Dr. Paul’s Family Talk

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You are listening to Impact Radio USA, where we stream 24-7 with such shows as Impact Music, Parenting 101+, Interviews and more, all of the shows by the Whitney’s, all of the shows by Dr. John A. Chuback, The Truth Must Be Told by Sal Pasos, and the show that you’re about to hear, Dr. Paul’s Family Talk. For a complete listing of all showtimes, show details, and links to the podcast pages, please visit our website at impactradiusa.com. Now stay tuned for Dr. Paul’s Family Talk. All right, good morning. Welcome to Dr. Paul’s Family Talk right here on Impact Radio USA. Glad you’re along for the ride with us on this Wednesday morning, August the 30th of 2023. Hope you’re having a great week and hope you’re ready to finish it out with gusto. On today’s show, we will talk to Karis Meier, living life, everything was going well, husband, four kids, and suddenly got ill, and she still suffers from a level of chronic illness. Jesus led her to write a book, said, get out there and start writing, and she’s done that. And the book is called Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure Purpose in Pain and Hope for Tomorrow. Karis Meier, much more coming up. Tell you all about it in just a moment. Welcome in. Glad you’re with us today for Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show. We’ve been doing this show since June of 2015, and so we’re in our ninth year, believe it or not. You know, Al, we forgot to mention that. Yeah. I forget exactly when we first went on the air. I think that it was the first week of June of 2015. I shouldn’t say that’s when we went on the air. That’s when I went on the air. You joined me a little bit after that. Yeah, that’s true. Well, we forgot to mention that in June of this year. We’re on August 30th today, and in June, we celebrated our anniversary with the show. and we’re in our ninth year. Well, no wonder I’m always walking around with that nauseous feeling. No matter what I’m doing, I’m working at the lab, driving, I’m just always have that ill feeling like something bad is going to happen. Now I know why. I can explain it to the physicians. Thank you very much. My goodness. All right. I knew I brought you in too early. I’ll be right back. Oh, okay. I didn’t mean to interrupt. I apologize. Well, no, you didn’t interrupt. I brought you in. Oh, that’s true. But then I got carried away. Sorry about that. I’ll behave. Glad you’re with us today, August 30th, 2023. Brand new show every Wednesday morning, 11 o’clock a.m. Eastern Time. Repeat a bunch of times throughout the week at all kinds of times on the radio station. Yes, we are a radio station here. And you can find all that information by visiting our website, ImpactRadioUSA.com. Click on Our Shows. There’ll be a drop-down menu. You select Dr. Paul, and you will instantly be transported to the page for the show, which gives you all show times on the radio station, show details, a link to the podcast page, and our email address. We’re also on every podcast platform under the sun, so wherever you go, Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Podbean, Deezer, about Listen Notes or Amazon slash Audible, we are everywhere. Just go to your favorite podcast platform, type in Dr. Paul’s Family Talk, and this show will come up. And that email address, in case you just happen to have a pencil and paper ready, drpaultalk at gmail.com. That’s drpaultalk at gmail.com. And again, all of that information is available on our website. Well, as I mentioned, we will talk to Karis Meier today. She’s lived all over the world. Her husband is a military guy, so they’re moving every three or four years. but in northern Virginia now and a husband of four kids passionate about a lot of things in life including her family church writing counseling soccer but as she says first and foremost is Jesus and his kingdom she’s been living with a chronic illness for many years and hospitalized in and out didn’t look too good there for a while looks better now but still suffering quite a bit from this chronic illness, and she said God directed her to start writing. She had not been a writer before, but she started writing, and she’s come out with a book, and it’s entitled Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure Purpose in Pain and Hope for Tomorrow. And we’re going to play part two of my interview with Karis Meier during the first hour of today’s show, and part two of my interview with Karis Meier during the second hour of today’s show. We’ll also have a couple of live singing segments for you the guys are coming in the middle of the show we will pop in and name that tune segment yeah why not so lots of uh fun frolicking nonsensical nonsense horsing around today but also uh we hope a good show for you how’s that sound out i mean everything was fine until you mentioned live singing and now it’s not fine it just went down south quickly well with that let me now legally officially and otherwise bring in yes my resident sidekick the world’s smartest human. That’s correct. According to himself and his neighbor’s dog. That is correct. Eric and Al. Good morning, sir. How are you today? You know, I’m doing fine. I know you like me to give you a heads up, but I’m going to ask you a question on the air. Yes. Which, by the way, I seldom do, but I have a question for you. Sorry about that. It just hit my head. Well, you should point out, I know I’ve mentioned this before. I’ve given a list of five questions to Al. And if there’s ever a moment where we have a little extra time, you know, an extra minute or two I’ll say you know so what’s on your mind anything going on and of course the idea is he’s to look at that list select a question and ask it he’s never selected a question from that list and apparently today is no different that that is correct I have to be consistent live radio putting uh the future of the show in Al’s hands go ahead what is your question well no I’m not going to do anything to hurt the show but I did have a question for you all right go right ahead Okay. Every time you bring me in at the beginning of the show, you always say the world’s smartest human according to himself and his neighbor’s dog. Is that correct? Yeah, I think every time. Okay, so the question came up the other day, and I didn’t know the answer. A lot of times I do know the answer. Sometimes I don’t. And if I don’t, I try to seek the answer. I guess I could have called you ahead of time, but it’s so much more fun putting you on the spot. I hope you don’t mind. I kind of enjoy this. Thank you. No comment until I hear the question. Well, okay. The question is, where did that come from? Why do you do that? Why do you say that? You know, my resident sidekick, the world’s smartest human, according to himself and his neighbor’s dog. And I was asked that, and I don’t know the answer. Honestly, it’s just become such a part of the show, I never thought to ask. As odd as that is. You know, and actually, as I recall, and I don’t remember when this was. This show started, we mentioned, June in 15. I don’t remember if you started in later 15 or came in 16. I just don’t remember. But the first time you were going to be on the show, you said you would be there at the last minute, which I should point out to our listeners, that is typical of Al. Well, that’s true. If Al’s ever coming to meet you, don’t expect him five minutes early. Don’t expect him to be there when you get there. If he says he’ll be there at 5.15, about 5.14 in 58 seconds, you’ll hear tires screeching, brakes hitting, and then Al’s popping out at 5.15 on the nose. That’s basically correct, but I’m not late. Well, that’s true. There you go. So the day on the radio show, live radio, terrestrial radio, you were supposed to be there at whatever time. I don’t remember. and it was getting to the point where you know it would have been nice had he been here as i’m talking about something else and wanting to get into the name that tune segment but you weren’t there yet and you weren’t late yeah but you certainly weren’t early but at some point the door opened you came in and that’s i just said it at that point there was no plan no rhyme or reason i was kind of relieved that you were there and as you know because you’ve known me for 183 years i think i do tend to use humor during stressful situations and that was a stressful situation because we had this whole thing planned out yeah and then you weren’t there and so when you came in and say oh thank goodness he’s here resident sidekick the world’s smartest human because you are smart that didn’t come out of nowhere well i appreciate you noticing that it’s about darn time around here that part didn’t come out of nowhere the world’s smartest human which you know could be yeah we won’t talk about that right now we’ll have to listen to al talk until the end of the show hey now wait a second and then it just came out there was no plan to do that no rhyme or reason just the world’s smartest human and then i thought as soon as i said that i thought well that sounds arrogant on my part to be saying my guest well you weren’t a guest host he was coming in for name that tune or something or whatever it was yeah and i thought well me announcing this new guy is the world’s smartest human that seems a little arrogant even for me to say about somebody else yeah so then i quickly thought i better clean that up and make it into something funny yeah okay and so i did you know according to himself yeah and then the neighbor’s dog thing just flew out of the mouth with uh again no rhyme or reason okay so the answer to the question yeah uh where did the uh according to himself and his neighbor’s dog yeah the answer to that question is there is no answer how about that we figured it out other than it just happened organically on the spot live mic live radio you never know what’s going to be said and it just came out that way and it did if you recall it did crack up the studio because i think we had a guest in there and of course we had a producer in there yeah and i know you know i’ve known you forever and i knew you would be there you’ve never you’re one of those people who never lets anybody down if you say something and you’re going to going to do something or you’re going to be somewhere You always do it. I’ve never known you, literally never known you to tank anything. Well, yeah, that’s basically how I live my life. But you’re the same way. So, you know, Mutual Admiration Society might put our listeners to sleep, but please continue on. Maybe cue the violin music, too. So I knew you would be there. Yeah, okay. But even I was getting to the point like, you know, we have two minutes to go, and it’d be nice if he showed up like now. Yeah. So he’d come in and get his mic adjusted, and then, you know, we’ve got one minute to go. It’d be really nice. If he came in now, 15 seconds to go, if you hadn’t shown up, obviously we would have either gone on without you or I would have deflected to another segment and come back to that. So it wasn’t as though all was lost and we were in dire straits. I would have, as they say, punted and done something else. But with 15 seconds to go before the designated beginning, you still weren’t there. I think you literally walked in with about 10 seconds left. You sat down. I think so, yeah. Right on the money, like to the second we’re about to start. That’s true. Now, I will admit, and this is on me, I don’t know if I’ve ever confessed this before, at the time, my lab, well, my lab is still where it always has been, but it was really close to the radio studio when you were on terrestrial radio. Oh, yeah. In fact, I think I could see it. I couldn’t see it from the studio because the studio window faced north, and your studio was south. But if I went to the south end of the building and looked out a window, I could see your lab. Yeah, so it’s not that far, and I miscalculated the time. I thought it would take me about three or four minutes. Well, it took me about ten. So, yeah, it put me a little off. I think that, again, it’s on me, although I was not late. Wasn’t it way high up in the building? Yeah, I don’t remember what floor. I don’t remember 8th building 8th floor 10th floor I don’t remember but yeah yeah I in my mind I picture I’m going to walk to a building a stand alone building it’ll say the radio station’s name on it I’ll walk in and we’ll get going well it turns out it’s this big monstrosity of a building several floors and it didn’t even have the radio station’s name on it it had some health care center or something as I recall oh yeah it was owned by an insurance company so they had their name at the top And actually, I went through the same thing when I went there to interview for that job to be on that radio station. I couldn’t find it. They gave me the address, and I drove by and said, well, that’s an insurance building. That’s not it. So I had to call the owner’s administrative assistant and say, you know, I’m here. I think I’m really close to your place. I just can’t find it. And then she said, oh, by the way, it has the name, and she mentioned the insurance company at the top. I thought, well, shoot, it would have been nice to have known that. Yeah, of course. And then I pulled right in. Well, same with me. It would have been nice to have known that. I’m just putting it out there for consumption. But then again, you’ve worked in that area forever. I figured you do. No, yeah, well, I didn’t know that. So yes, so I was not late. That’s true. That’s right. And so out of nowhere, my resident sidekick, or however I announced you, I might not have said resident sidekick at that time because you were brand new. Nobody knew you. You were not yet a resident sidekick. Well, yeah, that’s true. Any chance you have the recording of that show? Probably, yeah. I don’t know what date it would be. Because, again, I don’t know when you started. Was it late 15 or early to mid-16? I just don’t remember. Yeah, honestly, I