Change of Mind

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firm Presents Minute Morning Show. So question for Froggy post

(00:25):
aneurysm and for Nate post strokes. I'm hearing echo? Why
is it echoing? Trying to uh do things taste? It's
still echoing. I feel like I'm about to see the
star spangle banner at Yankee Stadium. Why is this happening? Hello?
That is so bizarre? Hold on scary? Hey now well

(00:46):
that's not me. That's something else going on. Is that good?
That's hello? A little? I still hear it? What fuck it?
Move on? Okay? So after uh your stroke or two strokes,
Nate and Froggy after your aneurysm operation, do things taste different? Now?

(01:07):
Has has your taste changed? Your your taste buds? Uh?
You know when I initially had it, I remember, and
this was the second stroke. I think things definitely tasted better.
And it may have been the medication that I was on.
But I was eating everything and I was picking out ingredients.

(01:28):
I'm like, hey, there's saffron in here, right, I don't
even know what the saffron is, but I was able
to figure things out. I think it was they said
it was because one of the medications I was on,
I was able to taste things better. Um, but there
are things that I have forgotten about that I did
prior to the stroke that I don't even know. I
don't know, you know how those There's things that example

(01:51):
know that you don't know because you don't know anything
about it. I was eating something the other day and
if I'm not mistaken, and Heather goes, hey, yeah, no,
we made this prior and I'm like, I have zero
memory of this, Like I don't remember this at all.
There are of your life missing and you you'll but
you don't know because you don't exactly you don't know

(02:13):
what you're missing because you don't know that you had
it in the first place. There are a couple and
that's happened a handful of times, and honestly, I've forgotten
what they are. But it's it's a weird feeling for
somebody to remind you that actually happened with Scotty. Remember that, Scotty,
what happened. We were having a conversation and this was
after the first stroke. We were having a conversation about

(02:33):
something and you said, yeah, we actually talked about this
before your stroke. And I what was my reaction, like
we did. Yeah, that happens with my mom too, because
my mom had a stroke as well, and she tells
me thinks seventeen times. So I mean that's obviously something
that messes with your brain. Yeah, this is a very

(02:53):
uplifting call. But here's the thing, Like, I guess the
thing to get out of it is I wish it
had raised some parts of my brain that I don't
want it, you know, like what because like bad memories,
because then I wouldn't remember remember. Yeah, I know, but
but wait, you learn from those bad memories though you
need to keep those, you do. But I think that everybody,

(03:15):
I think everybody in this room right now has a
memory that they don't want in their brain period, even
if you did learn from it. Uma, we experienced things
for a reason, Yeah, and we learned. We become who
we are at this moment because of all those things
that you want to forget but you can't do that. Yeah. Well,
and that the thing too, you know those moments you
have U you think about when you were in high

(03:38):
school or grade school and you did something that was embarrassing,
and even though it's been thirty years, you just shake
your hand, like, God, I was so stupid, right, do
you still have those moments? All of those were gone
for me when I had the second stroke. Okay, that's awesome.
They were all just not gone as and I couldn't
remember them. But I wouldn't get that shuttery feeling anymore
because I just realized that, hey, that happened. Move on

(04:01):
with your life. I'm not embarrassed about any of these
things anymore. I just want to move on with my
life and enjoy it. See now as as a stroke victim. Um,
if you come in here and tell me something that
you've said multiple times, do I say you told me
that already, or do I just go Okay, that's cool.
I would appreciate you telling me that I told you that.
I'm the opposite if people I would actually just like

(04:23):
go with it. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make
a big stink over and be like, yeah, well come on,
we got this conversation before. That makes you feel stupid?
How many times has that happen? Then yeah, we're not
going to tell you. But do you think that you're
gonna walk by like a cat one day and then
it's gonna trigger some memory that has obviously left you

(04:43):
and then all of a sudden it comes back. I
don't know, repressed. Yeah, good question. I I don't know.
I'm just I'm just as curious as you how this
plays out. But there are definitely things that I've forgotten
that I have to be reminded that I've done before.
Who's I like when people tell the same story and
over because yeah, I think it's your dog, okay, both

(05:07):
of them? What was that? Gandhi? Um? I like when
people tell the same story over and over because then
you can tell if it's the true story, because you know,
some people embellish on their second or third round. Like,
for example, Uncle Johnny was telling me when I was
at your house not long ago that he lost his
glasses and he was like that they have sixteen hundred
dollar glasses, and then the next time he told me
the same thing, they were like two thousand dollar glasses.

