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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. So I
probably sound a little different than I normally do. I
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am well aware that when you talk on the radio
in the manner in which I do, that literally everything
you say is upsetting somebody. I'm comfortable with that. A
couple of days ago I posted that now that Crockett
has graduated out of the house, I let the word
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out among people who've tried to book me for Speed
for a while. Hey, I'm doing the speeches. And there
have been some other markets that want me to fly
there and give a speech and come back, which I
never wanted to do when the kids were at home.
It takes a lot of time, and then you're away
from the kid. And the worst part about that is
whether they want you to speak for twenty minutes or
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an hour. It's the travel and the staying there and
the hotel and all that. All that for one hour.
It's a burden. I don't want to live that way.
But it's good money, and I've always used speech money
as play money, so I would tell the kids, Hey,
I'm getting this amount for this speech. What do y'all
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want to do with it. So Dad's not going to
be here, you know, Saturday night, because I'm speaking at
this event. But the flip side is we're gonna do
something together. We're gonna blow this money. It's fun money.
And so I told that, and then I said, look,
if you want somebody that doesn't cost anything, here's three
really good speakers. David Malsby from Camp Hope and he
will usually bring if you ask him, veterans from Camp
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Hope to tell their story. You want a powerful, impactful
you know, businessman's lunch or businessman's breakfast group, email me.
I'll connect you with David Malsby. He's got a story
to tell. He's a pastor. He tells stories good at
it Russell Lebara. His group likes you to buy books
because the books go to Camp Hope and distribute the
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books to your members. He can only do so many
because of time and he travels. But he's a really,
really good speaker. Will you will love having him. He's
got stories to tell. And Third, the guy who's probably
given more speeches in this town in the last fifty
years than any other single person is Mac and he
doesn't charge. He shows up and speaks at kindergarten graduations,
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high school business clubs. He loves it. And by the way,
the thing that shocks people is how polished he is
as a speaker, because he has that herky jerky tone
when you see him in the ad. That's all a
put on. That's not who Mac is. I went over yesterday,
Well let me finish this, so I said, hey, here's
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three people that if you need speakers, because people are always
looking for speakers for events, and I'm back in the
speaking game. You get paid. There are people who follow
me day in and day out, who love my content,
who all of a sudden are upset you got paid.
You got payfork bake Day? Why you got payfork bak days?
Do you get paid for roofing? It's what I do
for a living. It's what I do. Do you not
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understand that y'all not get paid? God, y'all show you experiences.
I'm getting paid, mfort That's what I do. I here's
the difference. And this is where I know I'm making
people mad. I don't care that you don't like that
I like to make money. Well, you just play on
a different field. You know you're not poor like me.
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You like to go out and eat food, and you
post a picture of you eating food. Why ain't got
no money? I don't have nothing. Nice you sound like
a democrat. Go make some money. Nobody gave me mine.
I will tell you this. You are talking to a
dude that wants to make money. Money gives me power.
Somebody sick, I can pay for their treatment. I need
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a z cliner from my dad. I can go buy one.
Somebody can't make it to a funeral. I can. Hey,
I got it. I give me the details. I got
it on my credit card. Money gives you power, It
gives you flexibility, and I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't like you no morek because now you make money. Okay,
don't like me. We're not friends anyway. What do you
think is going on here? I provide content? You like
it or you don't. It's Coca cola, you want PEPSI fine,
stupid choice, it's yours. So I understand that literally everything
I do, everything I say, is going to upset somebody,
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but on this particular person. I also on this particular issue,
I also understand this is very personal to people. It
is not my intention. It is not on this one time.
It's not my intention to pick a scab on somebody
that this is. They've got a deep emotional trauma that
they've chosen for themselves. It's my opinion, and I'm here
to hurt it. That's when I say what I say.
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It's very harsh. If I were honest about what I
think about this issue, i'd lose ninety percent of you.
And I got that I'm okay with. That doesn't change
who I am. It's who I am that makes you
not like me. Okay, maybe I'm not as nice as
guy as you think I am. I have very harsh opinions,
and I actually believe that most of the problems in
this country are that people don't state harsh opinions. Everybody
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states what everybody else wants to hear. We got to
have a sticker on everything. Hey, don't eat this poison,
you'll die. Okay, it's just for killing ants. You can't
eat it. Okay, Well that dumb they have to put
that note on there. Well, maybe that's how we ended
up here. Maybe we've been living in a padded room
for too long. By the way, posted the other day.
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Rolled in on Sunday to see my dad and he's
knocked out two o'clock in the afternoon having a nap,
I mean a king's nap. Oh he looks cold gy,
this little crochete thing on him. I've got a full
time caretaker and just so loving toward him. And he's
all He's laid out there, he's happy, and I'm happy
that he's happy. He's sleeping deeply, and so I posted
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a picture of it. I get these emails. I get
these posts from people thought a clinner, I thought they clinner. Okay,
it's not a Z cliner. You gotta buy your daddy
a Z cliner. You ought to buy yours a Z cliner?
Did you buy yours a Z cliner? Do people even
hear themselves? Everybody loves to say that. They'll tell restaurant owners.
Restaurants tell me all the time, people, you need to
give these You need to give that guy a raise.
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You don't even know what he makes. You're running around
giving people raises. You need to give somebody a raise.
What are you doing? Just stop telling everybody else what
to do. That's my domain. So anyway, so I got
pissed off all these people. You ought to buy him
a Z cliner? So I called Mac yesterday, said hey, Mac,
he ain't z Cloiner's in. Yeah, yeah, come here, come on.
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He doesn't actually talk like that in real life. So
I said, you can be there. It took me an
hour to get from the galley to forty five yesterday.
The kids back in school. It's crazy. So anyway, I
went over spend a little time. It was a lot
of time. In the afternoon. They made a lot of
changes over. They renovated a bunch of stuff. The z
Cliner is a big deal for them now. Anyway, So
I bought my dad as z cliner and so I
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called my dad. I called the caretaker and said hey,
and he said, well, we got he's got. He had
a bunch of medical treatments they come to him now.
