Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 448 - Mid-Atlantic Championship Ammonia Salts

Episode Date: March 25, 2021

Dr Steve and Dr Scott discuss Dr Steve's origin story while waxing eloquent about his time as cameraman and audio engineer for Jim Crockett's "MidAtlantic Championship Wrestling." Also fordyce spots, vaccine questions, and more. stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) noom.doctorsteve.com (lose weight, gain you-know-what) Get Every Podcast on a Thumb Drive (all this can be yours!) roadie.doctorsteve.com OMG the coolest stringed instrument accessory EVER MADE) simplyherbals.net (for all your StressLess and FatigueReprieve needs!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103, and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez, you would have thought that this guy was a bit of, you know, a clown. Your show was better when he had medical questions. Hey! I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Toboliviris dripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbow, exacerbating my incredible woe.

I want to take my brain out Plastic width of wave An ultrasonic, ecographic and a pulsating shave I want a magic pill All 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 aging Dr. Steve It's weird medicine The first and still only uncensored medical show In the History of Broadcast Radio Now a podcast I'm Dr. Steve with my little pal, Dr. Scott, the traditional Chinese medical specialist who keeps all the alternative medicine and weirdos at bay.

Hello, Dr. Scott. Hey, Dr. Steve. This is a show for people who'd 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 at 347-664323. That's 347. Follow us on Twitter at Weird Medicine or at DR Scott, WM. Visit our website at Dr.steve.com for podcasts, medical news and stuff you can buy.

Most importantly, we are not your medical providers. Take everything you hear with the grain of salt. Don't act on anything you hear on the show without talking over with your doctor, nurse practitioner, practical nurse, physician, assistant, pharmacist, chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga master, physical therapist, clinical laboratory, scientists, registered dietitian or whatever. All right, don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyherbils.net. The Port Charlotte whore, Dr. Scott, is calling you on your bullshit saying that there's no nasal spray off. She's right. Okay.

So if she would email me, I would email it to Dr. Scott, and he'll make sure that you get some. I'll take care of her. That was the best thing you had. I know. I've got it. It's just getting my damn jackass to put it back on my website. Oh, we talked about this last time. Why don't you just let me do your website?

Because you've got 14,000,000 million gazillion. And that's easy. I do Chanda's website. It's no big deal. And, you know, we can do, I've got that video program now where we can do, like, if you want to have a sale or something like that, that we can put little videos up there. I did one for her for some lip filler thing that she had. Okay. And she had a special, and I made this little one-minute video on Vidnami, which is this thing that Matt Kleinschmidt turned.

me on to and Cliff was using it for a while. Oh, Cliff, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah. And so I did a one-minute thing, and it had, you know, pictures of people getting filler and then said, hey, and there was a nice sunset and music and all this stuff, you know, $50, $100 off until Valentine's Day or something like that. I put that thing up there on her Facebook, and then on the website, it literally took me five minutes to make it, if that. And half of that was just logging in on her slow-ass computer.

And it wasn't 10 minutes later. They'd already sold, like, three packages that paid us back for the whole year's worth of Vittami for the computer we were using everything. You know, it was really cool. That is cool. So it's very effective. So if you want something like that, you let me know. Do I get to use her? She's party.

Yeah, but you don't have to. I mean, she is party. People don't want to look at me. But they, no, we, there's stock stuff on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we can pick things and use stuff. Like, I did one that was just a yoga pose of some random person. It's all public domain and everything.

Yeah, cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Anyway, check out Dr. Scott's website at Simplyurbles.net. Maybe it'll be better soon. If you want to lose weight with me before you hit the beach, go to Noem, N-O-M dot, dottersteve.com. That's noem. dot dr steve.com that will take you to a

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all right and then that's about it stuff dot dr steve.com that helps keep us going so if you will use that you don't have to do anything else I had somebody ask me can I send you a bottle of willets it's like no I like it a little bit too much

and if it's around I'll drink it and it's probably it's cool thank you but I and I really appreciate the sentiment it means a lot to me it really does but just use the stuff dot dr steve.com you don't have to do anything no um but that would be awesome i was thinking about maybe someday just switching everything over to patreon i don't know but we'll make it real cheap if we

do okay like we did before right because the uh ads are stressful to me and then there's there's 10 ads in our show right now oh yeah you know and i haven't had anybody complain i'm sure they're either listening to them i hope they are and using our sponsors but You know, that's a lot. That's a lot. So, you know, we'll see. But they are great products. Yeah.

Indeed, I guess. Some of them are just random inserts, but the ones that, you know, that we do, I do, you know, I have the opportunity to say hell no. Right. And I do say hell no to a bunch of stuff. And so the ones that I actually do a live read on, I'm cool endorsing them because they're for real. All right. Sounds good. All right.

Very good. Dr. Scott's head butt of the microphone, notwithstanding, that was not the worst opening we've ever had. No. And you'd think after, what's it been, 15, 16, 17 years, it'd be a little better at this, but no. You know, the day that we did this show, and people who listened for a long time know this, Anthony and his girlfriend were sitting, you know, I was sitting in his chair. And after it was over, he came up and he said, that's the best first first. first show I've ever heard in my career, and we've never gotten any better since then. We're still a decent...

