My near death experience: Six months ago on my way to work I stopped in traffic and was rear ended at 70 mph. I broke my neck where the spine connects to the skull. Doctors told my parents to come say goodbye because 95% of adults with this injury die at the scene. I survived but I was told that I would never move or breathe on my own again. I got home from rehab last week. I’m still completely dependent on my parents and I can’t speak but I have movement almost everywhere and I’m breathing on my own. I still have a long way to go and I’ll be a quadriplegic for the rest of my life but at least I’ve progressed beyond the first couple of months where all I could do was blink my eyes. And thank you to Rhett and Link. I watched your videos in the hospital and they made me laugh at a time when all I wanted to do was cry.
I'm glad your parents still have you. I'm happy that it sounds like you have great parents, something many people don't have. I wish you the best of luck on your continued recovery and congratulations on all of the success and progress that you've had already.
I'm sorry to hear this bud but don't ever set your base at "I will be a quad for the rest of my life". Please you've already overcome what 95% of others in the same circumstances couldn't , so you're so much stronger that you know. Please don't give up trying to move your limbs and stay strong in your mind.never say never and don't let the doctors set your limits.
Link: "I'm learning to do something that might lead to a near death experience, or even a death experience...." Rhett: "Are you going to start playing Magic: The Gathering?"
I just want to say this is my go-to podcast to fall asleep to. I appreciate the consistently calm tone, the slow pace, the dim lighting, and the taupe color scheme. I usually need some kinda background noise to fall asleep to, and this podcast is it. It's very relaxing. I'm sorry that I never really listen to these podcasts in their entirety, but I'm still subscribed and I always let the podcast play all the way through.
I was smirking like an idiot, gmm and manga like chainsaw man and fire punch are practically polar opposites in the sphere of what i'm interested in but the degrees of separation have suddenly dropped very dramatically 😂
My mother put me in a safety class for babysitting when I was a kid. I learned fire safety, the heimlich maneuver, etc. The NEXT DAY, my father choked on a crunchy taco right in front of me. I was in 6th or 7th grade and it was just him and I in the house. I immediately knew what to do and everything turned out okay... But boy did that make me terrified to do the CPR course in high school health class 😅
I have woken up during surgery. They put me back out. Luckily the nature of my injury meant I felt very little anyway. But, I was awake and aware. They said because I’m a redhead. I had a higher chance of that happening. Heard them scraping glass out of my nasal cavity , so that haunts me sometimes. I was in a near fatal car accident. This was 28 years ago and I’ll never forget it.
I had a catastrophic illness about 25 years ago that left me paralyzed and in a coma for a month. During the coma, every one of my organs failed at least once. I distinctly remember, during the coma, talking to my great grandfather (who had passed about 4 years before)telling me it was not my time and I had to go back.
I have died b4, and then was in a week long coma afterwards. Didn't see or remember anything other than the ambulance ride to the hospital then walking up there a week later. They really should have a hospital sign in coma patients rooms b/c when I woke up I freaked out and ripped my IVs out. Thought I was waking up from the matrix!
Scuba: My dad is certified. YEARS ago, when I was a pre-teen, when we were in Maui, we did like a light version of Scuba. We practiced in the pool, then moved to the ocean. I did everything Link talked about. I took longer than the other students to figure out what to do before going to the ocean. Highlight of my life. Would definitely get certified.
Happy to hear my chainsaw story shared :’) It was very dumb that I thought I would die (and that I thought the motorcycle was a chainsaw), but I have anxiety and that’s where my mind went lol. The screams definitely were not happy screams and that is what freaked me out😂 y’all are the best, thanks for sharing 😊
I learned to be calm after a summer of swimming at the bottom of the pool. When I realized I could fight through the panic, I was okay even 10 feet down. Then again, I nearly drowned a few different times but as soon as I relaxed, I survived. The worst was being in a wave pool. I couldn't get to the surface to breathe but then I just stopped fighting the waves. I got to the edge, crawled up while vomiting/coughing up water the entire time. I laid down with a towel over me and just recovered. My parents had no idea I nearly died. No one helped me. I just went with instincts.
It's so crazy to hear Rhett talk about the toe surgery because I had to have an ingrown nail cut out of both my big toes when I was a teenager. And on the second foot I asked for no local anesthesia because that needle in-between my toes was one of the craziest pain I've ever experienced.
Im 15, I had to do that around 6 months ago but just in one toe(they took the whole nail off). The pain was definitely unreal, especially when she had to go back in one more time because she missed a spot. I sat there with my mouth wide open.
My near death experience … I had to prep for a colonoscopy so couldn’t eat solid food. I was eating jello and had a bronchial spasm and took a deep breath in, right after putting a spoonful of jello in my mouth. So I sucked the jello into my lungs …. I could feel the jello in my lungs and I couldn’t breathe. TLDR: I almost drowned eating jello prepping for a colonoscopy
I was finally able to cough and cough until it all Came up - like when you see someone who was drowning on tv, and they cough up the water. My chest ached afterwards. I will Never eat hello again
I haven't watched the episode just read the title but I can confidently say Link has had many near death experiences... Every time he picks up something sharp, whoever he's with is nearer to death than they expected.
