Mike Webb : When life gives you the wildcard

For those of you that follow him on social , or any of us , I'm sure you've heard that Mike had a pretty , I would say , significant , life changing event , had a pretty , I would say , significant life-changing event , and just want to give him a chance to let everybody know what happened , kind of walk through anything that he wants to walk through and kind of let

it be his show . So , mike , with that being said , I'm glad you're here .

But I mean , it's like what we've always discussed is , sometimes things can happen , and I think , if anything , I'm sure it was a major revelation in some areas of life and it just probably brought into the forefront things that you weren't thinking about necessarily yet , probably not for a few more years .

So , with that being said , however , you want to discuss what happened and go with it . I'll try to ask you any questions as we go along , but just wanted to let you talk .

So February 2nd of 2025 , I went to work , it was a Sunday , and every time I work on Sunday I do the same workout pretty much , and I've done it for years and it's something I like to call burpees for Jesus .

I do 100 burpees for time and my goal was to beat my time from the time before , and sometimes it happens , sometimes it doesn't , and it's just one of those things that like . To some people that might sound ridiculous .

I don't think there's too many people that love to do burpees , myself included and the long and short of it is I was doing the workout that morning .

I was doing it by myself out in the engine bay and , coincidentally like it's kind of funny how this works but I came into work that morning and there was a DCFD fire engine in the engine bay , which I knew was happening , but it's not a common occurrence to have a you know , an engine company from the district sitting there because they were preparing for a

line of duty death funeral , unfortunately , for one of their members , and they were using our firehouse , uh , as kind of like a staging area because of where the procession and whatnot was going to take place . That way they could clean up their wagon and whatnot . So anyways , I say that because it'll kind of come into play in about a couple minutes .

So I was working out and , like I said , I usually work out sometime around 8 or 9 in the morning , depending on when my administrative stuff gets done for the morning and what kind of as I describe them wild cards the department or the citizens have for me .

That day I remember I was working out , I had my headphones in , I was setting , I set my timer like I always do , and started doing my burpees and I always keep like a little tally mark of 10 hash marks , if you will . I did that morning . I had it on our writing assignment board just because it was close by .

So I do 10 burpees , hurry up , mark it off , and I just keep going and I remember around like the seventh round , so like the 70th burpee or so , like my vision kind of getting jacked up , but I was like man , you know , whatever , I'm just being a wuss , like just keep going . You know like this is the home stretch .

And so I get to the 80th Burt B , I go over , I hit my hash mark and I usually do like the last 20 , just kind of like mentally . I think about it as four sets of five , just kind of like this is where the suck factor starts , like you just go as fast as you can . So I did that .

So I did that , I get done and I start to like feel what I can only describe as like a little bit of pain in my neck . I'm like man , I just like pull a muscle or what , because I felt it like down my traps , almost like both sides or , for you medics , bilaterally . So I sit there and I'm like man . This is like this is getting worse .

And I've had sinus surgery for migraines , originally like 12 years ago , then I had it revised a couple of years ago . So I know what a migraine feels like and I'm like this isn't a migraine and I just I'm like this is unbearable . So I'm still rolling around on the engine bay floor just trying to get comfortable .

I'm sweaty and we have like the , the tile floor in our engine bay , that kind of looks like an old school McDonald's , you know , and I'm just like it's cold .

So I'm like trying to get comfortable and I lay there and uh , I start to realize like it's really hard to lift my head up , but I'm like , well , maybe I tweaked a muscle , let me , let me try and make it to the shower .

So I finally get up and uh , I get to the shower after we'll call it a little bit of work , and I get a shower and I am hurting . And then I get in uniform and I lay down in my bunk which like I never do during the day and one of my guys came in there like , are you okay ? And I'm just like , no , but I'll be okay .

Like I just took two Excedrin , I'll be fine . So then we catch a tower run and I'm like , oh no , like this sucks . So I get , we cross staff , my firehouse . So like there's three guys , we have three for the engine or the ladder truck , whatever gets the call .

We , we cross stuff , which isn't ideal but it's unfortunately just the way we have to operate right now . So we get in the ladder truck and it's a like a fire alarm with burglar alarm , you know , like one of those like low budget . So the engine company that was due with us , they got there first .

They staged until the police arrived so they could clear the unit , which I'm glad they did , cause if I had to like get out first and do the 360 and all that jazz , it would have been a real mess .

