AM Show Hr 2 | Surviving the Unthinkable, Great Houstonians & Your Choking Tales

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. If you
go to Miraculous Failure dot blog, Miraculous Failure dot com,

(00:39):
sorry dot blog dot blog, it reads about this blog
Miraculous Failure. It's a true miracle that I failed at suicide.
It has changed me for the better and I am
so thankful. I'm a survivor of a very serious suicide
attempt that I was completely aware I was headed toward

(01:01):
or doing. It was the result of depression caused by
inability to cope with a lifetime of wrongs, combined with
a completely ridiculous medication regimen. The doctors called it medication
induced psychosis. This caused bizarre behavior, loss of memory, a
lot of twenty sixteen, and the attempt. I was hospitalized

(01:21):
in ICU for three weeks and in physical rehab for
five weeks. During the hospitalization, I was unconscious most of
the time. Everything I had was failing on dialysis, a ventilator,
and an unreal amount of ivy drips. My family and
friends were asked to say goodbye to me several times.
Each time I quickly returned to good vital signs, shocking

(01:43):
the medical professionals. There were seven episodes of near death
during my hospitalization, each time with the same unexplainable, almost
immediate recovery. The doctors all told me when I woke
up there was no medical explanation for my survivor for survival,
that it had had to be a God thing. And
I believe that I am recovering, no longer on dialysis,

(02:06):
getting stronger every day. All of my organs are working,
and my mind is clear. It's like I'm a whole
new person. I believe these posts are not just for
depressed or suicidal people. Miraculous Failure dot blog is the website.
Terry Lucher is the woman who wrote those words, and
she's our guest. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Hi, Hello.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Tell me what was going on in your life when
this happened in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Well the reason really doesn't matter, but it was a
a lifetime of family lies that finally came to the
truth when I was forty eight forty nine years old
and I just couldn't handle it. I was very angry
and obsessed with my anger, which made me depressed, and

(03:00):
I didn't do anything to stop it. And what happened
happened I tried to kill myself. I'd been on different
types of medications, and I'd been in a really nice,
like thirty day rehab a long time ago, which I

(03:20):
learned a lot of things, but when I came home,
I didn't do those things. And then when it all
came to a head, I wound up in a psych
hospital and with a psychiatrist that gave me some very
racy medications of none of which helped anything, only hurt.
He put me on riddling because I couldn't sleep, he said,

(03:43):
if and I couldn't sleep, he said if I took
the Riddlin in the morning and at noon, that it
would make me tired and I would sleep, And it
did work. But Riddlin is basically mess without the flammable chemical,
so you know that was bad. He put me on
thorazine because I had chronic Tommy troubles, because it's an antipsychotic,

(04:05):
but it also works on the GI system. That worked,
So I thought this guy was a genius. But of
course everybody else around me thought maybe she just me
taking these things. But I did take them and it
made me worse, not better. And so one night, I
don't know really what happened. But this is what my
husband tells me, that I took at least eight hundred

(04:25):
psych and sleep and blood pressure medications and.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Tried to kill myself. He figured out I asked him.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
For a divorce, which was crazy, and I guess that
was a ruse to get me sleeping.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
In the living room and him in the bedroom.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
And he finally figured out what was going on because
he heard me, you know, coughing and gagging, and we
live way out in the country, and he, you know,
got the ambulance there, and three hours later, I'm at
the hospital almost dead. So, you know, they did every
thing that they could at Huntsville to try to keep
me alive. And I was there for a few days

(05:04):
and then I had to be taken to Memorial downtown
and they did everything they could to keep me alive, and.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I lived. I couldn't be happier about that. I can't.
It's still hard for me to believe that it happened.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
But it did happen, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
So thankful that it didn't work.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
And there's really no reason that I am alive other
than the fact that God saved me. Why, I don't
know we did and so, and I'm just so thankful.
It's a miracle.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
So you've taken that that horrible thing and started a blog,
and in a sense, it's your ministry. I don't know
if you use that word or not to help other
people and what have you.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
I call it, I.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Call it therapy.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, it's not an interactive blog. I don't but
I've several people have contacted me and said that it
helped them. Because what I guess I really want people
to understand is what happened to me really wasn't a
big deal. And I'm not talking about people who actually
have a chemical imbalance, just talking about people who are
depressed because something happened or they did something, you know,

