April 16, 2025 • 26 mins
You've heard the incredible news: Dave Coulier has beat stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma!! In today's episode, Dave joins Andrea and Jodie to dive deep into his battle with cancer... One that they've been able to see him overcome, firsthand. From the moment he was officially diagnosed, to getting the news that he was cancer-free, Dave doesn't hold back on the trials and tribulations he faced through it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome to a very new and
very special episode of How Rude taner Ritos. Today we
are joined by the incredible Dave Coolier.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Dave has announced that he is.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Officially cancer free, and it is just so hard to
put into words how much that truly means to us
and the rest of our full house family. To celebrate
Dave kicking cancers, but we wanted to chat with him
today about his journey and spread some awareness for non
Hodgkins lymphoma. So please, everybody, Fana Ritos, please put your
hands together for the man himself.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Dave Coolier.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hi, Poopoo Jay by so many, so many, so.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
All the poopoos.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's a poopy Oh my gosh, David, is so great
to see you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You will go to see you.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I look like a baby bird, like I'm just getting
my feathers back.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You got your pin feathers.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let's put a live cam on your little nest there.
You can have a little ball at eagle nest cam.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was just gonna say, Andrea, it happens to be
an expert on small Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, Dave, thank you so much for doing this,
for joining us today, Like Jody and I are just
so excited to talk to you and and catch up
and hear about all of the wonderful news that the
recent news that you announced.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh we just can't wait.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Hey did we start yet?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
If you see me making weird jumping noises, I fell
down my stairs like two days ago and severely injured myself.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Like I I had to go to the er. It
was not fun. So I have some serious back issues.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So you see me like every once in a while, like,
it's not it's not you don't take it personally.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I'm I'm an.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Idiot, Jodey. You can't keep doing this.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
When you get to be my age, stuff just breaks
in half.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
That's yeah, you got you gotta stop. I mean, I know, I.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Gotta stop throwing myself down the stairs.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, well tell everybody how you broke your leg.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Jumping over a stupid small fence. Yeah. See, it's big things,
it's dumb things.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's never doing stunts or anything impressive. It's just a
normal show.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Anyway. Back to the big news.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, back to back to the very important news.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Dave. Oh my gosh, Okay, so you recently announced that
you are cancer.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
French are free.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yep, I'm wearing I'm wearing my hockey Uh Fights Cancer
jersey that I'm now an ambassador with the NHL.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
And so I get to be a spokesman encouraging people,
you know, to get mammograms and colon oscopy and right, yeah,
all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That is you know, that is affecting people younger and younger.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So that's super important.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Now I'm going to channel Bob for a second and say,
you know, I gave Dave his first colonoscopy son, channel
Bob for a second, right, for free.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I did it for yeah, not even Cammer or anything
up there, just you know, for fun and for free.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Just a probe.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Just yeah, just is get it going.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
But the other cool thing that happened is Jody set
me up with her cousin, Shane Jacobson, who's the CEO
of the v Foundation, which is the largest cancer research
organization in the United States.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
They've raised over a four hundred million dollars. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
So Jody introduced us and sorry, you guys, you have
to have cancer to be an ambassador.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But what about throwing yourself down the stairs?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Well that's that's it. That's the Flying the Foundation. That's
a different, different foundation. They raised money for clumsy people.
Well perfect, yeah, for kletching people. Uh so, Jody and I, uh,
you know, and here's the talk about full circle.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Right Andrea the title of your book.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Shane was a atmosphere actor on Full House when he
was a kid.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, they came out my family's they're all from Iowa
and they would come out to visit and Shane and
his two brothers, Brandon and Brock and they would come out.
And one time they were out and we were shooting.
So it was like, hey, you guys want to be
extras in the in the pirate restaurant scene?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Yes, he sent me a picture and I'm sitting there
surrounded by all these kids and he's one of them.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's some great.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think he sneezed on your spaghetti, was wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He's done my spaghetti?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
And I said, you know, if you become a CEO, someday,
I will never work with you.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
True. So weird little moment though.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I know it was crazy.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
So thank you Jody for you know, connecting us and
it's it's an amazing organization. It really is three. I
went to my first V Foundation.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
No. Nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
It was started in nineteen ninety three by ESPN and
the V Foundation with Jimmy Valvano who was a famous
basketball coach, and he got cancer and eventually passed away,
but he gave this incredible speech where it's.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Mind going, it's a beautiful, beautiful, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Don't give up, never, never give up, and it's become
kind of their mantra for the V Foundation. And I
went to my first golf tournament down in Carolina and
I ended up hanging out with Charles Barkley the whole night.
