RIP Riley, Something fishy

Yesterday the Stern Show announced Riley Martin, a long time participant on the Stern channels had died.  Riley claimed he had been abducted by aliens many times and told his story in his very unique manner. If you want to read the story go here.  Riley was also a raging alcoholic and did a lot of his shows shit faced drunk which added to the entertainment factor.  I found it odd that he actually died before Christmas but the show was asked to not make it public until yesterday for some reason.

Riley always complained about not having money.  One of the ways he made money was to hand draw “symbols” for people willing to pay for them.  According to Riley the symbols would be the only way earthlings would be able to get on the mothership that is parked out around Jupiter when the end of days comes to our planet.  I almost bought one yesterday as Riley had some stock leftover but when I saw the price had risen to almost 50 bucks I thought better of it.

I will definitely miss hearing Riley’s unmistakable voice on the Stern show.  I can only hope that he somehow wound up in the big spaceship in the sky.  Rest well, friend Martin, rest well.

Yesterday I also heard a segment on the show where Howard had a doctor of his in.  One of the things they talked about was how Howard was having a number of odd symptoms that he had undergone a battery of testing for without any definitive diagnosis.  This doctor told Howard to get his mercury levels tested.  He suggested this after hearing how Howard had started on basically a pescatarian diet (fish only).  Well Howards levels were indeed high and once he changed his diet his symptoms improved.

Cindy and I have a VERY seafood heavy diet.  I would estimate 5-6 meals a week have fish as the main protein.  When I looked up some details of the symptoms of high mercury levels it raised a lot of red flags.  Memory, concentration, vision, and numbness issues are just a few of the possible symptoms that jumped out at me.  I shared this with Cindy.  She was very surprised as well.  The end result of this will be our diet getting more balance with us using more plant based protein sources instead of leaning so heavily on seafood.  It will be interesting to see if the some of the symptoms that we instinctively write off to old age start to improve.