Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 501 - One Flatus Two Flatus Big Flatus P-- oh never mind

Episode Date: April 14, 2022

Dr Steve and Dr Scott discuss: Nut Allergy, figuratively and literally Inappropriate mirth Testosterone, HCG, clomiphene Mister Cardiff Suffers a Near Fatal Injury Eating gold (probably ok) and silver (nope) Passing gas: loud or smelly but rarely both Post herpetic neuralgia How to find a good PCP Preventative chemo for cancer Calcium scores and statins Hell froze over Join us for live recordings on https://www.youtube.com/c/DoctorSteve202 YouTube every Wednesday at around 3:30pm! Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net (now with CBD nasal spray!) Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now while he’s still cheap!) noom.doctorsteve.com (the link still works! Lose weight now before swimsuit season!) chef.doctorsteve.com (green chef, the best of all the meal kits we've tried!) CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, mystery guests! Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Please consider donating to alliedextract.org, PA Lydia's newest cause. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's whatever you want to do. So check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyherbales.net. That's simplyherbales.net. And you were having some technical difficulties, but now it's working at least with one person. We think so. We think so, yeah. I think it was just one person. I doubt it.

Oh. Well, I mean, you know. And you know what people will do is if they go to order something and say, I'll throw Dr. Scott a couple of bucks. And then they go in there and they can't put anything in their shopping cart and they can't check out. They just go, oh, fuck. Yeah, it makes me look like a big dupus. Well, and they just say, forget it and they just move on to something else. I know I've done that a million.

And I don't blame it. I apologize. We try to stay on top of it. And to be honest with that, I doubt if it's just the one person because he's an IT guy. He's very smart guy. He could tell he's a super guy. It could be browser dependent on something. It could be.

It's not smart I sell. It could be your browser. It could be my doofus website too. But we think it's working now. All right. Keep fingers crossed. Could be that RSS feed there, Dr. Scott. You never do know.

Anyway. By the way, I do want to say this. And this is not a commercial for Dr. Scott because we're not really allowed to do those kinds of things on here. But let me tell you something, that damn peppermint nasal spray with the CBD in it, that stuff's the bomb. It's good stuff, is it? It is good. Now, if I had any complaint about it whatsoever, and this is extremely minor, on your next iteration, next iteration, if they could get the spray bottle so that you get a little bit more nose feel when you do it, I don't know how to explain it. There are certain nasal sprays.

You spray up there, and it feels like the mist is, you know, penetrating your brain almost. Okay. And I'm not getting as much, particularly given that you've got peppermint oil in there. I don't get as much of that. Although it's extremely effective. I like it a lot. That's, it would be absolutely the greatest thing in the world if they just handled. Maybe you just took a little more volume.

Maybe. The thing is, people would use it up quicker and you'd be selling more. So that's a win-win for everybody. We'll tell you that's it, that peppermint oil, a little too much can be really out. Yeah, so you run down the, you know, go down a couple percent on the dilution maybe. We could, yeah. Yeah, we sure could. But, oh, yeah, no, any, any, any, any criticism.

It's not a criticism. No, no, that's what I was going to say. No, I apologize. Any kind of constructive advice. It's not a constructive advice. It's not even, it's not nothing. It's just, I want more. I'm just filling time on a radio show.

But thank you. We're very proud. And I've had wonderful, wonderful feedback. Anyway, okay. We've got to be careful. Anyway, yeah, we're not talking about it. Check out Dr. Scott's website, simply herbals.net. Check us out at Dr.steve.com, the eponymously named website.

All right. I have a news story that was sent to us from Mike from New York. And it's like, Dr. Scott, what the F is wrong with you that you didn't find this. Uh-oh. But it's called, this is from that prestigious medical journal, the New York Post. And it's, uh, the headline is, I, and they never have clickbait, uh, titles, you know, headlines. I suffered a scary, sexually transmitted allergic reaction to nuts. Hmm.

Okay. So, okay. So, okay. All right. Oh, and then, okay, here's how it starts. Um, aw, nuts. Come on. If you're going to.

It's not journalism. Pharmacy staff couldn't keep it together after an only fan star needed treatment. They couldn't just say a woman. It's got only fan star needed treatment for an extreme allergic reaction to peanuts that was induced by her partner's ejaculation. The Daily Mail reported. Okay, so they're reporting from something that somebody else reported on. Also really, you know, it's excellent. the adult video heartthrob

known as Australia's sultry dressing and peanut allergic Lucy Banks spoke out on the rare phenomena that caused her intimacy to become ire and left her desperately waddling to the drugstore for help and the waddling was in quotes I never heard of food allergens

transmitting and negatively affecting partners through ejaculation before Banks told the mail probably in her extensive, you know, Rhodes Scholarship research, but I'm just being an asshole. I never, most of us hadn't heard of this either, so to be fair, I'm being an asshole. Mentioning her stud of the hour

had eaten peanuts earlier in the day. Now, oh, if you be eating peanuts and then you make out with somebody, you nasty, because peanut breath's the grossest thing. I'd rather French kiss somebody that's just eaten a, you know, a cigarette, a half, they smoke half of it, and then eat it, then kiss somebody that's just eaten peanuts. There's something disgusting about it to me.

Anyway, he had eaten peanuts earlier in the day and inadvertently transferred them to her during sexy time. Despite the severity of banks, phallic caused anaphylaxis, the pharmaceutical staff was in hysterics upon the improbable diagnosis of her anguish. Okay, that's the first rule is you don't make somebody sorry for coming to see you if you're a medical person. No, no, or make fun. And we've tried to do that on this show, too, although we haven't exactly succeeded. But we try not to make anybody sorry that they called us, you know.

And when someone comes in, if they have a, you know, they've carved a squash, a zucchini into a phallus and got it stuck up their ass, you don't laugh about it. You might laugh about it later, yeah. There was that video of those people removing something from somebody's something. Do you remember that? There was something that was caught in the, someone's, I know. I just remember.

there were a bunch of people in the operating room and they were pulling something out of this person's vagina, I think, and they had to do it under anesthesia. Oh, no. And they were all just laughing and whooping it up and it's like, that's not cool. That's not cool. There's nothing cool about that. You know, I was thinking about the stories

that we read, it's been a couple years, but the guy's trying to measure the length of their penises by shoving those damn electric cords up their urethra? Oh, they were uterine sounding. Yeah. I mean, a urethral sounding. Is that what it was? Yeah.

