The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1756 Adam’s War With Zits

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

Adam and Dr. Drew discusses a wide variety of interesting subjects, but one that preoccupied Adam’s adolescence was those troublesome little volcanoes from hell that attacked almost everyone at some point; zits. Adam had some very creative and unusual experiments with his war with zits. As they discuss genetics, food choices and even cleanliness, Adam still has some very strong feelings and thoughts about the matter. Please Support Our Sponsors: This show is sponsored by Better Help BetterHelp.com/AdamandDrew FastGrowingTrees.com/ADS Angi.com

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Dr. Drew's Board of First Third Fertilized Specialists. All right. So, so much to get into. One of the subjects, and we have a video to back it up. Somebody tweeted me. Well, basically, my business is I make a lot of proclamations and then I sit around for 10 or 20 years and then people

tweet me about being right from 20 years ago. But it's no good in the time. How come that didn't happen in high school? Maybe it did. Did it happen to you in high school? Where what? Where you would declare things to your friends as good or bad ideas and it took them a long time to kind of get around to agreeing with you?

I mean, I would say – Like when did this start, I guess, is the question. When did the crystal brain become such? I was always pragmatic. I was densely pragmatic. Just always been kind of pragmatic. I get it. And very interested in motivation.

You know what I mean? Maybe that's the unusual piece because most people don't even think about or understand motivation. That's part of what you and I talk about all the time. Right. People just don't seem to get that. And it's everything. Yes. It's literally what Freudian psychology was about.

It was about drives. And then everyone is such a fucking dingbat now. Their brains are up there. First of all, everyone's brain. If you sleep on your side, your brain is just going to drain out of your fucking ear now. People are so fucking dumb. They go, do you see those high schoolers chase that pod of dolphins? They did not.

They did not. They didn't. They didn't. Why? How do you know? How do I know? Because a human being, the Phelps can't swim any faster than six miles an hour. And a fucking spinner dolphin can go 28 miles an hour.

That's how I know high schoolers did not run down a group of dolphins. You want to see the footage? I don't need to see the footage. I just told you. You haven't even heard of this. I just heard it. I'm telling you what happened. That's all. But the newspaper

says, yeah, okay. And they go around multiple times. Not listening. So now somebody tweets me the story. Some dermatologist comes on to Today Show or Good Morning, whatever, and talks about you're showering too much. You shouldn't shower every day. You shouldn't shower every day. Is just the video we're going to see?

Okay. Yeah. How do I know? How did I know that? How did I – Well, how did you know that? I know – I know that interrupting nature on a kind of daily basis is – can never be correct. Now, what about replacing a heart valve or something?

That's not a daily... There's plenty of room for interrupting nature. But sort of going and... I always kind of knew... I never took any antibiotics, and I'm not allergic to anything, and I almost never get sick. So I had a little bit of that.

Did your parents vaccinate you? I never asked you this. Probably. Yeah, go to the vaccine. I rolled around in the. So I had a little bit of that. Did your parents vaccinate you? I never asked you this. Probably. Yeah, got all the vaccines. I rolled around in the dirt. I literally made forts by digging holes. I played in dirt. I did too.

Dug dirt. Yeah. Made forts. Yeah, there was a lot of that. A lot of rolling around in the dirt. And I never got sick. I wasn't allergic to anything. I didn't have any psoriasis or any of the stuff that everyone has.

And then I also started like kind of going, geez, I've never seen a hobo without a full head of hair. And I thought these people shower the least. The least. They use the least shampoo is used by a hobo in terms of Americans. And they always have this big bushy head of hair. You don't have to be a 65-year-old guy with a huge – it's the lawyer in the Beverly Hills office who has the big bald spot in the back. And I started observing friends and people like that who showered twice a day and shampooed and lots of things. And their hair seemed to be thinning out.

It wasn't working. The ones that were doing all the masks and the peels for the acne and stuff like that, nothing really working. And then I started realizing, what is all the moisturizing going on and the hand sanitizer? Can this be – can your body need this? Did this really take off? And if it needed it, wouldn't it be a cruel joke if you needed? Yeah. To all who were born before us.

Yes. Everyone who was born before Juergens or Nivea, they must have led a tortured life. Yeah. Of no moisture. Right. And then you started looking at the Madison Avenue component. Yes. That's where you got suspicious.

I started seeing a lot of commercials for baby shampoo. The mom would be. Purell. La, la, la, la, la. And she's putting the moisture on the baby. She's lathering up the baby. Well, then you saw your own wife doing it to the kids. Yes.

