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Delusion. I am too smart. I am too smart. I am too smart. I am too smart. It's the Marty. You see? You see? You're stupid minds. Stupid. Stupid. If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of Weird Medicine on Sirius XM 103 and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez, you would have thought that this guy was a bit of a, you know, a clown. Why?
You give me the respect that I'm entitled to! I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Ebola virus dripping from my nose. Up the leprosy of the heart valve, exacerbating my incredible woes. I want to take my brain out and blast it with the wave, an ultrasonic, echographic, and a pulsitating shave. I want a magic pill for all my ailments, the health equivalent of Citizen Kane. Now in the tablet.
I want to requiem for my disease, so I'm paging. From the world-famous Cardiff Electric Network Studios in beautiful downtown OJ City. It's Weird Medicine, the first and still only uncensored medical show on the History Broadcast Radio.
Now a podcast, soon to exclusively be a podcast. I'm Dr. Steve with my little pal, Dr. Scott, the traditional Chinese medicine provider. Gives me street cred to whack alternative medicine assholes. Hello, Dr. Scott. Hey, Dr. Steve. This is a show for people who never listen to medical show on the radio or the internet. If you've got a question you're embarrassed to take, you can look at the medical provider.com.
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And they have the Rody Coach that will teach you how to play your instrument or check your pitch when you're singing. I think it does that, too. Oh, my. Or you can get the Rody Robotic Tuner for bass or mandolin, guitar, whatever. And they're not as expensive as you would think they would be. So check that out. Rody.DrSteve.com. Check out Dr. Scott's website at SimplyHerbals.net. Check out our Patreon. That's going to become a lot more active.
Now that we're transitioning out of the SiriusXM mold. So patreon.com slash weirdmedicine. Lots of content there that you cannot get anywhere else. And we've got a nice community in there. And I've dropped the price on everything. We used to have a $5, $10, $20, $100 tier. It's just one tier, $3, that's it. Okay. And I just want people to have access to stuff. And the nice thing about Patreon is...
When I die, the Patreon keeps going, whereas if I die and I'm not paying my fee at Megaphone, all the podcasts go away. Oh, wow. So I think Patreon's going to be where the archive will be. And then I'll drop the...
You know, I'll make everything free at some point if I have any warning. Not that anybody want to listen to it. Maybe, you know, maybe my kids want to listen to it later on when they're older. Cameo.com slash weird medicine. I'll say fluid to your mama. Don't forget Dr. Scott's website. It's simplyherbals.net. That's simplyherbals.net where you can get the world's greatest CBD peppermint oil nasal rinse.
And people think that sounds crazy, but it's brilliant. It's the good stuff. Yeah. I use it every day. Especially this time of year, homie, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's great. So check that out. It's simplyherbals.net. And then check me out adjacently on Normal World with Dave Lando. I just did one on Aspen.
And I've got one on blue balls coming. No. And then the next one is, ah, shit, I don't remember what it is. It's got to be something to do with penises or. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I don't know what it's in. It's ejaculation adjacent, if I remember correctly. Oh, my. I don't remember. The blue balls one is good, though. Oh, I'll bet. And maybe that's the one. Maybe that's it. And then the next one I'm doing is, now I don't remember.
I'm doing one on penis enlargement, which we've done on this show multiple times. And spoiler alert, it doesn't work. There is a technique where you have these, what are they called, where you twist the...
You twist the barrel and it makes it longer. Telescoping? Well, it's kind of telescoping, but it's like a latchcock or something like that. I can't remember. But anyway, I'll look it up before I do it. But you have this thing that looks, it's got Velcro on the base and right under the glands, the Roman war helmet. And then there are these rigid...
poles that have threads on them and you can twist them to make the distance greater between the base and the top of this thing. And that does work. It will enlarge. They use it for people with Peyronie's disease sometimes to try to straighten out the penis. Okay.
And they will use it for penis enlargement. But the only statistically significant increase in length is about a quarter of an inch. So it's not worth it. No, not with a discomfort. And women will tell you, and we actually have a woman in the chat room, a girl. A girl, a real girl. Yeah.
Hello, Amanda. But most women will tell you, and I don't know if they're lying or to make people feel better or if they really mean this, that it's not the length, it's the girth. So it's easy to...
To make penises more girthy, you can do it by just wearing a sheath. There are plastic surgery things that you can do that I do not recommend where they take hyaluronic acid like they plump lips up with. They'll apply it circumferentially around the penis to make like ribs. Oh, my. So now your whole shaft is ribbed for her pleasure instead of just having a ribbed condom.
And, yeah, so there are things that you can do. I'm not recommending that, by the way. I've seen a lot of adverse events from that. But girthy is easier than length. Yes. Oh, man. All right. And, Amanda, that is good news. I'm not going to repeat what she said because I don't know how much of it is. But whatever. I'm glad to hear you're doing good. Great news. All right. Now.
Well, you got any topics for today? I don't know. I got another email about this RFK thing, and I'm going to make it very clear. I'm speaking in a very nuanced fashion when I say things like, you know, vitamin A that he was taking.
actually has data to show it, just the same way that when the I word was being vilified, and not incorrectly so for a lot of reasons, but it was somebody asked us, were these people just assholes? Are they just making it up? It's like, no, there's actual data that shows that the I word has value.
antiviral properties. It's got lots of different, you know, yes, it's anti-parasitic, but it can have other effects as well, just like aspirin is good for a sprained ankle, but also prevents heart attack and stroke, two completely different things. And so what I'm saying is that when people
go, oh, you know, RFK, he just, you know, promotes vitamin A for measles. It's like, well, there is a reason for that, that it does prevent death in severe cases of measles. But if I can say this again so that it's clear, if he's promoting using that instead of the vaccine, which I've never heard him say when it comes to that vaccine, that
But if he is, then that's bullshit. But if he isn't, this is just a nuanced conversation that, yes, there is data that vitamin A is very effective in helping to prevent serious complications in kids who have a serious case of measles. He's not crazy about that. If he's promoting that as an alternative to the vaccine, I don't agree with that. We have said a million times.
times on this show that, you know, I had a friend who died in kindergarten from measles. I am a huge measles vaccine proponent for people. Now, if you have a contraindication, that's different. Yeah.
