Freeze-Frame or Not All Tik-Tok Trends Pass the Smell Test

This one opens the way all the best CDQ episodes do: mid-ramble, mid-weather report, mid-Cape Cod. TT is live from the cottage and the vibes are immaculate. Queenie is back home and very aware that she's exactly one week away from showing up at four twenty-two because, yes, someone absolutely got busted trying to beat Queenie there last year with a little gifty bag of homemade granola. The code goes out at three-thirty and not a minute before. Some things are sacred. Before we even get to cannabis, we get a genuinely fascinating detour into Cape Cod maritime history. TT and her husband attended a live reenactment at what she's pretty sure was Race Point Beach, where costumed rescuers demonstrated the nineteenth-century breeches buoy system — a cannon-fired rope, a mast, a pair of sailor pants fashioned into a sling, and a zip line over freezing open water. They dragged the whole contraption three miles down the beach in a nor'easter, had to redo it twice because waves kept shifting the foundering boat, and ultimately saved over a hundred thousand lives with what was essentially improvised physics and a lot of guts. TT is clearly still moved by this. Queenie is clearly delighted. There's talk of shellfish farm tours, a pending eclipse wave situation, and the Big Dipper showing up unexpectedly in the living room window at two in the morning. Cape Cod is apparently doing a lot right now. The consumption check-in is a fond one. Queenie is holding a copper tin of Purple Voodoo from Ruby Farms — embossed label, painted-on branding, multiple colors, a little bit of Metallica energy. She and TT take a respectful moment to appreciate good packaging. TT, meanwhile, has been slowly ascending all afternoon on cannabis honey over at her sister's place, spread thick on a Portuguese muffin with almond butter. She thought she was fine. She was not fine. Her sister also thought she was fine. Also not fine. They figured it out around minute twenty of the jigsaw puzzle, which is honestly the ideal setting for that particular realization. There's a houseful of small humans involved this week — seven kids under five between the grand-nieces and nephews and the neighbor kids — and TT is fully leaning into her role as the unbothered elder at the gathering. Not her circus. Then a four-year-old with a plastic Polaroid camera asked her cousin if she could take a picture of his penis, and he, ever obliging, immediately dropped his shorts. The mothers deployed gentle parenting at full speed. The camera was confiscated. Reparations were required in the form of a spoken acknowledgment that we do not photograph people's privates. The acknowledgment was not immediately forthcoming. The acknowledgment eventually came, through repetition. TT watched all of this while gently lifted on a cannabis cocktail and describes it as the highlight of her evening. You believe her completely. The Wait Wait What segment this week covers two TikTok wellness trends that deserve scrutiny. First: shoving a raw clove of garlic up your nose to clear congestion. There are apparently viral videos of mucus flowing freely out of someone's nostril after removal, which sounds less like a cure and more like a crime scene. The garlic isn't clearing your sinuses — it's just irritating your delicate mucous membranes into a full evacuation. Queenie has childhood button-up-the-nose trauma that makes her a deeply unreliable advocate for nasal foreign objects. TT's proposal of a garlic tampon — nose edition, string included, designed for retrievability — is floated with complete sincerity and the segment ends with a jingle that will haunt you. Second trend: sticking your tongue out like a lizard for forty seconds to normalize cortisol. An Egyptian neurologist apparently had results. The girls are skeptical of the cortisol claim but admit that any forty-second intentional pause is probably grounding regardless of what your tongue is doing. They also note that a garlic clove hanging from your nose and your tongue fully extended will absolutely guarantee you personal space in any meeting, Zoom or otherwise. Silver lining. TT's Choice lands on number forty-seven: if CDQ became a TV show, who plays who? TT nominates Leanne Morgan for Queenie. Queenie counters with Jamie Lee Curtis for TT — "like me, with boobs." Kristen Johnston and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are also in the mix. This leads directly into a mutual appreciation of Seth Meyers's Day Drinking series, which Queenie has apparently discovered and is evangelical about. He cannot handle his liquor. It is, by her account, extremely funny. The Lizzo episode sounds unhinged. TT is intrigued. The Fuck It this week is the quiet, real kind. Queenie ran into someone she'd lost touch with — a person she used to spend a lot of time with — and instead of going into a full internal shame spiral, instead of skulking away, instead of falling over herself with explanation and apology and preemptive guilt, she just... was happy to see her. They met each other where they were. That was it. TT immediately clocks how significant this is. Old Queenie would have been sweating through the whole encounter, narrating every possible way she'd failed this person. This Queenie just showed up, present, no story. The fuck it here isn't dramatic — it's the fuck it to the chatter in your own head. To the little internal voice that's always ready with a verdict before you've even said hello. They credit the weekly ritual of naming things, talking it out, doing the work. If you name it, you can tame it. Queenie also notes, with no small amount of practical wisdom, that she came away from the encounter not having gotten the woman's updated phone number. Growth has its limits. They sign off warm — next episode they'll be recording together from the Cape, which has been the countdown since minute one. The week ahead includes a New Orleans-style band tonight, more puzzle progress on the record store jigsaw, and whatever the deep sea disco Provincetown parade ends up delivering in terms of mermaid costuming. The expectations are high. The bar is a lot of sequins and a fish tail. It will probably be met.

