EITM: Cuffing Season 11/12/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How was your physical yesterday? Did you do well?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Annual exam? My blood work was good, which was exciting
to hear because I've had numbers here and there over
the years that worry people about my white blood cells.
But they were all white blood something. Yeah, but that

(00:24):
was fine. So the blood work the panel was fantastic,
and I was nervous to going into the appointment. I
was doing breathing exercises in the lobby and just wondering.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
You know that doesn't left, but that doesn't affect your
blood No, no, but you're I did the blood test
tw weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Ye, right, I was just I was, I don't want
to say panicking, but I didn't know what was going
to be said. It's a physical I know, but they
were going to go over a lot of stuff with me.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, I know, But why I don't understand what what
part are you nervous about?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, the blood work?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Do you see blood work? You're not going to change,
so there's nothing to be nervous about.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
They already about it. So in the lobby, I'm thinking,
can the other patients see my shoulders rise and chest
expand as I inhale, hold and exhale.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
See you don't look at your results before you go
to the doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, okay, no, that's what doctors are from.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
No, but but you can, like like if you do
it from quest, they send you the report before you
go back to your doctor, and you can see if
something's registering low or high. It tells you in the results.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
What's weird though, Like when I go for my physical
I like, let's say I go on a Tuesday, I
have to fast on Tuesday. They draw my blood that
day and then they do the physical part of it,
so I don't I don't even have blood that day,
Like you to go.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
To a doctor like that. It's so much better when
they have your results your physical.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Oh see, I like it this way. I like because
then it's just one day. Well, but I don't have
to fast once and then go to the doctor and
that whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I just it's all that day. It's fine. Yeah. I'd
also love to do fasting blood work with a normal
job and go at seven am. That would be awesome
instead of waiting till one thirty. Yeah, well they can't
believe you're still finalt wait.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So anyway, so your blood's fine, but you're panicking in
the in the dressing room or in the waiting room.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, because I didn't know at that point that my
blove is fine. I didn't jump online to misinterpret and
you know, catastrophize whatever I would have seen there. But
the blood was fine. Well great, Well that's good. But
here comes is something bad. I have to go buy
something today. Is it?

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is it an internal issue or an external issue?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's internal?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Is it a supplement?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is it in your head again like everything else?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, I don't mean internal like it's in.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It came up on my physical.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
No, No, it's very common in middle aged women.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh is it your nut cyst?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Didn't even bring that up yesterday? Oh really, there was
so much because it's a new doctor, because mine left
the practice.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Did Did they do a whole body thing?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
What are you thinking of, like the skin check?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, that's a dermatologist.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
No.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
But when you go for a physical like they check
you forward.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
They check your list so often now the doctors just
rely a lot on your vitals and your blood were right.
But the vitals done there have led to this future purchase.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh, I have another guest. No, go ahead, Diane, you
have a guess at home.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Blood pressure cuff.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, that's my guess. Yeah, you got.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Amazon like twenty five bucks.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
By the way, you know, I don't trust though.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I have to go pick one up today. I have
to monitor and log my readings for a month and
a month go back to not only do a reading
live in person so they can see how it registers
against their machine.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well that's what I was gonna say. What any time
you go there now, you have to bring.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Your cuff because that's your baseline.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I think that's the point of the December appointment that
I made.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
And was it really high? Why's pressure?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It was? It was higher than they liked the beginning.
But they always say, as we talked about a couple
weeks ago, al is it white coat syndrome?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Which, yes, you're panicking in the waiting room.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
We'll take it again at the end. And I guess
because mine never like dips and low enough, they kind
of they kind of just asked me to I've told
you before, they've asked me to check it occasionally at
the pharmacy or at the grocery store. I don't trust
any of that, which I which I never have done.
And yesterday she explained and against a new doctor, but

