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[music]: [00:00:00] Knock, knock,
Kristin: knock, knock. Hi,
Will: welcome everybody to Knock-Knock. Hi, with the Glaucomflecken, I am Dr. Glaucomflecken
Kristin: I am Lady Glaucomflecken
Will: Will and Kristin Flanary. And Milo in the background. If you’re looking, if you’re watching us on YouTube right now. Yeah, he is. He just got back from the groomers and he is licking himself, so
Kristin: He sure is, he’s a, he is a dog.
That’s what they do.
Will: Well, welcome to an episode of Glock Talk. Uh, we got a few things to, to discuss today. Hmm. Um, so first thing is, um, I just wanna ask you is our, is our teenager. Okay.
Kristin: What do you mean?
Will: Um, like the aggressive amount of hours that she is sleeping.
Kristin: Oh, hmm. Yeah. It’s,
Will: I, I, I know teenagers sleep a lot.
Kristin: [00:01:00] Mm-hmm.
Will: But it’s like, it, it’s like, it seems like a lot.
Kristin: I don’t know. Today she was up by 10 of her own, uh, accord, no alarm or anything.
Will: So it, it, it also seems like. I’ve talked to or seen posts or, you know, talked to other, uh, you know, parents and they, they also say like, like, this is,
Kristin: it’s a thing that happens.
Will: This, there’s sleeping. Like I don’t know how this is anyway. I don’t You
Kristin: did the same thing. I don’t remember that. When you were a teenager, you don’t remember any of your growing up years. I don’t know why. Know what happened to you. You come online at about your senior year of high school.
Will: That’s when my brain kick started.
Yeah.
Kristin: All the memories I hear about are usually like then or later.
Will: I remember, uh, some of, I, I have a little memories, small memories. It’s just like, I don’t know, it’s just like constantly sleeping. It’s like, get up and you’re like sleeping through your life.
Kristin: Yeah. I did the same thing. No, no.
Will: I
Kristin: remember when I was in college, like it just, it gets worse until like when I was in [00:02:00] college, I would go home for Christmas or whatever and visit my family And you just
Will: sleep for days.
Kristin: Yeah. I woke up at like 4:00 PM.
Will: I would say it. Maybe it’s because she’s growing, but you didn’t grow. So,
Kristin: no, I think, you know, other, other, shouldn’t you be telling me this other bodily things are happening that might require some energy, brain stuff, body stuff. No eyeball stuff. I
Will: know. Exactly. I mean, you know exactly who you’re talking to.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh, all right. I just wanted to make sure that, you know,
Kristin: you know, there’s, there’s just supposed to
Will: be sleeping this long.
Kristin: I, I mean, you know, we, we get her checked on a regular basis from her pediatrician. I think teenagers are just, uh, well, it
Will: gets to be like living the dream. It gets to be like noon or one o’clock, and I’m like, alright, that’s enough.
That, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s plenty, you know,
Kristin: you know, you sound really old right now. Look.
Will: I know, I know. I’ve, I’ve, I’ve started, I’ve learned to embrace it. Now I’m, it’s just, it’s what [00:03:00] it is. You’re a
Kristin: crotchety old porch sitting man. I, I
Will: am happy to, I am an old man now. I, I love sitting on my porch. I love saying things like, you know, back when, when I did something
Kristin: mm-hmm.
Will: Or when I was your age. Um. Mm-hmm. Or
Kristin: you love skimming a pool.
Will: I, I love, oh my God, you love a pressure
Kristin: washer.
Will: It’s so relaxing to skim your pool. It’s just, it’s the first time we’ve had a pool now for a, a, a year and, and like, it’s just, I love it. I just, I just back, it’s, it’s wellness back and forth.
Skimming for you. Do you, you don’t like skimming?
Kristin: No.
Will: It’s just, it’s relaxing.
Kristin: I mean, I can see that, how it would mow the
Will: grass is relaxing, skimming a pool. Just like those, those tasks. Same thing with power washing. It’s just like mm-hmm. You just, you can just do it and you just think about other things in your head.
Kristin: Yeah. And then there’s like the satisfaction of seeing positive change.
Will: But then, but also, I don’t know what I’m thinking in my head while I’m doing those [00:04:00] things, sometimes I don’t have thoughts.
Kristin: I know. I don’t understand that
Will: what,
Kristin: how you can not have thoughts.
Will: You don’t just turn your
Kristin: No, my brain does not turn off.
Will: Oh, I, I love doing that. No, I just, I just don’t think,
Kristin: but that’s impossible. Like, that makes no sense to me that it’s nonsense. What do you mean? I, how can you just not think anything? Nothing. Just, what is it? Just silence in there. Just black, dark, cold, hard silence. Yeah, pretty much. That’s, I don’t think that’s possible.
I mean, I, I don’t know
Will: what to tell you. I just, I don’t, I don’t have, uh, sometimes I just, I don’t have thoughts.
Kristin: I just, I cannot understand that,
Will: oh, well anyway,
Kristin: like, like liter, like logically even like, does not compute.
Will: It must be exhausting to all, all the time have things in your brain. [00:05:00]
Kristin: Well, I’m alive. My brain is working.
