1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: Time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: So Michael Verie Show is on the air. The woman 4 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: dying at the Wells Fargo and not being discovered for 5 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: approximately four days has left everybody feeling weird. But it 6 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: really is perhaps one of the better examples of how 7 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: disconnected we have become. I don't think we need to 8 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: be in a commune where we're holding hand and singing kumbayah. 9 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: But technology has allowed people to replace the human connection 10 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: with something that gives them. It gives them a serotonin 11 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: that is released. It gives them a connection to something. 12 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: That thing that gives there's a give and take. They 13 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: don't feel so lonely anymore. They can find a community 14 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: of like minded weirdos, perverts, nerds, geeks, radio people, TV people, 15 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: technology people, sex people, travel people, engineering people, whatever it is. 16 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: They can find communities of people that they may never 17 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: meet in person. I see it in young people. Michael 18 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: being two years older than Crockett, or two grade levels 19 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: ahead of Crockett. Michael's grade level always gathered together. They 20 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: wanted a car at sixteen, who wanted to be able 21 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: to get together the way we did. Crockets grade two 22 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: years later don't gather at all and don't care to. 23 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: Now they communicate perhaps more often, but they don't do 24 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: it in person, and it's across the grade. It's a 25 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: really interesting phenomenon how that works. But back to the 26 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 1: lady who was at the Wells Fargo for four years, 27 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: for four days and the people working there not noticing. 28 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: It was so bad that the body had begun smelling 29 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: after four days and they thought maybe there was a 30 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: plumbing problem, And then they said, we need protocols. How 31 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: would you have a protocol? You just don't notice other 32 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: people that work there and if they're dead. Sad part 33 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: is she must not have had anybody at home either, 34 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: how lonely she had to be. But it got me 35 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: to thinking about crazy things had happened in a workplace. 36 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: We may or may not get a response to this, 37 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: but if anyone ever died at your workplace, yeah, I'm 38 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: going never moment. I want you to call and tell 39 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: the story. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. 40 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Eddie Martinez 41 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: told me the story. He was in high school years 42 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: was years ago. He told me this and many years 43 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: ago that it happened to him. Because he's sixty. He 44 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: had a coach who passed and I guess he was 45 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: having a heart attack while they were in gym class 46 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: or whatever, and they went to get the guy and 47 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: get in. I guess they put him on a gurney 48 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: and they're taking him out, and as his body released, 49 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: he pooped. And we talked about the fact that that 50 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: is apparently a very common you know, I guess you're 51 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: kind of always a little bit clenched, Ramo. I don't 52 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: know if you knew that. And when you die, your 53 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: body releases in boop, there it goes you void. As 54 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: the doctor say, seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, 55 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: seven one three nine nine one thousand, let's start with Steve. 56 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: We haven't gotten to those calls yet. Actually hold off 57 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: on that. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. 58 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: Today is National Wiener Schnitzel Day, National Wiener Schnitzel Day, 59 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: and that got me thinking about one of my favorite 60 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: fast food restaurants of all time. They're Der Wiener Snitzel 61 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy six and now. 62 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 3: Watch closely a corner by Corny. Oh well, that's what 63 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 3: I call my disappearing corn dog trick. 64 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 4: Just race you. 65 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: Actually here there. Ramon was not fortunate enough to grow 66 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: up with the Derweener Schnitzel in his town, but it 67 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: was all the rage in Orange. We found this one 68 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy. Oh, that one was. Yeah, this one, well, 69 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 1: I can't remember which one. He said had a creep factor. 70 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: Maybe that's this one. 71 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 2: You're looking for him. 72 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: Please to eat with pencil family. Some sir burgers, some 73 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: serve hot dogs. 74 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 5: No one can a creek see now wiener Schnitzel. 75 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: We're rounds together now with hamburgers and hot dogs. 76 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 3: No morning to. 77 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 2: Look around, hamburgers in the huge now together now. 78 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: And so that one has a little more uplifting kind 79 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: of Soviet German. We're all happy here, aren't we. The 80 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: other one does have a touch of a creep factor. 