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In this episode of "Afraid to Ask,” Jamie and his more emotionally functional half discuss the longest fart in recorded history and whether or not this is funny or not, and how to get a good nights sleep, or at least look like you did.
Chapters
00:00 - Something Surprising That Happens When You Die
03:30 - Another Strange Side Effect Of Colonoscopies
06:45 - Longest Fart On Record
08:20 - Men Think Farts Are Funnier Than Women
10:40 - Erika Brings Up The Grossest Thing Ever
16:50 - Here Come The Random Questions
18:15 - Listener Insults An Oversensitive Comedian
22:55 - What Causes Dark Circles And Eye Bags
24:55 - How To Treat Bags Under Your Eyes
26:40 - Why You Should Make Sure To Read The Active Ingredients Of OTC Medication
27:35 - How Much Sleep Should People Get Per Night
28:50 - Why Drinking Is Bad For Sleep
About the Podcast
Comedian Jamie Lissow and his smarter half Dr. Erika answer all kinds of medical, dating, sex, divorce, questions some might be afraid to ask. Listen & subscribe for prescriptions and punchlines.
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Transcript
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Speaker:hello there boyfriend how are you this fine day
Speaker:I'm really good is it working
Speaker:yes excellent
Speaker:let's not talk shit
Speaker:I'm afraid to ask but I have a great question
Speaker:I don't even know what I was gonna say
Speaker:I'm so disturbed right now
Speaker:she's afraid to ask but Jamie
Speaker:Doctor Erica I'm gonna ask you a question
Speaker:I think I'm afraid to ask
Speaker:but I'm just gonna do it right out of the gate
Speaker:all right
Speaker:last night I feel like we have a very healthy sex life
Speaker:do you agree yeah
Speaker:last night we were about we were
Speaker:there might have been sex last night
Speaker:but we weren't sure right
Speaker:and then when the kitchen
Speaker:and I start talking about snoring
Speaker:cause I'm going through a thing where
Speaker:I'm trying to figure out like
Speaker:why snoring I'm trying all these different devices
Speaker:and then you said
Speaker:you said something like
Speaker:hey by the way
Speaker:everybody farts in their sleep and you know
Speaker:I hate fart I was like
Speaker:oh man and then you were like
Speaker:oh yeah cause your device would record it if you farted
Speaker:instead of snort that's what made you say it
Speaker:I thought it was kind of funny to hear that
Speaker:and then you go
Speaker:and when you die you're gonna shit yourself probably
Speaker:yeah so I was wondering
Speaker:yeah is that the same as saying hey
Speaker:let's not have sex tonight
Speaker:was that why you told me that
Speaker:stuff no it was just like a fun fact okay
Speaker:well I worked for both
Speaker:I was talking about how like when you're asleep
Speaker:you can't control yourself
Speaker:so people often will be like
Speaker:I never fart around my partner
Speaker:but you fart at night
Speaker:cause you have a relaxation of your anal sphincter
Speaker:so it just happens
Speaker:don't say anything and then when you die
Speaker:a lot of people have that same relaxation
Speaker:because they don't have any muscle tone immediately
Speaker:so they will defecate
Speaker:that's the only time
Speaker:sleeping is the only time where I relax my sphincter
Speaker:all other times I'm on the I'm on high alert
Speaker:even hearing heterosexual sex I'm like
Speaker:let's keep our hands to ourselves high alert
Speaker:do you know that's the thing sometimes
Speaker:no continue that one
Speaker:there's this new thing going around
Speaker:the kids are trying it where you got to be careful
Speaker:sometimes a woman
Speaker:will start to head towards that area of your body
Speaker:and um
Speaker:I've had I kind of
Speaker:have had somebody kind of go in that direction
Speaker:I had to go hey
Speaker:hey hey hey hey no means no okay
Speaker:that's when um
Speaker:that's the that's the precise moment
Speaker:I stopped letting my anus ever relax
Speaker:was that moment
Speaker:does that surprise you
Speaker:I just have so many different drays
Speaker:I could go with this
Speaker:and I don't know what one I wanna take
Speaker:how far she get
Speaker:not far it's like um
Speaker:like halfway behind the ball sack
Speaker:she's headed that it was circling the drain eww
Speaker:kind of like eww wait
Speaker:you mean like your buttholes a drain
Speaker:yes all I was thinking like your penis was a drain
Speaker:like the pipe
Speaker:and she was like going around it like circumnavigating
Speaker:I apologize maybe not a great metaphor
Speaker:is that where they came up with the ringer
Speaker:ring job rim job
Speaker:rim job I don't I'm not 100% sure what that is
Speaker:I just feel like now whenever you're talking to me go
Speaker:let's not let's not do that
Speaker:we have a lot of questions that we have to get to okay
Speaker:well usually at the beginning of the episode
Speaker:I like to ask you hey
Speaker:what direction should we go
Speaker:but this time I think I would like to around the ring
