Sean Entin from www.strokehacker.com and on IG: @thestrokehacker

Sean Entin had a stroke when he was 39; doctors told him he would never walk, talk, or drive again. He has regained his independence and became a survivor coach to help others to overcome trauma. And uses cannabis to help him and explains how it can help others.

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right in front of me, so I wanted to give
it to him. Sean Edton is our guest today. Sean, Hello, Hello,
thank you for coming in. Sean, let me tell everybody
a little bit about you. You had a stroke when
you were thirty nine years old. Doctors told you you
would never walk, talk, or drive again. Now he has
regained his independence and became a survivor coach to help
others to overcome trauma. And he uses cannabis, you guys

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to help him and others, and he explains how it
could help so many people. And he's gonna break it
down for us today too. He has he's a huge
UFC guy too. He was a trainer, coach everything else,
knock and pulls out. He's taken several punches in his
days and now. Sean is the founder of stroke Hacker
and the stroke hacker community. Check out the website stroke

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hacker dot com s t R O K e h
A c K E R and on I G the
stroke Hacker. Let's all give a warm welcome to our
brother from another mother. Sean didn't the building. Sean, walk
us through your tragedy of having this stroke and thank
god you're still here today with us. Let's dive back.

(02:10):
Let's let's Sean. Who was Sean? Where do you come from?
With city? Where were you born? Whos Los Angeles? Where
your parents? Who are your parents? Parents are? Dad's a
doctor Dui n Um. He was famous in this time.
He was responsible for ten thousand babies. Yeah, he's seen
a lot of vagina. Mom was a mom and growing

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up I wasn't allowed to boxer, doing kind of wrestling
our sports because my dad was always afraid of full contact.
So right around when I turned thirty one, I met
Mark Kerr in a bar. Mark Kerr was the best
fighter I think in the time, way back in the day,
the UFC was just bought um, the Retinas just bought it. You.

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Dana White Um came on the scene, and I really
is that there was such a need for these fighters
back in the day. They had no management, they had
no guidance, they didn't have the tools to operate a business.
And here they are walking into the ring just knocking
fools out. The wrestlers. I really was after because you
can't take down wrestler, They'll take you down. They'll start
ground and pounds. So I met Mark Kerr. Dan Henderson's

(03:18):
a dear friend of mine. So I started to manage
Mark Kerr and through all that I traveled to Japan.
I went to Japan, walked in the Tokyo dum and
I'm like, seventy thou people are here, What the hell
is going on with this? I called back to l A.
All my friends are agents, you know c I A.
I see him. I like, guys, the sport's gonna grow.
They're like, what export UFC? What is it? It's cage fighting.

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They're like, Sean, you're crazy. Said it's gonna surpass boxing,
it's gonna be better than soccer. It's gonna be the
next biggest thing. Sure enough, sure enough, Bob Bob, myawas
who owned that the UFC the time, just sold it
to Dana White. Dana actually called me from a pay
phone thing, should I buy the UFC. I'm like, of course,
you're gonna buy it. I said, how I'm ten? He
goes a couple of million dollars. I was like, dude,

(04:02):
let's figure this out together. This is so back in
the day. It turns out he bought it. I started
to manage Mark Urr and realized in Japan, Dana bought it.
The UFC just just made grounds here. It wasn't even sinction,
it wasn't legalized. I was talking to Bob Shamrock whose
Frank SHAMROCK's dad way back, you know, and Bob and
I were talking, this is pre this, This is like

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pre everything, you know. I met Tito Ortiz and Marks
Marks fighting in the UFC. He gets offered to go
to Abu Dhabi. I'm surprised we didn't cross pass back
then because Boss Boss Boss was Marx Coach. I'm in
Japan with Boss and Mark crazy freaking times. When I
was in Brazil with Frank, I carried the belt. I

(04:45):
carried the like I and I looked at the Brazil
fight that just happened this past weekend as we're recording this,
and shoutouts to our guy Brandon Moreno for winning and
the other American that one too. It was just great fights.
But yeah, yeah, so it's just you know, I started
to man, there's these guys. I didn't know anything about
the sport. I'm learning. I went to sc for business school.
Entrepreneur wrot business plans. I'll figure ot. I can figure

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out anything out. I'm a promoter. Let's okay now that
I have these guys on talent. So I started doing.
I went to Japan with Pride, and then I met everybody.
I met Dan Henderson, I met you know, all all
the big time names. You know, Kennon, Frank, Shamrock and
Boss was in our corner. Boss and was cornering Mark Kerr.
Boss is a legend. I didn't know who Boss was
because Boss wasn't even known in the States. So I've

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become friends with Boss. I I bring Mark her back
to this he would come back to the States, and
sure enough I made I made a couple of calls.
I went to an agency. I walked in the room
and I said, you guys got to look at this guy.
I put the videotape of Mark Herr in. He's beaten
a crap out of people. You know, there's no rules
back then in Brazil. He was just all out. He
beat up three Brazilians and one night knocked up some

(05:50):
guy's eye and the orable broke tooth went flying and
these angel looking around me and they're going, what do
you want me to do with this? And I'm like,
represent him, I want him. I wanted him to call
him in Diesel, call anybody getting in the movies. And
all of a sudden, I told I walked into the
room and there was a conference room, probably like six
or seven of us, right, I said to Mark, stay
outside the room, do not wait, do not go win

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for at least six minutes. I put the VHS tape
in there. Mark comes in. I ripped off his sleeves.
He's got big, freaking you know he was. He was
Syracuse wrestler. This guy was fucked up airs, you know, smarty,
smart guy. Really, I mean, walks in the room and
all the suits go to the other side of the room.
I'm like, it's not gonna hurt you. I'm like, they're like,
and he starts talking. They started engaging with him, and