I was like, well, then they need it. They do not need it. They don't need it. They're swaddled in a darkish room the entire day. It feels good. I was like, all right. I realized this was all a scam. And the people I knew who did the most rubbing and scrubbing had – and then I started noticing everyone's got an allergy.

Where are all these allergies coming from? who did the most rubbing and scrubbing, and then I started noticing everyone's got an allergy. Where are all these allergies coming from? When did these allergies kick into overdrive? And I just sat and observed, and then I was like, all right, this is no good. All right. And now, but Purell is bad. And all the anti-whatever. So dermatologists, how often should you shower, I guess? I'm so happy.

Alright, let's start with the first one, you guys. How often to shower per week? Yes. How many times do you think you should shower per week, according to dermatologists? I bet they're going to say C. Five times. I'm going to say every day, even though I know it's C. Yeah, I don't care what they say. I'm going to say A.

Well, you guys are all wrong. The answers actually be two to three times per week. There are seven days in a week. Yes, there are seven days in a week. Now, is that for kids or adults? Like adults smell. So the consensus is two to three times per week, but it does depend on the person. I'm looking at Al's face like, what is this?

It depends on the person, your lifestyle, your skin type, your age, your activity level as well. So if you're someone who has a laborious job, so you're a teacher or maybe you work in health care, you probably are showering more often than a normal person. By the way, you use teachers, a labor job? You know, there's construction workers and like people that are out road crews and stuff like that, out to labor. They need to shower. I had to rinse myself off almost every day after construction

because I was literally covered with stucco dust. I would do it with a hose at the house I was working at during the summer. No soap? No. Never soap, never shampoo. You know what's interesting? You buy me a bottle of shampoo, that shit lasts seven years.

But what's interesting to me is, don't you think we should sort of parse out soap and shampoo versus water? Like rinsing every day, how bad could that be? Yeah, I agree. I get in the swimming pool every day. But anyway, all right, here we go. Who has a laborious job.

So you're a teacher or maybe you work in health care. You probably are showering more often than a normal person. Again, if you work out, you're also showering more often. At the end of the day, it's all personal preference. And I think the reason why. Not if you come in contact with other people. No, but I actually believe it. Like, I think for the sake of our skin.

If we're talking to dermatologists. Yes. Take out the other factors. If you're worried about your skin health. Exactly. So what they say is you have this natural bacteria that lives all over your skin. It's part of your microbiome, right? So you don't want to

compromise that because it does help sort of protect you. And then there's other people who have skin issues. Dry skin, eczema, rosacea. All these factors come into play. And when you're scrubbing and using soap and harsh detergents, I can't stop looking at Al, it could get a little bit dicey. Don't you shower like two times a day? I shower twice a day.

Twice a day? Good for him. Listen, by the way, whenever one of these studies comes out, all the comments on it is gross. Gross. Well, you know what? So here's here's all I want to say. Yeah.

Makers of Purell, Madison Avenue in Big Pharma. Fucking good job. Yeah. You convinced a bunch of moms to vaccinate their young boys who do not need this vaccination. You did a fucking accident. Everyone on CNN, great, fantastic job. You've convinced people to slather Purell all over their hands to prevent a disease that's not spread, that's airborne. You, and Lysol wipe down everything. You have convinced most Americans to do something that is bad for them.

Yeah. That is harmful to them to do it in the name of love. Look, people smoke, people drink. They know it's bad for them. You've convinced them that essentially smoking is good for them and they're giving their kids cigarettes. That's basically what you guys have done. And shame on all the dumb shit moms and fucking and their pussy whipped, cuckolded husbands who fucking went along with this. I've been saying this for 20-something years, and all I get called is gross. Well, a couple things.

I mean, I think what people— Fucking Al Roker. Fuck off, Al. No one wants to fuck you anyway. Who cares what you smell like? Well, it's interesting that that's what immediately your mind goes, because I know I've got to fucking bathe myself in order to have any physical closure for my life.

Yeah, I get it. You got to clean the junk before, you know, I get it. That's understandable. And if action is something you're interested in on a regular basis, then you're showering on a regular basis. Yes, I get it. Okay, good. I got to pass.

