Speaker 1: Hey guys, back with the old sample or on the
Speaker 1: podcast network.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: Had Ringo on my podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with that, so we'll hear from Ringo
Speaker 1: Starr and then on take this personally with Morgan Hulesman.
Speaker 1: Raymundo's wife Bee or Laura which is her real name,
Speaker 1: came in to talk about her cancer journey. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear a lot of clips. If you hear anything you like,
Speaker 1: go search out the show, subscribe. It would help us,
Speaker 1: it would help them. So let's get going now with
Speaker 1: Ringo star a beato. That's a bad accent at my house.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you one more question about yourandparents
Speaker 1: because that resonates with me so much.
Speaker 2: Did they get to see your success?
Speaker 4: No, I was in the band then, and sort of.
Speaker 5: I was in.
Speaker 6: And we were playing in Germany. I was with Rory
Speaker 6: by then Rory's some of the Hurricanes, and I was
Speaker 6: there when my granddad went, and I was doing the
Speaker 6: gig in Germany when my grandma went, so I couldn't
Speaker 6: come home because everyone would had to play. But no,
Speaker 6: they didn't see it like unfolding. I mean, they knew
Speaker 6: I played, but they never came to a gig and
Speaker 6: we went big time.
Speaker 4: We were local bands.
Speaker 2: What was your in your mind?
Speaker 1: You're ceiling when you were starting out and you're playing clubs,
Speaker 1: you're traveling around, like how big did you think?
Speaker 2: How far did you think you could go in music?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 6: I don't remember like thinking that. One of my mom's
Speaker 6: best friends, Annie Maguire, she would say, you know, I'd
Speaker 6: be hitting them in the house. I can see you
Speaker 6: on the London Palladium one day, son, and she gave spirits,
Speaker 6: so a lot of people in Liverpool gave your spirit.
Speaker 6: Anyway I played, I only could take the snare because
Speaker 6: we were a skiffle group. And Eddie Clayton, the guy
Speaker 6: next door, and he was in the factory. I was
Speaker 6: in the factory and Roy the you know, it was
Speaker 6: just a wooden box with a pole and that was
Speaker 6: the base and I had a surle and that's how
Speaker 6: we started. And we had no sense of timing. I
Speaker 6: remember that once we played some sort of dance and oh, Maggie,
Speaker 6: Maggie May, they are taking her away and each other dancing.
Speaker 6: They're dancing cause you saw it down. So I'm amazed
Speaker 6: because I have really great time. You know time, and
Speaker 6: I'm good at that. I mean, it's just God given
Speaker 6: gift that I can keep time.
Speaker 2: What was your job in the factory.
Speaker 6: My job was to be an apprentice engineer. At first
Speaker 6: I worked on the rail ways as a delivery kid boy.
Speaker 6: I was sixteen. And then I was on the coastal boats,
Speaker 6: like party boats, where like four or five hundred people
Speaker 6: would go from Liverpool to Wales and all they did
Speaker 6: was drink all the way and drink all the way back.
Speaker 6: And I lasted five weeks on the railway, five weeks
Speaker 6: on the boats, and then my mom you know, oh,
Speaker 6: I've been fired, and by Monday she'd got me in
Speaker 6: a new job, and she got me this job in
Speaker 6: the factory. But while in that factory, that's when it
Speaker 6: came I want to play. I want to play. And
Speaker 6: then I joined this other group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes,
Speaker 6: and we got this three month gig in a holiday
Speaker 6: camp in England. So I decided I'm leaving the factory.
Speaker 6: I was just twenty ish, and all of my family
Speaker 6: came to our house to tell me it's all right
Speaker 6: as a hobby sone, but they wanted me to keep
Speaker 6: that job. You know, and I said no, no, I'm
Speaker 6: going and you know that's why I changed my name. Also,
Speaker 6: we went to this gig three months we were going
Speaker 6: to be there in the Rock and Calypso Ballroom.
Speaker 7: And.
Speaker 6: I changed my name fully to Ringo then because in Liverpool,
Speaker 6: if you do something, you know, if you're limping, that
Speaker 6: you'd probably be called limpy. But I started wearing rings
Speaker 6: that sort of a take on my mom. She loved
Speaker 6: flashy stuff, and so some people were starting to say,
Speaker 6: hey rings, what's going on?
Speaker 4: You know, like gang members, we'd be hey rings.
Speaker 6: And we got to Buttland's holiday camp and we all
Speaker 6: changed on. The guitarist called himself Tyle Brian and Johnny
Speaker 6: guitar was great, and uh, the.
Speaker 2: Name was Johnny Guitar. His name, I assume you played
Speaker 2: guitar Ny guitar.
Speaker 6: Really, yeah, because he changed his names to that. Really
Speaker 6: his name was Johnny, but it's you know, it was
Speaker 6: another name, family name. And uh, I put like Ringo, Stocky,
Speaker 6: that's not that Stocky doesn't look you know.
Speaker 4: Didn't look right. So I put Ringo star.
Speaker 2: Did you two rs the first time?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Two rs to make it star? And uh and it's
Speaker 6: been that ever since. Ball of the family who called
Speaker 6: me dad or granddad.
Speaker 2: I've got two final questions for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you made the record and it was complete
Speaker 1: and you're able to hear it all back, did you
Speaker 1: like and do you like to listen to your own projects?
Speaker 1: And what did you think about this one when it
Speaker 1: was all the way done? Your own thoughts of your own.
Speaker 6: Project when it was finished. I thought it was great. No,
Speaker 6: I really loved it myself, and it was very to me.
Speaker 6: I like to be The vocal was great, as I said,
Speaker 6: it was it. They were all in my key and
Speaker 6: it's like in a way though you know, we didn't
Speaker 6: never live together. It was put together by a man
Speaker 6: who knew me and and I think I'm tired of
Speaker 6: thank you.
Speaker 1: My final question something again we alluded to earlier, was
Speaker 1: playing in the clubs and a lot of artists miss
Speaker 1: out on that now and they kind of get famous
Speaker 1: before they're ready.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think they.
Speaker 6: You know, they have a hit in January, like those
Speaker 6: TV shows for the singing the singer who wins has
Speaker 6: a number one in January, and you don't air from
Speaker 6: him after May.
Speaker 2: It's all over and they're not really able to They
Speaker 2: don't know how to deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're not able to develop even as a performer,
Speaker 1: right because they don't do the clubs.
Speaker 2: They're ong clubs.
Speaker 1: They got so famous so fast. You know, the kind
Speaker 1: of the legendary story about you guys. You'd be in
Speaker 1: a club in Germany and play for like six hours
Speaker 1: a night.
