Glauc Talk: Which Of My Characters Should Join OnlyFans?
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Knock Knock High with the Glockenfleckens. I am Dr. Glockenflecken, also known as Will Flannery. I am Lady Glockenflecken, also known as Kristen Flannery. Welcome to an episode of Glock Talk. I come to you with a fresh haircut, for those of you who might be watching on YouTube. It looks very nice. Thank you. Every time before I get a haircut, I get as many neurology...

episodes skits filmed as I can. So you got to take advantage. I did one about the basal ganglia tool, man, just real, real tall, real tall hair. And I paid, guess how much I paid for my haircut? $50.

No. Oh, God. No. My haircut costs $30 and then I always leave a big tip. There's a heck of a pink tax on haircuts. Okay. That's not necessarily. I think it's where you go. No, I used to go to that place.

Well, you have more hair and you have different things. Yes, that's true. So like your average hair appointment, how much do you pay? I don't want to tell you that. I have an idea because one time I couldn't, for some reason, I couldn't get into my, the usual place I go. So I went to your place and I have never paid more money for a crappier haircut.

Yeah, they didn't do so great with you, but look, my lady. Shout out to Olivia.

She does a good job. We won't say where you get it, but you're happy with yours. Mine, this is the first time I was actually mad about a haircut. And it wasn't because the haircut sucked, because whatever. I've had bad haircuts before. My hair grows so quickly. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's just something you can use in a skit. You guys have seen me on the internet. You know I don't really care that much about what my hair looks like. All right. But...

It was the cost. I paid like it was over $100. Yeah, that is ridiculous for the haircut that you get. Oh, come on. Yeah, that is pretty ridiculous. It's something that I could probably do myself. It also depends on the level of experience of the person, what the price is. I think $30 is fair in this economy. I think it is wild.

I am. I would have guessed 50 that I can get a haircut for 30 bucks that anybody can anymore. Like everything has increased so much. I don't go to a barbershop, but it's like they charge me barbershop levels, which I really appreciate. I really appreciate that. You know what? Every time you get your haircut like that, though, like short again, I just look at you and you look like the little boy in your baseball photos. Like that's the only time I can see how you look.

like you did when you were a kid you know like most of the time i don't see any resemblance to that little boy but when you get your hair cut like that it's like oh there he is i do i look i look a lot younger yeah that tells me that my hairline is not receding too much yet i still got i still got i'm still looking good there yeah most of your hair loss is in the back all right so we're let's you know and i actually made this joke to my hairdresser um

Because I said, you know, at least when my hair loss, I'm getting a little bald spot in the back where you typically see a bald spot. Yeah. But because I'm tall. Yeah. No, people don't see it. It's awesome. I'd much rather be there than right here in the front. Yeah. You know, so which I am losing a little bit there, too. But anyway, I'm almost 40. That's what happens, right? Sure. And, you know, your body's been through a lot. Will you still love me when I'm bald? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I'm not going to even probe for the but that comes after that. All right. No, I will, obviously. All right. So another thing, this is coming out early May. We're through tax season. As of recording this, we've received our bad news about how much we have to pay. And it made me think of something. Mm-hmm.

Which of my characters would probably do best on OnlyFans?

What does that have to do with taxes? It could, like, make a little extra money to pay off the tax bill. Oh. But then you've got to pay taxes on that. It's true. I'm just thinking. Like, I'm trying to think outside the box. Okay, so, like, maybe you'll open an OnlyFans account to help with our tax bill. Well, like, yeah. So you'll be a character. Like, in a pinch. Yeah. You know? Like, you've got some cash flow issues. I need to make a quick buck. Uh-huh. I can't think of a better thing to do than put Jonathan in OnlyFans. I mean...

That's got to be the one. It's got to be the one. Honestly. I think a lot of people would pay some money for Jonathan. What would Jonathan have to do?

How explicit do you want me to be? Jeez, where are you going? I could see him still wearing the shirt. Uh-huh, of course. Fully closed. Maybe just assisting other doctors in doing the OnlyFans work? No, it can't be that. No? No, I feel like it's got to be Jonathan doing the work. Okay.

He doesn't say much, so that's nice. But Jonathan is like, I think he's asexual.

