June 14, 2019 • 12 mins
Father's Day Podcast: Dads: You need you to know how powerful your influence is. 😘
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's another episode of the Murphy Samon Jody after the
show podcasting, because we're actually doing this podcast right before
Father's Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's our Father's Day extravaganza, right, there's an extravaganza whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Jody earlier were talking about how dads are kings, which
is really funny because no matter, really, you know, if
you're blessed enough to be able to have a household
with both mom and dad there, and you know, even
even if your dad's a quiet type or the you know,
or the kind who's vocally in charge, Dad's always in charge.
Dad really is always the king. Even my mother was
(00:32):
a very strong personality, as Jodi can tell you, right,
but anytime as kids when my dad would speak, because
you know, he didn't really he's not He wasn't one
to correct discipline of those things very very often, so
when he spoke, it carried a ton of weight, you
know what I.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Mean, I mean weird. I would like to bring it
up at Father's Day just so that you guys know,
and all dads who listen know that even if you
don't think your influence is there, maybe you don't, maybe
you're not in touch, you know, with how your Maybe
you don't have that relationship where you know how your
kids feel about you. Are you know, it's there's not
a lot of verbal going on. Dad's loom really large,
(01:11):
even if you're you know, you don't see your kids
a lot or something like that. Your your opinion is
a lot of weight. I can remember, just in this
whole journey with you, Murphy, of us having kids together,
there are times when you're almost and not really but
almost jealous of the mystique of dad. Do you guys
know what I'm saying. It's hard to articulate. There's something
(01:34):
so powerful about your presence, what you think, you know,
a massive influence what.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You were saying about your mom. But you're still, you know,
revered dad. It was the same thing. My mom is
still that way, whether dad, my dad's been gone ten
years now.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
My dad was quiet. Mom was kind of like the
rule maker and to do this and to do that.
But you still respect your dad for his position because
you still looked at him that way, like right, he's
running things here.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know, your influence is so as a dad, your
influence is so much greater than you might realize. That's
all what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I know, I know what you're talking talking about as
we raised our kids because daddy was the fun guy
at night, you know, and that still is. They're jealous.
I mean, you have been a great mom, and obviously
our girls have grown up to be you know, they're
very connected to you and all that, so I.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
See that truly. It's just it's an odd thing. Yeah,
you know, I feel like my.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
If your dad's a playful kind of dad, then dad
kind of does have that, you know, especially with daughters.
I would think that that really stands out with daughters.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh, it is so important that you're just the fact
that you're just available. Look, everything you do as a
mother or a father says a lot to your children.
Your children are always constantly checking you for how are
things supposed to be? And how you show them is
what they expect of the world, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's funny you say that because there's a church I
passed on the way home that has that on their sign.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
What it's something along the lines of, you know, you're
gonna lead your kids by your actions, not by telling
them what to do. And they're true, they see you,
and that's how they're going to live their life.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's so true, and it works in the opposite of
fact too. If you are if you're in a situation,
if a kid who's listening to this is in a
situation where the dad, your dad is not present in
your life, it's big. It's big that they're not present.
It's big that they you know. I will tell you
I do have a friend that I would never reveal
the name, but the dad was there but not available
(03:32):
when she was growing up, and so that spoke volumes
to her, and what it said to her was, well,
I just don't matter, apparently to him, and that has
been a difficult thing for her in her life, and
it chased her her whole life, you know, just feeling
like I don't matter when I should. When I see
other kids and friends, dads you know, show up for
(03:54):
the ball games and things like that. So everything you
do looms more largely than you even realize. And I
don't know that dad's realize it as much as moms.
I know my influence. I know as soon as something
goes wrong, they're looking at me, or they're calling me
and texting me and calling my name. I know how
involved it is Dad. Sometimes don't realize it. That's all
everything you do is it does loom large, and which
(04:17):
you think of them, they'll think of themselves. So let
them know. Let kids know that you accept them exactly
the way that they are. That's a huge one, huge.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
On the fun side of things, I'm looking forward to
spending time with my dad. My mom passed away a
couple of years ago, and so I guess have the
three of us, I'm the only one that actually still
has my dad. Jodie's boss hers as a teenager, and
Sam years passed away ten years ago. So my dad
is telling more stories now than he's ever told before,
which are really cool, and so I'm hoping I get
(04:48):
to enjoy more of that. On Father's Day when we
visit with him, he was telling me because I called
him a couple of times a week just to check
on him, and he was telling me the story of
my grandfather. He was just my grandfather was very much
the mechanic type. That's how the conversation started. My grandfather
could fix anything, and you know, I mean he was
from the greatest generation of World War two, Vett all that,
(05:11):
and so my dad in the family grew up really
feeling that he was the one my grandfather. I don't
know if he invented the electric dryer, but here's what
he did.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Does the story.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There were no commercial electric dryers being made in the
nineteen forties, and he fashioned one. I don't know how
you do this safely at all, but I guess, you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Know, it was the forties, there is no safety.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So the washing machine was a front loader. I thought
that was kind of a new thing, but I guess
it's a retro thing. Washing machines were early Bendix washing
machines were front loading machines. And what he did is
he modified the door and put some sort of heating
fan thing in the front of it, and he would
turn the water part off, not run it. You would
(05:56):
have to be in the spin cycle only to do
this and plug it in, and then the clothes would dry.
