Snapshot · Call Her Daddy
After losing her brother, Riley turned to Reddit forums and Instagram DMs with strangers to find people who had experienced similar losses, finding it one of the most comforting resources.
Where this was said
At 53:57 · chapter starts 49:51
Alex opens the conversation about addiction support by noting how many of her listeners are in families touched by it, and Riley engages with unusual depth and specificity. [1] — Riley Keough "Riley spent years trying to drag her mother into rehab and keep all the plates spinning, only to watch addiction ultimately claim two famil…" 47:28 She says she has had multiple family members — not just her mother — deal with addiction, though she declines to name others out of respect for their privacy. She has spent years trying: dragging Lisa Marie toward rehab, making plans, spinning plates. The hardest realization was that the person across from her was not participating in her plan. She was making enormous effort toward someone who was not present to receive it. Eventually, addiction took two of her family members, and she was forced into the surrender she had resisted. She shares her mother's conviction that tough love doesn't work — a view Riley fully endorses — and explains that she never withdrew love during even the hardest moments of her family members' addiction, always operating from empathy. She wouldn't take back the effort. But the lesson, she says slowly, is one she's still not sure she knows how to articulate.
Lisa Marie Presley firmly believed that tough love does not work for people struggling with addiction, a view Riley says she fully agrees with.
After losing her brother, Riley found no resources — just Reddit forums and Instagram DMs with strangers. That led her to the death doula community, and eventually she trained and got certified. A death doula does for dying what a birth doula does for birth.
Mental health challenges are nearly universal — BetterHelp's own research found the majority of Americans experiencing symptoms right now.
When applying for Medicaid to cover nursing home costs, there is a 5-year look-back period that can disqualify applicants who gave away or spent down assets.
A broken pipe filled the Bad Friends studio with what the hosts identified as hydrogen sulfide — microscopic fecal aeroparticles — that the crew denied smelling.
Fei-Fei Li's father's liver surgery performed by a da Vinci robot resulted in 10 times less blood loss than a typical open liver surgery, thanks to laparoscopic precision.
Approximately 115 million adults in the US currently have prediabetes, most of whom are unaware, according to the Lingo sponsor segment.
Drug overdose deaths in the US fell from 110,000 to 80,000 in 2024, and then to roughly 70,000 — the largest single-year drop the CDC has ever recorded.
Men's overdose death rate fell 27% in a single year, outpacing the 23% drop for women.
The steepest decline in overdose deaths was among 15–24-year-olds, whose rate fell 37%.
Fei-Fei Li observed that on a given hospital shift, nurses walk miles just to fetch medicine and supplies, illustrating a clear use case for assistive robotics in healthcare.
We use essential and analytics cookies to run Vuci. To understand how the site is used: Privacy Policy.
Install Vuci on your phone
Add it to your home screen for a faster, app-like experience.
Install Vuci on your phone
Tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”.
A new version is available
Reload to get the latest Vuci.