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- A lot of things are happening. A lot of things going down. Good stuff.

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Good stuff is happening. Good things going down all around.

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Thank you for tuning into the, what's the matter

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with me podcast. I had surgery, I went on vacation.

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I'm about to become a published author.

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You are tuned into the What's the Matter with me podcast.

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My name is John. I'm 44 years old.

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Husband, father of two, small business owner,

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radio DJ, podcaster.

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I have multiple sclerosis trigeminal neuralgia.

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And I made this podcast to share what I'm going through.

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Thank you for tuning in. It's, what's the matter with me time, y'all? Okay.

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Surgery, vacation, published.

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Oh, hey, first of all, subscribers,

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get the selfie for as long as we all live.

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It's a lifetime subscription.

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It reminds me, I gotta take a selfie.

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I always forget to like comb my hair

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and do the obvious stuff. And I'm like, okay, let's photograph,

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let me photograph myself. Think my glasses are all dirty. Oh, popping

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- Hot sauce. It's the best hot sauce hopping. Hot sauce.

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It's the best sauce in the world. The world.

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I'm telling you, - That mission that I began a few episodes

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back is happening.

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Yeah, so I've been talking about publishing poetry

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on the podcast since like 2021,

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maybe before even. But I, I specifically in the, in the,

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can You Eat Blood episode from Thanksgiving.

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In that episode, I give a shout out to Joe

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and he's like my load star of copying Joe

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out of, out of juvenile competitiveness

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and says here in, uh, the right off the top

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of Can you Eat Blood? I'm talking about Joe.

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I say, Joe played guitar in my high school band

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and now he's a published poet.

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So that, that's something I'm trying to emulate.

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Anyway, it's gonna happen soon

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since we were all sitting around eating blood.

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That's, that's when I decided, yeah,

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glasses are dirty. So, so what do you gotta say about it?

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What do you think about it? What are you going to do about it?

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Uh, what do you, let's give some shout outs.

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I want to give a shout out to Marsh

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Marans Pet Rat. This dude is a hockey, what do they call it?

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A hockey s poster. Self-described.

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I'm a hockey s poster, and he was diagnosed with ms

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and he has to wear an eye patch.

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He's having trouble with his eye.

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And, uh, so me too, man, I'm having trouble

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with having dry eye and so through all this health stuff.

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And so I, I was like, oh man, I, I started writing him.

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I was like, it's a long slog. You know?

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He, he kind of started posting about having MS

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and also about hockey, able to check out

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a weird culture of people on Twitter who

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kind of say meaningless,

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provocative things about hockey, not hockey,

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but really close to hockey is rocky

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Shout outs to Rocky. That's boxing.

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Boxing, different different sport shout outs

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to cousin Eric and Tracy.

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We went to Sacramento on our vacation. We'll get into it.

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Wanna give a shout out to Dax Pearson?

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Dax agreed to let me email him

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and I'm kind of lagging on writing the questions.

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I've been listening to his newest record,

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which is on dark entries

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and it's called Nerve Bumps,

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A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction.

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He's a disabled artist and musician, kind of like me.

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So I was like, oh, let me interview you.

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So coming and he agreed. So coming up, I'll ask, I'll ask

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Dax about some of his story

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and what he's doing. Find out what's up with him.

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Also going to give a shout out to the Sandman.

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The Sandman had a music contribution.

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He sent me the band camp for James

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Wavy, the San Francisco,

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San Francisco dude, I guess they added it

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on KFJC and Sandmans over there.

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He said, Hey, we got this new one. Check it out.

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It was pretty cool. I listened to it.

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I want, I gave you a couple listens, but I need some more.

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James Wavy, snowy Beach is the name

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of the tape, and you can hear it on Band Camp.

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You can buy the digital album. Pretty interesting stuff.

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He's a rapper, but more like experimental,

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pushing at the kind of pre

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preconceived boundaries of being a rapper.

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Cool and interesting. Maybe he could be a published poet.

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I think maybe he could pull it off.

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James Wavy, snowy Beach on Bang Camp.

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I'll put that link. So I, I had surgery, um,

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two weeks ago now, and I had to go off coffee

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and ibuprofen. I was in a lot of pain, um, prior to the surgery.

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And I doubled, I doubled the dosage.

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I doubled my dosage of what I was taking.

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So it was like making me a zombie. It was pretty bad.

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And so then I just kind of cut out a quarter.

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So I was like at 175%.

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I was taking so many pills, I think

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three times a day, two different medications,

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just a lot of it. And I was off coffee.

