February 25, 2025 • 25 mins
Unlock a trove of fascinating and practical wisdom as we spin tales of scurvy-induced scar surprises and the quirky midnight musings that refuse to let us sleep.
Ever wondered how safe your food and cleaning habits truly are? Navigate the murky waters of everyday safety with us as we lay bare the freaky truths about what might be lurking in your food, courtesy of the FDA's defect levels guide. Join us for a wild ride packed with essential tips, energy-saving hacks, and laugh-out-loud moments that promise to leave you both entertained and enlightened.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
welcome everybody to today's show.
A boomer and gen x are walkingto a bar, coming to you from our
rabbit run studio on the road.
Once again, uh.
Today you, as a listener, willexperience some wit and wisdom,
some smart assery and a motherand daughter questioning.
Are we even related?
My name is Bobbi Joy and myco-host is my mom, jane, and we
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
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I hope not, I know right.
People may be tuning outalready.
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talk about.
Yes, that's always interestingand we're up for the challenge
all the time, so whatever youwant to throw our way, that's
what we'll accept.
So today, before we get intoour topic today, I was just
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getting ready to ask you whatour topic was today, bobby well,
I had said to mom um, before westarted recording.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I said you know I'm gonna give a little little fun
fact that not a lot of peopleknow and it it'll kind of roll
into the um topic today.
So you know how.
You have those things that youkind of think about like every
once in a while for me it's likedaily or a few times a day and
it's just random crap that popsinto your head and you don't
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know where it comes from.
Do you ever have those?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
oh, gosh, I don't know.
Just like I know that I am, Imust be adhd.
I have got to be, because mostof my thoughts come to me at 3
30 in the morning when I'mlaying in bed.
You know, did I turn off thestove?
Oh my gosh.
Did we lock the door?
What happens if the dogs getloose, you know?
I mean just, there's just somany different things.
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Did I wash that shirt today?
Oh my gosh.
Do we have to mow the lawn inthe middle of winter?
So yeah, there's a lot of stuffthat I think about at 3 30 in
the morning yeah, mine are kindof different, so I'll share with
you one of the prevalent onesrecently.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Um, that pops into my head about three times a day
and some people are going tohear this and go oh my god, so
okay, buckle up, buckle up okayclick, click.
Did you know that?
You know what scurvy is right?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
yes okay.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So for those who don't know, it's a lack of
vitamin c.
Um it was, it was huge, youknow, back in the the days of
sailing uh you know they used toget it on the ships yep, right.
So did you know that if youhave scurvy, if you have a bad
enough case of scurvy that yourold scars will reopen?
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What?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
no way.
What do you mean?
Your old scars will reopen.
You mean, like if I cut my arm,that my scars will reopen?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
them, even if they've been healed.
Yes, because now listen to this.
So vitamin c is um.
It's vital for something calledcollagen synthesis, which is
the primary protein responsiblefor wound healing and scar
tissue formation.
Now, old scars, they have toconstantly have that in order to
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stay closed.
It's not something that justcloses and then, oh, it's done,
it's healed permanently.
It's a constant you know thingof where it constantly has to
have this in order to stayclosed.
So if you get a bad case ofscurvy, I would be like soup,
because everything would breakopen.
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I have like a billion millionscars, yeah, and it just.
This thought haunts me at leastthree times a day.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh my gosh.
So you'd be like a zombie,walking around with all these
open scars, wounds andeverything?
Oh, it'd be bad.
I would just be a puddle ofsoup.
Oh my gosh, I've never heardsuch a thing.
Now I have to look that up andfind out if that's really true
so I'm not going to do it rightnow.
but I'm going to challenge youon this one, because I've never
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heard that before.
Now I do know vitamin cobviously does a lot for the
healing and I take vitamin Cbecause I bruise easily.
And since I bruise easily, Ihave to take vitamin C.
So there's that, so I can seehow they could be related.
But wow, I've never heard ofsuch a thing before.
Well, and you wouldn't thinkabout it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You know today, because we have so many food
enriched vitamin C sources thatit's not even an issue you know
today.
But I mean it just.
I don't know why, but it justpops into my head randomly like
two, three times a day and I'm,yeah, this bothers you on a
regular basis.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
So two or three times a day,you're thinking about scurvy and
that you hope that you don'thave a vitamin c deficiency,
that you're gonna burst open andbleed on everybody.
Okay, okay, I think you've beenwatching way too many shows or
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something, I don't know, but Iam going to challenge on this.
