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Ep. 141 Vasectomies Part 2 · Privycast

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  >> Hunter Hoover: Hi, everyone. It's me, hunter, here at the top of the
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  episode. Uh, with just a short disclaimer. Um,
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  this episode contains conversations about
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  sexual activity and human reproductive systems.
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  So, um, if you normally listen with your kids or
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  your family, this one might be one to skip. Go
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  listen to one of our episodes where we talk about bathrooms and
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  pooping and all that stuff kids love pooping. With that
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  said, enjoy the episode.
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  >> Speaker B: Sometimes, um, depending on how well your
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  anatomy cooperates, we can do it through a single incision, which is great,
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  because we're only making one incision.
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  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
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  >> Speaker B: I think we might be able to do that for you, but I have to examine you
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  to see if that's going to be possible.
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  All right, I think we can do it.
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  All right, here comes the poke. Three, two,
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  one, poke.
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  >> Hunter Hoover: Burnt.
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  Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
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  podcast about bathrooms
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  recorded from my home
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  bathroom. I'm your host, hunter
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  Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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  Welcome back, everyone. Thank, uh, you so much for being
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  here, uh, in home bathroom. Once
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  again, it is. We are. We are
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  dawning. We are nearing the end.
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  Another summer. It. Today, at the point of
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  recording was, ah, the first
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  of the. Like. It might be a little bit early to say
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  it, but I'm hopeful. And so I will
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  say it. But today was the first rains of
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  the season here in the Willamette valley, and it dump a
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  rood. Um, lightning struck, and
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  it struck something because it made an explosion,
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  set a car alarm off in the neighborhood that I
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  live in. Um,
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  thought I had to go to the bathroom. But anyway,
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  summer's drawing to a close. Privy. Summer is drawing to
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  a close, and we are at the end of another one,
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  and it's been a full summer.
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  It went by quick. And at the point of
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  this episode's release,
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  uh, I want to key you in
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  on something at the beginning of the episode that just
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  be mindful of. Um, so here on
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  privy, we recently, you,
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  uh, guys will find out more about that. I'll be telling you about
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  it at a later time. But, um, summer's drawing to
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  a close. Kids
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  are just gearing up for back to school. Parents are
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  wandering around the aisles of pencils and
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  crayons, looking at a sheet of paper, wondering,
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  didn't I buy half of this last year? Yes, you did,
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  parent. Um, yes, you did. It's so fun,
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  so great. Where do they go? Nobody knows. They definitely don't
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  come home with them. So that's cool.
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  Things are kind of starting to cool
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  off, but we're not talking
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  about the way we're not here to talk about kids. Um, this episode is not
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  that we maybe one day, well,
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  sort of,
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  we are going to today,
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  revisit an episode and a
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  topic from a year or more ago
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  now. Um, and we need to bring closure on
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  something that y'all didn't get last November,
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  as promised. I promised you guys something
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  last November, and I did not give it to you.
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  Um, and so today, almost one full
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  calendar year later, we are bringing it to you. I
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  also want to confess, um, we didn't
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  bring you regular coverage via an
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  episode of the podcast of the America's best
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  restroom competition. And the reason we
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  didn't do that is because
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  voting has already ended. So if you're hearing this episode, voting
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  has already ended. Voting, um, ended
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  August 16. And
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  so again, we are going to start the
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  countdown to see how long
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  the cintus corporation's America's best
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  restroom takes to count digital votes.
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  Again, it should be as simple as hitting entertainment
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  and viewing the totals and then announcing the winner.
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  They should. They should honestly have the winner
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  available to our public knowledge the
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  day of the. The,
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  uh, voting ending.
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  It's baffling to me. It sounds like. It sounds like
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  voter fraud all over again. Huh?
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  But. But more on that. Keep your eyes
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  open in. As we move throughout the
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  fall season, there will be a. There will be a.
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  An episode with full coverage of
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  America's best restroom 2024.
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  But today we are
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  returning to the topic
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  of vasectomies.
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  Vasectomies. The history of vasectomies.
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  Last August, we did an episode
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  covering the history and development of the
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  vasectomy. And in short, in
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  1830, Sir Astley Paston
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  Cooper, um, an accomplished surgeon
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  and an anatomist. I think that means he
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  studies people's anatomy. Um,
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  published his observations on the
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  structure and the diseases of the
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  testes. So
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  this guy studied a lot of junk
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  and came up with his observations
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  and the structure of and the
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  diseases that are found within the
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  male genitalia. And, uh, this
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  is the first time that much medical attention
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  was really paid to the
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  tube inside the male genitalia that
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  carries male reproductive fluid, the vas
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  deferens, the
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  first recorded. So sir Astley Paston Cooper
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  did his research, the first
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  recorded vasectomy on a human,
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  because heavens knows, they gave
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  the old snip snip to a bunch of animals to figure out
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  how to do it on people. Hey, hey. Um, the
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  first vasectomy on humans
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  for the purpose of sterilization.
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  It makes you wonder, did they perform one of these for
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  a reason other than sterilization and
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  if so, how did we get there? Like imagine being the
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  guy that's sitting staring down
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  and going
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  what? Uh, that don't go
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  there. Um, but the first vasectomy on
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  a human for the purpose of sterilization was
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  performed by Henry Clay Sharp.
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  Fitting last name, we said to sterilize
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  inmates at prisons
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  and this was a form of rollout
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  related to eugenics. The idea
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  being if we snip snap the convicts, they
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  can't reproduce and make little convicts. Um, um, not
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  great. Here we are
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  with much research and theory in his
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  back pocket. The first of these punitive
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  vasectomies was performed on a
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  19 year old in the year
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  1899. Um,
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  and it should be noted this inmate technically requested
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  it, um, but sharp did. He
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  actually requested to be fully castrated. Um,
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  and sharp was like why don't we try something
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  different? Let's try this new thing that I've been
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  working on. In
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  1956, the first clinical
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  trials of a female oral contraceptive are
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  underway. That's important, um, because
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  female oral contraceptive, that is, contraceptive taken
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  by the mouth, that prevents a woman
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  from becoming pregnant would do a lot to make it to
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  where men would not need to get a vasectomy. But
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  by 1960, um, Enavid
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  becomes the first female contraceptive for sale
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  in the US. It wasn't until
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  1965 that laws
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  banning uh, birth control and contraceptives
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  are struck down in the courts. And so female
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  contraceptive is
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  predominantly the growing use of preventing
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  pregnancy. A year later, in
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  1966, the Lancet
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  announces the Simon Population
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  Trust to promote the sterilization in
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  Britain and to counter misinformation that
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  sterilization was illegal. Now
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  in 1971 the vasectomy
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  finally became an accepted method of birth
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  control. So right around ten to 1010 or
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  so years after female uh, oral
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  contraceptive is introduced and widely,
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  not at first widely used, it had a lot of stigma,
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  um, but the male vasectomy in
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  1971 began to be accepted as
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  a method of birth control. Um, it is
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  noted that this method is preferable to
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  female sterilization, um, that is the
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  removing of the female reproductive
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  organs, um, as it presents less
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  risk to the man, it has a shorter
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  recovery time. Uh,
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  there was sponsored, state sponsored projects
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  in other countries.
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  Uh, of note,
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  India has sponsored multiple uh,
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  sterilization programs wherein
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  at some point there are thousands
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  upon thousands of people, um, who
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  receive a vasectomy to help control population in these
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  areas. Now in 1974 they
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  developed the no scalpel method of a vasectomy,
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  which sounds great because if you've ever,
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  if you have
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  the bits, scalpels do not
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  belong near them. Um, sharp, bad.