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I, I had to bring in the coffee,

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but, so I reduced that double medication

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and it returned me somewhat

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to the land of the living. It was pretty tough. I was always in my wheelchair.

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Even in my house. I, I, you know, when you stand up, you, um,

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fire your different muscle groups,

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you know, your quads, your glutes,

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and your abs kind of stabilized your core.

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So when I was on so much nerve,

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the medication I was taking, it's like anti

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epilepsy seizure medication

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because I'm having nerve pain.

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So it would just like suppress my nerves

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and my brain, my central nervous system.

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Everything suppressed. And so it was hard to make these muscle groups

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contract and work together. And I have weakness on my right side and my leg and my arm.

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So when I stood up, I was like so drugged out.

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I had to like, pull myself up.

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Like even to get up from my desk chair, I had to use my arm,

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my left arm to like pull myself up onto the desk

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and almost with my stomach on the desk.

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And then I got my cane. So it was like my arm was doing a lot of work

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that my right leg and my right glutes and quads

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and abs weren't firing.

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So I was falling really often.

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It was hard to get up in the middle of all that.

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I was accepted on a piece of writing

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and I signed an an for the first time.

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I had a signed agreement. And so the, that will,

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that'll come about soon. But I, I did DocuSign.

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I was like, I'm gonna publish this thing. It's official.

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So on the day when I would usually be recording two weeks

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ago, I had surgery, my third

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RF Rise autotomy in advance of surgery.

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I bought some tunes, some music.

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I had to like, give myself a reason to live.

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I bought Drunken Love by Elvin Brandy

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and Lord Spike Heart. And that is a weird, uh, album.

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I like it, it reminds me of a band I was in in college.

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It's called Hammer and th Rock with my buddy Anthony.

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And it is just like experimental, far,

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far out dance music, kind

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of this stuff.

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You know, we don't compare to this nowadays.

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This this is kid stuff, oven Brandy

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and Spike Heart Oven. Brandy is from Whales Ni Nairobi,

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rapper, producer, Nairobi based rapper, producer,

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Lord Spike Heart. So they had some weird, pretty good music.

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I, I enjoy it. And then I got the G Trilogy

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by DJ Rivy, DJ Marillo

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and DJ Scoffing.

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So this is just some far out electronic music

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from Durbin Durbin's,

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highly influential Gumm sound.

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Three separate artists from South Africa's fertile

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musical landscape. A fresh wave of gumm innovation.

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So I got some tunes, spontaneous musical invention

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that came out on recital. And I'm a sucker for all the recital records

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releases that have books. And like this is a double LP edition

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of three 50, a 24 page booklet

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of libretto scores, program notes, introduction, written

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by Alvin Lucier. So got anyway, got myself some tunes

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'cause I'm like, I'm gonna come back from surgery.

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So I this, when I came back from surgery, I, I,

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I made a note back from surgery

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and my face feels different talking and eating

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and I'm sure other things that I'm not noticing or affected,

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but that's always true. It's a matter of deciding how I feel about the things

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that are different. But first I have to accept them.

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So my face felt numb and it still feels numb.

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It feels different like it day.

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That's kind of the scary part. 'cause I'm like, okay, when is this numbness gonna wear off

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and it's gonna really hurt. That's kind of, I have to live there and be there

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and you know, this is my fifth time having surgery.

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So they drilled the hole in the back of my head

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and then had another surgery there.

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Then this one that I just had was the third time in

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through the front of my face.

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It's an RF rises outta me. But instead of keeping me awake

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and like a electrocuting my face,

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they put me under general anesthesia

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and made a, a lot of numbness.

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Like, it's like when I'm in the shower

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and I lean my head back and look up, it's like I have half a head,

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I have half a mouth, I have one eye, one nostril,

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you know, it's like half a chin.

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So I'm like learning how to talk and have diction and you,

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and say words like graduation and diction.

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They're, they're hard words to say

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when you have just, I'm like kind

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of permanently at the dentist's office.

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But I think I hit on something in that note.

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I, I made, it's a matter of deciding

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how I feel about the things that are different.

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And first I have to accept them

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and I think I, I did, I'm doing okay with that.

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You know, every time I try

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and talk, this is the first time I'm trying to speak for

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an extended period of time.

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Thanks for tuning into what the matter with me podcast.

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But I eat, you know, and,

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and eating was pretty hard to figure out at first.

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I was kind of chewing on my molders.

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It's still kind of, I'm learning every time.

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It's like, oh, I can eat like that,

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but I'm having, I'm not in pain.

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I'm having some very like, almost like

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ants on the skin sensation.

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It's hard to, but it's not painful

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and it's only intermittent.