And they said, he's going to really want to be focused.
Can you put it off till tomorrow. It's like, whoever
wanted furniture to deliver tomorrow? Can you not bring it right
this second? I said, well, it kind of ruins the
whole vibe. But okay, So in between shows today I'm
gonna go over and they're gonna wait out front, and
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we're gonna walk in with this z Cliner and I'm
pretty fired up about it. Max pretty fired up about it.
He made him a video. MS. Mary, this is Mac.
Hope you enjoy your z cloiner. You know boys are
good anyway, So I'm pretty excited about it. I'm not
sure why I told you that, other than it would
make me very happy if you go get you a
z cliner. Oh, Michael, they cost too much money. Okay,
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what about the new truck you just bought? What about
the See that's why I don't need therapy. I just
get yelled generally at every person that emails. So anyway,
go buy a mac z climber. Because Ramon gets a commission.
I mean, we could work a deal out.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Upon a time.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The f to the lines, we go, the fine lines
we go, or Sean Henney says, to our very busy
phone lines, we go. Mike go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Uh I found out a little over a year ago
that my son is a not my biological son, and uh,
I guess initially I responded, he found out through one
of those online DNA things. I guess initially I responded
in anger, and then his mom finally revealed that it
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was true.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
How old your son?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He's thirty three?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And are you still married to his mother?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
How long had you all been together when she got
pregnant with him? We were married for a year. And
do you know who his biological father is?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I did not know him personally. Was someone she knew
from high school?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do you all have other children? She does prior to you.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
After how long were you married? Two years? And have
you raised this child as your own? You're close to him,
great relationship.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yes, raised him as my own unknowing yeah, but about
the fact. But I would say with this news, the
relationship is I don't know if you call.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It awkward or.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Strained. Why I don't think we've dealt with it each other. Well,
he lives in a different state. I do plan to
go see him too, sort of, I guess, in my opinion,
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kind of figure out.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Where we go from here. Well, Mike, I'll just tell
you my opinion. You don't have to like it or agree.
My opinion exists whether I'm talking to you or not.
So I know a lot of people who a woman
has a child, maybe she's married, maybe she's not. She's married,
they get divorced, or her husband dies or he runs
off and leaves her whatever happens, or maybe she gets
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pregnant she's not sure who the dad is, or maybe
the dad wants no pardon, so she's a single mom.
She goes on with her life. She meets a man,
That man in her create a couple, They start living together.
She has a child already. The right thing to do
is for that man to play a parental role to
the extent that she's comfortable and he's comfortable. If there's
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no man involved, he should be the dad. And this
often happens. I hate the word stepdad. A dad's a dad.
A dad's one tells you when to go to bed,
gets you up in the morning, throws a ball with you,
pays your bills, whip somebody's ass if they do you wrong.
All these things saves up for retirement, to give you
something when they leave, lets you live in their home,
feeds you, cares for you, takes you to the doctor's office,
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tends to your needs, disciplines you, answers your questions, helps
you get through the rough times. That's what a dad is.
A dad is not sperm. I wish we could get
past this notion. A dad is not sperm. You are
that boy's dad. You raised him. He is who he
is because of you. Now, I don't know what cancer
is lurking that you didn't contribute to when somebody else did.
I don't know what you know. The combs in his eyes,
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or his likelihood for macular degeneration, none of that is
who he is as a human being. You raised that child.
You are his father. He is your son, and to me,
there's really nothing else to say. I think that we
have this. I think it's a harlequin romance, notion of
he's not my son after all. Yeah, he is, and
you're his dad, because that's what that means. It does
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not mean sperm. We're not talking to bloodlines of a
prized breed of dogs. Here, talking about human beings and
reactions and hours and years spent together. Years, All right, Mike,
I want you to fix this problem yourself, and then
him short Dan, and there's no uncertainty left. You're his father,
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he's your son. That's the way it is, Dan, what
you got.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So I've been listening carefully, and I agree with your
perspective to a point. I've known five men in my lifetime,
four of which were simply coworkers, one of which is
a relative relation that had us were either adopted or
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misled about their biological origins. And all five of these
men went through the process at different points in their life.
Most of them were in their late twenties or early
thirties when they met with their biological father. So these
men were already established in society, they already had their
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own families. This was all like a big surprise, right.
So in all five of those cases that I personally
know about, none of them went well. In other words,
the reaction of the biological father was not positive. In
some cases, you know, the son discovered that their biological
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dad was just a pos I mean, and that's all
there was, right. Yeah, My wife and I had to
quote unquote natural born daughters, and then we wanted a third,
but because on wife's physical difficulty she had with both
of our pregnancies, we thought it was too risky to
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go that route, so we decided to try adoption. We
went down that road of looking into international too much pain,
too much hassle, too much scams and the networks. So
we decided to go to Topelchion in Houston. And I
don't want to go to the host because I know
you get other callers, but it was an interesting process. Well,
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we ended up being super blessed with a three three
day old girl, which fit perfectly in our family because
we already had two daughters. We went with closed adoption.
We talked about it at length with lots of counselors,
just went the passant with other people in our circle
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at church and stuff to kind of find out what
the best approach on this adoption would be, and they
all recommended closed adoption. So that's what we went with.
And she was about six. I believe she was about
six when during an event at home, a bunch of
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kids were at the house. They were playing. I wasn't there.
I was working off short at the time, but obviously
I got the story relayed to me. One of my
daughters slipped up and let her know that she was adopted,
and it caused some problems. It caused lots of problems.