Right. Well, who knows if he's even actually human? He might not be. We don't know. Exactly. Let's see. I think ortho would probably be pretty popular. Oh, yeah. Sure. Neurologist? Not so much. No. No. Sorry, neurologist. Internal medicine, they wouldn't be able to come to a decision on what they wanted to do quickly enough. Right. The opportunity would pass them by. Exactly. Who else? Emergency. Emergency medicine. He might do well.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, it gets the heart rate up. I think emergency medicine would appreciate that. All right. This is a family show. That's right. I think we need to move on. You brought it up. You're right. I'm so sorry, everyone. But I do want some feedback from you. But it's a real question. Please, let me know.

I mean, not that I'll ever, I'll actually do it unless we really, um, I don't know, maybe next year the tax bill will be even higher. I would say the only time I could consider doing this is it would be a last resort thing. Um, and it would be if like, uh, we are financially devastated by medical bills.

Sure. Then maybe the pediatrician will... The pediatrician? No, no, no, no, no. No, worst, worst. I don't like this. Okay. All right. Pathologist with the microscope. That's fine. That's fine. Okay. Did some things with the microscope. Anyway. Okay. Enough. Enough of that. I'm so sorry, everyone. It is like 10 in the morning. Yes, it is. It is. But we're feeling good. We're doing good. All right. I have...

We were looking at the survey results. Yeah. Thank you to everybody that filled that out. People filled out the survey. A lot of great responses. Yep. We got a lot of good ideas. And what is clear to people is they like funny stories. So I have a story for you. Okay. Now, I want everyone to keep in mind when you hear this story,

I was 18 years old. Okay. And maybe even 17. I can't, I was, I was definitely still in high school. All right. When this, when this happened, um,

And it's just even funnier now that I became an ophthalmologist. It is. It really is. But I do not condone my actions. Nope. But it is a part of my life. It happened. You are owning it. And I'm owning this. All right. I feel like you need a preemptive apology to the community that you may offend. Well, let's just do it first and we'll see how much hate mail I get. All right.

So I grew up in the Houston area and there was this kind of a ritzy part of town called the Montrose area of Houston. A lot of wealthy people live in that area, a lot of high end shops and stuff like that.

And there was this store in the Montrose area that sold glass sculptures, glass artwork. It's just everything was glass. Very, very expensive stuff. And a big store, but it's all like really breakable things. And the people in the store were...

They're quite mean in terms of. Were they mean or were you someone that needed some attention? No, they were. Let's say they were very attentive to the customers. Yes. To the point because part of it was because they were afraid of people breaking their stuff. Right.

Which I guess makes sense. You're running a business. You don't want someone to break it. The entire store is breakable. The entire store is breakable. And they even had signs around the store that said, touch with your eyes only. And they don't want you to even touch it. And then people would follow you around the store.

Like kind of in a distance, but they were, they're always watching you. That's the point. And so it was like, kind of like this, you know, big brother type feeling. You just didn't feel comfortable being in there. And so, um, it's not a place where you go to browse. Yeah. And so I was, I was with my mom, um, you know, well, we're doing something in that area of town and, um, came across the store and we decided to, to play a bit of a prank where, uh, I pretended to be a blind person.

And we, the idea was that we would just go in the store to browse. And so I had the sunglasses on and, um, and I walked, I had my hand on my mom's shoulder and we walked in and,

The look on those employees' faces when we walked in. Oh, boy. And as... It's like everybody... They were all just... They created this protective circle around us. Like, please. Like, oh, my God. Please don't let this...

Blind person. I guess I was very convincing because they, they, it was your first run at acting. It was. And, uh, um, at one point, uh, I would, I like, as we were going around the store, I'd ask my mom, Oh, can I, can I, can I hold, can I, can I touch it? And then my mom would say, no, there are signs that say touch with your eyes only. And I'd be like, mom, that is the only thing I can't touch with. Oh my God.

So bad. And then the last thing was, so the second floor of this store was all like rugs and like fabrics. Mm-hmm.

So all the breakable stuff was the whole bottom floor. Seems like they got that backwards. You know, it's just if I were the manager, I would do that differently. Oh, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. What if the, I don't know. Anyway, that's a tangent. And then, and at one point I did ask, I was like, well, what's on the second floor? And then three of the sales associates came. Oh, you can go up there. That's absolutely. If you want to go, if you want to look up there, I will show you the way.

