Hi kids you are about to listen to a
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welcome to the Jock Doc Podcast featuring
Dr. London Smith he’s a trained medical
professional in the streets but low-key
a savage in the shoes introducing your
host hello and welcome to the jock doc podcast
where we discuss fitness and health and
how to incorporate our modern
understanding of science and medicine
into our daily lives but without it
being so boring I’m your host dr. London
smith (.com)
I would like to begin by apologizing to
our listeners we have received some
feedback some complaints about my
frequent use of technical terms such as
vegetative state and cold front coming
through so I will try to restrain myself
from that terminology in the future here
to help with that is our producer
Cameron what’s the tale dr. L ok well
yeah so Cameron he he works so hard to
stay relevant to the people of this
world that when he heard that it was
sweater weather he spent three full days
outside staring at the sky with
binoculars in an attempt to be the first
to spot this so-called sweater weather
and all of this and it does not exist I
can prove it well that’s proving a
negative there right is that possible
yeah can I prove that there’s a hole
somewhere a holes a negative okay I’m
just if you can I not prove that a
doughnut has a hole and in that same way
prove that there is no such thing as
sweater weather okay well in any case
there is things like clouds weather is
things like lightning so sweater weather
is actually I believe in reference to
the way that you address
in response to the weather if that makes
sense
the weather is like rain right NATO’s
typhoons hurricanes right well I think
in this case it’s more of a reference
like it’s more of a Cure’s sweaters are
things like cotton turtlenecks v-necks
maybe silk you know okay well in any
case also with us is DJ DYLAN IN DA HOUSE
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the doctor
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nice one DJ Dylan how oh and later
Cameron tells me that we can expect a
personal trainer on the show so look
forward to that that’s right dr. London
it’s always nice to bring up sort of the
the jock part of the jock doc I think it
gets neglected I think maybe I don’t
know you’re it’s kind of your nerdy
bully behavior you know that it pushes
the jock types away from this podcast
you think that being a nerdy bully makes
the jock stay away yeah I think I think
because you kind of lured your you know
your genius medical advice over everyone
it pushes a lot of the cool guys like
the jockey sport guys away okay and so
we that’s why we rarely have them on as
a guest I don’t want to be here because
they don’t want to be here with someone
who’s gonna say oh you’re so stupid I’m
so much smarter than you
well I don’t I don’t think that I really
talk like that to people yeah you say oh
oh yeah sorry can you even read this
it’s not a basketball I feel like that’s
not how I like you dude the way that I
tell story this doesn’t say sorry the
thing that I’m writing to you doesn’t
say Spalding on it it’s not the only
thing you know to read is the word
Spalding
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well before we move on I would like to
address a bit of listener feedback this
comes from the mild meatball podcast
they were very kind they took the time
to record a video review of our podcast
oh yeah specifically episode 23 so not
too long ago a regular Ebert and Roeper
or Siskel sure yeah you know all right
DJ Dylan yeah could you play that for us
what’s up jock doc sorry I’m whispering
my roommates asleep I guess maybe I’m
not shocked doc it’s mr. doctor London
so first of all up top I really like
this guy
he kind of puts us in the room with him
yeah you know a lot of reviews I have no
sense of where these people are typing
out these critiques yeah and there we
really know yeah I go to Rotten Tomatoes
and I read a review and I have no I mean
is this person at a beach are they at
home in their bed I know that this
person is near his sleeping roommate
yeah and it really sort of gives you a
sense of urgency he had to get that out
at that time he couldn’t wait oh yeah an
hour whenever say and roommates weren’t
asleep find a quiet place to record real
quick well and depending on how many
roommates he has there’s a good chance
there’s always a roommate asleep okay
you know there’s a possibility that at
any given hour in a 24-hour period
there’s gonna be at least one asleep
roommate and that was maybe the best
time for him yeah yeah maybe this is the
least noisy maybe his other roommates
when they’re sleeping are just night
yeah reviewing the other podcasts oh
that’s what it is and they don’t want to
be bleed-over
yeah yeah you don’t want a good review
going a bad podcast or yeah I think that
is it okay
um I guess my quick review would be like
I think your intro was way too long yeah
it’s way too long I think it’s really
hard to tell the characters apart and I
think that I don’t know who this is for
like is it for kids because the voices
and the way you bleep cuss words makes
me think it’s for kids okay so that is
helpful yeah and I do I do want to maybe
mention to our audience that the reason
of the intros are usually so long most
of the time when we start this podcast
I’ve got my hand stuck in something yeah
I’m trying to stall for a little bit
just to figure this out before we invite
the guests in and it’s amazing because
we’ve taken precautions here I’ve come
in it very early and you know just said
keep your hands where I can see them
keep them on the table but like today
your hand is stuck in the table yeah
like we tried to take that precaution
and I I don’t understand how you do it
well you know how in I guess it was
where the Red Fern Grows where they
build those traps to catch raccoons and
it involves like putting something shiny
into a like a kind of like a Chinese