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Hello T T. Hello, Queenie. look at you. Mm-hmm. Live from your cottage. Yes, it's another absolutely beautiful day here at the Cape. Wow, you've had just great weather. Yes, we have. That's wonderful. Mm-hmm. Any real weird winds or anything? There was one day and you know the the the waves were so high after the eclipse.

They were almost all the way up the ramp. dear. Wow. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's so anyway, there was that craziness. And it was very windy the day before yesterday. Mm-hmm. Like hard to be outside windy, you know. huh. But other than that, it's been absolutely gorgeous. And that wasn't even all day. That was just like in the morning, and then it cleared up and burned off and all that stuff. So cool. It's been just lovely.

Well, supposed to be it's supposed to be next week or the week I think the week you come here, it's supposed to get be a little cooler like in the seventies, mid seventies. So works for me. Blistering hot, you know. That works for me. That's perfect. Perfect. Couldn't be more perfect. Mm-hmm. I love it. I can't wait. I don't care. We're going to a show tonight. Your whatdy what? Believe it or

We're going to a show tonight, believe it or not. what are we going to see? We're going to see a band perform. It's like a New Orleans kind of. Yeah, like old time. Yeah. So that it looks like it looks fun. So we're going to pay a met to see that. nifty. And we went we did this really cool thing the other day. We went to a reenactment of how they rescued people.

Back in the late eighteen, early nineteen hundreds, there were a ton of boats that went down. Ocean rescues. Yeah, ocean rescues. And it was it was very cool to see. It was just kind of amazing, you know. So what what I thought your girls might be interested. What beach was that near? Like where on the Cape? The well seashore? The the the wrecks were all along the seashore.

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Like around the ne along the National Seashore. There's a map at the visitor center that shows all these little and the names of the boats and everything that went down. But these guys using these very rudimentary tools and they figured it out so well. They were so brave. They were out there in the middle of winter, ten below zero, you know, driving snow and they say they saved over a hundred thousand people.

That's that's wild. It's amazing. Yep. And what we saw, the enactment, they used to prefer to go out in these rowboats, basically. Mm-hmm. Because they could take more than one person back to land. But they for for times when they couldn't do the rowboat, they rigged up this system and this is what we saw the demonstration of where they would shoot, they would figure out how with all the

physics and everything, how much it how much sand they had to put on top of the anchor so that they could shoot this rope up to the mast of the ship that's foundering out in the water. And they would there was instructions and they would tie the rope to the mast and then they would do some other magic with, you know, with stuff. and the way they got the what the way they shot the thing was with a cannon.

They lit, they you know, it was it was just like old times, you know, they did the whole thing and it was really amazing and they had this ring like life preserver ring. I know a life preserving ring and they took a pair of pants, a pair of their like sailor pants, and they they attached it to the ring. So they basically had a sling for someone to to sit into.

And they just kind of like zip lined them down. my God. Yeah. It was insane. And they had to get it just right so that when they shot the take into account the wind so that when they shot the this thing the rope up, it would it would go to the right place. And this one they were telling us about this one rescue where it was it was in I think February.

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It was ten degrees outside. They were in the middle of a nor'easter. They have to drag all this whole contraption three miles down the beach. And they get all ready to send the rope up and a big huge wave comes in and it shifts the boat down the beach. So they have to move everything down the beach again. This happened twice that they had to redo it. It was it was insane. my God. Yeah.