81 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. You're absolutely right, it does, all right. 82 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: So the phone calls, we go about death at your workplace. 83 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: Let's start with Carla, Carla, you're up, go ahead, dear. 84 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 3: Hey, Hi, Michael, him, Michael, it was not my workplace. 85 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 3: Many years ago, we were on a cruise and my 86 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 3: husband was an older cruise We were on Holland America 87 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 3: and we were younger, he made friends with an older gentleman, 88 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 3: and they hung out a lot, and they this and 89 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 3: that and the other. We didn't see him forever. The 90 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 3: man after that, we couldn't find him and didn't see him. Well, 91 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 3: we found out that he had been by the pool, 92 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 3: and he was laying by the pool. They lay there, 93 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 3: I don't know how long, a couple of days, and 94 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 3: they finally figured out he had died by the pool. 95 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 3: Nobody noticed it. They put it, finally put it, took 96 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 3: a mirror, put it under his nose, and saw that 97 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 3: it was not giving, you know, signs of breathing. And 98 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 3: he died right there in the chair by the pool 99 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 3: on the Hall of America. 100 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: Crew, did you did you see him? Did you see 101 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: the dead body? 102 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 3: I did not. I did not. 103 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: Well, we're all I was going to say, is there 104 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: are worse places to go, worse ways to go. 105 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 3: You absolutely there are. But it was still, you know, 106 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 3: he's I think he stayed there, who knows how long, 107 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 3: because he liked it up there. He likes seeing the horizon. 108 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 6: They just didn't know this. 109 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: Well. I mean, I can't help but think I wish 110 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: we all. You know, so many times a person is 111 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: gasping for their last breath for some period of time, 112 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: and finally they get some relief. You know what I had. 113 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: I had an extended relative not uh and and I 114 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: heard what they referred to as the death rattle. And 115 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: I'll never forget that sound for the for the rest 116 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: of my life. And I you know, it's a tough 117 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: it's a tough conversation to have. But boy, to watch 118 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: somebody suffer and gasp for air and wheeze and you know, 119 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: be uncommunicative but in extreme pain, it's it's difficult. And 120 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: then here's this guy. He's out at the pool, you know, 121 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: laid out like Joe Biden, probably having a blast. Carla, 122 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: did you call in once before about damn Pastorini? 123 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 3: Oh, damn Pastorini. I loan hit money one time. 124 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: I when you called in on the screen, it popped 125 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: up as Carla Pastorini, and I thought, your god, Pastorini 126 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: didn't die her workplace. 127 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 3: Did he? 128 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 6: All right? 129 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: Yours coming up? What's the name you say? 130 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: Michael Beddy. 131 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: On this day in nineteen forty two, A brilliant choice, 132 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: by the way, a Japanese floatplane dropped an incendiary bomb, 133 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: actually multiple bombs on Oregon State Forest. The first air 134 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: attack on the US mainland in the war. Launching from 135 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: the Japanese sub I twenty five, Nobuo Fujita piloted his 136 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon and 137 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: firebombed Mount emily A, lighting a state forest. The president. 138 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: The president immediately called for a news blackout for the 139 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: sake of morale. No long term damage was done, and 140 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: Fujita eventually went home to train navy pilots for the 141 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: rest of the war. How about that, there you go, 142 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: And Chad said, on that note, here's the newspaper clippings 143 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: about my grandfather Komichi Nakanishi I was telling you about. 144 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 1: Below is the note in the newspaper from my great 145 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: great grandma about my grandpa joining the army during World 146 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: War Two. My grandpa and his three brothers were all 147 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: in the military during World War Two. One of his brothers, 148 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: Toshio or left, was pretty renowned, rising to the rank 149 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: of lieutenant colonel. And then there's the article in the newspaper. 150 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: We say thank you in behalf of my son Komichi. 