We're still chasing. We're a decent first show. But, you know, we do one or two a week. It's not the same as doing four and five hours a day. Totally different. Ope used to say, oh, you guys with your podcasts are so cute. because, you know, most podcasts do one show a week, maybe an hour. Joe Rogan's an exception.

There are other exceptions. Dave Rubin and Michael Malice does a ton of shows, but a lot of podcasts are just a weekly thing. Who are these podcasts? They do an hour and a half every week. And I calculated it up one time. Of all the shows that we've done over 17 years, it barely makes up something like six months of shows

that O&A were doing. Wow. Because they were doing, in the beginning, they were doing four and five hours a day. Dang. Yeah.

That's a lot of yapping at Jall. Yeah. So one day for them is a month for us. Yep. Right? Man. And so anyway.

I don't think I have that much to say. No, no, that's the thing. To carry a show like that, you know, when you have Howard Stern, I mean, you've got to put IMS in there.

Sure. Opion Anthony. and I'll even throw Covino and Rich in some of the more modern talk shows, that's hard to do. Yes. We've been talking about doing a terrestrial medical show like Dean Adele. And he used to do an hour a day, and that's about all you can do with this medical crap because people get sick of it. They're interested in hearing other people's problems, but really about an hour is about all you can keep people's attention. And that's if you're doing, not doing like we're doing and bullshitting.

That's if you're talking about something important. But I think it would be fun to do a terrestrial show where we still say things like bullshitting, but we bleep it out. Yeah, that would be good. And it would be on terrestrial radio. And so people go, why are these doctors cursing? And they're having to bleep stuff out. If they only knew. Because the unnecessary bleep is always funny.

We used to do that to Liam. When he was seven, he would say. you know when my mom is being a beep you know i my dad turns to ashley madison i wonder if i can find that that is that was a funny bit do you remember that yes i do god that was hilarious let me see if i can find that it sounds so much like he is just saying oh he's just cursing up a storm and he's just a little one you can tell the voices oh yeah he was a little guy just a little dude that's when he liked me well he likes me but that's when he would come up here and do stuff he likes you now he just doesn't tolerate you anymore right yeah no he does he's my buddy let me see that's the voice

track no he has a great great great cut that's the voice track oh come on now let me see he's got a birthday coming up yep he does when my mom is a sly medicine dot com there he can put lots of other women when i grow up i'm going to be an esley medicine man because my daddy's raising me without any more compass whatsoever. Ashley Madison, find your lovers here. Why exactly are we singing this? Daddy, what's a road history?

That's the best part. That is the best part. I hope we don't get in trouble for playing that. I mean, it's a, you know, it's a parody, so I guess we're okay. Yeah. Liam was pretty funny. He was funny. And then he had, there was this bit we did.

Now, this was before your time. Liam versus East Side Dave. Do you remember that? I think so. Really? I think. So they had sort of like this wrestling thing because what happened was Dave came here and then he said something about my kid. Oh, you won't stop touching my kid's head.

And so then I just got Liam in here and said, what do you think about Uncle Dave? Because he was Uncle Dave. He said, well, I think he's a doo-do head. And then A-Side Dave, of course, took that to the next level. Well, you don't call me a doo-doo head and started playing. and welcome to the jungle. And then it was this back and forth thing where Liam and Dave were doing sort of like wrestling things. East Side, Dave, if you're listening.

You know, but it was a seven-year-old kid. That was a great bit until Dave took it a little bit too far. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. And that's all I can really say about if he took it too far. And we were told the bit was over. So.

Uh-huh. More powerful beings, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny. I can't find it, but it was on our website at one point. I'll see if I can dredge that up and put it up on our website somewhere. That was really funny while it lasted. I love it.

And that was when they were doing special delivery, Dave and Sam Roberts were. I don't remember that. I'm still searching for it. Let me see. Now it's driving me crazy and see if I search for Dave. of I'll get Dave Cecil. Oh, wait. Here we go.

Here we go. Okay, here's Dave versus Liam. Let me see. Let me play this. By the way, we'll explain in a second why we're just BSing this show. I almost had to punch their little son the face. He was grabbing Juliania by the head. He thought he could pet her like a dog, but he was like shaking her head around like that.

Oh, he just loves her. He's giving her sugar. That's what she was saying. Actually, she goes, he loves babies. I'm like, he's going to break my baby's neck. And she says dinner. She said this about, and this is Tacey, of course, she said this about the boy. She goes, like this.

Oh, he's a little devil. He's got the Jew in him. Oh, no. What does that mean? You know, Jew, devil. Oh, I never knew that. Because it's not true. Okay.

I remember this. Ron used to love to put words in Tacey's mouth just to make her sound horrific. And he said when I die, he's going to come down here and just mess with her constantly. And he loves him some Tacey. Now, let me see if this is different. I almost had to push there. No, that's the same one. Let me see.

So what do you think about Uncle Dave saying that about you? He is a stupid head. He is a stupid head. He is? What else do you have to say to Uncle Dave? And he does not have a sense of humor. Really? Yes.