I'm coming back.
I'm coming back on that onebecause I'm going to look that
up absolutely do it, do yourresearch.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But you know and that rolls into today's topic, which
is going to be um stuff youshould know but you probably
don't hey, you know that's agood topic.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's a really good topic because here's why I think
that's a really good topic andI'm why I think that's a really
good topic and I'm glad youbrought it up is because I've
been watching a lot of thesekids not know how to.
You know we've talked about itbefore they don't know how to
change a tire.
They don't know how to write incursive.
They don't know how to readcursive.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They don't know where to get a roll of quarters.
They don't know they didn aroll of quarters they don't know
.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
They didn't know that you could get a roll a quarter.
Yeah, well, I'm gonna let youstart it out.
Then what?
What's one thing that you thinkeverybody should know and it's
probably a common theme thing,but everybody should know it I
think that you should know tonever mix bleach and ammonia oh,
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that is good because I've donethat before.
It gets very toxic.
And when you're yeah, becausewhat you're doing is you're
stacking chemicals and yeah, andit creates a deadly gas, it
does, yeah, and it isn't just.
It isn't just bleach or withammonia, it's bleach or ammonia
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with several other types ofcleaners, because I've used like
comet and bleach before andjust about passed out and did
not know that that was, you know, a no-no.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So, um, yeah, that is a good one purposes.
We won't be getting into thethe mix, but you can also create
chloroform from cleaningproducts hey, sometimes you
don't want to chloroformyourself so that could come in
handy to have some of that inyour back pocket.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, I'm gonna throw one out there, okay, uh, were
you aware that the food and drugadministration has a handbook
on the food defect levels thatare acceptable in the united
states?
And what I mean by that?
And I, we can, we can post thethe site for this.
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What I mean by that is thegovernment allows, let's say, so
many rodent hairs in being ohyes, pork and beans or so much
larva in peanut butter or x youknow X amount of um poop you
know like rat poop in you knowyour your rice or whatever it is
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.
There's, there's a wholebooklet on this that the
government has, yeah, and I gotto tell you you had some
interesting reading.
It'll gross you out, but it'sso interesting and it's hard to
put down.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Let's talk about the fact that there's even an
acceptable amount of human fleshallowed.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yes, yes, human flesh allowed in certain foods.
Now, what I mean is that, likesomebody cut their finger off
while they were, I don't know,making elbow macaroni and it
fell in there and it was like,well, that that doesn't put us
over the threshold, let her goor maybe like they're, they're
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culling the field and they finda dead body and they don't find
it in time and they're like, ohwell, we might have run it over
with the bay.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know the bailer for the hay or something that's
funny right there.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So let me give you another one, and I don't think
everybody is aware of this, butwhen a lot of the vegetables on
uh in corporate uh farms, a lotof the vegetables and fruits and
things, when they're pickedthey're boxed up and they're put
in boxes right away and they'renot washed, what comes to mind
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is I want you to think about howmany people crack open a head
of lettuce yes, and don't washit Gross Thinking that it's
clean.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now some packaged lettuce will say washed and
ready to use.
Right, I don't trust thateither.
But yeah, so a lot of thatstuff, whatever the toxins are
on it, whatever the fertilizersare, whatever the uh herbicides
were, whatever the pesticideswere, they're all still on there
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and a lot of people don'trecognize that or even realize
that.
So what?
Even if you're going to peelthose vegetables and fruits,
wash them first, right, whatelse you, what else do you have?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
um, oh, here's one.
So expiration dates, they'renot just for your food, they are
also on your tires, your car,seats for children and even your
makeup.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So I want to talk about that for tires, because I
was in the energy business andwe had a lot of trucks on the
road and we had to determine howold our tires were.
It isn't it wasn't always justa matter of wear and tear on the
highway, it was do we have alot of dry rot on these tires?
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Are these trucks sitting, youknow?
Is the sun damaging them?
Right?
And there is a way to tell, uh,what year and what month that
tire was made.
And I think what's reallyimportant for people to know on
that is you go to a tire storeand they pull them off the rack
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and it looks like a brand newtire, right, it's got all the
labels on it, might have evenhad some wrapping on it, still
got the little nubbies on it, um, but it doesn't mean that
that's a brand new tire thatcould have been sitting up on
the rack dry rotting for 10years for all you know, unless
you check that date.
So yeah, that's, that's a goodone right there.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Another one here, I got another one for all you
teenage parents out there, thedifference between deodorant and
antiperspirant.
