Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 378 - Nose For R2 (AKA the Wampyre)

Episode Date: October 17, 2019

Dr Steve discusses the life of a touring rock musician with Cody, and "physician heal thyself" with Dr Scott. Hilarity ensues. PLEASE VISIT: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net (Dr Scott’s nasal rinse is here!) noom.doctorsteve.com (lose weight, gain you-know-what) tweakedaudio.com offer code “FLUID” (best CS anywhere) premium.doctorsteve.com (all this can be yours!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Weird Medicine with Dr. Steve on the Riotcast network, riotcast.com. I need some touch it. Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho. Yeah, me garret. I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Tobolivide stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heart valve. Abating my incredible woes

I want to take my brain out I'm clasped with the wave An ultrasonic, ecographic and a pulsating shave I want a magic pill For my ailments The health equivalent of citizen cane And if I don't get it now in the tablet I think I'm doomed then I'll have to go insane

I want to requiem for my disease So I'm paging Dr. Steve It's weird medicine The First and Still Only on Censored Medical show in the history of broadcast radio, now a podcast. I'm Dr. Steve. This is a show for people who would never listen to a medical show on the radio or the internet. If you've got a question, you're embarrassed to take to your regular medical provider. If you can't find an answer anywhere else, give us a call. 3477664323. That's 347 Poohead.

Follow us on Twitter at Weird Medicine at Lady Diagnosis and DR Scott WM. Visit our website at Dr. Steve.com for podcast, medical news and stuff you can buy. I go to a merchandise store at cafepress.com slash weird medicine. Most importantly, we are not your medical providers. Pick anything you hear with a grain of salt. Don't act on anything you hear on this show without talking about talking over with your doctor, nurse practitioner, physician, assistant, pharmacist, chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga master, physical therapist, clinical laboratory, scientist, registered dietician or whatever.

All right. And before I start talking to Dr. Scott, don't forget stuff. dot, Dr. Steve.com. That's stuff. dot dr steve.com for all of your shopping needs the holidays are coming you need things things that we've maybe mentioned on this show go to stuff dot dr steve.com you can scroll down see just about everything we've ever discussed if you want something on there that we've discussed and it's not there let me know or you can just click through to amazon but doing that really helps to keep us on the

air also don't forget tweaked audio.com offer code fluid for 33% off the best earbuds for the price in the world and the best customer service anywhere. And 33% off is a huge discount. It's like getting three for the price of two, even though I've said it just exactly the opposite before because I'm an idiot. Don't forget Dr. Scott's website at simplyherbils.net. And if you want to attain your ideal body weight, check out Noom. Noom.

Dot, Dr.steve.com. You'll get two weeks for free so that you can, try it. Look, it's not for everybody. Nothing is. But we've had a bunch of people have some really excellent results with this. I have had excellent results with it. I was, you know, pushing 200, got down to 155, went on vacation and went crazy, and now I'm again working on getting myself back down to that so-called ideal body weight. But Nume makes it very easy. There's accountability, you get a counselor, you get a group, you get a group counselor. Anyway, two weeks free, 20% off if you decide to do it, and you only have to do it for three

months. Go to noom.doctrsteve.com. Noom.com. And if you're lazy like me, I like doing Blue Apron, it was awesome. I did Tara's Kitchen because they did all the prep for you. And then I got really lazy and I got freshly. So they deliver fresh prepared meals that make eating, right super easy they're all gluten free um they're um you know very well prepared they look small when you look at the little thing but when you dump it out on the plate there's actually a lot of

food there um you can use my link to get six dinners for 39 dollars for two weeks and that's 20 bucks off each week you give it a try if you like it you continue if you don't like it to hell with it just cancel give it a try and let me know what you think that's freshly dot dr steve dot com and lastly if you would like archives of the show go to premium dot dr steve com for a buck 99 you can get all of the shows starting from number one and if you use offer code fluid i think this still works you get half off of that for the first three months so for a buck a month you just download everything and then cancel it if if you're too lazy to do that send me 30 bucks go to the um to dr steve.com and right there on the front page is a place where

you can click and you send me 30 bucks through PayPal and I will send you a thumb drive a 32 gig thumb drive with 16 gigs of content on it that has every show on it up until the point when you ordered it all right very good so thank you for that and uh now we're five minutes in probably ought to start the show So I see Dr. Scott is here, and also Cody Gilmer from the band, The Indie Ghost. Follow them on Spotify or on Twitter at Indie Ghost Band. And Cody, you got something to plug. You have a new album on Spotify, I know.

Yeah, we just dropped Satan's Texas Vacation on Spotify. And it's interesting because it has nothing to do with Satan, nothing to do with Texas, and that's nobody's vacation, right? I did not write the lyrics. I think the actual song has to do with, I think Satan. in there a little bit. Really? You'd have to ask Randy or Dan.

Yeah, I listen to the lyrics. I didn't get any of that out of there. I'll find out an answer for next week. It doesn't even matter. It's a cool, cool title if you don't care about hitting the Bible Belt too hard. No. Not really. So, yeah, check out Indie Ghost.

They're on Twitter at Indie Ghost Band, or you can go on Spotify and check out. And where else can they get your stuff? I mean, like, if you just type in the Indigoast, it'll, pretty much pop up all the different platforms. We're on Facebook, Spotify, Instagram, all that stuff. I would just make sure that there is a female lead vocalist is the easiest way to make sure you've got the right band. There are a couple. Who would have ever thought there'd be more than one indie ghost?

