February 26, 2025 • 19 mins
Mouth tape is gaining popularity as a unique and practical solution for reducing snoring and improving sleep quality. We share personal experiences, testimonials, and dive into the reasons why this unconventional method is worth trying for anyone struggling with sleep disturbances.
• Exploration of mouth tape as a solution for snoring
• Discussion of personal experiences and testimonials
• Consideration of safety measures and product selection
• Humorous contrasts between sleep-related choices
• Emphasis on building a community around sleep solutions
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone.
I'm Christmas and I'm Kara andthis is dead mom scavenger hunt
and this is birdie.
For those of you who arePatreons and can see the video,
my adorable dog is joining us atthe moment.
Um, she will be seen andhopefully not very heard.
Lay down, no, lay down, Vamp.
(00:20):
Will I get her to lay down?
She loves me.
She does.
Well, she'll figure it out Oncewe stop paying attention to her
.
She will lay down.
So Kara is very passionateabout mouth tape and demanded
that we post-haste, right out ofthe gate, do an episode about
mouth tape.
You want to?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This is an educational show.
This is very important that weshare our knowledge with the
masses.
You want to talk to the peopleabout mouth tape.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I do and then I want to hear how you feel about mouth
tape, because you have beendeveloping some opinions about
mouth tape also okay, so I'llset the stage here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
let's set the scene.
Somehow my tiktok algorithm hasbeen showing me all of these
mouth tape options and I've beengetting wind that I should.
I'm sorry I can't focus rightnow.
Your dog is too much.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
She's just.
She's just trying to be cuteand get attention.
She'll settle down.
You just got to ignore, but sheloves you so much and, for
those of you who are Patreons,you can see her.
For those of you that aren't,you are missing out because
she's fucking adorable, fuckingadorable.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, you're too much .
I love you.
I can't handle it.
Okay, back to the mouth tape.
We do tend to get a littlesidetracked.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We're going to work on that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I mean, I've kind of been working on that my whole
life and it's probably nevergoing to change.
It's the ADHD.
Is it part of our charm?
I don't know, we'll find out.
Yeah, okay, sorry for the extralittle noises there.
I'm trying to get comfortableunder the table.
Okay, so here we go.
My TikTok feed is full of mouthtape and I apparently it does
(01:55):
all these amazing things.
It helps you not snore, itchisels your jawline, you get
better sleep and all this stuff.
And I'm like really curious,because I've snored my whole
life to varying degrees.
It used to be absolutely like afreight train.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All the time, all the time, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I have had my tonsils and my adenoids out.
I didn't they didn't take thetonsils out because of the
snoring, but that did help alittle.
Yeah, they used to abscess allthe time and so I had my tonsils
.
Did you get strep all the time?
I didn't get strep, I don'tknow.
I don't think I've ever evenhad strep throat, but they would
just get really inflamed andinfected and then they would
abscess.
I almost died when I was 12 or11 because of it, cause I don't
(02:37):
remember that I wasn't living.
I was living in Canada and youwere a teenager.
You would have been 16 andcould probably have cared less
about what was going on with meat the time as an 11 year old.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I can tell you that at 16, I probably could give a
shit less about anyone except myown self.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, 16 year old, it wasn't just me.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, 16 year old girl form.
I really had the blinders onabout.
How does this affect mePrecisely?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, so yeah.
So when I was 11, I'll justgive you the short version of
this story they abscessed and Iw it was so bad I could only
drool Like I couldn't evenswallow, and I I ended up
spending like three days in ahospital.
We were camping, we werespending some vacation time in
Banff, canada.
I'm familiar.
Okay, so we were in Banff and myfamily was out there and we
(03:20):
didn't.
Um, basically, I, my mom, droveme to a hospital where I stayed
for a few days by myselfbecause the family was still.
It was kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The family was still on vacation and they just went
on the vacation and left me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They left me in the hospital and, um, I refused an
IV, so they were having, likethey were coming in once a day
to bring me horse pills that Iwould try to swallow and was
actually.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You only have to get the IV once and then you're good
to go.
The horse pills you got to doevery day.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was 11.
Sure, I was very stubborn, mymom.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Wow, I can tell you that hasn't changed.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, and I like, of course, looking back away with
that, but I refused the idea iv.