(06:32):
they start realizing, Hey, there's something here. I said, guys,
it's coming here right now. It's gonna be here within moments,
And sure enough I was right called it and I
started to manage not only Mark, but that I'd be
come fronts with with Den Henderson's Lynn Lynn, all the wrestles,
all those guys, because I wanted to focus on getting
the wrestles. If you can teach them submission and teach
them how to box, they're gonna be. We were in

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Beverly Hills, um and Boss was putting up tarp over
the windows because the Brazilians did not want us learning
jiu jitsu. This is free everything. Remember back to the
I know your audience is big and all this because
I was I was like, why are you throwing tarpa
but on the winners because no one can know no one.
I said, why who's gonna I mean, you're teaching them moves?

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And Boss like we cannot tell them because everybody was
coming down on these wrestlers because they did not want
them to learn the game, to not learn to learn
story because they even the Graces were getting shipped for
it back in the day too, like, what do you
mean we're all teaching They're teaching the Gracy style. No,
let it be from everybody. It's it's a healthy sport.
At its sanctioned, there's laws. Now, let it let it grow.

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So it grew and it just you know, it became.
It became the biggest anything on the biggest sports on
the planet. And sure enough, years after all that, you know,
I was, I got married, had a daughter, and then
I got and then I got I got off the
position in San Diego where I was gonna take a
company from from with four people. I helped them to
raise money and then we took that company from private

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to public. Well, as I'm doing all that, Dan Henderson's
two towns over. You know who Dan Henderson. Um, He's
in Temecula and my daughter went to was was in
ballet and her father was a Navy seal. I'm like,
this is kind of cool. So so we had played dates.
He started to come over and only to realize that
that he was in the Navy. He wanted to exit
the Navy, and he didn't know how to become a civilian,

(08:21):
you know, how to reintegrate. This guy's deployed in the
War on Terror. You know, he's he's doing what he
knows how to do with the triars, the sniper and
collecting the intel, coming back the States and coming back
to the pen the Pentagon and feeling the information. And
I really these guys are athletes beyond and above. And
I start talking to them and start hanging out, and um,

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I got immersed with the Navy Seals in San Diego
and so I you know, then they asked me if
I would teach them how to write a business plan
and how to learn business. I said, you teach me
how to become a Navy Seal. Not a good idea,
not a good day. And so I was out there
hanging out with these guys, but really getting immersed in
the honest back then, there was no Lone Survivor movies,

(09:01):
the Chris Kyle movement American none of these movies have
come out yet. So these guys were all Seal Team seven,
you know, the Navy Seal The Seal Team show on
CBST now wasn't even around. So I was getting I
was training with these guys at three nine, thinking this
is kind of cool. But the thing is, though, what
they don't tell you what the Navy with the Seals
all want to learn jiu jitsu. They all want to
good hand hand the Navy. Take a guess us, I

(09:23):
have a question for you guys. How much do you
guys think the Navy spans on each seal from boots
to combat M one point five UM three three two
million five eight million, eight million from boots to comment,
that's not even counting all their gear, all the training,
all the trias, all this stuff that goes on on

(09:43):
the seal, so pur seal per seal. Because they're blowing
there what they're doing, think about what their job and
responsibility is. We're not talking about drone strikes are carrying.
We're having some marine raiders come in and a little bit.
I can't wait for you to be here for that.
Look here already. Yeah, they just popped in, so they
heard all that. So so that being said, you know, here,

(10:06):
I'm thinking of myself. They did not want them to
train hand to hand combent. They wanted with them with
a six feet sniper. We don't want this guy that
we spent all this money on getting within three ft
of their opponent. These guys were jonesing to learn close
quarters fighting. So I brought the moment to me, Dan,
I brought them. I brought them into the world. I
started training some jiu jitsu, just rolling around. I was
never anything like you like you. I was just means

(10:30):
healthy as we are, what do you meant? Eight times
in the ring, and I trained a lot of people
box I was not there to get hit in the face.
I was not there. You know, you submitted me. I'm
tapping out. Yeah, I like to go. I like to go,
you know, so I sports great sport, you know, I

(10:50):
got I got to go exercise that These guys run
swim and they took me shooting one time. It was
really cool, but they did not know anything about hand
to hand combat and they wanted to learn. So it
turns out one day one time, we're training with them
and I got caught in in a choke. The choke
hit my crowded artery and I didn't know what did.
I went home that night, I got I passed out.

(11:12):
I couldn't submit because it was an eart choke on
my right side. Came home that night and I had
told my wife at the time, somebody's wrong with my throat.
Somebody's killing me the back here. Um, and she goes,
let's call the doctor, let's get you in to see this.
I'm like, it's nothing, it's it's a little bruise. You know. Well,
I'm I'm hanging out the Navy seals. I'm rolling around
with anything to do. So it's like, come on, it's

(11:36):
it's maybe you know who knows what it was? This
thing laughs at me. I had flown from the San
Diego Shaquillain Neal was my partner at the time I flew.
I flew to Orlando with Shack hung out him. Then
I flew to Dan Henderson's fighting in Chicago. All along
I'm feeling symptoms of a stroke. I didn't know what
a joke was. My left arm is going numb. I
go to San Jose when dance fighting Chogun Hua, which