Anyway, that's pretty much it. Oh, boy. So don't get mad at me. I...

But it is a fun story that we. And anybody that is familiar with Ma Gluckenflecken from social media is not surprised by her involvement either. Yeah, exactly. This is where you got it. She was totally into it. So anyway, that's my, the first and only time I will pretend to be a visually impaired. Well, you have another story about visually impaired shenanigans.

I don't think I was pretending to be blind any other time. You did not. And no one was pretending. But when you worked in the textbooks warehouse... Okay, I know which story you're talking about. So...

In high school, I did not pretend to be blind in this one. But I did the summer job where we would label textbooks and move textbooks. I was on the textbook crew for the school district. So we'd throw away old textbooks and bring in...

pallets of new textbooks, going through all the different schools and labeling them. It's really a pretty boring job. It was so much fun because we didn't have a lot of oversight. It was just like a group of high school kids. We were all like really good friends. And it was just, it was, we had our own little crew. We got, we had our own broken down like truck that we would, you know, just do whatever we wanted. There was very little working involved. There was not a lot of working involved. But one of our, one of our

One of our crew, this really great guy is a big guy. He's like six foot five. Just a, he could have been a football player, but he had a retinoblastoma as a kid. And so he was like 95% blind. Like just light. You can see like lights and shadows and things.

And he would, but he was physically very imposing. Yes. And he loved to play practical jokes on us. So often we'd be working and doing a lot of work within these giant book closets where there were no windows. And every so often. Let's call your friend Johnny, shall we? He doesn't even need a name. Because of the game. Sure. So Johnny, every now and then, would play a joke on us. All right.

We would be working in this windowless textbook closet, like six of us. How big is this closet? It's big enough for all of us to feel like we had plenty of room. Okay. And then all of a sudden the lights would go out. And we knew that we were playing Johnny in the Dark.

That's right. And this was Johnny. This is our blind friend would turn off the lights. And like we were on his terms now. Yes, exactly. And the whole goal, we had to stop what we were doing. And the whole idea, the goal was to not let Johnny get you. Yes. It was very scary because...

Because he's a massive dude and he could beat up any of us. And so that was. Oh, my goodness. So it's Johnny in the dark. Yeah. That was the game. So much fun. Oh, man. And then you became an ophthalmologist. And then I became an ophthalmologist. All right. Let's take a break.

Hey, Kristen. Yeah. I've been, you know, grossing you out about these Demodex mites, although I'm not sure why they look like adorable. Well, these are cute, but it's the real ones that kind of freak me out a little bit. Yeah, but I have some new facts to share with you about Demodex. Oh, great. All right. These mites have likely lived with us for millions of years. Oh.

Yeah. Does that make you feel better? No. Like they're passed down through close contact, especially between mothers and babies. Oh, wow. Such a special gift for our daughters. They're born, they live, they crawl around, and then they die on your eyelids and in your lash follicles. Their entire life cycle lasts about two to three weeks, all spent on your eyelids. Well, thank you for that. This isn't helping, is it? No. How do I get rid of them? Well, it's...

It's fun to gross you out, but we do have all of these. It's really common, but there is a prescription I drop to help with these now. Okay. That probably excites you. That makes me feel better. Any way to get rid of them, right? That's right. All right. Sign me up. Visit Mites Love Lids to learn more about demodex blepharitis, which is the disease that these little guys cause. Sure. Again, that's M-I-T-E-S Lids.

L-O-V-E-L-I-D-S dot com to learn more about Demodex and Demodex blepharitis and how you can get rid of it. All right, we are back. I have some healthcare news. Okay. Another bit of feedback from folks in our little survey was some people do not want to be reminded about how terrible healthcare is. This is true. This is true.

They see enough of it at work and they would like to just be entertained. Which is understandable. Yeah, I get it. Sometimes you just want to listen to our voices and forget about the world for a second, which is great. I love that people are listening to us for that reason. But sometimes we do have to just talk about these things. Sure, there's a lot going on. But I have one that's not too...

This is coming from a new ProPublica article that people should check out. I love their investigative reporting because they're like, yeah, it's kind of like

negative in that they're pointing out some of the terrible things that these health insurance companies are doing. But this was, I'm just going to talk about this one little part of this article. So everybody should go to ProPublica. It's right there on the front page. Well, probably not by the time they're listening. I forgot what the title of the article is, but it just came out like in end of or middle of April. So, all right.

