November 25, 2024 • 11 mins
What are you grateful for? Here's what a few callers are celebrating. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. Hey, it's Delilah.
On your Monday. As we celebrate the week of Thanksgiving,
(00:26):
we are going to be celebrating all the things we
are grateful for this week, So join us on. Hey
it's Delilah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hi Matt, Hi, Delilah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I'm doing?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Wow? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So tell me your story.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, I wanted to tell you in the whole world
about a man who has taught me more about the
grace of God than really anyone in my life. His
name is Ray, but I call him Cadillac Ray.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The reason that is Delilah is because there was a
time where I needed a car, and Ray, very graciously
and excitedly gave me the keys to his plush, beautiful
Cadillac and looked at me and had watched me to
have fun and enjoy it and just be careful. And
I took those words to heart. And I was driving
down the street a couple of weeks later, and I
(01:20):
was looking at the most beautiful girl walking down the street.
I mean, her walk was so hot it could launch
the Space Shuttle. And I was looking at her, admiring
that and not paying attention that the light in front
of me had turned green and I crashed into the
car in front of me, totally raised Cadillac. Oh no, now, Delilah.
(01:43):
The second worst part of that story is that girl
never even looked my way, never even twitched, just kept
walking down the street. I felt like Rodney Dangerfield. You know,
I get no respect.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Oh my gosh, you totaled a guy's Cadillac because you
were googling some woman.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Can you imagine? So here I am man terrified, terrified
and in tears. I call him up and I said, Ray,
I have bad news. I wrecked your car. And here's
what he says. He says, that's okay, out of you okay?
And I said yeah. He goes, you're not hurt? I
(02:20):
said no. He said, okay, well, don't worry about it.
On just a piece of metal. That's why we put
insurance on it, to which I was responded, in my heart,
excuse me, what part of I just wrecked your cadillacted?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I just said, you know? And he forgave me Delilah,
and to this day never ever brought it up again,
and I thought, you know, this guy's amazing. He not
only tells me about the grace of God with his words,
but he lives it with his life. And that's that's
my friend, Cadillac Ray.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Wow, that is an amazing story.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Thank you, And he deserves to He deserves people to
know it because he's just so on assuming about his
generosity and he's just he gifts from the hot and
doesn't really expect anything in return, and he's just a
very generous man. And he's been a great, great gift
of my life.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, thank you for sharing that story, and you have
a blessed, blessed, blessed holiday season.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Thanks Delilah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
BOBBYE.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Honey, Hi Shawna, Hi Delilah.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Thank you for being here with us tonight as we
celebrate Thanksgiving all week long.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Tell us your story.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Well, this year, I am even more grateful and thankful
for my family. I was adopted as an infant and
was raised by a wonderful, caring family and I have
a younger brother and sister and four older brothers that
are stepbrothers, and it's been a wonderful family and a
(03:56):
year ago I received a letter from my birth mother
and actually had the opportunity and joy of meeting her
and my natural father this fall and found that I
have six more siblings.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Oh my goodness, So I'm now one of thirteen children.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So is she still involved with are your folks biological
folks involved?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Or she just knew how to contact him.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
She and my natural father were together for many years.
