Speaker 1: Mother Knows Dad starring Nicole and Jemmy and Maria qk.
Speaker 2: Hi. Everyone, Welcome to Mother Knows Death. I'm here with
Speaker 2: Maria and we are doing a special holiday episode this week.
Speaker 3: You guys ask us a lot of questions every week,
Speaker 3: and we can't get to all of them, so we
Speaker 3: thought this would be a fun episode to answer a
Speaker 3: bunch of them while we're taking a little break from
Speaker 3: the news. So all right, let's kick it off with
Speaker 3: a question I'm sure you'll love. What is one habit
Speaker 3: each of you has that drives the other one crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I could tell you what mine is with
Speaker 2: you is that you talk too loud. I constantly feel
Speaker 2: like I'm like, shut up, you're talking too loud.
Speaker 3: I learned from the best, so I don't know what
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 2: I think I I think, I really think I have
Speaker 2: like a noise, like an auditory noise thing that like
Speaker 2: triggers anxiety in me. So but yeah, when we're if
Speaker 2: we're like out at a restaurant or something, I just
Speaker 2: feel like she talks like a hair too loud, and
Speaker 2: I just like don't want people here in my business.
Speaker 2: But it's really not that big of a deal. How
Speaker 2: about me, please, it's too pitty to.
Speaker 3: Get I really can't even tell you off the top
Speaker 3: of my head. If everybody doesn't know, we work together
Speaker 3: like ten hours every single day, not even physically, like
Speaker 3: we're texting the second we wake up. I'm there for
Speaker 3: eight hours, and then we're texting afterwards.
Speaker 2: Actually we're on the phone, and then like holiday get
Speaker 2: togethers and of course, like we just have family dinners
Speaker 2: and stuff every couple weeks, so it's like not even
Speaker 2: a break on the weekends most of the time.
Speaker 3: I guess my number one thing you need that drives
Speaker 3: me crazy is when I'm trying to get something done
Speaker 3: that's time sensitive, that you're edging me on about that's
Speaker 3: time sensitive, and then I'll ask you a question and
Speaker 3: you won't get back to me for like an hour,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, dude, I'm trying to do this.
Speaker 2: It's because I'm thinking if I don't have that, I am.
Speaker 2: I am really bad at Like if someone sends me
Speaker 2: a text message and I don't know what to say
Speaker 2: right away, I just don't write back and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'll deal with this later, and then I don't. I'm
Speaker 2: like really bad at that.
Speaker 3: So sometimes if the little clips come on Instagram four
Speaker 3: hours after the episode is up. Well, it's just because
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of something, that's all. All right,
Speaker 3: our autopsis performed on holidays like Christmas or do they
Speaker 3: have to wait until after.
Speaker 2: So in the hospital, in the at least the pathologies
Speaker 2: departments that I've ever worked at, they were closed on
Speaker 2: Christmas Day, so we would add on the weekends actually too,
Speaker 2: so we would only do them in extenuating circumstances on
Speaker 2: the weekends or like after hours. But at the Medical
Speaker 2: Examiner they're open every single day. They don't close. So yeah,
Speaker 2: some autopsies are being done, just not at hospitals.
Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting. I didn't realize that they were open
Speaker 3: on Christmas. People die on Christmas, believe it or not. Okay,
Speaker 3: is there anything to be concerned about botox filler being
Speaker 3: injected into a body.
Speaker 2: Like a dead body or into your body? Just yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I don't know. I get botox and filler,
Speaker 2: so I try not to think about it because it's
Speaker 2: one of the benefits out way. The risk kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't personally have not had any issues
Speaker 2: with it, but I've read horror stories from medical journals
Speaker 2: of issues. And the one thing I would say is
Speaker 2: that I go to doctor Dimitri. I love him so
Speaker 2: much in Morristown, New Jersey, which is what like fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes outside of Philadelphia. Probably you could get there fast,
Speaker 2: but I just love him so much because all he
Speaker 2: does is that's all he does is fillers and botox,
Speaker 2: and he's an expert at it. He goes to special
Speaker 2: classes all the time. He's you really need to know
Speaker 2: the anatomy of the face, because if you inject anywhere wrong,
Speaker 2: you can give a person severe problems. And I think
Speaker 2: that there's a risk with any procedure medical procedure, even
Speaker 2: if it's something as small as like a tiny injection.
Speaker 2: But to decrease your risk, you have to go to
Speaker 2: somebody like obviously everyone doesn't live in Philadelphia, because then
Speaker 2: everybody could just go to doctor Dimitri. But you have
Speaker 2: to make sure that you go to someone that isn't
Speaker 2: just like your family doctor that learned how to start
Speaker 2: doing botox. It's like someone that is it's their passion
Speaker 2: and their life, and they are well versed in anatomy
Speaker 2: and all of the different products, and they know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. That's all I could recommend. I do know
Speaker 2: that some of them carry side effects, but you just
Speaker 2: have to read the pamphlet and make sure you're not
Speaker 2: on certain medications or have underlying health conditions.
