Speaker 1: Episode sixty four, The Bobby Cast no guests today. I
Speaker 1: want to share some stories with you. We're gonna about
Speaker 1: half hour here The Bobby Cast A bought to you
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Speaker 1: very near and dear to my heart. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about my trip to Haiti. Let's say this before I
Speaker 1: get into it. I too years ago, before Amy started
Speaker 1: going to eighty, I thought, man, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people here in that estates that are poor. I
Speaker 1: still have include when I was a kid, really poor,
Speaker 1: like well we were by other people. I don't feel
Speaker 1: that way now Amy has change my perspective and I
Speaker 1: and even now even more software going over there, my
Speaker 1: perspective changed. And not that anyone's value is more or less,
Speaker 1: but the whole they're supposed to be borders with poverty
Speaker 1: is weird to me, meaning everyone's like, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: like to help people they're close. With that logic, if
Speaker 1: your neighbor was sick three houses down, but your next
Speaker 1: door neighbor was sick, that means you would only help
Speaker 1: your next door neighbor first before you went to the
Speaker 1: one three houses down. But who's closer to you? Matters.
Speaker 1: Apparently two people mostly like anything. Help help someone in
Speaker 1: your community, don't you know? It's like St. Jude's and
Speaker 1: Memphis and people go by. You know, I just help kids,
Speaker 1: and you know, wherever I am, that's great. I think
Speaker 1: you should. But it shouldn't be an excuse not to
Speaker 1: help somewhere else, and it shouldn't be a reason for
Speaker 1: you to get angry. It's someone for helping somewhere wherever
Speaker 1: they go. It doesn't matter how far they are from you,
Speaker 1: doesnt matter where they live, they're ten miles. Is someone
Speaker 1: ten miles from you more important than someone three hundred
Speaker 1: miles from you. That's a real question, and that's something
Speaker 1: that I've had to struggle and ask myself, because I
Speaker 1: too was like, I want all my money to say
Speaker 1: right here in my town, help my people. But then
Speaker 1: you start to go out of town. And it started
Speaker 1: for me after traveling around the United States and playing
Speaker 1: at hospitals all over the country and then playing the
Speaker 1: Saint Jude to Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee radio shows, not there
Speaker 1: like I mean, I have no personal affiliation there until
Speaker 1: I went and realized that Saint Jude was a place
Speaker 1: where everybody comes for all over the world for free.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, I didn't know this. I
Speaker 1: was just so uneducated. And um, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: been able to educate myself in a lot of ways. Again.
Speaker 1: I go play hospital in Boston, I go play hospital
Speaker 1: in Dallas, a play hospital, and I don't say, like,
Speaker 1: look at all the hospitals I'm playing, But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it doesn't really matter where people are. If people
Speaker 1: want to help someone else, like, that's great, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's just great because they could help nobody. People will
Speaker 1: get mad at Amy all the time, like why are
Speaker 1: you helping kids over me? Why doesn't what if she helped? No?
Speaker 1: Would you rather help nobody? So my perspective change changed
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Speaker 1: the bed and I have one right up thing. Speaking
Speaker 1: of bed went to the Orphan. They have little mattresses
Speaker 1: and no pillows, no blankets. They just slip on the
Speaker 1: straight up of the mattress sped on the floor. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'll get to that. I guess my point was
Speaker 1: at the very beginning of this how many notes or anything,
Speaker 1: is that I would see people get angry at Amy
Speaker 1: first years ago, then at me later when I would
Speaker 1: help hospitals that weren't in the town I was living
Speaker 1: in our hospitals that people weren't in the town. Or
Speaker 1: it would be like, man, like I used to think,
Speaker 1: the same thing I would to be. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: mad at them. I would just be like, man, I
Speaker 1: wish you could see that humans just are human. You
Speaker 1: can help anybody that's awesome, Like there's not there shouldn't
Speaker 1: be a line or a body of water that you
Speaker 1: cross and all of a sudden they're not as important,
Speaker 1: or the further away they are, they're not as important,
Speaker 1: Like distance makes them less important. And so I credit
Speaker 1: one Amy first to open them my eyeballs to that absolutely,
Speaker 1: And secondly, a lot of great people that have said, hey,
Speaker 1: come to these hospitals. And so I've been lucky enough
Speaker 1: to do that. I've done. I'm on and I'm on
Speaker 1: the National Board of Musicians on Call, which is a
Speaker 1: fantastic organization, and um, obviously we do a lot of
Speaker 1: Saint Jude. So I decided, let me just get to
Speaker 1: the guts of the story here. After that little soapbox,
Speaker 1: I decide that weeks ago I was gonna go to Haiti,
Speaker 1: and all of a suff you here on the ear
Speaker 1: over the past week was all just me stringing Amy
Speaker 1: into a bet already having it planned. You knew that, right.