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  But the no scalpel vasectomy, um,
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  was developed by doctor Li
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  Xun Chang. Let's go with that.
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  And it was not popular at first. It
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  was more out of necessity. But the procedure
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  essentially, like, squishes and stretches
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  the brains, um, in order to, like, puncture
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  a small hole wherein they go in and do the
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  procedure. Um, it was first performed by
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  a. In the US by a doctor who traveled to
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  China to learn about it and then brought the
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  procedure back in
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  1989. Um, and by then, the
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  procedure had begun to spread. And truly,
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  like, when it comes to vasectomies,
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  that in many ways brings us
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  up to modern day,
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  um, and there's not a lot of
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  big history around vasectomies.
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  Uh, we're going to talk a little bit about the future. It is what
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  it is. Um, but I need to introduce to
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  you now a very personal part
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  of vasectomy history.
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  That is the part in which I get one.
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  And I'm here to share my vasectomy
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  story in a very, very special, long
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  form edition of hunter's
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  anecdotes to keep you
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  afloat.
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  I'm gonna tell you something that has really slowed
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  their floats. Are my little swimmers.
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  Um, in the fall of 2022,
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  my wife, former guest on the show,
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  anna and I, started to have serious
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  conversations about having more kids. And we
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  arrived at the conclusion that we were
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  content with the children that we have been given.
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  We're very thankful. Yeah, every day is an
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  adventure, and we love our kids very much.
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  Uh, and we knew,
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  and this is what I knew. The next part of the
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  conversation was, am I
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  me, hunter, your host. Hi, everyone.
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  Am I going to go get fixed?
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  And this is what I knew going in. So,
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  hunter in the car driving back from thanksgiving
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  dinner, what I know about vasectomies
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  is it involves something in the male nether
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  region. Um,
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  and as invasive as having
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  a man, preferably a man. Please, God,
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  let it be a man. Snip part of the inside
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  of your nards. For a lady to have a procedure
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  done not to have kids is way, way more
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  invasive, and it has the potential for way,
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  way more problems to occur.
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  And so at a wellness checkup
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  in winter, 2023, I, uh, let my doctor know. My wife
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  and I are wanting to get a vasectomy. Like, we're ahead. We've
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  talked about it, and this is kind of where we're leaning
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  now. He told me that he would schedule an
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  appointment for me to meet with a urologist
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  to set one up. And I don't know
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  what I was expecting. I don't know. Like, if I was
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  expecting for him to, like, take my name down and
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  schedule a day for me to, like, have him
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  do this procedure, but it makes total sense that he
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  has the, like, urinary tract
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  weiner doctor expert person do
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  this procedure. Like, it makes a lot of sense, and I'm
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  thankful for it. But he says, you know, we'll get ahold of the
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  urologist, and we'll have them set up a meeting. And so at this
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  point, this was at the point in my doctor's checkup that
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  I began asking questions. And the first question I
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  asked him is, doctor, like, I got a question.
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  I make this podcast. It's about bathrooms. Do
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  you think I'd be allowed to record my
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  vasectomy?
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  Uh, now is probably a good time to tell you about
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  the female medical student who was doing her practicum with my
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  doctor. Her face, when I asked,
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  can I record my vasectomy? Said only
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  one thing. This is what her face read. It said, who
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  the flip is this weirdo who wants to record
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  his vasectomy? Don't worry, lady. More to come. Uh,
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  more good questions are on the way. But the
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  doctor, he answered, I think, as honestly as he could. He
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  said, I don't think so. Probably not. But
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  you're gonna have to ask your urologist. It's totally up to him.
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  And so much like,
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  uh, uh, the fellows from dumb and
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  dumber trying to woo Mary once they find out
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  that she is, like, engaged or married or
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  whatever, I'm thinking there's a chance,
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  uh, but more is to come.
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  And so I was doing some work at the time,
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  preparing for my pregnancy test episode,
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  and at this point in the game, I had already, as
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  a male adult, uh, peed on a pregnancy test
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  stick to see what it would do. And so I asked
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  the doctor the other question on my tongue, which is,
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  doc, if I, as a male adult
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  human, pee on a pregnancy test and it comes back positive,
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  does that mean I have a hernia? Um, and
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  he just kind of looked at me, and at this point, the lady now was
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  like, she has got to be thinking, this is
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  way outside of what they have prepped me for at medical
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  school. And I would like to say you're welcome for
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  giving you this experience. Ma'am. Ma'am, if you're hearing this, I doubt you
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  are. Um, mostly because from what I can tell, the
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  demographic of listeners to this podcast is primarily male.
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  Ladies, if you're out there, shout out. I hope you enjoyed
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  Shaloah's. Episode, last episode. Uh, I
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  learned a lot. Thank you, shaloah. Um, but
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  I think she was outside the realm of what she was maybe
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  prepared for as a medical
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  student. Um, but I was informed
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  that peeing on a pregnancy test, as a
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  male, it probably doesn't do much to key in
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  on a hernia, but it can give
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  some indicators about hormones and
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  other concerns that can be in place when you have
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  other significant problems, such
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  as cancer or other things that can
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  cause, uh, problems in your,
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  I don't know, hormones and tracts. So that's fun.
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  Uh, I did not, for any that want to know, I did not test
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  positive. I was not pregnant
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  at the time. It was still a possibility. Hey. Oh. Um,
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  but I walked away thinking in the back of
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  my mind, okay, ball. Get. It
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  is in their court. My balls are
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  literally in their court. Now. They are
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  going to have to call me if they want
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  me to get my nards worked on.
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  It's on you. And so,
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  as February passed, then march, I'm certain to
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  think must not have been meant to be. They never
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  called me. I guess I'll just have to
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  not do it.
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  Maybe things. Maybe we could just be careful and things will just work
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  out. That'd be fine. And then one day I'm sitting
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  at lunch and I get a call from, uh,
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  urology, and I'm like, oh, sweet
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  lord, it's happening. Defcon
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  five. The call is coming. I set up an
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  appointment and I went in, and this
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  appointment that I set up was described
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  to me as, quote unquote, a screening.
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  Now, I went in and I sat down, and
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  my fundamentalist, evangelical church going heart
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  was not ready for some of the diagrams
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  in this doctor's office. Dear Lord. And I
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  want, and I want to note those
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  parts of the human body are good parts made
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  by our very good God. But it
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  doesn't prepare you for the photos and the
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  diagrams of the inside
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  of the female cervical cavity. Like, it just does not.
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  Nothing is going to prepare you when you go in for
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  your debrief about your and
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  future testicle
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  surgery to see that you're just not ready for
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  it. Um, when you're going, you're accompanying your wife to the
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  baby checkup, the lady doctor. Absolutely.
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  You're going to see all sorts of lady stuff. Was
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  not prepared for this. Huh
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  huh? Help me, father.
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  Also the diagram of the urethra.
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  Not sure it was something that I needed,
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  but I waited and I took him to
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  sights.
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  Moments went by, and finally the knock came
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  in the door. And, um, this was
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  it. I was prepared to
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  answer his questions. I had
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  my questions, both personal and
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  podcast associated, ready, and he came
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  in and he asked me some questions. He gave me the typical
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  disclaimers about how the vasectomy is
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  intended to be permanent. Yeah, I, uh,
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  know. And that it's not
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  100% effective, but it proves, like,
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  99.9% effective against
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  preventing pregnancy. And I'm
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  thinking, I'm answering all the questions like,
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  are you married? Does your wife know you're here?