I know. And what's even weirder is there was only one when we started and they were out in Australia as a DJ. And so we kind of went with it. But a band that had been obsolete for years and years. Decided to start up again. Decided to come up again. It's been entertaining. And so, and then they call themselves Indy Ghost with like an X instead of the O.

Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We ran them off. Indie. Okay, check, you know, check it all out. There's no bad music. I just got back from seeing King Crimson at the Riemann. That was, okay.

Was it fabulous? It was not only fabulous. It is at, it's my number one concert of my life now. Wow. The one that held the crown held it for 40 years. Wow. So, yeah, it was absolutely the greatest concert

I've ever been to. Hell yeah. And I was like, from me to Dr. Scott to where Robert Fripp was. Oh, wow, wow, wow. Yes, and that was awesome. Of course, he's completely inanimate when he's up there. He just sits there.

He's the coolest. Doesn't move, does he? He's 70-something now, but I understand he was always that way. go back and look at like the video for the waiting man, which was back when Adrian Ballou played with them, when they were quite a different band than they are now.

Even then, you know, he would play these runs just over and over again and just be staring at Adrian Ballou. Like, you know, I always imagine that it was like the last image you would see before the serial killer, you know, you know, cut your throat or whatever. Hell yeah. But it was amazing. And he seemed to

actually, he cracked a smile a few times, and he's not affectations about it. I just think he's, that's just how he is. It's not an, it's not an affectation. He's lost in it, man. Yeah, and, um, he's grooving. He's, I saw a picture of all of his pedals and all this stuff. He'd just never see him messing with it.

You know, you see, like, you guys are down on your knees fucking with your pedals the whole time and, you know, and stomping on them and stuff. I never once saw him do anything, but yet the, it was all different. Does he have his actual board on the stage or does he do, like, the, uh, the MIDI controller and have it in a box? Well, that's a good question. But there's a, if you look at it. the picture. You can go to Tony Levin. It's their bass player and just go to Tony Levin.com. He's got his diary

and there's pictures of his setup and he's got, you know, a couple of laptops and there's rack-mounted stuff and then there's a bunch of pedals and shit. I got to check that shit out. You know, it's pretty cool. And they, matter of fact, they even I looked at one place where they said every pedal that he's got

and how he uses it and all that stuff. Oh, hell yeah. I'll check that out. And the three drummer thing, I didn't understand that, but now I do. Now I totally get it. Wait, three drummers? They have three drummers, and they're all very different, but all of them are virtuosos. And there's this guy, Gavin Harrison, he's British, and he blew me away.

I was right behind him and could watch him play. Are they all drum sets? Or they're like, you have percussionists. Well, yeah, like Pac Mastolato is one of the guys, and he looks just like Wood floor liquor for people who are really deep into the opening Anthony of fandom. But he's got more percussion stuff. Okay. Gavin is more of just a straight drummer. And then the guy in the middle, Terry, he's the one I know the least, but he also plays keyboards.

Oh, okay. That makes a lot more sense. Yeah. But they do, like during indiscipline, they're doing these sort of mini solos and they're trading fours and then trading twos and at one point they're trading ones. and, you know, it's just, it's the coolest damn thing. I totally get it now. That's sick. Yeah.

So that was just sort of a separate, a separate person. And they're in the front. You know, they're like the front guys, except the front guy is up in the back, up on the top of a riser. You know, it's just an odd how they do everything. That is going to show you. But it was an incredible damn concert. If you have, I think they're almost done, but if you have any chance to go see them, you should. And Fripp even said, don't wait till, quote, unquote, the next.

King Crimson tour because there may not be one. It's coming to that point. Yeah. Shit. Yeah, well, hell, there is. He's 70-something, indeed. He's 70-something. I sadly missed Tom Waits last tour. Had an opportunity Oh, yeah. Pass the buck. Yeah, I love Tom Waits. I do too.

So, but anyway, it was great. So how did you guys tour go? It went fantastic, actually. A lot of riding and a lot of driving. But the shows were a lot of fun. Horseburner is the shit. What's Horseburner? That's the other band we toured with.

Oh, I've never heard of them. You should check them out. Okay, I'm going to check them out right now. Talk about the tour. I'm going to look them up. I mean, really, the sum it all up, it was just, I mean, we were in a car a lot. A whole lot. Yeah, and the whole southeast down through Florida.

Yeah. Do you guys all get one hotel room and just pile in there? We, there was a few, it kind of changed up here and there. See, the first part of the journey was, Kim was with us, and then when we headed down. That's your wife or your fiancé. Close enough. Uh, when, but when we headed down to Florida, she came back and, uh, went and worked and then met back up with us in Savannah, Georgia. Okay.

The Florida drive was by far the worst. I was crammed in between Q and Dan in the backseat of a Jeep renegade. Oh, yeah. Talk about a sardine can. Yeah. It was, it was rough. Um, but, uh, it was well worth it. Miami was so much fun.

Oh, you guys played in Miami? Fuck, yeah, we did. Damn, it was awesome. Is this horse burner? Yeah. Okay. No, I would like this. Oh, yeah, you'd love these dudes.