Wow. That sounds fascinating. It was. It was very cool. And that was right at the visitor center? at the visitor center they told us about it. If you go I wait, no, it wasn't it wasn't at Race Point. Was it at Race Point Beach? Sounds like it. Or wa or was it Yeah, I think it was. anyway, I forgot what we were talking about. The presentation. I know, but what about it?

I don't know where it was. We were where it was. Yeah. why we were talking about because you did something f it fun and interesting. Well, yeah, it was cool. I just got lost a little bit there. Sorry. Okay. So it was at Race Point Beach? I think so. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Yeah. I th I that would sound like something I would definitely enjoy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I thought the girlies might

Yeah. It was interesting. and if the they had all this these ropes and and equipment and stuff to pick up, so they said and they also had to dig up and and fill in a hole that the because they had to have a counterweight for, you know, this thing. So God. I know it was amazing. but if the girls or anybody who helped clean up, which I wanted to help, but Honey said no, you got to get

A junior ranger badge. I was gonna say a badge, I hope. You do junior ranger badge. See, I knew it. I knew it. See, I would s I would have helped clean up for a badge. Mm-hmm. So maybe the girls will want to do that. All right. Well, thank you for the tip. That sounds fascinating. That's the kind of thing. And think there's only one left in the month. So Well, I told you I'd seen that there are presentations or

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The there's the ability to tour or see shellfish farms. Yeah. In Lowfleet. So I'd like to do that. That sounds cool. That sounds very cool. And they they had an something that was I have a whole schedule we got something that I thought maybe another thing. It might have been that one. that was there any like more gear to kids.

Were there any special activities on the night of the the eclipse? Wasn't that also the night that there was supposed to be a really vibrant per se tower? Yeah. I didn't see any, I wasn't out there very long, but I didn't see any meteors, but my brother in law saw one, so cool. That's cool too. I w I woke up the other night, was it last night maybe? And

walked out into the main room and you know we'd keep the blinds up and everything and I looked out the the huh no you're right the big dipper was right in front of me the the sky was full of stars. I just stood there and watched for a while, you know so so cool. Very cool, very cool. Well I cannot wait. A week almost exactly

Four o'clock I can get in. Yep. It's four twenty-two right now, so you can come early and hang out with us if you want. my god. We will text you the code at three thirty, not before. So don't even try. Don't even try. So that means you can get in at three thirty. Well, I don't know.

Don't want, you know, I got busted last year. You did? that was the other place, so. Yeah. She came come. Does she meet you there? I think she was trying to beat me there to leave her little the little gifty thing. She made granola or something. Right. Yeah. And it was like, Yeah.

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My husband was happy to share with us a little news story that he read today. He said, Did you ever did you ever hear of the mushroom? And I said, I don't think so, but could be. And he said, I said, why? And he said, Be it was the story about the mushrooms that you see Liliputians. and you didn't. I said, I do know that about that. I just didn't know their genus and species.

Right. If you said the Lilliputian mushrooms, I would have been right with you. Right away, I would have known. Yeah. So yeah, he was getting a kick out of that too. And it's consistent. Yeah. It's not just one African like Do you know what I wondered? This would be interesting. I'm I'm imagining that you will see the leprechauns that look like you.

You know what I mean? like your general your s your your s ethnicity? Your ethnicity, your yeah, whatever. Like so they'll they'll be more representative of of your own. Whoever you are. Uh-huh. Yeah. So like would an African American person see little African American Liliputians would

Chinese people see what I d I don't know if they got had gotten into that I'm sure they would have gotten into that level of detail. I would think that would be I would think you would you would probably think of a person who you know, I I don't I don't know that your brain immediately goes to Well, I think what my brain goes to is you know, there's a giant on the beach that covers travels and I think of that.

I think you're I think you're correct in that assumption. Why would we assume that that the default for anybody would be white? Right. Exactly. So it would be you're right. It would be your own projection based on your own Yeah. Right. But yeah, wouldn't it be interesting to think that maybe all these little Willieputions were actually different little versions of yourself?