There's a lot of people listening to the show that comes on after us that would agree with you on that. Wow. So Liam is taking shots. Listen to me. That's Dr. Steve's five-year-old son. Listen, I don't want to have to say that, you know, I'll assault a five-year-old. Mm-hmm. Okay, I don't want to have to-assault.

Assault. Assault. I don't want to have to drop that low, Liam. Wow. But you don't take shots at me, and you don't call me a stupid head. He also said, if there's one thing, you can call me. Spagula? You could.

You could say that. Alcoholic Right That's really accurate Factual Fantasizes about his grandmother What? That's right

I remember the funeral Oh shit Dave how are we going to settle this Dave You hear it here first After I take down Chet I'm gonna fucking knock your fucking block off Everywhere in New York City What

A gloves off Boxing match East Side Dave And Liam from the Dr. Steve show anywhere in New York City, I am taking you on.

Punk! Play it in the ring, Pepper. So this is what I have to resort to, huh Liam? Uncle Dave comes there and he fucking gives you some pen and paper so you could draw a little castle

on the back of some place mats at the Italian restaurant he went to. That's what Uncle Dave did for you. Dave. Remember, he's just a kid. Don't get worked up, Dave. And after that, he just called you a stupid head. A stupid head!

Yeah, and he said you didn't have a sense of humor. If there's one thing you don't call Uncle Dave, Liam, it's a stupid head. He did. And you did. You know what we're going to do? We're going to punch you in the face. Now who's scared. Because I know I'm sleeping tonight, little boy.

Okay. That wasn't where Dave took it too far. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, geez. No, not at all. No. I can't talk about that part.

Oh, my God. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. Who doesn't love Dave? Oh, God. Who doesn't love Liam? Yeah. He is such a good thing.

Well, we had this whole thing that Sam and I had been working on, you know, talking back and forth. Wouldn't it be cool if we actually had a Friday night fight thing? And the main attraction was Dave versus Liam. Because Liam was a black belt and karate at that point, too. You know, he was a young, he was black belt something, what they, there's a term for it. When you're eligible for your black belt, but you have to meet some certain, I don't know, shit, but who knows? Anyway, but Liam had been taking karate for years at that point. And so he was going to do some moves.

And then between rounds, we were going to, we were going to get a short person who had the same. color hair and throw them in the ring and just say that was Liam and have them beat Dave's ass. It would have been hilarious. It would have been funny. You know, in typical wrestling form, we wouldn't have ever acknowledged that it was a completely different person.

No. A lot of people are not aware that I worked in championship wrestling. I was an audio engineer and a cameraman for mid-Atlantic championship wrestling and wide world of wrestling. And I worked with

Rick Flair and Wahoo McDaniel and Mr. Wrestling Tim Woods and Greg Valentine. Oh, classic. I met Andre the Giant once. Oh, my God. Was he as big? Dude, let me tell you something. Just beyond massive. I walked into the studio, so we had this giant metal padded door, you know, soundproof

door that went into the studio where we did the wrestling commercials. and to the left was the news thing where Bob de Bartle-Avon would do the weather. And Charlie Gaddy and Tom Souter and those guys would, and Nick Pond would do the sports. And I think there was a guy named Fred Thompson that did it on the weekend. Anyway, so I walk in there, and Andre is leaning up against the back wall. So when I walk in, there he is about, I don't know, 10 feet away from me. And my, your brain can't adjust.

Yeah, you just, you don't. Because he's only 7 foot 6 or something, but the tallest person that you may have ever seen was 6, 5, 6, 7, something like that. And when you see somebody, and it's only a foot more, but your brain can't adjust. And it was like, I shook my head and I looked at him and it was really hard for me to gauge the scale. You know, was he closer to me than I thought or, you know, that kind of stuff. It seemed like two feet away, but he's not. Right, right, right. He was massive.

Nice guy, very quiet. I didn't get to really interact with him. We did have this guy, his name was Igor, Mighty Igor, the Polish prince. And I may have told this story on the show before. I don't know if I did, but he would gnaw on a pole. Polish sausage constantly. He never actually bit it and chewed off a bite. He would just gnaw it while he was talking.

So to set this up a little bit, they would have these commercials. So they'd do the wrestling. And then, but the wrestling at that time was a loss later to get people into Dorton Arena and Charlotte Coliseum and stuff like that to see the matches so they would sell tickets. Okay. So Jim Crockett Productions would film these things and then they would send them out. out to like 36 different TV shows, or, sorry, TV channels. Okay.

And each one of those would have two commercials. So there were 36 channels, two commercials. We had to do 70 of these one, you know, 30-second to one-minute commercials. And they were the ones where they go, tonight in Dorton Arena, a Texas chainsaw match. And then you'd get Blackjack Mulligan coming in, Wahoole McDaniel, if you're listening, you know, that kind of stuff. And, of course, he's listening. He's sitting right there. We had to do 72 of these damn things.

So they were all sitting there, you know. I love it. But, oh, shit, what was my point? What was I going to tell you about? Oh, so Mighty Igor. So Mighty Igor, let's say he's up there with Baron von Rasky, right? And Baron von Rasky had the claw. The claw.