Speaker 6: Is that actually do two bands? When I was there
Speaker 6: with Rory and the Beatles were there. When we were
Speaker 6: the two bands, we were on separate clubs at the beginning.
Speaker 6: Then Koshma, the guy on the clubs, put us both
Speaker 6: on one club and we would battle each other for
Speaker 6: the audience, you know what I mean. It would stomp
Speaker 6: in and stuff. But at weekends we did twelve hours
Speaker 6: between us. Yeah, and you know, I love it because
Speaker 6: we're in that book ten thousand hours, and they actually
Speaker 6: mentioned we actually put in our ten thousand Now.
Speaker 1: I think that's where I first knew of the story
Speaker 1: reading that book. You'd put in that whole time.
Speaker 6: We'd play anywhere and Saturday night in Liverpool whatever, the
Speaker 6: gig was one of the clubs that have an all
Speaker 6: night and they were so cheap they'd only ever hire
Speaker 6: a trio to custom less and or all of us
Speaker 6: were to these clubs and just play all night. Any
Speaker 6: chance we had to play, we would play.
Speaker 1: Well, now you can put your iPhone on a little
Speaker 1: stand and read the lyrics. You didn't have iPhones back then.
Speaker 1: You had to remember or guess.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, now I can't work without my little lyrics sheets.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh it is, well, I love the album.
Speaker 4: Oh great, Well it's great being good talk, can't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, really easy for thanks, real easy to talk
Speaker 2: to you too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You never know whenever Ringo star is coming over.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know, well they.
Speaker 2: Did sit on that star, and now I know they
Speaker 2: are more.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well maybe because I've told these same stories since I've
Speaker 6: been here nineteen times.
Speaker 2: What story?
Speaker 7: What story off?
Speaker 2: What story did you tell here that?
Speaker 7: Sorry I told that story.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it's a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anybody ask you about your grandparents the whole time?
Speaker 8: No, only you, That's all I want. This has been
Speaker 8: the best. You're saying that ever? No, I mean, look
Speaker 8: me best ever. Don't say ever, because then I know
Speaker 8: you're lying if you were to say really the best,
Speaker 8: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Ringo, It's been a pleasure, Thank you very much. The
Speaker 1: records awesome.
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Speaker 9: it's pretty beautiful, beautiful that for a little more. It's exciting,
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Speaker 10: I think I'm excited about my brow rebrand.
Speaker 11: I too, Honestly, are really exactly we talked about this
Speaker 11: coming up.
Speaker 9: I'll keep all.
Speaker 10: Posted on the process. But I know so many people
Speaker 10: that have listened have come to you for brows or
Speaker 10: even their breast So I want you to touch on
Speaker 10: and the passion side of your work. I know you're
Speaker 10: passionate about both, but being able to give women confidence
Speaker 10: back if they have lost their breasts because of breast cancer.
Speaker 10: Just share a little bit of that, just in case
Speaker 10: there's one person that needs to know your info, your number,
Speaker 10: or they have a BFF or a sister that needs
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Speaker 11: Yes, yes, oh I love it. That is where my
Speaker 11: heart is. I love brows. I love it. But I'd
Speaker 11: always seen the areolas and been like, oh, I'm going
Speaker 11: to do that one day. You know, you just put
Speaker 11: it in your back pocket and you think about it.
Speaker 11: But I'm busy doing all my other things. You know,
Speaker 11: that was the last thing that I thought I had
Speaker 11: time for at the moment. My dad he did pass
Speaker 11: away from colon cancer also, so I've had you know,
Speaker 11: my dad and my mom both affected with cancer. And
Speaker 11: it's just I know you have.
Speaker 10: Well in March's colon cancer awareness. Oh yeah, so we're
Speaker 10: coming up on that, and I think I'm glad you
Speaker 10: mentioned that because if you see any symptoms, book and appointment,
Speaker 10: because early detection is everything with.
Speaker 11: Colon cancer, and that that was what happened. Unfortunate with
Speaker 11: my dad. He found out it was you know, stage four,
Speaker 11: and he's that you know, he never went to the doctor,
Speaker 11: never complained, you know, just little workhorse, just did his
Speaker 11: own thing, and so he had little things that he saw,
Speaker 11: but he just never never did it, never got colonoscopies
Speaker 11: any of that stuff. And unfortunately he found out, Yeah,
Speaker 11: we found out around New Year's one year and then
Speaker 11: it was stage four and by the next April he
Speaker 11: had passed. So he had two chemos and unfortunately his
Speaker 11: body just was you know, too far gone.
Speaker 10: Well, I feel like you sharing that now and then
Speaker 10: with March being right around the corner, people are going
Speaker 10: to start seeing more, which is great, but awareness is everything.
Speaker 10: So in March, I hope that people are just inundated
Speaker 10: with facts and information because your dad, being an older man,
Speaker 10: that's who people used to think would just get it. Yeah,
Speaker 10: it was just older men, but it is happening to younger, yes,
Speaker 10: and younger and younger people and women.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Two, So I think I saw a stat that's like
Speaker 10: one in twenty four people are going to be diagnosed
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Speaker 10: that if you can catch it early, if you have
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Speaker 10: this is one of those cancers that, yeah, if you
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Speaker 10: you don't, or if you ignore something or you go
Speaker 10: too long, then that's when it gets deadly, which you
Speaker 10: unfortunately had to walk through with your dad. So you
Speaker 10: went through that with him, and then your mom had
Speaker 10: breast cancer.
Speaker 12: Fast forward three years later.
Speaker 11: Yeah, my mom was diagnosed with a stage three breast cancer.
Speaker 11: And she felt a lump, you know, as she checked
Speaker 11: herself and felt it one day. And my mom's a nurse,
Speaker 11: and yeah, it was crazy. My daughter was one and
Speaker 11: you know, had my business and then my mom ended
Speaker 11: up coming and living with me. So I kind of
Speaker 11: was responsible for making sure that she had you know,
Speaker 11: had her little friends on a chat list and would
Speaker 11: make sure someone would check on her and do all
Speaker 11: the things. And you know, we got her do all
Speaker 11: of her appointments. But just personally seeing what someone goes through,
Speaker 11: I mean, it's awful. It's it's brutal, and you always
Speaker 11: think that, you know, you see people go through it,
Speaker 11: or you hear people go through it, you know, through
Speaker 11: the grapevine, but when it's actually your life, like seeing
Speaker 11: my mom. And my mom is strong, you know, she
Speaker 11: had six kids. She she did all the right things.
