February 20, 2025 • 44 mins
This episode captures the inspiring journey of Creed Fisher, who shares his experiences recovering from a serious motorcycle accident, including his surgeries and the newfound respect for life and the road. The hosts discuss the importance of support systems, the humor found in dark times, and the resilience necessary to rebuild life after trauma.
• Fisher's motorcycle accident and its impact on his life
• The importance of respect in the motorcycle community
• Recovering from surgery and facing fears
• Finding humor in serious situations
• The role of support from family and friends
• The challenges of reinvention after trauma
• Plans for the future and upcoming tours
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I put a blessing on it to real.
This ain't metaphoric.
We just put the I in iconicbuzzing like I'm electronic.
Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it.
See me dripping in it 24-7 onit.
I'm just being honest.
Ah, holy water dripping,dripping from my neck to my
creps.
So I'm too stepping on it like.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh, we are All right.
Hey everybody, Welcome back tothe Ramblin' Gypsy podcast, my
Ramblin' Gypsy Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Tiffany Foy and we are doing part two of
the Road to Recovery with CreedFisher, Hi Tiff hey.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thanks for having me, thanks for being here.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We left the last episode and I was flooding up
the room over here, you had myeyes leaking and talking about
all the things.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The hard times we've had.
Yeah, now we've got to talkabout the good times.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So we ended talking about the respect of the road,
so to speak.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I don't even think we kind of got really into the
respect of the road, on beingback on two wheels, because we
both ride motorcycles and weboth had a wreck.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes.
A a wreck, yes, a significantwreck and you came out saying
that you definitely have adifferent view, a different
outlook, a different respect forthe road.
I also came out of minethinking what in the fuck and
who?
do you think you are.
You are now playing with a deckof cards that you should never
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have been playing with and I wasgrateful for the ones that I
was dealt because I was able tocome out and we're still.
We're both sitting here todayMultiple surgeries, all kinds of
titanium metal plates, you nameit.
You set off alarms at theairport.
I set them.
Yeah, yes, but it is good tohave a respect for the road.
(01:51):
I think that a lot of peoplecome out of accidents and things
like we did and they absolutelydon't.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think for bikers it's not a matter of when but if
.
Not a matter of if, but when.
Rather I got that backwards.
It's not a matter of if, butwhen, and so we've both been
down to get hurt like we did.
I mean, if that doesn't changeyour perspective, then nothing
(02:21):
will.
Nothing will.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I could not agree with that more.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I love riding my motorcycle, you know, and I
realized that there's so manydistracted drivers on the road
these days.
You know, and you can't controleveryone else, but where we
live in New Braunfels it's sucha beautiful place to ride a
motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Very much so.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So I think I'll just stick to riding around here, you
know, because I still havepeople.
Oh, creed, you know, when youcome here let's go ride.
Well, no, the last time I didthat I had to take a vacation.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Right On a pass, yeah , one that was unplanned.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
An unplanned vacation ?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yep, the country roads back here definitely are
are beautiful and there is a tonof places that we can still go
ride me.
On the other hand, we are indeer country, regardless of what
season it is, and that's onething I still.
(03:23):
I'm not going to say I haven't,because I told you I screwed up
and down on my Vespa.
Look, I love my Vespa and wehave motorcycles galore, but
there is something about I havealways wanted one.
I'm an old soul I should havebeen in the Janis Joplin era by
(03:44):
far is where I feel like Ishould have been born and
hanging out with yes very muchso, and so I'm the VW bug, the
VW bus, but I love my Vespa.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The Gypsy.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, this is my 250 GT.
And I tell you what if I don'tget a from the boys?
Yeah, when I'm on my scooterI'm mad, I'm mad on my look.
I can hang with y'all.
I can hang with y'all, yeah,but I have, I have ridden it.
Like you said, river Road wetalked about, and that's our
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resort, is on River Road and Idid a fall festival in a pumpkin
patch for a long time and Iwould dress up as a scarecrow
and I would leave the the fallfest on with painted up and as a
scarecrow on my Vespa at weehours late.
And so I have.
But deer are just as stupid andas scary as someone on the road
(04:44):
on their cell phone.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think, animals in general anything can jump out in
the hill country, when you rideat night, a lot of these
animals are nocturnal.
So I, the way I look at it waswhen I ride down river road I'm
going 20 or 30 miles an hour,you know, and I'll take my
chances right uh, there's a lotof fences and things.
(05:06):
I just feel like, uh, even ifsomething happens, I, I feel
like I could navigate it,whereas if I feel like if I was
on 306, going 50, 55, 60 rightand a deer runs out in front of
me there, you're fucked youdon't know what's going to
happen.
I'm going to hit the gas and gostraight through it, right, I
mean I'm dead where.
I mean the wrecks I've had.
(05:27):
I mean I'm going to go straightthrough it.
I'm going to hit the gas andtry to go as fast as I can and
just go, just go yeah I'm notgoing to swerve for sure, but
it's, that's one of the biggestuh dangers.
I think riding bikes here inthe hill country is all the
critters.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, and they are whether on two wheels or four
wheels.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Even armadillos that get run over by cars.
My buddy's pointing them outwith his foot as we go by, right
.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
At least he's giving you a point.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Everybody needs that exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So you, um, you we left off talking about um you
had a screw loose I had.
I mean, I got all kinds ofloose, but it was in my it was
in my buttocks, right it wasn'tin my head.
Yeah, did you know that it wascoming loose?
Yeah or were you just thinking?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
it's the second one, so I was hoping it wasn't and I
was trying to be as still aspossible.
It's not easy for me at all,you know.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That was like I can absolutely relate.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It was one of the worst things, because they dump
you off at home and they say,don't move, you know this leg.
And then you have to pee andyou realize, well, the leg has
to go with me to go pee and soyou try not to move it, and you
I mean you do the best you can,but you have to live your life
(07:00):
still.
And so I went back the secondtime after the second surgery,
and I was keeping my fingerscrossed, I was praying, so did
you did you?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
you didn't go back to the same physician?
No, obviously because I was inTexas now.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And so the first time I went back to the doctor to
get x-rayed after I'd had thesurgery the second surgery I was
nervous.
Yeah, no one wants a thirdsurgery.
No, I was ready for this thingto be done.
And so I go in there and I knewI hadn't been good, I'd been
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less good than before.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
He was less gooders what he meant to say.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I was man, because I went back on the road and I had
actually stood up.
Yes, you know and hopped aroundand jumped off the stage
actually one time, but I landedon the good one.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I might have been there after the second surgery
watching you.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That was actually yes .
That was the first time I stoodup, yes, and so I wasn't sure
if it was still in there or not.
You know Shit, and I go inthere and he's like he comes
back in and I'm waiting.
I'm sweating it, man, I'msweating it like a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know if your doctor is as raw as mine, but
you told me about yours.
Oh yeah, he knows me all toowell and he tells me he said you
think your knee surgery wasfucking bad.
He said you think your kneesurgery was fucking bad.
He said keep fucking around,and when you walk out and you're
holding that hip joint in yourhand, I don't want to hear your
shit.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And I was like, wow, yes, sir, let me go home and get
a cane then.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
That was the best part of it.
I didn't know my doctors, andso the second time I'm just I'm
nervous.
I'm sitting there waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You feel like you're getting yelled at by your mom,
I'm nervous man.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm sitting there waiting on the judgment, the
story, the truth.
And he comes in, he pops thisthing on.
First thing I notice is thescrew is not in there all the
way.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm devastated for like 10 seconds.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I'm serious, that was a lot of devastation I'm
devastated, yeah, literallydevastated.
I think I'm gonna have to havethe whole damn surgery again.
And he comes in, he's like allright, and he pulls it up.
And he blows it up, he's likeso this thing moved and it came
out a little.
He said but look, we still havethis much that's still in the
bone and your pelvis is stillintact with your spinal cord,
(09:41):
because before, when the screwhad come out, there was a space
there, so my pelvis was stilltogether, but the screw had come
out some.
Oh my goodness, when I saw thatat first, I literally almost
died and I was just so happy tocall my family because everyone
was waiting to hear the news.
I couldn't go back on tour.
(10:02):
I was supposed to leave twodays later to go back on tour.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So your screw's a tiny bit out.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It came out some.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And so what?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He said just move around as little as possible.
It's not a point now where wewant to go back in and mess with
it.
We're going to just if it stayswhere it's at, you'll be okay.
You'll fuse back together andyou'll be okay.
And I was like all right, and Icalled my family and everybody
(10:31):
was excited.
I went back on the road and Idid exactly what I wasn't
supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We are so much alike.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, back on the road and I did exactly what I
wasn't supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I moved around a bunch we are so much older, yeah
and so the second time I wentback, I was really nervous
because I felt like I had donemore than I should have.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Could you feel it?
I mean, did you know that itwas no?
Uh-uh.
See, that's mind-boggling to me.
