Mark Reardon 0:00
What I’m about to do here and what we’re going to talk about. So I’m not really intending it for it to be super gross, but there is a theme that’s come up on this show, and we had to throw it into action yesterday, so you weren’t here, but this, this really happened to me in the last couple of days. So on Monday, and I didn’t know if it was because of the airplane flight, I came back from Minneapolis on Sunday, but my ear was getting very, very plugged up my left ear. So yesterday I couldn’t hear anything out of my left ear.

Alex 0:22
You were, like, yelling at us, but you weren’t really yelling.

Mark Reardon 0:22
My wife at one point said you’re yelling. I’m like, I didn’t know that I was yelling. So if you remember correctly, we go back a few weeks we were talking about this whoosh thing. Actually, I think it was only a couple of weeks ago where I saw this ad during a baseball game for this thing that was a an ear cleaner, and there was this very sexy man with no shirt on in the show while he was in the shower. That’s why I had no shirt on. But they didn’t show his lower extremities. And he was taking this whoosh thing, which was a, it was a big it looked like a canister, like, almost like a fire extinguisher. Around the top, it had this valve that you could spray out your It was like one of these dusting Fred just picked out the air the one of those things called, like, the air canisters, the air compressor, yeah, keyboard, when we brought it up, Alex had mentioned that he has a ton who knew of earwax experience, right?

Alex 1:07
A ton of I’m basically an I would, I wouldn’t even say, basically, I would say, I’m an expert in earwax at this point.

Mark Reardon 1:13
Because you have experienced this,

Alex 1:16
Yeah, several times.

Mark Reardon 1:16
So yesterday, I called him because I remembered he had mentioned this. I said, dude. I said, I cannot. And what I usually do is because this is okay to do, and I think they say it’s okay I take hydrogen peroxide. So yesterday, before I came in, I poured hydrogen peroxide twice down my ear, and I couldn’t hear thing. And it was, it was tough to do the show yesterday, because everything sounded very tinny, and it was just weird. So I got home last night, I tried that again, but then I called Alex. I’m like, hey, I need help. And you told me what.

Alex 1:44
I said, You got to go to the ENT now. You got to go to the urgent care for ENT

Mark Reardon 1:50
Especially for ENT your nose and throat,

Alex 1:53
Yeah, and so it’s a, it’s over there by the rosalitas. And I said, Listen, Mark, every time I need a quick fix, I go to this place. I’m a quick fix. It sounds like we’re like, having a drug deal here

Mark Reardon 2:05
You literally said yesterday, yeah, I’m thinking about going there tomorrow.

Alex 2:08
So yeah, Mark calls me because I can’t hear a thing. I said, I can’t believe you’re calling me right now. I am supposed to go over there tomorrow morning, being today, because I’m going out of the country next week, and I got to make sure that this doesn’t happen to me. What? Because sometimes, when I’m like, if the ocean, the salt water gets in there, it moves the earwax around where you can’t it busted up again. It’s not a ear feeling right, no, and you get your dizzy and you can’t get no doubt. So Mark’s telling me, I said, Dude, you got to make an appointment. I’m going there tomorrow morning. I’ll meet you there.

Mark Reardon 2:39
So I make an appointment last night, but I want for one more time last night, I tried the peroxide, and at three o’clock in the morning I went to bed, and at three o’clock in the morning I woke up, and my wife was awake at the time. I said, Do you hear that? And she goes, No, I’m like, Okay, I had this ringing in my ear, in the left ear, where it sounded like the furnace was running, or the air conditioner. I didn’t have the air conditioner on last night. So I kept the appointment because I had the appointment. I go in this morning, right before Alex,

Alex 3:02
Right before

Mark Reardon 3:02
Megan comes in. Now, in my mind, I tell the story. I say, what’s going on? It was a little better this morning. Megan is my nurse practitioner, and she says, okay, and you know, it’s like they do this on a regular basis. Now, I thought there was going to be something that was involving water or something along the lines of a wish. Instead, she basically cranks up a vacuum cleaner and she puts it in my ear. Yeah, and it was pretty there were a couple times where it was squeaking,

Alex 3:31
Oh, you can hear it. You could hear it squeaking the wax right out of there.

Mark Reardon 3:34
It was loud.

