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Blow Smoke Up Your Ass
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Join us as we do a deep dive into the curious history behind the idiom ‘Blow Smoke Up Your Ass’.
Get ready for a history lesson that is as educational and it is funny, with stories so bizarre they'll have you questioning whether fact really is stranger than fiction. From the unusual medical treatments of yesteryear (vibrator rehabilitation, shock therapy, and medical heroine just to name a few) to the incredible innovations saving lives today, we're traversing centuries of medical history in one quick episode!
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Introduction
Speaker 1Do you work at? Hello podcast family, this is your unoriginal host, afton J, and I'm happy to be hanging out with you wherever you are today. Let's get into the intellectual journey we're about to go on together. Every episode, I will feature a popular idiom, phrase, prose or thought that we can explore. I'll bring in backstory, history, current books, articles and experts to help us unpack all that these culturally relevant sayings have to offer. As always, none of what we'll talk about today is my original thoughts, but I will attempt to repackage other people's ideas and talk through them so we can learn and laugh together. I'm going to try to bring you the most interesting useless knowledge in the most thought-provoking and entertaining way. I know how, okay, let's do this, whether you're listening in your car, on the way to work, cleaning the house at the airport or wherever you are. I hope you enjoy this episode. Today's episode is Blow Smoke Up your Ass. Today's idiom is going to take us on a wild ride of fun facts, but I know that you are ready because you are the coolest, most amazing, outstandingly intelligent and incredibly good-looking podcast listener. I know and I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass this is one of the more crude idioms that we've covered on the podcast, but I think it's worth researching because you're going to learn some great historical facts out of this one.
What the Idioum?
Speaker 1Miriam Webster defines an idiom as an expression and usage of a language that is particular to itself, having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements. Or, simply put, an idiom is a phrase used commonly in a language or culture that means something different from how it literally sounds, and this one does not sound at all how it means Today. This phrase means to lie to someone in a way that flatters them or makes them feel praised, important or successful. But I'm not lying to you. I really do think you're awesomely cool and intelligent and good-looking, but why in the world would blowing smoke where the sun don't shine make people feel good? Where does this ridiculous idiom come from? It's time for our favorite game. What the Idiom? Let's start with our first unsuspecting friend. Where do you?
Speaker 2think the origin of blow smoke up your ass comes from.
Speaker 3Gam gam, blow smoke up your ass. So back in the day Native Americans would have to do smoke snagels back and forth. So I mean, if you're lying, I mean you're sending out some wrong smoke signals and I guess that's where it came from. You blew smoke up my ass. It's in the wrong signal. That's what I'm going with. Number one answer lock it in.
Speaker 2My thoughts go to something like taxidermy and like removing skin from an animal, where they like pump air to inflate it, to remove the skin from the body, but it like inflates it, like it inflates your ego. It's like thinking like, maybe, like that's how they used to do it back in the day, is like pumping air into the animal. But I don't know All hunters right now are like what the fuck?
Speaker 4Clowners were like the first shot or killed anything?
Speaker 2No, I don't know, God no. It has nothing to do with blowing smoke into animal anuses to create taxidermy balloons, but it's a great guess.
Speaker 5Oh my gosh, what smoke up your ass. The first thing that came to mind is like operating an old train. Yeah, because you're shoveling coal into the fire, blowing smoke back at you, so it's like it's coming out of its ass. So that's what it's like Blow smoke up your ass, that's a great guess. That's about as close as I could get to that one, so am I close?
Speaker 1Not even remotely Not even remotely close.
Speaker 2Okay, well, no.
Speaker 5I'm drawing a complete blank.
Speaker 2I have no idea. I use it all the time. I hear it all of the time, specifically my father. Nope, I can't think of it. It's like you're not going to blow smoke from a cigar or a cigarette at someone's butt. That's just weird, or would you? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, no no, I wouldn't no.
Origins of Blow Smoke Up Your Ass
Speaker 1You'll have to listen to the episode. Okay, let's start taking an analytical search into this strange phrase. Haha, it's a pun. You get it, butt pun. Okay.
