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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firms Minute Morning show. You know, I thought being gone
for six weeks things would change its better. Nothing has
changed the record. It was almost seven It's exact exact
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it was. It's exactly the same, the same arguments. I'm
gonna be honest. I was worried for you to come
back too soon because I was like, he's going to
walk into this ship show and he's going to get stress.
You know when when the doctors were talking to me,
they say you've got to eliminate stress, and you're like,
because stress can seriously affect your recovery. I don't know
if I should really go back to work at all.
But did you honestly think about not returning based off
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of what the doctor said? No, I definitely wanted to return,
but I know I need to change things how I
do things because it's very stressful, and you know the
stress that we all go through to do this this
show every day, even just waking up. I think that's
half of the stress. A lot of stress on your body.
And I didn't think you were coming back at all.
Why now I heard there was a lot of rumors.
Kathleen thinks I was going to go to get my
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m b A and not come back, and and somebody said, uh,
I don't know who said I won the lottery or something.
You and Heather are we're getting eloped in Vegas and
you're moving back to California to start your life out there.
Originally you were coming back, you said first week of March.
So when you didn't, the joke was, oh, he's still interviewing. Yeah. Great.
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Speculation was he's gonna come back for a couple of days,
and then announced, give us two weeks and I'm gonna
throw a goodbye party for I felt when someone when
when someone is away from their job for quite for
a significant amount of time, like you were, and go
through what you went through, I felt like that person
kind of like you know, has new perspective on life
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and what they want to do. Maybe they want to travel,
they want to live, they want to do different things,
and that you know, coming back to work is not
necessarily the thing that you want to do. I agree
with him. I thought you would be gone. I don't
think you come back. I definitely thought about that. I
don't know absolutely, because you're away from this, you know,
that's the longest I've been away from work since I
was probably twenty two. And you're away from work for
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that long and you start to think about life and
what's next and what you could be doing with your life,
because you it's time. Whether you're at work or you're
doing something fun, or you're recovering on the couch watching Netflix,
it's all time, and you decide to do what you
want with it. And I think that's why people bounce
back even stronger if they're out of a job. Let's
say you get fired from a job, a job that
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you've put up with for years that you've always wanted
to quit but never had the balls too, and then
you finally get fired. And then you're sitting there and
a few weeks later you're like, oh my god, a
bigger door just opened from me. Why would I worry
about this all that time? It sounds like a bad relationship.
At which point made did you have that? Like? I mean,
because you went through something that was very scary, you know,
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something they do every single day, but you know it's
still scary. So now you're recovering in your home. Did
you at any time say you know, life is fast,
life is quick? Maybe I should do different things. I'll
tell you. Everybody is different and I know, uh well,
I'll tell the story. So the first day that I
woke up in the hospital, I was in the I
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c U. And I was just miserable all night because
you know, you got this incision and there's pain and
tubes and wires coming out of every part of your body.
And at seven or eight when they allow visitors in
to see you, uh, I was in such pain and
such misery that my mom and dad walk in and
my girlfriend, the three people that I probably love more
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than anybody in the world, and I said, just get out,
I don't want to see you right now because I
was in such I'm that I was in such I
was so miserable and in so much pain. I didn't
even want to see these three people. Were they insulted? No,
because they saw the pain on my face, and they
saw the tubes and the like bloodstains stuff and everything,
and they knew I wasn't comfortable, so they left. But
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over time, I'm the kind of person I don't like
people to worry about me, and that's probably why I
didn't reach out to you, guys. I just don't like
people fussing over me. I hate it, but you gotta
be honest. We worried a little more when you don't answer.
But you never responding like everybody sent like their heartfelt
text messages. Everyone thought you just turned on us and
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was like, that's it. He hates us and that's why
Grant has started speculating, goes, dude, he's not returning our
text he's problem. He's just like setting us up for
the future future without When his girlfriend had to start
returning text messages, there were people saying, maybe you had
to carbon monoxide poison both dead, Like, well, we understand
why he's not returning messages, but she must be dead
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because we're begging her to return a message and she wouldn't. Um,
that didn't happen. But when do you have the coming
to light? So here let me continue. So, you know,
in in pushing people away, when I was recovering, as
you push people way, and this is introspection that I
came to this realization. You realized that, um, you know,
when you push them away, you're scared to pull them
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back in, right, And so in that alone time, I
started to think about all these things about if I
wanted to go back to work if I wanted to
do something different with my life. And and you realize that,
you know, I'm getting to a certain age where you
don't have as much time left as if as you've
already spent on this earth. So I started to think
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about all the things I wanted to do, and then
I realized, with physical limitations, can I even do them?
