Ep 1 | Redemption's road
I’m a rideshare driver in Atlanta. I ask riders to share their stories anonymously with us - Slide into the backseat and take a listen!
This episode has 5 separate Stories told by people that got into my car thinking that I was going to get them from place A to B, and I did, BUT I also asked them to share a story from their life during the ride. After agreeing to this, I hand them a mic and let them tell us whatever is on their heart.
This episode includes themes of generosity, stupid decisions, redemption, surviving cancer, and learning from loss.
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Transcript
Welcome to backseat confessions podcast slide into the back seat as we listen to mostly anonymous strangers tell us stories from their lives.
Speaker:I'm a ride share driver in Atlanta and the people getting in my car have absolutely no idea I'm going to ask them to share.
Speaker:My commitment to you is to tell at least two snippet of virtually every story recorded in my car in the order.
Speaker:They were told to me.
Speaker:My hope is that you laugh, cringe cry but mostly connect to these amazing people.
Speaker:You may find a piece of your own story or just feel more connected to the rest of us join us, won't you?
Speaker:So hey, my new friend, this is an adult podcast, themes and languages are definitely not suitable for everyone.
Speaker:Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker:Well I'm so excited that the time is finally here to launch the first season of backseat confessions podcast.
Speaker:So with no further fanfare, let's do this.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:The first story ever shared in this podcast involves the kindness of a stranger.
Speaker:Sometimes doctors get a reputation for being a bit cold and even ruthless.
Speaker:So this is a nice reminder that there are good people everywhere.
Speaker:Story # one Friday, October 16, 2024, 18 pm.
Speaker:So a couple years ago I had fallen down and broke my wrist, My left wrist and I ended up getting a cast on shortly thereafter when um, my, the owner of my restaurant ended up giving me money for the cast because I didn't have the money while I was a couple of months have gone by the whole summer was kind of ruined.
Speaker:Um I'd already had a lot going on my plate because one of my twin sisters was in jail for 10 months and you tell me you're a triplet by the way I am.
Speaker:Yeah, so this is just one of my identical twins and then I have a fraternal oh wow.
Speaker:So you know that bond right there was already, it was so hard to even just kind of get by because she was just you know in jail that you know, and then I had broken my wrist and she was the nurse in the family got this cast on that my boss had given me the money um worked about three months with this cast on full time just learning how to balance and getting my boyfriend to braid my hair and just pretty much showering me.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you know you don't think that you need it my left wrist, but what what did you do for a living?
Speaker:I was working, I'm working at a restaurant in Atlanta and called and so um after the day before I got my cast off, I had one of my regulars um tell me give me his business card and said listen, if your wrist isn't healed I'd love to see you for an appointment, it's something new that I'm starting, I think you should be the first candidate ever.
Speaker:So as I am going to get my wrist cast off, I find out that yep my wrist is still broken so all that time and it's broken.
Speaker:So I'm thinking I don't have health insurance, I don't know what to do.
Speaker:You know what why don't I just call this doctor um go to uh the doctors office dr Houston pain from hand, shoulder and elbow of Elena and walk into the office kind of screaming, I don't have money, I don't know what to do and realized that he had actually picked me as the first candidate to do this project called Hand to Hand project.
Speaker:Whereas um he would give me a free surgery with everything included and it took um and that it was gonna be about 3.5, 4 more months till the surgery day.
Speaker:So it was either go ahead and try to get the surgery done now or wait that 3.5 4 months which I did um 34 months ago by I go to the doctor I'm expecting to see some kind of bill, you know um at least from the anesthesiologist.
Speaker:But the reason it had taken so long is again I was the first candidate, it was the first time they'd ever done this and um I got my surgery that day.
Speaker:100% free along with a bone healing exhaustion machine.
Speaker:Yeah and it just you know it really just I just love the guy so much because there's not a lot of doctors out there that just do this out of the kindness of their heart.
Speaker:And it wasn't just me that day, two after I said yes, he collected nine more people, so 10 people at all at the surgery.
Speaker:Um, and I got, you know, the three bone healing machine when that's just a couple of thousands right there with insurance.
