1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Hi, folks. Ear Wax colon Live with It is your 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: Saturday Select this week. This is from March Boy. This 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: was a good one. There's a lot of a lot 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: of things people don't understand about ear wax and what 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: you should do with it and what you shouldn't do 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: with it. So this was very instructive for both of 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: us and should be for you as well. So enjoy 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: and don't ear candle for God's sake. Welcome to Stuff 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, 10 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles 11 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: w Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry Uh. Yeah, that's stuff you 12 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: should know. He just shrugged, like, what are we gonna do? 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: That's what we are, episode number seven something. Yeah, I 14 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: have no idea. I don't either. In the seven hundreds 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: of folks. If you think there's only three hundred because 16 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: you're on iTunes, you're in for to be doubly surprised. Yeah. Well, 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: somebody um tweeted recently, I've just found the How Stuff 18 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: Works app and there's way more stuff you should knows 19 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: than there is on iTunes. I hate you guys. Now. Wait, 20 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: I was cool with three one. But that's it. I 21 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: had someone aska the other day if we feel like 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: we're running out of things topics, clearly we are, because 23 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: we're recording on your way exactly what you tell him. 24 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: Look for boogers in the near future. Um no, I 25 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: said no that Sometimes it feels a little like, oh 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: my gosh, what are gonna do? But there's gazillions of 27 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: topics in the world at least, and gazillions of scientific 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: that's right. What is that? How many zeros? Is that 29 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: a real number? I don't know. I don't think it is. 30 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: Let's say it's a real number if you're eight years old, 31 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: but watch it probably is a real number. Yeah, I think, Um, 32 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: a jillian is a real number. A bazillion jillian definitely is. 33 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: I would guess gazillion is by now I might actually 34 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: look that up. I mean, there's just like a handful 35 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,119 Speaker 1: of mathematicians who are in charge of naming that kind 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: of stuff, you know, So chuckers. While you're looking that up, 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: do you have ear wax? Um? Do you have a a 38 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: problem you're wax? None? No, I don't either. No, I 39 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't say so. Um. It is a little distressing though, 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: even though we will find out it is awesome and 41 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: exactly how it's supposed to work when it just sort 42 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: of falls out of your ear onto your shoulder. Yeah, 43 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: that's that's ideal. Actually, yeah, because ear wax and your 44 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: physiology in general doesn't care about what social group you're 45 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: a part of. Nope, it's just like, here's some ear 46 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: wax on your shoulder. Deal with it. Although and I 47 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: didn't look up why this is true. Apparently in northeast 48 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: are in Asian countries like Korea and China, um they 49 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: there ear wax is a little different. They're more likely 50 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: to have the dry ear wax um, which can be 51 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: hard and red to black in color, which sounds gross 52 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: and flaky or pale yellow, whereas over here we have 53 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: that um nasty, guey orange e mess. Wet ear wax 54 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 1: is what it's called. Yes, And the reason why actually 55 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: is because of the ABC leveng gene. Oh is that why? Yeah, 56 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: they isolated the gene that causes the type of ear 57 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: wax that you get. And it turns out that they 58 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: say the w UM mutation is um or the D 59 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: mutation dry ear wax is recessive. So the only way 60 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: to get dry ear waxes of both of your parents 61 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: have dry ear wax. Both carry the D gene or 62 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: D mutation or the ABC leven gene. Well, I have both. 63 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: Most people have our w D. Say yeah, so you 64 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: have to get too D alleles to dry ear wax 65 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: alleles to have dry ear wax yourself. If you have 66 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: a W and a D or two ws, you're gonna 67 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: have wet and for some read I have both, can't 68 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: you like one year is dry and the other's wet. No, Like, 69 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: sometimes you know, if I get the old cotton swab out, 70 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: which now you're introducing something way beyond genetics. That's not 71 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: even apo genetics. That's human intervention. The point is, if 72 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: I get the cotton swab out, that's when I'll get 73 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: out the orange e wax wet stuff. But um, I'll 74 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: also have the dry, flicky stuff that falls out sometimes probably, 75 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: I would guess. And I'm no seremon expert, I'm no seaminas. 76 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: Now what's the what's the word? Uh? Actually looked it 77 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: up for someone who studies this. It has to have 78 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: to do with ceremon m. I can't find it now. 79 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: It's so Seamonius doesn't ringing a bell, No, it's wrong. 