The Doctor | The Church of What's Happening Now

Get this party started, Pedro. - What's happening, you bad motherfuckers, Uncle Joe here, for another fun fell week of the church of what's happening now. Special edition, it's October 13th. The day the devil was buried in sea, here's my beautiful co-host, Pedro Garcia, putting it together one more week. - What's up, baby? - Hey, we're a dog. - Challenge dog. - What's going on with you? - Not that much, man. How to go weaken with you, bro? - Yeah, we did some shows. - We went to Point Pleasant with the dojo, and it was great. - Yeah. - I heard you had some beef, when's that, bro? - I want to smack somebody Friday night, so you know, I'm back to me, you know what I mean? I feel like myself again. It's been a long time since I felt that. - What happened? - No, dude, this guy just came out of nowhere, bro. Like I was after the show, right? He goes up to Vic Hector, a boy. He was like, "Hey, great set, man, blah, blah." He comes up to me, he goes, "You all right." So immediately, he sucked my dick, bro. Immediately, you get the fuck out of my face. But I laughed, I was like, "I, bro." I slapped him on the shoulder, all good, like, "Ha, ha, ha." And then he just keeps going, I'm like, "I, bro, that's it." And he just keeps going, and he's like, "No, you just keep doing the same shit." And then I was like, I was like, "Yeah, I haven't seen you do anything, you know what I mean?" Like I do what he's talking about. So, and then I said, "And then he keeps going." So I'm like, "Bro, like what do you think you, like what are you, we're on the internet right now?" Like I'm right in front of you, dude. I'm gonna smack the fuck out of you. And then that's when I was like, step back, and he stepped back and nothing happened, but that's like, the first time that ever happened to me. He was drunk, wasted. Oh, that's a smell like. He was just like, "Yeah, you know, I heard that. I've seen you like 20 times." I'm like, "Don't fucking, that's gay." And then you see the one guy sat in there, and Uncle Vinny, he was fucking him, mebrewed. Yeah? We got into a car, you didn't see that, me and my wife. There was a guy around the fence. Oh, yeah. These guys were fucking, yeah. God, yeah. God. 'Cause I went to the green room, and I saw him go. Whatever that thing is back there. I went to go to the green room, and I saw him going to the bathroom, and he was taking a bottle into the bathroom with him. Like a bottle of whistle, man, what's going on? You want to swag him, right? You know, he was missing a tooth, obviously. You don't want to take a fucking shot. Somebody was missing a tooth on a Saturday night. But so when they come out like that, that's why I hate doing late shows. I don't have the endurance of the drunk. Right. Like that's the problem, like, you're going there to do your job, and they're going to get entertained, but on the way to get entertained, they get fucking sizzled. Yeah. The only thing I'm grateful to that guy is he didn't say it to you on the internet. Yeah. Because we have so many of those guys. Oh, not yet. It's just not. I guess. Every morning I wake up, I have pure hate on Twitter. Pure hate on Twitter. Pure hate. And you sit there and go, I didn't even do nothing to you. Brother. Weated this as five in the morning, just out of whatever is in your head. I'm done yet. Every morning on Twitter, I wake up to a remark. What's some fucking, you know, this or that? I'm like, no, I'm learning new things about myself on the internet. That's why I have to tell a Danute, because I have Jimmy legs. I guess they move while I talk. I tell him, yo, shoot me from the waist off. Like, I'm Steven Hawking. Yeah. Yeah. Like, let's fix that. Because it's just crazy when people come up to the app to a show. Like, 98% of the time, I got to be honest to you, they're great. They're really great. Yeah. Because you expect them to come from a different place, and that coming from a completely different place. Like, if I ask yourself, look at two people and go, what are these people doing in my show? Yeah. They're nice, clean American people. Yes. Why are they here? And then when you get to talk to them, you go, oh shit, they came at me from a completely different direction. Right. They don't like a joke. You know, my wife didn't like the autistic joke. That's all the time in Jersey. Somebody's going to say, you know, my nephew's autistic. It's a fucking joke. Yeah. You know, it's a joke. But besides that, people, after the show, if you have a good show and you meet nice people, it's a fucking plus. When you get those young guys that grab you, call my uncle Vinny. You remind me of South. Get the fuck off me. Get the fuck off me. Man, it's Saturday night. You got a girl next to you. They act like fucking idiots and probably girlfriends. I'm like, what? There was a guy there. And the dojo, he was both of them were sitting there with pretty girls and they're both acting like fucking, they thought it was like that scene in Donnie Brasco. They thought they were in Donnie Brasco at the disco, and I'm like, these guys are crazy again. But they were nice people and I'll never have a beef with that. You know, you can never have a beef with that. That's fine. This is the problem, though, because he was like, oh, with the same joke shit, like whatever. But he was like, after I said, I'll smack the shit out of you. He goes, I defended you in the comments, and I was like, I don't give a fuck man. You should have led with that, then the asshole should have said that. And maybe I wouldn't have gone mad. Defended you on the comments. I said you were a killer on stage. I was like, all right, man. Thank you. For years, I've been telling these guys. I used to live in those comments when I first did the podcast. The next morning, I did read them at six in the morning. They put them up and I had to smoke pot, drink coffee, breakfast, and I'd be on the comments. And every once in a while, your emotions get the best thing you argue with these people. And then you have to think about where these people come from. They can't even play a drum, the dude from Deaf Leppard with the missing arms is the better shape in these dudes. And he's got an arms that's missing. You got to do it. You know what I'm saying? And this is why I would never, in my life as a human being, I would never watch a show on NBC. And the next morning get the audacity to write them a letter to show us who could turn the fucking channel. I'm an adult. You don't like it. Turn it. That's it. You go to a comedy show. If you midway go to the manager and you go, I don't like what this guy's saying. I'll give him his money back. He walked into the wrong show, but that's not acceptable today because you got YouTube. People going to check you out on YouTube. Hey, you want to go see this comic, my friend, whatever, there's your eyes, little, not my flavor. Okay. But it's very, you can't please everybody, nah, nah, and that's the other thing. You can't please everybody. And those comments are poison because you leave there the rest of the day thinking, is it worth what I'm doing? Is it worth what I'm doing? And they're going to complain about everything, whether the lights on or it's not off, they're never happy. So you have to look at situations, and go, I'm going to do what the fuck I want to do. Because at the end of the day, these guys are telling everybody the same shit, they're telling everybody the same shit. I lived through it for years, and I was a feature act because I'd stay in Miami for two weeks. And I'd watch what the comedy club owners would tell the headliners. And it was the same spill, only a different fucking guy. They just have no, you know, so you want to get involved with people on the comments. And the last eight years, I just put block, and I went in the conversation, I went by not saying anything, block, that's it, and they go fuck themselves. Even on that GTA, they're brutal, something nice. They are fucking brutal to the point where you're like, who raised you? You have to start thinking of them like, who raised you? I know my daughter's not upstairs saying creepy shit to people online to giggle like a fucking asshole. I wasn't raised from a giggly society, you know, I wasn't raised in a giggly fucking society. You said something, you got five fingers in your mouth. Quick. Now, we live in that giggle society, and you're allowed to do that shit, because it's all he was just joking. What if I put this bottle up his ass? Yeah. Am I fucking joking? And they'll look at