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Noooo

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Right? That's deep. Wouldn't that be like really cool? Yeah. And then how long do we have access to these little things? These don't know. Can we interact with them? I know. Are can we use them as like counselors or consultants or are they merely you know, for our entertainment? Did they I'm assuming no one else can little high voices. yeah, did they interact with you? Yeah. I don't know. Or do they just mock you?

from afar. Try and tie you up. Well like they did to Gulliver. Well that I think you're over identifying with Gulliver a little and a little teeny bit. But you know I used to love that movie. That was a great movie. And you can still watch it, you know. It's on I saw it on Tubi. I made my husband hook up our old VCR and I said, We have all these old videotapes. Let's watch, you know, some of the stuff that we watched when you were kids.

They're like, Mom, there's nothing here that you can't get streaming. And I was like, what about Gulliver's Travels? Because I have a VHS. Uh-huh. And they were and they were like, You must be able to. So of course my son in law finds it. He goes, Here it is. And I was like, Okay, I guess we didn't have to hook up the old VCR after all. Mm-hmm. It is accessible. It's man. Everything. That in remember the pie no. Whoa.

Pied Piper. Danny Kay? Yes. He did Thumbelina. Hans Christian Anderson. Remember? I'm Hans Christian Anderson. Danny Kay always creeped me out. I don't know why. Really? Even as a child. Yeah, I wasn't fond of him. and he did the red slippers. Remember that one? I wasn't fond of him. No. He creeped me out for some reason. Burl Ives, totally that's another story. Burl Ives was just, you know, Mr. Smooth.

silver and gold. When you think of him as the snowman. Well yeah, but I mean that you know, it was that was kind of looked like him. He looked he looked a lot like Colonel Sanders, don't you think? Well yes, he did have that, you know, white those white whiskers inside. Whiskers. A little heavier Colonel Sanders. Without the southern accent, too. So Yeah, without the southern accent. But Burl with his

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Burly eyes, his little beady burly eyes. His little plaid plaid vest on. Again. I'm sorry. Well I know. That was such a good I loved when that came on. It was only on once a year. Somehow. Okay, do you feel like somehow some of the magic has been removed by it being accessible anytime?

Boy, that's a double edged sword because I do get such pleasure out of repetitively watching some of these things. Yeah. Like The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppins. I mean, I can watch that stuff forever. and Rudolph. I can watch Rudolph over and over and over again. Mm-hmm. Well, I guess I am kind of thankful that we had that.

experience when we were kids that it was such a surpr you know, just such a something you had to wait for. It was special. It was a it was an event. And it it's yeah, you were all in or not. I mean there was no repeats. Right. It's like everybody's like, Don't forget Wednesday night, Charlie Brown Christmas. Yeah. So yes, there was a there was something nice about that. And

You're right, only having access, a limit limited access. But that's how we grew up. That's true. Yeah, that's the way that's the way regular television was too. If you missed it, you had to wait thirteen or twenty six weeks until reruns were on and This is one of those things that kids know not what do you mean? What do you mean you had to wait to watch every week? You know? yeah. What do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like well, like what HBO is doing.

With their s their sh their shows. They're back to serials, yeah. Yep. Yep. So cereals. my god, the cereals. Serial. We just a puzzle with cereal box covers. That was fun. Now we're doing one with record albums. It's like a r it says record store, you know? And it's got a whole bunch of albums and posters on the front of the store.

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Jimmy Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. The doors. It's a fun puzzle. yeah. Right up our alley. So to speak. So to speak. you know what the theme this year is for the P Town Parade? I can't remember now. come on. It's disco something. What is it? I don't know. I'll have to look it up. Disco Disco something. It's gonna be a riot.

That's not a real far stretch. deep sea disco. That's it. Deep sea disco. my god. I cannot wait to see the costuming. that's gonna be a riot. Deep sea disco. I think there are gonna be a lot of mermaids. Yes. Mmm. I love mermaids. I know. I know. Well, if you go this year, you have to take some.

I can't. I cannot.

Can't I absolutely cannot.

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Hmm? No. Just a couple days? No. It's impossible. It's impossible. I woke up this morning, started my routine. Coffee's nice, but nicer with some good old green. Gummy bears dancing, brownies in a tray. My bartenders asking what you had today. What have you consumed today? A cookie, a gummy, or a pot in J? Did you vape it, dab it, or roll your own?

Tell me what can offici you consume today

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What are you smoking there, friend? I am consuming some cannabis. Was that your question? I assumed that. you wanted to know what? Okay. I would love to share with you here. purple voodoo. It's from Ruby Farms. Whoops. you disappeared.