don’t either. But it might be kind of fun to hear that. Just for kicks and giggles, why not? If you really want to, I’ll spend some time looking for it. But some things are also best left alone. Well, that’s a very good point. My goodness sakes. All right, sir. Let’s get to our first live singing segment if you’re ready to go. No, no. I’m absolutely without question not ready to go for this nonsensical nonsense. But something tells me you’re going to do it anyway. So I’ll step out of the way and let it happen. How about that for being a good friend? It’s about 14 minutes past the hour. You’re listening to Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show on Impact Radio USA. And we thank you again for being with us on this Wednesday morning, August the 30th of 2023. Sounds good. All right, young man, are you ready to go for today’s live singing segment? Well, as you recall, last week I brought a note in from my mother trying to excuse me from these nonsensical, ludicrous, absurd segments. You know, the ones that lead me to gin, scotch, Rolaids, Tums, Pepto-Bismol, and whatever else the pharmacist has in a locked cabinet in his dark back room. Yes. Yeah, I remember that note very well, and it didn’t do any good at all. Well, I’m aware of that, as is she, and she’s very upset. Okay. So she turned to my dad, and of course, he comes in. He’s the big thunder, and we only save him for crucial moments, and I consider this a crucial moment. And so I have for you today a note from my dad. Oh, okay. And I think this ought to end it once and for all. Yeah. When this note is read to you, or if you want to read it yourself, that’s fine. Yeah. I think that will end my participation in live singing segments forever. Would you like me to read it to you? do you want to read it yourself either way i’m fine uh why don’t you go ahead and read it okay i’ll be glad to let me get it out here okay okay here we go all right uh dear paul yeah it’s my understanding my wife wrote to you last week to excuse our loving son al from all future live singing segments based on al’s report since we received no phone call from you yeah it’s my understanding that you have refused the request of my wife and this makes me very unhappy and extremely upset with you as you know al is a a master in the martial arts what he might not have told you is that i am as well although i try to not use it for personal gain i’m not beyond that either as i have the moral authority to protect my son at all costs no matter how old he might be therefore so this does not uh devolve into me having to travel to your studio yeah have a let’s call it a conversation with you perhaps police involvement community service a few fines yeah maybe a trip to the er when al goes you maybe you can get the room next to him it says here i am hereby requesting that you immediately disengage out from all future live singing segments including the one that you’re about to do thank you for your understanding and that’s the whole letter right there all right is that it no no he signed it at the bottom just like my mom did uh yours sincerely al’s dad that is exactly what it says verbatim all right so yes at your age and you are can we safely say you’re north or 40 uh that would be one of the safest things you could ever say yes without saying any more please at your age yes uh you had your mother write a note and that didn’t do any good of course now you’ve had your father write a note like kind of the big guns like really come in both barrels that was the basic uh premise and the thought behind it yes uh do you have any questions or uh should i just leave now and maybe come back in 20 minutes or so or how do you want to handle this i’m flexible here well i’m you’re not uh you’re not uh allowed to be disengaged you are not excused from these segments you have to be here did you not catch the part about the uh the martial arts thing and He’s willing to use it. Please, be safe here. I saw that. And, you know, when you’re a school principal for a long time, Al, you get threatened from time to time. And if you take them, if you give in to the threats, then you’re toast. You’re cooked. So I never did, and I’m not right now. Okay. Well, this could end poorly. You know, he’s probably a four or five-hour plane ride away, so you’re safe for this show. I would just be careful this afternoon. just telling you as a friend oh tell him to come on in we’ll have a a party you’re discussing al and then when i’m done with him he’ll go home with you to you and say al knock off the nonsense your butts in the live singing segments forevermore well you know that that’s part of what i’m afraid of uh you have a gift of uh yeah i don’t know what i want to call it but you have a gift of turning parents against their children at least that’s what i’m calling it today no i have a gift for getting parents to understand the behavior of their children is inappropriate be a big difference are you saying my behavior is inappropriate well i didn’t say that but yeah yeah you know i guess it is what it is well i’ve never been so offended in my life i should just storm out now can we get on to the segment please are you ready to go or not no i’m definitely not ready i will never be ready wasn’t ready yesterday not ready today won’t be ready tomorrow will never be ready yes as my parents letters have proven for the live singing segments please i beg of you Well, we’re going to do it anyway. Well, I figured as much. How about that? My health, threatening letters from my parents seem to do no good, so I guess I’m here, and we’ll see what happens. I’ve already dialed 9-1, so if I hit the floor, you just merely need to dial 1, and the emergency services will be coming. Trying to make it easy here. Well, today it’s the Cho singing group, Carl Harry Olivier. Oh, great. So if you don’t mind ducking in the hall and bringing them in, we’ll get going. Well, of course I mind, because that means they’re going to sing, and that’s the whole point. I didn’t want to be a part of this. What part did you not understand? But could you do it anyway for the sake of the show? Well, this proves what a professional I am, what a nice guy I am, and what a true friend I am. Most guys would not show up, or they’d leave to get them and just keep walking right out the door to the car and take off. But, yeah, I’ll go get them and bring them in. Despite the toll it’ll take on my health. Willing to sacrifice for the show. All right, go get them and come right back. Okay, I’ll be right back. All right. so with all of that aside uh live singing segment today cannabis carl hicksville harry operatic olivier we’ve been doing these segments since march of 2021 we’re in people come to the studio we hit the record button singing happens and that’s it what is sung is what is heard there are no do-overs there are no there’s no editing after the fact it’s just it is what it is and Remember to take these segments appropriately, and that is not only with a grain of salt, but maybe a whole warehouse of salt, absurdity, ludicrousness, frivolity, hijinks, and nonsensical nonsense. These segments are determined to make you laugh. We hope you enjoy the music, too. That part’s taken seriously, but the rest of it, just have a good time. And here they come now. Grab a seat there, gentlemen, wherever you want. Cannabis Carl is on my left. My goodness. Good morning, Carl. How are you today? You know, it’s still early, so I don’t know. Oh, my goodness. I hate to answer questions if I don’t know the answer, because I could be wrong. That’s a good point. You think you’ll be okay in a few minutes? Yeah, Al just handed me some coffee here, man. Thanks, Al. The least I can do to move this segment along and get to the ending quickly, which is my ultimate goal. All right, Carl. Have a few sips, and then I’ll come back to you. Yeah, I’ll be okay in a minute, man. All right. Very good. Okay. In the middle, Hicksville Harry. Good morning, Harry. Yeah, yeah. Doggone some gun. Good to be here. I think you’re going to enjoy this song. Kind of a nice, pleasant song. All about love. The doggone some gun man loves this woman. He’s telling her how much he loves her. Ain’t nothing going to go wrong today. Well, first time for everything. All right, very good, and on my right, opera star from France, out of work right now. The COVID thing hit, and he’s been out of work ever since, so he comes here to sing, keep his chops up to speed, and hopefully somebody will hear him and offer him a job in Orpheus or Othello or whatever, but from France, operatic Olivier. Good morning, Olivier. How are you? Oui, oui. Anytime I get a chance to sing, it is a very good day. Whether I sing alone, nobody listens at home, whether I come here in millions, billions, maybe even trillions listening to Dr. Post’s Family Talk radio show. I love to sing. Oh, sweet heaven. Why not? All right. Well, let’s get to it, gentlemen. Now, before we get to the music, we’ll tell our listeners what the song is and all that good stuff in a few moments. It’s my understanding you brought in some jokes today. Yeah. Well, not really jokes. They’re notes or letters, you know, because we knew Al was going to bring in his dad’s note. He sent us an email the other day. I told you not to tell anybody. We’ll bring in actual notes and letters that were sent from parents to teachers, man. Okay. How about that? These are actual notes and letters. How did you get a hold of these? Well, like everything else, everything’s available on the Internet, and that’s where we got them. Okay. What could go wrong? All right. Well, very good. My goodness. So letters or notes to teachers from parents. Yeah, yeah. That’s it, man. All right. Carl, first one is yours. Okay. Here I go. All right, okay. Yeah, Mom wrote a note, man. Remember, these are actual notes. We didn’t make these up. These actually happened. Oh, sweet heaven. Okay, all right, take it away. Mom wrote a note. My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take gym class today. Please execute him today. Oh, my goodness. My goodness. Obviously, please excuse him today. Yeah, yeah, I think that’s what she was going for, but might have been in a rush. Yeah, yeah, you just never know. My goodness. All right, Harry, I’m most afraid to do this, but go ahead. Yeah, I doggone some gun. Mom wrote a letter to the school. Her son had been absent or was going to be absent, whatever it was. She said, dear school, please excuse Cecil for being absent on June 28th, 29th, 30th, 31, 32, and 33. Oh, sweet heaven. My goodness. That’s a long vacation. You’re making up dates that aren’t even there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. June ends in 30, but he got himself three more days off. A very smart man. All right, Olivier, your joke on, well, not joke, but a letter or a note sent from a parent to a teacher. Oui, oui, here I go. All right, very good. It says, please excuse my son Marvin from gym class for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip. Well, hopefully he can find it. My goodness. You know, for some people who might think, well, these can’t be real. Well, I don’t know if these are real. They probably are because I’ve seen a few notes in my time. I don’t know if I saved them or not, but yeah. You know, misspellings or misinterpretation because the parent’s in a rush. You know, they’re trying to get breakfast done, maybe get out the door themselves to work, get dressed. All right, here are fast audios to write a note. Of course. And weird things happen. Al, anything so far? No, I find these mildly amusing. Continue on. Please. I’ll just sit here. All right, Carl, how about one more each, and then we’ll get to the music. Oh, yeah, yeah, here I go. All right. Okay. Mom wrote a note. Mark could not come to school today because he’s been bothered by very close veins. Well, that could be serious. Instead of very close veins? Yeah, yeah. Your guess is as good as mine, but yeah, I think that’s what she was going for. Yeah, yeah, I think that’s a good guess. All right, Harry, take it away. Yeah, yeah, doggone some guy. Now, here I go. All right. Okay. Mom wrote a doggone letter, said, please excuse my son for being. It was his father’s fault. Oh, my goodness sakes. Not good. Just a wild guess. Please excuse my son for being late. It was his father’s fault. Yeah, Carl said your guess is as good as mine. I think there’s a word missing for sure, but it takes on a whole new meaning when the word is out. Yeah. Yeah, no kidding. My goodness. All right, one more. Operatic Olivier, take it away. Oui, oui, here I go. All right. Okay. Mother wrote a note. I kept Billy home because she had to go Christmas shopping with me because I do not know what size she wears. Oh, sweet heaven. I hope that’s not true. And again, highly plausible. Yeah, I’ve probably seen that note a few times in my life. Every time I see it, it makes me laugh. Of course it does. Why not? All right, Al, should we get to the music? Yeah, yeah. You don’t want too much of a good thing, so I think six of those is about enough. Can’t take any more, so yes. All right, Harry, let me turn to you, since you seem rather exuberant. You’re kind of the rain leader here. What song are you guys doing today? It’s a doggone hit song. The version we’re doing is one by James Taylor called How Sweet It Is. Oh, yeah, very good. I think that’s an old Motown tune, isn’t it? Yeah, yeah, Doggone Some Gun. Doggone Marvin Gaye had a hit song back in the 60s. I think James Taylor came out with his sometime in the doggone 70s. I remember it hit number one on the easy listening chart. Of course. And so everybody kind of enjoyed the fruits of the labor with this song. Motown song that Holland Dozier, Holland, no, yeah, Holland Dozier, Holland, doggone writing team, and they pulled it off. Yeah, yeah. They had a lot of hits there. Okay. Okay. So how is this shaking down? Well, yeah, I’m going to kick it off. Carl’s going to join in, and doggone Olivier going to join us on the