Weird Medicine Healthcare for the Rest of Us

Double Vasectomy Todd started this idocy by going to the Trek Yourself website and doing a Romulan “Weird Medicine” promo.   The result can be seen here.  We’ll explain the whole “Fecalicious the helmet polisher” injoke on the air May 2 at 5pm EDST.

This is Big A’s version.  Andrew makes one creepy-ass serial killer looking Vulcan.

Here’s mine. I’m a dope.  There is an in-joke at the end for all those who have really been paying attention to the Liam vs Dave thing.  For everyone else, I just sound like a goof.

Send in your StarTrek Weird Medicine promos to

drsteve at doctorsteve dot com

…we may even give some sort of awful prize for our favorite.   We’re not promising anything.

Here are a couple of fan created masterworks:

From Matthew

From David

We’ll be serializing this on “Weird Medicine”, but for those who visit this website, here’s the whole thing in one glob.

Our first “production piece” (other than the Liam vs East Side Dave stuff), we were turned on to the twisted genius that is Francois Rabelais by our pal Recyclerz on ronfez.net.   Rabelais was a 16th century writer of philosophy and insanity, and took a whole chapter to discourse on the best method for wiping one’s horrid patoot after defecation (or bemerde-ing oneself, as Rabelais would put it).   Anyway, you can read more about Rabelais here.

The reader is Bobby Funk from the East TN State University drama department (he did it in one take which was all we could afford, given he had to drive an hour to get to the studio).

Hope you enjoy this finale to the “Asscrack Challenge”, a bit that hopefully is finally and most permanently dead.

The genesis of the war between East Side Dave and my 5 year old;

Introducing the fund for Pat From Moonachie and Big A. (So far we’ve raised almost $2500! Thanks to all who have donated!)

Check out Jon Gray at Case of the Mondays (Jon was instrumental in getting a sleep apnea test done on Big A).

The first appearance of Shannon from South Florida; she is tamponly challenged and we can’t wait for her to call in again.

If you’d like to donate to Pat and Big A, check the post below this one.

We’re on every other week at 5pm Eastern from now on.  We’re also on twitter…ugh.

Well, the audio was bad (I found out later, thanks to a five year old messing with the mixing board before the show!), but I really liked the content in this show. This one also ushers in the “East Side Dave vs a 5 year old kid” feud. Not sure where this will take us, but listening to “Sam and Dave’s Special Delivery” makes me wonder if a trip to the Friday night of fights is in order.

Don’t forget to help out our pals Big A and Pat from Moonachie…until we have universal health care these guys could use some help with their medical bills. I’ll post a paypal button on here soon; until then you can paypal to drsteve202 AT gmail dot com. Any funds you send are not tax deductable, and you’ll get no recognition whatsoever, but it will be appreciated.

Wherein the boys greet “Double Vasectomy Todd” for the first time, save the life of a colonoscopy victim, ride the euphemism treadmill, play the nostalgia game with doctor steve’s college radio show clips, learn finally how being fat can save your life, deconstruct anabolic steroids, and beatify the noble bidet.  Not a bad hour for a moron, an imbecile, and an idiot.

Next show will be pushed back to 5pm EST…I think that’ll be our permanent spot (for awhile, anyway).

This is the mp3 of Shooby Taylor’s “Stout Hearted Men” from the December 08 show.   More information about Shooby (including the one surviving video) can be found at shooby.com.

(If you have trouble with the player playing at double speed, click “download” or “open in a new window”.  It’s a bug between wordpress and certain browsers.)

The next “Weird Medicine” will be October 25th at 8pm on XM Channel 202, and Sirius Channel 197.   This will be a pre-election show with hopefully a spirited debate on health care in this country, along with the usual penis and vagina questions.

So anyway, I didn’t want to just post one paragraph, so I thought I’d try to illustrate what kind of weirdo I really am.   For example, here are two of my favorite songs on youtube:

What kind of person obsesses over Antonio Carlos Jobim AND “Fuck the Facts”?  I really can’t explain it other than I’m just an odd person.

Enjoy;  if you have any questions for the show (we’re taping the Tuesday before the show), check out the forum at http://www.ronfez.net/forums and leave me a message in the “Ask Doctor Steve” thread.

We received some great news the other day…while waiting for Erock to review the last “Weird Medicine Addendum”, we were worried that it wasn’t good enough, or the audio stunk, or no one liked the “East
Tennessee Ed” bit…when Erock called, I was pretty sure he was going to say “Hey, it was ok, but we really can’t use it.”  Instead he offered us a monthly spot on the 8pm Saturday Night slot.   We’ll be in rotation with three other shows, and it should give us some good practice for the quarterly live show (which we’ll still be doing, assuming Sirius-XM lets us.)

So keep those questions coming;  we’re working on a few new things including adding phone call capability.   Write to us, or post at www.ronfez.net if you have any cool ideas for the show, too.   Doing it pre-recorded without the advantage of having our insanely great listeners drive the show is our biggest challenge.

As soon as we know the schedule, we’ll post it here.

We came up with this thing called the “Weird Medicine Addendum” which initially was a podcast that would help us wrap up any questions left over from the XM show.  It was a pretty successful podcast, actually, and introduced the lovely PA Jill to the world.   Now, XM202 is broadcasting the newest “Addendum” this Saturday night, August 3rd, at during the pre-SNV slot from 8-9pm EDST.

