Episode 5: Pharmaceuticals - The dangers of everything from Tylenol to dick pills

Andra asks an anonymous pharmacist about the perils of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. She's joined by her brother, Lucas. What are the dangers and benefits of anti-depressants, cholesterol medication, over-the-counter supplements, Tylenol, and even truck stop boner pills? And how does marijuana use affect pharmaceuticals?

SHOW NOTES

2:27 Why you can’t have grapefruit with some medications

2:41 French 75

2:42 Paloma

4:29 If you want to advertise on the show to help monetize my debilitating anxiety, email us at TMIOKPodcast@gmail.com

4:59 This is just a fun fact for anyone who is actually reading the show notes, somewhere out there there is like 5 full minutes of tape of me trying to figure out how to say “how these medications interact with pot” In a way that doesn’t make me sound like a narc. At one point I said “Marijuana” and “weeeeeed” and trust me, it’s embarrassing, I hope you never find it.

7:41 Here’s some more reasons to hate Dr. Oz

8:40 Fun fact, I re-started anti-depressants after recording this episode.

10:35 “You don’t have to tell anyone outside of your trusted circle you’re taking a new medication”, unless you’re me and you put it in your podcast show notes for anyone to google.

12:16 Happy to report now that I’m taking new meds, I am not less funny on meds, I hope, and if anything the depression makes me less funny. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he lived in a capitalist hellscape that paved over his roost in order to trap more people into needing to buy cars. See, I’m still hilarious.

14:08 A lot of people have herpes. Statistically, reader, you are more likely to have herpes than not.

18:35 Fuck CVS and Walgreens they are behemouths who suck ass. Still be nice to the workers though.

19:16 Mervyn is my producer

25:10 “Most people agree that today’s FDA would not have approved aspirin”

26:31 OTC medications regulation, supplements are unreglated

26:40 types of headaches

26:40 Ask your pharmacist before you pair coca cola with any medication

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31:08 This guy tried truck stop boner pills and wrote an article so you don’t have to

33:21 The fish do not get into your brain and swim around and make you happy. I don’t have an article to prove this but it is not true, I am a joker.

42:16 Cholesterol doesn’t have to do with your liver or your… “bone blood”?

45:20 Sprockets are on bikes. I concede.