WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Broadcasting to you from Northeast Alabama! Your Hosts are Barry Galloway and Holli Mostella. From Alabama's Country Giant, WQSB.
WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Episode 100 TRIBUTE TO REID
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Could you imagine navigating life after the heartbreaking loss of a child? Join us as Barry courageously opens up about the passing of his son, Reid, three years ago and the arduous journey of grief that followed. This special anniversary episode of the Barry and Holli Morning Show is a poignant mix of heartfelt personal stories and uplifting moments. From the excitement of local events such as high school football games and a Jamie Johnson concert to the thrill of our "Wheel of Waddles" segment, there's something for everyone.
We extend our deepest gratitude to our loyal listeners whose unwavering support has been a beacon of light. Barry shares a moving story about losing a loved one to an accidental drug overdose, highlighting the importance of community and compassion. We also delve into current news, like the tragic death of Richard Simmons and a foiled terror plot at Taylor Swift's Vienna concerts. Additionally, we discuss a recent study revealing that many Americans are too tired to cook after work. As we wrap up, listeners have a chance to win fantastic prizes from local favorites like Main Channel, Alabama Pizza Co., more.
Reflecting on the resilience and strength that comes with healing, Barry shares humorous and touching anecdotes about Reid, including his enthusiasm for becoming an organ donor. Holli's admiration for Barry’s fortitude serves as a source of comfort for those experiencing similar losses. This episode is a testament to the power of friendship, community support, and the enduring bond between father and son. Don't miss this emotionally rich episode filled with both laughter and tears, reminding us all of the importance of cherishing every moment and supporting one another.
Barry and Holly Morning Show Anniversary
Speaker 1Hey, this is Barry and Holly with the WQSP Morning Show. Thank you for listening to our podcast and we want to say a special thank you to our sponsors.
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Speaker 3It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show, oh 600. What's the O stand for? Oh my God, it's early. We've got all the happiness we need Happy, happy, happy. Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. I'm sorry, but this is crazy. This whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 2I listen to you guys every morning.
Speaker 3I bet your stories will make me laugh so hard I shoot milk out of my nose. Please welcome your hosts. Barry, I think I found a job. There was an opening for a janitor at the TV station. Get this. They're going to pay me the minimum wage and Holly.
Speaker 1Is it tacky to say I'm?
Speaker 4rich on an online dating profile.
Speaker 2I need to put Webfilpy in front of it.
Speaker 3I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away.
Speaker 1Good morning at 6, Dan it is a beautiful morning.
Speaker 2It is a beautiful morning. It is a beautiful morning. We've got an amazing sunrise, isn't that pretty?
Speaker 1That is beautiful.
Speaker 2It's meant to be.
Speaker 1It is like a Mr Blue Sky, oh yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's 611.
Speaker 1It's going to be another warm day. 94. They say cool front coming in. I don't call 94 cooler. What they mean by this is the lower humidity starting maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 2I think we're all excited for the 77 that you said yesterday. Yeah, that's coming next week.
Speaker 1Let me pull up an extended forecast. They're showing, by Wednesday, highs in the upper 70s. How?
Speaker 1about that I'll take that. It gets better each day and we need rain. There's a decent chance of rain each day Today, just a slight chance Adding out to a high school football Getting hot today. Slight chance of rain tonight so you could see rain. Doubtful but you might. Tomorrow a little better 40% chance, 91%. Then Sunday, 60% chance and in the upper 80s and then, beginning on Labor Day, monday, we should stay in the upper 80s and 80s for all of next week until Wednesday. Then it goes to the upper 70s.
Speaker 2Ooh, I'll take it.
Speaker 1Much better 68 in Fort Payne 69 in Gadsden, it's 70 here at QSP. Today's a big day. It's for many reasons, but it's a big celebration today and we've got some special music we get to play. Are you ready? Happy?
Speaker 4anniversary baby I got you on my mind.
Speaker 2I love it.
Speaker 1So it is the happy anniversary to you. Happy anniversary to you, sir. One year today you've been on the Morning Show.
Speaker 2One whole year of the Morning Show with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 1We've had so many nice comments on the podcast post from yesterday People talking about the anniversary and talking about us and we appreciate that it's not all about us. We do this for you, the listeners, yeah, and today we're giving you a lot of somethings, a lot of prizes.
Speaker 2Yeah, we have a lot of somethings. We have some baskets to give away, free pizza gift certificates from Papa Doobies. We have Albertville Discount Tire. We have five Brandon Brocks. We have Jamie Johnson tickets.
Speaker 1Concert tickets for tomorrow night's show. Yes, it's tomorrow night, right?
Speaker 2It's tomorrow night. Yeah, we do. We have got a set of those and we've got more, even more prizes.
Speaker 1Yeah, and we have brought our special wheel into the room. Yes, not Will Brumbalow. No, he is special.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 1He's coming later this morning. Yeah, but the actual wheel that you spin the wheel. Why don't you reach over? Is that good? It's pretty good. And here's the deal we're going to be changing prices on it all during the show, yep, and each time you spend, there will be three things that can land on Three. Yes, you'll have two good ones and then one that's not so good.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Which, sorry, is called the Wheel of Waddles. Yes, we're saluting our favorite goose friend who unfortunately passed away early in the summer.
Speaker 2So passed away during that early in the summer, so sad. Yeah, well, we are doing in memory of, and also we it is in memory of reed. Today's episode is dedicated to barry's son, reed it is who passed away three years ago today. Yeah, this is the first time that barry has been back or been working on this day since reed has passed, and we're all so proud of him, because it's not that we're moving on from reed's memory, but we're moving on in honor of Reed.
Speaker 1I know some people say well, wow, it's been three years. Shouldn't he be over it? Because I honestly had somebody to say that to me about a year ago.
Speaker 2That's horrible.
Speaker 1And I just looked at him, because this is a person I thought was a friend and I just looked at him and thought, man, you've never lost someone close to you because grief doesn't have a timeline.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1You never know.
Speaker 2Yeah, you don't know, and especially with a child, I mean to lose a child. That's, I think, as hard as you could possibly go.
Speaker 1And I will say this that since you've come in, you've brought a lot of new listeners, because you had a career before this with YouTube online and you had a lot of followers who began listening to us and they may not be familiar with a lot of our or at least my back story. They follow you. They know your story a lot of it. So if you're new to QSB and you're not really familiar with what we're talking about around 8.30. 8.30 and we're going to play something.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And it's something that when I came back three years ago I took two weeks off when my son passed and when I did come back I talked about it for the first time. Nobody really knew a lot about it because I'm just not a public person and that's not something you just go around telling the world the details and we recorded what I said on the morning show that morning and if you missed it, we're going to play it again, the recording of what happened that morning on the morning show three years ago. So that's coming up around 8.30.