So there is a difference.
Okay, doesn't?
One have mercury and onedoesn't, so they're not
interchangeable.
So deodorant actually targetsthe odor and in a person,
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antiperspirant it combats thesweating.
Yeah, so you can have both inone stick, but you can't, like,
use deodorant for sweating.
That's not what it's for.
It's for the smell.
The antiperspirant is to stopthe sweating.
So there is a differencethere's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, there is a difference and I think some of
them have.
You know, like I said, I'm notsure if it's mercury or what it
has in it, but it uh, I alwaysused, um, uh, deodorant.
I did not use antiperspirant.
Um, I am braca positive,meaning that I am susceptible to
cancer and I've had somesurgeries because of that, and
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so anything that's even remotelyclose to something that could
trigger that I stay away from.
So I've always used a deodorantbecause it just makes me smell
better.
That's it.
I don't use an antiperspirantever.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
All right, what's another one from you?
Okay, so another one from me isdid you know that oh gosh, I
just had it on the tip of mytongue Bottled water.
The government doesn't regulatebottled water.
Somebody could take theirbottles and take them home and
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fill them in their bathtub andsell them.
And the government bottled wateras bottled water because the
government does not have aregulation associated with
bottled water Right now.
You know people are concernedwith bottled water because of
the plastics um associated with,you know, the bottles
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themselves and a lot of timesthose bottles will sit out in
the sun or they'll sit in hotwarehouses and they could sit
for a long time, and yeah, sothat is one thing that I think
people are not aware of is thatthere are no regulations as it
relates to bottled water.
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I remember when I was a kid,somebody somewhere said oh, just
wait, at some point they'regoing to be making us pay for
water or our air, and I thoughtthat's silly.
You know why?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
would we pay for that Now?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
look at us drinking bottled water and you know most
of us try to use filtered waterout of our own homes now just to
try to reduce the amount ofplastics that we're using.
But yeah, there's no regulationthere.
What's another?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
one that you have.
Oh, let me think um here.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I've got another one, so I'm not sure that everybody
knows this, but it's notapplicable to everyone.
But if you move out to thecountry and let's say that you
no longer are on a natural gasline, you don't get natural gas
from a company.
You have to have an LP tank ora propane tank.
That your equipment that youbrought from the previous house
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is not going to be applicablefor the new house because the
orifices have to be, uh, drilledout.
Did you know that, bobby?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
okay, okay, so like yeah, because it's a different
type of gas yeah, one's heavierright, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So yeah, that makes sense, yeah so a lot of people
think, oh, I've got a problem, Igotta buy a new stove.
Or you know, whatever thesituation is, or you know you're
not going to bring your furnacewith you.
Typically it's just your stove,right right and when they bring
a new stove maybe a gas dryeryeah, maybe a gas dryer, and
those things have to be modifiedbefore you can actually use
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them.
I think that's a good tidbit ofinformation, even though it's
not applicable to everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That is, though that is especially for people who are
thinking about, you know, thehomesteading or the moving out
in the country, away, you know,off grid, and things like that.
Yeah, that's something that youreally have to think about.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And more and more people are going off grid.
It like.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I mean I see a lot of shows related to it oh yeah,
yeah, I mean that's honestly,that's ultimate goal for me.
But, um, so on appliances, umand we had talked about this
before because I asked you, didyou know?
Your washer and your dishwasherhave filters that have to be
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taken out and cleaned?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
well, your washing machine.
Let's talk about that, becausewhen I built my house what's?
It been five years now that Ibuilt my house somewhere around
there and of course I got allnew appliances, everything's
brand new, and I noticed therewas this little opening, this
little hatch, at the bottom ofmy washing machine, because I've
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got front load, everythingRight.
And I noticed this little hatchand you know, my whole thing is
is hey, you know if it's notcausing a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, leave it alone, leave it alone.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And you called me one day and said, hey, did you know
you need to clean that filterin the bottom of your washing
machine?
And I go what filter are youtalking about?
And um, so I get down therewith and and you, you warned me.
You said, hey, you're gonnahave to put some pan or
something under it because it'llrun some water out and it's
going to stink and whatever else.
And so, yeah, I did that.
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And uh, yeah, you absolutelyhave to clean those out.
Same way with the dishwasher.
Oh, how gross is that?
That's the most gross thing.
You open your dishwasher andyou go why is this thing
smelling so bad?
Yeah, you got filters in thebottom there.
