Weird Medicine Healthcare for the Rest of Us

From Weird Medicine (Excerpted for the Patrice Tribute this weekend on Sirius 206, XM105):

“As I write this, I just got word that Patrice O’Neal has passed away.

I met Patrice at Opie’s wedding and the first thing I noticed about him was just what a sweet guy he was.   ‘Sure Doctor Steve, I’ll do your little show’…I always thought we had all the time in the world to have that conversation on the air about Diabetes and being in show business.  Lesson learned.

Patrice was a big hearted guy;  Chest Pain Rob reminded me today that when O&A had that mentally handicapped guy who worked at McDonalds on the air and they pretended to be McDonald’s executives and fired him on the air, it was Patrice who begged them to call him back and let him know it was a joke.  He just couldn’t stand some little guy in Podunk thinking he lost his job, even for the few minutes it would take for him to figure it out.

Patrice lived life on his own terms and then he checked out.   He was one of the funniest and best loved people who ever crossed the airways on Sirius XM.  Weird Medicine salutes the memory of Patrice O’Neal, what he stood for, and we will sorely miss him.”

Patrice’s care was insanely expensive;  if you’d like to help Patrice’s wife and daughter, please consider buying the Audible.com 16 hour special produced by Erik Nagel from the Opie and Anthony show, or by buying Patrice’s last CD “Mister P” from Amazon or iTunes.

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