Speaker 2Yeah, so it's a bittersweet day it is it's going? To be our 100th podcast.
Speaker 1So happy 100th podcast Isn't that crazy how it falls on our anniversary day.
Speaker 2That's what my mom was saying. I was talking to her about Reed yesterday and about you and I was like Mom, what can I do? What can I say? And I've written a letter to Reed and I'm going to read that about 8.30 when we play. I would like to read that to you. And I told her that I feel so helpless. There's literally like nothing I can do or say that's right or takes it away. Nothing takes the pain away. But she said, you can move forward and so that's what we're choosing to do is to just make the best of the say, the best way that we know how. And if you'd like to leave Barry a message of prayers, he's made a post on our Facebook page and he reads. He may not be able to get to respond, but he is reading every single comment that comes in on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1This is crazy and we're so thankful.
Speaker 1Thank you so much for the listeners. That's why I'm back. Yeah, that's why I'm here. Yeah, I so much for the listeners. That's why I'm back. Yeah, that's why I'm here. Yeah, I do this to try to encourage somebody. If there's somebody out there who's going through something similar, then maybe there's something I can say. I don't know what it might be, but might give you some encouragement. Yeah, maybe just being here showing that, yeah, life does stink bad, but sometimes you just gotta, you know, try your best to move forward and try to help yourself and help others. Yeah, so, but thank you, I'm looking at facebook now popping up and 318 people have responded. I haven't refreshed it in a few minutes um, it's over 400 wow, and this has just been a little over an hour.
Speaker 1That is amazing. And at least 110 comments. I'm saying I haven't had a chance to read all of them, but these are those who are saying a prayer today, thank you. Thank you very much, because I'm convinced prayer is the only reason I'm here. Yeah, yeah. And it does help. It does, I've known everything that it doesn't help. It does, it does.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So, anyway, we're going to be talking about stuff off and on this morning.
Speaker 2And and unfortunately Holly does have a whistle, I do. Can I do a practice whistle?
Speaker 1Yes, because I really am curious how it's going to sound on the air.
Speaker 2Okay, oh, that's not bad.
Speaker 1That's not bad. So whenever you hear the whistle on the air, that was at like 50%.
Speaker 2I didn't go 100%. Oh, please don't. Okay, I'll just go 50.
Speaker 1So whenever you hear this, that means you need to be the first caller through Yep 878-8000. 1-800-233-1051. And the very first caller that calls in you're going to get to spin the wheel. Well, you don't actually get to come in the room.
Speaker 2Oh no, we're just going to spin it for you.
Speaker 1We'll spin it for you and you have a chance to win a prize, so go ahead and call now we're not just practicing on here again, you know russ and dave next door hate you right now they love me.
Speaker 2Yeah, because I've already went in and had a meeting with them and said, guys, I have a whistle, hey, let's, let's answer all right, we'll do it, we'll come, we'll play the commercials and take our collar and we'll spin the wheel on the air.
Speaker 3All right, six, eight mornings with barry and hall here on alabama's country giant wqsb now a lot of things on.
Speaker 1We're kind of running behind this morning, since we have so much stuff going on. How do you know? Well, I just know, because I'm looking at the clock and we usually do things you need to know to kick off the show. So now we're a few minutes behind. So what do we need to know today?
Speaker 2On this date in 30 BC, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra died. Do you know how she died?
Speaker 1I'd heard. Is it from the snake? Yeah, the snake.
Speaker 2It's from a snake called an asp, a-s-p, a-s-p.
Speaker 1Uh-huh.
Speaker 2It's like an Egyptian viper, or?
Speaker 1cobra Very poisonous, yeah, very venomous Gotcha.
Speaker 2I think you can call that the first ever asp whooping.
Speaker 1First asp whooping, I guess it was. Yeah, poor Cleopatra Yep.
Speaker 2And I'm so excited to see this. This morning, freeform is already announcing their 31 Nights of Halloween. I love this.
Speaker 1I do too. I love it so much. I love scary movies.
Speaker 2It's 31 back-to-back nights of frights that will start October 1st and then it features movies like Casper, Halloween Town, Edward Scissorhands, the Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweenie have you ever seen?
Speaker 1that I don't know that one. What is that one?
Speaker 2It's for kids, it's cute Beetlejuice, love Beetlejuice, love Beetlejuice. I can't wait for the new one.
Speaker 1Is it next weekend? I think. I think it's next weekend.
Speaker 2I can. 2023 is Haunted Mansions.
Speaker 1Those are good movies. A lot of them are good kids' movies too.
Speaker 2And here's something to think about. Astronomers say that they found a planet very similar to Earth 20 light years away.
Speaker 1Whoa, so it's similar to us. That's what they say. How do they know?
Speaker 2I don't know. They say it could be the new Earth, though Whoa. And it's so similar in many ways, Like, for example, I read that they recently discovered I think it was 13 Starbucks and four Targets. On this new earth and $18 Generals.
Speaker 1Wow, as usual, more Dollar Generals than Starbucks.
Speaker 5More Dollar Generals.
Speaker 2I get it yeah, all right, 627.
Speaker 1You work it. We have a whole bunch of stuff here to give away this morning.
Speaker 2Well, I got to do these stories too.
Life Updates and Prize Giveaways
Speaker 1I know. So we got a lot of stuff to get to. And again I want to say again thank you to everybody who's commenting and posting and sending in their prayers on our Facebook page. Thank you.
Speaker 2It's an overwhelming amount of people and I think it truly shows, barry, how you impact and help people. I don't think you realize that you have such an impact on people's lives and you help change people's lives and change their days around, and I don't think you are realizing how appreciated you are and I hope this shows you.
Speaker 1This amount of people at 6 o'clock in the morning. Love you supported and love wqsb. It means a lot to me because last two years I decided I couldn't work on the day that he passed away. He passed away at uh 3, 39 in the morning. I know that for a fact. We can get in more details. I have never really given a whole lot of details about because I don't. I feel like almost I'll be disrespecting him in a way.
Speaker 2You're private.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2It's okay.
Speaker 1But he passed accidental drug overdose. It happened and he passed when I was getting ready to go to work.
Speaker 2And you had a clock. You had a clock that stopped at the time he died.
Speaker 1I mean it's the craziest thing I've ever seen, Because I know exactly when it happened in the clock in the room Somehow. No, no, people may think there's no way, but it did, it did and it stopped at 3.39 on its own.
