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8 Reasons Why Your Body Is So Gross · Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works
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Speaker 1: to do. Chuck all right. With OZ, they think there's
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Speaker 1: at least like three or four seasons. Well, that's an
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Speaker 1: odd start to this episode. It is because in this episode, oh,
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Speaker 1: Jerry's here by the way. Uh. In this episode, um,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about your body, yes, which I guess the
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Speaker 1: human body was on display to some degree in different
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Speaker 1: ways in OZ. But that's not what we're talking about really.
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Speaker 1: In this we're talking about how like you sitting there,
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Speaker 1: you probably feel pretty good right now. You may be showered,
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Speaker 1: you just got a haircut recently, like haircut, your hair
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Speaker 1: smells like pencil shavings. Uh. And uh, let's see what
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Speaker 1: else did you know that? Like a haircut to you
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Speaker 1: me smells like recently, um, sharpened pencil. I did not
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Speaker 1: know that isn't that we every haircut weird like a
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Speaker 1: haircut does, like cutting the grass, smell like almonds. And
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Speaker 1: then she has a well she's okay, she's fine. She yeah,
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Speaker 1: she just smells pencil shavings with haircuts. But um, you're
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Speaker 1: you're feeling pretty good. Back to my little intro um,
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Speaker 1: and by you, I'm talking to everybody out there. Well,
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Speaker 1: you don't realize is this You're disgusting. You're disgusting bag
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Speaker 1: of nastiness. Basically if you really want to get down
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Speaker 1: on a granular cellular uh even just an internal level, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're you're gross. Thank you. Yeah, I'm gross too. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sitting in judgment like I I have all of
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Speaker 1: these things as well. Most likely, Um well yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean it's not like I like perspective. I just it's
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Speaker 1: it's when you say you, it's like uh J McNerney novel.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like put you in like the first
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Speaker 1: person of the action. So all of a sudden, you're
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Speaker 1: the one who has a coke problem and it's like
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Speaker 1: four in the morning on a Tuesday in Manhattan and
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Speaker 1: you have to go to work in two hours. You know,
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Speaker 1: it has more impact when you're saying that. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna nod and act like I know what
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Speaker 1: that reference was. It's a bright Lights, Big City reference. Okay,
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Speaker 1: surely you've read that. I never read that. You haven't
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Speaker 1: read that. That was awesome. Yeah, it was good. It
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Speaker 1: was good. It was in that swid movie, the whole Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's in that whole Bread eastern ellis vain sure like,
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, party in too much less than zero kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, I read um well, I read American
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Speaker 1: Psycho and lesson Zero. Okay, yeah, yeah, this is one
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Speaker 1: of his contemporaries is still around. J mc McNerney or
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Speaker 1: Jane mkearney something like that. They both like their drugs
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Speaker 1: and loud music and yeah, dancing and Michael J. Fox
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Speaker 1: is in the movie Bright Lightspeag City. Anyway, it's a
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Speaker 1: good book, but it's all in like that first person.
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Speaker 1: Where is that? Second person? Yeah? Second person familiar? Anybody
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Speaker 1: your gross? Let's get to why chucky. So we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about some of the gross things going on inside
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Speaker 1: the body. And I think this article had ten but
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Speaker 1: since we've covered bacteria and poop so thoroughly. Plus it's
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Speaker 1: a long standing stuff. You should have tradition to never
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Speaker 1: do all ten of any ten list. And and it's
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Speaker 1: we should also say is arbitrary that all lists on
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Speaker 1: how stuff works in and ten I think, yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: a nice round number. Um. Alright, so I guess we'll
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Speaker 1: start with eyelash mites, um, which I didn't know about
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Speaker 1: until now, did you? No? I didn't either. Mites are
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Speaker 1: little arthur pods there in the same family as ticks,
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Speaker 1: and um. They, if you are generally an older person,
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Speaker 1: are living on your eyelashes. Yeah, and not just your eyelashes.
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Speaker 1: There's actually two types of what are called dermodex mites
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Speaker 1: or demo decks. I'm sorry. Demo is uh, it's basically
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Speaker 1: Latin for lard, and dex is a boring insect, So
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Speaker 1: it's a fat, boring insect that demodex might And you
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Speaker 1: have two kinds, ones that live in your hair follicles
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Speaker 1: and the one that live in your pores basically from
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Speaker 1: what I understand. Yeah, dogs, there's another kind for dogs too. Well.
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Speaker 1: There's like tens of thousands of of types of demodex mites,
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Speaker 1: but there's only two that live on humans, and they
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Speaker 1: live on our faces. Yeah, and like I said, more
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Speaker 1: likely if you're older, just because as you age you
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Speaker 1: produce more oils like see them. Kids don't produce a
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Speaker 1: lot of see them, So you're probably not gonna have
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Speaker 1: a child with eyelash mites. If you do, then so
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Speaker 1: services is probably gonna come after, although they won't be
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Speaker 1: able to tell because these seems are very tiny, like you.
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Speaker 1: They apparently move around at night. There's a really good, um,
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Speaker 1: very exhaustive article on demodex might by science writer Ed Young.
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Speaker 1: Are you familiar with him, Uh, the Youngster? Yeah? Yeah, dude,
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Speaker 1: speaking of stirs, you know Ed the Grabster Ed Grabanowski,
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Speaker 1: who writes some of the best articles that have formed
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Speaker 1: the basis for some of the best episodes of stuff
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Speaker 1: You should know. He finally came out and claimed his
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Speaker 1: birthright on Twitter. I saw that he said I am
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Speaker 1: the Grabster, I'm I'm I'm coming out and saying hi,
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Speaker 1: And I did. And I had never seen his face before.
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Speaker 1: I had once because he commented on some other oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: or like a Dungeons and Dragons forum or something like that.
