Episode 18

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5th Jun 2024

Prostates and Prostitutes - Part 01

In this episode of Afraid to Ask, comedian Jamie Lissow and his more outgoing half Dr. Erika discuss hate mail and which social media platforms breed the most insults. We talk PSA tests, how far STD tests have come and false positives.

 

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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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check 1 2 well

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hello there boyfriend how are you this fine day

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I'm really good is it working

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yes excellent

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let's not talk shit

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I'm afraid to ask but I have a great question

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I don't even know what I was gonna say

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I'm so disturbed right now

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I was afraid to ask with Jamie and Doctor Erica

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how are you great what's that look for

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I just the way you introduced it it's just

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not a professional I um wanna jump right into questions

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yeah

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cause that probably just saved me from saying something

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mean let's go okay

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we were in Vegas this weekend and they had a T-shirt

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you know those funny T-shirt shops

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they had a T-shirt that said fart loading

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and I got so stupid and I thought to myself

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I wish they had one for Erica that said insult loading

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right and it would be like here it comes

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I told you though that's almost like an insult to me

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like I don't need anything to load

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I got I'm just ready to go

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oh I see pew pew pew okay

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you got like uh that shirt yeah

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dial up in the internet

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and you got like a T1 military grade

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I don't know enough about the internet

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to make that reference you don't need loading time

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how about you're just easy to make fun of

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yeah hahaha

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I got a question from YouTube by the way

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you can find afraid to ask on YouTube

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can I can I take it short aside

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what I would like to ask you a question

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I have my own thoughts

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how would you rank social media platforms

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in order of people being fucking mean

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and so we have Instagram

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we have YouTube we have Twitter and let's do Facebook

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alright so the meanest to nicest yeah

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nice meanest meanest nicest first

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and then I see the answer

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when it comes to people talking about our podcast

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and so there's actually an answer

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so what do you find in general meanest

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the meanest platform you just said nicest

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meanest now you want me as nicest make up your mind

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nice first place

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nicest Facebook good one

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good one totally agree

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it's all the grandparents

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okay I get really

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the most mean comments about Jamie Lisso on Facebook

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what and the reason being really

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you have a Facebook wait a minute

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you know how you have like

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a lot of people have just like

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their family following them on Facebook

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that's why I have the most mean kind

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oh God no I have that on my personal page with family

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just people being nice I remember you from high school

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but that's why I said the grandparents

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cause I feel like Facebook is always like

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people go on there to post pictures of their kids

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so it's very family oriented

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like that's really where it evolved

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it was like what remember when it

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you had to be in college

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and have a college email to sign up to Facebook

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and then people when it first started

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you had to have a college email address

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to sign up for it that's how they weeded people out

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and then they started allowing anyone to join

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and people got actually got upset and they're like

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what the heck

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this is a platform for like college students

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and it turned into like this big thing

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well Zuckerberg was just trying to bang girls

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that's why face I saw that movie

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I like that movie it was insightful

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I did too didn't you like steal the idea from twins

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and also I don't have very good uh uh retention

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I like watching like the seaspan stuff now or whatever

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when he has to go in front of people

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and speak in his defense of like

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Facebook not being like a horrible idea

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so he's a billionaire right

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and he's got like this incredibly successful company

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and the other day

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is gonna date this episode a tiny bit

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but I don't care the other day they posted a meme

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apparently Zuckerberg's been like him and Eli

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Elon Musk was a fight at one point

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did you know that they were actually gonna fight

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they both train martial arts

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so he's gonna fight Elon Musk

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Elon wants to do it Zuckerberg like kind of backed out

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it was this whole thing the other day

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Zuckerberg walked out with an MMA fighter

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did you see this video no

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oh yes I did

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there's where where he's trying to hold stuff

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it keeps getting past and they make fun of him

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cause he doesn't know what he's doing

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so I guess my point being like

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the video is him doing a walkout with this MMA fighter

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camera who it is

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and it's the guys getting him ready like

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you know taking he takes his shorts off

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he throws into one of the guys who has my mouthpiece

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one person takes the mouthpiece off

