February 17, 2025 • 37 mins
In part one of this two-part episode, Dave, Jon, and Ben share foods related to the weirdness of the human body. Then, they asked some Fat, Dumb, and Happy questions to Dave's brother-in-law in medical school, Phil! He gave healthy, smart, and happy answers that they take turns reading. Thanks to a FDH randomizer, the guys go through various systems in the human body to talk about what makes the human body so interesting, weird, and hilarious! It is a great time!
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What ever really happened to dudes calling each other best friends?
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Dave and John grew up in the 80s in New Jersey and they did everything together.
They were the quintessential best friends until they became teenagers and Dave moved
away.
Fast forward to today and these two 40-somethings reconnected and decided to not only be besties
again but to put on a podcast and share their reunion with anyone who will listen.
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Welcome to Fat, Dumb and Happy.
Guys, everybody, welcome back to another awesome episode of Fat, Dumb and Happy.
We are so happy to have our fans here for another hilarious episode.
In this episode, we are going to dive into the physiological reasons why we are so
Fat, Dumb and Happy.
We are talking about the weirdness of the human body or bodily oddities, if you will.
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We are going to laugh about the bizarre, baffling and downright disgusting things that our magnificent
meat suits do.
That word, meat suits, is so gross.
No, I love it.
Buckle up, folks.
It's about to get weird.
I'm John, your host for this episode and with me as always is my hand man and bro host,
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double-jointed Dave.
Yeah.
I was the old body treating it tonight, sir.
Dude, I'm so freaking old.
I'm just glad that I'm awake still.
I'm ready for my nap.
Let's do this thing.
All right.
Also, on this episode is a man with four additional years walking around in his flash bag.
I'm a special guest expert.
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Ben, are you ready to share your old man body wisdom with us tonight?
Yeah, if my old brain can remember it.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, that's me lately.
Also, we recognize that we are Fat, Dumb and Happy, but we have sent question to Dave's
brother-in-law, Phil, who is in the medical school right now to provide us with healthy,
smart and happy answers.
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So be sure to stay tuned for that later in the show, and Phil, we thank you for helping
us out.
Yeah.
But first, first we got the food portion of our episode.
I always love this part.
This one was interesting.
Yeah.
So what I did was I got cow tails.
I never seen these until like, or at least I haven't noticed them till like this past
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year or so.
Oh, really?
I got caramel with some, I guess, I don't want to call it cream filling because it's
like, you know, like Oreos or something, you know, like mostly sugar and I don't know
what it is.
Yeah.
But some white stuff in the middle.
Some white stuff.
Humans don't have tails, but then I'm like, you know, we have tail bones.
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So.
Yeah.
Have you ever had a cow tail, Ben?
Is this the first one?
I had one this year, I think.
Okay, you had one this year.
Yeah.
No, that's all right.
Is that right?
Yeah.
I think that's how we'd feel if we had tails still.
We'd be like, it's all right.
I know.
Just kind of hanging around, gets in the way of my pants and stuff.
I mean, if I could like grab things with it and stuff like that.
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That would be cool.
Pencil tail or something like that.
Yes.
You're like, are you right handed or left handed?
Like, no, I'm tail handed.
I'm right with my tail.
That's weird.
Like we said, weird.
Weird.
Let the weird roll on for sure.
Yeah.
So, John, what about you?
What did you bring?
So, I was thinking about the human body and I was thinking about our board game episode.
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Yes.
So, I was thinking about the game operation and how in operation he's got all the little
like the bone little thing fragment you take out and stuff like that.
Well, one of them is ribs.
You take out your ribs.
Not thinking let me do some ribs, but ribs are expensive.
So, I didn't do ribs.
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But right here by the belly, he's got the bread basket and some bread.
Nice.
I'll toast.
There we go.
There we go.
That's what I did for today.
That's awesome.
I was following that logic all the way through, man.
That was solid.
So, John, you eat straight bread fine normal or do you jazz it up with like garlic bread
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or you know, other spices or something?
So, it's funny because the, when we talked about potatoes not too long ago, I only eat
potato bread like sandwiches and toast and stuff like that.
Right.
I think it's a great bread for like a roast beef sandwich.
Oh.
But yeah, so this was just your basic potato bread with just made into some toast.
Nice.
I do like to throw the occasional cinnamon on there.
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Yeah.
Nice.
But right now it was bad enough because even the room temperature butter was still like
frozen because it's cold here right now.
Oh, dang.
So, yeah, so like took a minute to melt and all that.
So, I didn't have any patience.
Yeah.
I just had a little bit of a toast.
If we were kids, me and Ben would be like, you had butter fancy because we were the
margarine family, if you remember.
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Oh, no.
We had the margarine too, trust me.
Yeah.
My sister bougie like that.
bougie like that.
Nice.
Well, I decided, hey, what is the one food that us humans can produce?
Milk.
And I don't like plain milk anymore because I'm an adult.
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I'm just kidding.
I know John likes milk.
I like milk in my cereal, but I have here chocolate milk.
So basically, you know, that food that we can produce but plus chocolate and it's pretty
tasty.
Did that come from a brown cow?
Yeah.
If men were the ones that produced the milk, true or false, would we use it?
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You know what I mean?
Like, would it only go to the babies or would we be like, you know, running low on milk
in my cereal?
We'd be having like wars.
Yeah, wars exactly.
Like milk wars.
This is going to be a weird episode, you all.
Yeah, man.
We're deep in the weird.
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I don't know if that'll stay in, but it's pretty funny.
All right.
Like all the sleepovers we had, how many pranks would that would happen with?
Yeah.
With the milk?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
That was us?
No, sir.
Yeah.
Boys are gross.
Men are still kind of gross.
I think that's why God made it that way.
Milk would not mature.
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You can trust the women.
Yes.
Milk would not mature us.
Yeah, exactly.
It would only make us worse.
Let's get into the main part of the episode.
Like we said, we're talking about the human body and we're going to kick it off with those
questions we asked my brother-in-law, Phil, in medical school.
He's all of our brothers-in-law now.
Yeah.
He's officially part of the Fat Dumb and Happy family.
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And we all take him in as brothers-in-law, by law.
Yeah.
He's our brother.
Yeah, Phil, except for that he said he was too busy, too cool, too smart, too good-looking,
too many things to be on the episode with us.
Just kidding.
I made that part up.
He was just too busy.
All right.
So we asked a bunch of Fat Dumb and Happy questions to Phil and he got some great answers.
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And since he's not able to join us live on the podcast, we're going to play the part
of Phil, if you will.
We're going to take turns reading the question and somebody else answering it.
And hey, bonus points if you can sound like Dr. Hibbert or Dr. Phil or somebody else.
Yes.
Just for the record, I had to walk through four different women to get to the exit yesterday
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during work.
So I could go to lunch.
They were just like standing there.
Yeah.
They were just like, you were just like awkwardly.
And I'm like, hi, everybody.
Hi, Dr. Nick.
Dang it.
That's funny.
That's such a shame, man.
Yeah.
Were they like, let's see.
I don't know if Dr. Nick's still a primary part of the Simpsons.
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Maybe they were too young.
That's disappointing.
I think that was Hank Azaria.
So I think you could also do that poo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who went woke and got off the show.
Okay.
Hi, everybody.
Hi.
Okay.
Let's kick us off with this first question.
What is the dumbest organ or part of the body?
Okay.
So per fill, this is just a personal opinion and not really based on science, but toenails.
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They're annoying to cut.
He's had multiple ingrown toenails that become infected or very painful.
And they really don't serve much purpose.
I'd never thought about that.
That is true, right?
Yeah.
Same.
I also think they're a little ugly.
Even seeing painted toenails just looks funky to me.
And this is all filled.
I concur 100%.
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Sure.
Maybe they reduce the damage from toe stubbing and maybe our distant ancestors may have used
them for improved traction and to grasp things.
Wow.
How long are your toenails if you're grasping things?
Yeah.
But think of how hard it is to pick up a dime without fingernails.
That's true.
But it's true.
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We can't do that anymore.
They just get in the way.
Okay.
Rant over.
Nice.
Good answer, Phil.
I feel like I know you already, buddy.
I know.
You're the legit.
On the toenails, I agree.
When I lived in El Salvador, I had ingrown toenails and I had to have one cut down both
sides and then removed.