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Speaker 1: It came across the comment and it was pretty much
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Speaker 1: the same picture. Yeah, it's definitely kind of weird because
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Speaker 1: I mean, if anyone the Grabster is almost like the
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Speaker 1: fourth stuff you should know team member, you know, like
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Speaker 1: we probably covered more of his articles than anyone else
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Speaker 1: I would guess, so, so welcome Ed anyway, Yeah, into
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Speaker 1: the world. Ed Young had a good one on demo
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Speaker 1: decks mites on Discover magazine's blog. Um, it's basically everything
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Speaker 1: you could ever want to know about them, and I
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Speaker 1: think that's even the title of it too. Well. They,
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Speaker 1: like you said, they move around at night because they
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Speaker 1: don't like light. Um at a very slow pace eight
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Speaker 1: to sixteen millimeters per hour, and you can't see them,
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Speaker 1: but they're microscopic there below the threshold of human sight. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And while it might sound gross for your grandparents to
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Speaker 1: have mites in their eyelashes, Um, there's really no trouble
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Speaker 1: with them. They're not going to cause you any pain
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Speaker 1: or suffering generally. Yeah, they think it's possible that one
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Speaker 1: of the two varieties are responsible for rosatia UM and right,
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Speaker 1: if you're um particularly sensitive skin wise, you may find
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Speaker 1: them irritable. But for the most part, you probably have,
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Speaker 1: especially if you're over age sixty, you probably do have
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Speaker 1: demodex mites living in your face and just don't even
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Speaker 1: know it, and they're crawling across it at night while
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Speaker 1: you sleep. Um. And I found another little interesting mite
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Speaker 1: fact today that was just in the news. Um, there's
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Speaker 1: a southern California Mike called the Para Tarso Thomas Macro
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Speaker 1: Palace played by Brendan Fraser. Now I think it's Shyola booth. Um.
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Speaker 1: Brendan Fraser. Man, remember he was in Man. Yeah, a
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Speaker 1: good one with Polly Shore and Shawan Austin had like
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Speaker 1: the early nineties Triumvirate. Sean wasn't that Yeah, I believe
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Speaker 1: he was the street man. Um. So this might has
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Speaker 1: just been recorded as the fastest land animal beating out
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Speaker 1: the cheetah. Wow, this might move three two body lengths
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Speaker 1: per second. So obviously it's tiny, but that's super fast
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Speaker 1: because the cheetah only moves sixteen body links the second. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so it's the new fastest animal. Well. Remember I think
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Speaker 1: it was the cockroach episode where we figured out like
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Speaker 1: that's the true measure of speed when you're comparing different
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Speaker 1: sized things, because remember the cockroachs can move like fifty
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Speaker 1: I think body links a second, which is way faster
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Speaker 1: than that, is fast. Well, my hat has been taken
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Speaker 1: off for this. Might it's the demo DECKX might. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not. I to know that was. That would be
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Speaker 1: a lot of eyelash to cover. Okay, well let's say
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Speaker 1: we move on, all right, We'll go from the eyelash
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Speaker 1: over a little bit to the ear, where you may
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Speaker 1: or may not know. You have something called serum gross
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Speaker 1: inside seremon. I like it either way. I think any
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Speaker 1: anything with the word s e r sounds sort of oily.
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Speaker 1: It's c e r oh is it c e r
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Speaker 1: U m e n h. Yeah, which I guess you
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Speaker 1: can make it with a hard seat like Cruman. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. If you're a German you could.
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Speaker 1: But so you tell my ear wax though and Layman's
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Speaker 1: terms ear wax. Everyone's got it and we don't like it.
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Speaker 1: Americans spend about sixty million North Americans, so I guess
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Speaker 1: that includes our hat and our pants spend more than
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Speaker 1: sixty million dollars a year h on ear cleaning products.
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Speaker 1: And what's crazy is a lot of those ear cleaning products, UH,
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Speaker 1: including cotton swabs attached to sticks, generic generic um those
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Speaker 1: actually supposedly are detrimental to or counterproductive to cleaning ear
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Speaker 1: wax out because your ear wax is produced in the
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Speaker 1: outer third of your ear. When you use a cotton
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Speaker 1: tip or anything cotton swab, yeah, or anything even your finger,
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Speaker 1: and you push it into your ear canal, yeah, you're
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Speaker 1: not removing your X. You're pushing it further in and
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Speaker 1: it's not meant to be in there, and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: go in there unless you jam it in there. So
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Speaker 1: when you're using some sort of swab or anything to
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Speaker 1: clean out your ear X, you're you're doing the opposite.
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Speaker 1: You're creating what can become a hardened build up, and
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Speaker 1: then you really have problems. Yeah, like real problem the
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Speaker 1: ear is pretty much self cleaning. Um. Real block edge
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Speaker 1: only occurs and about six percent of people. Um. But
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Speaker 1: you might know that you have an impactation if you
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Speaker 1: have decreased hearing, your dizziness or pain, or if it
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Speaker 1: sounds like you got your fingers in your ears or
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Speaker 1: ringing or itching or drainage. That means you've either had
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Speaker 1: it and happened naturally and you're one of the six percent,
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Speaker 1: or you've stuffed it in there with a cotton swab
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Speaker 1: and not done yourself any favors that in elvo grease
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Speaker 1: mixed together. Not good. Can we talk about your handling too,
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Speaker 1: sure you know the deal with your handling, right. What
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Speaker 1: what they claim is that you have this cone of paper, Um,
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Speaker 1: what is it? Like a waxy paper? You light it
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Speaker 1: on fire and stick in ear ear and it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to create a vacuum supposedly that sucks out this uh wax.
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Speaker 1: That's not true. It is a big, big falsehood sold
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Speaker 1: to you by the makers of ear candles. And they
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Speaker 1: can actually be dangerous and they do not create a
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Speaker 1: vacuum and they do not pull wax out of your ears.
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Speaker 1: So if you're an ear candler, you're doing the wrong
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Speaker 1: thing because doctors say it's can be dangerous. Um. And
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Speaker 1: it's actually illegal. They have them in the US, but
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Speaker 1: it's illegal to sell them making any claims. Oh I
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Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say, they're just straight up illegal. No.
