One Day, Jim Woke Up Without Legs

Some stories hit like a jolt of electricity—raw, unfiltered, impossible to forget. Meet James, known as No Limb Jim, who walked into a hospital for mitral valve surgery and woke up months later after 62 days on ECMO, both legs amputated and most fingers gone. What could have ended in silence became a determined rebuild of identity, independence, and purpose driven by faith, family, and a stubborn refusal to accept “you can’t” as a verdict.

We trace his life before the collapse—freelance cameraman in hurricanes and war zones, disaster airlifts in the Bahamas, a likely brush with West Nile that set the stage for heart failure—and the moment everything changed. James speaks candidly about waking to mummified limbs, searching YouTube for real hope, and launching a channel to show that life after amputation isn’t a footnote; it’s a new chapter with its own power. He unpacks the hard parts of rehab: being overprotected instead of trained, fighting insurance for a needed knee replacement, and learning transfers the unglamorous way. The turning point arrives behind a steering wheel as he relearns to drive with hand controls, finds dignity in everyday eye‑level conversations, and reclaims the simple freedom to get a burger.

We go deep on advocacy and accessibility: why accessible parking abuse undermines independence, how tiered ADA placards could prioritize space for wheelchair users, and what it means to feel truly human in public spaces. James also shares a near‑death experience—moments of blinding peace and a brush with profound darkness—that has since become a lifeline for others on the brink. Through it all runs a through line of resilience: weight loss to be ready for future mobility tech, 3D‑printed tools to keep building, and a family whose bedside faith tipped the odds when medicine nearly quit.

If you’re navigating disability, caregiving, or any brutal detour you never chose, this conversation offers more than inspiration—it offers a map. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs strength today, and leave a review to help more people find stories that move them forward.

Transcript

Opening And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_03 0:00

I walk underneath. I I climb into my suburban. They made the mistake of telling me that I can't. So I don't really know what the greatest obstacle was because if you give me an obstacle, I'm gonna figure out how to get over it.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

What's up, guys? It's Quadfather in Life Thematics, and we're back at it again at the ability to expo for the seven galleries. Please enjoy this Life Three Max PK.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Just a couple of guns not trying to get back.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

For the first time in Alice, Texas, and today I have the pleasure of speaking to Noel M Jesus. We were actually speaking earlier, but I just wanted to get my intro ahead.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Thank you very much. Yeah it's a pleasure to meet you. I I didn't uh know about your podcast until uh seeing it here yesterday, and I watched a couple of the ep episodes and I'm I'm I'm amazed with what you're doing with it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Which ones did you watch? Uh I watched Corey Lee and then uh part of the one that was right below it and fell asleep uh after a long day at the Abilities Expo.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Oh it's it's brutal like this. Especially uh if you're an exhibitor, I was hoping for four and a half hours.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Just talking.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Wow, that's gotta be tiring.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Yeah.

Life Before Illness And Career In Media

SPEAKER_03 1:32

I I worked in live television for a long time as a cameraman, and uh the amount of effort it takes to be on camera all the time and to watch the talent who have to be on the top of their game and be careful what they say and whatnot, that's pretty amazing. Brian, uh please tell me about your story. Yeah, my story. So my name is James. Um, my daughter came up with the name No Limb Gem because both my legs have been amputated and I've had complete or partial amputations of every finger and both thumbs. Um This is the fourth anniversary of the last day that I had a full day of walking on my own legs. On December 8th of 2021, I went into a hospital.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Fourth anniversary.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

Today is the fourth anniversary of the last full day I had walking. Tomorrow morning is the anniversary of going into the hospital for what should have been a relatively simple surgery that went horrifically sideways, led to several months in the hospital in a coma on an ECMO machine, which is a heart-lung machine for 62 days, and waking up uh totally changed.

The Surgery That Went Wrong And ECMO

SPEAKER_01 2:45

I'm so sorry. That's that's that's terrible. Oh my god, what happened?

