Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 601 - Viper Medicine

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103 and made popular by two really comedy shows Opin Anthony and Ron and Bez, 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 diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Tobolivir stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbell,

exacerbating my impetable woes. I want to take my brain. No, blast with the wave, an ultrasonic, echagraphic and a pulsating shave. I want a magic pill. All my ailments, the health equivalent of citizen gain. 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. So I'm paging Dr. Steve.

Dr. Steve. From the world famous Gino Bisconti Network Studios in beautiful downtown, On Tuki City, 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 the whack alternative medicine assholes.

Hello, Dr. Scott. Hey, Steve. And N.P. Melby, back from sabbatical. Thank you, N.P. Melby. Well, thank you for having me. This is a show for people who would never listen to a medical show on the radio or the internet. If you have a question, you're embarrassed to take to your regular.

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Stuff. Dot Dr. Steve.com back in business, just with a different affiliate agreement. And check out roadie. Dottersteve.com for the Rodi robotic guitar tuner. Also will tune mandolin and bass and some other stuff. And NPMLB, you are interested in getting the Rody coach. Yes. And learning how to play.

Yes. an instrument because you do not know how to play. I do not know how to play any instrument. Well, I can play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano, but I don't think that counts. Okay, you're the perfect person. So they've been bugging me. Hey, we watch a review on the Rode coach, and I gave one to DNP Carissa to learn ukulele. And then she left.

So she's playing ukulele in New Jersey with her paramour. So, and then I gave one to an ukulele. another person, and she doesn't want to be on the air. So there you go. I want to learn. I want this to be my new hobby because I want to sit up here and play music with you guys. Oh, God. That is my goal in love.

Well, don't worry. It won't take you long. It won't take you long for that. And I also think that men that can play the guitar are very sexy. Really? Yes. I mean, there you go. Too bad Scott can't actually play the guitar.

You might make some time there. Scott's sexy. I can play the guitar. I just don't play it well, think they very well. So my theory is, is if men are sexy are women sexy, so I want to find out. I want to learn to play something. It is interesting to see a woman just shredding the guitar, you know, because it's not what you're used to. Right.

But I think it's pretty fucking cool. I think everybody, you know, anybody can play. I appreciate virtuosity wherever I see it. Plus, I've heard that if you can learn to play the guitar, it will help you. learn to sing like you'll you can hear the notes and maybe sing better because i do not have a singing voice i would say we have a counter example uh right here in the studio we'll see okay that's awesome but yeah we'll get that for you awesome don't let me forget when we leave today i'll order it and i have it sent to your house okay send it to my house but i'm gonna need a guitar we got to get back to yeah i got

i have one that you can take sweet i'm gonna practice okay and i'll play on the show i'll learn to play a song and I'll play something on the show for you. Okay. That sounds like, oh, my God. It sounds like such a bad idea. No, no, no, no, no. It doesn't at all. But Chewack and I used to play and then Scott's like, well, I want to play. This sounds shades of you know, 20 or 15

years ago. But, you know, Scott actually can play now. I'm a terrible musician. He's a better musician than I am at this point. I feel like I need a hobby. I can't speak another language. Like, my mind just doesn't work that way. I've tried. I don't know.

how to play anything. I have no real talent. Music is a bit of a language, but you may find that once you can play music, you might be able to pick up a language. Maybe. This may lead to a lot of cool things. Rody, R-O-A-D-I-E.

dot Dr. Steve.com, or just go to stuff dot Dr. Steve and scroll down. You can see what we're talking about. And then we were going to unless she moves to Alaska, then we're going to know this Rode coach thing is cursed. Right on. But as long as you're still here, then, yeah, we'll have you back and we'll try

see how you do. Awesome. Yeah, that'd be great. And the roadie people are very interested in us doing that. Well, thank you. Don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net. Patreon.com slash weird medicine.

I've been a lot more active there lately. Check that out. I just posted a five-part classic episode from November of 2009. that is not found anywhere else and I've been scared to listen to it although I think that you know Anthony Coomia the first time we did the show so that's the best first show I've ever seen anybody do

and then we never got any better so we're just still doing kind of the same but anyway and then cameo.com slash weird medicine I'll say fluid to your mama all right watch for I'm going to be doing some one-off videos that's what I want to start doing more of I'm doing one on borderline personality disorder.

I'm going to do one on Wernicke-Korkechkopf syndrome and some stuff like that, but I'm going to try to make it interesting. And part of it is learning to use DaVinci Resolve, which is an editing software that is used all across the industry, and it is unbelievably powerful. And I'm taking a class on it now, and I want to start doing my own stuff, so I'm not depending on other people to put.

the stuff out. So be watching for that. In next few weeks, you should start seeing something trickling out of here. All right, very good. Check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net. It is allergy season. And Dr. Scott, really, the premier

creator of CBD nasal spray. Yes. Nasal rinse. The OG. Yeah. The original, yes. Well, you know, we had that one person call in and say they tried some competing brand that. suck so there you go I made me feel a little bit better yeah me too thank you very much anyway yeah simply herbals.net check them out and Melby good to see you how's your thyroid doing? Oh wonderful well you look great well thank you I mean you really do I think that

I'm getting that stupid chunk of sweet bread out of your neck yes we should have fried that thing up I don't know yeah we could have made thyroid kebabs yeah Well, there you go. Crackling bread. But sweetbreads are really, really good. And then I found out they're like goat thymuses or something. And then I didn't eat them anymore. I was like, okay, what is this?

This doesn't taste like any kind of actual meat that I've ever had. Yeah. And it's not bread and it's not sweet. So, you know, they have to have a euphemism for everything. So mountain oysters, you know, are big giant bull testicles. Mm-hmm. Which I will admit, I have eaten.

Oh, gosh. You're such an adventurous. Well, no, I mean, I grew up. Listen, I had four months, whoa. Oh, goodness, I just cut myself out. I had four miles of dirt road, dirt road, let me start that sentence over again. I had four miles of dirt road going to my house when I was growing up. And so, I mean, you know, I experienced the whole, you know, Appalachian thing.