I totally understand that. And there are some people who have a religious conviction because if they're testing these things using fetal cell lines and you're against that, I guess I get that. The way to fix that is stop using fetal cell lines in the testing of these. And that takes away that argument. But –
You know, the measles vaccine is one of the greatest things that ever happened to this country because there are lots of people in this world who die from measles, but not here because we are almost universally vaccinated. I've also made the argument where people say, oh, well, there's more harm from the vaccine than there is from measles right now. And that's yes, that is absolutely true. When you have zero measles, which we had for a while. Right.
in this country, then, of course, the vaccine is going to have more adverse events because those are actual events. You're not going to have any adverse events from something that doesn't happen. So, yes, I'm
I am not a fan of quackery, but I'm also not a fan of just knee-jerk saying somebody's wrong just because of who they are. Agreed. And the problem with...
But RFK is he does say some things that are I think are demonstrably incorrect. And then he says other things that are absolutely 100 percent on the money. This business with the petroleum food dies. I can't believe this went on as far as long as it did. No, it's crazy. Yeah. So I'm glad of that. But somebody pasted or posted a picture of Froot Loops in Europe and Froot Loops in the United States. And the ones in the United States definitely look better.
But we can get used to dull colors on our Froot Loops. Yeah, it's called throwing in a blueberry or two or maybe a raspberry or two. Correct. Yeah, just do that. They'll give some color. Yeah. How about just eat the fruit instead of eating cereal that's painted like fruit, right? Oh, for God's sakes, people. Yeah, it's like the fish oil thing. They found that people who ate more fish—
Had fewer heart attacks and strokes. So what do we do in this country? We take fish and we put them in a big vat and render them down to their essential oil and then take the oil, you know, the pill and figure we can do whatever the fuck we want. So I know I if if anybody misunderstood me, I want to make sure I'm very clear, particularly about this, that I'm interested in the science and.
And I think that we had a pretty good record during COVID of not, you know, doing anything but the science. Did we get misled by some stuff that we were told? Abso-fucking-lutely, we did. Did COVID take a different trajectory than we thought it might? Absolutely, we did. But I think we were pretty science-oriented people.
Even, you know, Bollinger, who invented the Bollinger Band, said this is a cool application of my technique, you know, which is used for stock market. But I was tracking the virus, you know, using stock market technical analysis.
And, you know, it was that part was interesting. And the fact that there's still sides and all of this just really kind of, you know, it's it's bothers me. It's hard to believe I am interested in the science. I do think that in this country, we I think someone like RFK, even if he's got some dopey ideas about some things, we got to do something different. Yes.
You know, it's like the education department. That's hell. You know, but we're not doing something. We're doing something wrong. So maybe it takes, you know, somebody that's got some different ideas when I say different in quotes to just shake things up. All right. So that's the last I'm going to say about it.
measles vaccine, everyone should get it unless there's a compelling reason not to. And yes, if your kid gets measles, then they're probably going to prescribe vitamin A because that part's not crazy. Yeah. Okay. All right. I just keep saying it wrong because I keep getting emails about it. I'm not saying it right. And I don't know any other way to say it. And you know as well as I do, sometimes you just hear what you want to hear. I don't know. I
I don't know. I think the people who are emailing me are emailing in good faith. I just think we're talking past each other. Yeah, it could be. All right. You want to answer some questions? Yeah, let's give it a shot. One thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. That's the other thing I've been getting is stop doing all this stuff and talk about and answer questions because that's what you're good at. So the last several shows I've been trying to just answer questions. Anyway.
Oh, yeah. Dr. Scott and I were just talking about that. I think there was a time when we did
Serious XM show every Saturday, and then every three weeks we would do three 30-minute Weird Medicine podcasts, and they were completely different. Mm-hmm.
And that's what we're going to go back to. We're going to get together maybe once a month, do three shows where we just answer questions and maybe a topic or two. And then but mostly answering questions and then we'll release them every 10 days or something like that. And if we get a fourth show in even better, that'll be the podcast. Then we'll do after we do that, we'll do a live stream.
and then I'm still going to be doing my sort of one-off documentary-style stuff. That'll be fun. So, yeah, I think it'll be good. All right. Thank you. Listen to your show. Oh, also, it turns out I am going to Hackamania after all. Oh, yeah, we got to get to that, don't we? Yeah, well, let's talk about it now while I'm thinking about it. So I...
Said last week it just wasn't going to happen because it was on Liam's birthday. Well, part of the problem was my show was at 3 p.m. on Saturday, so I couldn't go to a 10 a.m. graduation in Tennessee and be in Las Vegas by 3 p.m. This is not physically possible.
So I did that, and then I get this email from Mr. Melton saying, I wish that you had asked me first because now people are saying because you're pulling out that the whole thing is failing. I'm saying nobody would think that. They're just making that up because no one's going to think that because I pulled out that the whole thing is failing. They're just saying shit.
Anyway, I did see the tweets that he was talking about. And so he said, well, let's just do this. Let's move your show to let's do a midnight show. And you can we had two things we were going to do. Either I was going to come.
Wednesday and do my show on Friday and leave Friday night, which would get me into Nashville at 5, and then we were going to rent a Cessna to get me here in time. But he underestimated how much that was going to cost. So we decided instead what I'm going to do is go to Liam's graduation. Summa cum laude, by the way. Hooray. Thank you.
And I also, I really appreciate everyone's support of that decision. I got 100% of people were like, yep, family comes first. You got to do this. So, but anyway, Melton said what we'll do is we'll move your show from 3 o'clock to like 1030 after everything else is already done. Cool. And I'll just, it'd be kind of like an annex or a midnight show. The icing on top of the cake. Yeah, there you go. So, yeah. So I'm going to fly out from...
Asheville at 315. The graduation's at 10. Gives me plenty of time to see him graduate and then get up the road and then get to Las Vegas by 6 would give me plenty of time to get ready for a show at 1030 Vegas time.
Right on. Which is one 30-hour time. I am an old man. You're not a spring chicken. That's going to be late. That's going to be late. I was running rings around those guys last time. They were like, we're tired. I'm like, no, we're going to keep going. So anyway. All right. So that's the story on that. So thank you all for the support. And thank Mr. Melton for figuring out a way that I can still go.
So it would be a very abbreviated trip. What's good about it is I probably won't be spending as much money gambling as I would have. So that's good. That is good. If I had a couple of free days to myself, I was already contemplating calling the bank and increasing my ATM withdrawal limit for the week. But anyway. Oh, my God.
