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Broadcasting live from Houston, Texas, and around the world. TV host,
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best-selling author, and radio personality, Brad Gilmore, brings you a
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collection of conversations with stars from movies.
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Matthew McConaughey.
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Brad Gilmore.
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Mark Wahlberg.
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Hey, how are you?
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The one and only Sydney Sweeney joins us.
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Sydney, how are you? I'm good.
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Thank you. How are you?
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Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in my favorite movie of
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the year.
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Guys, thanks so much for joining the show.
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Oh, thank you.
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Thank you.
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Jessica Alba and Lizzie Mathis. Ladies, thank you so much
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for joining me.
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Thank you.
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Kevin Costner joins us. Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Television jimmy fallon joins us this morning jimmy how you
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doing my friend good morning thank you so much brad
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for having me i appreciate this bud one of my
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all-time favorites vince vaughn joins us right now vince thanks
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man oh.
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Great to be with you brad and great to be
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talking to houston good good morning to you.
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We got Owen Wilson.
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We got Judy Greer. Thanks for joining the show, guys.
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Thank you. Jay Leno joins us.
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Jay, how you doing? Hey, Brad.
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What's going on?
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We got Anna Sawai joining the show. Anna, thanks so
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much for joining us.
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Thank you, Brad.
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Music.
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Lola Monroe. Thank you. Thank you for having me. The
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legendary front man of ACDC, Brian Johnson, joins us right now.
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Brian, how you doing?
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Good morning, Brad. What's looking at y'all can be funny, lad.
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Megan Trainor.
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Thank you so much, Brad.
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You're welcome.
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Paris Hilton, the infinite icon herself, is on the show.
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Paris, love the film. Thank you.
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I'm so proud of it. And more. And more. This
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is The Collection. Now your host, The Boat. Break!
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Humor! Well, joining me right now is an icon of
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the screen.
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You know him from some of the biggest movies of
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all time, but right now we're here to talk about
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his brand new book called Fights Worth Fighting, Finding Strength
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and Struggle. Dolph Lundgren is here.
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With us this morning.
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Dolph, how you doing, sir?
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Very well. Good morning. Good morning to you.
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You know, congratulations on the book. First and foremost, I
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know that writing a book in general is a gargantuan challenge.
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And I think some people don't realize the blood, sweat
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and tears and agony and success that comes with actually
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putting one out. I'm sure you felt all those emotions
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while you were doing this book.
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Oh, yeah, for sure. You underestimate it by far, how
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much work goes into it.
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Yeah, what was actually something that stood out to you? Like,
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was there a particular moment? Like, were you going through
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the edit? Was it writing a particular chapter where you
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were like, oh, wow, I don't really realize what I
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signed up for?
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I think it's the editing. It's when you have kind
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of a loose manuscript and you go back to the
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beginning and you start editing and you realize you're on
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page one and you've sat there for a half hour
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and you've done like three sentences and you're like, oh, man.
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You know, you have 200 pages to go and you
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just see like your next six months, what it's going
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to be like. And that's, that's what it was like
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for me too.
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It's just such a gargantuan effort. And then to go
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into the subjects that you go into this book, obviously,
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you know, your early life, your success as a martial
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artist into the movies, and then some of the personal
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health struggles that you reveal in the book. Was there
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a certain catharsis, though, to it when you were kind
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of getting this out, not only for the public to
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know more about it, but was there a catharsis for yourself?
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Oh, for sure. Yeah. You know, anytime you go back
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and reexamine your life and kind of especially if you
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have to put it into words and like it's not
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if it's not an interview. So, you know, it's not
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a stream of consciousness. You're actually OK. I'm going to
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say this. I'm going to I'm going to. distill this
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moment into these words. So you have to really think
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about it, what it meant to you and what was important.
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So it's a very, very therapeutic type experience.
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Was some of it actually at times, maybe you thought
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of a particular early life moment or one in your
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career where you were like, wow, this is a lot
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harder to encapsulate than I thought it would be.
