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The Life Changing Scan with Kevin Manno · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It's Almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We are here today to speak to somebody who's been
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  Speaker 3: in the headlines recently for something very unfortunate and something
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  Speaker 3: we want to get some clarity on because I honestly
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  Speaker 3: I'm reading through our rundown and there's just a lot
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  Speaker 3: of intrigue that I have to speak to Kevin Mano.
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  Speaker 3: That's how I said it, right Mano?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it, Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Mano is also known as Ali Photosyno's husband his
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  Speaker 4: relationship to Bachelor Nation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's how I've met you, guys. You've
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  Speaker 1: both been very nice over the years, and your team
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  Speaker 1: sent some nice stuff over here after my news came out,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have a radio voice, and I know you
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  Speaker 3: have a career in radio. As we kicked this thing off,
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  Speaker 3: I want to keep it light at the beginning, if possible.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still working in radio?
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  Speaker 3: Kind of give everybody an idea of where they could
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  Speaker 3: hear you or where they can catch up with you.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, that's thanks. We'll do the plug right off
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  Speaker 1: the top.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do a morning show, a morning radio show.
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  Speaker 1: I did it and I won in LA for like
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  Speaker 1: ten years on now one oh four to three MYFM there,
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  Speaker 1: and now I am on one oh seven five The
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  Speaker 1: River in Nashville. We've lived in Nashville for four years
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  Speaker 1: or so, and I do the morning show here on
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  Speaker 1: a station called The River with my friends Ricky and
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  Speaker 1: Zach and it's a ton of fun. And I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing morning radio for you know, almost fifteen years now,
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  Speaker 1: and I absolutely love it. I wake up at four o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: even on the weekends, and so that that schedule suits me.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's a special person.
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  Speaker 1: Something wrong with me. But then I also do a
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  Speaker 1: daily podcast which is just my own solo thing called
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  Speaker 1: First Thing with Kevin Mannon which is ten minutes every morning,
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  Speaker 1: just a quick recap of all of the top headlines,
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  Speaker 1: just a very easy, efficient way to get the news
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. So doing all that, I've.
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  Speaker 2: Listened to your podcast, I think it's great.
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  Speaker 3: I love the concept of a quick hitter to get
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  Speaker 3: me caught up and then any further details I need
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  Speaker 3: I can go out and kind of research. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Totally, and I'm so I love listening to podcasts and music.
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  Speaker 1: I always have my AirPods in so to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get sort of the headlines without having to doom scroll,
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  Speaker 1: just while you're doing other things, while you're getting yourself
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  Speaker 1: ready in the morning. Like that, to me, that's how
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  Speaker 1: I want to consume the news. So that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing.
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  Speaker 4: You to You just said that you've been in Nashville
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  Speaker 4: for about four years. I remember when I moved to
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  Speaker 4: Rhode Island. Ali, I think she. I think she messaged
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  Speaker 4: me being like, I'm also in the same boat right now.
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  Speaker 4: We just moved to a new place, like I'm kind
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  Speaker 4: of regretting it, we both having moved from LA at
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  Speaker 4: the same time. And she was like, I hear it's
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  Speaker 4: supposed to take two years to get adjusted to a
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  Speaker 4: new place. How have you guys adjusted now four years then.
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  Speaker 1: We've definitely adjusted. I mean, there are still things that
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  Speaker 1: we miss. Honestly, we missed about California. We will always
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  Speaker 1: love California. We go back and visit. We have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of friends there, but no, Nashville is home now
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  Speaker 1: and we love it here. We have a ton of friends,
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  Speaker 1: the kids have tons of friends, so I love my job.
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  Speaker 1: Like it didn't take about two years, was right? I
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  Speaker 1: would say two years in a new place is probably
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  Speaker 1: a good a pretty good uh you know barometer. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're good now we're settled here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you might have a new neighbor in Ben in
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  Speaker 4: a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My my wife's family's off from Nashville, so everybody keeps
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  Speaker 3: pushing us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben, I'm sure you and I talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a lot a long time ago when we first met.
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  Speaker 1: But I grew up, I spent so much time in Warsaw, Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: That's where all of my mom's sisters and my grandma.