So we staged for the police and they cleared the unit and I'm like I'm looking like a hot bucket of crap sitting over there in that seat my the guy wheeling me that day it was . He's a senior fireman , like backup driver . He looks over , he's like are you okay ? I'm like , yeah , I'm fine , you know , of course , like what else are you going ?

Then like next thing I know , I see the back door open . Then I see my driver come around and they're like hey , we're getting an ambulance to the scene . I'm like no , no , no , no , like no , no , no , no , no , no , no , just get me back to the firehouse .

So then the engine company like realizes there's something going on and they come back and , to their credit , man , like they were just like how do we help ? You know , they start stripping my gear off because , like I said , I'm like hot at this point .

So somehow I get back in the ladder truck , we get back to the firehouse and on the way there I'm doing one of the one-eye texting things and I text the battalion fire chief that handles scheduling on the weekends , because normally we have a scheduler , but on the weekends that's one of the collateral duties for one of our battalion chiefs and I'm like , can you

please arrange relief ? I need to go , I'm sick , 'm sick . He said , yep , it probably won't be till 1800 , and this is at like 10 o'clock in the morning and I was like , okay , meanwhile I'm thinking there is no way in hell I can make it till 1800 , right ? And uh , so , and the timeline might be , uh , slightly jacked up here .

Like I said , I'm kind of going from memory here and it's not been the best . So if some attorneys listening to this from work comp or something just know that this , that's my caveat here . Wife and the kids left church and they text me and I said , hey , I'm getting ready to start my burpees .

I'll text you when I'm done , cause my wife knows that's what I do , and so she hadn't heard from me . So somehow she has and in hindsight this is a really bad idea for me . So she didn't have any of the other guys' cell phone numbers that I was with . She only had this one other guy who was not . He was detailed out that day .

So then that dude texts my driver and was like , yo , hey , word must be getting around , you're not doing well , cause this guy just texts me that hey , right in the tower . So , um , my wife gets ahold of this guy and uh , they're like , yeah , he doesn't want to go to the hospital . I'm like , no , just let me sleep it off .

Like , uh , I told them , once my relief gets here , I'll come home . So my wife knows , like if I'm talking about getting relief and coming home , that something is wrong . And uh , they said they some somebody must have mentioned I threw up and I described it as the worst headache of my life . And she my wife was a CAT scan tech for 20 years .

So , like , she's not a doctor , but she , she heard that and she was instantly like on red alert . She's like , put him on the phone . I still feel horrible for the guy that had to be like the intermediary here and I've told him this . I said I'm sorry , man , I should have listened to you .

Puts my wife on the phone and she's , we'll say , giving me the business about going to the hospital . I'm like , fine , I'll go to the hospital , like just keep her happy . And after this point , this is where it like gets really blurry . So they put me on the cot . Fortunately , it's really blurry . So they put me on the cot .

Fortunately , like where I work , like we have , we actually have two ambulances staffed and one of them just happened to be in quarters , which is not always the case , so they put me on the cot . They literally wheeled the cot to the bunk room and somehow I got on it . I don't really remember how . And after that man I know I got to the hospital .

I remember my battalion chief being there . I don't know if he was there when I got there or what , but I remember seeing him . And I remember seeing one of our EMS supervisors . Uh , we have , like I'm sure you guys do , I don't know what you call them , but like we , this guy he has EMS 902 is there .

Ems 902 is there and I remember , like I don't know if it was the hospital staff I don't want to put them on blast or somebody was suggesting that I go triage and I just remembered that EMS lieutenant goes .

He's one of our guys and , based on the description of what I've been told , I looked like I apparently did not look good and , like I said , I don't remember any of this really , except bits and pieces .

And I remember being put in one of the rooms and then I remember going back for a CAT scan and coming back , and then all I remember is my wife being there and the doctor coming in and saying that he has a bleed .

And I remember my wife walking out and screaming some not so Christian words in the hallway and then throwing up so so , like I said , she's not a doctor but she knows enough .

Like she got , she saw the film and she she could tell what was going on and she's like that's a lot of blood and uh , so next thing , I know , um , I didn't know this , but huge shout out to the maryland state police aviation command .

Like they I don't know if they flew over from their hand , because one of their helicopters is based in the city I work they either flew their helicopter to the hospital or I don't know . Apparently , I was told that they were actually there and they were willing to take me to the hospital .

I needed to go and take my wife because the helicopter they were going to put me in , that they wouldn't let my wife go , and my wife's like that's not an option , like I'm going with him . So , long story short , my hat's off to the Maryland state police , uh , for their like willingness to just say let's go .