151 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: I wish to take this means of extending my sincere 152 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: thanks and appreciation to the many friends for the many 153 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: gifts and congratulatory messages extended him prior to his induction 154 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: into the United States Army. I am indeed proud to 155 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: have him serve in the United States Army and am 156 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: confident that he will bring home to the He will 157 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: bring sorry, he will bring honor to the uniform he 158 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: wears signed Missus Fujiko Nakanishi Hanomu, Hawaii. And then there's 159 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: a picture of him and he's looking very smart, man, 160 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: I say, in his uniform, getting ready to go off tour. 161 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: All right, your stories we did Carlo. Let's go to Joe. 162 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: Your stories of death at the office or somewhere else weird, 163 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: Go ahead, sir. 164 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 7: Yes, sir Michael, Hey, yeah, I was at work man. 165 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 7: It was a mechanic at one time and used to 166 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 7: do yard checks for a truck and company, and you 167 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 7: know we do yard check every day. Well, finally we 168 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 7: get a call and asked if this certain vehicle was 169 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 7: on the yard, and so went out there and checked 170 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 7: and we showed it on the paper and we said 171 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 7: yes here. So when we went out there to go 172 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 7: see because they couldn't find the driver, the driver was 173 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 7: in his truck windows rolled up locked and like stuck 174 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 7: to it, you know, just in the driver's seat, hands 175 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 7: on the steerwheel just slumped over. So we were banging 176 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 7: on the window and like no movement. So went back 177 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 7: to the dispatch office and told him there's a guy 178 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 7: in there, but he ain't moving, and so they ended 179 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 7: up calling the police and the uh, the the you know, 180 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 7: they came out, and then they had medics come out, 181 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 7: and sure enough, the guy had passed apparently on the 182 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 7: yard check. The vehicle was there for like five days 183 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 7: and so like nobody knew we was out doing the 184 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 7: yard check, but we just write numbers down and never 185 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 7: real you know, we don't really pay attention to the 186 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 7: people in the vehicles at the time. Right now, this 187 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 7: was back you know, probably ten fifteen years ago, but 188 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 7: you know, but yeah, it was kind of weird, you know. 189 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 7: And we also had a guy that was driving the 190 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 7: truck up fifty nine. He was an older guy, and 191 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 7: he ended up having a heart attack at the wheel 192 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 7: and drove off on fifty nine going north and went 193 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 7: into the woods and you know, he passed. You know, 194 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 7: I guess he's hard just gave out on him while 195 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:45,359 Speaker 7: he was driving. 196 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 3: Weird. 197 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: I lived very close to a family called the black 198 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: Shars and Joe Blacksher or black Sheer, however you want 199 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: to pronounce it. There was a split of opinion. Was 200 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 1: a couple of years older than me, and he was 201 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: raised by his grandparents. I don't know what had happened 202 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: with his parents, but his grandparents were driving in the grandfather, 203 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: who was like his dad he raised him, had a 204 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: heart attack, veered off side of the road, crashed and 205 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: killed both of them, leaving him without parents. And then 206 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: Assim Bensali, who I went to law school with. His 207 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: parents were in India visiting their family there. They were 208 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 1: from India and Asim was an only child, and he 209 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: got the call that his parents had died in a 210 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: fatal crash in India, and that meant he had no 211 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: family left. He had nothing other than extended family in India. 212 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 1: He had no family left. As Sim started law school. 213 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: He's a brilliant, brilliant guy. He started law school. He 214 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: started college at Berkeley at sixteen on a full scholarship. 215 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: He graduated in two and a half years. So he 216 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:08,119 Speaker 1: came to law school before his nineteenth birthday. That's crazy. 217 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: Let's go to Corey. Corey, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 218 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: What's your story? 219 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 8: Well, I actually have a couple. My boss, he was 220 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 8: from the older generation. 221 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 9: He's a rough and tumble guy. 222 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 8: He was the kind of guy that got up before 223 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 8: in the morning, read the paper and was at the 224 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 8: office of six and then better than you by said 225 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 8: where the hell you were at? But he was like 226 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 8: that for a long long time. And then I noticed 227 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 8: I didn't get any calls that morning, and no one 228 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 8: else did. And it turned out he had got out 229 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 8: of the office early and he had had a heart 230 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 8: attack at his desk, and he wasn't He was pretty 231 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 8: much gone. I mean, they kind of resuscitated him, but 232 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 8: he never came back to life. He was basically bringing them. 233 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 8: I took him to the hospital. Then I was in 234 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 8: Iraq in two thousand and four and the Iron had 235 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 8: infiltrated some bad guys that infiltrated the I n G. 236 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 8: And they snuck in a peka tig gallon drum of 237 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 8: ball bearings into the chaw hal and blew that up 238 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 8: and he killed my supply sergeant and my pl That 239 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 8: was a bad day at the office. 