ER Run And The Tiny Bandage

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Good evening and welcome to a special episode of a Contagious Smile Unstoppable. We're here with my brave husband, Michael, who endured an emergency room visit this afternoon. So, uh, how are you feeling?

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Not another gunshot wound at all.

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Oh my God. Let me just talk about that for a second because this is kind of funny. The nurses of where we were were fantastic. One in particular that we had, we're gonna call her Erin. She was amazing. She was hilarious. So my husband goes and starts complaining about this like gunshot wound, right? And I walk by the nurse station and they're up there trying to figure out a great band-aid to give him. And they come up with a pediatric band-aid, you know, the little ones that our kids get when they get their fingers stuck or whatever, just to appease them and their tiny little one, you know. And these girls, they're amazing. They went through and found the most flamboyant pink, yellow, green, just neon 1980s band-aid. And it's one of those itty bitty tiny pediatric band-aids, and it more than covered. And it was hilarious. She was amazing, she was fantastic. And there was some other things that she gave us, but I can't tell them yet. We'll have to do them on the next episode because her and Faith, you know, were all about pranking, and they may have given me some stuff to you have a gnat right by you that may have given some take-home goodies. So uh we'll see how that works. But I'm proud of my husband because he did let me take him to the emergency room, even though he bitched and whined and moaned about everything. Like, all right, everybody knows Faith's you know been a medical rock star. She's a warrior. I've had one or two surgeries, right? One or two, babe.

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And one or two at the very least.

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So my husband gets blood drawn, right? And they go into the crevice of his arm, you know, opposite elbow, inside media area, whatever. Everybody knows that what happens is they put the IV in and they pull out the needle, and what's left is a little plastic straw-like catheter, right? Tiny little thing that opens up the vein for you to get any medication that they administer intervenously, right? My husband, ladies, is the whiner from the 49ers. Like he literally was like, Oh, it hurts the band. I can't bend my arm because the needle is so big.

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It was like a foot long.

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So then we're asking people as they're there, who do you think has a stronger pain tolerance? And of course, it's a really bad time to ask that because my husband's whining about a plastic straw in his vein. Like, literally, come on. I can't bend it. Oh my god.

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Yet I laughed off a gunshot wound.

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Everyone looked for it with a magnifying glass.

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Steal a gunshot wound.

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It didn't even go inside you.

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That's what she said.

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Well, then does that count as a number on the belt? Oh, okay, just checking.

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No notch there, Kim.

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Oh, I'm moving. Thunder's gonna roar. So he complained about that. He complained about the wonderful waxing job that Aaron gave him when she pulled the tape off to take the little itty-bitty plastic catheter out of his IV, out of his vein. And then everybody knew Michael because he had to go get a CAT scan. And the lady who took him down for the CAT scan, she comes back by and she looks at Michael and she goes, Are you finally behaving like everybody knows you? They only have to see you for 30 seconds.

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I got to drop my drawers in front of her.

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She covered you.

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She did.

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She covered you, and you literally I told her I did not enjoy it.

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She put the stuff inside my IV that made me flush.

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It was contrast.

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Yes, from head to toe and wiener.

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So they didn't stick it in your wiener.

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I thought I was gonna piss myself.

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That's common with contrast. It's called IV contrast, and that's what it does. It was fun.

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Oh my god. Uh that part.

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So then they give him something for pain.

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Thank you, ladies.

Two New Golden Retriever Puppies

Why Men Avoid The Doctor

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And he literally, well, first of all, before they did that, he was snoring so loud that everybody heard him on the floor. Yes. I apologized to the two girls down the hall ahead of time when I walked by. I was like, I'm already gonna apologize because A, he thinks he's a comedian, and B, the snoring is beyond control. So I apologize ahead of time. Hope you feel better. So yes, but he is much better now, and I'm proud of him for going. So good job on that. Now we have two new members of our family that just came yesterday. We have Amber and River. And oh my god, they are the cutest, cutest golden retrievers. And you know, Stucky and Stucco and Rusta, Rusty, oh my god, I can't talk. Stucco and Rusty are red, like really deep red golden retrievers. And our beautiful two new babies are the opposite. They are not the normal blonde golden retrievers that is the you know normal golden retriever. These are white, white golden retrievers. And I'm looking at them on camera right now, and they're just sleeping, and they had their bath and they had their snuggles, and oh, they are the cutest things ever. They're so cute and stucco and rusty are being so great and loving with them, and we are very, very lucky with that, that is for sure. But what is hysterical is River yesterday after we got home and was trying to get him acclimated, really walked right up to Michael and took a shit right in front of him, like right on the ground. It was hysterical, and that's the only time she's done it. Both of them have been going outside using the bathroom beautifully, they're eight weeks old and have been going out and using the potty like big girls. So proud, so cute. They're so cute. I'll have to put some pictures up.

