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If you’ve never listened to one you may still have heard of them as they have picked up a great deal of popularity over the years. Podcasts. Podcasts are ways of giving people information in a fun way without using a screen meaning it’s just people talking. Usually there’s a guest on the podcast, most likely a professional at the topic at hand. I’ll give you an overview, a famous person such as an actor or millionaire comes on the podcast, introduces himself and the guest. An example of famous podcasts hosts is Joe Rogan. Some famous people are even the guests such as Dwayne Johnson. Not every person who is a guest is a professional, they may just have a very important story about something that happened in their life.
Podcasts have a really unique way of giving you the information. The thing about podcasts in this day and age is that there is a standard app on your phone when you buy it. That means that you already have instant access to the 800,000 podcasters and the 54 million episodes that they offer. But that’s not the only thing that makes podcasts special compared to documentaries; you can listen to them everywhere. When you go to the gym, you can listen to it there, on the train, in your house, in the car, at work, while you study(not recommended). And with the average podcast being 43 minutes long, if you’re interested in the topic there’s thousands of others that explore deeper into it. In my experience and through my own research about a topic quite dear to myself, I’ve learned a good chunk about my topic through podcasts.
Speaking of my topic, concussions in football. Each day an estimated 153 people die because of a TBI(traumatic brain injury), or as we know it to be, a concussion. That is one of many horrifying statistics about concussions. One of the scarier statistics would have to be that there are approximately 67,000 diagnosed concussions in high school football every year. According to research by The New York Times, at least 50 youth football players (high school or younger) from 20 different states have died or sustained serious head injuries on the field since 1997. Now I’m not going against the football community saying that the sport is too dangerous because I myself am a football player and I can vouch for the game by saying that it’s safer now than it’s ever been. And even though there’s all this safety, 2017 was actually the worst year in NFL history for a grand total of 281. One of the most stomach retching effects of those concussions is CTE.
CTE stands for Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE in a nutshell is when the brain begins to deteriorate due to it undergoing so much physical stress. As you can see in the image below, the brain on the left is obviously a healthy, well taken care of, functioning brain, and then there’s the brain on the right. That brain has clearly seen better days, it looks like a soggy waffle that you put in the microwave instead of the toaster and now it’s just a floppy disappointment. This is a case of CTE that has been developing for a very long time, most cases of CTE usually only have wider gaps in the brain leading to irregularity in the person’s behavior. This brain from the looks of it, transformed into an entirely different person with the amount of damage that they sustained.
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