I don't sound like I'm from the mountains of North Carolina. Carolina, but that's because of broadcast school. I went to broadcast school before I went to medical school and they beat your accent out of you. So I, you know, but I can if I'm talking to one of my friends now, it comes right back and I'll by God

tell you one. And by the way, I got to use my Appalachian dialect today when I went to the flag pond ramp festival. Oh my gosh. Now,

I may, you know, Carissa used to be on, DNP Chris used to be on the show, and she's moved away, you know, with the love of her life who she met through this show. You're welcome, you assholes. No, they're not asshole. But they're, you're welcome. But anyway, her mom had property in rural Tennessee, and it was covered with ramps. And so I had, you know, pounds and pounds of ramps. And I dehydrated them and pulverized them. And then, you know, did a 7 to 1 mix with kosher salt, made rap salt out of them.

Gotcha. Which our buddy from West Virginia probably pissed him off, West Virginia rap salt. But anyway, I did get the idea from him. And so I, you know, was all excited. When I knew Chris was moving away, I knew there was this ramp festival. and so I put it on my calendar and I get up this morning I got up early

I had a bunch of chores to do and bing bing bing it comes up ramp festival today so I got in the car and ran all the way up there and you know what they don't have at the ramp festival oh no

ramps they did not have ramps oh I'm so pissed I get up there it's nine in the morning when I got there figuring that they left here early Yeah, oh, yeah.

Starting, I figured, you know, these guys, it's, you know, a country festival. It probably started around eight in the morning because everybody gets up early. What else they got to do? And I get up there. In the country. Exactly. We don't have anything to do in the country. Well, I know, but I mean, I know.

Listen, I'm, these are my people. So I get up there and they're, oh, listen, they were delightful, wonderful, you know, country folk. And the guy was, I'm like, do I need to pay for parking? And there was lots of parking. And it was at the school. And they were just parking on the lawn at the school. It's like, you know, it's the lawn at the school. It's going to ruin it.

Thank God it wasn't raining. But anyway, this is the least of it. So I gave the guy $20, you know, donation for parking. And I get up there. And it's like there's people setting up and stuff. And I said, you know, I'm here. I said, what's going on? They said, well, it starts around 11.

Oh, shit. So I had two hours to kill. So I helped some guy put his tent up. And then I look around, and it's just a big long line of these propane griddles. And there's this old, these people, and they're just cooking bacon and taters. Oh, wow. And just griddle after griddle cooking bacon, just, you. you know, loaded in, you know, oil and stuff that are deep-frying the bacon.

And this guy's just looking at me, this old country feller, and he ain't got any teeth. And he's just, he's cooking bacon and then eating half of it and just looking at me, just cramming bacon in his mouth. I thought that's how you were supposed to cook bacon. I don't disagree, but I'm coming to a ramp festival. So, you know, I ask this lady, do you have any ramps for sale? Nope, I've got T-shirts, so I bought two T-shirts from her. while I'm sitting there

and I'm like what in the hell so the coordinator comes around I said where's the ramps I'm here to buy ramps and he said well we ain't got any ramps we usually go to the farmer's market

to get our ramp Oh for God's Are you shitting me? Oh for God's Are you shitting me So they just all got around and cooked bacon Yeah I guess maybe they were

cooking dishes You know that they were going to put ramps in that they bought at the farmer's market. I had this image that there'd be all these people with like garbage bags full of ramps. I could buy some from them. Well, hell, ramp season ended in April. Oh, my God. So I went to the farmer's market.

I had to go to the hospital and see a patient. And there was a farmer's market right down from the hospital. So I went in there. Do you have any ramps? No. Do you have any ramps? No, we ain't had no. since April and it's like for half's sake so I'm screwed this year I'm just going to have to

buy ramp salt from old ramps all up there in West Virginia and there's no ramps for me but there was a guy who was cultivating mushrooms and so that was cool I got to talk to him for a while because that's my new hobby I just by the way you know everybody knows I have neuropathy really bad and I Scott and I recorded the very final piano performance I ever thought I'd ever be able to do and it's up on our YouTube you know I did a Philip Glass piece

called an opening. It was spectacular. Well, it wasn't spectacular. The filming was fabulous. And then I found out that anyway, there's the things I found out about that recording that I should have done better but I'm not going to mess with it now.

But, you know, as far as color correction and stuff like that, but it was fine. But I only got to do two-thirds of the piece. because my neuropathy was, I was getting to the point where I wasn't going to be able to play anymore. And I started messing with mushrooms and I grew lion's mains.

And so I started reading up about them. They're supposed to be good for neuro-regeneration, right? And so I started taking lion's mane extract and I'll be damned if I can't play the piano again. I mean, I can't play. I'm no good, but I can physically do it. And it's just an end of one, but I can tell you from my anecdotal evidence that it was a big deal.

So I went all in on the mushroom cultivation. Hell, I thought about, you know, doing a business or something. But I went to the farmer's market. This guy was making, you know, was selling mushrooms that he makes. And he's a nurse, a travel nurse, worked in the ICU. He just does three days a week. And the rest of the time, he's selling mushrooms. So I bought a big bag of King,

King, oh, not Trumpet, what the hell. I'm having a senior moment. But anyway, Oyster, King Oyster mushrooms. And they have some medicinal properties as well. But, you know, some of this stuff's overhyped. But if you guys want some, I bought like a shitload from him just because nobody was buying anything. I think people look at those mushrooms and go, what the hell is that? Right on.

Because he's got these. big giant plastic bags with substrate in them, and then these huge flushes, you know, these outgrowths of clusters of oyster mushrooms. And people really have never seen around here. So if you sniff off that, I would assume they continue to grow from a substrate again. Yes, you can. Like my lion's mane, I harvested them the other day. Oh, good.

I've got some downstream if you want to try it later. I'll just saute something for you to taste it. They look like cauliflower. Yeah. Really, really, really, it's crazy. But also I'll taste something for you. I want you to taste it. I'm scared.

Really? Yeah, I don't like mushrooms. Well, this doesn't taste like any mushroom. No, it doesn't. I get really upset when I go to the Japanese place and I tell them no mushrooms. And one always creeps in there. Yeah. And I think it's a piece of chicken.

I put up my mouth and I want to gag. Oh, no. It's a texture thing, though. I think this might change your mind about this particular mushroom. Okay. And I'm not going to try to fool you and say, well, that's chicken, don't you know? All right. But anyway.

But, yeah. So I've gone all in on that, but I don't know where I was going with this other than, you know, the one place you'd think you could find ramps was at the ramp festival. And they've got these T-shirts. The T-shirts are beautiful. The big old picture of ramps. I was all excited when I someone drove up and saw these people wearing these T-shirts. Like, by God, I've come to the right place. I'm with my people.