It kept getting worse.
Um well, your mom was like I'mgoing on vacation.
Bye, yeah, I mean, there wasmore involved, it's not just.
It wasn't that simple.
I was traumatized by this, yes,but my stepdad was there and he
(04:17):
was on a fishing trip and hewas really.
He was like a really bad duderight and he was really abusive
and terrible, and so I think mymom was she had like he will
never get a tip of the hat orcheers, or he gets um, what's
the opposite of a tip of the hat, um.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I hope right now you a shove of the shiv, a shove of
the shiv of the shiv, yeah, or Ihope that you have terrible,
terrible hemorrhoids everysingle day yeah yeah um a hell
of a hemorrhoid.
Yeah, hell of a hemorrhoid.
I don't even want to say hisname whatever, no, we're not
going to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It doesn't matter, he's dead to me yeah anyway,
there were other circumstancesthat made it so that I we stay.
I stayed at the hospital for afew days.
I survived, whatever.
There was a little traumaticexperience where I was so
dehydrated.
They did bring me tea one dayand I drank it and then
immediately had to pee and itcame out the same color as I
(05:14):
should have told this adifferent way, but I thought I
started my period.
Was it like hibiscus tea?
No, but it was like dark.
I had never had a period.
I thought I just knew it wasbrownish.
Okay, is it misty?
No, but it was like dark.
I had never had a period.
I thought I just knew it wasbrownish.
Okay, but it's not really, Idon't know, right, right right,
right, like it can be, but Imean, we're getting really off
track.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
right now, let's land the plane.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, I ended up.
They sent me home with myparents.
I ended up going back to thehospital later that night, seen
an abscess tonsil before becausethey're not very common.
This is an abscess.
You need to.
We can take her by ambulance oryou can drive her, but she's
got to go to the children'shospital in vancouver right now
to get her mom drove me in there.
My mom and my grandma drove meinto vancouver.
(05:53):
They know not to get out theyhad to stick a needle down my
throat, but um into the spacebetween my tonsil, into the
abscess, and um drain thecessGross.
And they pulled out like fiveor 10 cc's.
It was a lot Like the doctorwas like holy shit, that was a
lot, so this didn't help withyour snoring.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
This is just a complete sidebar.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Total sidebar.
Yeah, but eventually I did getmy tonsils out, because they
abscessed again when I was 16.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Gotcha okay, and then I had them out.
Okay, which helped the.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But, it's still really, really bad.
Okay, I don't.
I really don't think anyoneprobably cares about this.
We will get to the mouth tapevery quickly, but if you snore.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, do you?
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I've tried.
Everything is what I'm tryingto get at here.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I know I snore when I have been drinking.
Yes, um, I've been told.
There's no actual proof.
I was there.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Did you video me?
I had to earplug myself everynight on the cruise.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, so I snore when I drink yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And I do snore, like sometimes I don't snore on my
side or whatever, but I alwayssnore my back, even after having
had my deviated septum fixed.
I had sinus surgery.
They fixed my deviated septumfixed.
I had sinus surgery.
They fixed my deviated septum.
I have pillar implants in mysoft palate.
I have plastic implants in mysoft palate to help it.
You're falling apart.
The idea is that the scar tissuewill form around the pillar
(07:15):
implants and that it willprevent your soft palate from
collapsing, which is one of thereasons people snore right?
I also shaved.
They shaved off my uvula, whichis the dangly thing in the back
of my throat.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I know what.
Yeah, I know what that is.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That was for the people who may not know.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh okay, it's the dangly thing, like when you see
cartoon opera singers and it'sall.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, that was how I made like the rolling R sound.
Can you not do it now?
I can't do it because my tonguetongue is tied.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm all fucked up okay, like that is the saddest
thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's a but I have to use like the side of my
tongue anyway, so I have nodangly thing now okay for the
people, um, and it's, and Istill snore, so fast forward to
tiktok and I'm like there's nofucking way, that is such
bullshit, yeah.
And then I run into a friend ofmine at the gym and he's all.
He's like, yeah, we somehow geton on mouth tape.
And he's like, yeah, I mouthtape religiously, it helps me
(08:08):
sleep so much better.
