Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey now it's that time again. We're
Speaker 1: working through some audio issues. So if it seems like
Speaker 1: I'm yelling at any point, Aaron, just tell me to
Speaker 1: what calm down down? How you doing? Bring it down
Speaker 1: and not hip doll face. I'm doing great, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I I'm so thrilled about our guests today. I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to have a precursory conversation about all the
Speaker 1: things we've been up to the last few weeks, because
Speaker 1: who cares. When you've got Dr pimple popper on say
Speaker 1: that three times your life is complete. You and I
Speaker 1: are going to have a field day with all the
Speaker 1: questions we can ask her. Dr Sandra Lee joins us
Speaker 1: in just a little bit. This was one when you
Speaker 1: and I first talked about popping pimples that I wanted
Speaker 1: to do right away. I feel like she is my
Speaker 1: soul mate. I feel like she is my spirit animal.
Speaker 1: I feel like she is my person. I like to
Speaker 1: think sometimes I'm a certified dermatologist. As I tell my
Speaker 1: husband all the time. I brought the tools which consist
Speaker 1: of Q tips and and that thing that with the
Speaker 1: circle that you mashed down the I just hit my microphone.
Speaker 1: I was so excited the stories about acne and I
Speaker 1: wasn't bad when I was a kid, but now that
Speaker 1: you're on air. I always say all the time, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't care about all of this if I wasn't on air,
Speaker 1: But when you have to deal with this and be
Speaker 1: in front of athletes that are looking at it, your
Speaker 1: entire crew, it's a situation. You've got your stories about
Speaker 1: it too. Stories. I've had to deal with this since
Speaker 1: I was thirteen years old. So again, my mom, sweet
Speaker 1: Kathy Thompson, as I was in the bathroom crying and
Speaker 1: I was taking her sewing needles or safety pins and
Speaker 1: trying to like pop my zips and then not like
Speaker 1: pretending like I was sick because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go to school because I was so embarrassed. And I've
Speaker 1: been on accutane four times. I've dealt with this for
Speaker 1: so long that now it's become comedy. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: always like that. And I know, you know, we like
Speaker 1: to self deprecate in a lot of ways, and you know,
Speaker 1: just call attention to what is. But as a kid,
Speaker 1: it was really traumatizing. To always break out, and I
Speaker 1: think that I really really empathize with anybody that has,
Speaker 1: you know, active breakouts like cystic acne, chronic acne, all
Speaker 1: the things. And so I'm really excited to talk to
Speaker 1: Dr Primple Poppa for a lot of reasons because she
Speaker 1: has really brought some levity to a situation that can
Speaker 1: be sad. I mean for me again speaking from experience,
Speaker 1: and I've tried it all, um, so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: hear and learn more about skincare. And as I get older,
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I spend all this money
Speaker 1: on products thinking it's going to like help the situation.
Speaker 1: So I want to get all the advice I can
Speaker 1: from her. And I know that I've like scarred up
Speaker 1: my skin over all the years from trying to popsits myself. Again.
Speaker 1: This lighter right here sterilizes needles. Always sterilizing your needles.
Speaker 1: I've never tried that. I've done everything. So look, we
Speaker 1: travel for you know living. You you know have been
Speaker 1: in and out of these great hotel rooms and some
Speaker 1: of the worst things I always find. I get these monsters.
Speaker 1: I'm a tea zone kind of gal, but I get
Speaker 1: the puppies on my chin. Explain what the tea zone
Speaker 1: is for people that TI how how um I get
Speaker 1: the T zone? One? So right here in my forehead,
Speaker 1: not so much down along my nose, these ones right
Speaker 1: here inside. Oh my god, Aaron, for those of you
Speaker 1: that are listening, she's pointing, I'm sorry underneath her nostrils. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then really it's my chin that's the problem area.
Speaker 1: I have three or four places where it's a recurring situation,
Speaker 1: and it is like clockwork. You tell me we've got
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, you tell me we have NFC Championship.
Speaker 1: Didn't get one this time, just any big game, and
Speaker 1: the worst is I mean, I could go on and on.
Speaker 1: You get to site, No, let's just start over. You
Speaker 1: get to say it's two days before and you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, this could be something. Let's see when this
Speaker 1: come into a head start the heat. Yes, I start
Speaker 1: getting like mental. I'm like, if I start thinking good thoughts,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go away. It's not going to be that
Speaker 1: big when I'm doing this monster matchup, it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: You get there. I'm the purse in that. I make
Speaker 1: sure every single person on my crew knows, hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Nothing I'll tell you what's up. Is the skin on
Speaker 1: my chin. It's so raised I have a heartbeat. Can
Speaker 1: you see it? Can? I let everyone know from Joe Troy,
Speaker 1: But the biggest person I let know, Rich Russo, God
Speaker 1: love him. Our director. I let him know. No close
Speaker 1: ups from that angle. I always hold the mic. I'm
Speaker 1: holding it right now for all our friends on YouTube
Speaker 1: to cover it so I could have a monster on
Speaker 1: my chin. There's the mic. Well, everybody, great matchup today.
Speaker 1: This is a great point to interject for all of
Speaker 1: you guys that are listening. All of you guys, I
Speaker 1: hope there's a lot of you, um, but for those
Speaker 1: of you that are aspiring broadcasters and maybe listen to
Speaker 1: us for some advice. What we're telling you is we
Speaker 1: have acne and ensure that you are best friends and
Speaker 1: you should be nice to everyone on your crew always
Speaker 1: because trust me, everyone talks. Reputations are the only thing
Speaker 1: you have. So be kind to everyone. That said really
Speaker 1: be kind to the director and the lighting person because
Speaker 1: they are your best friend and they will a view
Speaker 1: if they can. Okay, go, So I mean again, like
Speaker 1: I said, I let everybody know, I'm again. We have
Speaker 1: to back when COVID wasn't happening. Go up and see
Speaker 1: these athletes. The worst is when you get them right
Speaker 1: before I sit down interview. So I'm usually the one
Speaker 1: that I'll try to position the hair if that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: I remember doing a Carolina Panthers game and I was
Speaker 1: talking to our buddy Greg Olsen on the field. It
Speaker 1: was carolinea Pittsburgh and freaking I had the biggest one
Speaker 1: on my chin and he was talking to me and
Speaker 1: I almost stood with like an angle with my back
Speaker 1: to him but like this, and I was like, so
Speaker 1: we didn't see it? Yeah, what do you How do
Speaker 1: you think the offense is going this? You know, my
Speaker 1: shoulder and he's like trying to turn around and I'm
Speaker 1: like turning It is so awkward. Um. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: I always trying to position my bangs on the bangs before. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I cut bangs one time because I was having a
Speaker 1: full forehead breakout. I'm opposite either get full forehead or
Speaker 1: I get jawline. And my dermatologists like this is so men,
Speaker 1: Well you get that because you have high testosterone. Oh
Speaker 1: no kidding, Oh, you didn't have to tell me that that. Apparently,
Speaker 1: when you break out on your jawline, it means that
Speaker 1: you have an excessive amount of testosterone in your system.
