Frankie Muniz: The Thrill of Dying Keeps Me Alive
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Frankie Muniz (actor, musician, and race car driver) breaks down the life lessons he’s learned from the psychology of racing, the origins of his concussions and memory loss, plus his mini-stroke misdiagnosis and what the problem actually was. He opens up about the status of a possible Malcolm in the Middle reboot, the anxiety he felt getting back into race car driving after a near catastrophic accident, his career as a professional musician, and why he thinks moving away from the entertainment industry saved his life. He reveals the reasons he doesn’t drink, his meditation practice and why he struggles with it, and why he wants to start therapy. Mayim resonates with Frankie’s explanation of his memory loss as it relates to being an actor and she breaks down aura migraines.
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| 0:00.0 | So when I hit the brakes I went flying I remember being just so mad that I was out of the |
| 0:10.0 | rates and your adrenaline's pumping and I got out of the car and I was just angry and I got in like the |
| 0:16.3 | ambulance they come get you and they had to drive in there like are you okay I'm like yeah I'm fine I'm fine. |
| 0:20.5 | I was conscious I got out of the car myself I walked to the car like to the safety vehicle and it was about 10 minutes later I was trying to get my helmet off and this is kind of gross but I'll tell you anyway. |
| 0:34.6 | So I'm pushing, and I'm like, why can't I get this off? |
| 0:38.5 | And I take my glove off and I had exploded the joint that holds my thumb on and it was just dangling like completely like almost all like just being held on by the skin |
| 0:50.5 | But I haven't even realized yet like the pain hadn't set in but then once I saw it I was like oh that hurts really bad and then I was like walking and oh my ankle hurts my ankle was broken I had six broken ribs and I had a compression fracture in my back. |
| 1:05.2 | It took 10 or 15 minutes for the adrenaline to wear off before I knew how hurt I was. |
| 1:16.0 | I've never said this publicly during the pilot of Malcolm the Middle I got a concussion it's easy to kind of correlate the two right you know traumatic brain |
| 1:22.2 | injuries with bad memory you know, traumatic brain injuries with bad memory, you know? |
| 1:25.0 | But I don't know if that's what it is. |
| 1:27.0 | Some of my memory issues have to do with, |
| 1:30.0 | from when I was eight years old, |
| 1:32.0 | I was doing so much all the time. |
| 1:35.6 | They almost stop absorbing, right, even being on Malcolm. |
| 1:39.2 | You know, my memory, my memories become what I see from the outside. So if I watch an episode or I watch a movie I was in, |
| 1:48.0 | my memory becomes me sitting here watching it. I don't remember what happened on set that day like with my |
| 1:56.0 | son I feel like I'm missing it because my memory becomes the photo of being |
| 2:02.3 | there when I look at photos of him and how fast he's |
| 2:04.7 | grown you know what I mean and I go why can't I remember being in the moment I |
| 2:09.0 | remember the photo it's my and bialix breakdown. |
| 2:13.0 | She's going to break it down for you because you know she loves a thing or two. |
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