I know. pretty. It's kind of shiny. It's a copper a copper tin. Shiny. Is that purple voodoo? ha. It's a high print la la. isn't that pretty? See? Yeah. Now that's some special labeling there because you've got some embossing.

Mm-hmm. And more than one color. And then you've got some Metallica. Mm. That's Wow. See? This is new. They used it used to be a stick-on label. Now it's painted right on the tin. it's like engraved almost. Well, there's a little emba embossing here, the ruby.

I can't corner. Wait a minute. You're too close. No. No. I'm not in the right frame of mind. There. There we go. The blue square. That's embossed. This part. cool. Yeah. Cool. So this is not inexpensive. We do know of packaging. yeah. Nice packaging. Very nice. We do like to to look at the packaging. Well, yes, I do

I have thrown things out. I've I've had to. I've had to You don't have a do you have a tin collection?

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I do of the sloths. Okay. I I ha they they're so cute. Yeah. I have the sloths. And they're all in boss. Okay. All right. that's not bad. And they're very different. There's probably s six or seven different covers or cool. Yeah. Whatever. Sloth im impress images.

Images of sloths. So are you consuming any can have you consumed any cannabis today? Well, you know, I went over to my sister's today and she had this honey. the honey again. We had each had a a whole bolos, you know, those Portuguese muffin things, slathered with honey and almond butter. yeah. Yes. So good. But I was so high for these things.

This stuff, I was like, we're doing we're doing a jigsaw pause. And I'm like, I'm really feeling this, are you? And she's like, no. I'm like, what's going on here? But then she like, you know, 20 minutes later she said, I guess I am feeling. Surprise. Yeah. So I have so enjoyed this. It's been lovely.

It's been going on for hours here, so very nice. Yeah. very nice. Good stuff. very sweet. How very nice. Mm-hmm. so your little grandnieces and grandnephews were in town? Yes, they leave tomorrow. So Well probably stop on their way out out and to say goodbye. But yes, it's been so much fun. So much fun. There's they're gonna have to do their photo. Yeah.

yeah, I'm sure they will. Sure, I'm sure they will. But there's five of them, nieces and nephews under the age of five. And then there are two little boys that live next door or that stay next door that have been they've known each other since they were babies, you know. Mm-hmm. So they're that made seven little kids under the age of five. So that was a lot of lot of fun. my God. my God. I wish I could have seen that.

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my gosh. Well, my niece, the highlight of the night. I don't know. For her parents it wasn't a highlight, but me sitting there, I said, I love being the old lady at this gathering. Just watching the kids and not having to worry about anything. Mm-hmm. Not my not my circus. My little niece, who's about well almost almost five. but she was very premature, so she's not quite that old. Anyway.

She had this cute little plastic Polaroid camera. And she was like, I'm gonna take a picture. And then like does it s it is it one of those like a laser printer kind of thing almost? Yeah, it's is it black and white but no, it was color and they and they have to, you know, you have to wait and hold it and then it slowly develops. It's not really a printer, but it's a Polaroid.

It's a po it's the cutest little thing, it's a little purple camera, and so she was taking pictures of everybody, and then they were, you know, I wanna ha I wanna take a picture. No, it's my turn, you know, blah blah. So then all of a sudden, this little little girl says, Jack, who's her cousin, who's the same age as her, I wanna take a picture of your penis.

So the next thing is, he just whips his shorts down.

Mothers were like jumping up going.

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And they're doing this gentle parenting. God love Did the message get across, do you think? Yes, I it it did. In fact, the camera was removed from said photographer for a little while. Until she could say, I will not ask to take pictures of people's privates. She had to say she had to say that.

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you

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Yeah.

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She had to acknowledge that she understood. And the acknowledgement came through repetition.

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So again, gentle parenting. Unlike what we did.

Did anybody record this? No, unfortunately.

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Apparently. But you know, the thing is they're they really rarely had anything centered in the picture. my Picture me that was like from the bridge of my nose up, you know. That's how my mother took pictures. So my God. my god. my god. I wish I could have been there for that. my god. my I think I would have died on the spot. So funny. And then she so she just refused to repeat it. She refused to say it.