SPEAKER_03 2:51

So life's changing. So I've worked uh all over the world, uh doing things as varied as being a television cameraman. Uh worked for the Weather Channel for a long time uh as a freelancer, yes, been to a lot of hurricanes and seen a lot of devastation.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Whoa.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

And I uh in 2010 was in Haiti after the earthquake and got involved with a group that takes donated aircraft to do disaster relief. And I was helping out in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in 2019, running the airlift down there in Marsh Harbor. I was bitten by a mosquito and caught West Nile virus and had a about a nine month to a year bout with that. And the the the consensus that we think happened is is that got into my heart in 2021. June of 2021, and last weekend in June, I woke up Monday morning with my oxygen saturation in the high 60%, you know, like 68%. Not compatible with staying alive. And we went to the hospital, found out that I had a mitral valve prolapse, uh it's blown out idiopathically. And uh what are we gonna do? Uh middle of delta variant and COVID, so we're gonna wait a while. Waited until December 8th to do the surgery. If we hadn't, I'd have been probably dead because there were no ECMO machines available during COVID.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Can you explain what that ECO machine is?

Facing Amputation And Searching For Hope

ADA Advocacy And Parking Realities

SPEAKER_03 4:25

ECMO stands for extracorporeal corporeal membrane oxygenation. It is a heart that pumps your your blood and lungs that breathe for you. So for 62 days, my chest did not go up and down. You're on a respirator uh or ventilator to keep you ventilated. My wife would say that the the weirdest thing was that I'd be laying in the hospital bed and my chest would not be moving for two months. Um, most people who are on ECMO um more than a couple days don't make it out of the hospital. Um as far as I know, I was on it for 62 days. I met a guy here day before yesterday, kind of the same story as me. Uh, had some amputations, uh, had been on ECMO for about 50 days. But it's something that you don't come back from. I was labeled by the doctors as being the sickest person in the state of Florida, probably the sickest person in the country at the time. Uh all of my organs had shut down, my kidneys were shut down, I was on 24-hour day dialysis, uh, they're back, my my kidney function is good. Uh I am a miraculous story of of resilience and overcoming and and um living life, I guess. Yeah. So when I was in the hospital, my fingers were literally looked like beef jerky. So were my my feet. And I knew that I was going to be facing a life of amputations. I've got three daughters, I've got a son. I wondered, you know, am I ever gonna be able to hold my grandchildren? Um what's life gonna look like? Is life gonna be worth living? And I went to YouTube looking for hope. And I found some hope, but I found a lot of softcore pornography where people who are amputees kinda put that out in the forefront in the shot and just talk about stuff, and I was like, you know, when I make it, by then I was not like if I make it, but when I make it through this, I'm going to start a YouTube channel to show people that there is life after amputation. There is life after a catastrophic whatever changes your life. I mean, in an instant, I walked into the hospital. You know, four years ago tomorrow morning at 5 30 in the morning, I walked into the hospital. Seven o'clock in the morning, I took my last steps, laid down on the table, took a picture of myself, put it on Facebook, woke up two and a half months later, and to show people that life is still worth living. Um over the last year or so, I've kind of gotten really involved in uh advocating for ADA and um calling out people who aren't doing right. And I need to get more into the inspirational life is worth living stuff. So if you look at some of the later videos, there's a lot of stop parking in handicapped spots when you're not handicapped. But it it's all part of life is being disabled.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

I hate I hate that, but continue. I I know where you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 7:40

Yeah, so you you you need that extra space. I need that extra space, not as much as you do, but I need to be able to open my door all the way so I can climb in and out of my vehicle. And I see people who, you know, are rightfully labeled as disabled, but they're ambulatory, and there's a you know, a parking space that's closer to the front door, and yet they park on the other end of the building and park in a handicapped spot, step over the curb and then walk. I'm like, hey, why don't you just take that spot right there? I get called out for you should be nice to old people, you disabilities aren't visible. I'm like, yeah, but if you're closer to the door, why don't you take it? So that's that's been kind of where I've gone with my channel.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

But I was just at the American uh Airlines arena uh yesterday and I was in the handicap parking spot, right? And I saw Corvat, Corvette, Corvette, then I saw Tesla, then I saw Masaravi, BMW, all these really nice cars. I'm like, are these guys like in wheelchairs or like are they like like what are like what's going on here?