finger trap type of device or something
and they sticks his arm down there tries
to grab it and as long as it’s holding
it it’s trapped yeah yeah and so that
keeps happening sort of yeah pretty much
everything is like that for me
anything that can I can accidentally
drop something down becomes that
situation unfortunately yeah well so if
I if I drop let’s say a ring or
something down the sink you know my arm
is gonna get stucked on that sink
immediately which actually says I think
as a doctor you should really be
preventing this you know what’s gonna
happen like I said I’m trying but I
don’t know how your hand got stuck in
this table like I I don’t get it you had
your hands on top and then suddenly one
of your hands was within it so a very
creative guy yeah like there’s no drawer
it’s just I’m me I’m unique
oh sorry not gonna apologize and one of
them note which sounds true
so the intro is whenever I introduce
it’s the jock Dawg podcast my name is
dr. London smith.com DJ Dylan’s here
Cameron’s here so that was the intro and
I didn’t feel like it was overly long
the rest of it I mean the the meat of
the podcast is obviously the the medical
topic so that but that’s not the intro
that’s later so I’m not sure what the
problem is there oh and also one big
point Cameron has done marketing in such
a way that this apparently is tailored
for children this podcast oh yes yeah
absolutely he asked he didn’t know who
this was for because we’re bleeping out
cuss words I believe there was one
single cuss word that was bleeped out in
that episode yeah something like that
and so obviously it it’s obviously
tailored for I mean benign and under
crowd yeah which this whole show is yeah
which my whole life is your whole life
yeah okay well everything I do is trying
to get some laughs out of these kids how
do you how do you break them down there
are other things you figure them out
I can definitely yeah I’ve definitely
been aware of how you’ve been targeting
children with your beer your marketing
for your beer your homemade beer which
once again don’t say targeting targeting
I feel like has has a weird connotation
to it I’m trying to become kind of a
21st century mr. Rogers that’s basically
the goal with the beer how do you mr.
Rogers did it with puppets
back in the day that worked for the you
know the 70s it’s not the 1770s anymore
it’s 2019 right okay so how do we bring
these kids on board you give them some
of this beer that yes causes suicide you
you know get them listening to a cool
right DJ Dylan if you could bleep out
really loudly the cuss word that I just
said okay well I suppose to not let’s
play the rest of the qualities of the
arch listeners right yeah we can just
listen to the rest of it then sure sure
but I also don’t think kids are really
listening to podcasts but I’ll oh no one
of the character sounds exactly like
Ullman Wilson which is I guess you’re
going for that was actually that was a
big get for us we didn’t I was about to
say I do want to address that we had
Owen Wilson in the room yeah and he was
doing his I was gonna say voice but yeah
we had Owen Wilson for that episode yeah
I guess I don’t understand why that’s a
negative at all yeah no I’ve seen that
seemed good to me sorry go on go on
that’s cool um I will say that I think
you guys have a really good sound design
I think the sounds really good and I
think the editing on the sound is good
you all wanna sound effects in there but
I think oh I can’t tell if I mean I know
it’s a parody and it’s not serious but I
can’t tell if you’re like a real doctor
or if it’s if everything is a character
so I maybe make that clear
try to get some differences in between
your characters because I can’t tell the
difference between evil really other
than the doctor and then the other two
idiots um I listen to episode 23 by the
way because that’s the most recent one
yeah
hopefully this kind of helps you in some
way I do understand the confusion on the
characters because in that episode we
had a lot of characters and he calls him
characters but like we had me dr. Lennon
Smith’s calm we had Cameron and we also
had mr. soapy yeah Mr drain yes and I
can understand how difficult it would be
to differentiate between them because
well Cameron
mr. drain and mr. soapy were so so alike
in so many ways and they was over you in
a lot of ways well yeah I mean I think
it’s impossible to differentiate between
someone talking like this versus someone
talking like this right versus someone
talking like this that sounds the exact
same time and for our listeners all
those things are identical for our
listeners Owen Wilson did just briefly
step into the room for that oh yeah get
out you have to knock all right and to
address it the part about doctor sure
I’m doctor him okay so if to our
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keep developing this podcast so that
it’s appealing to you all right now for
tale from the neurology clinic I had a
patient presenting with trigeminal
neuralgia which is when the trigeminal
nerve which provides sensation for much
of your face it’s when that nerve
becomes easily stimulated in such a way
as to cause a bolt of excruciating pain
this pain can be triggered by small
things such as brushing teeth putting on
makeup or resting one’s face against
even soft materials like just oh I
understand that I’m sorry
how’d hurting when you brush your teeth
oh I totally get that
well hurting when you brush your teeth
is one so they’re talking about this
nerve pain like the whole face gets
triggered by just little things like
brushing your teeth oh I mean the second
I even try to brush my teeth
it completely shocks my whole body in
what way
like just touching the bristles tear
teeth well well no it’s usually because
I have like an electric toothbrush right
right
like one of the Sonicare ones so you
know you turn it on and it’s got like
sparks flying out of it okay and when I
bite down on it you know you’re supposed