So I went to the farmer's market and all these people had like onions and stuff like that out there. I said, you all have any ramps? They're like, no. And I said, you know where else they don't have ramps? The ramp festival, and people were laughing. Well, at least you got to enjoy a pretty drive. I did. That it's gorgeous over there.

And what I found is there is a state park up there, Lamar Alexander, Rocky Fork State Park, that has not been activated on Ham Radio, Parks on the Air, in quite some time. So guess where I'm going tomorrow morning? We know a nice of Ham Radio. Now, speaking of Ham Radio, which now everybody's click. No, this will be interesting. Start the timer. Ham radio was shut down for the last 24 hours because we had a massive coronal mass ejection from the sun.

Right. Now, this happens when the sunspot cycle, particularly when it gets wound up, people who saw the eclipse or looked at my video of the eclipse, you could see there were prominences on the sun pointing away from us. But what those are is that, you know, the top part of the sun rotates at a different rate as the middle part, as the equator does. But it's plasma, right? It's ionized gas at an incredibly high temperature. And so it creates magnetic fields. And these magnetic fields start to twist because, again, the top is rotating at a different rate than the middle is. And so they start to twist.

And when they twist up, you'll get a north pole over here on one part of the sun and a south pole over here on the other part of the sun. You'll get these tunnels of magnetic field, which then those charged particles will travel along. And you'll see these big, wispy sort of arcs of plasma. And they're red. You can see it with the naked eye when there's an eclipse. Because all the people at the eclipse, and when I was in Dallas, there were a bunch of people. And by the way, a lot of them were real blasé, well, what's this going to be? This isn't going to be interesting.

And then they were like, holy fucking shit. Go to my Instagram. It's just weird medicine. You can see some of the video that I did and pictures that we took with my solar telescope and, you know, with the naked eye camera as well, without the filter, when the eclipse was total. But anyway, now every once in a while, these tangled magnetic fields will just go, we can't exist like this anymore. And they twist so far that they just kind of, they don't really explode, but they just snap. And when they snap, the sun will, and I'm giving you a very simplistic explanation of this, but the, the plasma that was entangled in that gets flung away from the sun. and at escape velocity.

Now, the sun is huge, so it's got a really strong gravitational field. So you can imagine to fling stuff away so that it escapes so it doesn't fall back into the sun. I mean, you take a rock, you throw it up, it falls back. We have to have these giant rockets to escape just the Earth's gravitational well. So you can imagine what it takes to escape from the sun.

So these things are under really high, velocity and a lot of energy. And if it comes at the earth, which this one did, it was, the sun was looking right at us and went, here you go. And this big ball of charged, right, enjoy, charged particles hit our magnetic field. Yes. And now, remember, charged particles will, you know, are affected by magnetic fields. And so they all start to wind down into this magnetic field.

And as they do that, they lose energy. they start giving off light, and that's what causes the aurora. Yay. And so we had Aurora. Apparently, it came as far as here at the morning. Yes, I saw it last night. You did see it? I did.

Oh, my goodness. Well, not only that, I have also seen it from Alaska. Alaska, right. Yes, most beautiful night of my life was in Talkeena. Nice. Yes. Well, I've seen it in Vermont. Awesome.

And my ex-wife's kids were texting me last night because they were seeing it from Troy. And I put some pictures on my ex or, well, I can't call it X, on my Twitter. At Weird Medicine, there were some pictures from Troy, New York. They were beautiful, you know, purple and greens and all this stuff. And what time was it at 3 in the morning? What were you doing up at? No, well, I was up at 3 in the morning. I did go back outside.

I did see a little bit last night. Well, it was about 250. But no, last night, probably about 10, 10.30. Really? We were outside. My daughter lives further away. Yeah. She lives like 45 minutes from my house now.

And so she called and she was like, oh, my gosh, I feel like I'm back in Alaska. And she was very excited. Wow. My other kid and I, we went outside with her friend. For it to spread this far south, that is a lot of energy. Yeah. The back of our neighborhood kind of sits up on a hill. And it's a little bit darker

So we went up there And sure enough It was real It was a lot of purple It was kind of like Just glowing It wasn't the same That I've seen

It wasn't the sheets coming down It was not like the movement And the waves And the beauty that you see Further up north But it was a very distinct Green glow on the horizon

And then you can see The pinks and the purples Kind of Now what that does Now the haze Kind of look like it was waving Right It was very cool

It was awesome Yeah, it is amazing. It made me want to go back. Oh, no. You can't do it, no. I'm not allowed to go back. I can go visit. You can visit all you want, but you're not allowed to stay there.

No. Okay. But it was, it was neat. That's cool. Yeah. I've got to do better with the cameras for the people that are watching this live. As, you know, Mel B. was giving a very, you know, a very impassioned talk about this. beautiful event that she saw and all you're looking at

is stupid Scott and me going Oh yeah, that's awesome, man. Anyway, sorry. We need a producer. We really do. We need an in-studio producer. Now, we do have Andy Hines from A. Hines Media that's

doing our Instagram and stuff now. And so he clips and he's got a hell of a job trying to find one to two minute segments that are actually interesting that he can put on Instagram. But we're try it. But anyway, the three-minute timer's been helpful for them.

It gives you more chances to hear something interesting. So when the atmosphere gets that charged, radio waves are just absorbed by it. But at the higher, really ultra-high frequencies, like VHS,

I was going to say, VHF, you can bounce, it becomes like a mirror. And so the six meter band, which is usually dead, was wide open, two meter band, which is, you know, 144 megahertz, which is, you know, close to the bottom end of the FM dial. Wait, it starts at 89 megahertz anyway, right? I can't remember where FM is, but you might have been able to hear FM stations from far away last time while that was going on. That's cool.

Yeah, it's pretty neat. So it's supposed to be still happening tonight. There's a small chance that if it's clear tonight, you might be able to see. Last night when we were, we came in. Did you take pictures? I did. Okay. Well, I've got beautiful pictures.

I can show you later from Alaska that are just amazing. Okay. But I do have some pictures from last night. You do. Here, pass me your, get one up and pass me your phone. I'll put it out there. You know, the people listening to this on audio, you know, are going to be thrilled by this.

Go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine. Okay, well, you look for that. It's going to take me a second. That's okay. So, Dr. Scott, you brought a story for today, right? I did. I did. So I found this in psychology today, and I thought this was appropriate for you.

