Speaker 1: We're taking you inside the mind of a man. This
Speaker 1: is how men thick and I heard radio podcast, so yes,
Speaker 1: this is how men think, even though you hear the
Speaker 1: voice of the ladies right now. This is Amy and
Speaker 1: Daniels here too, and we have all the ladies here today,
Speaker 1: but we are turning the show over today to Dr
Speaker 1: Joe Park. Now we call you Joe because I'm the bachelor.
Speaker 1: You were Joe, but your zoom, says Joseph, So what
Speaker 1: do you go by at the hospital? At the hospital,
Speaker 1: I go by Dr Park, So none of the above.
Speaker 1: But you called whatever you want, Joe, Dr Joe. What
Speaker 1: did Tisha call you? What did call you? She called
Speaker 1: me Joe. You know, we're there. We got there. It
Speaker 1: was fine. So how many of your patients now are like, uh, Houstasia.
Speaker 1: You know people ask you that, But if you really
Speaker 1: think when I'm an anthologist, do you think about the
Speaker 1: people who need surgery that generally, like, you know, for
Speaker 1: the most part, in the fifties, sixties, seventies, sometimes eighties,
Speaker 1: like barely anybody's asking me that so very rarely, which
Speaker 1: I kind of like, I don't want to be known
Speaker 1: as um. They didn't know I played trip Dodgeball National Television.
Speaker 1: That would be okay to me. Yeah, you don't know
Speaker 1: this yet because the world is so weird right now
Speaker 1: that you're not going to like concerts or events. But
Speaker 1: soon enough you will be are you that guy from
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette? Or you'll get did we go to high
Speaker 1: school together? I've gotten that a couple of times. You know,
Speaker 1: I live in New York City. You know there's still
Speaker 1: after dining at times, and sometimes I'll be riding, um
Speaker 1: my bike and people will stop me. I'm super impressed
Speaker 1: by because I'm wearing a mask and it's really cold
Speaker 1: now I'm wearing a hat, so I've gotta do they
Speaker 1: have ego eyes, they will spot you. I guess it's
Speaker 1: the weirdest thing because it is weird. I always tell
Speaker 1: them it's weirder for me. Like when if I'm going
Speaker 1: for a run outside, I'm like someone stopped. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is so weird for me, Like what do you
Speaker 1: want to know? It's like it's just normal, you know,
Speaker 1: It's like it's such a buddy. Let's catch everybody up.
Speaker 1: So Dr Joe Park started on Claire's season, right, you
Speaker 1: were one of the men that was originally there for Claire.
Speaker 1: So tell everybody why, Like you're a hot doctor, which
Speaker 1: doctors now we're always hot, but now doctors are like
Speaker 1: way hot. So why did you want to go on
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette? Like it is a little bit like why
Speaker 1: is this guy need to go? That's fair? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, so it was. I got asked in
Speaker 1: the toward the end of spring and the pandemic in
Speaker 1: New York City, you know, it hit here first. Obviously
Speaker 1: it was kind of slowing down and at that time,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, going to work, you know, and
Speaker 1: it was like a war zone. Everyone was just dinning
Speaker 1: the pte and keeping their distance and it was just
Speaker 1: a very scary time. And you know, unfortunately it's a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I'm not doing well, and I would
Speaker 1: come home, you know, to my shoe box on an apartment,
Speaker 1: you know, I live in New York City and now
Speaker 1: would be the routine, and I wouldn't see friends, obviously,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't see my family. And so when I got
Speaker 1: this this message, Um, I you know, I've never seen
Speaker 1: the show, and I just said that you like what
Speaker 1: I have to do. I was open minded about it,
Speaker 1: and they said, you have to sit where you're sitting
Speaker 1: and do a couple of zoom interviews and and I
Speaker 1: asked to do enough to wear pants and like, no,
Speaker 1: don't wear pants, It's fine. And uh, I did like
Speaker 1: four or five ho interviews and one thing left another
Speaker 1: and I was out in uh in the desert, in
Speaker 1: the palm desert with a bunch of strangers and again
Speaker 1: at that in quarantine living like That's what people listening
Speaker 1: may not realize, is you know, from we have a
Speaker 1: lot of friends that are either on the show or
Speaker 1: work on the show, and because of the way they
Speaker 1: did it, they were extremely safe with a lot of
Speaker 1: protocols and put everybody into a bubble and so you
Speaker 1: guys basically got to sort of live a normal life.
Speaker 1: It was such like such a dark contrast. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how it was going from the hospital, where
Speaker 1: I was wearing like not just through masks, but I
Speaker 1: was wearing the face shield and the gloves all the time,
Speaker 1: and the gown, and to just being in a place
Speaker 1: where I could like like hug somebody. Um. And I
Speaker 1: know it's gotten a little bit normal now, but like
Speaker 1: at the time, it was like really really really the
Speaker 1: heightened again of such a scary thing, especially in New York.
Speaker 1: In New York was insane during that time. So that
Speaker 1: leads me to my question is how did you even
Speaker 1: get the time off? Like you went to you know,
Speaker 1: your boss and you're like, hey, I know it's the
Speaker 1: middle of a pandemic, but I just got offered to
Speaker 1: go on The Bachelor, Like how did that come there?
Speaker 1: So it was a few It was like it was
Speaker 1: a couple of months before they said, hey, the Game
Speaker 1: of the green Light. You know, it was a bunch
Speaker 1: of zoom interviews. And at the height of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: which is early April UM, the cases were about six
Speaker 1: thousand a day, and that was when testing wasn't really available,
Speaker 1: so it was actually much much worse than that UM.
Speaker 1: But by the time I left, which was you know,
Speaker 1: early early summer UM, the case has actually gone down.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I want the day, but they
Speaker 1: left it the case were down at about three hundreds.
Speaker 1: So it was just it was actually a perfect time
Speaker 1: where there weren't an elected surgeries going on because people
Speaker 1: obviously were very afraid to be in a hospital, and
Speaker 1: they were still taking care of a lot of COVID patients.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't that that peak had gone way way
Speaker 1: way down. And I told my my boss that I
Speaker 1: needed between four and six weeks off, which is all
Speaker 1: my week. And he asked. He's a very old and
Speaker 1: very nice, old Indian man, and he was like, why
Speaker 1: do you need this? And I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a show come back threat. He's like, what is
Speaker 1: this show? And I tried to sound like, so there's
Speaker 1: thirty guys and there's one girl, and you do a
Speaker 1: lot of weird challenges, um, you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: like dodgeball, you rustle each other and all that will
Speaker 1: help this girl find find us. And after eight weeks,
Speaker 1: the whole prison. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous saying it now.
Speaker 1: But to him, we never heard of He was like
Speaker 1: it was like, he's like what I told him, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be on television and it's a crazy opportunity. And
Speaker 1: eventually like yeah, sure, like you know, it's actually perfect time,
Speaker 1: so go for it. I hope he watched did that
Speaker 1: guy watch? Definitely not? That's okay. I hope he doesn't. Well,
Speaker 1: there's so much just there's so much just sort of breakdown.
Speaker 1: So first before to get into kind of what we're
Speaker 1: doing and how you're taking over the show today. Can
Speaker 1: you just give us a little bit. I'm like, where
Speaker 1: are you from, Where do you go to college, where
Speaker 1: do you get Where did you go to medical school?
Speaker 1: And then why did you choose anatsiology, which for people listening,
Speaker 1: that is a quite challenging area of medicine. Yeah, it is. Um.
Speaker 1: So I'm from New York. I grew up born and
Speaker 1: raised in in Long Island. UM in New York. I
Speaker 1: went to high college at Georgetown University in d C.
