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Hey, guys, I need your advice.

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It's One More Thing. I'm

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strong and getty more drama

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in real life. What was

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the last time you took over the One More

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Thing podcast? What was that one about? Was

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that your healthier?

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Yeah?

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I was type two diabetes?

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Right?

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That was an interesting story. Unfortunate

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for you, obviously interesting. How is that going by

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it? That's going very well?

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Actually, No, I have a funny story

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about that. They want to pump me fullard. They wanted

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to give me a bunch of drugs, and I said, I will

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change my diet, I will exercise. I've been doing

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all these things. And one doctor said

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no, no, no, no, you you got to be on these drugs

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for life. And I've been able to do

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it without it pretty much, and so I'm not

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going back to that doctor.

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Two interesting things about that. One,

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I think the doctor's recognizing reality

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that like ninety five percent of people don't

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do anything about their diet. But

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two, the fact that they would push the drugs

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on you rather than like really push the diet

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part. Yeah, yeah, you

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know what part.

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Of it has to do with And that

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reminds me we got to get Craig the healthcare guru

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on next week to talk about it several

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different healthcare related topics. But I

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was just reading about the incredible pressure

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that is on doctors now to see thirty seven

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patients in a single day, and they are

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just pushed and pushed and pushed by their corporate

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overlords. And so this doc, I don't

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know, you're Doc Michael, and I'm just guessing, but

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it could be he's thinking, I

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don't have time for the You

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got to take care of yourself, and here's how lecture.

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And then when you hem and haw say all right,

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here's the other alternative, blah blah blah,

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or why don't you come back and see me in a week

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because you can't get an appointment for three and a half months.

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So he just thinks, let's cut to the chase. Take

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these pills, get now, get I gotta go see

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thirty six more patients.

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Well there's that. And then not to be the conspiracy

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guy, but I mean, if you prescribe medicine,

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somebody's paying for it and somebody's receiving

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money, so there's got to be some incentives.

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So it might not be the doctor, but there's got to be an

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incentive somewhere along the line

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to have you taking drugs as opposed to

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eating better, right, I mean, people make money if

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you don't eat better.

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I was told that they have medical reps come by all

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the time. Oh yeah, promoting drugs.

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Yeah, well, and big Pharma

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allegedly. And I don't know whether this motivates

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people a little or a lot. We'll have a

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four day conference on how

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Zunetra can help your patients. It's

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in Maui. It's at the fourth Seasons.

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There's a twenty five minute meeting each

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morning where you talk about Zunetra. Then you're

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free for the rest of the day expenses paid. Well.

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Yeah, I haven't talked about this in years, but I used to be friends

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with somebody who was a pharmaceutical rep

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and just lived two houses down

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for me, and so she would book

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these really expensive dinners at

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the most expensive place in down but

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if they didn't have all the seats filled, they were gonna

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get paid for anyway. She'd say, Hey, I got two

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extra seats. So we would go and eat the meals

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and hang around. And sometimes I'd have to like kind

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of pretend I was a doctor or something like that.

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If somebody asked me a question but they were

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getting wined and dined at the most

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expensive place in town with the open bar

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and everything like that. To tell them about some drug

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and there'd be a five minute slideshow about the drugs

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and then you get like a three hundred dollars meal for free.

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Oh I'd make hay with that opportunity.

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Man, I turn on my left and say, what do

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you prefer? Viruses or bacteria?

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Oh my god, to be at the same table with you two

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pretending to be doctors.

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Oh my god.

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I know.

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I was always dreading if somebody actually

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asked me a fractures. There's something, aren't

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they. I don't know what I would say.

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Oh, I tell you what.

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Yeah, I hate to see it, but you gotta deal

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with it. Im are wrong, So I told him, don't

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do that anyway. Let's wait for the stake to

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show up. Oh

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the other thing there? I knew there were there were Actually there

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was another thing. Now I've forgotten it. I'm Joe

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Biden, like man, I do notice when I don't

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get enough sleep that I can't

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remember near as well my sessenes.

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Now my sentences in the middle,

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and I can't finish. I can't remember the end the

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oh, the direct relationship

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between eating better and your body

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changing or getting better numbers. Even

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though that's obviously clearly

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true, I'm always still somewhat surprised,

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like I eat really good and look I'm a couple of pounds

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lighter, or the opposite, I eat really bad and I'm

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a couple of pounds every year. It's just, even

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though I know it's true, to see it

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like in black and white in front

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of me is always just a little something.

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Yeah, it's like the old I feel

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better after a drink or

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two the next morning than I did after the

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night I had seven. I'll be damned,

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I've only learned that lesson five million

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times. Right.

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Anyway, what's your tail today, Michael?

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Okay, So here we go. I yesterday

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had to get my teeth cleaned. And I have a very good dental

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hygienis who I've had for years. She's

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really gentle, she does teeth well,

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she no hurt, no pain, nice.

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So I show up the dentist yesterday and it turns

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out she's not there's and I had

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to know this. She goes, we have somebody else

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though, that'll take you. And so I get

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this per and let me put it this way.

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I'm still tasting blood today from them scraping

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my.

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Brune Hilda the cruel.

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No.

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No, nobody in this scenario speaks English. And it

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was in a garage and Rio Linda correct, No,

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no, no, actual dental practice.

