Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 655 - Pig Knuckle Pinochle

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

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I had somebody comment on a video that said, please bring back my nasal spray. So are you not, are you out of stock again? Or is that just somebody that's not up with... I think Friday... What's happening? Friday we were out of stock, but we're working against them back.

Okay, so you're going to keep going with it? For now, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like I said before, you can't order too much, and then it goes, you know, raw. Yeah. But we're doing, we're hanging in there for now. But if you don't order a ton, then you pay more. Yep. But you know, my...

That's why I had to buy 500 dabble dice. 500,000 dabble dice. I got them for 350 a piece. I'm selling them, by the way, at cost. if you just go to stuff. Dr. Steve.com, it'll take you there. Or dabblegames.myshopify.com, but it's no longer dabble games. It's Myrtle Games. It's Myrtle's Game Emporium.

Oh, yeah. I like that. You know, come on down and get you a game. Have you a hoot-in-hap? Not like that. They're much better. Yeah, me too. That's hilarious. Me too, because our flagship product that I'm working with Troy Smith, as we speak will be

pig knuckle an actual mass market game. We used to play Pinuckle. My grandfather was German. Yeah. And he taught us how to play peanut. Well, it's in the public domain. So what this is

is you've got the myrtle of pigs and the cletus of chickens. And if myrtle and cleetus try to get, you know, in Pinockel, you have marriages, right? Mm-hmm. If the king and queen, I don't remember what the rules are.

But in this, if you play a Myrtle and a Cletus, that's a marriage, and they get an extra 150 points. But if you play the Paw card, Paul don't like it when cousins get married. So that'll negate it. But then if you play the pig knuckle card, that'll bribe Paul because he likes to gnaw on pig knoll. He'll gnaw on hit at the reception. So now you get an extra 150 points. There's all kinds of stupid shit like that. So we're going to do it as a mass market game,

try to sell it in actual game store. So we'll see. That's funny. But it's all our characters. It's got Myrtle and Cletus and it's got old Norman in there. A little more. He's been around the world time or two in the Army, don't you know? Oh, my gosh.

I love it. So. Oh, my God. Downward. Yep. I'll tell you what, you never did say such thing. So anyway, check out Patreon.com slash weird medicine for more of this stupid stuff. And all the behind-the-scenes stuff goes straight to Patreon's never seen again,

but then we'll clip it those shows and put them up on YouTube shorts or sometimes make a regular video out of it. And if you want me to say fluid to your mama, go to cameo.com slash weird medicine. Fun. All right? Yeah. Well, what do you want to do? You got anything? You won't believe this.

What? You have something. You won't believe this. I do have you something. Oh, my God. I'm just going to give you a bell. I'm just going to give you a bell. Get your hand off my penis!

All right. Just in case it goes south. It probably will suck. A professor of biochemistry at the School of Immunology Trinity College says how stress is a silent killer Each extra hassler In your life

Cost you nine months of your life Really? Hassler is the term I call them hasslesers It's at the end of your life though Well yeah It's it will I guess Oh my God

A hassler is someone who's often Hasling you Irritating you or may be criticizing or excluding you What if you're a lull cow On the internet And people are constantly hassling I don't know. I guess you...

And that's how you make your living. You check out early, I think. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, but it does cause... I mean, those people like Patrick Tomlinson and some other ones have hundreds of people that hassle them. I don't know. What do they do? What do they do on the Internet?

They get hassled. Oh, well, okay. Yeah, what do they get hassled? So Patrick Tomlinson, he started when Norm McDonnelly. Donald died just said, I'm throwing this out here. I never thought Norm was funny. Oh, shit. Well, he should be assled him.

Well, okay. But you could get past that. Of course, of course. But here's the problem. People started arguing with him. And his tone was like, no child. Well, this is Patrick Tomlinson. This is him.

Babbling. Insanity. How funny. Delusion. That was him talking to one of these people on the phone. Oh, how funny. And so if you look at his timeline, which if you tweet to him, he'll just block you so you can't. You have to look at it on.

