Hot Ones Medical Check with Dr. Arroyo

0:03Conan O 'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com slash call Conan. Okay, let's get started. Hello and welcome to Conan O 'Brien Needs a Fan. This is a bit unusual. This is the podcast where usually I speak to a fan around the world or in the United States, anywhere. Someone who I connect with and it's a lot of fun. But I wanted to use this slot today to do something quite different. As some of you listening may know, recently I appeared on a show called Hot Ones, and it got a lot of attention, got a lot of people talking. I'm told my behavior was a little unusual for Hot Ones.

0:48And everyone has a million questions. The question I get the most about my appearance on that show, other than did you have to go to the hospital afterwards, is what's with your doctor? Dr. Arroyo, I believe I'm the first person to show up with a physician who looked after me because there were some concerns about my health. I was a little concerned. so the day before my appearance i contacted my doctor and said would you be present and you were and a lot of people are talking about you dr arroyo well i actually consider this a follow-up visit because uh you looked a little distressed at the end there and i was distressed yeah yeah were you concerned well first of all i want to before we talk about the hot ones i'd like people to understand just how we met um uh because we have an interesting uh meeting yes how we first discovered one another do you want to talk about it at all okay um i was walking by the mayo clinic and um and uh excuse me dr royale i think it's called mayo clinic i think it's mayo you don't say Cinco de Mayo.

2:04So I was walking by the Mayo Clinic and I heard, I want a second opinion. And I ran in and it was you. Now, at the time you were not dressed as a doctor. No. And I said, are you a doctor? And you paused for a while, to be honest. Okay. Yes, I did pause and said yes i am a doctor well i thought you were asking if doctor was my given name okay no and i said no it's not okay but uh anyway go to to a doctor school i've you went to a what a doctor school medical school yes to medical school okay um there was some comments i mean this video on Hot Ones has been seen like 9 million times. I see. And a lot of the comments are this doctor doesn't seem some people were questioning whether you I'm just telling you what I've read.

3:07I know you don't read comments. Well people were saying I'm not sure he knows what he's doing. Oh my gosh. No I'm just saying. I would like to talk to those 9 million people because. That would take a while. Well and I understood. But I have time. I think there seems to be a question about whether or not I attended doctor school, and I did. Medical school. Medical school. It was not in the country. I grant you it was not in the continental United States, but I did attend. Can you tell us exactly where it was that you attended, what you prefer to seem to call doctor school? Doctor school. I cannot say without returning a lot of money because I was paid very generously not to reveal where I went to medical school.

3:57So that's why I keep it. I see. But I did graduate. Okay. At the top 100 % of my class. Okay, listen. You can look it up. Okay. If you ever find it. Yeah. I have noticed you have been my physician out here in Los Angeles now for about seven years. I have brought up many times I could come by, I could swing by your office. And you have always said that's not a good idea. That's right. And you prefer to meet like in a restaurant or sometimes outside a restaurant. Is there a reason that you don't like me to come to your office? Yes, there is. I'm in between offices right now. I've been with you for seven years.

4:43Yes, I know. It's been a while. I go all over the city. I figured, well, instead of the patients coming to me, why don't I just meet the patients closer to where they are? It's less stressful. But I've also brought up you could come to my house, and that's called a house call, as you know. Yes, yes. And you always say there's this restaurant downtown, Exactly. And we could meet outside that restaurant. Yes. And then they allow us to use the restroom in that restaurant. So for full exams, there's the mirrors, there's a counter, there's a baby changing station. There's a lot of equipment in that restroom that we can use.

5:33It's interesting because I have, and Sona's here, my assistant, and she knows very well that I have, I work with an accounting firm, business manager. It's all quite sophisticated. Yes, of course. The billing with you is a little strange because I, right? I mean, I get so many. It's weird. I have a therapist. I have someone who works on my back. I have a dentist. And it's all paid, you know, through. He wants cash, right? Yes, you always insist on cash. I prefer cash. Yes, yes. It's just the way I do business. There's less paperwork. there's less accounting uh the irs doesn't know a thing uh the irs is completely ignorant about my about my uh business practices and the irs will never track down how many how many people hear millions millions and millions of people hear this but the i people millions and millions of people hear this some people from the irs are listening right now i see i see yeah okay um okay well we will we will we'll edit that out we do make some edits okay that may be one of them okay say ir uh what is your