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where's the towel you know

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you take off your shoes you give him to a guy

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Zuckerberg is in between three people that

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that should be there that need to be there

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and he has nothing to do he has nothing to do

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they keep passing stuff past him

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and he's like nodding his head

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like anything to the music

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and they just go over him and then he does it again

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he's like oh

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and then third time he just goes yeah

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you can tell he's like fuck

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I shouldn't be here yes

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it's the ultimate

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reach your hand out to shake someone's hand

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and they don't shake your hands

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like that to the millionth level

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like he just shouldn't have been there

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but I was thinking how funny it is that like

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that guy has everything but it still must suck

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that must suck to get made fun of like that

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I guess what I'm sort of getting out of like

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it was a meme on my doctor post

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and they changed it to like

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me as the med student on my first day in the or

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cause it was all the surgeons around

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handing stuff and being like

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f you dude you don't belong here yeah

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but his face was like what should I do

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well I guess no one won so yours was you

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said it was cause people passing stuff pass you

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they they're like you loser

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you shouldn't be in here you're you're brand new

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so like they completely pretend you're not even there

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and you're like trying to help and they're like

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don't get in my way that's what it looks like

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someone made one about me

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oh no and it was this girl as my first threesome

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and she was like

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this reminds me of that threesome you were there for

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and it was just them

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I was like oh

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can I grab something

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can I help somebody with something hello

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really funny though that how much money you have

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you can still get made fun of

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which brings me to Facebook

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people are really mean to me

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haha on um when Gutfeld makes a post and they say like

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Jamie's on the show it'll be like

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a bunch of nice people saying they like me

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and then people just like

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you know the worst one is I don't get

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someone said something like

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I don't get Jamie's jokes

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you know whatever and I'm like well

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that's one guy's opinion

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21 likes 21 people agree with that guy

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passive way of being a jerk

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yeah but anyway

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I get the most mean stuff but it's different

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you're right

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I think Facebook that's a great answer on that

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Facebook was the nicest followed by Instagram

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if you don't use it for business

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follow my Instagram and then you'd go I would go TikTok

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I shoot TikTok got you

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I don't I don't do TikTok

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I like TikTok I think it's actually cause it's so quick

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it's just a different it's totally

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I feel like Facebook is like grandparents and family

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Instagram is like the fake stuff right

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like my life is pretty but people still make some um

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can I interrupt you to prove your point even further

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Facebook it's the most pictures of you

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you're not faceless like Instagram

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you could be faceless

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you could just take pictures of buildings

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you could

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it's the second in place for not being faceless

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but like Facebook it's usually your face

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maybe your family maybe your children

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you really have to like be yourself on Facebook

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I feel like there's

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there's not as much anonymity as like a Twitter yeah

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where it's your picture it is this tiny picture

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I'm tired of people in general being um

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I wish everyone would just be

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I wish there was something for Facebook

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where it wasn't

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people just trying to make me feel like shit

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about my life

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I wish it was somewhere we posted failures

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like a fell book and I could go

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you know what I mean

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it's just people posting the highlights of their life

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hmm do I mean like you never

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it's always like oh

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I lost

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it's it's never like

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oh my God I gained well

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you know what's funny I think that that's interesting

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cause guess what I was gonna

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say so I was gonna say TikTok next

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cause it's like younger people

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and it's witty and sassy so you get kind of stuff

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and then I was gonna say

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Twitter slash X is the meanest one

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I think people are jerks on Twitter

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but you know what I think is funny is I saw a post

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I'm barely on Twitter or X and someone put like

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did you see the intern for uh

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MTV or something like sent out an email for something

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it was like some stupid thing

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but he sent it out or she sent it out to like

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reply to like all the subscribers and everything

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and like

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maybe it was like Verizon or it was some huge company

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and they wrote back like sorry

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it was the interns first day we're not joking

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it really was the intern

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and then all these people on X wrote back

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Dear Intern don't feel bad on my first day of work

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I showed up wearing a bathing suit

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because they said it was beach days

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Twitter is best but it was like it wasn't Beach Days