80 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: I can't find what it is. Sorry, okay, well the 81 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: person who still I'm not a person who studies ear wax, 82 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: but what I would guess is that when you're when 83 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: you're digging in there, you're getting to the fresher ear wax, 84 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: That's what I think. And then as it works itself 85 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: further and further out your ear, which is the natural process, 86 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: it's exposed to drier air, that ambient air, and it 87 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: drives out and flakes off, which is what it's supposed 88 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: to do. So I don't think you have both. I 89 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: think if you have both, the stuff inside your ear 90 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: would be drying, would be dry as well. Yeah, okay, 91 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: all right, well that makes sense. Um, So what ear 92 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: waxes or uh ceramon c E r U M E 93 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: N is the scientific name, but I'm sure they call 94 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: it wax. It's the third chubby angel. Now that's ceremum. 95 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, um. It is made up of secretions of 96 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: a couple of little specialized glands uh in the skin 97 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: on the outer third of the ear canal. Yes, so 98 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: you have your sebaceous glands and they're gonna secrete and 99 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: these names all sounds so growth really, but they're perfect 100 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: for describing what they are. Yeah. Yeah, um. They secrete 101 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: sebum A S E V him uh, and then you 102 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: have um, an apocrine sweat gland that's modified that produces uh, 103 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: it's kind of hem. Yeah, it combine, it combines with 104 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: the sebum, and that's where you get your ceremony. And 105 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: so seebam in and of itself is fairly normal. If 106 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: you like, take your fingertip and rub it alongside where 107 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: your nose folds into your face. Yeah, I get a 108 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: little dry in there. That's well if if your stuff 109 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: is at all oily, the oil is seebam. So apparently 110 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: it mixes in in your ear with the m the 111 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: that kind of apocrine gland, like you said, to form ceramon, 112 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: which is its own thing. It's not just see them, right, 113 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: But all of it is basically fatty, oily lipid e 114 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: UM compound that's secreted by these glands in the skin cells, 115 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: specialized glands. Yeah, about six caratin, which is a protein. 116 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: And then like you said, the fatty acids, you've got 117 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: dead skin cells, you've got um, hair follicles, dead bugs, 118 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: little bugs. Yeah, lots of stuff that comes out in 119 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: this and like you like you said dust it probably 120 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: dust mites then too, And like you said, um, it's 121 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: produced in the inner third of the outer ear outer 122 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: one third of the ear canal, okay um. And when 123 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: it's produced in there, it's migrates outward thanks to um, 124 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: the motion of the ocean, right and you talking and chewing. Oh, 125 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: is that what it is? Yeah, I couldn't figure out, 126 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: like how does your ear wax move? But it's just 127 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: from jaw movement. Normal jaw movement moves the old or 128 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: the newer stuff outward and as it's coming out, all 129 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: the gunk and stuff that's protected did your ear from 130 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: are moved out with it. So this stuff that flakes 131 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: off and falls on your shoulder, uh, that everybody points 132 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: and laughs at at the at the party, Um, that 133 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: is filled with all the stuff that your ear wax 134 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: caught along the way. It's a it's a beautiful, elegant process. 135 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: Probably it was beautiful, um, aspect of the entire human experience. Well, 136 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: I think you're making a joke, but I really do 137 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: think that, Like it's the little things like that about 138 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: Like I'm amazed about the function of the brain and 139 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: of course the organs and all that. But just something 140 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: as simple as that, mechanical talking and chewing will work 141 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: ear wax out of your ear. It's just so basic 142 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: in I think it's awesome and I think it's really cool. 143 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: Actually I know. To me, I agree with you. Um, 144 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: so some people produce a lot of this. Um, I 145 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,439 Speaker 1: was gonna say gross stuff. But have you seen Paddington 146 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: the movie? Yeah? No, I heard it was really good. 147 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: It's very good, super super cute, really well done. Why 148 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: did you see that? Just because it's a cute movie? 149 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: Really yeah? Um, sold in theaters and everything. Um, please 150 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: tell me you took you me? Yeah, And as a 151 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: matter of fact, it was just me and you, me 152 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: in the whole theater. But if it's just you and 153 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: no kids, you, then it's like somebody you might want 154 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: to call that security, and they did. I'm just a 155 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: Paddington fan, um, but I am now. So anyway, Um, 156 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: there is a part where there's a part featuring ear 157 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: wax in Paddington and it's it does not celebrate the 158 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: beauty of ear wax. It's the exact opposite. And actually, 159 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: you me was like, god, it was really gross, but 160 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: just awesome. So anyway, Gussie, Gussie Paddington. Is that a spoiler? Okay, 161 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Maybe for like a five year 162 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: old you know. Um. So, like I said, some people 163 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: