Used Toothbrushes & Flat Earth: The Oddities of the Universe - EP23

Used Toothbrushes & Flat Earth: The Oddities of the Universe - EP23

Ever wondered who’s out there buying used toothbrushes? Or why pigeons are basically homeless because of us? Or maybe, just maybe, whether the Earth is actually flat (spoiler: it’s not, but people keep trying to prove otherwise)? In this episode, we go down the wildest rabbit holes imaginable—from the bizarre online marketplace for pre-loved hygiene products to the existential crisis of immortality and off-grid living.

It’s weird. It’s ridiculous. It’s us, being honest.

Tune in for laughs, gasps, and maybe even an existential crisis or two. 🚀🪐

Transcript

  Hi! Hey! How are you? How are you?  What's up? What's new? How's it going? What's going on? That's good. Kale's uh, Kale's had some reconstructive surgery done in the last little while. 

Have you noticed something odd? 

Yep. He uh, he's transplanted some hair and moved some things around. 

Yes I have.  

All in the theme of today's episode.

Yeah, this'll be gone next week.  Anyway, hey guys. Hi. Yeah, hope you're doing well. Yeah, hope things are going fine. I'm gonna take this out now. Okay.  Good ol grass. Good ol grass. Yeah, we're gonna explore the oddities. Of the world that we live in currently. Of the world that we live in today. Yeah. Because I'll tell you what, there is a lot of them. 

We were doing some,  I don't want to call it research because it wasn't research, it was like, unintentional knowledge gathering. 

Yeah, unintentional knowledge gathering, that's what we'll call it. Yeah. We discovered That  there's a market for 

used 

toothbrushes. 

And let us be clear, before we talk about the oddities, we're not, like, kink shaming anybody.

Oh, not at all. Or anything like that. No, no, no, 

that's not what we're doing. You, to you. Yeah. Rock on, boo boo. We, we, 

we just can't believe, uh, that certain things exist for certain markets.  

Yeah. You know what, we were a bit surprised. Yeah. I said to Corey, I wouldn't be surprised If people had a fetish for used toothbrushes.

And so then the curiosity got the best of him. Yeah. And that is when we made the new discovery. That there is a market for year's two specials.  Oh, that was a little loud, sorry guys. 

And it's ridiculous.  I could imagine somebody listening to the first five minutes of this being like, why were they talking about these things? 

But let us be honest, okay? That's what this podcast is about. Let us be, let us be honest. I  think these are some random conversations people have sometimes. Yeah, they are. Cause, cause ours all started with like, oh, like, you know, if we didn't have  morals, which again, I'm not saying people out there don't have morals, but it takes a certain kind of person to just, you know,  leave one path.

in your life to go, I don't know, sell your body photos on OnlyFans. And then selling naked photos on OnlyFans and becoming an adult entertainer cascaded into kinks. And then here we are. Use toothbrushes. So 

yeah. 

Um,  

I don't know if I'd say kinks, because that word makes me a little uncomfortable. 

No,  that's what it was classed as. 

It, it's,  so use toothbrushes,  because we're just talking about this today. I don't like that word. That word just  rubs 

me the wrong way. You know what, it's always rubbed me the wrong way too. Heyo. Yeah, it's. I just, I don't know. What about it?  Makes me feel icky. 

Fair, but yeah. So that kind of got us talking about, you know, the oddities of the world that we live in. We'll call it oddities. It's like people are selling their used toothbrushes anywhere from like 15. To 110. Like there was one toothbrush for sale. It was like, I, I used this toothbrush for the last year.

You, I used it on my teeth. You get a photo set. And I used it to clean my shoes that I don't wear socks in. And I'm like, why is there a market for this? You get a photo set. 

These are the toes that it cleaned. These are the shoes.  This is it. Can you send me the link to that? Yeah, yeah.  This is it. This is it posing with my teeth.  Like, why? I, I don't,  I'm flabbergasted. 

And, yeah. And I mean, you'd, you'd like to go through this kind of scenario where you picture different ways you think these people are using these items. 

But you know deep down that there's only one true answer. 

Yeah. 

And it's just, it's 

gross. Yeah. It's, um, self relieving.  And we were talking about this if you were selling these items and this is gonna be the most weird question I've ever asked if you've ever sold these items Can you just like put in the comments like why and how it made you feel cuz I I'm just at a loss 

Yeah, were you like short on funds or were you just bored and curious?