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something that they're obsessed about and their life is going
down the drain because of it. And see, that's the
thing that depressed people do. It's kind of like drugs
or alcohol. You get addicted to it, and just like
drugs or alcohol, you know, you start to feel bad
and instead of reversing the problem, you kind of just
dig deeper into it and it's it's terminal. In all

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three cases, depression, drugs, and alcohol, it's taken to extremes
will kill you, and.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You have to stop it. And I wasn't doing any
of those things to stop it.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
And now, well, the things that I realized after the
fact that forgiveness I'm not talking about walking up to
someone and telling them.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
That you forgive them. I mean forgiving them in.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Your mind and moving away that terrible thing that happened.
And if you can't do that, then you can't be
free of it. You'll always obsess about it and it
will bring you down. And the reality of it is
is God forgave me for trying to kill myself. I

(07:28):
literally tried to murder myself, and he forgave me, and
then he fixed all the damage because I mean, there
was a time in the hospital that they thought if
there was a slight possibility that I would live, that
I would be in complete the ability you know, in
a nursing home, on a feeding tube, without my senses,
and none of that happened.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, Terry, there are horrible things that happened to people,
even though, as you said, you were a part of
making this happen to yourself. But I look at it
as what do you do as a result of it?
Miraculous failure dot blog, miraculous failure dot blog and ask
promised if you have a choking story you'd like to share,

(08:10):
we'll hear them coming up. Seven one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, little son, Michael Berry, George.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Sleep, I can't.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
You're excited.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It's that moment you've all been waiting for all these years. Lo,
the time has come. You never thought you'd call the show.
But there was that time in eighth grade when you
choked on a centnamon roll in front of Christy d Leon,
the girl you had the hots for, and you were

(08:50):
approaching her to ask her to go steady with you
or maybe homecoming. I can't remember your details. And in
order to steal yourself and get yourself ready, you thought
you'd you'd finish that cinnamon roll a little faster because
lunch period's coming to a close and there's only about
a minute left, and you've decided today's the day. You

(09:12):
got your best shoes on, your best jeans, you haven't
spilled anything on your shirt today, Today's the day, and
the time is nigh, and so here you go, and
so you got to finish this cinnamon roll real quick
so you can get over there and ask her. And
so you push it down a little faster, stuff it
down in there like a musket getting ready to fire.

(09:33):
And then and then, and then, and then you choke
in the middle of the cafeteria in front of everyone.
You never asked her to go on a date. You
never even let her know that you were hot for her.
Your friend told her friend. She found out. A shame

(09:53):
to this day. And you've always wanted to tell that
story about your your greatest choke. And here it is.
Who would have known when you woke up today this
would be the day one thousand. Let's go to jin.
Let's go to Genie. Oh, we have women calling in today.
It's interesting which which topics ilicit women calls, which don't. Genie,

(10:15):
you're up, sweetheart, go ahead, Good morning to.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Both of you.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Thank you for taking my call. I'll just speak real fast.
I was in third grade. I was in the cafeteria,
and back then, the teachers sat with you in eight
lunch with you. I started choking. The kids were all
pointing and laughing, and she was busy talking. When she turned,
she noticed, and the only thing I remember was her
scooping me up and running down the hallway to the

(10:42):
nurse's office. And the nurse was an older lady. She
did the heimlick on me. And the good part about
it was I got to stay home the rest of
the day.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, I think I had my parents. Yeah, let's send
Jeanie home. She's had enough of a day today. Brenda,
you're old the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
Hi.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
Okay. So I'm a retired paramedic and way back in
the day when I was just a brand new MT
just getting started, just at the lowest level. I was
getting off shift kind of late, so I went to
go have some lunch at the local chicken place in Hempstead.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
That's where I was working.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
And so anyway, the.

Speaker 9 (11:23):
Lady across the room was doing that you know, that
universal choking sign, you know where they put their hands
to their throat.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
I was like, oh my god, okay, remember your training,
remember your training. So I got up and I started
making my way across the room, and about halfway there,
this huge guy, I mean huge, just forms me out
of the way. I was like, oh my gosh. This
guy goes he grabs this poor woman. He throws her
over the table, lifts up her scrap, pulls down her

(11:50):
Panti's lickture butt and she's she spent the ticking out.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was like, man, what are you doing?

