The Josh Innes Show - Unwoke Jamokes: Trip To The Doctor

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

Hi All! Jilly joins me today to talk about my trip to the doctor. As usual, Jilly calls me out for what she perceives to be bullshit. Look, I think doctors scam people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the Josh Innes Show. So, uh, Jilly, I went to the, um, to the doctor. Well, technically, I mean, I went to a doctor's office yesterday, but it was a nurse practitioner. Whoops. Well, that's because with our insurance, you have to have, you know, certain qualifications to get the discounted premiums. Yes. And one of those is you have to have a yearly physical or biometric screening. Yes. And a primary care doctor.

What is a biometric screening? It's basically just where they do like your blood pressure, basically everything you had done yesterday. But they used to bring them in. If you recall, like in Houston, they used to bring them to the office. And you would just get your biometric screenings done at work. Well, that would certainly have made life a lot easier because like, I don't have a doctor, like maybe I should, but everywhere I go, they tell me shit that I don't want to hear. So I go to somebody else until I get answers that I want. Like when we first moved here, I, uh, I went to see one guy. I mean, I, I think I chronicled this ordeal on the pod at

some point, but like this dude was like, Hey, I think you have prediabetes and you have high blood pressure. So we're going to put you on diabetes meds and we're going to put you on high blood pressure meds, right? So I go in, he says, come back in two weeks. I come back in two weeks. Magically, I no longer have diabetes. And actually, no, strike all that. I didn't go in and see that guy about the diabetes.

Did I go see him for a follow up? Oh, actually, no, strike all that. I didn't go in and see that guy about the diabetes. Did I go see him for a follow-up? You had to because he wouldn't tell you the results of your test until you went and saw him in the office. That's it. But, I mean, to be fair, the test didn't lie. You did have, like, diabetes. Yes. I mean, I had, like, a touch. I had a touch of the beatus.

Right? I had a touch. But anyway, it says, and your blood pressure's high. Well, when I go in two weeks later, my blood pressure's no longer high. I'm glad I decided not to take the freaking blood pressure pills. You know who told me not to take the blood pressure pills? Scotty Ennis. He says, you start taking those, then you become hooked on them.

I'm like, I don't know how you get hooked on blood pressure pills, but if anybody knows about the fears of taking prescription drugs and what you can get hooked on and not get hooked on, I guess Scotty Ennis would be the guy. So I decided not to, and I didn't have uh high blood pressure anymore why did i decide to go to the other doctor what was that was it because of the gout no you went to the gout you went to the foot doctor before you even did all this i mean i am a calamity you are like the pharmacy hates you and we have to go pick up more prescriptions for you by the way because you have seven different doctors they for the most part prescribe you all the same shit but then you

never take the shit and it just sits at the pharmacy. So I don't know why To be fair I take a lot of the shit. We can't make fun of your dad for this because like you're worse. Well no hold on but I don't have anxiety and shit. We make fun of my dad for his anxiety. Why do you keep going to the doctor? Well because

I keep going to new doctors about real ailments. It's not like I'm having a fake heart. Yeah, they're real ailments, but then they give you stuff and you don't take the stuff. I take the stuff. What stuff don't I take?

I take the gout meds when I need to take the gout meds. I take the heartburn shit every morning. Yeah, well, this is like your third edition of heartburn stuff. They give you like three different types of prescription. Because every time I go to a new doctor, they prescribe a new heartburn thing. Oh, you know three different types of prescription. Because every time I go to a new doctor, they prescribe a new heartburn thing.

Oh, you know what it was? Okay, I remember now. I had to go to an ear, nose, and throat doctor for my throat. You said, oh, my throat hurts. Oh, my ears hurt. And then they gave you eardrops. You know what you never used? Eardrops.

Well, here's the thing about that, though. So then they did a hearing test because I was convinced I was losing my hearing. And as it turns out, perfect hearing. Yeah, doctors are for you. So it's just you I tune out, I guess. It's every human I tune out, I guess. Like you, Luther, everybody. I tune everybody out. I thought it was because I was going deaf.

As it turns out, I'm just an asshole. So there's that. We have that going for me. But no, so I went to the ear, nose, and throat because I wanted to see why I was hoarse all the time. And they couldn't figure that out, so they just started giving me prescriptions for a nasal spray. And then what was the other thing? Eardrops. Eardrops and stuff.

Those I didn't take. You're right. I'm not good at that. So anyway, I ended up at another doctor, and this doctor did my blood work and everything, and he finds out that I don't have diabetes, and his exact words were, you're not even close. Oh, okay. Well, to be fair, that was like six months after the fact. No, it wasn't.

Hold on. I remember why I did this now. Hold on. I remember. So remember, the guy tried to hose us or hose me at the other doctor. And it's like he wouldn't give me the prescription. So I was taking those diabetes pills. Oh, right. And I was like feeling decent and I was losing some weight, you know, feeling good.

