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Speaker 2: This won't be.
Speaker 1: The first time I've seen some of JB's cycling injury.
Speaker 1: So I remember years ago JB walking into the studio
Speaker 1: pair of shorts. He goes, hey, check this out, pulled
Speaker 1: his shorts up. Had had a bruise the size of
Speaker 1: a watermelon on his just like hip down to his thigh.
Speaker 1: It was enormous bicycle accident. You got another one. Tell
Speaker 1: us where you went, what you did, what happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I met up with a buddy of mine. He
Speaker 2: lives in outside of Denver, and so I flew into Denver,
Speaker 2: jumped into his sprinter van with him. We went about
Speaker 2: four hours to a place called Fruta, Colorado, kind of
Speaker 2: near Grand Junction, and it was a it's a gravel ride.
Speaker 2: So gravel riding is like one of the newest I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say newest, but the most recent popular trends in cycling.
Speaker 2: And it gets you off like the busy streets and
Speaker 2: out on you know, farm gravel roads up into the mountains.
Speaker 2: It's really fun and so it kind of looks like
Speaker 2: a typical road bike, but the tires are a lot wider,
Speaker 2: and you know, they're like skinny motorcycle tires. The idea
Speaker 2: is that, you know, a little more grippy in the
Speaker 2: loose dirt and until it's not. And so he and
Speaker 2: I did this seventy five mile ride and gravel in
Speaker 2: the mountains, you know, in one day. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 2: you're you're starting at an altitude of like it's some
Speaker 2: like forty six hundred feet or something like that. Wow,
Speaker 2: So you're out, You're up there, You're you're at altitude
Speaker 2: and uh. And then there was about four thousand feet
Speaker 2: of climbing in the seventy five miles and it was
Speaker 2: fun and until it wasn't, and then it was fun again,
Speaker 2: and then it wasn't, and now it's not. I was
Speaker 2: he spends more time on a gravel bike, and I
Speaker 2: was having a hard time keeping up on the downhills
Speaker 2: and I'm bombing down this one downhill and that it's
Speaker 2: kind of like a gully at the bottom, and that
Speaker 2: it was kind of a little too late to slow
Speaker 2: down to where I would have felt more comfortable. But
Speaker 2: it was all sandy bottom, and I'm like, okay, sand
Speaker 2: is very hard to ride a bike through. But it's
Speaker 2: also it's sand, right, so soft, and so I come
Speaker 2: flying into it and I'm you know, and the bike's
Speaker 2: getting kind of loose and you're thirteen again, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: And then it hits this gully and I'm starting to
Speaker 2: come back up, still have a ton of speed, and
Speaker 2: the tire front tire just gets kind of shoved to
Speaker 2: the side and then it ended up popping over to
Speaker 2: the other lane and it washes out really quick, and
Speaker 2: what bam, I go down. I go down really hard
Speaker 2: on my right side. And it's funny. This is about
Speaker 2: fifty miles into the race, so we've already been out
Speaker 2: out there for quite a bit. It's getting hot. And
Speaker 2: the first two things I noticed as I'm falling, I
Speaker 2: get a leg cramp in my calf on the right side,
Speaker 2: and so I'm laying there and that's all I can
Speaker 2: feel is the cramp, right And then I did scrape
Speaker 2: my elbow. You can probably see that there's a scrape
Speaker 2: on my elbow that's the big deal, and a tiny
Speaker 2: scrape on my knee. And I didn't even think about
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, it kind of hit my hip
Speaker 2: and didn't even think much of it, No big deal.
Speaker 2: You know how it is when you have stuff like that,
Speaker 2: You adrenaline kicks in. You're a little embarrassed. You get up,
Speaker 2: you dust off, and I'm just because I crashed in sand,
Speaker 2: So I'm just you look like a powdered nonut. You're
Speaker 2: all sweaty, and you're going, yeah, I looked terrible, and
Speaker 2: it's dusty and dirty. And then we get we're like
Speaker 2: a mile from the next rest stop. I take some
Speaker 2: water and I clean off my elbow and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 2: I'm good. I feel good. Didn't think anything of it.
Speaker 2: And then we're riding about another thirty minutes and I
Speaker 2: reached down to my hip and it feels like it's
Speaker 2: the size of a baseball ooh, this lump and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. And I turned to my buddy and
Speaker 2: I go, do you see that. He's like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: see that. It's just like this huge not sticking out
Speaker 2: of my hip. Now, everything was working fine. I'm riding
Speaker 2: the bike, the bones are working, i'm turning, I feel okay.
Speaker 2: It just keeps swelling and swelling and swelling. And then
Speaker 2: when we got back to the van at the end
Speaker 2: of it. It was like this extra extra giant love
Speaker 2: handle is probably the best way to describe it. It
Speaker 2: was all swollen, wasn't bruised at this time. And then
Speaker 2: I think I posted a video of that, and you
Speaker 2: saw that, right, Tricia. I did.
Speaker 3: I saw it, and it was just like you could
Speaker 3: just grab it with your hand.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: It was like a giant love handle, only on one
Speaker 3: side of your body.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then h and then we're you know, we're
Speaker 2: just hanging out having some beers after the ride, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this is fine. You know, I've banged
Speaker 2: up before. It all. I cared about everything's working, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, and fracture or anything whatever. And
Speaker 2: it starts bruising and swelling and bruising and swelling. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh crap. So I get some ice and I'm icing
Speaker 2: it and we're just hanging out and having some beers
Speaker 2: and it just keeps. The bruise just keeps spreading and sweating.
