Speaker 1: Mother Knows Death starring Nicole and Jemmy and Maria qk Hi.
Speaker 1: Everyone welcome The Mother Knows Death. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: this week's six shocking stories. Our first story is called
Speaker 1: clean Your Ass. I don't think anybody's going to predict
Speaker 1: where this one's going. So this one was actually submitted
Speaker 1: by a grocery member. So a paraplegic mail in his
Speaker 1: thirties arrived at the hospital in a wheelchair. He had
Speaker 1: complaints of abdominal pain and constipation for three days, so
Speaker 1: the doctors decided to do an X ray and what
Speaker 1: did they see. Well, they saw some hardware in his
Speaker 1: spinal column, which is typical if a person has had
Speaker 1: some kind of spinal cord injury or repair for some
Speaker 1: kind of underlying disease that they had in their vertebral bones.
Speaker 1: So that was expected, right, But they also saw what
Speaker 1: appeared to be a shower head. Yeah, like a full
Speaker 1: shower head up his booty. I don't even I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess we talk about this all the time. I
Speaker 1: just I can't fathom sticking this whole thing up there.
Speaker 1: So in this case, it actually makes more sense. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you why. So when you're a parent,
Speaker 1: you know what a paraplegic is, Okay, So it's somebody
Speaker 1: that's paralyzed from the waist down basically, and that could
Speaker 1: happen either if they have a spinal cord injury, or
Speaker 1: if they have some kind of disease like they have
Speaker 1: maybe a history of an infection there, or they have
Speaker 1: some kind of tumor that's affecting it. So it could
Speaker 1: happen both accidentally, intentionally, whatever, and also naturally. But what
Speaker 1: happens is a lot of times these patients, especially ones
Speaker 1: that have full paralysis, they can't use their bowels right.
Speaker 1: So they have this whole their problem of either not
Speaker 1: being able to go to the bathroom or going when
Speaker 1: they don't want to go because they don't have the
Speaker 1: urge to poop like regular people do, right, So they
Speaker 1: have to be set up for these bowel programs to
Speaker 1: really help them. And it's a combination of nutrition, eating
Speaker 1: and just knowing how the body works, because normally you
Speaker 1: have this response that when you eat it triggers you
Speaker 1: to have to poop, and a lot of people ignore
Speaker 1: that obviously that's why people get constipation and stuff. But
Speaker 1: if you ever notice when you feed a cat or
Speaker 1: a dog. When you feed them, they want to poop afterwards,
Speaker 1: because that's just like a normal mammal response. So they
Speaker 1: teach people behavioral stuff like that, but they also teach
Speaker 1: them how to manually get it going by stimulating their anus.
Speaker 1: So that's just like sticking their fingers up there and
Speaker 1: kind of stimulating it to get it to move along,
Speaker 1: or putting an anima there, or even actually sticking their
Speaker 1: fingers up there and like actually pulling the poop out
Speaker 1: of themselves. So and it sounds terrible, And this is
Speaker 1: why it's not just okay if you're a parablegic you're
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair. It's like there's all these other things
Speaker 1: that come along with it too. And obviously, even if
Speaker 1: you're in a wheelchair, you could still enjoy a fulfilling life,
Speaker 1: but when you're out in public, you don't want to
Speaker 1: accidentally shit yourself. You also don't want to become impacted
Speaker 1: because that could cause terri you know, terrible things as well.
Speaker 1: So maybe the fact that he's kind of been doing this,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't and he doesn't really have feeling down there.
Speaker 1: It was a lot easier to get a shower head
Speaker 1: up there than normally would. I don't understand because you're thinking, like, okay,
Speaker 1: if you're paralyzed down there, then you're not getting the
Speaker 1: sexual sensations. So I don't understand exactly why he would
Speaker 1: be doing it the regular reason why people do it
Speaker 1: to stimulate the prostate, you know. Yeah, and then the
Speaker 1: weirdest part of this is when the doctor showed him
Speaker 1: the X ray, he just said, it's my toy.
Speaker 2: Yea, what do you talk that about?
Speaker 1: I don't know, so I have I definitely would have
Speaker 1: more questions for him. But this is definitely an interesting case,
Speaker 1: oh for sure. All Right. The next one is called
Speaker 1: just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, which,
Speaker 1: it feel like, is just the theme of the gross
Speaker 1: Room in this podcast in general. I mean, every single
Speaker 1: week we just talk about stories that you just can't believe,
Speaker 1: you know, I know it's true. Even when I posted
Speaker 1: the tampon clip the other day, somebody commented under it
Speaker 1: and was just like, never a dull moment in your life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's and that's just like one of the many things,
Speaker 1: like if you read all the comments on Instagram under it,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of nurses and medical professionals like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is we see there's an urgent care all the time.