(11:59):
is I think the best fight ever see a strikeorks one,
No doubt this was a usc what not? You know
when you write I think it a strike coorps fire. No, No,
you might stop. I think Scotty, I think this will
be right. I think there was because and it was
Danny Bright show gun. No because Jada White. Did you
ever fight? After this break, it's Cannabis Talk one on one,
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(12:42):
your story going to San Jose watching that fight. You
went from Shock's place to back to San Diego to
San Jose. Wait a second, did you ever fight? No?
I never fought. Have you never fought? But you were
around around I'm taking two comments from private to public.
I was a business guy. I was. I was an
avid judical maybe just maybe the fact thing I ever

(13:05):
forgot was was maybe a blue belt on my way
to appropriate. It wasn't about that for me. It was
just about training and understanding how to protect my family
and what I needed at I was getting shape. So
I was never the guy who was gonna say I'm
gonna get a ringian. I gotta proven that to me,
is just was more like more or lesson an ego.
But I had no desire to go fight. I was

(13:28):
thirty nine when I dropped down to one gun when
she started fighting and go five. No, I'm like, I'm
like looking, I'm looking at my financial portfolio, I'm looking
at my two daughters at the time. What's next, What's next?
So I was always thinking about what's next. I need more,
I need more. I have to have more. I gotta
buy more, because if I have more, I'm a better guy.

(13:48):
That's not what got right in the American way. So
back to the choke. That choke happened, and I'm in
San Jose ringside. How many days this is? Two days later? No,
this is about six weeks, six weeks later after the
til Yeah this is yeah. See might see my complications
escalated over time. Number a little bit in San Jose.

(14:12):
But that's the interesting thing with this whole thing. So go,
I I watched Dan fight. I'm I'm junior sales with me.
Remember Junior rose up. I mean Dan's father was next
to me every time Dan fell. His father's going down.
So I'm picking up Dan Henderson's dad on my left
and I'm barely standing, and I'm thinking something's really wrong
with me, but I didn't know if it was. You know,

(14:33):
we're getting we're drinking alcohol, we're having fun, my good
friends in the ring getting the ship kicked at him.
The next thing, you know, he gets aback up and
knocks that showgun. So we are having the time of
our lives. Life was beautiful. Money in the bank comes,
they're doing great, my kids are healthy. Everything is perfect.
Five days after that fight, I go back to San
Diego and we're gonna send list o BISBO for Thanksgiving

(14:55):
because my friends are up there. I drove my family
from San Diego to send list of BISBO, probably six
hours in the car feeling looking in the mirror and going,
why is my face look like it's ashway? Why am
I starting to droop? Why is my left arm not working?
I didn't know. I didn't know what a stroke was. Gentlemen,
I didn't know what he shoke was, especially to you,
And I mean, it's just so important. I want people

(15:17):
to hear this. Symptoms of a stroke. It stands for
a fast face, armed, speech and timing, and you have
three and a half hours to get to to get
to a hospital, to get to get a shot. You
get a shot, it's a declining agent. The stoke will
go away. There's no repercusion. Face, arms, speech, and timing.
So you gonna watch the face will go, so will

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go and then you have timing. So if you have
anyone out there you start seeing these symptoms, don't go
to your chiropractor, don't call your don't call your right
to the doctor. The emptys are gonna save your life.
That's what I'm gonna start with. M d's are there
to save your life. So something is about the time
I went to one hospital, they didn't know what to

(15:59):
do with They couldn't I was, I couldn't diagnosis stroke.
They called down to my dad, who's a still you know,
retired surgeon over g y N. He knows from the
belly button down on a woman. That's what he's good
at doing. He doesn't know anything about about the brain.
But he quickly realized. He goes because I've been telling
us abisbo when when when I was there, I woke
up that morning. My daughters, my ex slept upstairs because

(16:21):
they all want to sleep upstairs. I was downstairs. I
walked into the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and
I called for Stephanie the time I said, but you
better call my dad. I'm dying, and she was, what
do you mean? My face was ash gray white, my
my lip my lip was was drooping, and I couldn't speak.
I sound like wow, wow, wow wow wow. I could
not talk. I look in the mirror and she calls

(16:43):
my dad and he says, I think Sean's having a stroke.
Called the prem X right now, gentlemen, I look in
the mirror and I see my soul leaving my body.
I'm dying. I'm I'm on the way. I'm literally really
that or you just I saw my soul leaving my Yeah,
I hun percent to the state. Can retract every step

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in every moment in time. And that's what I think
I can do this because I'm telling the story again.
And it called the paramedics. They took me to one hospital.
They didn't know what to do. They called that they
were They called to San Jose because they have a
stroke center up there. I was just up there. They
called down to Santa Barbara. That happened to be a
neurosurgeon in the in the e r happening a neurisergain

(17:28):
in the ear on Black Friday. My dad said, if
I would have stroked in l A, I would have
died because everyone's gone, everyone's traveling, it's a holiday. Happened
to be some Austrian neurosurgeon in the College hospital Santa Barbara,
who who said, if you put him in an ambulance,
he's gonna die. I'm sending my helicopter, my private helicopter
for him. Sends me a helicopter. I get in a helicopter,
blades are overhead. I pass out several times. I remember.

