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Hot Girl Metal Mouth Summer & The Grill Masters

August 05, 2026 • Ashley & Christy • Season 1 • Episode 40

0:00 | 29:26

This week, the science girlies are tackling some weird and wild history of orthodontics! From adult aligners and 20 "speed bumps" glued to our teeth to "Hot Girl Metal Mouth Summer," we're breaking down what’s actually happening in your mouth when your teeth shift and why we pay one million dollars for it.

Plus, we dive into the gruesome history of dentistry: Romans aggressively poking their own teeth to align them, Pierre Fauchard aka "The Dentist Daddy" twisting janky teeth with pliers and zero anesthesia, 1980s birdcage headgear as covert relationship killers, and Ancient Mayans bedazzling their enamel with bow drills and antimicrobial asphalt superglue.

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SPEAKER_01 0:21

Welcome to the pod. What's up everybody? How's it going? Good. Good. I I'm doing well too.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

Oh, good.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Yeah. Thanks for asking. Thank you. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 0:34

It's alright. It's early. We were recording very early this morning.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Yes, we are.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

So we're still wiping the sleepies out of our eyes. And I just took my retainers out. Oh yeah. All right. Well, that really just goes right into who doesn't love some mouth sounds, though, you know. Some mouth sounds, yeah. Wait, really quick. Do we have any corrections?

SPEAKER_02 0:59

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Do we have any regrets for sharing all that we shared last week in diary? No, I thought it was great.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

I thought it was hilarious. I've gotten so much like really good feedback about it. Like so many people have told me that's one of the funniest.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

They were like, so I can relate to this. This is so relatable.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

I did have a friend who told me she had to pause it because she was in the drive-thru at Taco Bell when she started.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

She's like, Oh, I don't want them to talk crap.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Oh, okay. Well, I gotta oopsie. Oops.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Yeah. And they just never knew when we were gonna say diarrhea. So okay. Well, today we're gonna talk about orthodontia because I just recently started adult orthodontia. Yeah. In my almost 40s.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Listen, I've been there and there's nothing like turning 21 when you look 15 with braces. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Yeah. So yeah, you did have braces. I did have braces. But at 21?

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Yeah, I didn't get them until yeah, like I I think I turned 21 and I had a full mouth of braces. And I mean like bands and everything.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

They have never had braces, so this is a whole new world for me. But my daughter got braces, and while I was at like her appointment, I was like, what what can we do about this? And so they they got me signed up. Um she wanted me, my daughter wanted me to do like full metal braces like her because apparently full metal is in now, not the clear brackets. Like the kids want full metal, so that's odd. I know it's like hot girl metal mouth summer. But good to know. But I didn't choose that. I chose to go the aligner route with like the trays, which seemed like a better idea at the time, but now I just have like 20 speed bumps on my teeth.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

Yeah, that's weird.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

The pegs, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

I mean, you would have had that anyways though, like with the metal. You just would have had like a wire between all of them.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. But I'm getting used to it, it's good. Um, have you ever had like bad dreams about teeth?

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Those are gross.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

I had a dream once where I was eating uh like a it was like my tooth turned into a zot. Have you ever had a zot before?

SPEAKER_01 3:09

I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_02 3:10

They're like a hard candy, but in the inside they have that like fizzy powder. So when you bite down on it.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Oh, that sounds terrible.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Yeah, and I had a dream that my teeth turned into that one time and I woke up in a really hot sweat.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Ever want to bite into something hard to have a powder on the inside?

SPEAKER_02 3:25

It's like a fizzy powder.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

So it's like Oh, like pop rocks?

SPEAKER_02 3:29

Kind of, kind of, but it it like as soon as it hits your tongue, it like bubbles. I don't like it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

I'm gonna pass. Yeah, I haven't had one since, so that tells you how that worked. Yeah. I haven't had any weird teeth dreams in a while. So maybe I've gotten my stressors under control. Because it says like recurring dreams about teeth and stuff is because you're struggling with big changes. But I just think like, why waste like some good subconscious anxiety?

