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100th Episode and Johnny's Bday · Johnny's World

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another very special episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is our hundredth episode since recording this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is also the day before my co-host Johnny's birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're recording our hundredth podcast the day before Johnny's birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: How are we doing, Johnny?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're doing great.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh hundredth episode, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is a uh that's a milestone.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember we uh I guess around my birthday in 2021.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 2021.
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  SPEAKER_01: And four years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Four years.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here we are, 2025.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh 2021 was a big one, man, because that was the big 4-0.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh here we go four four years later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hard to believe.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, when you have CF, you're shooting for I was shooting, my goal was to make it a 40.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I made it to 40, and then after that, I was like everything else just added to uh extra.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh 44 this year, and uh really really hard to be hard to believe, BW.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just uh thankful to be alive every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh before we get too far into this, uh I want to remind the good folks here that uh we're doing this so we can raise some funds and awareness for the Sys at Fibrosis Foundation.
• 1:44
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, an update for those that have been with us for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we originally had Johnny Packer Eyewear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Johnny Packer Eyewear is being brought back.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have uh uh a new prototype in the works as we speak from a guy out in Utah.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is handmaking us some Johnny Packer Eyewear glasses, and as soon as those are available, I will let you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Johnny, you've had a lot going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I know you got a new family member.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been fighting off some some bad bugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell us what's been happening in your world.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm I'm glad you mentioned that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So with CF, you know, we talk about this all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I got this miracle drug called TriCafta, but a lot of people uh kind of misinterpret it.
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  SPEAKER_01: They think that tricapta is a cure for CF, and that's actually not the case.
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  SPEAKER_01: It pretty much uh has maintained people with CF.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh the way it works with people with cystic fibrosis that have uh two copies of uh it's a mute uh genetic disease.
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  SPEAKER_01: So people uh have people with CF have a copy of a mutation called Delta 508.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, 50% of the population have two copies of that Delta 508, and this tricapta hits 100% those people with 50 uh two copies of Delta 50.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they are really they're not cured, but they're not gonna probably have any symptoms.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be awesome for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So with me, I only have one copy of the Delta 50 and they have this rare mutation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, this rare mutation, Tricafta does not hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh I'm only getting half the benefit of TriCafta compared to the people that have the two copies.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I don't do as well as those people, but I'm better than the people that don't have a single copy of the Delta 508.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those are the ones we fight for that do not have uh a drug right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So with that being said, the um that one mutation I have is the one that causes the problems where uh people that what people would see after you always culture bugs in your lungs.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're always gonna people, normal people probably culture it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh it just uh but it doesn't affect them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But with people with CF, the bugs get they grow up, they grow up or grow up, and then you you get sicker and all that sort of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're never you never can eradicate the bugs completely.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just try to knock them down.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, BW, you know me for for a long time how I would always have to do IV antibiotics.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'd see me doing IVs at school and all that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, doing the IVs knocks these bugs down, and then but eventually the bugs are gonna come back up.
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  SPEAKER_01: So with tricapta, it opens up the uh airways in your lungs where the mucus flows freely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because that mucus, when it clogs up your airways, that's when the infection starts taking over and all that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So tricapta helps that uh mucus flowing, but it doesn't the tricapta cannot beat bugs down.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's the only issue.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when the bugs get out of control and produce the mucus, even though tricatis is thin in the mucus, the bugs are still there and they need to be taken care of.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um during college, every year I would come home for the summer, check myself into the hospital, do uh two weeks of IV antibiotics in the hospital, go back to school, and it kept me healthy through the whole next year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we call that a tune-up in the CF world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh everybody with CF knows about tune-ups.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um I would do that, and and I'd have to do IVs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then before I got TriCapta, I was on IVs a lot, like every few months.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh I haven't been on IVs in six years because um tricapta's been doing so great.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: But here recently, uh in November, I started having these arthritis symptoms in my leg and feet, and and I've had that before, and it's very weird.