Speaker:Um, and so now I try to volunteer every year and even if it's directing traffic, you know, just at the stations, but now it's like around the U.
Speaker:S.
Speaker:And I'm part of the video and I'm pretty sure it's just because I just, he could always hear me coming into the doctors because I would just be crying down the hallways just So thankful for him.
Speaker:Um you know, but it was during that time with my sister being in jail and me going through those emotions and then just realizing that, you know, there's a lot more positive in the world than you really think and I don't think I'm wanting to get a blessing.
Speaker:But he sure sure as hell he gave me one that's amazing.
Speaker:You can barely hear it in the audio.
Speaker:But there is a point towards the end where this young lady started to just get choked up with gratitude for this kind doctor who rescued her from feeling pretty overwhelmed and hopeless.
Speaker:Not all of us can make grand gestures of this magnitude of course.
Speaker:But bless all the people that see folks who are genuinely in need and just do what they can.
Speaker:Our next guy isn't the hero of his early story but ends up in the right place.
Speaker:I think shots fired, shots fired story number two friday october 16, 2026 01 p.m.
Speaker:Early life childhood, you know, like I went down the wrong path, you know, it was a whole lot.
Speaker:Like I ain't gonna disrespect my mom, like most dudes be like, oh, you know, I had, you know, I had it rough growing up, you know, I ain't had this and that and then that everybody goes through their little struggles in life.
Speaker:But you know, my whole thing.
Speaker:Well my mama, my mama and my pops provided everything I needed.
Speaker:I'm also got into the street life because I wanted the stuff that I wanted.
Speaker:As far as, like I'm saying, my friends, my homies and stuff, you know, they get new shoes, new clothes almost every week, you know, and I'm having to wait on my mom and my dad, you know, once they finish their bills and all the other stuff, you know, then you know, if they can, hey, I get it, but you know, I just got tired of waiting around for them and I'm no link with my buddies and I got into the street like for selling drugs, robbery, breaking in cars, breaking in houses, you're a regular fug.
Speaker:Not at first, not at first cause we can, we can, we can pull up the grades and I'll show you all made a zombies, you're a smart educated.
Speaker:So you know, I ain't gonna say it first.
Speaker:You know, you know, it was just, I got, I got intrigued.
Speaker:I was curious about how they were getting their stuff in.
Speaker:You know, my friend turned me on boom from there.
Speaker:It just went left because I'm out there every day.
Speaker:I just started missing school.
Speaker:Now the grades failing, you know, then came across the path where it was like, hey, me and a buddy of mine got the arguing over some money.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It was, it was a drug transaction.
Speaker:You know, he knew the dude was my play, you know, he was coming to buy his own if you know what his own territory.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So boom, he comes through and he's serving, I'm like, hey, hold up time out.
Speaker:You know, he got the dope right here, let me get my money because I really needed it.
Speaker:So it was like, he like now, you know, dope sold money for, you know, so we're going back and forth, back and forth over this little incident, you know, I let him go to his car and we came back from the car, I didn't know he would pump fake him because he had a hand behind the back.
Speaker:So you know, boom.
Speaker:So you know, I had, I had the whole clip, I hit him like five times Ain't no, boom, so you know from there, I just took everything, that's how you know, it was at 15, so I ended up going to juvenile juvenile, I went, they told him as an adult, so I had to sit there till 17 from 17, you know, I stayed in prison to 23 wow, wow, wow, Wow, but now you're, you've been at the same job for seven years eight years, a productive member of society, doing well for yourself and you're actually looking at another job that will be a promotion, more money.
Speaker:So you totally like you didn't let that early childhood stuff like it was a learning experience, like I'm saying, don't get me wrong, like I ain't saying everybody needs to experience it, but you gotta go through some hardship in life to wake up, you know, that was just my wake up call, it's like, hey, you want to continue doing this, going to prison, Do you want to just, you know, I prefer to be out here with the females, I am so with you, by the way, was there a moment in prison or after that you made that switch of like, man, I want to be out here with the ladies, I don't want to be inside with a bunch of smelly dudes, I'm gonna say when I had my first child, when I had my first child, I was like, okay because even when I got out, I had started, you know dealing a little bit, but I was still working at the same time.