(04:40):
she saw my medical history or at certain points I've
thought I had a heart attack. But she said that
untreated high blood pressure can lead to a stroke. That's true.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, yes, just because you've never been told that, you
don't laugh at it.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Of course, high blood pressure could lead to a lot
of things, A lot of things. You know, a lot
of times they don't even take it right.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
What that the office?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
No at home?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I know I have all these strict instructions today. Once
I buy my machine, aren't you I think I'm going
to also get the aphib detector. My mom has that way.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
What is an aphib detector? It's just built into the
machine and the cuff. Yeah. Yeah, but because I said,
it can be genetic. But my mom's like, I don't
have high blood pressure, and I said oh. And then
they asked me the appointment if my dad did I
said no, he had lung cancer.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
But then I eventually really slowed down.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I wondered, I said, well, is there anything I can
do naturally? And she said yeah, this, you're exercising every day.
Your lifestyle in terms of diet and well she she
mentioned like smoking and drinking she's not. She's not drinking
enough to affect it. You don't smoke. It doesn't sound

(06:08):
like you're going too heavy on the ultra processed foods.
She's like, what about your job? Is it stressful? Every
moment of it? Did she ask about sleep? She already
I had already been honest and disclosed that I don't
get enough sleep. But she actually didn't think that that

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was huge for it. She's worried. She's worried about the
job stress. She has said she has a lot of
patients who are on blood pressure medication and retire and
then come off them they're fine. Yeah, I believe that. Yeah,
well I'm not near retirement.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, no, but I that would be true for any job, any.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Job you have, any any stressor once it's eliminated.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
By the way, even even even what would be like,
what's the what is the pussiest job in the world?
Like where there's no stress, Like I can take a
stab at one librarian? What am I worried about?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
You're still maintaining a business.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, it's quiet.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Go after that, you sit there occasionally, you put a
book away.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
She's still dealing with customers that can be stressful.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Hi, can I help you? Like this guy keeps trying
to sleep here.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, okay, I don't think it's the guy on the
searching pornhub again.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
How to call the cops?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yes, let him search in the public computer whatever. But
so maybe not librarian, but what whatever's a real pussy job?
I beg your blood pressure comes down when you're not
doing that. You don't have to drive there, you don't
have to come home.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, you do all that. She was worried about, like
the hours. Yeah, okay, I mean yeah, so it's just
not going to change. So she's pretty convinced. In a month,
I'm gonna have to get a prescription for medication for
blood pressure. Yeah, no fooling.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
What kind of cuff are you getting?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was recommended by her and my seventy four year
old stepdad. She gets it's like omni rom com so omron.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
How does I don't even know how they work.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
You just you put the cuff on, you hit the
start button, and then you sit there.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But it's not attached to the wall with a squeezer, no,
like the ones that the doctor is.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
No, it's when you when you hit the start it
inflates itself and then it and then it counts back
down as it's deflighting, and then it gives you the
reading and it'll say the you know, according to the
American Heart Association, the number you have is high or
it'll say low or normal.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
But is it plugged into a wall.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, it's just battery operated. I also the model I
was looking at can store user information for two people.
So I told Lindsey eventually, if you want to use
my cuff cuffing season, I'm just talking about now. I

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bet my blood pressure at this moment.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Is it is?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I always feel like it is.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do you really?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I'm I'm kinda glad Listen. Has that office overreacted in
the past when they gave me an EpiPen?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
But wasn't that really just to calm you down? It didn't.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
It made me more nervous that I could once again
have that reaction.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Then don't then don't get the cough.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
No, I her thing about it.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
You're gonna be nervous taking the test.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
She did say, try try not to do this when
you're stressed.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
No, no, like, don't like run upstairs and then exercising it.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
But no, no, But what I was gonna say is
you're gonna be nervous every day. You're gonna put it
on and you're gonna be nervous. Is it more than yesterday?
Is it less than yesterday? You're gonna be stressed just
taking the test.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I know, but I'll find moments. I told her, I
do breathing exercises at home every day.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, look at your blood pressure.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Imagine if you weren't doing it.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
So today we'll make a stop, pick it up and
start logging. I wouldn't even know where to get on
CBS they sell them. They're usually buy the pharmacy.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Over the counter.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Man, I would never have them on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I've never done that.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Have a target too, He told me. I could also
go to the grocery store pharmacy. I went to two
on the way home. They didn't have them. That's why
I don't have it yet. I'll have to get it today.
It's seal me out that I did have yesterday.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
What is what percentage of people have them? Are those?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like, are there a lot of people that have the
at home cut? You have one? You have two? Oh,
you should get Tyler's model. You could do in one.
Why don't I trust them? You know why?