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So let me tap into a hypocritical issue.

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Go. Men.

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Oh dear lord, wake me when this is a we don't like to go to the doctor. We don't like to go to the hospital. Okay. Something had to be serious wrong. We have to be dragged there. I didn't have to drag you. Right. But here's the reason.

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That gnat's going in your ear in a minute.

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I don't care about the gnat.

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Okay, good. Focus!

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Okay.

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I'm focused.

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Like that old woman told Stiffler.

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Focus! I saw American Pie, so don't. You already tried to get me in trouble for not seeing Star Wars, which I saw one of.

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Now I'm gonna revert back to say you had somewhat a legitimate excuse.

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Okay.

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Guys, I'm I'm here with my wife, my daughter, uh, four dogs, and shit's gotta get done around the house that you know mostly fall on men, okay? Oh my god. If if if I'm unable to physically do it, then these two girls have to pick up my slack. So if I did not go to the hospital for something that that could have been minor, it could have been major. Okay, luckily it turned out fine, then I wouldn't have been taking care of my family like I should have. Now, my wife was abused and she would be in the hospital with her daughter, our daughter, with a dislocated shoulder, jaw, and whatnot, and refused to let them set anything until they seen and took care of our daughter. Now that's a little bit hypocritical on your part if you're telling me to go fix myself.

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But when she's having seizures and it dislocates my jaw, dislocates my shoulder in the ER, I'm not and they're pediatrics, they can't touch me anyway. So that that whole conversation line right there is irrelevant. Like they can't set my shoulder in a pediatric hospital.

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So if you need to get seen, you have to go. Okay? Think about your family, not yourself. So I contemplated for about, I don't know, three and a half seconds whether or not to disclose to my wife my issue that I was having. And I thought, nope. One, I don't I don't hide anything from my wife, I don't lie to her, and if I hid it, it would be considered a lie in my moral values. And two, what if something was seriously wrong and I failed to find out about it for my wife and or the doctors failed to find it because I refused because I was so damn stubborn and I didn't want to go. Now I've been hurting in my back for about two weeks now, and I've been seeing a chiropractor. I've been ice in my back, I've been you know heating it. But tonight was something different, and just the combination of the two led us to go to the ER. So we're fine, we're back here. It's Sunday night. Y'all be listening to this Monday. But we're fine. Thank you.

Goatee Shock And Marriage Banter

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I just want to say my husband calls me in to the other room, and I go in there, and the first thing I see is my sexy ass husband from 25 years ago because he shaved off his goatee, and it's the first time I have seen him goatee-free in 20 years, and everything came rushing back. Like he just looks so different without it, and like our daughter had never seen him without one, and she even said, you know, he was like, Well, I'm gonna grow it back, and she's you know, she's like, uh, I kind of like you without it. And I was like, Can't you keep it in faith being faith without missing a beat? He goes, Well, it helps me hide my double chin, and she goes, No, it doesn't. Yeah, so that was fun, but he did, he just has this like look, and it's so he he just uh it's it's so different, it's just such a small change, but it makes such a huge difference. And I'm just looking at him and it just reminds me of all the the good, you know, back then because it's just like I don't know, it's just so different. It is it's not gonna be as soft when you first grow it back because it takes a while to like whatever. So for whatever it's worth, I like you like this for a little while, just a little while, if I could.

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Thank you, hon.

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I'm sorry, what thank you, hun. No problem, spike mic.

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Oh you shouldn't have said that on air. Nobody knows who that is. I do.

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Well, that's why I said it because you called every woman you've ever had hun.

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No, I did. It's a southern term of identity. It's not all of us say it.

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It's not, it's probably the only word most of them knew in English.

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All y'all in Georgia, please.

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Okay, but we have people all over the world, not just in Georgia.

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I'm still in Georgia.

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Okay, but when 99.9999, you've given more, you've served more the hamburgers than McDonald's with your meat in the bun. I'm just saying. And with that being said, hun is probably one of the word universal words that was understood by those who didn't know the English language. Do you want me to bring faith in?

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Negative.

New Logo Books And Ways To Support

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Okay, fine. Change the subject. So we are revamping a lot of what we're doing, and I created a new logo, and I showed it to my husband prior to the tobacco of emergency room. What did you think of it?

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I think the emergency room was great.

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I'm talking about the icon there, Momo.

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All the ladies there were wonderful.

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Oh my god, here we go.

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Even what's his face?

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Don't say his name.

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But he he was very nice, he was kind, he remembered you.

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Oh, that yeah, yeah, yeah. So nice.

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They're pretty efficient. I mean, we were in and out within what, six hours?