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  SPEAKER_01: Growing old with CF, you get all sorts of complications that not many people know about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, the arthritis issues are caused by some of the bugs that are growing in my lungs.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I had to do a culture to find out what's going on, and and uh I'm growing a couple of the normal uh CF bugs in my lungs, and then I I've got another one that we think was causing the arthritis.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I was just like, man, just check me in the hospital, do a tune-up, get the bugs over with, and and go on.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh, my doctor didn't want me in the hospital because flu season is really bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh he was like, I'd rather treat this at home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, two of the bugs that I'm growing are sensitive to an oral antibiotic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, one of them is resistant, and that's an issue when when you have resistant bugs, because that means uh the drugs, I've the antibiotics will not work properly like they normally do when they're when they're sensitive, they work.
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  SPEAKER_01: When they're resistant, you have to do all sorts of tricks to try to get them to work.
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  SPEAKER_01: One time I had to do a 22-hour IV uh continuously because it beats the bugs down enough to where it finally gives up and and works.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, that was gonna be a tricky thing because I need to be in the hospital to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh anyway, the cultures came back, and one of and two of the bugs are were sensitive to an antibiotic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that particular antibiotic I've had reactions in the past to so I had to do a challenge to make sure I could take it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I passed the challenge, and uh I took took it and I finished it uh just yesterday, but I am having some side effects, uh kind of weird having shortness of breath and weird stuff like that going on, which is not not normal at the beginning of taking the medicine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, no at the end, using kid at the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, we're just keeping an eye on that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it has seemed to uh clear my mucus up and cough uh, so that's a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the arthritis is gone away.
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  SPEAKER_01: So eventually, after um flu season dies down, man, I think I'm just gonna go into the hospital, check in, do the IP, do the tune-up, and then be be good to go after that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh it's a constant battle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So tricapta does help.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I did not have tricapta, man, I I would not be here today or either I would have had a lung transplant because I was going downhill fast.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, it's just uh it's a it's a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_01: But with people with the one copy like me, it's still a constant battle every day.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so anyway, uh doing that right now, and uh, and hopefully these side effects will go away and uh and I'll be good to go until uh the hospital can uh until flu season's over with and clear me up.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: But also at the same time, I can't go in because I got a like you said, I got a new family member.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: I got a uh got a dog finally.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, those who listen to know I had uh 13 and a half year old Golden Triever who was my heart and soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he went everywhere with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he was so loved.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bo was his name.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh man, I I miss him every single day.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: And the hardest thing I've ever had to do was to put him down.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, I ran across some breeders in uh Enterprise uh outside of Meridian and uh started talking to them and and and met them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and they have a um a female dog there uh named Julie, who's the mom, and she's a heart dog that lives in a house there with them, and they have uh like 25 gold into there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um that's uh it's a business pretty much.
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  SPEAKER_01: And went down to meet them and uh and fell in love with Julie right when we opened the door, she jumped on my mom and gave her a hug, and just the sweetest dog ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and uh so anyway, the Rhonda is her name, the breeder, and Rhonda was telling me about showing me all the dogs.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was like, and Julie happened is our heart dog looks inside and she happens to be pregnant if you're wanting one of hers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh and I was like, man, that would be great because I was like, if I can get a dog just like Julie, that would be perfect.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: And so anyway, uh ended up getting one of Julie's.
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  SPEAKER_01: Julie's is like two, so she's really young.
