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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | It's just me. |
| 0:03.5 | We didn't even have an intro. |
| 0:05.0 | Okay, Valen, it didn't even give me an intro. |
| 0:08.2 | So here's the thing. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm going to do the best that I can today. |
| 0:12.6 | This is not going to be a regular show today. |
| 0:14.6 | It's going to be short and sweet. |
| 0:18.9 | We were doing pre-show this morning and Miriam got a call that her son Thomas passed away |
| 0:27.8 | 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. |
| 0:38.7 | He was 28 years old. |
| 0:40.3 | He had severe cerebral palsy. |
| 0:45.7 | This was a kid who was not supposed to live past the age of six, y'all, but he defied all the odds all the time. |
| 0:53.7 | He was a freaking superhero, this kid, just like his |
| 0:59.4 | mama. He had just a wonderful disposition, smile, everything. So ever since I've known, |
| 1:05.1 | Miriam, which is the better part of 20 years, I've seen this kid go through hell and back time and time again, |
| 1:12.6 | and he was always the happiest, sweetest warrior, totally his mama's son. He was the luckiest boy |
| 1:23.3 | to have the family that he had. Just an incredible family, you guys, if you know this family. |
| 1:29.5 | I mean, I want to be adopted by this family. |
| 1:32.6 | He had a great mom, wonderful dad, great grandparents, great auntie. |
| 1:38.0 | They just all loved him so very much. |
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