July 3, 2025 • 31 mins
A lemur attack leaves one of us with 25 facial stitches and a story that defies belief. What started as an ordinary day turned into a medical emergency when Fiona the lemur, apparently jealous, decided to take matters into her own teeth.
The resulting injuries required immediate medical attention, leading to a comical yet frightening visit to what could only be described as "the smallest ER I've ever seen in my life," complete with DIY medical lighting and trainee nurses practicing suture techniques. Between emergency procedures, pain medication, and somehow still making it to a PBR event with face wounds leaking, this experience redefined what it means to be "ride or die" friends.
Beyond the initial trauma lies a deeper story about animal behavior, the realities of exotic animal ownership, and the difficult decisions that come with it. We candidly discuss the painful choice to rehome Fiona after a second aggressive incident made it clear rehabilitation wasn't possible. "It never gets any better. It sucks every single time. But you can't risk yourself, you can't risk your children."
The healing journey continues with Steri-Strips becoming "part of the costume," makeup challenges, and the unexpected compliment that brought laughter: "I just thought it was part of your aesthetic." Through it all, we emphasize the critical importance of taking animal injuries seriously—infections can track quickly, and delaying treatment can lead to life-threatening complications.
If there's one takeaway from this wild misadventure, it's that prevention and immediate action are key when dealing with animal incidents. And perhaps equally important: find friends who will not only drive you to the ER but will also still take you to see cowboys afterward—face wounds and all.
Subscribe for more tales from our chaotic adventures, and remember to keep your guard up around animals, no matter how well you think you know them.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
oh my god, yeah, I said hazard pay.
I feel like I almost, I almostdied in this situation.
What you should, you should get.
Yeah.
Well, when people say that,yeah, I'm your ride or die, yes,
I am, but the amount of timesshe said almost died with being
your ride or die, maybe youshould have a life insurance
(00:35):
policy on me.
Yeah, you have.
Vice versa, yeah, we shouldprobably kale, we know you do
that sort of thing.
Garrison is going to be thebeneficiary for the both of us.
Yep, birdie, oh, there we go.
Yeah, birdie, yeah, so theyflush it all out.
They get.
This takes all kinds Way toolong.
(00:57):
Oh my Lord, I'm talking three,four bottles.
So I go and go back into thelittle fucking green room that
they have, the little greenhousesauna situation.
I'm like I, the non-disclosureroom.
I read every poster in thereprobably 28 times.
I said what the hell did you doin here?
Probably 28 times.
I read every fucking one ofthese like 10 times and I was
like that's so much reading.
Yeah, but nobody's going toscrew you over for malpractice
(01:19):
or shit or complaints orwhatever.
There's no fucking way youcould.
They mentioned everything andthen some Well, yeah, these
people made us hold our ownlights, though.
So I have some complaints thatmay be needing to be filed.
When Special K said I need thissize suture because we use these
(01:40):
for eye lifts and we use thesefor this and we use this for
that, it's not his normalpracticing hospital, so he's
relying on other people to gofind all of this stuff for him.
This is not a regular surgeonhospital.
Right, this is a Right.
So, dr, yeah, so there, yeah,so there's smallest ER I've ever
seen in my life.
I said I don't know what kindof emergencies y'all have.
Yeah, it felt like we weregoing to the back door of a vet
(02:10):
on a Sunday evening because,right, some gang show something.
Right, you know what I mean?
Yeah, but I tell you what lightstayed off the whole time.
Got the job done?
We did.
B, had to hold a light at onepoint in time.
Uh, sexy pie nurse was like canwe talk about this stitch for a
minute, because I've alwayswanted to learn how to do it
especially.
Okay, yeah, of course we can,sure, sure, why not?
Now let's train, let's go aheadand train the cutie pie, sure.
And so I'm laying there headall the way, and I don't.
(02:34):
I was in the wrong crotch firstand foremost.
And he says I said when did Ibecome a guinea pig?
And he said today I'm thinking,oh, that does not come from me
at all, knowing your face, myface, your face.
And I know my brother bumpedhis head, had to get stitches
when he was younger and it waslike right above his eyebrow.
(02:56):
When you're that little,they're like oh no, face
injuries normally grow back intoyour hairline.
You'll be fine, like there.
There's not.
You have a lot of growth thathappens on your skull and
everything.
I'm old as shit, I wasn't goingto say that, but there's
minimal growth that's happening.
A tiny bit of time for shit togrow back.
Well, and you, you tend to.
You know I'm serious about myskin, yes, yes, the skin care,
(03:18):
the skin, the face, the wholething, seriously, yep, the hats
and the sunscreen and the allthe fucking yeah, everything.
And so when it was a faceinjury, I was like oh, yes.
And so he says and so he'swalking him through this and I'm
starting to feel things like oh, yep, because it was in the
corner here and be sitting thereholding the light and filming
(03:42):
the other guy, I don't know.
I will not be editing thatfootage.
If y'all would like to see, gofollow B's channel or something,
I guess I don't know.
I'll send you.
I'll send you the video.
I'm not popping out All of it.
Yeah, it, um.
So I did not realize this.
I did not realize this untilthe other day, that when B and I
(04:04):
were talking about it, we wereall three talking about it, or a
whole group of us were talkingabout it or whatever that he
said no, special K actually tookthe stitch out.
That he did.
I said, oh, he took out hispractice stitch.
That's so sweet of him.
And he said, yeah, he did, hetook it completely out and redid
the whole thing.
I remember you saying that andredid the whole thing.
And so, yeah, but he did.
(04:26):
He didn't let him practice onme, on your fucking face.
Yeah, I feel like you need tosign a consent form for that
Right here.
I'm sure he should have had mesign one that said I wasn't
drinking either, but mind you, Iwas not when I got mauled.
I might have signed somepaperwork for you when you were
back in the thing.
I did confirm the insurance andall those things Undisclosed,
yeah, and whatever else, yep,but when we checked in, we
didn't have to sign nothing.
We didn't sign nothing when wechecked out, no, all they asked
(04:49):
was to verify your insuranceinfo and I did that from the
fucking hot box, right, right.
So, anyways, we get all wrappedup.
We get sutured 25 stitches.
I said, look, we got to go.
We got to go.
Well, they hadn't numbed myface.
(05:12):
He gave me a Vicodin orsomething stupid.
No, you were on hydrocodone.
Okay, for the pain, for thesifty-doop-dee-doo Stitching up
at the face, face.
So I was ready to go to pbr.
And this one it's just supposedto be a girl's trip, it's just
supposed to be me and her.
Yeah, and she comes out, shegoes all right, let's get back.
(05:35):
If we can leave in the nexthour or so, we'll still make it.
If we get back, we'll be backin 30 minutes.
We'll be on the road in an hour.
I said you ready, first off.
If she's sitting ready, firstoff.
If anybody knows her, we're notgoing to be on the road in an
hour.
She still hasn't packed yet.
We haven't done shit.
I just need a pair of boots.
It could have been.
I did need a hat.
(05:56):
Well, no sunglasses, because wecan't put anything on the face
or whatever.
I don't think I got freaking.
We were not going to be readyin like half hour hour, whatever
it was anyways, but still notenough time for the fucking
hydros to wear off.
She's over here like, oh yeah,let's take the big rig, I'm
going to drive and you're goingto be passenger, princess.
