Dr Norman Swan

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26,995 appearances 288 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2006 last heard 15 Sep

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What's That Rash? · Body hair removal: healthy or not? · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

I wouldn't let them touch me with it.

They dip a cotton tip into hot wax and then stick it up your nose, twist and pull.

Eye-washing doesn't come close, I suspect.

Well, you're a hiding to nothing if you don't, I'll tell you.

Yeah, and rather than just let my prejudice hang there because people might misread my prejudice, I'll say what my prejudice is.

Well, that's what it is.

So some men have, like, forests growing out of their nose and their ears.

Why?

You know, it doesn't take much to actually reduce the forest a little bit.

What do you do?

So I remove ear hair and I just have a little machine that goes bzz bzz bzz at the front of my nose, but I don't go too high up.

So there's no forest ever growing out of my nose.

I know you're super into the anti-aging stuff.

Do you have nose hair?

Tick, you're 85 years old.

That's right.

Well, zero is my case.

Negative.

And it's kind of, I woke up to this subject just about a week ago, taking two very young kids to a dinosaur exhibition and didn't realize that dinosaurs actually had vestigial feathers.

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