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Ever wonder what strange things hotel staff discover in rooms after guests check out? Or what relationship advice could have saved you years of heartache? This episode of Peak Points takes you on a journey through Reddit's most fascinating threads, delivering stories that will make you laugh, cringe, and reflect on human nature.
We kick things off exploring fragile masculinity through stories of men refusing to do things deemed "too feminine" - from using chapstick to ordering fruity drinks. These accounts reveal how societal expectations create unnecessary limitations in men's lives, sometimes at the expense of basic comfort. The conversation flows naturally between amusing anecdotes and deeper reflections on gender norms that still persist today.
The mood shifts dramatically as we dive into hotel workers' accounts of disturbing room discoveries. You'll hear about everything from drug-fueled parties to the nightmarish experience of a guest who found human teeth in their bed sheets - and the shocking indifference of hotel staff when confronted with these situations. These stories offer a glimpse into the darker side of human behavior when people believe no one is watching.
Perhaps most impactful is our exploration of relationship wisdom through both personal stories and Reddit insights. A deeply moving account of first love confronting trauma leads into powerful perspectives like "don't light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm" and the importance of recognizing when your emotional needs aren't being met. These principles extend beyond romantic partnerships into all human connections.
We deliberately end on an uplifting note by sharing positive developments happening worldwide that rarely make headlines. From medical breakthroughs with CRISPR technology to environmental victories like the healing ozone layer and returning whale populations, these stories offer a necessary counterbalance to the negativity dominating news cycles.
Whether you're looking for entertainment, wisdom, or simply a different perspective on the world, this episode delivers conversations that will stay with you long after listening. Subscribe now and join our growing community of curious minds exploring life's peak points together.
Intro Music Good morning Vietnam. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:We don't need copyright infringement.
Speaker 1:Welcome to another episode of Peak Points. Today we have a special Ask Reddit episode. We got a couple interesting stories that I think everybody will enjoy.
Speaker 2:That we certainly do. There's going to be some laughs, there's going to be some triggering moments, and I believe we're going to have some laughs. There's going to be some triggering moments and I believe we're going to have some uplifting moments as well am I going to cry?
Speaker 1:possibly do I have to, though you don't have to, but I might make you ok, I want to ok alright.
Speaker 2:So to start again, everything is going to be in AskReddit. To start, we're going to be what's the most ridiculous thing you heard a man refuse to do because it was quote-unquote too feminine or for girls, and we're going to be doing a tit-for-tat on this. To start, we're doing this one and it's by Deleted. Unfortunately, they are no more.
Speaker 1:Damn, they've been deleted, is this?
Speaker 2:the part where I start crying. Maybe Order fruity drinks. Enjoying fruit is considered feminine by some people. Why, exactly? That's like saying enjoying meat is inherently masculine, and that was the original post. What's your take on that, alan?
Speaker 1:damn dude. I eat fruit a lot. I love pineapple and apple, bananas, strawberries. So he doesn't like any fruits. Or do you think he's like a secret fruit eater?
Speaker 2:no, I think it's just a fruity drink specifically. Uh, because but and I've noticed this it is kind of a I mean, it's not not super common, but it's definitely, in general, considered to be a feminine version of a drink, to have a fruity frou-frou drink, as they're called. But realistically, as someone who generally prefers the quote-unquote frou-frou drinks more than the quote-unquote masculine version of a beer, uh, it's frankly more cost effective for the amount of alcohol and the effect on you.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Second, you can keep your fermented wheat tea and pretend that it's masculine for some reason, if you want, which isn't to say that I don't really enjoy an old fashioned or Manhattan and all those other also considered masculine drinks. I even drink a couple beers but just because it has fruit in it or because it's sweet doesn't inherently make it masculine or feminine.
Speaker 1:No, and even even one of my favorite drinks of all time. Shout out buffalo, wow wings that henny hustle.
Speaker 2:You know that, henny hustleustle, keep them coming.
Speaker 1:I told the server, keep them coming and I drink like a couple Henny Hustles for sure.
Speaker 2:And those are really sweet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's gotten to the point where I actually did some research and found out how to make it, and I've been making it at home here and there.
Speaker 2:It's a little less expensive that way.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, but I make my girl pull up and serve me and pretend to be the server.
Speaker 2:It's the only way I can. You tip her though, right? No, ah no.
Speaker 1:Bad deal? No, I don't have any money.
Speaker 2:You just tell her you got another tip for her.
Speaker 1:then I got a tip for you Don't wear green after Labor Day, whatever it is.
Speaker 2:Alright, so there's a few comments that I do want to include on this, just because of their hilarity. First is by ignoring his age. I once had a waitress give me shit about ordering a girly drink. It was a white Russian. You're right, miss. Bring me a shot of Everclear so that my penis doesn't fall off.
Speaker 1:Bring me your manliest drink, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then let's see here. Oh, and here's another one by TequilaMockingbird80. I drink super dry red wine and my husband loves a frou-frou drink, a frou-frou umbrella drink. No matter who ordered what, waitstaff almost always gives me his drink.
Speaker 1:They just assume.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I don't understand it, because I've also seen plenty of people try to consider wine to be a woman's drink too that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Some people just don't understand it. They have their hang-ups, that's for sure. Uh, here's, here's one more, and then we can move on. My husband is a big boy trademark and he loves ordering fruity cocktails. I always just get a beer, even if our drinks come like literal minutes after we order. The waiter almost always gives me the cocktail and the beer to him, lol. It's so strange. Just give the man his fruity loop, banana squish, fairy dust, daiquiri, for sake just give the man what he wants, damn it.
Speaker 1:And I have one. Harley by fluffy underscore. Juggernaut 95. Wow, now that is a name, omg, where to start my less than average, yet highly narcissistic ex-husband had a huge list of hang-ups. He wouldn't use a straw. This was so stupid. He wouldn't use an umbrella he wouldn't hold my purse. When I went into the restroom, he said that I love my cats because they were like females. Quote unquote, His twisted logic. For this they are called felines and mine had long Wow, what the?
Speaker 1:hell, and mine had long hair, so it made them look like female cats, even though they were male. Divorcing him was my best move ever, for many reasons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow, first comment by Illustrious Lot your ex is gay.
Speaker 2:I mean to be fair. In a lot of situations, when people are so extremely homophobic, it generally can often mean that they have some deep-seated homoerotic thoughts that they don't want to admit.
Speaker 1:Actually a lot of the comments are saying that the, that he's more than likely closeted and stuff like that by green zebra 23. What's the logic on the umbrella thing?
