>> Hunter Hoover: Hi, everyone. It's me, hunter, here at the top of the episode. Uh, with just a short disclaimer. Um, this episode contains conversations about sexual activity and human reproductive systems. So, um, if you normally listen with your kids or your family, this one might be one to skip. Go listen to one of our episodes where we talk about bathrooms and pooping and all that stuff kids love pooping. With that said, enjoy the episode.
>> Speaker B: Sometimes, um, depending on how well your anatomy cooperates, we can do it through a single incision, which is great, because we're only making one incision. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: I think we might be able to do that for you, but I have to examine you to see if that's going to be possible. All right, I think we can do it. All right, here comes the poke. Three, two, one, poke. >> Hunter Hoover: Burnt.
Welcome back to privy. Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom. I'm your host, hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms. Welcome back, everyone. Thank, uh, you so much for being here, uh, in home bathroom. Once again, it is. We are. We are dawning. We are nearing the end. Another summer. It. Today, at the point of recording was, ah, the first of the. Like. It might be a little bit early to say it, but I'm hopeful. And so I will
say it. But today was the first rains of the season here in the Willamette valley, and it dump a rood. Um, lightning struck, and it struck something because it made an explosion, set a car alarm off in the neighborhood that I live in. Um, thought I had to go to the bathroom. But anyway, summer's drawing to a close. Privy. Summer is drawing to a close, and we are at the end of another one, and it's been a full summer.
It went by quick. And at the point of this episode's release, uh, I want to key you in on something at the beginning of the episode that just be mindful of. Um, so here on privy, we recently, you, uh, guys will find out more about that. I'll be telling you about it at a later time. But, um, summer's drawing to a close. Kids are just gearing up for back to school. Parents are wandering around the aisles of pencils and crayons, looking at a sheet of paper, wondering,
didn't I buy half of this last year? Yes, you did, parent. Um, yes, you did. It's so fun, so great. Where do they go? Nobody knows. They definitely don't come home with them. So that's cool. Things are kind of starting to cool off, but we're not talking about the way we're not here to talk about kids. Um, this episode is not that we maybe one day, well, sort of, we are going to today, revisit an episode and a topic from a year or more ago
now. Um, and we need to bring closure on something that y'all didn't get last November, as promised. I promised you guys something last November, and I did not give it to you. Um, and so today, almost one full calendar year later, we are bringing it to you. I also want to confess, um, we didn't bring you regular coverage via an episode of the podcast of the America's best restroom competition. And the reason we didn't do that is because
voting has already ended. So if you're hearing this episode, voting has already ended. Voting, um, ended August 16. And so again, we are going to start the countdown to see how long the cintus corporation's America's best restroom takes to count digital votes. Again, it should be as simple as hitting entertainment and viewing the totals and then announcing the winner. They should. They should honestly have the winner available to our public knowledge the day of the. The, uh, voting ending.
It's baffling to me. It sounds like. It sounds like voter fraud all over again. Huh? But. But more on that. Keep your eyes open in. As we move throughout the fall season, there will be a. There will be a. An episode with full coverage of America's best restroom 2024. But today we are returning to the topic of vasectomies. Vasectomies. The history of vasectomies. Last August, we did an episode covering the history and development of the
vasectomy. And in short, in 1830, Sir Astley Paston Cooper, um, an accomplished surgeon and an anatomist. I think that means he studies people's anatomy. Um, published his observations on the structure and the diseases of the testes. So this guy studied a lot of junk and came up with his observations and the structure of and the diseases that are found within the
male genitalia. And, uh, this is the first time that much medical attention was really paid to the tube inside the male genitalia that carries male reproductive fluid, the vas deferens, the first recorded. So sir Astley Paston Cooper did his research, the first recorded vasectomy on a human, because heavens knows, they gave the old snip snip to a bunch of animals to figure out how to do it on people. Hey, hey. Um, the first vasectomy on humans for the purpose of sterilization.
It makes you wonder, did they perform one of these for a reason other than sterilization and if so, how did we get there? Like imagine being the guy that's sitting staring down and going what? Uh, that don't go there. Um, but the first vasectomy on a human for the purpose of sterilization was performed by Henry Clay Sharp. Fitting last name, we said to sterilize inmates at prisons and this was a form of rollout related to eugenics. The idea being if we snip snap the convicts, they
can't reproduce and make little convicts. Um, um, not great. Here we are with much research and theory in his back pocket. The first of these punitive vasectomies was performed on a 19 year old in the year 1899. Um, and it should be noted this inmate technically requested it, um, but sharp did. He actually requested to be fully castrated. Um, and sharp was like why don't we try something different? Let's try this new thing that I've been
working on. In 1956, the first clinical trials of a female oral contraceptive are underway. That's important, um, because female oral contraceptive, that is, contraceptive taken by the mouth, that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant would do a lot to make it to where men would not need to get a vasectomy. But by 1960, um, Enavid becomes the first female contraceptive for sale in the US. It wasn't until 1965 that laws banning uh, birth control and contraceptives
are struck down in the courts. And so female contraceptive is predominantly the growing use of preventing pregnancy. A year later, in 1966, the Lancet announces the Simon Population Trust to promote the sterilization in Britain and to counter misinformation that sterilization was illegal. Now in 1971 the vasectomy finally became an accepted method of birth
control. So right around ten to 1010 or so years after female uh, oral contraceptive is introduced and widely, not at first widely used, it had a lot of stigma, um, but the male vasectomy in 1971 began to be accepted as a method of birth control. Um, it is noted that this method is preferable to female sterilization, um, that is the removing of the female reproductive organs, um, as it presents less risk to the man, it has a shorter
recovery time. Uh, there was sponsored, state sponsored projects in other countries. Uh, of note, India has sponsored multiple uh, sterilization programs wherein at some point there are thousands upon thousands of people, um, who receive a vasectomy to help control population in these areas. Now in 1974 they developed the no scalpel method of a vasectomy, which sounds great because if you've ever, if you have the bits, scalpels do not belong near them. Um, sharp, bad.
