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OneLegUpAlex Media Remembers Soul Brother Danny Voyes and Keeps Voyes' Voice ALIVE · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Speaker 1: No bells and whistles, no fancy liners, just a memorial
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Speaker 1: right now on one like a blex media, because the
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Speaker 1: life of Danny Voyce was taken from us too soon.
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Speaker 1: You might remember Danny from his numerous appearances or my
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Speaker 1: constant message mentioning of him on social media as my brother,
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Speaker 1: as a really close friend, as a friend that was
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Speaker 1: connected to me through Max gold Well. Danny, who has
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Speaker 1: quite the story and the story he has should be
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Speaker 1: told forever, passed away on March ninth, and details I
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Speaker 1: still am not sure, but he passed and it's sad,
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Speaker 1: and he was about to venture into his new brand,
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Speaker 1: adaptive advocacy, and I wanted to play you his last appearance,
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Speaker 1: then his actual presentation once again at the NFSD and
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Speaker 1: Dysphasia meeting from June tenth of last year. And then
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Speaker 1: one of the things we both bonded on was humor,
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Speaker 1: was funny? Was finding life funny? And I wanted to
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Speaker 1: replay that conversation with you as well. But first here
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Speaker 1: is his final appearance on one like a ballex media.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, in the ever request to keep adapting
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Speaker 1: one of our longtime friends and my brother, you know,
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Speaker 1: like a stul Brother Danny Boyce.
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Speaker 2: What's going on, sir, what's up about it?
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Speaker 1: I hear you've got a big presentation to later today
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Speaker 1: at ten am.
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Speaker 2: Tell us what's going on?
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Speaker 3: Yes, said you.
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Speaker 4: So. For the best few months, I've been working with
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Speaker 4: the National Foundation Swallowing Disorders on becoming a planelist for
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Speaker 4: an upcoming event which is tomorrow at ten ten am
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Speaker 4: called the Externally Led UH Patient Focused Throughout Development, meaning
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Speaker 4: for this this rasier, and there will be two panels.
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Speaker 4: First panel is in the morning and that focuses on
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Speaker 4: the life are the patients said have this raser and
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Speaker 4: how it affects their lives daily. And then the second panel,
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Speaker 4: which is in the afternoon starting around one o'clock, is
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Speaker 4: the final that I'll be on, which could focuses on
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Speaker 4: more of the treatment side of tausphrasia and when we're
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Speaker 4: talking about current treatments that we're doing or I have done,
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Speaker 4: and what we would like to see in future treatments.
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Speaker 2: You know, I just realized it's been a little while.
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Speaker 1: Tell us how you're doing and what what's been going on.
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Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty well, I am. I am dealing with
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Speaker 4: some That's why it's pain so I've been doing with
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Speaker 4: that since December last year. Otherwise, I'm doing very well.
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Speaker 4: Just been busy, you know, prepare preparing for this meeting
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Speaker 4: that tomorrow. Otherwise through life has been pretty pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's it's it's been a minute, but
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm always glad to hear that you're doing
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Speaker 1: well and I'm excited for this President. Now, what kind
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Speaker 1: of prep work maybe takes behind the scenes have you
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Speaker 1: been doing to make this presentation tomorrow or later today?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the preparation has been very involved. First we
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Speaker 4: had a meaning about what the actual meaning will be about,
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Speaker 4: and then we had to talk about what the planelists
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Speaker 4: on both planels are going to be doing. Before and
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Speaker 4: during the meeting. We had to right statements about our
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Speaker 4: experiences with dysprasia. Channel one, like I said, was is
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Speaker 4: focusing on daily life with dys rasia, and Channel two,
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Speaker 4: which is my channel, who focuses their statements on any
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Speaker 4: kind of chatments that that they have done what we'll
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Speaker 4: be doing for the treatment of their rasia.
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Speaker 1: Now, this is a national organization, so how many folks
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Speaker 1: are in this organization and how many will be presenting to.
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Speaker 4: So each channel has five people on both patients and caregivers.
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Speaker 4: It was of people went to Spasia and the whole organization.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure how any people there are, but there
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Speaker 4: are counting. And then I should say this whole meaning
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Speaker 4: is gonna be infanto, the f p A and other yeah,
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Speaker 4: and other, I guess an organization related to the FDA.
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Speaker 1: Well, congratsul is honor. And by the way, for those
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Speaker 1: who don't know, Danny's been working at this for years
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Speaker 1: and years from years, yeah, eating, been going.
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Speaker 4: Eating so well, oh, that's the thing I should talk about.
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Speaker 4: So a couple of weeks ago, my former uh speech
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Speaker 4: therefast in my swallowing a therapy for in the past decade.
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Speaker 4: Both times she reached out to me saying that she's
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Speaker 4: doing research on swallowing and voice and she was. She
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Speaker 4: wanted me to come in and pretty much be a
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Speaker 4: librat uh uh and do a swallow test and then
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Speaker 4: do some voice exercises. So, of course, I said guest,
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Speaker 4: so that I did the swallow test. I have to
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Speaker 4: tell you that this is the first wall test where
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Speaker 4: I was very relaxed because I didn't have to think
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Speaker 4: about all I'm with a fail or path. I could
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Speaker 4: just do my thing and be done, So that was
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Speaker 4: that was exciting. And then we did some voice exercises
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Speaker 4: like I went some words and I had some foundwebs
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Speaker 4: and all that. So I'm very happy that I did
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Speaker 4: that because because I knew that it's important, especially since
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Speaker 4: I'm also doing this.
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Speaker 2: Meaning absolutely, Dan.
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Speaker 1: Now let me ask you this, UH, because in this
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Speaker 1: prep is it did you get connected with them through
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Speaker 1: Mercy Hospital?
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Speaker 2: Is there connection there?
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Speaker 1: Because I know Mercy was a major part of what
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Speaker 1: you've been uh, you know, going through and and you
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Speaker 1: know achieving.
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Speaker 4: Really yeah, and I see now this organization, the National
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Speaker 4: Founders Foundation of Swallowing Disorders. I I got connected with
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Speaker 4: them through UH end to my mom who's a speech
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Speaker 4: therapist and also part of this organization. So fast three
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Speaker 4: years almost years, I've been pretty active with contending all
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Speaker 4: the webinars and UH sport group meanings which actually one
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Speaker 4: one's coming up the fun Fridays.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's awesome, and I want to thank you
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Speaker 1: for inspiring me to get involved with the u o A,
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Speaker 1: the awesome sociation look out that's taken off.
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Speaker 2: Have you association? Are you part of this group or what?
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Speaker 4: Wait, Lipagan.
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Speaker 2: Are you part of the association as well?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you told me about it. We are we he
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Speaker 4: signed up together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's right, and your story inspired me to
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Speaker 1: join it. And now we're both bringing awareness, which is
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Speaker 1: which is great. And we talked about the crossover from
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Speaker 1: these different uh you know, disabilities, whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: say they are.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a crossover. Everybody's supporting each other in
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Speaker 2: different realms.