Speaker 2:I realize this is probably an unanswerable question yeah, there's gonna be a lot of unanswerable questions probably.
Speaker 1:And Ocean Palaces replies to him and says Probably something like protecting yourself from the elements is weak and real men should deal with it or die. Probably something to that effect, something to that effect Like men are just supposed to tough it out. I don't know what, if it's hailing, you're just eating them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, damn dude, if you get knocked unconscious, that just means you're a bitch and need to work on it. You need to toughen up, soldier, or keep your gloves up. Well, gloves could be considered feminine too by some people. In that regard, so maybe not.
Speaker 1:That's just crazy dude. That's just crazy dude. It's just crazy to me. Um, some of the hang-ups that some people do have that kind of seem like inconveniences a lot of the time. It just seems like sometimes it's like normal things that they think they deem as weak or whatever, uh-huh uh, just to go on with the umbrella thing.
Speaker 2:Seaboardist also put up an answer to this question about the feminine thing and this doesn't exactly answer the question. But once in the middle of a rainstorm, I went out with a big black umbrella. I passed a guy who was soaked to the skin. He looked at me with genuine hate and said I didn't know how to process it. An umbrella is just a tool anyone can use men, women and children to get completely soaked rather than use one. I just don't know where that comes from and then edit. This happened to me in the USA, rhode Island, and it happened once in a lifetime of otherwise unchallenged umbrella use, so it hasn't affected my long-term use in any way that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Fine, don't take my umbrella right all right, sorry to uh jump on that, but moving on, underwater underscore, karma says I worked with a guy who refused to pee sitting down. I asked him what about when he's taking a dump? And he said he stands to pee first and then sits to shit. I said that's just crazy. And he said chicks sit to pee. I said chicks sit to shit too. Why don't you shit standing up? And he just got angry.
Speaker 1:Oh really I thought that's what he was going to do. Right, was just poop standing up and just hope that it hits the bowl, or maybe he stands on the toilet?
Speaker 2:bowl and just looks over everybody. That's very similar to this comment by 1337B337. Lol, next time you'll walk in on him taking a shit, like he's trying to twerk it out of his colon.
Speaker 1:I'm done. He does the jitterbug, okay, moving on, running runner, run cook food for himself. Dude lived with his mom until he got married. When he got divorced, he moved back in with his mom until eventually he married my mom wow, that's literally what it says he's never cooked a single dinner in his life, oh wait, except on the grill. Can't expect a woman to understand how the grill works, after all, that would that would be as wild as thinking a man can learn to use the stove. Oh my god that is so.
Speaker 2:I mean, that is so boomer, that is so boomer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Only the grill. Does he not understand that? Well, maybe he uses a charcoal or wood grill, but that still involves fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, sure does. Oh man, that is such a wild take in my personal experience.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to think what if they buy one of those stoves that have the grill on it, Right?
Speaker 2:You kidding me? Like one of those indoor grill stoves.
Speaker 1:And he only uses the grill side. What if you?
Speaker 2:get one of those cast iron griddlesdles with the with the grill marks on it you know the raised grill. Yeah, so you, you can do that and you just put that on the burners and you grill inside on the stove. Is that? Is that too close to femininity, or what do you think? Maybe they should just move the stove outside yeah, yeah, you should just nut up and go do it out on the actual grill Carry the stove, take it outside.
Speaker 1:No, this is manly.
Speaker 2:Oh, my other car is a walrus has one pertaining to your narcissist guy. You were talking about a moment ago your narcissist guy. You were talking about a moment ago didn't want to take his girlfriend's cat to the vet because a man holding a cat is feminine. Shit blew my mind. Dude is a cop too, by the way.
Speaker 1:Wow, I guess he's not saving cats from trees.
Speaker 2:I guess there's just a lot of people who think cats are too feminine. I don't know it. I don't know why, but some people do. Internet Mexican Eat pussy. Dude at work says he doesn't eat pussy because it's gay. Gay for a man to eat pussy. Stupid ass.
Speaker 1:Those are the ones that the comments should have been that he's closeted and stuff yeah and the original poster of the question says this doesn't even make logical sense. It does not, and I have one, a short one, last one by deleted Uh oh, use chapstick. Oh what yeah?
Speaker 2:yeah, here's another one by do in no do definition 262, use conditioner in his hair, his really long dry as fuck hair like. If it's not too feminine to have long hair, why is it too feminine to use conditioner and keep it healthy?
Speaker 1:he probably doesn't even shampoo it. Maybe he uses the the Dove for men his Irish Spring.
Speaker 2:No, no, dove is too feminine. You probably use Irish Spring or something like that.
Speaker 1:The 20 in 1 dial the 20 in 1 you could use it as toothpaste and mouthwash and ointment.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, yeah oh, and here's one last one by jenny smith. Let his he wouldn't let his wife use a pink towel on his sons, my father-in-law man, it's just some weird stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot of guys out there that are super insecure and just because they see the color pink, it suddenly is just like a bomb going off in their mind. A response to that by Pepcorn. You've reminded me of a time we were camping with a group of friends and my friend's small son was thirsty first thing in the morning. Dad, I'm dying, no all we have is pink cups. That is so insane man. The level of insecurity there is just wild.
Speaker 1:That's horrible.
Speaker 2:You know, what's even more wild with this whole color and masculine and feminine thing Is that I think it was probably about 130, 140 years ago it was reversed Blue was considered feminine, feminine and pink was considered masculine.
Speaker 2:It's considered like pink was considered bold and blue was considered calm and and what have you? That's strange, like it was like just before photography started gaining, gaining color, basically for the most part, but it was super common, almost nigh unheard of actually, for boys to not be in pink and girls to not be in blue on average yeah, it's just a weird thing.
Speaker 1:The whole thing of colors and this kind of just led me to believe all the things that some, some gentlemen do have hang-ups about and, like I said earlier, it kind of just seems like inconveniences. I mean, dude, the kid was just thirsty, he's gonna deprive his son of water, like the kid dying in the desert, and all they have is the pink cup. Dad, please, yeah, no, I refuse you're gonna die like a man.
Speaker 2:If you use something pink, you'll magically turn gay, and I can't have that. I just can't handle it. Like what. What even is that like? Even if being gay is horrifying to you, you think using something that's colored a certain way is going to force them to be gay.
