 Alright, so me and Aria are back at Idykmatic Nomadix VanBuild 2017, today's going to be a little bit different kind of video because there are possibly two different people I'm going to speak to and they have very interesting stories. One of them is this gentleman right here. So everybody, this is Bob, Bob, where are you from? I'm from Maine. And this beautiful school bus behind you is home? This is home, I've been in it for about a year now, this is my second year in it. I had to take a few months off of radiation and stuff. Yeah, radiation four? I had stage four squamous cell carcinoma throat cancer. Doctor said I wasn't going to make it a year, I wasn't going to make it six months. Yeah, and how long goes that? I was first diagnosed in December 2015. Okay, so it's been longer than that? Yep. How are you feeling? Side effects and radiation was a little brutal, but I'm very fortunate to be here. I'm happy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Love and life. That's good. So is that part of the reason you're living in the school bus? It actually is part of the reason I'm in the school bus. Life's too short. You never know how long you've got. I want to see a whole lot of stuff and I just travel around. I'm seeing as much as I can see. I pick up people that need rides, places, I find them on rideshare pages and stuff like that. I pick up people that are going to certain places. I pay it forward, I'm lucky to be alive and I'm going to help them out too. Yeah, and you also mentioned you pick up dirty kids. That's what they call them. I like to call them travelers. It's kind of a derogatory term. They call themselves that. Yeah, so for those people who don't know, what kind of people are these? Dirty kids are younger homeless people and younger people that train hop and hitchhike all around the country and everything. Sometimes they get really taken advantage of. I like to be a safe place for them. Yeah. Where are you going at 4am tomorrow? I'm going to pick up somebody else that was in California and they're going to meet me in Quartz Lake and I'm going to bring them back here and they're going to travel with me for a while. That's amazing. How long do you think? Are you guessing? I don't know. It's probably four or five months. Four months, depends. Whenever they get tired, I'm going to go. Yeah, yeah. Is there a particular reason that you like to have people with you or do something good? Do you like companionship? Yeah, the company's good, but I'll pay it forward. I like to provide people with a safe place for a while. Yeah. Yeah. I've learned a lot picking up some called dirty kids. They're super tour guides, you know? Yeah. They've been everywhere. They're going to see a lot of stuff that you don't see. They've went out a lot of the really out of the way stuff that you didn't have no idea was there. Yeah, that's true. And what were you doing before living in the bus and things like that? I was a merchant man before my health got bad. I had four heart attacks. I died a few times and I'm really very fortunate to be here. Yeah. Now, when you say you've died a few times, what exactly does that mean? Well, I had a widowmaker heart attack that I waited 24 hours to go to the hospital for and they went and put a stint in my chest and I died. I was dead for three and a half minutes. And, you know, they revived me after hitting with the paddles a few times, but I remember it clearly. It was a weird feeling, you know? Yeah. So... Is there anything that you changed from before that experience to now? Do you have, like, a different outlook or anything? Oh, yes. It's definitely changed my life in a big way. I'm a lot less judgmental towards people because, you know, we never know what's going to hand you. You don't know what tomorrow is going to bring, you know? And I ain't no better than anybody else. And, you know, this experience, this whole, my health is really proving that to me. It showed me that I'm not any better, you know? Yeah. And I like to share that story with a lot of young people, you know? And hopefully, you know, what I do for them, they'll remember it and pass it on, you know? Yeah. What would you, if you had any advice to your younger self, what would you tell yourself? Do it now. Don't wait till later because you don't know if later's going to be there. If it's going... I'm leaving here. I'm going back to Targ's. I got to go out of my way two and a half hours, but I'm going to go over the Hoover Dam in the Grand Canyon. I could wait until I come back around again, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to come back around again, you know? But no, I could get hit by a truck tomorrow. Yeah, that's true. And are you medicating yourself as well? No, this is just... So I don't smoke cigarettes. Oh, I was just... I got through my... I treated my cancer with Rick Simpson Oil for quite a while, and it kept my cancer at bay for over a year. And I was going through Texas and he took all my meds away, and by the time I got back to Maine, I needed radiation because my cancer had spread so fast. Wow. But yeah, I was stage four before I went out on the road last time, and I was taking RSO and it just stopped the cancer dead in its tracks. It wasn't going away, but it wasn't growing. I mean, I could live with it. It wasn't a good thing, but I was living with it. Yeah. And when Texas took it away, my cancer grew and it grew up into my brain. It was pushing my brain against the back of my head, and pain was just unbelievable. So I needed to get radiation just to shrink it so it wasn't... so it wasn't so much pain. But I just told the doctor, I said, at this point, if I'm going to get radiation, let's go for growth. And he said, it's not going to cure it. Yeah. And four weeks after I ended the radiation, I mean, went back and there were still two spots. He said, I told you it's not going to get rid of it. And I went back four weeks later and my doctor, like a kid in a candy store, he can't find any of it. He said, I really think it's gone. Wow. So I got to wait a little while longer for another PET scan until the burns from radiation go away. All right. Because they show up with cancer on that PET scan. Yeah. I think I already know the answer to this, but would you prefer a hospice or the short bus by yourself or with friends? The road. Yeah. The bus and the road and people like this. Like you see all over this event right here. Yeah. And why is that? It's real life. It's real life. Hospice is real dying. This is real living.