Speaker 11: My mom never never drank, never smoked, you know, breastfed us,
Speaker 11: all all the things that you know supposedly you know,
Speaker 11: you're right, you know, odds of getting cancer less. But yeah,
Speaker 11: she she got it and it was pretty brutal. But yeah,
Speaker 11: seeing her come out on the other side was amazing
Speaker 11: and I'll never forget. You know, she had kind of
Speaker 11: would tell me that she she felt like Frankenstein. And
Speaker 11: I helped her out with everything except for like the
Speaker 11: like the drains and the stitches and that kind of part.
Speaker 11: I get really woozy with you with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: So I couldn't do much of that. So I hadn't
Speaker 11: really seen her yet. And then one day my daughter
Speaker 11: had run into the bathroom when she got out of
Speaker 11: the shower, and it was the first time that I
Speaker 11: had seen her, you know, without her breast and you know,
Speaker 11: with with her stitches out and stuff, and you know,
Speaker 11: it was it was hard, you know, that wasn't even
Speaker 11: my body. And I mean I had to go upstairs
Speaker 11: and cry just because I remember, like, you know, it's
Speaker 11: hard seeing someone you think so strong, you know, look
Speaker 11: like that. So I can't imagine what's going through her brain,
Speaker 11: you know, looking and seeing herself like that every single day.
Speaker 11: And so yeah, after that, I start I went up
Speaker 11: I started researching all the trainings, and I was like,
Speaker 11: you know what this is it, you know, it is time,
Speaker 11: like mom is on the other side of her journey,
Speaker 11: like I am ready to go and find training and
Speaker 11: get certified. And it was like, you know, it was
Speaker 11: totally you know, God or you know, whatever you believe in.
Speaker 11: A training was going on that next month in Nashville,
Speaker 11: you know, which there wasn't a lot of trainings around.
Speaker 11: So this, uh, this girl from Texas was coming and
Speaker 11: training people, and so I went and got trained and
Speaker 11: it's just been a ongoing thing and it just I
Speaker 11: feel like it's one of those things that brows. They
Speaker 11: make me feel so happy, and you know, I feel fulfilled.
Speaker 11: I love my job, like I I love doing all
Speaker 11: aspects of my job, but when I get to do
Speaker 11: Ariola's it truly it makes me feel like I am,
Speaker 11: you know, impacting the world in such a positive way,
Speaker 11: and like, you know, I'm helping fight for my mom
Speaker 11: and my dad and you know all those things.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do it live. We oh the one, two,
Speaker 3: three sore losers?
Speaker 7: What up, everybody? I am lunchbox.
Speaker 13: I know the most about sports, so I'll give you
Speaker 13: the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much
Speaker 13: a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 3: It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
Speaker 3: I live on the North side of Nashville with Bayser,
Speaker 3: my wife. We do have a farm it's beautiful. A
Speaker 3: lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops hopefully
Speaker 3: soon corn pumpkins, rye, I believe maybe a little fescue.
Speaker 3: Oh to be to term and over to you, coach.
Speaker 7: And here's a clip from this week's episode of The
Speaker 7: Sore Losers.
Speaker 3: Guys to our guest.
Speaker 5: I am Troy. I'm from Sydney, Australia, hanging out in
Speaker 5: Nashville and Las Vegas this week, filling in for Arnold today.
Speaker 5: Who've left him out there now? But and just I
Speaker 5: feel like in a permanent state of hungover in Nashville.
Speaker 7: Who are you with?
Speaker 5: Just with a maid of mine?
Speaker 13: So you just you decided to come to Nashville in Vegas?
Speaker 13: Is this your like once a year vacation or have
Speaker 13: you ever been to America?
Speaker 5: I don't know to America before once or twice. But
Speaker 5: the Penrith Panthers, so they're a rugby league team. Yes,
Speaker 5: they are opening the season in Las Vegas. So we've
Speaker 5: we're branching out in Australia and opening the season in
Speaker 5: Las Vegas. So that's the whole reason that I'm here
Speaker 5: just to watch the Panthers. But I thought it'd come
Speaker 5: to Nashville.
Speaker 7: Holy hell.
Speaker 3: For a second, I thought the team's in Vegas. Why
Speaker 3: are you here?
Speaker 5: They're in Vegas, but they play on Saturday, so I'll
Speaker 5: be there by Saturday.
Speaker 7: So when did you get to Nashville?
Speaker 5: Monday?
Speaker 3: Okay, but you realize Nashville is nowhere near Vegas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I love country music, I love drinking, and
Speaker 5: I love you guys.
Speaker 13: Okay, how did you find us?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, there's not many Australians Saul Losers fans
Speaker 5: in Australia.
Speaker 7: How do you find us? Is it because of the
Speaker 7: big show?
Speaker 5: Because of the big show? Yeah, music, big show in
Speaker 5: country music, and then you know, navigated over to the
Speaker 5: little show. Okay.
Speaker 3: We're huge in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Coast Reek and
Speaker 3: now Australia. Sydney. I believe that's where we started saying
Speaker 3: she's in us, the French Polynesian I believe. I believe
Speaker 3: it's somewhere near Bally.
Speaker 7: I have no idea.
Speaker 13: So the Peanuts Penrith Panthers, Penrith Panthers, are they like
Speaker 13: really good or are they?
Speaker 5: Well? So for most of my life not, but we've
Speaker 5: actually won the last four premierships, so four pete last
Speaker 5: year so before that, as growing up it was a
Speaker 5: hard times but but yes, four championships in a row
Speaker 5: so pretty epic.
Speaker 3: Now clarify it. You said Premier League, but that's not
Speaker 3: soccer and it's rugby the tush push.
Speaker 5: It's rugby league, so it's similar to rugby, but it's
Speaker 5: probably a little bit more structured, so probably closer to
Speaker 5: the NFL than rugby union is. But yes, so rugby
Speaker 5: league would be the number one sport in Australia.
Speaker 3: Tell me if I'm right or wrong here over unders.
Speaker 3: I believe I bet this back in the day when
Speaker 3: I had an addiction.
Speaker 5: That's the whole reason that they're coming to America because
Speaker 5: they think there's a great window for people like Ray
Speaker 5: at like three in the morning who want to bet
Speaker 5: on sport in Australia.
Speaker 3: Is the over under typically what's the score of a game?
Speaker 3: I would say fifty.
Speaker 5: Year probably like forty low forties. Okay, yea.
Speaker 3: So it's just like NFL.
Speaker 13: What makes a good rugby team? Because I watched rugby
Speaker 13: sometimes like with the Olympics, and I'm like, they all
Speaker 13: look the same. They just throw the ball backwards I
Speaker 13: don't know the rules. I don't really understand it. So
Speaker 13: how do you get good? Like what is the difference
Speaker 13: in rugby?
