122- Beating Together, Through Health Struggles & Faith

The one where Fern and Nat share a powerful and heartfelt episode with everyone. They open up about their personal health scares and the emotional toll that came with them. From moments of fear and uncertainty to finding peace in the middle of the storm, they share how their faith became their anchor when life felt overwhelming.

They dive into the mental battles, the importance of support systems, and how these experiences shifted their perspective on what truly matters. With honesty, vulnerability, and a touch of their usual humor, Fern and Nat remind listeners that it’s okay to be scared—but you don’t have to face it alone.

This episode is for anyone going through a tough time, needing encouragement, or seeking hope in challenging moments.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Welcome back to Limitless Table Talk. And today, we're getting real. I'm Fern.

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And I'm not like really, really real real. I can't even talk. No chaos, no Disney debates. Well, maybe just a little.

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There's always a Disney debate.

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But today we're talking about health scares, life hitting hard, and how faith carried us through it.

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On this very spe I wanted to do this so bad. Hold on.

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And you messed it up. Okay.

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On this very special episode of Limitless Table Talk.

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Okay, you done? You got it out of here?

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Oh man, that sounded so good. That's not on this very special episode of Limitless Table Talk.

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I'm trying to have a serious conversation.

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This is serious. No, no, this is this is one of those episodes. If you've ever been in a place where you're scared about your health or someone else's health that uh is close to you, someone you love, this one's for you on this very special episode of Limitless Table Talk.

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Limitless Table Talk, Table Talk, Table Talk, Table Talk.

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Are you done? Limitless Table Talk. Okay. Can we just jump right into it?

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The more you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Sorry, sorry. I just I can't I can't I can't help myself but think this is the episode of Limitless Table Talk. That is the afternoon's after school special.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

That's because this is our more more serious topic.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

It is no, it really is. And the thing is, like, I can't help but bring a little light into it because when it comes to health scares, health fears, and anything that has to do with health, it's hard to actually be completely serious. You have to have a little bit of humor in it. Because if you don't, what's wrong with you? Well, I mean you gotta be scare the fear. I mean, uh yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

I mean, you gotta be serious, but but that's when you really let depression takes over, then. Correct. You're letting the health scare and the health fear take over you.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

As opposed to looking at it and say, ha ha ha ha gotcha. Wow, that was very villainous.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

It was.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

Sorry, that was not the way it was supposed to come out. It was supposed to be more like, hey, gotcha, buddy. You ain't going nowhere.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

But it wasn't always like that.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

It was not always like that. It took us a minute to get here.

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Yeah, yeah. Let's just jump into it.

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Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Um, life, I feel, doesn't really warn you when it's about to flip your whole life upside down.

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This is true. This is true. Not at all. One minute, you're fine and dandy, making villainous laughs, making jokes, playing PS, playing PlayStation. And then the other minute, boom, you're sitting in the hospital.

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All of a sudden, it hit you. You're in the hospital.

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What did I do to get here? What? I thought we were having fun. What happened? Why am I here?

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Oh my god, I can't.

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Or or or or like like me on a typical day. Where am I? And who are you people? Why are you wearing masks? Okay. That's that's my hospital reaction. Like, why am I who are you people? Why are you wearing scrubs? Where am I?

unknown 4:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

It's like, let's see, for me, yeah, it was hearing the words from the doctor saying, You have congestive heart failure, your heart's failing. And I remember just sitting there, I was just trying to process it. First of all, I was by myself. Like, because you were in the room of the ER, but I was doing the test, and that's where the doctor met me and told me.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

And I was just trying to process it like, is this really happening to me? You know, it it's a hard I don't see it like you did at that moment. I wasn't like, haha, I I can't do this villainous laugh. Gotcha. But yes, the scare, the fear, everything runs through your head at that very moment.

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These topics make me this way.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

Oh my god, we're never gonna get through it.

SPEAKER_03 4:58

We're trying. I mean, we're getting through it.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

All right.

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As we should together.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

So the scare and the fear took over at that moment. I didn't know how to process, I didn't know what to do. I kind of felt helpless.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Yeah. Yeah, and the the the worst thing, I think, you know, is hearing your partner, hearing that your partner it's happening to them. It just hits different. You feel literally helpless. Like I there's nothing I can do. The only thing I can do right now is pray. Is pray harder than I've ever prayed before.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

For when he said it and I processed, and we came back to the room together to talk to you and tell you that you had to hear it for the first time, and you were trying to figure out why I was crying. I was crying, and you didn't know why. For me, my heart dropped. Everything basically just got quiet, but my mind was still racing, it was just going, going, going. Like you you understand that feeling, right?

