The Michael Berry Show

many of you will remember during the dark days of the authoritarian

Covidians that America shut down for all intents and purposes.

One of the great losses was live theater, Broadway, concerts,

the restaurant scene, so many weddings

Funerals the things that mark our lives the things that make life worth living gatherings

Fellowship and we had a gentleman on the air and many of you commented that you were worried for him, you felt bad for him, named Clifton Duncan, and he is an accomplished actor of the stage, a purest in that sense, with a lot of credits to his name.

And yet he wouldn't play the game.

And he lost not just his job but in a sense I felt maybe part of his identity.

So he went back home where he had not been for quite some time.

This is an adult man. I don't know how old he was at the for quite some time. And this is an adult man.

I don't know how old he was at time, maybe 30.

And he went back home and lived with his parents

and started waiting tables.

And people would say, you know, you seem kind of beneath you.

And he would say, well, I'm actually a stage actor.

And people didn't believe him because there's no chance

this is happening.

But this was happening.

This was really happening.

Well, a lot has happened since then. Rather than go hide himself in a bottle or in pills or in sadness, Clifton

Duncan decided, you know what, I'm going to make something of this moment and he he rebuilt himself and we are

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