John Fullbright

Listen, listen, listen. We have a birthday boy in the lab today. Tommy? What the hell, man? Everyone's got to have a hobby, dude. You're kind of ruining the party here. Don't listen to him, Ramon. Welcome back to the lab. It's good to have you here, Ramon. Happy birthday. What's up, guys? How are you doing? Happy birthday, Ramon. Thank you. How are you? How's it going? >> Is that you in there? That was me, John. That was me. That's your baby boy in there. I was getting in some rounds in with the sumo guy. Let me tell you something, that guy was [ __ ] awesome, man. He was awesome. I went to this My wife took me to a sumo and sushi event and that surprised me with being up there in the ring. And let me tell you something, that guy he was built like a tank. He might look like a pillow, but he's built like a tank. So, okay. So, that was like at a restaurant where you could get up and and almost like It kind of was So, it was a nice event that they have is a traveling I wouldn't not like traveling circus, but it's a event that travels around. It's called sumo and sushi. They go to New York, Philadelphia, San Diego. They kind of tour They Yeah, they tour around. Yeah, yeah. Those events are in Japan, dude. That is like the top of the top sports. Oh, yeah. Let me tell you something, this guy, right? So, his name is Ryu. According to like his profile that they had, he's like the equivalent of a D1 wrestler in Japan. Yeah. >> So, so so whatever the the Japanese D1 colleges, that's what this guy was. And super nice, super cool, you know, so we kind of played around a little bit. But like I tell you, he is built like a tank, my man. I thought, you know, the cool part about it cuz what I really wanted to experience was just that that that force of the sumo. So, you know, when I was trying to push him here and there's one part where he actually puts his body on me. I was like, "Wow, this guy is like a linebacker." Yeah, for sure. You know, but Akebono, if if you know sumo. >> Yes. Yes. Grand champion. He was a buddy of mine before, you know, when I met him over there, we hit it off. We go to his restaurant. He just passed a few years ago, which is really sad. Yeah. But yeah, he was he was like when I got to talk to him and understand more about sumo, I mean it when when you're in that high league, when you're in that top league, you get a [ __ ] retirement. What? Yeah, a full [ __ ] retirement. Yeah, so check this Akebono. I mean he was massive, you know, 6'8, [ __ ] 500 some pounds. I mean he was just a god over there. And he was so he became kind of bigger than than sumo. Restaurants and appearances and movies and [ __ ] Check this out. He got a tattoo. He knew this was coming. He chose to do it. He got a tattoo. Right? That breaks the rules of sumo. They [ __ ] turned off his retirement. Really? Yeah, that just shows how strict and traditional the roots of that go. So when I was doing this thing, the first part of the hour they talk about just like the tradition and like the honor of being like a sumo wrestler, which is very true to what you were saying, John. I mean these guys are not just seen as athletes, but they're seen as like pillars of their community. 100%. You know so they go through that whole process and and it's it's a it's kind of like the modern day samurai to a certain degree. You know, there's a certain code, there's a certain honor that you go about it. Like it's as much a religious experience because there's the whole thing going to the ring and you got to bless the ring and this whole you know, pomp and circumstance before you get to the actual event. But let me tell you something. It It was a It was an honor to kind of share that moment with him and just kind of being in the ring and just seeing a different perspective of a sport. Cuz you know, people now they they they look at sumo and they kind of see it comical with like oh, fat guys with like diapers. They just They just They just don't understand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hanging out with Ramon Velas myself and John Anderson this morning on Mornings with Live with Keith John and friends. Johnny is so Ramon was on our show on Friday and then we grabbed coffee and he was like, "Dude, I've never experienced anything like that before." And we were talking about it and he was very kind with his accolades and then we were shooting the [ __ ] and talking over the weekend and and I said, "Hey, you know, it's like hey, my birthday coming up." I'm like, "Dude, why don't you come back?" So, I said, "Drop in." I said, "I'll surprise Anderson." So, and then he sends in the video of Anderson him [ __ ] wrestling. I'm like, "Oh, this is going to be awesome." So, so Ramon's a fan. We're going to bring him back I think on on a regular basis to to tune into stuff and I've been talking off show with Ramon on a few things as well. But, I thought to bring him in to hang out with us for a few minutes before we bring the lightning man in. Hey guys, >> He had one statement that [ __ ] told me that he understood what we were doing. He's like, "Well, you just you push him until I can't remember the exact wording. You push him until they choke and you back up then you double down." I was like, "Hey, you just explained the whole [ __ ] capture of the audience in one [ __ ] simple sentence. I like this guy." Yeah, me too. Hey, so Johnny, we've been watching Thor's journey to I guess his world record coming up in May at the enhanced games. Got another video clip thrown in the tail here. It's where this epic spot 470 kg dead. Check this out, Johnny. I'd like to get your your I love getting your your color commentary on it. Here's Thor doing a man 470 the 470 dead. And that's actually his training facility in Iceland right there, too. Oh, is that where it is, eh? Yeah, interesting. So, he's I I know I I just assumed Let's do a little test on your verbage, Keith. What is that bar called? Oh, is that an elephant bar? That's an elephant bar. Good job. >> That is Oh, no [ __ ] yeah. So, could you tell because it looks so long? Yes, it well, I mean, he's not because the world he's only going to be pulling on the bar. He's going to be pulling a break the world record and he it's it's the elephant bar is a part of what allows that much weight to go