SPEAKER_02 3:55

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

On sleep, like, let's just let's just have your teeth crumble. Anyways, not not the point of this story, but I am going through the orthodontics process, and I realized in all this, I just have no idea how it works. I mean you put pressure on your teeth and they move, but like why? Right. So I did uh quick 30 seconds of research on that so that we can talk about it. Um, and then we're just gonna, you know, so that's not what this is about. I'm not we're not we're not deep diving into the uh mechanisms of orthodontia because I'm an unserious human on this pod. So I just want to know the weird stuff about orthodontia. Yes, I do too. You know, the stuff that makes me go and makes my skin curl. Yeah. So at a microscopic level, our bodies are cool as hell.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

Right? They're hella cool. Um, so the roots of our teeth are just sitting in our jawlines in like little tooth sockets and it's surrounded, our the roots are surrounded by tiny little cushions called periodontal ligaments. And when you put small amounts of pressure on the teeth, those ligaments either get squished or stretched, and so based on which it is, it signals to the body to either break the bone down to create room or um build the bone back up to fill the gap. So if it stretches, it you're gonna have your osteoblasts come in. If it's getting squished, it's your osteoglasts. So basically, just the small minor movements of your teeth allows the bone to adjust, and we just do that over and over and over again. These tiny little adjustments over and over for 12 to 16 months to your chompers align, how the doctor wants. But those smarty pants doctors have to apply just the right amount of pressure because they don't want to break your teeth and like you know, cause damage to those ligaments. Right. So, and that's why we pay all that money for it.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

So, can you overstretch the ligaments then and then yeah, you can I mean like you can totally damage them.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Like, think about I mean, think about just getting your like tooth knocked out. That's you you permanently damage. Yeah, that's true. So, anyways, again, it's a very uh small process, not small, it's a very uh complicated process with just tiny little movements and all the money. Jeez, yay, mod modern day orthodontophir. They didn't always have aligners. No, so let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Okay, you're triggering some serious trauma for me. Oh no, I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I'm just eating it.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Sorry, actually. So very, very, very ancient humans, very early humans, didn't even need braces. No, I mean, and they didn't have them, but they didn't need them because they had strong large jaws from chewing unprocessed food for hours and hours and hours a day. So because back then all the food was raw and hard and everything, like I kind of just imagine they're like cows just constantly chewing and chewing. So because of all the chewing and the force it requires to process these raw foods, it kept the teeth healthy and in line. So they had wider jaws, no crowding. But as food modernized and got softer and easier to eat, our jaws evolved, basically got lazy. Right. And then we get overcrowded teeth and crooked fangs.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

So a question with that is did they have their wisdom teeth? Like, did they there was room for them? There was room for them.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Well, I don't know if they had wisdom teeth, but there would be room for them.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Right, right. I mean, I would assume so because yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

So we got we got soft bread in exchange for soft jawlines. Fair enough. Which is fine. Um, and I actually had read a book about this, um, and about our shrinking jaws and how it relates to breathing, though. And the book is called Breath, at the New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. But it's a super good book. I highly recommend it. Okay. All about breathing.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Just like breath work. Yes. Okay. All of it.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Oh, mouth tape.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

Mouth taping, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

And just like the studies he did with mouth taping and only breathing out of your mouth versus only breathing out of your nose. That's crazy. Yeah. But let's let's go back to our chompers. Um, our jaws are narrowing, causing the teeth to overcrowd, and then you get a messed up grill.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Right.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Nobody wants that.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Messillo grill.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

I know that's what I kept thinking this whole time.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Oh, well, Messiah Grill.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Yeah, thank you. There it is. Um, so I read online the ancient Egyptians uh used to wrap animal intestines around their teeth. To like called it, yeah. Um, and that it was called cat guts, which I was like, oh, cat intestines. No, it was cattle or sheep. Yikes. So, but historians don't think they were putting the the guts on the living, they were doing it after death, post mortem.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Because they don't want they don't want to want them showing up in the afterlife with snaggle tooth.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Yeah, so they would they would like mummified.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

So we've just always been vain.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Yeah. Always, always, yeah. Well, and they used they could do that, or they would use little gold wires to align teeth in a very gross fashion, or my favorite, install teeth on a person that had a missing and I there's actually a really cool picture that I'll show you. Look at that.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Oh, yeah, it's just added in. Hey, that reminds me of like Pirates of the Caribbean.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Yeah. So so they would just take teeth from, you know, another human or an animal and you know, fill in, fill in the gaps. But so that's what the Egyptians were doing. But meanwhile, the Romans and your boy Pliny the Elder told people.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Okay, Pliny.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Pliny, okay, Ashley's boy.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

My boy.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

To just press hard on their cooked teeth with their fingers every single day. Which in that economy, that was kind of a baller move.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Like we're just we're just saving time and m well, not time. We're saving money.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

But I don't need gold wires. I'm just gonna push on these suckers every day.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Push on these teeth every single day. I mean, you definitely shouldn't try that on your own, but no. I mean, in that economy they had to.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Isn't that essentially though what a retainer is?

