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Speaker: ah in it Right now. Hey, you they're recording going. Hey, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Ladies gentlemen, non-binary folks, if you're versus not unknown, this is role players. No, it isn't. This is, that's our Q for DQ for sure. We were just talking about role players and role players guild. My brain defaulted.
Speaker: Go check out role players. I'm thinking about reviving it from the day. Also role players guild, which is where Danny is from. They copied my podcast name like years ago. We did before we even heard about it. We copied it. Which is crazy. Yeah.
Speaker: How they had the same name in their name, but more words. Anyway, all's that to say, my name is Adam. This is Danny from the Guarantee Clan. Hello, Danny. That's right. I am from Clan Guarantee. I'm doing pretty good i i've had I've had an emotional week this week, and you may notice this huge... Hello, Beluga.
Speaker: You may notice this huge gaping hole next to me where there's usually a question. No question this week. No, this week.
Speaker: No question. This week you get a DGPSA. Okay, before we before we get to your DGPSA, can we can you acknowledge that I made a funny joke earlier that you didn't?
Speaker: Did you hear what I said? No, which one? yeah we said that you were from the guarantee clan and I said, clanny guarantee and you didn't laugh. I didn't hear it I would have otherwise.
Speaker: All right. I just want to guarantee. just want to make sure that was acknowledged and to make sure that we let our listeners. You are not a a version. You are absolutely right to do so. I apologize for missing it. It's okay.
Speaker: Uh, know you said you're about to make a PSA, an emotional PSA, but before you do that, I need to share something with you that made me really chuckle earlier. Okay. Just to kind of like get, bring some levity before we come crashing down in sad lands.
Speaker: Um, You so to remind our listeners, we are we are streaming. We're doing ah recordings, video recordings, as long as with this one. Now, ah Danny's wonderful, ah perfect wife, Beluga, is commenting in our chat. Hi, honey.
Speaker: She says, you how dare you not laugh at my joke? Thank you. I didn't hear it. I'm sorry. But so earlier day, literally today,
Speaker: Uh, because like when we go back into our, um, into fun installers chat, sometimes people will reference episodes that we've recorded, like stuff that we've recorded weeks ago that I'm just like, I don't know what the don't remember any like, I'm so sorry. i feel so bad because like,
Speaker: We try to record some of these in advance, and so I don't remember what we talked about sometimes. So I started going back again and listening to the episodes at work. It's a distraction because if I hear other people talking in my ear, I do absolutely nothing. So I just stare into the abyss until the episode's over.
Speaker: I'm not productive at all. but So I listened to an episode today, the the one about AI, and there was a point. It's funny, I listen to these episodes and i when you say something, i react in the moment of like, oh I would probably say this.
Speaker: And then I forget that I actually said that joke. So in the episode, you were talking about like, well, maybe somebody could use... AI to you know generate an idea for how to make a dragon turn into a banana or something, or a banana turning into a dragon.
Speaker: And like immediately when you said those words out loud at my desk today, I said, oh, like a banagon. and like And then two separate seconds later, after you were done talking, past Adam goes, you mean like a Banagan? And then I said something else later, like ah like a Dragana or something like that, which is also something I said it later.
Speaker: But it was so funny because right after it came out of my mouth, i was like, huh. Man, I hope I say something like that. That he's really smart, really funny. So then when I said it on that episode, 20 seconds after I said it out loud, I was like, man, I'm consistent. That's great. I'm so glad I still think it's safe. No, that's good. Yeah, the consistency is key. I was I was giggling to myself like I can't believe past me and current me still thought of the same stupid thing to say.
Speaker: All of that to say about just jokes and things. I just. No, that was good. it was I can't wait for you to hear this in like two or three weeks. And then like right here, you'll be like, oh, that's a funny thing I said. Then you'll say it again. Yeah, yeah. Well, you'll say here's what's probably going to happen, Danny.
Speaker: Since I said, oh, from the clan of guarantee and you or I said the guarantee clan, you said, ah yes, I am from the clan of guarantee. I guarantee that when I listen to this in a few weeks, I'll say, oh, like plenty guarantee.
Speaker: And then I'm going to say and we're going to hear it. And I'm going to forget we had this conversation. Well, yeah, then you're going to tell me all about it on TOQ like two weeks from now. And I'll have forgotten, too, because I'll be honest.
Speaker: I forget what we talked about the second we hit end recording. Dude, it all just is a blur. Sometimes same. So I just I just had to tell you about that because. ah Hitch was talking about how like they've been jumping around and listening to different episodes and they saw the M dash episode and they were like, Oh, I still got to get to that one. I said Oh, funny thing. I just listened to that one today and here's what happened. And they got such a kick out of it.
Speaker: Oh, they wanted me to tell you hi, by the way. Um, so, um, anyway, all that to say I'm done. You said you had something emotional and emotional week. I want to hear all about it. Um,
Speaker: ah The pun game is always very strong, Beluga. It is episode 82. This is episode 82. You called it episode eighty q I did. I called it 80Q. Yeah, so on the stream we called it episode eighty q and Yeah, hello.
Speaker: Who makes the puns for our stream titles in... Role players guild. The pun game's always on. To be fair, I started punting and then you punned with that. But I said it was like, yeah, Q82 just for you or something like that. and then Danny said ADQ. Yeah. And then i I already wrote it out and I was like, just an eight and a Q doesn't fit. I got to spell it out.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. We were torn. But yes. um Anyway, Danny, I'm sorry you have. No, no, it's fine. I want to hear all. And don't worry, I do actually have like a second mini.
Speaker: Silly story, which is fun to bring it up after we we we can get real. We can get real. So I'm done. i just wanted to share that fun story of inception.
Speaker: Please take it away. OK, so this is your DGPSA. it Somebody and I. Honestly, I would post it on here and I would name and shame and all that.
Speaker: Oh, but they deleted their post off Reddit. and So I can't. Oh, shit. I know. And I didn't write down their name. I kind of wish I had even their messages to me was deleted. But people message you.
Speaker: I messaged them first, to be fair. Oh, God. OK, this is nothing to do with TOQ itself. Oh, I thought this was about TOQ. No, this is not about TOQ. This is about somebody who needs to watch TOQ to learn not to be piece of shit this year. That's like our main goal for the 20 places. That is the main goal.
Speaker: So, and I want to preface this by saying, I went into this knowing full well that it sounded too good to be true. So if you hear the story and you're like, well, how could you fall for it? I was suspicious from the very get go, but.
Speaker: Oh, no. Yeah. So I go on Reddit to look for voice acting gigs. yeah Yes, I did tell Beluga about this. Hey, this is a private conversation, Danny. Just tell your story. Oh, my mistake.
Speaker: So. I went on Reddit, ah the voice acting subreddit, to just see what's there. you know and Sometimes you you hear helpful advice or something. It's fun to see other people set up. And I saw a job to do character voices for VTubers.
Speaker: So basically, I guess what they had said they wanted to do was start a bunch of VTube channels. And I would, if I got the part, I would be one of them.
Speaker: So they would kind of hook me up with a V tuber. And I would stream it or I would stream or whatever for them in character. Oh, interesting. I've never heard like I know what V tubers are, but I wasn't aware that I was like that honestly sounds pretty cool. You can. I'm sorry to pause. but What do they mean by that, though? ah You like I dream dream or then?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I would stream as the VTuber and the whole thing would be done in character. Huh? I've never even heard of that. that how Interesting. Okay. It's actually like a cool idea. Hmm.
Speaker: Okay. And they were going to pay.
Speaker: ah enough that it was suspicious. Hmm. Like triple, like quadruple digies. Yeah. Uh, it was 1700 week. A week? A week. Damn.
Speaker: Yeah. hu So big part of me is like, well, that is very suspicious.
Speaker: Excuse me. But another part of me is like, I've been unemployed for a long time and some money would sure be helpful. So I sent them a message and said, hey, here is my Google Drive, my demo reel.
Speaker: Give it a listen and let me know what you think. So they messaged me back and they said, hey, this sounds really good. We would like to set up a meeting with you.
Speaker: ah So please go to this website and just schedule a time slot. Hmm. OK. Like a Google Cal or something? Yeah, it was some other thing. Oh, I remember the the network, I guess, name they were going under was Meatbag TV.
Speaker: Meatbag TV? Be careful. I don't know if there's a real meat bag TV, but this one was a scam. um So they asked me to fill out a thing.
