1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:01,600 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny G 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 3: Radio who is away And we have another Danny. We're 13 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 3: gonna welcome here in a second. But it is the 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 3: eighteenth day of a The NBA playoffs begin tomorrow, and 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 3: I am not into the playing experience, so we'll focus 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 3: on that when the time comes. But hanging out with us, 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 3: and we're gonna take you on a wild journey through 18 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 3: the time space continuum. Another Danny, not Danny G, but 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 3: Danny Efron, who I should I should preface this by saying, 20 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 3: you have insider information, Danny, because I have known you 21 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 3: your entire life and you have known me my entire life, 22 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 3: because we were related. 23 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 4: So exactly, we. 24 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 3: Go back, we go back, and you've got a crazy 25 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 3: story that I've actually kind of told your story a 26 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 3: little bit, Danny, but I haven't gone into the full 27 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 3: depth of your story. So you're going to hang out 28 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: with us, and you are you consider yourself a New Yorker? 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: You were not born in New York, but you grew up. 30 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 4: I do consider myself a New Yorker because my formative 31 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 4: years were all spent in New York from seven to eighteen, so, 32 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 4: you know, going through my bar Mitzvah adolescence, you know, 33 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 4: being a huge sports fan, playing high school ball. You know, yeah, 34 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 4: New York was it for me. So I still claim 35 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 4: New York. 36 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 3: Yes, And I have given you our time because, unlike 37 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 3: like all the other New York people, usually if you're 38 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 3: a if you're a Yankees fan, you're a Giants fan, 39 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 3: and if you're a Mets fan, you're you're a Jets fan. 40 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,639 Speaker 1: But you've crossed the streams, Danny. 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 4: I have. Yeah, Well, it's a Yankees fan because I 42 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 4: grew up right on that side of you know, Westsire County, 43 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 4: like twenty minutes from the stadium. And then I'm a 44 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 4: Jets fan because my best friend growing up had season 45 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 4: tickets to the Jets, so he would take me every Sunday. 46 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 4: So I have a lot of heartache on that side. 47 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: There you go, if you had had a Giants fan 48 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: here you you would have been a Giants fan and 49 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 3: all that exactly. 50 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 4: Trust me. After this last couple of seasons, I'm kind 51 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 4: of mad at my friend for that. 52 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 3: But I know you were actually you actually believed you 53 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 3: were drinking the kool aid, the green kool aid for 54 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers. 55 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I was big time. I got the jersey 56 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 4: and everything. 57 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 3: Yeah. And now, well obviously it didn't work out so well. 58 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: And hey, you are a next fan and the next begin. Hey, tomorrow, 59 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 3: the Knicks are a seven point favorite. 60 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: Now, I don't know, Danny. 61 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 3: The Knicks did not exactly impress me down the stretch here. 62 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 3: They they should beat the Pistons. 63 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 4: But yeah, I hear you. I think they'll beat the Pistons. 64 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 4: I don't think, you know, championships on our plate this year, 65 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 4: but I think that we were full health nil Mitchell 66 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 4: Robinson's back. I think I think we can go through 67 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 4: the Pistons pretty. I wouldn't say his light work, but 68 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 4: I would say five or six games. 69 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 3: Five or six games, all right, there you go put 70 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 3: your money down. Nix are favorite by seven seven in 71 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 3: the first game. Today's National World Amateur Radio Day. I 72 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 3: had to mention that because my dad and your uncle Danny, 73 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 3: this was his life's passion, was ham radio and today's 74 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 3: National Ham Radio. There is a day for everything but 75 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 3: National hand Radio today Today eighteen eighty eight, somebody named 76 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 3: Henry Henry Rudolph. I don't even know who that is, 77 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 3: but he proved the existence of radio waves, which in 78 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 3: many ways, not only my it was my dad's hobby, 79 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 3: but my entire professional career has been based on on 80 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 3: most of the radio stuff. So but yeah, so national. 