Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 451 - Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hemorrhoid

Episode Date: April 23, 2021

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I hope you are well today. Well, yes. Just cold. Are you cold? Yeah, it was colder and shit today. Yeah, man. What the hell? This is April 21st, and I got out of my car to fill up the gas, and I was like, I've got

to get back in the car. It's terrible. Coming over here today, I thought we were going to have a little, some sprinkles of snow, and we might get some tonight. Yeah, nobody gives a shit. But I did, I was. smart, and I did not plant my tomatoes when it looked like I could have because it was so warm last weekend. I'm really glad I didn't.

I did the same thing I thought about it, and I thought, no, it's like a sucker. Yeah, around here, it's the first weekend after Mother's Day is what they recommend. Anyway, nobody gives a shit. Let me see. Bullshitting and get to the question. Wait, I'm sorry. What did you say? Can you please stop bullshitting?

Okay. A couple of things. The president of the United States was just on television. Today is the 21st of April, 2021. And he said that he was making sure that everyone 16 and above can get the vaccine out. And about 80% of people over the age of 65 have had at least one dose of the vaccine. so they're at least partially protected. And although cases are going up incrementally right now,

deaths continue to decline. So that's good, particularly in that age group. They've fallen precipitously. So the vaccine right now seems to be working. Now, what we're hoping to avoid is a repeat of all of this when this, if these variants become predominant and they make you just as sick as the original thing did. Right.

If that's the case and they avoid already established immunity, then it's a whole new pandemic. The good news is we can kick its ass so much faster. It's so much faster to create a variant vaccine than it is to create a vaccine de novo. In other words, from scratch, right. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it's coming. I'm sorry, it looks like a lot of those variants are coming. around the world just like kind of the flu when it goes around the world sure well we uh I'm in

the booster trial for Pfizer they haven't told me anything about it yet but apparently there'll be a booster trial and a variant trial that they're getting ready to get cranked up okay because they've got these things um already sequenced right they know the the DNA and so they can make you know a variant very easily well even vaccine very easily right and you know Dr. Steve Those scientists knew that the variations were coming just because of the way viruses do so. Sure. One would assume they probably had something kind of. Yeah, they're just waiting to see when it starts to change.

Here's what we're going to do. So, you know, one would hope that they had a little bit of planning and knowledge instead of going in blind like we did with the first one. Just miscoding. When the virus starts to reproduce itself, if it miscodes an amino acid. adhere there, it'll make a slightly different spike protein. Some of those, a very small subset, may result

in the virus being more communicable. It might be more sticky. And while doing that, it may make it less or more deadly or the same. We don't know. A lot of times viruses will evolve

toward a less deadly strain. So you can hang around longer. Yeah, they can infect more people and nobody cares. No one's trying to just destroy them like we are with this one. But I still think like Godzilla destroy all monsters, you know, destroy all viruses. It would be love. I had a biologist email me, well, you know, some of them do some good stuff. I said, name three that are pathogenic in humans.

Yeah. No, I get that there are beneficial viruses out there that we have come to rely on certain things. I can't name any of them and don't really, you know, it's some, and some of it may even be major. And some viruses may protect us from some pests that we otherwise wouldn't, you know, like bacteriophages. Those are viruses that just infect bacteria. And some of those may be helping us in some way. Yep. But the human pathogenic viruses, I don't see any benefit to those.

I don't see a benefit to Norwalk virus. If I could just kill the virus that makes me throw up once every four years for three days straight, I would absolutely destroy it. Yeah, that puked virus is... It sucks. Unplendous. Hate it. Oh, God. And the first time you puke, it's like, well, that wasn't that bad.

It's like the 20th time. It's like, oh, God, please make this stop. Yeah, you know, the last time I had a really good one we were in, that little city we used to work in. And I was in, actually, in clinic in there with you one day, and, man, I got this sucker. I stopped three times on the way home. Oh, I hate that. It was just to blow chunks. It was horrible.

Yeah, the first few, you know, it hits you every 15 minutes, and then it's like once an hour, and then once an hour and a half. And, you know, finally you get some sleep and might wake you up once, and you puke a couple of times. And most of the time it's over, but Norwalk virus would go on 72 hours sometimes. That's why it just destroys cruise ships. when it gets in there, because it's not a 24-hour virus for a lot of people. This sucks. Stupid thing.

Destroy those viruses, too. Get rid of them while you're at it. Well, you want to take some questions? Yeah, let's do it. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. I don't have, I have done, I've had another shitty week, and so these, we're listening to these cold. We haven't listened to them before, and we'll just by God see. and if we don't know how to answer them, I'll say so because we'll make it on us.