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  SPEAKER_01: She wasn't expecting Ronna was eventually gonna breed her, but she actually got out one day and uh and Gunny, their their dog that dude for the breeding jumped on Julie and got her pregnant.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: So Julie's uh Julie got knocked up pretty much, and she was uh she's a young young young pup, but she's gonna get her to have puppies again, but she just wasn't really ready yet.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: So she was kind of nervous about this being her first first uh litter.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Rhonda messaged me the night that Julie went into labor with the puppies, and she had the puppies laying in Rhonda's lap on the couch.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh she said it was the most amazing, amazing thing, and she had eight.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: It was October 25th, and uh and I wanted a girl this time because I knew I could not just couldn't get another male dog uh because of Bo.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: I just uh he was just so perfect.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't do that.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to go a different route and get a female.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I went down there.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: Bo's birthday was December 2nd, so I was like, that I knew that was gonna be a tough day.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I asked her, I was like, can I come down and see the pups?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: Went down there and uh and saw two of them, uh, red collar girl and the orange-collar girl.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: And the orange-collar girl, I going down there, I was like, Man, I just hope I can find a dog that'll come to me and I'll know right away that's the one.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because I was like, that's gonna be the toughest decision ever to pick which one.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's eight of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and so I narrowed it down the two of them, this red one, red-collar girl and orange-collar girl.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: And and as we were leaving, and I orange is my favorite color.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I always uh I and I thought I was like, you know, I prayed, you know, Bo, please just sent me the right one, send me the right one.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so when I saw the orange-collar girl, I was like, that's gotta be the one.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: I hope she's the one that comes up to me.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: So as we were leaving that day, after I saw them, all the dogs went, went, all the puppies went separate way, and then this one stayed back and like looked at me like when we were leaving, like, don't leave me.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: And she was the orange-collar girl.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I still left it up to uh to Rhonda.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, You deal with these dogs all the time, you know which ones are better red or orange.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: And she said she'd pull those off to the side and watch after them for a little while and see which one.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Because I said I want it to be just like Julie.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: And uh about a uh a couple weeks later, she messaged me and she goes, After after watching these two dogs a lot, you need to pick the orange collar girl.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: She's the command one, the loving one more like Julie.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Oh my gosh, that's the one I was wanting all along.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so I got her um picked out, and then I ended up uh letting Rhonda do uh four weeks of training.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they were ready to go at Christmas.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Max, actually, one of my fraternity brothers got uh the lime collar girl named her Roxy.
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  SPEAKER_01: He lives in Birmingham, and his daughter's a freshman at Mississippi State, and uh so when he comes to visit his daughter, he's gonna bring the dog over and we'll and they'll get to play their sisters, so that'll be pretty neat.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, he got his uh at Christmas time.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I've been waiting and waiting, waiting, and then I was dealing with all this weird stuff with with my lungs and CF, and I can decide like uh if I go in the hospital, what am I gonna do with the dog?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's just been kind of stressful with that.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, when I got got on the medicine and it seemed to be working, everything I called her.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, is she ready to go?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: And they were like, Well, she kind of crying in the kennel, she's not ready yet, maybe another another week or so.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: So uh she called last week and said that she's ready to go.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we went down there on Sunday morning and uh and picked her up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh she she I man, I can't tell you enough about how great of a dog this is.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, if you're looking, I'm giving them a shout out because Ronda's retrievers in out in Enterprise.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: If you're looking for a gold and hit them up, because so far this dog is, I mean, Bo was sweet and everything as a puppy, and you know, he was my heart and soul.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: But this dog is even sweeter than Bo.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like she Bo never liked me getting in his face.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if it's the male and and she's a female, if that's different, but uh she's real cuddly and loving and wants wants to be all over you and just real calm.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh she's just like her mom Julie, that and that's exactly what we're wanting.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um she's gonna have she's got really long legs.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: Julie has long legs, so she's gonna be a long-legged dog.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh, but she is uh she's great, and this is day four with her.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we're we're just having a good time.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: I I it's hard to believe 14 years ago from right now, I was doing this exact same thing with Bo.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh you know, it's it's really hard to believe that time go time flies that fast, and and uh cherish those moments because man, they grow up so fast, just before you know it, so they'll be full grown.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, like riding in the car with me, she riding my lap and lay right lay right on me and just uh cherishing these moments, man.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll never forget on my 30th birthday when uh uh that was right when I got Bo, and and uh I got a video of it.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: I had a birthday card, and it was like a singing uh birthday card opened up and it was birthday to you button singing it, and Bo like literally went rub ruh ruh like he barked happy birthday song.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: So it was so special.