up. As we've discussed in the past, like when you watch him pull, that bar will give him 4 in of bend in the bar before the weights leave the ground. That little bit of That changes the game. If that bar didn't bend, Yes. it would be It literally would be a different world. That's the world record on on It's kind of like an open class world record. >> Oh, yeah, because there's no give, right? It's just a Yeah, I understand that. >> So, this one has give. If you went to a non-elephant, like I think what they used to call it a Texas power bar. Now, they change all the names, but that [ __ ] dude, there was nothing. No [ __ ] >> Yeah, it didn't [ __ ] There was so little bend. I mean, when I say nothing, you had to have like 900 lb on it to bend it. Back in those days, nobody was pulling 900. He told the Ramones about it. He just posted an image of this one. He did not actually do the lift. He He posted it a little bit later. But then I threw this one on here. Ramon, Keith, and John were talking yesterday. On Saturday, Brock hung him up. And John, check this clip out, man, because here's a And you might understand this from being in the ring, but apparently when they show the X, watch him show the X. Watch Brock give the X to Heyman. That's to say, no script. This is real, apparently, John. That's what I was told, which is the X tells tells your partner that this is not This is off script. This is now real life right now, Anderson. Yeah, and the only reason he did this cuz he having a hard time talking. Oh, yeah. Okay. He was Yeah, he You know, at that point, he's just Heyman knows right away he was talking, you know. Yes. Yeah, that that This moment moves me, man, because he just It's like he's communicating to say, "Okay, I I've made my decision, right?" And then they have a big hug and embrace, and he's crying. And Ramon, do you watch wrestling, by any chance? So, I I do watch wrestling, and I I kind of fell off a little bit, but I I I enjoy wrestling. Brock's one of my favorites. I I must say my all-time favorite is the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, by far. I love me some Shawn Michaels, and Bret the Hitman Hart. Those were like my two main guys. Brock, I I Oh, Randy Orton is one of my also favorites. So, yeah, I I kind of go deep in the well. I haven't watched it recently, so I'm a little I'm a little off on the current stories, but I enjoy it. That's awesome. >> You know what's [ __ ] crazy about that? Yeah. So, that stadium, I don't know how many people that [ __ ] holds, but it's big. Allegiance, yeah, about 85,000? Yeah, and that they the Wrestlemanias are [ __ ] pretty much sold out, right? >> Yes. >> And you're talking about that ring is basically 20 by 20, you know, give or it's I don't remember the exact measurement in the center of this [ __ ] thing. Yeah, yeah. How little that is compared to that ring? >> Yes. Oh, yeah. And then it's like that many people showing up to watch an ant. two Yes. people in the [ __ ] ring. I mean, it's talk about these the WWE has is like literally created a new level of [ __ ] putting butts in seats. They've been doing this They've been doing this >> Go ahead. They haven't done it once, they do it twice now. Cuz Wrestlemania's a two-day event now. two-day event Totally. And and they and they've been selling these [ __ ] out back, you know, I think I mean, they've been doing selling these things out and they've sold out over 100,000 people, I believe, in Wrestlemania. You know how hard that is to do? Unbelievable. >> It's phenomenal to watch. I mean, I've been to a couple of live events and I could say from that alone, it's it's a phenomenal event. It's loud as all hell, let me tell you that much. But it it is phenomenal with the pyrotechnics, the lighting, and then the actual event itself. It It's It's a great show to watch, and I think, you know, the WWE has really solidified that that entertainment in in that genre. It's a John, I want to ask cuz I I I've heard you you used to do some professional wrestling. What What was your finisher, John? Did you have a finisher? Yeah, so it's a because you have to kind of I mean you could choose one that everybody knows, but to have your own tailored one. So, it was it was called the strongman slam. Okay. Cuz that was my name was strong was base I came from strength world, so my name was strongman. Okay. >> John strongman Anderson. And basically, think of like a a Samoan drop but instead of having them on your back I had them up on the shoulders. Oh, okay. >> His his belly button would have been like right here. You know what I mean? So I pick him up, you know, get him you know and I could get him like when they're you know all [ __ ] up on the ground I get him up they're just still [ __ ] over like this or bent over I just stick my stick my head in and up they go. I grab grab an arm grab a foot up they go turn towards the [ __ ] hard camera and We got an eye coming up after a lightning strike triggered a total neurological collapse. This former adventure photographer Johnny he survived by using live honeybees to literally sting himself back to health coming up in a few moments. We got John Fulbright in the lab joining myself and John this morning I'm morning to love. Right now we're hanging out with Ramon Velas. It is his birthday today. Happy birthday brother. He's a 30 37 years old I think he is today. [ __ ] actually 49. 