Um, I don't snore anymore andI'm like this is an actual, real
person in my life telling meand I had never heard of this
until you told me about it.
I did not know this was a thingthat existed in the world which
is why we're talking about ithere on a more public platform,
because I think I think peopleneed to know about mouth tape,
because I have not snored sinceI started taping my mouth a
(08:30):
month ago.
You're a big fan, I know youare.
I'm a huge fan, I'm sleepingbetter.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
A mouth tape proselytizer I am.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'm I'm a mouth tape devotee.
Call me a fan.
I'm a big fan of mouth tape and, um, I did not think it was
real, but my husband is sleepingbetter, jeremy.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I know who I'm familiar with, jeremy's sleeping
better, because I'm not.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's not constantly telling me to roll over and stop
snoring, yeah.
I'm sleeping better.
I'm waking up like way fewer.
I don't wake up and like needto pee or have a drink of water
because I'm asleep.
Huh, okay.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So I call you and I tell you about this cause.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know that you snore .
I don't know if you care or not, but if you did.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I do care and my and my husband cares, he says.
He claims that it's not so mucha a big like guttural snore as
it is a very heavy breathing,like he says it's kind of cute
which I don't think he reallyactually means, because he tells
me all the time hey, honey,could you turn over?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
if it was that cute he wouldn't be telling me
sometimes, um, he wouldn't betelling me to turn over right,
if it was that cute, he'd bebegging you to snore more
exactly which?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
so you call me and tell me about the mouth taste.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And I'm like dude and I said what is this?
And asked for a screenshot ofit.
So I have props here, If you'reif you're a patron, where did
you buy this one?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I got this on TikTok because I don't know where else
to buy it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, I purchased on TikTok, which had the same
picture, didn't have the samewriting, and I got this.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, didn't have the same writing and I got this.
Okay, that's clearly off-brand,yeah, so these ones that I have
it comes with like a 30-daysupply.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I do think there's 60 in.
I'm sure there are a lot.
Maybe there's 30.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Mine says 30-piece, yours says nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, we don't know.
I could take them out and countthem, but I'm not going to do
that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It looks about the same.
That looks like 30, right?
I would say probably so.
I'm sure there are lots ofdifferent kinds of mouth tape.
I did buy another kind, we feelmine feel a little bit
scratchier.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
maybe let's look at the back.
They kind of oh there adifferent backing.
Mine have a mouth hole pre-cut,yeah, which is part of why I
specifically bought these.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So the reason that we're sharing this is because I
have not.
I have not had any problems.
It doesn't irritate my skin.
It says right on the packagebreathable, hypoallergenic, like
okay, I thought for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Again mine says nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I thought for sure.
Again, mine says nothing.
I thought for sure this wouldbe like what's the word I'm
looking for?
Like I'd be claustrophobic.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I tried it for the firsttime, me too.
And my friend that was tellingme about the mouth tape said
well, yeah, I mean you got tokind of get used to it, but you
can kind of breathe through itand stuff like that Well,
especially if you have thebiggest mouth hole.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You can't really talk through it.
But what I do?
You think that's what jeremylikes the most?
Yeah, he's, he's like.
I should have taped your mouthshut a long time ago.
We're years behind, we'redecades behind this, so what I
do is fold it fold it in halfand in quarters like we're
making an old school snake,because my kind doesn't come and
I'm just gonna call it myfavorite kind, because it
doesn't irritate my skin and Idid buy another kind that did
irritate my skin.
this kind does not irritate myskin and I did buy another kind
(11:43):
that did irritate my skin.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
This kind does not irritate my skin.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I cut just the tiniest little like bloop there
and then it has the hole.
And when it has the tiny holeyou can.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's a much tinier hole than my hole.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, your hole's much bigger than my hole, that's
very true.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Can I see one of yours and try to cut one.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And, yes, one of yours and try to cut one.
And, yes, I want to trysomething.
I will show you how this workswhen I'm ready to go to bed, to
turn in for the night and allthe panky panky's done and it's
time to sleep.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's night, night time.
Okay, good night, honey.
I love you.
Okay, so I can understand whatyou're saying and the fact that
it's hot pink and looks like youhave the weirdest biggest lips
of all time it's really okay,I'm gonna try something here
also if I need a drink of water.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
If I need a drink of water, I can peel it off and put
it back and it does not hurtokay, I'm gonna have to get
these, because look at howpretty my mouth hole is your
mouth hole is very pretty.