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Speaker 1: But you can't like if you notice ear kindling packages,
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Speaker 1: can't say anything about like has like increases your hearing
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Speaker 1: or is medically sound. Um. And if you've seen the
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Speaker 1: candles rolled open and all that disgusting stuff that didn't
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Speaker 1: come from your ear, that's that's a product of the
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Speaker 1: burning of the paper, Is that right, Yeah, so it's
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Speaker 1: just a bunch of bunk. So apparently if you do
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Speaker 1: have uh what if you believe you have a hardened
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Speaker 1: build up of ear wax in your ear canal, the
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Speaker 1: first thing to try is just a couple of drops
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Speaker 1: of mineral oil. Yeah, because basically all that ear wax
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Speaker 1: build up is is it's dried ear wax. Like you said,
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Speaker 1: ear wax is part of a self cleaning process. Anytime
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Speaker 1: you chew or move your jaw, you're actually moving the
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Speaker 1: ear wax further and further out beside your ear and
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Speaker 1: then you can just kind of, you know, rub it out,
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Speaker 1: or if you're a gross person, you just leave it
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Speaker 1: and let it get caught up in your ear hair
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Speaker 1: for some reason. But if you have a build up,
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Speaker 1: you just just a little bit of mineral oil will
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Speaker 1: kind of re constitute it a little bit and so
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Speaker 1: it drains out. Yeah, I guess it'll work itself back
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Speaker 1: out again. Yeah. Yeah. Um I used the cotton swabs occasionally,
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Speaker 1: but um, I try to be responsible and like be
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Speaker 1: aware of not jamming things down in there and trying
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Speaker 1: just like swab along the outer outer thing. I do
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Speaker 1: not use swabs in my ears are perfect perfectly clean,
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Speaker 1: Yeah they are. Um, I do use the end of
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Speaker 1: a football though. That seems to work. I have great
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Speaker 1: memories about um my mother treating me with warm oil
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Speaker 1: for ear aches when I was a kid. For some reason,
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Speaker 1: it's just a very comforting feeling. I remember that warm
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Speaker 1: oil like filling up my ear and it closing. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it worked. Yeah, I think it helped the ear ache.
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Speaker 1: And it's just it's just one of those soothing, like
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Speaker 1: mom things from when I was a kid. I didn't
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Speaker 1: have I mean, I have had ear aches before, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't have them chronically. You mean, did I guess too?
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Speaker 1: And yeah, that just seems so awful to have, like
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Speaker 1: chronic ear aches. Yeah, I had bloody noses and ear aches. Weird,
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Speaker 1: did you fall down a lot or no? And I
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Speaker 1: haven't had a bloody nose and like since I was
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Speaker 1: a kid, But yeah, I remember kids who had bloody
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Speaker 1: noses a little like like chronically. I wouldn't say mine
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Speaker 1: was chronic. I wasn't. Like it just seems like you know,
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Speaker 1: now when you look around, if there's somebody with clean
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Speaker 1: X like sticking out of their nose, you're like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, are you okay? But when you're a kid,
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Speaker 1: it's like commonplace, Like half of your class has clean
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Speaker 1: X chicking out of their nose at any time. It's
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Speaker 1: just I wonder what that is. We'll have to do
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Speaker 1: how bloody knows is work? Yeah, or we could do
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Speaker 1: a fallow up to this Why kids are so disgusting? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: kids are especially gross even though they lacked dermodex. Your demodex. Miight? Um,
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Speaker 1: all right, you ready for another one? Yeah, this one's
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Speaker 1: so gross. Uh. Lipoma or fatty deposits is something that
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Speaker 1: you have in your body. Um, well, once you go ahead,
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Speaker 1: explain about fatty cells, period and why these might want
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Speaker 1: to leave that scene. Actually, we don't even know what
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Speaker 1: causes this still, No, I mean, like you accumulate fat
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Speaker 1: in your body through your metabolic processes, Like different different
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Speaker 1: macro nutrients are convert in the liver I think too fat, right,
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Speaker 1: So the fats are generally stored in like certain areas
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Speaker 1: like around your gut, like in your lower back, in
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Speaker 1: your buttocks, and your breasts. Like there's just places where
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Speaker 1: fat normally goes. That doesn't mean like that's where it
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Speaker 1: has to go and technically, fat build up can happen anywhere,
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Speaker 1: and when it happens in a place that just seems
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Speaker 1: kind of weird. We've dubbed those like pomas or fatty deposits,
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Speaker 1: which are technically a benign form of a soft tissue tumor.
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Speaker 1: And it's just a bunch of fat cells that have
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Speaker 1: like come up on your face or your neck or
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Speaker 1: something where you're just like, man, this is not a
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Speaker 1: good day. Yeah, your neck, shoulders, arms, upper back, upper thoughts,
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Speaker 1: in your butt or where you're most likely to get them.
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Speaker 1: And uh, it's between the skin and the muscle. And
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Speaker 1: it's just like a little sort of soft, doughy lump
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Speaker 1: that you can move around with your finger. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: it touches squishes around. Because most of the time it's
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Speaker 1: not painful. And if it is painful, um, it's recommended
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Speaker 1: that you go have a doctor check it out pretty quick. Yeah. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's probably not any cause of alarm. If you have
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Speaker 1: one um period, like you said, if it starts to
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Speaker 1: hurt though, or if it ruptures and oozes anything, then yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's when you should go to the doctor. The problem
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Speaker 1: is they don't tend to really go away. They don't
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Speaker 1: once they once they arrive, they either won't grow much
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Speaker 1: beyond that or they'll grow very slowly. But the problem
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Speaker 1: is they don't reverse course, and just pushing them isn't
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Speaker 1: going to push him back down and spread them out.
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Speaker 1: So you generally have two options when you have a
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Speaker 1: lipoma that you don't want, and that's liposuction, which may
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Speaker 1: or may not be effective, and then surgical removal, which
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Speaker 1: is apparently like an impatient local and aesthetic procedure that
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Speaker 1: you can just go and have it done. If you
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Speaker 1: have a high pain threshold and a lot of gaulls,
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Speaker 1: you can technically do it yourself. But you don't want
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Speaker 1: to do that. And let me just reiterate, you don't
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Speaker 1: want to do that. That was a total joke. Do
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Speaker 1: not remove your life poema as yourself. No, although my
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Speaker 1: um I go to the dermatologist occasionally get little skin
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Speaker 1: tags removed. Is there any kind of local anesthetic for that? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they do, just a quick little uh uh injection. But
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Speaker 1: I don't even think they need to. And my doctor,
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Speaker 1: the point I was making was my g P said,
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Speaker 1: you know you can do that yourself. I said, really, yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you want to just get some super sharp you
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Speaker 1: know plyers or scisters or something not plyers, but you
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Speaker 1: know snippers and get some bolt cutters. Yeah. Oh man, um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised to hear him say that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: just do it yourself, because doctors love money. I know,
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Speaker 1: you know, they want your money. Well, he's not my dermatologist.
