September 18, 2025 • 20 mins
Two brothers were reunited after being apart for 50 years. Why did they have that much time is shocking!
Spencer felt like he went to war at his house recently but Blair questioned "why?"
We had a perfect score on How Country Are Ya!
Spencer felt like he went to war at his house recently but Blair questioned "why?"
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Given you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the Good Good on the Spencer Grave Show.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Imagine being reunited with your family after fifty years.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
That happened to Peter McDonald.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Peter, as a infant, was stolen from his mother and
they grew up in foster care.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He only recently learned that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He had an older brother named Trevor Well in two
thousand and eight, before their mom passed away, Trevor searched
for Peter. They ended up finding each other and they
were reunited just a couple days ago, after fifty years apart.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm assuming this was a good reunion because could you
imagine waiting all that time and then you're like, family's
not that great.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But you know, I've got some people in my life
who have found out later in life that they had
a sibling. I know some people who found out they
actually weren't the biological child of their parents. And can
you imagine after fifty years not knowing that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
This is why I'm never doing one of those DNA testings.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I don't know if I ever shared this story with
you or not, but we were just talking about In
The Good Good, a man and his brother were reunited
after fifty years. So it was Trevor and Brian. Brian,
it was Trevor and Peter. Peter was taken from his
mother when he was an infant by some lunatic and
then he was raised in foster care because they could
(01:30):
never link them up. Well before their mother passed away,
she urged her son that she knew to find Peter,
and the two eventually met after fifty years. A friend
of mine, I'll never forget this. He came over to
my house and he was like, we need to go
get a drink. And I was like, you good, and
he was like, we just need to go get a drink. Blair,
(01:51):
when I tell you. We got to the bar, we
sat down, he wasn't saying anything. He orders his drink.
It shows up, he takes one sip and he looks
at me and he goes, I just found out I
have a brother and he's ten years older.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
In me.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I can't fathom it, honestly, because I feel like you
would have so many questions. And I really do think
that if you found out that kind of information, it
depends where you're at in your life how you would
handle that, Because if you find out at a younger age,
you probably don't understand what would go into you having
(02:24):
a sibling you knew nothing about, Whereas when you get
older you might have those feelings.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
And again this is me just thinking.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
If I happen to be in that situation, if I
was older and found that out, I would feel like
I had been lied to.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So when it happened to my buddy, he was in
his mid forties and he found out he had a
brother who's now in his mid fifties, can you imagine
like you have to start looking at your life of
all the moments that your brother and you missed together. Like,
my buddy had been married two times before, he never
had children. His brother, the one that he just found
(02:58):
out about, has been living a life not knowing that
he had other family members and recently found out who
his dad was. That's how all this kind of came together.
It's like, to your point, if you find out when
you're a kid five six seven years old, you have
the rest of your life to now make memories with
somebody that you just found out about. But in the
middle of your life forty and fifty years you find
(03:21):
out that you have a sibling. You're like I miss
so much with them, so I want to spend as
much time with them so we have the remaining time left.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Do you have that mindset or let me play Devil's
advocate of And this is not this is going to
sound very negative, but if I haven't had them in
my life for forty years or for me thirty three years,
I don't know necessarily if it's like I missed out
on something because you don't know how that would have been.
(03:49):
Maybe you do take the approach of like I would
like the chance to get to know you. But as
far as like feeling this like missed.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Out, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't. I think it all depends around the circumstances too.
You know, who all did know about the sibling, who
all didn't know. There's a lot that can play into
it that I think would affect how you would feel.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You'd also have to harbor some feelings against your other family, right,
like somebody knew this information, but somebody wasn't saying anything.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I think it's a pessimist optimist thing too.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Half glass half glass full, half glass empty, that kind
of thing.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Sure, yeah, there's.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Bound to be somebody who's listening to the show who's like, hey,
I actually found out that I had a sibling or
I had a long lost relative that I didn't know
anything about, a five five grave zero? And what perspective
did they take? Were they kind of like, well, I
didn't know about this person, so it's not that big
of a deal. Or are they all in attending family reunions,
you know, weddings all that.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
That would be a lot, that would be a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
We might be family, but you're not sharing the same
chicken as me.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean five braves zero.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
You're talking about the sibling? Yeah, and uh yeah, when
that was in my thirties, I found out I had
an older sister from part of when my parents got married. Really,
I guess my dad had done about it for years. Yeah,
it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So your dad kept this a secret for thirty some years.
