Rickey Smiley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This went all the way back to my childhood, moments of grief and the things that happened after the grief.
Yeah.
process that I dealt with.
And then all of a sudden it happens to me, you know, cause I always looked at my granddad and stared at my granddad.
Like, I cannot believe that he went through that and he buried his son.
And I was real close to my granddad, you know, and then I became him.
And that's something.
The parallel, right?
Yeah.
The parallel.
It was so crazy.
It was exactly.
And, and what was really sad is,
to see my uncles who picked me up from the airport go through this all over again because they went through this with my dad.
And now they lose their nephew.
And they picked me up from the airport when I flew in Birmingham, all three of them was in the car crying.
And the only thing I could think to do was turn the radio up.
It was on 98.7 Kids, the R&B station, to lighten the mood.
When I got home, it was an NFC or AFC playoff.
All I remember, the Bengals was playing.