And the reason he wanted to hang out with me
is because I was standing on a balcony as where
(06:18):
everybody's getting ready to go into their golf carts, and
this large man bent over and I did a fart
sound and everybody started laughing. So a few more guys
come over and they go, what are you guys laugh
doing up here?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Why are you laughing?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And he's doing fart sounds every time somebody bends over.
It Well, people bend over at golf to tie their
shoes or to go on their golf.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So I had tons of targets, and so I was doing.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Different you know, sounds like really low ones and big
ones for larger people.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And you're talented funny. It is an amazing talent.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's the one time it's really it's like a snowflake.
There's no two fart sounds alike.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's really impressive.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
And farts are universal in any language. A fart will
make someone laugh. Sony how I went to this golf
tournament and Charles Barkley saw that I was.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Making everybody laugh. He hey, Dave, if you come with
me the whole night.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
And I ended up hanging out with him the whole night,
and I got him at our entire table to do.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Power laughs in the restaurant.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
And he was sitting next to me and we're at
this big round table and I started, and then the
lady next to me went and he realizes it's coming.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Around to him.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
After about fifteen people's I'm I'm doing no Paula, finally
he did a power laugh and he had to get
up and leave the table because he made himself laugh
so hard.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
That was my first V Foundation event. And here we
are today and now I'm wearing this jersey.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I love it. It sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What an impression, Like, what a first impression?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Dave laughs, Like you guys said, you know, you don't
know where the greats are coming from.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And uh, you know, I found my niche.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, that's so to see that some things haven't changed here.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Not much has changed here. You know, I'm cancer free you,
which is nice. That was a battle.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, tell us where were you when you found out
the news.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Was it a phone call? Was it an office visit
with the doctor?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I was.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I was here at our house in Michigan, and I
was battling a little bit of a cold. And then
you know, sometimes your your lymph nodes swell up in
your armpits or whatever, you know, as you fight this cold.
And so I had one in my groin and within
a few days it got to the size of a
golf ball. Within five days it was huge. And I
said to my my wife, mel I said, this isn't
(09:02):
this isn't normal. She goes, Oh my god, We're going
to the hospital. So we went to the hospital. They
checked it out and they said, you know, this could
be we don't know what it is yet, but let's
do a biopsy. They buiopsied we waited about seven days,
and while we were waiting in that seven days, I
had another lymph node.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Just kind of explode in my neck.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
And that was cause for alarm because once the nodes
cross and start to swell across what they call your
hemisphere of your body from right to left or vice versa,
it becomes a great concern. And so they really didn't
know what was going on. And then we got the
results back. I was here at home by myself. Mel
(09:45):
was on her way home. She was about twenty minutes out,
and my two doctors called and we were just kind
of expecting a call sooner or later, and they said, hey, Dave,
we wish we had better news, but you have B
sell non Hodgkin's lymphoma. And I go, what does that mean.
They said, well, it's a form of cancer and it's
very aggressive. B cell is super aggressive, so we need to.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Get on this right away. And I said what does
that mean?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
And they said, well, like next week you're starting chemo
and I was like what.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
And you know, you hear.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Those words when it applies to yourself, and it's just
mind numbing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's just trying to process.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Okay, I have cancer and my wife's on her way
home in ten minutes. And so Mel walked in the
door and she goes and the first thing she said
it was so weird. She goes, have you heard any
news back? And I said, I just got off the
phone with the doctor's I have cancer. She's like, come stop,
don't make jokes like that, and I said no, and
I explained to her what I had and it was
(10:47):
like I punched her in the stomach. It was just
like I've never seen a reaction like that from her,
and we just cried and held each other and I said,
I think I can turn this into something good, and
she's like really.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I said, yeah, I think I can help people.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I'm going to just tell everybody my story and I'm
going to encourage people to get tested and had I
and my doctors told me, they said, look, with this
kind of lymphoma that you have, because it's so aggressive
and it grows so quickly, if you to let this
go a couple more weeks, you wouldn't be stage three.
You could possibly be stage four, which is a huge difference.
(11:24):
And so they said, we got it early enough. The
good thing is it's it's got a ninety five percent
curability rate. It's the most aggressive lymphoma, but it also
responds extremely well to chemotherapy. So we're trying to process
all this stuff. Yeah, and the first thing, you know,
(11:44):
I did was I just started telling people. You know,
I think I texted all of you guys in a text. Yeah,
And I said, you know, I've got to reach out
to the people who are closest to me first, because
I don't want them hearing from someone else.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And so that's what I did.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I reached out to you guys and family members and friends,
and I just kind of just wanted people to know,
but I still kept it kind of close to the vest.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And then.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
The Today Show called and said, you know, would you
like to talk about this? And I said, yeah, I would,
so we food in New York. I did the Today
Show and it was bizarre. You know, We've all done
shows where we're promoting something, but this this had a
really Twilight zone twist to it, like I'm going to
(12:34):
go on and talk about how sick I am.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
In a different way, you.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Know, it's so personally yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, And so I thought, well, this is this is
probably as real as it's going to ever get for me.