Speaker 3: Okay, our suicide's more common during the holidays.
Speaker 2: I I don't know. I don't work at the Medical
Speaker 2: Examiner's office, so and when I did my internship there,
Speaker 2: I wasn't there during the holiday time. I've heard that
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily true. You know how they say there's
Speaker 2: the most domestic abuse calls on Super Bowl Sunday. There's
Speaker 2: like all these little things people say. I just I
Speaker 2: heard It's not true. There's I mean, unfortunately, there's lots
Speaker 2: of suicides every day. That's that's all I could say.
Speaker 3: Do we dream about death? If so, how frequent and
Speaker 3: realistic or not? I would say almost never.
Speaker 2: I had. I've had a couple bad dreams really about
Speaker 2: like Gabe at work. Honestly, that's happened a couple of times.
Speaker 2: But and I don't know. I don't even think that
Speaker 2: that's triggered by anything that we either talk about on
Speaker 2: the podcast or just like what I've seen in real life.
Speaker 2: More just like real life unfortunately real life situations where
Speaker 2: people that we either know or we know through friends
Speaker 2: that have firefighters that have died in the line of duty.
Speaker 2: It is always something on the back of my mind.
Speaker 2: It's not frequent though, it's just like a couple of times.
Speaker 2: But other than that, No, I don't, I don't do you.
Speaker 3: No. I have really crazy dreams all the time, but
Speaker 3: never really about dying. I'll have ones that people get
Speaker 3: hurt in my life where I get hurt, but nothing
Speaker 3: like they's so there's so like fantasy base fantasy, I
Speaker 3: mean like fictional base that like they're so outlandish that
Speaker 3: they couldn't be real. So when I wake up, I'm
Speaker 3: able to like get out of it pretty quick, even
Speaker 3: if it's really disturbing.
Speaker 2: Momm probably my mom, So let me tell you about
Speaker 2: my mom. She like she's so annoying with her dreams.
Speaker 2: She'll just call and say, I have the craziest dream
Speaker 2: and then she goes on this like one hour story
Speaker 2: about all this shit that would just never happen, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, what is the point of you telling me
Speaker 2: this right now? Like it's all the time that I
Speaker 2: was like, Mom, I don't want to hear about your
Speaker 2: dreams anymore, like write them down and make a book
Speaker 2: or something like nobody cares.
Speaker 3: It's one of those topics that I think, like, I
Speaker 3: personally hate hearing about people's horoscopes. I don't care. I
Speaker 3: don't care what the moon the lines like. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I can't get into it. I know everybody thinks I'm
Speaker 3: into it. I don't want to hear about it. I
Speaker 3: don't care what time I was born and with the
Speaker 3: sun whatever it's dreams are I feel in that category
Speaker 3: two of just like things people when you start telling
Speaker 3: somebody else about a dream you had, they're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, exactly. Now when the kids tell me their dreams.
Speaker 2: I love when the kids tell me their dreams because
Speaker 2: I could I do like disacting like a dream and
Speaker 2: and hearing like when the kids just say all this,
Speaker 2: like really outrageous stuff, I'm like, oh, well, you can
Speaker 2: attribute that to when we talked about this the other
Speaker 2: day and this when we talked about this the other day.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like, if you do have bad dreams,
Speaker 2: it almost kind of freaks you out that you had
Speaker 2: such like sick thoughts while you were sleeping, but you
Speaker 2: always I feel like you could always look back and say,
Speaker 2: like that little piece came from that, and that little
Speaker 2: piece came from that. Like usually these things don't come
Speaker 2: out up out of the blue. They're just like very scattered.
Speaker 2: So I do like it with the children because I
Speaker 2: do like explaining it to them. I think it helps
Speaker 2: them like not be as scared.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, what's our favorite episode of The Nanny? Oh?
Speaker 2: God, this is so this is so hard for me
Speaker 2: to pick too, because I just love like every episode.
Speaker 2: I actually like need to start watching that again. It's
Speaker 2: just so good.
Speaker 3: I love when the episode when she's on Jeopardy. I
Speaker 3: love the episode where she meets Barbara Streisan because that's
Speaker 3: how I imagine I would feel if I met her. H Well,
Speaker 3: she doesn't even really formally meet her because she's supposed
Speaker 3: to go to the concert, but then she sends Cecie
Speaker 3: with her dad to go to the concert, but then
Speaker 3: Barbara calls her on the phone. Who would you.
Speaker 2: Say your favorite character on The Nanny is?
Speaker 3: I mean Fran but side character Niles the Butler. Definitely,
Speaker 3: he's so hilarious.
Speaker 2: I know I was actually gonna say Niles too. I
Speaker 2: think that he's he's so funny and on point with
Speaker 2: the insults, and it's just it's such a kind of
Speaker 2: such a well written show.
