041124 330 Hollywood Swinging

 Non-famous conjoined twins answered a Q&A about how things work for them! 

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Yeah, maybe we could do NakedGun. Yeah would be fairly timely
OJ was in it, all right, it could be topical, Yeah,
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day to help everybody keep it moving. Yeah. Well, okay, so
I have some huge conjoined twins stuffthat we need to get to. But
first I do have a very quicklittle update on Taylor Travis. Oh my
god, because this is big haircut, This is big, y'all, and

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this is going down today in Cincinnati. Their new Heights podcast is doing like
a live show. So they've beenpumping this out for a long time at
the University of Cincinnati, I believe, and it's going to be inside at
their stadium and I just saw guesswho might be there, Taylor. Yeah.

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Well, people are freaking out.People are freaking out, and they're
trying to interview the cops and everybodythat's in charge of keeping you know,
the security at the stadium and everythingelse. And it sounds like Taylor might
show up, which is pretty coolbecause this is not in NFL game,
This is not that big deal.This is a podcast podcast, but it's
a big deal to him, andshe's going to show up. And like

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shut that whole place down. Thewhole city's going to be freaking out.
So I just had to let everybodyknow there's there's a Tavis appearance alert today.
Thank you on the New Heights podcast. Now I feel like I'm up
to date. Okay, good,good. I know you were very worried
about that. Okay, So Itold you, guys. I believe it
was on opening Day about Abby andBrittany, the conjoined twins that were on

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the TLC show and got famous frombeing on that show. And the news
came out recently that one of themwas married, Yeah to a weird guy.
To a weird guy, right,you have to be a weird guy.
A normal guy is not doing that. Yeah, So people have been
kind of infatuated with them, Likethem getting married caused a resurgence in their

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popularity, or at least the wordgetting out, because I think that one
of them had been married for likea year, but they just posted about
it publicly on social media. Sonow there's another set of conjoined twins that
has kind of gotten into the spotlight. There's another set. It's not just
Abby and Brittany. I don't knowhow common this is, but I was

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shocked to even see that there wasanother set. Jeff, what are they
hot? Yeah, I don't know. I wonder you're gonna have to tell
me. I guess for yourself.I don't know how to. I don't
know. You talk about Carmen andLupita. Yeah, so here's a picture.
One of them is kind of hot. Yeah, they're differently conjoined than

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the other two, though they're conjoinedfurther down. They're conjoined. Yeahs.
They each have their own like neckand like torso. Yeah, like there's
area, but Ivan Brittany just waslike one of them was pretty much just
ahead and then their nap just rightoff. I would say these these twins

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have a little more space between theirheads. Yeah, probably nice. That
is probably nice. So they're twentytwo years old. They live in Connecticut.
They moved to the United States forMexico when they were babies. Yeah,
they're connected at the torso and sharea pelvis and reproductive system. They

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each have two arms. No,what, they each have two arms,
So we got four arms in play? What a crab but only one leg?
Tua, they each have one Theyeach have one leg. They each
have two arms, but only oneleg. So four arms and two legs
total. Yes, Oh my gosh, Carmen controls right. Carmen controls the

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right leg, so she says,she does the driving. Loupita, meanwhile,
I was in charge of the musicand the navigation when they drive.
So she's still but she's got toreach well, I guess it's in the
days of bluetooth. You just doit from your phone. She can't reach
the radio. She's on the left, but she has two ar They're doing

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great though, they they don't havea problem with this, this situation.
Carmen's in college studying to be aveterinary nurse. Then they're both in college,
right, yeah, yeah, becausethe other one I don't, and
you're going to school with her.But I guess maybe only one of them
is registered for college and the otherone's just chilling. I mean, the

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other one should get the same creditsbecause as long as she's paid attention.
But she's probably not, folks,she's probably not paying attention. She's a
freeloader. She says, to goalong for the ride. Okay, uh
huh. But Lupita does hope towork in the same field as a technician.
Well that she should probably pay attentionduring class at the other one's class
that she's at quit sleeping. Yeah, yeah, Lupida. When it comes

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to dating, Lupita says she's asexual, but she does want Carmen to settle
down because she knows that's important.Because that's important. I'm a you kind
of have to be one of themhas to be. The other one is
going to get to drive all ofthe romance. If you're a sexual,

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what are you that's not interested?Yeah, Kevin says he's a sexual'orried about
it. I never figured out ifthat was a joker. That sounds like,
yeah, if you're asexual, Idon't believe it. I think I
am. Just doesn't cross your mind, doesn't it. But you is this
new or have you always been thatway? Probably new? Yeah, like