Speaker 1: Who knew. So those are my issues which are actually
Speaker 1: easy to cover up because to your point about the hair,
Speaker 1: you can or I'll do a lot of this sit
Speaker 1: with my hands on my chin, which on my jawline,
Speaker 1: which is probably why I'm breaking out. But I cut
Speaker 1: bangs one time. Okay, I never told this story. And
Speaker 1: my agent, who's no longer my agent because um he
Speaker 1: now runs w W E Rich I called ni con crying.
Speaker 1: Yeah rich, uh not rich Rousso that's different. He's rich
Speaker 1: you differently in the house. Um, I was working a
Speaker 1: hockey gay. I can't remember who well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: was so traumatized by my acne. I can't remember who
Speaker 1: the game was. I was on the road in a
Speaker 1: hotel room. I had went to town the night before,
Speaker 1: like just thought, like and again, that lighting in the
Speaker 1: hotel room, it's it's similar to you've talked about the
Speaker 1: airplane lighting just wants to show you anything and everything.
Speaker 1: So I went to town thinking like, Okay, I got
Speaker 1: him right, I got him in. I got it in
Speaker 1: to get him. Oh. I always travel with the safety pant. Okay,
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to ask downstairs for a sewing kit,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yes, of course I've done
Speaker 1: that too, but that's what Or I've been really lucky
Speaker 1: on dry cleaning, the safety pan will be hidden on somewhere,
Speaker 1: like sure of the pants on there. So yeah, when
Speaker 1: in doubt that's happened to me in the house before.
Speaker 1: When I can't find one, and it's like a bobby
Speaker 1: pin how came Whenever you want to find a safety
Speaker 1: pan depoposit you can't find it. You're like, So, I'm
Speaker 1: in a hotel room. I'm working for versus Big Hockey Gal,
Speaker 1: and I wake up in the morning and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no way i can go on there. There's no
Speaker 1: amer Steeler. Oh it's everywhere. It's a lot of talking cheeks, forehead,
Speaker 1: it's HiT's everywhere. I'm so embarrassed, and now I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have to make up a story that
Speaker 1: I got it, I got food poisoning, and I have
Speaker 1: to get out of here. I can't work this game.
Speaker 1: I can't go I can't sit and talk to cute
Speaker 1: Doc Emeric. I can't do it. I'm so in there
Speaker 1: I call Nick and at that point, like I told
Speaker 1: Nick everything, like Nick got me my first divorce lawyer,
Speaker 1: Like there wasn't anything I didn't tell Nick. But even this,
Speaker 1: I was going to be like, I can't tell him.
Speaker 1: I'm calling out sick of this game because I have
Speaker 1: a full acne breakout. But I did. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel so bad. You've got to
Speaker 1: get me out of here. You have to call I
Speaker 1: don't remember who it was at Versus and get me
Speaker 1: off this game. So I called in sick because I
Speaker 1: had a full on meltdown because of my acne. There
Speaker 1: you go next, I lied to you for the first
Speaker 1: and last time ever. Yeah, and that's that's sad. I
Speaker 1: actually feel really not about that. That's not just a
Speaker 1: big zapper on your chin that you're you know, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why too, Because you had to
Speaker 1: go and Versus, like you had access, like you always
Speaker 1: get better access. That's like way better than any other sport, right,
Speaker 1: like going on the benches and like standing next to
Speaker 1: the coach, And I was like, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: There's no amount of makeup with that fluorescent overhead lighting,
Speaker 1: and I know it's Okay, you don't have to feel
Speaker 1: bad for me. I lied. I shouldn't have lied, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. Well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't called in sick, but I've had you know,
Speaker 1: I've had the moments. I was trying to write them
Speaker 1: down for you the other day, like in the hotel,
Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out, like you said, it's
Speaker 1: great lighting, especially after you've had a few drinks. Are
Speaker 1: on the road. You're like, I'm a dermatologist. I can
Speaker 1: handle this. I remember. It wasn't my first All Star
Speaker 1: game for Fox. It was maybe my second. It was
Speaker 1: New York. It was great. I had a massive zapper
Speaker 1: and it was just not getting better. Well, what does
Speaker 1: everybody tell you to do? Leave it alone? Don't tell
Speaker 1: me to leave it alone, because I'm not going to
Speaker 1: leave it alone, because you know what, before I go
Speaker 1: to bed, like when someone tells us to relax, I'm
Speaker 1: not calming down and I'm not leaving my ZiT alone.
Speaker 1: I think if I could give it one more poke
Speaker 1: and squeeze, I got it. You just gotta get to
Speaker 1: the heartbeat. You gotta get there, get the pit out
Speaker 1: and roll with it. I can handle the blood. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm on the end of on the National League side,
Speaker 1: and Matt Harvey I think, started that game, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I just had this doozy yep and the
Speaker 1: makeup artist in New York was like, just don't touch it,
Speaker 1: leave it alone. Well, she just kept putting. We kept putting,
Speaker 1: like makeup on it. Well, what's that doing. It's just fastering,
Speaker 1: it's growing, it's getting bigger. It's got a Hartmut Rushmore
Speaker 1: white head, all a mode. And so I was like,
Speaker 1: right before he came out, because you get the player.
Speaker 1: Right after he comes out, I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm done with this. I'm going So I grabbed my
Speaker 1: mirror and I'm around other reporters and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just squeeze it really fast. You
Speaker 1: did it. He comes off the field there like Pete
Speaker 1: Matchesca God love him. He's got a Jersey accent. Aran,
Speaker 1: you're ready for mad Hobby. I was like, that's her
Speaker 1: producer for Baseball's Dream but Dream. I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna need a minute. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think metspr said he needs a minute. Well, we
Speaker 1: needed a minute because I was having like Jupiter come
Speaker 1: out of my nose and Saturn's rings. It was just oozing.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, And then I looked
Speaker 1: at the makeup artist. I'm like, we have to fix this,
Speaker 1: and she goes, you are bleeding. I can't do anything
Speaker 1: about it. We got a bleeder. I get really gross.
Speaker 1: I've heard to stop bleeding you can sometimes use lip bomb,
Speaker 1: so I like, literally take like Cherry chapstick and rub
Speaker 1: it on the wound. Why didn't you tell me? And
Speaker 1: why Cherry? Why? It's just what I had handy, you know,
Speaker 1: little chapsticks situation. And I rubbed it on the wound.
Speaker 1: It was fine. It stopped bleeding. We caked on the
Speaker 1: we caked on the makeup, and I just did I think.
Speaker 1: I did the interview, like side profile to Matt Harvey.
Speaker 1: How did it go? What was it like? Starting in
Speaker 1: your you know, team's time and what a mess? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you're a better person than I am. You
Speaker 1: look and pop, that's it and go out and do
Speaker 1: the interview. I'm calling in sick. Yeah, I mean no,
Speaker 1: I've done it all I was. I was going down
Speaker 1: memory lane with the tournament coming on. We did Greg
Speaker 1: Oden's high school basketball game because obviously he was going
Speaker 1: to be a big recruit for Ohio State. It was
Speaker 1: at hinkle Field. I got put with Bill Raftery and
Speaker 1: j Billis and Sean mcdonnough and I had some monster
Speaker 1: on my chin. We went out, We had some cocktails.