This was in part of the story was talking about Blue Cross and how they were found liable for fraud. This is Blue Cross in Baton Rouge in Louisiana. And basically the issue was that Blue Cross was approving.

These like breast cancer surgeries, like reconstructive surgeries, breast removal surgeries. They were approving him for this particular center that was like world-renowned center, but then just like not paying for the surgeries. That is some shady stuff. Right. So they got sued for fraud. Sure. And just, and I think this, within the past few months,

The center...

was awarded $421 million. Wow. So they won against Blue Cross. Nice. One of the largest verdicts ever in a single medical practice outside of like a class action lawsuit. And here's what Blue Cross said about it. It said, we disagree with the jury's decision, which we believe was wrong on the facts and the law. We have filed an appeal and expect it to be successful. Well, I expect it not to be successful. Yeah, I don't know how that works.

From 2015 through 2023, the Baton Rouge-based insurer paid on average less than 9% of the charges billed by the breast center for more than 7,800 individual medical procedures, even though it had authorized all of them.

7,800 medical procedures that they authorized, they paid 9%. Yeah. But they expect that appeal to be successful. Yeah, right? Like, of course you're going to be sued for fraud. And man, the worst thing for a health insurance company has got to be a jury trial.

for anything. Yeah. I don't know how you find an impartial jury in this entire. Anybody who's impartial to something like that. Maybe they're like 18 and haven't had to use the healthcare system yet. But here's, here's a great thing. Even, you know, better kind of more depressing part of this is that on several occasions, blue cross executives had signed special one-time deals with

with the center known as Single Case Agreements to pay for their wives' cancer treatment. Oh, the executives' wives? The executives authorized and paid for their wives. Probably 100%. Yeah, yeah. That's gross. I mean, I am...

Leaving their wives out of it. Sure, yeah. These women that have cancer. That is not... That is sad. Yeah, I think... But the tactics here are less than desirable. It's nice to know... I love stories where, like, you know, either financially or some other way...

The health insurance companies, you know, get their comeuppance. Yeah. You've always loved an underdog story. I love it. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm just realizing this. I think your whole, well, not entirely, but a lot of your, your,

you know, obsession maybe with the healthcare insurance industry has to do with that of like, they're just too big, too powerful, doing too many gross things. Well, also that makes good content. Sure. I have an underdog and make it a part of it's the whole punching up. Right. So you got also just the personal experience. You got the little guy, you know, but one thing,

And another part of doing this, constantly talking about health insurance, because I've heard from certain people on social media be like, it's not just the health insurance companies. Like, well, yeah, there's lots of problems in health care. But what really irritates me is when people equate that with physicians and health insurance. Like, it's the physician's fault, too. Like, we are pawns in the game of health care. Right.

I don't feel like comments like that have the full story. Like, the nuance is lost if you're making that direct comparison. Well, then it's also like, oh, well, what about this ophthalmologist who was convicted of Medicare fraud? Yeah, like one person. Okay, yeah. That is bad, sure. There's bad people in every profession. All right, but like... But this entire industry is rotten. You gotta be...

I don't know, a paid consultant for UnitedHealthcare. If you're going to sit there and try to literally equate physicians to... Maybe they have planted people in your social media comments. Again, if I was the manager, I might suggest that. You think that's a possibility? Oh, God. Maybe. Who knows? What kind of time? I mean, they won't come after me legally. Right. They can't. That would be...

That'd be a tough day if that ever happens. Yes, it would. If they try to like sue me. Yeah. Well, I mean, as long as you keep doing what you're doing, you're protected by, you know, the satire laws. What would we do? Let's say like tomorrow, like UnitedHealthcare sends me a cease and desist. I think you would probably post it on the internet is what I think you would do. Make a skit about it. I would, I would probably, we'd probably talk to a lawyer first. Sure.

