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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Mother Knows Dad starring Nicole and Jemmy and Maria qk.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Everyone. Welcome to The Mother Knows Death. On today's episode, we're
going to be talking about Jessica Simpson using snake sperm
for her vocal chords, a Chick fil A employee who
died in a freak accident moments after surviving another freak accident,
a brain eating infection, repositioning your ribs to get an
hourglass figure, and more. Let's get started with Jessica Simpson.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So, I guess she's releasing music for the first time
since twenty ten, and she's been putting out like promotional
videos to hype it up.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And in one of the videos.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
She's seen drinking out of this like brown bottle with
a yellow label and her she was saying that her
band asked her when she was drinking. She said she
didn't know. She just thought it was some Chinese medicine
that her vocal coach told her to drink, and then
when they googled the ingredients on the bottle, they figured
out it had snake sperm in it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't think I believe this. Yeah, I listen like
I I have looked far and wide on the computer
to see like where you could buy this stuff or
if it has anything to do with with any kind
of elixirs or anything like that, and I can't find
it anywhere. And it's just like, I don't even know
if you remember this when you were because you were
(01:37):
a kid when this happened. But do you remember when
she had a show with her I guess it was
her husband at the time. Yeah, And then there was
that whole thing with the can tuna chicken of the sea.
Do you remember all that? Have you heard about all.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That I know about it? I don't know the details
off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't I don't really know either. But it was
something about like can tuna being called chicken of the
sea and she didn't understand that it was tuna. And
it was like this like done blonde moment so to speak,
that went viral at the time that people just couldn't
believe that she didn't know what this was. And I
(02:16):
think this is like all her people getting together and
just being like, we need another viral moment, and this,
sure enough is it. I just can't not to say
that it's impossible, but I'm just like, if this if
this was actually a thing, you'd be able to find it,
like on Amazon or something, or anywhere where they sold it.
I couldn't find any evidence that there was like some
(02:37):
Chinese medicine or anything about this, but I mean they
have sperm. I guess you could put it in a bottle.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
According to this article, snake sperm is not used in
Chinese medicine, so I don't know if it's a lack
of understanding. I google reverse image the bottle. I didn't
find anything similar to it, so you went a step further.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I didn't even do that. But I'm looking at the
liquid and it's brown, So if it is in there,
not to say it couldn't be, but it also could
just be mixed with it. I guess if that was
the case, I mean there are in there. There is
an article I found of instructions on how to get
sperm out of a snake, which was interesting. Well, I
(03:17):
you didn't. You didn't have to touch its little penis either.
You could just kind of squeeze it and get it out.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But I think she's trolling us, or it's a classic
snake oil situation where it's just like this, you know,
totally fabricated like it it's fabricated.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Because the worst thing is, especially for this podcast, when
you're trying to look stuff up, because you're just like,
if I searched snake sperm two days ago or three
days ago, maybe something would have came up. But now
there's ten pages of articles about Jessica Simpson. Jessica Simpson,
like that's all they want. They don't care if it
sounds disgusting to be drinking it or it's just like
(03:57):
a completely made up story to get her back in
the news again.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And it worked, right, Yeah, I mean it definitely worked.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was gonna ask you if this was a thing,
do you think this is part of this weird VIP
treatment you're always talking about that celebrities are just giving
these like totally bizarre, fabricated elixures to help them with
whatever ailment it is, when it's probably really just like
molasses in the jar.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Exactly, and then you're they're just getting sold it because
they just like fall for anything.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We did talk about like last year it's something with
salmon sperm. Remember that that's the facials.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
A lot of people are getting it, like with SPA treatments.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But wasn't there a thing with women that weren't getting
sexual arousal anymore and they were getting these like orgasm
shots and they were reporting stronger and more frequent orgasms.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, it's it's just like it's just like one of
these things, like exactly what you're saying. It's like a
celebrity thing, and it could totally It's just like at
least when you look up Sam and sparm or stuff
like that, like the articles come up. It's just like
nothing is coming up. I just it's it's not possible.
It's just completely fabricated.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But I don't know what I think.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And and also I'm just like, if you say something
like that, they does Jessica Simpson have like the best
voice ever that she I don't recall. I thought she
was like a pop star person that had like synthesized
voice and stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I mean, I think this is just her like doing
her you know, her dumb blonde stick to get us
talking about her. And it's working and people seem pretty
hype about the music that's coming out, so it's good.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I mean, she's been in.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The press a lot for the last couple of years,
and it's mostly due to her, Like her appearance changes drastically.