We'll just make it up. Or, yeah, we'll just make it up. This is an entertainment show. That's right. We say at the beginning, don't do what we say. Don't listen to us anyway. We don't know nothing. That's right.

We're stupid. Hey, Dr. Steve, this is Matt Cupac. I'm watching television, and I've seen a commercial for a medication called Sonosi. It says it for sleep apnea, severe obstructive sleep apnea. What is it? How does it work? I know it says it doesn't take place to your seat back, but what does it do? How does it work? All right.

That's all for now. Bye. Thanks. The only thing that I can think of, and I have no idea what in the hell he's talking about. But if it's a medication that you can buy over the counter is most likely a palatal lubricant. I've seen those before where you spray it in the back of your throat. and it's a lubricant and what it's supposed to do is

keep you from snoring and by not snoring you're breathing more easily but I have no idea if those things actually work go ahead because I've got some other ideas I just wonder if he's talking about the sonosi that's the prescription for narcolepsy

I bet that's what he's talking about for daytime sleepiness it does not treat it does not treat as far as I know it doesn't treat sleep at me but it's but treats narcolepsy, which is my guess. See, we don't go by brand names in our practice, so that's Sol Riamphitol is what that is.

And, yeah, it is, you get up to, like, nine hours of improved wakefulness with one dose, but it's not a stimulant. So I would, I don't treat sleep apnea in my, so let's find out what the mechanism is. Sol reamphitol. Now, this is the stuff that Carl from who are these podcasts gets all up in a wad about, oh, who edit that out?

Well, we're doing this live for radio, so I just can't do it. Sorry. It is derived from D-Fennelalanine, oh, which is basically an amino acid. And it is a norepinephrine dopamine re-uptake inhibitor. Isn't that interesting. So is not bupropion? Will you look that up and see if that is not also a norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor? Or it's very similar.

So what this does is it blocks the reuptake of noradrenaline, because norapinephrine is noradrenaline, so it's a form, you know, a variant of adrenaline, and dopamine. And this can be very activating to the brain. Both of these medications will increase wakefulness. So that's what this is about. Yeah, I think so. These are people, so this doesn't treat your sleep apnea. You still have the sleep apnea. It just takes care of the daytime sleepiness.

Because when I had bad sleep apnea, I would drive up to work every day. And I would, as soon as I parked, I'd fall asleep. and I'd wake up about 20 minutes later and I felt pretty good and if I was sitting in the afternoon typing on my computer writing notes or something I would doze off and when I got the CPAP machine

it helped that and that still happens to me some and if I'm watching TV I mean the kids will just laugh you know well here's dad's going to take a nap because we're watching television good old dad passing out my dad did that too but my dad had had such bad snoring, and certainly he had sleep apnea, he had to, but his snoring

was so loud that my bedroom was in the basement, you know, on the, we had two ground floors, where the house was built on a slope, so it was the main ground floor, where he went up to my parents' bedroom, and then from the main ground floor, he'd go down and come out to my bedroom, would open to the backside. And so I was really two floors away. And he would snore so loud up there on the third floor that it would wake me up. Jeez. And I can hear my mom going, Irv, turn over.

Her whole life. Irv, turn over. Yeah, he had to have terrible sleep. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So anyway, that's what this stuff is. Did you find out anything about bupropion as well?

It is. It is. It's the same class. It's norapinephrine. dopamine re-uptake inhibitor? Okay, that's what I thought. And so, yeah, so, and when I took bupropion, I took it to stop smoking. Right.

Because it was sold as Zyban at the time. And one thing about it was that it absolutely stopped my desire for cigarettes, but it also had this other crazy effect where I would get up on a Saturday at like 6.30, I would get out in the yard at seven in the morning, and I would do yard work until the sun went down, which I never did stupid shit like that. It gave me so much jazzed up energy, not in a speedy way at all. Right. You know, it wasn't a stimulant. It just gave me more whatever, you know. I had more mojo. Sure. That's good. That's good stuff. Okay. So, yeah, that's cool. That's a, that's cool question. Okay, so.

Good one. Yep. We both, well, all of us learn something on that one. Excellent. Thank you, my friend. Good job. All right. Here's, I think this is our Ramp Salt, friend.

Let's see. Oops. Hey, Doc. This is Ramp Salt. Just wanted to check in. I've been doing a little traveling. I'll see him to your show. Awesome as usual.