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how I felt and why I did certain things than
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I thought. And it was emotional. I mean, especially when
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you have the manuscript almost done and you're trying to,
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you're sort of kind of shaving little things off and
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just fine tune it. At that point, the text has
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more power and I found myself getting kind of emotional.
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I've been sitting by myself by the computer and my
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wife walked by going, is everything okay? And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
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I'm just working on the book.
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Yeah, I mean, that's, I think that's the process of
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a writer and writing is getting that. And, but you
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know what, if you're getting emotional about it, obviously people,
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when they read it, they're going to feel that through
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your words, right? They're going to be able to feel
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whatever you were feeling in that moment, hopefully, or at
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least be able to kind of sympathize or empathize with you.
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I hope so. And I hope that maybe other people will,
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you know, feel it's okay to open up as well.
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And I think that one of the things that you
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talk about, obviously, is the health journey that you went
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on in the last several years. And I think what's
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important to share about that is people have looked at
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you like a superman, right?
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Because you're a.
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Super athlete, super intelligence, you know, great charisma on the
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screen and what you've done in chemical engineering and things
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of that nature to share kind of some of the
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more personal struggles that you went through. I think that
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that was a really important thing to do. Was that
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always present in the forefront of your mind to do
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when you started this project?
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Yeah, I mean, I had gotten the cancer diagnosis prior
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to getting the book offers. So I always thought I
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would bring it in. I wasn't really sure how to
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do it. But I realized that, of course, as in
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a good movie script, you know, you're trying to find
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a a frame, a framework, how to tell the story.
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And I, I kind of like movies where, where it
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kind of jumps back and forth in time. And, uh,
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this is how I started the book. I started it
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with a diagnosis and then I went back to my
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childhood and kind of put it, put together the pieces,
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but always, always wanted to share it because it makes
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me feel better. And I've realized that a lot of people,
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a lot of families have, you know, serious illnesses or
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diseases in their, you know, in their families. And, and
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I think from what I could tell, people want to
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talk about it. They, it makes them feel good. Yeah.
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And again, it's going back to that theme of catharsis
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is like sharing it with people, getting it out for yourself.
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And also, you know, through that, you can also, like
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you said, like people can empathize with it because they
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go through it all the time and they go through
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it every day. How did that diagnosis change your way
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of life?
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Well, it's, you certainly live more in the moment. You're obviously,
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you have to deal with this kind of fear of
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what's going to happen. You have to deal with mortality.
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You have to adjust how you look at life and
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every day. I mean, look, I played a lot of
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military men and I was always fascinated by men under fire.
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You know, I've read a lot of books from the
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Second World War and such. And that's how they lived,
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you know, from day to day. You know, you've survived
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one battle and there's another one coming up on Tuesday.
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So you have two days off. And cancer is kind
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of like that. So it's a different way of life, really.
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It's illuminating. It makes you grow as a person, I think.
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I think that sometimes we hear those things of live
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in the moment or, don't take this day for granted.
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But until we're actually faced with it ourselves, we don't
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realize the value of that advice, right, of how important
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that advice actually is to be present in this very
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moment and just don't take this day for granted. And
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I think that it's a beautiful story that you've shared.
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Throughout your time writing this book, sharing it with the
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world and in your career, which has been one of
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the greats of all time. And I think that you
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know that your career and your story is so unique
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and so your story um and it's one of the
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one of the great stories ever shared it when you
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were going through the book was there a particular thing
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that you had always thought like a certain memory that
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when you went back and researched and really looked into
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it you go oh you know what i i actually
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misremembered this part of of of this movie or this
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life or did it all kind of go the way
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that you remember it.
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Um that's a good question i'm trying to there's so
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many different moments that um I mean, actually speaking of
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the cancer journey, I, you know, the first, um, diagnosis
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was kind of a bit of a shock and I
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think when, and it came back in 2020, so those
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moments were a bit foggy to me and my wife
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had to sort of fill me in and no, no, no.
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It was this happened first and then you did that
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and then that. So I think that, that I had
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to set straight just for myself, how how I found
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that second opinion. The second opinion found the real treatment
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because I'd been misdiagnosed for two and a half years.
