Glauc Talk: Real Bone or Fake Bone? Ortho Bro Decides!
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a wonderful group of medical staff. These are my favorite speaking engagements. Like I like the, the keynotes of the, like the big conferences. Yeah. Like those are fun, but this was like,

a wellness event that they were billing as a comedy night. Right. Where you're just entertainment. Yeah. That's all I have to worry about. I just have to entertain. I don't have to like submit, uh, educational learning objectives and, and things. And most importantly, there was a nice cocktail hour before the show. That always helps. It was evening time. Uh,

you know, we're in a good mood. A lot of times keynotes are like seven 38 at 8 AM. And it's, it's not caffeinated yet. They're not quite caffeinated enough. And, uh, and, and then I have to try to like make them laugh. And so it's, it's a little bit of a challenge. You do it though. I've seen it. It happens. It does happen. Uh,

But I have a couple of things. One, I was curious about you because you also give talks. What what is your in this situation where there's maybe like a little bit of drinking that can happen beforehand? Yeah. Do you how do you operate in front of an audience after you've had a drink or two? Do you think that helps you or hurts you? Let's be clear. We are not drinking before our talks. Well, that's what I'm asking you.

Like just hypothetically. Well, because like in the, in the comedy world, you know, I, I've been to a lot of comedy shows, a lot of, uh, comedy clubs. Yeah. And it's not unusual for the comedian to even go on stage with a drink. Sure. A comedian. I'm not, I'm not going on in the capacity of a comedian. So for me, it's a little bit different, but, um,

So in the keynotes, also at 7 a.m., I have not had a cocktail prior to that. Well, no, no, not that. But like for our live show, I do like to have one glass of wine exactly right before because that's just enough to take off the edge of any like stage fright or, you know, getting in your head about things. And it makes me really like one glass of wine is the perfect amount of I'm just like, I am not impaired, but I'm just happy.

So it helps, like it just relaxes me. It takes the anxiety down. See, I am very, it would be very easy for me to have like drinks before I go on stage, but I don't. I choose not to. Right. I don't know why. I think it just, like I feel like it affects my comedic timing a little bit. Probably, yeah. But then other comedians are not like that at all. So I don't know. And then, so like this one, right after I got off stage, during the meet and greet, I just had people bringing me drinks. Yeah.

Well, listen, has it ever occurred to you that other comedians are functional alcoholics? So maybe that's not the metric to measure yourself against. There's a good amount of functional alcoholism going on. But also, it's not as straight-laced and can be a little bit more buttoned down. It was a great event. Did a little Q&A afterwards. Yeah. And I had an interesting question that I want to hear your answer to as well. Okay.

So, uh, one of the, it was, uh, a lot of like very serious questions, some fun questions, but this one. Why did you have serious questions at an, at an entertainment event? Well, part of what I, I, I do, I do talk about the healthcare system in a funny way during my talk. And so it does bring up some like questions about, you know, like, uh,

what the hell can we do to like actually make this thing better? Yeah. Um, which is not the most happy go lucky conversation to have, but, but the last question was, would you encourage your child to go into medicine? We get this a lot. And, um,

Up until like a couple of years ago, I would say, like, I would say, yeah, yeah, it's great. It's a great field. You know, it's very rewarding to practice medicine. I'm not so sure anymore. Yeah. I don't know. What are your thoughts? If let's say our oldest was like, Ooh, I want to, I think I want to go to medical school. First of all, that one would never, but probably not. That is not in the cards for her, but yeah,

I think that they would have to really like not be able to do anything else and be happy. Yeah. If that was the case, then I would I would say go ahead with my blessing. But if there was anything else that they can do to earn a living, a decent living and still be happy, that is not medicine. I would definitely encourage them to go that way.

And one of the I mean, I just bring it down for a second. But like when I was doing CPR on you, I remembered thinking, why did we do all that? Because now I was like, honestly, in your head. Yeah, because because what was happening is like our life together was sort of flashing before my eyes as I was just thinking about us as, you know, college students. It was 10 minutes.

