Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 319 - Lumpy Ballsack Blues

Episode Date: July 4, 2018

Dr Steve and crew (including Super Android 23) discuss an idiotic iTunes review, sleep deprivation, ramp salt, and a nodular scrotum.   PLEASE VISIT: stuff.doctorsteve.com simplyherbals.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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right oh perfect timing by the way we're moving our beer store from one location to another and he picks this week to fucking go on vacation Well, he's smart. He was smart. I had no idea. So, yeah, just a coincidence. You got this, right? So tomorrow, yeah, I'm going, anybody wants to help me.

These two guys will be gone already. I've got to go to the garden store and buy a bunch of planters and say he has. Okay, so we have a parking lot, but we want to use part of it as a place for people to hang out and drink beer and stuff, right? So we don't want people driving into it. So Scott's idea was to take a bunch of pallets. You know, those wooden pallets and just throw them out there. And it looks... It's not a fire hazard at all.

Right. It just looks like somebody threw a bunch of pallets out there. So I'm going to go buy... While he's gone, I'm going to go buy a bunch of, you know, planters and just fill them up with stuff and put some flowers in them. There you go. You know, to demarcate that area. So it just looks like somebody just threw... Who threw these pallets out here?

Can we have them? Are these to take? I'm going to take them. Maybe paint, don't take these on them. Don't, don't forget. Don't park here and don't take these. Don't forget E.NComedy.com. We have an event coming up August 2nd.

And Cliff will be performing. We've got one of the other finalists from the funniest person that Tri-Cities performing. And also Vic Henley, a blue-collar comedian. And it's going to be a lot of fun. The amphitheater holds 1,200 people.

We need a shitload of people to show up for this. I was saying last show when Tim Dillon did it, We had 250 people, and I said it didn't look like anybody was there. That's not a slam on Tim. That was double the number that they're used to getting there. They usually get about 50 to 100 people there. So Tim brought in, you know, two to four times their normal number. But it's just a huge, huge place.

And I really would like to see at least 600 people show up for this. I wonder if you could do like a raffle or like announce a giveaway or something. A raffle for free tickets? Oh, for something else. Yeah. Like, yeah, for say like, hey, you know, if you show up, you know, you interfere a chance to win. whatever the thing is. You know what?

Dr. Steve's already buying a beer. That is not a bad, damn idea. Okay, let me think about that. If we can come up with something. A trip to Barbados. Okay. No? No.

On a rowboat. Yes. And we'd give them the rowboat. Yeah, we could do that. Or an oar. We'll give them an oar. Just one. Just one.

You got to earn the other one. Just go around in circles. So, yeah, et ncomedy.com. And if you're interested in getting archives of the show, of course, why would you? Who wouldn't want to? But it's interesting how we went at that at completely opposite angles, because I'm saying, who wouldn't want that? And Lady Agnesling, who wouldn't want that? Premium.com for a buck 99 a month.

You get full access to all of our archives, plus some premium material that includes the funniest person in the Tri-Cities. You can hear Cliff's three-minute set. and everybody did a three-minute set except for this one guy who was just telling some damn joke and he went on for like 10 minutes but we didn't have the hurt to drag him off because I wanted to hear

what the end of the joke was. You were locked in at that point. You were totally locked in. You were committed. It was a commitment at that point. It had been too long. And how bad was the end? It wasn't good.

It wasn't good. We were duped. it was pretty funny he did not come in dead last though so anyway hey um one thing i wanted to talk about we've got uh one guy that's been on hold for 55 minutes and we're getting to you and i think we lost a call or two in the in the break um i wanted to dr scott isn't here but but i wish he he were here but um i wanted to do we we get itune uh reviews we've got a bunch of reviews i don't know it's 500 a thousand reviews and thank you all for those that give us review on iTunes.

Yes, thank you. And we usually get good reviews. We got a one-star review the other day. And this person said, and this is Daniel Booth 05, and he said, had potential but lost me when the doctor let Mr. pseudoscience make claims about acupuncture. Now, he said, acupuncture is not a legitimate treatment for anything, comma, period. Shame on you for allowing this repeatedly. debunked practice to have any place in what you're calling a medical show.

Now, so most people know me as an empiricist. I do have Dr. Scott on this show to ward off the alternative medicine assholes who would, you know, I can say, hey, I got an acupuncture on the show. What do you want? But, you know, Dr. Scott is also an empiricist. You think he would think that he wouldn't be. But I wouldn't have him on the show if there wasn't a meeting of the minds. And we used to work in the same practice.

and I would send him the people that I could not make a diagnosis on. They felt bad. I could show that they weren't dying, but they still felt bad. So I'd send them to him. They would 100% come back to me feeling better. Now you can say, well, that's the placebo effect or what I like to call it, the cryptogenic therapeutic effect. But this is what I want to talk to you about.