you like, why the violence, I'll call 911, oh, here we go. Now you want to call 911, now you want to shoot me in the pinkato. Right. Now you want to, and that's all these tough guys, comments, comedy shows, they're tough because there's somebody around them. Once it's you and fucking me, they lose all color in their fucking face, because they know they're pussy, everything else is background fucking music. I'm a Hudson County boy, I'll snip you to fuck out. I'll snip you out and then rob you. You know me, though, I'm the king of pulling the gun and you're going, that now belongs to me motherfuckers, you know, the worst thing about it, I'm driving home, thinking myself, I don't need a writer new joke, motherfucking, I was thinking of myself, I don't need a writer new joke. Oh yeah, that's for me to decide, not for you trying to be cute, because at the end of the day, they're just trying to be cute and say how much they can push in front of their friends. Yeah, weirdo, to see how cool you are. He was with two retards behind them fucking that, and there's a smiling awkwardly. Birds of a feather fuck together, I'm not going to show up there with two, five beta captives. They're going to be two fucking retards, retards hang out with other retards, it's not like one with two. Yeah. I remember one time I was doing a book signing, and I was in Staten Island, and I was having a good night, fucking around with people kissing them, hugging the whole thing in these three, like, first of all, you had to buy one book to get an autograph. These guys bought, like, one book and all three of them were going to take autographs and shit in the book, like just shit that you go, are you fucking retarded? There was like three, sixteen year olds, and then they pulled up. I saw the book. I saw all three of them, and the one guy goes to his Joe Rogan tour, Jesus, and I didn't even, I don't even pay no mind to, I'm from that cut, I'll keep signing, I'm not going to give you the benefit of that. I'm going to look up, and then I went, and then I did go to look up, because it's Joe Rogan a frog. And I just looked and I'm like, "Listen, what are you 16, 17?" And I was your age, I was getting my dick sucked right now. I wasn't out of no barns and no bull getting the fucking autograph or some fucking baseball plaque and give my fuck. I never understood that. Did the streamer kids like trying to prank people on purpose? I was out trying to get ahead in a alleyway. Yeah, you know what's going on here. You were playing basketball and say gorillas, but I wasn't hanging out with three other guys because I knew the neighborhood I grew up in. And I know that that's cute once or twice, but eventually one motherfucker is going to look up and just hit you with whatever he's got to say. Quickly, quickly. So this new generation doesn't understand that. All they understand is I'm a tough guy and I'm calling the cops. We grew up and with tough, we'll fight you, you beat us up. We'll go home. Nobody needs to call the cops here. But that's the problem, you know. When we look at O.J.'s wife thought she was safe. You know, that restraining order didn't get you too far, bitch. He's fucking mumbles. Everything's all, I got a restraining order, bitch. I know, bitch. I knew a girl I grew up with. She had a restraining order. Fuck it and she had a kid. One night she went to some club in Jersey City when we hawk and when I was, I was in high school. The fucking guy she had the restraining order, followed her home and shot her in the head. When the cops got there, the cigarette was still burning in a fucking mouth. There's no such thing as a restraining order, okay? That's just some paper for people who believe it. You get some crazy motherfucker. You know, they're making them crazier than he is going to come and fucking shoot you. That's why I put some of them a piece of candy after every show. Thank you for coming. Any questions, perhaps? No, brother, I'm here. 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We're back bitches. This guy said next to me is not my cousin. We didn't do the fucking the remake of some fucking crazy movie. He's my knee doctor. One of the best in the business. Dr. Vernon. What's up, Tarzan? Sure. How you doing? Good to have you here. You got a question for me. You know, Pedro already. How's he going, Doc? He's going on Danny. George. George. How you doing? What's some one question please? I listened to your opening segment. It was great. It's your Rogan short. Is he? No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding. But it felt like it was something that would annoy you. That's why it would annoy you. That would annoy you. It just doesn't matter. It's got 18 inches of, I know, a building is basement. What man, you know what I mean? He's got eight features. It doesn't really really. It doesn't matter. You want to know how tall he is. Has tall is that pile is in his fucking back account. I heard you were killer. I live in Point Pleasant Beach as you know. All right. And thanks for inviting me, by the way. I didn't know, I know you didn't. But I heard you were great. Like I've heard through the Chamber of Commerce and all the people that I don't talk to, I happen to love somebody on the Chamber of Commerce. He's a good friend, but I'm more of a waver to the neighbors. Yeah, I know. I try to get out of my driveway before they asked me a question. I had a guy next to me. Actually, I think he just passed away. Am I right? My lovely wife is over there. Donna, and I would say I was used to leave very, very early. So I would try to beat Tony out, because he was an early riser. He was about 80 then. And he, he, he, he killed me. He got me to garbage. Ask me 500 questions. One on every joint. And then his prostate. And I said, Tony, I got to go. So I would have to peak out my window and look to make sure he's not out there. You know, if I was taking a garbage out Monday morning and really run to my car, I think that's great that everywhere you get stopped to talk about somebody's ass. That's what you guys were talking about. Remind me of what you did your show. You don't say goodbye to everyone you're leaving, right? And then when I get me a beat for you out, they do this or something. That's when, you know, being from Jersey said, "Yes, I am. I knew what you've met when they did this." You know, my wife could attest to the fact that I had someone do this to me once. So I was coaching. And I just looked at him and I said, "Off, off!" I couldn't help myself. Because that's what came out. Because sometimes as you know, our filter is not that great. But I've gotten better at it. You, you actually were when you first came to me, you, I don't know, thought I was like, almost like a regular doctor, didn't you? Yeah, yeah. I'm a poor doctor. I'm not like other doctors. Right. Well, you know, my philosophy is, I like to have fun in the office as well. And when I mean my fun, I'm not uptight. And I couldn't wear a fucking bow tie if you paid me. And I have to the fourth year of medical school, I swear, I'd never wear a tie again. Push, pull that up more and speak a lot of God damn it. You're not getting it? You're a big guy. Yeah, you're a big guy. Speaking to the fucking mic. I know, but the fucking drive up here, I'm sorry, the drive's being on. Speaking to the mic. Sorry. Is this good, right here? Yeah. Okay, let's speak loud. Anyway, you thought I was regular, but I can't be like that in the office all day as you've seen. Problem is I get to talk and like, like we do, and sitting in the office, I got 16 people out there in a boil in the front desk, girl and oil, because like I'm the only time. You want all those doctors here? Yeah, but I do take my time. I take my time with everybody. I really do whatever time I need. Sometimes I'm sorry that I did, but that's part of the cross you bear when you do this job. Well, it shows. And as a consumer today, when you go on any doctors and have a tight turn 60, I'm always a some fucking doctor. You, you could tell the doctors who love what they do. The guys are just there picking up a page. check like you see regular people. There's some union guys at work. There's some union guys that go to work and to sit in the truck and smoke cigarettes and drink off. I've hired a few of those in my day where I've had them and asked them like, you know, they're going, well, they're done at four and when they would come and they would interview for the job, I almost stopped asking interview, regular interview questions. I would literally try to turn