Name: Trick Lung Mickey's One Year Transplantaversary Extravaganza | This Past Weekend #197
Uploaded: 2019-05-09T13:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trick Lung Mickey's One Year Transplantaversary Extravaganza | This Past Weekend #197' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-05-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trick Lung Mickey's One Year Transplantaversary Extravaganza | This Past Weekend #197' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-05-09. Transcript available.

Trick Lung Mickey's One Year Transplantaversary Extravaganza | This Past Weekend #197

Today's episode is brought to you by Ridge Wallet.
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And a while back, you know, they had a man named Mickey.
And he had cystic fibrosis.
And that's when your lungs just, they don't want to be lungs anymore.
And they start looking for the Lord.
But you still need them.
And Mickey got on the transplant list.
And we became associated with him here this past weekend.
And now it has been one year since Trick Lung Mickey got them new body bags,
them lungs, you know.
And this is the Transplantiversary Extravaganza.
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He was at the Comedy Store last night just checking out the vibes.
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And today's guest, it's been a year after his lung transplant.
We're going to learn a little bit about his journey with cystic fibrosis and
just get to see him here today in the flesh.
Ladies and gentlemen, Trick Lung Mickey.
I've been there, dude.
I did probably about, most people did Purbity in a couple of months.
Eight, probably, I bet eight years of Purbity, bruh.
Yeah.
You know?
Eight years?
Yeah, dude, I was a slow guy.
Like, you could hear, like, one hair, like, on a mustache and then, you know
what I'm saying, three weeks later.
I get you, man.
I feel like I'm still going through it.
Do you really?
Like a second one.
So what happened?
So coming to that, we got Trick Lung Mickey here right now.
And, man, thanks for being here with us today, man.
Of course, man.
Thank you very much for having me, man.
Appreciate it.
Mickey and I have been in communication with each other for maybe, I guess,
probably about 20 months.
And you, this is a one year now you have since you had a lung transplant
because you had cystic fibrosis.
Yeah, that's right, man.
Right.
That's right.
So you got basically, I mean, it's almost like getting a set of nuts in your
chest.
Does it feel like that?
No, not nuts, but definitely something around.
Like air nuts.
Yeah, I would say, I mean, dude, we could get to the whole sexual thing later,
but it's definitely something like nuts.
I got more testosterone for sure.
Really?
For sure.
Yeah.
Dude, you seem so different than the last time that I saw you, man.
In what way?
Because when I saw you in Tacoma, I thought you were going to, you know, maybe
die, you know?
You thought you were.
I didn't just think you were.
You said you might.
I mean, I think that people were rumoring in the crowd when we were there, like,
kind of a little bit nervous.
Yeah.
No, I'd have felt that, too.
Like, oh, man.
Because I had that.
You remember how we would talk about, man, my skin just looked, it looked a
little mal off.
Yeah, you're a little jaundice.
Yeah.
A little jaundice, man.
Like, my eyes were dark, and I was just light, light-skinned, you know?
And I mean, I'm half Filipino, so there's something like that that plays into
it, but I guess what I'm getting at is I didn't look the best, for sure, man.
I didn't look the best.
Well, yeah.
I mean, you just seemed like you were going through it.
I mean, I remember, like, you couldn't, you know, I didn't ask you too many
questions because you get caught up in a long sentence, and you just, you know,
you had to, like, take a break.
You know, you had to, like, hold onto somebody's shoulder almost to get through
a long sentence.
You know, you were limited air.
Yeah, it was tough, man.
I mean, limited everything.
Yeah.
Limited participation in life.
Right.
Man.
Was it really?
Absolutely, man.
I remember the first, Theo, I just want to tell you, man, one of the first
things that you said that I knew was really important to me.
You know, there's a lot of people I've talked to about this, but I remember you
asked specifically, you said, what's the most difficult thing that you deal
with with cystic fibrosis?
And I said, the isolation.
Yeah.
And first of all, man, no one's ever asked me that beforehand.
Really?
No one had, no.
No, man.
That's how I knew I was talking to someone who, and I know that you got a
sister who's done a liver transplant, correct?
Yeah, she had a liver transplant when we were growing up, and I remember your
skin tone.
I mean, you guys almost looked a little bit similar then, you know?
Because there's just something like, yeah, there's this jaundice kind of thing
takes over the body, I guess, or something, you know?
Yeah, man.
I think that, you know, your body just attempts to take care of itself in the
only way that it knows how to.
Yeah.
Right?
And I guess what I'm trying to say is that, you know, you don't really focus on
your aesthetic, right?
You don't really, you're just trying to live.
Yeah.
You're just trying to live.
And regarding the participation thing, man, is that, dude, when people are
watching the ball game or something like that, and when people talk about
issues that they're having in life,
or you're really thinking about someone with cystic fibrosis at the end stage,
you know, you're thinking about how do I value the life that I got right now?
Right.
With the current physical ability that I have.
Yeah.
Right?
Because it's so limited.
You can't participate, man.
You can't even.
And there's things like, for instance, that the drugs or the medicine made me
half deaf, for instance.
Yeah.
My left ear don't work.
Damn.
So there's certain things that you pay this price for where you can't literally
participate as well in life.
And you see other people doing it.
And there is, man.
It's hard to admit this.
There's a sense of envy.
There's a sense of jealousy there.