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I had taken the wrong medication, believe it or not. And,
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you know, everything switched like in a month like that.
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So Diabo was kind of a miraculous, interesting development that
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I couldn't remember all of it. And she helped me. Well,
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you know what I mean?
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That's why that's why a good, good wife is a
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good thing to always have in your corner, right? Um, for,
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for many different reasons, including keeping us on track. Well,
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the book is called fights worth fighting, finding strength and
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struggle Dolph. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
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We appreciate your time. Congratulations on the book and congratulations
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on such an incredible career.
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Thanks my friend.
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Broadcasting live from Houston, Texas, and around the world. TV host,
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best-selling author, and radio personality, Brad Gilmore, brings you a
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collection of conversations with stars from movies.
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Matthew McConaughey.
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Brad Gilmore.
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Mark Wahlberg.
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Hey, how are you?
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The one and only Sydney Sweeney joins us.
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Sydney, how are you? I'm good.
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Thank you. How are you?
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Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in my favorite movie of
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the year.
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Guys, thanks so much for joining the show.
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Oh, thank you.
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Thank you.
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Jessica Alba and Lizzie Mathis. Ladies, thank you so much
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for joining me.
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Thank you.
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Kevin Costner joins us. Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Television jimmy fallon joins us this morning jimmy how you
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doing my friend good morning thank you so much brad
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for having me i appreciate this bud one of my
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all-time favorites vince vaughn joins us right now vince thanks
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man oh.
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Great to be with you brad and great to be
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talking to houston good good morning to you.
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We got Owen Wilson.
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We got Judy Greer. Thanks for joining the show, guys.
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Thank you. Jay Leno joins us.
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What's going on?
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Lola Monroe. Thank you. Thank you for having me. The
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legendary front man of ACDC, Brian Johnson, joins us right now.
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Brian, how you doing?
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Good morning, Brad. What's looking at y'all can be funny, lad.
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Megan Trainor.
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Thank you so much, Brad.
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You're welcome.
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Paris Hilton, the infinite icon herself, is on the show.
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Paris, love the film. Thank you.
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I'm so proud of it. And more. And more. This
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is The Collection. Now your host, The Boat. Break!
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Humor! Well, joining me right now is an icon of
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the screen.
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You know him from some of the biggest movies of
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all time, but right now we're here to talk about
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his brand new book called Fights Worth Fighting, Finding Strength
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and Struggle. Dolph Lundgren is here.
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With us this morning.
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Dolph, how you doing, sir?
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Very well. Good morning. Good morning to you.
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You know, congratulations on the book. First and foremost, I
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know that writing a book in general is a gargantuan challenge.
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And I think some people don't realize the blood, sweat
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and tears and agony and success that comes with actually
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putting one out. I'm sure you felt all those emotions
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while you were doing this book.
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Oh, yeah, for sure. You underestimate it by far, how
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much work goes into it.
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Yeah, what was actually something that stood out to you? Like,
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was there a particular moment? Like, were you going through
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the edit? Was it writing a particular chapter where you
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were like, oh, wow, I don't really realize what I
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signed up for?
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I think it's the editing. It's when you have kind
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of a loose manuscript and you go back to the
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beginning and you start editing and you realize you're on
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page one and you've sat there for a half hour
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and you've done like three sentences and you're like, oh, man.
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You know, you have 200 pages to go and you
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just see like your next six months, what it's going
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to be like. And that's, that's what it was like
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for me too.
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It's just such a gargantuan effort. And then to go
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into the subjects that you go into this book, obviously,
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you know, your early life, your success as a martial
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artist into the movies, and then some of the personal
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health struggles that you reveal in the book. Was there
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a certain catharsis, though, to it when you were kind
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of getting this out, not only for the public to
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know more about it, but was there a catharsis for yourself?
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and reexamine your life and kind of especially if you
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have to put it into words and like it's not
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if it's not an interview. So, you know, it's not
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a stream of consciousness. You're actually OK. I'm going to
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say this. I'm going to I'm going to. distill this
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moment into these words. So you have to really think
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about it, what it meant to you and what was important.
