Rhett's Severe Injury

what's wrong with you man let's talk. about that I'm Sam from Lester. Massachusetts Good Mythical. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning thanks for. joining us today this episode is brought. to you by the store meaning ours go to. rent link.com / Store buy all types of.

merchandise support entertainment and. cover potential medical. bills. uh would you allow me to give an. introduction here sir you are allowed. speak freely okay thank you R okay. people listen we do the show Good. Mythical Morning every weekday for you. uh this is special to us I thank you for. making it special to you um because it. is a time for us to connect you know. when you make make it a part of your.

daily routine it we become family and I. feel like there are certain points when. we're connecting that you get to know us. that if there's something that one of us. or both of us is going through that you. could be clued into that that you might. even see pain on our faces at certain. points ladies and gentlemen mythical. beasts everywhere let me tell you that. I've become aware of a problem an. Affliction a pain that my friend Rhett. here has that I've asked him to speak to.

you about today because you know what. we're family or something we're friends. we're acquaint well you're an audience. and it's and this is. important or he at least can't hide it. from you and um I just thought it would. be appropriate so I've asked him to join. us. today and to share to share a little bit. about umis his his personal pain this. about myis no not that one the the back. thing oh you got something on your shirt.

here too so that's the first things out. of the way whatever was floating out of. your hair into your soris probably into. your shirt I've removed that um I if you. listen closely and you watch Good. Mythical Morning on a regular basis you. may have picked up on the fact that a. couple days ago when we were doing a. thumb war uh as a result of the mythical. wheel landing on thumb war yes that I. complained about uh my back and that's. why I lost and I'm still going to say. that's why I lost I typically did not. lose contest although I have lost two in. a row and I'm going to chalk it all up.

to the fact that ladies and gentlemen. for approximately the third or fourth. time in my life I have a ruptured disc. oh it even sounds painful the word. rupture it hurts me to even say it um. it's you might call it I don't know. there's different names for it bulging. ruptures all I know it is is it is very. painful and uh it Happ I don't know if. it's because I'm 6' 7 yes I'm extremely. tall welcome to the party uh it puts a.

lot of Leverage on my back I've had back. problems since I was a teen that's a. teenager that's from the ages of 13 and. 19 I'm just making sure everybody. understands what I'm talking about. sometimes I just feel the need I have to. clarify everything you know to minimize. it's like the the the levity with which. you're delivering what you're talking. about it's like you're giving a. disposition to like Congress or. something well it's like I'm speaking to. like a uh ladies and gentlemen of. Congress I'd like for you to know that. I've had back trouble since the age of. since a te defined as ages 13 to 17 19.

19 is still a teen you don't feel like. it anymore but you're technically still. a teenager um anyway I've had back. problems for a long time and starting in. college I would get uh and I've had. lower mid and upper back problems i' had. side upper lower set left I just have a. lot of back problems and I've tried yoga. and exercises and some well let's not. get to what you I've had it under. control from time to time but it has. happened again and I am uh nearly.

immobilized Leah let me ask you at this. point right now if you were to rate your. pain level from a zero to a 10 that's. what they do in hospitals what would you. rate it a 10 being that you're you're. you're in a torture device a zero being. you're on some sort of anti-torture. drug okay so that's like pleasureful a. pleasure. drug um or a pleasure Cruise as I sit. here right now with you not moving. supporting myself with my elbows um I'd.

say it's it's about a four right now now. if I try to get up it will become a s. to8 and if I try to get out of the bed. in the morning it becomes like a i' go. as far as a 9 meaning. that like I like it gets if I sleep on. it wrong or and I have to CH and last. two nights now that I've had this I've. been. sleeping um on my back and then on one.

side and the other side and I keep. waking myself up because it really. begins to hurt and then trying to get. out you you should I am like a whale. trying to roll out of bed let me put it. this way so I come to Rhett's house and. I blow the horn to pick him up a couple. mornings ago and he comes out he opens. his gate and comes out and walks down he. gets in the car every day that's what. happens well this time I blow the horn. he doesn't come blow the horn again and. then finally I see a hand come over the. gate and like open the gate and then I. see a guy who looks like Rhett in terms. of like his hair and his stature and the.

type of clothes he would wear but the. way that this guy was walking he looked. like a 98y old man coming down the null. but it was red you were just walking. like a 98y old man and then he proceeds. to open the car door and take the next 8. minutes no exaggeration getting in the. car was I'm like do you want me to pull. on something do you want me to like put. your head watch your head like a cop. getting in a car here's the problem we. made a decision sad we made a decision.

uh almost two years ago when we decided. to get a company car and we were in a. crunch for time we made a decision we. picked the Ford Fusion no it was my. decision okay because it was like this. is it was affordable they had a good. deal on it and it was the number one. rated sedan I was like sure we surely we. just need a sedan but sometimes I I. forget that I'm a really large man. especially trying to get into a sedan. with the ruptured or bulging disc I. can't get myself small enough the thing. that really hurts is bending over like I.