Were you upset with your father because of that?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah, I was pretty ticked off. So, I mean there's
a lot of res in it there, so it I
never actually met her anything.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
So was he the only one that knew about this?
Did your mom know? If you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I think my mother knew. Okay, I don't think it
came to surprise of him later on when I after,
you know, years they were together.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But did your.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Dad ever step up to you and say, here's why
I didn't tell you?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I was like, hey, you got it, you got a sensor.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I was like, what just over breakfast, that's legitimate.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I was about to ask you how you found out?
And now I'm a little mortified.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, can you pass the Can you pass the bacon
in the syrup? By the way, you have a sister?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Wo?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Is that really how it went down?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Was it very just matter of fact? He had something
on his mind and just dropped it on you.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Well, we I lived away from home, so we just
you know, we're talking on the phone one time and
he's like, oh uh, you know I've been meaning to
tell you. Great Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well we laugh at this. Obviously that's a real world
situation for you. Go ahead, Blair.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So was this something that like you had the opportunity
to meet this person and chose not to.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
There wasn't really newing setup. She lived like, okay, hours
away from us. I mean it was just I was
already grounded with the family I had, So it was
like memories with this person.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
So like well, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Like I think some people in this situation, it's like
you don't know what you're saying because you've had this
whole life without that person.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Very interesting, James, Thank you, buddy, appreciate you at Day
you too, Buden A five five brave zero. We're talking
about people getting reunited or finding out that they had
a family member they had no idea about.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Good Morning.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I was adopted when I was very young. However, my
biological mother also had a child before me that had
got adopted by a different family, and I didn't find
out about my half sibling until I was a little bit.
I had always known I was adopted, but I didn't
know about the half brother until I was a little older.
(07:25):
And I still don't know any information on my half
brother because everything, you know, all the records were sealed.
I couldn't even find out my biological mother's name until
I was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I say you're over that now. So are you
actually trying to piece all this together or is it
kind of I've lived my life this long, I'm not
really that worried.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
The only way I would piece it together for me
is like, right, now I have a child that's going
through medical things, and I don't know if you know
I've passed something along or if there's something medical you
know in my family history from sides, because I don't
know who my biological father is interest and I don't
really know I don't know any of the medical stuff,
(08:11):
so that would be the only reason for me to
kind of, I think, reaching out and try to find right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, I hope you can get the answers to that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You know, this is so near and dear to me
because my oldest nephew, Hudson, is adopted. And this was
a conversation that my brother and I had when Hudson
was a baby. I shared with my brother, are you
gonna actively tell him that he was adopted at a
young age? And he goes, one hundred percent, We're going
to be so open with him because the other side
of it is, Hudson doesn't look like us, He doesn't
(08:41):
look like anybody in our family. So he didn't want
him to grow up and have all these questions. He'd
rather just know exactly what's happening in his world. So
he was fully aware of it, and he is adjusted
so well to that it's awesome.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah, and I will say I my parents told me
from a very young age. But funny story is my
mother and I looking almost exactly alike. People always say
you're really adopted because we look Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
That's much a lot interesting. That's cool though.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, thank you very much for sharing your story with us.
We hope everything works out the way you want it to.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Thank you so much. I'll have a good day you too.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
She's like, I have to actually, we need some liquid
courage to get through some of the conversations.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Lisa, that is.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
A different time when you find out how your sibling
is drunk and then you put that with the beach.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
And I know you parties like like they're they're partiers.