Speaker 1:Well, there was, uh, this comic of superman or feminine a long time ago, where the pink kryptonite turned him gay. Really, yeah, it's kind of a strange. I don't know, what if they let him have superpowers or not? But it literally, that was the, that was the kryptonite, because they had different color ones, and the pink one, I don't know, dude. That's just weird to me, like dude sounds very boomer yeah. I mean, it was like in the 1950s or whatever, I don't remember.
Speaker 2:I don't remember. It was a long time ago, yeah you know, I forgot everything that happened in the 1950s, when I was around gotcha so you ready for a new Ask.
Speaker 1:Reddit. I have a new Ask Reddit thread. Oh boy, which one. Hotel. Workers of Reddit. What is the most disturbing thing you've found in a room?
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, some real horror stories there.
Speaker 1:And first one is by things underscore left, underscore unsaid. I worked at a hotel a few years ago, front desk. I checked out a nice couple in the morning and they were very friendly and say they enjoyed their stay. Then housekeeping got to their room. The poor woman looked shell-shocked and say they enjoyed their stay. Then housekeeping got to their room the poor woman looked shell-shocked. I got to go through the room with a camera and my supervisor to document the state of the room. Two large black double-headed dildos, lots of Ziploc baggies with powdery residue Syringes some used, some still with caps, including two of them in the toilet, and more travel-sized bottles of baby oil than I could count. We also found what appeared to be feces and blood smeared all over the bedding and walls and a small digital camera. Police were called, descriptions of them were taken and all their information had been used to check out. I quit soon after so I don't know if they were ever found and pressed charges.
Speaker 2:Man, the horrors hotel staff have to go through. It's just wild.
Speaker 1:Man, it sounds like a ditty party.
Speaker 2:Alright, this one is by Axapolo. I worked at an 800-year-old castle hotel in the UK. This young guy checked in for the weekend paying cash for everything. Hookers were coming in and out of the hotel asking for room 46 and he kept ordering room service. He didn't leave the room for three days. He phoned reception in distress asking for help. I went up with my manager, opened the door and there he was Room trashed, the biggest bag of cocaine I have ever seen and condoms everywhere. I can't feel my legs. He kept shouting. We got him an ambulance. You're in an old, 800-year-old, old castle and that happens to you, that is. I mean, it's not the most horrific, probably, but still it's. It's pretty wild. Three days of not leaving a single room, just a conga line of hookers coming in and out and room service 24-7. And that much cocaine.
Speaker 1:That is wild weekend. Guest check-in name Charlie Sheen.
Speaker 2:Nah, nah, he could always feel his legs, I bet. I don't think he ever got to that point, that, and I don't think he uses the condoms. Nah, nah, he could always feel his legs, I bet. Yeah, I don't think he ever got to that point.
Speaker 1:That, and I don't think he uses the condoms Probably not, so I have one by Bullmung, underscore LK. I don't work in a hotel, but I did visit a Best Western in Florida and it was hell. Oh no, I found two human teeth in my sheets.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's fun. They were still bloody. Wow, yeah, those are clean sheets, let me tell you.
Speaker 1:Then a dead mouse in the middle of the floor with its guts exposed. I found the mouse first, obviously, and went straight to the front desk to tell them there's a dead mouse on my floor and I'd like it removed by the staff. I don't think a paying customer should have to do that shit themselves. I know that sounds pretty bad, but I'm paying to stay here for vacation, not to finish cleaning up dead mice from my room. Right, that the staff somehow missed. Should we toss this? No?
Speaker 2:I mean for myself. I probably would just pick up the mouse. It wouldn't be that huge of a deal for me, being raised in the country and dealing with stuff like that on a farm and all that, but I could definitely understand being angry about it or wanting them to clean it up.
Speaker 1:Also, I don't have any gloves or anything with me. I have no desire to touch it. Totally understandable. They said, okay, we'll be in there in 5 to 20 minutes. What the hell? So I left my bags inside the room, away from the mouse, then left for the store. I got back after an hour or so and the mouse was still there. Wow. I go straight to the front desk and the same woman in the counter says that she's sorry and that the janitor will be there in 5 to 20 minutes. Uh-huh, she did indeed phone him right in front of me to go to my room number to clean it up. I waited in my room for over an hour and the janitor still didn't show up. I go back to the front desk and it's a new person and it's a new person there. This man is the manager and I explain what's going on. He apologizes politely, then leaves to go get the janitor. I leave again I forget what for and come back hours capitalized later. The mouse is still there.
Speaker 2:Over six hours and they can't figure out how to get the mouse picked up.
Speaker 1:At this point I am pissed and it's dark outside. I just want to go to my bed. I march up to the front desk and this time I'm fairly unreasonable. I'm yelling at the front desk woman Third person I've spoke to about this so far and explain that I've been waiting for hours for this dead, bloody mouse to be cleaned up from my room. She apologizes and says the cleaners have gone home for the night and she's not permitted to clean the rooms.
Speaker 2:Oh hell no.
Speaker 1:So I give up, grab a towel from the bathroom and lay it over the mouse. I then tiredly, exhaustedly, crawl into the bed and discover human teeth in the bed. What the f-?
Speaker 1:it looked like little kids teeth and I sigh in agony yeah I got I got out of bed and went back to the front desk and displayed that now there's human teeth in my bed. She says she can't do anything about it. I inquire about switching rooms and she says it cannot be done. I'm livid at this point. I just want to go to bed. I'm so frustrated that I don't know what to do with myself. I then settle for sleeping in the armchair for the night. God damn.
Speaker 1:I wake up with a stiff neck, nothing serious. But I go straight to the front desk and I explain to the day manager fourth person now what happened to the previous day. The different manager says he'd heard nothing about this incident before I yell so loud and demand that he follows me to my room and let me show him the mouse and teeth. He followed and he's all wow, wtf. And then goes to the janitor cleaner. I wait for two hours. They don't show up.
Speaker 1:I send for another notice, then leave to go to do vacation stuff and I get back late at night and nothing has been cleaned, not even the towels in the bathroom, and they normally do throughout the day. I go to the front desk and scream my ass off in front of the desk lady, in front of the desk lady is the same girl from day one and she's like's, like, holy crap, they didn't fix it yet. Wow, she leaves to go get the cleaners. Personally, she manually forces them into the room and yells that they clean it. The janitor is like, uh, I need to go get my supplies for this. I need latex gloves and leaves. He does not f***ing come back. It's now 2am.
Speaker 2:I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1:Janitor went home New woman at the desk. I am livid. I then use Kleenex to grab the teeth out of the bed and set it on the nightstand. I get a decent sleep in the bed. I wake up to a second tooth in the bed. This one's all bloody. I immediately check my mouth in the bathroom mirror All my teeth are fine. This is such a convoluted story. In the bathroom mirror, all my teeth are fine. This is such a convoluted story.
