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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] Daniel son is that our lead in every time I think the I think the rocking guitar is
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enough of a good lead in I'll tell you what's enough my friend on the captain and Morgan show we uh we always leaded
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in with some Steve Winwood or uh last week we did lead it in with uh here comes the bastards by Primus the Blue
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Jackets are up three to nothing in the first round of the NHL playoffs and I I know uh I have friends
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that live out of state that have never lived in the state of Ohio mhm and there like anytime somebody mentions the Blue
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Jackets or if I were to bring them up they don't know what that means or who that is like so what I'm getting at here
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is it seems like a lot of people that don't live here are unaware that we even have a professional hockey team and I
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think that that's I think their record reflects that that statement but right now they're rocking and rolling in the
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first round so I am looking forward to hopefully very soon a fourth Victory and I believe it'd be the first time that
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they would make it to the second round of the NHL playoff so that is my beacon of light for this week that I'm looking
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forward to last week and I do have to thank everybody out there and I wanted to make sure that we did it here on off
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the Record because this is our this is where the true hardcore garage Army lives and breathes and drinks and drinks
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and eats and smokes and does and sweats on each other and jogs around and does crowy kicks and we do wax on
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wax off lunges and squat thrust yeah lunges on top of each other's faces well I'm exhausted just talking about all
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that yeah I'm sweating uh but I wanted to thank everybody I received a lot of kind emails just telling me hey keep
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your chin up Nick or uh keep doing what you're doing crispy Colonel we love you buddy and and what I loved was it was a
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lot of words of encourage M and it was not really but nobody knew why well no but that's what's so nice is when when
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people are like hey whatever you're going through you you'll get through it you know or or whatever's going on we
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wish you the best it's not people trying to be nosy and like hey man what's what
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is it you know tell us but um so I I thought I would clue in the the hardcore garage Army uh because because it was
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special and it meant something to me that that people gave me those words of encouragement but last week um well
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actually I'll take you back to the start so about three maybe four weeks ago one
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of my dogs I've talked about the dogs on the show before especially when we were
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doing Bark Box ads all the time yeah um but one of my dogs was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago and the way that
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this broke down was I just thought that she had an injury to one of her legs this would
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have been one of her her hind legs and took her to the vet expecting maybe that she had injured herself somehow
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because this dog her name is Fay she's extremely athletic and just throws caution to the wind like this dog jumps
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fences like a daredevil yeah I mean I come out sometimes and she's standing on the not on the hood on the rooftop of my
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vehicle um so she just she just really goes for it and doesn't really really care she chases very loving dog though
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oh oh oh that that's the thing she loves people but anything with fur she wants to chase it and get it right so I just
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thought maybe she injured herself and took her in and they did an x-ray and they found a
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spot um and it's kind of hard to describe for for anyone who's not seen this before but it's really just like a
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white spot on the X-ray itself and the where I'm concerned that it's some kind of uh injury the the
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vet's telling me this looks like cancer right and so but you don't know for certain right away that's like you get
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the the bad news and then you have to wait to find out if it's in fact true we you know had to run more tests and
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several other visits and then once you find out for sure that it is cancer you have to make sure that it has not spread
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anywhere else in the body right so there I mean there procedures biopsy whatever
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and stuff that they have to do that make the dog very uncomfortable I mean nobody
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wants to be cut into and poked at and prodded and tested and so on and so forth and so that was all going on for
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weeks and it just kep kept kind of adding up and adding up and adding up to the point of I was I mean I was just
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extremely stressed out to the point where we typically record on Mondays and Tuesdays and they're fairly long days
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yeah and so the Sunday before we went to record on Monday last week it was one of those
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things that just have you ever been so stressed out Captain where you just like all all you can imagine doing is lying
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in bed or sleeping I'm there I'm there right now well for me looking back I can only think of four five times that
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that's happened in my life yeah but I'm I feel like I severe depression so I I just want to stay in bed every day
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so that's but I get what you're trying to say yeah so so on that Sunday I think I went to bed at like 5 it was something
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ridiculous like 5:30 6 p.m. and and and then then I came in here on Monday and had had a good time with you recording
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the show doing work it helped keep my mind off of what was happening yeah we've been having some good shows lately
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yeah and and and I was having some fun in the garage and the Amy Hooper case I'm I'm
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extremely passionate about it's it's one of my pet cases yeah and so I was really
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looking forward to covering that last week and and have met uh well have spoken to her family and they they are
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such great people and her sisters are great her mother's great I'm praying praying that they get the answers that
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they deserve um soon well and a lot of people were commenting on how you know we always kind of talk about it
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when we're recording cases because a case can be depressing or it could be it could get your head out of the
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game but and we kind of talk about energy like when when we're trying to produce the show we're trying to
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keep not good energy but Just Energy so we're not putting each other to sleep with our comments or putting people to
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sleep while they listen to the information we're giving and that case particularly because you're so close to
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it people are like oh I love you know the passion uh that Nick has for this case well and the other thing that the
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the driving force on that for me is Amy's mother Joy now she's in very good health so I don't want anybody to think
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you know otherwise she's in very good health but she's 80 years old and she doesn't know yeah what happened she