Speaker: I looked at it real quick and all it wanted was an email address. So i'm like, all right, well, my email address is the same as this Reddit account. So I'll just do any guarantee. I pick a time slot. And I'm like, you know, maybe on the off chance it's real.
Speaker: Who knows? Then they send me instructions and they're like, hey, so just to make sure that everything will work for like the VTuber and all that, we want your hardware ID for your computer.
Speaker: So I'm immediately going like, OK, no problem. Google, is that OK to give out? And it is for the most part because it doesn't give anybody access to anything. It just tells them what hardware you have.
Speaker: hmm. So I'm like, all right, that also kind of makes sense. They want to know, can my computer handle being a VTuber? Sure. um Is my mic good?
Speaker: And then they sent me the instructions on how to find my hardware ID. And this is where everything fell apart. um I looked up on Google how to do this. And it was like, oh, you go to device manager, you open up.
Speaker: You know, each individual piece of hardware that you want to look at and it'll say it in the menus what the hardware idea is. Just like a little square that opens up. Makes sense. What they sent me was. Hey, press Windows R and type PowerShell.
Speaker: And for people who don't know what your like computer lingo, PowerShell is what you use when you want to royally fuck up your computer. It's basically how you do things that normally your computer wouldn't let you do because it could.
Speaker: Break everything. Yeah, I've trained on. ah Like school versions, college versions of PowerShell when I considered doing doing like Google um tech support and they give you a version of PowerShell to like learn how to. That's cool. Yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker: Yeah, I know nothing of PowerShell outside of the fact that It's important enough for me to never touch. As someone who doesn't know how to use it. sir as So as soon as I see that they want me to open PowerShell, I'm like, uh-huh, okay.
Speaker: ah And then I look at the instructions and it's like, join.a1v slash something or other. So I Googled that.
Speaker: They wanted you to put that in PowerShell? They wanted me to put that in PowerShell. Okay. And then hit enter, and it was going to according to them, it would give me a string of numbers, and I would give that to them.
Speaker: Uh-huh. So I look up, I Google that join dot A1V, blah, blah, blah, blah. And basically what I got back was, oh, that tells your computer to go to the website, download something, and install it right then and there.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. I was like, oh, look at that. Hey, that's definitely not real. So I never did go to the meeting. Unfortunately, I thought about it just to see. and I would have loved if you went to that meeting and were like, well, I did everything you told me to do and it's just not working. I went I went back to the to the post because it was still there at the time.
Speaker: And sure enough, a lot of people
Speaker: ah Sorry, I'm distracted by chat. A lot of people were already posting like, hey, this is a scam. They got as far as I did and were like, yeah, this is what their instructions say. This is not good. um
Speaker: And somebody had said like, oh, yeah, I scheduled a meeting with them. I'm going to meet them tomorrow and I'll post back here and let us let you know. And unfortunately, it's since been removed.
Speaker: I tried removed it. I tried set it, which are both ways to like bring up deleted posts. I couldn't find it. My message with the person is gone. But this is your that this is your PSA. Always be careful and always be like do your due diligence. Like I don't know PowerShell, but I knew enough to know that it's important and to so always search before putting in anything in your computer that somebody else wants you to put on it.
Speaker: Always. it Just Google it. Google that and the word scam. See what comes up. But just play it safe, man, because God knows what that would have installed on my computer.
Speaker: So, yeah, there's your DGPSA for this week. So let me.
Speaker: Never did get that job. so I'm a little confused about like why you can't. Like your messages just aren't there because the account's not there. Like, I think that's really silly for Reddit to not have like. Yeah, I don't know. like I went to my private messages and that one is gone.
Speaker: That's nuts. I don't know if maybe they deleted their entire account. So it just deletes everything. Yeah, that's so lame, though, because like you should at least speak even if it says like i account user not found, like I get that. But the messages should still be there.
Speaker: Unless. The only other thing I could think of is that they were completely banned because somebody reported them, which is fine. I mean, yeah, maybe. i don't know. I don't know how Reddit works enough for that.
Speaker: What was call it was called? Meatbag? Meatbag TV. Curious if that pops up anywhere if I type that in. I tried searching it. I didn't see anything too crazy. Yeah. That's nuts. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's...
Speaker: Well, it's good that you had shame the foresight for that. I used to have to walk a lot of people out of so situations like that when I worked at the bank.
Speaker: People would just show up in a panic and be like, $3,000 of my dollars were gone, and that was what I was going to use to pay bills this month. um and they You guys have to do something. I was like, oh, fuck, man. i don't know what you did. But there's times where I had time, and I had to go through...
Speaker: on the phone for hours. And I had my cell phone plus one of the work phones trying to call somebody because he's trying to say like, oh yeah, I'm in America. You know, it was just this whole thing. And he's had to spread a lot of information because like there was a real big scam for a while. I forget what they were called, but something track.
Speaker: They were like those kind of gift cards you buy. i don't know, like a Walmart end cap somewhere. that you can just use the transfer money or something. I forget what they were called. They love the gift cards.
Speaker: Yeah. they were like, Oh, you know, I'm going to, you know, buy it on one of these and send us the money through that. That way it's untraceable. And then we'll double your money. You know, they pray on a lot of older people or people who didn't know about the scam. Yeah. um Yeah. It's the man, just scammers just get more and more fucking witty. Oh yeah. Dude. When I, there was a small business I worked for for a bit and,
Speaker: One of the the upper management people. I just happened to overhear them talking about how he got locked out of his computer by ransomware. Yeah, I remember saying like, send me $5,000 to unlock your PC.
Speaker: And I just happened to hear them talking about it as I'm walking by. I hear the the head of the company say like, all right, well, we'll pay them. And I stopped. I walked in and on them and i was like, wait, you cannot do that because they they may release your computer, but the The lock is still there. They can just relock it and say, send me another 5000. You can't just do that. Don't just pay them.
Speaker: Oh, so what do we do? I'm like, you just got get a new computer. You're you're bumped. Yeah, we when I work at a PC repair shop, That was right around the time that the FBI ransomware was really big. And so like what it would do is it would get in front of your login screen and it'd be like this big FBI, something like you would see at the beginning of a movie that says like, don't record this movie.
Speaker: Right. But it would say like a little message on there that says, we detected that you have illegal music, music or videos or whatever on here. that And, uh, the, you know, uh,
Speaker: It's like a $250 fine or something like that before you can all access your computer so we can erase all of the illegally downloaded stuff that you have. And they whoever did it, they made a killing because like a lot of people would do just what you said. They would pay it so they'd get back in their computer. And then like a week or two later, they would just do it again and like, we found more things on your computer. You have to pay another fine.
Speaker: And it looks kind of legit, and they couldn't Google it to find out if it was. um and This was before cell phones were super, super advanced. um So it was just this constant barrage. I remember we used to get flooded at the at the shop and the process to get into this computer.
Speaker: If you can mash the F10 button quick enough and the F11 button quick enough while you're rebooting the computer, you can get into the DDoS settings and like start working into safe mode.
Speaker: And even then it wasn't always guaranteed that if you missed your window of when you can block it and stop that program from running, just, it would just come back. like um it It would look like you did it.
Speaker: And then we'd be like, okay we would repeat it two or three times, log back in, log out, turn computer on, turn computer off, whatever. And then we would send by, we think we got it. Let us know. They'd be back in like a week. It's back.
Speaker: And so was like i don't know if it still lives there. We've, I mean, we would do like, what do you call it? Um, what do they call system restores, we can go back to like a certain checkpoint. And I would tell them like, if we do that,
Speaker: whatever you did up to the past three weeks, whatever is just going to be gone. Your computer will never know you did it. So if you have any precious photos on there, whatever it is that they're missing, they're like, no, no, no, just do it. Just do it. just do it.
Speaker: And sometimes, and most of the time that was the fix was we would have to get behind it, get in and then system restore it to get rid of it. But then people would still do the same things. They would fucking do the same shit to download it again. And was like, where are you getting this fucking virus? And it's just, they click anything that pops up on their screen. I'm like, a lot of it was like gambling ads so like oh if you want to make 500 bucks by just clicking and they would click these dumbass gambling ads on these websites they go on it would just download it guys what are you doing yeah i mean even even the one i was talking about at work they they never asked me how did this happen which i thought was crazy they were just like oh all right we have to get a new computer and then they left and i'm like do you want to know like what you should not do maybe
Speaker: Yeah, it's crazy how. Easy, like desperation is what really feeds that. Success rates of of those things is like I need to do. think um So, yeah, keep keep your eyes open out there, you know, keep your head on a swivel.