I thought I was measuring something. Well, that is. That's what it's called. So sounding, like if you're sounding in the ocean, you know. So sounding is when you stick something in your urethra. Gotcha. And most of the time we will do that to measure the depth. You know, we really wouldn't ever do that.

But I'm just trying to think, why would we do that? We actually wouldn't do that. Maybe urologists do it. To torture people. But you can take a, you know, a little metal thing and you can do some urethral sounding just to see how deep it is, I guess. But we need to find out why do urologists do that? We need a urologist that we can call it.

I've got one. You and I both have one on speed dial. Oh, yeah, we do. You want to call him? You know, he's probably taking an app. He is retired. Okay. Urethral sounding is the insertion of an object

or liquid into the urethra sounding may be used in urologic surgery for dilation of strictures or for obtaining access to the bladder. Urethral sounding is also performed outside the scope of medical practice by individuals for a variety of reasons, mostly just goofing around is what it is. And some people will derive sexual pleasure from that. But my understanding is that sounding, the definition of the word sounding was to measure. Let me see, definition of sounding. I thought that you were using an instrument to drop it into something else to measure it.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yes, the action or process of measuring the depth of the sea or other body of water. Okay? So normally, so what they're talking about is just urethral dilation. That's not really sounding. But anyway, I'm being overly technical about sticking something in your cockhole.

Yes, because that really hurts. And so, yeah, so what were you talking about? So I interrupted you. They were taking some wires and sticking it in their cockhole for what purpose? Oh, I don't know. Remember, we had to, that was one of our stories a couple of years ago, but they were, and they let go of them. Yeah, they were trying to measure the length of a penis by using like the, the, the phone chargers.

Remember the guy had that Apple thing? It was like, the whole thing was stuck in his bladder. Yes, yes, yes, he let go of it. Yeah. It was curled up in his bladder. If you're, I can't recommend that anything be stuck in the ureth. Really, nothing is designed to be stuck into that. That's why have you ever had an STD test.

They stick that swab up there. It has to stay there for 10 seconds, and it's the longest 10 seconds of your life. Oh, my God. And then if they twirl it, it hurts so bad. And then Dr. Scott and I both had fiber optic scope of our urethron bladder, and that sucked. Even though they lubed it up and put, quote, unquote, numbing gel on it. And spoke sweet to us. Yeah.

You know, the music was nice. Speaking of it, did I ever tell you about the time that I had a chalaisian, which is basically a cyst caused by a stye, but the inflammatory cyst in my eyelid, and I was going to have it removed. Okay. And the guy that did it is retired, and I'm not going to say his name. Okay. But I had rotated with him, so he knew me. and I'd been in that practice a thousand times when I did my ophthalmology rotation

and all this stuff and I knew all of them well look at the draw and pulled him and he just liked doing cataracts and stuff that's all he liked to do but so he agreed to do this take the cyst out

so to do it they have to flip your eye upside down if you go to our YouTube channel right now it's on there you know the different guy okay the guy that's doing it here is not this guy. But they flip your, they invert your eyelid and then numb it with a needle and then slit it and then dig the inflammatory cyst out, right?

And then they unflip it again and then heals up on its own. You're bleeding under your eyeball and all this. Is it like a granulated cyst? Yes, yeah, but it's defined. It's well defined and you can just scoop it out. Okay, good, good. with a curate. So anyway, this guy, and I don't know what the hell bug got up his ass,

but I had my archery book that I had just co-written with this guy while I ghost wrote it. And I had, you know, the galleys in my lap, right? I was sitting there reading while I was waiting for him to come in. And so he kind of lays me back. And when someone inverts your eyelid and sticks a, fucking needle in it. You're going to grip. Yes, something. You're going to, yeah, you're going to grip the sides

of the chair. That's it. That's all I did. I just gripped the side of the chair because it's a reflex. And he starts talking to me. Like I am literally, like, three years old and he started going, are you the archer? Are you the big archer? Yes.

Yes, you're the big archer. I'm like, oh no. Dude, I'm 40 years old. Oh, no. Why are you talking to me like this. I never went back. It skeaved me out so bad. Oh, my. So anyway. All right. Where were we? Who knows, but that was a good story. Urethral Sound.

Yes, Sean was saying that he's had a couple of those procedures and he said, he goes, that numbing gel does nothing. No, it makes them feel better. It does, yeah. It literally just makes them feel better. Oh, I'm doing something to, you know, anyway, doesn't make us feel any better. By the way, urologists listening to this, and I know there are a couple, do something different. Now, this is what I would do. If I were practicing urology, and I don't even know if this would work, but I would fill up a syringe, like a 10-CC syringe and not put a needle on the end of it, just, you know, with the tapered, like a lure lock or something. And just jam that on to the, into the urethral meatus and fill it, well, obviously, fill it up with lytocene gel first, numbing gel, and squirt it into the urethra and let it fill up the urethra and then let it sit for a couple of minutes and then do the fiber optic.

Just putting the stuff on the end of the scope and then jamming it in there does absolutely nothing. I know we've talked about this before. Dr. Scott and I were very traumatized by this. We're still traumatized by it. Good Lord. Oh, my gosh. That's not to say if you need it, don't do it. Just do it.

It is worth it to God, it's horrible. Yeah, the way it was done to us kind of was sucking. Yeah, I would even say, you would need it as a big old glass full of lytocaine to just hang your junk into for a little bit just to kind of numb. Yeah, just numb everything. Maybe ice bath of lidecane. Now, here. Here we go. The pharmacy worker, we're back on this Lucy Banks again, who is extremely attractive, by the way, called over a few colleagues and tried to ask their opinions and help, but she couldn't stop laughing.

This is, I'm not, when I say it's bullshit, I'm not saying she's lying. I'm saying, that sucks. It's just not okay. I know it's ridiculous. but she's having an allergic reaction to peanuts that could be life-threatening, and they're just, oh, he ate peanuts, and then he ejaculated into her, and now she's, you know, ha, ha, ha. Not so funny.