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No, we were in and out within four hours.

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See, within six hours.

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Oh my god. You know, us men men always exaggerate anything with length time or whatever. Oh my god, it was like a pediatric 22. And what about my gunshot wound? That thing is like one millimeter. Anyone who has kids or in the medical profession know a pediatric band-aid is teeny tiny, and it covers and gives additional coverage over your little itty bitty teeny witty, tiny little scrape that is naked to the eye. So there you go. What do you think of the new Ike logo?

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So revamping a contagious smile logo was was needed. It was it was long overdue, and it was professionally done by yours truly, Victoria Cure.

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Like, wait, what?

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And she has done a phenomenal job, y'all. Phenomenal. It's absolutely beautiful. Y'all see it up and running here.

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Bye.

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It's out now. Now, right now. Go get on there right now. Okay, tesmile.com.

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No, it's not there. It's on Facebook. Where is it at then? That's our main page. It's on Facebook. It hey, you know what? Right after I created it, I had to take you 10-8 to the hospital. So, you know, I've only gotten it up a little bit.

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10-8 means back in service.

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You went back in service to the hospital. No. Yeah.

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Anyway.

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So this is what I have been doing.

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So it's only on Facebook.

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It's also trying to think where else it is. Did I change the Amazon page yet? I don't know. It'll all be done. But I've also written another article that'll be going out in another magazine. I did two in the last 24 hours, two magazine articles. I think we have three more books that have come out on Amazon or will be in the next 48 hours. Let her all with the stucco squad. I just, I love that. It's so much fun. My husband is not yet, even though promised, to read the next few chapters. I was reading it the other night and I thought you read one word and you fell asleep. No. And now I'm at chapter like nine. And now I'm like, oh, it's kind of getting a little juicy, but it's just not my, you know, it's not my thing. It's not my swag bag. Because I mean, I just don't do supernatural stuff. So, but I mean, for me to think it's kind of interesting, maybe it's gonna be good. Weird. I don't know. Why do you have to say it's weird? It's not weird. It is weird, it's not weird, it's like supernatural.

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Yeah, but you have a weird understanding of supernatural.

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I used to say I was a brilliant writer.

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You're a phenomenal writer, okay?

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Then weird doesn't become words. Oh, Lord in heaven.

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Oh my seriously. Really? Yeah. Really?

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So if y'all have not been familiar with her works, jump over to victoriacurie.com and look at some of her books that she has published. Those are only some of them. There are some more on Amazon.

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They're not all out there. Some of them are digitally downloaded, and I have to upload those to other sites if they want to be digitally downloaded. So and my husband is making gorgeous bracelets. They are so beautiful. And you'll be able to start getting those if you go to Buy Me a Coffee. You go to Buy Mea Coffee slash Victoria Cure. You can go on there and see. I also have 52 motivational cards that help keep everybody motivated. And then there's beautiful keyrings that we do personalize now. And all of that goes to support scholarships for the academy that we have. And he's gonna get some pictures up to me, and I'm gonna put them on there as well for these bracelets that are so phenomenal. They're just beautiful. They really, really are.

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Don't we have a topic tonight to talk about?

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We always have stuff to talk about.

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A specific topic?

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What would you like to talk about?

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What would you like to talk about?

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What would you like to talk about?

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Come on, hon.

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What spike, Mike? What what fell out of your face?

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Tina, listen, if you call me that one more time.

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Oh my god. Did you really call me that nasty T D carrying slut?

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You need to get fixed because you didn't hear what you thought you heard.

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Did you you called me Tina?

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No, I didn't.

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Yes, you did.

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Why would I call you that?

Cheating Tricks And Relationship Red Flags

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Because it's disgusting. I mean, let's talk about Tina for a minute. Do you want to talk about Tina for a minute? It starts with a T, doesn't it? Is it brown? Yeah, go figure. Uh-huh. How can men do that to their significant other?

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I I don't know anymore.

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Okay, so then let's talk about it from back then. How can a man with a I mean you're a reformed sled whore cheater? How could were you were you not?

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I was a paid whore.

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Okay, not always paid.

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No, sometimes I did it for free.

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So how could you how how could you go outside of your marriage and be okay conscious with like subconsciously? And I'm not referring to my marriage with you, I'm talking about your others because you let's see.

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So your morals go out the window, your ethics go, right?

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But how do you keep all the women straight?

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You you you almost don't.

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So how could you? How did you give women so that women can learn in case their men are being shady? Um because I sure as hell didn't know that you were around the way fillet. I had no idea.

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So I would well back then it it it's probably so much more complicated now, but why?

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It I would think it'd be easier now with electronics.

