Is It Just Me? - BONUS: At home with COVID

Episode Date: March 13, 2022

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Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches. Hello everyone. You speak Mitchell, I'm too weak. Oh my god, you're trying to steal my thunder, aren't you? Trying to be the sick one. If we're counting, you're the sicker one than I am. I'm actually fine. I'm fine now.

Hello everyone. Welcome. Mitch and I are here, jumping on. We thought we'd just touch base and explain why the hell there's no episode this week. Because there's a good reason. Yeah, so this is not the 100th episode. This doesn't count. This isn't it.

Because it was meant to be a big milestone, our 100th episode of the podcast. And it felt like the universe just didn't want it to happen in a way. We were meant to release it today. But well, firstly, we're basically just here to explain to you why we've postponed it for a week. Yeah, we also didn't want to leave you with nothing in the feed. So, consider this 99.5, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, yeah.

This is not 100. This doesn't count. So, the first day we were meant to record, Mitchell Cheery, the drama queen, was like, oh, I've been in hospital, can't do it. And I was like, okay, fair enough. And then we rescheduled our recording and then I went and got COVID, didn't I? And I currently still have COVID as I'm speaking to you. Are you okay?

You sound all right. You've just had a, he's had one of those nasal sticks up his nose for 10 minutes before we started recording. But you look good. Thanks. Yeah, no, I think the worst of it's over. Like the fevers and chills and the aches and pains and all that. I think I'm past that. But now, yeah, I still the worst of it's over. Like the fevers and chills and the aches and pains and all that. I think I'm past that. But now, yeah, I still just feel really fatigued.

The only thing I'm really noticing now is my eyes are really stinging and I've got that like headache at the front. It feels like, you know, when you go swimming in a chlorine pool and you leave your eyes open, it feels like that and it just won't go away. And you know how after swimming, you also feel a bit tired. That's where I'm at. I've just got sore eyes and I'm bloody fatigued. I'm really kind of scared that I'm going to be one of those poor bastards that gets the long COVID and just the fatigue sticks around. Because if that happens, I don't know how I'm going to

function. This is not easy. You sound like my mum. My mum claims she's got the long COVID. Also, to be honest, when I was in hospital which i haven't even explained maybe we should loop back into that but that's what the in the emergency room they're like this very well could be a covid a long covid symptom um or something to do with you having covid in december because i thought i was having a heart attack really if everyone was wondering um i genuinely thought it was really quite horrific um monday night i had chest pains and i was on air doing the show and i was like oh this feels it was like a pressure in my chest i'm like i don't like this so then um i was like oh my god chest pains and then i go i'll be all right do the show as i'm driving home they get worse i get short of breath i get really dizzy and then

i freak myself out which you would right, right? Like I got scared. By the time I get home and then I get inside and I almost like collapse. Like I almost pass out. But I was freaking myself out. I thought, oh, my God, I'm going to have a heart attack and I'm going to die. I'm covered in rain. I'm wearing Crocs. So I sit on the end of the bed.

Did you find out what it was in the end? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They think it could be long COVID. No heart. What do they call it? Zero cardiovascular long COVID. No heart, what they call it, zero cardiovascular events occurred. My heart was fine, strong and healthy. They think I just had chest pain because I'm overweight. And that led to anxiety and I freaked myself out, had a major anxiety attack. Also, the shortness of breath is a symptom of long COVID. Just a mess.

I took a day off, well-deserved day off. Yeah, I was going to say, I didn't want to, you know, self-diagnose because I don't know what I'm talking about, but as you were describing it to me, I thought that sounds exactly like a panic attack I've had. You get the chest pain and then you start to freak out about that, which ironically causes anxiety and then the heart starts beating faster and then you freak yourself out.

So yeah, that kind of sounds like that's what that was. But what would I do? Now I've got myself in this mess and I've got to go to a cardiologist tomorrow and walk on a treadmill topless. They're like, hi, Mitchell, please bring your active wear. No need for a shirt on the treadmill. I might even take a photo to show you how it tomorrow. I don't even know.

I'm picturing like a rat in like a Maybelline lab. I'm going to have to test makeup on rats. I feel like I'm going to be wired up walking in this glass box. I've picturing like a rat in like a Maybelline lab. You know how they test makeup on rats? I feel like I'm going to be wired up walking in this glass box. I've got to do a full stress test. Oh, my God. How mortifying. I know. I know.

Also a stress test and I've got to wear a Holter monitor for three nights. I've got to wear like a backpack. I had to do that too. What for? When I had my anxiety meltdown, my psychiatric recess, as we famously refer to it as, they wanted to rule out any, you know, heart issues. So they strapped that thing to me for a few days.