Is that a current Al Roker or old Al Roker that nobody wanted to fuck? All versions of Al Roker, no one wants to fuck. So it doesn't matter what it smells like. But the smell thing though, is that people, because of the way we are in this country primarily, we are very sensitive

to smells. And the thing about human smells is we start to get used to them. We don't notice them. We notice them a lot. We're none of a smell. And the thing about human smells is we start to get used to them. We don't notice them. We notice them a lot. We're none of a smell. This is all driven by women. Every woman I know walks into a fucking place. They're like,

is somebody eating cashews? Who's eating cashews? Who ate cashews? I don't know. Somebody. Who gives a fuck? Yes, you walked into a place and it smelled like something. Is that okay? Is that alright? Or do we have to fucking get

out the wizard and the candles and the shit? Or are people allowed to engage in things that create a scent? No. No. No. It's unacceptable. A dog can't smell like a dog and a person can't smell like a person and there can be nothing that takes place inside of this unit that creates any smell that won't immediately be uh sussed out and then stamped stepped on and you know the

women are many more time sensitive to smells to smells than men. No shit. I mean, it's not just that they don't like them. They actually experience them differently. Yes. But I just had an interesting thought. Where did the name Purell come from? First off,

where did Nutria C infused with balsam? They come up with fake names. They come up with fake names to fool dumb chicks into buying their stuff. This, this Pantene has Pro Plus activators. That's where my head went. Has what?

My head went. Somebody made up this name. Yes. Somebody made up this name. Yes. My head went to, well, God, how interesting that all the whole spectrum of shampoo is all made up shit. It's all made up shit. But the one that sort of cashed in on the name, Prel. Right.

Prel with the pearl dropping through. That was nothing. It was zero. And so I thought, I wonder if Pirel came from Pirel. Can I tell you the most on this subject? Let me tell you what the most important component to any of the shampoos, which are – they're marketed toward women. All of it. I don't even use shampoo.

I wouldn't even know what shampoo, whatever, to use. Gross. Gross. Fuck off. Gross. Okay. What's better? Just a quick thing here.

It's funny. I'm married to, as you know, a hairstylist. And I find it funny how it's not a two-way street. She'll go without washing her hair almost the entire week. And she's like, oh, it's time to wash my hair. I go two days without washing my hair. She's like, ew, gross. You should wash your hair.

I'm like, but you wash your hair once a week. She doesn't like how it smells. Apparently, she knows that it's good for her. She doesn't like how it smells, your hair, I bet you. You ask her. She won't tell you. Ask her. Well, listen.

All right. So here's the deal. You ask her. She won't tell you. Ask her. Well, listen. All right. So here's the deal.

All female-oriented shampoo is, it's not the balsam and the provitacy and the nutri, nutri-health-dom that's stuck in it. Yeah. Number one ingredient, scent. Scent. Oh, yeah, scent. Scent. So when you take a hot shower, steam, scent, head, weaponize. Right? They sit in a cloud of scent. Right?

Yes. And if you say to your other, hey, I just saw John Stossel did a 20-minute piece, Hey, I just saw John Stossel did a 20-minute piece, and he used your Pantene against the Rite Aid generic brand for $2.89. Your Pantene is $16 for the same 19-ounce container, and they tested it in the lab, and it turns out that it's exactly the same, and there's no reason to buy the $19 Pantene or whatever. They'll go, it's not, it doesn't smell. It doesn't, my hair, first off, that's Stossel's hair. My hair is different. I need, so this other thing about chicks thinking they're each biologically different than all who has ever come before them and who shall come after them.

They're different. They need this thing. Yeah. That's different. That follicles are not just follicles. And whoever they used to do the test with John Stossel, that wasn't them. But it's the number one thing that the thing that makes the Pantene, the scent. Yeah.

The scent. And then when they hit it with the hot water and they lather it up, the whole bathroom is infused with this cloud of scent and then they love it. Yeah. And that's why it's all about the scent. Is there any name brand, big whatever? First off, why does shampoo have scent? Interesting point. Why do soaps at all?

Why do we need it? Your dishwasher detergent doesn't need scent. A bar of soap just to wash your hands. You're there to wash away something, not add. Why is it even a part of it? Right. Because it penetrates their minds and they need it. It's insane.

It's all geared toward women. They do the shopping. Madison Avenue. Men these days, for whatever reason, you could argue why, they're highly prone to this thinking. Oh, well well men are turning into women and now we're here right and now everyone has hot drew i turn on the tv half half of the commercials i see are for some skin situation you mean the the drug company stuff?

Yes. Yes. Is it possible that everyone's got this eczema or psoriasis or this thing? There's all these commercials about active women. They didn't want to go out. I want to touch over the heartbreak of psoriasis. That was 40 years ago. That was dandruff shampoo.

