that. It's an interesting
aspect of it. Go ask the father. Yes.
And if you grow up in a multicultural
home,
or at least in an environment
as I did, I mean,
I remember my family would
meet up with the father as much as
they'd meet up with the rabbi, and they
would ask similar questions. Yeah. You know? And
and often get the same answers. Same answers.
Yeah. It's all in that book. You know?
Hey. So we're talking about
the the meaning of body parts in different
cultures. Okay. Woah.
Hello. We went to body parts now. And
the superstitions
associated with that. Okay. Yeah. Talking about culture
and
superstitions. Culture, really? I don't know why. No.
I don't know why, Dean Foster.
Tom Peterson. Do you know why we're talking
about this? Well, I'm going to guess that
it's because,
oops,
your culture show. Sorry.
And who else do we have with us
today? Well, we have Torin. He's,
he's
I think his nose itches.
It's itching. Yes? Well, yeah. Something else itches.
Don't tell us. We we don't wanna hear
from you. Right side or left side? Well,
you're gonna get a visit from
Well,
go on. From your uncle Nate who's gonna
lay an inheritance on you, or you're gonna
get a visit from
The proctologist,
so we'll go from there. Right. I had
to go there, please.
And what does that body part mean? You
know? Wow. Again.
I knew I shouldn't have opened the door,
but I did. Mhmm. I did. And I
know where we're going. Yeah. What does that
body part mean? So I am assuming
you're talking about a tush.
Do you remember
Oh, boy. On the subways in New York
Do you remember?
I don't know the rest. I forgot. It
was an
advertisement.
It was it was the most eponymous advertisement
I've ever seen. I'm fascinated by eponymous names,
you know, names that indicate what people actually
do. I didn't know they named hippopotamus.
Exactly.
So on the subway, there was this advertisement
for doctor Tush.
Uh-huh. Oh, yes. And he would remove your
hemorrhoids. Yes. Exactly.
Because I'm sure he was born with the
last name of Tush.
So he was like, in some cultures, they
would take that as a sign. If you
were born with name Tush, you're gonna have
to be a proctologist.
You have to be. You have to be.
I'm gonna say if we have to his
name t u s c c h, wasn't
it? Yeah. We're giving him free
at at the time. Come on. It was
a while ago. Is doctor Tush still out
there?
Tush is last for a long time. They're
like,
no. Maybe Tush junior is out there now
picking up the family.
I think it's often the last part of
the body that goes, actually. Well, that's a
big Because it's often the big end. Let's
hope. Alaska goes.
Oh, there's so so much wordplay there with
that,
you know,
grammar time.
Grammar time.
Everybody loves grammar time. That's right. Did you
realize we do that in every podcast? Detroit.
There's absolutely no melody to it. Not at
all. Not at all. But we we we
sing it anyway. We try. They love it.
The fans love it. Do you love it?
Do you love it, guys? Let us know.
Let us know if you love it, and
we'll we'll keep it up. So here's another
cultural body part. Oh, good. Oh, good. Let
me think about
this.
Now We doctor, we we we were on
tush. So are we are we getting off
of tush right now? No. No. We can
stay there for a while. I've told you
many times to get off your tush, so
that's that'll work. Yeah. But no, you could
go to your go to your next body
part.
I'm not I'm not that stupid to stay
with tush. Well, anything associated with tush or
that region, right? Because that's The tush region.
Yes, as it's known. That Which I believe
is a deep trench in the Atlantic Ocean.
It's the deepest.
There's nothing deeper. You don't wanna go into
the Tush. Yeah. Because it's associated with the
Isn't it also a art school at NYU?
Yeah. The Tisch School of the Arts.
He started out as a proctologist. He made
his fortune, and then he donated it to
the NYU, and they built a they built
a There you go. They built a hall.
Well, I believe until he could give them
the money, they were a little behind there,
so they had to,
yeah, I know.
So
those body parts being centered in the region
of the body that has to do with
basically waste disposal. Or Yeah.
