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14th Feb 2024

The Doctor and the Dumbass

In this episode...

Jamie and his smarter half Dr. Erika explain why they felt the need to start a podcast when there are 43,456,345 already. They also answer important medical questions like "Are all doctors and nurses having sex the second they leave my room like in Grey's Anatomy?", why people are afraid of comedians these days and whether you are less likely to die if you choose a nerdy doctor vs a fun doctor.

Chapters

00:00 - What is this podcast?

04:45 - The doctor and the douchebag. The etymology of douchebag.

09:25 - Why this podcast is called Afraid to Ask?

14:40 - The importance of early testing.

16:50 - An original plot for a pornographic movie.

17:00 - Seeing a doctor for a sensitive issues.

19:00 - How accurate is Grey's Anatomy? Are doctors really having sex with each other behind the scenes?

22:00 - Retroactive jealousy.

26:00 - Jealousy, emotions vs feelings.

29:30 - What’s better, a nerdy doctor or a fun doctor?

31:30 - Why audiences these days think comedians are mean.

34:00 - The issue of exhausted doctors.

37:00 - Erika’s worst day.

38:40 - On the next Afraid To Ask...

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 podcasts.

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This is an uncensored podcast that will include adult language and topics. Viewer discretion is advised.

Transcript
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check 1 2 well

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hello there boyfriend

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how are you

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this fine day

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I'm really good

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is it working

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yes excellent

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let's not touch 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 guess the I guess to me the podcast is um

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let me put it this way

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I was trying to figure out what to call it

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do you know like everyone has a podcast

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like this probably isn't a good idea

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like everyone has a podcast

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and so what I wanted it to be

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what I thought really truly encapsulated the the

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like the theme of the podcast would be if it was called

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um asking for a friend

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so questions that you might have that are like

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medical or embarrassing to the point where you go

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all my friends having trouble getting an erection

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like what type of pills would I take

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do you want me to tell you what to do right now

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Jamie for that or yeah

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my honestly

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my buddy keeps asking yeah

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that's a bullshit

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that's unfortunate for me to be learning it right now

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it is it is

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but isn't that weird

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so I looked it up

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so I called you and I said

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I think I have the name for this

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podcast where we can answer these questions

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it could be called asking for a friend

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and you said oh

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that's not bad yeah

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you weren't as excited as I wanted you to be

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but you were like

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that would that will do

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you're very honest

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by the way well

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I think I wasn't excited

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because I hear that all the time

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like it's my reality

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people lie all the time oh

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my friend has this no

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you have it

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which I that's why I like to the name of it though

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cause you heard it all the time

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which I would like to get into

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what if you hear that a lot

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and what types of questions those are

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but so as far as the name of the podcast

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I go on Spotify and I search

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asking for a friend as the name of a podcast

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there's four or five podcast called asking for a friend

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My Friend wants to know ask for a friend like okay

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so talking to some people on my uh

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on my team about what we should call the podcast

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I'm very eager right now

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I hate I just let me just call

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I hated that

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I just said my team

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I hated I just said my team

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I just didn't know what to say

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I was gonna say my manager

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but then that sounded

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I didn't like the way that sounded

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I was talking to I was talking

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you're delaying the inevitable

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I wanna like hear what you came up with

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okay so well

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he comes up with

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and I told him I told him you're not gonna like this

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and I'd like I'd like to know if I'm right oh

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great and if so why

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he goes dude

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I got he goes get ready

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I'm gonna tell you what I think the name of your

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podcast should be

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but I don't want you to be offended wait

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this is a professional

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this is my manager okay

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I'm his client

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he supposedly loves me and has my best interests are

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and he's also he's had very good ideas in the past

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and so he says

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I have an idea for the name of your show

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but I don't want to offend you

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it's a great lead up isn't it

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what do you do you have any guesses to where I'm going

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why can't I get it up

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no oh he said you why don't you call it

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are you ready

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and he went through not just this

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but a bunch of them he goes

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why don't you call it something like the

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the doctor and the dumbass

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oh my God no

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and I said I

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I wouldn't mind that because I get

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I get that it's like oh

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it's this doctor who knows things

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and then this is comedian

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no but I I go

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my girlfriend

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I'm offended

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would not like that at all fuck no

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I'm offended

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you know what I liked about you was how smart you are

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I don't I don't

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I don't I think like I don't feel that way

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but but like

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I thank you well

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your timing is impeccable

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and your wit is there

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but you also read people and read audiences

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and what I saw when I watched you live was like

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how you change everything

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to meet the needs of the people that are there

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and a lot of people may okay

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they're book smart

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but they're fucking idiots

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I feel like

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you are well read

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oh you're smiling

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look at this

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you're very well read

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and you have read more than I have

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and that really blew me out of the water

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so yeah doctor

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the dumbass no go

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the reason I'm smiling is No. 1

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it's always nice to like

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get a compliment

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I'm of course

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super uncomfortable with compliments