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Speaker 1: My dermatologist probably be like, no, no, was he like
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Speaker 1: your plumber or something? No, my gph. They love money,
18:50
Speaker 1: their doctors. How about mucus. Mucus sounds great. Uh, let's
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Speaker 1: cover it right up for this message. Okay, mucus. Uh,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Boogers and mucus and snot Let's
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Speaker 1: are you a snotty person? You're not very snotty. I'm
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Speaker 1: not snotty because I'm not. I don't have allergies, and
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Speaker 1: I think that's people with allergies are definitely snottier. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure, Emily sadly is very snotty. Yeah, Well, snot
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Speaker 1: is a snot production. Mucus production is a is part
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Speaker 1: of the immune response to things like irritants a k
19:28
Speaker 1: A buffalo wing sauce. Yeah, um, and people who drink milk.
19:34
Speaker 1: It can be activated by that sometimes. Yeah, milk can
19:37
Speaker 1: make people kind of snotty. Um, But mucus production is
19:42
Speaker 1: not strictly the result of an infection or an invasion
19:46
Speaker 1: or an irritation. Uh. It's a very natural, beautiful biological
19:51
Speaker 1: process that's ongoing every day. Yeah. I mean, we need
19:54
Speaker 1: mucus in our body. It acts as a lubricant and
19:58
Speaker 1: a liner of things like your stomach um. And we'll
20:02
Speaker 1: get to stomach acid later. But if it wasn't for mucus,
20:05
Speaker 1: then you would be in big trouble in your stomach. Um.
20:08
Speaker 1: Your body makes about a quarter to a half a
20:10
Speaker 1: gallon a quarter to a half a gallon of mucus
20:14
Speaker 1: a day. Again, yeah, your body makes a quarter to
20:18
Speaker 1: a half gallon of mucus to day. I think you
20:19
Speaker 1: swallow like a leader of that or something. Yeah, I
20:23
Speaker 1: think so. I can't remember. I remember reading that earlier though,
20:26
Speaker 1: And we should say, for our friends who are listening
20:29
Speaker 1: outside of the US and Liberia, that's one to two
20:33
Speaker 1: leaders a day of mucus that your body produces. Yeah, yeah,
20:37
Speaker 1: which I have to say. And I feel like a
20:39
Speaker 1: chump for not looking it up and not thinking about
20:42
Speaker 1: it until now, Like, why where does it go? Do
20:45
Speaker 1: you pee it out? No? I mean if you're swallowing,
20:48
Speaker 1: it doesn't go into your stomach, okay, but then you
20:51
Speaker 1: you expel the stuff that's in your stomach one way
20:53
Speaker 1: or another. It was probably part of your poop. I'm
20:55
Speaker 1: sure it's part of it. But I mean, like, I mean,
20:58
Speaker 1: where did your mucus go? Yeah? Oh, man, I wish
21:02
Speaker 1: I would have thought of this before, because that's a
21:03
Speaker 1: great question. Well, and the angel question if you're sick,
21:06
Speaker 1: is it make you healthier or not as healthy to
21:09
Speaker 1: swallow your mucus? I don't know, do you know? Yeah?
21:13
Speaker 1: I think I looked it up and I think it's
21:15
Speaker 1: not supposed to make any difference. So um, I've found
21:17
Speaker 1: that you know how mucus turns green, and it's a
21:20
Speaker 1: sure sign of an infection. Not necessarily true, right, No,
21:24
Speaker 1: it does mean that you probably do have an infection
21:26
Speaker 1: going on, or at the very least your body thinks
21:29
Speaker 1: it does, do um, But it doesn't. It's not. It
21:33
Speaker 1: doesn't indicate the presence of bacteria in your mucus. That's
21:36
Speaker 1: not what turns it green. There's a type of white
21:38
Speaker 1: blood cells that um have a greenish tint, and when
21:43
Speaker 1: it's fighting off an infection. When they accumulate in your mucus,
21:47
Speaker 1: they turn it kind of greenish color, yellow green. So
21:50
Speaker 1: it's actually a type of white blood cell that's making
21:52
Speaker 1: your mucus green. But it probably means that you have
21:55
Speaker 1: some sort of infection there. Yeah, And if you're sick
21:58
Speaker 1: and you're hacking up that yellowy greeny brown stuff, then
22:02
Speaker 1: it's disheartening at least just concerning. That's the time to
22:06
Speaker 1: apply mind over matter and be like, nope, I'm not
22:09
Speaker 1: getting sick. I don't care if my mucus is yellow.
22:13
Speaker 1: That's your whole thing. It works knock on wood, um
22:19
Speaker 1: so dry mucus. It is called the boogers, and uh,
22:23
Speaker 1: those are in your nose. And you're gonna tell them
22:26
Speaker 1: about the video? Oh yeah, if you want to see.
22:30
Speaker 1: Almost posted it to the Facebook page and it's just
22:32
Speaker 1: like now, yeah, yeah, there's a video on YouTube. It's
22:36
Speaker 1: something about dr removes Um Booker from Hell from man's
22:40
Speaker 1: nose and are seconds of your not recommending you watch
22:45
Speaker 1: it that you'll never forget. I can say this, I
22:47
Speaker 1: was not prepared for how large what came out of
22:50
Speaker 1: that man's nose at all. I thought, well, I'm sure,
22:53
Speaker 1: this will be interesting. I didn't know anything could get
22:55
Speaker 1: that large and either one stay in there or be
22:59
Speaker 1: be braw it out. It's it's rough. It's like it's
23:02
Speaker 1: a cathartic nauseating experience to watch this thing. It is
23:08
Speaker 1: And I didn't listen to the video, so I don't
23:10
Speaker 1: know if it was. Was it a booger? Do you know?
23:13
Speaker 1: Did he say? I mean, yeah, I believe so. Yeah.
23:18
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to it. They just are like, He's like, wow,
23:21
Speaker 1: now you can see why it was so uncomfortable. Yeah,
23:23
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but boogers are nothing but dry mucus and um,
23:28
Speaker 1: they're actually I tried to look up why children eat
23:32
Speaker 1: their boogers? Yeah, muco flagi, Yeah, that's right, or if
23:37
Speaker 1: you're really into it, rhino tellvimania. So it's a mania. Well,
23:43
Speaker 1: I guess it can be. And I think they found
23:44
Speaker 1: people with obsessive compulsive people pick their nose more, which
23:48
Speaker 1: sort of makes sense. But why do kids eat their boogers?