Speaker 1:I grab a towel, pick up the dead mouse and both the teeth in the napkin. I walk them down to the front desk and slam them on the counter. I raise hell. Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm overreacting or not, but I am beyond enraged and I'm surprised I didn't pick up the chair and throw it against the wall. I would never hit somebody, especially not the defenseless, innocent woman in the counter. It's not their fault. I even feel bad for yelling at them. I scream at the manager that I waited two days for the teeth and rat to be cleaned up and the manager just shrugged Bro, wow, I demanded a refund. Since there's proof the dead rat in the towel and the teeth in the napkin I am instantly granted this refund.
Speaker 1:I have never in my life been this mad before. I felt the section of my brain that controls and distributes anger going on overload. Looking back, I feel bad for yelling so much, but at the same time it feels so warranted. I cut my vacation by three days because of this. I was too upset to stay on vacation and just went home tldr dead, bloody rats sat on the floor and two human teeth. For two days Management and cleaners would not come clean it, no matter how many times I inquired about it. I slept on an armchair Instead of the bed because I felt so gross To sleep in the bed. I raised hell, put the dead rat on the counter and got a full refund, went home without finishing my vacation. Wow, for the love of God, let's nuke that hotel.
Speaker 2:Those are some wildly incompetent managers and janitors.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what I would do. I don't even know what I would do. I don't even know what I would do. Pull a janitor by the ear like a dog.
Speaker 2:What is this Rub their nose in until they clean it up?
Speaker 1:What? Is this Bad janitor, bad yeah, pretty close. The fact that that guy did not come back after seeing the disgusting right and tea. That's just wild dude. Like they were probably asking like aren't you gonna go back and clean that room? No, I'm gonna go home. That's just wow crazy never, never in my life and I honestly that sounds like maybe that's one of the the trials of hell.
Speaker 2:Like you just wake up in the best western florida, you know and suffer through this I mean my worst personal hotel story started bad, but that was mostly just because getting to the hotel was positively horrendous, because we were going over a mountain pass and there was a snowstorm that came in and visibility literally was less than 50 feet in front of the car.
Speaker 2:Damn, you couldn't see the lines on the road 99% of the time. You just kind of had to follow the tracks of the previous cars and hope they were following the tracks, the lines, and kind of correct the very few times when someone had spun out enough to expose the line. Wow, very few times when someone had spun out enough to expose the line. Well, so it took us an extra hour and a half to get there, even though we only had five more. Not five more, we only had 20 more miles to go. Took us an extra hour and a half to do those 20 miles and we finally get there. We get checked in, tired, exhausted, just rattled. It's hot as balls in there for some reason.
Speaker 1:Oh what.
Speaker 2:So we turn on the AC and it fucking smelled like piss.
Speaker 1:Human piss.
Speaker 2:And it's I mean just generally. The room stunk like it was just a weird miasma of smells. I couldn't like pinpoint any one smell. That was just gross.
Speaker 2:But as soon as that ac turned on, oh my god, it was straight urine smell wow, they peed in the ac, went down to the desk, asked for a change of rooms because of it Took 30 minutes to get this room changed, but eventually did Get the new keys, go up to the other room that was on the other end of the hotel, up three flights of stairs. Elevator wasn't working, of course, and the keys didn't work. It's 12 45 in the morning. Oh man, like it's after after midnight, it's 12 45 and the keys didn't work. That was rough walking down there. I was like, oh my god, don't yell at them, it's not their fault, they're just idiots.
Speaker 2:Oh, room 255, I thought you meant 355, grab the keys get up there and finally we get in there and go to sleep and the beds were not good, but anyway, yeah, that was the closest to that, nowhere near as horrific as a dead rat and human teeth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel bad for this gentleman. Yeah, I do feel bad.
Speaker 2:I've also stayed in a hotel that had clearly a blood stain in the carpet, a large blood stain in the carpet large blood stain oh wow, yeah scary yeah, and it was a really run down like drug hotel off the side of the highway that I was forced to stay in because I was with a youth group and we were coming back and the transmission blew out in the van we were riding in. Oh no, so we were forced to stay there because there was nowhere else to stay. That was a fun night.
Speaker 2:But that one wasn't near as bad. We were all teenagers and we thought it was funny, slash, fun, creepy.
Speaker 1:You know, we didn't actually think we were in danger but it was just like oh my God, someone died here.
Speaker 2:There's blood everywhere actually think we were in danger, but it was just like, oh my god, someone died here. There's blood everywhere, but, yeah, nowhere near as bad as as an actual live or not?
Speaker 1:life once live corpse laying in the room uh, I just definitely think that place should get some bad reviews and maybe be closed down. I have a shorter one. By ultimate underscore cabooser. They say they found a body not a dead one. Just some guy overstayed his welcome and was sleeping on the bed okay, but still how, how, maybe it? Was a bum or something.
Speaker 2:No, you're. Here's the thing, though, Like they're not supposed to allow another person in until housekeeping's been in the room and cleaned up.
Speaker 1:Unless, it's the best restaurant in Florida.
Speaker 2:Clearly, but like it literally shouldn't even be a thing Like someone else could just be in there.
Speaker 1:Hey, sir, are you going to get up Like ten more minutes? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, one last one before we move on. This is by Deleted Alright. I used to work banquets in my hotel In parentheses switched to front desk but we had a group of shriners rent out our entire 150 room hotel. These motherfuckers were some of the horniest dudes. They had strippers, a massage room and I got to meet their opening entertainment, a woman who can play the Star Spangled Banner with her vagina. Whoa, I'm personally struggling to understand how that would even work. But okay. So cleaning up after these drunken assholes was a nightmare. But in the massage room we found a list and notes from the masseuses saying parentheses name. Told me to choke him and I used a strap-on on name.
Speaker 2:And a list of all these guys they f***ed and how many times over the weekend. Pretty funny and weird, but mostly funny.
Speaker 1:Just, oh, my god, um, I just want to start off by saying a shout out to that performer. I definitely think she should be on america's got talent. Uh, you know, howie mendel? Oh, good job, the golden buzzer okay.
Speaker 2:Pertaining to the star-spangled banner thing, someone commented butt sex europe. Commented play the star-spangled banner with her vagina. But how was she like queefing into a flute and the original poster still says deleted, but clearly says I didn't get to see her do it. They closed all the employees out of the room, but she was only wearing a robe in rehearsal and never touched it to her lips she also told my ex stripper banquet manager that she was doing that, so I don't know some questions are better left unanswered.