And I'm sitting there in the hospital getting my big toenail removed.
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And this guy's just like, think of the beach.
Think of the beach.
La Playa.
La Playa.
The beach.
I'm like, bro, that's not helping.
No.
At all.
Zero.
Everywhere.
Sand everywhere.
Yeah, sand everywhere.
Sunburns.
And so eventually when I came back here, I ended up having to get the whole toenail removed.
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Man.
You can't even tell, though, because they're like, they put some acid on top and you can
barely even notice if you didn't know that.
Dang, there you go.
All right.
So if you could add a new organ to the body, like a tail, what would it be and what would
it do?
All right.
Here's what Phil says.
He says, an organ at the end of the line that could make smells less noxious.
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Yes.
Just like a pre spray, you know, spray that like, it's like a poopery.
Yeah.
It's like a poopery.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It filters through.
I think that's genius.
He also says a new endocrine gland that connected with the emotional centers of our brain and
produces different skin pigments, depending on our emotions, essentially making us into
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a mood ring.
I would have what help us better understand what those emotions are and signal to others
the same.
But then people wouldn't be able to lie as much.
Perhaps that could help some people, though, who need the extra emotional support.
Yes.
Genius.
We could live in a world with less liars.
I'm okay with that.
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Yeah, really.
And little inside out in real life, like, you know, you just know when someone's sad
or happy or angry or whatever, and you're like, you doing okay?
And they're just red.
You're like, no, I'm fine.
Yeah.
I'm totally fine.
Like, okay.
Nope.
You're angry.
Congress and the Senate would all be the same color every day.
Yeah.
All right.
What is the funniest medical term you have learned?
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All right, Phil says, gubernaculum, a cord of connective tissue that helps guide the
descent of the testes from the embryological location in the abdomen near the kidneys to
the scrotum while a male baby is developing in utero.
He says, perhaps the origin of the phrase, you're such a goober.
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Gubernaculum.
That is an interesting name for that.
That's awesome.
I'm gonna call somebody that tomorrow.
Yeah.
They call me gubernaculum, and then they look it up.
They're like, whoa, that's kind of weird.
I'm gonna be calling me that part of the body.
All right.
I also love the term anatomical snuff box, a presently used technical term.
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So that's like not an old term for the area on the dorsal thumb extending to the wrist,
which caves in when it is extended.
This is where the high class of your would add their snuff, you know, smokeless tobacco.
Their snuff of choice and from there, they would inhale it.
So if you extend your thumb all the way out, like right by your wrist, there's a little
dimple.
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It's called the anatomical snuff box.
So they would just put it in there and then they would sniff it.
He showed it to me.
It's crazy.
Yeah, exactly.
Just like that.
All right.
Next question.
Which organ is the squishiest?
Clearly the brain says, Bill.
It's made up a lot of myelin, which is mostly fat that insulates nerves and speeds up
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nerve impulses.
Second to that though, are the lungs.
They're very squishy, as well as to allow for deformity, changing shape and breathing.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
It's weird.
Like if you've ever watched Ray's Anatomy or any kind of medical show and they show
a brain, though it's fascinating because obviously they're not going to show us some
of his real brain, right?
Right, right.
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Real lungs.
The fact that they've kind of like nailed that down and made it look so real and they
do look squishy.
Yeah.
They're like, yep.
And Phil's been in a bunch of cadavers.
He's seen and touched and done all that stuff.
So he definitely knows.
He's an expert.
Gross, Bill.
Yeah, super gross.
Wash your hands next time you see me.
They're cadavers.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
What's the weirdest reflex?
Loose bumps.
Small muscles in his skin that cause the hair follicles to push up.
It is believed to be a vestigial reflex useful but only long ago and may have served two functions
for our hairier ancestors.
First raising the hair created a form of insulation where warm air could remain trapped, circulate
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closer to the skin.
And then he says, raised hair could make an animal look larger.
Think of an angry dog or cat with hair that stands on its ends to intimidate or assert
its territory.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Dude, I get goosebumps bad, like easy too.
My kids will start to tickle me and I'm like, just, I get covered down.
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So ticklish.
Yeah.
You guys?
I'm pretty ticklish too but I haven't really noticed goosebumps so much.
Yeah, look at your arms next time they tickle you maybe.
I'm more of a goosebumps in a feel good kind of way.
Ah, yes.
Like a happy ending kind of.
That's where I get mine the most.
Yeah, get the little chills but in the positive way.
Yeah, I get that.
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I never knew I thought they'd be a muscle though.
Yeah, it's a reflex.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Yeah.
He says, nowadays we get goosebumps when we're cold or have a heightened emotional experience.
But it doesn't do much good unless you're one of those guys that has a thick and mad
of hair all over his body.
That's what the show's called.
Fat Dumb and Hairy.
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Oh, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, we got some extended family and stuff that has some pretty hairy arms and
stuff like that.
I'm in the middle I think, not too much.
Do any internal organs smell more than others?
Great question.
I don't know if I want to know this answer.
Yeah.
So Phil says, not very original but the intestines, right?
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That makes sense.
That's where most of the bacteria live that help in part break down our food.
They get a share of nutrients and we get a share.
Some of the metabolic byproducts, their hoop if you will, are our nutrients like vitamin
K, short chain fatty acids which help reduce inflammation, et cetera.
So I didn't know that.
The byproducts, the intestines, poop basically is good for us.
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Another fun fact, an organ that smells, although indirectly, is the lungs.
This is only in the case of volatile agents, things that evaporate quickly like alcohol.
Thus, the blood alcohol breathalyzer tests.
One cool yet unfortunate thing about individuals with type 1 diabetes is they can have pleasant
smelling breath when they have episodes where they have too much sugar in their blood, a
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state called diabetic ketoacidosis.
Because type 1 diabetics are unable to get sugar into the cells due to a lack of insulin,
the cells are essentially starved and resort to breaking down fats to create fuel, ketones.
One of those ketones is acetone, the same active chemical of nail polish remover, which
is breathed out through the lungs.
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These patients that breathe out acetone exhaust will have a fruity smell on their breath.
Huh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Diabetics got something going for them.
Yeah.
All right.
So here's another question.
I've heard of crazy stories of doctors accidentally leaving a watch or something inside the patient.
What's the worst thing left in that you've heard of or the best?
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Good question.
I've just mostly heard of sponges or towels being left on the inside of patients, says
Phil.
This is why the surgery team always carefully counts the number of instruments and sponges
and towels before and after procedures to make sure nothing is left behind.
How bad would that be if the nurse at the beginning was like, we started with 12, but
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we're all sewn up.
We got them sewn up and we got 11.
Yeah, exactly.
So you got to open them back up and be like, I think there's one inside him still.
It was just on the floor the whole time.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, we started with 12 and this is a bad day.
We're down to seven right now.
I have no idea where those guys are.
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What's the margin of error on that?
Can we leave with 10?
Yeah.
What's your minus?
It could be worse.
You could have 13.
Yeah, exactly.
I could just see a surgeon being like, oh man, we paid for something right before the
start of the surgery and checking my wallet now and I'm missing a 20 or so.
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Oh yeah.
Stop going to the ATM before I do surgery.
Nobody's paying for the surgery.
Anybody see my, he's to my BMW.
The cash in there.
I don't go in for less than 100.
So if it's, let's just leave it.
It'll dissolve.
It's fine.
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It's fine.
It'll come out eventually.
That's right.
All right.
So if you left in a dozen D-sized batteries, what are the odds I developed something?
I'm kind of electrical superpower.
Good question.
Speaking of reading things inside of body.
Phil says, hmm, I don't know the science behind that, but I heard that Harvard researchers
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are looking into it.
I've also heard of a group called Hydra looking to see if they could develop a super soldier
who could spew acid onto their enemies.
This might be right up their alley.
Hill Hydra.
That's awesome.
Not so fun fact, if a child ingests a button battery or any battery, it is a medical emergency.
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It can become activated in the GI tract and erode the mucosa causing ulcers and possible
perforations of the organs.
Oh, geez.
Yeah, that's scary.
Yeah.
Those button batteries are small and even like triple A's are, they're like round.
So they go straight down your throat or whatever real easy.
Watch out.
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Any cool new medical technologies or hopeful future advancements that you have heard of?
All right.