to like bite down as hard as you can
it just completely sends a jolt through
my body okay I think that you have that
it confused because you’re supposed to
there should be bristles and like a
brush on there and that’s what you used
to brush your teeth not oh yeah there’s
that – it shouldn’t spark that’s that’s
one thing well I mean it’s electric of
course it’s kind of spark well usually
if in our traditional electric
toothbrush the electric parts would
actually be covered like there’d be
covering over them
oh yeah it’s covered in sparks okay and
I mean actually like a plastic outer
covering and so that you can’t see
sparks so that’s that’s an aspect of it
well I mean that’s how I see in my
bathroom the light
doesn’t work so I kind of rely on the
sparks so I don’t want to cover it up
huh honestly this is maybe I should
sorry go ahead go ahead well anyways so
this patient who has trigeminal
neuralgia they described having an
episode of this and then said she and
then said that she bought some CBD oil
and applied it to the painful areas so
in this time period she also noted that
her pain decreased whenever she put that
oil on now there is not currently much
reliable research on the efficacy of CBD
oil but there is significant research on
the efficacy of certain approved
medications in controlling the pain of
charge mo neuralgia
one such drug being carbamazepine this
patients question to us was whether she
should bother with medication when she
felt that the CBD oil did all of the
work already said agreed okay well it
was a question so you agree with that
there’s a question oh I guess I agree
that there’s no reason to use actual
medication when you’ve already got CBD
well okay well as physicians we of
course prefer medications that are well
researched as opposed to merely having
what’s called anecdotal evidence of
efficacy so if medication actually
worked that you’d be able to buy it at a
liquor store like you can with CBD oil
well different medications are used to
treat different things and that some of
them can be dangerous depending on who
uses them for what we have to have
prescriptions a lot of times from the
doctor so that you can use the right
medications for the right problems and
if it’s just available at your liquor
store whenever you want you get I got a
I got a prescription for you dr. London
how about some Captain Jack how about
some
to Tito’s vodka that’s the prescription
okay I got the stuff you’re Hawking and
force it down our throats well anyway so
my advice to this patient was to go
ahead and try the approved medication
rather than being reliant upon the the
CBD oil all right now for today’s topic
cardiac tamponade now we have previously
talked about pericardial effusions in
which acute pericarditis leads to fluid
gathering in the pericardial space which
is the space in the SAC surrounding a
heart cardiac tamponade is an
accumulation of pericardial fluid that
occurs at too high a rate for the heart
to adapt this can occur when 200
milliliters of fluid develops gradually
such as when trauma causes bleeding into
the pericardial sac but it can also
happen more London what are you what are
you doing well I’m teaching about
cardiac tamponade no you’re trying to
you’re trying to bait me into making
into making gross jokes is exactly what
you’re doing I are do cardio tamponade
or whatever you’re saying and you’re
saying you’ve said sack and fluid 2030
times I don’t think that I’ve what do
you think what do you would eat what do
you think of me I’m just some clown to
you I wasn’t trying to bait you into
anything here I was just this is the
medical term Oh even the way you say the
word bait makes me want to vomit I’m I’m
sorry to hear that
well let me don’t explain a little bit
I’m sorry you felt deceived in that way
so cardiac tamponade can also happen
more slowly like in cases related to
malignancy that’s like you know what
cancer and that kind of type of thing 2
liters of fluid make him late more
slowly before cardiac tamponade occurs
the slow accumulation allows the
pericardium to stretch to adapt to the
increased volume stretch so you’re
trying to do it again I’d really
not so so the main problem in cardiac
tamponade is that this sac surrounding
the heart fills up with gosh and presses
on the heart preventing it from
expanding properly to fill up with blood
clinically cardiac tamponade can present
with what’s known as Beck’s triad which
includes hypotension
akk a low blood pressure muffled heart
sounds and jugular fold and jugular
venous distention aka enlarged neck vein
venous enlarged vein dr. London what is
wrong with you today what it’s got what
has gotten you into this mood I don’t
like it I’m so sorry that that it’s
coming across that way but this is just
clinical terminology so anyway you can
use in an echocardiogram which is
basically doing an ultrasound of the
heart and so that is typically used to
make the diagnosis and treatment depends
on the cause and also on the hemodynamic
stability of the patient a stability so
it’s like stab see you’re doing it again
dr. London I just don’t like this at all
I don’t like the side of you what
happened to the actual professional
genius it wasn’t such a goof off I I’m
sorry this is just me you know
explaining a medical topic I’m not
trying to be gross just a huge jokester
now what happened no I I’m just trying
to everything’s just a bit to you
patient walks in and they’re you know
walking funny and you’re like oh let me
imitate that cuz everything’s just a
huge joke so you hobble around no people
hate it
I’ve tried to refrain from that I think
I well we can’t we can go ahead and move
on I’m sorry that I made you
uncomfortable
well I move on I know what that mean
alright Cameron do we have a sponsor
today we do dr. London
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we have a brand new sponsor Oh awesome
it’s a brand new app you can just
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system iOS Android Windows doesn’t
