Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 535 - The Lost Episode

Episode Date: December 27, 2022

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: The Rise of Cardiff Electric Stump the Clumps with Mr DeLoach That extra taste bud they didn't teach you about in school A guy who sleeps with his eyes open ... Weight loss with the GLP-1s Fournier's Gangrene (DON'T GOOGLE IMAGE THIS) A fix for shy bladder and much more! Weird Medicine: The Podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/medicine (Give online therapy a try and get on your way to being your best self!) Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net  (now with NO !vermect!n!) (JUST KIDDING, Podcast app overlords! Sheesh!) roadie.doctorsteve.com (the greatest gift for a guitarist or bassist! The robotic tuner!) Also don't forget: Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now while he’s still cheap! "FLUID!") noom.doctorsteve.com (the link still works! Lose weight now before swimsuit season is over!) Most importantly! CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, the O&A Troika, Joe DeRosa, Pete Davidson. Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Did you hear about the dirty Easter egg hunt? It was hosted by the Dust Bunny. Why can't you have a concert at the poultry farm? The chickens won't stop shouting free bird. If you're writing a mystery about a nose, make sure it ends, with a really good snot twist. If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103,
Starting point is 00:00:42 and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Benz, you would have thought that this guy was a bit of, you know, a clown. Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? I've got the period crushing my esophagus. I've got to Boliv I'm stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbound, exacerbating my infertable woes.
Starting point is 00:01:07 I want to take my brain out and blast with the wave, an ultrasonic, ecographic, and a pulsating shave. I want a magic pill. All my ailments, the health equivalent of Citizen Kane. And if I don't get it now in the tablet, I think I'm doomed, then I'll have to go insane. I want a requiem for my disease.
Starting point is 00:01:26 So I'm paging Dr. Steve. Dr. Steve. From the world, take a careful, Yo ho ho-ho-de-ho Do they learn a brain I need some touch it Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho-de-ho In the garretid.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Yo-in'clock. It's weird medicine, the first and still only uncensored medical show in the history of broadcast radio, now a podcast. I'm Dr. Steve with my little pal, Dr. Scott, the traditional Chinese medicine provider gives me street cred with the wacko. I'll turn into ass hats.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Hello, Dr. Scott. Hey, look, Steve. And we've got Tacey, my partner in all things. Hello, Tacey. What's up? This is a show for people. How you doing? How you doing?
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Starting point is 00:02:32 Most importantly, we're not your medical providers. Take everything here with a grain of salt. Don't act on anything you hear on this show without talking over with your health care provider. All right, Dr. Scott. Check out stuff. dot, dr. steve.com. That's stuff. dot, dr. steve.com for all your shopping needs.
Starting point is 00:02:48 Yeah, tis the season. If you're going to shop at Amazon anyway, just go to stuff. Dottersteve.com. Why not? It really helps us out. You can click straight through to Amazon or you can scroll down. You can find the. Dr. Steve Mug, which we now have, the good ones in stock with the Bristol Stool Scale on there.
Starting point is 00:03:06 If you bought one before, I will be sending you one of these as well. So there are limited inventory because now I've got to make up for the ones that we set out before. They were very nice, but they had typos on them. So this one is going to be better. Now, my family is going to get all the collector's edition versions. These are like the stamps where they put the airplane upside down and it's worth 50,000 bucks or something per stamp. Exactly. These are, you know, the collector's items.
Starting point is 00:03:40 That's what I'll say. Yeah. Anyway, and check out tweakedaadio.com. Offer code fluid. I think the code still works. I don't know if we get anything from it, but you get 33% off the best earbuds on the price for the market. I mean, on the market for the price. And everybody needs a pair of those for Christmas.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Yes, they do. And as a matter of fact, who is? I talking to you the other day. I said, put your earbuds in. They said, I don't have any. So, um, we need to do that. And then, uh, check out Dr. Scott's website, simply herbals.net. We'll talk more about that in a minute. And then Patreon.com slash weird medicine. Um, we, the Chad Zumach episode, I'm still editing it. I'm probably going to do that while Tacey's gone to Las Vegas this weekend. To the Las Vegas. Yeah, she's going to the Los. She's going to the the Lost Vegas, don't you know?
Starting point is 00:04:31 Maybe stop off at the Walmart. And, yep, you can go to the Walmart and get you some credit, but I sure hope you don't vomit. You might. Anyway, so Patreon.com slash weird medicine. There will be none of that, which you just heard. But we did do one with Chad Zumak and editing that one now because it kind of was wide-ranging. And you got somebody with ADHD.
Starting point is 00:04:59 interviewing somebody with ADHD, it's going to be a mess. So I just want to make it make sense. And then, you know, we had Pete Davidson. We've had the Troika of Opian Anthony. We've had Mark Norman, Bob Kelly. And we've got more people coming. Joe List is coming. Kevin Brennan just agreed to do it.
Starting point is 00:05:19 So we're going to have a bunch of good ones coming up. So check that out. Patreon.com slash weird medicine. Those never go on the YouTube channel. So that's the only place you can hear those. So that way we can speak a little more freely. And then right before the holidays, cameo.com slash weird medicine.
Starting point is 00:05:37 I love doing those. They're cheap. I did one today for somebody while I was driving. And it's very safe. And, yeah, you may get the one where, you know, your old buddy makes that fatal mistake doing your cameo, and that might be worth something going for. All right, very good.
Starting point is 00:05:55 Check out Dr. Scott's website. Simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net. Good stocking stuffer is some, what, nasal spray? Yeah, it's basically right now with all the crud in people's heads. I have been seeing people selling herbal, you know, doing ads for herbal things like stress less and fatigue reprieve and stuff like that and doing live reads. Maybe we should do that for yours. at some point.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Yeah, we try. Yeah, anyway. $500 bucks an episode. There you go. Simply herbal.net. Check him out anyway. And it is not Mr. Cardiff's birthday, nor is it Kinky Loco's anniversary. But what it is is the day that Cardiff Electric sent us a custom-made guitar. Oh, cool.
Starting point is 00:06:51 This is true, and it's very nice. And it's amazing. And after the show, if you hang out with the, on our YouTube channel, which, you know, it's, it's one day, I don't care, 20 people, I think we get 80, maybe something like that. We ain't no Uncle Rico show, you know, but if you hang out with us, then after the show, we horrify people by trying to play music. And so we're going to be doing a country version of the Cardiff Electric podcast theme song.