 Doing a pre-recorded show is wayyyyy different than doing it live;  I worried about it a lot more, for some reason, I guess because it was pre-recorded, it should be perfect.   Those of you who know me know that I’m my own worst critic.   I think we did OK…there are good, maybe even great moments on this show, but it remains a learning experience for all of us.

 We included “East Tennessee Ed”, the infamous protagonist of the “Fez’s Gay Blind Date” story.   And I quickly realized that it really wasn’t a very interesting story…Fez and Ed sat next to each other at dinner and we all went our separate ways, big deal.   The fact that Ron and Fez could make this into an entertaining story is a testament to their genius.  Yeah, Ed’s gay, and he’s rich, and he thought Fez was pretty cool…ho hum. 🙂  On the other hand, Ed made a pretty good third mic, considering he’d never even looked at a digital recorder before.    I think John did better than he’s done before, as well.   And me?  I’m never happy with my performance, always thinking I need to do better, and I do.   I’ll keep working on it.

 I appreciate everyone’s support;  we’ll keep trying to make an entertaining but professionally rigorous show.  It’s a difficult tightrope to walk, and we’re in a bit of uncharted territory.  I have to give all the credit to O&A and R&F for even giving us the time of day, much less supporting this crazy project of mine.

Check out the Weird Medicine Q&A forum on ronfez.net, where I’ve moved most of the medical questions activity.  

The next live Weird Medicine will be October 18th, assuming we’re cool after the merger.   It may be our last show, so we’ll try to make it a good’n.

 Oh, and PS: PA Jill has opted out of further radio appearances due to getting knocked up by PA John.   Congratulations to them both!

We tried to do a few new things this time, some things worked and some things didn’t.  Believe me, we learned a lot from the experiments we tried, and this will just make subsequent Weird Medicine shows that much better.

First we hit O&A…prostate exams all around, but the most important being the physical exam of Tippy Tom.  There was a lot of stuff going on in the background, we’d made arrangements to get Tom medical care at a local community health center;  he was very interested in getting a partial exam done on the air.  I explained to him that I was nothing more than a “concerned friend” with a medical degree, but he wanted to get checked out.  Tom cinched “line of the day” on the air…if you haven’t heard it, it was classic.

Tom has subsequently decided not to pursue further medical workup but I’ve asked Keith the Cop to keep an eye on him and try to get him to go the second he shows signs of changing his mind.  While he was on the air, he decided to see what it would be like to sit in a “fancy man’s” seat and play with his toys.

Ant was thrilled, of course.   Meeting “Big A” was a thrill, as well, though I always seem to get to know these people a bit more intimately than I’d really like, if you catch my drift.

Ron and Fez were in rare form that day;  we had a front row seat at an “Earl Chokes Dave” event, a Big A vs Fez “SNAP!” competition, and a visit by the legendary GrandMaster Flash and comedian Doug Benson.

Our Third Show (aptly named our “Turd Show”) was a lot more fun for us to do, though I’m not 100% sure it was more fun for the audience.  It was a show of firsts…I did my first “Celebrity Interview”, my first “Phoner”, and we had our first sort-of “debate”, and we had our first comic and third (and fourth) mic.   I thought PA Jill was a great addition to the show, but she’s kind of “eh, it’s ok” about being on the radio (probably why she sounds so good on the air).   Pat from Moonachie was scheduled to be on during the Dr Z segment, but we liked him so much we had him on the whole show.   PA John invited comedian Mark Riojas to the show and we slotted him in during FM Jeff’s segment on health care.  Mark, by the way, is a very nice guy and is very funny on stage.  We didn’t give him much of a forum to be funny on a show about the problems with healthcare in America, so check him out at http://www.myspace.com/markriojas.

One thing I figured out this show was that comedy and medicine don’t always mix.  When someone is calling in about blood coming out of some part of the body where blood is not supposed to come out of, the last thing they want to hear is quips about their prognosis from some funnyman.  On the other hand, I think having someone funny in the studio can be a big help during the lighter parts of the show…topic segments and phone interviews.   This is something we’ll be working on in months to come.

Weird Medicine is constantly evolving…at least it will be as long as we’re footing the bill and there’s no money coming in from it.  Yes, we do it for free…XM pays for us to have a bottle of water during the show and pays for satellite time and Danny Ross to produce (which is a lot, I’m not complaining), but PA John and I pay for everything else.  Once we have a sponsor, or we have a regular paid gig, then someone will tell us “this is how it’s going to be”, but until then we reserve the right to play with the format until we think it’s perfect.

Speaking of money, this little adventure of ours is very expensive;  if you want to support our corner of wild-west free-wheeling radio experimentation, feel free to sign up for our “premium” section (https://www.doctorsteve.com/forum).  You get pretty much nothing for it, but every penny will go to defraying the cost of travelling to NYC once a quarter to do the show.   You don’t have to, of course.  We’re ok without it, but if you want to…

Our listeners are why we do this;  we’ve gotten such great response to the show.  Thank each and every one of you for your support.

The next Weird Medicine is scheduled for October 18th.   We’ll get the Weird Medicine Addendum podcast up within a week.  It’ll be a long one…we’ve been overwhelmed with emails this time.

Also, I’ll try to post some information on Health Care in America and some possible solutions to the problem;  I really enjoyed the segment with FM Jeff and I think we just barely scratched the surface before we had to break.  We’ll have him on again to discuss this stuff just before the election in October.  Look for a post on Health Care Savings Plans in the next week or so.

yr obt svt,

Steve