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I want I want to do it

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oh I'm sure though

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that is coming right around the corner

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but I was tempted to argue with you just now

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and instead

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I just decided like oh

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that's like a nice thing to say

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the reason I'm really smiling is

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that's what I knew you would say

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of course like

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when he said that I go oh

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you don't even

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like on godfold when I go

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oh you know

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I thought whatever

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I don't like self deprecation

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when you could just simply state

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a fact and let people make their own decision

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which would be a positive one

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so I say to him

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I'll be honest with you

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I didn't tell him the truth

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I said I go

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I think that's kind of funny

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I get it I'll talk to my girlfriend

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but I don't think she's gonna like it

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and I didn't tell him why

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so then he goes

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oh no there's more he goes

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what about like

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the doctor in the douchebag

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oh my God well

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I hate that for two reasons okay

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is it to do with

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is a douchebag a derogatory

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yes I don't think I ever really thought about that

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what is a douchebag

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it's like an idiot

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do you know what it is

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like you mean

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what is an actual thing

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yeah I would guess that it's some sort of

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like a cleaning type of thing like a

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I don't know what you would do with it

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I don't know

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I don't know what it is

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wow douchebag

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wow bunch of douchebags

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is it can I ask you a question

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is it is do we still use the term douchebag or is it

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is it an old

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what's the collective we

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I most certainly don't

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so what is it

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well I think the derogatory

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derivative is someone who's an idiot

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yeah but I mean

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like what is a

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why are you

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why would you be offended

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is there what

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is there what is it

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what actually is a douchebag

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it's implied

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that you are ridiculous

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and I don't know

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it's a negative connotation

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and it's a reference towards women

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that's what I'm

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that's what I'm getting at

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only women do they teach

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right I mean

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you shouldn't

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and most women don't

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you should not do

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you should not

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it's an archaic

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thing that was created

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because women were taught that vaginas were dirty

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which they are not I mean

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I'm pretty sure that you like mine

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yeah you know

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who recommended my vagina

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who recommends that

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people use douchebags

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ha ha ha bunch of fucking douchebags

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you can't say that

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the reason I don't like the term is because it is

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it basically is like oh

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you're a horrible person

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and you do something for your vagina

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it's like pussy

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I hate that word

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just saying it

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disgusts me well

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we'll agree to disagree

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we don't say

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I love your pussy

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we say you are a pussy

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and it's negative

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same with douchebag okay

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I've said I love you

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why don't we

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make that terminology for Viagra

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you piece of shit

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you can't get it up on your own

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you're Viagra

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that makes way more

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or you're like yeah

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you that makes way more sense I mean

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think about it

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in general a vagina

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I don't want to say the P word

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I just feel weird saying that in front of you

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just because I know it makes you comfortable

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but think about what a vagina does

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how strong it is

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how it has a baby

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it's a ridiculous

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it's ridiculous

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uh thing to

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to call someone

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I could see how you get offended

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my only thing would be

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douchebag if it

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is an archaic practice

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does it not

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at some point

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get freed up

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for the Urban

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Dictionary to call someone a douchebag

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or you think that

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they're still in practice

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and you can still find them in certain drugstores oh

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so women still

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occasionally

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will use them

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although we advise

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against them

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so they're still being utilized

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is it a cleaning thing

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yes okay but

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why do you have to clean something

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that's great

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so you're saying

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now keep in mind

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I'm not a doctor

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are you saying that

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if you are getting a douchebag

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medical term

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there's there might be some under

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something else going on

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do you wanna know why women typically

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use douches

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do you know okay

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first of all

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do you know what it is

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we didn't get back to that

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do you know what it is

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my ex wife would

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date douchebags

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is that weird

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no oh you're not

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you're missing the whole point what

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why would they

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why would someone

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is it for is it cause

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they're going on a date

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you could well

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the whole practice

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is to cleanse

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the vaginal

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cavity right

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why are you laughing

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I wasn't laughing

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I actually swallowed my water

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you know what I'm gonna say

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you're being a fucking douchebag okay

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I'm sorry please continue

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I was not laughing

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I drank a sip wrong cool

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I'll remember that later

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I'm gonna do that

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when you ask me if it was good for me tonight so

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most women use them

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it's like a squirting device typically

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and it rinses everything

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they use it after sex

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they use it to get rid of your shit

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after sex yes

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to get rid of all the semen

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all the ejaculation that is in their body

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that's from a guy

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so I still don't understand like

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why people say you're a douchebag well

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I'm getting rid of your shit

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I'm not a weak woman

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but it still has that connotation that women are weak

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or women are dirty

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and that's why I hate it okay

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I I accept that

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it makes it makes sense so anyway

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the podcast will not be called

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The Doctor in the

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dumbass or the doctor in the douchebag

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but I'm about to tell you something

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that is going to blow your mind

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my mind what

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so when we wanted

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when I wanted to call it

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asking for a friend

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and I searched it

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I was slightly upset

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I knew it wasn't your favorite name for the podcast

