If you're driving around in Michigan, look for a car. There'll be a bumper sticker on the back. Actually, there'll be a couple. We're going to talk about one of them.
It says, Joy is Always Coming, which by the way, was a title of a podcast that I did in this series. Isn't that strange? Let's talk about it a little bit. Hello, welcome to the Daily Grateful Iron Michael Pro's consuming, as we speak, my boost high protein, 20 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals.
I mean, how does it get any better than this? Consuming this whilst I'm doing this. And Joy is Always Coming reminds us to maintain hope and positivity, knowing as my mother used to say, better days are coming. Yeah, I guess they are.
Guess what I'm doing in a, I don't know, a couple weeks? I've been asked, I don't know. Well, I said yes, so I guess I am. I'm giving eulogy for a guy that I haven't seen in the last time I saw this guy, I was working at the Sun Radio Network in the studios were in St.
Petersburg, in the Feather Sound area, which I guess is technically Clearwater, but St. Pete area. And that's the last time I saw the guy, I knew the guy from the 60s and we hung out together. You know, we knew each other.
I have not seen him since then. When we were young, we were always going to work in radio. I remember when I met him, he had made arrangements for us to go to a radio station called WLCY, where he had pulled some strings. I don't know what the hell he did, but he made it possible for us to go in at night and watch a disc chalky by the name of Daelin Rushing.
By the way, have you ever heard a better radio name ever than Daelin Rushing? And Daelin was that kind of guy, he was Daelin Rushing. But we got to go in and watch him do his radio show and he would answer any questions we had about working in radio. Now I was how old was I?
I was 15 and my friend was in college. Now I was in high school and he was in college and we worked together at a grocery store. He was crazy as he was batshit crazy, but he was just absolutely crazy. But anyway, we went and we watched Daelin Rushing do radio and I remember somebody let us in the door, took us down the hallway, it was nothing like I thought it was going to be.
It was down like at the end of the hall, which was actually the room where he was working and there was a old, old, old board there and he had his back to us and he was wearing a blue shirt. I remember this and a tie and because he was Daelin Rushing and he was playing what the world needs now is love, sweet love. He introduced that and then he turned around and introduced himself to us. And after that, my friend said, we're gonna work in radio.
I'm going to college, I'm getting a degree in this. We're gonna work in radio. I'm the only one who worked in radio. But last time I saw him, I was at the Sun Radio Network and as it turns out, he was our mailman.
And he popped in and I was in the newsroom area of the network and I was having a conversation with evil, can evil in the newsroom. Evil, can evil lived down the street and he used to come up there all the time because he was friends with another person there who did production. So I was hanging out with evil, can evil and my friend walked in and he sees me working in radio, working in national radio. He's our mailman and I'm talking to evil, can evil.
Oh my God, it was weird. Anyway, this guy had a very sorted period of life after that. And that was, by the way, how long ago was that? That was in the early 90s, last time I saw him, I'm doing eulogy, very bizarre, very, very, very bizarre.
But I think, since I will remember him by thinking that joy is always coming, his life got pretty rough, his life got really, really, really, really rough. I remember going on Facebook and asking where he was. Anybody knew where he was. And one of my old listeners, who was a private detective, found him for me, just like that, sent me a private message with his contact information.
Well, the contact information was his daughter's phone number. So I called and talked to the daughter and she said, he is living, this was like a couple of years ago. He is living in an adult congregate living facility because he can't take care of himself. But you should go see him.
I said, I will, I will, I will go see him. Yeah, why not? Yeah, I'm gonna go see him. And I went to see him about three weeks later.
I finally made my way into that part of St. Pete walked in to see him and they had thrown him out of there. They had thrown him out. I'm not gonna go into all the sort of details, but he wound up at another one of these facilities about 150 miles away because that was the only place it would take him.
And then he died, strange. But I wanted to talk to him and remember the fun things that we had and tell him that, you know, joy can be continuous, man. We can be happy all the time. Not just a fleeting moment, you know, we can't be happy all the time.
Some of the times life sucks, it truly does. But joy, I'm telling you, even in the pits of all the crap that happens to us, joy is always coming, literally always coming. I will get through this experience because, you know, I don't know, I'm good at funerals. I hate to say it, but I've been told that I'm good at funerals.
And I don't even, you know, I have not seen him since the early 90s, I'm the years, that's a lot that, 37 years. Oh well, joy is coming. Stay positive. A trap, you know, attract joyfulness.
That's my message to you today. Mad Dog, thank you for putting that bumper sticker on your car and the other one too. Talk to y'all later, bye bye.