Starting point is 00:07:26 And for people that don't know, Cardiff Electric owns the network that we're on, and he also has a podcast of his own. He broadcasts as a potato and interviews people like Chad Zumach and who else has he had on there? He had Pat Dixon on there once, and he interviews them, and he's a potato and a talking potato. But he's actually in real life, he's a brilliant person. He's not a potato? No, and yeah, it's hard to play guitar, you know, as a potato. But one of the things that he used to do when it first started,
Starting point is 00:08:08 and I'm just kind of pulling back that fourth wall just a little bit, was he was doing it to make me laugh. And now he's become huge and he's like everybody's Cardiff Electric and he's got his own network and he has his own, you know, YouTube channel where he makes thousands of dollars. He's making more than we ever thought to make on super chats and stuff like that. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:08:34 But I just thought this was funny. He has this theme song and I don't know if I, let me see if I can find the actual theme song to his show. And then these guys, this guy named Mean Doug was in a studio at Watchman Studios
Starting point is 00:08:50 and they had a hair band in there and this guy was like a Asylum suite. Locally, we have a hair band that's amazing. And they had a vocalist who had some pipes on them, and they had him do the Carnival Electric theme sucks. So let me play the original theme song real quick if I can get it to play.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Let's see here. Oh, boy, here we go. Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, sorry. He's the guy all the girlfriend. He's a gas digital network. Oh, all right. All right.
Starting point is 00:09:25 So this is the original theme song. He does this in a very ironic way, because he's not the most famous podcast in the world today. And, you know, whenever he would be on another show, before he would speak, he would go theme song. And he'd make them play this. whole thing. And if he has guests on he'll start the show and he'll make
Starting point is 00:09:59 them sit through this whole theme song. It goes on for a minute. All right. Anyway, so that's the original theme song and I just wanted to play you the hair metal one because I think it's entertaining.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Listen to the pipes on this guy. Cardiff. Catiff Electric, the most famous podcast in the world today. Cardiff Electric, he's so cool. Come out and play. He's the guy
Starting point is 00:10:42 or the other guys are jealous of. That's one hot potato. Because he's the guy that all the girls want to be with. Cardiff electric The most famous podcast in the world today He's got great guests on his show Like Dr. Steve and some other people
Starting point is 00:11:11 We love you, Curtis All right, so you get the idea anyway And what is hilarious to me Is that that last line is he's got great guests on his show like Dr. Steve and some other people. Because when he created that, I think at that time I was the only guest he'd ever had on his show.
Starting point is 00:11:33 And so now if they have someone doing a parody, they have to say my name in the show because that's in the war. I just think it's funny. All right. Fuck both of you. That's awesome. We got this.
Starting point is 00:11:47 The caffeine's kicking in. Thank you. That's fine. Cardiff. I love you, man. Hey, we got this book in the mail. And I'm assuming there was no note or anything. I'm assuming they wanted us to talk about it on the show.
Starting point is 00:12:00 And it is a field guides to men's health by Jesse N. Mills, MD, eat right, stay fit, sleep well, and have great sex forever. So, Scott, will you please go to the Have Great Sex Forever section of this book? And when you find something, because it's a small book, it is just like a field guide. Okay. Let me know what you have to do to do that. Gotcha. It's probably put your penis in a, you know, a warm, moist place and then go in and out, in and out until stuff comes up. I'm calling the hole on that one.
Starting point is 00:12:39 That's enough. Well, I'm assuming that's the secret to having great sex, right? If you're a dude. I'm not so sure about that. All right. Really? I think you, you better ask the boss. Well, maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Starting point is 00:12:53 Maybe I'm doing it wrong, man. I thought you were... Anyway, all right. Thank you, Tacey, for putting a stop to that. Let's... I've got some phone calls here. Let's do these. And let's go...
Starting point is 00:13:08 Oops. Uh-oh. Sorry, Ronnie B. Let's try that again. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. So, Stacey Deloche was off the show for a while
Starting point is 00:13:20 because he pulled a little prank on us. And not unlike Howard Stern. It's okay if you prank other people, but don't be pranking, you know, the host of the show. And so he was banned for a little while. And but now he's, there's a pent-up demand. He's redeemed himself. Yeah, there's pent-up demand for Stacey Deloge content. And so what this is is last week we had the quiz with Stacey, right?
Starting point is 00:13:48 Well, he got turned on by that. And now he sent us like a million questions. I thought we'd just do them all and get them more. But all of his questions are always good. They're always good, yeah. You know, so, okay, so let's do, I think this is a good one. Okay, yeah, let's do this one. All right.
Starting point is 00:14:07 This is actually not a Stacey. I'm probably because I recently. Okay, that was a teaser. We're going to do the Stacey questions in a minute, but this is a really good question. I'll say, is Stacy trying to hide his voice. I've been noticing that when I was, wake up in the middle of the night, either go to the bathroom or just toss and turn, that my eyes are crazy dry to the point that they hurt when I open and close them. My mom always said that when I was a kid, I would sleep with my eyes open a little bit.
Starting point is 00:14:40 And I think that's what might cause it. But I'm just curious if there's anything like a drop. You can put in your eye before you go to bed to try to prevent that, or it's just kind of something you've got to deal with. And thanks so much. Have a great day. Bye. Okay, Scott, do you know the name of this? If Lydia were here, this is more of an allopathic thing.
Starting point is 00:15:01 A dry eye syndrome? Well, yes. The actual name of the problem is lagophthalmos. It's actually a name of. Okay. And people sleep with their eyes open, usually doing to an issue relating to facial muscles, nerves, or skin around the eyelids, but some people just could do it
Starting point is 00:15:26 because of anatomic or behavioral differences. And those folks that have lagophthalmos, in other words, sleeping with their eyes open, often have reduced sleep quality and they may not sleep as long or as well due to the pain and discomfort caused by the eyes drying out throughout the night.
Starting point is 00:15:46 So when you have this, you really do need to see an ophthalmologist for it just to make sure that there isn't some weird thing going on with your eyes. And if there isn't, you know, not an infection or some genetic thing or some weird thing with the muscles of your eye. And if, you know, our friend John had this, but he also had double vision with it. You know, why?
Starting point is 00:16:14 Because he had a thing called exophthalmos. Now, that's another exophthalmos can cause lagophthalmone. Xophthalmosis is when your eyeballs protrude more than they should. Turn out he had Graves disease. And when you have Graves disease and your eyeballs stick out farther out of the orbits than they're supposed to, and it can cause the eyelid to have difficulty closing at night when they're fully relaxed. So we need to make sure that you don't have something like that going on. Sleeping pills can cause it heavy alcohol use.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Antihistamines might if they drive out too much. So there are moisture goggles that you can wear at night. They moisturize the eyes during your sleep. You can wear an eye mask that actually just presses down on the eyelids to keep them closed. And then some doctors recommend an external eyelid weight, but again, you're going to want to get this from your ophthalmologist. And this weight attaches to the outside of the upper eyelids and it keeps them closed. Can you imagine? I've never heard of that.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Yeah, it doesn't take much. Sometimes they'll just use surgical tape. Okay. But, yeah, drops really won't be, you know, there are some drops that you could use. Basically, they're gels. Right. That you could put in the, you know, put under the lower eyelid and it'll kind of mush around. And that would keep things moist, but really the problem is keeping the eyelid closed.