Folks, you need to clean thoseout and see.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And when I bought my house, um, back in 2018, was the
first time that I'd ever had afront load high efficiency
washer, and so I ended upgetting an error code on it,
because I go through like 63million loads of laundry a week,
and so I ended up running anerror code on it and I'm like,
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oh my God, my washer's broke.
It's only been, you know, sixmonths and I'm going to have to
get a new washer these dang kids, you know, and whatever.
And I called a friend of mineand he goes no, he goes, check
your filter.
And I said, excuse me there's afilter, yeah.
And he goes.
Yeah Well, he didn't warn me.
That's the, that's the funnypart.
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He didn't warn me that when Ipulled that filter out, there's
going to be like a gallon ofwater comes spilling out onto my
floor.
Yeah, so you pulled that thingout and I was oh my God, there's
a filter in here.
I wonder how many peopleactually know about this.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So okay.
So here's another one I havementioned multiple times.
I worked in the energy businessand for a short time period I
worked for a distributioncompany, meaning that there's
transmission companies andthere's distribution companies,
right?
So the transmission are the biglines that come across country
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and they're either high voltageor, if you're, you know, if it's
a gas line, it's a high, highpressure line.
And when you get down to thedistribution, that's every,
every house, every, you knowgarage, every storefront, every.
That's distribution lines.
And a lot of people don't knowthis.
But and they think, justbecause I shut my equipment off,
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it's not drawing electricityand it is.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, I'm here to tell you it definitely is.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I'm here to tell you it definitely is.
So if you are not using and Iwant people, I want our viewers
to test me on this, because thiswasn't something that we told
our customers when I worked inthe distribution side of the
business right, but um, you cansave up to about 33 percent on
your electric bill if youdisconnect everything.
That's that's you're not using.
So, I really want to want peopleto test me on this.
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I want you to think about whatdon't I really use on a regular
basis and just walk around thehouse and unplug these.
Like you know, I unpluggedthings that were in the guest
room.
I don't have guests there allthe time.
I don't need an alarm clock,you know, on all the time when
they're not there.
I don't need the TV plugged inthe entire time when people
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aren't there, and so you know,just kind of look around and say
what can I unplug, because itreally and truly does draw on
the electricity and it can saveyou some money, absolutely.
There's my money saving tip.
I'm usually not a very goodmoney saver, so there's my tip.
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Let's go for one more good one,bobby, because I think we're
running out of time here, ohgosh um, a good one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Uh, here's a simple one that a lot of people don't
know and a lot of young folkdon't know um, that little arrow
on your gas tank icon that youknow.
You look down and you see howfull your tank is and there's
that little arrow.
That's what side your gas tankis on when you go to get out to
fill your gas tank that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
A lot of people don't know that that's right.
No, absolutely, I think that'sa good one.
Um, also, there was somethingelse.
Oh, your, your idiot light.
You know, when your enginelight comes on, there's a little
engine that comes on your dashand it says it says I'm not
feeling you might want to checkme out, and so when that engine
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light comes on, you really kindof want to take care of your
vehicle before that engine lightcomes on.
But let's say it comes on.
If it's steady light, it meansit's not something critical.
If it's flashing, it means youneed to get the car in right
away or the vehicle in rightaway.
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I did not know that, because anytime mine comes on, I
go hook it up to a reader andfind out what it is.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, yeah, and you know you can, and we have
readers too, and so you can readwhat the error code is.
Some of it is just you knowsomething that the factory or
the manufacturer put in there,that you know they want you to
go change a filter out.
That really doesn't make anydifference to your vehicle, but
a light comes on because of it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But yeah, Sometimes it's just because you left your
gas cap off.
That is true.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Or you didn't let it click four times before you shut
it, you uh shut it off, orbefore you uh put the nozzle
back.
Well, I think that's probablyall we have for right now.
Um, do you have any others,bobby?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, this was kind of a fun little yeah, I would
say I do have a critical one, um.
So listen, if you're ever in ascenario where you've been
stabbed or impaled by an object,don't remove it, okay, okay,
like if you ever get.
You know you're out working and, let's say, a piece of a tree
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branch goes through your arm.
First thing you're going towant to try to do is pull that
sucker out.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Don't do it yeah, because it could be very close
to an artery, right could bevery close.
It's the only thing stoppingthat blood flow right, right,
yeah, that's a good point andthat's an excellent point.
Well, I think that's probablyall we have for today.
Um, we really appreciate y'alljoining us for this short little
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here and until next week, I'mJane Burt and I'm Bobbi Joy, and
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Peace out Later.
welcome everybody to today's show.