47 actually. Oh yeah, look at you. Go look at you. But I'll I'll take 37 that works. >> go. There you go. Hey where where are you right now? Are you are you are you in front of a green screen or in your backyard? I'm lounging in the backyard man. I'm I'm taking a day off today. I'm taking in the the sun and just relaxing enjoy 47 with a nice relaxing morning. Well listen there was some folks sitting in the yard like yours that were Well Kyle let's let's just run this clip. Check this out man. Johnny imagine sitting in the backyard or sitting in your house and the next thing you know this lands in your backyard unexpectedly some folks in Temecula, John with their ring camera there was some folks hot air ballooning overhead and they needed to land. So they landed in the guy's backyard. How did they get that thing down there? I know. I'm surprised it didn't end up in a tree. So it was an emergency and the guy navigated right there. Like Johnny to your point I was like holy [ __ ] how did they Look at the tree that he's basically part of the balloon touching the tree. >> Yeah, that's crazy, man. Just like So, I I I'm not hot air balloon to start with, but then when I see things like this, no, thank you. Ramon, you hot air balloon before? I I My wife tried to get me to hot air balloon, and I was like, "Baby, no." There's There's certain things I can do, but that hot air balloon I love it. I love it. Well, listen, Ramon, what do you got going on today, brother? You're taking the day off? We're going to We're going to keep our show rocking and rolling with John Fulbright. What do you got going on today, brother? I'm not doing much. My daughter's going to take me out for for lunch, and I'm just going to enjoy the day and just relax. So, it's it's going to be a fun day overall. I'm starting it off great with you guys, and I'm going to end it off strong. So, thank you very much for having me. >> Awesome. So much fun talking to my brother. Great to see you. So much fun, man. So much fun. Thanks for playing along with me today. I'm glad we're texting. Let's keep in touch and chat later, okay? Yes, sir. Talk to you later. Have a good one, guys. Awesome. Ramon's out of here. Keith and John hanging out. We got John Fulbright joining us here in a quick minute. John, I thought you'd enjoy that, man. I've been I've been talking >> Yeah, that was cool. That was really cool. I've been talking with Ramon, and he did He's like He said to me, he's like, "You guys are making some stuff that I haven't seen before." And he's showing it to some of his colleagues, and I'm like, "Yeah." Well, see, here's the thing. Hearing that from that dude, that means the industry I mean, when you hear you hear it from just a normal guy, well, [ __ ] it. Of course YOU HAVE IT. BUT THIS IS A GUY WHO UNDERSTANDS the landscape. He works in the business. He's like, "You guys are doing [ __ ] It's a totally different compliment. >> Yeah, exactly, exactly. All right, speaking of doing things nobody's doing, this guy did something that I Well, listen, he's a storm chaser, been struck by lightning. His name's John Fulbright, and the man who let bees sting him back to life, and now he helps thousands do the same. Kai, Jimmy, let's run the clip. Sophia Grant, Keith Bellas, John Anderson, and John Fulbright this morning on Mornings in the Live. He built his life in the wildest places on Earth, mountains, rivers, desert canyons. John spent 35 plus years as a wilderness guide, adventure consultant, and professional photographer. His office was wherever most people turn around. Then in In lightning found him. Not the kind he was watching through a lens, the kind that changes everything. That strike cracked open something he'd been carrying since age 12, a dormant Lyme disease from a childhood tick bite. He lost 60 lb, Lyme plus four co-infections. His nervous system was being taken apart piece by piece, and then he hit a wall nobody talks about, the kind where you stop wanting to live. Doctors had nothing left. Every conventional option had been tried. He was on his own. That's when he found Hoshindo, Japanese meridian therapy. Live bee venom along the body's meridian points. The bees did what medicine couldn't. He came back, not to the man he was before, something more. Today, he works globally bringing Hoshindo to patients who've been told there's nothing left, the ones medicine gave up on. Last thing, his childhood superhero was Shazam, a kid transformed by lightning. He lived that story, and he still photographs lightning. John, welcome to Mornings in the Lab. We're happy to have you here today. John after a lightning strike triggered a total neurological collapse, this former adventure photographer survived by using live honeybees to literally sting himself back to health, and we are fortunate to have him here this morning in the lab. We've got John Fulbright in the lab, a man who survived lightning and still chases a storm. Let's bring him up, John Fulbright this morning on Mornings in the Lab. >> a mic. What's going on here? I got to start right away, brother. What Explain this is I'm I'm in question, so I have them. By the way, great to have you here. How are you today, brother? I'm just if if I'm wondering, I'm thinking that our our listeners are too. Define the full neurological collapse. Yeah. Oh, I think we're having some audio John, can you hear us? John Fulbright, can you hear us? He I think he came in and spoke, so he he uh Yeah, we can have some So So, John, can you hear us okay here? You We We got We we heard you when you first came in the room there. Yeah, he's not hearing. No. All right, so Jimmy will call will bring him off stage for right now. We'll bring up John in a quick second here while he's getting his audio set. >> What is that? That's I mean that's I've never heard of that. I mean if I've heard that, I definitely haven't attached definition to it. Yes, let's ask it. Hey Grok, what is that what is So we're talking about a full neurological collapse. What does that mean? A full neurological collapse means your entire nervous system basically short circuits. In John's case, the lightning strike woke up dormant lines that had been sitting there since he was a kid and together they wrecked his nerves. He lost 60 lb, had constant pain, numbness, weakness, brain fog, and eventually got to a place where he didn't even want to live anymore. Doctors were out of answers. That's when he turned to live beam and limb therapy. Want me to pull up that hot air balloon clip from earlier while we're waiting on him? No, we're good. Thanks, Grok. That's That's interesting cuz if it woke up, like it's saying woke up nerves or I think she said lines that had been asleep or whatever she said, you'd think that'd be a positive thing. Yeah, well it's so it's so and I guess the neurological Lyme disease as well. Let's let's try him up here again. Nakayla, let's bring him up here again. John, have we got you? John? He looks content sitting there. Yeah, mine He's just sitting there waiting. I don't think he I don't think he knows he's been brought up. All right, Jimmy, we'll we'll knock John Fullbright there. Hey John, if you can hear me, head on over to the private chat there. We we're the producers are helping you out there on the in the private chat to get you to get you organized out there this morning. Hey Johnny, how was your day yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What I do? Let's see here. I had a good morning, good nap, good filming, Yeah. great workout, Yeah. went and hung out with my brother a little bit. He He down here cuz I'm not going to see he he I won't see him before we leave. So I just wanted to hang out with him a little bit. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we had kind of a fun conversation about Terry's got this thing going and he's actually got a lot of information. So it's kind of fun. And I love to talk to him about stuff he likes to talk about cuz it really raised his spirits, you know, and he's You know, he's he's he's definitely in kind of a struggling part of his life with what he's going on with his with his cuz he had a brain brain tumor, you know. Anyway, He told me that. Yes, yes. Anyway, so cuz Terry's got this thing for us. She She really wants to get her pilot's license. And so we're looking into doing that. And so I was just talking to him about, you know, airplanes and pilot's license. It just, you know, he lit up like a Roman candle, which was good. So it was nice to see him really feeling happy before I left. Did you say Terry wants to get her pilot's license? Yeah. Oh, very cool. No [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah, it would be cuz it It's come from journey. Like where does her interest in that come from? Probably knowing that she can do whatever the [ __ ] she wants whenever she wants. No, but that's that's pretty cool though, man. Like just because I you know, not everybody wants to be a pilot. So to have some interest in that and curiosity in that She's always She She doesn't like She gets She gets bored. And she doesn't like to be bored, which I totally get, you know. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, her whole life was kind of interesting because when when I came into her life and the kids were gone, you know, and she always Excuse me. She always worked because she liked what she did. Yeah. Trying to people stuff. But then when kids were gone, I was like, "Right, babe. Well, listen. You don't have to [ __ ] anymore, you know? Your [ __ ] American Express has no [ __ ] limit. You know, enjoy life." And that was sounded great, but she it left her with these [ __ ] voids of like Uh yes, yes. massive interest was gone cuz the kids were massive interest. Yes. And so she's kind of bounced around with, you know, different stuff that she's investigated and liked and then she does has things that she does, but you know, being a parent monopolizes absolutely. She just is taking interest in that and then I I start thinking I'm like, [ __ ] this would be pretty cool because we have actually have a an airport like 10 minutes from our house. >> Yeah, well cuz then you told me where where where your where your where your gated community is didn't you say to me when we first started kind of hanging out and spending time together? Didn't you say that your gated community has some folks with I don't say runways inside of it but >> tried to put a [ __ ] runway just outside the [ __ ] fence. Yes. You just you look at it's right in front of my [ __ ] house. You can see the They actually had the cats out there and they knocked it down. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what it was. It was a [ __ ] homeowners got in the [ __ ] way. Okay. It was a liability. Yeah, yeah. Because it's on the homeowners land and so anyway, but the airport's [ __ ] 10 minutes away because then you can you can it's anyway so I thought [ __ ] this would be pretty cool if we if we end up if she got her license we had an airplane. We could go see friends for a weekend. You just get in the rather than you know, spending you know, 6 hours in a car you're in there for [ __ ] 90 minutes. >> 100% Oh, [ __ ] yeah. Yeah, I'd say hey Johnny, why don't you and Terry come for dinner? Just flying up over the border. I realize you know, an airplane's 100% write off which I'm going to be looking for you know, to cover myself for this year for sure. Yeah. And then then my so my brother actually has the idea. He's like, look he goes here's here's what a lot of people do. Just think about this I this is all [ __ ] brand new to me. You know. That's pretty cool, man. >> He's like he's like look he goes if you buy her a starter airplane cuz she's going to [ __ ] land it hard. She's you know, you don't want to buy the ones you want now because it's like it's like buying your which I made the mistake. I bought I bought our [ __ ] kids, you know, [ __ ] Porsches and Mercedes for their first cars and they [ __ ] trashed them not on purpose. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. They just they need a car with a if they run into [ __ ] it's not a big deal. It's not a, you know, a $4,000 fairing you got to replace, you know. >> You know what's crazy how, you know, we just you we talk and stories come up and we share life stories and we just and things just weave in. So, dude, you tell me Terry wants to be a pilot with her own airplane. John Fullbright, I hear you, brother. We'll bring you up in a in a couple minutes here. I So, Johnny, when I was going to college in Kelowna, I went to college in in Kelowna, British Columbia for for a year and there was a flight school there and I had a buddy who's getting his pilot's license. So, I'm 21 years old, you know, young, dumb, and full of [ __ ] and no [ __ ] no good decisions ever being made. He's like, "Hey, I got to get my flying hours in. You want to come flying with me?" Yeah. So, [ __ ] you're not supposed to do that when he's getting his license. Yeah. So, I'm He's supposed to know that. So, I'm up there flying with him and he's like, "Hey, do you want to pull the yoke?" Yeah. So, he's like, "Okay, we're going to do dead stalls." So, we climb up Christ, dude. Yeah. So, we climb up over top like Big Bear in Kelowna. Like there's a some mountain top. He climb up, you go, "Okay, we're going to dead stall it." And he [ __ ] dead stall it and we And then we start it up again and he go, "Okay, okay, take the yoke and pull the yoke and go back up