Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Are you ready? I'm ready. Is my hair ready? You do have a little cockatoo in the back, to be honest. See, the issue is I thought I had my brush on me, and I don't.
I know. I forgot my whole makeup bag. You don't have a brush. But you know what we do have?
Friends? Me and you?
Friends. Us?
Each other? Friendship. Friendship. Oh, we don't even have that. No, I'm kidding.
Camaraderie.
Camaraderie.
What? Oh, Sabrina Carpenter.
Oh, God. I was like, don't make me explain this.
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Chapter 2: How does the conversation shift to personal anecdotes?
Yeah, so it's been since like December. I did go scuba diving. Very gorgeous in Cozumel, Cozumel. I don't know if I'm saying that right. Yeah. worked a lot and i don't remember i don't remember my life this year in 2026 no i don't know oh my gosh what else have i done i don't know okay it doesn't matter am i being weird i think we're both being weird okay well shake it off
We need to get over this. I'm going to be honest. I'm a little hungover. Oh. I think that's where my weirdness is coming from.
Okay. I think I'm a little overstimulated, and that's where my weirdness is, but not in the bad way. No, I feel that, though, too. It's actually just like I have a lot of energy, and I usually don't on Sundays, and so this is very exciting but almost overwhelming.
Where do I start? Do you have so much energy that you'd like to read today?
I don't really know that I can finish.
Maybe a couple.
That'd be so great. Sentences. That'd be so great. I'll give it a shot. I like this. I might end up skipping. I just saw my life flash before my eyes. I did too because it came towards me. You just witnessed a near-death experience. Weren't you holding your thumb on it?
No, I thought they stayed until I... What do you think the safety cage is for? People lose eyes from champagne bottles every year. Don't say that. Don't say that. Take that back. I literally saw it. Take it back. We're going to have to roll the tape. I think it hit the bottom of the mic flag.
It's matching my energy right now. The bottle? Yes. Dude, we are rare breeds. We ourselves are rare breeds. We fit right along with these people today. Are you okay? We're going to need to, we're going to need to pick this up tomorrow. Circle back. We're done here. Oh my God. It's like the new, what is it? Nevermind. Okay. Well, I'm curious where you're going with that.
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Chapter 3: What unique stories are shared about odd behaviors?
But there's some common symptoms and I'm going to talk about them after we get into this story. And this isn't necessarily a part of our rare breed theme, but I really just want to read this story because colon cancer is something that's like really affected my family.
And I've gotten so many messages and comments from listeners out there saying me talking about it encouraged you to talk to your mom and they discovered stage three cancer and now she's fine. Like, I'm sharing something on Instagram that has just been really meaningful for me. And so I want to talk about it. Yeah. And at the top of the month, right when it's, you know, conversations really going.
Absolutely. Okay. So this is coming from Today I Fucked Up titled, Today I Fucked Up Dismissing Bright Red Blood in My Stool for Years. If you're currently experiencing this symptom, please read. My experience. I've had small amounts of bright red blood on my stool for years. I had always dismissed this finding because I'm young with a horrible diet.
I've always been taught that black stool is the worrisome stool, as that's indicative of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, whereas stool that has bright red blood just indicates hemorrhoids. My logic for dismissing the bright red blood... I've had a diet consisting of high sugar, high fat, processed foods with low fiber, in addition to being very inactive, causing constipation and straining.
So bleeding from straining just made sense. I'm 6'1", at 225 pounds. Blood was not consistent. It came and went. There was not a lot of blood, and when it was, it looked like skid marks on the stool, something I thought was obviously related to hemorrhoids. I'm young, 29. Family history of hemorrhoids. So I thought me having hemorrhoids was just part of the family business.
Also lack of education, especially knowledge relating to polyps, an abnormal tissue formation resembling a skin tag in the colon. Why did I eventually meet with a GI specialist? The blood in my stool became more of an everyday thing that lasted for months. From my perspective, that frequency was abnormal.
My GI doctor thought it was more than likely hemorrhoids, but still recommended a colonoscopy because no matter what, blood in stool, especially in young adults, is not normal and should always be inspected. What was found from my colonoscopy? A 20-millimeter polyp. To put it into perspective, a 10-millimeter polyp is considered big.
The polyp was sent to pathology, and in a few days, I received a call. They discovered that cancer had formed on the polyp. It's more of a rare cancer, less than 1% of colon cancers, that is ultimately a little bit more aggressive than the average colon cancer. At this point, I've been staged at stage 3A after getting a part of my colon removed.
And six weeks later, I will now be starting chemotherapy in five days. The doctors do feel I have an 80 to 90 percent chance of being cured with chemo's assistance. But what's more interesting about this cancer is that it is most common in younger people around later 20s, early 30s. The doctors mentioned that they are seeing colon cancer rise more often in young people.
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Chapter 4: How does the episode conclude with reflections on relationships?
We broke up about one year after my diagnosis. To be honest, she took very good care of me when I needed her the most. I'll always appreciate her for that. Mental health. I've had anxiety and depression. I think it's about the same, maybe even somewhat improved since pre-diagnosis. Two pros of a cancer diagnosis. One, I have people in my life I never would have had without the diagnosis.
