This week on two blocks from the White House.

We're talking about our recent travels and what we've learned from them.

I just got back from the Middle East after covering the Iran War.

And I took what felt like the shortest trip to France ever,

accompanying Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting on Friday.

And I'm in Florida this week for the Artemis II space lunch.

Join me, Katie Simpson and my fellow Washington correspondence, Paul Hunter and Willie Lowry,

every week on two blocks from the White House.

This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be

sick.

This week's guest is Patrick.

He has Hursprung's disease, also known as a-ganglionic megacolon.

Let's talk about it.

Do you stick Q-tips in your ears? Yeah. Yeah? Well, dude, I can, I can judge it. You know that they tell you that it's just like, they're like, don't fucking do that. Q-tips are not for your ears. Like, that is the consensus in the medical community. They're like, don't ever stick cut tips in your ears. Apparently, like, nothing smaller than your pinky.

You know what they're, you know why they say that?

Because there's a bunch of fucking idiots in the world. They're just saying, they're saying it. They're saying it to be, they're saying it to be safe. Because they know that if they say it's okay, then they're, then they're going to be, they're going to be the ones to blame when someone goes,

uh,

I also heard that you're not supposed to,

you're actually not supposed to be the ones to blame when someone goes, uh-huh. I also heard that you're not supposed to,

you're actually not supposed to be pulling,

like,

cleaning wax out of your ear. Really? Yeah. But it's in there for, it's in there for a reason. Yeah, but you got to clean your ears. You got to clean ears, dude. Yeah, let's ask Siri. Siri, what is the deal with cleaning your ears?

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