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  How many kids you got? Are you content with the. Like,
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  all of these are, like, pre screener questions. I was like, yeah, this makes perfect
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  sense. And I'm absolutely crushing
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  this. I was doing great with the screening.
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  I asked if I had. He asked if I had any
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  concerns. Ah,
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  and let me see.
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  Yeah, uh, lots. I got lots of
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  those. Um, he asked me if there. If I had any
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  irregularities. Let me see.
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  Does my stuff have any irregularities?
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  Not something I've ever thought about. I haven't done
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  any comparing in my life, so that was good.
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  Anna has never made mention that there's anything
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  irregular. So I said no.
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  And I'd answered all his questions. I was doing great. The screener
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  was a success, and he asked if
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  I had any questions. My first
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  question out of the gate was, does it hurt?
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  Obviously. And the guy says, yes,
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  but most of the pain comes
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  after the procedure, in the healing process.
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  Um, he walked me through expectations. He made sure I
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  knew on the day of the procedure I would need to be
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  smooth as a baby's backside round the zone. We'll
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  cross that bridge later. Um, and now, moment of
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  truth. He put it back to me. Any other questions? And I asked
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  him. We were here. I'm not going to not ask.
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  Privy listener, I want you to know that I
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  used part of my, uh,
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  vasectomy check in for you.
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  Can I record my vasectomy, doc?
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  Now, I probably should have prefaced that I have a
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  podcast. I did not do that. I just dropped it on. I said,
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  can I record my vasectomy? And this man
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  just kind of stares at me for a second. He didn't ask
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  why. All he says was, no,
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  you cannot. And so I asked him, I
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  said, can I ask why I'm not allowed to record my vasectomy?
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  And he said, yes, it's a liability.
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  People can perform differently when they're being
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  recorded. And we want the doctor's performance
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  to be the best it can be. And we don't want
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  any outside influence to cause him to have any
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  problems during your procedure. Now,
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  as much as I love y'all privy listener. I love y'all.
• 21:15
  But he's right. The man. The man
• 21:18
  carrying the thing, the sharp object near my
• 21:21
  manhood. I want him operating at peak
• 21:23
  functionality. So I dropped it.
• 21:26
  Understandable. I was defeated, but at least the
• 21:29
  screener had gone perfectly and I was
• 21:32
  done. And that was when the doctor said, well, if you don't have any more
• 21:35
  questions, I just need to check your anatomy.
• 21:38
  And I said, okay. And then I sat there and he said,
• 21:42
  I need to do a physical. Could you please drop your
• 21:44
  pants? Now,
• 21:47
  I'm a moderately private person,
• 21:50
  and in all my life
• 21:54
  I have been a part of screening processes. You're
• 21:57
  screening for things, and in
• 22:00
  those screening process, there's not a lot of pants
• 22:02
  dropping and exposing yourself. That happened.
• 22:05
  I was not ready for this. Um, I don't
• 22:08
  know what I expected. I didn't expect to be dropping
• 22:11
  trout today.
• 22:14
  Um, but I did it, and he did
• 22:16
  his portion. Um, and he reported that
• 22:19
  I, quote, have loose anatomy. Now, I don't
• 22:22
  know whether to be flattered or frustrated, but he told
• 22:25
  me it was, quote unquote, a good thing and that they
• 22:28
  would be able to snip my
• 22:31
  stuff, that he thinks they're going to be able to do
• 22:33
  it. And I'm sitting here thinking, are there people that come in
• 22:36
  for a vasectomy pre screener? And they
• 22:39
  get through all of your questions, and then you say, okay, I
• 22:42
  need you to drop your pants and expose yourself to me so I
• 22:45
  can get up in there. Um, and you do that.
• 22:48
  And then you say, ah. Uh, yep. We don't think the vasectomy is going to work.
• 22:51
  Thanks for coming. Thanks for playing. Um, but no
• 22:54
  deal would be wild. If you're
• 22:57
  a listener and you've, and you've been through the vasectomy pre screening
• 23:00
  process and you've had them turn you away,
• 23:02
  please reach out to me. I would love to hear your story.
• 23:06
  I left the doctor's office that morning with fondled berries and
• 23:09
  a date set for the operation, August
• 23:11
  2023. And
• 23:14
  now I'm going to describe to you what was truly the
• 23:17
  worst part of my entire vasectomy experience.
• 23:20
  It had nothing to do with knives. It had nothing to do with cutting. It had
• 23:23
  nothing to do with pain. It was the psychological
• 23:26
  toll leading up to the day of the vasectomy.
• 23:31
  In the coming months, I spent plenty of time
• 23:34
  fearing the worst doctor slipping, cutting everything
• 23:36
  off, asking friends about their experience.
• 23:39
  Hey, have you had a vasectomy? What was it like? And I heard
• 23:42
  the gamut of answers. Some friends were
• 23:45
  helpful and reassuring, saying, you know, like, yeah,
• 23:48
  uh, I'm glad I did
• 23:51
  it. Two or three days after kind of suck, but
• 23:54
  it was totally worth it. Um, others, like
• 23:56
  former guest on the show Josh Wehrman, told me
• 23:59
  that the doctor was going to, quote unquote, give
• 24:02
  me a shot to numb my wieners straight into the pee pee
• 24:05
  hole. Parents, if you're
• 24:08
  listening and your kids normally listen to the show, I
• 24:11
  probably should have put this disclaimer up at the front.
• 24:14
  We'll move this, we'll put an explicit
• 24:17
  tag, but, like, dang it, coach
• 24:20
  Wehrman. Thanks, counselor. Um, I
• 24:23
  truly lost sleep. I really did, like, jokes aside,
• 24:26
  put jokes in the closet for a second.
• 24:29
  I truly did lose sleep
• 24:31
  over dreading my
• 24:33
  vasectomy. I, uh, want to
• 24:36
  also note the doctor does offer you anti
• 24:39
  anxiety drugs to help you chill during your
• 24:42
  procedure, but you have to tell them
• 24:44
  beforehand that you want them because you
• 24:47
  can't. You have to be cognizant
• 24:50
  consenting to your procedure and all of
• 24:53
  the other things, and so you can't take, there's a whole thing about
• 24:56
  it. And at times, I was. I
• 24:59
  was laying there at, like, 02:00 in the morning, dreading thinking,
• 25:02
  oh, there's like three weeks left. And I'm thinking maybe I should
• 25:05
  have opted for the anti anxiety drugs
• 25:08
  instead of that. I lost sleep for a few months. It was
• 25:11
  fine, and then it was
• 25:14
  there. But first,
• 25:16
  shaving. I will share. I bought a
• 25:19
  new sensitive skin men's razor for the occasion, and
• 25:22
  I'm not going to endorse any one
• 25:25
  brand, but what I can say
• 25:28
  is men
• 25:32
  nutscaping. Their zone happens.
• 25:35
  And for this, I would need to get real
• 25:37
  close. And I did not want to nick
• 25:40
  the jibbies. We got it done.
• 25:43
  Closest shave I've ever had to date.