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And I don't know how to explain that except that
I do believe, even though I understand what you're saying, Michael,
and I and trust me, my youngest daughter is my daughter.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It has nothing to do with where she came from
on the mechanical side. But there are those two basic
questions that every human being asks at least once in
their life.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Where do I come from?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And why am I here? Michael from us far too soon.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
There are people who are insanely successful professionally Elon Musk,
and part of that reason is that Elon Musk is
not encumbered.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
He is not handcuffed by the social norms and morays
that most people are. Every time he's told no, you
can't do it by an investor, a competitor, the media,
or the execution, you know, his SpaceX rockets crashed, most
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people walk away. He doesn't do that. He's somewhere on
the spectrum, pretty far out on the spectrum, and that's
his superpower. Because he can't be told no, he refuses
to care about what everybody else cares about. Fear of failure.
Oh my god, if I fail, everyone will say it
was all I wasn't so great, after all, I'm not
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so smart, after all, Maybe I'll maybe I'll go bankrupt,
Maybe people will make fun of me, maybe they'll say
I'm an idiot. Maybe they'll they'll say, see, I told
you you were wrong. He is unencumbered to the extent
that people choose happiness. They will be happy to the
extent that people choose to obsess over things that you
cannot change. It make you miserable, and they do, but
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nobody says willingly. You know what, what I'm gonna do
in a wonderful world, in my short little life is
I'm going to find something that is imperfect, and I'm
gonna hang that albatross around my neck and I'm gonna
worry about it all day, every day, and that's going
to be my reason that I drink too much, or
I'm fat, or I don't get up out of bed,
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or I don't do anything else. I'm gonna I'm just
gonna let that bother me all the time. It's not
my fault. I didn't choose it. It just happened. And
since it's out there, it's like cancer. You can't deny it.
It kills you. It slowly, but surely kills you. But
that's not true. You can choose, that's just it. You
can choose. Imagine you survived the Holocaust. You know how
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many people went on to amazing success after the Holocaust
after being victims of that. But they could have said
around and said, well, you know, there was a Holocaust
at all you have to understand, that's my thing. How
many people get raped, many people get falsely imprisoned, how
many people get mugged? How many people have their loved
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one murdered in front of their very eyes and go
on to great success. I dare say that's a little
worse than what most people are obsessing you. You choose
how much of that bothers you, and to one extent,
you choose it. Oh, Michael, it's not Yeah, it is
take control of your own life. It's a superpower. It's
yours for the taking. Jen, you're up, Go ahead, Hey, Michael.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
So I have a couple of experiences with the subject
you're talking about. First of all, my oldest son. It's
from my first marriage, which only lasted a couple of months,
and then we got divorced and I remarried, and my
ex husband gave up parental rights of my son, and
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then my husband adopted him, and so now we've been
married for over thirty years and they have a great relationship,
my own the son and my husband, and my son
never has felt like a desire to seek out his
biological father. He's perfectly happy, you know, with his family
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and with himself. And with his father, so I you know,
never had to deal with that issue of you know,
what would we do if he found this man? So
you know, he's perfectly happy with his life and an
adopted father.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It's a choice he makes, and it's I think it's
a smart one.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
It's it's far more likely to yield a personal and
professional family success than choosing to chase some ghost, which
a lot of people do. And the hardest part for
me is convincing them that this is a choice you
are making. I know people that have been divorced for
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a number of you, both men and women, and you
can't have a two minute conversation without them bitching about
their ex And you think you haven't been married to
that person since Obama was president, why are you still.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
To well Hi, yeah, which okay. So so that you
have locked in on that moment, like Luke Skywalker, you're
about to blast that thing to an asteroid. And and
that's what you've locked in on, is that person and
the failures that they that that's what you choose to
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think about. We were in Austin last week and I
met up with a friend of mine from law school,
and I hadn't seen him in years, and he they
had two beautiful children, and then they got divorced, and
I had never met her, because he met this woman
after after we all graduated from law school, and he
was talking about, you know, my marriage, and how we
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seemed so happy in law school because I was already married,
and that he always wanted that and he went looking
for the wrong thing and it didn't work. But he
has these two wonderful kids who are in their twenties
now and he's very happy. And I was asking him,
I thought they were recently divorced, and he said, no,
it's been twenty five years, he said, but sometimes I
catch myself talking about it like it was yesterday. And
then I realized that's on you, not her, because I
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was at a bad time myself. So what I've done
is I foisted everything that I didn't like about me
at that time onto her. When we got divorced, I
had to be responsible for me and my success, and
I could no longer blame my spouse as many people do.
And I thought that's a pretty deep statement. Christian, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Go ahead, yes, sir, thank you. I like the previous caller.
I adopted my son from his mom, whose biological mom,
when we got married when he was two years old.
He's now about twenty seven, and we never had that
issue of well, or we're going to tell him because
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he's biologically black and Mexican black skin. And since we
got married, I had my own two kids, she had
a previous son. I adopted the youngest Moses. We were
a black Sacasian family, all right, So we didn't ever
have that issue of, you know, not knowing that I
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was as an adopted father. They're all just my kids similar.
There's no steps on adopted son. They're just my son
and my daughter. It was about maybe five or six
years ago. His mom called me when I was stationed
in Hawaii as an Army soldier, and she said, oh,
Moses has been, you know, asking about his biological dad,
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his sprin donor, and he always called him. And I said, okay,
that's fine. You know, I have no problem with us.
I understand someday I believe want to know. And so
then later I was talking to Moses and I said,
you know, I was preparing him to say so he'd
be a piece of crap. You know, I didn't really
tell him that he wanted to abort him earlier and
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never wanted anything to do with him and gave up
his parental rights. But I said, you know, just just
be prepared for he may not be this wonderful guy
that you think. You know why, I just want to
know my roots. I want to know my people. I say, Moses,
we are your roots, your mom, me, your two brothers,
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your sister, we are your roots. We are your people.
Well no, I mean my black roots, my black people.
And I say, okay, well, why are you stopping now?