She had gained a lot of weight, then she had
lost too much weight, and people are always talking shit
about her. So maybe they were just like, we just
need a light story to get her in the press
and get people excited for what's coming up, because she
has been getting crushed in the media for twenty plus years.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Imagine like sitting around at the table planning these these
like this, Okay, this is the next pr move. We're
gonna say that you swallow snake sperm and it's gonna
go viral. Like it's just because like these conversations happen.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
For sure, I'm always thinking about the conference room behind
the scenes of like the dumbest shit we ever see.
We were just talking about it with the road signs
last week. I'm always thinking, like at least five to
ten people had to approve this before it aired on television,
so like think about this.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Oh my god, such a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
All right, this text story is really crazy. So on Saturday,
the sixty seven year old woman she was either going
to or leaving her job at Chick fil A. She
was driving at some point got in a car accident,
which she survived, got out of the car, and then
another freak thing occurred where she fell down this well
that was hidden in the woods.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, that's what a freak story, man. And they find
her car and it was in a wooded area, Like
she went off the road as it was and survived
the car crash. Could you just imagine like something like
that going down and how terrifying. Right, I guess she
didn't have her phone with her or something, or maybe
I mean I was in the Poconos this weekend, this
(07:15):
previous weekend, and there were lots of spots where there
were I had no service on my phone, and I
do wonder, you know how sometimes you have that button.
I feel like I have an emergency button in my car,
Like would that even work if you didn't have any
cell phone service.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think that the iPhones have this newish setting called
like SOS movie. It's so you don't have normal service,
but in some way I don't understand the logistics of
how it works, but in some way you're able to
contact emergency or alert people of a problem. So Okay,
I don't know, I think you know, I'm thinking she
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gets in this car accident, she has all this adrenaline
trying to get out of the car. She literally just
steps out of the car and falls right into this well.
Like it couldn't have been worse.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, And honestly, like if I was walking around in
a wooded area, I wouldn't think that there was going
to be a well that, you know what I mean,
Like I wouldn't even a thought about it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
No, And they said it was really well hidden with bushes.
I'm kind of like, why is there just a well
like dug into the grass like that. It's not like
it was a cute little brick formation the well we're
typically used to seeing. It was just a giant hole
in the ground essentially.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, like a but there's they're listen, they're all over
the place. Did you see in Jersey like last week,
like these sinkholes and stuff with old minds. It's especially
if you're in a wooded area like that, like it's
totally possible.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah. All right.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So this next story was in Minnesota. So during a
safety drill at a school. I guess this sixth grade
class wasn't participating in this drill that was happening, And
of course, something you know Lilian, you know, because she's
this say yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Because Lilian's in sixth grade, and I know a lot
of the kids in the class, and just thinking about
how especially boys of this age act. You could see
that they're like, you know, they're just playing around.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So a bunch of the kids instead of sitting like
they should have, relying on their stomach, and I guess
their teacher was trying to make a point and yell
at them, being like, I could easily step on you
if you're laying on your stomach, and then they weren't listening.
So to prove a point, he did step on one
of the children. But the problem is this person is
three hundred and fifty pounds stepping on a twelve year
(09:26):
old child, and obviously that doesn't go over well.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, so I saw I kind of saw the point
when he was just like, look like, this is why
you can't do this, because I could easily trip over
you and stuff. And see a teacher even like put
their foot up to the kid's body and just be like,
look like you're in my way right now, but you're
three hundred and fifty pounds and stood on a kid's
back for ten seconds like, what are you doing, dude,
(09:54):
Like you throw you just throw out your entire career
for that, and why would you even think that that
would be a appropriate at all. It's outrageous to me.
But the kid obviously had to be taken to the hospital.
He had injuries laying there like that. Lots of kids
witnessed it, so it wasn't just like like the kids
making it up so weird.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, he ended in the hospital. His mom saying, he's
walking this twelve year old boy, he's walking around like
he's an eighty year old because his back hurts so badly.
It's just definitely a questionable choice somebody would make.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I understand why you might want to like put your
foot up to a kid and be like, yo, I'm
going to step on you. Take it seriously, but to
like actually step on a child the kid was saying
it was like he was using him as a step stool.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He really he could have like killed this kid.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yes, it's really cut meaning it.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, it's it's beyond concerning. I mean sometimes like the
kids are playing around on the floor and then like Lily,
you know, be like lukea walk on my back and
I'm like, no, because I don't even want heard like
seventy five pound body's standing on Lilian's little body like that.
It's just not a good idea. I shouldn't be standing
on someone's back like that ever, But like when you're
(11:08):
of this size, you should be aware of that. That's
a lot. It's intense, you know, cheese.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Teachers should never really be touching their students.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
They shouldn't. Actually, that's that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Too, because all right, the kid was laying on his stomach.