bridge, and we’re just going to have a good time. All right. Yeah. And so it sounds like you and Carl are carrying the lead. Yeah, yeah, for the most part. Olivier, you know, I know he’s a little ticked off, but he couldn’t make a few rehearsals, so we had to plunge ahead without him. He understands, I think, right, Olivier? Oui, oui, this time I do. I had a couple of other things going on. I do not like not having the lead, but this time it was my fault, so I understand. Okay. Thank goodness for that. All right, anything else? No, you know, I always start with nothing. It’s amazing how 15 minutes in, I have less than nothing. I don’t know how that’s possible, but it’s proven every time. Here I am. Should not be mathematically possible. All right, well, let’s get to it. The Cho Singing Group, Cannabis Carl, Hicksville Harry, Operatic Olivier, their rendition of the James Taylor version of the Motown hit song by Marvin Gaye, How Sweet It Is. Okay. How sweet it is to be loved by the shelter of someone’s arm. Duh. Needed someone to understand my ups and downs. What sweet love and devotion, yeah. Chill my emotion I won’t stop And thank you, baby I just wanna stop And thank you, baby Yes, I do How sweet it is To be loved by you Feels so fine, yeah How sweet it is To be loved by you Close my eyes at night And ring where I’d be With my life Everything I did was just a bore Everywhere I went it seems I’ve been there before But you brighten up for me all of my days With a love so sweet in so many ways I want to stop and thank you, baby I just want to stop and thank you, baby Oh, how sweet it is to be loved by It’s like sugar Sometimes, yeah How sweet it is To be loved by you All right, gentlemen. So far, so good. Yeah, doggone, so I’m done. Let’s finish that with gusto. You ready, Carl? Yeah, yeah, anytime. Olivier? Oui, oui, take it away. All right, guys. It’s all yours. Take it away. Better to me than I was to myself For me, there’s you And there ain’t nobody else I don’t want to stop And thank you, baby I just want to stop And thank you, baby, oh, how sweet it is to be loved by you, loved by you. It’s like jelly, baby, yeah, it is to be loved by you, just like honey to Zippy, baby, oh. How sweet it is to be, how sweet it is to be loved by you, oh, oh, oh. How sweet it is to be loved by you Oh, my goodness. How about that? Yeah, how about that? The show’s singing group, Carl, Harry, Olivier, and their rendition of the James Taylor version of the Marvin Gaye hit song from Motown. Well, that’s a mouthful of how sweet it is. Great job, guys. Carl, a terrific job. Yeah, thanks, man. I enjoy singing. Good tune, man. Yeah, yeah, definitely so. Harry, thank you as well. Yeah, don’t go on some gun. I told you, ain’t nothing gonna go wrong with the live song. Well, of course not. Tears of the Gaze. My goodness. And Olivier, thank you as well. Oui, oui. Anytime. I love to sing. You just have me in. Start music, not start music, do not matter. I will sing. Okay. My goodness. All right, before we go, how about one more joke slash actual real life note or letter sent to a school by a parent? Okay. And Carl, take it away. Yeah, yeah. Here I go. All right. Okay. The mom wrote a note and said, Sally won’t be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral. Oh, my goodness. that could be serious i’m guessing we have to attend a funeral well let’s hope so you predicted programming you never know these days that’s true all right uh hicksville harry your joke uh or a letter from a parent to a school yeah i doggone some guy now here i go all right okay now i do not know what this means but it says my daughter was absent from school yesterday because she was tired she spent the whole weekend with the marines oh my sweet heaven that can’t be good i’m guessing visiting a marine base and took a tour well i certainly hope so one never knows yeah that’s the problem around here oh let’s finish it off our break olivier your joke on uh or a letter from a parent to a school uh we uh here i go all right okay the mother wrote in to the school please excuse jennifer for missing school yesterday we forgot to get the sunday paper off the porch and when we found that monday we thought it was sunday so she did not go oh my goodness probably true all right then of course a lot of those notes could have been written by kids that you know trying to fake their parents uh writing we’ve seen that before uh we one never knows uh but uh we thought they were funny yeah let’s call it that all right al anything at all no no good singing uh mildly humorous jokes at least i survived yeah probably no er today so that that feels like a first it probably isn’t uh but a good day first time for everything all right let’s pull the plug on this uh uh cannabis carl thank you great job and thanks for coming in yeah anytime man let me know all right hicksville harry same thing terrific job thank you for everything putting it together and the jokes yeah doggone some gun same as carl you let me know i’ll be here all right very good okay and operatic olivier thank you we anytime i get a chance to sing i’d love to do it so you call me anytime all right very good okay and that concludes for today officially legally and otherwise our live singing segment and as i always like to say thank goodness for that sweet heavens biscuits and gravy my goodness sakes at least you survived i think i did i need to check my pulse uh in just a few moments to see if i’m among the living or not but overall i guess it was okay yeah and so i survived all right at least i think so all right we get to the interview sir and then i’ll check in with you after that okay i’ll be here all right okay my goodness sweet heaven that was reasonably uh painless was it not well i suppose to the listeners they probably loved it i know uh the guys who uh were here doing the singing they enjoyed it you seem to enjoy it yeah but i have a different level of comfort when it comes to nonsensical nonsense and i’m just kidding no it was fine and yeah i’m pain-free and ready to go how about that revelation time. All right, sir. Off to part one of the interview, and then we will reconvene. Okay, now I’ll do my best to be here. How about that? What do you mean you’ll do your best to be here? Well, yeah, I mean, assuming I survive, I’ll be here. Oh, okay. I thought maybe you’re ducking out for lunch or something. No, no, no. No, I didn’t mean it that way. Let me say it another way. Say whatever you just said, say it again. What about reconvening? Yes, yeah, please do. All right. I’m going to duck off to an interview now, Al, and then we’ll reconvene after that. Okay. I will be here. Bells on my toes, flying colors, ready to go. How about that for some enthusiasm? All right. It’s a little after 36 and a half minutes past the hour. You’re listening to Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show on Impact Radio USA. We come to you live every Wednesday morning, 11 o’clock a.m. Eastern Time. repeat a bunch of times you can get all those show times show details and link to the podcast page email address by visiting our website impact radio usa.com click on the button that says our shows there’ll be a drop down menu select dr paul and boom just like that takes you right to the page for the show and gives you all of that information we’re also on every podcast platform under the sun so wherever you go for your podcast you should find us google podcasts apple podcast tune in stitcher spotify podbean deezer amazon slash audible maybe you have another one of your favorites just go there type in dr paul’s family talk and you will find this show and again our email address drpaultalk at gmail.com we enjoy hearing from you so write early and often and we right back at drpaultalk at gmail.com. Well, let’s get to my interview now with the terrific Karis Meier, currently living in Virginia. She’s been all over the place because her husband’s a military guy, doing really well in life, four kids, obviously her husband, and then suddenly got ill. And for a while, they didn’t know what in the world was going on, doctor to doctor, clinic to clinic, hospital to hospital, and they finally kind of sort of figured out what’s going on. It’s called a chronic illness. Still suffers with this. She’s not out of the woods yet. But God told her to start writing. She didn’t know what that meant. She’s not a writer. Well, she is now, but she wasn’t then. And she came out with a book called Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure, Purpose in Pain, and Hope for Tomorrow. So let’s get to it right now. My interview with the terrific Karis Meier. On the other end of our line this morning is a Terrific lady from Virginia. She has been through a lot. You think you’ve been through a lot? Well, she’s doubled and tripled and quadrupled, all that good stuff, with some health issues and some health scares along the way. Married with four kids. Turned her life over to Jesus, and wouldn’t you know it, things began to turn around for the good, and she’s here to tell us about it. She’s written a book called Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure Purpose in Pain and Hope for Tomorrow. So let’s welcome her from Virginia. Karis Meier. Good morning, Karis. How are you today? Good morning. Good. It’s great to be here and the sun is shining here, which I just, I love the sun. So any day the sun’s shining, I’m happy. That’s exact. I am with you 100% of the way. I don’t need the sun to be happy, but when it is sunny, I’m a little happier, I think. Same with you? Yes. Yes. Now, have you been in Virginia your whole life? Is this a lifelong deal or you’ve been moving around? Oh man. Yeah. So we’ve been here for almost four years, which is the longest I’ve ever lived anywhere. Um, I grew up, my parents are missionaries, so we moved around a lot growing up, which probably prepared me for this military lifestyle, which I was not expecting. Um, and so we’ve, I’ve been married to my husband, Ben for 17 years now, and we’ve moved 12 times in that, in that time so yeah so that’s almost like a full-time job in and of itself just packing boxes and moving yes it is now you said you’ve been there four years traditionally isn’t the military every three years or do they sometimes extend it to four before you move again so yeah we’ve had it is traditionally three years my husband’s been in positions where it’s been one or two years, which is why we’ve moved more than normal. But this area specifically has quite a few jobs. And so we’ve just been able to stay put for a little bit and it’s been a huge blessing. Oh yeah. You get yourself grounded, get your kids grounded and all that good stuff. And I told you before we started, my daughter’s husband is in the military and every three years they’re going somewhere else. And somehow their kids totally adjust and they’re normal. They have normally adjusted to the military lifestyle. In fact, if they stayed in one place too long, the kids probably wouldn’t know what to do. Like, what are we doing here? We’re supposed to be moving. Yeah, I’ve kind of felt this last, I felt this last year, kind of like, this is so strange. I mean, not strange in a bad way, but kind of like, why are we still here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Now, maybe just tell us the backstory here. There was a time, as I recall, your husband was deployed overseas somewhere in battle and all everything about your health went downhill quickly and you were pretty bad shape there for a while, weren’t you? so i grew up very healthy very athletic didn’t ever have any major health problems um and it was actually on our honeymoon that i started having symptoms just feeling quite unwell and very nauseous just um some other things just coming up and i thought um maybe you know i’m just nervous this is you know my husband we knew he was going to be deployed shortly after we got married and I was moving to Alaska where he was. So there was just a lot of changes. Things continued to go downhill and he went to training and then deployed. So for a total of two years after we got married, he was gone and I was in Alaska. And so I just kept going back to the doctor and saying, something’s wrong with me. I don’t know. I lost about 25 pounds and I was already thin to begin with so it was it was quite serious from the beginning and they did test after test after test finally they figured out that I had some very rare parasites that I had gotten overseas in Pakistan while I was visiting my sister who was a missionary there several months earlier and so they tried you know this antibiotic and this one and they couldn’t figure it out so they flew me down to Seattle and to a doctor who is more knowledgeable and still went through lots of different treatments. And it’s a type of parasite that can go into organs also. And so anyways, long story short, it started me on this path of just kind of cascading health problems that just one after the other and just never knowing what was going to be next. And I think for the first couple of years, I thought, oh, you know, I’ll eventually start to feel better. Like this is going to be done and I’ll get back with my life. And so I kind of just, you know, tried to ignore it as much as I could, even though my whole life had changed a lot. You know, I couldn’t eat like I used to. I couldn’t do the activities like I used to. I was just weak and tired and fatigued. And yeah. So then anyways, and also in the beginning of that time, the doctors found a tumor in my pituitary gland while they’re running different tests. And we were told I wouldn’t be able to have any kids, which was a, which is really hard for my husband and I to hear because we both really love kids and we really wanted kids. And so for the first five years of our marriage, we didn’t, we, you know, we didn’t have kids and obviously the doctors were wrong and God gave us four, four miracles. And, but yeah, it was just, you know, things it’s, it’s a journey where, you know, things would