There are – I went on PubMed, and PubMed.com is where you can find access to every article in the medical literature that's been peer-reviewed and something that haven't been peer-reviewed. And I just picked four random articles on acupuncture. I just put our acupuncture in and then picked some. So here's one from, it's a 2015 article from the journal headache. And it's called Acupuncture for Migraine Prevention. Now, headache is not some bullshit complimentary.

And look, there's some good complimentary medicine journal. too but what I'm saying is this isn't there's there should not be bias in an article that's in a journal that is primarily geared toward neurologists who treat headache headache is the journal of record for headache you know research so it says acupuncture origins or originates from ancient China encompasses procedures that basically involves stimulation of anatomical points of the body so they say that they reviewed large and well-designed trials of acupuncture for migraine prevention and also the effectiveness of acupuncture when tried against proven migraine

preventative medications. Their conclusion, acupuncture seems to be at least as effective as conventional drug preventative therapy for migraine and is safe, long-lasting, and cost-effective. It is a complex intervention that may prompt lifestyle changes that could be valuable in the patient's recovery. so oh sorry shame on me for you know talking about this on my show you fucking asshole he was really salty like you know salty you have to be to take your time to like you got a sign in you got a particular emphasis well here's another one okay this is from biomedica this is a 2017 also not a BS journal and it's called the effectiveness of low back pain treatment with acupuncture and I'm only going to just read the conclusion says as acupuncture Acupuncture was effective among these patients, and adherence proved to be a fundamental part of the process. It would be important to include this type of therapy in the mandatory health plan in Colombia.

So this is, look, in South America, they have great medicine there as well. And these guys are arguing that acupuncture should be part of the mandatory health plan in Colombia for people with low back pain because, you know, they're trying to avoid opioid addiction. toxicity like anybody else is. So, okay, you could say, well, that's not, you know, it's not peer-reviewed double-blind placebo-controlled study or anything, but this is, these are not, this is not malarkey. So let me do another one. I did four of them. I'll just run through them real quick.

Battlefield acupuncture to treat low back pain in the emergency department. This is from the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Again, not some biased journal. You know, if you see one that's the, you know, the journal of action. acupuncture, of course their studies are going to be positive, you know, and that's just their natural bias. But as long as bias is okay as long as you're aware of it, you know, and that you can control for it.

This says this pilot study demonstrates that battlefield acupuncture, and I wish Dr. Scott was here to explain what that is, is feasible as therapy for low back pain in the emergency department. Furthermore, our data suggests that battlefield acupuncture may be efficacious to improve low back symptoms, and thus further efficacy studies are warranted. So this is a preliminary study, but they looked at, you know, a group of patients that presented to the emergency room that were randomized to standard care plus battlefield acupuncture or standard care alone.

And they found that it was statistically significant improvement in the people. But I'm the asshole. I'm the asshole for having this quack on the show. How dare you? I know. Acupuncture's been around for, what, a couple thousand years. Those guys aren't, those guys don't. Next thing you're going to be telling me, seatbelts are safe, you quack.

Right. Yeah, just because it's been around 4,000 years does not by itself mean it's effective. But you would think that if it, you know, this is just common sense. If it weren't effective at all, it would have died out 4,000. And one years ago. Right. But then again, I mean. the same person who

wrote that. It's the same person who could have used the internet to find those things out on him. That's right. They weren't interested. They weren't interested in finding those. Give yourself a bill. That's a damn good point, Daniel. I hadn't even thought of that. He could have just Googled his acupuncture effective

and found out for himself. So the thing I want to say about what he said is that's a faith-based statement. When you say it's been, it's not worth anything, he doesn't have the evidence to back him up to say that he's speaking out of emotion and that's his belief and but that's a faith-based statement just like any other faith-based statement you have to take it for what it is is the guy in pain himself well i don't know hell i don't know like if he tried it and it didn't work and that's why he's you know that's a good point actually i don't know i didn't thought about that either yep um okay let me do one more effectiveness of acupuncture so that we're not just looking at pain treat irritable bowel syndrome, a meta-analysis. So a meta-analysis, if you don't know, is where you take a bunch of studies and you mush them together to get a bigger population so that you can make more conclusive. If you take a bunch of small studies, and if they're compatible, you can mush the data together and get a bigger study out of it. And bigger studies mean better data, better sensitivity to small effects, stuff like that. So it says six randomized placebo