You want to know what I did.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I didn't do the whole like let's try to even them out
.
I just did it again and wentbloop so mouth tape tape hack.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Thank you, christmas, that's very smart.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Um, okay, so this is mine.
I'm gonna put it on, but I amgonna do the thing that I have
found that I have to do.
They both have this kind ofwavy pattern at the back do they
, yeah, they do yeah.
I'm gonna put it on my handstick once, pull off, stick
(13:21):
twice, pull off, stick twice,pull off to try to get it a
little less tacky, because minekind of hurt like a son of a
bitch when I was taking them off.
I will say these do notirritate my skin.
I do find I too sleep, don'twake.
I shouldn't say I wake up less.
(13:42):
Yeah, in the night I don'tsnore, mm-hmm, and that's a plus
for everyone involved.
Okay, so I'm on here and youcan probably still kind of hear
me.
You don't sound great, but Ican hear you.
(14:02):
I can still drink through mywater bottle, through the straw,
and that was really easy totake off.
But I have to do the like stickremove, stick remove.
Okay.
Wait, you try one of mine andI'm going to try one of yours
without doing the stick removeOkay.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Also, I have like lotion and powder and stuff on
right now which I wouldn't havebefore bed Right, right, right,
right so that was easier toremove than it usually is.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay.
But all it basically does isI'm a trash person and I forget
to wash my face all the time.
So it's just fucking magic,it's science, it's just science
I?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I cannot speak to the jaw tightening whether one of
the things that they say on anykind of advert like there is
advertisement.
I think it's pronouncedadvertisement the lore around
mouth taping includes the ideathat it might chisel your or
what snatch your jawline, asthey say I would love a snatched
jawline yeah me too.
(15:02):
I don't know what all thiswaddle is down here okay, these
days, but excuse you, birdie I'mgonna try.
Okay, I'm gonna try one of your.
Okay, dangerously sticky maybeokay, what?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
what am I doing wrong ?
Why does this not want to comeoff?
Okay, what am I doing wrong?
You know what's your problem.
I got it.
I got it.
It didn't have a slit.
Okay, I'm not doing the stickand release.
I didn't do the stick andrelease either.
(15:38):
This is gonna hurt.
You're gonna save money onwaxing your mustache.
Do I sound the same?
I cut a bigger mouthful thanyou did.
Yeah, I know I don't soundgreat, especially if I put my
finger in my mouth.
Okay, so Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't know.
I think your skin's moresensitive than mine, because
that wasn't bad.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That was way better than what those are.
I wonder also if they're on allnight.
If they like, get stickier orstick more.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I do think the longer it's on, like it does seem to
adhere.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Better more.
Yeah Well, I'm going to have toget some of those and these.
I will going to have to getsome of those and these.
I will continue to play withwith the.
I think last time I did it Ionly did the like stick and
remove once and on my hand andmaybe I got to do stick, remove
twice.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, everyone can make their own decision and
strategy around this, but for me, I just want I just wanted to
share this mouth taping advicebecause it does work.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I'm sleeping better if you snore, if you share this
challenge, this is also forpeople who are either sleeping
alone or have been with theirperson for a while.
If you're trying to be sexy andcute, this ain't it.
It's not sexy and cute.
Yeah, but snoring's not cuteeither, yes, also.
(17:03):
So, um, so, I guess.
Um, the ones that you got arecalled queen tape.
Don't sleep poorly, sleep likea queen, uh, running low.
This is where you buy them,yeah, roomrefcom.
I bought mine on TikTok also,and they did have queen on them,
(17:25):
and I don't know if it saidqueen tape, I feel like it did.
But what arrived and this was,mind you, the first time I've
ever bought anything on TikTokmy card also got hacked, but I
don't know if it was from that.
It could have been fromanything.
Um, this is what I got.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So so, there you have it, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Mouth tape.
Thanks for joining us for themouth tape tutorial Do you think
it makes your lips more chapped?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I usually put a little bit of lip balm on before
I go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I need lip balm right now, just because it's rainy
and dry outside.