He was probably being a little shit. It's not like
he was like trying to actively hurt somebody and you
had to restrain him.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And it makes me worry about future decision making because
I see he's on paid administratively while they investigate the situation.
But according to this article, he's admitted to doing it
and stepping on two other students and the whole class
are witnessed this. So what is there really to investigate
at this point, He's got to go no, I.
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so we wanted to let you know that if you
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to those. The reason I'm telling you that is because
we covered a similar story about this next case. We're
talking about a brain eating amiba infection. So, ree, why
don't you get into this story and then we could
talk about the one that was from a couple years
ago as well.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, so a family in Arkansas took their sixteen month
old baby to a water park and the baby was
playing around in a splash pad and then shortly after
he developed a fever, started vomiting, wouldn't eat, and could
barely move. So they took him to the hospital and
he was admitted to the ICU. And what did doctors
see there?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So they were able to give him a spinal tap
and take out some cerebral spinal fluid and they saw
that he had this crazy infection of an amoeba infection.
So a lot of the news articles are saying it's
a bacterial infection, and it's different from a bacteria. It's
an Amiba is a one cell organism and they most
(14:16):
commonly are in fresh water so a lot of times
when you hear about these infections, it's because of somebody
that was like swimming in a lake or something like that.
And this one is so scary because of the water park.
But there is an increased risk of this amiba infection
being present in places like that, especially on splash pads,
(14:37):
because if you think about when you go to a
water park, it usually smells so bad because of the
chlorine is so strong, and that would kill this kind
of an infection. But the splash pads usually just have
sprinkler water or something like that that's sitting there and
it's not treated with chlorine or it has very low chlorine,
and that is a perfect environment for this type of organists.
(15:00):
So it's called nay Gliria fowlery and it's an amoba
infection which is typically referred to as a brain eating
amoeba because it causes a brain infection that causes meningitis
around the brain, which is inflammation of the membrane surrounding
the brain, as well as it could actually eat away
(15:21):
at brain tissue.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's just really sad because you know, you think you're
taking your kid to do this really fun thing and
then you trust that the place is taking care of everything,
and apparently this particular park was in violation of multiple
codes and not properly treating these areas. And then you know,
we didn't get to this park, but the baby ended
(15:44):
up dying as a result of this, and it's really
unfortunate that someone's negligence could lead to the death of
an otherwise healthy child.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, and I mean, it's a very very deadly infection.
So fewer than ten people a year in the United
SLS States get this, so it's super super rare. And
between nineteen sixty two and twenty twenty three, there have
only been one hundred and sixty four reported cases of it,
so that's a very long time. But of all of
(16:12):
those cases reported, only four people have actually survived it.
People usually die within one to eighteen days of being
having symptoms and being exposed. And the reason that I
was bringing up before we started this story about the
Grossroom podcast that we had prior to mother nose death
is because we talked about a case a couple years
ago about a saline rint that someone was using to
(16:36):
clear their sinuses. So you know that what we call
it douche. I always say that to the kids, I'm
gonna doucee your nose because it's like pushing it through.
But it's because the person was using unfiltered tapwater and
the amiba was in the tap water and they shoved
it right up into their nose. It got into their
(16:56):
brain and it killed them. Oh that was with the
netty pot, right, Yeah, it's like a netty pot or
of the squeezy thing or whatever. But that's why they're
always say that you should use distilled water with those
things because or boil it. Or boil it exactly because
you really should not. You don't want to put an
infection like that or an organism like that right into
(17:17):
your nose because it's a direct route to your brain.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
This just makes me so upset it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is, and it's you know. The thing is is that
most of the time, whenever I kind of skive water
parks in general, they're just I don't know what it
is about them. It's just the smell all the people.
But usually I guess the strong smell is a good
thing because it's killing a lot of the different organisms
in this case. But there's so many times that you
(17:44):
go to these ones when you're just on vacation or whatever,
and you want to bring the kids, and you're like,
these places are so sketchy, they can't possibly be doing
things right. But even so, even if you're doing everything right,
there's plenty of these splash pads all over the place
because they're like the hottest thing. Now. I see them
in cities. I see that they really started gaining popularity.
(18:04):
When could. They weren't like a thing ever when you
were a kid, and then now with my second batch
of kids there it's a thing, you know. And it's
the water settling there and fresh water because when they're
when they're using water for those types of fountains, it's
like straight up tap water. It's not they're not using
(18:26):
chlorinated water for those things, right, So yeah, I get
I guess even if these people were doing all the
right things, I guess it could still be a risk.