Speaker 1:I think we just have to appreciate the talent and skill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that that's a crazy one. Sorry listeners, this uh, unfortunately uh got a little explicit a few times this episode's kind of crazy. Hotel workers have to deal with some horrendous things. So for future reference, don't be a dick and don't leave horrific messes for hotel.
Speaker 1:Clean up your teeth and dead rats and don't just just don't make someone have to clean up bodily fluids and waste that's upsetting. I I'm still not over that story, because how can he go to them so many times and them not care? You know, maybe they're not human, that's that's pretty wild that's.
Speaker 2:That's a pretty significant disregard, yeah, for just everything to do with customer service. That is the most anti-customer service way of handling things. I've ever heard pretty much man.
Speaker 1:Oh dude, that guy probably has PTSD now.
Speaker 2:I bet he has vowed off from ever staying in a Best Western, ever, ever, ever again.
Speaker 1:Best Western, that's the worst Western.
Speaker 2:He's going to pay that extra hundred bucks for that one additional star to get out of the Best Western League.
Speaker 1:No, he's going to be staying at the Hyatt. From now on, he's going to be staying at Weston. What's your five-star hotel? But sir it's $1,500 a night.
Speaker 2:Worth it Just pay it. It means I'll actually be able to sleep in a clean bed. Worth it.
Speaker 1:He gets to the room, dead rat, oh no.
Speaker 2:Goes to the front desk.
Speaker 1:It's the same manager from the best Western, oh no.
Speaker 2:Bro, you have to be living in a simulation if that happens. Dude, Like there's no way you're not living in a simulation if that happens.
Speaker 1:He'd definitely be like I'm living in hell. I did something and I clearly have passed.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And I'm in purgatory, yeah.
Speaker 2:That is wild, all right, all right, let's move on.
Speaker 1:So we have another. Ask Reddit what is a lesson about love or relationships you wish you could tell your younger self before your first serious relationship?
Speaker 2:So many lessons, so many serious relationship, so many lessons so many and so many lessons that you don't really understand the full weight, no and implications of until you've experienced, oh yeah, the uh, not having done it and I'm gonna start off with a personal story.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, a very trippy, scary, creepy, triggering, I might cry oh, here's where the tears come, here's where the tears go. No, no tears. I promise not till the last segment. I promised I would wait, so, uh, this was like my first serious girlfriend in high school. I was like freshman year or whatever. Yeah, freshman to junior year, I was with this person, with this girl, and we had actually a pretty good relationship. I would say it was not really full of anger and stuff.
Speaker 1:And her mom actually really loved me, like really loved me like was already talking about us two being married and having babies and stuff. Yeah, crazy stuff to think. Around 15 years old, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. So right after our two-year mark or whatever, if I recall, her estranged father came into the picture out of nowhere, from Mexico. Apparently he had been gone for years.
Speaker 1:She didn't really know him and it was just weird that he came out of nowhere, right, just random, like, oh, I want to get to know you. She's 16 or something like that. I want to get to know you. Um, we lost so much time and this and that, right, you know right. And uh, everybody was like, oh, hell, yeah, she was so happy, she was so happy that she finally gets to meet her dad and, uh, he seems really cool. And I also met him and I was like I feel like I get these things flashes of insight, premonitions, vibes, vibes where I just know someone is weird and um, but of course, I'm always cordial, I'm always respectful right that's just how I am as a person and when I when I meet someone.
Speaker 1:But uh, my mom has this too, where she kind of knows when someone's weird, and it's true, I've encountered many things like that, um, and I told her like, uh, doesn't this seem a little strange and this and that you know it kind of seems like a freaking movie trope.
Speaker 2:Right, right yeah.
Speaker 1:No, that's my dad. Mom was like also kind of iffy, you know why, randomly come he's not asking for money. She's not asking him for money. They start hanging out and this and that, and he starts telling her that he wants to hang out with just her, not her sisters and not me. Hmm, and she was like all right, well, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's easy to convince a 16-year-old who's excited to finally develop a relationship with you that you want personal time with them so that it's just you two developing a relationship. Exactly Building a stronger relationship. What have you?
Speaker 1:And I didn't let that affect our relationship at all, and I was like one hand weirded, one hand, like okay, well, that's good that you're Supportive Supportive because I didn't really have a relationship with my father at this time.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So I was kind of glad that she did, you know. So I will Seeing someone happy about it, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I get a call At this point. I'm staying at my brother's for a short while he probably remembers this story and I get a call like 2 in the morning and it's her crying and saying that she got picked up by her mom and the story goes that she was staying. The dad told her like you could stay with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come stay at my house for a night, um, we'll have fun, and stuff like that. She's uh, spends the night, is asleep and wakes up to him touching her in her downstairs area. She screams out, obviously, and is freaked out and this and that. Honestly, when she called, when they gave me that call, I was still very chilling because I was very scared.
Speaker 1:At this point. I'm in love with this girl, right, and we have not had really issues prior to this moment, right, uh, and I'm just, and I'm mind you, I'm a kid still, you know as much as we like to think as of ourselves as older at that time right, yeah, I like to think it's funny because it's a sidebar. We are like. We always like I want to be an adult yeah and then you're an adult and you're like damn, I want to go back to being a kid because being an adult sucks.
Speaker 2:There's.
Speaker 1:There's a lot to it, a lot more than your uh child self believes a lot to it, and I'm just left with this nagasaki bomb dropped on me at uh three, two, three in the morning as a 15, 16-year-old, and I'm completely just distraught and shook by this.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because it doesn't seem real, mm-hmm. You know, to this point you don't hear about those kind of things when you're in school, like that. You don't hear about those kind of stories.
Speaker 2:It's not a super common occurrence, for sure. Especially Thank God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank God, but especially from someone so close right yeah, you know if you do hear about it.
Speaker 1:It's usually a friend of a friend or something to that effect yeah, or a story that you hear online, or or a word of mouth you know yeah um, but in this case it literally happened to uh this person. That was my first real relationship my first love yeah, um, my first, everything honestly, because it's like my first love and also my first tragedy and also my first push into things that happen in real life right, yeah, dealing with real issues real trauma and I remember just waking up, uh, of a whole night of crying, like you know, I'm sure she's crying too and uh, safe to say, oh, I cried in the morning when I woke up and my brother was like what?