I have trouble getting my socks and. shoes on in the morning but I figured. out this morning if I get on the bed and. lay on my back like a like a insect. that's kind of stuck on its back and I. can get turtle I can get to my feet and. put the socks on not quickly now it took. me good five minutes to get my socks and. shoes on this morning dude you've got. two kids that's what they're. for put my socks and shoes on kids but. anyway I have to kind of get myself. socks on I try to get myself as small as. possible to get in and out of the car.

and that is one of the most painful. parts of my day is getting and I'm kind. of constantly out of breath because I'm. holding myself in a certain way as to. not hurt myself and when you stand you. kind of stand in a way Jas see if you. can capture capture this and tilt here. sorry for asking you to stand stand in. the most. comfortable way possible now I'm not. exaggerating as you can see my body goes. like this right now I I guess you can. see that because obvious in the picture.

Jason in the picture it's a video it's. not a picture is that is that obvious in. the many pictures that you are taking 24. rapid succession um I'm not exaggerating. this is me standing straight with this. issue now if I really try to straighten. up it gets very. painful makes you whistle too and I went. to a chiropractor at some point let's. sit back down who told me that you. should try to straighten it out oh and. that does make you feel a little bit. better it hurts initially but then it. starts hurting so good well hold on just.

sit back down man I don't want I I don't. like watching you in pain I don't think. I think that's why we're not going to. release this episode this is pretty. pathetic I think people at home are. going to be a couple of things are going. to happen I'm not going to release this. episode if we release this episode. people are going to feel sorry the whole. time and then the whole I need some. sympathy and then the second half of. their their feelings just going to be. going caval caded it's going to be a. Cavalcade of medical advice coming from. our audience listen listen I know your. dad's a chiropractor or your dad's an. orthopedic surgeon and I need to do this. please restrain yourself or a.

nutritionist or a psychic you probably. already done it many of you have already. commented by the time you got to this. point in the video please refrain from. giving me medical advice in the comments. I know what to do it's okay I'm going to. be okay I will recover I have a. professional that I'm seeing really and. I'm just telling them that so they'll. get off my back literally oh at the pun. now I I think here's one thing here's a. funny story because you know you know it. certainly would be nice to try to do.

something that's a little bit funny and. not so pathetic in this episode I think. I've been very funny uh about the about. the the way that you the way that when. you got when your back went out last. time it was right before we were going. to be on Conan two days before we were. going to be um on coning to promote. commercial Kings which is fabulous a. fabulous experience which I we haven't. talked to them about that maybe we can. go back we weren't doing good mythical. morning at the time um but anyway part. of Conan is they do a pre-interview with. like a producer you don't meet until. you're on the show and they ask you.

questions so they'll know what you're. going to answer and then they kind of. say all right we're only going to ask. you these questions so it's more. entertaining and it moves quickly blah. blah blah blah well one of the first. things we had to tell them because Rhett. had thrown out his back was he's thrown. out his back if he comes out it's he's. going to look like like like a wobbly. Frankenstein coming out on stage we're. going to have to talk about that on. Conan's show because it was going to be. embarrassing it was going to be. something that you can't walk out like I. was going to walk out like what's wrong. with this guy you have to address it but. we we said it would be a game time.

decision you know we were going to wait. and and I didn't want to have to talk. about it cuz I didn't want it to be. about me and I didn't want the. conversation to be about my back I. wanted it to be about our show or at. least just me yeah or just you link uh. so the thing that happened was is when I. got there uh my my back wasn't feeling. great definitely it was hurting but. there was a lot of adrenaline going. through me uh while we were on Conan I. was nervous I was excited and if you. watch the tape when I walk out I I can. tell that I'm hurting but I look like.

I'm just totally fine maybe that's what. we need to do now though is we need to. get you on ConEd again you'll have an. adrenaline rush but tell the people at. home how you threw your back out eating. a sandwich which time last time yeah. eating a sandwich well here I learned. later that the way a ruptured or bulging. disc happens is you you cause some sort. of trauma to it by putting some. compression on the spine and then 24 to. 48 hours later as it's beginning to be. inflamed it then pops out mhm as it. swells and then it hits a nerve and.

that's when you get a lot of pain it. shoots down your leg it's not pleasant. at all but the problem is is that if you. don't know what you if you don't know. anything like I didn't know anything at. the time you think the thing that you're. doing at that moment is the thing that. causes the pain so we were eating a. sandwich over in Burbank yeah and we. were outside you were sitting you. weren't sitting on the picnic table. bench you were sitting on the top of the. picnic table I remember that and I. remember you being like I just threw my. back out eating the sandwich I was. lifting the sandwich to my mouth and. that was. so but and so I can never figure out.

what it was I don't know what it was. this time we filmed a pretty involved. video this week you moved a mattress I. moved a mattress I bare hugged you in a. video even though you were standing on. an Apple box and so I tried not to I. don't know what it was I'm going to be. okay don't worry about me they are. worried about you right and I'm worried. about you you know I think our career is. on the line here if you don't get better. we're going to my choice give me a. massage man what give just make your. your choice about me give me a.

massage. softer it's good keep. [Music]. going yeah yeah. [Music].