That's, no, no, she is very attractive. I would never laugh at her. What's her name? Lucy Banks. Check her out. Yeah. She makes $60,000 a month, according to the mail. is now preaching a PSA to warn others about the dangers of sexually transmitted food allergies,

especially from a peanut-loaded penis. Now, I like that. That's illiterative. If you have severe anaphylactic reactions to certain foods, I would take special precautions with your partner, make sure they haven't eaten anything. This is actually true that could trigger a negative and possibly serious response. If they've got it on their mouth, some of these peanut allergies are so sensitive

that if you ate something with peanuts and then kissed somebody that could have an allergic reaction. So she's right about that. Yeah, she is, yep. She's right about a lot of things, in my opinion. She also posted her warning to TikTok, of course, which was taken down by the platform

after getting more than 4 million views. How are you supposed to monetize anything on TikTok except getting millions of views? Exactly. Good God. Oh, and then listen to this. This journalism, similar to Banks's big bust, the Department of Immunology at St. Heller had studied the effects of allergies caused by sex. It doesn't even make sense. They just wanted to throw in that she's well endowed in the breasticle department. They profiled a woman who came to an intense allergic reaction from a handful of Brazil nuts that were eaten by her partner before the two got busy.

And just go watch the Louis CK episode about Brazil nuts. That's all I'm saying. All right, very good. So there you go. So we may save a life with this. When I first started reading it, I was kind of, you know, tittering as well. But this is actually a real thing. And it actually can be, have serious consequences for some people.

The whole peanut allergy thing, some people are like it's bullshit. It's for the people who have it's not bullshit. No, God, no. One of my best friends, kid. had multiple food allergies, and they would routinely come home when he was little and find him on the floor blue gasping for error. They'd have to get him epinephrine and stuff because he had, you know, rubbed against a place where some peas had been spilled and they weren't cleaned up all the way.

I mean, it was crazy. That's a real deal, so. All right. Okay. What do you got? Well, that's, you know, the funny thing is I just found this on, on, um, on, on, the news. Before I came in here, it was talking about how STDs are on a rise again. Excellent. That's because people are having intercourse again.

They're hooking up. Yeah. Some people. Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah. Some people. Not me. And, you know, the COVID was a big driver. So, of course, it went up during COVID because everybody was stuck in. Wait, STDs went up during COVID? Yeah. And they continue to point. They're continuing to rise. Yeah, they said there's two and a half million cases right now chlamydia gonorrhea syphilis I'm not going to make you a bad person no no but hey but the problem is you're going to probably have to get that damn cotton swab stuck in your

oh yeah urethromedus and that's not going to feel so good not feels good so covered up so wait a minute now why did it go up during COVID I would have thought it would go down during COVID because everybody told me that they weren't hooking up randomly anymore because of COVID.

They were afraid of catching something. I think that was in certain age groups. I'll do some more digging. God damn it, no, no, I'm telling you. I'm not telling you it's the God's honest truth. I'm telling you, I read that. But here's the thing. Okay.

Spike. I'm not going to the CDC. Go ahead. It just talks about how that 16 to 24-year-old. New CDC day. This is in, okay, showed during March to April of 2020, that was when the lockdowns happened. STD cases dramatically decreased compared to the same time in 2019. Uh-oh.

Oh, wait. Now, you may have an out here because you can say, ooh, this is what I really meant. However, a resurgence in gonorrhea and syphilis cases later in the year suggests overall STDs may have increased during 2020. All right, so I'll give you that. As of December 12th, this is in 20, this is July 16, 2021 is that when this chlamydia, 14% lower gonorrhea, 7% higher. That's weird. Primary and secondary, symphilus, 1% lower. Hmm.

That's not interesting. Yeah. Okay. So, so, but now they're continuing to rise because people are using Tinder and stuff again. Yep. Is that what you're saying? Yep. Okay. Yeah, and it's driving the 16 to 24 year olds primarily. Really? Yeah. So you're saying sex is bad.

Sex is bad. Jesus. I don't know what I'm saying anymore. You got anything else? Oh, this guy attacked is a strong word. It's Mark, I'll just say his name is Mark. It says, please read this clinical guide

to testosterone replacement therapy. Your knowledge of TRT is inaccurate and outdated so what he sent me was a link to this place i don't want to say the name of it but it was some place that you know sells um male health sort of if i that's hard to explain but listen there's a lot of views on this i go by the clinical guidelines that are set up by our governing bodies and those are based on evidence and best evidence now um could i be behind on my hcg because i kind of poo poohed hcg a little bit and this place really pushes the hcg so let me just um read to you from uh an article human corionic gonadotropin that's hcg monotherapy for the treatment

of hypogonatal symptoms in men with total testosterone greater than 300 nanograms per decilator. So that's interesting. So these are people who are having symptoms, but their doctors go, oh, you're normal. So these are the low normal people. And they're saying deficiency recommends that 300 nanogram per decilator be used as a threshold for prescribing testosterone. We've talked about why that's a fallacy.

If you have low normal testosterone, but you're symptomatic, your doctor needs to treat you. whether it's Clomid, which, and he says, oh, I'm way behind, you don't understand Clomide. Dude, we were pushing Clomid when nobody was using Clomid. And I still, most of my colleagues don't know anything about clomophine citrate. And basically what that is, is without going into the mechanism, it helps the lazy testicle produce its own testosterone. So you don't get shrinkage of the testicle,

and you don't lose fertility. You remain fertile. Right. Unlike when you take testosterone therapy. So I don't know where I'm behind in all of this. But anyway, it says it's not uncommon for men to present with signs symptoms of testosterone deficiency despite having testosterone levels greater than 300. Okay, fair enough.

We've talked about that really since day one of this show. There exists scant literature regarding the use of HCG for the treatment. of hypogonadism, you know, in men not interested in fertility. So that's why. There are some studies. And because there are some studies, there are places that will open up and say, well, we're, you know, this is what we do cutting edge. And we're going to give everybody HCG or certain people HCG.

And I've talked to urologists about this. And I think our knowledge is reasonably up to date. I mean, listen, don't. come to me for treatment of this. You know, this is just a goofy radio show about medicine and weird dicks and nuts and stuff like that. So, but as far as I know,

with regard to chlomovine, we are ahead of the curve. And when it comes to testosterone replacement therapy, we're actually ahead of the curve as well compared to a lot of primary care docs that go, well, if it says normal next to the number, we're not going to treat it. And that's bullshit. That's bullshit.