matter really okay and it’s a new dating
app oh good okay this app a lot of some
apps might center around things like
interest in food or interest in music or
things like that
this one kind of centers around a shared
difficulty sometimes the kind of the
things that bond you together the most
are shared pain yes so like a trauma
sort of like yeah people have undergone
like a death in the family or and you
know it’s I think it’s useful to know
that there are other people out there
with your own struggles and other people
out there who are kind of like you and I
think that’s kind of the what makes apps
like this really sort of special okay
that sounds great so it’s like almost
like me yeah yeah so uh like I I know
whenever I’ve experienced some deep hurt
finding someone else who has experienced
a similar thing we we have a connection
on that level at least yeah absolutely
ability okay so this new app you can get
it right now right now dr. London okay
it’s called royalty toy B it is for
hemorrhoid sufferers right I’m sorry
well I guess on both of those the name
is Roidy Toidy yes okay and it’s for
I feel like I heard you wrong hemorrhoid
sufferers II you don’t think it’s their
suffering maybe that is rude for me to
say that they’re suffering good no
that’s not the part that I’m having
trouble with it’s more I’m right is okay
so no no hemorrhoid is a like vascular
outpouching around your is your huh your
your anal region huh and I’m sorry to be
crass the butthole
that area huh what is that the the rear
so you know where your head is
yeah if you go to the opposite end of
the body
my booty hole yeah okay yeah so anyway
hemorrhoids can appear there and they’re
usually from like straining constipation
you know feel pushing hard and then
these vascular parts can pop out and it
can be very painful and you know in the
time and unlike what you were saying
before I do think people who suffer from
this deserve love
okay no I wasn’t saying that they I
wasn’t trying to make that claim that
they don’t deserve love
you say a lot of things that you don’t
say you know what I mean I try to be
careful with my words for that reason I
guess to avoid saying things that I
don’t mean anyway so so this is for
people who maybe never
memorize and this is not a support group
if you go there looking for support or
trying to support other people they will
ban you they will come to your house and
it will give you more hemorrhoids I’m
sorry give you more hemorrhoids yep
they’ll hold you down and just pop them
on there they bring them to you
yeah and I guess that makes you I feel
like that would just feed into the
problem of them looking for a support
there you have extra and that’s the
that’s the goal dr. London okay so so
let’s say a given person is suffering
from hemorrhoid just suffering okay yes
they have this pain and you usually this
is a private matter like people don’t
want to tell other people hey I have
hemorrhoids so why I guess I don’t see
why this is a point of connectivity for
relation it’s hard for you to understand
why someone who doesn’t have a perfect
life might want to love someone else
right yes you’re just right you you
can’t wrap your head around someone
who’s not like a perfect 10 wanting to
uh well to be with someone just the idea
that a hemorrhoid would be that like
that that would be the point of
connection for someone I guess like we
were talking about with trauma like some
some family some
or some someone close to them passing
away like that kind of thing could could
be a point of connection well so I think
I get what you’re saying you’re saying
these people haven’t suffered enough no
so what I think maybe we could do as a
podcast is encourage our listeners who
maybe want to use this app and maybe you
know have like minor hemorrhoids to just
straight on that crapper and you know
you got nothing in there no and you just
strain and you just strain and you just
push okay no I don’t think it’s because
I don’t want our listeners to deal with
hemorrhoids it can be painful and
uncomfortable private matter and I
should mention the app does let you sort
users by their level of hemorrhoids the
level of severity yeah from A to Z that
extensive twenty-six different levels
yes Wow okay I I guess I just don’t
understand why so this is the point at
which the developers thought people can
relate well maybe the developers or
suffers themselves i yeah thought of
that I guess that’s more likely yeah
okay well so I would have to say to our
listeners please don’t you know try not
to strain whenever you use a toilet you
you should you know in fact if you have
if you have difficulty with straining
and with hemorrhoids uh mind love I was
going to say increase water and fiber in
your diet and increase the amount of
dates here about to go on cuz that’s AB
okay and I don’t want to I don’t want to
ask this but go ahead Cameron have you
use this app London I am so glad you
asked I’ve been trying really really
hard to get access into the app hours a
day and I will reach that goal okay so
you haven’t you haven’t gotten
hemorrhoids yet not yet but you’re
trying to get there they do verify them
Oh like like with picture
the picture yes but it’s really more of
like the sample like scraping yeah I’m
just kind of snail mailing it in that
sounds so painful I think you can fact
not to my parapet okay so uh this has
been so that’s Roidy Toidy is the name
of this that’s right of our sponsor
today in the App Store all right all
right I guess I’m not sure how yeah a
great way to guess meet someone if
that’s what you’re interested yep within
someone else all right thank you to our
sponsor Roidy Toidy
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all right Cameron do you say we have a
personal trainer as a guest today we do
dr. London hi guys I love this show the
device has really changed my life for
the better
well thank you and it’s really kind of
jump-started my personal fitness journey