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Yeah. It's just no, it's that's exactly just holding it. Yeah, and I just say all of that, let's just leave the girls to the girl masters.

unknown 9:56

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Listen, Guy Fieri, calm down over there.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Should we start calling our orthodontists the girl masters? Probably. At my next appointment, should I just let them know I'm there to see the girl master?

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Hello, I'm here to see the girl master.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Hi, I have an appointment with the girlmaster.

unknown 10:11

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

Please do it and then report back.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

I don't even know if I dare.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

Be brave. Add a little whimsy to your life.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

My orthodontist is a very he's a very, very nice person, but I feel like if I were to say it, they would be like, What?

unknown 10:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

And then I and then I would have to explain the joke, and then it would make it completely unfunny.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Welcome to my life every day. I make jokes all the time, and people are like, huh? I'm like, never, never mind. Never mind. That wasn't for you.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

You you had to be there.

unknown 10:43

You had to be there.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

You're not my audience. I'm I'm my audience. It's just me.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

And I thought it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

That was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

I have been laughing about it. Okay. And then we enter the 1700s with Pierre Foschard, which I'm probably saying that wrong. And he's known as the father of modern dentistry, or as his friends called him in high school, the dentist daddy.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

Oh my god. Dentist.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Should I try that one?

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Hello, Teeth Daddy.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Hello, Teeth Daddy. Should I try that one when I check into my appointment? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Well, try them on. Didn't you say someone in your family is a hygienist?

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

So try it on them first. Okay. And then report back. Okay. And you can kind of get the because I have a friend that's a hygienist, and I think she would think all this is kind of funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

But yeah, let me know. I don't know. Um, but anyways, so daddy dentist he invented a contraption called the bandeau, which was a horseshoe shape of metal tied to the teeth with silk thread. So basically braces.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Braces, okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Um, but but this this man, this Pierre, Daddy Dennist, if the tooth was just janky or like completely crooked, he was like, you know, I'm just gonna grab these forceps and physically twist the tooth into the right place and tie it down.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

So no anesthesia, just vibes and pliers. No. Yeah. And no consent. No consent. So if you remember what I said earlier about the periodontal ligament and how that changes and how changes in that like signal for bone breakdown or growth, this guy just ripped those teeth into place with hopes that the ligament doesn't just completely die. Oh, which I'm sure maybe it did. I don't know. Probably. And hopefully that too three anchored, but who knows?

SPEAKER_02 12:19

He probably was like early beginnings of a serial killer and just found dentistry instead.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

That's some like crazy, morbid.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

And like always tying back to barbers, apparently. Like they used to just be the ones that were pulling teeth and doing all that stuff. Yeah. So just I mean, they were just tools. They're just a person in it with a chair and a toolbox and at your service.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

And now our barbers only cut our hair, like be so for real right now. Come on. Come on, if you can take away. Well, let's open up a full service. A full service booth.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

I need a surgeon.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

I need a haircut, these dead ends, and this tooth is bugging.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Listen, are we solving health care in this country? Via barbers.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Yeah, via barbers. I love it. Um, anyways, then we move on to the late 1800s, early 1900s, where orthodontia really starts to get formalized and the first school opens because before then we were all just doing it without training. Right. Yeah. On vibes. And then and then there was also the big debate, which I won't talk about, is like whether or not to pull teeth. So that's like that and that talks about pulling teeth in that breath book that I read. Um, but I'm not gonna weigh in on it because I'm not a girl master.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

So wait, there's a big debate around pulling teeth.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

Pulling teeth, so you know, a lot of times uh people will be like, Oh, I had to get my teeth pulled before I get my braces on because there's overcrowding. They want the according to this book that I read, he said it's better to um widen your jaw and do like expanders and keep all your teeth versus like just pulling them and keeping the narrow the narrow jaw, the narrow jaw. So I don't know, but I'm not weighing in.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

Yeah, I mean I I didn't even know it was a debate.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