I feel it now.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I can feel it now it I can feel it now it's right
there.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So which way you can feel the screw.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, I can feel it Because it feels like a bone,
because I was feeling my hips.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm like why do I have something over here on this
side that I don't have on thisside?
So the screw goes from thefront to the back.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It goes from kind of the back into your hip, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
At an angle.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So imagine, like on the side you go back a little
more and then into your hip, soI have what feels like a bone on
that side and it's not on theother side.
I was like oh, this is screwed,and so the last time I went he
was like all right, it stayed.
(11:32):
And I was like oh wow.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I did gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yogas I had an orgy yeah, probably wasn't the plan
there, you know, with the hips.
Yeah, no, I was excited.
The second time I calledeverybody my mom, my daughter
and was like all right, I'm good, because I knew I was fused at
that point.
And so that time he was likeall right, go do everything,
(12:03):
workout, walk, physical therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And this was November 4th.
I was going to say this wasright.
And so, and he said, this wasshortly after we had the first
time and he said maybe one dayafter we had the first time.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, shortly after the lesson.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And he said maybe one day I might need that screw
pulled out if it bothers me.
And so that's where we're atnow.
I'm fused back, I'm fusedtogether.
I've actually jogged a little.
I don't jog, just want you toknow that.
I just wanted to know if Icould.
So I didn't go very far, and ifI'm running, you need to run.
(12:40):
I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Because I can't run and don't want to.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I am not running period.
I don't know what's chasing me,but it's bigger and better than
me.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I still am not going to run, we're going to sit down,
we're going to talk about it,I'm not running nowhere, I can't
.
No, it hurts we, it hurts wewould hide before we would run.
No, I'd just sit down and belike okay, what, what is it?
Turn the lights off.
They're going to give me amigraine, they're affecting my
eyes.
I get the whole screw loosething, one about domestic
(13:34):
violence and things of thatnature.
But that led me to the firstsurgery.
Second surgery I whoopedsomeone yeah, you've said it in
a way yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's a whole other podcast.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Led me to the second surgery, and it was because I
had no pivoting motion.
I had no nothing.
The first surgery was donecompletely wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I relate to that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, so did the second one.
Within 24 to 36 hours I coulddo so much more than I could
after seven months of the firstsurgery.
That's awesome, but on the veryfront of my leg they had to
take everything out.
It was supposed to be a two anda half hour surgery, it ended
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up being six and a half hours.
I knew my orthopedic surgeonvery, very well.
He's a very good friend of mineand there was a screw in the
very front of my shin that wasslowly starting to protrude and
so you could look my littlechicken legs.
You could look at my leg andyou could see the Phillips head
(14:41):
the top of it, right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm such a good friend with this guy and we
would ride all the time, hangout, and I was like, hey, what
are we going to do this thing?
I hit it on everything.
I mean it's like I run in andyou could just feel it.
I mean you're just're, oh, mygosh, it was horrible.
And um, he's such a you've gotto be a certain person, in my
(15:06):
opinion, to be a surgeon and dowhat they do.
I mean they're filleting openthe human body they're doing,
and it's just, it's gross, it'snasty.
And the things body they'redoing, and it's gross, it's
nasty.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And the things they can do.
It's unbelievable Because myincision was very small and it
wasn't really and it's not evenright, exactly over where they
actually put the screw in Right.
The things that they can dotoday is just nuts man.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, the further out that screw kept coming.
He said you know what thatthing has been in there so long.
He said we can sit down on theliving room floor and I'll just
put grit out my drill.
No, and I was like first of all,no this is how freaking cuckoo
these surgeons are and I'vebecome good friends is how
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freaking cuckoo these surgeonsare and I'm I've become good
friends.
I'm not like the way that meand my or this worth it was.
But my hip and knee doctor andI've told him that story and
he's like, oh yeah, you justdrill it right out.
I was like, what are you saying?
And yeah, and I had a pin comeout of my ankle.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I like to say that with youtube.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, hold my beer and watch this shit.
This is what we do in Texas.
Yeah, I had one of the pins onthe side.
I have seven screws and I hadtwo pins in my ankle from the
bike wreck and one of the pinssame deal and I would text him.
He's now not in Texas anymoreand I text him and I would send
(16:34):
this.
I was like it's coming out LikeI not in Texas anymore and I
text him and I would send this.
I was like it's coming out LikeI have like this.
It was like it wasn't a bigabscess but because that's a
disgusting word, but it wasenough to where you could almost
like a little blister on theside.
And he was like oh, that'sprobably just one of your pins.
And he was like what you needto do is just get you it.
I'll love me some whiskey.
I'll drink me some cocktails.
He's like have you a nice littlewhiskey on the ice and he was
(16:58):
like and just give it Back intothe middle ages, right here.
Just give it a good push and Isaid excuse me Back in.
Do you want me to put yeah,push it back in.
I said nope.
Well, it had gone on for abouta year.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
How about a hammer For real Tapping and tap For a
break?
Tap it in, just tap it in, yougot a nice soft mallet, maybe
Exactly A soft mallet.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You guys are fucking crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, I was in a hotel Is that tequila, that's
what we're going to name forthat.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This way Doesn't matter where I was.
Anyways, I had gotten up, takena super hot shower and I'm
talking I like the boiling hotwhere you come out and I look
like I have just burnt my skincompletely off, especially
during the winter months.
But I had come out of thebathtub or the shower and had
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stepped over the bathtub and Iheard I snagged on the edge when
I was lifting my leg over,because it's my right leg, so I
was stepping left to right overand I felt this like you would
snag your button on and I benddown and it's sticking out of my
(18:10):
ankle about.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, Damn it.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I mean not quite a half inch, that's crazy.
So I get on the phone.
I call him immediately.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And I'm like SOS SOS.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And he's like what is wrong with you?
Bionic woman over here, yeah,and he said just push it.
I said what he said just pushit.
So I pushed the entire screwpin.
This is a pin, not a screw.
I push it completely out of myleg.
And my husband had gonedownstairs to go grab us mimosas
(18:48):
and Bloody Mary and I opened upthe door.
I'm going to need two.
I'm white as a fucking ghost andI'm just standing there and
he's like what's wrong with you,what's wrong with you?
And I have it in my hand and hewas like oh god, and he knew
exactly what it was.
He's like wait what you justtook this out of your leg and I
was like yeah, I did and it wasinsane do you don't hear that
(19:12):
every day.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, so.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So when you say that you're Listen, Well, you got a
Phillips head you got a squareIf that screw comes out of my
butt cheek.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What kind of bit do we need?
We're going to have a problem.
Terminator.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What kind of bit do we need to get.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, look, listen.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
AI, but that by far was probably Because it would
rub on everything.
I mean, it just kept kind ofprotruding, that's what it was.
It was just protruding yourselfout there and he was like ah,
you don't need it anymore,you've been fine, it's been in
there for long enough, you'refine.
I was like what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
They never want to go back.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
When they say your screw's loose, it means there's
something wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You're telling that's been in there for so long, then
what did you?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
put it in there for.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's just going to keep swimming around.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
my body Did you put some Loctite on there For real.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Like a tube at the Hyatt, just going to keep going
round and round and round A lockpin something.
A lock nut would have been niceon the end.
Who gave y'all permission justto say this no, it's fine If it
just wants to float around,you'll.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Your body will spit it out.
Your body will just spit it out.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It'll spit it out eventually, yeah sure, right
outside your epidermis.
Yeah, so we can't have any moresurgeries.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I just want to let you know what you have to look
forward to.
Yeah, we can't have any moresurgeries.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
When they start popping out your body.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
What your doctor is gonna say yeah, fuck it.
Just grab your drill and backher right on out.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, I'm gonna make my appointment now I'm gonna need
a follow-up every six months.
Gotta come out of my butt.
Cheek.
What if I'm on the road?
Just don't got a screw justdon't snag it on.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Just got a screw pop out of my butt, cheek listen.
Do you know how I how much Ideal with fake imposter creed
fishers?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Just don't snag it on something Just got a screw pop
out of my butt.
Cheek, listen.
Carry a toolkit with you, rightListen.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Do you know how much I deal with fake imposter Creed
Fishers?
If I pop a screw on my butt,cheek people are going to think
I'm some android, you know.
I told you Creed's been there.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'm going to have to get verified again.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
All my social medias will go down.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, They'll be Again all my social medias will
go down.
Yeah, this isn't really CreedFisher.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
This is an Android I had to get fingerprinted.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You should have those little cards, didn't they?
Give you little cards that yougot to carry in your wallet that
say you got, I didn't get that.
Well, I had to get those withthe full replacements that I
just had.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, that tell the people at the airport.
She that I just had.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's all thepeople at the airport.
She's not a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, she's not Okay, and you know, ironically, and my
husband said it every time orany time but anybody that's ever
traveled with me through theairport, it never fails.