so cam thank you so much
Oh bro yeah advice and stuff uh oh yeah
no problem
trust me I’ve got a ton of advice yeah
yeah I’ve write down a lot of what you
say yeah Cameron you’re like thinking of
come out with a book right oh yeah
that’s called what to do when your hands
stuck in something I would totally read
I think that’s one of the most common
issues facing teens today I getting your
hands caught in a drain getting your
hands caught in like a fan yeah maybe in
like a like a small you know like a like
a dishwasher sure well let’s go back to
this guest boys your name again I’m just
the pilgrim I run the pilgrim power
house
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the pill training cool that’s right a
pilgrim powerhouse okay right could you
tell us about this pilgrim powerhouse I
look I run a fitness company but not
only am i a personal trainer I’m also a
professional historian so what I like to
do is combine fitness and history into
one I’m glad to be here right around
Thanksgiving because gosh darn it it’s
the most busy time of the year when it
comes to the both of those things isn’t
a gentleman yes oh wow yeah yeah and
everyone trying to Bowl they everyone
ate so much this last week I’m sure
everyone’s ready to lose the weight yeah
and Doc it’s so great that you brought
up tryptophan nostalgia today and it’s
just a really important thing around
this time so I appreciate you bringing
that awareness to tryptophan nostalgia
earlier tryptophan nostalgia yeah is
with the with the Rita Magazine cure or
whatever it was cam did you hear him say
yeah that’s right something like that
closer no I’m just gonna be honest I’m
95 percent of the things that he says
sounds like okay so you said 9,500 yeah
just ignore and just pick and choose the
words you want to hear yeah that’s
usually what I do anyway so okay so it’s
the busiest time of the year for me and
okay I get a lot of good clients and I’m
glad to be here and just spread the word
about fitness and of how you can be fit
and learn about history at the same time
so what’s an example like during this
time of year since we’re dealing with
Thanksgiving if I wanted a you know
Thanksgiving workout what would that
look like
well so the first thing we do is I go
through some of the lies your history
teacher told you you’ve seen this book
right and this is going to matter a lot
when it comes to fitness so we talked
just now about tryptophan and how
supposedly puts you to sleep and it’s in
Turkey and also the stuff the history
got muddled in this guy’s it’s not the
turkey that puts you to sleep
it’s you that puts the turkey to sleep
because back in the day in the pilgrims
time before they ate the turkey the week
leading up the turkeys would sleep in
the bed with the family whether it be
just with the dad and mom but you know
they had those one wheel room things and
so they’d hunt the turkey and they’d
bring it into the bed and try to get it
to calm down sleep and that would really
you know just
get the turkey ready for Thanksgiving so
that’s the first thing we need is we we
do a turkey chase we get him in the bed
with us
Wow see that makes so much sense to me
cuz people always talk about how turkey
makes you sleepy but for me I get so
excited right cuz I’m having Turkey
right I’m jazz walking around funny and
stuff you got to get them calm down well
after you eat the turkey though is
whenever you feel sleepy and to be fair
there’s only so much tryptophan a lot of
it is just because you know you’re the
blood from your body goes from your
brain a little bit more towards your
stomach and your digestive tract to
digest this Turkey and so part of it is
actually you know rather than the
tryptophan thing it’s actually the blood
leaving your brain to some extent so
there’s mr. pilgrim can you tell me why
that’s nonsense been why doctors dr.
London is wrong because dr. London
doesn’t have a history degree like me
this is one of the things that happens
on your show where dr. London gets going
gets going and he ignores he has he has
he has alternative facts about what
Thanksgiving actually is and what’s
actually healthy for you the best thing
you can do to to get away from
tryptophan nostalgia is to get that
turkey in the bed with you alright it’s
also gonna raise your heart rate a
little bit you know get things kind of
moving even while you sleep too so you
know now what do I do if I already have
a chicken in my bed this has been an
issue yeah yeah cuz I don’t want the
chicken on my bed at all well he keeps a
lot of poultry in the bed but it’s a
chicken thing specifically that he has a
problem with usually I can’t get him to
leave well I mean I do turkeys so I’m
not really an expert on oh yeah I it’s
okay I was just you know hoping someone
would be able to help me you know I’ll
get ahold of my contacts and see what I
can find for sure okay the other thing
is the other thing they get lost in
translation with Thanksgiving is a corn
on the cob right it’s just you know you
eat the corn buttered up or whatever
beer
what uh what we’ve lost in the in the in
the documents is it’s actually corn on
the cob and what the pilgrims would do
is they would
rip the insides of the cod out hand it
to the kids let them play with it and
then they would take the ear of corn and
shove it in to they’re like you know
like a corn dog and they put it in there
and eat up today and share yes of course
it’s corn on the cob it’s just that one
little letter it was flipped in the
translation you know I’ve been this
funny English writing or whatever it is
so they’d eat the skits and that’s why
it’s it’s called an ear of corn is
because it’s the ear of the fish this
makes so much sense
yep they had to replace it somehow of
course yeah so it’s a replacement for
the fish ear is what the corn is meant
to be Wow
history is so cool it’s so cool and when
you combine it with Fitness you really
you really can get things going and I’m
