Red Carpet Controversy and a Presidential Anecdote

Could a simple rash be a harbinger of a life-threatening condition? Caitlin Alsop's gripping story unveils the terrifying series of events that began with flu-like symptoms and a seemingly minor rash, eventually leading to a severe medical crisis. Join us as Caitlin recounts her journey from initial misdiagnosis to the correct identification of an impacted wisdom tooth that nearly cost her her life. Her tale serves as a stark reminder of the importance of thorough medical evaluations and the perils of overlooked symptoms.

After Caitlin’s harrowing account, we switch to the unexpected and buzz-worthy appearance of MAGA clothes at New York Fashion Week. What does this mean for the fashion industry and cultural trends? We then lighten the mood with a humorous story from Joe Biden about his great-grandfather, adding a touch of levity to an otherwise intense episode. Don't miss out on this rollercoaster of emotions, from serious health scares to the latest in fashion and entertaining political anecdotes!

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Speaker 1: 0:22

Hello and good, happy Tuesday morning, four-day weekend I mean four-day weekend, four-day week coming up, great weekend, three-day weekend. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Let's move on to the first topic of the podcast. Today we're talking about impacted wisdom teeth that led to deadly illness. Well, I don't think she died, so from what I understand, she's still living. Then we're going to talk about some MAGA clothes for New York Fashion Week and then we're going to end it with Joe Biden with another off the wall story that he has apparently telling about his great grandfather All right, about his great-grandfather, all right. From the New York Post.

Speaker 1: 1:13

Impacted wisdom tooth led to deadly illness in 23-year-old, and it all started with a rash. Let's see, caitlin Alsop was 23 when a rash kept cropping up on her face. It happened for months and was the only ailment. She was otherwise a typical healthy woman in her early 20s, but the rash was a sign that something deadly had been brewing inside her body. And she starts telling the story, so I'm guessing she's okay. Let's see what she says. I went to a couple of doctors but I didn't really think there was anything going on, and then I ended up with some flu-like symptoms. She told the news. She said she was experiencing a fever, sore throat and sore ear and her GP agreed that she just had the flu and needed to take it easy. Look, that's a bad doctor when your ear starts hurting. Come on, I've had these kind of. I've had a tooth infection before.

Speaker 1: 2:14

I was in my early 20s. It wasn't from, it wasn't from wisdom teeth, because it wasn't from my impacted wisdom teeth, because when I was in the navy, that's the first thing they did in boot camp. I think they were training their was in the Navy. That's the first thing they did in boot camp. I think they were training their dentist in the Navy. I don't know, but they decided to. I mean, it was like a mass wisdom teeth extraction from all of the recruits in boot camp. It was weird. Anyway, I had my wisdom teeth taken out by a Navy doctor. A lot of us did when we were in boot camp. It was weird, I don't know. Therefore, when I had my toothache, my wisdom teeth had already been taken out and it was. It was a sore throat and an earache, believe it or not, and it was so weird because when I finally went to the dentist, they took it out.

Speaker 1: 3:02

That day when I went to the dentist. We were thinking something's wrong. I don't know what's wrong. Blah blah, he took it. He took the tooth out right then and there and immediately I felt better. So it was definitely infected, all right.

Speaker 1: 3:14

So eventually all stuff started to feel better and went to dinner with a friend, but while eating she felt like she had bitten her tongue. A few hours later her tongue was swollen and she started to drool. So she went, went to the hospital. Blah, blah, blah, within 45 minutes. Doctor also hypothesized she had anaphylaxis and gave her two shots of adrenaline. But things got worse and she started to fade in and out of consciousness and a severe blue and red rash appeared on the top half of her body. I don't know what that's about.

Speaker 1: 3:51

She was then transferred to Gold Coast University Hospital where she was known as a medical mystery. Her tongue began to blacken and there were talks of a tracheostomy and something, something I don't even. I can't even pronounce it. Doctors eventually performed oh God, an endotracheal intubation intubation and transferred her into the intensive care unit. Her skin was burning from the inside out the inside out. Oh goodness, maybe she did die. I hope not. An anesthesiologist suspected she had Ludwig angina, which involves life-threatening cellulitis of the soft tissue involving the floor of the mouth and neck. This meant a CT scan and the eventually cause of her problems was identified her wisdom tooth had become impacted and infected and it had nearly killed her. So it didn't kill her. So this headline was misleading. Thank goodness she didn't die. Uh, I didn't think she had, but the headline reads impacted wisdom tooth led to deadly illness. I mean, that tells me she died. Whatever. I know, I know, but you can go finish it. It looks like she's okay, thank goodness.

Speaker 1: 5:19

All right, we're moving on to the maga clothes, bags and hats to take over long island runway amid new york fashion week. This is this is under my glam category. I suppose a week after the new york fashion week, goppers will strut their stuff down the catwalk wearing apparel like a fake news jumpsuit. I need that fake news jumpsuit. I need to go find where it is and I need to buy it. It's by Kate Gansey and a Make America Great Again cap outfitted with Swarovski crystals by Hat Tricks and a crystal bag with an American flag on one side and maga fashionista on the other. I need this patch and I just sew it on the jumpsuit and I need it now I will go see how much this costs the jumpsuit they show. Uh, kill this messenger, kill them. The jumpsuit does not look that nice, but you know I'm still going to go. You know I'm still going to go look it up. I'm still going to go look it up, all right, so there's that, and now we're going to end before the question of the day, with.

