On this week's episode, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel. We talk favorite Halloween movies, if you believe in the moon affects human behavior and Twilight. Because of course we do. Then we have our most RANDOM EPISODE EVER. Colleen covers the Great Molasses Flood and the Kentucky Meat Shower and Bridget tells wild hospital stories! Trigger warning: if you get squeagy easily, turn back while you can. If you're still here, buckle up for an episode where you have no idea where it's going next! Even we don't know! Probably up someone's a** because that seems to be a theme...
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On this week's episode, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel. We talk favorite Halloween movies, if you believe in the moon affects human behavior and Twilight. Because of course we do. Then we have our most RANDOM EPISODE EVER. Colleen covers the Great Molasses Flood and the Kentucky Meat Shower and Bridget tells wild hospital stories! Trigger warning: if you get squeagy easily, turn back while you can. If you're still here, buckle up for an episode where you have no idea where it's going next! Even we don't know! Probably up someone's a** because that seems to be a theme...
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What else does he say? Pluto or Mickey? Mickey. He giggles a lot. Oh, his, his giggle's hard to do. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. I just went to go attempt it and then I stopped myself. Go talk to Minnie. I don't know. Bust that thing open! That's not what Mickey sounds like. Mickey would never! I mean, I don't know. Everyone has their own side. You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Mickey has a dark side. Between the mouses. I heard the mouses. I'll be throwing it down. Good lord, Colleen. Sorry, I'm unwell. What's up, brother? Oh, you know, from ten minutes ago, where we stopped recording to now, not much. We're double recording while I'm on a work trip, and we just didn't want to leave you with an empty week again. Did we? No, we didn't. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. We wanted to give the people what they want. Did you watch the new season of Love is Blind yet? No, I'm anti. Why? I don't know. Love is Blind? Yeah, I watched the first season. I don't like any other ones. Why is that the hell you'll die on? I don't know. I don't like them. It's just a weird thing. No reason? It's just a no? It's just a no. Okay. It's the ick. I'm gonna be a baked potato on Sunday. And watch all of it? And I'm just gonna binge the whole thing. And I'm gonna order something healthy. I almost just said Chinese food. I'm gonna order something healthy. That's good for me. So Zo? Zo Greek. Oh my gosh. You guys. There is this place in Boston called Zo Greek. And they serve classic, the OG Greek salads, aka no lettuce. And it's all veggies and it is to die for. Divine. I've gone there on multiple dates. Really? It's so deep inside. Yeah, into the restaurant. Yeah. So when, when Colleen and I are like, we need health, we need wellness, we order Zogreek. And we pretend like we're being healthy as we... Eat a pound of feta. I'm out here deep throating a block of feta. It's so good though. And I'm like, health is the wealth, and I'm the richest person in town. My body is a temple. Shoving meatballs in my mouth at this point. Good lord. They also, I know this is contradictory, they have the best french fries. Oh my god, they, uh, what are they called, gyros? Euros. Euros. Euros. The Euros are really good. Yeah, cause you can get them with like, lamb or chicken or beef. Lamb. You really need to go outside your comfort zone with the food stuff. But I like chicken. Okay, well that's good, but that can only get you so far in life, you know? Chicken's pretty versatile. Chicken! Reminds me of Karen. Oh, I miss Karen. Chicken, chicken, chicken finger! Bless her. Oh, also, hi everyone. Hey. Welcome to this week's episode of Sippin with the Shannons. We're cousins, and each week we sit down, we sip on some wine, we talk some shit, and we have a good giggle. I am Bridget Shannon. And I'm Colleen Shannon. Hey! Hey! so, uh, Scraping the barrel. Scraping the barrel. What do you guys want to talk about? Yeah. Are you out there? Are you listening? I actually have a question for you. Do you believe, because I saw this a lot, we're gonna do, uh, two little mini parts today. They don't correlate at all. They don't at all. But, I think you'll all enjoy it regardless. Agreed. Looking into mine, which is wild hospital stories, just like crazy things that happen. You have no idea what mine is. No, I don't. So God only knows what it is. It's probably about communism. or like, what is space? Wasn't Tom Hanks there once? Is he alive? He's alive, I heard. He is very much alive. I'll be very sad when that man, he goes. So in my research, finding these crazy stories that we will get into, everything kept coming up about the moon and how it affects our behavior. Like, oh, it must be a full moon. Do you believe that? Yeah. I don't Like when the merc the mercury's in retrograde? No, different thing. Oh, is it mercury? No, no, no, you said it correctly. I'm saying it's a different thing. People just act a little wacky? Yes. Yeah, I agree. And my mom, who worked at a courthouse for many, many years, used to be like, Oh, it's craziest around the full moon. And some of my best friends who are nurses are like, Yeah, that's 100 percent true. Mm hmm. Hmm. Maybe we'll do an episode on that. Spooky. Spooky. Do you believe in werewolves? No. Okay. Just checking. Are you excited that it's October and it's spooky season? Yes, I could cream for spooky season. What's your favorite Halloween movie? Mmm, I love the Conjuring series. Anything in that series is good to me. cause it has like a realm of like realism that's like not, I don't know how to explain it, like it's more realistic than the other ones. And it actually gets me like my heart palpitating. Okay. Because they're based on real stories. Sure. But they're just overdramatic. Okay. You know? Yeah. I recently watched All the Screams and I actually really liked those. Love that for you. Mm hmm. Yeah. You're missing so many favorite Halloween movies that you talk about all the time. Oh, I love Hocus Pocus, obviously. Practical Magic? Practical Magic. What, are you new? I already watched it. I had to prepare for it. Fiona had never seen it. How disrespectful. Crazy. I just wanna be a witch so fucking bad. Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. Her hair in that pair is iconic. What a pair. I know. I think we're gonna have a, a couple fun spooky episodes for everybody. A hundred percent coming up. How could we not? It's the best season, the best month of the year. I totally disagree, but oh, are you gonna say it? December's the best month of the year. Christmas I hate Christmas. I actually love September. Great. It's over. I know. I just mean that. Cause you weren't here? No. I love the summer. I love the beach. I love being places that are warm. That's where I'm happiest. I don't like sweating to death. So I like the August September months You get a happy medium right where you're now if you're talking about holidays, of course Christmas is my favorite in the month of December and the 25 days to Christmas and the different movies on every night and There's just so many to watch and it's a vibe and I'm buying all the presents and it's it's lovely but mind you December 26th hits. Boxing day. I'm done. I'm like, get me out of here. I hate it here. It's too cold. Fair. December 26th is the saddest day of the year. It's like, okay, great. You think? I feel like you, is December, we open presents on the 25th, right? Yeah, Colleen, that's Christmas. It's all the same to me. Oh, jeez Louise. I don't fuck with Christmas. I don't know why. Can I just say, you got me a bag last year for Christmas. that is so gorge, and it's Louis Vuitton but it's not Louis Vuitton. And everywhere I go, people are like, Oh my God, what did you do to get that bag? And I'm like, I have a cousin who has some connections to The underworld. To the, to the underest of underworlds. And they're like, they were opening it and looking at it, they were like, this has to be fake. And I'm like, it, or this, this has to be real, like it doesn't even look. And I'm like, nope. It is as fake as the day is long. Truly. So I'm excited. We're very good gift givers to each other. I love gift giving. Did I tell everyone what you got me for my birthday this year that I'm obsessed with and I wear all the time