A boomer and gen x are walkingto a bar, coming to you from our
rabbit run studio on the road.
Once again, uh.
Today you, as a listener, willexperience some wit and wisdom,
some smart assery and a motherand daughter questioning.
Are we even related?
My name is Bobbi Joy and myco-host is my mom, jane, and we
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are here to entertain for aslong as you'll have us.
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People may be tuning outalready.
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Yes, that's always interestingand we're up for the challenge
all the time, so whatever youwant to throw our way, that's
what we'll accept.
So today, before we get intoour topic today, I was just
(01:42):
getting ready to ask you whatour topic was today, bobby well,
I had said to mom um, before westarted recording.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I said you know I'm gonna give a little little fun
fact that not a lot of peopleknow and it it'll kind of roll
into the um topic today.
So you know how.
You have those things that youkind of think about like every
once in a while for me it's likedaily or a few times a day and
it's just random crap that popsinto your head and you don't
(02:10):
know where it comes from.
Do you ever have those?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
oh, gosh, I don't know.
Just like I know that I am, Imust be adhd.
I have got to be, because mostof my thoughts come to me at 3
30 in the morning when I'mlaying in bed.
You know, did I turn off thestove?
Oh my gosh.
Did we lock the door?
What happens if the dogs getloose, you know?
I mean just, there's just somany different things.
(02:35):
Did I wash that shirt today?
Oh my gosh.
Do we have to mow the lawn inthe middle of winter?
So yeah, there's a lot of stuffthat I think about at 3 30 in
the morning yeah, mine are kindof different, so I'll share with
you one of the prevalent onesrecently.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Um, that pops into my head about three times a day
and some people are going tohear this and go oh my god, so
okay, buckle up, buckle up okayclick, click.
Did you know that?
You know what scurvy is right?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
yes okay.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So for those who don't know, it's a lack of
vitamin c.
Um it was, it was huge, youknow, back in the the days of
sailing uh you know they used toget it on the ships yep, right.
So did you know that if youhave scurvy, if you have a bad
enough case of scurvy that yourold scars will reopen?
(03:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
no way.
What do you mean?
Your old scars will reopen.
You mean, like if I cut my arm,that my scars will reopen?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
them, even if they've been healed.
Yes, because now listen to this.
So vitamin c is um.
It's vital for something calledcollagen synthesis, which is
the primary protein responsiblefor wound healing and scar
tissue formation.
Now, old scars, they have toconstantly have that in order to
(04:07):
stay closed.
It's not something that justcloses and then, oh, it's done,
it's healed permanently.
It's a constant you know thingof where it constantly has to
have this in order to stayclosed.
So if you get a bad case ofscurvy, I would be like soup,
because everything would breakopen.
(04:28):
I have like a billion millionscars, yeah, and it just.
This thought haunts me at leastthree times a day.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh my gosh.
So you'd be like a zombie,walking around with all these
open scars, wounds andeverything?
Oh, it'd be bad.
I would just be a puddle ofsoup.
Oh my gosh, I've never heardsuch a thing.
Now I have to look that up andfind out if that's really true
so I'm not going to do it rightnow.
but I'm going to challenge youon this one, because I've never
(04:58):
heard that before.
Now I do know vitamin cobviously does a lot for the
healing and I take vitamin Cbecause I bruise easily.
And since I bruise easily, Ihave to take vitamin C.
So there's that, so I can seehow they could be related.
But wow, I've never heard ofsuch a thing before.
Well, and you wouldn't thinkabout it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You know today, because we have so many food
enriched vitamin C sources thatit's not even an issue you know
today.
But I mean it just.
I don't know why, but it justpops into my head randomly like
two, three times a day and I'm,yeah, this bothers you on a
regular basis.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
So two or three times a day,you're thinking about scurvy and
that you hope that you don'thave a vitamin c deficiency,
that you're gonna burst open andbleed on everybody.
Okay, okay, I think you've beenwatching way too many shows or
(06:00):
something, I don't know, but Iam going to challenge on this.
I'm coming back.
I'm coming back on that onebecause I'm going to look that
up absolutely do it, do yourresearch.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But you know and that rolls into today's topic, which
is going to be um stuff youshould know but you probably
don't hey, you know that's agood topic.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's a really good topic because here's why I think
that's a really good topic andI'm why I think that's a really
good topic and I'm glad youbrought it up is because I've
been watching a lot of thesekids not know how to.
