Brain Tumor Cancer

michael andreula live america's top podcaster adam carolla show bald bryan talks about his brain tumor here said the doctors told you had greenbrain tumor and they could not operate only thing you can do is recommend youget your your life in order %ah this happen to brian bishop from theadam carolla show he was told the had a brain tumor aftergetting married and it was a time in his life where thingswere going on well sell would you do guys how wouldyou react if the book is called shrinkage

and i love the title it's manhoodmarriage and tumor that tried to kill me sisterkel i great to talk to you are my reallyreally happy decided to our come on i'm sure you're truly busy so i'm not gonnawaste single second of your time i had orabout a man that's that then try me on i i wish we had talked earlier this way i can adjust quickly realign your shockwears and a and i'm i'm joking can't tell but i was wondering right off the bat didanybody come

up to you with some crazy solutions tothe the tumor problem i meaning what wereyou a meal at eastern medicine job energy healing nature like that some yeah i i'll my a good friend of mine i a friend to a friend of mine has mom does our i step mom just like a alternativehealing stuff and back when i was diagnosed he waslike a gypsy here talk to her this is in all this stuffand i was like are all

you know i'm i'm certainly open mindedand i'll try anything so i yeah she's like you know she does everything from guided meditations a have not thereappeared to read healing and all that stuff so i i was i was down dirt or 2x paradigm to how how areyou feeling at the moment yeah good a little tiredbut the i mean it has nothing to do with the topersist you know early morning but otherwise am feeling good i'm can't complain too much i i

i'm very lucky to be in a position wherer i you know i i wanna a of their be routine that i tallerreally well and download now just very lucky i i really didn't know you were such agood writer arm but i wish should be shared around whathow was i supposed to know arm to share but know you did write someblogs and and the film vault and the reviewsmovies do you write that stuff down or do %um profit no i i definitely write it down to do alot of arm

i not scripting but you know idefinitely have thought that form before i d minor movie reviews for example of for thought my hat or theory your ownopinion or whatever and sort of sketch it out and you know i i hopefully happy you know in a perfectworld i sorta see myself as having the abilityto right well but also you want to thosehopefully people that can roll with the punches and improviseswhile also i mean that sort of you know i don't think you i don't thinkadam carolla

for example my box on the adam carollashow he doesn't know he doesn't suffer fools a very well andcertainly people who don't have been forimprovisation all abilities to at the very least yeah i i wouldimagine cell but a and i'm gonna recommend probably most people listen to thisagain get the audio version and hi i'd appreciate that you read it i'm really glad you decided not havesomebody else read it just doesn't feel the same well thanksman you talk about the audiobook

um up year i was it wasn't my decisionbelieve it or not you know this so the the publisher the way it works or lessthe way was explained to me is the publishers or about you has theright to resell be audiobook rides and they sold them to an audio bookpublisher and they be the decision to have me readat me and and of course i said yes i was wanted to and it was probably better because youknow it's one thing if it's a dramaticguiding our novel a young adult novel to read the whole it's a memoir

about you know someone gonna cancer beweird if there was someone else you know saying and i was diagnosed withyou know this and that is just its it ever so it inauthentic you knowwhat i mean i think it had something to have the person who went through it read it if it's fitthat color cover and more dia i think i why don't think the reasonwhy i'm obsessed what the whole idea of this book itsit's a situation i put myself in all the time i i'd listen to steve jobslecture and he saying if you look at yourself inthe mirror every single day

and he just can't play mental experimentthat if you have that many days left are you happy and the last lecture onoffer from okay with that the air %uh so you are actually in thatsituation cell to share the way you felt theprocess and now what you've learned heavydistilled down any decisions way like i'm just not going totolerate this or i'm going to every day make sure i i idea add to thisworld interesting um another made that decisions subconsciously i will say thatone thing that

is much more importantly there was onmysore to giving back to the community and you know what i was going throughthe worst of my treatment and recovery and everythingand and my sexyness i so many people were so incredibly goodto me you know both financially and just interms of support and you know resources and stuff andboth both on a charitable level thrillerorganizations and also does on a personal level and it was never super important to mecharity before i'll be honest it was

just something to really think about um justbecause i was a guy in my twenties who i guess that's just not something that wason my radar but now that i've been through and i've seenboth sides i realize how important it is and and it's something that i'm a lot morewhere i've been a lot more here to get involved and i i've been the the chairman of the la brain tumor walkthe last two years i'm doing and this year sawthree years in a row i've been the