Some cool things that Phil is sharing here.
Gene editing and stem cell therapy have a lot of hopeful treatments in the coming decades.
One example is an FDA approved gene editing treatment that can help treat and reverse
sickle cell anemia.
There are more treatments being studied that would improve possibly reverse inherited genetic
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conditions, which is very exciting.
There are also a lot of ethical debates and controversy around gene editing.
So it's a very fascinating field.
One recent study demonstrated stem cells that were able to regrow beta cells in the pancreas
and restore normal production of insulin in type one diabetics.
So individuals who could previously not produce insulin and were dependent on insulin injections.
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That's pretty awesome.
Yeah, that's cool.
It hasn't been approved for the general public yet because the FDA approval process for drugs
and treatments can sometimes take 10 plus years.
So my guess is in the next 10 to 20 years, we'll be seeing a lot of really cool treatments.
They may help regenerate tissue in the body like heart tissue and those who have heart
attacks, nervous tissue and those who have ALS, for example, and many others.
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There are already lots of stem cell treatments right now for skin and bone grafts and for
healing and restoring joints.
That's awesome.
Hope for the future, man.
That's pretty cool.
Neat.
Given your medical expertise and knowledge of the miraculous inner workings of the human
body and understanding you will soon be taking the Hippocratic oath, why are farts so funny?
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Yeah, Phil, why are farts so funny?
It's one of those social taboos where you're not supposed to pass gas or it is impolite
and people do it anyway.
I guess that's why I find it funny.
Things that go against expectations, taboos, social norms make me chuckle a little bit.
Yes.
I hope they always stay funny for all of us.
I mean, a random fart in a movie theater is funny.
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It's hilarious.
It doesn't matter what you're watching.
It's just like, yeah.
A quiet part?
You don't want to be the guy next to him, but you know.
If I had one in the chamber during a quiet place, that would have been perfect.
Just like really, really quiet.
Everyone's super nervous and I'm just like, hmm.
I would have been awesome.
But the thing is, I thought about this.
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Farts are funny because they make a funny noise and because they smell.
I feel like if they were only one or the other, they wouldn't be as funny.
Okay.
I got a quick story.
So nobody in my ex-family listened to this.
Someone tell it.
Here we go.
In Las Vegas, my ex-wife had the awesomest little grandma and grandpa.
La-chan and jichun.
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And they were Japanese.
You know, little man.
Just a little man.
Think of like up with Japanese.
And they were both deaf.
They were like, he'd fart and then he'd be like, he'd laugh.
Because he didn't understand that other people heard his fart.
So he tried to play it off.
Yeah.
Pretty funny, man.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
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He's pretty great.
All right.
Thanks again, Phil, for those awesome answers to our fat, dumb and happy questions.
You are awesome.
And if things change in the future and you want to be on the show, we would love to have
you.
All right.
Yes, sir.
So now we have a randomizer that's going to select human body systems.
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So we have, you know, stuff like the, you know, muscular system, the skeletal system,
all those things.
So I'm going to hit a button and we're going to randomize them and see what we get.
And then we'll talk about different parts of that system.
All right.
There we go.
Digestive.
All right.
In the digestive system, we have the mouth, the esophagus, gallbladder, the pancreas,
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the esophagus, stomach, intestines, salivary glands.
The appendix is part of that, I guess, too, the digestive system, the rectum and anus
and the liver.
So what part of that system do you guys want to talk about?
Ben, do you have something you want to share?
Yeah, I was just thinking about the mouth is like the only part of the body we regularly
cleaned inside of, you know.
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That's true.
You know, make it a habit of with a brushing and flossing and all that kind of stuff.
And part of it, I think it's just that like when something is wrong or something's in
our mouth that shouldn't be, at least for me, my tongue fixates on it.
Can't stop.
Yeah.
Popcorn in there.
Yes.
You know, it's like, I can't stop licking it.
Tongue around it and stuff.
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Yeah.
You know, I have a little sore in my mouth or something like that, you know.
I want to take good care of my mouth because otherwise I'm going to be going crazy with
my tongue.
Yeah.
I swear my tongue has ADHD, man, it's just like, oh, there's something.
There's something I want to mess with.
That is true for sure.
The mouth is so expensive.
Yeah.
You know, I'm pretty sure the mouth is my favorite orifice.
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I love to eat.
I love to laugh.
I love to make funny sounds and talk, but it also is one of the most painful, man.
Two thakes are terrible and canker sores and chapped lips and all those things.
It's a good point.
All right.
What else, guys?
I guess we clean our colons a lot too, Ben.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, it's a different way, yes.
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Very different way.
You know, the whole digestive system, if one thing goes wrong with it, it can kind of affect
everything else.
It seems like, you know, and especially for our podcast about fat, dumb and happy, we
love to eat, you know.
When that doesn't work well, like we eat something too much or something that just doesn't agree
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with us.
You know, it's going to affect our stomach, but it could affect things down on the other
end.
It just, it's just as miserable when one of these things doesn't do its job good.
Do you guys have a food that you just love but doesn't love you back pretty much every
time?
For me, it's like really spicy stuff.
I love it.
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And then it hurts.
So you guys have anything like that at all now?
For me, it's milkshakes, man.
Yeah.
I mean, Elias, like I can even pinpoint like water burger strawberry milkshakes.
Specifically.
Yeah.
Oh good.
Yeah, but destroy me later.
Like I'm like, I'm sitting there drinking.
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I'm like, I know I should not be doing this.
Well, I'm like, dumb, dumb.
You love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, not anymore.
Red dye has been outlawed.
No more strawberry shakes.
Oh man.
Well, they'll just be different colors.
See white strawberry shakes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Brownish or something.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
What about you, Ben?
Yellow.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
As far as for me, like every once in a while I'll have some food.
You know, when you're cooking, you know, like if you're cooking some ground beef or
something like that for a meal and you don't drain the fat enough and it's just extra greasy,
that kind of stuff can get to me down the road.
I'm like, oh man, too much of that.
Too much.
I had too much pizza or something and it happens to be a particularly greasy pizza or something,
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you know.
Yeah.
Oh, I shouldn't have ate that last slice, you know.
Yeah.
You know, salivary glands, that's the other thing for me.
I must have an overactive salivary glands because whenever I go to the dentist, like
they are always like draining so much.
Constantly.
You're just drowning over there.
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My mouth, man.
It's going on overdrive.
It's sitting in the juices up there.
You got like one of those little things at home like you're like, oh, you're watching
a movie or something.
Second at that because he's watching the food network and it's just drowning him.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
For me, salivary glands, dude, I can do the old glee.
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Remember, John, I taught you that when we were teenagers.
Oh, you did.
I was never as good as you are doing that though.
Yeah.
It's a skill that I'm not proud of.
But it's disgusting.
It is gross.
For anyone who doesn't know what glee is, basically you push the bottom of your tongue
up against the top front of your teeth and underneath your tongue, there's a gland that
can squirt like spray saliva.
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And sometimes it happens by accident.
You're yawning or you're taking a big bite and got Ben's hyperactive glands going.
You can squirt, especially if you glee.
If you glee, then you're kind of strengthening those muscles and it happens more often because
I know people that have never glee and like has had it happen.
We're just like the sprays out and they're like, what the heck?
Okay.
You guys ever seen the movie, The Benchwormers?
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There's a little kid.
His name is Sammy Sprinkles.
And it's just like every time he talks, it's like the spin every time.
Sammy Sprinkles.
We've all known of Sammy Sprinkles, right?
We have.
Do you guys know that the gallbladder is part of the digestive system?
But back in medieval times, it was thought that bile or gall was actually responsible
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for someone's bad temper and rude behavior.
So when people acted that way, people would say they had too much gall in their system,
AKA had the gall.
You know, we say like a person had the gall to come to the point and they weren't invited
or that kind of a thing.
That's where that comes from.
Okay.
They actually thought that like caused it in their body, their physiology or whatever.
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Man, they were so dumb back then.
They would like drain it and stuff if they had too much, I think, right?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
Open and try to drain some of it out.
I'm thinking that would cure you.
Geez.
I had to Google it.
I was like, what part of the system is the appendix?
And I guess it's part of the digestive system because it's like where it is located is at
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the end of the stomach or something like that.
And you know, we're like, what does this appendix do?
It just causes problems.
