Your Name: Biff (not a real name…well it is but it ain’t this guy’s)
Subject: Thanks
Message: Phil:
I posted this in the wrong place the other day. Let me try again.
In June of 1999, at age 39, I quit drinking. I was a mess. I was being treated for depression, and I was going to AA meetings every night. I had not really laughed, hard, for many years. I found your show soon thereafter and began listening.
I believe it was in October of that year you had Don Parsley on to talk about his grandfather’s hunting accident. As the bit progressed I started chuckling. Then the hunting guide from Texas called in and repeatedly told Don, “You shot Grandpa!”. By then I was was laughing out loud, but when Don asked the guy, “Are you calling me a bad shot?”, I busted up. I couldn’t stop laughing, but I was trying to be quiet enough so I could hear the radio.
That was a turning point for me. I didn’t think I’d ever have fun or laugh again after I stopped drinking, but you proved me wrong.
A few months later, you had on a guy who was an alcoholic. He had drunk a $110 glass of Cognac, but he claimed that, since it was such a unique and expensive drink, drinking it did not affect his sobriety. I had “gotten” the show by then thanks to your on-air explanation. All my fellow AA members who called in to chastise him broke me up.
I was so glad you had Don Parsley’s call available with my BSP. I listen to it often, and it still cracks me up. I’ll be sober 12 years in June.
Thanks for what you did for me.