You know, it so the context We got
there very I just wanna say that we
went to that
just about as soon as we possibly could.
Right away. So why not?
But go ahead. So the cultural context Waste
disposal. Just about in any culture
is gonna be negative, you know, because this
is the stuff you don't wanna
this is the crap you don't wanna have
around.
So you gotta get rid of it. We've
gotten to terminology again. Excellent.
Phrases like, you know, caca, caca the clown,
or, you know, anything it has to do
Is there is there a real caca the
clown? Yeah. There is. I
was was there he on TV?
After school TV? I saw his act. It
stunk. Yeah. Oh.
Oh.
I'm sorry. I just can't help myself. I
remember hearing the Yiddish phrase growing up, alte
kaka, which which is a really old person.
Right. Right. But literally, it means an old
piece
of waste. Right? Yeah. It's it's like a
it's it's like a poop emoji kind of
thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a It's a
Verbal poop emoji. Right. Right. With with gray
hair. Right. So there's gotta be a lot
of I I think there's almost a universal
cultural
perspective
on on any anything related to those body
parts, you know. I would say that's probably
a good guess. Yeah. Sure. I mean, are
you guessing now or are we, No. I'm
a 100% sure. Uh-huh. Because you are the
expert on I'm a culture 100% sure. Around
the world. I'll thank you. And there is
a definite cultural aspect to this even if
we're making it up as we go about.
We don't make this up. Oh, we're not.
Okay. No. No, no. So your itching nose
thing so far is as far as we've
gotten. Oh, no, no. This is
why I started thinking about it. Right. But
that's as far as we've gotten. Because I
had this itching. I still do. Yeah. I
know. And it's really annoying watching you scratch
your nose like that. Well,
no. Let's let's pick this thing apart. Keep
this coming. Oh, yeah. See?
I'm not not one to judge. So Let's
move along. Let's okay. And go to Itchy
Poms.
Itchy Palms. Itchy Palms. That's in a little
town in California.
No. Actually, Itchy Palms was was the second
person in Caca the Clowns act. Oh, that
little guy who ran around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It was Caca and Itchy. Yeah. Those are
the two of them. Caca and Itchy, I
love them. They were great. They'd kill them
every night. Yeah. They did. They did.
So Itchy Poms. Yeah. There you go. Right.
Itchy Poms. Hey, Itchy. Come on in.
Sound of crowd clapping. Yes. Okay.
So
in many cultures, an itchy pom means
money.
You're gonna have Not that you need it,
but you're going to get some. Well, only
again if it's on the right hand.
Oh, really? No. No. No. It's the left
hand. Sorry.
Left, left, and right. I believe,
if I'm not mistaken, you can check back
on this tour, but I think we're correct,
that the left nostril being
itchy
was the good sign. That was yes. That
was the good sign. And the right nostril
being itchy was the bad sign. Right. Which
is interesting because it sounds counterintuitive
because often in many cultures, the left is
seen I mean, even in in Latin
languages,
sinister
is left. Look at you pulling that out.
Wow.
Wait a minute. We're talking about body parts.
Hold on. Time out. Wait a minute. Don't
start over.
Tom, zip that up. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
You mean in my mouth? That's what you're
going on. Of course. Of course.
What else could I put? I don't have
any idea.
Torin, stop that snickering over there. I can't
help it. Not sure what else it could
have been. Snicker bar. But
Just making me very hard. Isn't that the
attorney general of The United States? Snicker bar.
Snicker bar.
He's he's Maybe soon. He was the third
person in the in the night. Yeah. Yes.
With with Itchy and
Itchy and, caca. Caca. Right. Itchy, Caca, and
Snicker.
Yeah.
Do you remember them? I do. They were
a big actor. Yeah. Anyway was cockeye, itchy,
and Snicker. But Yeah. So you're right. So
if the left side- Cockeye was above the
title, I believe. He always got big billing.
He did. Yeah. Well. Well, he was always
a little larger than the others. That's right.
That's what I said about
that body part. Except for Doctor. Tush, of
course.