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it was a joke and everyone else was in a fool

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and they had had

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like a poster to advertise the vacations

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they were gonna take me

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but it was a whole list of like

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Twitter is the dumbest thing you've done

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and they were like

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don't worry intern I got your back it was hilarious

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I think that's Twitter is the best like it

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like people being that reply all

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you have to be very very careful cause I don't like it

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I feel like it always disappears

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like I'll get a notification and it's like

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someone wrote you and I'll look and I'm like

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I just see that they wrote I'm like

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what did they respond to

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I can't see what they respond to what did I write

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what did you you tag me in something on there

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and it's like lost to oblivion

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and then I get like these notifications and abyss

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where it's like someone writes this huge comment back

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and I don't even know what it means

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I don't like it

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but I guess also I was saying I know we don't

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I don't love talking about my ex on here

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but you gotta be so careful with a reply

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all in business you should be careful you hit that one

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I've had that happen

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where I had an agent who replied all

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I was not supposed to be on the thread

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and it was something like

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wasn't that nice about me

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like I don't know how many tickets

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he's gonna tell you something that oh

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that really happened yeah oh

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still with them but I don't know

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we almost sent a naked picture to my dad once

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holy crap

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really does I've never done like an email bad one

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who is it supposed to go to for sure me right

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yes what do you mean you're emailing a photo

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why are you emailing oh

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texting cause it's like you

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I have it ready and I'm like

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send and it's like to who

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and it's like the last person you texted

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so yeah woo

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you're not gonna believe this

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but this one time when I was married

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my wife at the time she wrote like a sexy message

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like sort of like oh

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we should get down whatever

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by mistake she sent it to me

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all right

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um

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oh my God yeah

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oh

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anyway so you're going

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you're going Facebook that was a rare moment of empathy

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there was no insult loading Instagram

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TikTok Twitter

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and then LinkedIn

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I don't know why I threw that out

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I saw a tweet what

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the best tweet I've ever seen in my whole life

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in my whole life that I liked more than any other

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it said Best Ways to get a hold of me ranked in order

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No. 1 text me

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No. 2 call me

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No.3 climb up the tree outside my window

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break my window with a rock

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come into my bedroom and shake me awake

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No.4 direct message me on LinkedIn

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yes haha

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one of the funniest things I've ever seen

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LinkedIn is so dumb okay

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great great

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great answer so anyway

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I was gonna say you go first

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well you said it came from YouTube

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yeah yeah

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the meanest for us for our podcast

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it's ranked um

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Instagram we get the most comments

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so I I would say like percentage wise

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it's the lowest amount of negativity

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but we probably get the most negative comments

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cause we get so many comments um

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but YouTube it's like people are mean to

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why are you so mean on YouTube

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it's just like instructional videos and stuff yeah

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I mean there

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it's where the video

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it's the only place the videos available

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just gonna say does that suck

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because

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the only place people are seeing our faces is where

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they're like if you yeah

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I try not to delete the audio only they're nice

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and then they see us and they're like

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uh uh

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if I see it's one that's gonna hurt our feelings

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and by ours I mean mine

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I'll delete it but otherwise I leave it up

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cause just like

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we're confident in what we're doing here

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we feel good about it it's mostly about the content

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Erica I know you don't go on there

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but it's mostly people like hey

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why aren't you the exact person you are and Gutfeld

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why aren't you the person I want you to be

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why are you being yourself

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stop that you know what

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I think that's hard though

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because you do have a character and a personality

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and a persona that is one way on certain things

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and another another like

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I mean I'm very different in office

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as a physician than I am right here

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yes real Jamie wants to get his dick wet

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EWW he doesn't want to be this loser

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you have to deal with what I just said

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the character that character

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no

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hmm

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I just might want to take a shower

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real Jamie or character Jamie wants to get

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I just thought

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I would like to take a shower to get my wet gross okay

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before the episode I was like

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let's try to be clean yeah

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that's working out well for you

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we are different

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we're a little bit different on YouTube

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where ourselves on this podcast is nothing I can do

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so anyway we did get some messages that were nice