SPEAKER_03 6:14

I do, I do. Um, for me, it was the heart attack. I had a heart attack. One minute, I thought I was just not feeling great. I'm like, I don't know, you know, I'm there's something weird. And the next thing you know, boom, seriousness, like legitimate seriousness. Never never seen it or or felt that ever again or since, thank God. But um shocking and serious.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

You know, it's funny because we're talking about this. We talk about it once in a blue moon with people that ask us. We don't really sit down and just talk about it. And we don't and we should. Um when you had the heart attack, just like you said, it's hard to hear it that your partner's going through this. For me, it was even harder because it happened during COVID.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

So I was stuck in a parking lot. And I was all alone outside, and you were by yourself.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

And let's be honest, you start thinking of the worst case scenario of what's gonna happen, and I was like, he's alone. What he can't be alone. He needs to know I'm here. I know you knew I was there, I drove you there, obviously. Yes, but I wasn't physically because I was in a parking lot. That was hard.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

No, and then and then to know that from there we were going to another hospital.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

To another hospital where you were having surgery, yeah, and I was still stuck outside.

unknown 8:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

That's the worst, that you can't even go in until that moment that they FaceTimed me with you.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

So that made it even harder to process versus sitting side by side hearing what's going on, holding hands. We didn't have that with you.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

No. What's funny is an event like that, you know, and like your event, all of a sudden the things you thought mattered don't.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

Oh, exactly.

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They do not matter.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

It becomes uh it becomes more of a am I okay? Are we okay?

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Are you okay?

SPEAKER_00 8:38

Yeah. But everything become for some reason for me and and for us, because we've said it multiple times, everything became a we.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

If it wasn't that way before, it was from there on.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Because I was going through my situation, yeah, but you're going through it with me. It might not be the exact same thing, but it's you are going through the health scare together.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

Correct.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

And when you had your heart attack, it didn't become Fern's heart attack. It became our because we support one another and we're there for each other regardless.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Or as they say, irregardless. Oh my god. I mean, who else uses that term?

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Yeah, you, apparently, right now.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

I never do.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

You do right now.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

I just did.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

It it's a scary, it's a scary thing. And people go through it. But some people don't talk about it or don't have the support or don't know what to do. Trust me, we didn't know what to do at the time.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

No idea. No idea.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

We were just going with the flow.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

You know, honestly, I was so scared. Like, you know, and I'm not, you know, that it's not macho bravado. Because I'm, you know, if you know you know me, I'm far from that. But I was like legitimately scared. And I don't I don't like admitting that. But but this was the one time, I think, two times, that I had been legitimately worried and scared. Because I don't worry about anything.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

I totally agree. That scared feeling just takes over your life. Like it takes over at that moment because for for me, it wasn't just a congestive heart failure and it wasn't just your heart attack. Then I had the open heart surgery because I had an infection from a surgery. Yeah, so that that scared feeling, and it's hard to admit. You try to be the tough person of like, I'm not scared, I'm fine. I got this. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be fine. But inside, trust, I know you were, I was terrified.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Listen, you know I act tough, right? I'm you know, I I I I walk around like Gaston, right?

unknown 11:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

Um, but after a heart attack, yeah. I had that moment, that moment that I just said God. I need you right now. After your second surgery. I said the same thing. I said, God, I really need you right now, like more than anything.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Oh, same here for sure. With congestive heart failure, there's so much unknown. Fear shows up like that fast.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Wow, you snapped.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

I snapped.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

I can't believe you snapped, and you snapped well. I know, thank you. That was a good snap.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

I I thank you. It may not happen again.

SPEAKER_02 12:08

Yeah, that's what I thought.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Listen, I'm not gonna lie. The first time I heard I had congestive heart failure, I was mad at God.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

I know.

