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Speaker 1: I've got crones disease and you're gonna hear in today's
Speaker 1: episode just how.
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Speaker 1: It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh with Me,
Speaker 1: a podcast of Jeremyoda.
Speaker 2: Mi'm you, ow Jo.
Speaker 1: It's good to be back for episode number eighty four.
Speaker 1: We are on the March to one hundred. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get there far sooner than later, I can. I can
Speaker 1: promise you that, right, Johnny, Yeah, baby? You know, if
Speaker 1: Johnny's excited, I'm excited. If if you heard the top
Speaker 1: of the of the episode here talking about the cronzyclitis
Speaker 1: walk on June twenty first, I also said in there,
Speaker 1: in that little little minute long spiel about the walk,
Speaker 1: that I was going to tell you how exactly it
Speaker 1: is that I got crones disease, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you the science behind it. And it's shocking. It
Speaker 1: is shocking. Now, how did I get to this conclusion
Speaker 1: that I should discuss this today, Well, I saw a tweet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet. The tweet was it's a picture
Speaker 1: of a television. It said, you may be old, but
Speaker 1: are you this old? And it's one of those giant TVs,
Speaker 1: you know, like they used to have, like a in
Speaker 1: the nineties early two thousands, where it's like the base
Speaker 1: of it. It's one of those giant box TVs. Okay,
Speaker 1: but it has the base and it sits what a
Speaker 1: couple feet off the ground and then it's a big
Speaker 1: giant screen right, heavy as hell this TV.
Speaker 2: Okay, But the.
Speaker 1: Tweet had said this television was a symbol of extreme
Speaker 1: wealth back in the day, and yeah, that was probably
Speaker 1: true until until flat screens came about. Then you could
Speaker 1: you could pick up one of those. You could get
Speaker 1: one of those TVs and you were on the hook
Speaker 1: for move that some bitch.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I saw that tweet and it brought back, It brought
Speaker 1: back some memories, hurtful memories. See, my brother Kyle got
Speaker 1: one of those TVs and then he moved out, got
Speaker 1: a place of his own right. He lived on the
Speaker 1: third floor, which was great because then you could have
Speaker 1: like the vaulted ceiling. That was always a touch that
Speaker 1: if you lived in an apartment you could get the
Speaker 1: vaulted ceiling. It just kind of added to the space.
Speaker 1: You know, it didn't add to your square footage, but
Speaker 1: it did add to where it felt better. It felt
Speaker 1: like you had, you know, a big apartment. I have
Speaker 1: a ranch style house now and I've got the higher
Speaker 1: ceilings and it just it does.
Speaker 2: It just makes it.
Speaker 1: Feel like you've got like a larger like living space.
Speaker 1: And he had that first place. Out he goes, he's
Speaker 1: got this vaulted ceiling. Right, it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Third floor, except for he gets this big ass TV.
Speaker 1: And of course, you know you're gonna need to help
Speaker 1: carrying this monstrosity up three flights of stairs.
Speaker 2: Now here's here was my dilemma.
Speaker 1: He's got this TV. Awesome and at that point, all right,
Speaker 1: you got this giant TV. That's cool, like you, It's
Speaker 1: not like it is today where you go and you
Speaker 1: can buy a sixty inch for pennies on the dollar, right,
Speaker 1: and you can carry it yourself out of the store,
Speaker 1: throw it in the car, carry it inside the house
Speaker 1: like I do that. It wasn't like that back then
Speaker 1: for the younger listeners. It was a process.
Speaker 2: You probably needed somebody with a truck. You had to
Speaker 2: load it up on the truck. It was easily.
Speaker 1: I mean two people could carry it. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be easy. He was going to be a
Speaker 1: three to four person gig. But here was my dilemma
Speaker 1: with this. I wanted to help him. I was a
Speaker 1: young guy, strong as a bull.
Speaker 2: I could carry shit. Right. Here was the dilemmas. When
Speaker 2: I moved out, he refused to help me.
Speaker 1: He refused to help me move any of my stuff
Speaker 1: in the apartment. Now, I don't know why we never
Speaker 1: discussed this. He was probably just young, immature. Maybe I
Speaker 1: said something that offended him. Who knows, Right, he was
Speaker 1: in high school then, I think he was in high
Speaker 1: school then, had to have been in high school. But
Speaker 1: here I am big brother to the rescue. You're going
Speaker 1: to carry this big ass TV. So we carry the TV.
Speaker 1: And if I remember correct and it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: three flights of stairs with turns right to go up.
Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, this thing had to have been
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds. Two hundred pounds TV up these stairs,
Speaker 1: and it's awkward, and it's that like hard plastic, so
Speaker 1: it's like digging into your hands.
Speaker 2: I didn't wear gloves. I wasn't that smart. I carried up.
Speaker 2: No big deal. Right.
Speaker 1: Then it was like a year later he moved again.
Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, this is when he moved into
Speaker 1: his house. So then it was all right, we got
Speaker 1: to carry this downstairs three flights of stairs, then get
Speaker 1: it to his house and then carry it into the house,
Speaker 1: and I distinctly remember helping with that as well.
Speaker 2: Was I'm very happy about what I did.
Speaker 1: And then eventually he got rid of that TV because
Speaker 1: he moved on he got flat screens and I refused
Speaker 1: to help carry the TV out at that point. But
Speaker 1: my point to all this is when I saw this tweet,
Speaker 1: it reminded me of how I got Chrohn's disease.
Speaker 2: And I believe to this day.
Speaker 1: That the strain of carrying that TV.
Speaker 2: Put on my body.
Speaker 1: Twice within a year's time span, caused me to have
Speaker 1: chrones put the strain in my colon, which then spread
Speaker 1: into my intestines.
Speaker 2: And caused the issue that I have today.
Speaker 1: Now you might be thinking, Jeremy, well, that's just not possible.
Speaker 1: That is not how science works. And that's where I'd
Speaker 1: say you're wrong, because it cast it's always caused and effect.
Speaker 1: One thing happens, which then causes one another thing, which
Speaker 1: then causes anohing.
Speaker 2: It'd be like, oh, he's got heart disease.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the stress at work that caused the heart attack,
Speaker 1: of knowing it was the stress at work that then
Speaker 1: made the heart attack happen. It's always one thing after another. Now,
Speaker 1: I was a perfectly healthy person going into carrying that
Speaker 1: big ass TV. The strain from carrying that man and
Speaker 1: it's not even that, it's not even I had to
Speaker 1: use everything within me because the hard plastic on your hands.
Speaker 1: Two hundred pounds carrying hard sharp plastic, okay, two hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: no gloves, you're holding it, You're trying to hold it,
Speaker 1: You're trying to maneuver. It's awkward, right, I'm using everything.
Speaker 1: It's not just arms, it's not just legs.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I was using full core coaling to help carry that
Speaker 1: TV up and down those stairs twice within a year.
Speaker 1: I'm not a guy that moves like. I'm not like
Speaker 1: a mover like. I don't move stuff every weekend for people. Right,
Speaker 1: I'll move stuff here and there, especially when you're younger
Speaker 1: and you're helping your friends and family move, you know,
Speaker 1: from time to time, or even yourself. You're moving what
Speaker 1: once twice maybe in a year's time. That was put
Speaker 1: a lot, put a lot on your boy's body.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that much.
Speaker 1: And I have come to the conclusion that that is,
Speaker 1: in fact, how I've got Cron's disease now. How can
Speaker 1: we reverse it? Well, we're still trying to figure that out. Okay,
Speaker 1: currently currently revoke is the uh is what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do. I don't know if I need to go
Speaker 1: through some if because if if the strain of lifting
Speaker 1: the heavy ass two point fifty one hundred pound plastic
Speaker 1: TV caused it, would water therapy help something a little
Speaker 1: more relaxing, something to kind of help the body. I
Speaker 1: don't know, haven't tried it, not sure if I even
Speaker 1: want to try it. Johnny, is this making much sense
Speaker 1: to you? Because if you run really, really hard, right
Speaker 1: and you're not accustomed to running, and you just go
Speaker 1: on a dead sprint for a whole mile and you
Speaker 1: can't breathe and it triggers something that you pass out,
Speaker 1: it was because the all I know is if you
Speaker 1: help us out. June twenty first, the Omaha Takes Steps Walk. Okay,
Speaker 1: we are currently eleven weeks five days away, So when
Speaker 1: this episode comes out, we're eleven weeks five days away
Speaker 1: from the Omaha Takes Steps Walk. It's the largest and
Speaker 1: most impactful fundraising event that the Crones of Clydes Foundation does,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know what you can help your boy
Speaker 1: find a cure for this disease that was caused by
Speaker 1: carrying a big ass TV.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a warning to you. Then.
Speaker 1: Actually, it's a beautiful thing. What the TV industry did,
Speaker 1: electronics industry of making smaller.
Speaker 2: Less heavy TVs. It probably saved many lives.
Speaker 1: I've bet there's more people that don't have crones disease
Speaker 1: today than ever did before because they're not carrying these
Speaker 1: heavy like electronics.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: All right, So as I was telling you, I've got
Speaker 1: Croms disease from lifting TVs.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing that I don't know.
Speaker 1: You get older, you start to and this is this
Speaker 1: is kind of a lot of warning, but just something
Speaker 1: if you're younger, something you might you're gonna expect. Okay, speaking,
Speaker 1: I'm speaking out of experience. Now you're gonna get nose hair,
Speaker 1: lots of it. Okay, I've got so much nose hair
Speaker 1: coming in. I always had nose hair, but never quite
Speaker 1: like this. Like it's coming in hot and heavy now,
Speaker 1: and it's sticking out of my nostrils. And then I
Speaker 1: think I always have something in my nose, and then
Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting alergies, I'm getting sick, I'm getting cold,
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 2: Sneezing, and uh, it's just now becoming more of a thing.