And he could just put his hand on your head and you would faint. Yep, right. And Mighty Igor, I can't remember what his bit was other than this Polish sausage, but he would gnaw on this polar sausage. Now, we would do this, these commercials in the studio, where the news was, but when you're facing away from the news to the left was the farm show set. And we would use it for lots of different things, but it had a sofa and a little kitchenette and stuff in there. And then they would do things in there, like for the 6 a.m. farm show where they'd just be sitting there all nice and comfy because it's 6 in the morning.

That's kind of what you need. Yes. So, and so some of the guys that sit over there instead of sitting at the tables. And Mighty Igor, you know, he'd gnaw on this thing. Well, anyway, one day I was cleaning up the set because I was a gopher, you know. I did audio and camera and stuff like that. And I was cleaning up the living room set, and I opened or lifted up one of the cushions, and lo and behold, there under the cushion is Mighty Igor's effing polar sausage.

And what he was doing, this guy, he would gnaw on it for the whole day and then shove it under there. And then when he came back, I guess he just grabbed it out from there and stuck it back in his mouth again. Holy cow. Because otherwise he would just throw it away and bring a new one. Right. There's no reason to shove it under the cushion. Oh, my God. Hilarious, the good old days.

He was from, I think, if I remember correctly, and somebody who's into, that kind of wrestling. I think he was from Kernersville, North Carolina. That was what made it really funny. You know, he was just a local guy. You know, adopted that sort of fake Middle Eastern, or not Middle Eastern, but Eastern European sort of, oh, I am Igor, Polish Prince, you know, like that.

Everybody sounds like Bella Lagosie and Dracula. Oh, that is funny. That is cool. Come to me. Come to me, children of the night. So anyway. There you go. All right.

That's pretty cool. That's a good story. That's funny. Oh, God, I had so much fun with those guys. What years was it? Roughly. Okay, so I went to medical school in 82 to 86, and I took the year before that. So 80 to 81, I was doing all my prerequisites.

So it would have been 77 to 80, something like that. That's cool. It was like three years. I did it. And I did some while I was in school, so maybe a little longer than that, three and a half, four years. That's so funny. But when they transitioned me to full-time audio engineer and then my favorite guy, I think his name was Earl Ash, I can't remember. He was like the guy over it.

He retired or he left and they put another guy in it, and it just wasn't the same. The one guy was like a TV aficionado, the other person just wanted to get the job done. And I wasn't, you know, I had graduate. with a degree in radio television and motion pictures. So I wanted to do kind of the things that we were trained to do. And it became just how many roses commercials can you do? And you got the sales rep or whatever from the company sitting there yelling at me because the audio wasn't at exactly zero dB during this,

or zero VU during this part of the commercial and stuff like that. And it was just, they'd put things on little turntables and move. Barry Phelan, I think was his name. He was one of the Ford managers. They only liked his camera work. So they would have him arc around these, who knows what the hell they were, little bottles of shit that did spin around and stuff. And it was like, it wasn't high art, you know.

The only time I had any chance to be. creative was they had a show called Uncle Paul's something or other. And Uncle Paul was one of the greatest jazz pianists that has ever walked the earth. And somehow he lived in Raleigh, North Carolina. His name was Paul Montgomery. If you can find any recordings of him, unbelievable. This guy was so creative. And he was blind, and he is actually the guy that taught Doc Watts

and the chords on the guitar. At least that's the story he used to tell. They were at North Carolina School of the Blind together. And he taught him to talk Watson to play guitar. So this is this guy. Oh, my God. And he had this kid's show, and he just did it for a goofin to make a couple extra bucks. And so he was hilarious, and he wanted to do some kind of fun, creative things for the kids. And that was fun.

You know, we invented a bunch of different puppet characters and his partner, Roll Gorman. I just heard from him recently. I just said, hey, I just wanted to say hello because I really enjoyed working with you 40 years ago. go and say he's like a hundred years old now I'm sure but uh you know it was a fun time that is some fun but then it just got to be a drudge and that's when I ended up moving on moving on I went to Vickers Communications in Durham North Carolina and sold ham radios and CBs that was an expensive mistake and tears later well that's no you know what I'm that's true I was already a ham radio operator but I've been once since 1972 but it was

That's right. I've got some ham radio projects going on right now. But I, no one is interested in this, but you know what? I had an epidural today on my back because I had to, I was crawling up the stairs to get up to the studio. And it's either that or have effing surgery. So, and I'm a little hepped up on steroids right now, and I've got no sleep because I was in pain all night last night. So, just, you know, let me tell some stories today. But, and now, hell, I don't remember it.

Ham radio. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I was working at a ham radio store. And this guy comes in, and he's just as goofy as he could be. And he's like, can you help me put up a ham radio antenna? And it's like, no, I sell you the stuff to do that. But I don't come to your house and do that. Right.

And I had learned, I mean, I had no idea that I was absorbing physics. And that was the thing that scared me. That's why I didn't go to medical school in the first place because I didn't think I could do the physics. Wow. And I was absorbing physics by learning electronics. And so, you know, we calculated the way. What bands do you want to be on here? Okay, I want to do 7 megahertz.

