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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day i remember for a long time i was a real

whiner sober you know and have you started yet oh it's on tape now I was a real whiner for a

long time sober you know it was like how are you at well you know people are

looking at me funny and yes and I don't know if you know Clint H or ever heard

Clint H she's one of my favorite people. He's from out of California. If you

ever get a chance to hear Clint, hear him. He's a wonderful man, and I love him very much.

Clint came up to me one time and said, Ed, how are you? Well, you know, they're not treating

me right at work. And he looked at me and he said, you know, Ed, you've got to fight through

a lot of happiness to be that miserable, don't you?

My ones.

What am I looking at? The ones are the 299.

Am I fighting through a lot of happiness to be that miserable?

The answer is a lot of times yes, if I'm not real careful.

I want to tell you a story that came to mine at break, and it's about grieving.

I understand grieving. I've had two brothers killed by drunk drivers. I had a sister-in-law

commits suicide. Another brother-in-law put a gun to his head. He died after two years as a vegetable. I watch my mother die of cancer.

I mean, I've been divorced, lost everything I own three times. I understand sadness and I understand loss.

So I'm not poking fun or trying to make light of anybody's sadness.

But what I found is some people want to make grief a profession.

I had a guy walk into my office three years ago, two years ago, I guess.

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