Speaker 1: And I had a lot of few people know how
Speaker 1: to call my doctor because I had to get I
Speaker 1: was like, what do I have to get shots at
Speaker 1: my penis? Like what I have to do? Because I
Speaker 1: was I was scared. I was scared for many reasons.
Speaker 1: Why because they have to take medicine just to go there,
Speaker 1: And it's scary to take medicine just to go somewhere.
Speaker 1: There are many places in your life where you have
Speaker 1: to take a month prescription just to step foot on
Speaker 1: the land. And so it's like, yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: take a month of malaria medicine. And I'm like just
Speaker 1: to go there for a weekend that yeah, And so
Speaker 1: again it was important to Amy. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: because you can have crazy dreams and man, and I
Speaker 1: had to take it like the week before I went,
Speaker 1: and I'm still taking it crazy dreams. You and I
Speaker 1: would nake it about three out the last four nights, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, not really just a different scenario. So, um,
Speaker 1: I'll be serious. Uh two and a half weeks so ago,
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I'm going to Haiti. It was really
Speaker 1: the only weekend that I had off was this past
Speaker 1: weekend because I get back on the road and do
Speaker 1: some get back on the road doing stand up comedy,
Speaker 1: get back on the road doing um raging idiot stuff.
Speaker 1: So and so I let my doctor no, Mike new
Speaker 1: And I think at the that point that was just
Speaker 1: about it. And Mary Mary my friend, who um were
Speaker 1: you clothing together? Um? We do Pama joy together? You
Speaker 1: know it's me her and Amy do Pima joy um.
Speaker 1: Because she'd been there, I need somebody because Amy's houseband
Speaker 1: couldn't go. He's his name to go and I would
Speaker 1: have taken I would have went with Amy. But she
Speaker 1: told me on the air right it I was about
Speaker 1: to book the trip that she could not go back.
Speaker 1: She said, the last time I left was the last
Speaker 1: time that I'm gonna be able to go until we
Speaker 1: get our kids because they expected to get their kids
Speaker 1: rather soon. And she was like, I can't go back
Speaker 1: because they were devastated that they came and then left again.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, whoa, that's crest. That's weird.
Speaker 1: So now I have to kind of go by myself,
Speaker 1: but I'm still gonna go committed to going. I mean,
Speaker 1: the best friends of the whole life. And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right. So Mary from California flew to Atlanta and
Speaker 1: I was nervous as nervous for a whole week beforehand,
Speaker 1: but I knew I was going, and I want her
Speaker 1: to lure Amy into something. And I was like, stuff,
Speaker 1: how went would get a tattoos? She was like yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know I wasn't gonna go secretly, I was
Speaker 1: already planning, and so she agrees, and it's funny. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen there, but um, I wanted
Speaker 1: to play music. I don't take my guitar and play
Speaker 1: with the orphans for kids and so called. Nikita, who
Speaker 1: is Australian, is singer songwriter in town and really good friend.
Speaker 1: She plays in The Raging Idiots, something she opens for
Speaker 1: me on stand up comedy x um. So I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go to Haiti, and she was, you know, she
Speaker 1: strives like Haiti. Never been there. Okay, So then she
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta take medicine for a month. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I know. And so we you know,
Speaker 1: our plan was to fly down Friday morning, like like
Speaker 1: the flight was like nine thirty or something. I was
Speaker 1: going to leave the show a little bit early, and
Speaker 1: so you know, sometimes if I have to leave earlier,
Speaker 1: it's don all record the last thirty or forty five
Speaker 1: minutes the show. And so I recorded the last part
Speaker 1: of the show. I was ready to go, and then
Speaker 1: I got a note beforehand said, uh, your flight's been canceled.
