Cancer with Actor Toby Huss

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Actor Toby Huss (Halt and Catch Fire, King of the Hill, Seinfeld) goes back to Iowa to help his mom deal with a serious illness, and finds himself dealing with plain craziness. Here's a few links to help you get the most out of Story Worthy! If you're listening on an iPhone, all you need to do is tap the cover art while the show is playing, and you'll see the episode notes, including the links. There is one to subscribe, http://bit.ly/2eSlJZw please do! There's one to our Facebook page and to our email address. We'd love to hear from you, either there, or on our survey at wondery.com/survey. You'll also find some special deals courtesy of our sponsors like Hello Fresh (promo code STORY30) Casper Mattress, and Audible (promo code STORYWORTHY). It's good karma guys! See our Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and our California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	StoryWorthy Media, the best in story-driven content.
0:07.0	Hey Redneck, listen to StoryWorthy. It's going on now.
0:21.6	Welcome to StoryWorthy.
0:35.6	And I'm coming new from Wondery Sunset Studio in West Hollywood, California.
0:41.9	I am so glad you tuned to me today, whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, welcome to Storyworthy.
0:48.5	Today's show is brought to us from actor Toby Huss, and I have to say, when you read the title, cancer,
0:55.7	then you might be thinking, oh, no, you know, not another cancer story.
0:59.5	This is going to be so sad.
1:01.5	But I have to tell you guys, this is one extremely funny story.
1:06.7	It's not like, it's not the cancer per se, but it's the way Toby's mother handles it, you know?
1:13.3	Like Toby goes back to his hometown in Iowa and you know what?
1:17.5	I don't want to give too much away because Toby tells the story perfectly.
1:21.2	You don't need to hear from me.
1:22.6	As many of you guys know, I am a cancer survivor.
1:25.6	And the type of cancer that I had was called a Wilms tumor.
1:29.4	Actually, it's called an adult Wilms tumor. And this is a tumor found in the kidney that is most
1:34.9	often found in children under the age of two. Right? So like when I was diagnosed, I was 31. I was 31.
1:42.4	So I used to joke with my oncologist that my tumor was based on my maturity level.
1:47.6	By the way, my oncologist's name at the University of Pittsburgh, I kid you not. I kid you not.
1:53.6	His name was Dr. Donald Trump. He went by Skip. I kid you not. I would go by Skip too. Any name would be better than Donald Trump. And he's still there, by the way. Dr. Donald Trump, he's there, still there at the University of Pittsburgh. I'm not kidding. Anyway. So there's that. Okay, before we get to Toby's story, I did want to remind you guys to follow Storyworthy on Twitter and
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