Speaker 1Anyway, in the 1940s, two similar idioms appear in literature. Blowing smoke appears first in a 1930 comic strip called Sally Forth and then again in a book in the 1940s by Lawrence Sanders. It means to mislead or threaten someone by giving false or exaggerated information. Examples of this would be he was blowing smoke on his resume to get hired, or she was just blowing smoke in her speech to get elected. Some believe this idiom comes from stage magic in magicians that would quote blow smoke to misdirect the audience during a performance. This makes sense because the blowing of the smoke is literally misleading. However, there's no actual evidence that this is the origin of the phrase and there's no record of when it exactly started. After blowing smoke appears, we then see the arrival of blow smoke up your ass later in the 1940s, in a book by George V Higgins. The phrase is seen again in the 1960s and catches popularity in the 1980s.
Speaker 1Other common and less vulgar sayings that are similar are to blow smoke up your skirt or blowing smoke up your leg, all of which mean to get flattering compliments, which makes zero sense, but we continue to use it regularly in popular culture today. After all of the extensive research I've done, I cannot tell you why both show up around the same time, why they're so incredibly similar and why they mean two totally different things. When Peter Solowski, an editor with Miriam Webster, was asked in an interview by Alex Kapsak for the website Snopes, solowski stated that expressions or idioms are quote notoriously difficult to track down reliably and that dictionaries cannot always consistently explain how they came to be. The best they can do really is to explain what these idioms mean. Robin Keif, the author of several books on the origins of words and phrases, who has a syndicated column called the Word Guy, was also interviewed about the origin and he said that he had no specific insight into the blow your smoke up your ass claim, but that many folk origins of words simply aren't true and that we might never know how some of these phrases get started. So there you have it.
Speaker 1There's no single source I can find that points to the direct origin of this idiom. It just kind of shows up so much like our break a leg episode. This is an originless idiom, however, unlike the break a leg where there were so many plausible explanations behind the meaning of the phrase, this one just doesn't have a viable origin. It's a mystery. The end, oh well, okay, well, that was a short episode, just kidding. The most interesting part of this mystery is what people think the origin of the idiom is.
Speaker 1Most people incorrectly think the origin of this phrase is linked to a popular medical procedure that was performed in the 1700s, and that's where this episode starts to go down the rabbit hole or, in this case, up the butthole. Please pardon all of my jokes today. Let me explain. If you Google blowing smoke up the ass and your safe search is on, this is what you'll find Tobacco enemas. Yep, you heard me correctly. The internet, erroneously, will link this idiom to what medicine believed was the life-saving medical procedure of administering tobacco smoke directly into the anus to revive a patient from drowning.
Speaker 1Let's go back in history to take a deep dive into understanding how we end up using tobacco as medicine. We're going back Way back. Medical studies suggest that the first use of tobacco was around the first century BCE, before the current era, when the Mayans of Central America smoked the leaves of this herb, which was an indigenous plant to the area and used in sacred and religious ceremonies. It spread to North America through the migration of the Mayans and then to other native tribes. It eventually traveled through Europe by explorers of the New World.
Speaker 1The French, spanish and Portuguese initially referred to the plant as the sacred herb because of its valuable medicinal properties. Fun fact, the scientific name of the plant is nicotina tobacquem, which was named for the 16th century French diplomat, jean Nicot de Villemin, who was the French ambassador to Portugal, who was credited with bringing the herb to the French court. It has been said that it cured the king's incurable headaches and it became a popular and fashionable hobby of the people in Paris to use it as snuff. Also, the National Institute of Health states the term tobacco came from the word tobacco, cane pipe used by the Native Americans to smoke the leaves of the plant. Therefore, the scientific name of the plant is nicotina tobacquem. I hope you use that fun fact at your next trivia game.
Speaker 1Settlers noticed that in different cultures tobacco was used in daily health routines and medicinal practices. As early as 1492, christopher Columbus noted that when smoked, the herb caused a loss of consciousness and therefore could be used as an anesthetic. A Spanish physician botanist named Nicholas Monodardes was so excited about the use of this newfound herb that he published the joyful news out of the newfound world, which contained all of the information about eyewitness accounts of the miraculous wonder cure From around the new world. Explorers, doctors, sailors they had all witnessed the unbelievable use of this miracle herb in the new world. All of this evidence led European doctors to believe that tobacco could cure a wide range of illnesses such as asthma, earaches fever, insect bites, burns and even lady problems. This is very ironic, because now we know that tobacco is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever seen. According to the World Health Organization, it kills over 8 million people a year. But I digress Back to the story.