With the media, and you know, because we when we
go on shows, we're there to make people laugh and
we're there to entertain and promote something.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And this was, okay, what am I promoting?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, I'm going to promote and encourage people to you know,
get pre screenings and early detection and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So that was really the only.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Thing other than tell my story and just make sure
you get that in there, you know. And so at
the end, Hoda said to me, you know what you
did here today and I said, told people I had cancer.
She's like, you helped a lot of people you're going
to see. And from that moment there was an explosion.
Somehow my story struck a nerve with people and we
(13:35):
started hearing from you know what eventually turned into a
couple thousand people saying thank you. I'm going to go get,
you know, a colonoscopy. I wish Bob Sagat was still around,
but you know, so that's that's kind of been. You know,
that was the beginning, and then it's just been this
journey of Okay, let's make it through the rounds of chemotherapy,
(14:00):
and you know, they say they have to kill you
in order to save your life, and there were times
where I felt like I don't know how many more
of these I can do, you know, and your hair
falls out, and you get neuropathy, and you get you know,
you get muscle cramps and spasms and dizziness and vertigo
(14:23):
and all of these things.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
But everybody's different.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
There's no there's no cookie cutter result for people because
our physiology is.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Different and our genetics are different.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
So for me, I was like, after the first two
times I was skating, I was out on the ice rink,
and you know, I felt pretty good. But then I
just if I started here, I went down. Like after
the third one, it just started to hit me where
I couldn't I couldn't get out of bed, I had
shortness of breath, I.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Was really weak. I was just like, wow, this is
this is really doing a number on me. Yeah. Yeah,
But I have a.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Great wife, and Melissa is an angel.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
She was amazing, you know.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
She she took care of me and uh, you know,
I'd have night sweats and she'd go, we gotta we
gotta chase these sheets, you know again, you know, and
here's a cold compress, and here's your food, and here's
your drugs, And I mean she micro managed this in such.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
A way that I will forever be grateful to her
the way she so valiantly plowed through this.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And that's just the type of person she is too,
you know, always willing to do the most for everyone,
but when it comes to you, you know, her person
like this was her time to to shine and be
your rock, you know, after you sure for everyone else.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
For sure, for sure, and you know you always hear
that that sentiment of you know, through the toughest times
is when you learn the most about yourself and others.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
And I did. I did, uh, you know, I learned
how incredible my wife is. And I also learned.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Just how much a positive attitude can help you plow
through things.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, it's so admirable. And I've admired this from the
minute I got your text telling me that you had cancer.
How positive you are, and I mean, you're a positive person.
You're funny, you make jokes, that's how you deal with
difficult topics. But this whole time, like it'd be so
it would be so understandable just to turn inwards and
only think about yourself and only just be very private
(16:42):
about it and just suffer silently alone or just with
a small circle. But you've been so open and so
positive and raising this awareness and encouraging, like you said,
thousands of people to go get tested that Like I'm
just I'm so in awe of you for.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Thank you that way.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Because you don't have no one expects that you don't
have you have cancer, You're allowed to be selfish and
to do it however you you know, but you chose
to do it openly and with advocacy.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It's so well. Thank you, Andrea. I love you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I love you, Dave.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I had a lot of cancer in my family. I
lost my mom, my sister Sharon at thirty six years old.
I lost my niece Shannon at twenty nine years old.
My sister Karen is having her own cancer battle right now.
So they have the Baraka one gene, so it's genetic
for them. So I saw what they went through and
(17:44):
I thought to myself, if I can have just ten
percent of their strength, I'll be able to power through
this because they went through hell, you know, radical hysterectomies
and you know misectomies, and and.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It was you know, it was really tough.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It was really hard, and I saw the way my
mom joked through it, my sister joked her way and
laughed through it, East did, and you know, it.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Was a lot of it was nothing less from you
because that is how I mean. But it but it
really does.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It changes things like if you can laugh at the
things that are supposed to be the scariest in the world,
it feels like it gives you a little power back
over them.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, knowing you guys.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
As well as I do, and our whole group we
always had, you know, gallows humor. We always yoked through
the toughest of times. And you know, somehow you come
out the other side and you make it through tough
moments like that and you think, well that was actually
(18:53):
it actually wasn't so bad because you know, we didn't
stop living life.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
We just kept going.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
And you know that, I mean that says a lot
of who we are as a group, you know, because
we tend to laugh at some pretty dark stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And you know, I remember, I've seen so many of
my friends recently go through chemo or cancer treatment or
getting you know, diagnosis, and I just it's so important,
like you said, to create this kind of awareness.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
And I think we're all in a.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Position of like people love the Tanner Gladstone, you know,
they have.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
This sort of affection.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So it's like when we get to push and promote
you know, staying healthy and like getting those tests done,
I think people actually listen.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
So, uh so it was really hard, but I'm glad
that it's in the rear view mirror now and hopefully
I can, you know, help some other people.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
How much time passed between your last chemo appointment and
then the good news that your cancer free?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
It was it was about three weeks. Oh wow, so
there was you know, and I was still pretty sick.