(05:29):
So I was like, oh, continue, let's see how much
these things. That's hilarious. That's that's. I listened to a
really interesting podcast, much more interesting than this one, and
it was it was Malcolm Gladwell. He has a podcast history,
and it was talking about the Brian Williams thing. You
remember when Brian Williams lied about being in a rack

(05:51):
and being shot at, and it started out They went
back over the history of him telling that story and
it started out as a little, tiny lie and got
bigger and bigger and bigger, to the point where he
actually believed his own line because it had just grown
so incrementally that it was just something that he came

(06:11):
to accept. It was his life and he believed it. Hey, Froggy,
you've had two rounds with surgery in your brain. I mean,
has have you noticed anything different at all as far
as you do you think, the way you smell things
or what anything. Much greater effect the second brain surgery
because it was much more invasive. They had to actually
go in the side of my head. The first one

(06:32):
was through my nose. Um, I'm noticing the most of
the biggest thing. I have a little bit of double
vision sometimes, like I see things twice um and then
like mate. I also my short term memory is terrible.
So I have talked to people about things that I
go back and tell them the same story again and
they're like, we already had this conversation, and I don't

(06:53):
even remember even talking to them. And I don't know
what day things happened. So something that happened like last Wednesday.
Usually you can think about, well, I don't know this
happened on Thursday, or this happened on Tuesday and it
was not that day, so it had Every day is
the same to me, there's no difference. Yeah, you know what,
So I gotta share this with you. Guys. I'm at

(07:13):
this point where my brain is just fried out of
years of abuse or what. I don't know, and uh,
I'm going through all these things you're talking about. I
repeat things over and over. I forget phone numbers, like
like my own phone number. I couln't remember the other day.
Don't call yourself. It's a good reason. And my slipping
and I because my mother had dementia, she had Alzheimer's.
But is that what this is? Or am I just

(07:36):
old and forgetful. When I was on the phone with you,
I know, I talked to you on my on my birthday,
and when I was having a conversation with you, there
were two things I was telling you, and Lisa was
mounting to me, You've already told him that, and like, oh,
oh see, that's the beauty of my brain because I
didn't know perfect you can just say it over and over.

(07:57):
It's like it's wow, really, Ran Brody, Brodie is all
quiet down there, Brodie, what's going on? I don't know.
I haven't had any brain damage, so I'm not trying
it in yet. Well, your wife, you A lot of
times we'll talk about something on the radio and it'll
be this great segment and I'll tell Sam who pulls

(08:19):
it for like, you know, the best of shows. I'm like,
this is great, a great topic. We just covered it,
so cool, let's try and make this the best of
and she goes, we already have it in the system.
We did it a year ago. And I'm like, no way,
that's kind of sucked up. But apparently we repeat things
on the radio too. We don't know what we did. Look,

(08:39):
you know, we've been doing this show for twentysomething years.
We're gonna repeat things sometimes and you don't even remember it, right.
We can, we can remember. We couldn't remember when you
said that Halloween costume quote, Elvis. We couldn't all of
us together combined, couldn't figure out when you said it.
The one convinced I ever said that, but I was quoted.
But then text messages said that you didn't they remember
the show with the exact show that you said it.

(09:01):
So no memory, no memory at all. Yeah, but what
I will say, Froggy, your memory will get better because
I remember after my first stroke, I lost my phone
and it was like an hour I spent looking for it.
I was even like walking outside because I thought I
had been outside. I mean, it took an hour to
find this phone and it had fallen into a shoe

(09:21):
when I was putting my shoes on. Uh, it was crazy.
And then like I would walk into the kitchen and
then I would walk back in the living room and
Heather would go into the kitchen. Shows what were you
just doing in here? And I had been washing dishes,
but I just walked away the waters running. And they
allow you to drive a car. No, I didn't drive.
I didn't drive for how long was I not taking

(09:43):
the train for like five months? Six? I probably shouldn't
be driving, but I am, but I don't. I only
try to d stop it. Well, I drive more close
to my because I'll tell you why, Danielle. Because it's
a feeling of accomplishment and it's a feeling of self
worth and a feeling of I'm actually getting back to

(10:04):
where I need to be, and so I try to
do little things that may even be a little too
much because I'm trying to get myself, but I will.
I'll tell you, guys a funny story that I do remember.
The less than a week after the surgery, we were
Lisa and I were going to get medicine refilled. And
so I'm in the passenger seat. Lisa's driving, and we

(10:25):
get to the stop sign in our neighborhood and this
woman almost hits us head on, I mean within within
feet of hitting his head on. She finally misses us,
Lisa moves, Lisa rolls her wind down, the woman rolls
her window down. Lisa was gonna yell at her, and
she says, my car won't turn. Do you think I
what should I? Should I pull over? And I said
to her from the passenger seat with the giant head wound, Um,

(10:48):
your car doesn't turn and you have to ask us
if he should pull over? Yeah, what do you think? She?
I mean within feet of hitting his head on? And
she says her car was malfunctioning. My god, it was
so scary. It was the scariest closest I've ever come
to being in an accident that the accident didn't happen,
but it was within feet of hitting the we were