They're the coolest dudes. Let me hear the guy sing, though. Is he doing the typical... No, no. Really? You're going to love it. Okay, check out The ghost

There's Oh, okay, yeah That makes sense Yeah, cool Good ass time Like I said Not not I'm trying to think if there's any

Crazy stories A lot of shitty sound guys They're from West Virginia, these guys? Yeah. So you guys didn't bring your own sound people? No, we can't afford that yet. But that's the goal. I think this is their first major.

This was ours. Horseball's been doing this for... They're on a shoestring budget, I would assume. Absolutely. They're on a shoestring budget as well, but they've been doing it a lot longer than us. I can't remember how long they've been a band. They just recently got a new guitar player. Matt, he's the shit.

I love all those. dudes, though. Okay, yeah, cool. They're actually going on a tour to Europe next year, I believe. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, the Scandinavian countries will really like them. You know, we're in the home of Musugga and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. And Adam, their drummer, probably has the most fantastic facial expressions of any drummer I've ever seen. Straight up. Well, cool. I love Adam. Yeah, no, that's awesome, man. So, yeah, if you got a chance to see Indigo's, call in, you know, send them some props.

Yeah, you never know. There might have been somebody that was there that actually listens to this shit. Yeah, I saw them in Bristol Rhythm and Roots, and they were fabulous. Oh, yeah, I didn't get a chance to check you after the show. No, you know, these rock stars. I had so many problems at that gig. Did you notice? Yes, a lot of issues.

But they, everybody's sounding great. I got it dialed in there finally. I love it. Well, that's cool. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Well, congratulations on your first East Coast tour. Well, thanks, bud. It was a good-ass time.

Like I said, a lot of good venues, a lot of good crowds. Could you tell, like Benny Goodman, this is back in the day, but slightly analogous, because he was quite the rebel in his time. You know, they went from town to town, and when they got to one town, it was something that they had played got on the radio. and then so they were playing to like 10 and 15 people and then they get to this next one

and there's like you know the people are just it was like the Beatles you know cramming in to see them oh shit and so I just wondering if you guys had any experience like that where all of a sudden things you could tell that the crowds were getting turned on

we didn't I mean we the crowds I can't remember specific venues because it's been a few weeks since then and there's been so much happened in between then and now but it was a very there wasn't any like crazy crowd moments but all the crowds were extremely organic

and really fucking cool people. It was a good-ass time. Like I said, some shitty sound guys along the way. That was always funny. Yeah, we need to do something about that. Hell, you know, your old buddy was an audio engineer. I mean, once an audio engineer, always an audio engineer, whether you're a doctor

or not. I need to go on tour with you guys. Why not? Absolutely. You're more than welcome. I don't think you're going to afford him. Well, that's something, you know, if I could, hell, I would do that once I retire I would just go on the road and be your sound guy

Just holler my friend Okay We'll take you with Do you take your own PA and stuff Or are you using everybody else's shit Because that's part of the problem Actually no We most venues

Like at the level that we're playing Like I said These These places are so particular And they do not Cater to us at all Like I'm talking small venues What do you mean

Do they don't cater to you They want you to use their sound equipment? Well, we have to. I mean, there's no other option. Well, how does that even work? I don't know. It's a push-pool. It's a push-pull right off the start.

We, since this being our first tour, I was so fucking angry by the end of it with sound guys. Because I'm just, in my opinion, fuck micing my goddamn amp. You don't need to in a small venue. I can push my volume as much as your little PA can. That's the cool way to do it, though, because they've seen. the, you know, Leonard Skinner do that. Exactly.

I just, I'm not, I don't want to talk too much trash about the people involved, but like, it's just to me, it's like No, it's fine. It's a win-win situation. Like, we listen to the sound guys, the sound guys should listen to us a little bit too. Like, if we're playing an arena, I get it, but we're not.

We're playing in smaller venues that our amps are fully capable. Well, you know your music and they don't, and the thing, this is what drives me crazy. It's like bass player some places. I was friends with Red Clay Ramblers and Chapel Hill and whoever joined the band

the most recently had to play the bass because nobody wanted to play bass so you always got somebody that played some other instrument and he was forced to play bass I think and as an audio engineer myself it pisses me off when they go

well okay you know in some bar well you're the new guy you run the sound because it's not fun there was a few of the sound guys that were in that situation a few new guys that had just joined up with venues and stuff like that. Yes, and it's like what don't, you need to put your most experienced person on doing sound,

in my opinion. Oh, agreed. And let the least experienced person, you know, be pouring beers and shit. It's, it's just interesting because we tried to make their jobs easier and they didn't want that. Right, right. They wanted to make it complicated and not sound as good. It's as simple as that. The only, I think the funniest one, though, by far was the guy who, after, basically,

Basically, like, we didn't argue with them. He made us use... Did we end up using a house kit at that venue? I think he tried to make us use a house kit. And we were like, absolutely not. Wow. Like, they had it set up. He's like, but I have it set up for you guys.

And it's like... Yeah, some peevy, you know... It was a trash kit. I can't... You'd have to talk to the drummers to understand how bad it was because I'm not a drummer, but it was bad. From back when Sears sold... And he was so offended when we did not want to use their house kit.