I do think, if I don't, thatsounded stupid.
It's rainy and dry outside.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It is raining a lot but it's winter and dry
typically.
So yeah, that would be myadvice.
Put a little bit of lip balm on, otherwise, happy taping, bye,
Bye.
Hi everyone.
I'm Christmas and I'm Kara andthis is dead mom scavenger hunt
and this is birdie.
For those of you who arePatreons and can see the video,
my adorable dog is joining us atthe moment.
Um, she will be seen andhopefully not very heard.
Lay down, no, lay down, Vamp.
(00:20):
Will I get her to lay down?
She loves me.
She does.
Well, she'll figure it out Oncewe stop paying attention to her
.
She will lay down.
So Kara is very passionateabout mouth tape and demanded
that we post-haste, right out ofthe gate, do an episode about
mouth tape.
You want to?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This is an educational show.
This is very important that weshare our knowledge with the
masses.
You want to talk to the peopleabout mouth tape.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I do and then I want to hear how you feel about mouth
tape, because you have beendeveloping some opinions about
mouth tape also okay, so I'llset the stage here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
let's set the scene.
Somehow my tiktok algorithm hasbeen showing me all of these
mouth tape options and I've beengetting wind that I should.
I'm sorry I can't focus rightnow.
Your dog is too much.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
She's just.
She's just trying to be cuteand get attention.
She'll settle down.
You just got to ignore, but sheloves you so much and, for
those of you who are Patreons,you can see her.
For those of you that aren't,you are missing out because
she's fucking adorable, fuckingadorable.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, you're too much .
I love you.
I can't handle it.
Okay, back to the mouth tape.
We do tend to get a littlesidetracked.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We're going to work on that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I mean, I've kind of been working on that my whole
life and it's probably nevergoing to change.
It's the ADHD.
Is it part of our charm?
I don't know, we'll find out.
Yeah, okay, sorry for the extralittle noises there.
I'm trying to get comfortableunder the table.
Okay, so here we go.
My TikTok feed is full of mouthtape and I apparently it does
(01:55):
all these amazing things.
It helps you not snore, itchisels your jawline, you get
better sleep and all this stuff.
And I'm like really curious,because I've snored my whole
life to varying degrees.
It used to be absolutely like afreight train.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All the time, all the time, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I have had my tonsils and my adenoids out.
I didn't they didn't take thetonsils out because of the
snoring, but that did help alittle.
Yeah, they used to abscess allthe time and so I had my tonsils
.
Did you get strep all the time?
I didn't get strep, I don'tknow.
I don't think I've ever evenhad strep throat, but they would
just get really inflamed andinfected and then they would
abscess.
I almost died when I was 12 or11 because of it, cause I don't
(02:37):
remember that I wasn't living.
I was living in Canada and youwere a teenager.
You would have been 16 andcould probably have cared less
about what was going on with meat the time as an 11 year old.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I can tell you that at 16, I probably could give a
shit less about anyone except myown self.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, 16 year old, it wasn't just me.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, 16 year old girl form.
I really had the blinders onabout.
How does this affect mePrecisely?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, so yeah.
So when I was 11, I'll justgive you the short version of
this story they abscessed and Iw it was so bad I could only
drool Like I couldn't evenswallow, and I I ended up
spending like three days in ahospital.
We were camping, we werespending some vacation time in
Banff, canada.
I'm familiar.
Okay, so we were in Banff and myfamily was out there and we
(03:20):
didn't.
Um, basically, I, my mom, droveme to a hospital where I stayed
for a few days by myselfbecause the family was still.
It was kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The family was still on vacation and they just went
on the vacation and left me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They left me in the hospital and, um, I refused an
IV, so they were having, likethey were coming in once a day
to bring me horse pills that Iwould try to swallow and was
actually.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You only have to get the IV once and then you're good
to go.
The horse pills you got to doevery day.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was 11.
Sure, I was very stubborn, mymom.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Wow, I can tell you that hasn't changed.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, and I like, of course, looking back away with
that, but I refused the idea iv.
It kept getting worse.
Um well, your mom was like I'mgoing on vacation.
Bye, yeah, I mean, there wasmore involved, it's not just.
It wasn't that simple.