(17:53):
I remember waking up in the in the r in
Santa Barbara, and I was I was, I was my
I didn't know where I was. I don't know who
I was, and they were trying to do other procedures.
They threw me on ice first. They tried to freeze
my body because my brain was so badly swollen and
they didn't know what to do. So he knew because
I was in great shape as a Dan Henderson says,

(18:13):
now he was getting ready to fight Fader and show Shogun.
I was getting ready to fight for my life. I
was getting ready from from my title belt. So he
tried a few different things. I'm thirty nine. He's he's
keeping me alive, but but my brain is basically it's
it's dying because the clot to the brain is a stroke,
a clout to the heart is a heart attack. My
clot went to my brain, no blurtter auction is going

(18:35):
to my brain. So I'm having full brain functionality. My
brain is going, hey, it's going sideways. Now. I think
the reason why I'm alive right now because of the
shape I was in and the way I took care
of my body and my attitude in life is why
I'm still here with you, gentlemen. And from that point
he did everything he could have saved me, and I

(18:56):
was coming in out of consciousness. One point he um,
he hid threw a calf it up through me to
put a shunt in my crowded artery. Took him six hours.
He fished a wire up through the other ways through
the side here and put it put to cover up this,
to cover up the cloth, come up the karate. Because
the cloths up going to my brain. It look like
a damn with water. And he had to stop that first.
He had to stopped that first. So he did that.

(19:19):
That didn't work. He tried to phrase me. That didn't work.
I kept declining. I kept dying, not not dying, mean coding,
hearward stopping for some reason. I just kept hanging on.
And then and then he got me stable. Then things
got really bad. When things got really bad, I remember
him coming and saying to me, that's not really bad.
It got it got really fucked up, let me tell you.

(19:41):
He then he then said, because I couldn't communicate with him.
I couldn't understand language. I could'erstd a lot of things.
And remember my dad and my good friend come in
and saying to me, Hey, we're gonna put you to
sleep for ten days. I said, I don't want to
go to bed. I want to go train with my seals.
I'm trying to talk and I can't. I don't go
train with my seals. Put me but you couldn't even
respond to me in hot yoga. Let me heal, heal myself.
Put me on the beach. I'm gonna go run at

(20:03):
sub seven minum sub seven minim mile because your your
mind is moving, but no mind exactly. So you got it.
So my dad's death, then, you know, he goes. He says, well,
I'm just gonna tell you now. He's like, you know,
he's like, I feel like I'm twenty nine years old
and I could run, get up and run he's up,
but my body just don't work. So he's like he's

(20:24):
the worst feeling in the world, you know. And he's like,
I'm sitting here and laying here and everything's not working
and my mind is sharp as you know, nail. So
he's like, just prepare for that one I'm like, okay,
you know so, but that's you know. I think it's
a you got to experience something that some people only
get to experience that, you know, and I think that's

(20:44):
what our near death experiences. Yeah, this is a near experience.
I don't talk about it a lot. I won't go
into this in this comment. It's a whole another conversation
because as soon as I started talking about that, I
lose my audience. They want to know about what what
is life? I see? And you're just about the next
part of this conversation because they all want to know

(21:05):
what's after that. So the neurosurrender, Doctor zNor says, says
to my dad and my friend and my and my
wife at the time and my mom, I'm gonna put
him in a coma for ten days. Hopefully hopefully the
brain will will will the information in the brain will subside.
We don't know for sure. It didn't work that way.

(21:27):
Nothing's working at this point. Put me in a coma.
I get worse. He then says to my family, I
have to do a crediact to me. What the hell's
the cratiact to me? You want to crediact me? Is
they They're gonna remove a piece of the skull off
my head, size of a horseshoe, this whole big, and
we're gonna take it off for a while. We're gonna
let the brain see if if the brain can then

(21:48):
breathe technology ten years ago, I'm dad. Guys, so they
put a sun roof on you. Yeah, they're gonna put
a sun roof on you, and let's just see what's
going on exactly. So they do that. Yes, So I
woke up from the calm after ten days. I'm scratching
my abdomen and and and my friend says me, and
they told you what's going on? I said. He says,

(22:09):
don't touch your tumu. I said, why. He goes, your
skulls and your skulls in your abdomen. I said, my
brains are in my belly. So what are you talking about.
He goes, yeah, you have a helmet on your head
right now because your brain is being exposed because they
had to take a piece of your skull off your head.
I'm like, this is not this is I'm not having
a good day when I can't just stop right there.
But you're communicating what I'm communicating barely but my words,

(22:32):
what I mean barely, I didn't know. I couldn't use
my iPhone, I couldn't pronounce my name. I'm understanding things.
I think I'm talking, but my speech is so bad
and the aphasia is kicked in, and I'm gonna I'm
gonna all these meds iline paralytics. I'm on every every
hard drug non to mankind. I've been throwing. If anyone says,
you know, have you experiment with drugs? I have. So

(22:55):
they actually had your abomb your head in your abbot. Yeah,
they started there for or five days that music for
you stop. Sometimes they'll keep it off with somebody from
months or for a year. I didn't know that. I
put it down later. Yeah, it's it's it's crazy ship. Yeah,
so did you, um, you know at this point right, um,

(23:15):
did you know where you're at? And did you know
what your name was? And all that stuff? It's coming
to me slowly, it started to come to the slowly
things started to pick up here and there, but pieces,
like bite sized pieces. It's just nothing was making sense,
and I was crashing spiritually emotional. I was spiritually you know,
here are my two daughters and they're crying for me
to pick them up. You know, week a week before,

(23:36):
I'm at Sea World, one kid on my chest and
then you're one kid of my shoulders. I'm super Dad.
I'm at Sea World and I'm at the zoo. I'm
running around with them on the beach. What are your
kids named? After this break, it's Cannabis Talk one on
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(24:03):
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of your story is so intriguing, Sean, You're sitting there
in the hospital. I mean, you obviously get better. And

(24:27):
then how does even cannabis get introduced to you? And
what were you kids names? Se question? Um, don't forget
your kids names? Okay, Savannah and Shiloh. There are my
reason why I lived? Then the reason why or I
keep going every day? You have to find your inspiration
to find your wine in life. Find your purpose, my
purpose at the moment, or my two daughters, because I
I wanted to walk them down the aisle. I want