But the no scalpel vasectomy, um, was developed by doctor Li Xun Chang. Let's go with that. And it was not popular at first. It was more out of necessity. But the procedure essentially, like, squishes and stretches the brains, um, in order to, like, puncture a small hole wherein they go in and do the procedure. Um, it was first performed by a. In the US by a doctor who traveled to China to learn about it and then brought the procedure back in 1989. Um, and by then, the
procedure had begun to spread. And truly, like, when it comes to vasectomies, that in many ways brings us up to modern day, um, and there's not a lot of big history around vasectomies. Uh, we're going to talk a little bit about the future. It is what it is. Um, but I need to introduce to you now a very personal part of vasectomy history. That is the part in which I get one.
And I'm here to share my vasectomy story in a very, very special, long form edition of hunter's anecdotes to keep you afloat. I'm gonna tell you something that has really slowed their floats. Are my little swimmers. Um, in the fall of 2022, my wife, former guest on the show, anna and I, started to have serious conversations about having more kids. And we arrived at the conclusion that we were content with the children that we have been given.
We're very thankful. Yeah, every day is an adventure, and we love our kids very much. Uh, and we knew, and this is what I knew. The next part of the conversation was, am I me, hunter, your host. Hi, everyone. Am I going to go get fixed? And this is what I knew going in. So, hunter in the car driving back from thanksgiving dinner, what I know about vasectomies is it involves something in the male nether region. Um, and as invasive as having a man, preferably a man. Please, God,
let it be a man. Snip part of the inside of your nards. For a lady to have a procedure done not to have kids is way, way more invasive, and it has the potential for way, way more problems to occur. And so at a wellness checkup in winter, 2023, I, uh, let my doctor know. My wife and I are wanting to get a vasectomy. Like, we're ahead. We've talked about it, and this is kind of where we're leaning now. He told me that he would schedule an appointment for me to meet with a urologist
to set one up. And I don't know what I was expecting. I don't know. Like, if I was expecting for him to, like, take my name down and schedule a day for me to, like, have him do this procedure, but it makes total sense that he has the, like, urinary tract weiner doctor expert person do this procedure. Like, it makes a lot of sense, and I'm thankful for it. But he says, you know, we'll get ahold of the
urologist, and we'll have them set up a meeting. And so at this point, this was at the point in my doctor's checkup that I began asking questions. And the first question I asked him is, doctor, like, I got a question. I make this podcast. It's about bathrooms. Do you think I'd be allowed to record my vasectomy? Uh, now is probably a good time to tell you about the female medical student who was doing her practicum with my doctor. Her face, when I asked, can I record my vasectomy? Said only
one thing. This is what her face read. It said, who the flip is this weirdo who wants to record his vasectomy? Don't worry, lady. More to come. Uh, more good questions are on the way. But the doctor, he answered, I think, as honestly as he could. He said, I don't think so. Probably not. But you're gonna have to ask your urologist. It's totally up to him.