Or was it a dare? Right? You know, were you on a dare at 

your age? Yeah. Yeah. Um, you have to, in the back of your mind, know eventually what these items are going to be used  for. Yeah. But, but you just sit there and you like fold it up, you put it in this little shipping bag, you put the little label on it and you're like, 

goodbye. 

Yeah. I mean, I guess those people just kind of like tune it out, shut it out after they send it off, you know? 

I don't know if I And I 

mean, after you send  I mean, I'm sure it just doesn't even matter anymore. It just becomes a business.  It really does.  Yeah, you're just Retailer  

or like kale mentioned when we're going down this thought path earlier like what what do the people receiving these items do like like do they just take them out of the bags and just get it done and over with right away or you said do they take them but do they put them in a 

picture frame and hang it up or do they put them in like ziplock bags and label it and then put it in a rubber made or like a safe do they put it in a safe.

You know, is it that valuable to them that they keep it in a safe, or like a vacuum sealed  bag in a safe, labeled? 

You know those big jersey frames you can get to, like, frame jerseys? 

Just get a real big guy's pair of boxers. Just put them in a big jersey frame. This is my prized possession.  With, like, his photo beside it, just like 

Oh my god! But, like Like, no, it does make you think, though, because there's so many of these weird things being shipped to people around the world. And yeah, you just, you have to think. You can't help but think. Cuz once you find this out, you're not just like, oh, okay, that's cool, whatever.  No, you're like, what the fuck?

People be peoplein Actually, you know what? Yeah, nowadays, that's just like, people be peoplein You know? It's normal nowadays. Yeah, 

I blanked on my boxers, cuz you can put anything  in there. I did X to said boxers and just shipped them away. Frickin rolled them around in a cat litter and  Stomped on him outside in the snow.

And, for an extra 50 bucks, I'll send you photos of me doing it.  And then I threw him in a puke bath. Ew.  Yeah, gross. I was at a frat house. But like, if you can think of it, it's there, it exists. And it's the worst rule about the internet, and when you brought up the toothbrush thing,  I didn't want to believe it was a thing. 

But now that I know, I just  Yeah,  but like,  I don't know, I just, I can't get over,  I would be constantly thinking about what is going to happen to this when it's received. And I, I just,  I think that's where my morality forces me to never want to do that. 

Yeah,  yeah, you know what, I can't say that I would ever, I think, want to hop into that  trade, we'll call it.

Right. Yeah, that's, uh.  Yeah, it's not for me and I mean hey if you're watching this and you're one of those people that you know sell farts and jars or  Your undergarments or your youth socks or like other bodily fluids or gases or  ? . 

I burped once. 500 bucks.  . Yeah. I mean, I get it. We live in a world where, you know, monetize everything, but like, mm.

Why? Why, why  

seriously do you not feel shame? Seriously, like,  oh, I just, I don't know.  I don't know. I just can't picture myself being that desperate for money.  You know what I mean?  

I, I think I'd ask to live with my friends or move back home before I got that desperate. 

Yeah.  

Yeah. Because  that's, yeah, I don't know.

You know, they're just going to smell them. 

Yeah. Right. And I think that, Oh, that is, oh, could you imagine? But that's my walking into the storage room where they keep their jars of farts,  , or where they keep their stock of 

used undergarments.  Just, what's on the inventory today? Let's see. We still have five What do I have left?

What do I need to dirty?  

We have five ready to ship Lulu's. We have five ready to send Calvin's. Uh,  we just got the new package of Calvin Klein's in. So, uh, we need to set up some dates for production for those. A couple special orders for Saks.  Oh yeah, that was a weird one. Interesting guy from Georgia. 

Yeah, 

I don't know.  I don't know. I'm sure a lot of these people that do sell this stuff That ship it off probably or be like, all right, here you go. You freaks  Like i'm sure a lot of them are like, okay, this is  They don't complain because of the money they bring in. I mean, that's fair They're just in their little 

inventory room and they're like this disgusting but like  I'm, not gonna have to worry about rent for three months.

So Like, this 

is f ing gross. Can you smell these socks? Like, this is f ing disgusting. Yeah. 

Like, yeah. I don't know. And, and like, nothing against anyone,  but I have a,  a horrid feeling that 90 percent of the people buying these things  are males. 

Yeah. 

And it doesn't matter who they're buying them from. Yeah.