81 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: I don't know how you celebrate National Ham Radio Day. 82 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. We have some Ham radio guys. 83 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 4: I don't know. I guess us the Morse code a 84 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 4: little bit. 85 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: That was my problem. 86 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 3: You know. My dad wanted me to get into Ham radio, 87 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 3: and I back in those days when I was a kid, 88 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 3: you had to get a license, and I was so stupid. 89 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out Morse code. I couldn't. I couldn't 90 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: figure it out. 91 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 3: It's so if now I don't think you have to 92 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: do it anymore. I think I probably get a Ham 93 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 3: radio license now, but when I was younger, like I 94 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 3: can be on a commercial radio and that's fine, but 95 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 3: actual like Ham radio, I'm not qualified. 96 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't at the time, so and yeah. 97 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you probably chose a better route though. 98 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: Well financially it's not. Okay, it's been a it's been 99 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: a while. 100 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: It's a there's also National Animal Cracker Day today on 101 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 3: this Friday, so National Cracker Day. 102 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: Now. 103 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: The great thing about animal crackers, Danny, is they give 104 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 3: you a giant bag of them. Right, It's like the 105 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: biggest bat. It's like the size of Florida. The bag 106 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 3: of animal crackers. You get, right, it's awesome. 107 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and they got all different kinds. They got 108 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 4: the frosted ones, they got the sprinkled ones. So big 109 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 4: animal crackers. 110 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 3: There you go. Did you know those go back to 111 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: the uh the animal crackers mid eighteen made eighteen. 112 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: It's been around for a while. 113 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 4: Wow, I expect that. But yeah. 114 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 3: They were invented in the United Kingdom and then actually 115 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 3: eventually exported to to America and they the first commercial. 116 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 3: This is the kind of crap we do in the 117 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,239 Speaker 3: fifth hour, Dany. Yeah, out here, the Great Danny Efron 118 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 3: hanging out with us. But the first commercial produce for 119 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 3: animal crackers was eighteen seventy one. 120 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: So that was in New York, Pennsylvania and there. 121 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 4: And when you say commercial, was it, like, uh, I 122 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 4: mean was it? I'm trying to. 123 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: Must have been a newspapers, right, because there was no. 124 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 4: Well exactly, yeah, it had to be a newspaper. 125 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: There was no There was no radio. There was no 126 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: television radio. 127 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 4: I mean, maybe there's a guy in the streets is yelling, 128 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 4: but yeah, there you go. 129 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 3: I just go down and get those things in scream, 130 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 3: start screaming, and the town crier. Yeah, that's right, the 131 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 3: town that's the way to go. You gotta do the 132 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 3: town crier for sure. So anyway, you know your part. 133 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 3: Now you've had an amazing ser I often on the 134 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 3: radio show, I will mock people. They'll they'll say the 135 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 3: Willis Reid game, you know, they'll talk about some athlete 136 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 3: overcoming adversity and they'll they'll go on and I roll 137 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 3: my eyes. I roll my eyes when I see that stuff. 138 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 3: I say, oh, come on, that's just hyperbole. 139 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: What are you doing? You know, it's nonsense. 140 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 3: And one of the reasons I bring that up is 141 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 3: because your story, Danny, is insane. It is awesome, it 142 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 3: is fantastic. I think people need to hear about it. 143 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 3: I've told it a little bit, but my man, you 144 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 3: have you talk about a roller coaster h in life, 145 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: and you have been able to ride the roller coaster, 146 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 3: and you've had some real downs. You've had some some 147 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 3: greats that have happened. But we need to tell your story. 148 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 3: So you have had well, I want you to tell 149 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 3: your story, but you've had some two major, really bad 150 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 3: things that have happened. 151 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: That a lot of people would not have recovered from. 152 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: Explain what happened. 153 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 4: So I am a two time glioblastoma brain cancer survivor 154 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 4: for the most aggressive form of cancer. I was first 155 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 4: told in twenty fifteen I had two to five years 156 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 4: to live. I of course would not accept that timeline. 