They got like a bow, they go out on the lake.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, you're going to learn some things this weekend, which
is going to be incredible. How long have you guys
been going on trips together or is this the first one?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
This is the first one. We just found each other
last January of twenty four wow.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And then in Sepember.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
It is and in December her me and my sister
from my mom. We're all going to get together and
it's going to be the first time my new sister
and my old sister meet each other.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What was the first conversation on the phone, Like, between
the two.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Of you, it was a lot. It was I think
we both were hoping the other would know our father,
and when we both realize that our mothers had similar
situations with him, then it just turned into let's get
to know each other. So it's it's really about building
(10:43):
a friendship pretty much, even though we're siblings and so
new and we're older in life. It's yeah, it's just
about building like a relationship.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I wonder if it does feel the same like if
you have a really good friend and you can go
months without talking and then all of a sudden, you
get on the phone and you pick up right where
you left off, like you never missed a beat.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
It is like that, because we do go a couple
of months here and there with just texting, and then
we'll call and it is and it's still getting to
know each other. My kids are older. I have adults
and a grand baby. Her kids are still teenagers, so
it's still very new.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
You know.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
We definitely like don't give advice to each other.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So it's at that level.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Yeah, correct, Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You guys are going on a cantoon.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I would simply say to her, don't drink the water.
So if you're going to give her advice, that would
be the one piece.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Well, so where they live, they have to leave at
five in the morning, so she's like, I might be
grumpy when we get there, and I'm like, girls, we'll
just set some alcohol in you.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
You'll be good.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
It'll be fine, Everything's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, Lisa, we hope you guys have a great trip,
and thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You take care now you too.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yesterday I had one of those moments where I got
a little bit of satisfaction out of something, and I
think most people would understand the satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's How Country are You? On The Spencer Grave Show, Jennifer,
Where are you from.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Huntsville, Alabama?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So happy to have you on the show today. On
a scale of one of the country, how.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Country are you, I'm gonna go on eight.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We've had a lot of confidence recently, hy but I
like it.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I like confidence.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We do too. So we have three questions for you.
We'll give you a score at the end.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
You're ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
What country legend was known as the Man in Black?
Johnny Kash nicely done and fast?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Iat no hesitation?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
All right, here we go. Question number two?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
In your opinion, what movie based on the country lifestyle
is closest to your life?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Forrest Gump?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Because my husband's name is Forrest and my name is Jinny.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Okay, all right, no more questions needed.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And do you believe that life is really like a
box of chocolates?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
You never know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Final question that eight is looking great right now? How
many animals is too many on your property?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Well, san, as though I have seventeen, I'm gonna go
with twenty.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Oh, so there's room to grow the family.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
There's a little bit of a wiggle room there.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Give us the quota. How many animals and what kind
are they?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I have? Let's say none con dogs, four beagles, and
then I have a golden retriever. We have two cats
and a fish and something else.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Are y'all bird hunters?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No, we are raccoon hunters.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, I gotcha.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We got a perfect score on our hands today, we
got a.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Tear our big score.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, nicely done, thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But I let my pipoles out, Zeus and Thor to
go to the bathroom, and I faintly heard a buzzing,
so I look over to my left and there it
is a massive wasp nest has grown underneath my gutters.
So I went to the uh. I went to the
garage and I got my waspray. And I don't know
(14:30):
if it's still the little kid in me, but when
I shoot waspray on a wasp nest, I always act
like they're pilots.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And they just went into a war and they're going down.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Steem does this all the time too, and it just
I understand it needs to be taken care of. I'm
thankful that he's taking care of it, I really am,
but it makes such a mess that it just aggravates me, like,
have we not figured out a better way to take
care of this in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So yesterday I spray then ass and ninety percent of
them go down right, It's like ah, and then they just.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Fall to the ground.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I'm not going to get all of them, but there were.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
A couple that's started to get away, and then I
treat it like Duck Hunt from the Nintendo game series
back in the day, where I try to hit him
on the fly and I hit one, and all of
a sudden, I thought he was going to radio back
to dispatch and go, I've been hitting my tailwing.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm about to go back.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Spencer.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
If you thought about this so intently, I really think
we should be worried and concern and get you some
better hobbies.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It is something that I think every guy thinks about.