Speaker 2On the minute he died. It's wild, it's just the craziest thing.
Speaker 1But thank you again. We'll talk more about this and coming up around 830, going to play something. That was my first chance to come back on the air. I took two weeks off and still wasn't ready to come back, but I did. And my first comments on what happened I kind of explained some details. So we're going to play that again the recording of uh me being on the morning show that morning.
Speaker 2So I felt it's it will be hard for me to say it again and go through it again yeah I don't think I could, because it's hard to even talk about it you don't have to, we'll just listen to the recording that you did three years ago so we'll do that, coming up around 8 30 this morning.
Speaker 1But again, thank you so much. Looking at facebook, that means so much to to me and I'll try to do my best to respond to people, but it means a lot seeing the comments this morning. Thank you very much. Since you've been gone. And since you've been gone, I know running a few minutes behind, but a lot of things happening in the news and we try our best not to be never going to be political.
Speaker 2We don't want to stir that pot no yeah or controversial. Keep that pot over there.
Speaker 1Yeah, but there's some things you may have missed that you might care about. Like, I was curious when Richard Simmons passed away a few weeks ago, like what happened, and now I think we have details.
Speaker 2Okay, listen. The official report from the Los Angeles Medical Examiner has said that Richard Simmons' death at age 76 was an accident. This is crazy. It says that his cause of death was blunt traumatic injuries resulting from a ground-level fall, with cardiovascular disease listed as a contributing condition. So it's been mentioned before that Simmons had experienced an episode of dizziness and collapsed, so I don't know if his heart just gave out this time. It says blunt traumatic injuries.
Speaker 1He may have hit his head, collapsed and then hit his head. Yeah, oh, wow, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2It's wild, isn't it? I hate that. That's so sad, yeah, and the CIA revealed new details on the terror plot that led to the cancellation of all three of Taylor Swift's Aratours in Vienna, austria.
Speaker 1This is very scary. Yes, what could have happened?
Speaker 2It sure is the planned terror attack intended to kill and injure hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands of people, and three suspects have been arrested in the case. That's crazy.
Speaker 1So they were going to bring in bombs and guns to people at the concert.
Speaker 2To kill tens of thousands and kill as many.
Speaker 1That is so horrible, and probably themselves too, that's so horrible to think people are that evil.
Speaker 2Yeah, and they do this because they know that that many people are gathered at that specific In one location. Yeah, in one location.
Speaker 1That is very scary.
Speaker 2Well, thankfully, it was called 77% of Americans are too tired to cook after work. A study of 2,000 adults found. I am also too tired to cook after work.
Speaker 1Even lunch Probably closer to 97% are too tired to cook after work.
Speaker 2It says, in fact, about one-fifth have fallen asleep while making food. No yeah, have you ever done?
Speaker 1that? No, that's scary.
Speaker 3I have never done that, so you fall over and your face falls into the peanut butter and bread Yep.
Speaker 1So you fall over and your face falls into the peanut butter and bread Yep.
Speaker 2That's sad 51% say that they're busiest during the weekends, and when participants are short on time, they turn to sandwiches, fast food and microwave dinner.
Speaker 1Yes, we do. Yeah, I'm doing all three. Oh, is it time? Again it's time. So what does that mean exactly? For those who don't know what we're doing, caller one yeah.
Speaker 2You, oh my goodness. So what does that mean exactly for those who don't know what we're doing. Call or one yeah, you are going to get a winning prize.
Speaker 1We're going to spin the wheel of waddles yeah so what you do is you're going to get to spin the wheel, yeah, and there's. What prizes are on there? There's three slots on the prize wheel. Yes, and the three slots each have well, there's some we have on there.
Speaker 2We've got a main channel bucket that has a hat, a cup and a koozie. We have Alabama Pizza Co. Free pizza or a $25 gift certificate to Papa Doobies. Okay.
Speaker 1So caller number one. You get to play the game Caller 1-878-8000 or 1-800-233-1051.
Speaker 3Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
Speaker 1Vincent's on the phone. Hey, Melissa, how are you doing? Good morning Melissa.
Speaker 2I'm doing great.
Speaker 1She's one of our favorite listeners.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1She's been listening for a long time, haven't you, melissa? I have. I think it's only fitting that you get to spin the wheel of wattles Now. What do we have on the wheel this time, holly?
Speaker 2So on the wheel this time we have a main channel bucket, a free 16-inch pizza from Alabama Pizza Co and a $25 Papa Doobies gift card.
Speaker 1Melissa, are you ready? I'm ready, we're going to spin the wheel.
Speaker 2All right spinning.
Speaker 1All right, it's slowing down, and what did it stop on?
Speaker 2A free Papa Doobie's gift card? Yes, woo-hoo Wonderful.
Speaker 1Congratulations, melissa. I know this is probably the greatest thing that's ever happened to you. Ever, yes, ever.
Speaker 1Remember this moment, forever, ever, ever. Seriously, we do appreciate you, melissa. Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy. You can have lunch on us one day. How about that? Perfect, thank you, you're welcome. Thanks, melissa, have a good day. Thanks for listening, and we'll be doing this all day today so we'll have more stuff to give away. Get ready for your chance to win 94 of the Hot Today Weather details coming up. Here's Chris Jansen on QSV. This is weird. One of the first movies I took a read to see was Jurassic Park, really, and you're telling me that there's. I thought Jurassic Park slash world was over, but it's not. They're bringing it back.
Speaker 2No, they're bringing it back. Jurassic World is called Rebirth. It's set to release in July 2025. The plot follows Scarlett Johansson leading a team extracting DNA samples.
Speaker 1Well, definitely have to go see that.
Speaker 2Yeah, with Scarlett Johansson. Yes, that's surprising. I samples Well, definitely have to go see that.
Speaker 1Yeah, with Scarlett Johansson. Yes, that's surprising. I mean, it's not just like some nobody, and she's one of the producers on this she is the one bringing it back.
Speaker 2And didn't you watch the show Manifest?
Speaker 1Manifest was good. Even with the plane that kind of disappeared for, like I forget, five, six years, it was a pretty good show.
Speaker 2Well, more Manifest may be on the way. There's been rumors that a spinoff might happen. Yeah, the creators of the show say that they're hard at work on a spinoff show, but no other further details have been given.
Speaker 1The only thing I've read is that there's still some unanswered questions on what happened, and they want to answer more questions and this is their way of doing it. Oh, okay, yeah.
Healing Through Grief
Speaker 2Oh, that makes sense. Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors have extended his contract for the 2026-27 season. For guess how much?