But , um , at the end of the day I ended up flying on the the hospital's helicopter that I was going to and , um , I was flown to Washington DC and again , I don't remember much of anything . I don't remember the helicopter ride at all .

Um , and then once I got to the hospital , I don't really remember anything there except waking up , like if you saw my uh one social media post that , uh , I woke up , I had my uniform . Pants were missing , that's all I had on whenever I got to the first hospital was , somehow I was only in my uniform pants .

Um , and I remember those were gone and my brand new boxers that I just got for Christmas were gone , like standard dad gift , yeah , exactly Like I told my wife I was like , damn , those are my new ones , like those . Those came in a three pack .

I only got two now , but anyways , like and just like my whole like groin area covered in iodine because they had done an angiogram , like where they go in through your femoral artery and like put dye in your brain and like do all this stuff .

And so I don't have it in front of me to pronounce it correctly , but the type of bleed I had fortunately was not an aneurysm and it was just like a venous bleed which , from what I gather and I mean I'm clearly no neurosurgeon , but based on what I've talked to all these folks about over the last week or two , the last week or two is , uh , this ,

basically , while I was working out , uh like the exertion level it basically caused a venus bleed is the way I understand it . Again , if you're from work comp or whatever , like , don't hold me to this , but this is my interpretation of my conversations .

So this was going to happen at some point , whether it was that morning in the engine bay or you know another time , and like , but somehow , god's grace , however you want to look at it , whatever you pray to , but like , thank god it happened there and not uh like , yeah , I went on the alarm bells call , but then , like , either the next call or the call

after was a house fire where we would have been the first due truck . So I would have been on the roof with , with my rookie , who it was his second day on a piece of suppression equipment , so that was not going to go so well . You know , I don't want to speak for him , but like , let's face it . If you have your choice .

Let's do this at ground level , right by an ambulance , or let's do it on the roof of a house on fire . Let's , let's pick our poison here . So that's uh , that's one of those .

You know , I can already hear people like well , that's why I don't work out , that's why I don't do all this , all this dumb shit , you know , and like I said , this wasn't like I just dreamt this crazy workout up , like I do it all the time , frankly , and uh , so like the only like silver lining to this to me is like I'm glad it happened there and not

on a roof , you know . So that's how I at least have internalized or become okay with it . Like , hey , you moron , like you shouldn't have done this , you shouldn't have done this , you shouldn't have done that . But like I felt fine when I started , like I had no issues , like I actually worked the night before at a different firehouse .

Um , I got hired as the fourth man on a fire engine . Like , so not , some of our uh firehouses have four man staffing now and mine is still at three . So if you're like , well , what the hell , why don't you have four ? Like we're in the next wave , the final wave of a four person staffing , so right now we have three .

So I worked as a fireman the night before easy night , no big deal , um , worked the next day at my firehouse and felt fine .

And next thing , you know , here I am in a neurological intensive care unit in Washington DC and I , you know , I'm trying to make sense of all this , like I'm you know , they have you on all sorts of crazy stuff Like you're just trying to make sense of what's up and what's down , like .

And you know , like before I realized that , like my parents are there and I'm like what the heck ? Like cause they live in Florida .

Like , like my parents got the phone call from my wife , literally were on a plane , like from what I gather , like two hours later and somebody from my department , you know , shout out to Brady McCartan uh , the guy , the , the guy we interviewed about the job coat like left ice rescue training in central Pennsylvania , drove to Baltimore Washington airport , picked my

parents up and drove them straight to DC . Like they got to the hospital damn near faster than I did , you know like , so , uh , just incredible , um , and then , like I remember , I'm starting to like come out of some of the cause they give you a sedation for the procedure .

And I remember waking up and next thing , I know , I see , like our union president , uh , who I went to recruit school with , and then I see , like our our fire chief showed up and then I'm like , then the guy that normally relieves me in the morning , uh , on a shift , like that lieutenant was there . Like I'm just like Holy crap when , what's going on ?

And uh , you know , I said I'd circle back to the whole DCFD engine . Like I didn't know this again at the time because I was on , you know , higher than a kite . But apparently when I got to the hospital there were members of DCFD already there waiting , like just to be there . So pretty cool .

Um , and then , like again , I said my parents came , my wife came , like DCFD , uh , burnt , dc fire burn foundation I might have to look that verbiage up exactly , but the DC burn foundation which is ran by their local 36 .

Like they already had hotel rooms for my parents when I got there , like they , they brought dinner , I'm pretty sure right off their dinner table that night . Like , again , I this is all relayed to me Cause I was completely out of it .

