Speaker 1: Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome to a very new and
Speaker 1: very special episode of How Rude taner Ritos. Today we
Speaker 1: are joined by the incredible Dave Coolier.
Speaker 2: Dave has announced that he is.
Speaker 1: Officially cancer free, and it is just so hard to
Speaker 1: put into words how much that truly means to us
Speaker 1: and the rest of our full house family. To celebrate
Speaker 1: Dave kicking cancers, but we wanted to chat with him
Speaker 1: today about his journey and spread some awareness for non
Speaker 1: Hodgkins lymphoma. So please, everybody, Fana Ritos, please put your
Speaker 1: hands together for the man himself.
Speaker 2: Dave Coolier.
Speaker 3: Hi, Poopoo Jay by so many, so many, so.
Speaker 2: All the poopoos.
Speaker 1: It's a poopy Oh my gosh, David, is so great
Speaker 1: to see you.
Speaker 2: You will go to see you.
Speaker 4: I look like a baby bird, like I'm just getting
Speaker 4: my feathers back.
Speaker 2: You got your pin feathers.
Speaker 1: Let's put a live cam on your little nest there.
Speaker 1: You can have a little ball at eagle nest cam.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, Andrea, it happens to be
Speaker 3: an expert on small Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Dave, thank you so much for doing this,
Speaker 1: for joining us today, Like Jody and I are just
Speaker 1: so excited to talk to you and and catch up
Speaker 1: and hear about all of the wonderful news that the
Speaker 1: recent news that you announced.
Speaker 2: Oh we just can't wait.
Speaker 4: Hey did we start yet?
Speaker 3: If you see me making weird jumping noises, I fell
Speaker 3: down my stairs like two days ago and severely injured myself.
Speaker 5: Like I I had to go to the er. It
Speaker 5: was not fun. So I have some serious back issues.
Speaker 3: So you see me like every once in a while, like,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not you don't take it personally.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm an.
Speaker 4: Idiot, Jodey. You can't keep doing this.
Speaker 6: When you get to be my age, stuff just breaks
Speaker 6: in half.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, you got you gotta stop. I mean, I know, I.
Speaker 5: Gotta stop throwing myself down the stairs.
Speaker 4: You know, well tell everybody how you broke your leg.
Speaker 5: Jumping over a stupid small fence. Yeah. See, it's big things,
Speaker 5: it's dumb things.
Speaker 2: It's never doing stunts or anything impressive. It's just a
Speaker 2: normal show.
Speaker 5: Anyway. Back to the big news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, back to back to the very important news.
Speaker 1: Dave. Oh my gosh, Okay, so you recently announced that
Speaker 1: you are cancer.
Speaker 4: French are free.
Speaker 6: Yep, I'm wearing I'm wearing my hockey Uh Fights Cancer
Speaker 6: jersey that I'm now an ambassador with the NHL.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: And so I get to be a spokesman encouraging people,
Speaker 6: you know, to get mammograms and colon oscopy and right, yeah,
Speaker 6: all the stuff.
Speaker 3: That is you know, that is affecting people younger and younger.
Speaker 5: So that's super important.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now I'm going to channel Bob for a second and say,
Speaker 6: you know, I gave Dave his first colonoscopy son, channel
Speaker 6: Bob for a second, right, for free.
Speaker 3: I did it for yeah, not even Cammer or anything
Speaker 3: up there, just you know, for fun and for free.
Speaker 2: Just a probe.
Speaker 5: Just yeah, just is get it going.
Speaker 6: But the other cool thing that happened is Jody set
Speaker 6: me up with her cousin, Shane Jacobson, who's the CEO
Speaker 6: of the v Foundation, which is the largest cancer research
Speaker 6: organization in the United States.
Speaker 4: They've raised over a four hundred million dollars. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: So Jody introduced us and sorry, you guys, you have
Speaker 6: to have cancer to be an ambassador.
Speaker 3: But what about throwing yourself down the stairs?
Speaker 6: Well that's that's it. That's the Flying the Foundation. That's
Speaker 6: a different, different foundation. They raised money for clumsy people.
Speaker 6: Well perfect, yeah, for kletching people. Uh so, Jody and I, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, and here's the talk about full circle.
Speaker 4: Right Andrea the title of your book.