Speaker 1: And Um, I just insulting there um for two years
Speaker 1: or not there but DC for two years, and then
Speaker 1: I thought medicine might be my route. Um, I didn't
Speaker 1: really love consulting, and I did some clinical research at
Speaker 1: Sloane Kettering, which is a cancer center in New York.
Speaker 1: And from there I really loved working with patients mentally,
Speaker 1: super simulating, super like you're always learning in medicine. And
Speaker 1: then pot of med school, went to med school in
Speaker 1: Stony Brook out in Long Island. Also from there, UM
Speaker 1: incide to pursue as physiology, which, as you said, it's
Speaker 1: a very very challenging feel I mean literally, you are
Speaker 1: like keeping this person alive while they're going through their
Speaker 1: their surgeries. So there's definitely and you don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of the glory because you're not the heart surgeon
Speaker 1: that came in or the doctor grouped a brain surgeon
Speaker 1: that Kate comes in for those that are listening Dr
Speaker 1: sanjayes on Ci and and he still goes and performs
Speaker 1: brain surgery. But then is so important. But you're like
Speaker 1: the man behind the scenes that no one ever sees. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's um. I like to consider. I like to think
Speaker 1: of enthusiologists as the basis of a group and a
Speaker 1: friend's uncle random but he told me once, Uh, it's
Speaker 1: meant to be felt but not heard. Um. But obviously
Speaker 1: you need that person there and it really creates that
Speaker 1: that sets the tone for the band, the music that's playing.
Speaker 1: And so I feel that way about anesthesia and I'm
Speaker 1: happy to do that. And it is really really interesting
Speaker 1: to deal with physiology and all these medications were pushing
Speaker 1: in to see like all these monitors and again just
Speaker 1: to control from the physiology. I think, is such a
Speaker 1: do you because of your expertise as an antistusiologists, does
Speaker 1: that give you um insight into the vaccine in a
Speaker 1: different way than maybe even you know, just a general
Speaker 1: physician would, where you're able to sort of explain it's
Speaker 1: safety and efficacy and why it's important. Um. Does the
Speaker 1: antistusiology back front that you have give you that knowledge
Speaker 1: more so than other doctors? More so than other some
Speaker 1: other doctors, Yes, I mean there are immunologists, UM allergists
Speaker 1: who probably have a better understanding. But that said, UM
Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of drugs and formal kinetics, form
Speaker 1: dynamics and from a college in general, UM, it is
Speaker 1: important for us to know how the body processes medications. UM,
Speaker 1: different things that introduced for a body so, and also
Speaker 1: the reaction that happened thereafter, clampatary reactions that can happen afterwards,
Speaker 1: that can happen during surgery or two medications that we give.
Speaker 1: SO in that respect, yeah, I mean, we definitely have
Speaker 1: a better understanding of human physiology and how medications, especially
Speaker 1: strange ones. So like So's people are getting the first
Speaker 1: dose of the vaccine, and and the common side effect
Speaker 1: is like arm pain. So is the arm pain because
Speaker 1: it's where a shot went in? Or is the arm
Speaker 1: pain because it's starting to like affect the body in
Speaker 1: that area, Like why the arm pain? Sure, that's a
Speaker 1: good question. So most people when they get this vaccine,
Speaker 1: similar to the flu shot, it's an intramuscular injection, and
Speaker 1: every intramuscular injection is gonna have arm pain just because
Speaker 1: you're introducing um, a fluid, a substance into the muscle.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be a flampwary reaction and it's gonna
Speaker 1: feel like someone punched you really harder the next day.
Speaker 1: And that's not really the systemic and the reaction that
Speaker 1: you're getting in from the va vacccene, which also happened,
Speaker 1: which can happen, which puts a lot of people. Um,
Speaker 1: that's just a local reaction and that's completely normal and uh,
Speaker 1: completely yeah, and it goes away very quickly. And then
Speaker 1: after the second dose, people are having some symptoms like
Speaker 1: a sighte fever or chills or more flu like symptoms.
Speaker 1: Can you explain why that is and let people know
Speaker 1: like that's not COVID, You don't have COVID. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll let you explain, But it's your immune system. So
Speaker 1: can you explain why that happens and why people don't
Speaker 1: need to panic? Absolutely? So, Um, first of all, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so even after the first dose, it's possible that the
Speaker 1: day after, or or two days after, up to two
Speaker 1: days after, you can have some reaction. And these reactions
Speaker 1: include um, generalized fatigue, generalized muscle pain. Some people will
Speaker 1: have fever, some people will have some chills, um, some
Speaker 1: people have some GI symptoms, it's some knowledges and diarrhea.
Speaker 1: All these are very normal and generally last between one
Speaker 1: and two days, and by the third day you're pretty
Speaker 1: much action. Now, why that happens is because your body
Speaker 1: is ramping up its immune system. Your body is practicing
Speaker 1: for and creating the antibodies that will be necessary to
Speaker 1: fight off the coronavirus. If you ever actually encount of
Speaker 1: the real thing, um, and so it means it's working,
Speaker 1: you know. It means that our body is revving it
Speaker 1: up for a real infection in the future. And again
Speaker 1: to your point, in no way can you get coronavirus
Speaker 1: from the vaccine. It is merely a very small component
Speaker 1: of the vaccine that creates that's kind of like a
Speaker 1: trigger for for our immune system to respond. But in
Speaker 1: no way can you get coronavirus. And I I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear with that now, how many years into
Speaker 1: medical school was it before you were able to say
Speaker 1: diarrhea without laughing? Machel in diarrhea, all of it. It's
Speaker 1: still very funny to me. You delivered that like it
Speaker 1: was like no problem. Yeah, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the topic of diarrhea and it's grown to be comfortable.
Speaker 1: But I know that you can really shut a room
Speaker 1: down if you say diarrhea. Here's a medical school is
Speaker 1: such a journey, perhaps more than the best and the
Speaker 1: faces to say, you don't want to know where this
Speaker 1: finger has been. All right, it's it's stories, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's it's a right, it's a trick. Did
Speaker 1: you ever have to utter the word diarrhea when you
Speaker 1: filmed The Bachelorette? Um? I don't recall a time I
Speaker 1: had to um, but I was ready to bust it
Speaker 1: out if I had to question. How many medical questions
Speaker 1: were those dudes asking you like was it constant or yeah?
Speaker 1: You know a lot of them asking about like showing
Speaker 1: me rashes and I'm like, WHOA, I do not want
Speaker 1: to see that. I'm joking. I'm joking. Everyone was Actually,
Speaker 1: I know, we know you're you're all pretty safe in
Speaker 1: there because you're you're COVID tested and tested testing exactly.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say testing anyways. So, so Amy, should
Speaker 1: we go into kind of the premise of the episode
Speaker 1: and what we have planned. We've been sort of pulling
Speaker 1: our audience and as much as people want to have relationships,
Speaker 1: love date sets, all the normal things that we always
Speaker 1: talk about on the show, they also have a lot
Speaker 1: of medical questions right now. People want to know it all.
Speaker 1: So you're the perfect person to talk about love, relationships
Speaker 1: and doctor stuff. So we will let some people into
Speaker 1: our podcast with their questions. But my last question before
Speaker 1: we start that is who were your three besties that
Speaker 1: you made during your claritatious season of The Bachelorette. You
Speaker 1: have to pick three, and we know because saw the
Speaker 1: instagram that you went over to Bennett's house for dinner.
Speaker 1: So is he one of your best ties? I know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be her. He's gonna be her. If you
Speaker 1: don't say him, think I'm gonna say um so the
Speaker 1: time on the show and after the show. Um, Brendan,
Speaker 1: I've got really close to Brendon. He is turn like poppy. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think it's the correct term. Turn like poppy. Um.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, he is such a kind, thoughtful um
Speaker 1: and actually super funny. He's got this this really subtle
Speaker 1: humor UM that I love and that a lot of
Speaker 1: people love UM. And that's just a good human being overall.