I was traumatized by this, yes,but my stepdad was there and he
(04:17):
was on a fishing trip and hewas really.
He was like a really bad duderight and he was really abusive
and terrible, and so I think mymom was she had like he will
never get a tip of the hat orcheers, or he gets um, what's
the opposite of a tip of the hat, um.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I hope right now you a shove of the shiv, a shove of
the shiv of the shiv, yeah, or Ihope that you have terrible,
terrible hemorrhoids everysingle day yeah yeah um a hell
of a hemorrhoid.
Yeah, hell of a hemorrhoid.
I don't even want to say hisname whatever, no, we're not
going to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It doesn't matter, he's dead to me yeah anyway,
there were other circumstancesthat made it so that I we stay.
I stayed at the hospital for afew days.
I survived, whatever.
There was a little traumaticexperience where I was so
dehydrated.
They did bring me tea one dayand I drank it and then
immediately had to pee and itcame out the same color as I
(05:14):
should have told this adifferent way, but I thought I
started my period.
Was it like hibiscus tea?
No, but it was like dark.
I had never had a period.
I thought I just knew it wasbrownish.
Okay, is it misty?
No, but it was like dark.
I had never had a period.
I thought I just knew it wasbrownish.
Okay, but it's not really, Idon't know, right, right right,
right, like it can be, but Imean, we're getting really off
track.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
right now, let's land the plane.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, I ended up.
They sent me home with myparents.
I ended up going back to thehospital later that night, seen
an abscess tonsil before becausethey're not very common.
This is an abscess.
You need to.
We can take her by ambulance oryou can drive her, but she's
got to go to the children'shospital in vancouver right now
to get her mom drove me in there.
My mom and my grandma drove meinto vancouver.
(05:53):
They know not to get out theyhad to stick a needle down my
throat, but um into the spacebetween my tonsil, into the
abscess, and um drain thecessGross.
And they pulled out like fiveor 10 cc's.
It was a lot Like the doctorwas like holy shit, that was a
lot, so this didn't help withyour snoring.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
This is just a complete sidebar.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Total sidebar.
Yeah, but eventually I did getmy tonsils out, because they
abscessed again when I was 16.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Gotcha okay, and then I had them out.
Okay, which helped the.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But, it's still really, really bad.
Okay, I don't.
I really don't think anyoneprobably cares about this.
We will get to the mouth tapevery quickly, but if you snore.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, do you?
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I've tried.
Everything is what I'm tryingto get at here.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I know I snore when I have been drinking.
Yes, um, I've been told.
There's no actual proof.
I was there.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Did you video me?
I had to earplug myself everynight on the cruise.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, so I snore when I drink yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And I do snore, like sometimes I don't snore on my
side or whatever, but I alwayssnore my back, even after having
had my deviated septum fixed.
I had sinus surgery.
They fixed my deviated septumfixed.
I had sinus surgery.
They fixed my deviated septum.
I have pillar implants in mysoft palate.
I have plastic implants in mysoft palate to help it.
You're falling apart.
The idea is that the scar tissuewill form around the pillar
(07:15):
implants and that it willprevent your soft palate from
collapsing, which is one of thereasons people snore right?
I also shaved.
They shaved off my uvula, whichis the dangly thing in the back
of my throat.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I know what.
Yeah, I know what that is.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That was for the people who may not know.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh okay, it's the dangly thing, like when you see
cartoon opera singers and it'sall.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, that was how I made like the rolling R sound.
Can you not do it now?
I can't do it because my tonguetongue is tied.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm all fucked up okay, like that is the saddest
thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's a but I have to use like the side of my
tongue anyway, so I have nodangly thing now okay for the
people, um, and it's, and Istill snore, so fast forward to
tiktok and I'm like there's nofucking way, that is such
bullshit, yeah.
And then I run into a friend ofmine at the gym and he's all.
He's like, yeah, we somehow geton on mouth tape.
And he's like, yeah, I mouthtape religiously, it helps me
(08:08):
sleep so much better.
Um, I don't snore anymore andI'm like this is an actual, real
person in my life telling meand I had never heard of this
until you told me about it.
I did not know this was a thingthat existed in the world which
is why we're talking about ithere on a more public platform,
because I think I think peopleneed to know about mouth tape,
because I have not snored sinceI started taping my mouth a
(08:30):
month ago.
