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September 19, 2024 • 66 mins

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This week, we open the show discussing a woman who gave birth on her friend's couch.

Getting into celebrities, we cover the deaths of Chad McQueen and Tito Jackson, Ozempic overdose, Meredith Marks' breast condition, and findings from Diddy's arrest.

Moving over to freak accidents and true crime, we get into a river otter attack, a toddler who ate a pill from a thrift store backpack, a child who drove to Target, the gruesome death of a former pageant contestant, and a man who stuck a firecracker into a woman's genitals.

Lastly, in medical news and other death stories, we talk about anal breathing, medical tourism, a mother's search for her daughter's legs, and a man found in a grocery store freezer.


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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Mother Knows Death starring Nicole and Jemmy and Maria qk Hi.
Everyone welcome The Mother Knows Death. Let's get started with
the story of the week. All right, So, this pregnant
chick was at her friend's house just having a girl's night.

(00:29):
They were all hanging out. She was pregnant, and unexpectedly
she started going into labor. So in the article, the
article is really interesting because the woman's basically saying that
because she gave birth on this lady's couch, she didn't
want to be friends with her anymore. And on top
of that, she asked her to reimburse her for the

(00:50):
cost of the couch. Yeah, which, like, I think if
you give birth on somebody's couch, you know, So somebody
had caught I guess her original conflict. She posted on
Reddit saying, like, you know, does my friend have a
right to be mad at me? Because I guess after
she gave birth, the friend who owned the house where
she delivered was like ignoring her and not acknowledging this

(01:12):
new baby. And then when she went to apologize, she
sent her this bill in return, basically being like, pay
for my couch, And somebody commented on it and said
giving birth is like a crime scene. Of course you
should replace her couch, all right, So here's my thing.
You don't just sit there and like give birth like
that never happens and you just like a baby doesn't

(01:34):
just fall out of your vagina, right, So there's a
process and it takes a while. So I'm thinking that
her water broke on the couch, which is completely possible.
And they show photos of the couch, right, yeah, and
it just looks like it was her actual photos of
the couch. Okay, So the photos that they show in
the article look like a tan colored couch with a

(01:55):
giant wet spot on it. So that would explain if
someone's water broke, because I know all of the videos
I watched before having any of my kids, always you
just expected to be standing, you know, in the grocery
store and all of a sudden, this giant like water
balloon like gushes out of your badge all over the
floor in front of everyone. Right. But every single time

(02:16):
my water broke, it was more of like a squirty
pea thing that nobody knew was happening except me. So
but I do know the gush happens for some people.
But if she went into labor sitting on the person's couch, Like,
why wouldn't she just get up and do it somewhere else,
like they're it just that's not it just doesn't even
make any sense at all. I don't know, And it

(02:38):
hasn't happened like that, Like, it just doesn't happen like that.
I actually have this picture of you in my phone
from years and years and years ago, eleven years to
be precise, where you were about to get for the
Lilian and you were sitting on a trash bag for
two weeks because you were afraid of womining the chair.
The biggest, the biggest thing is that Gabe had just

(02:59):
gotten a new truck when when I had when I
was getting ready to have Lilian, and I was scared
to death that I was going to like have this
giant gush of fluid in his brand new truck, you know,
So I would bring this black trash bag in the
seat and he always thought that was really funny. But
like like that would have done anything anyway, right, But anyway, Yeah,

(03:20):
I just I think this story is just kind of weird.
I don't think she gave birth on the couch. Well, no,
they said she did because EMS came and supervised the
entire thing and the delivery went smooth. So at the house,
do you think it doesn't fall upon you? Like, no,
just do you think it's possible. Do you think it's
possible her water broke earlier and she blew it off,

(03:44):
and then when she was at the house, she like
was going like she was having contractions and going into labor. Yeah,
but that's again, that's something you know that happens. It's
not just I don't know. I've just tried to I
don't understand figured it out. I just don't understand. And
I mean, amnionic fluid could still have biohazard in it.

(04:04):
I mean, listen, the bottom line is is whatever fluid
came out of her body on the couch, the lady
deserves to get a reimbursement for the couch because the
couch is a lot of money. And what are you
gonna do just dry it up and like let you
want to snuggle there with your boyfriend or whatever. Like, no,
that's it's nasty. I'm actually calling bullshit that birth can't

(04:25):
go that fast, because when you were giving birth to Lugia,
you said, go to work, it's gonna be hours. Blah
blah blah blah. Forty five minutes later you had a
picture of her. Yeah, but it did. But I was
in labor that day and I started with my water
breaking at seven o'clock in the morning, and with I
had contractions all day and didn't go to the hospital
because they always send you home. So it was happening

(04:47):
all day. I just waited until way too long to
actually go to the hospital. But like you know, it's
not just like you're sitting there watching TV and then
all of a sudden, it's like it's not like diarrhea.
It just like comes on and you're like, oh my god,
I'm gonna shit my pants right now. This has to
come out of my body right this second. Like she

(05:08):
could have got up and went to the bathroom or something.
It's just whatever. And anyway, it's a funny story. What
the bottom line is, she needs to replace the couch. Like,
regardless of what happened, you need to replace the couch.
I just think it's funny that the chick's like not
friends with her anymore. Over it it's pretty hilarious. It
is gross, dude. It's like when someone throws up in

(05:28):
your car or some shit. It's just like nasty. You know,
I would I would be forget you know, I would
give that person a couple of weeks. You know, if
they if they just gave birth, they're probably going through
a lot. But if the first time you talk to them,
they're not like, oh my god, let me fix you know,
Like I would understand if a couple of days or
weeks went by and you were just so flustered by

(05:48):
giving birth and having a baby and everything that it
truly slipped your mind. But if you realize the person's
mad at you and you're not like, let me, let
me rebir. You know, I'm thinking like a rug was
probably damaged in this too. It's it's not just the pill.
If she actually gave birth, there would be some blood involved,
placenta nastiness Like I I don't know. All right, let's

(06:12):
let's get on the celebrity news. We had two celebrity
deaths this week. So first we had Karate Kids star
Chad McQueen. He was the son of actor Stephen McQueen.
He has died at age sixty three. He was one
of the Cobra Kai guys. Do you never watch that
show the Moo in the movie the original movie. Oh,
I mean I watched that movie years ago. I just

(06:33):
don't like it. I'm sorry. What you don't like Karate Kid? No,
what is wrong with you? It's like one of the
best movies. Honestly, I don't really like the eighties that much,
like the pop culture as in general. I don't like
eighties music that much. I don't like eighties movies or
TV that much. Okay, I'm dom sorry, I'm dumb with

(06:59):
I don't know. He was the one of the blonde
Cobra Kai guys in the first movie that had He
kind of had bleached bond hair and he was like
put him in a body bag? Was that guy? Steve
Yees Steve McQueen's son, which, by the way, I never
really thought about how Steve McQueen died, But he had
an interesting cause of death, of music, Theelioma. So I

(07:20):
think we're gonna do a celebrity death dis section on
that because I haven't written about that much in the
grosser room, especially when it comes to a celebrity. So
that's interesting. But this his son, I mean, it just sucks.
He's young, HE'SI what was he sixty three. He was
sixty three, So they were saying that he had an
injury from twenty twenty that he never fully recovered. When