It's I don't know why our minds work that way,
but it's true. There's not one little satisfying thing that
you can do where you just kind of go into
fantasy world.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Putting up my Christmas trees. Okay, so the understand.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yes, it is putting up my Christmas trees. So if
y'all are going to make fun of me for my
Christmas tree fanatic, then I'm making fun of y'all forget
enjoyment out of killing wasps.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Y'all jump on with us eight five five graves zero
share with Blair.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Why we do this as guys?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Or if you have a little thing that is satisfying
every single day.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Well, mine is not wash. But I'm driving to work
and I was laughing listening to you tell that because
every time I go walk in our pasture, I always
curious stick like for protection, and it never fails that
there will be a big ant mound and I have
to sit that stick, the stick in the middle of
the ant mound and watch the ant scramble. It's kind
(16:35):
of like a King Kong kind of thing, like you're
invading their territory.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I did.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
It's satisfying if you if you watch them. I just
wanted to share that. And also, y'all gave me tickets
last week and me and my husband have the best
experience at the Coca Cola Amphitheater. Oat is the first
time we had ever been to anything like that, and.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We had a ball great.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love the fact that you that you do that
same exact thing with Aunt Hills, because all I could
picture in my head is that when you're sticking the
stick into an ant mound, you're going.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Fee five four FuMB.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So you know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
My birthday was September twelfth, and I was I was
in town all by myself.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Right, So you were out of town sick and.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Gina, who listens to the show, she called and she
was like, me and my husband, Larry would love to
take you out for your birthday dinner. I've never met Gina.
We just talked to her on the phone. I was like,
you know what, she's so sweet?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So we met out at Connors. It was the funniest thing. Now,
her husband's never met me, So what happened Gina?
Speaker 10 (17:43):
It's kind of looked at me like, Okay, I said, Larry,
he's a celebrity. Shoot, I said, how many times do
you get to eat dinner with a celebrity? And he
started laughing. He started laughing because you know, Larry's Larry's
a lot more introverted than I I am. But if
he likes you, you're in.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I think my favorite moment I shared this with Blair.
My favorite moment from dinner was he was getting ready
to tell the story and you can see the look
on his face as he was super excited.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
About telling the story.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He was like, man, I'm going to tell this story.
Is going to blow this guy's socks off. And he
starts telling the story and you jump in and he
stops and he looks at me. All the excitement was
off of his face and he looks at me and
he goes, well, I guess Gina's just going to tell
the story now.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
As a why I want to do that all the time.
I suck, suck, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It killed me.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And then he starts telling a story later and I said, hey,
pause real quick, and he goes down and I said,
you want Gina to finish this one. He goes, she'll
know this story.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Geuber, that's too funny to me. I know it was,
but he really joed. He goes, he's really a nice guy.
And I said, well, did you think I'm gonna have
dinner with somebody that wasn't a nice guy? Right even
on the you know, on the phone, he's an ask
you can tell what somebody to ask.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uy, Well, Gine, I really appreciate that, and thanks so
much for having dinner with me. We'll talk to you later.
There's a big question right now whether or not Morgan
Wall and sand in My Boots Festival is coming back.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Is it even a question anymore? I thought we were
kind of like, no, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Last year had an incredible run it was sold out,
it was packed. The city absolutely loved that they did it.
They brought post Malone, Brooks and Done Hardy, Riley Green,
Tea Pain and Morgan Wallen out to the beach and
they had a festival online shop page that said coming soon.
