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Hot cicada summer
4 Plays9 months ago
You know what they say: sun's out, bugs out! To celebrate the start of the season, April and Alicia test each other's summertime safety knowledge with a fact or fiction. What warm-weather critters could cause you harm? Are you really at risk of West Nile virus in the U.S.? And just what exactly should you put on a jellyfish sting? Tune in and play along - On Call summer school is in session.
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Chaotic Scene & Podcast Introduction
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And it flies at my face.
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I scream.
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My neighbors come out.
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They're like, are you okay?
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And I was like, it was a duck and cicadas and a duck and cicadas.
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And that's all I can say.
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This is On Call.
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This would be really cool to just wear scrubs all the time.
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Then you don't have to think about what you're going to wear to work.
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That is awesome.
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We're here to answer your questions.
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We can sit down and discuss all of them.
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Wait, I got to go.
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I'm on call.
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Wait, you're on call?
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I thought I was on call.
Summer Solstice Mix-up & School Schedules
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Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of On Call with April and Alicia.
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I'm April.
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And I'm April.
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Just kidding.
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I'm Alicia.
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And we're in June.
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June, June, June.
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And guess what, April?
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It's officially summer, right?
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It's winter solstice.
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I almost said winter.
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Winter solstice.
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No.
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It is summer solstice.
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It is.
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Your favorite time of the year.
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It's officially my favorite time of the year where everything burns because of the heat and we don't get enough rain.
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But that's okay.
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Because guess what?
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We already talked about last episode, but it's also hurricane season.
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Yeah, I know.
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I'm in my wheelhouse, girl.
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How are you?
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I'm good.
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Keeping busy.
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How's the summer going?
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Excited for summer.
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It's good.
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I feel like the summer going, for those that don't know, April's kids are in school until middle of July.
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Just kidding.
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Not really July, but I feel like my kids have been out for a month, and she's like, well, my kid's last day.
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And I'm like, last day?
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Yeah, yeah, they do go later.
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Your kids go back earlier than mine.
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But yeah, they go to like the middle of June, which it does seem late when I talk to other people.
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But, you know, they don't go back till after Labor Day.
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So we have all of August, which is good.
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Well, you have the best part of the summer because I want to share something with you.
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Let me hear it.
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About what's happening in Cincinnati, Ohio, currently.
Cicadas in Cincinnati: Personal Stories & Humor
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Are you familiar with cicadas?
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Yes.
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Do you have cicadas in Maryland right now?
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We don't have them right now.
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I don't think we're doing for a few more years.
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Are you familiar with them in the brood sense?
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There's a 17-year brood.
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Let me give you a little history.
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Everybody sit down, pull up a chair, light a candle.
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Let me tell you a story about cicadas.
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When I was a child, I just remember my mom telling me,
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hey, the cicadas are coming back.
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And I was like, I don't even know what that means.
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Because I had to have been, I don't know.
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I'll do the math one time.
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But I was younger than 10.
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But I just remember my mom saying, cicadas, cicadas.
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And I was like, what is this cicada nonsense?
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And then all of a sudden, I remember just hiding out on a porch.
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Because you couldn't walk outside without just being pinged with this, the scariest looking freaking bug I've ever seen in my life.
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Well, not scarier than a mole.
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That's not a bug, but it's a scary looking little creature.
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So when I was a kid, like, there was this local pizza place called Snappy Tomato Pizza, and it
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they changed their hook to like snappy cicada pizza and they were using cicadas on their pizza and people were buying it it was um i'm gonna use a trigger word traumatic it was triggering it wasn't it but i it was just kind of gross to me that i was like snappy cicada pizza sorry not trying to like throw shots but um so apparently this brood
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then lays like their eggs and then they come back every 17 years.
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So the 17-year brood is back.
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And I, because I don't watch standard news, had no idea or local news even.
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I look out at my trees a couple weeks ago.
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I was like, what are all these things on my trees?
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And then I realized, oh, my gosh, those are cicadas.
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But it's quiet.
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And then I feel like it all went hog wild.
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Yeah, it's the noise, the noise, the noise, noise, noise.
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What's that from?
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Is that from Dr. Seuss?
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Yes.
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Of course.
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The Grinch.
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The noise.
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So.
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I'm like, oh, this is now suddenly I'm, you know, like 85 because I'm like, oh, look at that blue day.
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Oh, wow.
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Look at that.
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I have all these birds in my yard while they're eating the cicadas out of the ground.