Speaker 1: I got a note canceled, not delayed, canceled, and I
Speaker 1: was like, how is it canceled? Kindly, some people get
Speaker 1: sick on the flight, and to people get sick, they
Speaker 1: couldn't fly it down to Atlanta. So that was the
Speaker 1: only option to get me there, to get me to Haiti,
Speaker 1: unless I took the one like an hour and a
Speaker 1: half before, which meant I had to record I don't know,
Speaker 1: the hour and half of the show really quickly. So
Speaker 1: I did, I Amy and I went in the studio.
Speaker 1: Bam bam bam, knocked it out. Luckily we had that
Speaker 1: dance party. We knocked out the show. Jumped in the car,
Speaker 1: flat tire, stuck, so I'm like, it's not already slept
Speaker 1: in dog crab, flat tire. Like. Uh, got to the airport,
Speaker 1: couldn't get on that flight. So my normal flight was
Speaker 1: the delay like two and a half hours. Couldn't make
Speaker 1: it down to I got it on the next flight,
Speaker 1: made it under Atlanta, but I miss my connector to Haiti.
Speaker 1: One flight in Haiti, so I had to spend the
Speaker 1: night in Atlanta at an hotel Atlanta. So what was
Speaker 1: gonna be all day Friday, a day, Saturday night, all
Speaker 1: day Saturday, all day Sunday. So we get to porta
Speaker 1: Prints which is in Haiti, and uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was getting into. I've been to the Bahamas
Speaker 1: different and they're some they're kind of close. Bamas are
Speaker 1: a lot closer, but it's like the Bahamas and there's
Speaker 1: I was looking at the map because I don't know
Speaker 1: where I was, Like I was there and I really
Speaker 1: had no idea where I was on the map. So
Speaker 1: I'm like Google in the map and it's like over
Speaker 1: the top of Cuba, which is past the Mahamas, because
Speaker 1: the Bahamas the right off Florida and I've been to
Speaker 1: the Bahamas before and I was looking at it and um,
Speaker 1: the land. We get off the plane and everyone you
Speaker 1: had to wear covered shoes and um. We met security there.
Speaker 1: Andy's husband who got a security because I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't care what it costs, I'll pay for security.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't want to get shot. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. It's secured to that, and
Speaker 1: it was. It was Mayhem's Mayhem. It was at the airport,
Speaker 1: like I mean, there's just people are screaming everywhere, like
Speaker 1: they're not even lines. They're like, what's happening? And so
Speaker 1: I'm wide eyed. They lost my bags, so I'm looking
Speaker 1: for my bag. There there are bags just laying on
Speaker 1: the ground like they're just taking them and throw them
Speaker 1: off the car under the ground, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: there's like nothing I've ever been in before. So I'm
Speaker 1: already spooked a little bit. Rat the bag finally found
Speaker 1: my back. Niki defines their bag and we get into
Speaker 1: the rental car. The roads there they're not. They're not
Speaker 1: American roads. There aren't two lanes, they have holes in
Speaker 1: the middle of them. They have huge drops like you
Speaker 1: think roads are bad in certain states because there's not
Speaker 1: enough taxes going into it. Ten time force in that here,
Speaker 1: and there are no stop signs, no traffic lights. There
Speaker 1: are four ways we used to haunk Kong Kong Kong,
Speaker 1: Kong Kongong. Make sure abody looking at you go through.
Speaker 1: And there are people standing out in the middle of
Speaker 1: the road always it's weird. They're weird. Um, just I've
Speaker 1: never seen there'll be no rules like that. There are
Speaker 1: people outside of any kind of stores to go with
Speaker 1: the shotgun. Went to the grocery store at one point
Speaker 1: two guys with shotguns just standing right out tot of
Speaker 1: front of the store, just twelve games, shotguns, pumps just
Speaker 1: sitting there. When ms some groceries, but but stuff with
Speaker 1: the kids, candy, cookie stuff like that. Um. I went
Speaker 1: to the orphanage for the first day and didn't really
Speaker 1: know what I was getting into again. Never been. But
Speaker 1: you have to go up to the nowk and this
Speaker 1: big metal gate and they opened it. It's like threefold.
Speaker 1: And the guy we're with is pretty well known around town.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, it's me. So we're going to the orphanage.
Speaker 1: They shut that gate and there's another gate you get
Speaker 1: to that gate. It's to keep people from going in
Speaker 1: and like robbing the place because they make bread in there. Um,
Speaker 1: so go in and you cant have the truck. And
Speaker 1: it's just kids everywhere, not not even in a not
Speaker 1: like warm nice kids everywhere. It's hot. It's obviously there's
Speaker 1: no air conditioning. There's just a a thing of the air conditioning.
