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Apparently chilled helium. This is the sound of an MRI machine. That I don't love. I like this dancey beat, but I don't like the other thing.
That feels assolting. Scary. They give you ear plugs when you go in. I hope so.
And headphones. Dumple. Yeah. Just like how I roll with my rock bands.
Yeah. Take Molly. Take it and then you go to a rave or something. Well, here's the thing.
Isn't that the thing? Is that ecstasy? Is that the name, street name? Yeah, when I took ecstasy, it wasn't called Molly yet.
Who's Molly? It was like, it was ecstasy. So I got an MRI. Okay, yes.
Up to you. Okay, we're making progress. We're inching towards answers, hopefully. Yeah, or something super scary.
I had my whole brain scanned. I went into, and I had to take off my clothes, not naked naked. They let me leave my underwear and my socks on. But then you put kind of a hospital clothes over the top of it.
And they called the place that I did that the dressing room. Yeah. They called it the dressing room. I don't know.
Usually it's like prep. You know, it's just some room. They never referred to it specifically as a dressing room. Well, they saw rock and roll, indie royalty rolling in for his MRI.
They were like, sir, you can go to your dressing room to change. And on the wall, there was this piece of paper and it said music preferences. And then it listed like all these different genres on a piece of paper. And I'm like, why do I need music in my dressing room?
I was confused. They give you music options? Yeah. For listening?
Yeah. Do you have to then press a button or something? I was looking around. That was in the dressing room.
Then I went into the room. And when I got into the room, I heard that kind of sounded. Yeah. Raw impression.
Oh. Backtrack. Retraction. Hold please.
Okay. Okay. We'll come back to it. Put it in it.
Backtracking. Retraction time. Raw impressions. I don't know why this is happening.
Backtracking. Retraction time. No. No.
Backtracking. Retraction time. It's you. Yeah.
It's me. And you have a retraction. I do. A few episodes ago.
I don't remember which one. But I did say something dismissive regarding therapy. I said something like, well, I'm not really into therapy. And I'm sorry I said that.
I do have opinions about therapy and types of therapy. I have my own impressions of that and my own journey. My parents put me in therapy for the first time when I was in high school. So which seemed useless to me.
The time. The guy just stared at me with his dead stare. What do you think about that? I mean, he just looks so bored.
Anyway, I just want to make clear that I wasn't trying to be a dick when I said that and wave it away like people with penises often do. Man's plane away therapy. It sounded that way in the context of the episode. I just want to say, hey, therapy, it's a big word.
It encompasses a lot of things. Yeah. And I could get real specific about it. I'm not going to do that right now because I need to talk about my MRI.
And also you have something you wanted to say. Oh, yes. Well, so the last episode was a very vulnerable episode for me. My most vulnerable episode ever.
It says a lot because you've really let a lot show on the show. Yeah, I guess I have. On the show. And I talked about my mom and her ALS diagnosis and how that's been for me and my family.
And I was very nervous doing that episode and afterward I felt very drained emotionally. I just felt like I couldn't, I had to kind of lay down and just not look at the internet, not think about the internet. And the internet is a place that can often be very scary and unkind when someone reveals a vulnerability because it's it's it's common culture and everyone has something to say. And a lot of bullies out there.
There's a lot of people with opinions and you know, and sometimes there's very unkind things said. And so I was very nervous to see the reaction because even if you're talking about a parent dying, it doesn't even matter. A lot of times there'll be someone who is like says something unkind. So I was very hesitant to engage with the episode after I'm talking about it a long time ago.
I just wanted to say should I wrap it up? Is this going into the thing? I will say really quickly then. The internet surprised me but I shouldn't be surprised from our raw fans.
So thank you. I really felt the love and it meant a lot to me. Sounds. I feel like I'm in a n but it was music.
I thought this was the music. And they said oh no, that's the helium pump. Apparently these machines use chilled helium as I said before. So the pump had this really percussive sound and I said I don't need any music.
And then I realized what the list on the wall was. I could have chosen. That was giving you like a heads up. These are the things you could choose from.
You're actually in the MRI. When you go into the MRI it's loud as fuck. It's going to make all these crazy sounds and the helium pump is going to be keeping time. I took it in.
I loved the sound of the helium pump so much. I was going to try to go back and record it on my phone but I forgot. I was so glad that my MRI was over. I had to find it was over because you're in there for a long time.