Speaker 3: I kind of hate the kids, honestly, foot I don't
Speaker 3: I hate them.
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't really like. No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't mind them as much some some shows I
Speaker 2: really like can't stand the kids. And you know who
Speaker 2: I like. The kid that I don't like is the
Speaker 2: kid in the Elf movie. I just think he and
Speaker 2: I don't not like him as a person. I just
Speaker 2: think that he wasn't it was. It's the only role
Speaker 2: in the whole movie that I'm kind of like, Eh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm feeling it, but I think
Speaker 2: I think it's good because they're supposed to be like
Speaker 2: spoiled rich kids, right like and and well, let's not
Speaker 2: forget the best character, which is Grandma. Yea, yeah, Grandma.
Speaker 2: Yet it is is like she really is the best,
Speaker 2: Like the whole the whole thing is just is just
Speaker 2: really and and the mom her mom, what's her aim?
Speaker 2: I kid? Why can't I even think of Sylvia? Yeah? Like,
Speaker 2: it's just it's just such a well written show.
Speaker 3: I love it so fun. Fact, a couple of years
Speaker 3: ago I saw this comedy special that Fran Dresher was
Speaker 3: part of in New York that got taped, called Women
Speaker 3: of a Certain Age, And I didn't even know it
Speaker 3: was getting taped. I just saw she was coming and
Speaker 3: it was affordable, so I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: New York for the day see her. And I was
Speaker 3: sitting right behind Renee Taylor, who plays Sylvia Fine, and
Speaker 3: she is even more fabulous in person, So that was
Speaker 3: a really cool moment for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she They're just so great. All right, what's next?
Speaker 3: Where can I send pics of pathology to submit for
Speaker 3: your page?
Speaker 2: What's what's the email?
Speaker 3: Nicole at her email that she doesn't know is Nicole
Speaker 3: at the Coal at the door? Modern?
Speaker 2: Sorry? It well, it goes right to my phone and
Speaker 2: I don't I don't use it like that, So it
Speaker 2: goes to my phone and said she's the tech guy,
Speaker 2: but yeah, send send me stuff there. It goes right
Speaker 2: to my phone. I could see it and if it's
Speaker 2: something that we could use, we'll definitely use that. I
Speaker 2: use users submitted things all the time, So please and
Speaker 2: send us news stories too if if you're interested, if
Speaker 2: you see something that happens during the week. My mom
Speaker 2: sends me. She mo, Mom sent three stories this week,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I got it already, Mom, She's so many.
Speaker 2: She loves when we like don't have something, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: we're on.
Speaker 3: She did come through with the monkey story. The monkey
Speaker 3: story was good. What's your favorite Christmas song song? Well,
Speaker 3: you think my favorites? We need a Little Christmas by
Speaker 3: Johnny Mathis. I feel like it's sounds like during that
Speaker 3: time in like the fifties and sixties when they were
Speaker 3: all the crazy pills and like I just imagine them
Speaker 3: like being like no that yeah, dancing around like all
Speaker 3: amped up on whatever pills they were giving everybody back then,
Speaker 3: and he just sounds like so crazy. And I just
Speaker 3: think of the behind the scenes of making that song,
Speaker 3: and for some reason, it makes me really think it's fun.
Speaker 3: I can't even I'm not accusing him of being on pills.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, no, it is like it It really is,
Speaker 2: like it's really grand. Yes, I don't know, like I
Speaker 2: have this right now. I have this whole station setup
Speaker 2: that plays like all the older songs, which I prefer
Speaker 2: anything by, Like I love Andy Williams so much, so
Speaker 2: all of his songs and then I am kind of
Speaker 2: a sucker for like the old religious songs. I really
Speaker 2: like them, like Noel and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Oh, I like like I love Noel and.
Speaker 2: Like obviously I think and the new the newest song
Speaker 2: that I like is like the Mariah Carey song, which
Speaker 2: isn't even new. I think it came out when like
Speaker 2: right when you were born.
Speaker 3: I came out like twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that I don't like. My kids were trying
Speaker 2: to get me to listen to did you hear that song?
Speaker 2: They were like obsessed with about a snowman or something
Speaker 2: or snowball, and and they kept saying that we listen
Speaker 2: to it. They want to listen to Tayler.
Speaker 3: Swift, and I'm like, you need to influence their musical
Speaker 3: taste more and put on Harry Connick Junior's Christmas album
Speaker 3: because that was the pinnacle day.
Speaker 2: They're just not They want to listen to Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: like all the time, and I'm just kind of like,
Speaker 2: and I don't. I don't like hate her or her music.
Speaker 2: I just like I'm not I'm not into it. Like
Speaker 2: I just I like what I like. And I'm an
Speaker 2: old lady and I like the old stuff and that
Speaker 2: King cold too, don't forget about it.
