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Jorm Thanks You

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Jorm Thanks You

Yorma, a guest on the Lowly Island podcast, opens with a heartfelt thank-you to the Quaid Army community and medical professionals who helped him recover from a life-threatening pelvic and spine fracture. He shares the emotional pain, isolation, and moments of despair he faced during hospitalization and rehab, while also highlighting his resilience and gratitude for the medical care and support that enabled his recovery. The episode includes a lighthearted anecdote about filming a family video with his daughter and dog, illustrating how creativity brought joy during difficult times. Yorma emphasizes that his survival—despite a 20% fatality rate for such injuries—was a testament to modern medicine and personal strength. The podcast also celebrates the vibrant fan community, including fan-made shirts, art, and gifts, which reflect both humor and deep emotional connection. Host Seth notes how fans’ messages, including a coded crossword reference to Doritos and a Super Bowl ad, suggest a unique, almost conspiratorial bond between fans and the show. Ultimately, the episode serves as a tribute to resilience, community, and the power of storytelling in healing—offering both personal insight and a broader message of gratitude to those who have faced similar struggles.

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Hey, everybody. Seth here before the episode starts, I just wanted to let you know that this one has a video on YouTube. You're wanted to show off some of this stuff that Quaid Army had sent to him. So we turn the cameras on. Anyway, jump over to YouTube. If you want to see that or just continue to listen audio only, enjoy. Hey, everybody. It is a special Thanksgiving edition of the Lowly Island podcast. And why it's special is we're going to really drill down on something we're very thankful for. Which is Yorm's survival and then subsequent recovery. Isn't that right, Yorm? That is right. And yeah, let's get into it right now. Hi, Yorm. Hi. Hi, Seth. You reached out and asked to do something sort of as a way to say thank you to QA, Quaid Army. Yes, I did. I also sort of wanted to, I don't even know what prompted this exactly, but I think that I just had this feeling when talking about my injury. Where I don't want to, I don't want to waste our time on the pod talking about this and, and it's not, you know, particularly funny always. But I also sort of wanted to, like, because so many people have written and said, like, it's how inspiring it is to, like, put a brave face on this and how, like, you know, I'm trying to be funny or, like, or, you know, like, are not trying to be funny, but I'm trying to, like, you know, gloss over certain parts of this. And I do want to sort of mention that this hasn't been easy. None of it has been easy and there's been many moments that I've had that are, are painful and small and, like, lonely, like moments that I've, I've had in the hospitals or, like, in rehab where my family leaves, and I'm just left alone at night feeling, like, like, curled up in a ball, like, in pain, be, like, and just feeling sort of pathetic and depressed and, like, and I know that there's a lot of people and people who have written to who have gone through similar experiences. I'm incredibly lucky in that, that I am going to be okay. I'm going to walk again. I wasn't paralyzed. I didn't die. This was an injury that, like, that both me and Mari in particular, like, were, I don't think we realized how dangerous this was, like, 20% of people die from an open book fracture. And so, like, so I'm just incredibly lucky. I am graduating next Monday. I don't know when this is going to air if it airs or how we're going to release this. But, but I'm going to be walking as soon as, like, next Monday. That's three months from when I fell and that's amazing. Like, that's that, that's a testament to, like, Western medicine and the surgeries I got and all the people who helped me do get, get to this point, my PT people, everything. But, like, but I just sort of wanted to, like, mention that, you know, this is, there's been a lot of really sucky moments, like, and, and really funny moments too of just, like, a lot of just feeling sort of small and pathetic. I've been shooting this video with my daughter and my whole family, like, I like just to use my creativity, like, while I've been stuck inside. So, I've made this whole six-minute epic movie with my daughter, who's five, like, where we're twinning her. But there's these moments of lying on the floor, like, groaning to get down into position so I can get a shot of my daughter. She's smaller than me, and I'm like, "Does no one want to make this movie?" And I'm like, and I'm groaning because I'm in pain, and the dog runs up, like, my, my crutches are clattering to the floor, and my dog is running up, like, humping my leg. Can I jump in your, does anybody other than you want to make this movie? They did. They did, okay, great, great, and then, and then, as I kept saying that the eye lines were wrong and that she had to do it again, then it got to a point where, like, no one wanted to make the movie. And then I had to get Mari, my wife, and who's a much, in arguably, a better director than me, to be, like, a kind director. So there