controlled clinical trials met the criteria and were included in the meta-analysis and blah, blah, blah. They were looking at studies that looked at acupuncture to ameliorate symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, which would be abdominal pain cramping, constipation, diarrhea. It says, and I'm just going to read the conclusion, acupuncture exhibits clinically and statistically significant, you fuck. control of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms you know so when i was when i was a kid so daniel booth oh five sorry dude i'm just not buying it when i was a kid and you don't have to listen anymore it's fine somebody told me when i was when i was a kid that if you had a headache there was a pressure point on your hand that you pushed yes between the thumb yeah yeah and that

interesting that i know that too and you know that and you heard that i've heard that all my life and in some cases it actually works. So there's something to it. There's a lot of different hypotheses of how acupuncture works, and it may work on multiple levels. On one hand, when you're treating pain, it may give the brain a counter stimulation that causes the brain to neglect the original stimulation. So it's a counter stimulation, but it's less severe.

And so if you can use a stimulation that's less noxious than, say, your acute low back pain to fool the brain into shutting those pathways off, well, hell, you know. And then, you know, Dr. Scott, we'll talk about it next two podcasts from now. But Dr. Scott has some interesting research on release of endorphins and other things like that when acupuncture needles are placed. I have issues with the whole meridian thing myself. I, the studies where they have people just jabbing needles where they want to and then doing it according to the meridians, those kind of show it might not matter as much that these diagrams be completely adhered to, you know, because there's no anatomic reason for those things to work. And a lot of the studies will show that. Now, you can show that some of the tenets of acupuncture don't hold water. And you can also show that the acupunctures that are out there, there's claiming to cure cancer,

are completely full of, you know, beans, if I can use such strong language. Down, you better, yeah, you've got to take it easy, back. Wow. My ears are not garbage cans. But Dr. Scott is a complimentary practitioner. In other words, we work together. So he knows if someone has cancer, he's going to send them to us first to get their treatment going. but then he can treat them for their nausea or their pain and stuff like that.

He isn't trying to do things that he knows that there's no data behind. So, you know, so anyway, he isn't here. I kind of wanted to do this when he wasn't here. I did go over this with him on the Sirius XM show a couple of weeks ago. So he's heard this whole defense of acupuncture. And there are people out there that abuse, you know, they take a two-week course and call themselves, or I'm sorry, a two-day course on a weekend and call themselves an acupuncture. Now, that's a whole different thing.

The thing about Dr. Scott is he went to four-year traditional Chinese medical school. And I respect that. I respect herbalists that have spent their whole lives, dedicating themselves to finding things out in the wild and turning them into medicine. That is an ancient tradition that I have to respect it. But we can, you know, like Rodney King said, we can all get along, you know, can't we all get along? Yes, we can. We can work together.

it's when people start, you know, and the fringes start making crazy claims. It's usually flakes who want to practice medicine without taking the trouble or going to medical school, and they're the ones that kind of ruin it for everybody. Dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway. And Dr. Scott will be the first to say don't neglect a treatment that has proven data,

proven efficacy, just to come to an alternative medicine provider. do the stuff that has data, but then go see them to deal with the side effects of the stuff that we do to them. All right. Okay. Oh, Calvin called back. Now it's been seven minutes. It was 57 minutes. Calvin, you're on area code 408.

You're on weird medicine. Hey, let's see. John, Dan, Cliff, No Scott, Dye, and Steve. How's it going? I'll give you one. Give yourself a bill. Bravo. He's, I've forgotten our names at this one.

I had to try to memorize that. I'm the worst with names. I had to try to memorize that. You've been on hold so long. He's been on hold since last month. Yeah, I was on hold for so, yeah, I was on hold for so long. I decided to schedule myself for a colonoscopy with no anesthesia. Very good.

Linger longer. Yes, very good. Nobody in this room knows what you're talking about, but I got it. I did, just so they know. I've done all my colonoscopies with no anesthesia. What? Yep. We'll talk about it.

After he hangs up, we'll talk about it. I haven't talked about it in a while. Stod. On purpose? Yeah, on purpose. Well, that prophylophol stuff messes you up for a couple of days. And this way, I don't have to take a day off at work. I can just, you know, fart out all the gas, which is thunderous, by the way, except this last guy used nitrogen, and there was nothing.

I was going to shove a fletus flute up my ass and make music. Right. he talked about that. And there wasn't any gas. It was very disappointing. But I'd just pull up my drawers and go to work. He was taking calls while he was in, you know, being scoped. Oh, sorry, I've got to take this.