them off as far as I could to coming. I knew you were my doctor when you were shooting a fucking needle into my knee and we were talking about quay loops of 1982. Oh, hell yeah. That's when I said, well, this is what a doctor's office is about. Okay. I've been to these doctors office and they all walk around like they never got their dick sucked. You are a different type of fucking Sarah. I know your wife is here, but I can tell her. But it's very, oh, medicine is changing. Anybody who goes to a doctor now, and I know there's a lot of young people who watch this, but get ready, bitches, because medicine's changing. I don't know what's going on. The service isn't what it used to be. Very half-assed, very automated, you know, what's that? It's the insurance company. And you've got to remember, I grew up in a fucking society that I grew up in Union City. There was a doctor, there was two Cuban doctors in Union City. You were either team Cortina or team Del Valle. Team Cortina was a Cuban guy with a bow tie. That was very polite. He had two kids. Team Cortina. Very polite. And then team fucking Del Valle, that's the motherfucker that walked in your house. He would charge you $30 for a house visit. And you got to try to punish someone in your ass no matter what. And he left your mother a bottle of shot at penicillin and three syringes just increased. She had a shoot in the ass. And he couldn't make it back to the house. But all this, because he would come in, take my temperature, and then go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's throat again. Then he go, all right, let's talk about, they would go out and have two or three drinks. And he would come back. I understand. He would come back the last time to shoot me and be all coped up three in the afternoon to be, he'd be making faces. And I go, holy shit. In fact, like I told that would bump into him and this goes. And he would come up to me or something. You got anything for that? That he was still getting high at fucking 70 and early from a dissonal purpose. Yes, from a dissonal purpose. A medicine is changing. And it's great to have a doctor who's got a fucking personality. Well, my home, my, my doctor used to come with Dr. Cheerio. And he was like the barber in town in the way, too. Same thing, rule supplied. If you're going to call him for a home visit, you need to get him there before two o'clock in the afternoon, because by three o'clock, he would shot drunk. He would come in with the same jacket, same gravy stain on it, the red checkered coat, and the shirt that he would have on. He's had that one for at least 20 years that I remember. I'd run away from him because if you, if you broke your foot, you got a shot in the ass. That's constantly. That's that's why I have for the world's allergic to penicillin. This also, they would whack you with penicillin. And I ran away from him. I literally ran out of the door. My father had to chase me down. Because he was, he, I knew he was going to shoot me in the ass. No matter what. No matter what I did. And then he would go my crazy mom. Yeah, but he was drunk, too. Like he was drunk and he would have the city. Yeah. He'd have the city, but hanging out of his mouth and he was not in coke. This guy, though, I, he, high school, I was sitting at a level. Listen to me. In high school, I was trading in prescriptions. I would trade him eight ball of coke from prescription of D ball. For my buddy, who was a bodybuilder, and couldn't get the D ball, which is at the go to 35th and pal, pal, say it. I hope he's going. Kids in the fucking thing. He come out of San Antonio. What are you doing here? I can ask you a question. I go back to, hurry up, write me a prescription. I don't need this in the middle of the day. Like he'd say, that's good to me in Spanish, you know, but I didn't need this. Thank you for bringing that. Now you want that. He was a fucking animal. He was an animal. So that's the mindset I came from. You have to be a community involved. He knew everybody in the fucking community. Yeah. But you also had back then. And I've told my staff, I know Chris, who's here, too, who's on my staff. She's heard me say, like for the doctor to come to the house, because my father was so cheap. You could be, you'd have to be on the couch for three, four days, and he'd walk by and look and go, he's not looking good. You better get the doc like he but because my mother was the doctor who was, you know, completely off her rocker, you know, taking whatever she was taking. No, my mother was the doctor. Oh, no, my mother could barely read it. I might get it. And when she was awake, she, like, if you had a sinus infection, remember like Black Sabbath, she would squirt it up my nose. She'd give me whiskey with melted Vicks. I had to eat for you, Vicks. Yeah, I think so now Cubans put on ice Cubans. It's bad. I don't have my fuck Jack. And my father was so nuts. Do you remember the mustard plaster packs? They were called Mustarol. It was a hot like pack that you would put on your back and would stick to it. And he did it. I like because they were scared back then of pneumonia because people, in their day, died of pneumonia very often. And in fact, so he was so scared of it. He would, he stuck it and it was literally like June when he did it. I walked around with like a red patch on my back. It burned me so bad for the whole summer. I had to get sunburned to catch up with the red, but with the red I swear to God. It's even now. Yeah, it's even now. And it's like it looked like something like a hot dog, you know, on my back. I remember he, but he, you know, he was, you know, they were, they were both not really all there in a way. Well, they live in now culture too. They live in, they live in bricks and all that stuff. But, you know, what made you become a dog dog? I heard this is a question not to ask you. It wouldn't be here for a while, but let's start it. I, I really, it was almost in a way by accident. I didn't know what I want to do. I want to snider high school radio. All right. In Jersey City. And, you know, yeah, my formative here is when you say high school, not 1076. Boy. Hmm. Yeah. Do you remember a guy in Waukely Schneider? Waukely Ashley. Ashley. Yeah. He played right behind me. Yes. No, no, he literally played on me. I started ahead of him. Okay. Well, yes, I have pictures that I could pull up on my face. He, I actually think he may still be living in Minnesota. I just think about, oh, I'm going to say I have the pictures. We had a reunion. And, uh, football reunion. I was there and he was there and I have a couple of pictures with him, but yeah, he was a great player. I mean, he was, he fucking won a Monday night football game for me. He's kidding. He won a Monday night football with an interception. Yeah, it turned out to be a touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember it. I remember that shit, too. And he was captain of Penn State's theme. He did go to Penn State. Yeah. He went to Penn State. Wow. Yeah. Put out some linebacker there. And if you saw him, he's not all that big. He, but he was, he was big. With a beautiful one. He was, he was, he was, he was good as him. He fucked. So he played, you played football? I played football and the wonder, man, you freaking huge. And I gotta say, I don't like the huge, no, like big, not, not like that. Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, strong. Yeah, I like to consider myself felt, you know, but, you know, it's, I'm one of those people, like, I don't know how you were, but I'm sure you're the same. I can't just eat anything. This is what I look like watching my diet. You can only imagine. If I did, I could be 500 to more. I get people in all the time. When you asked, like, about being a doctor, a medical school, a medical school, one or two or twice, we would have these things called health promotion disease prevention. So what they would do when a Friday, they'd bring a patient in and we would sit, you know, and stupid, round thing and talk. And one, one of the things it was really hard for me is when they brought the end of rexican to talk and body, you know, body dysmorphism is really what it is. Look, I'm, you know, me being still from Jersey said, you go like this, what do you mean? You're not hungry. What does that feel like? You're not hungry. I'm always hungry for out like in about a half hour, you're going to be hungry, Joe. They're not hungry, they're not eating. They don't want to eat. You know, that disease could only happen in America, not or believe me or one of those. It's real, but it was really hard for me to sort of, you know, get my, you know, wrap my head around, because I'm like, I don't believe this boy, how could you not be hungry like you? And when they pull, you know, they're, they're close off and looking at mirror, though, they, they could weigh 90 pounds and see a fat person. I had a young kid. I don't know, do you remember him or the ex or cleaning people? People that were clean, they brought their kids to me. And he had lost so much weight. I stuck them in the hospital immediately. He nearly died. And it was touching go from literally not eating. And he was getting bullied and all that crap. The problem is I don't kind of go back to what you said before and your opener was. We got bullied, I got bullied, I got punched in the face and punched here to punch back. And I took a beating and gave a beating. And I think because of social media, I really do not that I have anything against it. We're doing it now. But most people, because of social media, I think that the kids have become socially imputations from, you know, they don't have, they don't have to talk to anybody. They, you know, rough, I remember my son who was in Hoboken and he's a software engineer. And his first job was in New York and he lived in Hoboken. So he was telling about the rules in the bar, maybe how old he is 30, so he's 35, right? And he's telling me and my wife about, well, it's a lot of trouble. If you see a girl, when you just go up, you can't go up and say hello. They say that's creepy, like what do you mean it's creepy? You see a girl in the bar, I said, how do you think I'm at your mother? We were in New York. It's on dumpy bar and I went up and said, I said to my friend, I like her. She walked in with a cowboy and I woke up and I used my best line job. I said, don't I know you and she told me to fuck off. That was her first two words to me and we're married 43 years ago. So he's giving me all these whole set of rules. You might be more familiar with, unless it's changed again, where if you're with a friend like your wingman, your wingman goes up and asks her wing person or whoever whatever you want to say for their telephone number so that you could text. This is why you're 55, 60 feet away to see if you want to meet each other and I go. So going up and saying, hey, hey, that's creepy, but what you're telling me, it's not creepy. I mean, it's crazy. So you were right about the kids and how all of it's changing, it's all changing. I definitely grew up in the right time for me because I couldn't have grown up in another time. I don't think. Why would I be in jail? Like, if they had, can you imagine when you were growing up, if you had phones that took pictures, you know, the pictures we would have taken, right? No, good. You wouldn't have to take pictures in my name, but it's party. They would have thrown them out of your hand and busted it on the ground. Yeah, they would tell you, no, they'd pull out. So yeah, so you're getting back, you had to come to talk to our play football, got a scholarship for it. I went to slippery rock, yeah, slimy pebble, slippery rock, slippery rock, yeah, I only went there because they gave me the most money, so they gave me a floor. I had a couple of other things, but I don't like Iowa to talk to you on a visit. I don't want to Iowa and actually believe it or not, worn out. Now, if you think I even knew what Cornell was at the time, you got a scholarship to Cornell. I could have. Okay. I fucked it up. Sorry. How do you mess up? Dan from Jersey said, I think my wife has heard the story more than once because she shows me the letter. So the coach at the time was, uh, do you remember the Niners coach, George Seifert, he's the one that recruited me and I went up and now you got to remember, I'd never been like when I put it to this one, when we were going on a honeymoon, my wife said, where do you want to go? Because she comes from like a human family. I said seaside, in my mind. And there's a whole story behind that too when we got there. I must pretty much wreck the honeymoon, I must make a long story, make a long story short where was I talking about, uh, you messed that up with Cornell, who cried. So they flew me up there and, you know, I got the speech from my coach before I went and they hook you usually with a, in my case, it was a junior and a senior. So they do that and they gave you a credit card. So of course I went immediately to the bookstore and put like $400 worth of stuff and, which you don't have to do unless you were shithead. And then we went to a bar then I got there on a Friday and saturday and went to a bar. And there's another college up there because Cornell is out right around the Ithaca and there's an Ithaca college so we're in a bar getting a fight naturally and of course you have to show off. So I help, you know, we busted the whole place up like an idiot and you always know you've got a problem when you're flying, when you're going back from a visit, from an official visit, when it's not the coach taking you back, it's one of the graduate assistants which was that it didn't go that well. So by the time I got to school on Monday, I walked in and my coach called me down and he goes, "Good job, kid, thanks for living up to everyone's expectations." But I didn't do anything. What was I supposed to do? It's all these, sorry. It's all these other guys that you're with. I didn't start the fight around, you think? I'm not saying it was disappointed, I'm just saying that when that happens, what are you supposed to do? I'm going to walk away from the guys, I'm with you, I'm going to do that. I don't think I would have known how to do that back then. Deny. Now I would. I limp. So I would just limp away. But did that once a school, got hurt, hurt my neck in school, hurt my knee and, you know, after that, back in those days, there was no no-cut injury clause. You either could play or you were in the tub, you're off the club, that's it. So came back home for a little bit, knelt around and then up on a mommoth until the money ran out for that. I went to like Bloomfield College, so classes, I went to Jersey State, but I took classes at Jersey State when I was in high school, just math class, this is because my high school didn't go beyond trigonometry. And the one thing I was good at was mathematics. I sucked at reading in English as you can hear, terrible, just don't get it, I don't understand it. I was in my, in college, I was in like, they called it a lab. So it was me and six other idiots that were in there. Because I just couldn't really understand, I still have a problem with English, but it turned out as they put me through some, they sent me to some workshops, turned out that I have bad attention deficit disorder, which back then I was just one of those, you know the kid that had the desk up against the teachers, you don't remember that shit, you might, you might five minutes, I meant, and my brother, who was ahead of me, went to school, it always happened every year, they go, oh, you're learning his brother, blah, blah, blah, oh good, within two weeks it was always, I can't believe that you're, that you're learning his brother, he was about three years ahead of me because I couldn't sit still, I still can't right now, you see me fidgeting. So for the most part, I didn't have any, I didn't do any, did you do anything in high school? No, I didn't, I think I wrote one paper, I quit and they did, yeah, I see the year, you know, my senior year we were, we went back and most of this, we were allowed to have 85 days off, you know that, well, I missed 84, and my coach, I missed the day, I told him, you're not going to graduate, you missed another day, that's how close, that's how close it came, it could have gone, you know how that goes, could have gone either way, could have gone good, could have gone bad, and I was very, and it turns out I got interested, really interested in chemistry is what it was, and I was, and well, you get interested in what you're good at, yeah. So I was cooking chemistry, I liked it, and the first time it ever, the ever, the thought of becoming a doctor was in the old days, they would have these clock boards all around, you know, in the buildings, there'd be, you know, flyers on them and stuff, and it said, "I'm going to be an eye doctor," I ripped it off, filled it out, I had a letter they sent for my transcripts, sent that, and then I got an interview, it was a base state institute of applied sciences, and I'm tomatry in Boston, I