And so much like, uh, uh, the fellows from dumb and dumber trying to woo Mary once they find out that she is, like, engaged or married or whatever, I'm thinking there's a chance, uh, but more is to come. And so I was doing some work at the time, preparing for my pregnancy test episode, and at this point in the game, I had already, as a male adult, uh, peed on a pregnancy test
stick to see what it would do. And so I asked the doctor the other question on my tongue, which is, doc, if I, as a male adult human, pee on a pregnancy test and it comes back positive, does that mean I have a hernia? Um, and he just kind of looked at me, and at this point, the lady now was like, she has got to be thinking, this is way outside of what they have prepped me for at medical school. And I would like to say you're welcome for
giving you this experience. Ma'am. Ma'am, if you're hearing this, I doubt you are. Um, mostly because from what I can tell, the demographic of listeners to this podcast is primarily male. Ladies, if you're out there, shout out. I hope you enjoyed Shaloah's. Episode, last episode. Uh, I learned a lot. Thank you, shaloah. Um, but I think she was outside the realm of what she was maybe prepared for as a medical
student. Um, but I was informed that peeing on a pregnancy test, as a male, it probably doesn't do much to key in on a hernia, but it can give some indicators about hormones and other concerns that can be in place when you have other significant problems, such as cancer or other things that can cause, uh, problems in your, I don't know, hormones and tracts. So that's fun. Uh, I did not, for any that want to know, I did not test positive. I was not pregnant
at the time. It was still a possibility. Hey. Oh. Um, but I walked away thinking in the back of my mind, okay, ball. Get. It is in their court. My balls are literally in their court. Now. They are going to have to call me if they want me to get my nards worked on. It's on you. And so, as February passed, then march, I'm certain to think must not have been meant to be. They never called me. I guess I'll just have to not do it. Maybe things. Maybe we could just be careful and things will just work
out. That'd be fine. And then one day I'm sitting at lunch and I get a call from, uh, urology, and I'm like, oh, sweet lord, it's happening. Defcon five. The call is coming. I set up an appointment and I went in, and this appointment that I set up was described to me as, quote unquote, a screening. Now, I went in and I sat down, and my fundamentalist, evangelical church going heart was not ready for some of the diagrams
in this doctor's office. Dear Lord. And I want, and I want to note those parts of the human body are good parts made by our very good God. But it doesn't prepare you for the photos and the diagrams of the inside of the female cervical cavity. Like, it just does not. Nothing is going to prepare you when you go in for your debrief about your and future testicle surgery to see that you're just not ready for it. Um, when you're going, you're accompanying your wife to the
baby checkup, the lady doctor. Absolutely. You're going to see all sorts of lady stuff. Was not prepared for this. Huh huh? Help me, father. Also the diagram of the urethra. Not sure it was something that I needed, but I waited and I took him to sights. Moments went by, and finally the knock came in the door. And, um, this was it. I was prepared to answer his questions. I had my questions, both personal and podcast associated, ready, and he came
in and he asked me some questions. He gave me the typical disclaimers about how the vasectomy is intended to be permanent. Yeah, I, uh, know. And that it's not 100% effective, but it proves, like, 99.9% effective against preventing pregnancy. And I'm thinking, I'm answering all the questions like, are you married? Does your wife know you're here? How many kids you got? Are you content with the. Like, all of these are, like, pre screener questions. I was like, yeah, this makes perfect
sense. And I'm absolutely crushing this. I was doing great with the screening. I asked if I had. He asked if I had any concerns. Ah, and let me see. Yeah, uh, lots. I got lots of those. Um, he asked me if there. If I had any irregularities. Let me see. Does my stuff have any irregularities? Not something I've ever thought about. I haven't done any comparing in my life, so that was good. Anna has never made mention that there's anything irregular. So I said no.
And I'd answered all his questions. I was doing great. The screener was a success, and he asked if I had any questions. My first question out of the gate was, does it hurt? Obviously. And the guy says, yes, but most of the pain comes after the procedure, in the healing process. Um, he walked me through expectations. He made sure I knew on the day of the procedure I would need to be smooth as a baby's backside round the zone. We'll cross that bridge later. Um, and now, moment of
truth. He put it back to me. Any other questions? And I asked him. We were here. I'm not going to not ask. Privy listener, I want you to know that I used part of my, uh, vasectomy check in for you. Can I record my vasectomy, doc? Now, I probably should have prefaced that I have a podcast. I did not do that. I just dropped it on. I said, can I record my vasectomy? And this man just kind of stares at me for a second. He didn't ask why. All he says was, no,
you cannot. And so I asked him, I said, can I ask why I'm not allowed to record my vasectomy? And he said, yes, it's a liability. People can perform differently when they're being recorded. And we want the doctor's performance to be the best it can be. And we don't want any outside influence to cause him to have any problems during your procedure. Now, as much as I love y'all privy listener. I love y'all. But he's right. The man. The man carrying the thing, the sharp object near my
manhood. I want him operating at peak functionality. So I dropped it. Understandable. I was defeated, but at least the screener had gone perfectly and I was done. And that was when the doctor said, well, if you don't have any more questions, I just need to check your anatomy. And I said, okay. And then I sat there and he said, I need to do a physical. Could you please drop your pants? Now, I'm a moderately private person, and in all my life
I have been a part of screening processes. You're screening for things, and in those screening process, there's not a lot of pants dropping and exposing yourself. That happened. I was not ready for this. Um, I don't know what I expected. I didn't expect to be dropping trout today. Um, but I did it, and he did his portion. Um, and he reported that
I, quote, have loose anatomy. Now, I don't know whether to be flattered or frustrated, but he told me it was, quote unquote, a good thing and that they would be able to snip my stuff, that he thinks they're going to be able to do it. And I'm sitting here thinking, are there people that come in for a vasectomy pre screener? And they get through all of your questions, and then you say, okay, I need you to drop your pants and expose yourself to me so I can get up in there. Um, and you do that.
And then you say, ah. Uh, yep. We don't think the vasectomy is going to work. Thanks for coming. Thanks for playing. Um, but no deal would be wild. If you're a listener and you've, and you've been through the vasectomy pre screening process and you've had them turn you away, please reach out to me. I would love to hear your story. I left the doctor's office that morning with fondled berries and a date set for the operation, August
2023. And now I'm going to describe to you what was truly the worst part of my entire vasectomy experience. It had nothing to do with knives. It had nothing to do with cutting. It had nothing to do with pain. It was the psychological toll leading up to the day of the vasectomy. In the coming months, I spent plenty of time fearing the worst doctor slipping, cutting everything off, asking friends about their experience. Hey, have you had a vasectomy? What was it like? And I heard
the gamut of answers. Some friends were helpful and reassuring, saying, you know, like, yeah, uh, I'm glad I did it. Two or three days after kind of suck, but it was totally worth it. Um, others, like former guest on the show Josh Wehrman, told me that the doctor was going to, quote unquote, give me a shot to numb my wieners straight into the pee pee hole. Parents, if you're listening and your kids normally listen to the show, I probably should have put this disclaimer up at the front.