Thanks, man. I left the message earlier. I'm not sure if it actually went through, so I decided to call back again. Okay. I'm starting to develop moles. literally five or six moles on my hand on the side of my face like part of my body and i'm just curious as to why that is and why they're happening so rapidly okay have a good one man check him out by the way at w v rampsalt dot com he gets he takes ramps and he makes salt

salt salt salt infused salt yeah ramp infused salt and it's incredible and it's very very good it's like for west virginia w v ramp salt.com. And he didn't ask for a plug. We just know who he is. So those moles, if they are flat and waxy and you can kind of pick them off and then they grow right back, those are what we used to call age spots. And we would call...

Liver spots. Well, so they're kind of like liver spots. That's a little different. Okay, yeah, yeah. But these things may be when they start proliferating like this, could very well. be seboriac carotoses. And they're really hard to get rid of. We use by chloroacetic acid to just burn them to death.

Right, burn it off, yep. And then it leaves a little pale scar behind, but it's better in having this big black, you know, uh, waxy lesion. Looks like a, looks like a mushroom growing off your skin kind of. Could be, but or a really flat mushroom. Yeah, yeah. They're usually flat. Yeah.

But they're waxy and, and, uh, brown. Now, there are other, there are some other things. lentigos and stuff like that. And really impossible for us to tell over the radio, and it's really hard to tell even from a photograph, from a cell phone. So the best thing to do is just see your primary care.

Let them see them. If they're at any concerning at all, they'll biopsy one or more of them, which sounds awful, but it's not. The easiest way to do it is just simply to inject some, well, sterile prep of the area, inject some

numbing medication, and then use a punch biopsy to just and a punch biopsy basically just a cylinder with a knife sharpened edge on it and you just twist it and it goes right into the skin pops out this little core of skin you send it off to the pathologist they look at it under the microscope

and you have your diagnosis and if it's totally benign but cosmetically yucky you can get them fixed go to a med spa and they'll just laser them off or a dermatologist okay yeah all right WVRampSalt

dot com good for what else you it is good it's good for what ails you there dr scott all right hello dr steve uh i have a low white blood cell count and i also have low platelets and i was wondering if there would be any problems with taking the vaccine with uh within correlation of that stuff thanks bye yeah so uh this person has some disorder, you know, maybe a minimal immune-compromised patient, and they want to know should they take the vaccine, and I'm assuming they mean for COVID-19. So if you have HIV or an other immunocompromising condition or people who take immunosuppressive of medications or therapies may be at risk for severe COVID-19.

And there isn't any data available to establish COVID-19 vaccine safety in these groups, but the currently authorized vaccines are not live vaccines. Okay, that's where if you're immunocompromised, you're really worried about a live vaccine becoming virulent in you. In other words, people who have a normal immune system, we give them a live attenuated vaccine. They do fine, and their body fights it off, but it creates an immune response to it. So when the real vaccine hits them, they're under control. Whereas an immunocompromised person, that live attenuated vaccine could do some harm.

In this case, this is not a live vaccine. It was never live. It's just a string of MRNA codons. that was synthesized in a lab. And in that case, we're talking Moderna or Pfizer, or a, the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson,

which is a viral transport. It uses an actual virus for transport. If it were me, and I don't have any data to say this, I would do the MRNA one before I would do the adenovirus one. Even though that adenovirus really isn't virulent, You know, it's a transporter.

Right. It's not really, you know, an infective virus at that point. It's not reproducing itself. It's reproducing the spike protein. But just to be on the safe side, I would do the Pfizer-Moderna. If it were me, I'm just saying me. Talk to your primary care provider or your vaccinologist or virologist or whoever you're dealing with. And if you have low platelet and low white cat, you're seeing a hemispy.

The hematologist asked them. Yeah. Really, I'm looking at the CDC website right now, just as data are currently insufficient to form optimal timing of COVID-19 vaccines among people who are planning to receive immunosuppressive therapies as people getting chemo or biologicals for other problems like rheumatoid arthritis or psoriotic arthritis. And they said, based on the general best practices for vaccination of immunocompromised people, COVID-19 vaccination should be completed at least two weeks before initiation of immunosuppressive

therapies. When it's not possible to administer a complete COVID-19 series in advance, people on immunosuppressive therapy can still receive COVID-19 vaccination. Decisions to delay immunosuppressive therapy to complete COVID-19 vaccination should consider the person's risks related to their underlying condition, of course. So if I had someone that critically. needed an immunosuppressive therapy. I would not delay it just because they hadn't quite finished their COVID-19 vaccine yet.