I thought the appendix was just useless.
Like it serves a real purpose.
Yeah, exactly.
Like people don't really know.
But if you let it rupture, it can kill you.
Yeah, exactly.
How ridiculous is that?
I know.
It's the worst.
It always reminds me of that Simpsons episode with the knife.
Do you guys remember that one?
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Bart just keeps wanting to get a knife from that scout troop or whatever.
And the last thing is Dr. Hibbert's like, this man's appendix is about to burst.
And he goes and he cuts it out and throws it like a grenade and it explodes.
So that was awesome.
Yeah.
Liver is my least favorite food.
I hate it.
It started a multi-day flu for me.
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And so like, yeah, it's the worst.
But my doctor said I had a fatty liver and I was like, that's dope doc.
Thanks.
Nice.
Nice.
That's tight.
Yeah.
All right.
Back to the randomizer.
Muscular system.
All right.
What comments do we have about the muscles?
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My left arm is way weaker than my right arm.
When I go to the gym, all right, let's be real.
It's been a minute since I've been to the gym, but when I did, I just won't do like the
bench press because I'd be like.
All slanty.
I'm struggling with my left arm.
I can do curls.
I can do curls with my arm, but like pushing.
Yeah, I can't do that.
Yeah.
It's just, I've always just been stronger on my right arm because that's my dominant
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arm, but I guess I just got an even amount.
Nah, it's too late for that dude.
No, I'm not.
Okay.
Well, I guess I'll just give up then.
Just give up.
Yeah.
You know, on occasion, you'll see like an app that is trying to get you to be healthy
or whatever, or even just a commercial.
You'll see like a figure and it'll show you like the fatty level, but then it'll show
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you like the muscular level, like what's hiding under the fat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that's where my abs are.
Sweet.
No, I know.
Where they are.
Yep.
They're just not visible to everybody.
You're a ripped dude, trapped inside of him.
Not so ripped body.
So if you guys could pick one of those muscles, so let's say what they are.
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So we got traps, delts, lats, pecs, biceps, abs, quads, hamstrings, calves, glutes, triceps.
If you could just have really awesome set of these muscles, which one would it be?
Ben?
It'd be abs for me.
I've always been jealous of people that have like well-defined six pack or something like
that, you know?
Right.
Yeah.
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I could definitely get rid of this gut here I got.
So, you know.
Yeah.
Same.
Same.
Yeah.
That's something that's tough to keep in shape, man.
But if you had a six pack but you were like fat everywhere else, is that possible?
That would be so weird.
How weird would that look?
How weird would that be, dude?
Just so there's stomach and just like totally toned six pack and then you just got like
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flabby arms.
But your pecs are still moobs.
Yeah, you still got moobs and thunder thighs.
What about you, John?
Definitely go abs.
I got pretty decent calves.
I feel like I have my whole life just playing soccer and ultimate.
They're pretty muscular.
Not going to lie.
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I'm talking about.
But definitely abs.
That's every dude wants good abs, man.
Yeah.
And in your little scenario, I don't have to do anything to get them.
So, I'll do that.
Just give it to me.
So, I agree.
And just to change it up though, I'm going to say biceps.
I feel like if you have like huge biceps, I mean like not if you're just fat everywhere
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else, but if you're like a semi normal dude, but your biceps are huge, it's like, yeah,
that dude's strong and fit and stuff like that.
Am I wrong with that?
What do you guys think?
I think the other way around though, because I think of it as if I had a good six pack,
I could have okay arms and get away with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I agree with you, Dave.
I think if you see somebody that's got strong biceps, even if you can see, maybe they're
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out of shape, but you know that they're probably pretty tough.
Like they're something good.
You know what I mean?
That's what I'm saying.
You have to get like shirts with sleeves that are too tight and have to have them like up
and just show them off all the time.
And biceps have utility.
I mean, I feel like you're going to use that a lot on picking up things or whatever, you
know, or yeah, good abs.
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I'm just not wearing shirts anymore.
So yeah, or just like crop tops.
Just kidding.
John and his like half shirts, just six pack showing all the time.
Like Steve Gutenberg and police Academy.
Yeah, exactly.
Like calves, do you guys get Charlie horses in your calves?
Yes, bro.
Oh, dude, it's the worst.
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That's the worst.
Like when you wake up in the middle of the night with a Charlie horse.
Yes.
That rock hard thing in the middle of your calf and you're just like, oh, you just frozen.
Like, what do I do to make that go away?
What was your solution?
Rub it out.
I sort of squeeze it and try to rub it out.
But mostly it's just waited out.
I was always told because you want to stretch that muscle.
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So you always point your toes towards your head.
Like if you're lying down anyway, yeah, stretch it out.
Point your toes towards your head because that's going to stretch the muscle itself.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yep.
No, they're terrible.
It's worse.
We're not worse, but along those lines are shin splints.
Yeah.
When you start running, like when you're just trying to get healthy, it's like, why is everything
so hard, man?
Like when you try to get healthy and it's just like, okay, I'm gonna start running and then
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I'm gonna start running some more and more.
And then it's like by day three or four, you're like, my shins really hurt.
That's running thing sucks.
Yeah, exactly.
Our bodies just fight against us, it seems like.
Yeah, I got those real bad when I was in high school.
I did track for a little bit and I got super bad shin splints.
Yeah.
I remember when I did track, because you did track and I hated myself for it.
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Yeah.
Because you were good.
I wasn't.
I wasn't a kid either.
And then we got the glutes.
I always thought gluteus maximus was a funny word when I was a kid.
I still maybe kind of find it a little funny.
Yeah, now that my gluteus is more maximus, I like it.
Transformer.
A transformer gluteus maximus.
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Just turns into a brand.
Autobots assemble.
This is this giant rear end with wheels or something.
I don't know.
It's awesome.
This is a weird episode.
I love it.
You know, I try to stay up.
Not to lie, I'm on TikTok all the time, but I like to see people that have talent, like
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skill, actual skill in life that can sing, play instruments, draw things like that.
But I got some funny people as well.
But there's this video of these two super jacked up dudes.
One was a little bit less jacked.
So the one guy's like, I can do anything.
You know, name it.
So the smaller guy's like, okay, turn around.
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And he slaps a sticky note on the back of his back.
But because he's so built, like his neck, he can't get it.
His arms won't pull.
I have to look at his shoulders.
He can't reach it.
So he's sitting there for like five minutes.
He's like, that just can't be a great life to live, man.
I don't see the appeal to it.
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It's also awesome because there's another guy I have followed on TikTok.
He's a world champion lifter, but he looks like Yibi Dave.
Like he's just Russian.
He's not built at all.
But he dresses up as a janitor and goes around to these gyms and just makes these dudes like
dumb.
He's like, his name's Anatoly.
And they're like, you know, they do their little lifts or whatever one time.
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And then they drop it.
He's like, oh, oh, really good.
Fake weights, right?
Fake weights.
Like trying to call him out.
And then like, no, no, what are you talking about?
You can't do that.
He goes, oh, no, no, I try.
I try.
And then he's like giving them tips.
Like, no, no, no.
And then he'll do it like, boom, boom, boom, like four or five times in front of him.
Nice.
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Yeah, dude.
It's so funny.
That's awesome.
No, I'm with you.
The kind of investment every day to be like as huge as some of those guys are is like,
that's too much.
But I know there's a healthy balance that I could eat more on.
So yeah.
Just one last guy I'll plug real quick is that his name is Joey Swoll or something
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like that.
He's probably the most positive dude ever, man.
He's Jack, not like Jack Jack, but he's Jacked.
But like he calls out people that just have bad gym etiquette and people that get upset
because they're trying to film in the gym and people walk in front of him.
It's a public place.
So you shouldn't be offended or something that walks in front of you during your set
because they do it all for the clicks and the views or whatever.
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But he tries to keep people professional inside the gym.
And he's just a really positive dude, man.
Like he'll call out good things as well as bad things.
And it's cool to see.
That's awesome.
Anything else on muscles, guys?
Wish I had some.
I know, right?
They're there underneath.
Hey, thanks so much for listening to part one of this episode.
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Stay tuned for more fun in part two.
What ever really happened to dudes calling each other best friends?
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Dave and John grew up in the 80s in New Jersey and they did everything together.