Here we go. Oh, I heard the word ejaculation. Let me run that back. Interesting. Hmm.
Yeah. So what he's doing, I believe what he's doing here is clamping off the head of his penis when he's ejaculating and forcing himself. There are people that do this where they'll force the semen back into the bladder through the magic of hydrostatic, you know, or fluidics because the path of least resistance then becomes into the bladder rather than out into the real world.
And for him, it increases his pleasure. I know some people have what we call anesthetic ejaculations where they know they're ejaculating, but they don't really get the orgasm. And he's getting that from this. And honestly, I don't know if this is a good thing. I'd like to have a urologist on here, but I guarantee most of them don't know the answer. But when you force retrograde ejaculation...
What you're doing is opening up that sphincter to go the wrong way, the sphincter outside the bladder. So there's this sphincter that closes off. That's why when you've got a giant erection, it's very hard to – or it may be impossible to void your bladder. And that's because from an evolutionary standpoint –
You know, our species doesn't want you ejaculating inside your partner after – I'm sorry, urinating inside your partner after you've ejaculated because it would wash the semen out and therefore it would decrease the odds that you're going to actually impregnate somebody because remember, that is why sex was invented. I mean we tend to enjoy it without regard to its original purpose but that's what it is. Yeah.
Now, most health care providers do not recommend forcing retrograde ejaculation, but I don't know that they've got data to, you know, to prove that, you know. But anyway, so I just looked this up and really found nothing. So, yeah.
The question is whether forcing it increases the odds that you will always have retrograde ejaculation. I think outside the certain medications and diabetes and a couple other things like that, I don't think there's a huge risk for that, but I don't have data to back that up. Do you have any? Never. I mean, all I know is, like you said, the medications that cause retrograde ejaculation and the restrictions, but I don't know about it.
wearing out that valve. Yeah, it just says here, ejaculation after masturbation is important. Stopping the ejaculation by covering the end of the penis with the finger or thumb can cause retrograde ejaculation, which means semen travels back up the urethra, can be forced up the tube that leads to the bladder or the prostate gland. In either case, there may be pain and discharge from the penis, but this guy says it's all pleasurable. Yeah.
So there you go. So I don't – you know, there's a lot of opinion out there that I can find, but I can't find any data. It is hard to fund that study if you think about it. You know, how are you going to get funding for that? Well, we're going to have a bunch of guys jack off and then clamp the end of their penis, and then we're going to see if they do it 100 times, does it increase the risk of retrograde ejaculation or other medical problems. Yeah, I'm not sure they're going to fund that. Now, having semen in your bladder is a really good –
Culture medium. Yes. Just like having sugar in your bladder is as well. So I'm you know, that could be something, you know. But anyway, I don't like that. I'm just speculating, to be honest with you. This is interesting, though.
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Hi, Dr. Steve. This is Phil from Tampa. Dr. Scott and anyone else there today, I hope you're having a great day. I'm calling because I was recently having a conversation with a friend from college and we were catching up and talking about all the dumb shit you do in college. And he told me, I guess he went on a binge and did...
a shitload of cocaine and like i guess he was just having a good time and granted this was not the 80s this was like 2007 and um i guess he just went on a bender for like months and he was doing it all the time and and it was just shocking to me because i've always had this preconceived notion that drugs like coke or heroin or meth you know um
they can get you like they'll they'll kill you and to be honest I've never really done anything stronger than than weed but so I don't understand like how that would even work and I'm just curious like if you were to take this is going to sound like I'm asking because I want to I don't want to but I'm just curious like
If you take Coke or heroin or do one of those hard drugs once, can you, is it like you're rolling the dice every time you take it? Could you do it once? Could you do it a hundred times each time there's a chance that you could die from it? Is the only death induced by overdose? Like we have such a drug issue in this country and I know people get hooked on these things and they do it for years, but I'm just curious if that's how it works or if that's. Yeah, it's a,
It depends. That's the answer. If you're buying heroin off the streets in the age of fentanyl, which is dosed in microgram amounts, which means a brick is
Let's just say, okay, well, let's figure it out, Dr. Scott. Let's do some cyphers. Some cyphers, some gazintas. Yeah, your gazintas. Do you know your gazintas, everybody? Three gazintas, nine, three times. Thrust. Thrust. Let's figure this out. So let's say for an opioid naive person.
That taking 100 milligrams of oral morphine, that'd be the equivalent of 10 Lortab 10s, would probably cause some problems, don't you think? You want to go to 15? We'll go 15. So that'd be 150 milligrams times. And now fentanyl is dosed weird. So IV fentanyl would be if people are going to shoot up, let's say they're going to shoot up.
So it would be times 100 micrograms divided by 30 milligrams. So we're canceling the oral morphine units, and that's 500 micrograms. Now, a kilo has 2,000 grams in it.
No, I'm sorry. 1,000 grams is a kilogram. Duh. Kilogram. 1,000 grams is 2.2 pounds. Okay. Yeah. So how many 500 micrograms is in 1,000 grams? I think I might have to ask. I don't want to sound stupid. She's not working. Is she not working? No, she's got the yellow ring of death on her. Oh, okay. Well, all right. I'll ask Google then. So how many 500 microgram in 1,000 grams? Okay. Okay.
All right. And let's see here. It's going to be a lot. Yeah. So convert from micrograms to grams. Okay. Well, we can do that. So 500 micrograms. Okay. Get ready. You got your calculator out? I can. Okay. Is he ready? Ready. Calculator. So it's 1,000 divided by .0005.
it's gonna be a lot two million yeah so they're one kilogram yeah
Of fentanyl, 2.2 pounds. It's got how many? Two million? Two million. Two million potentially lethal doses for an opioid-naive person. So let's just say if someone's opioid-tolerant, it's a million. And you have people, and look, no offense to the drug dealers out there, but many of them are not Rhodes Scholars. And when they're cutting drugs,
or making whatever they're making, their packets of white powder, and they just go, okay, well, you know, let's put another couple spoonfuls of this fentanyl in there. Then when you get that little packet, it doesn't have the microgram amount of fentanyl printed on it. So, yeah, that is a crapshoot because every once in a while –
We'll have people who will use it one time and they die because they've been overdosed by a dealer that didn't know how to stop on it or they didn't know how to dose it given what they bought.