didn't even know, where an optometrist was, I had no idea, so I called my brother and he said, "Jerk off, you know what an optometrist is?" I go, "Some kind of eye doctor." He goes, "When you come home, which I did, I'll hook you up with a guy in Journal Square that he knew there was an optometrist." So I get there about nine o'clock in the morning, and that's when they had the big black glasses, and there goes, "This better, is this worse, is this better, is this?" Well, I can only tell you this. After an hour, I said, "Oh, I'm going to get some coffee," and he goes, "Jerk, we have coffee in the back, I got an eye doctor, Greek coffee." He wasn't Greek coffee, he had a little blue cup with the columns on there, so it was Greek coffee. By walk I never went back, so I'm Robert Lecoux. me about two days later. He said, you did it. And Jericho, you didn't even go back and say, thank you, you just love. I say, you want me to kill myself or put a gun in my mouth on that all day with those big glasses. So that's really part of it. Then I decided to be a chiropractor. I had a bed neck. And my father said to me, there was a guy on West Side Avenue in this guy, Tony Jericho. And he said, miracle man, my father called. So I went down to him. And he did help me with my neck. So I said, I'll be a car brand. Know how I was going to go. I don't want to have any money. But I got academic money, student loans and some other stuff I went. And then I graduated and practiced as a chiropractor for about how long? Eight years. Seven, eight years. One wife, two kids, seven, eight years. And I got bored. And it was just one didn't do it for me. I got bored. So I had an application to law school and medical school. My wife called that in my hand. I said, which one? And I was doing well in practice. I had four practices doing well. How do you do it yet this time? I didn't go back to medical school until I was about 31. It'd been great. And I decided to go back and it was medical school. Well, if I said a chiropractor, I'd have been retired or ready. So I don't know if that makes me smarter dumb, but like I didn't enjoy it. And I didn't like what I know I didn't. It wasn't enough for me and not for cracking people. Well, then when I got to medical school, I went, Jesus Christ, I can't believe I was doing that. It could happen. So make a long story short. I went back to medical school. I didn't get in here. I got wait listed at a few places. So I went to school all the way in Maine at University of New England. I did my first year there. And I used to drive home almost whatever, almost every week. I guess I had a one-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter. A six-year-old daughter. And it does wonders to the marriage. Now, she hated me. I didn't blame her, but there was nothing I could do. I applied the school back here and I got into UMD, NJ University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey. So that's the one I was telling you when I was telling my father, he was saying, "You seem to be a dentist." He said, "No, it's a University of Medicine and Dentistry." So it's a dent. You're going to be, he would tell, but he's going to be a dentist. Finally, you just go, "Yes, I'm going to be a dentist." So I went to medical school and the story just gets worse. And I did well in medical school, all that medical school, and there was a problem. I loved what I was doing. And I really want to learn medicine. So I finished up after I graduated, did a residency in medicine and just regular medicine, like your friend that thought. And I got bored with that really quick. And went back and started training in spine and joint. And I ended up doing spine and joint. And I did ultrasound. It had ultrasound and a little ton of ultrasound training. And that's where I am now. I'm too old, I think, to do anything else now. Not that old. What are you right now today? By definition. Yeah. "Interventional spine and joint," which is, I'm sort of in a way, a crossbeade. It's interventional pain. So I do a lot of interventional pain. The reason I ended up going and doing more joint was, "Why do you think I'm going to let you guess?" Because if there are 10,000 epidorals and facet blocks and all of this is the regular stuff, it's like, "How much does that shit can you do?" It's like, "Why I don't think I could have done worse though?" It is because I've been in on 1,000 orthoscopies on a knee. And there's not a lot of thinking in my opinion, though. So that's probably why I spend more time with the patient is trying to figure stuff out. So it sort of comes back to my medical roots of learning how to figure things out before I stick in a needle. Any idiot can stick a needle on. I could teach anybody, almost anybody, to stick a needle. But it's sometimes what not to do is more important. And I do a lot of regenerative medicine, orthobiologics, where I use people's blood. And I use PRP, which is platelet-rich plasma stem cell. I'll take a fat graph, like from their belly, on the operating table, and put it into their rotator cuff, and patch it, and bear it, and things like that, rather than getting a full open surgery. But I do everything through a very small hole. I do all the normal stuff, like all the spine, the regular spine and pain stuff. Oh, no. I was just thinking, "Can you do that with the knee too with the fat?" Well, yes, we do that with that quite a bit. But it depends on when you get the patient. So if I'd have gotten his knee probably three years before he had his first total knee, which went to shoot it anyway, more than likely I might have been able to save or salvage his joint. The joint salvage program, but it all depends. The one thing is most of that part of it, the insurance company will pay me for the intervention or the procedure, but they don't pay for the orthobiologics, like PRP and stem cell and things like that. They should, but they don't. Now they'll pay the death to just keep whacking your joint with cortisone, because we know, and I could show people a million papers. And we still do it, including myself at times, when it's necessary. I don't like to use steroids in a joint, because we know it destroys it. That's why I would guarantee you that your doctor said to you before your first knee replacement, you got some cortisone shots, I'm sure. Correct, right? No. You never had a cortisone shot before the replacement. No. What would you do? Nothing? Did you have any gel put in? Did they put the gel shots in? You and I both know that gel sucks dick. Now, it depends on who puts it in. Okay. That gel. It depends on the shape of your knee, but your knee might have been so far. When we look at a knee, we stage it from one to four for being the worst. And well, that's the stage. And there's three different staging methods. I just used one through four or the KL, so the gal, a galog system. And if you're between, if I catch a knee, that's a low three. I can usually save it. Now that requires work. It's some work. I mean, if they have cysts under the bone, because the carloids were away, I will take them to the operating right. We'll drill into that, take their bone marrow and put it in. Now, that's technically an orthoplasty, which an ortho would do, but they would put something like tack the set in, which is a cement, instead of trying to revitalize and regenerate the joint. So yeah, now just sticking stuff in the joint is okay, what it doesn't do is go to unless you get to the root of the problem, especially in the knee. A lot of there's a lot of dependent factors. How big is the person? What's the BMI? Are they diabetic? All the things that might mitigate healing? So since you're dealing with that and some of the procedures are expensive. Oh, shit, right. So I, well, I, I didn't charge you shit. I have to see friends. No, no, no, no. All the procedures that led up to this were a fucking nightmare. Well, here's the funny story. I have a neighbor who's got a fucked up knee. My knee, my knee, my knee. I said, before you do anything, BPC 157 for a few weeks and see how it feels. My knee that shit don't work. Meanwhile, he's playing football on the 60 year old. He got lucky. Right. Like, you know, you know, the problem with the BPC is there's not enough data available. And listen, I'm not one of these docs that go, oh, only we know, no, it's like when I would get a patient and then there was heavy and they wanted something to take the way they are. Come on, doc, and I'm looking at him going, what? I'm fucking holding out. I'd be taking it. Yes. No. He was