Speaker: People are crazy. They'll they'll try and rob you for every nickel and dime you got. Yeah. um I liked your swivel. Thank you. I was going to go all the way around, but I didn't know if my chair was going to hit my mic, so I didn't want to do it. um Yeah, I'm sorry that happened to you. That's really shitty. um Yeah, it wasn't great. yeah Hang on. Let me type this into AI so can get a better response for you. I hate you.
Speaker: But it's OK. I come with another story just from today. OK. To help ah bring bring the mood back up a little. Some levity. Yeah. So.
Speaker: We've had our parakeet link for seven years, I think six, seven years now. Link is a parakeet. Yes, that that's why I said we've had our parakeet link for about six or seven years now. Link the parakeet. Yeah, yes. The parakeet that is link.
Speaker: Yeah. and he's always been. ah he's He's always done the same tricks, right? he'll He'll run around and he's done basically the same tweets the whole time and everything and never had a real big problem with them.
Speaker: And couple years ago, he started developing like the these tumors on his back. And we looked it up, and they're just fatty tumors. they're They themselves are not super terrible, but they can get caught, or he picks at them, and they can bleed sometimes.
Speaker: So today, we're sitting there having breakfast, and Link just starts... doing like these small chirpy tweets over and over again that he's never done before.
Speaker: So I go over to the cage and there's blood all over the bottom. I'm like, okay, you know, he was picking at it again and, Oh dear. Yeah. And unfortunately there, I don't even think we can get them removed. Cause I don't think he'd be okay if we did that.
Speaker: So we're like, you know, we're just going to deal as it goes. And, uh, he, he, But he he was acting kind of normal, right? and He's just making these tweeting noises.
Speaker: And his nose is Sarah or whatever it's called, was turning dark, hu which happens every once in a while. And I know that that means something with hormones.
Speaker: So we finally look up what the tweeting means, because, again, six, seven years, never done it. He was just a horny bastard today. Oh, first of all, he's a she and she's a horny bastard today. Did you just learn that today?
Speaker: Well, I always kind of knew because of the nose thing. Like only the girls have like the darker the nose that gets darker and then lightens again. ah well, you look at that. But girl link. She she never i guess she never.
Speaker: had like these hormonal chirps before. And oh my god, she just was such an attention whore today. And I'm sure Beluga will mbeluga will back me up here.
Speaker: It's like when a cat puts your ass in your face all the time. Yeah, just very cat-like. ah He'll run across the table. I'm sorry, I'm going to switch between and she. Linkle was running across the table.
Speaker: And we would put toys up on the table and he would just immediately grab them and throw them off. As you do, as cats do. Sure. So it's been that all day. Just running to the edge of the table and staring at us until we put the toys back up. Just so they could throw it off and we'll put it back up.
Speaker: Then they tweet at us. I had them on my shoulder for a little bit. It's very funny that you have a trans bird. Yeah, we really do. Well, you know,
Speaker: it Before that, we had a bearded dragon. We didn't know the gender of that either because bearded dragons and birds are two really hard things to like to gender. Right. So both of our pets have been pretty much gender fluid.
Speaker: Incredible. I love that. Like Link doesn't know. so Can't wait to I can't wait to tell Hitch about it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. ah I love trans people. My bird's trans.
Speaker: There's a shirt right there. i have a trans bird.
Speaker: I trans people. My bird's trans. ah ah Speaking of... ah Speaking of birds...
Speaker: ah Those bastards are really trying to get hit by my car lately. Oh, have they been swooping? Oh, I just... i've I think I've already shared this on the podcast, but two of the three animals I've ever hit my life were birds of my car.
Speaker: And like, they're trying, man. they just They're not smart. I'm sorry. Dude, one this morning, there was a car coming opposite me as I'm going towards it, and a fucking bird narrowly misses both of us, weaves in between. but he's like They're like...
Speaker: they're like thrill seekers, man. it' Yeah. I mean, if you could fly, you'd be a thrill seeker too. dude Yeah. But not the fucking chief. I'll die. ah just be like, Oh, I might like not flap my wings a couple extra times before I fall out of this tree, you know, just to be like, Whoa, almost hit the girl. Yeah. Yeah. But I wouldn't be like flying in a fucking car. It's like, my God.
Speaker: So frustrating. um Also, I found a question for us to answer since we are TOQ and we didn't, have a queue technically today. All right. Well, you know what? Fair enough. Here's my queue for this week. but I found person on Reddit. Why are you such an asshole?
Speaker: That's true. Hey, person on Reddit. Have you thought about not being a piece of shit this year? Maybe don't be a piece of shit this year. Yeah. So go ahead. Well, I don't want that to be the last thing we think about because do you want me to put it up on. the
Speaker: Do you want us to be like at least semi professional and put the the stuff on the stream? I fucking guess. Yeah, no, I hate having to be professional. Yeah. Oh, God, we disappeared.
Speaker: Professional. No, no, we're back. We're good. OK. For some reason, Discord doesn't like or or any website really doesn't like to show videos if I cover it. It's true. um Yeah, it will black us out for a little bit and then we'll come back. It's fine.
Speaker: ah So the question that I found is a relatively simple one from ask Reddit called Rule OK Hit is the Reddit user. And they say, what is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%? this is just a picture.
Speaker: Yeah. What'd you think it was? Link? Link. Yeah. um yeah I just sent you a screenshot of it. You sure did. Sorry. thought I was helping.
Speaker: Um, but's like you wanted i thought i was helping um So, yeah, it says, what is it? It's something that is relatively cheap. Now, don't know how that what they mean by improves your life by 100%. I don't know how you can measure that.
Speaker: Because it's Chinese food. Yeah. oh we that a winnern It's true. Is that a regular occurrence in the guarantee household? I have been doing a little bit less recently, but we used to and we'll probably have Chinese every week.
Speaker: Really? Yeah. To the point where they know us and they give us more stuff. That's awesome. Yeah. I love that. Last time we got Chinese, they gave us free donuts. Yeah. They usually give us cookies, especially if we pick it up.
Speaker: Really? Mm hmm. I got free sausage once at a place called Smokey Bones. That was cool. Smokey Bones. Yeah. Look at that. i'll See, look how nice that looks now. Yeah, you can see the ads right on screen.
Speaker: And there they go. They're gone. OK, so yeah. So what is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100 percent? ah I just think it's nice. i'm I'm very much a lover of the simpler things. I'm entertained by simple things. I laugh at simple things.
Speaker: I appreciate the little things. um But we're talking about cheap, so I assume they mean like inexpensive. So you think of anything inexpensive. Now, it doesn't have to prove your life by 100 percent. don't know I can tell about anything that would improve my life by 100 percent.
Speaker: No, I got one that I think would actually answer this. 100 percent. OK, I think so. little preamble because I can't just answer things nice and easy. You got to give it a political. You think this is I got to give it a huge answer.
Speaker: Yeah. uh the inside of one of my ears is a little deformed and it's got like a little dip in it that's not supposed to be there custom and it kind of acts like a drain catch it keeps it from being able to clean itself ah they like as you speak your earwax is supposed to fall out it stops that so every once in a while my ear can get clogged up and i've had to go to the doctor a few times to get it cleaned And what they'll do is they'll give you some hydrogen peroxide.
Speaker: And they just have, qui you know, yeah, they squirt it in and then they'll they'll get like a squirt bottle. Yeah, like a special made squirt bottle. And they'll just squirt the inside and and kind of flush everything out.
Speaker: I've gotten it done before. It's nice. One of the best things I've ever done. bought one. So I can do it at home. It was like 10 bucks. Yep. It's just a little squirt bottle, but it's like pressurized.
Speaker: Yep, I've had the correct pressure for your ear and it comes with like little um little bits to to put in your ear and and squirt it and it shoots the water in all different directions. Works like a charm. I no longer have to go to the doctor for it.
Speaker: I don't have to wait for it to actually clog before I can clean my ears. It's fantastic. i highly recommend ah the next thing I was thinking of getting was a neti pot for when my nose gets all stuffed up.
