Hey, guys, I need to ask you a question. I want to know why in the hell are you not on Patreon? I don't think you guys even realize how much content we have on Patreon. Let me break it down for you. We have the Bunny XO Show, we have Meet the Deforts, we have Papaganda, we have more shows that we're adding. And not to mention, we have the visuals of the podcast. Not only that, we have four tiers that caters to everybody's budget and everybody gets the podcast. There's no more excuses. Head over to www. At patreon. Com/dumblonpodcast and sign up. Stop missing out. We have built a huge community over there, guys. I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of people over there. We even have live chats, live chats that I actually am talking in every single night. Last but not least, we give away gifts every freaking month. I'm talking like signed stuff from Jay and I, lives. You just never know what surprise you're going to get. It's like a cracker jack box. I love the community that we've built over there at Patreon. If you are already a Patreon member, I freaking love you, dude.

Thank you so much. You guys are my babies for life, my writers. If I could, I would literally make out with each and every one of you. I love you guys so much, and that's a lot of kisses, actually. Got to go buy.

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I don't even know how to open these.

It's like a new segment, right?

Okay. Yeah. So guys, we're doing a new segment that is going to be- Ask, tell, confess. Ask, tell, confess. So if you are a part of my Patreon, go over there. As long as you're a paid member, you can ask, tell, or confess anything, and we will talk about it. Is it weekly? Weekly. Weekly, babies. So in between podcasts, you're going to be getting these little blippers of our life.

And also the little updates.

Yeah. A lot of- A lot of- Yeah, little life updates, little ask, tell, confess. But we just wanted to tell you what is going on so that you don't log on and be like, What the hell? We got a new podcast? Nope, it's just me, bitches. Surprise. Surprise. Wait, what's that?

Surprise, motherfucker.

No, what's that TikTok? Surprise, surprise.

You do that so well.

All All we have to do is hear one sound, and it's just weird. I think what I need to do with you guys this week instead of doing the Ask, Tell, Confess, and we'll start with the next week. This is our announcement. Make sure that you get into Patreon. Go to Patreon. Com/dumb blondepodcast. Go sign up so you can be a part of this because it's going to be a lot of fun. I used to do it every week on my Instagram, and now I will only be doing it on Patreon, and so it drops for you guys. I I think what we need to talk about is the freaking elephant in the room of the fucking nightmare I just went through.

This week has been stressful.

Bro, Mimi has been sick. I fucking got a fucking death scare. It has been wild. And you guys, I'm coming to you and letting you know what happens. So I've been getting headaches. I talked about it a little bit online, and then the doctor. We'll talk about that later, too. So I've been getting headaches, and I noticed that it was after I would eat certain foods. I don't know if it was high in salt or something, because I don't eat bad. You guys know I literally live a very fucking boring life and diet because I'm trying so hard to just rewind all the fucking drug-induced trauma I did to my body and alcohol trauma I did to my body growing up. So when I got this news, it was really a punch in the stomach. But anyways, I was having headaches. So my girl, MJ, actually sent me a TikTok about I have aneurysms. And for some reason, my body reacted to that TikTok crazily. And I'm talking like, I actually think I might have accidentally manifested it because I had a panic attack. And in that moment, I reached out to my doctor and I was like, it's two o'clock in the morning.

I can show you guys the DM. And it's four o'clock in the morning at fucking Nashville time, but we were in LA. And I was like, Danny, I need to get in to the doctor. I need to get an MRI, an MRI, and figure out why I'm getting these headaches. And And in that moment, I was just like, Oh, my God, why is my body reacting like this? Do I have an aneurysm? It was so fucking weird. And so anyways, I go in, I get the MRI, MRA done. And the first time I got it done, I refused it with contrast because I don't want those fucking heavy metals in my body, thinking that nothing was going to come back. Well, I get the call from my doctor, and she tells me, Hey, Bunny, everything looks great. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, They think they might have found an aneurysm on your carotid artery. When I tell you, you guys, the blood from my head rushed to my feet, that was one of my biggest fears. My mom had an aneurysm, and it ruptured, and she almost died. But she ended up... My dad ended up getting her to the hospital in time, and she didn't die.