Speaker 9 (11:57):
He said, Well, haven't you ever heard the Heimlich maneuver?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Very well played Brenda behind lick. We knew her, very
well played. You know, women don't normally deliver a joke
as well as guys do. That was first class. She
She made her sex proud. I mean she she she
held it together. She was clearly telling a story. She was,

(12:24):
I mean the whole deal. Yeah, Oh that's that's uh Brenda.
Call of the day, Call a day. She We showed
her a Labuchery gift card. Yeah, she's not gonna choke
on that, all right, hold on and get her addressed.
That's that's uh okay. I like it. It wasn't until
the pants came pulled down that I knew we were
waiting on a punchline. But I was ready for it.
Scott got what you got.

Speaker 10 (12:44):
Sir, Hey and Mike. I've had problems with food getting
stuck with my esophagus, and I've been in the Murgen's
room like five or six times in my life because
of food getting stuck. Because you know, wife felling me
all the time. Do you chew your dude, It's hard
to change how you've eaten your whole life. And uh yeah,

(13:08):
one time I was in a restaurant, eat me, eating
with a client, and you know, it was some good food,
some crawfish or.

Speaker 11 (13:16):
Something a to fade, and uh, I hate.

Speaker 10 (13:19):
I swallowed and then I was taking a glass of
water and then.

Speaker 11 (13:22):
It was kind of embarrassing.

Speaker 10 (13:23):
I was like, oh my god, it's coming up, because
if it doesn't go down, then it's coming up. And
it was like I was throwing up in my plate and.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
It was pretty embarrassing.

Speaker 10 (13:31):
But and and then one time I was having some
prime rib and uh wine, drank some some tabernet, and
people thought I was like blood coming.

Speaker 11 (13:44):
Out of my mouth.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm noticing a pattern here, Scott, I'm noticing a pattern.
Uh let's go to Rick. You're up, my good man,
good morning. How are you today?

Speaker 11 (14:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Sure, I just wanted to tell you that I had
had this happen a couple of times before, and it's
very very scary. And just like he was saying, you know,
you drink some water and try to think you're gonna
flush it down. It doesn't go down, it comes back up.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
But about a.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Month ago I was in having a steak and and
I knew, you know, shoe your meat well and all that,
and it happened. And this time it was like I
almost died. So I had I was with some folks
and they recommended me to go to a doctor and
supposed to be you know and was and is the
best doctor for this type of thing in Houston.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
And I found out this.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Is actually called steakhouse syndrome or shot Ski's ring, and
it's the narrowing of the esophagus and many people get
it after years of acid reflux and things like that
that as people get older, that many people come down with.
So any way, I didn't have state this time. I

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went to see the doctor.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
And who was the doctor?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think I know what it is, doctor Isaac Rojm
in Houston. And I got to tell you it was great.
He went in dilated my throat. I could I can
eat anything?

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Now?

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, that's what Rick Doak had, all right, hold on seven, one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand, very show show.

Speaker 12 (15:27):
Happy see you.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
In My Way.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Happy birthday to Clay Walker today turns fifty six. Happy
birthday to the bassist for Queen John Deacon. Happy birthday
to Edwin Hawkins, who you may or may not have
known before you started listening to our show, but I
know you know Edwin Hawkins now. And happy birthday to

(15:56):
one of the great Houstonians of all time. He would
have been eighty five today. Johnny Nash. He performed as
a teen on the Arthur Godfrey Variety Show, and he
told me the story one time. It was a great story.

(16:17):
His father was a limo driver and so he had
to be it. I think it was KPRC Studios in
the afternoon to record every day. And so his father said,
when I pick you up, you get in the back.
I'm your limo driver. And so his dad, this was
the old days of you know, he worked for some
river Oaks family, or probably a river Oaks family, and
so he wore the whole black suit and the skinny

(16:38):
black tie and the white shirt and the hat. And
so he would pull up to the school and he
would get out very smartly, and he'd walk over and
he would open the door for Johnny to crawl in
the back, and he would close the door. He'd get
back into limo and he'd drive into KPRC, and he
wanted people to think Johnny was a star. And Johnny alway,

(17:00):
I thought, you know that, what an act, What an
act of love that was for him to put aside
his own ego and pretend he was my limo driver.
Johnny Nash one of the great Houstonians. I had the
pleasure to get to know him and his wife, Carly
very well. They taught my wife to ride horses, among

(17:20):
other things, and sit for hours and hours and talk
music in his living room. What a guy?