were two directors on this, and, you know, finally, they had somebody who was. So, you're directing a movie nobody asked for, and you actually got replaced, is that basically what you're saying? To me, for I replaced myself, I replaced myself. And by the way, this eye line thing, I don't know if people get hung up on it, but, again, as we've established Sergio Cartarian, eye lines all over the place. Here's the thing, when you're twinning, when you're twinning an actor who's five, eye lines got to be right. They got to be full of this. Twinning is, oh, look at this. It's very exciting. It's just been, this is so exciting. Your misdoctor is joined. This is my doctor, and we'll just say, "Hi, hello, doctor." How are you guys? We're wonderful. Thank you for everything you did for our friend, Yorma. Oh, it's my pleasure. Yorma, you look great. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I got, I got a ring light on me. So to Seth, you don't, you don't have one, so it's not fair to you. You know what, your electric smile, I think lights up your old, very, as doctors go, you, you do have an electric smile. You're joining us from your car. This is not the car you operate out of, correct? There's a separate car for that. Generally speaking, not, Yorma had texted me about this yesterday, and he's like, and then I realized just how ridiculous my life is, because I can't even coordinate 10 minutes. He's like, "Can you just jump on?" I'm like, "I'm in surgery." He's like, "Yeah, is that wrong?" Look, we have two other hosts of this podcast, and they're not in surgery, and also haven't figured it out. So don't be too hard on yourself. Now, can I ask a quick, and I'll let Yorma see his questions. You know, we have had Gallows humor talking about Yoram, but how bad was it when you first laid eyes on it? He's a lucky guy, clearly. He's a blessed guy. People get badly hurt with this, like Yorma, but some of them don't make it, but Yorma is too good for that. Where does this stack up in terms of surgeries? Like, is this a fairly normal one? Well, I do some pretty large things to people, so Yorma is a middle of the road thing. Okay, great. Damn it. That wasn't the answer I wanted. But you are the greatest, of course, right? I will tell you of the four people who host this podcast, you definitely got the best patient is our take. Has Yorma been as good of a patient as the three of us have sort of perceived him to be? Well, he is very good. He has a great attitude, and he's upbeat, and maybe his humor helps. And, you know, sometimes he will text me in the middle of medication early on, and make me laugh. Yeah, we've got him on the pod a few times early in the medication cycle, and that's been good. I do want to say, if he's ever said stuff to you, like, well, I ever run again, I've literally never seen him run. I've known him for like 25 years, so don't don't let him try to pin his lack of athleticism on the surgery in the hallways of SNL. Sure, sure, sure. That's classically not running. He's ready. What are you doing now? Are you doing cartwheels yet? No, not yet. On Monday, as long as my new surgeon who's replaced you in New York, Alex approves me, then I will be wayparing. So I was, we're using this moment to recap my injury. Will you describe what you actually did if you even remember what you did since you do so much cutting? Sure. So when poor Yorma came in, he had just taken a small tumble off his barn, and had managed to explode his pelvis, which is kind of the ring around him. I'm sorry, he keeps saying that, but that's a medical term, like, I mean, so he really, yeah, it's a ring. It's a physical circle. And so the unique properties of a ring are you, you really usually cannot break it in one spot. So he broke the front and he broke the back, but then the back part of it, which is me, is where the spine attaches to it. And so, and his fracture was just kind of so destroyed that his spine was not attached to the lower part of his body. So I reattached him. And he had broken the lower part of his spine as well. But so he's kind of how often do you go in? And it's a surprise because it felt like even when you were like, you were going to try to work off the lower lumbar, and then you had to like add, add a lumbar, right? To be able to like, do you attach everything? Correct. How often is that the case that you go in and you're like, oh, this is harder than we expected, or like, just going to require more hardware? Well, you get, you get, you get a sense of it from your scan. So you kind of have a sense of what you might be dealing with. And then when you get in there, there's always a little bit of a personality to the injury. So yours was just like, we could see that fracture in your fifth bone. And it was a little bit more angry than the CAT scan and MRI might suggest. And so then we had to, you know, make some adjustments on the fly as we go. But, you know, that is, we're prepared for that pretty routinely as we go, because things like that will happen. But then, you know, you're young and strong, and you have good bones. And so you came together great. The amount of times I heard that was shocking. Like you're a young guy don't don't feel like a young guy, but you know, the bummer is in order for you and I to feel young You're and we have to do stuff only old people do. Just go to hospitals. We have to take really bad balls