Mhmm. He was there too. Mhmm. Yeah. And
the Tush School of the Arts at NYU.
That's where they studied. They did. They did.
They have a school for that there. Yeah.
They do. School of Proctological
Arts.
It's not a science, it's an art. It
is. It's definitely an art. Yeah. Alright. Alright.
Go ahead with whatever the hell you were
gonna say. No. You were saying, very,
astutely
Ah, thank you. That's one in a row
for me. You
made the connection between the left nostril nostril
Yes.
And the left palm. And the left palm.
So that's the lucky side, which I said
was counterintuitive in many cultures because left is
usually associated with the side.
You know, like you don't use your left
hand in many of the Arab,
cultures. Not only Arab, but Indian and South
Asian. The left hand was associated with the
use for personal hygiene.
So the left hand,
like I said, or the sinister side, you
always had a negative side. The right side
was considered the the better side. Well, I'm
I'm going to just And that's because 90%
of the people or 80% of the people
in the world biologically are right handed as
opposed to the 20% of the left. Right.
That makes sense. Right. So they get to
make up the rules. They make up the
rules. Right. Exactly.
Okay. So so
where the heck are we? I have no
idea. So the left palm when your left
palm itches Yes. That means that you're going
to get money. Mhmm. If your right palm
itches, it means you're gonna lose money. I
see. Right. So if your right palm is
itching when you get off the plane in
Vegas It's not a good time. Yeah.
Time to go home. Yeah.
Now, let me ask you this. And and
and I I guess there's a cultural aspect
to this. Certainly, in in Of course there
is. In western society Can I give you
the answer before you even ask me? Please
do.
What? New?
Oh. I I'm just thinking that in Western
cultures,
in current Western cultures,
the the scientific side
plays a role
much
very often, anyway.
So if in in in other cultures too,
I'm so sure. But,
if we're looking at it from a scientific
point of view,
is there any kind of scientific work that
would back up these theories? The oh, the
where these superstitions
Absolutely. Come from? Yeah. You know, first of
all, I I don't think these cultures would
even view these as superstitions necessarily.
Okay.
If you believe it, even without any evidence,
scientific evidence, then you believe it. I mean,
you know, if you believe it, you that
if you stick your elbow in Windex as
that character in in the in the big
fat Greek wedding used to do. The father.
Wedding. Yes. I mean, if you believe it,
then you believe it. Well, it comes to
the basis of faith
at that point. Yes. Right. Which we've discussed.
We have discussed that. And and that's such
a huge thing that we probably will discuss
again.
Maybe even today a little bit. Oh, no
worries. I think we're there right now. So
if you've if you've got Itchy Palms
and and you've got an Itchy Knoss- If
you signed up Itchy Palms, you've got a
big action. If you got them there. You're
set. You're set. Yeah. I hope that contract
is tight. I think you can find them
on YouTube. If you go in, you can
find a few of their shows.
What if yeah. What if I still say
that when when,
caca was by himself, he stunk. He stunk.
I'm gonna use that joke as often as
I can. Yeah. You are.
But even when Itchy was there by himself,
it was only when they would The two
together. The two. Right. They they made magic.
Itchy, Pum, and Caca. Caca the Cloud. Caca
the Cloud.
Well well, you know why they made And
the attorney general of The United States. Now
because this is the two had to come
together. It was like yin and yang. It
was like complimentary. It did. It was like
the binary that we were talking about before.
So
to that
point, what if your left nostrilitches
but your right palm There you go. What
does that tell us? Now we're getting into
a complicated situation. We are. I'm I'm a
little frightened right now. Because it means you're
gonna get a visit from somebody who you
wanna see, but you're going to lose money
when you're going to lose money. So I
don't know what you want to see them.
Rabbi, what? What does this mean?
What? We better go talk.
I think, Torin,
bring the rabbi in, and we'll discuss. Oh,
that will add one more element to this.
Oh.
If your feet itch
What? A
fetus. We're not gonna talk about a fetus.