Speaker 1: Even their beds aren't. There's no air conditioning ever, and
Speaker 1: so a bunch of kids in every room. They're like
Speaker 1: different age groups. One room had like through you know,
Speaker 1: babies to three year olds, boys and girls. But then
Speaker 1: once they got older they started to split. No this
Speaker 1: age you know, different rooms, different little buildings, but all
Speaker 1: in rather a small area like three small buildings. Everything
Speaker 1: was was like that. All the kids just wanted to
Speaker 1: be held. Everybody wanted to be held, like they would
Speaker 1: just run up to you and just jump in your arms.
Speaker 1: And the first you were like, do they want something?
Speaker 1: But what they wanted it was just any sort of
Speaker 1: affection at all because they don't get it. They have
Speaker 1: a few nannies there. They're watching. Amy said, seventy kids.
Speaker 1: All I saw three nannies watching seventy kids. So there's
Speaker 1: And another thing that I noticed was they had a
Speaker 1: bag and the bags had candy and cookies and the
Speaker 1: and they went into them and we were like boom.
Speaker 1: They were just grab a grab, grab, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, here we go. And they started passing about
Speaker 1: to each other. Again, these are kids that don't have anything,
Speaker 1: and instead of grabbing and like stuffing in their pockets,
Speaker 1: are running away with it. They started making sure everybody
Speaker 1: had equal amounts immediately, like you have, you have, you have,
Speaker 1: you have, you have, you have, you have, you have,
Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa, this is not like western
Speaker 1: groups of kids. This is not like me. I was
Speaker 1: a kid like at Oreos, I'll take seven. And so
Speaker 1: they all equally passed, and it was very much lookout
Speaker 1: for each other, type of society inside of it. Even
Speaker 1: playing basketball, they passed the ball, no balls, there was
Speaker 1: no ball. Hog. Playing basket was amazing. I was they passed,
Speaker 1: they passed it right to me. Wow, So they're not
Speaker 1: that We're all lebron the cist, the cist, the cist
Speaker 1: they're crazy. Um, they love iPhones, like nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: They know how to use them. They don't have mirrors
Speaker 1: the orphanage, so they never see themselves. So when you
Speaker 1: take a picture, they're like, oh, like they see themselves
Speaker 1: and the picture. That's the timely when they see each other,
Speaker 1: like they see themselves by looking at a picture you took.
Speaker 1: So they're fascinating with pictures, and so we took a
Speaker 1: watch selfies. This is what we did so they could
Speaker 1: look at themselves and look and be like oh and laugh.
Speaker 1: But as there, I saw one mirror the entire time,
Speaker 1: and it was adult height. You couldn't see it if
Speaker 1: you were a kid, and it was for like the
Speaker 1: person whos running the orphanage. So there are no mirrors there. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever saw like a water fountain.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have water somehow, I don't know. They
Speaker 1: kept us away from the water because the water was
Speaker 1: super clean there. Um. They shared the phones and the
Speaker 1: iPads because we all had our phones, and we let
Speaker 1: the kids play with them and they would play a
Speaker 1: game and when they would lose their pass it another
Speaker 1: kid and I was like, this is incredible. I've never
Speaker 1: seen anything like this. They play minecraft, not play it
Speaker 1: pass another kid? What mean they're not getting it back?
Speaker 1: They would just passing another kid. It was the most
Speaker 1: unselfish thing I've ever seen from eight year olds, from
Speaker 1: eleven year old and they just wanted to play. They
Speaker 1: just wanted to be held. They wanted to They love music.
Speaker 1: We took a guitars to playing music and they knew
Speaker 1: when I grew up then then up bupp they would
Speaker 1: sing it. They loved the strom, the guitar with their hands.
Speaker 1: They just loved any anything UM where it felt like
Speaker 1: you were giving them attention. And so the first day
Speaker 1: came and went and UM since we got their new niche,
Speaker 1: we didn't get a stay the whole time because they
Speaker 1: want you out of there by six not out of there,
Speaker 1: want you if you're not from there, going to be
Speaker 1: inside your wherever you're gonna be by like six pms
Speaker 1: what they said. At six seven, we went to dinner.