Okay. Specifically, Dr. Steve talked. This is, hey, Mel, this is part of the intervention for Dr. Steve. Sweet. There you. Fuck off. There you go. So excited.

to be here. Hey, why slowing down is essential for your growth? There you go. There you go. It's just important that we slow down and appreciate today. I don't care.

I don't care. It's good for your longevity and it's good for your personal growth. I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing. Scott, you're being abused. I know. He's being abused. I feel so bad.

Hey, we're trying to help you here. This is all directed at me. We're trying to help you, brother. Aren't we, ma'am? We are. We're trying to help him. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. See, that's the things that are coming out of your mouth, child.

Babbling, insanity, delusions. Is that what you're thinking when you're at the ramp salt festival? Yeah, I know. The rampless ramp. Dr. Scott trying to quote unquote help me. There you go. It's gone. And defiance.

I could change the subject. I brought other ones. That's fine. That's fine. I brought a defining, disease modifying therapy for Alzheimer's. Okay, well, that'll be good, but don't stop. Okay.

Hey, just because you don't like it. Other people might be interested. This is not how. Same people. All right. Number one, here we go. Create space for stillness. You have to set aside time,

dedicated time each day to be still and quiet. And this can be through. playing banjo. This can be through meditation. It can be for walking. Walking is awesome. Oh, well, that is very interesting.

Please tell me more. It gives you a chance to disconnect from all of the constant noise in your crazy brain. But I think that would require turning off your cell phone button. You have to practice mindfulness and engage in a lot of it. activities with full presence and awareness. Mm-hmm. Focus. You get nothing.

You lose. Good day, sir. You have to prioritize your self-care. Ugh. Mm-hmm. Mucousin membrane, bro. Taking care of yourself. I'm on my soundboard.

I think that was from when I was on Sam's show. Mucous membrane. bro. That was almost 20 years ago. Yeah. Here, and let's see, let's see how well this goes by him. Okay. You have to set boundaries.

Oh, shit. See, that's the things that are coming out of your mouth, Chad. Learn to say, no. Exactly. He's a fucking idiot. You can say no to commitments and obligations. Whoever you, whoever's listening to this at this point if you haven't changed the station yet.

Can you please stop bullshitting? Two more things. Simplify your schedule, which is a good idea for all of us. In other words, take a step back. Evaluate yourself. And finally, Get your hand off my penis!

Finally, drink more liquor, smoke more weed, and take more psychedelics. There you go. Oh. Okay. Well, yeah. Grab it up There you go

Can you like shut up That is of course As long as you don't have any You know allergies to alcohol Or marijuana Or psychedelics of course So

No that's very good Talk about a fucking lead balloon That's I thought it was hilarious I don't have to do a better job Veting my topics And now you're fine Scooters topics of time

I have my my soundboard to help you along. Do you, and you had another thing, though, about Alzheimer's, though, that actually is pretty interesting. Well, I think the first one could be interesting to some people that would take a minute to listen to the topic. Oh, my God, he's still on about it. No.

I don't care. That was a three o'clock. Oh, my God. Oh, my goodness. That's a great picture, yeah. That is awesome. Will you send that to me? Yeah, I will.

I want people to see this. That was at... Uh-oh. I don't want to docks you. Oh, there's motion at your back door. It's probably my kid. Probably cat. Or a cat, yes.

Look at that. It was gorgeous. That's cool. Yeah, I have much, much better pictures from up in Alaska, I'll sure. Yeah, but you're supposed to see it in Alaska. You're not supposed to see it in, you know... I wonder how far south that went. I think this is it.

I saw something about Atlanta, Georgia. Oh, on the map, I saw us. That was from my daughter's house. Okay, if you ever see something like this, it will you fucking call me? I had no idea. I was in here. I should have.

I was taking a U-Demite DeVinci Resolve class. That's incredible. Yeah. And there are the curtains on that one. Oh, yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, so we knew it was going to be bad, but I, you know, I was talking to Trucker Andy from WATP, and he said, I don't see anything here. So I didn't bother.

I said, well, okay, it's in Troy. It didn't get as far south as Buffalo or, you know, wherever it is Syracuse. I will call you to not if I see anything. Well. Yeah. It's crazy. You know, most guys want to get a booty call, and I'm just like, no, give me a eclipse or a, or a, Rourable Realis call.

God, it was just before his wake-up call for the Ramp Festival. God. Yeah. All right. Tell us about Alzheimer's. We've got to get going here. Real quickly. Yeah, this, I found this kind of interesting.

They found kind of the mechanisms for how DMT and some of these other things affect Alzheimer's. And the bottom line is... Sorry to interrupt. Chris R. in the chat says that they saw it in parts of Florida. Awesome. I think that's... I know when I was a kid, like in the 50s, there was one that hit that they were seeing it in Texas, but that's pretty far south. That's amazing.

Anyway, so go ahead. Yeah, sure. Well, that's cool. So DMT is an intervention that produces an enduring change in clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease by interfering in the underlying pathophysiological mechanism of the disease process that leads to cellular death. So what it's doing is it's interfering with the cellular death. Of course. And slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease, which is pretty cool. That is cool.

So that's why they're... When will we see this on the market? Well, that's what they're saying is it. And as all good studies go, conclusion is, more research needs to be done. Well, that's always true. Which is true. So what, you know, hopefully they're going to continue to research the effects of psilocybin's and, you know, at low dose, just kind of like they're doing, you know, right now,

we're seeing a lot of the low dose nitroxone. Naltrexone. Naltrexone, yeah, Naltrexone for treatment. You know, just in, in other words, we don't have to max out a dose every single time. Right.

For every, because, you know, I hear it every single day, somebody comes in with, um, who cares what it is? Well, now they said to try this. And if, if it works okay, then take them double it next week. And then, you know,

especially like gab penton. There are some things where that makes sense, but not everything. Not everything. Melatonin, you're probably better off doing a lower dose than a higher dose. Yep. And, you know, we make fun of the homeopaths because, you know, they dilute out their medicine to the point where there's literally no medicine in there.

But there is some benefit in using lower doses. We hear a lot about microdosing now. And really what they mean is, you know, they're calling like five grams of psilocybin or whatever, you know, heroic dose, meaning that you're going to be tripping your balls off. Right. So then, you know, when you're taking 0.3 grams, then that's considered microdosing. But it's not really microdosing. It's just dosing for the condition, you know. But it's microdosing compared to tripping your balls off.