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No, because as soon as as soon as your significant other, your your wife, partner, husband, whatever says, let me see your phone, you're instantly gonna say, No, I'm gonna hide it. I'm not gonna give you the password, it's gonna be face recognization, whatever. And then you know they're not gonna get access to it. Okay. But if you're really stinky, say here, you can you can look at my phone, see who's called me.

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But I never want to.

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So I would hide the names under the place that I worked. Okay. Whatever, let's say I worked at Walmart, okay? And I had a girlfriend named Betty. Okay?

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Oh, I'm moving far right because you're about to get some thunder down here.

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Or, you know, whatever. Mary. Oh sh. Whatever.

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None of those would be applicable because they're American named, and you didn't have American women. So those wouldn't work.

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Okay.

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Consuela.

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There you go, Consuela. All right. So I would list Consuela's nun name and number under Walmart. Walmart hyphen con. Whatever. Okay.

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And then for every but you A never got their number most of the time, and B, you didn't even get their name.

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Every person that that I had was a co-worker at Walmart, I list them under Walmart too.

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What do you mean a co-worker? A co-worker, a a friend, a co-worker. So if you were doing like you used to do sisters, so you'd have both of them listed under Walmart?

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What whatever.

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Well, I want to make sure I have clarity and understanding. Yes. So they never knew about each other.

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No. Listen. Listen, woman, everybody's listed under Walmart, right? That worked at Walmart, or that I was, you know, seeing on the side.

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So therefore. Sidez. Careful. Don't say agency.

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I think you were a letter and a number. I think.

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No, I think you had me down as your instructor. Because I do remember calling and seeing my name on your face on your phone once. I remember one time you couldn't find your phone and asked me to call you. And when you picked it up, I thought I saw my name on the caller ID, and it's like instructor or whatever.

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But anyway, um guys, it's so not worth it cheating on your woman. It really is not. Especially if you have multiple, multiple girlfriends on side. It is so exhausting. It is it it's so not right. Just stop doing it. Change your wicked ways and stay with your woman.

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I wanna know because I know people are gonna want to know. What do you think, think, think was the most women you ever Had girlfriend wives at one time. Yes. We're married. I've forgiven you. And I I obviously don't hold a grudge. Obviously. So I mean, how many women do you think you had as girlfriends at one time?

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You are not right, woman.

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I hey. I'm trying to have women wake up and see. Nobody wants to hear this. Oh, yes, they do. No, they don't. Yes, they do. And Josh just texted me. Josh? Yeah, he's probably wanting to know. He doesn't even know you were at the ER. We're not live.

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Oh, we gotta tell him.

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I I'll message him in a minute. It's not Dr. Joe.

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He was concerned about lead poisoning.

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Okay, don't change the subject. How many? I want to know. At one time, maximum. What was the max number? Max? At one time. You had your wife. You had me. None of us knew about each other.

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Honestly. Honestly. Anywhere between five and eight.

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Holy kiddie, blank b are you?

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How in the same shit could you have had eight women in relationships at one time? Because you always wanted to see me seven days a week. You had me come up to your extra jobs. I'm like, aren't you gonna get tired of seeing me? And you're like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I brought you homemade dinner every night. How could you have had that many? Go ahead, drink your dark's tea. How?

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Hi, y'all. This is Michael. This is a contagious smile.

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I need a body exfoliated.

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Podcast called Unstoppable.

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Obviously unstoppable. I need my whole body exfoliated.

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I'm here with my soulmate for the love of my life. My red-headed vixen, Victoria.

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So number eight. You had eight women at one time.

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No, I said between.

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Okay.

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Okay. I was between five and eight.

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For how long? Like, were you ever just me? Yes. When?

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I don't recall.

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You were never just me for four and a half years we were together.

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I don't recall, baby.

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Because you were married.

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And I didn't know it. We have a wonderful, absolutely perfect relationship.

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I'll be right back. I have to get a nemesis bag.

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My wife is my best friend. I tell her absolutely everything. Everything. I even wake up from my dreams.

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And tell me he slept with two other women.

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Okay. I'm very honest with my wife. I was very honest with her before we got married.

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Didn't you ever worry about like an STD?

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At some points, yes.

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I never even looked at another man.

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I just want our listeners to understand our relationship now.

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Okay, I never even looked at another man. I didn't touch another man. So go ahead.

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I don't cheat on my wife. I love my wife. I haven't touched another woman. I will not. If my wife were to pass away, our daughter will haunt you. She would be my last wife. My last woman. I'm 51 years old.

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About to turn 52.

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Yes. I've got some gray hair coming in on the side.

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Some.

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I'm six foot one. 280 fat pounds. I've got gunshot wounds in my right leg. But I absolutely love this woman with everything I have. She has my heart. She has my soul.