I,  men are disgusting. Men are disgusting. Men are pigs, man. It's,  yeah.  But let's be honest, like,  Women are gross too. Yeah. Like, don't, don't get 

on your high horse there, ladies. 

Yeah, you're not being cut out of this. It's 

like, you guys have your fair share of  

Grotesqueness. Oh. What?  I never even thought of that.

This whole time I've been thinking like, Oh, what could I sell to people that, you know, could pay a lot, but like, what could women sell?  Mm 

mm. Not going there. That's 

It just opened up a whole new gate. Yeah, yeah, oddities. 

That's a whole  new market I'm not getting involved in. Probably because most of it is involved in the black market. These are the 

5 for 20 lisenza shelf.  This is the Victoria's Secret collection. Sending these off to California tomorrow. Whoever Craig is, he's weird. 

We're not gonna go there. So hi, welcome to Let Us Be Honest, where um, we go unhinged and talk about oddities of the world. Welcome 

to one of our unhinged episodes,  but that's okay because I feel like they're fun. Yeah. They keep people engaged. And if you've ever sold undergarments, put it in the comments.

I'd like to know. Yeah, well, if you've ever sold any kind of weird shit. Yeah. We'd like to know.  And  That really But actually, you know what?  There's a line. Yeah. Yeah. Okay? Yeah. There's a line. Yeah. 

Do you think people use Pants you've worn for a month, or Used hairbrushes?  

Dude, there's probably a market for chest hair.

Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. 

I'm looking it up. Ha ha ha ha.  What? No, there's not.  No, you're lying. Um,  okay, not specifically for chest hair. Thank God. 

Mm  

hmm. Most of the things that come up are people selling hair that they grew really long, um, to like make a wig or something out of. Yeah, that's normal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

Never mind. Cancel it. Found it. Cancel it.  Scratch it all. New York Post headline from October 23rd, 2023. I make 9. 5K a month selling my armpit hair online. 

But, there's a downside. This is what I mean, like what the f Oh my god, a 30 year old woman has made close to a million dollars thanks to her armpit hair. What is it 

for and why like do  like are these is this armpit hair being bought by men who can't grow any like or women who want to have some or  Even though technically you can just grow it yourselves 

the seller said she started posting images of body hair online Because she believes in growing out her body hair. 

And then people started offering her money for the body hair from the pictures that it was in. So again, for another 50 bucks! You can get a photo set  of where this came from. You know what? There was a time in my life. There was a time.  I want to be very clear, that I thought people who believed  wholeheartedly that the earth is flat were the weirdest people out there.

Okay, search this. And if this is 

a thing, I'm done. I give up. 

It's, it's gonna 

be a thing. Okay. We know it's gonna be a thing. We'll see, we'll see. Okay, okay.  Sandpaper fetish. 

You know it's gonna be a thing.  Sandpaper. Mmm. I have a fetish for wiping my Sandpaper. 

No, that's bull. No, it's right there. Oh, it's right there.

It's right there 

again We're not fetish shaming people, but like why?  My mind is scarred for life. You know what? My mind was scarred the second we found out about the toothbrushes. 

Yeah, I mean  Flat earthers. Am I right?  Yeah, like  I don't understand me neither their way of thinking It's just it's odd  It is an odd oddity because how does that make sense?

It doesn't. Where are you getting your factual knowledge?  You know what I mean? You're not getting it from anywhere because it's not f ing true.  

And I've had this conversation with people before. As a living being on this planet, Do you not just have a natural sense that the Earth is circular?  Like, if nobody ever told you, would you not just feel like that is the truth?

Cause I do. I think it makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Spheres exist in our life and our surroundings so often, that like, why wouldn't it not? 

Yeah, I don't know. I think it's, I don't know. Cause like, yeah. I mean, 

it 

scientifically does not make 

any sense.  And you've seen the videos of them, like, trying to prove that the Earth is flat, and they fail every time.

And 

they've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just 

to prove that they're wrong. Some of these people have, yeah. Yeah. Some of these people have formed organizations Trying to prove that the earth is flat. Whole societies. And you're like, are you seriously doing this right now?  Is this what you're spending your money on right now? 

What did you do last Sunday? And why haven't you, weren't you saving for a house?  Something came up and it was way more important than the house. I 

decided to prove that earth was flat, okay?  

How'd that go for you?  

Lost all my 

money.  But we're trying again in two years once we raise more funds.  The gyroscope wasn't calibrated.