Yeah, yeah, usually people who take headers of ladders are much older How long were you doing the surgery? I mean my portion of it like because the trauma surgeon kind of started up in the front and put Together the front part of your pelvis and then I Inherited this the second part of it. That was probably about three hours or so on on the back portion of it To kind of put it you together and that was a little bit into the evening as these trauma things kind of go, right? So is that a longer side of a surgery for you three hours? that's probably Middle to shorter side for the kinds of things because I'm usually doing like Major deformity surgery where people are like scoliosis or a kind of bent in half and crooked That kind of thing, but we do a little bit of everything. Tumor is in trauma. Unfortunately, do you have a favorite kind of surgery? Like are you like oh, man? Is a good one? I knew I have to say yes because I really do like trauma honestly because they're kind of interesting challenging cases and Like major deformities like scoliosis and things like that. That's usually my I will try to tie it to our podcast. I would imagine trauma is Trauma surgeries as the closest to working at SNL and that you don't have a lot of time to prepare You're sort of fighting out as it goes what you need nice time. Well there. Yeah, there is definitely an element of That you will need to be able to improvise or at least have a plan a through Z Yeah, and there's always good stories attached to these things. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, no, I loved my story Did you talk to norma before the surgery or was it so sudden that you didn't get to actually have a conversation with them until after? No, fortunately I we did get to talk beforehand through or might not That that does happen and those are kind of tougher things to tackle because Yeah, somebody really in bad shape them. I mean, it's really like when when this guy showed up with his his a beaming White smile. Yeah, you know, it's hard hard not to trust a guy like that There's like this guy like even when it was gonna be late. I was like he'll be fine. He'll be fine It's gonna be 11 o'clock and about he'll be fine. He's got energy for days I don't know what your toothpaste is, but if they want to be a sponsor of the podcast we could talk our testimonials would be very authentic You know, it's like kind of a normal world like you're there and and it's I realize like it's the strangeness of my world where that's fine You know like it's 10 o'clock. Let's go and you're like, uh, this this is done at 10 o'clock. Yeah. Yeah, you've got to go right now Excuse my ignorance of being a total layman in this, but when at what point in your schooling did you know this was this sort of medicine you wanted to practice? You know, I when I was going through I was a med student and I was walking down the hall of surgery trying trying not to be lost and I peered into this room and they had This it was a broken leg at that time and I saw them put this It's essentially a wire into this leg the wire is maybe three feet long and it just disappeared into the Into the leg and I got the wheelies and I said I don't know What that is, but that's what I'm gonna do. Yeah. Oh my god It's so funny that you like everything while you were saying it all I could think was keep walking You're not supposed to see that Like 99% of people that's the reaction and speaking of which just to tie it to Because I can't imagine that you text with a lot of your your patients necessarily. I just want to feel special here But I sent I sent the text that we were doing last night To Seth because I wrote to you could you do 10 a.m. Tomorrow Seth can do then or are you gonna be cutting up bodies you freak? because Like it's true that like like let's like you are the you you actually set it to like I think you maybe even had a surgery this morning Did you yeah? I'm actually between I'd had one surgery and I was telling you I don't know if I'm gonna make it on time But it it worked out great actually and perfect so I'm between cases Stressing between surgeries. This is not mid surgery. You did not walk away saying. I got a quick. Oh, yes Popped up my car for a quick. I really said it would be super cool if you did it mid surgery You'rema did as well. Do you think the patient would go for that and I did say I think that would be a little weird Yeah, that would be a little weird. Yeah. Yeah, by the way while your arms calling you a freak. He's the one like Well again, I cannot of thank you enough We're so happy to have your Ma back on his feet as a Monday knock on wood and yeah, I mean again We are you know shout out to our medical professionals everywhere We're you know, we hopefully don't need someone like you, but thank God you're around when we do all that's kind of you I personally want to thank you to would just say you're like like honestly like I There are there are no words and and really like you're you're the absolute best and thank you for for everything you do That's so kind of you and and please give our appreciation of your whole your whole team over there I will I there they're gonna die to hear about this right now What's your next surgery? Where are you going into next? I'm gonna fix somebody's neck next they have a you know fragment of Material that is pushing on their spinal cord, so we're