You know, that reminds me of Len Bias. Yeah, Len Bias was cocaine death. And my understanding was maybe he had never even done it before. Right, did it one time and it stopped his heart. You know, they're going to say, well, it's Len Bias. We're going to get him the good stuff. He would have been better off if they'd gotten him the shite. The old cheapo stuff. I'm looking here. Another one. We discovered an issue with a drug called Opana.
And this was actually reported by our group as we were seeing people come in with kidney failure and a thing called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, which doesn't matter what it is, but it's a blood disorder where, you know, they bleed and have bruises everywhere and all this stuff. And it was caused by something in the branded version of this drug called Opana that they were using.
selling in a town nearby, crushing it up, shooting it up, and then coming into the hospital like that. And we noticed a pattern of people coming in with these two things. And when we asked them, they were shooting up this drug. And so that was one of the reasons why the branded version was taken off the market, because there was something in it that did this to people. If they shot it up, if they used it as prescribed, not a problem. Right.
But anyway, I'm looking at this is NIH.gov, U.S. overdose deaths for select drugs or drug categories. And it only goes up to 2022. But the number one is synthetic opioids other than methadone. And that is means fentanyl. And it is huge. Almost 80,000 drug deaths in the United States now between it and the next highest thing.
is this huge gap. It's almost half. So maybe 25,000 were psychostimulants, and that would be methamphetamine. And then you drop down to cocaine is around, well, maybe the psychostimulants with 25,000, cocaine with 20,000. And then prescription opioids are
way, way, way down the list at about 8,000. Now, why is that? Well, because they're marked and people know how much they're taking. And I hate to say that they're, quote, unquote, safer to abuse, but at least you know what you're getting most of the time. And much more expensive, though, too. Correct. And there's knockoff versions of them now that actually are fentanyl, little pills of fentanyl that are stamped like they're oxycodone. Yep.
And then heroin is way down there. And then antidepressants are at the very bottom of the list because antidepressants were zero. Then in 2016, 2017, 2018 were high at around 5,000 to 7,000. And now they're back to zero again. So there you go. So it is – the answer is, is it a crapshoot every time you – it's a crapshoot every time you cross the street. Yeah.
So, yes, it is. But the odds are lower of dying from certain things than others. But, you know, I'm not saying that to encourage anybody to use them. It's just the fact. Okay. All right.
Dr. Steve? Dr. Steve? Dr. Steve? You'll never guess in a million years, buddy. You will never guess in a million years. And it's not the name that's appearing on it. I'm using his phone. He says hello. He said call you, wanted to risk you about whatever the thing was you celebrated. I don't know what the hell. You went out there and you got your award and babbity babbity babbity. You came back and you were a better person for having done whatever the hell you was.
that you did. I just want to congratulate you. Hang on a minute.
Sorry. Go ahead. Oh, that thing you had. That's great. Anyway, cutting back to you, a couple of important matters I'd like to discuss with you. You've got time to listen. I hope your machine, maybe five minutes. I could probably get it all out in a period of time. Oh, my God, no. And I really appreciate you listening. You've got 30 seconds, bro. I'm trying to keep some notes. Anyway, I don't want to come back and have to do this again because it's all in my heart and I'm feeling emotional. Okay. All right. Moving on.
Thank you, my friend. Appreciate the kind words. All right. Dr. Steve. Yes. Got a question. My wife's pregnant with twins right now. Okay. We're doing these breastfeeding classes. Excellent. And one of the lactation consultants said that she's breastfed her kids past the age of two years old. Okay. Where do you draw the line when it's okay to actually go straight to breast with breastfeeding? Yeah, I don't... Listen, everybody's different. In some countries...
where you have the kid on a sling and you do on-demand feeding, that actually is a form of birth control. It prevents those women from ovulating.
And that's why they're not having 20 kids. They might have three or four, if that. But that's because they breastfeed. They have the kid on a sling, and they can just feed whenever they want to. And that nipple stimulation and the milk letdown will prevent the woman from getting pregnant. She can have intercourse.
And, you know, with this baby there. And, you know, as long as she makes sure that she lets the baby feed right afterward. And it is a form of birth control. Now, I have no problem. Listen, I'm a huge fan of breastfeeding society. You know, back in the 50s, it was like, ew, gross. We're not doing that. So that's when formula came out. And formula was great.
to middle-class housewives at that time that was less gross than that nasty breastfeeding. And fortunately, we've gotten away from that. I'll just tell you the story once again of my son Beck, who would be dead today or severely asthmatic or debilitated if Tacey had not been breastfeeding. And she gave him the virus, which was RSV,
But then she saved his life because of it. Because when he went in, he had a fever of 105 at five days old.
And the nurses and they were saying, you know, we got to tell you, we don't know if he's going to make it. And if he does make it, he's going to be – Possibly brain damaged. Or, well, lung damaged. You know, he'll have asthma and emphysema the rest of his life and all this stuff. Well, she continued to breastfeed him. And, of course, she had the antibodies. Her body was developing. He just sailed right through. He's totally fine. Totally fine.
100% fine, and it blew their minds. But they didn't realize, and she probably had RSV before, so the breast milk probably would have still helped, but the fact that her immune system was revving up and producing all these IgA antibodies, that's what those are in the breast milk. And
Yeah. Kid surprised everybody. Then the next thing he got was rotavirus and had to be put in the hospital. And I remember sitting there with him and he was on my lap. And all of a sudden I feel this warmth and I pick him up and there's just liquid shit pouring out of the hole in his diaper that they put when they put a wee bag on there to see if he had a urinary tract infection. Oh, man. And so it was just pouring out everywhere all over me.
me all over the floor and the room smelled so bad that they tried to I tried to clean it they tried to clean it they just had to bring in an air freshener and just hang it in there it was so bad yeah that was the same the same night that um Tacey had it too it was Norwalk virus is what it was not rotavirus and uh
She was holding Beck, and he puked on her, and then she puked on him. And I'm like, what hell? What circle of hell? So I gave her some medicine, took him to the hospital because he was getting dehydrated. How old was he? He was little on that one, too. I mean, he's still in a diaper, and he was not speaking yet. So, you know.