Hold on. But anyway. All right, Calvin, what do you got for us this week? Yeah. Okay. Well, I wanted to correct that joke that was done by the little computer program earlier because garbage trucks actually have 10 wheels. and that's not what I was calling about

but they have doubles in the back and then up front because it's a weight load and I have a class A license because I'm a courier and the species of flies actually drosophila it's not just a common house flies

I wanted to say something ruin that joke yeah yeah anyway so I'm a courier by day and a comedian by night so no matter what it's all about

the delivery and I wanted to ask oh ho ho yeah boo I wanted to ask a serious question about, because I've been working for such long hours. I mean, I've been getting like four or five hours to sleep a night. And I actually feel fine, but I was wondering, in your medical opinion,

what is the necessary amount of a human sleep cycle? Like, how much sleep do we actually need, in your opinion? That's a tough one. Because, you know, the classic thing is how much sleep do we need eight hours? You know, everybody will say we need eight hours. eight hours but that may or may not be true and as you get older you tend to need less and less or tend to be able to get less and less um you know there are the sleep foundation will say the teenagers between 14 17 um need eight to 10 hours of sleep and now my kid they think it's

10 to 12 right well he'll he'll stay up till three and then he could literally sleep till three in the afternoon if I didn't get him up but then he feels like shit that's impressive you know well I used to do that when I was in college I'd sleep till two in the afternoon all I can never do that I've heard that I've heard that over sleeping is just as bad or even worse than not sleeping enough is that um well it makes you feel crummy false you cannot get too much sleep come on um I'm a napper but the National Sleep Foundation released some results of a world class study that took more than two years of research to complete and um they they updated their um i'm trying to find this right now okay they updated their findings as far as what what you should

need for each age group so um they've said how old are you calvin i'm in my 30s early 30s okay adult sleep range not changed remains seven to nine hours So seven would do, and sometimes I only get six because my wife does not appreciate this radio thing a lot. Well, you know, she's okay with it, but she's not a big fan. Yeah, and if I interrupt our family time to do radio stuff or to come up and play in my synth lab man, it really isn't a good thing. So I do all my extracurricular activities after she goes to bed, which fortunately, is usually pretty early. She likes to go to bed around 9, 9.30, and then I've got a couple hours, but then I find

myself staying up until midnight or 1 o'clock, and I've got to get up at 6. So, you know, when people ask me, how do I get all the stuff done that I do? Because I'm putting PowerPoint presentations for work together and doing all this. It's just because I don't sleep, but it's not necessarily good for me. Now, if you, yeah, and getting too little sleep, I know can increase. your risk of certain disease states and stuff like that. But people who are, are you sleepy during the day? That's the big question.

There will be a brief moment when I finally sit down to relax where I kind of nod off for a few, but I don't really take a nap. I'll just be kind of having my eyes closed. It's like when your computer goes to sleep, but it doesn't go to deep sleep. It's just kind of like you have to move the mouse to wake the screen back up type thing.

So I'm just kind of sitting there with my eyes closed. Now, see, I had that where as soon as I would get to work every morning. I would fall asleep for about 10, 15 minutes. And at one time, I pulled in at the dry cleaners, because I'd take my dry cleaning in, and I'd listen to the radio. I'd listen to Jim and Sam, or if it's before 8 o'clock, I was listening to Howard. And I'd fall asleep. And some guy went in there and said, there's a guy out there. I think he's dead. And they're like, oh, no, that's just Dr. Steve. He just does that. Yeah, it'll be all right. But, yeah, sleep deprivation will prevent your immune system from working properly.

And so that would increase your risk for chronic illnesses that may increase inflammation in your body so that you're more likely to get, you know, heart disease and things like that. So it's, it is important to have good sleep hygiene, sleep in the same bed every night. To only sleep in your bed, sleep or screw. don't work in your bed because if you're working what are you trying to do you're trying not to sleep right so if you get in bed and you know sit on your bed and you're working doing emails for work that's actually counterproductive to your sleep because you're training yourself when you're in that bed you're going to be awake you want to train yourself that when your head hits that pillow you're asleep and the only way to do that is to consistently only sleep or have intercourse or

both at the same time. And, you know, anyway, I don't get into any of that. But I will say that I've noticed that when I go to bed about 10 p.m., which is pretty early for the comedy scene, but if I happen to get to bed about 10 p.m., I can fall asleep really easy. But then if I stay up just maybe an hour or two beyond that, then I have to only sleep past like midnight or 1 in the morning.