And I've had people email me, and I send them an article to take to their doctor that says treating symptomatic people, people that have classic symptoms of hypogonadism, fatigue, erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, physical weakness. But they have low normal testosterone that they improve if you treat them. And that a six-month trial of treatment is worth doing in those people. So, dude, I mean, I appreciate it. And I appreciate the business. Your understanding of HCG and Clomid use is outdated. I don't, dude, I don't think so. I'm pretty up to date on the literature.

Now, could I have missed something? Sure. Absolutely. And I like to be demonstrated to have incomplete knowledge. You know I'm not like that. Me too. No, I know you are, yeah. I like that because if that,

If that's true, then that means I learned something. So I like learning something. So if you've got literature from, you know, peer-reviewed literature, not something from some commercial website. Because, dude, anybody can write anything they want. We have clinics in this town that still advertise HCG for weight loss. And study after study, after study shows that it's not the HCG that causes people to lose weight. It's the 600 calorie starvation diet that they put people on along with it. Yep.

Yeah, I know it's crazy. So, and there have been multiple studies looking at doing the diet alone or doing the diet with HCG. There's no difference. So, but they sell it. Oh, yeah. And they can legally do it. Oh, yeah. You know?

They'll sell some to buy it. Yeah. I mean, and it's legal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this place is legal to do what they're doing as long as they, if they're going to prescribe a scheduled drug, which testosterone is, that they follow the rules of their state for prescribing scheduled drugs, and then they're fine. But, yeah, bro, I don't know what you're talking about.

I really don't. So feel free to educate me on this stuff. If you found something interesting, I'm always happy to look at it. But anyway. Agreed. All right. No, you're outdated. No, I'm just kidding.

Mark, I'm just kidding. It's a radio show. I'm just dicking around. I cannot find my YouTube. Are we still okay on there? Yeah, yeah, you're on. Okay. Yeah, we're rolling.

Yeah, we've got a good crew today. Okay, you got any questions from in there? Let me, we had one earlier. They're actually, they're all talking about. I see Cardiff Electric is, he's, he is the owner of the network that we're on, the Cardiff Electric podcast. No, I have not seen a question. No, I just know that he's there.

We actually have a question from him. Oh, cool. Well, let's do, let's, let's do. it um no i mean i have one a voicemail from him oh cool yeah all right do you want me to do it or are you doing something no do it okay all right all right let's see here i'm going back in time okay hello dr steve how are you i'm fine how are you i have a medical question for you okay so earlier today i was practicing my machete work and i accidentally I struck myself in the upper thigh.

It is bleeding rather profusely. I was just wondering what you think I should do. I will hang up and listen for your answer. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And thank you for your service to our podcast community. Yeah, so I think what he's doing is illustrating how ridiculous it is for people to call us with urgent needs. If you have an urgent need, don't call us.

He may have left that voicemail two weeks ago. Uh-oh. He's probably in trouble. I'm waiting for Dr. Steve. We do our best to answer everything as well as we can. So go to the ER. I am hoping that Mr. I am hoping that Mr.S.

Mr. Cardiff will show up at the WATP Live event. I don't mind plugging this for Carl at all because I'm going to be there. It's March 14th, 15th, and 16th. Go to WATP Live.com to get tickets. And if you come and say, howdy-do, I'll buy you a beer if you're allowed to drink. And if not, hearty handshake. Yes. All right.

And my T-shirt is going to make people shit their pants. I'm just telling you right now. I created it last night. They guaranteed that they'll be here in time. I made two mediums, too large, and one, two XL for Vinny, Paulino. There you go. All right. Okay, doke.

Let's see. Somebody asked, is it okay to eat gold? Gold is pretty non-reactive. Silver, no. Particularly silver salts are not okay to eat because you will get a thing. Do you know the name of it? the blue band disease yeah it's gone right i'm not going to give you a bell for that it's argyria oh it's argyria

no you know no i'm sorry i was thinking about speaking of gold what is that drink gold schlager oh yeah has gold yes it does is that really gold in there i don't know but it'll make you look that up is that actually gold in there because gold's worth about three grand an ounce or some shit like that i can't imagine they're actually putting gold in there but if it's not gold what the hell is it oh i think we drank a little bit too much of it one no dude then i didn't know you were like that it's only only one time oh well that's because you're an idiot that is true seriously i i found a little airplane thing of gold slager in the i'd never had it before i said well i'll throw that in with some tonic oh that's that a mistake was it tastes like

peppermint or something yeah it's awful it's terrible it's not good in my opinion I think we found it in grandma's, you know, a cab that we just drank it because we're stupid. So what, does Goldschlager have actual gold in it? Gold leaf or something? Very thin yet visible flakes of gold floating in it. The actual amount of gold has been measured to be approximately 13 micrograms. Okay. Yeah.

So, yeah. So an ounce is, let me see, an ounce, God, is 30. I can't remember in weight, though. One ounce of gold in grams. Here we go. I've got it. It's 28 grams. So an ounce of gold is worth 2068 right now.

So how many milligrams is it? 23. This is fascinating. We'll figure it out. We'll do it later. Anyway. I'll be on the next. Maybe we'll do it on the podcast.

Okay, doke. Yeah, so it would seem like Goldschlager would get more and more expensive. At some point, hoarding Goldschlager and mining it for its gold would become profitable. I think you're going to drink a lot of it or pour it out. So if you drink silver salts, which some people do, you can develop Algeria, and it's a rare skin condition that happens if silver, builds up in your body over a long time it turns your eyes, skin, internal organs, your nails and your

gums, blue-gray. Go ahead and Google image that one. I'll tell you when you shouldn't Google it image something. Tonsler, myiasis being one of those, do not. It's M-Y-I-S-I-S. Don't do it. Do not Google image that. But Argeria,

do that. And you'll be blown away by these people, and it's always in areas of your body exposed to sunlight. So it's actually just like film. The film has silver particles in it as well, silver salts. And when light hits it,

you know, it changes its confirmation and it reflects light differently. That's what makes a photograph. And when basically the silver that's embedded in your skin is basically being developed or exposed by the sun and it changes its

confirmation. It changes the color of your skin. It's bizarre. It's permanent. by the way it's permanent now let's see eating gold I don't I've not ever heard of any issues with eating gold it's a noble metal it doesn't react inside human bodies so there's no gold easily created gold salts and therefore it's safe to eat okay don't it's expensive silly yeah don't do it don't eat gold unless you're just you know but now they will take gold leaf and stuff and make cupcakes and cakes and stuff where they'll put gold leaf

on it and it's totally fine to eat you know I think I saw that show um read um the expense the expensiveest expensive it's the uh the expensiveest the rapper two chains okay okay he had like the world's like most expensive joints in their road like with some gold leaf it was hilarious oh that's cool he's actually smoking gold Gold trap joints. He's a trip. So real quick,

somebody does have a good question that's a starving dog listening to all the STD questions led me to a burning question. Give yourself a bill or a bell. A bell. Let's give yourself a bell. Here it is.