Was it? The heartbreak of psoriasis? Yeah. Really? The heartbreak of psoriasis? Yeah. Really? The heartbreak of psoriasis? It could have been. It could have been. It was the heartbreak of psoriasis was selsun blue or head and shoulders.

No, it could have been selsun. That would make sense. Yeah. Yeah. All right. This is an epidemic now. People are having issues with their skin. They're allergic to everything.

It's all because of this. They just did a story on the Amish. They got nothing. Yeah. The kids have nothing. Yeah. They're not allergic to anything. They live longer than we do.

They don't have hypertension. Their kids aren't allergic to anything. They live longer than we do. They don't have hypertension. Their kids aren't allergic to anything. How do you explain that? Why? God loves the Amish kids? It could be genetic. That's the one thing that they don't talk about, but it could be. But, yeah, you're right.

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Again, that is Angie, A-N-G-I.com. All right. So, yeah, the Amish story could be genetic in part. Yeah. But it's also environmental thing. You have the heartbreak of psoriasis? Just look it up and see what you get back. That's all.

Yeah. What you're going to get is something from the 70s. Right? 70s? What did you say? Yes. Maybe even earlier. Yes. The heartbreak of psoriasis.

And I think it was. P-S-O-R-I-A-S. It was. What's this? I think it was a dandruff shampoo. It's the Selsun. Well, as I sit here and think about it, I was like, what else could it have been? You know what I mean?

I would sit around and watch. Selenium makes sense. So that makes sense. Oh, because selenium. It's a different thing. It's a medical thing. Selenium. It treats this stuff. Oh, because selenium. It's a different thing. It's a medical thing, selenium.

It treats this stuff. Not psoriasis so much, but I could see where they might try to market that. Now, do you see what an ironclad brain I have? Yes. That's why I didn't doubt it. I said, really? Interesting. Initially, you had a little momentum. No, I'm like, really?

I can't. It was odd to me. I wasn't challenging it. It was just like, really? Odd to me. I wasn't challenging it. It was just like, really? My recollection is the heartbreak of psoriasis would be from a dandruff shampoo commercial.

What else could it have been, to be fair, right? Oh, there it is. Let's see. Tegren. It was a Tegren. If you use a dandruff shampoo on Tuesday, but dandruff's back on Thursday, maybe what you've got isn't ordinary dandruff. Ask your doctor. Flaking and itching could be early signs of eczema seborrhea psoriasis new tegrin medicated shampoo has an invisible medicated barrier that fights bacteria on women plus a medication that helps control flaking and

itching with no music it's kind of weird right yeah Try Tegrin medicated shampoo. Isn't that weird? They still say the heartbreak of psoriasis. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was Tegrin. And I don't... Art still could have been Selsun Blue. I mean... Yeah, because they didn't say the heartbreak of psoriasis here.

Right. Right? So look up the heartbreak of psoriasis. Because... But Tegrin is a legitimate deal. And it's weird that they were promoting it on tv that's sort of weird to me because it's sort of doctor recommended typically i didn't know you know dandruff was a kind of a luxury item it was very hot topic it was a big deal it was a lot of

dandruff talk yeah and uh i didn And I had no one in my family. That would have been considered like a big ticket item or something in our house. Well, because you remember what the sort of embarrassing quality was? Mm-hmm. What was it? Remember? Well, you're saying embarrassing quality. What were they pointing at as was so intolerable? A commercial would be the guys wearing a black turtleneck out on a first date,

and you look at your shoulders, and each one has got a snow drift with dandruff on each side. The woman was looking at it from across the table. I don't know why the guy would wear a black turtleneck who had a serious dandruff issue. But think about what they were going for. It was for head and shoulders. So they had to emphasize the shoulders with a serious dandruff issue. But think about what they were going for. It was for head and shoulders. So they had to emphasize the shoulders

where all the dandruff ends up. We never even thought about that. I never thought about that either. The heartbreak of psoriasis. There's a million videos on YouTube, so we're trying to find the ending. I've gone through five so far. I'm just going to keep looking.

Okay. They don't say the heartbreak of psoriasis. No, we're looking for all those keywords. Maybe it was a comedy line. No, no. I remember. I remember being a commercial, something I saw all the time. I remember the heartbreak of psoriasis, too.

Heartbreak of psoriasis. Sonny and Cher. Well, that's a sketch. They were making fun of the commercial, so you need something right around that time. Yeah, it got into the lexicon. Big time. Big time. Yeah.