And I said I know I'm reallygood at that, but sometimes my
(06:19):
skill set outweighs the currentscenario.
I had so much confidence inthis whole deal.
Well, we still made it happen.
But I said you were absolutelynot driving.
I said listen, uh-uh.
And because of the way that yougave in so easily to not driving
, I knew you were fucked up onmeds because you were not as
stubborn as you normally are.
(06:40):
I said I am not getting in thatcar with you.
And there was no, I don't know.
She just called me stubborn infront of God.
And everyone, like God, doesn'talready know who made you that
way.
I know, but you know him andHarold up there laughing at the
comma that we just made.
Yeah, look at her little dumbass down there.
Just think she's not stopping.
No, I know I'm freaking.
I am not a control freak and Iam stubborn as all get out.
I already I already made somecomments about, you know, the
(07:01):
ride or die situation and havingto drive and already seeing my
life flash before my eyes when Iwas driving my own car and all
the things I was like I am not.
I know we're a lot bigger thaneverybody else on the road, but
that does not make the situationfeel any better.
I am not getting in that carwith you, which reminds me of
Garrison, and when Garrison getsin there with me, garrison puts
on 13 seat belts, that thatchild weighs 275 pounds.
(07:21):
He's 6'5" Me over there.
I'd be like a little fuckingpink cowball all over the
goddamn place.
It's so cute.
Yeah, if we get in an accident,boop, boop, boop, boop, boop,
boop.
Yeah, there's my head, there'smy feet, there's my arm.
You know, no, you do a goodtuck and roll in there.
It's fine, comfy, but you'rewelcome.
(07:46):
I think because of how adamantI was about saying I am not
getting in that vehicle with you, you were like, oh shit, she's
serious, she's really not gonnago.
If I, if I I had any other wayin the middle, if I have to spin
this any other way, yeah, we'renot going to the cowboys and I
said so.
We got an uber, we got us adesignated driver, we did, we
did, yep, and it worked outreally well.
(08:07):
It did.
Yeah, I still think I'm abetter passenger princess than
you're a passenger princess,because I was in the back this
whole time.
Now she's running shotgun.
You needed a nap, honey, youwere tired.
That was a lot.
I had zero adrenaline.
Oh my God, I was hungover forlike two days.
Just based off of theadrenaline and we're not talking
about from alcohol, yeah,exactly, no, just based off the
adrenaline.
I was like that was such afucking yeah, and it was just
(08:30):
high, low, high, low.
And I don't think it hit youuntil, no, until we tried to get
back Two days later and youwere like did you know that?
You never even mentioned pain,you never cried, you never were
stressed, you never, never,nothing Like nothing.
It was like I had to.
I was so worried about you.
Oh my God, I was so worriedabout you.
(08:51):
No, I was just like it was.
It was days later where I waslike the fuck just happened.
I was so worn out, the fuckjust happened.
I was so worn out, the fuckjust happened.
I am literally dead.
And then I think we hadsomething else like rolling oh,
it was the barbecue or some sortof something rolling into the
wedding and rolling into theroom and I don't think that I've
recovered until maybe this pastweek.
Yeah, like, I had a very chillday Sunday we went.
(09:15):
We last night was very chill.
I don't think I had actuallyrecovered from all of this shit.
Oh, you know what we weresupposed to do.
We were supposed to head tohouston, oh, to go pick up the
furniture.
And then we had oh well, we hadto go pick up the furniture.
Right after we were gettingback, we had rushed to riley
school.
Go show the kangaroo.
Yeah, do all the things.
We had to haul us back.
Yeah, and barely made it forthe bell.
(09:36):
It's been a long, hot secondsince I've been tardy.
Yeah, we had a six-hour drivecoming back and we had moved
everything so we could get backto B, because Riley had a
show-and-tell presentation thathe had to do for his criminal
law class, and how me and Arufit in the criminal law class,
(10:03):
and how me and a row fit in thecriminal law class.
And we pull up to the schoolliterally five minutes before we
were supposed to be therefucking right on time, perfect.
I turn around and look at nick.
I said, nick, come on.
And she was like what?
No?
I said yes, you have to come.
You have to come in here withme.
She's like no, no, I'm notdoing it.
Nope, I was like you are makingme go in here this whole day.
So I did.
We went from this wholefluctuation straight into so
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much peopling.
I could not oh, it was a lot, Icould not even see it.
Well, we were down there and wemade it to the PBR.
We made it through the wholedeal.
We did.
We were with our people, we hada blast.
It was a great time.
But I was so exhausted when wefinally got there I slept on the
floor Like my back I felt likewas fucked up.
I was stretching and shout outKel stretching, hydrate.
(10:48):
Yeah, she did, and I passed thefuck out.
I was so done and then I wasstill just like having to play
catch up the whole time.
First off, that was a lot ofpeopling.
My social anxiety don't don'tdo people like that.
It was a lot of crowds and inthe moment I can, I can fake it.
I can, you know, chuck and jiveand just push my way through.
(11:09):
And I mean, I've been in plentyof those situations where it's
like you have to.
Just we went back to back toback to back, yeah, and that was
a lot, and then we had startedthe start of river season,
happen the whole thing.
We weren't sure if you weregoing to make it to the start of
river season because the wholeface thing Not supposed to be
out in the heat, not supposed tobe in the sun, don't sweat and
(11:31):
don't get hot which is perfectfor Texas in June, memorial Day
weekend Don't sweat, don't gethot.
Hey, if we had planned this alittle bit better, I would have
planned it for December.
It would have been on thecalendar for December, february,
nice, yeah, nice, flat of sleetor something that would come
(11:51):
through.
But yeah, yeah.
So, but we made it, we made itback, we did and we just ran
right into everything else and Ifeel like we kind of just not
skirted past it.
But a lot of the stuff that wedo, we, we skirt.
Yeah, it's always a shit showall of the time.
Always there's very minimaltime for like processing what
(12:12):
just happened, thank god, whichI think kind of relates to the
camel incident too.
When that happened, it took acouple weeks to kind of process
and be like what really happened.
Yeah, yeah, and this one, Ireally, I mean I one, I, when I
went in you think as manysurgeries as I've had and as
(12:34):
many you know they glue, stapletape, boom, stitch, yeah, send
you on the road.
But when it comes to an animalsituation, and especially a
mouth, and this was, mind you,this was straight to the bone
and I did not realize that.
So then there was that, I meanraw.
He had to cut three sections ofmy face out, yep.
(12:58):
So then there's that there'stwo areas, one here, one on the
tip of my nose, that we didn'tpatch, then where he had to cut
the two spots out here, and thenthis guy I don't think he cut
anything out here.
I think this one was okay, butyeah.
So you just don't realize thatthe type of injury, the type of
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wound, how you heal, affects howthey do the entire procedure.
And this one had to be sewn upbecause of an infection kicked
in.
Then they have to reopen it,take your face basically apart
and put it back together againand there's like drainage of all
the things and whatever.
(13:45):
There's a lot of room for erroron the face like that.
Because right out of the gate Iwas like cool, so what?
When do I need to take thestitches out?
And he was like you're not,you're not taking this, you're
not doing this one on your own.
And I was like look, I come on.
And he was like absolutely notto me.
So no, he didn't.
And passed the first inspection.
He actually did listen toinstructions that time, which I
(14:07):
am very proud of.