Speaker 1: We see this in the er all the time. So
Speaker 1: it's just like one of the many things that happen
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah. So with this story, a man and
Speaker 1: his girlfriend, we're in an argument, so I guess that
Speaker 1: escalated to the point where she stabbed him and then
Speaker 1: he stabbed her right back but in the neck, and
Speaker 1: her stab wounb was fatal, so of course he had
Speaker 1: to take it a step further. Yeah, I mean it listen,
Speaker 1: we hear about people getting murdered every single day, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of especially all of you people that are
Speaker 1: into true crime and stuff. It's just like, okay, so
Speaker 1: a boyfriend and a girlfriend got into a fight and
Speaker 1: one stabbed and kill each other. It's like, okay, so
Speaker 1: what that's like every day? Right? No, it gets interesting
Speaker 1: because when they went to go investigate this, the guy
Speaker 1: literally took this woman's skin off of her body and
Speaker 1: gave her an autopsy. Basically, I mean that we would
Speaker 1: never in normal circumstances remove the skin like that, but
Speaker 1: on top of that, he actually gave her an autopsy
Speaker 1: and took all of her organs out so the photos
Speaker 1: for this are just so horrific. It shows this woman
Speaker 1: who has been and skinned to death, and also her
Speaker 1: organs were in this bag and like he tried to
Speaker 1: shove them down a sewer. But it looks like what
Speaker 1: we call a viscera bag. So when we do an
Speaker 1: autopsy and we take out the intestines and the heart
Speaker 1: and the lungs and stuff, we usually keep pieces of
Speaker 1: it aside with the pathology in case we need to
Speaker 1: go back to it in a jar that stays in
Speaker 1: the morgue. But the majority of the organs go in
Speaker 1: a viscera bag. Viscera is organ means organs, and we
Speaker 1: put them in that bag and then we put them
Speaker 1: back in the body when we send them back to
Speaker 1: the funeral home. And this just looks like that bag
Speaker 1: full of organs. I mean they're not even intact. He
Speaker 1: just ripped them out or cut them out. And well,
Speaker 1: the picture of her corpse is really disturbing because it
Speaker 1: looks like he started at her face and was working
Speaker 1: his way down her body, so she's just missing giant
Speaker 1: chunks of skin in her organs and then it kind
Speaker 1: of stops mid thigh, So you're like, did somebody catch
Speaker 1: him smack in the middle of this, and he didn't
Speaker 1: finish what he was doing. And then the police picture
Speaker 1: of him, he's covered in blood. It's a very disturbing scene.
Speaker 1: And this bag of the organs was seemingly like emptied
Speaker 1: out or fell over something, so they're just spilled along
Speaker 1: the street. Can you even imagine walking across something like that. No,
Speaker 1: And apparently he tried to flush a bunch of them
Speaker 1: down the toilet too. Yeah, So he and his arrest
Speaker 1: photo is in this post in the grocer room as well,
Speaker 1: and he looks insane. He's like covered in blood and
Speaker 1: he just has this very weird smirk on his face.
Speaker 1: It's just so disturbing. No, this is one of the
Speaker 1: more disturbing ones I've seen. I mean, that picture of
Speaker 1: her body is just it's horrible. I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: seeing something like that as an investigator or just you know,
Speaker 1: I have to think of what if a family member
Speaker 1: just walked in on him in the middle of doing that.
Speaker 1: What would you even do? I don't know, But I mean,
Speaker 1: the thing is is that when these kinds of things happen,
Speaker 1: there's always someone there that has to witness the next
Speaker 1: step of it. So it's either going to be a
Speaker 1: first responder police officer. I mean even you know, people
Speaker 1: that do autopsies for a living, you think, okay, you
Speaker 1: see dead people all the time, but we still get
Speaker 1: disturbed by stuff, especially things that people do to each other.
Speaker 1: It's it's scary even if you're used to seeing it,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, like you do police departments have built
Speaker 1: in therapy programs or is that something they kind of
Speaker 1: have to figure out themselves after.
Speaker 2: I think the more and more that we're learning.
Speaker 1: About PTSD and how that has to do with a
Speaker 1: lot of the different things that are going on right now,
Speaker 1: like the lack of sleep, the exposure to things like this,
Speaker 1: things like that. You know, it's they're starting to examine, like, well,
Speaker 1: what's what's happening in this culture that's causing these types
Speaker 1: of things to happen, And it's it's just a combination
Speaker 1: of you know, before even because I talk with Gabe
Speaker 1: a lot about this, like it's it's like a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the past of that culture would just
Speaker 1: be like, oh, those those dudes aren't hard enough. They're
Speaker 1: just soft and they have this kind of thing chip
Speaker 1: that they have to walk around and just be like, Nah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't bother me. That doesn't bother me. And it's
Speaker 1: it's just like it's coming out more and more that
Speaker 1: that stuff actually does bother people, because most people that
Speaker 1: work in these professions are normal minded people that go
Speaker 1: home and have families, and the stuff that they see
Speaker 1: is upsetting. It disturbs them, especially if they're not able
Speaker 1: to help people or whatever. And then that accumulation of
Speaker 1: seeing that kind of trauma it has an effect on people.
Speaker 1: I could say that too, like when I wrote you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a hospital autopsy girl, right, like that's it's sad
Speaker 1: to see natural disease, but also it's kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: there wasn't really anything that you could do about this.