Speaker:But it was just like when I had my first child was like, hold up, wait, you know, it ain't like I'm hurting because I'm making good money, you feel me?
Speaker:And they're just like, I was just doing that cause that's, that's like, that's, I ain't gonna say first nature, but that was first nature.
Speaker:Like, you know, that's what I knew.
Speaker:So you know, you're gonna go back to what, you know, that's what I did.
Speaker:But I also kept my job when I was in the halfway house.
Speaker:I had, they had gave me a job and I kept it when I got out, but it was like, I know I can go do this and make damn near half my paycheck real quick.
Speaker:I continue doing this and you know, make ends meet and know what I was doing at first.
Speaker:But then when I had my first little girl, it was just like, no, let me just call it quits on this and just, you know, continue to work and that's what I did.
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:I'm really proud of you.
Speaker:There's nothing better than being a good dad man.
Speaker:It's like, it's like one of the most rewarding things that you can ever do in life.
Speaker:True that true that facts though.
Speaker:Well those are some good reasons to stay out of jail, namely the ladies of course and being a dad, I'm always a sucker for a turnaround story and going from a guy who emptied his gun into another dude to a stand up guy that loves his kiddos and is a productive member of society.
Speaker:That's pretty great.
Speaker:This next story could be titled stupid things drunk dudes do on college Spring break.
Speaker:Hmm I've always wondered what fire extinguisher powder tastes like.
Speaker:Story number three saturday october 17 2021 36 AM Alright, so I was in Cancun for my senior spring break this past March, College College College Spring break, um pre covid, actually the first week of March, so right at the end of Normalcy and we were at a club in Cancun, it was kind of crazy.
Speaker:It was about four in the morning and um some idiot kid grabbed the fire extinguisher off of the wall and decided to spray it all in all of our faces all over the place.
Speaker:I thought I got poisoned.
Speaker:I'm not kidding because it was smoke everywhere.
Speaker:Nobody, you couldn't see anything.
Speaker:People were falling to the ground.
Speaker:Honestly, I genuinely thought I was getting poisoned.
Speaker:Like it went straight into my lungs right into my face.
Speaker:I was covered head to toe in that white whatever comes out of a fire extinguisher.
Speaker:And I turned around, I got picked up by two of my friends that were guys literally physically picked up and carried out of the club and I turned back and look and the entire security of the club was chasing after a guy in spanish.
Speaker:They were screaming and he had no idea what he was like what anybody was saying, it was insanity, but we ended up, me and two other people that were the only people that spoke spanish ended up talking him out of going to jail because that was the only thing that that's the next thing he was going to save him and you didn't even know him.
Speaker:He was a friend of a friend that just decided to be stupid that night and spray fire extinguishing.
Speaker:They had to evacuate the club.
Speaker:It ended up being a disaster of a night because it, I don't know if anybody who's ever experience to what the inside of a fire extinguisher feels like when you breathe it in, you feel like you're getting poisoned, like I'm not even kidding.
Speaker:It's, it's the worst feeling in the world when you're covered head to toe in this.
Speaker:So it was a great way to end spring break and then welcome to Covid.
Speaker:That was it.
Speaker:Welcome to Covid.
Speaker:So after that, I really feel like everything went downhill.
Speaker:That's right all because of this kid.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:I blame it on him for sure man, that guy almost going to jail in Mexico freaks me out.
Speaker:I know how bad it can be here in the US, so I don't even want to think about what that would have been like for him.
Speaker:Thank God our writer was able to keep this as a great story for him rather than something potentially a little less fun.
Speaker:My next rider faces some pretty strong obstacles of her own, but she has a fighting spirit and she spends some time literally being radioactive, makes me think of that song radio Active.
Speaker:Anyways, story number four saturday october 17 2022 35 AM.
Speaker:So I'm a 28 year old single female in Atlanta, but I actually got diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 26 years old.
Speaker:Yeah, it was Sucky, that's horrible, it was horrible, it was a really shitty feeling.
