1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Pull up a chair and tell me your memory. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Why does it matter to you? 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,000 I want to hear your story, your point of view. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Tell me what happened to you. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Hi and welcome back to Tell Me What Happened, 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 the podcast that teaches folks from all walks of life, 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 telling us one true story, one true childhood story, 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,000 and how that event, that experience has impacted who they are today. 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I'm your host, Jay Rehack, and like you, I've had my share of childhood experiences. 10 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Some of them traumatic, some of them dramatic, some of them just fun. 11 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000 But I'd like to think that everything that's ever happened to me has made me a better person. 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Now that may not be true, but that's what I'd like to think. 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Tell me what happened is sponsored by Sidelining Publishing, publishers of quality books, 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:16,000 including Susan Salador's classics I've Got Peace in My Fingers, and One Little Act of Kindness. 15 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 They both make perfect gifts for little children for the holidays. 16 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,000 You can get them on Amazon or your favorite independent bookstore. 17 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:32,000 All right, before I go on one note, and that is that if you like what you hear or you'd like to be on the show, 18 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:41,000 drop me a line at jaycehack.com and come on and tell me your story. 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 We'd love to hear it. My audience would love to hear it. 20 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 One childhood experience and how it's impacted your life. 21 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:56,000 All right, today I have as my guest a person that I've known all my life, someone that is full of stories, 22 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 and his friends will attest, that person just so happens to be me. 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Yes, I haven't been on this season and I thought I'd give you one of my childhood stories that's impacted who I am today. 24 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 So I tell this story, I was actually, my son just got married this past weekend, 25 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 and I was telling some of my nephews and nieces this story, and it's a very quick story, but it's just basically 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 the people who know me know that I do not enjoy horror movies, that I never watch them, 27 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 that they kind of scare me and also annoy me. 28 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:32,000 I say this with an apology to Timothy Troy, one of my former students who's a director of horror movies, 29 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,000 and all horror movie directors, I know that there is a purpose that you guys have and ladies have and people have, 30 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 but I just, I can't do it. 31 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Anyway, so when I was about six years old, my parents in the middle of the afternoon decided that they were going to walk 32 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:55,000 across the street and meet some friends for like an outdoor barbecue, 33 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,000 and they left me back at the house with the television back in the old days, 34 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000 and they had set up me watching an Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein type of a movie, 35 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 and told me to enjoy the movie, and they left. 36 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And after a couple of minutes of watching the movie, I got very, very scared, very scared. 37 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 And I got so scared that I ran across the street, and I ran up to my father, and I said, 38 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Dad, Dad, I'm so scared, I'm so scared. 39 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 And he said, why are you scared? 40 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 And I said, because of the movie, because of the movie. 41 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And he said to me, well son, why don't you just turn the channel? 42 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And I said, oh, I ran back home, I turned the channel, and I was fine. 43 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,000 And the reason that I mentioned the story, and that is the story, is that I realized that at that moment, 44 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 and I've carried it with me ever since, that when things don't go right for me, 45 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:56,000 or when I start getting into my head about worrying about X, Y, or Z problems, 46 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 and it happens to me almost every night, the solution to my problem is pretty easy. 47 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Just turn the channel. 48 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 And so that's what I've done in my life. 49 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Whenever I get into a situation that, again, my brain just keeps on circulating 50 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,000 over and over and over again an issue, I think of my father, where he turned to me and said, 51 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 just turn the channel son. 52 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 And I was like, oh yeah, I guess I can do that. 53 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:29,000 So I've never watched horror movies because I don't like to think about them while I'm dreaming or anything else. 54 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:35,000 But I also, when I have unpleasant experiences, rather than dwell on them, 55 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I do my best to sort of change the channel. 56 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Well, that's my story. 57 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000 I wanted to be a part of season four, and it is the holidays, 58 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:56,000 and I do think that sometimes I need something or someone to help me turn the channel on some of my thoughts. 59 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 I hope in prayer that you're able to change the channel when you need to as well. 60 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 And so I hope you enjoyed the story. 61 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Remember, I welcome you to email me at JCReact at gmail.com if you have your own story that you'd like to tell. 62 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:30,000 So until next time, this is JCReact asking you all to please stay safe out there and try not to hurt anybody.