Speaker 1: Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
Speaker 1: put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
Speaker 1: share with you on our daily podcast. Do Hey, it's Delilah.
Speaker 1: So it's a new year. Here we are looking forward,
Speaker 1: looking ahead. I hope you're looking forward. I hope you're
Speaker 1: looking ahead. I hope you're living fully in the here
Speaker 1: and now. But I hope you're looking ahead to better times,
Speaker 1: to new opportunities, to making good choices. Or maybe you're
Speaker 1: beating yourself up. You're sitting there looking back on the passing.
Speaker 1: Why did I do this? Why did I do that?
Speaker 1: Why did I make that choice? What difference does it make?
Speaker 1: Why it's done, it's over. Move forward, let it go.
Speaker 1: Walk forward with confidence, knowing that God has an amazing
Speaker 1: plan for your future. And let the past go.
Speaker 2: Hang on to the memories that you want to cherish.
Speaker 1: Your baby's growing up too fast, your wedding day, whatever
Speaker 1: that beautiful moment is. Hang on to those sweet memories.
Speaker 1: But let the rest go. Let whatever is holding you
Speaker 1: back go. Hi, Lucas, how are you tonight? Happy New Year?
Speaker 3: I am doing great. Happy New Year to you too, Delilah.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm wonderful.
Speaker 1: Do you have any hopes or dreams or dreaded resolutions
Speaker 1: for the New Years?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't make resolutions.
Speaker 1: I try to think of little steps I can take
Speaker 1: to improve myself from my life. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time since I decided to do
Speaker 1: a resolution and have my heart broken.
Speaker 3: Well. Actually, one of my New Year resolutions is to
Speaker 3: read thirty books this year. I always I love to read,
Speaker 3: but I always have trouble falling through my goals of
Speaker 3: reading reading as many books i'd like to. It's always
Speaker 3: ended up being five or six books. But this year
Speaker 3: I want to make it at least thirty books. So
Speaker 3: that's one of my goals for this year, is to
Speaker 3: read thirty books so I could boost up my love
Speaker 3: for reading a little more.
Speaker 1: Do you have the time to read thirty books or
Speaker 1: would it be more reasonable to say, how about twelve
Speaker 1: or sixteen?
Speaker 2: So you do one and a half a month.
Speaker 3: You have a point too, you know, maybe I should
Speaker 3: give it down to at least twelve because there's only
Speaker 3: twelve months of a year, and depending on how long
Speaker 3: it takes you to read, then maybe it should be
Speaker 3: best to set it to a more reasonable goal instead
Speaker 3: of a harder goal, because maybe I'm being too hard
Speaker 3: on myself when I set a higher goal. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe in setting reasonable goals and taking things
Speaker 1: one day at a time rather than set goals that
Speaker 1: you know there's no way I'm going to be able
Speaker 1: to reach them, and then I'm going to be disappointed
Speaker 1: in myself. I think slow and steady wins the race.
Speaker 1: How about I find a great win as we are
Speaker 1: already into the new year, a great one for you
Speaker 1: and everybody else to bring hope to our hearts.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm down for that, Delilah.
Speaker 2: All right, you have a great night, Lucas. Thanks for calling, Honey, you.
Speaker 3: Too, Delilah.
Speaker 2: Hi, Welcome to the Delilah Show. Who's this? This is
Speaker 2: JT Delilah, JT. What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: I'm married to my wife and I'm about to go
Speaker 4: to prison tomorrow.
Speaker 5: She's really hurting because I'm going away.
Speaker 2: So why are you going away?
Speaker 5: Because I got caught up with some stuff.
Speaker 4: I got a drug charge.
Speaker 2: So are you clean and sober today?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Are you going to stay that way?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: How much time do you have to serve? I have
Speaker 2: to do three years.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and I have two beautiful kids at home.
Speaker 2: How old are you?
Speaker 5: I'm twenty three?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. But the good news is it sounds
Speaker 1: like you have changed your ways. I have, and you're
Speaker 1: not going back there? No, no, ma'am.
Speaker 2: So what are you going to do for the three
Speaker 2: years that's your way? What are your plans?
Speaker 4: To focus on my life and think what I did
Speaker 4: wrong and try to work out my relationship with my
Speaker 4: wife and my kids?
Speaker 2: Well, you can.
Speaker 1: You can only think about what you did wrong so long.
Speaker 1: But are you allowed to go to school while you're in?
Speaker 1: Can you get an education? Can you use your time
Speaker 1: to Ah?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes I can.
Speaker 1: Okay, So why don't you Because thinking about it isn't
Speaker 1: going to change anything. Right, what's done is done. You
Speaker 1: can't undo it. You've made your amends. So instead of
Speaker 1: spending your time thinking about it, how about spending your
Speaker 1: time getting an education, improving your life so when you
Speaker 1: are out you will be able.