Speaker 1A sickening amount of money $63 million. To play what? Two, three more years?
Speaker 2Yeah, but listen to this. By the end of the 2026-27 season, Curry's on-court earnings will reach about $532 million. It's the second most in NBA history.
Speaker 1So he will have made that much in his career.
Speaker 2Yes, Unbelievable $532 million. Unbelievable that's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, and then Netflix announced its docuseries Mr McMahon, based on the rise and fall of WWE founder Vince McMahon. It's going to premiere September 25th. I think that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1That'll be fun to watch, because he pretty much brought wrestling back and made it popular again.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Have to watch that. Yeah, it's 652. Birthdays are next WQSB.
Speaker 3Mornings with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 1A good one to listen to, because a lot of stuff going on today.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Including today. Today's a hard day. It's August 30th. Three years ago today, my son passed away as I was getting ready to leave for work, and it was tough. It was the hardest day of my life, hardest day of my life. And we're going to play something at 830 because it's still hard to even talk about, it's very hard to even discuss, because any time I start talking I usually can't finish. That's okay and it's hard, even though it's been three years. I don't time. You know, grief doesn't have a time, a time frame. You hurt and it's hard to get paid.
Speaker 1everybody's different no uh, but we're going to play something at 8 30 that uh, the day after I came back on the morning show or two weeks after it happened, I took two weeks off and the first time I was on the air I gave details and went over some of the things that happened and why I was gone and we recorded that. I'm going to play that recording from three years ago coming up around 830.
Speaker 2Yeah, and if you're out of the car and don't have time to listen to it, I'm going to leave it on the podcast so you can listen to it there. And I think this is really heavy on my heart. So I have to say this there and I think it's this is really heavy on my heart. So I have to say this healing is linear. Healing is not trending upwards, healing is dropping down. Some days and some days you're not at your best barry and you come in here every day with a smile on your face and you check it at the door. I don't know how you do it. I strongly admire you because I cannot imagine ever, ever, going through the terror that you've gone through in the last three years. People don't know that you live that moment every day of your life. When you found him.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And healing is not linear. To those out there listening, if you're listening to us and you're going through something, it does get better and it may get worse sometimes, but just hold on to hope and then I'll go ahead with the quote of the day, if that's okay.
Speaker 1Yeah, like you were saying, today's hard. The last two years, on this particular day, I took the day off because I just didn't think I could go in and be my best on the radio. And today it's tough, it's a struggle.
Speaker 2It's almost like you feel fake because you don't want to be too happy because it's a tragic day, but you can't be too sad because we can't bring the listeners down. We've got to bring them the best of us, and so it's not that we check read at the door. We're carrying read with us today.
Speaker 1And something I'm doing today. I have this picture on the board.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So anyway, coming up at 830, we'll do that and you've got something. You also wrote that you're going to read and I haven't heard it yet. So I appreciate that. I'm looking forward to hearing that. But you know, the quote of the day kind of ties in with this and anybody who's lost a child. I'm praying for you because it's the hardest thing I've ever gone through.
Speaker 2And and it's more often than I realize when you talk about Reed, somebody always comes back with I lost my child and it just has amazed me, the small community of people that have lost children, and it is horrible.
Speaker 1It's the worst thing that can happen to a parent. It is and the quote of the day kind of ties into that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I heard you say this one time. You said it's a club that nobody wants to be a part of. That's true. Yeah, the quote is the longest walk home that any parent will ever take is the one after their child has run ahead of them.
Speaker 1That's so true, yeah, yeah. And to end this little break on a happier note, I want this to be more like a tribute and honoring a read. One of the moments is one of the funniest ones that ever happened to us. The day he got his license his driver's license I took him to Guntersville. He got his driver's license, he went back and he had to do the driving test and the whole works and came out. He was so excited he came out and I sat down with him. He said hey, dad. I said yeah. He said guess what? I said what. He said I'm going to be an organ donor. I said that is awesome, because I too am an organ donor. He said really. He said yeah. He said I thought about it when that woman asked me do you want to be an organ donor?
Speaker 2I thought yeah, sister, my daughter, we have this uh keyboard thing that she bought us for a few years ago and reagan doesn't use it much anymore, so I'm gonna give it to him.
Speaker 1No, like that's the organ. Oh no, I'm being serious, wrong organs. So I laughed and said no, wait a minute. I said that is funny. He said why are you laughing? I said that's not the organs are talking about. They mean your heart and your lungs. Yeah, he said no way what?
Speaker 2What did he say? What was his reaction?
Speaker 1I said. He said are you serious? I said yeah, I'm being serious. He said oh, yeah. I got that totally wrong on that one he said but I still want to do it.
Speaker 2Yeah, he still continued being an organ donor, even though he didn't have to give up Reagan's organ. That's one of the funniest moments he was willing to trip.
Speaker 1He's going to give Reagan's keyboard away because it was an organ. That's a good memory. That was good. Guess what? Oh no, is it whistle time?
Speaker 3Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1Yep, it is time she's blowing the whistle. So the first caller through on either contest line you get to spin the wheel of wattles. Now what can they win on this particular spin? All right, there's three slots on the wheel. What's on the slots?
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Speaker 1Baby got you on my mind WQSB. It's anniversary day, the one-year anniversary of the Morning Show, and Tanya Haney, another one of our favorite listeners, is on the phone. Hey, Tanya, how are you? Good morning, good, thank you. You ready to win maybe something very nice. I've got a good feeling. What do you think, Holly? I've got a good feeling. Yeah, so Tanya on the wheel this time. We have three slots on the wheel. What's on there again, holly?
Speaker 2All right, we have a main channel bucket with a hat, we have two Jamie Johnson tickets and we have 50 cents worth of gas.
Speaker 1All right, Are you ready? Tanya?
Speaker 2I'm ready, we're going to spin the wheel.
Speaker 1That's a good spin. Looks like she wins 50 cents worth of gas. Hold on, we're about to give it to you. There you are, tanya Congratulations. Nope, that's not nice.
Speaker 2Let's spin it again. That's not nice. We're going to spin it one more time, one more time.
Speaker 1That was rude. That was Holly that did that, by the way, not me. Yeah, tanya, this time it's on something better, I think.
Speaker 2You got two tickets to see Jamie Johnson.
Speaker 1Yes, congratulations for your way to go, all right. Well, tanya, that's tomorrow night at the Sand Mountain Amphitheater in Albertville and you're going for free. How about that?
Speaker 2That sounds great.
