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Getting old and control of our bodies??
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, some Star Wars talk, HVAC woes, and the rage on wasps; Ron ponders how aging affects medicine or vice versa; Chris asks if we could control cell growth, what would we pick. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introduction to Mythic Draft Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Thrawn. That's terrifying. This has all been an engagement. I've been studying your art. Yeah. Discover your weaknesses. Yeah. That's what I tried to explain to my oldest.
Thrawn's Character Analysis
00:00:20
Speaker
Yeah, I was like, Thrawn is terrifying on a whole nother level. Yeah.
00:00:25
Speaker
It's like it's like Vader and Moff Gideon wrapped into one without the cool for stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sherry was my wife was talking about. She's like, how who who are these people? And I'm like, all right, because she's not seen rebels. Oh, yeah. I'm like, all right. So and she's like, well, who's the chick with the two lights? They were like, OK. Remember in the Mandalorian, this random chick showed up and I got super excited. Yeah, that's her.
The Mystery of Orange Lightsabers
00:00:55
Speaker
And then I was explaining to her some of the stuff about who Thrawn was. So I don't know who the orange lightsaber guys are. But yeah. Yeah. And I mean, Filoni has said that they're orange. They're orange, not red. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, something. Yeah. Yeah. You don't make the lightsaber orange just for shits and giggles. Right. So maybe they're great, Jedi.
00:01:25
Speaker
Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. God,
Mandalorian Finale Anticipation
00:01:30
Speaker
yeah. And that's in what, August? August, yeah. Because Mandalorian wraps up today. Today? Yeah. No, yeah. Yeah. Today's the last episode. Yeah. So I'll watch that tomorrow. Try to watch it tonight. I'm late. It depends on what time my daughter gets home from work. Right. Yeah. I mean. I mean, last week's episode was just poof.
Legends Canon and New Series Excitement
00:01:56
Speaker
I didn't realize that first five minutes when oh where's this grand admiral throne you're talking I was like he said throne he said throne throne is mentioned yeah and I like the fact that like they talked about the shadow council the shadow council I don't think is mentioned anywhere in new canon
00:02:26
Speaker
It's all from legend canon. Yeah. You know, you said something just came up with themselves. They're sitting around like, we need a name. Yeah. We're the shadow. We should be the shadow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Somewhere. We're the shadow seven. Shut up, Bill. Well, then they kill the guy. They're like, well, now we're the shadow six. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The enemy project necromancer and. Yeah. Yeah. That was interesting. Yeah.
00:02:56
Speaker
I mean, you know what they're doing, the Daisy Ridley Jedi Academy. So yeah, yeah, which is what I read is like 15 years after episode nine. Oh, yeah. OK. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. I'm interested. Yeah.
Speculations on Mandalorian Characters' Fate
00:03:15
Speaker
Yeah. It's Star Wars. I wonder if they'll bring back the Visong. Visong.
00:03:23
Speaker
They were the alien race that basically destroyed the galaxy. Oh. Yeah. Are those the ones from the High Republic? No, they're from the legends now, but OK. Basically, as legends was beatering out, they they had this giant war against them. Then they were this alien people from outside the galaxy. Basically overrun. Of the other aliens. What's that?
00:03:53
Speaker
I said other aliens from other alien worlds. XO aliens, though. Because they're outside of your galaxy. Yeah. So, but, you know, yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think that they'll have the I don't know if it's the Cajones, but to kill off Din Djarin? I think it's already happening. Really?
00:04:17
Speaker
I think so. What'd you think? I don't know. Don't they have to? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. They do that. And then, yeah, that's what snaps Grogu into being psychopath killer. But, yeah, I mean, I think they have to. Yeah. And Grogu is a battle dog now. No, no, no.
00:04:42
Speaker
Yeah, but uh Well, I mean Praetor Pascal said he's he's out Right. Oh he did. I'm fairly certain. That's official that he doesn't want to do the character anymore. Oh, I didn't know them Yeah, maybe they do kill him off. Yeah Yeah, and I guess this episode we'll find out who the other spy is Because last episode was spies and we know the chick on Coruscant's a spy but
00:05:09
Speaker
Is it the armor? Is it axe? Is it the Mandalorians that were, you know, the, I
The Praetorian Guard's Role and Strength
00:05:18
Speaker
don't know, sand pirates that were on Mandalore? Oh, the sand pirates. You can't tell me they were like, oh, there's a TIE fighter. It doesn't mean anything. Right. So. Hmm. Yeah, it's it's got to be one of those three. Maybe it's all of them. Who knows? Right. So tell us the armor.
00:05:35
Speaker
You doubt it is? I doubt it's the armor. I don't mean she's so is it because she's just too on the nose to be it because she's so suspicious. Don't know about like Moff Gideon helped destroy Mandalore. So, you know, I don't think she's going to be working for Moff Gideon. Maybe maybe not. Maybe it's her religious craziness. She believes that, you know, I don't know. We'll see.
00:06:04
Speaker
And then Pa Vesla. Yeah. Went down like a total badass. It took three portraying guard to kill him. Yeah. His gun overheats or he throws the gun and just I am the weapon. I didn't realize that was John Favreau. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't sound like him because, you know, I'm sure they modulated his voice, but yeah, it was cool. Yeah. Yeah. I saw somebody was like, oh, yeah, yeah.
00:06:30
Speaker
You know, what happened to the best car supposed to be so strong, but the Praetorians could stab through
Future Star Wars Projects and Untapped Material
00:06:35
Speaker
it. If you look, they stabbed at the seams and they stabbed. They knew where to stab. Well, they're. They're Jedi killers. Yeah. I mean, I was like, we only saw them once, which was in episode eight, nine. Yeah, one of those. You're one of the abominations. Yeah, but that was an awesome fight. That was that one scene was great. Yeah.
00:07:00
Speaker
Yeah. And it looks like right now that's still purplish. So they have like the fiber blade slash magnet blade kind of mashup, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. So. So something. Something changed. Yeah. But no, it was it was it was a really good episode. Yeah. And we'll see what today brings. Yeah. Over and learn to be over and done with. Yeah. Yeah. I also see a world where this
00:07:31
Speaker
Could be the last episode of the series. Yeah, well, I mean, that movie that Filoni is doing is supposed to wrap up this entire, you know, between Mandalorian Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka. It's supposed to rat and rebels, I guess, technically is supposed to wrap it all up, so. Yes, I mean, this could dovetail right into Ahsoka, which could go right into that. Right. So it could all wrap up.
00:07:58
Speaker
Which I'd be cool with. You know, it doesn't have to go on for. That's one thing I think people will like expect these things to go on forever. And it's like, well, the story. Yeah. Can't keep up. Right. I mean, there's there's so many places to tell the stories. I mean, there's, you know, was it 7000 years of the old republic? Yeah.
00:08:18
Speaker
There's so much that they haven't touched. Right. And they could write new stories now. Yeah. So, which is nice.
Mandalorian Series Conclusion Theories
00:08:25
Speaker
Yeah. You know, I think that's one thing. Your song's not finished. Yeah, it's fair. But like, I'm very excited for the Daisy Ridley Show because that's, that is 100% new. Like, there's no canon for you to have to, everybody's gone. Yep. You know, there's nothing holding you back.
00:08:44
Speaker
So that would be cool. I mean, it'd be sad. Yeah, but we'll see. Well, I guess I could get laid as a forest ghost. I could do it. You could. I think a forest ghost would be easier to hide. Right.