I'm scuba cettified and whilst I'm the total opposite, being extremely comfy underwater, the training is true, you learn a million ways to die. This is important to avoid them, so don't let it discourage you! Also some people take time, we are all different. Scuba is wonderful!
I worked as a firefighter up until a few years ago when I changed career paths but I can confirm that running out of air in an SCBA (same tech as SCUBA just without the U- underwater part) is terrifying.
My near death experience wasn't anything crazy, more like lucky of me.. so let me preface with I'm a recovering addict and ended up in county jail for unpaid fines.. day 2 of being in there I kept saying my chest hurt and they assured me "it's cause you're not getting drugs and doing drugs you're withdrawing" mind you, I know what withdrawals felt like and they definitely felt a lot differently than how I felt.. I kept bugging them till they said "you don't say you have chest pain if you don't have chest pain" but I begged for an ekg.. when they did it my heart rate was only 24 bpm.. they said "oh no that's so low! You have to go to the er." They rushed me to the emergency room where they did every test in the book, come in my room and said "you have heart block from your Lyme disease" I said what do you mean? I don't have Lyme? They said I definitely did.. they told me that I was so lucky I had gotten arrested and ended up in jail because if I'd have stayed on the street, would've gotten high, that would've lowered my heart rate even more than the heart block was already lowering it and I would have died.. I've been clean ever since! Jail actually saved my life.. I don't ever remember getting bit by a tick. I've been a hunter since I was a child so anytime I go into the woods or anything I check myself for ticks.. the drs told me I wouldn't be the first person to have a tick crawl into my ear or hide in my super thick hair and didn't even know about it.. that was in 2019 and unfortunately I'm still dealing with the effects of Lyme disease.. it goes into remission and then I have a Lyme relapse.. it's not been fun. Moral of the story, don't do drugs, and check yourself well for ticks! Have others even check you!
Great episode. I love studying near death experiences and I spend some time myself doing astral projections and dream work ect ect. Hearing you guys talk about life and being human and our mortality is amazing and I want more content like this!
You guys kick ass. During the hardest part of my life, I was comforted by Ear Biscuits. Ear Biscuits was one of the most helpful crutches on my path towards enlightenement... Yeah. After coping with the hardest moments of my life, I gave up drinking and resumed mindfulness. And during this process of reacclimating to my true, innocent self, I watched a lot of Ear Biscuits. Guys, I have no other way to explain it to you but to say that I died, and in the process of being reborn into who I am now, you all facilitated in that process tremendously. And here I am now on the other side. My journey inwards has lead me here: paradise. Thanks for being in this space with me. Thanks for the story you have woven. Thank you for putting your pattern on display. It is an admirable pattern. One that saves people. Thank you, have a great moment. 🌅🌞🌄☀️🌬️🌟
When my mom was a kid (13 maybe?) she was choking on some kind of food. Her older sister & sister's boyfriend were nearby but my mom didn't want to try to get their help because they were older cool kids and she was embarrassed. She was choking so badly she almost blacked out so she finally decided run to her sister for help. While running she gasped hard and got the food down, decided she was fine, and didn't tell anybody she'd almost died.
My husband is an Air Rescue Swimmer, so it was really funny to me, listening to you describe learning how to clear your mask, and panicking. 😂 I panicked when he taught me too, but now it's second nature when we snorkel
Ok, we just need to acknowledge that the second story of thinking something was happening that was not is NOT a near death experience. But hey it was a fun story so I respect that haha
My mom woke up while having surgery on her eye. She was completely awake and could feel everything, but was numb and couldn't move. She started crying and they put her back under. But she is SCARRED. Anesthesia metabolizes out of my body fast. I was put under getting my wisdom teeth out for that reason, woke up as he was taking last one out and yanked my IV out. So when I had my gallbladder out, I was terrified. So the dude put.me.out. It took me a long time to wake up, but I was happy about that.
I woke up during a colonoscopy. I told myself before I went in that I wanted to wake up and see inside myself. So I did. I saw them cutting a piece of my intestine out on the little tv monitor. Then they realized and pumped me with the juice.
After watching this episode, it Occurred to me how awesome is a reaction video from rhett and link on some of the “I shouldn’t be alive” episodes. ( they are available on youtube to watch for free ) i love them
I remember walking out into a lake when I was about 6-7. I could swim at the time but not well. As the water got higher I started bouncing along going further and further out until all of a sudden the ground beneath my feet dipped sharply. I think I panicked and froze up. I started to sink below the water line and all I could think to do was push myself off the ground so my head would reach the air. I remember looking towards the beach and I was going under the water for what seemed to me like the last time I saw my parents friends older son come running into the water. Just luckily he had saw me and he pulled me out. Typically for the time my parents gave me a “you good?” And I pretty much was after I coughed the water out of my lungs and we went back to our day on the beach. Thankfully it didn’t affect me and I still enjoy swimming and being in the water.