(07:41):
I was looking it up a little more, the most
information I could find was that he possibly had a fall,
and that one news outlet was saying he passed away
from Oregon failure. But I only saw that on one site,
not a bunch. Yeah, But I mean that's that's the
he'd tell you anything. Yeah, So, I mean, ultimately, I
think everyone died because their organs aren't working anymore. But

(08:03):
I mean, it's just it's too it's not specific to anything.
But one interesting thing is that if you have an accident,
let's say you fall, and then let's say you've become
paralyzed or something like that, you could live for another
two years and then die from complications of that. And
that was from the original fall, So your cause of
death could still be considered to be as a result

(08:25):
of the accident, you know. So that's probably what they
were saying. And wait, who's the other one that died?
You know? This person Tito Jackson. So he was Michael
Jackson's brother. He was also part of the Jackson Five band.
I was not super familiar with him. I did just
write on the Gross Room about the incident that caused
Michael Jackson to have his drug addiction, which is when

(08:48):
he was filming this Pepsi commercial in the eighties and
his hair caught on fire and then you know, he
had really bad burns to his scalp, and then they
gave him painkillers and they kind of just spiraled downhill
from there. But his brother has died at age seventy
from a suspected heart attack while driving. Like you don't
like I mean, Michael Jackson is a problem, right, but

(09:10):
you don't like that music. Come on, I'm listen. I'm
not I'm not gonna like turn it on. I don't
hate it when it comes on. I do really love Prince, However,
I don't know what it is about that. When I
worked at this bar in South Philly on Wednesday nights,
it would be me and two other guys closing, and
we'd always play this Prince playlist and it was really

(09:32):
fun because nobody would be there. It'd be like three
o'clock in the morning. We just played Prince really loud.
But then when you put on Prince Radio, it always
at some point gets like really sexy and it's like uncomfortable.
Yeah it is. It is very sexy. So yeah, So Tito,
he was one of the brothers and he I mean,
he's seventy. He died of a heart attack. I believe
that their mother is still alive. Are you serious? Yeah?

(09:55):
I think so. And obviously he's got two sisters here.
I think he has another brother that's alive too, probably,
so at least he had some kind of heart condition.
I don't think it's anything dramatic. It seems like he
was on a road trip and had to go to
the hospital and died. I mean yeah. Apparently he was
actively touring with two of their other brothers, Marlon and Jackie.

(10:17):
They were performing under the band The Jackson's. So that's
the quake. His name's Jackie Jackson. I guess interesting, Okay,
I don't I don't know, you know people you know,
there's like I don't know, I don't know all their names, honestly,
Like Jackson Five's amazing too, though, but that's like all
my childhood stuff. I know, you weren't born until much.

(10:40):
I like their Christmas song, Oh God, everybody's gonna everybody's
gonna riot against my hate of eighties pop culture. I'm sorry,
I just I really like mid century stuff. And then
I liked the nineties as I was born in the nineties,
and that's just it's just a weird overlap for me.
It's so different from like the retro stuff I really like.

(11:02):
And then the era I was born in. I don't
know what else to say. Okay, whatever, all right. Lattie Moss,
who is Kate Moss's sister, so she went on her
podcast to give people warnings about using ozepic, saying it
was the worst decision she ever made. This story is
really outrageous. So apparently she was taking ozempic for weight loss,

(11:24):
even though get this, she weighed one hundred and ten pounds. Yeah, okay,
so that is it's so beyond not necessary and off
label for that. I mean, it's not used for people.
I don't know how tall she is, but one hundred
and ten pounds is very light for no matter how tall,

(11:45):
you are right to be taking ozempic especially, And then
she was having all these problems with them and went
to the hospital and found out that she was actually
taking a dosage that was more for a person that
was two hundred and twenty pounds, so she was taking
a double dose. Yeah, So what happened was she woke
up one day really sick. She wasn't able to keep
any fluids or food down, so she goes to the

(12:06):
emergency room. The nurse discovers she's not taking the correct dose.
She ended up having a seizure in the hospital from
severe dehydration, and it just kind of spiraled downhill from there, Like,
what the fuck is wrong with people? Dude? For real?
I don't know. And Ozempic is, the company that makes ozempic,
is trying to reiterate that it's not technically approved for

(12:27):
weight loss yet and definitely somebody like her should not
be an eligible candidate for it. There's other drugs in
that class that are approved for weight loss, but it's
not for weight loss. When you weigh one hundred and
ten pounds and want to weigh one hundred and five pounds,
it's ridiculous. Yeah, that's like, that's like abuse of this drug, honestly,

(12:48):
And she's she's lucky that she's lucky that she didn't
get hurt. And I do kind of question some other
things from the article, like her saying she didn't exactly
get it from her doctor. Yeah, well, what is that about.
I even know people that are getting it from not
their doctor, their neighbors are doctors and prescribing it to them,

(13:08):
and they're basically saying, she just overdosed on it. The
dose was too high, that made her really sick. I
even know people that are taking the quote unquote correct
dose that are getting very sick from it. Yeah. I
don't know just I mean, I'm glad that I'm glad
that she's speaking out about it, but I just, you know,
I'm so naive sometimes I just can't even believe that

(13:30):
a person that's this thin is already wants to take
some medication like that. It's just how much weight does
she need to lose? Well, you could say the same
for Kim Kardashian when she was trying to fit in
Marylyn Monroe's dress. You know, it's like, even though there
was speculation she was taking ozembic to lose the weight,
regardless if she did or not, she said she was

(13:51):
doing extreme dieting and exercise to basically starve herself to
lose like ten or fifteen pounds. And it's like, for what,
I just think I understand that, but that's just like
a little different, Like she has a fat ass, at
least she has fat that she could lose like this,
like this woman's one hundred and ten pounds, it's out.
I mean whatever. The other thing is just like a

(14:13):
completely other ridiculous thing. It's just is this what all
the people in Hollywood are doing? Just taking ozempic so
they could stay skinny. But but they've been doing They've
been doing it though, like I know everybody about it
in twenty twenty four, but they've been doing these drugs
for years. Yes, it wasn't called oseempic. It was called cocaine,

(14:35):
but that might be it. But wasn't she speaking in
the article about this this like heroin chic look that
her sister was pop Actually I believe her sister made
it popular, right, So yeah, when Kate Moss was like
at the peak of her career, there is this style
called heroin chic, and she was kind of like the

(14:56):
face of it, along with some other people. I think
Winoda Ryder might have been involved in it for a
little bit too, if I'm remembering correct. That might be wrong,
but anyway, Kate Moss was definitely one of the major
faces of this heroin chic look. So actually, last year
I wrote an article called ozempic chic when it started
becoming more common knowledge that it was the celebrities for

(15:17):
using this ozempic even though they have been using drugs
for many, many years to lose weight, and they've been
using ozempic for at least five to ten years that
public does not know about. So it's so ridiculous to me, Like,
I'm just like, when you weigh one hundred and ten pounds,
if you need to lose five pounds, you could do
that in two weeks with just like diet, Really, why