SPEAKER_03 8:51

It's it's unfortunate. Um there's there should probably be different levels of ADA placard. Like if you're truly in a wheelchair or you truly use a mobility device, you get to park in the spot that has the four foot or eight foot.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Like severe, like handicap or something like that.

Prosthetics, Setbacks, And Fighting Insurance

SPEAKER_03 9:09

Yeah, you know, for me, for you, I wouldn't mind parking on the other end of the parking lot as long as I had room. You know, you're in a you're in a power chair. Um, I was in a power chair for three or four years now, and I just got this one a month ago, but I still don't mind pushing through the parking lot. I just need to have room to get in and out.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Why'd you why'd you switch?

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Um, I gained like 80 pounds and I wanted to get back in shape.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

So uh we have a lot of similar things in common, man. Uh for for me, I I lost I I was on a nutrition journey this whole year. I lost 45 pounds. Uh I I did not want to gain more weight. I wanted everything to I wanted my uh diet to be good just in case like medical advances happen, like I'm a healthy, like uh specimen person, like uh prospect for this uh yeah, like so if they come up with some neurorregeneration, you will then be able to say I can take advantage of it. Also, you said uh you won't you woke up and you said you're you have no limbs, right?

SPEAKER_03 10:19

Well, I at the point I still had the limbs, but they were dead. They were they were mummified. Um they had they looked like beef jerky. Yeah. And you knew that the high degree of probability that they were not going to magically or or miraculously grow back. Um so that I was looking at what would life be like. Um I think number one was will I be able to hold my grandchildren? Number two is probably will I be able to walk my daughters down the aisle. And um I wanted to see that there could be life afterwards. Now, since then I've found lots of motivational, really good YouTube channels of amputees who are out there living life fuller than they did before they were became amputees.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

Are you uh able to get a prosthetic?

Weight, Health, And Preparing For Future Care

SPEAKER_03 11:08

I have prosthetics. I also have a knee that needs to be replaced. I I took my first steps on those prosthetics Christmas Eve last year. That's and in the week after Christmas, I took my first steps um, you know, to really try to bear weight. My right knee kind of went sideways. And I was like, wait a second, I was supposed to have a knee replacement in March of 22. I wonder why they didn't do that when I was in the hot hospital in the coma. Um, so I need a knee replacement, and we are working on convincing Medicare that a guy who has no legs needs a new knee. And we'll we'll win that fight eventually.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Yeah, you remember because I I I I hear the horror stories of Medicare and like all the health insurance. It's uh it's just it's it's bonkers, it blows my mind. It's like like you got ears just to help, and like it's just uh constant bureaucracy, it's terrible.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

Yeah, so are you getting yours through the VA or yeah, it's so I'm very lucky.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

The VA takes care of me. And I uh I'm super blessed that I signed a downline uh decided to go on to the military for the VA to take care of me. But um for uh like I like for everybody else, like I'm just like, oh my god, how I I couldn't live like that. I I I feel that's why I made my shirts like it could be worse, and I love you, but did you did you die?

Near-Death Experiences: Light And Darkness

SPEAKER_03 12:36

Yes. Somebody told me that was your tagline, so that's why I gave you that morale patch. A friend of mine from high school, um, Matt Young, he sent me my original, but did you die? And uh yeah, I did actually die 11 times. I saw uh what I think uh was heaven. Um experienced uh what I think may have been uh the outer darkness uh that Jesus spoke about in the parable of the wedding feast. Um there's a lot to live for and there's a lot to have joy about. You know, I'm sitting here with a smile on my face. You're sitting here with a smile on your face. There's probably a time this morning that you were like, man, this sucks. I really wish I could go back to where I was, but I've learned to embrace where I am and to live it to its fullest. I've been in, I believe, twelve countries this this year in the last in the last 365 days.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

That's amazing, man. Yeah, that's so inspiring.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

It's just get out and keep living life and try to be an inspiration. Um, you know, I I hear a lot of people who are disabled, and I get it, who get uh offended if somebody says, Well, you're so inspirational, and they're like, Well, you they're saying I'm inspirational just for living my life doing daily living. And I I I can see that that may come from somebody who uh was born disabled. Yeah. Um, but for me, and I think maybe for you, we were quote unquote normal, and in an instant our life changed. Yeah, and you you were I I believe in a car wreck, is that right?