What are you doing? We're an itchy fetus.
Oh, no.
Oh, that's it. Stop rolling. We're out.
If your feet ish Oh, your feet ish.
Feet ish. Your feet.
Okay. Ununciating.
Mhmm.
I have to remember
Mhmm. To put ellipses
between my lips. Put ellipses between your lips.
Yes. I'm now I'm extremely
frightened. Do you remember ellipses? I do. Yes.
A Greek warrior, wasn't it? Yeah. From a
from a Greek tragedy. Yes. Yes. Traveled around
a lot. Didn't see much. I think it
was I think it was Euripides,
wasn't it? Euripides,
I ripidoes.
So And I'll rip it up. Thank you.
The Marx Brothers will be here through the
week. So Well, they followed they followed Itchy
and Gaga.
They did.
They did in the early part of their
career. Yeah. Yeah. It was tough though because
there were times when, you know, they got
top billing. Euripides would always get top billing.
He always. He was great. But Kaka and
Itchy came close sometimes. They they well.
There were some years they some years
some years they stunk.
Some years they did. There was no, you
know, getting out of that. But they were
itching to get to the top, and they
finally did. Oh, jeez.
Oh, now I'm now I'm begging us to
move on. Oh, man. Oh, god. Alright. So
itchy feet. Itchy feet. Yes. Itchy feet. Okay.
So we've gotten to itchy feet now. What
about itchy feet? And what part of the
feet are itching?
We're talking about the bottom part. Okay. The
bottom. So the There may be superstitions associated
with different parts of the foot. Yeah. And
and I don't
I don't know. But I know Torin is
furiously looking at all of this stuff. He's
all licking
every cut. Every single step is good. He's
going, I can't my I can't move my
fingers fast till my itchy
feet
in New Caledonia. What does that mean? Is
is this different from itchy feet in New
Caledonia? Itchy feet in New Caledonia.
Yeah. That was a group, I believe, back
in the seventies.
Yes. They were, actually.
Right.
Oh my gosh. Yes. So keep working on
that for meanwhile. Oh, yeah. I will. We're
back at the for a lack of a
better term,
oh, I guess we do have terms for
the bottom of the feet, the arch. The
arch. The arch, the heel. The plantar. The
plantar.
Fascia? Is there an in there? The fascia
is in the head.
Your fascia is in the head. What if
if your fascia
looks like a bottom of the skull. Biology,
which we're both real good at. So You
know,
and the and And anatomy. And the fascia
in Britain is the dashboard of a car,
I believe. I believe you're correct. But if
your anyway, if your face looks like a
British fascia or if it looks like your
bottom of your foot, which some people they
did. Wasn't it Richard Nixon? Somebody said his
face looked like his foot or something.
His face
may have been his foot.
Very possible. It was interchangeable.
Anyway,
if if you're
yes. So there it is.
All I asked was but I was going
to say, in lack of a better term,
the bottom of the foot would be our
foot palm,
but I I don't believe that is an
accurate term. No. Foot palm. A foot palm.
Yes.
No. They go they grow dates in Libya.
I had a date in Libya once. Did
you? It didn't go well. We shouldn't talk
about it. Oh, okay.
I actually dated a girl named Libya once.
Really? In college.
For real, Tom? No. I'm making this all
up. Oh, I see.
She was trying to quite a trip. Right.
Right. I called her Libya a couple times.
We didn't see each other after that. I
see. Anyway, it it
so your your the bottom of the foot,
right? Yes. It's the itchy part. Yes. And
what part of the foot itching would be,
important to us? Again, in many of these
cultures
Mhmm. An itchy foot indicates
travel.
Well, I can see that. Upcoming travel. So
does it matter what part of the foot
or which foot?
Well, yes. Oh, I I knew we'd get
there. Are we binary again? It's left and
right. Yeah. Of course it is. It's left
and right.
And and if
if your left foot inches Yeah.
You put your left
foot in. You put your left foot out.
If your left foot inches it up. And
it tells you what What it's about. Oh,
look at that. Tells you what it's about.