Starting point is 00:17:44 So the solution is closing the island. So, you know, they'll measure the space between your eyelids. They'll, you know, measure the amount of force that used to close the eyes when blinking. They've got all – the ophthalmologists have all kinds of cool-ass stuff. Some of them are optics, you know, lots of weird lenses and things that they can, you know, look into your eye and make it look like a giant panorama in front of them when they're looking. That's what – if you've ever had an ophthalmologist, put that, like a telescope on their eye. and then they've got another little circular thing
Starting point is 00:18:20 that they hold in front of your eye. That actually is a retinoscope, and it allows them to look at your retina, and when they see it, it looks like it's projected in front of them, a big giant retina, and they can see all the blood vessels and stuff. It's cool. They got all the really fun toys,
Starting point is 00:18:36 and they get to play with lasers and stuff like that. But they also have things for this, they can measure the force required to close your eyelids. Did he say it's definitely from his eyelids It's not closing? Isn't that what he said there at the end? Did he say that? Not closing?
Starting point is 00:18:53 Because I was just wondering, because he could have autoimmune disorder. And I think that's what might cause it. And that when I was a kid, I would sleep with my eyes open a little. There you go. Yeah. So if he was doing it when he was a kid, he's probably doing it now. The other thing is, is, you know, if he has a partner, they could just look at him,
Starting point is 00:19:10 turn the, you know, get a flashlight out in the middle of the night and look at your eyes. See if there is a slit there where air is. getting in under the... Drying it out, yeah, and drying it out. That'd be a really strange look to look over at somebody sleeping beside you. Well, Edgar Allan Poe did a story about that. Oh, did he? Yeah, it was the tell-tale heart.
Starting point is 00:19:28 And he would go in and open up the slot to the thing and he would see the, you know, the blue eye looking at me and, you know, finally he killed the guy and stuck him under the... Oh, spoiler. Sorry, 250-year-old story. and he buries him under the floor. And then the inspectors come, but he can hear the heart beating. It's guilt.
Starting point is 00:19:55 And then finally, he's like, and he knows the inspectors are drinking their tea and they're pretending like they don't hear the heart, but they know that he buried him under the floor. And then finally he just says, okay, okay, I did it, I did it. Dumbass, all you had to do is keep your mouth shut. So anyway. We're talking. That's hilarious
Starting point is 00:20:14 All right Let's see here That's a good question That's a good question Yep I hope he gets that text Hey There we go
Starting point is 00:20:22 Of your body mass Is made up of blood Weightwise There you go That's a good one Anybody have any idea What is there Five quarts
Starting point is 00:20:34 Oh well See Scott knows something Times Times what So how much How much would that be times Well just give me a percentage of body weight and we're going to do this price of right
Starting point is 00:20:44 rules so if you go over you don't get it I would say we're doing percentage of body weight yeah percentage of body weight prices right rules I would say 7% okay Tacey I'm gonna go with I was gonna go with like 40 40% okay she said 40 you can't you can't
Starting point is 00:21:03 oh we're just talking about blood though not water right right right not water just blood just blood just blood okay What do you say, Scott? 7%. I'm going to go with 1% Steve. Damn it.
Starting point is 00:21:16 1%? Yeah, because it's price of right rules. Okay, well, if you were doing Price of Right rules, then you would do 1% over him. Is that what you're saying? No. No, I thought it was under.
Starting point is 00:21:29 Yeah, because no matter what, if I'll lose, I could probably believe he should win. Okay, so if you're on Price of Right and you think that he's under and you go one, over and you're both under, you're going to win because you'll be closer. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:21:46 But anyway, you said 1%. And he said 7. I mean, I have no idea. I know. It's ridiculous. It was 10%. So Scott wins that one. So that's one point for Scott.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Will you keep track of these, Scott? Oh, of course. I'm counting a bill. That's one bill for Scott. Oh, yeah. Okay, here you go. Give yourself a bill. Yep.
Starting point is 00:22:07 There's one for Scott. Let's see here. This one I do not know, and we're going to have to probably calculate the hell out of this. So let's see here. Let's try this. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, quick question for you. On average, how much dust do you think your lungs inhale over a lifetime? Oh, how much dust?
Starting point is 00:22:31 Thank you. Oh, my gosh. How are you supposed to know that? Yeah, that's a good one because your lungs are constantly clearing. themselves. One way that we could figure this out is, let's say, on average, 500 ML per breath, right? So you do 500, and then we're going to have to figure that out in, you know, total MLs. If I had paper, it would be easier for me to do this, but 500 MLs per breath, and let's say an average of what? What do you want to say? Twelve breaths an hour?
Starting point is 00:23:03 I don't say 10 for simple math. Okay, 10. Okay. So that would be 5,000 emels an hour, right? 500 MLs per breath Yeah And then 10 breaths per minute Yeah But not for hour
Starting point is 00:23:17 Yeah sorry sorry sorry It's a 5,000 times Yeah 5,000 30 times 60 Okay let's let Siri 300 grand Echo What's 5,000 times 30
Starting point is 00:23:30 Will you get some paper and write this down? I think 300 grand I don't have a pen I'm writing down By the way You can thank the driver of your most recent delivery No, never mind. Echo, what's 5,000 times 30?
Starting point is 00:23:43 I just want to keep track of it. 150,000. Okay, so that's 150,000 MLs, an hour, right? Let's just multiply it by how many, instead of going through, oh, well, a day and then a year and all that stuff, which is how many hours is there
Starting point is 00:24:03 in a human lifetime? Echo, how many hours is there in 70 years. 70 years is 613,200 hours. So 613, 613,000 times 150,000.
Starting point is 00:24:19 Ceri, or Echo, what's 150,000 times 613,000? 150,000 times 613,000 is 91,950 million. 91,150 million? That's a lot. $150,000. Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Okay, now. I say we just answer a lot. A whole bunch. So 91 billion emels of air in a lifetime. Now, what percentage, if we could figure out what percentage of air is dust, we can figure this out. Do they have a golden retriever? Yeah, of air is dust. Let's just see if there's a answer.