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but then I had a question

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that's the whole point of this whole thing

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was for me to bring up

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would you like a question about a PSA test

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to be honest with you I don't know what that is

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or would you like a question about a hernia

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like a public service announcement

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is that what it means I don't know what's the question

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I think it's not it's probably having to do with a man

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okay so this is from uh

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let's see this is from Randy Stockdale 3

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0 7 2

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by the way I'm

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I love the first 3,071 Randy Stockdale's

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this one's great they're all great

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hey DOC how often should a guy get a PSA test

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what do the resulting numbers on the test actually mean

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thanks

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why did you do it like how often

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I thought I thought Randy would be like hey DOC

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how often should a guy get a PSA test

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Randy

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Randy to me feels like guy goes he likes barbecue

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I like him that's an appropriate question

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he phrased it in a kind way

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he wasn't mean he wasn't condescending

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and it's a very valid thing to wanna ask your doctor

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I chose this question so

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because it was the only comment

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not shooting okay

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that's not true what is a PSA

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prostate specific antigen

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so it's a it's a blood test

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you can have done with your other blood draw

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for your wells examination

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so it's not a specialized test

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you have to go in just for

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you can't have it by itself though

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and basically it checks the level of your prostate

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circulating throughout the blood

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you can do a free or a total there's different numbers

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all you have to know is that this free

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is that one that has ads

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it's bound or unbound in circulation

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same thing with like testosterone thyroid yeah

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the numbers mean different things

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you're ridiculous PSA do you want me to explain this

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yes I really do

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sorry Randy

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you said it's a it's a what's prostate specific antigen

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so essentially what its measuring is

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if your prostate is having an elevated level

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there could be things that are bad

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for instance everyone worries about prostate cancer

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if that level is high

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but you can also have what we call benign

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prostatic hypertrophy or hyperplasia

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so enlargement of the prostate

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that's where you would like

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urinate more frequently or dribble

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have a hard time getting it out

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you feel obstructed so it can be high

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but you can be falsely elevated

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by having any irritation to that area

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even simply simple as riding a bicycle is the area

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you mean that area is this my butt

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uh well

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yes and no okay

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so if you did you ever have a prostate test

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yes yes

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I think so I think we not about it

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I got the one member the finger

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yes so you said the guy shouldn't use his thumb

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remember that oh my goodness well

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the Dre digital rectal examination

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and you're actually palpating the prostate

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from the anal and rectal cavity

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digital in this case mean finger

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uh huh yeah

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wow so the problem is if you

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if you do that and you stimulate the prostate

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that level goes up

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so I could do a prostate check annually

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then draw blood oh sorry

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that's I couldn't use more fingers but so afterwards

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right afterwards if I draw your blood

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your PSA level could be falsely high

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just from that test

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so you should be very careful not to do that

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sexual activity recent sexual activity

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can elevate the level of your prostate test

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lab test and then any irritation to the area

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so you ride a bike

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you kind of get stimulation down below

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yep your process is deeper up inside

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so it's not necessarily like your anus

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but kind of the area before to

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like anything in the area that would be jarring

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gotcha so wow this is the good news though

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you wanna know the good news of this whole thing

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you don't often have your prostate jarred

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it's actually not recommended

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to do a prostatic examination anymore

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as a screening test this is the finger

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the USPSTF United States Preventive Task Force Service

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uh huh service task force uh

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recommends no longer doing a rectal examination

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to screen for prostatic enlargement

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or nodularities or prostate cancer

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this is the finger not the blood the either one oh

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because we were finding so many false positives

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you would feel something you like

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oh my God and then we have a biopsy to be nothing

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so the problem is

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too many people were having biopsies on something

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that was benign and they didn't need it

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so now we really recommend it

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if you have a very strong personal family history

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and things like symptoms

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keen to frequently difficulty with voiding

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nocturnal um urinary frequency things like that okay

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now if you talk to a urologist

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they're gonna tell you to do it all the time gosh

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in a false positive

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that's if a girl has like gigantic boobs

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you're like those are cool

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but she's having trouble walking