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Speaker 1: No, I gotta ask you this because I know you're
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Speaker 1: also involved with the Spine Association. Any updates there that
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Speaker 1: you can ride. I'm waiting to see you on a
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Speaker 1: webinar suit.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do all yours. So I just we had
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Speaker 4: two webinarists last month, one or one last morning and
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Speaker 4: then one a month before about the first one was
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Speaker 4: about medicaid because you know they're threatening to click that
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Speaker 4: from so we talked about our exchanges with Medicaid. I
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Speaker 4: didn't get to talk about mine during that session because
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Speaker 4: we ran on its time. But last month we also
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Speaker 4: talked about education because they're starting to cut the bottle
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Speaker 4: of the education, and I did get to talk about
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Speaker 4: my experiences with how my school life was and all that.
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Speaker 2: Well that that's awesome. That I gotta jump on there again.
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Speaker 1: I know that you and Joe are very involved in
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Speaker 1: it can really again crossing over the different things.
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Speaker 2: It helps everybody hear each other out. Really, so I
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Speaker 2: love all right now.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know we talked about this before, but
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Speaker 1: it is the forties anniversary of the Games, and I
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Speaker 1: swear I asked you about the Games before you competed,
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Speaker 1: didn't you.
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Speaker 4: Yes, kid, damn up to high school.
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Speaker 1: And do you do you have any fund where they
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Speaker 1: fond memories for you?
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Speaker 4: Definitely, It's specially in fifth grade because my whole fifth
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Speaker 4: grade class came to chiming on.
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Speaker 1: No, that's awesome.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, I.
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Speaker 1: Every where you go and you see all the kids
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Speaker 1: cheering everybody on, you know, the able body kids steering
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Speaker 1: on the kids physically challenge, it's special. You know, there's
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Speaker 1: something about watching these kids who are never well, you know,
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Speaker 1: may never experience that coming out and cheering on. It's
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Speaker 1: good to have both. You know, it's gonna have those
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Speaker 1: kids exposed to this. And then you know, as someone
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Speaker 1: that I could lesson bullying too if these able body
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Speaker 1: kids can see it firsthand, definitely, So it's always great.
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Speaker 1: And man, we got to catch up. We gotta see
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Speaker 1: each other soon. It's been a long time, so we
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Speaker 1: gotta correct that. But before we get there, you do
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Speaker 1: have this presentation at ten am. Are you nervous and
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Speaker 1: where can we find I know you sent me the link,
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Speaker 1: but share with people where they can sign up to
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Speaker 1: watch you in action today.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, start at ten You can go to
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Speaker 4: the National Foundation of Swallowing just on his website and
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Speaker 4: sign up. Actually you should. You should sign up tonight
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Speaker 4: because tomorrow is the thing.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna for sure put the link up on
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Speaker 1: the podcast for ten am on June tenth, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud that you're there, and I'm sure you're
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Speaker 1: feeling pretty empowered that you're gonna share your story.
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Speaker 4: Definitely, because my with my story, I go into the
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Speaker 4: mental aspect. Okay when to no one knows that I
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Speaker 4: know of has done with their stories. So I'm I'm
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Speaker 4: pretty excited to when night aspect to it.
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Speaker 1: Let's roll, Danny, Let's roll. I can't wait to see it.
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Speaker 1: And if people are not able to see it as
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be an archive that people can find.
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Speaker 2: Also.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you're not able to watch the lunch
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Speaker 4: stream tomorrow. They will have it as a video on
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Speaker 4: the next day. Wants two and then we'll be up
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Speaker 4: there for.
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Speaker 1: If I think, well, we'll take notes and then we'll
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Speaker 1: have you back on a few days later, because hey,
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Speaker 1: maybe people want to know you more. Maybe we can
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Speaker 1: put out your story even more to those that really
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Speaker 1: are interested once they get to see you during the presentation.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're looking forward to meeting new people.
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow, definitely. Yeah. And the also the uh my stream,
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Speaker 4: we will be available as a video on the FDA side.
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Speaker 4: One that might take for a little while, because it's
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Speaker 4: good government.
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Speaker 1: All right, Danny, Well, congrats on this honor. I'm very
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Speaker 1: proud of you. I love your brother, and I know
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Speaker 1: you're gonna kill it. You're gonna knock out of the park.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for doing right now. Thank you, Bill, Love
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Speaker 1: you too, all right, Danny Boyce. And I know you
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Speaker 1: have Max on your heart going into this because you
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Speaker 1: would push you to do this and share your story.
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Speaker 2: You know that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that it's a pain way as.
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Speaker 2: All right, Danny, we love you and we'll talk to
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Speaker 2: you soon. Network seeing.
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Speaker 1: And so he was texting me after this interview saying hey,
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Speaker 1: look out for the webinar. Will he send me the webinar?
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Speaker 1: I was able to roll on it and here's what
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Speaker 1: he said at the NFSD Dysphasia meeting from June tenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Here's your host, Alex Garret.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, I was promised earlier today I am
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Speaker 1: gonna end the week with some follow up if you will.
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Speaker 1: As if you remember, we had Danny vois On earlier
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Speaker 1: in the week to talk about his upcoming presentation, which
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Speaker 1: was this past Tuesday at the Externally led Patient Focused
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Speaker 1: Drug Development Meeting on dysphasia put on by the National
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Speaker 1: Foundation of Swallowing Disorders, and thank THHA and C I
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Speaker 1: was able to thanks to Danny, get a copy of
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Speaker 1: his presentation at the symposium and to the week. I
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Speaker 1: want to have him share his story through this meeting
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Speaker 1: that occurred on Tuesday.
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Speaker 4: Imagine being able to drink normally for the first seventeen
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Speaker 4: years of your life. Imagine being able to eat anything
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Speaker 4: everything you've ever wanted for the first twenty four years
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Speaker 4: of your life. Now imagine that you have surgery for
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Speaker 4: a problem not reallyd just wrong, and instantly you can
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Speaker 4: no longer have a glass of water. Seven years later,
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Speaker 4: and then the surgery and now you need your meals
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Speaker 4: from the tube and your stomach. Hi, my name is Sandy.
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Speaker 4: I'm thirty four years old, and I don't have to
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Speaker 4: imagine this. This is my reality and my story of
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Speaker 4: how I learn from tooth to food. Twice in twentsand
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Speaker 4: and seven, I had a revision to the shame my
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Speaker 4: several cold spine. The surgery itself was a success, but
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Speaker 4: every time I would drink, I would choke. I had
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Speaker 4: a modified varying swallow study, a test that evaluates swallowing,
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Speaker 4: and all they told me was that my swallow was weak.