You know we've talked about itbefore they don't know how to
change a tire.
They don't know how to write incursive.
They don't know how to readcursive.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They don't know where to get a roll of quarters.
They don't know they didn aroll of quarters they don't know
.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
They didn't know that you could get a roll a quarter.
Yeah, well, I'm gonna let youstart it out.
Then what?
What's one thing that you thinkeverybody should know and it's
probably a common theme thing,but everybody should know it I
think that you should know tonever mix bleach and ammonia oh,
(07:09):
that is good because I've donethat before.
It gets very toxic.
And when you're yeah, becausewhat you're doing is you're
stacking chemicals and yeah, andit creates a deadly gas, it
does, yeah, and it isn't just.
It isn't just bleach or withammonia, it's bleach or ammonia
(07:33):
with several other types ofcleaners, because I've used like
comet and bleach before andjust about passed out and did
not know that that was, you know, a no-no.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So, um, yeah, that is a good one purposes.
We won't be getting into thethe mix, but you can also create
chloroform from cleaningproducts hey, sometimes you
don't want to chloroformyourself so that could come in
handy to have some of that inyour back pocket.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, I'm gonna throw one out there, okay, uh, were
you aware that the food and drugadministration has a handbook
on the food defect levels thatare acceptable in the united
states?
And what I mean by that?
And I, we can, we can post thethe site for this.
(08:29):
What I mean by that is thegovernment allows, let's say, so
many rodent hairs in being ohyes, pork and beans or so much
larva in peanut butter or x youknow X amount of um poop you
know like rat poop in you knowyour your rice or whatever it is
(08:53):
.
There's, there's a wholebooklet on this that the
government has, yeah, and I gotto tell you you had some
interesting reading.
It'll gross you out, but it'sso interesting and it's hard to
put down.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Let's talk about the fact that there's even an
acceptable amount of human fleshallowed.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yes, yes, human flesh allowed in certain foods.
Now, what I mean is that, likesomebody cut their finger off
while they were, I don't know,making elbow macaroni and it
fell in there and it was like,well, that that doesn't put us
over the threshold, let her goor maybe like they're, they're
(09:38):
culling the field and they finda dead body and they don't find
it in time and they're like, ohwell, we might have run it over
with the bay.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know the bailer for the hay or something that's
funny right there.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So let me give you another one, and I don't think
everybody is aware of this, butwhen a lot of the vegetables on
uh in corporate uh farms, a lotof the vegetables and fruits and
things, when they're pickedthey're boxed up and they're put
in boxes right away and they'renot washed, what comes to mind
(10:15):
is I want you to think about howmany people crack open a head
of lettuce yes, and don't washit Gross Thinking that it's
clean.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now some packaged lettuce will say washed and
ready to use.
Right, I don't trust thateither.
But yeah, so a lot of thatstuff, whatever the toxins are
on it, whatever the fertilizersare, whatever the uh herbicides
were, whatever the pesticideswere, they're all still on there
(10:47):
and a lot of people don'trecognize that or even realize
that.
So what?
Even if you're going to peelthose vegetables and fruits,
wash them first, right, whatelse you, what else do you have?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
um, oh, here's one.
So expiration dates, they'renot just for your food, they are
also on your tires, your car,seats for children and even your
makeup.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So I want to talk about that for tires, because I
was in the energy business andwe had a lot of trucks on the
road and we had to determine howold our tires were.
It isn't it wasn't always justa matter of wear and tear on the
highway, it was do we have alot of dry rot on these tires?
(11:39):
Are these trucks sitting, youknow?
Is the sun damaging them?
Right?
And there is a way to tell, uh,what year and what month that
tire was made.
And I think what's reallyimportant for people to know on
that is you go to a tire storeand they pull them off the rack
(12:00):
and it looks like a brand newtire, right, it's got all the
labels on it, might have evenhad some wrapping on it, still
got the little nubbies on it, um, but it doesn't mean that
that's a brand new tire thatcould have been sitting up on
the rack dry rotting for 10years for all you know, unless
you check that date.
So yeah, that's, that's a goodone right there.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Another one here, I got another one for all you
teenage parents out there, thedifference between deodorant and
antiperspirant.
So there is a difference.
Okay, doesn't?
One have mercury and onedoesn't, so they're not
interchangeable.
So deodorant actually targetsthe odor and in a person,
(12:49):
antiperspirant it combats thesweating.
Yeah, so you can have both inone stick, but you can't, like,
use deodorant for sweating.
