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Speaker 1: Two Teas in a Pod with Teddy Mellencamp and camera Judge.

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Speaker 2: Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of Two Teas in

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Speaker 2: a Pod with myself, Teddy Mellencaan.

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Speaker 3: And Tambra Judge. Hey, Teddy, Hey, Hi, Hi.

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Speaker 2: I'm calling you from the actual room where I'm getting

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Speaker 2: my immunotherapy treatment.

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Speaker 3: I understand that, I understand you have an update for us.

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Speaker 3: You just had a scan done.

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Speaker 4: I do.

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Speaker 2: I have an update, so in exciting news. So last

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Speaker 2: time they had checked soulely my brain and those tumors

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Speaker 2: are shrinking. And then today I had the scan and

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Speaker 2: where they checked my lungs and they are shrinking and

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Speaker 2: one of them has shrunk so much you can barely

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Speaker 2: even see it.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 2: So it's really really good news. I'm definitely so relieved.

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Speaker 2: I'm also a little bit like, if I sound a

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Speaker 2: little weird, it's because I'm in the middle of them

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Speaker 2: in a therapy treatment right now. But what they said

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Speaker 2: was this is good news. That means my body is

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Speaker 2: responding to everything. But I do need to live on

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Speaker 2: immunotherapy for the next two years. So every four weeks

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Speaker 2: for the next two years, I have to come in

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Speaker 2: and get that done. So and then every three months

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Speaker 2: I get another scan and we check to make sure

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Speaker 2: that everything is where it is. But the part that

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Speaker 2: I was confused about. I thought that, like, once the

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Speaker 2: tumors start going away, I'm like, so, does that mean

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Speaker 2: I'm cancer free? And he's like no, He's like you,

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Speaker 2: we will let you know when you're in remission. But

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Speaker 2: at this point, everything's just heading the correct way.

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Speaker 3: So immunotherapy ever for two years every four weeks, is

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Speaker 3: that just controlling it or is it curing it?

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Speaker 2: It's both. It's making sure that it's getting smaller and

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Speaker 2: then let's say that it gets so small that it disappears.

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Speaker 2: It's making sure that it won't form anywhere else in

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Speaker 2: my body.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so it's.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so something that I've learned today. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: So the reason they were able to do this treatment

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Speaker 2: on me, because remember radiation didn't work and the tumors

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Speaker 2: were getting bigger, and like I was only able to

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Speaker 2: get certain surgeries is because over at Feeders Clinic, there

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Speaker 2: is everything in one spot. So because of that, they

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Speaker 2: can do multiple treatments and figure out what works for

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Speaker 2: you individually. So I think what ends up happening to

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Speaker 2: a lot of people. If you know, this is why

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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that I live in California. Is they

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Speaker 2: go to you know, they have to go to all

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Speaker 2: these different doctors at different locations, where mine is kind

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Speaker 2: of like a one stop shop. That's great, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: so's it's really good news.

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Speaker 3: Do you have another one in three weeks and then

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Speaker 3: after that you do every four weeks or from now

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Speaker 3: on it only every four weeks.

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Speaker 2: This is my last one. This is so Also right now,

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Speaker 2: I'm on three medications when I'm doing the immunotherapy, and

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Speaker 2: I was very concerned. I mean, granted, this is going

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Speaker 2: to sound wild, considering I should just be thrilled regardless,

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Speaker 2: but I was like, on these current medications, I still

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Speaker 2: feel really sick. Yeah, and especially like after day six,

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Speaker 2: I get really sick. And he said, well, for this

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Speaker 2: one that you're doing right now, you'll still be on

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Speaker 2: the three medications, but then it rotates and you'll be

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Speaker 2: immune to it, so you don't get as sick. I

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Speaker 2: thought it was pretty which I thought was pretty interesting

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Speaker 2: because I was a little bit worried about having to

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Speaker 2: when I get super emotional on certain days. But I

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Speaker 2: think that the fact that this is all moving in

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Speaker 2: a smooth pass forward is is really good news. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just the fact that your the tumors are

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Speaker 3: responding to the immunotherapy is just absolutely amazing because there

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Speaker 3: could have been a chance that they would not have

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Speaker 2: And then the part that's even more wild. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, somebody invited me to go skydiving tomorrow? Can

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Speaker 3: You're not going? You're not I'm not allowing you to

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Speaker 2: Well, that's not actually what he said. He said, Yes,

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Speaker 2: of course you can go. No, you can do app

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Speaker 2: he goes, you can do absolutely anything. And then but

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Speaker 2: this is the best part. I go, well, can I drive?

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Speaker 2: And he goes, Nope, not for three more weeks because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not really getting sky dive.

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Speaker 2: Hard No, three more months, by the way, three more.

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Speaker 3: You're not really gonna skydive, right, No.

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Speaker 2: Why would you take me seriously? You think I'm going

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Speaker 2: to make an effort to go somewhere to go skydiving.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I just want to I never know with you,

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Speaker 3: I just want to make sure.

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Speaker 2: Well. I just wanted to make sure that any people

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Speaker 2: don't give me any flack, like, oh, you're riding horses,

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Speaker 2: you're on an airplane, you're doing anything.