But then , like the next night they brought food and the night after they brought food , like these guys show up like on duty , you know . So shout out to nine truck and I'm assuming nine engine , like just .

But I don't even want to think this way , but it could be a career ender , you know . But they told me like hey , right now we're going to put six , but it'll probably be more , like 12 weeks .

And uh , like right now I still have restrictions , like I can't drive , um , I can't lift anything over 10 pounds , I can't like twist , I can't do all this , you know , like basic stuff .

So I've been trying to , you know , just lean against a wall and do pushups or like do something , like just trying and I mean I'm sure you could speak to this a lot Like you start to get in your head like oh , yeah .

So like I mean I'm I'm not sure how long it'll be like this , but like I told Alicia that's my wife Like I have to start with a routine today . So , like this today's on Monday I was like I got to get a routine again .

And if , even if that just means I work out for 10 minutes , like I use the quotation marks , workout like I sat up and sat down like 50 times , like in a chair . You know I walked to the stop sign the other day and that's like dude , I would go rock seven miles with like 40 pounds in my bag , just like on a random Saturday with bill .

You know , like on the Appalachian trail .

Yeah , it's weird because of what you described . Again , knee injury versus brain bleed much different . I'm not comparing that , but there is parallels . It's the guys are unreal , the actual boots on the ground , I mean . It's you understand what it means to be a fireman when that is shown , because there is nothing that they will not do .

And , to your point about dinner off the table , wouldn't surprise me either if they literally took their own plate , put foil on top of it and drove it directly to the , the hospital , because that's just the way guys are and a lot of that too . Like as you . Like you're going to be home , hopefully no longer than , let's say , 12 weeks , but it's interesting .

It gets very quiet and everybody's going about their life while you're sitting at home on this hamster wheel all day long , like what am I going to do ? Am I going to have a job and all of these things ? And then you're like I just got to go do something . So yeah , to your point .

I used to run five miles a day , like bare minimum , every single day , like that , dude . The amount of stress that you can relieve in something like that , I know you and Bill , or you by yourself , will rock a ton . That's an outlet for us .

So when you don't have it you made me laugh about pushups on the wall , dude , because I still I still can't do because of the way my leg is , I can't do pushups .

But I said I can either do this or do nothing and , as you're finding out already , nothing is not a good option because now I'm not being physical , I'm not around the guys , I'm not doing all these things that I have a routine with . And yeah , to your last point , and then I'll let you continue is you ?

We forget how structured our days are , especially on the job , and then when you get home , you know you have a limited time before you go back . So I was always , and not every time . But you're way more productive when you come home , cause you're like boom , I got 24 or 48 hours , I got to do this , this , this , this and this .

Now it's okay , I got six to 12 weeks . I don't really have to do anything today . It's just an interesting feeling . So , yes , I do agree . I mean listening to you talk . Like I said , brain bleeding . I want to make that very clear .

Two different ends of the spectrum , but there's a lot of parallels to where it's a scary place to be in your head all day long . I think .

I really do think it is , especially when you're used to all the outlets that you're used to having and now you're told you're used to all the outlets that you're used to having and now you're told you're gonna have to wait a little bit to do it .

He's like you know , I remember you talking about the whole brotherhood thing when you first got started , but like he's never witnessed it and he goes . I hope I never have to again . But he was just like flabbergasted , like is the best way I can put it . And you know I can't say that I wasn't either .

So just not that we have a huge listenership , but obviously , with Tyler and Aaron , well , aaron being in DC , like I just said , cognitive ability With Aaron being in DC . I just want to personally thank those guys . That department should be extremely proud of the way they showed up . Just amazing .

And the guys on my department could never ask for anything more . And I wouldn't even put that just at . The guys on my department like could never ask for anything more . So , and I wouldn't even put that just at .

The guys like the fire chief showed up at my room that night and then showed up like a couple nights later Like just and granted , we're not far from DC , but it's not just across the street either . We're not far from DC , but it's not just across the street either .

So for him to take the time to do something like that I don't think there's that many fire chiefs in a department of 600-some people that are just going to drop everything to go do that . So I think that was just amazing . Perfect time to start sweeping Great , but can you hear that ?

You know , like that's one thing that's like still really bugging me is noises and uh , just like you'd think you just sit here and watch tv and get all caught up on your netflix shows , but like , even just watching this screen right here , like it's hard for me , like uh , to stare at a screen very long , like the movement just starts to make like my head

hurt a little bit and noise is real tough . So yesterday , um , um , again this is a Monday so yesterday was the first time I've gone to church since this happened and uh , that's the first time I've really gone out .