Speaker 6: Shane was a atmosphere actor on Full House when he
Speaker 6: was a kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they came out my family's they're all from Iowa
Speaker 3: and they would come out to visit and Shane and
Speaker 3: his two brothers, Brandon and Brock and they would come out.
Speaker 3: And one time they were out and we were shooting.
Speaker 3: So it was like, hey, you guys want to be
Speaker 3: extras in the in the pirate restaurant scene?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: Yes, he sent me a picture and I'm sitting there
Speaker 6: surrounded by all these kids and he's one of them.
Speaker 2: That's some great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think he sneezed on your spaghetti, was wasn't it?
Speaker 4: He's done my spaghetti?
Speaker 6: And I said, you know, if you become a CEO, someday,
Speaker 6: I will never work with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: True. So weird little moment though.
Speaker 4: I know it was crazy.
Speaker 6: So thank you Jody for you know, connecting us and
Speaker 6: it's it's an amazing organization. It really is three. I
Speaker 6: went to my first V Foundation.
Speaker 4: No. Nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 6: It was started in nineteen ninety three by ESPN and
Speaker 6: the V Foundation with Jimmy Valvano who was a famous
Speaker 6: basketball coach, and he got cancer and eventually passed away,
Speaker 6: but he gave this incredible speech where it's.
Speaker 5: Mind going, it's a beautiful, beautiful, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Don't give up, never, never give up, and it's become
Speaker 6: kind of their mantra for the V Foundation. And I
Speaker 6: went to my first golf tournament down in Carolina and
Speaker 6: I ended up hanging out with Charles Barkley the whole night.
Speaker 6: And the reason he wanted to hang out with me
Speaker 6: is because I was standing on a balcony as where
Speaker 6: everybody's getting ready to go into their golf carts, and
Speaker 6: this large man bent over and I did a fart
Speaker 6: sound and everybody started laughing. So a few more guys
Speaker 6: come over and they go, what are you guys laugh
Speaker 6: doing up here?
Speaker 4: Why are you laughing?
Speaker 6: And he's doing fart sounds every time somebody bends over.
Speaker 6: It Well, people bend over at golf to tie their
Speaker 6: shoes or to go on their golf.
Speaker 4: So I had tons of targets, and so I was doing.
Speaker 6: Different you know, sounds like really low ones and big
Speaker 6: ones for larger people.
Speaker 4: And you're talented funny. It is an amazing talent.
Speaker 1: That's the one time it's really it's like a snowflake.
Speaker 1: There's no two fart sounds alike.
Speaker 2: That's really impressive.
Speaker 6: And farts are universal in any language. A fart will
Speaker 6: make someone laugh. Sony how I went to this golf
Speaker 6: tournament and Charles Barkley saw that I was.
Speaker 4: Making everybody laugh. He hey, Dave, if you come with
Speaker 4: me the whole night.
Speaker 6: And I ended up hanging out with him the whole night,
Speaker 6: and I got him at our entire table to do.
Speaker 4: Power laughs in the restaurant.
Speaker 6: And he was sitting next to me and we're at
Speaker 6: this big round table and I started, and then the
Speaker 6: lady next to me went and he realizes it's coming.
Speaker 4: Around to him.
Speaker 6: After about fifteen people's I'm I'm doing no Paula, finally
Speaker 6: he did a power laugh and he had to get
Speaker 6: up and leave the table because he made himself laugh
Speaker 6: so hard.
Speaker 4: That was my first V Foundation event. And here we
Speaker 4: are today and now I'm wearing this jersey.
Speaker 5: I love it. It sounds amazing.
Speaker 2: What an impression, Like, what a first impression?
Speaker 6: Dave laughs, Like you guys said, you know, you don't
Speaker 6: know where the greats are coming from.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, I found my niche.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so to see that some things haven't changed here.
Speaker 6: Not much has changed here. You know, I'm cancer free you,
Speaker 6: which is nice. That was a battle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us where were you when you found out
Speaker 2: the news.
Speaker 1: Was it a phone call? Was it an office visit
Speaker 1: with the doctor?
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 6: I was here at our house in Michigan, and I
Speaker 6: was battling a little bit of a cold. And then
Speaker 6: you know, sometimes your your lymph nodes swell up in
Speaker 6: your armpits or whatever, you know, as you fight this cold.