157 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 4: I thought, did everything I could, changed my diet, researched, ever, 158 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 4: cancer fighting remedy, went to traditional method. I was cancer 159 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 4: free for seven years, and then in twenty twenty two, 160 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 4: cancer came back, this time with a vengeance against stage 161 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 4: four glioblastoma, and I had a stroke this time as well. 162 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 4: So not only did I have to have surgery and 163 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 4: you know radiation. But I suffered a massive stroke that 164 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 4: left me hallucinating for three months. It got to the point, 165 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 4: you know where I was. I look at myself in 166 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 4: the mirror and looked like the left side of my 167 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: face was blown up off with the shotgun. I'd look 168 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 4: at my son and his face looked like smeared shut. 169 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 4: I was a horror show I was living in, really, 170 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 4: But you know, I power through because one thing I 171 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 4: believe in is fighting. You fight what gets in front 172 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 4: of you. You fight to be successful, and that is 173 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 4: what I do. So after that, you know, I was 174 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 4: basically blind for three months. It's kind of like on 175 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 4: a sliding scale. It got from better to basically where 176 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 4: I just had a pinhole vision. The rest was like 177 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 4: a kaleidoscope of color where I was able to heal myself. 178 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 4: And then three months later or six months later, I 179 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 4: was standing in front of Congress helping pass cancer fighting 180 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 4: legislation and passing over ten billion dollars in research funding 181 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 4: and prevention legislation. That is all I've Yeah, I've made 182 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 4: the most out of what the hand that was given 183 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 4: to me. And in honor of of course, your aunt, 184 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 4: your uncle, and my aunt, your mother. You know, cancer 185 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 4: has played a huge role, unfortunately in our lives and 186 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: then but you know it affected me on such a deeper, 187 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 4: lever but level. But you know I made most that 188 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 4: I fight through, you know, lahaian to life. You know, 189 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 4: make the best out of it. So that's what I do. 190 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. No, And and so you get that diagnosis. I 191 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 3: mean that's like, that's like the you know, you're like, 192 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 3: holy crap, you know, dude, what do you do? But 193 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 3: then you overcame it the first time, and I need 194 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 3: to get into the because I I'm gonna I'm gonna put. 195 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: Myself in your story. 196 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 3: Okay, So when you got diagnosed the second time with cancer, 197 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 3: we were all like, you know, when I found out 198 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: about we were all freaking. I was like, dude, I 199 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 3: got to see my guy, my my my cousin. So 200 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 3: you were living in Phoenix at the time. So I 201 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 3: left on like a Friday just to go hang out 202 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 3: with you, like just to go to Phoenix for the day. 203 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 3: And if you remember, I was I was in your 204 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 3: house when you had a freaking stroke. 205 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 4: I didn't even were there, that's right, Like, what was 206 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 4: crazy is I didn't even know I had a stroke 207 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 4: get and then we were driving to the restaurant. I 208 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 4: remember driving up the road with you. I wasn't driving, 209 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 4: of course you were, but at one second it felt 210 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 4: like I was going north the next bacon, and second 211 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 4: I felt like I was going out. It was like 212 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 4: my compass I was spinning and I didn't even know 213 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 4: what was going on. And you were there. You were 214 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 4: the first. You were the first one to see me 215 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 4: with this stroke. And I remember telling you that I 216 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 4: just the whole situation that just happened, and we were 217 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 4: all like, you know, puzzled. 218 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was wild. 219 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 3: So we we went to I think the Knicks were playing, 220 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: and we were like watching the We were on your 221 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 3: sofa watching the next game, and you were like really 222 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 3: out of it, like you were. We were like maybe 223 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 3: he did some acid or something. 