00:09:12
Speaker
I started reading the book that's between Fallen Order and whatever the next game is. Oh, did I survive? Yeah, Survivor. Yeah, I started reading the book that's set between those two. I didn't know there was a book set between those two. Yeah, it just came out. Oh. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. So.
00:09:37
Speaker
It's my stack of things to do in May when I'm off the hormones. Good for you. And I think I work two shifts. I think I deserve it.
Personal Anecdotes and Home Life
00:09:51
Speaker
Yeah. Well, the good thing is you have air conditioning. Oh, yeah. For those of you that don't know.
00:10:03
Speaker
We've had a, it was what, like 85, 86 degrees for like three or four days and poor Ron's air conditioner decided to die. Yep. Uh, died the night before I had to go to work the day before I had to go to work. Yeah.
00:10:19
Speaker
And then I'm at work. You should just, babe, I got called in to work early. I got to go. I thought about it. Call it. So I go into work and the air conditioner guy comes. Well, I called them and I said, look, because we had that service read, you know? Yeah. And I'm going to write, this is going to be an angry rant. Please. Yes. So the system, I thought, oh, I only put it in like eight years ago. And this one company.
00:10:46
Speaker
I have a service contract with them. They come out twice a year and they're supposed to clean the system and make it so it's working, right? Yeah. And the guy had just been here in March. So he had been to go to check out the system. Everything was working then. Everything was supposedly fine.
00:11:06
Speaker
So the technician comes out, charges me $100 to tell me, oh, it's not a Freon we think, or not Freon anymore, whatever they're using. It's out of refrigerant. And he says, and it's super dirty. I said, well, I pay you idiots to clean it. And he's like, well, it'll be $1,800 for us to clean the system so then we could diagnose what's wrong with it so we could get it fixed. What? No.
00:11:36
Speaker
No! You already paid for that. I already paid for this. By the way, I'm done with this company. I don't blame you. And it's just super dirty in there and I'm like, what am I paying for? And you come out twice a year to tell me the system's working, quote unquote, and then just leave.
00:11:56
Speaker
So, uh, he tells my wife, cause I'm at work, he tells her all this stuff like, Oh, we could do $2,400 and we might get the system running. Maybe. No, we might. Might. So then he says, well, it's probably about $10,000 to replace the whole system. And God. Yeah. So.
00:12:22
Speaker
Do you have like gold plated ducks or something? I don't even have ducks. It's a duckless system. So they got to replace both head units and it's a nightmare. I mean, does it give you a handy? I mean, not yet. Better start. So then he tells my wife, he'll email me a quote. It's six days later right now. No quote.
00:12:47
Speaker
really. I called another company and said, hey, because I had had to come out to look at the system and I want because we want to, I mean, I know the systems last about 10 years. I was like bringing providers like, can you give me a quote to replace this system? But then like, COVID happened. Yeah. And so things didn't happen. And so we said, I called him up and said, hey, can you give me that quote? Or, you know, you have all the information, update the quote community for me.
00:13:12
Speaker
six days later, still no. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So I have no, still, well, I ran out and bought an air conditioner to just put in the window. And let me tell you that port where conditioner bought, it blows the water out of the real system I have. Really? You could hang meat in that room. Yeah. Well, it's because the old system was dirty.
00:13:37
Speaker
What did he mean by dirty? I don't I don't know. Yeah. And he's like, it's three hundred dollars just to find the leak. But he said he wouldn't even he wouldn't even do the test to find the leak until he we had paid the eighteen hundred dollars to clean the system. What kind of shysters do you have up there? This guy, he's related to that plumber, isn't he? Yes. Yeah. So. At the end of the day, I'm just probably going to end up buying a whole new air conditioning system, I'm sure.
00:14:07
Speaker
just buy a new house. Well, that conversation has also happened.
00:14:13
Speaker
Cause we can meet with a person next week to talk about buying a new house. Oh, wow. Okay. Talk about buying a new construction. Nice. I told her, I told my wife, let's just go by and look at these houses. Cause they had a, it was pretty cool. They had a demo to have demo houses set up. Yeah. And you just walk up to the door, take a picture with your QR reader, and then it gives you a number to punch in the door and you can go tour the houses. That's nifty. Yeah. So you didn't have to interact with anybody. Yeah. Which was nice.
00:14:43
Speaker
Of course, as soon as you do that, they got your name and number. Oh, yeah. Actually, the company was very respectful. They only called me once. And it's actually because we were, if they have cameras, and I'm sure they do, my wife is just walking through this house going, oh my god, this is so nice. Can we live here now? And I'm like, well, that's not really helping our bargaining position.
00:15:06
Speaker
I thought you were going to say you guys did something. No, no. Was it a smart house? No, it was not. But it was just our house is from the 70s and it's not laid out very well and you know.
00:15:25
Speaker
A certain point where I'm just like, how much money do I want to put in this house? So that's kind of where we're at. But that's neither here nor there. Yeah. The most important part is I don't have air condition. Thankfully, it's been 60 degrees this week. Yeah. Yeah. It's been chilly at night. Yeah. Yeah. We got up for a walk this morning. It was 36. Oof. And I left for work. It was 39. Yeah. I don't mind. We are further south, so we get to.
00:15:56
Speaker
You do get the warmer climes in the southern latitudes. I don't even think you're a latitude apart from me. No, we're not. I would imagine. I don't know. I have to look that up. If only I had a map. If only I had a map. If only I had a map. Or this gorgeous device called the internet.
00:16:26
Speaker
Yes, yes. Yeah, that is the one problem is looking at places I have to look at. Well, what's your internet switch? Oh, yeah, because you've got super gig or whatever, don't you? Ethernet, your fiber fiber optic. Yeah. Yeah, we don't have that. Well, yeah, that's where you are. Yeah. Well, you act like I'm in the sticks. You are the sticks.
00:16:58
Speaker
Salisbury is the crossroads of Delmarva. I'm right beside that. Uh-huh. The Delmarva is the sticks. Yeah. You guys could always just move down to Taylorville. No. No. You are. We are. Oh my god.
00:17:17
Speaker
Looks like I'm actually at the, oh yeah. Cause the 40th parallel was the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Yeah. So I am just below the 40th and the 35th is at the bottom of North Carolina. Yeah. So there you go. Uh, no, uh, yours six. I'm not moving to the sticks. You don't have internet and you don't have sewer. I'm not living down there. I have sewer. You personally might, but everything around you doesn't.
00:17:47
Speaker
They're about to in the next 10 years. Yeah. Well, we're tired of 10 years. What were the other? I'm retired at 10 years. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think my wife finally started to catch on to that the other day. She was like, so you'll get 60 percent of the average of your top three years. So you die. It's like, yeah, that's how a pension works. She's like,
00:18:14
Speaker
Oh, I thought you couldn't get it till you're like whatever age. I was like, no. No,
Navigating Healthcare and Personal Health
00:18:20
Speaker
it's not even till I still you die. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's funny that you stay the. Which you probably will stay a lot longer. It'll be more than 60 percent. Yeah, it'll be 62 and a half. No, but it's going up to 65 this year. Right.
00:18:41
Speaker
Yeah. If you stay 25 years with the new system, you're going to be 65, 65% of 25 years. But it's not retroactive. I don't know how that's going to work. Yeah. That's why I don't know. But at least it'll be more than 60%. Yeah, that's a good thing. Yeah. There's people out there right now. Dammit. They were talking about Star Wars and now they're talking about retirement.