Speaker 6: And so I had one in my groin and within
Speaker 6: a few days it got to the size of a
Speaker 6: golf ball. Within five days it was huge. And I
Speaker 6: said to my my wife, mel I said, this isn't
Speaker 6: this isn't normal. She goes, Oh my god, We're going
Speaker 6: to the hospital. So we went to the hospital. They
Speaker 6: checked it out and they said, you know, this could
Speaker 6: be we don't know what it is yet, but let's
Speaker 6: do a biopsy. They buiopsied we waited about seven days,
Speaker 6: and while we were waiting in that seven days, I
Speaker 6: had another lymph node.
Speaker 4: Just kind of explode in my neck.
Speaker 6: And that was cause for alarm because once the nodes
Speaker 6: cross and start to swell across what they call your
Speaker 6: hemisphere of your body from right to left or vice versa,
Speaker 6: it becomes a great concern. And so they really didn't
Speaker 6: know what was going on. And then we got the
Speaker 6: results back. I was here at home by myself. Mel
Speaker 6: was on her way home. She was about twenty minutes out,
Speaker 6: and my two doctors called and we were just kind
Speaker 6: of expecting a call sooner or later, and they said, hey, Dave,
Speaker 6: we wish we had better news, but you have B
Speaker 6: sell non Hodgkin's lymphoma. And I go, what does that mean.
Speaker 6: They said, well, it's a form of cancer and it's
Speaker 6: very aggressive. B cell is super aggressive, so we need to.
Speaker 4: Get on this right away. And I said what does
Speaker 4: that mean?
Speaker 6: And they said, well, like next week you're starting chemo
Speaker 6: and I was like what.
Speaker 4: And you know, you hear.
Speaker 6: Those words when it applies to yourself, and it's just
Speaker 6: mind numbing.
Speaker 4: It's just trying to process.
Speaker 6: Okay, I have cancer and my wife's on her way
Speaker 6: home in ten minutes. And so Mel walked in the
Speaker 6: door and she goes and the first thing she said
Speaker 6: it was so weird. She goes, have you heard any
Speaker 6: news back? And I said, I just got off the
Speaker 6: phone with the doctor's I have cancer. She's like, come stop,
Speaker 6: don't make jokes like that, and I said no, and
Speaker 6: I explained to her what I had and it was
Speaker 6: like I punched her in the stomach. It was just
Speaker 6: like I've never seen a reaction like that from her,
Speaker 6: and we just cried and held each other and I said,
Speaker 6: I think I can turn this into something good, and
Speaker 6: she's like really.
Speaker 4: I said, yeah, I think I can help people.
Speaker 6: I'm going to just tell everybody my story and I'm
Speaker 6: going to encourage people to get tested and had I
Speaker 6: and my doctors told me, they said, look, with this
Speaker 6: kind of lymphoma that you have, because it's so aggressive
Speaker 6: and it grows so quickly, if you to let this
Speaker 6: go a couple more weeks, you wouldn't be stage three.
Speaker 6: You could possibly be stage four, which is a huge difference.
Speaker 6: And so they said, we got it early enough. The
Speaker 6: good thing is it's it's got a ninety five percent
Speaker 6: curability rate. It's the most aggressive lymphoma, but it also
Speaker 6: responds extremely well to chemotherapy. So we're trying to process
Speaker 6: all this stuff. Yeah, and the first thing, you know,
Speaker 6: I did was I just started telling people. You know,
Speaker 6: I think I texted all of you guys in a text. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And I said, you know, I've got to reach out
Speaker 6: to the people who are closest to me first, because
Speaker 6: I don't want them hearing from someone else.
Speaker 4: And so that's what I did.
Speaker 6: I reached out to you guys and family members and friends,
Speaker 6: and I just kind of just wanted people to know,
Speaker 6: but I still kept it kind of close to the vest.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 6: The Today Show called and said, you know, would you
Speaker 6: like to talk about this? And I said, yeah, I would,
Speaker 6: so we food in New York. I did the Today
Speaker 6: Show and it was bizarre. You know, We've all done
Speaker 6: shows where we're promoting something, but this this had a
Speaker 6: really Twilight zone twist to it, like I'm going to
Speaker 6: go on and talk about how sick I am.
Speaker 4: In a different way, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's so personally yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And so I thought, well, this is this is
Speaker 6: probably as real as it's going to ever get for me.