They were the quintessential best friends until they became teenagers and Dave moved
away.
Fast forward to today and these two 40-somethings reconnected and decided to not only be besties
again but to put on a podcast and share their reunion with anyone who will listen.
(00:25):
Welcome to Fat, Dumb and Happy.
Guys, everybody, welcome back to another awesome episode of Fat, Dumb and Happy.
We are so happy to have our fans here for another hilarious episode.
In this episode, we are going to dive into the physiological reasons why we are so
Fat, Dumb and Happy.
We are talking about the weirdness of the human body or bodily oddities, if you will.
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We are going to laugh about the bizarre, baffling and downright disgusting things that our magnificent
meat suits do.
That word, meat suits, is so gross.
No, I love it.
Buckle up, folks.
It's about to get weird.
I'm John, your host for this episode and with me as always is my hand man and bro host,
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double-jointed Dave.
Yeah.
I was the old body treating it tonight, sir.
Dude, I'm so freaking old.
I'm just glad that I'm awake still.
I'm ready for my nap.
Let's do this thing.
All right.
Also, on this episode is a man with four additional years walking around in his flash bag.
I'm a special guest expert.
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Ben, are you ready to share your old man body wisdom with us tonight?
Yeah, if my old brain can remember it.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, that's me lately.
Also, we recognize that we are Fat, Dumb and Happy, but we have sent question to Dave's
brother-in-law, Phil, who is in the medical school right now to provide us with healthy,
smart and happy answers.
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So be sure to stay tuned for that later in the show, and Phil, we thank you for helping
us out.
Yeah.
But first, first we got the food portion of our episode.
I always love this part.
This one was interesting.
Yeah.
So what I did was I got cow tails.
I never seen these until like, or at least I haven't noticed them till like this past
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year or so.
Oh, really?
I got caramel with some, I guess, I don't want to call it cream filling because it's
like, you know, like Oreos or something, you know, like mostly sugar and I don't know
what it is.
Yeah.
But some white stuff in the middle.
Some white stuff.
Humans don't have tails, but then I'm like, you know, we have tail bones.
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So.
Yeah.
Have you ever had a cow tail, Ben?
Is this the first one?
I had one this year, I think.
Okay, you had one this year.
Yeah.
No, that's all right.
Is that right?
Yeah.
I think that's how we'd feel if we had tails still.
We'd be like, it's all right.
I know.
Just kind of hanging around, gets in the way of my pants and stuff.
I mean, if I could like grab things with it and stuff like that.
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That would be cool.
Pencil tail or something like that.
Yes.
You're like, are you right handed or left handed?
Like, no, I'm tail handed.
I'm right with my tail.
That's weird.
Like we said, weird.
Weird.
Let the weird roll on for sure.
Yeah.
So, John, what about you?
What did you bring?
So, I was thinking about the human body and I was thinking about our board game episode.
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Yes.
So, I was thinking about the game operation and how in operation he's got all the little
like the bone little thing fragment you take out and stuff like that.
Well, one of them is ribs.
You take out your ribs.
Not thinking let me do some ribs, but ribs are expensive.
So, I didn't do ribs.
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But right here by the belly, he's got the bread basket and some bread.
Nice.
I'll toast.
There we go.
There we go.
That's what I did for today.
That's awesome.
I was following that logic all the way through, man.
That was solid.
So, John, you eat straight bread fine normal or do you jazz it up with like garlic bread
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or you know, other spices or something?
So, it's funny because the, when we talked about potatoes not too long ago, I only eat
potato bread like sandwiches and toast and stuff like that.
Right.
I think it's a great bread for like a roast beef sandwich.
Oh.
But yeah, so this was just your basic potato bread with just made into some toast.
Nice.
I do like to throw the occasional cinnamon on there.
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Yeah.
Nice.
But right now it was bad enough because even the room temperature butter was still like
frozen because it's cold here right now.
Oh, dang.
So, yeah, so like took a minute to melt and all that.
So, I didn't have any patience.
Yeah.
I just had a little bit of a toast.
If we were kids, me and Ben would be like, you had butter fancy because we were the
margarine family, if you remember.
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Oh, no.
We had the margarine too, trust me.
Yeah.
My sister bougie like that.
bougie like that.
Nice.
Well, I decided, hey, what is the one food that us humans can produce?
Milk.
And I don't like plain milk anymore because I'm an adult.
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I'm just kidding.
I know John likes milk.
I like milk in my cereal, but I have here chocolate milk.
So basically, you know, that food that we can produce but plus chocolate and it's pretty
tasty.
Did that come from a brown cow?
Yeah.
If men were the ones that produced the milk, true or false, would we use it?
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You know what I mean?
Like, would it only go to the babies or would we be like, you know, running low on milk
in my cereal?
We'd be having like wars.
Yeah, wars exactly.
Like milk wars.
This is going to be a weird episode, you all.
Yeah, man.
We're deep in the weird.
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I don't know if that'll stay in, but it's pretty funny.
All right.
Like all the sleepovers we had, how many pranks would that would happen with?
Yeah.
With the milk?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
That was us?
No, sir.
Yeah.
Boys are gross.
Men are still kind of gross.
I think that's why God made it that way.
Milk would not mature.
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You can trust the women.
Yes.
Milk would not mature us.
Yeah, exactly.
It would only make us worse.
Let's get into the main part of the episode.
Like we said, we're talking about the human body and we're going to kick it off with those
questions we asked my brother-in-law, Phil, in medical school.
He's all of our brothers-in-law now.
Yeah.
He's officially part of the Fat Dumb and Happy family.
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And we all take him in as brothers-in-law, by law.
Yeah.
He's our brother.
Yeah, Phil, except for that he said he was too busy, too cool, too smart, too good-looking,
too many things to be on the episode with us.
Just kidding.
I made that part up.
He was just too busy.
All right.
So we asked a bunch of Fat Dumb and Happy questions to Phil and he got some great answers.
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And since he's not able to join us live on the podcast, we're going to play the part
of Phil, if you will.
We're going to take turns reading the question and somebody else answering it.
And hey, bonus points if you can sound like Dr. Hibbert or Dr. Phil or somebody else.
Yes.
Just for the record, I had to walk through four different women to get to the exit yesterday
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during work.
So I could go to lunch.
They were just like standing there.
Yeah.
They were just like, you were just like awkwardly.
And I'm like, hi, everybody.
Hi, Dr. Nick.
Dang it.
That's funny.
That's such a shame, man.
Yeah.
Were they like, let's see.
I don't know if Dr. Nick's still a primary part of the Simpsons.
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Maybe they were too young.
That's disappointing.
I think that was Hank Azaria.
So I think you could also do that poo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who went woke and got off the show.
Okay.
Hi, everybody.
Hi.
Okay.
Let's kick us off with this first question.
What is the dumbest organ or part of the body?
Okay.
So per fill, this is just a personal opinion and not really based on science, but toenails.
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They're annoying to cut.
He's had multiple ingrown toenails that become infected or very painful.
And they really don't serve much purpose.
I'd never thought about that.
That is true, right?
Yeah.
Same.
I also think they're a little ugly.
Even seeing painted toenails just looks funky to me.
And this is all filled.
I concur 100%.
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Sure.
Maybe they reduce the damage from toe stubbing and maybe our distant ancestors may have used
them for improved traction and to grasp things.
Wow.
How long are your toenails if you're grasping things?
Yeah.
But think of how hard it is to pick up a dime without fingernails.
That's true.
But it's true.
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We can't do that anymore.
They just get in the way.
Okay.
Rant over.
Nice.
Good answer, Phil.
I feel like I know you already, buddy.
I know.
You're the legit.
On the toenails, I agree.
When I lived in El Salvador, I had ingrown toenails and I had to have one cut down both
sides and then removed.
And I'm sitting there in the hospital getting my big toenail removed.
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And this guy's just like, think of the beach.
Think of the beach.
La Playa.
La Playa.
The beach.
I'm like, bro, that's not helping.
No.
At all.
Zero.
Everywhere.
Sand everywhere.
Yeah, sand everywhere.
Sunburns.
And so eventually when I came back here, I ended up having to get the whole toenail removed.
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Man.
You can't even tell, though, because they're like, they put some acid on top and you can
barely even notice if you didn't know that.
Dang, there you go.
All right.