Starting point is 00:25:07 Oh, no. is dust. So here we go. 1%. Okay. Carbon dioxide, water vapor, dust particles, and other gases constitute 1% of air. So, oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:25:19 So this should be easy. Echo, what is 1% of 91,150 million? 1% of 91,150 million is 911,500,000. That's still a shitload of dust. That's the answer. Yeah, that's the answer.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Gold or Cheater, then you can double it. Then you double it. There you go. At least. Thanks for throwing us a curveball on that one, Stacey. For God's sake. I thought, oh, this would be fun to calculate how much air you breathe in a lifetime. That was awesome.
Starting point is 00:25:50 Terrible. That's a tough. That's a tough one. Good question, though. Yeah, very good. All right. Let's see here. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Let's try this one. Do you want to take a guess at how many different strains of bacteria live in your Billy Buckton. Bye, Tacey. I know the answer to this, so I won't answer it. But Scott, you want to take a guess at that one? How many different strains of bacteria in your navel? Seven.
Starting point is 00:26:23 Seven. Okay. Price is right rules, Tase. Oh, I'm going over. 100. Oh, okay. Or you could just say eight. Hey, Quinn.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Hey, let's do eight, damn it. There you go. All right. Give yourself a bill. It's $2,300, so Tacey's closer. She would have won anyway. I feel like I'm being a tag thing here. You are.
Starting point is 00:26:44 In one study, 60 volunteers swab their navels. I'm not going to say belly button. They're umbilicus. Umbilicus. Reachers, researchers analyze the samples and found more than 2,300 different kinds of bacteria. That's an average of 67 different kinds per belly button. So it's 2,300 over 60 volunteers, and it's actually 67. were still one taste.
Starting point is 00:27:09 Yeah, you don't want either way, damn it. How about that? She gets a bill. She gets a bill. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Give yourself a bill. Yours gets an asterisk. Your has an asterisk.
Starting point is 00:27:20 All right. Let's see here. Okay. Oh, can, okay, here's a good one. How many different flavors can the human tongue decipher? There's a little bit of debate on this one. Yeah. But it's going to surprise you.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Bye, Tasey. Let's go with the universally accepted basic tastes. Okay. Okay. So I'll give you one would be sweet. So just go with those and see if you can get them all. Okay. So if one's sweet.
Starting point is 00:27:54 So that's one. I mean, just the area of the tongue is five. But he's talking about. Well, what are the tastes, though? Sweet, sour, bitter. Mm-hmm. salt yes
Starting point is 00:28:09 acrid no sweet sour that'd be sour bitter bitter and sour be acrid
Starting point is 00:28:18 okay yeah you guys are missing one and it's one that we were not taught in grade school yeah I don't know but they but Uncle Roger talks about it
Starting point is 00:28:31 every single show it's MSG the king of flavor and that that yes that's right And what does that cause? What taste does that stimulate? So salty? It's umami.
Starting point is 00:28:42 The answer is, the answer is, umami. Umami? No, we were not talking about to drink. Nope. We wouldn't have done it. Yeah, so umami is kind of a new, uh, newly, you know, identified taste bud, uh, or, you know, basic taste and it's basically the taste of meat, you know, sort of hearty, heartiness would be umami.
Starting point is 00:29:04 Now, you could also add cool and hot into there as well. But what amazes me is that from all of this, you can then take someone with a really good palette and you could give them, say, a creme brulee, and they'll say, well, this has orange zest and, you know, a little bit of cognac in it or something like that. You know, it is that the human ability to discern taste is unbelievable. So it's not just the tongue. some of it is done with the olfactory nerves. That's right. So if you shut down your smell,
Starting point is 00:29:41 you might be able to still say, well, that thing's salty and maybe that thing might be sour, but it's very difficult. And just try it sometime. We used to do this when we were kids. Well, I think a lot of folks that had the COVID. Yep.
Starting point is 00:29:52 Yeah, they know it without me having to tell them. They know for sure. But, yeah, if you just plug your nose and then try to discern tastes, It's very difficult to do. Are you seeing that with newer strains of COVID? No, I am not. I haven't seen any at all.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Now, there may be some out there. And so the people who are listening, if you had a recent strain of COVID and you lost your sense of taste or, you know, smell, I would like to know about it. Because we're not seeing any of that. No, I only saw it in the very first strain. Yep. When we had the big, huge first rush of COVID. Yeah. It's crazy, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:30:29 Yeah. All right. All right. Anything? Isn't it umami? Isn't that a spice that the Japanese use a lot to flavor their foods? Like a mushroom? Well, it is.
Starting point is 00:30:41 Mushroom has umami. Oh, okay, gotcha. Okay. Gotcha. Okay, gotcha. Because I know I'd heard of that in Iron Chef. That's my favorite show, Iron Chef. Iron Chef?
Starting point is 00:30:51 When they killed a live stuff. Oh, my God. Oh, it's so awful. It's all, but that's a great show. So, um, is it still on? Umami. Yeah, it's a new version. It's different people and stuff.
Starting point is 00:31:02 It used to be so much fun. Umami is defined as savouriness. It's one of the five basic tastes that's described as savory, consistent of broths and cooked meats. Why not just say that, though? So I get another bill because I said five. I should get a bill. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:21 So was it in the question. One of the five basic tastes. Oh, I thought you said how many were there. People taste umami through taste receptors that typically respond to gluten. He's changing the rules. He's changed the rules. Okay, listen to me. People taste umami through taste receptors that typically respond to glutamates and nucleotides that are widely present in meat broths and fermented products,
Starting point is 00:31:45 which is why MSG is monosodium glutamate that adds umami to foods. And that's when Tacey started noticing that my stir fry was better was when I bought a big thing of the king of flavor and started putting MSG in. there and now all of a sudden you could really tell a huge difference because I'll use like umami like that you could buy the fancy grocery stores you just squeeze into the yeah well it might be a brand name it's like I think
Starting point is 00:32:13 but I think it's like a fermented mushroom I think it's what it's yeah foods that have strong umami flavor include meats shellfish fish including fish sauce and preserved fish such as Maldi fish Katsuobushi sardines and anchovies tomatoes
Starting point is 00:32:28 mushrooms Yay. Hydralized vegetable protein, meat extract, yeast extract, cheeses, and soy sauce. I do like me a good mushroom. Oh, I do, too. Yeah, buddy. Now, it is a lone word from Japanese, and umami is translated as pleasant, savory taste. Cool.
Starting point is 00:32:45 There you go. What do you think of that? I love it. I love to eat. Now I'm hungry. I love me some meat. Here's a question about hydrogen peroxide. You know something about wound care.
Starting point is 00:32:56 Dr. Scott. We can probably take this one. Hi, taste so. Oh, my goodness. That's another thing. I didn't know it was a taste. Quick questions for you. It's all right.
