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Every Illness Is a Rehearsal for the Big One
from #190 - I Am Luxury | The Tim Dillon Show · #190
3 min
Continuing the sickness theme, he talks about his uncle's throat cancer diagnosis and the general dread of aging, doctor visits, and 'dodging bullets,' plus how the causes of death get murkier and less surprising as decades pass.
- Every sore throat is a rehearsal for the cancerous polyp you don't know when it's coming.
- Uncle got diagnosed with throat cancer despite barely smoking, just having a bud occasionally.
- Being sick as a kid is fun, getting out of school, but as an adult it's completely different.
- Every doctor visit over 30 is just you dodging a bullet because you know enough stories now.
- In your teens when people die the reason is very apparent—car accident, overdose, got shot.
- Tim says in your 30s people die and you just go 'that's something' with no clear explanation.
- The 40s: guy had a heart attack at Runyon Canyon, the heart attack didn't kill him but hitting his head on a rock did.
- Two people in Runyon Canyon die every week and nobody talks about it.
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