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Other People’s Lives

My Cancer Doesn't Define Me

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Greg & Joe talk to a man who's diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to other people's lives. I'm your host, Joe Sanagato. I'm your host, Greg

0:04.4

Dive. Just a reminder that you can now buy OPL merch at shop.oplshow.com and a

0:09.4

portion of all proceeds. We'll go to charity. Anyway, Greg, who are we talking to

0:14.3

today? Today we are going to be talking to someone who is diagnosed with cancer.

0:21.2

Serious shit. Very serious.

0:24.4

Effects a lot of people. Younger too. I believe he's 3032.

0:32.6

We've decided we're not going to read this email. Just because... There's a lot in it.

0:38.5

It's all the details. We don't want to give everything away. Obviously, we want to hear from

0:41.5

his perspective. But I will say the subject line, I love because it reads,

0:49.8

my cancer does not define me, which is awesome. Which is kind of like open for

0:55.4

interpretation at this point. But I guess we will find out what that means. But I don't

0:59.5

really like... My uncle had cancer. I haven't... But I wasn't that close with him. I've been blessed

1:08.3

to not really know anybody that has been suffering through it for a long time. But I feel like

1:16.1

everyone knows somebody, at least who dealt with it or a relative or someone who knew someone

1:23.8

who had it. No, totally. It really touches so many people's lives, not in a positive way,

1:31.4

obviously. But yeah, it's terrifying too. When you look at the stats, if you're standing

1:39.7

in a crowded room of people, it's like, well, how many of these people... What's the odds of

1:45.9

them getting cancer? There's some form of cancer. There's so many different types.

1:51.7

It can come at any point in your life. It's just like random. It's scary.

1:56.8

I don't know too many people either, but directly related to me, my grandmother passed away from

2:06.6

lung cancer. That was just that first-hand experience of just seeing what it does. I think the

2:14.6

scariest part about it is just how much it deteriorates a person. It just changes them physically

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