Give yourself a bill. It sounds like Bill. D.B says it's an old opi. It's an opi. It's an opi. Matter of fact, so I did it on the old opster. I had him on the exam room this weekend. It's on our Patreon, patreon.com slash weird medicine.

And I had opi on there. And I don't think he was expecting that. I did a couple other things to him, too. It was nice for once for me to be in control of the soundboard when he's on my show instead of the other way around. So, yeah, I needled the old Ope a couple of that. But we had a really cool conversation about some stuff too. So check it out

Anyway Yeah, but it's give yourself a bell And he used to say that And I just grabbed it because it's so silly And then I've done that on Anthony's show too You know, Opie and Anthony You're not exactly friends anymore And when I'm on Anthony's show

If he says something right Give yourself a bill Just to give him the skeeves Yeah, funny Beautiful So there you go I love everybody I'm friends with everybody

All right. Even this Mark guy with the testosterone thing. I'm friends with him, too. Why, you? All right. Oka-doke, let's see here. Thank you, Mr. Cardiff, for that question, to point out that this is not an emergency room.

And check with your emergency room if you have an emergency. Okay, here's a good weird message. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's Derek from Texas. I got a question for you. Why is it? Wait a minute. This isn't Derek from Texas that was on the Howard Stern. show he's no longer with us but it's he's still a Derek from Texas though I guess

there's more than one Steve it's Derek from Texas I got a question for you yeah man why is it when you fart when you have those little silent parts you know like my brother it stinks so bad yep and then when you have those loud parts you know yeah they're big ripp ones they hardly have a smell all right thanks so you can't listen dude you can't have everything. You're either going to stink people out of the room or you're going to make them laugh with a huge, just noise.

But you can't have it both ways. Now, my brother's silent farts, oh my God, it's the stuff of nightmares. And, you know, most people can't remember smells. I mean, if you try to remember a smell, you can't. I absolutely can recreate. I do not have a fantasia or a fantasia of the smell. I wonder what that's called.

Can't Remembering Smells. Probably something a lot of it. Well, A Fantasia is not being able to remember sites. You have no mind's eye. Can't remember. Sorry, Carl. Smells. Let me see.

Well, okay, smell is the sense we're at least able to describe. Okay. But it's the one that's hardwired into the brain, though. It's the first, you know, particularly in dogs, They have a really long ethmoid plate. That's where the sensory nerves for smell are. We still don't really completely understand how smell and taste work. I've always assumed that our ancestors used it to suss out food,

and I'm talking about, you know, dog type or ancestors or ferret-type ancestors. Sure. But we, you kept it to smell fart. for one thing, because they're hilarious, but to determine if food is rotten. Yeah, rancid rotten. And when you lose your sense of smell, it sucks because you can't tell. And that's the first thing I thought of is I can't tell if this is rotten or not.

And your taste goes pretty much too, yeah, yeah, because you're tasting your smell and work together in that regard. So it's really hard if you lose one. Yeah, try tasting something if you hold your nose. You can get whether it's sweet or salty or sour maybe, but that's about it. There's no resolution to it. All of that's done in these cells and this thing called the ethmoid plate. Well, anyway, so my, why was I talking about that? Just because my brother's farts just, oh, my brother, yes, I can remember his farts.

You may not be able to remember any other smell, but that I remember because it traumatized my youth. That son of a bitch used to hold me down. He's 12 years older than I am, and he'd hold me down. and just fart in my face and there's something is dead in his colon it's always been that way his his flate smells so bad and he has a good diet and stuff i mean he does probiotics and he eats a lot of green leafy vegetables and stuff but i don't know what's wrong with him but there's something wrong with him and um i can't believe my wife doesn't remember the first time she met him i was surprised too because she yeah anyway anyway so uh so those are his silent farts i've never heard of

heard my brother actually have an audible fart. I know that he has had them because he told me about a time once when we were in Canada, he was dating a local girl and the whole time through the they went to a drive-in to see a movie and the whole time he was holding

in all this fletus and that he was just blowing out the bottom of the John boat that he was driving. We had to take a boat to get back to our house. There was no road. And it was just a little skiff with a five

horsepower motor on it and he said that the flatus that he was cutting resonated in the bottom of the boat because he's sitting on that that seat that's in there and it was louder than the motor so anyway so I know he has had him but I've never heard one

anyway here's the answer to the question hydrogen sulfide causes the smell methane causes the sound so you don't make that much hydrogen sulfide in your gut you make a little bit but it stinks to high heaven

but most of the uh giant farts that you have are either inhaled air so it's nitrogen oxygen carbon dioxide and or uh you've got some bacterial colony that is producing the hell out of methane which methane is pretty odorless. Okay? So when you have a huge volume of fletus, when your colon is blown up by a balloon and you expel it all at once and through your anus

and your ass cheeks flap together at, you know, and sound frequencies that makes what we call a fart or fletus, when it's at large volume like that, you're actually diluting out the hydrogen sulfide if there's even any but you're diluting it out and you're expelling it away from your body so it's dispersing faster an SBD however could and they can be odorless as well but an SBD is going to be a smaller volume and if you're producing hydrogen sulfide it'll be

at a greater concentration and then it's just going to waft up to people's noses it's not going to be explosively expelled out of your ass and so you'll you'll you'll will smell it more acutely. Does that make sense? That's awesome. All right. All right. Let's see.

Okay, this one is an important question, actually. We don't do those very often. Yeah, question. I have the after effects of shingles where your skin still burns. Do you recommend anything for that? Yes. It's been over a year now.