But then it changed and it says see you in
(19:38):
twenty twenty six. So everybody's like, yes, I'm pumped, I'm
ready for this. Problem is yesterday that changed now it
says coming soon, see you next time. So people are
wondering is it done? Is it not going to happen
this year.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
One of the things that I think we need to
make note too is overall after that festival, I had
friends that went to it. We know a lot of
people that have we sent some listeners. Overall, it was
a very positive experience for people, even though it can
seem chaotic iman yah.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
People are like, oh, well, we had to walk forever
for parking.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Whatever, We'll due when you got to do that when
you're just going to the beach on a normal day
and Morgan Walland's not there.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Like you know, but.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I had seen the coming in twenty twenty six and
I'm actually over on the website right now and it's
definitely more of a oh, let's remember this good time
that we had.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, for those that don't know, last year they made
the announcement of the festival, but they did it in
mid October, so we have some time to see what's
going to happen when Morgan wallin Sand in My Boots
tour
Given you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the Good Good on the Spencer Grave Show.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Imagine being reunited with your family after fifty years.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
That happened to Peter McDonald.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Peter, as a infant, was stolen from his mother and
they grew up in foster care.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He only recently learned that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He had an older brother named Trevor Well in two
thousand and eight, before their mom passed away, Trevor searched
for Peter. They ended up finding each other and they
were reunited just a couple days ago, after fifty years apart.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm assuming this was a good reunion because could you
imagine waiting all that time and then you're like, family's
not that great.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But you know, I've got some people in my life
who have found out later in life that they had
a sibling. I know some people who found out they
actually weren't the biological child of their parents. And can
you imagine after fifty years not knowing that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
This is why I'm never doing one of those DNA testings.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I don't know if I ever shared this story with
you or not, but we were just talking about In
The Good Good, a man and his brother were reunited
after fifty years. So it was Trevor and Brian. Brian,
it was Trevor and Peter. Peter was taken from his
mother when he was an infant by some lunatic and
then he was raised in foster care because they could
(01:30):
never link them up. Well before their mother passed away,
she urged her son that she knew to find Peter,
and the two eventually met after fifty years. A friend
of mine, I'll never forget this. He came over to
my house and he was like, we need to go
get a drink. And I was like, you good, and
he was like, we just need to go get a drink. Blair,
(01:51):
when I tell you. We got to the bar, we
sat down, he wasn't saying anything. He orders his drink.
It shows up, he takes one sip and he looks
at me and he goes, I just found out I
have a brother and he's ten years older.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
In me.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I can't fathom it, honestly, because I feel like you
would have so many questions. And I really do think
that if you found out that kind of information, it
depends where you're at in your life how you would
handle that, Because if you find out at a younger age,
you probably don't understand what would go into you having
(02:24):
a sibling you knew nothing about, Whereas when you get
older you might have those feelings.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
And again this is me just thinking.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
If I happen to be in that situation, if I
was older and found that out, I would feel like
I had been lied to.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So when it happened to my buddy, he was in
his mid forties and he found out he had a
brother who's now in his mid fifties, can you imagine
like you have to start looking at your life of
all the moments that your brother and you missed together. Like,
my buddy had been married two times before, he never
had children. His brother, the one that he just found
(02:58):
out about, has been living a life not knowing that
he had other family members and recently found out who
his dad was. That's how all this kind of came together.
It's like, to your point, if you find out when
you're a kid five six seven years old, you have
the rest of your life to now make memories with
somebody that you just found out about. But in the
middle of your life forty and fifty years you find
(03:21):
out that you have a sibling. You're like I miss
so much with them, so I want to spend as
much time with them so we have the remaining time left.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Do you have that mindset or let me play Devil's
advocate of And this is not this is going to
sound very negative, but if I haven't had them in
my life for forty years or for me thirty three years,
I don't know necessarily if it's like I missed out
on something because you don't know how that would have been.
(03:49):
Maybe you do take the approach of like I would
like the chance to get to know you. But as
far as like feeling this like missed.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Out, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't. I think it all depends around the circumstances too.
You know, who all did know about the sibling, who
all didn't know. There's a lot that can play into
it that I think would affect how you would feel.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You'd also have to harbor some feelings against your other family, right,
like somebody knew this information, but somebody wasn't saying anything.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I think it's a pessimist optimist thing too.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Half glass half glass full, half glass empty, that kind
of thing.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Sure, yeah, there's.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Bound to be somebody who's listening to the show who's like, hey,
I actually found out that I had a sibling or
I had a long lost relative that I didn't know
anything about, a five five grave zero? And what perspective
did they take? Were they kind of like, well, I
didn't know about this person, so it's not that big
of a deal. Or are they all in attending family reunions,
you know, weddings all that.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
That would be a lot, that would be a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
We might be family, but you're not sharing the same
chicken as me.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean five braves zero.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
You're talking about the sibling? Yeah, and uh yeah, when
that was in my thirties, I found out I had
an older sister from part of when my parents got married. Really,
I guess my dad had done about it for years. Yeah,
it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So your dad kept this a secret for thirty some years.