Speaker 5: So the difference is in terms of difference between say
Speaker 5: the NFL, for example.
Speaker 13: Yeah, like what makes them so much like what makes
Speaker 13: a good rugby teaven what makes a bad.
Speaker 5: Defense is definitely the key. So you want to you
Speaker 5: want to defend well, obviously I'm compared to say the NFL.
Speaker 5: You you both defend an attack, you don't have sort
Speaker 5: of two different teams. But yeah, defenses is absolutely key.
Speaker 5: And you're half back, which is equivalent of your quarterback's key. So, uh,
Speaker 5: the Panther's a lucky to play the best player in
Speaker 5: the game in Nathan Cleary is half back and that's,
Speaker 5: you know, a big reason why we won the last
Speaker 5: four four championships.
Speaker 13: Do a lot of rugby players get injured and are
Speaker 13: out for the year, Is it like they just play
Speaker 13: through it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so no pads, no helmets, so they just like
Speaker 5: run at each other basically, So plenty of plenty of injuries,
Speaker 5: a lot of shoulders, pecks, knees, so yeah, yeah, pretty
Speaker 5: pretty big injury list generally through the season.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to go without the condom. I will
Speaker 3: remove the headphones and just do it like that sometimes
Speaker 3: because they'll throw me off. Maybe it's the same thing
Speaker 3: with a helmet or something like that. Let me ask
Speaker 3: this about Nashville. Ye, so you got here a win
Speaker 3: did you on Monday? And you guys hit Broadway the bars?
Speaker 3: Are you doing an educational thing?
Speaker 5: We did the educational thing. We did the museum and
Speaker 5: I see, but we've mainly been at the bars, yes,
Speaker 5: and just.
Speaker 3: Are we did you research some you wanted to go
Speaker 3: to the old ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So last night I did do a lot of recess
Speaker 5: before we got here, but last night we did the
Speaker 5: old one, so tutsi's the stage those ones and the
Speaker 5: night before kind of the biggest ones. We ended up
Speaker 5: at Morgan Wall's bar, which I reckon was pretty awesome
Speaker 5: on a Monday night, Okay, and of course we yea
Speaker 5: it was. It was really good on a Monday night.
Speaker 5: But we also, of course, pat tribute to the Sore
Speaker 5: Losers Coaches Convention and went to Category ten and Chan
Speaker 5: this last night and today we're going to the nash
Speaker 5: Real Tractor, which I only found out about from Sore Losers,
Speaker 5: so they should be aware of that.
Speaker 7: That is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Let them know, please?
Speaker 7: Did you does your mate know what this? Sore losers?
Speaker 7: I'm saying, mate, you go to their friend know about
Speaker 7: the podcast.
Speaker 5: He knows about it, but he doesn't listen yet.
Speaker 7: And he's like, you're wait, you're so. I'm hung over
Speaker 7: at the hotel and.
Speaker 5: He's gone to a bar. He just sent me a message.
Speaker 5: Is it a bar? At eleven? Am? Just im a drink? Again?
Speaker 3: That's the beautiful thing about Nashville. You can go to
Speaker 3: the bars early. We did learn living downtown the hard
Speaker 3: thing on Sundays. I don't think you can go before
Speaker 3: eleven weekdays all game. But and you can actually drink
Speaker 3: in the bar before you can buy alcohol at gas
Speaker 3: stations and grocery stores on a Sunday it's noon.
Speaker 13: The good news is he won't be here on Sunday.
Speaker 13: He'll be in Las Vegas because they play on set
Speaker 13: the Peen Earth Peen Panthers Pinearth Panthers. That's tough to say.
Speaker 7: So do you live in.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, my gosh, can you say it?
Speaker 2: Perth?
Speaker 5: There is a new Rugby League franchise coming to Perth.
Speaker 5: Do you live on the water or Inland. No, Inland, Yeah,
Speaker 5: say forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: Do you watch uh Love Island Australia?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: What what do you watch?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: What is good in Australia?
Speaker 5: Fancy talk him up?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Like, to be honest with you, we watched mainly American
Speaker 5: TV eight like there is Australian made stuff, but all
Speaker 5: the all the American shows that generally what what we
Speaker 5: watch it? And literally just yesterday HBO Max announced coming to Australia.
Speaker 5: We don't have HBO Max really no. So we're March
Speaker 5: thirty one with the last of US season two. They're
Speaker 5: they're launching.
Speaker 13: So that's pretty cool. Do you watch Okay, there's an
Speaker 13: Australian show. I watch Colin from Account.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is all. That is fantastic. I actually know.
Speaker 5: I'm Harriet Dyer, who's the lead girl. Really knew each
Speaker 5: other a while ago.
Speaker 7: So what do you mean you knew each other a
Speaker 7: while ago?
Speaker 5: That's very platonic, Okay, I assure you.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of sun in Australia.
Speaker 5: Yes, so I've just come from so we're just about
Speaker 5: to finish summer in Australia. Over the last week, I was,
Speaker 5: you know, thinking that we're coming to a snowstorm, but
Speaker 5: it's actually pretty.
Speaker 3: Warm here because your tan a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I got sunburn on the weekend before
Speaker 5: I got got it.
Speaker 7: So what do you do in Australia?
Speaker 5: So I run a or write for a local newspaper
Speaker 5: in Penrith.
Speaker 13: Oh the newspaper is still popular yeah in Penis so
Speaker 13: like everywhere, of a bit of a change, but in Penrith, yeah,
Speaker 13: still going strong. So what do you write about sports?
Speaker 13: Do you just write about anything? I write about anything,
Speaker 13: but yeah, big focus on sports and rugby.
Speaker 5: League geah, guard it lifestyle. So I think this is
Speaker 5: a textroduction.
Speaker 13: This is a world trip because you're going to cover
Speaker 13: the Panthers in Vegas.
Speaker 5: That's what I'll be telling the text upontment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, less sports, more lifestyle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what what are you going to do in Vegas?
Speaker 5: Where are you staying? Or the Paris in Vegas?
Speaker 7: Okay have you ever been to Vegas?
Speaker 5: Yes? One, I'm a honeymoon to Vegas.
Speaker 7: Okay, how long you've been married?
Speaker 5: Ten years?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I would say Paris. That's where I slept
Speaker 3: on Michael's couch. That is when we went on the
Speaker 3: back party, the bachelor party was here. It is small
Speaker 3: Ponzi scheme. See I was. I was heavily into gambling,
Speaker 3: so I was gambling all this money. I didn't have
Speaker 3: any money to pay for the hotel, so I told
Speaker 3: all them to book at what was MGM MGM, but
Speaker 3: I had no money to book.