again." And I think about it now as a 54-year-old man and if my son came to me and said, "Hey, Dad, I'm going to go do some flying hours with my buddy and we're going to do some dead stalls." I'd be like, "What are you [ __ ] doing, man?" So, yeah, there was all >> Yeah, that's not that's not a break your leg accident. No. That's a That's a break your life. Your life is over accident. dumb. Like when I think about it, but the yoke just fun. So, when you said to the Terry, I'm like, "Oh, God, I got to drop some to Johnny." Cuz I remember like it was yesterday. Rob Gallagher and he's like, "Hey, he's like, Keith, he's like, you know, we could fly home with us weekend to go see your family." I'm like, "No, I'm okay. I'll just stay home." Cuz we had to go fly in the mountains and everything. >> on that level, you know, cuz this guy clearly was not managing not managing danger properly. >> No, he didn't, actually. >> Terry's got like she has like the in almost every situation I can think of, yeah, she fears for her existence or her life way before it enters my radar. Oh, yeah. There is There is No, she's not going to take [ __ ] chances. That's just That's not her, you know. Oh, well, I'll tell you who wasn't taking chances. He's got his audio sorted out, Johnny. Let's bring him up. Johnny Fulbright, the guy who was struck by lightning and brought himself back to life with bees. Johnny Fulbright, you're shaking. How you doing, Dobbs? Good morning. Nice to have you. Thank you for having me on here. Yes, thank you. You were joining us from today besides in the green screen clouds of lightning. Where are you coming from today? Taos, New Mexico. Nicely done. Yeah. So, tell us your story. You're struck by lightning. Bees save you. Period. Yeah. That You know, it's a funny story, for sure. I didn't Like a lot of Lyme patients, actually. So, hold on. You said Lyme, like as in L Y like Lyme disease, right? Lyme disease, yeah, exactly. Oh, Johnny, that's what it is. Okay. So, when I was 12, I got bit by ticks, got sick, didn't know that it would be a long-term thing. My immune system seemed to hold it in place for years. In 2004, after getting hit by lightning, burning my insides like your Basically, my system fell apart. And by the time I realized in 2014 that I was dying of Lyme, I was disabled, fully suicidal. What? >> Basically, 50 different symptoms, couldn't sleep, tremors, no memory. What? >> Heart palpitations, couldn't smell, couldn't sleep. Just my immune system was in collapse. And then when I found out I had Lyme, I was like, "No way. That I haven't had anything to do with ticks since I was like a kid." And it was just kind of the gift of the lightning. And so, having spent 10 years recovering from lightning, I wasn't about to just start eating handfuls of antibiotics. And In doing my research, I just basically was looking for solutions. And a And a friend of mine said, "Well, there's this woman in New Mexico that uses this ancient Japanese method called Hoshindo, which is essentially acupuncture with honey bee venom. And we Yeah, there's some killer [ __ ] and ancients and like the thing that that the things that we forget about are unbelievable. Well, exactly. And you know, this is used daily today in China and Korea and all throughout a lot of Asia still and it is just one of the most powerful things ever. And when I actually >> sure pharma helped us forget about this cuz it works and it's not it doesn't help their subscription model. Well, you know, exactly. It's a very affordable thing. Like when I was at my worst, I called a a center in Arizona and for the symptoms I had, they said it'd be about $300,000 cash to get IV drip antibiotics for maybe 9 months. And there was just no way I could afford it. They didn't take insurance. And so, I thought, well, I have nothing to lose. I better try this bee thing even though I thought it was honestly ridiculous. Well, what what have you got to lose, huh? Well, I had nothing to lose. I was already I went from you know, being very capable outdoor athlete to not being able to lift my brand new little baby out of her crib. And I basically as soon as I tried the bees, I couldn't believe it. Within 2 hours after my first treatment, I went back to the river. I hadn't kayaked in 2 years and I was able to start doing flips and all kinds of tricks again like I hadn't missed a day. And that was about 11 years ago and now I've got, you know, thousands of patients throughout the world that I coach. And this is just one of the most powerful things that you can use because, you know, bee venom is water soluble, it's all natural and because it's water soluble, it goes through every cell in the body. So, it's not >> Well, brother, what was the timeline that you were that that you were not functioning the way you that you should have before you from from the accident to the the bee treatment? What was that timeline? How much of your life was that? About 11 years of slowly getting worse and not knowing what it was. Wow. Wow. You know what's You know what's crazy Anderson is that and Fulbright that you know it seems like over the last whatever half dozen or so years there's been this constant stream of celebrities who have this Lyme disease. And and then and then I read a story that it was actually why are celebs getting Lyme disease all time? It's like because I guess when folks have some bucks they get off the they get off the normal path go off the well beaten path into places where there's ticks. And the next thing you know they're being bit they're not even being noticed by it and then time goes by Avril Lavigne wakes up or was it Bieber? There's there's folks who wake up going what's wrong with me? Oh yeah. Timberlake all these guys. What's that What's that pro Fulbright? Well like you know Justin Timberlake all these different celebrities you know if you look where it's really bad it's actually most of north the northern hemisphere of the globe. So right now the estimates worldwide are one in seven have one of 130 infections of a tick borne disease and don't even realize it. So I live in Manitoba ticks are bad around here brother. Guys I I and it's it's crazy when I when I see these little things I [ __ ] hate them man. They're just so gross dirty and gross. And they're so teeny. Well they