I don't want to go to jail. Right. But then again, who would convict me? True. And then, yeah, I'd post it all over social media. Yeah. Like that would, that would not go well for them. That's true. And maybe that's part of why they leave you alone. I kind of want them to. No, don't say that. I do not want that. It would be a tremendous amount of stress. Yeah. But I mean, a little bit of excitement in our lives. Oh, your life maybe. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. That would be so stressful. Um, I don't think, I can't think of anybody else who would, who would try to sue me. I mean, private equity is probably not happy with me, but they don't care. Private equity doesn't care. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if I came after like a specific, let's not give anyone any ideas though. Who listener, who do you think should sue me right now? Oh boy. Is it time for a break? Maybe the general surgeons. No, I don't know. No. Um,

It's anyway, 421 million Blue Cross had to pay for committing fraud. And it's not like this is like the government's like they're looking into this because apparently like several of the insurance companies are over billing their Medicare Advantage plans. Right. Sucks. Got a big problem here. I'm going to Australia soon. And I can't wait to.

To hear all the Australians come up to me and be like, what is happening over there? Every time I've been twice before. Yeah. I have a lot of conversations with people like, can you explain this to me? Yeah. What are you doing? Why is this happening? I don't know. It's a common thing. Yeah. All right. Should we take one more break? All right, please.

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R-A-V-I-T-Z dot com slash knock knock to get more information on life insurance for physicians. Okay, we're back and I've got a little special medical education treat for you. Okay. Because we just finished, we just wrapped up Testicular Cancer Awareness Month. Yes. April. That's right. In case you didn't know, I have had two times

Two primary. Two primary testicular cancers. Which?

Which is unrelated to each other. Which ask any urologist. It's very rare. It made me feel good the day I found that out. Yeah, that was fun. Be like a urologist who'd been practicing for 40 years. It was like, uh, I've been, I've never seen anybody like you. Great. Yeah. That's awesome. I had a, fortunately they were all very easily, easy to treat. So I had them early. I had a stage one, a seminoma. And then I had a stage one B seminoma.

For the second one, because that was my only testicle that I had left, I actually went back and forth a little bit with the urologist on like, okay, do we do like a partial orchiectomy or do we just lop out the whole thing? And...

But there was a possibility that we'd have to go back and take out the rest of it. I guess I didn't even know you could do a partial. Yeah. And just take out a little piece of it. That was news to us. And I was like, you know what, let's not mess with this. I could, you can, other than like, you know, having more kids, which we weren't going to do, you know, you can replace everything that the testicle makes. Yeah. I, you know, that's kind of a funny story too. Each of our kids cost you a testicle.

We had a kid, and then about a year later, you lost a testicle. And then we had a second kid, and about a year after that, you lost a second testicle. It is their fault. There you go. It is their fault. It's a good thing we only wanted two, though. Yeah, so that's fine. That's okay. And we got a dog, too, so that's kind of like a half a kid. So anyway, I thought what we could do in honor of testicular cancer awareness method, I could tell you what spermatogenesis is. Oh, boy.

Or just like where all this stuff comes from in the testicle, like the physiology of it. Okay. Are you interested in this? For the sake of this podcast, sure.

All right. All right. So I'll just take you through the pathway here. So your hypothalamus in your brain. In your brain. All right. This is more interesting to you. In the middle. The middle, the very center of it. It releases this hormone called gonadotropin-releasing hormone, GnRH. That goes to your anterior pituitary. It's like a separate set of testicles in your brain. Okay. Okay.

That's what it always looks like to me. Whenever you draw out the pituitary. Yeah. When it's bilateral. Yeah. We have the posterior pituitary, the anterior pituitary. This looks like a couple of testicles. So brain testicles and doing well. So the G and R H goes to the anterior pituitary and that releases, um,

LH? Mm-hmm. Luteinizing hormone. Luteinizing hormone. Oh, my God. I was like, I blanked on what that hormone was called. Luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone. Yes, FSH. So LH and FSH. So the LH, that's what goes to the ladig cells inside the testicle. All right? Mm-hmm.

And that's where all the testosterone production occurs. So you're making all the testosterone. The factory. That's the testosterone making factory. The FSH goes to spermatogenesis. Okay. All right. And that begins at puberty. That's when you start making those sperm. It takes about two months to make a sperm.

One single sperm, two months. Yeah. I mean, you're making like a lot at the same at the time. But like each one, it takes two months to assemble. Yeah. Wow. That makes me wonder how quickly could you run out of sperm? I don't think you do. Can you? Well, if it takes two months, you would think that eventually you'd be. But every single day.

