Try to keep this about a fist away from your face. Okay. The best length.

How's this?

A little closer if you can.

Yeah. Good. We're live? Oh, we're

Oh, we, that was quick. Oh, you're a wizard over there. Mr. Bloom.

Yes, Joe.

Thanks for doing this, man. 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, 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 in, I got sick in 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 M.E.

CFS.

Up until now it was just known as chronic fatigue syndrome,

CFS, but it's real serious if you get a bad case of it.

So I was two weeks to talk for five years, two week 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

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