• 25:46
  Probably not going to get that intricate on the
• 25:49
  shave job ever again. And
• 25:52
  then following morning, we went in. Anna drove
• 25:55
  me into the doctors because we thought, well, maybe she can
• 25:58
  come back and sit there and be with me while I have them do this
• 26:00
  procedure she was not allowed to do. So. So
• 26:03
  I went back by myself, submitted
• 26:06
  myself to the doctor for my procedure. I was
• 26:09
  told to, quote, strip down, and I piled my clothes on
• 26:12
  the chair, and then I sat. Stuff hanging
• 26:14
  out. Boom. Waiting. Just
• 26:17
  air drying it, baby. Uh, and I waited, and I
• 26:20
  waited. And I can hear doctors talking. I can hear the little nurse people
• 26:23
  talking. And I'm in there for, like, 30 to 45
• 26:26
  minutes, and I'm going, did I really
• 26:29
  need to not have my pants on for this part
• 26:31
  like, I could
• 26:34
  have done for a small towel to cover, like,
• 26:37
  large towel to cover, you know what I'm saying? Um, but then the nurse
• 26:40
  lady come in. Yes, lady, come on.
• 26:43
  My. My pp is hanging out, and you sent a
• 26:46
  lady in. Like, it's medical. I know
• 26:49
  it's not a thing. They're trained, but
• 26:51
  still. And she comes in,
• 26:54
  and then she says, well, have you been debriefed? And I'm like,
• 27:00
  I know it's not the time for jokes, and I did not make this joke in the
• 27:03
  moment, but I would like to note I was very
• 27:06
  debriefed. But I said no.
• 27:08
  Uh, but that I was staring at the big
• 27:11
  tray of sharp, razor sharp scalpels
• 27:14
  for the last 40 minutes. And she goes, oh. And so she
• 27:17
  goes out, and then the doctor boy comes in,
• 27:20
  thank you, Jesus. And said that I was ready. And he
• 27:23
  gave me the cliffs notes about the procedure. He told me what he's going to do. He's going
• 27:26
  to cut a small incision. See the large
• 27:29
  tray of scalpels in the corner? Um, he's going to go in,
• 27:32
  snip, snap, cauterize, cauterize, snip, snap,
• 27:35
  cauterize, cauterize, tuck. So we'll
• 27:38
  be out in a jiffy. Um,
• 27:41
  and so he gives me that, and he told me that
• 27:44
  the nurse lady. Now he's going to go out, and the nurse lady is going to
• 27:47
  prep me. Now, when they say
• 27:50
  that they're going to prep you for a vasectomy, one, it
• 27:53
  does not mean emotionally, and two, it mostly means
• 27:56
  wiping down your nethers and cleaning a
• 27:59
  zone with this strange brown stuff. I think to
• 28:01
  sterilize everything, uh, make sure everything is
• 28:04
  ready. I want to say a little feedback, and it probably needs
• 28:07
  to be. It's probably medical reason why it is. But that
• 28:10
  cleaning solution is flipping cold, man.
• 28:13
  Like, you do not expect anything that cold to
• 28:15
  be on you when you are that exposed to another
• 28:18
  person. Like, it's just bad. It doesn't do
• 28:21
  well to help things along, you know what I'm saying?
• 28:24
  But then finally, at long last, 40 plus minutes
• 28:27
  in a debrief and a bad, uh,
• 28:30
  debriefing joke in the doctor
• 28:32
  finally comes in. I'll be
• 28:35
  brief, mostly because
• 28:38
  the procedure itself is
• 28:41
  the worst part of the whole vasectomy
• 28:44
  experience, except for the mental
• 28:47
  anguish, um, which you can totally avoid. If
• 28:50
  you hear this listener, if you. If you're thinking. If men,
• 28:53
  if you're thinking, oh, man, I'm on the fence, I better hear what hunter has to
• 28:56
  say. I'm gonna tell you. You can avoid a lot of the mental
• 28:58
  anguish by. By hearing this. The
• 29:01
  worst part, physically, of the
• 29:04
  vasectomy is the part is the
• 29:07
  pinch. When they numb you, you'll feel pinch. It's kind of like when you
• 29:10
  go to the dentist, and they say, oh, little pinch. And you feel the pinch, and it's like,
• 29:12
  oh, dear God, no. Um, and after
• 29:15
  that, you don't really have a lot of feeling.
• 29:18
  There's some tugging, and it kind of feels like if you've
• 29:21
  ever. If you're a guy and you've been kicked in the groin,
• 29:25
  it kind of feels like that feeling, but it
• 29:28
  is like you can feel pulling. It's like a
• 29:30
  pulling ache. Um,
• 29:33
  but it's mostly numbed. Uh,
• 29:36
  and the most striking sensation of the whole thing
• 29:39
  is the smell. And you're thinking, oh, I bet it's
• 29:42
  awful. I bet it literally smells like a barbecue because they're
• 29:45
  cauterizing your tube
• 29:47
  inside, and it smells like a barbecue.
• 29:51
  And I even, like, made comments like, oh, man, that
• 29:54
  kind of smells like barbecue. And then the next thing you know,
• 29:57
  and he's like, all right, we're sewing you up, and then you're
• 29:59
  done. You don their
• 30:02
  protective undies, the gauze and the
• 30:04
  stitches. You kind of waddle out of the
• 30:07
  place,
• 30:10
  and you're off.
• 30:13
  And I want to note, it was a bummer
• 30:16
  that the doctor told me that I was not able to record
• 30:19
  this experience. It's a
• 30:22
  bummer because what the doctor doesn't
• 30:24
  know can't hurt him.
• 30:27
  And so the
• 30:30
  following few minutes of audio are
• 30:33
  some very edited sections of my
• 30:35
  time in the vasectomy room.
• 30:38
  It was originally, like, 45 minutes long due to the fact that I
• 30:41
  sat there for so long, but here it is. From what
• 30:44
  you can tell, this is audio
• 30:47
  taken of my little vasectomy
• 30:50
  journey.
• 30:56
  >> Speaker C: Can I come in?
• 30:57
  >> Hunter Hoover: Uh, yeah. I'm. I'm naked from the
• 31:00
  waist down, but okay. Yep.
• 31:02
  >> Speaker C: Have a seat in the bed, though.
• 31:04
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, okay.
• 31:07
  >> Speaker C: Any allergies?
• 31:09
  >> Hunter Hoover: Just seasonal. Nothing like medication or anything.
• 31:12
  >> Speaker C: I was like, never mind.
• 31:15
  Okay. Let's see.
• 31:18
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yep. Sorry.
• 31:19
  >> Speaker C: No, you're fine.
• 31:25
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 31:33
  Oh. Oh, yeah. I just.
• 31:36
  As okay as I can be.
• 31:38
  >> Speaker C: Okay.
• 31:41
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 31:48
  >> Speaker C: Is that comfortable?
• 31:49
  >> Hunter Hoover: Uh, yeah, it's not bad.
• 31:52
  Okay.
• 31:54
  >> Speaker C: All right, so what I'm gonna do is prep for you.
• 31:56
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 31:57
  >> Speaker C: Gonna clean the area. Got
• 32:00
  your gloves, tape. We're gonna be using
• 32:04
  surgical soap, so it's kind of cold. This
• 32:07
  makes it alcohol.
• 32:13
  Have you met doctor? Oh, you haven't met
• 32:16
  him?
• 32:16
  >> Hunter Hoover: No. Well, I must. Tall guy,
• 32:19
  the guy who did my
• 32:21
  screening I don't think that was him.
• 32:24
  >> Speaker C: Okay, well, let me bring him back
• 32:27
  down.
• 32:27
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 32:28
  >> Speaker C: I was like, wait a minute. So you can talk
• 32:31
  to him real quick.
• 32:32
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay.
• 32:33
  >> Speaker C: So just hang inside. I'm so sorry.
• 32:35
  >> Hunter Hoover: No, that's fine.
• 32:36
  >> Speaker C: I was like. I remember this morning. We're, like, huddling. I was
• 32:39
  like, mine hasn't met m the doctor.