Speaker 1: If anyone knows raft I got back. I had a
Speaker 1: lot of onions. Send it in Jerome. I had a
Speaker 1: lot of courage in me. Popped it and then put
Speaker 1: whitening toothpaste on it. Overnight, woke up with a massive
Speaker 1: sword on my face. There was no chap stick covering that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just full blown drama, open wound.
Speaker 1: Pop Pop goes the weasel. The weasel goes pop oh.
Speaker 1: I actually want to ask Dr Pit Pop Popper that
Speaker 1: brings me to thought. I want to ask her where
Speaker 1: this toothpaste thing came from, because I've tried it so
Speaker 1: many times and it never works. Our moms, these are
Speaker 1: incredible stories, the things I learned about you on our podcast,
Speaker 1: Aaron Stars. They're just like us. I mean, idies and
Speaker 1: gentlemen all sleep like all think about it, like the
Speaker 1: needle going in with the quarter zone and like maybe
Speaker 1: if fine vision it like Gisele bunch In like you
Speaker 1: know her like thinking things and happiness and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I'm like if I think the needles
Speaker 1: going in in my sleep, but I'll wake up and
Speaker 1: it's gone. No still their heartbeat, volcano great, leave it
Speaker 1: alone when in doubt, leave it a lot thangs. We
Speaker 1: can never do. Uh. If you like Acnes, this is
Speaker 1: the podcast episode for you, ladies and gentlemen. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: We had a text chains that we're gonna wrap it
Speaker 1: up and take go to break. But our text chains
Speaker 1: with Brooklyn Decker, she won't care if we say it
Speaker 1: because she doesn't care. You Me and Brooklyn Decker would
Speaker 1: be on a text chain like comparing notes on MOUSI.
Speaker 1: That week was bigger. We have plenty more ACNE stories
Speaker 1: coming up. If you're suffering, suffer no more. We are
Speaker 1: your friends. Dr Pimple Popper coming up next after the break,
Speaker 1: Aaron with the mad Harvey story that's unbelievable. Got to
Speaker 1: get to the pit. You gotta get to the pit
Speaker 1: and get it out. Strike up, no balls, no shrines.
Speaker 1: I mean Aaron and I haven't been this excited in
Speaker 1: a long time. We Welcome in Dr Sander Lee, one
Speaker 1: of America's top dermatologists YouTube sensations. You know her as
Speaker 1: the Dr pimple Popper and Aaron's favorite individual. I cannot
Speaker 1: tell you, Dr how many videos Aaron's ends of your stuff.
Speaker 1: Welcome to uh the Calm Down Podcast. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. And I'm so fortunate to have a popoholic
Speaker 1: and our miss really because we have a connection. Then
Speaker 1: she yet yet it too. I understand my hairy arms
Speaker 1: I'm showing right now my goose bumps. Yes, Chris as
Speaker 1: she is the original Mr three oh five. She's internationally
Speaker 1: known as, like you said, Dr pimple Popper, and she
Speaker 1: has kind of created this cult out there called the Popoholics.
Speaker 1: And I am I feel like I am I may
Speaker 1: be the vice president, the president of it. We need
Speaker 1: a vice president, yes to do I'm like the pride
Speaker 1: piper of pimples. I feel like, so you know, we'll
Speaker 1: be like, we'll just spread good cheer everywhere. That's a
Speaker 1: funny thing to write and many people happy. It's nothing bad,
Speaker 1: it's a positive. What's so interesting about that, doctor is
Speaker 1: I have struggled. I mean, this is not you know
Speaker 1: tutorial here about my acne. I've had my whole life,
Speaker 1: but I've always had breakouts. So Aaron and I will
Speaker 1: exchange pictures back and forth of like the cystic ones,
Speaker 1: like we rate them. We've got different scales. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, Her and I maybe don't
Speaker 1: go around popping them the right way. I'm like looking
Speaker 1: for a safety pan. I'm taking a lighter to like
Speaker 1: sterilize the end we need. I know, Aaron's cringing. That's
Speaker 1: a good thing. That's just sterilizing things and not Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all you're thinking in the right way. We need
Speaker 1: all of your help. But let's just first get into
Speaker 1: the fact of like how did you become Dr pipol Popper. Well,
Speaker 1: it happened like about five six years ago that I
Speaker 1: just decided to start on Instagram page just to show
Speaker 1: like a little window into my world. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a super visual field, obviously, and I just thought for
Speaker 1: some silly, probably stupid reason that people would like to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, skin diseases next to their travel videos and
Speaker 1: their fashion videos or something. So I started posting and
Speaker 1: just showing a little about my patients in my office
Speaker 1: and then early on I posted a blackhead extraction video,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of floored by like the comments
Speaker 1: people were saying they were sharing it with their friends
Speaker 1: or they were going, that's so amazing, you know, And
Speaker 1: I thought, oh my god, this is really weird, Like
Speaker 1: why are these people all excited? So I just tried
Speaker 1: to do it again. I did it right away the
Speaker 1: next day, and it happened again. And through that I
Speaker 1: kind of went down this little hole here on the
Speaker 1: internet and I discovered that there were First I happened
Speaker 1: upon Reddit, and I discovered that there was like a
Speaker 1: community of people that just shared popping videos. Yes, did
Speaker 1: you see any of Aaron and I submissions? Maybe we
Speaker 1: had some. You might have some in there. You might
Speaker 1: have to look closely. They might be talking about don't
Speaker 1: look too close. But they but they were just sharing
Speaker 1: these videos and they were videos of like people in
Speaker 1: their garage or like at the beach, and they had
Speaker 1: like just there no gloves on, and people towels and
Speaker 1: beer bottles and barking, and I it was just like
Speaker 1: I was disarming to me. But then I thought I
Speaker 1: could just I mean, this is what comes into my office.
Speaker 1: I could give them the good stuff, like I could
Speaker 1: be their queen, you know. So I started to post
Speaker 1: on there and I posted on YouTube and then look
Speaker 1: what happened. I don't I don't know how this quite
Speaker 1: got to this point, but yeah, we have this amazing
Speaker 1: TV show that I'm so lucky to be a part of,
Speaker 1: and now we're popping some very big things and um
Speaker 1: gotten to a point. You know, certainly a limit, but
Speaker 1: certainly certainly it's all been amazing that you know, these
Speaker 1: are things that I've been training for for years and
Speaker 1: suddenly that's what I'm doing, you know, my life. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the black Head extraction. I mean, I'll just go
Speaker 1: out there and say, that's like porn to me. That
Speaker 1: is like I am dialed in and I want to
Speaker 1: see the roots of it. I want to hear it
Speaker 1: come out like I'm dying. I see the pus and
Speaker 1: then I want to know the route I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm like I said, I have this weird, weird, just
Speaker 1: fascination with popping ZiT um. When did you know? You
Speaker 1: mentioned that one was a big one, But when did
Speaker 1: you know we got something here and we need to
Speaker 1: go to these networks and sell them on this. Well,
Speaker 1: it was growing pretty fast. Like it really quickly in
Speaker 1: the first few months. Because the thing is that even
Speaker 1: back there, especially back then, the way that social media
Speaker 1: worked is if you had a big reaction, if you
Speaker 1: engaged with it, it would grow. So either people hated
Speaker 1: it what I showed or they loved it. Either way,
Speaker 1: they had to show somebody. And so that's how it grew.