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It only happens now

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and again, something that I notice is,

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and you know, it's not my first rodeo, so

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I've noticed your body, your brain

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has like a body size map in your head

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and it recalculates it.

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It takes time to like

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if your mouth is numb, right?

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When it becomes numb, it feels huge

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and then it gets smaller and smaller.

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Your brain redraws the size map

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and if you can only feel on one half of your mouth,

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well then it draws in for your whole mouth,

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that one half, you know, so you're, it kind of

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changes sensation.

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So I had surgery and then the next day I went on vacation

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and it's like I said, they go in through the face

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and then you wake up with a bandaid on.

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That's it. Nothing, nothing hurts. It was numb.

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So I went on vacation. So let's see, I had surgery, I had surgery

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four days later I had um, infusion

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where they gave me my MS medication.

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And the day after that, it was Tuesday

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of spring break, we went on a family road trip.

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It was pretty cool. So the first night

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we went to the Manteca water slides at the Great Wolf Lodge in Manteca.

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And it's like this child resort

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and it's full of children screaming

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and splashing and that there's a water area, a whole water park area

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and it's all inside. It seems unhealthy but it's like there's water slide.

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So the kids were in, I was like, take me to the bar.

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But I was feeling a little bit better at that point,

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you know, I had had surgery, I reducing medication

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so that reducing both medications.

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So they had a place called the watering hole

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and they served some, they had a whiskey sour,

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I had a whiskey sour there. The kids were went all around going nuts.

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I went to the bed and slept. We go to a DA room.

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So it's like rural in shower

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and how far is this place, Manteca from where we live,

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that was part of this vacation idea.

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Things needed to be not too hard of travel,

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but I wanted to go on like a road trip with the kids

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and go to like a few different places.

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But I wanted to have it be accessible.

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So we were like, forget Airbnb and all that.

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We're going to use a hotel because they'll be a DA set up

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for the a DA. It's an hour and 45 minutes from here,

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about 60 miles due east.

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So we had breakfast here. We didn't stress too hard,

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but I was telling the kids, you know, get your teeth brushed

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'cause we gotta go to the waterpark. So they had waterpark, they had a, a climbing,

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huge climbing structure. The kids loved that. I took pictures of them.

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I rolled around the thing in my wheelchair taking pictures

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of them as they got higher and higher.

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My wife did it. So the family's got guts.

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It was cool. They had a video arcade, they had some

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restaurant with locally sourced ingredients.

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I was like, no way. So a lot of it is they get you in the door and then they try

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and sell you like a $45 ribeye.

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And I was like, I'm not doing that.

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So we went to Mexican food in Manteca and it was awesome.

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It's like we were on a road trip. They have in Manteca.

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The kids really loved it because it was this part

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of our vacation the first night was really oriented.

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And the next beginning and the next day really oriented for them.

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They have, you know, it's like in a nice resort,

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you think there's a store with, with fancy watches

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and handbags and stuff.

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But at this resort there's a candy store with a whole wall

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of different jelly beans.

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So that's what's going on here. It's a kid resort

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and it's like a, um, the Great Wolf Lodge is the chain.

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They have one in Arizona and Scottsdale.

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So you know, but it from here an hour

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and 45 minutes east. And then the next day we went to Sacramento.

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We stayed in at Embassy Suites, Sacramento,

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riverfront, front promenade, close to Old Sack.

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You know, I love Old Sack. So we were there for two nights.

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We went to the hotel bar. There was something wrong with the room.

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One of the a DA bars wasn't anchored into the wall.

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So like one of the first things I did was roll over there,

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try and get up on it and pull it all out the wall

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and none of the screws were anchored.

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So I'm like, what's going on here? We called down at the desk

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and they had engineering crew go in there and fix it.

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It took a couple hours. But that's the kinda thing, like if that had happened at an

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Airbnb and stuff like that has happened to me at, at

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one of these kinda non-hotel type places.

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It can take a long time to get the concierge

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to get the um, people together.

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And you have, I have kids so I can't really spend all

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that time doing it. So my cousin Eric

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and Tracy, they live in Sacramento.

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We met my cousin Eric in Lotus, California

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and we went on a wheelchair accessible hike

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in the Dave Moore nature area.

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The hike down to the beach was wheelchair accessible.

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'cause then Eric told me, we hit it, it's pretty sketchy.

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I'd like to get sketchy. This was pretty sketchy,

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but we could get all the way down to the beach where the

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American river waterfront was.

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And and the kids enjoyed it.

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They have this rock formation there, the mushroom rock,

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the mushroom rock. And it's just a big old weird looking rock.