My body wants to go into like a second wind, there's cicadian rhythm. oh dude i i get so tired and uh you know i'll i'll go to well like i said i'll i'll stay up till midnight or one o'clock when i'm at mogue fest with my uh brothers and sisters uh you know who were into electronic music they were all dropping like flies i'm like no fuck now we're going to the next concert you know i'm just totally wide awake and that change if you've got something to do you can stay up yeah yeah they should call you the mogue rogue nothing I was just

kissing you babe you get the shout out of something I don't know how you're getting to bed before 10 and doing comedy though I know he's in California you're in California right that's rare that's like

yeah I'm out in California so what I'm doing typically what I do is I'm home by like 1130 or midnight from that stuff but I'm saying like on a day that I don't have anything to do like typically Friday nights I don't have shows like I have shows

like Sunday Monday Tuesday and kind of like that. So on the nights when I'm home, I try to get to bed by 10, which is super interesting, I know. You ever, you ever... Anyways, that's kind of the... You ever run into Joe Rogan at any of these clubs

or even any of those clubs? No, he's in Los Angeles. I'm up near San Francisco, so I'm in the South Bay Area. Oh, that's cool. And actually, yeah, I post all my listing stuff of where I'll be appearing at Calvin Haha Comedy on Facebook.

Calvin Hatha Comedy. Get that plug in, my brain. brother. Yep. Yeah, I'm not aware of the comedy scene in San Francisco at all. I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah. Well, you know, we got a comedy scene here.

Well, right, but, well, but ain't much of it. It's basically clip. No. And it's in this room. And it's like right now. Basically, they just have two large clubs at the San Francisco. There's Cobbs and punchline. Those are like in the very north part of San Francisco here the edge of the

water and all that. Other than that, there's a bunch of open mics, but it's just hippie-dippies sitting around in a drum circle next to the train tracks with BART and VTA goes all. And then there's a couple things out in Oakland. Oh, I bet a show in Oakland would be crazy. Yeah. Maybe we need to make a road trip. Well, actually.

I mean, I'm down. Yeah, you could. I'm totally down for it. I'm in. I literally have nothing to land after July. Cross country drive. Yeah. Yeah, there we go.

Can I fly and meet you there? I actually had a show recently that I hosted, and I dressed up as the Lake Merit Lady from Oakland. That's only of her remembers the lady that called the cops because people were barbecuing. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, no, that is funny. Oh, man, she's crazy. Yeah, so I dressed up as her. She's a barbecue and over the heart. They're harassing me.

No, you, what? Oh, well, all right, man. Well, you can call in any time. and tell us about comedy in San Francisco. I'm fascinated by that. All right, very good. All right, buddy. All right, I'll get that.

Oh, the reason I asked you about the sleepy thing is, and I was starting to tell this story, so I would get to work every day and I would fall asleep, right? And then sometimes during the day I would fall asleep in front of my computer. It turned out I have sleep apnea, and there was no sign of it whatsoever. So if you're continuing to be sleepy and have sleep problems, and there's a difference between being sleepy and being fatigued. You know, you've got to be able to make that difference. Yeah, I'm not.

Or that distinction. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah. If you have daytime sleepiness, actually. Get a damn sleep. No, I just, yeah. I just, I used to work for restaurants, so my schedule is to stay up late at night, so I'd take naps before I went to work.

So I'd be 100% charged up internal battery before I went out and worked at night. Yeah. But, yeah, no, I don't have that apnea stuff. And it's just, you don't know that you don't unless you get a sleep study. I'm just telling you, because I had no clue. My wife never told me that I stopped breathing. I didn't snore that much, but my sleep apnea was bad. And I'm not a big fatso either.

So I had this thing called complex sleep apnea, which when they fixed the... Of course you did. Of course. When they fixed the obstructive sleep apnea, you know, the snoring sleep apnea, then I would stop breathing. So they put the CPAP on, I'd immediately stop breathing. So now I have to be on this thing called bi-pap, which actually is like a non-invasive ventilator that breathes for me at night when I stop breathing. And that has changed my life. I'm telling you, the nights when I sleep like eight hours, every once in a while, I'll get eight hours.

I'll only have three events an hour. It feels like I'm on speed. I've never done a drug that made me feel better than that. Wow. Yeah, it's incredible. So think about it. There was a, yeah, there was a comedian out in the, it was during the 1980s kind of when Robin Williams was starting to come into it. And his first name was George.