Speaker 7: No, this is the true story. No, no, bro, this
Speaker 7: is the true story.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: And so Michael, who I slept on his couch at Paris,
Speaker 3: he hit me up and said, hey, do you want
Speaker 3: to sleep on my couch at Paris? And I said, dude,
Speaker 3: that's the best thing ever. That's exactly what I'll do.
Speaker 3: So we get to the booth at MGM and Lunch
Speaker 3: is checking in and I still hadn't told him that
Speaker 3: I'm not staying at MGM. Everybody's got their bags and luggage,
Speaker 3: and Lunch goes, yeah, it's me five other guys, and
Speaker 3: the lady goes, I only have rooms for four.
Speaker 7: I literally had everybody.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 13: No, here's the point. I said, hey, everybody, give me
Speaker 13: your ID. She needs everybody's ID. And Ray still doesn't
Speaker 13: have the balls to tell me.
Speaker 3: Is at the ticket counter.
Speaker 13: He doesn't have the balls to tell me, hey man,
Speaker 13: I'm actually not staying here.
Speaker 7: So he hands me.
Speaker 13: His ID and so I put five IDs on the
Speaker 13: counter so she can check all our rooms in at once.
Speaker 13: And she goes, how they have four of these people
Speaker 13: down for a room here, And I'm like, who, which
Speaker 13: one's not?
Speaker 5: That's here?
Speaker 3: Guys who isn't registered?
Speaker 13: And she picks up and she goes a Raymond, he
Speaker 13: doesn't have a room here. And I turn around and
Speaker 13: ray goes, oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm staying
Speaker 13: at Paris with Michael.
Speaker 7: Here's the best part.
Speaker 13: Here's the best part, Troy, I mean, here's the best part.
Speaker 7: When's the last time you talked to Michael?
Speaker 3: Sadly but not no. He kept in touch a little
Speaker 3: while after that. It's been a minute, but he has
Speaker 3: a family as kids. Sometimes he's in Mexico. I don't
Speaker 3: think there's great service. You have to have WhatsApp. It's
Speaker 3: been a minute. I get it, it was short lived. Had
Speaker 3: a hell of a night at Paris with him.
Speaker 7: I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now my question, do you
Speaker 7: have kids?
Speaker 5: One daughter? Yes?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 5: Hal four nice he's actually four turns four on this trip,
Speaker 5: so it wasn't that popular that I made the decision
Speaker 5: to go this week.
Speaker 7: Okay and hold on.
Speaker 5: A sag it?
Speaker 3: So you thirteen hour flight?
Speaker 5: How long was this? So? Actually it's a sixteen hour
Speaker 5: fl lot to Houston and then two hours to nashually
Speaker 5: eighteen hours. Eighteen hours?
Speaker 3: Is your wife with your kids without them allowing you
Speaker 3: to fly to Tokyo for a week by yourself with
Speaker 3: a buddy.
Speaker 7: With a mate.
Speaker 3: Probably not, dude, My chick ain't even letting me go
Speaker 3: to south of Brentwood of Nashville with for a week
Speaker 3: with a buddy.
Speaker 5: Take this personally with Morgan feels Man.
Speaker 14: You guys may know her as Bay from the Bobby
Speaker 14: Bone Show, Raymondo's wife.
Speaker 12: This is Laura, Laura, thanks for coming on. How are you?
Speaker 12: I'm good, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 14: As you're going through this, are you angry because you're like,
Speaker 14: I've been doing these.
Speaker 12: Checkups for three to six months routinely.
Speaker 14: You've been doing everything that you needed to do and
Speaker 14: then you find out that it's stage three.
Speaker 12: Yeah, just in that short amount of time.
Speaker 15: And it wasn't like it wasn't one of those super
Speaker 15: aggressive ones.
Speaker 12: That's something that I.
Speaker 15: Still have to deal with mentally, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 15: There's a few different things. I want to first say
Speaker 15: that for some reason, I never asked why me, Like
Speaker 15: I've never was like a why me person. I've asked that,
Speaker 15: like when my parents, So she can get into later,
Speaker 15: I've had cancer and I'm like why them? But I've
Speaker 15: never was like why me. I do, though, struggle with
Speaker 15: why did they not catch it sooner?
Speaker 12: When I was doing.
Speaker 15: Everything I was supposed to do, and when I after
Speaker 15: I had surgeries, when they told me that was gonna
Speaker 15: need chemo, and I remember going into my colleges and
Speaker 15: she was like the first time I met her, she
Speaker 15: was like I look through all the She's like, I
Speaker 15: don't understand.
Speaker 12: I don't understand why, why?
Speaker 13: Why?
Speaker 12: This is this thick?
Speaker 15: And you are found out at stage three, so it's
Speaker 15: a hard pill to swallow. But then I also look
Speaker 15: at it as thank god that I went in that
Speaker 15: day because I wasn't I didn't feel it.
Speaker 12: I felt it after she felt it.
Speaker 15: But me going every six months, I wasn't trying to
Speaker 15: fill around as much as I should have.
Speaker 12: And so thank god she found it.
Speaker 15: So I go back and forth as in like a ugh, like,
Speaker 15: how can I swallow this pill?
Speaker 5: Up?
Speaker 15: I did everything I was supposed to do, but also
Speaker 15: she saved my life, so you can't really get too
Speaker 15: mad about that.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 14: I want to get into more of your cancer journey
Speaker 14: in the story, but before we start that, I would
Speaker 14: love to hear you mention your family and the cancer
Speaker 14: history that you have in your family, which I also
Speaker 14: imagine it's just tough on multiple levels that you would
Speaker 14: experience this as a family and then you were going
Speaker 14: through it.
Speaker 15: So walk me through that side of this a little
Speaker 15: bit with the breast cancer part of it. Come to
Speaker 15: find out, like later, way later, I didn't realize. I
Speaker 15: guess my great grandmother we think may have had breast cancer,
Speaker 15: but we weren't. We still aren't one hundred percent sure
Speaker 15: with that one. But my mom got diagnosed with breast
Speaker 15: cancer a year before me, and hers was stage one,
Speaker 15: and so they did what she's called a lump back tomy.
Speaker 15: So it's like with me, I did a misectomy where
Speaker 15: they took all the tissue and everything. With hers, they
Speaker 15: just take the tissue and the surrounding of the cancer
Speaker 15: and then they did a they did radiation, so that's
Speaker 15: and then she's thank god, been maybe going on nine
Speaker 15: years cancer free. But also that was also a weird
Speaker 15: I don't want to say blessing, but we went to
Speaker 15: the same doctor, so they did start being a little more, Okay,
Speaker 15: we need to treat you a little bit better. And
Speaker 15: they were telling me even then that maybe when I
Speaker 15: turned thirty five, that we need to do an MRI
Speaker 15: just to make sure that there's nothing in there since
Speaker 15: my mom had it. So I think maybe that was
Speaker 15: you know, maybe good at as far as helping them
Speaker 15: be more concerned with them, just be like, oh, these
Speaker 15: are five broadnomas or whatever. So that was the mom's side.