Are you in that? It felt like it was about 45 minutes. Are you serious? And then the voice comes in and says you know.
That feels like a really long time. You're not supposed to move at all. Oh dear. So anyway the list was music you could have listened to.
90s alternative was a choice. Oh shit you could have done that and seen if you were if you popped up in your own MRI. That would have been fun. Or said hello to Trent Reznor.
He could have popped in there too. Nine in chanels while we're in the MRI. That seems kind of fitting now. I mean redundant almost.
Anyway but I cancel it out. So when I came home from my MRI I told you all about it and Izzy was listening. Yes. And then Izzy just broke into song.
Yes. She started singing a song about the MRI. That was her organic just inspired moment. She just was listening to Lou talk about it and then she just stood up in the kitchen and started singing, sliding into the MRI with her own beat and her own song.
She just decided to make a song of it. And so we recorded voice memos of her just going over and over and over. Her little concert for us in the kitchen about the MRI lose MRI and what could possibly be waiting for you. And she even tried to rally a crowd as if there was more than just the two of us.
She was like come on. Come on. And like even raise her hands up like let's all do this guys. Understand what she's saying.
She says sliding inside the MRI but the crazy thing is I didn't tell her about sliding inside the MRI and then she said oh no of course you slide into an MRI and there's a big thing and she motioned like an arc. I know how would she know that she's. I don't know. You do.
Of course. She saw someone on YouTube getting an MRI. YouTube kids. Well you know there could be there could have been a heartwarming story about a cancer survivor that she saw.
Let's go with that. Let's go with that. Something very non twisted and curated. We don't know why.
We don't know why. Why is she knew about the MRI. Don't know. Don't be paying more attention.
Go for that search. Okay. Well the thing is so they're taking pictures of your brain. They're looking for things.
Things. Your brain and and hopefully no tumors correct. Hopefully. I hate this so much.
Yeah. The funny thing is it's not funny but I hadn't really considered because it's all about my left ear. This is all about hopefully just finding like some liquid on my cochlea. Just saying that you have menirs.
Let's just go with me. You got menirs. Yup. In his ears.
That's right. That's all we can hear is menirs and losers. But as I was listening to this stark industrial soundtrack, you know, the pump and the sounds of the cameras and I've approximated the sounds with my synthesizer and they did change tune like that. They were like, so you just didn't go, I'm going to listen to music.
Did anyone raise an eyebrow like Yup full or were they like, okay, sir. Are you were regretting this decision? No, I never regretted it at all. You were like, I'm here for the full sounds of the machine.
I did. And halfway into it, I'm like, guess who's going home and hooking up the synthesizer and recreating this? The one and only Lewis Knocks Barlow. This guy.
I was like, wow, once again. Little by legend. Once again, life is handed me. Did you get your hand to autographs on your way out?
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This is podcast advertising without barriers. Get started at acast.com slash advertising. You know, you wonder. You know, I wonder sometimes like, how do I keep coming up with such funky fresh ideas?
You're stealing a line right now. I know. I know. It's not yours.
I also really like to quote Snoop Dogg on the first record. Yes. Somehow, some way I keep coming up with funky ass shit like every single day. I know.
God, what a line. I mean, somehow, some way. Somehow. I know.
I hope you can meet him someday to just thank him for that. You know, you can look at him, repeat that to him and then shake his hand. He'll go, and he'll have like some wonderful response. He's Snoop.
I'll continue. Oh, oh, oh. Collage keeps going. Okay.
We're back in the garage. We're back in the machine. We're going to the end. We're going to the end.
It's the technician coming in. I thought she was saying sunny inside. I'm feeling, feeling nervous. I'm getting my palms actually getting a little sweaty.
We should add this song to their playlist. We're like, we have actually some music for you. Did I already say I hate this? I hate this.
I hate this. I really like the fact that there's even a possibility that there could be something in your brain. I feel like I can't even process this because I'm overwhelmed. Well, I can say if there is.
If there is, it's not really affecting me other than my ear thing and possibly my eyes, which also are being, there's some kind of pressure in my eyes that the ophthalmologist was curious about. So actually most of my head could be a tumor, but I'm doing really well despite that. I'm living a great life with my great fruit-sized tumor. Oh my gosh.