Right. You're making more. But if you. So two months ago. If you use up a lot of your sperm real quickly. But two months ago and a day. Yeah. You started making the ones. Yeah. For today. Gotcha. So then tomorrow, two months ago. But what if over the course of a day, you're just. You're just out. That's. Now we're back to OnlyFans.

Just can't get away from it. So this occurs, the spermatogenesis process occurs in seminiferous tubules. You heard of those things? I have. I know all about testicles now. You've learned a lot. And, um,

How about the sperm itself? What about it? Do you know the anatomy of the sperm, of a sperm, of a single sperm? Well, it's got a head and a tail. It has the acrosome. The acrosome, which is the head, and there's the nucleus inside of it, the nuclear material. Genetic material. The genetic material. And then it has a neck. Sperm has a neck. Okay. Okay.

And then there's a middle part that's just called middle part. Are you serious? I'm reading from a textbook right now. Middle piece. Middle piece. Not much better, but middle piece. There's a middle piece. Okay. And then you got the tail. That's the swim. That's how it swims. Yeah. That's it. A middle piece. A middle piece. The sperm middle piece. Well, okay. What does the middle piece do? No one knows. It's just in the middle. It's a medical mystery. Nobody knows.

I mean, maybe our listeners know what the middle piece of the sperm does. Yeah. So, okay. So the testosterone gets made in the what now? In the latic cells. Latic cells. That's right. Yeah. The latic cells. And I wish there was some way that you could like stem cells or something. You could make more latic cells to just insert somewhere. Here's a fun fact, though. Testosterone production is unaffected by temperature.

Okay. So in case anybody's wondering, I'm reading from USMLE Step 1 First Aid. 2025. All right. This is not an ad for this. No. I literally bought this so that I could like for content ideas, which by the way, people are loving the random education I'm doing on my skits. But there's only like two things that tells you about the function of Leydig cells. It makes testosterone and that testosterone production is unaffected by temperature. Okay.

It's the sperm that are affected by temperature, right? You can go to Svalbard. Sure. One of my favorite creators on TikTok from Svalbard. Really? Yeah. Yeah, she's great. She's awesome. She just show you Svalbard? So she talks about like living in, it's like the very tip top of Norway, I think, or Sweden. Somewhere up there. One of those like very isolated. Isn't it an island? Yeah.

Svalbard's an island. Yeah. Yeah. So very, it's like in the Arctic. Yeah. And it's just like, I can't imagine living there. But anyway, it's good to know that the men of Svalbard can still make testosterone because it doesn't matter how cold their testicles get. That's true. It'll still produce testosterone. I think for testicular cancer awareness month, perhaps, I mean, a belated awareness month at this point, but

I was surprised by all the different things that testosterone does. Like when you first got cancer, I was like, well, you know, whatever. No big deal. They have Viagra. Right. But then I learned about all the things that testosterone is involved with for a male.

And it's pretty devastating not to have it like physically, emotionally. I don't know, in lots of different ways. And I feel like, you know, you've had the two cancers and a cardiac arrest. And the thing that I feel like has affected us most, or at least me, I guess I can't speak for the rest of the family, but.

It's a tie between the cardiac arrest and the loss of testosterone and like the struggles with hormone replacement therapy and like all the implications and things that happened because of that. Like both of those things have been equally difficult and disruptive. So I don't know. I just that I didn't know before our experiences. I had no idea that that was such a big deal.

And interestingly, this book, which is supposed, it's supposed, it's a, it's based on a medical licensing exam. So like everything you need to know to get your medical license to become a doctor.

Doesn't have a lot on testosterone function. Yeah, see? This is why maybe nobody thinks about this. It's actually kind of interesting. Like it talks about, you know, testosterone is involved in like your growth spurt, deepening your voice. It helps, it closes your epithelial plates. Yeah. Yeah, those are the two times I hear about is like in puberty and then just for sexual functioning. Exactly. Like libido. But I don't see anything about like, you know,

Bone health? The effect that it would have on your marriage. Yeah.

There's nothing in here about that. First aid. You need to talk about how your wife might get annoyed with you. Oh, you're making me out to be a villain here. It's totally fair because I'm very cranky. There's no crankiness index. Yeah, there's no discussion of the mood changes. I feel like that you could have a graph.