burrow into you man. Yeah. All it takes is one bite and these things can dump in one bite they can dump half a dozen different infections inside you that are very stealth and they disarm the immune system and they start to propagate throughout your system and they're and they're these subtle things like oh my joints hurt oh my muscles hurt. I'm getting cramping. I'm not seeing so well. Like with me and the Lyme I I literally was seeing double. I was trembling. I had heart palpitations you know thousands of extra heartbeats a day. I wasn't sure I was going to live to to see my kids grow up. And and when you look at what happens on a cellular level when you You antibiotics and Chinese medicine which is the roots of Hoshindo, it's five elements theory and you have your basic five elements of that the fire makes earth. Earth is what we mine for metal or minerals. Yeah. Minerals is what attracts water. It's the mother of water and then water feeds wood. Wood then again feeds fire. So this five element, those are the basics of all the meridians and acupoints. So all the all the organs in the body have a river and when you look at the elements, Chinese medicine and looks at things like pharmaceutical drugs as flamethrowers or fire and it's kind of when it gets in the system, the organisms sense the antibiotics and then burrow deep into your bones and your brain and hide. And with bee venom, because it's water soluble and it has an affinity for every cell in the body through the calcium channels, which is like your inner electricity, which is kind of funny about lightning and the venom follows these cellular waves. So when we start doing treatments on people, one of the things we'll notice right away is people get goosebumps and their electrical system starts ticking and the the cells get excited on a very teeny level and this starts to detox. And then people get swollen lymph and they begin to actually really get what's called a Herxheimer reaction. And bee venom is just so gentle and because it's all plant-based medicine with the bees, it's just unbelievable. I mean, I literally went from disabled to able to kayak in in minutes. No [ __ ] But I needed more treatments, you know. So okay, so yeah, from, you know, noon on this day, I'm just making a the kind of a a Yeah. Joke here. Noon, you you can't do [ __ ] One, you're [ __ ] running like you haven't done in 11 years. Describe whatever that treatment was. What was it exactly that made that change, as you say, in minutes? It was venom from the bee. We used typically in a treatment, people can't take a lot of venom. We go very slow because we don't want to create a tsunami of die-off coming out of the cells and clogging up lymph glands. And so, my teacher was very safe about that. She She did three bees on me throughout my body. Each bee, she know, we pulled the stinger from the bee and then we use it as as like little droplets of venom on acupoints. >> Wow. So So, you're not actually getting stung by the bee? Not directly. Now, we we do do that once people are used to the venom. And when I was at my sickest, I would use 30 bees every other day all throughout my body. I'd use five full bees in my head. I'd use 20 up and down my spine. And then I'd use some in my lower legs, my abdomen, and then, you know, up to 30 bees. Now, that's quite a lot. Most people don't do that. We'll work people up from one bee to five bees to maybe 10 bees every other day. And a lot of protocols you may see online, they work focus mostly on the spine. But again, this isn't always necessary. It can burn out your adrenals and exhaust the body. So, one of the things about Hoshindo is that we're just constantly bringing the body back into balance. Just like acupuncture, but instead of needles as the stimulus, we're using the venom of the bee. And because, you know, bee venom, when you look at the research, it's primarily neurologic. So, it restores your nervous system and in that, it restores the immune system. And it's just unbelievable. Uh you know, I didn't try to target each of the different infections. I just did lots of bees. And so, basically, I would use 30 bees every other day. And that continued for at least a year. And then after that first year, I could start doing less, maybe 20 bees every other day. And that went on for another couple years. And then now, you know, I don't really need a lot of venom. So, what So, what happens if you missed your 20-bee day? My system would just start falling apart again. I would tremor. I would shake. I would start losing my vision again. >> All from missing a single day. Not always. Like in the beginning, like I went to I did 11 days in a row, which normally again most people don't do, but I wasn't reacting very bad and I was detoxing every day kayaking. So, I literally would would do 20 30 B's and then I'd go kayak and I would wear my waterproof top and then I'd take that off at the end of the day and it literally would smell like ammonia. Just it would make my eyes water. All the poisons coming out of my skin. You know that's interesting because a lot of times brother when I when I when I not so much now as I'm older, when I was younger, I would often smell like ammonia when I would train. That's >> Well, and you know when you eat a lot of protein, one of the biggest things that's created when you eat protein when it digests is ammonia. And the liver through the Krebs cycle is pulling ammonia out and getting it into your urine so you can pee it away. One of the things that Lyme seems to do is clog up the cellular detox. So, most people not only are they sick from the infections, they're sick cuz they're so clogged up that their normal digestive toxins are toxifying their body. That makes you know, I always thought that was detox, but I never really knew for sure. I mean it would There was There was a period probably a 15-year period where shirts we would have to throw them away because as soon as they got moist, that [ __ ] ammonia smell would come out so strong people would ask What is wrong with you? >> Well, exactly and you know this we see this a lot with patients too with Lyme. Like I had a friend, he was skiing, amazing skier, had tick bites, history of tick bites, didn't know anything about it. He was skiing for a Warren Miller movie, broke his