Well, that's 40 meters. So you need a half-wave dipole, needs to be 20 meters. You know, this whole thing. Yeah, sure. And I sketched it out for him, just do this, this, this, and this, and here's a center insulator, and you can set this thing up, and you'll be fine. You don't need me. So I didn't think any more about it.

The next day, this gorgeous, absolutely stunningly gorgeous woman comes into the ham radio store, which, by the way, never happens, if I may say so. Well, it's just, you know, it's a bunch of goofy, weird guys. and stuff and I consider myself one of those so um it was it was unusual and everyone knew it you know they were all trying to be cool like I hope she comes over to my my and I knew she wasn't coming to mine right why would she this person it was very chauvinistic I mean why wouldn't a hot woman want to do ham radio but honestly why would anybody want to do it so except it's fun as hell but anyway so uh she comes

right to my thing and she's looking at me like kind of giving that you know come hither look and she goes are you Steve and I went why yes I am yes man and she said would you here wait a minute well you guys this is got to be appropriate music here we go would you help my oh wait that's the wrong here would you help my husband put up his hands radio antenna I'm like why yes I will absolutely I will

he was out in the car that son of a bitch knew sucker and he said you go in there and you ask him if he'll do it so anyway so I did and I said well if he's

going to go to those lengths and besides she was you know I wanted to get to know them better it wasn't like I you know he says his wife but still it was cool so I went over there and he and I ended up being best friends. I mean, inseparable best friends for many, many years of our lives until the two of

them split up and then we got her and the divorce, which was weird for him and me, because she and my wife at the time were really close. And so, but then he kind of got weird and, you know, stalky and stuff like that. So anyway, he, he was not the smartest person I ever met, but he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met at that time before he kind of lost it and uh the thing was is that he um was a doctor and i said if this guy can go to medical school well by god i know i can and that's really what and get a smoking hot wife what stimulated me well i had a wife at the time so just you know whatever but um that's what that's really what stimulated to me to think about going to medical school because i was like i always wanted to go he said you should

You know, you need to do it. And he'd even say, if I can do it, I know you can. You don't. I'm smarter than I am. So I got the MCAT book and realized, hell, this isn't that bad. Right. And there were several physicians from Duke who were clients of mine at the hem radio store. And they were like, hell, we'll help you anyway we can't.

But the biggest thing was is that I had dinner with my dad one day. And I just said, you know what? I'm thinking maybe, maybe I'll go to medical school because my brother's doctor. John was in there already, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he said, oh, that's interesting. And my dad was a big letter writer, and he had horrible handwriting. So he would write these long letters, and you'd have to sit there and decipher him.

But I'm glad I took the time to do it. And I'm glad he took the time to write when he went home because he said it. You said something the other night, and I really didn't make a big deal out of it. But if you can get into medical school, I'll help you pay for it. Oh, wow. And, of course, you know, and that's like, that's awesome. That was awesome. Hill, it was only $2,500 a semester at that time, so it was pretty cheap because it is the, it has the biggest endowment fund of any university in the country, I think, at least at one point it did, because it's the oldest state-owned university in the country.

You wouldn't think, oh, North Carolina, but, I mean, that people have a negative image of North Carolina that is unfounded. You know, the Research Triangle is incredible. There's a lot of stuff going on, and North Carolina is a great state. So we kind of try to keep it quiet, Tennessee, too, so that we don't get, you know, a bunch of carpetbaggers down here trying to move in. But so it was inexpensive, but still, that was a big deal. And that was enough to spur me to go try to take my prerequisites and stuff. And there's a lot of other cool stories of out-of-the-box thinking that I ran into with professors and stuff. I won't bore anybody with that.

But anyway, that's, yeah, that was kind of the journey there, my friend. That's awesome. Yeah. Totally. I get it boring. No, hell, it's a boring story. Hey, beats a dog shit out. They're talking about, what is it?

Your show is better when you had medical questions. AIDS. God damn, this is about as boring as sex with my wife. Can you please stop bullshitting and get to the question? Okay, yes, we can. Let's do it. 28 minutes in. What were you going to say?

Oh, I said, Beets the dog shit out of listening to stories about your Star Wars collection. Oh, well, I was hoping that guy would call in. Jason from D.C. on screen was what calling. Please don't, Jason. And we were going to talk about the new version of Justice League that came out. Oh, my God, dude. It's awesome, though. That's the greatest thing.

Even Tacey liked it. Oh, my God. What is it? Oh, I've got to tell you a real quick story. Yeah, yeah. So we have a new office manager who she's just fabulous. Oh, you do? Yeah.

She's hot? She's cute, but yeah. You can't say. No, I can't say. Okay. But she is just a lovely person. Tell me later. But so the other day,

We looked on our schedule, and we had a guy on here on our schedule name. Jason Deadpool. Oh, okay. Well, that's kind of an interesting name. Sure enough, the guy who had come up there was talking to her and had a Deadpool shirt on. Well, she sees the Deadpool shirt on and just goes, has a blonde moment and goes, yep. Well, no, she probably didn't ask his name and just decided to put that on there. Oh, no, she got the name.