Yeah.  Even though they went out and bought like a 30, 000 gyroscope. Just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make sense. Just these people are odd.  They're odd. I think the other fun oddity is people who believe that birds are robots.  

They're government controlled at that. You know what I mean? They're government spies watching your every move, recording what you say.

You cannot convince Hello!  

Earth to this guy!  Can we get back to reality, please? 

Seriously, have you ever seen a pigeon? There's no way it's a robot. 

I'm 

watching you! Right? No way!  Actually, maybe they are. I don't know, man. They  like to get pretty close to us, you know, sometimes. Yeah, because we feed them. Yeah, I know. Pigeons. We domesticated them as a species and then threw them away like they were nothing. We did. Yeah. And it's caused some real 

problems.

Mm hmm. Have you ever seen the picture of a pigeon nest? Yeah, I have. You want to see some shit that we've done to pigeons? Look at how they build their nests. Yep. And the reason they build them that way is because they had such a heavy dependency on us providing them homes. That, yeah, when we didn't need to carry a pigeon anymore, we just threw them out.

And now they're like, I don't remember how to build a nest. 

Expecting them to live in the wild. When we've literally made them forget  every single thing they knew. Yeah.  Yeah.  That's the theory, anyway. Like a scientific theory. I would believe it. Yeah, oh yeah, me too. Pigeons are hopeless. Yeah, they are.

They're very smart, though. They are smart. They are very smart birds. You gotta give the credit where the credit's due. They're just Yeah,  we once threw them away as trash. So now a lot of society looks at them as trash. 

Yeah, and people are like, oh, 

there's the pigeons in the garbage 

again, because you put them there.

Yeah,  

this is on you. Yeah,  not really, but you get where we're coming from. Yeah, exactly. Poor pigeons. Yeah. That's that's an oddity of the world. It is an oddity of the world, what we did to pigeons. It is.  

A lot of what we do nowadays is an oddity in this world. It's true. A lot of how we act nowadays is an oddity in this world.

Well, I mean, the world is so crazy. It is so crazy. Nobody knows, nobody has any sense anymore. No. You know what I mean?  No common sense. Common sense is gone. It's disappeared. The self entitlement is super high.  

Mm hmm. 

Which is a side effect of the no common sense. You know what I mean? And with People think the world caters to them.

And with no common sense, morals drop. Morals drop, values drop, everything drops. And the next thing you know, you're just People just start to think they're God. And you know, everyone thinks, Yeah, I'm God, I'm greatest, no one's better than me, you know, blah blah. I'm just the best. Yeah. Everyone listen to me.

Let me tell you what. You look 

stupid. Yeah, if I back up ten years Elon Musk is turning people into computers. Mm hmm Oh, it's only a matter of time ten years ago. I would have thought all of this is cool now I'm like, you know what maybe I should go live in the middle of the woods. Yeah, literally no like, 

you know what?

I just kind of don't want to be part of this  

Off grid has never sounded  

So appealing. Because let's be real, a goal, one of the goals of a lot of this is immortality. That's fair. Right? I do not want to be stuck on this mortal coil until it blows up. Right? No, I'm sorry. Forever. That sounds worse than hell.

Yeah. It really does.  Especially in the direction this world is headed, if it continues on this path. Yeah. 

Nope. And like,  all matter has an expiry date. It may not disappear, but it changes form. And because I said it sounds worse than hell 

does not mean I won't do it. And I'm not acknowledging  anything religious by saying that.

We are 

not acknowledging the presence and or absence of a place. I am 

simply stating I would like to have a very nice and peaceful afterlife. Yes. Okay. That's it. 

Yeah. Anyway, sorry. And maybe figure that out. Yeah. But like,  this, this is really, what if there's something amazing after this? We've now gone from oddities  back to like, what, what else is out there,  but for real.

Which some people consider an oddity.  You know what I mean? Some 

people, some people literally believe there is no life after death, and it's just an eternity of darkness.  And I mean, hey, all the power to you. If that's what gets you through the day,  you do you.  But like, that's 

That's not my game, man. I still find that very hard to believe.

I don't, I think it's,  there could be a lot of darkness. Mm hmm. Like, because if you look at space, it's a very wide open dark place. Oh, 100%. But it's not dark forever. No. There's spots of light, new things, and interesting things. I, 

I, yeah, I seriously can't imagine  that when you die, that's it. Right? That's it. 