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so yeah, so being my birthday, uh I get to spend it with uh with Natty and I named her Natty, so named Bo uh was named after uh Bo um Bo Duke from the Dukes of Hazard, John Schneider.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: He's a friend of mine.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: I named him Bo Duke because that was my favorite show, and and John's my friend, and Bo was my favorite character on the show.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: And our neighbor's dog across the street, uh name was Duke.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: So that was kind of a tribute to to him, and and uh so that's how he became Bo Duke Packer.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: So then this dog uh named her Natty Whalen Packer.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: And the reason why I did that was Natty, obviously, because Mississippi State winning the national championship might be the only one we ever see in our lifetime.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's something I always was hoping to live to see, and I saw it.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the natty part.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And then Whalen, I had to think of a name to do Mississippi State, the Dukes of Hazard, my two favorite things.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh, and Whalen Jennings, you know, is the balladier for the Dukes of Hazard and the greatest country music singer, my opinion.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, Natty Whalen Packer is her name, so Natty Way.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but she is uh she's a sweet girl and can't can't wait for the fun times ahead uh ahead for us.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: So uh a lot a lot of happening over here and uh pretty cool to be in the hundredth uh episode of the show on my uh 44th birthday and and getting to share it with a new a new puppy.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: So good things happen, BW.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we hadn't had a chance to plan any any uh any meals lately.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: You've been sick and right, you know, the flu's real bad and all that mess.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll have to do that later in the spring.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, what do you so we're gonna do tomorrow?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Are you gonna you got any plans?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: You gonna eat anything?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh man, I'm not sure.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: No, no plans right now.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Just uh, you know, last year I did the uh I went um uh sat courtside at the hump.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: We played Georgia basketball last year.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: So uh splurgs and got some courtside tickets last year, but we're play we play at uh at Georgia on Sunday.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we play them again this weekend, don't we?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we play in the same same team as we played last year, but just at a way this time.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: So uh probably not gonna do anything.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just just hang out with Natty, just kind of like I did on my 30th birthday and enjoy her.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh and every year, man, the Super Bowl is around my birthday, so I'm pretty excited about that.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: Get to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday with with her.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, we'll see see what happens, see if the Chiefs uh three peat or chief peat or whatever you want to call it.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um see if Mississippi State can uh get uh Chris Jones four Super Bowl rings in five years or six years, however many years it's been.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: So uh pretty exciting stuff.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, just looking forward to watching Super Bowl with her and enjoying the day.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh yeah, who knows where I'll eat, but one of these days we'll we'll get out and go eat go eat somewhere and and do that, celebrate it then.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that'll be good.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, we'll do we'll do another pop probably podcast.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we do one before the selection tournament or SEC tournament or something like that about the basketball and uh talk a little baseball too.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking, you know, we we do um we've been doing this four years, but it's 25 a year, so most of ours are during football season, then a few throughout the year.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll sprinkle a few more in before football season, I'm sure.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: So y'all stay tuned for that.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: And and like I mentioned before, Johnny Packer Eyewear is coming back, so be on the lookout for that too.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Johnny Packer Eyewear.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh yeah, it's it's I'm real excited about that.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: I got as you can't see, but I have them on right now.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: I really love them and and uh and then the coffee products, but yeah, it all goes towards a great cause in our fight for CF.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, just hearing what I talked about earlier, I mean, Tricafta is a game changer.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a miracle, but it is a game changer and it's helping uh improve the lives, especially kids that are born today.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the kids that are born right now uh are expected to live normal lives because I've got 44 years of lung damage, it's irreversible.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: These kids today, when they get on tricapta, they're not having the long-term damage.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: So it really is a miracle, and uh just very thankful I have it.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: But kids today born with CF have a long life ahead of them.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but we're not we're not through fundraising, and it's always a constant battle, uh constant grind, fighting CF, and it's it's a great cause.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, if you want to do something for my 44th birthday, log on to Johnnypacker.net, buy some coffee, send it to your friends, family, anyone you know, know your health a great cause, and uh and we thank you very much.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thank y'all for listening, and uh especially those that have been with us since episode one.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: Probably shout out to Juan Valdez.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: I bet he's been on there since then.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: But um thank y'all for listening and stay tuned for the next episode.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be back.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll be back, and uh we'll talk we'll talk some hoops and uh and some baseball.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: So enjoy uh look forward to that and enjoy watching the Super Bowl this weekend.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Happy birthday, Johnny.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much.