Jeff Finds An Old Voicemail Message

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Get the tissues ready for this one folks

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00:00And if you've listened to our show before, you know that the three of us experienced loss in our families, all like unusually close to each other.

00:09For sure, just a couple months apart.

00:10We even noted that all on major holidays, my uncle passed away on Labor Day, Donnie, your mom on New Year's Day, and your sister on St. Patrick's Day.

00:20That's right.

00:20And everybody deals with grief differently.

00:23And I had a really tough day yesterday, and I had zero plans on talking about this today as a cup of joy.

00:32Why would you ever talk about, oh, I had a really grief-strucken day.

00:36Why would you make that a cup of joy?

00:38And it's because of a conversation I had with my wife Emily.

00:42So at the end of the show yesterday, I'm super, super anal about things.

00:46I like things to be very clean and organized, as you guys know.

00:48Right.

00:49So I got in this weird wind of energy at the end of the show yesterday.

00:53To clean out my voicemail box.

00:55I was like, I've never done this.

00:56And there's thousands of messages.

00:58Holy cow, you don't delete messages.

01:00No.

01:00Okay.

01:01I never even knew that was a thing.

01:03When they changed to the visual voicemail on your phone, I didn't even know it was a thing.

01:08So I realized I haven't said that.

01:09So I'm sitting there on our little couch.

01:11Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete.

01:13And that's when I see a voicemail from my uncle, who passed away from ALS back in 2023.

01:18And for those who aren't familiar with the disease of ALS, commonly, most people, one of their first symptoms is losing your voice.

01:26Right.

01:26Because of the muscles in your throat and muscles in your whole body stop working, really.

01:31The motor neurons stop firing, the whole thing.

01:33But their voice is one of the first things to leave.

01:37So I haven't heard my uncle's voice, not just since he passed, but since years before that.

01:42And there was a voicemail.

01:45And I wasn't even, I was like, oh, well, my uncle and I used to talk on the phone all the time.

01:49This can't be like, hey, you know, it's going to be, call me back.

01:53Right.

01:54All right.

01:54Talk to you soon.

01:55I will see you this weekend.

01:57And I clicked play.

01:58Patrick, this is the biggest day ever.

02:03You and Emily are now engaged to be married.

02:07That is the coolest thing ever.

02:10Your mom and dad must be over the hills because I know how excited I am.

02:15And now we're going to have a wedding in Las Vegas.

02:18It is wonderful, wonderful news.

02:21Put your arms around her for me.

02:23That's a beautiful ring you got her.

02:25And we will talk very, very soon.

02:27Okay, my boy, you take care.

02:29Bye-bye.

02:30Oh, my gosh, Jeff.

02:32And it's like, it's not what I was expecting.

02:34I was thinking it was just going to be like a little reminder of his voice.

02:38And I was so upset all day yesterday.

02:41It was so hard.

02:42I was bursting into tears, which is uncharacteristic for me.

02:47Sure.

02:48I like to stay as positive and happy as possible.

02:50And my wife came downstairs when I was working and I was really struggling.

02:55And she said, Jeff, now you have this forever.

02:58Like, you have this moment.

03:00And it was like the coolest thing.

03:01And it became this such a positive thing now.

03:03And isn't it interesting that it kind of pops into your life almost when you need it, those things, right?

03:09Those little signs, you know?

03:10And everybody has seen them.

03:12Donnie, I know that, you know, you've mentioned times when you're having a tough day or whatever.

03:17And then all of a sudden you'll kind of get a sign.

03:20Always.

03:20I mean, this is actually your uncle's voice, right?

03:24Like, what a beautiful, beautiful thing.

03:27Thank goodness that you're not deleting all those voice emails as they come through.

03:31And I won't play the other one because I was like, this one's got to be a goofball one.

03:34And it was right after my sister asked me to be my nephew's godfather.

03:40And he was talking about how important that job is and how great that job is.

03:45And, you know, he was the only person on earth to call me Patrick, which is my middle name.

03:48Patrick.

03:49And that's how he started.

03:50I didn't understand what he said.

03:52Every call.

03:52Yeah, I didn't get that either.

03:53Every call.

03:54So right when I heard it, I was like, wow, I haven't been called that in so long.

03:57That is so sweet.

03:58And sometimes we just need that.

04:00Sometimes we, like, you know, it was interesting.

04:02My friend Jane sent me a text last night.

04:04She came across something from her mom.

04:06Oh.

04:07And her mom has passed away years ago.

04:09You know, but she said, I just, I've been really weepy because I came across this.

04:13And I said, it's really interesting that you went through the exact same thing yesterday.

04:17Because I said, Jane, like, sometimes it feels so good to feel that hurt of loss.

04:26Because it shows that you had someone in your life that you loved and treasured so deeply.

04:33It felt so good after I really cried.

04:36Because all day, well, not all day at work.

04:38But towards the end of work, I was, like, holding it back.

04:40I didn't cry in the car, right?

04:41And I got home and I just, like, exploded.

04:44And it felt so good, for lack of a better term.

04:46And it felt like, man, this is so beautiful.

04:49Exactly as you said, Andy.

04:50To have something to miss.

04:51To have something that loved me so much.

04:53Not everybody gets that.

04:54No.

04:54You know?

04:55So.

04:55God bless, Jeff.

04:56I'm going to keep that forever.

04:58I don't know.

04:59I don't know.

05:00I don't know.

05:01I don't know.

05:01You

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