Oh, my God. And it's still there. It's a little burning. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, so I immediately texted him back. I said, you've got to go see your doctor about this. What he has is, you want to say the words?

Post-herpatic neuralgia. Give yourself a bill. And, yes, exactly right. It is post-herpetic neuralgia, so we all know that shingles is caused by a resurgence of chicken pox, but it usually comes out along one nerve root and a bunch of nerve endings, so it'll always be on one side of the body. It causes chicken poxy-looking things, you know, pink-raised papules with some blisters that will ulcerate and then it heals up, painful and itchy. And if you don't take anything, there are some ways that you can try to prevent it.

Some doctors will give a short course of steroids with a high dose of vallocyclavir. An antiviral. Yeah, antiviral, thank you. And there is some decent data that that will reduce the occurrence of the post-repidic neuralgia. Because, you know, if you get it on your side, it's just like you have a sunburn, and not everybody gets it. But sometimes it lasts a week, sometimes a month, sometimes the rest of your life. Yes. But it could feel like a sunburn is irritating.

It's always there. And you can treat that. It's not that big of a deal. You can use lydicane patches. You can use capsaicin, which is the hot stuff in hot sauce. And it seems counterintuitive, but you rub it on there, and it burns you up the first couple of times. And then it depletes a thing called substance P.

In other words, those pain fibers lose the ability to send pain signals to your brain anymore. Right. Or, and there are other things that you can do. Gabapentin is a drug you can use. What do you guys use in traditional Chinese medicine? And I was going to say the thing I suggest to people is quickly get to somebody that does some acupuncture. We surround the lesions with acupuncture After the heel, though, right?

After the heel. Oh, no, I'm asking. I'll do them if they're still active. Okay. Typically, yeah, no, I know, but typically I'll get them after the hill. Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, I've got people. Because we try not to treat broken skin.

Well, yeah, but I don't go right to the broken skin. I go around it. Yeah, so I do almost like a nerve block at the spinal, the spinal segment where it's going in it. But that's, this is, the acupuncture is one thing with the electrical stimulation. I've seen work extremely well. That makes sense to me. With post-herpetit neuralgia, especially if it's been around for a long time.

Yeah. Yeah, because, you know, a lot of folks, maybe they don't want to, maybe they don't tolerate certain medications so well. But I would say get in to find somebody like me that can do it quickly. Okay, so let me give you a better option, but this won't work for him. Yeah. Go get the vaccine. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The vaccine has been demonstrated not only to decrease the incidence of post-herpetic neuralgia, but also just to decrease you ever getting the shingles at all. Right. Because let me tell you something, we're talking about post-herpetic neuralgia on your side, around your rib. You get shingles anywhere. And if you get it around your face and you get shingles in your eye and then you get post-herpetic neuralgia in your eye, that sucks, dude. I'm treating one right now. That's why I've seen a couple of cases of that.

And, I mean, the odds are that it won't happen there, but it's random. and that's a perfectly valid cranial nerve bundle for this stupid virus to hang out in and therefore it could happen sure I got the shingles vaccine just so I wouldn't get shingles in my eye I ended up getting shingles anyway yeah and you can't still get them yeah break through COVID exactly but just usually it doesn't last two days right right it was nothing right so I was very happy that I got I will say that the Schingrich's vaccine kicked my ass. You were sick. You were sick for about 30 days.

But I was worth it. It wasn't that bad. But it kicked my ass. I felt fatigued. It's better than having a burning sensation for the rest of your life. Yeah. Oh, you could get shingles in your taint, too, so I don't think you can't. Also, let's just say, I've heard of cases of them all over.

Oh, Claytas, he got them taint shingles. He surely did. He weren't, he didn't ever walk aside. Nope. Get him just about anywhere. Shut up, Meryl. Jesus. Out of my head.

Stupid asshole, the woman. All right. All right. So go get checked. Yeah. Hey, Dr. Steve. This is Daniel, and I live in Missouri.

I was just wondering if you had any good resources on finding, like, a good primary care physician. I'm 33, and I've not really been to a doctor or had a primary care, you know, since I was a kid, I guess. So, you know, you know, you. You know, just old to know now that I probably need to get into one. So I'm just wondering if, you knew how to find a good one because, man, it just seems like they're hard to find. I'd definitely like to find my doctor's team around here. Ah, no, you don't. Oh, Dan.

Yeah, you don't want to see me coming. No, you don't want to. You don't want to. But, yeah, I know. I know what you mean. You want somebody that is evidence-based, critical thinking that'll, you know, drop an F-bomb for fun. And listen to you. And, but yes.

Yeah, and listen. Oh, thank you. Listen. That's more important. Listen. So, yeah, someone who will listen to you that will use some critical thinking, but won't be a pain in the ass to go to. It's one thing.

And listen, your specialists, they could be the biggest assholes in the world. You don't have to like your specialist. They need to be good. You need to like your primary care. You won't use them. I agree. And you need to use them. Agreed.

And their office staff needs to be good. needs to be attentive to your needs as well. And these offices where the providers are not paying attention to how the office staff is talking to the patients, that's a problem. Because I hear every word that my nurse says to my patients because where I work is right just down the hall from where she is. And we work on scripting sometimes. Hey, you know, if I've said this, it's more effective if I use. use it this way, that kind of stuff. But if you're not paying attention to that, they can become like civil servants

and start really just chasing your patients away. So you got to have the whole thing. So let me tell you what to do. You can go to family doctor.org and you can put in your zip code. It'll give you a list. And then if you've made some friends around there and you, you know, if you've moved or if you've lived there for a while, just ask them. Word of mouth is key.

Not health grades. Don't go on health grades because I get on there and go. goof on some of my classmates sometime. So don't use health grades. You would. And then if somebody gets a bad review, they hire people to go put 20 good reviews on there to mask it, you know, so health grade's no good, but your friends will tell you. Yeah, I like my doctor, I hate my doctor.

You know, they suck, or they're really good, but their office staff sucks or whatever, you know. Yeah, great. Word of mouth is a way to go. So let's do another question. Let's try this one. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's up. I just had a random question for you. Yeah, that's what we like.

