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As I am currently on crutches, multiple people have recommended an episode of the podcast Outside, Can We Please Kill Off Crutches?, an informative and entertaining exploration of the history of crutches and their pros and cons.
That podcast mentioned that there was an earlier one about the dramatic story of how one of the podcast hosts broke his leg diving into a waterfall, He That Is Down Need Fear No Fall. So I listened to that. It was a compelling and moving survival story, which I saw was part of their Science of Survival series.
That is obviously catnip for me, so before starting some exercises I was going to do on the floor, I turned on one somewhat at random, figuring it was a high-quality podcast on a topic of great interest to me, so any of them would be enjoyable. The one I selected was Dangerously Delicious, about poisonous mushrooms.
I should mention at this point that once I'm down on the floor, I can't get up without a hand-hold as I can't put any weight on one foot, and I had slithered to an open area without any hand-holds to do my exercises.
I began my exercises as the podcast launched into a rather melodramatic second-person account of picking mushrooms. It was a different narrator than the others, and I didn't much like him but it was an intriguing topic and also, as mentioned before, I was now a captive audience.
I continued exercising and listening as "you" serve your friends a death cap risotto, then begin showing symptoms.
"A wave of nausea sweeps over you," the narrator intoned. "You rush to the toilet to vomit."
A graphic vomiting description followed, making me consider dragging myself back to turn it off. But surely that was it for the vomit...
"HURRRRRGH! BLEEEEEGGGH! HURRRRRRGH!" SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH.
Yes. The podcast had vomit sound effects. I stopped exercising and listened, grossed out and amazed, as they were followed by the sound effect of a flushing toilet.
Oh well, I thought, at least that's over. Though why in the world would a podcast do a vomit sound effect...?
"Another wave of nausea strikes, even worse than the last!" declared the narrator. Incredulous, I listened to a second round of lengthy vomit effects, complete with splashes and flushing toilet.
Appalled at the thought that the vomiting might continue in real time, I began to drag myself to the computer. But before I could reach it...
"And then you feel a rumble in your guts! You barely have time to sit on the toilet before diarrhea spews out of you!"
And then there were graphic, highly realistic diarrhea sound effects.
Just. WHY?
The toilet was once again flushing as I pulled the plug.
That podcast mentioned that there was an earlier one about the dramatic story of how one of the podcast hosts broke his leg diving into a waterfall, He That Is Down Need Fear No Fall. So I listened to that. It was a compelling and moving survival story, which I saw was part of their Science of Survival series.
That is obviously catnip for me, so before starting some exercises I was going to do on the floor, I turned on one somewhat at random, figuring it was a high-quality podcast on a topic of great interest to me, so any of them would be enjoyable. The one I selected was Dangerously Delicious, about poisonous mushrooms.
I should mention at this point that once I'm down on the floor, I can't get up without a hand-hold as I can't put any weight on one foot, and I had slithered to an open area without any hand-holds to do my exercises.
I began my exercises as the podcast launched into a rather melodramatic second-person account of picking mushrooms. It was a different narrator than the others, and I didn't much like him but it was an intriguing topic and also, as mentioned before, I was now a captive audience.
I continued exercising and listening as "you" serve your friends a death cap risotto, then begin showing symptoms.
"A wave of nausea sweeps over you," the narrator intoned. "You rush to the toilet to vomit."
A graphic vomiting description followed, making me consider dragging myself back to turn it off. But surely that was it for the vomit...
"HURRRRRGH! BLEEEEEGGGH! HURRRRRRGH!" SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH.
Yes. The podcast had vomit sound effects. I stopped exercising and listened, grossed out and amazed, as they were followed by the sound effect of a flushing toilet.
Oh well, I thought, at least that's over. Though why in the world would a podcast do a vomit sound effect...?
"Another wave of nausea strikes, even worse than the last!" declared the narrator. Incredulous, I listened to a second round of lengthy vomit effects, complete with splashes and flushing toilet.
Appalled at the thought that the vomiting might continue in real time, I began to drag myself to the computer. But before I could reach it...
"And then you feel a rumble in your guts! You barely have time to sit on the toilet before diarrhea spews out of you!"
And then there were graphic, highly realistic diarrhea sound effects.
Just. WHY?
The toilet was once again flushing as I pulled the plug.