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Actual dental practice, good place. But

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I don't know if this was a new employee or what

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the deal was, but uh.

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She was really rough.

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You know. You put the tube in to suck

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the water out, and she was just jamming it down

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there.

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Wow, physical

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reaction.

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This was crazy. When did she leaves?

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I don't know. And then I guess she got behind

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on our schedule, and so the doctor had

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come to her and said, said, you know, is he almost

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done? She goes, well, it's gonna be a few minutes, just

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a few minutes. And then all of a sudden, she starts

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putting the polish on my teeth and rubbing as

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fast as she can, starts grabs the

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water and just starts squirting my mouth. You know, just

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it's just crazy.

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So wow, that's terrible. So like

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a car wash, yeah, literally,

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So.

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Just we're running out of time. So you picked

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up the poker and you stabbed her with it, and you

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wonder what were you in the right.

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Somebody that doesn't like conflicts. So I just held

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on for dear life and I just put up with it, and

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I'm fine, but I'm

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debating do I called him and let them know,

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Hey, this person was really rough. This is

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terrible because I got to go back there in a

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few months and.

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It was really painful. Well, you asked

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two questions. The first one I've had before

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where it's like the

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last person's better at this, but I don't want to make another

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appointment. I need to get this done now,

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and so it's not just conflict avoid and it's

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like the reality of trying

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to get the person you like better. So that's

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that's one thing. But then the complain,

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Hell, he is, I'm complaining.

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You know.

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It was funny is during the

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whole procedure though, she goes, I know you're just laying there.

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She goes, I take that as a compliment. It

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means that I'm not hurting you. And I'm thinking, is

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this a common thing? Are people saying to her?

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You'll scream?

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She thinks everything's going fine.

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Yes, that's a really weird

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thing. She said, that's so odd.

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I would definitely call Michael

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and maybe just say something

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along the lines of could I not be with

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this individual next time because that

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was a little uncomfortable.

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Yeah, but I would go ahead and say why it

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was extremely uncomfortable.

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It was the most painful cleaning I've

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ever had. Say that.

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Yeah, that's that's perfectly reasonable to say. It's

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like when I used to talk about my man Pong, the

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phlebotomist who'd draw blood from me.

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I would always call and see if Pong was there

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because he could do it where you didn't feel a thing. And

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I love Pong, but he quit and uh,

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and other people aren't as good. But

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I've never had anybody jab

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me in the side of the year with the needle and say sorry

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about that.

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I just want her to look at me next time I go and

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say, oh, you're the one that called. You're the one that got

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me in trouble, or something like that.

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Yeah, yeah,

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my Brian, don't think it would go like that. I

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told the story years ago when my brother went into

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the hospital is here and here in the

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local area, and man, the

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president of the hospital, ended up meeting me in the parking

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lot. After I told this story on the air, they were

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so worried but anyway, they were trying to put

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an IV in my brother and

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the guy just kept having to do it

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over and over and over again and jab him over

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and over again. And my brother is incredibly

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stoic as a military dude and all that sort

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of stuff. It's part of his whole personality

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that he would never ever act like anything

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hurt underneath circumstance. But they really guy

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was it. And the guy actually says to him, I'm

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sorry. Man. I was at the casinos really late

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last night and just kept jo

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oh, and I was like, dude, you gotta

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tell him. Nah.

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The only time I've ever had someone miss

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I love.

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Yeah, good for you.

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Oh yeah, she missed three times and I went

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three strikes and you're out.

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You're done.

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I'm not doing this again. And I walked out, made

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another appointment. This was before it took eight

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months to get your blood drawn though.

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But yeah,

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wow wow.

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It's interesting because getting

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back to the whole doctors more

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than dentists. But it's just

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in my lifetime, the whole doctor patient relationship

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has evolved from I know you

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for years and years. You're like my

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partner in health. There's a

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great deal of respect for you. There's concern

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for me. Now, it's more like getting a burger out

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of a fast food joint. To some

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extent, I've got a great doc right now too.

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I've had a couple that were terrible, that

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were just thinking, well, it was like eating a burger from a fast

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food joint. So I don't you know, Michael,

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I would. I would remember, you're a customer

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who's paying a great deal for a service,

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and there are other service providers and

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dentists are skilled people

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and they're caring and the rest of it. But they're not

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They're not gods, they're not priests.

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I don't think this would be a bad way to handle you say,

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this is the deal I make with everybody. Whatever

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you do to me, I'm gonna do to you. Just keep

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that in mind.

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Yeah, that's an idea.

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I brought my tools, and so you

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know you might own You think that'll be.

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You show up with your own tool.

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And you say, I'm gonna give as

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much pain as I get. Always

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get started.

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If it's to you, exactly,

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it's because of your remove. Ball

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is in your court. If I feel nothing, you

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feel nothing, That's what I'll do.

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I'll walk up to the receptionist, scrape your

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teeth a little bit and say does that hurt?

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Well, guess what. That's what she did to me. Bought

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your hose, spray her with it right

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in the face. How do you like it?

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Eh?

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Okay, hold still, lady, you're gonna feel a little pressure.

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Wow.

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Well thanks, guys, I

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guess that's it.