Speaker 1: And that was evident on the show, UM because such
Speaker 1: a such a tense pressure field situation, and he kept
Speaker 1: a real throughout, which also I appreciated. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of people you know, who know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of reason why people will want and beyond the Bachelor,
Speaker 1: why be on TV? But he kept it one d
Speaker 1: the whole time, and I respected him, like we would
Speaker 1: have great chats, we would do this because always was
Speaker 1: Mike's to do this thing and we tap my mics
Speaker 1: like is this are you scared right now? Like ok
Speaker 1: And I was just like, you know, it's not okay,
Speaker 1: I'm real. This guy's like okay, good me too. I
Speaker 1: would have picked him like he was my number one,
Speaker 1: like I to this day and like ta you missed
Speaker 1: the boat on that one. You know he was my
Speaker 1: he was and is my number one. But he lit
Speaker 1: he limited himself so she didn't even have the chance.
Speaker 1: And and I respect him for why he did it
Speaker 1: and he kept a real number. Two is a spice surprise.
Speaker 1: But Kenny um, Kenny, okay, Kenny looks how he looks,
Speaker 1: and he has the job that he has. But one
Speaker 1: of the most also subtly funny is um most honest,
Speaker 1: genuine um and yeah, just like real people on the show.
Speaker 1: And you could tell that from the show. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, at a certain points like what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on here? And that's just how it was
Speaker 1: all the time. And I really I love the reverence.
Speaker 1: What boy bands he manages, but we can figure that
Speaker 1: out very quickly. I would say he has a bunch
Speaker 1: of cover bands that he manages at A has a
Speaker 1: bunch of cover bands, like one's a motown band. One
Speaker 1: was like a like a boy band cover band. So um,
Speaker 1: he does it always a model, you know, manager events
Speaker 1: space manager is a man of many times cover band.
Speaker 1: It's actually sort of a legit idea. He was getting
Speaker 1: fights with the other who was he brawling with? He
Speaker 1: was having the I think everyone didn't like Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone like Noah, but especially Bennett. Well
Speaker 1: you know what the mustache, the mustache. He was a
Speaker 1: mustache man, formerly must he had a pretty must stache
Speaker 1: phase in a post mustache pase, so he eras on
Speaker 1: the bechelor gave us your number three, And I'm nervous
Speaker 1: for Bennett because I know it's not Bennett. Number three
Speaker 1: is Bennett? Actually, I will say Bennett and I have
Speaker 1: gotten much closer. I mean, he lives in New York.
Speaker 1: Were the about the same age or one of your part,
Speaker 1: And he's super intelligent, and he's really thoughtful, and he's
Speaker 1: just got interesting perspectives. And when he's your friend, he's
Speaker 1: your friend, like a good friend. He's with you, you know,
Speaker 1: the car wreck you can't look away from. Like I
Speaker 1: find myself like on his Instagram watching the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but going why am I watching this? Like like this
Speaker 1: guy so cheesy, but yet like tell me more, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's that guy. Bennett is the classic case of
Speaker 1: you either die a hero or you live yourself, or
Speaker 1: you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Speaker 1: And he just, for some reason skewed that way towards
Speaker 1: the end um because I don't remember the beginning that
Speaker 1: Bennett was like, yo, it was all up for Bennett,
Speaker 1: and for me, it's still all up for Bennett. You
Speaker 1: just a little bit of that Harvard guy, and he
Speaker 1: kind of like became that so fast. He's sort of handsome.
Speaker 1: He's sort of handsome in a like are you handsome?
Speaker 1: Or am I going to vomit in my mouth kind
Speaker 1: of a way. But I mean Superman the Clark. Can't
Speaker 1: you like you're not into the big jaw and big muscle,
Speaker 1: and he's handsome. He's like, by the book handsome, but
Speaker 1: he has sort of like this underlying cheese where you're like,
Speaker 1: is that gonna herritate me dinner? You know, You're like,
Speaker 1: are you gonna like I don't know. It's like a
Speaker 1: Disney character where they're like always looking in the mirror
Speaker 1: or something. I can't remember which one that is. But anyway,
Speaker 1: this is your show. Only one more, last one honorary
Speaker 1: also okay, fourth best and that's it. Sorry, no, no,
Speaker 1: we like it. We like it. We hope you're all
Speaker 1: in paradise to get so. We do have a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that are excited to talk to you. So fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take a break and when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get to some of our questions. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: it's Dr Joe, I've taken over for Gavinet Brooks on
Speaker 1: the Holm and Think podcast. Um, they'll be back. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: don't worry, but for right now, you're stuck with me.
Speaker 1: So let's bring on the questions. Okay. So first up
Speaker 1: we have Crystal. Hello. Hi, Okay, So first question, UM,
Speaker 1: we would love to know I know you recently got
Speaker 1: vaccinated and UM, a lot of us are a little
Speaker 1: nervous about the vaccines. So could you kind of tell
Speaker 1: us your experience about getting it and what we might
Speaker 1: need to know about it? Um? Absolutely, Um. Crystal love
Speaker 1: your style also, so UM, I just want to say
Speaker 1: that in the just out front. Um, so sure. So
Speaker 1: the vaccine, you know, initially, like a lot of people, UM,
Speaker 1: when it first came out, I was a bit curious
Speaker 1: about it. I was. I was a bit apprehensive about it. UM.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure about it either, because it did come
Speaker 1: out pretty quickly, and I think that's the kind of
Speaker 1: concern everyone had. But the more I read about it,
Speaker 1: and the more I learned about how the vaccine actually works, um,
Speaker 1: how the study was conducted, and read about how safe
Speaker 1: it was, I actually completely changed. I got really excited
Speaker 1: about it. And when the time came for me to
Speaker 1: actually get the vaccine, I was super happy, uh and hopeful,
Speaker 1: um that this tiny, really innocuous injection. It's really you know,
Speaker 1: take about all half a second at this tiny injection
Speaker 1: would potentially and likely save millions of lives and get
Speaker 1: us back two you know, eating in restaurants with friends,
Speaker 1: to traveling um and just getting back to life um
Speaker 1: as we knew it. Um. And again just go procedurally
Speaker 1: to go through how how it works, because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people aren't in the phase where they
Speaker 1: can get the vaccine yet, but they will be very soon. Um.
Speaker 1: You sign up, you show up at the appointed time
Speaker 1: with your idea, and you get the vaccine, which literally
Speaker 1: takes literally a half second, a little wipe a alcoal
Speaker 1: and a little a very small needle, and you know,
Speaker 1: and get the injection. And you stick around for fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty minutes after just a monitor to make sure
Speaker 1: that there's no immediate reaction afterwards. And there have been some,
Speaker 1: but they are exceptionally rare thus far um, And so
Speaker 1: you stay him on heard and then from there um
Speaker 1: likely the day after, as we talked about earlier, you'll
Speaker 1: have a little muster streness in the shoulder that you've
Speaker 1: got the injection, and it's possible you'll have some fatigue.
Speaker 1: It's possible you'll have some generalized body pain. UM. It's
Speaker 1: possible that you could have a little bit of fever,
Speaker 1: a little bit of chills. UH, it's possibly could have
Speaker 1: some GI symptoms, maybe a little diarrhea and UM. But
Speaker 1: those symptoms generally will go away in two days. By
Speaker 1: the third day you'll be back to normal, if not
Speaker 1: sooner than that. With those symptoms, you know, if you
Speaker 1: do have the fever, you have the chills, and even
Speaker 1: if that arm pain is bothering you, it's completely okay
Speaker 1: to take tonal, it's completely okay to take add bill UM.