excited about this year we’re doing the
turkey chase we’re gonna do oh and the
kids want to get involved we take a
couple pumpkins and then we throw them
in their backpacks and send them on
their way you’ve mentioned a couple
times the turkey chase yet is this you
chasing a turkey is this a turkey
chasing you that’s up to you there’s two
different versions the morning the
morning one is the kids chasing the
turkey and then in the afternoons it’s
kind of like Running of the Bulls in it
you know the turkeys get going and
sometimes we put up here in New England
at least we put New England Patriots
number 12 Tom Brady jerseys on them you
know and he’s playing defense for once
you know and so we have a have a good
time with the turkey chase
so is this a common thing in New England
is that part of New England culture not
yet because I haven’t heard of it before
you know yeah it’s just a thing we’re
getting going really things are about
fitness up here you’ll you’ll see that
especially with pogroms powerhouse that
people are really going on to things
like this but beyond that I mean we’ve
got the boulder press you know how many
boulders can you fit on your body while
you’re laying down that’s a great
workout and it’s modeled modeled after
what they used to do to the so called
witches you know sorry Oh like Salem
Salem witch trial type uh right so I’m
just sitting we do the same kind of
thing but just you know is it maybe the
boulders aren’t so big but you know and
I imagine that would really work out
your core oh definitely
well it’s something like it might just
smash your core or smoosh is that the
medical terminology there dr. London it
might smash us more it might sorry
compress your your core so you said that
it’s a competition for fitting boulders
on top as opposed to say you know
holding them up or whatever wait no we
need to stick dr. London calm Smith dr1
Smith out come again history you got to
keep it focused here you lay down and
dr. London doesn’t know anything about
it as clearly now you had to lay down
and all your friends put as many and as
heavy as boulders as they can’t on you
while slinging insults and calling you a
witch so it’s it’s obvious it’s an
emotional activity as well you know it’s
got to be mind and body okay it it
sounds a little odd to me I wasn’t
raised but I wasn’t raised in New
England maybe this is everything that’s
not vaccinations is odd to you you you
see some way that someone might better
themselves that’s not injecting poison
into them and you’re like oh that’s so
weird to me that’s so odd yeah I guess
if I’m like
Pitou spitting on you okay I couldn’t
tell you you actually weren’t you seem
very dehydrated that’s why I wasn’t
really reacting I couldn’t tell ya I
thought you were beatboxing honestly but
okay so about these exercises so sure
how do you incorporate these historic I
guess can I call them historical
exercises you should yeah into your sort
of daily life because they sound like
events that happen once a year or
something you know the turkey chases and
whatever well it’s really a lifestyle
right you you have friends who are in
takedo or paleo and you know maybe even
different kind of workout things where
they you know you somebody talks to
though I do this and I do that and
whatever I’m a CrossFit guy I’m
exactly so if you want to shut somebody
up right away you say look I’m in the
pillars powerhouse so what I do to
engross myself is I’ve cut out all the
running water in my house yeah and about
100 yards down the road is our well and
so I like to actually climb down the
well with a few buckets and climb back
up great workout and sometimes sometimes
I send my kids down there to get that
workout in as well so you this is kind
of an Amish type thing well we’re just
trying to replicate the pilgrim
lifestyle so you create a need for
yourself and in order to fill that need
just in order to live you have to
exercise that that’s sort of what you’re
saying here well everybody has to
exercise didn’t you know that doc
technically in a way but a lot of people
you’re saying people shouldn’t exercise
I’m saying people should but a lot of
people choose not to oh but you don’t
want people exercising because they
might end up looking better than you is
that right no no we are actually part of
this big part of this podcast is
encouraging people to to both eat well
and exercise well you know clearer than
you I don’t love it no but okay so about
this so these exercises I have sort of I
don’t want to say an opposing idea but
an alternate idea what if you left the
water on in your house you didn’t you
know turn that off and then you still
went for those runs mr. pilgrim running
to the well just you know maybe with
adequate water supply at your home and
then follow-up question real quick
yeah where do I get one of those hats
with the belt on it do I just keep put a
normal belt on a hat or do they come
together well under pilgrims power house
we actually chase down boars for those
hats and you have to tackle it and skin
it on-site always wearing the hat know
what if if you’d like to but I usually
just take the boar out right there in
the woods and
and go ahead and skin and tan it right
there as well so I mean that’s also part
of my medieval workout regimen that I
like to do around Easter time too
okay so every every workout of yours
corresponds to a given historical event
yeah provided that historical event
gives us you know some good workouts you
know 1980s what’s that about
okay so like I don’t know national
cupcake day is that would that be one of
those days where you would have some
historical reference for it or anything
like I’m think of those random days to
fill in the other days of the year where
it’s not a major holiday
yeah cupcake day or like you know the
ones that don’t matter like national you
know teacher day or whatever cupcakes
you got to go back to the history you
start there cupcakes were invented in
1574 where there was a really fat King