gonna fish that out and make them better all right Well, okay good luck in there. Yeah All right guys Well, that dude rules. Oh my god. He's the bad man. Whoa that dude rules I wanted to get him on the bat. He's amazing Also the fact that he gave me his number, which I was like the moment he did I was like you fool Yeah, he didn't know I should have asked when did you realize that your mama was your mom? Um, I do He's the kind of doctor that if I knew he was doing my surgery I would think I gotta live so I can text this guy one day Yes, or like I don't play golf, but I was like maybe he plays golf. Maybe I should take him golf and play golf with him Oh, I well, I wanted to open with his urine, but somebody said a really funny comment It was the rankings of the hosts on oh, no, no, just live in the ranks and maybe I'm fourth fuck. No, ready. All right. It was the bottom Yorma. Oh fuck next up Andy. Yeah, then me. Oh, okay, then Andy if he quibbied Is the best host no then keep Then you're after he fell off the ladder basically You went from bottom to top wasn't worth it of course not, but I think the world and you know Maybe this is more of a shout out to the pharmaceutical industry or just your new lease on life, but you're Everybody. I think the world agrees. Yeah, you know, it just we we managed to shake the podcast I'll study that we always knew it got to stay on those drugs. This is really good. This is bad news for me and and my addictions This is a nice transition because I will say The what I really wanted to say in this in this podcast beyond just talking about myself in my surgery is Is just a big thank you to all of our fans and honestly how I've been blown away By what one like this year volume. I don't have a late night TV show. Seth. I'm sure you get you get male all the time Because you're a great guy and you're doing I can tell you your sense you are getting your meal at my PO box You are getting 10X as much male as I get well. You've been on for a long time. That's people people get it at this point But but the creativity though of all of our fans and just the sheer sarcasm and meanness I I absolutely love all of our fans and I I love you guys for I mean here's the where's the where's the Pillow that I had I don't know where this but like but just the amount of like mean I just got this today Somebody sent me our own DVDs of hot rod and pop star and just the pure sarcasm of that is just It's really nice to send you yeah DVDs of movies. You mean yeah, which is also like to be given a DVD right now is almost a A personal attack. It's great like go buy a DVD player now or and I gotta buy both because one's a DVD and one's a blu-ray So you're gonna get by two machines to actually watch it. Do you have anything else on hand? I have so many things Seth and I wanted this why we want to make this a video podcast because this is a video podcast You can you can check it out. And by the way, I know it's shocking that we have not done video yet on the podcast I will just say the reason is That your key in Andy have no visual style Yeah, and most of the time I'm 100% nude too and so like so we were just like we don't want to get arrested But people have knit me things. This is a beautiful knitted hat. I got two knitted hats. I got Very nice shirts. That's a those ones says There's three of these two which I'd I love your arm really your giant shy. Oh, yeah, giant. I think that's where my family So that they can walk around and actually. Yeah, I see it right support. Yeah, I guess giving you a, I will say that's a lot like the DVD giving you a shirt that says, "I love yourma" is not really a gift for you. It's hard to, to wear that around the house. And it's also a, I mean, it's weird to put you in the position of them being the person who's giving it away. Yeah, but I mean, you know, it's like, you know, me, Seth, that's actually a great, that's a great thing for me to do. Like I could easily give that to you as a present you would hate it. Yeah, here's the, I got, we got, well, quite a few Quaid Army shirts. This one is a really nice one. That's a really nice one. Military style. Right, just kill at the bottom. I, you know, I do a Q&A event and my show I've mentioned, I'm getting a lot of Quaid armies. I am also your, I'm getting a lot of people asking after you. People will ask during my Q&A how you are, which is lovely. The only downside is I will, I think, you know, probably 80% of my audience has not listened to the podcast. So then I have to say, "Oh, he's asking this because, and then I have to tell the narlliest story." And then I have to say, that's, yeah, going to be like, "Oh, he's asking how my friend Yoram is because he fell off a ladder." I'm using the medical term, "Blood of fuckin' smithery." He's an exploded. I explode in my belly. I was like, "Did you go to med school with Yoram?" Yeah, it's the same, it's the same thing with cutting. It's just weird to like, just like sort of say that they're cutting. I'll be between cutting. I guess it's strange. Okay, here, hold on. There's more shirts. I want to say some shirts here. This one is very stylized, and I have four of these. Oh, this is a great one. So, hold on, we got him eight. So that is a quayd army. Yeah. I can't quite read. What is Botto's name? Well, it says, he says, "Any of you quays got a smith, and it's Bill Hater, and then it's Andy's face