224 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what. 225 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 4: I wish. 226 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 1: I've never seen it, you. 227 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 3: Know, standing I remember you telling you thought like you 228 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 3: were seeing portals. 229 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: It was like, yep, So. 230 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 4: It was like I was in the movie Inception, Like 231 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 4: my world kept like switching view on me. Uh So 232 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 4: how it started, you know, right before you were coming 233 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 4: to pick me up, I was in the bathroom and 234 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 4: I kept reaching for the handle to get out, and 235 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 4: I kept hitting a wall. It was like I had 236 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 4: no proper field of views. Everything kept on changing, uh, 237 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 4: and it was just wild. And I mean it got 238 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 4: to the point where, you know, I kept seeing people 239 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 4: on my left hand side. There was kind of like 240 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 4: a ceiling fan always going on over me. And I 241 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 4: mean I was just straight up hallucinating, just like right 242 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 4: in front of my face. And I had to tell 243 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 4: myself this isn't real because I like, for example, I 244 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 4: looked in the mirror and looked like the left side 245 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 4: of my face was blown off with the shotgun because 246 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 4: I had a massive stroke in my baridal lobe, which 247 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 4: was right where the vision sensors are as. 248 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that. 249 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 3: We were like wow, I mean, I know he's got 250 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 3: the brain cancer, but I mean this is like, really, 251 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 3: this is like we didn't know what was going on. 252 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you didn't know, and then you. 253 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 3: And that actually turned out if I have the story right, 254 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 3: and it's your story, but I think Danny, that actually 255 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 3: turned out that stroke turned out in the long run 256 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 3: to be a great a great mits Was that correct? 257 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 3: Am I right on that or did I get that wrong. 258 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 4: Ah, the stroke not well, I mean because it didn't 259 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 4: really yeah, I mean, I guess in regards to my fight, 260 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 4: in my resilience, and yes, that became a bits fun 261 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 4: and it added to my story, but uh it was, 262 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 4: yeah it was because. 263 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: It wasn't it tied kind of like to your to 264 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 3: your brain cancer. Right, that's what I Maybe I heard wrong, but. 265 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 4: I guess I forgot there was something that uh it 266 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 4: kind of Oh, that's right, that's right. I'm sorry, I 267 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 4: know exactly what you're talking about. The stroke where it exploded. 268 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 4: They said, could it be viewed as a positive sign 269 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 4: because any remaining cancer it would have killed? 270 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what I had heard. See, that's what 271 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 3: I that's where I was going for because that is correct. 272 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 4: And I apologized, Yes, that that is correct. 273 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 274 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, so you had brain cancer and the story was 275 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 3: the doctors I heard this a while back, but you 276 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 3: would because of the stroke, like it was like a 277 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 3: bullseye for the cancer in your brain. 278 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 4: Exactly exactly. Yet that's essentially because with the stroke exploded 279 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 4: right where the surgery was. And uh and this was 280 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 4: like two weeks after surgery, you know, I was on 281 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 4: radiation and radiation had nothing to do with the stroke. 282 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 4: I just think, you know, I'm a busy body. I 283 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 4: always like to move. I think I might have been 284 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 4: a little too active, you know. But but yeah, you 285 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 4: said like you said, it was a blessing in disguise 286 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 4: because right where it exploded was where the cancer was. 287 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 4: So ultimately, you know, all my scans since then have 288 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 4: shown no cancer. So really, yeah, the blessing in this 289 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 4: sky is absolutely right. 290 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: There you go. 291 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 3: And so that is See when you hear the willis 292 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 3: Reid game or something like that, that's bull crap. 293 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: See this is big kohone is here. This is big balls. 294 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 3: Well you've been true here, not those guys and all 295 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 3: that stuff. So so you've survived all that and you've 296 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 3: changed your life a lot. 297 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: I know your diet and all that. 298 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 3: If you talked about this, you've been living really clean 299 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: for what ten years at least? 