Will: So is mine at all times. Most of the time
Kristin: it’s just what happens.
Will: I can just say to my brain, constantly
Kristin: processing information.
Will: I’m like, I’m just gonna do this. It is like driving for a long, like a, like a road trip. Okay. But when
Kristin: you’re driving, you’re like thinking,
Will: um,
Kristin: okay. When I’m driving, I’m thinking,
Will: I mean, I’m like, you know, aware of my surroundings, but I’m not like.
You’re
Kristin: thinking thoughts
Will: like deep,
Kristin: they don’t have to be deep. You’re just like, you’re thinking thoughts. So if you were, if you were
Will: doing some like mundane task, like, uh, like folding clothes,
Kristin: uhhuh,
Will: what would you be thinking about while doing that?
Kristin: Um, well, I would have to be doing something else while doing it.
I would probably be listening to a podcast.
Will: Why You can’t, you, you don’t feel like you can have just uninterrupted stimulation. External. What, like, does [00:06:00] it bother you to, to just be like, sitting in silence without, with just your thoughts?
Kristin: Um, yeah, because that’s not enough. What do you mean? I, I, if I’m thinking about something really hard, like puzzling something out, then sure.
Okay. But like, I get bored if there’s not. Enough stimulation happening.
Will: So that sounds like a time when maybe you don’t have thoughts.
Kristin: No, I do. It’s just the types of things that I would be thinking about just randomly while folding laundry are not terribly interesting. They’re there. Okay. They’re just not like super interesting.
Kinda
Will: like this conversation
Kristin: probably.
Will: Okay, I gotcha. Well,
Kristin: if any of you have not already turned us off, well, well,
Will: I, I’ve got, uh, we have some healthcare news. Should we do that? Okay. Uh, the presidential fitness test is back, baby. Mm-hmm. It is back. Alright. So I
Kristin: hated that thing. So maybe [00:07:00]
Will: possibly unpopular opinion.
Kristin: I’m still scarred.
Will: I actually enjoyed the presidential fitness cast. I’m sure you
Kristin: did. That does not surprise me.
Will: It was great. I, I loved it. What I didn’t like is the v sit and reach.
Kristin: Oh. That I could do. Do
Will: you remember all the components of it?
Kristin: Not all of them. Them, I’m sure there was, there was stretching, there was running a mile.
There was the pullups, which were the, the pullups bane of my, the, the mile
Will: run. The, the, the situps. You had situps? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. The v sit and reach. Mm-hmm. And uh, last one was shuttle run.
Kristin: What was that?
Will: It was where you had two erasers. We used erasers.
Kristin: Oh yeah.
Will: And you had to go run like 10 yards or something.
Yeah. And then pick up an eraser, bring it back, and then go get the other one. Right. It’s like just back and forth. She’s
Kristin: like running drills and basketball or something.
Will: Why? Like elementary school kids, like I get the other stuff, but the shuttle run is like, oh, let’s, uh, we need to, to make sure we test, uh, lateral mobility.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: And [00:08:00] acceleration and, and elementary school kids, like, what’s the point? Like I get the mile run, the, like, all the other things are like strength. This is like strength, speed, athletics. Yeah. That they’re testing with the shuttle run. I just, I, I just don’t totally get, I dunno, maybe
Kristin: something like dexterity or, I mean, it’s not like it’s fine motor, but
Will: the visa in reach was,
Kristin: oh, I killed at that.
Will: I was, killed it. That was the only one that I, I was not. And they were like thresholds to where like you would get like some kind of prize.
Kristin: Oh yeah. I won that one. Every, the certificate, every time.
Will: And um, and I obviously like being the, the competitive weirdo. I am. Like I had to be top
Kristin: and you’re not very flexible.
So that one would’ve,
Will: it, it bothered. It was, and also I wasn’t very, I didn’t have a lot of upper body strength, so I couldn’t do a pull up.
Kristin: Me neither. I, that’s what has scar. You know what, I was actually very good at the rest of it. It was just the pull-ups and I could not do those at all. And then that was so humiliating.
’cause then, you know, the teacher would come [00:09:00] and they would like grab your ankles to try to like give you a, like, help you out a little bit. How embarra, how embarrass, how embarrassing. It was so embarrassing. And I could never, I still to this day, cannot not do it. I’ve never been able to do a pull up unassisted.
Let’s
Will: get you a pull up.
Kristin: No, let’s do it. I’m good.
Will: I like, if we train, we can, we can put it on the internet. Can train lady Glaucomflecken. But again, like
Kristin: to what end? I don’t need to be able to do a pull up
Will: personal accomplishment. The, the fact you, that’s not an accomplishment. You’ve worked toward a goal
Kristin: saving your life, raising children, you running a business, these things are accomplishment.
Have you doing a pull up? Hold on. When was the last time you, it doesn’t matter. When was the last
Will: time you actually tried? ’cause I, I’m, I bet you could do it.
Kristin: I can, no, I can’t, I can do, um, assisted ones, you know, the machine at the gym where there’s like, I don’t know what it’s called, but it, it has weights attached uhhuh to it that basically like counterbalances you by whatever the weight is.
Right. That you set that I can do that.