Were you upset with your father because of that?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah, I was pretty ticked off. So, I mean there's
a lot of res in it there, so it I
never actually met her anything.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
So was he the only one that knew about this?
Did your mom know? If you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I think my mother knew. Okay, I don't think it
came to surprise of him later on when I after,
you know, years they were together.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But did your.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Dad ever step up to you and say, here's why
I didn't tell you?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I was like, hey, you got it, you got a sensor.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I was like, what just over breakfast, that's legitimate.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I was about to ask you how you found out?
And now I'm a little mortified.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, can you pass the Can you pass the bacon
in the syrup? By the way, you have a sister?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Wo?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Is that really how it went down?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Was it very just matter of fact? He had something
on his mind and just dropped it on you.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Well, we I lived away from home, so we just
you know, we're talking on the phone one time and
he's like, oh uh, you know I've been meaning to
tell you. Great Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well we laugh at this. Obviously that's a real world
situation for you. Go ahead, Blair.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So was this something that like you had the opportunity
to meet this person and chose not to.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
There wasn't really newing setup. She lived like, okay, hours
away from us. I mean it was just I was
already grounded with the family I had, So it was
like memories with this person.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
So like well, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Like I think some people in this situation, it's like
you don't know what you're saying because you've had this
whole life without that person.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Very interesting, James, Thank you, buddy, appreciate you at Day
you too, Buden A five five brave zero. We're talking
about people getting reunited or finding out that they had
a family member they had no idea about.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Good Morning.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I was adopted when I was very young. However, my
biological mother also had a child before me that had
got adopted by a different family, and I didn't find
out about my half sibling until I was a little bit.
I had always known I was adopted, but I didn't
know about the half brother until I was a little older.
(07:25):
And I still don't know any information on my half
brother because everything, you know, all the records were sealed.
I couldn't even find out my biological mother's name until
I was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I say you're over that now. So are you
actually trying to piece all this together or is it
kind of I've lived my life this long, I'm not
really that worried.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
The only way I would piece it together for me
is like, right, now I have a child that's going
through medical things, and I don't know if you know
I've passed something along or if there's something medical you
know in my family history from sides, because I don't
know who my biological father is interest and I don't
really know I don't know any of the medical stuff,
(08:11):
so that would be the only reason for me to
kind of, I think, reaching out and try to find right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, I hope you can get the answers to that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You know, this is so near and dear to me
because my oldest nephew, Hudson, is adopted. And this was
a conversation that my brother and I had when Hudson
was a baby. I shared with my brother, are you
gonna actively tell him that he was adopted at a
young age? And he goes, one hundred percent, We're going
to be so open with him because the other side
of it is, Hudson doesn't look like us, He doesn't
(08:41):
look like anybody in our family. So he didn't want
him to grow up and have all these questions. He'd
rather just know exactly what's happening in his world. So
he was fully aware of it, and he is adjusted
so well to that it's awesome.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah, and I will say I my parents told me
from a very young age. But funny story is my
mother and I looking almost exactly alike. People always say
you're really adopted because we look Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
That's much a lot interesting. That's cool though.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, thank you very much for sharing your story with us.
We hope everything works out the way you want it to.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Thank you so much. I'll have a good day you too.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
She's like, I have to actually, we need some liquid
courage to get through some of the conversations.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Lisa, that is.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
A different time when you find out how your sibling
is drunk and then you put that with the beach.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
And I know you parties like like they're they're partiers.