Yeah, he just wouldn't call you back. And he would not call me back about getting the prescription. So I said, fuck you. And I went to another doctor. When I got to the other doctor, the guy says, not only do you not have high blood pressure, you do not have diabetes well and again to be fair though that was like six months after the initial diabetes diagnosis and you had done a lot to change like you weren't it wasn't six months it was maybe a month or two it was i think a month or two i think because i maybe three or four because remember i

went in there and i was gonna go see him for a follow-up and that something happened. Like, I showed up and they're like, well, the doctor can't see you today or whatever. Like, no, you know what it was? They had an appointment for me and then they magically didn't have an appointment anymore. Yeah, like someone canceled it or something. Yeah, it was all fucked up. But all that to say this, I don't have an actual doctor. So I went to, like, we just found a place that took our insurance.

But I do think, like, you did put in work to get, you know that diabetes the with the a1c number down yeah and then you kind of went off the rails when they're like you don't have it and so i'd be curious to see now if you do again because you were really good for a while you were working out yeah you cut soda completely yeah you didn't go on nightly ice cream runs but the ice cream's so good it's cheap over at chick-fil-a you weren't drinking coffee with extra sugary creamer every morning. Okay, but the thing is, I need that. That's my medicine. I know.

I wake up at 3.45 in the morning. I've learned I have to have it. That's why I think you need to probably get an update. Well, I was going to do that yesterday. And then I sat there for 30 minutes, and then they come in and say, Oh, turns out, sorry, folks, lab's closed. Can't get your blood work today. do that yesterday and then i sat there for 30 minutes and then they come in and say oh turns out sorry folks labs closed can't get your blood work today so you can come back any other day and get your blood work to which point i said fuck it i know what i need to do i'm fat so like i'll go

lose some weight and i'll be fine i might get on this weight loss thing through the radio station that battles on where he's lost like 60 pounds this schmuck he's walking around probably almost sees his dick now when he looks down, probably feeling good about himself. But anyway. But I'm with you. I don't like primary care doctors. I find them largely useless.

And I think if we're being real, if we're being honest about this shit, what we're dealing with here, and you can call this conspiracy, you can call it whatever the hell you want, what we're really dealing with here is you've got folks who are in bed with the big pharma and they look for excuses to prescribe you shit. In particular, shit you don't need. Like, I need the heartburn shit. That shit helps me in the morning. It's omeprozole or whatever.

That helps me in the morning. Like, I don't think I need high blood pressure medication because my blood pressure is not all that high. And I think I know why the damn thing was high yesterday. And that's really what the gist of this discussion is, is the reason that shit was high yesterday is because this damn doctor's office still makes you sit there in a fucking mask. Yeah, they all do.

And from what I was talking to Battle today, he's like, yeah, I was talking to a friend of mine. She's a nurse. She said, this is the new norm. Forever on, you're going to have to wear a mask inside a hospital. So, like, let's say a guy, like, he's riding his motorcycle. Some guy knocks him off the bike because he doesn't see him. He gets into his lane, knocks him off.

Are they going to make sure this guy puts on a fucking mask before they wheel him into the fucking emergency room? Well, I think emergency rooms are probably. Nope, put a mask on him. God forbid this guy roll in. Not only have a concussion, but he also gets the Rona. No! But aside from the mask thing, like, you've... I mean, I remember when you were in Houston, the first time that you would get told you had high blood pressure.

So, I mean, maybe there's something with that. Maybe there's something you need to be doing to prevent your blood pressure from spiking every time you go to the doctor. Well, you know what I did? I got rid of the Twitter. That's key in this. That should help. I got rid of the Twitter. That's key in this. That should help. I got rid of the Twitter.

Yeah, but then you just post on Facebook and people harass you there. Yeah. The point is to get off the social media. I understand that. I get it. I respect what you're saying. I deleted my Twitter, but now I'm going to fuck with people on Facebook, but then get upset when they come back at me.

Okay, I don't get upset that people come back at me. I get upset because I think they're stupid. That's the same reason you deleted Twitter. It is. Maybe I'll delete Facebook. So why are you now, like, you're posting more on Facebook. But I'm trying. I've got to have somewhere to promote my pod.

You're not even promoting the pod. I did today. I posted a link to it and everything. Facebook doesn't even show links. I did it and everything. I did it today. But anyway, that's not the point in all of this. I bet I have slightly high blood pressure, but not high enough to require medication.