In regards to cancer, why can't we just do, like, once we hit 60, 65, why can't we just do, like, a preventative round of chemo? Just if we can kill anything that's, you know, growing or whatever. And, you know, hope for the best. Thanks a lot. No, I think it's a great idea. We're just not there. That's, what you're talking about is Star Trek or Larry Niven's.

dicta immunity or something like that the problem is is that right now every chemotherapy regimen is well it's there are algorithms for them but they have to be personalized yeah some people have kidney function trouble so they got to reduce or they don't tolerate it not everybody tolerates everything there's this this one chemotherapy that if you take it and you have a certain enzyme deficiency. It can almost kill you. But it's so rare that they don't test for it. So you just kind of hope for the best.

And so we're not there yet. And every cancer responds to different things, you know, most of them, large groups of things. So it just wouldn't work with what we've got right now. We don't have one chemotherapeutic agent that would work for this. I would imagine in the future that we may have something that we could give people that would turn on their immune system to recognize cancer as foreign and kill it. And that's what, that's what, that's the holy grail of cancer. And then they'll be over.

There will be no more oncologists at that point. Well, don't use the word vaccine because that'll turn. Right. It would not be a vaccine, thank you. Well, and we can't. It's a treatment. It's a pro-gagic treatment. We can't have a cancer vaccine because that's what's,

started I Am legend. Oh, my God. You remember at the beginning? And they used Emma Thompson, and you thought it was kind of a, they kind of threw you off thinking, oh, Emma Thompson in this movie is going to be awesome. And that was all, she invented a cancer vaccine. The next thing you know, it's zombies everywhere. Or whatever they were. Yeah. Yeah. In the book, they were vampires. Yeah. And Dr. Steve, I believe this is true. And this, I think this kind of coincides with that question is there not a way now where a lot of a lot of people who have some some much much more uncommon cancers where they can send them to a lab and they can they can run a data analysis across

a bunch of all the chemotherapies and everything to see if anything might trigger yeah there's the use of AI they did that with COVID okay they used AI to determine based on the structure of the spike protein right what drugs oh and also it's metabolism But then we're going to metabolize, but it's life cycle. What drugs might be useful off the shelf? So we can just pull a drug off the shelf. And it can be anything. And, well, the interesting thing is hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, both were on that list of potential drugs.

That's where some of this came from. Sure, sure, sure. And those didn't pan out like we hoped, but, you know, yes, they can do those things. And so what I find more interesting are the cases. If you go to Dr. Steve.com and click on the link that says non-sutoscience cancer cures, I haven't posted anything there for a long time, but there are a couple of treatments where they take cancer cells out of someone's body, treat them with some chemical to open them up so that they expose their proteins more readily to the immune system,

expose the patient's own white blood cells to that, And then inject those white blood cells back in. It's kind of like giving a search and rescue dog somebody's sock and rubbing it under their nose and saying, go. It's really very analogous to that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. And then because there have been some, the early studies, they do one or two patients. And one of those people is a stage four cervical cancer.

That's a terminal illness that's now walking around, you know, cancer-free. and they have now started to sell this as a commercial product for certain cancers. Good. So anyway. Well, hopefully it helps somebody. Yep, yep. All right. Good question.

Oh, this is a good one for Dr. Scott. This guy actually specifically asked me to ask this on the podcast so that you could weigh in because he knew what you were going to say. Oh, hi there, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott. It's Dern in Illinois. Hey, Aaron, what's this? As I've talked about previously with you, Dr. Steve. Oh, my God, dude. I got my calcium scan done, and it came back done over 400 this time.

So my doctor referred me to a cardiologist. Well, the cardiologist just put me on Crestor. I'd like to hear y'all thoughts on this particular statin drug. Thank you kindly. Well, thank you. He's making fun of it. us i mean i don't okay anyway all right well i'm certified uh calcium uh treatment i'd get me a shot at dar liquor and uh get you some a little taste of corn squaysing

sorry and uh get you some poke salad and mix it up with some possum grazing you'll be just down the old hatch down the old hatch i i like the fact that people underestimate us down here and if they think we're all like that they won't come here exactly because we really are we we none of us have any teeth and you know I know I've probably said this on this show before but I realized how because I mean growing up there was four miles of dirt road going to my house in North Carolina and so I grew up in I mean it was in the not the foothills like we are here I mean I was in the mountains right I lived in a valley there was mountains all all around me poor valley and uh well yeah i mean that's that is a valley around here

yes it is um but uh so i realized how inculcated into appalachian culture i was when i my wife was watching honey boo boo boo and mama june was talking and they were putting english subtitles under her and i'm like why are they putting english subtitles under somebody that's speaking english i I thought something was wrong. You know what they had screwed up? Yep. And I went, oh, okay, I get it. I'm a damn hick.

She sounds normal to me. I know the failing. Oh, Mama June. And I know when Bobby Kelly came down here and heard my mother-in-law, all he could hear was dip, dip, dip, dip, dip. That's what sounded like to him. He couldn't understand the things she said. Sure.

And Big Joe. We need to get Big Joe and Bobby Kelly here in the studio together sometime. We'll just let them talk. I don't know who I'd feel more sorry for. Oh, no, I would feel more sorry for Bob Kelly. Absolutely. That's a no-brainer. We'll do that sometime.

We need to get old Big Joe in here. All right. So, what do you think, goofy accent aside, what do you think about his question? So he has, he did a calcium score, so we'll give him one of the years. Give yourself a bill. And it came out 400. Yeah, pretty high. So zero, the value of the calcium score is when you score a zero.

That's the real value because that is, well, there's more value to that. If you get a zero on your calcium score, it is highly unlikely you're going to have myocardial infarction, you know, in the next 10 years. Now, go ahead. Yeah, I just, I think it's very reasonably put him on the statins. Take him for a while. What? Well, no, hang on, I haven't finished, I haven't finished, and see if you tolerate them. Right.

Yeah, and if you tolerate them well, then it's really not a big deal. Remember, my only complaint with statins is I don't think that the, the adverse effects are. No, I don't think the providers should be, I don't want to say forced, but strongly encouraged to give every single person in the United States a statin. I don't think every single person needs it. No, no, no. But, Dr. Steve, it's like I've always said. If you're at high risk. If you're at high risk, I don't think it's.

