WEBVTT - Some Time With... Dave Coulier! (Part 1) 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.639 Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome to a very new and 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:27.320 very special episode of How Rude taner Ritos. Today we 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.800 are joined by the incredible Dave Coolier. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:32.639 Dave has announced that he is. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.280 Officially cancer free, and it is just so hard to 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.800 put into words how much that truly means to us 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.479 and the rest of our full house family. To celebrate 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.879 Dave kicking cancers, but we wanted to chat with him 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.160 today about his journey and spread some awareness for non 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.000 Hodgkins lymphoma. So please, everybody, Fana Ritos, please put your 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.440 hands together for the man himself. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:55.440 Dave Coolier. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:03.120 Hi, Poopoo Jay by so many, so many, so. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:04.120 All the poopoos. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:09.199 It's a poopy Oh my gosh, David, is so great 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:10.160 to see you. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:11.440 You will go to see you. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.479 I look like a baby bird, like I'm just getting 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:17.559 my feathers back. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.199 You got your pin feathers. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.840 Let's put a live cam on your little nest there. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.040 You can have a little ball at eagle nest cam. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.080 I was just gonna say, Andrea, it happens to be 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.840 an expert on small Yeah. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.039 Absolutely love it. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.240 Oh my gosh, Dave, thank you so much for doing this, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.959 for joining us today, Like Jody and I are just 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.160 so excited to talk to you and and catch up 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.200 and hear about all of the wonderful news that the 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:44.800 recent news that you announced. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:45.680 Oh we just can't wait. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.760 Hey did we start yet? 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.840 If you see me making weird jumping noises, I fell 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.440 down my stairs like two days ago and severely injured myself. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.080 Like I I had to go to the er. It 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.480 was not fun. So I have some serious back issues. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.040 So you see me like every once in a while, like, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.280 it's not it's not you don't take it personally. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:06.320 I'm I'm an. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.160 Idiot, Jodey. You can't keep doing this. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.960 When you get to be my age, stuff just breaks 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:12.480 in half. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.560 That's yeah, you got you gotta stop. I mean, I know, I. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.240 Gotta stop throwing myself down the stairs. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.480 You know, well tell everybody how you broke your leg. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.080 Jumping over a stupid small fence. Yeah. See, it's big things, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:26.840 it's dumb things. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.639 It's never doing stunts or anything impressive. It's just a 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:31.560 normal show. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.240 Anyway. Back to the big news. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.760 Yeah, back to back to the very important news. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.440 Dave. Oh my gosh, Okay, so you recently announced that 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:41.840 you are cancer. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:42.680 French are free. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:47.320 Yep, I'm wearing I'm wearing my hockey Uh Fights Cancer 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.000 jersey that I'm now an ambassador with the NHL. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:53.880 Oh my gosh. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.400 And so I get to be a spokesman encouraging people, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:02.000 you know, to get mammograms and colon oscopy and right, yeah, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:03.359 all the stuff. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.760 That is you know, that is affecting people younger and younger. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:07.680 So that's super important. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:08.119 Yeah. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.280 Now I'm going to channel Bob for a second and say, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:16.880 you know, I gave Dave his first colonoscopy son, channel 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:21.160 Bob for a second, right, for free. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.720 I did it for yeah, not even Cammer or anything 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.000 up there, just you know, for fun and for free. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.120 Just a probe. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.160 Just yeah, just is get it going. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.440 But the other cool thing that happened is Jody set 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.520 me up with her cousin, Shane Jacobson, who's the CEO 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.680 of the v Foundation, which is the largest cancer research 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.800 organization in the United States. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.560 They've raised over a four hundred million dollars. It's crazy. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:49.360 Wow. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:54.560 So Jody introduced us and sorry, you guys, you have 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.240 to have cancer to be an ambassador. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:01.360 But what about throwing yourself down the stairs? 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:07.520 Well that's that's it. That's the Flying the Foundation. That's 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.680 a different, different foundation. They raised money for clumsy people. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:18.760 Well perfect, yeah, for kletching people. Uh so, Jody and I, uh, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.240 you know, and here's the talk about full circle. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.559 Right Andrea the title of your book. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:34.359 Shane was a atmosphere actor on Full House when he 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.240 was a kid. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.800 Yeah, they came out my family's they're all from Iowa 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.240 and they would come out to visit and Shane and 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.520 his two brothers, Brandon and Brock and they would come out. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.479 And one time they were out and we were shooting. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:48.560 So it was like, hey, you guys want to be 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.640 extras in the in the pirate restaurant scene? 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:52.920 Right? 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.760 Yes, he sent me a picture and I'm sitting there 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.240 surrounded by all these kids and he's one of them. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:00.599 That's some great. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:01.400 Yeah. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.440 I think he sneezed on your spaghetti, was wasn't it? 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:05.960 He's done my spaghetti? 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.000 And I said, you know, if you become a CEO, someday, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.360 I will never work with you. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:14.360 Yeah. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.480 True. So weird little moment though. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:20.840 I know it was crazy. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.720 So thank you Jody for you know, connecting us and 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:31.440 it's it's an amazing organization. It really is three. I 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.680 went to my first V Foundation. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.960 No. Nineteen ninety five. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.000 It was started in nineteen ninety three by ESPN and 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.440 the V Foundation with Jimmy Valvano who was a famous 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.040 basketball coach, and he got cancer and eventually passed away, 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.599 but he gave this incredible speech where it's. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.640 Mind going, it's a beautiful, beautiful, Yeah, I. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.120 Don't give up, never, never give up, and it's become 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.560 kind of their mantra for the V Foundation. And I 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.360 went to my first golf tournament down in Carolina and 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.080 I ended up hanging out with Charles Barkley the whole night. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.359 And the reason he wanted to hang out with me 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.000 is because I was standing on a balcony as where 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.360 everybody's getting ready to go into their golf carts, and 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.400 this large man bent over and I did a fart 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:30.400 sound and everybody started laughing. So a few more guys 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.040 come over and they go, what are you guys laugh 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:32.840 doing up here? 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:33.719 Why are you laughing? 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.440 And he's doing fart sounds every time somebody bends over. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.200 It Well, people bend over at golf to tie their 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.040 shoes or to go on their golf. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.280 So I had tons of targets, and so I was doing. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.800 Different you know, sounds like really low ones and big 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.040 ones for larger people. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.599 And you're talented funny. It is an amazing talent. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.719 That's the one time it's really it's like a snowflake. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.400 There's no two fart sounds alike. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:03.960 That's really impressive. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.920 And farts are universal in any language. A fart will 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.840 make someone laugh. Sony how I went to this golf 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.240 tournament and Charles Barkley saw that I was. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.800 Making everybody laugh. He hey, Dave, if you come with 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:17.600 me the whole night. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.080 And I ended up hanging out with him the whole night, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.320 and I got him at our entire table to do. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.120 Power laughs in the restaurant. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.160 And he was sitting next to me and we're at 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.040 this big round table and I started, and then the 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.400 lady next to me went and he realizes it's coming. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:36.840 Around to him. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.720 After about fifteen people's I'm I'm doing no Paula, finally 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.440 he did a power laugh and he had to get 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.920 up and leave the table because he made himself laugh 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.360 so hard. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.800 That was my first V Foundation event. And here we 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.800 are today and now I'm wearing this jersey. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.000 I love it. It sounds amazing. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.720 What an impression, Like, what a first impression? 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:08.400 Dave laughs, Like you guys said, you know, you don't 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:09.920 know where the greats are coming from. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.720 And uh, you know, I found my niche. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.120 Yeah, that's so to see that some things haven't changed here. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.320 Not much has changed here. You know, I'm cancer free you, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.480 which is nice. That was a battle. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.480 Yeah, tell us where were you when you found out 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:35.000 the news. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.360 Was it a phone call? Was it an office visit 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:38.000 with the doctor? 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:39.480 I was. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.400 I was here at our house in Michigan, and I 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.960 was battling a little bit of a cold. And then 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.520 you know, sometimes your your lymph nodes swell up in 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.920 your armpits or whatever, you know, as you fight this cold. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.720 And so I had one in my groin and within 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.400 a few days it got to the size of a 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.040 golf ball. Within five days it was huge. And I 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.679 said to my my wife, mel I said, this isn't 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.160 this isn't normal. She goes, Oh my god, We're going 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.480 to the hospital. So we went to the hospital. They 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.920 checked it out and they said, you know, this could 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.640 be we don't know what it is yet, but let's 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.120 do a biopsy. They buiopsied we waited about seven days, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.520 and while we were waiting in that seven days, I 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:20.959 had another lymph node. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.760 Just kind of explode in my neck. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:27.079 And that was cause for alarm because once the nodes 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.840 cross and start to swell across what they call your 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.520 hemisphere of your body from right to left or vice versa, 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.679 it becomes a great concern. And so they really didn't 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.640 know what was going on. And then we got the 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.280 results back. I was here at home by myself. Mel 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.320 was on her way home. She was about twenty minutes out, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.640 and my two doctors called and we were just kind 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.160 of expecting a call sooner or later, and they said, hey, Dave, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.320 we wish we had better news, but you have B 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.559 sell non Hodgkin's lymphoma. And I go, what does that mean. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.000 They said, well, it's a form of cancer and it's 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.080 very aggressive. B cell is super aggressive, so we need to. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.360 Get on this right away. And I said what does 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:09.800 that mean? 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.920 And they said, well, like next week you're starting chemo 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.040 and I was like what. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.240 And you know, you hear. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.720 Those words when it applies to yourself, and it's just 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:21.960 mind numbing. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.080 It's just trying to process. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.680 Okay, I have cancer and my wife's on her way 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.360 home in ten minutes. And so Mel walked in the 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.160 door and she goes and the first thing she said 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.720 it was so weird. She goes, have you heard any 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.560 news back? And I said, I just got off the 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.720 phone with the doctor's I have cancer. She's like, come stop, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.679 don't make jokes like that, and I said no, and 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.160 I explained to her what I had and it was 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.559 like I punched her in the stomach. It was just 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.280 like I've never seen a reaction like that from her, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.800 and we just cried and held each other and I said, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.920 I think I can turn this into something good, and 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.400 she's like really. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.079 I said, yeah, I think I can help people. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.400 I'm going to just tell everybody my story and I'm 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.160 going to encourage people to get tested and had I 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.440 and my doctors told me, they said, look, with this 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.079 kind of lymphoma that you have, because it's so aggressive 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.360 and it grows so quickly, if you to let this 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.240 go a couple more weeks, you wouldn't be stage three. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.320 You could possibly be stage four, which is a huge difference. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.880 And so they said, we got it early enough. The 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.160 good thing is it's it's got a ninety five percent 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:35.240 curability rate. It's the most aggressive lymphoma, but it also 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:40.120 responds extremely well to chemotherapy. So we're trying to process 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.760 all this stuff. Yeah, and the first thing, you know, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.120 I did was I just started telling people. You know, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.360 I think I texted all of you guys in a text. Yeah, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.640 And I said, you know, I've got to reach out 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.880 to the people who are closest to me first, because 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.240 I don't want them hearing from someone else. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.200 And so that's what I did. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.560 I reached out to you guys and family members and friends, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.000 and I just kind of just wanted people to know, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.480 but I still kept it kind of close to the vest. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:11.800 And then. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.400 The Today Show called and said, you know, would you 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.480 like to talk about this? And I said, yeah, I would, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.319 so we food in New York. I did the Today 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.760 Show and it was bizarre. You know, We've all done 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:30.120 shows where we're promoting something, but this this had a 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.120 really Twilight zone twist to it, like I'm going to 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.280 go on and talk about how sick I am. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.240 In a different way, you. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.640 Know, it's so personally yeah. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.040 Yeah, And so I thought, well, this is this is 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.480 probably as real as it's going to ever get for me. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.959 With the media, and you know, because we when we 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.600 go on shows, we're there to make people laugh and 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.480 we're there to entertain and promote something. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.360 And this was, okay, what am I promoting? 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.240 Well, I'm going to promote and encourage people to you know, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.120 get pre screenings and early detection and all that stuff. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:11.960 So that was really the only. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.280 Thing other than tell my story and just make sure 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.880 you get that in there, you know. And so at 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.040 the end, Hoda said to me, you know what you 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.040 did here today and I said, told people I had cancer. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.200 She's like, you helped a lot of people you're going 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.240 to see. And from that moment there was an explosion. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.360 Somehow my story struck a nerve with people and we 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.240 started hearing from you know what eventually turned into a 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.560 couple thousand people saying thank you. I'm going to go get, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:47.160 you know, a colonoscopy. I wish Bob Sagat was still around, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.480 but you know, so that's that's kind of been. You know, 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.760 that was the beginning, and then it's just been this 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.920 journey of Okay, let's make it through the rounds of chemotherapy, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.040 and you know, they say they have to kill you 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.640 in order to save your life, and there were times 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.280 where I felt like I don't know how many more 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.240 of these I can do, you know, and your hair 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:17.120 falls out, and you get neuropathy, and you get you know, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:22.880 you get muscle cramps and spasms and dizziness and vertigo 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.600 and all of these things. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:25.960 But everybody's different. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.840 There's no there's no cookie cutter result for people because 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.040 our physiology is. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.720 Different and our genetics are different. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.040 So for me, I was like, after the first two 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.640 times I was skating, I was out on the ice rink, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.960 and you know, I felt pretty good. But then I 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.680 just if I started here, I went down. Like after 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.120 the third one, it just started to hit me where 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.200 I couldn't I couldn't get out of bed, I had 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:53.640 shortness of breath, I. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.040 Was really weak. I was just like, wow, this is 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.160 this is really doing a number on me. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.200 But I have a. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.880 Great wife, and Melissa is an angel. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.040 She was amazing, you know. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.920 She she took care of me and uh, you know, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.640 I'd have night sweats and she'd go, we gotta we 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.040 gotta chase these sheets, you know again, you know, and 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.440 here's a cold compress, and here's your food, and here's 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.680 your drugs, And I mean she micro managed this in such. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.160 A way that I will forever be grateful to her 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.960 the way she so valiantly plowed through this. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.480 And that's just the type of person she is too, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.480 you know, always willing to do the most for everyone, 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.360 but when it comes to you, you know, her person 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.560 like this was her time to to shine and be 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.880 your rock, you know, after you sure for everyone else. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.840 For sure, for sure, and you know you always hear 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.840 that that sentiment of you know, through the toughest times 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.480 is when you learn the most about yourself and others. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.720 And I did. I did, uh, you know, I learned 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.760 how incredible my wife is. And I also learned. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:17.280 Just how much a positive attitude can help you plow 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:17.960 through things. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:19.160 Yeah. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.440 Yeah, it's so admirable. And I've admired this from the 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.640 minute I got your text telling me that you had cancer. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.480 How positive you are, and I mean, you're a positive person. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.400 You're funny, you make jokes, that's how you deal with 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.680 difficult topics. But this whole time, like it'd be so 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.920 it would be so understandable just to turn inwards and 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.680 only think about yourself and only just be very private 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.520 about it and just suffer silently alone or just with 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.240 a small circle. But you've been so open and so 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.680 positive and raising this awareness and encouraging, like you said, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.120 thousands of people to go get tested that Like I'm 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.200 just I'm so in awe of you for. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:16:59.560 Thank you that way. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.640 Because you don't have no one expects that you don't 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.920 have you have cancer, You're allowed to be selfish and 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.439 to do it however you you know, but you chose 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.360 to do it openly and with advocacy. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:14.520 It's so well. Thank you, Andrea. I love you, Thank you. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.440 I love you, Dave. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.320 I had a lot of cancer in my family. I 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.680 lost my mom, my sister Sharon at thirty six years old. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.200 I lost my niece Shannon at twenty nine years old. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.440 My sister Karen is having her own cancer battle right now. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.680 So they have the Baraka one gene, so it's genetic 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:44.280 for them. So I saw what they went through and 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.960 I thought to myself, if I can have just ten 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.280 percent of their strength, I'll be able to power through 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.760 this because they went through hell, you know, radical hysterectomies 0:17:54.800 --> 0:18:00.200 and you know misectomies, and and. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.680 It was you know, it was really tough. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.199 It was really hard, and I saw the way my 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.199 mom joked through it, my sister joked her way and 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.880 laughed through it, East did, and you know, it. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.240 Was a lot of it was nothing less from you 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.480 because that is how I mean. But it but it 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:18.120 really does. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.800 It changes things like if you can laugh at the 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.359 things that are supposed to be the scariest in the world, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.720 it feels like it gives you a little power back 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:28.119 over them. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.200 Yeah. Yeah, Well, knowing you guys. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.520 As well as I do, and our whole group we 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:40.400 always had, you know, gallows humor. We always yoked through 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.760 the toughest of times. And you know, somehow you come 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.840 out the other side and you make it through tough 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:53.520 moments like that and you think, well that was actually 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.480 it actually wasn't so bad because you know, we didn't 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:58.520 stop living life. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.680 We just kept going. 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.160 And you know that, I mean that says a lot 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.280 of who we are as a group, you know, because 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.240 we tend to laugh at some pretty dark stuff. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.400 And you know, I remember, I've seen so many of 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.679 my friends recently go through chemo or cancer treatment or 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.880 getting you know, diagnosis, and I just it's so important, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.200 like you said, to create this kind of awareness. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:27.880 And I think we're all in a. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.199 Position of like people love the Tanner Gladstone, you know, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:32.879 they have. 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.800 This sort of affection. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.879 So it's like when we get to push and promote 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.400 you know, staying healthy and like getting those tests done, 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:41.840 I think people actually listen. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.240 Yeah. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:50.199 So, uh so it was really hard, but I'm glad 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.640 that it's in the rear view mirror now and hopefully 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.720 I can, you know, help some other people. 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.280 How much time passed between your last chemo appointment and 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.520 then the good news that your cancer free? 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:08.560 It was it was about three weeks. Oh wow, so 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.160 there was you know, and I was still pretty sick. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.800 I ended up at the three week mark. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.680 My blood levels were so low because after each after 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:25.119 each chemo treatment, your your red blood cells dive, you know, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.160 all your levels, your white blood cells, everything, just your 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.320 immune system just kind of crashes. And so I caught 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:37.760 a cold during that last chemo treatment. I didn't get 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.280 out of bed for ten days, and I knew that 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.720 the cumulative effect of the chemotherapy was going to happen, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:48.760 so I attributed it to that instead of realizing I 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.040 have a cold and my immune system can't handle it 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:52.520 right now. 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.000 I was in bed for ten days and I was 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.720 really sick. I couldn't move, I couldn't get out of bed. 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.639 And fine, Mel said to me, something else is going on. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.040 We've got to get a doctor over here. 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.240 And I said, no, it's just really bad chemo side effects, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.200