You, me too, I am very proud.
Of course I did not go to thatfollow-up appointment.
I did not want to see no, noneof that either.
Yeah, but it, um, it actuallydoes look really good.
I keep the strips on it, for hesaid as long as you possibly
can Keep it on there.
And I mean I've showed you,I've got this.
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It looks really good.
Now it really does.
It's got a long way to go.
Like you said, this one isgoing into the hairline, it is,
yeah, but this one has got well,because kyle, when she glued it
, she kind of did a little rightthere.
Yeah, we kind of we shaved glueto where it didn't, like the
hair and all the things.
So all in all, it's healingreally well it is.
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But that being said, if you havean animal accident, in general,
take it seriously, because whenI had my accident I said, okay,
cool, I, I was trying to be,you were out of town, I was
taking care of some of theanimals I was trying to be,
we'll look at, not cause youstress.
Yeah, or polo, or whoever youknow.
(15:10):
Take an animal situation veryseriously, flush it not, wash it
, flush it out and don't let itget to the point where there is
going to be a problem.
Don't be stubborn when it getsto.
I was stubborn with minebecause I was trying not to
stress you out.
You were on vacation, tryingnot to cause a whole thing.
It got to a point where it waslike a day and a half before you
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got here and I couldn't evenhold a piece of paper.
It happened so fast Between mythumb and my finger.
So Fiona got gersen and I senta picture to Kel.
I sent a picture to Kel and Isaid this is my arm right now.
I've been tracking the littlecircles and all the things and
she was like it's starting totrack the infection.
You have something.
It's going to your heart.
You need to fucking get itfixed, yeah.
(16:01):
And so I went antibiotics whileI was there and two antibiotics
to take home, which, completelyfine.
Now I have no problem.
I mean same thing when I had umink in my bloodstream.
Yes, had no clue.
Yeah, and how serious.
But you put it off and put itoff and put it off and don't
think it's anything.
And that goes with anythingelse too.
You have a spot or a have aspot or a lump or something that
you need to get checked.
(16:21):
There's no reason.
Preventative maintenance is key.
Don't use money as a no, Ican't Right Bullshit, absolutely
not.
Yes, you can.
There's a way to figure it out.
There is.
If you're in medical debt, itfalls off after a certain time.
Taking care of yourself isprobably the most important
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thing.
It can happen so quick and sofast.
I didn't realize until Jen waslike Tiffany, do you have any
idea how close to your mainartery?
Well, not only that, but youreyeballs.
Your eyeballs are right theretoo.
She got me here.
You could have lost a foot Ihad.
Yeah, it was bad physical, butyou could have lost an eyeball
you could have.
There's all sorts of differentpossibilities.
Yeah, yep.
(17:21):
So lesson out of this is kind oflike I said when I got trampled
by Leroy, but, like Nick said,you have to think.
One don't ever, don't, ever,let your guard down.
Pay attention to yoursurroundings.
In this situation I didn't feelI needed a guard up.
I was very aware of mysurroundings.
I was very aware of thesituation.
The back patio door was wideopen.
Routines are what's killer.
There were no, yeah.
And so in the exotic world, themajority of us, we all know each
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other.
We're very close.
We have groups that meet.
We have training sessions thathappen several times a year, get
togethers, we have group chats.
We have rescue places.
We have shared vet contacts.
Yes, we have all kinds ofthings.
We're not just a bunch ofpeople that went by Polly's Pet
(18:05):
Shop or Petunia's, whatever, anddecided that we were going to
pick up a bullfrog and take ithome and that was just going to
be what we were going to do.
That's not how this is at all,and we're very cautious on who
buys animals, who gets them,make sure that they know what
they're getting themselves into,and so forth.
(18:27):
So this was just another freakdeal.
We talked about it afterwardshave come to the conclusion that
the jealousy had set in withher and that is what caused that
.
Everybody knows about Bertieand my granddaughter and that
she is here.
We keep her all the time andFiona's routine changed when
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Bertie was here.
Yep, and that's that's what itboils down to.
Then, when you really start tothink about it and you start to
pay attention to which, you goback to human situations, when
you think, oh, my goodness, Inever knew that this person was
a hardcore alcoholic.
Or you realize it after they'veadmitted themselves or after
(19:14):
somebody has committed suicide,or then you start to really
start looking back and thinking,man, I didn't notice this, I
didn't notice the signs, thepatterns, the oh shit there was,
was there more that I couldhave done?
And you start to go, and that'swhat happened here.
We went back, we analyzed herum change when different people
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were here, when Birdie was here,different one animal here, one
animal gone, dolce, yes, andblah, blah, blah, and, and
that's exactly what it was.
So, um, you, obviously you, youmake adjustments, you, you
change things, you figure outwhat is best for you.
(19:58):
The animal, Um Fiona is we didnot put her down, by the way so,
um, she, she's in a very, avery, very good place.
She is where she can eitherfigure it out in a rehab
situation, um, or she can't.
(20:19):
So what happens in those?
Like with most dogs, most Mostdogs by the city, they'll make
you put them down after anincident like that, after a
quarantine to make sure thatthey're not aggressive, and all
the things.
And Fiona's had an opportunityto where.
That's not a consideration atthis point, because she's gotten
(20:40):
moved to a property where shehas the ability to be more in a
natural environment To thinkabout her choices, yeah, to
think about her choicesSeriously.
I mean, yeah, she's very muchin a rehab facility, but it's a
non-kill shelter, if you will,very one-on-one.
It's a non kill shelter, verywell, very one-on-one, um, but
she, I was thinking that one,because you know me and animals
(21:04):
and everybody deserves a secondchance.
And what have you and what?
It was?
Four or five days later, I wasgoing to grab a pair of keys and
she came at the cage and cameat me and I knew at that point I
was there.
There's no, there's no way.
There's no way, there's no way.
I mean it's, it's, she's alwaystough Cause, especially too.
I mean, yeah, it's an animal,but you get to know their
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personality and it's a part ofyour family and it's it's
another being that you've bondedwith.
It's also the same kind offeeling when you have to,
unfortunately, send a person torehab or to distance.
The decisions are never.
They don't get any friendshipor something.
You have to make sure thatyou're doing what's best for
yourself right, as well aswhat's best for the other person
(21:50):
in the entire group that you'resurrounding yourself with, and
you have to.
Sometimes it is a hard decision.
I mean a breakup a, a strangefriendship, a rehoming of a pet.
It's all shitty, shitty.
I was going to say the samething.
It's all shitty, it sucks.
It never gets any better.
(22:10):
It sucks every single time.
But you can't, you can't riskyourself, you can't risk your
children, you're, you can't.
It's.
You've got to do what's bestfor the animal, you've got to do
what's best for your family,your life, your yeah.
And when something like thathappens, when they do turn, I
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mean watching her lick my fleshand blood off of her and the way
she was looking at me was likenothing.
I mean it's literally somethingyou see on freaking National
Geographic in the wild.
You know it's a sense ofbetrayal, yes, whereas animals
don't necessarily have that samefeeling.
They can be some sort of likedogs, know when you're upset,
(22:55):
and they can be empathetic andthings like that, but it's a
sense of I loose.
I mean hard for humansinteracting with animals, right,
because there is thatcommunication barrier where it's
like why did you do what youdid?
