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Ologies with Alie Ward

Ophthalmology (EYES) with Reid Wainess

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

75% of adult Americans have wonky vision of some kind, your host included. Longtime pal and real-life eye surgeon, Dr. Reid Wainess answers all the questions that you never bring up during appointments. He and Alie chat about how eyes are just little cameras in your skull, glasses vs. contacts, Lasik, why we cry, some boggling ER stories, how marijuana effects eyeballs, floaters, cataracts, eye color, dogs in goggles and more. Also: what happens if you choke under pressure and pick the wrong options in an eye exam? HOW SCREWED ARE YOU?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh hey, it's your uncle's corduroy jacket that smells like pipe smoke and breakfast sausage.

0:07.0

Alley board, back with another episode of Ologies.

0:10.5

Okay, this one's special because your ears are about to get a real mouthful about your eyes.

0:16.0

So it's a very multi-sensory affair. Like, hey, ears, will you pass this highly informative binder paper note to eyes?

0:23.5

And ears is like, ooh, hell yeah, but I'm gonna read first and it better not talk shit on me.

0:27.5

And I'm like, okay ears, thanks, you're great. One day we're gonna do an episode about you, I promise. Just not this week.

0:33.0

Eyes, all eyes are on you. I mean, all ears are on you.

0:36.5

Okay, eye stuff makes your old pod dad a little squeamish.

0:40.5

So my goal in doing this episode, I did it intentionally because it was like, ooh, I wanted to get over my eyes squeamishness and stop shoving eyes into a corner.

0:52.5

No one puts eyes in a corner. Eyes, here's looking at you. Okay, but first, a little business.

0:58.0

So thank you to all the Instagram pals this week, little milestone, we crossed 10,000.

1:03.5

I did a very small private dance in an airport alone about it.

1:08.5

And I was like, oh, thank you to all the patrons who support the show and submit questions for the Ologies at patreon.com slash Ologies.

1:17.5

You can support for as little as a quarter a week, 25 cents a week.

1:22.0

So this is totally independently published and produced show. It is like, I'm literally recording this in my closet.

1:28.5

And I recorded on the road when I'm working. I just love making it.

1:31.5

So thank you for making it possible, literally by your Patreon support.

1:35.5

So if you want to find other Ologites in the wild, you can pick up Ologies shirts and dad hats and pins and totes and backpacks and such at OlogiesMarch.com.

1:46.5

Also, thank you to anyone who rates in reviews and subscribes. That costs no money. It takes a couple minutes and it helps keep Ologies up here in the charts for other people to discover.

1:56.5

It takes like seconds. Also, I'm a known lurker. I lurk.

2:01.5

And when I'm feeling like so jet lagged that I want to go live in a hollowed out tree and talk only to squirrels, your iTunes reviews,

2:10.5

always remind me that there are folks out there who are listening and cheering me on to keep making more and it helps so much.

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