In this episode of Overtired, Brett and Jeff go it on their own as Christina is out for the week. The duo kicks things off with a mental health check-in, then dives into Brett’s carpal tunnel surgery saga, the joys and pains of recovery, and the unexpected logistics of same-day surgery in small-town Minnesota. They swap stories about recent punk and metal shows, reflect on the enduring power of live music, and discuss the emotional aftermath of a shocking political event in Minnesota. The conversation weaves through tech, music nostalgia, and app recommendations.

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00:00 – Intro & Banter
00:38 – Mental Health Check-in
01:52 – Carpal Tunnel Surgery
09:51 – Napalm Death and The Melvins
16:53 – Political Events in Minnesota
28:35 – Sponsor Break: Insta360
57:35 – App Recommendations
71:08 – Show Wrap-up

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Transcript

Not As Nerdy As I Thought

[00:00:00]

Brett: Hey, you’re listening to Overtired. I am Brett Terpstra. I am here with just, just severance gun. So Christina Warren, due to scheduling conflicts, cannot be with us this week. Um, so you are in for a Brett and Jeff nerdy episode. Um, not that Christina can’t get nerdy like she totally can and does, but something we get, we get weirdly like not productivity nerdy when it’s just the two of us.

I don’t know.

Jeff: Yeah.

Brett: Yeah. Yeah.

Mental Health Check-in

Brett: So, um, we can kick it off with our, our usual mental health coroner. Mine is pretty short and sweet. Um, mentally I am. Finding myself just extremely happy with not having a job. Um, not enjoying the, like the health insurance loop, uh, [00:01:00] hurdles and not having like predictable regular income as, but not, I’m not, not enjoying it so much so that I don’t appreciate having all this time to just focus on like my commercial projects and all of this coding, and I’m finding it super rejuvenating to just like wake up in the morning and start coding and take regular breaks to do whatever the fuck I want.

And then. Ultimately, like the, the next version of Marked is the biggest leap marked has ever made in functionality. And I’m super proud of what I’m about to release, and I think it’s gonna be profitable, but also like extremely useful. And that’s all just really good for my mental health.

Carpal Tunnel Surgery

Brett: I did have, um, carpal tunnel surgery.

Jeff: Ooh, look at that. He just raised his fist in [00:02:00] the land of hypocrisy. Uh,

Brett: It, I did the total like black power fist too, but yeah, I have a

Jeff: you’re white, which makes it a problematic white power fist, but whatever. At least it’s got a gash in it.

Brett: Yes. So they did just one small incision. They stuck a camera into my palm through that incision and snipped, uh, not, not, uh, ligament across the middle of my palm. And um, that led to a couple days of super achy hand and they gave me no painkillers. So I’ve just been working with Tylenol and Ibuprofen for a couple days, but today doing pretty good.

I got the bandage off this morning. And, um, I will say as far as mental health goes, pain is, um, very detrimental to my mental health. [00:03:00] Uh, I, I am very sensitive to pain. Like I have tattoos, I have brands. I’ve, I’ve been through a lot of things where I intentionally like subjected myself to pain, but mostly because pain, because I’m so sensitive to pain.

I also get like a major endorphin rush off of pain. And so like I kind of just seek it out. But there are a couple types of pain, like low lying aches and tooth pain that I get zero pleasure from.

Jeff: Tooth pain is brutal.

Brett: I hate it so much. I hate it. I hate it so much. Um, but yeah, so that’s my mental

Jeff: Was the surgery like a outta nowhere thing or did you have it planned

Brett: Um, so I’ve had numbness in my fingers, uh, especially on my right hand, but moving into both hands for like five years now. And I had had wrist pain a long [00:04:00] time ago and had been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome and had, uh, completely revamped my working setup to be more ergonomic and changed all of my habits in the pain.

Jeff: keyboards?

Brett: Yeah. And the pain, the pain went away. Um, and then a while later, the numbness started and I didn’t associate that with carpal tunnel. And I finally got into, uh, neurology at Gunderson Health and they did some testing and they did, it’s called an EMG, where they hook up like electrodes and they shock your hand and it bounces all over the place.

And they determined that, yes, I have bilateral carpal tunnel causing numbness in my two first two fingers, in my thumb on both hands. And so they said, when would you like the surgery? And I was like, well, anytime I’m, I got nothing going on. And they’re like, how about tomorrow? [00:05:00] Um,

Jeff: Wow. Gunderson Health has some openings.

Brett: right in Winona too, like Gunderson Health is mostly doctors that work out of the slightly larger lacrosse, Wisconsin, and they travel to Winona usually once a week.

So if you want an appointment in Winona, and the, the clinic is literally a three minute drive from my house, so I prefer to just do it in Winona. But if you wanted in Winona, you gotta wait until a doctor is there for once a week and happens to be available. And in this case, the surgeon was there the next day and had an opening and it, it, I was in there at like seven in the morning

Jeff: Wow.

Brett: I was there until, like, the surgery takes five minutes, but,

Jeff: minutes.

Brett: but I, but I did the prep, which involved like a bizarre amount of mouthwash and nose iodine.

Jeff: I mean, obviously, or maybe that’s just the Gunderson way

Brett: What, [00:06:00] like they’re like, this

Jeff: you want your surgery tomorrow. All right, here’s your mouthwash. Be ready.

Brett: this has been proven to reduce infection. If you like, use all this mouthwash, clean your nose for like two minutes straight with iodine swabs and wash your hands from fingertip to elbow for three minutes per side. Um,

Jeff: like Robert f Kennedy’s America.

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