Right. So I'm not a big fan of that term anymore. You know, it's kind of hit me that it makes more sense to just say, you know, we're, you know, for depression, PTSD and stuff like that. If you're going to take a daily dose of a medicine like psilocybin, I'm not advocating. I'm saying, you know, in the future, very soon when we have pharmaceutical psilocybin on the market, they'll say it's microdosing, but that's just micro compared to, you know, ball tripping. Yeah, you know, being out of your brain. Right. It's actually the correct dose for, you know, depression maintenance.

Right. Okay. And to still be functional, you know. Well, yeah. Well, you can be functional while you're tripping your balls off. Just not consistently. All right. We have some phone calls, so let's get these.

Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. I'm doing some of these blind because I didn't have time to download them, but we've got some others that are downloadable. And did you have a topic? Oh, you're setting the timer. I'll set the timer. Okay, so the timer starts when we start to answer the question. All right. Because the question itself might be three minutes long, and then it's, you know, wouldn't be right.

And then we get 30 seconds to answer. Oh. I'm on Pandora, and they were talking about your broadcast, I guess. But I'm trying to figure out there's a viper medicine, and I'm trying to find out more about it so we can put a stop to it. What the hell? What's he talking about viper medicine? You got started it over. I could not understand the first thing he said

Well, he was listening to us on Pandora Okay And there was something about Viper They were talking about us And I mean there is Ancrod Which is a drug derived from the Malayan pit viper And they

You know They give it For people having acute stroke Okay But that's all I know about I don't know what viper medicine he's talking about. Do you guys have any idea? The only thing I was going to say is maybe a

homeopathic medicine that they've Yeah, maybe. It's a viper Vyperbirus, which is they've reduced it down, you know, five thousand times. Why does you want to put a stop to it? I don't know. Especially if it's helping people. Okay. All right. Well, here you go.

Hi, Dr. Steve. Hey, man. It's Jason from Louisiana with a curious question. What would happen if you were to receive a blood transfusion of incompatible blood? Yep. Thanks.

I can tell you, it sucks. And when they were first learning how to do blood transfusions and didn't know about this, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. And the times that it worked was either they were compatible or they were using someone with type O blood or whatever. And then, but if they gave somebody with type A blood, somebody that had B or A-B, they all of a sudden the patients died. And so what happens is, like if you have A-positive to O-negative that causes the patient's immune system to attack the red blood cells.

That's how this works. And this leads to a serious transfusion reaction. It's just like if a mother who is, okay, R-H. Negative gives birth to an R-H-positive kid. She will make antibodies to that kid's blood. And if you don't treat it with Rogam immediately to block those antibodies, what will happen is that the next baby that they have, her body's going to attack it if it's R-H-positive.

And that's what happened to Ann Boulin. And Blynn had a baby with Henry the 8th. and it was, you know, Queen Elizabeth the first, ultimately, but he wanted a male child, and she got pregnant a bunch of other times, and they all died of high drops, meaning that her body was attacking the children, or the babies, and they didn't know about this stuff back then,

so she had stillbirth after, still birth after, still birth after, still birth after that. And, you know, because of that, because they didn't know about blood types, she ended up losing her head. You know, he chopped her head. head off and then moved on to the next one. But anyway, so when that happens to the baby, I mean, the same thing would happen to the human if you just admix the blood. So you get multi-organ failure, shock, kidney failure, circulatory collapse, and sometimes

death, so it's bad. Now, you know something about this. A little bit. Okay. Well, did you have some experience with it that you, you know, it sounded like that. You had sounded like you were like Had some experience with us I get it

Yeah but the RH stuff yes Okay did you do OB No You never did You just you're just smart Just know a couple things I helped deliver a baby once But that was it

God I used to I used to cry every time I delivered a baby I delivered about 250 Oh I did I bawled like a baby And the sweet mom and dad Since it was my first Let me cut the cord

It was pretty amazing Yeah Yeah well back then we'd just cut the cord. There wasn't any, you know. I got to do it. Celebration. I saw a few interesting things in the operating room or the delivery room.

Tom. It's been, okay, yeah, we're done with that topic. It's been a long time. I really wish I could tell these stories on the air because they are nuts. Yeah. Just nuts. for example, one where the person before me told me that the patient was not going to deliver tonight because her cervix was only one centimeter, which, you know, for people who don't know,

the female cervix is where the baby's head has to pass through. And to do that, it's got to flatten, called effacement, and it's got to dilate to get that head through there. And so he said, well, she's just one centimeter. So that's tiny. That's, you know, that's the normal. And, yeah, it was actually an ass. It was, uh, oh, there you go.

It was the kid was delivering breach right in front of my face. And that was my first delivery as a doctor. And I was freaking out. So I would love to tell that story sometime. We have to research if I can, you know, if I can tell that story. It's what I just told you was general enough that I'm not breaking any. sort of rules. He was measuring in the wrong delivery hole.

Well, he stuck his finger in there and felt a kid's anus and said, oh, he's one centimeter. Oh, my God. So I've got a million. I'd like to tell you that surprise. I have a million great stories and it's like I don't know that I can really tell them. But anyway, someday, someday.

Anywho, all right. Next. Next. Let's do another blow. thing. Okay, that was a transfusion. That was a good one. Oh, okay.

Did we do the guy with three testicles last time? Yes. We did do that. Okay. All right. Then, okay. Here's a good one. Oh, this is one for Mel B.

Oh, no. Hey, Dr. C. This might not exactly be your wheelhouse. It's Mel B's, though. Just wondering if you have any advice for a 35 year old, just about to start nursing school. All right, thanks. Bye. Oh, there you go. Okay, so this

poor bastard called us in December 19th, 2019. There you go. Listen, he's already graduated. So he's already graduated, but he started nursing school right before COVID. Oh, rats.

Yes. Right? Rats. So, let me see. I got to send a note. Doing your your nursing question now. All right, so I'm going to answer this. Yes.

My best advice is learn how to take a test. Yeah. Yes. Really? So test anxiety is real. Yes. Nursing school, and I'm sure it's probably the same for medical school. Well, actually, there's stakes involved.

Yeah. So when you go to take a test, you have a question. It's all multiple choice. There's some select all the apply, which is a total. a total different subject because that can make you want to eat again. Yeah, yeah. But the multiple choice, you've got four answers that are right. Let me say something about that.

Select all that are correct. Yes. You should get credit. If there's five of them, you should get, that should count for five points. Right. I agree. Then you get three, not five. You get three fifths, not zero.