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  Speaker 1: That's where everybody lived when I was growing up, so
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  Speaker 1: we were always there.
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  Speaker 2: I remember this. Not a lot of people have been there,
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  Speaker 2: but the good ones have.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin, Yes, Why it feels like you're always meeting somebody
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  Speaker 4: who has memories from Warsaw.
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  Speaker 2: Bet And it's apart a small town?
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  Speaker 4: Is it a little the lake?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like it's it's kind of like a hub.
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  Speaker 2: People gravitate towards it.
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  Speaker 3: When they want to better themselves.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? How are you? Do you say? Rhode Island?
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  Speaker 1: How are you there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? It's I've definitely adjusted. I would still rather view
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  Speaker 4: by my family in Virginia, but we'll see that might
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  Speaker 4: happen at some point.
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  Speaker 2: She makes no secrets, Kevin. Speaking of.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin, before we dive into kind of why we're here today,
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  Speaker 3: Ali did leave four Special Forces, and that is a
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  Speaker 3: topic that I am curious about now. I'm a little confused, Kevin,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe you can bring some clarity to this. Trista
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  Speaker 3: and Ryan obviously are married. Trista was on the show
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  Speaker 3: as well. Ryan was posting, we're not gonna go into
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  Speaker 3: you know how we feel about the post. We've already
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  Speaker 3: done that in a very past episode. But he was
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  Speaker 3: posting like she was gone for a long time, even
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  Speaker 3: though we only saw her on two episodes, right, Yes, Allie,
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  Speaker 3: similar situation when she left the show? Are they gone
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  Speaker 3: a lot long? And then my fallow up to that is,
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  Speaker 3: how was that on you? Being kind of a solo parent?
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  Speaker 1: My mom came and helped out when she was gone,
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  Speaker 1: which was very nice that, you know, I needed the
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  Speaker 1: help because of my job and having to get the
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  Speaker 1: kids to school and all that stuff. And honestly, Ali
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  Speaker 1: had trained so hard for Special Forces, like truly she
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  Speaker 1: was fully committed to this. We got a cold plunge
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  Speaker 1: because of it. She was working out three times a day,
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  Speaker 1: like it was crazy. She was ready. So we were
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  Speaker 1: hoping she would be gone the whole time, like best
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  Speaker 1: case scenario when she said goodbye to me that morning
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  Speaker 1: when she was leaving the hotel, like I wouldn't hear
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  Speaker 1: from her for ten days. Sadly, that did not happen.
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  Speaker 1: They made her leave the show because her finger. She
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  Speaker 1: hurt her finger and so they medically withdrew her. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she was there. There were like two or three days
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  Speaker 1: of like you know, doing interviews and like stuff, just
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  Speaker 1: random stuff that happens with the TV show before they
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  Speaker 1: even left to go start filming the show. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say all total, she was She was only on
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  Speaker 1: two episodes of the show, but she was probably gone
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  Speaker 1: for seven or eight days.
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  Speaker 2: And those seven or eight days you had support.
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  Speaker 3: And so, I mean, as sad as it is to
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  Speaker 3: not have your spouse around, you were doing okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing okay. And you know, I mean distance
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  Speaker 1: makes the heart grow fonder whenever, you know, if she's
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  Speaker 1: out of time for a couple of days, it's nice
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  Speaker 1: to have a big bed to myself.
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  Speaker 2: Stretch out, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, full starfish.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't she like train for six weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the minute she did.
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  Speaker 4: She know that I have that much notice. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like oftentimes you don't get that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why. Honestly, she as far as we know,
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  Speaker 1: she was one of the first people to be approached
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  Speaker 1: about the show, and she said yes, and she started
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  Speaker 1: training immediately. We started watching the previous episodes of the show,
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  Speaker 1: and she just hit the ground run in like that day.
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  Speaker 1: And I was I mean, I like, I like to
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  Speaker 1: work out and stay active and fit, but I was
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  Speaker 1: blown away by the things she was doing and how
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  Speaker 1: strong she got before the show, and it was man like.