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maybe not mine either

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but I felt like it truly was a

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was a good description of what it might be

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sure what I did was I googled it

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I went on Spotify and I searched podcast

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and there was already a podcast called you know

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asking for a friend

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there are two

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podcasts called the doctor and the dumbass no

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there aren't

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and there is one podcast

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who's the dumbass

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it's it's the same

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it's that same dynamic of a doctor and a regular person

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there's also

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the doctor in the douchebag no

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there's a doctor in a dummy

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a doctor in a douchebag

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and a doctor in and a

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and a dumbass

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it's already exist

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are they a comedians

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no I think one

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what's here's the problem

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with starting a new podcast

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you if you start a podcast

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and you do through like 10 episodes

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it's on Spotify

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pretty much forever

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and so there one of them

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the doctor and the dumbass

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like I'll bet it's the dumbass

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you forgot to take this thing down

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but their last episode was probably 10 years ago

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they did 10

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they got no one listened

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it has no reviews

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that's the name that comes up if you Google the podcast

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so I mean could you

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could we take it and do the same name

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like I guess so

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but that felt unoriginal to me

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I don't like the name

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but that's you're not a dumbass okay

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well thank you but

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I think we did find it certainly not our first choice

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our first hundred choices were taken

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I don't think so

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I'm not even gonna lie to you

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what you dropped today when we were shopping

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my favorite one

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oh yeah okay

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so I wanted something

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I said I think I like where we're going with this

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but I want there to be

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I want you to know like what it's about from the name

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I want you to know it's easily searchable

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uh huh and and so it's uh

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it's uh afraid to ask yeah

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where I ask and I

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I play the part of the guy that doesn't know

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I don't know a lot about medicine

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and I do have questions and I

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but I'm not afraid to ask

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I'll ask you anything

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so you know

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we'll get into questions like from

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especially if something was from

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comes from personal experience between us

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we will ask questions like

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like what is blue balls

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is there is there a um

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is there an actual medical term of blue balls

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like do women get blue balls

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like is it a real thing

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like stuff like that stuff

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so will eventually be taking questions

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from people that have stuff that are afraid to ask yeah

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and with that

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cause I really wanted to call it asking for a friend

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cause that like really intrigues me

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I don't get embarrassed

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like I don't get embarrassed

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like if I had trouble

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anytime at the doctor wait

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are you giving me like

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you don't believe me

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like is that not true

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that's correct

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do you think I get embarrassed

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of course you do

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in that situation of asking about like

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not to be like

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if I couldn't get an erection

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which I'm I never had that issue before

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but if I did

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I don't know if I date no winner

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I don't know if I would have

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have had I had a problem with it

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but maybe that's not okay for me to say

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cause I've never been there

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but I've had other things where

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I don't know if it's from being on the radio

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for a while

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you just kind of get

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or doing comedy

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you get used to just like talking about

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just this afternoon

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a friend of mine messaged me and he said

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he goes hey

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would you do me a favor

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and I go yeah

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and he goes

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would you write an affidavit

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is to prove that me and my wife are married

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he goes we need it for like Argentina

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and he goes

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just say that you were with us

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when I asked my wife to marry me on Catalina Island

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all I gotta do is like

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write a little thing that says you were with me

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and I read it and I write back

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hey dude honestly

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it just sounds a little bit

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I just wanna do something like illegal

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like I'd be

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I'd be happy to

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to do this but like

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let's find a date when I didn't have a show like

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cause what if they could

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what if they issue her some sort of license

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and then they find out I had a show that night

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and I wasn't there

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and then he leaves me an audio message that says dude

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what the fuck are you

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that actually happened

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it's a real story

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I didn't make it up

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and you were there

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you were there

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this actually happened

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and so I felt like a jerk

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but I fast up to it

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you did immediately

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I'm proud of you

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it was not embarrassed

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I couldn't wait to show you

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what a fool I made of myself yeah

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well listening to his voice message was hilarious yeah

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that was amazing

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I like it when people call you on your shit

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which is why I'm excited to do this

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because I feel like

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a lot of the stuff that I don't talk about in medicine

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needs to be talked about

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a lot of my platform is talking about

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the scary or uncomfortable

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because so many people get

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intimidated to go to the doctor

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and they don't tell me anything

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they just say

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oh yeah I'm here to

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have my blood pressure checked right

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and they have all these other questions

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but they're too scared to ask

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I only get those questions from you or my close friends

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like and I think everybody deserves to ask them

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and deserves to have them answered

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but in a fun way too yeah

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like wouldn't you wanna like

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I don't know

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hang out with your friends and like

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find an answer to like any penis question under the sun

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wow oh you like that one

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by the way there's three podcasts already named

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any penis question under the sun

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there's three different

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okay okay well

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I'm women's health

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so I'm not gonna give you too much penis stuff

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and if I have to

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I'm probably gonna look it up

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vagine inquiries

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I will give you

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we'll edit that out yeah

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no why would you edit that out