Speaker 1One of the medical practices brought over from the New World was blowing tobacco smoke up the rectum to relieve symptoms of constipation, diarrhea, cramping and hernias. This story takes a weird turn here. As stated in the British Columbia medicinal journal in the 1700s, richard Mead, a very influential physician, is credited with popularizing the tobacco enema, which was a way to revive drowning victims. He published a story about a woman that had drowned in the river. A sailing passing by told her husband to blow warm tobacco smoke up her rectum to revive her. The woman lived, at least that's the tale. This case study sparked a medical revolution and the tobacco, or smoke, enema was popularized. The thought process was that it would accomplish two things One, to warm the drowned person from the inside out, and two, that it would stimulate respiration and the heart into working again. Okay, one ew and two mmm, but anyway this medical procedure became so legitimate that tobacco enema kits were placed around the Times River in London.
Speaker 1The cause of saving people from drowning was so important that in 1774, the institution for affording immediate relief to persons apparently dead from drowning, or the IF, air, tp, ad, fd Now, just kidding, I thought that was like the official acronym, but I mean it's a really long name, so they'd have to shorten it somehow. Anyway, the official institution was created to save lives. This institution was responsible for raising awareness about the tobacco enema, the education of telling people how to perform the procedure and putting out kits in case they needed to use them around the city. Their lifesaving quote guards promoted rescuing of drowned people and they would pay the guardsmen if they saved a life. You would get four guineas, which is the equivalent of $160 today. Not bad for a pain in the ass job.
Werid and Wacky Mystery Medicine
Speaker 1That kind of work can make you the butt of a lot of jokes. This whole story is pretty asinine. Okay, okay, I promise no more jokes. The medical procedure stopped being used in the early 1800s because they found out nicotine was toxic to the heart, and it is unknown how many people that it actually saved. However, the IF, air, tp, ad FD lives on, renamed the Royal Humane Society. It is a lifesaving mission that still continues today. It's given out over 200,000 awards to recognize individuals who put their own life at risk to rescue others. And that is the story of blowing smoke up your ass. The craziest thing to me is that this procedure was deemed so legitimate for such a long time. This is not the only medical miracle cure that has proven to be more harmful or hilarious than helpful. Let's dive into the weird and wacky world of mystery medicine Hysteria was believed to cause anxiety, irritability, insomnia, faintness and bloating in women.
Speaker 2That item was first advertised as a cure-all for this horrible lady disease Cigarettes, alcohol, lithium, I don't know. They thought we were hysterical for having a period, you know, like get out of here, Like institutionalized shock therapy. Something even more fun the vibrator. Oh yeah, that's right. Okay, so early treatments for hysteria were called pelvic massages. That would induce, quote hysterical paxiasm, which is the orgasm right from the vibrator.
Speaker 1Victorian doctors were required to manually perform this task until the vibrator was developed in the 19th century.
Speaker 2The steam-powered electromechanical medical instrument was nicknamed the manipulator and it allowed women to give themselves home massages to cure this terrible and debilitating disease. But cigarettes and alcohol also good answers. We'll accept all of that. It's a vibe. Yeah, it's a whole vibe. It goes along with the manipulator. Here's the manipulators. Cigarettes, lithium and alcohol yeah, here's it all. It's like a fun time, actually great evening.
Speaker 2Prescribes Impedance can be an embarrassing and debilitating issue for men. It was thought that weak men or men of moral weakness were prone to this issue During the 19th century. What was the prescribed medical procedure that could restore your sexual function within six short sessions?
Speaker 3Weak men makes me think it's probably like you need to take your ass to the gym.
Speaker 2Yeah, so if you do some push-ups, you could get it up.
Speaker 4Yep.
Speaker 3Yep the more you work out. The more you work out, the more you're ready to go.