There's subreddits about it and there's message boards about it. But they, he responds to everything. This is the classic lull cow is someone that can't stop responding to things when somebody. So there's, if you look at, I was starting to say, If you look at his Twitter feed, it's somebody's shitting on him and saying he responding. And somebody's shitting on him and it's him responding. Eric, the actor, used to do that. He would respond to everything.

And the funny thing was just reading his responses because you didn't have to read the tweet. But he'd say, you know, in all caps, I do not have three legs. I, you know, I do not have lobster claws. It's like you don't have to respond to stuff like that. They just can't help themselves. You stupid son of a bitch, I don't have lobster claws. Oh, my God. Can't help themselves.

So that's what happens. That's hilarious. Yep. Well, so here's the crazy part. You're going to love this part. The report found that 10% of spouses are considered hasslers. I think that was low. But so I could just gain nine months.

It's at the end, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's all. At that point, I guess. That's Dennis Leary's point. So the point being is, hey, find some solace in a quiet time. I pray for the peace that death will bring. I got it.

All right. That's a good one. There you go. Well, so, okay. So what do you talk about stress for a little bit? You're the king of that. Well, yeah. That's your thing.

It is a big thing. It's, you know, stress over time. It's what they call a silent killer increases cortisol. And it can cause disruptions in your autonomic nervous system, specifically causing you to stay in an upregulated state, which is a sympathetic nervous system. And your parasympathetic nervous system or vagus nerve is not working to balance that out. So we work with that all the time, especially in pain medicine.

And, of course, you do too. In pain medicine. You think traditional Chinese medicine. That was what that was all about. Well, it's interesting. You know, and we talked about this a couple of shows ago, some of the newest research on stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and the vagus nerve for stress to help with stress

and help with anxiety and help with pain. And the really kind of interesting thing is the point that we've used for, I'm going to say, I've used for, you know, 30 years, but I've been in Chinese medicine texts for, you know, a thousand years. It's a point, two points in the year. And one's for the extra. branch of the vagus nerve in one's the external branch of the splenic nerve. Right.

And you stimulate those two nerves with needles and electrical stimulation. It helps to increase parisempathetic tone, which should help to calm people down and calm anxiety and things of that nature. So that's what I, that's what I drink. It's a ganglion block that people were doing for stress. So that was the, it's a stellate ganglion block and it's in the neck. That's just above the, you know, that's just above the clavicle. Yeah.

Yeah. First trip, clavicle. But the interesting thing about that is that you bring that up, you know, going to this parasympathetic nervous system stimulation to help with things like epilepsy. They're doing a wrap. They're actually putting a little wire wrap around the vagus nerve right above that ganglion cysts. Or a stella gangus. I'm sorry, the stella ganglid ganglid. And a little pacemaker under the clavicle and stimulating it with bursts of vibrations for,

Five minutes. Yeah, for treatment of epilepsy. Now, the cool thing is they've also researching, it's a different frequency, but the same exact thing as far as the stimulator and the wire going around the Vegas nerve to treat autoimmune disorders. Because autoimmune disorders being. What? Yeah, being a result of people staying in this upregulated state all the time.

Sympathetic nervous system. It's a sympathetic nervous system kicks off TNF, which. which is a tumor and a crossus factor. Right, right, right. And then you have cytokine storms. And to suppress, because right now, you know, a big thing in autoimmune therapy treatment, specifically in the West or allopathic world, treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis or with Crohn's or UC or whatever, any kind of autoimmune disorder.

