MIX & MATCH: Your Friday selection

A mixed bag of treats from this past week. ~ Delilah

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast, Hey It's Delilah.
Every night I talk to people from all walks of
life in all sorts of different situations, and today we

(00:25):
are going to mash some of those phone calls up
and serve them back to you on Hey It's Delilah. Hi,
good evening. You've called the Delilah Show.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who is this, Hi Delilah.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
My name is James.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hi, James, Welcome. What can I do for you?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'd like to make a song request.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Who's on your heart?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
James my partner of thirteen years, Bruce. I had a
rough couple of years where I lost my brother, my mom,
and my dad kind of back to back over the
past couple of years, and Bruce has been my rock,
And you know, I just think that it's really hard
to make it through life without people who support you

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and lift you up. And that's what he's done for
me for the last thirteen years.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
So you must feel like you're on a roller coaster.
You just start to breathe again and then bam, another
great loss knocks you down.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I mean, I think there's like a I think there's
a culture around not talking about loss and talking about
grief in American society especially, But I think that, you know,
we should be open about when we're dealing with stuff,
when we're dealing with grief, and he held space for
me to talk about my family, to be open with
what I was going through in like the darkest time
of my life. He really was there for me in

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every sense of the words. So he really is just
an incredible person and I'm so thankful for him.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I will play a song to let him know how
much his love and support has bullied you, carried you
through the dark as dark as times.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Thank you for all that you do. Your show's been
to accomforts me over the years. I always put you
on every night.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Thank you God, bless you. Hi, good evening. You've called Delilah.
Who is this?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
My name is David Elilah. It's a blessing to hear
your voice.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Thank you. What can I do to make your night
more special?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I was blessed to meet this lady. Her name is Adria.
We met July twentieth, and I've met I've emailed you
several times we listened to your show while we talk
on the phone every single night.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
The way you pronounce her name tells me that perhaps
this is a long distance thing.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, she lives about twenty five minutes north of where
I live. We met on online, which is, yeah, I know,
an odd, odd way to meet somebody, but we clicked
from the from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Back in the day, that was odd. But now I'm
guessing probably seventy five eighty percent of couples I talked
to have met online.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I had a good friend of mine that recommended it
to me, and I said, all right, I'll give it
a try, and I met this young lady. We both
have our challenges because we both have mothers that suffered.
She knows the mother that suffers from Alzheimer's and I
have a mother that suffers from dementia. So we have
our challenges.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
You have challenges, but you have understanding as well, since
you're kind of going through similar stages in life.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Plus, she has challenges of her own. She's confined to
a wheelchair.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
That doesn't sound like it's slowing you down.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
No, not at all. She's had some past experiences that
has sometimes used her and stuff like that, and I'm
one of those odd gentlemen that is not into using people.
I'm fifty one years old. She's fifty two years old
or eleven months apart.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Okay, now you've told me all the facts, Tell me
how much, tell me how much you care about her.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
She means the world to me, Dlana. She's my sunshine,
she's my life. We try to spend more and more
time together, but it's hard because there's the challenges that
we both face.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, because right now you both have to take care
of your moms. But that's not going to be forever.
So for now, you can use this time to get
to know each other deeply and intimately on the phone
until you can bring your lives together.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, we meet here and there, I mean we met
this past Sunday. We go out the launch when we can,
stuff like that. But she's the blessing of my life.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Sounds to me like you guys are perfect for each other.
So let me find a song that will just resonate
in your hearts.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, I would really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
God bless you. Hi, good evening. You've called the Delilah Show.
Who is this Sola? My name is Lisa Hi, Lisa,
Thank you for calling. How is your summer going?

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, it's not been so great.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
What can I do to make it better?

Speaker 5 (05:18):
I lost my dad on the fifteenth of March, and
then Thursday afternoon my best friend's dad passed away. It's
been like a crazy, crazy last five months. I don't know.
You just kind of get at your wits end, and
I think I'm.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Kind of there.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
This is a good time to find a quiet road,
pull off and have a good cry. Sometimes we try
so hard to be strong and to keep going, to
keep moving forward, and to have a positive attitude and
be grateful, which is important. But when you're grieving, and
when your best friend is grieving, and when your grief

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is now compounded by the loss of your best friend,
instead's that's that's the pull off the side of the road,
roll up the windows so nobody can hear you, and
just sob it out.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Maybe maybe I will do just that, because I'm like
forty five minutes ill. Finally, it's just been a tough
road to keep going down that.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now, do you ever use a pressure canner a pressure cooker, No, ma'am.
So when you have a pressure cooker, there's this little
thing on top that wobbles, and it gently slowly lets
the steam out because if it builds up too much,
guess what happens to explode. It's a bomb. It explodes.

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Same thing happens with our grief and our pain and
our angst.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I'll place on you have a good sob and know
that Daddy is so loving you from eternity.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
I hope so. He was an amazing man. He really will.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
God bless you, honey, Thank you for calling. Did you
have a body? Good evening? Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Who is this?

Speaker 6 (07:07):
My name is Jamie. How are you doing tonight?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Jamie? I am doing wonderful? How are you doing? Is
the question?

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Life's hard, like always, but you know, the Lord wakes
me up every day and gives me strengths, so I
gotta give amen to that.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Wait, wait, the Lord wakes you up and gives you strength.
But you sound like you're kind of defeated tonight. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
I'm really tired. Worked a long day my father. I
was in the hospital not doing so well, and I
just wanted a song for my wife because she has
helped me through a lot, kept me out in trouble
for a very long time and always been there for me.
And I'm a very hard person to live with, to
get along with, you know, because of my ways, and

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I'm trying hard to be a better man. But I
just wanted something to make her happy, let her note
that she's worth it and I love her to pieces.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
What's her name, Jessica? How old is Jessica's dad and
why is he in the hospital.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
He's got long in brain cancer and they're either just growing.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I believe he.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Is sixty three or sixty four. I might be mistaken.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
So since I'm sixty three, that's young. That's very young.
That's way too young to be battling cancer.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yes it is, And I mean sixty three is not
an old age anymore, you know. So yeah, I mean
a lot of stuff is going on with her, and
she's just she's beaten, you know, and I just need
something to.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Let her know that she's worth everything, for her and our.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Three little baby girls that we have a four year
old and two one year olds.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
And you said Jessica helps you to stay out of trouble.
What kind of trouble, Jamie, did you get yourself in
before Jessica came along and gave you reason to believe.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Jail in prison.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Who who I thought you were going to say, I
forgot to pay the mortgage.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Oh, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
You actually got me through my three years in prison
because I listening to you every night on my little radio.
So I thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Was she was?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
She a part of your life while you were doing
your time.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
She was for the.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Most part, but I kind of broke things off because
I didn't want to deal with me doing that and
her living her life, and I didn't want her to
have the stress and stuff.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
And then when I came home, we actually got back
together and had our first girl nine months later.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
And while you were listening to me at night in
a very small room, did you make some decisions not
to ever go back there?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh, yes, ma'am. And I haven't been back since I
got out in eighteen and I've been doing very well,
so work two jobs, you know, take care of my
girls and my wife.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
And from the beginning of our conversation, it sounds to
me like you've got to a belief in somebody who
created you and your girls and your wife, and that's
going to get you through.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I believe in the Lord of everything I got.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
more with you each weekday. On Ay, It's Delilah.