chairman of the la brain tumor walkedfor the national brain tumor society and i'm just going are very happy to getinvolved and bring awareness and get erase the money and and make it a %uh a good day foreveryone who comes out all the all the people who are getting treated know the people who aresupporting and then you know if it's something that i can give back in some way and use my burstlong as you're celebrity or notoriety everyone a callat on my mom

happy to do and i feel like it's myresponsibility and the next walk is the coming up ours yeah at the end ofaugust i'll even go to i use google la bring to the locker gonna brianbishop dot com and donate or join my team are get outwalk wherever whenever people up here motivated to there the at 10 most powerful the book minit's fantastic and i thanked her for people other listen to this the day investmentselves and we we just had our bill courtney on who

from undefeated against the grain supermotivational book shirts had a mon yeah hunter mott streeta conspiracy and that people buy books because not only do it they wantknowledge but they want to support on the idea that guy you're going toproduce another book is that we're gonna get another book ata beer well let's hope that someone had this conversation a cure for this conversation like sixtimes over the last three days and that's not a bad thing obviouslyit's just funny that keeps coming up um i i can only speak for my experience

are reading this book and i think otherpeople have maybe a different experience because maybe they they they put adifferent level of effort into their projects but i'm not i realize how does is coming upso i mean to sound like that but i'm trying but from trying to say is this writing thisbook for me was such a system be in efford up pushing this boulder up this hill and infinite loop like it never ends and

the fact that if i had known how mucheffort it would have been before i started ii might not have done an aug honestlylike i'm glad i didn't know when i because i just sort of vino blindly wentinto anything else write this book and will be great and it was i'm glad i did it wascathartic but it was such a remarkable effort that ialmost can't picture touring again i'm sure i will someday but it just i is not something i i it's not it's noton the top my last

you just liquor ads you had a babythough this is a knowledge baby and ask i guess sorrow and its gonnaheartscan cross-pollinate with other people's thoughts and ideas so i i know it must be tremendous i'mprobably block the european life out but yeah i don't see the writing a bitwas the easiest part by far it waseverything out there it was just getting on people's radar and andand metaphorically knocking on doors and sending emails and saying hey we know there's something you want happyhour talk to me about your podcast their

show or whatever or would you write ablurb working you read this yr you know it's just and maybe all that'llbe easier now that you know the the first book is out and did well and and there's a track record maybeit'll be easier the second time around but i i would just need some time beforeyou even consider doing this again i like it other than that i'm not likeare or what periods i enjoyed it and what i did and i i thatthat's the scary parts like well i suppose something i didn't like dr. here all the books got so many great astories

head the way to tell the shower scenei'll just leave it at that and when adam i've heard on the showbefore but when he is choosing the car colors right hefinds out what a dramatic story the most fascinatingthing was the decision where you made like listen i'm gonna buy the bocraisers could you let me elaborate a little bithun why was that the moment yeah so it happened if this story comesat the end the book but it happened early in the store in my lineout journey which was on

so i've just been diagnosed with canceri just been given literally never told that market at six months to a year a to liveby life in 30 years old engaged and you know here we are consideringwhat to do a treatment and the meantime we gotta go to costcoand stock up on just stop it's just that time so we're goingwe're buying toilet paper you know all sorts of crap and i needrazor blades i need you now no razor blade for shaver and so iwalked to the personal care i'll costco and of course

they have about 30 secs reported to packsome gigantic pack a razor blades and those things last forever becausethey're three blades and there be no they just may balak titanium record us and so on like i'm looking at them holding my hand i iwould have been diagnosed with a couple daisy now i i'm looking at six monthsleft to live and a hold on this thing and it's youknow it's expensive obviously that unlike i know the thought captivei'm i like a crest gonna be dead for any of these

and i sorta part because it is reallythe first time i'd really considered back there i could be dead before itfinishes this thing up whatever this razor blades are the city now whatever this thing is a or not haveenough time to do this thing in my life rescuers stupid then but it was a thingand so upholding this thing in my hands on likei save my money it's gonna be expensive in our cancer treatment everything our ongoingare she just got up the drug store in and get out nowsmaller package of 4

ako ever and i realize their in my mind it made sense to me that meanour doing so would have been admitting defeat would have been thesand is giving up in a way that personal crack in the damn you know that lets all the water thrownas i can know i i'm not gonna buy the thirty back to buythe chubb packard razors and and and after that if i die so be it buti don't think i'm going to and i bought it was sorta but it was a was a fork in the road you knowwhat i mean where i disorder chose to go

down the path over greater resistance and fight and andmade this thing had on yeah i at its euros can i think maybe itwould be some its as a moment where i like the theclouds parted and it's gonna be like cheese is going tocome down but now it's the razor blades that's going to be the motivation and that that was really powerful to meone thing off thats one thing i i fells on i'm reading a lotof things and listen to shows a do you feel

gil is you have you ever said the namein the book yet heaven and shrinkage this hot guy i'm i had this is in theinternet age people listening to his brian againbe gigantic fans and you're ready and we'll do our tight and rajasthan want toyou all i got charlie is that ok now thatmakes sense i jus here are you send the book the book in like manner peopleknow what he's talking about breakage how could you not what a great happy i mean it's so ironic and so funny i think was that you who thought of that