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  Speaker 1: I was sleeping one night, it was, you know, two
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  Speaker 1: nights into her filming the show, my phone rang and
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  Speaker 1: she has like a special ring on my phone and
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  Speaker 1: it woke me up, and my heart just sank because
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  Speaker 1: I knew that meant she was back with her phone
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  Speaker 1: in a hotel room somewhere and she was no longer
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  Speaker 1: on the show. So that was rough, But I'm still
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  Speaker 1: proud of her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big deal just to say yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kevin, we're talking about family and we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: physical fitness, and the reason we're here today is because
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  Speaker 3: recently you've came out publicly about your diagnosis with thyroid cancer.
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  Speaker 3: The first question I have for you is, how are
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  Speaker 3: you doing right now? Do we have an update since
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  Speaker 3: the announcement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm a little anxious because I
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  Speaker 1: have surgery coming up in a few days here, and
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  Speaker 1: I haven't really had too many surgeries in my life,
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  Speaker 1: so the whole thing is just sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: freaking me out a tiny bit. But I know I'm
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  Speaker 1: in good hands with my surgeon and everybody at Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 1: here in Nashville. But really, I'm not just saying this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so good. I feel like the overwhelming feeling is
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  Speaker 1: just like gratitude that we caught it and that I
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  Speaker 1: know about this and we have a plan, and that
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  Speaker 1: everybody has been so supportive, and again my Mom's coming
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  Speaker 1: back to help us out when I'm recovering from the surgery.
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  Speaker 1: But I just I feel good. I'm not stressed, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not freaked out. I'm like, I know that this is
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  Speaker 1: an easy one to just go in there and get
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, I have to be in bed
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  Speaker 1: for a bit to recover, but I'll be back back
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  Speaker 1: in action before before you know. It's so I feel good,
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: Your Instagram noticed to all the followers about it was
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  Speaker 4: also very positive. What were your symptoms going into it
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  Speaker 4: that made you even get checked out in the first place?
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  Speaker 1: None, I had no symptoms. Ali and I. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: little over a year ago, we went to Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: we did those Perneuvo full body scans.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I just reached out to them because Trista also
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  Speaker 4: just got one it. Actually I'm interested.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's the only reason I know about this, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, When we did it, you know, we got our
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  Speaker 1: results from the scans, and for the most part, Ali
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  Speaker 1: and I both had you know, clean bill of health,
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  Speaker 1: which was great. But we obviously shared the results of
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  Speaker 1: the scans with our doctor and there were like two
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  Speaker 1: tiny dots on my thyroid that she was like, let's
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. You know, we'll check back
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  Speaker 1: in in a year and see if it's grown or
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  Speaker 1: if it's nothing whatever. And so a year after we
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  Speaker 1: did those scans, she wanted me to get an ultrasound
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  Speaker 1: on it. I did, and yeah, then it we found
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  Speaker 1: out that those little spots had doubled in size over
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  Speaker 1: the past years. So then we did a biopsy and
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  Speaker 1: then a cat scan, so we did all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: and here we are. I would not have known had
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  Speaker 1: it not been for that full body scan.
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  Speaker 4: Pre Novo is like the next step in our health.
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  Speaker 4: I really feel like, be totally magical if we could
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  Speaker 4: just make getting one of those scans every few years
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  Speaker 4: to be like our annual checkup.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and that's so that's kind of my I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody is, you know, paying a little more attention
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  Speaker 1: to us in our life at the moment, that would
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  Speaker 1: be the message I want to get out there is
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  Speaker 1: just preventive care. Whatever you can do to you know,
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  Speaker 1: be aggressive when it comes to your health and get
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  Speaker 1: checked whatever that looks like for you. Everybody should be
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  Speaker 1: doing whatever they can to just stay on top of
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  Speaker 1: these issues.
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  Speaker 4: That's like Maria Minuno's she had pancreatic cancer and they
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  Speaker 4: found it so early, which pangaratic cancers never found early,
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  Speaker 4: and she had a baby on the way and everything,
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  Speaker 4: and she's fine because they caught it that early. With
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  Speaker 4: pre Novo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not enough emphasis in our healthcare system or
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  Speaker 1: not here to go on a rant about the healthcare system,
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  Speaker 1: but about preventative stuff, you know what I mean. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of it is like treatment based, but any sort
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  Speaker 1: of preventative care you can do, I think is a
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  Speaker 1: great idea.