Speaker 1: UM we took security with us and head of the
Speaker 1: orphanage and we saw Anderson Cooper at dinner andson Cooper
Speaker 1: walked in, which is crazy. And I went dinner with
Speaker 1: um Amy's kids and the head of the orphanage because
Speaker 1: since she wasn't there, he had to be there, which
Speaker 1: is fine with us. We just wanted to go. And
Speaker 1: her son dances like crazy, and it was it was
Speaker 1: weird to me because I've only seen them in videos
Speaker 1: and pictures. They were real life. It was like seeing
Speaker 1: a celebrity You've only seen him on TV forever and
Speaker 1: finally you're like, whoa Like John hamm is in the
Speaker 1: airplane next to me, Like you know Danny Gollecki from
Speaker 1: is walking down the street from Big Bang Theory. You know,
Speaker 1: It's what I felt like. I've only seen that for years.
Speaker 1: I watched them grow up and now who they are.
Speaker 1: And so we go back to the second day. And
Speaker 1: by the second day, and I know a little bit
Speaker 1: of French, but French in French creole slightly different. So
Speaker 1: I had a kid translator who I could talk to
Speaker 1: other kids with and I would be like, hey do
Speaker 1: you say but I need to saying. I would repeating
Speaker 1: a new numbers on dutoits. I knew um general expressions, bonsois, bonjours,
Speaker 1: I know all the easy stuff and so but I
Speaker 1: had a little translator. We I go and talk to
Speaker 1: the kids, talk to the orphan and they had the
Speaker 1: orphan engine. I was like, he, how do you get kids?
Speaker 1: He said, people should just drop them off the door.
Speaker 1: We would take and he said, we're packed right now,
Speaker 1: We're full. I can't take any more kids, he said,
Speaker 1: but they have to go to the government now. So
Speaker 1: they go to the government and the government feeds them
Speaker 1: over and that's how they have kids. And they were
Speaker 1: maxed out at whatever the number they were maxed out there,
Speaker 1: and so uh, the second day we win, and we
Speaker 1: took a bunch of when I grew up, t shirts
Speaker 1: and markers and colored that, posted some pictures on the
Speaker 1: ground and play ball. And again, they just liked to
Speaker 1: do things. I know, it sounds like it's nothing like,
Speaker 1: what's the thing it's like to do anything? Anything that's
Speaker 1: not every day? Just sitting outside and U when I
Speaker 1: was leaving, and it was really the only time that
Speaker 1: because the whole thing to me was just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: You've never seen anything like this. I've never I've never
Speaker 1: seen poverty at that level. I've seen poverty a lot
Speaker 1: of levels myself. When I was a kid um where
Speaker 1: I wouldn't always have three mills a day. We'd take
Speaker 1: a mill at school sometimes because you just want me.
Speaker 1: The kid didn't have a meal, especially in high school,
Speaker 1: like junior high. Mostly high school was working. But it's
Speaker 1: it's nothing like this. They share clothes. It's like they
Speaker 1: get washed by the nannies and they just grab some clothes.
Speaker 1: They eat basically rice every day, so there's no protein,
Speaker 1: so it seems some of them are underdeveloped. Um, it
Speaker 1: was just from someone who grew up in a pretty
Speaker 1: poor place. This is a different level. And in general
Speaker 1: they were happy and not happy because they had a lot,
Speaker 1: happy because their attitude was it was just different than
Speaker 1: what we have. We're very much a me me, me,
Speaker 1: me me society and there I let's all take care
Speaker 1: of each other. And they were they were they were
Speaker 1: happy kids. Some kids fell down and started crying, like
Speaker 1: seven kids. Remember to make sure it's okay, because I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, this is not what happens in America.
Speaker 1: And so when I was leaving, it was the time
Speaker 1: when it hit me. I was because I just like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say as numb as possible, I know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna se Amy's kids in the next month, two months,
Speaker 1: three months, whenever, So I'm going to meet them and
Speaker 1: it was really for Amy. I owed it to her,
Speaker 1: and um, I was leaving, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: sucks because most of these kids will never have even
Speaker 1: the opportunity to have an opportunity. I didn't have opportunities,
Speaker 1: but I had an opportunity to get an opportunity. Like
Speaker 1: nothing was given to me. I grew up. Yeah, food stamps, welfare,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, bah, then go to dinners
Speaker 1: and go doctor way way. But I had a school,
Speaker 1: had had a literal public school with teachers, and if
Speaker 1: I wanted to, I could study, and I can learn,
Speaker 1: and I can then take a c T. And I
Speaker 1: gut study and and I wanted to do good in
Speaker 1: the A s C. I could. I did. And I
Speaker 1: want to go to college. And you take out loans
Speaker 1: or you get scholarship, you do. And then my parents,
Speaker 1: my mom even know where I went to college, Like
Speaker 1: I just want I just told her. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm leaving to go to college tomorrow.