So I was thinking if I could do it again, knowing that, you know, if this is how it ends, I would not do that again. I would not want us to do medical training again. Like, just enjoy your life. But, I mean, that is a very dramatic example. Not everyone tries to die in their 30s. Here's where I've settled on this. Similar to you, if she is like...

absolutely dead set. Like, I know this is what I want to do. Yeah. I'm going to support whatever it is. But here's, here's what I'm going to, uh, what I'm going to recommend. I want her to, um, go through a prior authorization process first before she makes that decision. Uh, we could set it up. Obviously she doesn't have any like medical, you know, training or anything, but even if it's like, um, it,

like she wants to, if there's something she wants to do, like she wants to go on a, like she's like 18 and wants to go on a trip with her friends. Yeah. Just to like get prior authorization for that. And I get to put her through the prior authorization, get a peer to peer review. Uh, she'll get it a denial. Who would, who would the peer be? Because it's never actually a peer. So who would you hire as the peer? Uh,

It would probably be her younger sister. Okay. Yeah. And so she'd get a denial. Of course. Of course. And she'd have to figure out how to appeal that denial. There would be a step-by-step process or how to make that work. There'd be a lot of time on hold. Yes. And by the way, she also, while doing that, will have a list of other tasks she has to complete while doing

Right. She's having to do this. She's having to do her homework or something. Yeah, exactly. While she's doing that. Yeah, like have like a test for her to do while she's having to figure this out. Right.

And then during that, she's getting negative reviews from other people in her life. So anyway, I think that's fair. Oh, don't forget that there's a time crunch, too. She's got 15 other people waiting for her attention. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And they're complaining to the staff. Yep. And I think that's fair.

I think it's reasonable, right? Yeah. If she can do that for a week straight. Yeah. And if she's like, I still want to be a doctor, then hey. More power to you. Yeah, absolutely. We'll do what we can. We'll try to get the tuition covered and just really just let her go all in. Yeah. As long as she becomes an ophthalmologist. There it is. That's the catch. Yeah.

I mean, she can do other things, but that's the only way I think I would try to influence her. Yeah, like what kind of doctor to be? She can go to med school, but I will use my incredible amount of bias toward eyeballs. Yes.

Would it be just eyeballs or would it be work-life balance? Because that was actually the deciding factor for you when you were making the decision is work-life balance. And then of the ones that offer work-life balance, which one did you like best? Well, I think it needs to be something that has a rich comedic tapestry. Okay. Eyeballs are clearly it then. Oh, there's so much you could do with eyeballs. Not urology?

Urology is a good one. I would probably be okay with urology. Yeah. Yeah. Urology, radiology would be good. There's comedy in radiology? I think you could find. I'm not good at it because I haven't spent a lot of time in radiology, but it, you know. You know what? You know what you need to do? What? You need to shadow some people.

For content research. Shadow. Go as a 40-year-old practicing ophthalmologist, go shadow a radiologist. You do. Oh, my God. If anybody out there wants him to come and shadow you, send an email to knockknockhigh. Well, we could do that for some of these specialties that I haven't covered. I could shadow like a plastic surgeon. Right.

Because that's the reason when you don't cover things, it's just because you don't have any material. You don't have the foundational knowledge to be able to do it. Part of what I did at the show in Chicago was at the beginning, I was just like trying to figure out who the audience was. So I was like shouting out the different specialties and I'd make jokes about them. Right. And then one of them was an allergy specialist and I just had nothing. Uh-oh.

Which is funny in and of itself. Gesundheit. I was like, I got nothing. I got nothing for you. Best of luck to you in your endeavors. That's someone I need to be shadowing. Yeah. Try to figure out what the hell to do with an allergist. Right. So that's a good idea. Yeah. I'm never going to do it. Oh, you should. You could. People would let you do that. I'm sure people would let me. Yeah. But...

You could do one every Monday afternoon. The only way that it would work and it would be worth it is if I made that into content. Well, of course. I had like a film crew. That goes without saying. You always got to repurpose. You got to always be thinking that way. But that's more challenging too because then there's like patients involved and stuff and there's like protected health information. Yeah. Well, we could figure out how to do it in accordance with all that. We could figure it out.

We can figure that out. I mean, it could be more of like the behind the scenes stuff. Just you, not. Yeah. None of the patient interactions. Of course. Just like going through like the back end. Right. You trying to figure out the instruments they're using. Things like that. Or explain the pathophysiology of type four hypersensitivity reactions. Sure. Whatever that is. It's an allergy thing. Oh, okay.

I think it's a good idea. You're always telling me, stop trading time for money, sir. Well, this is an investment. Oh, it's an investment. Because... Making me work. Well, yeah. You are... I don't want to work.

You're the one that took on a whole second job with your free time. Oh, God. You're going to make me do all this. It would be good. It would be fun for you, first of all. It would be fun. You know it would. It probably would. And then you would have years and years of content to come from it and ideas, which also is fun for you. We live in an area that has lots of different medical specialists. We do.