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well I'm glad I'm done with my terrible vagina idea

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vagina diaries it's fine

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so you can say douchebag diaries

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I'm happy with you okay

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but thank you

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first of all

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for coming to my defense

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on the douchebag

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dumbass thing

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I'm actually not familiar with that

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in a relationship or someone

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supports you and does nice things to you

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and um so you

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so you were saying

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you get you get people that come in

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and they don't wanna ask you questions

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and I for sure am that guy that

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do you get a lot of people that are like

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I don't wanna get this test

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cause I don't wanna know yeah

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well cause what comes to mind for me is

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cancer yeah

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yeah and I was thinking

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I just got a colonoscopy scheduled

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I have in a couple weeks

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and why did you get that scheduled Jamie

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cause you freaking

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told me over and over and over that I needed to do it

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or I would have never done it

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that brings up a really good point though

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if you weren't dating a doctor

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would you have done it

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I don't think you would have

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no and I'm not trying to give myself credit

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I just feel like a lot of people are so afraid

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they won't do it

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and they need that little push yeah

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and would you say

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if you're gonna

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it almost doesn't make sense

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and I'm saying

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I do this and it doesn't make sense

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it doesn't make sense to go

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I don't wanna know what's going on on there

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because the earlier we find something like this

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the if something was going on with my

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I don't know

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what could happen

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from the colonoscopy

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I don't see

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I'm afraid to ask well

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I really am

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like I don't

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I almost didn't

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you're just lucky

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that the guy who's doing it

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happens to be a personal friend of mine

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so he's gonna take you to dinner

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before he proves your asshole

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oh that's nice

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yeah I know

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I set it up nicely for you

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is it weird that

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it's your friend

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I got your back

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I think it's a little weird

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why you're not looking at your dick

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yeah but let me

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is it because he

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this is what he does

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that is not

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strange yeah

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like if you're sensitized

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it doesn't matter

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like if there's another guy

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friend of yours

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and you were like

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oh I looked at your boyfriend's asshole

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and he was a

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photographer

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that would be strange

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unless he photographed assholes

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exactly so I feel

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I don't feel I do that

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I take care of my friends

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I do their vaginal

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exams all the time

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I look down there

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I touched and do procedures

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and if they're comfortable

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I'm comfortable

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I think the hard thing is that

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is the most

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sensitive thing in your entire world

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well that hurts my dick

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after hearing about you and your friends

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what is wrong with you

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I think so many think

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what in the hell just happened

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I'm sorry do you think

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you're never getting introduced to any of them now

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the ones you've already met

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I'm gonna let them flee the country

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it just sounds like an original

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beginning of a pornographic movie like oh

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thanks for seeing me

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my insurance

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you know it lapsed and we've always been friends

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this is so I apologize

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you were saying something serious and I do

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I I legitimately

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but you were saying

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you have to look at it in the perspective of the person

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who comes to see me

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they never come to see me on the best day of their life

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to see the doctor right

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so automatically

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you've taken time off from work

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you scheduled this

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you're probably nervous

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and then if you have a concern

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that happens to be in a sensitive area

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that's really shitty

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it is and you know

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you're gonna have to like

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strip down and show somebody stuff

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so for me when we talk about it

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it's a I'm in a whole different category

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even with my friends

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I go doctor mode

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I'm professional

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I give them every single treatment that they need

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the best care possible

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and then we can go to yoga afterwards and it's fine

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and then I have other friends

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who are uncomfortable

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and I'll say

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you know what

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like find another doctor

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I'll refer you just for that part of the exam right

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because some don't want me to see it

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um but I think the important thing is like

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you have to find somebody who respects you

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I mean that's a

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it's a huge trust issue

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did someone that respects you when they

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so examining you yeah

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you're super vulnerable to not

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and I would never make fun of a patient

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when I'm like afterwards

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like for that exam

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like it's so much trust that they're giving to me

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to get naked

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and have me examine something that they would only show

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sometimes one of the

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sometimes never right

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no one's ever seen them before right

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so you have to treat it with sensitivity

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and you're right

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I've had doctors where they were very dismissive

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or they said something extremely scary

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and then went

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okay take care

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you know like

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where you have like some sort of scare or something

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and then yeah

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you know if I feel like you've always been

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get your your

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I know you're good at that

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without having seen you do it in person

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I know that you

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you're gonna deliver

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but I've had guys were

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he said that to me

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and then everything ended up being fine

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but like no

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whatever it's called

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like bedside man or empathy yeah

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I think what's really difficult to is

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you catch doctors on good days

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and bad days

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we're people too

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and I think people forget that

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like I can have a really shitty day

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where I haven't slept at all

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maybe I had a horrible call

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um I've pronounced patients that I've loved dead right

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like I've done CPR

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it hasn't worked

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it usually doesn't work

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thank you movies

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for fucking that over

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fuck you Grey's anatomy

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but the point is

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at the end of the day

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I have to keep doing my job

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and people expect me to be robotic

