You were listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven to one. The freak jokes are allowed. Jokes are allowed. Thank God, What a sad world it would be if jokes weren't allowed on our way. Kevin, you can be disbanded, disbarred from the comedy firm. You guys ever think about being a lawyer? Okay, too much reading to be a lawyer. You're not a good reader. I am. I just don't enjoy it as much like I
like to read stuff I'm interested in. But imagine coming across a boring court case and you get to read about it lawyers like sometimes I think people think of lawyers in a different light because they think of them almost like politicians sometimes, and it's just not true. To get where they got, they had to read so much, how much minutia and documents and understand it and stay awake. Yeah, it's comprehending it and retaining any of it. It's incredible.
Imagine the mental daydreaming you would do while reading some of these cases, files, docu whatever it is, because I can't keep my head straight when I'm reading something I like, you know, the daydream read when three pages go by that we talked about before. Yeah, but it's like when you're a little kid, you're like doctors like the ultimate, and then lawyers the next step down, and then business. Yeah, places because you're told that they'll make you a lot of money. Yeah, when we were kids,
that's what you're always told, doctor lawyer. Wonder what percentage of people go into being a doctor because of the money versus the altruistic nature of it. It's money, I think so too. But I was just thinking about doctors and people, and that's your whole life and job is to help people at their most frightened, terrified moment. What an incredible group of people I love. Do you know how many people out there probably still do not have a
doctor? Like they've farted around their whole life and they get to the thirties and forties and go, man, I just never really did a good job of getting an actual doctor. I just now got a new doctor, Like of the last month or so. I'd go in twice and do the basic things physical and lab work and all this stuff. But she's just so damn nice and you feel like you can talk to her, and I start telling her about my problems. I understand I shoul get a therapist for that.
Yeah, but they will be a little de facto therapist. Yeah, because your health often applies to your brain. And if they realize that, they will do a little digging and make some prescriptions. I was having a little trouble with my neurologist. Now I got it sorted out, so I'm fine. But because now the two the way doctoring works is here's an app. You gotta get an app too. All the time. It's got an app, though, But I was I'm able to sit message and you can tell
that the response is coming from her and not her handler. Now, I also didn't just like because I had a U I had a general health question and I wanted to ask her. Now, granted she could have just done nothing or let her assistant someone an automated robot practitioner. And her response to me was like, that's so nice. Yes, here's what you should do. And I was like, she took time out of her day of busy. I don't know, I don't know. I feel good, I've got
a doctor. It's a good feeling that you have a doctor. Yet you know and love and can trust. I think in the modern age of doctoring, that there's been a shift because I noticed, I think about two or three physicals ago ago, my doctor for the first time like asked me a little bit about my emotions and personal life. Yeah, and I thought it was kind of weird and and I kind of stopped him and I go, this is different. I go, is this kind of part of a new
thing that you guys do? And he goes, no, I mean because it was different and we have a great relationship, and he said, yeah, you know, and the way that the focus on mental health in this modern age that we live in has shifted and become more okay and not so taboo to discuss. You know, it's part of our it's part of our
treatment for our health care. For you, it's to maybe you can early identify some stuff, or you just give me a general idea of what's going on in your life and your home blah blah blah, and that way they can at least say maybe I would recommend this, and this would be part because it all does work together. Yeah, it's all interconnected. Like hard core stress will kill you probably faster than anything. Well, my blood work showed that my liver had too much alcohol in it, and my doctor's like,
what's up? And I'm like, well, for eight months, I was drinking four giant cups of whiskey every night because I was completely stressed about figuring out what the hell is going to be on a four hour show every day? And he went, oh no, and he's like, well, you need to drink a little less. Why are you drinking because you're stressed and all this? You know, So it does all intertwined, you know.