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OK, fast forward.
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We are grossly infested.
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It sounds like an alarm or a siren of some sorts, basically from about 11 a.m.
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till sunset.
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And if it's sunny, it's even louder.
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If it rains, it's quiet.
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I go to Chicago last weekend.
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This is a long story, but I go to Chicago last weekend and I get a rental car because I have an electric vehicle.
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And
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I pull the car into the driveway, run into the house.
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I wanted to grab my luggage, come back out.
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I'm not really paying attention, but I go to grab the handle, and there's cicadas basically all over that driver's side of the car.
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But when I grab it, the cicada, its body's heavy, like stink bug heavy, but it makes this really weird sound.
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And it feels like it's attacking you, but it really has no idea what it's doing.
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And I panicked.
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drop all my stuff and I run over to get the hose and I thought I'm just going to spray the car down to get all these cicadas off.
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So because I was afraid if I opened the door they'd fly in.
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Grab the hose, turn the hose on, turn the hose kind of towards the house.
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There's rose bushes and a couple like whatever like gardening landscaping bushes.
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Turn the hose towards the house because you know it comes out hot first.
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I wasn't trying to be cruel but I just wanted them off the car.
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And a freaking duck flies out of my bushes and smacks me in my face.
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No, I'm not lying.
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I guess I panicked it with the water.
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I didn't even know a duck.
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I don't have a pond at my house.
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There's a duck?
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Honey, there's no duck.
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Somebody call 911.
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She is not okay.
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But no joke.
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I was like, I feel like Crocodile Hunter.
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I don't know.
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Like, I didn't sign up.
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This is not Animal Planet.
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I'm Weather Channel.
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I am not Animal Planet.
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So we are rocked with cicadas right now.
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And I am peacefully watching from inside the house these days.
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We were just talking about them the other day because Molly really doesn't like them.
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And I can't remember.
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We have a few more years till they come again.
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But the last time they came, I mean, I remember them coming like when I lived at my parents' house.
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They have an older house.
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But our house...
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you know, when they build the house, they, you know, disturb the dirt.
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So the last time they came like in our neighborhood, it wasn't bad because it was like the first time since the houses have been built.
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But the next round I think will be more.
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But the thing that I dislike the most about cicadas, one, the noise, I hate the noise.
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But two, is that to me, they fly around like they're intoxicated.
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Like they just, they, they fly and they just like
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like wham like bang into your face they're like stink bugs your windshield when you're driving like they i'm like they look like they're drunk like they do it's like their bodies are so heavy that they're just like i'm doing my best right yeah but i do feel like there's a little conspiracy because when i go outside at a certain time of day um sometimes i'm like i just gotta water this one plant because i'm trying to have a little bit of a green thumb
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But they, if I disturb them, it's like they fly out of the tree and then they're just kind of like all air assault.
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And I swear they're flying at me.
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I do take it incredibly personally because I don't think they're that dumb.
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But then I was like, what is the purpose of you guys?
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Like, what is your purpose?
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Everything has its purpose.
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I understand it's like to irrigate the ground.
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But here's what I learned.
Understanding Cicadas: Lifecycle & Behavior
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Cicadas come, this 17 brood or whatever it's called, this brood 17, they come...
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They come out of the ground.
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They make all of this noise to attract mates.
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I don't know how you know male or female, but whatever.
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They mate.
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They create eggs.
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They just, like, fall into the ground and die.
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And then their eggs, like, soak into the ground.
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And then they develop underground for 17 years.
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And they come back up to do the same thing.
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And I'm kind of like, that's wild.
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I know.
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That's a wild existence.
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That's like being in utero for 17 years to live for like a month.
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But I'm very glad that it's that long because I don't want to see them that often.
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Well, apparently they're like really good for your soil.
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Like they irrigate.
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So when they come up, obviously they come from so deep that then water can then penetrate deeper.
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And then the ones that die are good fertilizer.
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But I'm not exactly like they should put a label on food for that.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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I don't want dead cicadas in my.
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Baxter wanted to eat them when they were around.
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And I was like stop eating.
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Apparently they're good for protein.
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I don't know.
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This isn't Survivor or Naked and Afraid.
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I'm not worried about it.
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But it's a summertime thing right?
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And speaking of summer.
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I think it's time.
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That we do.
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Re-revisit our annual.
Summer Trivia Game: Hydration & Myths
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Summer.
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Baker for real.
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Yeah let's do it.