300 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, for a long time. Yeah. I do a ketogenic diet. 301 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 4: So like cancer sells feet off of sugar by eighteen percent, 302 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 4: they increase cancer. So I have no sugar in my diet. 303 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 4: I keep a ketogenic diet. I will do like windows 304 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 4: of fasting as well, because fasting will fill your body 305 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 4: into a stage called atophagy will be like cellulttle repair. 306 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 4: So if you have like cancer cells, you'll kind of 307 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 4: starve them because the thing about cancer cells is they 308 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 4: can't repair themselves, and they try to so they try 309 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 4: to feed off as much sugar. But if you starve 310 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 4: them with your metabolism, you can actually, you know, I 311 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 4: ultimately have those cancer cells seek their own death. So really, 312 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 4: I dove into it, really explored every different option I could. 313 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 4: You know, I even pivoted my career into the cancer space, 314 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 4: which is where I work now. So yeah, I mean 315 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 4: it was a defining moment for me. And you know, 316 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 4: I'm here. I'm telling my story, you know, and I'll 317 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 4: always keep fighting no matter what comes in my way. 318 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 4: I'll get through. And I always tell people that, you know, 319 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 4: you know, don't let things take you down. With cancer, 320 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 4: a lot of times you'll have the old woes me 321 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 4: moment and you'll go these support groups and it's very sad. Yeah, 322 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 4: you can have a Woe's me moment, but that's not me. 323 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 4: Like me, I'm a fighter. I go through it. And 324 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 4: that's why I'm here today telling my story. And you know, 325 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 4: I've had the worst of it, and I'm still here smiling, 326 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 4: and God forbid anything comes up again. I will get 327 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 4: through it because that's who I am. 328 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: I hear you, man, I hear you, and the great 329 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: Danny Efron. 330 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 3: How about this now? You you mentioned you've been to Congress. 331 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 3: That's that's crazy to me. You've spoken, right, you addressed. 332 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 4: Members have I have as a Congress members. So I 333 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 4: was actually on Capitol Hill twice and I have spoken 334 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 4: four times before Congress members, but twice was during COVID. 335 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 3: Uh. 336 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 4: But yeah, I was on Capitol Hill, and I, like 337 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 4: I said during my four times that I've helped pass 338 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 4: over ten billion in cancer fighting legislation for research prevention methods, 339 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 4: and I've also worked on some bills for uh you know, 340 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 4: access to cancer care, access to clinical trials. So you know, 341 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 4: I was given such a grim uh, such a basically 342 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 4: a grim reality, and I've done everything I can to 343 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 4: make the best out of it and promote change on 344 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 4: a real tangible level. Uh. You know, thankfully, I'm I'm 345 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 4: a national speaker. I'm a relationship builder. So I knew 346 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 4: that if I use my skills and go into this 347 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 4: space with my story, I could be successful. And it 348 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 4: was really me just trying to help people like you 349 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 4: Ben and me and myself who were going through and 350 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 4: like losing our parents and of course I had to 351 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 4: deal with it, you know firsthand, but uh, you know, 352 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 4: doing everything I could can to make change and to 353 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 4: you know, promote hopefully get that cancer sure, which I 354 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 4: think we're closer to now than ever with quantum computers 355 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 4: and AI so I think, uh, I think we'll get 356 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 4: there soonerretta later. So I'm going to keep the fight, 357 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 4: keep the work up. 358 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 3: Yeah for sure, man, I mean, our our blood lines, 359 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 3: your mom my, my mom. 360 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: I mean, uh, I mean it's uh. 361 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 3: You know, it's not not the greatest, but there's ways, 362 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 3: you know, try to try to do better. 363 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: But they we did. We didn't win the genetic lottery day, 364 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: not at all. 365 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 4: We got the intelligence though, which is good. 366 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: We got some of that. We've got some. 367 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 4: Of that, yeah, right, But the genetic yeah, the genes company, 368 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 4: we came up short a little. 