In this Minute With Marlin, Marlin is joined by his friends, Jerry and Lynn Wright, all the way from “the bad half of Washington.” They met at a homesteading event a few years ago and hit it off quickly once they realized they had something in common—they both had loved ones with Down syndrome.
The golden nugget of wisdom in this episode comes from Jerry as he shares what his father told him when he was a young teenager, “Dad said he was going to be getting dumber over the next few years, and then in my twenties he’d be getting smarter again.”
Looking back at the words his father spoke into his life during those “dumb” years, Jerry found this to be true. His dad never became dumber or smarter, but his perspective of the wisdom he shared changed over the years and impacted him differently.
Do you have people in your life you’ve found to get smarter as you grow older?
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Transcript
Marty and Elizabeth, I am so glad that you guys are here. Uh, you came from Michigan. Yeah. Correct. What part of Michigan are you from? Mackinac. The Mackinac area. Is that where the big bridge is? Yeah. Awesome. All right. Now Elizabeth, how old are you? I’m 29. 29 years old. And where do you work? At the Mackinac Bakery. At the Mackinac Bakery. Here is why I wanted to ask you about that. Uh, you already met our daughter, Adelaide. Yeah. And what does she wanna do when she’s older? Um, work at the, at the, at the bakery. She does! She’s wanted to she, she has talked about… and she wants to work at a bakery something awful. And so when we met, I said, “You, she needs to meet you, and you need to meet her.” Yeah. What do you do at the bakery every day? I, I, I do the boxes. Awesome. And, and you love it Yeah. like crazy, don’t you? Yeah. I thought so. That is so good. Uh, Marty, you’re dad. Yeah. you, you, How did you hear about Plain Values? I believe, looking back, I started subscribing in 2020, and it was a… I believe it was an ad in Epoch Times. Okay. And I read about it, and everything that you were addressing in your magazine, I had a real affinity for. And I wanted to learn more about it, and particularly with your passion for individuals with Down syndrome. Yeah. And I thought I needed to know more about what you’re, you were up to and what your mission was all about. Well, I am so glad that you guys came down. It is so good. We’ve been able to hang out for a couple hours… It was wonderful. Yeah and, talk and get to know each other. Um, thank you again for coming down, making the trip, and next time you gotta come for porch time when we have all kinds of… I say all kinds. We have some baked goods, and we just have, you know, the community come in, and it is a real blessing, so. And it was last weekend. Yeah, we missed… But that’s okay. We have an excuse to come back. We have an excuse to come back. You do. Yeah. You do. Like I was telling you earlier, my subscription had expired because my credit card had expired, and calling back kinda led me to actually being able to finally do this because I had a chance to talk to you. Yeah. And, um, so it’s, it’s good, and I’ll actually start getting the magazine again. Well, sorry about that. Yeah. We kinda dropped the ball on that for you. Public apology. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I’ll let that go. I’ll let that go. So last question. Elizabeth, what is your favorite sandwich? Uh, Ru- Reuben sandwich. The Reuben! Yeah. That’s my favorite, too. Very, very good. Yeah. So Guys, thank you very much. This was great. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity, and we’ll be back.
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