So my whole life, I've been checked for aneurysms because that's one of my biggest fears. I've been getting MRIs done on my head since I was a fucking teenager. As soon as I could learn to get them done, I did.

We both had them done in 2020 together.

Yeah, literally. So when she told me that, it was like one of my biggest fears coming to fruition. And in that moment, I know people live with aneurysms. I know that it's not that big of a deal, like some people have said. But to me, it was a huge deal because, one, I'm in a higher percentile of rupturing because my mom had one. I think your chances go from zero % of rupture to 50 % if you've already had somebody rupture in your family. Also, where it was located is in your carotid artery. I work out all the fucking time, so I'm like, Oh, my God, I can't work out. If somebody accidentally grabs me by my neck, if I'm having sex and I want to be choked, there was just so many things that went through my mind. I instantly just hit my knees and started praying. I balled my eyes out. I cried so hard. I pulled a muscle in my neck. And just after I gathered myself together, I cried for three days.

But this is when the doctor had called me. I was like, okay, we need another scan. And this time. Right.

So that same day, she said, Listen, because you didn't get contrast, let's get a CT scan. So this happened all in a three-day period. You want to talk about the emotions. So I go and I get the CT scan the next day, still bawling my eyes out, still crying, still praying. And the results come back the next morning, which is on... Let me think. It was Tuesday, right? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then I went to the doctor on Friday. Okay, so the CT scan comes back on The results were on Thursday. Thursday. And I can't sleep. I haven't slept. I'm literally, I'm sweating so bad. I have diarrhea. I have irritable bowel syndrome because I'm just so freaked out and stressed out. I dropped four pounds instantly, which, man, I wish I could go back to that because I felt so skinny. But anyways, they called me and they said, Yeah, it looks to be about a two millimeter aneurysm on your carotid artery. So I was like, that's it. There it is. I didn't realize that radiologists weren't and all tell all.

No, theirs is like a suggestion. Right.

Being an adult has its high points.

You can eat ice cream for dinner anytime, or if you want to stay up all night, you can. But it's not always fun. You You also have to do your taxes and figure out what's for dinner every freaking night.

I hate it.

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So immediately hang up the phone with my doctor. I get on the phone with a neurosurgeon, and I wasn't supposed to get in to August second. And praise the Lord, I didn't wait. And I was an advocate for my health. And I was like, please, if you guys get a cancelation, call me. I want to come in as soon as possible. They ended up calling me back that day and said, hey, we can get you in tomorrow. And I was like, I'm there. I wake up, I'm just sick. I'm literally meditating in the Meadow. I'm listening to Joyce Meyers. I'm just literally beside myself. And I just finally got to a point, and I think that this was the lesson in the entire situation was learning how to let go and have faith because I micromanage so much shit in my life that learning about something that you have no control over was just a pivotal point for me to where I didn't even ask God to not have it. I just said, Whatever your will is, I just want to know what the lesson is, and I just want you to pull me through it.

Because I'm finally to a point in my life where I love my life, I love my family. I could never imagine not being here for my husband. And I just, please, Lord, Don't take this from me. That's just all I need. And so I go in and I see the neurologist on Friday, and he was a sweetheart. It was at St. Thomas Medical. And we asked him before he started showing us the clips. I said, Hey, can we video this? Because you guys know I video my entire fucking life. So we're videoing it and he's going through it. And he's like, I really feel like this is normal. I I knew, and he said, I wish you had an aneurysm so I could fix your headaches. And I was just like, Hey, homie, slow your roll. I was like, I'm good. We don't need that. So I felt better. But now I have this doubt in my head, and I'm just like, he's not a vascular surgeon. So Mimi, being the fucking sweet little angel baby she is, found one of the best vascular surgeons in, not Nevada, Nashville, sorry, wrong city, in Nashville and had me get on calendar with him.