Speaker:Um I had a nodule on my neck when I was 24, I knew for about two years that I had a nodule on my neck and no one said anything.
Speaker:Um and then I went to my for my yearly checkup, which is why I'm so prominent about your yearly checkup and she said to me she's like you have a very prominent nodule in your neck, like you should get this biopsied and here I am, I'm like okay, if you said so sure that's a problem, I should probably do that and I went and I went for about three or I think it was like four biopsies done and each time they said it was kind of normal, kind of normal being the key word kind of Um and then finally my last one, it was abnormal.
Speaker:And they said my cells were completely abnormal and they think that I should remove it.
Speaker:Um so I was 26 and my doctor said we need to have a surgery for it to get a partial thyroidectomy done.
Speaker:And I went in for the partial thyroidectomy and she called me four days later and told me it was covered in cancer.
Speaker:Yeah, it was it was a very shocking feeling to hear the word cancer 26.
Speaker:I was 26 I had like, here's the thing to like, at no point did anyone tell me that my nana would be cancerous?
Speaker:Everyone's like, oh it's fine.
Speaker:No big deal, it's fine.
Speaker:So to hear it was cancerous.
Speaker:It was covered in cancer.
Speaker:It was just like a mind blowing thing at 26.
Speaker:And my surgery called me and she's like, I need to bring you in immediately to get it removed.
Speaker:Like you have cancer in your body, that's it, you need to get it removed.
Speaker:And here I'm like, okay sure let's do it immediately, let's do it next.
Speaker:And it was four days later I was on an open wound which I had, so I had a partial thyroidectomy and then it was my next surgery, which was about eight days later on an open wound.
Speaker:Um so it hurt a lot.
Speaker:It was really, really painful.
Speaker:Um and they removed the cancer and they removed a few lymph nodes that had cancer in it.
Speaker:And then I had to get radiation treatment about three months later.
Speaker:And the radiation was not fun.
Speaker:I had about So my radiation was actually called radio iodine which is internally radiation.
Speaker:So instead of radiation typically is external.
Speaker:So you get it externally on your skin and you get a rash.
Speaker:But when you get thyroid cancer it's internal radiation.
Speaker:So you get Radioactive internally.
Speaker:So basically I couldn't be around people.
Speaker:I was basically cool before 2020 happened.
Speaker:I did the isolation before anyone else did.
Speaker:Yeah, I did it.
Speaker:I totally did it.
Speaker:I did isolation for 10 days.
Speaker:I was radioactive for 10 days and I was throwing up for about five days from the radiation.
Speaker:Um it sucked.
Speaker:I was really, I was in a lot of pain for the last like, you know the 10 days of the radiation.
Speaker:And here I was at 26.
Speaker:Oh my gosh, and it's probably a good thing.
Speaker:Your heritage is Cuban italian like a I was a tough little cookie.
Speaker:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker:I think that my my heritage and my my family kind of told me to like, you know, you deal with it and you handle it and I handle it like you know you have shots beforehand, You have a treatment, you have like a diet beforehand.
Speaker:Um I had like a 20 day diet of a low iodine diet which meant I was basically, I was basically like vegan and here I am like italian Cuban.
Speaker:I was like I love meat, I love cheese and people are like you can't do that, like you have to have like a vegan diet.
Speaker:Um So I did that for about 25 days.
Speaker:Um and then I had shots for about a week before my actual radiation treatment and I had to be alone because I was radioactive.
Speaker:So anyone who was around me was susceptible to being radioactive.
Speaker:Yeah it was really crazy.
Speaker:Like my family couldn't be around me, my friends could be around me like I was In danger of putting them in danger.
Speaker:So that was crazy to think about.
Speaker:Here, I am at 26 I have cancer and someone's like oh by the way, if you have any where near you like you're going to get them sick and I was like so you were literally forced to be alone.
Speaker:Yeah I was forced to be alone for 10 days.
Speaker:Um And it's, it sucks like I'm not gonna, it really did suck.
Speaker:Like for the first four days I was vomiting for probably from like 10 a.m.
Speaker:To one p.m.
Speaker:I was vomiting every single day and that's kind of normal for thyroid cancer patients.