Speaker 1: This was just this was going to happen. They did
Speaker 1: everything that they could possibly do with the medical availability
Speaker 1: we have in this time period, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But when I rotated at the medical examiners, it started
Speaker 1: and I wasn't there too long, you know, I was
Speaker 1: there a couple months, and it just started being a
Speaker 1: lot every day to think about having a career and
Speaker 1: just seeing that stuff every single day of like horrible
Speaker 1: things that people do to each other and also just
Speaker 1: accidents that maybe shouldn't have happened, or even if they
Speaker 1: did happen, it's still it's still upsetting to think, Okay,
Speaker 1: this person's completely dressed and ready to go out and
Speaker 1: they just died in a car accident and they didn't
Speaker 1: even know that was happening two seconds before they died
Speaker 1: like that. It just it's a lot, and it takes
Speaker 1: a strong mental person to you know, both understand that
Speaker 1: that that they're disturbed by it, but also be able
Speaker 1: to not let it affect them, you know. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of lay people understand that
Speaker 1: that's what first responders and you guys are seeing on
Speaker 1: your end, and how much of a toll it could
Speaker 1: take on your mental health. Yeah, And it's just you know,
Speaker 1: you just have to think about like a cop goes
Speaker 1: into scenes like that all the time. They just see
Speaker 1: they terrible stuff. They see people abusing children, they see
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And when you're working for twenty five
Speaker 1: or thirty years and you're just seeing that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff every single day, it does have an effect on people,
Speaker 1: and certain people get affected differently by it. And not
Speaker 1: to mention just the shift work in general, with all
Speaker 1: of these you can talk about fire police ems, they're
Speaker 1: not sleeping normal. And then on top of that, when
Speaker 1: you experience trauma like that, it affects your sleep as well,
Speaker 1: and then that makes you make these poor decisions like
Speaker 1: pulling out your gun maybe when you shouldn't, or using
Speaker 1: your weapon when you shouldn't and things like that. So
Speaker 1: it's good that it's all coming to light now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. So hopefully I'm sure some departments have this
Speaker 1: integrated and already, but I'm hoping over time it'll become
Speaker 1: more of an industry standard, just because what's the point
Speaker 1: of like letting people go through all of that emotional
Speaker 1: distress and not trying to help them when they're getting
Speaker 1: it on the job, you know, Yeah, exactly all right.
Speaker 1: This next one is called testicle disco. A twenty six
Speaker 1: year old male from New Delhi went to the doctor
Speaker 1: because he was experiencing pain and swelling in his testicles
Speaker 1: along with some fevers for about a month. So doctors
Speaker 1: decided to do an ultrasound and what did they find?
Speaker 1: So they did an ultrasound on his testicles and they
Speaker 1: saw thousands of little tiny worms live in his testicles.
Speaker 1: Dancing around. Yeah, so when they determined what was going
Speaker 1: on with this guy. So he was from New Delhi
Speaker 1: in India. So a lot of times when you see
Speaker 1: these parasitic infections, they're very specific to areas where people
Speaker 1: live in the country. So that isn't something that would
Speaker 1: happen here, but it could happen there because that organism
Speaker 1: lives there. We even have different organisms in this country
Speaker 1: where if someone presented to the hospital with that, you
Speaker 1: can say, oh, they must live in Arizona because that's
Speaker 1: where they picked that up. You wouldn't just get that
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, you know what I mean. So that's
Speaker 1: really interesting. So he had a filarial worm parasite. So
Speaker 1: a filarial worm is a thread like, needle like worm.
Speaker 1: It's it's very very thin and they I think the
Speaker 1: most disturbing part about this parasitic infection is that it's
Speaker 1: transmitted by mosquitoes. So we we have in America mosquito
Speaker 1: born illness like West Nile virus and things like that,
Speaker 1: but there's parasitic infections that you could get from mosquitoes
Speaker 1: which just are really disturbing.
Speaker 2: So this one.
Speaker 1: What happens is that this organism which is called wookarhea bancrofty.
Speaker 1: What happens is that this worm gets transmitted, because a
Speaker 1: mosquito is like basically injecting someone else's blood inside you,
Speaker 1: which is disgusting. The worm gets inside of your lymphatic.
Speaker 1: So your lymph are these little blood vessels. They're not
Speaker 1: really blood vessels, but they carry limp fluid throughout your
Speaker 1: entire body and they help keep fluid distributed around your body.
Speaker 1: So what happens is when these needle like worms get
Speaker 1: inside the lymphatics, the fluid can't flow anymore and it
Speaker 1: causes blockages, which makes like you ever see these people
Speaker 1: that have one gigantic leg or something like that, or
Speaker 1: a gigantic arm, Yeah, that's what this is, especially when
Speaker 1: they're living in other countries like this. This is what
Speaker 1: it's caused by. There's a blockage in the lymphatics that's
Speaker 1: causing that. So, I mean, you can get that from
Speaker 1: other things too, like if you have tumors or if
Speaker 1: you had trauma there and there's some kind of reason
Speaker 1: that the fluid's not flowing, But in this case, it
Speaker 1: was because those lymphatics were blocked with worms. So the
Speaker 1: good news is that you could just take a drug
Speaker 1: anti parasitic drug and this can go away. And in
Speaker 1: most cases people don't need any additional treatment. I mean,
Speaker 1: can you really do anything to prevent this? Because even
Speaker 1: sometimes if you're using mosquito spray or bug repellent, it
Speaker 1: doesn't always work. No. I mean it's it's it's terrible,
Speaker 1: and it's something I always think about when I always
Speaker 1: want to go to like different countries. I'm always wondering, like, well,
Speaker 1: what what weird thing do these people have there? Like
Speaker 1: in Africa they have a mosquito born illness, could be
Speaker 1: like malaria or something. Just things that that you don't
Speaker 1: want to you don't want to get and you don't
Speaker 1: want to be exposed to. And I don't know how
Speaker 1: you prevent mosquito bites. I know they have mosquito nets
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to sleep with in this and that,
Speaker 1: But I mean, what if you want to go outside,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know it. I get them every
Speaker 1: Like when I walk out the front door, I get attacked.
Speaker 2: It's impossible.
Speaker 1: I went outside for thirty seconds the other day to
Speaker 1: water my hanging plant, and I got like five bites
Speaker 1: on my leg. I know, it's terrible, so I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. It's just kind of like, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: This next one is called fuck the World. So one
Speaker 1: of our groscery members who worked at a prison submitted
Speaker 1: this one. So she said that part of her job, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: was dealing with a lot of people who were quote cutters.
