#2271 - John Reeves
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Who is John Reeves and why is he on the podcast?
Good to see you, my friend.
Good to be seen. Thank you.
Good to see you.
We were supposed to be doing the end of the year, but unfortunately, you got caught with the cooties.
What health scare did John Reeves experience?
I did. I did. What'd you get? I can officially announce that the end of 2024 is right now.
I've been waiting for that. The calendar's all bullshit anyway. It's supposed to be on that old one that's 13 months. There you go. So what happened? What did you catch?
Well, I thought I had bronchitis. Everybody in the house had it. We go to CrossFit, and they all had it. I go to CrossFit Jackson. My trainer's Megan Russell there, and she's going, ah, you might want to take it easy a little bit. Of course, I'm smoking cigarettes, and I got bronchitis. I go to a clinic. They give me some drugs. Yeah, you got bronchitis. Go home. A couple days later, I'm sleeping in my chair, and my wife has one of those little oxygen modern things that you put on your finger. She wakes me up and goes, all right, let's go. What do you mean, let's go? Oxygen levels. You're going to the hospital. What? I'm sitting here taking a nap. No, you're going to the hospital. So I said, okay. So it's late at night. We go to St.
Vincent's Clinic, go in. It's late. And sitting there waiting for the doctor, Arian F. Sherry, great guy, it turns out. He comes in and looking at me. He's young enough to be one of my kids. He goes, stethoscope, listening to my lungs. He goes, do you smoke? I said, yeah. He says, you need to quit. I said, I just did. He goes, what? I said, I just did. I'm done. Now what do we do?
Oh.
The bad kind.
The bad kind.
He says, but the good news is you don't have bronchitis. I said, okay.
I guess that's good news.
And that was about the time I was supposed to be in the studio with you, just a couple days before that. And I'm going, wow, this kind of screwed up my plans. As you know, best made plans and all that. Listen, the plans are all bullshit.
We made those up. Yeah. We'll do it at the end of the year. It doesn't have to be that. All right. Thanks for the invite. I look forward to it this year. I'm just happy that you're okay. I am okay. The date didn't matter. Things happen. I'm just glad you recovered. I'm glad you quit smoking, too.
Yeah, he says, you need to quit smoking. I did. I went to the hospital. I was in there for almost five days. I haven't been in a hospital in a while, but they have it. St. Vincent's did a great job. The nurses have their little... machines they wheel around and they come into your room every it seemed like quite often to check your vitals to do this to do intravenous to do that yeah so i'm sitting in there and couldn't sleep so i'm one of those guys if you walk by the door and you see an old guy sitting on a bed looking out the door that's me so i maybe got an hour two hours of sleep at night
Did you have a hard time kicking the cigarettes? Because you've been smoking like your whole life, right?
I did. I've smoked for over 50 years. And I know it's bad for me, and I've never been an anti-smoking crusader. But if anything good comes of my appearance with you today, it was that this Dr. F. Shari, total stranger, guy I never met before in my life, happened to tell me at the right exact time, you need to quit. And I've been thinking I need to quit for a long time. My loved ones told me that, my wife, my kids. And I never, okay, yeah, that's a good idea.
It's a weird thing because it kills you slowly. And along the way, it gives you just a little bit of happiness. A little bit of happiness while it kills you slowly. And it's not just a problem of killing you slowly. It's how it's going to kill you. The way it's going to kill you, it's going to suffocate you.
Yep.
I have a friend, my friend Mike, who owns the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach. And he was trying to convince a friend of mine to quit smoking because his wife is a nurse. I believe so. I believe I'm not out of school. But he was explaining that the way people die of lung cancer, the way people die at the end, it's horrible. You don't see that. You just hear he died of cancer.
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