We'll move this, we'll put an explicit tag, but, like, dang it, coach Wehrman. Thanks, counselor. Um, I truly lost sleep. I really did, like, jokes aside, put jokes in the closet for a second. I truly did lose sleep over dreading my vasectomy. I, uh, want to also note the doctor does offer you anti anxiety drugs to help you chill during your procedure, but you have to tell them beforehand that you want them because you
can't. You have to be cognizant consenting to your procedure and all of the other things, and so you can't take, there's a whole thing about it. And at times, I was. I was laying there at, like, 02:00 in the morning, dreading thinking, oh, there's like three weeks left. And I'm thinking maybe I should have opted for the anti anxiety drugs instead of that. I lost sleep for a few months. It was fine, and then it was there. But first,
shaving. I will share. I bought a new sensitive skin men's razor for the occasion, and I'm not going to endorse any one brand, but what I can say is men nutscaping. Their zone happens. And for this, I would need to get real close. And I did not want to nick the jibbies. We got it done. Closest shave I've ever had to date. Probably not going to get that intricate on the shave job ever again. And
then following morning, we went in. Anna drove me into the doctors because we thought, well, maybe she can come back and sit there and be with me while I have them do this procedure she was not allowed to do. So. So I went back by myself, submitted myself to the doctor for my procedure. I was told to, quote, strip down, and I piled my clothes on the chair, and then I sat. Stuff hanging out. Boom. Waiting. Just air drying it, baby. Uh, and I waited, and I
waited. And I can hear doctors talking. I can hear the little nurse people talking. And I'm in there for, like, 30 to 45 minutes, and I'm going, did I really need to not have my pants on for this part like, I could have done for a small towel to cover, like, large towel to cover, you know what I'm saying? Um, but then the nurse lady come in. Yes, lady, come on. My. My pp is hanging out, and you sent a lady in. Like, it's medical. I know it's not a thing. They're trained, but
still. And she comes in, and then she says, well, have you been debriefed? And I'm like, I know it's not the time for jokes, and I did not make this joke in the moment, but I would like to note I was very debriefed. But I said no. Uh, but that I was staring at the big tray of sharp, razor sharp scalpels for the last 40 minutes. And she goes, oh. And so she goes out, and then the doctor boy comes in, thank you, Jesus. And said that I was ready. And he
gave me the cliffs notes about the procedure. He told me what he's going to do. He's going to cut a small incision. See the large tray of scalpels in the corner? Um, he's going to go in, snip, snap, cauterize, cauterize, snip, snap, cauterize, cauterize, tuck. So we'll be out in a jiffy. Um, and so he gives me that, and he told me that the nurse lady. Now he's going to go out, and the nurse lady is going to
prep me. Now, when they say that they're going to prep you for a vasectomy, one, it does not mean emotionally, and two, it mostly means wiping down your nethers and cleaning a zone with this strange brown stuff. I think to sterilize everything, uh, make sure everything is ready. I want to say a little feedback, and it probably needs to be. It's probably medical reason why it is. But that cleaning solution is flipping cold, man.
Like, you do not expect anything that cold to be on you when you are that exposed to another person. Like, it's just bad. It doesn't do well to help things along, you know what I'm saying? But then finally, at long last, 40 plus minutes in a debrief and a bad, uh, debriefing joke in the doctor finally comes in. I'll be brief, mostly because the procedure itself is the worst part of the whole vasectomy experience, except for the mental anguish, um, which you can totally avoid. If
you hear this listener, if you. If you're thinking. If men, if you're thinking, oh, man, I'm on the fence, I better hear what hunter has to say. I'm gonna tell you. You can avoid a lot of the mental anguish by. By hearing this. The worst part, physically, of the vasectomy is the part is the pinch. When they numb you, you'll feel pinch. It's kind of like when you
go to the dentist, and they say, oh, little pinch. And you feel the pinch, and it's like, oh, dear God, no. Um, and after that, you don't really have a lot of feeling. There's some tugging, and it kind of feels like if you've ever. If you're a guy and you've been kicked in the groin, it kind of feels like that feeling, but it is like you can feel pulling. It's like a pulling ache. Um, but it's mostly numbed. Uh, and the most striking sensation of the whole thing
is the smell. And you're thinking, oh, I bet it's awful. I bet it literally smells like a barbecue because they're cauterizing your tube inside, and it smells like a barbecue. And I even, like, made comments like, oh, man, that kind of smells like barbecue. And then the next thing you know, and he's like, all right, we're sewing you up, and then you're done. You don their protective undies, the gauze and the stitches. You kind of waddle out of the place, and you're off.