Speaker 1: So basically they would take these homemade weapons. They would
Speaker 1: cut themselves either you know, get out of their cell
Speaker 1: for a little bit, or to distract the guards. Basically
Speaker 1: to get attention in some type of way. Usually when
Speaker 1: a person is a cutter, you see evidence of self harm.
Speaker 1: Sometimes in cases with suicide, you could see injuries on
Speaker 1: the wrists or things like that. Of it it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily a previous suicide attempt, but more people that are
Speaker 1: just cutting their skin as part of their mental illness.
Speaker 1: And she's just saying like, no, they weren't doing this
Speaker 1: in this case. They were doing it because they knew
Speaker 1: they could get out for a while or distract guards.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't it wasn't because of underlying mental health conditions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And she said essentially they would like quote paint the room,
Speaker 1: so they would cut themselves, bleed into a cup and
Speaker 1: then fill the cup with water and then just spray
Speaker 1: it all over the room to make it look much
Speaker 1: worse than it actually was. It looks the photos are
Speaker 1: so disturbing because it looks like the kill Bill movie
Speaker 1: of blood just sprayed everywhere. It's so it's just so
Speaker 1: disturbing to think you would walk in on a prisoner
Speaker 1: like that. And she said they weren't even injured that bad.
Speaker 1: It just looked terrible because of the way they were
Speaker 1: doing it. Yeah. So, in one of these cases, one
Speaker 1: of these people that did this wrote or painted essentially
Speaker 1: fuck the world with bloody handprints all over the wall.
Speaker 1: How disturbing is that to walk into and then and
Speaker 1: then underneath it said I'm ready, like, okay, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it is disturbing. It just looks like it looks like
Speaker 1: something you would see in a movie or something. But
Speaker 1: to tell them the other story that she said, because
Speaker 1: that one was even nastier. Yeah. So, in addition to
Speaker 1: this being totally disgusting and really disturbing, to walk in
Speaker 1: on a scene like this only to figure out the
Speaker 1: person is like, actually, okay, thank goodness, there's some other
Speaker 1: disturbing things that go down to the prison. So she said,
Speaker 1: in some other cases, some of the prisoners will smear
Speaker 1: their feces all over the walls or on the windows
Speaker 1: to get attention, And in one case she told the
Speaker 1: prisoner to clean it up, and then he went over
Speaker 1: to the wall and licked it. Yeah, that is that
Speaker 1: was so gross, and it's it's clearly for like some
Speaker 1: attention thing or whatever. You know, what's important too to
Speaker 1: talk about with with the cutting situation. So obviously your
Speaker 1: first question is going to be, well, how are prisoners
Speaker 1: having access to knives? Right, because that's just not good
Speaker 1: on they could either hurt themselves or hurt other prisoners.
Speaker 1: But she was talking about some of the different ways
Speaker 1: that prisoners are making sharp way weapons in order to
Speaker 1: hurt themselves. So she said that they would take batteries
Speaker 1: out of the back of a radio or something they had,
Speaker 1: or they would go to when they went out into
Speaker 1: the yard, they would break off a piece of the
Speaker 1: metal fence, or they would take their toothbrush and then
Speaker 1: they would bring it back to them their cell and
Speaker 1: they would file it into sharp points on the floor. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, just this is the problem. When you have
Speaker 1: people that have a lot of time on their hands,
Speaker 1: they don't have access to phones or much entertainment, they
Speaker 1: start getting very creative with ways to make weapons. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also Google, you know, like total like naive Google
Speaker 1: search how do you make a shive? And then it's
Speaker 1: like people take silverware from the dining hall where they
Speaker 1: you know, they take like bones from meat they were
Speaker 1: eating and then file those down and hide them. It is.
Speaker 1: It is scary, but like to your point, if you
Speaker 1: have all the time in the world to sit there
Speaker 1: and think of how to do stuff, then people are
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out. I think I think that a
Speaker 1: certain part of it is kind of cool to think that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not cool that they do it, obviously,
Speaker 1: but you think about back in the day when people
Speaker 1: didn't have any knowledge of anything and we're just living
Speaker 1: in the woods and trying to survive. Just how you
Speaker 1: look around and you're able to make tools based on
Speaker 1: what you need and stuff. It's kind of interesting. Well.
