1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: Varry Show is on the air. Fact Drunken stupid is 3 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: no way to go through life. 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: Stuck. 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 3: I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 3: my feet and I'm gonna see the world all my dreams. 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: I love old, the frig gass water. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 3: Type that. 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: Is a little Yes, we believe it is bad. 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: I'm going steady, nice French kiss. So everybody does that. 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best daddy. 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 2: A careful man, the fabre. 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Everybody down the ground. 14 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 3: We gotta what on the colorscope or what the wise 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 3: wise world of sports are going on. Thank you to 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 3: each and every one of you who shared your stories 17 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: with us, whether in writing or by voicemail. 18 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: I really do. 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 3: It means the world to me that you trust us 20 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 3: enough with these stories to make yourself vulnerable and share 21 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 3: it because I do think it matters somebody hears it 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 3: that it will matter to. 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 4: So. 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: I don't know. 25 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 3: Dan Matthews, he's one of our teammates here at iHeart 26 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 3: Radio Media here in Houston, and he's the co host 27 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 3: of the morning show on Sports seven ninety and apparently 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 3: he's a fan of our show. 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: I did not know do you know him? 30 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: Okay, Ramon knows it, but he reached out and I 31 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 3: thought it was really cool that he did. And he 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 3: said he was born at Saint Luke's Hospital in the 33 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 3: Medical Center and he was adopted by the Homes of 34 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 3: Saint Mark. His parents, Gary and Jackie adopted him at birth, 35 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 3: and his adoption story is one that he was willing 36 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 3: to share. Whenever people mention they're interested in adopting, he 37 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 3: says that his immediate response is do it. So he 38 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 3: sent me an email and he said, hey, if you 39 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 3: want to have you know, I'm happy to tell my 40 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,959 Speaker 3: story on the air if you want. And I said, well, 41 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 3: how about if you'll just take a moment as a broadcaster, 42 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 3: go into the studio, take a few minutes and record 43 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 3: your story. And he did, and here is that story. 44 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: And I'm grateful to him for sharing it. 45 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 5: The Sports Talk seven ninety morning show. You can listen 46 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 5: to us every single weekday morning over on your home 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 5: of the Astros in the Rockets Sports Talks seven ninety 48 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 5: and this is an awesome show and I'm really, really, 49 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 5: really proud to be a part of this. 50 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: Today because I found. 51 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 5: Out a couple of years ago that Michael did this 52 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 5: show every single year. An adoption is my story. It's 53 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 5: everything that I am. If you follow me on social media, 54 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 5: I put on my about me on both my Instagram 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 5: and my Twitter account probably adopted because that is exactly 56 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 5: how I feel every single day. 57 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: So a little bit about me. 58 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 5: I was born September third, nineteen eighty five, at Saint 59 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 5: Luke's Hospital, right there in the med center, and just 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 5: days later, I was adopted through the homes of Saint 61 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 5: Mark to my mom and dad, Gary and Jackie, both 62 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 5: just amazing people and both people who never ever made 63 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 5: me feel like I was anything other than their son. 64 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 5: That you know, they had a son that was through 65 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 5: natural birth with them, my older brother Ryan, And by 66 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 5: the way, he hates that I even mentioned him because 67 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 5: whenever I mentioned my brother, it's always hey man, don't 68 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 5: talk about me on the air. Very private person, but 69 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 5: still love them, and definitely I want to be able 70 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 5: to share about my family. 71 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 2: And so my mom and dad, both. 72 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 5: Incredibly successful people that gave me and my brother anything 73 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 5: we could ever want in life. And getting back to 74 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 5: what I said about, you know, they never made me 75 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 5: feel like I was anything other than their son. It 76 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 5: kind of reminds me of a story that I heard 77 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 5: when I went to mass a couple of years ago, 78 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 5: and the priest gave the homily about a little girl 79 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 5: who was adopted, asking the mom, you know, mom, where 80 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 5: did I come from? And she said, well, babies come 81 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 5: from the womb, but you were born out of my heart. 