There were no commercial dryers, so he fashioned one out
of a washing machine, and he probably should have patented that. Yeah, yeah,
but that's that's the kind of inventive mind that he was.
And I'm just fascinated by those kinds of stories, and so,
you know, I mean, to me, that's also just the
(06:18):
power of the dad thing. And being able to spend
a Sunday connecting like that and just learning things from
your past. It's just the casualist of conversation. It's priceless.
It's you know what I'm saying. It's more rewarding to
me than you know, watching his face necessarily opening a gift,
just being able to share.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That, and probably to him too. It's good for him
to tell those stories, you know, and to visit And.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's funny because it's about his dad, you know, and
I guess the time goes on, it makes him seem
larger than life. My grandfather has been gone a long time.
He passed away in the late seventies. And so it's
funny it the more that you tell stories.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
About people, Yeah, the stories get better.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, they well, they become and I don't know that
it's exaggerated or not, but it really makes that person
larger than life.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's it's my favorite thing. I know. Like we've joked
before about my dad getting a medal in Korea for
saving a typewriter. Yeah, you know, and when he first
told the story to me as a kid, my mom
told me it was just like in passing. Yeah, he
got a medal. But it was just the building burned
down and he you know, I saved the typewriter. Well,
now it's become this thing. My dad got a medal
(07:23):
for saving a typewriter. Yeah, I mean, you know, whether
it's true or not, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well he did get the metal.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well yeah, he did get the medal totally.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, but it's it's it's so funny. My grandmother does
probably those things that I wouldn't try today. He was
the one that could make a rope swing put it
up in a fifty foot tree somehow, and I mean
climate and want to boom. Yeah, and that's but that's
the kind of stuff he did.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
He actually, murphy, let me stop your air. Okay, let's
say you had to do that. What would you do?
Hire somebody is so dangerous. You haven't assurance?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Are you bringing a lift? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well, it's funny about you guys saying this. And you
love sitting around telling stories with your dad, and that's
lovely and it is priceless and you'll never regret doing that.
Don't worry about what to get him, just go spend
time with him. But my dad's been gone so long, now,
is it thirty years now, No, it's twenty something. It's
(08:23):
been a long time. I forget. I lose track of
the years. But it's very rare that anybody talks to
me about him when I don't want to get upset
when people bring him up to me. It is precious
because it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, you mean a lot of his friends aren't still alive.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well I don't. I don't run in circles with his friends.
But it'll catch me off guard, just like what I'm
saying right now, I don't mean to get upset, yes, you.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Said at the beginning of the podcast, and it doesn't really,
it doesn't upset you as much anymore. So he becomes
more real the more you talk about it again, Yes,
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes, all I'm saying is that it's lovely tell the stories,
keep these things alive, because it catches me off guard
when people start telling me stories about my dad usually,
and it'll sometimes jar me to the point of embarrassment,
like now you know. So, yeah, that's a part of it.
That can be a part of father's day, just sitting around,
like if you lost somebody, maybe your siblings or cousins
(09:24):
or their spouse needs to. Maybe your mom Sam would
really love for you to talk about him. You know,
that'd be good for her to because it's good for
me when it happens to me too.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was interesting to me. And
this because it was my perspective, which doesn't make it
necessarily correct. But when somebody would pass on and you
would you would talk to him at a funeral, you
would want to tell stories. But I would always be
guarded about that. But I think the opposite is actually important.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They need to.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, have you know, it creates a presence, you know,
and and and a story. Your dad passed away, Yeah great,
your dad passed way thirty years ago. My grandfather passed
away forty years ago, and and so yeah, the storytelling,
it's I don't know how to explain it. And once
it becomes one generation removed, maybe it doesn't feel that way,
(10:13):
but it's it doesn't speak them into a physical you
feel at presence, but it speaks them into in existence again.