the funny thing. You what? He did the BKK and he did the, the other shit and it worked. He felt a lot better. And he's like, I don't know. I sent him down to my stem cell place. You have a stem cell place? You're cheating? Yeah, I got a stem cell place in Washington, Texas. Oh, who, they caught ways to well. If you're in Texas and you know, I'll tell you who to go. No, it's the guy's name is Buford. So you fucking threw me off the story. So well, you he had a bad knee. He sent him down to Texas to your stem cell. He came back. I asked him, weeks later, how did that work out? He goes, my knee feels great. I go, did you do the stem cell goes? No, I was a grand enough. he goes, "Soft feels a lot better already because a brand is going to fucking bang it out of you." Well, but that's why you have to stratify your patience because a lot of people, and there's a lot of guys in my air, a lot of docs in my air. I should say, that's how they do stem cell, and they're charging people's stem cell rate, which is about anywhere from five to eight thousand, depending on what you're doing, and they're giving them byproduct. They're basically getting either worms jelly or ant, what we call amniotic, and that's not stem cell. Now it's dead growth factors, and it's from someone else, and there's been about eight infections with them, staff infections. It had a very specific use for intersubstance tears in it and the killings were, and the first one out was called flow graft, because I used it. But it is not. They're charging people six, seven, eight thousand bucks for that, and not there's one. That's why I wanted Germany a Panama. There's one way. Well, you're still going to pay there. I mean, you're going to pay the air for it. You're going to pay just for it to stay. But it's still not expensive. It's taking it here. Yeah, but the staff infection you might get is. Yeah, that too. And, but there's some, there's some off. There are some places, there's more to places in the Virgin Islands like Regenix. That is very, very good. They're an American owned company. I know the direct medical director, he owns Regenix in the United States, Chris in Tano, and he's absolutely brilliant. He ran Balorsburg University, Balorsburg, and he's fantastic. But some of the places you really, you really got to get, you got to really be careful. I mean, they're, they're scary. There's a lot of scary guys in Jersey. This guy here, when you see RFK at the White House, bring him and stand next to him. He's the one that's getting all these peptides pushed. The guy at weight 17th of this past year, we were supposed to be, quote, we were supposed to be allowed for God by rep, a reputable compound or my guy certified by the state to be able to get BPC 157 and TB with it, okay? And, you know, there's 49 states in this Jersey. Jersey's just the one of those. Owners states. And he pushed that. Now, apparently, it is, from what I hear recently, is that before the end of the year, they're going to get the peptides passed. And I'm all forward except there's still just a lot of bro data, which is, you know, bro data is your stuff at the gym, okay? I picture myself when I was 18, telling someone that this shit right here was going to, you get to, and you can put it on anything. It was like, that movie at a Greek, I sprayed Windex on everything. My Greek wedding, that'd be perfect. I mean, we give it, yeah, it was the same thing. And that's what ends up happening. The fact is, nothing's a pain. I say nothing. However, there are good techniques, medicines much better than I was, even when I started. And it's continually getting better, especially with, you know, the addition of AI now, it's, you know, it helps cut to the chase. But it still can't diagnose you. That's the problem. In my opinion, anybody can go online, punch their symptoms and it's still not as good. You know, I still like, you know, I do corporal tunnel surgeries, right? Well, my incision, for instance, my incision is literally not even a full centimeters, point five or point four centimeters, which is four millimeters, five millimeters. And I go through this side of the rest. And I don't even stitch my patients. They're still doing ones where we learned initially to cut down the same increase here. They've got 15 stitches in them and they're splunted for four weeks. My people go to work the next day. And from the corporal tunnel surgeries, I do. And that was the addition of ultrasound, because I have to make a small hole to go through. And there's no downfall. That's the same thing I'm talking about with your knee, your back, your hip, anything like that. But it's all when I, when you get it, like when it, when you get it, if I get them early enough, I can do it. And usually fix just about, just about anything. There's two or three different tears of a meniscus that definitely needs surgery that I, you know. And if you're honest with them, you don't want to say, let me try this. And then, and then you blow their money because people know when you're in their pocket. And if you're in their pocket, it's my father said, don't treat people stoop it because you're a jerk off them because they know when you're in their pocket. He's right. He was right about that is they'll know they just cause, you know, you don't think they will, they will. And, um, but that's one of the reasons when we get back to spending the time with patients. I literally hurt my back today on what pay, the patient literally before coming here today. Because I mean, the guy was in an awful lot of pain. He's been to 10 doctors and nobody really looked at the guy. We're probably going to get him fixed, but nobody looked in the right place. He's got two different problems is that's his problem. They were trying to tie it to one. And that's the one thing in medicine, you know, one of those, you don't put the square peg in around the hole. It's what's in your head. It doesn't make any sense. It's me a question, you know, blown the fuck away. Why? Because you're fucking a genius. Yeah, man. I don't know about that. Yeah, the rules. Get from Jersey City 31. You're rocking out. Well, you know, they always say you can take the kids. Oh, yeah, yeah, I got in trouble. And I probably shouldn't help the story. Go ahead. No, no, no, I'm talking about stories. I don't want to get in trouble. They want to threaten me. No, I just want you to, you know, I want you to be a fucking gentleman on it. Okay. We can't talk about the shit I used to do. No, no, I was a doctor. You'd see a lot of bloke. There's half of America. Half of America would walk into your office and turn around. No, I know. The first time you said fuck, or my ass is I really try to tighten that down, but no, but I want somebody. I mean, I want somebody who was like, hold on one second. And they'll go pull my finger and you fart. Even if it's in the fucking little room with a doctor, that'll break. I want you to ask my wife, I'm not going to look over there. Donna, when I'm on Instagram, this is my favorite guy. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. I get it up. Listen, I'm 63 and I still giggle with farts, especially when I fuck myself and cut myself. Have you seen that guy? No, you would like him. I mean, he throws the leg out, and he's fantastic. And I like the reaction of people's faces where they actually jump sideways like they're getting hit with something. But I'd probably do the same thing, but I'd be busy laughing. Yeah. I'd do that on train, just from my own entertainment. Okay. No cameras. Oh, I would. Yeah. I was fine. I look at somebody else. Some people get offended. I, you know, my staff knows. I always say, look, I'm not for everybody. I know that. Yeah. I don't want to be. I know what I'm good at. And I know. And I know what I'm not. You take chances of the doctor. And I like that too. You take chances. It's not the strict. It's like somebody said to me a day, oh, I went to see my doctor Friday, the family doctor. You know, she always tells me I got to get the finger up the ass, the test. And my father liked that when he went to my new doctor. Yeah. No, he had a new doctor and he didn't like that, but he had to go. And then when he came back, I said, how was he? Because it's not pretty. It's Thursday. It's like a finger in my ass. That's what he said. What I was going to tell you, which get finished. No, I forget. Now you don't forget. Yeah. I forget the bridge. You forgot somebody sticking their finger in your ass. No, no, no, it wasn't about that. That's why you threw me off. I'm