00:19:04
Speaker
chucking their zoon across the room. When you get to be our age, we talk about retirement a lot. Yeah, you will get there too one day people. Yeah. That's the thing. If you work for the fire department, you can retire super young. Yeah. The guy who leaves me if he stays to full retirement, he leaves at 43 years old.
00:19:32
Speaker
He got started working for the fire department at 18. He'll be 43 years old at 25 years. And then he can retire and be the milk man forever. Be whatever. I heard this guy talk. He's like, you want to be the milk man? And everybody's like, why do you say yes? Milk the pension. You want to be the guy that the state is going, that son of a bitch is still collecting the check. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:59
Speaker
What happens if you marry someone who's like 40 years younger than you right before you die? I don't know if there's a clause or something with that. Right. There's got to be something. I'm sure there's something. I'm like 90 years old. Bring in the 18-year-old. But I don't want to. You'll get a pension.
00:20:25
Speaker
Pensions are so rare that might be really worth it. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, my goal is to milk the retirement as long as possible. Oh yeah, absolutely. I'll be 48 years old as things stand right now. Yep. And that's still young enough to enjoy life. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is going to lead me into topic one. All right. Topic one. Yeah. So had my,
00:20:53
Speaker
first follow-up, which I'm going to rant about that in one second, of my new doctor. So we've changed doctors after we had a series of unfortunate events with my old one. Yeah. Including, I don't even know, I've branched about this. So the doctor misdiagnosed, misread my paperwork and diagnosed with hepatitis, didn't even call me, had a secretary coming, whatever.
00:21:19
Speaker
It wasn't even the misdiagnosis that made me mad. It was how he handled it. Right. Yeah. That really annoyed me. But then. Did he ever like own it? Like, shit, I messed up. I'm sorry. Eventually. Eventually did that hours and hours and hours later. But then I'm super diligent because I believe that people need to be much more involved in their patient care. So I take I go to a PCP and get a physical every year.
00:21:48
Speaker
on top of the work physical. Totally unnecessary probably, but I do it because it's, I think you need to have a PCP in your corner. Yeah, absolutely. So this doctor who I have had, he has been my doctor for 20 years at this point. I got him in 2003 as my doctor. This is the second year in a row, knowing every year in May that I get a physical every year. I've done it for 20 years.
00:22:16
Speaker
second year in a row, they've called, they've called me and said, uh, Dr. Bessie, now I've scheduled this appointment nine months ago. Cause that's how you do it these days. And they said, well, the doctor's going to be on vacation. We need to schedule. We need to read. We need to re uh, schedule your appointment. So the second year in a row, they've done this last year. I didn't get back in there until August. Does this staff not just look and say, Oh, well,
00:22:45
Speaker
You know, we've got, you have patients that week, doctor. Right. Right. Maybe we should have told you this nine months ago. Yeah. When you were scheduling out. What's the other thing, doctors and dentists and all that and they're like, Oh, so we'll see you back in six months. How's Monday the eight at 10 a.m. It sounds dandy. I don't fucking know.
00:23:08
Speaker
Well, because I got my dentist. It's nice because I'm on shift work. I can just like, all right, give me the date and I'll flip through. Not one doesn't work. But anyways, so there's a second in a row that they canceled my appointment and I was like, OK, you know what? I'm done. This relationship is no longer valid for me, which, by the way, if you're listening to this, if you're doctor, your therapist, your dentist, your whatever, and you don't get along, move on. Yeah. Yeah. Find a new one. Find a new one. You know, but.
00:23:38
Speaker
So we got this new doctor office. It's a medical group, you know, they sign me a nurse practitioner, which whatever she's like, all right, I'm going to get your, here's your first appointment, physical one. She was like, I need blood work. And then she says, I'm going to tell a healthy you today was my telehealth appointment.
00:23:59
Speaker
about the results." I said, cool. She's like, you don't mind getting blood work? I said, lady, you can stick me with as many needles as you want. Whatever you need, I don't care. Would you let it now? Here, I have a baggie of it. Right. So she ordered an A1C and our insurance wouldn't pay for it. That is so stupid. Which is annoying. So I have my appointment today. Now this is nothing more than a telehealth follow up on lab work.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah. So you would think, and I understand they have to get paid. Right. But you would think it would be some sort of continuation of my last appointment. Oh, no. They're submitting the whole new insurance claim and I have to put a $25 copay on it. Just for her to talk to me for five minutes about my bookwork. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anger. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. But
00:24:53
Speaker
So now we get through my, and now I'm old. I just want this to point this at everybody. I'm officially old as of today because she said to me, your numbers look great. Your thyroid's great. Your liver's great. Your kidneys are functioning. Yeah, everything's great, but your LDL is a little too low. I want you to take fish oil.
00:25:17
Speaker
So I'm being recommended to take 7,000 milligrams of fish on an oil day. I'm now officially old. Oh, I thought you were going to say she was like, Oh yeah, all your numbers look great for a person your age. No, she didn't say age. She just said it was a great, but I want you to take official. She also said some other thing, but you're saying so fast. I have no idea what you were saying. Something like dry red yeast or rice. I don't know what the heck she was saying. What?
00:25:44
Speaker
I don't know. I've seen something like red yeast, that sounds like. I think it was dry red yeast or something. Rice yeast or something. I don't know. Yeah. Red yeast rice. Yeah, that's what it is. Clinically proven to lower your LDL. Yeah. Increase the good and lower bad. Yeah. She was saying something about that. Citrus bergamot. Oh, bergamot. Or red yeast rice.
00:26:08
Speaker
Yeah, Berg wants to self in Earl Grey tea. Mm hmm. Yeah. But she, you know, tell me that has apparently statin effects. It's like, oh, your numbers are nowhere near where we're going to put you on statins or anything. But, you know, you want to keep a high on it. So do this. Yeah. Yeah. It says it may have the same potential side effects as statin cholesterol drugs, which. One of the guy, Phipp, he took a statin for a while and his it made his joints eight.
00:26:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah, he just was miserable. So he said it felt like gout in every joint he had. Oh, no, don't want that. Yeah. So. Yeah, well, she said this to me and it's something I, you know, I'm a paramedic. I'm sort of smart.
00:26:58
Speaker
Yeah. Not your smartest person in the world. You're a smart fella though. Smart fella. But she's like, she's going through your, and I always, as a parent, I always chuckled because we don't really get taught lab work. Oh yeah, I know. It's not part of our job. And I always chuckled when nurses are like, well, is this, this is lab and this, this is, I'm like, lady, I don't know what any of those things mean. Yeah. No, yeah. The creatinine is such and such. Oh God. Whatever that means. But she found out it was paramedics. So she's talking to me like that. I'm like, lady, I don't. Yeah.
00:27:25
Speaker
bleeding, put a finger in hole. That's what I do. Not breathe. I breathe for you. Yeah. Not breathe. Not breathe. I pump chest. That's my job. I don't. I don't do that. It's it's a different skill set. We don't do it. Did you call your friend Salome Brino to? I should have. Yeah. Well, could you talk over these? You know, but she was like, your LDL is.