240 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think that would be where were you 241 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: when it went off? 242 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 8: I was outside the chow, and. 243 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 6: What happened. 244 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: Just by sheer luck you weren't inside. 245 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 8: It was by total luck. I mean, there was a 246 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 8: couple of things that happened that on that tour that 247 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 8: was by total luck. 248 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 3: I missed. 249 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 8: I just I had to go on a mission. I 250 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 8: was supposed to go on a mission as an air 251 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 8: guard gunner on one of the medic trucks on the Strikers, 252 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 8: and then for some reason, my commanders needed me to 253 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 8: stay back that day this side of the blue, and 254 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 8: he say, man, I just need to stay back today, 255 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 8: and I was like, okay. So somebody else. 256 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 10: Was subded in my position and that truck got. 257 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 8: Hit and the guy survived, but he had some pretty 258 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 8: mean looking scars. Afterwards we saw him we got back 259 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 8: to Port Lewis. 260 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: Wow, there is something reading emails or something about someone 261 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: dying and not being discovered immediately that bothers people. I'm 262 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: noticing that theme. You know, we've all known the people die, 263 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: but it's when the body is there for some period 264 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: of time that people get really bothered by it. Dennis, 265 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 266 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 6: Go ahead, sir, oh Okay, Michael, I was driving forkliff 267 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 6: for a trucking company. We were all assigned individual trailers 268 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 6: to break down, which means take the freight off of 269 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 6: them and point it to wherever it says to go to. 270 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 6: And we had a fair to go into his trailer, 271 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 6: and apparently well his fork eat he had reason to 272 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 6: stick his head through the mask of the forklift while 273 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 6: the forks were up, despite all training saying never ever 274 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 6: do that. 275 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 4: Anyhow, when he did, he leaned on the down lever 276 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 4: and that came down on his head and took about 277 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 4: an hour or so for people, you know, for anybody 278 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 4: to find him, you know, because we all had our 279 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 4: own trailers and and it was it was ugly. We 280 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 4: We had a cop working on the docks at the 281 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 4: time as a part time job, and as soon as 282 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 4: he heard there was a problem in that door, he 283 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 4: bolted up to that door. He went in and told everybody, 284 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 4: you don't want to go in there. 285 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 11: It nearly took his head off. And then he worked 286 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 11: for his father, was the dock supervisor. 287 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 4: On the next ship, and that was how his father 288 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 4: found out he had. 289 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: Gotten very brigade activate the Michael Barry Show. 290 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 291 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: and PETA have been strangely silent on the Haitians stealing 292 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: people's cats and eating them, as well as ducks and 293 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: other household pets that various people have. I wonder if 294 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: they don't have an opinion about that. The story out 295 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: of Arizona. But woman who died and is presumed to 296 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: have sat at her desk slooped stooped over her desk 297 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: dead for almost four days. 298 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 5: A Wells Fargo employee went to work the morning of Friday, 299 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 5: August sixteenth and never went home. Tempe police till twelve 300 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 5: News sixty year old Denise Prudham scanned into work at 301 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 5: seven o'clock in the morning. Four days later, police responded 302 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 5: to the office building near Washington Street and Priest Drive 303 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 5: for reports of a subject down. Prudem was declared dead. 304 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,239 Speaker 5: The Tempe Police Criminal Investigation Bureau is investigating, but do 305 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 5: not suspect foul play. A Wells Fargo employee exclusively spoke 306 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 5: with twelve News but asked not to be recorded or 307 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 5: identified out of fear for their job. They say a 308 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 5: colleague found Prudam dead at her desk in a cubicle 309 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 5: while walking around the building on Tuesday, August twentieth. Prudom's 310 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 5: cubicle was reportedly on the third floor and away from 311 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 5: the main aisle. This employee says several people had smelled 312 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 5: a foul odor but passed it off as faulty play. 313 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 5: They say, while most Wells Fargo employees at this Tempey 314 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 5: location work remote, the building has twenty four to seven 315 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 5: security and someone should have found Prudom sooner. The incident 316 