(24:47):
to see them grow. I was very much hands on dad.
I still am there now sixteen and thirteen. The different
role than being Florida for four years old in eighteen months,
but I love I love my kids. They were so
excited my old I told my olst I'm coming to
do an interview. I want to come Dad, the conversation.
That's what we're going to. The whole thing that I
think where cannabis came into play for me. So two

(25:11):
thousand eleven I'm in San Diego and two thousand twilve
I came back to l A. I was introduced to
a gentleman that you guys know very well, Edmond Brittain
Been Britain is one of the greatest of him, huge heart.
He was coming out of the league. I was coming
out of my stroke. We're both going throughout you know,
we're both complicated at the time, going through our our

(25:33):
own PTSD of what was happening. He um. I was
introduced to Canadas through friends of mine in the valley
that they have a dispensary called Coast to Coast Collective,
and they brought me in one time and Edman came
with me, and Edman started to lay out all the strains.
What is th HC, what CBD, what CBN. I started
learning about the plant because I was so heavily medicated.

(25:54):
I was on a cocktail of everything. They didn't know
what to do. So I was on a cocktail of
you name it. I was there and Edman said, why
don't you start taking some things out and putting the
cannabis in. And as I started to do that, I
felt that, I felt strong, I felt clear, My memory
was coming back. Things started to wake up. My nerve
plasticity was starting to reroute my canamical system, which which

(26:16):
which which which which the cannaminoids feed. It's really started
to elevate my life big. So when you discovered that
that was through Evan, Evan and joint, did you just
a cartridge? Probably a pen? Yeah? It was everything. It

(26:36):
was all that I wanted, Rick Simpson, I didn't listen.
I'm a lightweight and hell no, and that then I
didn't need that for for what I was dealing with.
I need something to work work on my nervous system.
My nervous system is faltering curve. It wanted to be
I wanted to be in a flow. I wanted to
be in a flow state, and not because my nervous

(26:57):
system was shot. I was always I was always in
fight a flight. The cornsol levels of my brain were wacky.
Corrensols is a natural cocaine in the body, which caused
the speed. I don't know if you guys ever gonna
into you know, you know corosol being an athlete, you
get punched, get mad, you're gonna fight back. It's causing
the dronning to go. I think cannabis helps to increase
the dopamine and the and the setonin on the brain,

(27:18):
which of the love chemicals will help you stay balanced.
And that's where I think most people miss and don't
understand what cannabis really can do for our veterans. I
know you're listening to us out here there, the guys
in the mayorld, anyone who plays a professional sport, or
our first responders, the police officer of fireman, they walk
into a scene, they're being shot at, there's a fire.
I'm not telling them that they should be doing cannabis

(27:40):
on the job. But compressed at home. I'd rather them
do that than hit the bar hit Alco. Let's just
look at California right now with these three mass shootings
that are just happened in the last three days. Missed it.
Oh dude, there's been three massive shootings out here in
California right here and locally and then in northern California
and Santa Barbara area. Uh and uh, what's this the community?

(28:05):
The Monterey Park one was like eleven people just shot
a seventies one year old over what was it? Over
someone just you know, they didn't really say exactly yet
they haven't cleared because the guy killed himself in a car.
But you know, there was a young man that was
local here in in the area that stopped him from
going to do another place and shooting it up. Some
seventy year old Asian man, which is you know, surprisingly

(28:27):
because it sounds like a Caucasian actor. I mean, they
had to judge the books by their covers. But you know,
those type of mass shootings, and both of them, actually
two or thir I don't remember the third person, but
two of them were Asian descent, which was even more
like that's that's different. You know, but those type of people,
everybody who's dealing with that as well, could use cannabis
to help. Absolutely. Yeah. And I think I think, you know,

(28:49):
even on a um, you know, a prison, like a
prison level, you know, they're they're already taking in cannabis
in there, right, they're already smuggling in the give it im.
I think it would help calm a lot of people
down and give them a lot of you know, comfort,
and and allow a lot of people to And maybe
there's a limit to what they do, but I think

(29:10):
they should certainly be able to smoke cannabis edibles, give
the menials in there. It would help a lot. I mean, hey, listen,
you know I came out of a coma, not knowing
who I wasn't thirty nine, knowing that I worked so
damn hard my whole life to work this place to be.
I was financially stable, I was ready to go. I
was good, and all of a sudden, I'm paralyzed and

(29:32):
everything's being taken away from me. All my money is
gonna go away, now, my kids might go away from me.
I walked outside. I used to live on the Sunset
Cliffs in San Diego, which which was about a sixty
ft drop into the water. We had a little beach
in front of us. I managed get myself out there
one day and walked to the edge and I looked down.
I said, you know what, I just need one more step.
I don't want my kids to see me like this.

(29:52):
I'm gonna end my life. I'm totally I'm gonna look
down that beach and I saw a father with this
kids on the sand, playing with the kids on the sand,
and I said, if I take this next step, my
daughters will never know who I am. My daughters will
never know who I am. And So I didn't experience
cannabis then, but I wish I would have something different

(30:13):
than what they were given me, because I think I
would have been able to maybe recreate my life a
little bit better. Because I mean, I was so, I
was so fault. I fault I was. I didn't know
how to live in this new body. I didn't know
how to live and live in this new brand of
mind because I was angry, I was piste off, I
was sad, I was depressed, and you're feeding me all
these other pharmaceuticals, which are great. The doctors are wonderful.