So, you know. If you're in the Portland, Oregon metro area. Do not open this up. Reach out. No, for real. People usually ask me if they can shadow me. I've never had to reach out. What would you do if someone shadowed you? Don't you think they'd be disappointed? Like they're expecting Glock and Flecken. See, that's the problem. And then they would come see Dr. Flannery. That's the issue with all of this stuff we're talking about is like, in those people expect me to be on all the time. Yeah.

And like, I still got a job to do. I still got like 40 patients to see. I can't just be Mr. Funny Man. Right. And I think something, I mean, maybe people know this, but maybe not. A lot of comedians, you would think they'd be a happy good time to hang out with. Oh, they're very depressing. And they're very depressing and yeah, cynical. I'd say I'm cynical. I would say I'm not depressing in real life. Right. I'm just, I'm very. You're quiet. I'm quiet. Yeah. Yeah.

And I'm quiet until I start making the content. Like if I was, if I was like making content, doing the shadowing, then it'd be entertaining or when I'm on stage or something, I can be entertaining. But, but in my real life, like a thing that you do, it is not like who you are in real life all the time. I'm really like, I'm very stoic. Yeah. You call me stoic. Yes, I would.

Yes. Thanks. I think you have buried your emotions deep inside of you. Okay, let's stop at stoic and not go into some of the potential downsides of being stoic. All right. All right, let's take a break. Okay. Come back with some health news. Oh, boy.

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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.

Love Lids, L-O-V-E-L-I-D-S.com to learn more about Demodex and Demodex Blufferitis and how you can get rid of it. All right, some health news. Okay. I've actually got, you get to choose. Oh, I choose your own adventure health news. Because I was like, where, there's so many things. There are so, where do you even start? Exactly. All right, so here we go. We got Walgreens selling to private equity. Okay.

I'm a little surprised they hadn't already. $880 billion cuts to Medicaid. Oh, gosh. NIH grant funding freezes. Justice Department investigating UnitedHealthcare for Medicare billing fraud practices. Which direction you want to go? Well, and there's also USAID. That's healthcare news. Oh, USAID. Yeah, yeah. It's under the umbrella of all the funding cuts. Right. I would say the NIH thing...

Like not being in a, in a government setting, university setting where I'm relying on grants and things like, I feel like, I feel like I'm not getting the, the full picture of what is happening. Correct. Right. And that's frustrating. And we actually heard some feedback from people. Cause we've talked about this before. It was like a, you know, you're kind of not quite right. Understanding. Yeah. What the whole thing is because it's,

On social media, at least, you get people...

You see posts from people that are like, you know, had their admission to grad school rescinded. Yes. Or they just found out the grant that they were awarded is now being taken away from them. Right. And then you also see people talking about how, oh, this only affects indirect funds.

As if that's not a big deal. Right. I'm not sure if those people fully appreciate what indirect funds fund. Yeah. I mean, and I've heard before that like,

As a point of frustration from researchers that so much of a grant will go to the university to cover indirects. Right. But it may be the assumption is that, oh, if you're going to just cut, if you're going to cut indirects, then the university will shunt more of the money. Yeah. You know, to cover that lack of funding. And instead, that's not, doesn't seem to be happening. No. And what would they do to do that? They would increase tuition. Yeah.

Right, they'd have to do something to cover those costs. Yeah, because there's fewer and fewer state funds going to public universities. Right. So they have those three levers, right? Federal funding, state funding, tuition. And donations, I guess. There's also endowments. But I think that's like earmarked for a specific thing. Often, yeah. I don't know. I mean, just like most things, I'm sure it's a multifactorial thing. Yeah. But what I do know is that the government,

halting NIH funding. That's like kicked all of this off. And anecdotally, you know, talking to people that we know at public universities, like it's, it's scary. Yeah. Yeah. I think even people that even researchers who had, you know, complaints with how the indirect funds were, how much of the money was going to indirect funds. I think even those people would not say, so let's get rid of indirect funds or let's just, you know,

Really make these huge cuts to them because indirect funds are what allowed the labs to exist in the first place. They're like using all the electricity. Yes. The facilities. Facility fees. Right. All that stuff. So it's it's really pulling the rug out from under research. It's not skimming off the top. It's pulling the whole rug out.

because you have to have those things in order to do the research. So if there's not enough funding for those things, then you have to make cuts somewhere else. And regardless whether or not you're

a person on social media thinking, oh, this is great. It's because that's not money actually going to research. Well, it kind of is. Right. It is. Yeah. Indirectly. Indirectly. Yes. But still importantly. Regardless of what you think about the cuts, it is, it's affecting researchers and it's affecting like biomedical research, like important research. Right. And we're going to fall behind. I was thinking about too, like all these departments that are unable to have grad students next year. Yeah. Yeah.

