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I'm your host, Mike Hall Hall with me today is Marsh.

Hello and Alice.

So about eight years ago I went to the doctor for something completely

unrelated to this. Okay. I went to the doctor and as they were giving me kind of a

once over a checkup the doctor kind of peered down my ear hole and went you got a little bit of

impacted earwax in there a few drops of of olive oil, don't worry about over the

counter drops, and it just a few drops of olive oil in there for a couple of weeks,

that'll just work its way out, don't worry. Okay. And I went, okay, fair enough.

And I went home and put olive oil in my ear dutifully as I was told.

Yeah. Didn't bother with the extra virgin. I thought what's the point?

It's expensive, right?

It's got vegetable oil for ear wax. So I put that in. the idea is that the earwax is that the

melted lard it kind of just for beef dripping just pouring fresh out the bottom of the

Yorkshire pudding tray. Yeah, exactly.

The idea is that the earwax kind of soaks up the oil and that lubricates and it softens and

then eventually it'll work its way out.

And I did that for a couple of weeks and nothing happened except I went more death in that

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