Speaker:choose for you
Speaker:would you mind that yeah
Speaker:yeah but make it like a good one
Speaker:a punch
Speaker:I have a question coming in straight to the face from
Speaker:about a colonoscopy
Speaker:not the punch I wanted
Speaker:we've covered colonoscopies right
Speaker:yeah kind of a lot extensively
Speaker:what else you want me
Speaker:you talked about assholes today already
Speaker:is this like your theme was a good Segway
Speaker:I would not ask you this question
Speaker:if it wasn't something we did not cover
Speaker:last time we talked about me getting colonoscopy
Speaker:pre and post colonoscopy
Speaker:this question I have not heard before
Speaker:and I did not have this experience
Speaker:it's a very specific question
Speaker:I don't know if you can really answer this
Speaker:it doesn't I don't know if this is a medical question
Speaker:I'm gonna play this here we go
Speaker:hi Jamie and Doctor Erica my name is Mark
Speaker:I live in Valencia California
Speaker:so here's what happened to me
Speaker:I got done with my colonoscopy
Speaker:I'm in the recovery room I'm groggy
Speaker:I'm just waking up so I'm sort of half and half up
Speaker:I felt very bloated I felt very gassy and I released
Speaker:I farted and it was so long
Speaker:it was it was so long that I knew
Speaker:no one would believe me
Speaker:when I told them how long it was
Speaker:and matter of fact when it's done I go did that happen
Speaker:I go or did I dream that
Speaker:and it was it couldn't even also know
Speaker:and wait a minute I think I have another one luckily
Speaker:I had brought my cell phone with me
Speaker:so I grabbed it and I you know
Speaker:had enough consciousness to sort of hit record
Speaker:I recorded the second one it was 24 seconds long haha
Speaker:that one was a fraction of how long
Speaker:well over a minute
Speaker:I guess my question is impressive possible
Speaker:where did the air come from
Speaker:and why don't they give you a heads up beforehand
Speaker:if this is normal so that you're not freaked out
Speaker:I thought you were gonna say he actually recorded it
Speaker:was gonna let us hear his 24 second fart
Speaker:I would have enjoyed that well
Speaker:did part of you and you heard that think oh
Speaker:that's not that's fake
Speaker:did any part of you think that's not real
Speaker:I don't know about 24 seconds
Speaker:cause I did when I heard it
Speaker:I go that's not real
Speaker:do you have it what are your what are your opinion on
Speaker:um
Speaker:is that a common thing I feel like yeah
Speaker:you have to fart before you leave like they make you
Speaker:well it depends not everyone does this anymore
Speaker:but oftentimes
Speaker:they'll insufflate your colon and your intestines
Speaker:that's what air inside to like
Speaker:help see if the visualization is like impaired
Speaker:you know that's why I relax my you know
Speaker:cause I'm afraid someone's gonna inflate
Speaker:so save my colon
Speaker:so I keep it like you're calling by the way
Speaker:it's this is a true question ah
Speaker:it's not a common practice for everybody now
Speaker:so like you didn't have that
Speaker:so no air was like pushed inside of you
Speaker:so they didn't say hey
Speaker:try to like
Speaker:get your bowels moving and try to push it out oh
Speaker:but yeah oftentimes if you have a lot of air put in
Speaker:you have a lot of air come out
Speaker:what I'm saying to you is though this is not fake
Speaker:no I don't think so
Speaker:that's why I didn't I I was on like
Speaker:I don't like fake questions on podcast no
Speaker:that's real absolutely
Speaker:I've heard I've heard long farts
Speaker:I haven't
Speaker:I haven't timed this for a second or but I did
Speaker:I wasn't gonna play
Speaker:cause I actually thought it was a bit
Speaker:so I I message this person and I go
Speaker:you know what we I go I really don't like
Speaker:I just heard a podcast
Speaker:where the question was so faking
Speaker:it infuriated me and so I go
Speaker:I'm not trying to say you're lying and I go
Speaker:but are you doing a bit are you whatever and I go
Speaker:you said you recorded it with your phone and they go oh
Speaker:do you want it do you want it
Speaker:no you don't what I was joking yeah
Speaker:so I go what do you mean you still have it
Speaker:because it's on the front page of my phone
Speaker:no that okay ready
Speaker:no I was so
Speaker:24 seconds
Speaker:I don't think that was 24 seconds
Speaker:he was 24 and it sounded like a balloon
Speaker:you're now questioning the validity of this person's
Speaker:yes oh wow
Speaker:it's a real fart how do you know that
Speaker:it's not over there
Speaker:do you wanna know the ash truth yeah
Speaker:one second you know
Speaker:my favorite thing is
Speaker:the fact that I'm laughing so hard
Speaker:and you're so unamused
Speaker:I think that that's all of men versus women
Speaker:that that struck me so funny
Speaker:I actually know that it's real
Speaker:because I heard this story before
Speaker:we had a podcast
Speaker:and so first not to hear the to hear the fart