They are still good friends, but they are no longer married.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
But I have so she has how many children?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
My natural father has four from his first marriage, and
then they have three of us together.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And you were the only one place for adoption.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Yes, my mother was very young when they had me,
and they felt at that time it was the best
thing to do. And as I said, I'm very grateful
that she looked for me. I'm actually going to get
to meet one of my younger brothers for the first
time next week.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
How cool there's that.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
It's been so exciting.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And your adoptive family is cool with this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They're not uncomfortable.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
My mother has had some problems with it, but she
understands how much I really love her, and she is
my mother. My father has been my biggest fan and
biggest supporter all my life, and so he has been
my rock and has been very encouraging throughout this and
he couldn't be happier for me.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
You know, I think it's wonderful when families can get
to the point where they realize that there's plenty of
love to go around.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Certainly, James, Hi, thank you for calling.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
This is Delilah. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, Hello, Delilah, what a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Thank you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And the same to you. Well. I had actually written
into your website about my angel who I lost touch with.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Tell me your story.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, I was a young child heading for trouble and
this amazing person, Pat came to rent an apartment that
my parents owned. And my parents weren't shall we say,
always available.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Were they unavailable because they were busy working and striving
to give you a roof over your head, or because
they were highly dysfunctional?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
There you go. Absolutely, it was some dysfunction and the
things were certainly heading in a bad way. And Pat
just came along with this great sense of humor and
great enthusiasm for life and just had a way of
(06:51):
not lecturing but she got her message and she really
took education serious and with her own child, and I
always heard her, you know, speaking to him about education
and being productive and being decent. And she was just
one of those fun, exciting, loving people you wanted to
hang out with.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
And now was this angel a teacher?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
How did you meet Pat?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So she Pat came to rent an apartment from my.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Pah, okay you said that, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
And that's how we met. And actually she's one of
the biggest reasons I graduated high school and she attended
my high school graduation and I then went on to
nursing school and graduated. And we lost touch about six
years ago, and I was doing a little personal development
series and thinking about people who had influence in your life,
(07:41):
and I was thinking, God, one of the greatest treasures
in life I've lost touch with. And that's what I
had written in on your website.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Well, what a wonderful story.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I'm glad you had such an angel in your life.
And let me find a song to honor her tonight.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
That would be wonderful.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And you're doing well, You're enjoying you the.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Path that you are on.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Life couldn't be better.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh, isn't that great?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yes, because of people like her.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
You know, I had several people like that in my path.
One of my teachers, mister k mister Kannutsen, challenged the
heck out of me and would not let me do
less than my level best. And the Kanegie Brothers who
started me in radio when I was in junior high.
So many people that blessed me, and I can look
(08:29):
back now and just marvel at how God had them
in my life at the right time.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Absolutely, let me play a song for your angel.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Great bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Bye Vilma High. This is Delilah. How are you well?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Thank you? How are you?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm wonderful. Thank you for being a part of our program.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Oh, I said, delight, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Isn't this a great time of year?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I love this? I love this. I love this.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Time a year.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
I love the holidays.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Tell me your favorite Thanksgiving memory.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Well, it's a it's a cute little one. It began
many years ago when my eldest son, Carl was six
years old he's now twenty seven, and the twins were four.
Came home with a cute little story about the first
the first Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims and the Indians, and
(09:27):
he was excited about how the Indians made butter. But
then he said, but I know how to make butter.
We learned how to make butter in class. So I
was excited. I said, well, how do you make butter?
He says, well, first we get one of those little
containers of cream. So we had to go get a container,
and on Thanksgiving Day we were going to make butter
(09:48):
rather than buying just the regular store bought. Well, what
happened was he and his little hands began to get
tired because he had to continuously shake it.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So you were shaking your own butter. Yes, this is
a kid growing up because we lived on a farm.
But you were doing it for the fun of it.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Yes, he was so excited, so it became part of
something we were doing as Thanksgiving preparations were taking place.
He's shaking his container and he says, I'm tired. So
he hands it over to his brother, who is now
just four, and he starts shaking and he says, no,
I'm tired too, and he sends it over to his sister. Oh,
and I'm tired too. Little by little, everyone was getting
(10:26):
tired of shaking this little tiny container because it wasn't
as easy as he thought it was going to be.
And three years I would always get this little container
of cream heavy cream to shake on Thanksgiving and make
our own butter. But as they got older, they began
to realize that there's a particular point where you hear
the little thump and you hear the you feel that
(10:47):
the trains separate, and then you get the butter. And
now the trick was to who is going to be
the lucky one to get that final thump. So as
they got older, they didn't want to let go of
the container.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sort of a challenge to see who got the thumb. Yes,
who scored with the thumb exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
It was a lot of fun. And we're going to
continue this tradition no matter how old.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
They are good for you, and one day you'll be
doing it with your grandkids, I hope.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
So it's just a rat Stored always said, this is
how I keep them forever young in my heart.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'll share more with you each weekday on Hey It's
Delilah
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. Hey, it's Delilah.