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And I had the possibility of many SCDs apparently.

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Yes, we did.

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No, not we! Not we! Not we!

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I said we. I was I was the one I would be the carrier, right? Or the transmitter. Whatever. Yeah.

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Hi, I'm your host, Naive.

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Guys, like I said, it it's just it is not worth it cheating on your spouse. Okay You know, we we here at uh Contasious Smile counsels and advocates for domestic violence.

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And special needs. Okay and any other type of abuse.

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I'm not saying I'm not saying it's an excuse if you have a partner who's violent.

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I openly told idiot to go out and and cheat, and what people don't understand is when I said go out and be with other women. Because in the the fray in the phases of an abuser, when they're doing their courting, that is when they are the nicest. They're using that fake, charismatic, charming to lure you in, right? But also more important is he wasn't there beating me.

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Right.

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So I absolutely told him to go out and have other women.

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But you weren't condoning him to go. I begged him to because he was raping me.

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I didn't give consent for sex, I only gave him consent for sex once, and that was it. It was one time, and people are like, What? No, I waited till we were married before we lived together. I waited till we were married before we slept together because I wasn't over you. I was not over you. And my best friend Kim, who he mentioned earlier, was like, you didn't take that car out and rev that engine and try it out before you took it home. What the hell is the matter with you? Like, you know, it wouldn't have mattered because they weren't you. He wasn't you, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway. And then we got pregnant very quickly, and then everything changed, and that's when the abuse started. And so there was no way. I mean, he was forcing himself on me. I have, and my husband heard it, and I'm gonna, you know, try to be as non-graphic as possible, but my husband heard it from the surgeons. I had scarring even internally, and no, uh, but like yes, I absolutely said for him to go out elsewhere because then he wasn't there hurting me.

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I have a question for y'all. Y'all okay.

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I was asked tonight by our good nurse Wren if I ever had thoughts of suicide.

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Or no, she said, Do I have thoughts of suicide? And I said no while shaking my head yes, and she started laughing, and my wife chimed in. Don't say that, she has to write that down. And I said, Well, I said no, but you shook your head yes. Well, let me ask you this. Do you have thoughts of suicide? Yes. Why? Because you're asking me, do I have thoughts of suicide? So thinking about thoughts of suicide as you ask me that question, right? Yes. So, how do you answer that to a medical staff? I've never thought of hurting myself. That wasn't a question.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

You know, you've said a couple of times, not just on this episode.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

Let me clarify, I I I do not think about suicide, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Mentioning that now, you have said a couple of times every person within our home now.

SPEAKER_02 29:48

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 29:49

Earlier you said, you know, my wife, my daughter, and now four dogs. Crickets. I'm lost. At some point we're gonna have to talk about it. Okay. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you've kind of made that clear that that's all that's in the house more than once. Okay, we'll come back to that because I'm I'm kind of I'm not I'm not tracking. Yes, you are. Okay. I understand him.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

That's you've not mentioned that.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Okay, we're losing our audience.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

We're not. It's something we're gonna have to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

Okay, I understand that.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

You just again want to put it off and not do it now. Yes. My husband is the biggest procrastinator, except when it comes to foreign relations with the UN back in the day you've ever met in your life.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Why won't y'all let my past lie?

SPEAKER_01 30:45

I didn't. Why you know that's kind of an honorary thing. You know, you just said, why can't you let my past lie? Yes, like lie, yes, as in LIE. Yes, is in falsifying the truth.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

That's what you said.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

Next book.

Awards Free Support Groups And Safety

SPEAKER_01 31:03

I did notice that when I was writing this new one, the supernatural one, there's a a part in there where her name is Cora, gets into a confrontation with her mother. Gets a what? Into a confrontation. Uh-huh. And I'm just typing away, typing away, just going, just going, just going. And I'm like, wait, did I just write that? And when I was, you know, teaching at the academy and stuff, everybody would say, Oh, her go-to saying back then is what just fell out of your mouth or what fell out of your face, right? And I go back and read, and that was I had put that in there. So I thought that was kind of a an omen back to the day.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

I'm sorry, is that lightning? So for those of y'all hadn't heard, my wife received another humanitarian award, and it's too long for me to pronounce, but it was like something Lifetime Unanimous.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

No, it was Lifetime Humanitarian Survivor for Domestic Violence Advocacy for 2026. I was also given it for 2025.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

See, it's it's a mouthful.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

But I was voted on by this, which I didn't even know about, from all the CEOs. So that was like a, and I didn't even know about it until I got it.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

Another thing my wife is contemplating on providing yet another service under a contagious smile, and that would be group.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Oh no, we're doing that. We're we're doing free support survivor groups. We're gonna start with two and see how it works. If I need to do more, I will. One is on Wednesday nights at seven Eastern, and then the other is Tuesday afternoons at one. And I'm also gonna start doing trauma-led, trauma-informed counseling, peer support, survivor support kind of treatment, if you will.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Now you're going through Zoom with this?