Yeah. With like levels of testosterone. Maybe we should make that graph. Crankiness. We should, we should put this content into the world and, and give it to. I keep saying first aid. It needs to be funnier. I got, it's like, what are we doing here? It's part of the reason why I'm, I'm trying to help. So anyway. All right. Any other thoughts on testosterone or sperm?

I think we covered a lot. I think that, yeah, we're good. We're good? Yeah. I'm loving the testosterone replacement. Do you, yeah, now you've stumbled across, not stumbled across, but now you have found something that's working. I get the pellets. It took seven years. I get the pellets. The pellets are great. The pellets are great. I mean, they look awful to get. I've never actually seen it because I am ass up, face down. I know. I saw it once and I was scarred for life. Yeah?

I guess you're numb, so you can't feel it. Oh, I can kind of feel it pushing stuff into me. Yeah, pressure. Yeah. But yeah, it's not pretty. It looks so painful. Me too.

Me and my urologist, we have a naked conversation. Every what month? Just chatting it up. We just talk about the goings on with healthcare. Talk about my videos. She's watching the content. Well, that's a little awkward. I'm used to it by now. I cannot see it. It's kind of like women going to the gynecologist. You just get used to it. I went to take our daughter to the pediatrician yesterday and

I could tell the pediatrician recognized me, like kind of a double take when I walked in or whenever she walked in, but didn't say anything. Because it's usually me that's taking them. But this time we had a weekend appointment. Yeah. So you were able to do it. And so I don't care, though. People can. The only the weird one, which was actually inappropriate, is when I had a doctor come

um who was not my doctor but a partner of my doctor who walked into my exam room just because they wanted to meet me yeah that's not cool can't do that that's that's you're still a patient not appropriate i'm still a patient still got a little bit of a little whiff of a hip violation right there um it was like like i saw you on the schedule like oh great all right well you're not my doctor thanks for the thanks for following see you later um

All right. Yeah, that's it. That's a wrap on testicular cancer awareness month. Although we didn't talk about like self-exams and stuff like that, but I definitely do those. Yeah. You know, no one knows your testicles better than you, honestly. Like you know everything about them. You're down there anyway. If there's something weird going on with your testicles, like go see a doctor. That's, that's, that's the bottom line. That really is like, go. Well, tell people what it felt like so they know what they're looking for.

Oh, well, I mean, the normal testicle is kind of oblong and it should be relatively smooth. You have like an epididymis, which is like a kind of a soft thing that's attached to the back of your testicle. But if there's anything, any hard nodules or any like it's like misshapen and all of a sudden you have like feels like another testicle growing out of your testicle like that.

Yeah. It's not normal. Then go get that checked out. So, yeah. And how big was it? Just like little tiny, right? It wasn't big. Almost like a, like a small wart or something. But you can feel it. I had to convince myself that it was really there. Like it took like a few days, like every day I was like, feel as like, what is that? Is that normal? Like easy, very easy to explain it away in my mind. Like, Oh, I'm sure that's just a normal thing.

But eventually I convinced myself, okay, this is not supposed to be there. I don't feel the same thing on the other side. So I'm going to go in. And if you think it might be anything, just go get it checked. Like better safe than sorry. If it's, if it's something different, then just go get it checked.

All right. Well, let us know what you thought of this episode. If you have any topics you want us to discuss. I don't know what May. Oh, I did. I looked this up. May is like skin cancer awareness month. All right. So maybe in one of our episodes, we can talk a little bit about melanoma. Okay. In the eye. Is that going to be a knock-knock eye? Oh, maybe it should be. It should be. I think maybe I've talked about it before, but I can always redo it. That's good.

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I mean, as good as you can be. I don't think it's ever like super effective. Yeah. And a lot of physicians are being asked to multitask. Yeah. All the time. It's true. You're on the computer. You're typing away. You're looking at labs. You're trying to listen to the patient. You're doing all these things. That's just, it's not effective. Yeah. But it can help though, you know? What?

Microsoft Dragon Copilot. That can help. Yes, absolutely. This is your AI assistant for workflow and documentation. It helps automate tasks. You can summarize notes and evidence, prep your orders. It can draft referral letters. That's pretty cool. Yeah. And with after-visit summaries as well. You get an after-visit summary. I do. I always read them too. Yeah. I'm a very good student.

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