start to look better for a little bit. I never, I never got back to my healthy self, but you know, things would start to look better. And then I would have something would just happen. Like I had my pancreas fail and my heart, I went into heart failure I had kidney problems and through this whole time I was I was quite malnourished so I’d have to be I was you know admitted some for I had to be um intravenous feeding um a few times so yeah it was just and in the midst of this you know we are moving around so I don’t have a stable doctor and my husband was in the infantry which is a very rigorous part of the army where he was traveling a lot, had more deployments. And, and I don’t, I’m in the beginning, you know, you mentioned that I found Jesus. So I had always, like, I grew up as a believer as a kid, I received Jesus and I had a solid relationship, but it was, you know, I, I don’t think we’re ever prepared for something like this to happen in our lives. Like I never expected my life to go like it has, Like I never thought, oh, I’m going to get some horrible sickness and then be sick for 17 years. So I think when this hit, my relationship with God definitely shifted and I had to learn a new type of dependence that I just wasn’t used to. And I struggled a lot with doubts and fears and uncertainties about who God said he is and what was happening in my life. and so I’ll pause because I know I’ve talked a lot but you actually you must be a mind reader because I was basically going going to ask you that very same thing if you’re with the Lord growing up because I know your parents were missionaries and you’ve already answered that you were but it sounds like you did I was going to ask you this but I think you already answered it you did what a lot of people do and what I did when I got really sick 30 some years ago it’s like I got to figure this out I have to read this I have to go here I can do it all but eventually I’ll figure it out and you forget even though I was with the Lord as well like oh yeah I’m supposed to give it to him he even said give me all of your burdens and I’ll tell you like how do we miss that in life and maybe that’s the question he said what to do we know what we’re supposed to do and we’ve done it before but suddenly we get sick and you know God can you wait over there I’m going to take care of this myself why do we get to that just a sense of urgency or what? Cause I did the same thing. So it’s not a criticism. So I think part of it is just, we, it’s so good to feel in control. It’s so much better to feel like we’re doing something to make progress in our lives or to get to the answer. Right. Instead of just being still and waiting and trusting God. And I think there’s a balance, you know, I don’t think it’s always, I’ve struggled with this. My whole journey is God, when do I seek medical, medical like doctors when do I seek um alternative treatments I mean there’s been people so many countless people over the years who have come with me like try this you know this like cured my you know daughter-in-law or this you know try this try this and there’s so many different um alternative medicines and diets and you know you name it’s out there and um which I don’t think is is bad but ultimately has to be god first and then and seeking him and asking god what do you have for me you know this is this is we each have a different journey and i think it’s easy to start comparing and saying well this person did this or this person did this or um but that surrender of okay god this is completely out of my hands and i think it took me several years to finally recognize that and to like humble myself and say, I don’t have this together. I cannot handle this. Um, for the first several years, I really kept a lot of it inside and felt shame, shame, even that I was sick and that I, you know, I, I know God can heal. And yet I was continuing to, to struggle. And so, and also probably just pride feeling like, oh, I can, I can handle this. I don’t want to complain. I don’t want to look like I’m a bad Christian by murmuring and complaining about something that seems somewhat insignificant to a lot of the problems in the world, right? So I would just think like, I’ll just suffer as silently as I can and, you know, be brave and I’ll get through it. And then I came to a point where I couldn’t do it anymore. Like I literally could not hold it in. And it was both in my relationship with God and also with others. I think I had a fear of even being completely honest with God about how hard it was because I didn’t want to dishonor him. I didn’t want to, um, come across like, um, yeah, I just had, I had a, I had a deep fear of saying something that was, um, like blaming God, you know, or, or something like that. And, and yet I, it was the Psalms and like really living through the Psalms where I learned to live in this relationship with God, where I could be completely honest and still praise and glorify him at the same time. You know, that’s kind of what the Psalms are. It’s like part of the psalm was like, oh, God, where are you? Where have you been? Like, why are you letting this happen? And then, but I will praise your name because you are good. You are faithful. I can trust you. So that’s it’s it’s definitely been a journey that I’m I’m still on. Not figured it out. yeah well one of my favorite verses in the whole bible is very simple it’s be still and know that i am god in other words cut the nonsense quit the white noise quit listening to every human being who gives you this that and the other thing although i god might send somebody to you but you won’t know that if you listen to a thousand people you won’t listen to the one who actually has the answer i’ve sent him with and so that’s the part i got to and it sounds like you got there Okay. All right. I’m done. Not going to listen to anybody else except you, Lord. And then he can get in there and guide you because you’re not filled with all this nonsense going on. And that’s fairly normal, I think. I’m sure you’ve talked to people who’ve done the same thing, right? Oh, definitely. Definitely. Yeah, I think there’s a dependence that God wants from us. And I think it’s often when we are forced into that dependence that we really learn to live there, right? I don’t think it’s not a comfortable place to be. And I would like to say, oh yeah, it’s so easy now. It’s still difficult for me to continue to surrender those places and parts, but it is the best place to be. And God knows that. Yeah. Well, let me tell you this story. I think I’ve only told this once before and most people will think, okay, yeah, right. But you’ll get it. You’ll know this is true. I was really sick. In fact, I thought I was dying. I was losing weight. I think I lost about 25 pounds in three weeks. Now that’s ridiculous. I’m not that, it’s not like I weigh 500 pounds to begin with. And so things were dwindling. I said, oh boy, this is really bad news. And I had this radio in the bathroom. Every time I go into shower, I put the radio on, it was tuned to the AM sports station. So I put it on and listen to sports while I’m taking a shower or whatever. And one morning I went in there and there was a lot of static on the radio. I thought, wow, come on. So I tried to adjust it in the dial on the radio, old fashioned radio, had broken and it wouldn’t turn it wouldn’t turn left or right so i just had to listen to static for a few days and then i tried to fix it and couldn’t so i thought well see if there’s anything on the fm so i put the fm on clear as day remember the am sports had static clear as day on the fm they were talking about jesus christ our lord and savior and becoming saved and it went through the whole that’s okay lord are you really is this you are you telling me that of course the simple answer. Yeah, that’s basically what I did because you’re not listening to me any other way. So I went through your radio and here we are. And, uh, it changed everything around like, okay, I’m going to stop trying to figure this out myself and just give it to him. Okay. What do you want me to do? Here I am. And I could almost hear him say, finally, you know, you’ve come home here, here we go. And now I can heal you because you’re listening. I mean, and he did, and the life has been great ever since. And we sometimes get that, even though we know the Bible backward and forward we listen to sermons we go to church your parents were missionaries we know all of that but in our moment of need sometimes we forget it don’t we it’s so easy to do oh yes so easy that is that’s such an awesome picture though of how God pursues us so relentlessly you know I just that’s a really neat story and yeah I just I think God God loves us so much i remember telling uh our pastor at the time we uh it was after all of that we went to a new church and obviously had to deal with a pastor we didn’t know before and we were telling the pastor you know he wanted to know okay what’s what’s your backstory you know what’s going on well you know you won’t believe this and he looked at me as the pastor of the church looked at me like you must be some kind of a nutcase here because that doesn’t really happen and i picked up on that i said you’re not believing the story already because well it’s kind of hard to believe I said, right, because it’s not a human being story. It’s a power of God story. He took over and broke my darn radio. It forced me to listen to him. And even people in the Bible don’t get this sometimes because maybe they haven’t experienced that level of, if not a miracle close to it. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. I think God works so outside of our, our understanding. I mean, there’s so many verses in the Bible that talk about that, and yet I think we still think God is going to somehow work in our own frame of reference or how we think he’s going to work, which is another thing that in the humility, I think, when we find ourselves in situations that are really difficult, is we have to grow in that humility and say, okay, God, I don’t understand how or why you are working like this, but he’s God, so. Yeah. Yeah. And that goes for everything in life, not just when you’re sick, but your marriage, your kids, your home, basically, not basically, everything in life, you’re to turn over to him and he makes it all work out if you totally give it to him, right? Right. Yeah. He pretty much made that clear. So you took all of this, this whole journey. Now you put it into this book. How long has your book been out? It’s October 2022 is when it was released. Okay. And that’s called Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure, Purpose in Pain and Hope for Tomorrow. I’m guessing we’ve kind of talked about what the book is about, but do tell us what is the book all about? What are you trying to get through to people as they read your book? So it was never my idea to write this book. I’ve never considered myself a writer. I would never have thought I wrote a book. But about six years ago, I was at a place where I was I was I was just I was in despair. Really, I was at a very low place. I had just received a new diagnosis with neuropathy in my limbs, my legs and my arms. I there’s a time where I couldn’t walk. So I was put in the hospital. And anyways, all this lots of hard things physically, along with some other things going on in our lives. Um, so I was in this place where, you know, before that, I remember thinking, I don’t think things can get any worse. Like I remember thinking that, and then this happened and I really felt quite abandoned by the Lord. Like I knew God, I mean, he says in Hebrews, like God will never leave us or forsake us. But I, I felt left by God. I felt forsaken. um and yet i remember god so it was one night where god just spoke to me so clearly to start writing and at the time i was thinking what am i going to write about i don’t i have nothing to write about just it didn’t make any sense to me it didn’t make one ounce of sense and so i just kind of put it off like okay that’s weird um but god just kept putting on my heart start writing, just start writing. And so I, it was probably two or three weeks later where I just started keeping a journal on my computer, just how God was speaking to me, things I was struggling with, questions I was having, how, you know, just things in my own life, my personal experience and walk. And so it was a very, and I feel like through that God, I process things in writing quite more easily than speaking. And so for me, it was very healing and a place where I was connecting with the Lord and growing in my faith. And so then I started a Facebook group and then a blog called Suffering Well, just reaching out to people who were suffering and sharing some of what God was showing me. And then at the beginning of, of 2022, um, again, I feel like the Lord was just started kind of prompting me to write a book and to put a lot of the content. Cause I mean, I had hundreds, I mean, pages and pages of content that I’d written over the years. And, but at the time, you know, I was thinking, I, this is all very personal and I never expected to use this to share with the world, but, um, but I did. And so it was a process of a few months of kind of learning how to put it together and how to publish and all that good stuff. And so the book is now to the question that you asked, um, the book is, sorry, it was kind of a backstory that, um, so a lot of the book, like I said, it wasn’t, I wasn’t intending to, you know, it was more of my own processing and some of, so it’s some personal story of what I was going through at the time, but also just what God was teaching me, you know? So I, I talk about, um, growing in intimacy with God through affliction, like how God was drawing me into himself, how, how I was growing even in the midst of, of this pain. And, um, and then there is, you know, I talk about gifts and our pain, how God shows us. And there’s so many blessings that come in the midst of our pain that we