I was in a car that flipped on its side. I had a seatbelt bruise that the ER doc told me was my life line. He said if I had not been wearing it, I would have died. Only injury I had was a fractured sternum
Honestly I relate to Link's anxiety over talking about death. I almost skipped this episode because of the title. It wasnt so bad. But I had to wait to be in the proper headspace for it.
I'll tell you a near death experience I had, was in 2017, when I had an aneurysm rupture. As the Dr explained it to me I couldn't understand how I was still alive. I think my son was more terrified then I was, as he could since my panic.
My fiance and I love all your content, she passed away while watching good mythical, so yall two where her last people she saw. She was a big fan and loved her gmm beans shirt
Nearly a month ago my appendix exploded on me - I thought it was bad gas. 3 days after I went to the ER and had surgery the next day (the CT scan did not show the exploded appendix because of an abscess). Surgeon did not know how bad it was till they looked thru the scope. I have pictures of my abdomen filled with.....pus. Dr came out of surgery and told my wife I "made him work" and that if I had waited one more day - I could have easily died. Spent a week in the hospital.
I had a fall in the dark at home and somehow I saw my own face as I went down. I shattered my shoulder and had to have a replacement shoulder. This was in 2019 and my physio was cut short due to the pandemic but I can still knit and crochet so I’m happy.
I had two out of body experiences. One I was floating over my body when I was a child,the second time someone else pulled me out of my body I went to the astral realms.
Lol I love this episode XD link is great. I would definitely love an episode of them exploring those stories of people seeing things like that. Reminds me of alien stories, everyone always just automatically calls them crazy but there are creepy similarities
Not a surgery perse but i did wake up during a procedure and saw my own insides on the monitor and then all of a sudden I woke up in the hospital bed. Glad they gave me more...
The accelerator in my car got stuck and I sped straight across four lanes of traffic at rush hour without hitting anything before I used the emergency brake to stop.
Talking about near death experience, Zach from H3 podcast would LOVE Link’s tshirt (not really)! 😂 Oh hey! Mythical beasts & footsoldiers get-together ✌🏻❤️
last year my mom and I were talking in the kitchen. she started choking and I had to give her the heimlich. ironically it was the same day as my CPR recertification.
I was allergic to penicillin as a baby because of a one-time reaction and after a test, it turns out I'm no longer allergic. But for years and years I always told the doctors I'm allergic to it and when they asked, I'd tell them that I had a reaction as a baby and it stayed on my medical records. Now I don't have to mention the allergy ever again. But it's strange that Link had an allergy to a nearly identical medication as a baby and then kept that in his medical records. I wonder how common that is for other people.
One of my near death experiences is when I was in a hospital and I was walking with my grandad to see my nanny and it had abt ten big sunlight's on the roof (the hospital is 2stories ) and one of the frames for the sunroof fell and landed right behind us and I only got a small graze on my ankle from some glass.We were then swarmed by abt 15 asking if we were hit .
not a near death but my nephew almost lost his foot a few years ago. he somehow got a staph infection in his foot but never mentioned anything to his mom (stubborn teenager) until he was barely able to walk on it. come to find out that had he waited even another day to bring it to his mom's attention, he most likely would have had to have his foot amputated. i believe he had an ingrown toenail and then got a staph infection from showering at the Y. always remember to file those edges people! oh, and wear shower shoes in public showers!
Link talking about Lincoln’s manga and the Santa Claus guy is making me think of Link in the Mayim episode where he wore the hat made of doll heads! Meanwhile, Rhett is the same shirt he wore in his kindergarten school picture and that other school picture
I watched this awesome show on Netflix, it’s called the OA, it’s about near death experiences and it’s such a great show! I recommend watching it to anyone! It’s so good!
I have woken up during surgery dripping in fever sweats and the doctors were quite shicked and then they gput me back out again but apparantely I had have some sort of reaction to the anesthesiology. I wasn't scared or anything, it was just a weird axperience and it makes a good story so I give it 10/10
I can't understand why it's taken me so long to write this down but I think about my near death experience when I was in the scouts all the time. We were camping at a Battlefield in Chickasaw, TN if I remember correctly it's somewhere within the mountains there's even museum built into one of the hills that has war as well as geographic/earth representation to show millions of years of fossils and ground. Well going on with the story we'd been camping there about a day (BTW I ABSOLUTELY heard and felt the sound of ghost soldier boots on ground and drums every night outside the tent) and by the second night we were comfortable enough we decided to just take a walk in the woods I think it was part of scouts testing we did a lot nothing like just whittling but still alas. This night we were walking with our Scout Master Billy in straight darkness no light we were walking down a path he led us our eyes adjusting to the woods when STOP he grabs me on my shoulder, pulls me back, to the side, and says "Alright nevermind let's go back." before we left he pulled out his light on what was in front of me it was a huge bear trap. It gives me chills now thinking about if he wasn't such a badass and saw that I wouldn't be standing here today quite literally.
Gives me vibes of the Do We Believe In Ghosts EB where Link is panicking and Rhett is getting some kicks off watching him panic. But it's cool seeing Link try something this badass.