leg, next thing you know, they said you're dying of liver toxicity and you're an alcoholic. And he's like, "But I don't drink." And what they figured out they they ended up taking his blood to Nigeria to a disaster to a disease expert and that doctor basically described that he had Lyme disease. And so, one of the big common things with Lyme is once you're once you're packing a big infection, it destroys the liver and it really affects your ability to clean yourself. So, internally, you just get this extremely dirty fishbowl. So, it's really most people are, you know, underestimate the level of detox you need with a thing like Lyme disease. But, that's really I mean, all these celebrities that are going to, you know, the Hamptons and Montauk and out there, those are endemic areas where there's ticks everywhere. Wow. Hey, what happens to a guy that uses this bee therapy that doesn't have Lyme's? All kinds of amazing things, you know, as long as you're not allergic. So, we go very slow to make sure nobody's allergic. We keep, you know, lots of EpiPens and antihistamines around. But, what what the most common thing I find with people I, you know, I was treating Parkinson's the other day. This guy's like within seconds, he was walking like he hadn't walked in 11 years. And he was just in tears at the joy of being able to do He did literally two bee stingers and he was able to glide across the room and walk smooth again. Something that hadn't happened in 10 years. So, I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm just making some interesting questions here for obviously So, if you've been stung by a bee before and you're not allergic, you If you're allergic, you know correct? Not always. I have had a few reactions. One of them actually was in my own child and there can be days where you'll have a histamine overload, which isn't really an allergic reaction, but it is a overload of histamines. And with my daughter, for example, she had a major reaction and a week later, we just started adding more venom again very slowly and she's been fine for years now. No big deal. So, again, it's it's And you know, in ancient China, they refer to bee venom medicine as dragon medicine because bees are dragons. They live in the trees. They're they're these mysterious little benevolent creatures that could harm you. I just had a really good friend, a beekeeper professional, has about 8,000 hives, and his wife went to Southern Texas to one of their houses, and the neighbor had had raised bees, and then he let the bees go wild, and in the Southern states of the United States, we get these Africanized bees, which are incredible bees. They're little, they're aggressive, and they don't need medications to kill the mites, and these things are survivors. And what happens when you have European honeybees being taken over by an Africanized queen, they get very aggressive, and these this this friend of mine, his wife, they let the dogs outside, and three of her dogs were covered in thousands of bees. She went to protect the dogs and got over 100 stings, and they all ended up in the hospital. The three dogs, unfortunately, passed away. Holy [ __ ] And I mean, so, you know, in the Southern states, killer honeybees are a real thing now. They've migrated up from South America, came over from Africa, and these are just incredible bees, but again, what we do, if we find wild hives of Africanized bees, we get the queen, we kill her, and then we add a European queen to that hive, and within 6 weeks, they're going to be docile bees, cuz whatever the queen is like, the rest of the bees are like. >> Yeah, yeah. Interesting. And so, if I go if I go out today, I find some bees, some honeybees, like docile bees, and I get stung, and I I go purposely go get stung. I've I've been stung before. It's all I notice is it [ __ ] hurts. Yeah, it does. It hurts. I get stung with the open idea that [ __ ] this might actually help something, what might I notice, or is am I just being ridiculous in my thought process? No, it's totally true. Within seconds, typ- typically, people notice a deep sense of relaxation, almost euphoria. And then what we start to see is if they have any sort of neurologic issues, like tremors, the tremors start to fade. You might see deep mental clarity, and then one of the thing biggest things that I've seen studies on that I've been doing myself a lot of my patients have an aura ring their sleep gets incredibly deep and then they recall their memories >> [ __ ] stung by a bee? Yeah, it it's like a neurological reset. I treat a lot of veterans with PTSD. There's points for relaxation. There's points to stimulate recovery. There's points >> you're talking about points like you have to put it a certain I'm just talking about finding a way to piss a bee off to sting me. Yeah, and you may not notice as much like if I was to take a bee and pull the stinger and do like six to 10 points throughout your body, you would definitely notice from that one bee a systemic effect. Now, if you just go out and get wildly stung by bees, you're going to notice some benefits, but you might look like SpongeBob if they stung you all over your face or something. So, I mean how many how many bees cuz I mean bro, I'll ship it. I'll go [ __ ] find a bee and piss him off and get stung. I'm just curious what what am I looking for? I mean I've been stung plenty of times. I'm pretty confident I'm not allergic. Right. You know, the thing that I would I would definitely advise against that because we want to have antihistamines around liquid antihistamines, EpiPens just because anybody could have a major reaction, especially if you're on if you're on immune suppressors or steroids. You want there's a few things you don't want to interact with venom. But generally, what you're going to notice when you do a bit of venom, especially if you do any on the head or any of your healthy, you're going to have a lot more mental clarity. Now, I've had a several friends. One was in a very bad car accident. He had a coup contre coup side impact injury. After 6 months of recovery, his life was still disabled. He wasn't able to think well. He was foggy. He didn't have a lot of energy. He couldn't really interact with noise or people or music. It was just too distracting. We did three bees