82 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 5: That's the way I felt every single day with my 83 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 5: mom and dad. You know, both were very successful attorneys 84 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 5: here in Houston for years now live out in the 85 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 5: Texas hill Country. And my mom's air quotes retirement was 86 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 5: after thirty plus years of being an attorney, she went 87 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: and became a special education teacher right there in Burnett, 88 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 5: ID and that was the rest of her professional life. 89 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 5: Was helping other kids too. And another cool story that 90 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 5: I heard was years ago. We grew up over at 91 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 5: Braburn Country Club and there was somebody that we knew 92 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 5: that used to work there, and I was at a 93 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 5: memorial weekend event from one of my friends that had 94 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 5: passed a few years ago, and somebody had told her 95 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 5: whose son I was, and she came up to me 96 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 5: and she said, I just want to let you know 97 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 5: that I'm a really big fan of both your mom 98 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 5: and dad. And I said, well, good so am I 99 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 5: and she said, we're adoptive parents too. And I hope 100 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 5: I don't tear up telling the story because it just 101 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 5: kind of encapsulates how my dad is is. When her 102 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 5: and her husband were about to adopt their child, she 103 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 5: had asked, my dad, you know what advice do you have? 104 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 5: What can you tell us about adoption? And he just said, 105 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 5: just love them. That's all you can do. 106 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 2: Just love them. 107 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 5: And that's what they've done for me every single day, 108 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 5: and through the good the bad times, I've never felt 109 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 5: like that I was anything other than a Matthew's and 110 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 5: that's my mom and dad to a team love him 111 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 5: so much. I mean sure, when I was younger, there 112 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 5: were times where I didn't necessarily understand what it meant. 113 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 5: My parents did everything they could to be able to 114 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 5: take me to homes of Saint Mark Christmas parties or 115 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 5: Easter parties or you know, Halloween celebrations, to be around 116 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 5: other adopted kids to kind of understand what it meant. 117 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 5: And as I've gotten older, I have become even more 118 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 5: proud of it, because I guess if there's anybody out 119 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 5: there that has any questions about it, I always say, 120 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 5: reach out to me. I'm glad to talk with you 121 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 5: about it. But my advice would be, if you're on 122 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 5: the fence, do it. If you are selfless in any means, 123 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 5: do it, and you will not look back. You will 124 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 5: not have any qualms about being an adoptive parent, because 125 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 5: it's going to be as much a blessing for your 126 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 5: kids as it is going to be a blessing for you. 127 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 5: So I challenge anybody out there that ever has any questions, 128 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 5: please reach out to me. 129 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: You can find me at any time. 130 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 5: Dan Matthews one tea in Matthews at iHeartMedia dot com. So, Michael, 131 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 5: Jim Ramon, everybody out there, thank you so much for 132 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 5: this chance, and everybody have a blessed day, and please 133 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 5: please please consider adoption. 134 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 2: It's absolutely meant the world to me. 135 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 3: Which, wow, that one hits you know. I often think 136 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 3: to myself when I pass somebody in the hallway or 137 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 3: in the elevator, not so much in a car as 138 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: when you're walking. It's more intimate passing. I think to myself, 139 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 3: wonder where his parents are, Wonder how she was raised, 140 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 3: She's adopted. 141 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: She's a foster child. 142 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 3: I wonder if fill in the blank and you hear 143 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 3: a story like that, you think, where would that guy 144 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 3: be if his parents did not adopt. If Gary and 145 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: Jackie is that right, Gary and Jackie Matthews do not 146 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 3: adopt him? 147 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: Where's that guy today? Dead in prison? Who knows? We 148 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: know he's living his best life. We know he's grateful 149 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: to them. Go to break Ramont. 150 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 2: Michael Berry. 