My grandfather died and came back to life and he explained what he seen as a massive church with symbols all over the walls and the church was filled with people he didn't recognize, then he came back. I think about that often. What were the symbols?!
when i was little i was floating in one of those wide baby floaties and tried grabbing something far infront of me and flipped over and was basically trapped underwater because i was outrgowing the floatie and it was tight around my legs. out of all the adults in the pool it took what felt like 5 minutes for someone to grab me out. wasnt near death but if they had yanked me out any more seconds later i definitely wouldve blacked out and probably wouldve drowned lol.
My sister woke up in the middle of her getting a C section performed, to birth her first child. She says she realized she was "awake" when she felt them cutting her abdominal wall layer by layer. Obviously, this gave her PTSD.
As a lifeguard, if your choking alone a good thing to do is bang your chest against a corner of a table in the place where you would get the Heimlich maneuver, apparently it works.
Don't think it counts as "seeing the light" but when I was small, i was walking along the beach and got swept away by a wave. I have this memory of being under the water and seeing light through the water and then an image of a Poseidon kind of figure in the light (like Ariel the little mermaids dad Poseidon). I wasn't too far out and my dad grabbed my arm and yanked me out of the current. I don't think i was under water long and I don't even think I had swallowed any water or like started drowning at all, so I don't think I really even got an "I'm dying" feeling. So idk why I hallucinated Poseidon. Maybe this is a false memory lol. I was like under 10. Second story. On the way to prom in a car with friends. Was given mentos so I ate some. Somehow I choked on the fricken mento and couldn't breathe. I couldn't really even cough. We were in a car so it would have been difficult for anyone to give me the heimlich. But also I don't think people really noticed i was choking. In my head I thought "nope. There is no way i go out choking on a mento on the way to prom. This is not it." It kind of felt like with sheer will alone that i was finally able to cough and get some air. That's when people in the car finally realized i was choking and handed me water.
My near death experience:
Six months ago on my way to work I stopped in traffic and was rear ended at 70 mph. I broke my neck where the spine connects to the skull. Doctors told my parents to come say goodbye because 95% of adults with this injury die at the scene. I survived but I was told that I would never move or breathe on my own again. I got home from rehab last week. I’m still completely dependent on my parents and I can’t speak but I have movement almost everywhere and I’m breathing on my own. I still have a long way to go and I’ll be a quadriplegic for the rest of my life but at least I’ve progressed beyond the first couple of months where all I could do was blink my eyes.
And thank you to Rhett and Link. I watched your videos in the hospital and they made me laugh at a time when all I wanted to do was cry.
I'm glad your parents still have you. I'm happy that it sounds like you have great parents, something many people don't have. I wish you the best of luck on your continued recovery and congratulations on all of the success and progress that you've had already.
Glad you are still here
I wish you the best in your recovery
I'm sorry to hear this bud but don't ever set your base at "I will be a quad for the rest of my life". Please you've already overcome what 95% of others in the same circumstances couldn't , so you're so much stronger that you know. Please don't give up trying to move your limbs and stay strong in your mind.never say never and don't let the doctors set your limits.
My thoughts and prayers are with you. 🤍
Link: "I'm learning to do something that might lead to a near death experience, or even a death experience...."
Rhett: "Are you going to start playing Magic: The Gathering?"
It's almost been the death of me on more than one occasion , hahaha ...
Not me sitting here sobbing at the last voicemail. Man! Whoever you are, good for you for seeking help and finding some comedy in the situation! 💗
I just want to say this is my go-to podcast to fall asleep to. I appreciate the consistently calm tone, the slow pace, the dim lighting, and the taupe color scheme. I usually need some kinda background noise to fall asleep to, and this podcast is it. It's very relaxing. I'm sorry that I never really listen to these podcasts in their entirety, but I'm still subscribed and I always let the podcast play all the way through.
Bob ross is also very good to fall asleep to
Link finding out about Chainsaw man is the best thing ever 😂
Yeah I couldn't believe it lol
yeah 😁 so awesome to hear him talk about manga 🤗
Just listened and I cannot believe Link just called anime "a video series" OMMMGGGG
I was smirking like an idiot, gmm and manga like chainsaw man and fire punch are practically polar opposites in the sphere of what i'm interested in but the degrees of separation have suddenly dropped very dramatically 😂
Right 😭😭
I'm so happy for and proud link for trying to overcome his fears and anxieties while doing this.
My mother put me in a safety class for babysitting when I was a kid. I learned fire safety, the heimlich maneuver, etc. The NEXT DAY, my father choked on a crunchy taco right in front of me. I was in 6th or 7th grade and it was just him and I in the house. I immediately knew what to do and everything turned out okay... But boy did that make me terrified to do the CPR course in high school health class 😅
I have woken up during surgery. They put me back out. Luckily the nature of my injury meant I felt very little anyway. But, I was awake and aware. They said because I’m a redhead. I had a higher chance of that happening. Heard them scraping glass out of my nasal cavity , so that haunts me sometimes. I was in a near fatal car accident. This was 28 years ago and I’ll never forget it.