Right, we could have talkedabout this, right, you know
that's.
But then you go back and youthink, look, how many freaking
humans do you know what I meanexactly?
After you have a conversation,after you do whatever humans and
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animals, both can be sounpredictable and you, you have
a conversation or after you dowhatever Humans and animals,
both can be so unpredictable andyou don't know.
No, and you do have to keepyour guard up at all times.
There's that one freaking showwhere you go into the prisons
and you're talking to them andthey're just like well, this is
what I did and I don't give youshit.
I needed a couple dollars, mygrandma, and she didn't give it
to me, so I stabbed her 70,000times.
(23:36):
Wait what?
So many people will ask me whatmade her do that?
What makes people do things onsnap?
Jealousy is a big thing.
People have jealousy all thetime.
Animals have the same thing.
(23:58):
They just don't know how toregulate it in the same way.
Yeah, but here we are.
Nick survived.
She's doing well.
She's been.
We're still working on herrehab, um, but, yeah, she's
therapy sessions.
She's doing so good, yep, yep,it was good, we survived it and
(24:21):
we're still doing it.
I still have good, stillvisiting cowboys.
It's really weird, yeah, likewhere this big chunk is here.
I mean it always Nose injuriesare the worst.
Yeah, because it always lookslike I'm picking my nose and I'm
like no, but right, oh, andthen she got me.
It was like this way in her ear, yeah, and I'm like, no, but
right, oh.
And then she got me.
It was like this way in her ear, yeah, yeah, yeah, completely,
I'm talking.
I think she was trying to crawlin my eardrum, I'm not real
(24:44):
sure, but it's your brain.
I mean it was so bad.
She got pretty fucking close.
I mean, yeah, when he was like,oh, it's to the bone, and I was
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like unsuccessful lobotomy, yeah, and then he says what we're
looking for here is for you toactually get feeling.
You may never, ever feel againlike I got the botox, anyways,
it's.
I mean, what do you mean?
So I'm trying not to move thatmuscle either.
Am I really one guy's gonna beup here?
I'm gonna look like the j Jokerfor the rest of my life.
No, jen will fix it, she'llbalance it out.
Oh, my god, it's all good, jenwill balance it out, yeah, but
it's good.
So now I'm walking around withmy Chinese star on my forehead.
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Tell them what Ruben told you.
Oh, so I have not.
This is the best thing I'veever had in my life.
I've not worn makeup at allsince since the deal I keep.
He's like sunblocks, sunblocks,sunblock.
I'm like I our tour is calledSPF 90 tour, sunblock, the
arsenic for the scarring and allthat.
You know, whatever.
Yeah, you're preaching me tothe wrong person.
I get it.
So I go um.
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Last weekend we're with Kojo andum at the venue at the concert
and they run into a super coolguy that we met through mick and
uh, ruben and ruben.
Oh my god, he's amazing.
I just this dude's energy andhis soul in your pocket.
Yes, what I've told ever.
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The first day I met him I waslike look, this may embarrass
you, I don't, I don't care, butI said I just want to put you in
my pocket and take youeverywhere I go, because he is
the.
You cannot be sad, depressed,whatever.
This dude is the best, I mean.
He is so good, his energy isphenomenal, such a good head on
your shoulders too.
Such a good person, so genuine.
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And we're sitting there, we'revisiting and we're talking,
catching up on things, and Isaid I would just ignore my
thing on my face I was in anaccident and he looks at me just
dead straight in the eye and hegoes.
Honestly, I really didn'tnotice it.
I just thought it was part ofyour costume.
He's so cute I didn't think Icould love him anymore, and I
was like only you would say mycostume, it's the vibe, it's the
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aesthetic, it's the whole thing.
It was so cute.
To be fair, though, when I sawthe pictures from the event that
y'all went to, you were wearinga hat and it was kind of
steampunk-ish.
It was very steampunk-ish, yeah.
So I was like, okay,steampunk-ish, steampunk-ish,
ste.
So when he said that I cantotally see that coming from him
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, yeah, but he meant it sogenuinely, so cute, and that's
exactly how I would have takenit Part of your get up, part of
your aura, part of your vibe.
It's all the same as how hemeant it, but it was.
So I just laughed my ass offwhenever he was like, oh, I just
thought it was part of yourcostume.
And he told me that that wasthe best thing ever.
Yeah, because, yeah, because Ihad texted her earlier and I was
like, hey, I actually havemakeup on.
And she was like, wait, what,how did you do it?
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And I was like, well, I kind ofwhat I did was just because I
always put my sunblock on, for,like today, I have my sunblock
on, but I will.
I figured out that if I takealcohol and rub, like this,
around the makeup, yeah, andthen put my strips on, they
stick better.
But yeah, because that makeupand the sunscreen makes a
barrier on your skin.
Yeah, just kind of slide, itjust comes off.
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But that silicone stuff that Ihave to put on there is keep it.
It doesn't like to stick tothat.
So I kind of go around thesilicone so it actually will
stay underneath there and thenadhere, like on the outskirts,
yeah, which seems to be.
You saw it a couple of days ago.
It seems to be, seems to beworking, but so I don't bust my
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Steri-Strips out.
She was laughing the entire carride to get to the hospital
because I was in such a panic IfI wasn't so out of it I would
have been pissed that you werelaughing at me so much.
I was like this is not alaughing matter.
I'm going to show the video.
Do you want to get into a wreckon the way down there?
It's so good.
I didn't have stary strips onuntil they took the stitches out
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.
I laughed for like seven days.
She's just over here with herlittle headband thing going on.
Then we got to the PBR.
I just had stitches all over myface.
Then I'm on leakage duty, whichis gross.
Add that to my resume now.
That was gross.
That was really gross.
I'm going to go to the bar andget you another napkin.
You got a little something.
I could feel it running down myface.
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And then it was nasty weather.
When we were there too, it washumid and sweaty.
And then the swelling ran downmy head, and so then I woke up
and I was like Nick, do you seesomething right here?
And she's like oh my, yeah,your face, your face bubble.
So yeah, like the fluid andgravity.
I mean, it makes sense, butwhen you're experiencing it you
don't know those kind of thingsyou're thinking to think.
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You're like, oh my god, my faceis infected.
Yeah, oh my god, I gotta callspecial pain.
He's like I got a tooth stuckin my face.
You need to sleep with yourhead up and your arms in the air
.
Okay, so we're going to fiesta,texas.
I was about to say six flags,sea world.
Where are we going go?
I'm here for it.
I mean, I already got stitchesin my face.
What else could go wrong?
Might as well bust a coupleshit, yep, but anyways.
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So that's why I have this partof my costume has has grown to
my face and we're all doing well.
And we replaced the dreads withthe steri strips.
We did oh yeah, it's the newlook.
I did have to take the dreadsout because they stayed in there
and when they were flush andeverything, I had saline water
and whatever.
When I would bend my head overto put my dreads in a ponytail,
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they were crunchy, they were,but it would pop my forehead
open.
Oh, from all the weight ofeverything.
Oh, yep, I didn't even thinkabout that, oh, yeah.
So every time I would bend myhead over and I would pull it up
right here.
You think you're pulling?
Well, I'm pulling this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pullingthis.
You're giving yourself afacelift.
That's what they do.