Speaker 1Well, thank you so much for listening to QSB. We appreciate you and we'll see you soon. Okay, qs? Okay, usb, george jones, it is finally friday 7, 37, barry and holly, one year anniversary of the morning show, and appreciate all the nice comments. And, um, thank you so much for the nice comments on our facebook page. Uh posted something earlier. It's a. It's a weird day. It's a sad day, happy day, all mixed in one. It's weird how it turned out that today is the 100th episode of our podcast that's going to be going up to listen to around 9.30 or so. It just happened to fall on the same day. It's the one-year anniversary of the morning show and also the three-year anniversary of the day my son passed. It's odd how all these get combined.
Speaker 2It's meant to be. This has got to be a God thing, because I I launched the podcast with no specific date and time no I had nothing planned out for the future. I really didn't know if we would get past 10 podcasts. I didn't know how it would do, but we have hit. This is our 100th episode and it's on reed's anniversary, so it's just meant to be.
Speaker 1We're honored that people listen to the podcast. It means a lot what the podcast is. Sometimes people hear a podcast they think, oh, it's some kind of news, information type, boring type thing. Well, I hope it's not boring, but it's just the morning show and what we do for three hours. Then you go through and you take out Because legally we have to take out the music and we don't have the rights to that and we take out the commercials and then it's just the talk and a lot of times it deals with the listeners' names. We have listeners' voices on there, like today, we're doing a lot of contests. So if you win something, you can go back and listen to the podcast and hear yourself on the radio. Yeah, you sure can. Yeah, anyway, this is what the podcast is. This is us trying to have fun. It's about roughly anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And so if you're listening on the way into something and you miss something, you can go back anytime, anytime ever, and go back and listen to it, or if you just miss us. Yeah.
Speaker 2And be like man. I wish I had Barry and Holly on right now?
Speaker 1Yeah, we're trying, you can at any time 24-7.
Speaker 2I 24-7.
Speaker 1I don't see that happening, but you're welcome to.
Speaker 2I mean, if you could, if you wanted to.
Speaker 1But you can find the podcast anywhere you find podcasts this one, apple. There's many ways to find it Spotify, our website, tunein. But we encourage you to go to our Facebook page because that's where you can listen and you can comment.
Speaker 2And when you make a comment Monday, we're going to take all the comments from this weekend, from today today and then have a drawing and what do we know what they're going to win monday?
Speaker 1no, I have no idea, but it'll be a prize worth listening for. So it's actually a surprise what I'm going to be giving away. It's a surprise. It could be anything from tickets to food, t-shirts, all kinds of stuff. Okay, anyway, thank you for the podcast and listening to it and, by the way, if you'd like to be a podcast sponsor which right now, thank you to the Gadsden Mall, they're sponsoring our podcast right now.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we have. We're so thankful to have September podcast sponsors. So if you would like to sponsor the month of October or later you want to schedule out, just give me an email at holly H-O-L-L-I at WQSBcom.
Speaker 1And again, today is an unusual day. It's a very hard day. And again, today is an unusual day. It's a very hard day Doing my best to be on the show and I think, well, I know, I don't think, I know we're going to play something at 8.30. So if you missed it, if you're new to the station, not been around much around 8.30, we're going to play something. It was my first day back after Reed passed. I took two weeks off. Then I spoke on the morning show that morning and it's the recording of what I said that day. I don't like to get into details because it's hard to talk about, but we have the recording and we'll play that coming up around 830. And you also have something special that you've written that I'm looking forward to hearing.
Speaker 2Yeah, I've written, read a letter and I'm going to read that to you around 830.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right. So happier news. Keep listening Coming up in a few minutes. Keep listening for the whistle Not yet, but not yet You'll have a chance to spin our wheel as we celebrate the anniversary. That's coming up in a few minutes here on QSB, wqsb.
Speaker 3Mornings with Barry and Holly QSB.
Spinning the Prize Wheel
Speaker 1It's Chris Young Happy anniversary baby one-year anniversary today, and we've got all kinds of stuff we're giving away and all the fun with us. Our next player is April Hanrahan from Boaz. April, good morning, and how are you doing today? Thank you so much for listening to us, April. We appreciate that and we're going to try to give you something nice Now. On the prize wheel this time. What do we have on there again? Do we have something new?
Speaker 2Yep, we've got Albertville Discount Tire, we have fare tickets and we have a free quack from Waddles.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness. Well, april, any of those you'd like to win Is there anything that piques your interest. Yeah, the fare tickets. The fare tickets. Okay. Well, let's see what we can do for you. Here we go, we're going to spin the wheel.
Speaker 2Spin that wheel.
Speaker 1And it's landing on A free quack from Waddle. Oh, that's Waddle's right there. Yeah, but I'll tell you what you can't take Waddle's the quack with you, because Waddle's is now in the Heaven, heaven.
Speaker 2But you can go to the fair.
Speaker 1Why don't we spin it again? Let's do it One more time, just for April.
Speaker 2It's either Albertville discount tire or fare ticket.
Speaker 1Here we go. This time it's topping up Fare ticket. Yay, april, you're going to the Marshall County Fair in a couple of weeks. How about that?
Speaker 2Thank y'all, I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 1You are welcome and you can feel free to use the waddles quack any way you'd like to Feel free.
Speaker 2Thanks, April.
Speaker 1Have a great day.
Speaker 2You too.
Speaker 1We have more coming up next hour and it's time. Oh, it's Friday, See QSB, Cody Johnson and Dirt Cheap. It's 8.06 with Barry and Holly and a whole room full of folks. I think you got the times wrong, guys. We're supposed to meet like at 4 o'clock today and here we are at 8, and you're already. Aladdin, Chris Jenkins and Keith Ball, the Power 107.5, the high school football Albertville crew, and we've got a big game tonight. But you guys come in early. You surprised me. I thought, man, they've got their clocks all wrong.
Speaker 5Well, I was looking for a reason not to have to go to the chicken farm. This morning Anything to get out of work? Yeah, we wanted to come see you this morning and know it's a sad day for you and an important day, and we wanted to just kind of come and be here with you and be present for a minute and just love on you a little bit.
Speaker 1That means a lot, because I tell you it happened three years ago and the week after it happened we had a football game and we thought about it and I thought about it. I don't even know if I can actually do this, but I couldn't have done it without y'all three. I couldn't.