Speaker 3: And that King yeah is great. Who's your favorite historical
Speaker 3: figure that's died. I guess that we've covered, Oh for
Speaker 3: like a celebrity death to section, well, not a celebrity
Speaker 3: like I would blanket it as like for me, I
Speaker 3: would say Marie Antoinette because I think her story is
Speaker 3: really interesting behind it with the revolution and the beheading
Speaker 3: and then get into the wax Museum and all of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a really cool one. Marie Currey was
Speaker 2: a really good one.
Speaker 3: God, oh yeah, that one was really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do so many of them that you're that
Speaker 2: and I love of course, I love the Marie Currey
Speaker 2: woe because she was just like a pioneer scientist when
Speaker 2: women weren't doing that kind of stuff. So I love that.
Speaker 2: And I love that about Marie Antoinette when we were
Speaker 2: learning about Madame Tusseau and her whole story was super
Speaker 2: cool too. It's just cool to I think, like in
Speaker 2: a time where women were usually not doing anything that
Speaker 2: they were doing this like really huge stuff. I just
Speaker 2: like love stories like that.
Speaker 3: No, Marie Currey was cool, and at that time we
Speaker 3: were reading the Radium Girls for the Gross Room Book
Speaker 3: Club and that that really opened my eyes to toxic
Speaker 3: chemicals and everything. So that was definitely really interesting to see.
Speaker 3: And not to mention, she's just total badass lady, super cool.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and What the Radio Girls was such a
Speaker 2: good book. You guys have to read that if you
Speaker 2: haven't read it. It's so interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's long, but it's worth every second. I did
Speaker 3: the audiobook and it was so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so so good.
Speaker 3: I did too.
Speaker 2: I was gardening out back all summer and listening to
Speaker 2: the book. It was great. And then then after you
Speaker 2: listen to that book, then you want to read our
Speaker 2: High Profile or Celebrity Death dissection on Marie Currie and
Speaker 2: it just kind of all goes together and it's just
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 3: Okay, tips for a shadow a pathologist.
Speaker 2: So things are weird now because of hip strong hippa
Speaker 2: on top of COVID. Hospitals have changed a lot, and
Speaker 2: I don't really know exactly how things are, but it's
Speaker 2: just like things that I'm hearing how hard it is
Speaker 2: now to shadow. My only suggestion to you would be
Speaker 2: to call a pathology department at a hospital near you.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to try, like a smaller one that
Speaker 2: doesn't have as much going on, because you might be
Speaker 2: more likely to be allowed to go and see if
Speaker 2: there's a way that you can go in there and
Speaker 2: shadow a pathologist for the day. You'll usually get a
Speaker 2: hold of like a secretary and just say, Hey, I'm
Speaker 2: in school for pathology or I'm in doing my prerequisites
Speaker 2: for pathology, and I really wanted to know if I
Speaker 2: could come in and look at the watch the pathologists
Speaker 2: work for a couple hours the whole like I want
Speaker 2: to go see an autopsy. Thing is just something that
Speaker 2: you just have to have, like be happy if you
Speaker 2: stumble across it, because like a lot of people would say, oh,
Speaker 2: I want to come schedule a day to come see
Speaker 2: an autopsy, and I would say, well, like I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't predict when someone's going to die, so I
Speaker 2: don't know like we would have sometimes we wouldn't have
Speaker 2: an autopsy for a whole entire week at the hospital,
Speaker 2: and then other times we had two a day the
Speaker 2: whole week. Like it's just you couldn't predict it or
Speaker 2: schedule it. So if you do go follow there's always
Speaker 2: surgical pathology every day. You could always look at them
Speaker 2: dissecting something and then maybe there'll be an autopsy too
Speaker 2: that you could so happen to get in on.
Speaker 3: So do you have to be in school to be
Speaker 3: access to be granted access for that or could it
Speaker 3: like a regular person interested in pursuing the field that's
Speaker 3: not yet, we'll do it.
Speaker 2: I feel like I would say no. I feel like
Speaker 2: like back in the day when I first started, it
Speaker 2: would even be sketchy to just let someone come in
Speaker 2: and see an autopsy just because they wanted to, Because
Speaker 2: you have to think, like that person's a patient at
Speaker 2: the hospital and there's like charts that we have laying
Speaker 2: around and they're they're names written on the specimen containers
Speaker 2: and the toe tags and stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's like.
Speaker 2: There's hippo concerns. I know at some hospitals. I hear
Speaker 2: they don't even let nurses that work at that hospital
Speaker 2: look at an autopsy, which is insane to me.
Speaker 3: But it's like, yeah, that doesn't seem like it should
Speaker 3: be right. It doesn't, but they're doing their education. They
Speaker 3: just their hospitals get scared so and you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, So they just they're just trying to cover
Speaker 3: their ass. So I feel like a smaller community hospital
Speaker 3: might be a little bit of a better bet because
Speaker 3: they might not be so they might be a little
Speaker 3: bit more lenient. Okay, next, did I teach myself to embroider?