Will: It’s [00:10:00] like, it’s like doing a pull up in a, like a low gravity Yeah. State. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. So I
Kristin: can do that. I cannot do it unassisted. Okay. You know. Alright. So I do, I do know for a fact I can’t. Have tried lately.
Will: We can work on this. Can get it. We can get it. I don’t care to We can get you one.
Can you do a pull up? I mean car? Sorry. Can you do a sit up?
Kristin: Of course I can do a sit up. Dunno.
Will: Can you do a mile run?
Kristin: Probably not anymore, but I could at the time.
Will: You could. I could
Kristin: give work up to a mile, but I’m not supposed to run Our 10-year-old
Will: could, can run a mile.
Kristin: I’m not supposed to run now.
Will: Okay.
Kristin: Because of my Sure. Stupid joints.
Will: Okay. Well, um, I was top in my school in the mile run.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: The shuttle run, that was my specialty. Shuttle
Kristin: run.
Will: Shuttle run. I was so good at shuttle because
Kristin: although those freaky ly, long legs, legs, I had really long legs.
Will: I, I’m quick for my size, uh, and, uh, sit-ups, uh, plus or minus.
But the, um, those two, the mile run and [00:11:00] the shuttle run
[music]: mm-hmm. Those
Will: were, that was my jam. And v and r was awful. Pullups were bad. But I don’t, I don’t remember anybody. Maybe someone did like one or two.
Kristin: I know no one can do em
Will: was like none of the kids. ’cause these were all like, this is an elementary school.
Kristin: Yeah. I think it was just, just a factor that you had to humiliate yourself in front of everyone else too. No,
Will: nobody had had puberty at that point’s. It’s like we’re like fourth graders.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: And so it, it’s, it’s, you know, it’s like, well, what are we doing this for? And so I want to hear from, uh, any follower, any of you who did the presidential fitness tests growing up, that
Kristin: love it, hate it.
Will: We’re able to do a pull up. And were you, if you successfully did a pull up, were you like, did that, what, what did the popularity at your school, what happened there? Did you, yeah. Did you rise the ranks? Were you, everybody fawning over you? How popular were you because of that pull up? How much did you just ride that wave of, of, of fame
Kristin: and how could you do it as the pull-up kid?
Did you train? [00:12:00] All year long. No one train for this presidential fitness test. One
Will: trains, no one trained. You should, you should train to get your pull-up.
Kristin: Listen, you always have this idea in your mind that I am not athletic.
Will: I, I’ve never said that. I never said you weren’t athletic.
Kristin: You don’t have to say it explicitly.
Will: Well, before we get an argument, I was quite
Kristin: an athlete actually.
Hey, Kristin.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: I know that you love when I talk about the cute little mites.
[music]: Mm, mm-hmm.
Will: Yeah. But I thought we could take a break from that. Is that okay with you? That’s
[music]: fine. Yeah.
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Kristin: Okay. I like that idea.
No, might talk.
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Kristin: Hmm. Okay. So what are the top symptoms that [00:13:00] people should look out for?
Will: Uh, usually itching along the eyelid, margins, swelling, irritation, redness.
Kristin: Mm. That sounds like it could be allergies or lots of other things too.
It could
Will: be a lot of things, but Exactly. And uh, the key is if your doctor spots crusties. On the margin of the eyelid. Mm-hmm. Technical term. Well, you know, we call ’em collarettes, but you know, crusty is a good term. Uh, that basically that tells you it’s dex blepharitis right there.
Kristin: Well, I really like that there’s a clear sign to know for sure.
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Kristin: Ooh, that is good to know.
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Kristin: Uh, I feel bad for you, but I have to say I’m not surprised.
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Kristin: Uh, that’s arguable.
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So we have established that Lady Glaucomflecken is athletic, very athletic.
Kristin: Thank you. I just have a dumb body. That’s all you’re, that I have to be careful with now.
Will: Well, that’s the thing, like you were very [00:15:00] coordinated.
Kristin: I was a gymnast. You were a gymnast for 10 years. I was a cheerleader. I played volleyball, I played basketball.
Yeah, I ran track. I was fast.
Will: I mean, you have to be coordinated to do several of those things.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Um, so where did your coordination go?
Kristin: I was never very good at like hand-eye coordination. A lot of that other stuff is more like gross motor coordination.
Will: Gotcha. So like catching a ball and stuff. No, I
Kristin: was never good at that.
Will: But you did play basketball.
Kristin: Yeah, but that ball’s pretty big. It’s easier to catch.
Will: Alright, fair enough. Okay. Um, some health, uh, some more healthcare news. This is actually a really cool thing. So the state of Massachusetts has introduced a bill that gives funding to high schools. To teach CPR to get high schoolers, CPR certified
Kristin: mandates and provides funding if it goes through.
Yeah. Like there’s still Right, obviously plenty of time for things [00:16:00] to change, but, uh, if it were to go through that would be a really good big step in the right direction. It also,
Will: it also establishes an EMS ambassador program with EMTs and paramedics visiting schools to mentor students and promote EMS careers.
I love it. I think that’s great. I hope we get more of that. Yeah. It’s one of those things like it should, and other countries do this, they, yeah, they, CPR r is just a part of your, it’s part of the curriculum.