The one area that sets off thealarm is my vagina.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
There's no metal in my we have a metal vagina over
here we're gonna need a.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Stacy and um yeah.
I need that wand you got oh mylord, seriously, do you want to
go in the room cause we're gonnahave to strip you?
Nope, I'm pretty sure I'vealready told you, everyone has
seen you.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Well, listen, I told you, I got a titanium pelvis.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And they'll show you that screen.
It just shows that littlebleeping thing right up near
nether regions and it's like youdon't want to know what's down
there buddy, those down there,buddy, those are balls of steel
this motherfucker's setting thisthing off for a reason.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Uh-huh, oh my god yeah yeah, it's warning the
people I'm going to see rightnow we are going to have a good
time, by the way yeah, are yougoing to vegas?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
no, going to nashville, it's better than
vegas yeah, no shit if you can'tget laid in nashville.
You need to hang up the cleats.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'll leave it there I tell you what this last trip
that we took to nashville, nickand I, um and I guess I just
didn't really pay that much ofattention the many times that
I've been before, but this lastgo around we, um, we were
talking to the girl that does myhair and Nick's hair and
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everybody that I send her to.
I used to take care of her whenshe was a tiny baby and she's
literally like my daughter.
She's the sweetest thing ever,amber, and she's one of those
that she remembers everything.
She remembers every hotel she'sever been to.
She should be a travel agent.
She's just got all theseamazing hidden secrets.
(23:39):
She goes and does and andthey'll take these little trips
and she hits them all.
It's so cute.
And we were talking aboutnashville and she said you know,
that's like the number onebachelorette place where they
all go.
I was like no, why?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
From all over the world.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Not just from Wisconsin.
Right Not just from Maine, orsaid Florida.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Bangladesh, Tokyo.
I had no idea, no idea.
Listen, that's why I said thisIf you can't score in Nashville,
you need to hang up the cleats.
They should send men there tostudy this.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
When Nick and I landed To train this last
go-round it was literally likewe were really, really paying
attention.
They were fucking everywhere Ifthere was not one, sashay there
was 14 princesses with theircrowns.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
And they all come to make bad decisions.
They don't want to go homewithout a story.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Somebody's already getting married, so is it that
they go there to bang a musicianthe night?
They don't want to go homewithout a story Right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Somebody's already getting married.
Yeah, they're your first.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
They are not the married ones.
So is it that they go there tobang a musician the night before
they get married?
I mean, is that what'shappening?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, bang anybody, that's my point They'll settle
for a janitor from Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Is that your broom?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Oh, my God.
That's a nice broom, oh yourbroom oh my God, that's a nice
broom.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh, I was.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I knew Elvis back in the day.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Elvis is, elvis is Elvis is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I cannot.
I removed Elvis's pelvis.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'm Morgan Wallen's cousin.
There's all kinds of angles,mama.
There's all kinds of angles.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
It is all about them.
Angles.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I'm telling you, hang them up.
Hang them cleats up if youcan't make this work.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, I really didn't realize that that was.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Oh, it's a thing, it's definitely a thing.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I mean, they were everywhere and we went.
We stayed an extra day or twoto go visit with my nephew in
there and it was wild, I was,but I would have never known.
You spend a lot of time inNashville, don't you?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
If I could start a business, I would open a boot
business in Nashville.
Every girl I don't care ifshe's from Idaho or Pennsylvania
she's going to buy a pair ofboots in Nashville and she's not
going to have anything on fromthem.
Boots to her quads, likethere's nothing over her knees.
(26:11):
No new caps New caps areexposed.
Yeah, and that's the sameoutfit everywhere.
It's like the women are noteven allowed to wear something
else.
I don't even know.
You know some guys on the sideholding a sign Dress code
required.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It is like I swear, it cannot be covered.
You have to be six inches downfrom the badge.
You talk about diversity.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Everything's diverse except the outfits.
It's the same outfit and 1,400different people.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's going into outfit and 1,400 different
people.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It's going into a subdivision, yeah, and just all
the characters in between theguy right outside the bar that's
holding the sign that says I'msaving for a penile reduction
Just all kinds of characters,man.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You've actually seen that sign.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Oh yes, and people were giving him money because
they were laughing and theythought it was funny.
Five years he was saving up fora penile reduction.
Five years he's still hadn'tgot it.
He's just there still with thesame sign.
I'm thinking this guy's morejack than all of us, he's full
of it jesus christ, we're in thewrong business.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
He's doing it.
On layaway yeah, a little bitat a time, a little payment plan
.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It's a true story though Golly.
There's all kinds there.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
All right, so road to recovery, y'all.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yep, so our screws are loose, yours is half hanging
out.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I think I'm good, I think I'm solid, I think I'm
healing.
I think I might have that screwremoved, though, eventually,
because it just feels like it'sa little sensitive on that side.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, in the back part.
But as far as like where I wear, it just was you know, like
coming from, like not being ableto walk, and November 4th
getting to walk, and now it'sFebruary and I feel like I could
run.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Your therapy regimen from first surgery to second
surgery did it change?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
No, it was still sit your ass down.
When you need to take a shit,get up.
Other than that, stay sitting.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Stay sitting.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
They don't have any answers.
You know what if I need a drink?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Leave the leg in the chair, evidently so how long
after the?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
second surgery.
How far out from the secondsurgery are you now?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I had the second surgery on Labor Day, september,
so it was in September.
So it's been, I'm thinking,three months, maybe four months
September.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
October, november is when they said you can stand.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
November 4th.
Now I was walking a littlebefore then, but that was pretty
much the date, November 4th,and I started walking again, and
then it was after that when Icould put weight on it.
You have all your restrictionslifted.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You can do anything that doesn't hurt or you don't
want to, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Trust your body, trust your body, that's what
they told me.
Trust your body, trust yourbody that's what they told me
Trust your body Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yep, and so ever since then I've been in the gym.
But I was in the gym beforethen, to be honest with you.
I was in the gym on crutches.
You told us Grown men weregiving me props man Guys I
probably would have never talkedto.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, yeah, buddy, do you yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, you got people out there that won't walk in
here.
You're crutching in here, yes,and so that was funny to be
honest with you, because I'musually in the gym.
I'm just like I don't makefriends, I'm just blind.
No, I contact you I talk to afew people here and there, if
they talk to me.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, I'm an trying to work out and go home.
Right, do you feel like youcould have gone one way or
another after your accident,where you could have just given
(30:19):
up and said what made you decidethat you're going to let them
put you back together, get upand do what?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
you do and be the.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Creed.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Fisher Was it for you personally?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Was it for your fans?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Was it for so many people?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
get struck and get knocked down and they completely
give up and they say you knowwhat, fuck it, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm going to give up.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I think for me personally, the fact that I
wasn't paralyzed went a long waywith me to say okay, I'm going
to deal with this pain because Iknow one day I'm going to be
better, whereas if I had beenparalyzed, I can't answer that
(31:03):
question.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I don't know that I would be sitting here right now.
I probably wouldn't be.
Yeah, I would probably bebitter as hell and I don't know
what that journey looks like.
I mean, it's funny.
Another funny story, I'll befast with it.
But when I was in the hospital,there was four people there.
(31:26):
There was Chuck, my bass player, chuck Jones.
There was my Uncle, ronnieFletcher, and there was my
ex-wife, april, and my daughter,jacey Jacey's mom.
Obviously, all four people areclose in my life.
And the doctor walks in and he'slike I have to have a serious
conversation with you.
This was before my surgery, sothis was like two days after my
life.
And the doctor walks in andhe's like I have to have a
serious conversation with you.
This was before my surgery, sothis was like two days after my
(31:49):
wreck.
And he's like I have to have aserious conversation with you.
Can these people hear it?
And I'm like, yeah, these aremy people, they can hear
whatever you have to say.
And so he starts talking aboutthis and that and that, and
finally you could tell he wasgetting to the gist of it.
He's like well, you're headingto surgery and he's like I have
(32:09):
to tell you something he's like.
You had major trauma and damageto the ligament or to the
arteries that went down your legand you have all these arteries
that are down there and we hadto go in there and basically
they soldered them off to keepme from bleeding to death.
(32:34):
And he was like basically tomake a long story short, there
is a chance you'll never have anerection again.
You could have heard a pin dropin that bitch, Because if
anybody knows me, you might aswell.
And even my ex-wife told methis, because we're close a
little bit and she comes oversometimes and picks up the
grandkids or whatever.
And we were talking one day andshe was like, yeah, even I was
(32:55):
like you better just put abullet in that boy's head.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, it's over.
And I just sit there like this,like and I just sat there like
this oh shit, Shit just got veryreal.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And I didn't want to hear nothing else after that.
I didn't want to talk, I justwanted to be left to hell alone.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I had faith and so it's funny because that was some
heavy stuff on me man andobviously had the surgery, went
home whatever, had the secondsurgery, whatever.