Speaker 15: My dad ended up having melanoma, and his was again,
Speaker 15: it wasn't during my treatment, it was right after I finished.
Speaker 12: I'll never forget.
Speaker 15: I just finished all of my treatment, so the chemo,
Speaker 15: the radiation, and my dad my mom was like telling me.
Speaker 12: I was like, it was like the end of the year.
Speaker 15: I write, after Christmas, and my mom was like, your
Speaker 15: dad has melanoma.
Speaker 12: And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 15: Like I was supposed to be credy the end of
Speaker 15: this and now my dad has melanoma. So it's different cancer.
Speaker 15: But it's he's done really well with it. It came back,
Speaker 15: but he got it taking care of again, and so
Speaker 15: he's knock on wood, doing great now. But yeah, it's
Speaker 15: like my brother, he's I'm just waiting for.
Speaker 12: This year to try what is happening? You know, he's
Speaker 12: got to keep that shoe off.
Speaker 15: But yeah, So that's like the family history, and then
Speaker 15: a few we could go back way further where it's
Speaker 15: like my grandfather had died of cancer, my grandmother died
Speaker 15: of cancer, but it wasn't My grandmother was lung cancer.
Speaker 15: My grandfather I think it was a sophagal So, yeah,
Speaker 15: we have cancer all in our family, but this was
Speaker 15: definitely not so much breast cancer until a year before
Speaker 15: I got diagnosed.
Speaker 14: There's so much with this, but I just have to
Speaker 14: imagine that, in the hardest way possible, that it helped you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that your.
Speaker 14: Family had gone through it and you guys had really
Speaker 14: been unfortunately adjusted.
Speaker 15: To that, especially my mom. I'll never forget. After I
Speaker 15: had the biopsy, I went home, and I had it
Speaker 15: on like a Thursday or Wednesday one those days. I
Speaker 15: remember I went home and then I like, I do
Speaker 15: not suggest this, don't do it I doctor would call
Speaker 15: doctor Google, and I remember seeing from the sure in
Speaker 15: my head of that ultrasound I was going through and
Speaker 15: looking at every picture and of online like cancer not cancer,
Speaker 15: and I could tell, okay, I knew that weekend that
Speaker 15: I had cancer.
Speaker 12: My mom was like, no, you don't whatever.
Speaker 15: And I remember going in that Monday and be getting
Speaker 15: found out and I was like, I told you I
Speaker 15: had it, but I remember I just told Mom was
Speaker 15: like I told her. I was like, I'm not strong
Speaker 15: like you because she just went through it. And I'm like,
Speaker 15: I'm not strong because I'd never felt strong. Every little
Speaker 15: thing was such a huge thing to me. I definitely
Speaker 15: deal with anxiety. So that was like up to the thousand.
Speaker 15: I remember just being like, I don't I'm not strong.
Speaker 15: And the reason I say that is because I'm stronger
Speaker 15: than I ever knew.
Speaker 12: I'm stronger than It's.
Speaker 15: Just crazy what you can do and what you're like
Speaker 15: mine makes you think that maybe you can't, maybe you're
Speaker 15: not strong. And so for my reason to say this
Speaker 15: is one thing I did want to say, come on here,
Speaker 15: is that anyone that's going through this that's felling you're
Speaker 15: not strong.
Speaker 12: Everyone's strong.
Speaker 15: You just have to feel, you have to be you
Speaker 15: just have to be presented. Unfortunately, with something like this
Speaker 15: to make you feel like, Wow, I got through this.
Speaker 12: I got through all of this. I'm on the other
Speaker 12: side of this.
Speaker 16: Hey, it's Mike d and this week a movie Mike's
Speaker 16: Movie Podcast, I broke down what I think are going
Speaker 16: to be the best ten sequels of the year. I
Speaker 16: know everybody says that everything is a sequel, everything is
Speaker 16: a remake. Well, I wanted to dive into that and
Speaker 16: let you know my thoughts on the state a cinema.
Speaker 16: I also got into a spoiler free review of The
Speaker 16: Monkey and what I think is going to be the
Speaker 16: best comedy of the year. Check out this full episode,
Speaker 16: but right now here are a couple of my picks
Speaker 16: for the best sequels of twenty twenty five and number
Speaker 16: two I have Happy Gilmore. It's coming out on Netflix.
Speaker 16: The official date still isn't out. I've seen some early
Speaker 16: images and stills from the movie. The only thing aside
Speaker 16: from that that I feel it's a little bit cash
Speaker 16: gravy is this movie is gonna be really heavy with
Speaker 16: the cameos. First one wasn't like that. This has kind
Speaker 16: of become Adam Sandler's marketing strategy and kind of how
Speaker 16: he makes movies now is he includes a lot of
Speaker 16: celebrities now to pop up throughout them, and I feel
Speaker 16: like that takes away from the art of Adam Sandler,
Speaker 16: which his early movies didn't rely on that. I think
Speaker 16: it's kind of the model he created with the Grownups movies,
Speaker 16: And I think it's because Adam Sandler is at a
Speaker 16: point in his life where he just wants to create
Speaker 16: fun sets. He wants people to come onto a set
Speaker 16: and have a good time while making a movie, often
Speaker 16: filmed in tropical locations, So I think that is why
Speaker 16: he does this now. He's just trying to have a
Speaker 16: good time, which I can't hate on him for. But
Speaker 16: I think it's just the fact that it's Happy Gilmore
Speaker 16: one of the best movies of his career. When you
Speaker 16: talk about top three movies of Adam Sandler that he's
Speaker 16: ever done, they all go back to the nineties. I
Speaker 16: mean top two is easily Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
Speaker 16: For me, those are the quintessential movies I think about
Speaker 16: when I think of Adam Sandler. Maybe it's because they
Speaker 16: came out around each other. I also associate them with
Speaker 16: having the two Pac DVD back in the day. I
Speaker 16: feel like those are his two best movies, even though
Speaker 16: I think on any given day, Big Daddy could also
Speaker 16: be my favorite. But throwing all those reasons to the
Speaker 16: when the fact that Travis Kelsey is in it, Bad
Speaker 16: Bunny is in it, you have Shooter McGavin returning, Julie
Speaker 16: Bowen is returning, it does have the pieces of the original,
Speaker 16: I think to me, it's also just thinking of the
Speaker 16: way that Netflix movies look now, where they don't really
Speaker 16: look like movies anymore.