So well, and I re I didn't include it on here, but I read that like at this time um the the guy that opened up the the first orthodontist school, he was very like pro no pull teeth, and the orthodontists at the time would kind of go back and forth of like um dissing each other in their like journals about like not pulling teeth or pulling teeth and stuff. So it's like a rap battle.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Oh they're going back and forth like on on Hamilton in the streets, yeah. Love it cool. Well, back then too, like you teeth are a hot commodity, like I know leave them suckers in there, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Well, and even like I can't remember when I what I read. I think it was like in the 1950s or something. It wasn't uncommon just to at like 21 years old just get all your teeth ripped out and get dentures just right away. Like what? And they would call it like the they they'd call it like the the greatest gift for a gal just getting married, a mouthful of dentures, or somebody turning 21 on their birthday, get them a mouthful of dentures. Yeah. What if they had janky teeth? That's what they did.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Do you want to know something weird about me?

SPEAKER_01 15:09

Do you have dentures? Oh, okay. What?

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Um, in my mouth, I have a bump on the roof of my mouth. It's like a genetic thing. So me and my mom and my grandma all have it, and my brother. Um, and it makes it harder for us to have dentures.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

Oh, because it can't suction?

SPEAKER_02 15:24

Because it can't suction to the roof of my mouth. So I I couldn't.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Oh, well, not me.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

Not me get my job. You better take care of them. I guess so.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Better take care of them. Better keep pushing on them each. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

I guess I should probably wear my retainer every night. Whoopsie.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

That's not gonna fit ever again. No, probably not. When was the last time you wore your retainers? She can't ask me that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

It's none of your business. I really honestly have no idea.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Do you even know where it is?

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Yes, I know where it is. So put it in. I know. I just it's just a thing. It just It's a whole thing. You brush your teeth and you put it in. And then I do that little every night. There's nothing, there's nothing sexier than your husband better pull over. Just getting in and I talk a little funny with it in my mouth too, so he'll he makes fun of me. Well, I get my gloth in my retainer in.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Hey, that's me 24-7, dude. That's why I don't wear them when we record. Because I can barely talk.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Yeah, I get a little bit of a lisp.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

You can't flirt with your husband with a lisp.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

I I sure can and I sure do. And my husband wears a retainer every night as well. So like we're quite the pair.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

Like we are pronouncing S's at each other. Yeah. Hey, Shaky. Side on over here.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Were you in our room last night?

SPEAKER_02 16:47

Do you want to snuggle with me, Shaki?

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Is that really how I sound though?

SPEAKER_02 16:52

I don't know. That's how I sound with my retainer on.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Oh my gosh. It's really hard to talk. You're giving me a complex. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go get real braces.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Go get all your teeth pulled out.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

I'm gonna get them all pulled out.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Get you some dentures.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

Um, anyways. So then in the 1970s, back to back to the pod. Um, braces, modern day braces are invented. So you know the the acid etching of the teeth to glue on the brackets and do all the things. So um humans are so cool.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

The things we freaking figure out. I like that's how would you I mean it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

I don't know. But we don't want to I don't want to skip over the headgear era. Oh we can't we gotta mention the headgear era. We do have to mention the headgear. It's the era where Orzadonists decided the best way to fix a jaw was to make teenagers wear an external still harness that looked like a birdcage on their heads. But I have to ask. Yes. Was the 1980s headgear there to improve our smiles or just ensure kids had zero romantic prospects in the seventh grade?

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

Birth control.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Yes. You can't kiss if you can't hit no, it's miserable.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Like I just looked up all those pictures and it's you're you're just be bopping in the world with this full contraption on your face at all times. I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

Um, it's giving mean girls. Yeah, that's exactly what I was just thinking.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Remember her mom like decorates it with her headgear, decorates it with the I don't know what it, what would you call that? Like the floor. The head, yeah, so she can go to the dance.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

There was a kid I went to high school with, I think he was a year above us, but he ended up having to have like major jaw surgery and stuff because his his jaw and everything was so messed up. And I think, yeah, he ended up having to have headgear for a little bit too.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

I mean, that was like the 2000s, so and I I feel like that was okay back then. Like there's so many things that were definitely okay back then, and it's all because we weren't being surveilled 24-7. Nowadays it's like nobody wants to do anything or be silly because you know somebody's gonna record you.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

Yeah. Which I would like to invite everybody to just add more whimsy into your life.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Yeah, let's just stop doing that.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

Let's be silly again.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

So silly.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Me and Becky went on a trip a couple weeks ago, just like a mom's weekend. And have you seen those videos of people that stand backwards in the elevator when other people get up?