You just take the hit in that case. All right. And it just says people should be counseled about the unknown vaccine safety profile and effectiveness in immunocompromised populations. And it really depends on how you're immunocompromised as well. You know, if you have low B-cell count, Those are people going to may have trouble making antibodies. Okay.

And a low T-cell count, they're going to have trouble generating humoral immunity. Remember there's, no, I'm sorry, cellular immunity. There's humoral immunity, which is antibodies and then cellular immunity, which are the white blood cells that remember things and eat things and come and chase things down that have been tagged with antibodies and destroy them and that kind of stuff. Kind of like angry moms. Like those are like the angry mom's side of your immune system. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yep.

Are the, fighting for the babies? The villagers with the pitchfork and torches, you know, that is storming Frankenstein's castle. Get dim some bitches out of here. So anyway. So we don't know the answer of the CDC feels like it's probably fine because it is not a live vaccine. But talk to your. health care provider on that

one. All right. Let's see. Don't know what this one is. Oh, why is everybody doing that? Yep. Hello. Hello? Are you on the party line? I swear there's a transcript for this one. Okay, I'm going to give

them two more seconds. Hey, Doc. This is Ramsalt. Got a question. Oh, that's Ramsall. I already answered this question. Okay. All right. Very good. Let's try this. one. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's Mike from New York calling. Received Pfizer vaccine just after the two-week mark of my second vaccine came down with COVID.

Okay. Symptoms aren't bad, more like a cold than anything else, thankfully. But I was just curious, is there any study done on whether I have a chance of getting COVID again? or I know with the variants out there, there's probably different ones I could pick up. Just wondering if there's any data available on if I'm free now, finally, of this mess or if I still have to worry so much. Thanks very much. Have a great day. Yeah, the CDC recently put out a number that said, of all the people that have had the vaccine so far, only 6,000 have had breakthrough COVID-19.

So when you get vaccinated with a vaccine that's 94% effective against, you know, preventing infection, that means 6% of people in whatever cohort group that you look at will still get infected. So it's not 100%, but it's pretty good. And it may be 100% from dying or going to the hospital. You may still get it, but it'll be a mild syndrome. So we can't tell if this guy's syndrome was mild because he'd already had one vaccine and he was two weeks from there. You know, he was only a couple days from the second one. But presumably he mounted some immune response and then he got COVID-19, but it was a mild syndrome. But most people have a mild syndrome anyway.

So we can't say that it was the vaccine that saved this guy. You'll never be able to say that. No. For any one person, even if you reduce. the incidence of death to zero. You can't say any one particular person was saved by the vaccine. You can only say this population was saved by the vaccine. Any one person, the vast majority of people have a mild syndrome.

Yep. You know? Thankfully, yes. Yeah, it's just that the ones that don't get sicker and shit, and it's at a higher rate than normal things that were used to, like influenza, which is about 0.1%. when you have this thing at one, even if it was 1%, we initially thought it was 3,

which would be 30 times higher than influenza. But even at 10 times higher than influenza, that's why we were filling up... Every hospital. Our floors on our hospital. And anybody that says this thing is bullshit again, I just invite you to go back in time with me to January when we were literally closing down

whole wings of the hospital just so we could put COVID-19 patients in there. And we were taking normal floors that were just regular medicine surgery floors and turning them into ICUs and putting ventilators in rooms that had never seen a ventilator since the hospital was built. And stopping out.

And stopping surgeries and elective surgeries. Well, that could just be somebody's choice. No, but no, but as far as the hospitals were having to stop elective surgeries because they don't want to do that and they make money off of that stuff. Exactly. But they had to. So anyway, all right. Let's see what this person will be stopped today.

For inquiries, please contact customer service. For English service, please press two. Hello, this is Boa Bank. If your credit card is abnormal, the service will be stopped today. For inquiries, please contact customer service. Who falls for this? Unfortunately, a lot of people. They don't even give you a number.

If people would quit following for it, these fucking people just quit making these robocalls and harassing us, you know? I got the one. This is Social Security. Your account is abnormal. There is criminal activity. You will be served with, you know, subpoena. if you don't call this number. Now, I say who falls for this?

One of my really good friends, a person that I have the highest respect for, somehow ended up going to CVS and buying $4,000 worth of gift cards and given the numbers to somebody over the phone because they thought it was the FBI. So even, I mean, I say who falls for this And then I just remembered one of my friends did.