Because I have a bunch of people like, it's like Tom Liam's tennis coach or, you know, Julie Liam's friend's mom and stuff like that in there. I identify them by who they are. Yes. But anyway. All right. I guess that's not a HIPAA violation. No, shoot, no, no, no. Because it's not a real name.

No, the real name. Okay. Check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net. Do you actually have anything on there now? No, not new. Okay. All right.

Let's answer some damn medical questions. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. Here we go. Uh-oh. Hi, Dr. Steve. Oh, hello.

Big hello to you and everybody in the studio. Excellent. And where is PA John? I didn't hear from him a long time. Yeah, PA John was BM John, and now he sold the brewery. And now I think He's going to try to be P.A. John again? Is he?

I think he's agitating to retire and just make poor old P.A. Jill do all the work. So we'll see. That would make more sense. We might be able to get him back in the studio, though. That would make more sense. He's very, very, very funny, man. Is he, though? Yeah, I don't know about that.

So, ask his wife how funny he is. An accident at work last week. Okay. And I wanted to ask him. a question about that. Okay. My colleague pinched his finger with a press break and he was in pain. And I was thinking after what would happen if I gave him smelling salts that I use for exercising sometimes ammonium carbonate, would that adrenaline from smelling that salts? Make his pain go away at least for a while.

Thank you for answering. Well, his pain might go away for a while. My Croatian friend, that guy's from Croatia, which I think is very cool. But you would be in pain because he can't punch you in the face. Smelling salts are solid ammonium carbonate and ammonium bicarbonate, and they dissociate to form carbon dioxide water and water, which are odorless. but ammonia, ammonia vapor, and that triggers the inhalation reflex, and it causes the muscles that control breathing to work by irritating the mucus membranes of the nose, and people will

sometimes use this to counteract fainting. Now, Dr. Scott may have something to say on this, though, because one of the hypotheses in acupuncture, of course, is that the brain is attending to. a lesser pain stimulus, and that blocks the greater pain stimulus. So why don't you wax eloquent on this for a second? Yeah, it is specifically, it's an adorsal horn of the spinal cord. That's right. We over, we over.

Give yourself a bill. Give you one of those. Every once in a while. What we tried to is over-stimulate sometimes. And the spinal cord brain can only take so much information, just like, you know, your body can only accept so much oxygen. There are only so many receptors. And once you...

Or you can only juggle so many plates at once. And after that, it's just too much. Yep. And that's exactly what happens. So you can, for a little while, overwhelm the system with this information, but eventually it kind of kicks back into its normal state. Yeah. And that is very similar to what I do with acupuncture.

Yeah. I'm just going to throw this one thing out that says the use of ammonia smelling salts to revive people injuring during sports is not recommended because it may inhibit or delay a proper and, thorough neurologic assessment by a health care professional, such as after concussions when hospitalization may be advisable, some governing bodies recommend specifically against it. And that is from, I'll tell you exactly where that's from, that is from the Football Association, which I don't even know what that is, pitchside medical care, it's called.

So it's some association, but anyway, all right, very good. Excellent question. I love the audio, by the way. What he did was record that on an MP3 and send it to us, which you are always allowed to do. You can send it through the contact form at Dr.steve.com. Just go to contact and ignore the warnings. That's there for randos that come across our website, not for our listeners. Or you can just email them to DR Steve 202 at gmail.com.

But I want to listen to the beginning of this again because it sounds like he's inside my head. If you're listening on headphones. Hi, Dr. Steve. Yeah, it's like he's right here. He's surrounding my head. Anyway, all right. Let's do another one here. Hey, Dr. Steve.

This is Jay from Connecticut calling. I just saw that the CDC is recommending that fully vaccinated people do not travel. at this time. Now, I'm curious, since they're requiring masks and they're engaging in social distancing, is this a serious issue, or is this just a case of overreach by the CDC? Thanks a lot. Bye-bye. Okay, so I think this is what they recommend from what I can tell,

is that the CDC says, if you must travel, which by the way, I'm going on vacation next week because I put it off from last month, so I must travel. Yes, I agree. The CD recommends waiting at least two weeks after getting fully vaccinated and taking the following steps to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Check travel restrictions before you go. Get tested with a viral test one to three days before trial. I think that's a pretty cool idea, just to make sure you're not spreading it around

if you're asymptomatic. Sure, sure, sure. Um, that's, um, that's all I can find. Do you find anything? No, I, I saw pretty much the same thing. It was they're still recommending that you, um, that you maintain social distancing and masks. And if you're in a group with other people that you know are vaccinated, still have a little bit of. Well, just be cool.

Cool about you. You know, I'm a little bit with Rand Paul in the sense that there isn't any data that shows, have you been fully vaccinated? Mm-hmm. that mask wearing or any of that stuff makes any difference. If you have, you know, 20 people and they've all been fully vaccinated, I mean, what are they going to do to each other? Yeah, yeah. Now, what Fauci says is, well, we don't have the data to show that that's actually safe.