00:27:51
Speaker
But Elia's the good one? What's the good one? HGL? I don't know. Whatever the good one is, mine is always low. And it's seemingly at the same number, no matter what I do. That's weird. In the last seven years, I've gone through drastic weight changes. Yeah. You know, I've lost weight gain weight, lost weight. Been running, running miles and miles, been doing bike riding. Nothing. It's the same number every year. Huh? She's like,
00:28:18
Speaker
She's like, Yeah, we need to really get that number up. I'm like, Tell me what to do then. Yeah. Because I don't know. I don't know. I've I tried the oatmeal thing. Yeah. I tried. I ride my bike every day. I walk every day. I try Cheerios. I don't like Cheerios. That's why I'd say oatmeal. It's the same thing. Yeah. Right. That's why I eat a bowl of Cheerios every day. Yeah, I don't. I do the oatmeal thing. Yeah, I like that. I couldn't see the oatmeal thing. It's a texture.
00:28:47
Speaker
Really? Yeah. I love the texture of oatmeal. Are you adding too much water to your oatmeal? I don't know. I think that's a problem a lot of people do. I can eat an oatmeal cookie. Could I just eat oatmeal cookies? No, I don't think that's going to have the same effect. Okay. The sugar might be in the butter. What if I didn't put a lot of sugar in it? Just chocolate chips. Then you're fine. You know what?
00:29:12
Speaker
It's got stuff that's good for you. Yeah, 10 cc's oatmeal cookies every day. 10 cc. No, I think a lot of people, when they make oatmeal, they get it too runny. That's definitely gross. Yeah. And the problem is, stop eating instant oatmeal people.
00:29:31
Speaker
Take the one minute it takes to make real oatmeal. It takes one minute. Yeah. Side tangent. Yeah. Oatmeal is like the easiest thing in the world to make. And you can live on it forever. It's great. Yeah, I mean, it's been porridge and all kinds of stuff for eons. Yes. It's literally the people's food. Hot cereal. Hot cereal is what people eat to survive for millennia.
00:30:12
Speaker
Yeah, so my rant I mean my topic is really here we as we get older or not even really or Be involved in your patient care
00:30:22
Speaker
You know, I can't I in my reason I I'm very jaded because I work with paramedics and they're all stupid. Every paramedic I know this is not picking out anybody. I don't need a doctor. I just talked to the doctor in the ER. I know I don't need a doctor. I could just talk to the Swift coordinator. Oh yeah, that was well. That's why we now jokingly have a sick chair and a healthy chair in the Swift office, right? But.
00:30:51
Speaker
That's not a doctor. That person actually tends to happen to be a doctor, not the doctor. You're talking one situation. But you have to have a PCP, and this is something I learned through my shoulder injuries, is my PCP, who is no longer my PCP, told me, oh, I can't be involved in your shoulder injury because the worker's comp thing.
00:31:16
Speaker
And so when I was going through the workers' comp thing, I never had a doctor that I could talk to who I knew was on my side. Yeah. Turns out. He could have talked to you. Could have talked to me the entire time. Could have been involved the entire time. Workers' comp 100% says you can have your PCP involved in your workers' comp claim. And he wouldn't do it. Yeah, because they should know all about you. Right. That's the person who should know where you're at.
00:31:45
Speaker
And that's and that's why you need a primary care is so it's not just you know, the dock in the box or whatever and look that the dock in the box is fine for, you know, it's Saturday night, I twisted my ankle or whatever. But yeah, when it's just that regular annual checkup to kick the tires, make sure everything's good. Yeah. What I'm seeing a lot of people do is Oh, I've got
00:32:09
Speaker
a head cold. I need antibiotics. I'm going to go to a docket box. And the docket box is only going to say, you need antibiotics? Here's your antibiotics. No one's going to ever sit there and say, but why are you getting these?
00:32:22
Speaker
infections. If you're really getting sinus infections, why are you getting them so often? That's why you have to have a healthcare professional involved in your care. Who's looking at your medicine? You're talking about doesn't give a crap what medicine you're on. They don't know what medicine you're helping with. They're going to prescribe something else. Who knows? It could be something you already take or interact with something you take.
00:32:46
Speaker
You really need to have somebody involved in your patient care. And being through something we talk about in the paramedic world, being your patient advocate. And God love when people at work are using the woman who does our physicals as their PCP. I know. That's not the best plan. Right. That's like if you
00:33:15
Speaker
you know, where you live in Delaware, the land of magical inspections. And every year when you get your vehicle inspected, you're like, Oh yeah, that's my mechanic. Right. Yeah. Just checking for, you know, to make sure things are safe and running the bare minimum, you know, not the whole bumper to bumper. Let's make sure everything's, you know, good. You need to have somebody involved in your care for that stuff. By the way, you live in Maryland, the land of inspections, it's literally only your counties that don't do inspections.
00:33:46
Speaker
Yeah, but I've gotten I found myself getting so angry lately, because I see all these historic plates. Yeah, and I just get so angry now. Because they're violating the rules that in the the main trailers, but they chose like the main trailers drives me so bonkers. Yeah. And
00:34:07
Speaker
It used to be you would see them on shady people who were just, they weren't really using them for commercial use. Right. Now seeing them on commercial vehicles all the time. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's super shady. Super sus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the whole historic plates. I just, I just want to pull up next to them in traffic. What the hell are you doing? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Your 99 Corolla is not historic.
00:34:33
Speaker
Yeah, what is the historic significance of this 99 Corolla? Yeah. Yeah. I just. That's why we need your harpoon gun. Yeah, that's why we need the harpoon gun. One shot a day. Oh, God, it would be so glorious. Yes. Like, you know why you got shot. Yeah. You know, I got taken down. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But yeah, it's yeah. Yeah. Back to the old.
Medical Experiences and Innovations
00:35:00
Speaker
You got to be your own advocate. Yeah.
00:35:03
Speaker
Yes, you build that rapport. And I mean, I know, like my primary doctor, I can, you know, call her up and like, Hey, you know, I she's seen me long enough now that I'm like, Hey, I feel I can get bronchitis. This is what it sounds like. Do you want me to come in? And now she's usually like, well, what do your lungs sound like? It's like, that's really hard for me to listen to my own lungs, but I sound like crap. Right. Sorry.
00:35:29
Speaker
Well, that's another my favorite paramedic teaching moments. Ronky, Rails, they all sound the same to me. Oh, crap. Yeah. Yeah. Although, gosh, I tried out this Bluetooth stethoscope that I want to get for training, at least. Oh. You can pair it with earbuds or a speaker or something. So with it in the student, you could be like, oh, yeah, this is what, you know, muffled heart sounds sound like. This is what rails sound like. This is what, you know, Ronkai is all that kind of stuff.
00:36:00
Speaker
Yeah, I remember in primary school, they're like, here, listen to this waveform of it all just sounds like, oh, yeah. Or was it the one that was like a pleurisy? They're like, it sounds like hair rubbing together. Rub your hair. It's like, what? Well, you that's that's insulting to you. At the time I had hair. Yeah, that was actually a picture I posted of our former co-worker. There was a picture of her. I was getting a
00:36:30
Speaker
harness on and I'm pretty sure she said something about, oh, don't mess your hair up. Yeah. Here I had a smile in my on my face in that picture. Wow. Yeah. Smiled at work. Yeah. And your hair. Yeah. So what happens? The hair goes away and you lose your smile. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's clearly delineated facts. It is. It's definitely tied together.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah, we were having another discussion about healthcare and this trend towards going away from imaging. Yeah. It feels like we ran into this like imaging everything and now we're like shrinking away from imaging. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Reduce people's load of radiation. It's probably because we're carrying around a little radioactive box in our hand all the time. It's not radioactive. I know. It's just fun for the people. It's got radio signals in it.