SPEAKER_01 14:15

Yeah, I was in a car wreck coming up from leave uh the military. Um I wasn't driving.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

So in an instant, you had no idea when you stepped in that car, you wouldn't get out of it on your feet.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

I thought I s we switched seats, I said, uh, you know, wake me up when we get to Chicago, because that's where we were going. And I woke up in the hospital three days later, couldn't feel, couldn't move, couldn't breathe, couldn't talk, and I was freaking terrified.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

So you went through a lot of trauma, you went through a lot of hell.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:50

And to me, it's a badge of honor for somebody to say you're inspiring because I overcame it. You've overcome it, and you're living your your best life, you're living life to its fullest, from what I can see. And you know life to the max. To the max, yes. And you're you you're using it for good. And I believe that God calls us to use whatever we're dealt with for good, and that there's a reason for what happens to us. Yeah, I truly believe that.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

So I I have to ask, when you got out of the hospital, like what was like the toughest obstacle? I I understand you told me like uh not like being able to lock the daughter aisle, grandchildren, but let's tell me about like the rehabilitation, like everything like that.

Family, Faith, And The Fight To Survive

SPEAKER_03 15:37

I got booted out of the hospital because my insurance said you're out. The rehabilitation people up on the top floor of the hospital were great, but they didn't give me the freedom to fail. They were always coddling me, making sure I didn't fall. You know, hey, I'd like to learn how to get into that car over there so that I could go get a hamburger. Um, no, no, you'll never do that. You'll always be in a wheelchair. I I walk on a knee pads, I I climb into my suburban. They made the mistake of telling me that I can't. So I don't really know what the greatest obstacle was because if you give me an obstacle, I'm gonna figure out how to get over it. And um I don't know what one thing was probably the hardest. The greatest freedom that I got was when a lady named Lori Cecil contacted me through Facebook and said, I'm a certified driving rehabilitation specialist, and I I can't help you out financially, but I can teach you how to drive. And I'm like, What? Yeah, you can drive, and she taught me how to drive, and I had learned how to use a suburban as as a weapon uh over the years, and was already kind of used to some of the like using the spinner knob and stuff like that. Yeah, and um it was uh second nature to use hand controls, yeah, and that opened my life back up to I feel like a normal person because when I'm sitting in the truck, people don't see that I have no legs or have no fingers.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Isn't it great to feel like humanized?

Regaining Independence Through Driving

SPEAKER_03 17:22

It feels yeah, and I don't want to say that being disabled means you're not human, but when you're always looking up at somebody, or you know, um and I will say, at least if you're with me, I am not offended if you get on your knees to talk to me. I I appreciate that. Come down to my level because one of the things that happened in the hospital, I got over a hundred blood transfusions in one day, and I've lost my hearing. But just being able to be at eye level with people, you go through a drive-thru and they don't know until you go to pick up your your bag and you have to use two two hands, you have no fingers, and then they they're like, Oh, you know, it you feel more normalized, I guess. And there's a part of your your soul that I think wants to go back to where you were. Right. But I would say this. So I I spent a lot of years in disaster relief. I spent years in war zones. I I I helped with uh anti-human trafficking. We can get into the the stuff as a journalist when I was in war zones and so you were a journalist. Yeah, so I was a I was a freelance television cameraman. Uh I I did work for uh some of the different three-letter um agencies and whatnot. Uh almost every network in the world I I I I did. But all of these things brought me to the point that I was bitten by mosquito and ended up with no legs, no fingers. And if you had told me 35 years ago that this would lead to me being like this, I'd still do it. Yeah. Because it was worth it.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Oh yeah, I feel the same way, which sounds crazy, but the I was in the military for a year and a half, and then I got injured, and then that other year and a half, I uh getting processed out to retire medically. So like um I I I I always tell people all the trials and tribulations I want to change it. Uh you said you uh people have to look up. She I have a five foot five foot feet old friend that says she looks she looks she has to like she's high level with me.

