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The Cracked Podcast is an extension of the editorial team discussions that shape the brilliant articles and sketches on Cracked. Cohosts Jack O'Brien and Michael Swaim, along with an impressive roster of guests, use the platform to identify and dissect pop culture tropes, debunk myths and generally try to reach the large demographic of people who would enjoy their site's content if only they'd learn to read.
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Jul
25

Why Our Society Is Engineered To Make Us Feel Lonely

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The prominent philosophers The Righteous Brothers once warned about "los[ing] that loving feeling," and the sentiment was famously echoed in the 1986 fighter pilot documentary 'Top Gun'. After having lost said loving feeling, the brothers (not actually brothers) felt as if they couldn't go on. The sensation they felt wasn't poetic exaggeration. The Righteous Brothers, along with brothers Maverick and Goose were experiencing a very real and potentially dangerous biological response known as skin hunger.Skin hunger is your body's reaction to lack of physical touch and it affects an increasing number of Americans while being a non existent phenomenon in more touch-happy countries like France. The problem that we're learning is that without skin-to-skin touch (might we add that it doesn't have to be sexual), your body doesn't produce the hormone oxytocin. Without that natural chemical, adults are more susceptible to depression and infants can have developmental problems or even die.On this week's podcast, Jack O'Brien and Cracked editor Robert Evans are first joined by Dr. Kory Floyd, a professor at the University of Arizona, to talk about the physiological and sociological repercussions of skin hunger and why it's so prominent in today's culture. Later Jack and Robert are joined by Jean Franzblau of the Cuddle Sanctuary in Los Angeles and Travis Ashkenasy, an independent contractor, to talk about the services they provide as professional cuddlers and why you shouldn't be embarrassed to seek out a cuddle party.This episode is sponsored by Magoosh, The Bouqs, and Credit Karma.Footnotes:Psychology Today: What Lack of Affection Can Do to You:  https://goo.gl/HOlA9y Sebastian Junger TED Talk on PTSD, Loneliness:  https://goo.gl/e31gD3 NYT Book Review: Sebastian Junger's 'Tribe':  http://goo.gl/ysbAAd Tiffany Field's Book 'Touch':  https://goo.gl/oj4NzM Tiffany Field's Study of Touch at McDonald's in the US and France:  https://goo.gl/LxipQv Do High Fives Help Sports Teams?:  https://goo.gl/7OJlY9
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