Wow. Yeah, no, I've been there. I've been there. And similarly, you've been here. You've had COVID. So, yeah, we've just done a little switcheroo here. But anyway, that's the reason why we didn't want to do our 100th episode this week, because I feel like it's going to be a special-ish one. You know what I mean?

And we wanted to do it properly rather than me stuck working from home and you feeling like shit. So it'll happen, but it'll be next week instead of this week. It's coming. And we wanted to just jump on and say hi and let you know that we're actually doing fine. Mitch, you really are higher risk than I am. Did you have the first night or two fever, couldn't sleep, weird dreams? Yeah. Yeah. All the insomnia, all of that. It's not fun. I know that everyone's attitude towards COVID has kind of become, ah, well, whatever. If I get it, I get it. But if you can avoid it, I do recommend avoiding it because I'm not enjoying it. It's not

fun. And I mean, hopefully I test negative and I'm able to come into the studio next week for the 100th episode and we'll be able to get pissed and have fun and celebrate. We have big guests booked. Very exciting full circle moment. I actually think we did mention it, didn't we? Did we mention the guest? Yeah. Ben Fordham.

Ben Fordham. No, poor Ben. I had to text him and be like, sorry, can we do another day? Because Mitchell Cheery is in hospital. And then it was, sorry, can we do next week? I've got COVID. So we've really mucked him around. Did he show any interest in my hospitalisation?

No, I couldn't have cared less, really. No. He was like, can do, bro. God, he's so fucking masculine. Anyway, I'm excited for that. Also, we had some people message us on Injury and Idiots in our secret Facebook group asking us to do a Q&A, which I think we should do, Mitch, in our 100th episode. I think if you've got a question for us that you have always wanted to ask, let me find it.

But she had really good questions. Yeah, I agree. I think we should do that. I'm going to put a thing on Instagram saying, you know, send us any questions. We haven't done a Q&A since like season one, I think. And so, yeah, any questions you got, hit us up on Instagram. You can just DM them to us or if you see me, it's a sorry, you can reply to that. But yeah, we'll answer all your questions.

Apparently, we've left a lot of things to the imagination in episodes. There's a few loose ends that haven't been tied up. It was Sarah Toohey. Sarah Toohey said, is it just me or has anyone been re-listening to old episodes while working from home only to find themselves wondering about the most random fan shit? She said, did Churi ever start washing his legs? Did Jack find Coombs' jumper? That's Jack Vigil.

Hang on. I was going to save these questions for the 100th episode, but why don't we answer these ones from Sarah now? Okay, let's do it. That's a good idea. Anyone who wants to send any more questions through, you can do so on Instagram at couple of mitches and then we'll answer those ones in the 100s. Did Tury ever start washing his legs? I think I did for a brief period, but I've worked out that if you soap enough up top, the residual drips down and it takes the grit and grime off. I always thought the same thing, but I was thinking to myself yesterday, huh, that spray tan I got for Mardi Gras, why is it washed off everywhere except my legs?

And then I just like, I put one stroke of soap on my legs and it came off. I was like, oh, that's gross that it has been lingering there for days. Cause like the tan went away from everywhere except my legs. So yeah, I actually do recommend paying special attention to the legs. I'm not doing, I often wear jeans. I'm not doing that much strenuous leg work, but I still don't wash my legs. No, there's your answer, Sarah. This is for you, Mitch.

Did Jack Vigin find Coombs' jumper? No, I never got it back. That's a throwback to when I confronted Jack because he borrowed a jumper of mine, never gave it back, and it's been years. So I've accepted that it's gone. Screw him. Is Petho still alive? Petho is still alive.

Petho's over at my house last night, alive and thriving. I don't think he listens anymore. He got a big promotion at work. He's a very busy boy. Beth is your boss now, so it's a bit of a conflict of interest. You know, in the same way that we're friends. You know when your friend gets to a level of superiority that's like, shut up, I don't listen to you.

It's that relationship. But if he wants to get stern, he does. Yeah, right, okay. So Beth is still alive and thriving. And single ladies, did Coombs's mum ever get her car humidifier? No. I actually posted about this in the group the other day. So, you know how mum's a big doTERRA mum.

She's obsessed with the essential oils. She told me recently that during the drought, she stopped buying them just to save a bit of coin. And then she realised that her life was absolutely fine without them. So, I don't think she's gone back. I don't think she needs the car diffuser anymore. God, that was early. That's a reference to the, did I, did I, oh, Mitch was, we're trying to find who could buy the cheapest item on online.

And I think I got Mitch's 70 cents humidifier or something. Yeah, something like that. It's a, yeah, a diffuser for the car. Anyway, no, Jane never got one, but I do have one. I still use that one you got me for when I had laryngitis. I was like putting oils in the car. Use it for COVID. Put some eucalyptus oil in there.