Growth, Purpose, And Final Reflections

SPEAKER_03 19:41

So like you know, you improvise, adapt, overcome that's what I improvise to ask the marines that do that, but um, I haven't never eaten a cram. But um yeah, that's that's kind of my my motto is is if you if they tell you you can't, you figure out how to do it. If it's not immoral, unethical, or illegal, don't tell me I can't do it because I'm gonna figure out a way to do it. And um, you know, I our our family has a a business that we integrate communication systems into easily deployed packages. These fingers build electronic stuff and and cut wires and strip them and uh put together the screws and whatnot. I I just either figured out how to do it with what I had or I 3D printed, you know, designed something and 3D printed a tool so that I could do it. Um if you tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to do it.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

Yeah, that's remarkable, man. That's that's wild. I mean, you have people that are complaining about stupid things like throughout like the world, throughout the country right now, and they don't realize like it could be worse. That's why I put my shirt.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

I'm gonna get one of those shirts from you. I need a I need a 3X, but I'm gonna get one because I I I saw that yesterday. I was like, it could be worse. It really could be worse. But did you die?

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Did my chick die for one house?

SPEAKER_03 21:07

Dude, take it. I gave it to you. Um, but did you die? Uh I I I think you you died a couple times, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01 21:14

I died once. I died once and then I went into septic shock as well uh in 2022. So 2016, I was uh uh uh 2016 I was on my car. That that was the thing that that like was a paradox. Life was flipped upside down, like all the friend left me. Like I just I I felt like I was gonna be a nobody, you know, uh and I uh you know, I was doing good. And then I went stuff to shock in twenty two. And I was like, oh my god, am I gonna have to realize this? I was just freaking out. I was like, why was I complaining about just chilling at all but like not being Yeah, with friends at bars like it could be worse. I always watch this uh video the ICU like just like MGT and I was just completely obliterated. We've we both like died, and I kinda wanna ask you uh a question about that. Like I saw a white light as well.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

I experienced a white light that was uh super super bright. Imagine you know 500 or more of those ring lights, but there was no source of it, it was 360 degrees in a sphere around me. Um and I I thought that you know maybe I'd see our daughter who had died and I I didn't. But I felt peace that if I was like, if this is all there is to eternity, I'm cool with that.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

It was so peaceful, yeah. It was so peaceful, and then you feel this gravitational pull that's bringing you back into this freaking God's face.

SPEAKER_03 23:14

I I don't remember I don't remember that gravitational pull. I do remember one time being in complete darkness. Uh could not hear anything, couldn't see anything, could not feel anything. And the biggest thing that I knew is that God was not there. Through my teeth, Clint, God, why have you forsaken me? And then I was back in the light. And so it was only maybe a couple seconds, maybe ten, maybe five, maybe two. I don't know. It seemed like eternity. And I I struggled for a year or so. It was at hell, and I it didn't line up with like what the Bible says about hell. And then uh we were at church about two years ago now, um, pastor's teaching, teaching on the uh parable of the wedding feast, and at the end there's the people who show up with the wrong wedding garments, and the master says, throw them out into the outer darkness where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth. God, why have you just forsaken me? I was like, wow, it must have been that that I witnessed it and saw it. I've told people in in church, and they have uh said, Well, you know, obviously you must be really sinful and God wouldn't let you see that if you were truly a Christian. And then I've told it to people just in conversation, and three times people have just broken down crying. And all three of them said, I tried to commit suicide, and that's exactly what I saw. And I'm like, okay, man, uh, if I experience that to help bring one back from the verge of that, now maybe three, who knows, through sharing it on your your podcast or sharing it on No M Gem, uh, if it helps others, but I know that I know that that it's real. I know that I know that God works miracles because one of the things that came out uh in Discovery Um was in the medical record, my my pH had gotten down to seven. You do not survive a pH of seven. That is so acidic, acidotic, they call it, that you don't come back from that. And the vascular surgeon who uh amputated my legs was the one who saw me when I I got to Orlando. Um, and he's like he wrote down, you know, he's not gonna survive. And um here you are. Yeah, here I am. That was so that was early in the morning on December 9th. So the surgery lasted like 15, 16, 17 hours, and then they were gonna put me in a helicopter, and the helicopter couldn't fly because of of fog that settled in. So the trip from Daytona Beach to Orlando, I think is maybe like 40 minutes, and the helicopter crew came on their special ambulance, and you know, had the ECMO machine hooked up. They got me there. Uh the surgeon told my wife, you can stand here and and see him, but do not stop them. And then my wife said that she was there, the nurse from the ambulance. Somebody said, wait a second, kiss him goodbye because you may not see him. So they got some sleep. A friend of ours, Reed, uh, helped get uh my wife and children down there. They saw me the next morning. She said the room had blood everywhere on the ceiling. She said it was like a horror film murder room. And I was my chest was still open for at least a couple of weeks. They had a refrigerator of blood outside my room, and I went through that refrigerator in one day in like eight hours. So over a hundred people gave blood and helped save my life. Over a hundred people.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Dude, you are so inspirational. So it's like, oh, this is such a great story. Like, it's just so inspirational.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