%uh the title actually no credit goes tomy editor i rob i'll i had the working title was thetitle of my wife's blog which was an inconvenience humor which was my idea that's a great name tothank you but that i either you know when they sold the book my myagent came back to the good news is not as good as you know they want the book bad news they want to changethe title like i don't give a shit the engines at all what and very %uh their booking a customer atthis point and

you know we the with him even after badaround the many titles in iraq read the book and my editor and he got back to me likea winning about that's what about i was like i to a second i like itthat's our pretty good likes cuz i you know i heard so manyhorror stories about how badly the editor and over stupid ideas and stuffand i was prepared for us no drag-out battle over the tight on ilike that actually really good it's it's clever it sorta double entendre its kinda playport funny it's provocative

i'm i like it i think it's great andthat was sorta settle on a very quickly you know that that the that's the i'm2000 great idea number one you wish to add on to that and numbertwo everyone can sort of agree you know there is right away as i karight trinkets what they will get some title and a and i thought oh you know four fivedifferent ones we landed on in our marriage manhood marriage in the two were to tryto kill me and that was that was a rapper

than most are the other essential partespecially for there's a lot of a younger audience here so that thecover up the book his done perfectly affects did the publisher create that or did you got wasthat was my idea based on sorta how i'd done i've a nap in the in the app store and it's my thesound effects that i use for the show and its this design very similarly imean i but they are getting a couple years prior and i was like oh well you know it i dothis have this design

this idea is sorted hotel map like asenator my guy and it looks about right and of course they they you know theirart department at our fantastic job with that and really i youknow medlock really fantastic they talk a basic ideaand really flattered out i'm and alyssa and it's funny guitar that our best fleshed out a simple waythey only have to do a lot about our muscles to it very minimalist but i think veryattractive your sound drops brian i guess the keyon sound robson

we've try to have people to sound wrapson a live performance a condition try to show or it can makethe shell fantastic affects i mean i assume you're sayingthat the at that spot it's the latter yeah because when you can yes course did you model it after anybody did youstudy like fred from howard stern show or did you have anybody it was a go to imean it's such a a unusual job yeah i am i mean i grew up let you know in in the bay area texas goand the station i listen to live 105

had howard stern warning it had been ourlove line at night and so i grew up you know with elitist and you know highschool a age i grew up in a very %ah good time fortalk radio both know showed a notable grabbing x1 x1 drops in all the breadnorth is a very well-known i'm godfather of the drops if you willyes and i learned a lot from us into him in my personal opinion anderson fromfrom love line was a even better iiii lot out loud hasdropped and i found them to be some the best part to the show and ireally learned the timing and the pacing andwhere they

bit i from from from boston manor yetpodcasters listeners love inside jokes an assensure summing up the of 45 minute conversations in onedrop packing and so much funny yeah it's it'sa combination i love you're a player i it's it's its youyou're in on the joke in that you know the context you knowwhere comes from you know what it means to people you know that little half second dropcan mean a lot more because it has a history here becauseit's been played in certain

circumstances and it's also you know youits separating it from me now are i of our burke said hi i'm using that as anexample but you know those are that's a i think is self-explanatorywhat were there any drops where either you know to resell or alice inour at mike please don't play that anymore our room to use up i don't think thatever came up ii ok i don't think that ever tell methat ever that was everything out and adam to hiscredit a

as give me a lot about tommy over dropsespecially in the early days when i first took over for for the drop position on the show iwas very green in very new to the whole itnprobably already know admittedly overdid it a little bit early on on but you know he to his credit hesorta let me work it out and i'm i develop soared above you philosophy on my own i think i'm i'vegotten around basin other now your your perfect the podcastdefinitely the best podcast

hi out there by far the i i don't thinkpodcasting would have gone to wear was a fat and in goal for a when howard left new york vacuum thatthey gave us david lee roth whatcha i like david lee roth but i don't knowwhy we didn't make that connection from adam new york it would've been a but turnedout for the best because we're casting exploded solar your family you describe a one chapter where yourparents and i i i just imagini situations but