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I was gonna say

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a false positive is a woman has gigantic breast

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and then you take her bra off and it was all stuffing

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I love it a false positive

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to be clear we're not talking about a false reading

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we're talking about a false positive meaning like it

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you think it indicates something that if these uh

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these variables weren't

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if it wasn't somebody didn't prod it or whatever

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a false positive means the test doctors are weird

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a positive result is usually bad right

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so positive means that PSA level is too high

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yeah false positive means it's too high

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but not from anything scary

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we did it wrong yeah

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stimulated the prostate or something

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this one time I go to this girl

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you shoot on her for a vision

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she wasn't positive and like I don't know what to think

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it's a good point you're making

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so false negatives are worry some as well right

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you always have to negate

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or take into account that tests aren't always accurate

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with to do follow up tests

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so your answer to Randy

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how often should a guy get a PSA test

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are you saying symptoms not opt

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never unless with symptoms

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well again

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I said if you have a very strong history

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medical background history

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if you have a history so

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what we use a PSA for now

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is monitoring patients who have had prostatic cancer

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and usually some type of treatment

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then they measure to make sure the level goes down

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and that's a really good way to show that

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it's not recurring it's active again

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so it's not really to screen every year like you

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would get

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maybe your cholesterol checked every so often right

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we don't do that anymore very good answer

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you get to keep your clothes on

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when you go to the doctor

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unless you have symptoms

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and I think that's important to know

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I'm not saying that very important

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I didn't know

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I didn't know that a lot of guys have anxiety like

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oh man

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now here it comes and I get to actually say don't worry

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what are your symptoms what's your history incredible

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okay we don't have to do it

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I love when

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when information catches up to in the office well

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there's a caveat though yeah

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this is the problem now we're not catching all of them

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right because they're not doing it right now

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doing it on everybody right

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so now

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it puts a lot of responsibility in the patient's hands

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you have to if you have any symptoms get in right away

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right because if you wait

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we're not doing the test

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we're not gonna catch things early

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it's a great answer

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so you guys very careful comprehensive

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but you know though

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have you ever heard of milking a prostate

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hmm I don't think so

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but I don't really roll in those kind of circles

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milking a prostate

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I feel like maybe that came up once on an Arand

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Pornhub search no

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I just meant

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we talked about how so many men were nervous to go in

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because they didn't want that test done yeah

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but it's an uncomfortable exam for everyone

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because some men actually um

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get sexual arousal from prostatic stimulation

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and you actually not use well

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maybe we could try it later if you'd like me to okay

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okay you can

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have a full erection and ejaculation alone

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from prostate stimulation

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I assumed I was gonna be alone haha no

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how would you do that alone

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well I mean

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I guess you could you're saying haha

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are you saying what I think you're saying yeah

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I wouldn't even have to you wouldn't and I would

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no one has to touch the rest of your anatomy

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and just you prosthetic stimulation

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in fact I've heard that that's very

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very satisfying for a lot of male male partners oh

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I see for a means of sexual interaction

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wow so it's actually positive for a lot of people

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so you don't have to be afraid of a prostate exam

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but it's something to know

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that you don't have to have all the time

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but it would be like a red flag if you were like hey

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I want you to do this and I was like

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hmm I'm not into it you're like

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but that's the only way I can yeah

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orgasm I had one an hour ago

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I want a second opinion

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I would break up with you if that was the game

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you're saying if I wanted that for stimulation

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not as a doctor did I misunderstand

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you're saying that would be weird to

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you as a sexual partner not as a doctor

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you're saying the is that what you're saying

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well I think it'd be weird if you came into the office

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and you're like please

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I want one cause then I'd be like

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uh yeah

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probably someone who enjoys it

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yes and so you have to be careful

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that's like finger seeking behavior haha

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but that does happen yeah

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I've had people request to have like penile exams

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I always have a yes

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but I always have a chaperone in

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and if they have symptoms that make sense

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to where I would need to do an exam

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I will do it

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but then they'll say some comments that are awkward

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and I'm like

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I don't actually think that you need an exam

