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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 2: I am Kate Hudson and my name is Oliver Hudson.

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Speaker 3: We wanted to do something that highlighted our.

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Speaker 2: Relationship and what it's like to be siblings. We are

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Speaker 2: a sibling. Ravalry.

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Speaker 3: No, no, sibling, don't do that with your mouth.

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Speaker 2: Vely, that's good. We live forever. No, and you care

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Speaker 2: that we did it all for the glory of love.

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Speaker 2: We did it all for love. That's Peter Satara from

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Speaker 2: Karate Kid Part two. I have no idea why I

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Speaker 2: was singing that, but just popped in to my head.

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Speaker 2: I know why. I was driving back from Colorado and

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Speaker 2: I was listening to random music and that song popped up,

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Speaker 2: and that's why it's in my head. I loved karate

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Speaker 2: Kid too. I love that song. I love like weird,

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Speaker 2: cheesy like ballads. Oh god, I'm hungry anyway. So I

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Speaker 2: am home in my house and already looking forward to

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Speaker 2: labor day because I don't want to labor anymore, even

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Speaker 2: though I haven't labored all summer. I just I want

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Speaker 2: to just keep partying, you know what I mean. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm producing stuff for Fox like things are good. I

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Speaker 2: needed a fucking acting job, I'll tell you that right now,

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Speaker 2: though I mean it's in November, it will be too. Actually,

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Speaker 2: I am doing a movie. I am doing a movie

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Speaker 2: in October. I don't know if I'm allowed to say

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Speaker 2: But it's pretty fucking exciting for me. It's three weeks.

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Speaker 2: It's not a big part or anything, but it's it's uh,

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Speaker 2: it's a movie that I think anyone would want to

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Speaker 2: be a part of. I'll say that I might even

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Speaker 2: be able to say what it is, but I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to because I don't want to get in trouble.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so aside from that, I I don't want

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Speaker 2: to labor. I think it's been a detriment to me

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Speaker 2: in my career. But whatever, I'm having fun. I choose fun.

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Speaker 2: I choose fun over everything, you know. I choose fun.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Labor day, I think I'm getting out of

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Speaker 2: town and I might go to Montana because I love

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Speaker 2: to fly fish. I've been looking. I found I found this,

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Speaker 2: like this really cool cabin like right on the river

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Speaker 2: on Airbnb. Airbbb is fun, by the way. Airbnb is

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Speaker 2: almost like scrolling through Instagram, except it's just houses. Because

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Speaker 2: what's cool about it is like you can dream, you

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Speaker 2: dream up a place that you would like to go.

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Speaker 2: You know, let's just say Montana, because I've never really

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Speaker 2: I've been in Montana. Fish Montana. I'm like, oh, it's

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Speaker 2: just like Airbnb, like, oh, what's out there? And then

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Speaker 2: you can sort of, you know, see what the most

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Speaker 2: expensive things are that you would never get anyway. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: Airbnb is almost like you can lose yourself in it,

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of this wish fulfillment thing. Anyway, I'm rambling.

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Speaker 2: People have probably hung up by now. If the podcast

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Speaker 2: was a phone, you might have hung up because this

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Speaker 2: intro sucks. But who cares. We're getting We got some

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Speaker 2: girls in the room, sorority sisters, really interesting story and

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Speaker 2: Jess and Meghan, we're going to talk to them. Kidneys

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Speaker 2: are being exchanged given and let's hear their story bringing it. Hey, Hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: how are you guys good? How are you good?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on to tell your story.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks for having yeah, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 2: Yes, for having us a sibling show. But you are

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Speaker 2: sorority sisters, so the word sister is enough to bring

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Speaker 2: you on and allow this to maintain and stay within

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Speaker 2: the confines of what this show is, because you.

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Speaker 4: Are, I thought, so, yes.

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Speaker 2: So where are you guys? First of all, we're both

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Speaker 2: in Ohio.

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Speaker 4: I'm in Cincinnati, Megan's in Columbus, Okay.

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Speaker 2: And how long ago were you in your SWARTI just

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Speaker 3: What two thousand, oh gosh.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years ago? Twenty years again?

