Trick Lung Mickey's One Year Transplantaversary Extravaganza | This Past Weekend #197
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How did Ridge Wallet sponsor Trick Lung Mickey’s one‑year transplant visit?
Today's episode is brought to you by Ridge Wallet. Now Ridge Wallet, it's that front pocket carry. And a while back, you know, they had a man named Mickey and he had cystic fibrosis and that's when your lungs just, they don't want to be lungs anymore and they start looking for the Lord. But you still need them. And Mickey got on the transplant list, and we became associated with him here this past weekend. And now it has been one year since Trick Lung Mickey got them new body bags, them lungs, you know? And this is the Transplantiversary Extravaganza. So trick along Mickey's uno año con el aerobolsas, airbags. So we're excited he's here today. Ridge Wallet, they took care of his flight. They put him up here in Los Angeles and they gave him transportation and pocket money.
for his time here in L.A. He was at the Comedy Store last night just checking out the vibes, and here he is today in studio. Thank you, Ridge Wallet. As always, you can support Ridge Wallet. They got front pocket carries. They got them bags. They got knives, that knifery, you know? So in case somebody's coming at you, and you can, you know, you can get them. So they got that. Safety first. And the code there is ridgewallet.com slash hitter. Again, that's RidgeWallet.com and use that code HITTER. And today's guest, it's been a year after his lung transplant. We're going to learn a little bit about his journey with cystic fibrosis and just get to see him here today in the flesh. Ladies and gentlemen, Trick Lung Mickey.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
I've been there, dude. I did probably about, most people did puberty in a couple of months. Eight, probably, I bet eight years of puberty, bro.
Yeah.
You know? Like eight years? Yeah, dude, I was a slow guy. Like, you could hear like one hair, like on a mustache, and then, you know what I'm saying?
Three weeks later. I get you, man. I feel like I'm still going through it.
Do you really?
Like a second one.
So what happened? So coming to that, we got Tricklung Mickey here right now, and man, thanks for being here with us today, man.
Of course, man. Thank you very much for having me, man.
Appreciate it. Mickey and I have been in communication with each other for maybe, I guess, probably about 20 months, and this is one year now you have since you had a lung transplant because you had cystic fibrosis.
Yeah, that's right, man. That's right.
So you got basically, I mean, it's almost like getting a set of nuts in your chest. Does it feel like that? uh no not nuts but definitely something around air nuts yeah i would say i mean dude we could get to the whole sexual thing later but it's it's definitely something like this i got more testosterone for sure really for sure yeah you seem so different than the last time i saw you man because when i saw you yeah tell me in tacoma i thought you were gonna you know maybe die you know you thought you were i didn't just think you were you said you might
I mean, I think that people were rumoring in the crowd when we were there, like kind of a little bit nervous. Yeah. No, I'd have felt that too. Like, oh man, because I had that. You remember how we would talk about, man, my skin just looked, it looked a little mal off. Yeah, you're a little jaundiced. Yeah. A little jaundiced, man. Like my eyes were dark and I was just light, light skinned, you know? And I mean, I'm half Filipino, so there's something like that that plays into it. But I guess what I'm getting at is I didn't look the best for sure, man.
I didn't look the best. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, you just seemed like you were going through it. I mean, I remember like you couldn't, you know, I didn't ask you too many questions because you get caught up in a long sentence and you just, you know, you had to like take a break. You know, you had to like hold on to somebody's shoulder almost to get through a long sentence. You know, you were limited air.
Yeah, it was tough, man. I mean, limited everything. Yeah. Limited participation in life.
Right.
Was it really? absolutely man i remember the first theo i just want to tell you man one of the first things that you said that i knew was really important to me you know there's a lot of people i've talked to about this but i remember you asked specifically you said what's the most difficult thing that you deal with with cystic fibrosis i said the isolation yeah and first of all man no one's ever asked me that beforehand really no one had no
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Ridge Wallet sponsor Trick Lung Mickey’s one‑year transplant visit?
0:00–7:06
2
What was Trick Lung Mickey’s health status before his lung transplant?
7:06–13:08
3
How did Mickey describe the physical and emotional toll of end‑stage cystic fibrosis?
13:08–31:31
4
What led to Mickey getting the transplant and how did he find out a donor was available?
31:31–45:29
5
What did Mickey learn about family, community, and support during his transplant crisis?
45:29–1:26:04