• 32:43
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 32:43
  >> Speaker C: I'll be back.
• 32:55
  >> Speaker B: Hunter.
• 32:55
  >> Speaker C: Um, I'm just waiting for him to get out of the room. Okay.
• 32:58
  >> Speaker B: Okay.
• 32:59
  >> Speaker C: Sorry about the way.
• 32:59
  >> Speaker B: Nope.
• 33:00
  >> Hunter Hoover: Thank you.
• 33:09
  >> Speaker B: How are we doing? Hey, sorry about that. We're having a little bit of a
• 33:12
  scheduling kind of weird.
• 33:22
  >> Hunter Hoover: Um, not really. I mean, I'm here
• 33:25
  now, so, like, um.
• 33:28
  How many of y'all done? That's like. I don't
• 33:30
  know.
• 33:31
  >> Speaker B: I stopped counting probably.
• 33:32
  >> Hunter Hoover: That's all I want to know.
• 33:34
  >> Speaker B: Probably around six to 700.
• 33:36
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, my God. Okay.
• 33:38
  >> Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. Who might be closer? I don't know. Do a lot.
• 33:40
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Hey. Yeah, I was, like,
• 33:43
  when I asked that, you know.
• 33:44
  >> Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Many.
• 33:46
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 33:47
  >> Speaker B: Um.
• 33:47
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
• 33:49
  >> Speaker B: Yeah. All right, man. Yeah. So, uh, she'll
• 33:52
  get you. Yeah? Yeah, go for it.
• 33:53
  >> Hunter Hoover: What do you got? Well, I just. I was gonna say they haven't done the cleanup thing
• 33:56
  yet. They were waiting.
• 33:57
  >> Speaker B: Oh, yeah. She'll get you all.
• 33:57
  >> Hunter Hoover: Sweet.
• 33:58
  >> Speaker B: I'll be back in a few minutes, okay.
• 33:59
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 34:00
  >> Speaker B: Nice meeting you.
• 34:00
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it.
• 34:09
  >> Speaker C: All right. Sorry for the wave.
• 34:11
  >> Speaker B: Oh, that's fine.
• 34:12
  >> Speaker C: It's taking longer than expected.
• 34:31
  Let's try this again.
• 34:32
  >> Speaker B: Okay.
• 34:35
  >> Speaker C: Okay. I am gonna expose you. Okay.
• 34:37
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. I assume that's
• 34:40
  part of it.
• 34:41
  >> Speaker C: Yeah. You have
• 34:44
  any kids?
• 34:45
  >> Hunter Hoover: Two.
• 34:46
  >> Speaker C: Two?
• 34:46
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yep.
• 34:47
  >> Speaker C: Seems to be the magic number.
• 34:49
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
• 34:51
  >> Speaker C: Okay. Cold soap. Really cold.
• 34:53
  No lice, right?
• 34:55
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yep. You're spot on with that.
• 34:58
  >> Speaker C: Doing okay?
• 35:00
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, so far.
• 35:03
  >> Speaker C: Good.
• 35:05
  >> Hunter Hoover: I assume it's normal to be nervous? I don't
• 35:08
  know. Yeah.
• 35:09
  >> Speaker C: Okay, then, um, how
• 35:12
  your anatomy is. I don't want
• 35:14
  to call it too
• 35:17
  soon, but it's nice and
• 35:20
  loose. Usually it's one incision.
• 35:23
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay.
• 35:25
  >> Speaker C: But I'll let him decide that.
• 35:27
  >> Speaker B: Yeah.
• 35:27
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 35:28
  >> Speaker C: And, uh, which is great. And the process is faster.
• 35:31
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 35:31
  >> Speaker C: It's already fast as it is. You know, it doesn't take
• 35:34
  forever.
• 35:35
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
• 35:35
  >> Speaker C: He'll let you know what he's doing.
• 35:38
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 35:38
  >> Speaker C: All that good stuff. Okay.
• 35:41
  >> Speaker B: All right.
• 35:42
  >> Speaker C: So can you lift your shirt up?
• 35:43
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yep.
• 35:45
  >> Speaker C: There you go. Uh, that way it doesn't touch the sterile
• 35:48
  drapes, so just put the stripes
• 35:51
  here.
• 35:59
  How old are they?
• 36:01
  >> Speaker B: Uh, six and four.
• 36:02
  >> Speaker C: Okay.
• 36:02
  >> Hunter Hoover: Perfect. Yeah. They're actually
• 36:05
  heading to swim lessons right now.
• 36:07
  >> Speaker B: With grandma and grandpa.
• 36:08
  >> Speaker C: Oh, cute.
• 36:09
  >> Hunter Hoover: Here we are.
• 36:10
  >> Speaker C: Anyway, someone's watching them.
• 36:13
  Okay, so you're gonna feel me. Okay?
• 36:16
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 36:16
  >> Speaker C: Moving stuff around.
• 36:17
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 36:18
  >> Speaker C: Like, really slippery. Cause I just washed everything
• 36:21
  off. Just wanna make sure they don't, um, fall
• 36:24
  off once we're in there.
• 36:27
  Okay, doki? So no touching the area at all.
• 36:33
  I'm gonna put a tray over your legs, okay?
• 36:35
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 36:36
  >> Speaker C: No kicking or screaming. Yeah,
• 36:39
  try not to ceilings. You
• 36:42
  don't want to get pulled by accident or something.
• 36:51
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 36:51
  >> Speaker C: Uh, I'll be right, literally right over your
• 36:54
  legs. Okay?
• 36:55
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 36:56
  >> Speaker C: Okie dokie.
• 37:12
  All right. I'll be back.
• 37:13
  >> Hunter Hoover: Thank you.
• 37:14
  >> Speaker C: You're welcome.
• 37:23
  >> Speaker B: All right, man.
• 37:26
  >> Hunter Hoover: Can we do it? Guess so. I was asking
• 37:29
  if it's normal to be nervous, but.
• 37:33
  >> Speaker B: It would be, I think, a little weird if you
• 37:36
  weren't there. Okay.
• 37:38
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
• 37:38
  >> Speaker B: Um.
• 37:38
  >> Hunter Hoover: Perfect. All, um.
• 37:40
  >> Speaker B: Right, man. So the first part of this, there'll be some kind of,
• 37:43
  um, adjusting and everything of the
• 37:46
  bath. Actually, I'm gonna usually wear a face shield for this.
• 37:49
  I'll be right back.
• 37:53
  >> Speaker C: Just me touching the leg.
• 37:56
  >> Hunter Hoover: I imagine it's one of those things where it's just like, you're better off to just
• 37:59
  not look. You know what I mean?
• 38:00
  >> Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't think anyone looks.
• 38:03
  >> Hunter Hoover: Nobody's looking down there while it's happening sometimes, but.
• 38:06
  Really?
• 38:07
  >> Speaker B: Yeah, sometimes.
• 38:08
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. You know what? Good for them.
• 38:10
  >> Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, as I was saying, um,
• 38:13
  just kind of some adjusting and squeezing kind of as we get
• 38:16
  started. And then when I do the injection for
• 38:19
  anesthetic, um, I'll count it down. Three, two, one. So you
• 38:22
  know exactly when to expect that you can hold as still as possible because
• 38:24
  you jerk your legs like a choke you somewhere else.
• 38:26
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Yeah, that's fair.
• 38:30
  >> Speaker B: Sometimes, depending on how well your
• 38:33
  anatomy cooperates, we can do it through a single incision, which is great
• 38:36
  because we're only making one incision.