I ended up at the three week mark.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
My blood levels were so low because after each after
each chemo treatment, your your red blood cells dive, you know,
all your levels, your white blood cells, everything, just your
immune system just kind of crashes. And so I caught
a cold during that last chemo treatment. I didn't get
(20:37):
out of bed for ten days, and I knew that
the cumulative effect of the chemotherapy was going to happen,
so I attributed it to that instead of realizing I
have a cold and my immune system can't handle it
right now.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I was in bed for ten days and I was
really sick. I couldn't move, I couldn't get out of bed.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And fine, Mel said to me, something else is going on.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We've got to get a doctor over here.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
And I said, no, it's just really bad chemo side effects,
and she goes, no, no, no, let's get somebody over
So of course she said, before the doctor comes over,
to take your temperature.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So she took my temperature. She goes, oh, you've got
a fever. And I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
So the doctor came over and he goes, yeah, you got
a fever. We got to get some antibiotics into you
right away. And then nothing happened after those antibiotics for
a couple days. He was like, you know, let me
know in forty eight hours, if you know, the fever
comes down. So it didn't, and then they said you
got to go to the hospital right now. We're looking
at some tests and things. So I ended up in
(21:41):
the hospital for four days while they administered an IV
of antibiotics, waiting for my waiting for my fever to break, and.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
They said, look, we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
At that point, my body started secreting these proteins that
were indicative of a massive heart attack. We don't know
what's going on, but we don't think you've had, you know,
a heart attack event. So we're trying to figure out
what's going on here. And so I was like okay,
and then they said, okay, we need to you know,
(22:17):
we're going to take an ultrasal, We're gonna take a
cat scan, and after that they looked at those pictures,
they said, you have this thing where it looks like
shards of glass at the bottom of your lungs, and
that is a combination of the chemotherapy and the depletion
of your strength of your lungs, and these things can happen.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So really I got glass in my lungs.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Really stop hoffing at you know, Dave, it's it's not
good for you.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I was. I was a mess.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
And then we took some other tests and they finally
boiled it down to I had a rhinovirus, which was attack.
My immune system couldn't keep up with it. And as
my immune systems started to regenerate a little bit, I
started to come back. And on the fifth day they
finally said, your fever's gone.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You can go home.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
But they said, had you waited another forty eight hours
with this, we could have lost you, like you would
have been in a real battle, because even a cold
comic cold virus can kill you when your immune system.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Thanks. Yeah, So that was kind of at the end.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
And then we got the results back from my pet
scan and they said, there, the one in your neck
is flaring, so we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
So then of course I had to go and get
a biopsy.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
And at that time Mel and I had the talk
and I said, look, this could go south here, like
this is not looking great and I don't know what
they're going to find in my neck here. But this
thing flared on my final pet scan, so they said
we got to do a biopsy. Went in, got a biopsy,
(23:58):
and they gave me what's the crazy drug of fentanyl?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Oh wowe one of the ones that's just weird.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yeah, holy smokes.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
So I'm sitting there on the operating table and I'm
looking at the little screen and the guy's movement the
ultrasound thing around. Oh okay, there it is. We can
get at it and we can get needles in there
to take some biopsies. I'm sitting there, she and the nurse.
You know, I'm hooked up. She says, are you ready
for your little trip? And I said yeah, and she
goes here it comes, and I was like, whoa. It
(24:34):
was immediate, and I just thought, Okay, I see what
all the fuss is about, because man, I was quickly
on a banana boat to Cuba.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I was, I was gone, and I was just like wow.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
And so afterwards they said, do you remember you had
us laugh and do you remember? And I said, I no,
not really, I fell. I was conscious the whole time,
but I must have gone away somewhere. And so they said, oh,
you were making jokes and some really off color stuff
(25:10):
and waiting.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Joe Gladstone talked like that.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
All right, you guys.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
This wraps up part one of our amazing interview with
the beloved Dave Coolier. And we could not be happier
to see our friend taking his life back and just
doing so well.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
We love him so much.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We are eternally grateful to Dave for being so transparent
and spreading awareness along with the v Foundation for Non
Hodgkins Lymphoma. So tune in this Friday for part two
of its conversation and uh and we will see you then,
and if you want to see any of the behind
the scenes stuff, go ahead and check us out on
ig at how Rude podcast and.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
We will see you guys next time, because the house
is really full.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Love love,
Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome to a very new and
very special episode of How Rude taner Ritos. Today we
are joined by the incredible Dave Coolier.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Dave has announced that he is.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Officially cancer free, and it is just so hard to
put into words how much that truly means to us
and the rest of our full house family. To celebrate
Dave kicking cancers, but we wanted to chat with him
today about his journey and spread some awareness for non
Hodgkins lymphoma. So please, everybody, Fana Ritos, please put your
hands together for the man himself.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Dave Coolier.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hi, Poopoo Jay by so many, so many, so.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
All the poopoos.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's a poopy Oh my gosh, David, is so great
to see you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You will go to see you.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I look like a baby bird, like I'm just getting
my feathers back.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You got your pin feathers.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let's put a live cam on your little nest there.