So if you could add a new organ to the body, like a tail, what would it be and what would
it do?
All right.
Here's what Phil says.
He says, an organ at the end of the line that could make smells less noxious.
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Yes.
Just like a pre spray, you know, spray that like, it's like a poopery.
Yeah.
It's like a poopery.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It filters through.
I think that's genius.
He also says a new endocrine gland that connected with the emotional centers of our brain and
produces different skin pigments, depending on our emotions, essentially making us into
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a mood ring.
I would have what help us better understand what those emotions are and signal to others
the same.
But then people wouldn't be able to lie as much.
Perhaps that could help some people, though, who need the extra emotional support.
Yes.
Genius.
We could live in a world with less liars.
I'm okay with that.
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Yeah, really.
And little inside out in real life, like, you know, you just know when someone's sad
or happy or angry or whatever, and you're like, you doing okay?
And they're just red.
You're like, no, I'm fine.
Yeah.
I'm totally fine.
Like, okay.
Nope.
You're angry.
Congress and the Senate would all be the same color every day.
Yeah.
All right.
What is the funniest medical term you have learned?
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All right, Phil says, gubernaculum, a cord of connective tissue that helps guide the
descent of the testes from the embryological location in the abdomen near the kidneys to
the scrotum while a male baby is developing in utero.
He says, perhaps the origin of the phrase, you're such a goober.
(11:35):
Gubernaculum.
That is an interesting name for that.
That's awesome.
I'm gonna call somebody that tomorrow.
Yeah.
They call me gubernaculum, and then they look it up.
They're like, whoa, that's kind of weird.
I'm gonna be calling me that part of the body.
All right.
I also love the term anatomical snuff box, a presently used technical term.
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So that's like not an old term for the area on the dorsal thumb extending to the wrist,
which caves in when it is extended.
This is where the high class of your would add their snuff, you know, smokeless tobacco.
Their snuff of choice and from there, they would inhale it.
So if you extend your thumb all the way out, like right by your wrist, there's a little
dimple.
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It's called the anatomical snuff box.
So they would just put it in there and then they would sniff it.
He showed it to me.
It's crazy.
Yeah, exactly.
Just like that.
All right.
Next question.
Which organ is the squishiest?
Clearly the brain says, Bill.
It's made up a lot of myelin, which is mostly fat that insulates nerves and speeds up
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nerve impulses.
Second to that though, are the lungs.
They're very squishy, as well as to allow for deformity, changing shape and breathing.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
It's weird.
Like if you've ever watched Ray's Anatomy or any kind of medical show and they show
a brain, though it's fascinating because obviously they're not going to show us some
of his real brain, right?
Right, right.
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Real lungs.
The fact that they've kind of like nailed that down and made it look so real and they
do look squishy.
Yeah.
They're like, yep.
And Phil's been in a bunch of cadavers.
He's seen and touched and done all that stuff.
So he definitely knows.
He's an expert.
Gross, Bill.
Yeah, super gross.
Wash your hands next time you see me.
They're cadavers.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
What's the weirdest reflex?
Loose bumps.
Small muscles in his skin that cause the hair follicles to push up.
It is believed to be a vestigial reflex useful but only long ago and may have served two functions
for our hairier ancestors.
First raising the hair created a form of insulation where warm air could remain trapped, circulate
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closer to the skin.
And then he says, raised hair could make an animal look larger.
Think of an angry dog or cat with hair that stands on its ends to intimidate or assert
its territory.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Dude, I get goosebumps bad, like easy too.
My kids will start to tickle me and I'm like, just, I get covered down.
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So ticklish.
Yeah.
You guys?
I'm pretty ticklish too but I haven't really noticed goosebumps so much.
Yeah, look at your arms next time they tickle you maybe.
I'm more of a goosebumps in a feel good kind of way.
Ah, yes.
Like a happy ending kind of.
That's where I get mine the most.
Yeah, get the little chills but in the positive way.
Yeah, I get that.
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I never knew I thought they'd be a muscle though.
Yeah, it's a reflex.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Yeah.
He says, nowadays we get goosebumps when we're cold or have a heightened emotional experience.
But it doesn't do much good unless you're one of those guys that has a thick and mad
of hair all over his body.
That's what the show's called.
Fat Dumb and Hairy.
(14:51):
Oh, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, we got some extended family and stuff that has some pretty hairy arms and
stuff like that.
I'm in the middle I think, not too much.
Do any internal organs smell more than others?
Great question.
I don't know if I want to know this answer.
Yeah.
So Phil says, not very original but the intestines, right?
(15:12):
That makes sense.
That's where most of the bacteria live that help in part break down our food.
They get a share of nutrients and we get a share.
Some of the metabolic byproducts, their hoop if you will, are our nutrients like vitamin
K, short chain fatty acids which help reduce inflammation, et cetera.
So I didn't know that.
The byproducts, the intestines, poop basically is good for us.
(15:35):
Another fun fact, an organ that smells, although indirectly, is the lungs.
This is only in the case of volatile agents, things that evaporate quickly like alcohol.
Thus, the blood alcohol breathalyzer tests.
One cool yet unfortunate thing about individuals with type 1 diabetes is they can have pleasant
smelling breath when they have episodes where they have too much sugar in their blood, a
(15:58):
state called diabetic ketoacidosis.
Because type 1 diabetics are unable to get sugar into the cells due to a lack of insulin,
the cells are essentially starved and resort to breaking down fats to create fuel, ketones.
One of those ketones is acetone, the same active chemical of nail polish remover, which
is breathed out through the lungs.
(16:19):
These patients that breathe out acetone exhaust will have a fruity smell on their breath.
Huh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Diabetics got something going for them.
Yeah.
All right.
So here's another question.
I've heard of crazy stories of doctors accidentally leaving a watch or something inside the patient.
What's the worst thing left in that you've heard of or the best?
(16:42):
Good question.
I've just mostly heard of sponges or towels being left on the inside of patients, says
Phil.
This is why the surgery team always carefully counts the number of instruments and sponges
and towels before and after procedures to make sure nothing is left behind.
How bad would that be if the nurse at the beginning was like, we started with 12, but
(17:05):
we're all sewn up.
We got them sewn up and we got 11.
Yeah, exactly.
So you got to open them back up and be like, I think there's one inside him still.
It was just on the floor the whole time.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, we started with 12 and this is a bad day.
We're down to seven right now.
I have no idea where those guys are.
(17:27):
What's the margin of error on that?
Can we leave with 10?
Yeah.
What's your minus?
It could be worse.
You could have 13.
Yeah, exactly.
I could just see a surgeon being like, oh man, we paid for something right before the
start of the surgery and checking my wallet now and I'm missing a 20 or so.
(17:47):
Oh yeah.
Stop going to the ATM before I do surgery.
Nobody's paying for the surgery.
Anybody see my, he's to my BMW.
The cash in there.
I don't go in for less than 100.
So if it's, let's just leave it.
It'll dissolve.
It's fine.
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It's fine.
It'll come out eventually.
That's right.
All right.
So if you left in a dozen D-sized batteries, what are the odds I developed something?
I'm kind of electrical superpower.
Good question.
Speaking of reading things inside of body.
Phil says, hmm, I don't know the science behind that, but I heard that Harvard researchers
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are looking into it.
I've also heard of a group called Hydra looking to see if they could develop a super soldier
who could spew acid onto their enemies.
This might be right up their alley.
Hill Hydra.
That's awesome.
Not so fun fact, if a child ingests a button battery or any battery, it is a medical emergency.
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It can become activated in the GI tract and erode the mucosa causing ulcers and possible
perforations of the organs.
Oh, geez.
Yeah, that's scary.
Yeah.
Those button batteries are small and even like triple A's are, they're like round.
So they go straight down your throat or whatever real easy.
Watch out.
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Any cool new medical technologies or hopeful future advancements that you have heard of?
All right.
Some cool things that Phil is sharing here.
Gene editing and stem cell therapy have a lot of hopeful treatments in the coming decades.
One example is an FDA approved gene editing treatment that can help treat and reverse
sickle cell anemia.
There are more treatments being studied that would improve possibly reverse inherited genetic
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conditions, which is very exciting.
There are also a lot of ethical debates and controversy around gene editing.
So it's a very fascinating field.