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Truly, I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Because at that very moment, I was like, why me, God? Why? Why? But it it took a little bit for me to realize that it wasn't why me. There was a reason.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Well, I'll tell you this fear shows up fast and loud.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Oh, for sure. But faith, but I started falling back into my faith with God, and when I had that second surgery, I thought just like you, like, God, I need you and I know you're here. And just like you said, how it's fast and loud, yeah, faith had to get even louder for us.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

Yeah. Yeah. Like And that didn't happen overnight.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

Yeah, no, no, no, it didn't. But we knew this is it. Faith had to overcome that fear because we went through the depressions, we went through the stress, we went through everything in the first time.

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Yeah.

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The second time around, we learned God was always with us.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Always.

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And we just had to accept it. We had to trust in Him. There were moments of doubt, always.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

Always.

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Many moments of why me.

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But also there were many moments of peace that did not make any sense.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Oh, but that's faith, for sure. Not everything not everything is being perfect, but trusting anyway.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

Yeah.

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Because I don't know how to put it in words. I just had to trust.

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I can I can do it real quick.

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It's in this very special episode. Limitless tabletop.

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Will you stop it?

unknown 14:14

Lord I can't.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

No, but it's true though, like sometimes there's no words for that for that calm. It's like a peace, a calm. Where where it it almost doesn't make any sense. Because you're just like, I'm good. I know it's scary. And I know that I know that my person is in a very dangerous place. But I know that your hand is in this. And you're good, and we're good. We're good. It's that trust. It's that it's pointing at me.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

I was hoping that you would get it, but I didn't transfer it to you.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

No.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

Um, but that's what it was. It was just like this this this faith. This is just it's hard to explain. Once you once you have it, man, it's it's so much um literal peace. You you have grace and peace to just do anything and not be concerned, worried.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

I mean you're you're always concerned. I mean you're always concerned. And worried. But it's a different type of concern.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

That's what it is. That's what it is. It's more like, all right, what I what can I handle versus what can you handle, which is everything.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Right.

unknown 15:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

I just I just give it all to you. No, it's true.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

And we're good. And we're good.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

It it was very it the way I had described it was seeing myself at a road, and you tell me if this is how you saw yourself too. Seeing ourselves like on a road with two options. Like a fork, let's say. Yeah but two options. A, I go this way and I just get scared, feared, continue living the way you were, depressed, yeah, you know, everything, stressed, anxiety, everything. Shut myself from the world, or go over here to the right, B, and trust, have faith, have peace, and calm. Calm and trust. There's still some fear. You still go through some type of depression, that's normal, but it's different type of it's different, man.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

Right? You know, it's like you have you have this you know what it is, it's the humanness. There's a humanness to our beings that just carry certain things.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

No, it's true.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Like But once you hand over the majority of it, that other path, that clean, that that beautiful path is clear, man. It really is. One path you're you know, you've got all these obstacles, all these these rocks to climb. It's like a darker it's dark, you know, there's creepy trees because nothing can ever get out of my mind. The forest from Snow White. Okay. Oh my goodness, that is the creepiest forest.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

How do we end up with something of Disney? Of course.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Okay, so now that you Disney Now that you said that's in your mind.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

Ruin my sound up. Yes. Now that you said that it's in your mind that the tree and all that, that's something that nobody really talks about. Now, mind you, this is just our experience.

SPEAKER_03 18:02

Correct.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Our opinions, what we've been through. Everyone's different. This is just you got your own path to walk. This is our path. We're just laying it out. People don't talk about the mental battle of it. Like, people don't talk enough about the mental side of this, of health scares. Living with something like, for instance, congestive heart failure, heart attack. It's not just physical.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

No, there's a mental game to it, you know. Recovering from a heart attack, your mind goes everywhere. And and then when you when you when you realize that Google becomes your worst enemy.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Stop Googling symptoms, Fern. Please stop.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

And then you're like, you're like, you know, what is it? What was the statistic that got me, which was like 80% of people that have a heart attack will have a heart attack within the first year of having that heart attack, another heart attack.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Guess what? It's been six. It's been six. Well, no, it's been five. Five and a half. You had it in a December.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So five years and God. So five years and God.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

We have not had any heart attacks.

SPEAKER_03 19:11

Just that one. Amen. So just the one. But that's what I'm saying. Like all of a sudden, within that first year, I'm reading all these things and I'm like, this is stop, Googling. This is terrible. This is terrible.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

It's like he had a headache. Oh my god, am I having a heart attack? Google said.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

Wait, wait. I have a little tingly in my finger. Is it am I having a heart attack?