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in the last year or so.It's just eating in the shower that you
make that noise. I can moveforward with the twins if you'd like,
go ahead, yeah, because there'sacid. I didn't mean to, but
I looked him up and I probablyskipped ahead a little bit here, And

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I hope you're going to get toCarmen's situation, which one that she is
dating m Yeah, and she metthe guy she's dating on Hinge. Yeah,
Daniel, No, what's Hinge?We need to it's a dating app.
Yeah, but she said she saidshe never tried to hide the fact,

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but she was a conjoined twin.I don't know how to say this
without being insensitive. I want totalk to Daniel because something's wrong with him.
You don't think that he is inlove with Carmen, No, I
don't, like. I don't thinkyou saw somebody who is two people in
one and you were like, oh, yes, I'm absolutely interested in that
side of the body. And butmaybe he was interested in both, but

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only Carmen was interested in him becauseLupita is a sexual yeah, or maybe
all he wants is to get whateverattendant attention might come as well from being
involved in this. Yeah, becausethis is a very strange thing, and
to be intrigued by it, Ithink is strange. Well, she said
she did get a lot of messagesfrom with fetishes. Well, yeah,

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Whenever she said on this dating appthat she was a conjoined twin, well,
yeah, imagine what somebody with fourhands can do for you. I
don't think that because they have fourhands they want to do anything for you.
I don't know, man, theymight I might be turning for Shoopy
again. Yeah, are you nolonger a sexual? Like it's kind of

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weird because I feel like Daniel,something's off with him and he should probably
be in prison and we should investigatehim because something's terribly wrong with his brain.
But at the same time, Ialso believe that our conjoined twins deserve
happiness, So I want them tohave a boyfriend. You want to put
the one person that fell in lovewith them in prison because I don't believe
him. I don't believe him either. He's probably crazy. You guys don't
know Daniel. Daniel's attention seeking.He looks, he looks fine, you

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see Daniel. Yeah, that dudeis attention seeking. He's no, there's
no way that dude will ever getattention for anything in his life except something
like this. Which side is ishe dating? Let me see, is
he dating the hot one? Becausethere is a hot I hope it's the
one in the middle. She's yeah, she's the hotter one. I think

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one of them is like a nosering, and that's probably the one you
think is hot. Like, Idon't know. So they've been together for
two and a half years, andso I think this is serious. I
don't. I don't think. Sohe's doing something. He's up to something.
Well, he's up to something.He is maybe I don't know what

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he's up to, but he's upto something. Carmen says. They share
a blood stream, they share aliver, and they share a lot of
their internal structures. And they're happythe way they are because they have to
be. If they would have hadseparation surgery, either one of them would
have died or both would have died, or she says, we'd end up

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in the ICU and never get out. I think you just play rock,
paper scissors short like, Look,only one of us is gonna get to
do this. Let's go one,two, three shoot. Carmen says.
Her goal, she works out,Her goal is to bench press one hundred
pounds. What what does she meanshe works out? Well, she works

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out. They're different people. Sowhat's the other one doing? What's what's
your name? What's Lupita doing whileCarmen's work it out? The Carmen's using
both of her arms to do thebench press. Yeah, we heard set
up is wonky because I know twoof their arms are kind of in the
back, it looks like, becauseI can't find them in pictures, like

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you got the outside arms. Butthen they do. Their heads are further
apart than our first can join twins, so I guess there's an extra arm
for each of them, but youcan't see it from the front. H
It's kind of like that one badguy in the Spider Man movie that has
the metal things that come up fromProbably, yeah, well, Lupita is
probably just encouraging her, you know, like you can do it. Carman,

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Go, Carmen, Go, Carmen. Carmen says they actually absorb each
other's feelings. She said, forexample, when we were nearly six,
we had a nightmare that we weregoing to fall off a plane, and
then we literally fell off our bed. It only happened once, but we
can feel the other's emotions. Thathappens all the time. We were recently

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in a store and I felt aweird stomach drop, and I knew it
was coming from my sister. Aman was pretending to film his daughter,
but he was really filming us.I didn't notice, but she did.
Sure, so her sister noticed theman filming them in her stomach drop.
Isn't that crazy? Your stomach too, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy.
It's all crazy. We're not usedto two people being a person.

