A few weeks ago, I received an email from a fan in Arizona,
who wrote in to tell us about his dad.
While the two were playing my game,
Heads Up, he realized something was wrong with his dad.
Rushed him to the hospital and saved his life.
From Litchfield Park, Arizona, please welcome Spencer and his dad Farris.
First of all, Heads Up is such a fun game to play and now it saves peoples' lives.
>> [LAUGH] >> So tell everybody what happened.
>> So we go up and visit my dad in Idaho.
We're from Arizona, and he's living in Idaho.
And we go up every summer to go spend our time up in the mountains in Idaho.
And my wife and I, my beautiful wife Laura, she-
>> [LAUGH]
>> She goes up with me,
and we spend time with him.
And when we were up there, we were having a great time.
The night before we were playing Heads Up by the campfire.
Pretty competitive family, so we're always trying to out do each other.
We went to bed next morning got up,
broke down camp, went back up to Idaho or to his home in Caldwell and He was fine?
>> He was fine, he ordered a pizza for us, called my brother Kendall and
said hey come on over, but we started to play the game and
we noticed that he was having a tough time, we noticed he couldn't read.
>> The day before everything was fine.
>> Completely normal.
>> So you're playing heads up, and
I think we have the clip of when you realized something was wrong.
Let's take a look. [MUSIC]
>> He lives in a >> A lion, 10 seconds are going by.
Pass, great.
[LAUGH] >> M-A-T,
what's M-A-T?
>> Matt? >> Hermit Crab?
>> B-A-T >> B-A-T
>> A bat.
>> So you realized that you stopped playing the game.
It's amazing cause obviously the day before, you weren't playing it that way.
You were much better at it.
>> Yeah, yeah I was.
>> So you realize he was having a stroke.
>> Yeah. We noticed that.
But you know, the whole day leading up to that, there was nothing wrong.
He had no paralysis, no slurred speech.
There was absolutely nothing else that showed he was having a stroke.
Do you remember playing the game?
>> I remember. But
I also remember that I didn't know much.
I couldn't understand what he was trying to get to me.
And the words, I couldn't say them.
>> Did you wake up feeling strange that morning?
>> Well, that night, I had a hard time at night because I wanted to get
out of my bunk bed but, I couldn't get out.
I didn't know which way was up, which way was down.
I had a difficult time.
And, finally, towards morning, I was able to find the ground to get up.
But then I got up and I had a headache, but he had one also, so
we just thought, maybe, whatever.
>> Mmhmm.
Why are you in a bunk bed?
>> [LAUGHTER] >> In our trailer we have the bunk beds,
and since I'm the granddad I take the worst one, and so I was in the bunk bed.
>> Aw no. Well no longer should he be in a bunk bed.
>> [LAUGHTER] >> So, you seem fine.
How is recovery?
How long ago did this happen?
>> This happened last August and the recovery it took a toll on reading.
I had a hard time reading.
And so, I read every day and it's starting to come back all the way now.
>> Yeah So he, I mean really, you seem completely fine.
It's amazing that this happened.
So since then, a lot has happened.
You are now engaged.
>> Yes, she's right there.
>> There she is.
>> [APPLAUSE]
Hi.
So, it's Jane, right?
>> Jane, yes.
>> So, how long had you all known each other?
Was this a sudden thing?
What happened?
>> It was kind of a difficult thing because she's popular and
it was hard to get my name in there.
[LAUGH] She has a granddaughter by the name of Ashlyn and she said you gotta
warn ya she said she has a lot of dates and so when I finally got ahold of her.
She's a nurse.
She's an RN and I said I'd like a date.
And I ask her when she had days off,
she said well I have these two days off, I said I want them both.
>> Aw. >> [LAUGH]
>> That's adorable.
>> Yeah, I know.
>> Alright, so now you're engaged.
>> Yes.
>> And you'll be getting married when?
>> The 14th of May.
>> Aw, well congratulations.
That's- >> [APPLAUSE]
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>> I hope you like bunk beds.
>> [LAUGH] I'd take the lower bunk bed.
>> All right, so.
>> But we can cuddle.
We'll cuddle. >> Well that's a tight squeeze there.
>> It's a tight squeeze.
It's okay.
>> Unless they're queen size bunk beds.
>> Yeah right. >> If they make them, they should.
Well we wanna give you a wedding gift.
So what we wanna do is we wanna send you on a honeymoon.
And we're gonna give you a seven night stay at the Thompson Playa Del Carmen in
Mexico.
You can relax in poolside- >> [APPLAUSE]