Speaker 5: They look really.
Speaker 16: Glossy and bright and colorful, and doesn't really have that
Speaker 16: same warmth a movie from the nineties that I think
Speaker 16: a sequel like this needs. So I feel like it's
Speaker 16: a weird thing to complain about, but I think the
Speaker 16: cinematography isn't going to match the tone of the humor
Speaker 16: of Happy Gilmore. I hope that it does, but I'm
Speaker 16: so excited just to see what the plot is and
Speaker 16: to see how this plays out, and hoping that he
Speaker 16: wasn't lying and saying we have a really good script,
Speaker 16: that this movie is actually.
Speaker 7: Going to be good.
Speaker 16: So I ranked it so high because my hopes are
Speaker 16: so high. The last time, though, my hopes for this
Speaker 16: high an anticipation for a legacy direct sequel like this
Speaker 16: was back when they made Dumb and Dumber two and
Speaker 16: I was so disappointed in that movie. Don't do me
Speaker 16: like that, Adam Sandler. But my hopes are staying high.
Speaker 16: At number eight. I have Happy Gilmore two coming out
Speaker 16: on Netflix.
Speaker 7: Later this year.
Speaker 16: How surprising that they're not going to put out this
Speaker 16: movie in theaters? Is that another indicator? Because I think
Speaker 16: if you had a really good movie on your hands, oh,
Speaker 16: do you want to get that thing in theater? But
Speaker 16: Netflix pays them so much money and that's gonna be
Speaker 16: number one on Netflix for like two to three weeks,
Speaker 16: so they're really paying for that. But at number one
Speaker 16: coming out on November twenty.
Speaker 7: First, it is Wicked for good.
Speaker 16: We have Alfa Banow in full control of her power.
Speaker 16: She has declared an enemy of the state and turns
Speaker 16: into well a full out witch hunt. The thing I
Speaker 16: love knowing going into this movie is the fact that
Speaker 16: they already told us what happens to her character. At
Speaker 16: the beginning of Wicked. It starts with her dying, and
Speaker 16: if you've seen the original Wizard of Oz, you already
Speaker 16: knew what was going to happen to her character, regardless
Speaker 16: to me, in my head, I just can't see it
Speaker 16: getting there because I love the character of El Fabas
Speaker 16: so much. Cynthia Riewo does an amazing job in the
Speaker 16: first one vocally and through acting, say with Ariana Grande,
Speaker 16: but in my head, I couldnt see her character getting
Speaker 16: to that point. And I'm thinking to myself, like, maybe
Speaker 16: they change something, maybe they rewrite history, maybe there's some
Speaker 16: kind of magic that happens in between that that doesn't
Speaker 16: happen to her character, because I'm so invested and I
Speaker 16: love it so much that I don't want to see
Speaker 16: that happen to her. But I also think that there's
Speaker 16: gonna be some kind of a shift in Wicked for good.
Speaker 16: And this is me have never seen Wicked. I've never
Speaker 16: seen it. I've never experienced that. I for that reason,
Speaker 16: have not looked up any spoilers on what happens in
Speaker 16: the musical because I don't want to know. So this
Speaker 16: is me pure speculation. What I like to do about
Speaker 16: movies is figure out what they're gonna do. So you
Speaker 16: might already know. This is just my theory, but I
Speaker 16: think there's gonna be some real shift in her character
Speaker 16: where you see that rapid decline and maybe we see
Speaker 16: ourselves not rooting for her as much as we have been,
Speaker 16: and we do see this wickedness come out in her,
Speaker 16: where she really starts to change. People around her go
Speaker 16: from defending her to being in fear of her. And
Speaker 16: then we ultimately do see your demise and it makes
Speaker 16: a little bit more sense, or we see the opposite
Speaker 16: of her still being kind of a good person and
Speaker 16: she sacrifices herself. Because this movie was also split into
Speaker 16: two parts, it was originally going to be one movie,
Speaker 16: and they had so much story to tell, so much content,
Speaker 16: that they split it into two. I am glad that
Speaker 16: they are releasing it one year after the first one,
Speaker 16: so we don't have to wait a whole lot. I
Speaker 16: think it's also smart for them because if you missed
Speaker 16: Wicked one in theaters, even though it's about to be
Speaker 16: on Peacock on March twenty first, they could have those
Speaker 16: double features sold out as well, where you show Wicked
Speaker 16: one and then it rolls into Wicked two. Yeah, you're
Speaker 16: gonna be at the theater for like five hours, but
Speaker 16: I could see some people doing that. Then you're adding
Speaker 16: some single along screenings as well, and that is great
Speaker 16: for movie theaters and taking this thing full circle. It
Speaker 16: is movies like that that create that experience that get
Speaker 16: people into the theater and that allow theaters to keep
Speaker 16: their doors open. And I will always be for that.
Speaker 16: So I'm not anti sequel. I'm just anti wasting money
Speaker 16: on things and wasting our time on things that feels
Speaker 16: like they weren't really made with the same quality as
Speaker 16: the original movies.
Speaker 9: Carl Line, she's a queen talking and it was she's
Speaker 9: getting really.
Speaker 5: Not afraid to face its episode, so just let it flow.
Speaker 16: No one can do we quiet Carl Line, It's time
Speaker 16: for carelu.
Speaker 17: And I will say that there are a lot of
Speaker 17: touring things that I mean. I was out on the
Speaker 17: road when we were filming Nashville. I was out every
Speaker 17: weekend that well, every weekend, so we would film all
Speaker 17: the way through during the week to the point where
Speaker 17: like after the weekend, I would tour with Charles Eston
Speaker 17: and Brandon started coming out with us as well, which
Speaker 17: was wonderful, and six Wire, who are a fantastic band,
Speaker 17: but we would be pulling onto the lot of where
Speaker 17: we were filming in a real tour bus, getting off there,
Speaker 17: going into hair and makeup, and then getting onto the
Speaker 17: stunt tour bus like the you know, the.
Speaker 18: They were living a reality.
Speaker 17: Actually, Yeah, and I was absolutely exhausted, Like, you know,
Speaker 17: your body is not the same after you've had cancer.
Speaker 17: You know, people, especially at such a young developmental age,
Speaker 17: there are lots of gifts that it gives you that
Speaker 17: continue to give and being also very so just social
Speaker 17: interactions sometimes are a little bit difficult for me. They're
Speaker 17: much easier now, but there's so much that I wouldn't
Speaker 17: have been able to do without Brandon. There the world
Speaker 17: got so much more. I was able to see so
Speaker 17: much more kindness in the world, and just the world
Speaker 17: got softer.