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Oh yes. We did that. Like, so you just walk in and just instead of turning around to look at the door, you just stood in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

Well, but we were the only ones in there. And so we we did it when we knew someone else was gonna get in. We turned around and like faced the wall so that when they got in, they just saw our backs.

unknown 19:25

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

It was the most uncomfortable 60 seconds of my life.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Yeah, and because you didn't see who it was even getting on, so it's just a mystery to you, too.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

I'm like actually getting like uncomfy about it.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

But I was thinking the opposite. I was thinking you just get in the elevator and instead of like getting in and turning around, you just we would have done that too if there would have been people in the nose. Or to nose with the person. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

We were just we're laughing about it because it's like, why not? Let's just make it why do we all have to be perfect all the time? Let's just be silly.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Let's stop, let's stop having anxiety about what we did last night and just be silly.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Yeah, be silly. Get silly.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Yeah, whatever. But here I am. I have a box of 3D printed trays that I switch out weekly that moves my teeth ever so slowly to the right places.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

I like it.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Yeah, it's fun.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

And I do the like the scans virtually at home, so I I'm just so you don't even have the opportunity to make orthodontic jokes to your orthodonks.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

I'll go in every so often. But yeah, we'll save them up. I could message it in the the app and be like, hey.

SPEAKER_02 20:24

What up, girlmasters? Do it.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

What up, girlmaster?

SPEAKER_02 20:27

That's a lot. That's all that's like tiptoeing into funny's.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

How are my chompers looking?

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Because then they have a chance to Google it and get back to you with a ha ha ha. You know?

SPEAKER_01 20:35

They're like, don't message us anymore. But you you are approved to go on to your next trade.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

They just send you like the the thumbs up.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Yeah. Oh well done. Well done. AI sends me a uh well done. Because it's not even probably a real person. Um, but yeah. The only downside I would say to the the aligners is again like those pegs that they put on your teeth. Yeah. Which again, you as you point out, that's just like regular braces. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

So but you can like floss in between.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Yeah, I will say flossing now, it feels like my teeth don't even touch anymore. I'm like, this is so weird.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

Mm-hmm. That is weird. It's just like really loosey, loosey goosey.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

It's loosey-goosey in there. Great. I'm gonna have a bad dream tonight.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

Same. I this is yeah, this is gonna be a real test of our brains to see if we have bad teeth dreams tonight.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

I know. Um, what's your stance on tooth gems? Adding a little sparkle to your pearly whites. Um have you seen that lately?

SPEAKER_02 21:32

I have seen it. I if you want to do it, go for it. You're not hurting anybody.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

The thing that I think of is I have a permanent retainer and all of the gunk that gets stuck in that drives me crazy.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Like, and it's it's so hard to like I can't floss down there at all. And it's just it's so hard to like even.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Girl, get a water pick. I have one. Oh. Let me guess you don't use it.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

No, I mean it still just doesn't like it doesn't you know, like it just doesn't turn in the doses.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

That's the thing is I don't know. I've never had a I don't have a retainer.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

So I have a permanent one down in the bottom. I wish they would have put a permanent one on the top, but but that's what I mean. Do you want me to do that? Is like the gunk that would get stuck around your tooth gem all the time. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's it. They're kind of cute though. They're cute. Yeah. Go for it. I don't you're not hurting anybody.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Your body my daughter has Have you seen those fugglers? What? Those like stuffed they're not stuffed animals, but like stuffies. They're called fugglers and they have like really big teeth. They're really ugly. And I think that's why they're called fugglers. Oh yeah. Have you seen those?

SPEAKER_02 22:37

I they were called something else though, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:39

No, always just called fugglers. They were at Costco. Oh okay. My daughter has a few of them. Anyways, I noticed the other day when I was in her room, she has uh put gems on all their teeth, not on all the teeth, but like just on like the little side what do you call this one? The canine? Yeah. Yeah, she put it on all their canines. I was laughing so hard with her like bedazzle kit. That's cute. So funny. I love that.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Um, okay, but what if I told you what have you seen people who save their children's baby teeth and then they make it into a Christmas ornament? They put all their kids they're so funny. That's what that reminds me of. You should do that.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

Well, are you gonna save your kids' teeth?