I think that you are correct. Right. But you got to get them all right. So on multiple choice questions, you've got four answers, four sometimes are right, three are definitely right, two are more right, and then you have the one question that is, or the one answer that is the most right. So you have to find the best answer. It's not the right answer, it's the best answer, because sometimes they're all right. Give myself a bell. So practice, take test.

Do practice tests, do practice questions. get like books and study guides when I first started nursing school we had and I'm about to lose time I think no I got about it so when I first started nursing school we had one of our professors that she taught a how to take a test class and for one evening of class

we went in and she just it was random questions like with fake words that made no sense about the walka walka monkey that had a breathing problem and like based on the question that didn't make any sense you could pick out key words and how if you don't know the answer to the question you can dope it out you can at least kind of narrow it down to two and now instead of a 25% chance of getting it right you got a 50% chance you know that kind of thing so that was an awesome help to me is learning how to

take a test learning how to read those questions and keep in mind every time you read a question, and it's, you know, you want to say, but what if, forget the what ifs, these questions, nursing test questions and probably medical school is in a perfect world. And everything, you have enough staff, you have enough equipment, you have all the things. Right. It is a nice little utopia. Some of them are political questions, you know. And that's the thing you've got to think of, okay, is this organization, are they e-gatio? Are they thinking about DEI? Are they thinking about this, that, and the other?

And so you have to think about those things as well sometimes when you're taking tests. And what I think is you probably don't have to. Just give the right answer and don't worry about what you think they want you to say. Right. To say what's right. And then you can argue it later. Because sometimes, you know, test taking questions, they get it wrong. and they've got a lot of sophisticated statistics that look at things,

say, wait a minute, this question, there's something wrong with it. And they'll throw those out. Yeah, when you take your in-clicks, it's, you know, you get so many questions, definitely. And then you get a percentage on all these tests. You get a percentage of questions that are not scored. And their test question, they're like, they're testing the validity of the question. Right. And if it's a good question, if, you know.

A good question. An educated person can get it right. What a lot of times they're looking for because I've helped write test questions is you want to, a perfect question is one that the people who get a good score will mostly get right. And then the people who get a medium score will, you know, 50-50 and people get a bad score will get, we'll get it wrong. And that way it'll differentiate because if you have a question that's so easy that everybody gets it right, it doesn't really help you. But the other side of it is, are we looking for people who know stuff? Are we looking for people who are good at test taking? Because why not have a test where the questions are fundamental questions that you need to know?

And if everybody gets 100 on it, then that's a good thing. Why is that not a win? I agree. You know, so. It needs to be a nice combination of all that stuff. Yeah. You need to have that advanced, you know, just knowing an answer does not. demonstrate critical thinking, which is very needed in this field, in the medical field, no

matter where you're at, from a PCT all the way up to the medical director. Yeah. Everybody needs that. Yeah. And by the way, N.P. Melby doesn't have vocal fry. She's got a fucked up vocal cord from her thing. So I don't want to hear about, oh, low vocal fry. No.

Are you talking about my raspy, sexy voice? Yeah. Yeah. But it's not vocal fry. No. It's actually your voice. I am naturally that sexy. I don't disagree.

All right. Yeah. So test-taking big thing. And yeah, let us know how you're doing. I just texted him. We're finally doing your nursing question. I want to know where he's working, what field. Where, you know, is he med-surge, ICU doctor's office?

What's he doing? Oh, this one is like an emergency that was sent to us. in 2019, so I'm not going to read that one. But, oh, this one, everybody will love this one. Here you go. Got a question for you. It took a pretty bad end. December 13, 2019.

Oh, God. Bless it. A cut on one of my fingers a few weeks ago from the saw. And the wife got all panicky about when's the last time I had a tetanus shot. I haven't had a tetan shot in probably 35 years. Okay. I got to think, what is tetanus? Oh, yeah.

What does it cause? I've never heard of anybody. heard of anybody dying from Tet. Oh, okay. What's it, do you? Thanks. Okay, so I can talk about this, Mel B, you probably can, too. So we'll tag team.

Tentness is a condition caused by a bacterium called Clostridium tetany. And I've seen one case in my life. Wow. And it was fatal. And that person had never gotten the original. three of, you know, tetanus shots. I've never heard, and that doesn't mean it has never happened, of anyone dying from tetanus that had the original three.

But they recommended every 10 years, if you have a clean wound and it's been more than 10 years, you should do it just because it's been more than 10 years and you need to do it. If it's a dirty wound, let's just say that you were walking in a field and there was a cow Patty, and you stepped on it, and there was a nail in it, and it went through your foot, then that is considered a, you know, a dirty wound or a contaminated wound, and that should be, you should go ahead and get a tetanus shot then. And, you know, there are, there's a whole protocol for it. Do you want to talk about anything different?

I'm trying to remember, because I used to work at the health department. Yes, that's right. You did all this stuff. all the time. I'm trying to remember I'm pretty, I'm trying to remember if Tetanus was one that we gave I believe at one year of age. Oh no,

I don't know the schedule. Yeah, yeah I can't speak to that because I can't remember I know we did with kindergarten shots you know before a kid starts kindergarten there's a whole series of things. Yeah. And it's about every 10 years you do it again before kids going usually into the seventh grade

and then you know when you get to adulthood people tend to fall off, but it's very important to get the T-DAP because it also protects from pertussis. So the recommended Tentness vaccine schedule is the Big T-T-B-T-T-T, Big T-T, Big P-P, because there's B-Tap and and then there's T-Dap. So this is diphtheria, Tentness, and Pertussus. Pertussus is whooping cough.

Diphtheria, you've never seen it, but you don't ever want to see it. It causes a pseudomebrane in the back of the throat, and it's really, it's rough. And so this is a successful vaccine because we don't have diphtheria in this country. Matter of fact, most pediatricians have never seen it. But they give it two months, four months, six months, 15 to 18 months, and then four to six years. There you go. That sounds right. And then Big T, little D, you get every 10 years.

Yes. That's the... And usually, if you've got a major wound and you haven't had a... If you don't remember when your last T-DAP was, then just go ahead and get it. And if you haven't had it in the last, like, five to seven years, go ahead and get it. Yep. Yep. Okay.

And Tom. Good. Good job. Right at three minutes. Exit. I like it. All right. Let's do this one.

Hey, Dr. Steve. It's Matt and Charleston. Hey, Matt. How you doing? We're doing good. Okay. Good. Hey, I am going through some stuff with, I had some chest pains, and I went to the ER a few weeks ago.