Yeah. Treating them with TNF suppressing drugs. Right. Which actually work to a certain degree, but have. can potentially have really, really, really serious, if not deadly side effects. So what they're doing instead of giving these TNF suppressing medications, they're doing this TNF suppressant by stimulating the vagus nerve with a stimulator, with a stimulator. Now, it's in trials now, but they're doing their, like at Vanderbilt they do,

the stimulator for epilepsy. Wow. In that while? Autoimmune diseases often involve sympathetic dominance, blocking these nerves with local anesthetic like Bivocaine. which is a long-acting anesthetica, can reduce inflammation and improve blood flow. Research has shown reduced symptoms

and decreased inflammatory markers after stelliot gangland block in ulcerative colitis. Dr. Scott. Give thyself a bell. So any of those class of autoimmune disorders could potentially, which is what they're researching, benefit from not only the,

like they're saying, these bupivocan blocks, but an implanted stimulator, one single wire wrapped around that Vegas nerve, it stimulates five minutes a day, Dr. C., five minutes. That's all it is. Five minutes a day, just vibrated in that vagus nerve to stimulate the parasitibusate nervous system. Anybody around here doing that? There is, there is. I'm asking. Now we're talking about things I need to know what.

Well, no, no, the cool thing is there's a doc right now at the University of West Virginia that's doing, he's a neurosurgeon that's doing trials on these stimulators for suppressing TNF in patients with autoimmune disorders, specifically R.A. You see Crohn's. Yeah, Crohn's? Yeah, sure. Any of them. Well, I have a family member with Crohn's.

I would send them there. I just sent that to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would. And here's the thing, too, what they found in research is stimulating the vagus nerve. Yeah. With external stimulation is not so easy. So just a normal tinge unit is not going to do it.

You can do it with guided like ultrasound. They're going to do something implantable. Well, implantable or the acupuncture needles with the regular needles actually work going into the piercing the skin in. So you get a very similar, not the same, but a very similar response. Especially if you have someone that wants to try something. Let's say that they've tried the autoimmune TNF suppressing medications, those biologics, and they had a bad side effect, and they need something else because they just can't. Let's say, because you know as well as I do, we've had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of patients

that have tried all of these different medications. Yeah. Some of them work for a little while. Some of them are wonderful game changers. Yeah. And some people can't tolerate them at all. Right. And there's always room for new research in negotiation.

So, yeah, if you're found out of that. Non-pharmacological approaches to this stuff. Yeah, yeah, non-pharmacological approaches. And so if your family member has questions, if you'll just email you, I'll send a link and contact you. Yeah, awesome. We'll do it. Pretty cool.

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I always wonder, do you ever think about having like a, like Dr. Drew's celebrity rehab thing where it's like content house rehab? You know, because there's a lot of people that have like something. abuse problems and, dare I say, mental illness problems, my brother. Yeah. Thank you for the suggestion. So he's talking about, like, doing a content house like Chrissy Mayer did or, you know, some other content houses, but do it as a rehab thing.

Now, I'm not a rehab specialist, but I can identify problems. And to be honest, I've tried, there's several people in this universe with substance issues. that I've tried to help and to no avail. So I'm, you know, Lady Die was one. And, you know, we really tried with her. And we really got nowhere. So I'm, and that was very disappointing. And I've reached out to a couple of the lull cows that have substance issues.

and just really, yeah, I would love to. But, you know, again, I'm just, at that point, I'm just a friend with a medical license. I'm not really qualified to do what Dr. Drew does, which is actually do rehab for people. But I can refer them, and I do have resources. We could involve some people that do, and I could be the ringleader.

But, you know, the thing. is you got to want to do it. If you look at celebrity rehab, there were a lot of people on there that were there for clout and didn't really want to be there. And, you know, they didn't, you know, the recidivism rate is huge when you have people in, you know, against their will or that are, you know, brought in kicking and screaming. So the first thing you've got to do is you've got to want it. Yeah. Yeah.

And I don't know what in the world happened to our YouTube feed here. So I'll get back in there and see what's going on. No, it seems to be. We're alive? Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah, you know, we had a friend of ours that you and I both worked with it.

He was an addict, recovered. And he said, you know, when he was seeing patients, he would just tell him that, look, you know, you're never going to get back. until there's some true sincerity and wanting to get better. And you have to do it. I mean, you can't tell somebody you want to do it. Right. Well, no, that's right. Cigarettes, a good example.