And , um , like we were , we weren't all sure how it was going to work , cause , like the church I go to , like they , they do a uh , we'll call it a pretty decent job at music at the beginning and it's usually like a full band and it's really awesome . I really enjoy it . I mean thank God .

Cause , so , like I had earplugs ready and then plan B was to go sit in the lobby and just , you know , scale it back like time distance shielding here we go , but like again back .

Like time distance shielding here we go , but uh , like again , by some weird grace of god , yesterday was just an acoustic set , so they just had two acoustical guitars and no , like big production . I was like , oh , thank god , you know . So it's just weird how all that works and uh , but yeah , still going out like this is tough .

So , anyways , having the , I know what that's like because I'm you know you tried and that for the most part I've done a pretty good job . But , like you know , kids are just being kids and you're just like trying to keep the wheels on the wagon .

And right now , like , as I get closer to nighttime , through the night and the mornings are the absolute worst for me right now Uh , once I get up and get going a little bit , it's okay . But like my wife God bless her Like she has made sure , like my uh , like medicine regimen has been on point .

Like I told her , if it wasn't for her , I probably would have needed Narcan by now , cause I probably did I take this , did I take ? I can't remember , but she's got like a chart and she's all organized and stuff , but so just yeah , anyways , so that's kind of in a nutshell what happened .

It's a long road ahead and I can't thank there's too many people to thank here and just frankly , I've made a list and I'm going to start clipping away at some of the thank you cards and whatnot , but the one thing it's made me just absolutely solidified my belief in is having a small team , or a team in general , whatever you want to call it .

Because , like during all of this , obviously most folks on here probably know like I have a business partner .

His name is Bill and we've talked a lot about the pros and cons of partnerships on here and all I can say is , if it wasn't for Bill and our issues Like of the last two weeks , I would have had the financial and business issues that were basically just left flapping in the wind .

So I don't care if you have like two rental properties or you have 200 , like having some sort of plan system . Something is imperative , because I didn't talk about it but , like , the NICU that I was in had 14 beds and of the 14 patients that were in that NICU , I was the only patient that could walk and talk .

Some could talk , some could walk , but most were intubated , most were in um , we'll call it worse shape than even like what , what I was in Okay and uh .

So , like I was talking to my wife , I was talking to Bill , I was like I , they called me , they , they call you a walkie talkie when you're in that ward and you can walk and talk , which I thought was kind of funny .

But so , like my nurses , like you either have one , like your nurse ratio is like one to one , or your nurse has two patients , like that's how sick some of these people are . So I would be like , oh , am I your own patient , you know cause ? Like the nurse would be in there all the time and not she's like no , but my other patient can't talk .

So , like , I'm kind of , I'm kind of like this oddity , but anyways , I was saying like what if that would have been me ? Like cause , originally they told me I was going to be in there for two weeks and I was able to get out in one week , uh , which , thank God , because that had been a whole nother issue .

But , um , what if I would have been in a coma or intubated , or one of these people that you know I doesn't doesn't have as much progress as I had showed ? Like then , what , how do you manage the business ? Like , and that's that might sound like , uh , I'll be frank , like I , I know that's never going to happen to me .

Like I eat healthy , I take care of myself , I do this , you know , I train . I wouldn't have ever thought that I would have been the one taken out in a freaking helicopter that day . You know it's so , it's easy . Easy to sit there and say I don't need to worry about that , because that's not going to be me , and I hope you're right .

Um , but what if it was so , having a team where they were able to step in , like we were in the middle ?

I'd say we're in the last phase of implementing a brand new storage management software , which is not an easy feat when you have to switch several hundred tenants over to a new software and change banking programs and all this other stuff that goes along with it . Software and change banking programs and all this other stuff that goes along with it .

So , like one of our VAs was able to step up and just really basically take the bull by the horns from the Philippines and handle , I would say , 90% of the issues , and then , with the support staff from the software company and the billing company , they were able to finish the rest up for the most part , and then that was enough to triage until I was well

enough that I could answer a couple of questions here and there . So , and then having our other VA just able to do all the things she does on the daily basis is just it was a godsend . So we , we put we 20 , I forget the exact number like 27 more storage units in service , portable storage units like that .

Of course , all that crap got delivered and was like the day I got hurt was a Sunday . That Monday I was supposed to go meet the install team that flew in Sunday night to go install all these things , install all these things . Well , I'm not responding to text messages , I'm not responding to anything .