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of a particular early life moment or one in your
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career where you were like, wow, this is a lot
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harder to encapsulate than I thought it would be.
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how I felt and why I did certain things than
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I thought. And it was emotional. I mean, especially when
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you have the manuscript almost done and you're trying to,
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you're sort of kind of shaving little things off and
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just fine tune it. At that point, the text has
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more power and I found myself getting kind of emotional.
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I've been sitting by myself by the computer and my
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wife walked by going, is everything okay? And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
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I'm just working on the book.
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a writer and writing is getting that. And, but you
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know what, if you're getting emotional about it, obviously people,
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when they read it, they're going to feel that through
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your words, right? They're going to be able to feel
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whatever you were feeling in that moment, hopefully, or at
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least be able to kind of sympathize or empathize with you.
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I hope so. And I hope that maybe other people will,
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you know, feel it's okay to open up as well.
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talk about, obviously, is the health journey that you went
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on in the last several years. And I think what's
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important to share about that is people have looked at
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you like a superman, right?
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Super athlete, super intelligence, you know, great charisma on the
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screen and what you've done in chemical engineering and things
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of that nature to share kind of some of the
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more personal struggles that you went through. I think that
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that was a really important thing to do. Was that
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always present in the forefront of your mind to do
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when you started this project?
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to getting the book offers. So I always thought I
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would bring it in. I wasn't really sure how to
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do it. But I realized that, of course, as in
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a good movie script, you know, you're trying to find
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a a frame, a framework, how to tell the story.
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kind of jumps back and forth in time. And, uh,
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this is how I started the book. I started it
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with a diagnosis and then I went back to my
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childhood and kind of put it, put together the pieces,
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but always, always wanted to share it because it makes
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me feel better. And I've realized that a lot of people,
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a lot of families have, you know, serious illnesses or
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diseases in their, you know, in their families. And, and
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talk about it. They, it makes them feel good. Yeah.
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is like sharing it with people, getting it out for yourself.
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you said, like people can empathize with it because they
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go through it all the time and they go through
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it every day. How did that diagnosis change your way
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of life?
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you have to deal with this kind of fear of
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what's going to happen. You have to deal with mortality.
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every day. I mean, look, I played a lot of
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military men and I was always fascinated by men under fire.
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Second World War and such. And that's how they lived,
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you know, from day to day. You know, you've survived
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one battle and there's another one coming up on Tuesday.
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of like that. So it's a different way of life, really.
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I think that sometimes we hear those things of live
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realize the value of that advice, right, of how important
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that advice actually is to be present in this very
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moment and just don't take this day for granted. And
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I think that it's a beautiful story that you've shared.
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Throughout your time writing this book, sharing it with the
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world and in your career, which has been one of
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the greats of all time. And I think that you
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know that your career and your story is so unique
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and so your story um and it's one of the
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one of the great stories ever shared it when you
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were going through the book was there a particular thing
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that you had always thought like a certain memory that
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when you went back and researched and really looked into
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it you go oh you know what i i actually
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misremembered this part of of of this movie or this
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life or did it all kind of go the way
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that you remember it.
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many different moments that um I mean, actually speaking of
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the cancer journey, I, you know, the first, um, diagnosis
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was kind of a bit of a shock and I
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think when, and it came back in 2020, so those
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moments were a bit foggy to me and my wife
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had to sort of fill me in and no, no, no.
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to set straight just for myself, how how I found
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that second opinion. The second opinion found the real treatment
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because I'd been misdiagnosed for two and a half years.
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I had taken the wrong medication, believe it or not. And,
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you know, everything switched like in a month like that.
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I couldn't remember all of it. And she helped me. Well,
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you know what I mean?
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That's why that's why a good, good wife is a
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good thing to always have in your corner, right? Um, for,
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for many different reasons, including keeping us on track. Well,
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the book is called fights worth fighting, finding strength and
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struggle Dolph. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
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We appreciate your time. Congratulations on the book and congratulations
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on such an incredible career.
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Thanks my friend.
