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Eight hundred and four O nine ninety three, ninety three.
You forgot you signed up for it, it's now happened,
and what was it? What shocked you?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You know? You in the past? What future you? And
quite the predicament. We're live on ninety three three FLZ
and jed kind of crazy that this happened?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What are you gonna do? So I'm not sure exactly
what to do. So back in college, I had done
one of those things where you sign up for a
bone marrow transplant because I thought it was a great
thing to do. I saw I thought it was I
saw so many documentaries on how how it helped people. Well,
I got a phone call that I thought was kind
of interesting, and they said, hey, would you still be
(00:44):
interested in donating your bone marrow? I said, what does
it entail? What do I have to do? I did, like,
take a bunch of medication, I have to undergo a surgery,
do this, that and the other. And I don't have
a problem doing it necessarily because but you do need
two weeks of rest time and recovery. So while I
would like to do it, I just don't know if
(01:05):
I really have the time for the two weeks because
we're so busy with the show and I don't want
to and I want to put the show first.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You're talking about two weeks off.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, I got to have two weeks off, and I
know it. I don't have enough vacation.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
He had enough vacation. You figure it out. To save
a life, something about it. To save a life. You
can't take two weeks off to save a life.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It would it would really affect my life. Yeah, come in.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We didn't say that he couldn't broadcast from his bed.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh that's true. I could work from home exactly. He
can work from home. I'm working from home. No, But I.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Completely forgot that I signed up for this thing. This
had to been seven years ago now, and the fact
that I'm just getting a call back from it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Of it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, is that really what it is? Yeah? So they
take a big needle and they put it in your
butt bone.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, they put it in like your tailbone, and then
they extract the own marrow and you're supposed to donate
with people who have I think it's leukemia. I'm not
one hundred percent that assured. The exact disease is that it? Oh,
this is for people with cancer, people with cancer. You
got to do a buddy, Yeah, you gotta do it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
What did you talk to them and say.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I told them that they need an answer by the
end of the month, so I have some sometime.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That really, I mean I have blood type. Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
The reason why I was a candidate for Joe's because
I'm I'm a Type O negative, which means I'm a
universal donor, which is kind of what is a double
edge so sword, because I can donate blood to everybody here,
but I have to have a specific blood type to
donate to me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you know the person who would be getting it
it is? Find out who it is? Somebody don't say
their name. No, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I don't think they tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
They don't want to know. They just tell you the
location of where the person is. They're in the United States.
You're good luck finding them. Well you find out, you
find out who it is after they do that.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I don't She didn't have a bone mirror, but she
had a liver transmit and she didn't find out who
it was until I want to say, like months later.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But yeah, oh you gotta find out. That'd be so
much fun to then like talk to the person who
does this save a life? What does it do? They
need it because their bones are are.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We because they have like a bad disease that infects
their blood or in their bone marrow essentially.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And what we we are consistently making bone marrow or
when they take this out of you, you don't have
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
No, you consistently make bone marrow.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No kidding? Interesting, Yeah, man should have led with the
C word. You definitely need to help this person, do
you think so?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, I mean you should be.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Can you imagine if they call you and they're like, hey,
can you someone has cancer, they're dying, they need this,
and you're like, I'm.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Good, I gotta go to work.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I've never been a candidate to donate anything though, Like, no.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't sign up for anything.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
No, are you a donor on your license?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
No, Say what else could you donate?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You can donate your organs too, Like if there's a
family member in need, I have it.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Donates a lot. Didn't you do Plasma College?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah? I donated, but but I got paid and love
Goo you didn't love good. I didn't do that. Yeah
you did the record, I know you did only once. Oh, Chris,
you're saying that this might be a great idea. Jed's
got a call asking if he'll donate bone marrow, and
you say, this is a great opportunity to get even
(04:35):
more vacation days. Your work gives you more vacation days
for doing this. Yeah, well, you sort of you. If
you don't have enough, you can get people to donate
PTO hours that they may have. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Am I running all don't look at me.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I ain't doing that a certain amount of Maybe if
you put the word out and they allow it, you know,
you get several people to donate some hours, and then
you have enough to do what you want to do.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I know people did that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I'll tell you there any Different places of work have
different types of incentives and rules and whatnot. We gotta
we got a fun up hours, Like what are our
fun unique ones that we have here? I don't think
that we have any like I kind of wanna.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I don't know, because some people have unlimited pts switch
things up.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Thank you, Chris, by the way, I appreciate it. Sarah,
you say Jed should definitely do this, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He should definitely do it. I had a liver transplant,
and unfortunately my donor was deceased, but a year from
my transplant, I may get the opportunity if his family
wishes to to know the family, and I would be
so grateful for that opportunity. So if you know, if
the donor wants to thank Jed later, he would get
(05:52):
the opportunity to know whose life he saved, and that
would just be such an amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh my god. Could you imagine if you guys meet
each other and then you start talking to him, in
like two minutes into the conversation, you realize he's a
mega racist and then you're like the RAS.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And I got to put that on the paperwork.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, you gotta look into that. You gotta look into that. Unbelievable,
I think, slimy. I don't know. There's always a chance.
Thank you, Sarah Kyler.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Hey guys, how are y'all doing this?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
More fantastic Kyler, This is a big deal for you. You
tell Jed why he should definitely do.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
This, because he is correct. It is things like leukemia,
blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, stuff like that, but it's also
bone marrow diseases that happen that literally attack just people's
bone marrow, as well as immune system diseases, even things
like sickle cell. There are so many things that donating
(06:58):
bone marrow can help someone live a full and complete life.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You're a bad person if you don't do that. Now
I know, I gotta do it. Unbelievable, all right, Kyler,
thank you so much for sharing that, and uh yeah,
we'll continue to get updates on that. That's kind of
not fair, but whatever. Well, you could do it, Joe,
I could.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, I could swap your mouth.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Could do it.
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