sorry. I'm that's my ADD day. That's not much to tell me to like not go to bed anymore. I'm recovering. But no, when I went to see her the other day, it was just, she goes, do you want it? Because I told her that I'm getting like sciatica sometimes on my leg, on my arm. She goes, do you want to go back to PT? And I go, no, I go, no, I'm not going to go to PT that you people schedule because it's a bunch of people making fucking no money that you train them in three months. And they just go, no, no, they, when you go in there, you don't even, they don't even want you to be that. You're going to teach right now. Yeah, I go to TJ for that reason. But they'll just go when I have some of those, do either of those, do fire with those, then you can go home. You're not doing nothing for me. No, we call those. I'm squeezing. I'm putting the other balance on the ball and then ride the bike for 20 minutes. Well, good does that fucking do it? They don't look at the knee. They don't ice it. They don't touch it. So I'm like, why am I going there? That means, The insurance company hit me up. We can't cover it to pride. Forget it. Forget it. I'm fucking riding a bike on my own or something. They're not doing a fucking job, and this is what's going on. Listen, I'm a screen-actors guild, fucking member for cleaning our ears. Do you know I have no fucking insurance? No fucking insurance. I'm part of a fucking union. No insurance, because during the pandemic, they stop residuals from counting as your income throughout the year. It is your fucking income. But now nobody's getting insurance, because nobody works that much no more. So that's the world I live in. I'm 63 with no fucking insurance. Three grand in the month, I pay. How the fuck is that possible? I did everything I'd do to stay out of prison. I pay my taxes, and I still don't have no fucking insurance. - True. If you were in prison, you can at least get the same thing. - Yeah, you can pee and shit. They say you don't love Carolina. You go there for an eye thing. They say, "We'll finger up your ass." It always goes back to the finger up your ass, right? But that's what's going on. And people get, "I get frustrated." I go, "I'm fucking frustrated." They get frustrated because the first 30 minutes, I'm going to adopt this, what medication are you on? Listen, lady, you see my wife? You see my fucking wife. You don't see my wife. Don't even ask. Don't even ask. I'm trying to run a house, a 30 year old, write jokes, do a podcast, and you want to know what fucking prescription I take in the morning? There's 38 of those bitches. There's 38 of those fucking things. You want to run them, and when they run it by you, I'll just, yes, but that. I'm from Jersey. - Yeah, too. - My schedule's with my paperwork and everything. - I could get them, do I not? - I could get them back. Like I can't take it away with them. - Eight in the morning. - I can throw a shit out, then like-- - Eight in the morning. - I know for a fucking EKG, and you get then, oh, he's a 22 page survey. Listen, I just had one cup of coffee in a bowl, and that right now, he just asked me the same shit every fucking time. Did you smoke cigarettes? No, I'm just here 'cause my wife's looking at me. - You mean today? - I don't know. - No, no, I meant when they asked you about the smoking. - And then you go to the doctor, and it's eight minutes. - Well, look at this fucking leaf doctor I had before. Hasn't even called to say, how is the pain? How is anything? They're waiting for me to go back then in December. - Did you get the same person to the revision to-- - No, no. You want to hear the difference? - Because the fucking dude who did the original, he was three days from being retarded. I am sorry, he was three or four days from being retarded. I don't like talking bad about doctors than nice people. This guy wasn't even nice, he was egotistical. And it was, you know, you could show him the x-ray with the fucking kneecap in Arkansas. - And he's like, you got to go back to PT. PT at the answer, bitch. Again, with these people, we don't know what they're talking about. You're just making me go six weeks, three times a week when people don't even talk to you when you're there. - I can tell you really angry on this. - I would give my PT, I would bring my PT girl weed. And she'd go smoking while I'm doing her exercises. This is the world by living, 'cause I always show up with something for them. - Well, I don't like going if we end it. - What's that? - You don't like showing up empty-ended. - No, but still, I mean, it was just to the point where it's getting, we need an answer. So people like me, yeah, thank God, I have a friend like Joe Rogan, who took me to that regenerative thing and they fucking do the right thing, buddy. - Yeah, Joe's way ahead of the curve. - Joe, at least I got that, that I'm a medicine in 2026. And now I'm a medicine in 2026 with you. So I'm very grateful about that. I got two guys who aren't living in 2018 no more. They're scared of this. They can't do this. What the fuck can you do? - I run into that quite a bit. And it's a lot of it, and you'd be surprised. Even some of the new ones coming out trained. And they're like, you're going, what are you doing? Like, why would you do that? Not only that, especially with some of the spine surgeries that I say and have assisted on and done all that, where that isn't going to work. I know beforehand, it's like, I could do probably another 30, 40, 50, probably epidurals a month if I wanted to. But when I look at their x-rays and examine them, if it's not going to work, like they're going to get what, five days of relief, maybe 10, not going to do it. They're still big rest, they're still risky procedure. And if it's not going to work, pardon my friends, but you look like a douchebag after it. And then what are you going to do? Get my couple epidurals and make my money and say, can't help you? If I know I can't help them early on, I'm going to tell them and my staff would testify to that. They know me better. We'll never do that, but I see it all the time. I see it in particular, my specialty in pain, I see it all the time, I see it in regenerative medicine too, like you want the stem cell clinic? Well, I had a patient actually that came, I was at a step who was a patient of mine. Someone talked to me going into US stem cell in Florida and his name was Vince and they did a shoulder in knee, they charge him 6,000 for his knee, 8,000 for his shoulder. So when I'm quite in his wife was with him because he wasn't the brightest bulb, great guy. But I mean, really just slid in under the genetic tag, if you know what I mean, where the romp goes like, yeah, safe, okay? But barely, but a great guy. And he was Jim Rat. And I said, well, when they did it, did they use guidance, did they use ultrasound, did they use fluoroscopy when they were, now I asked them why they weren't, I go 'cause he had been to me before and someone talked to him and he said, they said their answer to him was, oh, no, the cell's nowhere to go. Yeah, well, they do know where to go, but you're still putting them in the right place where the tear is, maybe, that might help a lot more. Not only that, they charge them 8,000, 6,000 and the other and $698 a month to keep some of the stem cells frozen. Meanwhile, as soon as you looked at the procedure, I knew it was BS because they drew 1,500 CCs. There's only one way you get stem cell and that is bone marrow. If you're not getting bone marrow taken, it is not stem cell. You can use fat, fat is similar, meaning we call it a pluripotent cell, which means that if you drop that cell into whatever, what you sort of whatever environment, the periocytes, which is what you have in your fat, will adjust to that and sort of modify themselves to that and make new cells. But it's not stem cell, it's adipose. But it works for the right thing, for the wrong thing won't hurt you, but you can waste your money. They took 1,500 CCs. Really, if you get stem cell or anybody listening, this ever gets stem cell. And it should be from your own bone marrow and it should be from three sites. There should be three different bone marrow sites and no more than 10 to 15, let's say even 20 CCs, which are much smaller because unless, if they're pulling a big 150 to 100 CCs out of one place, you're just getting immature red blood cells that are in your bone marrow. You're not getting stem cells. The other thing is there's no true way to count the stem cell. That's why you gotta be accurate with it. We do what's called