Speaker 3: And the answer is yes. I started crocheting first because
Speaker 3: I went through a summer of I took the kid's
Speaker 3: Nintendo switch because they weren't using it, and then I
Speaker 3: was playing Animal Crossing all summer, and my headaches were
Speaker 3: really bad because I was going from staring at my
Speaker 3: phone in the morning to working on a computer all
Speaker 3: day to then staring at a Nintendo switch all night
Speaker 3: long and was becoming a vegetable. So I was like,
Speaker 3: I need a hobby that's not with working on a
Speaker 3: screen and I could just kind of sit there mindlessly
Speaker 3: do it. So at first I started to teaching myself
Speaker 3: to crochet, but my brain just really doesn't work that
Speaker 3: way and I could barely get like an oven.
Speaker 2: Which is funny because so we just did our my
Speaker 2: dad's side of the family Christmas party last weekend and
Speaker 2: we do like a Pollyanna between all of us. It's
Speaker 2: really fun. And Maria got a crocheted blanket that my
Speaker 2: aunt Harry Made who's almost eighty years old, right or
Speaker 2: she is eighty years old. She turned yeah, and she
Speaker 2: made like she's like whips out blankets like it's nothing
Speaker 2: like and she she I'm talking to her about it
Speaker 2: in the bathroom and she's like, I only do one
Speaker 2: or two stitches, and I was like, dude, You've made
Speaker 2: a whole blanket like really fast. I was trying to
Speaker 2: teach the kids how to do like one little line,
Speaker 2: and it's it's just like not easy to do if
Speaker 2: you're green in mind.
Speaker 3: Can't do you know? Yeah, I just I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: I tried a bunch of different things, and my friend
Speaker 3: Julia is really amazing at it, and she also will
Speaker 3: sit there and just whip something out while with her
Speaker 3: and her husband or driving or something or just when
Speaker 3: they're watching TV. I just can't do it. So then
Speaker 3: I I thought to do well. Julia actually suggested that
Speaker 3: I do the embroidery needle point. So I started off
Speaker 3: by getting a couple of kits off of Amazon that
Speaker 3: were really easy, and then I like worked my way
Speaker 3: up and since Christmas is coming up and I've been
Speaker 3: making everybody presence, I've been going off and like doing
Speaker 3: my I actually just finished my first really big design,
Speaker 3: So after Christmas is over, which will be when this
Speaker 3: episode is out, I will be posting all of the
Speaker 3: embroiders have been working on for the last three months,
Speaker 3: but I obviously can't right now because I don't want
Speaker 3: to spoil them for everybody getting them. But I'm really
Speaker 3: proud of this one in particular. I just finished and
Speaker 3: it's really soothing to just sit there and do it.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of forgiveness if you mess up, which
Speaker 3: is what I need, and I wasn't seeing with crocheting,
Speaker 3: so I think it's cool. And my big project for
Speaker 3: this winter and early spring is I'm going to be
Speaker 3: embroidering us Philly's cardigans. Oyah, I can't run our style
Speaker 3: because baseball gear is just so ugly sometimes.
Speaker 2: So oh it really is. And you know we were
Speaker 2: talking about this too, like Taller Swift has been all
Speaker 2: over the news, like going to these games, and she's
Speaker 2: just like wearing the same old crap that we wear
Speaker 2: the games. I'm like, if she can't wear some like
Speaker 2: super cute gear and like look different than any other
Speaker 2: like female sports fan, it's just like not gonna happen
Speaker 2: for us, but we're determined to make like really cute
Speaker 2: Phillies gear, at least for ourselves.
Speaker 3: On that note, somebody ask who are our favorite Phillies players? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know who to say who is my favorite?
Speaker 2: Because I don't necessarily have a favorite, but obviously, like
Speaker 2: Lillian loves Bryce Harper, so we I love Bryce Harper,
Speaker 2: everybody does. Real Muteo's Lulu's favorite Philly so he's one
Speaker 2: of ours too. Casianos, we're happy that we heard some
Speaker 2: rumor that he was probably getting traded, and we're like
Speaker 2: happy that that didn't happen. And uh Stott, what's the
Speaker 2: other ones named?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Alec Bohm, I have a boomer. I mean we what
Speaker 2: obvious ones am I leaving out right now? Marshy my favorite?
Speaker 3: Marsh Brandon Marsh Yeah, I like, I really think we
Speaker 3: have such a genuinely good team. I love s Forward too.
Speaker 2: I think, oh yeah, obviously he yeah, yeah, what I
Speaker 2: would actually say I there's something like I really love
Speaker 2: about him because I think that he's like he's just
Speaker 2: like older but like and and people are always like
Speaker 2: kind of talking ship because he doesn't really do that
Speaker 2: great but then when he goes up, like when he
Speaker 2: does do great, he does really great. So yeah, him too, everybody.