151 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: In the system like a modern day. 152 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 3: When I went to law school, there was a study 153 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 3: done on what caused people, what made people most likely 154 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: to want to go to law school, and the number 155 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 3: two reason was your daddy was a lawyer. My daddy 156 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 3: wasn't a lawyer. I was part of the number one 157 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 3: reason that as a child they had read To Kill 158 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 3: a Mockingbird. And that was a unique period of time. 159 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 3: I went to law school in the early nineties. But 160 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 3: that particular book and the portrayal of a lawyer as 161 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 3: a person who takes on fights and you know, jousset 162 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 3: windmills and battles for people and provides a defense to 163 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 3: the defense list, that was very appealing to people, and 164 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 3: it was it spurred and stirred such. 165 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: A passion in so many people. 166 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you that over the years, I've 167 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 3: had the same experience with people who got into radio. 168 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 3: And when you look at when I asked people what 169 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 3: got you into radio, and it is more often than 170 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 3: not this particular radio show. And when you ask them 171 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 3: which of that show was your absolute favorite, it is 172 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: this particular episode and it being Thanksgiving, we roll it 173 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 3: out every year and we never tire of it because 174 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 3: we believe in great tradition. 175 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: Here you go, baby, if you've. 176 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 4: Ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me, I'm living on 177 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 4: the air. 178 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: In Cincinnati, Cincinnati w k RY. 179 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 4: We got kind of tied back in and done back in, 180 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 4: down in town, up and down the dial. Maybe we 181 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 4: never been to be Just maybe think of me once 182 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 4: in a while. I'm at WUKRY and since Sunday. 183 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 3: That wonderful television program was created by Hugh Wilson, who 184 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 3: later said that he based a lot of the episodes 185 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 3: around the actual events and characters of his time in radio. 186 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 3: He didn't work at WKRP in Cincinnati. He worked at 187 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 3: WQXI in Atlanta, but he created one of the greatest 188 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 3: TV scenes of all time referring to that turkey drop scene, 189 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 3: he said it was at a shopping center in Atlanta. 190 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 3: I think it was Broadview Plaza, which no longer exists. 191 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 3: It was a Thanksgiving promotion. We thought we could throw 192 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 3: these live turkeys out into the crowd for their Thanksgiving dinners. 193 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 3: All of us, naiven, uneducated, thought that turkeys could fly, 194 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 3: and remember, these are live turkeys. Of course they went 195 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: just splat. People were laughing at us, not with us. 196 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 3: But it became a legend. In reality, the turkeys were 197 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 3: thrown off the back of a truck. So based on that, 198 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 3: Hugh Wilson wrote the scene which came to be known 199 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 3: as the Turkey Drop scene, which I would argue is, 200 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 3: if not the greatest scene in television history, certainly up 201 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 3: there a little bit of audio less nessman, that serious 202 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 3: silly newsman on WKRP the Turkey Drop. 203 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 2: The culture seems to be circling the parking area. Now, 204 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 2: I guess it's looking for a place to land. No, 205 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 2: something just came out of the back of the helicopter. 206 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 5: It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver, hummington to the 207 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 5: earth from only two thousand feet in the air. 208 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 2: The third, the Hush you yet. 209 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, the skydivers, I had got your cat. What they are? 210 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're talking to. 211 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 2: Crushing the credit. 212 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 1: To win your thanks. I'm running around pushing each other. 213 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 2: Oh but you wanted to. 214 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 6: M bos. 215 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 2: The turkeys are hitting the ground like sense of what 216 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 2: snips a little bit the times running for I didn't 217 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 2: want to stand inside. I can't stay here and watch 218 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 2: this any I can't. 219 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 3: Go in there anything like that. My division here, Johnny, Last, 220 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 3: are you there? Class? 221 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: Isn't there? Thanks for that on the spot report? 222 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 6: Last if you were just tuned in the finale shopping 223 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 6: mall has just been bombed with luck to. 224 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: Tell them at eleven. 