nucleated cell counts, where we look at certain nucleated cells and it gives us a guess to them. It's not like PRP, where we can absolutely measure the amount of platelets that are going in. We know and we know we want to get five to seven billion in the injection, okay? And it's about 10 to the seventh, 10 to the fifth, 10 to the sixth, 10 to the seventh. And when you're doing that, that's a treatment protocol that's defined with good data. I see so many people get ripped off, they get turned off to something that would have helped them, they just didn't get it done right. You know, obviously, I'm sure Rogan's going to a good guy. I wonder if I was watching, do you ever see Dave Rubin? He's also, he's on YouTube, he has YouTube, he's got a fairly sizable audience as well. And he tours Rotator cuff up, and he went to somebody in Florida. And actually, I think the guy literally, after he did his shoulder, he got in the dock pass the way. And, but his shoulder's better. That's the consolation, but the fact is, is that you got to know where you're going, especially you're going to put money out of your pocket. You're going to put money. I don't care what it is. I don't care if it's a hundred bucks. You better, you know, the first object is, make sure they walk out better than they walked in. If they can, if they feel better walking out than they did walking in, that's the first, that's the, that's the first hurdle, you know? Now, not everybody's the same, obviously. Well, you know, listen, listen to you guys talk before. You know how people are, they're crushing. They can suck your soul. They can. I really can. So I last week I had a patient that I'm telling you when I walked out of the room, at least 5% less life force was left in me. Like, like they just, like a succubus. But like I say, that's sort of the, you know, that's the cross that you bear. And I go home to my beautiful, lovely wife and she's talking to me. And, you know, I'm like, I can't hear Helen Keller. You know, I can't speak any. Crazy. But I do do my best. But like you said, you work your ass off. And, you know, to me, what do I call myself? A high-priced waiter, correct? Yeah, that's the way I think of it. Because I grew up waiting tables and service. And that's really where I learned about people, how nice they are. Because good meal, they come back for another. Give them a bad meal. Then I come back, it's that simple. And a lot of doctors, especially the ones where the sun took over for the father and I'm sure you've met them, right? They suck. Maybe because they didn't have to work for anything. Yeah, of course, I'm sure it's not universal. But for the most part, the ones that I knew, they suck because they didn't care. They're walking into a ready-made practice. They're the solace, but when they rest their entire life. So they treat people like shit. I'm one of the things why I was literally, you wouldn't believe it. It's almost funny to say, but I was a professor at UMD for 25 years. And taught medical students, residents, doctors. And they would spend three months with me at a time. And they would all do the same thing. They would come in and guarantee everybody here's been to a doctor's experience. They'd come in, they sit on the stool, they turn their back and ask you questions, and taking your history. And the first piece of equipment you have are your eyes when you're looking at a patient. You want to look, you want to make eye contact, you want to see how they are, right? Once you have they feel, they get a lot of pain. Something else going on, you know, there's something else going on in their life, causing them some pain. It's not that it may be overtly pertinent, but down the road it could be. And I was taught to look in people's eyes. So they trust you. My father would, two seconds, he said, if they're looking up, they're lying. If they look down and then up, they had to go get their lie. That's what he was talking about. And I've taught my kids that probably, and racked them like I got racks, okay? But I don't like people that don't look me in the honor, constantly looking around, trust them. And it makes me, yeah. And like I said, you can take the drugs and you can't help when you can't take drugs from the out of the kid. And it's kind of true. What I was going to tell you was, I got to come after me in the emergency room, and he was right up in my face. I was an ER doc doing my rotation, I was, and then I used to moonlight and some ERs and stuff and this one, but anyway, and got up in my face and was really, and this was in Camden. And as I trained in Camden, great place to learn. Oh yeah. And I'll put it to this where I got in a little bit of trouble. So you're not allowed to say, don't let the stethoscope fool you motherfucker. (laughing) Because I mean, he was really really like, I would, I would say I was hoping he was kind of sweating, but there was, he was an asshole. And Al Cicatti, who was my chief, Jerry, can't do that. I go, you saw what you did. It's like the first time I went into the psych unit, the lockdown, yeah, when you're in there, they put you in as a victim, more. (laughing) They put me in for observations. They think, no, no, no, no. But I will tell you this, the first time I was in, I was a medical student, a third year of medical student, you go in, and you're in lockdown, and if you've ever heard someone that's manic, when they're in mania, and they're actually manic, kind of like I am now, so I'm taking this history on this guy's in there, and like the FBI and the CIA, and this and that, and people following him, you scared the death. So when the doc, I go back to the attendant, and he goes, how'd you do? I go, hey, one of those guys got bedding, so I mean, he's got, like, people following him and this and that goes, Jerry, he's bipolar. (laughing) I want to really, I mean, the stories were so lucid, and so factual, down to any detail. You know, I felt like it, though, she'd be a gangster, but it was a great story. I couldn't wait for the next one. (laughing) I swear, I'm being honest with you. And I'm telling you, they can fool you. I still website these guys could find you at. What? The website, where they could find you at, and come up to your website. See, this is the part. You give me mathematics, quadratic equation. It can do it. My website, I'm not sure I can get it one. Huh? All right, you don't have to read. What is it? Jersey ASR. No, JerseyJSR, which stands for JerseyJSR. How could JerseyJSR? JerseyJSR, is that what it is? JerseyJoint. It's JerseyJoint. That is the name of my play. JerseyJSR, that's how you find this fucking beauty. I want you to know that the Jersey is real. And I was, of course, I made the name, JerseyJoint, spine and region. I like it. I like it too. Not that I would ever touch that. (laughing) Well, if you have any questions, you can give me a call. If you have a surgery and you're scared. Mention Joe Diaz. Mention Joe Diaz, I don't mention Joe Diaz because he might stab even harder. No. But at least when he stabbed me, I'm talking pain. I'm ready to faint. And he's talking about quay ludes. I'm like, hold on, I gotta hit this fucking story. So it stopped me from faint like a little bitch. But I'm in Austin Thursday night. I think the show's sold out. And then we got shows at West Nyac on the 29th of October. Chicago at the 312 Comedy Festival on the 5th. And Riverside, theater and Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the fucking 7th. And then we're at the beautiful park Casino the night before Thanksgiving, rocking and rolling, giving out condoms the whole fucking field. You follow me? You feel me? Pedro, where you at this week? You sexy savage. I'll be at the Dojo Wednesday. I'll see you there. Words to those. Morris Plains, New Jersey. Okay, when are you going to be down and point again? Point Pleasant. Shit. Maybe no member. The January 8th. I know. Because I'm going to show a lot of people. I will get a favor. Yeah. Maybe do December. I'll be up. I'll be up. I'll show you. I'm not the schedule. It's always a pop up. I'm going to be Wednesday. Yeah. Shortly. So we're going to be doing your niche rolling. I'll put you to sleep for a little bit. I know. And touch you inappropriately. Oh, shit. I like it. Shit. I know that. I don't remember. Yeah. We've all been there. I love you guys. Have a great week. I want to thank Dr. Vernon for coming back on here. And my sidekick, beautiful Pedro the Cuban. And I'm your uncle Joey Diaz. Have a great week. Thanks. Stay Black. We love you. [MUSIC PLAYING]