Hi everyone, and welcome to a real conversation between two native english speakers.
I'm liz wade and beside me is adam novice.
Hi adam, hello liz, and so uh adam, i know that in michigan, where we are today not next to each other unfortunately, but uh, in our uh other places, It is actually very cold outside.
Correct.
But we are here to talk about a program that is not about being cold.
Nope.
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And so, I think I covered all our bases.
There's an extra English idiom for you, Adam.
Yeah, cover all our bases.
That comes from baseball.
I believe it does.
America's favorite pastime.
But, well, I think that's what it's called, right?
That is what it's called, and now we're getting off topic here.
Yes, we are not here to talk about baseball.
More people watch basketball, football, and NASCAR than baseball.
They all say they're America's favorite pastime?
Well, no.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Anyway.
That's what you say when you want to change the subject.
I'm blaming you squarely for this.
I squarely take the blame.
We are talking about how to stay safe in hot weather.
And so this program, I wrote it, actually.
And it starts with how our world is actually getting hotter.
And we experience a lot of natural disasters anyway, like mudslides.
Fires.
Yeah, tornadoes.
Tsunamis.
Tsunamis, that's the one I was going to think of.
But also, actually, heat waves.
And heat waves are something that I think people don't think about when they think about a natural disaster.
And so it kind of talks about that a little bit.
But then also what to do in sort of an emergency situation, if you actually see someone in a hot weather emergency or if they are just too hot after doing something.
And then some tips at the end, which I love to end with tips because it just makes a program real.
Well, one of the things that this program reminded me of when you talk about tips and helping someone who's going through that is really how narrow a range the human body can operate in.
Yes.
You know, so you say in this, this is all in Fahrenheit.
I don't know what it is in Celsius, but 98.6 is the average.
It's not perfect for people.
But even the variation in normal of that is only maybe a half a degree one way or another.
Right.
But you get over 104 or too cold.
So getting overheating is a serious thing and it happens quite a bit.
Right.
And as the I mean, this is kind of a terrible thing to think about.
But it says later in the script, like if your temperature reaches like a specific temperature, like sorry, if your body temperature reaches a specific number, you actually it's like getting cooked.
Right.
Yeah.
Like your organs can be damaged because they are.
Yeah, you can do damage to your brain.
Yeah, exactly.
So, yeah.
Liz, before we get into extreme temperatures, do you like being?
If you have to pick between being too hot or too cold, what would you pick?
Well, I'll bet that you could already guess the answer to this question.
I would guess you would rather be too cold.
Yes, you got it right away.
Okay.
I was only maybe 30% sure of that answer.
Yeah, oh really?
Well, okay, so here is what I say.
Like, if you're too hot, you can only take off so much clothing until you feel, like, better.
And even then, like...
So maybe just do graphic for this program.
Even then, like even if you're wearing just the modest amount of clothing like you, could still be too hot and not have any way to make yourself feel better, you know, short of jumping into like cold water or taking a cold bath or something like that.
I feel like it's much, much if it's.
It's much more difficult to losing my words here.
It's much more difficult to feel cooler when you're too hot than it is to feel warmer when you're too cold.
So okay um, if i'm too cold, i can put on another sweater, i can like warm up a heat pack, i can drink a hot cup of tea, but you're listing all things that are the equivalent of jumping in the pool to cool down.
I feel like those things are more pleasant, and then i don't get like.
And then i don't get like immediately hot again.
Like, even if you jump into a cool pool, you still you get out and then you're hot again.
Yeah, i will say, i will agree with you that trying to sleep when you're too hot is miserable, whereas you know you'll, if you're under a blanket or something, you will eventually warm up.
Yeah um, but i would rather be too hot, Really.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm a pretty warm person.
Look at this body hair.
I've got a natural fuzz all over me.
Yeah.
Yeah, you are a beach person.
That makes sense.
So when I visited Vietnam, it was very hot there.
And it wasn't even like their hottest season, I think.
And it was a little uncomfortable for me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I know you've been to Indonesia, right?
Is it quite hot there as well?
It was quite pleasant when I was there.
I mean lots of breeze, and you know we were in a car or an airplane a lot of the time we were there.
So they have climate control.
Yeah.