Speaker 1: And then I think at one point, like five months
Speaker 1: in a big internet social media thing kind of took
Speaker 1: it over and did a reaction video and it went viral.
Speaker 1: Like it went like my phone was flipping like crazy,
Speaker 1: and that's when I knew, like this was a thing,
Speaker 1: and I kept working on. I was putting something out
Speaker 1: every single day, you know, just to see what would
Speaker 1: happen here. Like it was amazing to me that it
Speaker 1: would just well and grow. I mean, it's crazy though
Speaker 1: to me. And again somebody who's popped a lot of
Speaker 1: zits on my own face and like maybe even one
Speaker 1: or two on somebody else's back, I was dating, Um,
Speaker 1: it's disgusting. I'm gonna be on it's like so gross.
Speaker 1: But like we're Aaron and I and clearly so many others.
Speaker 1: You've got twenty million followers, like on social media platforms,
Speaker 1: so a lot of people are interested in this, and
Speaker 1: it's almost like this it's like, we don't want to
Speaker 1: say that we're obsessed with it, but we are clearly
Speaker 1: are you. Are you surprised by how many people love
Speaker 1: this like grotesque thing of popping zits? I mean I
Speaker 1: was initially surprised. I was sort of like, what the
Speaker 1: heck is going on here? Who are these people? Like?
Speaker 1: What is? But I get it. I get it now,
Speaker 1: I definitely because you know it's cathartic. It's really how
Speaker 1: many people watch these bits. You may be included as
Speaker 1: like a bedtime story. It kind of relaxed with you.
Speaker 1: It's like a zen like you're something that is not
Speaker 1: supposed to be there. You're taking it out and you're
Speaker 1: making things more back to you know, what we would
Speaker 1: say normal. There is a satisfaction in popping a good
Speaker 1: sip when you get it and you know that you're
Speaker 1: not gonna scar and it's like a one hit like
Speaker 1: I'm in on those. But it's just it's always fascinating
Speaker 1: to me, and I know it is to Aaron as well,
Speaker 1: which is why we were thrilled to be talking to you,
Speaker 1: because there's so many questions we have, including is it
Speaker 1: okay that Aaron and I have used our fertility needles
Speaker 1: to pop sits on our face? Tu um, probably better
Speaker 1: than other things. I mean, what do you know what
Speaker 1: gauge needle that is? Like? Is it pretty? Don't look
Speaker 1: after I talk to you, believe it bleeds fast? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the smaller the gauge, meaning like the spine
Speaker 1: or the needle, probably the smaller little nick you can
Speaker 1: make on the surface. And just I think that the
Speaker 1: key is with popping pimples. I'm gonna be like every
Speaker 1: other differ intelligence and say you should not pop your
Speaker 1: own pimples, but I know many of us are going to,
Speaker 1: myself included, and so I think that the important thing,
Speaker 1: just like with all my social media is the education,
Speaker 1: like understanding why. And I think you guys get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's certainly an ideal time to pop a pimple, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna wait for the good ones, right when it's
Speaker 1: the most superficial, when it's actually looking it's worse, like
Speaker 1: it's what we call a pustual. It's all on the
Speaker 1: surface of the skin, because you want to get all
Speaker 1: of that out of it. Because if you don't, it's
Speaker 1: you know, when you squeeze one to early, just becomes
Speaker 1: like Mount Vesuvius. Right, it just gets enormous and worse.
Speaker 1: So you want to get it when it's the most
Speaker 1: super ficial because the more trauma that you have, more
Speaker 1: deep in the skin, the more risk you have for scarring.
Speaker 1: All right, how many times is it splashed up on
Speaker 1: your face? Another person? To mean yes? Or you wear
Speaker 1: like a shield? Are you so happy that you now
Speaker 1: have to wear protective shield? Yeah? I definitely am. Do
Speaker 1: I overuse my shield? Do I have child here? Actually? Um,
Speaker 1: I'll have to send you splash masks. I'll send you
Speaker 1: my splash mask. They're called splash master. This is they've
Speaker 1: certainly splashed like on the wall or on the ceiling,
Speaker 1: and certainly when it gets in your hair, it's rummer
Speaker 1: because it's like when you go to the campfire and
Speaker 1: you get the smoke in your hair and you can't
Speaker 1: every time you turn your head you smell it. It's
Speaker 1: like that you feel you just have to take a shower.
Speaker 1: So you just feel like it's acid on you, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's not, obviously, and it doesn't really smell or
Speaker 1: at least, I don't smell it, like I don't stick
Speaker 1: my nose in something and smell it. Sometimes they have
Speaker 1: an odor, but usually that's when it's infected, Like that's
Speaker 1: when bacteria's and bosses. Girls. Those beautiful Christine ones that
Speaker 1: you see me pop are usually not infected. So it's
Speaker 1: just old skin cells that are wet under your skin.
Speaker 1: So imagine what that would smell like. It's not the best.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite ones to pop? My favorite ones? I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know the name of them,
Speaker 1: but it's called a dilated pour of win er. Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard of that wine? You got me a wine?
Speaker 1: They're the giant black heads. Those are the ones that
Speaker 1: you take out and they just kind of come out
Speaker 1: whole and they leave it the whole, right right, that's
Speaker 1: a giant, a giant black head. It's so big that
Speaker 1: it like dilates the opening of your skin and like
Speaker 1: then you have this you have to actually cut that
Speaker 1: whole out to close it. Oh, oh my god, cut
Speaker 1: it out. But they're beautiful because they're not bloody, they're
Speaker 1: not like they don't really require an excision oftentimes just
Speaker 1: a little squeeze and maybe like a little fource ups
Speaker 1: and they kind of pop out whole, very satisfying. But
Speaker 1: I also like the you know, I also like cysts
Speaker 1: that kind of come out easily, the ones on the
Speaker 1: head um. They're called pilarcists, and they have thicker walls.
Speaker 1: They pump out like an olive. They're really satisfying that
Speaker 1: way because they're easy and you know that you got
Speaker 1: it all and you know the persons not in any pain,
Speaker 1: and you're just gonna stitch them up and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be so their life is gonna be so much better.
Speaker 1: I hope our listeners are, because again, if you're not
Speaker 1: watching this on YouTube, but you're you're hearing this, and
Speaker 1: I'm just visualizing all those videos that I watch of
Speaker 1: yours are the ones that Aaron and I sent back
Speaker 1: and forth to each other. We were on the phone
Speaker 1: the other day and we were watching some of them
Speaker 1: and there was that, remember Aaron, the one on this chin.