So you get jealous of people who are able to live comfortably.
Dude, people that would talk about how, oh, you know, man, you know, traffic's
so shady or whatever.
Whatever it is.
Yeah, I'm too tired.
I remember thinking, so no, I'm too tired to finish like a big piece of cake or
something.
And you must be like, this guy, that's crazy.
Dude, yeah, this guy over here that you'd be talking to, he can't eat.
Man, dude, it was, and this is real, Theo.
This is real, dude.
Too cute to sugar, dude.
Dude, well, it's not.
My neck's in a puff.
Dude, this is super real.
You would eat so much that my stomach would push on my diaphragm.
And it would become harder to breathe because of eating.
And then on top of that, they're also saying like, hey, to get the transplant,
you got to hit a certain BMI.
So it's like, think of it like this, man.
Cystic fibrosis in general, I mean, but really so at end stage, you're walking
up a mountain.
And as you're walking up, just put a half pound on every mile, let's just say.
Right.
And it gets harder.
You know, you're in there.
You're thinking you're halfway through.
It's going to get harder and harder and harder, man.
There's no, there's no, those weights don't come off.
You know what I'm saying?
So you're saying, oh, so as the cystic fibrosis goes on, as the time goes on
that you have it, it gets just, everything gets tougher.
Dude, so, yeah, it's degenerative and debilitating.
It's degenerative.
So for people that don't know, it's a disease that's in your lungs, right?
That's right.
Because you got, your bags were what, full of water?
What happens to them?
No, man, so I'll let you know.
So it's in the pancreas as well as your lungs.
I mean, it's even in like the vas deferens, man.
The nuts.
What is that?
Your nut wiring.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, you're right, man.
Oh, yeah.
Did you take anatomy?
How did you know that?
No, but I used to look up pornographic stuff when I didn't have any.
I'd look up the just charts of penis and vagina and the history and the factual
books.
And I remember seeing that vast deferens, dude.
We learned in different ways, but I know about that, though.
Yeah.
I think I read it in a book, too, but kind of lost over it.
But for different purposes, yeah.
Yeah.
But here, so you have that, so you have that disease.
And I remember when I saw you last year, you were on the transplant list and
you were going through it.
Now, this is the first time I met you right here.
And if you're watching on YouTube, you can see that's over there in Tacoma.
And I remember you telling me this.
Like, you had a couple of buddies that came with you.
Same jacket that I'm wearing right now, huh?
It's cool, though.
Yeah.
Wow.
Dude, I wear this almost every single day.
I don't like wearing a lot of different stuff.
It's just too hard to find it, like around your own house or whatever.
But then, so you had it there.
And I thought you looked like Ralph Macchio a little bit or Ralph Un-Macchio,
you know, because you couldn't move that good.
And you said this about a couple of friends you had there, I remember.
You said, man, it's kind of crazy because, you know, it's like you feel like
when you, when people hang out with you that they, it was hard for them not to
treat you different.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, for sure, man.
I mean, especially when you're at an end stage disease, man.
Yeah.
You're living on the cusp of literally dying.
Oh, Frank Sayonara.
They call you Frank Sayonara.
Dude.
Sayonara.
Dude, I mean, you, if you get a cold, right, like it's literally, you might be
on your death, but you might be dead.
Yeah.
Right?
And so, and you have to.
Oh, you looked like you weren't going to live, dude.
When I saw you, I would have bet you weren't going to live, dude, honestly.
And I would never say that.
I say that now that you're alive.
Can we go into some moments?
Let's go into some moments just to drop this on everybody, how you and I know
each other.
Mickey, right here.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is from his first voicemail.
Hey, yo, Theo, man.
This is Mickey calling from Seattle.
So here's my situation, man.
I'm 30 years old, and I'm currently at the end stage of a lung disease.
Now, my current lungs don't have very long left, probably about two and a half
years.
Hopefully, we can stretch them out.
But the silver lining is that I'm going to be soon on the lung transplant list.
I'm hoping.
I'm going to get listed, which will give me a few more years to figure this
whole thing out.
That's fucking tricky Mickey, dude.
You know?
He's got them tricky airbags inside of him.
You know, he's got two and a half years left on his lungs.
He's got them leased.
He's got them leased lungs.
You know, and I had a bad lease on a car a couple years back.
And it's not the same thing, but, you know, you only get so, I only got so many
miles.
I can only drive, I got 4,000 miles a year on a lease.
And Jesus, it, oh, it was miserable.
Okay?
I wonder how, man.
And so that's when you first called in.
And then let's go to a next clip here.
How many miles do you think I had in my lungs, though, dude?
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
Dude, I was running 300 plus.
Were you?
Oh, I had to be, man.
We were at the fumes at that point.
You were at nothing.
Yeah, I remember you just kind of giving up during sentences.
You had a little guy there.
You would almost kind of hit him, and he'd finish the sentence for you.
What else do we have?
Here's another.
So that first call was from February 1st, 2018.
And then you guys met in Tacoma.
And this was about a month after that.
You sound like you got them trumpets rolling, man.
Are you feeling okay today?
Yeah, absolutely, man.
Dude, I'm living life, man.
On a scale of 1 to 10, man, I'm living at about an 8.5 right now, Theo.
Life is good.
That's beautiful, man.
But now, I've seen some stuff on your Instagram and stuff that you've been in
the hospital.
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