Yeah. And it's just like, dude, absolutely not. And, uh, he was just pissed he had to set it back. Well, afterwards he, like I said, I got a big talking to about, like, not directed at me, about himself and how he's trying to take a new leaf in life and be more positive and not be angry at people all the time of it. I was just like, Jesus, please leave. When somebody gives you that rap, that means they're pissed as shit at you. Oh, yeah, probably. I was like, just please go. Yeah. Yeah. We're just as unhappy as you are about this right now. Oh, that's too bad. Uh, but even, even with all of that going on, um, the shows were still fantastic.

I'm not going to name any venues When you guys were spoiled too Because you had I mean You know what Some of the venues you had here You've got some pretty good people Like at the hideaway

Oh yeah Tarvo's got us taking care of When he was at Sleepy Isle knew what he was doing We got so lucky I'm gonna drop Kevin At Rhythm and Roots we played You weren't at this one

It was the day before on Friday And by the way It's outdoor a good If you guys ever want to go to a cool music weekend Come to Bristol Virginia for Rhythm and Roots It's just Google it.

It's awesome. It's not just fiddling banjo shit. No, it's everything. They sometimes try to push that, but we push back and we bring other stuff to the plate. We actually got featured in their recap video, which we're really excited about. We showed up in there. Randy was getting it, and you see Taylor in the background with the Taylor face. Yeah, well, of course, nobody knows who you're talking about, but your singer has a very distinctive appearance because of her dreadlocks and stuff,

when she's slinging them around. You've got to be careful when she's slinging them. You don't see that every day. She'll be real good with them. So if you want a visual element on your video, of course you're going to feature you guys. The Cat of Nine Tails. Indeed.

Anyway, cool. We ran into the sound guy we had, and this is just a testimony to having a good sound guy. The sound guy at our Mannons gig, the first day of Rhythm and Roots, was the guy whose basement our band started in. Oh, yeah, cool. And it was just so great.

Yeah. It was so great to have someone who knew how to run some fucking sound. Yeah. Yeah. Sound guys out there, chill out sometimes. I'd still like to record you guys doing an acoustic set, though. I'm hit. Or just a couple of tunes.

I mean, why not? Just do it unplugged. You need to do an unplugged thing. Let's experiment. The other thing, if you're going to listen to Indie Ghost on, and I'll stop licking your balls here in a minute. But if you're going to listen to them on Spotify, it's great. But the magic of Indy Ghost is hearing them live. I'll agree with you.

They're a live band, and you're approximating the experience listening to it in the studio. But I would love to see you guys do a live album sometimes so people can get an idea of how charge that atmosphere is when you guys play live. Hell yeah. I mean, I'm getting ready to probably make a few live recording on tape, but that's going to be like one direction. versus like an actual live recording. Well, maybe that's something we could do together. Anyway, we'll talk about that after, but, you know, that would be something I would like to be involved in.

I would love to do a live recording of you guys. All right. Well, anyway, Dr. Scott, you were sick as F. And I missed a couple of shows. Let's talk about that for a minute. So you had blood coming out of your ass. Well, yeah, that was part of the problem. And then you thought that you had the flu, which is, I guess, you know.

It's showing up now. Maybe they. I was the first. Yeah, but you don't have blood coming out of your ass as a symptom of the flu. That's my point. No, and I totally agree. I had two separate things going on. Yeah, in retrospect.

In retrospect. Yeah, but I, um... Yeah, so what happened? So, yes. Tell the story. You're a horrible storyteller. Well, I'm waiting on you to stop talking. It's my fault.

It's my fault. No, but you know what, I had a, I had three days of some, what we would refer to as Frank blood, which is a lot of red blood. which is a lot of red blood with a bowel movement. As opposed to George Wood, don't you know, and it was profoundly painful. It wasn't my first word. It was the first time it had lasted for a number of days and it was so profound.

Do you have any pain with it? Oh, yeah. So you had painful bright red blood per rectum. So for the people out there, that's actually a good sign usually. It usually is a sign that you've got, you know, a tortured hemorrhoid or fissure. Or a rectal fissure. And thankfully, anal fissure. And it wasn't the first time I might experience it.

Which was not Joey Buttafouca's girlfriend, but rather an anatomic defect. That's a pretty big. He's too young. That's a big stretch, but I like it. I, um, but you know, Joey Butterfooker's girlfriend was named Amy Fisher. So if you have to be excited. No good. But anyway, sorry. That's okay. Yeah, but I tell you, it's not the first time.

And as we talked about it on the show a thousand times, anytime you have blood with bowel moments, it's the first time you always get it worked up and get it checked out. Dr. Steve's rule of blood in the stool is the first time you see blood coming out of your ass, get it checked. That's an issue. Then if they say, no, it's hemorrhoids, and you know that's what is, the next time you can blow it off, but the first time you've got to get it checked out. Right on, yeah.

So that was a concern. And you did not do that. Well, I did following, but she was in all of a sudden after, and I'm going to blame it on Cody because it's about five days after I saw Cody, maybe it's his fault. It was that guitar playing. Hey, Cody was typhoid. Mary, he had the damn shit while he was in Florida. Yeah. But I, you know, what happened?