Kristin: And curriculum
Will: and so, uh, why we don’t do that already, like universally in all high schools.
Kristin: Yeah.
I dunno.
Will: Sure. It’s gotta come down to money and probably at some point. Right. But, um, anyway, we should do more of it. Um, I love that.
Kristin: Yeah. I think it’s good. And I think, I don’t know, do you think maybe sometimes Americans are a little bit like overprotective of. Young people to where like, do we, are we just like trying not to, not to like scar them or something
Will: and teaching them.
I think we’re just, I think we’re just not thinking about it.
Kristin: Yeah. Just an oversight.
Will: I think [00:17:00] we’re, um, we’re like not priority, like I, you know,
Kristin: but like, so it’s never gonna happen to me. Cardiac arrest happen on a, like a school field.
Will: A lot of it does. Or a course? Well, some of them do. Yeah. When it’s a young person.
Yeah. Usually it’s a sports related thing, right? Absolutely. Yeah.
Kristin: So you would think it’d be something that we think about more. It’s
Will: honestly like the, the CPR R is absolutely great. Like we need everybody to. To, to learn CPR, but we also need, um, AEDs.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: Like that’s another, that’s, that’s a big thing.
Kristin: Yeah.
And that’s another thing that, you know, I know there’s a lot of advocacy work happening around the country for that.
Will: My, after my cardiac arrest, you bought, I did 17 or 18 AEDs that we have one in, in every corner of our house. But
Kristin: it cost what you would think 17 or 18. Well, how much is cost? Tell me.
Will: Well, what did it cost?
Kristin: Oh gosh. Um, it’s like a
Will: thousand bucks or something. Right. I
Kristin: think it was more like. 15, 1600 at the time.
Will: They’re, it’s surprisingly expensive. Yeah. For something that just, that delivers a, it’s prohibit shock. It’s
Kristin: prohibitively expensive for most [00:18:00] households, so
Will: and so we need some innovation. Yeah. We need some, some people ways to make it cheaper.
Cheaper. I think things
Kristin: are happening.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Hopefully before too many years, you know, we can bring that cost down,
Will: but not only do I have a personal one. Mm-hmm. Also Dr. Shock
Kristin: Flecking,
Will: also, Dr. Shock. Flecking costs a lot of money too. That’s
Kristin: true. Uh,
Will: but uh, by the way, it’s worth five years. Yeah, five years.
So five more years. I got my battery’s good for five years.
Kristin: Yep.
Will: I gotta get a new one. That’s gonna be fun. I know. And, um, but, uh, so that’s expensive. But then the, the other ones are a lot too. Did you, what do
Kristin: you have to do when you get a new one? Do, do they replace just the whole setup in there? Or is it just like the leads can stay in place, it’s just they change the battery.
Like, what, what has to get replaced? I
Will: do not know. Yeah. But I do know they’re gonna have to check it.
Kristin: I know that’s the part that we’re
Will: dreading to make it. Make sure it works. So I don’t know.
Kristin: That’s, that’s never the fun part.
Will: Knock on wood. I don’t know why I’m knock on wood, but, you [00:19:00] know, just doesn’t hurt always.
Knock on some wood. Um, you know, my
Kristin: maiden name w was wood. Yeah. As you know. So oftentimes
Will: thank you for not making me be will wood
Kristin: uhhuh. I thought about it, uh, but that sounded ridiculous. But because my name was wood, I had a handy place to knock all the time.
Will: Oh, that’s.
Kristin: It was nice.
Will: That was a very classic wood family joke right there.
All right, let’s, uh, let’s find out what kind of doctor you’d be. Ooh, you wanna do that?
Kristin: Okay. How so?
Will: So, um, I found a quiz.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: And, you know, you’re always talking about like, you always got like big talk. Like I could, I could totally be a doctor.
Kristin: Well, no, that’s not. First of all, I see Sydnee Sweeney pulled up here on this advertisement, on this page.
So you’re, you’re channeling the Sydnee Sweeney voice,
Will: the American Eagle.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Jeans are passed down from parents to Offspring,
Kristin: but no, I do [00:20:00] not say. I could be a doctor. What I say is, should I conduct this quiz? I was smart enough to be a doctor, but I, but bodies are yucky.
Will: You’re totally, so I couldn’t
Kristin: do it.
Will: You’re totally smart enough to be a doctor.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Uh, I think it’s the lack of enunciation in the, the ads that like throws people off. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like, it’s like, it’s like has a path south. The past soft spring. Often turning trace like holiday. How many times are we
Kristin: gonna do this on this podcast color?
Will: I think this is the first time I’ve done
Kristin: this. No, this is the second time.
Will: No, I did it on our Patreon Live.
Kristin: Oh, well that’s associated with this podcast. This
Will: is, well, this is the first time I am gracing our audience with my wonderful. Uh, the vocal fry uhhuh. I got all the elements done. See, these are
Kristin: the things you’re missing on Patreon if you’re not over there.
Will: All right, here we go. Uh, so I’m gonna ask you a series of questions. Okay. We’re gonna find out what kind of doctor this I’m sure is a very
Kristin: scientific
Will: one. Absolutely. This is, um, published in Oh, jama. Um, all right. I think
Kristin: that’s called [00:21:00] buzzfeed.