Speaker 4I remember that day very vividly. You asked for us to give you some time and we were like brother, take whatever you need. If you need the whole pregame, you take the whole pregame, whatever you need to do. But I do remember. One thing that I remember is that I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to support you at the time, because I don't think anybody on our crew really knew exactly how to support you. We just wanted to be there for you. But I remember, when you got through, the only thing that crossed my mind is I've been a football player and around football literally since the day I was born. I don't know if you remember this, but when it was all said and done with, I took my hand and I popped real hard on the butt, like we're doing football and I'm like let's go get them. And uh, yeah, that was that's the only way I knew how to support you. So, uh, I hope you don't, hope you're not still mad at a pop.
Speaker 1No, I would play football. No, I think that fired me. That allowed me to be able to do it, but without y'all. That day it was, and I told you, probably a few weeks later, that I don't remember a lot about the game. I don't even know who they played that night. I'll be honest, I don't.
Speaker 2You just went on into autopilot. Yeah, like you do, that's okay. They're trying to figure it out over there. They're putting their brains together.
Speaker 1Because it was the third game of the season, but I don't remember if it was an area game, a region game, I don't remember.
Speaker 5It was Florence. It may have been Florence, so we played them the last couple of years. The third game, and we've said this before. You know probably remember that game a little better than you do, but once kickoff went, it was I mean you were just like you always were. I mean you were perfect on air, you did a great job and I know that probably helped you a little bit, just kind of getting that out of your mind and doing football for a little while, a couple hours. And then, you know, obviously you had to go back and you know and deal with that later on that night. But again, you know, just speaking for our team, we love you and you're just a great dude and you're, like Holly said this morning, on the air. You're so important to so many people and you help so many people, whether you know it or not, and so we just kind of wanted to show up and hang out with you for a minute. Well, that means a lot.
Speaker 1I appreciate it. So that means I get free dinner tonight, or what is it I'm?
Speaker 4sure you do Sit with me on the station on Mrs.
Speaker 1Carrington's dime tonight, so we'll eat on that. It means a lot y'all coming by this morning.
Speaker 4I appreciate that it's our pleasure, barry. We kind of, I guess, refer to ourselves and cut up and we call ourselves the wolf pack, but you're kind of the lead dog on the wolf pack, so we don't do anything without you, my man honestly.
Speaker 1I've worked at a lot of football games and you're the best crew I've ever worked with. I appreciate you. We'll be on the air tonight at 630 in Boaz. It's going to be always a big game. Can't wait to call the game tonight.
Speaker 4Now, the next biggest decision we have is where we're actually going to eat tonight. That'll be the next round of text messages with our group.
Speaker 1Well, guys, I appreciate y'all and we'll see you later tonight. All right, it's 8.09.
Speaker 3Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
Speaker 1Hey, lisa, how are you doing? Hey, I'm doing good. We appreciate you listening. I think she's at work. So if you would, holly, don't blow the whistle again. It'll get her in trouble. I won't, but we're going to spin the wheel quietly. Lisa, we'll put a muffler on it, okay, so it won't be as loud. And what is on the wheel that she can win?
Speaker 2She can win a $25 gift certificate from Papa Doobies. Okay, albertville, discount tire oil change.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Or a tub full of crickets.
Speaker 1Oh, that sounds interesting, I'm whispering. All right, lisa, are you ready to spin that wheel? I'm ready, here we go, it is spinning, it is spinning and it looks like she has won.
Speaker 2Oh no, the tub of crickets.
Speaker 1But don't give up, lisa, we're not through yet because we don't want to give you a tub of crickets. We appreciate you, can we?
Speaker 2spin it, spin that thing again. Can we spin it one more time, one more time?
Speaker 1Okay, one more time. Just for Lisa, and if you're her boss, just be quiet. She's doing her best to win stuff. What'd you win?
Speaker 2A Papa Doobie's gift card? Yes, there we go. Woo.
Speaker 1You're going to be having lunch or dinner or whatever at Papa Doobie's in the near future. How about that, Lisa?
Speaker 2Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1Well, you are a winner.
Speaker 3I hope we didn't, Ed. We can write you a note.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4Seriously. We appreciate you listening. Thank you so much and I hope you have a great day okay. You too. Thank you All right, you're welcome.
Speaker 1Thank you very much. So another happy winner there. Thank you to Lisa for calling in and winning.
Speaker 2Hey, I've got another winner. We got a winner from last night. Mike was there at the fire plug and we have a winner. Colin Chase is the winner of Sand Mountain Idol.
Speaker 1Oh, now you say, you've heard him sing before.
Speaker 2My goodness. Yes, I have to tell you he's one of my favorite local singers ever of all time he does such a good job.
Speaker 1So I think he's going to be joining us next week here on the Morning Show.
Speaker 2Yep, yep.
Speaker 1Maybe we can get him to sing here live on the Morning.
Speaker 2Show. I think we could talk him into it.
Speaker 1And something coming up in just a few minutes. It's what 820. So we're going to play this coming up in a few minutes and today we're celebrating our one-year anniversary of the morning show and also we're not celebrating but we're basically honoring my son Reed, who passed away three years ago this morning and I haven't worked the last two years. I just didn't think I could do it and today has been extremely hard. I hope I haven't done a horrible job. You've done great, I've done my best, but I wanted to do something to honor him and I've done my best in doing things and we're going to play something coming up in just a little over ten minutes. The day I came back after taking two weeks off after he passed away one of the breaks, when I talked about some of the things that happened and I told you, I said I don't know that I can do that again today, even though it's been three years, people, and some people in their minds, think it's been three years.
Speaker 1You should be okay by now and somebody actually said that to me about a year ago.
Speaker 2No, that is not what you say to somebody that's in grief. Yes.
Speaker 1I don't think they'd ever lost anyone like that, and if you have, you'll understand more. That's not something you say to somebody. Everyone takes grief differently. They handle grief differently.
Speaker 2Yes, they do.
Speaker 1And even though it's been three years, it's still hard to talk about it just in a casual conversation. Yeah, Because, like talking to my buddies, I mean these are my friends. A few minutes ago it was hard to talk to even John, Keith and Chris.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Even though we're close, it's still hard to talk. Yeah, it's hard to talk to you.
Speaker 2I know it is.
Speaker 1It is, but we're going to play something coming up. That's my way of explaining some of the things that happened, what I went through, in the best way I can.
Speaker 2Yeah. Because we have a lot of new listeners, they may not have a clue what we're talking about, but it'll kind of give you a clue of what we're talking about. Yeah, and I've written a letter to read and I would like to read that to you if you're comfortable with it on air.