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Speaker 4: The result of this was that I needed to freaking
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Speaker 4: my wickords to enacted consistency. At that time, no medical
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Speaker 4: professional told me or my family that the condition that
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Speaker 4: I had developed was quotasphasia. What did they tell us
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Speaker 4: that there were treatments that were available to improve as well.
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Speaker 4: So for the next seven years, I faithfully thinking all
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Speaker 4: my liquids, never questioning. In twenty fourteen, I don't know
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Speaker 4: the vision. My swallow was really weakened. In addition, my
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Speaker 4: vocal cords were have to paralyze in the open position.
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Speaker 4: I was unable to speak, unable to blaye on my own,
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Speaker 4: and unable to swallow food or drink without it and
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Speaker 4: twering my air away. Doctors inserted a thing to into
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Speaker 4: my stomach and sliced all home my neck, pointing in
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Speaker 4: a quick he ask of me to help me breathe.
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Speaker 4: I was transfer to a we have facility and started
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Speaker 4: swallow with over using an electro stimidation device CONVID. Them
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Speaker 4: electors were placed for attached to the to my throat
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Speaker 4: to send small on myss of electrical currents to my
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Speaker 4: muscles and basically lick them up while I was hunked
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Speaker 4: up to the actrods. I was also doing some manual
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Speaker 4: swallowing exercises, but after two months of therapy, I was
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Speaker 4: still having trouble swallowing. I was well able to go
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Speaker 4: home and was able to healthy. Trichiosity removed, but my
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Speaker 4: only sort of nutrition was through the tube of my stomach.
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Speaker 4: Needless to say, my disphas i major impact on my
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Speaker 4: mental health. My mental health got so bad that I
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Speaker 4: was drew from college. I cannot stand being a lout
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Speaker 4: of my peers between classes, watching them eat and enjoying
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Speaker 4: themselves while I was being fed the wele thing too.
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Speaker 4: After I started counseling from my depression, I started out
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Speaker 4: help with improving my ability to swallow. With the help
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Speaker 4: of my mom, I found a local hospital that had
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Speaker 4: an ill patient speech therapy program that provided the same
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Speaker 4: eluctrious stimulation therapy I have received and we have in
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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen. Three years and many failed modclot valiant. So
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Speaker 4: just later my swallow was strong enough that I couldn't
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Speaker 4: eat soft solids come into small phecals. I was static. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: in twenty eighteen, after another surgery, my swallow was taken
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Speaker 4: from me for a second time. I spent two months
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Speaker 4: in the hospital within those swallow bravery, I was again
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Speaker 4: admitted to a medical we have facility which alfre bowels him. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: due to many applications and more surgeries while being there,
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Speaker 4: my scrobably did not improve. Back to the thing too,
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Speaker 4: back to special isolation in anytimey point I was ready
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Speaker 4: to start outpatient vitis there again, but due to the
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Speaker 4: pandemic I was able to attend again. My na don't
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Speaker 4: health suffering, so I started virtual counseling sessions. In early
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Speaker 4: twenty forty one, I was able to go back to
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Speaker 4: outpatient Sweet Sagary. After a year and a half, I
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Speaker 4: was finally able to start hating a purer diet. It
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Speaker 4: was a story, but I was still determined to get
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Speaker 4: back to self and by sized diet that I was previously.
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Speaker 4: I continue. I continued the relative stimulation and in May
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Speaker 4: twenty three I was abraded from a perioid diet to
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Speaker 4: a miss and moist dian. This dian requires going to
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Speaker 4: be very soft, very easy to chew, and easy to
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Speaker 4: form into a bullets. It was not something bitesize, but
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Speaker 4: it wasn't and it made me happy because I was
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Speaker 4: absolutely able to have a more textured consistency instead of
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Speaker 4: a smooth creer. First forward to twenty March twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 4: my sweet pathologists centslight of fee sticks. This is a
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Speaker 4: test where a small flexible camera is war through my
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Speaker 4: nose into my world to seeing what is covering when
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Speaker 4: I'm small. Unfortunately, I was not able to help going
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Speaker 4: to a soft and white sized stock, which was my goal.
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Speaker 4: In August, before I had my last swallow test. Although
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Speaker 4: I was hoping for more improvement due to some paralysis
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Speaker 4: in my world, I was told like continuing that we
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Speaker 4: would be in vain. However, I didn't lose the way
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Speaker 4: I had already achieved. While I was disappointed, I had
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Speaker 4: to remember that all my hard work had allowed me
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Speaker 4: to go from a feeling to in a minute than
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Speaker 4: really is dared When it comes to this feature, dreaming
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Speaker 4: is crucial to quality of light, not just nutrition. And
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Speaker 4: while this rasion is a physical order, it absolutely affects
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Speaker 4: mental health.
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Speaker 2: For me.
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Speaker 4: An ideal comprehensive treatment plan for this phrasia would include
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Speaker 4: both physical streamers like Foo sim and treatment for mental
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Speaker 4: health like endivors will talk to Frey once physically. Area
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Speaker 4: that should be addressed is the well says of the
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Speaker 4: throw due to medical intervention that could make a big,
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Speaker 4: a huge difference. I am probably why I have achieved
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Speaker 4: what I live in fear and another surgery will take
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Speaker 4: my one step forward and two whic dogs.
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Speaker 1: Well, Danny being vulnerable on this podcast is no surprise,
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Speaker 1: and him telling his story with the National Foundation Swallowing
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Speaker 1: Disorders at their meeting on dysphasia, well that was a
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Speaker 1: pretty big group to be vulnerable with. I applaud you
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Speaker 1: Danny on that, and I want to highlight this one part.
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Speaker 1: I know we talk about the mental health, but imagine
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Speaker 1: not being told there were other options.
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Speaker 4: No medical professional told me or my family that the
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Speaker 4: condition that I had developed phasia. No I did they
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Speaker 4: tell us that there were treatments that were available to
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Speaker 4: improvement as well.
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Speaker 1: And look, we love our medical professions here the adapting
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Speaker 1: side of the Alex Garrett podcasts, One Leg Up Network
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Speaker 1: and whatnot. But I do wish for Danny's mental health
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Speaker 1: first physical health. They did tell him more early on,
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Speaker 1: but that's why foundations like this one and like you
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Speaker 1: OWEAA exists to bring that awareness to sort of find
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Speaker 1: a community, if you will, of those who have probably
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Speaker 1: gone through the same experiences. So again, shout out to
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Speaker 1: Danny for doing this symposium. And I not only applaud Danny,
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Speaker 1: I'm proud of Danny for sharing his story on this
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Speaker 1: big platform earlier this week and having one leg up
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Speaker 1: on advocacy work as Danny always does, and I'm proud
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Speaker 1: to highlight this on this edition of the One Leg
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Speaker 1: Up with Alex Garrett podcast. Before we get to the humor,
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Speaker 1: I also want to say Danny had a kindness about him,
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Speaker 1: had insights, and I don't know how to put into
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Speaker 1: words how much of an impact he had on my life,
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Speaker 1: because it's still shocking to me. It's still shocking to me.