Will: Uh, sure. What was your favorite high school subject? Chemistry, physics, calculus, English, gym history.
Foreign language or art of those, what was your favorite subject?
Kristin: Well, my actual favorite’s not on there. So of those
Will: science?
Kristin: Yeah, but not, I mean, chemistry was okay. Hated physics,
Will: biology.
Kristin: Biology and anatomy were my favorites. Which, you know, would Well, if you had to choose
Will: all of those, what would you choose if you had to choose one of them?
Kristin: Uh, one of these, one of these, I guess I would have to choose English.
Will: English?
Kristin: Mm-hmm. Okay. Just like to read and write.
Will: Which Hogwarts house do you belong in?
Kristin: Ravenclaw. I already know that one.
Will: Why?
Kristin: I’ve done the tests. Okay.
Will: You see? Know you’re, what am I? I know. What am I?
Kristin: You’re Gryffindor. We’ve been through this.
We have one of every Hogwarts house in our family. I’m a Ravenclaw. You are a [00:22:00] Gryffindor. We have a child who’s a Slytherin and a child who’s a Hufflepuff,
Will: so it makes perfect sense too. All right, so you’re Raven Claw.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Pick a, pick a sport to play. You have to play this sport. Okay. Tennis, hockey, basketball, chess.
Kristin: I guess I’d go basketball. Yeah.
Will: Chess. You wouldn’t do. ’cause that’s, that’s like, that’s boring. A game and you don’t play games.
Kristin: Well, all these are games.
Will: Tennis, no. Hey, hand-eye coordination. Same with hockey. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so, yeah, basketball makes the most sense here. All right. Pick a hobby. I’m gonna give you some choices,
Kristin: okay.
Will: Guitar, painting, writing, singing, acting, dancing, weightlifting or pottery?
Kristin: Uh, I’ll go writing.
Will: Writing. That was you were gonna choose
Kristin: what
Will: is an ideal time to wake up in the morning for work?
Kristin: Noon.
Will: It’s not an option. The options are [00:23:00] 3:00 AM 4:00 AM 5:00 AM 6:00 AM 7:00 AM 8:00 AM We’ll just go 8:00
Kristin: AM 8:00 AM.
Will: Pick a bone in the body. Uh, the options are LOL, no, femur, ribs, skull, humus, mandible.
Kristin: Hmm. I’m going. Favorite bone? I’m going Mandible.
Will: Mandible?
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Because you got a strong mandible.
Kristin: I got, no, I got strong ambassadors.
Yeah. On my mandible.
Will: Lastly, pick your favorite meal of the day. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, dessert or snacks?
Kristin: Brunch. Brunch. You are a
Will: radiologist.
Kristin: You know, that does make sense because, um, that is one where you don’t have to touch the buddies.
Will: Yeah. You have always had a love for anatomy. I, I do. And I have a gift for attention to detail.
You probably have an excellent work at home setup. I do. With multiple monitors. Time to scroll through some images. Woo. All right. So you’re, we’re gonna do it [00:24:00] again, but you’re gonna answer for me.
Kristin: Oh, okay. Alright.
Will: What’s my favorite subject in high school?
Kristin: Why do I, why are you not answering for you? Oh,
Will: should I?
Well, I’m just curious of what, what you would get from me. Okay.
Kristin: I think you of these oof.
Will: Chemistry, physics, calculus, English, gym history, foreign language or art
Kristin: you probably would’ve liked gym.
Favorite subject. In high
Will: school.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: See, I, I liked calculus.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: But it was mainly ’cause I had a great teacher.
Kristin: Mm.
Will: So let’s go calculus.
Kristin: You’re gonna go calculus. Okay. Let’s go calculus.
Will: So you tell me what you think and then I’ll do the right answer. You can correct which Hogwarts house do I belong in?
Griffendor. So I’m Griffendor because I am virtuous. And the best, like why I, here’s the thing with the Hogwarts house, why would you want to be anything else besides Gryffindor? They’re like the heroes.
Kristin: That’s why you’re Gryffindor. You, uh, you wanna be the others because it resonates more with you [00:25:00] personally.
Will: I don’t understand. Alright. Pick a, you’re Gryffindor. Pick a sport to play.
Kristin: Oh, tennis for you.
Will: Yeah. I love tennis. Pick a hobby. Acting guitar, painting, writing, singing, acting, dancing, weightlifting, pottery,
Kristin: acting.
Will: Uh, I do love a good act. Acting session. Mm-hmm. 6:00
Kristin: AM Wake up
Will: an ideal time to wake up in the morning for work.
Ideal
Kristin: time. Okay. Seven.
Will: Um, I, yeah, I think seven. Seven. Pick a bone in the body.
Kristin: Ooh. Um. LOL. No, no. We’re gonna go skull body medicine. Well, skull. Okay. The eyes live in there. You’re right. Okay. Kristin, I, it was an oversight. I apologize.
Will: Pick your favorite meal of the day.
Kristin: I love me.
Will: A good breakfast. You love breakfast?
