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February 20, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Chuck, we talked about it yesterday off air possibly happening,
and uh, it is finally happening. The one and only
Marshall McPeak is joining us right.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now, and oh hey, it's about time there's Marshall.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
You know a lot of people sending messages to me,
and I think probably contacting Chuck is well going. Hey,
and I saw that you posted something on socials Marshall,
you know about that you were going to be taking
a little bit of time off.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Surprise time off, I might add, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
It was a big surprise, that's for sure. Certainly wasn't
expecting anything like this.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I want to say, what a pedicure takes this long?
Your hygiene habits need looked at.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
You know, I shouldn't wait so long between? Should I start.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Stop calling him nails? Start calling them.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Clalls, eagle talents if you will.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, when a disc sander has to be involved to
get them down to size, yeah, maybe you probably have
to reevaluate a little bit. No, but yeah, I mean
it's it's uh, it was a thing you had sent
me a message when I was in Las Vegas, and
I was just like, you know, whoa when you sent
me the message saying you know, basically what had happened,

(01:14):
and then so if you will, I don't know, whatever
you want to divulge or whatever. I this is kind
of a weird area. I know you're kind of a
private guy honestly, so you know, it's like I don't
want to, you know, force you into but I love
that you agreed to jump on with us today and
just kind of let people know, like, hey, everything's cool.
Even though you put it on socials or whatever. We

(01:34):
have a lot of people who love you man, that listen.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
That's which is awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
And I have to say that the messages with people,
you know, saying get well soon and all of that
has been so fantastic. And it's been I really, I
can't tell you how much how much that means and
how much I appreciate it, because it's just really it's
been a rough couple.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Of weeks to be honest.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, but you know, I mean, surgery is never easy,
and especially when it's when it's a surprise, and you know, I.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Let me just put it to you this way. I don't
ever want pain like that again. Holy cow.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
So the surgery fixed that, and and the pain is
getting better, and I'm hoping to be back in the
weather center on Monday, kind of on light duty. And
you know, I wouldn't say that that. I'm oh, who cares,
let's just do this. I had back surgery, yes, uh

(02:34):
so very What happened was a discarnated in three spots
and they went in and they cut out all the
pieces that were crushing the nerves. And so now I
am working on restrengthening a leg and.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Walking is a cash. Steps are not great.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
But you know it's it's these are the things that happen.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Getting old suck.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, Marcia, was this something that just did it
just hits you out of nowhere, The pain hits you
out of nowhere?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Or have you been dealing with this for a while
and just suddenly had no choice but to get it handled.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
You know? It was it was early in the week.
It was one of those situations you're like, oh, I
think I tweaked something that's not good. Well, you know,
you've had sore muscles before. You know how that goes.
You know, You're like, yeah, yeah, a couple of days,
it'll be fine. And it just kind of got progressively
worse over the following couple of days and by the

(03:32):
weekend I literally was incapacitated, just like screaming in pain.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
It was so bad.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
You know, they give you that scale or they say
one to ten, where's it fall and you try not
to be a puss, right, I'm like, yeah, you know,
it's a three, it's a four.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
It no, this was twelve.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
This was I kept saying nine because I wanted to
leave some room for it to go somewhere. But it's
just that, you know, anybody who's been through back paint
knows what that's about.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
It's just it is absolutely scruciating. And when it crushed
two nerves, not one, but you're gonna do it, do
it right, crush two of them.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
So when you talk about the discs and it's you know,
it's uh.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
There's three sections of the back, you know, the lumbar
and then the thoracic and then the cervical and so I, I,
you know, with I think.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Look at you like somebody who's been through it.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh, I let me tell well, let's back up to Tuesday,
Marshall Tuesday morning, and I made a little bit of
a joke about it. But I'm still hobbling around a
little bit myself. I'm putting on my freaking pants in
the morning, and I barely got them on. But when
I was in one position, I got the right leg
in balancing on the right leg, you know how you
put your pants on, and I started to lift my
left leg and it was like someone hit me. I've

(04:48):
never been hit with a cattle prod, but I think
that's about what it would barual.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
And I'm like, oh, oh oh, And I'm like, you know,
like a fell on the bed because it was right
next to the bed. And I told these two before undes.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
When I came in, I'm like, you guys are lucky
I have pants on today because I could barely get
them on.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
So no, I'm right with you.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I've dealt with back pain, literally a lot of it now,
not to the point where I've had to have surgery, clearly,
but you know they say once you get to a
certain time or certain you know it because it wears
down over time, and then you get to where it's
hitting nerves, forget it. I'm sure what I had, and
it was crazy. I couldn't it was blinding. It actually
made me dizzy. It was so painful for a second,