And then I got even more depressed, and so it's
it's no, it's tough, you know. And I did definitely
have that realization. And then when I realized the six
weeks I said I needed was almost up, I'm like, well, Ship,
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I have to go back to work. And at first
I was like, I have to go back to work,
and I'm still not ready mentally. And then two days
before I it was I think. I listened to some
of the show and I'm like, you know what, I'm
kind of excited to go back, and the day before
I was even more excited. And then on the way here,
I was very excited to come back and see you guys.
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So I think you have to get closer to something
that you love in order to realize how much you
miss it, because when you're far away from it, it's
very hard to to feel that. So ask you a question.
While coming to all these realizations, did you kind of
come up with some bucketless stuff that accomplished No, I
made a listen, it's it's private. You know there's things,
but I think get a less stressful job. No, I think,
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and you know, I think one of those things, and
I was putting it into practice today is I just
want to be nicer because I realized in the job
that I've had. And Brodie, I know you probably dealt
with this over the last few weeks. You have so
much stacked and piled on you that you lash out
at people. Brody enjoy doing your job because he could
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tell people know, and you know, listen know as part
of the job, I love to tell people yes. But
every once in a a while you have to say no.
And I think all of those times I had to
say no became negatives for me. And I was tired
of being negative, and I think that was starting to
take over. And I think that's probably why I had
What happened happened. And I'm just keeping things in perspective,
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and I want to make sure that I don't want
to dump things on other people. But I want to
make sure other people are fulfilled in doing what they're
doing and spread out some of the things that I've
been carrying on my shoulders because I know other people
can handle them. And at the same time, I don't.
Nobody needs that much stress and we're all here. And
that's the other thing I realized. I was so happy
that things worked out the way they did. I didn't
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want I'm not like one of those people when I
take time off from work. Oh God, I hope they
missed me. I hate I hope things get all left up.
I didn't want that because I know that you guys
don't want that. You know, this is a this is
a living breathing all of these fourteen fifteen people working here,
and moving one person out shouldn't have that effect, but
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I did. I don't know so much so that Greg
t tattled on me one day he had to go
behind my back. Problem resolved. I'm like, what the hell
are you doing a meeting? I forgot about that? You really? Yeah,
we had a major sitdown. It was Elvis Brody, Scary
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and Sam Right and four just just us in the room,
and I had to like, legitimately talent scary. It was
really hardy brother that went to mom. It was really
Daddy wasn't around. He wasn't around. You never knew about
And I got the from Elvis Brody fixed us. It
was it was and it was hard for me and
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I didn't want to tell him, but I hadn't. He
would only talk to me through other people because of it.
It was hard. That's this, That's the thing. I mean,
this show is more family than I think I my
own family is right, Yeah, you have personalities that need
to be balanced and counterbalanced in a certain way that
other people aren't upset, and so it's difficult sometimes, but
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that's that's the road we've chosen, and that's this show,
and so we have to deal with it and and
every once in a while it does. It was Mommy
or Daddy. It was awkward. But I mean the thing
we're not gonna go into it now, but I mean
Elvis had to know what was going on, and we listen,
Elvis has got his own things going on. Any time
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that we have issues around the Morning Show, we all
work it out ourselves. We never go to Elvis for
petty things like we didn't, yes, but we agreed that
this had gone on so long that we had no choice.
Don't go to Elvis on this. We so Scary when
that needed to be addressed. When that meaning was called,
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did you have any idea what you were walking into?
A a punch in the fire. But the thing I
also learned is sometimes you have stuff come up in
your life that you have to deal with and you
might not like it, but you have to do it
and it's just gonna make things easier. I said, this
problem had been going on for like a year at least,
but they waited till you were out to bring this
problem to the front, forefront, so I had to deal
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with it. Well, let me ask you guys all something,
this issue, this thing that happened was t ultimately in
the right, and you were being a jerk and this
needed to get done. He's been talking about a question.