6:53dr arroyo yes do you have a specialty in medicine is there a field that you're more interested in than other fields. I mean, do you have a specialty in comedy? Or are you kind of an all around very funny man? Well, I don't think it applies. Did you go to a college to be funny? I don't think so. You are just funny and learn by experience. And I learn by experience. I learn my practice, medical practice every day that i practice medicine i get better every day okay and uh i'm a wonderful uh first opinion if you if you if you want a good first opinion for any medical thing yeah come to me medical thing any any medical thing any medical thing whatsoever and you know inside there was some i'll tell you there was in a couple things that happened during the hot ones appearance that i want to say raise some eyebrows in the medical community okay at one point i was complaining about the heat of the sauce yes yeah you um and this is documented it's been on the internet all over the place you applied a stethoscope to my tongue yes yes is there medically what did that tell you in that moment oh well i was listening for any kind of aberration, any kind of weird thing, you know.

8:19And basically, I listened to your tongue. And I didn't hear any screaming. I didn't hear anything unusual. It just sounded, it was dead, actually. It was just almost nothing. So I thought, you're fine. Okay. Because if there was no screaming. Were you tempted at all to place it on my chest to listen to heart rhythm? No, because... Wait, is that just that's, you think that's some sort of medical quackery? Well, it's just, I don't want after your tongue, I'd put it on there. Okay, okay, okay, okay. You did something else where, I think there was some concern. I think you wanted to take my pulse.

8:58Yes. It looked to just about everyone that's viewed the video as if you were choking my neck. Oh, yes, yes, yes. I have to say very few people. My bad, my bad. I thought you said, take my pulse. Like, take it away.

9:19That's what I was trying to do. Wait, isn't the first rule do no harm? Yeah. The Hippocratic Oath, the first rule is Hippocratic. Hippocratic. Okay, nothing. All right. There's an oath that most people know that have gone to medicine school. Doctor school. Doctor school. Apologies for not knowing the correct terminology. Uh, no. So you in that moment thought that I said, take my pulse, meaning deprive me of circulation. Yes. I was doing what you asked me to do. And then you corrected me and said, no, no. And then I had to touch you lightly. Yeah. But, uh, okay.

10:09do you have tell me about some of your other uh patients i know that when we meet i never first of all you have no office no when we you like to be paid in cash i do i do we uh we meet outside uh a restaurant yes downtown that's right and eventually go inside where you're insistent on using the bathroom for a long period of time alone um and often i hear what sounds like bathing in there but you can't really bathe in a sink can you i have to guess to stay clean and uh and the bathroom is the perfect place to do okay and then um but i don't know if you see other are you seeing other uh patients i would be i'd be violating my hippocratic oath if i told you Is that the way?

10:55No, no, no, no, no. And also, I would be my oath of, I would be violating confidentiality. Confidentiality. Confidentiality. Do you have any other celebrity clients? Yeah, that's a good question. I do a lot of players on the NBA. I do a lot of, I don't, I can't. You can't really get into it. Can I say, as your assistant, anytime I've had to schedule an appointment with him, it's been very easy. I would say. Absolutely. You're very available. I am very available. You can always, anytime you have my cell phone number. And I'm also always on the road. So I can always get to the restaurant quickly and so on.

11:35You solicited an appointment with me out there earlier, which is really weird. You came to me. I did. I did. I walked out of that mobile pet grooming van and I saw you and I said, you could use a checkup. You? I'm just, what? I have to say Sona brings up a really good point which is your availability yes I about six months ago butt dialed you accidentally yes at four in the morning I didn't know who I was calling I heard you and the sound of a bus it sounded like someone was ordering you off the bus oh something about you can't sleep here that's right that's right and you said I'm available for an appointment and now would be a good time.

12:23I said, no, I butt dialed you. That's right. That's right. And I couldn't meet you because they kicked me off the bus. But I don't consider it sleeping on a bus. I consider it a self-induced coma that I take from time to time. You did what you had to do. Yes. Can you tell, the audience is going to be curious, and my fans, you know, they adore me and they constantly pray for my well-being. Yes. Just assume. Okay. Can you maybe talk a little bit about your assessment of my physical condition? You know? Sure. I give you permission to, by the way. I don't want to violate the oath you clearly learned maybe eight seconds ago.