SPEAKER_00 19:33

And it's like, no, you were laying on that arm for so long.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

Well, now that makes more sense.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

But but listen, according to Google, I've died 25 times already.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Like, but seriously, seriously talking. The anxiety, the waiting, the what-ifs, the whatnots, what what could I have done different. It's heavy, man. It really is heavy. It gets in your head.

unknown 19:56

It really is.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

It really gets in your brain. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

It's but see, that's that's where the faith comes in and it grounds you.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Yeah, it grounded me. Um prayer became less. Um, now this is for me. Prayer be prayer became less about asking why and more about finding peace, if that can make sense to you.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Well, to me, yes, it makes sense because that's that's how it works for me too.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

But it's not just about faith.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

Because it's not about asking for things or or about about uh, you know, like you say, asking why? Why me? Why me? Why is this happening to me? Why all of a sudden you sound like Jerry Seinfeld. Why is this happening again?

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Or like or like what did I do to this?

SPEAKER_03 20:54

How did I get this? What did I do? Did I eat a clogger burger from Krusties? You see what I did there?

SPEAKER_00 21:02

I saw what you did there. Yeah. But yeah, it becomes it used to be the why me, what did I do? Um, you know, I don't know. Like it it so many different things go through your head.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

But then peace.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Yeah. Well, you had to learn to get to peace.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Yeah. It's like, you know, I what I do, what I do a lot of times now is I put on the most aggressive, angry punk rock music. And I find peace in that.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

That is just the weirdest thing.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

You know?

SPEAKER_00 21:39

It's the weirdest thing ever. Like all of a sudden it's like and I'm like, Zen. And yet I'm on the other side going, like I'm climbing the walls, man.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

But but it's not just about peace, it's not just about the scares or anything. It's also Like the support.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

The support is huge.

SPEAKER_03 22:03

That's the thing. We didn't go through it alone.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Yeah. We you don't. You have like family, friends, and honestly, even strangers sometimes. That's true. Like strangers that become family or just acquaintances.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

Sometimes, you know, because you're in you're in a situation and you're in a thing and all of a sudden you're like, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

You didn't expect that to come out.

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Yeah. I didn't expect this this out uh overpouring of of of of help, of of assistance, of people. There's so many things happening behind the behind the the scenes that sometimes we don't even know. But someone talks to someone who talks to someone who talks to someone, and now all of a sudden everyone is helping you, everyone is praying for you. And you didn't even know.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Oh, and it mat and it matters a lot more than people realize. But to me, besides all that, my biggest support were you and the kids.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Because we live in the same house.

unknown 23:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

So we're constantly together.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

And I don't think I would have gotten through everything without you guys mainly. Because you guys were in the everyday life.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Um, situations. But people don't realize that checking in, praying for us, you have a text goes such a long way. It totally shifts your perspective on things.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

It really does.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

You you start appreciating things you took for granted. Like just a t like you said, just a text.

SPEAKER_03 23:54

A little text. Um, it goes so far. You know, sometimes sometimes you take for granted waking up. You know how many times you wake up and you're like, oh I work today.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

It's Monday. Oh, the dreaded day of the week.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

But you have another day. That you probably shouldn't have had five five years ago, fourteen years ago.

SPEAKER_03 24:27

How many times do you wake up and you're like, you know? Thank you. Thank you for letting me wake up today. Thank you for giving me another shot. Every day. At this. Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

But I it wasn't always like that. It wasn't always like that.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

But now it is. Now it's like, man, you know, thanks for getting yeah, it's Monday. Mondays, uh Mondays suck. But I'm here. Hey, you know what? I got a chance to make this Monday my Monday. I got a chance to make this Monday my motivational Monday. Who thinks of that? This guy. Who thinks of that? This guy. Um okay. I'm sorry. This guy. This guy. Um we're gonna make Mondays motivational moving forward. What we're gonna do now is we're gonna make sure that Mondays are the day that you wanna get up for because you wanna get on that grind, you wanna get on that grateful train. Yeah, you want to get on the joy of just, you know what? You're breathing. You're breathing, and you have a chance to do great things every single day. Why why not Monday?