The slicked back ponies, foryeah, I was like, oh no, so,
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yeah, no, I took those out so myforehead could heal.
But yeah, yeah, so we survivedanother day in the life of the
shit show.
I finally survived.
I finally feel like I got myfeet back underneath me, got
your groove back.
That was a lot of emotions, alot of things going on at the
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same time.
It was a lot.
You know, I like my bedtime, mychill time, my couch time, my
nothing's happening time.
Right Doesn't happen oftenaround you, thank God, jesus.
So now we recapped it.
We told the world I survived.
I didn't pass out during theretelling.
No, my face is kind of hot.
I told the world I survived.
I didn't pass out during theretelling.
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No, my face is kind of hot.
I said the F word a couple oftimes, because that's when you
lose your mind.
Oh yeah, I don't think YouTubeblocks you for that one.
I think it's just the foot Flap.
There you go, cut, cut.
There's one for good keepingGood, good and cut Cut.
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There's one for good keepingGood, good, good measures.
oh my god, yeah, I said hazard pay.
I feel like I almost, I almostdied in this situation.
What you should, you should get.
Yeah.
Well, when people say that,yeah, I'm your ride or die, yes,
I am, but the amount of timesshe said almost died with being
your ride or die, maybe youshould have a life insurance
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policy on me.
Yeah, you have.
Vice versa, yeah, we shouldprobably kale, we know you do
that sort of thing.
Garrison is going to be thebeneficiary for the both of us.
Yep, birdie, oh, there we go.
Yeah, birdie, yeah, so theyflush it all out.
They get.
This takes all kinds Way toolong.
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Oh my Lord, I'm talking three,four bottles.
So I go and go back into thelittle fucking green room that
they have, the little greenhousesauna situation.
I'm like I, the non-disclosureroom.
I read every poster in thereprobably 28 times.
I said what the hell did you doin here?
Probably 28 times.
I read every fucking one ofthese like 10 times and I was
like that's so much reading.
Yeah, but nobody's going toscrew you over for malpractice
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or shit or complaints orwhatever.
There's no fucking way youcould.
They mentioned everything andthen some Well, yeah, these
people made us hold our ownlights, though.
So I have some complaints thatmay be needing to be filed.
When Special K said I need thissize suture because we use these
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for eye lifts and we use thesefor this and we use this for
that, it's not his normalpracticing hospital, so he's
relying on other people to gofind all of this stuff for him.
This is not a regular surgeonhospital.
Right, this is a Right.
So, dr, yeah, so there, yeah,so there's smallest ER I've ever
seen in my life.
I said I don't know what kindof emergencies y'all have.
Yeah, it felt like we weregoing to the back door of a vet
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on a Sunday evening because,right, some gang show something.
Right, you know what I mean?
Yeah, but I tell you what lightstayed off the whole time.
Got the job done?
We did.
B, had to hold a light at onepoint in time.
Uh, sexy pie nurse was like canwe talk about this stitch for a
minute, because I've alwayswanted to learn how to do it
especially.
Okay, yeah, of course we can,sure, sure, why not?
Now let's train, let's go aheadand train the cutie pie, sure.
And so I'm laying there headall the way, and I don't.
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I was in the wrong crotch firstand foremost.
And he says I said when did Ibecome a guinea pig?
And he said today I'm thinking,oh, that does not come from me
at all, knowing your face, myface, your face.
And I know my brother bumpedhis head, had to get stitches
when he was younger and it waslike right above his eyebrow.
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When you're that little,they're like oh no, face
injuries normally grow back intoyour hairline.
You'll be fine, like there.
There's not.
You have a lot of growth thathappens on your skull and
everything.
I'm old as shit, I wasn't goingto say that, but there's
minimal growth that's happening.
A tiny bit of time for shit togrow back.
Well, and you, you tend to.
You know I'm serious about myskin, yes, yes, the skin care,
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the skin, the face, the wholething, seriously, yep, the hats
and the sunscreen and the allthe fucking yeah, everything.
And so when it was a faceinjury, I was like oh, yes.
And so he says and so he'swalking him through this and I'm
starting to feel things like oh, yep, because it was in the
corner here and be sitting thereholding the light and filming
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the other guy, I don't know.
I will not be editing thatfootage.
If y'all would like to see, gofollow B's channel or something,
I guess I don't know.
I'll send you.
I'll send you the video.
I'm not popping out All of it.
Yeah, it, um.
So I did not realize this.
I did not realize this untilthe other day, that when B and I
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were talking about it, we wereall three talking about it, or a
whole group of us were talkingabout it or whatever that he
said no, special K actually tookthe stitch out.
That he did.
I said, oh, he took out hispractice stitch.
That's so sweet of him.
And he said, yeah, he did, hetook it completely out and redid
the whole thing.
I remember you saying that andredid the whole thing.
And so, yeah, but he did.
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He didn't let him practice onme, on your fucking face.
Yeah, I feel like you need tosign a consent form for that
Right here.
I'm sure he should have had mesign one that said I wasn't
drinking either, but mind you, Iwas not when I got mauled.
I might have signed somepaperwork for you when you were
back in the thing.
I did confirm the insurance andall those things Undisclosed,
yeah, and whatever else, yep,but when we checked in, we
didn't have to sign nothing.
We didn't sign nothing when wechecked out, no, all they asked
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was to verify your insuranceinfo and I did that from the
fucking hot box, right, right.
So, anyways, we get all wrappedup.
We get sutured 25 stitches.
I said, look, we got to go.
We got to go.
Well, they hadn't numbed myface.
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He gave me a Vicodin orsomething stupid.
No, you were on hydrocodone.
Okay, for the pain, for thesifty-doop-dee-doo Stitching up
at the face, face.
So I was ready to go to pbr.
And this one it's just supposedto be a girl's trip, it's just
supposed to be me and her.
Yeah, and she comes out, shegoes all right, let's get back.
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If we can leave in the nexthour or so, we'll still make it.
If we get back, we'll be backin 30 minutes.
We'll be on the road in an hour.
I said you ready, first off.
If she's sitting ready, firstoff.
If anybody knows her, we're notgoing to be on the road in an
hour.
She still hasn't packed yet.
We haven't done shit.
I just need a pair of boots.
It could have been.
I did need a hat.
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Well, no sunglasses, because wecan't put anything on the face
or whatever.
I don't think I got freaking.
We were not going to be readyin like half hour hour, whatever
it was anyways, but still notenough time for the fucking
hydros to wear off.
She's over here like, oh yeah,let's take the big rig, I'm
going to drive and you're goingto be passenger, princess.
And I said I know I'm reallygood at that, but sometimes my
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skill set outweighs the currentscenario.
I had so much confidence inthis whole deal.
Well, we still made it happen.
But I said you were absolutelynot driving.
I said listen, uh-uh.
And because of the way that yougave in so easily to not driving
, I knew you were fucked up onmeds because you were not as
stubborn as you normally are.
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I said I am not getting in thatcar with you.
And there was no, I don't know.
She just called me stubborn infront of God.
And everyone, like God, doesn'talready know who made you that
way.
I know, but you know him andHarold up there laughing at the
comma that we just made.
Yeah, look at her little dumbass down there.
Just think she's not stopping.
No, I know I'm freaking.
I am not a control freak and Iam stubborn as all get out.