often miss because we’re so focused on trying to get out of it. We’re so focused on like, just get me through this, get me to the end so I can be done. And yet I’ve seen God use, um, you know, he has purposes that it’s not like, it’s not like God afflicts us so that, you know, it’s not like he needs to, but he, he extracts the good. Like he’s such, he’s such an amazing God that he can bring good out of everything we go through. And there’s, there are purposes. I’ve seen purposes in my own life and also just, you know, in, in observing others. Um, so that’s part of it. And then, so just, yeah, there’s a lot of, a lot of different aspects of my own journey that I, I think, you know, when I was going through it, I read several books on suffering and, and which was very helpful. I also read a lot of biographies of people or autobiographies of saints throughout the ages who have lived very difficult lives. And for me, it was so encouraging because I felt like, OK, if they can do it or, you know, just having in suffering, we often feel alone. And like we’re the only ones nobody can understand, even though that’s not true, it can feel very lonely. And so this, I think the purpose and my heart for this book is to say, you are not alone. There is hope. And I read it from, I know my journey was with health. My, my suffering was with health mostly, but it’s very applicable to any kind of suffering that we are walking through because the principles of living with God and by his strength. And, you know, it’s, it’s saturated with scripture. and I’ve had some people complain about that and some people love it. But that’s how I survive is by the word of God. And so I use a lot of scripture throughout the book because that’s the life, that’s life to me. And there you go, part one of my interview with Karis Meier. You can find her, her own website, karismeier.com. Karis is K-A-R-I-S, Meier is M-E-I-E-R, karismeier.com. Check out her book, Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure, Purpose in Pain, and Hope for Tomorrow. She has a blog on there you can follow. And we’ll get to part two of my interview with Karis Meier a little later during this hour. We’re now in the second hour of Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show on Impact Radio USA. We thank you for being with us. Let me bring Al back in. Sir, are you ready to go? No. If you’re talking live singing or name that tune, no. Anything else under the sun, I’m ready. Flying colors, bells on. I’m not ready to go. I’m just trying to put it out there. Yeah, just name that tune. Well, then I’m not ready to go. You see how simple this is? It’s like, you know, what’s one plus one? It’s two. It’s two every time you go to name that tune live singing. It’s no every time. It’s just great math. I enjoy math. I’m a mathematician. Why not? Has anybody recently told you that you’re not a well man? Well, let’s see. It’s, let’s see, what time is it? 12, almost 12.03? Yeah. so you mean like since midnight are you counting that as part of today well yeah i mean uh what time do you get out of bed one o’clock all right so from one o’clock until now which is roughly 11 hours has anybody told you’re not a well man i’ve encountered a lot of people today right and uh it might be easier to list the people who have not told me that it would be a shorter list and would take less time just trying to save you some time on the show all right so we’ll get to It’s about three and a half minutes past the hour. Three and a half minutes past the second hour. Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show. We thank you again for being with us on this Wednesday now afternoon, August the 30th of 2023. All right. Well, for the first time in a long time, we’re going to do a Name That Tune segment. We used to do these every week in the Terrestrial radio station and even every week and sometimes every show on this station. That’s true. But we haven’t done it for a while since we got into live singing. but it’s going to be a shorter version than usual because we have so much going on in today’s show. First of all, let me welcome in Cannabis Carl to play along with us. Good morning, Carl. Yeah, if it’s morning and it’s good, then I’ll go along with that, and I’m glad to be here. Oh, my goodness sakes. Let’s get to it right away. We’re doing three songs today by Ray Charles, big Ray Charles hit songs. I think everybody in the audience will recognize them, and Carl, we’ll see if you can name some Ray Charles tunes. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool dude, man. Him, I mean, not me, but he, well, I guess I’m kind of cool, but Ray Charles is really cool. Oh, why not? Al, are you ready to go? No, no, I’m never ready to go, but I am here, and I will play along because I’m such a nice guy and a good friend. How about that? So Ray Charles tunes today. Name that tune. Here is song number one. Don’t treat me so mean, but I mean it so. I’m insane. I can’t skip you, it says so. I’ll have to pack my things and go. All right, name that tune segment, Off and Kicking, Alive and Kicking, three tunes by Ray Charles today. Cannabis Carl, do you know that song? Yeah, that one I do know, but even if I didn’t, I think it’s pretty obvious, man. Hit the Road Jack. Ding, ding, ding, ding. That’s right. Oh, there you go. Al, has a woman ever said that or sung that to you? No, I can say without question and without fear of being proven wrong, no woman has ever said or sung to me Hit the Road Jack. Wow, that’s pretty impressive. Now, they have said and sung Hit the Road Al, but they’ve never called me Jack. I just want to be very specific today. Do you have some details on the song? I do. Written by Percy Mayfield, of all people. Number one hit for Ray Charles in 1961. Won a Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording. And, of course, it became one of his signature songs. Very good. Okay. And name that tune segment today. Three songs by the great Ray Charles. Cannabis Carl was with us to play along. Now, let’s get to it right away. Here is song number two. Okay. Name that tune segment today. Three songs by Ray Charles. Cannabis Carl, do you know the title? Yeah, I didn’t realize I knew this many Ray Charles tunes. Of course, it’s only two, but I Can’t Stop Loving You, Man. There you go. How about that? Minus the word man. I Can’t Stop Loving You. And Al, do you have some details? I do. First of all, this is a song that many women have sung to me over the years. I just thought I’d put that out there. just to be up to date here so they’ve never sung or said hit the road jack but they have said can’t stop loving you yeah that’s one of my problems in life one of the crosses i bear but you wanted details i better get to them uh go right ahead yes uh written and composed by a country singer songwriter musician don gibson recorded back in 1957 and became a hit song believe it or not this has been recorded by over 700 different people including ray charles who but the biggest hit of all reached number one on the Billboard chart. Wow. Very good. When’s the last time a woman sung this to you? Today, Wednesday? Yes. Probably Tuesday. I don’t even pay attention anymore. I hear it so much. And I’m really in big trouble now. Name that tune segment. Let’s get back to it quickly. Cannabis Carl is here to name the tunes. And here is song number three. Okay. Name that tune segment today. All three songs by Ray Charles. That was song number three. Cannabis Carl, do you know this song? Yeah, again, I knew it, but even if I didn’t, it’s pretty obvious. Georgia On My Mind. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, very good. How about some details? Written in 1930 by Hoagie Carmichael and another guy, Stuart Gorel. And recorded that same year by Hoagie Carmichael. Of course, the number one version of it of all time is the one by Ray Charles. He did that back in 1960. All right. Okay. Is this song about the state of Georgia or about a girl named Georgia? Well, it goes back and forth. some people think it’s a state and there’s some credibility to have that as a reason other people think it’s a lady nobody really knows and they kind of kept it uh secret just to keep people guessing either way they listen to the song either way you listen how about that all right gentlemen well great job today we do have to move along lots to do on today’s show cannabis carl thank you for coming in sir and participating in name that tune now we’ll do it again yeah yeah anytime you need me man name that tune live singing uh you know my phone number and i always come down yeah yeah Yeah, very good. That’s true. Al, anything to add before we go? No, no, glad to do it. It’s been a long time since we’ve done this, and we should do more. All right. How about that? Well, very good. Let’s move along then, and that does officially, legally, and otherwise conclude today’s Name That Tune. Oh, I guess I should say it for this, like I do for live singing. All right. Sweet biscuits and gravy. Thank goodness for that. How about that? My goodness. All right. We’re going to get to an interview, and then we’ll talk after that. Okay. I’ll be here. All right. My goodness sakes. Sweet heavens. It’s nice to be back in the name that tune saddle, isn’t it? I don’t know. I’m so discombobulated now the way the show started off. I’m looking for medication. I think I’ll be okay shortly. Maybe a cold compress or two. Yeah, I think you’ll be totally fine. Well, I’m glad you have confidence. I don’t have that same level of confidence. Neither does my team of physicians, some of the best physicians in the world, trying to figure out exactly what to do for me. I don’t think they have that level of confidence, but thank you. But it’s nice to know. Why not? All right, so we’re off to part two of an interview, and then we’ll get together for live singing. You know, as they say on that one radio station, the hits just keep on coming. How about that? Why not? You’ll be fine. Well, again, I’m glad you think so. I’ll duck out and get some more coffee while you do the interview, and then I will be back. Not sure why I’ll be back. I guess I’m just that good of a person that I’ll do that for you. Just saying. All right, see you in a bit. Okay, I’ll be here. All right. Okay. It will soon be 11 minutes past the hour. You’ll listen to Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show on Impact Radio USA, August the 30th of 2023. We thank you for being with us. Check out our website, impactradiousa.com. Click on our shows. It drops down. Select Dr. Paul. Boom, takes you right to the page, and you can find out anything and everything about this show just by visiting that page, show time, show details, link to the podcast page, email address. It’s all there. Well, let’s get to part two now of my interview with the terrific Karis Meier. Well, I’ve even gotten into the mode, and it’s gone on for a number of years now. It’s not anything recent, but trying to always be in that state of being prayerful, whether it’s singing hymns or quoting Bible verses or just flat-out praying. Lord, what do you want me to do now? What do you want me to do about that? And going about your day that way, because a lot of times people say, well, I’m really busy, but I do have five minutes in the morning I can pray, So I’ll knock that off and then I’ll go, you know, wash the dishes for 10 minutes. So I knocked that off. You know, they gave more time to dishes than prayer. And I’ve always told people and see if you agree, that’s really not the way to go. You don’t just give God five, 10 minutes a day and call it good. He wants you all the time. He is a jealous God. He wants all of you all of the time. And so if you’re always in that mode of turning to him, even for something simple, you’re driving to the store, you know, please let me get to the store without accident. Are you recommending that? is that something that you do as well oh definitely i as i talked about earlier i think it has been the i mean so i after my freshman year of college i went to a bible school in costa rica um where i really learned the like the life by the spirit i think growing up i always i knew it was maybe more religion for me and more of uh just knowing trying to do what is right versus a life-giving relationship and living by the Holy Spirit. And, and so that’s where I really learned this, this more, uh, just walking with God, you know, more of a friendship. And, um, but I agree. I, I think God, he is, you know, he’s just always available. He wants, so he wants, like you said, He wants all of us. And, and I’ve learned just in my years too, that it’s sometimes all I can say is like, just the name of Jesus or help me. Like a lot of my prayers throughout the day are just prayers of, of kind of acknowledging God’s presence and asking for him to get me through this moment because I, I feel like I just need, I need him so much. And I can’t imagine not asking for help so much throughout the day and i know that’s partly just because of my condition and the and i feel it physically and so i can think it drives me to that more but there is i think we often do miss out on such so much because we do compartmentalize our relationship with god into these boxes that we don’t we don’t need to right right and he doesn’t want to be in a box He wants to be the almighty. He is the almighty. And, you know, I did the same thing when I get sick. So maybe this is a universal thing that people do, you know, even though we should be turning to the Lord 24 seven, we turned to other things, uh, books. You know, I found this one book by Dr. James Dobson and probably have the title wrong, but basically it’s why do good things happen or why do bad things happen to good people? Something like that. And so he took, you know, people on a journey, you know, and I read some other books and I was having some intestinal issue. So I read a lot of books on that, like, oh, here’s what it must be. I think, well, you know, duh, at some point, when do you give up that