Speaker:I guess it doesn't amuse me
Speaker:I don't know that's weird right
Speaker:I'm I
Speaker:I'm not saying I'm I don't know which position
Speaker:but I can't not laugh when there's a 24 second fart
Speaker:it's impossible but you were like
Speaker:I think it's a guy woman thing
Speaker:hmm
Speaker:anyway I
Speaker:I don't know I think also
Speaker:I'm used to like performing surgery and afterwards
Speaker:not letting patients go
Speaker:until they've had a bowel movement
Speaker:or past gas because oftentimes
Speaker:the medicines we give cause constipation
Speaker:especially opiates for pain control
Speaker:so after surgery
Speaker:you wanna make sure that the gut motility is there
Speaker:before you discharge someone
Speaker:so they don't go home and have a bowel obstruction
Speaker:so a lot of times I'm like
Speaker:hey you can get out of here soon as you fucking fart
Speaker:and it's totally serious yeah
Speaker:so like it's a
Speaker:it's a thing and then someone will fart and you're like
Speaker:yeah it's like a genuinely like
Speaker:so I don't know can I miss something to you
Speaker:I didn't even care about that medical question
Speaker:I want to play the fart noise
Speaker:oh you have a fart
Speaker:but you had a great answer
Speaker:so I'm glad we did it
Speaker:well sounds don't bother me
Speaker:smells sometimes bother me
Speaker:what's your word I don't even want to talk about this
Speaker:because I have a gag reflex for mine
Speaker:so I don't even want to talk about this
Speaker:but what's your your doctor
Speaker:I assume you're you are like
Speaker:maybe more used to body fluids
Speaker:and smells than other people might be
Speaker:do you have one thing where it's like I can't Melena
Speaker:Melina really Obama's wife
Speaker:no Trump's wife
Speaker:well first of all
Speaker:if you're gonna
Speaker:like dog presidential or something for the name
Speaker:first Lady maybe get them right
Speaker:Meloma seems like a combination of Michelle Obama
Speaker:seemed like a quick way to say her name
Speaker:no way to try to recover
Speaker:what is that
Speaker:so it's digested blood for an upper GI bleed
Speaker:so say you're bleeding in your esophagus
Speaker:your stomach your upper intestine
Speaker:your body will break down the blood and the heme
Speaker:the the actual molecules and components of the blood
Speaker:when they break down actually turn black and Tori
Speaker:so you poop out it looks like black tar
Speaker:it's that sticky and it smells terrible
Speaker:and I've seen it in the pool
Speaker:like it came out of a patient
Speaker:and it was just like a huge bucket of black tarri poop
Speaker:and it smells really bad and it's awful
Speaker:cause that patient ended up passing shortly thereafter
Speaker:so like it's not a joke like when you have it that bad
Speaker:it's a big deal
Speaker:I got a shit like that rose like I think this is it
Speaker:I think it's interesting that like
Speaker:stuff doesn't faze me right
Speaker:like if you eat beets
Speaker:like I eat beets a lot in our smoothies when we got
Speaker:right my pee is like blood
Speaker:my poop is like bloody and I always like
Speaker:oh fuck oh yeah
Speaker:we just had a blue yeah
Speaker:I know I know it's sexy right
Speaker:but it's like bloody
Speaker:I think it's interesting like Pepto Bismol did
Speaker:you know makes your poop black
Speaker:I never take and your tongue too
Speaker:so people like oh shit
Speaker:I have black stools like what do I do
Speaker:but it's not the same it's like this black
Speaker:it's like tar sticky um
Speaker:we urine do you know we call when Coca Cola urine
Speaker:it actually looks like Coke
Speaker:your pee looks that color for a certain disease process
Speaker:so anyway so that's the worst smell
Speaker:you're the winner I won't know anyone to say mine
Speaker:that's why the fart noises in face
Speaker:because I don't smell anything
Speaker:what are you gonna do I'm hearing something
Speaker:I mean first it was
Speaker:it was real yeah
Speaker:it was 100% real
Speaker:and think about we had audio that first one
Speaker:that would be pretty cool
Speaker:I'm more so impressed that from the sedation
Speaker:he was able to have think enough to record his fart
Speaker:yeah that's something
Speaker:this is the kind of guy that does
Speaker:that does not surprise me that he was able to do that
Speaker:but yeah I agree with you he had this
Speaker:um do that the next time like well
Speaker:if I ever meet this friend
Speaker:that's all I'm just like fart
Speaker:fart fart
Speaker:fart fart I'm just
Speaker:gonna like look at his face and just hear that
Speaker:you meet this friend
Speaker:you meet this friend and he will convince you
Speaker:you'll totally believe him um
Speaker:I I have my grossest thing is
Speaker:I don't know what I don't like the grossest smell
Speaker:it's my no that's my worst like throw up thing
Speaker:I don't I wanna move on quickly if that's okay cause no
Speaker:I kind of wanna do this I almost vomit when just do it
Speaker:if there's a child
Speaker:and there's any kind of ingesting or something