And I want to note, it was a bummer that the doctor told me that I was not able to record this experience. It's a bummer because what the doctor doesn't know can't hurt him. And so the following few minutes of audio are some very edited sections of my time in the vasectomy room. It was originally, like, 45 minutes long due to the fact that I sat there for so long, but here it is. From what you can tell, this is audio taken of my little vasectomy journey. >> Speaker C: Can I come in?
>> Hunter Hoover: Uh, yeah. I'm. I'm naked from the waist down, but okay. Yep. >> Speaker C: Have a seat in the bed, though. >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, okay. >> Speaker C: Any allergies? >> Hunter Hoover: Just seasonal. Nothing like medication or anything. >> Speaker C: I was like, never mind. Okay. Let's see. >> Hunter Hoover: Yep. Sorry. >> Speaker C: No, you're fine. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Oh. Oh, yeah. I just. As okay as I can be.
>> Speaker C: Okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Is that comfortable? >> Hunter Hoover: Uh, yeah, it's not bad. Okay. >> Speaker C: All right, so what I'm gonna do is prep for you. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Gonna clean the area. Got your gloves, tape. We're gonna be using surgical soap, so it's kind of cold. This makes it alcohol. Have you met doctor? Oh, you haven't met him?
>> Hunter Hoover: No. Well, I must. Tall guy, the guy who did my screening I don't think that was him. >> Speaker C: Okay, well, let me bring him back down. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: I was like, wait a minute. So you can talk to him real quick. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. >> Speaker C: So just hang inside. I'm so sorry. >> Hunter Hoover: No, that's fine.
>> Speaker C: I was like. I remember this morning. We're, like, huddling. I was like, mine hasn't met m the doctor. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: I'll be back. >> Speaker B: Hunter. >> Speaker C: Um, I'm just waiting for him to get out of the room. Okay. >> Speaker B: Okay. >> Speaker C: Sorry about the way. >> Speaker B: Nope. >> Hunter Hoover: Thank you.
>> Speaker B: How are we doing? Hey, sorry about that. We're having a little bit of a scheduling kind of weird. >> Hunter Hoover: Um, not really. I mean, I'm here now, so, like, um. How many of y'all done? That's like. I don't know. >> Speaker B: I stopped counting probably. >> Hunter Hoover: That's all I want to know. >> Speaker B: Probably around six to 700. >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, my God. Okay.
>> Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. Who might be closer? I don't know. Do a lot. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Hey. Yeah, I was, like, when I asked that, you know. >> Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Many. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: Um. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. >> Speaker B: Yeah. All right, man. Yeah. So, uh, she'll get you. Yeah? Yeah, go for it. >> Hunter Hoover: What do you got? Well, I just. I was gonna say they haven't done the cleanup thing
yet. They were waiting. >> Speaker B: Oh, yeah. She'll get you all. >> Hunter Hoover: Sweet. >> Speaker B: I'll be back in a few minutes, okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: Nice meeting you. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it. >> Speaker C: All right. Sorry for the wave. >> Speaker B: Oh, that's fine. >> Speaker C: It's taking longer than expected. Let's try this again. >> Speaker B: Okay.
>> Speaker C: Okay. I am gonna expose you. Okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. I assume that's part of it. >> Speaker C: Yeah. You have any kids? >> Hunter Hoover: Two. >> Speaker C: Two? >> Hunter Hoover: Yep. >> Speaker C: Seems to be the magic number. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. >> Speaker C: Okay. Cold soap. Really cold. No lice, right? >> Hunter Hoover: Yep. You're spot on with that. >> Speaker C: Doing okay?
>> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, so far. >> Speaker C: Good. >> Hunter Hoover: I assume it's normal to be nervous? I don't know. Yeah. >> Speaker C: Okay, then, um, how your anatomy is. I don't want to call it too soon, but it's nice and loose. Usually it's one incision. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. >> Speaker C: But I'll let him decide that. >> Speaker B: Yeah. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: And, uh, which is great. And the process is faster.
>> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: It's already fast as it is. You know, it doesn't take forever. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. >> Speaker C: He'll let you know what he's doing. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: All that good stuff. Okay. >> Speaker B: All right. >> Speaker C: So can you lift your shirt up? >> Hunter Hoover: Yep. >> Speaker C: There you go. Uh, that way it doesn't touch the sterile drapes, so just put the stripes here.
How old are they? >> Speaker B: Uh, six and four. >> Speaker C: Okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Perfect. Yeah. They're actually heading to swim lessons right now. >> Speaker B: With grandma and grandpa. >> Speaker C: Oh, cute. >> Hunter Hoover: Here we are. >> Speaker C: Anyway, someone's watching them. Okay, so you're gonna feel me. Okay? >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Moving stuff around. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay.
>> Speaker C: Like, really slippery. Cause I just washed everything off. Just wanna make sure they don't, um, fall off once we're in there. Okay, doki? So no touching the area at all. I'm gonna put a tray over your legs, okay? >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: No kicking or screaming. Yeah, try not to ceilings. You don't want to get pulled by accident or something. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Uh, I'll be right, literally right over your
legs. Okay? >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Okie dokie. All right. I'll be back. >> Hunter Hoover: Thank you. >> Speaker C: You're welcome. >> Speaker B: All right, man. >> Hunter Hoover: Can we do it? Guess so. I was asking if it's normal to be nervous, but. >> Speaker B: It would be, I think, a little weird if you weren't there. Okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. >> Speaker B: Um. >> Hunter Hoover: Perfect. All, um.