Look at that thing. What?
Licensing.
Licensing? I'm Sorry. Sorry. We only we only
did four bars.
After this, we're gonna do four bars. That's
for sure. Oh, is it? Well, we only
started with two already. Oh, is that the
problem? Probably only need two more to go.
Two more, we're good.
And then we'll have nothing will be itching
at all at that point. Really? So, okay.
So I've got a left foot that itches
So what do you think Right. Given the
pattern here of the if it's a left
foot
itches. Okay. Unless I'm being set up, I'm
going to think this is gonna be No.
That's not possible. Not a possibility.
I'm thinking that we are going to have
a good trip.
This is Wrong. Oh, no.
I sorta knew it, didn't I?
I've known you for a hundred and eighty
seven years, and I'm still, you know, falling
for that stuff. Okay.
So so this is not going to be
a good time. Yeah. Don't we even have
a phrase in English. Right? Do we? Gets
getting off getting started on the right foot.
Is that right?
See, I I always saw that as a
right or wrong thing, not not as a
or or correct and incorrect thing as opposed
to a right and left thing. Yeah. We're
we're we're messing up the
homin is it a homonym
when words when you can have one word?
I think
it's
Thank you, doctor Evel. Homonym. Homonym.
Licensing?
Sorry. We just used one word from the
movie. Come on. Yeah. But it had four
bars, didn't it? Oh, yeah.
Amunim. No. It only had three bars.
Oh, wow. Don't worry about it. Oh, okay.
I've lost track. Right. What's happening? So okay.
So Because the syllable is the same thing
as a homonym.
Sure. Yeah. Let's let's say that. But that
is what a homonym is. Right? Time.
Everybody's
grandtime.
It's the sound of one word meaning many
different things. Okay. Sure. Right. Okay. So I'm
looking at it. I'm saying okay. Yeah. So
get started on the right On the right
front. Right. Okay. I think it's recap time.
Oh. Recap time. Oh.
Stand back. It's recap time. Okay.
Okay.
Left
hand, scratchy palm, itchy palm Yes. On the
left hand is the good thing. Correct? Yes.
Itchy nose,
left side is the good thing. That's I
I believe. It it oh, he's now he's
backing off. But but let's go with good
thing.
On the foot,
itchy left
foot
is the bad thing. I I believe.
No. Wow. Oh, wow. He's supposed to be
the accent. Well, in some cultures, but in
other cultures, it's the opposite. Well, okay. Fine.
Alright then. That's good. That's kinda true with
a lot of cultural things that I'm noticing.
Yeah. So, hey, you don't really have to
know any of this stuff. Right. You just
have to know where you are.
Well, that leaves us out. Okay. Yeah. So
Yep.
To to continue
Yeah. It's a whole it's a left foot,
and we're talking about the bottom of the
foot. Bottom of the foot. Top of the
foot is a whole A whole different game.
The top of the foot, there is no
cultural meaning. It simply means to have dermatitis
of the foot.
Probably should have somebody look at that. Have
a doctor look at that. Yeah. Forget the
rabbi. Go to the doctor. Go to doctor
Tush. No. He's the wrong guy. Yeah. Wrong
place. Wrong body part. That's in between somewhere.
Yeah. If so if I'm scratching the bottom
of my foot, could it mean I have
athlete's foot?
That's why
they called it athlete's foot. I think we're
really we're really waiting into things that have
no meaning whatsoever now.
Not that we've ever done that before.
Oh, no. But let
Okay. Athlete's foot okay. Go ahead. So,
ergo,
the right foot if the right if the
bottom of the right foot itches Yes.
The bottom of the right foot itching means
You're gonna also travel. You're gonna go on
a trip Uh-huh. That you don't wanna have
to go on.
I thought the right foot was the good
foot.
Oh, we're talking about the feet. Yes. Yes.
You are
right.
Sometimes we on these travels because of the
left and right feet. I have to keep
Dean
in the right path.
So
Well, it has to do with the poles.
