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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Heavy day or happy day when.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Those war, when he war, when those war.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
See the way he loves. A happy day or happy day.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Or happy day when those walls, pretty boy, when those.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
War see the way he loves. That's a happy day,

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a happy day or a happy day. Winter of war, Oh,
whendy war.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Winter of war three years away.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
He gave me a luck.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Happy day.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
By day.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Happy what have you de?

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Oh happy day? Oh happy day.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
When those walls, when it was, when those walls.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Was the way he needed to.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
The habit.

Speaker 7 (05:04):
Oh good god, Oh yes, it's Friday, open line Friday.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
What did you not get to say that's been on
your mind? Seven one three nine one thousand, seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. How inflation is affecting
your business? Something you saw in the campaign? You hope
others saw something you'd like to see done to win

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this election? Whatever it is. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand.

Speaker 8 (05:43):
You can email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
And now to get us started, as we always do.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
Curtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land
chatakoni nakanishi yo wee can.

Speaker 9 (05:54):
Meet away with us.

Speaker 8 (06:01):
When you first walked into that part, when you first
walked into Astroworld and you got through the gates, man,
there is no drug that could replace that you were.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
I mean, the world is yours, like life could not
be an even it's called no tax on tips, No tax,

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no tax on tip. Trump took the truth social, he said.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Kamala Harris, whose honeymoon period is ending, just copied my
no tax on tips policy.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
The difference is she won't do it.

Speaker 8 (06:39):
Very woman, who arguably had the most important vote on
taxing tips in American history, is now promising.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
Algharyl's darn taxes on tip that you imposed.

Speaker 8 (06:48):
A school worker has been jailed for stealing one point
five million dollars worth of chicken wings. Sixty eight year
old very Little was charged with theft and operating a
criminal enterprise.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
She was the food service to director for the district.

Speaker 8 (07:01):
He ordered more than eleven thousand cases of chicken wings
from the school district's food provider. Defensive in Chris Jones,
he says he will pay for the wings to get
her out of jail.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Not quite that easy, sir, what the garbage man can o.
They're filling the trash dumpster out Friday. He's fascinating to
watch because, yeah, I like two dudes hanging off the back.

Speaker 8 (07:29):
They're never Hispanic, they're never white, they're never Asian, they're
never Indian.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
Seekh always two black dudes. Always what it is, Oh
the gardens.

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I'll remember you.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Lo Chritas.

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Gave us song.

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Cause you go.

Speaker 9 (08:12):
Love also love.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Cleaning the.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
Turing here it was on this day, forty seven years
ago the king was taking price.

Speaker 9 (08:34):
I'll remember two yo.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
You still get choked up thinking about it.

Speaker 9 (08:42):
For a month.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
That was like.

Speaker 10 (08:52):
Like I made Choco and freedom, I'm married.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
I'm a chocolate Greek freak.

Speaker 9 (08:58):
How low the river's fall to the sea.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
To the sea.

Speaker 9 (09:13):
To the ovenal.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
Trailers aren't called trailers, rivers called manufactured homes now.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
But when I was growing up, you walk into the
front door of a trailer, they would build a little.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
Porch on the front of it, or they may just
have one of those blocks that was just three concrete steps.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
But my grandmother they had a little porch.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
On the front, just plywood porch with screen, and you'd
walked in and when you walked in, you turned to
the left, you could see all the way down.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
Turned to the right, you see all the way down.
My aunt Gail, who I've told you.

Speaker 8 (09:57):
Severe severely mentally and physically retarded, who I was very
very close to because she and I shared the same passion,
which was seventies country music, and she loved still does Elvis.
And when you would turn down the when you would
turn to the right and look, her room was down

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at the end because she couldn't live on her own.
Her room was down the end, and the bathroom to
her room was the shared bathroom for the whole trailer.
That was kind of like how you'd have a half
bath today. So she could walk in from her room,
or you could walk down the hallway and go in,
and her room could be closed, so that door stayed

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closed and she just entered from her bathroom. All that
to say that that door, when you turned to the right,
you would see that closed door, and there was a
velvet Elvis from Florida ceiling on it. And when I
think of Elvis, that is the visage I always think of,
was Elvis.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
On that wall.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
When you would enter my grandmother's trailer. It's very very
happy memory for me. So yesterday I had a friend over.
I'm not authorized to tell their stories, so I'm going
to just leave it as a friend. And his mother
in lawn just passed ten days ago, a week ago Friday.

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I guess it was no a wee could go so
sorry a week ago today, and he was telling me
about how peaceful it was because his wife it was
her mother and they're in the room with her when
she literally takes her last breath. And that's a very,
very difficult thing to go through, but it's also, I think,

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long term, a part of the healing that you got
to be there when they take their last breath. And
I am listening to this story and I'm feeling for
his wife terribly, and he's describing the scene and he said,

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and you know we had with Elvis playing, and that
was the moment I just thought, that's how we should
go out, surrounded by our adult children who love us,
holding our hands, telling us what a good mother or
father we were, and.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
Elvis playing, Oh my goodness.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
Of course it was later, Ellis, we're not playing fifties
sound dog, Yes, but you know what, You're right, Ramona,
I shouldn't snap at you. I'm very emotional. I shouldn't
snap at you. You are right, it should be so.
My private investigator slash good friend Paul Baker. Every year
I asked him to write up a very short rite

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up on a different aspect of Elvis.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
And I asked him to do that again this year,
and I will read that to you now.