She w she just was like not having any of it. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Did you hear the thing about the thing? Wait, what? Say it again, say slow wait what? Nope, still don't believe it. No. Too out, too ear, too no way. Jose's a segment where the truth won't stay away. What Wait, wait, what? What? Wait, what? What? Teachy, are you ready to play? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? I'm ready to play. She's ready. It's really not a game, but it's you know, it's

Participate. You know, it's yeah, it's a sharing opportunity. It's a game. It's a game. It's a game. Everything's a game. Mm-hmm. Everything's a game. Okay, so I came across this article and and this was a new one for me because I hadn't heard of this, so b perhaps you have, but I'm not a real TikTok person. I know a lot of people spend time on TikTok, but apparently there are you know TikToks that

have claims that certain things can help certain ailments and their beauty. You know, the l a lot of different suggestions and hacks, you know, I guess that show up on TikTok. So you know, and some of them are

Crap. Some of them may be valuable. But I saw this one and I thought, wow, this was a new one on me. So have you heard that there's a home remedy that people swear by for colds, and it's putting a clove of garlic in your nose to clear congestion? What?

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And it's and there are viral videos showing mucus flowing out of someone's nostril after removing the clove. Wow. But it's not necessarily the garlic that's helping congestion. It could be causing it. just makes it run out. Correct, because that you've got delicate mucous membranes there in your nerves. So let me ask you, the clove I'm I'm

assuming is peeled, correct? That is my yes. And is but is it smooshed a little or no? Probably not. No. You just shove the clothes. Just shove close up your up your nose. You leave it in. No. I've had a I had a very, very traumatizing experience when I was a child with the button up my nose. Cause because I put it in and I couldn't get it out and the more I tried to pull it out, further up my finger went, the higher it went. That's right. Practically

coming out my eyeball. So I would I would be very careful perhaps not putting anything in your put a little perhaps you put a little string. Take a needle and thread. Yeah. Just have to be able to pull it out. You need you need it's anchor it. Yes, there's a good idea. Garlic tampons. Yep. I you know.

I knew this would come up we you know, through doing this, we'd be able to brainstorm some something would just fall out that would make perfect sense. I think this is a great garlic tampons. Yeah. Garlic tampons. Well, I you know, I you know, if I had a bad cold, I would try it. Okay. Yeah, there's no scientific evidence that it it could it does, but you know, some people say Well, you know, Italians used to wear garlic around their necks. They didn't have many friends, but

It kept the cold away somehow. Kept people away. Kept you know, ev everything. So yeah, I think you have to be careful again with what you're putting up your nose because you have to make sure you have a way of getting it out. Yeah. Correct. Because no joke. You're you know, you're going into your sinuses. Right. That's and that's a very tender area. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I had a friend a friend of ours just had a a

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A root ball removed from her s sinuses. Fungal ball. It was a fungal ball. It was a fun and it occupied the whole ki sinus cavity. Her whole sinus cavity. She had to have surgery to have it removed. How did they get it out? Did they have to cut it in pieces? They must have, right? They yeah, they said it was almost like the consistency of s of stones.

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Hehehehehe

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a stone. Stones. Wow. And I s I thought I thought, wow, I wonder if it's related to like tonsil stones. People some people get tonsil stones. So if you're a stone farmer, but I guess that's another place Wow. I don't know if garlic would help that, but you don't we just want you don't want your sinuses filled with anything. No. No. That's a problem.

But if you're clogged and you need it to move, because it's when it sits there that you can get an infection. Correct. If you need it to but it helps it to There's no evidence. There's no evidence. That putting garlic in your nose or inhaling garlic is beneficial. Okay. No evidence. Well then maybe we stay away from it until there's evidence. But you know, sometimes but it can get lodged in the nasal passageway and difficult to breathe. So

Yeah. god. Have a piece of garlic rotting in your face. Yeah, can you imagine having to go to the ER with that complaint? I put a globe of garlic up my nose. And you were how old? And you're putting foreign objects up your nose? my read it on TikTok. Yeah, but I saw it on TikTok. So we're gonna say, this TikTok, probably not a good idea. Probably not a good idea. Okay. Probably not. All right. I agree. I agree.

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Here's another one though that might be. Okay. We don't know. You tell me what you think. There was another tick-knock tick-knock. TikTok wellness trend that basically said stick your tongue out like a lizard for 40 seconds and your cortisol vanishes. So if you were stressed out, if you're feeling really tense.