is Quato." Yeah, Bill, it's often forgotten that Bill is, of course, the body that the Quato first came out of. He's James and Elskins. I think it's his character name. That's a really, and we were saying it's like good, like it's sort of like Archie Comics anime. This one's awesome, and it's very soft, too, so it's fun. Yeah, weird to bed. We got, okay, this one. Here's the thing. With Quato being a character that is somehow representing our podcast, Quato's horrible looking. And so a lot of things that have Quato's face on them are just a bummer to look at, and some of these shirts are equally. This one reminds me of a present that I got for your mom, which is a-- Oh, yeah. Because I don't know if we talked about, we talked about how I had a shirt airbrushed for your mom for her birthday. Yeah, this says real G's what? Move in silence. Real G's move in silence. And by the way, you are my found at this weekend and forgot to take a picture of it, but I will put it in the chat soon so that people can see it. Well, what I love about gifts like this, and I may have mentioned this, is that I love airbrushing, because airbrushing is one of those art forms where no matter how good you are, it's awful. Just awful to look at. And you can give that away now, because it's like it's a present and you're like, you know what? That's really the thing about it. Enough effort went into it that you feel bad throwing it away, even though the effort was wasted because it looks awful. The only one that I, and this wouldn't be a podcast about, you know, my injury without me name-dropping someone, but I made one for Tracy Morgan that says because I'm Tracy Morgan, as a screaming face, airbrush huge on his, on his, on his, on the chest. And he's the only person that I'm like, oh, he might wear this. He might wear this around his like giant fish tank with his sharks. Yeah, so this one- Alexi is often, I kind of feel like Alexi said, what are you ever going to wear this about my mom's big face? You know, airbrushed on no shirt. And the reality is I'm probably not going to wear it, but I, I feel like throwing away an airbrush shirt that was given to you as a gift is a little bit like begging for a Sergio-style curse. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. I think there are certain things you, you can't, you can't do. Well, while you're getting the next one out, speaking of Quaid Army and, and Arnold, I had our friend Edgar Wright on the show talking about his movie Running Man. I didn't see it. How was Edgar? It's fantastic. It's so fun. Edgar is just a blast to be around because also Edgar, a card-carrying member of Quaid Army. Oh, yeah, he's the best. And he was very, it was the, you know, again, I think I feel like, you know, back in our New York days was when I saw Edgar the most, but he was sort of saying how sweet it is that he feels like he knows more about what's going on with us than he does with his own parents. This is one of the pluses and minuses of podcasts, I guess. Yeah, so I then am going to, I'm going to start doing a podcast with his parents. By per his request, I have to imagine that they both sound like, "Edga, eat your cereal." Right? I assume that they do that cereal. I'm sorry, Edgar, that was a rude impression of you. You can do one of me, whenever you want. This is because you mentioned anything, like on the podcast, just mentioning that I wanted a solid, this, the spelling bee reference. By the way, that's, I wasn't kidding. That's basically where I end up every day. I get solid. I'm like, "Hey, solid spelling bee t-shirt is genuinely the funniest one yet." Yes, yes, and I have a hat that's a solid, solid two, and I actually, I wear it all the time and I love it, but I don't, I've worn it so much that I've misplaced it now. And then here's another hat, too. You aren't sorens? Yeah, you aren't sorens. I'm sorry. Okay. We're going to, we are going to show this again, but since it's a video pod, let's show it now, can we, do we have the last version of Tapper's Quattro? Oh. How does he have time to do? What do we think? Are you happy with you? I feel like you've gotten worse. I'm fine with that because I feel like, you know, that maybe he's drawing the inside of me. Yeah. I think Andy, I think he's trying too hard at Andy now. I feel like if he swapped out me from last time, then we'd be, we'd be solid. I will say you're, I feel good. You know what? I should not, I should not be giving notes on other people. I just want to say I fully sign off. I'm very happy with where I'm at. The thing is, is that it looks like he draws these on an iPad program. He like, which is very savvy. Yeah. The only other person I know who like does that is like another name drop, is Phil Lorde. Like the only person I know who like really like sketches on these things. All right. What else you got? Okay. Let's see. Well, then there's, there's some ones that are like ladder promotional. Ladders are whack. This one says. Okay. So that's ladders are whack and they made that. They made that. But I will say like, this isn't one that I'm going to wear a lot if I'm being if I'm being completely honest. I still appreciate the effort. And it has like scar. I think that these is like scarped scarring. Maybe that's next to the ladder. I like the ladder is, you know, ladder is spelled from top to bottom. So it's kind of the the letters of ladder