Speaker 1: It was so interesting. It came out actually like a
Speaker 1: full unit, like it was just like almost like a
Speaker 1: little piece of cheese. It was insane. I have a question,
Speaker 1: and I wonder how much you've gotten into this in
Speaker 1: your life, But I remember a party in the summer
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago. We had a bunch of
Speaker 1: people over when we were allowed to do that, and
Speaker 1: I threw it up on the airplay one of your videos, um,
Speaker 1: and we were just having a big party and it
Speaker 1: was just I don't know, maybe a few drinks hit
Speaker 1: me right and people were losing their minds. I obviously
Speaker 1: am part of this popoholic crew, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it. Have you ever talked to somebody with training
Speaker 1: of what this means like therapy wise? What does this mean? Why?
Speaker 1: Why are we so fascinated? What's the deeper meaning with it?
Speaker 1: From what I hear, there are a few different things
Speaker 1: general that compel people to you know, really enjoy this
Speaker 1: or really want to watch it. Um, there's part fascinations, certainly,
Speaker 1: you know, there's like that part like you know, what
Speaker 1: kind of drawing by an accident you can't help but look,
Speaker 1: you know, but there's also just it makes people happy. Actually,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's like a a clear story, a
Speaker 1: clear like dissonance and then you have a resolution, and
Speaker 1: I think people know that, like there's always sort of
Speaker 1: a happy ending and it just makes you feel good.
Speaker 1: And especially I think in this day and age where
Speaker 1: there's so much like negativity and so many reality shows
Speaker 1: that are just all about people fighting ing and things
Speaker 1: being angry. Like it's really nice to see something that
Speaker 1: is obviously messed up to begin with. The then you're
Speaker 1: making it like you're making everybody happy and everything back
Speaker 1: to normal. And I feel like it's a lot like
Speaker 1: maybe even riding a roller coaster or watching a scary movie.
Speaker 1: You know that you get like the endorphins, you get excited,
Speaker 1: but then the end you're like, oh, Okay, everything's back
Speaker 1: to normal again. What's the reaction that you get the
Speaker 1: most when you say or you reveal that you're Dr
Speaker 1: pimple Popper. What's people's immediate reaction? Um, I mean they usually,
Speaker 1: I mean they usually know amazingly who what that is
Speaker 1: or you know what. I actually get recognized a lot
Speaker 1: by my voice more than anything, especially from the show,
Speaker 1: because all my videos is my voice, and I've gotten
Speaker 1: stopped in the airport just because somebody heard my voice,
Speaker 1: like across the in the room and they came over.
Speaker 1: And so I get recognized certainly by the people who
Speaker 1: love the stuff and they I mean, I would love
Speaker 1: to someday just be at a like a big awards
Speaker 1: where all these celebrities are and just stand there and see, like,
Speaker 1: you know, ready to interview people and to see who
Speaker 1: comes up to me. Because there's a lot of closet closet.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying, Like, why don't like people
Speaker 1: don't want to admit or it's almost like kind of
Speaker 1: this like gross thing that you're like, don't want to
Speaker 1: admit that you're into or something like that. Meanwhile, Aaron's
Speaker 1: showing it videos at the party. I mean, you're a
Speaker 1: bad There's definitely people that are that are not embarrassed
Speaker 1: of it, and I so appreciate that. I feel like
Speaker 1: you're more ballsy and more REBELLI you know, like who
Speaker 1: cares Like this is not there's nothing wrong with this.
Speaker 1: It's like something that I like, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people do. I mean, Gwyneth Paltrow, Selena Gomez, you know,
Speaker 1: like they like popping everything. Like sports, there's like, you know,
Speaker 1: sports athletes that love it. There are politicians that love it.
Speaker 1: It's like just it's for everyone. Yeah, exactly, come on,
Speaker 1: come all, okay, Like let's say the person comes up
Speaker 1: to you in the airport or whatever. What's a story
Speaker 1: of like a strange situation that someone came up to
Speaker 1: and even asked you to pop a pimple, or like
Speaker 1: how do you look at it? Like what's the crazy
Speaker 1: sort of scenarity that you've gotten your self into? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would do that any well. Interestingly, I think, um,
Speaker 1: a lot of the popa hogs that come up now,
Speaker 1: they don't really come up asking me about something because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us that like this stuff
Speaker 1: they would get it taken care of or do something
Speaker 1: to it themselves, you know, so it's not like they're
Speaker 1: waiting to see me. But I definitely have had people
Speaker 1: like I've been playing golf in the middle of a
Speaker 1: swing and somebody will cross over to fair ways to
Speaker 1: come up in the middle of my swing show me
Speaker 1: they're back, you know, on their back, and I know,
Speaker 1: like you know, like weird situations where you're like at
Speaker 1: a pizza place eating and then the owner finds out
Speaker 1: and then they want to show you there something you
Speaker 1: know in the back, So while you're eating your pepperoni,
Speaker 1: here's one on my face. My story there has to
Speaker 1: be I mean, you don't have to reveal who it was,
Speaker 1: but what's your your worst and not that it was
Speaker 1: bad for you, but it was like, wow, this we
Speaker 1: gotta bring whatever that is behind you. We gotta bring
Speaker 1: the scalpel in um. You know, there's so many of them.
Speaker 1: There's like just like the show too is really challenging
Speaker 1: because they bring me some crazy things. Did you see
Speaker 1: the guy Leonard with his extra arm like he had
Speaker 1: he had like a like homa that popped and it
Speaker 1: was looking like an extra arm, like an extra pendent
Speaker 1: just hanging down thing and it was like almost open
Speaker 1: on the end. And you just don't know what these
Speaker 1: people are gonna walk in with, and you don't know
Speaker 1: their personalities, so you have to really, you know, manage
Speaker 1: them when they're awake while you're doing you know, you're
Speaker 1: doing things to them. And so there's a lot of
Speaker 1: big juggling act there. And okay, well there's a guy
Speaker 1: in this next season coming up that has you know
Speaker 1: what rhino flima is. It's that overgrowth of the nose,
Speaker 1: like the skin of the nose sociate with rosatia, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly not everybody rosatia because that's much more common,
Speaker 1: has it. But this guy has like two cantelopes hanging
Speaker 1: from his nose, like it's you know, obscuring his mouth,
Speaker 1: and it's like and so that stuff is crazy. It's
Speaker 1: like the world's record, you know, by far the kinds
Speaker 1: of things that we're seeing. Yeah, aside from like okay,
Speaker 1: you know there's like the oh or like the word
Speaker 1: puss automatically, like as people have a visceral reaction to
Speaker 1: the word puss. So like when we're talking about popping
Speaker 1: zits and things like that, Like, yes, there's the entertaining
Speaker 1: part of it, but truthfully, is somebody who has suffered
Speaker 1: with acne my whole life? It is traumatic and Aaron
Speaker 1: and I being in television and the medium of that
Speaker 1: in HD and it's like, oh my god, you're I
Speaker 1: get really insecure sometimes when I'm having a breakout of
Speaker 1: it on accutaine a hundred different times. So what the
Speaker 1: service that you provide as a dermatologist or even the
Speaker 1: awareness in the education you change people's lives. And I'm
Speaker 1: not calling atomatic by saying that, I'm like, I'm somebody
Speaker 1: who wants my skin is clear. You can go out
Speaker 1: into the world differently than you can when you're ashamed
Speaker 1: of of a breakout. So what sort of an inspiring
Speaker 1: situation or is that your motivation to continue to put
Speaker 1: these videos out is to help inspire entertaining us of course,
Speaker 1: but like help people ultimately, right, I say that our
Speaker 1: videos really firstly entertain people, they start secretly educate you too,
Speaker 1: you understand things. And also I think it also increases acceptance.