SPEAKER_02 23:19

I don't know. What's the what's the rules? What's the thing?

SPEAKER_01 23:22

There are no rules. You just do whatever you want. I'm not prepared for I'd say keep them because if you throw them away, they can't get them back. And then you can decide later on if you want to give them a fuggler, a homemade fuggler.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

What am I it's just so weird.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

It is weird.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

It's like a what do we maybe I'll make him a necklace that just a bunch of teeth are added down.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Oh sick.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

For your wedding day.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

You have like this beautiful like jewelry box and you just open it up and it's just all their teeth.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

One of them's gonna be too bedazzled.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

No, you can't do it because what if your daughter listens to this in 10 years? No. No. So one time, speaking of teeth, because that's what this podcast is about. Um, we were like watching a movie or something and eating popcorn and like a piece of popcorn fell on the floor, and I picked it up and put it in my mouth. Twas not a popcorn, it was a tooth. Oh. A dog tooth.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

My god.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Grossa. So we had a dog that like Oh you know, they would lose their teeth, which I didn't realize, but he had like had been losing like baby teeth, and we would just find him around the the house or whatever. And yeah, so we were like eating popcorn and peaceful on the floor. So I thought I picked it up and I put it in my mouth, and it was like hard, and I was like, oh no. And I like spit it out, and I was like, oh, that's like that's a dog tooth.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

I'm really nauseous.

unknown 24:51

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

And that's the episode.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Anyways, we are not serious people.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

I know. Back to the back to bedazzolin. Did you know that that has actually started like 2500 years ago with the Mayans?

SPEAKER_02 25:03

No, but the Mayans sound cool as hell.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

So they're the next next level. But they would use these little bow drills to make shallow holes in the enamel, and then they had like an ancient version of cement to glue it on. And researchers have found that the compound that they used in their little cement mixture, whatever, um, contained essential oils with therapeutic antifungal and antibacterial properties, like it had like pine resin in it. Um, so their glue didn't just hold the gems, it actively prevented tooth decay. Whoa. And it they said, you know, because you're drilling and you gotta be oh so careful, because if you go too far, you'll get into the I hate this tooth pulp. Ugh.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

And you know, that'll just give you an infection. But they said that for the most part they were very accurate and precise in a in there there really wasn't I mean, I don't know how they would know, but they said that it didn't look like they really had many instances of breaking through to the pulp.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Wow, that's pretty cool. Did we peak? Is that where we peaked as humans? The Mayan era?

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Do you ever think that like the Mayans, and I'm sure people have looked into this, but shut up, I don't care. Um that's none of my business, that's none of your business either. But like, what if the Mayans just they advanced so far and then they got wiped off the earth somehow?

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Do the people do people think that?

SPEAKER_02 26:23

I don't know, but I think about that all the time. I think about those civilizations.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

You said that very you said that very um confidently, like you had already looked at it.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

No, I I know nothing.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

I know nothing, but I think about it all the time as like it with all the things they had and like how little we know about them, it just makes me think like maybe aliens came and took them off the earth and now they're the aliens that are coming back to us.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Maybe to try to stop us from ruining ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Yeah, they need to hurry up.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

I also have this I don't know if it's an actual like accepted theory, but I always think about it is what if Mars was the original Earth and we destroyed it and came here?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Yeah. Who knows? Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 27:06

Nobody knows, but like they've they see, like they are studying it so much. It's like, what if we started there, destroyed it, found another planet, came here, started over, and now we're just doing the same thing because time is a flat circle.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

No, I don't think that's true. Because if you were like if that were the case and we were pretty modernized on Mars, it's not like you'd come to Earth and just completely forget everything, and then all of a sudden you're I mean, unless you crash landed and you had to start from scratch. Did you crash-land and get like amnesia?

SPEAKER_02 27:37

I mean Yeah. Well, if you crash land and you don't have anything, you have to start over from scratch. Even if you know a bunch of stuff, that doesn't mean you can translate it. And you're on a brand new place.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

Just because I know how to just cause I know how to work a cell phone doesn't mean I have a cell phone.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Or know how to build one. Or know what materials you need to build one or on a brand new planet that you've never had. I don't know. I think about it a lot.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Who's to say that we're not all just sending a group of people to new planets and doing that all over the world? Probably. Not all over the world, all over the universe.