now? I don't think I did. Oh, I don't know. So Colleen got me this beautiful bracelet that I wear all the time. You'll see it in all my pictures. And it's gold, which is what I wear. And it's my sister's birthstone. my cousin Shannon who passed away. Our cousin's Shannon, sorry I said mine. Our cousin Shannon who passed away, birthstone. Karen's birthstone and mine! And it's actually not mine because I hate my birthstone and she knew that. So instead, cause it's that ugly green... Garnet or whatever? Is that yours? Garnet? It's Peridot. It's the lime green ugly one. So she put a sapphire in because she knows that's my favorite. And it's all of our birthstones. It's lovely. You're more of a sapphire. Yeah, I'm way more of a sapphire girl for sure. For sure. But, we are very good gift givers to each other, so I'm very excited for that. But I am excited it's your favorite season. I'll be watching a lot of Harry Potter, obviously. Harry Potter's a good one to watch. Great spooky season series. Harry Potter! Definitely gonna watch some Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic. Twilight. Of course. I simply... Jason, Kelsey, talking about Twilight, please tell me you saw a clip of that. Oh, his brother. Travis Kelsey's brother? Yes. Yes. Yes. Did you see the clip of him? No. He's like, you know Twilight? And Travis is like, no. And then he recaps it. It's the funniest thing. I just love him. He recaps Twilight? That must be so wild to do. His 109 year old vampire. Yeah, like. It's so funny. I love him. It's wild to break down in layman's terms because it probably sounds so utterly ridiculous. And then the second, the second movie, there's werewolves. And Bella is fucking around with Jacob, but Obviously, Edward's better than Jacob. It's so funny. I think we've talked about this, but my friend Leanne and I used to do that where we'd be like, it's simple. Werewolves spell mad to vampires. What are you not getting? Grow up. Like, how do you not know that? He obviously knew, because he can read people's minds, that his sister saw Bella jump off a cliff and they thought they committed suicide, so they went to Italy. What, what doesn't make sense? The Valtorettes? And now the Italian vampires want to kill them! It's so simple! It's such a wild premise. He sparkles in the sunlight. Duh. I love Twilight. We know. You know they only play baseball when it's under a lightning out? Duh. They have to. They're too loud. Okay, wanna get into it? Yeah, let's get into it. Okay. What is this? What do you have for me? I'm so scared. Ah, that's the, that's my favorite thing. Oh, this is what I wanna tell you. Oh. I'll watch one scary movie with you. Okay. One. Okay. One, choose wisely. Okay. Well, like horror, okay. Ha. She is a ha. hower hower. What has, what? Ha, I must said, what hasn't your mother seen? Jesus Christ. What haven't you seen? Like, what have, okay, how about this? What have you seen? I've seen It. Ugh, It's so fucking stupid. I've seen Saw. Saw is also like, not that great. How dare you, the first Saw is so good, get rocked. I have seen The Strangers. Is that where they're wearing bags over their head and I wanted to die watching the whole thing? Yes. What's the one where Ryan Reynolds is really scary? Amityville? Amityville. The remake. Uh, Last House on the Left. That's a good movie. last, there's Last House on the Left and then there's The House at the End of the Lake. The Street or something? Yeah, yeah. I watched, I think Cabin Fever. Wait, is it the one with, Jennifer Lawrence? Yes. Then yeah, there's another one with Sarah Paxton and that's a good one too. Okay. The House the Street, yeah. and you made me watch a stupid movie once. Yeah, that was stupid. And then, Begged me to watch it and 15 minutes in, 15 minutes left, where it's like, we're turning it off. I'm like, Abso fucking lutely not. We're not going to turn it off when I don't know how it ends. So you better choose very carefully. Oh, The Orphan. I've seen The Orphan, where she's the little girl. This second one is so bad. Ugh, no. Nope. Okay. So, there you go. Got it. And that's over like, two decades. That's how rarely... This is an occurrence. I'll let you know which one. Okay, great. It's the chosen one. Please continue. Okay. Welcome to history class. Oh. Bitches. History, here we go. We're bringing it back for this one. Welcome. Welcome. Okay. Okay. Can I get an, oh, sorry. I had water in my mouth. Oh, I can't do it as well as you. Oh, Do you need a reset? Ugh. No, I think that's as good as it's gonna get, unfortunately. No, it was, it was good. No, you don't have to tell me that. Don't pity me. Okay. Don't need your pity. It's okay. so we're gonna travel back to 19. 19, okay? Mm-hmm. to a place that we could considerably call home, where we'd go for a greatest espresso martini. The North End. The North End! Oh! Yeah. We are gonna chat about the Great Molasses Flood. What? You don't know about this? Of course I fucking know about this! Everybody knows about this! I know, but it doesn't really get talked about enough. Okay, it's the middle of the day on January 15th in 1919. Very cold. Oh yeah, that is real cold. Very cold. That's like legit brick squat outside. Yeah. The north end was filled with juicy union workers and laborers and also like people that live there or whatever, not as great, and they're adventuring outdoors to enjoy an unseasonably Unseasonably Unseasonably. Yeah. Yeah. Unseasonably, unseasonably warm day. So it actually wasn't brick squat outside around like 1:00 PM They heard like a little low rumble and they were like, what the fuck is that? Is it some sort of train? Plane? Automobile? So they thought it was trains. Everyone's just kind of like, whatever. And then within minutes they realize something that's super, super wrong. A 50 foot tall tank of molasses erupts in the streets. It's really the storytelling for me and not the story. I'm here for it. I mean, like, why are we even having molasses in tanks these days? It's like, for what? These days or those days? Either day, all the days, a 2. 3 million gallon wave of molasses rushes through the tiny ass crowded streets of the North End. It's so tiny. If you're not from Boston, it's, it's like very small. It was two stories high of molasses. That's terrifying. And I mean, talk about, we had some tsunami trauma. Imagine a wave of molasses, like maple syrup. Maple syrup. And it's so sticky, and slow, and gooey, and you just, like, can't move in it. Ugh. It rushed at 35 miles an hour. Oh, that's way too fast. I don't even think cars could go that fast at that point in time. Like that is the speed limit on a main, on a street. That's 31. 9 miles too much. Yes, exactly. I cannot. It knocked trains off of tracks and it, like, full blown crushed buildings and it moved in a whole ass firehouse. Just picked it up, moved it. Goodbye. Okay. Walked the distance it goes. Okay. It was so thick that it ripped buildings off of their foundations. I mean, it was 1919, they're probably making it off of, like, do they have Hey. Yeah, they don't got no bricks? No, no, they do. yeah, but it's obviously not Not what it is today, but still. But, right off the foundations, off into the abyss. Wow, scary. I read something about like, horses and animals being stuck to the molasses like flies on sticky paper. Oh! Oh! That visual! That makes me sick. There's nothing worse than when you see, one of those with the flies. Yes, gross. Ugh. Something about flies, just like crunch, you know? Yeah, gross me right the fuck out. The tank that had exploded had only been built like a few years before that, but everyone was like, oh yeah, that leaks. Like everyone knew about it, like it was not a secret. They're like, yeah, it's leaking all the time. Like, children would go with, like, pails and collect. Oh my god. Like, of the sweet molasses, like, for their homes. And it was like, alright, free for all, and then they would take it home. So, like, everyone knew it was fucking leaking. Yeah. They really weren't that concerned. They did bring it up at one point. So instead, the town painted the tank brown to disguise the leaking molasses. It's giving Band Aid over a bullet hole. Oh no. Something our family members would have done, for sure. Yeah, just take some duct tape on it. Yeah, it's fine. Engineers, like, later on in life, they reported that the, the tank's walls were wicked thin, obviously, to hold the wicked heavy molasses that was inside. And I think right before they had, like, a shipment that came in, so they, like, topped it off. So it made it way heavier than usual. And on this particular day, it was hotter than usual. So a combination of the wicked shitty construction, the temperature, and the new shipment was, like, three strikes. Toodaloo. Goodbye. Let the river flow. Molasses. Here we come. Yep. So rescuers obviously pop off. They're like, and also like, what the fuck do you do? It's only someone's, this has happened before. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, how do you even help? How do you even? Yeah. My good Lord. Unfortunately, the molasses did kill like 21 people. I was going to say, it killed a bunch of people. Not to like, you know, but that did definitely did happen. Yeah. Most of them were laborers and like drivers that were working at the paving yard in the north end. Yeah. Those juicy union men. Sorry. Yeah, Jesus, Colleen. I don't know, I get awkward. Tough spot to make a sexual joke. I'm like, oh, that's sad. Off the rip. Why did it have to be them? Why did it have to be the men I was attracted to? Over literally a hundred years ago. But anyways, I mean, it's fine. It's fine. It was over a hundred years ago. We're okay. The rescuers, like, really couldn't help the victims that well. It took like four days before they officially stopped searching. Imagine searching through thick maple syrup, though, for human beings and or animals. Where is it going? Is it going into the sewers? Because then it would probably It's going everywhere. Well, then it would mess up all the the Yes. Suet? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Everywhere. Yeah. They said that many of the dead were so glazed over molasses that they were hard to recognize and a lot of them were swept into the harbor, so it took them longer to find because they literally went with the molasses into the harbor. Cleaning up was just simply not it. Yeah. Molasses was everywhere, naturally. But they realized that salt water actually breaks down the molasses and it makes it easier to get rid of rather than just like regular water. Wow. Yeah. So they just brought in a ton of fucking salt water and were just spraying the streets. The harbor was brown with molasses until summer. So January to probably July, it was brown. Dark, dark brown. What I'm telling you, there has to be a new life form that has been growing in the harbor. Oh, 100%. There's a fish that has 14 eyes from molasses. You know what I mean? There's like a gator shark. A sixth fin out of its tooth. Like, it's gotta be some real weird shit. Something's going on. Yeah. For sure. Has anybody ever like explored the Harbor? Like what's in the bottom? Do we even know? Colleen, Paul Revere's down there. Paul, what? It's so unwell. The tea is down there. That's how we get to the airport. By land or by sea? And I, on the opposite shore, will be ready to ride and spread the alarm through every metal, sex, village, and palm. Do you know if it was one if by land, two if by sea? Yeah. Which one was it? One if by land, and two if by sea. At the bell, right? So it was by land. Cause they came by land, right? Did they come by sea? On what? Up their feet. The fuck do you think they came from by sea? Who came by sea? Oh, good lord. No, Colleen. It was the, was it the South or was it the British? It was the British. Okay. Duh. The British are coming. Oh my god. The red coats. Yeah. Okay. I've seen National Treasure, I should know. So we got rescue workers, we got cleanup crews, we got tons of people coming through. They're tracking the molasses through the streets, they're spreading it onto like subway platforms, seats inside the trains, the streetcars, they're on telephone handsets. Everywhere. Into homes, into literally everywhere. And it was reported that everything that a Bostonian touched was sticky. Down to the telephone. No, gross. Get me out of here. They didn't rebuild the tank, thank god. Yeah, I think not. It is now, the site of Langone Park. Not familiar. You familiar? I'm not familiar. Is it Langone? Probably. Langone. No, I actually don't know which one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh my gosh, wow. I know exactly where that is. Langone Park, that's where it was. And now, the only thing that is left of such a tragedy is a plaque. That basically says, Boston Molasses Flood, and that's it. Not even the people who died, just like, here was flood. Like, I can even spice it up a little bit more than that. That's it, I think. The smell of molasses remained for decades in the atmosphere of Boston. Oh my god. That's this quick story. Of the molasses flood of 1919. Wow. Do you want to know something crazy? Not only, I know we say like, my favorite murder did that. I went to their live show and Karen Kilgareff did that live. Oh really? Yeah. Okay, here's what the plaque says. Bossa Molasses Flood. On January 15, 1919, a molasses tank at 529 Commercial Street exploded under pressure, killing 21 people. A 40 foot wave of molasses buckled the elevated railroad tracks, crushed buildings, and inundated the neighborhood. Structural defects in the tank, combined with unseasonably warm temperatures, contributed to the disaster. Imagine, look, you're in the shower and you just look outside and there's a river of molasses coming down. Like, I just can't wrap my mind around it. I think that's why it just really stuck with me and I was like, oh, we must talk about it. It's crazy. Oh my god, look at this. What? This is the molasses flood. Oh, yeah, yeah. I saw this picture. That's fucking nuts. Ugh, that's terrifying though, honestly. I know, I know. It's giving tsunami. It's, no, it's, no, totally different. I mean, you don't know what, you actually don't know what that is. You're like, what is that? After the episode you did, I've never been able to recover. I'm so upset about it. Yeah, that's true. I was, I've been upset. That's why it's been stuck in my brain. Yeah, no shit. It's terrifying. So do you have a second one? Is it related? No, not related. A complete random one. We're going off the fucking rails for this episode. It's like a peek into my brain. Okay, great. Fabulous. The Great Mysterious Kentucky Meat Shower. What the fuck, Holly? Do you don't? What the meat shower? Why are we in one? Let it rain. Let it rain down on me. I beg of you, please, let it rain. So yeah, the Great Mysterious Kentucky Meat Challenge. She's parched. She's so parched. I feel like SpongeBob when he has the suns. Water! Do you know what I'm talking about? That episode when he's like, I got the suns. That's how I feel. Okay. Here we go, brothers and sisters. Let's hear about that meat. It's 11pm on March 3rd, 1876. So like, A. D. after Christ's death. That's like an unfathomable time to me. Wait, when did we sign the declaration? That was 17, so no, we're established. We are U. S. A.! I love how we went. From Jesus. Colleen! I don't have the strength. USA! USA! This is the second episode today and I need you to get a grip. Oh for lord. What was the date again, Colleen? March 3rd, 1876. Just yesterday. Let's not do it. Continue? 11pm, it's March 3rd, 1876. What year? 1876! And we are near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. I have no idea where the fuck that is, I just know it's in Kentucky. Great. I don't think anyone needs to know, it doesn't sound like a place we care about at this moment. Oh my god! It doesn't seem like it. Beautiful. After this story, you're not going to want to hear about it. Okay, great. That's the point. A farmer's wife, Mrs. Couch. Get the fuck out of here, Mrs. Couch. When you look it up, it's literally just that patch of grass. It's uh, right outside of Lexington, Kentucky, if anyone. Oh, Lexington is populated. I used to go to Louisville for work and they always talked about Lexington. There are 12, 750 people there, according to a 2020 census. Nice, thank you for census. I keep getting text messages about the census. What's that about? I don't want to be counted. I'm not a person. Someone fucking sedate me. I'm a half a person. I don't count. I could go either way. I'm like two people, or I'm a half a person. Colleen! Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. So, a farmer's wife, Mrs. Couch, she was making soap on her porch, okay? Sure. Everyone does. She might have been making soap out of like the fat of an animal, but I'm not gonna get into that. Probably. No, she was. so she was. I'm not lying. Great. Until she reported seeing a piece of meat fall from the sky, okay? She said she was 40 steps away from her house when the meat started to slap the ground. Most of the pieces of the meat that she saw were like two by two so like relatively small, okay? Okay. She gets her husband, Mr. Couch, and they're like, what the fuck? And then someone wrote this into a movie, they'd be like, no, the couches see meat. No, no. The couches see meat fall from the sky. So they say, Oh my God, what is that? What the fuck? It must be a sign from God. And God said, let there be meat. Did you write that into your I hate you. You thought You thought that was so funny when you wrote that. I did. I felt like I was actually at church though, at the front, and it says, And then God said, Let there be meat. Like, that's how I felt. Yeah, arms up, arms up. up. Yep. And then you're supposed to repeat something back, like, The Lord is with you, or some shit like that. I don't know. Whatever. Says the Catholic school girl. Some shit like that. I don't know, they change it up every, like, decade. I'm not into it. So yeah, they're like, Jesus brought us the meat, whatever. So then he says, the meat was really falling like large snowflakes. So imagine you're just minding your business and you look outside and meat is falling like snowflakes from the fucking sky. What? It has to be coming from a plane, correct? Ain't! Oh, oh, jeez. Okay. So they're like WTF. They go to the town. It's like a small town, so like, word is spreading fast, right? It spreads like wildfire, because other people are like, Yeah, we saw it too, we saw it too, we saw it too, whatever. Goes through the nation. Meat is falling from the sky in Kentucky. People are not okay. So they gather up the chunks, she gets a pail. They save them in alcohol to preserve them, very much like a science experiment. Cause they're like, what the fuck is this stuff? So the New York Herald gets wind of this and is like, we need to be on this shit. Like, right on a Cheeto. Yeah, sure. Yes. So they're like, we need to be involved. So they go to Louisville and they go to investigate what's popping off just to like, get, you know, feet on the ground and see what's happening. A reporter that is completely unnamed this entire time, he's from the Herald, he goes to the town and he starts like, being like, Hey, what's up to all the townspeople? Like, what's going on? Trying to get the tea. So he goes and bothers like, all the residents. And he's interviewing them, he's trying to like, get it for content, right? So the chunks ended up in the mouths. Of a lot of the locals. Stop. Cause they're all like, What's this? We gotta find out what's falling from the sky. You know? And they're putting it in their mouths? Yes. So, a 27 year old named L. C. Frizz Frisbee. Listen to me. Listen to me right now. Did you make this up? No, I swear. If you made this up, Colleen. I swear on my life. I swear. I'm not that creative. But you would know it was me. Yeah, I was gonna say. You would know this was me. You're right. He'd leave. Something bugly. And it would all be fuckin Real Housewives quotes. This guy, he's 27 years old, okay? He spit it out the meat after chewing it a little because it was kind of a milky, watery fluid oozed out of it. Oh, God. So he's a butcher. Fucking trigger warning. So he's a butcher. So he's like, oh, I know what it is. So he just plops it in his mouth and then he's like, mm mm mm. He said it's like a texture like veal or lamb, but he didn't really like, he couldn't place the, the taste or the odor. He's kind of just like, what the fuck is that? Oh god, I'm gonna be ill. And then two other people turned up to taste the meat. They said it was a flavor like venison or mutton. I don't know what the fuck a mutton is, I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know. The amount of people who tried this unidentified specimen. No wonder why these people were getting the fucking plague. Question mark and also like they were just hunters and gatherers, you know, so like, how are you like being like, oh, that doesn't taste good Weren't you just looking for berries in the woods? Like it's 1876. We didn't have like grocery stores. Yes, we did We had like convenient. Yes, Colleen. You are it's not the Dark Ages. They're not Neanderthals Oh, for love of Christ Colleen I, I, I can't teach you about world history tonight, I, I know there are some nights I can do it tonight. Often it's okay. I'm just saying like, they, they, they just, they, they should have learned their lesson by now. That's what I'm saying. Okay, great. And then there's a merchant, his name is Joe Jordan. He spits out the specimen as well. He said it smelled like a dead body. And it leached with brown mucus. No, it's not dead body parts. It's not dead body parts. We're getting there. I know, but can you please just tell me it's not dead body parts? No, it's not giving cannibalism. I wouldn't do that to you. The bravest among the Kentuckians gave the meat a taste, but no avail. The type of meat that fell from the sky that day remains a mystery to this day. They still don't know? The most plausible theory Is that the meat that was spewed came from the beaks of, uh, vultures. Cause turkey vultures and black vultures were both native to Kentucky, and whenever they're threatened, they would vomit. Not only does their, uh, their acidic ish, they have like an acidic stomach issue, like they use it as like a weapon, but an empty stomach also makes them fly quicker. Oh, just like you! Yeah, so when they get nervous, they vomit, or if they're like feeling threatened, they vomit so they can fly fast. They can go fast. So that's the literal only theory, and that's all we know. About the meat rain in Kentucky. The Mysterious. How long did it go on for? Like, an hour and a half. Just rain, meat. Rain, meat. And to this day they have no idea. All over a town though. Yeah. That doesn't feel plausible. No. I don't think it was like an entire town, I think it was like the neighborhood. Well then. And that is the story of the mysterious meat shower in Kentucky. I mean, I simply have no words. I was hoping for some sort of resolution, I'm not gonna lie. No, there was no resolution. That was the only one. They have no idea. I think the mystery of it really gets to me. But you can still see pictures online of it in, files. There it is. Ew. This is disgusting. Let there be meat. And they have no idea what type of animal or being this came from? Nope. Nope. That's actually insane to me. Isn't that crazy? Good to know. I don't even know how to transition into my topic of the week, which is wild hospital stories. Well, it's vultures throwing up. So. So let me just say, right from the jump, if you're still with us and you get queasy easily or you don't like to talk about this stuff or... You just get grossed out. We love you and we will talk to you next week. Because... This is not for you. This is not for you. Megan, I'm talking to you. Turn it off. Yeah, we'll see you next week. It's okay, we still love you. You know, Don't, don't push it because I don't have great stories. I have, I tried to keep them funny. I kept a lot of them out because some of them were either horrible or too gross, but never too gross for us. Well, I have this thing where I've been to the hospital a lot. I have a habit of getting injured when I am traveling. some of my injuries include before not traveling, six concussions, shingles at 23 years old. According to Google, shingles happen when you're old and have a weak immune system. That increases your risk of getting shingles. Although anyone who has had chickenpox can get shingles. Your risk of developing shingles increase with age. Most people get shingles in their 50s or later. It's rare to get shingles before 40 years of age. I was 23. I remember when you had shingles. I thought you were on your deathbed and then I had to look it up. And that year for Christmas, my uncle gave me, uh, shingles from a roof as a Christmas present. Uh, so, yep. Very lovely family I have. No, it actually was very funny. As far as having injuries when I travel, I one time stepped on a sea urchin and my foot got infected. This was also the trip I lost everything I owned, except for my passport, thank God. And when I got home, my feet literally didn't fit in my shoes, and my phone was stolen, and our layover was in New York. And Jesse, who just got married, lives in New York, and was like, are you sure you're good? I'm like, yeah, my flight's in an hour and a half, it's a 45 minute flight, my family's gonna pick me up, what could go wrong? It got delayed for 12 hours. I had no debit card to buy any food or water and couldn't tell my family my flight was delayed. And when I finally, thank God, my sister is a saint who tracks all my flights everywhere I go. And when I came out of the, I came out of Logan, I had one shoe in one