Speaker 1: You know, acne is something that affects almost all of
Speaker 1: us at some point, especially in our teenage years, where
Speaker 1: we're just really trying to figure out who we are
Speaker 1: and interacting with others, and to have really bad actne
Speaker 1: at that age, you know it's not going to kill you,
Speaker 1: but it certainly affects the way the person that you become.
Speaker 1: And um, I think that we helped to breed acceptance here.
Speaker 1: You know that the world is not just so filtered
Speaker 1: and everybody looks so beautiful and there's so much pressure
Speaker 1: on you. I love the fact that a lot of
Speaker 1: the newer social media platforms like TikTok, they actually embrace
Speaker 1: the people people that have bad acne or have some
Speaker 1: other physical maybe issue that makes them a little bit different.
Speaker 1: People are really supportive of that, and that's really like
Speaker 1: a kind of a backlash to all that has gone
Speaker 1: on in the years before, and just also helps to
Speaker 1: make people feel good about themselves, and just to know
Speaker 1: that don't treat somebody different if they had this huge
Speaker 1: extra head growing out on their back, because there's reasons
Speaker 1: why they didn't have it taken care of, and you know,
Speaker 1: don't there's still a person. They still want the same
Speaker 1: kind of like everybody else. So sweet Sandra, is there
Speaker 1: a story we talked about? Your worst kind of you know,
Speaker 1: maybe patient that you've had a situation. Is there your
Speaker 1: best inspirational story you've walked away with and you kind
Speaker 1: of always keep it with you because you are You're
Speaker 1: giving people confidence, You're giving them a new perspective on life.
Speaker 1: Anything you can share with us story wise, I guess
Speaker 1: that happens all. I mean, I'm so lucky that I
Speaker 1: have this show that gets to show me because all
Speaker 1: doctors change people's lives, you know, in a positive way,
Speaker 1: but I actually get to see it. I get to
Speaker 1: see how it changes them in their home life, you know,
Speaker 1: on TV and people just there there. There's well, there's
Speaker 1: one person I remember in particular early on. If you
Speaker 1: go back to YouTube and you look up Pops, this
Speaker 1: gentleman he's an older guy who like, um, this is
Speaker 1: when I also another time where I knew something big
Speaker 1: was happening here because he had really bad but amazing
Speaker 1: black heads. You know, he was older, gentleman. His wife
Speaker 1: just passed away and he was lost without her. He
Speaker 1: was gonna have to leave his home and go into
Speaker 1: a retirement community and he didn't have the money and
Speaker 1: he was very stressed out and very distraught about it.
Speaker 1: And he talked about it while we were doing his
Speaker 1: black heads. No nobody knows who he is, they just
Speaker 1: saw his nose. But the community on YouTube, they got
Speaker 1: all excited to help him, and it prompted me to
Speaker 1: start a go fund me page and people around the
Speaker 1: world donated like sixteen thousand dollars to him, and we
Speaker 1: presented to him in a video and he just it
Speaker 1: was he was like he was astonished. He knew he
Speaker 1: was being videotaped. He knew I told him we started
Speaker 1: this account, but he didn't really understand or realized that
Speaker 1: it was going to be this much money and all
Speaker 1: these letters from around the world, and you should have
Speaker 1: seen how it changed him. He in his last years,
Speaker 1: he just became so happy and just like you know,
Speaker 1: just he knew that people cared about him and there
Speaker 1: were people on the world that we're thinking about him,
Speaker 1: and that meant so much. So that was like a
Speaker 1: really special thing that I knew that, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a thing if people around the world are going to
Speaker 1: donate all this money to him. Who knew that popping
Speaker 1: black heads would bring people together? In a go funding page.
Speaker 1: You just never know where the past you're gonna cross.
Speaker 1: So we're in our bathroom. What's the best way to
Speaker 1: pop as it? Give us your dues and don't Okay, well,
Speaker 1: the best way really what you want to do is
Speaker 1: obviously make sure that your instruments and your hands are clean. Right,
Speaker 1: so make sure make sure that you have you know,
Speaker 1: everything is as sterile as possible. You have some good
Speaker 1: points they are kind of sterilizing with a flame or
Speaker 1: things like that. But if you can get you know,
Speaker 1: more even sterile like single use things, that's very great
Speaker 1: to have. Steam your skin, make sure or maybe take
Speaker 1: a hot shower opens your poor softens the debris within
Speaker 1: the pores right, makes it easier to extract using maybe
Speaker 1: retinal or retina maybe on a daily basis, will help
Speaker 1: over the weeks prior to doing an extraction. We are
Speaker 1: going to help to soften your skin to make things
Speaker 1: come out more easily and also help to prevent new ones.
Speaker 1: But my skin tears more when I do that, Like
Speaker 1: if I'm popping as it with retina on, I mean,
Speaker 1: I leave a huge pothole in my face. Well maybe
Speaker 1: that means you don't do it being very aggressive on
Speaker 1: the pop. Alright, Well, I think for I think for you, Aaron,
Speaker 1: you might want to set a little timer. I should
Speaker 1: make a pimple timer, you know, like a little a
Speaker 1: little pimple and like put the timer on and say,
Speaker 1: if you're in the bathroom long in this, you need
Speaker 1: to not that's not a bad idea. I could go
Speaker 1: days in there. I could. And sometimes things aren't really
Speaker 1: palpable to you might think that they are, you know,
Speaker 1: but they're not. And sometimes you know what milia are?
Speaker 1: Milia are? Those are hard the white ones, those I
Speaker 1: really gotta dig in for and they always get them
Speaker 1: around my eye maybe it's come out like little pearls
Speaker 1: are really around my eyes mostly, but they're harder to
Speaker 1: pop because they're under the skin, so you usually have
Speaker 1: to nick the skin a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember like afterwards. Also use a little spot treatment,
Speaker 1: like a little benzel pox side like acid. Put them.
Speaker 1: It's like a little pimple facial. You know, you put
Speaker 1: it on the area, but hands off the area. Even
Speaker 1: pimple patches are great because you're you know, neutral colored
Speaker 1: and you can kind of hide. And also it helps
Speaker 1: remind you to keep your hands away from the area
Speaker 1: you're gonna die. I had a massive basketball game one time.