Speaker 2That is not the correct answer. The answer is shock therapy To your balls. To your man parts, so bathtubs filled with electrodes would provide shock treatments to help you restore your function. If you preferred, you could use a more localized approach and use a rod that would run through your urethra.
Speaker 4The treatment would last five to eight minutes.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 2No, no, no, and you could repeat it once or twice a week until you were healthy again.
Speaker 3I mean no, I mean, oh, I don't know, no, no, Okay.
Speaker 1Bayer introduced a safe, non-addictive substitute for morphine that was five times more effective and could be used for sore throats, cough and the common cold. It was used from 1880 to 1913 before being banned by the FDA. What was the name of this miracle drug?
Speaker 5Cocaine.
Speaker 4For show. I have no idea. It's a hell of a drug Nope.
Speaker 1What was it? The answer is heroin.
Speaker 5Get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1Yeah, known as diamorphine, it was discovered in 1870 and Bayer started to sell it in 1885. Bayer started to notice that the drug was more addictive than Bayer was letting on. No, but Bayer pushed the drug until 1913. The FDA didn't ban it until 1925. Big Pharma has been pushing dangerous drugs for a long time without consumers knowing about it. Other examples include OxyContin, fennfenn and Accutane, just to name a few. Son of a bitch.
Speaker 2Snakey Pharma Going off the tongue was also known as a hemaglostectomy, which was used in the 18th and 19th centuries to cure. What ailment Is it for women? Was it talking? To us For everybody Look, I know how much oppression there has been in history.
Speaker 1I'm going to have to do so much editing, sorry.
Speaker 4Sorry.
Speaker 2No, you're not the worst one, Tracey.
Speaker 5I'm basically just your bloopers.
Speaker 2I'm just here for the blooper reel Cutting off the tongue, I would say what is it Stuttering?
Speaker 4I know.
Speaker 2It's so mean it was used for a really long time, even though the treatment didn't actually work and most patients bled to death. Okay, great, Good job, history, Great. What are we doing here? Like maybe the next one will work? Oh God, the people are so dumb I can't. I know Huttering.
Speaker 1The more you know, so the hemogloectomy is actually still in practice today. They use it for a treatment of oral cancer. They perfected it and actually use it for something good. The black death was thought to have been caused by deadly vapors. To combat this in the 17th century, they were convinced that people needed to fight the disease by therapeutic stink. What do you think this is Stink?
Speaker 5Okay, shit baths.
Speaker 4What is it? You're not the only boy to say shit baths. This is a lot more about who?
Speaker 5you're talking to than the actual answer.
Speaker 4I tried to get a wide variety, but the boys are just like immediately going to the same answers.
Speaker 1No, people were ordered to keep smelly things around because it was theorized that light cures light. This included keeping foul smells in jars, such as farting into a jar, to save the stink. Whenever the black death came through your town, you could just pull out your fart jar and take a whiff to ward off the deadly vapors of the disease. But if the fart jar isn't your thing, you can also keep a goat or pig in your house.
Speaker 5No shit. Well, lots of shit, lots of shit. Take a shit bath.
Speaker 1Therapy stink.
Speaker 5I will be damned.
Speaker 1Okay, keep going you can Google fart jar if you want that in your search history.
Speaker 5Oh no, mine's screwed up enough. Use the private browser.
Speaker 2Okay, do you want one more or no?
Speaker 3Yeah, hit it, I'm ready?
Speaker 2Okay, one more so with miracle cure. Vin Marini was created in 1863 as a tonic for overworked men, delicate women and sickly kids.
Speaker 1It was endorsed by over 8,000 doctors and given to such famous people as Thomas.
Speaker 2Edison, queen Victoria, vizara, russia and the Pope. What are the two ingredients in this miracle drink that make it so?
Speaker 1quote miraculous and eventually got it banned.
Speaker 3Now I know exactly what this is Super easy Go. Super easy. Yaga and Red Bull.
Speaker 2Not the right answer.
Speaker 3Very cool though. Not even close.
Speaker 2It was red wine treated with cocaine leaves. It was the inspiration behind Coca.
Medical Miracles
Speaker 1Cola. All joking aside, we have talked extensively about debunked medical procedures, but what about the miraculous? Can artificial intelligence detect life-threatening health concerns? What about robots that can operate A pill that can slow down cancer? Here are some of the most fascinating medical breakthroughs of modern times. Hey, siri, find my tumor.