Speaker 3 (10:39):
In your head because you're like, no, that's something that.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
A doc doctor does. Yeah, because they make such a
big deal about your blood pressure, such a big.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Deal, and every time you've had your check that's been fine.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Nobody has ever told me to go buy one.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Or questioned your blood pressure numbers.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Maybe internally, yeah, I mean maybe they look at it
and going, he's not gonna stay out. I was.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I had to be onything.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
I had to be on medication for a while, and
then they were like every time I came in, they
were like, yeah, your numbers are a little bit low.
And I was like, well, I'm on that like five
milligram dosage that you don't think they.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Took you off of it, right, don't they say? Hear
heart heart medicaid? What heart pills? What is that called
heart medication? Blood pressure medication?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Doesn't it make you all lighthead and dizzy?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
It can if it drops you too right or pipes
you up too high. Does it take a while Diane
to find that right amount? Yes? Elliott. Can you let
a person who's been told her.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, she was messing out?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
No I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I thought you said that it was messing you up.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
No, it was I was too low? No, no, no, no,
I was on it. But then when they were looking
at my numbers, and then when I was checking them,
they were like, you, your numbers are are fine or
even skewing a little bit low, like you don't need
that mess, Get off, You don't need that medication.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
So would you do to distress or did it just
lower it so much that your heart was like this
will be a cool spot.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
No I didn't.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
I don't, I don't. I wasn't trying to act actively
do anything. I just started to notice the numbers were
trending low.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
She was happy the stopped drinking coffee. And I didn't
even try. I wasn't even trying to brag about it.
She just said, do you drink how's your caffeine? Inteck
that was the phrasing, And I said, well, actually I
stopped drinking coffee a year and a half ago. And
she said, oh, was it a problem for you? And
I said I don't think so, but I was drinking

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a lot. She said, like more than the one or
two cups you should have a day, And I was like,
oh god, yes, I guess it was a problem because
it was much higher than that. But then I did
reveal that every other day I do have tea with caffeine.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
She did ask me, hey, back it down, pastrana, it's Saturday.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Give me, give me the juice. She asked about energy drinks.
I told her never had one.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh, stop it, I haven't. No, I know, Oh my god.
My doctor doesn't ask me anything.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's like, moot.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, it's not like a change coffee.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, are you going to stop now?

Speaker 2 (13:03):
All right? Remember it again. This is a new person.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
You got school.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Dam Let me tell you what I'm going to do
for my health. So let's just save. Let's just cut
the dis chase the why.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, I just I would never. I would do my
I would do my blood pressure at home before.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
I would do it at like like a CVS. Well,
a lot of times jack with those.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
But a lot of the ones. I think they took
the CVS ones away. I haven't seen one in a while.
A lot of people said, wouldn't wait during COVID?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Did it really?

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah? I still haven't. When I got my flu shot,
I don't think you get COVID from your arm. They
still haven't met the giry story I saw when I
got my flu.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Shot do they really, I would never.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Use one of those, but it's it's really being precautionary,
Like I understand that you don't trust the machine, but
at least I'm going to be doing something to see
where I'm at. Okay, take my blood pressure. So you
would go to the doctor every single day for four weeks.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
My friend Doug de Luca did. He'd stop on the
way home, he went to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
You can't do and they wouldn't allow that.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
The hospital did. He used to go every day.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Just how much did that cost him?

