Period Pads From The Future?!

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Who knew your period could be your personal health detective? Picture this: A period pad that does more than just catch blood—it catches diseases, too! Enter the Q-pad, a brainchild of biotech innovation that's transforming the way we approach personal health screenings. With over a thousand tweaks and the aid of a menstruating robot named Betty, this FDA-approved marvel allows for easy at-home disease detection, from diabetes to cervical cancer. But the boys don't stop there; they dive deep into the alarming rise of STIs, spotlighting the syphilis epidemic that's hitting hard across the nation. With cases skyrocketing, they stress the importance of awareness and testing. Join the post-episode conversation over on Discord! https://discord.gg/expeUDN

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0:00.0	Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where Canada's best comics battle it out.
0:05.2	This week, we're asking if silence is golden, which is quite the question for two comedians.
0:09.6	And this goes without saying.
0:11.5	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:18.5	Welcome to Feel Good Friday, our weekly segment where we dive into the weird and wild
0:22.8	news in the world of health. This week, Betty the menstruation robot, 23 me, spit in me, daddy.
0:31.2	STIs are so hot right now and twin heifer mix up. Oh, damn it. I got I got fucked up because I switched the order last minute.
0:40.2	And I didn't stick to the plan.
0:43.3	So we forgive you.
0:48.1	But also, we might not get to all that because we're in a tight timeline right now.
0:52.6	We have a very important business meeting
0:55.4	that we have to go to. We should get some new business photos again soon. It's for fun.
1:00.3	We should do that like three times a year. Every quarter. Just shift, switch it up.
1:06.1	Also, I don't know. We didn't plan on talking about this, but I'm just going to throw this out
1:09.6	there. This is a little teaser.
1:12.0	Okay?
1:14.0	Actually,
1:14.4	this is breaking news.
1:19.4	Actually,
1:20.1	breaking news.
1:21.7	By the way,
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