Speaker 2: I love our whole team. It's just like such a
Speaker 2: great team. Yeah, we have a great team. And I
Speaker 2: think like biased but not. We have the most handsome
Speaker 2: team in the MLB right now. So yeah, that is no. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because when we go to we go, we see a
Speaker 2: lot of the teams, you know, we go to a
Speaker 2: lot of games.
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Speaker 3: Where do we eat shop for our clothes? So?
Speaker 2: I would say my number one place that I shot
Speaker 2: for close is J Crew because they have their g
Speaker 2: I just wear like one or two different cuts of
Speaker 2: jeans because I'm I have really long legs and I
Speaker 2: have like really really really wide hips, and I think
Speaker 2: that they're they just fit me the best. They they
Speaker 2: have high waisted pants that don't like scooch down my
Speaker 2: butt when I you know, when I bend over and stuff.
Speaker 2: They just fit well. And also I'm constantly like fluctuating
Speaker 2: in between the same ten pounds, and they fit when
Speaker 2: I'm skinny and they fit when I'm fat. They're my
Speaker 2: favorite jeans. And I would say I wear every day
Speaker 2: and I like their sweaters. I just like I don't
Speaker 2: really on a just like normal day, I just wear
Speaker 2: like a sweater and jeans and uh, Doc Martins, what
Speaker 2: do like? Yeah, where do you go like normally? Well,
Speaker 2: most of my clothes are from Express because I find
Speaker 2: that they have really good neutrals, and I really like
Speaker 2: the way their jeans fit me. And I just get
Speaker 2: body suits because I also wear a lot of cardigans
Speaker 2: and stuff. So like, typically my summer go to outfit
Speaker 2: would be like a body suit with jeans, sandals, and
Speaker 2: a cardigan or something. And then in the winter I'm
Speaker 2: strictly like big socks, leggings, oversized crew neck sweatshirt. So
Speaker 2: I get a lot of vintage stuff. I would say
Speaker 2: most regularly I get closed at Anthropology, but I refuse
Speaker 2: to pay full price there, so I only when they
Speaker 2: have like right now they're having a huge sale.
Speaker 3: So like that's when I'll buy a couple of things.
Speaker 3: But also typically that could be a failure because if
Speaker 3: it's on sale, it's most likely because something's weird about it,
Speaker 3: which I found a lot, So I guess between Anthropology
Speaker 3: shopping vintage by winter Crew. Next, I like to get
Speaker 3: when I travel, so I get one in like a
Speaker 3: city I travel to, and I wear those. So that's
Speaker 3: for the.
Speaker 2: Most part, But I think I get like I get
Speaker 2: my nicer clothes from like Nordstrom or Anthro too.
Speaker 3: But I yeah, but like every day.
Speaker 2: I don't really dress that night. I like to look
Speaker 2: like put together, but I don't wear like a nice
Speaker 2: a nice shirt or nice black pants or something on
Speaker 2: a normal day, you know, No, I.
Speaker 3: Mean I look like a total slab every day we're
Speaker 3: not doing.
Speaker 2: I don't think I Well, I look like a slob
Speaker 2: on on Mondays for sure, because that's the day we
Speaker 2: write our high profile or celebrity death dissection and I'm
Speaker 2: just like literally sitting at the computer for at least
Speaker 2: eight hours, if not more. And I mean I always
Speaker 2: get up and get dressed, but barely.
Speaker 3: Also, I went into a loft the other day, and
Speaker 3: I think they have a new creative director because I
Speaker 3: wanted almost everything in there.
Speaker 2: I haven't been a loft for a while. I wish
Speaker 2: that a Generallions obviously, I love General Lions, And I
Speaker 2: wish she was back at Jakrub like what was that
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen years ago, because that was just like amazing.
Speaker 2: I wish she would be my personal stylist. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it, all right. Do you like fruitcake? I honestly
Speaker 2: don't think I ever had it.
Speaker 3: I don't think i've had it either, but I don't
Speaker 3: really I'm not interested in it. Like I don't even
Speaker 3: like when we get like water ice and there's little
Speaker 3: chunks of anything in it, I feel like it's too
Speaker 3: chunky for me. Yes, I have texture issues.
Speaker 2: I don't I would try it, I just didn't ever
Speaker 2: try it. But you guys know, I don't eat gluten,
Speaker 2: so I doubt, Like I don't know, gluten free fruitcake
Speaker 2: sounds pretty terrible actually, but I'll try. I'll try anything.
Speaker 3: What scares you more than anything else eat tornadoes, which
Speaker 3: is a recent fear because all of a sudden, New
Speaker 3: Jersey's like Oklahoma over here. Just get the tornado warning
Speaker 3: every other day. What's your favorite movie?
Speaker 2: Moonstruck?