produce a lot of the stuff. Um, some people don't 164 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: produce as much, and they don't really know why, but 165 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: they do know that sometimes stress an anxiety, um can 166 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: increase production of ear wax, which makes interesting hormones Sure, 167 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: hormones affected your glands go off. It also said that 168 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: some drugs can increase your ear wax production. And I 169 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: looked all over and did you find the drugs? But 170 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: if stress and anxiety does hiahuasca, I imagine, yeah, cocaine 171 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: would probably make you produce more ear wax or something 172 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: oh yeah, when you put that stuff in your ear, yeah, 173 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: or something that makes you like cheer your jaw a lot. 174 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: Oh sure, that could probably get more ear wax out. Yeah. Interesting, 175 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: I never thought about that. I couldn't find any anything else. 176 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: Um is gross as you might think. Ear waxes, though, 177 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: it actually is a great thing for your body. And 178 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: there's a very good reason, uh why you have it, 179 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: because there are four main functions that your ear wax 180 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: is going to serve. My friend, Uh, one of them 181 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: is it creates an acidic environment. That's great. That kills 182 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: helps kill bacteria and fung gi. Oh even better. Number two, 183 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: um it is, well that's that's a big deal too, 184 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: because your ear, your inner ear, like that is really 185 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: a place where fungus in bacteria would thrive because it's 186 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: moist and dark. And you know what we always say 187 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: about moist dark places, fun Guy thrives. That's right. Um. 188 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: The thing is is, it doesn't seem like that be 189 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: a big problem to have fun Guy in your ear, 190 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: but it would because it would affect things like your balance, nausea, 191 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: ear aches. Um, it just wouldn't be good. So the 192 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: fact that earwax produces in a city environment alone makes 193 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: your wax a beautiful thing and to be celebrated. So 194 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: if we did, we could just stop there. We could, 195 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: but you can go on. Like you said, there's four 196 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: and that was just one quarter of these these benefits 197 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: that your x pistos. Uh. Secondly, it is a lube. Um. 198 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: It lubricates your ear canal basically to keep it from 199 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 1: drying out. And um, you know you don't want the 200 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: inner ear become all like itchy and dry and craggedy, 201 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: and you want to hear something weird that I've a 202 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: new personal hygiene thing I have to do as of yesterday, 203 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: starting yesterday, something I'll probably have to do my whole 204 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: lot hair. I have to moisturize my ears. Now. I 205 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say hair inside the ear. I was like, 206 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: I have been doing that for a while. It's getting 207 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: I got a little fro inside ear fro. Yeah, but no, 208 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: like taking moisturizer and like rubbing on my ears because 209 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: I got a haircat yesterday and like my ears were 210 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: exposed and all of a sudden, I'm like, wait, why 211 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: is like there a streak of white on my ear 212 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: and they're bright red? And I realized, like my ears 213 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: are chapped and that is brand new or else I 214 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: just noticed it. So I'm an ear moisturizer. Now, Yeah, 215 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: you had that seventies uh ear muff hairstyle cut off 216 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 1: of your ears so your ears were exposed. Yeah, it 217 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: was pretty seventies, wasn't well. I was growing my hair 218 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: out to to create like a blank slate of you 219 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: know that could be worked with. It was kind of 220 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: longish for you. I was really long, and it it 221 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: was that seventies, like your muff thing wasn't quite it 222 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: was getting there. It looks good, very nice. Thanks. Did 223 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: that make you uncomfortable? No, I was fishing for that 224 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: the whole reason I brought that story. You looked either 225 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: sheepish or really uncomfortable with a little bit both. Alright, gotcha? Alright? 226 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 1: Number three on top four things that earwax does. Uh 227 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: is your ceremon and your hair just like let him exactly, Um, 228 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: it's gonna discouraged. Uh. Everyone's worst nightmare, which is a 229 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: spider crawling in there, which I covered. Uh, you know 230 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: that happened to Emily. I think I talked about that 231 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: on one of the shows. That was genuinely one of 232 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: the most awesome things that I've ever experienced, because it 233 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: did not happen to me. Wasn't there a picture? Didn't 234 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: you post a picture of it or something like that? Um? No, 235 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: but there I think I I posted a picture of 236 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: a happening to one woman in China. I think that 237 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: was rightening, and it was a picture of a spider 238 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: looking out of the woman's ear. Canal right, Yeah, yeah, 239 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: but Emily's If people haven't heard this story, it was 240 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: I think it was in the middle of the night 241 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: or something. She was like, I got this weird fluttering 242 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: in my ear and I don't know