225 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 3: You know, when I think back, and that was a 226 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 3: different person as you were too. But when I think 227 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 3: back to seventies television, which would probably be my favorite, 228 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 3: followed by eighties television, I've told you the nineties was 229 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 3: a lost decade for me because between college and law 230 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 3: school and my first job and starting a company, I 231 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 3: didn't watch any television. Was there a social message to 232 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 3: seventies and eighties radio a television? Sure there was good 233 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 3: Times or the Waltons or Archie Bunker, but mostly it 234 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 3: was just entertainment. As entertainment, and the fact that the 235 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 3: people who got into screenwriting and script writing and production 236 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: lost sight of that it is entertainment and decided that 237 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 3: they were instead members of a cult trying to convince 238 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 3: people of their silly ways. When you when you consider 239 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 3: the effect that has has had, when you consider the 240 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 3: effect that that has, how that has changed our entertainment. 241 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 3: Look at how people look at football differently, the taking 242 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: of the knee, that's that's changed it forever for me. 243 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 3: Look at how music and musicians and actors, it's changed 244 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 3: all of it, maybe in a good way, because you 245 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 3: know what, in many ways, I guess what I'm trying 246 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 3: to say, and I'm fumbling around, is that it entertainment 247 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 3: should be about entertainment, and when it stops being about entertainment, 248 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 3: it turns us off. And maybe it's better because I 249 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 3: don't spend my weekends watching football, I don't spend my 250 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 3: time watching network television anymore, and I fill my time 251 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 3: with things that are more productive and fulfilling and rewarding 252 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 3: and meaningful. So maybe I guess you could say they 253 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 3: did me a favor. 254 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: Confuse that tone to me not a joke. 255 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 3: That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know everything because 256 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 3: you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman. 257 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 2: That is not a joke. That is a natural fact. 258 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: The Michael Show. 259 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: Is just the wrong song. 260 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 3: I like the one where they haven't made the food, 261 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 3: but they make it. It's a faster pace and they 262 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 3: do the popcorn and the toes and it and the message. 263 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: It's a very redeeming message. 264 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 3: The message is, Okay, you don't have what you're supposed 265 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 3: to have for Thanksgiving, but we'll make something. And then 266 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the food starts popping out and 267 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 3: everyone's happy. 268 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: You don't remember that. That's it, that's it right there. 269 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 6: You got, you got Snoopy, he's he's got the sticker, 270 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 6: the shish kebob cooker. You got Charlie Brown and Linus 271 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 6: and putting the toast and the coaster and the toast 272 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 6: is coming out, and I think, if I remember correctly, 273 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 6: Snoopy is kind of like waving his run like he's 274 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 6: the conductor. 275 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: And then when the toast all comes out. 276 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 3: He sticks it through there and then they slapped the 277 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 3: butter on it, and then he goes over. 278 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: And that was back when you do your popcorn. 279 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,120 Speaker 3: If you remember the popcorn, he's up on a chair, 280 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 3: I remember correctly, and he's got the popcorn going on 281 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 3: top of the stove. Did you ever do the stove 282 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 3: top popcorn? 283 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 1: Man? 284 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 3: That was good times right there. And then and then 285 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 3: Orville Redden Boker came out. My grandmother was fond of 286 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 3: Orville Redden Boker popcorn, and therefore so was I. And 287 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 3: then it just got better and better and better. How 288 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 3: many days a year? How many times a year do 289 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 3: you think you consume popcorn? 290 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 5: Four? 291 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 3: That's probably mine too. Popcorn is the sort of thing 292 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 3: that I literally never intend to eat. I've already eaten, 293 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 3: and I'm somewhere that popcorn is present, and I smell 294 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 3: it and someone says, hey, would you would you like some. 295 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: Popcorn? And I eat it? And then I eat. 296 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 3: Way too much, and I feel disgusting and I don't know, 297 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 3: I don't know what else to do about it. Yeah, 298 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 3: and then and then I wish I hadn't eaten popcorn. 299 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,959 Speaker 3: And it leaves me with a bad feeling, especially if 300 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 3: you get it from a movie theater, because they put 301 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 3: too much butter on it. What other food do I 302 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 3: shovel in my mouth. Let me come back to that, 303 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 3: because I want talk about thanks forving a second. If 304 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 3: there's something I can get through to you today, for 305 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 3: this weekend, and some of you are gonna be off, 306 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 3: you can be traveling over the next few days. 307 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: It is this. 308 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 3: A democratic republic is not a set it and forget it, 309 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 3: ron pou peel. You don't get to do it and 310 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 3: walk away from it. 311 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: It is a labor of love. You know. 312 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 3: When I got my first carves in nineteen seventy nine, 313 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 3: Volkswagen Rabbit. 