and he kept eating all these cakes but
he wasn’t very smart and he couldn’t see
so what they started doing fatty dum-dum
exactly so what they started to do is
they started making the cakes literally
a little smaller smaller and then they
eventually were giving him cakes and he
was like what is this is this a cake in
a cup so you got to go back to that and
so the work out there would be maybe
some heavy lifting of some extremely
large cakes you got to carry them from
here to there and then you just you know
taper off those reps and then and then
it also again mind and body you have to
abstain from the cakes in the first
place huh doing that work out yeah you
got a level with me here argue a pilgrim
from the past yeah I can’t say
particularly but I do you can’t say
because you don’t know or you can’t say
because you were choosing not to share
that information if I were to choose
that it choose to share it it would not
have a good outlook for the people
listening
it’s dangerous information of course
okay well that seems a little odd to me
especially for cupcakes to be invented
in the 1500s that sounds kind of late to
me but I’m not a historian so that’s
exactly so but I mean what I like to do
is do it by like era right you’re the
medieval workouts you know it’s like
wheelbarrow full of you know sexy you
know carry all the big sacks of
wheelbarrow and throw them you know
bring out your dead you know come you
know just wearing armor everywhere every
once in a while yeah I was wondering
about that because you’re wearing a lot
of arm but it looks like you’re just
layering because you do have that
pilgrims head on top of it but you’re
right combining something you know
people have leg weights yeah it’s the
same idea same idea and then again it’s
a great conversation starter why are you
wearing so much armor because I care
about fitness most of your armor seems
to be fashioned from things that
pilgrims would be able to find like
wheat and and just random stones kind of
kind of wedged in there I’m not really
sure that’s effective armor as much as
it is sort of just kind of garbage
covering your body right to the modern
eye it is garbage indeed yeah but you
know as a pilgrim you just got to make
do with what we’ve got
that’s the American Way that’s what
pilgrims progress is you could say that
and to your credit mr. pilgrim it does
appear that you know it wouldn’t be good
armor for protections sake but as you
were saying I guess it would add weight
which is your goal from what I
understand so to your credit it looks
like that with that I need some
emotional armor doctor okay what are you
saying I mean I mean I’m not trying to
add weight oh I’m sorry
no I meant as an outer covering I don’t
mean I wasn’t talking about her London
public escape artists
we from the past
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which is well I don’t I don’t even ten
you know tensions seem kind of high
right now and I didn’t intend for that
so I wasn’t commenting on your physical
appearance it was about the the articles
of clothing that you’re wearing more
about the armor but we can move on from
there what about for christmas christmas
is coming up here are a few weeks great
question what are some of the lies that
people like dr. london have tried to
shove down our throats what are some of
the truths and then how can we apply
that to our you know personal residence
yes Chanukah yeah the story goes the
shippers were watching their flock by
night actually if you want to be
historically correct and have a good
fitness workout you need to be chasing
your sheep by night animals and history
very important that we’re chasing the
animals and getting our work out that
way but in this case we’re not really
gonna really eat these it’s not really
the christmas way but we do have a cheap
cheap a sheep chase as well different
christmas and the diet during Christmas
time we like to phase out the
Thanksgiving diet you know corn on the
cob
you know we get the turkey out of the
bed and then we start our first century
AD diet and that’s that’s a lot of fun
okay what I’m sorry what all is involved
in the first century AD diet first thing
we do is we do a little bit of
intermittent fasting because they didn’t
have food is that what you’re saying
I mean it’s it’s it’s a different thing
we got to put a shock to the body yeah
so your fish your breads all those fun
ad first century foods it’s a really
good time and then every once in a while
one thing I like to do especially around
Halloween time if you want to do a
pirate type of thing this fits into
Thanksgiving as well as you you take
about a month and you don’t eat any
vitamin C that’s when you know the
scurvy set in and you can really turn
things around I’m sorry you and you
intentionally acquire scurvy look to
bring the body up you got to break it
down right so well for so long dr.
London keeps telling me
to stop intentionally hurting myself and
I keep saying what doesn’t kill you
makes you stronger but that’s a that’s a
saying but that’s not a literal you
shouldn’t that shouldn’t be applied to
every part of life I mean the pilgrims
did it why can’t we what doesn’t kill
you makes you stronger
yeah okay because for our listeners
you should not obtain a vitamin
deficiency if at all possible you should
be taking multivitamins vitamin C you
can find that in like citrus fruits you
know
famously oranges will have a lot of
vitamin C vitamin C your way away from
fitness so vitamin C deficiency can can
mess with your connective tissue and so
I would like you to encourage I would
like to encourage our listeners to get
as close to death as possible as often
as you can that’s right and work
yourself back up that’s what the
pilgrims did they started America if you
hate America then don’t follow our my
fitness plan okay well yeah if you want
if you if you want to hate America and
spit on the pilgrims and spit on our
forefathers then listen to what dr.