are making a ladder. Our whack is at the bottom. And it does seem like is there like a hole that maybe you had fallen into? Yeah, that's that's the part that's a great whack. And then it says on the side, it says detached sacrum productions. So like, you know, you know, you know, there's a lot of effort into that one. And then oh, this one's great. And our buddy Jack will appreciate this one. I almost want to send it to him. But this is like that. One man quaid army core. And it's an abbreviation. And it's a Jack's face. That's really good. And he looks really handsome. Does he? I made the mistake of my show saying once that I am terrified by the Mac tonight. That old McDonald's guy. Yes. And then the big moon guy. Yeah, the big, big moon guy, which I guess has also been co-opted by like white supremacy culture. So they, you know, double barrel bummer. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I think it's like peppy, the frog-ish type, like, like moon, like they call a moon man. I guess what I'm saying is if you see somebody with like a giant moonhead, they might just beat not, it might be more than they're like craven burgers at six. So that's a bummer. And then I can't remember how I, but I think at some point I was like, stop sending this. This would be like, you guys sent me like Bill Cosby albums. And and so then they've just been doing that. Just get a lot of the PO box just full of old like Cosby. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of, I've gotten these were trading cards from the original total recall. So people, I'm a quaid. This is all, I'm sorry, I'm not like giving individual names for everyone who sent me stuff, but quadru, yeah, quaid means quadru. That, that, that quadrucard is a good, you know, that really proves your point that you don't really want Quattro on a piece of clothing. No, I mean, at all. And here's, here's some original pins that were also done for total recall, which, you know, so a little disturbing. There's a lot of disturbing stuff against me as well. But in terms of talking about like, like, people have sent me books that they've written and comic books. I mean, it's, it's just been incredibly nice in the amount of like letters that I've gotten. Here's another pin that someone made, which is also a disturbing of Andy's face, which I really like these ones. I might actually be able to put this, but you know, when you got kids, it's a little hard to explain something like that. Yeah. Quaid Army pin with, with Andy's face as Quattro. Disturbing. You kind of love Andy's lack of vanity every time you see a Quattro. Oh, I think he loved it. And it was always like one for, I don't know, if it's like one for him, one for his parents, because like again, exactly half of his sketches, he looked very handsome. And then the other one, you know, I like, I like how much we can compliment each other. I do, I do feel like Andy's era of hair could either lend itself to like really a bummer or like, oh, that's nicely quaffed. I really like that. Yeah, yeah. Here's a, here's a original piece of art done by - Oh, I like that. - Uncle wax, yeah, it's Kim Powell. And it's actually painted and painted. And so, on the back. Congratulations. You have just received - like how far I have to put it away from my face. You have just received a custom hand-painted art card. Please do not throw it into a river and it's nice. It's nice. It's a reminder that you guys did not have trading cards for Harrod. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You even like when it came out like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like no whatever wanted a Kevin card. He was like, I'm going to get your mental Kevin card and they didn't want an eBay and he knew he was like, oh, I think I got a paint one. Did I tell you that after after Harrod came out, I was talking to Lauren and we were talking about the failure of the movie and he was talking about like different aspects of the failure of the movie. He was like, well, you knew in a normal version of it, you would have been played by a 14 year old boy. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's one of that's a that's a Lauren Thorn. You're you being Kevin is a classic Lauren Thorn. Hey, so on and again, I'm going to bring this up. Apologies to everybody who's going to I mean, because I'm going to have to tell the other two guys. We've obviously been digging into the fact that there's a conspiracy. I don't know if it's conspiracy or it's like basically whoever's behind New York Times games is trying to make coded contact with us like Cold War spies. Oh, really? Today there was a more today. First of all, we heard from Hambone, John Ham, friend of the pod, because he even in me like six am was like, what's going on because in connections, one of the words was yellow. Oh, yeah, they were sending us a coded message like that like straight to the public. Yeah, yeah. All right. No, that's like just that's the first thing. Crossword today. I mean, again, I'm one of the hosts. So I'm going to I'm going to count it. Late night host Seth. Yeah. But here's the crazy one. Lauren. I'm sorry. Here's the crazy one. When you're coming. Lauren's brand whose customers made its Super Bowl ad in 2025. Really? And you know what it is? Sprite. No, it's a tie into us. They're trying to communicate with us. Thank Super Bowl