Speaker 1Chatgbt is not the only good use for artificial intelligence. Ai could help doctors quickly and accurately analyze patient records in scans to find issues such as cancer, broken blood vessels and other health concerns with less errors. According to several articles, including one called Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, investigations leveraging computer-aided diagnostics have shown excellent accuracy and sensitivity for the detection of small radiographic abnormalities. Ai might identify imaging patterns changes that are not easily detectable to the human eye. Another high-yield niche for AI imaging is cancer detection and characterization. High-power qualitative analysis of structural image alterations could be used to predict the odds of malignancy and anticipated tumor growth. That help tailor management plans for patients and their doctors. Currently, doctors and AI still have around the same accuracy levels in determining abnormal scans. However, ai can do it 10,000 times faster and can classify types of tumors 50% more accurately. Another way AI is being used is during surgery. Surgeons can ask an Alexa-like device to find medical information during a procedure. They will have access to all of the medical information in the world real-time during a surgery to help it when they need it. Alexa, how do you take out an appendix? We are a long way from AI taking over a highly trained doctor's job, but AI could be your medical professional's newest weapon in highly accurate medical care for everyone.
Speaker 1Another futuristic tool surgeons can use during their operations is the surgery robot known as DaVinci. Okay, okay, it's not actually a robot, but a computer-assisted telemanipulator device Using two intuitive websites. The creator of the system it is a quote powered computer-controlled manipulator with artificial sensing that can be reprogrammed to move and position tools to carry out a wide range of surgical tasks. This is a tool that has four thin robotic arms and provides greater range of motion than a human hand. The instruments can move freely 360 degrees inside the body and it provides full range of motion. This dexterity provides access to areas of the body previously inaccessible due to space or range of motion restraints.
Speaker 1Since 1933, surgeons have used a technique called laparoscopic surgery to perform minimally invasive procedures. However, this technique has limitations, such as 2D images and tools that might limit the range of motion of the surgeon. The DaVinci solves this problem. It provides the doctor with a 3D, high-definition view from cameras and light tubes that are inserted into the body. It allows the doctors to make an incision that is less than or equal to 1 centimeter long to perform any required procedure. Now, with the smaller incisions and more precise cuts, there is less damage, fewer stitches and decreased healing time that's required, and it has sensors to eliminate tremors from doctors' inputs to allow smoother, more precise movements. The robotic surgical system has been FDA approved since 2000 and since 2024, more than 775,000 patients worldwide have had procedures assisted by a DaVinci system like these and other techniques that allow the most miraculous procedures you can imagine to be performed even on the smallest of patients.
Speaker 1I'm talking about babies, not babies that are already born, which would be challenging enough. We're talking surgery in utero. Doctors can now perform surgery under certain conditions, for babies while they're still in the womb. According to the Cleveland Clinic, fetal surgery is a procedure on a fetus while it's still developing in the uterus. It's called interuterine or prenatal surgery. It might also be called fetal intervention if it's a simpler or less invasive procedure. Fetal surgeons intervene to save the fetus or improve long-term outcomes after birth.
Speaker 1Fetal surgery is still a new and emerging field in medicine and it's only been around for about 40 years. The first surgery was done in 1981. 15 years ago the survival rate for this surgery was 60% and today it's as high as 90%. There are only about 20 hospitals that offer this kind of surgery in North America, and it's done only by highly trained specialists. Fetal surgeons can do some minimally invasive procedures as early as 16 weeks. For more complex procedures, the ideal window is between 22 and 26 weeks of development. For those of you who don't know, at 16 weeks a baby is the size of an avocado. At this stage, imagine performing a surgery through the room on something that small. It is mind-blowing. Could it be possible that one-day babies can all be born healthy, hopefully.