(30:35):
They saved my life. The problem is once they save
your life, they put you in the system. The system
failed me. The rehabuildation system completely failed me. That's what
I'm talking about with you guys right now and the
veterans in the first responders, just like how do we
rehab people. I think cannabis should be part of an
educational plan that should be part of a rehabilitation plan
for anybody who was coming on the service, saw war,

(30:56):
anyone who's a first responder in this business, anyone's got
to bring into a stroke for sure, because I think
it's going to save lives. I mean, you guys probably
know what are the stats right now for veterans taken
their lives every day. I think it's over Buckley will
have that it's probably I mean four years and I
think it's over seventy five now, or it could be
over a hundred. I mean, if we were to give

(31:17):
these guys some hope, I mean, and give them a
little bit of a flower or some edibles or something
that that they can concentrates breath, let them breathe, you know.
I think you know from a standpoint, is somebody that
you know has been on on air for many years
and capable of listening to people's stories. Is that, you know,

(31:40):
I think that cannabis is is something that can be
offered to anybody, but veterans, especially in the alternative, instead
of taking the pharmaceutical drugs that are out there. And
the unfortunate part that pharmaceutical drugs although they might mask
it at the time. And I'm all for you know,
taking um, you know, morphine or or or any drug

(32:02):
when I need it, right, if I need it, please
give it to me, you know what I mean, Like
whatever it takes, you know, because I'll get it. You know,
I don't want to be suffering neither. But but then
you know, you also have to think a long term
you know, usage too, and when you start using those drugs,
in particular oxycodon and vic it ins and so on,
you know they are long term use is very habit

(32:23):
and addicting forms and so it's and whereas cannabis can,
I feel can be right there with it with the
right research. And I think we're getting really close to that,
you know, I do. And you're so sput on because
those mads you're talking about, the oxy the antidepressants, they're
not healing the body. What if I think cannabis is

(32:43):
healing the body and knows where to go and knows
where to find and how to help the body heal
on a on a spiritual way, on an emotional in
a physical way, but done in a way that is
prescribed by other people who understand it. And right now,
our doctors don't want to touch it because it's not
FDA proved. There's too much money out there. But but imagine,
you know, I look at these dispensaries and not dispensers,

(33:04):
their pharmacies. You have an ailment, you have a disease
of the body. I'm walking in plenty of dispenses of pharmacies,
dispenses and they're given away products too, as we know,
to people who are fighting certain con sessions. I love that.
I love that give someone let people enjoy their life.
Let's lower the let's lower the toxicity of where they're feeling,

(33:25):
of being angry and being mad and being upset. Let's
just let's love each other. Let's about the hard shot.
Let's increases serotonin. Let's you know, as what you mentioned.
I think earlier someone mentioned that's why m d M
A is a good thing, because let's they're testing the
right right right right now with veterans. Use m d M,
A use ecstasy. Let's increase let's increase the love amongst us.
Let's love each other instead of fucking fighting with each other. Yeah,

(33:48):
that's just getting good, better and better. And that that's
why they know the mushrooms are making such a big
is interesting. You have to you have to have someone,
I think, walk you through that a little bit more
than an M d M experience. Cannabis. I don't think
you needed I don't think you need a guide in
the beginning. I think you need a guide. With anything.

(34:09):
You gotta let someone. You gotta lean into someone's space
if they've never tried it before. I think you have
to spend some time with them and guide them through that. Yeah,
guide them through that journey. Look at our kids, Look
at our kids. Show I mean, come on, our kids
are all gonna get it somehow. I'd rather educate them,
sit down with them, show them what I'm doing well,
and not only that, I can find out from your standpoint,

(34:30):
everything you're describing is what we've been preaching for years
as far as Blue and I saying that this is
more of a pharmaceutical drug. Right, If you want to
call cannabis a drug, we call it a pharmacy as well.
And if we could have it to where you can
take this much oil or smoke this type of joint
in your two pounds and your this and that, and
it might do this for you. But to have that

(34:52):
type of research to push towards that, for you to
know what you've gone through. If you have this type
of brain injury and you're on these meds, maybe you
should try to get an eighth and smoke a joint
one today twice to day. What is it that helps
with that keeping away from that taking that next step
feeling of death because you're talking suicidal thoughts and suicide now,

(35:14):
we don't want to not talk about the elephant in
the front room. That was the thought he had when
he was at the edge suicide folks and more people
are doing it every single day. And it's like, if
we can get somebody to smoke a joint, you're using
oil to use a rub for God's sakes, to help
with the pain. I go as far as Joe is is.
You know, let's let's call like a night quill, right,
So imagine a bottle and the teaspoon of THHC and

(35:37):
you're taking it or giving it to your child or
or two adult and saying, hey, you know, drink you know,
one ounce of this, or drink three quarters of the ounce,
or drink one teaspoon of that, and get it down
to the science that's out there and again that education
it were. I feel like we're getting there, and there's
gonna be a lot of breakthroughs right like we're you know,
we're scratching the surface. You know, We've got people concentrating

(35:58):
on the hour, they concentrate on the vape pins, they
concentrate on what they know. But there's not enough people.
There are people, we just don't see them yet because
they're they're working as ghosts. But they will come. They
will have the you know, bottles of night quill if
you will, But THHC they'll have to spray. They already

(36:20):
have the sprays you know that that are that are
being ingested through you know, um orally. So so all
those things are going to start to become more of
a household name if you will, and those are going
to be the big companies. I think that we're gonna
see legacy built off of and then they the flowers
and stuff like. That's gonna be cool. Recreation is great.
Um that some of those guys will cross over into