Okay. And the ER wasn't able to find the source of those chest pain, or the cause of those chest pains. So they referred me to a cardiologist. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I'm a scan of my chest. Okay. And that scan came back, and they said I had a zero calcium rating.

Okay. Which I don't really understand what that is, but they said it was good. Well, they did a calcium score, and they did this, what, Agostin score, or whatever it's called. And that thing will not find non-calcified plaques, but it will find calcified plaques in your heart. Remember recently I had mine? I thought it was 600. Well, it turned out the person who read it originally effed it up, and it was actually lower this time than it was when I had it done five years ago. So good for me, but stupid for them.

God, I was freaking out. But anyway, so, yeah, that's what they did. They did a calcium score. And normal calcium score is zero. Correct. So that's good that this guy had a zero. And then he was blaming on me this calcium score went up. No, because, yeah, because you told me to stop taking my stat and I listened to you like a fool.

But anyway, no, I did okay, so thank you. I don't really understand what that is, but they said it was good. Yep. So they're still doing some testing and blood work and all that. But what's with the calcium rating and what does it mean and what would be a bad calcium rating? 600. Yeah, right. Okay.

You want to talk a little bit about atherosclerone, cardiovascular disease? We've got about a minute. I mean, I can. Take care of your heart. Okay. Okay. Well, okay. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Chlorosis, fatty buildups.

So the Agatston score is this number, and it looks at the total area of calcium deposits and actually their density in the heart. It can range from zero, which is considered good, to over 1,000. Now, zero means no calcium, low risk of heart attack. Not zero. Not zero chance of heart attack. because, again, you can have non-calcalfied plaques. And then 1 to 10 is minimal 11 to 100 is mild. And then I started off around 2.

I started at 0 and then I wasn't taking a statin for the longest time and advanced up to like 275. So that's considered moderate. 101 to 400 is moderate. And you have moderate chance of heart attack. But if you look at my Framingham score, which is the one I go by, my God, because it makes me feel better. And you can just go, Google Framingham calculator and put the numbers in.

I have a 2% chance of having an MI over the next 10 years, whereas at my age, normal is 8. That's good. There you go. And then over 400 is severe calcification, large amount of plaque, high chance of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event, which is when that lady told me it was 675. I was shitting myself, almost not quite as bad as I was shitting myself at the ramp festival that didn't have any ramps. So there you go. A little callback, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.

All right, Dr. Scott and Mel B. Before we get out of here, we should hit the chat room. So if you want to join the fluid family, go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine. And I've got John's earmites. Thank you for being a member for three months. And when you come in, turn on your gifted memberships. If you just click the join button, you can click accept gifted memberships. Myrtle Manus gave 10 gifted memberships today.

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And that's what I've got. Now, have you got some questions that you've called from there, Dr. Scott? Are we ready for them? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so the risk would like some recommendations on de-realization. The risk has terrible anxiety, and it's getting worse and hard to deal. with. So what are some things we can do for treatment of, I was going to say, we're just talking

about general anxiety. Well, de-realization is a real thing. That's kind of a different thing. That's where people feel like their surroundings are not real. And that takes some, you know, it's a DSM-5 diagnosis. It's called depersonalization disorder. And it's, you know, it's kind of a recurring. sense that your

surroundings are not real and because of that because the intellectual part of your brain knows that it is and then the more you read about things like quantum physics saying that the universe is not local so it may not be real

it makes things worse so you know it requires you know therapy, talking talk therapy and a combination of certain medications, and it might be antidepressants. This person could be a candidate for what Mel B likes is the Trip app. Yes.

I wonder if that would make it worse, though, because you're being taken into a virtual world with the Trip app. It's a virtual reality meditation app, but it may also center them too. I don't know. I hesitate to just recommend it without them talking to their therapist about it. But, you know, I also wonder if, you know, in the future when we have true psychedelic therapy, if that would make it better or worse because, you know, you can give people enough psychedelic so that they actually feel that they're outside their body.

And you can say, this is what it really feels like to be, you know, for things to be unreal. Just to show you what really would have it in your other. come back, maybe they would be, you know, I would be really interested in seeing studies on that. Well, you know, just to just to talk about that for a real quick second, the, what they talk about, the psychedelic therapies in the microdosing, it helps to kind of reset your brain. Yeah. And I think those are, those are things, you know, and they will do interventional stuff like the stalate ganglion blocks for some people with the serious anxiety disorders. Yeah. Talk about that.

Talk about it still late. Yeah, there's a little nerve bundle that's in your neck. It's just above your first rib. It's near your carotid artery that someone that's really trained with and has a fluoroscopy or ultrasound can go in and identify where your carotid artery is. And this little bundle of nerves right above your first rib and can inject a little numbing agent right up right into the, right above the nerve bundle. And it can help to calm anxiety and to reset the, communication between a body and the brain.

And they've had, and they've used, they used it a lot in the military, and they've had some success with that too. So, I mean, you know, outside of the normal stuff, you'll hear people talking about exercising and it's crazy. It's crazy about this little bundle of nerves, you know, just numbing it up, the benefits that can have. But they've been doing it for like 100 years. Just, you know, they were, now they use, as Dr. Scott said, ultrasound to find it.

Just make sure they hit the right spot. Well, yeah. But for 50, 75 years before that, and why they thought that this would work. So that's the funny part. They were just doing it by you to stick your finger on the person's neck and inject it. But they use it for PTSD, long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome, also called myelgic encephalitis. And, you know, it's good for head and neck pain, too. I would love to learn how to do this because this is right up our.

alley you know it'd be something like this Mel B and I are in the same specialty so you know I would love to be able to do this maybe we need to find a place where we could get some training on it and then we could maybe do those yeah okay yeah we'll go together

excellent excellent all right last one yep McRibbs I asked my doctor for a shot and he then asked me if I work on a farm so I stepped right into his trap I'm from the city but then he He got to tempt the urine on a rusty animal fence theory to me.

Oh, they're going to talk about a tetan shot. Yeah, yeah. So I would assume I was talking about. Well, okay. Like you can't get Tetan's living in a city? You don't have to just. People fucking flippant answers when they ask you a serious medical question. You live on a farm if you don't.

You don't need it. You ever have any cornuclations? Well, you don't need no tetan shot then. It's stupid. That's stupid. Number one was he due if it's been more than 10 years. And honestly, if you live in a city now and you cut yourself on the street, you might be getting, you know, it might be an infected. You might need to worry about something other than tennis.