ad. Oh, Airbnb. Doritos. Doritos. Doritos. Doritos. Yeah. Doritos. Did you make a Super Bowl ad for you? Yeah, I did. But here's the thing, Seth. The Gavipen, when I take it, it's about an hour, hour. I see. That's such a really kick in. And I'm not taking like horse doses here. Again, at the end, everybody, you know, I feel like I know judgment to the good people at Doritos. I, you know, I love artistic expression. I love big swings. And I also completely understand all the choices they made. It was honestly, I would say the biggest bummer was just that we had to make another video saying that we didn't make a video. That was the hardest. And you know how hard it is to get the three of us together. It was just really hard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It would be like, for example, if someone at like Doritos that could fall in on their sword for this one, and like years later, they're like, whatever happened to that big Doritos job, you had marketing. It's like, it was just awesome thing they wouldn't hear. You want to see it? And they'd show it. And then people would be like, Oh, you're fired. Oh, Jeffrey, you shouldn't have, you shouldn't have stood up for that. Jeffrey, not that. I just also like hearing now from the new casino. Like there's obviously turnover at companies, which I, you know, in Hollywood, I just assume it's every like six to months for a year that there's a whole new brass. But like clearly, that's the case with PepsiCo, because like just having people be like, I never heard of this. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm like, well, let's say this thing that's been talked about on a podcast. I love it. Yeah. No, this, this definitely got memory hold over there. They put it. I'm curious. Have I made the joke that they put it? Where did they put it with the arc of the covenant? It seems like something I would have said before. I'm getting a contact Penton, but hit off your arm. So apologies if I'm repeating myself as well. All right. So long story short, your arm reached out because he wanted to thank Quaid Army. He wanted to thank his medical team. And that was the purposes of this. And it was lovely to see you, you are. It's lovely to see you too, Seth. And for anybody who's going through anything like this, my heart, it goes out to you. And it is a lot of people have reached out who have gone through things like this. And it's one of those moments where the minute you actually have something bad happened to you and you talk about it, you realize just how many people have gone through something either similar or going through something similar. And then I just, I really appreciate it. And if you can do anything, do no need to send me anything else. I have been absolutely satiate. Thank you guys so much for everything. All of your cards and letters have really met the world to me and my family. And I also want to thank my family more than anything for having to go through this, my kids and my wife. But if you want to do anything, I would just say, if you can reach out to somebody today or whenever you hear this, that means something to you and you feel grateful for. You know what? Are you playing me off? I am out playing off. But really, thank whoever has done something nice for you. It really means the world to me. I'm the, I'm the sincere guy, Seth and people sing me into, will you sing me into Seth's corner? Seth's corner. This is the part of the mini cast, whatever this is where Seth talks about, hopefully he's not talking shit about me part of the show. I got my teeth cleaned last week and my dental technician is going to join. Please say that's true. No, also right after me saying that, that's what I want out of it. So Gary, how bad was it? It was just kind of like right down the middle. Was there any classic? Yeah. Um, yeah, we shouldn't. Gary, we should have let you go first. We sequenced this pod bat. Um, all right. I love you, buddy. I love you too, Seth. You're the best. Later on. Later quates.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Yorma shares his journey of recovery from a severe pelvic and spine fracture, emphasizing the difficulty, pain, and loneliness he experienced during hospital stays and rehab.
  2. He credits Western medicine, his surgical team, and physical therapy for his successful recovery, noting he will be walking again by next Monday—three months after the injury.
  3. Yorma jokes about making a six-minute family video with his daughter and dog, highlighting both the absurdity and emotional value of creative expression during hospitalization.
  4. The episode honors the medical professionals who treated him, calling their work vital and expressing deep gratitude for their skill and dedication.
  5. Yorma reflects on the emotional toll of injury, acknowledging moments of despair while also celebrating resilience, humor, and the support of his family.
  6. The podcast hosts celebrate the fan-driven "Quaid Army" community, sharing stories of heartfelt gifts, fan-made art, and even a possible coded message in a crossword puzzle.
  7. The hosts express appreciation for fans’ creative and often sarcastic messages, which have deeply impacted the show’s culture and community.
  8. A central theme is connection—Yorma emphasizes how sharing his story resonates with others who have faced trauma, creating a feeling of solidarity and mutual support.