And then Rand Paul says, well, but then you're trying to tell me to do something based on a supposition. There's no data. And then Fauci says, well, how could we have any data? it and been like you know it just back and forth then back and forth i see both sides of this just i i think for me if i um told people well you don't have to wear a mask well now what how are you going to know that the person who isn't wearing a mask is somebody that shouldn't be wearing a mask this is the issue and then you so oh well we could give everybody a covid passport well then now you're marking people well now you're marking people for discrimination and

stuff too. So I think just be cool. And if there's a chance that you could transmit to somebody else, then you should do it. And most states right now are starting to relax some of this stuff. There's not a mask mandate where we are right now. So just be cool. But if you're sick, stay home. If you've been exposed to somebody, you have to still isolate yourself or quarantine yourself and if you have it you got to isolate yourself. You still got to do these things but I

you know we canceled Micromog Fest because we're still where we were going to do this party and event and we had more Dagga by the way check him out we had Metamether who's going to be on the show pretty soon

and Jennifer Arango and Brian Pat and Paul Gaeta, we're going to all, people who are into electronic musical have some idea who these people are. And if you like electronic music and you don't know who they are, go look them up. But they were going to play.

We had that. And actually, Super Android 23 was also going to play. That's Cody Gilmer and me. So, and we worked out, you know, a 30-minute live set, which you can hear on. SoundCloud, but you'll have to just find it. Just look, Super Android 23, I think that'll be the only one. And just remember the live sets are meant

to be listened to live, so it's not something you would want to listen to on your stereo when you're just sitting there listening to music. But, and when you hear clunky Moog playing, that's Cody. That's not me. I don't play clunky. So we were going to do all that, but

just where we were going, isn't quite open up enough where we could pull this thing off. So there's still, you know, it's still a little bit of time. But I see the light at the end of the tunnel. If we get a therapeutic, any therapeutic. Any therapeutic that will keep people out of the

hospital. And the antibody, the monoclonal antibody infusion is one of those, but they're only using it for people at high risk. But it works. And so if you are at high risk, you're obese, you have diabetes, your immunocompromised, any of those things.

And you get COVID-19 and you're at risk for serious disease. Call your primary care immediately and say, where can I get the monoclonal antibody infusion? Because it's been shown to prevent, you know, severe disease. But you know what's also been shown to prevent severe disease is the vaccine. Right. And even the vaccine that has 76% efficacy against symptomatic cases, it's 100% against going to the hospital and 100% percent. against dying right the ventilator dying so just get the damn thing yeah it all right

okay shut the eff up oh okay so i'm on the cdc website and uh they said uh people are considered fully vaccinated greater than two weeks after they've received the second dose in a two dose series or greater than two weeks after they received a single dose vaccine that'd be johnson and Johnson. The following recommendations apply to non-health care settings. Of course, that's different. So fully vaccinated people can. Visit with other

fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or physical distancing. Well, yay. Good Lord. It took forever to get there. A visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe

COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. Very well. So if there's no one in the house that's morbidly obese or on immunosuppressive therapy and there's a list of risk factors that we can go through.

Definitely diabetes. But diabetes, then you don't have to wear masks with them. And this is where Fauci comes. It's, well, you know, you could have asymptomatic transmission, but the transmission asymptomatic is so low. I mean, it's incredibly low. and at least we think it is. And then refrain from quarantining and testing following a known exposure if you're asymptomatic.

So if you're exposed to somebody, you went out to dinner and then they called you, oh, God, I've got the covert like Big Joe did. Oh, yeah. Then you don't have to quarantine as long as you're asymptomatic. If you're fully vaccinated, that's two weeks out from the finishing the vaccine. Good. But then they say, for now, fully vaccinated people should continue to take precautions. cautions in public, like wearing a well-fitted mask in physical distancing.

This is where, and Paul goes, you know, apeshit about this. And there's still reasons for this. And the reason is even if asymptomatic transmission is extremely low, let's just say these vaccines don't stop you from getting infected, but they stop you from being symptomatic. Even if your transmission is low, you're coming into contact with way more people than if you isolate. So it kind of balances out. And so until we know for a fact that these people don't actually can't transmit, they're

just saying, let's just do this. Because we're all sick of this. We want it to be over. The quicker we can get it over. This is their idea. They have an argument for it. And I'm not completely against the argument until we know a little bit more now. If we find out that these vaccines, and they're testing us now, the people that are in the trials that were vaccinated, that they actually don't get infected, then there's no reason for you to wear a mask.

We don't 100% know that yet. No, and the other thing, Dr. Stephen, you can answer this, I'm sure, but it would be the concern of how long the antibodies last. It doesn't matter in your body. That's the cool thing. Is that okay? Okay. Remember, so what they're doing now, let me throw this out there.

This is something people don't know anything about because I got a little bit of inside information, but I don't think I'm in an NDA for this. Right. So if I am, you know, I'll apologize. I'll forget about it. But they're getting ready to test. And I heard this from kind of a side thing, so,

and they didn't tell me it was off the record. Not directly, yeah. They're getting ready to test those of us who had the vaccine early. And the trial. Yes. Okay. for cellular immunity. Okay, good.

