- What up, it's your boy, Korndiddy.
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I don't know, I'm sorry,
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I regret everything that's happening.
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Hey, guys, what's up, it's your
little Jewish muffin, Zach.
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If you're like, "What, the
Try Guys have vlogs now?"
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The answer is maybe.
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Some weeks it'll be all of us together,
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some weeks maybe me and Keith
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will go do cute things together.
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- You and I had twins?
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This week, just me.
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I like this, I can spin around.
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Which is really fun--
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Oh, no, I'm getting dizzy.
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Today's video is actually
something that I've wanted to
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talk to you guys about for a while.
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A diagnosis that I just got.
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It turns out I have an autoimmune disease.
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It is something, and that's,
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I know that sounds really,
really fucking scary.
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I guess I should start
off by saying I am okay.
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I mean, I guess I'm not
okay, but I'm gonna be okay.
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Maybe I should tell you the story.
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So I have been suffering from something
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as long as I've been
making Try Guys videos.
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You have not known.
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The Try Guys did not know.
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Not even really my parents.
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Doctors didn't believe me.
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As you may or may not know,
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I think I've referenced it in some videos.
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I have chronic back problems.
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I had a lot of pain in my back.
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Tightness here and every
time I roll my neck, I get,
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like, some pretty intense cracks.
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I have had really bad back
issues basically my entire life.
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I was going to the
chiropractor when I was 10.
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I had to have an ergonomic
backpack in middle school.
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When I say I have an old man body,
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I'm not really exaggerating,
I hurt, I ache, I get stiff.
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It kind of started before
I went to Buzzfeed.
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A lot of my time would
be spent at a computer
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and I noticed I would just,
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when I sneezed, I could feel
the pain shoot from my back,
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through the front, through my chest cage.
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It was like, basically,
if my backs had boobs.
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(groans)
Are you fucking kidding me?
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That's where it hurts me.
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My friend Colin offered
to do a yoga video.
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The first time that I did yoga, well,
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I have footage I can show you.
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That's the craziest thing
about working at Buzzfeed,
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is that I have these chapters in my life
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that I can go back and be
like, "Let's go watch it."
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Am I gonna be in pain tomorrow?
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I feel like I'm gonna be in pain.
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I feel like I'm just
gonna be in constant pain
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for the next two months.
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The first day that I did it, it was like
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I opened the portals to hell.
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My back hurts so much.
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And it was almost like the
exercise was picking open a scab.
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It was unveiling the
pain that was underneath.
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I have a bit of a hypochondria.
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And so, whenever something's
wrong with me, I'm like,
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"Cancer, it's cancer, cancer."
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So I told my doctor
about this pain, he says,
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"That's not a thing,
you're good, you're good."
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So I started going to a chiropractor.
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I decided it was time to
go to the chiropractor.
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We took an X-ray, turns out
I have fucking scoliosis.
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That's when I discovered I had scoliosis.
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- [Zach] Right there, that's
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- For the first time, I can go
back to the doctor's and say,
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"Aha, I was right, look,
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I have this slight curve in my back."
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Now, for anyone who has scoliosis,
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they will be the first
people to tell you that
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my scoliosis is minor.
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It's not the kind you
would get surgery for.
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I tried a lot of things to help this.
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I even got this really
cool standing chair.
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So, it's this really weird
looking thing where you're, like,
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leaning, it's like a leaning stool.
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And it did actually
help my lower back pain,
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though, in reality, my
friends just kind of turned it
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into a toy more than anything.
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- [Man] Oh, burn, 'cause
Zach sucks at people, yeah.
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- I still use that chair to this day.
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- It makes a really good ottoman.
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- No, that is not what this is for.
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So, problem solved.
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The pain built to a point
where I couldn't sleep.
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I woke up, at like 4:45, in pain.
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This was every night for, for months.
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being in my bed hurt,
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I mean, living hurt.
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I'm talking about, I would wake up
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in the middle of the night five times.
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All during this, I'm
working a full-time job,
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but when you're not sleeping,
it eats away at you mentally.
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I dreaded when the sun would set
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because I knew that my
pain was coming back.
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Now, throughout this process,
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I told my doctor, told my chiropractor,
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we had this kind of false
diagnosis of the scoliosis,
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but the scoliosis does not explain
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the pain that I was going through.
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I mean, not even close.
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The amount that I had,
I mean, it's like, boop.
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I had to start saying no to
things in the Try Guys videos.
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We did a wrestling episode and I said,
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"Guys, I can't do that.
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"I'm afraid that if I
fall, I'm gonna be out."