00:37:28
Speaker
This is telling you what to do. I mean, there's part of me. It's like you want to do an MRI head to toe of me like every two years. Go for it. Yeah. I don't. We had the discussion because somebody at work is going through this, but I don't understand the hesitancy to get a PET scan done. Yeah. Seems like that's something you should probably just get done every couple of years. You would think you would think like, yeah, especially our jobs. Oh, yeah. You know.
00:37:59
Speaker
You know, but that person's doctor said, Oh, it just gives a bunch of false positives. Yeah, but that gives you somewhere to look. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe you can rule out false positives. You can't treat things you don't even know they're existing. Yeah, which I'm a little confused. So I go get an MRI Friday and it just is a regular MRI, but it told me to eat light meals the day before. Plus I got to use an enema the night before.
00:38:27
Speaker
Whoa, why am I doing that for an MRI? I know that's why I'm nervous. I'm like, oh, good boy. Yeah. I think you're going to a different kind of party. Uh, I definitely didn't have to do that for my MRI. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, which by the way, my MRI was the most awful experience. That's one of the most awful experience I've ever had. Well, not only that, but you gotta be in there for 45 minutes. Yeah. It was a closed MRI. Yeah. And.
00:38:57
Speaker
because they're doing my shoulder, she wanted my shoulder over my head. So I had to sit with a labral tear, rotator cuff tear, shoulder over my head for 45 minutes. And then she's like, you keep moving. I'm like, I'm in a excruciating pain. She's like, well, how long do you think you can handle it? Well, I'm in pain now. And we just started talking three seconds ago.
00:39:24
Speaker
I don't know. Five minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the worst thing that's ever. Did they ask you what kind of music you want to listen to? Yes, they did. Did they play the music you asked for? Yes, I told them to put it on Metallica on Pandora. That's what they played. Oh, OK. Because last time I got an MRI, they were like, what do you want to listen to? I was like, I don't know. Country. And it was like it was not. It was like discotheque stuff.
00:39:54
Speaker
Yeah. Well, they just wanted to feel like they cared. Yeah, I guess. No, they let me listen to whatever music I wanted. It didn't matter, because all I hear is cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,
00:40:18
Speaker
Hold still. Yep, I am. I'm trying to. You hold still for 45 minutes, lady. Come over there and you'll be still. I will knock you out. I will knock you out. Yeah. Yeah. Then they go through the hole. Do you have any metal in your body? No. Are you sure? Pretty damn sure. Are you very, very, very sure? Yeah. Yeah. I used to remember I was so scared when I did medical transport.
00:40:48
Speaker
I'm so scared about the MRI room. Oh, God, yes. Because, you know, I mean, it's very serious. It is. Yeah. Very serious. You hear the horror stories of like, oh, two tanks being launched into them. Right. And really, really messes up the MRI machine when that happens, too. Yeah. It's really not good. So I always had horror stories like, I'm going to be walking by the door and I'm going to open the door.
00:41:15
Speaker
You just get launched by the zipper in your pants and you're attached to it. Yeah. Yeah, it's. Now, did your doctor do the whole shebang? I did not get the finger of the butt, no. No, she said I didn't need it. I didn't say if you needed it, did you want it? We had a conversation about colonoscopy. She said,
00:41:41
Speaker
You know, kind of looking around 49 to 50 for colonoscopies now, you know, she tried to use color, color guard or whatever she say, um, probably 45. Yeah. We'll start talking about doing color guard. Um, but yeah, right now she didn't know. He don't really super have to worry about it. Good. I can enjoy two more years of not pooping in a box. It's just a random box. Yeah.
00:42:07
Speaker
Uh, I don't really care. I mean, cause he doesn't really supervise me because I'll be passed out either way. It's the best you wake up so refreshed. It is the best nap you've ever had. I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled. You are. Oh yeah, that's the whole other. That's so they broke you down. They broke me down because they refuse to fix it. No, they will not fix the tooth. Huh? So they're they're they're going to perfectly good tooth and they won't fix it.
00:42:36
Speaker
Well, it's not good. It's got big hole in it, but but I'm other than that. Yeah, other than that. Yeah. So the guy says, I'm getting it, by the way, done on May the 4th. So be with me. Yeah. Oh, my God. It was your wife has to take a video of you coming out of it because you're going to be so doped up. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if they wanted it, they were going to let me do a Monday.
00:42:59
Speaker
as in this coming Monday. And I was like, well, I have to work the next day. She's like, oh, no, no, you can't work the next day. That's not gonna happen. Then can we have a different day? That's my dedication to the Salisbury Fire Department. So I'm starting off my vacation of May, getting my wizard teeth taken out. But the guy says, so we have two options. You can either get numbed up with Novocaine
00:43:25
Speaker
And we can do the extraction and you're going to hear us chipping away at your teeth with little hammers and scraping out the tooth. And you're not going to feel anything, but there'll be some pressure or you can walk in. We'll give you an IV and then we'll wake you up 45 minutes earlier and be done. I said, well, I'm not a dummy. I'm going to go with that one. Yeah. Option B sounds great. And he's like, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's, that's what I would recommend. He said, and he's like,
00:43:55
Speaker
They are supremely overconfident that it's going to be 45 minutes. Because when I called the schedule, she's like, she's going through. She's like, all right, well, we have this 40 minute block. And I worked May 3rd. So I'm getting off work that morning. And I was like, look, I can be there by 10, because it's five minutes from my house. But she wanted to put me at nine. I said nine would be, it'd really be pushing it to get there at nine.
00:44:20
Speaker
I wouldn't have time to, you know, even decompress before from work. Right? Yeah. So anyways, so she's like, all right, well, you know, these are 40 minute blocks. So I'm like, are you really 40 minutes? She's like, Oh yeah, we have another one 40 minutes after you. There's another person coming. Okay. So I hope nothing goes wrong. It's yeah. They kept me awake for my root canal. I heard and felt every bit of it.
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah, that they did my fillings and it felt like people like they were moles. Yeah. Decided my mouth. So it was not fun. And the movie. And you can smell like that burning enamel. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:01
Speaker
Yeah, the nice thing is the doctor comes in Anything or they do that. We were talking about like how crazy dentistry is basically still primitive and crazy No, you have changed some certain technologies. Like when we were kids you had to have that really uncomfortable bite block Yeah for your x-ray and now it's like a full head rotating x-ray around your head. Yeah And we're also talking about the fluoride thing or the fluoride mouth guard. Yes Yeah, they're like, oh
00:45:30
Speaker
Now we have one that's grape flavored. No, it wasn't. No, it was not. It was just pain. And you had to leave that in. It felt like forever. Oh, it was it was like an hour. So that thing in your mouth for an hour. We'll be back here. Or yeah, it's terrible. And why is it Dennis always talk to you when they're like elbow deep in your mouth? Like, so how you been? Oh, yeah, I like the film, too. God.
00:45:59
Speaker
Yeah, but so the guy does my x-ray and he's like, you know, here's your teeth. I'm like, yep. Looks like a jaw and tear. Yeah. It's like, see this one. This is the bad one. I said, yeah, I know which was the bad one doc. I, I came in here and then I need you to point that one out. He's like, I say that the nerve down here, you know, a lot of space said, Oh, that's.