ridiculous fight and just turn to him? Say, okay, what do you want me to do? And it was decided by family members, I didn’t make this decision that I should go to the doctor for this. I thought, you know, I’ll be fine. It’s just a lingering flu. Yeah, 25 pounds in three weeks, not a big deal. I’ll be okay. And I finally had some people say, all right, that’s enough of this nonsense. You’re going, you know, if we have to pick you up and throw you in the car, which by the way, wouldn’t have been hard to do because I’d lost so much weight. We’re going. So I went and he ran every test under the sun and came back with, there’s nothing wrong with you. I said, well, obviously there’s something wrong with me. I mean, you know, I went through the symptoms again. He goes, but biologically there’s nothing showing up. But okay. So he gave me some medicine that made it worse. Went back and I said, I’m telling you there’s something wrong here. So he ran another series of tests, came back. No, there’s really nothing going on here the doc and I know this doctor literally my whole life he was in the delivery room when I was born so we had a relationship he was the uncle to a couple of friends of mine too by happenstance we found that out later and I said there is something wrong here I went through the symptoms again I said I’m not faking I’m not some you know neurotic guy who likes to you know I was at the top top of the world at that time career-wise family I had everything going on. And suddenly three weeks later, I didn’t. And he said, well, I don’t know. He goes, let me just send you to a specialist, see if he can figure something out. Okay. And then it’s, you know, Lord, is this what I’m supposed to do? Do you want me? Okay. So we went to the specialist and walked in and he said, okay, so what’s going on? I described the symptoms and he quickly said, oh, I think I know what it is. Cause let me run a couple of tests here. I think I know what this is. And if it’s what I think it is, you’ll be back on your feet in a couple of weeks. Like, whoa, where’d this come from? And he ran the test and he goes, yep. Yeah. He goes, that’s what you have. So here’s what we’re going to do. And just a procedure, no surgery or anything and put me on some medication for a while to help the healing process. And within a few weeks, I wasn’t a hundred percent back to my former self, but I was light years ahead of where I had been after the tremendous weight loss. It probably took six, seven months to get totally back. But I remember one day my daughter, who at the time would have been maybe seven or eight, she’s the oldest of the three. And I had gone outside in the backyard. All three kids were out there so they’re like eight five and two they’re playing in the backyard and i went out and did some things with them but i got tired quickly like 15 20 minutes because i’d been so sick i didn’t have my strength but i was out there playing with them and i thought guys i’m gonna go inside and lie down for a while i’ll come back later well i didn’t find out till later that after i went to lie down she raced in to tell her mother my wife mom you won’t believe this dad was outside he was playing with us i think he’s gonna be okay and that was my first indication that even little kids you know they knew we didn’t explain everything to them because we didn’t really know everything other than dad’s sick and dad’s not well right now to play or really do much of anything but even they noticed bad bad bad hey wait a minute something good’s going on here and of course we parlayed that into uh you know a life of bible and jesus and uh lord god almighty for our kids too and so maybe seeing that in living and living person like okay even my dad was on his way out and jesus brought him back that’s kind of a good deal and maybe maybe that’s why he used that who knows we don’t really know sometimes but just an amazing uh series of events when you turn your life over to him okay i’m done figuring this out i’m done living listening to every clown who walks through my door with a miracle cure lord tell me what to do that’s really the answer isn’t it yeah yeah yeah well tell our listeners how they can find you we’re talking to Karis Meier here. You’ve heard her story. She’s written a book all about it. How can they find you online and how can they get a hold of this book today? I have a website. It’s karismeier.com. So just my first and last name. And then, so the book’s on there. I also have my blog on there and some other information. I have Instagram and Facebook. And then the book is on Amazon. So Kindle and Paperback Edition are are there on Amazon okay let’s talk about your blog now what are you accomplishing with that just maybe tell take us through a couple of stories yeah so I started the blog a few years ago now um it’s so it’s the writing journey has been interesting for me because like I said I never I never like set out to be a writer it’s been something there God has kind of it’s I feel like it’s Holy Spirit driven for me. So, so there’s just some times where God will just kind of reveal something to me and then I’ll just feel that like I need to write it down. And so I’ll just write. And that’s often where the blogs come from. I’ll just be in a situation. Like I remember the first blog I wrote, I was out on a walk in the morning. I love to go for walks in the morning early before anyone’s awake. And there was a butterfly and it literally followed me for like my entire walk and I was just I felt like you know I was kind of praying about things and this butterfly kept coming back to me and I was like so I was like maybe I should just start praying about the butterfly like maybe God’s trying to speak to me through this butterfly like seriously I was like okay so God if you want me to you know just you know show me what you want And it was it was during that time where I was just having a lot of doubts about I was kind of in a place where maybe just some identity crisis of trying to figure out my stay at home mom for many years. I kind of was struggling with this just being in a place where I was still sick and some new things coming up. And so, but I’ve, God, God spoke to me through that butterfly by saying like, Karis, sometimes you have to be, you know, just like a caterpillar has to be in a cocoon in the darkness for a time where they, that’s how they am a metamorphosis right into this, into this beautiful butterfly. And, and God was showing me that that it was what he was doing with me. Like he, he needed me in darkness. he needed me in a place where I felt like I was trapped I couldn’t get out I didn’t know who I was I didn’t I couldn’t see the you know what was next but there was transformation he was he was working even though I couldn’t see it and I just had to keep trusting and so that was what kind of urged me to keep writing and so that’s what that was the first blog I had, I think it’s called waiting for transformation, but that’s kind of how the blog has gone is just things like that, where, where something in my life is happening and then God will just kind of speak to me about it. And so over the years, I feel like I’ve grown in depending more upon the word, like you said, just so scripture has been so necessary for me to get through this battle and continue to. So I’ve memorized a lot of scripture over the years. And so God often will use that to, to speak to me too. And so anyways, that’s kind of how the blog has gone. It’s just, um, I don’t know when it’s going to happen or how it’s going to happen, but God just kind of has been driving me along with that. And it’s, it’s been, it’s been a blessing. Yeah. When he fills your heart, you get to the computer or pencil and paper, however you do it. And that’s when you start writing, you don’t try to force it. You just like everything else we’ve said so far. Okay. Lord, tell me what you want me to do. Well, I don’t want you to write today. Okay. But then the next day, okay, get your computer, Karis, because I have some things for you to write. But reading, you know, through your blog, it’s also filled with a lot of wisdom. I don’t know if you’ve been told that before or if you even realize it yourself, but there’s wisdom in there. And I was looking at this one blog post called Sweet Silence. And that’s one of my big ones in life. It just, you know, at the old, I mentioned already, be still and know that I am God. Be still means knock it off. and you even put in there a lot of people don’t a lot of people don’t think of it this way but you know they’re busting tail and they’re highly successful they’re doing this and everything they do is a home run their kids are getting a pluses in school they’re getting raises every week at work because they’re so gifted and so great and they have the fancy new sports car and the new boat oh man the life is just perfect but they don’t realize that’s one of satan’s tricks too is to keep you so busy that you don’t have time for the really important things in life such as spending time with your family mostly devoting yourself to him my god i’ll get to you a little bit later i am so busy today because this job you gave me i’m really important at work and that’s one of his tricks right satan just let’s keep the guy busy and then he won’t have time to focus on the lord and then i satan will win one of his tricks isn’t it yeah no i just i I completely agree with you. And there is something about being still and waiting in silence upon the Lord. That is just, you can’t, you can’t gain, you can’t get that any, any, any other way. You know, there’s just, there’s, there’s something that, that happens in our hearts and in that, that posture of humility and, and almost expectation too. Right. So we’re like, okay, God. And even if it’s just a time of silence, which for me, a lot of times I try to, you know, spend time in silence before the Lord every day. And a lot of times there’s nothing. It’s just like, okay, was that a waste of time? You know, sometimes it does feel like that, But I have found that when we, God just values and blesses that time so much. I have seen it in my life over and over again, that when I am steadily spending that time in silence before the Lord, that he will just pour blessings, maybe not even at that time, But other times, like he speaks to us and he will bring whatever, you know, the question that we have to mind. Sometimes I come to the Lord in that time with a question and it’ll just be like nothing, you know, but then maybe two days later, you know, he’ll bring it. And so I just, I think we value time so much that we don’t want to waste it. and we put value on what we think is you know i don’t know i just yeah we live in this culture that you’re like you said it’s just like there’s always noise and it’s uncomfortable silence is uncomfortable but it’s funny because in that blog i talk about um my parents doing this five minutes of quiet thing when we were young as kids and i you know no of course we didn’t like it we’re like oh my gosh but it was funny because i’m in the car yesterday we were driving back from deep from the zoo we went to the zoo yesterday in dc and my six-year-old who is like the most chatterbox ever she’s like can we just please have five minutes of quiet and i was like i looked around and i was like are you okay she’s like actually can we have longer i was like yes that’s great but it was just so wonderful because everyone was just quiet we were just looking outside and you know just resting but yeah there is a value to silence that we miss out i think on today and did you check your uh did you check her id at that moment just to be sure it was your daughter i’m sure it looked like your daughter but it’s hard to get there because we are surrounded by noise. The TV is all over the place. The radio is all over the place. People and now the social media, it’s not an audible sound, but it’s a distraction. It’s noise. I’ve always told people it’s kind of like this. You want you invite Jesus into your home. You know, please walk through the front door, Jesus, and help me out. So he shows up and there’s 100 people at your door all trying to get in at once. And you’re inside your home looking at him like, OK, you know, Bill and Mary and Jesus is behind saying, hey, if you get rid of these folks, I can come in. You know, In other words, if you get rid of the noise, I can come in, but I can’t get in. There’s too many people. And so you ask everyone to leave and he just quietly, politely walks in and life is good. And that’s a lot of how I think in terms of noise. If you just cut the noise out and you have the time to listen, like your drive yesterday and even your six-year-old daughter picked up on it, like, hey, this is kind of nice, you know, being in solace here. And I don’t know if she was praying or what she was using your time for, but that’s what that time is for. But also, I go back to what I said earlier, if you’re always in that state of state of prayer, state of mindfulness, state of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, you don’t have to carve out, you know, five minutes. You know, can you guys be quiet for five minutes so I can just pray? You’re always in that mode. And then your family’s in that mode before you know it. Hey, this is actually working out pretty well, doing it God’s way. Maybe he’s smarter than we knew, right? Right. some people figure it out later than others but that’s just an amazing story now what do you plan to do from here you have more books planned are you gonna go on the road or what are you thinking to do on here that’s a great question which I’m asking God and I don’t know where my husband is to the point right now where he could retire next year like 20 years of military service and And so we are considering that, but are unsure. And I’m continuing to write and we’ll see. We’ll see what I don’t I don’t have a plan or really an ambition. I’m really in a place right now where I’m I’m asking the Lord what I should do. And