• 38:37
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 38:38
  >> Speaker B: I think we might be able to do that for you, but I have to examine you
• 38:41
  to see if that's going to be possible.
• 38:44
  All right, I think we can do it.
• 38:49
  All right, here comes the poke. Three, two,
• 38:52
  one, poke. Burn
• 38:55
  notice some deeper pressure here. Keep holding still.
• 38:58
  Okay. Doing great. Good.
• 39:03
  >> Hunter Hoover: You doing okay? Yeah.
• 39:04
  >> Speaker B: Good.
• 39:06
  >> Hunter Hoover: I assume if I feel something, I should tell you.
• 39:08
  >> Speaker B: Well, yeah, that's fine. If it's really painful, I think
• 39:11
  it'll be very obvious. But, um, you know, you're going to
• 39:14
  have sensations throughout the procedure.
• 39:18
  Um, pulling kind of tugging pressure is very
• 39:21
  common. Maybe feel like you got
• 39:23
  kicked in the nuts. Um, but the
• 39:26
  really sharp pain are the things that we can
• 39:29
  certainly avoid with more anesthetic.
• 39:34
  You doing all right?
• 39:35
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
• 39:36
  >> Speaker B: That little. Sometimes that move sometimes can cause a little
• 39:39
  bit of twinge, but it seems like you're
• 39:42
  doing great.
• 39:42
  >> Hunter Hoover: So that's some fast anis or,
• 39:45
  uh, local whatever. Oh, yeah.
• 39:48
  It's like they make you wait forever at the dentist, but I guess it's
• 39:51
  different.
• 39:52
  >> Speaker B: Yeah, because they're. It's more of a. They do
• 39:55
  blocks, so. Yes, they inject, and it takes a
• 39:58
  while for that to infiltrate and numb the entire
• 40:00
  area. Um, so this I'm
• 40:03
  injecting, like, directly.
• 40:06
  We're really working in a relatively small
• 40:09
  area. Um,
• 40:12
  they block an entire nerve, essentially, and we're
• 40:15
  just kind of doing very local, more localized
• 40:17
  anesthesia so it diffuses through the
• 40:20
  tissue quicker.
• 40:25
  All right, man.
• 40:26
  >> Hunter Hoover: Halfway home. All right.
• 40:29
  Seems like you're doing great.
• 40:32
  You feeling okay? Yeah, I haven't felt
• 40:35
  anything yet.
• 40:36
  >> Speaker B: Sounds, uh, great.
• 40:38
  So we need to do another injection. You won't feel it in the skin, but you're
• 40:41
  gonna feel it deeply. Okay. Okay, hold as still as
• 40:44
  you can. Three, two, one.
• 40:48
  Give you a little more juice and a couple more
• 40:51
  zingers on this side.
• 40:57
  Doing all right, man?
• 40:58
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, good. Taking in the smell.
• 41:01
  >> Speaker B: Yeah, nice. Little
• 41:05
  burnt vasectomy, burnt vat smell.
• 41:08
  There you go.
• 41:08
  >> Hunter Hoover: Um.
• 41:09
  >> Speaker B: Uh. All right,
• 41:11
  stitch squirt. Home stretch here,
• 41:14
  dude.
• 41:14
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 41:16
  >> Speaker B: All right, man.
• 41:17
  >> Hunter Hoover: We're done. Great. Yeah.
• 41:23
  >> Speaker B: All right. I'll check back with you in a moment.
• 41:24
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 41:25
  >> Speaker C: I'm gonna put all the sharks first.
• 41:27
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Oh, yeah, the tray.
• 41:30
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, we want it.
• 41:31
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, that's fair,
• 41:36
  man. That was insane quick.
• 41:38
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, I told you it was pretty quick once. It's pretty
• 41:40
  good, too.
• 41:44
  >> Hunter Hoover: You know, I think the, like,
• 41:47
  worry leading up to today was
• 41:50
  worse than the actual procedure.
• 41:52
  >> Speaker C: Right?
• 41:53
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, I. My buddy, you know, I think
• 41:56
  everybody's different, but my buddy said, yeah, you're gonna feel like you got
• 41:58
  kicked while he's doing it.
• 42:00
  >> Speaker C: Oh, what? Sometimes. Yes.
• 42:01
  >> Hunter Hoover: I genuinely. When he said, you're halfway
• 42:04
  there, I was like, well, one's done, then, because.
• 42:07
  >> Speaker C: Exactly.
• 42:08
  >> Hunter Hoover: And I didn't. I felt a tug once, I think.
• 42:11
  >> Speaker C: Yeah. Uh, some people are more sensitive, actually. When he comes
• 42:14
  to the left side, they will feel that punch.
• 42:16
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, the left?
• 42:18
  >> Speaker C: Uh huh. Huh.
• 42:18
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, mine was when. Well, I think it was towards the end. When you were on
• 42:21
  the right.
• 42:23
  >> Speaker C: Well, yeah, but he was on the left.
• 42:25
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, I see. Okay.
• 42:26
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, when we.
• 42:28
  >> Hunter Hoover: That was it then. The left was it?
• 42:30
  >> Speaker C: Yeah. Um.
• 42:31
  >> Hunter Hoover: Why is that?
• 42:32
  >> Speaker C: I think it's the body, actually. Like, it's like, oh,
• 42:35
  wait, there's something going on there. Reacting
• 42:38
  to it, you know? But, um. Um,
• 42:41
  doctor has always. Just when he's on the left side,
• 42:44
  it's always more sensitive.
• 42:46
  Yeah. Almost, um, threw away instruments
• 42:55
  going, okay.
• 42:56
  >> Hunter Hoover: Then, to my knowledge, yeah.
• 42:58
  >> Speaker C: Awesome.
• 42:59
  >> Hunter Hoover: I assume it starts to hurt when the stuff wears off.
• 43:02
  >> Speaker C: Boy, it's gonna be uncomfortable. So for the next 48 hours,
• 43:05
  take it easy. Right. Rest.
• 43:07
  >> Hunter Hoover: Pretty much, yeah. That's, uh. I work at the high school, so
• 43:10
  that's kind of why.
• 43:14
  >> Speaker C: Patients sometimes don't listen, and they go home and
• 43:17
  don't lawn and.
• 43:18
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, no. Yeah, I did all that last week.
• 43:22
  >> Speaker C: Yeah.
• 43:23
  >> Hunter Hoover: I'm allowed to, like, walk, though, right?
• 43:25
  >> Speaker C: Yeah. Just don't overdo it.
• 43:26
  >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, yeah.
• 43:29
  >> Speaker B: Uh.
• 43:31
  >> Hunter Hoover: And then the other question that maybe, I don't
• 43:33
  know is, can I. Like, when can
• 43:36
  I shower?
• 43:37
  >> Speaker C: Oh, you can shower. Just
• 43:40
  don't soak it. Like, don't be soaking it.
• 43:43
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 43:45
  >> Speaker C: Yeah.
• 43:48
  >> Hunter Hoover: Did he end up just doing the one? Yeah. Oh, hey. There you
• 43:51
  go.
• 43:52
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, that's why he was making fun of me while he's
• 43:54
  like, I don't need that. I already have it in the system.
• 43:57
  >> Hunter Hoover: Got it.
• 43:58
  >> Speaker C: And I was like, oh, I knew that.
• 44:00
  >> Hunter Hoover: Um.
• 44:00
  >> Speaker C: Um, just some little box for some
• 44:03
  spotting there. You're gonna hold it
• 44:07
  in place.