what's going on 243 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: in there. And I was like, well, you know. It 244 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: took her in the bathroom and shined a light and 245 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: I was like, holy crap, and the spider I think work, 246 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: didn't it with the flashlight? Remember, like, if you look 247 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: at your I don't know, did the very saying yes, yes, okay, 248 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: so there you go. Well, all I remember thinking is Emily, 249 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to have to break this to you, 250 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: but you have the spider in your ear. You didn't 251 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: like chloroformer first? I should have. Yeah. She was not 252 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: excited about that. She was not pumped. But so, well, 253 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: what was the process for getting it out? Well, I've 254 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: looked on the internet super quickly, um to see how 255 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: and they said to flush it out and um just 256 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: like a little warm. Oh my gosh, you did use tweezers. Yeah, 257 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: And I put the water in there and it kind 258 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: of um loosened it up. And went in there and 259 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: got the tweet sers and I was like, look at this. 260 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: How big was it? Oh? I mean it wasn't huge, 261 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: but it was it was enough spider for her taste. Yeah, 262 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: more than enough, right, dude, it was. I can't imagine 263 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: that some people like sleep with vaseline in their ears 264 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: to keep bugs from crawling in. Yeah, like that is 265 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: a thing. Yeah, I mean people don't want bugs in 266 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: their ears. No, but that's taken. I mean, that's just parent. 267 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: It's severe paranois. I think if you're sleeping with your 268 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: muff or vaselly in your ears, you know your muffs. 269 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: Idn't thought about that, so you all right? And number 270 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: four finally is um, your ear wax is gonna trap 271 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: some dead skin and hair cells and basically all of 272 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: that junk to carry it back out to keep it clean. 273 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: So it sounds sort of counterintuitive to trap that stuff, 274 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: but it's trapping it so it can carry it out. 275 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: And if you didn't have the ear wax, it would 276 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: just go in there, right, And if you chew things 277 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: like celery and you talk, then that your wax is 278 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: going to work its way out in a slow process 279 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: where all this stuff is cleaned out and you don't 280 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: ever have to do anything with it under ideal circumstances. 281 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: Not always are circumstances ideal. And we'll talk about how 282 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: things can go wrong after this, Okay, chuck. So ideally 283 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: you don't have to ever think about ear wax or 284 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: anything like they except to brush it off your shoulder. Right. 285 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: But um, for some people, ear wax can build up 286 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: and become impacted a lot of times it's because people 287 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: mess with it, like with cotton swabs on a stick. 288 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: You know, you may have seen the advertisement the Big Game. 289 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: You're just called cotton swabs, right yeah, okay, Um, so 290 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: when uh if you use that, a lot of people 291 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: use those to clear out their ear wax, right Yeah, 292 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: you're not supposed to know it's doing the exact opposite, 293 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: because your ear wax is um created and moves from 294 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: the outside third of your inner ear um. When you 295 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: rub a cotton swab on it, you're actually pushing it 296 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: in further than it's supposed to be, and it it 297 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: can't get out is easily there. So what you're going 298 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 1: to do eventually is have ear wax build up. Yeah, 299 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: And it's it's so hard to get people to not 300 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: do that because it's so um rewarding. When you get 301 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: out of the shower and you use that swab and 302 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: you get that orange kunk and you're like, oh man, 303 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that's out of my body. But it's 304 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: it's got a purpose. Leave it there. You're supposed to 305 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: leave it there. Plus there's I mean, using cotton swabs 306 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: can lead to other kinds of dangers, like you can 307 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: push too hard and prefer your ear drums. You're I 308 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: think it really is true. You're not supposed to put 309 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: anything larger than the end of a football in your 310 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: ear um. You can all so clean it too much. Yeah, 311 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: it can result in something called swimmer's ear. We're basically 312 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: for people who spend a lot of time in the pool. 313 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: Their ears are constantly irrigated and the canal becomes basically 314 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 1: free of um of ear wax, and as a result, 315 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: bad things can happen. Yeah, And they say, if you 316 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: do have swimmers ear, um, put a few drops of 317 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: an acidic slightly acidic, not acid like hydrochloric. Let's put 318 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: a gallondrome, a hydrocord. What is a slightly acidic fluid? 