>> Speaker B: Right, man. So the first part of this, there'll be some kind of, um, adjusting and everything of the bath. Actually, I'm gonna usually wear a face shield for this. I'll be right back. >> Speaker C: Just me touching the leg. >> Hunter Hoover: I imagine it's one of those things where it's just like, you're better off to just not look. You know what I mean? >> Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't think anyone looks.
>> Hunter Hoover: Nobody's looking down there while it's happening sometimes, but. Really? >> Speaker B: Yeah, sometimes. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. You know what? Good for them. >> Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, as I was saying, um, just kind of some adjusting and squeezing kind of as we get started. And then when I do the injection for
anesthetic, um, I'll count it down. Three, two, one. So you know exactly when to expect that you can hold as still as possible because you jerk your legs like a choke you somewhere else. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Yeah, that's fair. >> Speaker B: Sometimes, depending on how well your anatomy cooperates, we can do it through a single incision, which is great because we're only making one incision.
>> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: I think we might be able to do that for you, but I have to examine you to see if that's going to be possible. All right, I think we can do it. All right, here comes the poke. Three, two, one, poke. Burn notice some deeper pressure here. Keep holding still. Okay. Doing great. Good. >> Hunter Hoover: You doing okay? Yeah. >> Speaker B: Good. >> Hunter Hoover: I assume if I feel something, I should tell you.
>> Speaker B: Well, yeah, that's fine. If it's really painful, I think it'll be very obvious. But, um, you know, you're going to have sensations throughout the procedure. Um, pulling kind of tugging pressure is very common. Maybe feel like you got kicked in the nuts. Um, but the really sharp pain are the things that we can certainly avoid with more anesthetic. You doing all right? >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah.
>> Speaker B: That little. Sometimes that move sometimes can cause a little bit of twinge, but it seems like you're doing great. >> Hunter Hoover: So that's some fast anis or, uh, local whatever. Oh, yeah. It's like they make you wait forever at the dentist, but I guess it's different. >> Speaker B: Yeah, because they're. It's more of a. They do blocks, so. Yes, they inject, and it takes a while for that to infiltrate and numb the entire
area. Um, so this I'm injecting, like, directly. We're really working in a relatively small area. Um, they block an entire nerve, essentially, and we're just kind of doing very local, more localized anesthesia so it diffuses through the tissue quicker. All right, man. >> Hunter Hoover: Halfway home. All right. Seems like you're doing great. You feeling okay? Yeah, I haven't felt anything yet. >> Speaker B: Sounds, uh, great.
So we need to do another injection. You won't feel it in the skin, but you're gonna feel it deeply. Okay. Okay, hold as still as you can. Three, two, one. Give you a little more juice and a couple more zingers on this side. Doing all right, man? >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, good. Taking in the smell. >> Speaker B: Yeah, nice. Little burnt vasectomy, burnt vat smell. There you go. >> Hunter Hoover: Um. >> Speaker B: Uh. All right, stitch squirt. Home stretch here, dude.
>> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: All right, man. >> Hunter Hoover: We're done. Great. Yeah. >> Speaker B: All right. I'll check back with you in a moment. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: I'm gonna put all the sharks first. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Oh, yeah, the tray. >> Speaker C: Yeah, we want it. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, that's fair, man. That was insane quick.
>> Speaker C: Yeah, I told you it was pretty quick once. It's pretty good, too. >> Hunter Hoover: You know, I think the, like, worry leading up to today was worse than the actual procedure. >> Speaker C: Right? >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah, I. My buddy, you know, I think everybody's different, but my buddy said, yeah, you're gonna feel like you got kicked while he's doing it. >> Speaker C: Oh, what? Sometimes. Yes.
>> Hunter Hoover: I genuinely. When he said, you're halfway there, I was like, well, one's done, then, because. >> Speaker C: Exactly. >> Hunter Hoover: And I didn't. I felt a tug once, I think. >> Speaker C: Yeah. Uh, some people are more sensitive, actually. When he comes to the left side, they will feel that punch. >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, the left? >> Speaker C: Uh huh. Huh.
>> Hunter Hoover: Oh, mine was when. Well, I think it was towards the end. When you were on the right. >> Speaker C: Well, yeah, but he was on the left. >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, I see. Okay. >> Speaker C: Yeah, when we. >> Hunter Hoover: That was it then. The left was it? >> Speaker C: Yeah. Um. >> Hunter Hoover: Why is that? >> Speaker C: I think it's the body, actually. Like, it's like, oh, wait, there's something going on there. Reacting
to it, you know? But, um. Um, doctor has always. Just when he's on the left side, it's always more sensitive. Yeah. Almost, um, threw away instruments going, okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Then, to my knowledge, yeah. >> Speaker C: Awesome. >> Hunter Hoover: I assume it starts to hurt when the stuff wears off. >> Speaker C: Boy, it's gonna be uncomfortable. So for the next 48 hours, take it easy. Right. Rest.