I think the modern-day version of that is that Sosin Blue commercial, where the guy's just rocking black all the time, and then he's just got a snow pile on his shoulder. They still try to cash in on that old trope. You got to give it to him, though. He's got confidence in that commercial so listen um we were not meant to be scrubbed and i've never noticed for i i figured it out pretty early because i started noticing that in like in high school with zits everyone who's just rubbing and scrubbing it didn't it didn't help at all yeah it just and and then you know when i was in high school, first off, I had a conversation with my son about zits.

Multiple. And I've gone at him. I've lanced a few as well. Everyone hates that story, too. But the best way to handle a zit is with a pin and a pull. Don't aggravate it. Well, yeah, so don't push at it. But there are cystic acnes that don't have a fluid collection right right you know but it's

okay when you i've had this argument with many women the kid gets acne yeah and then there's a lot of conversation well what is he doing oh right what is he doing too much french fries did he like do you know why the french fry thing stuck because if if you rub a french fry on your face what do you think happens like somehow the grease in the french fry translated like eat pizza and then touch his face right it has nothing he's eating too many oily foods yes yeah. Yeah. Okay. Nothing. There's nothing here, crazy gypsy. What year are you from, crazy gypsy time traveling lady? What year is this?

He needs to scrub. I was like, it's genetic. It's genetic. It's just genetic. Some people have zits. Right. Some people don't have zits. Right. Some people don't have zits. The crazy thing is I was talking to my son whose zits are in pretty good – under control these days. I was saying, you know, his skin looks good.

He got zits in a place where nobody gets zits, which is the temple. Oh, yeah. That's a place. His temple area. Yeah, that's a spot. But he even pointed out – nobody gets it here. Thank you for shitting on my point. No, but it does happen. Yes, it's a spot. But he even pointed out, nobody gets it here. Thank you for shitting on my point. No, but it does happen.

Yes, it happens. But people, they get it on their forehead or they get it on their chin or their upper lip or whatever. They get it everywhere. But his were almost exclusively like where your glasses frames would pass your temples kind of. And it's kind of a weird spot. Yeah. And, like, I was – he was curious. Everyone – we were all sort of curious about it.

Like, I definitely had zits when I was a kid, but it's just not clustered there, you know. Maybe when he eats pizza, he touches his sunglasses, and then the oil from the pizza drew. Have you ever looked at the top of a pizza? You see that oil? You eat that oil, and then you have to cleanse yourself because you've got too many toxins. Yes. And then the toxins are coming out through the zits with the oil and the thing. That business about sweating out toxins and stuff, I can't get my wife over that.

It seems to be a fixed feature of some women's thinking. Oh, some women. We need to sweat those toxins. I worked out. I got them all out. I had a fever and then I got the toxins. What do you think sweat glands do? They produce sodium chloride and fluid to help cool the body.

That's what they do. They're not extratory glands. They don't pull things in from your stomach and find it in the small microscopic gland of the skin. It's such a racket. It's such a fucking business. It's a kajillion dollar business. I know because it feeds this conception they have.

Oh, is this one of these? Oh, yeah. You got to wash your face before you go to bed. What are you washing your face with? Like, you don't, you have zits or you don't have zits. You know what works on zits? Oxytent. Well, yes. So, let me just say. And there's some pharmaceutical stuff now, too. Yes. So, just

so people understand, acne is composed of three things. And not everyone has all three. You can have two or one of any of these. It's A, excess oil production. B, a certain bacteria overgrowth called Propionibacterium acnes. And then three is comedoproduction, which is a pore function. The pores are genetically kind of set up that way. There you go.

So you're going to treat all three. And obviously, the oxy-10 goes at the oil production. It dries that shit out. I remember you took a 100-fold dose or something. You took some construction oxy- No, no. I'm interested in how your mind works. My mind works that there was – all right. In these Oxy10s is a chemical that you told me you used to use on construction sites or something,

and it was a 10 times stronger or 100 times stronger. You guys would dilute it for whatever it was you were using it for. I don't recall that part. And you tried it on your skin once. Okay. Now, here's the proper story. I don't recall that part. And you tried it on your skin once. Okay. Now, here's the proper story. You're pretty close. Okay.

Oxy-5 is 5% benzoyl peroxide. Right. And, by the way, a little fucking thing of it, it was $8 or something. Things were not cheap for me back in the day. Yes. Oxy-10 is 10% benzoyl peroxide. Correct. Which is the drying agent that dries out a zit.

