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Speaker 1: Hey everyone. My name is Sheldon Thomas. For those that

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may not know, I am Brient Thomas's son. The reason

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you're hearing my voice instead of Dad's voice today is

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on the morning of June fourteenth, Dad passed away suddenly

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from a heart attack. This has spent a very hard

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time from me and the family, and for some of

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you this will be quite a shock. The last few

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weeks have been the hardest weeks of my life, and

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I apologize for taking so long to put a statement out.

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Admittedly this has been hard for me to put together.

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Dad and I were very close and talked every day.

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Last I spoke to him was a few hours before

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he passed. I also was often as co host for

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the YouTube live show on Fridays, where you can still

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watch those live sessions on the Paranormal Portal YouTube channel.

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Dad was such a hard working person, not just for

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the Paranormal Portal, but for even the little things for friends, family,

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and even strangers that he would meet. If someone needed help,

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he was the type of person to go and make

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time to help them. That's something I loved about him

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dearly and applied into my own life to help those

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in need. Whether we knew them or not, he believed

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in the words he spoke and put out there into

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the podcast and into the world. That's why at the

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end of every show he would end the show with

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the statement of remember, we love you all. Be good,

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be kind, be nice, take care of each other, help

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each other out, find the magic in every day, and

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remember to laugh as much as you can. He believed

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in those words and lived them. I am thankful for

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the dead I had and grew up with, and have

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many fond memories as well, even spiritual values he taught me,

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whether he went into the woods or hiked on the

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bluff in the town I grew up, and he always

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taught me to respect nature, respect the trees, and even

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the bugs and insects. Well, there was one insect we

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mutually never respected. That of course, was mosquitoes. Oh lord,

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we hated mosquitoes. There was a prank he would pull

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on me as a kid whenever he would drive me places,

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of course, not on the highway, but like drive throughs

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and slow moving areas like that. He would suddenly hit

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the brakes and he would make my head swing forward

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and he would say oops and crossing. He would laugh

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as I gave him a look. Every memory I have

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with him I cherish dearly. He was my hero in

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life and still is. He has all the answers. Now,

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I want to thank you all for listening to his show,

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whether you knew here or have been listening for years.

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He appreciated every single one of you, and so do I.

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So as far as the paranormal portal, I'm sure you're

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all wondering what will happen moving forward. It was always

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his dream that I would take it over and keep

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that passion alive, and of course I plan to do

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just that. It's just going to take time for me

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to get things figured out and ready. But until then, in.

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Speaker 2: His own words, until then, you all take care and

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remember we love you all. Be good, be kind, be nice,

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take care of each other, help each other out, find

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the magic and every day, and remember to laugh as

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much as you can, and we'll be back next time.

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Speaker 3: So good night. Everybody back then had a

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Speaker 1: Show too,