Speaker 1:happened and I told them the story, and I also told my mom too, because she knew the girl and was right.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's perfectly reasonable to share something like that with your family. You're completely distraught.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You reach out to your support system?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm like what? I did not know what to do. What's the next steps? Steps and this post is about giving your past self advice. Uh, your younger self, uh, in your first relationship, is, honestly, I would tell myself not to dwell on that. Um, honestly, my right before senior year and senior, I made a vow like dude, I'm not getting with anybody anymore after this, because afterward our relationship was never the same. Um, even the slight touching of her arm and stuff like that, understandably so, she was very like, yeah, you, you know, standoffish and scared and yeah some major trauma, major trauma, psychological trauma and my intimacy was completely gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I was not even interested in that. I was just wanting to Just normal human contact. Mostly, I wanted to take her pain away yeah, which is the most unrealistic thing, unfortunately, that I felt at the time. And which is this is a perfect story because it emphasizes that. The advice I would give myself is you can't fix someone, you can't take someone's pain away. It's just impossible. You have to just let them live their pain.
Speaker 2:You have to. The best you can do is be supportive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we ended up breaking up shortly after.
Speaker 2:Well, she broke up with me, um, and felt like she understand me, so she said that she didn't want, she didn't feel up to any relationship yeah, yeah, yeah, when you from a relationship that's supposed to be so innocent and pure to have it suddenly pivot and become that, it's super easy, especially for a young person, male or female, for it to just pivot and suddenly nothing remotely associated with intimacy or relationship looks safe, comfortable or even appealing. Right, look safe, comfortable or even appealing, right it's.
Speaker 1:it's an unfortunate fact of dealing with that kind of trauma. Right, and it's, it's a horrible scenario. And guess what? Lo and behold the dad back to mexico. He left and disappeared. Yep, and it's just a a strange thing and I'll never forget the scenario. I'll never forget this part of my life. I'll never forget that relationship, but I'll also never forget and I carry this forward with me every day to this day I'll never forget the feeling I had when meeting this person and, right, the vibes I got really stuck with you, with now now you know the importance of it, of paying attention to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah or at least not giving myself whole to this person that I don't really know and have some off feelings about. You know, um, just word of advice to our listener if you feel something is off, um, you know they call it gut feeling. Yeah, I don't know how I feel so much about gut feeling and stuff like that, but we do feel some kind of more of a catch-all term.
Speaker 1:But yeah we do feel something. We feel, uh, some energy, I don't know. Point is, sometimes it's a good thing to listen to yourself and if it's a red flag, then you know, don't avoid the red flags.
Speaker 2:Or rather, do avoid the red flags, don't cover up the feeling of the red flags.
Speaker 1:Don't cover up the feeling of the red flag yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Now jumping on to the actual posts and just to remind people what is a lesson about love or relationships you wish you could tell your younger self before your first relationship. First one I'll read is from mj eyes says you're not responsible for fixing someone else's emotional baggage and they are not your personal rehab project.
Speaker 1:Sincerely.
Speaker 2:That encapsulates a lot, man you could talk for an hour at least on just that comment alone and the deep meaning that can be pulled from it.
Speaker 1:Definitely something to consider and really sit with yeah and uh, life is just, uh, it's trippy, it really is trippy. And how, how, how things are and uh, perspective sometimes is, it's kind of hard to see from different points of view, like if you're just looking through your own scope. You know, yeah, it's hard to see from different points of view, like if you're just looking through your own scope, you know. Yeah, it's hard to see a 360 of everything.
Speaker 2:It is and it kind of touches on your takeaway from your story. Absolutely With the whole. You're not responsible for fixing someone else's emotional baggage, which isn't to say don't try, don't be supportive Right.
Speaker 1:Don't do what you can do, but don't overextend yourself in ways you are not qualified for and then beat yourself up for not living up to a standard you're not capable of living up to. And that's exactly how I felt after that whole thing, after the whole scenario, and I didn't want to get with anybody either. I felt like.
Speaker 1:I can't fix anyone like like if I'm some sort of magic therapist, you know, and I felt kind of like a failure. Yeah, after that, not a failure in life, not a failure in school, in failure that I couldn't fix her.
Speaker 1:I couldn't help her, even though if she would tell me like I think I need some space, you know, and I'd be like, well, you know, it just seemed like I needed to figure out what a person's because this is kind of like grieving you know, yeah, what a person has to feel. You know, in that sense, and it's just, everybody's going to go through an interesting scenario, you know, yeah, hopefully not like this, but I did take away a lot from it.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I do take it in my daily life, you know.
Speaker 1:Right away a lot from it and I do take it in my daily life. You know right a one by humble, underscore, redemption. Get your emotions under control and practice catching yourself in these moments. Don't respond. Give yourself time to settle down and process and come back with a calm, centered reply. You'll never feel justified when responding with anger and frustration. Also, genuinely consider if this person is right for you. Don't take what you can get and try to reshape them or you into someone ideal for that particular relationship. Don't take things personally and accept when a relationship has run its course and let them go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a fair bit there. Yeah, and again. If you wanted to, you could talk for about an hour on just that. Let's keep moving by. Luna Peaches, if you ever catch yourself begging for effort, attention or proof that they like you, that's not love.
Speaker 1:That's your sign to walk away yeah, I mean fighting for someone's approval and all that.
Speaker 2:I do wish to add a caveat to that of my own, which is that, just because you have, you find yourself needing to quote, unquote, beg or ask for the attention, effort or proof that they, like you, it could be for one your own insecurities, which you do need to deal with on your own.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Or well, seek help if you aren't equipped to handle it on your own. And then, additionally, it could also simply be a couple of different things. One life has gotten into a major routine and life is just like a recurring groundhog day and people get that way.
Speaker 2:They get complacent right and they get absorbed in work, they get absorbed in what have you, and sometimes they just need to be jostled out of that. It's not that they don't love you, it's not that they don't want to give you attention or effort. It's simply that they got absorbed or sidetracked or complacent, which isn't to say that's a good thing, but it's also not necessarily a reason to leave. It's something you have to assess for yourself.
Speaker 2:Absolutely If you bring it up and they don't respond well or nothing ever changes, then yeah, definitely, but just because something happened and you feel the need to approach them for something like this doesn't necessarily mean oh definitely, just break it off right now, right, find something better. Life happens. Yes, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've seen that, and sometimes it could be that they're dealing with something that they're not chatting with you about simply because they don't feel comfortable or they have their own personal traumas that mean that to them means they have to handle this by themselves. They can't drag anyone else into it. And again, this is something they need to seek help for, sure, but it also is something that definitely happens and you need to account for that.