Speaker 7 (17:25):
What a guy?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
A what a story? We're talking choking Ramon? How about
Ramon pulling out the duncan chic story barely breathing. That
was clever. It took a while to get to the chorus.
That was the only bummer about that all R Let's
go down the list, Michael, your quick choking story.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Go.

Speaker 9 (17:42):
Yes.

Speaker 13 (17:43):
I commute from Plannersville to the GALLERYA and I usually
stop off at one of the Mickey D's on the
way to get me some breakfast in the morning. And
after I got it, I got going down the feeder
on two forty nine and I inhaled the egg.

Speaker 7 (17:57):
And started choking on the side of the road.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Ooh.

Speaker 13 (18:00):
The whole time I'm choking. I'm on the side of
the feeter, I pulling their side road. I'm sitting there choking,
i am not breathing. I'm look like I'm beating myself
on the side of the road. And the only thing
that kept going through my head was my wife kept
telling me them, damn mckegheese is gonna kill me one day.
And I'm thinking, they're gonna find me dead on the
side of the road, and she's gonna see that daggum

(18:22):
rapper sitting on my console and she's gonna be thinking,
I told you, they're gonna kill you. That's the only
thing that went through my head. And I almost passed out.
I got it dislarged, where.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Were you born? And I've never told that?

Speaker 11 (18:35):
Do what now?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Where were you born?

Speaker 7 (18:38):
Corpus Christi, Texas?

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Okay, all right, great story, Michael Hank you're up what
you got?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (18:45):
Michael, Sitting there at the high school cafeteria table back
in my freshman year, sitting around with a bunch of
football guys, and somebody told a nasty joke.

Speaker 7 (18:56):
We all started to laughing.

Speaker 12 (18:57):
Everybody was kind of choking, but the biggest guy at
the table was started having a problem choking, and we
were young, we didn't know what to do. We're just
sitting there kind of dumbfounded, looking at and all of
a sudden, an entire pinto being comes flying out of
one nostril.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh, a nostril was.

Speaker 12 (19:18):
Out of his out of his nose, and it landed
in the center of the table. And I mean by
that at that time the rest of us started choking
so hard, laughing, and his nickname was being Man for
the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Well, of course it was. It had to be. I mean,
what else could it be. At this age they should
still be calling him. That's a story you ever you
ever see those stories were warning about these guys. They're
cave explorers, belunkers, and they go up in there and
they'll get up in there and they'll they'll crawl into

(19:52):
a crevice that's that's hooked and crooked and all that,
and they get up in there and they can't get out,
and they and there's I saw one or the guy
he dies up in there, and the cave owner just
had it covered over instead of they wanted to blow
the thing out so it wouldn't induce people to come
in there, and instead he concreted over. So the guy
was buried up in there because he got himself so

(20:15):
contorted he couldn't get back out. I was a hell
of a story. Well that's how I imagine that bean
going up his nose. I mean that bean come out here. Now,
I've never heard such a thing. I have never in
my life heard such a thing as that. Let's go
to Nancy, Nancy Europe, sweetheart, Yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Twenty eight years ago, when I moved to Belleville, we
were looking around. Lady the Real Escape Lady took me
around and we were looking at houses and she was
going to drop me off to have lunch with my husband.
And I was so excited because I found the perfect house.
And the song playing on the radio was When I
Die the Guy in Texas. And I walked in there,

(20:53):
popped a pill in my throat and started chooking in
the middle of the pizza place, and everybody he's just
looking at me. And finally somebody came up and said,
are you okay, and I'm saying no, and he didn't
the Heimlich and the little pill popped out. But since then,
my husband died, and I live alone, and I choke
all the time, and I've learned to give myself the Heimlich.

(21:15):
But my dear friend of sixty years sent me this
life back thing to keep in the house. It's like
a small plunger that you put over your mouth and
then you.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Just pop it out.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh yeah, it's a suction.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
I think everybody who lives alone should have one.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well how about that? You have the most charming voice.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Do you know that?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
And delivery?

Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm nervous.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, it's just one. It's delightful, it's absolutely I imagine
you looking like Ronnie Stoneman on he Hall. That's how
I want you to look. If you don't, then don't
tell me. But I like to imagine you. And she'd have,
you know, the she'd have the pins in her hair.
But she always had such a charm to me, such
a raw, authentic charm. You have just the most adorable

(22:05):
was that.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
It took me eighty years to get this way.

Speaker 14 (22:09):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
You're like a fine wine. You have aged gracefully and gloriously.
I love your delivery. I could listen to you talk
for hours. Sabrina, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
Hi, I choked on my honeymoon on a piece of
blame Mignon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a waiter is
the one who jumped into.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
The action to save me.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
What about your husband?

Speaker 6 (22:38):
She sat there and watched me.

Speaker 9 (22:40):
He's the next Now, yeah, that.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
That was your moment. Here's your sign.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
That was my sign, but several others before.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Wow, yeah, okay, Well, Sabrina, thank you.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
I was gonna say, yeah, they pulled me to the
back because I was passing out, so they're like, oh
my god, my god.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
Yeah crazy, But yeah it was funny.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
But now it's funny when I laugh about it, I'm like, yeah,
that was the real winner.

Speaker 11 (23:08):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Well, thank you for sharing that. You know, the show
wouldn't be the show if people didn't put aside their
pride and their shame and their nervousness and everything else
and call up and share with everybody else. So that's
very cool. Ten. You're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Hey, Michael.

Speaker 11 (23:28):
Yes, I'm married to a Vietnamese wife for about fourteen years,
and she still has a pretty thick accent.

Speaker 7 (23:38):
Up.

Speaker 11 (23:39):
She always pronounced it as cone fo n and I've
always given her a hard time about that, and you know,
and kind of made fun of her. One night I
was watching as she was ear of corn and I
started making fun of her, and I started, She's welcome phone,

(24:02):
this is the mold on sold.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
On run there seven three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
Come on, I said, songs about choking you. You know
this doesn't not the same thing. Lois Gibson holds the

(24:27):
world record for the most identifications made by a forensic artist.
Since joining the Houston Police Department in nineteen eighty nine,
where she stayed till twenty twenty one, her detailed sketches
became a powerful tool for solving crimes. By twenty twelve,
her work had contributed to cracking one thy two hundred
and sixty six cases, considered to be the most in history.

(24:50):
The story of how she became a sketch artist is
quite interesting. She'll be our guest coming up at ten.
But first, you're choking story ten. Your phone was cutting
out on me, But go ahead, taken back the corn cone.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Right.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
So, as I mentioned, my wife is Vitan to me,
so she always pronounces corn is cone and I've always
made fun of her about that. One night, I was
watching a TV show and she came up and she
was eating an ear of cone, and you know, I
started kind of giggling because because she said, hey, do
you want some cone? And that made me even laugh
even harder, and she got a little perturbed, so she said, well,

(25:27):
oh okay, So to get back, I mean, she started
jabbing me in the ribs with this ear of cone
and he said, oh, you think this is funny? And
she kept on jabbing me, and I just lost it.
I just couldn't stop laughing. I was laughing so hard
that I actually stopped breathing and I actually passed out.
And when I came to, it felt like I had

(25:48):
just woken up from like a three hour nap. And
my wife had this crazy look on her face because
my face was all blue and my lips were purple.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
And I asked her what happened, you know, and she says,
you passed out? How long was I out? Because you're
out for like fifteen twenty seconds, and you know, you
weren't breathing. So I always, you know, get a laugh
out of telling the story of how one night my wife,
you know, tried to kill me with an ear cone.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, exactly till this day.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Is that way?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, that takes me back to the story about corn pop.
You forgot about cornpop. Cornpop was a bad man. Ramon,
Let's go to BJ. Yeah, b J, you're up.

Speaker 14 (26:31):
Jay, You're up?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh I think Bjbarneylee dot com, I have no idea.
Go ahead, how are you this morning?

Speaker 10 (26:41):
Michael?

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I'm good? Go ahead, my man.

Speaker 15 (26:44):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (26:46):
About twenty three years ago or so, my three year
old grandson, we were at Texas roadhouse. He's running around
on the table like a banshie is somebody's birthday, everybody there,
and then.

Speaker 15 (26:56):
All of a sudden he's just blackless right by his mom,
and she say what's wrong? What's wrong?