Speaker:it's the it's the grossest most disgusting thing
Speaker:ingesting like eating a butter
Speaker:oh oh oh oh
Speaker:I also like pimple videos or
Speaker:but that's way above it for me I think it's the most
Speaker:disgusting you're not dry heating right now
Speaker:I didn't dry heat but I definitely had a literally
Speaker:can we play a game of like
Speaker:I tell you the grossest dream I have
Speaker:and we see how many you can get through yeah
Speaker:we'll see how many
Speaker:how to get rid of as many lessons as we can
Speaker:as fast as we can by grossing everyone out right
Speaker:I won't tell you one you ready
Speaker:shit okay
Speaker:if you don't want to we don't have to okay
Speaker:I'll do one don't puke on my bedroom
Speaker:but I can't even handle the okay
Speaker:God all right
Speaker:have you um
Speaker:since you talked about snot
Speaker:I'm gonna start with that one
Speaker:I can't have you ever I can't
Speaker:have you heard of something called a nose Frida
Speaker:I can't do it a nose Frida do you know what that is
Speaker:it's for babies
Speaker:I have I do know what it is haha
Speaker:I can't do it and I know you're gonna say no no
Speaker:let me do it let me do it I already know the story
Speaker:let me do it my ex I'm gonna throw up my let me do it
Speaker:please
Speaker:and and I I just watching it happen was so haha
Speaker:so disgusting and I know I know what your story is
Speaker:I can already tell what it's gonna be let me do it God
Speaker:I won't listen alright
Speaker:so it's for people who don't know what it is
Speaker:it's a long tube with a suction thing on your mouth
Speaker:for one side and a little sponge filter
Speaker:and then you tick
Speaker:stick the tube into the infant's nose and you suck to
Speaker:to get all that snot do a disclaimer
Speaker:if anybody's not wanna hear the story
Speaker:it'll be 45 seconds I don't even think it's that gross
Speaker:so to get the snot out of the baby
Speaker:cause babies can't blow their nose
Speaker:so when they're really congested
Speaker:you wanna clear it all out
Speaker:cause then it won't drain
Speaker:and cause issues with it going down
Speaker:and having them cough it up
Speaker:so you are supposed to suck snot
Speaker:I know with your mouth out of a baby's nose right
Speaker:so I got really good at it
Speaker:I was like babysitting and I was like rushing
Speaker:so what you do is you take nasal saline
Speaker:like salt water spray you squirt it up the baby's nose
Speaker:so it makes the snot even slipperier
Speaker:and slimier and easier to come out
Speaker:and then you stick the nozzle in
Speaker:and then you put the other side in your mouth
Speaker:and you suck at all the snot
Speaker:and you see in the clear tube coming up
Speaker:the problem is I forgot the filter
Speaker:so I sucked as hard as I could
Speaker:and all of the baby snot went straight up into my mouth
Speaker:you're fine that's the whole story you did great
Speaker:it's the gross thing I've ever heard
Speaker:you know what the problem with that story is
Speaker:but you did great you didn't even drive
Speaker:I'm never gonna forget it
Speaker:that's a good that's a very gross story
Speaker:holy shit
Speaker:you should better than you gave yourself credit for
Speaker:okay I did plug my ears at the end
Speaker:but I think I know how it ended
Speaker:I saw where you were going hey
Speaker:we have a new feature I'm afraid to ask are you mad
Speaker:no no no
Speaker:I'm not mad I almost dropped though
Speaker:you did drive but you
Speaker:that was when you were telling the story
Speaker:when I told one you did fine
Speaker:good job you could be a doctor um
Speaker:do you know we have this new feature on afraid to
Speaker:ask where people can it's called Speak Pipe
Speaker:which people can leave us messages
Speaker:that's a terrible name speak pipe
Speaker:speak pipe like speak into the pipe
Speaker:I think so speak pipe
Speaker:and people can leave us messages on social media
Speaker:um on our Twitter Instagram
Speaker:you're not even looking at me
Speaker:I feel like your eyes are still watering haha
Speaker:I'm really it really fucked me up a little bit ah
Speaker:but I am looking at messages
Speaker:people have left us on speak by oh
Speaker:you don't have to apologize
Speaker:I think I'm maybe in the minority here on snot
Speaker:or speakpipe snot oh okay
Speaker:well let's move on
Speaker:because I feel badly that I made you feel sick
Speaker:these pimple videos have millions of views
Speaker:and that to me is the most disgusting
Speaker:I was working with an actress once in a television show
Speaker:that everyone would know who she was
Speaker:beautiful woman
Speaker:and during my stomach does here hurt during in makeup
Speaker:she would watch pimple videos the whole time
Speaker:she was obsessed with it
Speaker:there was like some Mr Pimple or something
Speaker:Doctor Pimple Popper it's like Doctor Squish
Speaker:but Sandra Lee pimples
Speaker:I get my eyebrows done the same place as her
Speaker:she's awesome I watch her videos