And I just remember waking upone morning because I couldn't
sleep in my bed.
At the time I was sleeping inthis chair where I had the
(33:32):
button to lift you up.
And I just remember layingthere one morning after my
second surgery and I wake up andI have an erection.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I was about to say, and you woke up.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I called my mom.
I called woke up.
I called my mom.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I called the news.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I called my mom.
I swear, I called my mom.
I did a live.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I called my daughter.
Yeah, my daughter.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I called Chuck.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Everything is up and fine.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I didn't tell Uncle Ronnie because, to be honest
with you, he was last on thelist for whatever reason.
Yeah, I told everybody thatwould listen.
That was a good day for me.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
man, I knew Road to Recovery was going to be a
little better at that point Iknew, All of a sudden things
were looking good.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
They were no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
No pun intended no bullshit.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
There was definitely a pun intended.
We're going to stand tall.
We're going to stand proud.
We're going to stand proud sothat was when I knew I would be
all right.
Yeah, I'm like all right,everything's going to be all
right, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I'm and it's crazy man, because in the first, when
you do something and have aninjury like I had, like in my
mind it was like, okay, at thispoint I'm going to be healed and
I'm going to walk.
Well, I never thought aboutwell, no, that's not how that
works.
No, no.
You're going to be able to walkand then you're going to try to
walk and then when you try towalk it's going to hurt and
(34:55):
you're going to have to pushthrough that, you know.
And it wasn't like oh, I canwalk now, I just walk normal.
No, if you notice me, when Ifirst started walking I was
dragging this leg, you know,basically, and then it came to a
point where I had a pimp limp,you know, just kind of, you know
, I just thought maybe that'sthe way I was going to walk from
now on.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, from here on out.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
And then finally everything kind of started
working back.
You know where I walk prettydecent now, but it now.
But it was that erection thatmade me feel better.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It made me know everything was going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
It usually makes a lot of people feel better.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I knew things were looking up, but we're all
grateful for that day.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Listen, we all need love.
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, that would have been a different, definitely um
a sad, a sad day, a time limit,a uh well, I can walk now but,
I can't go on that date honeythat we talked about.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Oh my gosh, no, god's good man.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Everything's good, luckily, I would say.
I'm completely back to where Iwas, as close as I can ask for.
You know I'm happy with it, soyou're two, three surgeries done
.
Four surgeries including theemergency surgery and so
(36:29):
everything's still in place.
I might have to have one moresurgery to remove that screw.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Protocol from here, because I don't want to pump it
out of my butt cheek.
I mean you'd holler at me ifyou knew.
I mean I'm getting pretty goodat this removal thing.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's stuck right where it's at now though.
Yeah, that's what they alwayssay.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, exactly what is that?
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
You're bleeding.
You're bleeding.
Why is?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
my guitar.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
You have a Philips can sticking out of your mouth.
Yeah, why is my?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
cable wrapped around my butt cheek.
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
No, yeah, can't have that, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I'm out, I'm out.
I'm not going to say it's notgoing to happen, because it
happened to me and my knee andmy ankle.
But you got a lot of time.
It took years before I'm goingto have it removed.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
before then, no one will know.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, you got a lot of life to live.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
You got a lot of things to accomplish.
I'm counting on that with allthe grandkids and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
How many grandkids do you have now?
That's a lot of things toaccomplish.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I'm counting on that, with all the grandkids and
whatnot.
How many grandkids do you havenow?
That's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I got seven right now .
Speaker 3 (37:33):
I love that and I'm loving every minute of it.
To be honest with you, it's thebest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
It is I have my one, and she is absolutely the
highlight of my entire life.
She is.
My granddaughters have just aspecial little place for me.
I have a granddaughter.
We have no girls in our family.
I don't know if it's like thatwith your grandsons.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
But my granddaughters , maybe my granddaughters.
There's just something a littlespecial there, man, but then
again there was somethingspecial there with me and my
daughters, With my daughters andmy son's completely different,
completely different.
My daughter's in my car, honey,what do you need?
Yeah, my son, I'm like get ajob.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Get the fuck off.
Get, get, get a job.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Take care of yourself , son.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right yeah, good luck , get your screw.
Make sure your screws don'tfall.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Yeah, make sure you don't lose'm along the way.
Yeah, I'm not supporting youall your life, son Honey, what
do you need?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
But you know what?
That's the way it should be.
You know he's a grown man.
He needs to get out there andmake his own money.
My daughters are different.
I got to protect them.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I got to take care of them.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Y'all can stay to your 90s, and even my grandsons.
I'm the same way and I look atmy granddaughters.
I'm like, oh, sweetie Pawpaw'sgoing to take you to go get an
ice cream.
My grandsons, can I go?
No, go, mow the lawn.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, you need to go earn an ice cream.
You're four yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Pull the drawstring.
Ice cream is not free.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
You're right, Boy.
Oh and see, and I, I tell youwhat my little birdie is.
She's got my life, she is.
She's a good time.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So, from here, from here, and the road to recovery.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We're on tour in 2025 .
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I'm headed to Florida this week, this weekend,
tomorrow actually Headed toPensacola.
I love Pensacola and I think onthe road to recoveryvier.
I'm pretty close man to beingjust recovered.
Yeah, I think I got to go backand get x-rayed one more time to
see where things at and then, Iguess, decide if I'm going to
have that screw pulled out ornot.
But I'll just make thatdecision at that time.
(39:43):
See how I feel as long as I gotmarijuana, I think I'll just
make that decision at that timesee how.
I feel, as long as I gotmarijuana.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I think I'll be good.
Amen, yeah, it's an expensivesurgery.
Man Weed's so much cheaper.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
It is.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
That's when you grow that shit in your backyard,
whatever, yeah Well.
I'm so grateful that you'recruising along and doing what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Between Heaven and Hell tour has been the biggest
tour of my career and the way itstarted in my first arena show
and the show with Frank Fosterand it's just been really big so
far.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
So I'm excited I think it's just going to get
bigger and bigger this year.
You come, get on that stage inthe beginning of a show and do
you meet up with your bandmembers and you guys.
Do you all all sit down, do youbow your heads, do you thank
thank god that you're there andare able to perform that show
and then, by the time you'redone, because of your accident
(40:42):
and your injuries, are youhaving to push through there.
How is your stamina comingthrough a show, are you?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
We have our rituals, that we do, that we've had for a
while.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
My stamina was fine.
Do you get out of that?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
show, is there some nights where you just are like
man, I didn't feel a cramp, Ididn't feel nothing, everything
was golden.
And is there that one showwhere you're?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
like holy shit Ever since that show that you came to
and said Marcus Ross stood upfor the first time.
Right, I haven't had any kindof.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I was stroking the fuck out, I was literally from
here.
I got to thump your balls fromwhere I was sitting, Like this
motherfucker here is going to doexactly what he's not supposed
to be doing, but you did itanyways I was standing up
because in front of my familymyself I'd be doing the same
shit, if I was him and I did andI got yelled at it made sense,
(41:34):
though it was my family and Iwas going to stand up anyway,
the next couple days, you knowand you did
Speaker 3 (41:39):
so it made sense.
But no, I mean, I feel good.
I feel like now just it's alldownhill for me now.
Just stay out of the ditch.
At this point that's the onlything I can do.
I feel like I've just beengiven a second lease on life and
I feel like I'm going to make afull recovery.
(42:02):
You know which?
I was already having backproblems before.
Yeah, it was kind of anextravagant way to get them
fixed.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, that was, you're being a little extra I'm
not going to lie.
Well, I think I have thosemoments where I'm doing things
and I never sit still.
I'm horrible at sitting still,but where I think shit.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Best for you.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, the boy my knee is jacked today, my hip is not
having it today.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I have the knee problems and I just.
You know they come and go andyou just deal with them.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
But I think, after being through what we've been
through, it's hard to complain.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
It is.
Sometimes it's like thank you,lord, for making my lower back
hurt so I don't notice my neckanymore.
Where's those neck problems Ihad before?
They're gone Not wild.
No, I feel pretty good forbeing 50 years old and
everything I put myself throughthe wreck.
(43:07):
Likewise, and then just thisnew year.
I feel really really good.
I'm glad, and I hope you do too.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I do.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
It's going to be a big year for us.
It is going to be a very bigyear 2025.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
So everybody can find the tour dates on your website
Creedfishercom.
We'll have a link on there andthen we're going to finish it up
and keep following you on yourroad to recovery.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
And I'm playing local in April.
Don't hold me to it, I thinkit's in April.
I'm playing Buda, buda or Buda.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Buda, don't hold me to it.
I think it's in April.
I'm playing Buda Buda or BudaBuda, don't hold me to that name
.
Buda is what we wrote theirbellies for Box backyard.
That's a good venue.
In April That'll be a good timeit would be, you're invited.
Hopefully it'll be first earlyin.