But it's just so could you imagine having your cake
at an infection that there's been you know, one hundred
and sixty four people have had in the past, you know,
forty or fifty years. That's just so freak right.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
No, it is all right.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
There's a new cosmetic trend in town, and it involves
repositioning your ribs. Can't wait the heavier take on.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
This, I like, I kind of I don't want this
done on.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Oh my god, I thought you were gonna crush people
for doing this because it's really yeah, because it doesn't
seem like a wise choice to be moving things around.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, but it's I don't know. I so Okay. So
the thing is called rib x CAR and it's this
I guess. It's this newer procedure and minimally invasive, so
they only go in with a needle and there's very
small incisions, and they use ultrasound guide to be able
to see what they're doing underneath of the skin, and
(19:31):
they essentially are This is what I've gotten from it,
and correct me if I'm wrong, But it seems like
they're creating these minute rib fractures, not enough to cause
any kind of problem with your skeletal structure, because they're
only doing it in the false ribs or the floating
ribs which aren't attached to They're not creating what you
(19:55):
would consider to be the cage around your ribs that
are really protecting your thoracic organs. They're just ones that
are on the side in the front that are minimally protective.
I would say, they're not the ones that come straight
off your backbone and go to your sternum. So these
are like the just the little extra ones on the side.
So what they're doing is they're creating these small fractures
(20:19):
so when they break the bone and you wear a
courset over the next couple of weeks and months when
they're healing, the bones will basically heal in the bent
position in which you're putting them in. And they're saying
that they've done studies on it with people that have
had it from before and after that have visible differences.
(20:42):
Most people are happy with it. It's two to three
weeks of recovery. I mean, it costs a shit ton
of money, obviously, because because every plastic procedure does. But
it says that the pain is tolerable. It seems like
for the I think we covered a couple of months
(21:03):
ago about a woman who had her ribs surgically removed
to take in her waste, and that is a very
serious surgery that's very strenuous, and this is a little
bit different. You're not removing the ribs, you're keeping them
in the you're keeping them in the same place. You're
just kind of moving them in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But doesn't that affect your organs? And I don't know,
isn't there all these problems with corsets because they're like
jamming your organs up in places they shouldn't be and
putting them smoshing them together.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I'm sure that there could be, depending on but the
corset is more of a long term constriction of the organs.
You're talking years of constriction of the ribs and the organs,
whereas this is just when you break the ribs and
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then you put the corset on, just for a couple
of months. It's just so they heal into that position,
but then you don't wear the corset anymore. It's kind
of like, let's say, for example, when you have braces
when you're a kid, Like the braces are like moving
the teeth around, but then you use the retainer to
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like keep them in the place.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, but that's your teeth.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's not like right what I'm saying. It's a similar thing,
like you're you're moving it and then you're putting You're
just like having them heel kind of in a certain place.
I don't know, I think it's I mean, like, listen,
I the reason I say that I want this is
because I feel like my ribs are just like they're
so prominent. I don't even know if, like what like
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what I'm considering, because my ribs in the front are
really like the most prominent ones. They just stick out
so far, and I'm always like, God, if this wasn't here,
like my waist would be so much smaller.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
But oh my god, who cares. I don't. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It's just some one of my things. I would never
really get this done, and of course, unless anyone wants
to to offer it to me, than I might consider.
But it's low. It's not as invasive as removing your ribs,
for sure, And I mean there's there's obviously gonna be
increased chance of infection and everything that comes with any procedure,
but it seems like there's a lot of positive outlooks
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from what I've seen from medical papers written about it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, I guess I'm just saying, like, I understand that
you're saying it's a minimally invasive procedure, but I feel
like adjusting anything in your body has potential for complications.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, yeah, I mean, but that's cosmetic surgery is like
that in general. I mean, like it's it's a risk
you take for to look better, Like that's what people
are doing. So I definitely think this this is like
way more awesome than having actual ribs removed, because when
you have them removed, not only is it I've heard
it's excruciating pain and recovery, but on top of that,
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you have you don't even have that protection anymore from
those bones, whereas you still have the protection here, they're
just bent a little bit differently.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So they're saying it costs up words of twenty thousand dollars.
So I guess if this is something that interests you,
it's the latest trend, but I don't think I'll consider it.