Speaker 1: And again that reaction that you're having UM. I look
Speaker 1: at it like when you're working out or practicing something
Speaker 1: like an instrument, no pain, no gain, And when you
Speaker 1: get that injection and you get that and you get
Speaker 1: that that reaction where you can you don't feel great
Speaker 1: next day, that's your body just like work it out
Speaker 1: and make it pumping out those antibodies so that you
Speaker 1: are stronger UM afterwards. And you know, trust me from
Speaker 1: the first hand account that day or our day and
Speaker 1: a half of this comfort you have is much better
Speaker 1: than actually having COVID. Okay, So, um, even if again
Speaker 1: people are not so thrilled about how they might feel
Speaker 1: the day or two after again, it's it's nothing compared
Speaker 1: to the risk of potentially getting the disease and potentially
Speaker 1: spreading it to your loved ones, maybe even higher risk.
Speaker 1: So so that brings me to our next person, because um,
Speaker 1: it has a really good course for those playing the
Speaker 1: at home drinking game. We just had another diarrhea, so um, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring in Danny because Danny has something very
Speaker 1: much related to that same same topic. So Danny, if
Speaker 1: you can come in. Hi. So, Danny, Hi, I was
Speaker 1: just wondering, once you are all vaccinated, would we still
Speaker 1: need to be wearing masks and social distance? Um, just
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on that. That's a really really
Speaker 1: good question, and I'm glad you you asked that. Um.
Speaker 1: So the answer is yes, and the reasons are one,
Speaker 1: the vaccines we have the maderna and the fires of
Speaker 1: vaccines are about effective as far as we know. That
Speaker 1: means one in twenty people will still be able to
Speaker 1: potentially get moderate or severe COVID you might develop that disease.
Speaker 1: And so because we don't know obviously who that one
Speaker 1: and twenty is gonna be, you still should wear that
Speaker 1: mask because again you don't want to potentially contract it
Speaker 1: and you don't. And again the second reason is because
Speaker 1: we're not sure that even if you are vaccinated and
Speaker 1: you are UM you do have the antibodies, if you
Speaker 1: can't spread it. Because it's still possible if you have
Speaker 1: the antibodies that while you're finding the infection, you might
Speaker 1: still be able to spread to other people. That's something
Speaker 1: I do. You know how long you think or medical
Speaker 1: community thinks it will be before we start to realize
Speaker 1: if that is in fact true that you can still
Speaker 1: spread it. I did a deep dive on the Google
Speaker 1: the other night to try to figure that out, and
Speaker 1: I saw that they've been testing it in rats and
Speaker 1: some sort of other primate and they still don't have
Speaker 1: definitive answers. So what are you hearing on that? How
Speaker 1: long will that take? UM? So that's also good question
Speaker 1: that definitely deserves more investigation, And unfortunately that question will
Speaker 1: only be answered with time, and that's gonna be unfortunately,
Speaker 1: more people to get vaccinated, and the time frame with
Speaker 1: the people who aren't evactually have to be much longer. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to say, to be honest when and
Speaker 1: join me on that deep dive on the Google, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of episode like I did, Yeah, I did,
Speaker 1: and I because I was searching like how long does
Speaker 1: the actual vaccine like how you know how long is
Speaker 1: it effective for in your body? Is a yearly? Is
Speaker 1: it like a yearly flu shot or anything like that?
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: that time will tell you, don't you can't really put
Speaker 1: an answer on it right now from what I googled.
Speaker 1: That's another good point. So right now, there are a
Speaker 1: couple of things that are percolating in the news also
Speaker 1: percolating with the disease. There these variants that are coming
Speaker 1: um kind of light. There's a there's a the UK variant,
Speaker 1: which is the most prominent right now. Um. There's a
Speaker 1: variant which just means a mutated form of the virus,
Speaker 1: a variant from South Africa. There's a there's a rescila
Speaker 1: varian I believe, And so a lot of these little
Speaker 1: variants that may also affect even that number that was
Speaker 1: quoted in the studies, that's a little lower than that.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, as far as what the nail
Speaker 1: was saying, um, if you may need it, you know,
Speaker 1: a booster kind of like a flu shot every year
Speaker 1: that is also to be determined. Like remember a year
Speaker 1: chasing you're chasing your tail. Because imagine so some people
Speaker 1: started getting the vaccine. Let's say whatever it was December.
Speaker 1: It takes us eight months a year to get everybody vaccinated,
Speaker 1: and then you're just starting over again. It's like, although
Speaker 1: I will say, I'm not a doctor, you can answer this,
Speaker 1: but as we get it down in the communities, it'll
Speaker 1: get easier. I assume I'm not a scientist. But no,
Speaker 1: but that I think honestly is true. Right now we
Speaker 1: have the like the production is the issue, and the
Speaker 1: distribution too, and that's just growing paint. That's like when
Speaker 1: this campaign to vaccinate every American like and also not
Speaker 1: it's not like people Amazon, It's nothing like Amazon. This
Speaker 1: is a medical treatment. Still you still need a monitor people,
Speaker 1: you still need to know about the medical history, um
Speaker 1: and any reactions they've had to Like, it's a medical
Speaker 1: thing that we're doing, and it's not like dropping up
Speaker 1: a pack. So there's gonna be some growing pains and
Speaker 1: that's just normal. And we have to vaccinate the rest
Speaker 1: of the world, and it is our responsibility to help
Speaker 1: do that. Um, it's coming upon all of us because
Speaker 1: this is one of those things where if you don't
Speaker 1: get vaccinated, you could harm your mom, your dad, your grandma,
Speaker 1: your grandpa, you know, your teacher, you know fellow student
Speaker 1: who might be me. No compromise, Like, this is a
Speaker 1: responsibility that we all have. And this may be a
Speaker 1: this might be a dumb question, but it's just actually
Speaker 1: one that I have and I think about often. Where
Speaker 1: do these variants come from? Like how do they just
Speaker 1: like pop out of nowhere? You know, Like how is
Speaker 1: there the South African variant? And then also you know
Speaker 1: one in the UK, Like where do they come from?
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand how that works. Sure, that's some
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Um that you do a little
Speaker 1: deeper into virology, but not that much. Cheaper viruses replicate
Speaker 1: very very rapidly and in very high numbers. And UM,
Speaker 1: a lot of times with these vocations, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: mistakes that are made. And these mistakes are our mutations
Speaker 1: are varyings. The vast vast majority. I can't give a number,
Speaker 1: but a vast majority of variants are are go unnoticed
Speaker 1: because they do nothing to affect the effect the virus itself.
Speaker 1: So there's been lots and lots and lots of variants
Speaker 1: thus far, the ones that we know of now in
Speaker 1: the UK um in South Africa, these variants made changes
Speaker 1: that were significant. They made the spike protein a little different.
Speaker 1: And thus the ones, unfortunately that survived, the ones that
Speaker 1: become prominent, like the ones in the UK, are the
Speaker 1: ones that tap the immune systems. Unfortunately, the more viry
Speaker 1: forms of these mutations are the ones that survived. Because
Speaker 1: so I have I have a terrifying and on that.
Speaker 1: I have a terrifying question on that, and then Danielle
Speaker 1: and Crystal, we want to know if you guys have
Speaker 1: any follow up questions too. But I had this like
Speaker 1: dark thought today. So as they say the virus is
Speaker 1: getting more virulent, virulent, virulent, as thank you. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I finally have calmed myself down a little bit, not
Speaker 1: completely on my like door handle and my cell phone
Speaker 1: and my like all that that like I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get it as likely from surface. So and we're kind
Speaker 1: of like, if it's a respiratory it's passed from person person.