Absolutely. The one thing I think doctors do incredibly well is you walk in the little room right and the heart, blood pressure man or woman comes in. They do all the basic tests, but then once that doctor gets in there, it's like they know you, they remember you, they have your file up, but they really make you feel like, oh, you haven't seen the person in a year, and they're like how are you doing with this? You know, and they're just very good at making you feel
like you are their only person. Like how many patients does a doctor see every day? What would you get a general and a big place, a dozen or more? I think twice an hour is what I would say. So, yeah, yeah, twice an hour. You think they block off half an hour. Let's say a dozen, and they're good at never like rushing or making you feel rushed. They have time anything else you know they do. You don't feel like they're turning and burning. They really have to
make you feel special and the most important thing they're doing today. And every doctor I've had done an excellent job at that. Yeah, just among the things that you don't you know, you don't really consider as far as that practice, because I mean, ultimately, it's a business and their objective is to make profit and turn and burn, you know. But the fact that they can rise above that and still add some I don't know, human connection
to it's really cool. One another thing that I've noticed in doctor's offices is the old cliche was in my appointments at nine. I got there at eight fifty five, and they didn't call me till nine thirty. Why didn't you just make my appointment nine thirty? Is Oh, probably an old stand up bit from years gone by, But that has changed a lot. My appointments at nine. I can't remember the last time I waited more than ten minutes. Well, you're right, like they get you in. You're right,
yep. And I think it is because everything is so competitive and maybe back in the day, doctors kind of had this and it's great part and due to our perception of them and the way that we held them in this regard, this hubris of I know things that nobody else knows. There's an ego about them being doctors that they can do say whatever they want, take extra long to get you in for the appointment, act like they're the smartest people
in the room, because they probably are. But I think that's changed a lot now. Once once you could go on the internet and find out some stuff on your own, whether it be true or not, well they realize they probably need to step up their game a little bit because you have options and everything, and you're going to go to the place that probably offers the most the best service. I wonder, yeah, I wonder how do people leave their doctors without a massive reason, you know, like, once you
have a doctor, I think you kind of just roll with it. It must be a search for the the closest thing to them. And if they have insurance in their network, oh boy, so they probably don't look much further than that. And it's a roll of the dice. You don't know what you're going to land on. I luckily landed on a great one twenty three years ago, I think, and I've been with the same office since.
Doctor Monic Agerwall is my doctor and I love I text him earlier this week just to say and we text and I consider him a friend, so it's a little differ. Met him one day at Old seventy five. Yes. Nice. Yeah, he came out and said Hi, I Textedhi the other day. I'm like, you know what, I remember that, Yeah, because that was the day that you had like two old fashions, a beer and two shots in front of you. And he was glancing at my hand in my face. This is like a week after he told you to
cut back on the sauce. That's actually when I met him. I was actually going to him and I was like, hey, I'm worried about mikey. If you can check in, thank you. Please don't talk to my doctor. I mean, Christina showed me who he was. Yeah, Mike, he's trying to hide Dre. Yeah. I know how my laptop. I had them all that's stacked up right here, right behind the screens. You can see him. It's just soaking the keyboard. Look, you're allowed to stumble every once in a while. Man, I text the other day
just to tell him that I appreciate him. I think he's a great doctor and a great dude. Wow. And then I'm waiting a few days before I hit him with you really want folly of scripts that I that I need, set them up and knock him down. Knockd uh. How about the most important thing in the world. Sure, I got something. Uh. The town of Grindavic or Grendavic in Iceland, in since midnight their time,
has been hit by six hundred earthquakes. Six hundred Jesus since okay, in the last twelve hours or whatever whatever their is yeah, yeah, yeah, or maybe the night before. So in the last twenty four hours, this city has been hit by six hundred earthquakes. And the reason for that is they are right at the foot of a volcano that is very active and it appears that an eruption is not only likely but probably imminent. Uh ohh.
And they have evacuated four thousand resident from just a Grindovic gr grind and then a v i K thousands of quakes over the past weeks. These earthquakes have ripped open roads, torn apart homes, cracking homes, and the level of magma from the volcano is rising ever closer to the Earth's surface. They've been testing the gaseous noxious gas levels that emit from the hurricane or the hurricane the volcano, and they're saying that they all are in line with what appears to
be a giant ass eruption that could be days away. What did I say, the obvious fart drop that comes with noxious gases. You know, I was trying to handle this segment with the utmost in professionality maturity, to offer education, to let people know what's going on on the other side of the world, and apparently there's a big ass volcano in Iceland that's about to go melt people. People. Could you're playing farts? I didn't play any farts.
