The Michael Barry show if you're lucky enough that your mother is still alive

Let me encourage you to call her today because who knows if she's here on Thursday

I mean, that's the reality on Thursday on Sunday. I meant Sunday

Call her today and say I'm looking forward to being with you on Mother's Day and if you can't be with her

Share a story from your past and the more specific you are the better. Hey, mom. I remember this is big one for me

Hey, mom, I remember I

I was in kindergarten and I was at Lorena Oates Elementary in

West Arne Stark school district and

it was

Christmas was coming up and

You would go in and they have these companies that travel around. I think they're gypsies or carnival barkers or something and

They sell junk to the kids because you can only sell junk to kids because kids don't know any better

And so you'd go in there and nobody had any money

We might have a dollar to our name, but I remember my mom

Fishing out from her little savings off to the side because she didn't work

So she had to keep a little savings off to the side of my dad didn't know about it

She wanted to buy herself a little treat on the side maybe eat a water burger. I mean, I don't know what we have a

Whopper when it wasn't in the budget

So she pulled out a couple of dollars and gave it to me and I bought my dad the worst gift you could possibly buy a human being

it was a

Kind of black

Rubbery plastic over a piece of cardboard. I know this because it's split in about a week and it would open and close and

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