Speaker 1: If it gets more virulent, am I gonna get it
Speaker 1: off my grocery car? Like could that change it? And
Speaker 1: I know that's like might be a tough question. We
Speaker 1: don't mean maybe don't know, but what are you what
Speaker 1: do you think on that? Like? Now do I need
Speaker 1: to be like stressed out about my wife's again? Sorry
Speaker 1: diarrhea diarrhea, gosh, darning diarrhea. Um. So, that is a
Speaker 1: good question, and it to to put it to make
Speaker 1: an answer short. The answer is, you need less virus
Speaker 1: to infect when it becomes with these variants. And when
Speaker 1: you say that it's coming more vari it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's a variant of it that are more virulent. That again,
Speaker 1: they just stick to our cells a little bit stronger,
Speaker 1: um to our receptors that introduce the cells into our
Speaker 1: body a little stronger. And because of that, less is
Speaker 1: needed to infect us, which which is what it means
Speaker 1: to be more virulent. And because of that, um, we
Speaker 1: still need to be fastidious with our social distancing, with
Speaker 1: wearing masks and our hand hygiene for those reasons, because
Speaker 1: less is needed with these variances to effect well diarrhea.
Speaker 1: That's great diarrhea. We have some non actually related question
Speaker 1: before we do that, Danielle Crystal, we can jump in there.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have any follow up questions based on
Speaker 1: what Dr Joe I'm just gonna call you. Dr Joe
Speaker 1: just just explained there not a question, but just I
Speaker 1: love the kind of metaphors you gave and I think,
Speaker 1: unfortunately we may have to done this down just because
Speaker 1: it is so, you know, based in medicine. Not everyone
Speaker 1: understands that. So I would love to hear more of
Speaker 1: those metaphors if you have any, just on your Instagram
Speaker 1: in the future. I've got a couple of videos that
Speaker 1: made about the vaccine that has a couple of easy
Speaker 1: metaphors with like I used Bob the building in there.
Speaker 1: So that's just to give you an idea of how
Speaker 1: how simple UM it is and then UM with a variant.
Speaker 1: They also made a quick video also because I do
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are curious and UM I appreciate.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So thanks, Danielle Crystal, thanks for your questions.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna switch gears a little bit and have
Speaker 1: a little bit of fun. So I'm gonna bring no
Speaker 1: but like a little more lighthearted, not so much. We're
Speaker 1: in a pandemic. Everyone scared, um from the mutating virus. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's breaking nia Nia. Where are you at? Hi? Hi? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a question for you. This is a little juicy.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if you tuned into the most
Speaker 1: recent season of the Bachelor with Matt James. But if
Speaker 1: you have seen, you know a few of the episodes.
Speaker 1: Are there any of the girls that caught your odd
Speaker 1: you think are cute? We want to know we were
Speaker 1: really Swiss gears. We went from like trying to save
Speaker 1: the world to like just yeah, reality television. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: but that's a good question. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I I I've never watched the show before, and um,
Speaker 1: I think it's a long show. It's I can't believe
Speaker 1: people watched this thing for two hours of a week.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, it's it's it's great programming and producers
Speaker 1: are great and film the filming. Everyone works really hard.
Speaker 1: But the answers, I don't really know them well enough.
Speaker 1: Two parts one, Um, I don't know that the people
Speaker 1: well enough to answer unfortunately know the people will not
Speaker 1: only watched part of the first episode, really, and I
Speaker 1: know who gets eliminated because I'm curious, like who lasts
Speaker 1: based on that first episode, so I just google like
Speaker 1: who who's out? Um? And two I also know the
Speaker 1: process kind of and how you know there's no script,
Speaker 1: No one makes you say anything, but there is you know,
Speaker 1: like you just see fasts of people you don't see
Speaker 1: you know, you see It's it's like you have a
Speaker 1: big painting. Are you just trying to light on the
Speaker 1: more interesting parts, more colorful parts? So, UM, there's more
Speaker 1: to people than um what's shown on TV. Like for
Speaker 1: me example, for example, you know, you know, people seem
Speaker 1: to really like, um, some of the things they saw
Speaker 1: from the show, but they cut up the part where
Speaker 1: I punched been in the face. And if people have
Speaker 1: seen that, they would have thought of a completely different
Speaker 1: idea of what was Um. I'm still trying to make
Speaker 1: it up to him. Um. Yeah, okay, so Dr Joe,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not a hundred percent sure you're gonna
Speaker 1: like Nandy's question next because it is another bottom of
Speaker 1: the barrel, But we're gonna go this is amazing And um,
Speaker 1: I love it. I loved it and I love to
Speaker 1: answer a question because it's it is fun and the
Speaker 1: whole thing is doctors been on The Bachelor? Dr Joe,
Speaker 1: Dr Travis dork Or Yeah. I met a friend A
Speaker 1: friend of mine mentioned it was another emergency room doctor
Speaker 1: on there is like Nick and Carroll was a nurse?
Speaker 1: Was Andy Baldwin a doctor? He's like, I'm going way back, Well,
Speaker 1: he was like a marine or a maybe something. I
Speaker 1: have to google that, Okay, Mandy, Hi, thanks good. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick with the name here, Dr Joe. I have
Speaker 1: a question for you, Dr Joe. I was looking at
Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving post and when you're saying how grateful you
Speaker 1: were for the show, and I was super heart warmed. Um.
Speaker 1: So my question is, having had what seems to have
Speaker 1: been such a great and positive experience on the Bachelor,
Speaker 1: would you ever be interested in continuing your journey and
Speaker 1: maybe going on the Bachelor in Paradise And do you
Speaker 1: think that would be something you could even get time
Speaker 1: away from work for? Um. First of all, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: anybody read that thing. It's about a thousand pages, so, um,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. Mandy did take time to write it,
Speaker 1: so you're the one person who read it, so thank
Speaker 1: you for that. As far as b I p um
Speaker 1: I I that's what car I p that's what the
Speaker 1: kids are calling these days. Um. I would say again,
Speaker 1: I'm still out there trying to you know, to find
Speaker 1: Mrs Park but if if there's nothing out there trying
Speaker 1: m R Jo Basler, and that means yes, he wants
Speaker 1: to go, but they haven't officially asked him yet, but
Speaker 1: if they do, he'll say yes, it's like partly it's flat.
Speaker 1: It's like partly flat because the Bachelor All Star like
Speaker 1: hard act like I might do it, maybe dangle it. Um,
Speaker 1: But I don't know the answer to that question. If
Speaker 1: we don't know, I don't know if it's happened, but
Speaker 1: no one knows if it's happening. But I will say
Speaker 1: it was an amazing experience. And while I was there,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a deep dive. But while you're there,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, um, I've had this conversation with people.
Speaker 1: It's almost like interrogated, Yes, yes it is. You don't
Speaker 1: have your your removed from all your contacts, don't have
Speaker 1: your phone, no TV, no internet. Um, you're staying in
Speaker 1: this one confined area. Um, you stay, they make you
Speaker 1: stay up pretty late doing these fun things, but late
Speaker 1: at night, and then when you're done with it, they're
Speaker 1: trying to really bright light in your face and ask
Speaker 1: you a bunch of questions like do you love her?
Speaker 1: And I'm like yeah, I Like it's like, really, do
Speaker 1: you think did you think Dale and Claire wouldn't make
Speaker 1: it longer than they did? Man? That is so hard.
Speaker 1: I mean they really. I mean, listen, we've all been there.
Speaker 1: You know, we we know what that honeymoon phases, like,
Speaker 1: we know what it's like to like fall head over
Speaker 1: heels for somebody. Um, I just you know, when you're
Speaker 1: going to a commitment like engaging, engagement and getting married somebody,
Speaker 1: I think twelve days and however many hours I've spoken
Speaker 1: that day, can you really hash out, Hey, what do
Speaker 1: you do with your career? Where do you what do
Speaker 1: you want to do when you move? And how many
Speaker 1: kids do you want? And do you want to raise
Speaker 1: your kids? And you know, like all these important questions,
Speaker 1: these minor details that kind of fall but felt might
Speaker 1: have fallen by the wayside and their short time they
Speaker 1: had together, so you know, it's well. I appreciate how
Speaker 1: fair you're being with that question, Dr Joe, But let's
Speaker 1: try it one more time. Were you shocked if they
Speaker 1: broke up? I was not shocked that they broke up.