Speaker 1: 6:29

Biden says his great grandfather was accused of being in a group of killer coal miners in long winded antidote. Okay, so he's back from vacation. He was in California for a week on vacation. Then he was at Rehoboth Beach for a vacation for a week, and now he's back and nothing has changed. You would think two weeks off and relaxation. You know he might get it like a reboot. Nope, we're back to this long winded mumbling made up bull crap.

Speaker 1: 7:07

President Biden claimed in a long winded antidote on Monday that his great grandfather was rumored to have been part of a group of coal miners that would kill anti-Catholic mine foreman and lay the dead bodies on the doorstep of their families' homes. What in tarnation is he talking about? Vice President Kamala Harris nodded along as the 81 year old president spun the strange yarn during his remarks to union workers in Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, joking that he was disappointed to learn that his great-grandfather, edward Francis Blewett, was not a member of the Molly Maguires. What I remember, when my great-grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the state Senate here in Pennsylvania, biden began and I remember they talked about when they'd run against him in 1906, they said guess what? He's a Molly McGuire and of course he's leaning down on the. He can't even stand up. He's leaning on the podium, the lectern, in this picture that they have all right.

Speaker 1: 8:23

The president explained that back in the old days irish catholics working in pennsylvania coal mines were often mistreated by the foreman and a group of recently arrived irishmen known as the molly mcguires violently retaliated against their oppressors. A lot of the English owned the coal mines, biden said. And what they did was they really beat the hell out of the mostly Catholic population in the mines. Not a joke, he says. But there was a group they called the Molly Maguires. He went on. And Molly Maguiresires, if they found out the foreman was taking advantage of an individual, they would literally kill him not a joke and they would bring his body up and put him on the doorstep of his family.

Speaker 1: 9:12

Kind of crude, but I gotta admit they accused my great-grandfather of being a molly mcguire, wasn't, but we were so damn disappointed. Uh, so he's disappointed that his great-grandfather was not a part of this so-called group of Irishmen that would kill coal miners the foremen of the coal miners, who mistreated Catholics and then lay their bodies at the door. He was okay. Oh my God, this guy, I cannot believe it. Yeah, I guess I can. That's just nonsense. I'm sure you're going to hear all about that all over the news this morning, probably. All right, so we need a question of the day, and then I'm going to let y'all go Hold on. Before we get to the question of the day, I thought about posing what I'm about to tell you as the question of the day, but I think it's too deep. So I want to tell you this, and then I'm going to move on to the question of the day.

Speaker 1: 10:05

I have watched, I've started watching the fourth season of the Chosen. I watched season one, two and three a long time ago, and now that season four has been out for a little while, I decided let me pick back up on that, and so I watched most of season four this weekend. I'm on episode eight. They've already he's already taken Lazarus and, you know, raised him from the dead. That's where I am right now, but I'm also listening to Bible in a year with Father Mike and right now he's reading John. He's taking a break from the Old Testament and he's reading John and they're talking about Judas and I've always, you know, I've known about this story.

Speaker 1: 10:52

Judas is the one that supposedly turned in Jesus to the authorities that were going to come in. But here's my question Jesus already knew that Judas was going to do this, and Judas I don't know. So here's my question Did Judas do this? I don't even know how to ask it. Since scripture had to be fulfilled, was Judas part of that? Why does Jude? If Judas was part of that being the scripture had to be fulfilled, why does Judas get a hard time? That was obviously part of his destiny, I guess. Or maybe there was a different way that that it could have happened. I don't, you know. Obviously Jesus was going to be killed, regardless right he had to have, because he needed to sacrifice himself for us. That is the fulfillment of the scripture, correct, I mean? Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know. Maybe there was a different way that it could have gone down, but even Peter is going to deny him.

Speaker 1: 12:12

So I am interested to see how the chosen is going to play this out. They are not going to get to it in this season, I don't believe. I think that's what season five is going to be about. They're going to take us all the way up to it. I tell you what I've never seen a series that can drag something out for so long. There's a lot of walking in this season of the Chosen, a lot of walking around, a lot of walking and a lot of they just draw it out. I think they could tell the story quicker, but they have to draw it out, whatever. Okay, I'm moving on. Sorry, I've rambled.

Speaker 1: 12:51

We're going to get to the question of the day. Okay, here's a question of the day when you shower, because I take it, most Americans shower. No one takes a bath anymore, do you? Okay, three options Do you just use straight soap with no washcloth or a spongy thing, or do you use a washcloth or do you use one of those loofahs, spongy things, I don't know what you call it and you know their netted thing and they're. Yeah, that's what I use. I use the netted ball thing that yeah, I don't even know what you call it. That's what I use with my soap. So do you use just plain old, just soap, with nothing to help lather it up, or do you use a washcloth? Or do you use the netted thing, or do you use something else? Okay, that's my question of the day. All right, gotta go. Thanks for listening and I'll be back again tomorrow.