Speaker 1: I actually I was talking to the girls about this
Speaker 1: the other day because in fourth grade we had to
Speaker 1: read this book called The Hatchet or something where this
Speaker 1: ten year old boy was dropped off in the middle
Speaker 1: of the woods by his parents with just a hatchet
Speaker 1: and he had to learn how to survive for a
Speaker 1: month or something. And I'm like, you, guys, can't hope
Speaker 1: that wasn't based on the true story. I don't think
Speaker 1: it was, But I was making the point because they
Speaker 1: were complaining that they couldn't get into their iPad or something,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you guys have no idea, just you'll
Speaker 1: survive without your eyepatch. I was having this conversation with
Speaker 1: them the other day because we went to the shore
Speaker 1: and we took a ride to a shore that like
Speaker 1: a went to Seaside Heights, which is kind of further
Speaker 1: than that's our normal shore. Right. It took us like
Speaker 1: an hour and a half to get there, and they said, oh,
Speaker 1: could we bring the iPads? And I was like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't need to have an iPad, like, just look
Speaker 1: out the window and enjoy life, like you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we we went and they were fine on the
Speaker 1: way there, and then on the way home it just
Speaker 1: was like a whole different story, like ugh, like I'm
Speaker 1: just so bored, don't like it. And they had coloring books, books,
Speaker 1: just a window. They had normal stuff. So then I
Speaker 1: went on this big tangent with them and I was
Speaker 1: just like, dude, when I was a kid, I remember
Speaker 1: when those little TV screens came out on the back
Speaker 1: of the driver's seats that the kids could see in
Speaker 1: the back. Right, this conversion van came out and MoMA
Speaker 1: and Pop Pop. They were like, oh, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: look at that. So we go to the car dealership
Speaker 1: and we're there all day and we were finally like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yes, because we took a lot of
Speaker 1: road trips, so you drive into Florida whatever, and we
Speaker 1: were like so excited as little kids. Oh, we're finally
Speaker 1: going to have this, because when we used to drive
Speaker 1: to Florida every single year, it would be like me
Speaker 1: and my brother and sister in the backseat and my
Speaker 1: brother was in a car seat the whole way to
Speaker 1: Florida with no iPads, video games, nothing. It was like
Speaker 1: you had a coloring book and some crayons and that's it,
Speaker 1: end of story. And you were smashed with a huge
Speaker 1: car seat in between, right, And I'm trying to tell them,
Speaker 1: like you'll survive, trust me, and what Like Mama and
Speaker 1: pap Up were like, oh, we can't afford to get
Speaker 1: this vand it's too much money, and we were like,
Speaker 1: oh cool. So then the next year we just went
Speaker 1: again with our coloring books and whatever from Kmart, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm just I get so annoyed because I just
Speaker 1: think they they still had my phone attached to the car,
Speaker 1: so they were listening to all their annoying Tower Swift
Speaker 1: songs the whole way there and back, which we just
Speaker 1: never had. Yeah, you know, like we would have a
Speaker 1: walkman with a with batteries that ran out. My parents
Speaker 1: never had backup batteries, so that was that with a
Speaker 1: tape you made yourself.
Speaker 2: It just I'm like, get over it. You guys are
Speaker 2: so wide.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was even thinking about how when I
Speaker 1: was around their age, I guess I got a game
Speaker 1: Boy Color, but then you were still limited in that
Speaker 1: because it didn't have like an led screen, so you
Speaker 1: could only play it during the day. And I remember
Speaker 1: for my birthday when you got me a light that
Speaker 1: attached on it. That was so dumb. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, this is peak technology, yeah exactly. And back
Speaker 1: then I was just like, you don't know how lucky
Speaker 1: you are. Like when I was a kid, Nintendo was
Speaker 1: plugged into the wall and it sucked kind of like
Speaker 1: when it worked, it was awesome, but it never worked
Speaker 1: and you had to pull the cassettes out and blow
Speaker 1: on them and all this crazy shit like they and
Speaker 1: and I seriously just sound like an old person anymore
Speaker 1: talking to my kids just we didn't have phones, we
Speaker 1: our friends couldn't get ahold of us whenever. Just you know, oh,
Speaker 1: I've totally segued into that chapter of my life where
Speaker 1: I'm like when I was a kid, probable, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And but now it's the difference between when my mom
Speaker 1: and dad were kids and I was ten years old.
Speaker 1: It's just such is just way, it was way closer
Speaker 1: than it is now between them. Think about this, like
Speaker 1: even you're just talking about when you were a kid,
Speaker 1: right with the PlayStation situation, yeah, or the game boy,
Speaker 1: Playboy whatever, game boy whatever, whatever the freaking problem. I
Speaker 1: was looking at playboys. But seriously, like that that is
Speaker 1: so much different than what the kids are experiencing, and
Speaker 1: you're really not that much older than them, you know, No,
Speaker 1: I mean technology shift in technology over the last twenty
Speaker 1: thirty years has been absolutely crazy. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's better for people. Honestly, it's just because because
Speaker 1: then there's a situation like I do try to take
Speaker 1: their devices away from them because I really have this
Speaker 1: theory that people need to be bored because otherwise, I mean,
Speaker 1: in this case with the with the prisoners, it's not
Speaker 1: really the greatest thing that they're bored because they're doing
Speaker 1: they're doing bad things. But just even think about that prisoner,
Speaker 1: for example, if they were not in prison, would they
Speaker 1: ever just figure out how to use something like that
Speaker 1: and use your brain? No, because you're just you're just
Speaker 1: looking at a phone all day and not thinking about anything.
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for years because you know this.
Speaker 1: This topic comes up in art school a lot, like
Speaker 1: why don't people paint like Michael Angelo anymore? And it's
Speaker 1: simply like, there are so many distractions today. There was
Speaker 1: nothing going on when Michael Angelo was painting. That's why
Speaker 1: he was able to nail the craft like that. You
Speaker 1: just have to think about things like that. I know,
Speaker 1: and it I figured out, like when I was a
Speaker 1: kid that I was really good at doing art. And
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there doing my now the other day and
Speaker 1: Lilian she's interested and she wants to learn, and she's like,
Speaker 1: she's pulling up these designs online and saying, let's try
Speaker 1: to paint these right. So I pull it out and
Speaker 1: I do it exactly how the pictures are she's showing me,
Speaker 1: and she's.
Speaker 2: Like, how are you so good? How do you know
Speaker 2: how to do that?
Speaker 1: And I was like, because I sat there for hours
Speaker 1: and years of my life doing it. I didn't have
Speaker 1: a phone, you know, I would have saved by the
Speaker 1: bell on on the TV in the background, maybe, but
Speaker 1: I sat at my desk for hours doing shit.
Speaker 2: That's how you figure out you're.