He gave it to you. Oh, yeah, I'm playing on him. So I was in clinic and I was in there seeing some patients. I stopped being able to move my arms and my fingers were starting to go numb and my legs were really getting professional. profoundly aching. I was like, well, shit, there's only one thing that can cause this. I've got the flu. About the time I started shivering uncontrollably. And the reason I went, and I took Dr. Steve's advice and had everything worked up just to make sure it was not like a perforated, you know, bowel from a diverticulum that had ruptured

and I was septic or something. Let's talk about that. Painless red blood per rectum can be from a lot of things, but one of them can be a diverticular bleed. So diverticially, Cody, are thin-walled pockets that bloop out of the colon. So think of, the analogy I always used is when I was a kid, we had tires that had intertubes. Yeah. So you had an elastic inner tube and a very tough outer tube, right? Yeah.

So imagine the colon is kind of like that. You've got a fibrous outer layer and an elastic end. inner layer and if you have a giant American turd repeatedly that blasts down there and it breaks open that fibrous outer so it splits the elastic inner lining will bloop out of that split right and you'll get in this little pocket yeah and they're very thin wall because it's really just the the inner wall that's that makes up that pocket and those things can bleed like crazy now if they get infected it causes diverticulitis then it'll cause pain but they don't have to be infected to bleed so you can get painless bright red blood per rectum you and and it really depends on you know if

you have a turd and it's just pure brown and then it's followed by blood that means one thing you know that the you know the blood is following what does that mean actually it means you've ripped something open right as the stool as a as a turd's coming through it's ripped open Good to know. A fissure or a hemorrhoid possibly. I've had moments like this many, many a time. Okay. That's why I'm paying very close attention.

If it's swirled around. A lot of people have yet. If it's swirled around in the turd, then that's different. Then that means that the bleeding is farther up and it's had a chance to add mix with the stool. Well, that makes me feel a lot better. Yeah. Well, still getting checked out. I've been checked out.

I went to a gastro a long, long time ago. And, but I've just now figured. out how to like basically keep it in check if that makes sense he diagnosed it as hemorrhoids i have a stage what is it stage three i don't know how you stage a hem right there either big as hell and they're bleeding like i got one big one that probably won't go away on its own oh we can talk about how to fix that but hey and i would like to real quick just dive into just how to soften up the stools a little bit yeah go go for it if it's all right with you we got us we need to do that in this country because we're all eating you're going to need to tune that sucker up that's

Oh, is that what the pass was for? Yeah. And I've got, so I've got a good little concoction. It's Miralax. I do a cap of Miralax at bedtime. Miralax is polyethylene glycol. It's a, basically plastic. Yeah.

It's a, but it takes on water and it keeps it. So it's coating insides and plastic. It kind of sucks everything, it sucks the moisture in out of your body, so it makes the stool pass through much more comfortably. And other thing, Dr. Steve, that I use it, maybe a little bit. A lot of people don't know anything about is I like aloe water. Okay. Allo waters. And the brand I use this is it's called George's Allo Water.

But what I've found is it really works extremely well on soothing and irritable bowel. And then, of course, I took Dr. Steve's advice and got some interragam. Is that helping you? I think it is. I think it is helping. So interagam is basically bovine antibodies. They don't waste anything when they slaughter a cow. And so they take out its blood and take out.

out the antibodies. And what's weird is you can take them by mouth and they'll make their way through to your colon. And if there's bacterial bodies or other things in there, including that dreaded word toxins, that are coming in contact with the bowel wall and causing inflammation, these antibodies will bind those and prevent them from becoming in contact with that bowel wall and decreasing the inflammation. It's great for irritable bowel. syndrome and other inflammatory bowel conditions, including we did an article in the medical

literature about using it for chemotherapy related what we call mucusitis, meaning, you know, mucus inflammation. And people will get that with chemo and stuff. And actually, that interagam works pretty well for that as well. And it's not indicated for that here. It has worked. But my stomach feels profoundly better with that regimen. And I think what had that happened, I'd just gotten a little out of control as far as not keeping my colon moist and happy, if you know what I mean.

And then, I'm telling you what, after that, it was much, much, much better. Good. So you're better, Cody's better? Everybody's better. Yeah, all my, just to clarify, all my blood went away strictly through like a variety of a diet, like not eating one thing. too much. Yeah, that's right. Shitload.

People who just eat chicken fingers all the time, and we have a friend who does that, you know, I'm always concerned about the monotony of their diet for a lot of reasons. They're missing out on micronutrients and stuff. And, you know, if you have somebody cleaning your house or if you clean your house and you routinely miss one corner, it's fine for a year or two, but then, you know, all of a sudden you'll notice just this shit just piled up there. And because of a, it's just sort of a methodical missing of that area. And the same thing is true if you just eat the same thing every day.

You can get away with it for a long time. But after a while, there will be things that you're missing out on that will kind of accumulate. The deficit will actually accumulate. So, yeah, having a more varied diet is better. We were designed to eat lots of different things. Yeah. You know. Well, you know, they say guerrillas in a wild.

they eat like 40 different varieties of plants. Is that right? Yeah, now, you know, but when they're in captivity, they get, you know, just like us, they get some spinach and some kale and some other things. And that's one of the reasons why they've had trouble with wild animals and reproduction. Interesting.

It's my sense. Never would have thought about it. That makes a whole lot of sense, actually. Let me do a news story for you guys. I found this that I just found it to be interesting. This is from medical news today. called vampires and rabies. Well, what's the link?