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What do you think?
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I'm in.
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All righty.
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Let's go.
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Are we keeping score?
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Oh, of course.
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For those that have been following along, fill in the blank.
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Blank is winning to date for all of our Factor Fiction or Faker for Real.
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That's correct.
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Only for 2025.
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It would be Alicia.
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Only for this year.
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We're two.
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I'm two.
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I know.
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I know.
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Okay.
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I'm well aware.
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I got my postal ready to go.
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I'm ready.
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All right.
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All right.
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All right.
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Bring it on.
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You go first.
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All right.
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Okay.
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Fact or fiction.
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Sparkling water is just as hydrating as regular water.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I'm going to say fiction.
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I want to say fact because I love sparkling water, but I'm going to say fiction and I don't know why.
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you should have gone with your love of water.
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Tell me.
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Oh, so this is great.
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This makes me feel good.
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I always feel guilty because I only drink sparkling water.
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Yeah.
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So, um, well, you know, and I brought this up because it's, you know, summertime and you can get so dehydrated easily in the summer.
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So first of all, water intake, you should,
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drink at least about 64 ounces a day, right?
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So I'm making sure that you get your water, but, um, sparkling water is actually just as hydrating, uh, for you as regular water, as long as you don't drink the ones that are high in sugar.
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Um, so like, you know, if it's like no sugar added, uh, sparkling water, but it's a really good alternative for those people who don't like just the plain regular water.
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Um, other good alternatives are, um,
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Like non-traditional water drinks that count as water would be coffee, coconut water, the sparkling water, herbal tea, green tea, and then fruit-infused water.
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But does it?
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Well, I've always heard that like coffee is a dehydrator because of the caffeine.
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Yeah, I think it is, but it still gives you some water.
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So, I mean, I don't.
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At least you're getting water.
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Yeah, I wouldn't use it as your primary source.
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It's better than I guess like shots of whatever.
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You're filling the blank.
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Liquors.
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Okay.
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All right, April, I like that one.
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Now, I've got a factor fiction for you.
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It's summertime.
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It's hot.
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And I like the heat.
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Not everybody likes the heat.
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But my factor fiction is heat stroke always starts with heat exhaustion.
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Hmm.
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I don't like the word always.
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See?
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Yeah, that's a little tricky there, aren't you?
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Context clues.
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I know.
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I'm going to say fiction because of the word always.
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You are absolutely right.
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Not just because of the word always, but we don't always recognize heat exhaustion, right?
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What is heat exhaustion to some people?
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So basically heat stroke can develop really rapidly.
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It can actually skip all the milder warning signs.
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Heat stroke is a medical emergency, people.
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That's a core body temperature that's greater than 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
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That also includes like altered mental status.
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So
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Immediate cooling, things like that are critical, but you may not always have signs of exhaustion.
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So you're absolutely right.
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So we are zero one.
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Admittedly, your turn.
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It's a great way to start out.
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All right.
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You're cool for the summer.
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I know.
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Like, I know.
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All right.
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So fact or fiction, eating watermelon seeds is dangerous for you.
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Fiction.
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Watermelons is perfect.
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So seeds have to be perfect.
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Okay.
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Well, did you ever hear when you were a watermelon in your belly?
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Did you hear that when you were a kid?
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I swear that's what all women said.
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Like, what's in your belly?
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And they're like, I swallowed a watermelon seed.
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It's like, oh, that's great birth control.
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It grows a baby.
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That's so weird.
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But yeah, so interestingly, I didn't know this about watermelon seeds.
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They are perfectly safe to consume.
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They're harmless because they are solely made of fiber.
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So when you eat them, you swallow them.
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Yeah, you'll swallow them.
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It just goes through your digestive tract and that's it.
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Here's a kind of gross question, but do we break it down?
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Because we don't break corn down.
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Do you break a seed down?
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I don't know, actually.
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Be better prepared next time, April.
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Okay.
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You can watch for that next time you eat watermelon and let us know.
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Anything that has to do with vowels.
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No, just kidding.
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I'm not at that age just yet.
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Okay.
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I'm going to do a little bit more medically.
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question and this is going to be multiple choice yeah ready yeah so which is the which of the following is the earliest symptom of hyponatremia for those listening that aren't medical hyponatremia is low sodium very low sodium levels in your blood um so which of the following is the earliest symptom of hyponatremia from over hydration during endurance events during hot weather one more time yeah
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That was a question.
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Do you want to?