I got a lot of people that just, you know, they don't want to quit. They love it. And the thing is, if you're going to quit alcohol, that, if you stop suddenly and you've been a heavy drinker for a long time, The withdrawal from that can kill you or it can make you really sick. Some people can just stop and they're fine, but you don't know until you've done it. I mean, there's things called, you know, rum fits are just basically seizures caused by stopping alcohol suddenly. And delirium tremens and that can be fatal. If you stop high-dose benzodiazepines, let's say you're drinking alcohol and taking, I don't know, clonopin or something like that,

and you stop it suddenly. That can be fatal, so you need to do that under the auspices of some health care provider, preferably an addiction specialist. But when you quit cigarettes, oh, and then like quitting opioids, you're uncomfortable. I mean, it's bad. Sure. Nausea, vomiting, pilo-erection, diaphrases, you know, profuse, sweating, and then you can have acute post-withdrawal syndrome, which is depression, malays, muscle pain, all that stuff for up to

two years afterward if you go through cold turkey. So those three need to really be done with an addiction specialist over the withdrawal. Cigarettes, different thing altogether. What's the worst thing that happens to you if you stop? smoking. Well, obviously. You get uncomfortable. Uncomfortable.

At worst. That's it. That's the worst of it. Hey, but that's the one thing that when you, as soon as you stop, you start feeling a little bit better. Yeah. You breathe a little bit better. The skin color gets a little bit better. That is true.

You don't quite smell. Yep. You know. Labrne Mystic just gave 20 weird medicine with Dr. Steve gift memberships. I saw Adam Bush got one. Oh, right. So myrtle's in there. checking the announcements in the live stream.

If you want to join the live stream, by the way, thank you, Merdle. Just go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine, and you can join the fluid family, which is basically just the people in the chat. But thank you. Labron Mystic. It's L-A-B-R-N mystic.

I'm assuming it could be Labron, Labron, or Labron. So, correct. Give us the way you want to pronounce it because I see this person on lots of streams and everybody pronounces their screen name differently. So, all right. So quit smoking. The worst thing that happened, you're going to be uncomfortable. Yeah.

Two weeks. Maybe a little cranky. Yes, maybe a lot cranky. Just warn everybody. Hey, I'm quitting smoking. It gives you a pass. I'm going to be an asshole for it. Yeah, too.

It gives you a pass to be an ass. asshole. And people should support that asshole in this. Yep. Yep. And just get away from people if you're, if you just can't deal with it. But two weeks, physical addiction, six months or maybe six weeks, habit. You can break a habit. Two to six weeks, but six weeks. And then six months, the psychological addiction. So those are your weak points. Within the first two weeks, you're at risk of smoking just because you feel crappy. And then up to six weeks, you're at risk of starting again because you're still got the habit. And that six months, you still got the psychological addiction.

That's the only thing that's left. I've screwed myself up so many times. I remember I was at Stella Fane outside the McGregor Observatory and Jeff Lowe, my buddy was there. and he was smoking. I said, oh, give me one. He's like, are you sure? And I'm like, yeah, it's been six months. I'm good.

Yep. And so he reluctantly gave me one. And I went and bought a pack, and I smoked up three packs a day until I finally quit. Oh, my gosh. It's hard to believe, isn't it? It comes back so quickly. Yeah. Chew in tobacco, it was the same thing for me.

Yeah, so I can never do it. I know I did smoke cigarettes on my honeymoon, or no, cigars. And that didn't trigger it. I was worried we were in Spain and they had Cuban cigars. And I'm like, I really want to try a Cuban cigar and see what the hype is about. But is it going to get my tobacco addiction revved back up again? It didn't. Not even close.

No, no, not at all. Two different things. It was weird. It is bizarre of it. Yeah, I really thought it would. But it is different enough. And I smoked cigars for a while, mostly because of Ronnie B. was a cigar smoker and it's like

well he's going to do it I'm going to do it so I bought all these humodores and all the stuff and I realized I don't know this sucks oh my god that's like yeah I don't I never have been a fan of of cigars I never have yeah never got in never got there

but then you were did chal I'd chew your I'd chew your hand off for a can of Copenhagen yeah oh my god I love that stuff I would never put something in my mouth oh my god it's best that looked like that coming out of Oh, it was this.