hand, dragging my foot along, size of a pineapple. And she rolls down the window. My dad's driving, my mom is in the front seat, my sister's in the back. And she rolls down the window and echoing in front of the whole airport Bridget Theresa Shannon, what the And I was like this car ride home is gonna be fun because I haven't told them I have an infected foot yet and then I went to the hospital and had to go in and do three days of fluids every morning at the same time and I felt like a Grey's Anatomy patient because they'd come in and they'd be like, are you the girl with the sea urchin? Can we look at your foot? Like nurses, doctors, surgeons, interns coming in poking my foot. I'm like, I didn't mean to become a science experience. I got Zika. What the fuck is Zika? Uh, Zika in 2016 was really scary. if you were pregnant it had, it was essentially like a mosquito bite that would turn into an infection that affected pregnant women very poorly. I got it. I was not pregnant, thank God. I got home. I had bug bites. They got worse over time. I was at the airport on my way home and I had just, I felt awful. I had the flu. My leg was swelling up. I couldn't keep any food down. I was puking my brains out, just having an exorcism every five minutes. I get on Copa Airlines from Panama City, Panama the country, not Panama City, Florida, to a direct flight to Boston and I get out. Of the airport and my aunt is there to pick me up and she's standing like 50 feet away from me with both hands in the air. And she says, What? Is it oozing and does it have a foul odor? And I said, I can't smell anything. I have no, I have the flu. I have no, that's like one of the symptoms as you get the flu. I'm like, I can't smell it. Which aunt was this? Sue. The I should have known. Yeah, and she goes, you're not getting in my car with a fleshy disease. And I said, I have to go to the hospital, so I gotta get in someone's car, and I would prefer it to be yours. We stopped at Regina's Pizza. I had a glass of sangria. With an infected leg. In a full... Personalized pizza because I hadn't eaten in like 36 hours. My si Something happened where my mother had to work and my, my sister was away. Like, no one could pick me up and she picks me up. She brings me to the hospital and there's a guy with a hook in his hand. And he keeps He was fishing and he had a fishing incident. And he keeps offering us Swedish fish with his hook hand and he's like pouring, he was pouring with his good hand the Swedish fish into his hook hand and being like, do you guys want some? And I was like, no, no, I don't want Swedish fish out of your hook hand. Like I don't want that. so yeah, I had Zika and then, how did that get resolved? You just take a medicine. They gave me, they had no idea what to do with me at first. Again, another science project for the hospital. I have a question. Sorry. Yeah. if you, they have your medical records and they're like, Oh, you were in here for a sea urchin last year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So no, because I, Oh, actually it was at the same hospital because I went, I was in Greece. So I went to the hospital in Athens to originally get the sea urchin looked at, I will not tell you what they did. It was not fun for me at all with no anesthetic. Uh, and they obviously didn't do a good job because it got infected. But now that I think about it, because I went to the hospital for those three days, they, it all must be somewhere. Yeah. That's hilarious for my, they've never brought it up. They, I think they only look at like things that are continual. Like, oh, do you still have a, you know, your, are you still taking that birth control? Are you still? Yeah, whatever. But that, how hilarious must that be if they look into my background? was supposed to go to Aruba for two months. Fourth day, I got tonsillitis. I lump on the side of my neck on my left side, swelled up so much I looked like I had a goiter and I thought it was COVID and it was, and I didn't, I didn't know what was happening. So of course I sent a best, uh, my best friend, Jesse, who's a nurse, a picture of the side of my neck. Cause I'm like, what the hell is this? She's like, go to a hospital. I think you have tonsillitis if it's only on your left side. And so I had said nothing to Leigh Anne. I was there with my friend Leigh Anne. I said nothing to her because I didn't want to freak her out. And I knew it wasn't COVID because I had taken a test. And this is like way before. This was still when everything was shut down. This is like early 2021. No vaccines are out yet. Nothing. And we were supposed to be there so long. And I was just like, it's day four. I, what the hell? And so I go, we went on this boat thing and it's all day drinking and snorkeling and swimming. And I had taken like a thousand milligrams of ibuprofen by like 10 a. m. I was in so much pain. And after a couple of drinks, I was like, honestly, I'm fine. And she was like, so we're still going to go to the hospital. Because you have a lump out of the side of your neck and we can't drink like this every day until you feel better. And so she brought me to an urgent care. I had severe tonsillitis to the point where they had to give me a steroid for the swelling to go down. she gave me something for the pain. She gave me an antibiotic. And it was the first time ever that I got a shot in my ass. Like, they shoot, they, so, I, my whole life I've done the arm, right? So what they do, and she ever said, can you take, like, can you pull your pants down? I was like, uh, for tonsillitis? I was like, what do you, it's in my throat. So they, what they do is they put the needle into the top of your butt, which is the perfect place because it has plenty of fat tissue and you're not using it. Like, you know how your arm is sore for like three days? It's when you sit down, you're not using the top by your hips. You know, it's true. It's actually like the best place. So I like wiggle my pants down a little bit and she does it right. I don't even see it either, which I hate needles. So I was like, Oh, perfect. Didn't hurt. Don't have to see it. This worked out. And she goes, can I talk to you about something that has nothing to do with your tonsillitis? And I go, yeah. And she goes, you should really stay out of the sun from X time to X time because you're very pale. And I was like, okay, coming for me. Anyway, that went away. The one everybody knows is I got stuck in Iceland with COVID for 10 days in one room that I was not allowed to leave, in total darkness because it was 20 hours of dark darkness and I nearly lost my mind. I had an exorcism in Belize last year, which you have all heard. my feet and ankles swell up to the point where it's painful to walk sometimes when I travel. I think it has something to do with circulation. I do have compression socks. Thank you for asking. They're very hot. And, uh. Yeah, I mean, those are just some of the tales. Oh, I also got sick in South Africa with the malaria medicine. and this doesn't count, like, you know, when you get the flu, or you get the sinus infection, or strep throat, you know. I've broken a little tiny bone in my hand, which was drunken stupidity, and the only time I've ever gotten stitches, knock on all of the wood, was after the accident. I got, I have stitches on my knee and on my toe. But other than that... You know, just some classic trips to the hospital, nothing too crazy here. You can read a book. Nothing to see. My family, it's like an ongoing joke now, they're like, Oh, and what strange disease are you going to bring back next time? And I'm like, ha ha ha ha ha. We haven't. It's so funny for you. We haven't figured out which one you've come back with this time. No, my, oh my God, my feet and ankles swelled so hard. Did you see my foot in that picture? The size, uh, I don't know what it is, I don't know what it is, but it's really not cute. And can I just say, my ankles are the skinniest part of my body. It's upsetting. Those bitches are bony and skinny as hell. How dare they? So rude. How dare they? It's disrespectful. They're not allies. It's disrespectful to my people. Ugh. So anyway, I am no stranger to emergency rooms, especially in foreign countries. have you ever been to an emergency room? No. No, not one time. Have you ever been to like the hospital for like, have you ever gone into the hospital for something? Not myself. No. And that's one of our family members was dying. I wait, hold on. Like when you get, so obviously you have a cold right now, but have you ever gotten the flu? Have you ever gotten sinus or strep? You've