SPEAKER_01 33:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

And you're only allowed what 50?

SPEAKER_01 33:21

I get 100.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

You get 100. So how are they going to get the link?

SPEAKER_01 33:24

The links are on a Victoria Cure C-U-O-R-E uh Facebook page.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

Don't they change often?

SPEAKER_01 33:32

No, because I haven't linked to say for a year under the same link. But you do have to register and give me your information so I know that we don't have any people in there that shouldn't be because I'm very big about protecting my individuals. And so I'm considering doing some additional days. I'm also trying to get my husband to do a men's group just for support and talk. I think it would be very advantageous to do that. I'll see if I can get Josh. Joshua?

SPEAKER_02 33:59

That's what I said.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

It's not Dr. Joe to get him to see maybe he'll participate as well.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Dr. Mud. What? Cup of Joe.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

Yeah, he goes everywhere to these drive-throughs and he's like, Can I get a cup of mud? And they're like, What? And you have to remember, you're getting like a 15, 16, 17-year-old teenager who has no idea what you're talking about. Educate him. Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

Okay. That's twice you pray to God.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

I pray to God more than you know.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

During this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

Oh, let's talk about that.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

During this podcast?

SPEAKER_01 34:32

No, the praying to God.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

What's that mean?

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Well, you know, people have good relationships with their Lord and Savior. Never mind. So our puppies are still sleeping. I'm looking at them on camera. They're so cute and so loving. Just I would just want to snuggle. They're just so cute.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

Oh, yeah, I see them. Little white fluff balls.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

They're just the cutest.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

Yeah, I think uh tomorrow we'll introduce them outside of the No, they've already been introduced because we were holding them.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

I was holding one of them, and both Stucco, oh Lord, I'll be in the office.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

You always get a little nervous around adult dogs and babies.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

But they've been so good with them. They've just been the sweetest. Stucco is the best, and Rusty is the best. They are just such good boys. They really are. I train them well.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Excuse me?

SPEAKER_01 35:28

I'll get faith.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Alright, let her alone.

What The New Logo Means

SPEAKER_01 35:31

Yeah, because you know I'm right. You know I'm right. Uh-huh. What are you looking at on my computer?

SPEAKER_02 35:39

Our old logo.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

I know I gotta change that too. Describe our new logo. It's so cool.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

New logo is a hand holding what looks to be a feather, maybe a smile. Oh, look at that. Or a phoenix rising up from a hand. So you're being held as you're rising.

SPEAKER_01 36:01

You're not alone. Right.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

And even when you start to fall, background is awesome, is it's beautiful. It's uh it's an open space with stars. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

Beautiful. Be careful, you're gonna start talking like a Yankee. You know what I'm saying? You go upstairs, have some coffee. You know what I'm talking about. Use guys.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Starting back on my unsweet tea kick.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

I'm so happy for you.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Me too.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Really?

SPEAKER_02 36:30

So my wife is doing awesome on her weight loss.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

I knew you were gonna talk about GLP1.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

I don't even know what that is.

SPEAKER_01 36:36

That's the shot I get once a week. Okay. Don't ask, I'm not telling you. My husband, I hope women go out there and say the same thing. There's two things you don't ask women, their age and their weight. You can ask me my age all day long. I'm I welcome every single day because I wasn't supposed to be here. So I have no problem with that.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

How right?

SPEAKER_01 36:51

21.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

You lie like a rug.

SPEAKER_01 36:56

Why? Why is the word lie and you always have to do with laying down?

SPEAKER_02 37:01

What else are you supposed to do?

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Really?

SPEAKER_02 37:05

What?

SPEAKER_01 37:09

I am over half a century old.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

Half a century. Yes. Alright. You're over half a century.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

I'm younger than you, but still. And you don't ask weight. Like you don't. Like before I started my GLP one, I lost 33 pounds. Then I had two spinal surgeries, and I think I gained eight back. And then I started my GLP1s. I think I'm on week like 10 or 11 now, and I've lost woo-hoo, like five pounds. But everywhere I've read, and I have read and talked to many different companies, everybody says the first two months, so up to eight weeks, sometimes up to 10 weeks, you're getting acclimated to the medication. And they start you out on such a small dose. I think I started on like six units or eight units was the first few. And you build up, and then they like the whole thing builds up. And it's just, it's so frustrating in the beginning because it's like, okay, come on, now why am I not seeing better results? I have a lot of friends that tried to get me to go on it for a long time to make me feel better about my self-esteem and my very serious body dysphoria, which I openly admit that I have. And I watched them like month after month, and I was like, oh my God, you're too skinny. Like, stop it, right? And now their maintenance uh cycle is what they're doing, and they're phenomenal and they look fantastic. And I'm like, what? Because they show me before and after, and it's just amazing. But now I'm like, okay, I need to come on. And my husband puts his arms around me and he's like, babe, you're so skinny. No, no, no. We're our hardest critics. We are. I'd love for you to go here because I'm gonna go right back. I love debating you. Come on, let's go. What were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_02 38:55