on this character and literally he he went back to the point of accident. Muscle spasticity, he could hardly walk. But by morning, he woke up feeling incredibly refreshed, clear as a bell, and he went for his first run in 6 months. And this is a good friend of mine that he he was able to go back to work as a ski patroller. And it's just you just venom when you start to see what it can do for people, it should be in every emergency room in the United States. If somebody came in after a car accident, you do an allergy test, a little teeny bit of venom can restore brain function on a level that is just I've just never seen anything like it. We're talking venom with myself, Bill Anderson, and our guest this morning, John Fulbright, on Mornings in the Lab with Keith, John, and friends. Hey Fulbright, I got to tell you, man, I got a gazillion questions, perhaps a little bit of skepticism. I got I got the resident [ __ ] professor being curious who got we got we got we got our we got our resident BS professor in the lab here who's always curious about things. Here's what I want to extend an invite to you. We got we got our resident relationship expert, Briana Baste, joining us here in a couple minutes. How to fight fair in relationships. We got that conversation starting shortly. John, I'd like to have you come back. Dude, I want to have you come back. I want to continue this chat with you. I'm fascinated by this. Some un- some unanswered questions. Honeybees, they're they're they're they're endangered. So, like are people like, you know, pissed are you pissing people off because you're killing honeybees? And don't answer that. We'll tease that for next time. I'm curious about that. I'm also curious about like we haven't we haven't talked much about being like struck by lightning itself. And then just this idea of like it seems like Lyme disease, Fulbright, seems like it's like I don't know. My perception is is like it's pooh-poohed by by Western medicine that is not real. Or or that it's like a or that it's kind of like it's misunderstood. Would that be fair for me to say, John Fulbright? >> It's definitely misunderstood. And you know, a lot of insurance companies don't want Lyme to be understood well cuz they don't want to pay to heal it. It may take a hundred thousand dollars in antibiotics and pulsed antibiotics. You know, there's a big thing out there right now that oh, if you do two weeks of doxycycline and you're not cured then you have post treatment Lyme disease syndrome. Well, that's not true at all. Monica is one of the best scientists in the United States running the primate lab at Tulane University has proven science proven that it is a persistent infection that hides in the bones and what you have to do is sneak up on it with antibiotics then you have to stop then you use a different kind of antibiotic it hits them again and then you stop and let them come back out and then you hit it again. And so she's proven you can do this with a six or so different antibiotics. It's called pulsed antibiotic therapy combinations of antibiotics and this is one way to do it. Now, what I'm working on doing is bringing this globally especially in the western states of the the United States all of the United States really in Europe is to bring the venom underneath the new international disease codes that allow for extended care coverage. So without really claiming a cure, it's definitely an alternative medicine that can help ease people's symptoms and get their life back on track to where they can do whatever else they need to to get rid of it. You may need anti-parasitics, you know, all this kind of stuff to hit some of the other things but the venom itself is showing to be an all natural way to really help restore nervous system and function even if you're not quote cured yet, you're going to feel a lot better within within minutes. But again, you want to be doing We'll bring you back to talk some venom in the future my brother. Johnny Anderson closing words for Fulbright this morning. Fascinating, eh? Curious. Yeah, I mean you got me thinking. I know you advise against it but I'm going to go try to piss it next time I see a bee I'm going to piss it off try to get stung. Stay near the hospital. Well, I'm going to and I'm going to the thing is is and I but I would here's the crazy thing is that I think of every time I've gotten stung it's god damn it. What if I get stung and I'm like, "Okay." Yeah. Breathe it in. What am I feeling besides getting frustrated that I got stung by a [ __ ] bee? I'm programmed to be mad when I get stung by a bee. Yeah, most people are terrified of it. >> Well, and just by the nature of having that mental position, I'm turning off what you're talking about. Yeah, if you know, to do a to do a little bit of venom consciously is a life-changer. Uh I'd say nine out of 10 of my patients are just like, "Oh my god, what a godsend." >> and unless you can explain to me how to catch that bee, pull out his stinger, and do it like you'd do it, I have no choice but to go piss one off and try to get stung. And we'll do that the next time Fulbright comes back. Fulbright, where can we find you, man? Where can we connect with you and bring you back to the lab? Where can folks find you? >> I'm on Instagram @john.fulbright, Facebook. I'm also on LinkedIn. I've got a new website coming up, johnfulbright.com with two L's. That'll be launching. I'm just re- rebuilding it. And yeah, we're out there and happy to share. This is, you know, there's quite a few of us around the country. Apitherapy goes back 10,000 years in the Egypt. >> Yeah. So, this is nothing new. It's just It's just about facing fears and overcoming, you know? The bees are there for us. It's All right, we're going to bring Fulbright back because hey guys, I said bring interesting people into the lab and we have found an interesting one, to so to speak. John Fulbright, thanks for hanging out with us today. Anderson, final words for John? All right, let's keep it rocking, man. I'm very curious to investigate more of this therapy. Come to Dallas, we'll take care of you. And if you got some of these celebrity friends that are hurting, they're going to be blown away. It's definitely the most soothing medicine in the world, definitely the most powerful. Awesome.