Alex 3:35
I’m telling you,

Mark Reardon 3:36
Am I to understand Alex, that you go periodically,

Alex 3:39
Yes, yes, you are to understand that, because they tell me not to ever, do, not ever put the Q tip was not invented for the ear

Mark Reardon 3:47
The Q. And she asked me that, she said, do you use Q tips? I said, I really don’t. She says, that’s good, because you’re the Q tips are fine for the again, I know this is gross, but we’re trying to help people. This is what the mark Reardon show does. We try to help and educate for the parts of the ear that aren’t the, you know, the canal, but what you do with the you just push it in there. And she actually said, I didn’t know this. There’s nothing wrong with doing the peroxide, but she said that could sometimes make it worse, because it will temporarily, maybe compact it

Alex 4:11
well, softens it and it pushes it, yeah, oh yes. The worst thing you can do is do the peroxide then the Q tip. That’s just a bad combination.

Mark Reardon 4:19
See I’m learning, I’m a rookie.

Fred Bodimer 4:20
Oh, I see. I didn’t know.

Alex 4:21
I didn’t break down for Mark, what this whole like thing would be,

Sue Thomas 4:26
Apparently not

Alex 4:27
Oh, is it so when you get it sucked out, is it not the best feeling?

Mark Reardon 4:31
Well, I don’t think it was as life changing for me as it was for you, but I certainly hear better.

Alex 4:35
But you can hear, I mean,

Mark Reardon 4:36
yeah, but see the other well, it was weird. It was loud a couple of times. And then she’s like, Okay, I’m gonna, like, take the tweezers. And then she says, let’s look at the other ear. And this was the worst part. I’m just gonna tell you, can turn your radio down if you want to hear this. She’s like, Oh, let me pull that hair off your eardrum. That’s it. I’m like, what? Oh, no, yeah. I’m like, hair on the eardrum. That’s an old man thing. It’s got to be an old man thing

Alex 4:59
I haven’t had that.

Mark Reardon 4:59
So she clips that out. But now I’m feeling really good

Alex 5:03
after she vacuumed it, did she go in with a little tool to get the rest out? Though?

Mark Reardon 5:07
Yes, she did

Alex 5:08
like mine. I sent you the picture.

Mark Reardon 5:10
Yeah, I didn’t want to see that.

Sue Thomas 5:11
I’m sorry did you just say I’ll send you the picture?

Alex 5:14
I sent him the picture.

Mark Reardon 5:15
He did say that Sue and I’m not going to share that picture with you because I wish I hadn’t seen it.

Alex 5:19
Well I sent it to my mom, she asked me, What end of my body that came out of?

Mark Reardon 5:25
I don’t want to see that picture again. I really didn’t want to see it

Alex 5:29
The whole show has been loud today.

Mark Reardon 5:30
Here’s what I would say. Thank you, Megan. I told Megan before I left them like, Godspeed for what you do, because I can’t even imagine that this is something they do on a regular basis which is,

Sue Thomas 5:39
Apparently they do, I mean Alex goes…

Alex 5:39
you should have seen me. When I walked in too I was talking to all the people. I said, my buddy, Mark Reardon was here just a few minutes ago, his first time, his first experience. Then she started showing me all the tools.

Mark Reardon 5:52
Megan was it the same? Okay? Because I told Megan that my colleague said, my colleague. I said, you’re going to think that you’re being ambushed here, but my colleague is coming.

Alex 6:00
But you know, when I go in the same place, I go to the same place if I ever have a like a voice situation, because we talk a lot here on the radio, I sing a lot, and I go in there, and I usually get a little antibiotic or a little steroid shot that brings my voice right back. Now, I don’t know that I’m supposed to advocate for that, but it does it. These people are like magicians over there. They really, they, it’s incredible.

Mark Reardon 6:26
And so until you told me this, I was unaware maybe you’d mentioned you. I didn’t realize there was a specific ENT urgent care, but they and they were, it was bumping this morning, when I walked in, there was like 10 people in there.

Alex 6:37
Yeah, oh, it’s, it’s, I mean, I’ve never been in the place where there’s not a line out the door. So what you got to make that reservation? One piece

Mark Reardon 6:44
of advice that I will give people, just because I asked, I’m like, Well, is there anything I can do about this? Megan recommended there was something called the Brock’s that she says is mineral oil, and you can use that in in clean your ears, but I’m all cleaned out. Alex, cleaned out if you

Alex 6:58
do the bulb with it, yeah, the D rocks with the bulb and the bulb sucks it out.

Mark Reardon 7:02
You’re the extra I’m still the rookie, but all I know is, I got relief today.

Fred Bodimer 7:06
I can’t believe it’s a vacuum type device. I thought like it would be like the whoosh, water.

Alex 7:11
Oh, no, no. Water needed.

Mark Reardon 7:13
No it was loud. Fred, what do you? Rest assured.

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