You can have a little ball at eagle nest cam.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was just gonna say, Andrea, it happens to be
an expert on small Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, Dave, thank you so much for doing this,
for joining us today, Like Jody and I are just
so excited to talk to you and and catch up
and hear about all of the wonderful news that the
recent news that you announced.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh we just can't wait.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Hey did we start yet?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
If you see me making weird jumping noises, I fell
down my stairs like two days ago and severely injured myself.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Like I I had to go to the er. It
was not fun. So I have some serious back issues.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So you see me like every once in a while, like,
it's not it's not you don't take it personally.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I'm I'm an.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Idiot, Jodey. You can't keep doing this.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
When you get to be my age, stuff just breaks
in half.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
That's yeah, you got you gotta stop. I mean, I know, I.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Gotta stop throwing myself down the stairs.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, well tell everybody how you broke your leg.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Jumping over a stupid small fence. Yeah. See, it's big things,
it's dumb things.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's never doing stunts or anything impressive. It's just a
normal show.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Anyway. Back to the big news.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, back to back to the very important news.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Dave. Oh my gosh, Okay, so you recently announced that
you are cancer.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
French are free.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yep, I'm wearing I'm wearing my hockey Uh Fights Cancer
jersey that I'm now an ambassador with the NHL.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
And so I get to be a spokesman encouraging people,
you know, to get mammograms and colon oscopy and right, yeah,
all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That is you know, that is affecting people younger and younger.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So that's super important.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Now I'm going to channel Bob for a second and say,
you know, I gave Dave his first colonoscopy son, channel
Bob for a second, right, for free.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I did it for yeah, not even Cammer or anything
up there, just you know, for fun and for free.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Just a probe.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Just yeah, just is get it going.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
But the other cool thing that happened is Jody set
me up with her cousin, Shane Jacobson, who's the CEO
of the v Foundation, which is the largest cancer research
organization in the United States.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
They've raised over a four hundred million dollars. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
So Jody introduced us and sorry, you guys, you have
to have cancer to be an ambassador.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But what about throwing yourself down the stairs?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Well that's that's it. That's the Flying the Foundation. That's
a different, different foundation. They raised money for clumsy people.
Well perfect, yeah, for kletching people. Uh so, Jody and I, uh,
you know, and here's the talk about full circle.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Right Andrea the title of your book.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Shane was a atmosphere actor on Full House when he
was a kid.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, they came out my family's they're all from Iowa
and they would come out to visit and Shane and
his two brothers, Brandon and Brock and they would come out.
And one time they were out and we were shooting.
So it was like, hey, you guys want to be
extras in the in the pirate restaurant scene?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Yes, he sent me a picture and I'm sitting there
surrounded by all these kids and he's one of them.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's some great.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think he sneezed on your spaghetti, was wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He's done my spaghetti?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
And I said, you know, if you become a CEO, someday,
I will never work with you.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
True. So weird little moment though.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I know it was crazy.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
So thank you Jody for you know, connecting us and
it's it's an amazing organization. It really is three. I
went to my first V Foundation.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
No. Nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
It was started in nineteen ninety three by ESPN and
the V Foundation with Jimmy Valvano who was a famous
basketball coach, and he got cancer and eventually passed away,
but he gave this incredible speech where it's.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Mind going, it's a beautiful, beautiful, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Don't give up, never, never give up, and it's become
kind of their mantra for the V Foundation. And I
went to my first golf tournament down in Carolina and
I ended up hanging out with Charles Barkley the whole night.
And the reason he wanted to hang out with me
is because I was standing on a balcony as where
(06:18):
everybody's getting ready to go into their golf carts, and
this large man bent over and I did a fart
sound and everybody started laughing. So a few more guys
come over and they go, what are you guys laugh
doing up here?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Why are you laughing?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And he's doing fart sounds every time somebody bends over.
