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Welcome to another episode of Welcome to the Party Pal. I'm very grateful to be back with my buddy Joe Walsh. We didn't get to do last week's show because of my surgery, but I'm feeling up to doing at least 20, 30 minutes with you, Joe. Stop, stop, stop, stop. And tell me and everybody who's joining us, punch those red hearts as you come in, everybody.

Michael, let's start with you, and I want you to tell us how you're doing, brother.

Yeah. So today, I am well. Yesterday was bad. I had a bit of a setback yesterday. I had to go back to the surgical center. But I'm okay today. I feel probably the best I've felt since I went under for Wednesday. For folks that don't know, I had surgery to remove basically some dead skin and tissue that I had from having lost, I've lost 300 pounds on my own. Now they took 25 pounds off of my abdomen, which is going to change my life. But I was pretty low energy yesterday. I was in a lot of pain. Today I'm okay.

Joe asked me off camera if I'm on anything. I'm on tile at all. That's all that I get right now. But I'm doing okay right now. I shot a video for YouTube. I sent out some tweets. I've been down in my office. After this, I'm going to go put my feet up for a while. I'm actually going to go on a walk,

and then I'm going to put my feet up for a while. But I'm doing it. Michael, when you're having bad days, like what does it feel like? What are some real tough things? Like no energy. Like usually it's like the energy comes and goes. I'll have like nasty headaches and I won't be able to like think or concentrate. So like yesterday,

my team was just trying to get and they were like, Mike, approve this tweet about Christy Gnome. We know you want to say something about Christy Gnome. And I'm like on the couch with like reruns of scrubs on dead back. I know Christy Gnome got fired. Like I went like this. I went like, I know. Like, I had nothing.

So it was, I just didn't have it.

But I feel good today.

And that's why I didn't go live yesterday. It's why I didn't post anything, really. Has it been, so on numerous days, it's hard to literally just focus on all the shit that's going on. Yeah, it's that I basically don't have any will because I think my body's taking everything

that it needs to correct whatever's going on.

And the other thing, it's that I basically don't have any will because I think my body's taking everything

that it needs to correct whatever's going on. And the other thing, it's so weird because

I have a giant incision along my abdomen. I don't want to gross anybody out. But that, it feels

fine. Like it's uncomfortable, but that is not the biggest issue that I'm dealing with. It's like

all the side effects. It's like, where's my blood going? Where's the swelling? If I have a headache,

my left ear often hurts, like, randomly. I had a sore throat for like several days. It's like my

back hurts because I've been sitting in weird position. So it's like that stuff is actually,

that's what's breaking me. And I think I said this to my surgeon yesterday. It was like, if I was just dealing with the surgery, that would be fine. But it's always like two or three more things than I know what to do with. So that's why yesterday, like I basically crashed into a coma. I, I've loved getting to know you and you and I are like fucking brothers. I like brothers, man, we are brothers. We are brothers. We are brothers. We are brothers. We're speaking at each other's funerals. Michael, what just... Your family would be confused if I showed up at your funeral. True. Hello, everyone. I'm Joe's a sub-sac friend. We're just, I'm from my whole eulogy. What in your head, what's been, how's your mental state, your psychological state, Ben, as you've worked through this? Yeah. It was good until yesterday. Yesterday was the worst psychological day that I had had where, like, I was like, I got into that, like, why did I do this? I blew up my, like, I had a, I'll be honest with you, like, since like Jan 1, I had been like, my, my exercise had been great, my diet had been great, my work routine had been perfect. We launched the studio. I'd build such a rapport

and a culture with the two folks that worked with me day to day. And I blew all of that up like 10 days ago to do this, which was still the right thing to do. Yesterday was the day where I was like, I feel miserable. I'm not making progress. I told my wife, it's like, I want to cry. And I literally didn't even have the mental ability

to cry. There were no tears coming.

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