00:46:22
Speaker
That's one of the two weird things you've been told this month by a medical professional. I was told by my doctor that I have super high ear canals. That's what she said. She looks at my ears, which I don't know what the hell they're looking for. No one's ever explained me what they're looking for when they look at my ears. And she goes, you have super high ear canals. Okay. Thank you. Is that your mutant power? I finally found out my talent.
00:46:49
Speaker
It took me this long and I figured out my talent. I have eye ear canals. Yeah. So I'm having a great medical month. Yeah, it sounds like it. Yeah. But hopefully by the time I get back to work, I will be toothless. Toothless. I'll be down to 28, 26. 28. 28. 32, right? Sure. I don't know.
00:47:16
Speaker
I don't know. I have teeth. That's the sad part. They're like, well, we have to take... And he sounds so reasonable. He's like, if we take the bad tooth, we have to take the tooth above it, because if we don't take the tooth above it, then it'll be a tooth pushing against nothing. Like, sure. But what if it was like my molar? Like you would fill that in, but whatever.
00:47:40
Speaker
And then he was like, Oh, and if we're going to take those, you might as well take the other two because, you know, you don't have to do that twice. Okay. Might as well even you out. Might as well even you out. It's like tires. Well, you know, you only got two 30 seconds on this tooth. Right. Yeah. So I'm getting my, I'll be finally at the age of 43, I'm officially losing a body part. Yeah. Yeah. You'll be less wise. I'll be less wise.
00:48:09
Speaker
I still have my tonsils going strong. Good. Yeah, so do I. I've heard that at our age, if you have to lose your tonsils, it's bad worst things you could experience. That's what they say about everything, though. They're like, I think what it is is as a kid, you're too stupid to real complain about it. Sure. Because they're like, oh, yeah, you know, losing your tonsils a kid. It's easy. Or, you know, oh, yeah. Yeah. Little boys, when they get circumcised, it's nothing. You don't remember back then. It could be horrible. That's why you cried for a year.
00:48:39
Speaker
I remember being mad when my brother got his tonsils out. Cause he got gifts and ice cream gifts. Oh my God. Yes. They bought him presents. That little shitberg has always been the favorite. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he got, he got his tonsils out. They bought him a Teddy Ruxman. What? Oh my God. Yes. Okay. It was like his birthday. Wow. Yeah. He comes back from again. His tonsil. He's got presents and ice cream he wants. And I'm like, what the shit is this?
00:49:08
Speaker
Ron, go eat your liver and onions. Yeah, exactly. Hey. Chop, chop. Whipping boy, go clean up the stables. What are you doing? Why are you looking at the prints? We might as well just round it out while you're on vacation. Go ahead and get a vasectomy. Yeah, might as well. Knock it all out at once. But that's another one where they talk to you during it.
00:49:33
Speaker
Yeah, I don't want you talking to me. And there is part down there that's attached to some tendon up in your neck. Because they start pulling on something and you feel tension in your neck. Yeah. And at first, I was like, it's probably just something, you know, I felt everybody I've talked to that's got a vasectomy was like, Oh, yeah, there's that weird pull in your neck. I'm like, Yes.
00:49:54
Speaker
OK, thanks. Yeah, the doctors talk to you the whole time. So that and they do tell you, like, don't look down because if you look down, you can see when they start to cauterize. You don't see smoke coming up from you, Johnson. Yeah, it's a bad feeling when you look at exactly pretty. Yeah. But boys, yeah. Yeah, that's not fun. No, so. Yeah. Well, I think it's even more embarrassing when you come back to drop off your sample.
00:50:25
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, when you're going there and yeah with your cup in the brown paper bag. Yeah, the nice lady at the desk. Now, did you evacuate yourself 12 times before this? Yes, yes, I did. Did you have help with this? Nope. Did it all on my own. Thanks. That was Tuesday. I did.
00:50:50
Speaker
Do you remember a certain somebody at work who messed up and did it at work, brought it into work? Yep. Yep. Idiot. Idiot. Yeah. It's a 45 minute limit from release to take it to them. I can't remember who it was. There was somebody who was like, I live like an hour away. It sounds like you got jerk off in their bargain lot.
00:51:17
Speaker
Let's find a bathroom. Yeah. Yeah. You know, just go to their place and drink off. Yeah. Yeah. That's what everybody's fancy is. Is it? No. Not to say. I would hope not. But one of the nurses has to cry. Yeah, that's. And on that note, topic two. Ah.
Hypothetical Health Innovations
00:51:40
Speaker
Ah, topic. I broke myself. Good. Yeah.
00:51:48
Speaker
Yeah, well, topic two is kind of tied into medicine and everything. I know we've talked about, you know, if you get would you get chipped and stuff like that. But do you think there's things with our body that if we turn them off, it would save energy from other things? Like I think about how useless it is that my toenails grow. Isn't that energy and stuff that my body could be using that for something else, anything else?
00:52:18
Speaker
Huh? Yeah. Yeah. I like me. I'm bald. Could I tell my body, look, stop doing any work on the hair follicles and let's focus that on, you know, that eyesight something. Hmm. I had not ever considered this concept. See, these are weird things I think about at night. That is a weird one. Yeah.
00:52:46
Speaker
Why do our fingernails and toenails grow? What is the biological purpose of that? Yeah, I mean, I get, you know, like a dog or a cat or something is for defense or to help dig. I don't dig. I don't defend myself. I'm not Wolverine or Sabretooth. Yeah, do you think the body eliminates waste through your fingernails? No, because it's a keratin. Yeah, your body works hard to make keratin.
00:53:16
Speaker
It's true. You probably were trying to make what makes your hair. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. You should be more efficient than I am. But I'm not. We don't know. Could be already. Maybe. I don't know. Your eyesight's worse. So. Yeah. But again, like I wear clothing. I don't need body hair. Let it go. I disagree. I need my body hair.
00:53:44
Speaker
need your body here keeps me lubricated lubricated are you you like a mink you know like i don't shave as much because i got plenty hair got a layer lubrication sorta no keeps you know keeps the clothes from rubbing on me yeah
00:54:07
Speaker
I remember we had a certain somebody who got waxed before their wedding and then put a shirt on and freaked out because their nipple had never touched a shirt. Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. You might need your body hair. What would be the unintended consequences of turning off things? Like what could you turn off and be 100% safe? Because clearly your body is working hard to make toenails. Yeah. So what happens if you don't do that? I don't think anything.
00:54:37
Speaker
You're not going to get toenail fungus. What would we have ever done with toenails? How about it does keep your your nail beds clean? It probably pushes the dirt out. But if it was just a chunk of flesh down there, I could scrub it. Hmm. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, evolutionarily, like what the hell do toenails even do for us? Or like the other things like
00:55:07
Speaker
Why do I have hair growing out of my ear? Protection. No, no, no, no, no, not that. I'm talking about the hair on my ear loops. Protection. That's not protection. From the sun. From the sun. Yeah. Look, if you have enough hair on your ears to protect your ears from the sun, you've got woolly mammoth ears. You know, if I were to, why I think if I were to let my ear hair grow, it would be enough.
00:55:36
Speaker
Did you think that's for protection? No. Hmm. Wood. Yeah. What's about the your eyebrow hair? It's right between the middle there. I can turn that off. Yeah. Yeah. There are some people that refuse to turn that off. That's true. Yeah. It's like, you know. But then there are other spots of my like, you know, the bottoms of my arms and everything don't have hair on them. Why not?