And I was like, what were you thinking? She said, I wasn't thinking. They scared me so bad. I wasn't thinking. I've got a friend of mine did the same thing. Went to Walmart, about $7,000 with the gift cards, gave them to them. And the same people called her back the next day and said, ma'am, none of those were worth. Oh, you got to get us some more.

You got to get us 7,000 more. Did she do that? And got 7,000 more. 14 grand. Yeah. Oh, my God. And this is a smart lady. She's educated.

Well, I told her, yeah, and my friend is, too. She's as smart as she can be. She's probably smarter than any of us. And I told her, well, you fed a whole village, you know, with that money, I'm sure, you know. Oh, geez. Yeah, but if we'd quit falling for that, maybe they'd quit calling. Yeah. It wouldn't be so lucrative.

There's a whole YouTube things on these guys that scam the scammers. They'll run these virtual machines, and then they'll invite them into their one guy. One guy, this was so great. He somehow, these guys are all computer geniuses. So he's running a virtual machine inside his computer. So if they mess it up, they can't do anything. It's not a real machine. You know, it's just simulated.

But they, on the other side, they can't. I'm already confused. I know. I don't know how to explain it any better in that. But it's a program that you run inside your computer that simulates the activity of a computer to the point where if you're looking in from the outside, you can't tell. It's going to run a little slower, but you can't see that. And, you know, you'd have to run benchmarks on it, all this stuff.

And this guy worked it out so that when he went to Bank of America's website to get his balance, instead of showing $200 or whatever, this app that he had written inside this virtual machine would substitute $2 million. So the scammers saw that and started free, you know, because they go in, they say, well, let me, you know, let me look in your machine and let me see if we can fix whatever bug is causing this problem. And then they'll go in and get your account numbers or they will start transferring. They'll lock you out of your computer and then start transferring money out of your accounts into their accounts and stuff like that. And he was just, oh, yeah.

So I've got this account and I've got this account over there. But don't touch that one. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You know, that's my dad's account. He had $2 million in it. And the scammer was just, oh, they were, you know, rubbing their hands together. Well, we got a big one here. He even put him on holding supervisor.

Yeah. And, of course, it was all just bullshit. But those are fun videos to watch. That's cool. But, yeah. So my understanding was that if you go to CVS or Walgreens or any. place like that and you buy a bunch of gift cards that they're supposed to tell you that you're being scammed or at least warn you that you're probably being scammed.

Because I've bought gift cards for my kid and they've said, hey, you know, are you buying this for somebody? It's like, well, what's it to you? Then they'll tell you why, yeah. Interesting. So it just boggles my mind that people are still going and buying gift cards and giving them the numbers. Lord, that's terrible.

Well, hopefully we'll figure out a way to... And then once you do that, if you do it and you realize you're being scammed, can't you call, I guess they download the value immediately. They don't just sit there on it. But couldn't you call the card company that makes those things and say, hey, wait a minute, don't accept any transfers? You would think, but it must be more difficult than that, I guess. Golly.

It's very sad. Well, this one, it just says this is boa. bank if your credit card is abnormal the service will be stopped today please contact customer service but it it doesn't oh i i see for english service pre plus two so you have to do this one live it's not something you can call back anyway well i'm glad i didn't fall for it there you go okay very good uh let's see here um yeah i don't know if i can answer this one but we'll look at it oh wait a minute here this guy's got two questions okay here we go Hey, Dr. Steve's Matt and Charleston.

Hey, Matt. How's it going? That's good. I'll go over here, too. Good, man. Hey, just finished looking to the most recent show, and you touched on a trip to Australia where you considered taking separate airplanes from your wife to ensure that if one of the planes were to crash, there would be one parent left.

Yeah, we were crazy back then, and we had an 18-year-old kid, and we were both relatively new parents. 18-month-old. What I say, 18-year-old? Yeah, yeah, 18-year-old would be just fine, but, yeah, the 18-month-old kid. That's a much. Okay. I like your thinking. Okay.

However, if you were to do this, don't you then, you decrease the odds of both of you dying? Yes. In a plane crash, but you double the odds of one of you dies. That's correct. In an airplane. Good. As long as it's my wife, then I would have been fine with it. It would just funny.

I'm just kidding. To think that, and also I'm glad you didn't do that because that's just not. All right. Yeah, yeah, I was stupid. No, he's absolutely right. And even then, the odds are minuscule. I mean, crazy minuscule. And what we could, I wonder if Alexa could answer that question.