(36:41):
a medical side as well, I believe because you know,
again in a heartbeat dinner and it will also give
you and also give you a relief for your chest
information and your chest and and and really help all
those things. Right, so so and and maybe there's a

(37:01):
few things that are that are that are you know,
vitamin sees at it to it or or some other
you know great you know, uh, you know, vitamins and
things that are and you're touching it. You're touching because
I tell everybody with cannabis, it's not stand alone. Add
into your practice. If you do if you do hyperberd chamber,
if you do infrared sanna, if you do an iceland

(37:23):
an ice bath, if you're gonna go for a run,
throw a little bit in there, go for a flow,
if you go to yoga, why not. But I'm telling people,
don't just sit around some looker joints in the count
and say, oh, this is gonna heal me. Hell no,
you gotta get to fucking work and want to get
better the body mind and spirit. It's a physical thing,
it's an emotional thing, it's a mental thing, and you've
gotta cognitively want to get better. It's like a supplement.

(37:45):
Bottom line. In my position, i'd have a choice. If
someone said to me, hey, um, hey, Sean, are you
are you now gonna go to rehab? My question to you, Joe,
you're an athlew box. If someone has said to you
you're paralyzed on your left side, we're know if it's
gonna come back, are you gonna go get it? Every day?
Said back? And wait, dude, I just had ankle surgery
last year, and you know I've been after a time.

(38:06):
My guys, I can't come in. I'm doing this, I'm
doing that. I'm trying to and with people out there,
we don't have any options. You know. I have a
trainer who comes, who came this morning, six in the morning,
four days a week. I have to train or I
will atrophy. I just gotta cut on my shin because
for the first time on Saturday, I tried to jump
up on the stool to get the explosion back and
I jumped and I missed the jump and I fell

(38:28):
on my shin. Dog I got big cut on my shin.
But you know what I did is I tried, you
know what I'm saying. And I tried because I go,
I gotta get this back. And then I waited about
five minutes, got my confidence back up and go, I
have to push hard, and I got I should be
able to jump up this high. And it was my
first time doing it because I just started jumping rope
two weeks ago and I said to myself, I have
to make this jump. I have to get that explosion. Well,

(38:49):
you know, Joe, I'll tell you. You know, someone said
to me. He said, if you're turning forty and you're
not working out, you're you're getting weaker, you know what
I mean. And and a lot of people don't get that,
you know, because you get to like four years old
and you're still kind of young. You know, your mind's
like I'm thirty nine, thirty eight or thirty five. You know,
you don't feel you don't feel like you're getting older.
And I think at forty forty four years old, you
start because I'm around that age. So I'm like, yeah,

(39:11):
you know, like I could see it, like if I don't,
if I don't hit the gym three times a week,
like I'm losing muscle mass. I'm not feeling stronger. You know,
a gentleman age is a number. I prove that I'm
fifty one. I should my half my body according to science,
half my body is paralyzed. I'm paralyzed. I should not
be according to science. I have left side. Bring your

(39:31):
right hands. Can you raise your left arm? Not really,
not much. It's very hurt. But I think cording to
holes on my brain. This big infractions on the right
side of my brain. No m D, no neurologist. They
called me and asked me for asked me to guide them.
They don't know what they're They know what they're doing,
but the brain is such a big mystery that we
don't understand it yet. I'm telling you guys, cannabinoids need

(39:53):
to be studied differently and need to be introduced to
my community. A community you're talk on wanting because trauma.
Let's do it. Let's you know. But again, it's not
to be stand alone added to your regime. If you
jump rope and and you know, don't go drink a
six pack afterwards, that's stupid. I do have a roup.
Your floating and I got too many of the host

(40:18):
Oh yeah, that's w I've been haben Jones and I
cut off the last three days. I've been good five
days a week. You not. I just did I did?
You know what I did? And this is the terrible thing.
I did. Four containers of vanilla bean screams contain within
like two months. You know, like that's way too much.
It's just enough to make me go. I'm explain it. Yeah.

(40:38):
I went on well ever since the holidays, Buttom line
everything the holidays, and I went on and then I
didn't stop because my you know, mother in law came
made puppy challenges and that's what I'm eating all this
crap and then and it's but you gotta stay right man.
I'm so happy Sean that you're doing better. And can
you drive now or I juve down here? Good down
from lu don't drive. Let me know when you leave

(41:04):
driving on his left side a race car driver. Hell now,
But listen, I'm independent. My whole goal with my people
is helping to regain their independent hold on. How do
you get a license to drive after having a stroke
on your left sides down? You have to have to
take a test I take. I had to do it
all over again. Not that I'm calling you out on it,
but you know, more friends where I like your we're
calling them out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's a whole

(41:27):
other conversation. Listen, you got to in order if your
brain injury in California or anywhere in the States, you
have to retake. You have to Clinton tell you, you
have to tell the d m V that you have
a brain injury and your license is suspended. I had
to go back and we take everyone. Yeah, my buddy
rich Lopez, I would never I mean, look, I mean,
how many boxers are driving around They shouldn't be even
how many I mean we can go out on tonch
of how many people who are elderly shouldn't be driving

(41:48):
Goldie shouldn't be he directed, telling Drew Snaggle, Dude, hey man,
before we let you go shot, we gotta do the
high fi would your Brother's good to have you sitting
down with us and hearing your story. But I gotta
get to these How old are the How old are
you the first time you smoked cannabis? And where'd you
get it from? I was in college, U s usp Yeah,

(42:15):
I was introduced to it. Then I did understand it.
I didn't appreciate it. I did not appreciate the medicine.
I didn't appreciate wasn't a medicine there. I'm in college.
I didn't smoke in high school. You know, I was
just to me. But now it's a necessity to people.
But understand something. If you're gonna take the if you're