Speaker 2:You can't just say you're not giving me attention, goodbye. You know, Especially if you've been with that person for a while and you've seen the indications that they do care, but for some reason lately they're not.
Speaker 1:Right, that's my caveat. That's a great point and that seems to have definitely happened in relationships. I know that divorces are pretty rampant these days. I would say and people are different. You know, People are different and everything is different than what it used to be Well, divorce is also a lot easier than counseling, than counseling and that kind of leads me to my last one by Sirius Dash Preparation Love yourself before trying to love anyone else, and I've heard this one before and I I sincerely agree with it is if you hate yourself, if you're just so down on yourself, uh, then you'll never be able to feel fulfilled in a relationship.
Speaker 2:I would say yeah, um, one that I looked at by Pink Tulip is very, very similar to that and saying that don't dive in relationships to distract yourself from your own inner problems. And that's I mean, that's a huge, a huge point. That, unfortunately, is very easy thing for many people to do is to lose yourself in a relationship to avoid having to confront the problems you're dealing with.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Because it's ever so much more fun and less painful than confronting the cause for your own desperate unhappiness with yourself, for your own desperate unhappiness with yourself, and that is a very unfortunate basis to start a relationship with. Oh yeah, this isn't to say that your relationship is instantly definitely doomed when you start that, but the percentage of relationships that are successful in spite of that is quite low.
Speaker 1:Right, unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately.
Speaker 2:And one last one, kind of cogent with everything, very concise, by TraditionalHoliday69. Don't light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.
Speaker 1:Damn. That one you need to sit and think on for a minute sometimes. Listener.
Speaker 2:Because it has a lot of implications that aren't immediately apparent. Oh man, but that's a good one.
Speaker 1:That's a good one, listener, take the time to reflect on that one, because I feel like that could have many connotations, not just relationship. I think, that could go for friendship, that could go for workplace, absolutely. That could go for many facets of life is, you know, some people feel like they have to give everything of themselves, when in reality, you know, life is sometimes a give and take, and if you just give, give, give, there's not going to be none left to give.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you burn yourself out, you're no longer able to take care of yourself. Absolutely and if you can't take care of yourself, you can't give what you want to give.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like you could want. You can be burnt out and want to give everything to everyone or anyone, but if you're too burnt out, you literally are incapable of fulfilling that. Sure, in physical cases, like if you're burnt out and you're wanting to do something for someone, sure you can physically go help them move that couch, but you're not going to be good company while you're doing it. You're not going to be as genuine and overflowing with love and being a beacon of light in their life, if you will. Right, if you're barely scraping by on the burnt out nubs of your emotional state. I mean you have to take care of yourself in order to be able to properly take care of others.
Speaker 1:And I feel like that's how you lose yourself, able to properly take care of others, and I feel like that's how you lose yourself and that's how you lose your, your. Your way is giving everything you have. You know, um, and I feel like, yeah, just that's a. That's a very poignant comment there, for sure. Um, I do think we should, uh, end this episode a little light-hearted. Yes, yes, we need it, we need it everyone needs a little good, a little good in their life.
Speaker 1:Speaking of good in this ask reddit, what are some good things that are happening in the world that people might not know about? Yes, please and I'll start off.
Speaker 2:It's kind of ironic, but the Japanese are currently conducting a clinical trial for a medicine for tooth regrowth which is astounding, which is absolutely astounding for so many people, because so many people have major issues with their teeth and it's not just because they aren't taking care of them or because, or maybe it's like there's so many reasons why teeth can go bad Malnourishment, genetic issues there's just so many ways that can be a problem. So to have the option for regrowth rather than necessarily doing implants or root canals, which have a surprisingly high number of issues with it's just awesome.
Speaker 1:That's going to be, hopefully, a readily available yeah option for people yeah, and that is one of the good things for sure yeah, next one by upskill tc23.
Speaker 2:Whales are slowly returning to parts of the ocean that they haven't been seen in for decades. Nature heals when we give it the chance.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful. I mean, whales are an amazing creature and I am thankful that I've got to go whale watching and thankful that I even had the chance to see some, because, um, whenever you are out whale watching, they do say it's a very rare occurrence, um, so I'm very appreciative of that. It's an awe-inspiring moment. Yeah, dude, I was one with nature. So they say I was like dude, gotta love the whales. Man anyway, um, I I have one by Literary-Anarchist. 24 days ago, cancer deaths have dropped by over 25% in the US since 1991, with breast cancer deaths decreasing by 39%. Nice, let's just try to get those numbers down to zero, you know. Percent, nice, um, let's just try to get those numbers down to zero, you know, and um I'm definitely appreciative of the advancements in in medicine for sure.
Speaker 2:Next by zoin mihalo. Honestly, the fact that this question even exists and has thousands of engaged responses gives me hope. We're literally craving good news, because there's. We are so overwhelmed by the negative stuff. A few incredible things that blew my mind when I discovered them. The ozone layer is healing 20 years ahead of schedule. We're on track for full recovery by 2066. Global extreme poverty dropped from 36% in 1990 to under 10 today.
Speaker 2:That's over 1 billion billion, with a b people lifted up nice gene therapy just cured several quote-unquote incurable genetic diseases by literally editing dna yeah, the crisper, right crisper, I think. I think that's the main driver behind, I think there's a few other programs that are very similar, but I think that one's the primary.
Speaker 1:It's kind of crazy those advancements in DNA research yeah.
Speaker 2:Renewable energy became cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time in human history and child mortality rates have been cut in half since 1990. The crazy part I started noticing this pattern where amazing developments happen constantly but they get like one hundredth of the coverage of disasters. Studies show media focuses on negative stories at a 17 to 1 ratio. Yes, as a side note, I mean it's unfortunate, but that's what sells, that's what makes the money for them, that's what sells, tragedy sells.
Speaker 2:They are not in the business of actually disseminating all information to the masses. Their mission statement is to make money for their stockholders Right, exactly. Anyway, back to the post. I actually went down a rabbit hole documenting positive developments earlier this year because the constant doom scrolling was affecting my mental health. Found way more incredible stuff happening than I expected. Anyone else. Notice that sharing good news makes conversations so much better. People light up instead of getting that glazed. The world is ending. Look. Found way more incredible stuff happening than I expected. Actually, put together a whole directory of 50 positive developments, since people keep asking for specific examples, which is fantastic. Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 1:Those are some really hopeful things. Yeah, and the doom scrolling. I heard that this is actually pretty bad. Some studies have shown this pretty bad the doom scrolling yeah.