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nothing? He was he's a hypochondriac. They knew him, and
they were like, go ahead, hook yourself up.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Insurance. They there's no way they ignored the insurance implications
of someone.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
He pulled into the hospital every single day and they
were like a morning Doug and he would go in
there and take his bloo pressure because he was afraid
he was going to have a heart attack.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
And they said, you should get the one that's the
actual cuff that goes around your arm, not like the risk.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
One stress that.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, oh really, there's the one that almost it is.
It hooks around your wrist like a little bracelet. Almost,
But I think doctors don't really trust those as much.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
And I don't know if that one can read the
A fib not that high. My mom has that? And
what is what is a hym Testamy? That's what I said.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Relation. No, but regular heartbeat, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
But isn't that your isn't that your heartbeat like you're
already doing. Oh, that's your blood regular, that's your blood pressure.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Often wrap it, often wrap it like mine. I don't
even know though, I said, my mom has that because
they told me the blood pressure they could be inherited.
Is aphib passed down? No? No, stop answer it question.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Aphib is because you say it emphatically doesn't mean it's true.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, But wouldn't they say, hey, do your parents No,
No doctors ever asked me do your parents have APHIB?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I just passed down through families?

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Really?

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, Well give me a second source, Janet.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
That was the clinic where my dad, who had cancer,
went very full circle with my family.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Is passed down.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
I just read that.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, I didn't know that. I also didn't know what
APHIB was.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's Michael Walterrip. Isn't he someone who's a big spokesperson.
I think he might be right.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Michael Waltrip hasn't been on TV since he was walking
the Green and he spilled food on somebody's car.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Was he just an endorser of something?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Or did he his mother?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah? Oh, and it did lead to a disabling stroke.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Okay, Oh my god, are you like laughing at that?

Speaker 4 (16:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (16:18):
I don't want anybody to uncomfortable. Well I am uncomfortable,
but I also do. At that moment, Tyler's heart rate
just shot right up.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Seriously, my hands are shaken.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
So beyond the cuff, what else do you have to do?
Hopefully not, But there are so many people who are
on like these low doses of the blood pressure medication.
I hope the doctor made it seem like, you know,
this is not that big of a deal.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
No. I just felt at least you're treating.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
It big deal, easy solution, big deal easy.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
So it came up a few weeks ago with you,
and I mentioned Diane. Yes, we talked about her blood
pressure cuff. Oh, she was going to bring it in
one morning, but I didn't need it. I did, but
it was almost like an own goal, not a goal
to my one. I mean, I I selfhwned with this

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owned No.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
You put it out there that no, you manifested it.
I hate that expression. You manifested it.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
I put it out there in universe and here I am.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Now now you get a cuff.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
But maybe it will be just white coat hypertension, like
maybe I really am. Let's explain the aphib I don't
have that yet. But I was doing lamas in the
fading area.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
What is what is the like you said you were
on five milligrams of whatever the hard thing was lipatour
or whatever that is.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
But yeah, what is like what lipatory? I think is cholesterol?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I have no idea. I'm not on that either.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Okay, what is the is? What is like a lot?
Like what like most people are they five milligrams like.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Twenty twenty's but it's not.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
A lot, I think. I think initially they put me on.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Two miligram, i'veuld just hold your breath for three minutes.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
I feel like initially they put me on twenty and
then they're like, no, that's They're like they were like,
that's too high for you. Back it down to ten,
and then I got down to five.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Oh so it does. It's so it slows your heart.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Down the well, it's it's regulating your blood pressure.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Right, No, But what I'm saying is if twenty lowers
you to I don't know what numbers are, but you're
up here, you're on twenty milligrams and you come down here, right,
I understand how the medication would get it lower. So
then they put it on ten and it.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Keeps lowering, and then they were five, and then they
put it on five.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
But once you stop taking it, now the medicine is gone,
you have no more medicine. Why doesn't it go back up?
Do you trick your heart into thinking that's what your
blood pressure should be? You know what I mean? Like
if I what's what's an example?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
I mean there's still sometimes when I check it where it.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Is somebody on somebody on high, somebody on valume, right,
or somebody on ADHD medication. They take the medication, it
levels them out. You come off the medication, you spike
right back up. It's not like exactly, It's not like
the condition went away. How does your blood pressure condition?
I understand treating it it slows it down, but how
does it if you stop taking it? How does it

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not spike back up?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Or you're just not nervous no more are the vessels
widened more permanently?