It has to do with the poles. Uh-huh.
It does have to do with the polls.
Flipping and And the Czechs and a few
of the Hungarians too. They're all they're all
flipping. They've been flipping out of They've been
flipping like crazy, and I understand that. Yeah.
We're talking about the North Ever since the
Soviet Union broke up, I think. It's yeah.
What? Who?
We turned to the flip of the North
and the South Poles, which is why I'm
getting my my left and right mixed up.
Absolutely. Look. If you whatever you wanna do.
If you've got a magnet,
you may wanna change the markings on the
magnet because the plus and the negative. Because
when those poles flip, everything's over. Chaos. Do
do you mark your magnets? I do. I
mark all my magnets. Do people do that?
No. I'm making this up completely. Oh, okay.
Because I've never seen a marked magnet. Unless
you Mark magnet. I remember him. He he
made a lot of money after high school,
if I remember correctly. But he was one
of those athletes. He was very attractive.
But if you're on the wrong side of
him, oh man. That's not good. Because he
was so unattractive. That's the right way to
say it. That point. Yeah.
He had to be on the right side
or the or the left side. You got
along better with him if you had different
viewpoints than he did, I think. It just
was more attracting. Yes. Wow. At any rate,
marking magnets.
Yeah. But if you do happen to mark
your magnets, it's important to know that the
poles are flipping. Of course, it's still one
eye.
And many other scientists, we just don't know
exactly when. Right? That could be soon. It
could be long after we have passed to
the
whatever pearly gates. And and we have discussed
this in previous podcast. And we have. And
people just aren't paying attention to us as
far as this goes. Well, no. I think
they are. Are they? Are they prepping? Yeah.
I think I think taking notes at the
very least. Okay. That'll help them when the
polls flip.
Yeah.
So make a little asterisk. The polls have
wandered just recently. I don't know if you
know that. That this is true. Look at
that uptore. Check it out. Well, I don't
know. The Germans and the Lithuanians
have always been worried when the polls start
to wander. Now we're getting into the whole
migration thing.
You know? It's always been an issue in
that part of the world. It has. Be
careful. Admittedly. Trad, it has. Lightly. I am
treading on my left foot right now.
Which which So it's my right foot is
taking me on a good travel if it
itches on the bottom. Correct?
Yes. Okay.
And my left foot, I'm going to have
to make a trip, but it's not for
good reasons. Am I correct, Donnie? That's right.
Okay. Pew.
That's correct.
Thank you. Watch your homonyms.
So we've got So far, again, recap
time. Yes.
Very confusing. I hope they're taking notes. So
so we've we've gone through the itchy nose,
left is good, right not good. Mhmm. He
the and and the itchy nose, by the
way, meant,
somebody was coming to visit,
who was good or bad, left good, right
bad. That's
that's correct. Purpose. Not necessarily a bad person,
but a bad reason.
The, the itchy palm, the left itchy palm
was,
money. You were gonna get money. The right
itchy palm meant you were going to give
away or lose money.
That's right. Okay. That's right. We're almost through
the recap now. The Mhmm. Left foot, however,
itching on the bottom
means you are going to take a trip
not for a good reason.
Correct. Alright. Yes. So And right foot means
the opposite. So the opposite meaning?
The opposite of the left foot.
Meaning?
Meaning that you are going to travel for
a good or valuable or nice reason or
something. Just gotta spell it out. Right. Okay.
So That's the end of the recap.
Recap time.
So nose
and
palm
is intuitive.
Yes. Okay.
No. It's counterintuitive. Counterintuitive.
Right. Right. Itchy feet are intuitive. Itchy feet
are definitely intuitive. That's why itchy feet always
always one. Now it
always one. And and itchy feet, if you're
if you're on itchy feet,
is it intuitive? Are we really talking intuitive
if you're left handed, though?
I I realize it's a smaller percentage of
the population, but but is that wouldn't the
intuitive side be? Now neither one of us
are left handed. Correct? You're not left handed.