(05:27):
like a split second, and I'm sure that's something similar.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
But yes, those three areas. I'm very, very very versed
in all of that.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Trust I come from a lot. There's back pain, unfortunately. Yeah,
has been part of my world for a while, unfortunately.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
So yeah, yes, So they went in, they cut out
some stuff, they got it off the nerves, and then
they said, okay, no blt, bending, lifting, twisting, none of
that for at least a couple of weeks, and then.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
You know, rebuild, rebuild what you got.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You'll be working on Marshmallows for a while, and yeah,
it'll take what I went through this, I actually well,
last time I worked here before I was dismissed, I
went through the same thing. And it was actually a
producer who worked here who forced me to the hospital.
And they're like, man, another year and a half, eighteen months,
you'll be a quadriplegic if you don't do something now.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wow wow.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
So yeah, and I walked on seriously like walking on
Marshmallows for two months after that.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's the weirdest feeling in the world.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
And yet ground isn't.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
There Also this too, Marshall, like the fact that they
were able to go this is exactly what's happened.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
We can go in and we can take care of this.
It sounds like.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's basically what they did, or were able to at
least say, hey, this is where we need to.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Go, and they go in and you know, fingers crossed.
Let's pray that that is you know, it alleviates most
of that.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Clearly, you're not going to be all the way ever
perfect right again, but at this point it's about like,
you know, chunks of time here where you kind of
have a little normous normalcy and you know, instead of going, yeah,
just put some ice on it and here, eat these
pain pills and hopefully everything, you know, you were able
to kind of make that choice.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It sounded like so well.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
I mean, given where the pain was, because it was
crushing those nerves, they they put me on some really
big scary drugs.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I couldn't get away from that fast enough because you know,
we've all heard too many stories about how easy it
is to go down that path, and it's just like,
you know what, let's let's try to get off of
these as soon as I can. So when they when
they got through the surgery and when we got past
the pain on that then it was that was that

(07:42):
was a huge step. So you know, there are not
there are no pins and rods, which is which is huge.
I feel very fortunate for so and as long as
I do what the doc tells me to do, I'm
hopefully not going to get pins and rocks.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Great, because that is no fun.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
People always talk about when you have to go to
that length that it's usually it's just things are never
really right, even close to right.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Ever. Again, so good for you not having it, But
you got to do with the doc says.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
So that's part of why I'm I'm at home. I'm
not blting, and you know, we're trying to baby this
thing and keep it out of bigger trouble.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
But I'm hoping to be back on Monday. That's great.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'll be back in the Stank booth on Monday.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
We love you and we miss you. If you get
back over here, you need somebody to run down to
Tim Hortons or whatever, call one of us. We'll go
grab your coffee or whatever to do, you know, because
any little bit sometimes, especially when you don't feel like
doing it yourself, comes in handy.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, you guys are the best although I would imagine
they want you moving the longer you can get stiffer
in those situations. Obviously, no blting, like you said, but
you they probably don't like it to still for too long,
especially unless, of course that's part of what they need
you to do to recover.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
But I think they like a little bit of movement.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I would imagine, yeah, they want me to walk at
least a little bit every hour and then you know,
steps when you can. And so I'm trying to do
the steps at least, you know, at least now, and
then a few times a day and try to rework.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, it's it's a process.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's gonna be a little easier if we had a
chief meteorologist and to talk about seventy degrees in sunshine
now and then I'm just saying, oh, to.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Walk in some seventy degree temperatures would be awesome.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I just gotta go to Hawaii to get those right now.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
But okay, you ask the doctor Veagan write a script
for that, and then I get can you put a
flight on there for me too? Exert the dust white
number exactly? Man, this is really cool. Love you to
jump on with this, Marshal that I can't thank you enough.
And I know that the listeners appreciate hearing you. And
you've been a part of my life for the last

(09:56):
last six years and six plus years, and everybody else
is for a long time and more on a personal
level for the last six years. But man, it's great
that you jumped on. I'm glad to mean you sound
like you're in great spirits. That's fantastic. And to hear
that you possibly may be back by Monday is even
extra special.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
So we're happy that is the goal to be back
on Monday. Thanks, thanks to you, and thanks to everybody
for all the all the kind messages. It's been. It's been,
it's been really nice.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
All right, very good. We'll look for you Monday and
hopefully then. But if you need more time, then you
need more time. There's nothing you can do about it.
But we do appreciate you jumping on. Brother, Take care,
all right, we'll talk to you soon. Bite all right,
see you all right there.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Everybody sounds cheaper, it sounds fantastic.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Attitude is at least fifty percent of the battle when
you're recuperating for something like that. I can keep your
head together.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
It really is, it really really is.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's uh, that's as a matter of fact, that can
be you know, Jenny working in my wife working in
the medical field, and she works, you know, on and off,
she's worked all around all kinds of craziness on cology
and so on. That attitude can really be very paramount
in people getting better. And I know it's easy to

(11:05):
say with a couple of guys who are sitting here
talking about that, who are not an excruciating pain or
on the road to trying to recover or recuperate or whatever.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
But it is very very it is.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Very special and it works, I think to your advantage
if you're able to do that. Marshall's a glasses half
full kind.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Of guy anyway, you know. So I feel like.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's that's something that kind of comes easy. Not easy,
but it's something that's focused for him. Or you're kind
of like that too. You're a guy that just takes
everything in stride, which I've told you before. I'm like, man,
I wish I was more like you when it comes.
I'm so I'm so high strong.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
You can work against you though, because you.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Know what, people take it as weakness today.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
You are so bulletproof in your mind that you just
refuse to stop. Sometimes you keep going until you've hurt
yourself more than you ever wanted to.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
That's a good point too.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
You have to, like Clint Eachwood said, man's got to
know his limitations. And sometimes when you're too storry in
your disposition, you forget you have limitations.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah. Yeah,
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