Well , that's because I'm freaking , you know , in an icu completely blown out of my mind . But then , like somehow I think my wife got a hold of bill and just said , like this is what's going on .

So bill was able to meet them there , go over like the plan , cause we already had everything like schematic wise , like planned out , just like man people , just like like the book , uh , extreme ownership with Jocko Willink and life bab , and they talk about cover and move like that .

The last two weeks have been a real world example of what cover and move looks like when you have a small team and you're not a one man band .

And , um , after my first time being assigned to training and seeing what that did to my business versus the second time , I can tell you that I was a believer , but now I'm a real believer that the one man band concept is a bad idea . In my opinion .

You cannot go wrong with having somebody that can do at least 60% to 70% of what needs done on the daily basis to at least keep the boat afloat until you can get back to whatever it is you do Big believer in that now .

Now I'm going to sit down over the next several weeks and just kind of , you know , I got this life insurance policy and Chris Bukley's credit Like I've been working with him , bill , and I got like a buy sell policy and it had just got approved like two weeks prior to this , and I told my wife you know , like dark sense of humor I'm like man , good thing

we got that policy , you almost got paid .

You , you know , just like stupid ass should have just kept your mouth shut like , but anyway , that's just what they want to hear yeah , yeah , seriously , I'm surprised I don't have another bleed , but uh , so just taking some time and putting all that stuff together and you know , like easy , somewhat easy to find format , it's in the safe , it's here , it's there ,

just so that it's on a USB key , whatever it is , just so . God forbid , had they had to sort through the emotional and mental issues of like hey , you know dad's dead too .

Like now you got kids and like I have , like they're young , like , and eventually , like you said , everybody has to go back to their normal lives and you don't want to think that way , but like I want to make sure that like hey , all this shit I've been doing for years isn't for nothing or , even worse , like a burden to them whenever something does happen or

if something were to happen . So , yeah , man , that's , um , that's the the cliff notes version . That's not so cliff notes of what happened two weeks ago and kind of what the last two weeks have looked like .

I have my first follow-up appointment , um , this coming Thursday and that will kind of give me a little bit better idea of what to expect over the next couple weeks , months , so on and so forth . It's pretty cool .

Guys from my firehouse have already made arrangements to make sure they give me a ride my whole shift I didn't even mention this my normal wagon driver . We call them technicians here . I don't know what do you call them in LA or LA County .

When I came down the elevator and , uh , I feel horrible because I woke up that morning and I was just what I can only describe an excruciating pain , like I looked like a hot bucket of shit and I didn't know they were going to be there and I just couldn't even , like it was back to the like , had one eye open , type things .

Like I was like , oh my God , this is , hey , he's from my shit . Wait , this is my whole shift , like you know . So that was cool , you know . In hindsight I wish I could have been a little more present to thank them , but I guess they kind of understand also . like , they're like yeah , we felt bad . You looked like hell .

Thanks , I felt like it so they'll always tell you the truth . Yeah , yeah , exactly . Which is ? You know ? I still enjoy the the ball busting and just chatting with everybody . So , yeah , that's all I got . I know we said 20 minutes , we're at 40 . But that's all I got . That's all I got to say about that .

I'm like I'm freaking fine . You know , like just let me be . You know like just total douchebag , and I apologize to him like 100 times , but I was like dude , I was being a total douchebag , like sorry , I , I should have listened to you , like , but you know what I mean . Like how many times have you had a headache ?

You take a couple looks at you and you're good to go it goes away yeah , I mean I . It should have been a dead giveaway when I like couldn't lift my head up that yeah or vomiting like hey , hey , dipshit , uh , something might actually be wrong .

But again you just fall under this false pretense of like I'm fine , I'm not , you know I didn't just , I forgot what it's called .

So , um , just , yeah , and we it kind of sucks because we had like a I I was taking my son skiing one day Like they're like , well , you're going to , we can't cancel that , you're going to have to send us a letter Like here here's the note from the fire chief he sent to the department that says you know , we were supposed to go on a cruise in March and

had to cancel that . So , just , but they were actually really cool about it . They're like , yeah , that sucks , but here , just , we'll give you a credit and you can reschedule whenever . So that was cool , but yeah , so it's been , it's been a ride .

Um , down the road , as far as , like you said , like things that you've done now , things that you've changed , yeah , but yeah man do you have anything else before we sign off ?

So take advantage of each and every time you see your kids , your family , whatever it , whatever it is like , because no one tells you when it's the last one well , we will leave it right there then .