On your Monday. As we celebrate the week of Thanksgiving,
(00:26):
we are going to be celebrating all the things we
are grateful for this week, So join us on. Hey
it's Delilah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hi Matt, Hi, Delilah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I'm doing?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Wow? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So tell me your story.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, I wanted to tell you in the whole world
about a man who has taught me more about the
grace of God than really anyone in my life. His
name is Ray, but I call him Cadillac Ray.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The reason that is Delilah is because there was a
time where I needed a car, and Ray, very graciously
and excitedly gave me the keys to his plush, beautiful
Cadillac and looked at me and had watched me to
have fun and enjoy it and just be careful. And
I took those words to heart. And I was driving
down the street a couple of weeks later, and I
(01:20):
was looking at the most beautiful girl walking down the street.
I mean, her walk was so hot it could launch
the Space Shuttle. And I was looking at her, admiring
that and not paying attention that the light in front
of me had turned green and I crashed into the
car in front of me, totally raised Cadillac. Oh no, now, Delilah.
(01:43):
The second worst part of that story is that girl
never even looked my way, never even twitched, just kept
walking down the street. I felt like Rodney Dangerfield. You know,
I get no respect.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Oh my gosh, you totaled a guy's Cadillac because you
were googling some woman.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Can you imagine? So here I am man terrified, terrified
and in tears. I call him up and I said, Ray,
I have bad news. I wrecked your car. And here's
what he says. He says, that's okay, out of you okay?
And I said yeah. He goes, you're not hurt? I
(02:20):
said no. He said, okay, well, don't worry about it.
On just a piece of metal. That's why we put
insurance on it, to which I was responded, in my heart,
excuse me, what part of I just wrecked your cadillacted?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I just said, you know? And he forgave me Delilah,
and to this day never ever brought it up again,
and I thought, you know, this guy's amazing. He not
only tells me about the grace of God with his words,
but he lives it with his life. And that's that's
my friend, Cadillac Ray.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Wow, that is an amazing story.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Thank you, And he deserves to He deserves people to
know it because he's just so on assuming about his
generosity and he's just he gifts from the hot and
doesn't really expect anything in return, and he's just a
very generous man. And he's been a great, great gift
of my life.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, thank you for sharing that story, and you have
a blessed, blessed, blessed holiday season.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Thanks Delilah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
BOBBYE.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Honey, Hi Shawna, Hi Delilah.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Thank you for being here with us tonight as we
celebrate Thanksgiving all week long.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Tell us your story.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Well, this year, I am even more grateful and thankful
for my family. I was adopted as an infant and
was raised by a wonderful, caring family and I have
a younger brother and sister and four older brothers that
are stepbrothers, and it's been a wonderful family and a
(03:56):
year ago I received a letter from my birth mother
and actually had the opportunity and joy of meeting her
and my natural father this fall and found that I
have six more siblings.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Oh my goodness, So I'm now one of thirteen children.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So is she still involved with are your folks biological
folks involved?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Or she just knew how to contact him.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
She and my natural father were together for many years.