You clearly are considering it for some reason.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I just listen, I've been reading about this all morning,
and I'm just interested in it. It's just it just
sounds interesting, that's all.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Everyone. Welcome to The Mother Knows Death. On today's episode, we're
going to be talking about Jessica Simpson using snake sperm
for her vocal chords, a Chick fil A employee who
died in a freak accident moments after surviving another freak accident,
a brain eating infection, repositioning your ribs to get an
hourglass figure, and more. Let's get started with Jessica Simpson.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So, I guess she's releasing music for the first time
since twenty ten, and she's been putting out like promotional
videos to hype it up.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And in one of the videos.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
She's seen drinking out of this like brown bottle with
a yellow label and her she was saying that her
band asked her when she was drinking. She said she
didn't know. She just thought it was some Chinese medicine
that her vocal coach told her to drink, and then
when they googled the ingredients on the bottle, they figured
out it had snake sperm in it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't think I believe this. Yeah, I listen like
I I have looked far and wide on the computer
to see like where you could buy this stuff or
if it has anything to do with with any kind
of elixirs or anything like that, and I can't find
it anywhere. And it's just like, I don't even know
if you remember this when you were because you were
(01:37):
a kid when this happened. But do you remember when
she had a show with her I guess it was
her husband at the time. Yeah, And then there was
that whole thing with the can tuna chicken of the sea.
Do you remember all that? Have you heard about all.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That I know about it? I don't know the details
off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't I don't really know either. But it was
something about like can tuna being called chicken of the
sea and she didn't understand that it was tuna. And
it was like this like done blonde moment so to speak,
that went viral at the time that people just couldn't
believe that she didn't know what this was. And I
(02:16):
think this is like all her people getting together and
just being like, we need another viral moment, and this,
sure enough is it. I just can't not to say
that it's impossible, but I'm just like, if this if
this was actually a thing, you'd be able to find it,
like on Amazon or something, or anywhere where they sold it.
I couldn't find any evidence that there was like some
(02:37):
Chinese medicine or anything about this, but I mean they
have sperm. I guess you could put it in a bottle.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
According to this article, snake sperm is not used in
Chinese medicine, so I don't know if it's a lack
of understanding. I google reverse image the bottle. I didn't
find anything similar to it, so you went a step further.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I didn't even do that. But I'm looking at the
liquid and it's brown, So if it is in there,
not to say it couldn't be, but it also could
just be mixed with it. I guess if that was
the case, I mean there are in there. There is
an article I found of instructions on how to get
sperm out of a snake, which was interesting. Well, I
(03:17):
you didn't. You didn't have to touch its little penis either.
You could just kind of squeeze it and get it out.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But I think she's trolling us, or it's a classic
snake oil situation where it's just like this, you know,
totally fabricated like it it's fabricated.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Because the worst thing is, especially for this podcast, when
you're trying to look stuff up, because you're just like,
if I searched snake sperm two days ago or three
days ago, maybe something would have came up. But now
there's ten pages of articles about Jessica Simpson. Jessica Simpson,
like that's all they want. They don't care if it
sounds disgusting to be drinking it or it's just like
(03:57):
a completely made up story to get her back in
the news again.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And it worked, right, Yeah, I mean it definitely worked.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was gonna ask you if this was a thing,
do you think this is part of this weird VIP
treatment you're always talking about that celebrities are just giving
these like totally bizarre, fabricated elixures to help them with
whatever ailment it is, when it's probably really just like
molasses in the jar.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Exactly, and then you're they're just getting sold it because
they just like fall for anything.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We did talk about like last year it's something with
salmon sperm. Remember that that's the facials.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
A lot of people are getting it, like with SPA treatments.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But wasn't there a thing with women that weren't getting
sexual arousal anymore and they were getting these like orgasm
shots and they were reporting stronger and more frequent orgasms.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, it's it's just like it's just like one of
these things, like exactly what you're saying. It's like a
celebrity thing, and it could totally It's just like at
least when you look up Sam and sparm or stuff
like that, like the articles come up. It's just like
nothing is coming up. I just it's it's not possible.
It's just completely fabricated.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But I don't know what I think.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And and also I'm just like, if you say something
like that, they does Jessica Simpson have like the best
voice ever that she I don't recall. I thought she
was like a pop star person that had like synthesized
voice and stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I mean, I think this is just her like doing
her you know, her dumb blonde stick to get us
talking about her. And it's working and people seem pretty
hype about the music that's coming out, so it's good.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I mean, she's been in.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The press a lot for the last couple of years,
and it's mostly due to her, Like her appearance changes drastically.
She had gained a lot of weight, then she had
lost too much weight, and people are always talking shit
about her. So maybe they were just like, we just
need a light story to get her in the press
and get people excited for what's coming up, because she
has been getting crushed in the media for twenty plus years.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Imagine like sitting around at the table planning these these
like this, Okay, this is the next pr move. We're
gonna say that you swallow snake sperm and it's gonna
go viral. Like it's just because like these conversations happen.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
For sure, I'm always thinking about the conference room behind
the scenes of like the dumbest shit we ever see.