They got like a bow, they go out on the lake.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, you're going to learn some things this weekend, which
is going to be incredible. How long have you guys
been going on trips together or is this the first one?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
This is the first one. We just found each other
last January of twenty four wow.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And then in Sepember.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
It is and in December her me and my sister
from my mom. We're all going to get together and
it's going to be the first time my new sister
and my old sister meet each other.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What was the first conversation on the phone, Like, between
the two.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Of you, it was a lot. It was I think
we both were hoping the other would know our father,
and when we both realize that our mothers had similar
situations with him, then it just turned into let's get
to know each other. So it's it's really about building
(10:43):
a friendship pretty much, even though we're siblings and so
new and we're older in life. It's yeah, it's just
about building like a relationship.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I wonder if it does feel the same like if
you have a really good friend and you can go
months without talking and then all of a sudden, you
get on the phone and you pick up right where
you left off, like you never missed a beat.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
It is like that, because we do go a couple
of months here and there with just texting, and then
we'll call and it is and it's still getting to
know each other. My kids are older. I have adults
and a grand baby. Her kids are still teenagers, so
it's still very new.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
You know.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
We definitely like don't give advice to each other.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So it's at that level.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Yeah, correct, Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You guys are going on a cantoon.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I would simply say to her, don't drink the water.
So if you're going to give her advice, that would
be the one piece.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Well, so where they live, they have to leave at
five in the morning, so she's like, I might be
grumpy when we get there, and I'm like, girls, we'll
just set some alcohol in you.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
You'll be good.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
It'll be fine, Everything's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, Lisa, we hope you guys have a great trip,
and thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You take care now you too.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yesterday I had one of those moments where I got
a little bit of satisfaction out of something, and I
think most people would understand the satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's How Country are You? On The Spencer Grave Show, Jennifer,
Where are you from.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Huntsville, Alabama?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So happy to have you on the show today. On
a scale of one of the country, how.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Country are you, I'm gonna go on eight.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We've had a lot of confidence recently, hy but I
like it.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I like confidence.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We do too. So we have three questions for you.
We'll give you a score at the end.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
You're ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
What country legend was known as the Man in Black?
Johnny Kash nicely done and fast?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Iat no hesitation?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
All right, here we go. Question number two?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
In your opinion, what movie based on the country lifestyle
is closest to your life?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Forrest Gump?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Because my husband's name is Forrest and my name is Jinny.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Okay, all right, no more questions needed.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And do you believe that life is really like a
box of chocolates?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
You never know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Final question that eight is looking great right now? How
many animals is too many on your property?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Well, san, as though I have seventeen, I'm gonna go
with twenty.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Oh, so there's room to grow the family.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
There's a little bit of a wiggle room there.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Give us the quota. How many animals and what kind
are they?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I have? Let's say none con dogs, four beagles, and
then I have a golden retriever. We have two cats
and a fish and something else.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Are y'all bird hunters?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No, we are raccoon hunters.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, I gotcha.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We got a perfect score on our hands today, we
got a.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Tear our big score.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, nicely done, thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But I let my pipoles out, Zeus and Thor to
go to the bathroom, and I faintly heard a buzzing,
so I look over to my left and there it
is a massive wasp nest has grown underneath my gutters.
So I went to the uh. I went to the
garage and I got my waspray. And I don't know
(14:30):
if it's still the little kid in me, but when
I shoot waspray on a wasp nest, I always act
like they're pilots.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And they just went into a war and they're going down.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Steem does this all the time too, and it just
I understand it needs to be taken care of. I'm
thankful that he's taking care of it, I really am,
but it makes such a mess that it just aggravates me, like,
have we not figured out a better way to take
care of this in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So yesterday I spray then ass and ninety percent of
them go down right, It's like ah, and then they just.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Fall to the ground.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I'm not going to get all of them, but there were.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
A couple that's started to get away, and then I
treat it like Duck Hunt from the Nintendo game series
back in the day, where I try to hit him
on the fly and I hit one, and all of
a sudden, I thought he was going to radio back
to dispatch and go, I've been hitting my tailwing.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm about to go back.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Spencer.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
If you thought about this so intently, I really think
we should be worried and concern and get you some
better hobbies.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It is something that I think every guy thinks about.