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I went to the doctor and I kind of
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did a last, a final plead.
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I said, "I can't stand this anymore."
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I started screaming, I think,
and I feel bad for the doctor
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but I was like, "Hey, this can't continue.
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"I'm losing my mind."
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It's a terrible feeling to feel
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like you know that
something's wrong with you
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and the professional
who's assigned to help you
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doesn't believe you.
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I started questioning myself.
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"Maybe the pain's in your head."
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What a terrible thing, to
doubt your own reality.
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The story after this gets pretty quick.
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I got referred to a rheumatologist
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and within minutes, the
rheumatologist is like,
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"Oh, yeah, I think I know
what's wrong with you."
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And I'm like, "What?
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"What? That's, what
are you talking about?"
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I had to go in for an
MRI, which was scary.
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'Cause at that point I didn't
know what was wrong with me.
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He just referred me to
an MRI and I'm like,
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"Oh, God, what is this, it's terrifying."
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If you've never had an MRI,
they tape your legs together
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So I'm in the parking lot and I can
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hear the MRI machine above me.
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This is the sound I was listening to
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for the past 20 minutes.
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(electronic beeping)
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I'm staring at what,
I guess, is a speaker.
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For the life of me, it just
looks like a shower head.
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About this big and it's got the
little dots going around it.
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And you're staring at
it, the buzzing starts.
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And it's just repetitive, like
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(mimics MRI machine)
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And there's a person walking by me,
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I'm not used to vlogging,
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I feel like a crazy person doing this.
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No, he's riding a bike.
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It turns out I have
ankylosing spondylitis.
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It is a real mouthful
and super fun to say.
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Ankylosing spondylitis
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affects under one percent
of the population.
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As I understand it, basically,
my body attacks the ligaments
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in between my bones.
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And then the body goes,
"Ooh, I know, I can fix that!
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"I'll put bone there."
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But bone is not supposed
to grow where bone isn't.
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So I have bone growing where
there shouldn't be bone.
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That causes a lot of inflammation
that causes a lot of pain.
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My hips had begun to fuse together.
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In between the gaps of my
hips, there is bone growing.
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Now, getting a diagnosis
of an autoimmune disease
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one of the worst days of my life, right?
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But, and I say this, honestly,
I was so fucking relieved.
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I really was, I mean, I
wanted to cry of happiness
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because getting that diagnosis
was the difference between
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being able to continue my life and not.
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This was about four months ago.
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I am happy to report that since that time,
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I've been on medication
and I have felt better
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than I have felt since childhood.
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So, I take a drug called Humira,
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so no matter where I am,
no matter what I'm doing,
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I have to stop what I'm doing
and give myself a little shot.
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- You ready to get poked?
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- We hold on to Zach's medicine.
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- I have to take this
medication twice a month,
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So it's 8:40 a.m. and
I gotta take this shot.
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Have you guys seen this before?
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Eugene, you've seen this, right?
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- Yeah, I saw the first time you did it.
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- Can we see it?
- So this is my shot.
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- [Keith] So you put that
whole thing up your butt?
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- I really, I just grab
the fat of my belly
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and I have to do it in different places.
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- Do you do it on your butt?
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- I wish, I'm not allowed to.
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Take an alcohol swab, you
know, just disinfect the area.
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- [Ned] Well, now your shirt's on it.
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And so, what's great is that
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you never actually see the needle.
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- See this window right here?
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Some of the liquid's gonna pop out of it.
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But that's it, now I'm done.
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- And then now you put the
rest of it in your butt?
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How does this work?
- Yeah, now.
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Actually, yeah, would you mind?
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- Yeah, I got you, bro, I'm good at this.
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- What would you do if Keith wasn't here?
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- It hurts but no where near
the pain that I was living with
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So let's wrap this up,
what's the takeaway here?
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If you are suffering, you deserve help,
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and you deserve people to believe you,
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and you need to go out
there and get the care
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And if you're in a place
where you have pains
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that you can't explain or you
know something is going on
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but other people aren't believing you,
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do not take no for an answer.
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Because I took no for an
answer for way too long
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and I didn't have to.
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- So what's this needle taste like?
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- [Zach] I wouldn't lick it.
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- Well, then how am I
supposed to taste it?
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- Oh, also, this is the
most important question
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I'll ask in the videos.
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Try Guys fans, you are tryceratops.
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Point of the homie, we all know that.
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But, Zach fans, I'm liking
Kornbuddies, Kornbabies,
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those are some good options,
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if you've got another one, let me know.
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Gotta start the fandom.
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All right, Kornbuddies, take it easy.
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I'll see you later, bye!
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