Speaker 3: Moonstruck. I have kind of a tie between Parent Trap
Speaker 3: because it's like pure childhood nostalgia. I love that movie,
Speaker 3: and then the Trinity of Weddings singer Happy Gilmour and
Speaker 3: Billy Madison.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all good. It's really hard to pick.
Speaker 3: And Pride and Prejudice with Karen Knightley and the guy
Speaker 3: from Succession I always forget his name, but I love
Speaker 3: that movie so much and I will watch it anytime
Speaker 3: and just think, so it's such an amazing story. I
Speaker 3: love Jane Austen, you know movie.
Speaker 2: I love Bottle Rockets.
Speaker 3: Oh I've never seen that guy.
Speaker 2: I love it, so it's on my list. It's so good.
Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna tell Gate, well, I have this role
Speaker 2: that like around Christmas time, we only are allowed to
Speaker 2: watch Christmas movies. He was like, we had a little
Speaker 2: date night the other night and he was like, let's
Speaker 2: watch Oppenheimer and I and I'm like, no, we have
Speaker 2: to watch like Scrooged or something. We can't watch. We
Speaker 2: can't watch to non Christmas movie.
Speaker 3: So we're in that too. Of we do like our
Speaker 3: own like twenty five Days the Christmas thing. But we
Speaker 3: took a break the other night to watch Killers of
Speaker 3: the Flower Moon, which was so incredible and I loved it,
Speaker 3: and I actually have an article that I want to
Speaker 3: write about a component of that movie. And once a month.
Speaker 3: I'm a huge movie person, Like I love the theater,
Speaker 3: I love the popcorn. Me and my two friends go
Speaker 3: once a month to see a movie, and it's like
Speaker 3: one of my favorite things to do during the month.
Speaker 3: So I love I definitely love going to the movies.
Speaker 3: I love everything about movies. Okay, what is the best
Speaker 3: slash coolest way to go out that you've heard of?
Speaker 2: Like to die?
Speaker 3: Yeah? To die?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'd like to go out notebook style, hand in hand
Speaker 3: with my husband at the same exact moment, because yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Never saw the Notebook because I feel like I'll just
Speaker 2: cry the whole time.
Speaker 3: I can't watch.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I like anymore like obviously obviously, like like
Speaker 2: we were just talking about in a previous episode about
Speaker 2: a woman that was on her hospice bed with with
Speaker 2: sowreds in her mouth from radiation and stuff, like I
Speaker 2: definitely don't want that. And yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 2: obviously if you can die with your hut. I always
Speaker 2: tell my husband that I have to die first, because
Speaker 2: like I just won't be able to handle if he dies,
Speaker 2: you know, unless you die at the same exact time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess that's totally realizing. That would be That would
Speaker 2: be the best. I guess hopefully it's when we're both
Speaker 2: really old though.
Speaker 3: I mean that movie. You can't watch that movie because
Speaker 3: it's like they grow old together after having this amazing
Speaker 3: love story and then the wife gets Alzheimer's and can't
Speaker 3: remember and it's like him retelling her their life and
Speaker 3: then they died together. It's like, yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2: I just like have no inter in feeling like shit,
Speaker 2: like on.
Speaker 3: The topic of death, are more the most full during
Speaker 3: the holiday season.
Speaker 2: So yeah, actually I would say just from the hospital, yes,
Speaker 2: just because like I was saying earlier, like the hospital's closed, well,
Speaker 2: the pathology department is closed on Christmas Day. Well, in
Speaker 2: the hospitals that I've worked at anyway, they're starting to
Speaker 2: open the more every day, but like Christmas Day and
Speaker 2: just you know, the normal holidays fourth of July. And
Speaker 2: actually the worst time I ever had was during a
Speaker 2: Memorial Day. We because we were closed, you know for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Well this year, Christmas falls on Monday, right, so that
Speaker 2: could happen too. It's like the three day in a row,
Speaker 2: so you have Monday, Tuesday, and the Memorial Days like Monday,
Speaker 2: and we like were running out of room in the
Speaker 2: morgue that they had to bring the bodies to another
Speaker 2: hospital to put it in the morgue because it was full.
Speaker 3: What's your pet peeve?
Speaker 2: I feel like I have so many pet peeves that
Speaker 2: like way more than the average person of just like
Speaker 2: things that get all my nerves. I guess you would say,
Speaker 2: I don't really, I don't know, do you Can you
Speaker 2: think of a specific one.
Speaker 3: That for me a big problem. I just thought of
Speaker 3: one is when like I I'm talking to somebody and
Speaker 3: they're clearly not listening to me, and then I know
Speaker 3: it's going to come back that they weren't listening to me,
Speaker 3: and then I get super annoyed because I'm like, I
Speaker 3: just said this and I'm not repeating myself again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: clearly you don't have children yet, because that's that's like
Speaker 3: the story of my life. Ever, with kids, you have
Speaker 3: more patience with it. When you're talking to a full
Speaker 3: grown adult about something, you expect that they're like not
Speaker 3: gonna blow you off.