>> Hunter Hoover: Pretty much, yeah. That's, uh. I work at the high school, so that's kind of why. >> Speaker C: Patients sometimes don't listen, and they go home and don't lawn and. >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, no. Yeah, I did all that last week. >> Speaker C: Yeah. >> Hunter Hoover: I'm allowed to, like, walk, though, right? >> Speaker C: Yeah. Just don't overdo it. >> Hunter Hoover: Oh, yeah.
>> Speaker B: Uh. >> Hunter Hoover: And then the other question that maybe, I don't know is, can I. Like, when can I shower? >> Speaker C: Oh, you can shower. Just don't soak it. Like, don't be soaking it. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Yeah. >> Hunter Hoover: Did he end up just doing the one? Yeah. Oh, hey. There you go. >> Speaker C: Yeah, that's why he was making fun of me while he's like, I don't need that. I already have it in the system.
>> Hunter Hoover: Got it. >> Speaker C: And I was like, oh, I knew that. >> Hunter Hoover: Um. >> Speaker C: Um, just some little box for some spotting there. You're gonna hold it in place. >> Hunter Hoover: Sorry. >> Speaker C: No, you're fine. It's more the weight than what it takes, honestly. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. I. >> Speaker C: You know, and that's how it is. Especially when the patient's, like, cooperating.
>> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. >> Speaker C: It makes everything go so much m. >> Hunter Hoover: I finally quit reading stuff because. Yeah. Don't. >> Speaker C: Okay, so I'm gonna give you a to go package. Okay? >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. >> Speaker C: Ice if you need it. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: And then. So here's how to collect semen analysis. Okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Got it.
>> Speaker C: So you're gonna do it in three months. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Um, this just tells you the basic stuff of how to collect it, but it does not include, like. So right now. Uh, no masturbation, no sex for seven days after surgery. Um, at least 20 ejaculations prior to the three months and three days before the sample. Abstinence. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Okay. No sex, no masturbation, no lotions, lubes, nothing in the area.
>> Hunter Hoover: Ah. >> Speaker C: Clean sample. Read the instructions. Um, call the labs where you're gonna drop it off, because sometimes they have different protocols. Okay. And then I give you this cup here. November 16. >> Hunter Hoover: Do I leave the gods in place? In place. Okay. When can I take it off? Um, whenever. >> Speaker C: Oh, once you get home. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. Okay, cool. >> Speaker C: Let me take this.
>> Hunter Hoover: And I'm getting to stand up and. Okay. >> Speaker C: Just get dressed and standard room. Okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Just gonna come back and talk to you, pretty much tell you the same thing. Not just okay. >> Hunter Hoover: Sounds good. Can I just put this over here? >> Speaker C: Yeah, we can throw in that basket, too. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker C: Yeah. Okie dokie. Go ahead and get dressed.
Ok. Yep. >> Speaker B: How you doing, man? >> Hunter Hoover: Good. Yeah. Great. Here we are. >> Speaker B: That's where it's supposed to go. Um, so you got one stitch, one incision. Um, that stitch will fall out over the next, you know, one to two weeks. Um, don't soak in the tub and go swimming until the stitch is gone. Okay. You may shower starting tomorrow. Just warm, soapy water. Don't
scrub it really hard or anything like that. No sex or masturbation for the first week after that, let her rip. You want to get 20 ejaculations over the next two to three months, continue to use some other sort of contraception, then you do your semen test. Okay. Um, yeah. Uh, if you have any questions, any concerns, by all means, give us a call. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: All right. >> Hunter Hoover: All right.
>> Speaker B: Really couch potato it for the next 48 hours. >> Hunter Hoover: What's the, uh, like, at this point, what's the concern of, like, I don't know, what would be the biggest thing? >> Speaker B: So, you know, if you're. If you lay low and don't do really anything for the
next 48 hours, you should be totally fine. Okay. The problem that you get into is when people do too much activity too early, you could have lots of extra pain, but then it also raises your risk for bleeding. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. >> Speaker B: I've never had a. >> Hunter Hoover: Not a fan of that. >> Speaker B: Never had a big scrotal hematoma, and I don't really want to start with you. >> Speaker C: Perfect. >> Hunter Hoover: Yeah. Oh, yeah. No.
>> Speaker B: Uh, yeah, yeah. But, yeah. I mean, that would be. The thing to watch out for is swelling that's getting progressively larger quickly. Um, the, uh, you know, over the next few days, if you develop redness drainage, that kind of stuff looks like bruising. >> Hunter Hoover: Kind of. Is that what that is?
>> Speaker B: Bruising is normal, but if you're seeing, like, this stuff where it's getting red and flamed and swollen and spreading away from the incision, that's what we want to hear about. >> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Okay. All right, man. >> Speaker B: I'll give it to you. Uh, all right, cool. You did great. >> Hunter Hoover: Hey, thank you. >> Speaker B: Take care. >> Hunter Hoover: And we're back. Aftercare for the vasectomy is pretty
simple. Keep the undies supported and take it easy. I took that seriously, um, because they told me that if you don't take it easy and you push through and you tear something, you get to go to the emergency room, and emergency room plus pp are not combos that I ever, ever want. I will share one excellent roast that I had on myself, um, from all this that I found very interesting. I found very enlightening here.