• 44:09
  >> Hunter Hoover: Sorry.
• 44:09
  >> Speaker C: No, you're fine.
• 44:13
  It's more the weight than what it takes,
• 44:16
  honestly.
• 44:16
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. I.
• 44:17
  >> Speaker C: You know, and that's
• 44:20
  how it is. Especially when the patient's, like,
• 44:23
  cooperating.
• 44:24
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
• 44:25
  >> Speaker C: It makes everything go so much m.
• 44:27
  >> Hunter Hoover: I finally quit reading stuff because. Yeah. Don't.
• 44:30
  >> Speaker C: Okay, so I'm gonna give you a to go package. Okay?
• 44:32
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 44:36
  Okay.
• 44:38
  >> Speaker C: Ice if you need it.
• 44:39
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 44:40
  >> Speaker C: And then. So
• 44:43
  here's how to collect semen analysis. Okay.
• 44:45
  >> Hunter Hoover: Got it.
• 44:46
  >> Speaker C: So you're gonna do it in three months.
• 44:47
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 44:48
  >> Speaker C: Um, this just tells you the basic stuff of how to
• 44:51
  collect it, but it does not include, like.
• 44:55
  So right now. Uh, no masturbation, no
• 44:57
  sex for seven days after
• 45:00
  surgery. Um, at least 20
• 45:02
  ejaculations prior to the three
• 45:05
  months and three days
• 45:08
  before the sample. Abstinence.
• 45:11
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 45:11
  >> Speaker C: Okay. No sex, no masturbation, no lotions,
• 45:15
  lubes, nothing in the area.
• 45:16
  >> Hunter Hoover: Ah.
• 45:16
  >> Speaker C: Clean sample. Read the instructions.
• 45:20
  Um, call the labs where you're gonna drop it
• 45:22
  off, because sometimes they have different protocols.
• 45:25
  Okay. And then I give you
• 45:28
  this cup here. November
• 45:30
  16.
• 45:42
  >> Hunter Hoover: Do I leave the gods in place? In
• 45:45
  place. Okay. When can I take it off? Um,
• 45:48
  whenever.
• 45:48
  >> Speaker C: Oh, once you get home.
• 45:49
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. Okay, cool.
• 45:52
  >> Speaker C: Let me take this.
• 45:53
  >> Hunter Hoover: And I'm getting to stand up and.
• 45:57
  Okay.
• 45:57
  >> Speaker C: Just get dressed and standard room. Okay.
• 46:00
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 46:01
  >> Speaker C: Just gonna come back and talk to you, pretty much tell you the same thing. Not just
• 46:03
  okay.
• 46:04
  >> Hunter Hoover: Sounds good. Can I just put this over here?
• 46:08
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, we can throw in that basket, too.
• 46:10
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 46:11
  >> Speaker C: Yeah.
• 46:14
  Okie dokie. Go ahead and get dressed.
• 46:16
  Ok. Yep.
• 46:19
  >> Speaker B: How you doing, man?
• 46:20
  >> Hunter Hoover: Good. Yeah. Great. Here we
• 46:23
  are.
• 46:23
  >> Speaker B: That's where it's supposed to go. Um, so you got one
• 46:26
  stitch, one incision. Um, that stitch will fall
• 46:29
  out over the next, you know, one to two weeks. Um,
• 46:32
  don't soak in the tub and go swimming until the stitch is gone. Okay.
• 46:35
  You may shower starting tomorrow. Just warm, soapy water. Don't
• 46:38
  scrub it really hard or anything like that. No sex or
• 46:41
  masturbation for the first week after that, let her rip.
• 46:43
  You want to get 20 ejaculations over the
• 46:46
  next two to three months, continue to use some other sort of
• 46:49
  contraception, then you do your semen test. Okay.
• 46:52
  Um, yeah. Uh, if you have any questions, any
• 46:55
  concerns, by all means, give us a call.
• 46:56
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 46:57
  >> Speaker B: All right.
• 46:57
  >> Hunter Hoover: All right.
• 46:58
  >> Speaker B: Really couch potato it for the next 48 hours.
• 47:00
  >> Hunter Hoover: What's the, uh, like, at this point, what's the concern
• 47:03
  of, like, I don't know, what would be the biggest
• 47:06
  thing?
• 47:06
  >> Speaker B: So, you know, if you're. If you lay low and don't do really anything for the
• 47:09
  next 48 hours, you should be totally fine. Okay. The
• 47:12
  problem that you get into is when people do too much activity too early,
• 47:15
  you could have lots of extra pain, but then it also raises your risk
• 47:18
  for bleeding.
• 47:19
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
• 47:19
  >> Speaker B: I've never had a.
• 47:20
  >> Hunter Hoover: Not a fan of that.
• 47:21
  >> Speaker B: Never had a big scrotal hematoma, and I don't really want to start with you.
• 47:23
  >> Speaker C: Perfect.
• 47:24
  >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. Oh, yeah. No.
• 47:25
  >> Speaker B: Uh, yeah, yeah. But, yeah. I mean, that would be. The thing to
• 47:28
  watch out for is swelling that's getting progressively larger
• 47:31
  quickly. Um, the, uh, you know, over
• 47:34
  the next few days, if you develop redness drainage, that kind of
• 47:36
  stuff looks like bruising.
• 47:38
  >> Hunter Hoover: Kind of. Is that what that is?
• 47:39
  >> Speaker B: Bruising is normal, but if you're seeing, like, this stuff where it's getting
• 47:42
  red and flamed and swollen and spreading away from the
• 47:45
  incision, that's what we want to hear about.
• 47:47
  >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. All right, man.
• 47:48
  >> Speaker B: I'll give it to you. Uh, all right, cool. You did great.
• 47:51
  >> Hunter Hoover: Hey, thank you.
• 47:52
  >> Speaker B: Take care.
• 47:56
  >> Hunter Hoover: And we're back.
• 47:59
  Aftercare for the vasectomy is pretty
• 48:01
  simple. Keep the undies supported
• 48:04
  and take it easy. I took that
• 48:07
  seriously, um, because they told me that if you
• 48:10
  don't take it easy and you push through and you
• 48:13
  tear something, you get to go to the emergency room,
• 48:16
  and emergency room plus pp are
• 48:19
  not combos that I ever, ever want.
• 48:22
  I will share one excellent roast that I
• 48:25
  had on myself, um, from all this that I found
• 48:28
  very interesting. I found very enlightening here.
• 48:31
  Um, so I had bought some athletic support
• 48:33
  underwear to don the weeks after the surgery
• 48:36
  to help keep things supportive and in place.
• 48:40
  Um,
• 48:42
  listener, hear me? I'm less than skinny.
• 48:45
  That's a nice way to say I'm large sized.