You're a big fan, I know youare.
I'm a huge fan, I'm sleepingbetter.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
A mouth tape proselytizer I am.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'm I'm a mouth tape devotee.
Call me a fan.
I'm a big fan of mouth tape and, um, I did not think it was
real, but my husband is sleepingbetter, jeremy.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I know who I'm familiar with, jeremy's sleeping
better, because I'm not.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's not constantly telling me to roll over and stop
snoring, yeah.
I'm sleeping better.
I'm waking up like way fewer.
I don't wake up and like needto pee or have a drink of water
because I'm asleep.
Huh, okay.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So I call you and I tell you about this cause.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know that you snore .
I don't know if you care or not, but if you did.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I do care and my and my husband cares, he says.
He claims that it's not so mucha a big like guttural snore as
it is a very heavy breathing,like he says it's kind of cute
which I don't think he reallyactually means, because he tells
me all the time hey, honey,could you turn over?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
if it was that cute he wouldn't be telling me
sometimes, um, he wouldn't betelling me to turn over right,
if it was that cute, he'd bebegging you to snore more
exactly which?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
so you call me and tell me about the mouth taste.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And I'm like dude and I said what is this?
And asked for a screenshot ofit.
So I have props here, If you'reif you're a patron, where did
you buy this one?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I got this on TikTok because I don't know where else
to buy it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, I purchased on TikTok, which had the same
picture, didn't have the samewriting, and I got this.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, didn't have the same writing and I got this.
Okay, that's clearly off-brand,yeah, so these ones that I have
it comes with like a 30-daysupply.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I do think there's 60 in.
I'm sure there are a lot.
Maybe there's 30.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Mine says 30-piece, yours says nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, we don't know.
I could take them out and countthem, but I'm not going to do
that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It looks about the same.
That looks like 30, right?
I would say probably so.
I'm sure there are lots ofdifferent kinds of mouth tape.
I did buy another kind, we feelmine feel a little bit
scratchier.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
maybe let's look at the back.
They kind of oh there adifferent backing.
Mine have a mouth hole pre-cut,yeah, which is part of why I
specifically bought these.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So the reason that we're sharing this is because I
have not.
I have not had any problems.
It doesn't irritate my skin.
It says right on the packagebreathable, hypoallergenic, like
okay, I thought for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Again mine says nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I thought for sure.
Again, mine says nothing.
I thought for sure this wouldbe like what's the word I'm
looking for?
Like I'd be claustrophobic.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I tried it for the firsttime, me too.
And my friend that was tellingme about the mouth tape said
well, yeah, I mean you got tokind of get used to it, but you
can kind of breathe through itand stuff like that Well,
especially if you have thebiggest mouth hole.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You can't really talk through it.
But what I do?
You think that's what jeremylikes the most?
Yeah, he's, he's like.
I should have taped your mouthshut a long time ago.
We're years behind, we'redecades behind this, so what I
do is fold it fold it in halfand in quarters like we're
making an old school snake,because my kind doesn't come and
I'm just gonna call it myfavorite kind, because it
doesn't irritate my skin and Idid buy another kind that did
irritate my skin.
this kind does not irritate myskin and I did buy another kind
(11:43):
that did irritate my skin.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
This kind does not irritate my skin.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I cut just the tiniest little like bloop there
and then it has the hole.
And when it has the tiny holeyou can.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's a much tinier hole than my hole.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, your hole's much bigger than my hole, that's
very true.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Can I see one of yours and try to cut one.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And, yes, one of yours and try to cut one.
And, yes, I want to trysomething.
I will show you how this workswhen I'm ready to go to bed, to
turn in for the night and allthe panky panky's done and it's
time to sleep.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's night, night time.
Okay, good night, honey.
I love you.
Okay, so I can understand whatyou're saying and the fact that
it's hot pink and looks like youhave the weirdest biggest lips
of all time it's really okay,I'm gonna try something here
also if I need a drink of water.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
If I need a drink of water, I can peel it off and put
it back and it does not hurtokay, I'm gonna have to get
these, because look at howpretty my mouth hole is your
mouth hole is very pretty.
You want to know what I did.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I didn't do the whole like let's try to even them out
.