He couldn't tell me, hey, dad, I'm getting ready to shit all over you. The way he is right now, he was probably four weeks old at that time. He wasn't talking yet. Yeah, right, right. He is very brilliant. He is something else. But anyway, yeah, so look, if you want to breastfeed your kid until they're two, I've seen people breastfeeding their kid when they were able to breastfeed.
run up to the mother and grab, you know, grab her and stick their head under her shirt and start breastfeeding. And that's like a four-year-old. To me, I don't know. I don't get that. But if you're into that and you're, you know, you're fine with it, I don't have a problem with it. It's good for, it is good for the kid. I also think that
If the kid's in kindergarten, they're just going to get – they're going to be made fun of pretty bad if they're still breastfeeding in kindergarten. So when it gets to the point where the kid is going to suffer because of society, the woman should not care if people go, oh, she's breastfeeding. It's none of their business.
And particularly on-demand feeding, you have to do it on demand. So you're going to be breastfeeding in public unless you're a hermit. So it's just the way it is. So if you think it's gross or whatever, avert your eyes. This is how we became human beings for hundreds of thousands of years. So it's a time-honored tradition. So you all do whatever you want. But I'm glad you're going to breastfeeding class today.
Do it even for a little while. If you could just do it for a little while, the kid gets the benefit out of it. All right. Mm-hmm. All right. I don't know what this is. Pirate ship. I don't know what this is. Good afternoon. It's summer, so the kids and I have been hitting up
several fairs and amusement parks. One of our favorites is the pirate ship. You all know it. It's the giant pendulum. Oh, yeah. It just goes back and forth. You sit on it. You get a few seconds of free fall, and then you...
go the other direction, and then you get a few seconds of free fall again, and it's super fun, but it makes your stomach have this weird feeling of free fall that it's hard to explain. It feels good, but it also doesn't. And what is that? Is that just the fluid inside your stomach sloshing around and touching parts of your stomach that is not normally interacting with your stomach properly?
Or is it just something else? My daughter really wants to know. Thanks, bye. Yeah, it's all of the above. It's called stomach drop. And you experience it during roller coaster drops, other rapid decelerations, free fall. Katy Perry and them did experience this as well. And it's just caused by sudden shift and movement of organs inside the body. That's all it is. And the ones...
Like the heart, it's got nowhere to go. Lung's got nowhere to go. But the stomach and intestines are very loosely suspended. And as a matter of fact, the small intestine is suspended on a thing called the omentum, which is – no, that's not right. It's a big old fascia. Yeah, yeah. It's just kind of a stalk. It comes from the retroperitoneum.
But so it's just think of it as being suspended from behind. Right.
And so when they move, you're just going to feel it, and it feels weird. And there's lots of fluid in there to be moving. Yes, correct. And lots of nerve endings to be firing. Yep. And those nerve endings aren't used to firing in those particular ways, too. And the nervous system interprets that as sinking, and so it's sending a kind of an alarm signal to the brain. Yeah. And some people like it, though. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
You know, skydiving, they have transitioned from the plane to free fall. It's really kind of more gradual because the body's already moving forward. So there's less of a sudden shift and more of a floating weightless feeling when they do it. And there is the friction of the air as well.
But I love that pirate thing. Have you ever seen like Google or go on YouTube and there are some really unsafe pirate. Oh, no. Things in other countries. Oh, no.
And I have seen people on there where they're just people are puking or falling out and stuff like that. Because they don't have seatbelts and stuff. You just jump on it and find a place. But do you think that if someone wanted to ride the ride but didn't want the feeling they could do, you know, the kind of abdominal tightening stuff like they tell you to do if you're going up in a plane for G? Sure. To battle the G forces maybe? Yeah. Possibly. It might help. Yep.
Yeah. Tell me tight. You know, there's this whole relativity thing where you're not moving with respect to the thing. The thing is, you know, of the boat or whatever the roller coaster is. But you are moving with respect to the earth. Yes. And that's, you know, it is. And that's what causes that. I would really like to do...
The vomit comment, I think that'd be awesome, where they get on the plane, they do a parabolic curve up, and then you're weightless for a certain period of time. And that was the one criticism that Katy Perry and them got was, oh, they weren't really weightless. Yeah, they were. They were in free fall. That counts. That's all.
When you're in orbit, you're not escaping Earth's gravity. You are still captive to Earth's gravity. It's just that you're in free fall and you keep missing the Earth, a perfect orbit that
falls toward the Earth, but it's going forward so fast that it keeps missing it. And, you know, but the gravity is what's keeping you in orbit. And if you had a space elevator that went as high as, well, the eventual space elevators will be as high as 22,000 feet because they've got to be in geosynchronous orbit, right? So if you went up as high as, say, the space shuttle, which is
in zero gravity because they're weightless. But if you were on a space elevator and you stepped off of that, you're going to fall straight down to the ground. Yeah, yeah. You will still feel gravity. It just won't be as strong. But I don't know if it'd even be perceptibly different at, you know, 100 miles up, right? Another way to prove that is there are people that have jumped out of planes at 100,000 feet and
Which you can see the curvature of the earth and all that stuff, but they fall straight down. Yeah. Gosh. Sounds like a terrible idea. Yeah. It's wild. That's crazy. It looks amazing. Oh, my. Oh, my. They go up on a balloon and then they just jump out.
But anyway, so it is exactly what Katy Perry and them experienced is the same microgravity that everybody else does when they're in orbit. It's just that it was it's free fall without being in orbit. So it's they're falling. And so, you know, with respect to the Earth, they're in free fall. Einstein said someone in an elevator that's in free fall is
Or, you know, let's put it this way. Someone that's accelerating at 10 meters per second per second in space would be unable to say that they were not in a gravitational field. It's called the equivalence principle. So they were basically in an elevator that was in free fall all the way down until it wasn't, you know, until the parachute opened.
And it's the same. It's exactly the same as being in orbit. Yeah. Okay? Because they're just in free fall. That's all it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. They just have enough forward velocity so that they are falling off the edge of the Earth at every –
every inch of the way. So that criticism is bullshit. Everything else you want to criticize about that Blue Origin flight, 100%. But would I like to do it? Hell yeah, I'd like to do it. For three minutes of free fall? Hell no.
I mean, I went all the way to Dallas to see four minutes of the eclipse. So it would be, and that seemed like a long time. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty cool. Oh, my gosh. It's funny. Yeah. But I wouldn't come out there going, I'm an astronaut. No, no. Even William Chatner didn't say that. He just said it was amazing and was so grateful for it. Anyway. Yeah. All right. All right.