Speaker 10 (27:03):
And of course he can't say nothing, And she finally
looks at me and says, Barnie, do something. And so
I picked him up and turned him over because he's
three years old, and wrapped him on the back about
three or four times, and then real lightly just did
the hind liking I'll come the peanut that he had lodge.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
You know, it's crazy, it's crazy to think, you know.
With Jimmy Barrett. It was a little bitty piece of bread,
a peanut how somebody could die over something so trivial.
It's just crazy to imagine, isn't it? Rollin you're up,
go ahead, rollin, Rollin, you're up, Go ahead. Oh, rollin

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you're here, you're up.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I can hear you on the speakerphone, which is awful
for radio.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oh bas there we go.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
Then we get it.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Romow, you dumb ass. I look over at the screen.
That is R O L L I N. That's not rolling.
Oh yeah, that's technically rolling. That's not the name rolling
him in the Where do you get this stuff that
you really thought? Man and thinks he was gonna sit

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there for an hour? I'm rolling, y'all call him rolling?
Just go all right, rolling, go ahead.

Speaker 14 (28:37):
I was playing baseball in Phoenix, Arizona, and the guys
bring donuts out, so I take a piece of donut
and the coach goes, hey, go play, go go coach
third base. So I'm coaching third base and I'm start sweating.
That's what the hell's going on. So the inning is over,
it comes there in the dugout and one of the
guys goes, what is wrong with you? You're white? And

(28:57):
I said, I don't know. I'm sweating like hell, he goes,
let's come to hospital. Now the doing I got stuck
in my throat and I couldn't get it out up
going to the emergency room. It gave me some water
and he went out way went away.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
H you ever watch I'm not a big fan of
the competitive eating thing because food is sacred to me,
and I you know, people are into that.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
But I read an article about how Kobayashi or whatever
his name was, the Japanese guy that first pulled ahead
of Joey Chestnut Kobayashi, and that somehow is either him
or Joey Chestnut. Some medical expert told them that if
you would moisten the bread, you can get it down faster,

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and then it just you know, they went from however,
many thirty hot dogs to fifty. It changed, everything changed,
the whole sport quote unquote as we know it. Well,
Ramona hasn't bothered to put names in front of people.
So I'll go to the seven to seven zero unknown. Oh,
I have to refresh, okay, a little refresh. Oh chuck, Yeah,
why didn't it refresh on my screen?

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Chuck? You're up?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, good morning.

Speaker 15 (30:08):
This long story short. I used to be a missionary
down in the Virgin Islands in Saint Croix, and in
our Christians school, whenever it rained, we had to go
inside because we didn't have a gem, and so I
taught some kids some basic first aid and one of
the things that we taught them was how to do
the Heimlich. The very next day, one of my students,
his mother was choking on a fishbone, and he did

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the Heimlich and he saved her life. A long story short.
She was so thankful for that that she ended up
coming to our church and came to one of our services,
and I wanted to hear about God. She was an
airblady and so we were able to lead her to
the Lord. So just a wonderful story teaching something. Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
I don't believe that things like that happened on accident,
that was all according to plan. What a great, great story.
I got an email from Lisa who said, once we
were in the warming Hut on a ski run in
Snow mass that's in Colorado. I was probably a senior
at Lamar High School at the time. My little sister,
Rosemary's bout eight. She starts choking on a hot dog,

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but no one noticed because in walks the famous dashing,
glamorous couple mary Anne Mobley and Gary Collins.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
Roon.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
You forget how big Gary Collins was back in the
day when he would host to Miss America. Gary Collins
was kind of famous for being famous. Nobody really knew
what he'd done, but he was famous. I glanced to
my right and see Rosie turning at least Red get up,
walk behind her and give that Heimlich maneuver as hard
as I can. The hot dog shot across the room.

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She starts crying. I start yelling. Not sure what Marianne
and Gary thought, but oh well, thank you coach Howard
in health class, who taught us that. It may have
been the only time I paid attention in health and
it paid off. Lisa W. Hoff in Galveston, Texas, seventy
seventy five five. Oh how about that, Yeah, Ramode, you
don't remember. You're too young to know. Gary Collins was big,

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and he would walk around as if he was the
cats me out, you know, like he was you know,
he was so handsome, like he was Rock Hudson or something.
You know. I read the other day because I always
thought he was from the West Coast. Rock Hudson was
actually born in Illinois, he was reared in California. The

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