Speaker 2: So one thing, one pet peeve I have is that
Speaker 2: people do this like weird thing, and I've noticed it
Speaker 2: with people, people that have children and people that have
Speaker 2: animals that they like come really close to you in
Speaker 2: a store and they start talking loud to either their
Speaker 2: child or their animal because they want you to like
Speaker 2: look at them or pay attention to them or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just drives me nuts. Like I
Speaker 2: was in home depot recently looking in the plant section
Speaker 2: and this lady is walking around with a huge dog,
Speaker 2: which I'm just kind of like, why do you need
Speaker 2: to bring one hundred pound dog in the home depot Anyway,
Speaker 2: That's like side note, and she's like, oh, let's go
Speaker 2: over here, let's look at these plants here. Would you
Speaker 2: like this in the house? And I'm like, you're fucking
Speaker 2: talking to a dog right now in home depot. And
Speaker 2: on top of that, like I don't like she kept
Speaker 2: like getting close to me, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to pet your dog and engage with you right now.
Speaker 2: People do it with little kids too, and like we
Speaker 2: Gabe and I were at a diner recently, and when
Speaker 2: I'm out without the kids, like, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be bothered by other people's kids because I have my
Speaker 2: own kids all the time. And this like five year
Speaker 2: olds kept on coming over to the table, and the
Speaker 2: parents were just letting the kid come over, and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: I don't okay, Hi, your kid's cute. Get away, all right,
Speaker 2: that's a little kareny. But on the time, I'm Karen,
Speaker 2: what do you want to say?
Speaker 3: We'll wrap it up with what is the weirdest foreign
Speaker 3: object you found in a person excluding anal or vaginal cavities?
Speaker 3: I don't even know if you could say.
Speaker 2: Well, one time I was cleaning out of colon on
Speaker 2: a lady that had a bowel obstruction, and she had
Speaker 2: to get She got her entire colon cut out for
Speaker 2: a bowel obstruction. So all I do is get this
Speaker 2: colon in a bucket that's full of shit. I don't
Speaker 2: know what the bowl obstruction is, but she was in
Speaker 2: a nursing home and she was like in her eighties,
Speaker 2: so I like, I assume she's got a tumor in there, right,
Speaker 2: and I open it up because we have to open
Speaker 2: it to clean the poop out as soon as possible.
Speaker 2: Is all the bacteria and the poop can like break
Speaker 2: down the lining of the colon, so we get it
Speaker 2: out as soon as possible this way because if the
Speaker 2: if the lining gets broken down by the bacteria, then
Speaker 2: the pathologist isn't going to be able to see anything
Speaker 2: under the microscope. So I'm cleaning it out and then
Speaker 2: I start just finding like crazy shit, like giant paper towels.
Speaker 2: And then I found like one of those like mesh
Speaker 2: bags that you would put like onions or oranges in,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh hole. And then I found
Speaker 2: out that she was like she had Alzheimer's and she
Speaker 2: was like eating bags and paper towels, and that's what
Speaker 2: caused the ball obstruction. But that was a little I
Speaker 2: was like, what the fuck is this? So that's probably
Speaker 2: like non non vaginal, anal weirdest thing that I just
Speaker 2: so happened to find. No, actually I have another one too, But.
Speaker 3: I have too.
Speaker 2: I have another one, and then I have a story
Speaker 2: of one of my students. One time I got another
Speaker 2: small ball obstruction. It's like the one. Another pet peeve
Speaker 2: I have is that when you get a specimen from
Speaker 2: the surgical unit or something, they don't want to give
Speaker 2: you any information. They just put small ball obstruction. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I get this little It was like a cute
Speaker 2: little segment of small bell, and I opened it up
Speaker 2: and there was like a whole entire piece of broccoli.
Speaker 2: Like I don't even understand how a person not only
Speaker 2: swallowed it, but it went through their entire stomach and
Speaker 2: then into their small bell where it finally got launched.
Speaker 2: It was like a straight up huge head of broccoli.
Speaker 2: Another one, this is This is even better because the
Speaker 2: broccoli is like, not that interesting. This one's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: One of my students got the same exact thing and
Speaker 2: opened it up and there was like a finely wrapped
Speaker 2: up one hundred dollars Bill in the small bell weird. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you guys so much for your questions. If
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Speaker 3: listening to us for the last couple of weeks. It's
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been having so much fun. We love the questions.
Speaker 2: We don't mind talking about our personal life. We're pretty
Speaker 2: open with even if you think we're Karen's whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for just for listening and everything.
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Speaker 3: Definitely, thank you guys. Happy New Year, Happy.
Speaker 2: New Year, Thank you for listening to Mother nos Death.
Speaker 2: As a reminder, my training is as a pathologist assistant.
Speaker 2: I have a master's level education and specialize in anatomy
Speaker 2: and pathology education. I am not a doctor and I
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