We've got a quick question if you want one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, hey, from the Fluid family. Oh, excellent. Lincoln is wanting to know what are some early signs of liver and pancreatic diseases? Go ahead. So a couple things that you might,
have early on would be abdominal pain, sometimes bloating, swelling. Pancreatic disease for sure. Pancreatic, yeah, unless... Does he have a reason for asking? Because that might be helpful to us. He did not, he didn't say, he just said besides itchiness, which itchiness is another thing that can occur. That's usually caused by jaundice and the bilirubin that is in your, now all of a sudden in your bloodstream at a higher level.
levels than it should be, will stain the skin, will stain your eyes, and it causes itching because it stimulates these what we call peripheral mu opioid receptors out in the skin. And when you stimulate those, one of the things that will happen is you get itching.
And that's why if we have someone that doesn't have pain with this, we can put them on a peripheral mu opioid receptor blocker like methyl naltrexone or other medications like that that will absolutely stop the itching. It's the only thing that works. In the wild. Yeah. But, yeah, when the pancreas fails, if you have just pancreatic failure, in other words, it's not –
producing the hormones it should. So there are, you know, there are hormones that it releases directly into the bloodstream, which would be insulin from the islet cells. And then there are pancreatic enzymes, which it secretes into the GI tract to help with digestion. So if that part fails, people will have chronic diarrhea. Loose stools. And with...
floating to the surface because they're having fat malabsorption. And it's just like when, when Ali, uh, wow, potato chips came out and they had a, they were fried in an indigestible oil. You could eat all you want, but then you would shit out the orange oil. And, uh, that was, you know, it was a thing, a weight loss thing for a lot of people. But, uh,
back then, but they were also shitting out essential fatty acids and stuff like that, so it wasn't that great. But that's what's happening there. And so the treatment for that would be replacing pancreatic enzymes. And so we'll get, you know, there's Creon, or there's the branded name for those, or one of the branded names. And then if the, obviously, if the pancreas is failing to produce insulin, then you're a type 1 diabetic.
Now, if you have toxic assault on the pancreas with alcohol or other toxic exposures, you can get pancreatitis. Mm-hmm.
And that could be caused by a gallstone sometimes passing through and blocking things up and causing inflammation in the pancreas. Or it could be caused by drinking, which just basically damages the pancreas. And you get inflammation in the pancreas. You'll have pain right under the sternum, right under that xiphoid process because that's where the pancreas is.
And it can be excruciating. And then you can get, if you don't stop drinking, and that's what it is, you can get chronic pancreatitis. You get pancreatic failure and chronic pain. And in those cases, sometimes the only thing they can do is remove the pancreas. Or they can do a thing called a celiac plexus block, which is where they go in with a needle through your back into the pancreas and they instill pain.
So anesthetic or alcohol, if you're going to kill the nerve, you would use alcohol. If you just want to calm it down for a while, you would use an anesthetic to just calm the nerve plexus down that feeds the pancreas. Now, the liver, you want to talk about that, like cirrhosis and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. So certainly, and it appears that he was asking, but there are alcohol reasons. Okay. So certainly, you know, a lot of...
liver trauma can come from alcohol and medications among toxic, other toxic things. But the liver will have a tendency to get some scarring and can develop some fat. Right.
And the more bound down it gets, the harder it is for it to heal and to push blood through. If you stop assaulting it, if it is alcohol and you stop assaulting it, a lot of times if it hasn't gone too far, it can regenerate. The liver can regenerate itself. Yep. It's pretty resilient. I've seen people who have donated livers or had lobes of their livers removed because of a tumor or something, and it just tends to regenerate.
the function grows back. The whole organ may not grow back, but it'll enlarge. It certainly accommodates. It accommodates, yeah, and that's the biggest thing. And there are a lot of things associated with that. Too much pressure inside there can cause a back pressure in the whole system. You can have pain. You can actually leach out fluids causing ascites. Right. Yeah, abdominal pain inside the abdominal wall. You can also, the back pressure can cause an increase in...
Pressure in the esophagus that can cause varicocities. Right. Variceal veins. Yeah. Varicose veins in the esophagus. God, I'm struggling for that word. We're both there. And that can cause bleeding and they have to go in and destroy those. Well, you can ban those. Yep. So there are a lot of...
You know, a lot of reasons to, if you're having trouble early, get, you work with it early. Well, if you've been drinking constantly for a long time, seeing a primary care provider, letting them know that's what's going on, and letting them just do some blood work, you may be able to find that these transaminases, they're enzymes that are produced in the liver that get released in the bloodstream when liver cells die.
and AST and ALT or SGOT and SGPT, they're the same thing. Those may not be that elevated, or they may be elevated, and that gives you something you can track as you stop insulting your liver with alcohol. And if you are doing that, don't take Tylenol, because Tylenol and alcohol together can cause some real problems. Tylenol in large quantities can hurt the liver, so...
So, you know, but anyway, see your primary care. And if you want to send us your lab work, we'll look at it with you. OK. But you can do it. People way less awesome than you guys are have quit drinking. So you can do it. You know, you can. You don't have to be alone, though.
All right? Mm-hmm. All right. Let's see here. Let's do this one. I think I've actually got something useful here instead of me just asking a question. Okay. But we're going to start with a question anyway. How's everybody doing? Okay. Great. We have 10 seconds. Have you ever heard of a male floor pelvic exercise? Yes. Okay. So let's talk about that. His thing is much longer than that. But there are...
People who advocate male Kegel maneuvers, that's where you just clinch your taint, basically, for ejaculatory control. Also, there are people who have male pelvic floor pain, and sometimes those exercises will help with that. Very often, the male pelvic floor pain is coming from chronic pain.
The answer to that is very pleasurable, is, you know, ejaculating more often. There you go. All right, Dr. Scott, before we get out of here, you got anything for us? Yeah, the one pun's talking about quitting smoking again. Okay. And wouldn't have started again except for all of the stress of the last two years. So I just had a question about are there any other ways to treat smoking?
Or help calm anxiety without medications. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, that's what meditation was made for. Yes. Before we had medication. I want to also recognize Darth Nugs, member for 13 months. Thank you. Thank you, my friend. Mm-hmm. I had a... My...
