Jeremy Odom (2:32)
Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Goodbye, foreign. Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh with Me and podcast with Jeremy Odom and I'm your host, J O Man, I gotta tell you, about a month ago, I told you about how I saved a turkey. Okay. I saved, I saved this poor turkey's life. You can go back, you can actually listen to the whole episode. It's called I saved a Turkey. So it's pretty easy to find. But the thing is, this turkey, in the midst of December holiday shopping, was in the middle, in the median, in the middle of like six lanes of very busy traffic here in Omaha. And it was just a. Pacing back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Didn't know where it was going. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. This turkey definitely was scared. So we parked the car, I hop out, maneuver through the traffic, get to the median, help the turkey across the road, right? I think that's the end of the story with this turkey. I mean, it's got to be, right? It's got to be a happy ending, it turns out. And I just, we just came across this on TikTok. This turkey has continued to, to raise hell in that same section of traffic. Just now. It's running around in the road. Like, I'm almost wondering, did I not save the turkey? Did. Did the turkey want something bad to happen? Did this turkey have ulterior motives? Like what. What exactly was this turkey trying to accomplish in the middle of just insane traffic, Six lanes of just go, go, go, go traffic. Pacing back and forth. This turkey is still out there. There's a. The tick tock. The video is, is of a police officer chasing the turkey, trying to get this turkey to cross the road. So my first thought was, all right, maybe the turkey wanted to raise hell, right? Maybe that's what this turkey was destined to do. Maybe that's his turkey's job. Maybe this is what he does. You know, you've got those people that are like, they're, they're, they just sit in the middle there. The. Right when you stop for the lights and they're, you know, they want money, right? They're asking for money, the panhandlers. Maybe this is, this is the turkey version of that. So that was my first thought. My second thought was, well, this police officer is struggling to get this turkey. I mean, the turkey just run it. So either I'm just better equipped and maybe more trustworthy to the turkey than the police are, or maybe this turkey knows something that we don't and needed to stay clear of this Omaha police officer. Maybe there's something to it. I don't know. But the TikTok definitely got me thinking, because that. That this turkey should have just been moving on and enjoying its life. And it turns out there's more to this story. So the turkey is out there. If you are in the. You find yourself in the Omaha area. It was around a hundred and one hundred thirty second L, near the L street marketplace there, just in the main. Main level of traffic there. It's wild. It's wild. I still feel good about saving the turkey, though. Like, that doesn't. Like, I'm not like, oh, man, what a waste of effort there. No, not at all. Like, I still feel good. I feel like I did the right thing. But now I'm just like, all right, this turkey's got something. Or maybe the turkey wanted to tell its story. Maybe the turkey heard the pod and was like, I need to get on. Laugh with me. There's only one way to get this fellow's attention, and that's to create crew, you know, create more hell. So I don't know, maybe. Maybe eventually we can get this turkey on the pod. That'd be quite the deal. So that's the update with the turkey. I felt. I felt compelled to need to tell this story because the fact that this turkey is still going is. Is pretty wild to me. So. Yeah. How's everybody doing this week, man? Little doctor's visit. As everybody knows, I. I do have the Crohn's disease. And one of the things that comes with that. Not just the constant pain, the constant fatigue, the low. The. The anemia, the. I mean, I could go on and on with the. The negatives. One of the positives. I get to see doctors pretty frequently. And generally that's a good thing, because then I feel like, hey, there's some doctors really using their talents and their knowledge to hopefully help me someday. Someday. Someday, right, doc? Someday, right, Johnny? Johnny. He'll see a doctor once a year, reluctantly and perfectly healthy. Drinks like a fish, eats like a pig. Perfect bill of health. I think it's all the running you do, bud. It's gotta be all the running you do. But either way, it's neither here nor There I've got the Crohn's, so I see the doctor. So I just, I had changed medication a few months ago, okay, so now we're trying out this new medication so that I had my follow up visit to, you know, see how things were going. And that's always good because a few years ago I wasn't getting these follow up visits. I wasn't getting much attention at all from the doctors until we had a pretty big blow up after one of my ER visits from everything. But now I'm getting all kinds of attention. But here's the thing, I get, I get the visit. So I need to tell you about this because doctors, I, I often wonder and I'm not taking anything away from, they go to school, they, their education and their knowledge on, in this area far exceeds anything I will ever know about anything in my life. I, I truly believe that because they did put the time, the energy, the investment into their career to know this stuff. So I, I do fully believe they are doing all of everything they can to know all of everything they can about this particular subject. I truly believe that. Sometimes though I wonder what's going on in that computer screen when they're just a click in on the computer screen because there's only so many clicks, so many things you can put into my profile. I mean there's just gotta be. So what are they looking for? Are they googling? One visit I had with hematology when we were just, we were talking about my anemia and just my disease and things like that and it was like it came straight out of the TV show House, you know, used to be on Fox you had the old vet doc that's in charge and he's in there with his four students, I would assume students or at some level of doctor. And they're there and they're watching. They're the ones answering all the questions. He's asking questions, I don't say a damn thing. They're answering all the questions. And then occasionally we'll have to get a Google out, we'll have to get a Google search out for something and that's fine. I thought it was interesting. As long as I'm taking care of, in the end that's all that matters to me. Well, in this particular situation, my gi, my GI office, my main doctor doesn't come in till the end. He's the main event. So I get the doctor that's reporting to him, right, That I can only assume is some kind of student of some type. And he's asking, you know, questions. It's, you know, you've been to the doctor, they ask you 20 questions, and a lot of times it's the same questions over and over again. I don't know if they're just trying to see if maybe you forgot something and you'll answer it differently this time. I don't know what the point of that is, but they do ask the same questions over and over and over. And this particular doctor, this is the first time I've met this guy. We've been going through students like crazy at this office lately, and I, I don't know what's going on there. I, I didn't have the time to ask questions about that because we were so focused on this. He says I'm an anomaly. Normally, patients will react to the medicine they've been giving special at the level that we are at now, you know, with I'm on tremphy. So they said, well, normally three months on tremphy and you would be showing some good signs of improvement. He says, you're an anomaly because you're. The medicine isn't helping you. Now, on one hand, I think it's my. It's my. It's not just the disease. I think it's. It's one of those things where, you know, when you're, like, chronically sick, they generally tell you to, like, take it easy, you know, just try to help your body, help you. And I only know one way, and that's just to go until I can't, and then I'm down and out. Now, in the last year or so, I've slowed down a little bit. That's because I'm so tired. Doc says I'm an anomaly. Something special going on here. But here's the thing. He took it a step further, and I don't know if he didn't. He think I knew what anomaly meant. But the way he wanted to describe it to me was with a comparison. He goes, I'm going to give you a comparison to what you are right now with your medicine.