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Speaker 4: I graduated in twenty ten, okay, And I graduated.

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Speaker 3: In two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 2: So let's hear the story. First of all, let's let's

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Speaker 2: even go back to the sorority where you met, how

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Speaker 2: How you guys have connected, have you stayed, had you stayed?

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Speaker 2: Amazing friends? Just give me the give me the overall,

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Speaker 1: We met when we were both in the sorority Pi

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Speaker 1: Jess because she was just so much fun. She loved

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Speaker 1: techno music and going out and dancing, and she knew

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Speaker 1: at one of our friend's weddings.

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Speaker 3: And then again, yeah, I had moved after college.

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Speaker 4: I moved to Phoenix, and I lived in Phoenix for

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Speaker 4: eleven years, so I really didn't I didn't travel home much,

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Speaker 4: so I saw people. I'd come home for football games

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Speaker 3: And Megan never really were able to connect.

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Speaker 4: So then in September of twenty twenty three, that's when

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Speaker 2: So what were you diagnosed with?

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Speaker 3: I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, in stage renal disease,

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Speaker 3: so basically stage five or four whatever of chronic kidney disease.

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Speaker 2: How did you how did you discover this? How did

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Speaker 4: So to make a long story short, in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: I was diagnosed with sea diff which is I don't

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Speaker 3: And I was in the ICU for thirty one.

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Speaker 4: Days then and half because the hospital kind of screwed

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Speaker 4: kidney function was low, so to go to a kidney doctor.

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Speaker 4: That was in the beginning of twenty twenty three, So

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Speaker 3: And that lasted for like a week, and I was

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Speaker 2: And on the opposite of you, if that would have happened,

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Speaker 4: That lasted for a week, and then it started started

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Speaker 4: So my brother lives in Charlotte too, so I called

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Speaker 3: We need to go to the emergency room. So we went.

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Speaker 4: They took me back immediately Drew blood, did a thousand tests,

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, what you know? I didn't know.

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Speaker 4: I'm just ignorant on kidneys and kidney disease and dialysis

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Speaker 4: and being my age, who you know, who would have

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Wow, that's crazy. I mean it sort of

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Speaker 2: Was this a cumulative thing from sort of your intestinal issue?

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Speaker 4: I found out later that it was that seaediff can

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Speaker 4: But no one had ever, you know, told me that,

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Speaker 2: You know, would have there been anything you could do

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Speaker 4: I think it's just yeah, it is what it is,

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Speaker 4: because once your kidneys go, they kind of just.

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Speaker 2: Go, I mean yeah, and was it one both of them?

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so they took when I was that diagnosed,

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Speaker 4: and the other one was just completely dead. And in

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Speaker 4: you know, like you start seeing all the flags and

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Speaker 4: and my kidney function was fine. In twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: and then just all of a sudden, it went to shit.

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Speaker 2: Wow, And then Megan, how did Megan, how did you

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Speaker 2: come into the picture? How did this all come about?

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Speaker 2: Because you hadn't seen each other in ten years or

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, yeah, we'd seen in touch on social media,

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Speaker 5: mainly on Instagram, just keeping up with each other's lives

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Speaker 5: in general, sending messages that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: And I saw that Jess started posting things about kidney

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Speaker 1: disease and kidney awareness, and so I sent her a

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Speaker 1: message and said, if you or your family's looking for

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Speaker 1: listened to some podcasts and read about it in the

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Speaker 1: I'm fairly healthy, we don't have any kidney related problems

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Speaker 2: Yeah, It'll saved in my life because I know we

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Speaker 3: I'm back normal. Yeah, I can move away.

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Speaker 2: is pretty amazing. And then have you guys, You guys

442
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 2: have talked in the last ten years, but have you

443
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: seen each other? You have?

444
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 4: We just saw each other for the first time on

445
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 4: in the end of June, I think like two weeks

446
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 4: after I found out, and Megan's mom was in town

447
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 4: from Indiana, and Megan was like, can.

448
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,239
Speaker 3: We FaceTime you?

449
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 4: My mom would love to meet you, because I had

450
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 4: never met her mom, or maybe I met her in

451
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 4: college I can't remember, but my.