00:56:06
Speaker
If I need it on the top, why don't I need it on the bottom? You don't have hair in the bottom of your arms? No, on the I guess that'd be the dorsal. No. That's weird. I have hair circumferentially around my arms. Oh, really? I might probably have very, very fine white hair, you know, light hair on the. You can see mine. Yeah. You don't have hair in your knee pit or your armpit, but you have hair in your, I mean, your elbow pit, but you have it in your armpit.
00:56:38
Speaker
I have hair in my knee pit. Really? Yeah. I also have hair in my elbow pit. Do you need hair in your armpit? I have no idea. I don't know. That's the problem. I don't know. Your whole premise is there. I don't know what I need. Yeah, that's... Yeah. So it's my preciouses. I don't know what... My preciouses. I don't know what... See, if you had a chip that could tell you how things were going,
00:57:08
Speaker
You could say, well, you know, let's try backing toenail production to 75%. Yeah. What's the unintended consequences? That's what I'm worried about. What do you need? Maybe you need less calories during the day. Maybe you're not as hungry because you're not, you know, burning calories to make toenail. Yeah. But what if I could ramp up my toenail production to lose weight?
00:57:34
Speaker
Just constantly clipping your nails. Just constantly clipping my toenails because I'm using it as a weight loss device. Didn't think about that, did you? Yeah. Yeah. Now if I can go down, I can go up. So I go to like a 150. I'm just always constantly like poking through my socks. I can't go on this call. Hit your nails. Gotta be trimmed. Oh, God.
00:58:02
Speaker
Yeah. Well, like beavers have to constantly know things because their teeth are always growing, right? Yeah, it was beavers. There's a lot of rodents, beavers, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters. Yeah, if they don't chew, their teeth just keep growing and growing and growing. Yeah. So maybe that's something that we could have. Maybe that's why we have fingernails that grow all the time.
00:58:32
Speaker
We're supposed to eat with our fingers. Talons? Yeah. Yeah, but you. Yeah. OK, let your fingernail grow out a little bit. File it to a point and then attack somebody. You're going to break your fingernail off and then you're going to have an infection. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, I know I've caught my thumb on like the seat belt clicker and bent my fingernail back and I thought I was going to die.
00:59:01
Speaker
Yeah, that is the worst. Yeah. Yeah. When you catch like just a little into your thumb and. Yeah. Yeah. That's that is not fun.
Understanding and Managing Allergies
00:59:10
Speaker
Yeah. Where you get a toothpick underneath or a splinter underneath your fingernail. Ah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's another one. Medicine. Oh, we're just going to let that grow out. I'm sorry. What? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you've got something foreign and yet your body will eventually push it out. Will it now? OK.
00:59:32
Speaker
I was convinced as a child that if you got glass in your body, that your body would absorb the glass and it would go to your heart and kill you. The Iron Man? That's what my father told me. Wow. Yeah. If you stepped on glass, it would get from your foot to your heart. Oof. Yeah. That's just he did once you're running around barefoot. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. I feel like there was always glass to step on in my house. Really? It was always a concern.
01:00:01
Speaker
since your father just break glasses for fun training maybe ninja training yeah yeah yeah uh i'm trying to think what i would turn off yeah i i would yeah because you can't turn off your bladder no no you gotta you gotta make wee you gotta make the wee even though it'd be convenient for some people yeah yeah um turn off your appendix
01:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's one of those vestigial organs you don't really need. Right, you think? Yeah. Think. It's always a think. There's a lot of people that have had appendectomies that have lived long healthy lives. Yeah, yeah. But are they superhuman? Are they super? It's like just controlling, like I know one thing I wish I could control the
01:01:00
Speaker
amount of is like snot. I get it. I have a cold. I don't need to produce as much mucus. I agree with that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your body has some weird responses to this or like earwax. The amount of well, sometimes my super high. I like your body histamines. Yeah.
01:01:28
Speaker
Like the way your body re-extends me is like, oh my God, I got pollen in my face. Ruined your life. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I could turn that off. If I could turn that down. Yeah. But then like the other consequences, like you, I don't know. I always thought about that. Like your body reacts to getting sung by a bee by killing you. Right? Yeah.
01:01:53
Speaker
That's literally how your body, that's what some people, anaphylactic response is, is your body killing you over. Yeah. If you turn that off, that'd be pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's that response? Your body having that overreaction. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go turn off. I mean, there'd be like there are certain parts of my body that don't need to sweat. Hmm. Like my foot sweating.
01:02:22
Speaker
is not keeping me cool. It is turning my foot into a swamp inside my shoe. But don't you always feel better when you have a good sweat? No. Really? No, I feel gross. Always. Yeah. Like if you go out and you like go out and purposely sweat like you go running as hot as balls or you just go for a walk as hot as balls and you don't feel cleaner from sweating. No. No. No. No. I come home.
01:02:51
Speaker
And the first thing I get is, oh my God, go take a shower, you smell like a goat. Yeah. So that's, they're shaming you. They are. So of course I go, especially like my oldest daughter, hug, hug, hug. Or I'll like try to throw my sweatband at her. Because that's one thing, without hair, you have to wear a headband. Because sweat gets in your eyes like that. I don't wear a sweatband.
01:03:19
Speaker
You have hair. Oh, you're saying without hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to be able to control that. I feel like you need your sweat, though. I'm saying, yeah, you need it, but not all the time and everywhere. Yeah, that's fair. I worry. Again, I'm worried about the unintended consequences of this whole thought experiment.
01:03:51
Speaker
I'm worried about if I turn off my feet sweat like then my liver is going to shut down. That's drastic. You don't know. Yeah, you don't know. Yeah. The body works really weirdly. Yeah, it does. Yes, it does. You know, there's only so many chromosomes and because of that, weird things interact. Yeah. I just would be worried. Yeah. But.
01:04:19
Speaker
It would be cool to turn off the mucus. Yeah. And the histamines. Yeah. I could live in a world where I don't freaking have the histamine response to pollen. Yeah. Trees are having sex with my face and I have to react like this. Yep. Yeah. And it's so bad right now. Oh, my God. The other day, I thought like there was a fire outside because there was it was a slight wind and I saw like it looked like smoke rolling across something. Oh, my God, that's pollen.
01:04:50
Speaker
It was that much pollen blowing out of the trees. It's a good God. I don't know what trees you guys have down on the shore, but it's not even worth me washing my car right now. No, no, it's not.
01:05:04
Speaker
I had never seen that before in my life until I started working at the store. Well, and your station seems to be the worst. Oh, it's crazy. Yeah. And my car is yellow right now. Yeah. It's like the other day, when I stopped by to see you at work, I washed my car. And by the time I left, my window was covered. I had to put on my windshield wipers to leave. Yeah. Remember the time? This will last for another four months. It's insanity.
01:05:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know why we have such a long pollen season. Yeah. And it just it's aggressive pollen. Yeah. It's not cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's was it pine trees or something they say. I guess pine trees. Yeah, I think so.
Nature Walks and Wildlife Encounters
01:05:57
Speaker
My wife always asked me about what kind of trees I'm like, green tree, other kind of trees. I don't know. I used to know trees. I used to care. Now I don't. I've actually got a little scanner on my phone that I can scan the leaves and everything else. Tell me what kind of plant or animal it is. Oh, that's fun. How much time do you use that? I use it every now and again.
01:06:24
Speaker
I used it last year during C-Space because somebody was like, what kind of weed is that? I was like, here, I'll tell you. And as I was doing it, I scanned over. I was like, huh. Like what? I was like, well, says there's a snake somewhere over there. I've never seen more grown men jump in my life. It's like it's a snake. It's not. Yeah. I mean.