Speaker: I can tell you that that is worth it because I have one, but it's not it's not the like the traditional genie lamp neti pot. It's a pressurized bottle. So because like I have a hard time just like pouring it up my nose without it, like feeling a little too uncomfortable for me.
Speaker: um So I have one. It's like it's but who makes it. I think it's kind of called Neal Med and E-I-L-M-E-D. Um, and it's like a little squeezy bottle that you put the saline solution in. Usually heat you put in, you want to put clean water in there and then, uh, like a purified water, I should say.
Speaker: And then, um, or distilled. I don't really know the difference, but one of the two probably distilled. And, um, you just kind of like give it a gentle squeeze and it just like up, up one end out the other pretty quickly. Uh, and it makes it a lot less like,
Speaker: I don't say painful because it's not ah even the original is not painful. It's just that you do it. You get over with quicker because like you are essentially kind of drowning yourself at first. But like the thing that that's the reason I haven't gotten is like I'm scared.
Speaker: Yeah. The pressure bottle takes a lot of that fear away because it just happens so fast. Then it's like jumping into a pool, like without plugging. you're Not just like, OK, I was going to say, how's it not just like shoot down the back of your throat and it can you can get some of that if you're tilting your head, but you shouldn't be. You should be leaning forward over a sink or something.
Speaker: So it just kind of like, you know, you have you have like five different sinuses in your head, but it mostly cleans out like the ones in your cheeks and like up in here. And so just kind of like. It goes up the top, down below.
Speaker: um And then you just, you blow your nose a couple of times just to get all the stuff out of there after it's done dripping. And then you do it on the other side and you go, and then I go until the fucking thing's about empty and then I use what's left to help wash the tip of it.
Speaker: Now I'll be honest with you. The one I bought, I bought like seven years ago and you're supposed to replace them like every six months. I have not replaced the one that I've been using. Just make sure you wash it in bleach or something. I wash it. I rinse it. I let it dry air dry.
Speaker: i do all the things, but I was like, well, it still works. Why should i Yeah, why? It's not cheap if I have to replace it every six months. It's it's cheap. there the packe you The pack you buy it in, it's like a pack of like, I think they give you 50 packets of saline solution and the bottle and some instructions. And I think it's like under 20 bucks or something like that for everything.
Speaker: Um, no, I don't use it as often as I probably should. I just use it when I feel like things are getting real bad. Um, and yeah, it's, it's, I'm not going to say it's fun, but compared to the original like genie lamp, uh, thing. Oh man, complete different. Also look into that. Cause yeah, that's my next body purchase. I think.
Speaker: Yeah, goodness I've seen I've seen some of the like some videos of what's come out of people, people's noses from those. And I'm scared of what's going to come out of mine.
Speaker: Yeah, I think. um I think that's a worthy um I tell you what, this is like. um
Speaker: Kimmy's here and she says that Beluga didn't tell her that we were live. Ah, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry, Kimmy, but I got to get I got to back Beluga on this one.
Speaker: I said yesterday we were going to be live at eight o'clock today. Oh, and you you were there. And there's proof because that was while we were doing. Fight, fight, fight. I'm like sorry. i have to back Beluga this time. um I will say, I don't know if I told you the story of when I got my septum fixed.
Speaker: um But when I got that fixed for. Gosh, weeks after. Every now and again, you'd feel like you just had like a lot of like stuff to blow out of your nose and it was just rotten flesh that died in your like from the the surgery and then you just have to like find a way to get it out. Like you blow until like it comes out and it is, it looks like fucking zombie flesh when it comes out your nose. Yeah, I'm sure that's not Unless you have something like that happen, you will never have anything remotely as gross come out of your nose. if you use some netty But that was one of the worst things i had ever had happened to me.
Speaker: And I didn't know when she said, oh you know, there might be like some dying muscle and or dying something in there, dying flesh. I was like, oh, that's weird. But then like, it just feels like you have like a big snot stuck in your nose. Like what the fuck you're trying, and you're blowing, you're blowing. And then it just, yeah it's fucking gross. that You will never see that.
Speaker: You will never, ever, ever see that come out of your nose. The worst you'll see is maybe a little bit of blood. If you have like some dried, you know, you know dryness going on. I have that sometimes, but that's what the saline so solution is for is to like help moisten like inside of your nose. So you have less discomfort.
Speaker: Highly recommend. would my My problem was, especially last time I had a sinus infection, my nose got super dry. So during the day, it wasn't a huge problem, but at night,
Speaker: I guess my nose would run a little bit and then dry overnight. And if I could feel it like way up here, it felt like I had glass up my nose. It was just hardened boogers.
Speaker: Dude. Yeah. I just completely dried out. Yeah. It feels like, yeah, it gets so sticky in there. Yeah. I always say I'm allergic to, I'm allergic to earth's atmosphere. Like it's just awful. Yeah. well Actually, you know, surprisingly, um, seasonal allergies are like one of the only allergies I don't have.
Speaker: Fascinating. I have them all year round. They say if you have to try and drink tea with local honey. Yeah, I've heard about that. You're right. I should do that. I've heard that that's a good way to like kind of inoculate yourself a bit.
Speaker: I recently learned the value of honey. i I tried it once as a kid, did not like it. And then just recently i was like, you know what? We bought a thing of it for Beluga to try.
Speaker: She wasn't a fan. And I was like, well, people always say tea with honey is really good for your voice. Oh, my God, it is a game changer. If you're looking to do voice acting or anything.
Speaker: Green tea with honey. Holy crap. This is for Kimmy. I'm showing my chapstick because I keep it everywhere I go. um Yeah, I agree with you. I think. um I think.
Speaker: I started doing that because I used to like, because before I got my septum fixed, I slept a lot with my mouth open. And so my, I would often just, my throat would be so raw when I would get up.
Speaker: And so I had to start doing that as a home remedy because it just got, oh, that. And I would put a little bit of, was it olive oil? Some kind of oil, because used to put the same oil in my ear when I had an earache.
Speaker: I can't remember what that oil was, ah but that was like a home remedy back in the sticks was like, oh if you have an earache, put this oil in your ear and then put a cotton ball in there to keep it in there to relax. It really worked. I forget what that was. It wasn't it wasn't olive oil. oh Fuck, what was it?
Speaker: I put it on when my nose was super dry. I took what was it? Beluga like petroleum jelly or something like. oh yeah. I started. And I just put a little on my finger and just kind of. yeah Pick my nose a little bit, get it in there. but um my God. That way you can get that way you can get some of the some of the other areas on that.
Speaker: But the things you have to think, I just went old school knuckle deep. Like a lot of people don't realize when you have when people say sinus issues, they think like on your nose. But you have sign like your sinuses are like in your cheeks.
Speaker: But you have, I think, two up, two up on your forehead. I might go up to your eyes. They go back to your ears and they go back here and they come down here. And these ones are usually the ones like on the side, because you can actually alleviate some pressure if you're really stuffed up.
Speaker: If you press in the right place, like in your cheeks, ah because that like builds pressure and like pulls it back. up I mean, I've had it where I've had sinus infections or whatever. And then you feel it in your teeth.
Speaker: Yep. oh yeah right like this sign I have all of those fucking things. I hate a hay fever. When I had my wisdom teeth removed, they told me that the the roots for it were all entangled in my sinuses. They're like, don't be surprised if you get a major sinus infection out of this. I never did.
Speaker: Yeah, somehow. I've had them a few times. They're uncomfortable. Oh, I hate it. So, yeah, I would highly recommend, especially if you have a deviated septum, if you can get the correction, do it.
Speaker: But a Nettie rinse. Now, the Nettie rinse won't work as well because part of your nose is collapsed. But what gets through, even if you just go up, if it goes up the same hole and then comes back down, ah it does help alleviate like a lot of whatever extra pressure is in there.
Speaker: but Let me tell you, let me tell you something about the the people who don't have a deviated septum who complain, oh, I'm so stuffed. Oh, i'm so I was literally about to ask, how do you know if you even have a deviated septum?
Speaker: Oh, you know, because I don't think I do. If you, well, if you plug each nostril individually and then breathe through it and you can typically get a similar amount of air coming through each side, you don't have a deviated septum.