I can't remember his last name, but he had this joke. He would say, why is it always the people who snore are the first ones to fall asleep? Right, right. That's actually pretty good. That was probably, was that guy, George Miller, is that the guy's name? And he'd say, no, it was. he'd say um i'm i can't remember his last name okay well he'd say he i remember yeah he would hang his arm out the window when he was driving and some woman said uh young man that's a

good way to lose an arm and he's like why thank you can you tell me some of the other ways but i just remember that making me laugh when i was a kid but i know he was a californian comedian but anyway um yeah it's um now i forgot what i was going to say fuck it uh all right I'm sure it would have been good. We're drinking here. Be on hold for an hour and then remember. Okay. All right.

I love you guys. Take care. All right. Take care. Have a great day. Call us any time. I'm actually wanting to do a trip out to L.A. He's going to be on hold for two hours next time.

I actually am wanting to go out to California this summer sometime. And you need to be doing some open marks in all these places. I'd love to. Or even up in New York. And I've worked out my school schedule to where I've got one class that's in person. So I can actually travel. yeah um that's what i intend to do because i i've i want to get into it more well you need to and um you know i um daniel doesn't know your history but um cliff was

one of the contestants well there there's his picture on that poster up there i'm up there looking for the in the uh um funniest person the tri-city's competition but then we put together this new comedian showcase where we got a uh some of the finalists to together to uh go out and just do a real mini tour just in the Tri-Cities. Right. But it was really fun. And Cliff is one of those that, you know, I talked to my friend Bobby Kelly, who is a, you know, incredible comedian. I mean, he's made his living, a very good living at doing nothing but comedy and acting for the last, you know, 25 years.

And I just said, you know, I got this guy. How can we help him? And he's like, dude, you can't. He's got to just do sets. There's no shortcut. I can introduce him to some people. And that's cool, and that'll help a little bit, but you just got to do a million sets. That's what I want to do.

10,000 hours, you become good at whatever. And actually, right now, I heard something about there's, there's like flight specials right now to California and back for like $200 or something. Like $200, yeah. If you're going to do sets, hell, we got some money in the account, dude. I'll give you $200 for an airplane ticket. I, and, you know, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, you know, I would, I would, I would appreciate, I want to be able to, to do, I want to be able to do, like, it's been a while since I've been able to consistently hit mics and stuff. And, you know, we're, we're living in this area of, you know, there's, it's just not a whole lot. Yeah. So. Well, they closed down one of the places. Yeah. And that pissed me off. I, you know, it wasn't so much that they closed it down for the comedy. I used to love to go there. And, you know, anyway, it's one of our local venues. Yeah. And. And, you know, it's one of our local venues. the guy just decided he had enough money and he shut it down and didn't even sell it to anybody he just said i'm leaving i'm locked the door goodbye um there is a club in i live in wilmington north carolina there's a club there called the dead crow i'll go give those guys a oh here we go sorry it's called the dead crow and uh rich voss was there actually a couple of weeks ago yeah yeah and on thursday nights they have open mic night and i'm dying to do like i'm not a stand-up comedian i just want to do it like one time to see what it's like yeah and uh just i want to bomb or i want to do really good one or the other you'll do both of those

yeah you'll do both and uh voss was out there um on thursday he was actually going to be there Friday and Saturday but he was there Thursday and he did like 10 minutes and some friends remember there he he just he had a he killed yeah of course he did

Voss always kills people give him shit but there's he truly is a legend there's nobody better than him on you know as far as stand up and particularly his crowd work I saw it's on there twice actually yeah um yeah what we may have a venue opening up here and we're going to start i'd like to start doing our regular um you know

comedy events with the sort of national comedians and rich and bonnie are at the top of my list to get them down here but anyway all right um yeah that'd be good dude if you're going to do that we have to have tape i know and video because we're we will absolutely just shit on you so bad it'll be a great time yeah it'll be fun that's the thing right Right? They, they, they, um, you get a minute, apparently. You go up there and you get like one minute and if you do well, I think you get three minutes after that. Okay. Yeah. And if you don't, they just kick you off. Yeah. Give you all. I'm trying to think of what I could do in a minute to like. It's hard. You know, the, the competition that we did would, you know, that three minutes was tough. And it was. Everyone said when Cliff got done, you know, we wished that we could have heard more. You know, yeah. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that, but it was, it was stressful. Like. Sure it was. Because you have to, because that's the thing about comedy, because, like, you're becoming a character on stage. And sometimes those characters require, like, development to get the audience to trust you to want to hear what you have to say.