I mean, okay, we're Bible believing blood babe, born again sinners,
save my grace. We're Christians, and we believe Noah and
his three sons spurned all of us. We all came
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DMA wise from those eight people. And I say, so,
why are you stopping halfway through your lineage After the
Tower of Babble, when people moved down to Africa, you know,
became black or white or whatever. No, you have, you
have your story. Your story is they're in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Just in here listening to my very well, if I
haven't managed to make everybody angry, let me just go
ahead and accomplish that right now, because this is how
I feel. It's just opinions, it's just words. You probably
wouldn't like a lot of my opinions on things because
they're judgy. It's a self righteous, Southern Baptist side of me,
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and very judgy. I think most people are walking around
in a prison of their own making, not because they
were born a dwarf, for with Krohn's disease or a
terrible cancer, but because they get bored and lazy, and
they make sloppy decisions, self defeating decisions. They choose. Everybody,
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I was gonna go to law school. Why didn't you
go to law school? Well, god, it's gonna go and
then I took a job over there. You weren't going
to law school. You didn't go to law school. You're
not a lawyer. It doesn't matter. It's not that big
a deal to be a lawyer, trust me. But stop
spending your entire life telling people that you were gonna
go to law school, because you argue, well, that's dumb. Stop.
I was gonna be uh, I was gonna play in
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the NFL, but I blew my knee out. Okay, So
you're coaching sixth grade pe at a school telling people
to hold the parachute up. Okay, where were you in
school when you were going to play professional football? Well,
uh isai A. I was at Texas wesleyand but the
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coach they wanted me to come to Ohio State. But
what happened. I blew my knee out. Okay. Do you
know how many six grade pe coaches across the country
are telling the kids in their class that they were
gonna play pro football, but they blew their knee out.
Do you have any idea? Please stop that, please stop.
Just be the best you can be at what you are.
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But stop with this, Stop with that. It's silly, it's nonsense,
and anybody with the brain knows that that's not actually true.
You weren't gonna play pro football. You were five nine,
which you still are today and one hundred and forty
eight pounds. You were a good player at a single
a football team, not a star. Quit with that. I'm
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gonna play pro day's gonna play. You know, Darl k
Rowl was interested in me? Was he? He's interested?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Really?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He came to my school one time, oh, because y'all
had a kid that he was gonna recruit and didn't
recruit but you were there at the same time and
you shook his hand. No, he wasn't recruiting you. You're
five to nine one forty eight. He wasn't recruiting. There's
not a position you don't kick. There's not a position
for you. Stop spending your entire life making an excuse
for who and what you are and you are not.
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Take ownership. I realize nobody's ever told you that. I
understand you needed a father figure and didn't have one.
I understand you need a blunt reaction to the lies
and excuses you make for everything. If I need to
do that, I will, because I had a lot of
people do it for me. Let's live in the world
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of truth. Let's be honest, as painful as it is,
and then let's get past it. Let's stop making excuses
for all this. Just quit. You're not Irish, Italian, French, whatever,
you're American. You and the last eight generations of your
family have lived right here in Woodville. Okay, You're you're
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not French. Stop attributing your characteristics to you being French
or Irish or German or Russian or whatever. You'd never
been there. You couldn't find it on a map. You
don't speak the language, you don't know the food. You
don't even eat sauer kraut. So stop wooa nothing else
talk about. Won't have nothing else say about Moselle if
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I don't do that, and this whole thing about this,
this chasing ghost of our path. I need to know
where I come from. Really, okay? You need to know
where you come from. Because the daddy who raised you
and lovingly took care of you, and came to every
single stupid recital, watched you in your two two, went
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to all your volleyball practices, was there when Bobby dumped
you and let you cry on his shoulder, tucked you
in at night, stayed up at night to make sure
you got home, okay, scrimped and saved and sacrificed to
buy you a car, paid for you to go to college.
Was there every time you called? He was there and
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taking care of your mother no less. And you need
to find out where you come from. Who do you
think you are? Are you from some Celtic tribe that
drove the snakes out of Ireland from sixteen generations ago?
And all of a sudden, now you're irishman? What in
the f are you talking about. I need to know
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who I am, where I come from, where you come from.
You went to Coont's High School. You were a C
minus student, where signing your name got you a C.
That's where you come from. You've done nothing of note
in your life. You're a lazy excuse maker searching for
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some grand world in a harlequin romance because you watched
a reality TV show that where you come from. Grow up,
make something of your life. Your life is not, however,
many generations ago, because sperm donor after sperm donor, after
sperm donor after sperm donor lived in some other country
that you've never visited. I got news for you. It's
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not as exotic as you think it is. It looks
just like here, except they haven't built anything new in
the village in the last hundred years. It's cobbled together
with fetch work and putty and wood. Well, I'll think
I'm vovire somewhere in France where my papers from. Go
there and visit see what they've done. There's no industry there.
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There are people riding their bicycle for a mile to
go get a bog at and some cheese and come home.
That's what they do and watch bad French television. It's
not some exalted status. You're not going to discover that
your somehow greatness because you really, really was moved when
Elton John was singing to Princess Diana because she was
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laid up in the back of a car with the
son of the herod's owner. Your life is not going
to be more grand by your sperm content. Quit. Just quit,
because all the while what you're doing is very that
simpleton who fell in love with your mother even though
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she already had a child, who fell in love with
your mother and took care of your mother and protected
her and nursed her to death. You're telling him he's
not your dad. God help you when you wake up
one day and realize that you are telling that man
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he's not your dad. I think that makes him feel well,
not really about him. Michael. I didn't need no where
I come from. Where you come from three eighty one
Stacy Street in Orange on the corner, it's a rent house,
some brick, the roof's half messing. That's where you come from. Well,
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I need to know my DNA, Michael, because I've been
told I'm a twenty percent fringe, and then I even
got some African in me, you know, I got it,
and then I got some Asian. Why don't you embrace
the life you actually have and make something of that
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. So I
probably sound a little different than I normally do. I
(00:33):
am well aware that when you talk on the radio
in the manner in which I do, that literally everything
you say is upsetting somebody. I'm comfortable with that. A
couple of days ago I posted that now that Crockett
has graduated out of the house, I let the word
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out among people who've tried to book me for Speed
for a while. Hey, I'm doing the speeches. And there
have been some other markets that want me to fly
there and give a speech and come back, which I
never wanted to do when the kids were at home.