(15:39):
do it when you could take a shot and it
does it for you. It's just weird, all right. So
this next story is about Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
So last night the show premiered and there was a
scene where Heather Gay went to Meredith Mark's house. They
were talking about a procedure that Meredith just had done.
So Meredith said she had a breast reduction for the
third time because she has a quote weird medical condition

(16:01):
that causes her breast tissue to continuously grow. So this
is actually a thing, and it's you're gonna think it's
the weirdest name ever, but it's called gigantomassia and it
just means that you have. So normally you hear about
women getting breast reductions all the time because they have hypertrophy,
which is when there's an increase in breast size, and

(16:24):
then they get this breast reduction surgery done and it's
it's usually fine. And that could be anything from like
it goes happens when you go through puberty or if
you just get fatter, or it could happen as you
get older too, but in this case, they have they
have what would be considered to be more than five
pounds of excess breast tissue on each breast, and if

(16:47):
they get the reduction. Usually a reduction works in these
people too, but there's some cases, rarely that it can
continue to grow back even with the surgeries. They could
also give medications and stuff too. Sometimes it's caused by
something like a hormone issue or taking a medication that
causes it, and other times they don't know what causes it. Yeah,

(17:09):
so she went on to say on podcasts and stuff
that she wasn't exactly sure what causes she believed it
to be hormonal. She said her mom started experiencing the
same thing in her forties, and on the show last night,
she said she had originally started as a sea cup
and went up to a triple D, and then she
got a reduction back to a sea cup, and then
went up to a double D and it just kept reoccurring. Yeah,

(17:31):
so that sucks. One interesting note is, and I don't
know if it's still like this now because I haven't
worked in the surgical lab for some years, but when
we used to work in pathology, we got breast reductions
all the time, and we need to examine them because
just in case God forbid, they cut out a piece
of tumor or something out of somebody, there's sometimes there's

(17:51):
like small pieces of cancer and that tissue that they
caught off. So we look at it and we weigh it.
And we were always taught in school that the weight
was really important because that could determine whether health insurances
would pay for that surgery or not, because that could
be considered like plastic cosmetic surgery. But in a case
like hers, that she has a medical reason that this

(18:13):
is happening that should be covered by insurance. But I
know that now, it's like a lot of people are
covering these procedures under insurance because it causes problems, you know. Yeah,
I mean this was definitely interesting to me. I was
under the assumption that she had breast implants like most
of the women do, but I guess that's not the case.
There was also this weird thing too, I want to say,

(18:35):
two seasons ago, where she had this confessional look where
it looked like she was wearing a chest plate and
everybody was kind of questioning it because the way her
dress laid on her body just looked so unnatural and
it was a very bizarre thing. I'll send you a
picture of it. Maybe she had the surgery and she
was just taped up or something. I'll send you the

(18:56):
picture it was. It was very bizarre. She was wearing
kind of a really deep v open across her shoulder
top or dress, and it just looked very bizarre, and
everybody thought it was the weirdest thing. And it was
just going around because they're like, this looks so unnatural,
and I'm like, you're saying, I wonder if maybe she
had surgery and it was her way of covering it

(19:16):
up or something. I don't know, but yeah, I want
to say that it sucks that she has to keep
going through this though, Yeah, it sucks. It's just it's
really rare though, So yeah, all right. Back in March,
news broke that Sean ditty Comb's houses in Miami and
LA were raided as he was under investigation for sex trafficking.
So this week he's been formally indicted by Grand Jerry.

(19:38):
He was arrested and denied bail. In the indictment that
just came out to the public, they detailed that Diddy
would host these gatherings called freak offs, Like are you
not like, I mean, you should be embarrassed for being
arrested and stuff, but you're not, Like, Oh my god,
that was so lame. It's so corny. Yeah yeah, So essentially,

(19:59):
I mean this story we shouldn't be laughing though, because
it's not funny. But essentially, he would book a hotel room,
filled them with supplies and sex workers. The supplies, which
they detailed in the indictment, included narcotics, multiple ar fifteens,
and over a thousand bottles of lube. Nobody knew this
was happening, Well, there's been rumors going around for a

(20:22):
very long time that the farious things were going on
behind the scenes and nobody wanted to do anything about it,
or maybe it just took the government years to get
enough information to arrest him. I don't know. Am I
the only one that thinks that this guy always looked
a little like off? You know what I mean? Like
he don't look like he's like in the right mind ever.

(20:43):
But you can't arrest somebody because they look because their
eyes are too close together. You can't be like, you
look a little off, dude. It's like what you say
about Brian Koberger, like he looks very, very guilty, but
he still has not technically been I don't care. I
have a whole theory that I could just like totally
know what's going on hide someone's eyes like that, like

(21:05):
for real, Like every single time I saw him, I
was just kind of like, why is everybody think this
dude's cool? Like he's just like something's not right here. Well,
I'm the only one that thought that, Come on, I
don't know, but they said after the freak offs, his
staff would go into the hotel rooms clean up as
much as they could. He would then arrange travel for
the sex workers and pay them in cash. The indicement

(21:26):
also noted that he allegedly hit, kicked, and threw objects,
dragged the victims by their hair. He was promising them jobs,
bribing them, you know, telling them they would never get
anywhere if they didn't follow what he was saying or
do what he asked, just overall abusing them. So do
you think this is gonna end up being this like
Jeffrey Epstein, like crazy? Lots of other people behind the

(21:48):
scenes were involved with this, like high profile actor celebrities
and stuff. I just I don't like. Wasn't he friends
with like j Loo and all these people like he
hung out with, like all the most popular people. You
mean that nobody was like wrapped up in that too.
I'm pretty sure j Loo was dating him when he
had this shooting incident in the club like years ago,

(22:10):
and there was, you know, all this bad activity happening.
I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be
some Jeffrey Epstein type of thing. I mean. Also, side note,
I want to say that giz Laine Maxwell tried to
appeal her sentence and they were like, I don't think so,
you're not getting out bits I mean, listen, at least
you have to give her like an E for effort,
Like if you're in jail, like why not try? Like

(22:33):
you're not gonna not try? Like nobody meat heart, your
involvement didn't help you. And then also trying to hide
from police for a year really didn't help your case.
So you look really guilty when you're trying to hide out.
I don't know, I'm not sure that I think in
cases like that, like they just they're just like, you
know what, let's just throw it and see if it

(22:54):
sticks to the wall, like you know what I mean.
I don't Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, there's Diddy's
currently facing at least eight lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault, rape,
sexual misconduct, and more. And he has officially now been
charged with sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
So he's in jail right now. Yeah, and he was

(23:14):
denied bail so he's not getting out pending his trial. Good,
that's awesome. But yeah, it's just kind of like this
seems like it's been happening this whole time. I mean,
why now, But it's good that it's coming out at least. Well,
I'm thinking either like it was just rumors and they
couldn't get any evidence to support it, or they were

(23:35):
aware it was happening and monitoring it, but they just
had to wait because they knew this. The level of
this was so huge that they had to wait until
they had the perfect amount of evidence to charge him,
because if you if you prematurely arrest somebody and charge them,
you could lose the whole case. Yeah, if you don't
do it the right way. So I don't know he's guilty.
I could see it in his eyes. Oh my god.