I love a breakfast. My god. Breakfast burrito. Oh yeah. Breakfast burritos, tacos. The, the tacos, the pancakes, [00:26:00] French toast. Mm-hmm. All just gimme all the breakfast. Like honestly,
Kristin: who doesn’t love breakfast at, at some point in the day. I get it. If you don’t wanna eat first thing, but like breakfast food,
Will: like, well compare this to other, like what’s the, so breakfast is clearly the best meal of it.
Kristin: It is.
Will: Easily superior. Like from a, from a, from a, that’s
Kristin: just a fact.
Will: A taste, a, a flavor.
Kristin: Yep.
Will: Just satisfy those are the same thing. Satisfying taste and flavor.
Kristin: I
Will: feel like they’re different, but maybe not. Uh, compared to lunch.
Kristin: Yeah,
Will: lunch. Lunch even. Sounds awful.
Kristin: It does. Lunch kind of a word. Sounds like munch.
Will: Well, dinner’s okay. Dinner’s good.
Kristin: I usually skip dinner. Dinner’s
Will: fine. Uh, desserts. Desserts are great.
Kristin: I mean, sure.
Will: Snacks good. So if I had to put these good too. And order. Favorite to least favorite, uh, breakfast, brunch, dessert, dinner, snacks. And then way down there is lunch, which sucks. Oh,
Kristin: oh, [00:27:00] you’re kidding me.
My no way. My quiz
Will: result is ophthalmology.
Holy crap.
Kristin: How? That’s
Will: amazing.
Kristin: How did it do that? Dang buzzfeed.
Will: Who knew?
Kristin: Yeah. This one’s actually pretty accurate, how you
Will: have always had a love for technology. Your friends and family growing up noticed that you have very steady hands.
Kristin: You do have steady hands.
Will: How do they know that?
Kristin: But I don’t. You do not have a love for technology.
Only.
Will: Well, sure I do. I I use all kinds of technological things in my job.
Kristin: Yes. But you don’t have a love for technology. I, I have to. That’s true.
Will: I, I don’t really care, teach you
Kristin: all the technology. I
Will: don’t really, the other day, because I don’t use Instagram, I had, I had to ask you like, how do I do an Instagram?
Kristin: Yeah. And I was like, what do you mean I needed
Will: something, needed to go up on Instagram. It’s like, post and I didn’t like
Kristin: you,
Will: I didn’t know how to do it. You
Kristin: post
Will: just, uh, it only I can scroll on Insta. I know how to do that. But the posting is, [00:28:00] it could be. Yeah.
Kristin: We, we help you out with the, the mechanics of your, they’re so complicated now.
Instagram page. They’re
Will: so complic. See, I love sounding, I’m embracing my old man.
Kristin: Oh boy. Persona.
Will: I’m really, I’m, I’m, so,
Kristin: I feel like this might have to be a discussion we have. Offline. I’m
Will: so there. My, my beard is getting grayer by the day.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Um, anyway, it goes on to say it only made sense that microsurgery would be the job for you.
Absolutely. Plus you get to restore vision to people every day. What is cooler than that? Thank you. Buzzfeed. What is cooler? I cannot
Kristin: believe it gave you ophthalmology. Of course. Like this. Out of those questions.
Will: I know, I, I, I don’t know what to say. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s so accurate. I think the
Kristin: only one there that even sort of relates was the skull.
Will: We have to, we cannot exclude the possibility that this, they base this off of my videos.
Kristin: Do you think, what’s the [00:29:00] date on this
Will: 2023? It’s possible.
Kristin: Possible.
Will: Like the bone stuff.
I don’t know. I don’t know. Like I don’t wanna give myself too much credit, but it, I might have, some
Kristin: of these don’t have like the sport one. I don’t think that has anything to do with you. That’s true. I don’t know. It’s
Will: true.
Kristin: I think it’s a stretch.
Will: Let’s take a break.
Alright, well, we’ll wrap up this, uh, this episode with a, with a, a, uh, a message from a listener. But before we get to that. Uh, what do you think about the response to our animated show?
Kristin: It’s been so fun talking book in general. See everybody, like finally get to see it. We’ve been working on it for so long.
Will: Yeah. People like it. And, um, uh, so the, the goal, because. As I’ve mentioned, we’ve mentioned like multiple times already. It’s crazy expensive to, to do animation, especially when you’re not using ai. Right? Right. We’re like really actual
Kristin: humans using
Will: real people and their creativity is endless and it’s amazing [00:30:00] and, but you know, they deserve to get paid well for the work they do.
’cause it animation is hard.
Kristin: Yeah, it’s a lot of work it turns out.
Will: So, so we’re gonna be, um, uh, pitching, you know, putting together a little. Little pitch package, I dunno what you call ’em, pitch deck something. Uh, and then
Kristin: clearly we have help with this. Yeah,
Will: right. Exactly. And, uh, and taking it around and seeing if we can get anybody to like, bite on it to, to help us make more, maybe even a little bit longer episodes.
Mm-hmm. Um. And, uh, I don’t know.
Kristin: Yeah. These were kind of a test friend to see like, Hey, how does, how do people like it? Does it work? Is it something we wanna continue? Yeah.
Will: So I hope you liked it. Go check it out if you haven’t seen ’em already. Uh, they’re short. They’re like about three minutes each. Um mm-hmm.