did you you really have to be at thebrink of death to have here your wife in your parents you know put everything in a pass injust get along i'll yeah i can mean i can speak foreveryone obviously but you know you're talking about thechapter towards the end to the book where i describe you now be is um you know family problems i was having an islandproblems just stress and difficulties brought on by mycondition and the fact that

you know my my parents you know theirtheir their son was was dying have a brain tumor and my wifeher husband was dying of a brain tumor and amino brings out the worst in peoplesometimes you know this this this great stress and to no one's fault it just is what it isi'm and you know i i left it at the end thebook you know for for many reasons number one because iwant to write about you know i was uncomfortable and i didn't feel i'm i didn't feel great about writing upbut it was also

something that happened and it was hopehopefully it's something that can now no hopefully it's something that can i helppeople we're going through a similar situationrealize that hey i'm not alone and this happens and and hopefully on people come out about the other sidebetter for us you know i think that to our know my family and and my wife inparticular are now in a better place certainly an hourthan they were i went when the stress of the situationis really getting everyone

and you know it's not a pleasantsituation but it happened and you know it it done yeah definite pluswriting your be there for for obvious reasons well weappreciate it and there it's real and one fantastic thing about book it'sgot two more tips of you do get cancer i mean jimmy shubertwas on a show and he said that comedy show just but how to make lightof you have serious issues and consumer tips are are quite quitethey do just that i love that little idea view justpopping in tumor types of expanding ii pepper the block with the

a third tumor temps weds we are arehelpful for anyone who has maybe is diagnosed with cancer or a loved one asif you're looking for ways to help but i think they're also for the mostpart helpful to anyone who's going to do anything serious maybeas an injury or maybe it's you know just some serious thing on the you need you know some some tipson hey here's how to sort a a i was a manager but here's a few tipson how to make your life easier talia so i feel like you were a i'll a lotta things were making youkinda do you feel guilt

arm at all or no reason at all brian ikno adam danger in a different light warypsych you're putting your dog on the pill or something like that and 1 but when you're listening chapter view needing to go to the bathroom and youdon't want to really disturb anybody or poorer it seems like thats white whywould you feel that yeah i i'm glad you're let it build upon that because i think a lot of our a lotta a the my persona i don't know what better wayto put up a tour the way i

you know i'm portrayed may be on the aresometimes on the on the show is not entirely i'm actor and i i played up to a certainextent in with us nothing and and the self-satisfied smugness all messed upinto this money and and it's all about you know a charactertrait and i do i do possess that don't get me wrong but be no i i definitely i think ofmyself i think i saw was a as as a prettyhumble person when it comes down to it and and you write the chapter where

you know i i didn't i just didn't wantto be a burden to people i didn't wanna bother people over unnecessarily when ieven you know looking back i had every every right toburn before because i i was suffering badly from brain cancer butyou know i am yeah i i didn't want to a unnecessarilyput people out i i just roll you know that wasn't it was the rightand whether my place and i felt bad about a even going to italy i felt like i youyou kinda justified i was like not go toitaly should

you should stay in italy for six monthsi think that'll that'll that'll help %ah your recovery time yeahit's way i know i'm fully i'm aware that people some peopleare mean rr take just feel differently than you doyou just feel the opposite and i enough do you just i don't thinkthere's anything i could do or say they were convinced them otherwise interrupttheir opinion and they're sticking with i sorta made my case in the book as besti could this is how i feel i understand maybeour its controversial or maybe it's in our it rubs me the wrong way butuntil you're in that position you just

never gonna now and god i hope you never in thatposition on but you're right i i guess there is somesurvivor guilt over why me why am i the lucky one whorespond to this treatment so while i'm who to end up with the eye doctors and whoyou know i was lucky enough to to survive intolived to tell the story there are plenty of good people buy me a better peoplethan me who who won for channeling didn't make it and is that fair actuallynot its stock that's not fair and i

would never want to have to explain that to their families for example like andyou know this guy's alive and doing great writing a book andand in hours on the new york timesbestseller list and your husband up for example i'm you know didn't didn't didn't make it and andthat sucks and i would feel pissed off if that was me and my family and i i ii completely 100 percent sympathize andempathize and i'll but just something i have to livedwith her past my life is is this article

why me question ii you shouldn't but it probably tough toreverse you we're on the search for such a short amount of time brian and i a great podcast is larry miller's and larry miller ourselves on our modern dayphilosopher by i danny lebel and he discussed when he was in a coma andwhen he came out a bit he had a lot revelations about life did you doyou feel like you have any revelations about what's going tohappen after we're gone