Speaker: You can also, when you look in the mirror, if you tilt your head all the way up, you can see, like you can see if like your nostrils are like a little bit smaller on one end. You can see like if you, I used to take like the flashlight on my phone and shine it up in to look. Cause like at one point,
Speaker: I was like, man, something's really wrong and I don't know what it is. um And then you find it. Like you see like, oh, it looks like a fucking collapsed cave up inside of my nose. Like you can see it. You know it.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't think I have that. You could hear like a whistle if I because it was my right side. So if I plug my left nostril and breathe, you'd hear like a. as i was breathing But if I plug you had a superpower and you got rid of it.
Speaker: oh man, got to tell you. If you believe here's a PSA about deviated septums. Okay. Here's the pros and cons. Cause I'll tell you, cause I went through it. Um,
Speaker: if you, oh, Valega was just saying about having a camera shoved up your nose. I know, because that's part of how they check you. And the camera was so big, and they disappeared that whole thing up into my brain. And it was insane to have my girlfriend at the time there, who I'm like, I just want her to think I'm hot, watching a screen that shows the inside of my nose and what my tiny ass little brain looks like as they shove that fucking thing up there. This is where the brain is supposed, oh, we found it. Dude, it was insane. I was like, they're like, do you want to watch what it looks like? And i was like, no, I do not. Thank you.
Speaker: Meanwhile, my girlfriend's eyes are like glued. It's like, wow. Is that that was like, I would do me. I'd be like, whoa, dude. Uh, yeah. And so here's what changed.
Speaker: Um, number one, allergies got a little bit worse. Not going to lie because like now it's entering through both nostrils a lot easier. Um, But. i Romance is dead. Kimmy says and they say romance is dead. Yeah, I'm telling you.
Speaker: I just like, yeah, come to my doctor's appointments. Also, just as a side tangent before I tell you the the plus the pluses, when I went to the ENT to. That's ear, nose and throat doctor to get an assessment.
Speaker: While I was there, the woman asked me, the doctor said, i shouldn't have said the woman. I was just, she was a very interesting lady. So I called her the woman, the doctor. um That damn woman. That damn woman. Yeah.
Speaker: She said, well, let me take a look at your ears while I'm here. You know, while you're here, let's just take a look. And i was like, that's not why I'm here. So, so She shines a light in there for a little bit and she's like, oh it's going to offer like do a little cleaning. But like it seems like you got a lot of she's like, do you use Q-tips? And this is why i learned don't use Q-tips because they because Beluga mentioned a camera that goes up your nose and it's a big one.
Speaker: They took a hook that was probably two and a half size, the size of my pointer finger, like long. And she took this fucking little hook, had me lay my head down onto the bed and then shoved this thing into my ear. And damn near her knuckle was touching my ear by the time she got it all the way in there, which is crazy.
Speaker: You don't realize just how many nooks and crannies you have in your head until someone shoved a giant hook in it. And she used it to grab like like what she called a raisin. She's like, like this stuff hardens because you keep whatever you think you're cleaning out, you push more back into your ear canal.
Speaker: And she uses this hook to grab it and like peel it up so she can remove it. And again, my girlfriend at the time was there and got to see it all. ah Got to see everything.
Speaker: um And I got to tell you, one of the worst pains I've ever felt in my life. Yeah, and it doesn't feel good. It felt like, you know, if you have a Band-Aid on for a really long time, especially if you have hair on that part of your arm and you have to take that off. And if you take whether you take it off slow or fast, it still hurts like a bitch.
Speaker: She had to slowly peel this because, again, it's near my brain. And so she had had to slowly peel this thing up out of my ear. And oh, my God.
Speaker: the The same girlfriend that saw my brain. Yes, Beluga. was the same one that got to see the raisins from my brain. And... I can tell you the noise and the feeling was one of the most intense things I've ever felt in my life because it's so close to your ear canal.
Speaker: It's so close to your brain that like just the intensity of that was so fucking real. And then she pulls it out and she goes, oh man, you must've been like pushing that stuff back there for years.
Speaker: And I was like, uh-huh. And then she goes, all right, let's do the other side. And I was like, oh my God, I forgot I have two. oh no. Yeah. So the last time I got ah my ears cleaned at the doctor and this is what finally pushed me to really do this.
Speaker: o They did that. They got the scraper out and she she takes a look and she's like, OK, yeah, it doesn't look too bad. We'll just use. ah Oh, wait a minute. And as soon as she said that, i'm like, what?
Speaker: She's like, have you been using Q-tips? I'm like, yeah, a little bit. She's like, yeah, you have a bunch of earwax pressed up against your eardrum. Yep. And she's like, does your head ever feel funny? And I'm like, yeah, actually, it does kind of feel like a little clogged sometimes on one side.
Speaker: She's like, yeah, that's why. So she had to do that same thing with the hook on my eardrum. She had to scrape the eardrum clean. And it is amazing. terrifying and ever since she did that i actually get twitches on my eardrum on that side sometimes have you ever gotten that you've only done it on the one side i had to do it on both it's the other side didn't have it oh the other side just had some wax she was able to do the squirt gun she did the squirt gun on both sides after but she only had to really go in the one and ever since then i get like twitches on my eardrum sometimes and it like it sounds like a drum going off in my ear
Speaker: It's very weird. i remember when they did that part, I didn't realize how much it affected my hearing. Oh, yeah. And so for a short while, I was very disoriented. actually had to sit down because like before I left because I was like so disoriented because I was hearing for the first time in that room, I was hearing my voice reverberate off the walls.
Speaker: And I was like, was it always this echoey in here? and And the doctor goes, that'll subside after a while. Just you have you you have super hearing for a little while because we just removed a lot of blockage from your ears.
Speaker: And I was like, yeah. And I could just hear like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah yeah Like yeah i reverberation. i was like, this is it's so I felt like Superman when he first got his power. He's like on Earth. You're like, oh, before i God, I hear everything. Yeah.
Speaker: But all that to say, wait, hang on a second. I got distracted. Kimmy said when I was in third grade, I got a small rock stuck on my left ear. And you guys talk about how I easily got distracted by. I finally got it removed when I was 16.
Speaker: What? Oh, my God. What the fuck? Well, Kimmy, you have to come on the podcast and talk about that. um let's have Let's start a new series where we have guests come on and tell us about the most traumatic things. I'm in. Let's do it.
Speaker: Tell me your grossest thing that's ever happened to your body. That's our Q lateral damage. That's our Q lateral damage.
Speaker: um So I'm just going to call. I'm just going to call. I'm just going to call the episode. Q lateral damage. I like that. That's a good you lateral damage. I'm going to put DMG.
Speaker: um So um what was I saying? So the benefits of getting your septum corrected just for anybody who's on the fence. OK, OK.
Speaker: Pro. ah Let me finish the cons. The cons were, you know, allergies get in both sides now. but Pro or another con is sometimes food that you like, might you might realize you know you might not like as much anymore.
Speaker: Um, for instance, I realized that because I was constantly struggling to breathe and I didn't realize for the longest time that it was because of a deviated septum, I ate a lot of spicy things and I still love spice now, but I didn't realize I had to like retrain my spice levels because I ate a way higher spice level because my taste buds were all sorts of fucked up.
Speaker: Same thing with sweets. I realized that I couldn't taste a lot of things because my septum was so messed up that like my taste buds were dampened. And so I ate a lot of very sweet things. And so I remember probably about two weeks after i got my septum fixed, we went to IHOP and I got one of my favorite things at the time, which was like this big old stack of chocolate chip pancakes, chocolate, chocolate chip pancakes. So they were chocolate pancakes with chocolate chips.
Speaker: Oh, I could barely make it through it. And I was like upset. i was like, this tastes weird meatloaf i loved meatloaf so much but then i just started realizing like man it's like it's so fucking salty why is it god why do they put so much salt in this it's almost always good and i realized it's because i was tasting shit that ordinarily i didn't taste before at least it wasn't as intense and so i was like fuck like i'm in a way it was a good thing because like i was like oh i'm i can eat less shitty now because like I didn't realize I was relying so heavily on this extra flavor.
Speaker: um So that's something, if you get it fixed, that that may happen. You might just be like, wow, this thing I liked is now too intense, or I might have to scale it back on how I consume it. Good thing I could enjoy tea.
Speaker: I used to make fun of all my friends for drinking tea. I was like, tea tastes like hot water. Why do you, in the what's the point? But now I can taste tea. I get it now. Yeah, see, it's pretty good, right? I get why people drink tea. um But also, if you get sick, your body typically will determine will shift which one of your nostrils, if it's clogged, which one takes most of the burden.