Summary:

Yorma, a guest on the Lowly Island podcast, opens with a heartfelt thank-you to the Quaid Army community and medical professionals who helped him recover from a life-threatening pelvic and spine fracture. He shares the emotional pain, isolation, and moments of despair he faced during hospitalization and rehab, while also highlighting his resilience and gratitude for the medical care and support that enabled his recovery. The episode includes a lighthearted anecdote about filming a family video with his daughter and dog, illustrating how creativity brought joy during difficult times.

Yorma emphasizes that his survival—despite a 20% fatality rate for such injuries—was a testament to modern medicine and personal strength. The podcast also celebrates the vibrant fan community, including fan-made shirts, art, and gifts, which reflect both humor and deep emotional connection. Host Seth notes how fans’ messages, including a coded crossword reference to Doritos and a Super Bowl ad, suggest a unique, almost conspiratorial bond between fans and the show.

Ultimately, the episode serves as a tribute to resilience, community, and the power of storytelling in healing—offering both personal insight and a broader message of gratitude to those who have faced similar struggles.

FAQs

Yorm sustained a severe pelvis fracture after falling off his barn, which broke both the front and back of the pelvis. The injury also affected his lower spine, and he was at risk due to the high fatality rate of open book fractures—20% of people can die from such injuries.

It has taken Yorm three months to recover from his injury. He is expected to walk again by next Monday, which is a significant milestone given the severity of the trauma and the fact that he wasn’t paralyzed.

Yes, Yorm was treated by a trauma surgeon and a specialist who worked together to reattach his pelvis and spine. He credits Western medicine, his physical therapists, and the entire medical team for his recovery.

Yorm described painful, lonely, and depressing moments during recovery, especially in hospitals and rehab, where he felt isolated and even 'pathetic.' He emphasized that the journey was emotionally difficult despite the physical healing.

Yorm made a six-minute family video with his daughter and wife, where he 'twinning' her in scenes. The project was challenging due to pain, awkward positioning, and poor eye lines, but it became a meaningful way to express his creativity during isolation.

Yorm praised the care and attitude of his medical team, noting that he had a positive experience despite the severity of his injury. He described himself as a 'lucky' patient due to his young age and strong bones, and he credited the medical system and teamwork for his recovery.

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