Speaker 2: And then I'm like, well, you know, I'll sleep on
Speaker 2: it and sleep on my side the other side, and
Speaker 2: you know, maybe this thing will go down. So that
Speaker 2: was on Saturday. It is still not gone down. Holy crap.
Speaker 2: Let's see it. The bruising. The bruising has gone from
Speaker 2: a softball sized area on my hip to all the
Speaker 2: way around to my belly button and then halfway around
Speaker 2: my back. Oh you're ready to see? All right, here
Speaker 2: we go. Can you see that might hit ready? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, JB dude.
Speaker 1: I mean it's from his back where his spine is too,
Speaker 1: is just below his short line all the way to
Speaker 1: his belly button is just one giant purple mass of
Speaker 1: You need to get that drained or something.
Speaker 2: I went to the doctor and they gave me a
Speaker 2: pat on the butt, said you'll be fine. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: what I thought. It's so it's so hard like a baseball.
Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna like poke it and it
Speaker 2: was just gonna be like you ever seen those videos
Speaker 2: when they're like a cow has an infection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like doctor pimple popper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought the doctor is gonna do.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, we got to get some of this
Speaker 2: inflammation and infection out of there. Like now they're like,
Speaker 2: you're fine. Does it hurt? It's sore, it's tender, like
Speaker 2: you know, bruises.
Speaker 1: Where they can I mean, it's kind of near your kidneys.
Speaker 1: Were they worried about that?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's the impact spot is directly on the side
Speaker 2: o the bruising that has gone forward to my belly
Speaker 2: and then all the way to the middle of my back.
Speaker 2: It is just blood drainage. Oh that's a nice thought,
Speaker 2: isn't it. Yeah, that's just internal bleeding draining again.
Speaker 3: Internally, it just sounds like it's so much danger there.
Speaker 3: But they were like, you're totally fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, hopefully I still am. They I was like,
Speaker 2: I thought they would want to do something, but man,
Speaker 2: did you did you go to the emergency room or
Speaker 2: do you not? My regular my regular doctor.
Speaker 3: But they're like the same reaction we had when he lifted.
Speaker 2: Up your No, I guess not. I guess they see
Speaker 2: crazy stuff all the time.
Speaker 4: But wow, I can't believe they didn't refer you to
Speaker 4: someone else. You would think, huh, so do they give
Speaker 4: you like how long, like if this gets worse, come
Speaker 4: back or no?
Speaker 2: She was She was like, if this gets if this
Speaker 2: gets worse and you're in a lot of pain, go
Speaker 2: to the er. That's the next step. Like there's nothing
Speaker 2: they can do, which I kind of feel that way
Speaker 2: about most yeah, family doctor stuff, like what do you
Speaker 2: actually can't really do? Yeah? Right, not a lot, you know,
Speaker 2: So are you worried at all? Are you just like okay?
Speaker 2: Well before, like so, I had a few days before
Speaker 2: going to the doctor and I was like, what if
Speaker 2: there's some infection in there? Yeah, possible, but it was
Speaker 2: more of an impact than a scrape. And then I thought, well,
Speaker 2: what if the blood clots or something that could cause
Speaker 2: a problem. I actually asked them about that and they're like,
Speaker 2: I don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: Wow, man, what if it never goes away?
Speaker 2: It always looks like for you, what what's funny is
Speaker 2: walking around and after the event there for a couple
Speaker 2: of days it literally looks like I'm concealed carry Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I definitely saw some very country kind of guys like going,
Speaker 2: uh huh, I got you. It looks like I've got
Speaker 2: a gun on my hip. It's so swollen. Is this
Speaker 2: your best injury yet? I mean, like you're most like,
Speaker 2: this one's way worse than the one in the past
Speaker 2: on your side of your hip, which was big, But
Speaker 2: this one is like growing around your stomach and back.
Speaker 2: I know it's the it's the lump that's more concerning.
Speaker 2: Bruising is just bruising.
Speaker 1: And let me guess you got no sympathy at home,
Speaker 1: no zero, you got you gotta whatever.
Speaker 2: You still got to do all the chores. It's very
Speaker 2: willy wonka. It's very violent. You're turning violet violet. I know.
Speaker 2: I asked my wife. I said, if you've ever had
Speaker 2: a fantasy about being with a guy with a purple unit,
Speaker 2: I said, now it's your time, I said, because it's
Speaker 2: creeping that direction. Oh that'll be weird, right, Is that
Speaker 2: a chick thing, Tricia? I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not my I mean when when when women buy
Speaker 2: the fake ones they like the colors.
Speaker 3: Oh, the colors.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you know. The colors don't matter.
Speaker 3: Friends, you don't care about the color, Well.
Speaker 1: Take care of do I guess. I take your pat
Speaker 1: on the bottom from the doctor and take care of it.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: Not much you can do, just heal. I'm in And
Speaker 2: you know, in my my thought of it immediately and
Speaker 2: still now is like, oh, I'm pretty lucky. That could
Speaker 2: have been a lot worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and out in the middle of nowhere, that could
Speaker 3: have been bad, Be careful,