And her boobs are getting smaller.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

I cannot believe you just put that on air. You told me, come on. That's not what I thought you were gonna say. And we're always on the same page. I just never thought you were talking about my breasts on air. Well, I told the doctor about my balls. Yes, he did. Oh, and I wasn't gonna say anything. He told the doctor, the doctor's like, Hi, what's got you in here today? You know, and my husband says, I was on morphine. No, you were not. You had not been administered. No, you had not been administered morphine yet. He says to the doctor, my balls hurt because I need to get a release from my wife. What's wrong with that? He looks over at me and then looks back at you. And I'm like, I'm so sorry. I mean, serious. And then here's the worst part. You ready? I'm gonna do it. He says it right in front of Faith.

unknown 39:47

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

And Faith is like, what? Ew, Dad, you're so gross. Like, she's a legal adult. So I mean, but they talk about all sorts of nasty, like best friend adult crap that I don't even want to partake her here, right? And oh yeah, just goes right into, you know, into making this comment. And Faith is like, you are the nastiest critter ever, dad. And then she says her finger has Tourette's because it just sticks up and gives him the finger all the time. And she was like, I cannot believe you just said that about my mom. I'm sitting here with my mom. That's my karmia. I cannot believe you did that. You're disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

So, from what I've seen from these shots that I've been giving my wife, they have curbed her appetite.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

Oh my god, yeah. That's ate a lot to begin with.

SPEAKER_02 40:40

No, but uh, it's like I'll I'll get like two bites of my food in and she's done. I mean, she's what you you're done. That's it? You're done? Yeah, I'm done. I'm I feel satisfied. I'm you know. Now in the beginning, she was feeling blah, you know, that's all the words she said.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Yeah, but then I changed companies and they actually started giving me B12 with it, right? Which was better. But I will tell you, it works for me. If this works for you, you could try it. Certain foods were fine in the beginning, but now I'm like, nope, can't do it, cannot have it, right? Like, I can't do fried foods, I can't do very much. I can't like on the way back from getting our our new little family members, we stopped at Culver's and I couldn't even eat one whole piece of chicken. Like it, and I mean a chicken finger. It was a chicken finger. I couldn't do it. But one of the things that I do, and maybe it'll help you all out there, is I eat like an Andes candy mint. Like you go to Olive Garden and they give you the Andy's candy when you leave. I go to the grocery store, I get a pack of Andy's candies, and I'll eat one after the meal. And it, I don't know if it's the mint. I mean, it's not a lot, it's not a candy bar or whatever, it's just an individual little tiny piece of chocolate mint, and it helps curve the nausea that comes with some foods. Like some foods I just can't, it just tears me apart. But like for lunch the other day, I had just some crackers and you know, like a hundred calorie pack crackers, and I was like, I'm done. He's like, You haven't had lunch, and I'm like, No, I'm really, but that's why I don't understand why I'm not dropping just like crazy, crazy weight.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

I don't know, but it is working. You I have noticed the difference.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

And I just want to, I mean, I'll openly tell I want to lose maybe 30 more pounds. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 42:27

Okay, 30 more pounds it is.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

You'll let what if I say 40?

SPEAKER_02 42:31

Then 40 it is 50. Fine, 60, then you'll be death with bones.

SPEAKER_01 42:36

So I'm I'm very meaty right now, is what you're saying. I know. Delicious stack of ribs. He's like, he's doing the math in his head. He's like, you didn't gain 60 pounds from the amputation. He's doing the math.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

I apparently did gain 60 pounds.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

No, you gained 80. 70. What? You gained over 70 pounds. You did. 225? You were 215. You were at 215, and now you're 280, and the other day you were 282. And that was after you pooped. So let's go to 285. So you gained 70 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Okay, I'm grown boy.

SPEAKER_03 43:21

Outward.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

That's 50.

SPEAKER_03 43:23

One. And a half. No, three-fourths. This is April. It's March. March? Yeah. Ooh, I got a birthday coming up.

Thanks Shoutouts And Wrap Up

SPEAKER_02 43:33

Yep. So yeah. Alright. For my birthday, y'all can buy my wife a cup of coffee. Go to our website and take the five.