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Speaker 3: You can do whatever you want as long as it's

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Speaker 3: not skydiving. I tell that to Eddie.

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Speaker 2: Said, well, he said, you know, the fact that you're

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Speaker 2: so many things has helped your body heal because you're

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Speaker 2: doing things that you love. Oh that was really cool.

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Speaker 3: So why did they how did they determine two years?

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Speaker 3: Do you know.

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Speaker 2: That's I don't know if that's standard protocol. But I said,

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Speaker 2: like kind of lifted his glasses up and he looked

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Speaker 3: And then after the two years did he say.

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Speaker 2: No, No, you go to like tend you're like my dad,

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Speaker 2: My dad came into town for this. The first thing

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Speaker 2: get my scans where I have to drink that like

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Speaker 2: And then I go get my scans and I come

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Speaker 2: my results, and then my dad and him are making

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Speaker 2: small talk. Finally I'm like, hey, gentlemen, any chance we

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Speaker 3: What'd your dad say about the results?

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Speaker 2: He goes, so you're cured. I go, Dad, yes, I'm

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Speaker 2: much better, but I am not cured yet, which AKA

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Speaker 2: means you still I still got to be the favorite,

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Speaker 2: and you still got to be the nicest to me

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Speaker 2: because I'm still fighting.

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Speaker 3: So you're gonna milk him, You're gonna mak Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you such good news, and I just wanted

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Speaker 2: And I know that I'm not going to be on

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Speaker 2: but then I am back and hopefully in full force

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Speaker 2: starting on June first. So I just kind of wanted

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Speaker 2: to give everybody a headset that I'm doing okay, and

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Speaker 2: I'm really appreciating Cam and to Dolores and everybody and

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Speaker 2: iHeart for filling in and being able to do so

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Speaker 2: much with me no matter how I'm feeling, They're able

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Speaker 2: to figure out ways to work around my schedule. So

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Speaker 2: I'm really grateful to you guys. But I am hoping

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Speaker 2: my dream, my goal is along with sky diving, is

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Speaker 2: being back, being back full time on the pod around

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Speaker 2: June first. That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Happy, Thanks dabe.

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Speaker 2: We did it. Looks like we made it.

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Speaker 3: No today was I knew today was so stressful for you.

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Speaker 3: And we were chatting a little bit this morning and

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, it's going to be great news. It's

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Speaker 3: great news, and this is great news.

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Speaker 2: It's very good news. And now I just have to

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Speaker 2: keep staying on it and make sure that I and

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Speaker 2: you know, listen to my body. If there's a day

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Speaker 2: because I'm not doing treatment as often, I'm still in

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Speaker 2: recovery and I still need to be taking care of myself.

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Speaker 3: That's right, all right. So you're doing immunotherapy as we

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Speaker 3: talk right now? How long does that last?

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Speaker 2: Two hours?

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Speaker 3: Okay? When you do this moving forward, is it still

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Speaker 3: the same amount of time and immunotherapy? Is it shorter.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be shorter because it's two

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Speaker 2: it switches to just one bag.

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Speaker 3: Yay.

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Speaker 2: But I love you, Tom, thank you so much for everything. Yes,

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Speaker 2: all right, well, and I need all of your updates

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Speaker 2: soon and hopefully I'm going to be just more and

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Speaker 2: more with it. And then I'm like, well, can I

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Speaker 2: stop my you know, medic, my other medications, And he's like, nope,

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Speaker 3: Pay no pain.

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Speaker 2: The pain is great. I'm actually in here right now.

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Speaker 2: This is pretty crazy. I'm in here right now with

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Speaker 2: my doctor. Can you explain a little bit I've talked

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Speaker 2: I did. All you guys are putting you on with

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Speaker 2: my doctor, who I've made his life probably living hell,

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Speaker 2: but either way, we're working through it, and he's going

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Speaker 2: to walk you guys through immuta therapy because a lot

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Speaker 2: of you don't even know what immuna therapy is because

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Speaker 2: to my knowledge, it's only been around about ten years.

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Speaker 2: And I believe my doctor was the founder of immunotherapy. Hah,

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Speaker 4: He is all right, well, that Teddy is an expert

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Speaker 4: in hyperbole, But what she meant to say is that

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Speaker 4: on this type of immunotherapy she's getting. Immunotherapy has been

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Speaker 4: known for many years to work to cause the resolution

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Speaker 4: used to give BCG into tumors and create an immune inflammation.

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Speaker 4: We know that that should happen because just like your

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Speaker 4: what's working for Teddy. It's important to know that those

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Speaker 4: Well, I think you need to first talk to your

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Speaker 4: So you can go to your foundations. This is a

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Speaker 4: nice way to give a plug because it's Melanima Awareness

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Speaker 4: Everybody is different. Everybody is different, and so that's why

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Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter as statistics are for you know,

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Speaker 2: That's good. Thanks you. All right, so we got to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot of information, some good news.

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Speaker 3: So Teddy, I will talk to you after yourmunotherapy. I

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Speaker 3: hope that you're feeling good after that and we'll talk soon.

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Speaker 4: Ye bye, Mabe bye.