It takes a lot of time, and then you're away
from the kid. And the worst part about that is
whether they want you to speak for twenty minutes or
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an hour. It's the travel and the staying there and
the hotel and all that. All that for one hour.
It's a burden. I don't want to live that way.
But it's good money, and I've always used speech money
as play money, so I would tell the kids, Hey,
I'm getting this amount for this speech. What do y'all
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want to do with it. So Dad's not going to
be here, you know, Saturday night, because I'm speaking at
this event. But the flip side is we're gonna do
something together. We're gonna blow this money. It's fun money.
And so I told that, and then I said, look,
if you want somebody that doesn't cost anything, here's three
really good speakers. David Malsby from Camp Hope and he
will usually bring if you ask him, veterans from Camp
(02:02):
Hope to tell their story. You want a powerful, impactful
you know, businessman's lunch or businessman's breakfast group, email me.
I'll connect you with David Malsby. He's got a story
to tell. He's a pastor. He tells stories good at
it Russell Lebara. His group likes you to buy books
because the books go to Camp Hope and distribute the
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books to your members. He can only do so many
because of time and he travels. But he's a really,
really good speaker. Will you will love having him. He's
got stories to tell. And Third, the guy who's probably
given more speeches in this town in the last fifty
years than any other single person is Mac and he
doesn't charge. He shows up and speaks at kindergarten graduations,
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high school business clubs. He loves it. And by the way,
the thing that shocks people is how polished he is
as a speaker, because he has that herky jerky tone
when you see him in the ad. That's all a
put on. That's not who Mac is. I went over yesterday,
Well let me finish this, so I said, hey, here's
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three people that if you need speakers, because people are always
looking for speakers for events, and I'm back in the
speaking game. You get paid. There are people who follow
me day in and day out, who love my content,
who all of a sudden are upset you got paid.
You got payfork bake Day? Why you got payfork bak days?
Do you get paid for roofing? It's what I do
for a living. It's what I do. Do you not
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understand that y'all not get paid? God, y'all show you experiences.
I'm getting paid, mfort That's what I do. I here's
the difference. And this is where I know I'm making
people mad. I don't care that you don't like that
I like to make money. Well, you just play on
a different field. You know you're not poor like me.
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You like to go out and eat food, and you
post a picture of you eating food. Why ain't got
no money? I don't have nothing. Nice you sound like
a democrat. Go make some money. Nobody gave me mine.
I will tell you this. You are talking to a
dude that wants to make money. Money gives me power.
Somebody sick, I can pay for their treatment. I need
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a z cliner from my dad. I can go buy one.
Somebody can't make it to a funeral. I can. Hey,
I got it. I give me the details. I got
it on my credit card. Money gives you power, It
gives you flexibility, and I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't like you no morek because now you make money. Okay,
don't like me. We're not friends anyway. What do you
think is going on here? I provide content? You like
it or you don't. It's Coca cola, you want PEPSI fine,
stupid choice, it's yours. So I understand that literally everything
I do, everything I say, is going to upset somebody,
(04:48):
but on this particular person. I also on this particular issue,
I also understand this is very personal to people. It
is not my intention. It is not on this one time.
It's not my intention to pick a scab on somebody
that this is. They've got a deep emotional trauma that
they've chosen for themselves. It's my opinion, and I'm here
to hurt it. That's when I say what I say.
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It's very harsh. If I were honest about what I
think about this issue, i'd lose ninety percent of you.
And I got that I'm okay with. That doesn't change
who I am. It's who I am that makes you
not like me. Okay, maybe I'm not as nice as
guy as you think I am. I have very harsh opinions,
and I actually believe that most of the problems in
this country are that people don't state harsh opinions. Everybody
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states what everybody else wants to hear. We got to
have a sticker on everything. Hey, don't eat this poison,
you'll die. Okay, it's just for killing ants. You can't
eat it. Okay, Well that dumb they have to put
that note on there. Well, maybe that's how we ended
up here. Maybe we've been living in a padded room
for too long. By the way, posted the other day.
(05:54):
Rolled in on Sunday to see my dad and he's
knocked out two o'clock in the afternoon having a nap,
I mean a king's nap. Oh he looks cold gy,
this little crochete thing on him. I've got a full
time caretaker and just so loving toward him. And he's
all He's laid out there, he's happy, and I'm happy
that he's happy. He's sleeping deeply, and so I posted
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a picture of it. I get these emails. I get
these posts from people thought a clinner, I thought they clinner. Okay,
it's not a Z cliner. You gotta buy your daddy
a Z cliner. You ought to buy yours a Z cliner?
Did you buy yours a Z cliner? Do people even
hear themselves? Everybody loves to say that. They'll tell restaurant owners.
Restaurants tell me all the time, people, you need to
give these You need to give that guy a raise.
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You don't even know what he makes. You're running around
giving people raises. You need to give somebody a raise.
What are you doing? Just stop telling everybody else what
to do. That's my domain. So anyway, so I got
pissed off all these people. You ought to buy him
a Z cliner? So I called Mac yesterday, said hey, Mac,
he ain't z Cloiner's in. Yeah, yeah, come here, come on.
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He doesn't actually talk like that in real life. So
I said, you can be there. It took me an
hour to get from the galley to forty five yesterday.
The kids back in school. It's crazy. So anyway, I
went over spend a little time. It was a lot
of time. In the afternoon. They made a lot of
changes over. They renovated a bunch of stuff. The z
Cliner is a big deal for them now. Anyway, So
I bought my dad as z cliner and so I
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called my dad. I called the caretaker and said hey,
and he said, well, we got he's got. He had
a bunch of medical treatments they come to him now.