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  Speaker 3: Now for the listeners, I think a first big takeaway
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  Speaker 3: you obviously went to Chicago for this, and you live
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  Speaker 3: in a metropolitan area that has a lot of access
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  Speaker 3: to incredible health and services. If somebody's listening, no matter
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  Speaker 3: what kind of financial place are in in life, where
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  Speaker 3: can they find one of these facilities? Where do you
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  Speaker 3: recommend them reaching out to?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Pernuvo has you know, offices around the country.
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  Speaker 1: There are none in Nashville. I think the closest one
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  Speaker 1: actually to Nashville would be Atlanta. Chicago would probably be second,
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  Speaker 1: but I know there's a bunch in California.
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  Speaker 2: They are all.
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  Speaker 1: Over the place. So their website has a full, you
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  Speaker 1: know list of where you could go do it if
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  Speaker 1: that's something you are able to do. I know there
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  Speaker 1: are other places where you can do like a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a pretty comprehensive blood draw and they'll do a ton
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  Speaker 1: of tests on you, so you know, whatever's in your
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  Speaker 1: price range. If any of this stuff is I would
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  Speaker 1: just say, look into whatever works.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why did you decide to get it in the
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  Speaker 3: first place? That's all Alie.
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  Speaker 1: She's very She's so much more on top of this
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  Speaker 1: stuff than I am. So if it wasn't for her,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even know about it. But she she knows
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  Speaker 1: all these things, and we're always doing all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so thankful for that, or e'lse, I would
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  Speaker 1: just be walking around on with thyroid cancer and have
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  Speaker 1: no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't got a physical in years, which brings
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  Speaker 3: me to the next question.
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  Speaker 1: That that'd be me, Bene if it was Alli wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in my life.
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  Speaker 3: You're making me feel all convicted here. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you get this kind of news, it's it's something you
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  Speaker 3: don't really prepare for. And I know that you're positive,
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  Speaker 3: and I know your doctor even initially called it like
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  Speaker 3: the boring cancer, which I think would feel good. But
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  Speaker 3: how did Ali respond and how have the two of
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  Speaker 3: you supported each other in the midst of still getting
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  Speaker 3: news that you have cancer?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it feels weird to say that it's brought
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  Speaker 1: us closer, but and it's not like we had any
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  Speaker 1: issues prior to this, but it has it's been a
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  Speaker 1: nice like bonding experience because she is she has really
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  Speaker 1: taken the reins on, just like reading all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: and reaching out to all the people and making all
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  Speaker 1: the appointments for me, and like I'm my doctor told
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  Speaker 1: me to, you know, alleviate stress for my life. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying not to do any of that stuff and
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  Speaker 1: she is taking it all on, and I could not
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  Speaker 1: be more appreciative. She's really I mean, I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: in the situation without her, and I wouldn't be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it like I am without her either, because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's been great and I'm very thankful for
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  Speaker 1: for everything she's done.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if you had symptoms, what would they be? What
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  Speaker 4: should people look out for?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. We should get Ali in here
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  Speaker 1: to talk because she's the one doing all the reading.
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  Speaker 1: I know most of the time, people will like develop
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  Speaker 1: like a lump that they can feel and touch in
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  Speaker 1: their throat because the thyroid's like right below your Adam's
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  Speaker 1: apple area. So that's how most people realize that they've
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  Speaker 1: got something going on, is they'll you know, they'll feel
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  Speaker 1: this giant thing growing inside of them.
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  Speaker 4: And you're deciding whether or not, or at least the
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  Speaker 4: last time I heard we heard from you publicly, you
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  Speaker 4: were deciding whether to get half of it out or
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  Speaker 4: the full thy word out. You decided, And what does
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  Speaker 4: that even mean for your life going forward?
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  Speaker 1: I think I was so freaked out at first about
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  Speaker 1: having cancer that I was like, go just take the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing out, Like I don't want to have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with this again in two years. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to keep an eye on the other half to see
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  Speaker 1: if that now has cancer, and like always, I just
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  Speaker 1: get rid of it and I don't want to think
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  Speaker 1: about it anymore. That's kind of where I was at first.