I heard this happens more often with ppl who have sleep paralysis..
I suffer from that a lot and I'm afraid of anesthesia
I had a catastrophic illness about 25 years ago that left me paralyzed and in a coma for a month. During the coma, every one of my organs failed at least once. I distinctly remember, during the coma, talking to my great grandfather (who had passed about 4 years before)telling me it was not my time and I had to go back.
I have died b4, and then was in a week long coma afterwards. Didn't see or remember anything other than the ambulance ride to the hospital then walking up there a week later. They really should have a hospital sign in coma patients rooms b/c when I woke up I freaked out and ripped my IVs out. Thought I was waking up from the matrix!
Coma and death are not the same
U was just in a state of sleep and we don't always dream/remember dreaming...also u didn't die because ure alive now...
Same here. Apparently my heart stopped, but I don't remember a thing.
Out of curiosity was it just like a nap or going to sleep did u wake up instantly like when you’re alarm goes off
@@mip4422 no shit. They said they died THEN they were in a coma.
Scuba: My dad is certified. YEARS ago, when I was a pre-teen, when we were in Maui, we did like a light version of Scuba. We practiced in the pool, then moved to the ocean. I did everything Link talked about. I took longer than the other students to figure out what to do before going to the ocean. Highlight of my life. Would definitely get certified.
Happy to hear my chainsaw story shared :’) It was very dumb that I thought I would die (and that I thought the motorcycle was a chainsaw), but I have anxiety and that’s where my mind went lol. The screams definitely were not happy screams and that is what freaked me out😂 y’all are the best, thanks for sharing 😊
Glad youre ok tho!
I've definitely gotten freaked out from mistaking like fireworks or backfires for gunshots... living in cities is fun
anxiety can really mess with your head,I know how that feels
glad your ok x
I’m 45 seconds in and already I’m grinning. You two are pure serotonin. Subscribed
Kudos to Link for trying something that he’s scared of, especially after he couldn’t breathe, I would’ve just quit. 😂
I learned to be calm after a summer of swimming at the bottom of the pool. When I realized I could fight through the panic, I was okay even 10 feet down.
Then again, I nearly drowned a few different times but as soon as I relaxed, I survived. The worst was being in a wave pool. I couldn't get to the surface to breathe but then I just stopped fighting the waves. I got to the edge, crawled up while vomiting/coughing up water the entire time. I laid down with a towel over me and just recovered. My parents had no idea I nearly died. No one helped me. I just went with instincts.
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It's so crazy to hear Rhett talk about the toe surgery because I had to have an ingrown nail cut out of both my big toes when I was a teenager. And on the second foot I asked for no local anesthesia because that needle in-between my toes was one of the craziest pain I've ever experienced.
Im 15, I had to do that around 6 months ago but just in one toe(they took the whole nail off). The pain was definitely unreal, especially when she had to go back in one more time because she missed a spot. I sat there with my mouth wide open.
never thought i would hear rhett and link talk about chainsaw man 😭😭😭😭
My near death experience … I had to prep for a colonoscopy so couldn’t eat solid food. I was eating jello and had a bronchial spasm and took a deep breath in, right after putting a spoonful of jello in my mouth. So I sucked the jello into my lungs …. I could feel the jello in my lungs and I couldn’t breathe.
TLDR: I almost drowned eating jello prepping for a colonoscopy
Oh my god, what did you do? D: that sounds so scary
I’ve always wondered what would happen with something like that. What happened to the jello? What did they have to do?
I was finally able to cough and cough until it all Came up - like when you see someone who was drowning on tv, and they cough up the water. My chest ached afterwards. I will Never eat hello again
Sounds like my Luck.🤔🫢
I don’t think the jello made u choke, I think inhaling while eating did.
that last voicemail was so cute, her laugh🥺🥺
I did not expect link to talk about chainsaw man this episode 😂. That little exchange from arson to chainsaw man had me gripped to my phone
I haven't watched the episode just read the title but I can confidently say Link has had many near death experiences... Every time he picks up something sharp, whoever he's with is nearer to death than they expected.
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One time he literally put his hand in a blender and almost blended his fingers off.
As a SCUBA Instructor Trainer I would emphasize that you should listen to NOTHING Link is saying about scuba diving and diver training.
Why?
Yeah ^ why exactly? I mean it is Link....but why?
"Scuba instructors hate him. UA-camr shares secrets to free scuba diving"
Okay fair. Link himself said not to listen to him XD
I feel like as a general rule the fandom doesn’t really listen to Link’s advice on things lol
I'm scuba cettified and whilst I'm the total opposite, being extremely comfy underwater, the training is true, you learn a million ways to die. This is important to avoid them, so don't let it discourage you! Also some people take time, we are all different. Scuba is wonderful!