interesting hot you know i larry by theway is a great guy had gone it's genuinely good good dudes out there and i'm on mylucky to know i'm um interesting you know i i i'm 0 like i said at the very beginninga agarrar chat i i'm a pretty open minded guy i'm not i you probably got from the book that idon't like the rule of the things out a lot of possibilities whether they'remetaphysical or or spiritual or emotional or

gordon medicine ally i'm open to a lotof things until i'm convinced that it's not right i'm open to the fact that it could be rightand down whether it's what happens when we die orwhether it's the fact that is there a god or is there life after death i'm open toall about i i can be convinced i it's not so far-fetched the fact that you know it erupts me the wrong way i'm when people are so convinced that thereis no life after down there is no god

are there is no such thing as ghosts or spirits i mean i was and i i idoubt it but if someone was to prove to me tomorrowthat that is the possible then i'm like okay one board up but not because they know iit's it's on it's unbelievable to me that someonecould be 100 percent convinced in either direction like really 100 percent you're not openthe possibility that a yes or no i got that to me is training so i'meager and willing to find out what what

what what what does a what's in store for us its as one bylittle word association here ok axtell you think so well it's notreally a word association but more accusations jfk fukushima new world order iphones very fragile ocr 'em this is your last chapter in a bookobviously its it's not translating well but don'tyou think adams got a point here okay now explain their your time i theaudio book because there's a there's a

there's a bonus chapter in the audiobook or i sorta wrap-up a a long-standing argument between adam and i where heclaims that the iphone was intentionally made to fall and break busselling more iphones for apple and i and all the points are valid butdon't you think they're like well after six months will have this this badboy break dive to get the newborn that that's ok that that what you just said make sensejust like any conspiracy theory makes sense otherwiseit wouldn't

it wouldn't no one would listen to rocklike you know it like even 911 being an inside job its to ridiculous but at least there arepillars to which you can attach ideas now theiphone pollen raking in selling mathematically makes more sense i makesense because sure you'd be dropped off only gotta buya second one there forever by the phone by stu the mathematically make sense butpractically it doesn't make any sense because

take anything in your life take thiscoffee mug on holding right now if it's are slipping out my hand on aregular basis i'm gonna go back to the same story likeup gotta get the same coffee mug the same piece a crap is falling out my handnow you how many times you gonna drop something breaking before he said yourself i should probablyswitch product to something doesn't slip and break yeah i just love the fact again so heknew about it yoda chapter so either you're in the loo not chapterby the way was a late scratch from the

book that was that was my editor robin like you know ithink that chapter on the iphone just sorta takes a better body towards a better butdivergence and i agreed nose like you know it's it's really important to mebut i understand you're saying and i likehow bout to abolish after the idea but lisa perfect bonus chapters intentions on theaudiobook are why i'm why you get them both books

yeah so fun to to look at the comparisonbut the pride is on the books you a drop in breaking up by two books now thatprime that could be the next book you shouldjust go completely i'll about iphones what do you will berecommending for i know we have the film vault i love the reviews i know you lovemovies and i do consider your arm recommendations to be very veryaccurate do you have anything coming up for asummer i if you have not seen until tomorrow

i highly recommend that is the bestsummer we have seen this year elation turns a big blockbusters allthat stuff and is it is really fantastic and download not getting nearly enoughattention for being a really really good movie i'm so after tomorrow so far the runawaywinner other good movies the act theexpendables pretty good and i kept america guess pretty good but a drop everything in seattletomorrow that as a fun european well done what about the arm

rode hard are you gonna be able toreview that i'm not sure what that is now i'm looking forward to it now i ijust for the fact is we tell people i know and and and the i love the hammer iall the hammer on dvd i'm a fan a aggressor corollas obviously so i'm excited to see i wrote our knowthat some things were pretty cool and just wanna wrap up in really say yetyour your wife must be an incredible personare you out here that she is thus as i'll tell anyone she is the star bookyeah it's pretty much except for the time she drugged youwhich is a great animation if nobody's

seen up what people see net i don't knowwho did the animation for you but their case peewee we needed unleashesforces yeah okay his name their names james andhe he animated a scene for my book for mewhich is really really funny and really welldone and only thing but on a website or something a little bit tight on you toobut it's it's pretty funny mara while i don't want to take any moretime on to get out there and enjoy your day to thank you friend youryour your family thank you i'll try to tell your wifethank you for keeping around keeping a

solid keep on just killing it for us we reallyappreciated i definitely will fit for me. on michael our prime are david have a