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doesn't know who's responsible for taking her daughter away from her from this world and I'm I'm just you know the
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driving force for the motivation for covering that case and working on it and doing some things behind the scenes a
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lot of things behind the scenes on that case was knowing that her parents are getting up there in age and and and
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really hoping to push the envelope so anyway the through all these tests and and and whatnot regarding my dog fay
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fay the other difficult thing and and you know you and I spoke about some of this on the phone and you were you were
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nice to to let me uh kind of lay this on you on the phone vent yes thank you um one of the really troubling things with
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this for me was that she just turned seven years old it's not we're not talking about um an an older dog and and
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actually my my other dog is 14 it's she's at the age where you almost expect something at some and so with this dog
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that's been she's incredibly loving incrediable she's got the mind and personality of like a a puppy you know
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how some dogs never really grow out of that puppy playfulness and and attitude yeah and so I even think of her as a
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younger dog than her actual years and then to be told this it was like I mean it was
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devastating then there was a little light at the end of the tunnel uh finding out that the cancer as far as we
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know because it's not I mean there could be h a hidden cell somewhere but we've I've been told
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that there there is no cancer anywhere else in her body that they that they can find at this moment right so that that
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is awesome um but the result was we had to amputate her leg and I know I sound very even talking about it now I've
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sound very down about this I probably should be a little more pey and happy about the situation because it could
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have been a lot worse um but when we were here recording on Tuesday yeah is when they were taking my dog's leg so
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um just knowing that was yeah taxing uh to say to say the least so I got a little heavy-handed
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with the drinking on on Tuesday and and I wish I wouldn't have done that but uh which was funny because uh we we paused
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for one break and I was like okay and then oh he's cracking open another one okay then by the end of that break he's
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cracking open another one okay I guess he's going to be hanging out in the garage most of the night and then I kept
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on looking at my watch cuz I had stuff I had to do to you know release the show and try to get some stuff out on social
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media real work stuff and you just kept looking at me like hey may you want me to leave I'm like what you can you can
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do whatever you want then next thing you know half my refrigerator is empty from
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uh all my nice beers that you decided to um Bogart yeah I I I could put him down
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and I appreciate you it helped helped take my well I don't know that my mind was ever off of it and that was the
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problem um but so a little to bring everybody up to speed that surgery went well as good as it can go um it's uh
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a very difficult thing for the dog to go through um and so she's heavily medicated quite a bit and was a little
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confused in the first few days as would be expected and and there's a lot of pain that goes into
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that and there's also a lot of refiguring out a lot of things for her for herself and for me you know because
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we have uh different apparatuses and things that that um we have to use at the moment but she's doing great is she
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going to get a wheel no no there there will be no wheel um most of the time a dog that that loses just especially with
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a when it's only one leg they they really adjust to that and she has adjusted like I said she's very athletic
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so she's adjusted very well when she still had the leg it was it was bad enough and it was painful enough even
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though she was being medicated for it it was painful enough that she was probably
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only using it maybe four or 5% of the time for days maybe a week before the actual surgery right so in a way she's
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kind of she kind of adjusted going into it but now the difficulty of you know her body weight and shape has changed
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and form has changed and so she's adjusting to that the main thing I have to do right now
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keep her comfortable but also make sure that she's not going to mess with the wound right the stitches yeah yeah so
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that's been really the the the um the state of the situation as it stands now but one thing I do have to
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say it it's it's weird because um you know we we find inspiration a lot of times when we don't
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go looking for it and maybe sometimes we find it when we need it the most most but with her was amazing because I I've
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never seen somebody with such a good spirit to say that she's soldiered through this is not to give her does not
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give her enough credit her spirit has been amazing through this whole thing and it's really been inspirational to me
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you know God forbid you know you don't want to have to suffer any type of injury to this magnitude or to lose a
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limb or to be diagnosed with something severe but to see somebody handle it um in that way and I know she's a dog and I
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I know there's probably some people out there going she's just a dog she's a dog
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but but to see something that traumatic for her to go through and to be to not change you know her personality is the
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same her spirits are high she's still very personable still very loving and not mad at you well right now she's a
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little more loving than than she she was before probably because she needs some you know comforting right but it's but
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also probably feels I mean could you imagine what those cancer cells were doing to her overall body right right
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and so where once I had tears of of really of of just kind of fear and like and a bit of confusion too because when
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you when you make that that decision you're like am I doing the right thing is her quality of life going to be you
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know and I was reassured by the vets and everybody this is the this is the best thing and she will adjust but once what
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once were tears of apprehension are now kind of tears of of being proud of her and and how inspiring she has been just
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to me on a very personable level uh and I was able to work from home a few days last week and so I spent a lot of time
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and that was a lot of time of balancing between work and and other obligations and being there for her uh you know day
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and night for a while so it's been a roller coaster ride but I want to thank everybody for uh reaching out for the
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nice emails it meant a lot and it was it was much needed and I didn't get a single
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email so so I'm but I'm doing okay guys I'm doing okay C Captain's doing well yeah he's doing well but but thanks for
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your thoughts and your and your prayers [Music] [Applause]