23:51
Speaker 1: I couldn't come up with a definitive answer other than
23:54
Speaker 1: they think it's like our natural instinct because it may
23:58
Speaker 1: make you healthier, and that eating your boogers could be
24:02
Speaker 1: like a injection of of immunity for your immune system
24:07
Speaker 1: because of the bacteria and stuff. I don't think little
24:09
Speaker 1: kids are smart enough to think this. Well, no, that's
24:11
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They're not smart enough, but they just
24:13
Speaker 1: it's their instinct to do so. And it is all
24:16
Speaker 1: people's instinct if you believe. If you believe some people
24:21
Speaker 1: to eat your own boogers, who says that. The people
24:26
Speaker 1: that say that's why kids do it, It's because it's
24:28
Speaker 1: our natural instinct as humans to do so because it
24:31
Speaker 1: helps keep us healthy. Yeah. Hey, it's really new research.
24:35
Speaker 1: I'm not like, I'm not making this stuff. I gotta
24:37
Speaker 1: check that out. Yeah, and I'm not endorsing it. I'm
24:39
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, like I'm I'm a tissues are
24:42
Speaker 1: the way to get it out. Supposedly picking it, uh
24:46
Speaker 1: can like cause more problems because bacteria on your fingers,
24:49
Speaker 1: and doctor says I wouldn't get so many nose pleads
24:51
Speaker 1: if I kept my finger. I'm a fan of the
24:55
Speaker 1: snot rocket though, which I'm trying to teach Emily to do,
24:57
Speaker 1: but she's not very good at it. Oh yeah, so gross, dude,
25:01
Speaker 1: do you really like doing that? Not? In like if
25:04
Speaker 1: I have a choice. If I'm like out for a
25:06
Speaker 1: run in the wintertime, I don't let snot just run
25:09
Speaker 1: all over my face. I blow it out real quick.
25:12
Speaker 1: I would just rather wipe it on my shirt. That's
25:15
Speaker 1: not gross. I don't know it's gross, but at least
25:18
Speaker 1: it's like gross. No, that's gross. Man, you just turn
25:21
Speaker 1: my stomach not rocket. Um, I'm gonna bring back the hanky,
25:26
Speaker 1: are you? Yeah? That seems so uncivilized. It was so
25:30
Speaker 1: gross to me as a child. I remember seeing the
25:32
Speaker 1: old men in church that would just blow just copious
25:35
Speaker 1: amounts of snot and to that thing, fold it up
25:37
Speaker 1: and put it back in their pocket. And you're like,
25:39
Speaker 1: you're not gonna eat that, don't you know what? Help?
25:43
Speaker 1: And then my nose will bleed and then just walk off. Alright,
25:47
Speaker 1: So that's enough on booger's in mucus. Huh again, my
25:50
Speaker 1: stomach is not okay right now? All right, So we
25:54
Speaker 1: should talk about gas because and that was fascinated with
25:59
Speaker 1: the notion that everyone farts. As a child, I used
26:02
Speaker 1: to think about the least likely person in the world
26:06
Speaker 1: to fart and just laugh and laugh, like, who would
26:09
Speaker 1: you come up with something? Yeah, Godda, your the Queen
26:12
Speaker 1: of England, stuff like that. But now it's more like
26:14
Speaker 1: Cape Blanchet or people that I consider to be like
26:17
Speaker 1: refined um. But everyone farts and everyone burps. Yes, it's
26:22
Speaker 1: a part of health, you know. And supposedly if you
26:28
Speaker 1: um hold your try to hold your flatulence, and there's
26:31
Speaker 1: an urban legend that it's very bad for you. It
26:35
Speaker 1: just makes it better later. Well, the gas comes out
26:38
Speaker 1: one way or another. Um and your belch and your
26:43
Speaker 1: flatulence are not the same thing. It's not like the
26:46
Speaker 1: same piece of gas or volume of gas coming out
26:49
Speaker 1: one way or the other piece of gas piece. Uh. Yeah,
26:54
Speaker 1: it's not coming from the same pocket. No, there's um
26:57
Speaker 1: of belt comes from your stomach and flatulence comes from
27:01
Speaker 1: your intestines, but they do come from the same thing.
27:05
Speaker 1: And that's um incompletely broken down food, right, So like
27:09
Speaker 1: if your food is totally broken down, I guess technically
27:12
Speaker 1: you wouldn't produce any gas. But our bodies are are
27:15
Speaker 1: digestive systems aren't efficient. So as a byproduct of this
27:20
Speaker 1: breakdown UM, the gas is produced by these bacteria that
27:25
Speaker 1: break down our food for us. And I guess there's
27:29
Speaker 1: some chunks that they have problem with and it's like,
27:30
Speaker 1: forget it, I'm just gonna create some gas. I'm done
27:33
Speaker 1: here with this London broil, right, And so it comes
27:36
Speaker 1: out one way or another. Yeah, at the rate of
27:39
Speaker 1: between fourteen and twenty three times a day, um, for
27:43
Speaker 1: both burping and farting together, which um might seem like
27:47
Speaker 1: a lot, but over the course of twenty four hours,
27:49
Speaker 1: because it does happen when you sleep. I think we've
27:52
Speaker 1: all experienced that, not me. Are you sure that I'm
27:59
Speaker 1: sure that I have? Um, I know that I have.
28:02
Speaker 1: And of course I'm not shaming You're like everyone else.
28:05
Speaker 1: You're like the Queen of England or Chet. But I'm
28:09
Speaker 1: like those two mixed together. Uh so you're Judy Ditch.
28:14
Speaker 1: Yeah she parts. Do you see phil Amina? No? No yet?
28:18
Speaker 1: My god, that's a good movie. Yeah, that's on the list.
28:21
Speaker 1: That's a good movie. I think that one in Twelve
28:23
Speaker 1: Years of Slave were the only two, like a big
28:25
Speaker 1: Do you haven't seen Twelve Years of Slave either? No?
28:27
Speaker 1: Not yet? Man alive? Well, I need to see that,
28:30
Speaker 1: oz you basically you have to go home after this.
