From Paralysis to Bitcoin with Kale Hyder - WBD611
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Kale Hyder works in an investment bank. In this interview, we discuss how his life 7 years ago changed on a dime: a rare spinal inflammation led an aspiring high school basketball player to have to deal with becoming quadriplegic. We talk about the physical and mental rehabilitation, and how, with the help of others, he's found direction, purpose and happiness.
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Think about what you're going to be doing next week. Are you working or studying? Will you be engaging in hobbies? Do you have any household chores that need completing? What social plans do you have? We all plan for the future and accept it as a given, but that's not always the case. For Kale Hyder, all of his future plans were wiped away overnight.
One week he was at high school, studying, playing basketball & planning for his future, the next, he was unable to move. Panic and disbelief led to a hospital visit and tests and a diagnosis: transverse myelitis. Spinal inflammation. And that was it, Kale was paralysed. Life changed. Forever.
Cases like Kyle's are rare, and the causes aren't properly understood, but it results in irreparable damage to nerves in the body's communication highway. The damage Kale was left with was made worse by where the inflammation was in his body. Kale's spinal cord swelled at the base of his neck, and he became a quadriplegic, he could no longer move any of his limbs.
In this fascinating discussion, we talk about the long process of treatment and rehabilitation, learning to redevelop basic skills, how the body adapts and reconfigures itself, and the need for mechanical aids to perform functions previously taken for granted. Kale also opens up about depression, frustration and resignation.
It's a story about acceptance and finding new paths. It's a story of realisation and insight. Happiness and fulfilment found in unexpected places. It is uplifting to hear such wisdom from someone who's had to face the worst that life has to offer. It is a story that ends up with Bitcoin, but it is not a Bitcoin story.
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| 0:00.0 | When we made that drive home we got home we got in the driveway and when we were in the driveway, I was crying, |
| 0:15.2 | because it was a realization that at that point, |
| 0:18.1 | like I didn't accomplish what I wanted to accomplish |
| 0:20.5 | in those six weeks where I thought I was just gonna I was gonna walk out. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello there how are you all doing if you've been having a good week? |
| 0:28.0 | I've been working hard on the storyline for this film I've been making out in Texas. |
| 0:33.4 | We've got really deep into Bitcoin mining, how the energy sector works. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm really exciting to get this film out for you. |
| 0:39.6 | Just a big thanks to my director, Neil Berkeley and also my DP Kurt. We will work very hard on this but |
| 0:44.7 | lots of work to do hopefully gonna have this out for you in the next about six weeks |
| 0:48.4 | we're targeting the 30th of the March. Anyway welcome to the What Bitcoin did |
| 0:52.0 | podcast which is brought to you by Gemini, the only place I'm using for buying Bitcoin. |
| 0:56.0 | Today on the show I've got Kale Hider. |
| 0:59.0 | Now, this is a totally different show from normal. I saw Kale's story on Twitter and it kind of blew my mind. |
| 1:04.3 | Kale is a bit coiner, but his story is about when he woke up one morning with |
| 1:08.6 | tingling hands and 24 hours later he couldn't move anything from the neck down. |
| 1:13.8 | His whole tweet thread about this, |
| 1:15.2 | which we will include in the show notes, was incredible. |
| 1:18.0 | And I was like, you know what, you're a bit coiner, |
| 1:19.9 | you're a resilient, I want to hear from you, I want to to talk to you and so we flew him out to |
| 1:24.7 | Nashville and I got his whole story now look this might not be a Bitcoin story but |
| 1:29.5 | whatever fuck it sometimes there are some really cool and inspirational people in |
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