So they're going to be looking at not only humoral immunity, which is antibodies, those fade away what they're looking for. And I had to surmise some of this. But they're getting people in certain centers that can do this test where they can look at white blood cells, and then they can test them to see if they're still reactive to this antigen. Okay. And that will tell you if you have long-lasting cellular immunity.

And if you do, then my prediction, a long time ago will be true that you'll get reinfected but it'll just be a cold or it'll be asymptomatic. Right. Well, good. That was my concern. Yep. Cool. Yep. Because antibodies ain't the only thing. No. And if you're

only testing for antibodies, you're not getting so memory T cells are really the key to this. Right on. That's cool. That's a good answer. That's a good answer Dr. Steve. Well, thank you, my friend. All right, let's do a non-covert one. Hey, Dr. Steve. My question is about four dice spots.

As long as I can remember, I've had skin-colored bumps up the bottom half of my shaft and then all over my ball sack. Recently, I was spending some fun time with a ladyboarder the night, and she said that there was cream to get rid of them. Is there any creams, or do you know of any non-invasive ways to get rid of four-dice spots? Wow. Thanks in advance. and keep up the good work on the show.

Yeah, Fortyce spots. You know, the thing is that four-dye spots are ectopic oil glands, and what ectopic means they're just in a place where they shouldn't be. So you'll get these little spots over the shaft of your penis, or it could be on your lip. Some people will have them at the margin of their lip. And, you know, people who don't know what they are will think that they're, you know, maybe a sexually transmitted situation.

Devere blister or something like that, but they're not. Yeah, right. They're not. Now, here is, I just looked this up, and there is a cream that is specifically sold for four-dice spots. It's called Ford Ice Gel, Spot smoothing and Spot Reduction. It's $150. And it says it's first clinically proven men and women home treatment.

For a half ounce, it's $150. bucks and there's one rating on this that says bought these same ones and this worsen my condition do not buy oh so so this is what you do when you don't when you're seeing things on the internet is go to the source so PubMed.gov P-U-B-M-E-D dot gov Fordice spot treatment and you can put the word novel in because that's novel means new and for medicine so here's an Angioceratoma of Fordyce response to long pulsed yag laser treatment. Yes, patients are satisfied with laser treatment, so you would go to a med spa for that.

Right. Here's treatment of four-dice spots with a CO2 laser. Here's another one about laser. Successful treatment of four-dice spots with small spot, narrow band, intense pulse light, which is not laser, but it's just a really bright light. And, you know, so I'm seeing five articles, and none of them have anything to do with any creams. Okay. So let's go back to this place and see if they cite their evidence. Because when it says, first clinically proven, then they're making a very strong statement there. That is a bold statement.

Yes. That's. So what we want to do is go down and see if we can find. an article that they cite, and so far nothing. So I can't say it's good or bad, and I'm not going to trash their product and maybe the greatest thing in the world. However, I cannot verify that it is clinically proven,

and if someone wants to send me the, or someone from the company even wants to send me the clinical proof, feel free. But I'm going to want to see statistically significant, double-blind placebo-controlled data, and that would be very easy to do with something like this. If it was clinically tried. Right, that's from saying. Well, but, I mean, that's how you would give 100 people a placebo and 100 people the real deal.

Nobody knows. The patient doesn't know. The researcher doesn't know. And then you decode it later. You have an independent monitor that's watching this as you go. And then that's how you will tell. And if it isn't that, I'm not buying that it's been clinically proven, but I'm not saying it's not. Right, right, right.

First off, I don't want to get sued. No. But if it's great, I want to know about it. But I can't find the evidence. Tell other people, yep. Yep. So, anyway. Coo-coo.

All right. So for now, go to a med spa if you're really worried about it and let them laser a ball. Laser it, baby. Yeah. Okay. Hey, Dr. Steve. I just thought of a, I guess what I thought was a decent question. Okay.

Well, I'm sure we will. When it comes to new vaccines and, like, the polio vaccine, when it came out or the small vaccine or whatever. The ones that, you know, at this point, we know for sure, really did a lot of good. I'm just curious, like, how many people took those, like, right when they came out. Because when they first came out with the pollative vaccine, that was the very first time that, you know, that vaccine had ever been released. I wonder if, you know, people had the same, I guess, skepticism. them? Is this going to, you know, be worse or better? Or maybe just the fact that, you know,

every kid had polio or something. It was obviously going to be better than that. So maybe they just all took it anyway. I just, I didn't know where to try and find that information. Yeah. No, it's a great question. And we don't have a whole lot of time to answer it. But I can tell you in the 19th century countries in Europe began making smallpox vaccine mandatory. And for armies, and there were particularly, and societies of anti-vaccinationists formed a protest what they saw as unequal treatment and undue infringement of individual liberty. Does that sound familiar? So this anti-vaccination sentiment is not new.

It goes way back, and maybe next we could explore this a little bit further. Maybe we could get an expert on the line and think we could just talk about it. But, yeah, so it's not a new thing. It's healthy to be skeptical. I have no problem with that. Just, you know, be skeptical in a smart way. All right, man, you got anything else? I think we're good to go.

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