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 5: left several employees feeling scared and uneasy. This employee wants 317 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 5: to see new safety protocols in place, telling me quote 318 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 5: its negligence in some part. A different worker also spoke 319 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 5: with twelve News anonymously was just uncomfortable again, calling on 320 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 5: the company to do more. Botty was there about four 321 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 5: days before anybody found it. Before anybody walked up to 322 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 5: her just to say hi, make sure she's okay. She 323 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 5: was just laying on her desk. A Wells Fargo spokesperson 324 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 5: previously sent twelve News a statement saying, in part, we 325 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 5: are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague 326 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 5: and our Tempe office, adding counselors through our employee assistance 327 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 5: consulting service are available to support employees. An employee tells 328 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 5: me their direct management offered those services, addressed the incident 329 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 5: and told workers the building was thoroughly cleaned. 330 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: Why did she keep calling the woman Prudin? Does she 331 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: not know about Paul Prudon? Who doesn't you know about 332 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: Paul Prudon? Of course you do. Yeah, K Paul's restaurant, 333 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: celebrity chef. Yes, every Kuon ass knows who Paul Prudon was. 334 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: I mean, K Paul's restaurant absolutely legendary. Uh oh, sounds 335 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: like somebody's got a case of the Munder's. Are you 336 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: talking about the woman in Arizona? The woman was laying 337 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 1: there dead for four days. She did not have a 338 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: case of the Monday's. She's dead now. I do know 339 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people who hate their job and, according 340 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,360 Speaker 1: to what they say, wish they were dead. You can 341 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: say what you want about Denise, but she followed through. 342 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: She willed herself to die. But here's the question that 343 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: I'll bet her bosses were wondering how much work could 344 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: she have done if she was dead at her desk 345 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: for three full days before they found her. 346 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 12: I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I 347 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 12: use the side door. That way lumberd can't see me. 348 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 12: And after that I just sort of space out for 349 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 12: about an hour. Tell me. 350 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: Space out. 351 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 12: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks 352 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 12: like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour 353 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 12: after a launch two. I'd say in a given week, 354 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 12: I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real actual work. 355 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: I've known some people like that. Andrew, you're on the 356 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Tell us your story about a person 357 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: preferably who died and wasn't known about for some period 358 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: of time. 359 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 9: It was, first of all, thank you, mister Barry and 360 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 9: take your affiliates for being on the air in West Texas. 361 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 9: I love it. Worked for a natural gas company and 362 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 9: this was in Kansas at the time. Had a co 363 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 9: worker pull out in the middle of the night. Mechanic 364 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 9: called out for a unit that was down, and he 365 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 9: goes out and finds some valves on a compressor that 366 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 9: we're out and failed to blow down the compressor, which 367 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 9: means discharge all the gas that's inside of the compressor. 368 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 9: And while he's changing valves, pulls the valve cap off 369 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 9: and it's under pressure, and so that valve cap comes 370 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 9: off knocks him in the head. He failed to respond 371 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 9: to a gas control call and failed again, made his 372 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 9: way to a little shock that we had out there 373 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 9: and made a phone call. But about four or five 374 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 9: hours later, somebody else responded to that call because the 375 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 9: compressor wasn't on yet and found him deceized him the shock. 376 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: You know, the thing about that we've all done something dumb, right, 377 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: We go to hammer something that we shouldn't have hammered it, 378 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: it pings off air and busts us in the head, 379 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: or we forgot to close the door behind us, and 380 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: then something bad happens, and the kind of thing your 381 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: dad always told you. You know, you screw around with that, 382 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: you get killed, get your arm cut off. But to 383 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: actually die from something dumb you do just feels. And 384 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: I know that there's a bunch of guys at work 385 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: in a technical capacity saying right now, oh I deserve it, 386 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: dumb ass, because that is the code, right if you 387 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: work in an environment where I mean, look what we 388 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: if we mess up on something, I come back and 389 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: go I goofed and it's fixed. If you work on 390 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 1: a natural gas line, you work around heavy equipment. A 391 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: mistake can mean death. So it is there is no 392 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: you know, touchy feeling the way I talk about it. 393 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: There's no understanding that you feel bad about somebody. No, no, no, 394 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: it's survival of the fittest. You don't do that, you'll 395 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: get us all killed. And what a different way to 396 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: go about your life. I read a number the other 397 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: day of saying, you know, the extreme Feminazis don't complain 398 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: about the fact that ninety eight percent of garbage men 399 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 1: are are men and all these jobs that women don't want. 400 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: But you know, even us men hold our manhood, chief, 401 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: We're not going to get killed. 