28:34
Speaker 1: Well I'm trying to. You have to get up for
28:36
Speaker 1: a movie like Twelve Years of slave. You know, it's
28:38
Speaker 1: not like anytime mood movie. No, and you just kind
28:42
Speaker 1: of have to like walk into it, like walking into
28:44
Speaker 1: a thresher or something like that. Yeah. And when I
28:46
Speaker 1: say get up for it, I don't mean get psyched.
28:48
Speaker 1: I mean like getting the right fail first. So it
28:53
Speaker 1: is a very brutal experience watching that movie. Yeah, and
28:57
Speaker 1: that's into it. Avoid those when I can, but you
29:00
Speaker 1: should see it. I mean it's still just like an
29:02
Speaker 1: amazing movie. Yeah. So what is actually in burbs and
29:06
Speaker 1: farts besides oxygen? Yeah, there would be oxygen. Um, there's
29:13
Speaker 1: a methane CEO two, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur and yes, and
29:20
Speaker 1: all of this is uh, well, like I said, part
29:23
Speaker 1: of it is from a breakdown of food. I think
29:26
Speaker 1: I might have said all of it, it's not entirely true.
29:29
Speaker 1: A lot of your gas build up in your body. Uh.
29:31
Speaker 1: It can be simply from swallowed air. Um, it can
29:35
Speaker 1: be from a change in pressure, like um, how you
29:39
Speaker 1: tend not me, but everybody else tends to shoot ducks
29:43
Speaker 1: on airplanes more. Oh, really interesting as a result of
29:47
Speaker 1: the just the change in pressure, even in a pressurized cabin.
29:50
Speaker 1: It's not dead on with whatever atmosphere you used to
29:54
Speaker 1: where you live, so you can, um get a little
29:58
Speaker 1: gassy on the plane, but it's the worst place to
30:01
Speaker 1: ever be gassy. It is. Luckily though, with airplane flatulence.
30:05
Speaker 1: A lot of times it doesn't have any attendant smell
30:08
Speaker 1: to it because it's not true methane or sulfur based air. Yes,
30:13
Speaker 1: it's just that you're the amount of gas volume that
30:18
Speaker 1: your body can hold right then has decreased, so you're
30:21
Speaker 1: having to evacuate some of the air and you're like, hey,
30:24
Speaker 1: it didn't smell. Yeah, well no, you're just kind of
30:27
Speaker 1: looking around furtively and looking to see if anybody's like
30:30
Speaker 1: ah and like turns to the side away from you
30:34
Speaker 1: in their seat, and if they don't, then you're find Yeah,
30:36
Speaker 1: I wouldn't risk it. It also helps to ask for
30:38
Speaker 1: a blanket for uh. And yeah, you can make yourself
30:43
Speaker 1: burp too. I guess that makes sense about the swallowing air.
30:46
Speaker 1: Like that's a big discovery as a young boy when
30:49
Speaker 1: when you can master that technique. Um, and because there's
30:53
Speaker 1: methane and your farts they are flammable and I would
30:57
Speaker 1: not recommend you do this, but uh, I think if
31:02
Speaker 1: you're a college age boy. You've probably tried to it's
31:06
Speaker 1: not a lawyer. Yeah, um, yeah, I mean it's it
31:11
Speaker 1: can be great fun and but it's also dangerous. Have
31:14
Speaker 1: you done that, Chuck, Not in the past, like twenty years,
31:19
Speaker 1: but yeah, And I think some of the times it's
31:22
Speaker 1: just approve to other people that like, no, that's an
31:24
Speaker 1: urban legend, scientific fact. Watch exactly well it is. Yeah,
31:29
Speaker 1: I'm sure YouTube is loaded with videos of that. Yeah,
31:32
Speaker 1: you see, you know't you have to do it yourself
31:33
Speaker 1: if you're interested, you can look it up. Um, and
31:37
Speaker 1: I I recommend that we move on to the next thing.
31:40
Speaker 1: But first, Chuck, before we get into it, how about
31:43
Speaker 1: a message bright huh yes, all right, So um, we
31:50
Speaker 1: have a few more here. Um. Vomiting. Yeah, the word
31:53
Speaker 1: vomit has always been in my top five, like most
31:57
Speaker 1: hated words. Oh yeah, I mean it's seems to really
32:00
Speaker 1: kind of capture what the process, the feeling, the end
32:05
Speaker 1: product vomit. Yeah. Yeah, it's gross, it is, but I
32:10
Speaker 1: mean it's a it's a natural fact of life. It's
32:13
Speaker 1: in you now. Potentially whatever your stomach contents are could
32:18
Speaker 1: turn into vomit. So it's not because you're expelling like bile,
32:25
Speaker 1: gastric juices, saliva, food, you know, liquids, whatever, um, and
32:33
Speaker 1: all of those things were once just a happy part
32:35
Speaker 1: of your stomach contents, and now they're not, so therefore
32:38
Speaker 1: they have by definition become vomit. Right and um, your stomach,
32:43
Speaker 1: the average stomach holds about three quarters of a gallon
32:46
Speaker 1: of whatever you've ingested, food and beverage. Um, And it
32:52
Speaker 1: is possible. It's super rare. But if you've ever said,
32:55
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I'm gonna burst. You can't
32:57
Speaker 1: eat and drink so much that your stomach will rupture.
33:00
Speaker 1: But it's um, it's really rare because what happens is
33:04
Speaker 1: your body's gag reflex takes over and you vomit if
33:07
Speaker 1: you get too full. Um. Like if you've watched the
33:10
Speaker 1: eating we did a show on eating competitions, Yeah, we did,
33:13
Speaker 1: like eighty years ago. Yeah. It was a good one though. Uh.
33:15
Speaker 1: And you know sometimes those guys just spontaneously puke. Yeah there. Um.
33:20
Speaker 1: Remember they're called gurgitators, yeah, which is the opposite of regurgitating.
33:24
Speaker 1: But if they regurgitate, they have to swallow it back
33:27
Speaker 1: down or else that doesn't get counting. God, if I
33:30
Speaker 1: remember correctly, so gross um, But luckily you have that
33:34
Speaker 1: gag reflex. But there have been a couple of documented cases.