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and that's difficult

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and everyone has a hard job

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I'm not like some heroic person

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like I respect everyone under the sun

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I don't think I'm better than anyone

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I just mean

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a lot of people don't think of doctors as

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people who can fail

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or have personalities or have personal lives and we do

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so sometimes when you see us

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maybe we've just gotten really bad news

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maybe we just had a relationship

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that we were in fall apart

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and that happened to me

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maybe we've had something

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devastating happen with a patient

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and I just got off the phone

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telling them that they're not gonna

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survive another month

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and then I have to go to someone who's like

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I don't like the color of my hair

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how do I fix it

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and if we seem a little callous

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it's not that we're dismissive

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it's that we're dealing with really tough stuff

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but there's no way

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I would be like

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fuck you dude

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I don't give a shit about your concerns right

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I just told someone they were gonna die

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so it's challenging in my job

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because there's a balance

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but a lot of the times

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people also expect me to be

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superhuman hmm

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and I'm not

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I have a lot of faults

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never thought about that

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and um oh well

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I've got a lot of them

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this is a terrible analogy

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I want to ask

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also you said

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I'll give you the terrible analogy in a minute

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oh wonderful

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you said you said

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like fuck you

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Grey's anatomy oh oh oh

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so you're saying it's not

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realistic to expect just all good looking

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nurses and doctors to

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together all the time and still

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handle other tasks

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oh I love you

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and this is probably gonna bug you

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but I've definitely hooked up in a coffin before oh God

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so uncomfortable

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it was one time

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and I don't even wanna continue

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I feel fine

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it's not like that

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all that granted

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all of my scrubs

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I like are Grey's Anatomy scrubs

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in a what room

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you looked up

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in a what room

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a call room

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I don't know what that is uh

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so like a huge hospital

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like 20 stories tall

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you finish everything for the night

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nobody needs you

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you have a pager

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in case an emergency happens

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okay and then

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you very well could sleep for like

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eight hours

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or get paged every minute

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can I see a weird

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medical question

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sure what is it

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when you have like

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your stomach hurts and you

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your face is flushed

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is that always jealousy

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cause that's what I have

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those are the

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symptoms it's not

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I'm just kidding

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I waited to say that one

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it wasn't okay

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you know I don't need to know

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I didn't fully hook up

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how about that

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I just made out with somebody

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I just made out with somebody okay

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fully hook I was about to

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I was gonna ask what is hook up mean to people

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and I was literally afraid to ask but I love okay

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you didn't do you want to know the truth though

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not no sure

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I don't know

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it was like 15 10 years before I even met you calm down

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what is wrong with me

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so essentially

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do you know what it's called

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do you know why this doesn't happen

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because we're talking about Grey's anatomy

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we're not talking about what oh

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do you know what it's called

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when I if I were to actually get jealous of

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I'm not gonna lie

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I do get have an uncomfortable feeling

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and then my mind goes dude

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you're crazy

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that was a long time ago

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but there's like this primal brain that does the thing

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well you have a base of motor

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response and facial flushing

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essentially

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you're having more blood rush to your face

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you're upset yeah

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sorry it rushed to somewhere else

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which really made me think about what do I like

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what do I not like

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did rush to somewhere else or we no

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some people like that

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okay I don't

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it's called I

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I heard it called retroactive jealousy

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which is like some sort of weird jealousy that you get

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that had nothing to do with you

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that's irrelevant

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that happened before

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you're even a part of the person's life well

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I think that's fair though

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because it's difficult for a lot of people to

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picture their partner with someone else

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even though they're not cheating

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and having a long time ago

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you know that like your partner's not a virgin

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but you're like fuck

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I don't wanna ever think about you with someone else

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and that's a valid point um

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so when I fucked this guy

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just kidding so Jesus

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what's a full hook up if that's what you guys did

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no but this is what I'm trying to say

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so like you have all night long

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but you didn't

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there was a partial lock up

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we went into a call room where there's like bunk beds

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you tried to sleep and I made out with him

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my scrub stayed on okay

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and you're dating an innocent girl

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believe it or not

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I'm such a such a child

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my clothes stayed on his clothes stayed on

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but but oh yeah

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that one the fuck well

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I won't tell you the other story then

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so what's the other story

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I don't have one

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I just like messing with you God

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I hate Jesus

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but here's the reality

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could you prescribe me

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can we take a break

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you prescribe me Xanax when I know

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so when Xanax bad by the way

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we should revisit that yeah

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in a lot of cases God sorry

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why I don't like medical shows

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is because of so many inaccuracies that they portray

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this one for prime example

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I had all night long

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I'd finished everything

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every patient was taken care of like

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I would never leave a patient if they needed something

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like everything is checked right

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a million times

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doctors are like crazy crazy

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about like being overprotective with their patients

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it's my responsibility

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so I'm not gonna leave somebody

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but by the time like everyone are

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do you think all doctors are like overprotective