That's not what it's for.
It's for the smell.
The antiperspirant is to stopthe sweating.
So there is a differencethere's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, there is a difference and I think some of
them have.
You know, like I said, I'm notsure if it's mercury or what it
has in it, but it uh, I alwaysused, um, uh, deodorant.
I did not use antiperspirant.
Um, I am braca positive,meaning that I am susceptible to
cancer and I've had somesurgeries because of that, and
(13:32):
so anything that's even remotelyclose to something that could
trigger that I stay away from.
So I've always used a deodorantbecause it just makes me smell
better.
That's it.
I don't use an antiperspirantever.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
All right, what's another one from you?
Okay, so another one from me isdid you know that oh gosh, I
just had it on the tip of mytongue Bottled water.
The government doesn't regulatebottled water.
Somebody could take theirbottles and take them home and
(14:08):
fill them in their bathtub andsell them.
And the government bottled wateras bottled water because the
government does not have aregulation associated with
bottled water Right now.
You know people are concernedwith bottled water because of
the plastics um associated with,you know, the bottles
(14:32):
themselves and a lot of timesthose bottles will sit out in
the sun or they'll sit in hotwarehouses and they could sit
for a long time, and yeah, sothat is one thing that I think
people are not aware of is thatthere are no regulations as it
relates to bottled water.
(14:54):
I remember when I was a kid,somebody somewhere said oh, just
wait, at some point they'regoing to be making us pay for
water or our air, and I thoughtthat's silly.
You know why?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
would we pay for that Now?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
look at us drinking bottled water and you know most
of us try to use filtered waterout of our own homes now just to
try to reduce the amount ofplastics that we're using.
But yeah, there's no regulationthere.
What's another?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
one that you have.
Oh, let me think um here.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I've got another one, so I'm not sure that everybody
knows this, but it's notapplicable to everyone.
But if you move out to thecountry and let's say that you
no longer are on a natural gasline, you don't get natural gas
from a company.
You have to have an LP tank ora propane tank.
That your equipment that youbrought from the previous house
(15:57):
is not going to be applicablefor the new house because the
orifices have to be, uh, drilledout.
Did you know that, bobby?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
okay, okay, so like yeah, because it's a different
type of gas yeah, one's heavierright, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So yeah, that makes sense, yeah so a lot of people
think, oh, I've got a problem, Igotta buy a new stove.
Or you know, whatever thesituation is, or you know you're
not going to bring your furnacewith you.
Typically it's just your stove,right right and when they bring
a new stove maybe a gas dryeryeah, maybe a gas dryer, and
those things have to be modifiedbefore you can actually use
(16:38):
them.
I think that's a good tidbit ofinformation, even though it's
not applicable to everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That is, though that is especially for people who are
thinking about, you know, thehomesteading or the moving out
in the country, away, you know,off grid, and things like that.
Yeah, that's something that youreally have to think about.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And more and more people are going off grid.
It like.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I mean I see a lot of shows related to it oh yeah,
yeah, I mean that's honestly,that's ultimate goal for me.
But, um, so on appliances, umand we had talked about this
before because I asked you, didyou know?
Your washer and your dishwasherhave filters that have to be
(17:19):
taken out and cleaned?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
well, your washing machine.
Let's talk about that, becausewhen I built my house what's?
It been five years now that Ibuilt my house somewhere around
there and of course I got allnew appliances, everything's
brand new, and I noticed therewas this little opening, this
little hatch, at the bottom ofmy washing machine, because I've
(17:46):
got front load, everythingRight.
And I noticed this little hatchand you know, my whole thing is
is hey, you know if it's notcausing a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, leave it alone, leave it alone.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And you called me one day and said, hey, did you know
you need to clean that filterin the bottom of your washing
machine?
And I go what filter are youtalking about?
And um, so I get down therewith and and you, you warned me.
You said, hey, you're gonnahave to put some pan or
something under it because it'llrun some water out and it's
going to stink and whatever else.
And so, yeah, I did that.
(18:24):
And uh, yeah, you absolutelyhave to clean those out.
Same way with the dishwasher.
Oh, how gross is that?
That's the most gross thing.
You open your dishwasher andyou go why is this thing
smelling so bad?
Yeah, you got filters in thebottom there.
Folks, you need to clean thoseout and see.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And when I bought my house, um, back in 2018, was the
first time that I'd ever had afront load high efficiency
washer, and so I ended upgetting an error code on it,
because I go through like 63million loads of laundry a week,
and so I ended up running anerror code on it and I'm like,
(19:06):
oh my God, my washer's broke.