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  Speaker 1: But the more we looked into it, everybody, all the
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  Speaker 1: experts were saying, like, if you can save half, you
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  Speaker 1: should always save half, whatever body part that might be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to save what you can. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where we are now. And my surgeon
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  Speaker 1: is not gonna know until she gets in there to see,
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  Speaker 1: like there are some little like lymph nodes or something
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  Speaker 1: that might the cancer might have spread to those, and
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna they're gonna like, while I'm under on the table,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna like send those to the lab to see
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  Speaker 1: if they're cancers whatever. They might have to take the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. And if that's the case, that you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what they're gonna have to do. But I
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  Speaker 1: really hope, I mean, this is it's you know, we
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  Speaker 1: all think about like these cosmetic things and stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about a scar or anything, but I
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  Speaker 1: do work with my voice doing radio and so whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard some stories from people that are like, oh,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: my voice really heal for eight months, and that's not
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: gonna work for me, really, So I just I hope
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: that they can, you know, avoid any damage to my
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: vocal cards. But I'm again, I know I'm in the
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: best hand, so I'm not too worried about it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: I feel like a doctor in Nashville probably has worked
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: with a lot of people that rely on their voices totally,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: and so I'm guessing that isn't like a new shocking thing.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: You have surgery and warsaw Indiana. They might be like,
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's gonna happen. I think they know
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: what's gonna happen in Nashville. Kevin, we did mention that
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: you two have some some smaller children. I'm curious about
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: if they know of the situation maybe, or how you
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: told them or why you decided not to.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: No, we did. I was so I was so nervous
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: about telling our kids. And our daughter is so sensitive
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: and she's eight and she knows what cancer is. We
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: have friends that have, you know, battled cancer, and she's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: seen them lose their hair and everything. So I was
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: I was worried that she would freak out when she
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: heard that word. But we told him as softly as
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: we could, like the doctors found the smallest amount of cancer.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: They're just going to go in remove it. It's not
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be a big deal. And then I said, and
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Mimi's coming when I'm after the surgery. When I'm in Ben,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: she goes me, this is the best surgery ever. That
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: was her response. So she was fine. They're okay with it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: They're excited that I'm gonna be home from work for
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: a week.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: So how do you regulate hormones and such? How does
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: the thyroid, like you know, that's what it does. How
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: does your body continue to do that once it's out.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: That's a great question, Ashley. I don't know if you
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: looked it up or knew that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Because I didn't know, I like to pretend that I'm
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: a doctor on TV.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: That was good. I didn't know anything about the thyroid
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: before any of this happened. But there's like a very
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: standard medication. I would say the name of it, but
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I know I'd get it wrong. But like, my mom
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: had her thyroid removed a long time ago. They found
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: pre cancer cells on hers. So she's been taking this
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: medicine every day for I mean, over twenty years. And
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: it's just a pill you take every day, and it just,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: like you know, does what the thyroid would do.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: One of my best friends had his thyroid removed when
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: he was a teenager and he's doing just fine. But yes,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: he takes a pill every day and it helps regulate everything. Kevin,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: as we close up here with you, you mentioned at
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the beginning there's a little anxiety right now about the
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: surgery itself. Maybe not as much even why the surgery
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: is happening, but the surgery itself. And I wanted to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: hear if you could dig into that anxiety a little bit.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling and what is exactly making you
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: nervous about you know, next week?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the only other surgery I've ever had was I
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: had one single wisdom tooth removed, and that was the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: only time I've ever been put under and that was,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I mean fifteen years ago, so before I had kids
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: or anything. And sorry to get heavy on you here,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: but like I keep just like my mind wanders to,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: like what if I don't wake up? And I know
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that's you know, a one in a millionth chance of happening.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: But those are probably natural thoughts for people to have
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: if they're experiences for the first time really in their life.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of where my mind goes.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: But I very.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Quickly know that's not going to happen. It's all gonna
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: be great again. I'm in great hands. But you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I mean just spinning the wheels and stuff like that
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: for no real reason.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: My dad's an antithesiologist, and yet if I ever have surgery,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: it's the waking up from the sleep that is the
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: scariest thing to me as well.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but he's I mean, is it an inappropriate
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: question to ask, you know, since you have somebody in
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the field, like, does it people usually wake up? Right?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I'm very I don't think that that happens, so so