I worked as a firefighter up until a few years ago when I changed career paths but I can confirm that running out of air in an SCBA (same tech as SCUBA just without the U- underwater part) is terrifying.
never would i have thought to listen to rhett and link talk about famous manga chainsaw man for 3 minutes lol
My near death experience wasn't anything crazy, more like lucky of me.. so let me preface with I'm a recovering addict and ended up in county jail for unpaid fines.. day 2 of being in there I kept saying my chest hurt and they assured me "it's cause you're not getting drugs and doing drugs you're withdrawing" mind you, I know what withdrawals felt like and they definitely felt a lot differently than how I felt.. I kept bugging them till they said "you don't say you have chest pain if you don't have chest pain" but I begged for an ekg.. when they did it my heart rate was only 24 bpm.. they said "oh no that's so low! You have to go to the er." They rushed me to the emergency room where they did every test in the book, come in my room and said "you have heart block from your Lyme disease" I said what do you mean? I don't have Lyme? They said I definitely did.. they told me that I was so lucky I had gotten arrested and ended up in jail because if I'd have stayed on the street, would've gotten high, that would've lowered my heart rate even more than the heart block was already lowering it and I would have died.. I've been clean ever since! Jail actually saved my life.. I don't ever remember getting bit by a tick. I've been a hunter since I was a child so anytime I go into the woods or anything I check myself for ticks.. the drs told me I wouldn't be the first person to have a tick crawl into my ear or hide in my super thick hair and didn't even know about it.. that was in 2019 and unfortunately I'm still dealing with the effects of Lyme disease.. it goes into remission and then I have a Lyme relapse.. it's not been fun. Moral of the story, don't do drugs, and check yourself well for ticks! Have others even check you!
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Congrats on getting clean!!! I too am a recovering addict, it’s not easy but it’s 100% worth it ❤️
Great episode. I love studying near death experiences and I spend some time myself doing astral projections and dream work ect ect. Hearing you guys talk about life and being human and our mortality is amazing and I want more content like this!
🙌🏼 yes
“i’ve watched a piggly wiggly burn to the ground before” - link
You guys kick ass. During the hardest part of my life, I was comforted by Ear Biscuits. Ear Biscuits was one of the most helpful crutches on my path towards enlightenement... Yeah. After coping with the hardest moments of my life, I gave up drinking and resumed mindfulness. And during this process of reacclimating to my true, innocent self, I watched a lot of Ear Biscuits. Guys, I have no other way to explain it to you but to say that I died, and in the process of being reborn into who I am now, you all facilitated in that process tremendously. And here I am now on the other side. My journey inwards has lead me here: paradise. Thanks for being in this space with me. Thanks for the story you have woven. Thank you for putting your pattern on display. It is an admirable pattern. One that saves people. Thank you, have a great moment. 🌅🌞🌄☀️🌬️🌟
That’s awesome.
They aren't saving anything. They walked away from christ. A very dangerous thing. We must pray for them
As always a great way to start my Sundays. Everyone else in the house is asleep, I make a cup of coffee and listen ❤️
When my mom was a kid (13 maybe?) she was choking on some kind of food. Her older sister & sister's boyfriend were nearby but my mom didn't want to try to get their help because they were older cool kids and she was embarrassed. She was choking so badly she almost blacked out so she finally decided run to her sister for help. While running she gasped hard and got the food down, decided she was fine, and didn't tell anybody she'd almost died.
I'm really excited to hear link and his dads podcast!
Link sure is becoming more risk-taking in his older years. Proud of the growth!
My husband is an Air Rescue Swimmer, so it was really funny to me, listening to you describe learning how to clear your mask, and panicking. 😂 I panicked when he taught me too, but now it's second nature when we snorkel
Ok, we just need to acknowledge that the second story of thinking something was happening that was not is NOT a near death experience. But hey it was a fun story so I respect that haha
great episode, the deep conversations are my favorites.
My mom woke up while having surgery on her eye. She was completely awake and could feel everything, but was numb and couldn't move. She started crying and they put her back under. But she is SCARRED.
Anesthesia metabolizes out of my body fast. I was put under getting my wisdom teeth out for that reason, woke up as he was taking last one out and yanked my IV out. So when I had my gallbladder out, I was terrified. So the dude put.me.out. It took me a long time to wake up, but I was happy about that.
I woke up during a colonoscopy. I told myself before I went in that I wanted to wake up and see inside myself. So I did. I saw them cutting a piece of my intestine out on the little tv monitor. Then they realized and pumped me with the juice.
I can't believe there's a supermarket in the States called "Piggly Wiggly". That's even more American than hot sauce packets somehow
Hot sauce is American to you? That's strange.
After watching this episode, it Occurred to me how awesome is a reaction video from rhett and link on some of the “I shouldn’t be alive” episodes. ( they are available on youtube to watch for free ) i love them
I remember walking out into a lake when I was about 6-7. I could swim at the time but not well. As the water got higher I started bouncing along going further and further out until all of a sudden the ground beneath my feet dipped sharply. I think I panicked and froze up. I started to sink below the water line and all I could think to do was push myself off the ground so my head would reach the air. I remember looking towards the beach and I was going under the water for what seemed to me like the last time I saw my parents friends older son come running into the water. Just luckily he had saw me and he pulled me out. Typically for the time my parents gave me a “you good?” And I pretty much was after I coughed the water out of my lungs and we went back to our day on the beach. Thankfully it didn’t affect me and I still enjoy swimming and being in the water.
