Rickey Smiley

This same kid that used to suck his thumb and sleep in the bed, which you're in now, you just never thought that it would end up like this.

And especially being a public figure, being somebody that have responsibility to get on that microphone

because you got 8 million listeners who all, and a lot of them have lost their kids and they're dependent on you and the praise break in order to get through.

And they're worried about you.

You know, uh, my son died on the Sunday, Wednesday, I was back on the air because I don't want to lay in the bed thinking about that.

Let me just go do my morning show to give me some, some therapy and help me a little bit.

And then, you know, I can deal with that later.

Uh,

I had to make some tough decisions during that time.

Yeah, yeah.

It was tough.

It was the worst and darkest days of my whole life.

Yeah, one thing about life, man, death is going to happen.

Right.

Yeah, death is going to happen.

Death is going to knock at your door.

And like you said, reading my book will get you prepared because we all got to leave here.

That's what Reverend John King was preaching about Sunday.

You know, we all going to leave here.

We're not going to be here forever, you know.