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we need to stop wow

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people people are inappropriate

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so that's why you always have to protect yourself

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but what I was saying was yeah

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you just in the bedroom me and you

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if you were like hey

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I wanna do this and I was like me

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I'm not into it you're like

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but that's the only way that I can get off

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I'd be like we got in a relationship

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then that's a big no no

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that's a problem

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I think I speak for all my friends when I say

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I'll take your word for it as far as it works

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it's not something I'd want to try out

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I think you'd be surprised how many of your friends

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would secretly say that they enjoy it

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but don't admit to it out loud otherwise if okay

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this is really fascinating about the um

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I never thought about that

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someone might come in and pretend they want an exam

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to get

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I would say that might happen to you more than say

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like an old guy oh

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for sure the unfortunate thing about my job is

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maintaining a level of professionalism

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and having to excise my rights

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exercise my rights I can't even talk

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I'm getting frustrated cause

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I'm thinking of encounters

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where patients have dropped their pants

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for no reason I'm sorry that happened

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that's a horrible

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it's been frequent enough to be problematic

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but that's where repeated training comes into place

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so that I can be professional

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despite whatever comes across right

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my path

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and why you always have someone else in the room

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yeah

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I'm realizing now the threesome I mentioned earlier

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I think I was just a chaperone

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I had nothing I was like Zuckerberg honestly

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that's the word that we use in our medical notes

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usually to denote that we had someone else present

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chaperone present during genital examination

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yeah I like that

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I don't know what they're chaperoning it

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just like are they driving them there and that

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yeah it's a witness like a school field trip

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we're looking for chaperones for the genital exams

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if anybody wants to sign up to be a chaperone

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haha

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did you know that um

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to train for genital examinations in medical school

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typically it's models right

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mannequins we've talked about this a little bit

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I thought you made models like I saw your face

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I saw your face

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I knew I don't think we did take a talk about this

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well as soon as I said models

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I knew where you were gonna go well yeah

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you mean fake people yes Jamie

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you know what

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a lot of models are fake people oh my gosh

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so what happens we're training for

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so then they hire genital day community

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real people to do genital exams on and when mine was

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it was one instructor and three medical students

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and a live patient and the guy that I got

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was set up by his fraternity brothers wow

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he said that and he was eating a bag of potato chips

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while we had to like do everything

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is very uncomfortable seems very uncomfortable

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but what I will say

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what's up like that pay

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I don't know what the compensation was

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I don't believe very much he said he lost a bet okay

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when his fraternity found out that

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the school hired people

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he lost a bet and had to do it I'm not even so wild

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well the woman too

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she had to have 20 30 pap smear straight why

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I would never volunteer for that

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but it's very fortunate some people allow us to

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because how else would we know what we're doing

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what are they doing with the penis everything

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are they going in the tip

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oh no no

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no do you know

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I'm embarrassed because this makes me seem older

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remember I said it's cool when like your research

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when doctors

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research makes things easier for a patient

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for instance they go in and say like

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I need a prostate exam and you go

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you know what the new research has

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I don't have to do anything to you

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you can go home that happened to me back in the day

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we would always get like whatever STD test or something

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when I was in college the STD test for

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I don't know

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I know what you're gonna say was in the end yeah

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I've done them to people is the worst a very long Q tip

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it was the one and you would take the tip of the Q tip

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and go all the way into the urethral opening

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the myatus swab all the way around oh

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the swabbing all the way around

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try to milk some of the the penis right

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to like squeeze out any discharge that might come

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because then you culture that and you get in trouble

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better I think there's more in there um yeah

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and now it's just a urine test how great is it

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yeah I remember going back

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I remember like not wanting to go cause I was like

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uh huh God

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that girl was really suspicious and had no background

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I should get tested hey I think this is great though

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how greats come because now it's not even painful

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you just have everyone leave a urine sample

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for all the other things I have to test

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and then I'm like hey

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do you want me to screen you for this too

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cool easy to treat easy

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it's unbelievable done but the

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the training sucks yeah

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well we tested for hernia

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so we had to do a scrural exam