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Speaker 1: But here was I wrote on social media yesterday. I said,
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Speaker 1: I never thought. I said to my brother Danny Boyce,
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Speaker 1: Human Transformer ninety, I cannot believe you have crossed over.
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Speaker 1: I thought you'd had more time, we'd have more time,
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Speaker 1: and you'd be able to launch adaptive advocacy. And I
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Speaker 1: always thought you keep turning corners as you always did,
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Speaker 1: overcoming and always adapting. You always had that humor and wisdom.
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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, watching the dynamic of you
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Speaker 1: and Max gold Heart of Gold was so special to see.
28:11
Speaker 1: You are extremely misby it right now by all who
28:15
Speaker 1: knew you. Thanks Danny for being a great brother to
28:18
Speaker 1: Max and I and his close friend Liz devastated, as
28:26
Speaker 1: you can imagine.
28:28
Speaker 2: We all are.
28:31
Speaker 1: Danny was taken from us too soon. But instead of
28:35
Speaker 1: you know, thinking about how that happens, we got to
28:39
Speaker 1: keep his voice voice, his voice going, and that's what
28:43
Speaker 1: we're gonna do here. One like got Alex media and
28:48
Speaker 1: about his humor. We talked about it for thirty minutes
28:52
Speaker 1: on a podcast during COVID take a listen to this
28:55
Speaker 1: sixty years ago, Danny. We could have fun, we can laugh,
28:58
Speaker 1: we can enjoy ourselves. Sixty years later. I don't know.
29:02
Speaker 1: I feel like we've departed from the humor department in
29:05
Speaker 1: light of all this, and you and I don't, but
29:08
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody else has. So First of all,
29:10
Speaker 1: how you doing. How are you feeling today this Saturday?
29:13
Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty good, little for but I'm good.
29:16
Speaker 1: I know that you've had a busy week as usual,
29:19
Speaker 1: and you just turned what thirty last week?
29:23
Speaker 3: Ye know, that's amazing.
29:25
Speaker 1: The last time we talked to he was twenty nine,
29:26
Speaker 1: and you know, as people may know, he's recovered from
29:29
Speaker 1: sixty two surgeries, and here he is at thirty years old.
29:32
Speaker 1: A pretty remarkable guy over here. But I would say, Danny,
29:37
Speaker 1: you are the king of LMAO. You like to type
29:40
Speaker 1: it a lot, and I'm sure it's to everybody who
29:43
Speaker 1: makes a.
29:43
Speaker 3: Joke to you.
29:43
Speaker 1: But being the king of laugh my ass off. Are
29:49
Speaker 1: you finding what I'm finding that you can't really be
29:51
Speaker 1: funny all the time with people?
29:53
Speaker 3: Is Are you seeing that? Not so much me because
29:59
Speaker 3: I'm around people who take killed every day. But actually
30:08
Speaker 3: I'm actually, I mean I'm the one getting roasted by
30:14
Speaker 3: one of my good friends, so well.
30:16
Speaker 1: Sure, but I mean you take it in stride. A
30:18
Speaker 1: lot of people are not taking humor in stride, and
30:20
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I want to have you on
30:22
Speaker 1: for because you and I laugh about everything. But if
30:24
Speaker 1: that ever hits Facebook, you'll get outcry. And I don't
30:27
Speaker 1: think it should be that way. I think people should
30:29
Speaker 1: still be allowed to have humor, wouldn't you say?
30:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Every one is a little too uptight nowadays.
30:39
Speaker 1: And especially when the same people that say you can't
30:42
Speaker 1: make a joke about so and so make jokes about
30:44
Speaker 1: Trump's hospitalization. It's like, come on, guys, you got to
30:48
Speaker 1: allow for someone on your side to be criticized once
30:51
Speaker 1: in a while and have.
30:52
Speaker 3: A laugh with us, right exactly.
30:56
Speaker 1: Uh. And I just know that it's it's not possible
30:59
Speaker 1: these days, and I get frustrated, as I'm sure you do.
31:03
Speaker 1: But what are you seeing out there? Like not in
31:05
Speaker 1: your friends circle, but if you see Facebook, what are
31:08
Speaker 1: you seeing? Are you seeing that uptightness every day or
31:10
Speaker 1: every other day?
31:13
Speaker 3: I would say every other day. I try not to
31:19
Speaker 3: pay attention to it, but sometimes just right in.
31:23
Speaker 1: Front of our face and this goes into it And
31:25
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've had it happen yet. I haven't,
31:28
Speaker 1: but I feel like in today's world you can't even
31:30
Speaker 1: have a meme because that would be flag fake news.
31:33
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've had that experience, but I
31:34
Speaker 1: just start to see that's where we're headed.
31:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can be with that's where it car is.
31:41
Speaker 3: I know with now with Facebook, we have to be
31:44
Speaker 3: very careful of what we posed, because you can be
31:48
Speaker 3: in great graceful. The jail listening was so inctant and
31:55
Speaker 3: uh faceful was.
31:56
Speaker 1: I know, you can't do that and it could be
32:00
Speaker 1: like a joke from the Babylon b or the Onion
32:02
Speaker 1: and they still might put you in jail. It's really
32:04
Speaker 1: it's starting to get ridiculous. And so I guess what
32:08
Speaker 1: we could say though, was humor is needed during this
32:10
Speaker 1: time as a coping mechanism. Wouldn't you agree? Oh, definitely,
32:16
Speaker 1: any experience you want to talk about, like where you
32:17
Speaker 1: felt that that, especially in twenty twenty, is getting you
32:21
Speaker 1: through the day, like just all the laughs that you have.
32:25
Speaker 3: Well, from my experience, humor got me through in the
32:29
Speaker 3: past two years. As you know, I was in the
32:34
Speaker 3: hospital and wehab back in twenty eighteen, and then had
32:39
Speaker 3: some other medical issues last year and earlier el this year,
32:45
Speaker 3: and humor really got me through everything.
32:48
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a bold thing to make humor
32:50
Speaker 1: out of all this or do you think it's natural?
32:54
Speaker 3: Well, for me, it's natural, but I think for the
32:59
Speaker 3: most part, it's bold by everyone else because they're too
33:06
Speaker 3: scared or apprehensive about being.
33:12
Speaker 1: Criticized canceled, right, I mean, we've seen people be canceled
33:17
Speaker 1: for being funny. It's ridiculous.
33:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole cancel culture is really ridiculous. Like you
33:26
Speaker 3: can't cancel.
33:26
Speaker 1: Anyone, you can't, but they try to and then it's like, well,
33:30
Speaker 1: we can't be funny then because the mama will just
33:32
Speaker 1: shut it down. I'm like, no, you know, I feel
33:34
Speaker 1: very comfortable saying the new slogans.
33:36
Speaker 4: I know you hate.