Speaker 6: With the media, and you know, because we when we
Speaker 6: go on shows, we're there to make people laugh and
Speaker 6: we're there to entertain and promote something.
Speaker 4: And this was, okay, what am I promoting?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to promote and encourage people to you know,
Speaker 6: get pre screenings and early detection and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So that was really the only.
Speaker 6: Thing other than tell my story and just make sure
Speaker 6: you get that in there, you know. And so at
Speaker 6: the end, Hoda said to me, you know what you
Speaker 6: did here today and I said, told people I had cancer.
Speaker 6: She's like, you helped a lot of people you're going
Speaker 6: to see. And from that moment there was an explosion.
Speaker 6: Somehow my story struck a nerve with people and we
Speaker 6: started hearing from you know what eventually turned into a
Speaker 6: couple thousand people saying thank you. I'm going to go get,
Speaker 6: you know, a colonoscopy. I wish Bob Sagat was still around,
Speaker 6: but you know, so that's that's kind of been. You know,
Speaker 6: that was the beginning, and then it's just been this
Speaker 6: journey of Okay, let's make it through the rounds of chemotherapy,
Speaker 6: and you know, they say they have to kill you
Speaker 6: in order to save your life, and there were times
Speaker 6: where I felt like I don't know how many more
Speaker 6: of these I can do, you know, and your hair
Speaker 6: falls out, and you get neuropathy, and you get you know,
Speaker 6: you get muscle cramps and spasms and dizziness and vertigo
Speaker 6: and all of these things.
Speaker 4: But everybody's different.
Speaker 6: There's no there's no cookie cutter result for people because
Speaker 6: our physiology is.
Speaker 4: Different and our genetics are different.
Speaker 6: So for me, I was like, after the first two
Speaker 6: times I was skating, I was out on the ice rink,
Speaker 6: and you know, I felt pretty good. But then I
Speaker 6: just if I started here, I went down. Like after
Speaker 6: the third one, it just started to hit me where
Speaker 6: I couldn't I couldn't get out of bed, I had
Speaker 6: shortness of breath, I.
Speaker 4: Was really weak. I was just like, wow, this is
Speaker 4: this is really doing a number on me. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But I have a.
Speaker 2: Great wife, and Melissa is an angel.
Speaker 4: She was amazing, you know.
Speaker 6: She she took care of me and uh, you know,
Speaker 6: I'd have night sweats and she'd go, we gotta we
Speaker 6: gotta chase these sheets, you know again, you know, and
Speaker 6: here's a cold compress, and here's your food, and here's
Speaker 6: your drugs, And I mean she micro managed this in such.
Speaker 4: A way that I will forever be grateful to her
Speaker 4: the way she so valiantly plowed through this.
Speaker 1: And that's just the type of person she is too,
Speaker 1: you know, always willing to do the most for everyone,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to you, you know, her person
Speaker 1: like this was her time to to shine and be
Speaker 1: your rock, you know, after you sure for everyone else.
Speaker 6: For sure, for sure, and you know you always hear
Speaker 6: that that sentiment of you know, through the toughest times
Speaker 6: is when you learn the most about yourself and others.
Speaker 4: And I did. I did, uh, you know, I learned
Speaker 4: how incredible my wife is. And I also learned.
Speaker 6: Just how much a positive attitude can help you plow
Speaker 6: through things.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so admirable. And I've admired this from the
Speaker 1: minute I got your text telling me that you had cancer.
Speaker 1: How positive you are, and I mean, you're a positive person.
Speaker 1: You're funny, you make jokes, that's how you deal with
Speaker 1: difficult topics. But this whole time, like it'd be so
Speaker 1: it would be so understandable just to turn inwards and
Speaker 1: only think about yourself and only just be very private
Speaker 1: about it and just suffer silently alone or just with
Speaker 1: a small circle. But you've been so open and so
Speaker 1: positive and raising this awareness and encouraging, like you said,
Speaker 1: thousands of people to go get tested that Like I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm so in awe of you for.
Speaker 2: Thank you that way.
Speaker 1: Because you don't have no one expects that you don't
Speaker 1: have you have cancer, You're allowed to be selfish and
Speaker 1: to do it however you you know, but you chose
Speaker 1: to do it openly and with advocacy.
Speaker 4: It's so well. Thank you, Andrea. I love you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I love you, Dave.