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feel push

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I mean you do a lot

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he was if there he was uncircumcised

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so we had to learn how to pull the foreskin down

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without hurting a patient

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like I know that sounds silly

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but if you think about it

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not everyone who's a doctor has been sexually active

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in fact one of the students with me

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he was a man but when he did the female exam

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he'd never seen female anatomy

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he was very very nervous

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I'll bet that guy's a good doctor

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like he's not distracted by anything

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do you know what I mean he was so awful that day though

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was he yeah

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so do you know what a speculum is

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was he giggling no

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he was bright red and sweating profusely

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and there were three girls and I'm like wow

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so so me two other female students

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and then he was the last one to go

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so he watched all of us and he had all the steps

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so we had the teacher do it first

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uh huh and then me

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and the two other girls so he had four people

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wow

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I feel like I would not honest to god

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I feel like I would not be able to do

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I feel like if I walked up there and a woman

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I feel like I just started taking my pants off

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and be like oops forgot where I was

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you're gross

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he has never seen a vagina

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the duck clip thing that people say

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the duck Bill I don't like that they reference up

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but that's the easiest way to say it

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for someone who doesn't know

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and it's a device that opens up so that I can see

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the cervix goes into the vagina

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it's very uncomfortable for most women

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so you lubricate it

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but you can't use too much lubrication

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or excuse the results of the paplonaco smear

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what's a pap smear show what does that

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what does that give us cervical psychology

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essentially looking for cells that are abnormal

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have dysmorphia atypia

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predisposition for cancer

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and we're also screening for

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if you're over 30

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or have had a positive app in the past

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we're screening for human papilloma virus

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because certain strains

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have a higher likelihood of turning into cancer

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do you know how much easier to be a guy

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I mean we've talked to this before

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but being a woman is really difficult

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but here's the thing that's problematic for men

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HPV virus is linked to genital warts

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yeah or cervical cancer right

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what about penile cancer we don't swab

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what about now we actually seen

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a lot of people have anal cancers from it

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and throat cancer oh

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so men are still have it's evolving

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I guess I meant

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I get what you're saying that is really tough

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I meant from the um like examination standpoint

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but you're saying it's not as thorough

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so maybe yikes

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it's better to just get it checked out

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but I was thinking like poor

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poor woman having to like do this whole passionate guy

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we pee in a cup oh no

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no no

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women can urinate as well for us actually

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but how do they pee in a cup of funnel

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when a woman gets asked to pee in a cup

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you honestly don't know how I could pee in a cup

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there's no way could you really pee in a cup

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there's no way where would I pee

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are you in my hands and then throw it in the cup

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what do you do I pee in the cup

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Jamie how

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I put urine into the cup

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I stand and you tell me you could pee into it

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the cups that we give people are half of that diameter

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but I could barely pee in your toilet

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well that's your problem

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and fortunately it's mine

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are you being serious

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when I see pee all over the ground

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you know they sell this thing for women

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it like yeah

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they're camping yeah

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it's different because once pee hits the ground

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it splatters everywhere

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you're telling me that you can pee in a cup

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with no help

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who's gonna help me I mean

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no tools no you

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you could everyone does

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every woman who loses a urine sample

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no where are we

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I don't know what I can do

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I don't have a picture like the bellagia

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I don't know what I was thinking

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cabins down there the bellagia

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what are you talking the water show

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I'm picturing like a ha like it pees

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what do you think it looks like when I pee

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just sitting on a toilet

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I just was picturing that it was whipper wheel

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like I wasn't picturing that it would go into a cup

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why can't it what is it

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what am I doing the sprinkler

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the sprinkler

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the one that has like I was kind of picturing

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do you know was a guy sometimes after sex

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well how come I can name two different directions

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and you can't

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sometimes after sex you pee in two different

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completely different directions

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sometimes I got one going up here

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and I got one going down

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and I got to time it so that the up one lands in there

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and the one I've gone completely 90 degrees before

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that's disgusting swear to God

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to be proud of I didn't know you could pee in a cup

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it's incredible yeah

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I can also shit in toilet

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wow was that a call back to my