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Oh see, that would explain it to me, That would
explain it. Maybe narrow Pallas, No, you're just stressed out right.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
But isn't that how blood pressure medication works.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
It really just affects the flow of blood by widening
their passageway. No, it's not as constricted.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Right, So that way, so all the medication does stretch
out your veins.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I believe that that was the explanation.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm problem solved.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's got to relax man.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Amen, if we could only be as chill as you.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, but you know what, like like like does this
what's a good way of saying, like coming in here
doesn't stress me out. I'm very comfortable in here. I'm
probably at my most comfortable sitting in this chair.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I agree with that. But it's still stressful.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh the job is stressful. Yeah, I get that.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Every moment.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's the hardest job in the world. There's being a
dis job.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'd say stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
No, that's true.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Don't believe me either.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's true, the hardest job in the world.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
My family asked me last night, like, we know, how.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Much do you hate Elliott right now.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
They say, we know the anxiety from work's not going
to go away. True, unless New York has something to
say about it. But we calm down at home, and
I said, I made that promise to you after I
thought I had that heart attack a few years ago. No,

(21:10):
the answer is no, I can't.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
So is that them saying like, you overreact to a
lot of stuff at home, or is that them saying like, hey,
maybe we shouldn't do things to stress you out.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Are you asking why are you asking children?

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Children? Children to say he overreacts? And I do. I
know that, but I need to make sure all of
these lessons get taught because I'm going to die soon.
You know the story.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Oh I do?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Wait where am I going? Line six? Hi Elliot in
the morning, Born in Elliott's Dan, Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Dude? Hey man, I got three things for you. One.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I don't know if you guys remember, but back in
the day at Giant grocery store, they had the cuff thing,
the blood pressure cuff, and we would three number three.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Stop cussing. No, no, no, you hold on stop cussing.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh sorry, you said s twice, Yeah, stop cussing.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
This is a.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, Now, you're stressing me out. Wait, so you retired
the number you retired from your job of thirty years? Yeah,
almost thirty years because of stress.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, I just I can't.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I can't do it anymore.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
I gotta switch gears.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Wow, imagine being a disc jockey.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Go ahead and third, Tyler. If you stretched your vein
as much as Elliott, you probably wouldn't be stressed out.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hey, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Guys?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
What are you doing now for work?

Speaker 4 (22:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'm kind of just in between things.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Can I ask what you were doing? What were you doing?

Speaker 4 (22:50):
I worked in government, local government?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Gotcha? Gotcham? All right, very good, thank you. Sir.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
By the way, a buddy of mine, he had a
he had a very stressful job. Very lives in Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
He had a very very stressful.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Job, and he ended up getting fired, and so he
was like, well, I gotta find another job.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
So he was.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
He was stressed out. Then he was really stressed out.
He went to he took a job. I asked you not.
He took a job at home depot. Favorite job in
the world. Yeah, yeah, he says, he feels great, feels great.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
I understand changing it up certainly. Could assist, but as
the doctor said, that's not going to happen. Are no
other lifestyle changes that could affect it as much as
medicine will help.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
You exactly, So get on pills.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Where am I going lying? Is a tiny little pill? Yeah,
Dane said, it's five milligrams. That's pill. Well, I guess
I could be liquid?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I don't know what everybody takes liquid?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, I don't I know?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
You hi, elliot in the morning.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Good morning. I need to speak to Tyler.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Go ahead, head.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Tyler. Get the that cup. It's O M R O N.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, that's the company.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Sure, they send them to me for free all the time,
stacks of them. Also, you can bluetooth it to your phone,
keep track of your numbers, and you take the print
out to your doctor's office.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Second thing, wait, hold on, can I ask a question
real quick? What is the coup? Sure?

Speaker 2 (24:27):
What's the cup?