Alexa, or Echo, what are the odds of dying in a plane crash? Here's something I found on the web. according to deseret.com there is a one in 11 million chance of dying in a plane crash. Yeah, so we went from one... Did that answer your question? Yes, thank you. Now I'll be quiet.

Thanks for your feedback. She just doesn't listen. So we went from one in 11 that both of us would die to one in, you know, 5.5 that one of us would. Million. So I'm still okay with those odds. Oh, yeah. We should have just, I mean, not worried about it.

it and we ultimately went together thank goodness thank you man excellent excellent excellent question or statement statement yes hey dr steve i've been having a lot of anal sex with my boyfriend and i'm starting to develop a hemroid okay so you can uh take care of so so a hemorrhoid is simply a varicose vein of the rectum. And you can get a lot of different ways eating a typical American diet where you're pushing to get stool out and you're constipated, and that's why there's a whole aisle of hemorrhoid creams on the market. And another way would be friction if you are having anal sex

and you are not lubing up properly. So lots of lobe, go nice and slow and easy and make sure that your partner is ready for it and that they're into it. And I know this was probably turning into a joke question. So what we do with joke questions on this show is we turn them into actual questions where we can learn something from them.

Now, there was a study, by the way, on anal sex because people are worried, well, will it cause me to be in common? of stool, because there's nothing worse than, you know, enjoying a fun night of anal sex and then be walking around dropping loads on the floor. Charting yourself. Constantly. So they did a study.

And what they did was they stuck these balloon monometers up people's rectums. And then they would have them tighten up their sphincter and see how tight they could tighten it. And then they would record it. You'd do, you know, 10 trials or whatever. then go have a big old fun time having all kinds of anal sex and then come back and do it again. And when they did that, indeed, the amount of pressure that they could mount with the sphincter was less than it was before they started the study. But there was no incontinence. And as a matter of fact, there was still plenty of sphincter tone to prevent turds from just blooping out.

So what that tells us is that we are built with, we're not borderline. You know, it's not just that we're right on the edge of being able to keep our stool in our rectums and evacuating it when we want to. We're not right on the edge. We have lots of redundancy. We have the ability to lose some of that tone in our sphincter and still be completely continent. Especially at the end of it, the most distal part of it. Yep. So there you go.

There you. Good question. I am going to be on the show called Who Are These Podcasts? And I'm going to be talking about female ejaculation, so I won't blow it on here. But we've talked about it before, and I wrote an article about it, and it's on our website. So if you go to Dr.steve.com and just put in female ejaculation, there is an article that I wrote. And that's what we're going to be talking about. And so I think it would be pretty interesting.

So watch out for that episode. Cool. Those boys took, they are doing a tribute to Opie and Anthony in that they are doing a bit that they did for many years called Jock Tober, and they do it with podcasts. And I figured when they asked me to go on, if I say no, the next podcast they're coming after is this one. And then I'm going to hear an effing supercut of all of my vocal crutches, the so's and the so anyways and the ums and I was in. Let me just just for a second talk about my vocal crutches. I know I have them. Yes.

They're getting worse as I get older, and this is why. We're doing a medical show. When I'm on like a comedy show talking about Marvel movies or if I'm on DC on screen, talking about Zach Snyder's Justice League, I don't have nearly as many vocal crutches because what I say isn't going to affect people's lives. Right. sometimes up to 12 words to put them in a hierarchy so that I say the right word. And George Foreman said, the older you get, the more speed you lose, but you never lose your power.

So my ability to process that stuff is still there. It just takes longer. And so if you try scanning 12 words every time you say anything because you want to make sure that you don't say something that someone's either going to come after you on or it's going to hurt them, right you'll say um and on so anyway and all this bullshit too so anyway there i just said it go fuck yourself all right let's see see dr steve answer why bill gates is even involved in this stuff he's not a medical professional i know he's got a lot of money what is his uh involvement in all these vaccines i think you nailed it he's got a

lot of money, and he needs something to do, and he wants to leave an impact on the world, I think is what his thinking is. Yeah, I think so, too. I don't think he's trying to rule the world or control the world. I think he's just trying to help, and he's got a gift of some cash. Yeah, you're assigning more of a noble thing. Mine is more narcissistic than yours. Yeah, mine's more noble.

You're assigning more of a noble underpinning to it, but I think that he wants to. to leave a legacy, and I'm sure at some point, a truly ethical person who has that much money goes, I should probably do something with this. Yes. Now, that doesn't mean they're going to choose the right thing. You and I might think it's the right thing, but they may think that they're doing something that they think is the right thing. So I don't have a problem with it.