And they said, he's going to really want to be focused.
Can you put it off till tomorrow. It's like, whoever
wanted furniture to deliver tomorrow? Can you not bring it right
this second? I said, well, it kind of ruins the
whole vibe. But okay, So in between shows today I'm
gonna go over and they're gonna wait out front, and
(07:47):
we're gonna walk in with this z Cliner and I'm
pretty fired up about it. Max pretty fired up about it.
He made him a video. MS. Mary, this is Mac.
Hope you enjoy your z cloiner. You know boys are
good anyway, So I'm pretty excited about it. I'm not
sure why I told you that, other than it would
make me very happy if you go get you a
z cliner. Oh, Michael, they cost too much money. Okay,
(08:11):
what about the new truck you just bought? What about
the See that's why I don't need therapy. I just
get yelled generally at every person that emails. So anyway,
go buy a mac z climber. Because Ramon gets a commission.
I mean, we could work a deal out.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Upon a time.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The f to the lines, we go, the fine lines
we go, or Sean Henney says, to our very busy
phone lines, we go. Mike go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Uh I found out a little over a year ago
that my son is a not my biological son, and uh,
I guess initially I responded, he found out through one
of those online DNA things. I guess initially I responded
in anger, and then his mom finally revealed that it
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was true.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
How old your son?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He's thirty three?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And are you still married to his mother?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
How long had you all been together when she got
pregnant with him? We were married for a year. And
do you know who his biological father is?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I did not know him personally. Was someone she knew
from high school?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do you all have other children? She does prior to you.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
After how long were you married? Two years? And have
you raised this child as your own? You're close to him,
great relationship.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yes, raised him as my own unknowing yeah, but about
the fact. But I would say with this news, the
relationship is I don't know if you call.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It awkward or.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Strained. Why I don't think we've dealt with it each other. Well,
he lives in a different state. I do plan to
go see him too, sort of, I guess, in my opinion,
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kind of figure out.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Where we go from here. Well, Mike, I'll just tell
you my opinion. You don't have to like it or agree.
My opinion exists whether I'm talking to you or not.
So I know a lot of people who a woman
has a child, maybe she's married, maybe she's not. She's married,
they get divorced, or her husband dies or he runs
off and leaves her whatever happens, or maybe she gets
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pregnant she's not sure who the dad is, or maybe
the dad wants no pardon, so she's a single mom.
She goes on with her life. She meets a man,
That man in her create a couple, They start living together.
She has a child already. The right thing to do
is for that man to play a parental role to
the extent that she's comfortable and he's comfortable. If there's
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no man involved, he should be the dad. And this
often happens. I hate the word stepdad. A dad's a dad.
A dad's one tells you when to go to bed,
gets you up in the morning, throws a ball with you,
pays your bills, whip somebody's ass if they do you wrong.
All these things saves up for retirement, to give you
something when they leave, lets you live in their home,
feeds you, cares for you, takes you to the doctor's office,
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tends to your needs, disciplines you, answers your questions, helps
you get through the rough times. That's what a dad is.
A dad is not sperm. I wish we could get
past this notion. A dad is not sperm. You are
that boy's dad. You raised him. He is who he
is because of you. Now, I don't know what cancer
is lurking that you didn't contribute to when somebody else did.
I don't know what you know. The combs in his eyes,
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or his likelihood for macular degeneration, none of that is
who he is as a human being. You raised that child.
You are his father. He is your son, and to me,
there's really nothing else to say. I think that we
have this. I think it's a harlequin romance, notion of
he's not my son after all. Yeah, he is, and
you're his dad, because that's what that means. It does
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not mean sperm. We're not talking to bloodlines of a
prized breed of dogs. Here, talking about human beings and
reactions and hours and years spent together. Years, All right, Mike,
I want you to fix this problem yourself, and then
him short Dan, and there's no uncertainty left. You're his father,
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he's your son. That's the way it is, Dan, what
you got.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So I've been listening carefully, and I agree with your
perspective to a point. I've known five men in my lifetime,
four of which were simply coworkers, one of which is
a relative relation that had us were either adopted or
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misled about their biological origins. And all five of these
men went through the process at different points in their life.
Most of them were in their late twenties or early
thirties when they met with their biological father. So these
men were already established in society, they already had their
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own families. This was all like a big surprise, right.
So in all five of those cases that I personally
know about, none of them went well. In other words,
the reaction of the biological father was not positive. In
some cases, you know, the son discovered that their biological
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dad was just a pos I mean, and that's all
there was, right. Yeah, My wife and I had to
quote unquote natural born daughters, and then we wanted a third,
but because on wife's physical difficulty she had with both
of our pregnancies, we thought it was too risky to
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go that route, so we decided to try adoption. We
went down that road of looking into international too much pain,
too much hassle, too much scams and the networks. So
we decided to go to Topelchion in Houston. And I
don't want to go to the host because I know
you get other callers, but it was an interesting process. Well,
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we ended up being super blessed with a three three
day old girl, which fit perfectly in our family because
we already had two daughters. We went with closed adoption.
We talked about it at length with lots of counselors,
just went the passant with other people in our circle
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at church and stuff to kind of find out what
the best approach on this adoption would be, and they
all recommended closed adoption. So that's what we went with.
And she was about six. I believe she was about
six when during an event at home, a bunch of
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kids were at the house. They were playing. I wasn't there.
I was working off short at the time, but obviously
I got the story relayed to me. One of my
daughters slipped up and let her know that she was adopted,
and it caused some problems. It caused lots of problems.