Speaker 4 (24:28):
No, he said, cup, the cuff cup, the one that
goes up around your arm.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Oh okay, okay, same thing.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I'm run right.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
So what I do is I check it in the
morning and sometimes I'll check it at night, and it
bluetooths right to your phone and it keeps track. Of course,
it's going to tell you if it's too high or
too low, which I wish you didn't see that. But
as far as the blood pressure medication, you need to
be mindful of the side effects because different medications affect

(25:04):
different people side effects. One is coughing, another one could
be swollen tongue. You know, some of them are drastic,
some or not shown when you get it. Yeah, it's
a long story, but anyway, I.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Wish you could have seen Elliott's face when you said coughing.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Is that when you were taking advice?

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yes, that, by the way, I bet it is. I
bet if we track your pill to when you coughed
in here for about nine years, I bet it's.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I bet it was definitely not it. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
One of them. Of one of them, one of them
that's out there is a small, tiny cough and I
picked up on it and they changed the medication immediately.
And like you guys said earlier, they just find the
right one for you. And you know, some people are
on twenty and thirty and forty milligram. There's a lot

(26:01):
of people on this stuff because some people just don't
want to take care of themselves and they're like, oh,
just stop the dosage on the pill.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, like you said, what medicine is, yeah, yeah, take
the till.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah. They had nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
No. I think it starts with hot cholesterol, which kind
of closes up the veins and the blood pressure. Medication
and cholesterol together.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I have such an unbelievable cholesterol.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's amazing. That was with my My numbers for the
blood and cholesterol were like fine, I sound like elliot,
I was fantastic, but they were. They were totally normal.
So again, the thing that seems to be at issue
would be this.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
So so it's your first time hearing this that they're
that's your first time hearing this.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
No, I've been borderline high for a while. It was
my first time hearing that. Untreated, it could lead to
a stroke. But that's true about anything. That's true about anything.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's the scare tactic. They say that to everybody.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Exactly, Hell, you can.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
They may as well say you can get hit by
a bus in the parking lot as soon as you
walk out of here.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Right, are you not going to walk in the street anymore?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Bingo, back street tyler, How old are you forty?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Three forty three.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
That's kind of about when I started late thirties, early forties.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look at you, n sixty. Yeah, you sound great. You
sound very unstressed because he's stifling.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
I'm retired.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Look that's the key, man, that's the key.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
It is it is. I left a very stressful also
a very stressful government job, and all the numbers came down. Oh,
of course, my nextlick's an alcohol in take of both
gone up.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's all right, very good, very good.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Love you guys, I love you too, Thank you, sir.
Oh can I can I ask a side question?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Remember? I can I ask a side question?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Do I clear my throat a lot?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
I don't think I do. You make a lot of noises,
but you have other ticks and issues. Clearing your throats
out one of them. Okay, cool, because somebody pointed that
out to you.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Now, I can't that one. It's all in my head. No, somebody,
somebody sent me something about there. There was some there
was something that said if you clear your throat a lot,
which I don't think I do, it's a good sign
you have cancer. So I was like, trust me with
everything that I'm doing to my body. I don't think
if I clear my throat, I have cancer.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Well you just had that scan too, wouldn't not have
shown it?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
And I am living footloose and fancy free. Now about
the scan, the locker scan. I am sitting on something
that I cannot get into and it's not about me.
It's not about me. But it's awesome. It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
What an annoying tease.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
That the no, Because once it comes up, then you'll.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Really have great stories that I can't tell.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
The Yeah, I can't yet, I can't, but just know
there is a great story coming.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Absolutely all right, let me do this, give me a
quick break.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Oh you know what, let's give away tickets eight six
six to Elliott eight six six. Oh, I know what
I was gonna ask. Can I interrupt myself for one
second when the guy said that you can just have
it go to your your phone. Do they have the
port on your arm that you can get No.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
I think it's it's like you download the app.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, it's glues. And she said you're not even close
to diabetic. That was again. The blood work, Yeah, was perfect.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
I didn't know if they had it for the heart.