#2271 - John Reeves

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

Shrink by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

SPEAKER_4 (0:12)

Good to see you, my friend.

John Reeves (0:13)

Good to be seen, thank you. Good to see you.

SPEAKER_4 (0:14)

We were supposed to be doing the end of the year, but unfortunately, you got caught with the cooties.

John Reeves (0:20)

I did, I did.

SPEAKER_4 (0:22)

What'd you get?

John Reeves (0:22)

I can officially announce that the end of 2024 is right now. I've been waiting for that.

SPEAKER_4 (0:30)

The calendar is all bullshit anyway. It's supposed to be on that old one that's 13 months.

John Reeves (0:34)

There you go.

SPEAKER_4 (0:37)

So what happened? What did you catch?

John Reeves (0:38)

Well, I thought I had bronchitis. Everybody in the house had it. We go to CrossFit and they all had it. I go to CrossFit Jackson. My trainer is Megan Russell there and she's going, ah, you might want to take it easy a little bit. Of course, I'm smoking cigarettes and I got bronchitis. I go to a clinic. They give me some drugs. Yeah, you got bronchitis. Go home a couple of days later. I'm sleeping in my chair and my wife has one of those little oxygen modern things you put on your finger. She wakes me up and goes, All right, let's go. What do you mean, let's go? Oxygen levels. You go to the hospital. What? I'm just sitting here taking a nap. No, you're going to the hospital. So I said, okay. So we get this late at night. We go to St. Vincent's Clinic. Go in. It's late. And I'm sitting there waiting for the doctor, Arian Afshari. Great guy, it turns out. He comes in and looking at me. He's young enough to be one of my kids. He goes, stethoscope, listening to my lungs. He goes, do you smoke? I said, yeah. He says, you need to quit.

I said, I just did. He goes, what? I said, I just did. I'm done. Now what do we do? He goes, well, next you're going to the hospital. This is just a clinic. I said, what do you mean I'm going to the hospital? He says, you haven't got bronchitis. You got pneumonia. And I think you got double pneumonia. So you're going right now.

SPEAKER_4 (2:26)

What's double pneumonia?

John Reeves (2:27)

Both lungs. The bad kind.

SPEAKER_4 (2:31)

The bad kind.

John Reeves (2:32)

He says, but the good news is you don't have bronchitis. I said, OK. I guess that's good. That was about the time I was supposed to be in the studio with you. Just a couple of days before that. And I'm going, wow, this kind of screw up my plans. As you know, best made plans and all that.

SPEAKER_4 (2:51)

Listen, the plans are all bullshit. We made those up. Yeah, we'll do it. It doesn't have to be that.

John Reeves (2:57)

All right. Well, thanks for the invite. I look forward to it this year.

SPEAKER_4 (3:00)

I'm just happy that you're OK.

John Reeves (3:01)

I am OK.

SPEAKER_4 (3:02)

The date didn't matter. Things happened. I'm just glad you recovered. I'm glad you quit smoking too.

John Reeves (3:08)

Yeah, he says you need to quit smoking. I did and went to the hospital. I was in there for almost five days and I haven't been in a hospital in a while, but they have it. St. Vincent's did a great job. The nurses have their little machines. They wheel around and they come in your room every, it seemed like quite often to check your vitals, to do this, to do intravenous, to do that. So I'm sitting in there and I couldn't sleep. So I'm one of those guys, if you walk by the door and you see an old guy sitting on a bed looking out the door, that's me. So I maybe got an hour, two hours of sleep at night.

SPEAKER_4 (3:43)

Did you have a hard time kicking the cigarettes? Even because you've been smoking like your whole life.

John Reeves (3:47)

I did. I've smoked for over 50 years. And I know it's bad for me and I've never been an anti-smoking crusader. But if anything good comes to my appearance with you today, was that this Dr. Afshari, total stranger, guy I never met before in my life, happened to tell me at the right exact time, you need to quit. And I've been thinking I need to quit for a long time. My loved ones told me that, my wife, my kids. And I never, okay, yeah, that's a good idea.