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And I don't know how to explain that except that
I do believe, even though I understand what you're saying, Michael,
and I and trust me, my youngest daughter is my daughter.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It has nothing to do with where she came from
on the mechanical side. But there are those two basic
questions that every human being asks at least once in
their life.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Where do I come from?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And why am I here? Michael from us far too soon.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
There are people who are insanely successful professionally Elon Musk,
and part of that reason is that Elon Musk is
not encumbered.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
He is not handcuffed by the social norms and morays
that most people are. Every time he's told no, you
can't do it by an investor, a competitor, the media,
or the execution, you know, his SpaceX rockets crashed, most
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people walk away. He doesn't do that. He's somewhere on
the spectrum, pretty far out on the spectrum, and that's
his superpower. Because he can't be told no, he refuses
to care about what everybody else cares about. Fear of failure.
Oh my god, if I fail, everyone will say it
was all I wasn't so great, after all, I'm not
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so smart, after all, Maybe I'll maybe I'll go bankrupt,
Maybe people will make fun of me, maybe they'll say
I'm an idiot. Maybe they'll they'll say, see, I told
you you were wrong. He is unencumbered to the extent
that people choose happiness. They will be happy to the
extent that people choose to obsess over things that you
cannot change. It make you miserable, and they do, but
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nobody says willingly. You know what, what I'm gonna do
in a wonderful world, in my short little life is
I'm going to find something that is imperfect, and I'm
gonna hang that albatross around my neck and I'm gonna
worry about it all day, every day, and that's going
to be my reason that I drink too much, or
I'm fat, or I don't get up out of bed,
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or I don't do anything else. I'm gonna I'm just
gonna let that bother me all the time. It's not
my fault. I didn't choose it. It just happened. And
since it's out there, it's like cancer. You can't deny it.
It kills you. It slowly, but surely kills you. But
that's not true. You can choose, that's just it. You
can choose. Imagine you survived the Holocaust. You know how
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many people went on to amazing success after the Holocaust
after being victims of that. But they could have said
around and said, well, you know, there was a Holocaust
at all you have to understand, that's my thing. How
many people get raped, many people get falsely imprisoned, how
many people get mugged? How many people have their loved
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one murdered in front of their very eyes and go
on to great success. I dare say that's a little
worse than what most people are obsessing you. You choose
how much of that bothers you, and to one extent,
you choose it. Oh, Michael, it's not Yeah, it is
take control of your own life. It's a superpower. It's
yours for the taking. Jen, you're up, Go ahead, Hey, Michael.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
So I have a couple of experiences with the subject
you're talking about. First of all, my oldest son. It's
from my first marriage, which only lasted a couple of months,
and then we got divorced and I remarried, and my
ex husband gave up parental rights of my son, and
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then my husband adopted him, and so now we've been
married for over thirty years and they have a great relationship,
my own the son and my husband, and my son
never has felt like a desire to seek out his
biological father. He's perfectly happy, you know, with his family
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and with himself. And with his father, so I you know,
never had to deal with that issue of you know,
what would we do if he found this man? So
you know, he's perfectly happy with his life and an
adopted father.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It's a choice he makes, and it's I think it's
a smart one.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
It's it's far more likely to yield a personal and
professional family success than choosing to chase some ghost, which
a lot of people do. And the hardest part for
me is convincing them that this is a choice you
are making. I know people that have been divorced for
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a number of you, both men and women, and you
can't have a two minute conversation without them bitching about
their ex And you think you haven't been married to
that person since Obama was president, why are you still.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
To well Hi, yeah, which okay. So so that you
have locked in on that moment, like Luke Skywalker, you're
about to blast that thing to an asteroid. And and
that's what you've locked in on, is that person and
the failures that they that that's what you choose to
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think about. We were in Austin last week and I
met up with a friend of mine from law school,
and I hadn't seen him in years, and he they
had two beautiful children, and then they got divorced, and
I had never met her, because he met this woman
after after we all graduated from law school, and he
was talking about, you know, my marriage, and how we
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seemed so happy in law school because I was already married,
and that he always wanted that and he went looking
for the wrong thing and it didn't work. But he
has these two wonderful kids who are in their twenties
now and he's very happy. And I was asking him,
I thought they were recently divorced, and he said, no,
it's been twenty five years, he said, but sometimes I
catch myself talking about it like it was yesterday. And
then I realized that's on you, not her, because I
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was at a bad time myself. So what I've done
is I foisted everything that I didn't like about me
at that time onto her. When we got divorced, I
had to be responsible for me and my success, and
I could no longer blame my spouse as many people do.
And I thought that's a pretty deep statement. Christian, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Go ahead, yes, sir, thank you. I like the previous caller.
I adopted my son from his mom, whose biological mom,
when we got married when he was two years old.
He's now about twenty seven, and we never had that
issue of well, or we're going to tell him because
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he's biologically black and Mexican black skin. And since we
got married, I had my own two kids, she had
a previous son. I adopted the youngest Moses. We were
a black Sacasian family, all right, So we didn't ever
have that issue of, you know, not knowing that I
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was as an adopted father. They're all just my kids similar.
There's no steps on adopted son. They're just my son
and my daughter. It was about maybe five or six
years ago. His mom called me when I was stationed
in Hawaii as an Army soldier, and she said, oh,
Moses has been, you know, asking about his biological dad,
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his sprin donor, and he always called him. And I said, okay,
that's fine. You know, I have no problem with us.
I understand someday I believe want to know. And so
then later I was talking to Moses and I said,
you know, I was preparing him to say so he'd
be a piece of crap. You know, I didn't really
tell him that he wanted to abort him earlier and
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never wanted anything to do with him and gave up
his parental rights. But I said, you know, just just
be prepared for he may not be this wonderful guy
that you think. You know why, I just want to
know my roots. I want to know my people. I say, Moses,
we are your roots, your mom, me, your two brothers,
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your sister, we are your roots. We are your people.
Well no, I mean my black roots, my black people.
And I say, okay, well, why are you stopping now?