That and. I got chlamydia off of a nail that I stepped on the middle of the street. So, yeah, I don't like that. I don't like this sort of dismissive answer that a lot of doctors are not just the doctors of NPs and PAs that you just medical professionals give to people. You know, we have this privileged position and don't abuse it and give people flip-ass answers. Now, it pisses me off. I'm going to be mad the rest of the day. You mean the Ramp Festival?

without ramps didn't do it for you that was funny it was a fun trip and you got some cool t-shirts that's the best part yeah well yeah joanne and tacy are getting them from fucking mother's day and i will tell you the last time you made ramp salt it was so good but so strong i still have plenty left to get me through the next calendar it doesn't take much it doesn't take much but i'm out i gave it a little way knowing that i would be making more so stupid Oh, well. All right. What are you going to do?

Well, we just go to the farmer's market to get our... This is the rap festival. You're talking about. You don't have raps? Oh, my gosh. It was very... Everyone there was delightful. I think it would be fun if I hadn't gone there with the expectation of coming away with a garbage bag full of ramps.

That's the thing. Oh, my gosh. I think they had them. I just misunderstood what the festival was about. It's like the Apple Festival. You don't just go there to buy apples. You go there to get things, you know, apple pies and apple this and that, you know, it's not. Apple butter, you know, apple fritters.

Right, you don't just come out of there with, you know, bushels of apples. So that was stupid to me. It's not their fault. It's okay. I just had expectations that were dashed to the ground. I have a question if we've got time. Yes, of course. Three-minute timer starting now.

Okay. No, I'm just kidding. Um, colon cancer. I was asked if having an appendicitis and your appendix removed increases your risk of colon cancer. Okay. Do you have an answer for this? Um, maybe. Okay.

Was the only thing that I came up with. I found a couple, like, uh, what, what journal is this? The journal of clinical medicine said basically maybe there is a, uh, uh, why? Well, so it made me think, well, what does your appendix do? which I should really know, but I had to think a little bit. Holy moly. Okay, I just found some data. Go ahead.

You tell yours and I'll tell you mine. Yeah, so it might be the same data I have, I don't know. So the appendix, right, has good bacteria housed in it. Right. It's supposed to. It has lymphoid tissue in it as well, which is, you know, immune modulating. Right. So when you get sick or have a stomach bug or you've got, you know,

You take antibiotics and your good bacteria, bad bacteria gets all out of whack. Maybe the appendix helps set that back to right. Interesting. So then that made me start thinking about probiotics for one. Yeah. And if you don't have an appendix, maybe you should take probiotics. Well, maybe. We don't have any data on that.

And what does this have to do with colon cancer? Everyone should drink kombucha, in my opinion. Yeah. But there was a study that I found that studied like, for, 49,000 plus people without, with and without appendix. Okay. And what the difference was. So after 15 years, it looked like one, a little over 1% of cases with appendicitis had a 0.6% cases of colon cancer.

Whereas without the appendix, newly diagnosed with colon cancer 36. No, what? That's not what I was like 0.6 versus like 0.01. It was like it's a little bit of a higher risk for people without an appendix. Without an appendix. Well, here's something from the, from Lancet, and they're looking at appendicitis particularly. Okay. Patients treated four appendicitis presented four times higher risk of being diagnosed with colon cancer.

than the control patients during the first year of follow-up. So that tells you, you know, it's inflammatory, most likely. But here's a 2020 meta-analysis found that appendicitis increased the risk of colon cancer by a factor of 10. Wow. And a 20-23 study found that patients treated for appendicitis had, again, four-fold, higher risk of being diagnosed with colon cancer within the first year, eight-fold higher risk within the first six months. the risk was higher for patients under 40

and for obese patients what the hell so I learned something today I would have said that interesting because I don't have an appendix nor does a majority of my family so both my kids my brother and my dad

is there a colon cancer history in your family no but I've had some significant polyps that have been removed and actually have to get a colonoscopy every Right. And so that's the point I was going to make is that knowing that you're at high risk means you're less likely to die from it. Right. Because if you do the surveillance like you're supposed to. Yep. Scheduled for my colonoscopy coming up in a couple months. I have a friend with

familial polyposis. This is, you know, he just makes polyp, polyp, polyp, polyp. He's at extremely high risk for developing colon cancer. But because he gets his colonoscopy, every year, the chances that he will die of colon cancer are almost zero. Which when I freaked out, the first time I had my colonoscopy and got some news that I had pre-cancerous polyps, I was panicked thinking, oh, this is it, I'm going to die. And that's what you told me. No, no, you're not. Like, if you go and get your colonoscopy, you will not die.

It's actually good. Yeah, it'll be good. They found that. Yeah. Yeah. So I go. It's no fun. The prep sucks.

Oh, I like it. Oh, God, no. No, I'm a puker. So it doesn't matter if I'm emotionally upset, if I'm, like, really, really happy about something, any kind of emotion, anger, I'll puke. If I smell something, I'll puke. I'm a puker. So the prep makes me puke. Oh, it does.

Yes, I start. It took forever. I did take lots of, they ended up giving me howl doll before my colonoscopy. I like the, oh, Hal doll. Yeah, because I couldn't quit throwing up. Yeah. Yeah, that's good anionmatic. Oh, well, yeah.

The, um, my favorite colon prep thing was when they had no filter pole, and they, back when they had fleets, phosphos soda, which was just a little, you know, three to six out bottle. And they made him drink one, and they put club soda Kenny, who was a big, you know, imposing guy at the door and said, now you can leave, but you got to get past Kenny. And they had him in a diaper. in a kitty pool just standing there in the studio until this stuff because Fleet's phosphosota works like a tsunami through your bowels.

It starts at the top and it just rolls and it rolls and it gains strength and it picks up more fluid and then by the time it hits the sigmoid colon, which is right before the rectum, it is a powerhouse

and he just shit all over everywhere. Unbelievable. And it was within, I don't know, 30 minutes to an hour. What a horrible idea. Yeah. I like the prep, though. The last fleets phosphosota prep that I did, you know, the last time I hit the pot, I was just shooting water out of my rear end.

You know, I could have hit a wall 20 feet away. It was so powerful. And I got up, and I looked down, and the water was as clear as a mountain stream. There was nothing in it. No particles. nothing. It was just pure. I think you could have drunk it. I'm just saying, you know. Thank you. That's how clean it was. It was amazing. That's so crazy. All right. Now we grossed everybody out.

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