At first there appears to be little to link a mythical blood-sucking beast. Oh, no. And a serious medical condition. However, as we shall see, the two could very much be entwined. Of course, they, you know, back when the vampire legends started,

they didn't have rabies vaccine, people, you know, particularly, people who don't like vaccines think of rabies at least think of rabies we don't kids do not fear

wild or you know strange dogs like they did when I was a kid because when I was a kid they used to run these PSAs on TV they were black and white this guy coming down the stairs then boom boom boom you know

the rabies had kick in and it terrified me gave me nightmares you know and we were terrified I have friends who live in India where they don't, in areas of India where they don't have routine vaccination of dogs, and they're terrified of dogs. Yeah.

Because they're monsters. In a place where you have rabies, this endemic, strange dogs are monsters that will kill you. Oh, that's terrifying. Yeah, it is terrifying. And we just go, well, there's a dog, you know, because we're so used to our animals being vaccinated for rabies. But anyway, okay, vampires are so entrenched in our psyche that there's a probability not one adult in the whole of the Western world doesn't know who Dracula is. Yeah, I'd say he's a pretty famous mythical figure. According to some researchers, the origin of the vampire myth could be rooted in a very real menace.

Rabies. There's this guy at the hospital, and he's actually from Transylvania, which is in Romania, right? He's Romanian. Romania, yeah. And his name is Radoo. And so whenever I call him on the phone, like I have to need him to do something, he's a doctor. I'll always go, Rado, Rado, drives him crazy. He's not a big fan.

He doesn't love it. You shouldn't stop. No, I will never stop. It's just too great. It's too good. Rabies is a deadly virus that is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal. Globally, it kills an estimated 60,000 people a year. Holy shit.

That equates to one death every nine minutes. That means besides the people that just died of boredom listening to this, we've killed at least four people during the show. No, I got more than that. Five people. That's nuts. Initial symptoms are only flu-like, but once they appear rabies, rabies is almost always fatal. Creatures that carry the virus include skunks, dogs, coyotes, foxes, and you get it.

Vampire bats. But that's not the connection with the mythical vampires that we're discussing today. In the 1700s, vampires were not just legends. As far as normal fork were concerned, vampires were a genuine worry, as Voltaire said. Voltaire talked about vampires. Vampires were the sole matter of conversation between 1730 and 1735. And it just so happens that there was a rabies epidemic in Hungary in the 1720s. The very time and place where the vampire legend appears to have taken.

The similarities run deeper still, so let's talk about it. The following links were made by Dr. Gomez Alonzo, a Spanish neurologist who published his intriguing theory in the journal Neurology in 1998, which is no just throwaway journal. Vampires are almost always depicted as male. Rabies affects men seven times more often than women. I wonder why that is. Biting, individuals with rabies become particularly aggressive and sometimes. bite or attempt to bite other people. So this would be more like the Nospheratu variety of vampire.

Like Peter in the, what we do in the shadows. Have you seen that? No. Everyone should go watch that movie right now. What's the name of the movie? What we do in the shadows? I think that's what it is. Oh, I've heard about that.

I've been mean to check that out, actually. It's hilarious. And then they did a TV show, which is also awesome. so the and you should watch the movie and then immediately go watch the TV show but in the movie they had

Nosferatu basically was 4,000 year old vampire that lived in a closet downstairs and they're like oh no Peter ate the pizza man again you know but he was just savage you know as opposed to the cultured sort of Dracula type

vampire. How funny. Aversions rabies might cause people to become a first to strong or surprising stimuli, including odors. Ooh. Such as garlic. Light and mirrors. That explains it. And mirrors.

In fact, according to this paper, a man was not considered rabbit if he was able to stand the sight of his own image in a mirror. When someone with rabies comes into contact with such stimuli, their face can become contorted as the facial muscle spasm. Their lips curl back to display their teeth and their vocal cords make. contract producing horse sounds. And they become hypersexual. They, oh, you know, transformation vampires are often depicted turning into other animals, a bat being the most common. Animals with rabies behave in much the same way as humans with rabies.

It's not too much of a leap of the imagination to think of somebody living in the 18th century who saw a human and an animal acting similarly might make some sort of link. They might assume the animal and beast were morphing into each other. That almost makes being a vampire sound so bad, doesn't it? Yeah, no, you know, the modern vampire, that looks awesome. That doesn't sound bad to me. Having all kinds of intercourse. That's right.

Hypersexual. Yeah, and they can get, you know, they can just attract people to them. Matter of fact, that the TV show, what we do in the shadows, there's all kinds of that going on. Do you know what they base Dracula off of? The person who they based it off of? Yeah, Vlad the Impaler, right? Actually, I don't know. Vlad Dracool.

I was listening to a podcast about this the other day on Mini Morbid, or not Mini Morbid. Morbid is the name of the podcast. It's a really good one if you haven't checked it out. It's actually on the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. What? Yep. She was, I guess, to date, the worst female serial killer and was the true inspiration for Brom Stoker's Dracula. Stoker, but yes.

Countess Bathory? Yeah, she was obsessed with torturing and killing servants. Oh, now, was she in New Orleans? Because there was a woman in New Orleans that pulled that crap. She was Hungarian. Yeah, she was in Hungary. Okay, Hungary is really fascinating. I don't know if you haven't heard about her.