33:37
Speaker 1: Politics, but this is kind of my new thing, if
33:39
Speaker 1: you want to hear it. There's a couple of things
33:41
Speaker 1: that I've got on my brain these days is that
33:45
Speaker 1: criminals are allowed on the street like same day delivery.
33:48
Speaker 1: You know, you bring them in, you put them out
33:50
Speaker 1: back on the same day. Meanwhile, meanwhile, our ballots may
33:55
Speaker 1: not be counted till January. Tell me how that works out, Danny,
34:00
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. It just it gets crazy.
34:04
Speaker 1: But you see if I posted that on Facebook, because
34:06
Speaker 1: I don't know who actually listen to this thing. Uh,
34:08
Speaker 1: if I post it on Facebook, I'll get roasted.
34:09
Speaker 3: And it shouldn't be that way exactly.
34:14
Speaker 1: And then my favorite line nowadays is the GOP is
34:16
Speaker 1: to go out and play the Dems of that don't
34:19
Speaker 1: even move parties. So it just it's it's amazing to
34:22
Speaker 1: watch the distinctions between the two.
34:25
Speaker 3: But I know that.
34:26
Speaker 1: Politics is not your forrace, so we'll try and say way,
34:28
Speaker 1: But for you, what cracks you up the most?
34:34
Speaker 4: What's not.
34:36
Speaker 3: Well? I do like SF deplicating humor and people thinking
34:43
Speaker 3: shots at me in a joking man, of course, Like
34:49
Speaker 3: I said, I have this one friend who wads me
34:54
Speaker 3: every day about anything and everything about me, and he
35:00
Speaker 3: knows I can take it.
35:02
Speaker 1: That's the important thing is you gotta just show you
35:04
Speaker 1: can take it and not be thin skinned. And uh
35:08
Speaker 1: and and and then that thin skin is what we're
35:10
Speaker 1: seeing more so than ever. But does it ever cross
35:14
Speaker 1: the line for you?
35:16
Speaker 2: No?
35:16
Speaker 1: I know, But I'm what I mean, is like, so
35:21
Speaker 1: there's no boundary.
35:22
Speaker 2: People could just.
35:22
Speaker 1: Joke or do you ever get rubbed the wrong way
35:24
Speaker 1: on certain things?
35:27
Speaker 3: Or really, do I get rubbed the wrong way? Because
35:32
Speaker 3: for me, it's like I've been doing enough ship that
35:37
Speaker 3: I don't care really what other.
35:40
Speaker 1: People say, and neither should any anyone, to be honest,
35:46
Speaker 1: but we do. We still have that in the back
35:48
Speaker 1: of our minds, uh, data it seems like.
35:52
Speaker 3: Yep, well, like I said, uh, I'm shown so much
35:57
Speaker 3: that is like I don't care what you say.
36:05
Speaker 1: And and that sort of the thing. Right, It's like
36:07
Speaker 1: people want us to be offended by what someone else did,
36:10
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, we've been through enough ship to
36:11
Speaker 1: know that's a joke, you know, And and people don't
36:15
Speaker 1: understand that I don't think.
36:17
Speaker 3: Exactly. Like I'll give you a covert example. About five
36:22
Speaker 3: years ago, I had a friend you know, uh, yeah,
36:27
Speaker 3: you know, and so I was having surgery. Five years ago,
36:34
Speaker 3: I had about I was saying, a week before the surgery,
36:41
Speaker 3: she writes on my wall died and everyone and their
36:48
Speaker 3: mother had I had to go and her like they were,
36:55
Speaker 3: you know, they were condemning her for saying that, and
37:00
Speaker 3: I'm just like you've seen her on my wall things
37:09
Speaker 3: like that before. Why are you going at it now?
37:14
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think it was that that? So
37:16
Speaker 1: you're telling me other people have joked for you to
37:18
Speaker 1: die in other words before her.
37:20
Speaker 3: No, not no, she's the even one who who did that.
37:23
Speaker 3: But it's like everyone thought got little and was like, oh,
37:28
Speaker 3: why are you saying that when you need to have
37:30
Speaker 3: surgery and YadA YadA. I'm like, you've been my you
37:36
Speaker 3: guys seen her white stuff on my wall. That's uh
37:44
Speaker 3: not uh, that's not supposed to be funny, but I
37:51
Speaker 3: find it funny because.
37:53
Speaker 4: It is.
37:56
Speaker 3: You know, why, if you don't like what people are
38:01
Speaker 3: posting on my walls, it's a squaw past. Danny.
38:05
Speaker 1: It's interesting you mentioned that point because I do believe
38:08
Speaker 1: scrolling past uh something you dislike is better than commenting
38:13
Speaker 1: at all at this point exactly, And it would kind
38:18
Speaker 1: of show that you were just chilled like everybody else.
38:20
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just how I.
38:20
Speaker 3: Would see that, you know exactly. I agree.
38:24
Speaker 1: So people go out of their way to comment, I
38:28
Speaker 1: find are somewhat humorless when they try and interject themselves.
38:31
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you agree?
38:33
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely.
38:35
Speaker 1: And do you think they ever try to be funny,
38:36
Speaker 1: like just to be to try.
38:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I've had people comment trying to be playing
38:44
Speaker 3: and into pearing, and people who never actually comment on anything,
38:52
Speaker 3: and Okay, why are you commenting on this? And you
38:58
Speaker 3: haven't come and then anything else.
39:01
Speaker 1: They haven't commented. They haven't even reached out to see
39:04
Speaker 1: how you are, Danny. That's the other thing about all this.
39:08
Speaker 1: They come out of the woodwork and say, oh, this
39:10
Speaker 1: is not funny. Well why didn't you talk to me
39:12
Speaker 1: when I was supposting other stuff? You know, It's just
39:14
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous.
39:16
Speaker 2: You know.
39:16
Speaker 1: There's a lot of forms of humor. And I often
39:19
Speaker 1: wonder this because I've bombarred you every day with TikTok videos.
39:23
Speaker 1: But that's another platform. But how many videos? How much
39:26
Speaker 1: humor do you get sent every day? Oh?
39:31
Speaker 3: Like constantly because I'm part of this group on Facebook. Man,
39:37
Speaker 3: most of it is all mean. So I'm getting more
39:41
Speaker 3: moored every probably like every minute, almost, Danny.
39:46
Speaker 1: I gotta say when you laugh so hard through text,
39:48
Speaker 1: I'm like, don't split your sides, please, I don't want
39:51
Speaker 1: you to laugh that hard. I mean, you have sixty
39:58
Speaker 1: two surgeons if we have a sixty third because where
40:00
Speaker 1: we got a problem. But no, it's good, it's good
40:05
Speaker 1: they're able to laugh. I also know that sarcasm is
40:08
Speaker 1: our thing, right, this is a nineties thing, and even
40:12
Speaker 1: some of our peers have lost it. I don't know,
40:15
Speaker 1: I just feel like they have.
40:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can see that.
40:18
Speaker 1: Because like, instead of just rolling with the joke, they
40:21
Speaker 1: have to say, no, it's actually this way. And then,
40:23
Speaker 1: of course I don't think it's funny that that, you know,
40:32
Speaker 1: someone tried to track me down at when I am
40:33
Speaker 1: in the middle of the street. However, I do think
40:36
Speaker 1: it's amazing how serious some of my peers get. It's like, well,
40:39
Speaker 1: if you do this, you have to think about the
40:40
Speaker 1: factors about how other people are judged, Like can we
40:43
Speaker 1: not go into a science experiment over every little thing?
40:46
Speaker 1: This is what's happened, Anny is the studies are just
40:49
Speaker 1: being thrown at us, and I just want humor. I
40:51
Speaker 1: want funny shit.
40:52
Speaker 3: To be thrown my way exactly the same.
40:57
Speaker 1: I mean, there are some great memes, and yes, COVID
40:59
Speaker 1: was a disaster, but I also think if there weren't
41:02
Speaker 1: the memes, none of us would be as a beat
41:06
Speaker 1: and spirited, wouldn't you agree?
41:08
Speaker 3: I definitely agree on that.
41:10
Speaker 1: At the same time, it is like socia would be
41:12
Speaker 1: laughing at everything, or is there something serious? Like here's
41:16
Speaker 1: the here's the world we're in, right, we laugh at
41:18
Speaker 1: something that could be serious. Uh, except when everybody else
41:24
Speaker 1: is how do I say this? We're laughing at stupid
41:29
Speaker 1: things and we got people laughing at serious things. It's like,
41:33
Speaker 1: What's this doesn't make sense? How come the funny people
41:36
Speaker 1: that laugh at silly things but don't laugh at the
41:37
Speaker 1: serious the roles are reversed. I don't understand any of that.
41:40
Speaker 1: Psychology mean, I don't know. I'm to college and you're
41:45
Speaker 1: a psychology major.
41:46
Speaker 3: That's right, you know.
41:48
Speaker 1: It's just like, what is that? It's you we laugh
41:52
Speaker 1: at stupid things, but when the president's hospitalize that's not funny.
41:55
Speaker 1: But to an entire sector it is. And I don't
41:58
Speaker 1: understand it at all. It's just it's just tough. Okay.
42:05
Speaker 1: What about your family or is your family still keeping
42:07
Speaker 1: up some good spirits and and humor with you along
42:10
Speaker 1: this journey?
42:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, more so my mom than my dad, just because
42:17
Speaker 3: me and my mom looked closer and yeah, well well
42:23
Speaker 3: always uh, making them jokes and stuff.
42:27
Speaker 1: Where do you think you got your sense of humor from?
42:29
Speaker 1: Because I know you have it.
42:30
Speaker 3: I see it definitely.
42:32
Speaker 1: My mom, that's adorable.
42:35
Speaker 3: That is funny.
42:36
Speaker 1: Did she was she like sarcastic in the night, like
42:39
Speaker 1: when you were a kid or what? How did you
42:41
Speaker 1: end up inheriting that?
42:45
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm not really sure, but but like
42:49
Speaker 3: my home, my mom. Sorry, the family is very funny,
42:56
Speaker 3: scally my uncle. They you know, they made us to
43:00
Speaker 3: an uncle joke, which funny. So that whole side of
43:07
Speaker 3: the family is probably where I get all my humor
43:10
Speaker 3: from it.
43:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that is amazing. It seems to me that
43:15
Speaker 1: our brains are always like trying to find the humor
43:17
Speaker 1: and everything, and I feel like it runs too fast
43:20
Speaker 1: sometimes you ever find that, like why is this funny?
43:23
Speaker 1: They shouldn't be funny to me, but it is. And
43:25
Speaker 1: it's like on a four time cycle. I don't know
43:27
Speaker 1: if you feel that.
43:28
Speaker 3: I certainly feel it though. I feel like that every day,
43:33
Speaker 3: especially now that I'm in that group I just mentioned,
43:37
Speaker 3: because they, uh, they post things that aren't supposed to
43:43
Speaker 3: be funny, but it's like they are.
43:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned self deprecation a little while ago. Yeah,
43:52
Speaker 1: it does feel like if there's another problem, you're just
43:54
Speaker 1: gonna have to laugh at it because it's just like,
43:57
Speaker 1: of course, the joke's on me again.
43:58
Speaker 3: You know.
43:59
Speaker 1: I don't know if you feel sometimes.
44:00
Speaker 3: But oh, you know, anytime I have something with me
44:08
Speaker 3: than well, it's nothing new.
44:14
Speaker 1: And it's almost like a curb your enthusiasm running joke
44:17
Speaker 1: that that that runs in our het because uh, oh
44:23
Speaker 1: my gosh. You know what's funny about today, I'm interviewing
44:25
Speaker 1: you on ostame Awareness Day. That is wild. I just
44:29
Speaker 1: thought of that, yes, and so okay, I'll tell a
44:34
Speaker 1: funny bag story and then you can tell a funny
44:35
Speaker 1: bag story and uh if you want. But uh, I
44:42
Speaker 1: tend to tell jokes for those who don't know. I
44:44
Speaker 1: do have a cosy bag and I've had it since
44:46
Speaker 1: I was six hours old. I tend to joke joke
44:49
Speaker 1: about it at times. But there have been some really
44:52
Speaker 1: odd situations I found myself in. For example, Yankee Stadium
44:58
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine twenty someone in the two thousands playoffs.
45:05
Speaker 1: Someone points to me and says, oh, h you're leaking
45:10
Speaker 1: and there's shit on the floor. Danny of the Yankee
45:13
Speaker 1: lobby and I was like, what do I do? Thank
45:16
Speaker 1: God I brought an extra bag, But I mean, it's
45:19
Speaker 1: those stories you will never forget. You just won't forget
45:22
Speaker 1: it because you're in the middle of the Yankee Stadium,
45:25
Speaker 1: this pristine Yankee Stadium, and the bag is leaking, and
45:29
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is going on? And then what was
45:34
Speaker 1: my joke to you? Recently? I said something about how
45:39
Speaker 1: oh I have the first pitch and there's leaks on
45:42
Speaker 1: the mound, Like I could just see that happening for Usma,
45:44
Speaker 1: We're just like, how about you any because this has
45:46
Speaker 1: been a tough journey for you. I know it has
45:49
Speaker 1: being host to me where it's not normal for you.
45:52
Speaker 1: You had to get adusted to it. But are you
45:55
Speaker 1: at the point where now even that has its humor
45:58
Speaker 1: humorous moments.
46:01
Speaker 3: No worry, I haven't had any humors where where I
46:07
Speaker 3: wouldn't because humorous moments with that probably because I'm says no,
46:16
Speaker 3: starting to accept that I have one.
