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The Michael Berry Show

You Can Find The Greatest Joy By Helping To Alleviate Someone Else's Sadness

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

I need y'all to weigh in on this I need you to email your vote and I'm not trying to sway your vote

0:06.8

I'm not no, I'm not no, I'm not remote says it's not fair when I ask you to weigh in on things that we talk about where he and

0:13.8

I've disagreed because I am always trying to persuade and he doesn't get to make his case other than hitting the danger in the buzzer and so

0:23.1

He said that

0:26.0

Telling people to call somebody and talk about a relative they've lost

0:30.5

Is very sad and not a good way to end the Friday show and I said wrong wrong wrong

0:38.5

Sometimes you can find the greatest joy

0:42.3

By helping to alleviate someone else's sadness

0:46.7

You know, it was an old Jewish tradition

0:49.4

That you would roast the deceased

0:53.3

Upon their death you would have what was called a jester, which is where the origins of that term and

1:00.9

That person was paid to show up

1:03.8

If you've ever seen the sort of jester

1:06.4

costume you would he would show up and he would

1:11.3

Roast that person and a lot of people have trouble with kind of a sense of humor

1:16.4

And you know if you make a joke about someone you're insulting them

1:20.0

No, you make jokes about people you love it's it's it's a complicated thing and some people will never get it

1:27.6

It's part of why some people are offended

1:32.4

When you make a joke about them because they think it's at their expense and part of that's their insecurity and all that

1:40.0

You know, I was proud of my son

1:42.5

Uh at dinner last night. We've made we've made family dinner in this big deal because my son senior year

1:48.4

And it was funny is when we started like

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