Speaker 1: This is horrible, and this is it leads me into
Speaker 1: the next one quick fix on the road. What we
Speaker 1: should bring in our like cosmetic bag. I had a
Speaker 1: massive basketball game and I got put with the big dogs,
Speaker 1: like the A team. I was so excited. I got
Speaker 1: the I get I have T zone, and I get
Speaker 1: monster like cystic acne where it's like the heartbeat. You
Speaker 1: can see it on air. It's like an child. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I decided to like get the skin off. Then I
Speaker 1: thought putting toothpaste on it overnight would be amazing whitening
Speaker 1: no less too, because who needs that red dot. I
Speaker 1: woke up the next day for the back small game
Speaker 1: a massive bloody hole in my face. I held the
Speaker 1: microphone like this the whole game. It was unbelievable. What
Speaker 1: do you need in your bag as a quick fix
Speaker 1: if you're traveling or like wedding or something like that,
Speaker 1: and we can't get to you right because if you
Speaker 1: get to a doctor, a dermotologist, they can usual shoot
Speaker 1: it with a steroid it but you it makes it
Speaker 1: go away right away. I would say definitely like a
Speaker 1: pimple patch, like a hydrocholoid or that or the like.
Speaker 1: You know, those little patches you can have that keep
Speaker 1: your hands off a bit. But also like a good
Speaker 1: Benzl proxide. I have some you know, you can get
Speaker 1: those kinds of things over the counter and you can
Speaker 1: put a little spot treatment on there. You really want
Speaker 1: to try to leave it alone. It's hard because it's
Speaker 1: all about timing. I mean, if it's gonna go through
Speaker 1: that process right then unfortunately it goes it's already there,
Speaker 1: like you can't. You gotta let it run its course.
Speaker 1: And the issue is if you pick at it, you
Speaker 1: can really prolong the course of it and make it worse.
Speaker 1: So it's so hard. I understand when I say this,
Speaker 1: I already know that it's not necessarily going to be heated.
Speaker 1: This advice that you get it, you understand it. It's
Speaker 1: just you gotta you gotta train yourself to not you know,
Speaker 1: to keep your hands away from it. What's the deal
Speaker 1: with the toothpaste thing? Does that? Why do people think
Speaker 1: that that's a thing. I feel like that's where Mom's
Speaker 1: back in the day, our mom's love the toothpaste wine. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it works a little bit in two ways.
Speaker 1: One is that if you put this paste on there,
Speaker 1: it kind of gets dry and chalky, you know, and
Speaker 1: sometimes like mental or something like that, maybe it has
Speaker 1: some kind of you know, drying kind of component to it.
Speaker 1: But it also keeps your hand off of it too,
Speaker 1: because if you have a glob of toothpaste there. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that it does better than an athne
Speaker 1: spot treatment. I think that that is superior. Is there
Speaker 1: a better light or is there a light that you suggest,
Speaker 1: because and I'm sure you've heard this a million times,
Speaker 1: those airplane bathroom lights. I mean, people probably think I'm
Speaker 1: having a massive stomach situation for how long I spend
Speaker 1: in their toping yrs. It's in the airplane, you guys,
Speaker 1: when you're traveling again, check out that light in there.
Speaker 1: You see things you've never seen before in the face.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with me? Dr? Yeah, But also the
Speaker 1: big fine there are you gotta throw that thing away
Speaker 1: are dangerous. Yeah, they're dangerous because they make you see
Speaker 1: things that you most of us don't see, and you
Speaker 1: need to just there's a point where you want to
Speaker 1: you know, like it can be it can it can
Speaker 1: become more of a obsession sometimes. So really, I just
Speaker 1: can't believe Aaron's in the bathroom and there's a long
Speaker 1: line outside and she's getting into that black head. Now,
Speaker 1: this is like a commada. There's a giant one off
Speaker 1: one of those. Yeah, these are this is what I
Speaker 1: use usually, obviously to a smaller degree, but because it
Speaker 1: puts even pressure around the pimple and it's really rounded
Speaker 1: and like it's smooth edges so that you're not going
Speaker 1: to really cut into your skin, so you can try
Speaker 1: to like extract something in a very in a more
Speaker 1: sterile and clean way. I remember when I was rocking
Speaker 1: my long acrylic nails that was so mad when they
Speaker 1: were so long, because I couldn't really get in there.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason why they're short. Now could actually
Speaker 1: make on a colic nail like this a little hole
Speaker 1: in it, and that's your next TikTok video. At this entrepreneur,
Speaker 1: she's always thinking of new and creative ways. All right,
Speaker 1: so you mentioned some of the things we will see.
Speaker 1: For those that haven't watched the show, you have to
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus Dr Primple Popper. You can check her out
Speaker 1: all of her different social channels. Aaron and I are
Speaker 1: clearly huge fans. Um. You've given us some great advice,
Speaker 1: You've got great stories. Look, the great news is that
Speaker 1: ACNE is not going anywhere, and you are set through
Speaker 1: life in what you're doing. Where do you want to
Speaker 1: take your business? And and you know the shows. Is
Speaker 1: that what you enjoy doing the most or is it
Speaker 1: in the office, Like what what part of your business
Speaker 1: are you excited? Because Aaron and I love the business
Speaker 1: aspect of what we're doing as well. Well. I mean
Speaker 1: I started my own skincare line, which is the SLMD Skincare,
Speaker 1: which is really the whole impetus behind like even the
Speaker 1: social media and building up my YouTube channel because I
Speaker 1: realized there are all these people around the world that
Speaker 1: really wanted answers, but you know their skin and I
Speaker 1: and they can't see Dematologists. A lot of people can't
Speaker 1: see the so I really wanted to use my videos
Speaker 1: to help educate people so that they understand what to
Speaker 1: use and then actually provide products that they can use,
Speaker 1: just recommend. And I also think that when you do that,
Speaker 1: it gives people they really feel like that they played
Speaker 1: a big role in solving their problems with their skin,
Speaker 1: and so they're really proud of it. And I really
Speaker 1: am very lucky that I have the trust of people,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to let them down, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to give them the best advice that I
Speaker 1: can as a dermatologist. And um yeah, the show, I
Speaker 1: get to meet people around the world. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe we'll go on tour one of these days.
Speaker 1: Tour like you come with visit and like you'll pop
Speaker 1: them there. It's like that's what on the site rusself
Speaker 1: be amazing, live, live people popping. Yes, and we'll have
Speaker 1: a splash zone. I want to have like a flash zone.
Speaker 1: You sit in the front row. You gotta will get
Speaker 1: like a poncho and I'm sorry, but whatever happens, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's amazing. Well, I gotta tell you. And again,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you know, for our listeners that are
Speaker 1: just as fascinated with this, the cults, that is, the popoholics.