We were just talking about it with the road signs
last week. I'm always thinking, like at least five to
ten people had to approve this before it aired on television,
so like think about this.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Oh my god, such a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
All right, this text story is really crazy. So on Saturday,
the sixty seven year old woman she was either going
to or leaving her job at Chick fil A. She
was driving at some point got in a car accident,
which she survived, got out of the car, and then
another freak thing occurred where she fell down this well
that was hidden in the woods.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, that's what a freak story, man. And they find
her car and it was in a wooded area, Like
she went off the road as it was and survived
the car crash. Could you just imagine like something like
that going down and how terrifying. Right, I guess she
didn't have her phone with her or something, or maybe
I mean I was in the Poconos this weekend, this
(07:15):
previous weekend, and there were lots of spots where there
were I had no service on my phone, and I
do wonder, you know how sometimes you have that button.
I feel like I have an emergency button in my car,
Like would that even work if you didn't have any
cell phone service.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think that the iPhones have this newish setting called
like SOS movie. It's so you don't have normal service,
but in some way I don't understand the logistics of
how it works, but in some way you're able to
contact emergency or alert people of a problem. So Okay,
I don't know, I think you know, I'm thinking she
(07:50):
gets in this car accident, she has all this adrenaline
trying to get out of the car. She literally just
steps out of the car and falls right into this well.
Like it couldn't have been worse.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, And honestly, like if I was walking around in
a wooded area, I wouldn't think that there was going
to be a well that, you know what I mean,
Like I wouldn't even a thought about it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
No, And they said it was really well hidden with bushes.
I'm kind of like, why is there just a well
like dug into the grass like that. It's not like
it was a cute little brick formation the well we're
typically used to seeing. It was just a giant hole
in the ground essentially.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, like a but there's they're listen, they're all over
the place. Did you see in Jersey like last week,
like these sinkholes and stuff with old minds. It's especially
if you're in a wooded area like that, like it's
totally possible.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah. All right.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So this next story was in Minnesota. So during a
safety drill at a school. I guess this sixth grade
class wasn't participating in this drill that was happening, And
of course, something you know Lilian, you know, because she's
this say yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Because Lilian's in sixth grade, and I know a lot
of the kids in the class, and just thinking about
how especially boys of this age act. You could see
that they're like, you know, they're just playing around.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So a bunch of the kids instead of sitting like
they should have, relying on their stomach, and I guess
their teacher was trying to make a point and yell
at them, being like, I could easily step on you
if you're laying on your stomach, and then they weren't listening.
So to prove a point, he did step on one
of the children. But the problem is this person is
three hundred and fifty pounds stepping on a twelve year
(09:26):
old child, and obviously that doesn't go over well.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, so I saw I kind of saw the point
when he was just like, look like, this is why
you can't do this, because I could easily trip over
you and stuff. And see a teacher even like put
their foot up to the kid's body and just be like,
look like you're in my way right now, but you're
three hundred and fifty pounds and stood on a kid's
back for ten seconds like, what are you doing, dude,
(09:54):
Like you throw you just throw out your entire career
for that, and why would you even think that that
would be a appropriate at all. It's outrageous to me.
But the kid obviously had to be taken to the hospital.
He had injuries laying there like that. Lots of kids
witnessed it, so it wasn't just like like the kids
making it up so weird.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, he ended in the hospital. His mom saying, he's
walking this twelve year old boy, he's walking around like
he's an eighty year old because his back hurts so badly.
It's just definitely a questionable choice somebody would make.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I understand why you might want to like put your
foot up to a kid and be like, yo, I'm
going to step on you. Take it seriously, but to
like actually step on a child the kid was saying
it was like he was using him as a step stool.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He really he could have like killed this kid.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yes, it's really cut meaning it.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, it's it's beyond concerning. I mean sometimes like the
kids are playing around on the floor and then like Lily,
you know, be like lukea walk on my back and
I'm like, no, because I don't even want heard like
seventy five pound body's standing on Lilian's little body like that.
It's just not a good idea. I shouldn't be standing
on someone's back like that ever, But like when you're
(11:08):
of this size, you should be aware of that. That's
a lot. It's intense, you know, cheese.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Teachers should never really be touching their students.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
They shouldn't. Actually, that's that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Too, because all right, the kid was laying on his stomach.
He was probably being a little shit. It's not like
he was like trying to actively hurt somebody and you
had to restrain him.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And it makes me worry about future decision making because
I see he's on paid administratively while they investigate the situation.
But according to this article, he's admitted to doing it
and stepping on two other students and the whole class
are witnessed this. So what is there really to investigate
at this point, He's got to go no, I.