452
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 3: Dad was like, well, how about we just drive up

453
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 3: to Columbus and we can do face to face. So

454
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: I was like hell yeah, like let's go.

455
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 4: So we went and finally got to reconnect and it

456
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 4: was amazing that reunion, Like why do you think someone

457
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 4: you know, how do you think somebody for safe?

458
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 2: It's it's almost impossible. You know, are you moving to

459
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 2: Columbus So so you guys are near, are you You'll

460
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 2: be in the same place?

461
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 1: Yeah?

462
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to see if the house next to Megan

463
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 4: goes up for sale and I'm there.

464
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 2: I'm to Columbus.

465
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,679
Speaker 4: No, this is I mean, like I said, I was

466
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 4: in Phoenix and then I was in Charlotte, and I

467
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 4: had planned on staying and Charlotte forever.

468
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 3: But now I just, like I said, this is life.

469
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 4: Changing and it makes you value you know, all of

470
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 4: our family. Your family is everything. And so my family's

471
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 4: here in Cincinnati and my brother's in Charlotte, and it.

472
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 3: Just it makes sense now. So and and.

473
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 4: I never had like really great jobs or anything in

474
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 4: Phoenix or Charlotte, so there's no like reason like why.

475
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: And I know Columbus I lived.

476
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 4: There for five years in college and all my friends

477
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 4: are still there and there's great work opportunities there.

478
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: So and now you can be best best best friends

479
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 2: because I'm a part of her, I mean sisters.

480
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 7: Like yeah, blood yeah.

481
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: Oh my god, amazing yeah, what amazing, beautiful inspiring story.

482
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 2: And Megan, is was your husband at all? Like, babe,

483
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you're you're a scant and I

484
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 2: know you, but but are you sure? I mean, was

485
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 2: did he have any hesitations at all? And do you

486
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 2: have kids?

487
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 3: By the way, Okay, I do not have kids.

488
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: And luckily he didn't have any hesitations none. He was

489
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: just kind of like, if it's something that you've looked

490
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: into and you feel safe doing it, I'll support you.

491
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: So if he had any he at least kept them

492
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: to himself. But he never said anything like always very

493
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: behind me and supportive. And I was super lucky. My

494
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: family was the same way, both of my parents, my siblings.

495
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: Like when I told people, everyone, wow, Megan's husband is great.

496
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 4: There's a photo of me, Megan, my mom and her

497
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 4: husband shotgunning beers at his paternity.

498
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: That is awesome.

499
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 3: We go way back.

500
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: It's so great. I had to remind him. I was like,

501
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: were you able to drink alcohol?

502
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 3: I'm not right now, but after surgery, I will be

503
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 3: able to.

504
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: But when you were, when you were in dialysis and stuff,

505
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: I mean no, right or could you.

506
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 4: Oh yeah no, like right now again dialysis like no way?

507
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So this is nice too, like you can

508
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: get wasted again.

509
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

510
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 4: That's that's like the funny thing because Megan said, like

511
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 4: one of the first questions she asked the surgeons or

512
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 4: the doctors at Christ like during her meeting, was I

513
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 4: drink alcohol like after this, like because we're celebrating, after.

514
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 2: This is over, Like we are, of course.

515
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: Celebrating, like va, I'm the first plane to Hawaii. Let's go.

516
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.

517
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

518
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: It's like once you get the green light, all systems

519
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 2: go like shot shots at tequila. Let me just get

520
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: fucking hammered.

521
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 6: Yeah exact, let's see how good?

522
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 2: Of course, No, but it is really awesome. I mean,

523
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: forget about how incredible the story is, and you know,

524
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: the fact that you are even doing this, Megan is amazing.

525
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: But even for you just just having this sort of

526
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 2: new life, you know what I mean, it's almost it's

527
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 2: like you're a child again in the sense of holy shit,

528
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: I can do anything that I want to do. I'll

529
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 2: be pain free, I can go to Hawaii. I mean

530
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 2: it's must be so exciting. I mean, well, yeah, and.

531
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 3: Especially because right now, like.

532
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 4: Life is just so wild, the twist and turns that

533
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 4: it throws you, like I mean, I like I said,

534
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 4: never did I think I'd be talking to you last year,

535
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 4: you know, laying on like what I thought my deathbed,

536
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 4: Like it's crazy.

