Hello and welcome to Card Talk on National Public Radio with us,

we're back with Tappet Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the

Psychology Department here at Card Talk. Why? Because we have a medical

opinion. We don't have it but I have it in my hand. Oh, I'm not a

lot of opinion. Did he say I could mention his name? Sure. Doctor. Yes. Good.

Doctor. Yes. By the way, I've got a lot of mail from people who took

Umbridge and you're a little comment a few weeks ago about doctor.

Regarding, for example, regarding your call from Donna, I thought I heard you

disparage the use of doctor by a PhD. Yes. Yeah, I did. I will take I will take

the heat for it. All right. This one is from a real doctor. MD. There we go. Jack

Stevens. As a physician and an avid listener of your show, I've often wondered if

there was not a medical explanation for your unique personalities. I was

delighted to find the answer the other day in Dorland's medical dictionary,

14th edition. I have to figure out how to pronounce it. Vitzel zoct. He says

Vitzel zoct. W-I-T-Z-E-L-S-U-C-H-T. Vitzel zoct. Definition. A mental condition.

Characteristic of frontal lobe lesions and marked by the making of poor jokes

and puns and the telling of pointless stories at which the patient himself is

intensely amused. Eureka, I thought to myself, the diagnosis cannot be endowed. You

both suffer from a particularly virulent form of Vitzel zoct. I doubt there is any

effective treatment that I thought that your families might derive some solace in

knowing precisely what your inflammation was. But in it's we have perhaps there is a

Vitzel zoct support group out there you can join. If you're lucky, you might even be

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