Speaker 1: Good at anything. You know, said note, remember when we
Speaker 1: were playing are you smarter than a fifth grader in
Speaker 1: the car the other day? And the answer was Leonardo
Speaker 1: da Vinci, and Lilian said Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah, that was amazing.
Speaker 1: That was That was actually really fun. Though I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe if those questions are all for fifth graders, then
Speaker 1: I think we're all kind of screwed. I think you
Speaker 1: were doing really good. I was. Me and Gabe were
Speaker 1: really struggling.
Speaker 2: I was pissed about the Normandy Beach one.
Speaker 1: Honestly. I was like, I just I'm literally going over
Speaker 1: this book that Lilian's doing for her summer reading on
Speaker 1: D Day. So I was like, I know the answer
Speaker 1: to this, and I understand what Gabe was saying. But
Speaker 1: I also called bullshit on some of these questions that
Speaker 1: I mean, this was just a random website where I
Speaker 1: found them, but I didn't learn about World War Two
Speaker 1: until eleventh grade, so I would definitely not have known
Speaker 1: that answer in fifth grade. I didn't learn it until
Speaker 1: this summer when I was doing story this summer reading
Speaker 1: with my kid. All right, let's get onto the next one.
Speaker 1: This one's called Noodle on Noodle. So a forty six
Speaker 1: year old male was found unconscious in the bathroom of
Speaker 1: his home. His wife had heard him screaming, but the
Speaker 1: bathroom door was locked and she wasn't able to get
Speaker 1: to him quickly.
Speaker 2: So she gets in. She finally breaks open the door.
Speaker 1: She gets in and he's he's down, he's she he
Speaker 1: clearly needs an ambulance, so she calls for help and
Speaker 1: they calm and he ends up getting pronounced dead. So
Speaker 1: they bring him to the morgue to do an autopsy,
Speaker 1: and they are shocked what they see at external exam
Speaker 1: because this guy, he's forty six year old. He appears healthy,
Speaker 1: normal weight, everything like that, But he has a giant
Speaker 1: like pocket pussy on his on his penis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's like a homemade one.
Speaker 1: It's important to note that when she found him and
Speaker 1: when he was brought to the hospital, he was fully clothed,
Speaker 1: so this was not an obvious discovery, right, Yeah, she didn't.
Speaker 1: She didn't say it. Yeah, he was. It's not like
Speaker 1: he was taking a shower and he was found down.
Speaker 1: He was. He was just he was found down in
Speaker 1: his clothes. Yeah, So I don't I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: understand how you wouldn't see it through somebody's But I
Speaker 1: guess if you're panicking and you're an emergency situation, you're
Speaker 1: not like, what's that giant bulge out of your pants?
Speaker 1: I don't know. He was wearing baggy pants on it,
Speaker 1: And my question was did he just wear it and
Speaker 1: walk around or was he I.
Speaker 2: I don't know, because when they checked it, he did.
Speaker 1: They said that there was no evidence that he had
Speaker 1: ejaculated on it. So, I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much testing they did on it. Maybe there wasn't clear
Speaker 1: evidence of any kind of fluid on it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he cleaned it off in between, if this
Speaker 1: was a new one, why he was wearing it. But
Speaker 1: when they did the autopsy, they dissected his heart and
Speaker 1: they found that he had a blockage in his left
Speaker 1: antier descending coronary artery. So when you have a blockage
Speaker 1: in one of the arteries that feeds oxygenated blood to
Speaker 1: the heart. That could stop oxygen from getting to part
Speaker 1: of the heart, which is a very crucial part that
Speaker 1: is needed, and that part of the heart dies off
Speaker 1: or infarcs, and that's another description for a heart attack.
Speaker 1: So he had a heart attack. So this giant I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was pipe insulator or a pull noodle.
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like.
Speaker 1: And he was a contractor, so it probably was pipe insulator.
Speaker 1: Then that he had around his penis has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with his death. But they went out of their
Speaker 1: way to tell her about it, which clearly she didn't
Speaker 1: see it, I guess in his pants or didn't know
Speaker 1: about it. So to your point, it was kind of
Speaker 1: unnecessary to let her know about it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they would tell the wife. They said,
Speaker 1: do you know why he had this on his penis?
Speaker 1: And listen, like if the investigators determined that he died
Speaker 1: from a heart attack, it's kind of like, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: does she really need to know that. No, it had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with why he died. And it's if
Speaker 1: you're any person like telling a wife that they're either
Speaker 1: going to be embarrassed because they did know about it,
Speaker 1: or they're going to be terribly upset because they didn't
Speaker 1: know about it. And in her case, she said she
Speaker 1: didn't know he ever used something like this. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's like you lose your husband at forty six
Speaker 1: years old, which is just a tragedy anyway, because there's
Speaker 1: a possibility that they have a young family and everything
Speaker 1: like that. And on top of that, now you got
Speaker 1: to give her all this anxiety and being upset because
Speaker 1: of this weird finding that had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: why he died anyway. Well, is there I'm just is
Speaker 1: there any possibility maybe that they thought he was in
Speaker 1: the middle of jerking off but didn't finish, and that
Speaker 1: that could have led him to having the heart attack,
Speaker 1: which is why they asked her about it, I think,
Speaker 1: But like, but what's the difference, Like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just they checked it.