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Nope.
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I think I'm good.
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Okay.
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Ready?
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A, seizure.
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B, shortness of breath.
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C, nausea and headache.
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D, bradycardia or low heart rate.
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And this is the first sign?
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Early sign.
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What's the earliest sign?
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C. Nausea and headache?
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Yeah.
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Ding, ding, ding.
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You're on a roll.
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I'm so smart.
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You are so smart.
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Maybe I just need to use medical terminology.
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Yes.
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You seem to be a big complicated question like that, and I got it.
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That's right.
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She's like, cross this word out.
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This doesn't mean anything.
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Okay.
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The earliest signs of hypernatremia or low sodium for everybody listening.
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It mimics heat exhaustion, which we were just talking about, but it does include headache, nausea, and confusion.
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But what
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The key part to that question was talking about overhydration.
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And that's one thing that I think is important to talk about because we think, you know, we do this a lot with our kids.
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Drink, drink, drink water, drink more, drink Gatorade, drink.
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You can overhydrate.
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And when you give your body too much fluid that it doesn't need, it actually wastes the elements that you do.
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So your sodium can drop and that can be very, very dangerous for your brain.
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It can cause seizures eventually.
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It can cause a lot of,
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illness, including death.
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So the earliest signs to look for nausea, headache, and just be mindful about what you're actually replenishing.
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Just because it's hot outside doesn't mean that you need to drink extra.
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It's about what, you know, what volume your body is losing.
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Correct.
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That's a good one.
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I'll take a loss for that question because that's such an important.
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It really is.
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It's very important for people.
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Especially with sports.
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Yes.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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All right, you're on.
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Multiple choice.
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I'm not keeping score.
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It's two to one.
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I wasn't keeping score anymore.
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I thought we were keeping score.
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Oh, because when you're losing, we don't keep score.
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I forgot.
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Okay.
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That's right.
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I'm gaslighting you.
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All right.
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Multiple choice.
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Which of the following is not helpful for jellyfish stings?
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Ooh.
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A, seawater.
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B, urine.
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C, vinegar.
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Seawater.
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Mm.
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Am I wrong?
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It is B. You are wrong.
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I thought everybody says pee on you.
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Yes.
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So that's what I thought.
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This was very interesting because I have heard that as well many times that if, you know, you get somebody gets stung by a jellyfish, you should pee on them.
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Just pee on them.
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Yeah.
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But it actually has not been proven to make it any better.
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I mean, it can actually worsen the sting by activating more venom in the stingers.
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So vinegar is a good thing.
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So you can put vinegar like on a, you know, like a paper towel or something and put it on there and that will help it.
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Vinegar baby.
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You hate vinegar.
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I love vinegar.
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I know.
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I know.
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And then the other thing is, is that you can use seawater with baking soda.
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and like create a paste and put it on there and that will help too.
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But also when you initially get stung, you should rinse it with the seawater just in case there's any venom sacks or tentacles or anything left behind.
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So you got to rinse it out first and then, and then treat it.
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Well, here's my advice.
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Just don't get stung by a jellyfish is my advice.
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Yeah.
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You know,
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Um, and not that you can actually prevent it.
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I love the ocean.
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I love the ocean, but I don't love what's in the ocean.
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So I love looking at it and like looking down into it.
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But I, you know, if I can't see the water, I usually don't.
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Um, I went to a sandbar when I was probably 14 or 15.
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I was a nanny for a family and I went on vacation with them and I took the kids
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out to the sandbar.
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I was in the Gulf of Mexico.
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So it was like, you know, waist high water, but you know, you get to the sandbar, it's whatever.
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And, um,
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I look down and I step on something on the sandbar and it like squiggles away and I look stingray, but I didn't step on the stinger, but it was a stingray.
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And that's the last time I've been to a sandbar.
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14 years old.
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Yeah.
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Never again.
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Hashtag never again.
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That kind of stuff scares me.
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Okay.
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Other things that scare me.
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Rashes.
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Yes.
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I don't like rashes.
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You ready?
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Fact or fiction.
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I'm ready.
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Poison ivy rashes are contagious.
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Fact or fiction.
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They are not contagious.
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Tell me why.
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Because it actually takes a couple days for the rash to come up.
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So by the time that you actually get the rash, the chemical that causes it is probably off your skin.
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You can just stop right now.
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Wrong.
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The rash isn't contagious because it's the urachycele.
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I think I'm saying that right.