33:38
Speaker 1: There was one in Japan in two thousand three where
33:40
Speaker 1: a man was found dead in a public restroom and
33:42
Speaker 1: they found his stomach had ruptured in two places. Put
33:45
Speaker 1: that movie seven. Oh yeah, it is true. He was
33:49
Speaker 1: force fed. Now, if you don't vomit, there is another
33:55
Speaker 1: like plan CEE that your body has where the lining
34:00
Speaker 1: your stomach starts to just kind of leak contents out
34:03
Speaker 1: into the rest of your body, which is really bad,
34:06
Speaker 1: but it's not at least a full on rupture. Um.
34:09
Speaker 1: What you are designed to do if you believe in
34:13
Speaker 1: intelligent design, I guess or what you're what you will do.
34:18
Speaker 1: But I just walked into a minefield right then, didn't I? Uh,
34:22
Speaker 1: is to to vomit up your stomach contents as a
34:28
Speaker 1: result of your chemoreceptor trigger zone being stimulated. And there's
34:33
Speaker 1: a bunch of ways that that that can be stimulated. UM.
34:36
Speaker 1: This little part of your brain it's also called the
34:38
Speaker 1: area post dreama, So that's what triggers the vomiting mechanism.
34:41
Speaker 1: That's the vomiting center of your brain, and it is
34:46
Speaker 1: its function, Yes, it's function is it receives signals from
34:51
Speaker 1: different from your vagus nerve, which is attached to your
34:54
Speaker 1: gag reflex from your nervous system. So when you're when
35:00
Speaker 1: you're in chemotherapy, this thing kind of triggers your vomit
35:03
Speaker 1: reflex from your stomach, your gut um. There's like four
35:08
Speaker 1: or five different places in your body. Your inner ear
35:11
Speaker 1: is one that can send um chemical messages to your
35:16
Speaker 1: chemo receptor trigger zone to say, hey, we need to
35:19
Speaker 1: vomit here because this guy is either going to like
35:23
Speaker 1: this guy just ate poop and as we know, you're
35:26
Speaker 1: not supposed to do that, so we need to get
35:27
Speaker 1: it out of them. There's something wrong with this guy. Uh,
35:30
Speaker 1: so let's just go around him and get that poop
35:33
Speaker 1: out by making him vomit. So what happens is the
35:38
Speaker 1: ct Z, the chemo receptor trigger zone, is stimulated one
35:43
Speaker 1: way or another. So you start to salivate a little more,
35:47
Speaker 1: you're breathing, Yeah, you start to get real queasy, like
35:53
Speaker 1: pull the car over. You start heaving or wretching. Right,
35:57
Speaker 1: that's gonna take place before you actually vomit. It's almost
35:59
Speaker 1: like your diaphragmes like getting ready like jack lolane or something, well,
36:05
Speaker 1: sort of a violent action, you know. Yes. Uh, the
36:09
Speaker 1: pyloric sphincter, which guards the lower end of the stomach, um,
36:14
Speaker 1: it becomes relaxed and the pressure in the abdomen rises,
36:18
Speaker 1: so the pressure in your chest or thorax is lowered,
36:22
Speaker 1: which is basically what happens is the pressure below increases, well,
36:27
Speaker 1: the pressure above decreases, so it's like, so what's what
36:30
Speaker 1: was once below can come back up right, and the
36:34
Speaker 1: sympathetic nervous system is activated, leading you to start sweating,
36:39
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you just vomit. It's like
36:42
Speaker 1: a contraction. Wow, it's not pleasant. No, it's not. And
36:47
Speaker 1: while the end results, like if you have a stomach
36:50
Speaker 1: flue or if you're just nauseous, um, well, uh could
36:56
Speaker 1: call some relief. I don't know many people that, um,
36:59
Speaker 1: you know look forward to the experience. No, you know, no,
37:03
Speaker 1: that's like that is not something you ever want to do,
37:07
Speaker 1: no matter even if you know like it's going to
37:09
Speaker 1: bring you relief, you still don't want to throw up,
37:13
Speaker 1: you know, and you'll put it off and put it
37:14
Speaker 1: off because it's just the worst thing in the world.
37:18
Speaker 1: But what what has always fascinated me. Is the idea
37:22
Speaker 1: that something nausea, which is kind of like the body's warning,
37:29
Speaker 1: like you want me to make you throw up, well,
37:31
Speaker 1: and stop looking at this, stop eating poop, you know,
37:35
Speaker 1: stop thinking about eating poop? Is that? Like, are we
37:39
Speaker 1: have an emotion called disgust that is primed to trigger
37:43
Speaker 1: nausea and then possibly vomiting if it's bad enough or
37:47
Speaker 1: threatening enough, so that like we have an instinct to
37:51
Speaker 1: not eat boogers or to not eat poop, or to
37:53
Speaker 1: stay away from vomit or decaying meat or something. You
37:56
Speaker 1: have this emotion that primes us to to to stay
38:00
Speaker 1: away from things that will make us vomit. I just
38:03
Speaker 1: find that fascinating. It is or in the movies, I
38:06
Speaker 1: should add this to the movie tropes. Uh, if you're
38:09
Speaker 1: just too emotionally distressed about something that will trigger in movies,
38:13
Speaker 1: I'll make you vomit. You know, like if you see
38:15
Speaker 1: the wrong thing and all of a sudden you just
38:17
Speaker 1: have to run over and vomit behind a tree. Right right,
38:20
Speaker 1: there's that cop that were top vomits you know on
38:24
Speaker 1: the body. Yep, it's a movie trope. Yeah, that is
38:27
Speaker 1: a that was a really good um list. You came
38:31
Speaker 1: up with overused movie tropes, I think. So. I did
38:35
Speaker 1: a gallery on the Stuff you Should Know website and
38:37
Speaker 1: it was fan source, Like I asked people on Facebook
38:40
Speaker 1: and uh man, people just went nuts for it because
38:42
Speaker 1: they're just so overused. Um, check it out on Stuff
38:46
Speaker 1: you should Maybe I'll do a part two because there
38:47
Speaker 1: was a bunch of more and I'll add the vomiting cop. Yeah,
38:50
Speaker 1: that's a good one. You can't handle the murder scene. Um,
38:55
Speaker 1: all right there, here's when we missed in our halitosis episode.
39:01
Speaker 1: And we heard from people that have tonsil stones um
39:05
Speaker 1: or chronic tonsil stones. Another word for it is, uh,
39:11
Speaker 1: what is it? Ton tons lolis so pronounce like so
39:17
Speaker 1: lo liths tons lolas lis like it ends in l s. Yeah.