Speaker: But when you only have the one, it's you're drowning all the time. So when you get that to happen, like getting a cold now feels like a fucking, not vacation, I shouldn't say that, but way better than what I used to struggle with. Oh my God.
Speaker: um So like your nose can actually do the things it's meant To do. um So um that's another good benefit. And ah also, you can smell nice things. I've been so much.
Speaker: it so It was overwhelming at first, but like I understood why people smelled flowers. I understood why like a more subtle cologne ah or like a subtle perfume or like.
Speaker: You understood why everybody hates the kids that just cover themselves in acts. always hated that just because like it just it's very disruptive to just. My brother did that shit. um or Or something else that's a little bit more intimate was like when you know you hold and like a new a newborn baby. like A lot of people say there's like a smell.
Speaker: And I was just like, oh, I get it. like That's what a baby smells like. you know i Just like I get when they say, oh you know's it's got that new baby smell. yeah um Or sweat.
Speaker: you know like I was very more more akin to like oh like sweat in the air If you're doing sexy things with somebody, it's kind of a turn on really for me because I'm like, oh shit, it's getting hot in here now. You know? So paul you clo anyway, all that to say, there are a lot more pros and cons in my opinion.
Speaker: um But if you're on the fence about it, I would highly recommend it. The only the only shitty part about it is probably... post-surgery, you pretty much have to tape gauze to your face for like three days straight.
Speaker: Like, because there's no function in America or the world that I know of that can catch blood without it having to go somewhere because your nose will leak for a few days after you get it done because it's not done healing yet.
Speaker: um And so you just have to tape gauze to catch it. And once you feel it getting too heavy, you start to feel it touch your mouth. You well, time to change the gauze. And you tape another one to your face. That's not fun. i didn't like that. And you have to pretty much sleep upward for your first couple of days so you don't crush your nose all over again while it's healing.
Speaker: guess that makes sense. Yeah. but The recovery is only maybe... Like a week, ah like for at least like like the for it to feel a little bit more. Well, that's not true. You can sleep normally after a few days, but you're still supposed to be careful about how you sleep.
Speaker: But like you only have to keep the gauze on your face for a few days. ah You may have some dead flesh eventually come out of your nose. It's not pleasant. Lovely. Makes for a great story, though. Yeah.
Speaker: um That's pretty much it, really. just That's the part that I hate the most, was just because your skin gets really raw. so like something In hindsight, when you change the tape, moisturize your face before you do it again. like Put some KY jelly or whatever you got on there to moisten that shit up before you tape back on, because that got real fucking raw for three days of being taped to my face.
Speaker: um but Outside of that, totally worth it. Absolutely, totally worth it. I'm glad I did it. I wish I'd done it sooner. Yeah, do it. Says you can't look down. Even if you don't need it, go get your septum fixed.
Speaker: Yeah. Ask him to break it. you Just break it so you can see what it's like. The s surgery is quite fascinating because like they essentially like find a way to reconstruct. Like.
Speaker: like They essentially take all the musculature... the Not the musculature. What's the word I'm looking for? that the like ah The cartilage? Cartilage is the word I'm looking for. Thank you. Where they take the cartilage bridge because you have like a Y shape in your nose.
Speaker: And so they take one road of the Y and they just completely demolish it because it's broken anyway. And they re-rig the cartilage to rely on the other side to support it.
Speaker: And they put these things called stints, which are these really long... crazy long fucking like rubbery support structures up into your nose and they have it stay there for about a week but you have to get it out like right at a week you have to go back and get it removed um And it's a very weird sensation because when you look up into your nose to see it, it looks like a little button.
Speaker: When they rip it out, it's a massive fucking worm, essentially, a that they shove up there. And it like helps hold your nose in place until like the bridge they built fuses with the other side of your nose.
Speaker: And then like that's how it stays open. um It's very cool. It's very fun to learn about. um i would love to learn about that on someone else. Yes. Yeah. Overall, I think a good experience gave me lots of good stories.
Speaker: I'm not getting it fixed. I'm not dealing with that healing. The healing process, Beluga, is a little weird, but like I promise you the benefits are so worth it. Holy i shit. If I remember right, I think Beluga's older sister had it that done.
Speaker: Really? To get a septum fix. Yeah, it's it's worth it. It is a little miserable to heal, but like it's better than like like if you get like a patella surgery, that's like fucking three months of your life.
Speaker: Right. This is like a few days. Dude, did you speaking of surgeries? Just so I snore at night and I was looking up ways to fix it.
Speaker: And there is actually like a surgery they could do because there's like a. a flap at the very back of your sinuses that causes the snoring. And they're like, Oh, we could shave that down.
Speaker: And then I read what could happen during that surgery. Have you ever heard of empty nose syndrome? Actually, I have, I don't know what it is, but that sounds like something is like a scary story. I told me about it. It is the scariest thing I've ever heard of in my life.
Speaker: So apparently in that little flap of whatever in the back, That's where the nerve is that tells your brain that you're breathing through your nose or that airflow is coming from your nose to your lungs to tell your brain you're breathing.
Speaker: So people were getting the surgery and then saying like that nerve got damaged. So that even if they were breathing through their nose, they would feel like they're holding their breath. Interesting. And there is no fix for it.
Speaker: You're just a mouth breather from then on. People were saying like, I hate this. i want to, you know, go game over myself because I can't. Anytime I close my mouth, I start choking, even if I'm breathing.
Speaker: Wow. It feels like you're you're dying. I'm like, oh, yeah, I think never mind. I will just snore. Beluga can deal with it. Yeah, I think I learned about that from one of my former students at the dance studio who like uses a CPAP machine.
Speaker: And he said that he considered getting a surgery like that. But he also I don't know if he described it the same way. i think he just said something like, you're suffocating all the time if they snip some... Yeah. I remember saying that yes he used the word flap, and I couldn't know... No one you said, that I was like, oh, that must be what he was talking about.
Speaker: He said, when they snip the flap, you suffocate all the time. Yeah, because there's like It's what you use to block it out as a go like this. Right. It's that. But, like you know... it you gained weight or whatever, or it gets inflamed. It it can clog up and you snort.
Speaker: So they'll trim that, but that's where the nerve is that tells your brain you're breathing. So yeah, that, well, that's what it is. You feel like you're suffocating, even though you're breathing fine. That's great. you have to breathe through your mouth.
Speaker: Oh, it sounds awful. It sounds terrifying.
Speaker: Hmm. Do I know something relatively cheap that improves my life by a hundred percent, Danny? I would. Cause you haven't actually said yet. Our friendship. Bitch, I ain't cheap.
Speaker: No, sir, you are not. youre You are a very expensive date. I know. You're a very expensive date. But that was very cute. Thank you.
Speaker: hey All I got to do is get you another, another, what is it, red a sweater set, you know, red hoodie, red sweatpants.
Speaker: Hey, man, I paid that back with an Excel spread spreadsheet that you paid me for without me even asking. No, I know. I know. um Which reminds me, I have more requests for you. That's fine.
Speaker: But tell your company to reimburse you this time. I'm actually going to try to do that. I'm going to. Yes. I don't want you to pay me. I want that. I'm going to try just a as an aside. I paid Danny for something he helped me with for a work project because nobody at work knew how to do it. And I was like, I know somebody who can.
Speaker: And so I asked Danny to help us with an efficiency thing on Excel. And then you need Excel help. I can help you. dany You should go on Fiverr. You should go on Fiverr and sell services like that. Honestly, I've thought about doing freelance Excel.
Speaker: Dude, you like like essentially I got a Fiverr account. Right. I just hired you for gig work like that was that's what that was was I was like, hey, do you want to you know, I could use some help. But like i was like, I can't just have you do that for free since it works.
Speaker: um You know, so if you say, hey, here's an example of something I made. You should absolutely do that. um But anyway, um you know what i was thinking while i was ranting about that, Danny, was you know how we have our shirts. like This is my Monday shirt. This my Tuesday shirt. You should have the same.
Speaker: aspire to make these shirts. I aspire to make the same colored shirt. And it's just like like how you dress like a cartoon character where like they wear the same outfit every day. It's just that it says like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday on it. That way they know it's a different shirt, but it looks as like the same shirt. I kind of aspire just to have like because a couple of weeks ago. Make it real small, like on the arm or something. you Yeah. yeah yeah yeah there's a different shirt But, ah you know, even if you look, it doesn't look any different.