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pretty much

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like is that a

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I think so like

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did he wear two condoms

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oh wow I'm sorry

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that was you continue forced that in there

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so did he so that one hurt my feelings

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sometimes I start the joke and then all right

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so it so hoping it does actually happen

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it doesn't happen

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because I just made out with him and that was it

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and then I had this fear that a patient would need me

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and so did he

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and we're like we're done

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what are we doing

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thank god for that fear to hit both of you guys

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we made out for like two minutes and it was done

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because no one

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realistically has all night long to just hook up

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like you are like running labs and running

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codes and taking care of people

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and you know what's funny

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that whole night

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nothing happened

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I went back to my room

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and I sat there for like six hours

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and then so I came up

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my attendings came

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the other like doctors came and we rounded on patients

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and did everything that you would normally do right

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but what I don't like is they make it seem like

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everyone's hooking up and having sex with everybody

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we don't have time to do that

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we don't even have time to sleep right

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I that's so interesting

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I I've never seen Grey's Anatomy

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so I'm speaking just from like

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I actually haven't either

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promos and stuff really

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we just know from what we

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from like um

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clips that I've seen

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it irritated me that everyone was super attractive

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doctors don't look like fucking 10 models

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they don't right

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that's when you say but you do

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I was going to

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and then I'm like

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is that you didn't

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you missed it

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I just set you up

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and you're the most attractive doctor I've ever seen

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I just felt like

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cause you're my girlfriend

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but you didn't swing and miss

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you didn't even fucking swing at that okay

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that's cool

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so do you wanna hear the real call room story

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is there really one

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you can tell me if you want to no

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okay um this

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is for for my time

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I want I listen listen

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as far as jealousy goes

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I wanna say this for real

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there I think there are sometimes I get

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the difference in emotions and feelings is hard for me

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to um describe sometimes

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what did I do

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you just like

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bumping industry

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I'm gonna knock over this whole table

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I don't give a shit if he knocks it over

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it's just I think there's a difference between

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keep in mind

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I'm not I'm the dumbass

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you're not stop it

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I'm not gonna keep going

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if it bothers me

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if it if this

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I'm the person that's not formally educated

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medically trained yeah

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big difference than dumbass

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douchebag so

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here's what here's my

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here's what I

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it's debatable

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I believe that we have

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emotions and we have feelings and we have thoughts

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and I have trouble figuring out which one's which

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and I think sometimes

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for instance

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you say I know you're not a virgin

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you're an extremely attractive woman

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of course you have guys hit on you

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and of course

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you've had previous

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relationships

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and great sex and good times

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and there's been guys who all it's your

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I hope so if not

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who would I be dating if

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you've never had an experience like that

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so that's all kind of obvious and part of the game

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but I think there's

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I don't know if this happens in women

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there's a thing that will happen to me

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if you say oh yeah

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I was with this guy once in like

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he's kind of a douchebag and like

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he's got me out of his yacht

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and when his Ferrari

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I get my chest will tighten up for a second

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in a weird ego

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almost like a jealousy

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even if it was a current

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that that's

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more retroactive jealousy

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but if it was current like oh

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I ran into this guy and he's my friend

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and like oh

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he's really attractive

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there's like this weird thing you get

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but sometimes for me

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I can't control it so I'll go

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I saw what happened right there

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I'm I'm feeling jealous because

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I love this woman

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I I maybe I felt like a threat from my primal brain

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and then you move on with your life

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and I don't think we should

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we need to beat ourselves up over like

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that feeling

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I think it comes for me

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it's about how long

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does that feeling last

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what is the refractory period between like

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a weird reaction

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like even anger

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like I wanna

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like road rage

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it's okay to get super mad in the car

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just don't follow the guy and beat him up

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like I think it's okay to have that and you're

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I think we're all working on

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the period of time

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when the reaction happens to

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to to just the

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whatever action you take

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I think it's also um

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you have to put in perspective

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so like the story that I just

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told you was

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less than five minutes right

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and my medical training was

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eight years right

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in eight years

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I had five minutes

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right to kiss somebody

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but even so

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I'm insane for

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even having the

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that thought at all

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but it's yeah

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I understand that

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but I I think also like

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what if I told you like yeah

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that happened every day right

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that would be

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a little more problematic

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I would worry about the patients

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at that point

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so would I but the

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the story is like yes

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at one time

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I was like hey

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maybe I should see if Grey's anatomy is true oh

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nope it's not

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I got shit to do right

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that would not have even made it in the script

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you're you're

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there is not a great ending to your

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I don't think

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they would have

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picked up the series with that one

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so don't be jealous is my point yeah

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and I bet and you know

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that's easy to say that's not fair

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you can feel however you want to feel

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but my point is doctors in general are nerds

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we don't have social lives

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and we try to be cool and then we fail at it miserably

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I think you're pretty cool

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your friends are cool

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I met many of your doctor friends

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that's nice

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I like my friends

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I meant as a whole as a whole

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when you want a doctor who's nerdy oh yeah