And we have three parts to the, the, the, it’s, it’s all one storyline.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: And there’s so many Charact characters I wanna get into.
Kristin: I know. And I wanna do more voice acting. That was really fun.
Will: You got a lot of. Compliments on your voice acting, by the way. I know.
Kristin: Thanks guys.
Will: Yeah. So people are very impressed.
I,
Kristin: you know,
Will: you do have a bit of a cartoonish voice.
Kristin: I [00:31:00] do. And I’m also just naturally very, um, enthusiastic, let’s say.
Will: And I, and we did get a couple emails from people that are like, Hey, I’m a professional voice actor if you need help.
Kristin: Oh, did we?
Will: Uhhuh. Oh wow. And so, um, which is probably a smart thing because.
If, if this gets bigger and we try to do like a whole season of episodes, yeah,
Kristin: you’ll need different characters and stuff. We need different
Will: voices. It can’t all just be me. That’s like, not, it’s, it’s, it works for my content because it’s like low budget. Oh,
Kristin: you think, you think you would have different voices for different characters?
I, I don’t
Will: know. I mean, shouldn’t we,
Kristin: I don’t dunno. I think that’s part of the charm of Glock Flecking is that they are all, all the same guy. Yeah.
Will: I think that’s,
Kristin: that’s part of what makes it your stuff.
Will: Well, maybe we could, we could probably have like. A couple other, like maybe, I
Kristin: mean, sh if we’re gonna have patients, they obviously cannot all be me.
Right, right. Like, those would have to be different people.
Will: That’s true. So I, I think, anyway, it’s, it’s really nice that people reach out. Those of you have reached out [00:32:00] to, uh, to offer to help or, um, you know, those of you who know billionaires who enjoy medical comedy, uh, yeah, please send them my way.
Kristin: And if you wanna see more, keep watching them.
Like ’em Yeah. Commenting, share them with. People that you know who haven’t seen them yet.
Will: For sure
Kristin: that all those are all good metrics for us to use to, to get more funding, to do more.
Will: To say to Netflix, Hey, please face to, no one’s ever done a medical animated show before. And is that true? I’m not aware.
I’m not aware of it. I’ve looked around something that’s like strictly medical, like, like set in a hospital. Hmm. I’m not familiar with an animated show in that.
[music]: Yeah. I don’t know
Will: if, if, if I’m wrong, please let me know. I’d, I’d love to check it out, but I think it’s like my kind of like a first of its kind type of thing, so Yeah.
Kristin: Could be.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: I wanna see it. Like I wanna, I want us to do more because I think there’s a lot we could do with animation that we cannot do. Oh yeah,
Will: for sure.
Kristin: When it’s you live action,
Will: because I’m not good at technology.
Kristin: Well that, but [00:33:00] also, like for example, you can’t, I don’t know, fly. Like there’s just like things you can do in an animated world that you can’t do in the real world.
Will: Exactly.
Kristin: That I think certain of your characters, uh, you know, we could have a lot of fun with those kinds of things.
Will: Like Jonathan.
Kristin: Jonathan, he
Will: could, he could certainly fly
Kristin: tco Mike, like who knows what that guy’s up to.
Will: All kinds of stuff.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Um, alright, let’s get to our, this comment from, uh, uh, listener Andromeda.
In your latest episode, you asked for people’s opinions on whether people should talk during surgery. In aviation, there’s a thing called the sterile cockpit rule, which means that no irrelevant conversation or activity is allowed during certain critical phases of flight. Pilots can and do chitchat just like anyone else at work, but during the riskiest.
Parts of the flight, typically below 10,000 feet, they’re only allowed to do things directly related to safe operation. Like so many rules in aviation, this one was put in place after pilot. [00:34:00] Distraction led to accidents. So this is coming from, I discussed, I think, in a knock, knock eye episode, um, there was a, a death that occurred during a cataract surgery.
Kristin: What?
Will: Yeah, because, um,
Kristin: like a surgery related death, not just a natural death.
Will: Well, it was like related to like the anes anesthetic and the sedation that’s given.
Kristin: I thought you didn’t even give much.
Will: No, we give you, we give. So it’s not much. And so that’s the question is how did this happen? Yeah. But, uh, like monitors were turned off.
There’s a whole, it’s a whole thing, but, but ultimately the article I read focused on a, a distracting conversation that the, uh, anesthetist and the surgeon were having. They were playing some kind of like, guess the music song game. During the surgery. Okay. And, and the patient’s, certain monitors were not turned on, so they didn’t, they didn’t notice that the patient was not oxygenating well and the patient ended up dying.
Extraordinarily rare. I’ve never even heard [00:35:00] during the cataract surgery, which less You have a
Kristin: checklist too, not just the talking. It seems like the checklist wasn’t,
Will: so there were multiple failures. Yeah. Right. But one of the things you can certainly, like, you know. Regulate yourself is just how much distracting conversation might be happening.
So this is a, a, you know, there’s lots of, of, uh, similarities that you’ll find, you know, like between like surgeons in an operating room mm-hmm. And pilots in a cockpit. Right. Right. Uh, and I think that’s a, a great one. Um, and there have been times too when, like I am, I’m talking during a case, but when it.