314 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,719 Speaker 1: It had one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it. 315 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 3: And when I got my dad said, well, you'll own 316 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 3: a car for the rest of your life and it 317 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 3: will be nothing but a problem for the rest of 318 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 3: your life. And I remember thinking, what damn, I'm kind 319 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 3: of fired up about my little Volkswaehian Rabbit. Why are 320 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 3: you gonna make it seem like that. When I got 321 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 3: my first house, he said, a house is a constant 322 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 3: need because he's a maintenance man, right, A house is 323 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 3: a constant need for maintenance and work. 324 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 1: You will have, you will you will never get to 325 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: relax again. 326 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 3: And I remember thinking, well, Dad, but that wasn't He 327 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 3: wasn't depressed about that. That was him giving fatherly advice. 328 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 3: And I kind of feel like, you know, that's what 329 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 3: Ben Franklin said when asked, you know, mister Franklin, is 330 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 3: it a monarchy or a republic? 331 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: And he said a republic. 332 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 3: If you can keep it, because he understood that they 333 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 3: had just written the bylaws for a document that would 334 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: require the public's constant attention and care and good decision making. 335 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 3: It's much easier to have a monarchy. And I think 336 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 3: many people even in America today, without understanding what they're doing, 337 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 3: would like a benevolent dictatorship because they don't want to 338 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 3: have to fool with it. They don't want to have 339 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 3: to be adult. They don't want to have to make decisions. 340 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 3: They don't want to have to discern between one candidate 341 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 3: and the other, one plan and the other. They don't 342 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 3: want to have to keep up with what are the 343 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 3: effects of raising interest rates or raising the minimum wage, 344 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 3: or lowering interest rates, or sending all your money to 345 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 3: Ukraine or sending missiles to Ukraine. 346 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: They don't want to do that. 347 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 3: But one of the things we have to do is 348 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 3: we have to preserve our traditions because they don't. 349 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: And we can't sit around and say. 350 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 3: Well, the TV's not doing it, and the school's not 351 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 3: doing it, and this person's not doing it. 352 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: We've got to do it. 353 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 3: So I went to a history site, very simple to 354 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 3: help you out, and this is what you have to share. 355 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 3: Print out the meaning of Thanksgiving this Thanksgiving and just say, hey, guy, 356 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 3: I know it's kind of old fashioned, but I'm feeling 357 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 3: pretty good, feeling good about American I want to start 358 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 3: a new tradition. I would like to read on just 359 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 3: goa give me sixty seconds. I would like to read 360 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:24,719 Speaker 3: the history of Thanksgiving, and history dot com has one 361 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 3: the easiest one. There's more in depth and it goes 362 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 3: like this. In sixteen twenty one, the Plymouth colonists from 363 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 3: England and the Native American Wampanaga one Ponnoag people shared 364 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 3: an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged as one of 365 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 3: the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than 366 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 3: two centuries, days of Thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies 367 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 3: and states. 368 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: It wasn't until. 369 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 3: Eighteen sixty three, in the midst of the Civil War 370 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 3: that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to 371 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 3: be held each November, but the holiday is not without controversy. 372 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 3: Many Americans, including people of Native American ancestry, believe Thanksgiving 373 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 3: celebrations might mask the true history of oppression and bloodshed 374 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 3: that underlies the relationship between European settlers and Native Americans. 375 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 3: These same people, who even if they are a direct descendant, 376 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 3: have no problem with their great grandfather having murdered other 377 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 3: tribes to take hold of the land, don't want the 378 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 3: same done to them. 379 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: And that's the reality of it all. The history of. 380 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 3: Humanity is one of conflict, and America defies that tradition. 