Has Tury stopped leaving nail clippings? Actually, she misspelt and said male clippings in the studio. That was from my brief stint as an Auspost male boy. No, I have stopped biting my nails as bad as I was. Also, I don't do it when I'm anxious or nervous anymore. I think it's more so. That was early days in the studio too. So that was my early days in the show. Now I'm like, nah, I'm an

old man. Remember Kyle Sanderlands raged at you? Oh God, yeah. Yeah, many times. Not anymore. Best friends. Has Hayden started paying for fuel? No! No. We were talking about that the other day that he realises how good

he's got it. Like he's basically got a personal driver. Yeah, he does. Why would he get his licence? It was his birthday this weekend, and we had a party at our house last night that Mitch sadly missed out on. A Euphoria-themed party. I went as the ecstasy tablet, Mitch. I was very sad, because Mitch and I, I don't think you ever actually committed to this, but in my head, we were going to go as both halves of an ecstasy tablet, and we could stand together.

Yeah, we were. We were going to go as matching eckies and now i tried to do it on my own i'd got a lindcraft to go hi can i just have a big giant piece of disc and she went sure what are you making i went um i'm going as a cd rom i didn't want to say ecstasy a pinger big yeah i'll go as a pinger uh no hayden hasn't started paying for fuel it's shocking um all right second last one does let her go still fuck off coobs? Completely. Yep. One of the most irritating songs I've ever heard in my whole life. What about the new one, which has overtaken it?

We Don't Talk About Bruno from Disney's Enchanto. Have you heard that? Oh, no. We're not talking about Let It Go from Frozen. What? Does Let Her Go? What is she talking about then? What's Let Her Go? You know that song that I hate because I think that it sounds like Scabbers, the rat from

Harry Potter? Only know your lover when your land goes. Just sing it out loud. I get the ick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry. You like Let It Go from Frozen, right? I mean, I don't dislike it.

It's not my Spotify rap, but like, yeah, sure, it's fine. All right, finally, drum roll. Has Cheery started eating stringers again? No, I don't. I'm traumatized. I have PTSD. I enjoy soft cheeses but um but i also eat mozzarella like i have mozzarella salad and put mozzarella on my sandwiches so i i all the

stringer is is just a tube form of mozzarella so yes i am eating it but never the brand stringers i'm too traumatized yeah no and also you're an adult now so you don't really need to eat cheesy stringers i'm on light and easy now because which i'll talk about in the 100th episode because the doctor was like you're a big boy you're 26 you can probably be a bit bigger for 10 more years but you really need to you know you probably should lose weight and i said i know so um i had the freak out about my heart even though it's not a heart-related illness i'm in full light and easy mode it's shocking really the frozen ones the frozen ones yeah and we ordered it didn't realize they were frozen don't even have a microwave what the hell?

How are you going to heat them up? Boil them, I think. And also, you don't have a microwave? No, because we had one, a really big Breville one in the old house, and the slot in this house is too small, so we can't fit it. And we don't have bench space. Oh, my God. Just get a smaller one.

Oh, my God, that's very basic problem-solving involved there. I know, I know, I know. We'll have to get it came up. Anyway, guys, this is our 99.5. Oh, my God. That's very basic problem solving involved there. I know, I know, I know. What else is going to come up? Anyway, guys, this is our 99.5. Oh, what can I say? 99.5. Do a jive. We'll be back next week for episode 100.

Thank you for, you know, standing by us while we're ill on our deathbeds. So this is not the 100th episode. We'll be pushing it back by a week because I've got COVID. Mitch has been unwell as well. So, yeah, we'll be there eventually and we want to make it a significant episode. We didn't want to half-ass it with, you know, one of us working from home or whatever. We want to do an event. We've done a birthday episode for me.

We've done a birthday episode for you. I think we did 50. We celebrated at 50. We've had big landmark episodes and this is going to be the biggest one yet. It's going to be exciting. You should see. Big landmark episodes. And this is going to be the biggest one yet.

It's going to be exciting. You should see. I bought it smash cakes with like the 100 on it and like our face and shit and like the screens and everything. There's going to be decorations. Yeah, it's going to be fun, which is all irrelevant to the podcast itself. The episode could be shit, but we'll decorate the studio. So it feels like we've made an effort. None of you will be able to see it.

And if you do have a question for us, if you want got an unanswered IJM question from the old episode, something niche, don't ask us, what shampoo does Mitchell use? It's not that Q&A. These are unanswered questions that you've got from the show. I feel like it can be anything. It can be questions about the podcast, questions about behind the scenes, questions about either of us, whatever you want. And if it's awful, we just won't answer it. But yeah, just risk it and send it.

All right. We'll see you next week. Thank you for listening, guys. We love you. Look after yourself, Mitch. We'll catch you then. Thank you. I will.

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