Good to hear my dad wasn’t the only one that got his small children a go-cart! 😂 thanks for listening to my near death experience guys!
I was in a car that flipped on its side. I had a seatbelt bruise that the ER doc told me was my life line. He said if I had not been wearing it, I would have died. Only injury I had was a fractured sternum
Honestly I relate to Link's anxiety over talking about death. I almost skipped this episode because of the title. It wasnt so bad. But I had to wait to be in the proper headspace for it.
This was a very interesting episode and I loved it!!!
Link's son is so based for Chainsaw Man. Literally this was the first thing I thought of when they mentioned chainsaw man in this episode 😭
I'll tell you a near death experience I had, was in 2017, when I had an aneurysm rupture. As the Dr explained it to me I couldn't understand how I was still alive. I think my son was more terrified then I was, as he could since my panic.
My favorite episode in a while!
Happy Father’s Day, Daddies!
You want to hear a sweet nothing? 😊
...Sure, Randy
My fiance and I love all your content, she passed away while watching good mythical, so yall two where her last people she saw. She was a big fan and loved her gmm beans shirt
Nearly a month ago my appendix exploded on me - I thought it was bad gas. 3 days after I went to the ER and had surgery the next day (the CT scan did not show the exploded appendix because of an abscess). Surgeon did not know how bad it was till they looked thru the scope. I have pictures of my abdomen filled with.....pus. Dr came out of surgery and told my wife I "made him work" and that if I had waited one more day - I could have easily died. Spent a week in the hospital.
I had a fall in the dark at home and somehow I saw my own face as I went down. I shattered my shoulder and had to have a replacement shoulder. This was in 2019 and my physio was cut short due to the pandemic but I can still knit and crochet so I’m happy.
I had two out of body experiences. One I was floating over my body when I was a child,the second time someone else pulled me out of my body I went to the astral realms.
OMG I must know more about the second time
The way Rhett explains things, it makes him sound like a conspiracy theorist. In the wildest way.
Lol I love this episode XD link is great. I would definitely love an episode of them exploring those stories of people seeing things like that. Reminds me of alien stories, everyone always just automatically calls them crazy but there are creepy similarities
It would've been hilarious if Post Malone called in with his plane story
Not a surgery perse but i did wake up during a procedure and saw my own insides on the monitor and then all of a sudden I woke up in the hospital bed. Glad they gave me more...
“No one in the mythical beasts community has seen the light” I love the line 😭😭
Almost went overboard on a ship at night while it was raining
yoooo i love the chainsaw man convo! cant wait for the anime!!
Link finding out about Chainsaw man is the best thing ever 😂
My near death experience is every time GMM goes on break 😅
As a scuba diver and fan this episode had me all gitty ahaha. Good luck Link have fun…. Also , do not listen to links advice 👀
*giddy, btw.
The accelerator in my car got stuck and I sped straight across four lanes of traffic at rush hour without hitting anything before I used the emergency brake to stop.
so glad to hear link will try anime. the most bloody and graphic anime
LINKS DADS POD… oh my YES
Talking about near death experience, Zach from H3 podcast would LOVE Link’s tshirt (not really)! 😂
Oh hey! Mythical beasts & footsoldiers get-together ✌🏻❤️
family!
@@satinsouled family!
Good stuff. Also, I loved the Smosh funeral. Your pictures looked great.
😊😊
last year my mom and I were talking in the kitchen. she started choking and I had to give her the heimlich. ironically it was the same day as my CPR recertification.
Would love to hear rhett and link talk about manga and anime more😂
me too ✋️
Astronauts and pilots in training in a G-force accelerator often describe the tunnel of light thing as they pass out.
11:01 I love that Link knows Radiohead, he has such a diverse music taste and i love him for that
Oo chainsaw man is so good, the ending is just amazing
Link talking about Chainsaw man was not something I was expecting to hear today
I was allergic to penicillin as a baby because of a one-time reaction and after a test, it turns out I'm no longer allergic. But for years and years I always told the doctors I'm allergic to it and when they asked, I'd tell them that I had a reaction as a baby and it stayed on my medical records. Now I don't have to mention the allergy ever again. But it's strange that Link had an allergy to a nearly identical medication as a baby and then kept that in his medical records. I wonder how common that is for other people.
Y'all really uploading at 5am for me
3 am where I am 😬
6 for me, same as always.
2pm for me.
I’m a Scuba Diver. Welcome to the club Link!
One of my near death experiences is when I was in a hospital and I was walking with my grandad to see my nanny and it had abt ten big sunlight's on the roof (the hospital is 2stories ) and one of the frames for the sunroof fell and landed right behind us and I only got a small graze on my ankle from some glass.We were then swarmed by abt 15 asking if we were hit .
not a near death but my nephew almost lost his foot a few years ago. he somehow got a staph infection in his foot but never mentioned anything to his mom (stubborn teenager) until he was barely able to walk on it. come to find out that had he waited even another day to bring it to his mom's attention, he most likely would have had to have his foot amputated. i believe he had an ingrown toenail and then got a staph infection from showering at the Y. always remember to file those edges people! oh, and wear shower shoes in public showers!