Speaker:Like if you have radiation treatment you get very nauseous.
Speaker:Um so I was vomiting for about six days and then I finally felt kind of normal after the six day and I was like, okay, I'm going to do a puzzle and I did puzzle in my apartment and I just remember thinking like, I just want cheese, I just want cake.
Speaker:Like, I just want cookies and my mom, the saint that she is, she was like, I'm going to fucking send you a care package, like you're off your treatment, like you can do this.
Speaker:So, I just stuffed my face with chocolate chip cookies and like cheesecake, like new york Matzo Dell and all this stuff, but you and you look like you're doing so good now.
Speaker:So like, but I don't want to assume, but like, okay, so are you doing well now?
Speaker:I am, I am about a year clear now of cancer.
Speaker:Um so I still am dealing with.
Speaker:I love that she's a fighter and grateful that the cancer was found and removed.
Speaker:So she could go on with her life, I hope she's able to live a long and healthy life.
Speaker:The next story has stayed with me in a way that honestly if you have this man's powerful tale of loss just resonates so deeply with me story number five saturday october 17, 2020 10 48 PM.
Speaker:My story today is ironic.
Speaker:It's ironic that you even asked me this today because today is actually the anniversary or today is actually the birthday of my son that died, jesus.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, very, very, it's this is so ironic.
Speaker:Um so I would say roughly around Well 14 years ago, roughly, around 14 years ago, my my wife um while being pregnant.
Speaker:Well you know, you know, while while being pregnant um came down with something that they describe a condition rather that they described as I'm pre clam shell right where she was pre clam tick or whatnot.
Speaker:And um during that time, you know, of course is based on our blood pressure and how our body is reacting to the baby.
Speaker:And this is the third high risk going through a lot.
Speaker:Um no, she she of course had the baby because you know, afterwards you know she wasn't stillborn or anything like that.
Speaker:We we had a baby, he was was a preemie small, he was in the hospital for a couple of months, you know, for a couple of months going through it, going through it.
Speaker:Um finally, you know, at the hospital, you know after doing a couple of treatment they tried and then I guess it was an experimental drug because there was at that time we were told there was no option I want that.
Speaker:So you know, we gave consent for them to try this um this drug up to this day, I don't remember the name of it.
Speaker:I don't know, you know, I don't know if there's any responsibility cast or anything like that.
Speaker:I just know that this this situation served as you know um for for good for good and bad purposes in my life because you know it helps it helps you know it hurts but it helps.
Speaker:What happened was the scary moment.
Speaker:The scary moment out of this was right before that.
Speaker:What was actually the moment when he actually died in my wife's arms.
Speaker:Yeah you know what I mean?
Speaker:I mean it was somewhat prepared.
Speaker:It was somewhat prepared because it was like look this is you know he wasn't on tubes and such and such but it wasn't sure whether it was going to be right away or but it was told to us that you know his potential that he could just go you know what I mean?
Speaker:And during the last moments you know what I mean?
Speaker:She had him cradled my arm my my arm was under her arms So he basically died in in both our arms right?
Speaker:The reason why I said there is positive in this is because you know when we were going to the hospital you know during our visits every day we would visit you know what I mean.
Speaker:You know unless something of course but I know my wife definitely was there every day you know I mean every day when we were a visit there were times when when the nurses and even the doctor because you know they got them on the um reading the scan the charge and everything and on the machines and all of that.
Speaker:So based on the machines they can tell basically if you may be going through pain at the moment right Because of your heart rate in the reaction from the not the E.
Speaker:K.
Speaker:G.
Speaker:Or whatever you write do the vital signs.
Speaker:They could they could make an assumption that you're going through pain.
Speaker:But when we visit when we went to visit his name is Yassiri.
Speaker:Yeah just Siri means his name is actually well not all my three sons Yassiri Karhu and Tamir.
Speaker:They're all they're all hyphenated with Malik.
Speaker:So it's all you know and it's like african Arabic so it's read backwards.
Speaker:So it's like Malik means king and Jaziri means fearless king.
Speaker:That should be fearless.
Speaker:Because even when he was born he didn't he didn't I didn't have his name chosen as yet.