Speaker 1: There was no there was nothing on it that indicated
Speaker 1: that that's what he was doing. He might he might
Speaker 1: have been doing that, but at the same time he
Speaker 1: was found with his pants zipped up and everything.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just it doesn't matter to me because then the
Speaker 1: next time they had sex he would have died and
Speaker 1: had a heart attack. It's not like jerkin Off gives
Speaker 1: you increases your risk of death like that, you know,
Speaker 1: like it was gonna happen to him anyway. And he
Speaker 1: was a smoker, so this isn't This isn't insane. Smoking
Speaker 1: damages your blood vessels and he's four, but like sometimes
Speaker 1: people start smoking when they're twelve years old, and this
Speaker 1: damage over time could definitely cause injury to your blood vessels,
Speaker 1: especially the ones around your heart. So it's not it's
Speaker 1: not super absurd to think that he died from that.
Speaker 1: But I just I don't know. I see that they
Speaker 1: would put it in the autopsy report because it's part
Speaker 1: of the external exam, but to actually talk to her
Speaker 1: about it, to try, like you're not trying to solve
Speaker 1: something here, just put that that was found along with
Speaker 1: the clothes he was wearing, kind of and let her
Speaker 1: if she was going to read the report because so
Speaker 1: many people don't read the report, you know, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it totally wasn't necessary if they determined it wasn't why
Speaker 1: he died, that they would go out of their way
Speaker 1: to mention it to her when she could have just
Speaker 1: read it or just maybe not known about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you guys have to see this autopsy photo and
Speaker 1: just imagine being like a person like me that just
Speaker 1: is doing this external exam and seeing this ginormous piece.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would say that it's it's way larger
Speaker 1: and thicker than a pool noodle. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't wrap my head around how they didn't see it
Speaker 1: when he got there. But I don't know unless he
Speaker 1: the only thing I could think of him. Maybe he
Speaker 1: was in the middle of using it and then he
Speaker 1: started feeling he started feeling like he was getting sick
Speaker 1: or whatever symptoms and quickly zipped his pay exactly. But
Speaker 1: otherwise I'm like guys walking around with this thing on,
Speaker 1: because that's even crazier. Maybe he liked maybe it was
Speaker 1: insulating his pipe. All right, next, All right, our last
Speaker 1: shocking story is called Fine Dining. So on the show
Speaker 1: we talk a lot about people that eat really weird
Speaker 1: things and have really strange addictions. I mean, there's literally
Speaker 1: an entire television show called My Strange Addiction. I reach.
Speaker 1: This show is so good, it really is. It's so
Speaker 1: great because when we were just we were just that
Speaker 1: cannobls and it was on the TV there and the
Speaker 1: kids are like, what is this? And I was like
Speaker 1: telling them about it and they were really interested. And
Speaker 1: we turned on the episode where the guy had the
Speaker 1: relationship with his car. Oh my god, and the kids
Speaker 1: were like, what do you mean? But you know what's
Speaker 1: so hilarious. So every single day when we're in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: Lucia is always leaning against the refrigerator or hanging all
Speaker 1: over the refrigerator, right, And Lillian was like, Lou, I
Speaker 1: think you have a relationship with the refrigerator. So now
Speaker 1: we're like fucking with her every day and we're just
Speaker 1: like listen, cause I'm just like, if you guys scratch
Speaker 1: or mess up my fridge, I'm gonna kill you, right,
Speaker 1: And now I'm just like, Lou, break up with the
Speaker 1: refrigerator and find something else to have a relationship with.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. Well, yeah, I was looking through a
Speaker 1: list of like the weirdest things people have eaten on there.
Speaker 1: But I guess the show is not strictly about things
Speaker 1: people consume. You know, it's the guy with the car.
Speaker 1: Another woman was married to a carnival ride, which I
Speaker 1: never saw that episode, did you? I never saw that episode. Either.
Speaker 1: I did love the one at the lady that slept
Speaker 1: with the hair dryer on because she liked the feeling
Speaker 1: of the heat. Because I was like, I understand that one. Oh,
Speaker 1: I totally just get an electric blanket. No, I totally
Speaker 1: understand that one. But some of the weirder things people
Speaker 1: were ingesting were dryer sheets. In my article, we talked
Speaker 1: about the human ashes, nail polish, and then some person
Speaker 1: was even eating bullets and broken glass. They really liked that.
Speaker 1: So remember the couch cushions. Oh my god, there was
Speaker 1: a lady that was eating couch cushions. She like cut
Speaker 1: the couch and was eating the cushion off of the couch.
Speaker 1: So if you think all this it's so great. So
Speaker 1: if you think all this stuff is bad, this one
Speaker 1: woman shows up to the emergency room with severe abdominal
Speaker 1: pain and you won't even believe what they found in
Speaker 1: her X ray. So they're looking at her ex ray
Speaker 1: and they're like, wait a second, is that a fork?
Speaker 1: Is that a spoon? What's going on here? It looked
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of them. And when they
Speaker 1: went in and actually did surgery to remove this, because
Speaker 1: obviously they wouldn't be able to do to put a
Speaker 1: scope down her throat and take these items out. So
Speaker 1: they had to cut her open to get it out,
Speaker 1: and they found seventy eight pieces of silverware, seventy eight
Speaker 1: like a full on set of fork and spoon that
Speaker 1: they were able to serve like thirty six people. I
Speaker 1: guess she didn't quite take thirty nine people. I guess
Speaker 1: she didn't quite take a liking to eating knives. She
Speaker 1: just liked the forks and spoons because that's all that
Speaker 1: was in there.
Speaker 2: Oh, they asked her.
Speaker 1: They asked her, and she said that she didn't have
Speaker 1: an appetite for knives. At this point, what is the
Speaker 1: difference that they're literally all the same thing, They're just sheeped.