Speaker 1:So my next ones actually are two of them together. Also about renewable energy by TimBob72,. Costa Rica is running almost entirely on renewable energy most of the year. Nice and upskill tc23 responds. Scotland generated over 100 percent of its electricity demand from wind. On some days last year, literally more wind than they can use. Yeah and uh. Yeah, that's great to see. I mean um strides in renova energy, um turbulent. Alfalfa says solar and wind power are now cheaper than coal in many countries. Clean energy is actually winning on economics, not just ethics, and that's that was the missing piece, I think, for the push for renewable energy was seeing the numbers and stuff like that, and there is that.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, there's also the resources, because, yeah, absolutely a lot of it is fairly resource intensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, copper and lithium are needed for most of it and it's crazy that, um, I read a post. I don't know how long ago was, if the sahara desert the largest desert in the world, I believe like, if only a quarter of it or something like that was covered in solar panels, that would be enough to power the world. You know, I don't know how true that is I think I.
Speaker 2:I saw a screen cap of a of a very similar something like that yeah um, it was a few years ago, I think that I saw it. But yeah, theoretically. If they were there and properly maintained and weren't constantly covered and broken by all the sand, then, yeah, theoretically that could happen. Yeah, I think the main issue was broken by all the sand. Then, yeah, theoretically that could happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think the main issue was that all the countries that own a piece of it and stuff like that. It's just the complications logistically.
Speaker 2:For sure yeah, now by psychstudent underscore 101,. The Great Ocean Cleanup is doing amazing work on researching and removing plastic from our oceans and waterways, including intercepting plastics in rivers before it makes its way to oceans. We might yet see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up in our lifetimes, along with other floating islands of plastic. And to jump in on that, the next top comment under that is by yuleman. There is another thing happening with plastics that is arguably both good and bad plastic eating, fungi and bacteria. The good is that all that plastic waste may become decompostable and end up having a minor long-term issue in the environment. The bad is that plastics will become decompostable and lose one of its key properties for why it's so valuable. There's a lot of applications where plastic is used to protect against rust or decomposition on wood and also as a long-term quote-unquote. What is the term Renewable resource if?
Speaker 2:you will is to use recycled plastic for decking and stuff like that. Sure, and if you get a bad case of the plastic-eating fungi, that might quickly wipe out the usefulness of that Corniceps. No, we don't need living plastic.
Speaker 1:And I have one Excellent Jumplow7783 says Shriners Hospital still helps sick kids free of charge they're just really horny about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess I don't know when they went. When they go let loose at one of their parties, they, they're really horny.
Speaker 1:Thankfully, I don't think they're horny in the direction of the kids right, um, and also uh, saint Jude does that as well, and I used to donate every year for my birthday to St Jude, which also helps sick kids free of charge Nice, the parents don't have to worry about paying anything, and that's an amazing program and I think everybody should donate to that.
Speaker 2:Those are a couple of the better ones. Yeah, there's a lot of non-profits out there, that the actual money that gets to the cause is very low. All right as our last good news not that we want to cap the good news, but eventually all good things must end. This is by Hailfire. If you're young right now, there's a decent not high, but not low chance that there might be a general cancer cure in our lifetime because of CRISPR technology and immunotherapy.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Early advances in CRISPR have been absolutely phenomenal. For instance, CRISPR therapeutics has actually managed to cure sickle cell disease in humans the treatment is known as caskevy downside it costs something like two million dollars.
Speaker 2:I am also a physician in an area known for one of the top cancer hospitals in the country, and immunotherapy is a revolution happening right now, allowing physicians to give many patients with previously untreatable cancers a fighting chance. I'm seeing way more patients on it than ever, and we are being given guidance on how to treat potential side effects. These treatments were only theoretical when I was starting medical school Same for CRISPR, in fact. It was only beginning to emerge in theoretical when I was starting medical school. Same for CRISPR, in fact. It was only beginning to emerge in labs when I was getting my bachelor's and master's 10-ish years ago.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Both of these technologies can be engineered to be incredibly specific to the exact genetic sequence of disease instance. You could create a CRISPR treatment that turns off crucial cancer genes, parentheses, P53 or telomerase Right? I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right? Yeah, In only your specific cancer cells. The cancer could be completely cured without affecting any other cell in your body. Yes, this is still very, very far from reality.
Speaker 1:Very.
Speaker 2:However, that's what we said about these technologies 10 to 20 years ago, and we're already being and they're already being used in humans to a very limited degree. Yes, I'm very, very excited to see where they will progress in the next 10, no, in the next 20 to 40 years. Right Disclosure I do own a small amount of CRISPR therapeutic stock in my retirement portfolio.
Speaker 1:Genius. I mean, yeah, we did talk about that previously. We talked about CRISPR. Yeah, I just wanted to jump on that because it's a little more specific and it's very amazing what strides we have in the past couple decades with that CRISPR, and just from my I'm not a doctor or nothing, just from my short research that I've done on it like maybe we could even treat hereditary cancers. You know that are passed down in our genes, in our DNA, hereditary diseases too, not just cancer um and there's a lot of horrific hereditary diseases that basically some are untreatable.
Speaker 2:They're like you know, yeah, like ms right, oh man that is just a horrifying and horrifyingly painful disease that is way more common than a lot of people think it is.
Speaker 1:It's scary.
Speaker 2:And people who are strong, and healthy and are super into their health when it suddenly appears in their life. It just wipes them out. It doesn't matter how strong and healthy and into nutrition you are, it will cause you horrific pain and damage, and I mean, that's just one of the many things that crisper could.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hopefully, hopefully hopefully tackle and hopefully um I'm glad he said that within our lifetime, um, because maybe that's something that our grandkids will enjoy in their life is no more cancers or sicknesses of that caliber.
Speaker 2:Or at least significantly reduced, significantly reduced, yeah. Or even if they do show up, you have a real option of taking care of it without the high probability of death, absolutely without the high probability of death and or just crazy side effects like are currently dealt with with chemo and other therapies.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, so I'm hoping that we do see that in our lifetime for sure. Yes, and that's a good bit of great news, and I hope that everyone enjoyed this segment as much as we did A lot of trippy stuff on Ask Reddit man, and I still feel bad about that guy who stayed at the Best Western in Florida. Yes, man. I wish we could interview him man on this episode, on this podcast and we're telling you should have kept your gloves up, man, and should have used your gloves.
Speaker 2:Maybe should have used your gloves on that one and thank you guys for listening.
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