Speaker 8 (12:51):
Nineteen sixty eight represented a career directional change for Elvis.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
Don't call it a comeback. He'd been here for years.

Speaker 8 (12:58):
He was nearing the end of the movie era and
itching to perform live in front of an audience again.
Enter the nineteen sixty eight singer Sewing Machine Christmas television
special that aired December third, nineteen sixty eight. The success
of that television show opened the door for live concert performances.

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The International Hotel in Las Vegas was recently built, featuring
a beautiful concert venue within the hotel that seats two
thousand people. Connections were made offers, tender agreements were signed.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
In July sixty nine.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
A revigorated, reinvented Elvis Presley, the king of rock from
the nineteen fifties, became a genuine mature superstar.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Paul a documentary motion picture was.

Speaker 8 (13:45):
Filmed, offering a look behind the scenes as Elvis prepared
for the return to live performances called Elvis That's the
Way It Is the success of the Elvis Show at
the International Hotel led to another live concert opportunity, this
time down in Houston at the Astronaut for the Houston
Livestock Show in Rodeo, appearing for shows from February seventh

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sorry February twenty seventh through March first, nineteen seventy. Other
entertainers that year Charlie Pride, Bobby Goldsborough, Buck Owens, Roy Clark.
September ninth through the fourteenth was Elvis's first real tour
in the seventies, starting in Phoenix, Saint Louis, Detroit, Miami, Tampa,

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and finishing up in Mobile, Alabama. As the nineteen seventies
moved on, Colonel Tom Parker worked the phones and lined
up tours for the Elvis Show, generally fifteen cities in
fifteen days. The machinery that was the Elvis Presley Tour
had many moving pieces and became almost automatic in how
it operated with it with the advanced team traveling ahead

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of Elvis to plan for his security at the hotels,
routes for his motorcade to the venue, and then the
route to the airport to blast off and do it
all again the next city. Elvis was protected better than
the President of the United States. The thirst for Elvis
concerts continued to explode throughout the seventies. Every show he
played was a complete sellout. In seventy two, another documentary

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was filmed, Elvis on Tour, which is arguably the best
view into what it was like to be on tour
with Elvis, everything from the sound systems, the instruments, the costumes,
the backup singers, even the sodas and popcorns being sold
at the shows. The costumes he wore on stage started
as an idea Elvis had as something he could move in,
sorry that he could move in, using the basic design

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of a karate ghee. As time went on, the jumpsuits
became more elaborate in their decorations, some weighing as much
as sixty pounds. The most iconic suit is the American
Eagle suit he wore in seventy three, the first of
its kind worldwide satellite broadcast seen by over one billion people.
The grind of touring began to wear on Elvis Aaron

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Presley the Man. He and Priscilla divorced in seventy three.
He began to use prescription drugs to get up for
a show that another prescription drug to sleep once he
was on the plane heading to the next city. When
he was not on tour, he was at Graceland, his
mansion in Memphis.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
His refuge.

Speaker 8 (16:09):
Reports are he would stay in his suite for a
week at a time, Meals would be taken upstairs. The
occasional family member or close friend would be called up
to his room just to talk, and then it would be.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
Time to do it all over again.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
The seventies saw Elvis reach a level of stardom that
no one had ever seen before or since. Elvis went
on tour for the last time in the late spring
early summer of seventy seven, CBS filmed a series of
those shows for a television special to air in the
fall of that year. As the familiar haunting sound of
the two thousand and one A Space Odyssey theme began.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
Which by the way, is our opening song.

Speaker 8 (16:44):
The anticipation of seeing Elvis hit the stage with the
full orchestra playing his opening rift a bloated out of shape,
seemingly a bit ashamed of his condition, Elvis would appear
he looked ghastly, having a difficulty moving, difficulty speaking, But.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
Oh mys and his voice never let him or us down.

Speaker 8 (17:11):
A mayor, six weeks after his last concert, he left
this world at only forty two.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Not know much about it. Art a great artists, little tetles.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
You know anything about Rembrandt? You know why he didn't
have any money. It's an interesting story. Like most artists
of his period, he was baroque. Rocket is seventeen. Unlike

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many young people his age, has no interest in driving.
So he's finally decided, Okay, I'll drive, So we're gonna
get him a car. We've been out looking at cars.
That's that's an interesting because we didn't know the car market.
I've my last I have for twenty five years, drove

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a Chevy Tahoe. I buy them from Classic Chevy sugar Land.
I call, I tell them what I want. They tell
me how much it is. I bring a check, sign
the documents. I drive away. We're out of the car business,
but it's interesting to go out and look at cars.
Do you know that there is a car that has
a belly button an audi one.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What say you've on?