319 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: I wonder, Uh, mayby lemon juice. That's what I would guess, 320 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: That's probably what I would do. I hope we're not 321 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: advising something that's really nat As a matter of fact, 322 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 1: maybe you should go look up what you should put 323 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: in there or go to your doctor. Yes, but they 324 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: advise some slightly acidic fluid in the ear after you swim, 325 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: and that established re establishes what should be a normal 326 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: acidic environment. Yeah, because you when you strip out that 327 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: ear wax, you lose those big four benefits and all 328 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: of a sudden, your ear is dry and cracky, and 329 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: you've got fungus and bacteria growing in there, and you 330 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: get ear infections and it's not fun. The big four um. 331 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: You and back to creating a build up of ear wax, 332 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: you get what's called ceramon impaction. And that is when 333 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: like you have a bunch of ear wax pressed against 334 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: your ear drum and it can result in all sorts 335 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: of stuff like headaches, nausea, ear aches, coughing for some reason. Um. 336 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: And that can be from using Q tips. People who 337 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: use hearing aids run into this a lot. Uh. And 338 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: when your ceramon becomes impacted, you have to go to 339 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: the doctor. That's right. Which my sweet wife had to 340 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 1: go to the doctor when she was a little girl 341 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: because ear wax impaction. Yeah, and uh she said it sucked. Well, 342 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: when you go to the doctor if it comes to that, Um, 343 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: they're gonna have quite a few techniques they could use. Um, 344 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: ear syringing is one of them, and then comes painful. 345 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: It does. I don't think it is, though. I bet 346 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: it's actually quite a relief. Yeah, that's not how I 347 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: hear it. Really is it painful? Yeah? Umi says it 348 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: really is not fun. Well I didn't know if that 349 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: was like a five year old Umi or well yeah, yeah, 350 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 1: but even as an adult she remembers it as not 351 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: being very fun. Is Paddington, Umi, Maybe that's why she 352 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 1: had such a reaction. Um, they'll use other instruments. Sometimes 353 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: you'll use a microphone or I'm sorry, a microscope would 354 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: be weird. To magnify the ear canal, they shout into 355 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: it to shatter your ear wax. Um, and some people 356 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: have a more narrow ear canal. Or if you have 357 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: a perforated ear drum or something that can be a problem. Um, 358 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: basically you want to go to a doctor. You could 359 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: try some home methods like peroxide or maybe mineral oil. Yeah, 360 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: apparently warm mineral oil kind of breaks it up a 361 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I used to. That's one of my 362 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: most pleasing memories as a kid, when I had ear aches. 363 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: As my mom would like heat up mineral oil and 364 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: put in my arrows. But that was nice, really nice. 365 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: It's very warm and when for some reason, I like 366 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: the feeling of water closing my ear, like when I 367 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: get into a pool. Oh yeah, but probably because of that, 368 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: yeah maybe, so I didn't think about that. Do you 369 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: like that or is it what I just you just 370 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: like crawling into the field. Why is chuck just floating 371 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: in the pool like the baby? Um? I know, I've 372 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: never had much of an affinity for water in my 373 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: ears because some people hate it. I don't hate it. 374 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: I don't like it, and like, you know, I'll bang 375 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,919 Speaker 1: on the side of my head if it feels like 376 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: there's like a drop of water in there. Does that work? Uh? 377 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,719 Speaker 1: It can not always? I think normally the water just 378 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: has to dry right. Sometimes I get dizzy in my head. 379 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: I used to see when I lifeguarded. I would see 380 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: swim team members do that, though, and I was always like, 381 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if that just doesn't seem right. Once 382 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 1: in a while it does and it just goes and 383 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you can hear normally again. Interesting. 384 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: I didn't see the reason for this though, But they 385 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: did UM in this one article I saw have caution 386 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: people against ear irrigation if you had diabetes. What? Yeah, why, 387 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: I have no idea. I meant to follow up on that. 388 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: So we don't know what drugs cause an increase in 389 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 1: ear wax build up, and we don't know why if 390 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 1: you have diabetes you shouldn't do your canal irrigation. I 391 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: don't know. They said not to use irrigation if you 392 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: have a perforated ear drum, get that tube in the 393 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: ear drum a weekend immune system or diabetes. Huh. I 394 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: have no idea. I don't have to follow up on 395 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: social media and let people know UM. But they do 396 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: say if you do want to clean your ear, it's 397 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: not like you can't clean your ears, but just wash 398 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: your external ear with a cloth. But you should never 399 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: stick something into your ear canal Right, it's just good. 400 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: But it's interesting that the cotton swab businesses huge. I mean, 401 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: they've made a if you think about it, they made 402 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: I don't want to say it's they shouldn't be selling 403 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: these things now, I know what you mean, though, you know. Yeah, 404 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: apparently that I couldn't find out how much UM people 405 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 1: spend on cotton swabs every year or how many are produced. 