But, but if that is, True. Like no one knows. No one knows. No one knows. There's tons of stories out there about,  you know, people experience having near death experiences and, you know, being revived after like five, 10 minutes coming back with this crazy, insane story or, you know, children who have memories of their past lives or, you know, even adults that have memories of their past lives.

It's,  It all gives me hope that it gives you hope that 

there's a lot more out 

there as odd as some people might think that Is  for real it it 

gives me hope yeah, and it's also odd to live your life in fear That the rest of your life might just be nothing. 

Yeah  

But that's the same as the people who want to live forever.

How is that a reason not to live your life, right? You know what I mean?  Like if it's just gonna be nothing why not why not have the best time you possibly can seriously like 

right now Right now,  have the best possible life you possibly can. Yeah. Die happy and proud of what you didn't have to do.  But yeah, no, I  definitely think there is something after death anyway.

There has to be. Not exactly, maybe not, you know, physical life.  But maybe a spiritual one that  we get to experience afterwards. You know, cause none of us really have, well no, none of us have.  Any recollection of where we came from.  You know what I mean? Besides what we're told about how humans evolved and But I'm talking like, spiritually.

Yep. Your soul. Yep. Like,  no one knows where it comes from. Yeah. Where does it come from? Where does it go? Exactly.  

Where does it come from? Cognac. Oh.  What if this spirit lived on Mars once upon a time? What  if we've already 

been there? 

Mm 

hmm.  What if we've already lived on another planet, billions of light years away, as another spe as a different species, in a different civilization?

That's pretty cool. You know what I mean? I'd be okay with that. Yeah! That's a fun thought. Like, it's cool holy shit, what if yeah. Yeah. What if our energies are all universal?  And when we die, our energy doesn't necessarily come back to Earth. It might not.  

That's what 

I once thought. Guys.  

Well, even in the spirituality episode, that's what I was thinking.

I was like, what if  we do live in different parts of the universe, spiritually through however long it exists for.  That's a fun thought. Yeah. It is. It really is.  But it is odd that people just think it's nothing afterwards, so. Yeah, like, 

what fun is that anyway? 

It's not. 

You know what I mean? Even if it truly is what you believe, and even if it is, uh, you know, a factor of motivation in regards to how you live your life, that's how is that? 

Those are just the hyper pessimistic. Yeah. Well, no sense living a good life, because there's just gonna be nothing forever anyway.  I'm not gonna remember any of 

this shit anyways, so what's the point? 

It's just gonna be dark and black. I'll just 

be miserable.  

How do I even try anymore?  The Earth's round, I'm gonna not live forever.

Now I have to go buy these 500 glasses just to say hi to my mom on Facebook. 

Maybe this is just a good time. 

500, I don't know what kind of glasses you're buying. Okay, they're gonna be 

1, 500. There you go. Yeah, yeah. 500. 1, 500. They'll be the kind where it's like, oh. So our premium that come with a free Facebook subscription, because let's be honest, eventually it's gonna get there. I need to trim my stache.

Facebook's not gonna be free forever. No. Eventually they're gonna be like, oh buy these 2, 000 fancy glasses with a free Facebook subscription.  But if you're poor, you can buy the 500 ones and you'll be able to post three comments a day.  

Mm 

hmm. Cuz that's where it's going. 

The 500 ones. Yeah. Made in the  Everybody just get off Facebook.

Seriously.  Get off social media in general. I feel like everyone would be a lot happier. 

I think, I think it would change a lot. Yeah. 

Another 

oddity. Another oddity. The grips of  social media. The grasp of social media. Yep. On today's generations. 

Wow, good timing. Yeah, it's just We live in a world of weird. We do. What are, what are some things Not saying we're perfect, we're weird as Oh 

yeah. You know what I mean, but Well, how did we even get on to this conversation? Exactly.  Look at us, we're normal. Let's talk about selling undergarments. I'm sorry, did you see how I started this episode? 

My chest hair is currently on the table right now.  

I'm gonna sell it. Online, for fifty bucks. 

Fifty bucks? We're getting five 

hundred at least. Five hundred bucks, and you There's a pervert out there that'll buy that. And you can smell this all you want.  Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in. Always glad to have ya.

You know,  watch our older videos as well. Glad to have ya. If you haven't already.  And um, we will see you next time for Who knows? Who knows? Honestly, at this point we're just 

like  

And I guess we're, uh, selling socks, so whatever. I'm not. I don't know about him. Me neither, I, no, I can't. Oh, so he's not, okay, gotcha. 

Bye. 

Bye.