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Speaker 1 (12:54):
Thanks guys. All right, so I know that some of
you guys are grocery remembers. For those of you who aren't,
we actually did Mother Knows Death for a while before
we even made our podcast public in the grocer Room,
so we wanted to let you know that if you
want to listen to old episodes of stories in the news,
(13:16):
you can head over to the grocer room and listen
to those. The reason I'm telling you that is because
we covered a similar story about this next case. We're
talking about a brain eating amiba infection. So, ree, why
don't you get into this story and then we could
talk about the one that was from a couple years
ago as well.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, so a family in Arkansas took their sixteen month
old baby to a water park and the baby was
playing around in a splash pad and then shortly after
he developed a fever, started vomiting, wouldn't eat, and could
barely move. So they took him to the hospital and
he was admitted to the ICU. And what did doctors
see there?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So they were able to give him a spinal tap
and take out some cerebral spinal fluid and they saw
that he had this crazy infection of an amoeba infection.
So a lot of the news articles are saying it's
a bacterial infection, and it's different from a bacteria. It's
an Amiba is a one cell organism and they most
(14:16):
commonly are in fresh water so a lot of times
when you hear about these infections, it's because of somebody
that was like swimming in a lake or something like that.
And this one is so scary because of the water park.
But there is an increased risk of this amiba infection
being present in places like that, especially on splash pads,
(14:37):
because if you think about when you go to a
water park, it usually smells so bad because of the
chlorine is so strong, and that would kill this kind
of an infection. But the splash pads usually just have
sprinkler water or something like that that's sitting there and
it's not treated with chlorine or it has very low chlorine,
and that is a perfect environment for this type of organists.
(15:00):
So it's called nay Gliria fowlery and it's an amoba
infection which is typically referred to as a brain eating
amoeba because it causes a brain infection that causes meningitis
around the brain, which is inflammation of the membrane surrounding
the brain, as well as it could actually eat away
(15:21):
at brain tissue.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's just really sad because you know, you think you're
taking your kid to do this really fun thing and
then you trust that the place is taking care of everything,
and apparently this particular park was in violation of multiple
codes and not properly treating these areas. And then you know,
we didn't get to this park, but the baby ended
(15:44):
up dying as a result of this, and it's really
unfortunate that someone's negligence could lead to the death of
an otherwise healthy child.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, and I mean, it's a very very deadly infection.
So fewer than ten people a year in the United
SLS States get this, so it's super super rare. And
between nineteen sixty two and twenty twenty three, there have
only been one hundred and sixty four reported cases of it,
so that's a very long time. But of all of
(16:12):
those cases reported, only four people have actually survived it.
People usually die within one to eighteen days of being
having symptoms and being exposed. And the reason that I
was bringing up before we started this story about the
Grossroom podcast that we had prior to mother nose death
is because we talked about a case a couple years
ago about a saline rint that someone was using to
(16:36):
clear their sinuses. So you know that what we call
it douche. I always say that to the kids, I'm
gonna doucee your nose because it's like pushing it through.
But it's because the person was using unfiltered tapwater and
the amiba was in the tap water and they shoved
it right up into their nose. It got into their
(16:56):
brain and it killed them. Oh that was with the
netty pot, right, Yeah, it's like a netty pot or
of the squeezy thing or whatever. But that's why they're
always say that you should use distilled water with those
things because or boil it. Or boil it exactly because
you really should not. You don't want to put an
infection like that or an organism like that right into
(17:17):
your nose because it's a direct route to your brain.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
This just makes me so upset it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is, and it's you know. The thing is is that
most of the time, whenever I kind of skive water
parks in general, they're just I don't know what it
is about them. It's just the smell all the people.
But usually I guess the strong smell is a good
thing because it's killing a lot of the different organisms
in this case. But there's so many times that you
(17:44):
go to these ones when you're just on vacation or whatever,
and you want to bring the kids, and you're like,
these places are so sketchy, they can't possibly be doing
things right. But even so, even if you're doing everything right,
there's plenty of these splash pads all over the place
because they're like the hottest thing. Now. I see them
in cities. I see that they really started gaining popularity.
(18:04):
When could. They weren't like a thing ever when you
were a kid, and then now with my second batch
of kids there it's a thing, you know. And it's
the water settling there and fresh water because when they're
when they're using water for those types of fountains, it's
like straight up tap water. It's not they're not using
(18:26):
chlorinated water for those things, right, So yeah, I get
I guess even if these people were doing all the
right things, I guess it could still be a risk.