381 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 3: So as you sit on your iPhone, having gone to 382 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 3: schools and universities under a scholarship for being Native American, 383 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: maybe give thanks that you have air conditioning and steel 384 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 3: belted radial tires and a roof over your head and 385 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 3: airplanes to fly around in. Because the advancements that occurred 386 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 3: on American soil after those evil, awful white men came 387 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 3: to town are being enjoyed by you to an extent that 388 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 3: almost seems like you halfway enjoy them. Now back to 389 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 3: the point the beauty of this tradition. If you heard 390 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 3: what I said is it began in sixteen twenty one. 391 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 3: It began almost an entire century and a half before 392 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 3: we declared our independence from England in sixteen twenty one. 393 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 3: It was not for two hundred years that it became 394 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 3: an official holiday, but it was continuously observed. It's older 395 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 3: than America, and distinctly Americans. 396 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: You know, as strong as Gary Allen's voice is busted. 397 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to. 398 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 3: And he does not come out of the school of 399 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 3: beautiful voices terrif. But I think that's what I like 400 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 3: about it. Very raw, very raw. He's had a lot 401 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 3: of pain in his life, if you know the story, 402 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 3: had a lot of pain in his life. So the 403 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 3: piece we played by Dan Matthews on Sports Night seven ninety. 404 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 3: Thank you to Dan for presenting that beautiful piece. Well 405 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 3: we learned a little something. The newest member of our team, 406 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 3: Darryl Koon to the kon De man, who is an insanely, 407 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 3: insanely talented voice guy. We know most everybody in the 408 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 3: business or most of the people in the business, and 409 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 3: he's as good as anybody. His variety of voices are amazing. 410 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 3: He was the professional voice of iHeart in Houston when 411 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 3: for years and then he left and went to work 412 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 3: for an oil company planning events, and then we hired him. 413 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: We hired him. 414 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 3: He has events a bit a year, and I didn't know. 415 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 3: I've known Kunda for twenty years, had no idea he 416 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: was adopted. So he shared his story, and I have 417 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 3: chosen not to not to play that story during the 418 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 3: segment and have to come back and talk after it, 419 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 3: because then I end up getting emotional and I don't 420 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 3: like blubbing the end of the damn microphone, so I'm 421 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 3: not going to do it. So here's what I'm going 422 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 3: to do, a bit of a spastic move, but I was. 423 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 3: I'm going to play his bit that he created and 424 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 3: let it crash into the break. That way, I can 425 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 3: turn off my microphone so if tears start streaming, I 426 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 3: don't have to talk afterwards, and you don't have to 427 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 3: hear me, because it's not pleasant for you and it 428 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 3: ain't pleasant for me either. But I got an email 429 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 3: from following them, Chris Alfano. He said, I'll be going 430 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 3: through a medical procedure this Friday, so I won't be 431 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 3: able to call. So he's going through the procedure today. 432 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 3: I hope he's doing well. There's a show playing now 433 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 3: that I think maybe one of the stars Channels as 434 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 3: t Arz, called Show Me the Father, and he says, 435 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 3: this is the most amazing adoption story you will ever see. 436 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: I'm going to play you a few seconds of this, 437 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 3: but I agree. I wish I could play the whole thing. 438 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 3: But it's a beautiful, beauty It looks to be a 439 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 3: beautiful storytelling show. 440 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 2: All of us have. 441 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: A fatherhood story. My dad was my hero growing up. 442 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: My father was somebody who disappointed you. To have my 443 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 1: father proud was my soul. Purpose to play football. 444 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 4: I want to make a difference in the lives of 445 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 4: young people the way my father made a difference in 446 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 4: my life. 447 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 5: We put a representation of our father and all of 448 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 5: our biggies. 449 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: I pray for me and my brother and my mom 450 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: to get through this night. 