never been to the hospital for yourself. Like you've never been to a minute clinic. That's the hospital. Now I went to like my pediatrician when I had stress, but that was it. I had, like, a pediatrician. When? When I was young. I haven't been to, like, a doctor with any of my ailments in the past, since I was 18. Does that mean you just don't go when you're sick? No, I just haven't been ill. Like I just usually know what it is. Like right now I know it's like a cold. I know it's not COVID. I took a test, so I don't know. Do you know how wildly rare that is? I mean, I know I'm on the other side of the spectrum, where I have all these strange diseases, but, I did have to go one time, but I never, like, went into, like, a room, or, like, was admitted, but I got into a car accident, and I got rear ended, and I was fine. But my mom, well, like, I think she was just, like, nervous that, like, Well, it's better off going and getting checked out. Yeah, no, I was fine. Like, I hit my head off the steering wheel, but, like, I wasn't, like, disoriented. Like, I was just kind of like, are you fucking serious? And then... But I also think she wanted something on the record in case, like, we made you sue this man. Like, no, of course I wasn't going to. Right, but there are some times where injuries can happen later, and then you have no, I, I do, it's better to be safe than sorry, but yeah. Yeah, so I went with my dad for like two hours, and they just literally looked at me in the eyes, and were like, you're good to go, and that was it. They were checking to see if you have a concussion. But other than that, no. They told me after the accident that I was no longer allowed to play contact sports, and I was like, I, I think that's gonna be okay. I, I think I'm gonna be fine. Wait, I did fall one time and on my head. And got a concussion. Yes. There you get admitted. I just went to the hospital, the college hospital, which wasn't a real hospital. It was like really fucked up. And then they were like, yeah, here you go. You hit your head. Goodbye. They just literally confirmed what I had already done. Okay. So that's it. Wow. Well, are you ready to hear all these crazy stories? Yes. So we got some submissions. And we are going to start off with a bang. Okay. And I warned you that if you get. Squeegee. Yeah, if you get sque what did you say? Squeegee. Squeegee. Easily. Queasy and squeamish. Please seek alternate routes. Okay. Okay, here we go. This is from a nurse. I will not say who. It was like 2 a. m. and we were getting an admission. It was a guy who supposedly swallowed bags of fentanyl. Quick sidebar. Good lord. Fentanyl is one of the most dangerous drugs on the planet. That's what they're talking about. I just want to know the backstory on that. He was coming in arrested by cops, but because he quote unquote swallowed the bags, it could burst at any time and he could die, so they bring him into the ICU, which is a tactic people use to delay going to jail. Correct. So, he and his handcuffs, and the protocol is that we start pumping him full of laxatives to make him get rid of the bags that he swallowed. So we're talking with the cop, and we're like, okay, so who's supposed to deal with this bag of fentanyl out, because if it breaks and it goes airborne, then now our risks, everybody is at risk in the room. That's giving Grey's Anatomy. So they call the police and he shows up and he's like, yeah, we don't handle that call the fire department. Oh Sorry, so it's now 3 a. m The entire fire department shows up completely geared up as this patient is shitting into bedpan after bedpan Two firemen go in there and start sifting through his shit trying to find the bag that may or may not even exist We didn't see anything on the x ray and they never found it. It was utterly disgusting Imagine being a firefighter and like imagine being like I signed up to save people's lives and be a firefighter. And the next thing you know, you are sifting through a man's shit, multiple shits to find fentanyl. You're pumping in with laxatives. I cannot, how do people shit in bedpans? I feel like that's really hard to do. I don't think you have control, honey. Oh. Another shit one, so buckle up. This lady hadn't shit in eight days. So they had to do an enema on her, and the pill had like a blue cap on it. The blue cap was supposed to come off of it, and this person put it inside of her, because it was like a new way to, the cap was new. She pushes it in, and the, The other half of the pill that she's supposed to be receiving pops out, but the blue cap stays inside. So this person had to fist this woman to find the cap and the woman was like, Oop, that's painful. Like that hurts. And she's like, I know it can be a little uncomfortable, but like, don't worry about it. And she fist this woman ass to get the blue cap out. She's just like, like balls deep in her ass. Balls deep, elbow deep in this woman's asshole. You gotta do Then we go into the shoving stuff up people's asses. Why our asses? Keep away from your, your bottom half, is the moral of the story. Uh, someone wrote in, I'm an OR nurse and a patient had stomach pains and they took x-rays and they found a giant metal dildo, He had had to have it surgically removed from his, how does it even get up? Rectum? How does it get up there? Oh, let me tell you, Colleen, I'll tell you in a minute. Do swallow, do you swallow it whole? Like I don't get it. Swallow it. Like in your stomach? No. In your asshole. Like does it just like, oh, it's like a vacuum. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Your asshole will Nothing disen that shit up. Clearly. Nothing's supposed to go in, just let it go out. So, okay, we'll get to that in a second. Okay. One guy came in with a mayonnaise jar stuck up his rectum. That is so disrespectful of mayonnaise. I hope it wasn't Heinz. Please be anything but the Heinz. Please be fucking Great Value brand. Please. Not the Heinz. Not the Heinz. I'd be so upset. With the mouth of the jar facing in. He had to go to the operating room where the surgeon had to glue a rod to the base of the jar and wait for it to set before pulling it out. And the guy said he, quote, did it on a bet. Oh, that's kind of funny. Bowie math! Like, the fuck? How dare you to shove a container of mayo up your ass? Up your asshole! What? For a bet? I ate men. How much would you do it for? A hundred bucks. No, no, no, it's, it's, I'm down bad. No. No, Colleen. No. Okay. I also saw this other story where this man went to a hospital with stomach pains and they find up his asshole, a stool leg. Oh. The leg of a stool. He said he tripped on it and fell on an upside down stool. And when the nurses told him it was up his asshole, he said, Don't tell my wife. Uh huh. There's another story! That I'm pretty sure I've told on this podcast. There are things you can buy to do that and it's not the stool. Where I have a friend who is an ER nurse, and it was around Christmas time, and a man came in with stomach pains, and they asked him all the questions. Do you know what it is? No, I have no idea what it is. And they do x rays, and it was a whole ass elf on a shelf. And he said that his wife must have done it to him while he was asleep. Men. Men. Number one. Stop blaming your wife. She didn't do it. She didn't do it. Number two. Stop shoving shit up your ass. And here's the thing. You do you. Like, if that is something you want to test out, fine. If there's an itch you can't scratch, just... But like, your ass is like a vacuum. Like I said, it's just gonna dice in. It's gonna suck everything up there. And so it has to have a stopper on the end. From the very little research I've done on this topic, you cannot put something into your asshole that you can't pull out, or you will go to the hospital, you will be very embarrassed, and you will be in a considerable amount of pain. Correct. Everybody. Get it together. You know in the movie Sisters when he falls on the, ballerina box? Yeah. And the ballerina's just up his ass and then she turns it on by accident. It's twirling. It just starts spinning. Like, yeah, she's in fifth position or whatever. Oh, that's such a good movie. But you know what I mean? Like, it's okay if you want to explore and try out new things. I'm not yacking your yum. Just, like, there's gotta be something on the end of it. Uh huh. Imagine a doctor being like, don't worry, we're, we're almost gonna pull that glass mayo jar out of your asshole. We just need the glue to set it on this rod so that I can pull it out of you. What? It's giving Grey's Anatomy. I have more. I love this. I have a