Now, I tell everyone, if you get a zit, dab on your Oxy 10 and then go to bed. It'll dry it out. It's good for it. Now, really the way you do a zit, when you got one that has a head or something on it, prick it with a pin. Some people sterilize the pin. I never have. Prick it with the pin. Some people sterilize the pin. I never have. Prick it with the pin.

Pull it. Pull it wide. Don't bunch it. Don't squeeze it. Pull it. Let it drain. Blot it with a little tissue. Let it sort of drain out.

Then put a dab of Oxytent on it and go about your business. And the Oxytent has some anti-inflammatory component to it in addition to drying. I'm sure it does. Yeah. So OxyTen was, you know, eight bucks for a little thing of it. I was working with Bondo for automotive process. Bondo is a paste that has a catalyst. It's two-part.

Yeah. A resin and a catalyst or whatever. You mix it up. Yeah. A resin and a catalyst or whatever, you mix it up. Yeah. The part B on Bondo... The catalyst. ...is the drying agent. The stuff...

You take epoxy and you don't mix it with two parts. You just have the one part. It'll never dry. It has a second part that dries it, cures it. Mix in a little more, it dries faster. Mix in a little less, it dries slower. I was reading the thing, and this drying agent in the Bondo catalyst said like 80% benzoyl peroxide or something.

I was like, oh, this shit's all benzoyl peroxide. And you have tub for $12. Oh, it's a two. No, it's a two because it's the drying agent. You don't mix in as much. You can get it at Pep Boys for $4 and you get a 90% benzo. I don't know. Look up...

Run the commercial. Then look up Bondo drying agent or Bondo benzoyl peroxide. Let's see. All right. Here's the heartbreak psoriasis we hope. We'll see. Oh, there it is. Psoriasis. I know. You got to start it from the top. Sorry.

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At the very beginning, I think it said something about the heartbreak of psoriasis. No, I don the beginning it did didn't it that player is terrible i'm trying to get back it was very beginning i think said something but no i don't think it did all right uh so if you find the heartbreak of psoriasis we'll watch now maybe it did we skipped it at the beginning and it's a bad media oh okay that's fine so tagrin made dandruff shampoo yeah and tagren made cream for psoriasis. So I put Tegren or I put dandruff. It would be used for shampoo also. Well, they used it in that. Yes. I connected the heartbreak of psoriasis with Selsun Blue, which was a big dandruff shampoo. Which also, again, made more sense than

head and shoulders. What percent benzoyl peroxide is we'll watch a commercial is Bondo? The heartbreak of psoriasis. There it is. It can appear anywhere. Alright.

That turned it, that It can appear anywhere. All right. There's the heartbreak. That launched a million sketches. That just turned. Oh, the heartbreak. I mean, you'd say it, you know, like if you're calling a baseball game and the guy struck out. Yeah. He's walking back to the deck. Oh, the heartbreak of psoriasis.

Yes. It literally became sort of an acronym for disappointment. Yes. Yeah. It literally became sort of an acronym for disappointment. Yes. Yeah. All right. Benzoyl peroxide. In Bondo. In Bondo.

Anyway, you put a high concentration on and burned yourself. That was the story. No, I didn't really burn myself. It worked. I think you told me that it – Maybe it irritated the zit or something. But I was like, look, if this thing's 90... Yeah, yeah.

If 5% benzoyl peroxide is good and 10% is better, then 80% has got to be the best. But Oxy-5 is 5%. Yeah, yeah. 100%. 10%. 10%. In Oxy-10. No, no, no, no.

In Bondo drying agent. What show do you guys listen. In Bondo drying agent. What show do you guys listen to? Bondo drying agent. Wow. It's all right. They're busy back there. They were looking for the heartbreak of psoriasis.

All right. Ben, he didn't think I was asking what percent. Bondo, because we went through all the percentages of the Oxy10 and the Oxy5 and all that. Bondo drying agent percentage concentration benzoyl peroxide 1975 because it may be using a different one now right i don't i bet it's still oh it's probably not available in california or something right right but it's got to be out there. All you have to do, Amy, is look at Bondo, do images of Bondo, and then you'll see the little orange drying, the little orange tube. And if you look at the backside, it'll say whatever percent benzoyl peroxide.

But you need the catalyst or the little tube. Right. Yeah. That's what it'll say. And then you have to blow it up and then it'll probably say something. Probably say something. On the back. Yeah. You'd have to look it up. It's a multi-step ordeal. Well,

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