451 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 3: I think we lived in seven different houses kind of 452 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 3: running from my dad. 453 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 1: I started losing my ability to walk. We didn't realize 454 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: the war that was going on inside of him. I'm 455 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: wishing that I could just die hard. 456 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 2: Why didn't you give me a dad I could call? 457 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 2: Because I need wisdom right now. I knew that I 458 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 2: wasn't prepared to be anybody's mom. 459 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: I was doing the right thing for him. 460 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 2: My panics and Sherman says, man, listen, calmed down, and 461 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 2: it's a beautiful thing to have a child. This is 462 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 2: why I do what I do for guys like that. 463 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 3: I mean, it was like a herald Sady George, by 464 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 3: the way, who was played for the Titans, who I 465 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 3: had the honor of smoking a cigar in DC with 466 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 3: last year. Here is Darryl Kunda's piece that I'll play 467 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 3: now that I was not able to play earlier. I 468 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 3: just wanted to play to crash into the break. 469 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 2: Hi. 470 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: My name is Valerie Kenda and my dad is Daryl Kunda. 471 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 4: I am so thankful that my granny and granddad adopted 472 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 4: my dad, and I love them so. 473 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 3: Much for that. 474 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: Hello. 475 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 7: My name is Daryl Kunda, part of the Michael Berry 476 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 7: Show team, and I'm so blessed to share my adoption 477 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 7: story with you today. It's one of my favorite days 478 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 7: of all time. My parents' story begins growing up in 479 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 7: the small Texas farming towns. 480 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: A lot of you Texas folks will know. They were 481 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: young kids. 482 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 7: Mom from Moulton, Dad just down the road, in Ingle, Texas, 483 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 7: where they spent the summers picking cotton sun up to 484 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 7: sundown and that aggressive summer heat, making just enough money 485 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 7: to get by. This sounds overly dramatic, but it's true. 486 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 7: They were kids of the fifties. Money was not a forefront. 487 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 7: It was about hard work working as sharecroppers, figuring out 488 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 7: how to put food on the table and surviving. 489 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: It was a simple reality these two kids grew up. 490 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 7: They would find each other in a Texas dance hall, 491 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 7: as most teenagers back then in that area would do. 492 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: They would meet at a polka. 493 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 7: Dance at one of the MIFW halls the KC halls. 494 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 7: They found each other and eventually decided to marry in 495 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 7: October of nineteen sixty. They would marry in the Catholic 496 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 7: church in a tiny Texas town called Braha, Texas. 497 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: Now back then and I get a kick out of this. 498 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 7: As simple as times were, Mom and Dad, they knew 499 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 7: how to throw a party. Wedding at ten am, followed 500 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 7: by two meals lunch supper with homemade colachis for dessert, 501 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 7: followed by a dance till midnight, and all the food 502 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 7: well that was donated by family and friends. 503 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: That's what we call the Goodladays. 504 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 7: Now that they're married, these two love birds would agree 505 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 7: that life should take them to the big city of Houston, 506 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 7: Texas and took a job with Houston Lighting in Power 507 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 7: what we call now Center Point Energy. Life was good, 508 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 7: but the only thing vacant was being parents. Now, time 509 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 7: it can be a cruel clock ticking can become taxing. 510 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 7: Motherhood to Mom seemed like a dream that would never 511 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 7: become a reality. So fast forward to nineteen seventy four. 512 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 7: Mom and Dad considered adoption for the very first time, 513 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 7: and that would bring the blessing of a daughter, Melissa. 514 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: Who I'm lucky to call my sister. And three years 515 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: later Mom and Dad decided it's time for a son. Hey, 516 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: that's me. 517 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 7: I was born in Houston and my birth mother decided 518 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 7: I was more of a blessing than a burden and 519 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 7: made a brave decision to transfer her newborn baby to 520 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 7: Catholic charities. And somehow, by the grace of God, that 521 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 7: farming couple that met at the front door of that 522 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 7: Texas dance hall who wanted a son so badly adopted 523 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 7: me and took me home on a freezing January day, 524 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 7: in nineteen seventy eight, and their loving arms forever I. 525 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: Would grow up. 526 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 7: I'd make a proud make them frustrated, make them both 527 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 7: wonder what the future would hold. But one thing I'll 528 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 7: always treasure is being called their son. The name of 529 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 7: the couple Alga and Bernard Kunda, whereas I will always 530 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 7: call them. 531 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: Mom and dad. 532 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 6: I love you.