It was miscommunication. It's a good thing the ball was
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rubber because Scary dropped it. Alright. One thing I want
to learn from from your surgery. So right before you
went in, you showed a picture on Instagram of a
Teddy Bear that your your mom brought. Did your mom
bring the Teddy Bearer back home? Are you still holding
onto you still have it? Have it name? Uh, it's Hammett, Harry.
Hammett was the hospital and Harry was the u are
was the name they gave this bear that they gave
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to all of the cardiac pediatric cardiac cases and kept
it all all these years. Yeah, and so she got me,
uh side the surgery of Columbia, and so she got
me Columbia Colin which is a cow and uh no,
so I have the matching pair. But it's no, it's
I'll tell you that moment when they come and get you,
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it's uh, it's it's not like you're expecting it, right.
You're sitting there with your family, You're in the prep room,
and then all of a sudden that doctors shows up
and so it says you're ready to go, like that's it,
and you realize like this is it and then they
The funniest part is when they give you the you
think like, I don't know if this is gonna work,
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if this may not put me to slate. Yeah. The
last thing I remember anybody's saying anything, okay, just to
take a couple of deep breaths, and then then I
wake up four hours later. I just remember talking, and
then they said, did you get your cheese burger? Did
you get your white? So that what are you talking about?
The last thing you said before you went to sleep
was how you wanted like I did when I had
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my a c L done. I was expecting that like
they do in the movies, you get wheeled into the
e R. But for me, they're like, no, just walk
into the room and hop up on the table. What
do you where's the person? I walked in and got
up on the table. So the guys giving me the
had I've had three surgeries in the past three years,
so not the last one on my elbow, but the
time before that on my wrist. I laid down. He goes,
we're just gonna start the the stuff to knock you out.
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I go, oh, before you do that. The nurse told
me I had to tell you something very important. And
then that's awesome. I love that good cliffhanger. I will
say though the entire time I knew you spent overnights
in the hospital. Right, did you ever have a spongebath? No?
I didn't. Anybody ever has a spongeb Yeah they are
not all they're made out in the movie. Nurse come
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in Robert Kraft paid a hundred bucks. I wish I
paid more. I mean it was the most pathetic experience
because when you have a sponge bath, you really can't
do anything for yourself. You can't move your arms or anything.
And I had tubes and wires coming out every part
of my body, and the nurse just like, Okay, I'm
gonna do a sponge bath, and I'm like, you really
don't have to. He goes, no, you'll feel better once
we wipe you down. You don't feel better because it
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says lukewarm rag that they just kinda like wipe up
and down on your legs and then they take this
rough ast towel and then dry you off. Wash. It's
it's like car wash, and they don't get the parts
of your body that need washing. The undercara. Well here's
the other thing. You don't have good medical cover. You
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lose your shame real quick in the hospital because they
try and keep you presentable. So anytime they need to
move a wire or tube or anything, they always put
this thing over your crotch. And after about three times,
because they spend so much time moving the blankets and things,
I'm like, I don't care. You can all look at
my pain is I am fine with this and you
just do not care at all. You're like you're in
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so much pain and misery that you just like, you
know what, just do whatever, you don't, I don't care,
Just do it. Are you sick of jello? Uh? Yeah?
The jello yellow? The thing, you know, And the thing
is you don't have an appetite after you do something
like that, so you take like two bites and then
you're done. It doesn't you know, any food they give
you doesn't matter how bad it is. You're not gonna
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eat it anywhere. Are you sick of us yet? No? Miss?
What was it? What was the night before? Like, like,
did you have a nice moment with the other and
you know she actually gave me ship for that because
she goes, you didn't write me a note or anything.
Did you have you might die sex? Did we? We
had it the night before because my parents were intent.
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We couldn't, you know, you gotta have you might die sex?
But going to sleep the night before and I actually
went right out. Really yeah, I couldn't optimist. I'm glad.
I'm happy. Back to the fifteen minute morning show, M