It's clearly not the case. If I can, you know, lose a couple pounds over a month and all of a sudden don't have high blood pressure but not high enough to require medication it's clearly not the case if i can you know lose a couple pounds over a month and all of a sudden don't have high blood pressure anymore it's obviously not the end of the world but i i do believe this that sitting in a doctor's office wearing a fucking mask is not good for whenever you're in there trying to get your blood pressure taken people already don't like hospitals they get nervous i don't i don't really give a shit but like there are people who get nervous in hospitals i asked people about this on the radio today they said that there are people that get nervous in hospitals there's a name for it like white coat syndrome or some shit and there are people who just get anxious being in a hospital

and it causes your blood pressure number to look higher point being in all of this i sat in that fucking mask for over an hour before they took my blood pressure yeah and i'm sitting there and like i do stress out a little bit wearing a mask because like you start breathing it in it's like you're sucking the mask in like you're gonna choke on this damn thing it's very uncomfortable it is and it gets you worked up you start breathing a little heavier i 100 believe that's part of it and it wasn't all that high and i'm with you i could lose some weight that's fine like i i look it wasn't all that high. And I'm with you. I could lose some weight. That's fine. Like I, I, if I stopped drinking, uh, you know, the, the Dr. Pepper zeros and just go back to drinking all water and tea and shit. Uh, and hell I can even eliminate the

coffee shit and go back to drinking tea in the morning. I can do all that and eat a little bit better. I can lose weight. I'm a fucking machine. That's what I do. I can go up, I can go down, I can go up, I can go down. but my point is i was not that fucking fat or the you know the more fat than i normally am and i certainly don't think my blood pressure is through the fucking roof although i will say that i've had some more like this last week has been a little bit more of a stressful argumentative week with people so i would imagine my blood pressure did go up a little bit from that all right if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you got to check out pick six from DraftKings. When it comes to basketball payouts, DraftKings pick six posterizes the competition,

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Bonus award. It is non-withdrawable pick six credits that expire in 14 days. Limited time offer. See terms at picksix.draftkings.com slash promos. You do get yourself worked up. I was really worked up. I talked about that in the pod yesterday. I thought I was having a heart attack on Saturday. I thought you were too. I thought I was the big one, Elizabeth. I thought I was donezo. I thought, you know a heart attack on Saturday. I thought you were too. I thought I was the big one, Elizabeth. I thought I was done-zo. I thought, you know what? This is it.

I'm going to die fighting with fucking McDougal on the internet. It wasn't even McDougal this time. I think it was Houston McDougal. It was everybody. But again, that's good. I'm glad you deleted Twitter. I think that's healthy. But then you just go and do the same thing on Facebook.

It's pointless. But Twitter is our... You would agree Twitter is the most vile, right? Yeah, but so is Facebook when you provoke people. Okay, you say I provoke people. All, like, this all started, if you really want to get technical, that all started when I posted a Cardinals picture. A team I root for. It's my fucking Facebook.

If fucking assholes can all run to their social media and root for their fucking teams, then I should be able to go and say, hey, I like my fucking baseball team, which I did, which somehow this was viewed as some sort of personal affront to these Philly dipshits who were like, oh, my God, you're talking shit. What, don't you like the Phills? Whatever. I've never said I like the Phills, but whatever. So then the Cardinals lose, right?

I would have said the same shit I'm saying about the Astros if the Astros were playing the Phillies or if they were playing the Padres or if they were playing basically anybody other than the fucking Cardinals, I would be doing. Right. So that now everybody's getting all worked up on me about it and all pissy about it. I'm getting traitor. By the way, McDougal, learn the difference between a fucking traitor and a traitor.

A traitor is someone on the fucking stock market. Someone who's out there to flee market. Hey, we're trading goods. It ain't a traitor. Benedict Arnold is a traitor. T-R-A-I-T-O-R. A traitor. Like the Olivia Rodrigo song.

Traitor. Not traitor. Daryl Morey is a traitor. He's good at going in and trading shit for good shit. He's a traitor. Gordon Gekko. Traitor. But anyway, all that said.

But the thing is, you know damn well whenever you post a picture of you in an Astros jersey or a Cardinals jersey or whatever, all you get, especially now, is like, here's a picture of you in a Phillies jersey. Stop shitting, okay? By the way. Yeah, it's fine.

But then you know what? You get worked up over it. Well, because I go back and forth with people. So why? Why? I don't know. Why did you delete Twitter? I mean, you do the same thing on Facebook.

Because I think Twitter is more vile. It's the same shit. It's the same people. But like, why should I have to stop living my life? You shouldn't, but you also could just ignore people. Maybe it's starting right now. I will. But see, but you know that I have a vice.

And one of my vices in life is that I have a hard time when I think someone is wrong or in particular stupid. Yes. Trying to make them look dumber. That's an issue I have. I try to paint them into a corner. And that's why you got off of Twitter. But now you're just doing the same thing on Facebook.