The more people, the better, as far as I'm concerned. I haven't really seen what Bill Gates has really done with that. this. What has his involvement been? I don't know, but I know Dolly gave a million dollars for a vaccine research. Dolly partened it? Yeah, good for her. Yep, she sure did. Well, because she is awesome.

Yeah. Her old neighbor. Yep, that's true. Let's see. Bill Gates, Gates, COVID. Let's see, what in the hell has he been doing? I don't know what he's really done. AI reveals how Bill Gates' COVID conspiracy.

and other theories evolved online. That's pretty interesting. Here's Fair Observer says Bill Gates, a danger to humanity. What? Okay. Oh, the New Republic. Bill Gates vaccine monster.

What in the hell? Okay, Bill Gates, oh, this is Reuters. Okay. Crazy and evil. Bill Gates surprised by pandemic conspiracies. This is from Reuters. Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist. Bill Gates says he has been

taken back by the volume of crazy and evil conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, but said on Wednesday he would like to explore what is behind them. I don't know. I don't know. And, oh, nice grammar, Bill. Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent. Come on. This guy is one of the richest guys in the world.

And this is one of my pet peeves. If you watch, like, The Bachelor, which I'm forced to watch, they'll say Tiffany and I's relationship. Well, I just want to talk about Tiffany and I's relationship. It's not, where does that come from? It makes you wonder where they. Tiffany's and my relationship. Yep. Okay.

And it's not I and Dr. Fauci. And it's not Dr. Fauci and me either. That's what a lot of people would say. Nobody would have predicted that Dr. Fauci and me would be so prominent. That sounds right. It's wrong. Because if you take out Dr. Fauci and it says nobody would have predicted that me would be so prominent. Right.

Okay. Do I really have to explain this to people? You would hope no. Evidently we do. Okay. So if you want to know, you always put yourself last. And then if you want to know if it's I or me, first is that the object or the subject, forget about it. that just take out the words the other person and then you'll know yep yep they gave it to john

and i would be incorrect but i hear it every effing day they gave it to john and me because you wouldn't say they gave it to i yep unless you're singing a reggae song that you can say i and i right they gave it to i and i or something maybe i don't even know if that's true a reggae song that is true But you would say they gave it to me. So you would say they gave it to John and me. And then don't even get me started on the subjunctive text or tense, which I blame Brian Koppelman for me being, you know, I was a journalism major, but I've forgotten this one. And when I wrote my article about Ebola, remember when it first hit the United States, I said if Ebola was, was. contagious, well, I can't remember what I said, something like that, there'd be more numbers

or something like that. And he emailed me, he said, I think this is going to be an article people are going to read, but it's if Ebola were contagious. And then I had to go, once again, read up on the subjunctive text, tense, because nobody gets that right. Well, I don't want to say nobody, but few people get that right. And, but anyway, but at least know how to say you and, you and, someone else in a damn sentence, particularly if you're Bill Gates, nobody would have predicted

that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent. Good Lord. Anyway, so I don't know. It says Gates, a billionaire who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corporation 2014, has, through his philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. What did they use the money for? Okay.

And then it says, that includes support. for some makers of vaccines, diagnostics, and potential treatment. So I think that's fine. Hell, anybody that's trying to be part of the solution is fine with me. Right. Agreed. And money does something. Sure does.

Reasonable people can disagree about what the right things to do are. But if you're in good faith trying to do the right thing, I'm okay with you. So, all right. But not when you say I and Dr. Fauci. And then I like, they didn't even put in parentheses sick, you know, which they could have just to show that the journalist knew that that was wrong. Yeah, it was better, but he's just transcribing it as it was said. That's right. That's right. Correct.

Not that the journals wrote something incorrectly. Ugh. Oh, my God. Okay, I know I'm just being a dick. Okay, let's see. Okay. Hi, Dr. Steve. I was just curious, what does the R&A do in the vaccine towards your body once you get injected with the vaccine?

Okay, yeah, happy to answer that. I really thought we were going to be doing COVID-free shows. I know there's a lot of COVID fatigue out there, but if you look at these questions that are coming in, there's no, hardly any dick and nuts question. We had one question about anal sex. At least anal sex. That was awesome. That was nice, yeah.

