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Today we are joined by a man who truly needs no introduction one of the most successful radio personalities in the history broadcast radio and now the current host of radio guys and cars drinking coffee while avoiding the meter maids ladies enjoy Greg Opie who's dude.

I'm not even giving you shit about that why are you still living in that city bro you listen you move down here yeah you don't pay any income taxes and you can park anywhere you want anywhere you want.

But then I would have to deal with the Yahoo's. Oh, oh, yeah, there's no Yahoo's in New York City. Okay, I you're you're right.

I would I would love to leave this city but you guys know you got you got to two boys I'm up to the point where it's not about me my kids love their school and they got there they got their group of friends which makes it so hard and I would

love to leave this city and I hit the suburbs and have a big backyard with a pool. Oh my God, I would be heaven for me. Yeah, I will say this we also didn't move for the same reason exactly I had a couple of job offers back when I didn't like my job I

love my job now but there was a time when I was having some issues and we didn't move because of the kids I get that but I will tell you this my parents moved me around a bunch and I got used to it.

No matter fact, some of my absolute best friends are the ones that were in the place where I moved to last and I know I keep in touch with one person from one of the other iterations of my life.

So you know they they get over it kids are really resilient. You just saw the issue, Dr. Steve. I am I'm not moving because you just said that you moved around a lot and look how you keep that.

Exactly. Oh, well. Okay, oh, here you go. Give yourself a bill. Yeah. Oh, thank you. You got me on your. Your family. Yes, I do. I use it every show. He uses it all the time.

That's hilarious. All right. Well, listen, man, this is the exam room where you get to ask us questions until you're sick of us and by us. I mean me. So what you got for us today.

Oh, my God. I actually got three things. Okay. I only had two things but just before you called. I got a cramp in my calf to the point where my whole muscle was moving up to my knee.

Yeah, I was an excruciating thing and I was wondering. A, why does that happen and B, why does it happen in the middle of the night where it weights you up from a sound sleep like like there's an intruder in your house and then you have to grab your.

You have to grab your calf muscle and hold it from moving all the way up your leg. Yeah, it's crazy. And I have those from time to time as well. I'm on a. Are you on any blood pressure medicine or anything?

I'm not. Okay. I think that is it or the answer would be no doc. Okay. Yeah, because mine were caused by my diuretic. I have very mildly elevated blood pressure and they put me on a medicine called cortalidone.

And I couldn't figure out why in the hill I all of a sudden was getting leg cramps every night and for people who haven't experienced this is just like op said it is generally happens at night.

And it is you can't ignore it. It's like that sometimes I've been so sleep. I'm like I'm just going to just go back to sleep, but you can't. No, it hurts. Yes.

And the only treatment for it at the time is counter stretch. So if it's stretching if in other words, if your calf is contracting and your toes are pointing toward the ground really the only thing you can do is pull on your foot to try to stretch that calf.

And the easiest way really to do that is just get out of bed, which sucks because now you're wide awake. And when I started taking magnesium supplements because people always say, oh, it's potassium, eat bananas, eat bananas.

Potassium in our bodies is very closely monitored by the body. But not so much so with magnesium. So you can take magnesium supplement just buy it over the counter. You just go to CVS or Dwayne read or wherever and just find a bottle that says magnesium on them.

And most of those things will suffice. That's why you're a doctor. And that's why I went into radio because what happens to me, I just tell everybody around me that I'm dehydrated and I just need water.

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