537
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: And to be able to just look at life differently.

538
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 3: And I've had a huge lifestyle.

539
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 4: Change because I don't, like, if you know anything about

540
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 4: kidney disease, like being on dialysis, the diet is so strict.

541
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 3: It's a renal diet I can't have.

542
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 4: So it has to be low sodium or no sodium,

543
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 4: which you know it's in literally.

544
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 3: Every everything, yeah, everything.

545
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 4: And then it's no potassium and no phosphorus, so like

546
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 4: no bananas, no oranges, no deli meats, no tomatoes, Like

547
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 4: it's basically like just it's like plain chicken and broccoli

548
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 4: and like eggs and that's it. Like no cheese, no dairy,

549
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:52,239
Speaker 4: no you know, like no fun and then no and

550
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 4: no no alcohol, and then two with since I don't

551
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 4: since I retain all my fluid, you have to drink

552
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 4: like only a certain amount every day, so I can't

553
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 4: have more than twenty four ounces of any sort of

554
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 4: liquid all day. Oh so like my freaking coffee in

555
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 4: the morning is like this much, and then I just

556
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 4: like eat ice a lot because it's yeah, like it sucks.

557
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: So can you smoke weed?

558
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 3: No, but I thought about it.

559
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 4: It became very wow wow.

560
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 3: Became a little ohio. So yeah, yeah.

561
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I'm excited. Yeah, like you.

562
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 4: Said, it's like being a kid again, and it's like

563
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 4: to this new lifestyle change is kind of what I

564
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 4: want to include, you know, going forward, because it's just

565
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 4: a healthy way of life.

566
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 3: I walk like seven to ten miles a day.

567
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 4: I do an hour pilates a day, like even on

568
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 4: dialysis days, and I don't have well, Like what the

569
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 4: fuck else am I gonna do? I can't work, so

570
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 4: I'm like, might as well be in the best shape

571
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 4: I can be so I can recover well, and God

572
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 4: forbid it, I have to go through this again, you know,

573
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 4: because sometimes kidneys.

574
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: Don't last your entire life.

575
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 4: Like I want to be able to be healthy enough

576
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 4: to get a transplant again if I have to.

577
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 3: Hopefully I never have to.

578
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 4: But that's the other thing is it's the testing is

579
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 4: so rigorous. Yeah, to be a recipient, they test you

580
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 4: oliver from head to toe, like you got to go

581
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 4: to the dentist and make sure you have no infections

582
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 4: in your mouth. You gotta do a mammogram, papsiere altrasounds

583
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 4: like literally if there's a list they give you at

584
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 4: your meeting pre transplant, and you have to go through

585
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 4: all this testing.

586
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 3: There's about fifteen different.

587
00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 4: Tests, those included, and then they decide if you're healthy

588
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,959
Speaker 4: enough to be on the list. Wow, and then they

589
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 4: put you on the transplant list. And there's one hundred

590
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 4: and twenty five thousand people waiting on the transplant list

591
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 4: and only about twenty five thousand like organs like living donors,

592
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 4: so the so the rest will get to sea stoners,

593
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 4: and you really don't want to see stoner because there's

594
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 4: limited testing. Sometimes you have to do dialysis after transplant

595
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 4: to kind of like kick start at the kidney because

596
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 4: it's been on ice for who knows, and they just

597
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 4: don't last as long as the living donor does. So

598
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 4: that was my mission and why I was so like

599
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 4: putting shit on Instagram all the time because I was like,

600
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 4: I've got to find a live donor. I'm young, like,

601
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 4: like I said, I don't want to go through this again.

602
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so you're on the list. If you're

603
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: on the list, you're just waiting for somebody. But if

604
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 2: you find someone, then you there's no list, like obviously. Yeah.

605
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: Megan's like, oh boom, let's go.

606
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:04,959
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

607
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 4: So some people are on the list for one to

608
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 4: five years.

609
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 3: It just depends when their match dies, you know.