402 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 3: Doing them, dude. 403 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show. 404 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: Julie Wrights. I used to work at Sambuca restaurant downtown 405 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: in the Rice Hotel. A lady was at the bar 406 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: with her friends and stepped away to the restroom. Forty 407 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: five minutes go by, and her friends got worried because 408 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: she hadn't returned. Turns out she had a heart attack 409 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: on the toilet and died. My boyfriend at the time 410 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: had to pull her off the toilet. Also, a female 411 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: serial killer called the Stiletto Killer was a regular at 412 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: the bar. 413 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 3: There. 414 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: These were happening at Sambuca Ramon. You don't remember how 415 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: big a Sambuca was? Did we do? Andrew already? All right? 416 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: Brian Europe, Sir. 417 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 10: Patty Michael had a little small company here in Cyprus 418 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 10: with a couple dozen employees. Had a salesman travel I 419 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 10: had traveling salesman all across Texas and Louisiana. Had one 420 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 10: out of Dallas that never woke up one morning in 421 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 10: San Angelo and we had to get the hotel to 422 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 10: do a room check to finding. But we did put 423 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 10: a protocol in place because the last thing I wanted. 424 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 10: He was a forty year old guy with four kids 425 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 10: under ten, and the last thing I wanted was for 426 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 10: his wife to find out via a call from the 427 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 10: Sant Angelo Police Department. And we had her contact information, 428 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 10: but what I just wasn't going to make that a 429 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 10: phone call. And so I was seconds away from jumping 430 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 10: in the car and making a blazing trip to Dallas. 431 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 10: And we actually found that she was at their church, 432 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 10: and we talked to the pastor and he delivered the 433 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 10: protocol we put in place. It was, oh absolutely, But 434 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 10: the protocol we put in place was we need your 435 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 10: spouse's information. All that we also wanted a neighbor or 436 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 10: an uncle or somebody means we were out of town 437 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 10: that could deliver news like that. And it was weird 438 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 10: to ask, you know, people for that, But once they 439 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 10: got it, and particularly after that situation, everybody's willing to 440 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:05,239 Speaker 10: do it. 441 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: You know, it's weird to fill out information or provide 442 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: information or prepare for your death when you're seemingly healthy. 443 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: It feels weird, maybe dramatic, awkward. People don't like it, 444 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: but it's a thing you have to do. When I 445 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: decided that this would be the year that I was 446 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: going to make sure everything was planned and prepared in 447 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: my life, and that I would share that with listeners 448 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,959 Speaker 1: maybe it would help a few folks. One of the 449 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,719 Speaker 1: things I talked about was getting in a state planning lawyer, 450 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: and we ended up, after interviewing a lot of folks, 451 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: with a woman named Christine Weaver. And I have been 452 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: amazed how many people have emailed me, not just listeners 453 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: that I expected, but how many of my friends said, Michael, 454 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: I don't have a state plan and some of these 455 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: people are seventy plus and they didn't have any documents. 456 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: And now it was going to go to the government 457 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: to take as much as they could and the family 458 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: to fight over it. And the situation I see that 459 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: ends up being the biggest problem is if siblings don't 460 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: get along, that's a big one, and you die. What's 461 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: called intestate, which means without a will. A person dies 462 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: in testate, they have children from an earlier marriage. They've 463 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: married a younger woman. She is at odds with the 464 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: kids from the earlier marriage. Maybe the kids from the 465 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: earlier marriage are involved in the family's business, you know, 466 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: running the business. It gets really ugly and it's hard 467 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: to sit down and make a decision and say, all right, 468 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: when I die, this is what goes to these people. 