And it's hard to do that in three minutes. No, if you're a long-form storyteller, you're not going to do well in a competition like that. So, so. But anyway, all right. Area Code 304, you're on Weird Medicine. Uh-oh. Hello. You know what?

Hello. Oh. Hey, man. Hey, how are you? Good, how are you? You got a talking, your volume is way down. I know, it sucks. I live in the country.

Oh, there you go. That's a little better. What can we do for you? Absolutely nothing. Okay, fair enough. Okay. All right, well, thanks for calling. No, seriously.

I'd really like to thank you and all of your listeners for helping me at West Virginia Rampson. Oh, this is our moment. Everybody from WVRampSalt.com. Yeah. Yeah, man. So you've gotten a little bit of bump since we plugged your stuff a couple shows back? Yep, I got about four orders. Oh, well, four.

Well, I guess four orders better than none, but, you know, we could probably do a little better than that. That's cool, though. So I listen to your show, and I love the pork run. I could do a ramp salt pork run I bet you could Really Now that would be something Don't play with me

Tease Yeah you know I wanted the comment Yeah go ahead I'm sorry No go ahead Go ahead I wanted the comment

About the redneck comment Which one? Oh earlier Porkrond There's like hundreds of them Well that look There's rednecks And there's shit rednecks

And you're the first one You're not the second one. I appreciate. And there's, no, there's country people. Look, I speak Hick. I grew up speaking what we called Hick, right? And when I grew up, we talk like this. And you go there and get up there and, you know,

and that was how I talked. And I lost my accent in film school. I lost my accent in film school because we did a class called Lose Your Accent. It really wasn't called that, but that was basically what it was. and so now I talk like this but you know so but we called that Hick you know it's Appalachian I grew up

where I grew up was mountains four miles of dirt road to get to my house okay so Hick I don't see that as a pejorative term at all you know that's what we called ourselves redneck even then we would call other people we didn't like

redneck what's that say it again believe it or not i actually understand what pejorative means yeah there you oh wow see yeah you ain't you ain't no redneck now you ain't no redneck dude come on man that has more than two syllables in it i got chickens in my yard and i bought my grass my hand i don't buy it when i was a when i was a kid i'm from indiana originally and they say warsh warshish you got a worsh it took me so long to stop saying that i i well up here they Why would you stop?

Soda pop. I made a lot of fun of. Sodi dope. Now, where I came from, it was Sodi dope. I've never heard any of these pronunciations. What's a Sodi dope? Sodi dope is, you know,

it's a Coke. Pop. Yeah. I call it pop. Well, and I get in, I'll kind of stuff for that. The reason they called them dopes was because, you know, Coca-Cola had cocaine in it. That was my theory for my hypothesis.

But they still call them Sodi-dopes. That's absolutely been proven. Yeah. Well, they did have it, but I didn't know if that's why they called them dopes. Soddy dope. And, yeah, in the mountains of North Carolina, Coca-Cola, you know, they'll say, I'm going to get me a sodi-dope. Hmm.

Never heard that. What was the other thing about? The only reason West Virginia is where it's at and why it's called West Virginia and why the war was won. Okay. here? Yeah. Why?

You take the West Virginia mat, and you spread it out. Yeah. It's bigger than the state of Texas. We were smart enough to hide behind trees. And shoot the idiots that were standing there with their flag. Yeah, and you just shoot at them. Yeah. Now, we shot and killed him.

Yeah. Well, there you go. I'm kind of being an asshole right now. No, you don't. We don't know that. We don't know anything about history. We're a medical show. That's all it is.

We're happy people. We don't care. All right. I need to ask the medical question for real. Yeah, okay. Go ahead. Shoot. You guys get your music ready.

Yeah. Go ahead, man. Oh, and by the way, I wanted to comment on your music and the intermission. Yeah. Holy crap. I could have made a montage out of that, like Dr. Steve. Yeah. It was great.

It would have been ridiculous. Oh, thanks. Yeah, it's Super Android 23. Look for them on iTunes. That's a compliment or not. Yeah, I really appreciate it. All right, so here's a really interesting question. Okay.

We'll be the judge. I don't really want to ask this question because, obviously, I'm on the phone with national radio, but... Yeah. I think you want to stay. About 15 years ago, I found a little bump on my scrotum. Okay. So, I went to the doctor. And he said, I'm not sure, but I think it's just a scrotal cyst.

Yes. And I said, I don't care what it is, I want it out of here. Sure. So I went and had a little surgery, took it off. Literally, I was scared of death for the next four days, thinking that when the stitches fell out, my balls were going to fall off. Yep. Like, literally, I thought my balls would fall out of those little scrotal sack.