(23:59):
Freak accident in Washington, a mom and her son were
walking on a dock along a marina. Suddenly a river
otter popped out of the water, gripped the child and
drug him underneath. So river otters are apparently nasty, are they,
I guess? So they have like a really powerful bite,
they were saying. So they determine a bite of an

(24:21):
animal by the pounds of pressure when it closes its jaw.
And they were saying that a river otter, because it
has to grab its prey and like pull it to
the land. They were saying that it has like six
hundred and fifteen pounds of pressure compared to a human
that has one hundred and sixty two pounds. So think
about really, if you put someone's finger in your mouth,
let's say, and bit it as hard as you could,

(24:42):
it would hurt them really really bad, if not partially
amputate their finger, right, But if a river otter has
like almost tripled that amount of strength in their jaw.
So it's just that kid, that kid could have died, yeah,
I mean it's drowning like underwater like that. Yeah, And
his mom said that he disappeared under the water for

(25:04):
several moments. I'm assuming that's you know, not minutes, because
that's a really long time. But when he resurface she
was able to pull him out. Well, they were running
down the dock to try to escape, the otter kept
going after them. How scary is that the otter bit
the mother's arm while she was rescuing the sun bit
the sun. Thankfully, he survived and he was able to

(25:24):
get treated at the local hospital. But this must have
been so scary, I know, right, And imagine I always
have this fear that we're like near this water source,
and I always say to the kids, like, don't fall
in there. Don't fall in there, because the last thing
I want to do is go in like a lake
or a river with all my clothes on to have
to cat jump. Obviously you would if that happened, but

(25:44):
you're just like, please be careful and don't do that
and think about your kid, Just like, what do you
even do in that situation? You would have to jump
in and then you're fighting an otter. It's just weird.
I just never would have thought that they were mean
like that. Well, it seems these attacks are pretty rare,
they said. In the last decade, there's only been six
reports of otter attacks in Washington State, so it's not

(26:08):
like there happening every other day, but they're definitely scary.
They did check to see if the otter had rabies,
because apparently they can carry rabies. And they also just
any time you get bit by an animal, you always
want to make sure you get medical attention because they
always carry different bacteria in their mouth and even parasites
and stuff that were not normally used to seeing but

(26:28):
we can get infected with as humans. So it's always
a good idea to just get like lots of shots
if you have if you have an exposure like this,
But god, what a crazy story. Yeah, this next one
is absolutely horrible. So these parents took their eighteen month
old to a thrift store and as they were walking
around shopping, the child had picked up a backpack and

(26:48):
was playing with it. They noticed that she put something
in her mouth, immediately took it out and induced vomiting
because they weren't sure what it was, although it appeared
to be melted candy, so initially she's seemed like she
was doing fine. They continued running errands and they went
home and that's when she became unconscious. Yeah, so apparently
they did testing on this thing that she put in

(27:09):
her mouth, and it wasn't candy. It was suboxone, which
is a medication that's used to treat opioid addictions, and
she had an opioid overdose and died. It's really so horrible,
And I was just thinking, like they're saying there was
negligence on part of the store for not checking the bag,
and I can understand that, but it's also impractical with

(27:31):
certain thrift stores and everything that are getting these mass
donations to go through every single item and clean them properly.
And you know, something as small as a pill could
just be hiding in the lining of a bag. I mean,
I agree that this is just a complete freak accident. Yeah,
it really is. And it's so scary because I've always
taken the kids to thrift stores, especially when they were little,
and they wanted toys all the time. You're just like,

(27:52):
let's just go to the thrift store because you could
just they only want to play with it for five
minutes anyway. But you also could get cool stuff at
thirst stores, like older clothes from the eighties and stuff
where you're hate. But it's just it's just so scary
because remember we reported on a story that we heard
months ago that that those parents rented in Airbnb and

(28:14):
the little baby somehow was able to get I don't
know what it was, some kind of opioid inside of
their mouth, and they ended up dying from it. It's
it's just like this thing that you just need to
be aware of now that if you're not in your
own environment with your own stuff, that could just be
sitting around anywhere kind of I mean, it happened so easily.

(28:35):
Like a couple of weeks ago, I had a horrible migraine.
I have a Costco size bottle of advil. I dropped
it in my bedroom. I thought I got all that.
I'm still finding a couple of them here and there.
Every time I like move my end table or my
rug or something, they just went everywhere. You know, things happen. Yeah,
And with this this pill that this child took, it's

(28:56):
it's kind of weird, but it is an opioid drug
that treats buoid addiction, so you can overdose on it,
and especially I think the dad said he had tasted
it to see what it was, and he said that
it tasted like sweet something. He didn't really realize what
it was. And that's why he didn't die from it,

(29:18):
because he's an adult and the dosage would have been
okay if he tasted a little bit of it. But
for a child of an eighteen month old child, just
so little, what are they twenty pounds, twenty five pounds,
I don't know, just so small that it just it's
so freakin sad, all right. So, around seven am on
Sunday morning, police had gotten a call from these parents

(29:40):
saying that their eight year old daughter had gone missing.
So around the same time, calls started coming in about
this erratic driver on the road that was swerving in
and out of lanes on a major road. At the
same time, the police went to the parents' house to
try to, you know, get more information, and a neighbor
came rushing out of their house to say that they're
cameras picked up a video of this child getting in

(30:03):
the family's car and driving away. How does an eight
year old know how to drive a car? I'm serious,
I said, I mean, I guess she would be shocked,
because maybe I don't know. I've never said to my kids, like, hey,
go in the car and start it and see if
you could start it. I just and you hear about
kids doing this sometimes, like starting it and going in

(30:24):
reverse and crashing into the mailbox behind their house. This
kid got in a car and drove it ten miles
for twenty to twenty five minutes, and she only hit
a mailbox. She was driving like absolutely crazy, swerving all
over the place. I can't believe she only hit a mailbox,
which is kind of good for an untrained driver also

(30:45):
to go that far. But the best part is where
she was going target to get a frappucino, and when
the cops stowed up and she was drinking a damn
frat Pucino and shopping, like walking around the store shopping.
This this is so like outrageous to me. I mean,
thank god she's okay, because she really could have gotten killed.