I already I already made somecomments about, you know, the
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ride or die situation and havingto drive and already seeing my
life flash before my eyes when Iwas driving my own car and all
the things I was like I am not.
I know we're a lot bigger thaneverybody else on the road, but
that does not make the situationfeel any better.
I am not getting in that carwith you, which reminds me of
Garrison, and when Garrison getsin there with me, garrison puts
on 13 seat belts, that thatchild weighs 275 pounds.
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He's 6'5" Me over there.
I'd be like a little fuckingpink cowball all over the
goddamn place.
It's so cute.
Yeah, if we get in an accident,boop, boop, boop, boop, boop,
boop.
Yeah, there's my head, there'smy feet, there's my arm.
You know, no, you do a goodtuck and roll in there.
It's fine, comfy, but you'rewelcome.
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I think because of how adamantI was about saying I am not
getting in that vehicle with you, you were like, oh shit, she's
serious, she's really not gonnago.
If I, if I I had any other wayin the middle, if I have to spin
this any other way, yeah, we'renot going to the cowboys and I
said so.
We got an uber, we got us adesignated driver, we did, we
did, yep, and it worked outreally well.
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It did.
Yeah, I still think I'm abetter passenger princess than
you're a passenger princess,because I was in the back this
whole time.
Now she's running shotgun.
You needed a nap, honey, youwere tired.
That was a lot.
I had zero adrenaline.
Oh my God, I was hungover forlike two days.
Just based off of theadrenaline and we're not talking
about from alcohol, yeah,exactly, no, just based off the
adrenaline.
I was like that was such afucking yeah, and it was just
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high, low, high, low.
And I don't think it hit youuntil, no, until we tried to get
back Two days later and youwere like did you know that?
You never even mentioned pain,you never cried, you never were
stressed, you never, never,nothing Like nothing.
It was like I had to.
I was so worried about you.
Oh my God, I was so worriedabout you.
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No, I was just like it was.
It was days later where I waslike the fuck just happened.
I was so worn out, the fuckjust happened.
I was so worn out, the fuckjust happened.
I am literally dead.
And then I think we hadsomething else like rolling oh,
it was the barbecue or some sortof something rolling into the
wedding and rolling into theroom and I don't think that I've
recovered until maybe this pastweek.
Yeah, like, I had a very chillday Sunday we went.
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We last night was very chill.
I don't think I had actuallyrecovered from all of this shit.
Oh, you know what we weresupposed to do.
We were supposed to head tohouston, oh, to go pick up the
furniture.
And then we had oh well, we hadto go pick up the furniture.
Right after we were gettingback, we had rushed to riley
school.
Go show the kangaroo.
Yeah, do all the things.
We had to haul us back.
Yeah, and barely made it forthe bell.
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It's been a long, hot secondsince I've been tardy.
Yeah, we had a six-hour drivecoming back and we had moved
everything so we could get backto B, because Riley had a
show-and-tell presentation thathe had to do for his criminal
law class, and how me and Arufit in the criminal law class,
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and how me and a row fit in thecriminal law class.
And we pull up to the schoolliterally five minutes before we
were supposed to be therefucking right on time, perfect.
I turn around and look at nick.
I said, nick, come on.
And she was like what?
No?
I said yes, you have to come.
You have to come in here withme.
She's like no, no, I'm notdoing it.
Nope, I was like you are makingme go in here this whole day.
So I did.
We went from this wholefluctuation straight into so
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much peopling.
I could not oh, it was a lot, Icould not even see it.
Well, we were down there and wemade it to the PBR.
We made it through the wholedeal.
We did.
We were with our people, we hada blast.
It was a great time.
But I was so exhausted when wefinally got there I slept on the
floor Like my back I felt likewas fucked up.
I was stretching and shout outKel stretching, hydrate.
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Yeah, she did, and I passed thefuck out.
I was so done and then I wasstill just like having to play
catch up the whole time.
First off, that was a lot ofpeopling.
My social anxiety don't don'tdo people like that.
It was a lot of crowds and inthe moment I can, I can fake it.
I can, you know, chuck and jiveand just push my way through.
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And I mean, I've been in plentyof those situations where it's
like you have to.
Just we went back to back toback to back, yeah, and that was
a lot, and then we had startedthe start of river season,
happen the whole thing.
We weren't sure if you weregoing to make it to the start of
river season because the wholeface thing Not supposed to be
out in the heat, not supposed tobe in the sun, don't sweat and
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don't get hot which is perfectfor Texas in June, memorial Day
weekend Don't sweat, don't gethot.
Hey, if we had planned this alittle bit better, I would have
planned it for December.
It would have been on thecalendar for December, february,
nice, yeah, nice, flat of sleetor something that would come
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through.
But yeah, yeah.
So, but we made it, we made itback, we did and we just ran
right into everything else and Ifeel like we kind of just not
skirted past it.
But a lot of the stuff that wedo, we, we skirt.
Yeah, it's always a shit showall of the time.
Always there's very minimaltime for like processing what
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just happened, thank god, whichI think kind of relates to the
camel incident too.
When that happened, it took acouple weeks to kind of process
and be like what really happened.
Yeah, yeah, and this one, Ireally, I mean I one, I, when I
went in you think as manysurgeries as I've had and as
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many you know they glue, stapletape, boom, stitch, yeah, send
you on the road.
But when it comes to an animalsituation, and especially a
mouth, and this was, mind you,this was straight to the bone
and I did not realize that.
So then there was that, I meanraw.
He had to cut three sections ofmy face out, yep.
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So then there's that there'stwo areas, one here, one on the
tip of my nose, that we didn'tpatch, then where he had to cut
the two spots out here, and thenthis guy I don't think he cut
anything out here.
I think this one was okay, butyeah.
So you just don't realize thatthe type of injury, the type of
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wound, how you heal, affects howthey do the entire procedure.
And this one had to be sewn upbecause of an infection kicked
in.
Then they have to reopen it,take your face basically apart
and put it back together againand there's like drainage of all
the things and whatever.
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There's a lot of room for erroron the face like that.
Because right out of the gate Iwas like cool, so what?
When do I need to take thestitches out?
And he was like you're not,you're not taking this, you're
not doing this one on your own.
And I was like look, I come on.
And he was like absolutely notto me.
So no, he didn't.
And passed the first inspection.
He actually did listen toinstructions that time, which I
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am very proud of.
You, me too, I am very proud.
Of course I did not go to thatfollow-up appointment.
I did not want to see no, noneof that either.
Yeah, but it, um, it actuallydoes look really good.
I keep the strips on it, for hesaid as long as you possibly
can Keep it on there.
And I mean I've showed you,I've got this.
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It looks really good.
Now it really does.
It's got a long way to go.
Like you said, this one isgoing into the hairline, it is,
yeah, but this one has got well,because kyle, when she glued it
, she kind of did a little rightthere.
Yeah, we kind of we shaved glueto where it didn't, like the
hair and all the things.
So all in all, it's healingreally well it is.
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But that being said, if you havean animal accident, in general,
take it seriously, because whenI had my accident I said, okay,
cool, I, I was trying to be,you were out of town, I was
taking care of some of theanimals I was trying to be,
we'll look at, not cause youstress.
Yeah, or polo, or whoever youknow.
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Take an animal situation veryseriously, flush it not, wash it
, flush it out and don't let itget to the point where there is
going to be a problem.