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oh no it wasn't no

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you just meant you could shoot

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I just meant like women can aim

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how would we not pee in a cup

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no how rudimentary do you think women are

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I'm really sorry I need a

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I was afraid to ask

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I thought I'm just something dumber and dumber

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but I'm just being honest

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I thought I didn't know that it came out of a small

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I would have thought it went all over the cup

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well sometimes you have to look where you're aiming

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this is incredible could you stand up and pee

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why don't women stand up and pee

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because it hits the ground and splatters

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it'll go to our legs but what about on the toilet

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yeah I guess I

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could

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I have you stand up and the toilet was really gross

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you heard it here first guys

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what I just never knew that

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the splatter is why we don't stand up and pee

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because you arch with your penis

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so the urine trajectory is farther

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so when you're urinating outside

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it won't get to your feet

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but us we can't art no

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I I meant like

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why no urinals in the women's room

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cause they're filthy you could use one though

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if you had to yeah

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well it had to be lower right

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cause you're aiming up yeah

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shorter so

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you know I need like a little

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all right there's kids ones

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did you know there's kids urinals

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in the men's bathroom

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did you know all men's bathrooms I could

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but I think the splatter factor would be worry some

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cause you also have to back up

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I can't do that right there

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but yeah I could

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when I'm peeing at a urinal

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and there's a guy right next to me

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and there's one of those dividers

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I like to look over at him and go God

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I hate these things and I tap the divider

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I'm curious

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what other things women do that you have no idea about

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and vice versa great question or anywhere

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hey listen everyone that was really gross

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hold that thought

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something you just said made me think of a question

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we did not get to today

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but next time what I'm afraid to ask

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we're gonna get into that

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that you almost just said things

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it's something that happens at women's bathroom

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or just women do

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things that women do we'll get into that

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and also there's a man who has a question

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I'm gonna read it to you

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and then we'll do it next time

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cause I find this fascinating

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I don't know what I did with it

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I lost his question basically it was a woman

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she basically said I have she said um

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my boyfriend will do this next time

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but she said my boyfriend got a hernia

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well touching himself and she said we're in

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we don't wanna tell the doctor that's what happened

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will the diagnosis be the same if we make up a story

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haha that was a question oh

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people like to laugh

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we're talking about someone afraid to ask

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that's a good topic

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coming up on the next episode of afraid to ask

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yeah and you know in Japan

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that there are some bars where you can go

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and a girl will just be really nice to you

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and I did it

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no sex no touching

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you paid a woman to be your friend

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I believe I did you actually paid her

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take me

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okay is it like a vending machine

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you get to select that one

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listen to me

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and then if you pay like the

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the low end ones and they only like kinda nice

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only laugh at some of your jokes

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I've never told anybody pay a ton of money

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she's like ho ho ho funny sky alive

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I've never been to this anyway

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I was in Japan

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Afraid to Ask
Prescriptions from the Doctor. Punchlines from the Comedian.
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.

About your hosts

Jamie Lissow

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Actor and comedian Jamie Lissow is currently a regular weekly guest on the #1 rated late night talk show, Gutfeld! on Fox. Jamie is best known for his starring role in two seasons of the Netflix Original Series “Real Rob”, alongside SNL alums Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Norm MacDonald and David Spade; a show Jamie co-wrote and co-produced.

Jamie has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Last Comic Standing, has his own half hour Comedy Central special and a Dry Bar Comedy Special with over 20 Million views. Jamie recently wrapped his first movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, where he appears alongside John Cleese, Rob Schneider, and Micheal Bublé - a movie he co-wrote and produced.

Jamie is currently working on the feature film, The Animal 2, for Fox/Tubi and continues to headline comedy clubs across the country.

Erika Aragona

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Dr. Erika, DO, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who focuses on Women's Health and Wellness. Her clinical practice is almost exclusively female-based, and she regularly educates on contraception, hormone replacement therapy, libido and sexual health. She is an associate professor at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she lectures on Women's Health, and she serves as a physician expert consultant and writer for several female-based health and wellness companies.