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: rarely like good, You're great, Kevin Ashley.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah, I just text Ali and said,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: if you're here, pop up and.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Here's she is.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, yeah, Ali, we only have one.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, we have so many questions for you, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: we'll only ask you one based on respect for you.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: We were wondering these symptoms of thyroid cancer if Kevin
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: was them for people to look out for, and he
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: thought you would know.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: You've been doing all the reading.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: The research.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I've been doing all the reading.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: I feel like that's what I haven't been reading up
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: about as much, just because that's he.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Didn't have any We already knew he had it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: But from what I understand, the symptoms are feeling like
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: a lump in your neck. So we're just sort of
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: feeling your neck and feeling your thyroid and seeing if
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: you feel like a little bulge or you know.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: But it's not necessarily sore.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: It can be sore. Hoarseness like a hoarse voice all
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: of a sudden could be an early sign.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: But from what I understand, like the most most people
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: find out from like an accidental scan, like going in
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: and getting scanned for something else. And then they see
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: it if the people who don't have symptoms. But yeah,
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, gosh, we're just so lucky that we found it,
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: and yeah, we're just I think count he's he's more
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: anxious than he's letting on.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Also, let me just.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Say a lot of anxiety in general. I'm just like.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like he's like playing it cool and everything, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: he's being very positive, which is also important. But you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: it's still cancer and it's still surgery, and I.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Think Ali's getting annoyed with me, like, you know, her
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and the kids are trying to relax at the end
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of the night, I'm just pacing around the house, just
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: looking for things to stay busy. Yeah, so yeah, she
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: definitely witnesses my anxiety, but it's not too bad.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: But we're like making plans like tonight we're going out
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: with friends to play trivia, and I'm just we're trying
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: to do things to like just keep his mind busy
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: because I'm also what we've heard from other people who
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: have had cancer, stress is like the absolute worst thing
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: for cancer. You want to minimize that as much as possible,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: So we're trying.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: You know, Kevin, we were just talking to Ali as
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: we closed up here on why he was anxious, and I,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: you know, take it for me. I've had ten surgeries,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: none of them cancer related, so I'm not there's no quantifying,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: you know, better or worse here. I always no matter what,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: and I don't think I'm.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Scared of surgery.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I always have these thoughts for like three days leading
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: up to the big event, of like worst case scenario thinking.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And you know it is for me. It comes from
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: most of my life.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I try to have control, and I know that for
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: this period of time in my life, I'm gonna have
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: zero control. But here's the cool part. Here's the thing
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: to find comfort in. The people that will have control
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: are literally the experts at keeping you alive. Like that's
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: what they get paid for, and like, I don't get
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I don't even know how to keep myself alive, but
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: they do.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And Ben's that jogging when he says he doesn't know
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: how to keep himself alive. When was your last physical?
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Ben?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: This five years ago.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get in so much trouble. My mom's
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: gonna listen to it, my wife's gonna listen to this.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: They're gonna ride away be so.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Mad at me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: You have to like get your blood work done into that's.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Just like a wifely duty, right, Yeah, Allie, I feel
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: like I'm always the one that's like, I'm making you
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: a doctor's appointment because I know that you never ever will.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly us too.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I'm I'm sure Kevin might have already said this, but
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: since this happened, I've like ordered everything under the sun,
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: whether it did you like brazil nuts or blueberry powder
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: or roughly sprat.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: We have changed so we have a new gray toilet
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: paper in the house. So there's so many little changes
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that she's implemented.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's not bleached, because regular toilet papers bleached, so
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: we're just.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Like ring away.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Down there especially you know for girls, Like there's a
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: lot of very sensitive absorbent parts of your body down there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: So it's anyway, that's a whole other time.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Ali, come on and do another health podcast with us.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Kevin, you're never gonna have a cheeseberger again.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't want that to happen.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: We've gone down the health rabbit for sure.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: But you know what, that's good to me, Like, it's
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: it's only.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Positive to make positive changes in your life.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, well, we'll be thinking about you, guys.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: We have been obviously, this is a this is a
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: big deal, not to be go understated, but your positivity,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: your outlook and also here's the cool part. What everybody