46:19
Speaker 2: So I know.
46:21
Speaker 3: So I don't think I can beat I don't think
46:25
Speaker 3: I can beat you with the uh they ask me
46:29
Speaker 3: stories because it with the Yankee sing story, Danny, you know,
46:36
Speaker 3: I just.
46:36
Speaker 1: Keep getting notes about President Trump in the in the hospital,
46:40
Speaker 1: and last night Jim Accossa says, why didn't he take questions?
46:44
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, you and I we've been hospitalized
46:46
Speaker 1: a lot. If someone's gonna ask us a barrage of questions,
46:50
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear it, right, I mean, who
46:51
Speaker 1: would want to take questions if they're sick going to
46:53
Speaker 1: the hospital. It doesn't make sense what this logic is
46:56
Speaker 1: that some people want to questions even while he's sick.
46:59
Speaker 1: It doesn't make.
47:01
Speaker 3: Exactly.
47:03
Speaker 1: And like, imagine you're going there and all of a sudden,
47:06
Speaker 1: like a barrage of reporters Danny did You'd be like,
47:09
Speaker 1: what the freak is this?
47:12
Speaker 4: Uh?
47:12
Speaker 1: And so I guess from us we can have an
47:14
Speaker 1: experience and say, yeah, uh, take it from us. We
47:17
Speaker 1: know what the hell hospitalation is like. We don't want
47:19
Speaker 1: to take questions. But it is amazing to see how
47:23
Speaker 1: this guy's health is being documented. Yet someone who does
47:28
Speaker 1: have an ostemey or someone who does have something different,
47:30
Speaker 1: we get overlooked a lot of the time.
47:33
Speaker 3: Zeo, that's so true.
47:35
Speaker 1: Like the health heroes, the healthcare heroes save us. But
47:40
Speaker 1: of course you and I have had that appreciation as
47:41
Speaker 1: we were kids. It's amazing to me that the appreciation
47:44
Speaker 1: just started for them. I'm like, wait, they should always
47:47
Speaker 1: be appreciated, not just during COVID. And I know that
47:50
Speaker 1: the therapy if I don't mind, if I don't me saying,
47:53
Speaker 1: I know you have sessions about all of the bag stuff.
47:56
Speaker 1: So does that help you find a brighter light with
47:59
Speaker 1: the astome when.
48:00
Speaker 3: When you have these sessions? Oh definitely, actually right, I
48:07
Speaker 3: haven't actually talked about my ask tome with my therapists
48:11
Speaker 3: and almost three months from now, because three months ago,
48:19
Speaker 3: I when I went to my neurologist for my six
48:25
Speaker 3: months uh follow up, I actually talked to him about
48:32
Speaker 3: the past two years and I had him explained to
48:36
Speaker 3: me exactly what happened, why it happened, how it happened,
48:43
Speaker 3: and he explained everything, And now I can now I'm
48:49
Speaker 3: able to just put that rest and move onward.
48:56
Speaker 1: The the mask debate, because you and I probably should
49:01
Speaker 1: wear it since we're healthy, you know, go high risk.
49:04
Speaker 1: But does that debate ever crack you up? Like these
49:07
Speaker 1: pictures of people wearing the mask wrong always cracks me up.
49:11
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he cracks me up seeing them? H Well, wrong,
49:17
Speaker 3: and just them opposing to it in general is like
49:25
Speaker 3: you don't know who is high risk or have an
49:30
Speaker 3: auto immune disease because they can the physically fine on
49:35
Speaker 3: the outside, but in they're dying, and that.
49:41
Speaker 1: Is very that's a great point. I I just know
49:44
Speaker 1: that it's it's fascinating to watch that people in a
49:48
Speaker 1: dense area first of all, people to be in a
49:50
Speaker 1: dense area together still doesn't make sense to me.
49:52
Speaker 3: I don't know.
49:52
Speaker 1: It just it's it's it's not normal from what we've
49:57
Speaker 1: been told. And I think the government got it right
49:59
Speaker 1: on this to social distance and to mask up. Now
50:02
Speaker 1: you have parties in your backyard and you're all masked up,
50:05
Speaker 1: and you're still able to have fun and tell jokes, right,
50:07
Speaker 1: I think in a way being masked up, you're still
50:10
Speaker 1: able to be yourself somehow.
50:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely for me in the mask as I knowing
50:18
Speaker 3: as it is to wear it, it doesn't away from
50:25
Speaker 3: me having fun and you know it's for funny.
50:29
Speaker 1: So there's a sixtieth anniversary today of Andy Griffith's launch
50:33
Speaker 1: of The Inner Griffiths Show, But sixty years later, I
50:36
Speaker 1: don't even know if sitcoms are on TV anymore. I
50:39
Speaker 1: feel like they've all kind of died out, maybe because
50:41
Speaker 1: I don't watch enough TV, but it all seems very
50:44
Speaker 1: serious on our television nowadays.
50:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, sick comes I don't. I don't watch much TV.
50:51
Speaker 3: But the way the sitcoms that I've grown up with,
50:55
Speaker 3: what we've grown up with, this we're both nineties babies.
51:04
Speaker 3: It's not the same today as it was twenty years.
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Speaker 1: It's not. It's actually more crass in a way. And
51:11
Speaker 1: actually some like to joke about killing people and it's like,
51:14
Speaker 1: that's not even funny. But yet, yeah, some sick people
51:17
Speaker 1: find that funny, which is just unbelievable. You know, you
51:20
Speaker 1: just mentioned nineties babies and we're libra babies. You and
51:24
Speaker 1: I are libra. So let's get into that for a
51:26
Speaker 1: quick minute. How does the libra do you? Does the
51:30
Speaker 1: libra sign? Like, do you feel it? Do you ever
51:32
Speaker 1: let it determine where your path is going to be
51:36
Speaker 1: for the day? I mean, I don't know, do you
51:37
Speaker 1: read horoscopes or not?
51:38
Speaker 3: Really, I don't mean quades, but I always worry about
51:45
Speaker 3: the twice of a libra and I'm definitely a libra.
51:49
Speaker 1: Well, and it's it's the balancing act right. I think
51:52
Speaker 1: when you and I see something that's totally amiss, we
51:55
Speaker 1: have to balance it with our own thought. I realized
51:58
Speaker 1: that over the years. But actually I think being balanced
52:01
Speaker 1: and having a libra could help you stay stay in
52:04
Speaker 1: good humor, good wit. Wouldn't you agree? Definitely, because if
52:09
Speaker 1: you if you are balanced, you're gonna have that balance
52:12
Speaker 1: of finding things funny and and it's good to have that.
52:16
Speaker 1: I've never thought of that with the libra. I always
52:18
Speaker 1: not just the scales, but there's probably more to it.
52:20
Speaker 3: Than we realized. Yeah, some some people don't believe, you know,
52:28
Speaker 3: in astrology or hardscopes. I I'm like, I'm the friends.