It Well, people bend over at golf to tie their
shoes or to go on their golf.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So I had tons of targets, and so I was doing.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Different you know, sounds like really low ones and big
ones for larger people.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And you're talented funny. It is an amazing talent.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's the one time it's really it's like a snowflake.
There's no two fart sounds alike.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's really impressive.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
And farts are universal in any language. A fart will
make someone laugh. Sony how I went to this golf
tournament and Charles Barkley saw that I was.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Making everybody laugh. He hey, Dave, if you come with
me the whole night.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
And I ended up hanging out with him the whole night,
and I got him at our entire table to do.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Power laughs in the restaurant.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
And he was sitting next to me and we're at
this big round table and I started, and then the
lady next to me went and he realizes it's coming.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Around to him.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
After about fifteen people's I'm I'm doing no Paula, finally
he did a power laugh and he had to get
up and leave the table because he made himself laugh
so hard.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
That was my first V Foundation event. And here we
are today and now I'm wearing this jersey.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I love it. It sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What an impression, Like, what a first impression?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Dave laughs, Like you guys said, you know, you don't
know where the greats are coming from.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And uh, you know, I found my niche.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, that's so to see that some things haven't changed here.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Not much has changed here. You know, I'm cancer free you,
which is nice. That was a battle.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, tell us where were you when you found out
the news.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Was it a phone call? Was it an office visit
with the doctor?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I was.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I was here at our house in Michigan, and I
was battling a little bit of a cold. And then
you know, sometimes your your lymph nodes swell up in
your armpits or whatever, you know, as you fight this cold.
And so I had one in my groin and within
a few days it got to the size of a
golf ball. Within five days it was huge. And I
said to my my wife, mel I said, this isn't
(09:02):
this isn't normal. She goes, Oh my god, We're going
to the hospital. So we went to the hospital. They
checked it out and they said, you know, this could
be we don't know what it is yet, but let's
do a biopsy. They buiopsied we waited about seven days,
and while we were waiting in that seven days, I
had another lymph node.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Just kind of explode in my neck.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
And that was cause for alarm because once the nodes
cross and start to swell across what they call your
hemisphere of your body from right to left or vice versa,
it becomes a great concern. And so they really didn't
know what was going on. And then we got the
results back. I was here at home by myself. Mel
(09:45):
was on her way home. She was about twenty minutes out,
and my two doctors called and we were just kind
of expecting a call sooner or later, and they said, hey, Dave,
we wish we had better news, but you have B
sell non Hodgkin's lymphoma. And I go, what does that mean.
They said, well, it's a form of cancer and it's
very aggressive. B cell is super aggressive, so we need to.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Get on this right away. And I said what does
that mean?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
And they said, well, like next week you're starting chemo
and I was like what.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
And you know, you hear.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Those words when it applies to yourself, and it's just
mind numbing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's just trying to process.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Okay, I have cancer and my wife's on her way
home in ten minutes. And so Mel walked in the
door and she goes and the first thing she said
it was so weird. She goes, have you heard any
news back? And I said, I just got off the
phone with the doctor's I have cancer. She's like, come stop,
don't make jokes like that, and I said no, and
I explained to her what I had and it was
(10:47):
like I punched her in the stomach. It was just
like I've never seen a reaction like that from her,
and we just cried and held each other and I said,
I think I can turn this into something good, and
she's like really.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I said, yeah, I think I can help people.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I'm going to just tell everybody my story and I'm
going to encourage people to get tested and had I
and my doctors told me, they said, look, with this
kind of lymphoma that you have, because it's so aggressive
and it grows so quickly, if you to let this
go a couple more weeks, you wouldn't be stage three.
You could possibly be stage four, which is a huge difference.
(11:24):
And so they said, we got it early enough. The
good thing is it's it's got a ninety five percent
curability rate. It's the most aggressive lymphoma, but it also
responds extremely well to chemotherapy. So we're trying to process
all this stuff. Yeah, and the first thing, you know,
(11:44):
I did was I just started telling people. You know,
I think I texted all of you guys in a text. Yeah,
And I said, you know, I've got to reach out
to the people who are closest to me first, because
I don't want them hearing from someone else.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And so that's what I did.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I reached out to you guys and family members and friends,
and I just kind of just wanted people to know,
but I still kept it kind of close to the vest.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And then.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
The Today Show called and said, you know, would you
like to talk about this? And I said, yeah, I would,
so we food in New York. I did the Today
Show and it was bizarre. You know, We've all done
shows where we're promoting something, but this this had a
really Twilight zone twist to it, like I'm going to
(12:34):
go on and talk about how sick I am.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
In a different way, you.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Know, it's so personally yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, And so I thought, well, this is this is
probably as real as it's going to ever get for me.