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You're like, what happened? Usually a rock is pretty solid, but something happened here.

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It was kind of an old trail with stone walls.

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Somebody laid stone walls to get it down to the beach.

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But there were big ruts and branches falling down.

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So it was kind of sketchy getting down there.

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Once we had figured it out, we going back up was easier

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on family vacations. I always find myself on these wheelchair accessible

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or these trails in my wheelchair

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and the wheelchair is like sliding around in there

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because it's not quite graded.

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Something that was graded and overall safer

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because it was inside. We went to the Crocker Art Museum

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that Crocker was the general council

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for the railroad and he had this immense for

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and all these goods

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from all over the world. Then his house was donated

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as an an art mu as the Art Museum of Sacramento.

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They have the house, they built a modern

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wing edition. And so the old house is really ornate wood

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and tile floors and these treasures.

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And then the new part. So the, the house dates from 1872

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and the new wing opened in 2010.

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They got Japanese ceramics in their

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pre-Colombian sculpture. Cool stuff. I like the museum.

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I have a good time there 'cause I think it's kind of one of the more interesting,

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the art museums that I've been

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to in America, for sure. Painting by Hung Lou passed away.

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She was, um, an instructor for my wife at Mills College.

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We went through the old house. They have these wonderful

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tiles on the floor in the entryway.

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Super impressive tile work.

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Wood, the doors, everything super

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ornate in the old house. We loved it. And then in the basement,

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there's a children's creativity area.

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You know, my kids had fun climbing all over in different colored tape

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and stuff like that. Then we went back and watched Con Air

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and my, my wife enjoyed Con Air.

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We watched uh, a um,

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like a TV edit of Con Air.

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It was on like TNT or whatever, USA or something.

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And so we watched it in the hotel room 'cause we were tired

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after they were the fish and chips at the Bonney there

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and then the art museum. And we were just like, I don't want to go out.

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Like, so we just hung out in there and watched Con Air that we liked a lot

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just because it was like, oh, he's, he's in this.

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Okay. The guy who wrote Conair Conair was produced

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by Jerry Bruckheimer. It was written by Scott Rosenberg who also wrote

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Jumanji Chy came out in 97.

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Calm meanie. John

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Malkovich, Ving Rams.

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Dave Chappelle is in it. Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, John

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Cusack, Nicholas Cage, bill

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Ack is also in there. Alright, so it's got everybody

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and their brother, including John Ack

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and his brother Bill Ack.

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Check out Con Air in a a TV edit.

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It was actually pretty entertaining

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because all the gross parts were out

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and since there were so many of them,

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it made the movie almost illegible.

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Hard to understand. Then we went to the capitol building.

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We saw some nice camelia trees.

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There's plenty of them. I photographed them

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because my mom didn't believe that trees could be

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Chas could be trees, but in fact we got pictures with the Arnold

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Schwarzenegger portrait. We went into the legislative chamber,

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looked around the chandeliers, the weird green carpet.

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There were a bunch of closed doors

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and probably stuff was going on behind them.

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And then we went to some Vietnamese food

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in Sacramento. They have, uh, plenty of awesome Vietnamese there.

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My wife got bunk out, which is moon cake.

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It's like a mung bean crepe that you eat it

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with lettuce and herbs. And I got a kind of bum me, which is a sandwich

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and usually I, I thought it would be a sandwich.

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It was called Bum Me, but it had, I was kind of confusing.

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So I ordered it and it turns out it was a loaf of

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bread like you would use for <inaudible>.

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They make a baguette that has rice flour in it.

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It's super light and crispy. So a whole baguette.

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And then this cast iron skillet

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with some eggs in it, some a

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ball of like kind of liver or something, some ground meat.

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Um, like the ingredient and some beef.

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It was like kind of the ingredients of a sandwich

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all being cooked in this cast iron skillet.

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And then I went in on that

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and kind of put stuff from the skillet in,

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broke off bits of bread and ate it like that.

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It was pretty good. They asked the guy at the end

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where I'd never seen it and he said it was common street

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food in Vietnam.

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And in fact that I am going to go

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to this guy's record store. He's a friend of mine, Steve's record store.

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His wife is Vietnamese, he's been to Vietnam.

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And he was like, oh yeah, that's legit. They have that.

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So it was legit Vietnamese food.

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The place in Sacramento was called Saigon Oi.

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And that attracted me because of the punk, uh, nature.

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It's Saigon. Oi, it was pretty good.

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Then we went the next day we went to

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Suso City. My friend Steve has a record store there.

