Episode Transcript: #1119 - Howard Bloom
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Try to keep this about a fist away from your face. Okay the best length. How's this a little closer if you can
Good we're live. Oh, we that was quick. Oh, you're a wizard over there. Mr. Bloom. Yes, Joe
Thanks for doing this man. I appreciate it. Well, we were in a film together
So we've been like right next to each other on celluloid. What film are we in?
That was the culture high that's Brett Harvey and it's you me Richard Branson and Snoop Dogg. Oh
Good company. Yes, right
Yeah, so you were just saying right before we did the podcast you were in bed for 15 years
Yeah, I was I got sick in 1988
I wasn't able to make it out of that bed until 2003 but Joe I was absolutely certain I would never make it out of that bed
What did you have it's called these days this month. It's called ME
CFS up until now was just known as chronic fatigue syndrome CFS
But it's real serious if you get a bad case of it
So I was too weak to talk for five years too weak to talk you didn't talk at all not a bit
I didn't have the strength to puff out even a syllable
and I
Was too weak to have another person in the room with me for five years
You couldn't have a person in the room my stress levels were off the charts and the slightest thing
Would just a crack my wife tried to keep me company
So we have this big king-size bed and she would lay in bed reading a
newspaper and the sound of the page turning went through me like a cannonball and