Speaker 1: She was like, where are you going? And I told
Speaker 1: her I just left. That was it. But I had
Speaker 1: that opportunity to do that. I want to college, I
Speaker 1: want to study. I go to college and study I
Speaker 1: want to get a job in my desired profession, which
Speaker 1: I go to that and then I can jump my
Speaker 1: desired profession. And they don't have that opportunity, don't have
Speaker 1: the opportunity. They don't they they don't have even the
Speaker 1: most common basic things that we have. Multiple can have
Speaker 1: the shot to have that. And when I was leaving,
Speaker 1: I felt terribly guilty. Was like, I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: home and land my bed and tomorrow night I'll have
Speaker 1: it on nick and night watching TV land and m M.
Speaker 1: You know, for me, this was just a trip, just
Speaker 1: and it says their life like so yeah, it hit
Speaker 1: me and I didn't want it to and I tried
Speaker 1: to not make it hit me, but it did. Um
Speaker 1: not even it's the biggest part. There's very lit opportunity,
Speaker 1: even to create an opportunity for yourself. I believe in
Speaker 1: this country a lot of people and some people have
Speaker 1: to work harder than others to get the same Some
Speaker 1: people have to work a lot harder than others to
Speaker 1: get the same thing, and but you still have the
Speaker 1: shot at it. And so we don't have the shot
Speaker 1: over there, and it's it sucks, and it takes so
Speaker 1: long to help these kids. So that was I'm probably
Speaker 1: glossing over a hundred stories, but because it's still fresh,
Speaker 1: I took a lot of pictures videos posted them today.
Speaker 1: Some I don't want to post too many. Amy was
Speaker 1: freaked out. She was I talked to you after the show,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, it came mad at me
Speaker 1: for not taking you, and she wasn't, but I know
Speaker 1: she wished that she would have been there. But she
Speaker 1: told me, in a complete moment of sanity, that she
Speaker 1: did not want to go back because she couldn't. She
Speaker 1: could not go back. She didn't say that in an
Speaker 1: emotional part. She said, I can't go back because it's
Speaker 1: not good for the kids or it's not good for me.
Speaker 1: And because she said that I didn't take her, and
Speaker 1: she if she'd have been like really emotional when she said,
Speaker 1: I would have went back to our talk to about
Speaker 1: but she was at a good point and ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it. So I'll do this commercial her. Do
Speaker 1: you have anything you want to ask? Oh, like, what
Speaker 1: was the like the interaction you have with their kids
Speaker 1: like talking to him. Well, there's a language barrier first,
Speaker 1: but they just want to hold your hand and hold
Speaker 1: your arm and they want you to hold them if
Speaker 1: they're small and they like candy. It's not like we're
Speaker 1: talking about outliers, you know, it's like any other kid.
Speaker 1: You know, your your language is basically affection and hugs
Speaker 1: and games and darna ball and that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And occasionally you'd have a kid it's like a really
Speaker 1: good English for for that and they're like, hey what
Speaker 1: you know, what what are they saying? And the mayd
Speaker 1: always be something like hey, I want to go and
Speaker 1: play ball or something, But yeah, there were it was
Speaker 1: like it wasn't too different than young kids here because
Speaker 1: even though the language is different, listen, what do I know?
Speaker 1: What have I come with a kid? Like I'm always
Speaker 1: confused how to talk to kids like six year olds,
Speaker 1: like we're not even in common. Yeah, hey man, you
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Speaker 1: an these kids like know you know not at all. No,
Speaker 1: they knew Mary because she's been there a bunch. Um.
Speaker 1: They warmed up to me really quickly, especially her son.
Speaker 1: For me, I don't know what to talk about to
Speaker 1: a girl anyway, because like a ten year old, So
Speaker 1: it was a lot easier for me to talk to
Speaker 1: a six year old boy than a ten year old girl.