My screen name on Xbox was Darth Scratchy. I was figuring there had to be one Sith Lord that was just, you know, not quite up to the Sith standards. That was Darth Scratchy. But, all right. Oh, he was saying now the long-winded callers is what he was talking about. So...
Okay, where were we? Let me start with the meditation thing. Yeah, oh, right, right, right. Non-pharmacologic thing. Yes, let me start because the next thing the one pun says is might be a little too high strung for meditation. No such thing. And aren't we all? We think we are. And I like to remind people that you don't have to go live in a cave in Tibet for seven years to learn how to meditate. Correct. And actually, that's too easy. No.
The Somerset mom said it's easy to be holy when you're sitting on top of a mountain. Exactly. So you want to be able to do this in your own life. In the real world and in real life. Correct. And the first thing I tell people is the first thing you have to do is just be able to close your eyes and smile. If you'll just close your eyes and smile, that's the beginning of a meditation. And you can do that when you're sitting at a red light. You can do it while you're sitting in a drive-thru at your favorite drive-thru restaurant. Just sit there.
just for a second, close your eyes, smile. And that's your first breath and that's your first awareness of what a true meditation is. It's just finding a happy place. It's not about having an empty mind. It's not about counting backwards from 10 and not having a thought. It's just about entering a really comfortable place.
And it might be, you might be thinking of the beach. You might be thinking of a ride on a bicycle. And it doesn't matter because you let that go and you smile. Right. And whatever comes in next, you smile and you let that go too. I think the biggest problem that I see people trying to meditate is they're trying. Yeah. Don't try. Just sit. Just smile. Find you a nice place to sit.
Sometimes it's sitting on the toilet. If you've got kids. Let's not do it at the red light. I agree with Darth Noggs on that one. What is a red light? You said you can do it while you're sitting at a red light. And it's like, I know you could, but please don't. If you're not, let's say you're sitting at a red light, but you're not driving. Okay. How about that? If you're not operating a red light. Well, if you're not driving, you do it while you're sitting.
while you're driving. But point being is just finding a place to just sit and smile. And sometimes it's, you know, sitting in a doctor's office waiting on your appointment time that's probably going to be late. Sometimes waiting on a bus or an airplane.
Just find the time to close your eyes. You can pass the time. You can. Just sit and just smile for a second. And then the next time— It helps you to slow down your brain. Yep. And look, if you really just can't do it on your own, you know I'm an advocate of the Trip app. It will teach you—I mean, it's a guided meditation. That's all it is. It's a psychedelic experience without drugs.
But it will teach you how to meditate so that the next time you can do it without the device. But it's worth the price of a used MetaQuest for sure just to get that one app. To the point where we're doing a clinical trial on it for chemotherapy-related anxiety. That's wonderful. That is wonderful. And a lot of people don't realize that when you do have anxiety, your whole system is upregulated. And it can be anything from anxiety.
from, you know, health stress to life stress to, again, medications to drugs, whatever it is. And all of those things can certainly be huge influencers. So finding that time
Just catch your breath. You know what I like to do? And make sure you don't have hyperthyroidism, too. I've seen people treated for anxiety for years, and it turned out that their thyroid was out of whack. So get tested. Yeah, and make sure that you're overall healthy and then find some other things. You know, you hear people talking about exercise can be important, but not everybody can exercise. Right. But everybody can sit and smile. Right. You really can just sit and smile.
Watch something funny on TV, on YouTube. Well, we've talked about the breathing exercise, square breathing, too. That will break a panic attack. And you don't – it serves the same purpose of breathing into a bag as
But without putting a, you know, if you're on a subway and you're breathing into a bag because you're anxious, you just put a, you know, a target on your back. Like, oh, God, they're watching me. But you can do this on your own and accomplish the same thing, which was just basically bringing up the carbon dioxide in your bloodstream. Because when you're anxious, you're blowing off carbon dioxide and it gives you all those physical symptoms. Right.
And then the physical symptoms cause the anxiety to get worse, which makes you hyperventilate more, which gives you more physical symptoms, the tingling, the heart racing, the numbness of the fingers and stuff like that. So doing square breathing, which we've gone through before, but we'll do it again. It's never, I don't think you can do it too many times. Taking a breath for four beats. Inward, one. So that's four beats. And then hold it for four beats.
Three. Four. Then exhale for four beats. Two. Three. Four. Then hold it for four beats. Two. Three. Four. And repeat. Now, I told Earl Douglas how to do this, and then he demonstrated it for Ron and Fez, and he went, yeah, this is how Dr. Steve told me to breathe. And it's like, no, that's exactly the opposite of what I told you. Earl was not real good on following directions like that. But...
You cannot hyperventilate if you're only inhaling or exhaling 25% of the time. Because 75% of the time, you're doing something else. It's impossible. And that will break that cycle. It will break a panic attack. You may still feel anxious, but you will not have those physical symptoms. And then you can get control of it. It's when you have the anxiety with the physical symptoms, it makes it real that...
The fear that is unfounded, I mean, let's be real. It's unfounded. Nothing's going on right now. To have that fight or flight thing, it will break that cycle and let your conscious brain kind of take over again. But when you have those physical symptoms, it's too real. It's like, oh, God, this is real. Something's really happening. Another thing I like to do when it becomes a full-blown panic attack is
is to just redirect your thoughts. And sometimes you have easier set than dumb. It's very hard. That's why you want to force yourself to meditate. You force yourself to meditate. Um, but sometimes if you do get that far down the road, sometimes I'll pinch myself just to inflict enough discomfort to change my brain. Okay. To get it away from this feeling of wanting to freak out to, um, going, ow, my leg hurts. And then sometimes it'll kind of convert. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's like when my narcolepsy kicks in and I'm driving, I'll try slapping myself. It does nothing. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yes. But if you're having anxiety. And now I just hurt. You're like, damn, I'm sick. Now, McRibs is saying, I was told in a pinch during anxiety situation to put a sugar cube under or on my tongue.
That would be a distraction thing, too, just a counter stimulus. This happened in the market Friday, so I put a pack of sugar in my tongue instead. Ended up with a sweet tongue, right? Yeah, it's not – it doesn't work for everybody. And you can't – if you're in the market, you can't slap an Oculus on your face. Talk about putting a target on your back. But I can – from someone –
That was this close to being agoraphobic because of something that happened to me right before I went to medical school where I almost checked myself into a psych ward multiple times because my anxiety was that off the hook. So I can relate. I can tell you that if it happened to you in the market, McRibs, don't let that make you not go to the market.