01:06:48
Speaker
They're pretty wibby about snakes down the shore. I don't know what it is that you guys were all exposed to. I like snakes. Side danger, my wife and I are walking. We were walking a lot, so like once a week we go walking in the woods. And she's like, what are you doing? I'm like, um, skating for copperheads? And she's like, what do you mean? I'm like, well,
01:07:12
Speaker
It's like that time of year. There's a lot of light leaf lettuce on the ground. So they blend in very well and you don't want to accidentally step on them. Yeah. Because that's bad. Yeah. Yeah. They're not really going to mess with you until you step on them. And so it's like, well, there's something I have to worry about. I'm like, you should be aware. Head on swivel. You know, you just know where your foot's going for the most part, you know. Yeah.
01:07:39
Speaker
Don't just go around throwing your feet at the ground like you're angry. Right. You know, well, actually, you should do that because the snakes will more than likely slow or slow their way if they hear you coming. Yeah, I guess. You know, but I've, you know, we can see black snakes out there all the time. Yeah. I just think they're cool. Yeah. Do you walk with a walking stick? I have. I don't normally. I think I'm going to start.
01:08:02
Speaker
Okay. I think it just looks cool. Yeah. Yeah. Should get like the one from Drassley Park with the mosquito on the top. Yes. Yes. No, I'm talking about like a real tall, like six foot staff. Sure. Cane. Okay. Yeah. That's right.
01:08:19
Speaker
So according to weather.com, today's pollen count, 950 grains per cubic meter of air. That sounds like a lot. Sounds like a lot. Yeah. Oh, this is good. Tree pollen. Today, high. Tomorrow, very high. Friday, very high. Good. I'll be at work on Friday on a very high pollen. Grass pollen. Today is low. Tomorrow and Friday, it's going to be high. And today, the ragweed is low. And tomorrow and Friday, there's not going to be any.
01:08:49
Speaker
So how do they do that? I don't know. How can they get that? Yeah, that's interesting. I just feel like I should just take my Benadryl now before I go to work. Benadryl will make you sleepy. Yeah. Yeah. That way you sleep through the pollen. Oh, right now it's a. Oh, wait, no, that's Palm Coast, Florida, oak, maple and grass. I'm not going to. Stupid thing. Yeah, stupid trees.
01:09:18
Speaker
Stupid trees.
Pollen, Wasps, and Nature's Quirks
01:09:20
Speaker
How dare they try to reproduce? Yeah. There's going to be a better way. What a dump system. You just spread your pollen everywhere. Yeah, that's that's one of those just some sort of somebody was thinking some sort of 50 cent whore just spreading your pollen everywhere. Yeah. But. Don't step on a copperhead, people. Yeah, don't don't. It's bad stuff because the copperheads are. Oh, gosh.
01:09:49
Speaker
They have hematoxin, right? Blood. I mean, that's what hematoxin is, but I don't know for a fact that's what's happening or a neuro copperhead venom. Copperhead. It's not very potent. It still hurts. Yeah. Yeah. Hemolytic. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Gosh, I bet that was like
01:10:18
Speaker
I wonder if somebody who is already on like Warfarin or Coumadin or something, if they got bit. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's bad. That could be bad. Yeah. The. I think. Well, I've known somebody's been bit by a copperhead. Yeah. He was not happy. No, no. No. I don't think anybody's happy to be bitten by a snake. Well, sure. But yeah. Yeah, it's not like you wake up in the way. Yeah, it's Thursday.
01:10:49
Speaker
I might get bit today. Well, some of these morons seem like they're doing it. Yeah. I think I know another thing on top of the goddamn pollen is a stupid wasps. Oh, yeah. I have raged war the other day. There were some in my shed. I sprayed them. One started to get away. I ran it down and sprayed it. I was the madman running through my yard. Oh, spraying the wasp. But I killed it.
01:11:17
Speaker
Good job. I came inside. My wife was just shaking her head. Well, I mean, you did leave a loss for me. An engine tried to kill me. No, I still blame the driver on that because I asked him, did he get out? Oh, yeah, it's out. OK, I'll get back in the engine. Now we're driving down the road. Wasp in the face. Oh, yeah.
01:11:44
Speaker
It's like, you know, I'd start jumping out of the engine and, you know, screaming like a little girl. What are you doing? It's Wasp. But again, OK, I get it. Yeah. Yeah, we went out on a deck the other day and there was like six wasps on my wife's hammock. She's like, what do I do? I was like, burn it.
01:12:08
Speaker
Seems like the reasonable thing to do. Yeah. Yeah. With a flamethrower. With the flamethrower. Yeah. Don't get close to it. Yeah. Just make them angry. Yeah. Because that's the thing. Wasp don't bring anything to the table. No. Bees bring honey and love. Wasp bring hatred. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because a bee, it knows if it has to sting you, it's going to die. Mm-hmm. A wasp is like, no, I will sting you. And then you have yellow jackets. Like, I will bite you and then sting you.
01:12:39
Speaker
Yeah, then there's the ground wasps that are just dicks. Yeah. Well, I think they're a little mentally challenged, too. Well, you know, yeah, you just like walk by them and they're like, I watched a video how they get rid of those things. They they literally bang on the nest and then they use a vacuum cleaner at the at the hole. What? And yeah, what? So then you have a vacuum cleaner. Well, look, has that job. All right, Fred, turn it on.
01:13:09
Speaker
But then you got a vacuum cleaner full of wasps. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that burnout, I guess. Yeah. So evidently the trick of balling up a paper bag and tying it up works to scare away some bees and wasps. Well, the guys at work, he said he had a bunch of carpenter bees around his deck. So he did that and they think it's a hornet nest. So they fly away. Oh, yeah. But I like bees.
01:13:35
Speaker
Yeah, I don't mind the bees. I just want to get rid of the wasps. Yeah, I remember one time I read, it's like, oh yeah, wasps hate cucumbers. So I like cut cucumbers up and put it around like where their nest was. Those little bastards right there eating it.
01:13:47
Speaker
I was like, oh, so I've probably just given him like Spanish fly or something. Great. My wife, like last week we had this whole saga of the bumblebee in our household, because every time she would go outside, she's like, the bumblebee's out there. I'm like, and? Yeah, they're not going to do anything. You can swap those little pandas away. She's like flying away around me. I'm like, and the problem is, well, it'll sting me.
01:14:13
Speaker
I've never seen anybody get stung by a bubble bee, so of course she had to Google it. Well, one time in 1916, this man was like, okay, yeah, one guy got stung by a bubble bee once. Yeah. Knock it off. Yeah. Well, I mean, they'll sting you if you like pick them up or mess with them. Right. Just don't mess with them. Yeah. Because my brother did that because my mother was like, oh yeah, they won't sting you. He picked it up. It's like, well, you idiot. You picked up a wild animal. Yeah. Here are more on that.
01:14:42
Speaker
Good old wasps. Yeah, that's a good cast of the pod. I think we've ranted. Yeah, we have. We've ranted, we've rambled. So those of you who stuck around this long, we love you. Yep. Be good to bees, folks. Yes. They're important. They are. And they can help with your allergies. What? Yeah, if you eat local honey, it helps with your allergies. That's fair. Yeah. But yeah, be kind to each other. Yeah, be kind to each other is most importantly.