Speaker 1What about a future where we can cure cancer? We might be one step closer to that goal in the area of oncology. According to the American Cancer Society, the first radiation treatments for cancer were in 1895. They used a large blast of radiation to kill the disease cells, which also affected other organs and tissues in the body. Over time, the sciences evolved to use more targeted and safer doses of radiation to treat patients. Enter the future of radiation therapy. The Reflexon X1 is a new device that offers a broader ability to shape the radiation beamlets aimed at specific tumors. It also accounts for body and organ movement, which can help doctors shape radiation dosages and exposures in ways that limit damage to surrounding tissue. Terrence Williams, md, phd and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the City of Hope Hospital said if it works successfully, we're talking about changing the paradigm of what we consider curable in a metastatic setting.
Speaker 1Another game changer is personalized cancer therapy. In 2003, when scientists successfully mapped the human genome, personalization of therapy based on a patient's genetic information became the holy grail of cancer treatment. Now scientists can analyze the DNA of a person's tumor and use therapies designed to target the specific mutations found in each individual. One of these treatments is targeted immunotherapies, which harnesses the power of your immune system to attack cancer cells. Doctors can now look for a genetic or protein abnormality in a patient's tumor and match those up with immunotherapies to specifically target them. Car-t cell therapy is the process of re-engineering a patient's own immune cells to attack cancer. It's a true breakthrough in immunotherapy. A groundbreaking drug called Prenbrolizmab or Ketruda, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, was designed to stop the action of the immune system blocking protein called PD-L1, so that immune cells can destroy cancer. This is not the only miracle drug coming to market. According to the National Cancer Institute, another groundbreaking drug is about to be approved by the FDA for brain cancer.
Speaker 1Previously, very little could be done for patients of gliomas, which are the most common malignant primary brain tumors in adults. In a large clinical trial for a new drug called Forcinib slowed the growth of tumors in some people with low-grade gliomas that have mutations in the IDH1 or IDH2 genes. This is the first drug to be able to cross the blood-brain barrier and shows the first positive results for people with brain tumors. Dr Ashley Somerall, a doctor that treats gliomas at the Levine Cancer Institute in North Carolina, said quote over the last 30 years there have been very few positive trials for patients with brain tumors, but we are finally seeing some encouraging news for these patients. Dr Timothy Klosky, md, co-leader of the study on this new drug, says patients with these tumors are young and could live for many years with the disease. This treatment is not a cure for the disease, but it is the first of its kind to slow it down and can lead to more breakthroughs in this area of research.
Speaker 1People affected with this disease are now hopeful. Nisteen Gay, who was diagnosed with the disease 10 years ago at the age of 37, said in an interview quote this trial has been a hot topic in our community and has caused a great deal of hope and excitement. Having a new study that focuses on low-grade gliomas is huge for our community because little to no pharmaceutical research has been done specifically for us. Jason Settlkowski was diagnosed with this disease over seven years ago and was placed on the experimental drug at the beginning of the phase 2 trial. When I talked to him he said quote there are about 100 people on the trial and I was number two on the phase 2 trial. They are keeping the phase 2 trial open because they are seeing such positive results in patients like me. The cancer is not growing for most people and for me, my tumor has shrunk in half. I think the drug is on the FDA fast track because of the results they're seeing. People like Jason who take part in these clinical trials are changing the course of history. This amazing drug could be a step in the direction of helping people get their lives back. If you want to hear more about Jason and his story, you can check it out in our bonus episode. His diagnosis, participation in this experimental drug trial and his indomitable spirit is a story worth listening to.
Speaker 1Some tobacco enemas that quote save your life To vibrators that help you with hysteria, surgery robots and cancer saving treatments. We have come a long way in medical sciences. Who knows what we'll find or develop in the next few hundred years? Okay, fun fact family. That was a lot of information for today. I hope you enjoyed our trip through history and the look into the future.
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Bloopers and Extras
Speaker 1That's a wrap for today. Thank you so much for being with us to learn and laugh our way through another unoriginal thought. I'm your host, afton Jay, and I thank you for hanging out with me and, as always, keep being inquisitive. Hey, I just wanted to let you know that if you couldn't get enough of this episode, we will always have bloopers and interesting conversations included afterwards. Some of this material we didn't have time to get to or didn't have a place in the final edit, but it's always thought provoking or funny, or possibly both. If you're interested, just stick around Bloopers. Oh yeah, hey, siri, find my tumor Chat GVT. The phone is listening.