That amount, the amount of progress and work that is not going to happen because there are

fewer grad students, it's enormous. Like grad students are the ones that make the research happen. You know, like the PIs are steering the ship, but the grad students are the ones that are actually like doing the work. So to not have them is going to put everything so far behind. A great example that we heard is with PCR. Yeah. Yeah.

And how PCR, which was a Nobel Prize winning discovery and has just changed the game in so many different ways in medicine and research. Yeah, what all do you do that for people who are not familiar? What is that? So polymerase chain reaction is amplifying DNA. So anything from like law enforcement with genetic cancer.

like DNA testing to be able to, yeah, forensics. And there's so many industries that being able to, to amplify the amount of DNA that you have, you know, with a gene therapy with, you know, diagnostics, therapeutic, like it's, it's got its hand in so many different things. PCR. Well, the reason PCR exists is because somebody got a grant from,

To go and just look for bacteria in the hot springs at Yellowstone. Really inhospitable locations. Yeah, and discover the bacteria that has TAC polymerase, which is something that's used in the process of CPR. Not PCR. We say CPR so often. I know. So it's just like, it's like people are not,

I mean, Elon is not... Let's call it who it is. Is thinking that like all of this innovation in technology and biomedicine just comes out of thin air. Like people just think of ways to make things better and innovate. But like there's a lot of basic science at the heart of all this innovation that's happening. It's a lot more stepwise and incremental than it looks when you have the finished product. It's just, I don't know.

It's a very myopic. Right, short-sighted is what I was going to say. I love it. I love it when you mention something about sightedness. It's so weird. Got to make it weird. Got to bring it back. So anyway, I love to know from people, though, because, again, I am not in that world. And so because I feel like we're not getting a lot of real information

life experiences from people who are being directly affected by this NIH spending freeze, whatever you want to call it. So reach out to us. Yeah, I would love to hear actual stories of what's going on in people's lives. Yeah, let's hear it. So knockknockhigh at human-content.com. You can also go to our YouTube channel, by the way, while we're talking about this. Yeah.

leave for knock knock I episodes. I look at all our comments on YouTube and so you can leave your story or some comment on this this episode. All our episodes are on at Glock and Fleckens. That's our podcast YouTube chain. So leave a comment there. Anything else to add? I just want to know

Like, why? Why does it have... Because the narrative that I'm hearing... Gotta balance that budget. Is, yeah, and is that, okay, yes, it's going to hurt for a little while, and then it will be better. But what I'm not hearing is, one, why does it have to be done in a way that hurts so dramatically? And two...

How do you propose it will be better? Like, what are you going to do instead? Maybe the government could just use mint.

I think that's defunct now. Oh, Mint is gone? Uh-huh. We used Mint once upon a time. Yeah, yeah. Really? In residency, that was how we... Did it get bought up by like... I don't know what happened. TurboTax or something? Well, they already were owned by Intuit, which owns TurboTax. Maybe a little budgeting software could help. What's the one for business expenses? QuickBooks? QuickBooks. Yeah, you think the government just needs to get some QuickBooks? The government needs to get some QuickBooks. Yeah.

Get everything in order. They could hire an executive assistant. Yeah. Look at you using all the words you hear me use. You did. You taught me all those words. I don't know what I'm talking about right now. It's not just NIH, right? No. I mentioned the $880 billion cuts to Medicaid. Mm-hmm. And...

It's just you've got people making these decisions that I don't think fully understand how interconnected our health care system is. Right. That's the part that makes me nervous about all of this. Like nobody wants inefficiency in anything. We're all on the same page about that. Nobody wants wasted money. Right. The disagreements are like, you know, what counts as wasted money and what to do about it. But.

I feel like it's not a good idea to have people who don't know anything about how any of this works. Right. So we're not really familiar with these industries to be the ones making the decisions about what gets cut. That doesn't make sense. So what's going to happen whenever we cut $800 billion for Medicaid? It's going to hurt poor and rural communities. Yes. You're not going to be able to seek medical care. Women. Yeah.

