Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Hello, it's just me. We didn't even have
an intro. Okay, Valin didn't even give me an intro.
So here's the thing. I'm going to do the best
that I can today. This is not going to be
a regular show today. It's going to be short and sweet.
We were doing pre show this morning and Miriam got
a call that her son, Thomas passed away this morning.
And if you've been here a hot minute, you know
a little bit about Thomas. I'm going to get through this.
He was twenty eight years old. He had severe cerebral palsy.
This was a kid who was not supposed to live
past the age of sex, y'all, but he defied all
the odds all the time. He was a freaking superhero.
This kid, just like his mama. He had a just
a wonderful disposition, smile everything. So Ever since i've known Miriam,
which is the better part of twenty years, I've seen
this kid go through hell and back time and time again,
and he was always the happiest, sweetest warrior, totally his
mama's son. He was the luckiest boy to have the
family that he had, Just an incredible family. You guys,
if you know this family. I mean, I want to
be adopted by his family. He had a great mom,
wonderful dad, great grandparents, great auntie. They just all loved
him so very much. And he taught people like me
about resilience and love and what's truly important in life.
So a couple things. Couple things. One is, hug your
loved ones today and tell them what they mean to you. Two,
please pray for Mock and her family. She needs to
be lifted up in prayer. And she knew this day
was coming and we've talked about it a lot, and
she wanted me to do this because she is the
quintessential positive person and she likes to grieve and do
these things privately. And I asked her, you know, I
was like, hey, listen, do you want like a couple
days off from work or you know, what do you
want to do? And she's been going through this the
past couple of weeks. And you know how she is,
you guys. She comes on the screen and she's happy,
and she does her job and she's professional and she
sees work as an escape from grief. And so just
know that and give her grace when you see her
next week. Please give her grace or you have to
deal with me, okay, and pray for her, because you know,
you don't always know what's happening behind closed doors, and
in our case, you don't know what's happening behind the camera,
you know. So I just wanted to hop on and
tell you guys what going on, because we love you guys,
and our community has just always been there for us,
like in some of the darkest, darkest times. So just
to know that she appreciates you, guys, and I appreciate
you guys so much for being there for her and
praying for her, and thank you for all of it,
and just continue to do that. And we love you
so much and we will see you next week, okay.
Thank you,