What a Real Friend Is

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7
0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. I want to talk about what a real friend is. So a lot of you think a friend is somebody
0:33.4	who posts on your social media. That's, trust me, not a person you'll be able to count on.
0:40.9	Yeah, that's just nonsense.
0:42.5	I'm sort of sad they use.
0:44.5	They misuse that word because it's such a precious word.
0:48.5	I mean, a friend is an amazing gift from the heavens.
0:53.0	It's just amazing. I have a friend. She's going to be back in town
0:58.3	on Saturday. For several weeks, she and her husband have been traveling Europe, which takes up
1:09.9	your time and attention when you're traveling and visiting things and walking
1:14.6	and eating and everything that they're doing. And twice she stopped to call me. How are you doing?
1:23.6	What's the situation with the house? How are feeling how's lilybug how's the family
1:29.7	and we talked about all the cool stuff and uh yeah her suitcase never got there to start the trip
1:40.8	so poor woman had to go shopping. I told her I really felt for her. So evidently in Spain,
1:52.1	she went to a really cool store and the prices were fabulous and got a whole bunch of stuff. And
1:57.4	you know, when she gets back home, her luggage will be there so i don't care
2:03.3	where i'm going i just take put it in the overhead i don't trust any of it but it was two weeks in
2:11.6	europe so she needed more clothes maybe i don't know anyway twice she called me. Time difference and everything. That's a friend.
2:23.3	Why didn't I call her? She's on vacation. I didn't want to bug her. And she had time, she'd call me.
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