I would check her out. Cereal killer from the noble family of Batari. She was a wild woman. Hey, my ex-wife's mill name is Bathory. She was the woman that supposedly bathed in blood. For real? Is that true? Yes, it is.

Maria Bathory. She's been... labeled by the Guinness World Book of Records is the most prolific female murderer. The precise number of victims is debated. She and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1609.

Yeah, you could get away with more of that. So there's a legend, and I don't know if it's true, in New Orleans of this woman that was taking people and, like, doing human centipede type stuff with them and doing all kinds of weird. experiments, and she would keep them in the basement, and they were screaming, you know, for help, and people thought the place was haunted. So when it burned down, they didn't go in to save anybody. Oh, for God's such.

Something like that. Somebody can maybe correct me on that story, but that was crazy. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, the stories of her sadistic serial murders are verified by testimony more than 300 witnesses and survivors, as well as physical evidence in the presence of horribly mutated dead dying and imprisoned girls found at the time of her arrest. Wow, stories depicting her vampiric tendencies, most famously the tale that she bathed in the blood of... Oh, hang on. She bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth.

Were generally recorded years after her death or considered unreliable. Okay. Wow. Okay, yeah. She's often compared to Vlad, the Impaler, on whom the fictional Crown Dracula is partly based. Someone says she inspired,

Bram Stokers, Dracula, though there is no evidence to support this hypothesis. But it's an interesting theory. Yeah, it was a really good podcast. That's a really effed up people in this world. She was definitely effed up. Yeah. Regardless if the rumors are true or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she was effed up.

Yeah. Wow. Did you see, I guess the guy they've got out in, is he in California now or somewhere that's... Oh, yeah, he did like 98 people or something. Yeah, that's bad. Cut the shit, serial killers. Be nice. I don't think that.

They can, though. Why can't them serial killers just be nice? How can they just get along? Are they even people? I don't know. It depends on your definition, I guess. I guess so. Are we going to play a tune since we've got Cody here?

Yeah, man. Let's make him play something he doesn't know. Let's make him play something. He's a professional. Oh, I don't know about that. He is a professional. I'll wing something, though. Anytime.

Well, you can do a... Okay, so this is in G, right? Gee. Got a little volume on mic. Oh, where are you? Let me hear Cody a little bit. Oh, that's dope. That's close. I had it earlier.

Well, you know, the strings on that thing are so old. No, you just have the thing re-strung. I was about to say you still have the service tag for your string. It's like two years ago. What's the date on it? Oh, my God. Two years? 2014 oh shit man i swear you i thought it was like two years ago

unless that's a nine it's either a 14 or a 19 it's not a nine oh it's a 14 yeah there's no way dude i remember when you did because i picked it i brought it back over to the house that's how long we've been doing this you got it you don't have any processing for you unless you want to plug into that app if we can just mic that amp that's up to you guys i'll play whatever well you got a solo in this so oh do i yeah so many of get that thing tuned up I tuned it Well, it's probably the strings

I'll get it re-strung I'll string it for you Really? Yeah Well, I can string it Okay, good I saw the service tag And I got worried there

No, I'm just lazy And I'm rich So I can make up Okay, that's understandable He doesn't string things Because he doesn't He has people String things for him

Well, I'll be your stringer If you need one He can string By the way, If you're listening to this And wondering what In the F, are they doing? This is our vacation shows.

What a home? I guess while you're doing that, I could take a call. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, let's do that. It's down, yeah. Yo, Doc, I've got an odd question. Is a pain above my left eyebrow when I push on it slightly? it feels sub-dermal, but it's, I don't know how to describe it.

It's only when I, like, touch on it. Well, I guess I can make it, no, I can't feel it when I, like, furrow my brow. But if I rub, as if I'm just kind of massaging gently above my left eyebrow. Yes. It's like a deep pain that kind of. Doc, it hurts when I do this. We'll stop doing it. almost always it's going to be a subdermal cyst he's exactly right it's subdermal and there's just not a lot of space between the eyebrow and the skull so when you get a little cyst in there it will be painful when you push on it it could even be a zit so if it goes away quickly it's a zit if it doesn't it may be a subdermal cyst just let your primary care look at it especially if he's wearing hats or something yeah yeah and and if it grows it probably you're going to want it removed

but that's most likely what it is. All right. So are we ready? I think so. Okay, let's get a level here. Let me... Tess, Tess, Tiz. You get a little on, Cody.

Remember, the louder code is the less they can hear us. Yep. That's a good thing. More value. All right, so this is just a typical country thing, but the chorus has a little weirdness. So just less, and you'll pick it up. I'll follow along slowly. Yeah, the weirdness in there, you just let it flow, baby.

Indeed, indeed. Let it flow. So, have about a little. Well, I've been spending off my money on wheat and pills Trying to write a song that'll pay the bills But I ain't seen one yet I guess I'll have to rob a bank I guess it could be worse

It ain't that bad At least I ain't sitting in old Baghdad In the middle of a hot damn desert Licking in a tank Every time my wife talks a baby it's mentioned i'm so broke i can't pay attention lord how it tears me up to see her cry so i've been spending all my nights on the internet

looking for it but ain't found one yet just a bunch of old vocal guitars shit i ain't by well lord if you can hear me won't you throw a durn dog up on Because if the devil shows up with a better deal, I'm gone. I sing them real pretty, sing them real sad, and people in the crowds that it ain't happen. They call me king to turn him shipping if you wanted, you can have to have a ground.