Exactly. It's going to hurt women. It's going to put more strain on our emergency departments because all of a sudden it's already hard to access primary care. Cutting that amount of money is going to make it even worse. Right. And put strain on different areas that not just poor people use, but... Everyone. Right.

And wealthy people use it too. And so it's just going to make it harder for everyone. And that's what I mean with how connected we are. It's not just like, oh, we're going to cut waste. And then it's going to be, well, so if you're wealthy and you want good, you know, you don't want to have to deal with all of this. Well, then there will be these private hospitals that you can go to. Yeah. So you can pay. Yeah. And then there will be a disparity. Yeah.

worse than there already is. Yeah, it's... And looking at the way other countries do it, particularly Australia, which I've talked about on the podcast before, how much I appreciate the way they do it. They have a public option, but it's well-funded. Yeah. So what makes you think that cutting that much is going to make things run better? Right. I just... I don't know. That doesn't make any sense. But let's... We can stop talking about depressing stuff now. I just want to know what the plan is

To move forward. QuickBooks, I'm telling you. Let's get it. Let's get it. We did it. We solved it. You're welcome, everyone. I bet the government could probably afford the highest level of QuickBooks. Probably. Yeah. Highest tier. The QuickBooks Pro. U.S. government edition. Yeah. QuickBooks government. Is that a thing? Whole government. QuickBooks Pro.

This is where you need to get into. Get into government handling. If you'd like to sponsor, knock, knock, hi. Yeah. If you want to get into the government economy part of society. It's a great time to be getting into that industry. Yeah. I'm telling you. Start with a smaller country and then move your way up to the United States of America. Oh, boy. Anyway. All right. No one should listen to us.

Okay, let's do a, let's see. It's time for a break. Maybe one more break and then we have a special guest. Okay. And we are back with a very special guest, OrthoBro.

Hi, Ortho Bro. What up, Lady Bro? You know, I'm really glad you're here. I'm a little bit starstruck. Yeah. Do you know why? Because I'm holding a femur? Well, no. But my husband... You know, you have two femurs yourself. I do. Hopefully only two.

Yeah. Does anyone ever have more than one femur? What would that be? A double femur would be awesome, first of all. But no, that does not exist yet. Okay. Okay. Well, anyway, people ask me a lot which of, you know, glockenfleck in general doctors.

Love working there. That I would, you know, who's my hall pass, essentially. Oh. Oh, my. I got to say, Ortho's probably my hall pass. Lady bro. Yeah. Did you know that? Oh, my goodness. Because you are kind. Thank you. And you seem like you would not be intelligent, but in fact, you are. I'm also, you know, super strong. Oh, yes. And you're super strong. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

For sure. How could I forget? I'm so sorry. You have such large muscles. It's amazing. Look at that bicep. Yep, absolutely. Well, thank you. I really appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome. Well, you are here today to talk about something in particular. I did. I brought something to discuss with you. Okay. What would you like to discuss? I am sick and tired of this. There's lots of things being said about Glockman Fleck and General Hospital and about the things that happened there. Okay.

I've been there a long time. And we need to discuss real bones versus fake bones. Oh, okay. Because there are some things I don't agree with. Okay. And they're really frustrating me. Okay, what are they? Bones are important. All right. The most important part of the human body. Sure. Arguably. But I don't think, I think it's not arguable. Okay. All right. Name one thing that's better than bones. Name one thing. Eyeballs?

No. No. That's not true. Okay. There are no bones in the eye. That's true. Try again. Okay. What's more important than a bone? A heart. A heart? You got to have your heart and you got to have your brain. But no. Okay. Okay. You're just wrong and I'm not going to explain why. Okay. I'm sorry. But we need to talk about what is a real bone and what's a fake bone. Okay. All right. Teeth.

Fake bones. Fake bones. Fake bones. They're not bones. They are what the ancient Romans called faux bones. Faux bones. Interesting. Faux bones. They're not real. They are like mineralized tissue, enamel. That's not a bone thing. That's tissue, you're saying. It's tissue. Yeah, but it's different. It's different than a real bone because a real bone...

can heal itself. That's what makes it amazing to have bones. Look at this bone I'm holding right here. Yeah. If I broke it in half, it'd heal. It would. It'll heal on its own. Even outside of a human body. Absolutely. Wow.

Probably. I don't know. There are studies, but they're, you know. Inconclusive. Well, they're not, you know, they're good studies. Anyway, we don't have to go into detail. But the teeth do not heal. Once you lose your teeth, they're gone. That's not a bone. All right. No. So teeth, fake bones. Real bones. But if you lose a bone, it's not gone? No, you'll grow a new bone. Okay. Okay.