39:23
Speaker 1: It's a terrible, terrible word, it is. But we heard
39:26
Speaker 1: from people who suffer from this um and it can
39:28
Speaker 1: be a cause of halitosis and those Uh, if you've
39:33
Speaker 1: ever like you know, if you don't have a chronic version,
39:37
Speaker 1: you might have just cough one up occasionally a little
39:40
Speaker 1: like white, whitish, yellow, chunky thing that is one of
39:45
Speaker 1: the worst smells that you can ever imagine in the world.
39:50
Speaker 1: All of this that that funky smell you get whenever
39:54
Speaker 1: you flosh your teeth, but combined into a ball, it
39:57
Speaker 1: looks a bit like cauliflower, like super concentrated. Yeah. Well,
40:01
Speaker 1: we remember in the Hila Tosis episode we said that
40:03
Speaker 1: the back of your tongue is like this trap for
40:06
Speaker 1: dead cells. The bacteria that eats those dead cells and
40:10
Speaker 1: then whatever other gunk. Well, these tonsil pockets where the
40:14
Speaker 1: tonsil stones form are like make your tongue look like
40:17
Speaker 1: a pristine wonderland. Like they just accept this, these deposits
40:22
Speaker 1: that build up and up and up and then Yeah,
40:24
Speaker 1: those things stink. I wonder if the guy that was
40:27
Speaker 1: sitting next to me in the movie theater had those,
40:29
Speaker 1: now that I think about it, because it's possible, Yeah,
40:32
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for people that suffer from it. Um, well,
40:35
Speaker 1: it's pretty fixable, supposedly. Yeah, you can do this at home.
40:39
Speaker 1: It's not like a lipoma. So how do you fix
40:42
Speaker 1: it at home? Well, you can do tonsil irrigation basically
40:45
Speaker 1: from what I understand, like a little squirt bottle, you
40:48
Speaker 1: know the ones with the ninety degree straws that football
40:51
Speaker 1: players use like that, and you just squirt your tonsils
40:54
Speaker 1: and it can clean them out. Um. I believe brushing
40:58
Speaker 1: your tongue can help because it's the helps prevent the accumulation. Yeah,
41:03
Speaker 1: scraping your tongue too, write uh and then what else
41:07
Speaker 1: was there? Chuck? I think non alcohol based mouthwashes can help, yes,
41:12
Speaker 1: and um or if you have a chronic case of
41:15
Speaker 1: it and um, you could get your tonsils removed right,
41:20
Speaker 1: which I would like to do if I had a
41:22
Speaker 1: chronic case of tonsil stones, sure, because it's not just
41:24
Speaker 1: the bad breath that comes along with it, like you
41:27
Speaker 1: can get ear aches, sore throats, in flame tonsils like
41:32
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like your body's just like whatever,
41:34
Speaker 1: tonsil stones? Who cares you? It hurts it? Yeah, And
41:39
Speaker 1: this is another one, all these gross things for some
41:41
Speaker 1: reason like childhood as a wheady discover a lot of them.
41:44
Speaker 1: And I remember distinctly my brother the first time he
41:48
Speaker 1: uh cough one up and smashed it and made me
41:50
Speaker 1: smell it. Oh my god, yeah, because that caught them
41:53
Speaker 1: up before. But I've never smashed it and smelled it.
41:55
Speaker 1: Oh man, Like you've seen these things like yeah, he's
41:57
Speaker 1: like smell this, Oh man, what what happened? To you,
42:01
Speaker 1: did you vomit? No? I didn't, but yeah, it made
42:04
Speaker 1: me realize, Wow, that's what those are, and that's what
42:07
Speaker 1: they smell like. That's really grows man. This whole episode.
42:11
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like, I'm over it. And we
42:14
Speaker 1: talked about some funky stuff before too, but this is
42:16
Speaker 1: the first time where I've had like kind of an
42:18
Speaker 1: ongoing stomach ache. Yeah, so I guess we'll finish it
42:21
Speaker 1: up with something that's super gross. No, that's a stomach acid. Yeah,
42:25
Speaker 1: which is hydrochloric acid, which is the same kind of
42:29
Speaker 1: hydrochloric acid that you can use to dissolve metal. Yeah,
42:33
Speaker 1: got a gun you want to get the serial number
42:35
Speaker 1: off of hydrochloric acid that is in your stomach. And uh,
42:40
Speaker 1: like I kind of spoiled earlier because your stomach is
42:42
Speaker 1: coated with mucus on the inside. That is the reason
42:45
Speaker 1: that that hydrochloric acid isn't burning through your stomach. Yes,
42:48
Speaker 1: that was some great foreshadowing, it was. Do you have
42:51
Speaker 1: anything else on that stomach acid? It's in there, Yeah,
42:56
Speaker 1: I mean it's just there. It's a combination of hydrogen
42:59
Speaker 1: and chloe ride. When it combines, you get some HCl action,
43:03
Speaker 1: and there you have it. Yeah, some of the grossest
43:06
Speaker 1: things in your body as we speak. Yeah, I guess
43:09
Speaker 1: probably that's why it burns to throw up, because you
43:13
Speaker 1: have a tremendous amount of mucous line in your stomach
43:16
Speaker 1: to keep it from dissolving. But and you have some
43:19
Speaker 1: along your your throat and airways and your esophagus but
43:23
Speaker 1: not as much. So that's why bile burns. Yeah, And
43:27
Speaker 1: I know if stomach bile, if you suffer from bulimia,
43:31
Speaker 1: um that acid can you can end up having like
43:35
Speaker 1: bad teeth because of it, because yeah, wearing down the
43:38
Speaker 1: enamel from the inside out and and supposedly the stomach
43:44
Speaker 1: rupturing is more common if you suffer from bolimia because
43:49
Speaker 1: you may have a bad gag reflex as a result,
43:53
Speaker 1: so it may not like react when it should if
43:56
Speaker 1: you're overeating. Man, lots of stuff going on in the body. Huh.
44:02
Speaker 1: I said it before and I'll say it again. You're
44:05
Speaker 1: a gross Yeah. Thank god we're wrapped in skin and hair. Yeah,
44:09
Speaker 1: because that's that's lovely stuff all the time. Anyway, Yes,
44:12
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44:16
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44:18
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44:20
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