It's disgusting. And believe me, like I said, I'm a non-dipping dipper right now. I hadn't had one in 25 years. Yeah, good. Congratulations. If you put one over me right now, I'd be like, hmm. I dream about smoking. I dream about it.

I'll dream that I smoked a pack and I'll go, shit. I forgot I quit smoking. Then I'll wake up in a cold sweat going, thank God, that was just a dream. Yes. I have a lot of those. Thank God that was just a dream moment. Hey, we've got a good one from Labyrinth. Mystic.

Yeah, I see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he said, you said it right. I leave the spelling on purpose so people can say it how they think. B.YB figured it out. Advice for Bursitis in the left shoulder. Yeah, let's talk about that because I have bursitis in my right shoulders. Go ahead.

Well, first of all. Talk about what a bursa is first. The bursa is just a little fluid-filled sack that helps to protect the, usually the end of a bone. But there are attachments to bursts, which is where the problem usually occurs, tenderness attachments. Right. As a general role. Well, think of it like the elbow and the shoulder. They have, as Scott said, these fluid-filled sacks, but they're potential spaces.

Usually the two, just think of a Ziploc bag and you put a little bit of olive oil or. other neutral oil into the thing and then shut it. But get all the air out of it. And so you've got this potential space there that's got lubricant in it. And you can move the two pieces, the top and the bottom surface of the Ziploc against itself. And it's almost frictionless. And that's really what a burst is. So that'll wrap around joints that bend a lot.

Yeah, where there needs to be motion. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of times what you get is. with a golf ball on the end of their elbow, that's an elycronon bursitis. And don't let anybody stick a needle in those. It gets infected.

It's a mass. I was going to say, well, go ahead. We'll talk about this a second because that could be a real tricky. But not that way. Yeah, that can be a real tricky one there. Yeah. But anyway, he's got shoulder bursitis. Yeah, so shoulder bursitis.

So what typically happens with bursitis anywhere of bursaids, you can get on your knee. You know, we see it a lot on knees. We see it a lot on the hips. We see it a lot in the shoulders and a lot in elbows. And those are really the four main place. We see bursitises. The hip is the outside. It's the greater trochanter.

And you can feel that if you're sitting and that bone that just sticks out right above your ass. That's the trocanterer or the greater trochanter. And it's got a bursa over it. But anyway, go ahead. So with any of those burses, their locations are really problematic. So the first thing I tell somebody, if you have bursitis on your left shoulder, try not sleeping on your left shoulder for, you know, to irritate it. But the other thing is what we, the old school was to put a steroid shot in there directly

in the burst and they're kind of getting away from that. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That works so well, though. Oh, I don't know, man, I don't know. But what you can do, what you can do is first I teach really a real quick anatomy course. The muscles are in a middle tendons are on each side and those tendons attach to the bones and which affect the bursts.

So what we like to do is take the tension off the muscle. take the tension off the tendons, and that'll take the friction, tension off the friction of the bursa. How do you do that? Well, a couple ways you can do, you can obviously do acupunctions. Of course. Well, but it's true. It's true.

It's true. It's true. You can do trigger points and the muscles. Just quite anemalesome. You know, we mentioned before Bupivocaine, I'm latikane, any of those. You mean just to relax the muscles? Just to relax the muscles. Yeah, not a steroid.

No, because the steroids, when you do an injection, of steroids, the needles are kind of thick and there's research to show it. Trigger points, trigger points over time can cause more clarification in muscle. Anyway, get back to the Bursitis. You can use heat.

You know, a heat pad on the burst sites will help, you know. You know, an ice on a bursa will help. But, you know, really identifying what movement is making that burstitis. Heat will relax the muscle. Light it up. But the cold is a anti-inflammatory so heat followed by cold yeah well to certainly if it's really

acute maybe ice or maybe if you're really having trouble going to sleep maybe eyes but what we like is the heat to increase the movement and blood flow and blood flow to try to get the restriction off of that joint yeah which takes the tension off the burst ultimately now the ice will give you quicker quicker response but the but the heat likes to help kind of heal it which is what you want to do so yeah well really give you the the quicker response is come see me and I'll stick a needle in there with some steroid. Hey, but seriously, figure out what causes the pain first and stop that.