Speaker:I have a couple and I'm in the minor
Speaker:you know what's interesting
Speaker:one of the best videos I ever did on TikTok
Speaker:that got like I don't know
Speaker:4 million or so views yeah
Speaker:so thought he'd get ton
Speaker:but it got enough was pimple popping one
Speaker:and the thing fucking explodes
Speaker:like 10 feet up in the air
Speaker:not my personal oh
Speaker:a reaction uh huh
Speaker:I fucking hate TikTok
Speaker:Erica post on TikTok
Speaker:like I'm gonna get 2 million views real quick
Speaker:I post a video that got millions of views on Instagram
Speaker:and Tik Toks
Speaker:like you watched it as you were uploading it
Speaker:no it's the first person that watched it
Speaker:well
Speaker:that's what I think is interesting
Speaker:is social media is kind of like a wash
Speaker:who knows when someone's gonna like something or not
Speaker:like the dumbest videos go viral
Speaker:and like
Speaker:really interesting videos has barely any views
Speaker:sometimes that's true
Speaker:so here's what I thought I would ask you
Speaker:I have um
Speaker:some of these speakpipe questions
Speaker:and there's some that I listen to them
Speaker:and then a couple of them came in just now
Speaker:and so I don't know what they are
Speaker:and so would you like to wish we just go random to the
Speaker:to the phones are these filtered at all
Speaker:no
Speaker:this would be I would just play it like it say anything
Speaker:fuck it are you worried about that now
Speaker:you got me worried about it
Speaker:let's just see what happens
Speaker:if you haven't listened to it yeah
Speaker:you just played me an audible real farts apparently
Speaker:all right
Speaker:we'll just go to the we'll go to we'll go to speak pipe
Speaker:here's the first one Doctor Erica
Speaker:should
Speaker:all broke losers date doctors for free health care
Speaker:maybe we should get a screener
Speaker:should we hire up did you know that was coming
Speaker:no I didn't fucking know that was coming I should be
Speaker:what the fuck
Speaker:I do have health insurance right now
Speaker:maybe we should rephrase it that you're my Guinea pig
Speaker:maybe I'm still learning on your body
Speaker:can I ask you a question what
Speaker:that hurt my feelings a tiny bit that man's message
Speaker:do you think true people are just joking
Speaker:or do you think he they're trying to hurt my feelings
Speaker:you think he's just joking right
Speaker:do you think
Speaker:that person probably likes me and he's like
Speaker:oh that Jamie has a good sense of humor
Speaker:and then I took take it too seriously
Speaker:he's probably my like a fan or something right
Speaker:I think so
Speaker:you always talk about being a broke loser on TV
Speaker:I do feel like you set yourself up for it
Speaker:great point excellent point
Speaker:and the fact that everything you said was true
Speaker:no and I think it's funny cause it's not true
Speaker:my apologies
Speaker:right now Writers Guild cause I wrote the animal too
Speaker:huh cause when I when I do regular comedy
Speaker:I don't get health insurance
Speaker:but if you write a script
Speaker:and you make a certain amount of money
Speaker:you get this incredible insurance
Speaker:and because we wrote the animal to last year
Speaker:actually have pretty incredible insurance
Speaker:well then I guess I'll date you okay
Speaker:all right maybe should we
Speaker:do you want to go to another one
Speaker:I don't know what to do
Speaker:let's um
Speaker:alright let's see if there's
Speaker:you know I thought it was funny though
Speaker:cause it's not true if it was remotely true
Speaker:I would be like what the fuck
Speaker:you're right it's cause I do say that on TV
Speaker:of course people are gonna make jokes
Speaker:did I not just say to you like if I say something like
Speaker:oh it's cause you have a little dick
Speaker:it's like a funny
Speaker:like there's no way it's a true insult
Speaker:if you had like
Speaker:insecurities about the size of your penis
Speaker:or I honestly thought your penis was small yeah
Speaker:that's not something I would say
Speaker:I hear what you're saying
Speaker:so I think this is the same thing where it's like
Speaker:oh you're a broke loser
Speaker:ha ha ha not I don't know
Speaker:maybe something that actually is personal and true
Speaker:that hurt your feelings so I don't think that one's bad
Speaker:I'm an oversensitive motherfucker
Speaker:I think people are just gonna come at us
Speaker:so if that's the worst thing they say said by us
Speaker:you mean me
Speaker:the I'm waiting Gutfeld by the way
Speaker:that's why he makes jokes about my children
Speaker:only
Speaker:because he knows that we do have a good relationship
Speaker:if we had a bad relationship
Speaker:me and my kids he would never yeah
Speaker:ever seem like that that's what I mean yeah right okay
Speaker:should we do another one I'm fucking scared now
Speaker:are we ready
Speaker:hi Jamie Doctor Erica
Speaker:this is David and Miami
Speaker:once again with yet another question um
Speaker:doesn't matter how much I sleep