(11:10):
if he had a colliding head on my car, doesn't
pull over? Yeah you should pull over and not driving anymore. Yeah.
So the one medication I was on after my first stroke,
I it made me forgetful, sleepy and uncontrollable rage. So yeah,

(11:33):
I wouldn't even be driving and somebody would cut heather
off or whatever. I'm you shot up a fish and
like just I go from a zero to a and
you know, like what why is? Why are you doing this?
And the medication that did that, Yeah, it was make
it again. That's interesting. That's interesting. No, don't know when
your headphone was taking this all the time anyway, No,

(11:53):
when he killed that girl, that was one of the
side effects. And it was like I would talk to
other people that were taking the medicare like, hey, how's
your rage pen I'm like, yeah, wow, that's crazy. I've
heard that on the side effects list for all the
ads during the six o'clock US. Anything comes out of nowhere,
just untrollable. Maybe that's where I get it. It's you're

(12:15):
not on anything. What are you talking about? You're not
that only it's just the best side effect along with
addiction to gambling. I don't really know how certain medicines
caused that, but apparently they do, so I find it
fascinating explain that to me. I'm addicted to gambling because
of my medication, and and you know what, some of
the side effects are worse than what you actually have.

(12:37):
So I'm like, you know what, I'll just take what
I have. That like, I'm never taking another oxycoton as
long as I live. Ever, I don't care what pain
I have because you can't pooh, you can't do well. Okay,
So one night I was I was in so much pain.
I took two oxycottons because it said you could take
one or two if you're really in pain. So I'm
taken two. So I'm sitting on the couch. I'm trying

(12:59):
to fall asleep, and I keep hitting the person next
to me. But the person next to me was me,
So it's like, what are you doing? I said, the
guy next to me won't let me go to sleep,
but it's me hitting them out that door. I mean,
like goodbye. I was so out of it. I'm like,

(13:19):
I'm never taking this again. And then later on I
found out that it causes the trains to back up
in the train station and you can't nothing move. Froggy
faced on me on my birthday and we're sitting in
my house. We're talking about his Pooh problems with my wife,
because she's a physician assistant. She's walking him through it,
and I'm trying to eat my birthday cake. She's like,
don't take boxy cotton. It's the worst thing. I'm like,

(13:41):
oh great, I just took to Do you remember what
I would call you high from the hospital? Yes, very high.
I don't remember the thing. Not to change the subject,
but it looks like that Brody has some interesting things
behind him today. Do you guys noticed That is controls?

(14:01):
That is that is their thank you scary That is
the remote control graveyard. I U. I have a collection
of all of the remotes over the years that I
don't use anymore. Yeah. Well, one thing, I one thing.
I save things, which is a problem to I find

(14:23):
it interesting to see how they have evolved over the years.
And if I'm being a little bit sentimental, some of
these were my dad's and my dad loved television sets
and electronics more than anything in the world. Where you
because you're fascinated. Yeah, So a sign of like a
birthday or or or if my dad got a bonus
or whatever, he would go to the electronic store and

(14:44):
buy new television. That was his his thing. And so um,
he's no longer with us, and so as his equipment
became extinct over the years because he wasn't around to
update it, I kept all his remotes and uh, and
so I have half of these are mine, half of
them are his, and they remind me of the TV

(15:04):
sets and the different things that he bought over the years.
I love that. That's a great story. And keep them there. Okay,
you don't ever, don't ever let anyone accuse you of
being a hoarder with those because those those have a
very very very important story. Also, Gandhi and I are
wondering you. You want to ask him, Gandhi, Yes, do

(15:25):
you have different lighting today? Because you look quite beautiful.
It looks like the mirrors maybe a ring light or
some sort of soft lighting. That's really something. I'll tell you.
I spent um a few hundred thousand dollars and bought
a house with a door right there. It's a sunny day.
It's what you're saying. It's very big on TikTok it's
called the door. I think just the angle is different

(15:49):
on the camera. I'm sitting over one. Maybe it's the
color of the shirt he has on turquoise shirt. It's
all working together to make a very very handsome, brody
it is. Yep, that's definitely some kind of crazy filter. Stop. Well,
this has been an interesting podcast. It happens. What was that?

(16:09):
What was that? Who farted? Who farted? It sounded like
a little fart, but it was gonna try to hold
it out and just but you know, it was one
puny little fart. All right, Well, I want to see
you do better. You you guys, be nice to Garry's
team lost last night at the last minute. He's upset.

(16:31):
It's disgusting, despicable. What happened last night, wanted seven. It's
not a surprise exactly. All right, I think we're done.
Are we done? We're done? We're done by fifteen minute
Morning Show