But he It wasn't until Tuesday. So we're on Friday. So I still have four days to fucking suffer through. And granted, I did feel better, and I felt like I could breathe, but at the same time, you're just like, I don't know. I need a second opinion. And he showed me these scans, and they looked fucking normal to me. And he even said, I don't know why the radiologist sent you in for this. So that made me feel better. And then there was a sweetheart surgeon that is a friend with my family in South Carolina, and he looked at the same records, and he said the same thing as the first surgeon. So technically, this would have been the third opinion, but I wanted a vascular surgeon to look at it. Yeah.

Someone who sees these so often that they would be able to identify any little markers.

Absolutely. So we get through the weekend. Monday, we're doing podcast in the new studio. I'm getting ready to do a podcast in the new studio. I'm in hair and makeup, and Mimi's phone rings, and we get this phone call. And it's the doctor from St. Thomas is literally reprimanding me and being rude as hell and told me that I need to take the TikTok down that I had made, telling everybody like, Hey, I am so relieved that I don't have this aneurysm. Here's my scans. Nothing was a HIPAA violation at all.

You also spoke very kindly of him.

Yes. And I asked him for permission if I could video this. And I told him that. I said, I asked you for permission if I could video this. And he said, Well, I didn't know you were going to go post it in a thousand places. I said, I posted it in one place, and it happened to get 4 million views. That's not my fault. What are you talking about? So he was just very fucking rude. And he's like, well, I have to discharge you as my patient. So I was stressed. I was like, oh, God, this is not a good sign. We're going in to meet the surgeon tomorrow. Like, For the love of God. So I took the videos down. If that's why you guys are wondering if the videos are down, that's why. Because the doctor fucking got in trouble and tried to take it out on me because he gave me permission to fucking... But I'm not trying to beef with the hospital. St. Thomas, shout out. You guys have always been so good to me. I will never, ever, ever, ever beef with you guys.

We took it down exactly like they asked.

Yeah, we took it down exactly like they asked. So Tuesday rolls around. I wake up in the morning. I'm just like, Fuck my life. Just a nervous wreck. Whatever. The call comes with the neurosurgeon, and he made a 3D model of my carotid arteries, that whole little area, which was really cool to look at. And we got that on video. And he said, There is nothing wrong with you. I am clearing you. He said, It's a blood vessel that matches on the other side of your carotid artery on the other end. And he said, This is just one of these things where I get to deliver good news. He said, if you want to go play tackle football, you can.

He said, you could bungey jump.

He said, I could bungey jump. He said, I'm so not worried about it that I want to see you back in three years. And I was like, No. I was like, No, my health anxiety will not allow that. I wanted to say six months, but I said, Can we do sooner? He's like, How about two years? I said, No, how about one? He's like, Okay, I'll see you back in a year. And he's like, I'm only going to do that because of your history with your mother. He's like, But once we do that scan and you're cleared, he's like, You're cleared for life. That was how the last eight days of my life have been, guys. I just want to tell you that it made me appreciate life so much. I know it sounds dramatic, but I don't know. It just really made me realize that none of this shit fucking matters, man. Family and the people that you love and the people that you surround yourself with every day is all that fucking matters, dude. None of this shit fucking matters. You can't take any of it with you. You just need to appreciate the people that are in your life.

No matter if they drive you up a fucking wall, man, look at them today and just be like, I love you. I snuggled up so much to my husband been these past few days. I think he even was just like, What the hell is going on? Because we're normally in our respectable corners. We have the biggest bed ever. But I call his side the trap house, and mine is the penthouse. And I just crawled out of the penthouse and went and laid in the trap house because I was like, well, if I'm going out, at least he knows I loved him. I'm so happy.

Everything turned out okay.

I don't know why God brings me through this shit, man.

Just testing the waters.

What's going on with you, though, Mimi?

We don't know yet. We'll wait on me. I'm just over here with strep throat.

Mimi has had strep throat six times this year, and she doesn't have fucking tonsils.

Yeah, not at all. And he said the part that they leave in of the tonsils that's connected to the body was really swollen, which when I had been dealing with this prior, they had said there could be something left in there. But I'm like, that does not mean I should get strep six times. I don't know. So we got to get my heart checked. That's the tachycardia scares Yeah.