Speaker 2: To move forward.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm gonna do that. And if there's a recovery
Speaker 1: program in the prison, you're going to go to the meetings.
Speaker 2: Okay, God bless you. I'm proud of you for calling
Speaker 2: and for being bold.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 2: Hi, good evening, Welcome.
Speaker 4: Who's this Brian?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 2: Brian? Did you have a good New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4: Yes? I did.
Speaker 2: Are you having a good week? So far?
Speaker 4: So far, so good?
Speaker 2: What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 4: I called because I wanted to kind of break on
Speaker 4: my wife. We'll be married five years in April, and
Speaker 4: she was very hard worker. She's been working three twelve
Speaker 4: hour days, three days a week and then off four
Speaker 4: days a week, and amongst a lot of other things,
Speaker 4: she's been helping taking care of my great aunt and
Speaker 4: uncle who are up in the years. And anytime anybody
Speaker 4: needs any help, I don't care if it's a friend,
Speaker 4: I don't care who it is. She's always there for him.
Speaker 1: So she's a giver, Yeah, someone who gives and gives
Speaker 1: and gives and loves.
Speaker 4: She's tossing around and going back to school.
Speaker 2: Like she doesn't have enough on her plate right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's she's a medical assistant now and she's tossing
Speaker 4: around going back to school to get her either her
Speaker 4: LPN or an RIN, I'm not sure which. And I
Speaker 4: just told her, I just said, you know, do what
Speaker 4: you think is right. I said, I'm not going to
Speaker 4: stop you, and I just want it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Sound like anything could stop this woman not at home.
Speaker 4: No, I couldn't ask for any any better than what
Speaker 4: I have, and I continue to tell her that every day,
Speaker 4: and before we go to bed at night, I always
Speaker 4: tell her, I always say I always I love you,
Speaker 4: I always have and I always will.
Speaker 2: Hi, good evening, Welcome to the Delilah Show. Who's this?
Speaker 5: This is Nestor Delilah.
Speaker 2: How are you, Nestor. I'm wonderful. How are you? Did
Speaker 2: you have a good Christmas?
Speaker 5: Very good Christmas? Did you have a good one as well?
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 5: It's so good to finally talk to you.
Speaker 2: Welcome aboard. What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 5: Well? I am actually an international student from South America,
Speaker 5: from Paraguay, and I have been living in the United
Speaker 5: States for the last six years. And first I came
Speaker 5: through a full scholarship to go to high school. I
Speaker 5: had a wonderful host family here in the United States.
Speaker 5: Then I went back home and I decided to come
Speaker 5: back to go to college. Although you know, college was
Speaker 5: a big dream for me, out of reality almost but
Speaker 5: my American family thought that I should do. So. So
Speaker 5: I got back and let me tell you that. And
Speaker 5: two weeks ago I got my major.
Speaker 2: And now what's your major in?
Speaker 5: In theater and focus in acting and playwriting, and a
Speaker 5: minor in communication speech communication actually, and so I'm so
Speaker 5: thrilled to finish my education through another full scholarship. But
Speaker 5: the reason why I was calling you, Delilah, is because
Speaker 5: I come from a very very poor family in Paraguay,
Speaker 5: and my parents are very very poor. My mom has
Speaker 5: racist chicken and my Jeff farm cotton and tomato on
Speaker 5: the farm. They make hardly five hundred dollars a year,
Speaker 5: and it was very important for me to have them
Speaker 5: over here in the United States to see me graduate.
Speaker 5: And so I have wonderful friends that I have made
Speaker 5: over the years here who got together, we raised money,
Speaker 5: they donated, and also we did a fundraiser dinner, and
Speaker 5: my parents had the chance to come and see me
Speaker 5: graduate and see also two of my plays that I
Speaker 5: wrote lately here in the United States. So I just
Speaker 5: wanted to say things.
Speaker 2: So it was a very good year for now stir.
Speaker 5: It was a great, great year with wonderful friends who
Speaker 5: did the impossible to make me happy and my parents
Speaker 5: happy and to be here in the United States, the
Speaker 5: land that they always dreamed of, and they thought it
Speaker 5: was impossible to visit, but they got to visit for
Speaker 5: a month, had a wonderful time, snow went to a
Speaker 5: restaurant for the first time, vacation, first time in their lives,
Speaker 5: and it was just thrilled to help them over. Thank
Speaker 5: you to all my friends. So I just wanted to
Speaker 5: say thank you to them through your show. I know
Speaker 5: English doesn't have another word more than thank you, but
Speaker 5: we haven't Spanish. Just give your slobody and make it
Speaker 5: bless your heart, and I just wanted to say that
Speaker 5: through your show and dedicay a song to them.
Speaker 2: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
Speaker 2: much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1: I'll share more with you each weekday on Hey It's Delilah.