I was JJ and she shouldn't have done it, but you laughed and encouraged her. When I said, I looked at you, pride. He didn't play a fart when he said noxious gas straight into started giggling. It was pride, and I looked at you, and that pride is not going at his butt and push the button, butted up and bottom hit the bottom button. Makeup farts window he said gas, he played the butt sound. Yeah, do that, and she didn't even do play the butt sound.
God, I wish I was more complex than what. He turned around talking with his butt on the microphone. He's been Yeah, they are, they're meters. They're detection meters for gas things detected increased levels of sulfur dioxide. This is an indicator of anterruption. I've been tracking this for you real. Yeah. It's very interesting because once they said the road started ripping to pieces
and houses or being ripped. The houses are ripping in half. The dry wall is shattering, and cobras are spilling out into the streets in Iceland. In Iceland. No, yeah, this is bad, and it's odd when you have sort of an imminent volcano blast. And there's some I've never been to Iceland. Our friend Jake went to Iceland not too long ago. Gorgeous
and it looks incredible. That's the spot, Kevin where you Kenvin swim in this little valley of water, crystal blue water, and you can extend your arms out both sides and one arms touching Europe and one arms touching North America. And you can do that also, and like corner of Arizona. Yeah, you can do the exact same thing, just not in the water. The only place you can touch Europe is if you're at the corner of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. It's the same thing, though,
right, I don't understand your question. If I laid down at the county line of Tarrant and Dallas, Dallas, then that could be in both at the same time, right, But you could do that in tens of thousands of places in the United States. There's only I think one place where you can touch two continents, those two. Yeah, I guess you could lay down between wherever Europe officially changes to Asia. Do you think there's any sign? What's that? Do you think there's a sign anywhere that says you're
leaving Europe you're entering Asia. It's always a weird blend of where Europe and Asia kind of turned into one another. I don't really understand. It's a big land mass, there's a line that's drawn on there, and it's kind of fictional. And don't we have nations that are called your Asia? Confusing confused that you get the tacups daring leading don't draw attention to it. Yes, but this is uh, it's gonna gonna go. There's a place called
the Blue Lagoon that has been shut down. It's one of their bigger tourist locations there. It's a geothermal spa, a geothermal spot exactly what it is. And I was reading about it, and then I started looking at pictures of it, and then I just went on a little Blue Lagoon wormhole. I mean beautiful. It's huge, and there's people frolicking in this steaming water
while there's snow everywhere else. Absolutely gorgeous. But yeah, that things shut down and there when's the thing going, Well, Kevin, we don't know it's a volcano. They've evacuated. The city's We have a live stream. It's not old Faithful, it probably is a live stream. We have a live stream on this right. You can live stream when hurricanes you're coming in and you just watch the waters rise and then the doc is no more. As long as your research didn't inspire you to watch the film Blue Lagoon,
starring Brookshields and Christopher Atkins. I watched that a few times when I was a when I was also a little kid. Yeah, now if you watch it now, you can be arrested. Yeah, because wasn't she fifteen? I'll get you in the database real quick. I don't watch it now actively now that Brookshields Dock is so good? What's the kid? The guy's name? Good? I think Christopher Atkins? I think yeah? Is that right? Should have a bit of a damaged life? Huh with the blonde curly
hair, uh huh? And the didn't he invent the pukashell necklace? Ists? That's really good? How did I know that it's really really good? Well, there's so many live streams? Really yeah? Is he? Are you sure you have the right volcano? Is it? And it's not just like that fireplace video on Netflix? Is it called selling a fell? Are you just looking at a high definition fireplace? Kevin Grindavic, So you said, right, Danny, three and eighty seven people were watching this JJ in
a minute. I'm gonna get you to put that on that TV. Yeah, yeah, we can let watch that and if it happens on the air, well no, yeah, perhaps the next three hours and ten minutes. The name of the volcano mountain? Oh, is this gonna be easy to pronounce? For Grodal's fall, they need to chill others there with so letters, many continents. Yes, well, we have someone who's on the phone right now who's just been evacuated from Iceland. Okay, okay, hey big