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Well, I've had people tell me, man, you never complain about feeling bad or trust me, it ain't happy go lucky, having congestive heart failure. There's some days, and you know it, I have worse days than others. But you know what? In my mind, like I always try to stay positive, and you know that because you always make fun of me for being positive because you're like, you're always so positive.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

It's like, oh, here's positive patty again.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

And I don't know who Patty is, but yes, positive net.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

It's uh it's not you know, anyway. It's better than negative net.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

But but I always see it as for some reason there's someone out there who might be going through something worse than me.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

That's right, because at this very moment, you've become new life mat.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, there you go. You I'm not Pat anymore. No Patty. Um, but it it's true, and I always tell other people that that have told me, Oh, uh, when I say, Oh, how you feeling, and they're like, Oh, I don't feel this, this, this, this, this, they start listing everything they feel. I'm like, have you ever thought that there might be someone right now? There's someone going through a scare, a health scare, and they might be alone. They might not have support. Yeah, I feel for those for those people. Like, if that if that's you, we're here for you. Like, we're here. Just send us a message. You don't have to go through anything alone, in all honesty. It's true. It's okay to be. And it might not have to be about health scare.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

No, no, it could be anything.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

It could be fear of life, fear of something. We're here, we've we've seen some things in our lives already. We've we we've been around. Yeah, I mean, you know, not necessarily just on ourselves, it's just other stuff. You're not alone, and that's how I see it. I always tell people there's someone else worse. Be grateful for what you got right now, and then let's find that person and help them. That is true. It it's very true, and but I don't want people to think that we're just referring to health scares, it's not just about health, guys. No, it could be anything. Mental health, mental health is huge.

SPEAKER_03 28:05

Mental health is huge.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

It's a huge one. You you're not alone.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

No.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

If you don't have like a support system, you don't have anything like that, we're here. Fern and Nap.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

We're here. Reach out. Hit us up. You know, we're at Instagram at limitless couple305. Go ahead and send us a message.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Hit us up. We're here for you. We'll listen to you, we'll talk, we'll chat, we'll help you get, we'll help you get help. Like you're not alone, but just sitting together like like this right now is awesome. Arguing about what we're gonna eat later, it's it happens. That's never gonna go away. But fear and and the depression and the anxiety and all that, you can help that go away.

SPEAKER_03 28:52

You can. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's also a uh a number you can if you're if you're in a crisis, you can always dial 988 from your phone. And uh, that was good. Yeah, I didn't know that. That's the crisis hotline. Uh I'm sorry, crisis lifeline. Yeah. So you dial 988 from your phone, you can chat, you can text, you can call. They are always available 24-7 in English and in Espanol.

unknown 29:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

I mean, if there's one thing I'd say, our health scares and diagnosis, it changed us.

SPEAKER_03 29:32

It did.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

It it it did. It it changes you. It changes you in a good way. Ow! These new microphones, sorry guys. Like Fern has like new mic stands and I do a thing with my dad once in a while. Um, it is in my way now because it happens. What can I tell you? Anyways, I'm sorry. I had to readjust this microphone situation. Where was I? Okay, so it changes us. It it truly does. The diagnosis, scares, and all that, but it changes us in a good way.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

We slowed down.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

I feel like we prioritized what actually matters.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

And we leaned into faith more than we have ever have before.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Well, not just when things went bad, but every day. We we instilled it in in our lives. Um it's I don't know how to explain it. Like, I really don't know. Like, okay, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell you. It's amazing. That's all. It's amazing. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

That's all. Like, to make it simple. You lean and you got somewhere to lean on.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Is that why you're leaning towards Disney?

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Yes. Yes.

unknown 31:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

There's nothing like Disney.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

But it's not good for you. But anyway.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

What are you talking about? Listen, I just I just knew I knew we were gonna go right. I'm gonna tell you that to it. There's a guy that I follow. You know what he does every day? He walks Disney every day. He walks the park. He lives in California. We don't live there. Listen to me. We don't live there. Listen to me. He walks the parks every day. The guy has lost almost a hundred pounds walking the park every single day.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

The problem is you'd want to buy stuff.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Not if I go there every day. I don't think so because I'd be like, oh, this is wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

Babe, we don't live near it.

SPEAKER_03 31:57

It's not the point. We just need to go.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

Every day you're gonna drive so many hours.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

Just to work out? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Go to Target.