610
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 4: So that's why we two are doing this, and we're

611
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 4: we want to interview with as many people as we

612
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 4: can because we just want to be the face and

613
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 4: spread the word about organ donation and how important it

614
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 4: is and even blood donation.

615
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 3: Megan is a fucking saint. She texted me the other

616
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 3: day and she's like, hey, I'm.

617
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 8: Giving blood and I'm like, well, the only reason I

618
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 8: even thought to is because you inspired me to.

619
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: So good news, I'm giving my other kidney. Like you can't,

620
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 2: you can't do that. You would, that's just.

621
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: She would.

622
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: This is so great. Well it's an inspiring story and

623
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: you know, you getting your life back is even exciting

624
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: for me. You know, not that I wish I was

625
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 2: in your position, but at the same time, I'm like, ooh,

626
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: you get to experience all of these things almost for

627
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: the first time again, Like that's awesome. And you know,

628
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: of course everything happens for reasons, and you know this

629
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: is a blessing. But the silver lining and all of

630
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: it now that you do have, Megan, is that you

631
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: have learned to you know, eat correctly, you walk, you know,

632
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 2: you now know what it's like like you are in

633
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: a healthy place. You know what I'm saying, Like you

634
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 2: have kickstarted that kind of lifestyle for yourself, which is awesome. Yeah,

635
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: you know, And of course, Megan, I mean, jeez, amazing.

636
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 2: You guys are awesome. You're an inspiration and I hope

637
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: people can listen to this and not be afraid, but

638
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 2: not be afraid because I'm afraid. And you know, Megan's like, no,

639
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 2: fuck that, there's no fear, like I have to I

640
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: can get rid of one and save someone's life. I mean, yeah,

641
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 2: it's pretty remarkable.

642
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an amazing realizing only do need one kidney

643
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 4: to live, and like there are people that are born

644
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 4: with just one kidney and it's if they so when

645
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,959
Speaker 4: they take Megan's kidney, her other kidney will like kick

646
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 4: into gear and do more work for the lack of.

647
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 3: You know, the other one.

648
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 4: The human body is pretty incredible, yeah, what it can do.

649
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 7: Yeah.

650
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

651
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: And there aren't major restrictions afterwards either, which like just

652
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 1: that I can still drink after which is great. And

653
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: it's just kind of basic like don't eat like shit, yeah,

654
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: don't eat a lot of sodium, like pretty much stuff

655
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: that I try to do anyway, So it's not a

656
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: huge lifestyle shift for the donor.

657
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for telling your story and

658
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 2: coming on. I really appreciate it. This was awesome, you know,

659
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 2: both an inspiration and you know, hopefully people give more kidneys.

660
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 7: Yeah or blooder or blood or anything. Yeah, all right, good,

661
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 7: I appreciate you guys. Good luck in November. I'm sure

662
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 7: it's going to be amazing. I'm sure it's all going

663
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 7: to take and be beautiful and then within nine months you're.

664
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 2: Going to be partying and having the part.

665
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 3: Well, we'll come back to California.

666
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me know. If you're out here, I'll come

667
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: have a few cocktails. All right, guys, see you later

668
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 2: all right, thanks Oliver, all right, thank you. Ye wow,

669
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: cool aspiring, very nice. Man. I'd give a kidney, I mean,

670
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: would I Yeah, I'd give a kidney to my family member.

671
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: I'd give a kidney do like a best friend probably,

672
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 2: you know, if John or Jesse or Alex or Brian

673
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: or Mark, you know, needed a kidney and I was

674
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,439
Speaker 2: a match saying fuck it, take my goddamn kidney. Take

675
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: my kidney. But you know what you're gonna pay for it,

676
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 2: you know, now you owe me everything. Like That's how

677
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: I would do it. I'd be like, Mark, look, you

678
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 2: can have my kidney, but it's going to cost you,

679
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 2: you know, just you need to weigh this out. You

680
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: can have my kidney, but now, oh man, I can.

681
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 2: You've got to do everything that I want, you know.

682
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 2: It's kind of a nice, kind of a nice thing. Anyway,

683
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 2: those girls were amazing, really inspiring, and I wish them

684
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 2: the best of luck in November and hopefully I get

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Speaker 2: an update. All Right, I'm out, piece