Paige, my cancer mom, and Ben, my cancer dad. have all been on speed dial since I met them in my colon cancer support group five years ago.
Why am I emotional from this?
Two, there's no experience that will make you realize how precious life is than genuinely thinking you will die soon within the next few years. Some shout outs, my wife, who will always be there for me, my mom, my stepdad and brother, who will always be there for me, Paige and Ben, Tanner and Sarah, friends that I've made in my support group who were taken by cancer.
My best friends, Amir, Jason, Richard, Jess, Steve, Deb, who will always be there for me. Well, I don't know what else to add. You can ask any questions. I'll do my best to answer. I stream on Twitch occasionally, so you can definitely ask questions there as well. And then they share their Twitch username, which is NurseDaveITH. maybe Nurse Davith.
But yeah, I'll have the link in the description if you want to go and chat with him, ask him any questions. But it's really, it just like was so full circle. And I didn't see the original post. I saw this update coming, you know, a couple days ago. And then I was like, wait, what was this TIFU? And oh, it's March, Colon Cancer Awareness Month. What a perfect time to share. Absolutely.
So I think that's honestly, Morgan told me the other day, that Justin was talking to her about the fact that if she wants to help a large amount of people, like this is a good place to be. And it's something as simple as bringing it up and bringing up awareness on this silly podcast where we say stupid things all the time.
Yeah.
But most of what we say is dumb.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of lying about coffee preferences in a relationship?
Like, the fact that it went on for eight years is kind of a little... It's impressive. It's impressive, but that's why it's also a little concerning.
A little wrong. I know. Do you think you wanted the satisfaction of being like, you've been drinking for eight years, like just that I got you satisfaction?
No, I think it sounds more like a lazy thing. Like he's like, well, it's what I prefer and she doesn't mind it. So I'm just going to keep going with my routine until she says something, which that just so happened to be eight years later. I don't think that it was like a... I'm trying to mess with you. Yeah.
Chapter 6: How do expectations affect our perception of taste?
Yeah. That's how it reads from my point of view, like specifically because like just knowing like my dad, I could see my dad. I could see my dad in a situation like this just out of pure routine. Right. Like you see that there's nothing wrong. So you keep up with your routine.
Well, it also kind of begs the question of like what you don't know doesn't hurt you a little bit. There's certain things about this where like people really stick to their beverages and they think like, oh no, I know the difference between a Diet Coke and a Coke Zero and like I only drank this one. And then they do like a blind taste test and it's like, oh, that's not Diet Coke.
That's Coke Zero. See? And so I think that concept of like
how an expectation of what you're drinking can mess with you is really interesting and it's something that comes up in the comments so the top comment is she sent back coffee at restaurants for being too dark while drinking dark roast at home every morning for eight years that's not a taste preference that's a belief system yeah right and someone comments under it to be fair this just proves how much expectations affect taste if you think you hate something you will convince yourself you do unless no
one tells you yeah yeah it's interesting experiment so are they in a bad place now or is he just kind of like i mean he started off saying like hi honey i know you'll see this right so i think it's light-hearted yeah there's no update on it op has since deleted their account the post was removed she was like delete that yeah yeah take that down yeah
But that's all he wrote. Is anyone having like wild comments that are things that didn't cross our minds?
Let's sort the comments by controversial.
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Chapter 7: What happens when trust is broken in a relationship?
Someone goes, I think you guys should work on your communication. Mm-hmm. Not the jerk. I would grin like the Joker watching her stubbornly drink her light roast and ask her, how's the coffee now that she knows? Someone responds to that and goes, sounds like you guys all hate your wives. Yeah. Someone goes, your wife is pathetic. Jeez. Someone else says, this is hilarious.
My wife is as stubborn as yours about preconceived food and beverage choices. God forbid that she should ever have to drink a Diet Dr. Pepper rather than a Diet Coke.
Chapter 8: How can couples navigate manipulation from family members?
You'd think that it would kill her. Dr. Pepper's so good, though. I've done some sneaky food stuff to her over the years but I've never pulled a long con like this well done You guys are weirdos. And that makes me now I'm like, I don't want him to have this satisfaction. I don't.
Yeah.
And that's why I think it did go on for so long. Maybe. And I think at first you, hey, you're at the store, you buy the wrong one. Okay. But like you continued to go out and buy that one after you kind of pulled it over on her.
At some point within eight years, it has to just go over your head.
Yeah.
Like I really, I can't imagine each time he goes to the grocery store, he was like, he, he, he. Pulling a fast one. Like, I feel like it's got to just kind of become a part of your routine.
Yeah. I know.
And I think that the people in there are laughing because they've had things that are similar. And they're like, wow, King, like, you did the ultimate heist for eight years. But I don't feel like that was just his... No.
And at the end of the day, like, I don't think this is really about the coffee. Yeah. It's about the overall, you've bamboozled me. Right. And maybe... As silly as it might seem, like she just feels kind of betrayed. Yeah. Like a little just like, oh, like you don't... I don't know. Like I wonder if you would start to feel like you don't respect me.
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