SPEAKER_03 32:12

It's not the same.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

They have a Disney section.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Oh, you're so brutal.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

I'm just saying. You're gonna be close to Disney in a month. You'll be close. You can almost touch it.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

So brutal.

SPEAKER_00 32:29

You can almost touch it.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

So brutal. I'm gonna tell you this. Walt would be so proud of that dude. And he would be so proud of us. We just went up there.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

Okay. In a month, we're gonna be in Orlando.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

Okay, so we'll go to Disney Springs.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

And you're gonna go to Disney Springs. Nowhere there for. What are we there for?

SPEAKER_03 32:53

Oh I've got to sinter through this thing. I mean, it's gonna be great. It is the proudest moment as parents. Our son. Yeah, it's great. Wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Our son is graduating with a bachelor's.

SPEAKER_03 33:11

Yes, it's fantastic. It's I'm proud. Proud papa. Okay? I'm proud.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Is that what he calls you?

SPEAKER_01 33:19

He calls me the.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

He calls me the Oh, now that we're on the topic and I need witnesses so you don't yell. I found out you told me. Don't you dare asked me to ask them at the university if when he gets his diploma we can leave. Because he's one of the first people.

SPEAKER_02 33:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

They said no. We have to sit through the whole thing. He can't leave until it's all done. Oh. Why would you we have to be there at 12 30 and it ends by four something? They already told me.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

Oh, it's like torture. Oh, I mean, congratulations to all you kids graduating. Congrats. Wonderful. I'm so excited for you. Let my kid get his paper. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

He will get his paper. He's like one of the first ones.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

He's not his last name, but.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Yeah.

unknown 34:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

He has. They already told me it starts like at 12 30. Well, we have to be there at 12 30. Make the line for them to open the doors. It doesn't end till about four or something.

SPEAKER_03 34:36

We gotta make the line.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

It'll be like Disney.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

We gotta stand there for rope drop.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Basically.

SPEAKER_03 34:45

And then we just gotta sit there. I'm taking my headphones. I'm taking my beats with me. My beats are going with me. And all of our kids are coming. Well, they're gonna have to deal with me with my beats on. I'm gonna look like that guy.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

All the kids are coming with me.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

I'm gonna look like that guy. In a killer suit with some cool sneakers. Killer kicks.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

And my beats on. Guys, he wants to wear white sneakers with all black.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

To a graduation. Mind you, I'm wearing a nice outfit.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

And like this is a nice outfit. Here's the question. This is a nice outfit. You you don't you're not you're not into the hype. You're not tapped in. Oh my god. Chica. Oh my god. You're so not tapped in, Chica. You gotta get yourself tapped in. Once you're tapped in, then you'll know the hype. I'm gonna look so fresh, so clean.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

I feel like I might be overdressed. Like, how dressed up do you go to a graduation?

SPEAKER_03 35:49

We need help with this.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

Okay, so we're going to a graduation, a university graduation.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

It's a university graduation.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

In the afternoon.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

In the P.M. It's not the evening.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

It's in the afternoon.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

I mean, maybe by the time we get out of there, it'll be the evening.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

Okay, we're doing dinner afterwards. You better take snacks. Like, how dressed up should I go? Like, I bought an outfit, but now I feel like I might be too dressed. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

I I I don't know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

I gotta find out.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

I'm concerned.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

Like, this is serious now, guys.

SPEAKER_03 36:24

I'm not wearing a tie.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Yes, you are. I'm ordering a tie. I already ordered it for you.

SPEAKER_03 36:28

I'm not wearing a tie.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

I was going to wear a tie. Now we're no longer wearing a tie.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Why not?

SPEAKER_03 36:35

Because of my concern.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

But it's easy for you to take off the tie when we get in the line of rope drop, basically. I can't change my whole outfit.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

I'm gonna wear a jacket.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

I thought you said you were not wearing a jacket. I am wearing a jacket. We're doing this on the way not wearing the tie. We're having this discussion on air.

SPEAKER_03 36:51

You brought it up.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

I know I didn't. Because I wanted help.

SPEAKER_03 36:54

It's your fault.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

I wanted help in this. Like, how dressed up should we go?

SPEAKER_03 36:59

We do need to uh you know what? We're gonna put up a poll at some point.