April yeah, yeah, we would loveto be there.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Yeah, I'll have you guys be our peace.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Nice Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yes, we will see you guys soon Y'all.
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Speaker 1 (44:26):
We'll catch you on the flip side.
Peace out, we're not flipping.
I put a blessing on it to real.
This ain't metaphoric.
We just put the I in iconicbuzzing like I'm electronic.
Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it.
See me dripping in it 24-7 onit.
I'm just being honest.
Ah, holy water dripping,dripping from my neck to my
creps.
So I'm too stepping on it like.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh, we are All right.
Hey everybody, Welcome back tothe Ramblin' Gypsy podcast, my
Ramblin' Gypsy Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Tiffany Foy and we are doing part two of
the Road to Recovery with CreedFisher, Hi Tiff hey.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thanks for having me, thanks for being here.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We left the last episode and I was flooding up
the room over here, you had myeyes leaking and talking about
all the things.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The hard times we've had.
Yeah, now we've got to talkabout the good times.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So we ended talking about the respect of the road,
so to speak.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I don't even think we kind of got really into the
respect of the road, on beingback on two wheels, because we
both ride motorcycles and weboth had a wreck.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes.
A a wreck, yes, a significantwreck and you came out saying
that you definitely have adifferent view, a different
outlook, a different respect forthe road.
I also came out of minethinking what in the fuck and
who?
do you think you are.
You are now playing with a deckof cards that you should never
(01:25):
have been playing with and I wasgrateful for the ones that I
was dealt because I was able tocome out and we're still.
We're both sitting here todayMultiple surgeries, all kinds of
titanium metal plates, you nameit.
You set off alarms at theairport.
I set them.
Yeah, yes, but it is good tohave a respect for the road.
(01:51):
I think that a lot of peoplecome out of accidents and things
like we did and they absolutelydon't.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think for bikers it's not a matter of when but if
.
Not a matter of if, but when.
Rather I got that backwards.
It's not a matter of if, butwhen, and so we've both been
down to get hurt like we did.
I mean, if that doesn't changeyour perspective, then nothing
(02:21):
will.
Nothing will.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I could not agree with that more.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I love riding my motorcycle, you know, and I
realized that there's so manydistracted drivers on the road
these days.
You know, and you can't controleveryone else, but where we
live in New Braunfels it's sucha beautiful place to ride a
motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Very much so.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So I think I'll just stick to riding around here, you
know, because I still havepeople.
Oh, creed, you know, when youcome here let's go ride.
Well, no, the last time I didthat I had to take a vacation.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Right On a pass, yeah , one that was unplanned.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
An unplanned vacation ?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yep, the country roads back here definitely are
are beautiful and there is a tonof places that we can still go
ride me.
On the other hand, we are indeer country, regardless of what
season it is, and that's onething I still.
(03:23):
I'm not going to say I haven't,because I told you I screwed up
and down on my Vespa.
Look, I love my Vespa and wehave motorcycles galore, but
there is something about I havealways wanted one.
I'm an old soul I should havebeen in the Janis Joplin era by
(03:44):
far is where I feel like Ishould have been born and
hanging out with yes very muchso, and so I'm the VW bug, the
VW bus, but I love my Vespa.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The Gypsy.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, this is my 250 GT.
And I tell you what if I don'tget a from the boys?
Yeah, when I'm on my scooterI'm mad, I'm mad on my look.
I can hang with y'all.
I can hang with y'all, yeah,but I have, I have ridden it.
Like you said, river Road wetalked about, and that's our
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resort, is on River Road and Idid a fall festival in a pumpkin
patch for a long time and Iwould dress up as a scarecrow
and I would leave the the fallfest on with painted up and as a
scarecrow on my Vespa at weehours late.
And so I have.
But deer are just as stupid andas scary as someone on the road
(04:44):
on their cell phone.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think, animals in general anything can jump out in
the hill country, when you rideat night, a lot of these
animals are nocturnal.
So I, the way I look at it waswhen I ride down river road I'm
going 20 or 30 miles an hour,you know, and I'll take my
chances right uh, there's a lotof fences and things.
(05:06):
I just feel like, uh, even ifsomething happens, I, I feel
like I could navigate it,whereas if I feel like if I was
on 306, going 50, 55, 60 rightand a deer runs out in front of
me there, you're fucked youdon't know what's going to
happen.
I'm going to hit the gas and gostraight through it, right, I
mean I'm dead where.
I mean the wrecks I've had.
(05:27):
I mean I'm going to go straightthrough it.
I'm going to hit the gas andtry to go as fast as I can and
just go, just go yeah I'm notgoing to swerve for sure, but
it's, that's one of the biggestuh dangers.
I think riding bikes here inthe hill country is all the
critters.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, and they are whether on two wheels or four
wheels.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Even armadillos that get run over by cars.
My buddy's pointing them outwith his foot as we go by, right
.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
At least he's giving you a point.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Everybody needs that exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So you, um, you we left off talking about um you
had a screw loose I had.
I mean, I got all kinds ofloose, but it was in my it was
in my buttocks, right it wasn'tin my head.
Yeah, did you know that it wascoming loose?
Yeah or were you just thinking?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
it's the second one, so I was hoping it wasn't and I
was trying to be as still aspossible.
It's not easy for me at all,you know.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That was like I can absolutely relate.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It was one of the worst things, because they dump
you off at home and they say,don't move, you know this leg.
And then you have to pee andyou realize, well, the leg has
to go with me to go pee and soyou try not to move it, and you
I mean you do the best you can,but you have to live your life
(07:00):
still.
And so I went back the secondtime after the second surgery,
and I was keeping my fingerscrossed, I was praying, so did
you did you?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
you didn't go back to the same physician?
No, obviously because I was inTexas now.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And so the first time I went back to the doctor to
get x-rayed after I'd had thesurgery the second surgery I was
nervous.
Yeah, no one wants a thirdsurgery.
No, I was ready for this thingto be done.
And so I go in there and I knewI hadn't been good, I'd been
(07:37):
less good than before.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
He was less gooders what he meant to say.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I was man, because I went back on the road and I had
actually stood up.
Yes, you know and hopped aroundand jumped off the stage
actually one time, but I landedon the good one.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I might have been there after the second surgery
watching you.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That was actually yes .
That was the first time I stoodup, yes, and so I wasn't sure
if it was still in there or not.
You know Shit, and I go inthere and he's like he comes
back in and I'm waiting.
I'm sweating it, man, I'msweating it like a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know if your doctor is as raw as mine, but
you told me about yours.
Oh yeah, he knows me all toowell and he tells me he said you
think your knee surgery wasfucking bad.
He said you think your kneesurgery was fucking bad.
He said keep fucking around,and when you walk out and you're
holding that hip joint in yourhand, I don't want to hear your
shit.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And I was like, wow, yes, sir, let me go home and get
a cane then.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
That was the best part of it.
I didn't know my doctors, andso the second time I'm just I'm
nervous.
I'm sitting there waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You feel like you're getting yelled at by your mom,
I'm nervous man.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm sitting there waiting on the judgment, the
story, the truth.
And he comes in, he pops thisthing on.
First thing I notice is thescrew is not in there all the
way.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm devastated for like 10 seconds.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I'm serious, that was a lot of devastation I'm
devastated, yeah, literallydevastated.
I think I'm gonna have to havethe whole damn surgery again.
And he comes in, he's like allright, and he pulls it up.
And he blows it up, he's likeso this thing moved and it came
out a little.
He said but look, we still havethis much that's still in the
bone and your pelvis is stillintact with your spinal cord,
(09:41):
because before, when the screwhad come out, there was a space
there, so my pelvis was stilltogether, but the screw had come
out some.
Oh my goodness, when I saw thatat first, I literally almost
died and I was just so happy tocall my family because everyone
was waiting to hear the news.
I couldn't go back on tour.
(10:02):
I was supposed to leave twodays later to go back on tour.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So your screw's a tiny bit out.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It came out some.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And so what?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He said just move around as little as possible.
It's not a point now where wewant to go back in and mess with
it.
We're going to just if it stayswhere it's at, you'll be okay.
You'll fuse back together andyou'll be okay.
And I was like all right, and Icalled my family and everybody
(10:31):
was excited.
I went back on the road and Idid exactly what I wasn't
supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We are so much alike.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, back on the road and I did exactly what I
wasn't supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I moved around a bunch we are so much older, yeah
and so the second time I wentback, I was really nervous
because I felt like I had donemore than I should have.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Could you feel it?
I mean, did you know that itwas no?
Uh-uh.
See, that's mind-boggling to me.
I feel it now.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I can feel it now it I can feel it now it's right
there.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So which way you can feel the screw.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, I can feel it Because it feels like a bone,
because I was feeling my hips.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm like why do I have something over here on this
side that I don't have on thisside?
