Finding love from oversharing in dark times.
Today’s story comes from Denver-based Diné comic, Joshua Emerson. The theme of the show was “TMI.”
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[00:01:24] was getting to her brain because there was scarring on her lungs, which is why they had to put her into a medically induced coma.
[00:01:28] And because she was overweight and diabetic and that she drank and she smoked, that hospitals
[00:01:37] weren't willing to take a chance on her, that we tried a bunch.
[00:01:43] And there wasn't really anything more they can do. of her air clapped is the way you look tonight. Janet Jackson's everything. Apple was on there. When she turned 30, her best friend called into the radio and put on Dancing Queen to dedicate to her for her 30th birthday. It's one of her favorite things.
[00:03:02] I asked my sister if she wanted to be there.
[00:03:07] And she told me that it'd be really hard for her. I don't know. I don't know if this is the right thing to do. I don't know. I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't stop. And I don't know how long I was there. And then after a while I felt somebody come up after behind me and just give me back on. And held her hand for the last time. And I turned the machine off. And halfway through dancing queen she passed. And we got her cremated right away.
[00:05:40] Put her in a, her ashes into a coffee can because she was a big fan of the Big Lebowski. Thanksgiving. I cut my hair and I went back to Denver and tried to live in this world post-Rhodeski. At the time I was in finance working at a CDFI that specialized in affordable housing. When my mom passed, it was whatever reason, I was dating during all this. What the fuck? I am so sorry. There are so many girls she'll see my dead mom and raise me a dead dad. Just so fucking hot, you know? Oh, man.
[00:09:40] And so we went for a date on Cap Hill at the Corner Beat. like maracas just chachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachachach partner. We laugh so much, laugh so much. And she's somebody that challenges me and is so supportive. And something I lost with my mother was this belief that I could do anything in this world. And I found it again. It felt so important. And I'm gonna be with
[00:12:20] her the rest of my life. And we ain't trying to me, Aaron Roman, and Ron Doyle, with help from Karen Wachtel,
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