So if, you know, Doc, it hurts when I do this. Quick, do doing that. Yeah, do something else. But try not to sleep on. Try some gentle stretches, just passive stretches. And usually that'll go away. Now, but let's talk about a topical anti-inflammatory. Oh, yeah, sure, sure.

I mean, anything like an arboration. Anything like an Arnica or, you know, Tiger Balm, Icey Hot, a lot of these things. Volterin. Voltairean is a prescription, anti-inflammatory, and it can actually work extremely well, too. So any of these things can work extremely well. So topicals can work for Bursitis. Okay. Yeah, pretty common, pretty common stuff.

It can really be painful. So really quick, go back to the oligranan and bursitis, we were talking about just a second ago. If you get that big egg on your elbow, that's typically from a trauma. Right. It's usually people leaning on there. If you get that and it's swollen, you get fluid inside and it gets red, don't let anybody stick a needle in there. That's either a treatment by a surgeon.

They actually have to go in and open it up and remove the bursa. Right. Or you treat it very conservatively. Correct. Heat packs, ice packs, anti-inflammatories, compression, yeah. Yeah, anti-inflammatories. Voltaireen is a great one for that one. Okay.

But, yeah, just to, yeah, don't mess around with those. Don't anybody stick a needle in it. Because it's tempting to. It is. You want to, because you think you can help with arthritis. Absolutely. Yeah, orthopedis will tell you, don't touch it. And I'm with those guys.

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T-bone car accident thrown in driver door muscle impingement is the pain I'm dealing with as a truck driver I do sleep on my left shoulder Yeah Try out of the right shoulder

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All right, let's do this one. Here's another one for, this is Dr. Scott's show today. Oh, my. So let's see here. Hello, gentlemen, the food family. I hope you all are doing good. I got a question.

I don't think you've ever addressed or been asked on here yet. Arthritis. Yep. I'm getting arthritis. I believe it is about right hand. my pointing finger, and it extends all the way back to my wrist, including just that one line through the back of my hand.

Then I need to change for what would be the best force of action to try to get this under control. Number one thing. Don't say yes. Which finger is index finger? We'll end of the index here. Yeah. You have three minutes and seven seconds.

Yes. Again, it could be dietary. Certainly can be dietary. Dietary. What are you talking about? Absolutely. Absolutely. You can, arthritis can be

worsened with poor diets. Well, that's true. From him. The other thing is change your finger and put your mouse on the other side. Yeah. That'll help because if it's his index, he's probably using that.

Or as, if he's like some kind of a trigger finger. He wants to fix it. So there's several types of arthritis. There's an inflammatory arthritis. A good example of that is rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis where the body is actively attacking the joints. Autoimmune disorders, yeah.

And then there's, you know, osteoarthritis, which is just degenerative. So what do you think about glucosamine? Mixed reviews. I don't think it's going to hurt you. You can try it. Glucosamine sulfate by itself without all the other stupid crap. And there's some data that shows that it's at least as good as ibuprofen with fewer adverse effects, so worth doing. Tuberic?

Tumric, sure, is a cox-2 inhibitor, just like ibuprofen. is, but it comes with all the same problems that those drugs have. You could go to a compounding pharmacy and get a topical arthritis gel that actually penetrates the skin and will relieve some of that pain. The other thing you can do is go to physical therapy. But unfortunately, once the degeneration starts, it's difficult to reverse it. but you can relieve the symptoms of the pain. And movement's king. Got to keep it moving.

Yep. The more you give to it, unless you move it, the more it's going to stiffen up, the worse going to feel. Let's see here. Dr. Steve, I've been a member of the Fluid family for over a year, but when I try and view some content, it takes me to Patreon.

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