Speaker 1: But there were two girls, and so I talked to
Speaker 1: her a little bit, and she knew English a little bit,
Speaker 1: and so we would talking about little things. But I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with him because as a boy,
Speaker 1: it was just easier to play ball the boys and
Speaker 1: I was really out. I felt like I was in
Speaker 1: their house and there I don't know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to do anything wrong in their eyes, all any of them.
Speaker 1: Like I just felt like I was in their house
Speaker 1: and I don't want to come. But yeah, now they
Speaker 1: don't know, but they don't care, and they just I
Speaker 1: mean Amy's daughter like with like the leader, grab stuff,
Speaker 1: pass it around, grabs up, passing around amazing son. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm tiny but pretty athletic to be so tiny. I
Speaker 1: can really really small. I can catch a ball and
Speaker 1: throw a ball pretty well. I was like, wow, like
Speaker 1: you're a tiny little tot. But again, I think he's
Speaker 1: small because he hasn't developed yet. I think he's underdeveloped.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get bigger when he gets here. So
Speaker 1: yeah's that anything else? I think you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people on the show we're talking about going leaving
Speaker 1: on the scariest part for me was the airport on
Speaker 1: the way home, trying to get out of there because
Speaker 1: landing you just you're already, you're there. It's like you
Speaker 1: just gotta get out of the airport. Going into the airport,
Speaker 1: you gotta get all your stuff and get your tickets.
Speaker 1: You gotta go. It was Mayhem. It was like something
Speaker 1: you see in a movie another part of the world.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. They were like five counters, just
Speaker 1: people yelling ah, like chickens running around, goats. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what was happening in the airport. And we
Speaker 1: were like, oh my goodness, we were and we waited first.
Speaker 1: We were like hey, and they were like, oh um,
Speaker 1: we don't we need to call America make sure we
Speaker 1: have your tickets. Waited for like an hour the way
Speaker 1: to get there like two or three hours early way
Speaker 1: three hours really, and so got there, waited for like
Speaker 1: an hour at the desk, then went to there's no
Speaker 1: seating really in the like food court. We have food court.
Speaker 1: It's just a hallway with a couple of chairs. People
Speaker 1: sell on the floor everywhere, no air condition, no air condition,
Speaker 1: doors are open, so everybody's miserable. It's a sauna in there.
Speaker 1: Were waiting there for an hour and a half and
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, get in line. We got in line,
Speaker 1: waited for an hour, just stood up and they go
Speaker 1: through and they check you, check your you know you're not.
Speaker 1: They go through every part of your bag, they check
Speaker 1: your body, everything. And then we got on a bus
Speaker 1: and got busted all the way through taxi like beat
Speaker 1: up runway. And got on an airplane, walked up the
Speaker 1: steps on a big plane. We weren't even the airport anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what what was happening. I was so
Speaker 1: happy to get on the airplane. Uh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was nuts. But I didn't go out to the city.
Speaker 1: I was there for two days, you know, the Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday, but yeah, there's really one of those things
Speaker 1: where you see things and you go, man, I was
Speaker 1: so ignorant before because I was the person that was like,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure my money's kept right here
Speaker 1: at home, and I think it's important to do that. Um,
Speaker 1: but I also think that to go, Hey, why are
Speaker 1: you worried about somebody in China? Are you worry about
Speaker 1: somebody in Ethiopia? Somebody's adopting from Uganda? Human beings. Man,
Speaker 1: you go over there and you look them in the eyeballs,
Speaker 1: your perspective will change completely. The only thing different about
Speaker 1: them they were born in different part of the worlds it.
Speaker 1: That's it. And they could use help too. So does
Speaker 1: my experience, I'm sure. I mean, Amy had so many
Speaker 1: questions and she was like, I don't even know where
Speaker 1: to start. But yeah, the whole hiding up for her
Speaker 1: was crazy. And now I would live at Little Easter
Speaker 1: Eggs the whole time, because again Andrews Cooper and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I now I would. I told her, so I'm doing
Speaker 1: a so how My story to her was have to
Speaker 1: go to Atlanta because I'm hosting an event for Dollar General.
Speaker 1: It's a big corporate event. And as like I have
Speaker 1: to go talk to the Dollar General and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to convince them to, you know, hire me for this gig.