I shouldn't joke because we don't have the results yet. I know. What if you do have a great fruit-sized tumor and the next thing you know, oh God. I was like my colonoscopy.
I was like, kind of cavalier about that. I'm like, I just delivered the greatest bucket of shit ever. I know you were so proud of your poop. I'm really, you almost like, I'm sure you wanted to almost take a picture of your poop.
You were so proud of it. So proud of my colonoscopy, the pre-testing. Yeah. I shit in the bucket.
I was like, that's it. I'm not going to have to go in for a colonoscopy, but no. The test results came back, you know, positive for negative stuff. I know.
And then you had a colonoscopy and then you had polyps. I did. And were they pre-cancerous? Yes.
What does that even mean? I don't know. Okay. It means it's good that they got them out of me.
Right. They were removed. And it means I'm going to be back in there getting the camera up my ass soon enough. God.
I'm going to have a camera of my ass too because they have to schedule my colonoscopy. You're doing a colonoscopy? Yeah. They're not doing the bucket test first.
No. Interesting. Yeah. Well, some of my things got kind of delayed.
And it's so the thing that I was starting to, I guess, go on and on about before I was interrupted, which was fine by the song, the thumping song, was I was saying I was very afraid of the internet and the comments that were going to happen. Yada, yada. You guys remember that and how the opposite happened. I was overwhelmed with appreciation.
And I thank you to the people who left me messages and emails, real comments. They were thoughtful. They were kind. It just, they meant a lot to me.
So thank you for those and for holding me in your thoughts and my family were really, really appreciative. So as a result of this, my mom's ALS, I have been afraid to have certain procedures done because I just feel like there can be nothing wrong with me. I have to just be here during this time. Nothing can take away the focus of this.
And in case you're all freaking out and getting ready to leave me comments, I don't like yourself and whatever. I'm not just doing these things. I have, my GP is helping me through this. We're working through my illness fear for making appointments and everything will be scheduled but in a very kind of like tender way, very gentle way.
They're not rushing things. I have a list of things that I need to do, which some of you remember my mammogram from 2023. I had to go back and that was very scary. I have to have my, I have to have another mammogram.
It's something they have to keep their eye on. So there's things that are on my own medical to-do list. But honestly, it's been just, I think the only word I can think of is like overwhelming between the thing that's been happening with your ear and your situation and my mom. I've just felt like there's only so many of us that can be having medical issues at this time.
And so I have to just not have any. And I know that that's not always how life works. But I'm working with that fear I have and I am talking about it with the people I'm supposed to. So don't fear for me that I'm neglecting things.
That seemed to be one of the common comments was that you do need to take care of yourself. Yeah. In the midst of all of this. I'm in the process of learning what that looks like.
And I have to kind of, that's a very new concept for me. And so that will be something I am taking to heart that I need to not neglect myself. I need to take care of myself. And I promise you I will really genuinely work on that and take steps to also have self-care during this time.
And you need to also take steps to have self-care during this time because you're very stressed. My lesson during the pandemic was go to the doctor. Yeah. I'm going to the doctor.
Like, I think I even have like a sonogram that I'm supposed to get. I've been reacting to every because I do a lot of like meditation where I'm just breathing and I'm really noticing my body. And I think now's the time in my life is if I have like recurring pains, if I have recurring, the things that have recurred that I find recurring and the patterns that I see, I bring them up to my GP now. And if I need to get tested, I get tested.
And if I need like I'm kind of, I feel like this is the way, this is really the way to prepare for the latter period of our life is to become used to like responding to what's happening because when something does happen, you want to have, you want to catch it. And because of the way appointments are scheduled and getting referrals and the sort of the maze that is health care, the maze that you have to negotiate, I mean, that's something that I've really picked up on just as our parents have aged, your mother in particular, my parents as well. There's issues that come up. Yeah.
And it seems like one of the most proactive things you can do for yourself is to really respond to these messages that your body is giving you. And then also one thing that's important for us is to be as healthy as we can be because as we're seeing as these changes occur with our parents and also. You know who I am, I'm Fortrach Man. We have people to care.
We have people to take care of ourselves. Our selves included. Instead of DRI, it's a hardcore man. It's a hardcore man.
Early 80s with their first seven inch. Who am I, DRI? Who am I? Get it.
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No, not unnecessarily. The commercial magic glue. That's totally necessary. Madel.
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