It's I do not explain it. It's keeping their memory
alive or speaking them into I'm not making them rail again. Yeah,
but not in a hokey way, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
No, not great. That's what you hope for, isn't it.
Don't you hope that when you're gone, that your children
tell all those stories about you. Of course, like my course.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
My dad dying ten years ago. Maddie and Parker were
about four years old, so they really don't remember I
mixed up for being in.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Pictures, So you got to tell that he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He's not real to them. But when I say pop
pop used to do this and pop pop did that
when we were kids pop pop, It's like, Okay, there
was a guy named pop pop and he knew these
things and he was human and he was funny and
he was real.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, and one day they will understand that in a
different way.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Once I die.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I just can't now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah. And it's weird while you're alive. You don't you
want you wish that on anybody, you know what I mean.
It's the no no, my grandmother. What Jody just described
about her dad, and that catching you off guard. And
that's interesting because I haven't seen you get upset about
him in a while. Doesn't mean you don't. But you know,
the other day, there was somebody who was buying a
piece of furniture from me and Jody a friend of
(11:29):
ours Donna, and went and seen Donna in twenty years
probably something like that, and and she says, yeah, she says,
what I really love about this is, you know this,
this was Heidie's and Heidi of course being my grandmother.
And I didn't realize a that she knew that piece
of furniture was more.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I just told her, I said, this was Heidie.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
She goes, what yep, and then okay, So I didn't
get I didn't catch that, but I'd forgotten that during
the time period that we saw a lot more of her,
that she was aware of my grandmother. And when she
said that, it just like it did that thing where
it puts it. It makes it real again. I love
my grandmother's legacy being kept alive by that in these
stories because you know, I mean, she would be one
(12:07):
hundred and six or something like that, you know now,
and the more the time passes like.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That, because she meant so much to you, you want that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And so you know, back to the you know, dads
and the sharing stories, whether it's dad or mom or whatever. Yeah,
just taking a family weekend like this where family is
going to be together. Anyway, the more you tell those stories,
the more likely they're going to be passed on. Even
if they're in writing somewhere, there's still something special about
hearing that from another family member, so that you remember
that and then pass it along.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Good for everybody. It's good for everybody. I mean, there's
no good that can come from just suppressing it and
watching TV or something stupid like that. Right, she missed
any part of the show All at Murphysamon Jodi dot com.
It's another episode of the Murphy Samon Jody after the
show podcasting, because we're actually doing this podcast right before
Father's Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's our Father's Day extravaganza, right, there's an extravaganza whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Jody earlier were talking about how dads are kings, which
is really funny because no matter, really, you know, if
you're blessed enough to be able to have a household
with both mom and dad there, and you know, even
even if your dad's a quiet type or the you know,
or the kind who's vocally in charge, Dad's always in charge.
Dad really is always the king. Even my mother was
(00:32):
a very strong personality, as Jodi can tell you, right,
but anytime as kids when my dad would speak, because
you know, he didn't really he's not He wasn't one
to correct discipline of those things very very often, so
when he spoke, it carried a ton of weight, you
know what I.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Mean, I mean weird. I would like to bring it
up at Father's Day just so that you guys know,
and all dads who listen know that even if you
don't think your influence is there, maybe you don't, maybe
you're not in touch, you know, with how your Maybe
you don't have that relationship where you know how your
kids feel about you. Are you know, it's there's not
a lot of verbal going on. Dad's loom really large,
(01:11):
even if you're you know, you don't see your kids
a lot or something like that. Your your opinion is
a lot of weight. I can remember, just in this
whole journey with you, Murphy, of us having kids together,
there are times when you're almost and not really but
almost jealous of the mystique of dad. Do you guys
know what I'm saying. It's hard to articulate. There's something
(01:34):
so powerful about your presence, what you think, you know,
a massive influence what.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You were saying about your mom. But you're still, you know,
revered dad. It was the same thing. My mom is
still that way, whether dad, my dad's been gone ten
years now.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
My dad was quiet. Mom was kind of like the
rule maker and to do this and to do that.
But you still respect your dad for his position because
you still looked at him that way, like right, he's
running things here.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know, your influence is so as a dad, your
influence is so much greater than you might realize. That's
all what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I know, I know what you're talking talking about as
we raised our kids because daddy was the fun guy
at night, you know, and that still is. They're jealous.
I mean, you have been a great mom, and obviously
our girls have grown up to be you know, they're
very connected to you and all that, so I.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
See that truly. It's just it's an odd thing. Yeah,
you know, I feel like my.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
If your dad's a playful kind of dad, then dad
kind of does have that, you know, especially with daughters.