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Urachycele oil from the plant.
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That spreads the rash.
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Once the oil is washed off your skin and your clothes, the rash itself has no risk.
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It's the oil.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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The chemicals gone.
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That's not what I heard.
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That's what I said.
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By the time your rash comes out, the chemicals gone.
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Oh, goodness.
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This is my truth.
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What's that?
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Am I wearing you out yet?
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I like this one because I'm doing well.
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All right.
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Are you ready?
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I wasn't keeping a score.
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I have no idea who's winning.
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I'll tell you at the end.
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No worries.
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Okay.
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Fact or fiction.
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Scratching mosquito bites is harmful.
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Oh, I don't even really care what the truth is.
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It's harmful for me.
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Yes.
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Fact.
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You are correct.
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So.
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Um, it is harmful because while itching the bites, it might provide you a little bit of temporary relief, itching and actually, um, causes the skin to release more histamine, uh, and the immune system messenger protein that causes more itching and swelling.
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So the more you scratch, the more you're going to itch.
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So best thing to do is to avoid scratching.
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You can put some like ice on it, like an ice cube actually may help.
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Um, you can also use kind of over the counter antihistamines, you know, like hydrocortisone, calamine lotion, um,
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to put them on there, but you should really try to not itch it because it's just going to make it worse.
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Yeah.
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That's so hard to do though.
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It really is hard.
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One of those spaces where you got hammered at night, you didn't even realize, not hammered drunk, but I mean, hammered by mosquitoes at night.
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And then you realize at 3am when everything starts to truly manifest, we get, and unfortunately in our family, we get bolus reactions to mosquito bites.
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So,
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Independent of whether you scratch it or not, it's going to like boil basically or like get some kind of blister.
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And we're all we all have prescription level hydrocortisone.
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So, yeah, mosquitoes.
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I had a mosquito.
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I have a mosquito bite currently on my neck.
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And that was just from watering plants last night.
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So I don't like those little boogers, but.
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Yes.
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And the other thing, when you were growing up, did your parents when you had a mosquito bite?
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Did they like have you like dig your fingernail into it and cross?
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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No.
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So like for some reason, my mom would always say like if you took your nail and
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Not scratched it, but you like embedded it into the mosquito bite and made a cross that for some reason that made it stop itching.
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As an adult, inherently, I still do that.
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It does absolutely nothing.
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But I just wondered if that was something.
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Yeah, there's telegic on why that would actually help at all.
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But, all right.
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Yeah, no, I think it just actually aggravates things more, to be honest with you.
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But for some reason, I still do it because I love chaos, I guess.
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I don't know.
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Okay.
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We were just talking about marine life, right?
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Yep.
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And being a beach girl.
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This is going to go multiple choice.
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What's the most common marine injury treated in the United States in the emergency departments during the summer?
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A, shark bites.
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B, jellyfish stings.
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C, coral cuts.
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D, stingray injuries.
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Oh.
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I think I'm going to go with the coral cuts.
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Finally, you got one wrong.
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Jeez.
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Ugh.
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It's about time.
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Okay.
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You're absolutely wrong.
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Well, thank you.
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You are absolutely wrong.
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No, actually stingrays.
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Stingrays are the most common marine envenomation in the United States.
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Typically, they involve that puncture wound.
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So remember I was saying like I stepped on one, but I didn't step on the spike.
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So it's like really I liken it kind of like scorpion, like what Austin deals with in Arizona.
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Yeah.
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But very intense localized pain, especially like in the warmer coastal waters.
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There's just more of them there.
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Not so much shark presence.
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I know we've seen a lot, at least on social media.
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You've seen a lot in the last year or two.
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But nope, stingrays are our biggest threat.
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I don't know that I've ever like seen a stingray while I was swimming in the water.
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But they could have been there and I just didn't know it.
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I think we think these majestic and they are majestic.
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Like if you go to an aquarium, the big.
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But it's usually they will first they go under the sand.
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So you don't see them.
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So you end up stepping on them because there's sand covering them.
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And that's largely, again, sandbars.
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They're not coming all the way into land.
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So don't be adventurous in the water.
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That's my take home.
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The older I get, the less adventurous I am in the water.
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I really don't want to deal with anything.
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Yeah, I'm like, yeah, I don't know.
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That's their home.
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Not mine.
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I don't let people in mind, you know.
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That's true.
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All right, we'll do one more.
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Let's go all the way around.
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All right.
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Fact or fiction.