• 48:48
  Um, so I bought underwear, the
• 48:51
  supportive underwear, sized for my waist
• 48:54
  size, large. And, Anna,
• 48:57
  when looking at these underwear, these
• 48:59
  jockstrap underwear, sports
• 49:02
  athletic supporter underwear, made the comment,
• 49:05
  huh? Huh. You really think you need large? Huh? Huh? Good one,
• 49:08
  babe. We got it. Thank you. All right,
• 49:15
  those with the keen eye will notice there has been a
• 49:18
  wardrobe change. Um, but this is. This
• 49:21
  is Hunter. Kind of of the future, but also
• 49:24
  still, uh, of the past for you, listener. When I
• 49:27
  recorded the episode about, uh, my
• 49:29
  vasectomy journey, I forgot to share one of the
• 49:32
  very, very most important and
• 49:35
  awkward parts of this story. And
• 49:38
  that is the. The part where you go get
• 49:40
  your stuff tested. So after,
• 49:44
  um, the procedure, you have to wait
• 49:46
  essentially three months, and you
• 49:49
  have to have. Have that adult
• 49:52
  human male
• 49:56
  experience. This is
• 49:58
  awkward. 20 times. You heard it in the recording with the
• 50:01
  lady. Uh, so just, I guess, clear out the
• 50:04
  pipes. I don't know. I think that's the theory behind
• 50:07
  it. Really, really clear out the pipes. But, um, after you do
• 50:10
  that, you then have to place
• 50:13
  a specimen in a cup,
• 50:15
  which then you have to, quote, keep
• 50:18
  warm by storing it in your
• 50:20
  pocket. And then you have to drive
• 50:23
  that to the hospital, the
• 50:26
  lab area, within,
• 50:28
  like, a half hour or so of
• 50:31
  having produced that specimen. Now,
• 50:35
  number one, terribly awkward, because when you walk
• 50:37
  in there and you're like, oh, I have a. I have a specimen for
• 50:40
  the lab. Once they realize what that
• 50:43
  specimen is, they can just roll back the clock and they can
• 50:46
  put together the exact
• 50:49
  nefarious deeds you've been up to in the last half
• 50:51
  hour. Um, but the other thing is, there's something about
• 50:54
  walking into the hospital,
• 50:57
  casing your own bodily fluids in a plastic
• 50:59
  jar. There's nothing quite like it. And
• 51:02
  again, yeah, just terribly awkward.
• 51:04
  But results dropped off, and
• 51:07
  just a few hours later, next day, I got the
• 51:10
  phone call, got the all clear. I, um,
• 51:13
  believe the exact words were, and I quote, just like
• 51:16
  Beyblade, let em rip. So I wanted to
• 51:19
  make sure I hopped on here and shared that with you guys. And
• 51:22
  now there will be a wardrobe change back into,
• 51:25
  uh, the old attire.
• 51:29
  But it did have one musing from all this.
• 51:32
  Though the scalpel free procedures
• 51:35
  are more recent, some
• 51:37
  doctors, such as mine, still
• 51:40
  opt to go for the old foul fashion
• 51:43
  scalpel method. And boy, howdy, did he have some scalpels
• 51:46
  on hand. And I'll tell you,
• 51:49
  woof. Like, they're sharp.
• 51:52
  Um, but it turns out a lot of doctors
• 51:55
  still. Oh, uh, this is the end of hunter's
• 51:58
  anecdotes to keep you afloat
• 52:08
  back to the present and the history of
• 52:10
  vasectomies. It turns out many doctors
• 52:13
  still opt for the full scalpel
• 52:16
  version. Um,
• 52:20
  that's pretty cool. And here I am, fully healed and
• 52:22
  fertile as heck. Um, I'm a year in on this, and
• 52:25
  all is well mentored. If you and
• 52:28
  your wife are done having kids, I
• 52:31
  highly recommend it. There are some
• 52:34
  things in the future for vasectomies, and
• 52:37
  if you're sitting there going, well, I don't
• 52:40
  know, I'm pretty worried about it, maybe I'll have my. Do
• 52:42
  not, uh, don't make your wife do what the
• 52:45
  women have to do to get their situation
• 52:48
  sterilized. Just
• 52:51
  women in having babies,
• 52:54
  undergo an
• 52:57
  awful amount of pain,
• 53:00
  and it's a great ordeal.
• 53:02
  And it is an awful, like, the process of
• 53:05
  having the child is a very good thing. But, like,
• 53:08
  getting to that point where that child is exposed to fresh
• 53:11
  air, it's an awful experience. Like,
• 53:14
  there's a lot of anguish. Um,
• 53:17
  if they can do that, Menta
• 53:21
  and you and your wife are done having kids, you can
• 53:23
  get your vas deferens snipped. You
• 53:26
  can do it. I believe in you. Um, but
• 53:30
  only if you're done.
• 53:33
  But, uh, there are things in the future for vasectomies,
• 53:36
  or in many ways, rather, male birth
• 53:38
  control. Um, one thing is they are trying out
• 53:41
  this gel called risug
• 53:44
  riceug, um, gel where this
• 53:46
  gel is injected in order to block
• 53:49
  the flow of semen. Um, and then
• 53:52
  it can be medically, quote, flushed
• 53:55
  later if the man decides that he wants kids.
• 53:57
  Now, this is kind of like a, like a
• 54:01
  designed reversible vasectomy. Now, vasectomies are
• 54:04
  reversible, um,
• 54:07
  but they're not intended to be. So, like. No.
• 54:10
  Um, that rice gel has about a 4%
• 54:13
  failure rate compared to vasectomies, which has less than
• 54:16
  1%. So there's that, but there's no
• 54:19
  snip snap to the jibbies. And a lot of it's still
• 54:22
  being tested and perfected. They've
• 54:25
  also done some research on the male pill,
• 54:28
  uh, which would be male oral contraceptive, which would
• 54:31
  stop men from reproducing
• 54:34
  and getting a woman pregnant. Uh, the
• 54:36
  holdup on the male pill is
• 54:39
  the female birth control pill is easier
• 54:42
  to swallow. Get
• 54:45
  it because it's a pill.
• 54:48
  Um, but it is because many of the
• 54:51
  side effects of female oral
• 54:53
  contraceptives, um, are
• 54:56
  viewed as safer than the
• 54:59
  effects of pregnancy on a woman's
• 55:02
  body. And so then the thought
• 55:05
  process behind this is you could get
• 55:07
  pregnant, which is taxing. People do
• 55:10
  die from being pregnant. Or you could take the
• 55:13
  pill, which is less taxing, but it does have some side
• 55:16
  effects. But those side effects are not as great
• 55:19
  as the effects on your body if you got pregnant.
• 55:22
  The problem is, with the male pill,
• 55:26
  the act and process of getting,
• 55:29
  being, and, uh, producing from
• 55:31
  pregnancy on the male is pretty
• 55:35
  non invasive. The process is
• 55:37
  pretty enjoyable. Uh,
• 55:40
  you know.
• 55:43
  Yeah. But now, to introduce
• 55:46
  this male contraceptive pill, you would
• 55:48
  have to show that this pill is on the
• 55:51
  same level of invasiveness as essentially taking
• 55:54
  a vitamin, that it is not going to have any side
• 55:57
  effects, because the alternative, which is
• 56:00
  doing nothing, has no side effects. Being pregnant for
• 56:03
  men doesn't have a lot of side effects, except for
• 56:05
  lifelong duty to your child.
• 56:09
  Figure it out. Um,
• 56:12
  go be a dad. They're working on
• 56:15
  it. Male contraceptive, uh,
• 56:18
  options other than vasectomies, the side effects
• 56:20
  remain mostly unacceptable for the male pill at this
• 56:23
  point. And so
• 56:26
  for myself and the other
• 56:29
  millions of men who have opted
• 56:33
  for mostly permanent
• 56:37
  contraceptive methods,
• 56:40
  we have had a vasectomy,
• 56:44
  and we go forth.
• 56:52
  And that brings us to the end of another episode of having children.
• 56:54
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• 56:57
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• 57:00
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• 57:03
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• 57:06
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• 57:29
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• 57:35
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  This brings us to the end of another episode of Privy. Keep hooping in the
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  free world. Own your stank. Wash yourself down
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  there and now. And as always, don't
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  forget to flash.