I've been sitting on my ass like a bump on the law, watching old Annie and old boss home. I guess I ought to get up by myself a job. Instead of sitting on the couch trying to write the next line, I guess there ought to be a better use of my time. Like figuring out which one of these banks I'm going to rob. Well, the game of the game is hurrying away, but that ain't putting no food on my place or gas in my car.

And I'd drive a Bronco. So, Lord, if I can get me a record, I might not have to worry about my next miss, but I'll still be trying to figure out what rhymes with Bronco. Well, Lord, if you can hear me, won't you throw a damn dog up on? Because if the devil shows up with a better deal, I'm gone. Well, I sing them real ready, sing them real sad. And the people in the south said it ain't as bad.

And call me King Turr, Pierr, and shit, meant if you wanted, you're going to have a ground. Well, they call me King Turt to Peerlton Mountain if you wanted, you're going to have a ground. Cody, feel like plays a bit? Take it, Cody. Well, they come, kick, turn, peel, shit, and if you want it, you can have the ground. Warning on that ending would have been. I couldn't hear Cody either. I'm sorry, Cody.

I cranked you all the way up, too. Is that all the way up? We're going to have, man, I'm going to bring my fuzz pedal. Okay, I can, I mean, we weren't planning on you playing today, so. No. Well, why not? Amen. No, I can, I can totally get you hooked up.

Well, I did a little bit of a solo there. I couldn't hear it, but I think it was, I think it was mighty fine, if I do say to myself. Well, no one will ever know. that's fine I'll know deep in my heart all right we got four minutes left questions questions

or you'll play something else too yeah we'll play it out we'll play it out hey it's our show oh yeah here we go this is aproposite hey doctor Steve I just want to call and tell you that

this is my second year in a row getting a flu shot good boy with you know no issues at all it didn't even really feel it and I certainly didn't get sick. I was one of those in the past that had thought that I had gotten ill from getting the flu shot. But, in fact, it's been two years now, and I feel great.

And it's because of you. If I didn't listen to you, I probably would have never got another flu shot in my life. Back then, 15, 20 years ago, I forgot what it was. I spent the worst $20 I've ever spent. I was sticking for the week. But anyway, just wanted to let you know that. Hey, thanks, man. Well, just so everybody understands, again, the regular quadravalent flu shot or the trivalent flu shot, not the flu mist, but the shot, was never a virus.

It was never a complete virus. These proteins are grown in, you know, in a culture, and you cannot get influenza from a flu shot. Now, let me see here. Why am I? There we go. You can feel like crap afterward. You can get muscle aches and feel feverish and feel like crud, but it will not kill you unlike influenza.

Now, is it without risk? Absolutely not. Of course there's risk. There's risk to everything. And there are some people who are, uh-oh. Yeah, right on town. We haven't had Tacey call in quite a while. let's see what she's got to say

Tacey, you're on weird medicine Okay, we've got people here Okay I thought you were just still recording Yes You're on weird medicine Yeah, I know, okay We'll be down a minute

Bye She's late calling in a day Well, and I told those jackasses If they were going to come It's people to look at our house To do some work I said if you're going to come You got to call me

before you head over. I don't. So I can tell them if I'm available. And they just show up. So anyway. Where were we? Oh, flu shot. Can't get the flu from the flu shot.

Now, the flu missed is a live attenuated virus. That's, they give that to kids. They spray it up their nose. And you were supposed to get better immunity from it because it's a live virus. And you can spread that around. Very few people get sick. Every once in a while, you get somebody that, will be very susceptible to the influenza vaccine,

and they'll get a thing called Gian Barre syndrome, which is a horrible thing when it happens, where you get paralysis of the legs, and it's called ascending neuritis because it continues to ascend, and if it comes all the way up to the nerves that control breathing, that's a problem. I've seen one case of that in my life.

I've seen three. Well, good for you. No, I mean, not to not the same thing later. Not that one. That's what I mentioned. Yes, but it's not, it's rare. It's very rare. Here, I'll give you one of these, too.

Give yourself a bill. But I've only seen one of my career, but I've seen tons of people end up on the ventilator from influenza that didn't have their flu shot, so there you go. So check out Cody and his band, an Indy Ghost band, on Twitter and or just Indy Ghost on Spotify. And if you get a chance to see them live, that's really the thing to do.

And thanks. Always go to Dr. Scott and check him out at simply herbals.net. We can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes, Anthony Coomia, Jim Norton, Travis Teft, Lewis Johnson,

Paul Ophcharski, Eric Nagel, rolling campos, Sam Roberts, Pat Duffy, Dennis Falcone, Ron Bennington, and Fez Watley,

whose early support of this show has never gone unappreciated. Listen to our Sirius XM show on the Faction Talk channel, Serious XM,

channel 103, Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at 5 p.m. Eastern on demand and other times at Jim McClure's pleasure. Many thanks. Go to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas make this job very easy. Go to our website at Dr. Steve.com for schedules and podcasts and other crap. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps. Quit smoking, get off your asses and get some exercise. We'll see you in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thank you.