Speaker:people are constantly telling me that I look tired uh
Speaker:I do have a one year old
Speaker:and some nights I sleep 4 hours
Speaker:some nights I sleep 9 hours if she lets me
Speaker:and I'm always getting the same comments from
Speaker:from people so what do you recommend
Speaker:what's the right how much sleep should I be getting
Speaker:should I get a pillow and mattress and face new friends
Speaker:I would love to hear what you guys think
Speaker:thank you as always
Speaker:you know it's funny I hate to say this
Speaker:what I feel bad for this guy
Speaker:because this happens to me all the time
Speaker:what happens to you all the time
Speaker:people tell me I look tired
Speaker:so I feel bad for this man and you know what
Speaker:hmm fucking sounds tired
Speaker:did he sound tired I went to the airport yesterday
Speaker:and they asked me if I wanted to check the bags
Speaker:under my eyes
Speaker:I get this all the time is there a genetic
Speaker:is this a genetic thing
Speaker:or is there something you can do about this
Speaker:cause I really do I would all the time people are like
Speaker:oh did you just wake up and sure
Speaker:I carry a teddy bear and a blankie
Speaker:you're fucking bombing right now
Speaker:I am I am
Speaker:you're the only audience and it's not good
Speaker:it's not good
Speaker:what do you what do you say to this man
Speaker:he's got a one year old yeah
Speaker:so that's the first thing
Speaker:okay so actually
Speaker:did you know that the most
Speaker:um no
Speaker:I think not just all of it
Speaker:well you might know okay
Speaker:cause you actually said genetics
Speaker:so I think you're right uh
Speaker:on track the most predisposing factor
Speaker:that leads to dark circles under the eyes
Speaker:most common thing associated with acting career
Speaker:uh no
Speaker:it's uh your ethnicity really
Speaker:yeah it's the melanin production
Speaker:in the way that
Speaker:certain people's genetics play into a factor
Speaker:regardless of other external forces
Speaker:so depending on your ethnicity
Speaker:you might have a predisposition to darker under eye
Speaker:circle or something
Speaker:I might have some dark under eye sir melanin
Speaker:so like the basically the production of pigment
Speaker:okay so if I have darker skin
Speaker:wouldn't they be less noticeable if I had
Speaker:it can concentrate in that area
Speaker:sleep though is a factor
Speaker:so if this guy says he's a 1 year old yeah
Speaker:he's not sleeping a lot
Speaker:but he said some days I sleep a lot
Speaker:some days I don't sleep a lot
Speaker:so
Speaker:it doesn't make me think that he's not sleeping well
Speaker:all the time um
Speaker:so I would say it might be ethnicity
Speaker:I don't know I don't know who this guy is
Speaker:but can I ask you one question
Speaker:what do you do um
Speaker:I always heard just to give a little more advice
Speaker:I always heard sleep in the baby sleeps right
Speaker:that's what people say unless your baby doesn't sleep
Speaker:unless you be able
Speaker:but they say like the minute falls asleep
Speaker:I would I did that like when I had kids
Speaker:we I'd sleep in the baby sleep
Speaker:I would when he would suck a nipple I would go
Speaker:let's do this right just to stand the same
Speaker:what's the next one
Speaker:tough crowd today okay
Speaker:other reasons for looking tired
Speaker:well if you don't get a lot of sleep
Speaker:you don't get a lot of oxygenation in return
Speaker:if you're snoring or you're only sleeping a few hours
Speaker:your body is overexerted so your uh
Speaker:you can be dehydrated which can cause it
Speaker:or actually can cause your blood vessels to dilate
Speaker:with less oxygen received to the body overnight
Speaker:if you're not sleeping a lot
Speaker:so it believe it or not
Speaker:puffs up your blood vessels deoxygenated blood is dark
Speaker:right
Speaker:when you see blood that's like bright red versus blue
Speaker:well dark
Speaker:deoxygenated blood is the color you're looking for
Speaker:and it can go underneath your eyes
Speaker:so if it's dilated
Speaker:it's darker you know what's interesting
Speaker:since we talk about buttholes
Speaker:you know how people treat bags under their eyes
Speaker:wait that's your hint
Speaker:don't tell me there's the thing
Speaker:I really want to know the link you're saying
Speaker:how do people treat
Speaker:is your dog going fucking crazy
Speaker:or is that a different dog
Speaker:that's not my dog crazy um
Speaker:I don't know if they can hear that
Speaker:um oh
Speaker:let me check
Speaker:oh yeah okay
Speaker:well we live in
Speaker:I got a dog don't fucking nuts
Speaker:um can I have a real chance at this
Speaker:yeah I just gave you the hint
Speaker:so go for it so bags under your eyes
Speaker:I just said vasodilation and buttholes
Speaker:is it because you can't sleep
Speaker:because there's a fucking dog won't shut the fuck up
Speaker:could be I don't know what just made me think of that
Speaker:um
Speaker:could it be
Speaker:treatment under your eye
Speaker:I'm immediately thinking it's some sort of