Don't be stubborn when it getsto.
I was stubborn with minebecause I was trying not to
stress you out.
You were on vacation, tryingnot to cause a whole thing.
It got to a point where it waslike a day and a half before you
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got here and I couldn't evenhold a piece of paper.
It happened so fast Between mythumb and my finger.
So Fiona got gersen and I senta picture to Kel.
I sent a picture to Kel and Isaid this is my arm right now.
I've been tracking the littlecircles and all the things and
she was like it's starting totrack the infection.
You have something.
It's going to your heart.
You need to fucking get itfixed, yeah.
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And so I went antibiotics whileI was there and two antibiotics
to take home, which, completelyfine.
Now I have no problem.
I mean same thing when I had umink in my bloodstream.
Yes, had no clue.
Yeah, and how serious.
But you put it off and put itoff and put it off and don't
think it's anything.
And that goes with anythingelse too.
You have a spot or a have aspot or a lump or something that
you need to get checked.
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There's no reason.
Preventative maintenance is key.
Don't use money as a no, Ican't Right Bullshit, absolutely
not.
Yes, you can.
There's a way to figure it out.
There is.
If you're in medical debt, itfalls off after a certain time.
Taking care of yourself isprobably the most important
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thing.
It can happen so quick and sofast.
I didn't realize until Jen waslike Tiffany, do you have any
idea how close to your mainartery?
Well, not only that, but youreyeballs.
Your eyeballs are right theretoo.
She got me here.
You could have lost a foot Ihad.
Yeah, it was bad physical, butyou could have lost an eyeball
you could have.
There's all sorts of differentpossibilities.
Yeah, yep.
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So lesson out of this is kind oflike I said when I got trampled
by Leroy, but, like Nick said,you have to think.
One don't ever, don't, ever,let your guard down.
Pay attention to yoursurroundings.
In this situation I didn't feelI needed a guard up.
I was very aware of mysurroundings.
I was very aware of thesituation.
The back patio door was wideopen.
Routines are what's killer.
There were no, yeah.
And so in the exotic world, themajority of us, we all know each
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other.
We're very close.
We have groups that meet.
We have training sessions thathappen several times a year, get
togethers, we have group chats.
We have rescue places.
We have shared vet contacts.
Yes, we have all kinds ofthings.
We're not just a bunch ofpeople that went by Polly's Pet
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Shop or Petunia's, whatever, anddecided that we were going to
pick up a bullfrog and take ithome and that was just going to
be what we were going to do.
That's not how this is at all,and we're very cautious on who
buys animals, who gets them,make sure that they know what
they're getting themselves into,and so forth.
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So this was just another freakdeal.
We talked about it afterwardshave come to the conclusion that
the jealousy had set in withher and that is what caused that
.
Everybody knows about Bertieand my granddaughter and that
she is here.
We keep her all the time andFiona's routine changed when
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Bertie was here.
Yep, and that's that's what itboils down to.
Then, when you really start tothink about it and you start to
pay attention to which, you goback to human situations, when
you think, oh, my goodness, Inever knew that this person was
a hardcore alcoholic.
Or you realize it after they'veadmitted themselves or after
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somebody has committed suicide,or then you start to really
start looking back and thinking,man, I didn't notice this, I
didn't notice the signs, thepatterns, the oh shit there was,
was there more that I couldhave done?
And you start to go, and that'swhat happened here.
We went back, we analyzed herum change when different people
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were here, when Birdie was here,different one animal here, one
animal gone, dolce, yes, andblah, blah, blah, and, and
that's exactly what it was.
So, um, you, obviously you, youmake adjustments, you, you
change things, you figure outwhat is best for you.
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The animal, Um Fiona is we didnot put her down, by the way so,
um, she, she's in a very, avery, very good place.
She is where she can eitherfigure it out in a rehab
situation, um, or she can't.
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So what happens in those?
Like with most dogs, most Mostdogs by the city, they'll make
you put them down after anincident like that, after a
quarantine to make sure thatthey're not aggressive, and all
the things.
And Fiona's had an opportunityto where.
That's not a consideration atthis point, because she's gotten
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moved to a property where shehas the ability to be more in a
natural environment To thinkabout her choices, yeah, to
think about her choicesSeriously.
I mean, yeah, she's very muchin a rehab facility, but it's a
non-kill shelter, if you will,very one-on-one.
It's a non kill shelter, verywell, very one-on-one, um, but
she, I was thinking that one,because you know me and animals
(21:04):
and everybody deserves a secondchance.
And what have you and what?
It was?
Four or five days later, I wasgoing to grab a pair of keys and
she came at the cage and cameat me and I knew at that point I
was there.
There's no, there's no way.
There's no way, there's no way.
I mean it's, it's, she's alwaystough Cause, especially too.
I mean, yeah, it's an animal,but you get to know their
(21:26):
personality and it's a part ofyour family and it's it's
another being that you've bondedwith.
It's also the same kind offeeling when you have to,
unfortunately, send a person torehab or to distance.
The decisions are never.
They don't get any friendshipor something.
You have to make sure thatyou're doing what's best for
yourself right, as well aswhat's best for the other person
(21:50):
in the entire group that you'resurrounding yourself with, and
you have to.
Sometimes it is a hard decision.
I mean a breakup a, a strangefriendship, a rehoming of a pet.
It's all shitty, shitty.
I was going to say the samething.
It's all shitty, it sucks.
It never gets any better.
(22:10):
It sucks every single time.
But you can't, you can't riskyourself, you can't risk your
children, you're, you can't.
It's.
You've got to do what's bestfor the animal, you've got to do
what's best for your family,your life, your yeah.
And when something like thathappens, when they do turn, I
(22:34):
mean watching her lick my fleshand blood off of her and the way
she was looking at me was likenothing.
I mean it's literally somethingyou see on freaking National
Geographic in the wild.
You know it's a sense ofbetrayal, yes, whereas animals
don't necessarily have that samefeeling.
They can be some sort of likedogs, know when you're upset,
(22:55):
and they can be empathetic andthings like that, but it's a
sense of I loose.
I mean hard for humansinteracting with animals, right,
because there is thatcommunication barrier where it's
like why did you do what youdid?
Right, we could have talkedabout this, right, you know
that's.
But then you go back and youthink, look, how many freaking
humans do you know what I meanexactly?
After you have a conversation,after you do whatever humans and
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animals, both can be sounpredictable and you, you have
a conversation or after you dowhatever Humans and animals,
both can be so unpredictable andyou don't know.
No, and you do have to keepyour guard up at all times.
There's that one freaking showwhere you go into the prisons
and you're talking to them andthey're just like well, this is
what I did and I don't give youshit.
I needed a couple dollars, mygrandma, and she didn't give it
to me, so I stabbed her 70,000times.
(23:36):
Wait what?
So many people will ask me whatmade her do that?
What makes people do things onsnap?
Jealousy is a big thing.
People have jealousy all thetime.
Animals have the same thing.
(23:58):
They just don't know how toregulate it in the same way.
Yeah, but here we are.
Nick survived.
She's doing well.
She's been.
We're still working on herrehab, um, but, yeah, she's
therapy sessions.
She's doing so good, yep, yep,it was good, we survived it and
(24:21):
we're still doing it.
I still have good, stillvisiting cowboys.
It's really weird, yeah, likewhere this big chunk is here.