Speaker 2I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2But yeah, we are working and I do have some questionnaires, if you would like to answer Questionnaires.
Speaker 3Well, I'm here, I'm ready.
Speaker 2Questionnaires, pour favor I think that means please with the questions Elgato in pantalonis. Yes, yes, the only two phrases. I know Mexico a lot I know, so I can't get around anywhere. I'm like Elgato in this pantalonis.
Speaker 1Where do you think the origin of the phrase flow smoke up your ass comes from?
Speaker 5Okay, so you'll smoke up your Stop the smoke up my ass. I can't even come up with something clever. Okay, so maybe like no, I have no idea. I can't even come up with something funny for that.
Speaker 4Seriously no idea.
Speaker 1That's okay. Okay, you don't have to know.
Speaker 2Are you allowed to put like the cursing on your podcast?
Speaker 4Yeah, I feel like you are.
Speaker 2It's not for kids. I mean, I've actually only thinking about it. I've been using the phrase wrong the entire time. How have you been using it? Because it blows smoke out your ass. Not me on your podcast I like it legit have said oh, you're just blowing smoke out your ass. No, it's blow smoke up your ass. I'm going to send you a bouquet of animal balloons. Oh, my gosh girl.
Speaker 4Of course, happy birthday.
Speaker 2Yeah, don't identify me on this podcast.
Speaker 4You are unnamed If you were pseudo job, you were on the cusp.
Speaker 2Like you were just kind of in complacency, just incapacitated for a bit, and somebody blew, smoke up your butt.
Speaker 3That would definitely revive you enough to be like. So I can see how this this is a good idea. I can see how this this is a good idea I'm going to send you a bouquet of animal balloons. I can see how this, like whoa, that's no man's zone. Like what the fuck are you doing down there? So like I also can see how, back in the day, like oh, you're drowning because you swallowed water. So you have to reverse the procedure. We can't quite suck the water out. We got to push something else up in there and it's going to have to be warm Boom.
Speaker 4There it is Okay you ready?
Speaker 1I'm ready?
Speaker 5You nervous? No, you nervous, not at all. Okay, can't promise it'll be funny.
Speaker 1It doesn't have to be funny. I want you to give me like a legitimate answer Legit, legit, okay, okay.
Speaker 4Impedance can be Okay, okay, that's terrible.
Speaker 1Okay, you ready. Okay, impedance can be an embarrassing and de-balance.
Speaker 4Okay, I'm going to start a question over. Okay, go ahead. Okay, start over. I wonder what is going to be this time. During the 19th century.
Speaker 5What was the prescribed medical procedure? That?
Speaker 1could restore your sexual function within just six short sessions. My first reaction would be something involving a horse or a horse.
Speaker 5Or a gunpowder on your junk and rubbing it really hard, seeing what happens. What does the horse have to do with anything? I thought it was a good little thing until in the 1800s, so a horse is in gunpowder, yeah Is there a stagecoach in there? Yeah right, I was thinking there was a horse.
Speaker 1I was thinking there was a horse in a gunpowder. Is there?
Speaker 2a stagecoach in there somewhere.
Speaker 5Yeah right, I was thinking there was, but you know, didn't get that far enough, okay, fine Final answer.
Speaker 2Horse is in gunpowder rubbing.
Speaker 1Okay, no, okay.
Speaker 2No. During the 19th century, what was the prescribed medical procedure that could restore your sexual function within just six short sessions? Hand job, oral, the stairs like lined up outside the doctor's office. I was like I'm next.
Speaker 4What is it?
Speaker 2No, the answer is a lot more shocking than that Is it like a pinch it.
Speaker 1What item was first advertised as a cure all for this lady disease?
Speaker 5Probably some kind of laced tampon, laced with what I don't know. I'm trying to think like vinegar, vinegar, like aspirin and vinegar.
Speaker 2What's the vinegar for?
Speaker 5I don't know Acidity. You think it's an acidity problem? Yeah, hysteria.
Speaker 1That's not how many parts work Ha. Gotta love those bloopers. That's a wrap. Yep, we're all done here. Oh wait, Were you looking for some more fun facts? Okay, check out the next episode. Press play let's go. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 4Thank you.