But man, I I heard your story yesterday, and I was like, I'm in awe of this guy. You know, we each have our own story, we've each overcome whatever it is that we overcame. I've got to give credit to my wife and kids. And to God. But if my wife had not fought for me in the hospital, I'd be dead. They were ready to give up. And she told them, don't give up. The day after Christmas, they told her you need to come and say your goodbyes. I had been in a coma at that point since December 8th until December 26th. So that's what, uh, 18 days? Non-responsive, flatline brain, that kind of stuff. And she uh they got permission for the nurses to come out of the room and turn all the monitors so that they could see me. My my room was the one right next to the nurse station, and they had like two or three nurses in my room 24 hours a day. But my kids got to go in. I don't know what my daughter said. Uh my son said that he was like, hey, dad, you've had malaria, you've had this, you know, you've been shot. Uh you didn't die, so it's not time to die now, so wake up. And my wife went in and she touched my foot, which was dead, and said, Hi dear. And she's my eyes opened. I don't remember it. And apparently I started freaking out, and then they put me back into another coma for a month or so, like a month and a half. But you know, they were really close to pulling the plug.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

I'm super happy they did it. Thank you so much for coming out to the podcast. I appreciate it. All right, man. Is there anything you would like to say to the people out there?

SPEAKER_03 29:02

You know, I just want to say, guys, that disability does not define who you are or what you are, it doesn't define your life. You may be walking today and tomorrow morning and wake up and your life be totally changed. You may be watching this right now and go out to get a burger at McDonald's and not come home, and your life would be completely changed. But uh, as much as it sucks, embrace the suck and embrace what God is going to do through you surviving that suck. I would be lying if it wasn't like every other day that I'm just like, okay, I'm done, God. I I I want to go. But every day I grab onto a little bit more strength and push further. And every day I get a new adventure and a new thing, like where I meet you or I met the guy who was on ECMO for almost as long as me. And he was like, Yeah, I've got the world record for being on ECMO. I was like, Oh, actually, no, you don't. Um, you know, um it's amazing. Being in this wheelchair and being no limb gem has opened so many opportunities for me. Live life to the best, take it by what you have been dealt and go, this these are the cars I was dealt, and I'm going to play the best hand that I can. I'm so glad I drove by here yesterday, or yeah, I think it was yesterday. Uh, and I I saw you guys with a crowd. I thought, I wonder what that is. And I thought, oh, it's a it's a podcast. And I I saw the lady from um Michelle Flynn from All Wheels Up. And I was like, okay, they're doing a live stream.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

Thank you for being my first live stream. Oh, I guess I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_03 30:39

Yes, man, it's great to be the first one.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

Yep, thanks, man.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

But did you die?

SPEAKER_01 30:43

But did you die?

unknown 30:44

All right, brother. Try to keep it cool.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Are you lame to be focused?