Speaker 1: So here's what I was doing a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: as I was doing those hot wax sticks, you know
Speaker 1: where you stick up your nostrils and then you let
Speaker 1: it sit, let the mold sit and then harden, and
Speaker 1: then you yank them out and it pulls out all
Speaker 1: the hair.
Speaker 2: And that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: The feeling after it is just incredible. You can breathe again, right.
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering because I also read that the hair
Speaker 1: is a good thing because it fights off bacterias and
Speaker 1: germs and stuff. I don't know if that's true or not,
Speaker 1: but what I do know is I can breathe. Also,
Speaker 1: the hair tends to come in fuller after the fact.
Speaker 1: So I'm at this kind of unique spot now where
Speaker 1: I really want to do the hot wax sticks. I
Speaker 1: might even do it today, ah, because it's really starting
Speaker 1: to bother me.
Speaker 2: You know. It's long.
Speaker 1: It's like at that point where I'm like shoving it
Speaker 1: back in because the hairs are sticking out. I'm shoving
Speaker 1: the hairs back up there, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's what you're supposed to do. And then
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll pull I'll yank them out, right, I'll just
Speaker 1: yank them out. But then I sneeze so freaking hard.
Speaker 1: And I'm a hard sneezer anyway, I don't you guys
Speaker 1: like I've seen people that are like one sneeze at
Speaker 1: a time. I'm like a two, three, even a four
Speaker 1: from time to time sneeze guy. And they're they're like
Speaker 1: they'll bring me down on my knees like it's a
Speaker 1: it's a hard sneeze. Like when I sneeze, it's like
Speaker 1: I'm the quarterback and I'm doing a hard count trying
Speaker 1: to get the defense to jump. That's me when I'm sneezing.
Speaker 1: It's fourth and two and I'm just trying to get
Speaker 1: the defense to jump, get the penalty, get the first down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's me when I sneeze, and then if I hold
Speaker 1: in the sneeze, it really hurts my head. So I
Speaker 1: wonder if lifting that big ass TV of Kyle's is
Speaker 1: what caused me to have Chromb's disease and holding in
Speaker 1: these big ass.
Speaker 2: Sneezes is what causes the migraines. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: not a doctor.
Speaker 1: Fuck anyway, I got this long ass nose air and
Speaker 1: the lords like, I don't want to keep shoving it
Speaker 1: up there, especially if it gets longer. It's just gonna
Speaker 1: become a problem because then if they happen to fall
Speaker 1: out of my nostril, then it's like, what is that?
Speaker 1: It looks like noodles falling out of your nose all
Speaker 1: the time, and I don't have time for noodles. I
Speaker 1: do enjoy spaghetti, spaghetti, some meat balls.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of that. I just don't need
Speaker 2: it flying out of my nose.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of hey. Man, this is forty one, right,
Speaker 1: this is where I'm at. So all the younger folks
Speaker 1: listening to this show, get ready. Take care of your stuff, man,
Speaker 1: take care of your shit before because you get some
Speaker 1: weird stuff.
Speaker 2: Happening as you get older.
Speaker 1: You think, oh, yeah, yeah, I know, you'll start to
Speaker 1: slow down, your knees will start popping, creaking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all those things. All of that is true.
Speaker 1: You're also gonna have long ass nose hairs that you
Speaker 1: could decide whether to braid or not, or you can
Speaker 1: just do the hot wax sticks and yank them out
Speaker 1: all together. I think that I'm leaning that way. I'm
Speaker 1: leaning that way because if I can't cure the Crohn's disease,
Speaker 1: I might as well fix my long ass nose hair
Speaker 1: problem at least for the time being. And you know,
Speaker 1: and you're some of you guys are going to get
Speaker 1: long ass like all this ear hair too. I I
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of that. I do get one
Speaker 1: or two I get like one strand I'm not not
Speaker 1: like one or two patches.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I get one or two strands of the and long
Speaker 1: ear hair and it's just flapping in the wind.
Speaker 2: I do yank that because that's weird.
Speaker 1: And the eyebrows too, and they're starting to come in
Speaker 1: different colors, like yeah, I red hair. It's it's starting
Speaker 1: in my chin. It's starting to be white, and in
Speaker 1: my eyebrows it is starting to be white or black.
Speaker 2: Now. The black I can only assume is related to
Speaker 2: the Crones disease. But the white makes a whole heck.
Speaker 1: Of a lot of sense because my hair won't gray.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna go white someday. And they say it
Speaker 1: starts in your chin, So here I am. I'm well
Speaker 1: on my way down forty one years old in eighty
Speaker 1: fourth episode of flaugh with Me, and I'm finally getting
Speaker 1: that white hair up in my chin, so you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take care of the nose problem before before
Speaker 1: it's white in there. And then people are like, what
Speaker 1: do you got in your nose?
Speaker 2: Brother? Like just the Crones disease. Bob Bob Bob
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