(31:05):
I mean just being eight years old in the front
seat like that could have killed her. But I mean
think about this for a second, like how does that
kid even know how to get to Target? Like it's
it's really cool kind of in a way. I mean
it's it's crazy to think that being in the car
with your parent, that you just pick this stuff up,

(31:25):
like where to go, how to drive, assuming that the
parents didn't sit there and let this kid drive. I mean,
this is a normal situation. Yeah, And I would say
because I remember being a little kid and you being like,
do you know how to get to mama and pop
up's house? Do you know how to get to so
and so's house in case there's an emergency? Right? And
I'm like, I don't pay attention when you're dropping me off, please,

(31:47):
It's like I don't know how to get anywhere. So
you do, though, And this is I always try to
tell the kids this because this is why I'm kind
of anti them. Having iPads in the car unless we're
going on a super long trip. Because when I was
a little kid, we didn't have anything like that, and
all I did was like sit in the backseat or whatever,
look outside. And then I got my driver's license and

(32:08):
I knew how to get everywhere because I was paying
attention to where my mom went, like I we didn't
have GPS when I started driving and stuff. There was
nothing like that, So I just had to figure out
where I was going, and I knew everywhere because I
paid attention to my surroundings. And the kids do too,
because I do ask them and they'll say, like just
from looking out the window and stuff. They'll say like, oh,

(32:29):
aren't we near here? Aren't we near here? Like they're
paying attention, and it's just it's really freaking interesting, Like
this kid straight Like what possessed this kid to do this?
I have many questions A. What possessed her to do it? B?
How did she you know? Like? How did she know
what I get there? Was it natural? From watching? Did
she use the GPS? See? How did she have money

(32:51):
to buy the fraand Puccino de Nobody in Target was like,
where is the adult accompanying this eight year old child. Yeah,
like the girl at Starbucks wasn't like, or the person
that was working at Starbucks wasn't like, where's your mom? Yeah.
The whole story is just so it's almost unbelievable. It's
so outrageous. I'm glad she's okay though, And God, imagine

(33:12):
waking up in your child being missing. That's scary enough.
But they did know right away that the car was
gone too. But I would never think that that happen, right, Yeah,
you don't know what happened. And they're saying that she's
not going to get charged with anything because she's too young.
I'm like, what is she going to get charged with? Well,
I honestly don't even think her parents should be charged
with this. They shouldn't if it's an innocent situation. But

(33:36):
you have to investigate to see, like what was going
on in this house. I mean just think about though,
like being at our age and retelling this story. Oh,
when I was a kid, I was all over the
news and I drove my mom's It's just it's so outrageous.
I like, in my memory, have I have this memory
that I guess is not true that Louis drove down

(33:58):
the street or something in my mom's car when he
was a little kid. No, he I mean, he definitely
used to, like because when I was when I when
both of us moved to the city, when I went
to Jefferson at first, right, I remember one time, you know,
it was hard to park on the street and everything
because of the meters and the parking and everything. And

(34:18):
I remember one time pop Up telling Louie to go
outside and move the car. But he was I think
he was like fifteen. There's just there's a difference. But
he was also changing tires when he was. Yeah, and
like pop Up also like taught him out to drive.
Like this is an eight year old that were assuming
never has driven a car in her life. So yeah,

(34:40):
just I mean, like luckily it was it was a
Sunday morning, right, so there wasn't much traffic or whatever.
It's just it's just kind of mind blowing that this
kid pulled this off. Honestly, Yeah, it really is. This
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(35:03):
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(35:26):
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(35:48):
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let's get into true crime. Back in February, these grandparents
got a call from their grandkid's daycare that they had

(36:10):
not been picked up by their mother, who is their daughter.
So the grandparents picked the kids up and brought them
back to the daughter's house. There, her husband said he
didn't know where she was and that she would just
quote leave sometimes, so they were obviously concerned. They weren't
dropping it. So they were hanging out at the house
for a while, trying to wait to see if the
daughter came back. Nobody could get in touch with her,

(36:32):
and the husband was acting like nothing was wrong at all.
He made them dinner, then he put the kids to bed,
so not letting it go, her father started snooping around
the house, goes into the laundry room and sees what
seems to be her hair in a trash bag. Opens
the trash bag to find probably his worst nightmare ever,
his daughter's head in the bag. It's so sad and

(36:54):
so crazy that people do stuff like this for real. Yeah,
and what I mean, there's many disturbing elements to this,
But what's really hard for me is that they were
saying earlier in the day the kid's playroom was right
next door to this laundry room, so they were playing
like a couple of feet away from their mother's decapitated

(37:15):
head just laying in a bag. So did did dad
see any other evidence of a crime that was committed?
Was their blood anywhere? So it seems like when he
found the head. He ran out and got neighbors to
call the police, and when they got there, the husband
said he had killed her in self defense. But like,
when you kill somebody in self defense, do you cut

(37:36):
their head off? I don't think so. Yeah, And you know,
it just kept getting so much worse, they said. According
to the autopsy report, the body was dismembered in the
laundry room with jigsaw power tool and some other gardening
tools and a knife. They said. Several body parts were
then reportedly quote pure aide with a hand blender and
dissolved in a chemical that's so sick. It's so disgusting,

(37:59):
and you have to I feel bad for even the
people that work at the medical examiners Corner's office, whatever's
happened in there, Like to just have to examine a
person that's someone's mother like in that condition, it's just
so disturbing. Yeah, it's really horrible. And they ultimately determined
her cause of death with strangulation, and then she had

(38:19):
been there was also signs of blunt force trauma and
then obviously we know she was dismembered and everything. They
clearly think that there was a mental health issue going
on with the husband that he went so far to
do this, and they're still not really sure why he
did it. I feel so bad for her poor dad,
Like I, how do you, ever, how do you ever
survive after that? And the worst part is is that

(38:42):
assuming that he's him and his wife are now going
to be the children's parents. So it's like the they
already have to mourn their their mother's lost, their dad
going to jail, and now the grandparents that have to
raise them. The father has been through this, I mean,
both the mother and father trauma, but the father saw it.

(39:03):
I mean, what would you even think in that situation.
I don't know. And I think a lot of times
when people die, they're not necessarily seeing them dead, especially
in a horrific manner. So when you're remembering them, you know,
you could remember their face in the in their alive state,
But you know, I can't help but think this guy
is only going to flash back to that traumatic image

(39:23):
of his daughter's head. Yeah, I mean, you don't ever
want to see that. It is one of the most
disturbing things to see in real life. I've seen it
a few times is when someone has their head cut off,
And the only time that I've seen it is in
real life, is from accidents and you just look and
it's so it's so disturbing to see that in real life.
And then for to see anyone I didn't know, the

(39:45):
people that it happened to, you know what I mean,
But imagine your child is just terrible. Yeah. So she
had been the two thousand and seven winner of Miss
Northwest Switzerland. She had two children involved in this. It's
absolutely horrible. They again think that the husband, you know,
or he's saying he did this in self defense, but
their prosecutors are saying that he shows a lack of

(40:07):
empathy and cold bloodedness and has just you know, was
trying to cover it up. So of course he seems
very guilty. Yeah, I mean, how many cases of self
defense to the people pure they're the one that they killed,
come on exactly, like you can say it all you want,
but like somebody wouldn't do this, Yeah, Okay. In the

(40:28):
Czech Republic, a man was trying to persuade his strange
wife to get back together, so she ended up visiting
him and they had sex, but afterwards she said I'm
still not getting back with you, and that really pissed
him off, so he tied her up with duct tape,
pulled her panties aside, stuck a firework in her vagina,
and then lit it. Yeah, I mean, this is just

(40:49):
so sick. And then so of course she had this
major trauma to her vaginal area. She was bleeding all
over the place, and he eventually unted her and she
was begging him to call Paramount to come help her,
and he didn't, and she claims that he just threw
her a mop and was like clean up the blood.
He also claims that this was an accident. Yeah. He