Speaker 1: I mean I was hoping that they did. They wouldn't um,
Speaker 1: and I was rooting for them as as as America was,
Speaker 1: you know, all vascination was. But I'm not shocked that
Speaker 1: they broke up. So I agree with you. Do you
Speaker 1: think Claire messed up? I don't know the right words. Uh,
Speaker 1: sort of sabotaged herself by not being open to the
Speaker 1: process and all the other men, because the odds were
Speaker 1: not with her that this was going to work out
Speaker 1: with the one guy she met three times? Did she
Speaker 1: blow it? Should she have gone through the process even
Speaker 1: if she was in the und ultimately going to end
Speaker 1: up with Dale. I felt like she screwed herself by
Speaker 1: just being like I like that guy from the second
Speaker 1: he got out of her limo. UM. I will say
Speaker 1: this is easy to say now that that they've broken up.
Speaker 1: What if she had gone through the process and ended
Speaker 1: up with Blake, Let's say Blake Moyn's and they said
Speaker 1: together for three months. You know he lived in Canada, Like,
Speaker 1: who knows what could have happened, So it's easy to
Speaker 1: say now that's looking back and playing Monday morning quarterback saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it could have been somebody else. But I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, with these things, you never like there like
Speaker 1: another version, like my parents dated for six months before
Speaker 1: they got engaged, and you know, not in nine months.
Speaker 1: They were married from the time they met each other.
Speaker 1: And then there are couples who know each other for
Speaker 1: eight years, they get married and then they divorced after
Speaker 1: Like you know, my parents still have been married after
Speaker 1: four years, right, And there are people who go out
Speaker 1: for eight years and then they divorced after a year marriter,
Speaker 1: So it's so hard to say, like what would have happened? Crap.
Speaker 1: But I still think she kind of blew it because look,
Speaker 1: this is just my opinion. If you're gonna buy into
Speaker 1: it doing it, you gotta buy into it and kind
Speaker 1: of do it right. And she really like turned it
Speaker 1: on its side. Although I loved Tasia, so I was
Speaker 1: super stoked that we got Tasia. Yeah, here's my perspective
Speaker 1: on it. So I agree. I feel like she should
Speaker 1: have given a little bit of more time, and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how long that was, but it was
Speaker 1: probably just a few weeks um. And but then I
Speaker 1: look back on it, and I'm like, if she just
Speaker 1: kept going with it, it would have been almost like
Speaker 1: a loser situation because she would have been that girl
Speaker 1: that would have disrespected the rest of the guys because
Speaker 1: she only had her eye on one of them. And
Speaker 1: so it was kind of like I thought she might
Speaker 1: have been in a losing situation either way. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? I think that's fair. Yeah, And not only that,
Speaker 1: looking it the other way, I mean, for her she
Speaker 1: felt so strongly for somebody, you know, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it would be almost like, you know, it's it's almost
Speaker 1: like she's like cheating on him by like kissing these
Speaker 1: guys continuously and holding their hands and go through that
Speaker 1: process too. So I don't blame her for making that
Speaker 1: decisions if she felt that what she did, Like, once
Speaker 1: you feel it, can we control how we feel? You know?
Speaker 1: We can't unfeel, you know, That's how we work. I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree with you all, but still a smart person
Speaker 1: knows it was not the odds were not with her.
Speaker 1: It was so chancey. And then she's sort of I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, we could do a whole episode
Speaker 1: on that. Well, we'll move on alright, so many other things.
Speaker 1: We'll have to dive on Claire because I think she
Speaker 1: screwed up, but that's all right. Now she's and then
Speaker 1: now she's all heartbroken and it sucks. Whereas like maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, one of those other dudes was really
Speaker 1: her soul mate. We've all screwed up. She went to
Speaker 1: the shiny object. That's what it is. Okay, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this really fast. She went for the shiny object,
Speaker 1: which I've been told I go for the shiny object,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you're not supposed to go for the shiny object.
Speaker 1: So Joe, why do ladies go for the shiny object
Speaker 1: instead of like, I don't know, the the metaphor the
Speaker 1: night at that or like right, the solid piece of
Speaker 1: metal if I'm going with the metaphor, Like, why are women,
Speaker 1: in your opinion as a man, so attracted to the
Speaker 1: shiny object? The male model? Dale? You know whatever, um
Speaker 1: I would say in fairness and Dale, he's not just
Speaker 1: a tiny Dale was actually very well spoken, very intelligent.
Speaker 1: You know, he's like he's like I've said this before,
Speaker 1: and I said on the show multiple times interviews, like
Speaker 1: when we're going that through that transition phase on a
Speaker 1: first date or like in three dates, which is what
Speaker 1: the Bachelor is. If I went on the same date,
Speaker 1: the same amount of time with the girl and like
Speaker 1: Dale and I had like three hours with there at
Speaker 1: the same restaurant, you know, the same food, same drinks,
Speaker 1: the same everything. The girl Big Dale like under times
Speaker 1: and that's just a fact. And that okay with me,
Speaker 1: Like he's he's a stud, like and that's like but
Speaker 1: you know, you know, but that's why we're so dumb,
Speaker 1: because yes, Joe, yes, because I think that's like you're
Speaker 1: you're only like thinking about the thing right in front
Speaker 1: of your face. But if you're thinking about like a
Speaker 1: happy life and like true love, like Dr Joe could
Speaker 1: be your man. I don't know. I've got like just
Speaker 1: probably trash behind me too, kidding. Were talked about a donation,
Speaker 1: So yes, tell everybody, Tell everybody what you're doing with
Speaker 1: your which if people see this on our social that's
Speaker 1: not garbage. Behind Dr Joe, what are you doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna co drive And um I just was
Speaker 1: saying how um I posted on Instagram, I would love
Speaker 1: if people donate the coats. They recorded themselves and then
Speaker 1: just posted it this Sunday, you know, January. So I
Speaker 1: just you know, it's getting really cold right now New
Speaker 1: York and a lot of parts of the US, and
Speaker 1: I figured I had some extra coats that I was
Speaker 1: gonna donate, and I asked my friends, and they have
Speaker 1: some extra coats there that they could donate. I figured
Speaker 1: fascination is such a loving community that maybe they would
Speaker 1: have coats too, So I just made a post saying,
Speaker 1: if you have any coasts to donate, donate it, record
Speaker 1: yourself donating it, and on Sunday, January one, post a
Speaker 1: story of be donating it, you know, show people like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't need this anymore. I hope somebody
Speaker 1: get used out of it and just tag me, And
Speaker 1: I would love to just repost it and be like yo,
Speaker 1: like we all did this together as a community, um,
Speaker 1: and just help, like just to show other people, you know,
Speaker 1: show ourselves and other people like which she brings us
Speaker 1: right back to being at the dinner table with you
Speaker 1: and Dale and God bless Dale. But ladies, stop with
Speaker 1: the shiny objects or he's very shiny though he's very
Speaker 1: I mean he like he's like very burned. My eyes
Speaker 1: when I looked at him. Dart to Joe, Amy is
Speaker 1: hyping you up to a new level. And I'm here
Speaker 1: because doctor doctors are the brad Pitt. I don't get
Speaker 1: near you, but doctors are the new brad Pitt because
Speaker 1: it's like, holy crap, Like if you're like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is my dude and he's a doctor, everybody's like what
Speaker 1: so okay before but yes, but I need to know
Speaker 1: what is happening with Dr Joe and his I know
Speaker 1: it's hard dating in a pandemic. I don't really like
Speaker 1: advocate for it. It's a little, but it's hard. Like
Speaker 1: what are the ladies d M ing you? Like? What's happening?
