Field Trip: My Butt, a Colonoscopy Ride Along & How-To

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Come check out my butt with me! 1 in 16 people in the U.S. will have colon cancer, and 0 in 16 want to talk about getting a camera up your guts to check things out. I am one of them, but after losing loved ones to colon cancer – and staring down the barrel of my first-ever colonoscope — I recorded tips, tricks, taste tests, foggy drug hazes, bar room advice, and finally my surprising results. It may save a life. Possibly yours.

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0:00.0	Okay, up top.
0:01.0	Just so you know, this is a weird episode.
0:04.2	Topics weird, a format weird, audio weird.
0:07.5	Stick with me.
0:08.8	It's worth it to the end of promise.
0:09.8	Okay.
0:10.8	Oh, hey, it's your friend's kid who's hitting you with a pool noodle alleyward and come
0:15.4	with me as I research, prep for, get a colonoscopy and then learn some alarming results.
0:23.1	Will you?
0:24.1	Okay.
0:25.1	So I'm proud of you number one for being here.
0:26.1	It's an investment in your health or maybe you're just here because you like butts.
0:30.1	Or you want to hear some hot gossip about mine.
0:32.7	Maybe someone who cares about you said this is like a friendly, encouraging, Valentine.
0:39.6	Straight up your rectum.
0:41.0	But here's what's up.
0:42.0	I needed a colonoscopy and like one would imagine I was not thrilled at this prospect.
0:48.0	But I have lost a few loved ones to colon cancer and I've seen firsthand how gnarly it is
0:55.0	to have cancer in your guts and little known word trivia.
0:59.2	So my dad had blood cancer for nine years, but his chemotherapy had the side effect of
1:05.4	causing colon cancer possibly.
1:08.0	And it was actually that undetected for too long, which ultimately took his life.
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