(42:36):
gonna take the plant, you gotta believe in what you're taking.
If you don't believe in it and you're like, oh,
this is not gonna work for me, then don't do it.
Everyone walks into a doctor and they think because the
doctor says something, here's a prescription, Oh it's gonna work,
and it works for how long what you're doing. And
that's with any it's likechedelic, any regime, any across any fitness,

(42:57):
anything you're gonna do in life, you gotta believe in
your heart. And what I want to do is really
stressed that I want people. I want to help people
stand in their power and discover who they really are
in their purpose. Because when you even bring injury and
and it doesn't matter how you have it to reintegrate
back to the society, so tough dealing with it's a
different person. And that's my goal. It's help people take steps.

(43:19):
And what I have a mantra that says, I can,
I shall. I will actually have people in my community
of tattooed themselves with it. And as I keep saying,
just keep going, just keep moving, keep moving. You're question
number two of the high five. What is your favorite
way to use or smoke cannabis? Tink? Sure, I do,
I tink I do? I think sure, gummy. Actually I

(43:41):
love that that's the medical way in my book. You know,
I think there's a lot of people that are missing it.
You know. But again, you know, if you you don't
have the right coach if you will coming into cannabis,
you know, or the right doctor if you will, you know,
you can ruin your whole experience. But some people just
really love the fact, which I get and understand smoking
a joint rolling to joint smoking, and I get that,

(44:02):
Like I think of Mark and Craig all the time
that yeah, it's and it's good, But I look at
it is I think the smartest way, if you really
wanted to use it in the best way possible, will
be just like what you said in my opinion, so
Question number three of the High five was, Shawn, craziest
place you ever used are smoked cannabis. Uh, you probably
put some moral in your mouth at Disneyland. You avatars.

(44:26):
Last week I went to Avatar. I said, for sure,
if I'm sitting for four hours, I'm gonna watch these
blue people on the screen. I I took a little
bit of taking sure the whole new experience. But I
mean I would say, I'm not a crazy guy's gonna
go out there and try crazy stuff. I'm doing it
to validate the products. Like I would love companies who

(44:47):
Really one of my good good friends who founded they're
a body. You guys know what they're buddies that they're
a gun. Yes. Dr Jason's my ractor. Really, he's a
founder of the company. He says he has his whole
seedee line. But we talk about so all the time,
you know. But again, it's just if you're gonna heal yourself,
use it, appreciate the medicine, don't don't don't funk with it. Yeah,

(45:10):
there's best guns. By the way, I take that go
with me on the road. Remember, I take it the
veg I take it everywhere with me. Question number four
do you do you actually get um mun cheese when
you eat? And if you do, what are they? What's
your favorite um ice cream? Ice cream cream, um plant
based coconut vanilla, something like that based. I know, I

(45:32):
try to listen. When the body is inflamed, you sait
away from gluten in dairy and that's just what I
try to do. No gluten, no dairy. Um. But again,
I have to focus. I have to focus on my
health every single day. Of course, you're coming to gain
all my way back I go through it. That's why
I was like, I really had to stop doing the
Rupert floats and even like last time, it's the devil

(45:56):
question number five with the high five with our guys.
Sean check out his way site stroke hacker dot com
on I G the stroke Hacker Sean. If you could
smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it
be and why it's so easy? Steve Jobs nice? Do
you know the story behind Steve Jobs? I mean, I
know he did Apple, but tell me more about us.

(46:17):
Know how he got the name apple smoking weed out
of an apple? You know this story? I do? Okay, well,
I got high with him twice. You did no, I'm
just kidding. Okay, hold on, I didn't know he smoked
weed to have an apple that got the I don't know.
The story story is he went to he was Intino
at the time, was yak was building the home computers
in his dad's garage. He fow before again, I wasn't

(46:38):
the IBM computer. No, that was Steve Jobs Apple. So okay,
so he was. So he was up at a Mastermind meeting,
probably doing whatever Steve Jobs gonna do, and he's smoking
marijuana out of an Apple. Took out the core and
he had thirty people with him. He sold twenty five computers.
Calls out the Wazia and says I need twenty five computers.
Watching him going I don't have enough parts. Some guy go,

(47:00):
let me write you a check for my computer. I
was like, back then, who knows what it was? Seems
like I don't have the name of a company. And
the guy said, call it Apple. Apple was created because
smoked and weed. I have Apple, the biggest company on
the planet, company that I love and share. So if
Steve Jobs was alive, please someone give them a joint

(47:21):
with everything. I love it too, an Apple. And then
I think two guys the military are. That's guys who
who who protect my kids and protect us. Give it
away to them for free. Give them. If you own
the dispense, you own the farmers, you give it, give them,

(47:41):
Give it to them and support them. Teach them how
to use it, teach them how to apply, give it
to them and monitor them and make them part of
your community because our veterans, we need to do much
more for these guys. I mean, it's the d A
is not gonna help heal. I mean, how many how
many deaths I think suicides happen to be eight parking
lot for the last two years. It's ridiculous trying to

(48:03):
get an appointment, to get an appointment with the v
as eight months. We're gonna be talking to some vets
coming up on the next podcast, you can't. We good
friends of ours, man, so listen. Thank you for joining
the show. Thank you, um you know it's always a pleasure.
You also have a podcast. I don't like that. Oh
you took down the pody guy, Well you better start
doing it again because you're a greater Sean dammit, and

(48:25):
give back. Thank you guys so much for having me on.
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