Speaker 1: Obviously they're m a lot of inappropriate things. Please save
Speaker 1: that the inappropriate. I'm just kidding. No, it's actually very
Speaker 1: nice and uh there's some thirsty ladies, but then there's
Speaker 1: also some quality. There's some quality. Yeah, I honestly don't
Speaker 1: really respond to DM. I I don't know. I'm like
Speaker 1: I'm a millennial but just barely and I just quite understanding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set you up very sick, very six? Yes,
Speaker 1: and what's your ideal ad? Rings like thirty to forty? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think thirty to forty is great. You know, someone
Speaker 1: more like mature. It was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: knows himself. I think that's what everyone wants to some degree. Right,
Speaker 1: So I need to think this through, but we'll make
Speaker 1: it happen. Anybody you need to be in New York?
Speaker 1: Are you open to like long distance? Um? I think
Speaker 1: you know relationships are so hard as as it is
Speaker 1: to make something work really meaningful. One. I was just
Speaker 1: looking for. Um, I think you know distance is important.
Speaker 1: You know proximity is pretty pretty. Can't we take into
Speaker 1: Connecticut or do they need to be like I think
Speaker 1: we could think it to try state? No? Maybe is good?
Speaker 1: All right? All right, um, Becky, let's go to Becky.
Speaker 1: Hi Joe, how are you, Becky? How are you good? Okay?
Speaker 1: So you are obviously very busy. Um, so I wanted
Speaker 1: to know, especially right now it's so stressful. What do
Speaker 1: you one doing for fun outside of work? In two?
Speaker 1: How are you staying healthy during these times? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: good question. Um, definitely have had to improvise with the fun.
Speaker 1: I'll see what I'm not doing. I'm not eating in
Speaker 1: big groups and restaurants. I'm not traveling to you know,
Speaker 1: like Central America. I'm not going to big concerts with
Speaker 1: groups of friends. All things that I would love to do,
Speaker 1: you know during normal times. Um. But you know, really
Speaker 1: for fun, I just I like to I do like running,
Speaker 1: um when you like working out. I do like reading. Um,
Speaker 1: I do like watching like nature documentaries and um my
Speaker 1: Active Teacher is actually great when I just watch, it's
Speaker 1: really good, really fun. Um. I like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to the internet, going on a weird like
Speaker 1: Wikipedia YouTube kind of loops. Um. And yeah, and and
Speaker 1: most of all, I just it's such a gift now,
Speaker 1: you know. So we do have some outdoor dining. It's
Speaker 1: really cool. But there's outdoor dining and maybe once a week,
Speaker 1: you know, with appropriate distance. And again in the outdoor setting,
Speaker 1: it's still worth meeting um somebody um and just talking
Speaker 1: with somebody um. And this thing that we took for granted,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing a loved one, a friend, just sharing
Speaker 1: a meal and experience with this person and spending time
Speaker 1: with them. Ah, it's such a it's such an event.
Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful thing now And I think that's
Speaker 1: something we can all take away that all the things
Speaker 1: that we had that were surrounded by, like for twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day, you know, working from home and
Speaker 1: just being at home all the time, like none of
Speaker 1: it made us happy. Like it's all. It's all yes,
Speaker 1: you know, like that watch that ring, you know, the
Speaker 1: TV maybe we needed, but you know, all the things
Speaker 1: just were meant nothing. I mean nothing. And the most
Speaker 1: important things, obviously are you know, sharing time, shared experiences
Speaker 1: with your loved ones um and obviously UM, doing the
Speaker 1: things that makes us happy UM and traveling and just
Speaker 1: experiencing things, experiences and people, things that I think obviously
Speaker 1: more important. And I try to do that as much
Speaker 1: as I can. So you're obviously not watching Bachelor, But
Speaker 1: are you watching any other TV shows? Like what do
Speaker 1: you do at night to relax? Is that the bubble bath?
Speaker 1: Is it? Oh? Jeez? Nothing, I don't want. I barely
Speaker 1: watched TV. I mean that, like the like I watched
Speaker 1: sports sometimes, um, because it's dramatic and we all need
Speaker 1: some drama in our lives. And that's what I realized,
Speaker 1: Like humans are Like I don't watch The Bachelor or
Speaker 1: the Bachelor, Um, even though they are great shows Monday
Speaker 1: Monday MS, I don't care, but um and an institution.
Speaker 1: Some would consider the Bachelor Bach institution of television. But um,
Speaker 1: that is like a relationship drama, and that's something I
Speaker 1: really just don't care for in the real sense. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wouldn't go and seek it out
Speaker 1: on TV. But what I realized is as a man,
Speaker 1: a lot of men like drama too. They just get
Speaker 1: a de form. It's like drama is a drug that
Speaker 1: we all crave, and I just before my life is
Speaker 1: last minute shots and game any touchdowns and some and
Speaker 1: and maybe some people love it in the form of
Speaker 1: relationship like where she won't she? That's somehow men think
Speaker 1: Intel Ladies like, yeah, listen up, that's how many things intel.
Speaker 1: They like it too, but they just get it from sports. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you go or play tennis or pickle ball, which
Speaker 1: is the fastest growing sport in America. I just learned,
Speaker 1: what's what do you got going? I pickle I gotta
Speaker 1: get onto the pickle ball ground. Huh jeez. I heard
Speaker 1: pickle ball is very hot, hot hot. I ordered the cattles.
Speaker 1: I haven't used them, But what what's your sports, Joe,
Speaker 1: or is it just I love surfing. I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of I got two boards right here, like looking
Speaker 1: at me in the face right here. Unfortunately they stayed
Speaker 1: pretty dry. Um. I have surved in the winter, but
Speaker 1: it's a little hard. Um, it's not the most enjoyable.
Speaker 1: And normally I will travel, but obviously that's not of thing,
Speaker 1: so surfing would be the other thing. Um. I do
Speaker 1: like to run, um and just again just go to gym. Um.
Speaker 1: I do like basketball when it's available. I don't play
Speaker 1: as much, um, but yeah, I just I think movement
Speaker 1: in any form it gets those en doorphins out and
Speaker 1: I really think it is a key. One of the
Speaker 1: keys to promote people from to happiness is just we
Speaker 1: cannot set up Dr Joe like either. I am going
Speaker 1: to find you your girl. I'm really good at it,
Speaker 1: really good. So we have one more question um that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people really relate to you
Speaker 1: right now. UM. So I'm gonna bring in Riley um
Speaker 1: to ask her question. Hi, Dr Joe. Um. So, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's been going on, but I am at
Speaker 1: a peak high anxiety right now and I just want
Speaker 1: to know if you had any tips to help me
Speaker 1: out anything I can do? Oh man, Um, first, sorry
Speaker 1: to hear that, Riley. Um, but I think I think
Speaker 1: we all have anxiety right now. Mine right mine is
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on besides the world. I
Speaker 1: don't you know anything I can control. Um. I Again,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a good answer to that. To
Speaker 1: be honest, Um, I think it's really natural and normal
Speaker 1: at this time in life to have some anxiety. I
Speaker 1: think it'd be weird not to have anxiety. So I think, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just recognizing that, you know, it's okay. You know,
Speaker 1: like you how feeling how you're feeling is is justified
Speaker 1: and honor that feeling. You know, it's it's normal. Like
Speaker 1: as a as a female, Like what I like to
Speaker 1: do to do that or like to kind of settle
Speaker 1: my anxiety is a hot bath or working out or
Speaker 1: Um I've recently got into see the d um like
Speaker 1: what do guys do? Like what what are guys? You know?