406 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: We couldn't find out that either, But for two thousand 407 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: and eleven, apparently Americans spent sixty three million dollars on 408 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: ear cleaning stuff, home ear cleaning stuff, and I imagine 409 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: a lot of that went to cotton swabs, but also 410 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: like home irrigation kits and stuff like that. Yeah, because 411 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: you can get those at the drug store, right, and 412 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: those are fine, I guess, Yeah, I don't know. I mean, 413 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: everything is upside down right now. Well, no, I think 414 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: the irrigation is fine if you don't fall into one 415 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: of those categories that I mentioned, because you're not sticking 416 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: an object in your ear that and then if you 417 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: don't do it too frequently to where you're stripping the 418 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: ear wax out of your ear, because it's not like 419 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: that thing just replenishes overnight. Guys, I know, and you know, 420 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: I used the cotton swabs, not a lot, but occasionally. 421 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna do it anymore. But it is, 422 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: like I said, it's it feels so good to get 423 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: a big hunk of that stuff out. Yeah, I've never 424 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: been into those. Yeah, I'm not gonna do it anymore. 425 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell the only two. I'm gonna burn all 426 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: that stuff. All I do is I take some soap 427 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: and lather at my hands, do the outside of my ears, 428 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: and then, like I guess, I just kind of follow 429 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 1: the contours the inside of my ears. And I'm trying 430 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: to remember, like do I go into my ear canals? 431 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: And I think I intuitively stop with your fingers, Yeah, 432 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: at about the outside, so I don't really go into 433 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: the ear canal. And then rinse it out and get 434 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: off and get out of the shower. And then now I, um, 435 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: I moisturized my ears afterward, is the last step. That's great. Um. 436 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: The other thing too, that they, of course, you should 437 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: never ever do like cotton swabs is one thing, but 438 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: like a car key or bobby pin or like a toothpick, 439 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? I don't know that you 440 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: should never ever stick something like that in your ear, 441 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: because you're just asking for trouble, big trouble. Um. All right, Well, 442 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: after this break, we are going to talk about ear candling. 443 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: All right, So, Chuck, you teased everybody with ear candling. 444 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: Why don't you tell everyone with that is it's hokem okay, 445 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: describe the HOKEM well ear candling, and a lot of 446 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: people don't know this. I think. I think a lot 447 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: of folks say, like, oh my gosh, it's the best 448 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: thing ever. Um. It is also known as auricular candling 449 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: or coning, and it is a procedure when you put 450 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: a cone shaped um waxy cone shaped device in the 451 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: ear canal um and it's got usually a plate underneath 452 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: it between the cone in your ear, and you light 453 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 1: it on fire air. And supposedly what it does is 454 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: that you stick the thing in your ear and then 455 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: light it on fire. Yeah. Supposedly, what it does is 456 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: it creates a vacuum to pull out um impurities, right 457 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 1: because the flame supposedly needs oxygen while the flame definitely 458 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: needs oxygen to burn, and it's getting its oxygen by 459 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: sucking it out of the ear canal through the cone, 460 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: hence creating a vacuum. And as it does, like you said, 461 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: it sucks out impurities and ear wax and supposedly also 462 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: clears your sinuses, UM, clears the the plaque out of 463 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: your um dendrites and all sorts of stuff like that. Yeah. 464 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: This one article by Lisa Roe uh Rosen, m D. 465 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: Said that she went to and this was in the nineties, 466 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: but she went to a Discovery expo in Atlanta and 467 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: said that they had ear candlers there and one of 468 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: the exhibitions and the lady said that ran the booth 469 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: quote it cleans the whole head, brains and all they're 470 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: all connected. You know is that quote in there? Oh? Yeah, 471 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: end quote? Um, And of course it was in Atlanta. 472 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh great, Although that doesn't necessarily mean that 473 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 1: could be anyway, but um, there is. There are a 474 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: lot of people that think, you know, it's um, it's 475 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: a cleanse for your ear, and it does connect to 476 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: your brain, and it clears your head and it's a 477 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: spiritual thing and that you know. They don't know where 478 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: exactly it came from, but uh, China and ancient Tibet 479 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: and yeah, pre Columbian South America, Atlantis. Yeah, they all 480 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: are cited as places where it might have happened. Yeah, 481 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: no one has any idea where this stuff originated. Could 482 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: have been created in the US and the seventies for 483 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: all anybody knows. Should we read some of the things 484 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 1: that supposedly