(41:11):
said they were just like getting it getting freaky, and
it just it went wrong. And he had put the
firework in her vagina and then he lit a lighter
to see if he could see it, and that's when
it accidentally detonated it. You know, like what what what?
That's like the craziest lie ever, And he just wanted
to see, like she The whole story is kind of

(41:33):
exactly the same as it went down, except the part
that he was just like it was dark and I
couldn't see, so I just like duck down there with
a lighter and it accidentally light lit on fire. It's
just okay, bro, that's what happened. But think about when
you see this damage. We especially around fourth of July
time on Instagram and definitely in the grocery, and we

(41:54):
just show like so many pictures and videos of people
that blow off their hands. It's usually a hundred or
let's say ninety percent of the time it's hands, because
sometimes it's facial injuries as well. But you see the
damage it does to a person's hand, Like, imagine that
being in your vagina and the injuries that you would
sustain because of that. I can't imagine that. I can't

(42:17):
believe she didn't die. I mean, they're saying it's in
this story. They're calling it a firecracker, And I don't
know if there's a difference, because you know, they have
those like little ones that aren't that crazy, Like was
it something little like that? It definitely couldn't have been
like a bigger firework, because that would have probably killed

(42:37):
her if one of her vessel, like, if one of
her major arteries was affected by that explosion, she would
have died. She really would have bled out from that.
So I'm thinking it was something a little bit smaller,
you know what I mean. Yeah, I mean not that
that makes it any better. It's no regards this. It's horrible.

(43:00):
He's been set in stay eighteen years in jail, which
gratefully so, I mean this should be considered attempted murder. Yeah,
I mean eighteen years in jail is good because but
this is in another country, right, yeah, because I feel
like in America, it's like that that's a lot for
a person to serve for attempted murder, right, I know,
you get a little slap on the wrist. Yeah, like probation.

(43:21):
Nothing's happening here. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Maybe banned from buying fireworks,
but that's about it. Yeah, all right. Medical News a
group of Japanese and US scientists have won a satirical
prize after discovering that mice, rats, and pigs can absorb
oxygen through their rectum. This this is kind of a
funny story. So there's apparently there's this noble prize that

(43:43):
they give out called the ig Nobel Prize, and it's
kind of a like a funny fake thing to get
that it's real though. It gives scientists that are doing
experiments that are kind of funny and like off color.
And this one is they were doing. It's actually really
good research because they're trying to see if people with
respiratory disorders could somehow get oxygen in their body another way.

(44:07):
So they put this oxygen rich fluid inside of someone's
anis and it absorbed through their anis and they were
able to get well, not through a person, they try
They experimented on pigs and rats, but they put it
inside of the anus of these animals and they saw
that they were able to absorb oxygen and have oxygen

(44:28):
exchange through their anus and when they were having respiratory issues.
So it works, and that's kind of cool to think
about that, but it's so weird, such a weird study.
So that's why it won this award for anal breathing. Yeah,
I mean that terminology anal breathing is kind of really disgusting.

(44:49):
But I do like that these awards exist because, you know,
like some people in the science industry might not take
this seriously because it is kind of ridiculous, but they're
being seen. They said, these awards are fore know, like
this weird research that can make people laugh but also
make them think really deeply about something. So I think
it is cool that they're being honored for it. Yeah,
it's it's cool for sure. I didn't even really know

(45:11):
that that was the thing that these awards, But now
I want to go back and see what they were
because there's probably like a shit ton of good material
for this show anyway. Oh yeah, definitely. Oh I didn't
even think about that that there's probably really good stuff. Yeah, Okay.
Medical tourism is on their rise, So first, can you
give a brief explanation as to what that is. It's

(45:33):
just I mean, there's nothing really to explain. It's just
when you when you live in America and you want
to get a medical procedure done most of the time,
so most cases of medical tourism are from people that
are going elsewhere for dental work. Then second, the second
thing that's most common is plastic surgery, and then there

(45:53):
are other things like IVF treatments and other obesity treatments
and stuff like. They're the most common ones that people
get done, so they get on an airplane and go
to another country to get them what they were going
to get in America cheaper. Yeah, so I guess this.
The person writing this article was highlighting this because there
is an olympian who was over at the Paris Olympics,
and then she you know, started getting recognition for making

(46:15):
all these tiktoks that while she was over there, she
was getting free dental exams, vision exams, and even a
PAP smear. I and I do know that other countries
do that, But do you think that that was just
part of the Olympics thing? Yeah, I could definitely say.
I think, like, I don't know this for a fact.
I would think they would get routine testing to make

(46:37):
sure they're eligible to compete, even right up until their
own because I'm just wondering, like, let's say, let's say
I go on vacation to what country was this? If
they're saying in Paris, this happened in France, Okay, so
let's say you go on vacation to Paris next year, right,
and I need new glasses? Like? Can I just walk
in a place and be like I need new glasses? Like?
I just feel like, I don't think every can Americans

(46:58):
just do that? I don't do It just doesn't seem right.
Could just maybe because it's just because I just paid
five hundred dollars to get new lenses popped into my
old frames. So that's how that's what's going on in
America right now. But you could see they used all
these different examples in this article, like this, one woman
needed this dental work done worth forty thousand dollars and

(47:20):
she ended up going to Costa Rica and getting the
same exact treatment that she needed for only ten thousand dollars.
And I know somebody that actually did that and went
to Mexico and got dental work done for significantly cheaper.
Oh my god, I would be like, I don't know,
like I feel like I would just be scared. But
if I knew somebody that went to somebody, I mean,

(47:43):
people live in other countries and get medical work done
all the time and they survive and it's perfectly fine.
So well. Actually, friend of the Pod doctor Kelly Colleen,
was interviewed for this and she had a really good
quote I wanted to pull. So she said, the key
to finding a wonderful doctor is being able to check credentials,
check facilities, and knowing the local rules for how doctors practice.

(48:04):
The problem with going out of the country is that
we're not familiar with those systems unless you are from
the country with an intimate knowledge of how the system works.
It's a risk, and I thought that was a perfect
way to explain. Another point that they brought up in
the article too, was the malepractice insurance situation. So let's
say you go to another country and you get something
done and there's negligence and you get hurt, like really

(48:26):
hurt that you can't do your livelihood anymore, or or
you're disabled for the rest of your life. They don't
have the same protections that's in this country. I mean
not that it always happens in this country either, but
in theory, if you get hurt during a medical thing
and the person was negligent, you can you could sue

(48:46):
them and get money for your damages and stuff. And
they were saying, like in other countries, they just don't
there's not that kind of liability, you know what I mean,
Like you're kind of taking a risk. But yeah, when
it comes to money, like people don't have money, I
don't whatever, you know, Yeah, I mean, the American healthcare
system is definitely messed up. I mean, I've been complaining

(49:08):
about this in particular in private for a long time,
just because you know, it's it's hard to navigate it's
like it's like taxes in America too. It's like this
overly complicated system and they make it so hard to understand.
And maybe in high school, instead of teaching you how
to like make cookies, they should be like, this is
how you do taxes, this is how you have insurance,
and this is what it means to be an adult,