I’m still waiting. So I don’t have a full answer for that. Well, I was actually going to say is the second time this happened during our interview here. you probably don’t know exactly what you’re going to do because you’re waiting on him to tell you and you are right yeah when he’s ready he’ll tell you and then okay that’s what i’ll be doing now and that’s so different than how we’re taught as human beings like you know plan this do this and you plan everything out without god involved and then it doesn’t work out so why didn’t that work out i spent so much time planning it and then so we get to that point where i’m going to stop planning it just give it to him he’ll tell me what to do and then it works out every time. It is amazing how that works. Even as believers, it still stuns me every time. Like, wow, that was great. I’m guessing same thing for you. Same thing for you. You’re just like, wow, I should have done this sooner. Yeah. I, I think God is, I just listened to a podcast recently that was just talking about how, you know, God is so much, he’s not in a hurry, how we are in a hurry you know we just want to we’re so much about just you know get us to the next thing let’s figure out how to do this and he is so much about the process you know when you think about like even creation how he could have just said one word and everything created but he took it was a process of creation and then he rested he just enjoys like i’m gonna sit back and enjoy this now and we’re we’re more like you know let’s get this done what’s next um and And so my husband and I have been praying for since we got here because we knew that retirement is a possibility and we had we had some decisions to make pretty soon. And we’ve been praying for four years now, pretty, pretty like pretty regularly. And still, God has not given us any direction. And so it’s kind of frustrating. But at the same time, we both feel, you know, as we’ve prayed more, we just have received more peace that, OK, God, you’re going to tell us when you’re ready. And it’s not about getting the answer. It’s about our hearts being transformed in your presence as we pray. And that’s, you know, it’s just, it’s so amazing how, how we just, I don’t know if we forget or if we’re just like, we just, you know, we just want what we want or think we know how things should go. But God is, yeah, he’s just, he’s got his own way of doing things, obviously. that’s true well i definitely recommend that for people to get your book in uh and check out your blog as well your blog is filled with you know biblical you know scriptures obviously and lessons and things that happen there but it’s also filled with your own wisdom that’s what i caught on to the most like okay just kind of read through your you know the blog of caris meyer and you’ll kind of sort of begin to figure things out and uh you know before we go tell our listeners again. We’ve been talking to Karis Meier today, been through a lot. And before we get your website and how they can get your book again, how are you feeling now? I know you had these unbelievable off the charts health issues. Are you better now? Are you back to a hundred percent? You’re halfway there. I mean, what’s the status here? Yeah, I’m no, I’m still I definitely every day is still a struggle for me. Um, I’m not, I haven’t been in the hospital for at least about a year now. Um, so things have been stable, I would say, but I still have, um, a lot of discomfort and pain and a lot of different issues, um, that I, that I deal with. And so it’s, it’s, it’s a daily, it’s a daily fight, a daily battle. Um, and, and the same time I continue to pray for healing and trust that, you know, any day God, God can do whatever he wants. And so, uh, I think sometimes when you’re in something for a long time, it’s easy to kind of just settle in and say, okay, well, this is how it’s going to be for the rest of my life. There’s a temptation to do that. But something I talk about in my book is just this place of where we have to be fully surrendered to God and what he allows in our lives. But we also have to be fully expectant that he can do anything and that he is such a good, loving, miraculous God who we have to believe. We have to keep having faith for all the good things and the promises and everything that he has in his words so we don’t we don’t change the word of god based on our lives we change our lives based on the word of god right and so that’s that’s how i try to live so you are getting better you’re nowhere near where you were several years ago right in terms of poor health i mean you’re a lot better now all right well he’s work he’s working on it he’s got a plan for it as you know and like you said he’ll reveal it when he’s ready to do so you know be still and know that i am god there it is again and it sounds like uh you don’t worry about it you don’t give it a whole lot of time other than lord direct me let’s let’s when you’re ready let me know and that’s basically the path yeah exactly yeah yeah yes all right we’ve been talking to karis meyer here what a great story and uh has written this book we want you to get and karis before we let you go tell our listeners again how they can find you your website and how they can get your book today Sure. So my website is Karis Meier. So it’s K-A-R-I-S-M-E-I-E-R dot com. And there is my blog and my book and some other information. I’m also on Instagram and Facebook. I have an author page. And then you can go to Amazon and there’s Kindle editions, 99 cents and or paperback for $12.95, I think it is. On your Amazon page, it says, with God, your suffering is redeemed. Find strength, purpose, and hope when suffering finds you. And that’s the overall message of your book, right? Yes. And of course, the book is called Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure Purpose in Pain and Hope for Tomorrow. And a well-written book, excellent blog. I recommend people check it out, KarisMeyer.com. And that’s who we’ve been talking to. And Karis, thank you for everything today. And go out there and have a great day. And let’s talk again soon. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. The terrific Karis Meier. Check her out at karismeier.com. And you’ll find on that page a lot of information about her and her journey. She also keeps going with a blog and she’s posted all of her interviews under the podcast heading. Of course, this show, this interview will be posted there soon. We hope and we believe that’s kind of the deal we have here. And we want you to check out her book as well. Suffering Redeemed, Finding Strength to Endure, Purpose in Pain, and Hope for Tomorrow. And again, KarisMeyer.com. And we thank Karis Meier for all of her time on today’s show. Let me bring Al back in. I won’t ask you if you’re ready to go because I know the answer will be no. Well, it’s a new day around the studio here. No more obvious questions. I appreciate that. How about that for a change? Why not? We’ll save a little time at the end of the show. I kind of want to revisit our discussion up front, if you don’t mind, or unless you have something else on your mind. Well, I always have things I’d like to bring up, but I don’t dare because, you know, I don’t want to get chastised or have tomatoes thrown at my head, as is often the case in the studio here. Not that we’ve told people. When you say stuff like that, people will get a picture. There’s something going on here. Like, you know, I’m throwing a paper clip at you or a pen. I don’t think I’ve ever thrown anything at all at you, have I? No, but when I said it, I think it was funny. The fact that you just pointed out it doesn’t really happen. Well, there goes the funny part. You just destroyed my comedy act. I just don’t want people getting the wrong impression. Well, always protecting the reputation of the show. I appreciate that. I know how this works. It’s a little after 37 minutes past the hour, 37 past the second hour. You’re listening to Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show on Impact Radio USA. And we thank you again for being with us on this Wednesday afternoon, August the 30th of 2023. Sounds good. All right, young man, are you ready to go for today’s live singing segment? Well, you know, Monday I said yes because it had been 10 days since we had done one. I was actually looking forward to it. And, you know, other than Pete’s personality and his questionable jokes, it was basically a pretty good segment. If you have somebody of a reasonably decent equivalence in terms of quality, then I’m ready to go. If not, you know, I’m out the back door. How about that for a plan? Well, there is no back door. Well, that’s true. Maybe I can make one like, you know, like Hercules did or King Kong did, you know, just smashed through a wall. Instant back door and they’re going. Seemed to work for them in the movies. Did you just reference Hercules and King Kong? I did. You know, desperate times call for desperate measures. If I get desperate, I’ll do what I have to do. Out the back door I go. Well, today we have one of your favorites of all time. Don’t tell me you’re bringing in all three of Charlie’s Angels. My goodness. What a day for me. Not that kind of favorite. Favorite singer who appears regularly on the show, and that’s Operatic Olivier. Well, okay. He’s a pretty good singer. He’s nowhere near as good looking as the three of the Charlie’s Angels. Any three. You know, they added and took away over the years. Not that I’m an expert. Not that I’ve ever even seen the show. Don’t even know what I’m talking about. But back to the point, Olivier’s coming in. How about that? Yes, he is. How about that? And I don’t know what he’s going to sing. He gave me a list of about five tunes. And I said, just pick one of them. Come in, do your thing. And he’s going to bring some jokes in as well. Okay, well, are his jokes about the same quality as Pete’s? I don’t know. I haven’t heard him. I haven’t seen him. do i need to sit you down and just kind of teach you business 101 and how things are supposed to work in life sweet what the heck does that mean live radio you’re gonna have a guy just walk in and tell jokes you’ve never heard before well yeah i mean how can i react properly to a joke if i’ve already heard it just wouldn’t be honest with our listeners what if he tells a joke that’s off color is that a plan for that well they’re told you know they’re told in advance It’s nothing inappropriate, nothing off-color, you know, so on and so forth. What if he tells one anyway? Well, that could be a problem, although if I think he’s going down that road, as we’ve done a couple times before, we’ve stopped them mid-tracks. Okay, I’m still going to sit you down and educate how this works. Don’t just say yes to people and let them waltz in and do their thing. Getting out of control around here. Why don’t we do that after the show? Since, you know, we’re in the middle of a live show now, we should probably get to the singing segment. Well, that’s a good point. I didn’t mean to digress. I forgot we were live on the radio. I apologize. I forgot what that light meant. Could you get to the hallway and bring in Operatic Olivier, and we’ll get going. Okay. I will do that, and then we’re going to sit down after the show and discuss not letting these knuckle, I mean these fine gentlemen in anymore without prior approval of all material. And maybe I’ll be the guy to approve it. All right. Go get him. We’ll get going. Okay. I’ll be right back. All right. Okay. So today, live singing segment featuring Operatic Olivier. We’ve been doing these live singing segments since March of 2021. and you got a few emails the other day wondering why I always say this at the beginning of the segment it’s because we have new listeners every day those of you who have been listening with us forever you already know this stuff so it’s 30 seconds that you’re hearing the same thing over and over and over but for our new listeners they don’t know and that is we tried a few Christmas songs we sang Christmas of 2020 people liked it we just did it to have a little fun and a little jovial time in the studio before Christmas but people liked it So we thought, you know, could we sing live in the studio? Yeah, probably not. It’ll have to work out. We managed to work it out. So three months later, we started March of 2021. And ever since then, on just about every show, we’ve had a live singing segment for you, either live as it happens or a classic one, one that had appeared on a prior show. And he’s coming in now. Grab a seat there, sir. Operatic Olivier is here. Good morning, sir. How are you today? Oui, oui. It’s always good to be here. I try to get a gig in opera, Orpheus, Othello, anything written by Mozart, Puccini, Barry Manilow, Ricky Nelson, even Willie Nelson. I will take what I can get. Oh, sweet heaven. I’m not sure if Willie Nelson, Ricky Nelson, or Barry Manilow are actually opera composers. Please do not tell me that. I am from France. I admire these gentlemen from afar. Oh, my goodness sakes. All right. So you’re going to sing a tune today. And don’t tell us the name of the song yet. We want to save that as a surprise. But you brought some jokes in. You said you were going to bring jokes in on food. Do you still have jokes on food? Ah, oui, oui. I love to make jokes. I love to laugh. I like to laugh. I like to sing. I like to drink wine. I like to have a good time. Yeah, why not? And why did you select food? Ah, oui, oui. Don’t forget, I am from the country of France. We embrace everything. We embrace love. We embrace food and wine and ladies, of course, If you are a man in France, you embrace ladies as much as you can. I embrace food just like anybody else in France. So that is why I decided to tell jokes on food. Well, okay. Okay. Let’s get to it. Operatic Olivier telling some jokes on food. And we’ll see how they go. Go ahead. Just tell a few. Wait, wait. Why did the jelly bean go to school? I don’t know. To become a smarty. Oh, my goodness. What the living? You mean the little candy kids eat? Ah, oui, oui. They make them from jelly beans. Long story short, they’re supposed to be funny. All right. My goodness. How about another one? Ah, what do ghosts serve for dessert? If they have you over at their house for dinner, what do they serve for dessert? What do ghosts serve for dessert? Yeah, oui, oui. I don’t know. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Okay. I think it’s time to cut it. Go home. Okay. Are all your jokes about this level of quality? Ah, oui, oui. Very funny in France. Maybe not so funny translating to American English, but France, people will be on the floor right now laughing very clizzily. Yeah, somehow I doubt that. How about another one? Okay, here we go. Why are cooks so cruel? You know, you go to a restaurant, you see the chef in the back. Why is he so mean? I don’t know. Because they like to whip cream and beat eggs. You know, I don’t think I’m going to make it. Okay. What’s the matter, Al? You know, I always go into these segments with a good attitude, expecting greatness, expecting quality. I’m beginning to question my own sanity as to why I ever expect either one of those two things. Makes no sense at all to me. All right, Olivier. How about another joke on food? We’ll see if this one’s any better. Ah, oui, oui. Here you go. All right. The other day, a banana went to lay out in the sun to work on his tan. And do you know why bananas wear sunscreen? No. So they do not peel. Funny, but preschool. My goodness. That’s a little better. Well, yeah, a little better compared to what happened before. Sure, as a standard, no, no, I’m still pretty weak. Okay. Preschool. Sorry, Olivier, Al’s not liking your jokes. Oui, oui. You know, Al, if you think you’re a funnier man than I, why don’t you go ahead and tell us some jokes? And why don’t you just sing my song for me, since you seem to know everything in the world. My goodness. What’s the matter? Why do I always get pulled into these things like I’m the bad guy? I’m just sitting here innocently sitting by, listening to some very bad jokes. You asked me my opinion, I gave it, and suddenly I’m under attack and expected to sing. I should just be quiet. That’s okay. You don’t have to sing. Well, that’s good because I don’t know how to sing, and I’m suspecting Olivier knows that. Well, Olivier, is that true? Oui, oui. Everybody told me I cannot sing with a rat’s elbow, so I thought I would put him on the spot. since he is criticizing my jokes. Okay. My goodness. Anything else, Al? No, no. I am, Olivier, just tell your jokes. Have a good time, young man. And then at the end of the segment, you’ll be departing, and that’s what will be my happiest part of the segment. Oui, oui. Perhaps we could have a discussion after the show. Just you and me out back, as you like to say, no witnesses, no video cameras, just a professional I don’t like discussion. Well, can we just move on? Please. What are we doing here? My goodness. All right, Operatic Olivier, a couple more jokes, then we’ll get to the music. Ah, oui, oui. Here we go. All right. Okay. You are very familiar with Dracula, is that correct? Well, not overly familiar. I know the story. Okay. In that case, what is Dracula’s favorite fruit? I don’t know. A nectarine. Nectarine. Oh, so we have it. Oh, goodness sakes. How about one more, and then we’ll mercifully get to the music. Yeah, I think we should have started with the music and just tell the listeners, sorry, no jokes today. We’re just out. We don’t have any. Here’s the music. I think it would have been a better segment. You might be right, but let’s do one more. Well, okay. It’s your show. I’m just trying to help you save it. Doing my best here. One more joke on food. Ah, oui, oui. Here we go. All right. Why did the tomato blush? I don’t know. Because he saw the salad dressing. Yeah, of course he did. Could we just get to the dang song? My goodness. Okay, enough of the nonsense, hilarity, hijinks, absurdity, whatever. As if more is not coming, of course. Exactly. But let’s get to the song today. Operatic Olivier, what song did you bring to the table today? I did not bring anything to the table. That is for after the show. We will have lunch. But to the studio, I brought a classic song called Spanish Ice. Yeah, why not? Oh, yes. I remember that song well. I used to play it in my own band. It was one of those, I think it’s from the 60s, and everybody gets up and dances. I don’t know why. Yeah, exactly. They just do. They enjoy it. Now, I think just about everybody under the sun has sung this song, Olivier. Is that your recollection? I believe so. Even Al, who cannot sing, I think he once recorded this song. You know, if you don’t get to the dang song, we’re going to have some issues here. Getting a little steamy here. Olivier, are you doing anybody in particular? Have you chosen for their rendition, their arrangement? Yes, the great opera singer from America, Engelbert Humperdinck. Oh, my goodness sakes. We talked about this before. He’s not from America. He’s from, I don’t know, where is he, Wales? Wales or Great Britain, somewhere over there. Yeah, exactly. Living in India now, but no, he’s not an American. Ah, you have ruined my dreams. I thought he was a great American opera singer. Well, I guess not. Neither one, not American, not opera. Yeah, no kidding. Well, I don’t know what to say. I will make this an opera song. How does that sound? All right. Why not? All right, go ahead. So you’re going to sing Spanish Eyes today. Oui, oui. And I will tell you, Al, you sing this song to a lady. If you can sing like myself, you are in for a very good night. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Why not? No, I’ve had many good nights without the ability to sing. So I’ll just call it that and move on. The quicker, the better. Please. All right. Let’s get to it. Let’s stop horsing around here and all this nonsensical nonsense we’re doing. Yeah, exactly. And let’s get to it. The Spanish Eyes, the tune from the 60s, sung today by operatic Olivier. Ah, oui, oui, here I go. Favorite song of mine. All right, Olivier. You ready, Al? Yeah, finally, we get to the song. All right, take it away, Olivier. Ah, oui, oui, here I go. All right. Blue Spanish eyes. Teardrops are falling from your Spanish eyes. Please don’t cry, it’s just that you’re saying not goodbye. All the love your heart can hold, and it’s sharp. The east eyes in all of Mexico. You smile for me once more, before I go. All the love your heart can hold, and it’s sharp. And it’s sharp. Our product Olivier, his rendition of the Engelbert Humperdinck arrangement way back in whatever, 60s, I think. I think so, yeah. He sang it. But the tune is from the 60s for sure. Spanish eyes. Olivier, very good job. Ah, oui, oui. Every time I come in here, do not forget I am a professionally trained opera singer. I studied many, many years. So, of course, every time I come in, it’s good. No need to say it. Just redundant, but I do enjoy hitting it. Yeah. Now, let’s call it that and move on. Al, anything? No, it’s two shows down this week, two live singing segments. The singing was good. I will refrain from commenting on anything else. Getting smarter as we go along. All right, great job, Olivier. And before we let you go, how about a few more jokes? You had jokes on food. How about a few more? Ah, oui, oui. Here we go. All right. What is yellow and goes 50 miles an hour? I don’t know. That would be a banana in a washing machine. Okay. Okay. That’s just ridiculous. But that is the nature of the segment, is it not? That’s a good point. Another one? Ah, oui, oui. Here you go. All right. How do you get fat-free milk? I don’t know. You find a skinny cow. Is there any chance to go home early today? Al, should we stop there? You should have stopped before you started, but the sooner you quit, I think the better off we’ll all be, and the listeners as well. Trying to save on health here. All right. Just a couple more, Olivier, and then we’ll head out. Can I say something? Please. Yeah, go ahead. You just asked me if we should stop. I said yes, and then you said, okay, a couple more. Why do you even ask? I’m getting ticked off here. Just to get you involved in the show. Oh, well, I appreciate the attention, but whatever. Just move on. And end it as soon as you can. Olivia, a couple more jokes? Oui, oui. Here you go. All right. What is a green, very, very small, and round, and goes up and down, up and down all day long? I don’t know. That would be a pea fooling around in an elevator. Yeah, you know. Green, very small, round. Yeah, okay. Oh, sweet heaven. All right, one more, and then we’ll mercifully cut the cord on this one. Wait, wait, what did the grape say when the elephant stepped on him? I don’t know. He did not say anything, but he did let out a little whine. Okay. Can we go home? All right. Let’s mercifully bring this to a close here so we can get on with the quality part of the show. Al, you okay with that? I was okay with it before we started, but now it’s fine. Whatever you need to do. Sooner, the better. Our brother, Olivier, thank you again, and I’m not sure when we’ll see you again. I think, are you coming in Friday? I do not know. So kind of like Pete said on Monday, I heard Pete, Monday show, you gave a schedule or whatever it says, I will be here. All right. Sounds good. Thank you again and great job. Oui, oui. It’s always a great job. Every time I show up, I will see you next time. All right. Have a great day. Oui, oui. You too. All right. Okay. Okay, Al. Any final comments before we close out? No. Again, the singing was good. The jokes. You know, if we were five or six years old in kindergarten, first grade, these would be drop dead over the top hilarious. but we’re just a little bit older. You know, we’re like around 11 or 12. They’re just not as funny, at least developmentally. All right, sir. Let’s head out of here, unless you have any final comments. No, I basically said all I need to say. Singing was good. Joke’s not so good. Let’s end it. Call it good. And that does end, mercifully, legally, and otherwise, our live singing segment. Thank goodness for that. Wasn’t too bad. No, I guess as things go, it wasn’t too bad. But, you know, the jokes could use a little work, but I’ll leave that alone. All right, sir. My goodness sakes, why not? You know, we just do these segments one after the other after the other. And it just, you know, somehow I hang on. I don’t know how, but I do. Why not? It’s about 56 minutes past the hour. Dr. Paul’s Family Talk radio show on Impact Radio USA. So the whole thing at the beginning of the show, when I basically on the spot, spur of the moment, not planned, said, you know, my resident sidekick, the world’s smartest human, according to himself and his neighbor’s dog. You really didn’t know where that came from? Well, no, I mean, we’ve never discussed it before. And I don’t really think of myself as the world’s smartest human. Not sure if my neighbor even has a dog. So it made no sense. I remember hearing it. And I think I was walking to the chair at the time. Well, yeah, I mean, you were flying at the last second. So as you were, I think you’re about halfway from the door to the chair. Yeah. and that wasn’t a very big studio, so it was probably, what, eight feet or so? Well, probably less than that, the chair I was in. But, you know, I had to shut the door and everything, so it took a little longer. But, yeah, I was about halfway, and I was going to ask you then why you said that, but admittedly, even for me, even though I’m used to speaking in front of, you know, hundreds of thousands, if not millions or billions of people who flock to hear me speak at conferences, I was a little nervous on that day. Oh, wow. Yeah, never told you that. You’ve not told me that before either. Well, I don’t usually reveal my weaknesses, but I guess I just did. Now I’ll have to pay the price. So what did you think was going to happen? Well, I didn’t know that. You know, I’ve done interviews before, but never on radio. They’ve always been with print media or sponsors of conferences, you know, the interview. They get all the lowdown, what’s going to happen. They write it down. They print it in their brochures, whatever. You know, all that stuff, how that goes. I don’t think I’d ever been on radio, and the fact that it was a live radio, no chance to edit, yeah, I was a little on edge. Well, actually, you know, I’ve talked to people about that before. There was a time in my life for a number of years, even back to childhood, when I got ready to perform either a band concert, a gig, or playing baseball even, I would get nervous and actually a little bit sick to my stomach, not to the point where I could not function or go on, although it did happen once. We had a big, I don’t want to get into it now, but a big baseball game, and I got so sick, I couldn’t play. Oh, my goodness. Well, that’s not the way to go through life, but obviously not in that stage anymore. But I’ve talked to some experts on that, and they said, actually, no matter how good you are or how much experience you have, you should be a little nervous. You should be a little on edge, because the moment you walk in with, I got this, no problem, that’s when you fall down and crash and burn. Well, yeah, and that makes sense. If I had walked into the radio studio like I have this down cold and no big deal, just flip the mic on, let’s do it, I probably would have come off like a fool. And you’re saying you did not come off like a fool? Well, I like to think that I didn’t. It’s possible that I did. Who the heck knows anymore? All right, sir. You’re still looking to go to Alaska sometime? I think it’s the end of September. I haven’t thought too much about it. I guess I’ll probably start planning my speech because it’s coming up soon. I should be organized. All right, let’s do this again next week, Labor Day week, and we’ll do it. I’ll see you then. 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