Link talking about Lincoln’s manga and the Santa Claus guy is making me think of Link in the Mayim episode where he wore the hat made of doll heads! Meanwhile, Rhett is the same shirt he wore in his kindergarten school picture and that other school picture
I went into sudden cardiac arrest in middle school, I don’t remember anything about that whole day and woke up after a week of being in the hospital
"errmagherd, im about to get chainsawed, lets make a video of my freakout lolz"
omg hearing Link talk about one of my fave mangas, Chainsaw Man, makes me so frickin happy !!!!!
someone's gotta show him Junji Ito 🤣
I watched this awesome show on Netflix, it’s called the OA, it’s about near death experiences and it’s such a great show! I recommend watching it to anyone! It’s so good!
omg please do a full episode on people's afterlife experiences! it's sooo interesting. there are tons of reddit threads about it.
I have woken up during surgery dripping in fever sweats and the doctors were quite shicked and then they gput me back out again but apparantely I had have some sort of reaction to the anesthesiology. I wasn't scared or anything, it was just a weird axperience and it makes a good story so I give it 10/10
Omg this episode is giving me the chills
Not Rhett pretending he knew how to get water out of a mask under water 🥲
I can't understand why it's taken me so long to write this down but I think about my near death experience when I was in the scouts all the time. We were camping at a Battlefield in Chickasaw, TN if I remember correctly it's somewhere within the mountains there's even museum built into one of the hills that has war as well as geographic/earth representation to show millions of years of fossils and ground. Well going on with the story we'd been camping there about a day (BTW I ABSOLUTELY heard and felt the sound of ghost soldier boots on ground and drums every night outside the tent) and by the second night we were comfortable enough we decided to just take a walk in the woods I think it was part of scouts testing we did a lot nothing like just whittling but still alas. This night we were walking with our Scout Master Billy in straight darkness no light we were walking down a path he led us our eyes adjusting to the woods when STOP he grabs me on my shoulder, pulls me back, to the side, and says "Alright nevermind let's go back." before we left he pulled out his light on what was in front of me it was a huge bear trap. It gives me chills now thinking about if he wasn't such a badass and saw that I wouldn't be standing here today quite literally.
Magic The Gathering 🤣 I feel called out lol
Gives me vibes of the Do We Believe In Ghosts EB where Link is panicking and Rhett is getting some kicks off watching him panic. But it's cool seeing Link try something this badass.
" video series" lmafoooooo an anime , perfect *^*
My grandfather died and came back to life and he explained what he seen as a massive church with symbols all over the walls and the church was filled with people he didn't recognize, then he came back. I think about that often. What were the symbols?!
Sounds very important. I believe in God and Dreams are a form of prophecy
That video with the lightning strike is why I'm terrified of thunder storms.
when i was little i was floating in one of those wide baby floaties and tried grabbing something far infront of me and flipped over and was basically trapped underwater because i was outrgowing the floatie and it was tight around my legs. out of all the adults in the pool it took what felt like 5 minutes for someone to grab me out. wasnt near death but if they had yanked me out any more seconds later i definitely wouldve blacked out and probably wouldve drowned lol.
I fell off a cliff hiking and almost died. It was terrifying
My sister woke up in the middle of her getting a C section performed, to birth her first child. She says she realized she was "awake" when she felt them cutting her abdominal wall layer by layer. Obviously, this gave her PTSD.
They put women asleep for a c section? My wife didn't get put to sleep they just doped her up
Would love it if you did another episode about near death experiences~
As a lifeguard, if your choking alone a good thing to do is bang your chest against a corner of a table in the place where you would get the Heimlich maneuver, apparently it works.
Don't think it counts as "seeing the light" but when I was small, i was walking along the beach and got swept away by a wave. I have this memory of being under the water and seeing light through the water and then an image of a Poseidon kind of figure in the light (like Ariel the little mermaids dad Poseidon). I wasn't too far out and my dad grabbed my arm and yanked me out of the current. I don't think i was under water long and I don't even think I had swallowed any water or like started drowning at all, so I don't think I really even got an "I'm dying" feeling. So idk why I hallucinated Poseidon. Maybe this is a false memory lol. I was like under 10.
Second story. On the way to prom in a car with friends. Was given mentos so I ate some. Somehow I choked on the fricken mento and couldn't breathe. I couldn't really even cough. We were in a car so it would have been difficult for anyone to give me the heimlich. But also I don't think people really noticed i was choking. In my head I thought "nope. There is no way i go out choking on a mento on the way to prom. This is not it." It kind of felt like with sheer will alone that i was finally able to cough and get some air. That's when people in the car finally realized i was choking and handed me water.
I had the same experience when learning to clear my mask while scuba diving. Don't worry Link! I guarantee I freaked out harder than you did.