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: that knows is saying is this is gonna be great.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Like you're gonna be just fine, and that is an
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: awesome thing to celebrate. We're glad you caught it early
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: and thankful for those scans. Everybody listening, if you have
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the opportunity of the chance, go do it. It's save
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: some lives. It's also saved some really difficult situations. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: but yes, we'll be thinking about you. When is the
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: date of the surgery again, so anybody listening can check in.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure when this will be posted, but it's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a few days away and it's the tenth. It's Monday,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: so the day of Super Bowl.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll have it up, uh and I will be
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: checking in to the hospital that night to have our
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: very first baby.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: So this is this is the craziest thing ever. You're
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: both gonna do this on Super Bowl Sunday. You're not
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: gonna be to enjoy that moment at all.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: More important things in life right, Well.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Ben, that's awesome.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Congratulations Manas, that's so exciting.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: That's why I was asking the parenting questions. I'm trying
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: to get any wisdom and advice that I can. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: so how do you tell your kids really difficult news?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: And it sounds like you just sandwich it with and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: by the way, our Grandpa's coming.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: They go, oh, exactly, Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: That really works. I want to end with a fun
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: question for both of you guys, because you're both going
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: into something life changing, possibly in all good ways, on Monday.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: What is your guilty pleasure comfort thing? Is there a
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: food that you're going to celebrate with? Is there a
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: song that's keeping you giving your spirits up?
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It's a good question.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Kevin will be eating broccoli spouts and blueberries.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: No, I'm looking forward to Ali and my mom bringing
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: me a bunch of smoothies because the doctor said I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: just have to drink food for a while. So I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: like a good peanut butter smooth But I also, I mean,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it's not a song, but I'm looking I don't lay
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: in bed and watch movies ever, but I'm gonna watch
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: all of the Best Picture nominees while I'm laying in bed, recovering.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna watch all those Oscar nominated.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Movies, all those very indie movies these days.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, done, That's what are my comforts? Yeah goodness.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Right now it's vodka soda at the end of the
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: day or or Honestly, my wife and I have spent
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the last week like going to bed early, laying in
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: bed and just appreciating like this time before chaos, of
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: just the dog, two of us snuggling watching TV without
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: any other thoughts in the world.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, man, it's your final few days of just
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the two of you.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: That's wild.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Really try to save it as much as you can.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: It's awesome and wild.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Can I give my last minute unsolicited yea acting advice? Okay.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: One thing, especially now that our kids are older, that
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: I have been reflecting on every day, and I think
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: this has been like even multiplied one hundredfold since we've
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: got Kevin's diagnosis, is just how quickly time is going by, right,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: And once you have kids, time is going to start
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: going by so much faster than it used to, right, Like,
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: I feel like the last nine years of my life
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: our daughter's eight. But you know, I was pregnant for
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: that first time has gone by faster than like the
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: previous twenty five years, and so I guess my advice
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: would be like to slow down as much as you can,
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: like because it truly does.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: They say it goes.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: By so fast, and I know that's such a clised,
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: shaye thing to say, but I think when you think
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: of it in terms of like I don't know, hearing
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: from parents that truly the time, like it's just it's
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: like fast forward. And then now with what's going on
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: with Kevin in health, and we realize that we're at
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: that stage in life where people start getting cancer and
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: people start getting sick and old, it just makes you
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: like really appreciate every moment.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: So it would be And then Kevin Alli, I wonder
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: if you're with me on this, you're going into your
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: first child like it's gonna be fine. It's the second
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: one that just turns your world upside down. Yeah. I
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: think the same here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And I missed those days when our daughter Molly was
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: just a tiny little baby. Just taking care of a
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: tiny little baby was like that was your only care
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: in the world. It was so great, So you're gonna
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: love it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, Jared and I were thinking about that's a
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: lot this week. I don't know why this week of
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: all weeks, but like, do you remember what it was
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: just Dawson? How easy was that? How did we think
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: that was ever?
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Hard?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: But it is gonna be hard, Ben, don't.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry that's gonna be hard to it is hard.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: It don't feel bad for it being hard.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: It's it's an exciting time again. Kevin wishing the best
• 27:49
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• 27:52
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