52:36
Speaker 3: I don't know because I only my horoscopes to uh,
52:41
Speaker 3: I don't understand how it works. But but reading about
52:48
Speaker 3: liver and all the trades something that's definitely me.
52:54
Speaker 1: Danny, we're almost out of time here today, crazy, but
52:56
Speaker 1: I want to upload this to my blog talk Radio,
52:59
Speaker 1: which is going to and I want you to be
53:00
Speaker 1: featured on there as well. So we're gonna have this
53:03
Speaker 1: up in a minute. But you said earlier, lighten up
53:06
Speaker 1: people who may not lighten up after all of this,
53:10
Speaker 1: what do you have to say to them, like, what
53:11
Speaker 1: do you have to say to people who just can't
53:13
Speaker 1: take a joke?
53:21
Speaker 3: You're gonna die on early? Then say they again, they're
53:27
Speaker 3: gonna die early.
53:28
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing, and I think that's kind of
53:30
Speaker 1: what's kept us alive, is to find the funniness and
53:32
Speaker 1: all of this stuff is just better. And hey, if
53:35
Speaker 1: we can self deprecate people just be able to take
53:38
Speaker 1: a joke as far as I'm concerned exactly, And I
53:43
Speaker 1: know we've talked about it before, but the disabled community
53:46
Speaker 1: gotta ask, do you find them not handling humor? Well,
53:51
Speaker 1: I know you're in a group that does all everything humor,
53:52
Speaker 1: but you also find that some of the communities say,
53:55
Speaker 1: don't say that it gives us, you know, a bad
53:57
Speaker 1: name or something. Do you ever find that as well?
54:00
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely right. I would say ninety percent to say
54:05
Speaker 3: more community are offended by certain words and terms like
54:13
Speaker 3: like I mean, I would first to myself, has quippled
54:16
Speaker 3: on a daily basis. You know, I don't find that offensive.
54:23
Speaker 3: And yet I would saying ninety percent of people in
54:27
Speaker 3: the disabled community find that offensive and it's just like
54:32
Speaker 3: it's kind of a word.
54:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, And actually that's amazing that they've also found differently abled.
54:39
Speaker 1: I I don't mind that term, but I know some
54:40
Speaker 1: people don't like that term. I happen to and I
54:43
Speaker 1: know you're not a performer, but I do love that word.
54:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really able. I'm not offended by I'm I mean,
54:52
Speaker 3: that's that's actually pretty crew accurate. But yeah, I can
54:59
Speaker 3: see why some people might not like you.
55:03
Speaker 1: And and though and so your final thought on really
55:09
Speaker 1: should we go ahead and make the joke anyway? I
55:11
Speaker 1: guess would be my question if we if we think
55:14
Speaker 1: about it too long, it's going to eat us up
55:16
Speaker 1: inside for not doing it. We're gonna regret not doing it.
55:18
Speaker 1: But would you say, go ahead and make the joke anyway?
55:20
Speaker 3: It'll make you feel better, absolutely.
55:25
Speaker 1: And once you do that and you break the ice,
55:27
Speaker 1: I mean you can go places with that exactly. I'll
55:32
Speaker 1: tell you one thing. So Matt Sambole and my my
55:34
Speaker 1: apps Maaser here said, you know, we're really handicapped. Here,
55:37
Speaker 1: I said, I know, I'm the last leg between us
55:39
Speaker 1: and falling apart. You know.
55:42
Speaker 3: That's great, And I'm not.
55:44
Speaker 1: Afraid to say that anymore because it's like it's it's
55:46
Speaker 1: there's some truth to it. But it's just fun, and
55:50
Speaker 1: I try not to make the leg of thing. I
55:52
Speaker 1: know people will be like what you talk about all
55:54
Speaker 1: the time. I'm like, but not in like a way
55:57
Speaker 1: of feeling bad. I just say, this is what it is,
56:00
Speaker 1: you know. And of course now you can't say that
56:02
Speaker 1: because that's what Trump said about COVID. But the other
56:05
Speaker 1: is true, is that is what it is, that everything
56:07
Speaker 1: that's happening now seems to be and is what it
56:09
Speaker 1: is moment, and no one wants to fight it back,
56:12
Speaker 1: and when they do and they're shut down for doing it,
56:14
Speaker 1: I don't get it. It's like, we don't want this virus,
56:20
Speaker 1: but don't take that vaccine. It's like, come on, that's hilarious.
56:23
Speaker 1: Why why I'd rather have these swearing pigeon parrots give
56:28
Speaker 1: us a diagnosis at this point?
56:29
Speaker 3: You know, oh my god.
56:34
Speaker 1: And the best line of that was that they'd say
56:36
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty other birds of that or two
56:42
Speaker 1: fifty whatever of that bird zoo would feel compelled to curse.
56:45
Speaker 3: Some'thing like what what?
56:50
Speaker 1: And how healthy is cursing? One last question? How healthy
56:53
Speaker 1: is it? I don't think it's good for radio or podcasting,
56:55
Speaker 1: but in general, do you think it's just healthy at
56:57
Speaker 1: this point to get through things by cursing.
56:59
Speaker 3: Once in a while in years, definitely it sting.
57:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially during this time. So Danny, I also know
57:11
Speaker 1: you're a baseball guy, and yes, Team USA has got
57:14
Speaker 1: a rally today, hoping magic happens so they don't get eliminated.
57:18
Speaker 1: But if they do win, team USA wins. I know
57:24
Speaker 1: you'll be watching and guiding them from above. The baseball fan,
57:29
Speaker 1: the Mets fan, the Pee Alonzo fan. I know he's
57:31
Speaker 1: in the Orioles. There were team now, but we both
57:34
Speaker 1: love Pete and maybe the Mets well make it a
57:45
Speaker 1: year special for you as my team USA Baseball. May
57:53
Speaker 1: God rest both Danny and Max and souls. Their souls
57:56
Speaker 1: are connected right now and I'm sure they're reconnecting and
58:01
Speaker 1: laughing and living it up like they always did. And
58:06
Speaker 1: damn I miss both of them, and three years apart
58:12
Speaker 1: two But I always believe God calls people home for
58:20
Speaker 1: a reason. And I guess the solace we have as
58:24
Speaker 1: though we don't have his earthly being, maybe his physical
58:28
Speaker 1: and his soul is no longer suffering and can be
58:31
Speaker 1: free to be that Danny and Max duo that we
58:35
Speaker 1: all love to see. I saw for about ten years
58:39
Speaker 1: and man, that dynamic was special. It really was, It
58:43
Speaker 1: really was. I also did a feature with him for
58:49
Speaker 1: an hour and one. I'll drop that in the links below.
58:52
Speaker 1: If you want to get to know Danny really well,
58:55
Speaker 1: I'll put that in the description below. Miss you, Danny,
58:58
Speaker 1: God bless you and love you kid.