An Egyptian neurologist told a patient to hold their tongue out for 40 seconds a few times a day and her cortisol normalized in two weeks. No meds needed. We heard this somewhere else. Where did we hear this? It just exploded on TikTok. But we we talked about it once. did I already talk about sticking your tongue out? You for 40 seconds? I don't

It stimulates your vagus nerve. That's what it was when we talked about the vagus nerve. That's what it was. Yeah. But no, I don't we ha we didn't talk about it in this in this context. Were we took we I know we talked about was it the humming? No. Was it what was it? It was it was something like yeah humming. Humming. I just vibrated my lips. Ooh.

So yes, by sticking your tongue now j not just, you know, a little bit, but really sticking it out there. Mm-hmm. it's supposed to sti so th there's no evidence that sticking your tongue out helps produce. And can you imagine like going into a meeting and everybody going, Okay, let's just We're gonna right, right. Just take take our forty seconds now and everybody stick it out their tongues.

You know, and it c imagine jumping onto that Zoom meeting. Well, you could I know, that would be really pathetic. But it could work as a grounding technique. People Yeah. Yeah. So it may not have a a direct connection physiologically to decreasing your cort cortisol cortisol levels, but just doing that enough

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Just doing the just the act of doing it itself might be grounding and up. Taking that little break. It yeah. Almost like stopping and taking it, you know, a deep breath. That's a grounding technique. Yeah. Yeah. So or maybe people who have a mantra and and and chant a mantra sometimes, that's another grounding technique. So you may find that sticking your tongue out for forty seconds may ground you.

And but it's not so much it's the forty seconds more than the talk. Right, it's the period of time. It's actually taking the time away from whatever it is that you're getting all twisted up about. Yeah. So and you know, think of it this way. You'll repel people. They'll stay away from you. Yeah because they'll think that's seriously wrong. Right. You've got a clove of garlic hanging on your nose.

And you've got your tongue sticking out, I guarantee you people will not bother you. No. You'll be left you'll be left alone. You'll be able to really become one with limit yourself. Big time. Yeah. Take a wide berth. You know? Might be something worth thinking about now. Interesting.

All right. Just wanted to make sure everybody was aware that we do have choices in this life. So you can choose to follow science or choose not to. You can watch it can go either way. And you know, you can make an argument. But I've heard people say I saw it on TikTok. TikTok is well, TikTok is God. Is gospel. If it's on TikTok, it must be true. It must be true. It must be true. It is so. It is what it is.

Either or peace war madana hoar this that skinny fat dog cat yes no stay go high low Alrighty now Titi would you like to play Titi's choice? I would. if you recall why am I sounding like a leprechant? I don't know. If you recall

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Titi has to choose numbers between a number between one and seventy-five. Within these numbers are contained a challenge, a what if? And Titi needs to pick or decide how she's going to manipulate the situation. Titi, select a number, my dear. Okie dokie. My number this week is forty seven.

Forty seven.

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What if our podcast became a TV show? Who plays you and who plays Queenie? Ooh, good question. Good question. Let's see. Who plays me? Huh? I have not given this one minute's thought. Ever. No. No. All right, you're the casting director.

Whoo, whoo, whoever you had time for. I would like to think it would be I think Leanne Morgan maybe for you. Just kind of rye like Anne, who for me, who for me. Jamie Lee Curtis. maybe, yeah. That'd be like me with boobs.

You know, it's a TV show after all. Yeah. Can you think of somebody else that you would want for yourself? I was gonna say Kristen Johnson, but which is in the same vein. Right, right, right. Yeah. Who were you gonna say? You I think you had someone in mind. Liza Minelli. No. Who did you have in mind? For me. Yeah. what's her name? Elaine. Julia Louis Dreyfus. Yeah. That would be good. She is funny.

She was funny. She is freaking funny. I was wondering I've been watching Day Drinking with Seth Myers. how is it? my god, it's hysterical. Really? It's absolutely hysterical. He gets hammered. And half the time the guests do too. They get just as hammered as he is. He is a he is a fun I know it's not funny to laugh at but he is a funny drunk. He does he cannot handle his liquor.

And he just mixes this shit up and he is so f he is so funny. He's so freaking he had Lizzo on my god. But he and Julie Louis Dreyfus were were pretty funny. I can imagine. my god. But he was actually here, that's right before before we got here. Or right when we got here, or something like that. Yeah. Because I think he has a place. I think he might, yeah.