One recent study demonstrated stem cells that were able to regrow beta cells in the pancreas
and restore normal production of insulin in type one diabetics.
So individuals who could previously not produce insulin and were dependent on insulin injections.
(19:58):
That's pretty awesome.
Yeah, that's cool.
It hasn't been approved for the general public yet because the FDA approval process for drugs
and treatments can sometimes take 10 plus years.
So my guess is in the next 10 to 20 years, we'll be seeing a lot of really cool treatments.
They may help regenerate tissue in the body like heart tissue and those who have heart
attacks, nervous tissue and those who have ALS, for example, and many others.
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There are already lots of stem cell treatments right now for skin and bone grafts and for
healing and restoring joints.
That's awesome.
Hope for the future, man.
That's pretty cool.
Neat.
Given your medical expertise and knowledge of the miraculous inner workings of the human
body and understanding you will soon be taking the Hippocratic oath, why are farts so funny?
(20:42):
Yeah, Phil, why are farts so funny?
It's one of those social taboos where you're not supposed to pass gas or it is impolite
and people do it anyway.
I guess that's why I find it funny.
Things that go against expectations, taboos, social norms make me chuckle a little bit.
Yes.
I hope they always stay funny for all of us.
I mean, a random fart in a movie theater is funny.
(21:05):
It's hilarious.
It doesn't matter what you're watching.
It's just like, yeah.
A quiet part?
You don't want to be the guy next to him, but you know.
If I had one in the chamber during a quiet place, that would have been perfect.
Just like really, really quiet.
Everyone's super nervous and I'm just like, hmm.
I would have been awesome.
But the thing is, I thought about this.
(21:26):
Farts are funny because they make a funny noise and because they smell.
I feel like if they were only one or the other, they wouldn't be as funny.
Okay.
I got a quick story.
So nobody in my ex-family listened to this.
Someone tell it.
Here we go.
In Las Vegas, my ex-wife had the awesomest little grandma and grandpa.
La-chan and jichun.
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And they were Japanese.
You know, little man.
Just a little man.
Think of like up with Japanese.
And they were both deaf.
They were like, he'd fart and then he'd be like, he'd laugh.
Because he didn't understand that other people heard his fart.
So he tried to play it off.
Yeah.
Pretty funny, man.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
(22:07):
He's pretty great.
All right.
Thanks again, Phil, for those awesome answers to our fat, dumb and happy questions.
You are awesome.
And if things change in the future and you want to be on the show, we would love to have
you.
All right.
Yes, sir.
So now we have a randomizer that's going to select human body systems.
(22:28):
So we have, you know, stuff like the, you know, muscular system, the skeletal system,
all those things.
So I'm going to hit a button and we're going to randomize them and see what we get.
And then we'll talk about different parts of that system.
All right.
There we go.
Digestive.
All right.
In the digestive system, we have the mouth, the esophagus, gallbladder, the pancreas,
(22:52):
the esophagus, stomach, intestines, salivary glands.
The appendix is part of that, I guess, too, the digestive system, the rectum and anus
and the liver.
So what part of that system do you guys want to talk about?
Ben, do you have something you want to share?
Yeah, I was just thinking about the mouth is like the only part of the body we regularly
cleaned inside of, you know.
(23:12):
That's true.
You know, make it a habit of with a brushing and flossing and all that kind of stuff.
And part of it, I think it's just that like when something is wrong or something's in
our mouth that shouldn't be, at least for me, my tongue fixates on it.
Can't stop.
Yeah.
Popcorn in there.
Yes.
You know, it's like, I can't stop licking it.
Tongue around it and stuff.
(23:34):
Yeah.
You know, I have a little sore in my mouth or something like that, you know.
I want to take good care of my mouth because otherwise I'm going to be going crazy with
my tongue.
Yeah.
I swear my tongue has ADHD, man, it's just like, oh, there's something.
There's something I want to mess with.
That is true for sure.
The mouth is so expensive.
Yeah.
You know, I'm pretty sure the mouth is my favorite orifice.
(23:56):
I love to eat.
I love to laugh.
I love to make funny sounds and talk, but it also is one of the most painful, man.
Two thakes are terrible and canker sores and chapped lips and all those things.
It's a good point.
All right.
What else, guys?
I guess we clean our colons a lot too, Ben.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, it's a different way, yes.
(24:17):
Very different way.
You know, the whole digestive system, if one thing goes wrong with it, it can kind of affect
everything else.
It seems like, you know, and especially for our podcast about fat, dumb and happy, we
love to eat, you know.
When that doesn't work well, like we eat something too much or something that just doesn't agree
(24:41):
with us.
You know, it's going to affect our stomach, but it could affect things down on the other
end.
It just, it's just as miserable when one of these things doesn't do its job good.
Do you guys have a food that you just love but doesn't love you back pretty much every
time?
For me, it's like really spicy stuff.
I love it.
(25:03):
And then it hurts.
So you guys have anything like that at all now?
For me, it's milkshakes, man.
Yeah.
I mean, Elias, like I can even pinpoint like water burger strawberry milkshakes.
Specifically.
Yeah.
Oh good.
Yeah, but destroy me later.
Like I'm like, I'm sitting there drinking.
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I'm like, I know I should not be doing this.
Well, I'm like, dumb, dumb.
You love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, not anymore.
Red dye has been outlawed.
No more strawberry shakes.
Oh man.
Well, they'll just be different colors.
See white strawberry shakes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Brownish or something.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
What about you, Ben?
Yellow.
(25:44):
Yeah.
Yeah.
As far as for me, like every once in a while I'll have some food.
You know, when you're cooking, you know, like if you're cooking some ground beef or
something like that for a meal and you don't drain the fat enough and it's just extra greasy,
that kind of stuff can get to me down the road.
I'm like, oh man, too much of that.
Too much.
I had too much pizza or something and it happens to be a particularly greasy pizza or something,
(26:06):
you know.
Yeah.
Oh, I shouldn't have ate that last slice, you know.
Yeah.
You know, salivary glands, that's the other thing for me.
I must have an overactive salivary glands because whenever I go to the dentist, like
they are always like draining so much.
Constantly.
You're just drowning over there.
(26:27):
My mouth, man.
It's going on overdrive.
It's sitting in the juices up there.
You got like one of those little things at home like you're like, oh, you're watching
a movie or something.
Second at that because he's watching the food network and it's just drowning him.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
For me, salivary glands, dude, I can do the old glee.
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Remember, John, I taught you that when we were teenagers.
Oh, you did.
I was never as good as you are doing that though.
Yeah.
It's a skill that I'm not proud of.
But it's disgusting.
It is gross.
For anyone who doesn't know what glee is, basically you push the bottom of your tongue
up against the top front of your teeth and underneath your tongue, there's a gland that
can squirt like spray saliva.
(27:11):
And sometimes it happens by accident.
You're yawning or you're taking a big bite and got Ben's hyperactive glands going.
You can squirt, especially if you glee.
If you glee, then you're kind of strengthening those muscles and it happens more often because
I know people that have never glee and like has had it happen.
We're just like the sprays out and they're like, what the heck?
Okay.
You guys ever seen the movie, The Benchwormers?
(27:31):
There's a little kid.
His name is Sammy Sprinkles.
And it's just like every time he talks, it's like the spin every time.
Sammy Sprinkles.
We've all known of Sammy Sprinkles, right?
We have.
Do you guys know that the gallbladder is part of the digestive system?
But back in medieval times, it was thought that bile or gall was actually responsible
(27:54):
for someone's bad temper and rude behavior.
So when people acted that way, people would say they had too much gall in their system,
AKA had the gall.
You know, we say like a person had the gall to come to the point and they weren't invited
or that kind of a thing.
That's where that comes from.
Okay.
They actually thought that like caused it in their body, their physiology or whatever.
(28:14):
Man, they were so dumb back then.
They would like drain it and stuff if they had too much, I think, right?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
Open and try to drain some of it out.
I'm thinking that would cure you.
Geez.
I had to Google it.
I was like, what part of the system is the appendix?
And I guess it's part of the digestive system because it's like where it is located is at
(28:35):
the end of the stomach or something like that.
And you know, we're like, what does this appendix do?
It just causes problems.
I thought the appendix was just useless.
Like it serves a real purpose.
Yeah, exactly.
Like people don't really know.
But if you let it rupture, it can kill you.