Speaker:I put a little like like a face mask type of thing
Speaker:but it's constant there
Speaker:I just set it on there on the outside of it
Speaker:like some kind of ointment
Speaker:but I don't know what that has to do with my butthole
Speaker:I give up what is it
Speaker:well yeah
Speaker:like so you know how
Speaker:like some under eye patches have like caffeine in them
Speaker:yes or green tea
Speaker:because
Speaker:it's supposed to vasoconstrict in a certain way
Speaker:that's why caffeine helps with headache sometimes
Speaker:cause those blood vessels dilate
Speaker:the caffeine like from coffee squeezes them down
Speaker:well same thing here
Speaker:same concept you got that dilated blood vessel
Speaker:the darker the puffier the uh
Speaker:hemorrhoid cream oh damn it
Speaker:that sounds familiar
Speaker:topical hemorrhoid cream constricts the hemorrhoid
Speaker:brings down the swelling in your anus
Speaker:same thing brings down the swelling here
Speaker:you be careful you don't wanna get that in your eyes
Speaker:but you do wanna put them around
Speaker:so that's one option nice tip
Speaker:you know how you go to the store sometimes
Speaker:and you turn me onto this
Speaker:and it is so surprising to me
Speaker:that sometimes there will be a medicine one
Speaker:one that I thought on over the counter
Speaker:like a unison or something
Speaker:hmm that sometimes has the same oh
Speaker:I noticed it with um like an antifungal
Speaker:one will be like toenail fungus destroyer
Speaker:and then the other one will say
Speaker:rash prevention is the same fucking thing
Speaker:same thing do they
Speaker:they should do a hemorrhoid thing where they go hey
Speaker:under eye
Speaker:do you know what I mean
Speaker:cause I have trouble putting something on my face
Speaker:if there's a picture of
Speaker:like a hot guy with his ass showing on the
Speaker:on the packaging
Speaker:we think he just have like 2 chocolate starfishes
Speaker:right here yeah
Speaker:that's all I'm saying with the same ingredients as um
Speaker:hemorrhoid cream
Speaker:what's your favorite amount of
Speaker:I know this is super
Speaker:it's just it's mostly opinion I guess
Speaker:but maybe not what do you think
Speaker:like how much sleep at night
Speaker:are you an 8 hour night person
Speaker:what do you personally do
Speaker:well the medical guidelines
Speaker:currently recommend 7 to 8 hours overnight
Speaker:but that's also good quality
Speaker:minimally interrupted sleep
Speaker:so you wanna reduce things like frequent urination
Speaker:nocturia can be a big problem
Speaker:if you're going four or five times a night
Speaker:so make sure your prostits okay
Speaker:uh sleep apnea
Speaker:snoring a lot people sometimes sleep 10 hours
Speaker:but they feel like they've slept one
Speaker:it's not restorative
Speaker:this day feels like an answer slash personal attack
Speaker:um restless legs
Speaker:so tossing and turning a lot of times
Speaker:people actually have a condition where they can't sit
Speaker:still
Speaker:that's usually associated with iron deficiency anemia
Speaker:so not always iron deficiency
Speaker:maybe not anemia so getting that checked
Speaker:and then having a supplementation
Speaker:there's a lot of reasons
Speaker:people don't sleep well overnight
Speaker:um but yeah
Speaker:our goal is seven to eight hours
Speaker:so you're saying he he might be in my page
Speaker:and I think he might just look like that
Speaker:there's nothing you can do
Speaker:or especially if he's getting the proper nice sleep
Speaker:but he has a one year old
Speaker:so maybe that's
Speaker:maybe that's the answer to the question right there
Speaker:well
Speaker:whenever someone says I'm having a hard time sleeping
Speaker:I'm like okay
Speaker:are you having a hard time falling asleep
Speaker:or staying asleep
Speaker:cause there's other ideologies for each one anxiety
Speaker:depression can do it um
Speaker:excessive caffeine use obviously stimulants problems
Speaker:alcohol you know
Speaker:we know that alcohol is a depressant
Speaker:it makes you fall asleep usually
Speaker:easier but then you wake up and you feel like shit
Speaker:after a few hours so then you
Speaker:then you get woken up because you pissed the bed
Speaker:you changing the sheets now I'm wide awake
Speaker:why did you say you oh just one 1 has pissed the bed
Speaker:just in the in the example
Speaker:I think that's a good answer oh
Speaker:thank you haha
Speaker:I do I think that's a really good answer
Speaker:but I feel like sometimes I sleep drinking 12 hours
Speaker:and still look like I just woke up
Speaker:so I don't know what to do about that
Speaker:I think it's because of the apnea from the snoring
Speaker:and uh
Speaker:you're also not getting really good REM quality sleep
Speaker:if you wake up a lot
Speaker:you don't go back into that restoration
Speaker:with a rapid eye movement that your body needs um
Speaker:your adrenal glands their little
Speaker:tiny glands that sit on top of your kidneys
Speaker:they put they spit out cortisol right