Starting point is 00:33:05 A little bit weird one here. Hydrogen peroxide. Now, I understand it's, of course, good for debrising a wound because it bubbles and pushes stuff up and out. But is it any good for long-term care of a wound? Because I read a study where it's actually not that good for you. Right, right. So just curious what your opinion was. We used to use it all.
Starting point is 00:33:27 Bye, Tate's a. Oh, Lord. We used to use it all the time. Right. And then studies came out that said we were actually delaying healing by using hydrogen peroxide. It starts to break down a tissue a little bit. It doesn't let it heal back as quickly. It seems to be the case.
Starting point is 00:33:44 So it seems like it does something because when you put it on, it burns good, and then it foams up. It seems like it's doing something. What it's really doing is reacting with peroxidase enzymes in white blood cells that are coming there to try to help. try to help and you're messing them up. So what we recommend is to lavage with saline or sterile water rather than with hydrogen peroxide. So no hydrogen peroxide, not even at the beginning? No, not for wounds. No, you can get like in the surgical switch, you know, we've got little spray things where you can spray and debris or lavage a wound with saline.
Starting point is 00:34:27 but you can get a little, you know, just a squeeze bottle and put saline in that, sterile saline. And they've got a great little over-the-counter things with the saline sprays for wound care now. Yeah. Yeah. It's so cheap. Saline is so cheap and they'll package it and this stuff
Starting point is 00:34:43 and then get like a 10,000 percent markup. Good for them. I mean, you know what the... But it works. And at least that way you know you're getting kind of the right amount of saline. We could do a whole thing on just basic, you know, first aid and wound care and stuff we wanted to. We were going to do a show on...
Starting point is 00:34:57 On stretching. Remember a couple of weeks ago, we had a couple good questions on stretching. On stretching. We need to. Stretching. Yeah, on stretching and back pain and hamstring length and stuff like that. Oh, okay. Yeah, we need to get back into that.
Starting point is 00:35:08 Do we? It is the holidays. Okay. Come first in a year. Everybody's going to be doing exercising. That's true. By not stretching, I tore muscles in the back of my leg trying to jog because my kid was cross-country racing and it looked like fun.
Starting point is 00:35:24 Oh, my God. How many years ago? God, that was, that was middle school. Yeah, he was in middle school, and he was killing it. He was in eighth grade. I remember that. And he was destroying. He was so, and he'd puke every single time, and he just was driven to do it every single time.
Starting point is 00:35:42 Oh, yeah, that's when you came up with one of your crazy inventions about the drink that you were going to give him from. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were going to do that with the hyperphysics folks. Richard and Chetai and the hyperphysics, F-I-Z-I-C-S, the F-E-Z-I-C-S, the, energy drink for nerds and we were going to work out a pre and post drink for exercise because I did a lot of research
Starting point is 00:36:04 on arginine and stuff like that but anyway yeah so let's not use hydrogen perox I just use lavage a wound clean it with saline or yeah just soap and water and then you know if you can
Starting point is 00:36:21 see meat under there go to the emergency room and make sure you're up to date on your tetan shot There's nothing worse than getting tetanus in 2022. I've only seen one case in my career. It was an elderly person who got tetanus and had never been vaccinated ever. So I'm not sure that anyone that's got the basic first three has ever gotten tetanus, but we still should get it every 10 years.
Starting point is 00:36:49 And if you don't know if you've gotten it, just when you turn 20 or 20, get it on the decades. Okay. You know, so I've got mine. I had got mine when I was 60. I'll get, you know, if I live that long, I'll get another one when I'm 70. I'll get mine with my shingrich shot. There you go. There you go.
Starting point is 00:37:08 I can't wait for that. You're not even close to that age yet. No. So close. Yeah, Tasey's older than she looks. Yes. Which is good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:18 All right. Here we go. Just a quick little question. Wait a minute. You just said I was older than I look. Look. That's good. That's good. That is good.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Okay, never mind. Oh, yeah, no, no. Continue. It was definitely a compliment. I was impressed. Well, that's because you're an idiot. Just looking out for insults. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Just a quick little question. That I've been curious about. I should have said that you look younger than you actually are. That would have been a better way to say it, right? Either way's fine. I just don't know. Yeah, but, you know, she's going to hear what she hears. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:37:57 You know that. At least that's how it is my world. She's the queen of the double bind. She'll give you two ties for Christmas and then you wear one the next day. Why didn't you wear the other one? You like the other one? What is the purpose of the eubola? They're in the back of your thread.
Starting point is 00:38:12 I don't know what a yuvalla is, but that's what they say in Chinese. I got you back. He may be asking what is a uvula. So that's the palatine uvula. and not, I had a Star Wars joke and it just went out the window. But a palatine uveal, it means at the end of the palate, the soft palate, little piece of tissue that hangs down in the back of your mouth. And every once in a while when you get a weird virus,
Starting point is 00:38:43 stupid thing will enlarge and then hang down the back of your throat. Have you ever had that? I had it once. Well, that was awful, and you could feel it touching your tongue. You just feel like you're going to gag all the time. Had big white blobs on it. Oh, yeah. Gross.
Starting point is 00:38:57 If you have exudate actually on the uvula itself, that can be a sign of diphtheria, which we don't really see anymore. But if you're looking in someone's throat and they've got white patches on the uvula, that would be a sign of diphtheria. But people don't know why we have uvula. I think that it has something to do with the gag reflex for sure. if you touch that damn thing, you know, your palate will contract and you kind of gag. And some people think that
Starting point is 00:39:33 just because it's swinging back there, it keeps food and stuff from going up your nose, that it's kind of a counterweight for the palate, the soft palate in the back, to hold it down. Because otherwise it would just flap around, right? So the uvula is just like, it's like putting a little, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:39:52 I put a weight. A little fish. on my ham radio antenna to keep it, you know, ground, you know, when I put it in lower. Yeah, put a little weight on there. Yeah, like that. To make it sink fat, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes, there you go. So, anyway, now this article says your uvula is also part of your gag reflex, so I'll give myself up.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Give yourself a bill. When something touches this area of your soft palate induces gagging or vomicking, I don't like to vomit. No, thanks, man. Think of it as a safety feature if your uvula senses something's going down the wrong way. It course corrects in an effort to avoid. choking. Really? Yeah. Okay. What are some interesting
Starting point is 00:40:28 fun facts about uvulas? Oh, gosh. I can't wait to hear. Carl from WATP says there's no such thing as fun facts. They're facts. They're not fun. I agree with him. And I agree with them too. But anyway, so
Starting point is 00:40:44 here's a fact about the uvula. It means little grape in Latin. And only humans have uvulas. And no surprise you can live without it so we've had people that have had their soft palate taken away
Starting point is 00:40:59 of course they have trouble when they drink milk or something like that comes out their nose anyway how about that and then while all right you got any stories because I'm kind of I'm out of everything we've got 20 minutes left to go come up with something I'm just kidding I have no I believe
Starting point is 00:41:16 I have questions going back for decades you don't have anything okay well Tacey here's one for you You can find one one way. Hey, Dr. Steve, how are you? See if anybody in the examiner is. I'm good. I had a question about...