helps, Yeah, we should probably also say if 485 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: you haven't been able to tell by now, um science 486 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: is thoroughly debunked. Ear candling, that's right, um. And this 487 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: is from that article. There's something that Dr Rosen and 488 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: some of our colleagues got together and kind of step 489 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: by step took down the idea. Yeah, there's a list 490 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: of like forty things. We won't go to them all, 491 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: but release vertigo, clears the eyes, purifies the blood, UM, 492 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: aids sinusitis, relieves ear aches, opens and aligns your chakra, 493 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: releases blocked energy, reduces stress, intention stabilizes your emotions. Um. 494 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: It does none of that because it is it is 495 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: just been proven to be an outright not only fraud 496 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: but dangerous right. So, and here's why so. Um. The 497 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: first one is that you can't pass liquids and gases 498 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: through an ear drum that isn't perforated or ruptured. UM. 499 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: So it's not sucking anything out of your inner ear, 500 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: or your um lymph system, or your sinuses or your brain. 501 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: That's where your ears pop when you're in a plane. Right, 502 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: If if you could pass air through there, that wouldn't happen. 503 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: There would be no atmospheric pressure going on. Right. So 504 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: that means that thinking an ear candle in your outer 505 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: ear is not going to suck anything out because it 506 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: can't pass through. That's that's point one, right, that's point one. 507 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: Point two is oxygen. Uh, well, it will create that 508 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: vacuum and and suck out the impurities. Yeah, and that 509 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: is just not true. Yeah, apparently and tested it and yeah, 510 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: doing trials of ear candles, they weren't able to um 511 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: create a vacuum in any of them. So there's no 512 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: vacuum created, that's right. Uh, there's also the idea that 513 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: if a vacuum were created, it would suck impurities out. 514 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: Apparently after ear candling some of these at least one 515 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 1: of the same trials studied the stuff the residue that 516 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: was found afterwards, like I guess in the stump of 517 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: the ear candle. Well, yeah, and that's what people point 518 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: to because there's all this gunk and they're like, look 519 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: at all this stuff that came out of my ear. 520 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: Oh my god. Right, So what it turns out to 521 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: be is ash from the ear candle and left over 522 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: wax him that you're candled, but not just the ear candle, 523 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: not ear wax, just the candle residue. Yeah, Like they 524 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: tested the substance. It is not cerebum in any former fashion. Uh. 525 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: The what about the idea that it's safe and effective. 526 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: I think we took care of the effective part, but 527 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: the safe thing, apparently there's a lot of injuries you 528 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: can get from it. Um that you can be burned 529 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: is one thing. Um, you can perforate your ear drum, 530 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: you can get infections. Um, you can get built up 531 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: of the candle wax to replace whatever wax you think 532 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: you're getting out. Yeah, it could have the reverse effect exactly. 533 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: And then um, one woman actually died from a fire 534 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,959 Speaker 1: that was caused two thousand five from ear candling. I 535 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: looked it up. She was doing it, I guess, by 536 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: herself on her bed and the ear candle fell out 537 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: of her ear and caught her bed sheets on fire. 538 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: And she made it out of her house fine, but 539 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: she was asthmatic and had an asthmatic reaction to the 540 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: smoke and died. How that happened that fast, I don't know. 541 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: I guess she had some bunch of bed sheets or something, right, 542 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: they were made out of like some flammable material. Um. 543 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: There is uh a company I won't name the company, 544 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: but one company that made it. And if you it 545 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: came with a seventy five page manual and a thirty 546 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: minute videotape. I guess this is a while ago. It 547 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: was a video tape and candles and plate guards and 548 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: flame retardant cloths and oil and an uh otoscope. And 549 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: if you read the flyer with this kit, it says, quote, 550 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: it supplies you with everything you need for a safe 551 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: and effective session of entertainment. Right for entertainment purposes only. Yeah, 552 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: because apparently I think it says that Canada regulates those things. 553 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: Are the US does those medical devices if they make 554 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: any health claims? Yeah, I think they're illegal in Canada outright. Um, 555 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: or at least they were. I'm not sure they still are, 556 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: but um, yeah, the f d A won't even I mean, 557 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: you can't make any kind of claim on the box 558 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: if you if you get an ear candle at your 559 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: little health food store, just read it carefully. They can't 560 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: make any claims for entertainment purposes because it's a hoot 561 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: to put a candle in your ear and light it 562 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: on fire. There was one other thing I came across 563 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: in the articles you sent me, um, And I don't 564 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: know if it's true, but it sounds fantastic that if 565 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: if you could create a vacuum with an ear candle, 566 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: the negative pressure created by the vacuum would rupture your 567 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: ear drum, right, which sounds pretty awesome. Yeah. I don't 568 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: know if it's true. It wasn't backed up with a 569 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: source or anything like that. I couldn't find it anywhere else, 570 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: but it's pretty hilarious. Yeah, so don't ear candle people. 