But anyway, those are our personal preferences.
Put in the comments below, would you rather be too hot or too cold?
Yes.
Share that with us.
Are you team Liz or are you team Adam?
Yeah.
That's how I think we should frame it.
But this program is not about just being uncomfortably hot.
This is talking about too, too hot.
Like there's a problem here.
OK, so I will say recently in the last month or two.
I took a first aid class.
And I learned some of the basic first aid, like what to do when somebody gets a cut or when somebody faints or breaks a bone and those sort of normal, what you think of when you think of first aid.
But one of the sections of this first aid class was what to do when somebody is overheating.
So when there's too much either hot weather or it's hot outside and they're working too hard.
There are three heat emergencies where people need to act in order to help that person.
We go through each of these in this program, which maybe we should put this in the first aid playlist.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
But yeah, so the first one is heat cramps.
And that one is you can just get that if you are, you know, working hard outside.
Sweating a lot.
Yeah, maybe you didn't drink enough water and you're, you know, going for a run.
Or, you know, of course, like maybe you're working inside a building and you just get too hot.
So, yeah.
So what do you do?
And then you can help that by.
I thought was interesting the two choices.
The two best choices are sports drinks and coconut water to help.
Oh person get that because they're becoming dehydrated.
Yeah, so they don't have enough water in their body and those two liquids are very good at hydrating your body again.
But if you don't have those milk or water, so when I used to run very long distances, our go-to was Eat a pickle or or like pickle, the juice that pickles pickles because it's high in salt and the salt helps your body like it stays in your body.
And yeah, that's the electrolytes, right?
So if you don't have a sports drink, eat a pickle.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And if you don't have a pickle, drink some sports drink.
Yeah.
Or water.
And so then if you don't treat that, it can go into something worse.
And that is heat exhaustion where somebody becomes dizzy or like stuff like that.
And you can still help there.
But if it gets into this later one, which right now I am forgetting what it's called.
Oh, after the heat exhaustion.
What's the last thing?
The heat stroke.
Yes.
Heat stroke.
Yeah.
I say as if it's like awesome.
That's not good.
Yeah.
Heat stroke is really, really bad because your body really heats up a lot.
And that's when you actually can get the get the effects of damaging your brain and somebody in that is maybe confused they could be sweating, or they could not be sweating, they could be pale or whatever.
So I I really encourage people to check out this program and even just think through what that would look like in your life, like if you came across somebody who you know was like oh, I'm having these, these cramps in my legs and I don't know why.
You can ask them when was the last time you had water?
Yeah, that's a great idea.
Help get them stuff.
And know when to call emergency personnel, right?
Because sometimes the best thing is to get them into a medical situation with first aid where they can get an IV, get fluids.
It's the quickest way to get fluids into the body, lower their temperature.
Yeah.
But you want to do everything you can to prevent even getting to that point of needing to do that.
Well, and at the end of this program, we give some tips.
And one of those tips is really check on the people who are more susceptible.
I don't know how to say that in a different way.
Who are at risk.
Yeah, who are more likely to get have problems with heat.
And those are people who are over 65 and people who are under four or five.
So really little kids and older people in a in a heat wave.
If you can check on those people, maybe give them a call or stop by or do those things, so that we can really use that knowledge to you know, check in in our communities.
Yeah.
And if you're listening to this in a cold, cold place that never really gets too hot, let us know which country you would like to go to and then try to manage the heat.
So if you're going to travel to a hot country, where do you want to go?
Tell us where you're from.
Tell us what hot country you'd like to go to.
Yeah, I would actually be really interested.
So like if a person lives in say Finland, who was listening to this and you want to, Are you more comfortable being hot or cold, like we asked earlier?
I wonder if your country of origin impacts that.
It could be.
It could.
Yeah, it could be.
Well, anyway...
Yeah, I think we would love to hear what you think about this program.
Yeah, what you think about hot weather.
If you have ever helped someone in a heat emergency.
Or if you had it yourself.
Yeah, do you take care of the people in your community during a heat wave?
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And, yeah, am I missing anything, Adam?
I think you have covered all your bases.
Oh, perfect.
See, I feel like we just were bringing it around full circle.
And, yeah, I will say goodbye from me and from Adam.
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