If you do that, that is the road to agoraphobia. Mm-hmm.
You can't go anywhere. Right. Your whole world is in your house. And even then, those people don't feel good. You know, I've been working and I'm not saying anything out of school because we talked about it on his show. But Lorenzo Areola, he's on a bunch of medications. He's got some pretty severe agoraphobia. My goal was to get him to come to Hackamania. I'm sorry, Lorenzo. I failed you miserably. I really thought we could pull it off. But he...
is still anxious inside his house, just less so than if he tries to go out. It's an awful experience, but it's the best advice I can give somebody that has panic attacks is don't let it stop you from going. What's the worst that happens is you're uncomfortable. That's it. But the worst that can happen if you give in to it is you end up losing your job and you're
family thinks you're crazy and all kinds of stuff because now you're agoraphobic. And now you've got to go through a lot to get out of that. It's better to nip it in the bud. Nip it in the bud. All right, man. Yeah. One pun says my anxiety leveled up to the max when my life crumbled. It's just one of the only things I know anymore. I can – I guess I can't relate –
to the level that you're at but i can relate to the chronic anxiety that went on for months and months and months that took me a long process to get rid of but i'm telling you i was able to get rid of it i'm not a completely unanxious person and you are not alone but as far as
Being able to go out and do whatever I want to now without feeling that anxiety. I can do that. I eventually was able to enjoy my life again. So get help. Email me. I'll walk you through it best I can.
Challenge therapy is what cured me and a little bit of medication that was non-addictive. You know, if you fall into the Xanax and Valium and stuff like that, they work so well that people end up getting habituated to them. And that's an issue. But, you know.
Darth Nuggs says it's hard not to be skeptical with Dr. Scott wearing that shirt, except Darth Nuggs, he's wearing a tie-dye Grateful Dead shirt, and he's talking about meditation. So that ought to give him actual street cred. Yeah, street cred. Can't hide great fashion sense, man. Yeah. Got to sports colors. Yeah. He says most doctors dress like bankers so I could get used to the tie-dye. I had somebody, it was cold here a couple, like a month ago.
And I said, fuck it. I'm not wearing my lab coat. It's too cold because I had to walk like a quarter of a mile to get from my parking place. So I just went into the hospital with a leather jacket. And I had several people go, oh, a doctor wearing a leather jacket. That's pretty cool. And it's like, yeah, I just rode in here on my Harley. No, I was just cold. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Amanda says Fremont Street is no place for an agoraphobic. Boy, that is really true. It's a good place to get cured of your agoraphobia, though.
That's how I got cured. I got stuck in a crowd that I couldn't get out of, and it was I'm either going to get better or I'm going to die right now. And I chose not to die. Anyway, what was the email again? I'll tell you what, the one pun, go to drsteve.com and click contact and just make sure you put your email address in correctly and I will get that. And then we'll have a two-way conversation.
Can you walk us through joining the Fluid family again for McRibs? Yeah, you go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine, click the Join button, and you can either join. It's 99 cents, no big deal. I do post some things for members only from time to time. Or you can just click Accept Gifted Memberships.
And Myrtle will be going crazy with the gifted memberships once we're just doing nothing but live streams and stuff. Look out for Myrtle. Myrtle's on the loose. I logged in. Yeah, I wasn't sure I was in the correct place to turn my messages green again. You're fine. You don't have to be a member. We don't go members only on this thing.
Even if people are wacky. Well, you know what? McRibs, maybe I got demonetized. Who knows? I don't know. He says he didn't see the 99 cents when he joined. So let me see here. Insert ad. Oh, I can insert ad. I can delay ads. I don't know. I'll check into it. I'll make sure it's still set up, my friend. All right. Well,
You know what? I'll just edit this out later, or I won't because I'm lazy. Let's just have—oh, I can't do it. I was going to have Myrtle—my phone died. Okay, never mind. I was going to have Myrtle do some—give some of them fellers some memberships, don't you know? You're not going to want to miss me blowing my spot up by doing 10 minutes of Cletus jokes at Hackamania.
And poor Mr. Melton is going to go, "What in the fuck are you doing?" But that's just the way it is. Okay. Matthew says, "What's up with that phenomenon where you forget what you went into a room for as soon as you walk through the door? The other day, I needed to write a check for Tacey. I walked up to the third floor of my house three different times, got distracted by something else. It was right...I'd just woken up.
Oh, I need to move this ham radio antenna. Yeah, the shiny object. Three times before I finally remembered that I went up there to write her a check. And I'd come down and go, wait, why did I go up there? Did you bring me that check? And it's like, God dang it. And I'd have to go back up there again. I got distracted. Uh,
So, most of the time, it's just a short-term memory scratch pad thing, where an intrusive thought breaks in and knocks the purpose of your visit out. And then you have to sit there and think for a minute. And then you go back doing what you were doing, and it'll come to you. And just remember, the opposite of forgetfulness is presence.
So being present, you pay attention. Okay. And you're in the moment. Give thyself a bell. Give you a bell for that. And you're scattered. You forget. Yeah, true. True. That's a good point.
Yeah, mindfulness is a real thing. It's a real thing. And it's gotten a bad rap because it just sounds so new agey, but it's real. Yeah, a bunch of people wearing tie-dyes. Live in the present. No, live in the present. No, I know. That's exactly right. You know, the 12-step thing, if you got one foot in the future, in other words, you're worrying about stuff that hasn't happened yet, and one foot in the past, in other words, you're worrying about stuff that happened that you can't change.
You're in a perfect position to just take a giant shit on the present. And the present is where we live. So, you know, Baba Ram Dass, Be Here Now. Anyone with anxiety should read that book. And, you know, being in the moment, because a lot of things about anxiety is you're worried about shit that is not happening to you at the moment. It either happened in the past or it's might, you think it's going to happen.
but you look out the window and it's crickets. So why shouldn't you be able to enjoy that? Well, thanks always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years. Dr. Scott, this will be yours and my probably last SiriusXM show together. We'll see. They may make us do a few more because I didn't give them a lot of notice and that's fine, but the purpose is the Las Vegas show is the last SiriusXM show. We'll see, but we'll still be doing stuff.
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