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February 12, 2026 15 mins
After learning about the passing of James Van Der Beek, Thor had a very sentimental moment with his son and decided that he needed to start taking care of his health and any preventable measures to make sure he sees his son grow up

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, I am surprised that Thor is even here today.
He is dealing with an extreme loss for this guy.
Yesterday we found out the news that James Vanderbeek is
no longer with us Dawson from Dawson's Creek, which is

(00:21):
one of Thor's favorite shows of all time. And I
knew this would affect you.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's a fact.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, multiple reasons.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
This affects me. Okay, I don't even know how'm gonna speak.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, oh no, this isn't a bit. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, you were when I saw the tmzaler yesterday. You
were the first person I.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thought, Oh, did you text him?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
No? Oh, well, because I knew it, are you?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, first person he thought of it? And then you didn't
text me? You thinking about I mean, what the hell?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Just gotten home with his son, And I knew this
was gonna make him so sad. Okay, I like literally
didn't want me the one to break the news.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
We'll take you back to the summer of two thousand
and three, young Thor paralyzed waist down? What paralyzed from
the waist down? I had a aneurysm in my back.
I was told I was never going to walk again.
Burst right, burst. This is a true story.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Sounds like an episode of Dawson's Creek. Very special.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
It could be a very special episode. I had emergency surgery.
They told me I probably would never walk again, and
if I did, have like a cane, like a walker.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It was a sad time. Woke up an ice.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's what you named your son?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Walker?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
How you do have one?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now? I have a little walker. Woke up in the ice?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yes, Sky, come on, I mean you're the one who
said it.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I mean, woke up in the ICU. You ever been
in the icy U?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
S guy, you.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Have intensive care unit. I don't believe so.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I don't know the zip it.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, okay, wait, I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Okay, well something the stages of grief. I believe one
of the first stages is anger. So I'm just not
going to take it personal.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Today I could move a toe.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
You finally were able to I'm glad you find that
funny that I couldn't move anything on my body except
for a toe. Yeah, yeah, it was a great sign.
I mean, okay, I don't think. I don't think we
were out of the woods yet when I moved my toe.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
What I'm saying that was a joyous giggle because I
was happy.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, no, go ahead. Continue in two thousand.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
And three and June two thousand and three.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
So what goes on in the summer is baseball season, baseball,
hang out, friends.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Playing well four at what was? I fifteen?

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Couldn't do any of that? I was told I was
able to. I was slowly able to start walking again.
Kind of just rehab do any of that. No, I
didn't know physical therapies, not really, not until later on.
They kind of just wanted me. I was very skinny though,
and I was it was very hard to walk and
stood up straight.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
They confuse you of the cane.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now okay, oh we got joke maker, choke maker the
way you.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I didn't know what to do with myself.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
I was very depressed, and on TBS they started showing
episodes of Dawson's Creek Wow Wow, and I fell in
love and I loved it. And at that time also
DVD box collections were huge, so I went to well,
I forced my mom because I was too embarrassed to

(03:36):
go to best Buy and buy me the first four.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Seasons of Creak.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
And she she never my mom would never do something
like this, spend money, but her son was just paralyzed,
so she did it.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
That was nice of her.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
And I guess I binged it before binging was ever
a thing.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, and uh.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Honestly got me through that summer creak. It gave me.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
It was like I had like friends, Emily, you know
what I'm talking about with your friends on TV.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
It's the same thing. The series company it.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Got It gave me company. It gave me.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
It gave me some God, you know, I love hot
gossips and trauma. You do, did you, Joey Dawson Pacey.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Did you relate to a certain character more than the
other one?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I was obsessed with Joey Joey clearly.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I want to name my daughter Joey if I ever
have a daughter. Katie Holmes's character.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
I did think it was a little wild looking back,
that Pacey was like fifteen.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Hooking up with like the English teacher.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh he was.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
Yeah, it's pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's on Netflix now, guys. It's a pretty wild show.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Did you have you rewatched it?

