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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Mathew Has Spinal Meningitis

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mens Room Question: What Infected You?

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0:00.0

Passengers aboard a British-operated cruise ship docked in France and are getting an extended stay on board.

0:05.2

They did not sign up for.

0:06.3

Cool.

0:06.9

Authorities in Bordeaux have temporarily barred about 1,200 passengers and 500 crew from disembarking.

0:14.2

After dozens of pastors came down with gastrointestinal symptoms, French health officials say 49 people, including one crew member, have shown signs

0:21.5

of illness such as vomiting and diarrhea. All three passengers are confined to cabins. They say a 92-year-old

0:28.4

man died on board on Sunday. But he had not been showing symptoms, and it's not clear whether

0:33.9

his death is connected to the suspected neurovirus outbreak. Or the 92 years he's been on the server.

0:38.8

Correct. They did send a medical team on board the ship. I would not want that job.

0:43.8

Collected samples. Samples of, I'm guessing.

0:47.5

And that is always a weird thing when your doctor needs one of those.

0:50.6

Have you read to mail one of those in before?

0:53.1

Yeah.

0:53.8

Like on a little stick or I guess?

0:55.7

Yeah. I mean, you got to swab a turn. Same thing. I've definitely peed in cups before. Right. Sometimes they want a stool sample. You know, when you pee in the cup, you do it there. Stool sample, they're like, we understand. Send it to, I had to do what my dog wants to. And I remember I put it in an Errol's video bag

1:11.3

and walk it to the vet.

1:13.4

I was living to Baltimore

1:14.0

and all I can think is, I hope

1:15.5

this is the day that somebody mugs me, because they're literally going to get a bag of ass.

1:19.8

I don't think I have. Really? Well, oddly liberating. This, uh, uh, the ship left Belfast and then stopped in Liverpool. Is that a destination you want to stop at, Ted? Do you know enough about Liverpool? Yeah. I would like to go there one day, but I'm not going. Okay. Why not? That's a weird. I'd love to go. I'm not going. Why? Well, which is it's not like, I don't know anybody in there.

1:44.6

So basically, I'm going for a wedding in Ireland, but like I'm stopping in Northern

1:47.9

Ireland because I have a friend there. Sure. And then I'm going to go to London and leads because I have friends there. All right. So if I knew somebody in Liverpool, I'd go. All right. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. But I mean, but if you want to go,

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