So the screw goes from thefront to the back.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It goes from kind of the back into your hip, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
At an angle.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So imagine, like on the side you go back a little
more and then into your hip, soI have what feels like a bone on
that side and it's not on theother side.
I was like oh, this is screwed,and so the last time I went he
was like all right, it stayed.
(11:32):
And I was like oh wow.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I did gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yogas I had an orgy yeah, probably wasn't the plan
there, you know, with the hips.
Yeah, no, I was excited.
The second time I calledeverybody my mom, my daughter
and was like all right, I'm good, because I knew I was fused at
that point.
And so that time he was likeall right, go do everything,
(12:03):
workout, walk, physical therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And this was November 4th.
I was going to say this wasright.
And so, and he said, this wasshortly after we had the first
time and he said maybe one dayafter we had the first time.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, shortly after the lesson.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And he said maybe one day I might need that screw
pulled out if it bothers me.
And so that's where we're atnow.
I'm fused back, I'm fusedtogether.
I've actually jogged a little.
I don't jog, just want you toknow that.
I just wanted to know if Icould.
So I didn't go very far, and ifI'm running, you need to run.
(12:40):
I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Because I can't run and don't want to.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I am not running period.
I don't know what's chasing me,but it's bigger and better than
me.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I still am not going to run, we're going to sit down,
we're going to talk about it,I'm not running nowhere, I can't
.
No, it hurts we, it hurts wewould hide before we would run.
No, I'd just sit down and belike okay, what, what is it?
Turn the lights off.
They're going to give me amigraine, they're affecting my
eyes.
I get the whole screw loosething, one about domestic
(13:34):
violence and things of thatnature.
But that led me to the firstsurgery.
Second surgery I whoopedsomeone yeah, you've said it in
a way yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's a whole other podcast.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Led me to the second surgery, and it was because I
had no pivoting motion.
I had no nothing.
The first surgery was donecompletely wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I relate to that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, so did the second one.
Within 24 to 36 hours I coulddo so much more than I could
after seven months of the firstsurgery.
That's awesome, but on the veryfront of my leg they had to
take everything out.
It was supposed to be a two anda half hour surgery, it ended
(14:18):
up being six and a half hours.
I knew my orthopedic surgeonvery, very well.
He's a very good friend of mineand there was a screw in the
very front of my shin that wasslowly starting to protrude and
so you could look my littlechicken legs.
You could look at my leg andyou could see the Phillips head
(14:41):
the top of it, right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm such a good friend with this guy and we
would ride all the time, hangout, and I was like, hey, what
are we going to do this thing?
I hit it on everything.
I mean it's like I run in andyou could just feel it.
I mean you're just're, oh, mygosh, it was horrible.
And um, he's such a you've gotto be a certain person, in my
(15:06):
opinion, to be a surgeon and dowhat they do.
I mean they're filleting openthe human body they're doing,
and it's just, it's gross, it'snasty.
And the things body they'redoing, and it's gross, it's
nasty.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And the things they can do.
It's unbelievable Because myincision was very small and it
wasn't really and it's not evenright, exactly over where they
actually put the screw in Right.
The things that they can dotoday is just nuts man.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, the further out that screw kept coming.
He said you know what thatthing has been in there so long.
He said we can sit down on theliving room floor and I'll just
put grit out my drill.
No, and I was like first of all,no this is how freaking cuckoo
these surgeons are and I'vebecome good friends is how
(15:58):
freaking cuckoo these surgeonsare and I'm I've become good
friends.
I'm not like the way that meand my or this worth it was.
But my hip and knee doctor andI've told him that story and
he's like, oh yeah, you justdrill it right out.
I was like, what are you saying?
And yeah, and I had a pin comeout of my ankle.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I like to say that with youtube.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, hold my beer and watch this shit.
This is what we do in Texas.
Yeah, I had one of the pins onthe side.
I have seven screws and I hadtwo pins in my ankle from the
bike wreck and one of the pinssame deal and I would text him.
He's now not in Texas anymoreand I text him and I would send
(16:34):
this.
I was like it's coming out LikeI not in Texas anymore and I
text him and I would send this.
I was like it's coming out LikeI have like this.
It was like it wasn't a bigabscess but because that's a
disgusting word, but it wasenough to where you could almost
like a little blister on theside.
And he was like oh, that'sprobably just one of your pins.
And he was like what you needto do is just get you it.
I'll love me some whiskey.
I'll drink me some cocktails.
He's like have you a nice littlewhiskey on the ice and he was
(16:58):
like and just give it Back intothe middle ages, right here.
Just give it a good push and Isaid excuse me Back in.
Do you want me to put yeah,push it back in.
I said nope.
Well, it had gone on for abouta year.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
How about a hammer For real Tapping and tap For a
break?
Tap it in, just tap it in, yougot a nice soft mallet, maybe
Exactly A soft mallet.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You guys are fucking crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, I was in a hotel Is that tequila, that's
what we're going to name forthat.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This way Doesn't matter where I was.
Anyways, I had gotten up, takena super hot shower and I'm
talking I like the boiling hotwhere you come out and I look
like I have just burnt my skincompletely off, especially
during the winter months.
But I had come out of thebathtub or the shower and had
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stepped over the bathtub and Iheard I snagged on the edge when
I was lifting my leg over,because it's my right leg, so I
was stepping left to right overand I felt this like you would
snag your button on and I benddown and it's sticking out of my
(18:10):
ankle about.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, Damn it.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I mean not quite a half inch, that's crazy.
So I get on the phone.
I call him immediately.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And I'm like SOS SOS.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And he's like what is wrong with you?
Bionic woman over here, yeah,and he said just push it.
I said what he said just pushit.
So I pushed the entire screwpin.
This is a pin, not a screw.
I push it completely out of myleg.
And my husband had gonedownstairs to go grab us mimosas
(18:48):
and Bloody Mary and I opened upthe door.
I'm going to need two.
I'm white as a fucking ghost andI'm just standing there and
he's like what's wrong with you,what's wrong with you?
And I have it in my hand and hewas like oh god, and he knew
exactly what it was.
He's like wait what you justtook this out of your leg and I
was like yeah, I did and it wasinsane do you don't hear that
(19:12):
every day.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, so.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So when you say that you're Listen, Well, you got a
Phillips head you got a squareIf that screw comes out of my
butt cheek.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What kind of bit do we need?
We're going to have a problem.
Terminator.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What kind of bit do we need to get.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, look, listen.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
AI, but that by far was probably Because it would
rub on everything.
I mean, it just kept kind ofprotruding, that's what it was.
It was just protruding yourselfout there and he was like ah,
you don't need it anymore,you've been fine, it's been in
there for long enough, you'refine.
I was like what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
They never want to go back.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
When they say your screw's loose, it means there's
something wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You're telling that's been in there for so long, then
what did you?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
put it in there for.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's just going to keep swimming around.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
my body Did you put some Loctite on there For real.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Like a tube at the Hyatt, just going to keep going
round and round and round A lockpin something.
A lock nut would have been niceon the end.
Who gave y'all permission justto say this no, it's fine If it
just wants to float around,you'll.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Your body will spit it out.
Your body will just spit it out.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It'll spit it out eventually, yeah sure, right
outside your epidermis.
Yeah, so we can't have any moresurgeries.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I just want to let you know what you have to look
forward to.
Yeah, we can't have any moresurgeries.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
When they start popping out your body.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
What your doctor is gonna say yeah, fuck it.
Just grab your drill and backher right on out.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, I'm gonna make my appointment now I'm gonna need
a follow-up every six months.
Gotta come out of my butt.
Cheek.
What if I'm on the road?
Just don't got a screw justdon't snag it on.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Just got a screw pop out of my butt, cheek listen.
Do you know how I how much Ideal with fake imposter creed
fishers?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Just don't snag it on something Just got a screw pop
out of my butt.
Cheek, listen.
Carry a toolkit with you, rightListen.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Do you know how much I deal with fake imposter Creed
Fishers?
If I pop a screw on my butt,cheek people are going to think
I'm some android, you know.
I told you Creed's been there.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'm going to have to get verified again.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
All my social medias will go down.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, They'll be Again all my social medias will
go down.
Yeah, this isn't really CreedFisher.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
This is an Android I had to get fingerprinted.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You should have those little cards, didn't they?
Give you little cards that yougot to carry in your wallet that
say you got, I didn't get that.
Well, I had to get those withthe full replacements that I
just had.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, that tell the people at the airport.
She that I just had.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's all thepeople at the airport.
She's not a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, she's not Okay, and you know, ironically, and my
husband said it every time orany time but anybody that's ever
traveled with me through theairport, it never fails.
The one area that sets off thealarm is my vagina.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
There's no metal in my we have a metal vagina over
here we're gonna need a.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Stacy and um yeah.
I need that wand you got oh mylord, seriously, do you want to
go in the room cause we're gonnahave to strip you?