Um, so I had bought some athletic support underwear to don the weeks after the surgery to help keep things supportive and in place. Um, listener, hear me? I'm less than skinny. That's a nice way to say I'm large sized. Um, so I bought underwear, the supportive underwear, sized for my waist size, large. And, Anna, when looking at these underwear, these jockstrap underwear, sports athletic supporter underwear, made the comment, huh? Huh. You really think you need large? Huh? Huh? Good one,
babe. We got it. Thank you. All right, those with the keen eye will notice there has been a wardrobe change. Um, but this is. This is Hunter. Kind of of the future, but also still, uh, of the past for you, listener. When I recorded the episode about, uh, my vasectomy journey, I forgot to share one of the very, very most important and awkward parts of this story. And that is the. The part where you go get
your stuff tested. So after, um, the procedure, you have to wait essentially three months, and you have to have. Have that adult human male experience. This is awkward. 20 times. You heard it in the recording with the lady. Uh, so just, I guess, clear out the pipes. I don't know. I think that's the theory behind it. Really, really clear out the pipes. But, um, after you do that, you then have to place a specimen in a cup, which then you have to, quote, keep warm by storing it in your
pocket. And then you have to drive that to the hospital, the lab area, within, like, a half hour or so of having produced that specimen. Now, number one, terribly awkward, because when you walk in there and you're like, oh, I have a. I have a specimen for the lab. Once they realize what that specimen is, they can just roll back the clock and they can put together the exact nefarious deeds you've been up to in the last half
hour. Um, but the other thing is, there's something about walking into the hospital, casing your own bodily fluids in a plastic jar. There's nothing quite like it. And again, yeah, just terribly awkward. But results dropped off, and just a few hours later, next day, I got the phone call, got the all clear. I, um, believe the exact words were, and I quote, just like Beyblade, let em rip. So I wanted to
make sure I hopped on here and shared that with you guys. And now there will be a wardrobe change back into, uh, the old attire. But it did have one musing from all this. Though the scalpel free procedures are more recent, some doctors, such as mine, still opt to go for the old foul fashion scalpel method. And boy, howdy, did he have some scalpels on hand. And I'll tell you, woof. Like, they're sharp. Um, but it turns out a lot of doctors
still. Oh, uh, this is the end of hunter's anecdotes to keep you afloat back to the present and the history of vasectomies. It turns out many doctors still opt for the full scalpel version. Um, that's pretty cool. And here I am, fully healed and fertile as heck. Um, I'm a year in on this, and all is well mentored. If you and your wife are done having kids, I highly recommend it. There are some things in the future for vasectomies, and if you're sitting there going, well, I don't
know, I'm pretty worried about it, maybe I'll have my. Do not, uh, don't make your wife do what the women have to do to get their situation sterilized. Just women in having babies, undergo an awful amount of pain, and it's a great ordeal. And it is an awful, like, the process of having the child is a very good thing. But, like, getting to that point where that child is exposed to fresh air, it's an awful experience. Like,
there's a lot of anguish. Um, if they can do that, Menta and you and your wife are done having kids, you can get your vas deferens snipped. You can do it. I believe in you. Um, but only if you're done. But, uh, there are things in the future for vasectomies, or in many ways, rather, male birth control. Um, one thing is they are trying out this gel called risug riceug, um, gel where this gel is injected in order to block
the flow of semen. Um, and then it can be medically, quote, flushed later if the man decides that he wants kids. Now, this is kind of like a, like a designed reversible vasectomy. Now, vasectomies are reversible, um, but they're not intended to be. So, like. No. Um, that rice gel has about a 4% failure rate compared to vasectomies, which has less than 1%. So there's that, but there's no snip snap to the jibbies. And a lot of it's still
being tested and perfected. They've also done some research on the male pill, uh, which would be male oral contraceptive, which would stop men from reproducing and getting a woman pregnant. Uh, the holdup on the male pill is the female birth control pill is easier to swallow. Get it because it's a pill. Um, but it is because many of the side effects of female oral contraceptives, um, are viewed as safer than the effects of pregnancy on a woman's
body. And so then the thought process behind this is you could get pregnant, which is taxing. People do die from being pregnant. Or you could take the pill, which is less taxing, but it does have some side effects. But those side effects are not as great as the effects on your body if you got pregnant. The problem is, with the male pill, the act and process of getting, being, and, uh, producing from pregnancy on the male is pretty non invasive. The process is pretty enjoyable. Uh, you know.
Yeah. But now, to introduce this male contraceptive pill, you would have to show that this pill is on the same level of invasiveness as essentially taking a vitamin, that it is not going to have any side effects, because the alternative, which is doing nothing, has no side effects. Being pregnant for men doesn't have a lot of side effects, except for lifelong duty to your child. Figure it out. Um, go be a dad. They're working on
it. Male contraceptive, uh, options other than vasectomies, the side effects remain mostly unacceptable for the male pill at this point. And so for myself and the other millions of men who have opted for mostly permanent contraceptive methods, we have had a vasectomy, and we go forth. And that brings us to the end of another episode of having children. No, to another episode of privy. Thank you guys so much for being here. I want to
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