London saying and saying oh eat as much
vitamin C as you want but if you want to
live true in the way that our
forefathers intended that’s right you
need to get as close to death as
possible as frequently as possible in
the cold and as cold as possible you
throw away your jackets get those
turkeys in your beds get those turkeys
in your beds this does bring up another
point though that it’s kind of been on
the sidelines but so Cameron when you
say the forefathers I need to clarify
again it doesn’t mean you’re for parents
that happened to also be father’s yes it
does okay well I’m just like I’m just
trying to make this point because
everyone has four fathers your
grandmother your grandfather your
grandmother on the other side and your
grandfather on the other side okay and I
once again I gotta say like it that’s
just not the that’s not what those words
for fathers is fo r e it’s not the
number it’s saying the one who came
before yeah
fo re like the number four okay alright
well I I’m sorry I just wanted to
clarify that point for a listeners in
case you took it there alright a mr.
pilgrim what about New Year’s is their
New Year’s tradition that’s also coming
up New Year’s is tough it’s a lot of a
traveling right you’re coming back home
you are probably drunk for most of that
time so what I like do if you’ve heard
of hair of the dog okay yeah so anyway
it works for me because I like to
engross myself and I would recommend
this for just about anybody else when it
comes to New Year’s especially January
first and maybe even January second but
I continue this throughout and if you’re
a real hardcore pillar and powerhouse
you might want to do this to back in
Renaissance days all the way up to the
pilgrims days water wasn’t good for you
to drink I don’t know if you knew that
doc did you know that back then water
wasn’t like it was bad nope there he had
no idea there have been times yeah a lot
of times in history where the water
wasn’t a healthy right right now it’s
all its filtered pretty well at least in
the states right so back then it was you
just didn’t drink it you end up with
some disease II didn’t one like
dysentery or something so what they
would do is they would they would drink
beer in the mornings and for lunch every
day even the kids so that’s part of my
powerhouse pilgrim powerhouse plan of
fitness especially around the new years
is beer in the morning every day because
to be a true-blue either renaissance or
founding forefathers that’s what they
did and just to keep the water it’s away
because it’s dirty and that’s what you
kind of want to emulate well I think
that one point of contrast that you you
might want to make here is that water
now currently is actually purified
generally like depending on where you
get it so maybe that exercise wouldn’t
apply as much similar to your turning
the water off for your house that sort
of issue you could probably
if just drinking beer is the exercise
then maybe maybe that’s the one to
actually avoid because beer a lot of
alcohol products can I guess any alcohol
product can have a unfortunate effects
on the liver it can increase your liver
enzymes and lead to cirrhosis what the
hell are you rambling annoying I was
talking about bacteria or protozoa
whatever sure beer would be the
alternative in that sense but generally
you’re if you live in a developed
country then that won’t be such an issue
good god America wasn’t a country doctor
America wasn’t a country the Pilgrims
landed here right it took a two hundred
years or so so I don’t know why you’re
talking about developed countries you
know it’s not really in my okay okay
it’s more like a like a general store
okay that you think a general store is
what look a country looks like before
it’s developed yeah before you kind of
just came by and you visited the Native
Americans and you kind of picked up
things at their store prices were a lot
cheaper than it was like a ha’penny
would you get would give you like two
hams okay
and then you develop America yeah yeah
so just a few steps so just to close out
here we’re gonna we’re gonna wrap up
what’s one piece of advice that our
listeners could take I’ve got the
perfect one and from history I’ve got it
for you one of the one of the staples of
history and in dieting especially the
French Revolution was based on it and
what usually starts violence and Wars is
the lack of food and that one food is
usually because of a bad you know crop
or something like that is usually bread
and I just want to give everybody the
the great advice that we’re talking
about breaking the body down and bring
it back up before the 20th century we
didn’t really have this idea or ability
to kind of work this out so you can you
ever notice when your bread is is is in
the closet for a while it starts to turn
green oh yeah all my bread is green yeah
so what what you can do with that is
when you actually do eat pieces of that
bread you can start to build a tolerance
against very important and very scary
diseases so just check on your toast in
the morning and if it has a little bit
of green on that keep that there don’t
tear it off and I eat that up you can
build up your tolerance and then that’ll
just fit in and great with all the other
Fitness things that I’m promoting with
the exercises and just the lifestyle I’m
Jenna
Oh done and done sir the way cuz that
that’s uh all my bread is is covered in
green I kind of wait until it’s ripe
like that okay on it then yeah I should
Fuhrer listeners that that is not good
advice you should not be in this makes a
lot of sense because I am really
resistant to most diseases usually when
I get sick it’s like from some sort of a
plague or something exactly and it’s
it’s because I’ve become immune towards
you know come the common man diseases
right you usually get sick from the
plague yeah it’s usually some sort of
plague when I get ill that’s the only
thing that can even take me down okay
well we should just wrap it up but I
will say yeah for listeners please do
not eat bread after it becomes moldy
that if it changes color do not eat that
that you should throw that away it’s
been colonized at that point all right
it’s like America I mean yeah just
lights right America thank you that is a
good point but I just want to say I mean
cheese is mold ham has mold on it so
it’s just a ham and cheese sandwich
that’s all your bread is it it isn’t but
okay no we should just wrap up thank you
to Cameron for helping us here our
producer thank you to mr. pill
and mr. pilgrim is their way this our
listeners can hear more of you also
so beyond being a successful personal
trainer historian ow so we’re on a
podcast called pilgrims digress you can
find it all over at wwl grams digress
calm everything New England okay that
sounds great
thank you also to do to do the house I
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like is it for kids
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