Well, that's an interesting question. Oh, god. Okay.
Boy. Just asking a question. Oh. I'm trying
to do. Get an answer out of it.
Just I know. Just
easy little things real. I was raised to
always use my right hand,
and I've always thought I was right sided.
Uh-huh.
Meaning the as opposed to left. Go ahead.
Several years ago, I
participated
in
a scientific
biologic study,
and we went through a very short, harmless,
painless exercise,
which supposedly indicated, in fact, that I was
left sided,
but that I was raised
to be right sided.
And you and you didn't realize
that until sometime in your adult years when
you took this.
Okay. Shouldn't you have had a tendency towards
your left hand then? I mean Well, I
think I I think I I do in
many ways. Like, I I my left hand
is is typically stronger than my right hand.
My left side is typically stronger. Okay. Oh.
If I were to fall, I'd prefer to
fall on my left side because I could
just bounce back a lot faster.
Well, I I
mean, that being said And I recently did
have a fall, actually. Did you? Yeah. Yeah.
I was tackled We just went through the
autumnal equinox. You're not referring to that. No.
No. No. I was tackled on the street
accidentally. Somebody tumbled on me. Oh, you're not
gonna tell this story again. Alright?
Oh, god. But I fell on my right
side, which is my weaker spot.
Alright. Anyway,
I'm fine. I really am fine. Nobody should
worry. Send you cards and letters. Right? Two
or whatever passes for a card and letter
now,
to to tell Dean to to get well
quick. Please please, Scott.
Please have him get well quick. We're begging
you. Really? It landed on an okay body
part. Did it? It wasn't it wasn't a
body part that had any
superstitious
or meaning
associated with it. Shoulders don't have superstition in
anywhere around the world that you're aware of.
No. They do, actually. Do they? Yes. Is
this a cultural aspect? There is a cultural
piece. Is there? Surprisingly.
It has to do with the notion of
beast and burden beast of burden Uh-huh. And
the the shoulders
being the area of strength. Well, carrying on
your shoulders. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So Okay.
If you have
pain Mhmm. In your neck Mhmm. Hence the
phrase, a pain of a neck. Yes. And
Like having a pain in your neck. Right?
Or people can say, well, you know, you
should get your a massage in your shoulders.
Sure. Is it basically the shoulder thing is
just, like if you're showing pain in there
that you're
feel like you're it's a you've been burdened?
There's a burden that you're carrying. Uh-huh. It
could be real, like An actual burden. Like
the camel decided to get on your back
today.
Hey, wait a minute. I'm supposed to get
on your back. Not today, buddy. No. No.
Just It's hump day. Oh.
Oh. There we are. Good night. Okay.
No. But alright. So that's the shoulder.
How did we get to the shoulder? Is
there a right and left shoulder thing?
No. I don't think so. Just just your
shoulders. Because they kind of just play together
up there.
But you fell on what you what you
said was a a weaker part.
But I always thought it was strong. Thought
it was your
yeah. Mhmm.
Correct. Yes. And I and I had that
in inherent injury on my right side, not
my left side Uh-huh. Which is the weaker
side. So that's where it would show up.
I see. Okay. Alright. Yeah. But so pick
your body part, and we'll tell you What
is that? A superstition
associated with it. If you have a particular
body part you're really interested in. Let us
know if we should. We'll tell you what
it Let us know, boy. We'll tell you
what it means in any country. So Any
country at all. Right. Here's what we should
do. For that matter. Send send in
send us an email. Send us an email.
What's the email?
It's oopscultureshow@gmail.com.
Right. Of course. Of course, it is. Yeah.
Right. Very, very quickly. Just two things. Two
items you need to list. Yep. List list
the body part that you want to know
the meaning of in
the country
It's it's not gonna turn out so badly.
Uh-huh.
That's the country that you're planning your trip
to because your left foot is itching like
crazy right now.
Which is not a good thing. Just recap,
John. Recap. Left foot. Left foot.