Speaker: Yeah. The other day, a few weeks back, one of our conversation starters, our icebreakers were like, if you were a cartoon, like what would your cartoon outfit be? What would your closet look like with all the same outfit colors?
Speaker: ah And I've been thinking about that and I was like, I kind of want to just like, if I had to identify what is Adam's like, What would my outfit be in every episode of a cartoon?
Speaker: Like, what would that be? And so I was like, it' be cool just to have the same color of shirt. that just It just looks like Adam wears the same same blue jeans and a green shirt. And it just says Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday on it.
Speaker: Mine would be either gray or black sweats with either a black or a blue T-shirt and my red Vans hoodie.
Speaker: Yeah, your red Vans hoodie kind of has to be part of that that. Yeah, that one's gotten pretty popular. Yeah, that one is. Everybody knows I wear the Vans hoodie every day. Do you do you even wear that in the summertime? Because I noticed you're not wearing it now.
Speaker: Not so much in the summer, but like if we're going to like a restaurant we think is going to be cold, I'll have it with me. You don't have like a like a thinner version. I do, but that's my Vans hoodie.
Speaker: What about like a Vans shirt? and don't have a Vans shirt. I like you got to get something like this. i don't know what these style of jackets are called, but I like to have these things that are like it's like a really thin, almost like golfer looking jacket. I mean, I do have like thinner jackets.
Speaker: The problem is it takes a lot for me to get cold. I stand up there a little higher. It was cut off on the bottom. There you go.
Speaker: Just in case anybody's wondering. Yeah. No, so I'm just showing off my shirt to the ah to the video audience. You have to watch the video to see what it says. Sorry, audience.
Speaker: um But yeah, it takes a lot to make me cold. So I skip over the cold that would need a jacket like that. m I would be fine. Just normal like that. And then if I'm cold, I'm like, I need a hoodie hoodie like.
Speaker: ah Hoodie hoodie. I need a hoodie hoodie. Yeah, I noticed that like when you're not wearing your hoodie, you're wearing you wear a lot of dark shirts, a lot of dark colors. I'm just it's whatever's on the top of the pile. I don't try. The pile.
Speaker: i try to at least match most of the time a sock to a shirt. But if I can't do that, then I try to match the the like complementary colors to my shoes.
Speaker: Oh, no, I just I go to here's the shirt pile. The sweats pile and the underwear pile. And that's it. I mean, don't get me wrong. ah You know, if I'm going out and I need to look nice, I will try.
Speaker: But.
Speaker: Yeah, me too, man. um What you were saying. Yeah, no, exactly what I was saying. What you were saying. um So, yeah, I think.
Speaker: Did I say? Oh, yeah. Our friendship. But yeah, but what is actually something cheap?
Speaker: Kimmy actually said an answer earlier that I very much relate to, which is ChapStick. I always have one of all the things I carry with me everywhere. ChapStick is one of them. I always have it in my right pocket. That's where it lives. That's the pocket it's supposed to be in. If it's ever missing, I know something's up. Yeah.
Speaker: Another one I had was I get breathe right strips for night. Oh, yeah, I have those. I snore, so I put those on. And my nose is very, very narrow until it gets to about here and then it really flares out. So like a lot of air gets stuck here.
Speaker: So it really helps to, you know, open that up. It's a freaking game changer. The only problem is sometimes because it's real thin, like the skin's real thin here. Sometimes some skin comes up when I pull that thing off.
Speaker: got it. that hurts like a mother. You got to jelly it up. But then it doesn't stick. Well, the sticky is like there's more than just a center. So like you have moisturize. You just know I'll lose skin like over here. Hmm.
Speaker: You got to moisturize more. If your skin is more elastic, that won't happen. I think this shit just sticks real good. Yeah. ah Let me read off a few from the Reddit thread before we wrap up, because I think some of these are good.
Speaker: ah Brief Original says a good chef knife. You do not need a whole block set. One sharp eight inch knife and cutting board changes your entire kitchen experience. um True.
Speaker: Another person says library card and the Libby app. Absolutely is not that hard. One of them says, buy 20 pairs of the same exact socks. You never have to match them again. i actually, yeah, I agree that one.
Speaker: Going for walks or runs. Being actor doesn't cost much other than your time. And the benefits are huge. Absolutely. Beluga's been taking me for daily walks. Yes. yeah Thank you for walking our Danny, Beluga.
Speaker: So I was on another just jeans and T-shirt type of girl. Yeah, I'm a jeans and T-shirt type of girl, too, except I do wear these over tops. I get cold sometimes. um Sweats, baby. I want to be comfortable.
Speaker: I like to wear a second layer over top of my shirt just in case it gets cold. But also I have I have used this literal like over jackets, golf looking fucking over shirt thing that I was talking about to protect myself and others from chemical attacks like years ago.
Speaker: Like, I've used something like this as a tourniquet on somebody. I've used something, I guess, just to give to a person who didn't have a shirt during the wintertime. So, like, you never know when having another layer will, like...
Speaker: be a fucking game changer. One time there was a girl who was like on a tirade spraying chemicals at people in a specialty school I worked at. And ins instinctively, I dropped this off of my back, grabbed a hold of the sleeves, held it up in front of her. And then I threw it at her and then grabbed the arms and yanked down. And I pulled the bottle out of her hands and then she ran. Yeah.
Speaker: Holy crap. Yeah. I was first using it to like block my face from something. was spraying it at me. Then I was like, wait a minute. That's some Jackie Chan type shit. Dude. Yeah. So I've just learned to like always have an extra layer, even if it's hot, because you never fucking know when you'll encounter someone or something that needs an extra thing. um But anyway, but yeah other than that, i I was very much a T-shirt and jeans kind of girl as well now.
Speaker: um but ah But yeah, library card, a hammock. Somebody says a hammock is one of the best purchases ever. just need a good spot for them. Binoculars, someone said. Let let me see. Actually, you know what really worked well for me? And I'm sad. I don't know where it is anymore.
Speaker: ah The best kind of like fidget toy I ever had was one of those little plastic eggs of silly putty. Oh, the um like the little red silly putty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wasn't that like outlawed or some shit?
Speaker: Is it? <unk> I hope not. I dont want to get another one. it was like the best thing for just like molding with your hands because it's like Play-Doh, but it never dries out. So like, yeah, you could just mold it around. it silly buddy Is that what it was called?
Speaker: Yeah, it was called like the stuff in the egg. Yeah, it was like a red plastic egg with. Yeah. bud in it Yeah, I think that was outlawed. I could wrong. it better not be. was going to get some. I feel like it was. That sounds like a thing.
Speaker: If not, at some point it was. I don't know if it still is, but there was something about it. It might be a way because if if it never lost its moisture, maybe there was something in it that kids should have been playing with. But it was something. I don't know if it was one of those urban legends.
Speaker: Kimmy says, no, Connor has lost plenty of sillyny silly putty over the years. So maybe I don't know. Yes. Silly putty still made and sold today. I wonder if they changed something about it. I thought there was something about it being outlawed or banned or like they even have it on like Crayola's website. They even have it as a stress relief.
Speaker: Yeah, I love this. It was just a great thing to just like fidget with and just mold. I used to make a cube by just like pressing on the different sides and stuff.
Speaker: Oh, it was just an urban legend. Never mind. There was something that happened in like Brazil that it was banned, but like it was just an urban legend everywhere else. Oh, thank God. Silly putty eggs for sale.
Speaker: Speaking of Silly putty eggs. Get me a Silly putty egg. I need it. Get this man. a Get this man. Get this man his Silly putty.
Speaker: lateral damage and ah Silly putty. Silly putty.
Speaker: um Yeah. ah That must have been an urban legend. You know how the 90s were. You we just be like, oh, I heard. and you go, oh, what? Like, ah gum stays in your stomach for seven years. and you Oh, I remember that one.
Speaker: or Actually, a really crazy story that's not an urban legend was um a guy started getting like really bad coughing attacks and he was starting to cough up like a bunch of blood and phlegm and stuff.
Speaker: And he was
Speaker: Forget exactly how close he came to death, but like they thought he had cancer and stuff. His lungs would fill with fluid and everything. They eventually found out that he had breathed in a pee and it germinated in his lungs.