The whole bone? Probably. Yeah. Okay. Stop asking questions like that. Look, I'm not in medicine. I don't know. All right. So here are the real bones. Okay. All right. Arm bones. Arm bones. All right. But they're not quite the best bone. The best bones are the leg bones. Because they're the biggest? They're the biggest. They're the strongest. All right. They've got a large cortical layer.

Lots of fun contours. Uh-huh. All right. So leg bones, arm bones, shoulder bones are real. Okay. Our shoulder bones are real. Hip bones. Anything that I can get my hands on. Yeah. And replace joint replacements and all that. Those are real bones. Okay. How do you feel about the spine? Spine a real bone. Okay. All right. It's it's they're like second tier bones. Okay.

It's a little smaller. Yeah, you know, they're just, there's, they're fine, but they're not leg bones. Leg bones are the gold standard. I have a question. Shoot. Are there ear bones? Okay. You're going to bring up ear bones already? Yeah. Listen, listen. Ear bones are, are,

They're not quite fake bones, but they're second class. They're poverty bones. They are second class bones. So on par with the spine? No, spine's better. Okay. Maybe third class. Have you seen how small ear bones are? They are very small. You can't X-fix an ear bone. Probably.

Probably not. You can't bore a hole through an ear bone and stick a rod in there. Yeah. What kind of a bone is that? You need some tiny instruments to get in there. No. And then if you're just using tiny instruments, you might as well be an eye doctor. Right. That sucks. That sucks. Ear bones are not real. All right. They're real, but they're barely real. Okay. Okay.

All right. Let's other bones that are on the same level, maybe a little bit better than ear bones or your kneecap. Hmm.

You really care about kneecap. It's like floating there on top of the leg. I don't know. I'm not real impressed. Okay. Also feet. Feet bones. No one likes the feet. What about finger bones? Fingers are, they're, they're decent. Like you can use those a lot. You use those to like lift heavy weights. So like there's something there. Feet, you don't really need feet. Okay. Well, but I have a question. I mean, you need feet, but they're, they're not as important. Without your feet bones, how would you do leg day?

Uh, your, your, um, tibia and femur can absorb a tremendous amount of weight. All right. They're not weight bearing. The feet are, are, they're just, they're kind of gross.

Yeah. And it's not as special. Okay. All right. So let's get to the rest of the bones. Okay. I'm sorry. I keep interrupting. It's okay. These are all fantastic questions. Like, can a bone grow back after you remove it? Those are reasonable questions that science is in the process of answering. Okay. Medicine bones. Oh. All right. So these are their bones, but not...

almost not even worth learning about. Okay. Like the skull. Uh-huh. You don't even repair skull fractures. Like you just kind of let it be, I think. And it repairs itself, as you said. Someone maybe does something with them. I don't know. Not me though. No, I'm too busy operating on the most important bones. Okay. Ribs. Ribs, yeah. You don't need ribs. No?

I mean, these are bones, medicine bones protect your organs. And so just by virtue of that, you know that the bones are more important than the organs.

Oh, okay. Because they can withstand the... They're protectors. Right. Yeah. Okay. But the thing is... Don't you think that something being protected might be an indicator of importance? No, I think the heart and the lungs are, they are not very appreciative of the protection that they get. I see.

Who's more important, the president or the Secret Service? No. Okay, let's go on. The other medicine bones. So we got the ribs. Yeah. The heart and lung and or lungs. You got the sternum. The skull, the sternum. Yes. They're basically a glorified rib. Okay. How do you feel about collarbone? Collarbone? No. I'm cool with collarbones. Okay. Yeah, yeah. The coccyx. Okay. Okay.

That's barely a bone to even be worth considering. It's a medicine bone. It protects your butthole. Okay. I haven't looked at that anatomy very closely. I was going to say. That's probably true. Okay. All right. And then there's another bone called a hyoid bone. What's that? I think it's made up. I don't think it really exists. Have you ever seen it? No.

Okay. Where is it supposed to be? Somewhere in the neck area. Okay. I don't know. So anyway, that's your bone breakdown. All right. Real bones, fake bones. Gotcha. Thanks for letting me join. You're welcome. Anytime you can come back on and you can tell us more about who hurt you. Medicine doctors. But anyway, thanks. Yeah. Maybe next time. Okay. Later, bros.

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