Weird Medicine Healthcare for the Rest of Us

Well, we made the mistake of going to a Beer Fest and carried the party to the house afterward.  Then someone said “hey!  Let’s do a show!”  See if you can tell whether some people (certainly not me) were impaired during the taping of this podcast.

Tonight’s topics:

1) Supraluminal Neutrinos
2) Breast Reduction Surgery
3) The connection between your belly button and your genitals
4) The causes of dry mouth
5) A guy bleeding from both ends
6) e cigarettes and smoking cessation
7) Weird Chantix Dreams

and a bunch of other malarkey.

We were featured in the Stitcher.com weekly newsletter this week and this is the best we could do?  Doomed.

Don’t forget to check us out on your smart phone on Stitcher (the greatest talk radio app ever) and iTunes (a close second).  Also, don’t miss the Dr Steve BRISTOL STOOL SCALE MUG at Cafepress!  It’s a “hoot” I tell ya!

Rate your feces while drinking your morning joe! Fun for the whole family!

Don’t forget the Weird Medicine Store, for all the crap we talk about on the show, including Citrucel, the fiber supplement of the stars!

your pal,

Dr Steve

This is the summer “all grrrl review” wherein we invite the women in our lives into the studio to talk about whatever pisses them off about us.  On this show:

• Breast Augmentation
• Breast Reduction
• Epididymitis
• Smelly Umbilicus (belly button)
• and some other crap

Enjoy!

Don’t forget to check us out on Stitcher (talk radio for your smart phone) and iTunes!  Also check out our merchandise, and buy stuff we talk about on the show at the Weird Medicine Drug store.

your pal,

Steve

In an attempt to get control of our RSS feed, we’re moving everyone from the old feed to:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorsteve/ZPQj

The reasons for this are complicated, but suffice it to say that a certain webpage producer lost the password to our old feed and we may have thousands of people following that feed without any documentation of it.  This will ultimately affect our ability to sell advertising on the Weird Medicine Addendum Podcast and keep new content on the feed.  If you are getting this message through an RSS feed, email update, google reader, whatever, please click the link above and switch over to this new feed.  In the end we may have to just start anew at weirdmedicine.com;  when all this started we had no idea that feeds and iTunes stats and stuff would be so important.

Thanks for your help!  Also, we’re doing a new “girly show” (my wife’s term) tomorrow night with lots of talk about plastic surgery and breast implants and more breast talk and lots of talk and thinking about breasts and also breasts.  It’ll air sometime in September and if we have time we’ll do a quick spur-of-the-moment podcast so stay tuned.

your pal,

Dr Steve

Weird Medicine Addendum returns, now on Stitcher and iTunes.  If you haven’t checked out Stitcher yet, it’s a really cool on-demand radio service for your smart phone.  The app has low-overhead and there’s virtually NO lag unless you just have a crappy connection.   After you listen to Weird Medicine, check out The Joe Rogan Experience and other cool stuff.

I’m breaking this show into two 30 minute podcasts just to see if people like it better in small chunks.  I still have such a low self-esteem that I can’t imagine anyone would want to listen to AN HOUR of this malarkey.

Topics:

Apple Cider Vinegar: Panacea or BS?
Rosacea
Trucking James with some crap I can’t remember
The best treatment for allergies
Adderall and sexual dysfunction
Lubricants
Underbelly rot (also known as “intertrigo”)
Stupid doctors
Toxoplasmosis
Fibromyalgia
Weight Gain after smoking

Enjoy!  Check out both parts, available now!

Also check out our store and our dumb merchandise!  All profits go to a terrible cause.

This is the first WM Addendum that we’ve done in over a year and it really, really showed. New things: live internet audience on Ustream (go to our homepage for more information) which was a LOT of fun. This was a straight-to-podcast 30 minute show and when we got done people were weirdly clamoring for more (as if what we did here wasn’t bad enough) so we did another 30 minutes taking live calls via Skype. That show will post just after this one.

For potential advertisers: This show is not indicative of the quality we will eventually expect from the podcast. We’re pretty good at putting together a radio show for broadcast, but this internet thing is a whole ‘nother beast. It’ll come together soon though, and I’ll quit trying to lower expectations soon.

Double Vasectomy Todd’s new job will be to keep track of topics as we talk about them so I can post them here. Working on that too.

Your pal,

Steve

Well, we finally emerged into the 21st century;  although we cannot play content that we made for SiriusXM, there’s nothing in our contract (at least the way I read it) that says we can’t do a separate podcast if we want to!  So I’m hoping to do a regularly scheduled podcast called “The Weird Medicine Addendum” (we’ve done this before, for long-term listeners, just never on iTunes).  These will be brand “spanking” (yuck yuck) new shows, made specifically for the podcast audience.  Maybe we’ll even get a sponsor or two, who knows?  

You can still use the same number: 347 POO HEAD which will be a pool from which we draw for both shows.  Hell, if your call is good enough, it may make it on both.

Let us know what you think!

your pal,

Dr Steve

Big A is one of our best friends on the show;  he does a lot of stuff for us behind the scenes and is a beloved regular of the Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez shows.  As you know, Big A hasn’t exactly placed his health in a position of high priority in recent years.  He has severe sleep apnea and would just “forget” to wear his mask, and his diet was so bad he eventually got up to somewhere in the neigborhood of 430 pounds.

Recently he got a health scare and spent some time in the hospital.  The fear, coupled with overwhelming well-wishes from 202/197 listeners and staff produced a life-changing event in Big A’s life.  He is now a total health nut and has lost nearly 100 pounds on his way to his goal weight of 235 lbs.

All this would be wonderful, except recently Big A was found to be anemic.   This could be caused by a number of things, but it can’t be ignored.   The workup will include upper endoscopy, lower endoscopy, and a ton of blood work.   Unfortunately for Big A, his insurance only covers stuff that happens in the hospital, and covers nothing that is done as an outpatient.

Big A has a full-time job, and he works hard driving a Taxi, but he does not have the kind of money that is required to complete a multi-thousand-dollar workup.   To make matters worse, he is helping to take care of a sick family member pretty much full-time and really can’t get a second job.   A classic case of a guy who works hard, does all the right things, and still can’t afford the healthcare he needs.

We previously raised some money for Big A and it went to good use;  bloodwork, a stroboscopic laryngoscopy, and some doctor visits.  We also arranged to get him a sleep study and a cpap mask (which he is now using!)   I think it’s a good time to raise some money again to help defray the cost of Big A’s medical bills.

If you’d like to donate $1 or $1000, click the button below.   Every penny will go to Big A’s medical expenses.

Thanks again, 202/197 listeners are the best.

your pal,

Steve