Starting point is 00:41:31 She actually did what she was supposed to. I know, and I messed it up. I'm sorry. Just like everyone. Hey, Dr. Steve, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good.
Starting point is 00:41:43 I had a question about if you had any opinions or if you've done any research on the diabetes medication that they're using for weight loss, like the shots, Manjaro, and I don't know, I forget what the other ones are called. But anyway, I would love to hear your input. Thanks. Bye. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:03 So there's O-Zempic. These are all trade names, by the way. So there's Mongero. There's Ozempic. What's the other one? It starts with a V. Wasn't another one that started with a V? There's Bayetta.
Starting point is 00:42:19 Okay. And then there's, they're all GLP-1 inhibitors, aren't they? I believe you are correct. Now, I am only speaking from a patient perspective as per usual. Okay. But I take so many medicines, I'm actually pretty good at it. Okay, well, let's hear it then, because, you know, it's a radio show, and people are...
Starting point is 00:42:40 You know what? You just shut up. Hold on. What are you doing? I was looking up all of them. Oh, okay. Now, just talk about your experience with it. Okay, so I've taken them all.
Starting point is 00:42:50 all of them because I have PCOS, and I lost, when bieta came out, I lost a ton of weight on it. So let's talk about what PCOS is because you just threw that out there. Polycystic ovarian syndrome. Okay. And that causes. Weight gain and insulin resistance. And also infertility. Infertility, so a lot of people have a very hard time having children.
Starting point is 00:43:15 Steve and I did, but we are fortunate enough to have two. Yeah, yeah, we looked out on that one. Which is why we don't have any money. Anyway. So other than that, I've been on literally all of them. And this new one came out, Manjaro, and it's a little bit different. It's like if you've been on one. It's terseppatide, if you want to really know.
Starting point is 00:43:45 Okay. So it's like if you've been on one and you switch to the other, you're not going to get as much of a response. Yeah. You have to wait a couple of years in between to get a response. And this Manjaro, man, I'm telling you what, when you up a dose, you just don't want to eat. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Just not hungry at all. I'm down. I've been on, I mean, the weight loss is slow, but it is there. Yeah. Because I'm not really watching what I'm eating. I'm watching the quantity of what I eat, which is just the medicine doing that. Yeah. I've been on it three months down 15 pounds.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Excellent. That's pretty dang good. Actually, it's probably a little bit more than that. I keep forgetting away myself, but, um, and, and my, that's funny. Wait, how much did you say? Your fat wife, huh? Shut up. How much did you say he lost?
Starting point is 00:44:38 About three months, 15 pounds. You are a liar, actress, go the f*** out. Okay, that is funny. Yeah, you got to do that. No. Dove a day. So 15, so that's five pounds a month, right? Which I'm very happy with, but I...
Starting point is 00:44:55 60 pounds in a year. I know people who have been on it, who've never taken any of these medicines before. And their first try was Manjaro, and they're down 50 pounds. And like, I'm telling you no time. Yeah. So our Christmas lunch, which is a bunch of... old drug reps that we all used to work for the same company and we've every single one of us been laid off. We're all going to go and have Christmas lunch and we're all going to be about 15 to 20
Starting point is 00:45:29 pounds at least thinner, probably 30 on average at our Christmas lunch this year. Nobody will be eating. We're all on and nobody's going to eat anything. You're right. Do those medications give you stomach pain or gastric pain or make you have diarrhea? Heartburn is a big, A big side effect. And if you eat too much on some of them, you might just throw your guts up. Yeah, Amanda's got a question here. She was asking if some of these medications cause genital eating bacteria. Those are the other ones.
Starting point is 00:46:05 So I know what she's talking about. I do not. So Fornier's Gangrene is what she's talking about. And that's a different class. So the drugs that we're talking about now are GLP1 inhibitors. And what these things do is they mimic the action of a hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1. And when the blood sugar levels start to rise after you eat, these drugs stimulate the body to produce more insulin. And the extra insulin helps to lower blood sugar levels.
Starting point is 00:46:36 But nobody really knows why they lead to weight loss. But when they were testing these on people for diabetes, what they noticed was for the terseptide, which is the one that we're talking about now, the Mongero, they had 22% reduction in body weight. That's significant. I think lower gastric emptying is a big deal with it. Yeah, maybe. And maybe. Now, the ones that, and Tacey, I want you to talk about that a little bit more in a second, but I want to get out the Fornia gangrene thing that Amanda was talking about in the way. waiting room. These are the sodium glucose core transporter two. Those are SGLT2 inhibitors,
Starting point is 00:47:17 which are also diabetes medications. And I believe the way that those things work as they cause you to, you know, secrete more glucose, which kind of makes sense. There are, let me see, real world evidence on SGLT2 inhibitors and risk of fornieres gangrene. This is in British Medical Journal of Open Journal of Diabetes, Research, and Care. It says, well, look at this. This one, so it says they've been associated with increased occurrence of Fornius Gangrene. By the way, don't Google image Fornius Gangrene. No.
Starting point is 00:47:59 I mean, I've been just throwing that word out because I don't want to dwell on it too much, but basically your genitals sluff off. It's not good. It's a rare, serious form of necrotizing fasci. and then there was a warning from the Food and Drug Administration. So now they did real world evidence on this to validate the warning
Starting point is 00:48:18 and they identified 211,000 initiators and let's see let me look at the numbers here. They said no evidence of increased risk of Fornier's gangrene was associated with the SGLT2
Starting point is 00:48:37 compared with DPP for I, arguably, the most relevant clinical comparison. Uncertainty remains based on potentially higher risk in the broader comparison with all non-SGLLT2 anti-glycemic agents and the rarity of Fournierese gangrene. So what they're saying is, the numbers are so low. They didn't see a correlation, but what they're implying by this is that the numbers were so low that their study didn't have enough power. to say that there really was, that there is no association. So, you know, the FDA, people would give them a hard time.
Starting point is 00:49:19 This is, they issued this warning based on just some limited data because they don't want something bad to happen to people. There are also in all the commercials, they talk about thyroid cancer. Yes. Not necessarily causing it. I don't, I don't really understand that you're not supposed to take it if you have a history of multiple endocrineoplasia disorder and so I asked you...