SPEAKER_03 43:45

Y'all buy a cup of coffee. Or for more. Don't do it. My wife's to buy the cup. Oh shit. Remember we advocate.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

We do. I know we we joke around a lot, and it's a lot of times just my wife and here just talking about shop and you know what happened today in our life.

SPEAKER_01 44:11

Texting Joe Sif.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

Why? Oh, you said Joe. Said Joe Sif. And you know, in all seriousness, go to our website at contagiousspot.com and see the fun stuff that we do. Okay, that's all the legal stuff that my wife puts out on pen and paper and types with her one hand. We really do advocate for special needs families and domestic violence survivors. My wife really has written over 50 something books. They are published. She has created an academy, a very unique academy.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

Proma-based.

SPEAKER_02 44:47

And it has over 150 courses in there. She has done multiple, multiple interviews with some of the top A listers celebrities that you see in TV shows, movies. And you know, this today, our Sunday, now our Wednesday also, is uh is a kind of just, you know, hey, the it's non-scripted every every time. Obviously. And we just talk about whatever the hell's on our mind. Because sometimes y'all need to get away from, you know, the hustle and bustle of your life and and just listen to somebody else's problems or listen to how someone else got out of a bad relationship. I went through two marriages before I got my head on my ass and married my soulmate here. And my wife was in a abusive relationship in her first marriage, and she got a she got out of it.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

We don't talk about this.

SPEAKER_02 45:49

And found her soulmate.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

I found my soulmate before.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

You don't want to talk about it? And look who look who came out. Our stucco. Stucco is my wife's service dog, and he is the uh inspiration for the Stucco Squad Academy. His son is actually here with us, Rusty, which is our daughter's service dog.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

Hey, you didn't talk about our new book we just got with is that book four, five? Right. Well, today won't la you know, the one about today won't always last forever.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

That's downstairs.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

We'll have to talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

It's downstairs.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

We'll get it next Wednesday.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

Are you doing your no?

SPEAKER_01 46:28

We're gonna podcast after I do my my zoom and talk about like the first support group.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Well, uh whatever. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:37

Or you could do your podcast earlier in the day.

SPEAKER_01 46:39

Probably. It just depends. I'm pretty busy.

SPEAKER_02 46:42

Pretty busy.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

Yeah. Like I literally go have dinner and I'm like, I gotta go back to work. And then he's like, Could you take a time off? I go back to work. I go back to work. Like it's early all day, late evening, sometimes early morning. And then I get and I try to go to bed with him every night when he goes to bed, but I work because it takes him the three seconds to fall asleep.

SPEAKER_03 47:05

And I keep working. So yeah. Yep. So take us out, babe. That's it.

SPEAKER_02 47:15

We're gone.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

We're out for today.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

I go check on the puppies that are down there sleeping. Oh, nope, they're stretching.

SPEAKER_00 47:21

Oh, they're so cute.

SPEAKER_01 47:23

Do we have any pictures up there on our website? Not yet. Okay. I will get to that, I promise. Stop giving me a to-do list.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

So we want to thank again those lovely ladies. I'm tread carefully at the hospital that took care of my old ass tonight.

SPEAKER_01 47:41

I had to deal with it.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

Hopefully, they weren't traumatized by you know my gunshot wounds.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

Oh my god. Are you serious?

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Thanks for the band-aid, y'all. And uh let's give another thanks out to Will and his bride for our two new additions to our family. River Rose and Amber Phoenix.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Amber Blaze. Amber Ray Blaze? Blaze. When did she change it? It's never been Phoenix. It's always been Blaze.

SPEAKER_02 48:21

Okay. My apologies, Faith. Wow. More she just called me a moron? Yeah. Yep. All right. You need to call Dr. Josh. I'm not talking talking to joke. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

He's gonna hear this in the morning. Wait, did it finally happen? Did the twins arrive? Hold on. We're on air right now. So when you hear this tomorrow or today while you're driving, I'm texting and talking while on air. And I just said what you said, which is hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Dr. Joseph Petch.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

He says, wait, did it finally happen? Did the twins arrive? I trust father and children are well and safe.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

Has a podcast called Oh, you don't say it right. Oh, that's a fact. I'm not a 1-900 call girl. His podcast is called Oh, is that a fact? So y'all be trying to be checking out Dr. Joe, who's a listener.

SPEAKER_01 49:20

His name is Joseph. Or Joshua. She just made me do. I'm so sorry. He's my friend. He's my friend. I hope that hurts. That is my friend. Oh Karma's a bitch. I'm so sorry, Joshua. You're an ex.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

With Victoria and Michael.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

Thank you guys.

SPEAKER_02 49:43

That's hilarious.