Speaker 1: Even if you're a closet popoholic. Um, you've turned you know,
Speaker 1: you're already incredible profession into an incredible empire that is
Speaker 1: helping people but also is entertaining. So UM, we're thrilled
Speaker 1: to have you on the show. Thank you. We can't
Speaker 1: wait for you to invite us to the office. And yeah,
Speaker 1: all this have to do, that'd be so much fun.
Speaker 1: I took away the timer. The timer was the best thing.
Speaker 1: It was a thrill to even speak to you. I
Speaker 1: talk about you all the time, like we're already friends.
Speaker 1: But now that you've like set this personal timer up
Speaker 1: for me, I can't thank you enough. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: taking away from this. I need a timer in front
Speaker 1: of the mirror with my zits. That's right, I'm going
Speaker 1: to have to send you one. I'll have to send
Speaker 1: you a special one, Sandra, before we let you go.
Speaker 1: Real quickly, just the three things that our viewers need
Speaker 1: to remember if you're dealing with acne how you can help.
Speaker 1: Just quick three quick tips um that listeners can take
Speaker 1: with them after after this combo. Number one with acne
Speaker 1: is No One to pop and no one to stop
Speaker 1: right that one, right at at. Aaron there too that
Speaker 1: we all get pimples at some time in our life
Speaker 1: and it's certainly not the end of the world, you know,
Speaker 1: And there are treatment options. Really understanding what treatments work
Speaker 1: the best for whatever type of pimple you have is important.
Speaker 1: And if you have severe acne, go see a dermatologist.
Speaker 1: There's so many fantastic medications that can really change your life.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You have clearly made an impact on a
Speaker 1: lot of people, and you've also helped bring some humor
Speaker 1: and some entertainment to a subject that is deeply personal
Speaker 1: and you know, sad for a lot of people. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It was a pleasure to talk to you. And we
Speaker 1: can't wait to be in line in that splash zone. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Bye, we'll talk again. I'll see
Speaker 1: you again in my office. Oh my god, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: It's like Disneyland for you. Yeah, Oh, it is Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 1: Here I comes. You know what I'm not going to
Speaker 1: calm down about if you haven't downloaded and subscribed search
Speaker 1: calm down with Aaron and Kariss. So what what welcome?
Speaker 1: I mean, let's go here? People. You can check out
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Speaker 1: forget about our cameos. Oh my god, call us any time,
Speaker 1: will answer, even if we're in the bathroom. Leave a
Speaker 1: mess any hour, any hour. Um. I love Dr Lee.
Speaker 1: She is my jam I dream. Aaron just said that
Speaker 1: she shows uh, pimple popping videos at parties, pimple popping
Speaker 1: videos at parties. That Sally Selsy shells by the seashore.
Speaker 1: What propels you to do this? It's a crowd pleaser, apparently,
Speaker 1: you said. I don't know if we were talking about it,
Speaker 1: but I just felt like, you know, airplay was there
Speaker 1: and I had enough of the playlist and I was like,
Speaker 1: let's just put this on and everybody was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, your party is dull. Liven it up with
Speaker 1: Dr Sandra Lee. She's great, though, and I like what
Speaker 1: she said. You know, I know we touched on it
Speaker 1: at the beginning of of the podcast, but I mean,
Speaker 1: Acne has made me sad for a lot of years,
Speaker 1: and I've learned to laugh about it. But she's really
Speaker 1: brought some, um you know, some lightness to what can
Speaker 1: be a difficult subject. What was the thing that you
Speaker 1: found most interesting that she said, other than we need
Speaker 1: to stop picking our faces? Yeah, I mean I knew
Speaker 1: she was going to tell me that. I loved how
Speaker 1: she told me I needed a time limit on me
Speaker 1: picking my face. Yeah, the timer. I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 1: I need a time limit for a lot of things
Speaker 1: in my life, nagging, being annoying, Um, you know, festering
Speaker 1: on things anyhow. Um, that's a difference dicast at a
Speaker 1: different time. But yeah, no, I love that. But my
Speaker 1: problem is I do a time limit for that time,
Speaker 1: take a time out and and go again, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Because they still got to get the pit.
Speaker 1: You're not a quitter? Uh? Would you say that you
Speaker 1: are a wait? What's her fan club that you love?
Speaker 1: Papa Holics, Pop Holock. Would you say you're a popoholic
Speaker 1: dirt pop? Yeah? I would. I love it. I love
Speaker 1: it all. I gotta be honest. Whenever I went on
Speaker 1: accutane and my skin clears up, like I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for our wonderful makeup artist Brittany and Dominique
Speaker 1: at Fox and anybody else that has to touch my
Speaker 1: face because they don't have to do so much work.
Speaker 1: They don't suffer from like carpal tunnel with all of
Speaker 1: the like masking of the concealer. But then I kind
Speaker 1: of get sad, like I missed my zip sometimes and
Speaker 1: I think to myself, remember when I used to have
Speaker 1: to pop you all day every day? But then they
Speaker 1: come back. Actually just wait up blood from more accutane.
Speaker 1: So there's that. I'm sure what you're about to touch you?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. From games, like when I was
Speaker 1: thinking of the girls, Like as the game progresses, it's
Speaker 1: like forget about how many running yards, how many layers
Speaker 1: of like but like make foundation do I have on it?
Speaker 1: And it's like this high. Now. The masks have really
Speaker 1: helped us, though, don't you think? Yes? Because I know
Speaker 1: some people suffer from mask me because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's like suffocating their face. But I haven't been wearing
Speaker 1: as much makeup because we just wear masks all the time,
Speaker 1: so that helps my skin. But you know, look acne.
Speaker 1: It's it's not a big deal. It really isn't It
Speaker 1: is what it is? Yeah, is what it is, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. And I was actually told by my dermatologist
Speaker 1: it's good I have oily skin because it helps with
Speaker 1: the wrinkles. I'm not sure if that's true. But anyways,
Speaker 1: Dr Sandra Leie, what a dream. I can't believe she's
Speaker 1: made quite the profession off of something that, Like, who
Speaker 1: would have thought? I get sucked in. I sit there
Speaker 1: and I just watched those videos I sent him to you.
Speaker 1: You get upset. I'm gonna put on our I g
Speaker 1: a cupcake. I found that just grossed you out, like
Speaker 1: a cupcake of poppings. It's like I thought it was
Speaker 1: so funny. I'm just intrigued by the whole thing. I'm
Speaker 1: curious why people will go as long as they do
Speaker 1: with these growths, like not get them fixed. Yeah that's sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I am. I don't have time. Like
Speaker 1: my cistic acne or the ZiT starts to form right away,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, let's go, let's start, you know, surgery
Speaker 1: right away. Here we come. And on that note, I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna go do it. No, don't touch your face.
Speaker 1: I learned a lot today Again for those of you
Speaker 1: that have made it all the way through. And if
Speaker 1: you're suffering from macnee, we're always here for you. And
Speaker 1: if you're not suffering from macne, we're always here for you.
Speaker 1: Calm Down podcast We will not calm down. Aaron love
Speaker 1: you until the next time. I love you, see you.
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