Speaker 6: I had a lot of cancer in my family. I
Speaker 6: lost my mom, my sister Sharon at thirty six years old.
Speaker 6: I lost my niece Shannon at twenty nine years old.
Speaker 6: My sister Karen is having her own cancer battle right now.
Speaker 6: So they have the Baraka one gene, so it's genetic
Speaker 6: for them. So I saw what they went through and
Speaker 6: I thought to myself, if I can have just ten
Speaker 6: percent of their strength, I'll be able to power through
Speaker 6: this because they went through hell, you know, radical hysterectomies
Speaker 6: and you know misectomies, and and.
Speaker 4: It was you know, it was really tough.
Speaker 6: It was really hard, and I saw the way my
Speaker 6: mom joked through it, my sister joked her way and
Speaker 6: laughed through it, East did, and you know, it.
Speaker 5: Was a lot of it was nothing less from you
Speaker 5: because that is how I mean. But it but it
Speaker 5: really does.
Speaker 3: It changes things like if you can laugh at the
Speaker 3: things that are supposed to be the scariest in the world,
Speaker 3: it feels like it gives you a little power back
Speaker 3: over them.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Well, knowing you guys.
Speaker 6: As well as I do, and our whole group we
Speaker 6: always had, you know, gallows humor. We always yoked through
Speaker 6: the toughest of times. And you know, somehow you come
Speaker 6: out the other side and you make it through tough
Speaker 6: moments like that and you think, well that was actually
Speaker 6: it actually wasn't so bad because you know, we didn't
Speaker 6: stop living life.
Speaker 4: We just kept going.
Speaker 6: And you know that, I mean that says a lot
Speaker 6: of who we are as a group, you know, because
Speaker 6: we tend to laugh at some pretty dark stuff.
Speaker 3: And you know, I remember, I've seen so many of
Speaker 3: my friends recently go through chemo or cancer treatment or
Speaker 3: getting you know, diagnosis, and I just it's so important,
Speaker 3: like you said, to create this kind of awareness.
Speaker 5: And I think we're all in a.
Speaker 3: Position of like people love the Tanner Gladstone, you know,
Speaker 3: they have.
Speaker 5: This sort of affection.
Speaker 3: So it's like when we get to push and promote
Speaker 3: you know, staying healthy and like getting those tests done,
Speaker 3: I think people actually listen.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So, uh so it was really hard, but I'm glad
Speaker 6: that it's in the rear view mirror now and hopefully
Speaker 6: I can, you know, help some other people.
Speaker 1: How much time passed between your last chemo appointment and
Speaker 1: then the good news that your cancer free?
Speaker 4: It was it was about three weeks. Oh wow, so
Speaker 4: there was you know, and I was still pretty sick.
Speaker 4: I ended up at the three week mark.
Speaker 6: My blood levels were so low because after each after
Speaker 6: each chemo treatment, your your red blood cells dive, you know,
Speaker 6: all your levels, your white blood cells, everything, just your
Speaker 6: immune system just kind of crashes. And so I caught
Speaker 6: a cold during that last chemo treatment. I didn't get
Speaker 6: out of bed for ten days, and I knew that
Speaker 6: the cumulative effect of the chemotherapy was going to happen,
Speaker 6: so I attributed it to that instead of realizing I
Speaker 6: have a cold and my immune system can't handle it
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 4: I was in bed for ten days and I was
Speaker 4: really sick. I couldn't move, I couldn't get out of bed.
Speaker 6: And fine, Mel said to me, something else is going on.
Speaker 4: We've got to get a doctor over here.
Speaker 6: And I said, no, it's just really bad chemo side effects,
Speaker 6: and she goes, no, no, no, let's get somebody over
Speaker 6: So of course she said, before the doctor comes over,
Speaker 6: to take your temperature.
Speaker 4: So she took my temperature. She goes, oh, you've got
Speaker 4: a fever. And I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 6: So the doctor came over and he goes, yeah, you got
Speaker 6: a fever. We got to get some antibiotics into you
Speaker 6: right away. And then nothing happened after those antibiotics for
Speaker 6: a couple days. He was like, you know, let me
Speaker 6: know in forty eight hours, if you know, the fever
Speaker 6: comes down. So it didn't, and then they said you
Speaker 6: got to go to the hospital right now. We're looking
Speaker 6: at some tests and things. So I ended up in
Speaker 6: the hospital for four days while they administered an IV
Speaker 6: of antibiotics, waiting for my waiting for my fever to break, and.
