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May 1, 2013 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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2372 A Personal Update from Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, makes an announcement regarding his health and future.

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Hi, everybody.
It's Stefan Molyne from Freedom Aid Radio.
I hope you're doing well.
So, I have to share something with you that I think is certainly important for me, maybe important to you as well.
About a year ago, a little over a year ago, my dentist found a lump under my jaw.
Actually, if you look back at some of the older videos, you can see it.
And...
It was still there after a while, so I had an ultrasound, then another ultrasound, it wasn't shrinking.
So I was sent to a specialist who took a needle biopsy, and it was non-cancerous.
And then I needed another core biopsy, which was delayed and delayed.
I mean, every imaginable catastrophe within a socialist system that could occur, occurred.
And then I was told that it was a benign tumor that needed to be removed, but it was going to take months because...
Well, because it's Canada, and Canada is one of the only three countries in the world where you can't purchase your own healthcare legally, so the other being North Korea and Cuba.
So, I ended up going to the United States to have it removed.
It was removed about a month ago.
You can see there's a scar here.
That's one of the reasons for the beard.
But unfortunately, it came back as cancerous.
It's lymphoma, to be precise.
So...
It's been quite a ride.
It's been a little over three weeks since I got the diagnosis.
And I have, of course, striven my very best to not place the doom catastrophe on the entire situation.
It's been really, really important to me.
I'm very much one for, as I talk about in my books, don't jump to conclusions, but go through the experience, experience things.
And I will tell you, you...
You probably won't believe me.
In fact, I'm quite sure you won't believe me.
But in feeling that pull, that drawdown to do my four-year-old daughter, my future, my life, my end, in resisting that and remaining stridently and willfully open to the experience of what is occurring,
I will tell you It has actually not been an altogether negative experience to get this diagnosis and to be facing the treatment regimen, which I'm facing, which is going to have an effect on my summer, to say the least.
But you know what it's like?
It's like, I'm a happy person.
I have a wonderful life.
And I'm trying to stay in the present tense about that.
I have a wonderful life.
And the prognosis is positive, to be fair.
And so this is not a Christopher Hitchens situation.
But what happens for me was almost immediately, like within a few minutes of getting the diagnosis, it was like a zoom out.
You know, you're looking at these ants a few days and a few troubles and your worries and your stresses and so on.
You zoom right out to like this orbital moment.
Where I have felt more at peace and more relaxed over the last few weeks than I think I have for quite some time.
And I'm not like a massively high-stress person or anything like that, but there has been a real and genuine Peace in this process.
All problems are put into perspective.
I hope that sharing that helps a little bit with people.
All problems are put into perspective, and I have felt more mentally alive, more clear.
I've actually felt significant upwellings of joy throughout this process.
Now, again, it's been...
Over a year I've been dealing with this off and on, and over three weeks since the diagnosis, so I don't think it's just shock.
Maybe it will be.
Maybe I'll be crying hysterically this time tomorrow, but so far it has been a kind of, I don't know how to put it, a kind of Like a gentling and a softening and an opening of my heart.
I have this public persona that's, you know, a little rough and tough, but I'm actually just a massive caramel-centered teddy bear for the most part.
And so from that standpoint, it has been a very gentle person.
process to go through.
And, but I really wanted to share with everyone what was happening.
I obviously am going to hope to do all my speaking that I can this summer.
And I'm hoping to be as productive and positive as I've been over the last three weeks, three weeks, with doing shows and doing my speeches in New York and meeting up with everyone there.
And so I'm hoping to keep that up.
I'm quite sure that I am.
And I'm certainly very convinced that I'm going to live to a ripe old age of 390.
So I just wanted to share with everyone what is going on.
And I, of course, you know, I'm very much looking forward to the support of this amazing community that we have I look forward to people's good wishes.
I look forward to continued stringent criticism.
That's something that's always been very important to me.
And I really just wanted to share just how...
Amazingly in love I am with this planet and how amazingly much I am in love with my listeners.
How amazingly much I have and am and will continue to be honored and privileged with your confidences, with your openness, with your generosity, with your support and with your love.
And it is a very instructive process to go through something like this.
It is a For me, at least, I would say it's actually been a little bit more on the positive side than the negative side.
And we'll find out as the treatment goes forward what happens.
But I just really wanted to share how incredibly grateful I am for everyone who's ever, you know, smiled, smacked at or kissed me in their minds.
It has been a real privilege and will continue to be a real privilege to talk with the world in the way that I have been talking over the past half decade or more.
And I thank you so much for listening.
I look forward to your support and criticisms.
Please keep them coming.
This is Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio.
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