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Sea or salt water helps heal wounds.
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Fact or fiction?
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Oh, I'm just going to say fact because it's salt.
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It is actually fiction.
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Is it?
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It is.
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Salt's good for everything.
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I know.
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Well, and that's a, I mean, it's a very popular myth.
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Like I think of too, like as a kid, I used to get like, you know, canker sores and I would put salt right on them and I would, it stung like so bad, but I was convinced it made them better.
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But so it's actually not true.
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So salt or salt water will not actually help heal your wounds.
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And in the case of seawater,
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it can actually make your wound worse because the bacteria living in the seawater can penetrate those open cuts and potentially cause infection.
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So if you happen to cut yourself, you got to disinfect it, you know, and clean it out and wrap it up.
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But it's funny because we, and you were just talking about stingrays too.
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We went to SeaWorld.
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over winter.
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And, um, I had a burn on my wrist.
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I had made bacon.
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I got burned with the grease and I really, we could, you could feed the stingrays.
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They had this big tank of them and Dave and the kids, they were feeding the stingrays and I really wanted to.
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And I like went to go put my hand in the thing.
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And then I looked down and I saw my cut on my, and I was like, Oh, I'm not going to do that because I don't want to get all this bacteria in my thing.
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So
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If you have a cut, don't go into the ocean thinking it's going to get better.
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It could actually get much worse.
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So I had a really stupid thought just a second ago.
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Okay.
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So the ocean's like a big bathtub.
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Yeah.
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But it's got to just, I mean, marine life has to pee and poop too, right?
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Right.
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So you're just swimming around and pee and poop?
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Yeah, basically.
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Well, you know, and then if there's any humans that are
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peeing in the water well you know they don't come out of swimming pools they're definitely not coming out of the ocean oh yeah I think I'm gonna pass on water okay final but um this is for the win you're gonna win anyway but whatever um okay which is this is multiple choice ready which insect-borne disease is most common in the midwest u.s. during the summer months a malaria b dungue fever
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C. West Nile.
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D. Zika.
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Can you repeat the question?
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No.
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Absolutely.
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Which insect-borne disease is most common in the Midwest?
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It's Midwest United States.
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So you don't think I'm tricking you.
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During the summer months.
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Okay.
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That's where we live.
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Yep.
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Give me the options again, please.
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Oh.
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A. Malaria.
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D. Dungue Fever.
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C. West Nile.
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D. Zika.
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Malaria.
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Wrong.
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It's actually West Nile, which actually shocked me, too.
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That's why I wanted to do this, because I can't stand mosquitoes.
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West Nile virus is endemic to the United States, particularly in the Midwest, in the southern states, and during peak lockdowns.
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mosquito season, which is summer and early fall for us, which is just starting to happen.
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It is transmitted by a specific mosquito.
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Who cares how many different types of mosquitoes, but it's called a Culex mosquito.
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It can cause febrile illness, meningitis, or encephalitis.
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So most cases are asymptomatic, but in the elderly or immunocompromised, neuroinvasive disease can be fatal.
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Okay.
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Interesting.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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So I don't care what kind of bug spray you use.
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Use some bug spray.
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Yes.
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And don't drink too much Gatorade is what I got from this.
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And don't go on sandbars.
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And don't throw in the water.
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It's like basically don't enjoy summer is what we just told all of you guys, right?
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No, they can enjoy it.
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They just need to be aware of all the, you know, hazards.
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Yeah.
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And also, uh, I will love to tell you that the results are in and I did win by one point.
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Say that again.
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I won by one point.
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I'm sorry, I'm having connectivity issues.
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So, um, but for those who can hear me, I can't hear April right now, but for those that can hear me, we'd love to hear what are, what's going on in your summer.
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What are some summer factor fiction, some myths, some, some questions or some little trivia that you have for us.
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We'd love to hear from you.
00:28:30
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You can email us if those people still email at on call podcast at sound physicians.com.
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You can DM us on Instagram at on call with April and Alicia.
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We're also live on LinkedIn at on call.
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It was at on call with April and Alicia on LinkedIn as well.
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And you can find us anywhere that you can find a podcast anywhere you listen to your podcast.
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That's where you can find us.
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So we would love to hear from you guys.
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Please, you know, welcome us with show ideas or any feedback that you'd like to share.
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Absolutely.
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And until next time, you guys stay well and we'll stay on call.
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Bye, everyone.
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Have a safe summer.
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Put on some bug spray.