Speaker 1Uh, right before we play that, so I'll tell you one thing we'll do is because once we play this, it's going to be just a little more serious. So I I think we need to maybe do this one more time. What do you think? Maybe another? What do you think? Another one Right now? Yes, blow that whistle. I blew a sport right now. Okay, so we'll do it again right now. The first caller through. We're going to give you a chance to spin the wheel and win something, so she'll be figuring out what to put on the wheel. Call either 878-8000 or 1-800-233-1051.
Speaker 3WQSB Mornings with Barry and Holly. Big Vic got you on my mind.
Speaker 1And it is the one-year anniversary of the morning show On the phone with us. We're talking to our latest player, josh Josh Phillips. Hey, josh, how you doing okay, doing good, josh, we appreciate you listening. We're going to give you a chance to win some cool stuff. Now, what is on the wheel this time?
Speaker 2We've got Albertville Discount Tire, we have our last Papa Doobies gift card and we have 50 cents in gas.
Speaker 1Oh, 50 cents worth of gas. Yeah Well, Josh, we're going to spin the wheel. Here we go. It is landing on 50 cents of gas, which is this? There we go.
Speaker 5Oh, there we go.
Speaker 2That's about 50 cents.
Speaker 1No, don't be alarmed, we're going to spin it one more time.
Speaker 2Spin it one more time.
Speaker 1That is just wrong. Not only who did that, but Josh. Now, oh, look at the Papa Doobies.
Speaker 2A Papa Doobies gift card.
Speaker 1Josh, you'll be having lunch, or? And, josh, we do appreciate you listening, okay.
Speaker 5Thank you.
Speaker 1You're welcome. Thank you so much. So, another winner and the prize. We have a lot of them that we didn't get to give away today. We're going to be giving these away with our podcast and you can listen to the podcast, any of them.
Speaker 2Now, the one you're going to be in today's show is, I think, a special show because it's our 100th podcast, it's our one-year anniversary and it's the day that we lost Reed, so it was all these anniversaries in one.
Speaker 1And you'll be putting this up sometime 9, 30, 10 o'clock and you can listen to it. Or you find podcast on our website or we recommend going to our Facebook page, because that's where you can listen and comment and if you comment and tell something that caught your attention, then you'll have a chance to win. We're giving away a bunch of stuff next week for those who listen and comment with our podcast. Yes, so anyway, the podcast will be coming up very soon. All right, it's 825. Here's Cole Wetzel and Jesse Murph on WQSB. Qsb. It's 835, with Barry and Holly, and what's coming up next. So this may sound confusing. You may not understand. Understand what we're about to play, but three years ago this morning at 3 39 am, I was getting ready to go to work and my son uh passed away in the living room in my arms and and I knew I'll probably or the last two years I've taken off on this day.
Speaker 1so I thought but you know, I think I need to go work, I think I need to try to get back to normal as close as possible, which will never be a normal again. Once you've lost a child, and especially in that manner, there's no normal again. It's where your world changes completely. So when I came back to work two weeks after he had passed, one of the first breaks I did was explaining, giving some details without getting too personal, because I don't like to share personal things, and this was the break I did on the radio. So you told me that, instead of trying to talk about it, we can play it.
Losing a Child
Speaker 1Yeah, so it's going to sound a little odd, but it was from three years ago and this was the break that happened on the radio, so let's play it. So here it is. It's very unusual for me to take two weeks off the air now. The only time I've ever taken off two weeks in a row was 11 years ago when I had open heart surgery and I was out for two weeks. So for me to take that long off does mean something, unfortunately, is going on, and I hate to say that, yes, something has been going on. Without giving all the details, most of which are very personal, I will say that no, uh, it was not coveted. No, I was not sick. No, I was not on vacation.
Speaker 1Unfortunately, two weeks ago this morning around 3 30, my son, brandon reed galloway, passed away. I found reed as I was getting ready to go to work. It had happened only minutes before I got to Reed. I tried CPR, called 911. The paramedics and police were there with me in just minutes. Unfortunately, everything that was tried, we could not save Reed.
Speaker 1I do want to thank all the first responders who were there. They did an amazing job and, without giving a lot of details, reid had struggles for the past few years but he tried so hard, so hard to win this battle. He fought so very hard. It was awful to watch Reid go through this. I have friends who have family members who have fought the same fight. It's so hard to watch someone battle this. The past two weeks have been awful I don't know of a better word. It's awful. To lose a child is something you cannot describe and I pray no one listening ever, ever, has to go through this. I honestly didn't know if I could ever come back on the radio, not because I don't love my job, because I do, and that's why I wasn't sure if I could do this Two weeks ago. I didn't know if I could ever do that again. I lost my smile, I lost my joy. I lost my son. I do have a beautiful daughter, reagan, who is so amazing, but unfortunately Reagan has also now lost her only brother. Her heart is also broken.
Speaker 1Over the last two weeks, so many wonderful people have reached out to me at all for a helping hand, a shoulder to cry on and an ear to listen to me, vent and just talk, and if I can give everyone listening a piece of advice on what to say or do. When someone you know goes through this, my advice would be give them a hug. I'm not a hugging person, but, trust me, a hug from a friend at a time like this means more to me than 100 handshakes or pats on the back. Sometimes just a hug and a simple hey man, I'm so sorry. I don't know what you're going through, but I love you and I'm here for you. That means more than anything at a time like this, or at least it has to me. Don't get me wrong. Your texts, emails and comments mean a lot to me. It touches my heart to know that so many people are reaching out and want to talk if I need to talk, thank you.
Speaker 1I did read a piece this morning that says when you lose a parent, you lose your past. When you lose a spouse, you lose your present, and when you lose a child, you lose your future. That is so true. Reed was so talented. He was so smart, so funny, so musically gifted with a guitar and piano he lost his future. I talked to my friend, pastor Matt Brooks, about this a few days ago. Satan battled with Reed for years, making his life extremely tough to be happy. Now Satan may have won that battle. But I'm here today and proud to say that my son, reed Galloway, won the war. He gave his life to God and was saved years ago at First Baptist Church in Albertville, and the happiness I have this morning is that I also trust Jesus Christ as my Savior and I will absolutely see Reed again one day in heaven.
Speaker 1No advice on what to say to family members who are going through something similar with a member of their family. The one thing I will say is never give up. Never give up. I would go back and take some of the hard nights and arguments that me and Reed had over the past few years all over again for just one more day with Reed. My house is very lonely now. I keep waiting. I keep waiting for Reed to come out of his bedroom and say those two words that began every one of our conversations hey Dad, as always. Hey Dad, what's for supper? Hey Dad, what you doing tonight? So please never give up. The fight is hard, but hopefully it'll be worth it in the end for you and your family. There's a website you can go to for more information. Hopefully some help. It's familylifecenterws.