369 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: Bit, a little bit, a little bit. 370 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: So you're tell me about the Capitol Hill thing, because 371 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 3: that's wild to me. So you've been there a couple 372 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 3: of times, Like how how were you nervous? 373 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: Like how nuts? 374 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 3: So is that you're well, you're in front of all 375 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 3: these political people. 376 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: WI. 377 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 4: What's crazy about me is this is since I was little, uh, 378 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 4: whenever like the lights, camera actions, whenever somebody kicks into gear, 379 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 4: like something just happens in me and I just I'll 380 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 4: be nervous before, but boom, I just kick into gear 381 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, everything else fades away and 382 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 4: I just you know, can just really roll with it. 383 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 4: And I was able to you know, meet with all 384 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 4: these congress members talk to them. Really. Uh, it was 385 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 4: really fun kind of tailoring my pitch to work certain 386 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 4: sizes of the aisle. Of course, cancer is nonpartisan. I 387 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 4: don't get into politics at all, but you know, it 388 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 4: was really just me trying to figure out the best 389 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 4: messaging to get this these fund this funding and this 390 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 4: legislation passed, uh, to really you know, make a change 391 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 4: in the cancer community. And uh, of course yeah, there 392 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 4: was nerves involved, but once I was actually on the 393 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 4: floor and talking to these congress members, I really all 394 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 4: that kind of fade away and it was the mission 395 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 4: at hand. 396 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 3: So outstanding, outstanding, and and you've done something. I've done 397 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 3: a lot of cool things and I've been lucky to 398 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 3: do a lot of cool stuff, but I've one thing 399 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 3: I have not been able to get done is to 400 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 3: write a book. And you have a book, and it's like, 401 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 3: it's awesome, and I'm I'm very jealous that you were 402 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 3: able to get this done because it is outstanding and 403 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 3: it's a dedication to your your son, your your amazing 404 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 3: kid Eddie who we love and what a kid Eddie 405 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 3: is and you how did this process work? I mean, 406 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 3: how long does it take to get a book that 407 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 3: I walked me. 408 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: To the thing here? 409 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 4: Absolutely So. How it started was so like, you know, 410 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 4: I'm a storyteller, I'm a daydreamer. So every night before 411 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 4: I go to bed, before Eddie goes to bed, I 412 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 4: tell him a story just off the top of that 413 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 4: in my head. And I remember I told this one story. 414 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 4: It was when he was like four, I believe three 415 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 4: or four. He's seven now, and I remember he got 416 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 4: up from his bed and he was like, wow, Daddy, 417 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 4: I want to want to watch that. I want to 418 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 4: read that. And I was like, hey, that was actually 419 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 4: a really good story. So I went and I, you know, 420 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 4: I put it down on paper, how Eddie put a 421 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 4: smile on the moon, and I, you know, I just 422 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 4: did my due diligence, and like one of the things. 423 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Dale Carnegie, your aunt my 424 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,479 Speaker 4: mom gave me his book in fifth grade. I had 425 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 4: to win friends, influence people, and I kind of changed 426 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 4: how I looked at things. So I would always read 427 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 4: Eddie these books before bed, called, like how to Catch 428 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 4: a Leprechawn, how to Catch a Unicorn, And I love 429 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 4: the illustration style of it. So what I did was 430 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 4: I took a page out of Dale Carnegie when he 431 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 4: would write sincere letters to these individuals, you know, not 432 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 4: cheap flattery. So I wrote Andy Elkerton, multiple number one 433 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 4: New York Times best selling illustrator, just a sincere email 434 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 4: saying that I love his work. I wrote this story. 