Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 246 - The One Where We Run Down The Highwayman... with Jenn and Juice!

In This Week’s Show, episode 246, we juice the Angel of Celery to stave off viral spillover with whatever horrible yeti disease kept Shea from being here today.

I think it’s called Familious klingienous...

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Ko’Lok (the cannibal winged giant of the Miwok people, not on Endor) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

MIA

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know the electric chair was invented by a dentist (Alfred Southwick)? It’s actually only an electric chair bc that was what he was used to working with.

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Highwayman - Roadhouse Brewing Co

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30261/397884/

* BA Rating: 4.47/5

* Style: Crushable Pilsner

* ABV: 4%

* Aaron: 8

* Jenn: 7

* Steve: 9

This Week’s Show

Thanks to listener Steve W. for the very good point as to why doctors didn’t use axes to chop off limbs for amputations. In episode 244 we discussed Dr. Lister and how he made surgery not an auto-death sentence and Aaron was curious as to why not use an axe. Turns out, that tends to shatter bones which will definitely help a surgery be less successful.

This Week’s Story

Jenn's Story is available now at http://patreon.com/w4w for a buck! Head over to get a special patron only story every week, as well as 4 More Beers, our sister show (that one's free and we'll totally be making one soon!) Patrons this week will also get an extended (like 10+ min) of my medical story!

Fake Reality TV & Unhealthy Medicine

* https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/ethics/76358

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzynski_Clinic

* https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/great-day-houston/an-upcoming-reality-series-will-highlight-cancer-patients-recovery-stories/285-602900318

Another entry into the annals of quack doctors making lots of money off of desperate people, today I’m talking about the Burzynski Clinic. Located in Houston, TX, the clinic was founded by chubby, weird, dangerous Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski.

The clinic was founded in 1976 and has been the subject of much (entirely warranted) controversy since the beginning. But I’ll get into the details during and after we hear from a commercial advertising the purported upcoming docu-series ‘My Cancer Free Life’

* https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/great-day-houston/an-upcoming-reality-series-will-highlight-cancer-patients-recovery-stories/285-602900318

I have a few tidbits to point out during the segment we watch:

At 00:30 - Antineoplastons: what are they? How do they work? Turns out it’s/they’re a term coined by Burzynski himself and really don’t seem to do anything at all. It’s sort of a ‘catch all’ for (per his Wiki article) “a group of urine-derived peptides, peptide derivatives, and mixtures that Burzynski named to use in his "cancer treatment". There is no accepted scientific evidence of benefit from antineoplaston combinations for various diseases.” Yes, his entire approach to immunotherapy cancer treatment involves urine particulates.

Good

* https://integrityfuneral.com/book-of-memories/3677519/kruse-douglas/view-condolences.php

Medical Medium

* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzd7km/benefits-of-celery-juice

* https://www.inverse.