469 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: But it's better that you make that decision than someone else. 470 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: Javier writes Opening Day. He's a former professional baseball player 471 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: and coach. 472 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 10: I know him. 473 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: Opening Day nineteen ninety six, Cincinnati Reds hosting the Montreal 474 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: Expert Expos. 475 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 6: Zara. 476 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: I was playing for the Reds in ninety six. It 477 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: was Opening Day, a beautiful day game in the traditional 478 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: beginning of the baseball season. Big John McSherry, the crew chief, 479 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: was umping behind the plate. He called several pitches to 480 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: the leadoff hitter, turned around and walked toward the door 481 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: behind home plate and collapsed on the warning track. He 482 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: died from a massive heart attack on the field. He 483 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: went to the clubhouse and thirty to forty five minutes later, 484 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: the other umpires, along with the Expos, came in and 485 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: told us Big John had passed. Obviously, the umpires had 486 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: been crying and were shaken up. They had talked to 487 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: the Reds owner Marge Shott and the National League president 488 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: Leonard Coleman, and told us that we were going to 489 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: continue the game. Our team captain Barry Larkin, and the 490 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: Expos David Saki and Moises Alou told him, hell, no, 491 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: we're not playing today. We'll take the forfeit. They can 492 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: take the forfeit. Out of respect for Big John, we 493 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: ain't playing, so they postponed the game to the next day. 494 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: Umpire Jerry Crawford and the rest of the crew broke 495 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: down and conveyed their gratitude. As much as we bitch 496 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: about the umpires, the opposing teams, the staff were all 497 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: one big family. Jeremy, you're up, go ahead, sir. 498 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 13: Graphic content warning. My wife was a property manager for 499 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 13: many years and there was a resident that a friend 500 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 13: had requested a wellness check on that they hadn't heard 501 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 13: from in a while. 502 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 7: A little over two weeks. 503 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 13: And they went with the police and the sheriff and 504 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 13: opened the door of the apartment and the lady was 505 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 13: lying there in the living room dead and had been 506 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 13: there for over two weeks, and had already swolled up 507 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 13: and exploded and wallpaper the living area. And the poor 508 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 13: cat that was there was so. 509 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: Hungry, was eating her feet. Tammy writes, I grew up 510 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: in the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo. To be exact, I think 511 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,239 Speaker 1: there was a der Wiener Snitzel on every corner. I 512 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: can remember when you could purchase four chili cheese dogs, 513 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: two medium bags of fries, two medium pepsi for four 514 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: ninety nine. Yeah that was nineteen eighty seven, but I 515 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: don't remember those commercials that you played at all. Also, 516 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: when I go home to visit my mom, that's one 517 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: of the must haves. Not sure if you know there's 518 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: actually a der Winder Stencil north of Kingwood, And yes, 519 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: I've driven over there for a chili cheese and a 520 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: Polish sandwich. There's still one on MacArthur Drive in orange 521 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: and it sits proudly where it has since probably before 522 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: I was born, or somewhere around that time. Let me 523 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: say before we close the show this weekend, I noticed 524 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: some different people with major platforms, and it doesn't matter 525 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: who they are, so I'm not getting into it arguing 526 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: over whether Churchill was a villain and whether Churchill was 527 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,719 Speaker 1: the reason that World War two expanded to the extent 528 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: that it did, when Hitler could have been kept from 529 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: going to war if Churchill hadn't wanted to expand the war, 530 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: but Churchill wanted to keep. My point is it has 531 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: caused a riff and a lot of infighting, and now 532 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: precious time is being spent by each of these camps 533 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: tearing down the other camp, and Kamala Harris couldn't be happier. 534 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: I don't care what your disagreement is with other people 535 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: who want to defeat Kamala Harris. This is like Kevin 536 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: gilbrid and Buddy Ryan down on the field fighting in 537 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: the middle of the game when your coach is for 538 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: the same team. I don't know how else to say this. 539 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: If we don't win this election, sorry, I'm not crying. 540 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: I throws it will be the end of this country 541 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: as you know it. It will be misery for us, 542 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: but far worse for our kids. Stop fighting with each other, 543 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 1: focus on winning this election. Put your pridecide into everything 544 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: you can to help every Republican win