Not a good thing. Yeah. So if it's
a left foot that's itching that's the that's
the reason for the question. Yes. Maybe you
don't even wanna ask the question. Maybe better.
Maybe not. Or maybe you should. Maybe that's
when you should find out because Oh, yeah.
Oh, come on. But if your right foot
is itching, then Go. Just go. Right. Name
your body part Name and name the country.
It's time to play Name the culture. Name
your body part.
Oh, boy. Is that it? Sort of like,
in some cultures, do they give names
other than, like, an an an anatomical
name
to the body part? Well, of course. You
know, like Fred. Like Fred or John. Or
or,
yeah. Or Peter. Or Abe
or anything like that. I think you can
get you know, you can give in a
very affectionate name to those body parts that
have more meaning for you than others. I've
done that on on many occasions.
I don't think that's atypical, actually. It well,
I'm hoping not. But but it probably is.
Well, if yes. By the way, if along
the lines of of letting us know, if
you if you have a unique name for
a body part, you gotta study that too.
In short, don't And is there a cultural
aspect? Don't tell us the body part. Just
tell us the name, and we'll try to
guess.
That's perfect. I'm sure we're gonna be a
110%
right Correct. All the time. I mean, correct.
Overflowing the glass. Yes. Correct.
We'll be correct. Yes. Not right. We'll be
correct. Well, we're never correct, but we're always
right. You may be right. Yes.
Oh my god. This is completely out of
control now. Uh-huh. Alright. Well,
I think we've covered it for today. Left
ear itches. Oh my gosh. We're going to
the ear now? I don't know. Do do
do you actually have an answer to this?
Is this a
or Actually, I do. Okay. What if?
I don't know, Dean.
What if your left ear itches?
In Latin cultures, particularly in Latin America,
you you can there's often there's this gesture
where you pull on your earlobe Mhmm. Or
you kinda rub your ear as if it
were itching. Yes. And it may be the
the response to an itch. An itch. It
could be. Right? Uh-huh.
But if you if you tug on that,
it it it often means,
an indication that
you like this idea.
Somebody says something and you you tug on
your earlobe
and it means,
oh, I like this idea.
Okay.
The,
the well, the that being
Carol Burnett used to tug at her earlier.
Well, since she was saying If if anyone
out there remembers Carol Burnett, and she was
a she's a wonderful woman. She's still with
us, and she's,
she's a wonderful comedienne who in The United
States was extraordinarily popular for many decades.
And at the end of her show,
she would tug, I believe, her right earlobe.
But in her case, that was a signal
to her grandmother, who virtually raised her,
just saying I I love you grandma, something
along those lines.
So it really has nothing to do with
the cultural aspect. Well, but she was using
a body part to indicate It was a
signal. To send a message. A message. Yes.
Which is what a lot of non gestures.
And we've we've talked about non,
non verbal gestures. Yes. Not non gestures. A
non gesture would be the word. Just speaking.
Be the word. The homonym.
Homonym.
Homonym. Homonym.
We
alright. Well, I'm going to point to a
body part,
which is going to mean we're gonna wrap
this sucker up.
Let me guess which body part Alright. Well,
you go ahead and guess. Well, I point.
So Okay. Point.
Yes. I'm pointing now.
Okay. Do you want you don't wanna say.
Yeah. Torrance Oh. Torrance leaving the studio now.
He's out of here. Alright.
Well, Dean Foster,
thank you once again for sharing the incredible
expanse of knowledge that you have somehow
tucked between those itchy earlobes
of yours. And,
and also thank you, Torin, for for putting
up with all of the searches today, which
he's come back with nothing. Have you noticed
that? Yeah. Thank goodness. We,
and and and I'm Tom Peterson. And,
you know, whatever you're itching,
I I hope it brings you good luck.
My my feet are itching. Both my feet
are itching right now.
So I got the other out of here.
And my palms are itching too. Everything's itching
on me right now. My nose You don't
want to know. Left and right nostril. Every
everything
is itching.
Oh my gosh. Well, in that case,
oops.
Your culture's showing.
Smell you?
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