But it's just so could you imagine having your cake
at an infection that there's been you know, one hundred
and sixty four people have had in the past, you know,
forty or fifty years. That's just so freak right.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
No, it is all right.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
There's a new cosmetic trend in town, and it involves
repositioning your ribs. Can't wait the heavier take on.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
This, I like, I kind of I don't want this
done on.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Oh my god, I thought you were gonna crush people
for doing this because it's really yeah, because it doesn't
seem like a wise choice to be moving things around.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, but it's I don't know. I so Okay. So
the thing is called rib x CAR and it's this
I guess. It's this newer procedure and minimally invasive, so
they only go in with a needle and there's very
small incisions, and they use ultrasound guide to be able
to see what they're doing underneath of the skin, and
(19:31):
they essentially are This is what I've gotten from it,
and correct me if I'm wrong, But it seems like
they're creating these minute rib fractures, not enough to cause
any kind of problem with your skeletal structure, because they're
only doing it in the false ribs or the floating
ribs which aren't attached to They're not creating what you
(19:55):
would consider to be the cage around your ribs that
are really protecting your thoracic organs. They're just ones that
are on the side in the front that are minimally protective.
I would say, they're not the ones that come straight
off your backbone and go to your sternum. So these
are like the just the little extra ones on the side.
So what they're doing is they're creating these small fractures
(20:19):
so when they break the bone and you wear a
courset over the next couple of weeks and months when
they're healing, the bones will basically heal in the bent
position in which you're putting them in. And they're saying
that they've done studies on it with people that have
had it from before and after that have visible differences.
(20:42):
Most people are happy with it. It's two to three
weeks of recovery. I mean, it costs a shit ton
of money, obviously, because because every plastic procedure does. But
it says that the pain is tolerable. It seems like
for the I think we covered a couple of months
(21:03):
ago about a woman who had her ribs surgically removed
to take in her waste, and that is a very
serious surgery that's very strenuous, and this is a little
bit different. You're not removing the ribs, you're keeping them
in the you're keeping them in the same place. You're
just kind of moving them in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But doesn't that affect your organs? And I don't know,
isn't there all these problems with corsets because they're like
jamming your organs up in places they shouldn't be and
putting them smoshing them together.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I'm sure that there could be, depending on but the
corset is more of a long term constriction of the organs.
You're talking years of constriction of the ribs and the organs,
whereas this is just when you break the ribs and
(21:56):
then you put the corset on, just for a couple
of months. It's just so they heal into that position,
but then you don't wear the corset anymore. It's kind
of like, let's say, for example, when you have braces
when you're a kid, Like the braces are like moving
the teeth around, but then you use the retainer to
(22:16):
like keep them in the place.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, but that's your teeth.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's not like right what I'm saying. It's a similar thing,
like you're you're moving it and then you're putting You're
just like having them heel kind of in a certain place.
I don't know, I think it's I mean, like, listen,
I the reason I say that I want this is
because I feel like my ribs are just like they're
so prominent. I don't even know if, like what like
(22:41):
what I'm considering, because my ribs in the front are
really like the most prominent ones. They just stick out
so far, and I'm always like, God, if this wasn't here,
like my waist would be so much smaller.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
But oh my god, who cares. I don't. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It's just some one of my things. I would never
really get this done, and of course, unless anyone wants
to to offer it to me, than I might consider.
But it's low. It's not as invasive as removing your ribs,
for sure, And I mean there's there's obviously gonna be
increased chance of infection and everything that comes with any procedure,
but it seems like there's a lot of positive outlooks
(23:18):
from what I've seen from medical papers written about it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, I guess I'm just saying, like, I understand that
you're saying it's a minimally invasive procedure, but I feel
like adjusting anything in your body has potential for complications.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, yeah, I mean, but that's cosmetic surgery is like
that in general. I mean, like it's it's a risk
you take for to look better, Like that's what people
are doing. So I definitely think this this is like
way more awesome than having actual ribs removed, because when
you have them removed, not only is it I've heard
it's excruciating pain and recovery, but on top of that,
(23:55):
you have you don't even have that protection anymore from
those bones, whereas you still have the protection here, they're
just bent a little bit differently.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So they're saying it costs up words of twenty thousand dollars.
So I guess if this is something that interests you,
it's the latest trend, but I don't think I'll consider it.
You clearly are considering it for some reason.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I just listen, I've been reading about this all morning,
and I'm just interested in it. It's just it just
sounds interesting, that's all.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
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Speaker 1 (24:37):
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Thank you for listening to Mother Nos Death. As a reminder,
my training is as a pathologist assistant. I have a
master's level education and specialize in anatomy and pathology education.
I am not a doctor and I've not diagnosed or
treated anyone dead or alive without the assistance of a
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