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Hello, folks. Oh, God damn it. Alexa, shut up.

Okay, let's try that again. Hello, folks. Okay, what do you call a guy who survived a traumatic brain injury, cancer, infertility,

yet still manages to shoe horses for a living and have a wicked sense of humor?

Well, you call him Ray, because that's his name.

Damn it.

This week's guest, Ray, has been through the kind of insane medical roller coaster that makes all of your own aches and pains feel like a paper cut.

Actually, that's a horrible analogy.

Paper cuts sometimes feel as bad, if not worse, than a brutal motorcycle accident in your college years, only to end up with a surprise cancer diagnosis later in life.

But paper cuts are nowhere near as severe as those two things, which is exactly what Ray went

through.

Ray joins Taylor and I to open up about

trauma, recovery, masculinity, which I'll tell you right now, Ray is hell of a lot more masculine

than Taylor, Brian, and I combined. And of course, we also talk about the quiet grief

of infertility.

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