Speaker 1I'm here back on the air. I promise the WQSP listeners. I will do my very best every day to put a smile on your face. I've never claimed to be good at radio, but I do claim to care about the listeners and my friends, and I love all of you. I read a quote this morning that describes my life and what I'm feeling perfectly right now. It's from the outside looking in you can never understand, and from the inside, looking out, you can never explain. What it feels like to lose a child. I do want to play a song. What it feels like to lose a child. I do want to play a song.
Speaker 1Yes, we are Alabama's country giant, but I came across a song a few days ago that's possibly the most perfect song to help someone who's going through a loss like I have this morning. It's a contemporary Christian song, but I think on this day it's okay to change formats for just four minutes. I'll finish with saying today is the first day my son, reed, has had a chance to listen to me in a way that he's never listened to me before. Reed, I know you're not here, but today you're in the most perfect spot to listen to me, do what I love to do. So if you would, reed, sit back in heaven and know that I love you, your family loves you and I miss you.
Speaker 1I love you, reed Jelly Roll and I am not okay, and I've been a fan of Jelly Roll since I began listening to his country music. I don't know much about his rap music, I've never really got into that, but that's the reason why the story that I have now with my son, knowing the story that he tells and he tries like that song, it's perfect. It is perfect as far as people who are struggling whether you have you're struggling or you have someone in your family struggling I probably not a single person in this world can say every day that I'm okay. Uh, we say that, but we don't mean that most people don't no, and it's a.
Speaker 2I love that jaylee roll says it's okay. It's he's not okay, but it's all gonna be all right yeah eventually, it's okay. He's not okay, but it's all going to be all right.
Speaker 1Yeah, eventually it will be. That's why I'm a big supporter of his music, because he does so much with people battling addictions, battling mental health. Because he's been through that and still going through it. He says I'm not past any of this. I'm still battling every day.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1And that's the same with all of us. I think so that's why I'm a big supporter of him. I love jelly roll and what he stands for, yeah, yeah. So anyway, appreciate all the comments people are making this morning. It means, it means a lot yeah and you've got something that you want to read coming up in just a moment I do.
Speaker 2I have a letter to read. I also have a poem that was sent to us by alissa turley okay it's beautiful. She wrote it this morning just for you. Okay, look after hearing the show. Wow, and I've read it and I think you will love it. Okay, and then I can read my letter to read.
Speaker 1I'll tell you what. We'll take a quick break and come back with that. Okay, yeah, take 48.
Speaker 3Mary and Holly on Alabama's Country, giant the famous country, giant WQSB Looking for incredible deals and unmatched customer service.
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Speaker 1Our listeners are so amazing they really are and anytime and I mean this from the bottom of my heart anytime we do anything whether it's a St Jude Radio Time or a Live South Blood Drive or Second Chance Shelter, wolfstock Dog Food Promotion they respond and help. They help others and they've really helped me a lot today. I'm reading through some of the Facebook posts and comments. Thank you, I will definitely. I'm going to take time when I get out of here in a few minutes before the game tonight to take time to read these, because these mean a lot to me and it means so much that you took time to write something and just comment and thank you.
Speaker 2Yeah, it does. It means a lot.
Speaker 1Yeah, it does, it does. It's been a tough day, but we have a quote. The quote of the day which we put up, is where this started. This morning was and the quote is for those who may have lost somebody. It goes the longest walk home that any parent will ever take is the one after the child has run ahead of them. So anyone who's lost a child, I pray for you each day because it's the struggle. It doesn't get better. You can withstand it, you can function, you can at least move around, but your life will never be normal again. It will never be the same, no matter how bad you want it to be. I come to work and do my best, but it's not the same as it was three years ago, before this happened. But it's still. I enjoy my job, love my job, but it's still. It's different. Some days it's a struggle. Today's a big struggle, but I thought I needed to come in today.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm proud of you for coming in, Barry. I think that hopefully, like you said and like we prayed this morning, both of us had the same prayer. If we can just help one person, if we could just help one person, then it makes coming into work worth it. So I'm proud of you for that.
Speaker 1So, anybody out there who is struggling, we think about you and we'll be thinking about you daily. And a couple of things before we go. One is that lady, who is it?
Speaker 2Alyssa Turley. Alyssa Turley wrote you a poem this morning.
Speaker 1So what does it say?
Speaker 2She says the day you died, I held you and cried. I prayed God. Please know I'm not ready to let him go. I think of you every day, still trying to figure out my way. Today marks three years since you've been gone. On this day I usually stay at home alone. Today I decided to get up and honor you like you deserve, with talks, songs and memories and more. I feel you with me, helping me get through this day, giving me strength and the right words to say Son, I love you with all my heart. One day we will be reunited and no longer apart.
Speaker 1Wow, that's good. That's good, that is very special. Yeah, thank you so much. And you told me that you had written a letter to read.
Remembering Reed
Speaker 2Yeah, I wrote a letter to read it's nothing extravagant and I just don't. I feel so helpless because you're in our. Our friendship is so deep and it's because we talk about these things, we talk about the hard things and we help each other with advice or just even just a shoulder if we need it. But I wrote this for him. Okay, dear Reed, my name is Holly and I've had the honor of working with your dad for the past year. I have to say I've learned a lot about you. I know that you have a heart of gold, a love for movies and a strong bond with your dad. You two have been through so much together, including this journey of your loss.
Speaker 2There's a few things I can tell you about your dad. I think you would be really proud of him. He's won a ton of awards. He's won People's Choice for Best Radio Personality and even runs a radio station as program director for WQSB. He impacts lives daily in a way that only he can do and through his heartache he shows up daily to put a smile on our listeners faces. But we both know that he would trade it all for one more moment with you.
Speaker 2I know god has a strong calling on your life, reed, and it's not going to be carried out in vain. May your story save others and prevent every parent's worst nightmare the loss of their child. I've watched Barry shed many tears over the last years, each of them counted by our Lord Jesus that now holds you. I believe God has a special purpose for you, that you will make a difference and we will honor your memory. Your story has the power to touch lives and help others, and I can't wait to meet you one day in heaven and tell you all the pranks your dad's pulled on me in the past year. And PS, thanks for sending the red birds for your dad. He sees you in them every day.
Speaker 1Wow, that's very sweet. That's special. Thank you for taking the time to do that. That means a lot. It's been a year since you've been in here and I'm so glad you came and I appreciate you. Thank you very much, and I thought this song would be fitting to play, since we both heard it and said, yeah, this is special. So you're Jackson Dean on WQSV.
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