With the media, and you know, because we when we
go on shows, we're there to make people laugh and
we're there to entertain and promote something.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And this was, okay, what am I promoting?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, I'm going to promote and encourage people to you know,
get pre screenings and early detection and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So that was really the only.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Thing other than tell my story and just make sure
you get that in there, you know. And so at
the end, Hoda said to me, you know what you
did here today and I said, told people I had cancer.
She's like, you helped a lot of people you're going
to see. And from that moment there was an explosion.
Somehow my story struck a nerve with people and we
(13:35):
started hearing from you know what eventually turned into a
couple thousand people saying thank you. I'm going to go get,
you know, a colonoscopy. I wish Bob Sagat was still around,
but you know, so that's that's kind of been. You know,
that was the beginning, and then it's just been this
journey of Okay, let's make it through the rounds of chemotherapy,
(14:00):
and you know, they say they have to kill you
in order to save your life, and there were times
where I felt like I don't know how many more
of these I can do, you know, and your hair
falls out, and you get neuropathy, and you get you know,
you get muscle cramps and spasms and dizziness and vertigo
(14:23):
and all of these things.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
But everybody's different.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
There's no there's no cookie cutter result for people because
our physiology is.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Different and our genetics are different.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
So for me, I was like, after the first two
times I was skating, I was out on the ice rink,
and you know, I felt pretty good. But then I
just if I started here, I went down. Like after
the third one, it just started to hit me where
I couldn't I couldn't get out of bed, I had
shortness of breath, I.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Was really weak. I was just like, wow, this is
this is really doing a number on me. Yeah. Yeah,
But I have a.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Great wife, and Melissa is an angel.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
She was amazing, you know.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
She she took care of me and uh, you know,
I'd have night sweats and she'd go, we gotta we
gotta chase these sheets, you know again, you know, and
here's a cold compress, and here's your food, and here's
your drugs, And I mean she micro managed this in such.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
A way that I will forever be grateful to her
the way she so valiantly plowed through this.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And that's just the type of person she is too,
you know, always willing to do the most for everyone,
but when it comes to you, you know, her person
like this was her time to to shine and be
your rock, you know, after you sure for everyone else.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
For sure, for sure, and you know you always hear
that that sentiment of you know, through the toughest times
is when you learn the most about yourself and others.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
And I did. I did, uh, you know, I learned
how incredible my wife is. And I also learned.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Just how much a positive attitude can help you plow
through things.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, it's so admirable. And I've admired this from the
minute I got your text telling me that you had cancer.
How positive you are, and I mean, you're a positive person.
You're funny, you make jokes, that's how you deal with
difficult topics. But this whole time, like it'd be so
it would be so understandable just to turn inwards and
only think about yourself and only just be very private
(16:42):
about it and just suffer silently alone or just with
a small circle. But you've been so open and so
positive and raising this awareness and encouraging, like you said,
thousands of people to go get tested that Like I'm
just I'm so in awe of you for.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Thank you that way.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Because you don't have no one expects that you don't
have you have cancer, You're allowed to be selfish and
to do it however you you know, but you chose
to do it openly and with advocacy.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It's so well. Thank you, Andrea. I love you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I love you, Dave.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I had a lot of cancer in my family. I
lost my mom, my sister Sharon at thirty six years old.
I lost my niece Shannon at twenty nine years old.
My sister Karen is having her own cancer battle right now.
So they have the Baraka one gene, so it's genetic
for them. So I saw what they went through and
(17:44):
I thought to myself, if I can have just ten
percent of their strength, I'll be able to power through
this because they went through hell, you know, radical hysterectomies
and you know misectomies, and and.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It was you know, it was really tough.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It was really hard, and I saw the way my
mom joked through it, my sister joked her way and
laughed through it, East did, and you know, it.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Was a lot of it was nothing less from you
because that is how I mean. But it but it
really does.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It changes things like if you can laugh at the
things that are supposed to be the scariest in the world,
it feels like it gives you a little power back
over them.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, knowing you guys.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
As well as I do, and our whole group we
always had, you know, gallows humor. We always yoked through
the toughest of times. And you know, somehow you come
out the other side and you make it through tough
moments like that and you think, well that was actually
(18:53):
it actually wasn't so bad because you know, we didn't
stop living life.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
We just kept going.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
And you know that, I mean that says a lot
of who we are as a group, you know, because
we tend to laugh at some pretty dark stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And you know, I remember, I've seen so many of
my friends recently go through chemo or cancer treatment or
getting you know, diagnosis, and I just it's so important,
like you said, to create this kind of awareness.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
And I think we're all in a.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Position of like people love the Tanner Gladstone, you know,
they have.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
This sort of affection.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So it's like when we get to push and promote
you know, staying healthy and like getting those tests done,
I think people actually listen.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
So, uh so it was really hard, but I'm glad
that it's in the rear view mirror now and hopefully
I can, you know, help some other people.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
How much time passed between your last chemo appointment and
then the good news that your cancer free?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
It was it was about three weeks. Oh wow, so
there was you know, and I was still pretty sick.