SPEAKER_00 37:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:05

At some point. We're gonna put up a poll and see how dressed up should we go. And we'll give you like different options so you can select from. Because I like those polls where they have like ABC. Because I always select those. I don't like the slidey polls. You know what I'm talking about? The ones that have the little slidey thing that's like, uh little happy face or a little fire symbol. I'm not into those polls. Like, do you like it? Yeah. Average answer is duh.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

Like, this is typical us guys. We started off with a very serious topic, and somehow the chaos has started. But with all this chaos that we have begun, because for some reason we're doing this on the air. It was just a simple thing. It was a simple thing.

SPEAKER_03 37:58

It was a simple thing that you brought up because you have a problem. She has a problem being tapped in. Oh, because she's not tapped in. You're still not tapped in. Don't you know? Have you not seen the tuxes? Everybody's wearing tuxes, but they got Jordans on. Tapped in. Tapped in. That's what I'm going for. I'm going for a nice suit with J's.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

Oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

And they're nice J's, too. Hopefully they'll get here on time.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Okay. So we're we're we're doing this chaos situation, which is this is our real life, guys. This is really happening. Um, but let's be honest, if we go back to the topic, we probably wouldn't be like as excited about this right now because we'd be scared or or anything like depressed.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

But anyways, you're you're you're correct.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

This this is our life right now. You're correct. We're debating about what to wear to a graduation. When in reality, we all know there's gonna be somebody wearing jeans and a t-shirt. There is no doubt that that is gonna happen. But here I am worried. Am I overdressed? Not worried about anything else. Right now, the world could be crumbling around me, and I'm just worried about what am I gonna wear to this thing? Because we have three and a half weeks, and we have no idea what we're wear what we are wearing, but anyways.

SPEAKER_03 39:42

Oh, I know what I'm wearing.

unknown 39:45

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

Okay, whatever. I asked your son what he was wearing under that robe.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

First of all, that is a bizarre way to put it together.

SPEAKER_00 39:57

I said, What are you gonna wear? It's because there's no because there's instructions that he can only wear like dress pants and as he should be wearing dresses. Have you met the child? He doesn't dress like that.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Have you met the child?

SPEAKER_00 40:17

He doesn't dress like that.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

I know what he should be wearing some some really tapped-in clothes. So I have a nice, a nice suit.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

I don't know what he's wearing. He hasn't answered me. He says, Oh, I'll figure it out, mom.

SPEAKER_03 40:31

I'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

Oh, I don't know like in what voice, but he probably said it just like this.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

He just said, I'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

We'll see what it is.

SPEAKER_00 40:43

He did say something about maybe something similar to what he what he wore in high school. And I said, I hope it's not the same clothes that probably doesn't fit you anymore. It probably is, but anyways. So just to wrap up a little. Uh I don't know where I was going. Oh, I'm sorry. So, like we said, if you're going through something right now, health, fear, uncertainty, you're not alone, guys. And it's okay to be scared. Are you with me? You're not jumping in today? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

Um, you were in the middle of a thing. I wasn't gonna interrupt your middle of the thing.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Are you looking at shoes?

SPEAKER_03 41:24

I am looking at shoes. I'm always looking at shoes.

SPEAKER_00 41:26

Alright, guys, you're not alone, and it's okay to be scared, but just don't stay there. Okay? Don't stay there, guys. That's important.

SPEAKER_03 41:37

Lean on your people. Lean on your faith. Lean on whatever gives you strength because you don't need to lose hope.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

Ever. Ever, man. Ever. That's true. That was wise. That was very, very wise.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

You know, once in a while, I try to throw a nugget.

SPEAKER_00 42:01

No, I can see. You throw like two little nuggets there. Three.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

Anyways, thank you guys for being here with us today. This one really, really meant a lot to us.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

It really did. This was definitely one of our realest episodes.

SPEAKER_01 42:17

It was um a very special episode of Limitless Table Talk.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

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SPEAKER_03 42:31

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SPEAKER_00 42:36

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SPEAKER_03 42:38

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SPEAKER_00 42:47

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SPEAKER_03 42:49

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SPEAKER_00 43:00

We'll be back next week with a little more chaos. As always. That was your I was waiting for your throat to make that noise.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

There it is.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

Anyways, as always, chaos. Till next time.

SPEAKER_03 43:16

Period.