Speaker 1: And I already even hired, but it was my way
Speaker 1: to get down there. And I took my guitar and
Speaker 1: she's like, why do your guitar? I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got play songs. They have to know I'm like
Speaker 1: all around performer. And so I went down and even
Speaker 1: FaceTime to her as I was down there as better
Speaker 1: than I was an a tankist. They were doing was
Speaker 1: like got dinner. It was a tank top beard, like
Speaker 1: my facial hair is grown out. She never thought thing
Speaker 1: about it, and little things like and if you don't
Speaker 1: want to Andrews the Cooper's Instagram right when I said
Speaker 1: I saw him, he was in Port pres Haiti. So
Speaker 1: there were little things that I did, um and the
Speaker 1: little bankas said to Amy when I was back to like,
Speaker 1: oh how did I put that together? Oh? And I
Speaker 1: knew she wouldn't. I hope she wouldn't, And I would
Speaker 1: text her pretty frequently be like hey, what up? You know?
Speaker 1: I was all, you're doing a jump rope on Instagram
Speaker 1: and to see if she'd be like, hey, well, by
Speaker 1: the way, are you says she never had any idea,
Speaker 1: And this morning, when I played the audio back and
Speaker 1: me with kids at the orphanage, she thought, I just
Speaker 1: found some random kids in Atlanta. They were Haitian and
Speaker 1: they were like, I guess in her mind, I just
Speaker 1: found some kids. Were like, hey, you're Haitian like Amy.
Speaker 1: Kids lots to yell at Amy. She was so confused.
Speaker 1: And then when I played the cup of her son
Speaker 1: and she's all picked her on my phone with them,
Speaker 1: she started crying and I, yeah, it was it was
Speaker 1: it was nuts. It was nuts. So people wanted me
Speaker 1: to talk about it. That's that's kind of what I know.
Speaker 1: I don't really know a lot I went. Would you
Speaker 1: go back, Yeah, I would go back. I'll go back
Speaker 1: with I'm gonna go back with security again. For sure.
Speaker 1: I'll go back with security again. But yeah, I would
Speaker 1: go back. It's just like, they're just a lot of places,
Speaker 1: you see, and they need help. And the reason that
Speaker 1: I went was because I have so many close friends
Speaker 1: that that's important to them, Like Amy, the closest of
Speaker 1: my friends, it's very important to her. And if it's
Speaker 1: important to somebody's close to me, it is important to me,
Speaker 1: and I was selfish for not going, and man on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh the bed, I'm not Amy been
Speaker 1: twenty times. You want to tell somebody that the best
Speaker 1: tell Amy? I knew crap. I did one of what
Speaker 1: she's done, so it was good. And I I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna say encourage you to go there, because I don't.
Speaker 1: I encourage you to find somebody or something that can
Speaker 1: use your help. I'll block down the road, get on
Speaker 1: the internet a hundred miles down the road, so another state.
Speaker 1: I wonder, you know what, somebody in Oklahoma less important
Speaker 1: than somebody in Arkansas arcause that was closer. I just
Speaker 1: don't like those rules and want of any people will go, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe you're supporting Why don't you keep it domestic?
Speaker 1: That was a big thing for what long? It still
Speaker 1: is when you adopted it. She tried to adopt domestically,
Speaker 1: and if she hadn't, it's still none of your freaking business.
Speaker 1: Like she's helping a human and being good has no
Speaker 1: boundaries or time zones. You're helping out another human with
Speaker 1: heart and lungs and a mind. So yeah, my admiration,
Speaker 1: FRAMI if it could get any bigger. It did, so anyway,
Speaker 1: there's that the end. I don't know if that was
Speaker 1: a good story or not, but that was my trip there.
Speaker 1: I lost the tooths, got a flat tire, stepped in
Speaker 1: dog crap, lost my bags, had to put up pictures
Speaker 1: of Atlanta even though it wasn't in Atlanta. And then
Speaker 1: for a while then I couldn't put up anything, and
Speaker 1: people were like, why are you have no stepchats for
Speaker 1: a whole day? Why don't you have instance stories? And
Speaker 1: as watch I can post anything from the terror, So
Speaker 1: thank you very much. And that was just a little
Speaker 1: something there. And hope do you hear this and find
Speaker 1: your thing, whatever your thing is, because it's not money,
Speaker 1: it can be time. Time is more valuable money a
Speaker 1: lot of times. So I hope you find your thing,
Speaker 1: and I hope you stay consistent with your thing. I
Speaker 1: get a priority if you can. So thank you very much,
Speaker 1: and tomorrow Karen Fair choked a little bit down about
Speaker 1: I hope that was something that you like. Okay, thank
Speaker 1: you