Finns

One of them or all three of them played in Finland.

They're Finns, obviously.

And they've all gone to either law school or to business school.

But they're running.

Actively, like on purpose, like for thousands of years.

The Finns and the Norwegians and the

Scandinavians,

no one wanted to go there because it's cold.

And so our instinct to be ethnocentric presumably is highly environmentally mediated and it just doesn't come out.

Whereas I think that with some other European peoples, such as the Finns or maybe some peoples in Southern Europe, it's less of a genius strategy.

They're just more ethnocentric.

And so they're just much more hostile to foreigners.

Yeah, it's really big.

I thought small because Finns are so reserved.

Yeah, but once...

People drink here.

Yeah,

somewhere in the sticks.

All Finns want to live on an island.

You have to swim there yourself.

Japanese onsen, natural hot spring baths, have been visited for centuries, and many Japanese people report that an evening soak is among the most effective remedies for restlessness.

The Finnish sauna tradition similarly involves exposure to high heat, typically eighty to one hundred degrees Celsius, followed by cooling, sometimes in a cold lake or snow, and many Finns report that evening sauna use improves their rest.

The cycle of heating and cooling mirrors, in amplified form, the vasodilation and subsequent heat loss that a warm bath produces.

Turkish hammam visits, Russian banya sessions, and Korean jimjilbang culture all follow broadly similar patterns of heat exposure followed by cooling, and all have traditional associations with relaxation and preparation for the night.

It's worth noting that Putin spends a lot of time sort of bemoaning the grand old Soviet era.

And it's important to note that in the Soviet era, the Finns absolutely mopped the floor with the Russians.

And that isn't lost on Putin.

right? That there was an entire Soviet army that got annihilated in Finland.

Kind of weird.

So Vili Hainola adding to that list for the Finns who have played for Vegas.

But Raphael Lavoie, congratulations to him.

It's your game winner.

doing the fastest skater at the NHL All-Star game and how she was terrified of exactly what you just said.

Like if a woman makes this mistake, if Miko Rantanen does the fastest skater and falls, no one walks away from that event going, Finns can't skate.

If she falls, it's hot.

See, look, women don't belong here.

So Finland was the highest risk area.

And Finns in those days lived off... diets extremely rich in saturated fat.

So cream, cheese, red meat, and they had the highest cholesterol levels.

On the other hand, you went to another population such as Japanese fishermen, then the diet there was extremely rich in omega-3 fatty acids, relatively depleted in cholesterol because fish don't have very much, and they had a lot of plant foods as well.