guy who kept peeing in the corner of his room. He was told several times to let us know if he needed to go and we would happily help him to the bathroom. He said he was going to keep doing it because he was going to tell everyone that I was the one peeing in his room so I would be fired. He told everyone and I didn't even get to go home. So rude. Patient, always masturbating. She didn't stop. When she She? She. When you came into the room, she kept on, keepin on. She was on the floor all the time. Her heart monitor stopped. Wait, what was she doing on the floor? You can't just do that in the bed? No, they mean the hospital, like the ward. Like, she's on the floor. Oh, okay. anyway, heart monitor stopped showing up and another nurse goes in to check on her. Patient had clipped the teleleads to her nipples. So she's having a time in there. Honestly, just let her be. She's thriving. She's reading Lucy fuckin score and she's thriving. Uh, my wife is a nurse. When she was back in college she did a rotation at the local VA. One day she heard some muffled yelling coming out of one of the rooms. She poked her head in the door to see if the guy was okay. Turns out he was standing in the middle of the room completely naked and singing God Bless America while masturbating. I mean... I applaud him. Guy who was a jerk to all the nurses. Every night, around the same time, his heart rate would go up to 170, which is very, very high. And they'd rush in and try to figure it out, and they realized that every night, at the same time, he was jerking off. And his heart rate would go back down after he, uh, was, uh, done. A lot of masturbators, turns out. You gotta do it sometimes, I guess. So I love this one so much. I was shadowing a doctor, deciding if I wanted to be one, currently awaiting my interviews pop off, girlfriend, and this woman comes into the emergency room. I go in my doctor and she's acting very strangely. The doc asks her why she's here and she says, I have leaves growing out of my vagina. Okay? We look at each other, look back at her, and both say what? At the same time. What? Uh huh. So she strips down, and sure enough, leaves. I grew up on a farm and recognize it right away, but I keep my mouth shut. He extracts a hollowed out potato end. As soon as she sees it, she's like, Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So she tells us how her and her boyfriend wanted to have sex, but didn't have a condom and couldn't find her cervical cap. They got creative and made one out of a potato. And she guesses she forgot about it. The image of leaves growing out of a vagina will haunt me to my dying day. I don't even understand. She put a whole potato in her vagina? She put like a end so it would act as if it was a condom and then she never took it out so like things were growing out of it. What the fuck? What is wrong with people? You couldn't go to the corner store? You couldn't pull out? I'm just wondering. You couldn't have done anything else? You couldn't have put in her ass? You couldn't have done literally anything else? You couldn't have just... Abstinence? I don't know. For real. Uh, this one... A long time ago, a girl came in and was lying on a stretcher at an odd angle with a sheep draped over her. Did I say sheep? Sheet. I was like, I pictured her like slinging a sheep over her shoulder. No, a sheet. Okay. It was my job to fill out her chart and ask some questions and the horrified look on her face intrigued me. Apparently she had been at a party and used the restroom and someone before her decided to make a quote, funny prank, super glued the toilet seat. She had to come to the ER with the seat still glued to her butt. She begged me to call the most ugly doctor they had, but of course I had to call the most handsome doctor at the hospital. She ended up needing a few surgeries, but the two of them hit it off and dated for a while. Oh, that's good. Imagine the embarrassment. Of having a toilet seat. I would too. I would go to the end of the earth and that ruin that person's life. Oh, for a hundred percent. A hundred and fifty percent. Ouch. Yeah. Ouch. My brother in law was a surgical nurse for 15 years. His favorite story was being involved in the surgical removal of a chunk of cheese out of someone's gastrointestinal tract. It weighed 18 ounces. What? A chunk of cheese. I mean. Honestly, I can't even judge. That is me after my trip. Just like, did you chew? He is me. I am him. I'm so bloated. How much is 18 ounces? 18 ounces? That's inches, honey. Eight ounces is a cup of water. Oh, okay. Oh. It was just like impacted? Yeah. A chunk of cheese. Did they chew it? Again. I am him. He is me. We see each other. We see each other. Brothers in cheese. Brothers in Christ. Brothers in cheese. Scene. Geriatric psych ward. Oh, God. Patient. You are very pretty. Me. Thank you. Patient. But would you be pretty if your head was cut off? Me. Probably not. I mean, you could be. These poor nurses. Guy had the fabled, Erection lasted longer than 4 hours. Came into the ER. At hour 9, We had to decompress it With a needle and syringe about 6 times. How the fuck do you even do that? Hour 9?! What do you decompress? What are you taking out of it? I don't know! Is it air? Fluid? Well, erections are blood. So I'm assuming blood? Ugh, I don't like that very much. So... Someone we know worked at a hospital and there was a psych patient who would come in all the time and like everyone kind of knew who she was and she was obviously mentally unwell, I don't mean to, I'm not making fun, and one time she'd come in and she'd just be like, They'd go, oh, you know, so and so, what's the problem today? She's a regular. Yeah, and she'd go, I swallowed razor blades. And they're like, what? And then a couple weeks later she came in and they were like, what happened? She'd be like, I swallowed all the batteries. And they'd be like, you can't do that, honey. Not again. Yeah, no. That's wild. And then this was really creepy. This person had a story where they changed their name legally to the Chosen One. And this person was really scary because they hooked a speaker up under their pillow and would just play exorcism stuff. So it was like people yelling and whispering and screaming because they were full exorcism. So you would just go into his room and just hear people having exorcisms? How? Someone give nurses, every single one of them raises immediately. For the love of God. Buy them a coffee at the bare minimum or a massive bottle of wine. Either one will do. If you have more stories you want to share with us, happy, happy, happy, happy to share. I thoroughly enjoyed those. Is that crazy? I hope that woman, really hopefully enjoyed the razor blades coming out. Oh, no, they probably, I mean, I don't think you can let it. I think you have to go in and surgically remove that. Same thing with batteries. You can't shit out batteries. Lithium man. You go poof. Oh no. That's terrible. I mean, I don't want that to happen to her. Okay. As promised in the previous episode, we discussed the whole Roman Empire... tea. Yeah, men just think about it all the time. So also like It's like this trend now that you ask the person you're dating if you're dating... You know, a classic straight guy and you go, How often do you think about the Roman Empire? And they're popping off and being like, Oh, all the time. Which is so random and weird to me. It's like, for fucking what? Why? It makes no sense. It's, it's quite the trend. I think by the time that this comes out, People will be like, Oh, you're talking about that now? Like, we are with the times, okay? This is pre recorded. Oh, shut up. So, therefore, I wanted to talk about things that were, like, our ladies version of the Roman Empire. Or, like, some are for me, personally, because I think of them for you, too, but I really couldn't. Okay. because I'm not in your brain like that. Like, that's too specific. And I don't know what you think about once a week. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. Our version of the Roman Empire, Helen Keller. I think about her. Just you. Yeah, it's just you. Really? I think about her once a week. Really? Yeah. Maybe do an episode on her or she gets like brought up by reference at least once a week by you in common conversation Zac Efron in the bet on bet on it music video, you know, the one of him on the I have no idea what you're talking about it. Oh a high school musical. Yeah In the grass and yeah on the hills that I just it's always there. Yeah for sure already in the wheelchair on glee any scene I fucking knew there was going to be a glee one. Specifically him diving into the pool in his wheelchair. I didn't see that episode. I'm so glad I did it. He did it willingly. He wasn't pushed. He's fine. Not me. Not Hermione. Oh, yeah. Especially that new TikTok. We're there. We'll post it. I'm not going to do it justice. It's perfect. The house and practical magic in my brain at all times. Yeah. The hocus pocus, that old. Yeah. But specifically like the witchy vibe of practical magic. Yes. Is my, the lot of green. I love a good kitchen too. Stained glass window when they dance around the kitchen of mar midnight margaritas. Yeah. Like, yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking. Too. Iconic, shitting in the street. Bridesmaids I like, I have to make the movie's perfection. No, that entire movie in general is iconic. Like I just feel like I make a reference to that at least once a day. Genuinely. Just bridesmaids in general. Yeah. Agreed. The fake ID dance scene from Footloose. Yes. Yes. In general, Princess Diana. No notes. No notes. She's perfect. The Titanic. Yeah. That's our Roman Empire. That's definitely. I think about the Titanic all the time. There's this video. Of a man. I think we've talked about it very briefly. And if you know me, you know what video I'm talking about. There was a video that was shared with me of a man doing a split on a dance floor at a wedding. Oh, I can't find it. And every part of his bottom half falls out. This man does a middle split in jeans with no underwear on, and when I tell you, he not only Everything falls out. He falls backwards. And you, I have seen inside of this man. And I think about him all, I'm like, I really hope he's okay. The look of pure shock and terror in this man's face. And he's, I would not share because it's essentially porn and I would not do that to this man. And he's drunk, so he's slow to cover himself. He doesn't realize, like, you can tell, you're like in his brain, you can sense that It's in slow motion. He's feeling the breeze, you can watch him collectively be like, Oh my god, something's wrong. And then slowly reach down, and then like, feel his asshole. And like, grab his balls. But he doesn't, he misses his asshole. He just covers his... His twigs and berries. And his asshole is just open season. His sacchiana. Oh my god, what the fuck is that? I don't know. Is that your version of Poussoir, but for good guys? Yeah. Oh, how lovely. I'm so glad, uh, you have one for the, for the men. His bowling balls. It is, I think about him all the time. I would agree with the Titanic. Rue. Obviously you think about Rue every day. I mean, Anitra, if you watch RuPaul's Drag Race, there are two scenes that I think of regularly, and it's Anitra walking that fucking duck, as she says, and it's also Jinx Monsoon's impression of Judy Garland, which will be burned into my retinas for, until my dying day, honestly. On Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, they, stayed at the Trixie Motel and they did drag. Oh, that makes me so happy. Yeah. Love Trixie. Do you know Trixie, two of our favorite people are besties? Who? Brittany Broski and Trixie? Yeah, and, oh my god, besties do make up together all the time. Sounds about right, brother. In a public sub. Fair. Mine also, Real Housewives, is the scene where like, if you know, you know. It says, Why is my husband in the pool? I pushed your husband in the pool. Who? Me and my husband. And it's just always in my brain at all times. Can I tell you, I was thinking about Florida the other day because my friend, Laura, moved down to St. Pete. And she was like, Oh my God, you should let me know. One of her best friends, her name is Lauren Gallagher, Gally messaged me and was like, I just want you to know you and Colleen are influencers, me and my friends are going to Cagney's to get egg rolls right now. Shut the fuck up. They were fucking closed. it was Labor Day. Really? And they were cool. I was like. This is the only thing we've ever influenced in our lives. 100%. So rude. I'm really upset about that. I know. I'm disappointed in them. Sorry, Gally. You have to go again. You have to persevere. Don't give up on this. Do not give up. It's so worth it. 100%. I think about those Cagney Egg rolls all the time. That's for sure. Dude, they're so good. So good. Alright, I have two positive stories for the week. You ready? Yeah, I think we could use some positivity in this, whatever this was. 87 year old gives her marathon medal to the surgeon who saved her life. Oh, that's sweet. she's 87 years old, Nanette Rogers underwent open heart surgery last fall and told her doctor in Advent Health Central Florida team that she'd share her success with them. She says she planned this prize for seven months. She ran a half marathon at 87 years old and then went to the hospital and put it around his neck. She also ranked top in her age group and plans to run the Kona Full Marathon in Hawaii by the time she's 90. Look at this video. Thank you so much. I wanted to come in here today to do something special. I wanted to give you, this is the finisher medal, it's Advent Health. I had planned this for seven months, to come back to see my doctor, Kevin Akula, and give him the medal that I received from running. I love her. She's perfect. She looks amazing. The fact that she got open heart surgery a year ago and now at 87 is running half marathons and plans to run a full marathon. I mean, she's just the best. Love her. Damn. That was from goodnews underscore movement and I actually found this really incredible Reader's Digest article. It was written by Marissa Lalibert. it's a bunch of amazing stories about nurses, but I have one that I particularly want to share with you. The best. As a former oncology nurse, Holly Christensen knew that scalps of children who lost their hair after chemo were usually too sensitive for traditional wigs. So when her friend's three year old got a cancer diagnosis, Christensen made her feel like a princess. Ugh. The former nurse made her a Rapunzel like wig from soft yarn decked out with faux flowers. Cute. Seeing the girl's glee inspired Christensen to make more according to ABC News. Launching the Magic Yarn project, she and other volunteers create princess wigs from The Little Mermaid, Frozen, and more. Plus ones based on Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. The organization has sent more than 1, 900 wigs to kids at no cost to the parents. Incredible. I will put the Reader's Digest article up so you guys can read all the good stories because there's like 16 of them so you can just have your little heart warmed. Gracious, gracious gal. Lucy and I were in the airport, we're heading to Naples, and this British man had a handle of vodka, glass. It was like one of those absolute bottles, you know? He put it on the top of his luggage while he was standing up, so obviously it rolled off and it hit the ground in like a, a crunch where you know. You know, you know. And his wife walked up to him. From, like, the back end of the airport and was like, For fuck's sake! And just started screaming at him in a British accent. Like, joking around, screaming at him. It was so funny. This man had a full, real life Jack Sparrow tattoo on his arm. I love that. Why? Why do you love that, do you think? I don't know. Maybe he was inspired. On your arm? Maybe he's a pirate. Of Johnny Depp's whole ass face? Maybe he's a pirate. He's not real. He's made up. It's a, it's a movie. It's kinda hot though. Oh good lord, that's all I have the strength for today. Fair enough. Fair enough. What are you doing this weekend? working. Okay. And, uh, that's about it. So. I have Danny's fourth birthday. I'm so excited. I can't wait to see him and Claire. And I feel like I haven't seen them in so long. I know. I miss them very, very, very much. I can't wait to snuggle them. And I got Danny these magnets he really loves, and they're in the shape of a dinosaur, which is his favorite thing. And it's just going to be amazing. I've never met a being that loves dinosaurs as much as him. No. Because there isn't one on the planet. Obsessed. He thinks Claire is a dinosaur. He makes dinosaur noises. He likes dinosaur songs. I got him a dinosaur nightlight because he doesn't love to go to bed. Maybe he will if he has a little nightlight with dinosaurs all over the wall. Sounds like a fair trade. But I'm gonna eat lettuce. I'm not gonna drink alcohol. And I'm gonna bake potato it. As you should. As one does. As one does. Alright everybody, have a wonderful week. Love you, mean it. Love you, mean it. Goodbye. Goodbye.
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