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I know Rachel Meadow has has a boat, probably like a house boat or

We've got a list and it's getting long. Petty too profound. What feels so wrong? Sticky notes in middle-age sess. If it don't serve us, it can kiss our ass. Fuck it, fix it or forget it. We're seasoned queens, don't we?

If it drains our soul, waste our wit. We file it under, hell no, skip it. From bad frost to toxic friends, we draw the line and tie the ends each week. A gripe war hill to die on with Queenie and T T the fucking list lives on

I have I have a little fuck it, little one. What? Little one. And I think again it goes I think it goes along with previous fuckets we've had in the past, or I feel that this is a progressed fucket. A fucket that's progressed as a result of our fuckets. Some of our former fuckets. Some of our former fuckets has made this

Current fuck it a solid fuck it. Okay. A a a positive fucket. Okay. So what is it? I I I bumped into someone who I haven't seen in six years. Mm-hmm. But prior to that it spent a lot of time with. A lot a lot of time. And yeah, there's been really no contact. I I I

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Bumped into her one time at the bank. Mm-hmm. Maybe a year and a half ago. Okay. I think we might have had lunch after that. I think you're right. I think we did. But then, so I went I bumped into this person. So again, hadn't seen her, blah, blah, blah. And sh, you know, I did not immediately feel guilty or ashamed. Or

whatever. Nothing ne I I just I was thank I was very joyous to see this person even though the circumstances weren't you know the best that how this person is where she is now. But I was able to just focus on the person and me as the person in the moment and not let

Other stuff. How liberating is that? Get into that. And her cousin was picking her up and taking her somewhere. So another person, you know, was present. So I I it just it sounds weird. It sounds ridiculous. No, no. But like because there's so many emotions attached to everything. Even like you said, you wanted to just be happy to see this person without saying the in somebody like I'm standing on her shoulder going, Yeah, but you haven't kept

touch with her. Yeah, you need to skulk away now. Skulk away now. Skulk away now. Apologize, apologize, apologize. Fall over yourself, try to explain, try to explain, try to explain. And it was no liber how liberating. And I think we both we both met each other where we were right at that moment. Yeah. Yeah. And she'd been going through some, you know, she'd gone through some shit. And so I wow. Really

I saw that as a as a positive. That's amazing. Yeah. And I think it's a result of doing these exercises that we do every week talking about this stuff. Because, you know, there's this saying if you name it, you can tame it, right? So like if we're acknowledging and accepting, then we can move on. Right. And there

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There's no malice. There was no ma you know, it's not like there was nothing to be you know, and face nothing to be sorry about. But old me, previous me, my God, I'd be like sweating up a storm. Mm-hmm. Going nuts. Mm-hmm. But no, it's just it was great to see her. And that's so cool. Yeah. I'd rather spend my time with people that meet you where you are.

And you weren't able to. The people can't meet you where you are. You're really. But but the the the weird thing is that you were ready to in your own head like just I mean, in the past you've talked yourself into or out of something, you know, like, okay, this person, you know, should be mad at me because I'm sure they are mad at me. Yeah, right. Whatever.

But you didn't you didn't do any of that. You didn't get carried away by the little stories in your head. And you were so that's why you were able to be there right there, right then, with that person. That's great. It was So I guess we're saying fuck it to the listening to the chatter in the head. Right. Well I get yeah, and it Or letting that carry us away. Yeah, and I saw that it worked to the detriment of our own our own detriment, right. Right.

I could have skulked away, I could have scurried away very quickly. I did not have her updated phone number. So yes, that's what I learned this week.

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Goodbye, Queenie. Have a good week. Goodbye, TT. You have a wonderful week also. And have fun at your show tonight. thank you. I'm sure it'll be wonderful. And the next time you hear from us, we will be together. Together. Together. Together. Yes. Okay. Everybody have a great week. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Thanks for joining us at the Closet Disco Queen Podcast.

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I said fuck it to tomorrow, fuck it to the plan, fuck it to the should have's. I'm exactly where I am. Not giving up, just giving into right here, right now, this moment. Queen read the list and said, I'm done, just being a proponent. Fuck it to the worry, fuck it to the noise, staying in the moment. It's the most rebellious choice. The list said stop performing. The list said just be here. So I said fuck it. And I meant it, best decision of the year.