I would think that that really stands out with daughters.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh, it is so important that you're just the fact
that you're just available. Look, everything you do as a
mother or a father says a lot to your children.
Your children are always constantly checking you for how are
things supposed to be? And how you show them is
what they expect of the world, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's funny you say that because there's a church I
passed on the way home that has that on their sign.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
What it's something along the lines of, you know, you're
gonna lead your kids by your actions, not by telling
them what to do. And they're true, they see you,
and that's how they're going to live their life.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's so true, and it works in the opposite of
fact too. If you are if you're in a situation,
if a kid who's listening to this is in a
situation where the dad, your dad is not present in
your life, it's big. It's big that they're not present.
It's big that they you know. I will tell you
I do have a friend that I would never reveal
the name, but the dad was there but not available
(03:32):
when she was growing up, and so that spoke volumes
to her, and what it said to her was, well,
I just don't matter, apparently to him, and that has
been a difficult thing for her in her life, and
it chased her her whole life, you know, just feeling
like I don't matter when I should. When I see
other kids and friends, dads you know, show up for
(03:54):
the ball games and things like that. So everything you
do looms more largely than you even realize. And I
don't know that dad's realize it as much as moms.
I know my influence. I know as soon as something
goes wrong, they're looking at me, or they're calling me
and texting me and calling my name. I know how
involved it is Dad. Sometimes don't realize it. That's all
everything you do is it does loom large, and which
(04:17):
you think of them, they'll think of themselves. So let
them know. Let kids know that you accept them exactly
the way that they are. That's a huge one, huge.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
On the fun side of things, I'm looking forward to
spending time with my dad. My mom passed away a
couple of years ago, and so I guess have the
three of us, I'm the only one that actually still
has my dad. Jodie's boss hers as a teenager, and
Sam years passed away ten years ago. So my dad
is telling more stories now than he's ever told before,
which are really cool, and so I'm hoping I get
(04:48):
to enjoy more of that. On Father's Day when we
visit with him, he was telling me because I called
him a couple of times a week just to check
on him, and he was telling me the story of
my grandfather. He was just my grandfather was very much
the mechanic type. That's how the conversation started. My grandfather
could fix anything, and you know, I mean he was
from the greatest generation of World War two, Vett all that,
(05:11):
and so my dad in the family grew up really
feeling that he was the one my grandfather. I don't
know if he invented the electric dryer, but here's what
he did.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Does the story.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There were no commercial electric dryers being made in the
nineteen forties, and he fashioned one. I don't know how
you do this safely at all, but I guess, you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Know, it was the forties, there is no safety.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So the washing machine was a front loader. I thought
that was kind of a new thing, but I guess
it's a retro thing. Washing machines were early Bendix washing
machines were front loading machines. And what he did is
he modified the door and put some sort of heating
fan thing in the front of it, and he would
turn the water part off, not run it. You would
(05:56):
have to be in the spin cycle only to do
this and plug it in, and then the clothes would dry.
There were no commercial dryers, so he fashioned one out
of a washing machine, and he probably should have patented that. Yeah, yeah,
but that's that's the kind of inventive mind that he was.
And I'm just fascinated by those kinds of stories, and so,
you know, I mean, to me, that's also just the
(06:18):
power of the dad thing. And being able to spend
a Sunday connecting like that and just learning things from
your past. It's just the casualist of conversation. It's priceless.
It's you know what I'm saying. It's more rewarding to
me than you know, watching his face necessarily opening a gift,
just being able to share.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That, and probably to him too. It's good for him
to tell those stories, you know, and to visit And.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's funny because it's about his dad, you know, and
I guess the time goes on, it makes him seem
larger than life. My grandfather has been gone a long time.
He passed away in the late seventies. And so it's
funny it the more that you tell stories.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
About people, Yeah, the stories get better.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, they well, they become and I don't know that
it's exaggerated or not, but it really makes that person
larger than life.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's it's my favorite thing. I know. Like we've joked
before about my dad getting a medal in Korea for
saving a typewriter. Yeah, you know, and when he first
told the story to me as a kid, my mom
told me it was just like in passing. Yeah, he
got a medal. But it was just the building burned
down and he you know, I saved the typewriter. Well,
now it's become this thing. My dad got a medal
(07:23):
for saving a typewriter. Yeah, I mean, you know, whether
it's true or not, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well he did get the metal.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well yeah, he did get the medal totally.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, but it's it's it's so funny. My grandmother does
probably those things that I wouldn't try today. He was
the one that could make a rope swing put it
up in a fifty foot tree somehow, and I mean
climate and want to boom. Yeah, and that's but that's
the kind of stuff he did.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
He actually, murphy, let me stop your air. Okay, let's
say you had to do that. What would you do?