Now, that being said, if you take it, if you take it, and you tolerate it, no big deal. If you take it and you don't tolerate it, well, the research shows that once a week is very, God, very, very, you are on fire today. Where are you getting all this knowledge from? Give yourself a bill. And then tell them the stick in their ass. No, but I think, listen, we're not your doctors. They're giving you these for a reason.

Try it. Let's see how it works, yes. If you've got questions, let us know. Ladies and gentlemen, hell is officially. frozen over it is right no I'm not saying I like it but in this case well you know I didn't this case it sounds it sounds like a reasonable thing and then I got off of it and I tried it again I still didn't tolerate it I got off of it again and then I said oh just screw it I'll just take it I'm tolerating I'm fine now and like I said

there are other ways to do it donating blood has been shown to help lower cholesterol yes I wonder if it's been shown to decrease heart attack and stroke though except in people who have polycytemia but anyway but but it but it but it but it but it's Well, yeah. Okay, no, go ahead. Go ahead, talk, and I'll look it up. But, you know, with a calcium score of 400, it's pretty high. It'd be nice to get that down, son.

Okay, yes. So. And modifying a diet, you know, exercise, et cetera. So, so there's a lot of other things that our friend in Illinois can do. But I got to tell you, I got to tell you, I tell you my girlfriend when I was in high school, they had moved down from Chicago. And her mom used to give me a bunch of bullshit about my accent. What? Which I said, I don't have an accent.

No, you do. Well, I know I do. but at that time i have one at that time even though i got rid of it when i went through broadcasts yeah well i i came you know it comes back we modify ours unless we've both been drinking but anyway um the um she she and she gave me a hillbilly book about about hillbill exit and i read that book and i was like oh my god that's this is literally yeah how i say things yeah yeah so far far where's it where's it where's it we all going over yeah yeah it's just y'all too y'all too y'all can you favor

Bar. I love it. Look at that bar. That ain't a place you sit and drink. No. Sometimes you eat the bars from those bar each of you. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so I found cardiovascular benefits of phlebotomy.

Okay. Oh, cool. This renewed interest in the age-old concept of bloodletting. Of course, Dr. Scott would... Woo-hoo! I wouldn't think bloodletting was good. But let me see, blood loss, that just following regular donation is associated with significant reductions.

And he, in key, hmm, wow, some key variables. I've never seen this word before. What is it? Hemoreological variables. I think this is not one that's used in the United States.

Including whole blood viscosity, which, yeah, if it's less viscous, it's going to be less likely to clot, you would think. Plasma viscosity, amaticritin tybrinogen. Elevated whole blood viscosity appears to be a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease, an important factor in the development of atherosclerosis. So, yeah, you might be on to something there, Dr. Scott.

I think so. You know, sure, you want to do whatever it's going to take. And if you can't, if you physically can't take statin, which is the way, the proven way that we know to decrease heart attack and stroke. Good. To decrease heart attack and stroke. I mean, it's 30% decrease. That's decent.

Do all the other things that you can do. And if you do three things that reduce it by 10%, you know, maybe you're getting close. Got a patent chance. So I did find the, got my voice change. I'm going through puberty. Do you hear that? I did find the calcium score is 1 to 10.

Zero is awesome. 1 to 10, minimal evidence, 11, 20. 100 mild evidence, 101 to 400, moderate evidence, and then over 400 is extensive evidence of coronary artery disease. So those people are at high risk. I would treat a moderate or high risk person with statin and other things. Obviously, you don't just take a pill and hope for the best. You've got to increase your exercise.

You've got to get off your asses and quit smoking, and, you know, I'll see you in one week for the next edition of weird medicine type stuff. you need to eat better you need to you know binge alcohol less those kinds of things do all of that I mean I used to talk to my patients and I would sit down I'd write it all out these are all things you can do you can increase your soluble fiber if you can't do that in your diet with oat bran and stuff like that then just use citrus cell you know citrus cell is soluble fiber as a supplement it may decrease your bad cholesterol by a few points you want to increase your exercise that'll increase your good cholesterol by a few points.

If you decrease your bad cholesterol and increase your good cholesterol, you know, that actually will, you know, that gives you a pretty decent benefit. If you don't drink, then anything, any, the resveratrol containing liquids like purple grape juice is okay, or, you know, a half glass or a glass of red wine a day. Yeah, sure. let me see what were some of the other things quit and smoking get your blood sugar under control those kinds of things those lifestyle measures we can't just substitute those you know for just taking a pill no just like it all works together the fish oil thing you know eat more fish less other stuff don't just render the fish these poor fish down into a pill and take it think you're going to do something I did a whole podcast when you weren't here which I wish you would go listen to because I know you never listened to the show, but it's called Eat Your Goddamn Vegetables. And I played a YouTube video, so it was out there of a company that's selling a dehydrated vegetable product and saying that, you know, and I've seen other commercials where they're like, oh, you know, I'm, I don't want to identify it.

But I have this profession, and I work late into the night, and it's just too hard for me to eat fruits and vegetables. It's like, shut up. You can eat an apple. while you're doing that. Yes, you can. Just have to. Are you an adult? Then you can make this choice.

Yes, you can. Yes, you can. I understand if you're addicted to something that it isn't as easy as saying you can make this choice. Or like people say to my wife, you know, when her depression is in full, well, you should just be happier. Just make yourself happier. You can't just do that. But you can just choose to eat an apple. you don't you can choose not to take a pill and think somehow that's going to come on come on

and ain't that easy baby i'm just done i'm right anyway all right listen uh thanks everybody i really appreciate you being here anybody else we need to give any shoutouts to anyone in the chat room dr scott kim kim chickens is there talk like hick to you and they're getting ready to get some big massive storms oh no amy is getting hit by the storms again again Again, yeah. God, she just got hammered. Yeah, they're still picking up from last time. From them torn 80s.

That's all good. You guys saying, lose label. White, black by day and white by night. Beware torn 80s said mama de white. That's old country saying there, Dr. Scott. Okay, I'll stop. Thanks always go to Dr. Scott. We can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes.

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ideas make this child very easy go to our website at dr steve.com for schedules and podcasts and other crap until next time check your stupid nuts for lumps quit smoking get off your asses and get some exercise we'll see you in one week for the next edition of weird medicine i will see you may 14th in nashville and we're going to eat prince's hot chicken and i'll buy beers beers around me all right i'm at the ac hotel all right see you then Thank you.