Starting point is 00:49:43 I killed my thyroid long time ago so I asked you that one long time ago, Tase is because Tase has some knowledge on this subject of what the association was. I still can't really find a good mechanism for why these things are a problem with thyroid disease. But if you have thyroid disease,
Starting point is 00:49:58 you have to watch it. Don't just go to some knucklehead who's prescribing this stuff. You want to go somewhere where they're going to do all the proper screening and make sure that they're treating you safely with these medications if you're going to do this. So some of the options you have are Trulicity. That's weekly.
Starting point is 00:50:16 Okay. You've got this one I've never heard of Bjorian Bissas. That is also weekly. Okay. Bietta twice daily. It's an older one. Ozympic is weekly. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:31 I see that Bidurion. That sounds like one of the... That is the new version of Bajeta. Okay. Okay, so Midurian sounds like one of the dragons from games. Okay, nerd. It sounds like a music mode. Nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, the Midurian mode. Azympic is weekly. Very sweet. Victosa and Saxenda is daily. Yeah. I've never heard of this one. Adlixen, that's daily.
Starting point is 00:50:58 And then Rebelsis, which is not an injection. It should be taken by mouth. Right. It's actually a really good one, too. I took it for a while, and I did not have any. side effects but some of the side effects are nausea and heartburn and that's what i hear most fatigue because listen all my friends are on this stuff yeah every single dang one of them and it's like oh that my heartburn's crazy today so yeah well if you've got bad heartburn and the last thing you
Starting point is 00:51:25 want to do is eat something is put something in your stomach so but that's just a horrible way to lose weight hey we're women we'll do it whatever is that what it is yeah okay well anyway so we're not advocating the use of these medications. As always, talk to your health care provider and don't go to some knucklehead that's selling this stuff on the street. That's crazy. And because these are real, this is a real medication. I mean, it has real effects. They kind of are hard to get on insurance sometimes. But if you've got something like PCOS or if you are a diabetic or a pre-diabetic, it's a lot easier. You just have to have a physician or a practitioner that's willing. to actually do a prior authorization for it.
Starting point is 00:52:10 And if you don't, maybe you need to find yourself another one. Well, there you go. Well, thank you, Judge. I found a question on here that I labeled back in November 16th. I don't know what the hell it is, but it's labeled. I labeled it how to piss correctly. So let's see what this tries. Hey, Dr. Stephen Crewe.
Starting point is 00:52:36 I wanted to ask you about, at the end of one of your last episodes, you said you were going to talk about stage fright and urinating for men. Oh. And you had the answer to it. I do. And I couldn't find it anywhere in the next episode. Oh, God. So that was November 16? That's what I was in 2016.
Starting point is 00:53:00 I don't think it was November of 2022. We've had people just sitting there waiting. They just weigh and wait. way, and if you don't answer the answer. I was wondering if you could cover that for us. Absolutely. And with stage break. Yes.
Starting point is 00:53:12 Every time I've had it since I was a kid. Me too. Every time I try to urinate and somebody walks into the bathroom. I have walked out of bathrooms and just said, oh, to hell with it. Steve can't pay in the ocean. Okay, that's true, but that's a different thing. I won't. There in a urinal.
Starting point is 00:53:33 Trinkage. Everything just stops. Yeah. So having a shy bladder sucks, and I do have a shy bladder in the ocean. I don't want to contaminate the ocean, I guess, with my urine, unlike these women who get up and they're drinking and they just get up. Well, let's go into the ocean. And they just stand there for like a couple of minutes, and then they turn around and come back. And it's like, what are they doing? I wonder what they were doing. Yeah. It's all up and down. It's all up and down. And I mean, I know the ocean is full of fish piss. and fish, you know, feces and, you know, every time you drink a drink, there's at least one molecule statistically of Magellan's Piss in there? Yes.
Starting point is 00:54:18 Which is more of an thing about, I mean, more of a concept about diffusion and just the insane number of molecules of water in every glass of water. But, yeah, so here's the thing. And I got a minute. and maybe we could go a little bit longer, but this is what you do. You go into the urinal when your bladder is absolutely full. That's the first thing, the first few times.
Starting point is 00:54:46 Then what you're going to do is you're going to take a deep breath and then you're going to exhale it two-thirds of the way and then hold it. And when you're doing that, you're imagining this fluid level going from the top of your head down through your abdomen. and most of the time that will open up the floodgates
Starting point is 00:55:06 you'll have to practice this the other thing that you can do is do math in your head or what I used to do is look at the brand name on the urinal and start to make words out of the letters and when you distract yourself like that
Starting point is 00:55:23 you can go but I can now after using this technique of exhaling two thirds of the breath and holding it and imagining that fluid level decreasing I can piss in the busiest bathroom people can come in and out somebody can piss next to me
Starting point is 00:55:39 look over and look at my junk and go hmm not bad you have a quite youthful appearance and I can still continue to just make the biggest dream you've ever seen so it works every time and I tried to get on Howard Stern to talk to him about it
Starting point is 00:55:57 because he has a horrible chariot bladder of course now he doesn't go anywhere so it doesn't matter. No. But he used to complain about that bitterly, and it just never worked out that I called in about that particular thing, because he never talked about it long enough for me to text Shulie, hey, I could talk to this.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Shulie would go to Baba Booy, Bababooie, and say, okay, and then Brent would call me. You know, it was a big process. It sounded like a process, yeah. So that's our son. Let's see if he has anything interesting to say for the show. I'm sure he's hung up. Beck, you are on Weird Medicine.
Starting point is 00:56:28 Oh, okay. I forgot you're doing that. Okay, I just wondered why you called me earlier. Oh, okay. I don't remember. He doesn't remember either. Good talk. Yep, yeah, good talk, buddy.
Starting point is 00:56:39 Love you, buddy. All right, I'll see you, bye. Why did I call him? It doesn't matter. Nobody cares. So, do we have anything in the waiting room, Dr. Scott, before we go? Yeah, two things real quick. Darren Parker, I guess, emailed a video question about his dream memories.
Starting point is 00:56:59 Oh, really? And Colin... Wait, he emailed it to me? He said he emailed in a video question yesterday. He emailed... Okay, let's see if I can find it. Or he could just ask it now. Hey, and give me the email you...
Starting point is 00:57:13 Colin Carnes has a great question. Our email is DR Steve 202 at gmail.com, but you can just go to dr.steve.com and click contact. Okay. And let me see here. I do not see anything. From, oh, Darren Parker, there it is. Okay, dream question. You want to do it? Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:57:35 And then we'll wrap it up. It's late. Is it? 10 after 6. Oh, for fuck. That's your bedtime. It's my bedtime. I've got to be at the airport at 6 in the morning.
