Show Open - Criticism - 12.26.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, it is upon us another great day,
another opportunity, another blessing from our heavenly fathers man. The
show is good to wake up, y'all. It show is
good to get off work, y'all. It show is good
to have any measure of health, y'all. It show is
good to be breathing. It show is good to be
giving another chance, another opportunity. It is a blessing to

(00:23):
be in the land of the living, and living in
the land. I'm all of that, Thank your heavenly father man.
I'm good today. You know what I feel really really
good about today. Let's get it on. Shirley Strawberry collar
for real. Oh, Mississippi Monica Junior government named kill state.

(00:44):
The legend that is Nephew Thompson Junior. You, sir, what's
on your mind today?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let me ask you this, uh uh huh. You've been
in this business a long time.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
How'd you learn how to deal with criticisms, all the
criticism you've had over your career?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Get better at it?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
You're not good at it in the beginning because you
you you know, you know, in the early on you
got to train for this. You know, it's like a fighter.
When you first get in you don't duck all the blows.
It's some simple blows that be hitting you when you
first get in the ring as a fighter. Then after
you get hit you start learning the women hold up. Now,
I need to start some weaving and some bobbings so

(01:23):
I can duck some of these punches.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
And then it's like being in the gym.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
When you first get in the gym, you can't lift
as much weight as you can later on.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's just timing.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I wish I could find this, Uh, wish I could
find this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm trying to find it on my phone to show.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
You a description of how I really am. And I'm
gonna find it as I look under my motivational page.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I ain't got said we'll have this, but I want
you all to understand that it is.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's a picture of a puppy with one arrow in him,
laying on the ground bleed. And under that picture of
that puppy that baby wolf should, I say, with one
bowing arrow in his back in a little puddle of blood,
And it says under that picture the old me. Then

(02:18):
next to him is a wolf standing.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Up, a full grown wolf.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Standing in the same puddler blood with about forty arrows
in his back, and he looking down at the little puppy,
and the caption over him says, life, don't get in
the easier, you just get strong. So as I suffer
the slings and arrow the older you get, the better
you get. At hanlet And like I was just looking

(02:46):
this morning, amazing you asked me that an old video
of me on one of my on my talk shows
saying that I don't even let what people say about
me bother me no more because I've been I've been
ripped up on that internet, man over the years. Now
I don't even care, because I have discovered that you

(03:09):
actually have no power, position, authority, or say so or
rule over my life.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
You have none unless I give it to you.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yes, so the person I've given that to is God Almighty.
The rest of everybody else. Man, miss me, you might
as well quit throwing rocks at me. I'm too high
up on the wall now, I'm gone.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Steve coming up in thirty two minutes after the hour,
run that Frank back with the nephew.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
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