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We're used to people being one.We're not. But now there's two.
But don't go around filming them.Yeah, don't be mean to them.
No, don't be mean to that. But also don't be the guy who
starts dating one of them, becausesomething's weird about you, dude. But
they although they deserve having I lovelike everybody else. Ye, they do,
but you need to find a twoperson. They need to find canjoin
twit and whichever that's very hard.Whichever half wants to date needs to date

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the half of the guy that matchesthem. Like, if you're the girl's
right half, you need a manleft half that wants to be with you.
Is that way you can get close? Wow? I thought that's very
hard to find. Jeff, andI don't know what any male twenty ish
year old could join twins. Youknow what, if you find love when

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you're not looking for it, maybeDaniel did stumble into something that's wonderful for
everyone. I think he did.So. They say that they show videos
on social media because they went tonormalize can join twins. Let's read that
normal because I don't think that there'stoo many of them. Uh huh.
I have a video now. Thisis a bit of an older video that
has resurfaced. I think that Abbyand Brittany getting married story has, like

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I said, brought more attention toconjoin twins, and now people are like
digging up other can join twins storiesand videos And this particular TikTok video is
from a while back, but it'sCarmen and Lupede, like, see how
you guys just had y'all have allkinds of questions I have, I have
questions. A lot of people whenthey see them, have questions, and

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so they decided to take to TikTokand answer some frequently asked questions. And
I think that we're going to playthis and if you guys want to stop
it down at any point to discuss, okay, we can. And I
also want to warn you these girlsare a little edgy. Oh yeah,
like there's like Grooby had to bleepout some cussin, like really yeah,

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like they're spicy. Okay, that'sgood. Okay, We're going to do
an faq because some of you don'tshut the up on videos that nothing to
do with our bodies. So FAQ. Oh so if one of us is
tired, we both don't have tobe tired because we have two separate brains.
Yes, one of us can beawake and one of us can be
asleep because again, different brains.We are two separate people. I don't

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know about the death. Can wecome out? Yeah? Okay, So
let's say that one of you's tiredand wants to go to sleep, Well,
we both have to lay down.So like, yeah, sure,
maybe I could be awake, butit's not like I could go do stuff.
You just have to because your legain't coming. Yeah. No,
yeah, you're right. And whyare they speaking in such a condescending way

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to us? They're really mad atall the people that are asking all the
questions because it's different. I know, both seeking attention for this. Okay,
we're giving it to them. Don'ttalk down to us. I see
both sides. They're not yelling aty'all. All I want to know is
when the one makes love to theother, if the one is asexual.

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So she says, I have nointerest in that. Do you press charges
because that's rape? Well, no, because it's her sister. She wants
her to find leave. But I'mthe one having sex here, but she
I didn't ask for that. Imean, I'm sure she's kind of like,
hey, like she feels like theyhave the same bottom half. Yeah,
but she can't enjoy it because she'sa sexual. So it's all she's

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a sexual. But she could totallyindifferent. She's maybe like sending the guy
some notes like next time, couldyou No, she can't because she doesn't
care. She's a sexual. She'snot worried about it. But could you
go to sleep for a few minutes? Just let those who are into it
do their little I think you cansleep through that. Maybe I don't know,
different brains. I need to gethim on our show. All right,

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let's let it keep going. People, I don't know about the death
thing. We're not dead. Youshare a bloodstream, so eventually sepsis will
kick in, and obviously within hoursor days, the other one will die.
But we're not dead. So whyalways ask us that, like,
are we a doctor? The wholejail thing never been through that process,

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so how would we know that?How would we have that kind of knowledge?
No, we cannot control each other'splanets or halves. Yes, I
can drive. I can I havethe right foot, so I drive.
No, we cannot reach charges minds. We share a reproductive system, and
we both felt our pain when wehad endometriosis. So you do the math
of your weird inappropriate questions about sex, Like I said before, So they're

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obviously upset that everybody wants to talkabout sex endometriosis. What does that mean?
It's a woman disease, that it'san ovary thing where it causes pain
and in problems reproducing and usually youhave to have your ovaries removed or whatever.
I mean, It's it's bad,but it's not like terrible to where
it could I guess it could killyou. I don't know. I'm not

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an expert, but they're very mad. They're like, yes, you think
they're going all you want to knowis about sex, but we are feeling
pain like everybody else from endometriosis.You think that guys having sex with them
per the Yeah, which is it? And I think, oh, so
I think what they're saying. Youcan't move your head. You have to
stare directly because you can't look atthe other one. If you look at

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the other one. That one getsyou mad at you. Yeah, okay,
okay, that's of your weird inappropriatequestions about sexy. Like I said
before, we share our blood streams, so if we drink or hypothetically get
high, we'll both feel it.We have two different stomachs, so we
feel full at two different rates.These and ID cards, we're still two

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different people. So we have twoseparate IDs, and ID numbers and ss
ns and all that kind of stuff. Tests we take two different tests.
Again, we are still two separatepeople. No, my boyfriend isn't dating
both of us. I don't wantanyone. Oh. If I close my
eyes, I cannot see through hereyes the amount of times that we've gotten