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I actually get stuff on my social media about like

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if you're posting this

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why aren't you reading a book

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you should be having like

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you should be studying more

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you should be researching more

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I don't want a doctor who's fun and enjoys herself

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yeah and I think what people are missing is

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you also don't want a doctor who does nothing but study

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because those are the ones that usually burn out

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they're exhausted

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hmm they have no balance with their work life

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and honestly

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sometimes they're asked to make more poor decisions

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because they're so fatigued

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I want a doctor who's happy

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enjoys their life

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so when they come to work

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they are fucking on point

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and then when they leave

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they balance it out

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not they're so exhausted

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they come back to work the next day

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and they haven't even left the office and they're tired

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and they're not looking at their charts with fresh eyes

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right so I think you have to also

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and this is

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this goes for way more than just medicine

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but like everybody needs a balance right

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100% your job

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hundred percent

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you need a balance

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are you gonna be funny every day if you're exhausted

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yeah no not at all

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you're absolutely right

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you need those days off

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I've never felt less funny

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I don't wanna say what tour it was

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but you came on tour with me

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and when I started that tour

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it was my first

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one where I ever sold like a lot

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of shows in a row

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I sold out and like

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right at the beginning of it I was like

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this is the life

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like I have

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this what I've always wanted

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like so and by the end of the tour

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the the amount of energy required for me to be

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just to feel like I was funny at all

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if you're in the same

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fucking jokes every night

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come out of my mouth was

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it was really hard

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it was it was 12 days in a row

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and I remember thinking

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I don't wanna

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I don't think that he has too many

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I think it's got to be 10

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you gotta you gotta refill the well

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as they say creatively

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you gotta punch out

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I was impressed

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go to the beach

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I thought you were just as good day one as the last day

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I was there but um

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I could totally respect that and understand it

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yeah you get tired

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people get really fucking tired

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I I get scared

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here's what scares me

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Eric and I mean

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no offense by this

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oh great say

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I'm a comedian

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oh this is a

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fictitious story

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okay wonderful

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well I don't like them very much

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I know that about you

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I had to say that

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because people will think

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you're making a joke and you're

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you've never been a huge fan of comedy

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I haven't fascinating

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so I think you guys are mean

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what do you mean it

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you know it's

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we have to talk about this real quick but do you

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I think that's

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from the way comedians are portrayed on social media

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it's all crowd work

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it used to be

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we would just stand up there and deliver and act

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I'm not mean to people

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even when I mess with people

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I mean but on the internet

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I mean to doctors

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but guess how many views I've gotten online

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not very many

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nobody gives a shit

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when you're nice to a guy

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they wanna see

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like somebody

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destroying somebody

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yeah me and by the way

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me and Erica met

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because I kind of

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because I did a whole thing

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like a crowd work thing on doctors

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you know I was just thinking that

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and afterwards

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you came up and said

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I just insulted you

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I'm a doctor

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did you I did

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you know why

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I didn't notice

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cause it happened so often

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that's not fair

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I said I don't like comedians

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because they're mean

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but why did I come up and talk to you afterwards

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because you specifically

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made fun of doctors

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my kind of specialty by the way

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not just any doctor

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family medicine

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so you uh hmm

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but not in a

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but not in a

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but not in a cruel way

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you weren't nice

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but it I wasn't

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ha ha ha ha

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I don't remember what we said well

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I was afraid to go to a comedy show and get picked on

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and singled out

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that's what I

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think happens to people

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so you're right

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the crowd work is different

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here's my question

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okay you ready

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and I don't want you to

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I don't think I'll ever be ready

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but go for it okay

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so here's my question

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in all of our jobs

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we do get exhausted

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and some people think oh

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as a comedian

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you only have to perform like an hour a night

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sometimes what

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you know what

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it was like

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you must be fine

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but sometimes we've driven five hours that day

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sometimes I

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I have flown to a gig recently

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where I didn't have time to change

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I went right to the gig with a hat on

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and did not change it to go right on stage um

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last weekend

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I drove to show that had already begun

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and I went went up um

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so there is exhaustion

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now as a comedian

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the I thought

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my last show

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I felt like I put it together

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and I don't know if anyone would have noticed

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but if I'm really tired

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the worst thing that could possibly happen

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I would think would be

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I forget a joke

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I don't put as much energy into a bit

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and they go oh

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that's pretty good

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but like like

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what I'm saying

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see the worst case scenario

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I'm exhausted

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I fall asleep for a second

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in some insane scenario

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there's just a moment

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where there's no

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where there's no dick jokes being told

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no one's harmed or hurt

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or whatever

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which leads me to my question

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which is you

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you DOC doctors

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depending on the specialty

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our work is

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and especially in residency

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I think are so

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were are so exhausted

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at all times

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and I would think

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mistakes might happen

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maybe there's something you can't even talk about

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but like have you ever been

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what's the most tired

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you've ever been

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like well seeing a patient or yeah