But, yeah, so the MRNA, it's Messenger RNA, I highly recommend that you do a YouTube search on MRNA transcription. You're looking for like a 3D animation, and it'll blow your mind. So, MRNA is just a set of instructions just like a stack of computer cards back in the day. But they're very simple. there's three letter sequences that code for different amino acids. There are these things called ribosomes that can actually read those three-letter sequences. And transcription RNA will come bring an amino acid, and it will only interface with its specific three-letter code. and so when the transcription or MRNA meets up with the messenger RNA inside the ribosome,

it will then attach this amino acid to this growing protein. And that's how you can code for proteins. And so you inject the mRNA, it goes into yourselves, and the MRNA strand will just attach itself to a ribosome, and then the body will just start to transcribe it. And then the protein it makes will turn into the spike protein from the coronavirus. Without the virus and without everything that goes with it, it doesn't self-reproduce anymore. It's not a virus. It's just the instructions to make the single protein.

So what you're really doing is you're giving the body instructions to make the vaccine. Instead of making the vaccine in a bat, you're making it in the human body. And then that protein will be expressed on the surface of the cells. And then the antibodies will go, what the hell is that? You ain't from around here. Yeah, you ain't from around here. Oh, you got a pretty mouth, though. And so then they'll attack it.

And then the white blood cells get involved, and you get cellular and humoral immunity. And hopefully, long-lasting immunity we'll see on that one against this virus. And then the MRNA might get transcribed a couple of times, and it just disintegrates. And then the parts are used to build other MRNA strands to code other things. So body's constantly recycling this stuff. It doesn't change your genetic code. It never gets close to your DNA. It's out in the periphery.

If the DNA is in the nucleus, if that's New York City, then the MRNA is Athens, Georgia. Still a nice place. I was going to say even out in the – it's the Bahamas. or the Bahamas? That'd be awesome. That'd be pretty cool. All right. Or Jamaica Mon.

With eye. There you go. Whatever. It's Dr. Scott, everybody, with his impressions. Let me see. Okay. I don't know what this is. Yeah, Dr. Steve.

I'm listening to your corona coverage here. Okay. I was wondering what percentage of people that have had the coronavirus, have re-had the virus, and if I've had the virus, what benefit do I have with the vaccine? Okay. You ask an excellent question. The CDC is recommending that people get the vaccine, even if you've had the coronavirus already, because as far as we know, the full immunity is not long-lasting.

So let's say you had the coronavirus back in November of 2020, and now it's, what is this, April of 21. God, now what? Well, wait, this started in 2019, right? Yeah, it started in 2019. It's very in 2019. That's correct. Yeah, yeah, the very beginning. So let's say you had it in January of 2019, and now it's April of 20. No, no, no, no, it was into 2019.

Okay, January of 20. January of 20. Okay, go fuck yourself, Dr. Scott. You're right. So January of 2020, and now it's April of 2021. And what they're concerned about is that you may not be protected anymore. They don't know. You probably have cellular immunity, but they don't know about the humoral immunity.

So they're just recommending that you get a vaccine so we can just put a stop to this thing. Let's just stop the infection. That's what the CDC is thinking anyway. And I don't necessarily disagree with them on that one. We just don't know enough to say you don't need to do it. You know, they're just doing, it's a guess, but it's an informed guess by the CDC. You hate for them to do anything based on a guess. But when you have a novel situation like this, we haven't encountered a pandemic like this where we could actually do anything, well, ever.

Right. And so, yeah. And this is where these things come. wear masks, wear, three masks, wear two masks. We're seeing the science evolve in front of our eyes. And the trick with science is when you believe something to be true, and then there's evidence to the contrary, you have to change what you believe to be true.

Now, when you start out saying, I know this is true and I'm going to find evidence to back up what I think, that's not science. so when you see things like oh well it's stupid to wear a mask well when there were a hundred cases in Washington and none in Tennessee it was stupid to wear a mask in Tennessee at that time

I wish more people in Washington and more than them back then but now that there's millions of cases in the United States it makes all kinds of sense to wear a mask as we have said multiple times and we'll talk about next week with our friend Metamether, you want to decrease, mitigate the risk any way

you can, even if it's a 10% decrease that'll help us particularly when you're 10% away from being at herd immunity, then a 10% difference makes a huge difference. So anyway, so anyway, if I say so anyway again, you have the permission to shoot me. Dr. Scott. No more vocal crutches for you. Oh, my God, I can't get rid of them. All right, man. We can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes, Anthony Coomia, Jim Norton, Travis Teft, that Gould Girl, Lois Jones, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, Chowdy 1008, Eric Nagel, the Port Charlotte Hoare, Saratoga Skank,

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Thank you. Thank you.