Speaker 1: Like what do guys do to kind of relieve some
Speaker 1: of their anxiety? Yeah, that's a good question. So I think, um,
Speaker 1: like a lot of guys and again in different forms
Speaker 1: will just like to really exert themselves, like like you
Speaker 1: gotta like get out that pent up And I think
Speaker 1: anxiety is this part of it is. And again this
Speaker 1: is just you know, one man's opinion, but it's this nervousness,
Speaker 1: this energy that you have pent up that's towards something
Speaker 1: that you can't control, like depending on like the situation
Speaker 1: that's going around us. And and so it's just this
Speaker 1: nervous part of this is the nervous energy, as almost
Speaker 1: some anxiety is. And so two one you expanded energy. Men.
Speaker 1: I think I love to lift weights and to run
Speaker 1: and to you know, play sports because this thing, again,
Speaker 1: it's all of this just using that some of that
Speaker 1: energy that we all have that kind of when we
Speaker 1: sit still could just have these outlets where you know,
Speaker 1: we create tension. If we don't create tension by moving,
Speaker 1: by by like running faster or or straining our muscles,
Speaker 1: then that tension kind of goes somewhere and maybe that
Speaker 1: goes to our psyche. And so I think movement is
Speaker 1: a big thing. And and again doubly good is that
Speaker 1: movement not only releases that pent up energy that I
Speaker 1: think could feed some anxiety, you also also obviously release
Speaker 1: releases endorphins, so it's like it's doubly good. So, um,
Speaker 1: I do think it. It approaches that anxiety in multiple ways.
Speaker 1: And I just think for men, movement and physical activity
Speaker 1: in whatever form that may be, is a good Why
Speaker 1: you men? And I'm being general because I think there's exceptions,
Speaker 1: but as a rule, men do not enjoy a bath,
Speaker 1: not a guy move That's a really good question. And
Speaker 1: uh and and and obviously Danny said that's one of
Speaker 1: the things, like one of our go choose. And I
Speaker 1: was just thinking, like I don't know the answer to
Speaker 1: that question, because it seems great, you know, just to
Speaker 1: soak in something and smell good so you run hot
Speaker 1: and it's too sweaty in there or something. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's it. Let me give it a second to think.
Speaker 1: Why don't Could it just be the connotation like what
Speaker 1: if they made like they could be a market here
Speaker 1: like bubble bath it feels too soft, feels girly. There
Speaker 1: could be something to that again just by association, like
Speaker 1: why do you why do you women like um not women?
Speaker 1: Why why is pink associated with women? Like don't I
Speaker 1: don't know, It's like it's just society kind of decided
Speaker 1: at some point movies, it was Julia Roberts in the
Speaker 1: bubble bath, not Richard Richard gear. Did she pull him
Speaker 1: in at some point though? Wasn't he kind of in there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of like she's going to make all that money
Speaker 1: and she's like cut her headphones on and she's like
Speaker 1: classic movie. But yeah, I don't know this bubble. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna do a deep dive int the bubble baths.
Speaker 1: And because I'm curious about that too, because it does
Speaker 1: sound great. It does sound very relaxing the muscles and
Speaker 1: kind of chill a bath in that New York apartment. Um,
Speaker 1: I do, but again as a man, it's gone unused. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we need to send Dr Joe a little thank you
Speaker 1: basket for hosting how many things that has some bath bombs,
Speaker 1: some candles, like a whole little thing. You're pretty much
Speaker 1: sending me a big paperweight then, because they will never
Speaker 1: do Riley, I'm not sure if that answered your question,
Speaker 1: but but hanging there, and I do hope that's you know,
Speaker 1: as society gets back to normal, that I hope and
Speaker 1: I think that anxiety, Um, we'll get better. And again
Speaker 1: you're not alone. We're all feeling it and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: good luck and you're gonna it's gonna be okay, I promised.
Speaker 1: Thank you all hanging there. I think Dr Joe needs
Speaker 1: his and I think you're doing great already seriously, like
Speaker 1: Dr So yeah, Doctor, I can't think of like the
Speaker 1: if I say Dr Doug Ross, it's too it's too
Speaker 1: archaic of a reference for our young ladies listening, because
Speaker 1: that's George Clooney from e R. But like you're like
Speaker 1: the TV doctor, like you're pretty smooth. Would you ever
Speaker 1: like be the Doctor Gupta or the Doctor Oz or
Speaker 1: the I think you're doing it now? No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so not not in there for him um and
Speaker 1: not because they don't well, I think those three are different,
Speaker 1: um in what they their their mission is as a
Speaker 1: doctor on TV Dr Gupta, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for um just semate great information, very fact based information,
Speaker 1: and I'll leave it that um. But I really like this.
Speaker 1: I like talking to individuals. I like seeing patients. I
Speaker 1: like talking to them, and uh, I don't think I
Speaker 1: would ever want to not do that because it is
Speaker 1: such a sacred bond that you form and it's such
Speaker 1: a so weird. It's just it's interesting to me and
Speaker 1: play on the surgeries or are you ever in the
Speaker 1: e er where suddenly they're like, I don't know, some
Speaker 1: dramas happening and you have to like put somebody under
Speaker 1: a real fast dat like that. Yeah, there's definitely some
Speaker 1: of that, especially during COVID there's a lot of that.
Speaker 1: You know, we we were putting in the breathing tubes,
Speaker 1: which I was gonna say, yeah, yeah, we did all
Speaker 1: these in debasions the majority of divisions, and so it
Speaker 1: was it was pretty it's pretty hairy, um and it
Speaker 1: was pretty scary. And yeah, there's definitely times where there's
Speaker 1: scheduled surgeries, for sure, but there's definitely times where even
Speaker 1: the scheduled surgeries, a lot of weird things happen. And
Speaker 1: and then my set my hospital work as a trauma centers,
Speaker 1: there's always somebody rolling in, who if my car felt?
Speaker 1: Our story is so, yeah, you're speaking a little bit
Speaker 1: of crazy here and there are either are either mom
Speaker 1: or Dad park a doctor? No, No, you're just you
Speaker 1: have older brothers are radiologists. Oh no, okay, so that's
Speaker 1: interesting to your older brother is also a doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a really elogist. Yeah, in New York. Also in
Speaker 1: New York. Also, Yeah, he works out on the Alloland.
Speaker 1: Do I have to find him a wife or does
Speaker 1: he have a wife? Yeah? I know he's good. He
Speaker 1: asked one. He's fine. Yeah, So we'll focus on you guys.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. There's a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: and thanks to everyone who called in and asked the question. Um,
Speaker 1: they're a really good questions. That's super informative, and uh,
Speaker 1: I hope everyone learned something. Um, you know, we're all
Speaker 1: going through a really tough time right now. Um, it's
Speaker 1: been hard. There isn't a single person that hasn't been
Speaker 1: affected by the pandemic personally, economically, you know, like psychologically, socially,
Speaker 1: and so in every way we could possibly think of.
Speaker 1: But this vaccine does offer hope, and it is going
Speaker 1: to save millions of lives. And the sooner we can
Speaker 1: all get it, you know, part of that's not a
Speaker 1: lot of that's not not control. But the sooner we
Speaker 1: can all get it, the sooner we'll all go back
Speaker 1: to life as we knew it before. But that path there,
Speaker 1: you know, we see that light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. But the way they're still you know, right now,
Speaker 1: we're in very dark times that that that tunnel is
Speaker 1: still very dark and scary before we reached that light.
Speaker 1: So it's important to keep social distancing, keep wearing the mask,
Speaker 1: keep washing the hands, and and stay strong. And we're
Speaker 1: all gonna get through this together. We just gotta stay
Speaker 1: strong for the time being and and yeah, and then
Speaker 1: we'll appreciate it even more once once it's over, and
Speaker 1: it will end