They are still good friends, but they are no longer married.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
But I have so she has how many children?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
My natural father has four from his first marriage, and
then they have three of us together.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And you were the only one place for adoption.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Yes, my mother was very young when they had me,
and they felt at that time it was the best
thing to do. And as I said, I'm very grateful
that she looked for me. I'm actually going to get
to meet one of my younger brothers for the first
time next week.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
How cool there's that.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
It's been so exciting.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And your adoptive family is cool with this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They're not uncomfortable.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
My mother has had some problems with it, but she
understands how much I really love her, and she is
my mother. My father has been my biggest fan and
biggest supporter all my life, and so he has been
my rock and has been very encouraging throughout this and
he couldn't be happier for me.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
You know, I think it's wonderful when families can get
to the point where they realize that there's plenty of
love to go around.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Certainly, James, Hi, thank you for calling.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
This is Delilah. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, Hello, Delilah, what a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Thank you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And the same to you. Well. I had actually written
into your website about my angel who I lost touch with.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Tell me your story.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, I was a young child heading for trouble and
this amazing person, Pat came to rent an apartment that
my parents owned. And my parents weren't shall we say,
always available.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Were they unavailable because they were busy working and striving
to give you a roof over your head, or because
they were highly dysfunctional?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
There you go. Absolutely, it was some dysfunction and the
things were certainly heading in a bad way. And Pat
just came along with this great sense of humor and
great enthusiasm for life and just had a way of
(06:51):
not lecturing but she got her message and she really
took education serious and with her own child, and I
always heard her, you know, speaking to him about education
and being productive and being decent. And she was just
one of those fun, exciting, loving people you wanted to
hang out with.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
And now was this angel a teacher?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
How did you meet Pat?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So she Pat came to rent an apartment from my.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Pah, okay you said that, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
And that's how we met. And actually she's one of
the biggest reasons I graduated high school and she attended
my high school graduation and I then went on to
nursing school and graduated. And we lost touch about six
years ago, and I was doing a little personal development
series and thinking about people who had influence in your life,
(07:41):
and I was thinking, God, one of the greatest treasures
in life I've lost touch with. And that's what I
had written in on your website.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Well, what a wonderful story.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I'm glad you had such an angel in your life.
And let me find a song to honor her tonight.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
That would be wonderful.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And you're doing well, You're enjoying you the.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Path that you are on.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Life couldn't be better.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh, isn't that great?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yes, because of people like her.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
You know, I had several people like that in my path.
One of my teachers, mister k mister Kannutsen, challenged the
heck out of me and would not let me do
less than my level best. And the Kanegie Brothers who
started me in radio when I was in junior high.
So many people that blessed me, and I can look
(08:29):
back now and just marvel at how God had them
in my life at the right time.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Absolutely, let me play a song for your angel.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Great bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Bye Vilma High. This is Delilah. How are you well?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Thank you? How are you?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm wonderful. Thank you for being a part of our program.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Oh, I said, delight, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Isn't this a great time of year?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I love this? I love this. I love this.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Time a year.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
I love the holidays.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Tell me your favorite Thanksgiving memory.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Well, it's a it's a cute little one. It began
many years ago when my eldest son, Carl was six
years old he's now twenty seven, and the twins were four.
Came home with a cute little story about the first
the first Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims and the Indians, and
(09:27):
he was excited about how the Indians made butter. But
then he said, but I know how to make butter.
We learned how to make butter in class. So I
was excited. I said, well, how do you make butter?
He says, well, first we get one of those little
containers of cream. So we had to go get a container,
and on Thanksgiving Day we were going to make butter
(09:48):
rather than buying just the regular store bought. Well, what
happened was he and his little hands began to get
tired because he had to continuously shake it.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So you were shaking your own butter. Yes, this is
a kid growing up because we lived on a farm.
But you were doing it for the fun of it.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Yes, he was so excited, so it became part of
something we were doing as Thanksgiving preparations were taking place.
He's shaking his container and he says, I'm tired. So
he hands it over to his brother, who is now
just four, and he starts shaking and he says, no,
I'm tired too, and he sends it over to his sister. Oh,
and I'm tired too. Little by little, everyone was getting
(10:26):
tired of shaking this little tiny container because it wasn't
as easy as he thought it was going to be.
And three years I would always get this little container
of cream heavy cream to shake on Thanksgiving and make
our own butter. But as they got older, they began
to realize that there's a particular point where you hear
the little thump and you hear the you feel that
(10:47):
the trains separate, and then you get the butter. And
now the trick was to who is going to be
the lucky one to get that final thump. So as
they got older, they didn't want to let go of
the container.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sort of a challenge to see who got the thumb. Yes,
who scored with the thumb exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
It was a lot of fun. And we're going to
continue this tradition no matter how old.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
They are good for you, and one day you'll be
doing it with your grandkids, I hope.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
So it's just a rat Stored always said, this is
how I keep them forever young in my heart.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'll share more with you each weekday on Hey It's
Delilah
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Delilah
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