Speaker: Oh, I heard about that. It didn't like grow into a full plant, but it like sprouted. um i thought it was a seed. Like took roots in his. i yeah I've heard of something like that, that it that was like a plant that's like a seed or something like you said. Oh, yeah, I think I did hear about a tree. Yeah, like some sort of plant like managed to like...
Speaker: growing somewhere almost like when you would like grow like a seed in a baggie you know um yeah yeah the that's that's like one of the things i realize i'm getting little more nervous about i'm like i'm always more like oh i got to avoid this so i don't get in a car accident or or i don't want to be like a statistic in like a building collapse or something but i'm like man i don't want to go out like some fucking chump or it's like oh hey you fucking have I don't know, the first case of vein worms. I will be happy if I don't die from a prolapsed anus.
Speaker: Oh yeah, like a pink sock situation. Clip that you want. But like, I know there's definitely deaths of people that died shitting themselves with a prolapsed anus, and I'm like, I can't think of a worse way to go than that.
Speaker: Well, i didn't read the story, so let's take this with a grain of salt. I saw a headline. about a girl who pushed so hard while having a bowel movement that she developed memory loss issues because of something from the pressure of doing that.
Speaker: um I don't know about that one, but I did hear about a guy that fainted every time he took a shit. Oh yeah. That's VisoVagal. Ugh. I can't remember the name of it. I learned about on Scrubs. Oh, has a name.
Speaker: I learned about on Scrubs, and it's and it's a very real thing that does happen. It's triggered by a lot of different things. Like, for some people, it's... a arousal sometimes they'll pass out for some people it's if they or temperature gets you know above like 90 for some people it's just stress stress will just or boredom will just make you pass out it won't be like a tired oh i'm so bored just you just fall um but if the most common one from what i remember is like if you have too extraneous of a bowel movement you can just pass out while you're shitting
Speaker: um Yeah, and honestly, so I've never had that. And I've had some serious bowel movements. We don't. But here's the thing. Don't push too hard because that's it. When you put that kind of pressure on your body, you're causing an abrupt change of pressure from up here straight down and your brain goes, oh, it's like yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It's very interesting. Also hydrate can it and it can give you um grapes down there, which you really don't want. No, no grapes. No, nobody wants those grapes.
Speaker: Hey, do you want to land on that moon? Can I ask you? i saw Rhett and Link did this a few years ago, and I feel like it's something that you and I should also do. Okay. Are you familiar with Rhett and Link of Good Mythical Morning fame?
Speaker: I know of them, but I don't think I've ever seen it. There's thousands of episodes to watch. if you know If you like Game Changer, you should watch that too. um Good Mythical Morning is great. um But anyway, they...
Speaker: They're best friends who have known each other since like second grade and they've done everything together. So they've known each other for like 37, 38 years, almost as long as I've been alive, I think. So clearly we'll be just as good as they are at whatever this is.
Speaker: Well, what they did was they went and they got brolinoscopies. which was they went together and scheduled their appointment at the same time to get colonoscopies together to check for polyps and cancer and things because they were over 40.
Speaker: ah And it was something they didn't want to put off. They're trying to be conscientious of their health. And they did it to raise awareness for prostate cancer awareness. And so it was a really cool thing they did. they filmed The video is very funny. You should go watch it. I'll send it to you. It's a really great video. Yeah, no, there's nothing I'd love more to see than two guys getting colonoscopies. It's so funny because what they did was they – Every now and then they would bring them out of partial anesthesia to get like them talking to make content. And so the other one was sitting there holding the other one's hand while he was getting, getting the colonoscopy. And every now and then they would wake them up partially and they would say some of the most off the wall shit.
Speaker: Um, and but I thought, you know what, like I'm 37. Although I think they say now based on studies that like, you shouldn't do it. You don't really need to do it until you're like 45. But I think, you know, I think after 40, typically might do it. So in a few years, Danny,
Speaker: You want to go for bronoscopy? We have our big business booming. We'll raise awareness for colonoscopies and colon cancer again, just like they did. We'll try to you know ah inspire others the way that they've inspired me and others. And we should go together and see if a a hospital will let us do a colonoscopy together. I'll tell you what, my dad had prostate cancer, so I'll do that.
Speaker: Yeah, we should Sure, let's get bronoscopies together. We'll see if we can get some sort of waiver sign to see if someone can be there to film it. The only the only stipulation I have is once I'm out, I'm staying the fuck out, man. Don't wake me up halfway through.
Speaker: No, I want to wake me up. No, no, no, no. I'm hilarious apparently under anesthesia. ah That's fine. You can do whatever the fuck you want. If somebody's up my ass, leave me knocked out.
Speaker: I don't want to know.
Speaker: Kimmy says she'll film it. So there we go. Thanks. Yeah. No, won wake you up. hope you have a girlfriend so that they can see you and be all how manly you are with this. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I feel i feel like if um you should actually call that that X and be like, hey, and yeah, going to say, hey, Alexa, do you want to come and watch me get a ah camera up my mouth? You saw my ear. You saw my nose.
Speaker: You'll want to see my ass. Yeah. saw. That's just my next Valentine's Day card. You've seen almost all of my, all my holes.
Speaker: so Here's one you missed. Yeah, like I'm going to right before I get the procedure, campaign right before they put the right before they get the camera in there, I want them to like put like a little note up there that's readable with the camera.
Speaker: And then when they go, oh, hey, it's time for you to watch. Then halfway up my ass, they see like a little note that says like, Kilroy was here. Yeah. Yeah. is this
Speaker: Dude, if I died after that, it would be so worth it.
Speaker: dude i would that would if i died after that it would be so worth it if If I died from like a paper cut in my colon because I had somebody put a note up there.
Speaker: I don't even want, i don't even need to be awake for it. I just want someone to feel that it happened. Oh, dude, I would live stream it. I would live stream everything. That'd be so fucking funny, dude.
Speaker: Holy shit. Oh, man. If this guy was here on it. Somebody landed on that moon after all. We did it, guys. We found him. We fucking found him. That's where he was. We found Kilaroi.
Speaker: Oh, man. Oh, damn. Dude, that... That would be that would be it. But yeah, raise awareness for prostate cancer. i think it was a great idea. if there's anybody that I would expect that might go for it, I figured it would be you. You and I can go. Oh, absolutely. I would get some cameras in all the places um and, um you know, raise awareness for a good cause and make sure that also that we're healthy because you never know what's up there. That's why you get it checked.
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Speaker: um And ah yeah, Danny, take it away. Tell people nice things. Hello, nice people. I'm Danny Guarantee, and I'm here to tell you nice things. So I think that you're looking ah very good today. Very nice.
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Speaker: It had to come out at some point. Hey, man, you got to speak the truth. And of course, try not to be a big piece of shit this year. If there's yeah, whenever you whenever you think you should.
Speaker: Don't is just really what we're trying to say. Yeah, it's really it's not the hardest thing in the world. I know. I know change can be scary, though. But just ask yourself.
Speaker: Would I be a giant piece of shit if I did this? And if the answer is yes. Just don't. Just don't. Just cause then. Yeah. No one. No one. No one wants to be friends with shit.
Speaker: You know, you don't see. You ever wonder why you don't have any friends? It's because you were flushed. I mean, everybody gives shit on the ground a wide berth.
Speaker: So if everybody's giving you a wide berth, you must be the shit. And if your mom gave a wide berth to you, that means yeah there's a joke in here. and I lost it.
Speaker: Your mom's a wide berth is what I know. If your mom, if your mom gave a big shit while giving you a wide berth. Yeah. Don't make your mom's wide birth be shit. No, we're almost there.
Speaker: Don't shit where your mom birthed. job The delivery room is for babies, not for shit.
Speaker: Although sometimes it happens. And you could be number one or you could be number two. But you never want to be number two. You never want to be number two. so
Speaker: you you I'm hitting goodbye. Goodbye. done.
Speaker: Don't be a piece of... Don't... I have no words. I can't. I got nothing. Look, don't be a piece of shit. Love each other. Take care of yourselves. Take care of your minds. Take care bodies. Most importantly, take care of each other. And don't give birth to shit. And don't birth shit. And don't... Don't shit what your mom births. We've always said that here on this show. All right, I'm done. I'm leaving.