435 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 4: I love to see what he thinks of it. He 436 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 4: replied to my email, said, I love the story. I'd 437 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 4: be happy to illustrate it for you. And you know, 438 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 4: three years later we formed a great partnership. We're actually 439 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 4: working on a second book now called How still a 440 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 4: working title, but how Eddie Help Daddy fight cancer? I 441 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 4: want to, you know, take that which is really a 442 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 4: challenging topic for a lot of families and making in 443 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 4: a way that's more comfortable and manageable, and you know 444 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 4: it has a little maybe even though it's not much fun, 445 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 4: but has a little fun to it to really explain 446 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 4: the process and you know, give families that resource to 447 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: you know, talk about such a complicated issue such as 448 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 4: cancer in a way that is you know, child friendly. 449 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 4: So that's our next project we're kind of looking for. 450 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 4: But that's kind of how the whole process went. Of course, 451 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 4: the book was h This was like three years ago 452 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 4: and it did you know, I had to reach out 453 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 4: to like the publishing industry. Of course, it takes a 454 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 4: long time to get out and so I wrote this 455 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 4: story you know, when he was like three or four 456 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 4: and now he's seven, so you know, it was it 457 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 4: was an arduous process, but uh, you know I was 458 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 4: able to finally get something, and you know I use 459 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 4: Barnes and Nobles as my distributor, and so the book 460 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 4: is finally out now, which I love. You know, you 461 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 4: can get the hard tub cover at Barns Nobles or 462 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 4: the paperback on Amazon. So yeah, it's just you know, 463 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 4: it's a dream come true. And to do it in 464 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 4: such a special way about my son, you know, the 465 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 4: story leading up to it. Uh, it's just you know, 466 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 4: it's it's really it's really really fulfilling to me, and 467 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 4: I'm so excited to be speaking about it, and I'm 468 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 4: grateful for you to have me on to talk about it. 469 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, it's it's awesome. It's a I actually am 470 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 3: holding a copy in my hands here of the book. 471 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 3: I have it here, I should have. Well, we're going 472 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 3: to have you sign it. I think, well, I'll probably 473 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 3: see you soon, so we'll have you that's right. Yeah, 474 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 3: but at some point here in an absence. But you 475 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 3: do work in the cancer world, right, You're you're you're 476 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 3: in that. 477 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: World, do Yeah. 478 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 4: So I I work for a company, Veritas Medical Solutions. 479 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 4: I do radiation shielding for some of the largest medical 480 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 4: oncology centers. Basically, we're like a more advanced form of shielding. 481 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 4: We take up half the space of traditional concret We 482 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 4: provide one hundred percent radiation shielding guarantee because we use 483 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 4: a sin wave technology that attenuates or cancels out all radiation. 484 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 3: Uh. 485 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 4: So we work with some of the largest cancer centers worldwide. 486 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 4: And I also work in the industrial solutions too, so 487 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 4: I work with like Blue Origin, uh SpaceX to provide 488 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 4: radiation shielding for their non destructive testing of their rocket parts. 489 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 4: So it's very exciting. Yes, So I get to not 490 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,479 Speaker 4: only work on the cancer space and help kind of 491 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 4: reimagine facilities to make them more patient friendly, make them safer, 492 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 4: but also I get to you know, kind of whet 493 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 4: my appetite in the world of like space travel and 494 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: fusion energy is very cool. 495 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 3: That's right, because you know, eventually, if you know, who 496 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 3: knows if we'll be around, but they go to Mars 497 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 3: and other places, like, the radiation is like a big problem, 498 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 3: right you. 499 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: Get out and traveling around. I mean, you're you. 500 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 3: Got if you send a bunch of astronauts out to 501 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 3: you know, god knows where and they get cancer, what 502 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 3: do you know, what are you gonna do? 503 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 4: Exactly? It's actually need proper shielding, especially while they're in 504 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 4: their ship and then of course when they're like with 505 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 4: this fusion right now. Uh, And so the fusion doesn't 506 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 4: really need to be shielded against because there's not much radiation. 