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if you don't mind saying

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yeah yeah so um

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they have duty

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restriction hours now

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so essentially

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um this organization

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came together for that exact

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reason and said

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you know what

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they're working too hard

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they're gonna make errors

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they have to sleep

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so I don't even know what it is now

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I wanna say

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like 16 hours

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don't quote me on that

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cause I don't know

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I haven't been residency recently

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but after so long

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you have to go home

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which is kind of crazy

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that's so a lot

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with me um 16 yeah

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that's still a lot

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you in one day

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but you can still work um

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I think it's

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like for me

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it was different um

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the longest I ever worked

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straight without sleeping

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was 32 hours

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shit and um

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the worst rotation I ever had in 30 days

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I had two days off

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damn so we were getting there at 4:00am and leaving

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between 7 and nine PM and you don't report it

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cause then they get in trouble it's

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it's a long thing

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but you're you're shamed into you're too tired

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you can't do your job

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everyone else does it

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people are gonna die if you fuck up

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so don't fuck up

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but what they don't realize is you're exhausted yeah

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you're in a close call well yeah

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oh yeah yeah

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I've made mistakes

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all of us have you ever almost just not off

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you're talking to a patient

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and they're telling you something

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and you almost just close your eyes

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I've fallen asleep

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you know this story

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I fall asleep in the or

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I was the first to say oh

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that's right

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yeah yeah yeah

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and that's the hard thing

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I was I had to wake up at 3:30

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I was going home at ten PM

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for a surgical rotation for a month

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and I was the first assist

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meaning the first person after the main doctor

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and this person was cut open from sternum to pubic bone

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essentially

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got it open

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and my job was to hold a retractor

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so this is like the big tongue kind of things to hold

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the body cavity open so the surgeon

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can cut without everything closing up again

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but that's a lot of force

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so I was standing there

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you were the retractor yeah

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you had the retractor

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you were in charge of that

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that's I didn't know that part

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okay oh yeah

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so I got to help cut open everything

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as the first is this

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I get to do

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I like how you say

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got to like

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that's the doctor

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I loved it yeah

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I love and wasn't it also

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I still love my job

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wasn't it also an opportunity

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almost like a

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he chose you to do that as someone sometimes

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sometimes you're assigned or like the other doctors

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like drop off and like

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you're the only one

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like one time the assistant

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like the other doctor was gone

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and I got to break a nose

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and they never let you do that from the beginning

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I got to fucking smack the shit out of it

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wow cosmetically

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it was so cool but anyway

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I digress so yeah

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I'm like retracting this person open

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hadn't slept

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probably in a couple of days

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um only because at the end of it

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you have to like take tests

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so I would study after a 15

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20 hour work day

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it was it was crazy

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so I'd stay in the car room

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I'd study I'd go home for a couple hours sleep

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and then shower and come back

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so I was standing up and I

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I fell asleep standing up holding these retractors

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wow and they closed up

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and the surgeon slapped my hand

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and he's like

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what did you

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and I'm like

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oh you just like

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he did this surgery and you're doing this

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and he's like

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oh very good

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didn't catch me

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but that's not bragging rights

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I I kind of want it like no

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I I have a necessity to invoke

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restrictions on how

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much you work because of how dangerous it is

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yeah and again

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I'm a person I'm not AI

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I fuck up all the time

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and then you take sleep out of the equation yeah

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into the equation

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depending on how you're looking at it

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and I'm deprived of reparative

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regenerative sleep

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I'm gonna fuck up even more yeah

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isn't it true that if you don't sleep for

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isn't it like if you pull an all nighter

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you can't just go to sleep more tomorrow

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you're messed up

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isn't it like you're almost drunk or something

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yeah that's the time I told you

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when I was driving to the hospital

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and I fell asleep with the wheel

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the only time I've ever had yeah

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something dangerous with driving

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I was absolutely sober

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but I was going to the hospital

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it was like 4:30 in the morning

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pitch black

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and I fell asleep at the wheel

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and I went over an embankment

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in the hospital and got stuck

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in the grass in this like 20 story hospital

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and woke up

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instead of being like

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oh I should probably like fix my car or call

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maintenance or something

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I just drove into the hospital

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parking lot and did my shift

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it's quite insane and I can't imagine it

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would you mind taking a question

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so uh here on

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afraid to ask

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you have a question coming in from

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this is from Jamie from Fairbanks

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Alaska oh my god

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coming up on the next

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episode of afraid to ask

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and this is a common

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fear in men

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I am telling you

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I have heard more men

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talk about this than any other kind of condition

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it is uh it's having to pee all the time

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oh how many times a day do you think you should pee

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you said that sometimes a doctor can be um

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tired or you know

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or wide awake or depending on their schedule

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that I know people say like oh

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buy a car on a Friday

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because they're trying to get new in

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but I don't know

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they say these things

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is there a certain day I would want to go

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I would if I had a big surgery

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I want to go see the doctor

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About the Podcast

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.

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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.