(49:30):
because I don't think it's that simple to figure it out.
Most of the time. I think like, and this is
what I learned from writing my book. Okay, so I
used to be under the assumption that, oh, other countries
have free, free healthcare, like this lady saying like, oh,
I just got glasses and I got a papster and
I got all this in one day and it didn't
cost me anything. And it sounds it sounds really great,

(49:53):
but I don't think it's quite as as great as
is that there's other things. And I'm going to back
up my claims because of this, because when I was
writing the book, a couple of different people that I
interviewed that lived in other countries would have to wait.
And even a girl I've been talking to on Instagram
for a couple months that's having a medical problem, which

(50:14):
would have gotten I mean, yeah, she has to use
insurance and pay for it in this country, but it
would have gotten handled within two or three months. She's
been going to the doctor for like seven or eight
months trying to get the same thing handled, because there's
no sense of like urgency as much with things, it seems.
The one girl that I wrote about in the book

(50:35):
who was having a pulmonary embolism showed up to the
emergency room and she had to like wait in some
line in order to be seen and all this stuff,
and it's like it just seemed it seemed a little
bit different than the care that you receive here. Were
something like that, in most cases would have been considered
a medical emergency. Having like a young woman of reproductive

(50:55):
age with one leg huge swollen and on birth control
kind of thing, like high candidate for a pulmonary mbolism,
things like that. So I just I don't know if
it's like the grass is greener on the other side
kind of thing, you know what I mean. Yeah, I
mean I could see that. I think everybody, like you
can have people over here that think the health industry

(51:18):
is perfect, then most people think it's messed up. I'm
sure you have people in other countries that think it's
perfect and some that think it's messed up. You know,
everybody's experience is different. But I'm curious. I am curious
about it though, because if we're all living on the
same world and making money and stuff, like, how does
Paris have money to pay for every one of the
people that are there to have health care? Like where

(51:41):
does the money come from? Well, I think somebody's paying
for it, which also brings up the point like do
they have taxes than we do? There's no way. Yeah,
I don't know, And that's what I'm wondering, Like, if
taxpayers are paying for their universal health care over there,
is it fair that American is then going over there
and getting it for free as well? So I think

(52:01):
that's an interesting point. But I think what doctor Colleen
said is you know, really important that you just you
have to really do your due diligence and research what
you're doing and where you're going. I feel like that's
probably the case because if you go like let's say
you go to Italy on a trip and you you're
appendix burst, like they don't care that I have at
a health insurance no, like you know, what I mean,

(52:22):
like they care about treaty you so you don't die. Yeah,
So it's it is interesting. I'm just trying to see
like their system of if they pay the same amount
of tax as we do, then like why don't we
have extra tax money to pay for that stuff. That's
what I'm or to help at least to assist with this.
Why I know, why am I even bringing this up?

(52:44):
Like why you're gonna cause a riot in the comments
about this. But on the note of doctor Kleeen, make
sure to go back and listen to our external exam
with her. It's really also cool. She's a really a
plastic surgeon and she had a lot of cool things
to say. So all right, this next story is so upsetting.
This is another story out of Wildwood, New Jersey. We

(53:06):
had that one last week about the woman getting run
over by the police cruiser or not even a cruiser,
it was like a full blown pickup truck. So a
woman posted in a Facebook group that her daughter, who
is a quad amputee, went into the ocean and because
of the strength of the water, her prosthetic legs got
detached and swept up in the water and they now
can't find them. Yeah, it's it's such a crazy story

(53:28):
because she's she has this plea that she wants her
daughter's legs back, which sounds crazy to hear a headline
like that, But those things probably are a lot of money.
And yeah, I mean, I don't know what the warning
is as far. When I was hearing that this woman
or the daughter was a quad amputee, my personal feeling

(53:49):
was that seems kind of dangerous to put someone like
that into the ocean anyway, just because especially at least
in New Jersey, like it could get really violent and
it's hard for for a person that has all of
their limbs to stand up sometimes. What is a quad
amputee because I don't really know what that terminology means.
I mean I just assume that they don't have any

(54:09):
arms and likes, Okay that I mean quad for That's
what I would think. So do you understand, like this
person's essentially a torso that has prosthetic limbs. It just
seems kind of dangerous to bring them at the pool,
for sure, But the ocean seems a little it's very
it could get nasty, Like I don't even like the

(54:31):
kids going in there to be honest. So it's just
sad though, because you're just trying to live your life
and I know, and like the person's been thrown off.
I mean, I don't know how they became a quad amputee,
if it was if it was a congenital anomaly, or
if it was due to an accident or some kind
of a medical issue. But the person's been thrown off.
They want to enjoy time at the ocean. I get that.

(54:53):
So on the rare chance that anybody listening has any
information about this, you should contact a North wild Wood
police depart met with any info. Okay, other death news.
So in Raleigh, I know, I said Raleigh last time.
That really got to people up in arms. So in Raleigh,
North Carolina, police had received a call about a deceased

(55:14):
person at a grocery store. When they got there, they
found the person dead in the walk in freezer section
of the store. This was in a food lion. Yeah,
so I guess they'll just bring the person to the
medical Examiner's office, coroner whoever's down there, and do the
autopsy and figure out what happened. I mean, it could
be an accident. They could have got locked in there.

(55:35):
It could have been the guy had a heart attack
and died in there, or it could be someone murdered
him and stuck them in there. Well that they said
in a more recent report that they don't suspect any
foul play and they believe that a medical emergency was
Oh okay, that fault. So yeah, so the still show that.
And we have talked about before other cases where you know,
like working in a restaurant. We I definitely worked in

(55:56):
a couple of restaurants where the emergency release lock on
the inside of the freezer didn't work. I got stuck
in one for like two seconds, and it was scary
because I'm thinking, what if you're there totally alone, you know,
managers or chefs sometimes are just there by themselves doing
work and you're not anticipating getting stuck, and what if
you don't have your phone on you or something. It's horrible.

(56:18):
It was in the bit, like I guess it's in
the It was in the big freezer in the back
where they keep the backstock and everything. Is that what, yeah,
like a walk in Yeah it was a freezer though
not a fridge. Yeah, freezer. Oh interesting, So I mean
this could have happened if they're saying it was a
medical emergency. He could have maybe had a heart attack
or something in there, and nobody went in there for

(56:39):
a while, like you just don't know. Yeah, that could
have happened anywhere. But all right, let's get onto questions
of the day. Every Friday at the app mother Knows
Death Instagram account, we put a story up that's up
for about twenty four hours and you could ask us
whatever question you want. First, everyone knows smoking impacts the lungs,
but how does it impact the blood vessels? So smoking

(57:03):
is just if you haven't gotten my point enough that
it's the most terrible thing that you could do for
your body ever. But when it comes to your blood vessels,
there's a couple different things. So first, you have nicotine
that is in cigarettes, And when you smoke and you
have nicotine, it causes vaso constriction, or it causes the
blood vessels to kind of pretend them blood vessels are