Tachycardia is scary, man. It's really wild. But she did have sepsis last year, and it really took her for a ride.

I mean, it's similar to what you went through. It was a very scary moment.

Yours was more physical. Mine was more in my head. I couldn't imagine going through sepsis. I actually- Didn't you have to get almost a blood transfusion or something?

No. So what happened was they left me in the fucking waiting room for three hours. Thanks, St. Thomas.

Oh, shit.

So I went into the ER and I literally was like, I do not feel good. I feel like I'm dying. And they were like, so does everyone else in here go have a seat? And they left me there for three hours until Jason came back and found me after he could get the kids squared away and someone to watch the kids. And when he found me, I was slumped over in a chair in the waiting room, and he yelled for help. And they came over and my fucking BP was dropped out, and I was going into septic shock. So I was actually in the process of dying at that moment. And he He got me back, but then had to go pick up the kids. So once I was in the room, then that's when they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. And then I began to tank. I began to die. All my organs started to shut down, and they took everything Thank you to all the nurses and everyone who did end up saving my life. I really appreciate you. But I ended up being on this, not a dialysis thing, but it was where I was literally getting pumped full of antibiotics for days.

And that could be why the strep just lives in my body because it never actually goes away. It was because I was pumped so bad for so long. I think it was four straight days of antibiotics, if I remember correctly. And so now my body is like, oh, well, we know what to do with those, and we're stronger than that. So I think that's why he also wants me to see infectious control.

Son of a bitch, man. We're going to figure it out, and it's going to be a good thing. I feel like this is a running theme for us every year. At the top of the year, we always go through health shit. And then at the end of the... That's why we're like, We can't wait to get to tour. Once we get to tour, everything's okay. So we will be out on tour. We'll keep you guys up to date with Mimi's health stuff, too. And we're going to be hopping on tour. We're going to be at the Morgan Wallen concert, 8:8. And then after that, I don't think we're We can any appearances. No. That's another thing that we should actually talk about is if you guys are a member on Patreon, we have Bunny's Backstage Pass, is what we're calling it, where you can actually come and Then meet the crew, take a picture with us, and then you'll have to go back to your seats, of course. And the restrictions or the rules are... Go ahead, Mimi.

So you have to be subbed for the four months prior to the show that you are attending. You have to have a ticket to that show. And if you want to bypass that, you can just become an annual member of the top tiers. And that will also allow you access another frequently asked question that I can answer on here is that you guys are going to be like skipping all the lines. So you're skipping the line to get in. You're skipping the line to merge. You're skipping the line to everything because you are going to get in before gates actually open to see us and take the picture.

But you do have to have a ticket to the Jolly Roll concert. There's no way around that at all.

When they say sold out, they actually mean that they can't come up with new chairs. We are so sorry.

And like she said, if you want to bypass the four month thing, if you're just now going into sub, you can sub to be annual. And if you sub to be on the highest tier or the ring leader tier, that bypasses that. You guys come out, meet us, meet Tachi. Jay loves a good little meet and greet. He always pops in, just loves to meet you guys. We want to meet all of you and we want to see you. This was my way. I didn't want to do meet and greets like how they did last year because I felt like it was just so rushed and I didn't have any control of it. Whereas this, I can at least hug you guys, take a picture with you. We're just We've built such a big community over there on Patreon. There's 180,000 members.

It's like a-Yeah, shout out to Patreon.

Yeah, shout out Patreon, man. We fucking love you guys, dude. I've been going through so much shit, but I'm on there the majority of the time. Actually, my Patreon main attraction to your knew about the aneurysm scare before anybody. They've been praying for me, and I actually need to go and fucking update them. But yeah, it's been great with Patreon, and we just love you guys over there.

Shout out Patreon.

Yeah. So go sign up for Patreon. Do ask, tell, confess, where you can leave whatever you want. You can DM it to me. I usually I'll leave a post once a week, and we'll just go off of that, too. If you don't want it public, you can also just DM me on Patreon. But yeah, let's go, baby.

And you guys will start getting these updates weekly.

Yeah. Love you guys. Talk to you later. Bye. Bye.