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So we went through there and checked it out, said what's up to Steve?

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Turns out Steve's moving to Davis.

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So maybe I, I I can stop by

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and hang out with Steve next time we go on a family

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road trip, spring break, road trip.

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Then we stayed at the Courtyard Marriott and Larksburg,

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and that's right at Larksburg Landing right across the

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street from all these restaurants.

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We took the kid at kids out

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to this place, farm shop.

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It's like an adult restaurant with a bar

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and everything, you know, fancy. And we ate there.

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A table was at eight, but I feel like we were there

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until super late for those kids.

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I'm pretty amazed that they, they made it,

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they had some cheesy pasta and we had dessert

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and they chose the para sobe, but they pronounced it wrong.

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And so we had a little sobe, it's a French word, we had

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that, but it was so cool. The kids were out until nine 30 at dinner

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for an hour and a half, all adults around

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and older kids. And they really maintained

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and they got the pair of so bay at the end.

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And it was good. There was a pool

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at the courtyard in Larksburg.

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The kids loved that. Everywhere we went, the hotel in Sa, Sacramento,

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of course at the water slides and then at the hotel in Larksburg.

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They were, the kids were in the pool. They rocked it.

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Then the next day we went to Salsalito

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and we had lunch at Scoma,

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which is like right on the waterfront.

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We went shopping for games at a game store.

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Salsa Lido was cool, cool cars driving around.

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It was fun. We found a parking space

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right there on the Bridgeway,

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so parking wasn't hard. And you know, we had a good time walking around Salsa lito.

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We got the ice cream. We took our picture

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and picture out on the pier

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with San Francisco in the background.

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It was totally awesome. And then we came home.

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So that was, that was last week.

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This week so far, the size map is just calculating changes

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in sensation. Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday I drove

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to Oakland by myself

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and I went to a couple of friends' houses

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and I did it all by myself.

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I was gone for maybe three and a half hours.

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That doesn't seem like a big deal,

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but I, for me it was, it was the most, I've been out

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and I haven't hardly been out by myself at all

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for like 16 months, you know,

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after the surgery is like shaking out.

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I've been on a lot, elevated levels of medication.

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Certainly in the last month, I, I doubled it,

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but it, over the past 16 months, I've had

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some amount of pain and I've been managing it.

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So right now I'm, I'm reducing pills,

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so it's getting easier to walk. I can stand on my own two feet and in my brace

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and pick up my cane and I can balance for kind of a while.

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And I'm gonna have physical therapy in a couple weeks.

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And I had my intake appointment before I had the surgery.

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She's gonna be like, what happened to you? You couldn't even stand up.

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That's, you know, at the beginning, at the intake appointment, they're like,

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what do you wanna work on? I'm like, I want to stand up.

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I want to be able to get up after I've fallen.

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I still probably wanna know how to get up after I've fallen,

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but I'm doing okay at standing up.

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She's going to be like, how are you? Even you, they, they were like,

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she was very unsecured or unsure that I'd be able to walk myself at all anywhere.

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So I went to Oakland by myself.

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I walked in and out of my friend's houses.

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One of my friends has big stairs, the other one has

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less stairs, but no hand railing.

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So it's kinda sketchy, you know.

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So I, I wanted to experience that.

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And I did it just yesterday.

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We got the piano tune, so it was like, ding

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and now it's all in tune. It's not beating anymore. I wanna play piano.

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You know, I play piano with one hand.

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So I kind of play the chords one way

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and then I play them another way

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and with only one hand.

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So I can't make chords, substitutions with my right hand.

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So I can't really play in a certain,

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in a jazz style, but I can kind of fiddle around

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and it's a good thing. So, oh yeah, I'm a, a published poet.

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I was like, what am I forgetting? Writings by John Hoffman is live,

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that is my author website

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in advance, in advance of the publication

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of this 50 words story I wrote

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about Cyber Truck Dental, SDRL,

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I'm starting small. I'm, I'm starting with a 50 word story.

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So I made an author website, writings

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by John Winfield Hopin, totally

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uncensored and all the way live.

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So the writing stuff is at jw.

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What's the matter with me Do org.

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So I just kinda made a subdomain of this website

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and next week I should be a published author.

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I think that will happen. But that's something I've been working on.

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It's um, I kind of want to say no more on that

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and say, let's hope it happens, right?

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Knock on wood for that. Thank you for tuning into the, what's the matter

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with me podcast. I had surgery, I went on vacation.

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The writings by John Hopkins site is live.

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Next time we talk, I bet I'll be a published author.

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Knock on wood. Thank you for tuning in.

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I'll check you next time.