I'm locked in right now. I'm so excited to hear this story. to you've got us all very interested. Yeah, we're all very quiet. We're listening. Go on. What I've actually learned is that now, I have about 20 of them. Oh, shit.

Oh. No, he's got 20 sis. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, they're little, and they it's like a motherfucker. Are they white? He's looking, hold on. Do they have a whitish color to them? Because the reason I'm asking,

is there's a thing called scrotal calcinosis. Everyone should go Google that right now and see scrotal calcinosis. And these are little deposits of calcium that look like little cysts on the scrotum, but that's really what they are. And you can get an extreme version of that. The whole scrotum is taken over by these lumps. And if you have a new sexual partner, you just have some explaining to do. Oh, no, it's okay.

It's just scrotal calcium. Grotyl calcinosis, bro. It's no big deal. Even with my current partner, I have to explain, these little bumps aren't poisonous. Right. Yeah, they're not an STD. But you might want to get those checked, just make sure. But it's most likely those are completely benign.

And benign cysts or they could be a... You're looking at scrottled calcinosis lady diagnosis. See, I just heard... I heard that girl. I saw this And I don't want any part of that Huh Next show

We'll tell the story of the guy That was masturbating With his Penis And he was rubbing it On a conveyor belt And he was too close to the little circuit Well, I'll just tell the story

Now He was working In his workplace He had this conveyor belt, right? And it went up And did something I don't know what it was, but it made a nice throbbing sort of vibration. So he takes his penis out,

is a wrecked member, and is holding it against this machine, right? And then, you know how the conveyor belts have a wheel? Well, he was a little close to the wheel, and the wheel caught his scrotum. And it ripped his scrotum open, and his left testicle went shooting out the window. That's disgusting. This is an absolutely true story. And he was so embarrassed that he stapled his scrotum shut with an industrial stapler, right? He's a dumbass. The guy's a trooper.

Yeah, the reason this came to light was he went to the emergency room and they were like well, dude, what happened because it got infected and he had the scrotum that was the size of a basketball that was full of nothing

but pus. And they had to remove the whole thing. Yeah, you got to take the whole sack off at that time. Well, you hear the music. Check out WVRampSalt.com for all your rampsalt needs. And, yeah, dude, thanks for calling. I'm glad your scrotum's okay, but with those lumps, just get them checked by a urologist,

and then call us back and let us know what they say, okay? I can tell you this one little story if it's okay. Okay, well, call us back because the show is ending. They told me not to do it because other nurses in the place that I actually work. He's got to tell the story. I can tell everybody else. Yeah? Wait, say it again.

We heard you. That's it. All right, dude. Thank you for your Ramsalt. Thanks for your support. We're big fans of yours. We'll have your product anyway. Take care, buddy.

All right. Enjoy. Say hello to West Virginia for us. He's a good guy, but damn. Oh, is this going to crescendo and do something? There you go. There goes. Doom, do, do, do.

Thanks always go to Cliff Andrews, aka 49 cent. Check him out at, what is it? Rants in my pants. Rans in my pants. He's also got a YouTube channel. Or is that your YouTube channel? That's the new show I'm doing on YouTube. Okay, cool.

Lady Diagnosis. She's delightful. Check her out at at Lady Diagnosis on Twitter. Super Android 23, aka the Moch Fest Posse. Hopefully the rest of our Posse is listening live. That's John. Daniel Renteria, which is, rents an apartment

yeah he rents an apartment and his sound cloud is it's official Aladdin or aladdin it's a L-E-D-I-N you can find me on SoundCloud if you just look up that name I'll put it on our website

there we go nobody's going to find that thank you you're violating the Opie Hughes rule of website design is having some damn thing nobody can spell. Yeah, everyone keeps telling me the same thing, honestly.

And now I'm like... I can show you a way to get around that. You can do a subdomain on another like website that you can make it real simple. Just have it point to that. I'll show you how to do it. Okay. Yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. All right, cool. So we don't have to hear about this anymore?

About what? His name spelled or his website, whatever, called something wrong? Yeah. We don't have to hear about that. We have to give him shit about something. It's true. Okay. My first time on here, so we have to, right, it's necessary.

I mean, us old people, we have to destroy the y' yon. Break their spirit. Especially ones that are as good-looking as this guy is. Jesus, he's good-looking. You guys can't see, but, yeah, you got to give them hell. Thank you. We can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes, Anthony Coomier, Jim Norton, Travis Teft. See, I have much more energy.

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