When it gets to the point where like there’s a couple points during your cataract surgery where like you would need to be very careful and very focused.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Um, that. Whether the patient’s talking or, or maybe the, the staff is talking, I’ll be like, um, can we, you know, be quiet for a second.
Kristin: Yeah. What about music?
Because you have music in an operating room, right? Usually
Will: music is, I think music, music is not distracting to me. It’s really, it’s, it, it comes down to like the, the, [00:36:00] the. Anesthetist and the surgeon, like what is distracting to them?
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: I don’t find music distracting. I don’t even listen to it. I’m just focused on the patient.
Yeah. Sometimes conversation can get distracting and if it, if it, if I feel like that’s the case, then I will say something.
[music]: Mm-hmm. I
Will: always do. Or even if the music is turned up too loud.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: Often I’ll like say, okay, can we turn down the music? Mm-hmm. Uh, and so, so I, I definitely do that and I, I think all surgeons should do that because if there’s anything that’s distracting you from doing.
Safe surgery. Right? Like it needs to be, it needs, needs to be dealt with. Yeah. So anyway, it’s um, um, it’s a horrifying story and I’m not sure what’s gonna, you know, come from, there’s like lawsuits involved. This is a, a few years ago I think that, where did this happen? Happen? Uh, I don’t remember exactly where, you know, either Texas or Florida or something.
So, um, anyway.
Kristin: Yeah. Ophthalmology of all of all things. Right. And cataract surgery. Like super common. Super [00:37:00] quick.
Will: Yeah. So we can, we can learn a lot from pilots, uh, in particular, like how they have to, there are rules around rest.
Kristin: Yep. Yeah.
Will: That, that, surgeons,
Kristin: that would definitely, once we’re, once we’re
Will: out in practice, it’s, it’s like, you know.
No. Yeah, no rule. There are no rules. No rules. You’re just like, you could, you could work on no sleep for two days. Uh, and you kind of have to police it yourself, uh, once you’re out, out of training.
Kristin: So I have always hated that you can do that. Yeah. Like, that makes me feel unsafe as a patient.
Will: Well, I would say it’s, it’s less likely that that’s gonna happen once you’re an attending, you know, because.
No one wants to like live that way.
Kristin: Okay. But then like, are you giving me a resident who’s been up for two days?
Will: Well, that the, I, well, that’s why I said out of residency, because during residency I, theoretically there are workout restrictions,
Kristin: right? Theoretically for that
Will: very reason. So there are safeguards that have been put in place, but then like, are they being followed?
Are they, you know, right. [00:38:00] There’s all, all that, you know, you’re at that point, you’re fighting these guidelines that are fighting against culture.
Kristin: Yeah, but so what’s the, the culture of the place?
Will: Is it rule following culture or is it like, work your ass off until you’re dead? Kind of culture
Kristin: and that’s the, like, I don’t want to, um, I don’t want to be a patient in a place like that where that is the culture.
Like, and, and it’s seen as like honorable or something in a lot of places, but like.
Will: I
Kristin: think it’s becoming, I would actively avoid those places.
Will: I think generally that’s be, it’s becoming less like that. That’s over, over time. Um, but they’re still gonna find it some places. Yeah. So anyway, uh, let us know what’s your, if you have any thoughts about the episode, uh, if you, um, you know, want to chat about, uh, I don’t sound, I’m trying to like, come up with things we just talked about.
We talked about what
Kristin: kind of doctors we would be. Oh
Will: yeah, yeah. What kind of doctor would you be, um, and how does that relate to your. Your Hogwarts house, you can email us, knock knock eye human [00:39:00] com. That’s a good question. I
Kristin: wonder if there’s a particular Hogwarts house that is associated with doctors in general.
Oh, absolutely. And then with different kinds of doctors. Absolutely.
Will: Absolutely. I’d like to know that Gryffindors are the ophthalmologist. Uh, clearly. Um, Hufflepuffs are, uh, pediatricians.
[music]: Mm.
Will: Um, Raven, that’s a good one. Raven Claws are internists. Internal medicine. Yeah, absolutely. Internists. Uh, sli, slithering, you know, surgeons like general surgeons, neurosurgery, um, cardiothoracic surgery for sure.
Mm-hmm. Uh, yeah, that’s all I got.
[music]: Yeah.
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Kristin: They do.
Will: Uh, shout out to all the great. Listeners leaving feedback and reviews over on our YouTube channel at Glaucomfleckens. We got a comment at R-W-N-F-L nine V rolls right off the tongue on YouTube said You have 240 plus [00:40:00] episodes.
Kristin: We do.
Will: Do we really?
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Holy crap. That’s a lot of, I know. That’s a lot of talking.
Kristin: You’ve been talking a lot.
Will: Yeah. It’s just saying so many words. Not sure why the algorithm took so long to show me these until now.
I’ve only seen your shorts on YouTube. Very happy to have longer content.
Kristin: Well, that’s good to hear. I like it.
Will: Maybe we should be posting some more of. Like podcast episode, like, like clips on the, my other YouTube channel to so that people know Uhhuh, you know?
Kristin: Yeah. It’s
Will: probably a good idea. Oh, that’s
Kristin: a
Will: marketer brand
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