Speaker 10 (19:01):
Hey Mike, Uh yeah, I went over to Grangeres the
other day, real friendly people. I mentioned your name, but anyway,
I was calling.

Speaker 6 (19:10):
Did you buy anything?

Speaker 10 (19:12):
Well, I went to the ports department and uh, you know,
I was just getting something. But you know, I live
in Beaumont, so I just made a little short drive
over there to you know, to get something. Uh, and
you know they helped me out. They were real friendly.
Before your program, I did call before. I told you
I was a mailman in Orange and uh before then
I told you that I called act and like I

(19:33):
was a ninety two year old man, and I decided
to hang up because I said, well I'm not going
to do that.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
You know, did I tell you the last time you
called that you sound like Alan Tusson? No, you did not, Ramon.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Pull up Alan Tusson Southern Nights, the fourteen minute edition.
What Vaughn, You sound like Alan Tucson telling the story
about how he lived.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
I never heard that person.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
Oh my, go goodness, this is a very very high
honor I'm giving you. Alan Tucson.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
You got it.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
Okay, listen, listen listen. Is that the fourteen minute version?
Oh yeah, you got you gotta pull the fourteen because
he tells the story about going out to see his
cousins in the country and floy you went to the
further they were. Probably most people know this. As Clint

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camelsmon into a song about.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
He tells you what the song's about.

Speaker 9 (20:37):
So have you you gotta heard?

Speaker 6 (20:42):
Talk fast forward a little bit.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
This piece is about growing up, being born in New
Orleans and taking rides out in the country on some
weekends with my father. He pack us up in the
car and take us for a ride out to visit
the old falk in the country who never would come
to the city. They wanted nothing to do with the
city except us, so we came to them. My father

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thought we had to go to know where we came from,
to know where we were gone. We didn't care about
this philosopher, but we'd love to ride. But we'd take
that ride. And as we'd ride out of town, the
further we get out of town, the further and further
the houses were apart.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
After a while, they were very far apart.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
I mean in a long distance, like a shotgun apart.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
You know, maybe that was the point. You know, that's you,
Vonne sound. He sounds a whole lot better than that. Dude.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
Well he's got he's playing the piano underneath it. You know,
von Do you play the piano?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
No?

Speaker 10 (21:52):
But I'm left handed. And music was always something that
you know, I desired. I wanted to play the drums,
but uh wellma never bought a drum set for me.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
Well we can fix that now. But it's hard to
play the drugs. No, you really need to play them.

Speaker 10 (22:08):
Yeah, but I you know, it's like, well, you know,
back in high school and elementary, no drums. I used
to beat on the desk all the time, you know,
and always was real good, you know at that, always
on time with.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
It and everything. Where'd you go to high school? Yeah?
I went to Hebert Hebert Hebert h Did I tell
you that? I was at the last Hebert ballgame. My
grandfather drove the bus for Hebert. Oh really the Hebert

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huh uh huh.

Speaker 8 (22:47):
That went back to the original segregated days and they
So this would have been I was young, I mean this,
but it must have been mid seventies maybe, but yeah,
my grandfather.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Okay, yeah, I was in I was at hebe at
that time? Were you there? My uncle drove the bus also,
who did No? I graduated.

Speaker 10 (23:08):
I graduated in nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
Man, this would have been about that time. It was
maybe it was seventy eight, Yeah, right about that time.

Speaker 10 (23:17):
Huh, you're right, I just wasn't familiar with Yeah, yeah,
it was a male man for uh. Well, you know,
I worked in Port Author as a male man for
about twenty nine years, and then I transferred to Orange
because they were getting a little crazy at in Port
Author and uh I stayed in Orange maybe.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
About two years. I knew a few of the fellas
from Orangefield and Orange Texas? Did you know from Orangefield?

Speaker 10 (23:45):
I think Clay Mott. Well, I've been and I mentioned
that first name was Mott's and Kirby's.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
Hold on say or Marco Berry brings your bias.

Speaker 8 (23:59):
So the story goes that Glenn Campbell heard that song,
and Glenn Campbell had grown up on a farm in
a small town in Arkansas, and he identified with that song.
But when they recorded it, they needed it. They felt
that the industry, the label thought it needed to be

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more upbeat, fast paced, and they made it seem more
big city La bright Lights Vegas, New York, because that's
where the bigger audiences were. So that's probably why you
thought of it as meaning that as opposed to this
very slow, beautiful storytelling of growing up out in the

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country as a poor black kid, not knowing the report
in the country, in the backwoods of Jentan.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Glenn Campbell took that song at number one. It's a
huge hit print at nineteen.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Seventy seven, which, as it turns out, was the year
that Vaughn graduated from All Black formerly segregated He was
high school from Bromont, Gon.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
Hang on, we'll get to you in just a moment.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's Jils has good going, thank you, and good guys.