The Big C

Ellis Ever After

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

When Khadeen's father was diagnosed with cancer, the Ellises didn't know what to expect. In this episode, Khadeen and Devale discuss what they thought, how they felt and what they did to help Papa beat cancer. Dead Ass.

Watch the full video version early on Patreon! Go to https://Patreon.com/EllisEverAfter to see the After Show and more exclusive Ellis Ever After video content. And find us on social media at @EllisEverAfterPodcast, @khadeeniam and @iamdevale, @joshua_dwain @_matt.ellis, @tribbzthecool. And if you’re listening on Apple podcasts, be sure to rate, review and subscribe.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:04.6	Fuck cancer.
0:07.6	Facts.
0:08.7	Ditto.
0:09.6	That's the sound bite.
0:11.0	Dead ass.
0:11.3	And the horse it rolled in on.
0:12.8	One, two, three.
0:14.8	It all started with real talk, unfiltered, honest, and straight from the heart.
0:19.0	Since then, we've gone on to become Webby Award-winning podcasters in New York Times best-selling authors. Deadass was more than a podcast for us. It was about our growth. A place where we could be vulnerable, be raw. Hores. But most importantly, be us. But as we know, life keeps evolving, and so do we. And through it all, one thing has never changed.
0:39.1	This is Ellis Ever After. Dead ass. Because we got a lot to talk about.
0:45.2	Story time. So I'm going to take y'all through, it's the first time I'm going to do time
0:51.3	jumps in the story. Okay. And we're going to start with September 2025.
0:57.8	September 2025, y'all heard this story.
1:00.5	Me and Kay down here with the podcast crew, Pops has a stroke.
1:05.8	Got to fix that.
1:07.4	I'm like, yo, I got this.
1:09.4	You know what I'm saying?
1:10.2	I studied exercise physiology. All we got to do is move the body, get them back. I used to work with stroke patients all the time. I said, pops, let's go out getting the sun. Let's move around. All September, me and pops moving around. He's getting better. October come up. Heart failure. I'm like, okay, we can get through this. I studied exercise physiology. I know what to do.
1:29.6	We can go outside in the sun. We can get some movement. Get his heart moving again. Get the
1:32.9	circulation. We're doing all this October. Right. November comes up. Cancer. Well,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.