Yeah, exactly.
How ridiculous is that?
I know.
It's the worst.
It always reminds me of that Simpsons episode with the knife.
Do you guys remember that one?
(28:57):
Bart just keeps wanting to get a knife from that scout troop or whatever.
And the last thing is Dr. Hibbert's like, this man's appendix is about to burst.
And he goes and he cuts it out and throws it like a grenade and it explodes.
So that was awesome.
Yeah.
Liver is my least favorite food.
I hate it.
It started a multi-day flu for me.
(29:21):
And so like, yeah, it's the worst.
But my doctor said I had a fatty liver and I was like, that's dope doc.
Thanks.
Nice.
Nice.
That's tight.
Yeah.
All right.
Back to the randomizer.
Muscular system.
All right.
What comments do we have about the muscles?
(29:42):
My left arm is way weaker than my right arm.
When I go to the gym, all right, let's be real.
It's been a minute since I've been to the gym, but when I did, I just won't do like the
bench press because I'd be like.
All slanty.
I'm struggling with my left arm.
I can do curls.
I can do curls with my arm, but like pushing.
Yeah, I can't do that.
Yeah.
It's just, I've always just been stronger on my right arm because that's my dominant
(30:04):
arm, but I guess I just got an even amount.
Nah, it's too late for that dude.
No, I'm not.
Okay.
Well, I guess I'll just give up then.
Just give up.
Yeah.
You know, on occasion, you'll see like an app that is trying to get you to be healthy
or whatever, or even just a commercial.
You'll see like a figure and it'll show you like the fatty level, but then it'll show
(30:26):
you like the muscular level, like what's hiding under the fat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that's where my abs are.
Sweet.
No, I know.
Where they are.
Yep.
They're just not visible to everybody.
You're a ripped dude, trapped inside of him.
Not so ripped body.
So if you guys could pick one of those muscles, so let's say what they are.
(30:49):
So we got traps, delts, lats, pecs, biceps, abs, quads, hamstrings, calves, glutes, triceps.
If you could just have really awesome set of these muscles, which one would it be?
Ben?
It'd be abs for me.
I've always been jealous of people that have like well-defined six pack or something like
that, you know?
Right.
Yeah.
(31:10):
I could definitely get rid of this gut here I got.
So, you know.
Yeah.
Same.
Same.
Yeah.
That's something that's tough to keep in shape, man.
But if you had a six pack but you were like fat everywhere else, is that possible?
That would be so weird.
How weird would that look?
How weird would that be, dude?
Just so there's stomach and just like totally toned six pack and then you just got like
(31:32):
flabby arms.
But your pecs are still moobs.
Yeah, you still got moobs and thunder thighs.
What about you, John?
Definitely go abs.
I got pretty decent calves.
I feel like I have my whole life just playing soccer and ultimate.
They're pretty muscular.
Not going to lie.
(31:53):
I'm talking about.
But definitely abs.
That's every dude wants good abs, man.
Yeah.
And in your little scenario, I don't have to do anything to get them.
So, I'll do that.
Just give it to me.
So, I agree.
And just to change it up though, I'm going to say biceps.
I feel like if you have like huge biceps, I mean like not if you're just fat everywhere
(32:13):
else, but if you're like a semi normal dude, but your biceps are huge, it's like, yeah,
that dude's strong and fit and stuff like that.
Am I wrong with that?
What do you guys think?
I think the other way around though, because I think of it as if I had a good six pack,
I could have okay arms and get away with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I agree with you, Dave.
I think if you see somebody that's got strong biceps, even if you can see, maybe they're
(32:35):
out of shape, but you know that they're probably pretty tough.
Like they're something good.
You know what I mean?
That's what I'm saying.
You have to get like shirts with sleeves that are too tight and have to have them like up
and just show them off all the time.
And biceps have utility.
I mean, I feel like you're going to use that a lot on picking up things or whatever, you
know, or yeah, good abs.
(32:56):
I'm just not wearing shirts anymore.
So yeah, or just like crop tops.
Just kidding.
John and his like half shirts, just six pack showing all the time.
Like Steve Gutenberg and police Academy.
Yeah, exactly.
Like calves, do you guys get Charlie horses in your calves?
Yes, bro.
Oh, dude, it's the worst.
(33:16):
That's the worst.
Like when you wake up in the middle of the night with a Charlie horse.
Yes.
That rock hard thing in the middle of your calf and you're just like, oh, you just frozen.
Like, what do I do to make that go away?
What was your solution?
Rub it out.
I sort of squeeze it and try to rub it out.
But mostly it's just waited out.
I was always told because you want to stretch that muscle.
(33:37):
So you always point your toes towards your head.
Like if you're lying down anyway, yeah, stretch it out.
Point your toes towards your head because that's going to stretch the muscle itself.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yep.
No, they're terrible.
It's worse.
We're not worse, but along those lines are shin splints.
Yeah.
When you start running, like when you're just trying to get healthy, it's like, why is everything
so hard, man?
Like when you try to get healthy and it's just like, okay, I'm gonna start running and then
(34:01):
I'm gonna start running some more and more.
And then it's like by day three or four, you're like, my shins really hurt.
That's running thing sucks.
Yeah, exactly.
Our bodies just fight against us, it seems like.
Yeah, I got those real bad when I was in high school.
I did track for a little bit and I got super bad shin splints.
Yeah.
I remember when I did track, because you did track and I hated myself for it.
(34:24):
Yeah.
Because you were good.
I wasn't.
I wasn't a kid either.
And then we got the glutes.
I always thought gluteus maximus was a funny word when I was a kid.
I still maybe kind of find it a little funny.
Yeah, now that my gluteus is more maximus, I like it.
Transformer.
A transformer gluteus maximus.
(34:46):
Just turns into a brand.
Autobots assemble.
This is this giant rear end with wheels or something.
I don't know.
It's awesome.
This is a weird episode.
I love it.
You know, I try to stay up.
Not to lie, I'm on TikTok all the time, but I like to see people that have talent, like
(35:11):
skill, actual skill in life that can sing, play instruments, draw things like that.
But I got some funny people as well.
But there's this video of these two super jacked up dudes.
One was a little bit less jacked.
So the one guy's like, I can do anything.
You know, name it.
So the smaller guy's like, okay, turn around.
(35:31):
And he slaps a sticky note on the back of his back.
But because he's so built, like his neck, he can't get it.
His arms won't pull.
I have to look at his shoulders.
He can't reach it.
So he's sitting there for like five minutes.
He's like, that just can't be a great life to live, man.
I don't see the appeal to it.
(35:53):
It's also awesome because there's another guy I have followed on TikTok.
He's a world champion lifter, but he looks like Yibi Dave.
Like he's just Russian.
He's not built at all.
But he dresses up as a janitor and goes around to these gyms and just makes these dudes like
dumb.
He's like, his name's Anatoly.
And they're like, you know, they do their little lifts or whatever one time.
(36:15):
And then they drop it.
He's like, oh, oh, really good.
Fake weights, right?
Fake weights.
Like trying to call him out.
And then like, no, no, what are you talking about?
You can't do that.
He goes, oh, no, no, I try.
I try.
And then he's like giving them tips.
Like, no, no, no.
And then he'll do it like, boom, boom, boom, like four or five times in front of him.
Nice.
(36:36):
Yeah, dude.
It's so funny.
That's awesome.
No, I'm with you.
The kind of investment every day to be like as huge as some of those guys are is like,
that's too much.
But I know there's a healthy balance that I could eat more on.
So yeah.
Just one last guy I'll plug real quick is that his name is Joey Swoll or something
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like that.
He's probably the most positive dude ever, man.
He's Jack, not like Jack Jack, but he's Jacked.
But like he calls out people that just have bad gym etiquette and people that get upset
because they're trying to film in the gym and people walk in front of him.
It's a public place.
So you shouldn't be offended or something that walks in front of you during your set
because they do it all for the clicks and the views or whatever.
(37:17):
But he tries to keep people professional inside the gym.
And he's just a really positive dude, man.
Like he'll call out good things as well as bad things.
And it's cool to see.
That's awesome.
Anything else on muscles, guys?
Wish I had some.
I know, right?
They're there underneath.
Hey, thanks so much for listening to part one of this episode.
(37:39):
Stay tuned for more fun in part two.
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