Nope, I'm pretty sure I'vealready told you, everyone has
seen you.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Well, listen, I told you, I got a titanium pelvis.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And they'll show you that screen.
It just shows that littlebleeping thing right up near
nether regions and it's like youdon't want to know what's down
there buddy, those down there,buddy, those are balls of steel
this motherfucker's setting thisthing off for a reason.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Uh-huh, oh my god yeah yeah, it's warning the
people I'm going to see rightnow we are going to have a good
time, by the way yeah, are yougoing to vegas?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
no, going to nashville, it's better than
vegas yeah, no shit if you can'tget laid in nashville.
You need to hang up the cleats.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'll leave it there I tell you what this last trip
that we took to nashville, nickand I, um and I guess I just
didn't really pay that much ofattention the many times that
I've been before, but this lastgo around we, um, we were
talking to the girl that does myhair and Nick's hair and
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everybody that I send her to.
I used to take care of her whenshe was a tiny baby and she's
literally like my daughter.
She's the sweetest thing ever,amber, and she's one of those
that she remembers everything.
She remembers every hotel she'sever been to.
She should be a travel agent.
She's just got all theseamazing hidden secrets.
(23:39):
She goes and does and andthey'll take these little trips
and she hits them all.
It's so cute.
And we were talking aboutnashville and she said you know,
that's like the number onebachelorette place where they
all go.
I was like no, why?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
From all over the world.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Not just from Wisconsin.
Right Not just from Maine, orsaid Florida.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Bangladesh, Tokyo.
I had no idea, no idea.
Listen, that's why I said thisIf you can't score in Nashville,
you need to hang up the cleats.
They should send men there tostudy this.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
When Nick and I landed To train this last
go-round it was literally likewe were really, really paying
attention.
They were fucking everywhere Ifthere was not one, sashay there
was 14 princesses with theircrowns.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
And they all come to make bad decisions.
They don't want to go homewithout a story.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Somebody's already getting married, so is it that
they go there to bang a musicianthe night?
They don't want to go homewithout a story Right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Somebody's already getting married.
Yeah, they're your first.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
They are not the married ones.
So is it that they go there tobang a musician the night before
they get married?
I mean, is that what'shappening?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, bang anybody, that's my point They'll settle
for a janitor from Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Is that your broom?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Oh, my God.
That's a nice broom, oh yourbroom oh my God, that's a nice
broom.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh, I was.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I knew Elvis back in the day.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Elvis is, elvis is Elvis is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I cannot.
I removed Elvis's pelvis.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'm Morgan Wallen's cousin.
There's all kinds of angles,mama.
There's all kinds of angles.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
It is all about them.
Angles.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I'm telling you, hang them up.
Hang them cleats up if youcan't make this work.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, I really didn't realize that that was.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Oh, it's a thing, it's definitely a thing.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I mean, they were everywhere and we went.
We stayed an extra day or twoto go visit with my nephew in
there and it was wild, I was,but I would have never known.
You spend a lot of time inNashville, don't you?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
If I could start a business, I would open a boot
business in Nashville.
Every girl I don't care ifshe's from Idaho or Pennsylvania
she's going to buy a pair ofboots in Nashville and she's not
going to have anything on fromthem.
Boots to her quads, likethere's nothing over her knees.
(26:11):
No new caps New caps areexposed.
Yeah, and that's the sameoutfit everywhere.
It's like the women are noteven allowed to wear something
else.
I don't even know.
You know some guys on the sideholding a sign Dress code
required.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It is like I swear, it cannot be covered.
You have to be six inches downfrom the badge.
You talk about diversity.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Everything's diverse except the outfits.
It's the same outfit and 1,400different people.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's going into outfit and 1,400 different
people.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It's going into a subdivision, yeah, and just all
the characters in between theguy right outside the bar that's
holding the sign that says I'msaving for a penile reduction
Just all kinds of characters,man.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You've actually seen that sign.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Oh yes, and people were giving him money because
they were laughing and theythought it was funny.
Five years he was saving up fora penile reduction.
Five years he's still hadn'tgot it.
He's just there still with thesame sign.
I'm thinking this guy's morejack than all of us, he's full
of it jesus christ, we're in thewrong business.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
He's doing it.
On layaway yeah, a little bitat a time, a little payment plan
.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It's a true story though Golly.
There's all kinds there.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
All right, so road to recovery, y'all.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yep, so our screws are loose, yours is half hanging
out.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I think I'm good, I think I'm solid, I think I'm
healing.
I think I might have that screwremoved, though, eventually,
because it just feels like it'sa little sensitive on that side.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, in the back part.
But as far as like where I wear, it just was you know, like
coming from, like not being ableto walk, and November 4th
getting to walk, and now it'sFebruary and I feel like I could
run.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Your therapy regimen from first surgery to second
surgery did it change?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
No, it was still sit your ass down.
When you need to take a shit,get up.
Other than that, stay sitting.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Stay sitting.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
They don't have any answers.
You know what if I need a drink?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Leave the leg in the chair, evidently so how long
after the?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
second surgery.
How far out from the secondsurgery are you now?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I had the second surgery on Labor Day, september,
so it was in September.
So it's been, I'm thinking,three months, maybe four months
September.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
October, november is when they said you can stand.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
November 4th.
Now I was walking a littlebefore then, but that was pretty
much the date, November 4th,and I started walking again, and
then it was after that when Icould put weight on it.
You have all your restrictionslifted.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You can do anything that doesn't hurt or you don't
want to, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Trust your body, trust your body, that's what
they told me.
Trust your body, trust yourbody that's what they told me
Trust your body Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yep, and so ever since then I've been in the gym.
But I was in the gym beforethen, to be honest with you.
I was in the gym on crutches.
You told us Grown men weregiving me props man Guys I
probably would have never talkedto.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, yeah, buddy, do you yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, you got people out there that won't walk in
here.
You're crutching in here, yes,and so that was funny to be
honest with you, because I'musually in the gym.
I'm just like I don't makefriends, I'm just blind.
No, I contact you I talk to afew people here and there, if
they talk to me.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, I'm an trying to work out and go home.
Right, do you feel like youcould have gone one way or
another after your accident,where you could have just given
(30:19):
up and said what made you decidethat you're going to let them
put you back together, get upand do what?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
you do and be the.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Creed.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Fisher Was it for you personally?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Was it for your fans?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Was it for so many people?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
get struck and get knocked down and they completely
give up and they say you knowwhat, fuck it, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm going to give up.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I think for me personally, the fact that I
wasn't paralyzed went a long waywith me to say okay, I'm going
to deal with this pain because Iknow one day I'm going to be
better, whereas if I had beenparalyzed, I can't answer that
(31:03):
question.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I don't know that I would be sitting here right now.
I probably wouldn't be.
Yeah, I would probably bebitter as hell and I don't know
what that journey looks like.
I mean, it's funny.
Another funny story, I'll befast with it.
But when I was in the hospital,there was four people there.
(31:26):
There was Chuck, my bass player, chuck Jones.
There was my Uncle, ronnieFletcher, and there was my
ex-wife, april, and my daughter,jacey Jacey's mom.
Obviously, all four people areclose in my life.
And the doctor walks in and he'slike I have to have a serious
conversation with you.
This was before my surgery, sothis was like two days after my
life.
And the doctor walks in andhe's like I have to have a
serious conversation with you.
This was before my surgery, sothis was like two days after my
(31:49):
wreck.
And he's like I have to have aserious conversation with you.
Can these people hear it?
And I'm like, yeah, these aremy people, they can hear
whatever you have to say.
And so he starts talking aboutthis and that and that, and
finally you could tell he wasgetting to the gist of it.
He's like well, you're headingto surgery and he's like I have
(32:09):
to tell you something he's like.
You had major trauma and damageto the ligament or to the
arteries that went down your legand you have all these arteries
that are down there and we hadto go in there and basically
they soldered them off to keepme from bleeding to death.
(32:34):
And he was like basically tomake a long story short, there
is a chance you'll never have anerection again.
You could have heard a pin dropin that bitch, Because if
anybody knows me, you might aswell.
And even my ex-wife told methis, because we're close a
little bit and she comes oversometimes and picks up the
grandkids or whatever.
And we were talking one day andshe was like, yeah, even I was
(32:55):
like you better just put abullet in that boy's head.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, it's over.
And I just sit there like this,like and I just sat there like
this oh shit, Shit just got veryreal.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And I didn't want to hear nothing else after that.
I didn't want to talk, I justwanted to be left to hell alone.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I had faith and so it's funny because that was some
heavy stuff on me man andobviously had the surgery, went
home whatever, had the secondsurgery, whatever.
And I just remember waking upone morning because I couldn't
sleep in my bed.
At the time I was sleeping inthis chair where I had the
(33:32):
button to lift you up.
And I just remember layingthere one morning after my
second surgery and I wake up andI have an erection.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I was about to say, and you woke up.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I called my mom.
I called woke up.
