the Patreon<\/a>. I\u2019ve definitely found, I would say, a purpose in my people. If you\u2019re someone saying you\u2019re a jerk for laughing at this lady talking about cancer, we\u2019re not laughing at her cancer. We\u2019re laughing at something, some light that she found in the darkness of this and trying to have a moment here together, all about, \u201cHey, there\u2019s some positive ways to look at things at your lowest.\u201d So I know it\u2019s helped people. I mean, we have, over the years, probably thousands of emails now. We have people telling us how much it\u2019s helped. And I mean just through podcasting, I found out I have this blood disease. I was 42 at the time, and already been podcasting. There\u2019s a lady I went to high school with. She\u2019s like \u201cRyan, my son is 17. He started clotting.\u201d I said, \u201cGo ahead and check for this.\u201d He listens to the podcast. This kid has it. I said, \u201cWell, bad news. It\u2019s genetic.\u201d Now the whole family\u2019s got to get tested. And if you have it from one parent, it\u2019s not great, but having it from two is bad. The whole family gets tested. The parents have it. She\u2019s got it from both her parents. So I can\u2019t get over the fact that a woman I knew when we were children, 35 years later is like, \u201cHey, that thing you\u2019re talking about on your podcast, my kids, my family, we all have it.\u201d And then I\u2019ve talked about another disease I also have, called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which is CMT. And from bringing that up, people hit me up on that like \u201cI have it, no one ever talks about that.\u201d<\/p>\nWhat have you found to be one of the positives \u2014 besides surviving \u2014 of your near<\/b>–<\/b>death experience?<\/b><\/p>\n
Gosh, so many. I have a child, so getting to see her grow and really taking care of my health and things. Not that I wasn\u2019t before, but just I dove in even deeper. I went and got what\u2019s called a gallery test for prescreening for cancer. I started doing all these blood works and like, \u201cLet\u2019s go find out everything you know, because I didn\u2019t find out that I had this blood disease until I was 42 when I clotted.\u201d I\u2019m living my whole life, not even knowing I have this thing and and if I don\u2019t clot, there are plenty of people out there that live to 100 years old and have it. It\u2019s really made me appreciate life and trying to take things day by day. I also was living in a little single-dad pad at the time. We had no central air. We had tandem parking. We were above dumpsters. Our laundry was outside in a room with quarters. And when I got home \u2014 I\u2019m still on a walker \u2014 and I was like, \u201cWhat are we doing? We\u2019re going to die without central air? Are we going to die with a bucket of quarters on the fridge? No more.\u201d And so I moved my home, I moved my studio, I did all these things that are, like, the biggest thing you can do in life. We\u2019re going to roll the dice, scared money don\u2019t win, and we\u2019re just going to go for it. Also, as a comedian and anybody in entertainment will tell you, a lot of times you work scared, you hold that money and you wait until the next thing comes. And also, as a single parent, you know we got to budget. And I was like, no more. We\u2019re not going to go out and buy 10 Porsches. We\u2019re going to be responsible. But I was on point with let\u2019s go get a living will and trust. Let\u2019s make sure we have that life insurance policy. Let\u2019s make sure we have all the proper paperwork and stuff done before we do anything like go on a vacation, you know, let\u2019s get this done now and get it done proper.<\/p>\n
What do those conversations look like, if you have them at all, about encouraging your male friends to go to the doctor or encouraging them to take care of themselves, physically and emotionally?<\/b><\/p>\n
I would say the conversations go something like this. My younger brother is like, \u201cHey, man, I just went in for a test, and they\u2019re telling me I got to have an old school triple bypass,\u201d and then that\u2019s what we all get tested. \u201cHey guys, I found I got a blood disease.\u201d \u201cOh man, we all better look into it now.\u201d That\u2019s usually how it goes. I don\u2019t know many men who are proactive. There are a few of us these days. But it\u2019s usually something horrible happens and then we\u2019ll be proactive about everything else.<\/p>\n
Do you have male fans who also say <\/b> \u201cI [saw] your special <\/b>… <\/b>I went to your show, and it made me go [to the doctor]<\/b>\u201d<\/b>?<\/b><\/p>\n
Yeah, but I\u2019m saying, though, it still took them to come see a professional clown to get them to go to the damn doctor. I actually have been very good about going, because everyone in my family died. So I\u2019ve been proactive in the sense that I go get two physicals a year. I\u2019ve been doing that since my 20s. I always tell my doctor, if I can go buy expensive sushi, if I go buy weed, if I go buy all these things, I can put money into myself here and come see you a second time and pay for all that. So I do two physicals a year, and I\u2019ve been doing that forever. But I\u2019ve never done any sort of like gallery test. And now we\u2019re in our 50s, so we got to go get the prostate and all that. That\u2019s when you start hearing about that stuff. There\u2019s a lot of ignorance that goes into it as well. I just had a guest here on the \u201cHoneyDew\u201d and said he didn\u2019t go to a doctor or anything for over 20 years because he was just scared of what they were going to tell him. He was scared to get the bad news. You can kind of get the bad news and you could turn that into good news. It doesn\u2019t need to be deadly news.<\/p>\n
How do you know when you\u2019ve been too open?<\/b><\/p>\n
It usually tends to be a personal thing where someone\u2019s like, \u201cI don\u2019t really appreciate you bringing that up.\u201d So I don\u2019t anymore. I\u2019m always cognizant of [saying] like, \u201cHey, would it be cool if I talked about this or whatever?\u201d I feel like the question you\u2019re asking me would have been great for me just before I started, like, the \u201cHoneyDew\u201d and stuff because this is what I really want to talk about. Everyone wants to talk about the best and bring their best and I just really do want to hear about, you know, the trauma bond. I want to hear about the worst times in your life. I want to know because, honestly, that tells me so much more about you than you verbally talking about you. You know who you were in those moments, how you reacted, how you behaved, how you\u2019ve adjusted. Those things really end up defining who you are, and that\u2019s more what I want to know about. I don\u2019t want to know your best polished version of yourself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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