I just did it again and wentbloop so mouth tape tape hack.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Thank you, christmas, that's very smart.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Um, okay, so this is mine.
I'm gonna put it on, but I amgonna do the thing that I have
found that I have to do.
They both have this kind ofwavy pattern at the back do they
, yeah, they do yeah.
I'm gonna put it on my handstick once, pull off, stick
(13:21):
twice, pull off, stick twice,pull off to try to get it a
little less tacky, because minekind of hurt like a son of a
bitch when I was taking them off.
I will say these do notirritate my skin.
I do find I too sleep, don'twake.
I shouldn't say I wake up less.
(13:42):
Yeah, in the night I don'tsnore, mm-hmm, and that's a plus
for everyone involved.
Okay, so I'm on here and youcan probably still kind of hear
me.
You don't sound great, but Ican hear you.
(14:02):
I can still drink through mywater bottle, through the straw,
and that was really easy totake off.
But I have to do the like stickremove, stick remove.
Okay.
Wait, you try one of mine andI'm going to try one of yours
without doing the stick removeOkay.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Also, I have like lotion and powder and stuff on
right now which I wouldn't havebefore bed Right, right, right,
right so that was easier toremove than it usually is.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay.
But all it basically does isI'm a trash person and I forget
to wash my face all the time.
So it's just fucking magic,it's science, it's just science
I?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I cannot speak to the jaw tightening whether one of
the things that they say on anykind of advert like there is
advertisement.
I think it's pronouncedadvertisement the lore around
mouth taping includes the ideathat it might chisel your or
what snatch your jawline, asthey say I would love a snatched
jawline yeah me too.
(15:02):
I don't know what all thiswaddle is down here okay, these
days, but excuse you, birdie I'mgonna try.
Okay, I'm gonna try one of your.
Okay, dangerously sticky maybeokay, what?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
what am I doing wrong ?
Why does this not want to comeoff?
Okay, what am I doing wrong?
You know what's your problem.
I got it.
I got it.
It didn't have a slit.
Okay, I'm not doing the stickand release.
I didn't do the stick andrelease either.
(15:38):
This is gonna hurt.
You're gonna save money onwaxing your mustache.
Do I sound the same?
I cut a bigger mouthful thanyou did.
Yeah, I know I don't soundgreat, especially if I put my
finger in my mouth.
Okay, so Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't know.
I think your skin's moresensitive than mine, because
that wasn't bad.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That was way better than what those are.
I wonder also if they're on allnight.
If they like, get stickier orstick more.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I do think the longer it's on, like it does seem to
adhere.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Better more.
Yeah Well, I'm going to have toget some of those and these.
I will going to have to getsome of those and these.
I will continue to play withwith the.
I think last time I did it Ionly did the like stick and
remove once and on my hand andmaybe I got to do stick, remove
twice.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, everyone can make their own decision and
strategy around this, but for me, I just want I just wanted to
share this mouth taping advicebecause it does work.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I'm sleeping better if you snore, if you share this
challenge, this is also forpeople who are either sleeping
alone or have been with theirperson for a while.
If you're trying to be sexy andcute, this ain't it.
It's not sexy and cute.
Yeah, but snoring's not cuteeither, yes, also.
(17:03):
So, um, so, I guess.
Um, the ones that you got arecalled queen tape.
Don't sleep poorly, sleep likea queen, uh, running low.
This is where you buy them,yeah, roomrefcom.
I bought mine on TikTok also,and they did have queen on them,
(17:25):
and I don't know if it saidqueen tape, I feel like it did.
But what arrived and this was,mind you, the first time I've
ever bought anything on TikTokmy card also got hacked, but I
don't know if it was from that.
It could have been fromanything.
Um, this is what I got.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So so, there you have it, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Mouth tape.
Thanks for joining us for themouth tape tutorial Do you think
it makes your lips more chapped?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I usually put a little bit of lip balm on before
I go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I need lip balm right now, just because it's rainy
and dry outside.
I do think, if I don't, thatsounded stupid.
It's rainy and dry outside.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It is raining a lot but it's winter and dry
typically.
So yeah, that would be myadvice.
Put a little bit of lip balm on, otherwise, happy taping, bye,
Bye.
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