(57:26):
like a straw that are open, and it causes them
kind of collapse on themselves or just squeeze together. Right,
And that constant squeezing of the blood vessels cannot only
limit oxygen from getting to the organs, but Also it
could harden the arteries and cause them to come not
be so elastic and move easily, which is what you
want them to do. And then furthermore, the chemicals, so

(57:49):
when you burn a cigarette, that's why they're so bad,
because it puts off other chemicals like terrible ones, carcinogens
and things like that, and those chemicals could affect the
lining of the blood vessels too and cause plaques to
form on the inside. And it I mean, it just
increases your risk for heart attack, stroke, any kind of

(58:12):
cardiovascular event. So I mean, it's just really terrible, all right. Next,
what happens when someone dies of quote old age? I
hate you want something. Nobody really dies of old age,
if they if they say like an old If an
old person dies, there still has to be a pivotal

(58:33):
event that causes them to die. So it might be
usually it's cardiovascular disease. They have a heart attack, or
they have a stroke or something like that. You know,
all those kinds of things that just happen when your
organs are getting older. But there's no such thing as
just like oh you're old and your like clock just
shuts off. There's like some event that causes it to happen, Yeah,

(58:56):
didn't they say the queen died of old Yeah, and
on her debts or says it on her death certificate,
which in America that would never fly. But apparently in
the UK when I brought when I posted that in
the Grosser room, a lot of people that lived over
there said that that's okay there, But like I, I don't.
I think in America we were trying to be more
specific because you try to categorize like what's causing people

(59:19):
to die, and even you know, my grandmam died when
she was like ninety eight years old, and you would say, oh,
she died from or she was ninety nine years old,
died from old age or whatever, but like something caused
it to shut down, you know, whatever it was, it
is an interesting thing. I feel like it's been dwindling,
Like in the press, people haven't been saying that as much,

(59:40):
but it definitely was going on for a long time
where people were just accepting that as an answer. I
mean it if you're ninety nine and you die naturally
at home like you, I mean technically you die because
you're old, right, but like there's still an event that
turned it off all right last, Do you have any
style icons I do? Do you? Yeah, I would say

(01:00:04):
it changes with you know, just I people change, so
my style changes over time. Right now, I'd say a
lot of people tell me I look like Selena Gomez.
So sometimes I look to her for like haircut inspiration
because we have the same shape head, and if she
has a haircut, I know I can normally pull it off.
Both both have huge heads. You know what, you want

(01:00:26):
to hear funny things, So Maria some did that. So
I'm sitting at right now. Sometimes Maria uses my headphones
for other things that we're doing. And every single so
yesterday she was sitting at this desk and I came today.
Every single time i'd come after her, I put the
earphones on and they look like they would fit like

(01:00:47):
I don't even know an elephant's head. Well, they're like
opened as big as they can go, and I have
to like stretch them down first of all. If you
and if you're watching YouTube, you can see the difference
because we have the same exact head phones. To find
her open a little fighter than you, a little like
four inches wider fairly. So I usually looked at her

(01:01:07):
for haircuts because we have the same shape face, so
I could tell what will work well with me. I
also really liked the way Taylor Streker dresses. She has
her own podcast. I think I just had a heart attack.
I thought you were going to say Taylor Swift, and
I was like, what she has arguably the worst style
I've ever seen for a person. First Tager, so Taylor Streker.

(01:01:27):
I really like the way she dresses. I think like,
as I approached my thirties, I'm going to start leaning
more into that. And then last is Brent Whitfield from
Real Housewives of New York on the newcast. I think
she dresses really cute and like slightly retro and amazing.
And then Casey Musgraves because she really dresses pretty retro
and I love that. Yeah, I'm into I think that

(01:01:50):
I would consider my style to be mostly like preppy
kind of Vagina Alliance is like my old, all time
fave best dresser if I could guess like her all
the time. She's on a Housewives too, but I don't
watch Housewives. But I knew her before. I knew her
before she was on the Housewives because she she used
to I don't know what her position was at Jay Crew.

(01:02:10):
But she's always been I don't know if she's a
model or just like a socialite whatever she whatever you
would consider her to be, but she's she's just got
really cool style and my ultimate like my favorite I'm
not usually a fan of like a specific actor, but
what Wanona Ryder wore for the one of the Beetle
Juice premieres was like my ultimate dream outfit. That Chanelle

(01:02:33):
jacket with the with the tool skirt. That's like really,
that's like one hundred percent my style. So but I
don't know how she normally dresses, but that particular look
I I love. I love like Chanelle style. I just
don't have a Chanelle purse, meaning like my wallet, my
wallet doesn't allow for that. If it did, I would
wear because I do love the Chanelle style. Like when

(01:02:57):
we just get like the Sas catalog at the house
and I always look at it and I'm like, oh
my god, that's so cute, and then it's like, oh,
this jacket's ten thousand dollars and I'm like, yeah, Okay,
that's never happening, but I love it. Like Jackie O'
style is so good. Well yeah, and that like I
also love Jenna Lyons, but sometimes I have a hard
time looking to somebody like her for fashion because we

(01:03:18):
just have such different body shapes, so it's hard for me.
Like I will be obsessed with an outfit she wears,
but I could not wear that at all, because I'm
sure I'm stumpy. I have hips. Like yeah, I mean
she she's definitely built different than me because she's very
she's taller. I think she's six foot or over six
foot tall, but she's just very straight and she's thin. Yeah,

(01:03:39):
and I'm the same. I'm very curby and I'm tall.
But just like the way that she puts together casual
and fancy and just like it's just good. And that
time at J Crew, like she styled all of it
back that was like twenty and ten or twelve or
back then. It just was so good, like and I
of course it was. I was in school still and

(01:04:00):
getting done school and just had no money to buy
any of this stuff. And now she doesn't work there anymore,
and it's depressing because I wanted every single outfit I
know her her line was so incredible. Yeah, it was
so good. It really was all right, So if you
guys have a shocking story. Don't forget to submit it
to stories at mothernosdeath dot com. Also, thank you for

(01:04:20):
everybody that participated in the Giant Microbes review giveaway. All
the winners have been notified. We had some really good submissions.
One of them I just want to read because we
said if you guys wanted one in particular, that you could,
you know, tell us why you wanted it. So I
think this one person got confused that we were giving

(01:04:41):
away a clatorus and not a uterus, so she wrote
this was so incredible. She wrote, as a fifty year
old empty nester having the best sex of my life,
I need the clatorus. I'd love to put it as
a gift to my husband on our twenty fifth wedding anniversary,
thanking him for finally finding it took him years. Oh
thank god. That's so great. She's definitely deserving of the uterist.

(01:05:03):
It's kind it's kind of clothes you got there. Yeah.
So uh, we were getting submissions like that which were
incredible to read. So those were fun and the reviews
were awesome. So we're going to try to you know,
throw the throw some giveaways in here and there, you know,
try to figure that out, So get you guys some
cool stuff. All right, We'll see you next week. Thank

(01:05:29):
you for listening to Mother Nos Death. As a reminder,
my training is as a pathologists assistant. I have a
master's level education and specialize in anatomy and pathology education.
I am not a doctor and I have not diagnosed
or treated anyone dead or alive without the assistance of
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on my experience working in pathology, so they can make
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