I called my mom.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I called the news.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I called my mom.
I swear, I called my mom.
I did a live.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I called my daughter.
Yeah, my daughter.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I called Chuck.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Everything is up and fine.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I didn't tell Uncle Ronnie because, to be honest
with you, he was last on thelist for whatever reason.
Yeah, I told everybody thatwould listen.
That was a good day for me.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
man, I knew Road to Recovery was going to be a
little better at that point Iknew, All of a sudden things
were looking good.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
They were no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
No pun intended no bullshit.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
There was definitely a pun intended.
We're going to stand tall.
We're going to stand proud.
We're going to stand proud sothat was when I knew I would be
all right.
Yeah, I'm like all right,everything's going to be all
right, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I'm and it's crazy man, because in the first, when
you do something and have aninjury like I had, like in my
mind it was like, okay, at thispoint I'm going to be healed and
I'm going to walk.
Well, I never thought aboutwell, no, that's not how that
works.
No, no.
You're going to be able to walkand then you're going to try to
walk and then when you try towalk it's going to hurt and
(34:55):
you're going to have to pushthrough that, you know.
And it wasn't like oh, I canwalk now, I just walk normal.
No, if you notice me, when Ifirst started walking I was
dragging this leg, you know,basically, and then it came to a
point where I had a pimp limp,you know, just kind of, you know
, I just thought maybe that'sthe way I was going to walk from
now on.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, from here on out.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
And then finally everything kind of started
working back.
You know where I walk prettydecent now, but it now.
But it was that erection thatmade me feel better.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It made me know everything was going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
It usually makes a lot of people feel better.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I knew things were looking up, but we're all
grateful for that day.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Listen, we all need love.
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, that would have been a different, definitely um
a sad, a sad day, a time limit,a uh well, I can walk now but,
I can't go on that date honeythat we talked about.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Oh my gosh, no, god's good man.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Everything's good, luckily, I would say.
I'm completely back to where Iwas, as close as I can ask for.
You know I'm happy with it, soyou're two, three surgeries done
.
Four surgeries including theemergency surgery and so
(36:29):
everything's still in place.
I might have to have one moresurgery to remove that screw.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Protocol from here, because I don't want to pump it
out of my butt cheek.
I mean you'd holler at me ifyou knew.
I mean I'm getting pretty goodat this removal thing.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's stuck right where it's at now though.
Yeah, that's what they alwayssay.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, exactly what is that?
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
You're bleeding.
You're bleeding.
Why is?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
my guitar.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
You have a Philips can sticking out of your mouth.
Yeah, why is my?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
cable wrapped around my butt cheek.
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
No, yeah, can't have that, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I'm out, I'm out.
I'm not going to say it's notgoing to happen, because it
happened to me and my knee andmy ankle.
But you got a lot of time.
It took years before I'm goingto have it removed.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
before then, no one will know.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, you got a lot of life to live.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
You got a lot of things to accomplish.
I'm counting on that with allthe grandkids and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
How many grandkids do you have now?
That's a lot of things toaccomplish.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I'm counting on that, with all the grandkids and
whatnot.
How many grandkids do you havenow?
That's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I got seven right now .
Speaker 3 (37:33):
I love that and I'm loving every minute of it.
To be honest with you, it's thebest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
It is I have my one, and she is absolutely the
highlight of my entire life.
She is.
My granddaughters have just aspecial little place for me.
I have a granddaughter.
We have no girls in our family.
I don't know if it's like thatwith your grandsons.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
But my granddaughters , maybe my granddaughters.
There's just something a littlespecial there, man, but then
again there was somethingspecial there with me and my
daughters, With my daughters andmy son's completely different,
completely different.
My daughter's in my car, honey,what do you need?
Yeah, my son, I'm like get ajob.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Get the fuck off.
Get, get, get a job.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Take care of yourself , son.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right yeah, good luck , get your screw.
Make sure your screws don'tfall.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Yeah, make sure you don't lose'm along the way.
Yeah, I'm not supporting youall your life, son Honey, what
do you need?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
But you know what?
That's the way it should be.
You know he's a grown man.
He needs to get out there andmake his own money.
My daughters are different.
I got to protect them.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I got to take care of them.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Y'all can stay to your 90s, and even my grandsons.
I'm the same way and I look atmy granddaughters.
I'm like, oh, sweetie Pawpaw'sgoing to take you to go get an
ice cream.
My grandsons, can I go?
No, go, mow the lawn.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, you need to go earn an ice cream.
You're four yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Pull the drawstring.
Ice cream is not free.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
You're right, Boy.
Oh and see, and I, I tell youwhat my little birdie is.
She's got my life, she is.
She's a good time.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So, from here, from here, and the road to recovery.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We're on tour in 2025 .
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I'm headed to Florida this week, this weekend,
tomorrow actually Headed toPensacola.
I love Pensacola and I think onthe road to recoveryvier.
I'm pretty close man to beingjust recovered.
Yeah, I think I got to go backand get x-rayed one more time to
see where things at and then, Iguess, decide if I'm going to
have that screw pulled out ornot.
But I'll just make thatdecision at that time.
(39:43):
See how I feel as long as I gotmarijuana, I think I'll just
make that decision at that timesee how.
I feel, as long as I gotmarijuana.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I think I'll be good.
Amen, yeah, it's an expensivesurgery.
Man Weed's so much cheaper.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
It is.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
That's when you grow that shit in your backyard,
whatever, yeah Well.
I'm so grateful that you'recruising along and doing what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Between Heaven and Hell tour has been the biggest
tour of my career and the way itstarted in my first arena show
and the show with Frank Fosterand it's just been really big so
far.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
So I'm excited I think it's just going to get
bigger and bigger this year.
You come, get on that stage inthe beginning of a show and do
you meet up with your bandmembers and you guys.
Do you all all sit down, do youbow your heads, do you thank
thank god that you're there andare able to perform that show
and then, by the time you'redone, because of your accident
(40:42):
and your injuries, are youhaving to push through there.
How is your stamina comingthrough a show, are you?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
We have our rituals, that we do, that we've had for a
while.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
My stamina was fine.
Do you get out of that?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
show, is there some nights where you just are like
man, I didn't feel a cramp, Ididn't feel nothing, everything
was golden.
And is there that one showwhere you're?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
like holy shit Ever since that show that you came to
and said Marcus Ross stood upfor the first time.
Right, I haven't had any kindof.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I was stroking the fuck out, I was literally from
here.
I got to thump your balls fromwhere I was sitting, Like this
motherfucker here is going to doexactly what he's not supposed
to be doing, but you did itanyways I was standing up
because in front of my familymyself I'd be doing the same
shit, if I was him and I did andI got yelled at it made sense,
(41:34):
though it was my family and Iwas going to stand up anyway,
the next couple days, you knowand you did
Speaker 3 (41:39):
so it made sense.
But no, I mean, I feel good.
I feel like now just it's alldownhill for me now.
Just stay out of the ditch.
At this point that's the onlything I can do.
I feel like I've just beengiven a second lease on life and
I feel like I'm going to make afull recovery.
(42:02):
You know which?
I was already having backproblems before.
Yeah, it was kind of anextravagant way to get them
fixed.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, that was, you're being a little extra I'm
not going to lie.
Well, I think I have thosemoments where I'm doing things
and I never sit still.
I'm horrible at sitting still,but where I think shit.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Best for you.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, the boy my knee is jacked today, my hip is not
having it today.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I have the knee problems and I just.
You know they come and go andyou just deal with them.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
But I think, after being through what we've been
through, it's hard to complain.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
It is.
Sometimes it's like thank you,lord, for making my lower back
hurt so I don't notice my neckanymore.
Where's those neck problems Ihad before?
They're gone Not wild.
No, I feel pretty good forbeing 50 years old and
everything I put myself throughthe wreck.
(43:07):
Likewise, and then just thisnew year.
I feel really really good.
I'm glad, and I hope you do too.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I do.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
It's going to be a big year for us.
It is going to be a very bigyear 2025.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
So everybody can find the tour dates on your website
Creedfishercom.
We'll have a link on there andthen we're going to finish it up
and keep following you on yourroad to recovery.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
And I'm playing local in April.
Don't hold me to it, I thinkit's in April.
I'm playing Buda, buda or Buda.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Buda, don't hold me to it.
I think it's in April.
I'm playing Buda Buda or BudaBuda, don't hold me to that name
.
Buda is what we wrote theirbellies for Box backyard.
That's a good venue.
In April That'll be a good timeit would be, you're invited.
Hopefully it'll be first earlyin.
April yeah, yeah, we would loveto be there.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Yeah, I'll have you guys be our peace.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Nice Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yes, we will see you guys soon Y'all.
Creed Fisher Road to RecoveryFrameland.
Gypsy Podcast.
Like, share, follow.
This is our guy.
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
We'll catch you on the flip side.
Peace out, we're not flipping.
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