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Because and like Joey and Dawson like their friends and
they like sleep together in the bedroom, yea, and their
parents were okay with them.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, but they're not together though, they're just buddies.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's kind of crazy to think that Michelle Williams was
on that show, you know, Academy Award winning actress.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, and so was Sky's favorite, Busy Phillips. That being said, though,
she kind of ruined the show and they went to
the college years and s. That does make sense.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
He's five and six and that's good. I left the creek.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
So not only will you deep in Dawson's Creek, I
know you're also a major fan of the film Varsity
Blues a classic.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh, I mean, it's one of my first It's one
of my first favorite movies.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
You don't believe it. You don't believe it's classic, A
classic Varsity.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Blues, Well, I mean, I guess, I guess.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean sorry, it's weird science.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
That is also a classic. Different I don't want wow
with Marx just in here.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's what I believe.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You'll the impression I can do.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
It's really good.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Categories of classics.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's up there with any movie nineties classics, there with
any movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Okay, a team classic. But if you just say classic.
I'm thinking, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
We have to quantify its rude. It's up there with
today's guy.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
She's all that American pie, American pie two.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
We don't need to mention American pie.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Twould be nice.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
If Emily would have honored Dawson today or James Vanderbrika
should say whether it a nice whipped cream bikini scene.

Speaker 7 (06:14):
That nice seeing that back, then send Jamie for sure,
send Jamie down there.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
All you'll do it.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay, from what I hear, I've never tried it, but
from what I hear, it doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Just slides off you because you're.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Is so warm that it just slides off.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Its very slimy.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Sad thing though.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Three people from that cast are dead, Paul Walker and
the guy who played Billy Bob.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh, that's right, Billy Bob who called into this show
one time. We were talking about about Varsity blues, and
out of the blue, this guy called Billy Bob.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Said, that's how that went down there.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Like we didn't, we didn't ask why we were just
talking about Varsits blues for some random reason gets the
classics and he called in. Wow, yeah, he was like listening.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
And we didn't believe him at first, so we made
the phone screener like quiz him and make sure it
was like really him, because.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
He just didn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, wild, I don't know, quest like that.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know, but it was him. They were just
leaving the strip club with their teacher. Oh and then
he called.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh it was great crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah. So yeah, I knew that this was going to
affect you in a very tough way.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah, I mean I knew. I knew he was sick. Yeah,
everyone knew.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
He said he didn't get to go to that Dawson's
Creek when he looked pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Remember how bad that was? Really sad.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
He knew, knew that this wasn't that was what was
what November or October?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
The reunion?

Speaker 2 (07:40):
The re union?

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah it was last year.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh yeah, because it was it was twenty twenty four
when he announced, you know, publicly, that he had cancer.
So he's been battling for a couple of years.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
So I started Actually I just sat and thought I
was in my own thought yesterday with this. I was
really upset, and I started thinking, you know you, I, uh,
he didn't pop in a DVD of Dawston. I couldn't
do it kidding me.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm not ready. I'm not ready.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
You know he competed on Dancing with the Stars. Oh no, I.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Saw that.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Alfonso Ribby Arrow is one of his the godfathers of
his kids. Yeah, one of the Yeah what Carlton.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I kept I kept seeing his name pop up, saying
a true friend brother.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
You would think he would have done better with Emma
obviously as his partner, Emma Slater anyway. Yeah, I just
expected more. He was like mid mid Carter.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
But I wouldn't expect much. He doesn't look like you.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Know, whoa whoa.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Week.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Oh my god, I'm just I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Is not a classic, not a good.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
He wasn't ripping up the dance floor.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I mean, you're awful. I don't think this man is
is in pain right now. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
So this got me thinking a lot because I have
a son now, and I just he was forty eight.
I just he's Sky's age. Yeah, and I'm just I
can't imagine being gone in nine years. I can look
at it, my son I got I may have I
may have teared up.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
What is your son? Well?

Speaker 5 (09:17):
I just imagine in nine years if I passed and
I don't get to see him grow up. Oh my god,
why would that happen? So then I started freaking out
and I started doing a lot of.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Reassearch you're freaking out about what are you doing?

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Research on colon?

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Coorectal cancer has become a killer for people from thirty
nine to fifty.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's starting to get people younger and younger and younger
and younger's forty five.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I thought forty five was when you start getting colon
screenings in.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
But they but but because of that a lot of
people are getting it younger and younger and younger. My
wife has two friends, one was in their twenties, one
was in the thirties who both died of coorectal.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Is that right? Square?