I mean, okay, we're Bible believing blood babe, born again sinners,
save my grace. We're Christians, and we believe Noah and
his three sons spurned all of us. We all came
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DMA wise from those eight people. And I say, so,
why are you stopping halfway through your lineage After the
Tower of Babble, when people moved down to Africa, you know,
became black or white or whatever. No, you have, you
have your story. Your story is they're in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Just in here listening to my very well, if I
haven't managed to make everybody angry, let me just go
ahead and accomplish that right now, because this is how
I feel. It's just opinions, it's just words. You probably
wouldn't like a lot of my opinions on things because
they're judgy. It's a self righteous, Southern Baptist side of me,
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and very judgy. I think most people are walking around
in a prison of their own making, not because they
were born a dwarf, for with Krohn's disease or a
terrible cancer, but because they get bored and lazy, and
they make sloppy decisions, self defeating decisions. They choose. Everybody,
(25:55):
I was gonna go to law school. Why didn't you
go to law school? Well, god, it's gonna go and
then I took a job over there. You weren't going
to law school. You didn't go to law school. You're
not a lawyer. It doesn't matter. It's not that big
a deal to be a lawyer, trust me. But stop
spending your entire life telling people that you were gonna
go to law school, because you argue, well, that's dumb. Stop.
I was gonna be uh, I was gonna play in
(26:16):
the NFL, but I blew my knee out. Okay, So
you're coaching sixth grade pe at a school telling people
to hold the parachute up. Okay, where were you in
school when you were going to play professional football? Well,
uh isai A. I was at Texas wesleyand but the
(26:40):
coach they wanted me to come to Ohio State. But
what happened. I blew my knee out. Okay. Do you
know how many six grade pe coaches across the country
are telling the kids in their class that they were
gonna play pro football, but they blew their knee out.
Do you have any idea? Please stop that, please stop.
Just be the best you can be at what you are.
(27:01):
But stop with this, Stop with that. It's silly, it's nonsense,
and anybody with the brain knows that that's not actually true.
You weren't gonna play pro football. You were five nine,
which you still are today and one hundred and forty
eight pounds. You were a good player at a single
a football team, not a star. Quit with that. I'm
(27:22):
gonna play pro day's gonna play. You know, Darl k
Rowl was interested in me? Was he? He's interested?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Really?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He came to my school one time, oh, because y'all
had a kid that he was gonna recruit and didn't
recruit but you were there at the same time and
you shook his hand. No, he wasn't recruiting you. You're
five to nine one forty eight. He wasn't recruiting. There's
not a position you don't kick. There's not a position
for you. Stop spending your entire life making an excuse
for who and what you are and you are not.
(27:49):
Take ownership. I realize nobody's ever told you that. I
understand you needed a father figure and didn't have one.
I understand you need a blunt reaction to the lies
and excuses you make for everything. If I need to
do that, I will, because I had a lot of
people do it for me. Let's live in the world
(28:10):
of truth. Let's be honest, as painful as it is,
and then let's get past it. Let's stop making excuses
for all this. Just quit. You're not Irish, Italian, French, whatever,
you're American. You and the last eight generations of your
family have lived right here in Woodville. Okay, You're you're
(28:32):
not French. Stop attributing your characteristics to you being French
or Irish or German or Russian or whatever. You'd never
been there. You couldn't find it on a map. You
don't speak the language, you don't know the food. You
don't even eat sauer kraut. So stop wooa nothing else
talk about. Won't have nothing else say about Moselle if
(28:54):
I don't do that, and this whole thing about this,
this chasing ghost of our path. I need to know
where I come from. Really, okay? You need to know
where you come from. Because the daddy who raised you
and lovingly took care of you, and came to every
single stupid recital, watched you in your two two, went
(29:18):
to all your volleyball practices, was there when Bobby dumped
you and let you cry on his shoulder, tucked you
in at night, stayed up at night to make sure
you got home, okay, scrimped and saved and sacrificed to
buy you a car, paid for you to go to college.
Was there every time you called? He was there and
(29:39):
taking care of your mother no less. And you need
to find out where you come from. Who do you
think you are? Are you from some Celtic tribe that
drove the snakes out of Ireland from sixteen generations ago?
And all of a sudden, now you're irishman? What in
the f are you talking about. I need to know
(30:01):
who I am, where I come from, where you come from.
You went to Coont's High School. You were a C
minus student, where signing your name got you a C.
That's where you come from. You've done nothing of note
in your life. You're a lazy excuse maker searching for
(30:22):
some grand world in a harlequin romance because you watched
a reality TV show that where you come from. Grow up,
make something of your life. Your life is not, however,
many generations ago, because sperm donor after sperm donor, after
sperm donor after sperm donor lived in some other country
that you've never visited. I got news for you. It's
(30:44):
not as exotic as you think it is. It looks
just like here, except they haven't built anything new in
the village in the last hundred years. It's cobbled together
with fetch work and putty and wood. Well, I'll think
I'm vovire somewhere in France where my papers from. Go
there and visit see what they've done. There's no industry there.
(31:07):
There are people riding their bicycle for a mile to
go get a bog at and some cheese and come home.
That's what they do and watch bad French television. It's
not some exalted status. You're not going to discover that
your somehow greatness because you really, really was moved when
Elton John was singing to Princess Diana because she was
(31:28):
laid up in the back of a car with the
son of the herod's owner. Your life is not going
to be more grand by your sperm content. Quit. Just quit,
because all the while what you're doing is very that
simpleton who fell in love with your mother even though
(31:48):
she already had a child, who fell in love with
your mother and took care of your mother and protected
her and nursed her to death. You're telling him he's
not your dad. God help you when you wake up
one day and realize that you are telling that man
(32:09):
he's not your dad. I think that makes him feel well,
not really about him. Michael. I didn't need no where
I come from. Where you come from three eighty one
Stacy Street in Orange on the corner, it's a rent house,
some brick, the roof's half messing. That's where you come from. Well,
(32:32):
I need to know my DNA, Michael, because I've been
told I'm a twenty percent fringe, and then I even
got some African in me, you know, I got it,
and then I got some Asian. Why don't you embrace
the life you actually have and make something of that
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