Speaker:that's that fight or flight hormone
Speaker:ideally we like you to go to bed around like 10 or 11
Speaker:because the early morning hours
Speaker:between like 2 and 4
Speaker:is when those adrenal glands tend to kick in more
Speaker:and if you don't fall asleep
Speaker:and give your body enough time to chill
Speaker:it's like working overtime
Speaker:so those glands are like well
Speaker:fuck you pew pew pew
Speaker:and then you're just like
Speaker:like that fighter flight hormone
Speaker:and you've got all the stress
Speaker:hormone in your body and that causes truncal
Speaker:obesity and irritation and mood changes
Speaker:and it fucks with your level of energy and exhaustion
Speaker:I do feel like honey future episode
Speaker:I don't know if I'm ready for this right now
Speaker:or if you are um
Speaker:but I feel like we should get into snoring
Speaker:at some point because maybe not now
Speaker:only because I'm doing like
Speaker:I'm doing like an experiment
Speaker:oh study of one sample size 1 me
Speaker:cause this really bothers me and I mean
Speaker:not kidding
Speaker:it's embarrassing you talk about now there's no well
Speaker:I just thought we are kind of almost up against time
Speaker:but um I think we should talk about sleep though
Speaker:cause we should
Speaker:there's there's so many options for the snoring thing
Speaker:and I just paid I did a mouth tape thing
Speaker:I did a breathe right strip
Speaker:and I bought this thing that was $350
Speaker:called a Smart Nora where it moves your head around
Speaker:it hears you it like hears you snoring
Speaker:and moves your head before you start to snore
Speaker:and my
Speaker:and I have a app called Snore Lab that I pay for
Speaker:that retracts my sleep
Speaker:and in the 3 days since I bought this expensive thing
Speaker:it's been the worst snoring I've ever had
Speaker:in my whole life yeah
Speaker:you're also sick I'm also sick
Speaker:you're congested and I think that's why
Speaker:so that's why I thought maybe study a slut
Speaker:the studies flawed yeah
Speaker:it's not a double blinded trial
Speaker:I mean we have to kind of reduce that expectation
Speaker:true and start over 1
Speaker:it is hard to figure to learn anything
Speaker:well hey
Speaker:I think we should talk about that in the future then
Speaker:cause I get questions about sleep all day long
Speaker:for patients all right
Speaker:we table to sleep talk and then would you like me to oh
Speaker:play one more yes
Speaker:random call is it random or is another fart
Speaker:no this is not a
Speaker:this is not a um
Speaker:cause you said that was random
Speaker:not pre planned hmm
Speaker:do you know cause I'm kind of sick
Speaker:I can't
Speaker:my words are coming like a tiny bit slower than normal
Speaker:like I don't know if I sound fucked up
Speaker:you don't sound fucked up
Speaker:okay so I had an idea
Speaker:because we do have to wrap up this episode
Speaker:what if I play a clip of a question and then we go
Speaker:let's do it next time okay
Speaker:but this is truly random oh
Speaker:like I'm not commenting I'm just listening
Speaker:and then you're well
Speaker:we'll cut we'll try not leaving them hanging
Speaker:yeah if it's a good question
Speaker:maybe you give a teaser you go like oh
Speaker:we'll talk about this and then we'll jump off into it
Speaker:next time just play one random one sure
Speaker:let's see if I'm entertained or unamused okay
Speaker:someone I've been talking to for over a year
Speaker:tells me that he's Jamie
Speaker:he tells me he loves me and he wants to marry me
Speaker:but then I see this one time
Speaker:that you're supposed to be his
Speaker:smarter half
Speaker:do you two have a relationship
Speaker:I really need to know if it's really him or scam
Speaker:okay
Speaker:I did not know that was gonna play that
Speaker:um
Speaker:let's let's wrap up let's wrap up
Speaker:we'll get rid of this who the fuck is she
Speaker:coming up on the next episode of afraid to ask
Speaker:you know I think
Speaker:it's really interesting
Speaker:about how we always make the safe choices right
Speaker:Brine Brown talked about something like that
Speaker:where you're in the arena etitude
Speaker:well what does that look like
Speaker:I love that lady
Speaker:so she talked about the arena and how like
Speaker:if you wanna make stuff happen
Speaker:and you're comfortable
Speaker:just sitting in an arena and watching
Speaker:nothing's gonna happen
Speaker:you have to be the fucking gladiator
Speaker:that's fucking scared shitless
Speaker:in the faces of everybody else
Speaker:that makes those tough decisions
Speaker:that nobody else wants to
Speaker:or you're never gonna get the spotlight
Speaker:you're never gonna get them for you
Speaker:never gonna get what you want
Speaker:so if you're too scared to fucking do it fine
Speaker:you're gonna take this apron
Speaker:your life's gonna make mine
Speaker:but you have to be fucking terrified
Speaker:to make those choices
Speaker:that take those exceptional people and propel them
Speaker:otherwise you're just another spectator