I mean it always Nose injuriesare the worst.
Yeah, because it always lookslike I'm picking my nose and I'm
like no, but right, oh, andthen she got me.
It was like this way in her ear, yeah, and I'm like, no, but
right, oh.
And then she got me.
It was like this way in her ear, yeah, yeah, yeah, completely,
I'm talking.
I think she was trying to crawlin my eardrum, I'm not real
(24:44):
sure, but it's your brain.
I mean it was so bad.
She got pretty fucking close.
I mean, yeah, when he was like,oh, it's to the bone, and I was
(25:06):
like unsuccessful lobotomy, yeah, and then he says what we're
looking for here is for you toactually get feeling.
You may never, ever feel againlike I got the botox, anyways,
it's.
I mean, what do you mean?
So I'm trying not to move thatmuscle either.
Am I really one guy's gonna beup here?
I'm gonna look like the j Jokerfor the rest of my life.
No, jen will fix it, she'llbalance it out.
Oh, my god, it's all good, jenwill balance it out, yeah, but
it's good.
So now I'm walking around withmy Chinese star on my forehead.
(25:27):
Tell them what Ruben told you.
Oh, so I have not.
This is the best thing I'veever had in my life.
I've not worn makeup at allsince since the deal I keep.
He's like sunblocks, sunblocks,sunblock.
I'm like I our tour is calledSPF 90 tour, sunblock, the
arsenic for the scarring and allthat.
You know, whatever.
Yeah, you're preaching me tothe wrong person.
I get it.
So I go um.
(25:50):
Last weekend we're with Kojo andum at the venue at the concert
and they run into a super coolguy that we met through mick and
uh, ruben and ruben.
Oh my god, he's amazing.
I just this dude's energy andhis soul in your pocket.
Yes, what I've told ever.
(26:10):
The first day I met him I waslike look, this may embarrass
you, I don't, I don't care, butI said I just want to put you in
my pocket and take youeverywhere I go, because he is
the.
You cannot be sad, depressed,whatever.
This dude is the best, I mean.
He is so good, his energy isphenomenal, such a good head on
your shoulders too.
Such a good person, so genuine.
(26:32):
And we're sitting there, we'revisiting and we're talking,
catching up on things, and Isaid I would just ignore my
thing on my face I was in anaccident and he looks at me just
dead straight in the eye and hegoes.
Honestly, I really didn'tnotice it.
I just thought it was part ofyour costume.
He's so cute I didn't think Icould love him anymore, and I
was like only you would say mycostume, it's the vibe, it's the
(26:56):
aesthetic, it's the whole thing.
It was so cute.
To be fair, though, when I sawthe pictures from the event that
y'all went to, you were wearinga hat and it was kind of
steampunk-ish.
It was very steampunk-ish, yeah.
So I was like, okay,steampunk-ish, steampunk-ish,
ste.
So when he said that I cantotally see that coming from him
(27:17):
, yeah, but he meant it sogenuinely, so cute, and that's
exactly how I would have takenit Part of your get up, part of
your aura, part of your vibe.
It's all the same as how hemeant it, but it was.
So I just laughed my ass offwhenever he was like, oh, I just
thought it was part of yourcostume.
And he told me that that wasthe best thing ever.
Yeah, because, yeah, because Ihad texted her earlier and I was
like, hey, I actually havemakeup on.
And she was like, wait, what,how did you do it?
(27:38):
And I was like, well, I kind ofwhat I did was just because I
always put my sunblock on, for,like today, I have my sunblock
on, but I will.
I figured out that if I takealcohol and rub, like this,
around the makeup, yeah, andthen put my strips on, they
stick better.
But yeah, because that makeupand the sunscreen makes a
barrier on your skin.
Yeah, just kind of slide, itjust comes off.
(27:59):
But that silicone stuff that Ihave to put on there is keep it.
It doesn't like to stick tothat.
So I kind of go around thesilicone so it actually will
stay underneath there and thenadhere, like on the outskirts,
yeah, which seems to be.
You saw it a couple of days ago.
It seems to be, seems to beworking, but so I don't bust my
(28:20):
Steri-Strips out.
She was laughing the entire carride to get to the hospital
because I was in such a panic IfI wasn't so out of it I would
have been pissed that you werelaughing at me so much.
I was like this is not alaughing matter.
I'm going to show the video.
Do you want to get into a wreckon the way down there?
It's so good.
I didn't have stary strips onuntil they took the stitches out
(28:42):
.
I laughed for like seven days.
She's just over here with herlittle headband thing going on.
Then we got to the PBR.
I just had stitches all over myface.
Then I'm on leakage duty, whichis gross.
Add that to my resume now.
That was gross.
That was really gross.
I'm going to go to the bar andget you another napkin.
You got a little something.
I could feel it running down myface.
(29:04):
And then it was nasty weather.
When we were there too, it washumid and sweaty.
And then the swelling ran downmy head, and so then I woke up
and I was like Nick, do you seesomething right here?
And she's like oh my, yeah,your face, your face bubble.
So yeah, like the fluid andgravity.
I mean, it makes sense, butwhen you're experiencing it you
don't know those kind of thingsyou're thinking to think.
(29:24):
You're like, oh my god, my faceis infected.
Yeah, oh my god, I gotta callspecial pain.
He's like I got a tooth stuckin my face.
You need to sleep with yourhead up and your arms in the air
.
Okay, so we're going to fiesta,texas.
I was about to say six flags,sea world.
Where are we going go?
I'm here for it.
I mean, I already got stitchesin my face.
What else could go wrong?
Might as well bust a coupleshit, yep, but anyways.
(29:49):
So that's why I have this partof my costume has has grown to
my face and we're all doing well.
And we replaced the dreads withthe steri strips.
We did oh yeah, it's the newlook.
I did have to take the dreadsout because they stayed in there
and when they were flush andeverything, I had saline water
and whatever.
When I would bend my head overto put my dreads in a ponytail,
(30:13):
they were crunchy, they were,but it would pop my forehead
open.
Oh, from all the weight ofeverything.
Oh, yep, I didn't even thinkabout that, oh, yeah.
So every time I would bend myhead over and I would pull it up
right here.
You think you're pulling?
Well, I'm pulling this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pullingthis.
You're giving yourself afacelift.
That's what they do.
The slicked back ponies, foryeah, I was like, oh no, so,
(30:36):
yeah, no, I took those out so myforehead could heal.
But yeah, yeah, so we survivedanother day in the life of the
shit show.
I finally survived.
I finally feel like I got myfeet back underneath me, got
your groove back.
That was a lot of emotions, alot of things going on at the
(30:59):
same time.
It was a lot.
You know, I like my bedtime, mychill time, my couch time, my
nothing's happening time.
Right Doesn't happen oftenaround you, thank God, jesus.
So now we recapped it.
We told the world I survived.
I didn't pass out during theretelling.
No, my face is kind of hot.
I told the world I survived.
I didn't pass out during theretelling.
(31:19):
No, my face is kind of hot.
I said the F word a couple oftimes, because that's when you
lose your mind.
Oh yeah, I don't think YouTubeblocks you for that one.
I think it's just the foot Flap.
There you go, cut, cut.
There's one for good keepingGood, good and cut Cut.
(31:41):
There's one for good keepingGood, good, good measures.
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