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (09:50):
So I am proactive, James Vanner, because maybe proactive. I
have reached out to my doctor.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
You already have.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh, And I said that I will I request sting. Okay,
but you know I called my dad tell him yeah,
and my dad croud no. I said just what I'm
gonna do? And my dad goes, oh, you should I go?
Why he goes, because me and your grandfather both have polps?
Oh I will I didn't know that now really freaking okay.

(10:19):
I mean it doesn't mean they have cancers. Aren't good though, bro,
but they remove them, and I was they'll remove them.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's what I need. I'm going you don't know if
you have.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Them Robert had last time.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I mean it's very it's very common. But if you
don't get him removed, they could turn.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I don't need it, don't need it.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't know that I've ever heard somebody like kind
of excited for a colon as.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I just want to be clear. I just want to
be clear.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm not going to be no statistic and what I
because James Vandermin is doing in honor of j v
D JVBA, can you call James or Dawson yea, yeah,
it's it's it's been. It's been a tough day. You
guys think I'm joking. I held my son and cried yesterday.

(11:09):
That's a true story.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, James vanderbyat kids, six kids.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
I can't thinking he kept he was he was sleeping
on me, and I'm like, what happens if I'm going
to see.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
This little guy grow up?

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I don't know. These are things that I don't think
the waterfalls.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
My wife walked in and looked at me, like, why
are you crying? And I told her and she went,
You're an idiot.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Appreciate that, my child, Emily.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is this a sort of the same feeling you got
when Luke Perry and when did Luke Perry dive?

Speaker 6 (11:40):
Absolutely? I mean that was a hard one.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
I think it was.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
I'm not sure it was it was leukemia, Yeah, I
might think anyone else.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
I threw that out there. Yeah, I mean hit me
a heart stroke?

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh god, okay, all right, it.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Hit me hard. I mean, but I don't I don't
even know if it hit me this hard. I don't
know if I was this affected tears. I teared up, absolutely,
but I don't know if it was.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
Oh are you are you hanging out with Dawson up
there right now?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
His name is James vander Bacon. What do you think
this is funny? Funny? Emily?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
I mean, I'm clearly upset about it.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
I just thought you'd welcome him up there the Pearly Gates.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, we br hugged.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
Nice one of those.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, but you know we were on different shows.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Yeah, it's a different time, but I feel like still
like the nineties.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
A couple of heart throbs for sure, heart throps.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Competitive support one another. No, no, okay.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Now, Thorn.

Speaker 7 (12:37):
Did Dawson ever have to choose like Dylan did between
Brenda and Kelly?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
No, Joey, did you idiot? Joey had? That was too far?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
That was to Dawson and pay.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
Failing around for the summer right.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
She's yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
She cheated on Dawson with Pascy, his.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Best friend, and then Pacy sounds Joey, who were both
in high school, set sail for the summer, uh, you know,
on one boat together, which is crazy in high school.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
They went far, like in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
They went pretty far.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
And then at the end of the series, she chose Pacey,
which I completely disagree with. Really, yeah, but whatever, because
Dawson was a filmmaker.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I'm sorry that he was a filmmaker.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well he eventually.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Dawson's big thing at the end was he got his
big interview with Spielberg.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Coming up with Spielberg.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
He wasn't in high schoolt the end of the series,
guys they did they did a time jump and then
Michelle Williams passed away. The whole thing's ever dinner the
well in the show, what was her characters? I can't
remember Michelle Jen Jen good call girl.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
How did Dawson's dad die again?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
This is crazy? Why would you bring that up?

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Well, first of all, the mom cheated on her his dad.
Dawson found out mom was hot too. I didn't want
to say anything. Dad eventually found out. The family finally
back together. Everything's good. My man's eating an ice cream
colne while driving drops it. Once you dropped the ice
cream cone, why would you pick it up? He's going
to be a hair overt throwing it out the window.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't want to melt all over my stuff. I
do the exact same. I'm licking my thing, it falls over,
I'm like, oh, dang it, Now I got to reach
down there, grab it and throw toss it out the
window because I don't want it to melt on my mats.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, but you're also on a two lane road, so
he's reaching for the ice cream cone that he just
dropped and a semi hit.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well that's awful.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, the family was getting back together, and then this
is also too.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't think we need the entire breakdown of Dawson's Creek.
This morning.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
I'm sorry we left him for pacing.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, that's going through, all right, Well listen as I'm
glad you're getting screened.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know what it is yet.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
I'm going Fandy SAT Day though.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
It really is, it really is.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
There you go

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