13:10A little quick. Just a little. That's a little ribbing. All right. We all. Okay. Okay. Because you really didn't seem to know what it was. but well i mean you hear yeah the hippopotamus no hippocratic hippocratic hippocratic um dr arroyo i give you full permission to tell people who are listening um you know who are concerned about me after the hot ones and just want to know about my my uh my condition in general okay let me ask you a question yeah are you alive yes i'm alive You're welcome. Okay. All right. Well, I don't think you're the reason I'm alive.

13:52You, first of all, many times you have prescribed me pills. Yes. That I didn't think I needed. All right. Okay. I've gone and gotten the pills and then you've taken them from me. That's right. Is that a common? That's right. How does that help me? I don't want you to get addicted to those pills. They're very strong. But why do you have me? You have me. And they're very addictive. You have me pick up large quantities of these pills. I can write. Which are highly addictive. Yes. And these are big bottles. Yes. Very large bottles. Yes. And then as I'm picking it up from the drugstore, you're usually outside.

14:31Tapping on the window. Yes. And then you want the pills back before I can even take them. Yes. Yes. And then I give you$25. dollars and it's i don't understand how that helps me medically well it gets you out of the house you got to go to the to the drug store um you meet you meet people i mean it helps both of us really it's even pretty even dr arroyo if you don't mind i've noticed often um when we meet that your lab coat seems like it is a little dirty.

15:09There's sometimes, and usually when you think of a white lab coat, you think of this pristine lab coat. And there have been times, not always, today it looks pretty good, but - It's a new one. Okay. There are times where it's looked like you were rolling around in something or there's dirt and some detritus. Is that something that - Yes. sometimes my patients are reluctant to meet with me and and I have to be a little more aggressive in performing the exams so you're well with Matt specifically I said young man you you could use an exam and he said please please go away I don't have money and and then I proceeded to do the exam and and he got physical yeah I heard there was a scuffle outside it was a big large offices yes I felt like I left that meeting with a sore arm and a sore back.

16:01And so I didn't come away with any medical awareness, any healing. I was worse for the wear. And that's the opposite of what a doctor should be. Yes. I suggest you get a second opinion.

16:13You say you give an amazing first opinion. I give a great first opinion. He wrote a prescription, put it in my back pocket and slapped me on the ass. Is that a common practice for you? Yeah. It's a motivation tactic. Off you go, young man. Off you go. Be well. No. Is this something you always dreamed of when you were a young boy growing up? Up. I did feel a calling. Was that the dream? You felt a calling? I felt a calling to heal, to be of service, to be paid in cash. And it all came true. It all came true. And you are one of my best patients. uh you're always uh very tolerant uh of any procedures we do and uh i guess i don't want to take credit for your incredible health but i do feel like i play a part well um i'm you know i have to say when i asked you to come on hot ones i had no idea that you would suddenly become a famous person um and you are now well you must be getting recognized i have been recognized and But I want to say I still keep my rates low.

17:20It hasn't gone to my head. And I am still the same affordable doctor that you know. Yeah. I want to say this. You are the most affordable doctor that I've ever worked with. Yes, of course. Because you don't always need the most expensive of everything. You know, you don't write. You don't need a Rolls Royce to take you to the goodwill. And so you don't always need the most expensive things. And I think medical care is one of those things where you can save a little money. Right. And then spend it on something important later on. Spend it on something else. Yeah, on something important. Yeah. Okay.

18:02Well, Dr. Arroyo, it's been a treat having you on. My pleasure. And as a guest, this was not a consult. This was just a year I'm bringing you on. I was led to believe it was a consultation. I put in a billing for it already. You put in a... He did. He did. If you don't mind. You just, you signaled. Yes. Yes. So let me write you a prescription for some pills. What will that be? How much is that? I've got... 20 is fine. 20 is good. $20? $20 is fine. Is that a copay or that's the full... That's the full amount. That's the full amount. $20. I'm capable of paying more. It would hurt me and my clean oath.

18:52There you go. Dollar change. So$19. That's an odd amount. This bill is moist. It's wet. Were you in some kind of liquid earlier? It's seen a lot.

19:11Dr. Arroyo, go with God? Yes, well, I try. And are you okay now? Can you see yourself out? Do you know how to get home? Yes, of course. Do you know how to get home? Yes, yes, yes. The bus is right there. Okay. Dr. Arroyo, thank you so much. Thank you.

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