I ended up at the three week mark.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
My blood levels were so low because after each after
each chemo treatment, your your red blood cells dive, you know,
all your levels, your white blood cells, everything, just your
immune system just kind of crashes. And so I caught
a cold during that last chemo treatment. I didn't get
(20:37):
out of bed for ten days, and I knew that
the cumulative effect of the chemotherapy was going to happen,
so I attributed it to that instead of realizing I
have a cold and my immune system can't handle it
right now.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I was in bed for ten days and I was
really sick. I couldn't move, I couldn't get out of bed.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And fine, Mel said to me, something else is going on.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We've got to get a doctor over here.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
And I said, no, it's just really bad chemo side effects,
and she goes, no, no, no, let's get somebody over
So of course she said, before the doctor comes over,
to take your temperature.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So she took my temperature. She goes, oh, you've got
a fever. And I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
So the doctor came over and he goes, yeah, you got
a fever. We got to get some antibiotics into you
right away. And then nothing happened after those antibiotics for
a couple days. He was like, you know, let me
know in forty eight hours, if you know, the fever
comes down. So it didn't, and then they said you
got to go to the hospital right now. We're looking
at some tests and things. So I ended up in
(21:41):
the hospital for four days while they administered an IV
of antibiotics, waiting for my waiting for my fever to break, and.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
They said, look, we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
At that point, my body started secreting these proteins that
were indicative of a massive heart attack. We don't know
what's going on, but we don't think you've had, you know,
a heart attack event. So we're trying to figure out
what's going on here. And so I was like okay,
and then they said, okay, we need to you know,
(22:17):
we're going to take an ultrasal, We're gonna take a
cat scan, and after that they looked at those pictures,
they said, you have this thing where it looks like
shards of glass at the bottom of your lungs, and
that is a combination of the chemotherapy and the depletion
of your strength of your lungs, and these things can happen.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So really I got glass in my lungs.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Really stop hoffing at you know, Dave, it's it's not
good for you.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I was. I was a mess.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
And then we took some other tests and they finally
boiled it down to I had a rhinovirus, which was attack.
My immune system couldn't keep up with it. And as
my immune systems started to regenerate a little bit, I
started to come back. And on the fifth day they
finally said, your fever's gone.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You can go home.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
But they said, had you waited another forty eight hours
with this, we could have lost you, like you would
have been in a real battle, because even a cold
comic cold virus can kill you when your immune system.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Thanks. Yeah, So that was kind of at the end.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
And then we got the results back from my pet
scan and they said, there, the one in your neck
is flaring, so we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
So then of course I had to go and get
a biopsy.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
And at that time Mel and I had the talk
and I said, look, this could go south here, like
this is not looking great and I don't know what
they're going to find in my neck here. But this
thing flared on my final pet scan, so they said
we got to do a biopsy. Went in, got a biopsy,
(23:58):
and they gave me what's the crazy drug of fentanyl?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Oh wowe one of the ones that's just weird.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yeah, holy smokes.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
So I'm sitting there on the operating table and I'm
looking at the little screen and the guy's movement the
ultrasound thing around. Oh okay, there it is. We can
get at it and we can get needles in there
to take some biopsies. I'm sitting there, she and the nurse.
You know, I'm hooked up. She says, are you ready
for your little trip? And I said yeah, and she
goes here it comes, and I was like, whoa. It
(24:34):
was immediate, and I just thought, Okay, I see what
all the fuss is about, because man, I was quickly
on a banana boat to Cuba.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I was, I was gone, and I was just like wow.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
And so afterwards they said, do you remember you had
us laugh and do you remember? And I said, I no,
not really, I fell. I was conscious the whole time,
but I must have gone away somewhere. And so they said, oh,
you were making jokes and some really off color stuff
(25:10):
and waiting.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Joe Gladstone talked like that.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
All right, you guys.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
This wraps up part one of our amazing interview with
the beloved Dave Coolier. And we could not be happier
to see our friend taking his life back and just
doing so well.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
We love him so much.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We are eternally grateful to Dave for being so transparent
and spreading awareness along with the v Foundation for Non
Hodgkins Lymphoma. So tune in this Friday for part two
of its conversation and uh and we will see you then,
and if you want to see any of the behind
the scenes stuff, go ahead and check us out on
ig at how Rude podcast and.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
We will see you guys next time, because the house
is really full.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Love love,
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