Speaker 4: They said, look, we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 6: At that point, my body started secreting these proteins that
Speaker 6: were indicative of a massive heart attack. We don't know
Speaker 6: what's going on, but we don't think you've had, you know,
Speaker 6: a heart attack event. So we're trying to figure out
Speaker 6: what's going on here. And so I was like okay,
Speaker 6: and then they said, okay, we need to you know,
Speaker 6: we're going to take an ultrasal, We're gonna take a
Speaker 6: cat scan, and after that they looked at those pictures,
Speaker 6: they said, you have this thing where it looks like
Speaker 6: shards of glass at the bottom of your lungs, and
Speaker 6: that is a combination of the chemotherapy and the depletion
Speaker 6: of your strength of your lungs, and these things can happen.
Speaker 4: So really I got glass in my lungs.
Speaker 5: Really stop hoffing at you know, Dave, it's it's not
Speaker 5: good for you.
Speaker 4: I was. I was a mess.
Speaker 6: And then we took some other tests and they finally
Speaker 6: boiled it down to I had a rhinovirus, which was attack.
Speaker 6: My immune system couldn't keep up with it. And as
Speaker 6: my immune systems started to regenerate a little bit, I
Speaker 6: started to come back. And on the fifth day they
Speaker 6: finally said, your fever's gone.
Speaker 4: You can go home.
Speaker 6: But they said, had you waited another forty eight hours
Speaker 6: with this, we could have lost you, like you would
Speaker 6: have been in a real battle, because even a cold
Speaker 6: comic cold virus can kill you when your immune system.
Speaker 4: Thanks. Yeah, So that was kind of at the end.
Speaker 6: And then we got the results back from my pet
Speaker 6: scan and they said, there, the one in your neck
Speaker 6: is flaring, so we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4: So then of course I had to go and get
Speaker 4: a biopsy.
Speaker 6: And at that time Mel and I had the talk
Speaker 6: and I said, look, this could go south here, like
Speaker 6: this is not looking great and I don't know what
Speaker 6: they're going to find in my neck here. But this
Speaker 6: thing flared on my final pet scan, so they said
Speaker 6: we got to do a biopsy. Went in, got a biopsy,
Speaker 6: and they gave me what's the crazy drug of fentanyl?
Speaker 3: Oh wowe one of the ones that's just weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, holy smokes.
Speaker 6: So I'm sitting there on the operating table and I'm
Speaker 6: looking at the little screen and the guy's movement the
Speaker 6: ultrasound thing around. Oh okay, there it is. We can
Speaker 6: get at it and we can get needles in there
Speaker 6: to take some biopsies. I'm sitting there, she and the nurse.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm hooked up. She says, are you ready
Speaker 6: for your little trip? And I said yeah, and she
Speaker 6: goes here it comes, and I was like, whoa. It
Speaker 6: was immediate, and I just thought, Okay, I see what
Speaker 6: all the fuss is about, because man, I was quickly
Speaker 6: on a banana boat to Cuba.
Speaker 4: I was, I was gone, and I was just like wow.
Speaker 6: And so afterwards they said, do you remember you had
Speaker 6: us laugh and do you remember? And I said, I no,
Speaker 6: not really, I fell. I was conscious the whole time,
Speaker 6: but I must have gone away somewhere. And so they said, oh,
Speaker 6: you were making jokes and some really off color stuff
Speaker 6: and waiting.
Speaker 4: Joe Gladstone talked like that.
Speaker 5: All right, you guys.
Speaker 3: This wraps up part one of our amazing interview with
Speaker 3: the beloved Dave Coolier. And we could not be happier
Speaker 3: to see our friend taking his life back and just
Speaker 3: doing so well.
Speaker 5: We love him so much.
Speaker 3: We are eternally grateful to Dave for being so transparent
Speaker 3: and spreading awareness along with the v Foundation for Non
Speaker 3: Hodgkins Lymphoma. So tune in this Friday for part two
Speaker 3: of its conversation and uh and we will see you then,
Speaker 3: and if you want to see any of the behind
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Speaker 5: We will see you guys next time, because the house
Speaker 5: is really full.
Speaker 3: Love love,