It's I don't know why our minds work that way,
but it's true. There's not one little satisfying thing that
you can do where you just kind of go into
fantasy world.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Putting up my Christmas trees. Okay, so the understand.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yes, it is putting up my Christmas trees. So if
y'all are going to make fun of me for my
Christmas tree fanatic, then I'm making fun of y'all forget
enjoyment out of killing wasps.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Y'all jump on with us eight five five graves zero
share with Blair.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Why we do this as guys?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Or if you have a little thing that is satisfying
every single day.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Well, mine is not wash. But I'm driving to work
and I was laughing listening to you tell that because
every time I go walk in our pasture, I always
curious stick like for protection, and it never fails that
there will be a big ant mound and I have
to sit that stick, the stick in the middle of
the ant mound and watch the ant scramble. It's kind
(16:35):
of like a King Kong kind of thing, like you're
invading their territory.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I did.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
It's satisfying if you if you watch them. I just
wanted to share that. And also, y'all gave me tickets
last week and me and my husband have the best
experience at the Coca Cola Amphitheater. Oat is the first
time we had ever been to anything like that, and.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We had a ball great.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love the fact that you that you do that
same exact thing with Aunt Hills, because all I could
picture in my head is that when you're sticking the
stick into an ant mound, you're going.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Fee five four FuMB.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So you know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
My birthday was September twelfth, and I was I was
in town all by myself.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Right, So you were out of town sick and.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Gina, who listens to the show, she called and she
was like, me and my husband, Larry would love to
take you out for your birthday dinner. I've never met Gina.
We just talked to her on the phone. I was like,
you know what, she's so sweet?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So we met out at Connors. It was the funniest thing. Now,
her husband's never met me, So what happened Gina?
Speaker 10 (17:43):
It's kind of looked at me like, Okay, I said, Larry,
he's a celebrity. Shoot, I said, how many times do
you get to eat dinner with a celebrity? And he
started laughing. He started laughing because you know, Larry's Larry's
a lot more introverted than I I am. But if
he likes you, you're in.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I think my favorite moment I shared this with Blair.
My favorite moment from dinner was he was getting ready
to tell the story and you can see the look
on his face as he was super excited.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
About telling the story.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He was like, man, I'm going to tell this story.
Is going to blow this guy's socks off. And he
starts telling the story and you jump in and he
stops and he looks at me. All the excitement was
off of his face and he looks at me and
he goes, well, I guess Gina's just going to tell
the story now.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
As a why I want to do that all the time.
I suck, suck, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It killed me.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And then he starts telling a story later and I said, hey,
pause real quick, and he goes down and I said,
you want Gina to finish this one. He goes, she'll
know this story.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Geuber, that's too funny to me. I know it was,
but he really joed. He goes, he's really a nice guy.
And I said, well, did you think I'm gonna have
dinner with somebody that wasn't a nice guy? Right even
on the you know, on the phone, he's an ask
you can tell what somebody to ask.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uy, Well, Gine, I really appreciate that, and thanks so
much for having dinner with me. We'll talk to you later.
There's a big question right now whether or not Morgan
Wall and sand in My Boots Festival is coming back.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Is it even a question anymore? I thought we were
kind of like, no, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Last year had an incredible run it was sold out,
it was packed. The city absolutely loved that they did it.
They brought post Malone, Brooks and Done Hardy, Riley Green,
Tea Pain and Morgan Wallen out to the beach and
they had a festival online shop page that said coming soon.
But then it changed and it says see you in
(19:38):
twenty twenty six. So everybody's like, yes, I'm pumped, I'm
ready for this. Problem is yesterday that changed now it
says coming soon, see you next time. So people are
wondering is it done? Is it not going to happen
this year.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
One of the things that I think we need to
make note too is overall after that festival, I had
friends that went to it. We know a lot of
people that have we sent some listeners. Overall, it was
a very positive experience for people, even though it can
seem chaotic iman yah.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
People are like, oh, well, we had to walk forever
for parking.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Whatever, We'll due when you got to do that when
you're just going to the beach on a normal day
and Morgan Walland's not there.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Like you know, but.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I had seen the coming in twenty twenty six and
I'm actually over on the website right now and it's
definitely more of a oh, let's remember this good time
that we had.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, for those that don't know, last year they made
the announcement of the festival, but they did it in
mid October, so we have some time to see what's
going to happen when Morgan wallin Sand in My Boots
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