Speaker:It was I basically named my Children off the characteristics that I see and despite what he was going through I figure you know I'm saying that's the name I felt that was fitting for him.
Speaker:You know I'm saying even my son chiru his name is his name means king.
Speaker:That shall be ba never and he truly is that you know what I mean.
Speaker:So I actually believe that you know going off the tangent of the name actually believe that that's how important your name is because that's something somebody's calling you every single day, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker:So, those characteristics will show.
Speaker:But upon visiting Yassiri, you know, just Syria Malik, you know, there were times where the nurses would express that, you know, they could tell that he was in pain.
Speaker:But when we went to visit and we're right over say even the, the incubator, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker:They would, they would say, wow, it's amazing that he would smile when you know, and and I would say, you know, when his mom came to visit, you know what I'm saying and what not that he would, he would smile and they would be surprised because they would look at the chart and they would say based on the charts or the machines, like he should be in pain right now.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:So I always remember that because it's almost like he came to serve an example of what you should be while going through trials sometimes.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:When, when he actually died, when he actually died, it was unbelievable.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:It was unbelievable.
Speaker:Whereas when it's almost like whenever I close my eyes, whenever I close my eyes, I would see a lot of wrongdoing that I even ensued or as a part of you know what I'm saying And it was, it was as if it was as if it was as in that moment.
Speaker:It was as if something like something went in me and was just pulling basically like my organs out of me.
Speaker:I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker:I just remember like rolling on the wall and you know, hearing the nurses, they're like, don't worry about mom, like get dad, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:Because it's like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker:Like, I couldn't I couldn't really fathom that I would be going through that.
Speaker:But you know, as the years passed and I remember him smiling through trial.
Speaker:Sometimes it helps me through trial sometimes, you know I'm saying, and it gives me a greater appreciation for the Children since then the doctor said that the chances of it happening again were very likely, but we've had two Children, a boy and a girl since then, very healthy, very beautiful Children.
Speaker:Beautiful.
Speaker:And you know what I'm saying, It made me even more appreciative of even my wife because I can't as a man, I can't imagine pushing out a life for that life to be passed on in my arms.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:And half and half of even the mental turmoil initially for me is wondering how that would feel.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker:And I think part of me feeling like something is pulling is me trying to empathize with what I would think, how she feels.
Speaker:So, you know, I'm saying, I appreciate this moment to even be able to express this today because you know, I'm saying it like I said, it's it's hurt, but a lot of it brings, you know, brings a greater appreciation for life.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:And I think what an amazing way to honor just serie Malik uh, than in saying, hey, this this little little man changed you for the better in his short little life.
Speaker:That's kind of incredible word, wow, wow, thank you so so much for your story, my man, That's incredible doubt, no doubt I appreciate you for giving me the moment to let you know what I mean personally for me as a father who has lost a son and I also feel like my son continues to inspire me to be a better man.
Speaker:I just feel this guy's story in my bones, crazy to think how his boys short little life would have such a lasting ripple effect.
Speaker:I wonder if we could all learn from Djaziri Malik to be a little more brave.
Speaker:Maybe we also can learn how our life, no matter how small we may think we are, how our life can change and inspire those around us.
Speaker:This is what happens when you are a ride share driver in Atlanta and ask people for their stories, these weren't handpicked people with great stories, they just happened to get in my car and be gracious enough to share with all of us and who knows maybe someday you'll be in Atlanta and need to grab a ride, share and end up telling the rest of us the next great story on BCP.
Speaker:I'd actually encourage you to every so often just ask a stranger to share a story from their life.
Speaker:You never know what you might learn.
Speaker:I believe that our stories are powerful, they can make you laugh, cringe cry or even get you to think or feel differently.
Speaker:Our stories can truly make this world a little bit better place.
Speaker:So please subscribe, rate and listen to this podcast and share it with as many adults as possible.
Speaker:It would mean so, so much to me.
Speaker:First and foremost, I want to thank the incredible writers who trusted me with your stories, you're my heroes.
Speaker:Thanks also to all the people in the background who have believed in this project slash dream.
