A Kokkedal A Day Keeps The Doctor Away [Season 1, Episode 6] - a podcast by Sheila Dee & Evo Terra - Third World Survivors
from 2015-02-07T22:48
Full Show Script
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[Step down places]
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EVO: So… we made it to Denmark. Copenhagen, actually, and to be even more precise, a small, bedroom community 30 minutes by train to the north that I’ve been calling Kokkedal. I mean, it’s spelled like Kokkedal - K o k k e d a l -- Kokkedal, right?
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SHE: Not quite. It’s not all that surprising that Evo’s first conversation with a local -- nearly everyone here speaks excellent English -- was about beer, specifically about the apparent lack of quality of craft beer in Denmark. I say “apparent” because Susanne Willie --
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EVO: It’s pronounced Soo-sana-ah VEE-lay..
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[Susanna Willie]
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SHE: Hey, she said it could be pronounced differently in English. Don’t get smart. Anynow, here’s how Susanne said the name of the town is really pronounced.
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[Kokkedal]
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EVO: And now you know why I had little choice but to pick this show title.
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SHE: What are you, eight?
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EVO: Childish humor is still humor, Love. What’s not so fun, however, is this nagging, recurring back issue of mine.
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[Being upright]
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SHE: A day of walking around Copenhagen after the 4 hour walking tour of Paris had Evo stopping and stretching every 10 minutes, and taking every opportunity to sit, while I was snapping pictures. He was pretty uncomfortable, but kept soldiering on. You know, like an idiot. A proud idiot, but an idiot all the same.
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EVO More like forced march.
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EVO: So I asked a local buddy of mine -- Hey, Alex -- for the name of his doctor. My problem back -- really the muscles around and under my right scapula -- wasn’t going to get better without some anti-inflammatories like Aleve. Guess what you can’t buy over the counter in Denmark or France? You guessed it.
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SHE: Amazingly enough, Alex’s doctor agreed to see Evo almost immediately. So we bundled back up, took the train back to Nørreport (I’m probably not pronouncing that right. How do you pronounce an “oh” with a slash through it, and why is it different than a regular “oh”?) … and walked the six easy blocks to get to the doctor’s office, taking in some sights along the way.
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[Walking not lost]
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EVO: You can probably see where this is going. Yep. I’m the classic guy won’t won’t stop and ask for directions. Stereotypes are funny because they’re often true. So I’m a little stubborn. But tenacity pays off. Oh, and recall when Sheila called me an idiot? Yeah
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[Wrong way]
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EVO: As you heard, and as improbable as it seemed, we found it, found our way in, and found Doctor Neilson to be every bit as helpful as Alex had indicated. I’ll spare you the audio of the examination part of the visit (do they have HIPPA in Demark?) and skip right to the question we were both sweating -- payment
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[Payment]
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SHE: Yes, you heard that correctly. The cost of a same day - no wait, almost same-hour -- doctors visit in Denmark was zero dollars. Er, zero Krone. To say we were a little stunned is an understatement.
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[Great experience or greatest experience?]
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EVO: The next test would be the pharmacy, a different affair in Europe than in the States. We’d already visited...
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