So what's the point? So maybe I'll just stop responding to people on Facebook. That's all they want. Okay, then I won't respond to them. I mean, I get annoyed, too, because I think it's stupid. Like, oh, you guys are such frauds. Like, okay, again, sorry you've never left one city. Like, cool.

When you move around, and especially when you're in sports, you know, radio, you try to embrace the city. You try to embrace the teams. You try to have some fun. Sure. We've talked about this a billion times. We went to the Eagles and the Patriots Super Bowl. We didn't go because the Eagles were in the game. We were going regardless of who was in the game.

When we found out it was the Eagles, it was like, well, that's fun. We've already got some gear anyway. Let's embrace the shit and let's have some fun with it. Apparently, according to McDougal, and to be fair, Houston people too, you should just go wearing a black t-shirt and that's it. And don't cheer.

Well, those people are never going to go to the Super Bowl. But that's what I'm saying. When you move around, things change you have your team that you've been with forever like mine is the white socks the white socks and astros played last year i was for the white socks until they lost to the astros and then i was right with the correct but yeah i mean you can't explain that to people on the internet so stop trying gotcha all good i think my favorite is luther into it and now like he's getting like fucking cursed out and shit it is like why do you do that it's fine it's annoying but it's a to me that's funny like people i think for the most part i think that that luther's the the thing with luther's embraceable

like i think people i'll give them all credit like most of the people you got mcdougall going that a boy luther and then the houston people are like oh no luther why no one's on there going hey luther go eat a dick i don't think i think they're fine with luther i got actually my dad called me today he goes boy that post with luther is fucking hysterical so it's that's fun like for the most part as much as i just like mcdougall like mcdougall has handled the Luther picture fairly well. I just think you need to stop responding. Because what was the point of deleting Twitter? If you're just going to stress yourself out more, and that's probably why you have. Okay, let's play a game.

All right, let's do this. How long do you think I can go without responding to someone on Facebook? Because I'm still going to post stuff. Because obviously this is a time when all these people are into it. And whether I like the Philly people or not, they're into it. The Houston people are into it. I got 8,000 people on my Facebook page, so it's an opportunity to get people to pay attention

to what we're doing a little bit. Yeah. So, okay, what time is it? We're recording this at 2.37 on October 25th. And again, maybe we've had this company respond and engage with the positive people. I've seen a bunch of people on there that say, I don't care if you're Houston or Philly,

I'm happy to have you in Nashville. And you say nothing to them. Honestly, I haven't seen any of those. Because you're not looking for them. You're looking for the anger and you're looking to be pissed off. That's true. But now that I have the high blood pressure again, it's time to chill. It's time to just chill.

So what is the game? Can I not respond to anybody or can I respond to positives? Don't fight with anybody. Okay, just don't fight. So that's fine. I can do that. Let's see. How do we define anybody okay just don't fight so that's fine i can do that let's see like how do we define fighting like i don't know okay we'll see we'll see twitter's easier because like you could just not retweet people and quote tweet them which is what they want because they're little accounts with 25 followers when you quote tweet them yeah suddenly

get they get thousands of views that's true so why wouldn't they go after you because again you don't respond to the positive i don't have to worry about that now because there is no more Twitter. So although I still have like 20 some odd days, I think for it to come back if I want it to, which I honestly don't. I haven't, like the only time I think about Twitter and like, oh, I could use that right now

is if like it's in the morning and I want to see what's trending or whatever for the show. Yeah, but you also don't need an account for that. You can also just make a fucking like a fake account, even tweet nothing, just read the trends. Or I can make an account that's an egg, and I can go harass all the media people I hate, and I can be just like all those people. So much fun. Like, hey, Gargano, you fucking suck.

And then I'll be that person now. That could be me. There you go. Hey, Astro's Twitter, fuck you. And actually it was Astro's Twitter that irked me on that one. I'm trying to think. Oh, it was because I was talking about the roof thing with Boone. And I was like, listen, guys.

Like, he didn't come out and say, fuck this roof being open. That's why we lost. He was asked a fucking question. And just by saying that and then saying Astro's Twitter was all pissed off about the roof all all game and now the yankee manager says something about the roof and he's a fucking pussy or whatever and then all these people attack me for that and that's when i was finally like you know what dunzo i'm cleansing that i'm having to cleanse a twitter cleanse much needed and then is that almost ruined the whole day on saturday again but then of course you know it didn't and i got hammered and watched lsu win well but again it started with well now i have to pound five beers to get out of this mood

and i did because i'm a man and then before you know it before you know it i'm you know keep drinking and you're passing out on the chair in fairness uh you were about 14 beers behind me so i didn't keep up of them keep just keep up let's go but yeah so that'll be the bit then so only respond to positive just don't sit there and look for the negative you're right because that's what I do so don't look for the negative accentuate

the positive from people okay there done kaput