571 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: And if you write in and say no, you should 572 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: see the stuff that comes out. It is not your 573 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: ear wax. You should put that stuff beneath the gas 574 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: chromatograph and see what you said. I mean, it's proven. 575 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: This is like what was we talked about recently the 576 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: drop circles. Oh man, we got heat from that. To 577 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: people like, no, it's not proven. What was it. I 578 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: think it was that o Glowa's crop circles. When we're like, no, 579 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: they've proven that. These guys came out and said we 580 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: made it up. No, I know what they were saying though, 581 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: Like it it's just like we were talking about with ESPs. 582 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: Because you can disprove right, right, some of it doesn't 583 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: mean that disproves all of it. Except with crop circles. 584 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: We should come up with the stuff. You should know 585 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: a T shirt. Friends, don't let friends at your candle. 586 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: That's a good Yeah. Yeah, I just love your ear wax. Yeah. 587 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: Let it fall out on your shoulder and let someone 588 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: point it out and you say that's nature baby. Yeah, 589 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: it's because I eat celery. Uh. If you want to 590 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: know more about ear wax, you can type the word 591 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: into the search bar at how stuff works dot com. 592 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: I think we have it done as one word maybe. 593 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, uh and uh, I said search bar, which 594 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: means it's time for listening to mail. I'm gonna call 595 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: this ice cream follow up. We got a lot of 596 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: good stuff on ice cream. People really like that at 597 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: so Hey, guys, I'm a student at the University of 598 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: Minnesota Twin Cities. Started listening to your podcast just this 599 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: week and I'm officially hooked. I am listening to your 600 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,320 Speaker 1: podcast on ice cream. It's really interesting because I've worked 601 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: in an ice cream parlor for the last five summers. 602 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: Wilson's opened in nineteen o six and is still going 603 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 1: strong today, one of the most famous restaurants in Wisconsin. Uh. 604 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: There are definitely different types of vanilla ice cream. We 605 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: use two types, French or deluxe vanilla and purple vanilla. 606 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: The label on this other vanilla is purple. We use 607 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: purple vanilla for shakes and malts because it's less rich 608 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: allows for the flavor of the shaker malt to be 609 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: more distinguished. You saw French vanilla and ice cream cone 610 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 1: Sundays and floats, and you mentioned having root beer floats. 611 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: Reminded me of an interesting thing that I've noticed. People 612 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: often get offended when they order a black cow and 613 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: we have to ask them what it is. That's because 614 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,879 Speaker 1: almost everyone has a different idea of what a black 615 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,240 Speaker 1: cow consists of. Some say that it's a root beer float. 616 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: Some say that it's a root beer flow with chocolate 617 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: ice cream. Some say it's a coke float, some say 618 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: it's a blended root beer float, etcetera, etcetera. Somehow they 619 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 1: all got labeled as black cow. Thanks for giving me 620 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: more ice cream knowledge. I'll actually be able to answer 621 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: customers now when they ask what the difference between ice 622 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,360 Speaker 1: cream and frozen yogurt is. And that is from Andrea 623 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 1: Nelson and she says, ps. Those nasty cheap cones with 624 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: the flat bottoms are known as cake cones. Yeah, I 625 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 1: saw that afterwards, don't order them ever there. I mean, 626 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: if you had Jason's Delhi and that's all they got. 627 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: Oh they have the free ice cream, right huh yeah, 628 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 1: And that's how it was. Like the day that we 629 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: recorded ice cream and I couldn't remember the name of 630 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: the cone. I think I ended up going that night 631 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 1: and there was cake cone. I was like, yes, cake cone. 632 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 1: Somebody else called it a wafer cone, but I think 633 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: that's just wrong. I see where that would come from, 634 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: because it's wafer esque. Yeah, I mean it makes sense, 635 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: but I've never seen it called that before, and that's 636 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: too close to waffle right, you know, right, it makes 637 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: people confused. So thanks to Andrea Nelson for that one. 638 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,399 Speaker 1: It thanks Andrea. If you want to get in touch 639 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: with us to say hi, or to tell us about 640 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: ice cream or anything like that, you can tweet to 641 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,879 Speaker 1: us at s y s K podcast. 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