Starting point is 00:57:44 Oh, I have to take you. Mm-hmm. Oh, God. Here we go. Now I have to download this. What in the hell, Darren? Save it for next week. Save it for a rainy day.
Starting point is 00:57:55 Oh, here we go. Here it is. Oh, my God. Okay. Oh, this is cool. This is from the movie Inception. Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey, Dr. Scott.
Starting point is 00:58:07 Hey, Tacey. Oh, thank you. Well, Darren, I had a question about dreams. Okay. I'm a very vivid dreamer, and my dreams stay with me for sometimes a couple days. And it, like, affects my real life. Yep. And it made me think, are there any differences?
Starting point is 00:58:29 between a memory from a dream and a memory from your real life. If I can recall a dream from 20 years ago that really fucked me up, how is that any different than any other memory I have that fuck me up? Thanks, big fan. Hey, thanks, man. It's stored exactly the same way if you remember it. But you can usually tell the difference between a dream and there is some switch in your head that says this was a dream and this wasn't.
Starting point is 00:59:01 But every once in a while, Tacey would get up and she'd say, well, you were mean to me my dream and she'd be mad of me all day. Damn it, Tase. I think that's one of your other wives. You think? Damn it, Tacey. Yes, I believe so, because I'm not cray-cray like that.
Starting point is 00:59:18 Check, please. It's a matter, Scott. You uncomfortable? Are you not? Are you not? It's getting light. It's getting light. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:27 No, I'm pretty sure I was you, but it's. We'll say it was the other one. We'll say it was the crazy one. I love it. Which one? Yeah. Well, no. One was it.
Starting point is 00:59:37 Yeah, one one. I'm not saying which one. No, hell no. Don't make it worse. Now, vivid dreams are usually not a cause for concern. People don't understand why some people have them and other people don't. But if you have nightmares, those are vivid dreams that are frightening. That's all that is.
Starting point is 00:59:56 So you can have vivid dreams, and then you can have frightening vivid dreams, and we call those nightmares. And, you know, what's the last nightmare you had, Tays? I can remember the last nightmare I had. And I don't think your hypnopompic ones count, but if you want to talk about that. They're the worst ones. I think they count.
Starting point is 01:00:13 Seems like I didn't have a very pleasant dream last night, but I don't remember it. Okay. So, no, I'm not having that problem. But those hypnopompic ones, yeah, no, I'll never forget those. Wake up and someone was laying on top of her and she couldn't move. And then she'd hear footsteps.
Starting point is 01:00:30 Or patting my feet. Yeah, a little baby feet running away from the bed. It was so creepy. So scary. It's like a Japanese horror movie. It was. My last nightmare was that I think I murdered somebody. And then I just went and just did stuff.
Starting point is 01:00:49 But I knew I was going to get caught. And I felt, no, it was bad. I might as well just go do stuff. Yeah, no, that wouldn't be nice. No. Yeah, and I knew I was going to get caught, and the web was getting closer and closer, but I was still trying to put on that facade that I was a good person. What about you, Scott? Nightmares?
Starting point is 01:01:09 I was doing some work at the house. I actually had one another. Hey, you call in with your nightmares. I was doing some work at the house. It's the worst radio. And actually had a dream slash nightmare that now. My brother, who was a contractor, Todd, he and I were building a house, but we didn't put the nails. when we framed it
Starting point is 01:01:28 and all of a sudden it started collapse in my brother David who's your age he's getting ready to turn 50 we're all trying to hold it up with our hammers and it's just collapsing all over it's like get out
Starting point is 01:01:38 it was a huge house I don't know how we did it but yeah that's a last That's a crazy dream Oh it was awful Or did it end before? No we got out And then it just went
Starting point is 01:01:47 Have you ever died in a dream I have Oh yeah Lord Jim Have you? Have you? Yeah You see they always say Oh if you die
Starting point is 01:01:52 In your dream you dry it in real life I'm here to say That's bullshit I fell out of a plane and died. I hit the ground, and it sucked. I'll leave him, Mark. Now, I never have sex dreams. I have dreams where I'm getting ready to have sex.
Starting point is 01:02:08 And then right when it's time for that to happen, then I wake up. The only exception to that, and Tacey, I didn't tell you about this, was I did have a sex dream, and I completed the transaction. I mean, I actually was having intercourse, and it was with my wife. I was dreaming about Tacey. Whatever. If I dream about somebody else, I can't do it. But if I'm dreaming about her, then at the one time that I had a sex dream, I was having intercourse with the person that I could have intercourse with if she's so choos to let me do that. So anyway, if you want to stop your vivid dreams, practice good sleep hygiene, and cultivate peace of mind.
Starting point is 01:02:50 People with higher scores on measures of peace of mind are more likely to have positive. dream content and one way to do that would be to consider using the trip app i know i'm always talking about that but if you want if you can't um meditate on your own and you need some help get an oculus it's fun you go all kinds of games on there and they get the trip app and do the calm module for 10 minutes before you go to bed and that'll put a stop to some of this stuff i'm going to bet i i can't guarantee that but i feel like it would have a positive impact on that All right. Anybody got anything else?
Starting point is 01:03:28 No. Okay. Thanks for sending that in. I think that's fascinating. Dreams fascinate me, just like language does, because it's just one of those things that we experience. We don't know where it comes from. It seems awfully real. And there is theater of the absurd that's going on, and we just accept it.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Why can't we accept absurdity in our real life? But in my dream, I can accept that Paris has been in my... backyard this whole time but I we never noticed never noticed and I always had to get on a damn plane and fly across the ocean never did though when we could have just walked into our backyard to go to the Eiffel Tower and that's completely absurd but totally accepted in my dream people skating on you know ice skating on linoleum it's like well I didn't know you could do that because you can't in my dreams you can't my best friend Bruce Donahue from high school, skating around in our old living room, in our old
Starting point is 01:04:32 kitchen on high skates. Look what I can do. Anyway, all right. Let's get out of here. You ready to get out? Okay, I'm ready. All right. Don't forget to check out stuff.
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Starting point is 01:05:27 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and Tacey, not me. Okay, Tacey. Tacey, you get her. Tacey, you wake up 12.50. And then you could, yeah, if we do it at 1 o'clock, then that would give you 10 minutes to get started with the drinking. There you go. Brush your teeth, start drinking.
Starting point is 01:05:41 You do look really good, Tase, you can tell. Thanks. Yeah, that's a great shirt that you're wearing there, too, because it draws attention to. It does not. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He's so bad. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps, quit smoking, get off your asses and get some exercise.
Starting point is 01:05:59 We'll see you in one week. One week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thanks, everybody. Goodbye, everyone. Thank you.

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