Hire somebody is so dangerous. You haven't assurance?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Are you bringing a lift? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well, it's funny about you guys saying this. And you
love sitting around telling stories with your dad, and that's
lovely and it is priceless and you'll never regret doing that.
Don't worry about what to get him, just go spend
time with him. But my dad's been gone so long, now,
is it thirty years now, No, it's twenty something. It's
(08:23):
been a long time. I forget. I lose track of
the years. But it's very rare that anybody talks to
me about him when I don't want to get upset
when people bring him up to me. It is precious
because it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, you mean a lot of his friends aren't still alive.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well I don't. I don't run in circles with his friends.
But it'll catch me off guard, just like what I'm
saying right now, I don't mean to get upset, yes, you.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Said at the beginning of the podcast, and it doesn't really,
it doesn't upset you as much anymore. So he becomes
more real the more you talk about it again, Yes,
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes, all I'm saying is that it's lovely tell the stories,
keep these things alive, because it catches me off guard
when people start telling me stories about my dad usually,
and it'll sometimes jar me to the point of embarrassment,
like now you know. So, yeah, that's a part of it.
That can be a part of father's day, just sitting around,
like if you lost somebody, maybe your siblings or cousins
(09:24):
or their spouse needs to. Maybe your mom Sam would
really love for you to talk about him. You know,
that'd be good for her to because it's good for
me when it happens to me too.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was interesting to me. And
this because it was my perspective, which doesn't make it
necessarily correct. But when somebody would pass on and you
would you would talk to him at a funeral, you
would want to tell stories. But I would always be
guarded about that. But I think the opposite is actually important.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They need to.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, have you know, it creates a presence, you know,
and and and a story. Your dad passed away, Yeah great,
your dad passed way thirty years ago. My grandfather passed
away forty years ago, and and so yeah, the storytelling,
it's I don't know how to explain it. And once
it becomes one generation removed, maybe it doesn't feel that way,
(10:13):
but it's it doesn't speak them into a physical you
feel at presence, but it speaks them into in existence again.
It's I do not explain it. It's keeping their memory
alive or speaking them into I'm not making them rail again. Yeah,
but not in a hokey way, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
No, not great. That's what you hope for, isn't it.
Don't you hope that when you're gone, that your children
tell all those stories about you. Of course, like my course.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
My dad dying ten years ago. Maddie and Parker were
about four years old, so they really don't remember I
mixed up for being in.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Pictures, So you got to tell that he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He's not real to them. But when I say pop
pop used to do this and pop pop did that
when we were kids pop pop, It's like, Okay, there
was a guy named pop pop and he knew these
things and he was human and he was funny and
he was real.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, and one day they will understand that in a
different way.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Once I die.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I just can't now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah. And it's weird while you're alive. You don't you
want you wish that on anybody, you know what I mean.
It's the no no, my grandmother. What Jody just described
about her dad, and that catching you off guard. And
that's interesting because I haven't seen you get upset about
him in a while. Doesn't mean you don't. But you know,
the other day, there was somebody who was buying a
piece of furniture from me and Jody a friend of
(11:29):
ours Donna, and went and seen Donna in twenty years
probably something like that, and and she says, yeah, she says,
what I really love about this is, you know this,
this was Heidie's and Heidi of course being my grandmother.
And I didn't realize a that she knew that piece
of furniture was more.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I just told her, I said, this was Heidie.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
She goes, what yep, and then okay, So I didn't
get I didn't catch that, but I'd forgotten that during
the time period that we saw a lot more of her,
that she was aware of my grandmother. And when she
said that, it just like it did that thing where
it puts it. It makes it real again. I love
my grandmother's legacy being kept alive by that in these
stories because you know, I mean, she would be one
(12:07):
hundred and six or something like that, you know now,
and the more the time passes like.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That, because she meant so much to you, you want that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And so you know, back to the you know, dads
and the sharing stories, whether it's dad or mom or whatever. Yeah,
just taking a family weekend like this where family is
going to be together. Anyway, the more you tell those stories,
the more likely they're going to be passed on. Even
if they're in writing somewhere, there's still something special about
hearing that from another family member, so that you remember
that and then pass it along.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Good for everybody. It's good for everybody. I mean, there's
no good that can come from just suppressing it and
watching TV or something stupid like that. Right, she missed
any part of the show All at Murphysamon Jodi dot com.
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