507 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 4: It's more contained. But the lasers that they use to 508 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 4: create the fusion sends out so much radiation that that's 509 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 4: what we have to provide shielding for so when it 510 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 4: comes to fusion applications, which will ultimately you know, lead 511 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 4: to rockets and space travel that extended you know, distance 512 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 4: of traveling and have that energy though output. Uh you know, 513 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 4: right now we just have to prevent provide shielding on 514 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 4: these lasers that are shooting beams at each other and 515 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 4: really fusion though fusing those atoms together. 516 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: My head's about to explode here, Danny. 517 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 4: I know, I talk this all day long. 518 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 3: I talk about I talk about balls, Danny's when I 519 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 3: talk about the ball, that's what I talk about on 520 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: I talk about Lebron James Kendall in balls is what 521 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 3: I That's it. 522 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 4: Should be known that everyone. I like to tell you. 523 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 4: So when I was in eighth grade, I want to 524 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 4: be a sportscaster, to follow in my cousin's foot test. 525 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 4: I was looked up to you and I remember you 526 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 4: wrote me a killer on presentation for that. 527 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: Well, I remember that. 528 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 3: And one time wait, this was before nine to eleven. 529 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 3: Remember I was in with the doing stuff with the 530 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 3: Dodgers and they were playing the Mets at Jay's Stadium 531 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 3: and we were able to in those days before you know, 532 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 3: security was ridiculous. 533 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: We we got you and your your brother Lou louis 534 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 1: in there, and so we d a great time. Was fun. 535 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 4: I still remember your opening line, welcome to the sun. 536 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 3: That it is. 537 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: So I don't know. 538 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 3: It was oppressively hot. I mean, I was like August 539 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 3: was ridiculous. I can't handle humidity, is what does me? 540 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: In Dandy? I don't know. 541 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 3: Well, you live in a place with a dry heat now, 542 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 3: but that July and August and New York or I've 543 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 3: been to the South a few times. 544 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's miserable. 545 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 4: I'll take the dry heat any day. It's like you're 546 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 4: always walking around muggy, sweaty. 547 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: It's the oh, it's it's terrible. 548 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 3: But again, the name of the book is how Eddie 549 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 3: put a Smile on the Moon. And this is everywhere, right, 550 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 3: this thing is everywhere, Danny. People can get it on Amazon, 551 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,360 Speaker 3: but wherever they want it, they can get it. Where 552 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 3: Where do you get the most bank? Where do you 553 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 3: want people to buy it from it? 554 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,239 Speaker 1: Where is it? 555 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 4: I get the most bank from my buck on Amazon? Honestly, okay, 556 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 4: I get the most bank for my buck. So if 557 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 4: people feel I mean that's the paperback field free, there's 558 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 4: the hardcover at Barnes and Noble. But yeah, pick up 559 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 4: a copy. I love if people can review it as well, 560 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 4: you know, only positive reviews. If you didn't like it, 561 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 4: review someone else's book. 562 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 3: Mo, man, it's my god, it's my cousin. You got it, 563 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 3: Gret Cutts, my guy Dandy. 564 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: Give him a good run, exactly. 565 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. No, you can get it anywhere, but Amazon dot 566 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 4: com would be the preferred place, because of course I 567 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 4: do get most bank from my buck. There. 568 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: There you go. All right, Danny, thank you so much, 569 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: and we will I'll see you soon. So we'll get 570 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: and the next time. 571 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 3: You have the book, the next book you'll come back on. 572 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: We'll do it all over the whole thing. 573 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 4: Absolutely there. 574 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 3: It is the fifth hour. We got new pods all weekend. 575 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 3: We'll have a new one on obviously tomorrow Saturday, and 576 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 3: then on Sunday the mailbag. 577 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: Have a wonderful rest of your Friday. 578 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 3: And as uh as Danny g would say, asta pasta 579 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 3: stop later, skater or something like that, gotta murder, I 580 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 3: gotta go