Speaker 1: Maybe she was scared that it was gonna cut her
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just like, listen this these cases. It's the same
Speaker 1: with sticking stuff up your butt. How the hell do
Speaker 1: you if I swallow a big vitamin it hurts my throat?
Speaker 1: How do you swallow so many of these things in
Speaker 1: one And it's it's true because I've seen this at work.
Speaker 1: You were talking about the person that ate broken glass,
Speaker 1: Like I've gotten specimens from a guy that was eating
Speaker 1: glass and knives, like tips of knives. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's so crazy to think that people are doing that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just talking the other day. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I was saying on here, but I
Speaker 1: was saying, how I'm in this really bad habit of
Speaker 1: putting my embroidery needle in my mouth when I'm in
Speaker 1: the middle of adjusting something on my project, and how
Speaker 1: I'm so scared I'm going to swallow it, and how
Speaker 1: at the Motor Museum they just had drawers and drawers
Speaker 1: and drawers filled with sewing needles and bobby pins that
Speaker 1: women had swollowed. Mine's going to be a bobby pin
Speaker 1: because I'm always when I do my bun I'm always
Speaker 1: putting a bobby pin in my mouth, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the kid One of the kids will come in
Speaker 1: and like scare the shit out of me one day
Speaker 1: and I'll like swallow it by accident or something. But
Speaker 1: it's As a scientist, though, doesn't this impress you about
Speaker 1: the ability of the human body? Oh? Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: It's it's quite interesting. So there's a difference though, Like
Speaker 1: you and I, if we swallowed a bobby pin or
Speaker 1: a sewing needle. That would be an accidental thing, where
Speaker 1: this one is intentional and it's not really a suicidal action.
Speaker 1: They're not trying to hurt themselves. It's more of it.
Speaker 1: Either has to do with two things. It could have
Speaker 1: to do with a mental illness of some sort. A
Speaker 1: lot of the times that guy that I was getting
Speaker 1: that specimen from, I told you with the shards of
Speaker 1: glass and the knife tips, he had schizophrenia. But it
Speaker 1: also can be due to a nutritional deficiency. So all
Speaker 1: of these people you were talking about, whether they're eating
Speaker 1: ashes or couch cushions or dryer sheets, it could be
Speaker 1: because they're they're lacking certain vitamins or minerals in their
Speaker 1: body and they have this condition called piko where they
Speaker 1: crave things to eat that have no nutritional value. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times.
Speaker 2: You could see this.
Speaker 1: You know people that do this, like your grandmother who
Speaker 1: eat ice like a crazy person. They just she eat
Speaker 1: she just like, can I get a nice tea and
Speaker 1: an extra cup of ice and we'll just sit there
Speaker 1: and eat ice like That's one of the big ones
Speaker 1: that you're not really supposed if you have this craving
Speaker 1: for ice. You should go get blood work and see,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on, because that's that's not a
Speaker 1: normal craving to want to eat things that have no
Speaker 1: nutritional value like that. Yeah. I always wonder that because
Speaker 1: like I always like I could sit there and eat
Speaker 1: a whole entire container of rainbow sprinkles. Well, and they're
Speaker 1: like they yeah, but I mean they don't like I
Speaker 1: guess they're kind of sugar, maybe kind of candy. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I'm like, they're not really food.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't count sprinkles though, because they're sweet and they're
Speaker 1: like they're kind of a little dessert or snack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do leave that gross waxy texture in your mouth
Speaker 1: when you eat a lot of them, but they are good,
Speaker 1: Like they taste good. It's not like you're just you know,
Speaker 1: one year, I made these Italian cookie ornaments out of clay,
Speaker 1: and we made all these little sprinkles out of clay.
Speaker 1: If you were just eating the clay sprinkles, then yeah,
Speaker 1: you have a problem. But if you're eating your ones,
Speaker 1: then there was a girl on my Strange addiction that
Speaker 1: was eating clay. I don't understand. These things are so terrible,
Speaker 1: especially something like clay, because it just will like lump
Speaker 1: together in your intestines and just cause huge problems. I'm
Speaker 1: just so I would be so scared about that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean much? And what would your shits
Speaker 1: be like? Jesus, Yeah, I'm too much of a literally
Speaker 1: shitting a brick. Literally, I am too much. I'm way
Speaker 1: too much of a hypochondriac to just eat anything like that,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I could never do it. It could
Speaker 1: never be me. And the thought of sticking a whole
Speaker 1: fork or spoon down your throat, it may we feel
Speaker 1: like I was choking to your point, like, I've been
Speaker 1: taking these vitamins that are gigantic and I feel them
Speaker 1: sometimes just sitting there, and it bothers me so bad.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine sticking something that large. You know, pika
Speaker 1: happens in price and see sometimes too, it's not uncommon
Speaker 1: for that to happen. Great, So it's well, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like you say right now, that that's not something you
Speaker 1: would do, and then all of a sudden, your body's
Speaker 1: like in this state and then you're like, Okay, all
Speaker 1: rules are off. I have different things that i'd like
Speaker 1: to eat now and whatever. So all right, Well, if
Speaker 1: you guys have a shocking story, please submit it to
Speaker 1: stories at Mothernosdeath dot com and we will be back
Speaker 1: next week with some more news. But we will have
Speaker 1: an awesome external exam on Thursday with Matt Mangino. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to that interview because he's awesome and
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking a lot about the death penalty,
Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that because of course I had
Speaker 1: a thousand questions about that. Yeah, and I just finished
Speaker 1: editing that interview and it was absolutely incredible, So I
Speaker 1: can't wait for you guys to hear it. All right,
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