Frank, Hello, Hello, Hi. Hi. So I wasn't officially evacuated, but I had last Saturday and they were evacuating from the Blue Lagoon area. I went on a girls trip and that the trip was either this week or next you know, or last week or this week, and so my group is still there. So yeah, but I will tell you you are so right. The lagoon was surreal amazing. How big was it? I looked huge in the pictures I saw. Well, we actually didn't go to
the Blue Lagon because they actually started evacuating that like two weeks ago. So we went to a place called Sky Lagoon, which the girls that run the trip said that they liked that one even more. They had a bar. You have to put it on your bucket loads. Could you add Danny Baylis's email to the train, so maybe he could join the next girl's trip, Because you guys sound like you got some fun places. You sound like a great crew. You know, That's what they want is me lurking in the
bushes. While they're trying to enjoy cocktails with pool boys. By the way, I have a question about the men, the Icelandic men. Did you find them to be far more interesting and attractive than US American shlubs? You know, no, I love American men, but their accents were they were pretty good. Ye are you guys a bunch of single ladies or spoken? For? Most of you? They were mostly single. And we climbed glaciers.
We did see the split between Eurasia and Iceland. We walked between that because you guys brought that up too, so it was a new thing to me. I had no idea there was a Eurasian account of So yeah, I highly recommend going on the growth trip. So were the people? Were you in Grenda Grendevic? Like, were you in that area that was? I mean you obviously near the Blue Lagoon? I mean was there? We flew into a Reikovic and then we drove south and east, so you know,
and they all talked about it, but they are excited. The Icelandic people are so excited. They're like, and I was hoping it happens so I could stay there for like three weeks, so asthetic, like please let it happen. They're excited. Imagine being stuck in Iceland for three weeks. I've been on some vacations where you hope something happened. Guys, my palms are up. I want to come back and work. Ask the people of Pompeii how excited they were. Wow, that's great. Now did you experience
any earthquake activity whilst there? You know, I didn't feel anything, but they were happening all the time. We went to the ocean on ATVs and you know, just but no, nothing, I didn't feel a thing. Did you go all the way around the Ring road? I'm not familiar, but I don't think so. Isn't that I think that's the I will say that I learned a lot like It's definitely an easy bucket list trip. It's only five hour flights. They speak English, you drive on the right side
of the road. Their number one income is tourism, so they treat you really well. Did you have lots of fresh fish? Yes, every meal, and we had sharks, had fermented shark because the sharks there don't have kidneys for the ammonia, so they have If you just hated without fermenting it, you would die so probas people are going to correct me in this, so I remember, don't crush my memory. No, you're good. Did
you see any northern lights? Unbelievable? I yes, so the northern lights are you know, you could kind of see them if the skies are clear, you see those? Like? Have either of you seen the Northern lights just on pictures? Yeah? Just in a little baggy on my coffee table. Did any of your single lady friends boo up with a Viking? I am not going to disclose that. Yeah, trips, stay there, some naked guy running down the hallway with a helmet with horns coming out the sides
of it. So many, so many, so many Svens. All right, we gotta go. Hey, what's your name? My name is Kim. Kim. You're awesome. Thank you so much for listening, Thanks for calling in providing a lot of good insight for us. Absolutely, I'm so happy I got to get on because I'm like, oh my gosh, they're talking about where I was. Thank you so much, of course. Okay, I can't tell your friends about the freak. Yeah, we'll send you
Danny's email to add them to that girl's trip list. Ok. Yeah, perfect, great, all right, Viking Danny Vike Ding, dude, Kim calling anytime. What are you doing tomorrow? I'm going to my real job, which is I'm a nurse. So we were talking about we were talking about medical things. What a segment for you. I was sleeping at that point, so I Kim, thank you out there. No doubt they're amazing, So no doubt. Okay, have my bless day by Kim. Kim.
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