Show 1000: Celebrating Home Remedies and Common Sense Health Advice
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This is the thousandth episode of The People’s Pharmacy, and we are celebrating. We invited local listeners who support our host station, North Carolina Public Radio, WUNC, to join us for a live performance of the show.
BJ Leiderman Played our Theme:
Adding to the celebratory mood, we were joined by noted NPR composer BJ Leiderman, who played our theme live for the audience in the Friday Center’s Grumman Auditorium. And eminent radio personality Frank Stasio, host of The State of Things, joined us for the first part of the show. With Frank, we reminisced about how the show got started.
Favorite Home Remedies:
We also discussed some of the favorite home remedies that we have learned from listeners. Occasionally a remedy that sounds entirely improbable, such as putting a bar of soap under the bottom sheet to prevent nighttime leg cramps, turns out to work surprisingly well for many people.
We also took questions and comments from our live audience. They offered testimonials about home remedies and asked questions about confusing health headlines.
Good Advice from Grandma:
We also summarized our best advice about avoiding whiplash from flip-flops in health advice: stick with what your (great) grandmother told you. Science is now proving what your grandma knew all along. You should eat your vegetables, go out and play, get a good night’s sleep and, most importantly, visit your grandma (or just stay well in touch with your loved ones and friends).
Join us for this joyful celebration of wacky remedies and common sense!
This Week’s Guests:
Frank Stasio, a long time NPR correspondent, is host of The State of Things from North Carolina Public Radio.
BJ Leiderman has composed the themes for some of NPR’s outstanding shows, including Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me and Science Friday, as well as The People’s Pharmacy. Watch for his debut album this fall: Natural Public Leiderman.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:30.9 | We've reached a milestone, 1,000 shows. |
| 0:34.7 | Please join the party while we celebrate. |
| 0:37.3 | Find out how the program got started. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:50.1 | Today, you'll find out about the origins of the people's pharmacy. |
| 0:54.6 | How did the show get its start? |
| 0:56.9 | We've always been interested in home remedies, but where do they come from? |
| 1:01.6 | We learn about many of them from you, our listeners. |
| 1:05.0 | What are some of our favorites? |
| 1:07.5 | Are you fed up with flip-lops on food? |
| 1:10.3 | Eggs and shrimp used to be forbidden, but now they're fine. |
| 1:14.4 | First butter was bad, but now it's better than margarine. |
| 1:18.2 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we invite you to celebrate show number 1,000 with us. |
| 1:25.7 | First, this news. |
| 1:30.2 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, don't feel guilty about enjoying a couple of cups of coffee each day. |
| 1:37.7 | A Greek study has just confirmed what previous research suggested. |
| 1:42.0 | Coffee drinkers are at reduced risk for type 2 diabetes. |
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