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Rocky Balboa aka Sylvester Stallone’s One Leg Up on Ostomy Awareness 11-27-23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. I had a lot of stuff to talk
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  to you about today on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. But guess what that
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  all got pushed aside when I realized when I saw this clip from what's called
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  the Unwaxed podcast by the Stallone Daughters, Yes, the daughters of Sylvester Stallone.
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  Oh, what I've been talking about today got pushed aside when I realized
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  Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa, Yes that Rocky is an advocate for
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  those with aostemy. Take a listen to this on the freshly released UH podcast
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  of Unwaxed, as heard right now on the Alex Scatt podcast Network. All
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  beat up. I actually glued my nose. I colostomy bags. Glue is
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  no stop, We'll stop. That's okay. Well, some people have trouble
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  pooping because they have intestinal problems and they put a bag here. I didn't
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  know what that was called very powerful glove. Yeah, So I glued my
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  nose because it's crooked anyways and broken. Somebody like this and I look so
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  I auditioned like this, and you're wondering why they were like it looked like
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  such a monster. Color yeah, take the blue off and perhaps maybe be
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  a little nice. You have a dog you have, but no, I
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  was like, I look terrifying. Oh gosh, I think I yet.
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  So there you go. Rocky about Boa. I don't know if he knows
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  this or not, just became an advocate for ostem awareness. And I've had
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  an ostemy since I was about four or five hours old. It was a
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  life saving procedure, A life saving procedure for myself and I'm sure many others.
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  Many have adapted to the colostomy. That is true, and I guess
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  I was fortunate to have it from birth. But and it's been a to
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  this day, a maintenance job to keep up with my osteme awareness. But
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  how about that, Rocky about Boa Gonna fly? Now an advocate for those
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  with an ostemy, and I would love to extend an invitation to mister Slice
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  Stalone, Sylvester Stallone to this podcast to discuss that and maybe just maybe we
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  start a campaign and awareness campaign unlike any other on osteme awareness. Can you
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  imagine a high profile celebrity utilizing ostemy glue? And it is powerful blue to
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  make up the face we've seen in Rocky as Rocky about boa is that not
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  exciting. I think it's freaking amazing. I think it's a huge, huge
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  kudos. And the girls are kind of laughing about it, But I liked
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  this. Sallone went into detail and talked about, hey, guess what,
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  there are people with real issues that can't you go to the bathroom do number
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  two normally, so let's not laugh at them. Let me educate you for
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  a minute. And I love that he took the time to explain it.
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  And by the way, on my Instagram right now, alex g nyc one,
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  on my Instagram right now, there's a picture standing under Rocky from many
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  many years ago in Philadelphia. And I'll tell you what, I've never been
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  so proud to stand under that Rocky statue in Philly knowing that what was untold
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  for many years and many decades has just become a form of awareness. And
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  to be honest, the girl's laughing was sort of a I don't want to
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  say, a trigger, but it definitely hit a nerve because I did find
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  a woman that would understand my ostome, that actually pushes me to take care
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  of it. She is my fiance now, Gabriella Pisani, but all my
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  life when I became, you know, when my hormones were growing, when
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  I started to realize, oh, the opposite sex. How am I gonna,
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  you know, have intimacy with this astem? And Gabby understands it,
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  but the girls laughing about it kind of is how I think someone with anostomy
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  is handled. And so I applaud so Ivester Stallone, Rocky Bouboa, Rambo
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  for taking that moment to explain why we use ostomes. Very very thankful he
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  took a moment. And again, mister Stallone, if I tag you in
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  this and you happen to listen to it, please come by the Alex Garrett
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  podcast network. I would even do a vlog with you about that story alone
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  and maybe help you understand, you know, maybe congratulate you on something you
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  didn't know, which is you lit a fire under someone with an astemy and
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  a podcast to as a matter of fact, go out and continue bringing awareness.
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  I've had my buddy Danny voice about osteme awareness. I need to get
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  more people on about the adaptation to the ostome because as of right now as
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  I look it up, as of right now, and there is an osteme
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  Awareness Day held on a sobering day, October seventh this year. But but
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  ostem dot org. I'm gonna drop the link ostme dot org. It's all
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  connected. And I'm so amazed actually that Sylvester Stallone wanted to tell this story.
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  It's awesome that he did. But now we got to do the work
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  and explain it more. I wonder if he has friends with astomes. That's
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  a great question to ask him. Maybe I'll be able to after I extend
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  this invite to Rocky Abuboa on this alone. And I'm looking for statistics right
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  now because there's about between seven hundred and fifty thousand to one million people with
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  ostemese. Approximately one hundred and fifty thousand osteme is created each year. Those
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  can be invasive, those can be from birth. But let's do something with
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  this. We just had a major profile celebrity, Sylvester Stallone shout out the
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  ostome community given awareness to something that I myself a dealt with for thirty two
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  years. That's huge news and that is awesome that he took the time to
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  explain to his daughters who were ensure. But we will educate more. I
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  think this audio needs to be captured and send to those like osme dot org
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  and maybe as a collaboration we can all be connected and discussed not only why
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  he chose the ostome glue as strong as as is, but how he gained
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  the knowledge of it and if he has friends that use it. Rocky Botbo
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  was a champion and now he's a champion of the colostomy ostem movement and awareness.
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  And if that's not freaking cool, I don't know what it is,
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  man, because we need more voices to shout out the ostome community and the
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  band together. But let me play it for you one more time. Looks
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  like all beat up. I actually glued my nose colossomy bags glue. Stop
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  stop, we know that that's okay. Well, some people have trouble pooping
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  because they have intestinal problems and they put a bag here. I didn't know
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  what that was. Very power, I mean, now you know, girls,
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  now you know. As to me, awareness never been so prouder to
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  stand under that statue of Rocky BA in Philadelphia and right in this moment,
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  and that goes a long way. And that understanding of the OSome, that
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  smashing of the stigma of the osteme, might have just broke a little more
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  ground with Rocky so Fesor Stallone, Balboa, have a great rest of your
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  day. I got a couple things I want to cover, but this was
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  major. This Trump's a lot of other stuff going on. We are proud,
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  we we are watching for you the Israel Hamas war. And I'm disgusted
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  about the protests that blocked the Manhattan Bridge for four hours. I'll just say
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  that. But this osteme comment, this condition, it is something that only
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  hits home, but I know impacts so many other families. And thank you
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  so Vester Stallone for bringing awareness to what a colostomy bag is. Because if
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  it doesn't make sense for me, maybe Rocky Balboa can help you make it
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  make sense here on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. What else am I gonna
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  end the show with but a little more of Bill CONTI. I'm gonna fly
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  now because I think we can fly into osteme awareness even we can stort even
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  higher now with these campaigns thanks to Rocky Balboa. Have a great day and
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  we'll talk to you soon.