It's only been, you know, sixmonths and I'm going to have to
get a new washer these dang kids, you know, and whatever.
And I called a friend of mineand he goes no, he goes, check
your filter.
And I said, excuse me there's afilter, yeah.
And he goes.
Yeah Well, he didn't warn me.
That's the, that's the funnypart.
(19:27):
He didn't warn me that when Ipulled that filter out, there's
going to be like a gallon ofwater comes spilling out onto my
floor.
Yeah, so you pulled that thingout and I was oh my God, there's
a filter in here.
I wonder how many peopleactually know about this.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So okay.
So here's another one I havementioned multiple times.
I worked in the energy businessand for a short time period I
worked for a distributioncompany, meaning that there's
transmission companies andthere's distribution companies,
right?
So the transmission are the biglines that come across country
(20:06):
and they're either high voltageor, if you're, you know, if it's
a gas line, it's a high, highpressure line.
And when you get down to thedistribution, that's every,
every house, every, you knowgarage, every storefront, every.
That's distribution lines.
And a lot of people don't knowthis.
But and they think, justbecause I shut my equipment off,
(20:30):
it's not drawing electricityand it is.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, I'm here to tell you it definitely is.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I'm here to tell you it definitely is.
So if you are not using and Iwant people, I want our viewers
to test me on this, because thiswasn't something that we told
our customers when I worked inthe distribution side of the
business right, but um, you cansave up to about 33 percent on
your electric bill if youdisconnect everything.
That's that's you're not using.
So, I really want to want peopleto test me on this.
(21:05):
I want you to think about whatdon't I really use on a regular
basis and just walk around thehouse and unplug these.
Like you know, I unpluggedthings that were in the guest
room.
I don't have guests there allthe time.
I don't need an alarm clock,you know, on all the time when
they're not there.
I don't need the TV plugged inthe entire time when people
(21:28):
aren't there, and so you know,just kind of look around and say
what can I unplug, because itreally and truly does draw on
the electricity and it can saveyou some money, absolutely.
There's my money saving tip.
I'm usually not a very goodmoney saver, so there's my tip.
(21:50):
Let's go for one more good one,bobby, because I think we're
running out of time here, ohgosh um, a good one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Uh, here's a simple one that a lot of people don't
know and a lot of young folkdon't know um, that little arrow
on your gas tank icon that youknow.
You look down and you see howfull your tank is and there's
that little arrow.
That's what side your gas tankis on when you go to get out to
fill your gas tank that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
A lot of people don't know that that's right.
No, absolutely, I think that'sa good one.
Um, also, there was somethingelse.
Oh, your, your idiot light.
You know, when your enginelight comes on, there's a little
engine that comes on your dashand it says it says I'm not
feeling you might want to checkme out, and so when that engine
(22:41):
light comes on, you really kindof want to take care of your
vehicle before that engine lightcomes on.
But let's say it comes on.
If it's steady light, it meansit's not something critical.
If it's flashing, it means youneed to get the car in right
away or the vehicle in rightaway.
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I did not know that, because anytime mine comes on, I
go hook it up to a reader andfind out what it is.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, yeah, and you know you can, and we have
readers too, and so you can readwhat the error code is.
Some of it is just you knowsomething that the factory or
the manufacturer put in there,that you know they want you to
go change a filter out.
That really doesn't make anydifference to your vehicle, but
a light comes on because of it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But yeah, Sometimes it's just because you left your
gas cap off.
That is true.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Or you didn't let it click four times before you shut
it, you uh shut it off, orbefore you uh put the nozzle
back.
Well, I think that's probablyall we have for right now.
Um, do you have any others,bobby?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, this was kind of a fun little yeah, I would
say I do have a critical one, um.
So listen, if you're ever in ascenario where you've been
stabbed or impaled by an object,don't remove it, okay, okay,
like if you ever get.
You know you're out working and, let's say, a piece of a tree
(24:12):
branch goes through your arm.
First thing you're going towant to try to do is pull that
sucker out.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Don't do it yeah, because it could be very close
to an artery, right could bevery close.
It's the only thing stoppingthat blood flow right, right,
yeah, that's a good point andthat's an excellent point.
Well, I think that's probablyall we have for today.
Um, we really appreciate y'alljoining us for this short little
(24:38):
review of what people shouldknow, and so we appreciate you
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