Speaker 18: You were protected, you could just drop your guard.
Speaker 17: Yeah, when I met Brandon, and there's there's there's always
Speaker 17: like the things that happen in life that they happened,
Speaker 17: but just being able to interact with people and for
Speaker 17: me to be able to turn to him and say,
Speaker 17: I'm not sure if someone people tend to say things
Speaker 17: that they they say one thing and they meet another
Speaker 17: and I don't understand that, and to say to him
Speaker 17: like I don't understand what that meant. What did they
Speaker 17: and he can tell me it's it's weird. It's like,
Speaker 17: you know, you just feel like an alien kind of thing.
Speaker 17: But everything about the world got better, including my own
Speaker 17: health and safety when Brandon showed up.
Speaker 18: Guys, how so having autism as a kid an adult,
Speaker 18: I guess, but realizing it, when did you realize it?
Speaker 18: And then how did you get into acting if being
Speaker 18: around a bunch of people in this kind of situations,
Speaker 18: like how did you navigate that and like go into
Speaker 18: that field when you were kind of like when people
Speaker 18: were kind of nerve wracking to the new room guessing?
Speaker 18: How did you find it? And what did your autism?
Speaker 18: What does it present as for you? Like how do
Speaker 18: you work with it?
Speaker 17: For me, it's just it's like I don't even say
Speaker 17: that I have I'm not correcting you in any way,
Speaker 17: shape or form, because there are so many different ways
Speaker 17: people talk about this. I am autistic, it's part of me.
Speaker 17: I had cancer. Some people have cancer. I don't. I
Speaker 17: don't consider myself to have autism. There's just a difference
Speaker 17: between like the my autism is like I am autistic,
Speaker 17: I have blonde, I'm like I'm a blonde. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 17: I'm an autistic blonde, Like you know what I mean. Yes,
Speaker 17: it manifests as like I was saying earlier, like it's
Speaker 17: very difficult for me to sit in a chair for
Speaker 17: a very long time and stay still actually have ADHD
Speaker 17: as well, which steered me to be able to hand
Speaker 17: like high energy, high sort of like pressure situations because
Speaker 17: I had a mission and the people who diagnosed me
Speaker 17: said I probably wouldn't have had the capacity because of
Speaker 17: the level of the level of autistic that I am.
Speaker 17: I'm between a one and a two. It's like one, two, three,
Speaker 17: three you need help with absolutely every element of your life.
Speaker 17: Two you need some help, some assistance from somebody. One
Speaker 17: you might get away with it on your own, but
Speaker 17: you definitely still have some sort of challenges. But you
Speaker 17: could go undetected, which is what happened with me. So
Speaker 17: I sit between a one and a two. And I've
Speaker 17: always needed a little bit of help, and some people
Speaker 17: have been more understanding of that and some people haven't.
Speaker 17: And a lot of that is just knowing, like knowledge
Speaker 17: is power. So once I was diagnosed, which was three
Speaker 17: or four years ago now, and it was a really
Speaker 17: long process, and it was something that I was able
Speaker 17: to do during the pandemic because it was all it's
Speaker 17: not a fun process at all.
Speaker 7: Two years.
Speaker 12: What is the process?
Speaker 17: I mean, it's a very in depth, in depth psychiatric
Speaker 17: medical like your entire medical history, your psychiatric history, the
Speaker 17: psychology that you're living with, that you have lived with,
Speaker 17: traits that you have as a child that have stayed.
Speaker 17: Some may have stayed, some may have gone away. I
Speaker 17: like I could sing before I could talk properly. I
Speaker 17: was more I've always been more comfortable around animals than people.
Speaker 17: There are certain like fluorescent lights are they always really
Speaker 17: bothered me and I just I really thought I put
Speaker 17: it all down to my my chemo and that like
Speaker 17: I was never going to be I was never going
Speaker 17: to have normal, regular health. There is no such thing
Speaker 17: as normal. But I had no idea what neurodivergence was.
Speaker 17: I I started suspecting that maybe I was on the
Speaker 17: spectrum probably ten years ago, but never had the time
Speaker 17: and didn't. There was just so much going on. I didn't.
Speaker 17: I mean I used to.
Speaker 12: I had hyperlexia as.
Speaker 17: A child, which is like like I think I read
Speaker 17: Silence of the Lambs when I was about seven probably
Speaker 17: should have done that, but I really enjoyed it. It
Speaker 17: was amazing. But for a seven year old to be
Speaker 17: able to process that and not be freaked out by
Speaker 17: it and understand what the story was about. Right, it's
Speaker 17: the opposite of dyslexia. But okay, I have dyscalculia, so
Speaker 17: I can't read analog clocks. It's very difficult to tell
Speaker 17: left from right for me. So any director or director
Speaker 17: of photography who works with me is just like you know,
Speaker 17: and no one's ever given me any like heat about it,
Speaker 17: and I really can't count very well. Like honestly, people
Speaker 17: are like, oh cute, No, it's not cute. It's actually
Speaker 17: like it. At school, I needed help and I didn't
Speaker 17: have it because no one knew, and.
Speaker 18: So you just kind of had to survive, yeap, And
Speaker 18: is that what made you want to start pursuing a
Speaker 18: diagnosis for it?
Speaker 17: It was actually my dear friend Vivian, who has two
Speaker 17: gorgeous little autistic boys. They were the catalyst for the
Speaker 17: song Aurora, along with Sean McConnell's daughter Aby, and she
Speaker 17: has a different set of challenges. But this song Aurora
Speaker 17: is all about being yourself and and like I know,
Speaker 17: I know you're different. I know that you don't feel
Speaker 17: like you're being seen for who you are. I know
Speaker 17: that I know that you don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 17: I know you don't get the world around you. It's okay,
Speaker 17: like you're beautiful. It's there's nothing wrong with you. That's
Speaker 17: what Aurora is all about. And Viv, who has been
Speaker 17: a friend of mine since we were eleven, she's known
Speaker 17: me for a long time. Takes a really good friend
Speaker 17: to call you and say I've been you know, she said,
Speaker 17: I've been doing all of this research for the boys
Speaker 17: to help protect them. She's such a wonderful parent, just
Speaker 17: navigating their journey through life as to autistic children who
Speaker 17: have different sets of needs that have to be meant
Speaker 17: for them to thrive. And she said, you know, I've
Speaker 17: discovered a few things about myself along the way, and
Speaker 17: it honestly made me think of our childhood and it
Speaker 17: made me think of you, and I think I think
Speaker 17: you might be autistic. And it's sort of like a
Speaker 17: shoe dropped. I was like, oh, that would explain okay.
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