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that question. Common sense is notthat common true. Separate hearts, two
separate lungs, two different stomachs thatcan into one digestive system, one reproductive
system. And I also have adetached reproductive system or uterus. I have
a detached uterus kidney, each herown arms, one leg. Each took
a long time with physical therapy tolearn how to walk. Though she did

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not feel when I got my piercing. No, I did not feel when
she got her piercing as we canfeel where we're attached, but other than
that, it starts losing feeling,like the more that we go in our
own directions, I can't have kids, don't want kids. My partner feels
the same way. We mostly sleepon our front because lapeta scoliosis walk with
more of a wobble or like unevennessbecause lapida is about an inch to an
inch and a half shorter than Iam. All right, bye, okay,

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okay, need that? Okay?So does that answer all of you
questions you bullied? Yeah? Ithink I got it. I think I
got a handle on it, LikeI got it, Okay, I got
it. Well, I'm trying towork my way around and not thinking the

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guy is a weirdo, because everybodydeserves to love and be loved, and
I want that for the conjoined twinthat wants at But I can't help but
looking at the guy's sideways, likewhat are you doing? What's going on?
Like when you were scrolling through hinge, what made you go, Yeah,
let's get this a try. Maybetheir profile will definitely stand out amongst

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the crowd. Maybe he's just moreopen minded. Yeah yeah, but I
mean they seem they seem happy andcontent with the whole situation. So maybe
everybody just needs to back off.Back off? What? Back off of
them? Back off of that?No, they existed until ten minutes ago.
I promise I'll back off them.Yeah, I'll let them, I'll

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let them be happy. Yeah.Well, Carmen and Lupeda, I'm on
your side, me too. Andthank you for spreading awareness about conjoined twin.
Yes, and I'm sorry for Jeff. I am also sorry for Jeff.
I would like to apologize. Yep. Let's see here a couple quick

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notes. Did y'all ever have allbeen to Vegas and seeing cirqu desilet ever?
No? Never, really, it'sreally great to Vegas. Well,
the one that I saw is theBeatles Love Cirq de Soilay show in Las
Vegas, and it's been around foreighteen years, seen by more than eleven

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and a half million people since itopened in July of two thousand and six.
And it's all the Beatles songs andit's like so trippy. It's really
good and a lot of people goto Vegas just to see this, and
they just announced that they are goingto end their run. The final date
at the Mirage where it's shown isgoing to be July seventh, So if
you haven't gotten your chance to seeBeatles Love Cirk Desilay show in Las Vegas,

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I highly recommend it. It's reallygood. Get your ass out there.
Get your ass out there. That'sending on July seventh. My other
quick note is something that I thinkseems preposterous, but the price of stamps
is about to go up. Notthe price of stamps. Wait, who
buys stamps? They're talking about makingthe price of stamps seventy three cents?

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That's fine, What are you sending? And it's hang on for a second,
and it's what now? And Idon't know. Last I remember was
thirty two. It might have goneup since then, surely because they're going
to raise it light that much sixtyeight seventy three, So it's doubled since
I even remember. So this hasjust been like creeping along without us even

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realizing it. This is inflation.What are you sending? You know,
whenever you have to pay a billor something like that, you're doing that
in the mail for a few things. I think that's great. What are
you paying bill? What are youpaid it? Mail? Shame him?
Were you paid? Well, areyou paid in the mail? Well,
you mail it. I'd have tothink about it. But I do it

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for a few things. Okay.I like that. That's old school.
I always when I have to sendsomething anywhere, I go to the post
office and I don't stop and grabanything or write anything. I just walk
directly to the person and I go. I have no idea what I'm doing.
I need this to get to aplace. What do I do?
It's not and they have to helpme. Get really confused by the mail.
The mail is hard. I takeit. You don't send handwritten thanky

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notes. Nope, that's what Imail things. Yeah, I know Mike
does handwritten thanky notes. I'll mailthings for handwritten thank you notes and Christmas
cards. I try to thank somebodyevery day. Oh do you? I
don't have anything to be thoughtful.It sounded nice, So seventy three cents
it could be happening. It stillhas to get approved by the Independent Postal

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Regulatory Commission, of course, yes, uh huh, it'll approve if it
happens. It'll happen in July,So get ready for your cost of stamps
to go up. Happy free TOOMpay some more money. Yeah for stamp.
Everything's more expensive. I missed thePony Express. We have gone final.
Oh no, I told you,if you get to the ninth inning

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with the A's you can lay itdown. They're closure is a monster,
Mike Is said, So it mustnot be good. Well, we hit
the hell out of the ball today. This team sucks. Coming up next,
let's talk about how this team sucks. Also, we'll talk to Mark
Faber, the GM of Texas MotorSpeedway. We are racing out there this

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weekend. Plus we have new deatson show, hey, and some Cowboys
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